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Act of Terror

April 29, 2013 - 10:15pm — voicesweb

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New cover of The Call's "Let The Day Begin" - from an unexpected group

April 27, 2013 - 8:58am — voicesweb

The New Leaf Initiative 2012 Report, and the New Leaf 2.0 Open House

April 27, 2013 - 12:32am — voicesweb

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Dr Richard Alley presents at the League of Women Voters climate change forum

April 20, 2013 - 11:00pm — voicesweb

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Librarian emphasizes community involvement

April 12, 2013 - 10:21am — voicesweb

by Marilyn Jones

After nearly 30 years as a children’s librarian at Schlow Centre Region Library, Anita Ditz is still as enthusiastic about her mission as she was the day she started.

Photo by Marilyn Jones Anita Ditz, at home in Schlow Library, has served as the Children’s Librarian for 30 years.

Photo by Marilyn Jones
Anita Ditz, at home in Schlow Library, has served as the Children’s Librarian for 30 years.

“Working with kids has always been a focus for me,” said Ditz. “I’m just one of those lucky people who fell into a job and it became my life’s work.” Read more »

Penn State researchers link the Mayan Long Count calendar to the modern calendar with c14 dating.

April 11, 2013 - 9:22pm — PSU Science and...

 

Maya Long Count calendar and European calendar linked using carbon-14 dating

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Maya are famous for their complex, intertwined calendric systems, and now one calendar, the Maya Long Count, is empirically calibrated to the modern European calendar, according to an international team of researchers.

            "The Long Count calendar fell into disuse before European contact in the Maya area," said Douglas J. Kennett, professor of environmental archaeology, Penn State. "Methods of tying the Long Count to the modern European calendar used known historical and astronomical events, but when looking at how climate affects the rise and fall of the Maya, I began to question how accurately the two calendars correlated using those methods."

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Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps

April 11, 2013 - 9:57am — voicesweb

Harrisburg, Pa. - This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, he proposed a series of programs to alleviate the pressures of unemployment during the Great Depression. One of those programs, the Emergency Conservation Work which later became known as the Civilian Conservation Corps, provided jobs for 194,500 Pennsylvanians over the course of its history from 1933 to 1942. Read more »

The Pennsylvanians for Accountability advertisement about Tom Corbett's "Shell Game"

April 10, 2013 - 7:30pm — voicesweb

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Local AIDS patients’ resources change

April 10, 2013 - 8:55am — voicesweb
Board Members Tim & Carol Steck lead the AIDS Walk

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AIDS Resource board members Tim and Carol Steck lead the AIDS walk in 2012.

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