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Jul 24, 2011

LATEST, Anything, Everything, Jul 24, 2011

CCI EXCLUSIVE: Fraction Unravels a Strange Conspiracy in "Defenders"
Comic Book Resources
It's unlike anything else," Fraction remarked. "I feel like I've said all I have to say about where we are now in comics with "Fear Itself.' Everything I've done this whole last year has felt like the a summation of that first period. ...
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SPORTS, Athletics News, Jul 24, 2011


Kaminski combines best of athletic, academic talents
Daily Local News
He was a four-year varsity player in soccer and wrestling, a three-year varsity player in lacrosse, and he spent three years as kicker on the football team. Participating in three sports is somewhat conventional for a high-school athlete, ...
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Grand Valley State announces 2011 class for Athletics Hall of Fame
MLive.com
The other inductees include softball pitcher Amber Castonguay, men's golfer Eric Cowles, Mirela Tutundzic in women's soccer, baseball pitcher Matt Thornton and track and field standout Jason VanElst. The incoming class joins 109 honorees previously ...
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MLive.com
BC-AP Sports Digest
SI.com
COLUMBIA, SC - More than 120 athletic trainers, team physicians and other medical personnel discuss concussions and other traumatic injuries from contact sports at a seminar hosted by South Carolina's athletic and sports medicine departments. ...
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John Canzano's 25 most influential people in Oregon sports
OregonLive.com
2. Merritt Paulson (7): Owner of the Portland Timbers, 38, has rocketing influence with wildly successful Major League Soccer operation. Not the state's biggest sportsoperation, just the one run the best. He's raised the profile of the state ...
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OregonLive.com
Local sports briefs
The Salem News
Interested participants should contact Beverly High Athletic Director James Coffey at 978-921-6141. Danvers High needs a sub-varsity boys' soccer and sub-varsity football cheering coaches for the fall. Contact athletic director John Sullivan at ...
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MWSU Women's Soccer Coach Leaving the University
KQ2 | StJoeChannel
For their efforts that year they were named the 14th most improved soccer team in the nation according to Somis Sports. "I want to thank the athletics administration, coaching staff, faculty, and university administration for the support over the last ...
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Contracts, extensions may put new KU athletic director in tough spot
KUsports
4, 2011, according to documents obtained via a Journal-World open records request of KansasAthletics Inc. In his first six months on the job, Zenger has called KU's last-place finish in the Big 12 last year in the all-sport Director's Cup standings ...
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L-C lists sports reporting times
Green Bay Press Gazette
Football — The first day of practice and equipment hand-out for all players will be at 7 am Aug. 3 in the gym. » Boys soccer — Practice will begin from 6-8 am and 5-7 pm Aug. 8 at the high schoolsoccer field. Meet in the athletic complex parking lot ...
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Soccer fans irate over penalty kicks ... this time
Newark Post
Southern California football player Marc Tyler learned the hard way that you don't even kid about being paid to play at USC, as he did last week on a TMZ video. Of course Tyler was kidding; of course he was trying to be funny. But athletic director Pat ...
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What you missed overnight - the Sunday Sports Fix
Herald Sun
Athletics fight - You won't believe your eyes. After the men's 1500m race at the Diamond Leagueathletics meeting in Monaco, two French teammates - Mehdi Baala and Mahiedine Mekhissi Benabbad - had a fistfight until officials broke the pair up. ...
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Soccer Standouts to Compete in First Annual Nassau County Executive Cup
Patch.com
Nassau County will host the county's top high school and adult soccer players to participate in the first annual Nassau County Executive Cup Saturday, which will be held at Mitchel Athletic Complex (Stadium Turf Field). Garden City's own Sean Bingham ...
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A Goalie Speaks Up, on the Field and Off
New York Times
The Times's soccer blog has the world's game covered from all angles. The team's new German goalkeeper, Rost dutifully answered questions, sometimes struggling to find the right words in English. After too many moments of needless excitement from the ...
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Your GoErie: High school sports always in season on Varsity blog
GoErie.com
"The response from the Summer Huddle has been great," sports reporter and gung-ho Varsity blogger Tom Reisenweber told me in an e-mail Friday. "I've had fans e-mail me about it. They love getting a taste of football in the summer. ...
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Champion Scheduled for Sunday Interview on 'Final Play'
UNO Privateers Athletics
Now with her eyes on the future, Champion is steering the program towards the addition of footballand women's soccer – two sports in high demand on campus and within the UNO community. To reach this goal, the athletic department in-conjunction with ...
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PORTER COUNTY SPORTS BRIEFS: Viking Soccer Camp next week
nwitimes.com
S. Campbell St., offers sport-specific training using techniques like VertiMax, TRX and Kettlebell.Football mini-camp spots are open for Pop Warner and high school players. Training sessions for athletes in mixed martial arts, baseball, basketball and ...
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Legendary Junior College Football Coach Greg Croshaw Named to Dixie State ...
KCSG
Croshaw's football coaching career at DSC ended on a sour note February 9, 2006, when when school officials fired Croshaw. Then DSC athletic director Dexter Irvin cited an academic performance situation for the firing. The school's transition from a ...
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T&D Sports: Quick Hits
The Tand D.com
The Edisto High School Athletic Booster Club will hold a "Meet the Cougars" car wash today, July 23, from 10 am until 2 pm at Church's Fried Chicken in front of the Prince of Orange Mall in Orangeburg. Members of the Edisto High School Varsity Football ...
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This Week in Sports Betting, AZ
Doc's Sports Service
Of course, the shirt was a blatant lie because, obviously, Gardenhire does not love women's soccer. J – Jackson State. When Southwestern Athletic Conference football coaches gathered to vote for preseason favorites this week, the coaches tabbed Jackson ...
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U of W's fieldhouse of dreams
Winnipeg Free Press
The U of W's varsity soccer teams would play there, but the fieldhouse is for the student body and the community, Fitzpatrick emphasized. "I want to see cross-country and track and field athleticshere... My hope is there'll be some kind of track ...
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Camarillo and Oaks Christian are the Star Cup large and small schools champions
Ventura County Star
The dominance in postseason not only featured section championships in football, boys basketball, girls soccer and softball, it included three CIF-SS runnerup placements (girls basketball, boys track and field and girls track and field), ...
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Out and onward
Vancouver Courier
Like the World Outgames, the North American version is part culture, part human rights and partsports. The sports are part athletic, part strategic and all fun. Competitive Outgames sports in Vancouver include badminton, golf, soccer, softball, ...
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What's Happening sports bulletin board
Blue Springs Examiner
Blue Springs Parks and Recreation/Blue Springs Athletic Association Football is sponsoring the NFL Punt, Pass & Kick Competition on July 29 at Hidden Valley Park. Boys and girls ages 8-15 are eligible for this free competition, which features four ages ...
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GCT discusses activity center
Paragould Daily Press
The activity center will have dressing facilities, a weight room and batting cages, It can be used byfootball, baseball, softball, soccer, band, choir and other activities. Noble said they have $5100000 set aside for developing athletic facilities at ...
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Nanaimo scoreboard
Canada.com
You minor hockey, minor soccer, football and high school coaches and parents, we'll be looking for your help in the fall. We at the Daily News want to hear how your sports team is doing on a regular basis, whether it's league or tournament play. ...
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Letters to the Editor
New York Times
Re “At Two-Year Colleges, Less Scrutiny Equals Less Athletic Equality,” July 18: Team sportparticipation rarely translates into a lifelong habit of physical fitness. There are better and more practical ways to even up the provisions of Title IX. ...
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No off days for Friars under Cooley
Attleboro Sun Chronicle
BY PETER GOBIS SUN CHRONICLE STAFF New Providence College basketball coach Ed Cooley, here being introduced by Athletic Director Bob Driscoll (right), believes that hard work now will only help the Friars down the road. (Staff photo by TOM MAGUIRE) New ...
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Attleboro Sun Chronicle
Tennessee gives itself a 2-year probation | College sports
The Seattle Times
Tennessee has self-imposed a two-year probation on its athletic department as part of its response to alleged NCAA violations, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported. The probation and smaller penalties are outlined in the university's 191-page official ...
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The Seattle Times
Work continues to mend Marshall's sports facilities
Marshall Independent
"Our coaches will put together itemized numbers that aren't related to brick-and-mortar facilities, such as football linemen chutes and soccer goals. That will be combined with the brick-and-mortar repairs and we'll see what it's going to take to get ...
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Summer workout brings together PC athletes from many sports
Providence Journal
With the blessing of new hoops coach Ed Cooley and the other coaches in PC's athleticdepartment, White and head trainer John Rock bring athletes from many teams together for a Friday morning workout. White joked that the gathering was “voluntary. ...
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Bison Vision Fall Broadcast Schedule Announced
Bucknell University Official Athletic Site
The fall broadcast schedule for Bison Vision was announced Friday by the Bucknell Department of Athletics and Recreation. Seven football games will air live on Bison Vision, commencing with the home opener on Sept. 3 against Duquesne, while 10 other ...
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Bucknell University Official Athletic Site
Erie Admirals adjusting without top scorer
GoErie.com
And with his degree in sport and exercise science in hand, and his job as a trainer at AthleticRepublic Erie, he said his future in soccer is uncertain. "To give him that opportunity (to play one more match) would be a great thing," said forward ...
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Mac Engel: TCU's Patterson keeps wary eye on Longhorn Network
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Capitalism relies on growth, and one of the great untapped revenue sources in sports is high school athletics. It already has happened to a degree with AAU ball, and now 7-on-7 football with a select number of televised games, shoe deals and a tiny bit ...
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
Dixie State Athletics Announces 2011 Hall of Fame Class
KCSG
The 2011 class includes Greg Croshaw (football), Bruce Hurst (basketball and baseball), Marcus Banks (basketball) and Heather Mendenhall-Dahl (women's soccer). The Athletics Hall of Fame was created in 2007 and through the fall of 2010 had 15 inductees ...
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Athletic camp on edge of change
The Register-Guard
... swimmer Rowdy Gaines and Finnish soccer player Kai Haaskivi. The company is looking to start a nationwide network of state-of-the-art academies where young athletes can receive high-quality training in different sports, company CEO Morris said. ...
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Being an athletic supporter - Youth Sports New York - SUNY Youth ...
Tried kid baseball, football, soccer, basketball and wrestling -- none of them stuck. ... Youth Sports- Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online ...
www.youthsportsny.org/2011/.../being-an-athletic-supporter.h...
Even SEC commissioner can't fix college sports - Soccer News ...
“College sports has lost the benefit of the doubt,” said Slive, which is absolutely ... SEC footballmedia days: Media pick Alabama to win league title; ...
soccernews.bigsoccer.com/article/066ndN374s753?q...
Gallaudet Bison : Gallaudet University places 34 student-athletes ...
GANSEVOORT, N.Y. – In its first year in the North Eastern Athletic Conference ( NEAC) the Bison from Gallaudet University shined on and off the field of play ...
www.gallaudetathletics.com/news/2011-12/neacallacademic
Athletics Alumni Honored | Austin College
Six former student-athletes, along with the entire 1981 NAIA National Championship Football Team, were inducted into the Athletic Hall of Honor. ...
www.austincollege.edu/37642/athletics-alums-honored-legends/

SPACE, Astronomy News, Jul 24, 2011

16 things I've done: KU astronomy professor Barbara Anthony-Twarog
Lawrence Journal World
Some of the technology she helped develop is now in use in the Hubble Space Telescope. • Called Edwin Hubble, for whom the space telescope is named, a “revolving bastard” in class once, to mean he was a bastard from any angle you looked at him. ...
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jul 24, 2011


HHS Proposes New Rules for Human Research
MedPage Today
The whole study was eventually canned, said Carl Wieman, PhD, associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Under the new proposal, approval of a single IRB (likely chosen by the drug company funding the ...
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Pune student battles poverty to complete studies
Daily News & Analysis
Her dream to become an information technology (IT) engineer brought her to the city to reside with her grandparents in Kelewadi in Pimpri area to pursue her higher studies. She completed her graduation in science with 74% in her hometown. ...
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30 UAE versities adopt fraud-proof certificates
Khaleej Times
This was announced on Saturday by Amricon, pioneers in providing smart technology solutions in the UAE, whose achievement came within two years after the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR) took the smart chip solution that ...
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The quest to build the perfect lie detector
Salon
In the meantime researchers in Great Britain and Hong Kong produced their own independent studies of the phenomenon, and they all showed a clear difference between a lie and the truth in the individual research subject. But the experiments themselves ...
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Salon
'Some bright spots': PASS scores show 40% of students still aren't meeting ...
The Times and Democrat
Third-grade social studies and ELA, fourth-grade ELA, fifth-grade writing, seventh-grade science and eighth-grade social studies scores ranged in the 60 percentile range, and scores at the Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Magnet School ranged ...
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The rainmakers take to the skies
The National
"The science says that cloud seeding can enhance the rainfall by 10 and 15 per cent," said Omar Alyazeedi, director of the research and development at the National Centre for Meteorology and Seismology. "We hope that we are doing that, ...
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The National
Why 'no excuses' makes no sense: Revisiting the Coleman report
Washington Post (blog)
By Gary Ravani Perhaps the single best-known piece of social science research ever done in this country is the study produced by sociologist James Coleman in 1966 under the authority of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, commonly called “the Coleman Report. ...
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House blocks another attempt to re-establish the Office of Technology Assessment
Climate Science Watch
Lynne E. Bradley Director, Office of Government Relations American Library Association Rick Piltz Director Climate Science Watch William Sullivan President Council of Environmental Deans and Directors Diana Zuckerman President National Research Center ...
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Slowing Down to Savor the Data
New York Times
... it seems designed to spur private conversations between Google and its most forward-thinking clients, says Gary Lilien, a research professor of management science at Pennsylvania StateUniversity who studies business-to-business marketing. ...
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Our View: Creativity the critical element in all endeavors
The Salem News
Educators and policymakers talk a lot these days about the need for a better effort in the field of STEM studies. The acronym stands for science, technology, engineering and math. But there are those, including Stephen D. Immerman, president of ...
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Mindanao students top regional invention tilt
Sun.Star
Antonio's research studies delve on the Recycling of wastes from processing sea cucumbers and the eco-friendly citrullus products. Runners-up for the Sibol Award, High School Level are also from the Gusa Regional Science High School -- Cheri Ann Ansale ...
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Some swear by 'toning' footwear, but don't cancel gym membership just yet
Bellingham Herald
Peer-reviewed studies on shoes made by Masai Barefoot Technology, pioneers of the rocker-bottom shoes that are beveled at the heel and toe, have found that standing and walking in unstable shoes can strengthen neglected foot muscles and provide some ...
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“Water Vapor Cloud” Spotted Around A Black Hole
Secaucus New Jersey News
These astronomers and scientists were from Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Californian Institute ofTechnology, University of MarylandUniversity of adoUniversity of Pennsylvania, and Institute for Space and Astronomical Science in Japan. ...
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Science medalists ask govt for scholarships
Jakarta Post
Stephan Haniel, a winner of the bronze medal at the international Chemistry Olympiad, said that he had not been able to pursue his studies at state university in Indonesia despite the government's pledge of giving scholarships to students who won ...
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The power of Creole
Boston Globe
As Alix Cantave, founder of the Haitian Studies Association at UMass Boston, put it: “Michel has been the leading scholar on this issue, by far.” DeGraff is waging a campaign on two distinct fronts. One is in Haiti, where in addition to working with ...
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Is email the new symbol of overload in our culture?
Business Insider
Our study deepens our understanding of the impact of communication technologies on people's lives and helps untangle those technologies' seemingly contradictory influences. Source: "E-mail as a Source and Symbol of Stress" from ORGANIZATION SCIENCE, ...
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Corn may reduce cancer incidence
Manila Bulletin
For one, corn is a food that could effectively reduce one's chances of getting lung cancer, the Department of Science and Technology's (DoST) Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) said. The FNRI explained that its capability to reduce lung ...
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The perils of ever-safer playgrounds
TheChronicleHerald.ca
While some psychologists — and many parents — have worried that a child who suffered a bad fall would develop a fear of heights, studies have shown the opposite pattern: A child who's hurt in a fall before the age of nine is less likely as a teenager ...
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Living with virtuality
The Hindu
And he is also passionate about science, technology and the realm that computers have opened up to him. “I work essentially with 3D graphics directly linked with animation and virtual reality. I am now learning a bit of programming with Python, ...
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The Hindu
Unsatisfactory exam results leave capital students, teachers distressed
Gulf Today
They argued that whenever the curriculum changed they had to re-adjust which affected their studies. They also noted that they were lacking a strong foundation in science as several subjects were merged into one. As a result, students had far less to ...
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Gulf Today
President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
Whitehouse.gov (press release)
He also has faculty appointments in the Departments of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences and Materials Science & Engineering. Dr. Ewing was also a visiting professor at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford ...
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IUB promoting education in South Punjab: VC
The Nation, Pakistan
He said that the new departments of Public Administration, Gender Studies and International Relations have been introduced in the university during previous year. Besides this, IUB will establish a medical college with the partnership of public and ...
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iDanger! Viewing 3D on your smartphone harms your sight and gives you headaches
Daily Mail
Added Prof Banks: 'This is an area of research where basic science meets application and we hope that the science can proceed quickly enough to keep up with the increasingly widespread use of the technology.'
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Daily Mail
Safety of Epogen dosages questioned
Ventura County Star
"We focus on science that uncovers new ways of understanding biology, makes significant contributions to medical knowledge, and can be applied to new approaches to treating disease," Amgen spokeswoman Christine Regan said in an email outlining company ...
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No classes in QC Monday
Manila Bulletin
... Inc., Datamas-College of Saint Adeline in Fairview, Diliman Computer Technology Institute, FEU-Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation, FEU-FERN College, Institute of Community and Family Health, Inc., Mary the Queen College of Science and Technology, ...
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Are we heading toward a lopsided world?
Toronto Star
Mara Hvistendahl, a science journalist who lives in Shanghai, has written a fascinating exploration — Unnatural Selection, Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men ? using anecdotal information, looking through the eyes of ...
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