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Habitability: Betting on 37 Gem
– G. Marcy, UC Berkeley
If life does exist elsewhere, it's likely to be on a middle-aged star in the constellation of Gemini, according to astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, as reported in a New Scientist article.
|Profile: Margaret Turnbull
Margaret Turnbull's career has included construction, setup, testing and repair of detectors and readout system for an Antarctic Muon and Neutrino detector array.
At the University of Wisconsin in space physics, payload construction, she was involved in detector preparation for the X-ray Quantum Calorimeter sub-orbital launch experiment.
At Lowell Observatory in Arizona, she participated in the examination of main-belt and Earth-crossing asteroid orbital parameters and trends of ephemeris uncertainty with orbital parameters.
She has done Monte Carlo modeling of high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope images of protostars in the Taurus-Auriga dark cloud at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. And in the radio domain, she has analyzed large-scale HI 21 cm emission from Seyfert galaxies imaged by the Very Large Array, and conducted a search for obvious distortions caused by unseen companion galaxies.
Turnbull has compiled a shortlist of 30 possibly habitable planets and stars and one called 37 Gem is her top choice.
"This stable, middle-aged star is just a bit hotter and brighter than our sun. And if alien life is anywhere, it's likely to be there," New Scientist magazine said. The star is in the constellation, Gemini, which gives it the astronomical name, 37 Gem.
Turnbull made the list for NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), a space telescope project that will search for habitable planets after it is launched in about 10 years time. In an earlier article published this year, "Target Selection for SETI: I. A Catalog of Nearby Habitable Stellar Systems," in the Astrophysical Journal, their survey identified 17,129 potentially habitable hosts for complex life.
For such a study, Maggie Turnbull and adviser Jill Tarter have been in the process of compiling this much larger list called HabCat, or Catalog of Nearby Habitable Systems. HabCat was created from what is known about habitable stars, or 'habstars', near our sun. Seventy-five percent are within 140 parsecs, or around 450 light years. These Sun-like, habitable stars have just the right distance, constancy, and light to qualify in a forthcoming enlarged radio search.
The amount of heavy metal present when the star is formed and its age were important criteria for Turnbull. Young stars typically have high rotations, they emit soft X-rays above and beyond their estimated temperatures, or they haven't burned through enough light elements to produce metals (heavy elements like iron).
But Gem 37, the 37th brightest star in the constellation of Gemini, came out on top because it looks most like our sun.
Luminosities are "perhaps the most important information", Turnbull told Astrobiology Magazine, "we use in determining the habitability of nearby stars" for complex life, because luminosity indicates which phase of life the star is in, and that in turn dictates how long the star will remain stable.
To be included in the short list of habitable stars, each candidate stellar systems is weighted for X-ray luminosity, rotation, spectral types or color, kinematics, metallicity, and Strömgren photometry. Hotter, more massive stars have always been considered less likely to harbor life, though not because they would be too hot. Planets could still enjoy temperate climates, just at orbits farther away from the star.
The problem is one of time, not temperature. Hotter stars tend to burn out faster — perhaps too fast for life to develop there.
Our sun, considered a typical G2V dwarf, is approximately 4.5 billion years old. G stars are characterized by the presence of metallic lines and weak hydrogen, Given the billions of years required for evolution of life on earth, scientists could question whether life would stand a chance in a shorter-lived solar system. The star identified in the Turnbull survey, 37 Gem, is a G0V dwarf.
"Priority will be assigned," said Turnbull, "based on location in the color-magnitude diagram [CMD] and on distance. A plot of the CMD score would look like a bull's-eye centered on the sun's absolute visual magnitude and B-V color, with the highest score at the center. The distance scoring will go as the inverse square of distance, or the detectability of a given signal".
"We are still considering how to weight these two factors, but most likely the distance score will dominate within a certain distance", Turnbull told Astrobiology Magazine. "One idea is that, given the first terrestrial transmissions of a century ago, HabCat stars within the possible ETI [extraterrestrial intelligence] response distance of 50 light years should have scores dominated by distance".
"This work falls within the broader themes of, first, the overall habitability of the Milky Way, and, second, the remote sensing of biosignatures", said Turnbull. "My dissertation work includes topics such as characterizing the Earthshine signal, including spectral signatures of life; constraining the fraction of habitable stars in the solar neighborhood; identifying suitable targets for the Terrestrial Planet Finder mission; and examining the concept of a habitable belt in the Galaxy".
The task is challenging, not just because of the large number of stars to consider, but also the difficulty of defining conditions for habitability. As Turnbull and Tarter concluded in their Astrophysical Journal article: "Despite the broad array of data used to assemble this catalog, this exercise has forced us to admit that we are defining habitability from a position of considerable ignorance…For SETI this humbling situation is amplified when we consider that we have no indisputable definition for life itself, to say nothing of the precise conditions that are necessary and sufficient for life to evolve into a technological civilization detectable by a SETI search program."
What's Next
For HabCat surveys, the current best set of stellar distances comes from what astronomers call Hipparcos parallax measurements . These measurements give values accurate to ~ 1 milli-arcsecond. Several new astrometric satellites are now being planned to measure star distances, which will improve the selection criteria for habitability.
The most ambitious planned star cataloguing projects are NASA's Space Interferometry Mission [SIM] and ESA's Galactic Census Project, or GAIA mission, which may yield large numbers of parallaxes with precisions better than ~ 10 micro-arcseconds. SIM is scheduled to operate from 2006 to 2011 while GAIA, if accepted by ESA, could launch in 2009 with a 5 year lifetime.
SIM would provide astrometric measurements of 10,000 stars and GAIA would measure around 10 billion positions. The next scheduled astrometry mission, however, was the now cancelled FAME (Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer), which was scheduled to be launched in 2004.
When the Allen Telescope Array turns on in 2005, it will be capable of searching to the farthest of 17,000 habstars, just beyond 300 parsecs.
Scientists hope to launch six new space-borne missions over the next few years to search for terrestrial planets.
They include France's small-scale COROT, NASA's more-ambitious Kepler mission, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Eddington and NASA's Space Interferometry Mission (SIM).
The French COROT mission, approved and due for launch in late 2004, will study asteroseismology, or oscillations within stars, and likely will be the first orbiting telescope to search for extrasolar planets.It will look at 50,000 to 60,000 stars and should find a few dozen terrestrial planets and several hundred close-in gas-giant planets during a two- to three-year mission, says Pierre Barge, an astronomer at the Laboratory of Astrophysics in Marseille and leader of COROT's exoplanets group. COROT – for Convection, Rotation and Planetary Transits – is a mission of CNES, the French National Center for Space Studies, in partnership with ESA, Italy, Belgium and Germany. When searching for extrasolar planets, COROT's 27-centimeter (10.6-inch) telescope will use a method called photometry, in which sensitive light detectors look for a slight drop in a star's brightness as a small planet "transits" the star (crosses the face of the star as viewed from COROT).
|SIM, scheduled for launch in 2009, will determine the positions and distances of stars several hundred times more accurately than any previous program.
Credit: NASA / JPL
The Kepler mission is scheduled for launch into solar orbit in October 2006. Kepler will simultaneously observe 100,000 stars in our galactic "neighborhood," looking for Earth-sized or larger planets within the "habitable zone" around each star – the not-too-hot, not-too-cold zone where liquid water might exist on a planet. To highlight the difficulty of detecting an Earth-sized planet orbiting a distant star, Borucki, Kepler's principal investigator, points out it would take 10,000 Earths to cover the Sun's disk. One NASA estimate says Kepler should discover 50 terrestrial planets if most of those found are about Earth's size, 185 planets if most are 30 percent larger than Earth and 640 if most are 2.2 times Earth's size. In addition, Kepler is expected to find almost 900 giant planets close to their stars and about 30 giants orbiting at Jupiter-like distances from their parent stars. Because most of the gas giant planets found so far orbit much closer to their stars than Jupiter does to the Sun, Borucki believes that during the four- to six-year mission, Kepler will find a large proportion of planets quite close to stars. If that proves true, he says, "We expect to find thousands of planets."
In 2008 or later, the European Space Agency hopes to launch the Eddington mission (named for the late British astronomer Arthur Eddington). Eddington primarily would study stars' interior structures and the processes that govern how stars evolve, but it would spend three years scanning 500,000 stars for planets, including terrestrial planets in habitable zones. Like Kepler and COROT, Eddington would use a camera with a large optical telescope, in this case a wide-field 1.2-meter (47-inch) one, to detect planetary transits using photometry.
Also due for launch in 2009 is the almost $1 billion NASA-ESA Next Generation Space Telescope, or NGST [James Webb Space Telescope], a near-infrared telescope that will succeed the Hubble Space Telescope. Planet hunting will be a minor part of its job. Like Hubble, NGST will be a general-purpose telescope with an emphasis on cosmology. But it will investigate stars with dusty disks – the early stage of planet formation – and may also be able to study Jupiter-size planets.


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Just how valuable is Meeko? 50,000 credits. It's worth it.
The level starts out on the other side of that door behind the flaming wreckage of the stolen speeder - literally, right where you ended the last level. A platform with two large, white generators lays in front of you. Climb on top of the generator to your right and jetpack over to an enclosed balcony where some guys are shooting you from - it's semi-circular and orange-brown in color. Hang from the ledge that wraps around it, then fly onto the top of the balcony. Fly from that onto a bridge, and from the bridge to another balcony (All the time, you should be moving farther and farther to the right of where you started). From this balcony, fly one more time onto a conveyor belt. It will travel into an opening in the wall.
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Full-service marina. New and used boat sales, transient slips, fuel, restaurant. Open year-round.
Lehigh Memorial Park located in Oglesby has an advanced singletrack dirt trail two miles in length. However, what it lacks in duration, it makes up for in the intense network of trails that splinter off from it, offering very fast, large natural drops and jumps.
Horseback Riding stables including public trail rides, boarding, birthday parties and holiday rides!! And more.
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A 335-acre wooded tract with 7 trails, 2 pavilions, 4 picnic areas, a fishing pond, a canoe dock, and includes 3 handicapped-accessible areas.
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Heritage Harbor Ottawa is a premier Marina Resort Community located on the banks of the Illinois River. Visit our water front restaurant or rent a cottage.
This 18-hole championship course has bent grass greens, tees, and fairways, plus a full-service pro shop.
Illini State Park is the type of park you think of when you think of big picnics and family gatherings. With its rustic Civilian Conservation Corps buildings and riverside picnic areas, Illini State Park offers beautiful views and a sense of history not found in many other parks. Named for the native Americans who once inhabited the area, Illini State Park is located south of the Illinois River between Marseilles and U.S. Route 6. The northern edge of the 510-acre park is bordered by the Great Falls of the Illinois River. In just 2 miles, the river drops 3 feet, creating beautiful, roaring rapids.
This outfitter in the Illinois Valley offers canoe equipment, instruction, and transportation to help you fully enjoy this scenic stretch of the Vermilion River. Venture out on your own, or choose from excursions that include everything from picnics along the river to overnight camping trips.
Described as a Canyon Course complete with bluffs, valleys, hills and hundreds of trees. It is a challenge to both the beginner and the seasoned golfer and is recognized by many players as one of the finest 9-hole facilities in the country. The Club House offers a friendly atmosphere and includes a Pro-Shop, full service bar & restaurant with panoramic views of the Course and outdoor patio.
LaSalle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area
2,058 acre lake with rocky shoreline. Called a "perched" lake because it is formed by levees that rise above the surrounding land. High winds require that safety precautions be followed to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience.
Marseilles State Fish and Wildlife Area
Containing 2,550 acres, the area is jointly used by the Illinois National Guard as a training facility and is open to the general public for hunting.
6-acre park donated to the village in 1891 by David McWilliams, the first banker and business person in the community. It is named after the Prince of Wales, Baron Renfrew, who visited the area while on a hunting expedition in 1860.
This new lake is located on old Route 66 at the southeast edge of Dwight. Donated to the village in 1994 and improved with funding from local organizations, the lake offers a beautifully landscaped picnic are, fishing, and a bike trail. Open year-round.
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One of the many neo-hippie jam bands inheriting the road-warrior mantle left behind by
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established a devout grassroots following on the strength of constant touring and a loose, rootsy brand of Southern rock informed by jazz and blues textures. The group's origins date to 1982, when vocalist
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and guitarist
Mike Houser
first began playing together while attending college in Athens, Georgia. When bassist
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left academia to join the duo the next year,
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were officially born. The band recorded its debut single, "Coconut Image," in 1986; drummer
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, while 1994's
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reconvened for the album
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Another Joyous Occasion
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Don't Tell the Band
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's wish was that the band would carry on after his passing, and with
becoming a permanent replacement,
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, was released in April of 2003.
Night of Joy
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, both of which appeared in late March 2004, featured live selections from two of the band's shows at The House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina while they toured in support of
. These marked
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Another Joyous Occasion
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, and again in 2006 for
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Free Somehow
, the band's tenth studio album (and first with newcomer guitarist
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), followed in early 2008, with
Dirty Side Down
appearing in 2010; it was followed by the in-concert set Live in the Classic City II in the fall. In 2012, the band released Wood, a double-live collection culled from the group's first ever all-acoustic tour.
The band never left the road for very long. In 2014, it was announced that drummer Nance needed time away from business as usual to deal with personal matters. Duane Trucks was enlisted to fill in during concerts. When WP eventually decided to record in a studio again, he filled the chair. With Keane as producer, the sextet entered Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, North Carolina. For the first time in their 30-year career, WP recorded live in the studio. Performing new originals and choice covers -- including Alan Price's "Sell Sell," Murray McLauchlan's "Honky Red," and Willie Dixon's "Taildragger" -- Street Dogs was completed and slated for released in 2015.
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Authorities have identified the victim of a drowning in southeast Honolulu as 27-year-old Daniel Lowe of Modesto.
Fire officials say Lowe died Saturday at Spitting Caves, a cliff-diving area in southeast Oahu.
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You'll be able to donate to tornado relief via Red Cross when you check out at Publix.
Starting today Publix will have the option when you check out to add a donation to your bill.
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LAKELAND, Fla., April 29, 2011 – Today Publix Super Markets established a program to offer its customers and associates a way to directly assist those areas in the South affected by recent tornadoes and severe weather. Customers may donate any amount by adding it to their grocery totals when checking out at Publix registers. Collected money will be channeled through the American Red Cross and designated specifically for the Southern Storms disaster relief efforts. The program will continue for a few weeks, based on customer response.
"Our customers and associates have trusted Publix to react quickly and help those affected by tragic circumstances," said Maria Brous, director of media and community relations. "This disaster to the South hits close to home as we operate in some of the impacted areas. Our first priority was to account for our associates and then to focus on our operations in order to continue serving our communities in time of need."
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Hispanic Christians are applauding evangelical leaders for their renewed commitment to immigration reform.
The National Association for Evangelicals testified on Capitol Hill Thursday, calling for comprehensive immigration reform.
NAE leaders urged Congress to help undocumented immigrants eventually gain legal status so families can be reunited.
"We are not suggesting here that those already in the U.S. without documentation are automatically granted citizenship or residency but that there be a reasonable or equitable way that they can earn it," said Leith Anderson with NAE.
The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference joined the NAE at the press conference to applaud its support for reform.
"Our desire is for every immigrant to become a productive citizen, to demonstrate proficiency in the English language, to embrace the core values of the American idea and to realize the American dream," said Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Conference.
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Q: Can you tell me if six-toed cats are a rarity, or is there a breed? A: Polydactyly (extra toes) is somewhat common in cats. My cat, Mittens, is a polydactyl cat. Her rear feet have one extra toe. Her front feet have the usual five, but her thumbs are gigantic. I confess that it was her freaky feet that attracted me to her in the first place.
Polydactyl cats are not a separate breed. Historically, however, the original unregistered Maine Coon cats had a high incidence of polydactylism — around 40 percent! It has been written that the extra toes evolved as a "snowshoe foot" to help Maine Coons walk in the snow, and local folk tales claimed that these cats used their big mitts to catch live fish right out of the streams, taking them home to feed their owners. These stories are charming, however, there is no evidence that polydactylism confers any natural selective advantage to affected cats. Breed standards required a normal foot configuration, and did not allow polydactyly in Maine Coons, and so the trait was deliberately bred out of this breed. In the Netherlands and Belgium, there is currently a move to restore the polydactyl form of the breed.
Although polydactylism is alluring, breeding cats deliberately for polydactylism is controversial. Some cat enthusiasts fear that unscrupulous breeders would try to produce cats with excessive and disabling numbers of toes on each paw. Fortunately, polydactyl genetics doesn't work this way; you can only fit so many toes on a cat's foot. Even so, a good compromise would be to write breed standards to define the maximum number of toes allowed, to discourage such attempts.
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They should be a breed. They have so many fun characteristics! We have a male 1 yr 7 months. Very fun smart agile affectionate and in tune with our family. We have a daughter with terrets and he can sense them when she has an episode coming. He also calns her down when she is very bad. He can leap extremely high from the floor... 6' at times! He learns very easily and doez "tricks", plays fetch, jumps and catches stuff in the air, sits and sits on his butt with front paws up. Like a dog. We don't have any other pets but he adapts well to other animals. Cats and dogs... he plays with them. He is truly the most unique cat I have ever had. We became homeless for a few months this summer and we had him with us. He was great. His front paws look webbed and his back ones look like rabbit feet! Very large. And his fur is lije silk. His color is orange with a pattern, not stripes but some look like stripes on his tail and legs but the rest are just like a maze. In the sunlight his pattern looks like its got a purple tint! Very cool! His name is Hunter. He is awesome. Talks like crazy! He also has what look lije wrists on his front above his paws they bend unlike normal cats craziest thing i have ever seen. The vet said he is very special and unique.. a definite keeper! He will be apart of our family for the rest of his years which I hope is many. My last cat was 88 in human years when he passed.
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actually my cat i just got today has seven toes on each of his feet it is not common. having it on all feet is rare
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I myself have a polydactyl cat. She is 7 years old and has an extra digit on her two front paws, and a limp inactive extra digit on her two rear paws. That I know of her parents were not Maine Coon cats, but tiger cats, or short hair domestic. It is possible that somewhere in her ancestry was a Maine Coon. I must say she has a similar body build.
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THE ADVANTAGES of retaining the rectum in patients requiring colectomy for ulcerative colitis are clear. However, there is considerable discrepancy in the literature regarding the results of retaining the rectum and performing an ileoproctostomy. On the one hand it is claimed that this procedure is successful in most cases, and that the disease regresses in the rectum.1 On the other hand, many surgeons have been so frequently disappointed that they rarely perform an ileoproctostomy. An intermediate viewpoint is that ileoproctostomy may be satisfactory in selected cases where rectal disease is minimal at the time of surgery.2 In order to try and throw some light on these divergent views a study was undertaken of patients who between 1940 and 1950 had subtotal colectomies and ileostomies for ulcerative colitis at Massachusetts General Hospital between 1940-1950. The fate of the rectal stump in these patients has been recorded.
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In the interests of Full Disclosure I should probably point out that, years ago, I pre-emptively exercised the Ballard Option and cancelled my subscription to The American Spectator because, as much as I detested Bill Clinton - especially as POTUS - they had succumbed to Clinton Derangement Syndrome and ceased to be a useful or interesting publication. They've recovered somewhat, IMO.
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One of the two U.S. journalists behind bars in North Korea has confessed to breaking the law in the Communist country.
Laura Ling confessed to illegally entering North Korea during a rare phone call Tuesday with her sister Lisa Ling, who is also a well-known TV reporter.
"And now we're just hoping that our two countries that don't have a diplomatic relationship can somehow find a reason and use this reason to communicate to secure their release," Lisa Ling said.
The two journalists were sentenced to 12 years in prison and hard labor by a North Korean court last month after being tried on charges they entered the country illegally. The U.S. is demanding that the women be released. However, North Korea is asking the U.S. to issue a statement admitting that the women committed a hostile act against the communist regime.
North Korea has also delayed sending the two American Journalists to a prison labor camp, signaling the country may be ready to negotiate with the U.S. for the women's release.
Ling and Lee, who are employed by former vice president Al Gore's California-based Current TV media group, are being held at a guest house in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
"North Korea's move not to carry out the sentence suggests that it could release them through a dialogue with the United States and they could be set free at an early date, depending on the U.S. gesture," said University of Georgia political scientist Han Park.
"I heard from North Korean officials that the American journalists were doing fine at a guest house in Pyongyang," Park added.
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Chancellor George Osborne said he was impressed by Berwick-based business Simpsons Malt following his recent visit.
Mr Osborne announced a £22,5million funding boost for rural businesses in the North East from Simpsons last Thursday.
Greeted by Simpsons Malt's vice chairman Richard Simpson, the Chancellor and Conservative parliamentary candidate Anne-Marie Trevelyan were given a tour of the malting plant, which produces 280,000 tonnes of premium malt for the brewing and distilling industries worldwide.
Enjoying his first visit to a malting plant, the Chancellor showed great interest in the malting process from the initial steeping stage, through to germinating and kilning.
Simpsons Malt personnel Steven Rowley, Wayne Donaghy, Kevin Wood, Pat Richards and Callum Richardson were on hand during the visit last Thursday to explain the process and answer any questions.
The family-owned maltster recently celebrated its 150-year milestone and the Chancellor and Ms Trevelyan were shown around the company's museum before completing the grain to glass story by tasting the various premium malts and sampling a 30-year-old single malt.
Commenting on the visit, Richard Simpson, said: "This £22.5m funding boost is certainly good news for rural businesses in the North East and we were keen to highlight the importance of dualling the A1 north of Newcastle and the positive impact that would have to the economy.
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Tale of Two JavysSubmitted by Mike Wellman on Sat, 06/06/2015 - 10:17pm
Five innings were enough tonight.
At one point the I-Cubs trailed 5-0 and the Vice-Cardinals from Memphis had all of one hit, that being a single. Rarely is so much made from so little. When Carlos Pimento was excused from further duty he'd thrown 80 pitches in three innings, only 35 of them strikes. I think he walked eight.


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The Vancouver Canucks, NHL affiliate of the AHL's Utica Comets, have signed forwards Benn Ferriero and Brandon DeFazio.
Ferriero, 26, totaled eight goals and 22 assists for 30 points in 57 AHL games with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Connecticut in 2012-13. He also appeared in four NHL games with the Rangers, notching one assist.
In four pro seasons, the native of Essex, Mass., has notched 52 goals and 81 assists for 133 points in 178 games. Originally drafted by Phoenix in 2006, Ferriero spent three seasons (2009-12) in the Sharks organization split between San Jose and Worcester. He has 14 goals and nine assists in 96 career NHL contests.
DeFazio, 24, spent the 2012-13 season with the AHL's Bridgeport Sound Tigers, collecting 11 goals and 14 assists for 25 points, along with 139 penalty minutes, in 69 games.
DeFazio, entering his third pro season, has registered 22 goals and 19 assists for 41 points in 137 career AHL games with Bridgeport and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. He was undrafted out of Clarkson University.
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In some ways, it's good for Greeley to have spring rains that worsen the city's many potholes, Joel Hemesath said.
The more visible the cracks, the more likely people will believe that Hemesath, Greeley's public works director, isn't lying when he says that two-thirds of the city's roads are on the verge of needing, or already need, major repair. At 111 miles of road in need of overlay — the most expensive kind of road construction — Greeley is behind by about $78 million in road maintenance.
Using what is called a PQI, or Pavement Quality Index, Hemesath calculated that Greeley needs to spend at least $12 million per year to keep road conditions similar to what they are now.
Until 2011, Greeley spent an average of $3 million per year from the Food Tax fund, which dedicates 70 percent to road maintenance. After an infusion of severance taxes and an uptick in the economy, city officials in 2011 allocated carryover money to total $6.1 million to the Food Tax fund. In 2012, the fund was up to $7.8 million.
This year, Greeley is set to spend $5.6 million on road maintenance, after the city council dedicated $3 million of this year's $10 million surplus to the Food Tax fund.
While that's an improvement, Hemesath said, it's still too tight of a budget to focus on much more than Greeley's larger roads.
"People are probably driving on pretty good roads," he said of recent improvements on Greeley's arterial roads. "I'm not sure they feel we have a road problem."
But most of Greeley's residential streets, which make up the majority of the city's road system, have been neglected for some time, Hemesath said, with about a third garnering a PQI rating of 40 or worse.
The PQI scale ranges from 0 to 100, with 100 being pavement that is like new. Anything below a PQI of 68 is considered pavement in poor condition. Greeley's average PQI right now is 64, Hemesath said.
If the city were to contribute $3 million to road maintenance each year, the average PQI by 2020 would plummet to 45 — meaning that essentially all of Greeley's roads would need to be repaved. During the first three quarters of a pavement's life, it typically stays in relatively good condition, but the quality drops dramatically after that. If pavement isn't attended to before it reaches that three-quarter point, it becomes exponentially more expensive to fix, Hemesath said.
Greeley Mayor Tom Norton said council members are aware that an extra $3 million in the Food Tax fund is not enough to cover the city's road maintenance needs, but it does help.
"The need will continue until we make a permanent change in terms of road maintenance funding," Norton said.
After voters in 2010 rejected a dedicated sales tax for street repairs, he said there's no "magical solution" for what to do next.
"I am not satisfied that we've got the right solution, but I am very well aware of the fact that the general public does not want more taxes," Norton said.
If the city does not end up spending some of the "just in case" money it has set aside for a possible split from Weld County's regional dispatch center, Norton said he would like to see some of that money allocated for road maintenance. But he said council members must also keep in mind the dire need for improvements to some of Greeley's buildings.
"The fortunate thing is ... if the economy stays the same, we will continue to have carryovers," Norton said.
Hemesath said it's difficult to explain to the public that road maintenance can only be paid for out of Greeley's Food Tax budget. Outside of proposing a new revenue source, such as a street utility fee, Hemesath said the only other opportunity for additional funding comes from carryover.
"A lot of our buckets of money are very specific and bound," Hemesath said. "There are people that think we can just take our huge budget and put it toward roads, but it just doesn't work that way."


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They're the teenage power couple of the moment, and Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez seemed to prove that their moment's far from up at Sunday night's 2011 Teen Choice Awards.
Hushing tabloid rumors that they were breaking up, Bieber, 17, and Gomez, 19, showed a united front from the front row of the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, Calif.
Although both stars arrived solo, the two sat next to each other for the show after Gomez rocked the stage with her band – Selena Gomez & the Scene – to sing "Love You Like a Love Song."
Despite reports that Gomez was upset about Bieber's older, edgier friends, including Chris Brown, Sean Kingston and Lil Wayne, the couple left the amphitheater holding hands. Bieber kept his free hand on the small of her back, and they kissed goodbye before being whisked into separate cars.
Kingston, who walked the red carpet for the first time since his near-fatal jet ski accident, also brushed off the reports, telling PEOPLE the chatter is "all rumors. Selena's my friend. We're all friends."
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Playoff a big factor in Tall Tower Open
Since 2000, the KVII Tall Tower Open presented by Happy State Bank has been decided by a playoff on five occasions.
Tom Doughtie won the tournament in 2001 in a playoff against Bobby Barber after the two tied at 2-under 214.
Beginning in 2005, the tournament was decided in a playoff three years in a row and four times in a five-year span.
Kevin Jones was the 2005 winner in a playoff over Tyson Mooring after the two tied at 6-under 210. The next year, James Bischof won a playoff against Nathan Sheen after they tied at 8-under 208.
In 2007, Casey Weiss was the playoff winner against Matt Smith after the two tied at 10-under 206.
Barber, the 2008 winner outright, won his second in a row the next year in a playoff against Weiss after the two tied at 13-under 203.
Scores have improved dramatically over the past dozen years. Weiss won it in 2000 with a score of 1-under 215, and the following year Doughtie and Barber tied at 2-under 214.
The players have continued to get better as shown by the fact that since 2007 the winning score has been higher than 9-under only once, when Weiss captured the 2010 tournament at 5-under 211.
The largest winning margin since 2000 was in 2004 when West Texas A&M player Josh Luongo won by seven shots at 7-under 209.
And how about this bit of trivia. Last year's winner Logan Leggett did not qualify for the championship flight in 2010. He opened with rounds of 77-77 and played in the presidents flight, where he took third place at 10-over 226. Last year he won the tournament at 11-under 205, representing an improvement of 21 shots.
Last week's U.S. Open a memorable one
I had the opportunity last week to watch most of the U.S. Open on television because there was no local summer major to cover. I was amazed at how well 17-year-old Beau Hossler played. I kept thinking he would eventually cave into the enormous pressure and shoot a round of 80 or higher.
He didn't, and hats off to the high school senior-to-be. He was still in contention Sunday before shooting a final round of 6-over 76 on a tough Olympic Club course. I think it shows how well today's young players can perform under great pressure.
That probably would never have happened years earlier. Not only did Hossler play well but so did two other amateurs — Jordan Spieth and Patrick Cantlay.
It wasn't that surprising about either of them. Speith was in contention at the Byron Nelson Championship a couple of years ago. Cantlay, the top amateur in the world, played great on the PGA Tour last summer.
Webb Simpson kept a streak going of first-time winners in the major championships, while Jim Furyk kept a streak of the third-round leader not going on to win when the Open is held at Olympic.
I guess because Furyk might not have too many opportunities left to win another major I was pulling for him.
And for the longest time on Sunday he looked as though he might pull it off.
I, like many, was surprised by the collapse of Tiger Woods on the weekend. He played so well the first two rounds but struggled mightily on the final two days.
It makes you wonder whether he'll win another major championship. He's won twice this year and has shown the ability to get it done. I think he'll win more major championships, and I wouldn't be shocked if it happened this year.
Will Lee Westwood ever get the monkey off his back and win a major title, after contending so often? My guess is he'll fall short of that goal, like Colin Montgomerie.


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J.V. Ciccarelli (GW Carver HS of Engineering and Science), R.J. Maddalena (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
During the summer of 2003, JVC participated in an observing project that used the Green Bank Telescope to observe the Galactic Center at two radio frequencies: 5 GHz and 10 GHz. The collected data was transformed into Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format images resulting in high-quality images that clearly show features previously found at other wavelengths.
The scientific research project resulted in a student-led research project that will analyze this region and its specific features to identify the emission mechanism of these radio waves. Students will use a variety of software programs to visualize the data collected including: Psi-Plot, Sky Image Processor, Hands-On Universe and FITSView. Once completed and refined, this project will be made available to other teachers through NRAO's web page. Ideally, this data can be compared to public-domain images in other portions of the electromagnetic spectrum to help students understand that this information coupled with other observations can explain how and why it is emitted.
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Teixeira, Chavez Homer, Yankees Win
DETROIT -- Joe Girardi got mad.
Then, the New York Yankees got even.
Mark Teixeira and Eric Chavez hit solo home runs on consecutive pitches in the eighth inning that put New York ahead after Girardi was ejected, and the Yankees held off the Detroit Tigers 4-3 Thursday to split a four-game series.
"I'm extremely happy for what our guys accomplished," Girardi said, still stewing after the victory. "That doesn't mean I'm not going to get perturbed when I get a letter."
Girardi was tossed in the fifth during a demonstrative argument in which he slammed his hat on the infield and threw his arms in the air over and over, repeating a move third base umpire Tim Welke acknowledged making on a fair-or-foul call.
"It's good that he's sticking up for us," Yankees catcher Chris Stewart said. "It fired us up, obviously."
The Yankees won a one-run game for the first time since July 13, ending an eight-game losing streak in one-run games that was their longest since 1944.
"It's just nice to get a win -- period," Stewart said. "We've been scuffling lately and things haven't been going our way. It almost seemed like it was going to happen again."
Rafael Soriano escaped a first-and-third, no-out jam in the ninth for his 27th save in 29 chances.
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Two weeks ago, the board approved pink slips for 306 teachers, 34 percent of its teaching staff. Superintendent Linda Thompson said the new round of layoffs comes as part of the district's effort to reorganize its central office.
Board member David Davenport cast the only opposition against the two measures when voting nay on the teacher pink slips.


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The January transfer window isn't as long—and therefore as active—as the summer transfer window, but it's still a crucially important time for clubs around the world.
It acts as the chance to stop and assess how their season has been so far; where they can improve, how they can get better and which players are best suited to helping them do that. It's like stopping midway through a race to get a little bit of extra training or nutrition in for the run home.
The January transfer window for the 2013-14 season won't be any different. Players, as well as clubs, will be looking to make the right move to help their season, and while it might still be over two months away from commencing, there's been no shortage of gossip and speculation so far.
To be frank, a lot of that is pure speculation.
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December 17th, 2003, marks the 100th anniversary of manned powered flight. Wilbur and Orville made their first flight on December 17, 1903. NASA Quest's Centennial of Flight Project will be continuing to highlight the gifts that power flight has brought to modern day life and the ways that different people have made a contribution.
Take our Daughters to Work Day:
This April 23 - 25, 2002 event focused on women's contributions to the history and the future of aerospace. Meet women and men who work at NASA, private and commercial aviators and Amelia Earhart! They described their love of flight, science, engineering and technology.
Webcast with Gloria Yamauchi. Do researchers get to play with model planes? Well, sort of! Hear Gloria tell about her recent wind tunnel test of model tiltrotors landing on a naval destroyer!
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An XV- 15 is a kind of tiltrotor plane.
Leisure flying / flying for fun A webcast with Lorna. In this webcast, our private pilots and aero experts will teach students how to prepare their own flight plan. Live in flight video will be used to demonstrate the essentials for a safe and successful route.
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What would it feel like to be Cecilia Aragon, aerobatic champion pilot, Wendy Holforty, NASA Aerospace Engineer and Civil Air Patrol pilot, or Mitzi Saylor, B-737 Captain for United Airlines? Ask these pilots yourself during the webcast!
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Interactive webcast on JETS! Join one of the few female corporate jet pilots and jet pilot instructors as she discusses this new field for women. Her enthusiasm for flying, travel, and making your career exciting will ignite your students thinking about future career paths in the aeronautical sciences.
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Did you ever wonder what it would be like to fly the SR-72? Fly from one border to another in an hour? Ask questions of Marta Bohn Meyer the first woman to fly the SR-72 in the all day forum!
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