528 Main St. may connect to tunnel
By Steve Dunn/Gate City Managing Editor (www.DailyGate.com)
The mystery surrounding the site of a collapsed building on Main Street grew Thursday when the Keokuk City Council was told one of the underground vaults may connect to a delivery tunnel.
During the workshop preceding the regular meeting, Mike Foley of Montrose updated the council on his findings at 528 Main St., the site of the old Green Tambourine building that collapsed last summer. Foley uses divining rods to help him locate underground artifacts and treasure.
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A bill that would require more regulation of the so-called puppy mills is now on the way to the governor after passing the Iowa Senate Monday. The Humane Society pushed hard for the passage of the bill. Senator David Johnson, a Republican of Ocheyedan, voted against the bill.
Johnson says history in other states shows this is the start of efforts to regulate agricultural livestock. “They’re going to be back next year friends and colleagues. They’re going to ask to restrict layer cages. They’re going to ask to eliminate gestation crates for sows. They’re going to make sure that our livestock has access to open air at all times something like that, it’s coming,” Johnson says.
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Toyota faces criminal probe, lawmakers’ ire
By John Crawley and Kevin Krolicki
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp revealed it faces a criminal investigation into its handling of the safety problems that led to massive vehicle recalls, while a congressional panel accused it of making apparently misleading statements.
Adding to the Japanese automaker’s deepening crisis on Monday, new documents detailing how Toyota beat back U.S. safety regulators efforts for a wider probe in 2007 and disclosure of a Securities and Exchange Commission request for documents.
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FTC finds sensitive data on P2P networks, issues warning
(www.Blogs.ZDNet.com) There are more than just pirated movies and music on peer-to-peer networks these days. The Federal Trade Commission says there are also financial records, social security numbers, driver’s license numbers and health-related information on those networks.
It’s important to note that the government isn’t suggesting that some sort of widespread identity theft hacking has been going on. Instead, officials believe its some cluelessness and carelessness among workers with access to this sort of data that may be to blame.
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Here are pictures of my “Big Dog”, all 200+ pounds of him.
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#diabetes – JDRF-Funded Research Advances Potential for Regeneration as a Possible Cure for Type 1 Diabetes
This press release is an announcement submitted by JDRF, and was not written by Diabetes Health.
A hormone responsible for the body’s stress response is also linked to the growth of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, according to JDRF- funded researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California. The findings are the latest advances to underscore the potential for regeneration as a key component of a possible cure for type 1 diabetes.
The research, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by Wylie Vale, Ph.D., Professor and Head of the Clayton Laboratories for Peptide Biology and Mark O. Huising, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the Clayton Foundation Laboratories. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation was a funder of the study.
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Minas Tirith!
The Great White City. . . City of Kings. . . Capital of Gondor. . .
Matchstick Marvels has taken you on another fantastic journey as Patrick Acton completed a breathtaking model of J.R.R. Tolkien’s City of Kings from the Lord of the Rings trilogy! Come along for a trip to Middle Earth and its Great White City, Minas Tirith. Tolkien’s fortress city is said to tower 700 feet above the Pelennor Fields in the land of Gondor.
Acton’s version of Minas Tirith is one of his biggest and most detailed matchstick models yet, as he has constructed his rendition of the tremendously ancient city that Tolkien says “appears hewn from the rock of Mount Mindolluin” in the White Mountains. Acton’s matchstick version of the seven-level city was started in 2007 and took nearly three years to complete on February 15, 2010. The Minas Tirith model contains hundreds of city buildings and is topped with the Tree of Gondor and the White Tower of Ecthelion.
Visit Matchstick Marvels soon and see the Minas Tirith model before its scheduled departure in 2011. Minas Tirith will be on display at the matchstick marvels Tourist Center for one year. See the 420,000 matchsticks used in its construction, and an additional 24,000 small plywood blocks that have been used to construct Mount Mindolluin which supports the huge matchstick structure. Come to see Minas Tirith and follow the gates, ramps, tunnels, and passageways as they ascend the seven levels comprising the city fortress.
Patrick Acton … The Matchmaker
February 16, 2010
So many matchsticks! So little time!
See more incredible pictures at: http://aacton.gladbrook.iowapages.org/id4.html
Also visit the museum in Gladbrook, IA http://www.matchstickmarvels.com/matchstickmain.html
Apparently the roads were bad enough to cancel Southeastern Community College, but not area community schools. I suppose the main reason is that most schools have at least 6 make up school days now and some even have more. So they, in my opinion, probably decided to push their drivers to get out and pick up the kids.
I know that this is the first year I can remember where the kids last day of school in in June. So it has been a rough winter for sure. But one wonders, if the bus drivers and teachers could talk freely, what would they say? We will never know, and those that do will hold it in the strictest of confidence. /MM
Fortunate Timing of Pit Stop Helps Johnson Secure Victory
FONTANA, Calif. (wwwNYTimes.com) — Jimmie Johnson had a huge break on his last pit stop, pulling onto pit road only seconds before the caution flag came out, and held off a charging Kevin Harvick in the closing laps to win the Auto Club 500 on Sunday at Auto Club Speedway.
After winning his unprecedented fourth consecutive Nascar Sprint Cup championship last season, Johnson started this season by finishing 35th a week ago in the Daytona 500.
Consider the Drive for Five — what Johnson is calling his quest for a fifth Cup — under way.
As Harvick tried to pull around him with just more than three laps to go, Johnson moved to block. Harvick scraped the outside wall out of Turn 4 and lost his momentum, allowing Johnson to go on to his 48th career victory, and his fifth in 15 races at the slick two-mile track.
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Space shuttle Endeavour STS-130 uses its parachute as it lands safely at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The shuttle’s final nighttime launch was marked by a rare moonlit landing.
The space shuttle Endeavour, which spent the last 14 days in space, touched down safely in Florida early Monday morning after a successful mission to install two new sections on the International Space Station.
“We’re back as we came,” said shuttle commander George Zamka. “It’s dark outside.”
This was the 23rd space shuttle landing in darkness. The last time was in 2008, also by Endeavour.
“What a phenomenal flight that we had,” said shuttle pilot Terry Virts. “It’s going to take some time to digest all that we did.”
The two-week trip had the crew add the Italian-built Tranquility, a new room that will house life-support equipment, exercise machines and a toilet; as well as unique seven-windowed dome dubbed Cupola, which will be used as a control room for robotics.
The two new compartments were supplied by the European Space Agency at a cost of more than $400 million.
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