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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Newton Independent The Newton Convention and Visitors Bureau is putting a new twist on an old tradition this year with its Holiday Treepalooza. With the Newton Arboretum unavailable for Project Awake's traditional Festival of Trees, the Newton CVB decided to continue the tradition, but with a couple of new twists and the [...]
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
By PETER HUSSMANN The Newton City Attorney has made an open records request to the counsel for the Skiff Medical Center Board of Trustees seeking copies of "confidentiality agreements" allegedly signed by board members at the request of its consulting firm B.E. Smith. In a letter dated Tuesday to Edwin McIntosh of [...]
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Newton Independent The Jasper County Democratic Central Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Park Centre in Newton to continue planning for a presentation on the green economy set for next month. The local Democratic party plans to hold a presentation called "New Energy for Jasper County" at 2 p.m. on [...]
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Newton Independent The Newton Convention & Visitors Bureau will start a new grant program in 2010 aimed at assisting local groups in holding events that promote tourism and economic activity in Newton by bringing visitors to the community. While the CVB currently provides a variety of promotional services and resources at no [...]
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Newton Independent The Skiff Medical Center Board of Directors has scheduled a special meeting for 9 a.m. Thursday in the board conference room to act on one item - board resignations. No further information has been provided. The information was provided to the Newton Independent 30 minutes ago. Last week, two new board [...]
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
By PETER HUSSMANN The Skiff Medical Center Board of Trustees revised its agenda for Thursday's special meeting for the second time this morning. The board posted notice on Tuesday afternoon of its intention to meet in special session at 9 a.m. Thursday to act on board resignations. Later in the day the [...]
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We Heart Pets (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Sir Issac Newton invented the cat door.
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Astronomy.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... light-years away in the constellation Centaurus.Using the European Space Agency's orbiting XMM-Newton observatory, Strohmayer and Mushotzky studied the source — known as NGC 5408 X-1 — in 2006 and 2008.XMM-Newton detected what the astronomers call "quasi-periodic oscillations," a nearly regular "flickering" caused by the pile-up of hot gas deep within the accretion disk that forms...
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Space Spin (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., find that an X-ray source in galaxy NGC 5408 represents one of the best cases for a middleweight black hole to date. "Intermediate-mass black holes contain...
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Number of comments: 2 By PETER HUSSMANN Building activity in Newton in October dropped by about one-third from the previous month's level with only four construction permits taken out with a total value of just under $400,000, statistics released by city officials indicate. October's building activity was lead by two non-residential remodeling projects totaling $363,115. A residential [...]...
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BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Newton Independent The Iowa Supreme Court today ordered that all judges, magistrates and court staff take 10 days of unpaid leave over the course of the final seven months of the fiscal year to deal with state's revenue shortfalls. In addition, the Supreme Court ordered that all court offices be closed on [...]
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Astronomy Cmarchesin (Free subscription) | yesterday
... light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. Using the European Space Agency's orbiting XMM-Newton observatory, Strohmayer and Mushotzky studied the source -- known as NGC 5408 X-1 -- in 2006 and 2008. XMM-Newton detected what the astronomers call "quasi-periodic oscillations," a nearly regular "flickering" caused by the pile-up of hot gas deep within the accretion...