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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jan 15, 2012

How Could Twitter Influence Science (And Why Scientists Are on Board)
Forbes
Moreover, given that most papers are eventually published somewhere, peer-review fails to limit the volume of research. As scholars migrate their publication to the web, and publish earlier, the web offers a better way to filterscience or as ...
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Scientists shed new light on link between 'killer cells' and diabetes
PhysOrg.com
The study, funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) using facilities at Diamond Light Source and published in Nature Immunology, shows that the killer T-cell ...
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Scientists find fat is the sixth human taste
Telegraph.co.uk
The study, which is published in the Journal of Lipid Research, found that those with half as much CD36 were eight times less sensitive to the presence of fat. Up to 20 per cent of people are believed to have a variant of the CD36 gene that is ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
In fight against global warming, NASA calls for reduction of black carbon
The State Column
NASA scientists, in a study published in Science, say that while carbon dioxide from fossil fuels like coal and oil remain a larger overall cause of global warming, reducing methane and soot may offer short-term solutions that could slow down the ...
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Bird flu research triggers bio-war fear
Jamaica Observer
The editors of scientific journals Science and Nature are considering whether to agree to government requests that the research be censored. Bruce Alberts, the editor-in-chief of Science, said "Science editors will be evaluating how best to proceed," ...
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Hold Off On That Glass Just Yet – Red Wine Researcher Charged With Falsifying Data
Singularity Hub
Das's manipulation is not an isolated incident in the world ofscientific research. And I'm not even talking about Woo Suk Hwang and his fictitious stem cell research. I'm talking about the average, everyday researcher at your local university. A study ...
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Singularity Hub
Official: Enemy Seeking to Discourage Iranian Elites through Assassinations
Fars News Agency
"The enemy is seeking to create a rift (among Iranians) and trying to discourage the influential people in scientific fields, such as university professors and students, from conducting scientific andresearch activities," Deputy Minister of Science, ...
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Fars News Agency
6th commencement of The Petroleum Institute
Khaleej Times
The Petroleum Institute is licensed and all of its undergraduate and graduate programs are accredited by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education andScientific Research. One of the PI's unique programs is the Women inScience and Engineering (WISE) ...
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Scientists to study effects of climate warming on Truckee River
Reno Gazette Journal
Scientists are beginning new research into how a warming climate could affect water supplies and flooding along the Truckee River, the waterway that serves as one of the region's central natural features and the source of most of its water. ...
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Researchers, tribes clash over Native bones
The Associated Press
Some grave sites were looted or excavated to support scientific research, including a study of skulls purporting to show that Native Americans were inferior to Caucasians, according to Robert Bieder, an Indiana University professor who has written ...
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A guide to memory
Independent Online
But scientific research shows the opposite is true. Even our most closely held recollections can completely change without us noticing. Researchers who study how people remember momentous events have discovered that although people will swear ...
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Independent Online
Researchers returning to study Barnegat Bay
Asbury Park Press
Watching are Charlotte Fuller, a marine scientist with the Rutgers Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, and student Rebecca Noah of Fair Lawn. / KIRK MOORE/STAFF PHOTO Rutgers University student Kathrine Bianchini of Hillsborough prepares to view ...
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Sick People Smell Bad: Why dogs sniff dogs, humans sniff humans, and dogs ...
Scientific American (blog)
Defense Science Research Conference and Expo (DSR). 10.1109/DSR.2011.6026826 7-When trained dogs pursue an individual person (trained, for example, based on the smell of their clothes), they are doing so based on the odors of their bacteria too....
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Scientific American (blog)
Ram's genes the baa-rometer for the tastiest lamb
The Australian
Instead, scientific tests and consumer taste panels during the past two years have found a wide variation in quality, which can be directly linked to the genetic make-up of each lamb's parents irrespective of breed. "We all want to please consumers ...
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A'Sarmi Attends preparatory Meeting for GCC Higher Education and Scientific ...
Oman News Agency
Muscat, Jan 15 (ONA)---Dr. Abdullah bin Mohammed A'Sarmi, Undersecretary of Higher Education Ministry attends today the 15 th preparatory meeting for GCC Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministers Committee being held in Manama, Bahrain. ...
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Researchers help scientists figure out where in space to search for new life
Boston Herald
Their work tries to answer a question that has inspired fiction writers andscientists for ages. "We are almost discovering what was science fiction 30 years ago," Quarles said. Using data from the Kepler mission space telescope and computer modeling, ...
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Iowa State's new top gun
DesMoinesRegister.com
He takes over a university with strong faculty and programs, particularly in engineering and the sciences, that has weathered steep reductions in state dollars and faces a decline in college-aged Iowans over the next two decades....
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Science rewrites assumptions about pre-historic animals
Edmonton Journal
We also know from research done by Currie and his team that some tyrannosaurs experienced rapid growth spurts at fairly advanced stages of their lives, and this may have led some scientists to misidentify young animals as different species. “Science is ...
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Even silly research costs serious bucks
Jacksonville Daily News
Established to point out some of the silliest research being conducted byscientists, professors, researchers and civilians from across the globe, the Ig Nobel does for science what the Bulwer-Lytton awards do for literature, (Note: Bulwer-Lytton ...
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Drug companies paid $6.3 million to Oklahoma's doctors for research, speaking
NewsOK.com
As a research university, we operate a Clinic Trials Office that specifically works with drug companies to perform cutting-edge research for clinical drugtrials. These latest scientific findings help shape the future of patient care and improve health ...
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Kids dive into ocean sciences
Victoria Times Colonist
"We're trying to get more marine science and real-time data into the curriculum," said the recent University of Victoria biology and ocean sciencesgraduate. "Younger kids are excited when they hear we have electronics underwater. ...
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IBM scientists create 12 atom data storage (VIDEO)
GlobalPost
However, Andreas Heinrich's research team, at IBM's Almaden ResearchCenter in San Jose, California, have found that data can be stored on as few as 12 magnetic atoms, utilizing a new magnetic structure called antiferromagnetism, said Reuters. ...
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IMD celebrates 137th foundation day Today
Press Information Bureau (press release)
Mr. HR Biswas is with forecasting unit of RMC Kolkata and has been involved inscientific research and Mr GK Sawaisarje at Pune office currently engaged inresearch work on Meso-scale convection. The Regional Meteorological centre of Mumbai was ...
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Study: Olympic National Park glaciers shrinking
Seattle Post Intelligencer
(AP) — An Olympic National Park scientist says the park's glaciers have shrunk by an average of 15 percent since the 1980s, with one completely disappearing. The Peninsula Daily News reports that (http://bit.ly/yjwvKn ) theresearch found that Ferry ...
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Cairns waterfront vision as world study centre
The Cairns Post
He said his concept suggested joint venture partnerships involving James Cook University, the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the CSIRO, Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries and/or the Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility. ...
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Study on Enterprise Talent Supporting Capacity of Scientific and ...
By rain
Jilin Province is rich in education and scientific research resources, but the brain drain phenomenon is relatively serious, so enterprises do not have a strong scientific and technological innovation ability, which has become an important factor ...
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Reporting Science: Accuracy, Partiality, and Advocacy | Almost ...
By Stephanie Zvan
The general topic has to do with when scientific findings call out for advocacy, and when advocacy is appropriate in the reporting of science. Feel free to join the ... A study may have implications for how research money is spent. It may have ...
Freethought Blogs
Scientists shed new light on link between 'killer cells' and diabetes ...
By NLN
The study, funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences ResearchCouncil (BBSRC), the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) using facilities at Diamond Light Source and published in Nature Immunology, shows that ...
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Netherlands : PhD Student for Discovery Learning in Kindergarten ...
The Faculty of Social Sciences is one of the largest faculties at Radboud University Nijmegen. The faculty's ambition is to become one of the top socialscience institutes in Europe, providing high-quality research and studyprogrammes that ...
International Scholarship Updates
The Neuro Times: "Shaping Biology": Cliff-Notes to Toby A. Appel's ...
By Stephen T Casper
Toby A. Appel's study of American biological research and the National ScienceFoundation is an excellent institutional history. As I was reading it, .... "Vannevar Bush's landmark prospectus on postwar science policy, Science - The Endless Frontier, released in July 1945, called for support of basic research in the sciences, as well as military and medical research, by a single new agency, a National Research Foundation, which by its very name evoked its private predecessors." (p. 10) ...
The Neuro Times
Where To Find Forensic Science Technical Assistant Jobs | Jordan ...
By edwards
Forensic scientific research or forensics corresponds to the broad range ofscience, to answer doubts of interest into a legal system. ... Of study course, this means that forensic specialist would have to have a substantial amount training. ...
Jordan Events
Researchers, tribes clash over Native bones - KansasCity.com
Some grave sites were looted or excavated to support scientific research, including a study of skulls purporting to show that Native Americans were inferior to Caucasians, according to Robert Bieder, an Indiana University professor who has ...
KansasCity.com: Front Page
Science, TED and SETI Ask the Question "Are We Alone ...
By Anni
The SETI Institute is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to scientific research, education and public outreach. Founded in November ... Dr. David Morrison is the Director for the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe. ...
GeekInvaders.com
e-Research: social media for social sciences - smirby's posterous
On January 12, 2012, I spoke at a research seminar on how to benefit from the use of social media to enhance research, both in the stage of being aware of the advancement of one's discipline, and in the stage of diffusing one's ownresearch ...
smirby's posterous
The scientific impact of a nation of beavers « Oikos Blog
By oikosjeremy
Recent changes in the grant application procedures of the US National ScienceFoundation have prompted much discussion, and have renewed the debate over the best way for governments to fund scientific research. I have argued in favor ...
Oikos Blog
The Research Works Act: asking the public to pay twice for scientific ...
If public money is used to fund scientific research, does the public have a ....the full research study of any gov. supported research available to the public....
blogs.scientificamerican.com/.../the-research-works-act-asking...
NIH launches first online genetics course for social and behavioral ...
The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National ... or social scientist's own research and will allow for collaborativestudies with ...
www.sbm.org/.../nih-launches-first-online-genetics-course-for-...
Genome study reveals evidence of natural selection occurring ...
Li Jin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai led the team ofresearchers who conducted a recent study that illuminated this unexplored area. ...
www.thegrio.com/.../research-study-reveals-natural-selection-o...
Civilian Help in Collecting Scientific Data to Promote a Green ...
Scientific discoveries and studies seem to be exotic processes that are far removed ... Not only is the general public often the subject of scientific research that is ...
pledgingforchange.com/.../civilian-help-in-collecting-scientific...
Sandwalk: Should Undergraduates Study the Primary Scientific ...
Should Undergraduates Study the Primary Scientific Literature? The short answer to the question posed in the title is "yes" but there are many caveats. One of ...
sandwalk.blogspot.com/.../should-undergraduates-study-prima...
India ahead of China in quality of scientific papers - The Hindu
It is steadily gaining in global leadership in research areas, says study. India is well ahead of China in the quality of its scientific papers, though it lags in growth ...
www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2778366.ece
Scientists, Share Secrets or Lose Funding: Stodden and Arbesman ...
Federal agencies that fund scientific research are in a position to help fix this problem. They should require that all scientists whose studies they finance share ...
mobile.bloomberg.com/.../scientists-share-secrets-or-lose-fundi...
Research That Goes Viral: An Argument For More Science 2.0 In ...
Not to play favorites but there is one area where physics has the life sciences... of Boston University, study the effects of making research materials available ...
www.science20.com/.../research_goes_viral_argument_more_...
Scientists Question Restrictions on Bird Flu Research | Global ...
The researchers decided to publish their studies but to omit specific details on the ... By doing so, the goal was to still inform future scientific researchinto bird flu ...
www.nti.org/.../scientists-say-bird-flu-research-should-be-shar...
Washington Senior Scientist - Job Job - DC
•Review and analyze data from research studies and develops reports and conclusions based on the ... •Perform standard scientific and engineeringstudies. ...
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RUSSIA News, Jan 15, 2012

Russian-operated ship with bullets reaches Syria
Reuters
By Thomas Grove and Michele Kambas | MOSCOW/NICOSIA (Reuters) - A Russian-operated ship carrying a cargo of ammunition has reached conflict-torn Syria after being temporarily halted during a refueling stop in Cyprus, sources in Russia and Cyprus said ...
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RECREATION, Leisure News, Jan 15, 2012


Windsor Rec. and Leisure's Not Just For the Kids
Patch.com
When the words Town Recreation and Leisure come up, the first thing that pops into the mind of most folks is town-organized youth sports, events and activities. While Windsor does provide a variety of programs for town youth, staff also makes an effort ...
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Columbus city parks and rec facilities will remain open most holidays
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
For the most part, they're not taking them. “In the past, the parks and recreationdepartment has closed on most holidays,” Worsley said. “This administration's policy is that we operate when others are at leisure, when they're off work. ...
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Community Center to Offer Drop in Recreation for Children
Hartford Courant
By STEVEN GOODE The Bloomfield Leisure Services Department will offer after school drop-in recreation for children in grades 3 to 8, beginning Jan. 30 at the community center, 330 Park Ave. The fee for the program, which runs through June 8, is $100. ...
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Four Eufaula Parks and Rec employees win district honors
Eufaula Tribune
This award is given to a staff member who has demonstrated outstanding commitments to the parks, recreation and leisure services and has actively been involved for less than five years. “She has turned our swim program totally around and increased the ...
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Praise for new Horley Leisure Centre
www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk
... to use some of the features in other centres it builds, and Tim Prior, project manager at the council, says the borough's leisure bosses will do the same for the new BansteadLeisure Centre, to be built on the Merland Rise Recreation Ground. ...
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Officials look to help youth recreation
Toledo Blade
Mayor Mike Bell has proposed cutting recreational funding by about a third in 2012, a move that threatens to shut many leisure offerings including T-ball, boxing, the Toledo Umpire Association, and special events held at city parks....
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Toledo Blade
Richland seeks input on future parks plan
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
The city is seeking input on how best to serve the community when it comes to opportunities for facilities as well as cultural, recreational and leisure activities. The plan, which is reviewed on a six-year basis, will expire in June. ...
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Leisure centre plan is music to Somerset pupils' ears
This is Somerset
“Sport, recreation and leisure are essential elements of life. These new facilities present us with a superb opportunity to develop a love of sport and healthy, active lifestyles in our students from an early age. I am delighted to be working with 1610 ...
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Senior soccer player sets example
CTV.ca
A Calgary senior is a regular at the Southland Leisure Centre's recreationsoccer night and is the CTV Calgary Athlete of the Week. On Thursdays, it isrecreation soccer night at Southland Leisure Centre and one of the regulars is soon to be ...
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CTV.ca
Taylorsville bans smoking in parks and recreation areas
Salt Lake Tribune
Brett McIff, chairman of the Healthy Taylorsville Committee, and his wife Rhetta McIff, chairwoman of the city's Leisure Activities Parks & Recreation (LARP) committee, think the signs will be a powerful enforcement tool and that most people will ...
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Father-Daughter tickets on sale tomorrow
Cookeville Herald Citizen
"They can go upstairs and get their pictures taken and they'll come down and we'll have a buffet dinner," Cara Sheets, recreation superintendent with Leisure Services, said. "Then there will be different door prizes and we'll have dancing after that. ...
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Recreation and nutrition programs saved from city budget cuts
insideTORONTO.com
E. It will feature a barbecue and hot chocolate, and participants are asked to bring goggles, pool noddles, flutterboards and towels for the demonstration, which begins at 12:30 pm People are asked to stay for the leisure swim at the pool afterwards to ...
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Stepping Stones group gives back
Richmond-News
Stepping Stones, a group of differently-abled adults from the St. Croix County area, participates in ongoing recreation and leisure opportunities. One of these activities is a bowling league that meets twice monthly at Gibby's Lanes in New Richmond. ...
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Clue 1: 2012 Fire & Ice Festival Medallion Hunt
Patch.com
You can also get the clues by phone on the Recreation Leisure Line at 763-509-5213. Only Plymouth residents are eligible to participate in the medallion hunt. Only one medallion will be hidden, and it will be hidden on City of Plymouth property. ...
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Latest county statistics reflect upward trend in employment
Seminole Chronicle
The leisure and hospitality sector, which includes the arts, entertainment, recreation, food services, drinking places and hotels, was the biggest job-producer in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford area, outnumbering education and health services (2200) and ...
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No smoking policy expanded at 40 Miami-Dade parks
MiamiHerald.com
CARL JUSTE/MIAMI HERALD STAFF By MIAMI HERALD STAFF The county's parks and recreation department has expanded its tobacco-free policy at over 40 park locations. The new policy extends the ban beyond youth ball fields and includes tobacco-free zones at ...
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MiamiHerald.com
A day of mini golf coming to campus
digitalBURG.com
The UCM Spotlight student organization is bringing "Recreation and Leisure: Mini Golf" to campus Thursday, Jan. 19 in Elliot Union 237A. Students, faculty and staff will all be able to enjoy a day of fun and free mini golf. The event will be at 11:30 ...
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Register for gymnastics and performing arts classes
TCPalm
VERO BEACH — The City of Vero Beach Recreation Department has announced gymnastics and performing arts registration to begin at 8 am Jan. 21, 2012 at LeisureSquare, 3705 16th St., Vero Beach. The winter session runs Jan. ...
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City plans multi-million dollar parks & rec expansion in 2012
EMC Kingston
A $12 million expansion and modernization of the busy fitness and recreation centre on Ordnance Street will replace the building's aging mechanical systems, while offering new amenities for recreational users. "We are planning to add a second leisure ...
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Northbrook Park District
Northbrook Star
Register now to save your place! For more information call (847) 291-2995. Give the gift ofrecreation! Northbrook Park District gift cards are available in any amount and can be used for classes and programs. The cards are available at the Leisure ...
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Joseph Catania, H. Ross Lambert reappointed chair, vice-chair in Newtown Township
Delco News Network
The Supervisors agreed to being appointed liaisons to the following committees: Catania, Police Department and Leisure Services; Partridge, Non-Uniformed Personnel and Parks and Recreation Board; George Wood, Police Pension Board, Non-Uniformed Pension ...
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Making the Chicago River Fit to Paddle, Never Mind the Cat in a Coffin
Chicago News Cooperative
Numerous ideas are being discussed to turn the Chicago River, long teeming with waste, into a recreation and leisure destination. by DAVID LEPESKA | Jan 11, 2012 A dead dog, a cat in a coffin and a body floating in a submerged car. ...
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Delta takes aim at Ladner rabbit colony
Vancouver Sun
METRO VANCOUVER -- The Corporation of Delta has come up with a plan to deal with the rabbit problem around municipal hall and the Ladner Leisure Centre. Delta council approved a plan Monday night that will see the rabbits captured, sterilized, ...
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Chicago Boat Show
ABC7Chicago.com
January 12, 2012 -- Chicago's 82st Annual Progressive Insurance Chicago Boat, Sports & RV Show, the largest recreation and leisure show in the Midwest returns to McCormick Place North, January 12-16, 2012. This special event will showcase everything ...
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Winter Floor Hockey for Special Needs Children
Patch.com
The Senior, Youth & Leisure Services (SYLS) “Shining Star” Sports League: A League for Exceptional Children, adapted specifically for children with special needs, has announced registration is in full swing for its inaugural Winter Floor Hockey League. ...
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Interval International and Welk Resorts Extend and Enhance Long-Term Relationship
MarketWatch (press release)
"We've greatly enjoyed working with Jon and the Welk team, who are among the most respected professionals in the shared ownership industry," added Craig M. Nash, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Interval Leisure Group. ...
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So many ways to get in shape
Peterlee Mail
Its aim is to encourage people to be more aware of the benefits of regular physical activity and forthcoming courses will cover issues such as technogym at the Headland Sports Hall from Wednesday, February 15, and knee therapy at the Mill House Leisure ...
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Peterlee Mail
Advisory board discusses dog park
St. George Daily Spectrum
Dan Rodgerson, the city's director of leisure services and recreation, gave the group specific direction, including information about potential locations for the park, the estimated cost of construction, rules, the cost of maintenance and how much ...
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Adult Spring Sports Sign-Ups Underway
Mesquite Citizen Journal
... team to acquire a spot or position in any of the adult sports league ran by the City of Mesquite Recreation & Parks Department. For more information on this and other programs please contact the Mesquite Leisure Services Department at 346-8732. ...
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Indian River County Community Calendar, Updated Jan. 12
TCPalm
Gymnastics Registration: City of Vero Beach Recreation Department. Leisure Square, 3705 16th St., Vero Beach, 8 am, Jan. 21. Toddlers to adults. Register: 772-770-6500; covb.org. Art By The Sea: Vero Beach Art Club's annual art exhibition. ...
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Plans for Crystal Lake pool to be on display Tuesday
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
It will feature an eight-lane, 25-meter lap pool, a smaller plunge pool with a water slide and a climbing wall, and a large leisure pool with a play structure and a wet deck. If extra funds become available, there would be a fourth "interactive water ...
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Column: You will not have it this easy forever, enjoy it
Daily Eastern News
Leisure should be a critical part of everyone's lives, and this isn't just the opinion of a college student coming off of a super-sized vacation. A friend of mine who took theRecreation Administration Dept.'s class "The Challenge of Leisure" said they ...
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Is Hillcrest going under?
Town Crier Newspapers
The proposed 2012 operating budget for Parks, Forestry and Recreation recommends eliminating city programming, including instructional and leisure swim, as well as aquatic leadership courses, and associated positions at seven of 33 shared-use school ...
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Village Board Notes: January 12, 2012
Floral Park Dispatch
1, 2012, all leisure passes are subject to renewal and are needed for all recreationprograms including the use of recreation facilities and equipment. Information regardingrecreation programs may be found in the Village Items, the new edition which ...
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City of Oldsmar – leisure, creativity and fun! | Creative Tampa bay
By Creative Tampa Bay
Our City of Oldsmar Leisure Services News offers art, recreation, park listings and yearly events. There are shelters available for rent as well as lots of playground fun! Why not enroll your child in youth sports? Also available through some city ...
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