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George Lucas, Kay Ryan to receive national honors at the White House
Marin Independent Journal
U.S. poet laureate for two terms beginning in 2008, Ryan used the position to champion community colleges like the College of Marin, where she and her late partner, Carol Adair, taught for more than three decades. Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry ...

Tony Kushner, Kay Ryan among Obama arts honorees
Windy City Times
A former Poet Laureate of the United States, her witty and compact verse infused with subtle wordplay, reminds us of the power of language to evoke wisdom from the ordinary. Carol Adair, who was also an instructor at the College of Marin, was Ryan's ...

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Drought Reveals Remains Of Will Rogers' Birthplace  News On 6

Rapid identification of lung infection by analysing volatile compounds in breath
MTBeurope
Co-author of the paper, publishd in IOP Publishing's Journal of Breath Research, Jane Hill, from the University of Vermont, said: “Traditional methods employed to diagnose bacterial infections of the lung require the collection of a sample that is then ...

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Wilton band Vasudo brings feel-good tunes to Fairfield  Ct Post

Global Wearable Wireless Sensor Market to 2015: Industry Size, Share, Growth ...
Watch List News (press release)
The other vendors mentioned in the report are Altan Technologies, Connected Health, Digi, Microstrain, ZEO-Altan Technologies, and Zephyr Technologies. Buy a copy of this report at http://www.researchmoz.us/sample/checkout.php?rep_id=150146&type=S.

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Global Wearable Wireless Sensor Market to 2015: Industry Size, Share, Growth ...
DigitalJournal.com
The other vendors mentioned in the report are Altan Technologies, Connected Health, Digi, Microstrain, ZEO-Altan Technologies, and Zephyr Technologies. Buy a copy of this report at http://www.researchmoz.us/sample/checkout.php?rep_id=150146&type=S.

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FRIDAY'S COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Worcester Telegram
Sharc After Dark Concert Series Acoustic artists, Eric L'Esperance and Austin Troy; full bar and food, 7-10 p.m. June 28. Members, free; nonmembers, $10. Around the in-ground pool(moves inside if it rains), Shrewsbury Racquet Club, 3 Tennis Drive, ...

Harwood hallways under the eye
Stowe Today
(Duxbury representative Chris Koliba was absent.) The board approved the purchase of the system from Controlled Technologies, a bi-coastal company with an office in Williston, with several caveats. First, there will be no cameras in classrooms ...

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Twenty high school teams from around Vermont and Puerto Rico participated in the 2013 High School Program training week at Saint Michael's college from June 24-28th. We learned about watershed ecology, Vermont's climate, and how the Lake Champlain Basin is adapting to a changing climate
Additional photos from the 2013 High School Training Week can be found on the CWDD Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/VermontEPSCoRCwdd

Keeping Nutrients Out Of Our Waterways
Vermont Public Radio
Vermont's Ecosystem Restoration Manager Kari Dolan and UVM Professor of Water Resources Suzanne Levine discuss the science of nutrient runoff and the efforts by the state to contain them. Post your questions or comments about efforts to keep nutrients ...

On June 13, 2013 the VT EPSCoR RACC Seminar Series hosted George E. Springston from the Geology and Environmental Science department of Norwich University.

Mr Springston's talk covered the following topics

*Statewide patterns of rainfall, stream runoff, and road damage from Irene
*Peak discharges from Irene in the Mad River watershed
*Peak discharge history in the White River watershed
*Rainfall versus runoff in the White River watershed and Eastern Vermont
*Geomorphic impacts
-Tributaries
-Upper Mainstem
-Lower Mainstem

NSF KY EPSCoR has an exciting Student Volunteer opportunity for students from all EPSCoR states. They would like to involve at least two students from each EPSCoR jurisdiction, particularly women, and we’ll need your help to do that. There are no specific skills required to serve as a student volunteer; they encourage undergraduate and graduate students to apply to help with the administration of the conference.

Question 1 busy with Summer Research Projects with Interns and Graduate Students

If you don’t like the weather in Vermont, wait ten minutes. So the saying goes. The weather is in
the conversations of Vermonters, those who visit for sports and scenery, and those who depend
on Vermont products and commerce. Recent flooding events, especially Tropical Storm Irene in
2011, were catastrophic for several communities and natural areas throughout Vermont. These
required heroic responses and unanticipated resourcesfrom individuals and towns, as well as
State and Federal agencies. Climate affects so much of our lives that the possibility of significant
disruption in patterns due to global climate change spurs us to speculation, and preparation. The
regional climate models predict that the changing patterns we have observed so far – increases in
temperature and more extreme fluctuations in precipitation – are likely to continue. If you don’t
like the climate in Vermont, wait 50 years, but we can’t promise you’ll like it any better.

Enthusiasm for energy harvesting returns
Control Engineering Website
These include recent fund raising or acquisitions (LORD MicroStrain, Nextreme Thermal Solutions are some examples). Broader and exciting product portfolios are emerging from technology developers such as Microgen and system integrators including ABB ...

Pupils celebrate 50 years of St Luke's Primary School in Endon
This is Staffordshire
The village vicar The Reverend Alan Betts also attended the ceremony to bless the classrooms. Mr Williamson of Gratton Lane, Endon said: "It was always a well-run school, I have so many amazing memories of the place. "I spent time with the children to ...

Beware of these cancer charity rip-offs  CNN

Energy harvesting returns to the forefront
IDTechEx.com (press release)
These include recent fund raising or acquisitions (Cymbet, LORD MicroStrain, Nextreme Thermal Solutions are some examples). Broader and exciting product portfolios are emerging from technology developers such as Microgen and system integrators ...

Before the Flood
Pacific Standard
"It's actually kind of scary because it's so powerful," says Kari Dolan, one of two Vermont River Management Program staffers along for the ride. Kline has brought me to Bennington to illustrate what this river — with the help of human stupidity and ...

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