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Claire Lewin, Staff Writer
October 28, 2012
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Do:

1.) Shower Before The Storm
Imagine a week or more without hot water to shower in. After a few days without hot water, you?re going to stink. But if shower before the storm you won?t stink as bad.

2.) Carry A Flashlight Around At All Times
The power can go out at any time. Plus, don?t you want to see everyone?s faces when they freak out about having no power?

3.) Charge Your Electronics Before The Storm
Make sure to savor the few hours of battery life you have.

4.) Buy Board Games.
After your electronics die, board games might be your only source of entertainment.

5.) Find A House With Power
This is essential. In fact, make arrangements in advance: You can stay at my house if I can stay at yours! Those few houses will get booked up pretty fast.

Don?t:

1.) Open The Fridge Unnecessarily
You don?t want the good stuff to go bad.

2.) Try To Turn On The TV
It will not turn on. Save yourself from all that frustration.

3.) Walk Or Drive Around After The Storm
Yes, it?s tempting. But down power lines plus water equals electrocution. Be safe; stay home.

4.) Call CLP
Don?t waste your time ? they won?t answer.

5.) Fight With Family
Family harmony is key! You are going to be stuck together for a long time; you might as well get along. No need to throw fake money at each other when playing Monopoly.

Source: http://www.inklingsnews.com/c/2012/10/28/top-five-dos-and-donts-of-power-outages/

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Bizarre alien 'Tatooine' orbits two suns, in four-star solar system

The alien planet, called PH1, is a gas giant planet slightly bigger than Neptune.

By Jeanna Bryner,?SPACE.com / October 15, 2012

An artist's illustration of PH1, a circumbinary planet with two parent stars and twom more stars orbiting the entire system; PH1 was discovered by volunteers from the Planet Hunters citizen science project. Image released on Oct. 15.

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Amateur astronomers have helped discover an alien planet with two suns and a twinkling twist: The entire twin-sun setup, a real-life version of Tatooine from "Star Wars," is orbited by two more stars ??a solar system that is the first of its kind known.

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The?alien planet, called PH1, is a gas giant planet slightly bigger than Neptune. Its discovery in the midst of a strange, four-star planetary system is the first confirmed world discovered as part of the Yale University-led Planet Hunters project, in which armchair astronomers work with professional scientists to find evidence of new worlds in the bountiful data collected by?NASA's Kepler space telescope.

"Planet Hunters is a symbiotic project, pairing the discovery power of the people with follow-up by a team of astronomers," said Debra Fischer, a professor of astronomy at Yale and planet expert who helped launch Planet Hunters in 2010, in a statement. "This unique system might have been entirely missed if not for the sharp eyes of the public."

Since its March 2009 launch, Kepler has found evidence of more than 2,300 candidate alien worlds. [Gallery: More Alien Planets with Twin Suns]

Finding a strange, new world

Since its initial discovery via Planet Hunters, the existence of PH1 has been confirmed by a team of professional astronomers, who will present their work today (Oct. 15) at the annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in Reno, Nev.

With a radius about 6.2 times that of Earth's, PH1 is a smidge bigger than?Neptune. The gassy planet spends 138 days completing a single orbit around its two parent stars, which have masses about 1.5 and 0.41 times that of the sun. The stars circle each other once every 20 days.

The two other stars orbiting the PH1's twin suns are about 1,000 astronomical units (AU) from the parent stars. (One AU is about the distance between the Earth and sun, about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers.)

If you're hoping to catch the quadruple sunset, this may not be your best bet. The researchers estimate PH1's temperature would range from a minimum of about 484 degrees Fahrenheit (524 Kelvin, or 251 degrees Celsius) and a maximum of 644 degrees F (613 Kelvin, or 340 degrees C), too hot to be in the?habitable zone.

"Although PH1 is a gas giant planet, even if there is a possibility of rocky moons orbiting the body, their surfaces would be too hot for liquid water to exist," researcher Meg Schwamb of Yale University and colleagues write in a draft of their research article.

A planet with two suns

Until now, scientists had identified just six planets orbiting two parent stars, called circumbinary planets, and none of these have stellar companions orbiting them. Until their discovery, circumbinary planets were once the realm of science fiction with Tatooine, the fictional homeworld of Luke Skywalker in "Star Wars," among the most famous.

"Circumbinary planets?are the extremes of planet formation," Schwamb said in a statement. "The discovery of these systems is forcing us to go back to the drawing board to understand how such planets can assemble and evolve in these dynamically challenging environments."

The Planet Hunter volunteers, Kian Jek of San Francisco, Calif., and Robert Gagliano of Cottonwood, Ariz., spotted PH1 using the transit method, noticing faint dips in light as the plant passed in front of, or transited, its parent stars.

Gagliano said he was "absolutely ecstatic" about the finding. "It's a great honor to be a Planet Hunter, citizen scientist, and work hand in hand with professional astronomers, making a real contribution to science," he said.

Jek, too, expressed his amazement.

"It still continues to astonish me how we can detect, let alone glean so much information, about another planet thousands of light-years away just by studying the light from its parent star," he said in a statement.

Schwamb led the team of professional astronomers who confirmed the discovery and characterized the planet, following observations from the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

The research was supported by NASA and the National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship.

For more information on the Planet Hunters project, visit:?http://www.planethunters.org.

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Poetry in motion: Gemini Observatory releases image of rare polar ring galaxy

ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2012) ? When the lamp is shattered, The light in the dust lies dead. When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed.

These words, which open Shelley's poem "When the Lamp is Shattered," employ visions of nature to symbolize life in decay and rebirth. It's as if he had somehow foreseen the creation of this new Gemini Legacy image, and penned a caption for it. What Gemini has captured is nothing short of poetry in motion: the colorful and dramatic tale of a life-and-death struggle between two galaxies interacting. All the action appears in a single frame, with the stunning polar-ring galaxy NGC 660 as the focus of attention.

Polar-ring galaxies are peculiar objects. Astronomers have found only a handful of them, so not much is known about their origins. Most have an early-type spiral system, called a lenticular galaxy, as the central showpiece. But NGC 660, which lies about 40 million light-years distant toward the direction of Pisces the Fishes, is the only polar-ring galaxy known with what is called a late-type lenticular galaxy as its host. All, however, display a ring of stars, dust, and gas that extends tens of thousands of light-years across space along an orbit nearly perpendicular to the main disk.

Models of how polar-ring galaxies form offer two general formation scenarios: 1) a piercing merger between two galaxies aligned roughly at right angles, or 2) when the host galaxy tidally strips material from a passing gas-rich spiral and strews it into a ring.

What you see in this new Gemini Legacy image, then, is not a single dynamic body but either the "bloody" aftermath of one galaxy piercing the heart of another or the remains of a furious tidal struggle between two galaxies that shattered one galaxy's "lamp," scattered its dust and gas, and formed a colorful, 40,000-light-year-long ring of visual glory.

Born of Violence

Brian Svoboda of the University of Arizona, who recently studied the chemical and temperature environment of NGC 660, believes that unique morphology arises from a previous interaction with a gas-rich galaxy. The geometry of NGC 660 -- an enormous edge-on polar ring (some 40,000 light-years across) -- contains more gas (and associated star formation) than its host, which strongly suggests a violent formation. "One of the main characteristics of NGC 660 is that the ring is not truly polar, but is inclined ~45 degrees from the plane of the disk," Svoboda points out. "The simulations for the piercing mergers cannot reproduce these low inclination polar rings; however, the tidal accretion scenario can."

NGC 660's polar ring resolves into hundreds of objects, a considerable part of which are blue and red supergiant stars. The youngest detected stars in the ring formed only about 7 million years ago, indicating a long, ongoing process.

"Gemini's incredible definition of the active star forming regions strewn through the polar ring in NGC 660, juxtaposed against the exquisite crossing dust lanes, is simply beautiful. It really is the most incredible picture I've seen of the galaxy," Svoboda exclaims. "None of the other images I've seen, including those from the Hubble Space Telescope, show the star forming regions with such clarity."

Weighing the Evidence

If NGC represents a merging of two galaxies, astronomer would expect to find a collapsed core and a burst of star formation, which they do see. But the monkey wrench is the uniquely high gas content of both NGC 660's disk component and its polar ring.

"A tidal accretion event will place gas in the polar ring without strongly interacting with the original gas rich host," Svoboda explains. "Tidal interaction is consistent with an influx of gas into the nuclear region creating the starburst that we observe now." Further evidence, he says, is NGC 660's lack of a double nucleus (i.e. two super-massive black holes), which one would expect from a merger.

Astronomers have not detected any "tails" extending from NGC 660, a key signature of many tidal interactions. Usually, when galaxy passes close to another, tidal forces eject stars, gas, and dust into a graceful tail of extragalactic debris and stretched them far into space. But both polar-ring models have produced systems without tidal tails while creating active star formation in the polar ring.

While it can't be proven with a great deal of confidence, in the case of NGC 660, Svoboda says, "I think that there is good evidence to suggest that the origin of the polar ring lies in the tidal accretion event scenario." Particularly he notes that the ring may be about 1 billion years old, so the stripped galaxy could have moved out of the field by the time of our observations now.

Life from Death?

Unseen to the eye, but bright at radio wavelengths, is a compact source (less than 32 light-years in extent) at the host's core. Believed to be a super cluster of stars in a dense cloud of dust and gas, this powerful radio emitter contains perhaps a few thousand hot, blue youthful stars.

Galaxies usually have a majority of old red stars at their cores, but one of the violent scenarios that created NGC 660 has triggered a furious burst of star formation at the galaxy's core. Either way, the gravitational interaction between the two galaxies created shock waves that plowed into giant clouds of gas, causing them to collapse into behemoth blue stars, many likely containing more than 100 times the mass of our Sun. These monstrous, short-lived, stars exploded shortly thereafter as supernovae, which generated more shock waves, creating a domino effect that has ever since perpetuated the creation of youthful stars at NGC 660's core. NGC 660, then, is not only a polar-ring galaxy but also a starburst galaxy. These systems are among the most dense and intense star-forming environments known.

Probing Dark Matter

The ring in a polar-ring galaxy rotates at a speed comparable to that of its host galaxy. By determining how fast a polar ring rotates at different distances from the center of the system, astronomers can search for evidence of elusive and mysterious dark matter in NGC 660's halo. Radio observations have shown that while the ring's velocity close to NGC 660's core is normal, the velocity in the ring's outer parts remains consistent; theoretically the rotational velocity should have dropped off significantly due to the region's gas-poor environment. This finding points to the existence of huge amounts of dark matter in NGC 660.

Astronomers believe dark matter influences the dynamics of all galaxies. Yet understanding dark matter remains one of the astronomy's greatest challenges. Further observations of the enigmatic environment of NGC 660 may shed more light on this ? well ? dark matter.

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More to Benghazi attacks than surface at debate

By Michael O'Brien, NBC News

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GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's assertion that President Barack Obama failed to label last month's attack on a diplomatic post in Libya as a terrorist attack quickly emerged as one of the highlights in a testy debate between the two candidates.

Former Gov. Mitt Romney had an apparent misstep during the second debate of the 2012 presidential election while laying out the timeline for President Obama's use of the word 'terrorism' to describe the recent attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya.

Romney's claim about Obama's immediate response to the Sept. 11, 2012 assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, was rebuffed by CNN's Candy Crowley in a somewhat unusual moment in which a moderator disputed a candidate's claim.

As Romney argued that Obama had failed to recognize the incident as an act of terror, Crowley interjected: "He did call it an act of terror."

Her dissent drew scattered applause from the audience, in violation of debate rules.

The moment would seem to put Romney on the losing end of an exchange over an issue on which the politics have shifted steadily in the Republican ticket's favor. But the reality is more cloudy, which cuts to the core of the politics of the Obama administration's response to the Benghazi incident.

Romney's attack on the administration has been two-pronged. In addition to Romney's criticism of the administration's shifting explanation for the Benghazi attack, the Republican emerged hours after the government acknowledged the deaths of four Americans -- including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens -- to essentially accuse the administration of sympathizing with the attackers by failing to disavow a statement issued by the U.S. embassy in Egypt decrying a video produced in America that depicted Islam in an unflattering manner.

"They clearly sent mixed messages to the world," Romney said in a press conference the next day. "And the statement that came from the administration -- and the embassy is the administration -- the statement that came from the administration was a statement which is akin to apology, and I think was a severe miscalculation."

Obama also spoke that morning from the Rose Garden, where he mourned the death of Stevens and the other deceased Americans and vowed to bring the attackers to justice.

Among his remarks, the president said: "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for."

Those comments were the apparent basis for Crowley's dissent from Romney, though the CNN anchor acknowledged in the same breath that Romney was also correct to assert that the Obama administration had also publicly held for days that the attacks were spontaneous, and not premeditated.

Indeed during the immediate aftermath of the attack, the administration officials publicly asserted that the uprising in Libya was essentially a spontaneous reaction to the video, similar to the impetus for protests the same day in Egypt that had resulted in a breach of the U.S. embassy in Cairo.

"Putting together the best information that we have available to us today, our current assessment is that what happened in Benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in Cairo, almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in Cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sept. 16.

But by the end of the month, the administration had eventually admitted that the Benghazi incident was the result of a coordinated terrorist attack. The recognition offered Romney a powerful political cudgel to use against the administration, just as the Republican nominee needed to distinguish himself from Obama on the topic of foreign policy, an issue on which the president enjoyed an advantage.

The issue has threatened to emerge as a millstone on the Democratic ticket, as the Obama-Biden ticket has mangled its public explanations of the handling of the incident.

"As they learned more facts about exactly what happened, they changed their assessment," Vice President Joe Biden said of the administration's evolving definition of the attack at last Thursday's vice presidential debate. But Biden said in the same debate that he and Obama hadn't been told the post in Libya had asked for more protection, in contradiction of a security officer's testimony before a congressional hearing the day before.

The admission gave Romney more fodder.

"Now, by the way yesterday I raised some questions about Benghazi and the tragedy that occurred there and there were more questions that came out of last night. Because the vice president directly contradicted the sworn testimony of State Department officials. He?s doubling down on denial," Romney said Friday in Virginia, while demanding more answers.

That helped lead to Libya's emergence as an issue at Tuesday evening's second presidential debate. While Obama was the beneficiary of an impromptu assist from the moderator, he took separate aim at Romney and accused him of politicizing the entire incident.

"While we were still dealing with our diplomats being threatened, Governor Romney put out a press release, trying to make political points, and that's not how a commander in chief operates," he said.

Turning to glare at Romney, the president added: "The suggestion that anybody in my team, whether the secretary of state, our U.N. ambassador, anybody on my team would play politics or mislead when we've lost four of our own, governor, is offensive. That's not what we do. That's not what I do as president, that's not what I do as commander in chief."

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High Performance Computing Clusters for a Competitive Advantage ...

Internet and Technology | Computers and Technology | * Written by Patrica | Wednesday, 10 October 2012 01:12 | Word Count: 527

Most businesses have a great amount of data, but do not have the capacity to successfully analyze it to solve the usual business challenges like to innovate new products faster, boost revenue, comply with industry regulations, etc. HPC has become a ?cost-effective method that can be exceedingly beneficial for companies. It has not only become more affordable, but its application is increasing to incorporate various business applications.

HPC was always considered to be too costly and complex for most businesses to implement, until recently. The right technology infrastructure allows you to apply HPC and better leverage your business data to make decisions that add real business value and a competitive advantage. Ideally ?containing a group of connected computers that simultaneously works on a job, high performance computing clusters deliver results more quickly and cost effectively. From an IT perspective, HPC will give your team an opportunity to help the company deliver results at a strategic level today and in the future. It is a ?cost-effective method that can help companies pursue innovation in tough times.

With business transactions become more convoluted, HPC is being utilized in the areas of data storage, and transaction processing. These days it is used by everyday manufacturers to save costs, drive tremendous improvements in products, enhance production efficiency and speed to market, and better meet changing customer needs. The most important benefits of high performance computing in a business application can lead to top line growth and bottom line savings. ?HPC has moved from a selective and expensive endeavor to a cost-effective technology within reach of virtually every budget.

HPC solutions enable a competitive advantage, giving companies greater flexibility to quickly respond to business opportunities with ?detailed and in-depth predictive customer insights. Effective HPC solutions help you speed access to information, reduce risk and manage growth more easily. There are many well-known IT brands and other enterprises specializing in storage servers and custom computer have come up with successful built-to-order HPC clusters.

With better computing capabilities and reduced testing times, manufacturing industries have more flexibility to try new, creative ideas and methods, and save on costs with the latest HPC clusters. These service providers offer speed, information and help businesses manage expansion seamlessly. Companies can be better prepared to tackle future success by adopting efficient HPC computing solutions. The solution provider that you choose must ensure HPC best practices, latest technologies and develop strategies for your built-to-order cluster solution.

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Local Real Estate Agents attend Ohio Association of REALTORS

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Phony version of Bad Piggies installs malware; 82,000 victims so far

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Member ? Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 208	Different degrees of addiction Do you think there are degrees of addiction?? For example, H was in rehab over a year ago for cocaine addiction. 'Clean' for almost a year. Then relapsed about 4 months ago - he says only a few times using cocaine again - but now smoking hash daily. He arrived at my house last week (first real contact in 4 months - since he screamed at me to 'get the hell out of his life") . He did/said all the things I was warned about on SR. Declared his undying love; Promised he would never hurt my like that again; Said he screamed at me as he was trying to push me away as didn't want to hurt me; felt such shame; blah blah blah The frightening thing is if it weren't for SR - I would have listened, and probably reasoned with myself that 'well as long as he is not using cocaine then it's okay' (Dear God where was my mind).... But the question is - 'even though' he claims he is not using cocaine and 'only' smoking some hash' - is the nature of his addiction stil the same - would it be at that same dangerous, destructive level, it was when he went into rehab for cocaine??? He was in therapy (intensive) for 4 months - is it at all possible that he has not comletely 'relapsed' in the sense of his thinking and daily routine? Or is he as sick as he was on cocaine? But just without the aggressive more 'obvious' signs of addiction when on cocaine??
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Member ? Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: London Posts: 40	I think that addiction is all the same iam alcoholic but I know that if I start doing anything else that alters my state of mind I will eventfully get hooked it's my character. Obviously the drug of choice relates to behaviours for instance if I was hooked on cholocate cakes that's still self destructive but less destructive to my family than say alcohol or heroin. My point is that in order to be recovered we must be totally sober from any forms of mind altering substances! No levels of addictions one hole that we are all slipping down some are closer to the bottom than others, but it all heads to the same place... Hell.
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Happy Thanksgiving Canada ? Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: By The Lake Posts: 27,559	Addiction is a progressive disease, it gets worse over time. Most active addicts I know who "cut back" to pot or beer or whatever their cut back drug was, were either lying or just putting in time until they were right back into their own drug of choice. It doesn't get better until they stop. And they don't stop until they have tried everything possible to keep using, hoping nobody will notice...some die trying. There are no "good drugs" or better than other drugs. They are all bad, they all take addiction to a dark and scary place, and they all lead to jails, institutions or death. Hugs
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Belgian Sheepdog Adictee ? Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In Today Posts: 5,341	He is using. He is a drug addict. Does not matter what mind altering chemical it is he is NOT clean and sober. He Is Using!!!! The only improvement for addiction is abstinence. He is not abstinent! You are doing great, keep moving forward!!!!! Love and hugs, __________________ God Bless You All As You Trudge The Road Of Happy Destiny (especially when you are tridgin thru alligators up to your butt) Sobriety: AA June 7, 1981 Codependency: Alanon June 7, 1984
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The sun still shines ? Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 299	It took me years of smoking cigarettes before I was fully addicted, but once addicted, even when I gave up I went right back to the same level of addiction I was at when I stopped. This was even the case when I gave up for 5 years. I believe other addictions work in the same way. Once you go down that slippery slope there is no stopping it. __________________ If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. That way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life
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Community Greeter ? Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Washington State Posts: 3,692	I believe that there are "stages" of addiction very much like there are stages of cancer. Initially, it may not be noticed or simply referred to as someone who "likes to have fun". It progresses to having a few relationship problems or some issues with school or work. It continues to progress until it takes over an individual's life and becomes the focus of their existance. At least, this is what I have witnessed with my son's addiction. It's progressive. You can't be considered in remission from cancer if you still have it "a little bit". Addiction is all or nothing. Either a person is using or they aren't.....they can't be "sort of using"........not when addiction is involved. In fact, most addicts, in their attempt to control that which they cannot control, go through a phase (one or many times) of trying to cut back or change the drug of choice to something they consider more acceptable (beer, pot, hash, etc.). These are the lies they tell themselves (and us) that keeps them (and us) in the cycle of addiction (and codependency). But because it is progressive, they can't move backwards.....only forward in their addiction......or they can arrest it through abstinence (and hopefully recovery) to keep it from progressing. Addiction is ugly. Addiction is tricky. Addiction causes addicts to lie to other people......but the worst lies are the lies they tell themselves. gentle hugs ke __________________ "The essence of bravery is being without self-deception." ~ Pema Chodron
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Titan, the largest of the more than 60 natural satellites of Saturn, is covered in seas, lakes and rivers of methane, and hosts a thick atmosphere, making it one of the most Earth-like bodies in the solar system.

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While rovers are ideal for exploring Mars, a boat is best for Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Scientists are proposing a new mission to explore this alluring world that would send a floating probe to land in a lake on Titan.

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Titan, the largest of the more than 60 natural satellites of?Saturn, is covered in seas, lakes and rivers of methane, and hosts a thick atmosphere, making it one of the most Earth-like bodies in the solar system. Smaller than Earth but wider than Mercury,?Titan?is in many ways more like a planet than a moon.

Scientists don't know if life might be possible on Titan. Some think it's too cold, as average temperatures are a chilly minus 289 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 178 degrees Celsius). Yet others say the insulating atmosphere and plentiful liquids, not to mention a possible subsurface ocean, could be hospitable to microbial organisms.

That's part of the reason researchers are so eager to explore the world, which has been imaged in recent years by NASA's Cassini mission, and was even studied by the accompanying European Space Agency Huygens probe, which plunged through Titan's atmosphere and touched down on land in January 2005, transmitting a few hours of data before it went quiet. [Amazing Photos of Titan]

Huygens confirmed that lakes, rivers and seas of liquid hydrocarbons abound on Titan. Now scientists want to send a follow-up mission to explore them.

That's where the Titan Lake In-situ Sampling Propelled Explorer (TALISE) comes in. The proposed mission would?land a boat, propelled by wheels, paddles or screws, to float around Ligeia Mare, the largest lake on the moon, located near Titan's north pole. After splashing down, TALISE would make its way to the coast over the course of a trip lasting six months to a year.

"The main innovation in TALISE is the propulsion system," Igone Urdampilleta of Spain-based private engineering firm SENER, a member of the TALISE team, said in a statement. "This allows the probe to move, under control, from the landing site in the lake, to the closest shore. The displacement capability would achieve the obtaining of liquid and solid samples from several scientific interesting locations on Titan's surface such as the landing place, along the route towards the shore and finally at the shoreline."?

TALISE is a joint project of SENER and the Centro de Astrobiolog?a in Madrid, Spain. The concept is in its beginning stages, but scientists presented the proposal on Sept. 27 at the European Planetary Science Congress in Madrid.

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Mount Diablo Unified Community Advisory Committee on Special ...

Our CAC Meeting is on?Tuesday, October 2?at 7:00pm

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Board of Education Candidates Panel

The CAC is hosting the?panel from 6:00-7:00pm.? PLEASE arrive by 6:00pm so we can begin on time.?

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Strategic Plan Reminder

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FCMAT Transportation Report Update -?attached is the following:

The final FCMAT Transportation Report (have already sent out several times)

What I shared with the board members at the board meeting on 9/24/12

An email between Linda Mayo and myself about board policy

Carolyn Patton will be available at the meeting for any questions.

Source: http://mtdiablosped.blogspot.com/2012/09/upcoming-meetings.html

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Netflix for iPad Gets ?Just for Kids? Section

Watching Netflix on the iPad just became a more kid-friendly experience. Netflix announced today?that it is adding a Just for Kids section to its iPad app. The Just for Kids content has been available to Netflix subscribers for over a year now, though it wasn’t available on all devices. The special section is optimized for [...]

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Program will honor 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing victim

The Baton Rouge Chapter of Jack and Jill will host "Carole Robertson Day" at Polk Elementary School to educate students about the civil rights activist.

The program will be held at Polk Elementary, 408 East Polk Street,? in Baton Rouge on Friday, Sept. 28, at 11:15 a.m.

Robertson who was a member of the teen group of Jack and Jill in Birmingham, Alabama was killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing there on Sept. 15, 1963. She was getting ready to march with other youth for civil rights.?

The following year at its national convention, the organization decided that every September the local chapters would pay tribute to Robertson.

The program will begin at 11:15 with a presentation. Gifts will be presented to the students and the school library.

The program is being hosted by Associates Cherryl Matthews, Principal at Polk; Thomasine Mencer; and Gloria Whiten.

Source: http://ebrsouth.wafb.com/news/events/55116-program-will-honor-16th-street-baptist-church-bombing-victim

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Japan PM reshuffles his Cabinet to boost support

TOKYO (AP) ? Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda reshuffled his Cabinet for the third time this year Monday in hopes of boosting flagging public support for his government amid speculation that elections will be called in coming months.

Noda appointed 10 new ministers in the 18-member Cabinet, saying the new lineup will tackle domestic and international issues facing the country and acknowledging that much remains to be done.

The most prominent changes include Koriki Jojima as finance minister, Seiji Maehara as national policy minister and Makiko Tanaka ? an outspoken lawmaker and one of Japan's most famous female politicians ? as education minister.

Eight Cabinet posts will not change hands, including key positions in charge of defense, foreign affairs and economics and trade.

"We will do our best to tackle the issues that are still halfway done, such as recovery from the (2011 tsunami) disaster, the battle to control the nuclear crisis and revival of the Japanese economy," Noda said at a press conference announcing the lineup.

Noda, in office for a year, has seen his support rating slide below 30 percent amid public discontent over his push to double the sales tax to 10 percent and general dismay with the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, which swept to power three years ago amid high hopes for change. But he handily won a party leadership vote last month.

He has said he would call elections "soon," but has given no timeframe, and lately has suggested he wants to remain in office to address Japan's various problems. Elections must be called by the summer of 2013 at the latest.

Polls show that voters prefer the main opposition party, the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, but many people are undecided.

Noda's government has been put under pressure by a territorial dispute with China over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea controlled by Japan but also claimed by China and Taiwan.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/japan-pm-reshuffles-cabinet-boost-support-050122791.html

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