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Cape Clear News 22nd July 2008

This Week:
Dr. Quirk’s visit;
Mi;ni-farmers’ Market;
Report of Lifeboat Day;

Draft County Biodiversity Action Plan;

Happy Birthday Denny;

Swimming Classes;

Table Quiz, Club Chleire 25th.

Phoenix takes a stab at Martian ice

• 22:12 16 July 2008

• NewScientist.com news service

• Rachel Courtland

The Phoenix lander successfully collected a test sample of icy Martian soil on Tuesday using a high-powered drill on its robotic arm.

After one more test collection, the drill could be used as early as Sunday to collect shavings to be dropped into one of the eight ovens on the Thermal

Evolved Gas Analyzer.

MAZAZIK EGYPTIAN DANCE

a dance workshop led by Jane Wass and Helena Metsa.

Ladies of Cape Cleire are invited to come and join a small group of dancers from around Europe on their summer residential holiday! Come and discover this expressive and beautiful dance (it isn't belly dance!). Get moving, relax, and enjoy the music from the Arab world and North Africa.

more info at: www.mazazik.co.uk

Text or phone 087 618 7446.

Switch from analogue to digital (TV) on schedule

Dublin, 22 July 2008

Communications Minister Eamon Ryan, TD, welcomed today's announcement

from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) on the conclusion of

the competition for a commercial Digital Terrestrial service provider

for Ireland.

Under the Broadcasting Act, 2007, RTE is required to provide a digital

television service offering access to the Irish national channels - RTE,

TG4 and TV3 - on a free to air basis. In addition, the Broadcasting

Commission of Ireland, an independent regulatory body, is required to

Doctor�s Visit to Cape Clear 24th July 2008

Dr. Quirk will visit the island on Thursday 24th.

Dublin City Council to review ad panels over risks to blind

DUBLIN CITY council is to review the new advertising panels erected by JC

Decaux as part of the city bicycle scheme following reports from the NCBI

That the structures are unsafe.

Robot chef gets a boost from wireless kitchen

15:53 14 July 2008

NewScientist.com news service

Jason Palmer

Go on, put your feet up. A new household robot that keeps track of the contents of your kitchen and can learn simple tasks could soon be making you dinner

while you relax.

Two steps closer to completing decentralisation:

Ó Cuív opens new decentralised offices in Sligo and Galway
Press Release, 17 July 2008
Leagan Gaeilge thíos
Irish version below

Éamon Ó Cuív, T.D., Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs will officially open the Department's two new decentralised offices in Tubbercurry, Co Sligo and in Na Forbacha, Co. Galway on the 17th and 18th July 2008.

IGDB News 18th July 2008

This Week:
Further assessment class;
Guide Dog Mobility Class starts this weekend;

Cleo De Vito;

Volunteer Thank You Day, for northeast and southeast regions, 26th july;
Volunteer Thank You Day, Mid West and Northwest, 16th August;
30 New Puppies born, last 5 months;
Summer Guidelines out.

Fruit 'lungs' explain why pears rot faster

• 14:55 15 July 2008

• NewScientist.com news service

• Devin Powell

Why do some kinds of fruit rot more slowly than others? The answer, according to a group of Belgian "fruitologists", is deep breathing.

Pieter Verboven and colleagues at the Catholic University in Lueven grew a crop of

apples and pears

locally in Belgium and shipped it to the

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

(ESRF) in Grenoble, France. Here, they sliced the fruit into small chunks.