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SPORTS, Athletics News, Jul 19, 2011

Student standouts to be honored at HOF banquet
Paris Post Intelligencer
She has played basketball and soccer for three years at Harrelson while being a member of the Lady Hawks softball team for two seasons. Last season, she was named to the All-County soccer team and was voted Most Athletic at Harrelson. ...
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Athletic excellence at the Women's World Cup
Aljazeera.net
It is also satisfying to see sports fans that normally dismiss women's sports with a Pavlovian reflex become Women's World Cup addicts. Yes, it's been a marvelous month for soccer but any assessment of this triumph would be incomplete without taking ...
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Aljazeera.net
Jay Sigel to be inducted into Chester County Sports Hall of Fame Nov. 5
Main Line
Other inductees include West Chester men's soccer coach Mel Lorback, who guided the Golden Rams to the 1961 NCAA title; Downingtown's Tina Nicholson, who becomes the first female basketball star to make it to the Hall; football standouts George ...
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The AD Q&As: Ali Aguilar, Santa Clarita Christian
Signal
We play at Master's, which is awesome. There's always “what's next” with the athletic committee, and looking for possible land for our sports complex. A football field, a soccer field. It can't be here, but it would be SCCS's. ...
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Local Sports Calendar for July 18
Norwich Bulletin
Velocity Sports Performance/Renegade Sports Center in Waterford will be offering a series of Nike Sparq Athletic Performance Camps for kids ages 7-12. The clinics will be as follows: soccer and lacrosse from July 25-July 29; basketball and volleyball ...
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SAISD eyes Wheatley sports site
San Antonio Express
Some soccer games are played at the district's Sports Complex, adjacent to Burbank High School, but district officials say those fields are substandard. The Wheatley site will have a nine-lane track, a football field, cross-country venue and at least ...
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Operation Upgrade: athletic facilities in line for improvements
UVU Review
“We've had plans forever, and we continue to have plans for sure,” said the Director of Athletics Mike Jacobsen. Planned renovations include more adequate seating for the soccer field, improvements to the softball field and adequate seating, restroom, ...
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SPORTS SCENE
Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com
The Delaware Township Athletic Association is sponsoring a soccer camp for ages 5-14 at Dilts Park on Buchanan Road in Stockton from Aug. 1-5. The camp hours are 9 am-1 pm and the cost is $150 per person. Players will be divided into groups by age and ...
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Why Soccer Matters
Black Star News
But the bigger win was that millions of people tuned into one of the most watched women's athletic events in history and brought attention to a sport so important to girls like me. The World Cup tournament was held in Germany this year, and the United ...
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The state of sports in Ohio, US colleges
KSL-TV
At any rate, the Kalis decision brings to light a much larger problem than the sorry state of sports in Ohio, and that's the sorry state of college athletics. How do you handle violations like those that took place in Columbus? ...
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Women's World Cup final show the women's sports movement continues at a ...
Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)
If you're a woman sports fan, this is a wonderful development. This type of passion, vitriol and knowledge is normally reserved for NFL, NBA, NHL, college football, NASCAR et all. The women's soccer World Cup final is a good indicator that women's ...
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Sports in brief
The Salem News
Danvers High needs a sub-varsity boys soccer and sub-varsity football cheering coaches for the fall. Contact athletic director John Sullivan at falcons@danvers.org or 978-774-7133. Beverly High basketball will host its annual golf outing at Beverly ...
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College athletes deserve to be paid
ESPN
Because so many athletic departments run at a deficit, it's difficult to make the case that schools should pay regular salaries to athletes, even football players who produce more income than anybody. But it's another thing entirely for the students ...
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Mehlville Alum Shines On SLU Soccer Field
Patch.com
Courtesy of Saint Louis University Athletics Department The 2010 season was a forgettable one for the Saint Louis University men's soccer program as the Billikens went 9-7-3. That's not a bad record for most schools, but not good enough for a program ...
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JIM PETERS: Three-sport stars a dwindling breed
nwitimes.com
Lo and behold, Suiter did both, as well as basketball, and is now at Texas Christian on a full-ride, playing football and baseball. Bliss continued to play soccer and basketball even though she knew her athletic future was in track and field, ...
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A soccer game for the ages in USA vs.. Japan: A fan's reaction
Yahoo! Sports
Growing up in the Bay Area, David is a huge supporter of all the local sports teams; the Giants, Athletics, Warriors, Sharks, 49ers, and Raiders. His one fault, admittedly, as many of his friends and family would say, is his love for the Los Angeles ...
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Fall football, soccer sign ups
South Washington County Bulletin
The St. Paul Park Athletic Association is holding its final fall football and soccer registration from 6 pm to 8 pm Thursday, July 21, at the Heritage Park Building, located at 1345 Laurel Ave. Football is for kids in grades three to six and soccer is ...
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Medford boys plea for soccer coach to return
Boston Globe
While he declined to discuss specific reasoning for not rehiring Petrides, a decision which was made in consultation with Athletic Director Bob Maloney, Krueger said that an issue arose two years ago that went unresolved, and that the decision was made ...
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The AD Q&As: Matt Dixon, Trinity Classical Academy
Signal
The school just concluded its first season of varsity CIF athletics in almost every sport in 2010-11. For now, Dixon is getting all the teams, coaches and paperwork aligned for the upcoming season. Trinity rents from Northpark Community Church, ...
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Ela Elite Soccer Team Has A Ball With British
Patch.com
The National Collegiate Athletic Association sponsors women's soccer in Divisions I, II and III, and the college season is during the fall after school resumes, much like football. Because NCAA rules stipulate that soccer players cannot train with ...
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Herd AD Making Many Good Decisions
West Virginia MetroNews
The Director of Athletics job at Marshall is not an easy one. Far from it. In fact, it is hard. Darn hard. Gone are the days of the Southern Conference and I-AA football playoff apperances. Gone also are the days of the Mid-American Conference. ...
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West Virginia MetroNews
Elite Spanish soccer club Real Madrid practices at UCLA, a familiar locale for ...
Daily Bruin
Real Madrid Club de FĂștbol took up residence on UCLA's North Athletic Field, the patch of green behind the John Wooden Center usually reserved for Bruin soccer practices. “Real Madrid feels at home in Los Angeles,” Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said ...
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Boy, 12, dies at soccer camp
Worcester Telegram
School officials said the camp, which was being held on the athletic field behind the school, was shut down for the day shortly after the incident. Two men, who were identified as coaches of the soccer camp by individuals associated with a basketball ...
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In The Community: Pennsylvania HOF's Delco chapter adds 14
Delaware County Daily Times
“There's nothing like sports in Delaware County. I know that no matter what I've done, it won't match the feeling of watching a granddaughter out on the field playing soccer.” Continued... Simmons played football and baseball at St. James and Widener ...
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Lingerie league wants team in Ottawa
Toronto Sun
Jeff Hunt, a partner in the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group that will put a CFL team and a North American Soccer League team in Lansdowne as soon as the redesign is completed, said he was approached by Mortaza a few months back. ...
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UC Close to Naming New Head Coach
WVNS
The men's soccer team should have a new man in charge within the coming weeks. By Amanda McCall CHARLESTON -- The University of Charleston's athletic director stepped down officially Monday morning but that hasn't stopped the coaching search. ...
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JBA YLS Sports League: Come out and play
Jacksonville Daily Record
Friends and family alike, who have never watched even one minute of a soccer game, couldn't wait to ask me if I had seen the finish, and where I would rank the game and the win. While I won't bore anyone with my top 10 sports moments of the past 30 ...
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Jacksonville Daily Record
Local organization helps area students pay to play sports
State-Journal.com
“Looking into the fall,” Rob said, “we're seeing 125 students who qualify in soccer, football and volleyball. Even if we just paid $30 for every kid, that's nearly $4000 we need to raise.” To be able to help each student, WeWannaPlay is banking on its ...
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DC Youth Soccer Squad Gets Bridesmaid Slot in Futsal Finals
Washington City Paper (blog)
Futsal is sort of miniaturized soccer, a five-on-five (rather than 11 v. 11) version played indoors or out on a field roughly the size of a basketball court. And City FC Rangers is part of City FC, a do-gooding athletic association whose teams play in ...
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Gay softball: It's not just for gays anymore
SouthFloridaGayNews.com
Nor will super-athletic straight guys take over the sport. Those worries perpetuate the stereotype that straight men are better athletes than their gay counterparts. The NAGAAA defended its policy by saying it was created as a response to “sports ...
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Top ten Northern Ireland sports heroes of all time -- who are the greatest ...
Irish Central
Now Dame Mary Peters and living in Belfast where the athletics stadium is called after her. 5. Martin O'Neill, an outstanding soccer player with Nottingham Forest and Northern Ireland he really made his career in soccer management, having an incredibly ...
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Latifi sparks rally, conference title for Erie Admirals
GoErie.com
And with his degree in Sport & Exercise Science from Gannon University and his job as a trainer at Athletic Republic Erie, his future in soccer is up in the air. Latifi wishes he had some soccer left to play this season. But he returns from Kosovo on ...
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Alex Morgan Has A Boyfriend: Servando Carrasco, Seattle Sounders Soccer Player ...
SB Nation (blog)
Carrasco grew up in Tijuana before moving to San Diego, where he played for one of the most competitive soccer clubs in all of California. Carrasco then attended the University of California to play men's soccer on scholarship, where he likely met ...
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Hope Solo Would Be a Horrible Choice for 'DWTS'
The Stir
Use her newfound fame to inspire mini-female athletes across the country via speaking engagements or self-titled soccer soccer camp? Or join the cast of Dancing With the Stars, as dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy is desperately hope-ing? ...
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The Stir
Chronicle Cup criteria/scoring system
Houston Chronicle (blog)
The 5A and 4A schools could earn points in each of the University Interscholastic League-sanctioned sports. In the team sports (football, volleyball, basketball, soccer, baseball, softball): Schools could earn points based on qualifying for the ...
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
San Jose Junior Sharks hockey player doesn't let diabetes stop her
San Jose Mercury News
Hopwood is an athletic 12-year-old who manages her diabetes with insulin and controlling the types of foods she eats. She plays hockey and soccer. (Karen T. Borchers/Mercury News) Most kids aren't worried about counting carbs, timing meals or keeping ...
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An 'A-to-Z' Odyssey Through Neuroscience, Brain Trauma, and What the Sports ...
Head Kick Legend
It's possible there's an oncoming crisis in combat sports, in the same way there is in football, but the discussion needs naunce. People that make a living off of athletic ability won't go away. So it's important, now more than ever, to properly define ...
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Golden Eagles Dominate Scholar Team List
JBU Athletics
The National Association for Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced that nine JBU athletic teams have been named to the NAIA's Scholar Team list for their work in the classroom during the 2010-2011 academic year. Women's tennis (3.48 GPA) led ...
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Successful Tir Chonaill AC Summer Camp
Athletics Association of Ireland
The comprehensive five days programme included coaching and instruction in Art, Dance [Celli and Sean Nos], Gymnastics, trampoleening, Volleyball,Basketball, Badminton,Soccer, Gaelic Football and Tag Rugby skills plus minor games/activities eg ...
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Clay shoot aims to help needy families
Houma Courier
South Lafourche High School will administer physicals on Monday for students attending the school and hoping to tryout out for athletics. Students should report to the athletic field house at the following times: 6 pm (seniors), 6:30 pm (juniors), ...
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DC Notebook: Hamid suddenly surging for United
Major League Soccer
“They certainly had better chances and they were probably more aggressive in the offensive part, but give the guys credit: It's not easy to come out here and shut down a very athletic and fast team,” he said. “Overall, it was very good point for us. ...
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Major League Soccer
Eric Crawford | Despite World Cup loss, it's a feel-good time for Americans
Louisville Courier-Journal
Yes, you can feel good when the US doesn't win in sports. (In war, not so much.) I'm not talking about rooting against your country. I am talking about recognizing extraordinary athletic effort. And if ever there were a time for that, it is today. ...
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OVAC All-Stars Check In
Wheeling Intelligencer
Koch and his staff kept close watch on the proceedings, along with Bethany athletics director and football coach Tim Weaver, making sure everything went off without a hitch. All told, about 300 people arrived on campus Sunday. ...
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Local Fans Watch Tobin Heath in Heartbreaker World Cup Loss
Patch.com
By Linda Sadlouskos and Joe Apice Kristin Pignio, of Basking Ridge, who graduated from Ridge in 2006, the same year as US women's soccer player Tobin Heath, cheers on her former classmate in the World Cup game on Sunday afternoon. ...
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5 for Fighting: Frankfurt fail, Busch league, NFL psych, Tiger who?
Examiner.com
Japan reached down into those athletic recesses so few humans possess, failed to surrender and took advantage of every American mistake when the door was left slightly ajar. And this outcome was indeed dealt from American mistakes. ...
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Suddenly Stellar Sounders: Can They Hang With Man U?
The SunBreak (blog)
by Seth Kolloen on July 18, 2011 If there were ever a time for the Sounders to compete with one of the world's best teams, it's now, when they are playing the best soccer in franchise history. The Sounders are unbeaten in their last 11 matches, ...
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Schools to Take Precautions in Excessive Heat - West Kentucky Star ...
Jeff Stokes, a local athletic director at Marshall County High School, said each of MCHS's fall sports team coaches, which includes golf, cross country, football, soccer and band, has been given a KHSAA-recommended skyscan and a heat ...
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SCIENCE News, Jul 19, 2011

Politico
First impressions matter in politics — and according to new research, they may be all some voters get before heading to the polls. A new Massachusetts Institute of Technology study found that so-called “low-information voters” — those who watch a lot ...
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Newsbytes Philippines
Montejo and Pascual were joined by DOST-Metals Industry Research and Development Centerdirector Arthur Lucas Cruz, UP Diliman chancellor Caesar Saloma, DOST-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development ...
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Science Daily (press release)
The test is based upon research carried out by Dr Emmeline Hill, a leading horse genomics researcher, and her research group at UCD's School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine. Equinome was established in 2009 by Dr Emmeline Hill in ...
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Gustavus Adolphus College News (blog)
Atkins' personal research project is dealing with the Hydrocarbon seeps in the Santa Barabara Channel. By using NASA technology, he is attempting to both qualitatively and quantitatively locate and analyze the location of Hydrocarborn seeps in the ...
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The JHU Gazette
While studies indicate that the SHG technique could work, the technology now requires a bench-top microscope about the size of a mini-refrigerator, far too large to be used in real-world situations. To address this clinical need, Li proposes to develop ...
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Huffington Post
So I looked up the published research on WBV and found a lot of very positive results. For example, the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine published a study in 2007 from the Department of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Athens ...
See all stories on this topic »Worldwide Clinical Trials And Jefferson School of Population Health Announce ...
Life Science Leader Magazine
“We are very pleased to be working with Dr. Nash and his team and to offer our clients the highest standards in industry-sponsored clinical research,” said Mike Murphy, MD, PhD, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of Worldwide Clinical Trials. ...
See all stories on this topic »Study Compares Trends in News Coverage of Energy Policy in the UK and Finland
Big Think
At the journal Public Understanding of Science, a forthcoming study provides one of the first cross-national comparisons of how energy policy has been covered and debated in news coverage [abstract]. To date, a growing number of studies have offered ...
See all stories on this topic »At Our Best (July 18)
Corvallis Gazette Times
Since 1985, the IFTSA College Bowl has tested the knowledge of student teams from across the United States in the areas of food science and technology, history of foods and food processing, food law, and general IFT/food-related facts. ...
See all stories on this topic »How a Mission to Mars Could Kill You
Discovery News
But science is finding new ways to lessen the impact of the worst space will throw at our delicate physiology. A manned mission to Mars will push human ingenuity into the next frontier of space exploration, but are the health risks worth it? ...
See all stories on this topic »Student Has a Winning Research Formula
University of Texas at Dallas (press release)
He attended the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, one of the top schools for science in his home country. He entered a specialized program in chemistry that covered a broad range of topics, where he began exploring current research trends. ...
See all stories on this topic »USDA Tests New Bird Detection Technology
USDA.gov (press release) (blog)
Recently, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) scientists at the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) tested two new scare devices developed by private companies that include species recognition technologies─the Sonic Dissuader® ...
See all stories on this topic »Feds pay for study of gay men's penis sizes
Daily Caller
NDRI has received taxpayer money since 1985 for “behavioral science research on drug abuse, AIDS and crime.” NIH records show that NDRI has received more than $15 million since 2000. The gay men penis-size study falls under the NDRI's drug abuse, ...
See all stories on this topic »BGI and National Wolfberry Engineering Research Center launch Chinese ...
PhysOrg.com (press release)
However, wolfberry genome research lays the foundation of the studies on the gene resource, species genetic diversity, variations of ecological factor, among others, which will facilitate applications in exploring high-quality germplasm resources, ...
See all stories on this topic »History or business studies? The lowdown on employability by degree
TARGETjobs
You might have thought that graduates of creative arts and design courses or social studies would be more likely to struggle to find employment than engineers or computer science graduates. Not so. According to HESA's analysis, computer science ...
See all stories on this topic »Alkermes Provides Outlook for Alkermes plc and Update on Advancing Product ...
MarketWatch (press release)
According to IMS Health, an estimated 266 million prescriptions were written for opioids in the United States during 2010, and many studies indicate that a high percentage of patients receiving opioids are likely to experience side effects affecting ...
See all stories on this topic »Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business -- Lyle Fong ...
Forbes (blog)
The next wave of innovations, case studies, and stories will showcase organizations making strategic transformative moves hand in hand with their best and most passionate customers. This whole move will be all around the social customer. ...
See all stories on this topic »Cover & Rossiter promotions and announcements
Cecil Whig
Donna Bryant, Administrative Assistant, graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in General Studies at Wilmington University this May. She will begin her Master of Science in Information Systems Technology in the fall, while simultaneously ...
See all stories on this topic »BroadbandBreakfast.com Hosts the Broadband Breakfast Club July 2011 Event ...
BroadbandBreakfast.com
Previously, he was the John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. His current research focuses on technology policy, the Internet, digital media, ...
See all stories on this topic »Slingshot SEO Signs On As Platinum Sponsor of Connections 2011
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The company's results are driven by a tireless passion to master the science of search. In May 2011, Slingshot SEO was recognized as the "IT Company of the Year" at TechPoint's Mira Awards, the premier technology awards program in the state of Indiana. ...
See all stories on this topic »IPAB and PCORI Must Go: 6 Points From Dr. Scott Glaser on Why Repeal is Necessary
Becker's Orthopedic & Spine (press release)
"Our field has opened up through research, innovativeness and the use of technology," says Dr. Glaser. "This has completely revolutionized the treatment of spinal pain." With some what interventional pain management physicians do under fire, ...
See all stories on this topic »NSVascular, Inc., a NeuroSigma Subsidiary, Signs an Exclusive License Covering ...
PR Newswire (press release)
"We are very excited that NSVascular will be moving this technology through translational studies and hopefully ultimately to patients thereby benefitting both society and the economy at large," said Earl Weinstein, Associate Director of UCLA's Office ...
See all stories on this topic »Pa. turbines cost farmers by killing insect-eating bats | Philadelphia ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
Technology is being developed to equip turbines with sound generators that would drive bats away with a high-pitched noise that only they hear. Some studies suggest slowing down blades would also help. But new technology is expensive, ...
See all stories on this topic »Conservative Media Misled Light Bulb Consumers At Least 40 Times In 7 Months
Media Matters for America
"There's a massive misperception that incandescents are going away quickly," said Chris Calwell, a researcher with Ecos Consulting who studies the bulb market. "There have been more incandescent innovations in the last three years than in the last two ...
See all stories on this topic »BOEMRE's Renewable Energy Workshop Focuses on Environmental Considerations for ...
The Maritime Executive (press release)
Under this framework, we continue to use principles of adaptive management to integrate results from environmental studies and lessons learned from onsite monitoring into our project oversight and planning. The science and research programs within ...
See all stories on this topic »Old Dominion U. professor is trying to save Internet history
Washington Post
Michael Nelson, a computer science professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia, is thinking those terrible thoughts. His research team has spent the past couple of years studying how much of the Internet is being saved — what portion of the vast ...See all stories on this topic »