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[DSLF] Digest Number 1462
There are 5 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Billboards, revisited
From: "patric@ghostriders..." <patric@ghostriders...>
2. Dark Skies PA
From: KDConod <kdconod@yahoo...>
3. Annoying physicists again...
From: Darren Baskill <dbl@star....ac.uk>
4. Re: Annoying physicists again...
From: "ctstarwchr" <ctstarwchr@aol...>
5. RE: Dark Skies PA
From: "Michael Stephan" <mstephan@kconline...>
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:38:51 -0500
From: "patric@ghostriders..." <patric@ghostriders...>
Subject: Billboards, revisited
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/special_packages/business_monday/9575066.htm
I recollect a string of harassment suits filed some time ago by the
outdoor sign industry against communities trying to abate eyesores, and
am curious as to where the case of 'commercial speech is protected
speech' stands today in the courts?
It would be a shame to spend so much time on a lighting reform ordinance
only to have a major polluter given a blanket exemption.
Surely if a community can say no to liquor advertising outside schools
it can protect motorists from being visually disabled by _ahem_
'spectacular signage'.
Patric.
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 06:20:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: KDConod <kdconod@yahoo...>
Subject: Dark Skies PA
All:
Rick Kurczewski in Bayonne mentioned to me that
he heard a radio spot for tourism in Pennsylvania
during the fall foliage season and they actually
mentioned the dark skies in Cherry Springs as an
attraction.
Pretty cool. Hopefully more states will catch the
astro-tourism bug!
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kdconod@yahoo...
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:04:25 +0100 (BST)
From: Darren Baskill <dbl@star....ac.uk>
Subject: Annoying physicists again...
These damn physicists really hate us astronomers/dark-sky activists.
This is their latest....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3698578.stm
Particle lab celebrates 50 years
The European research facility which helped shape our understanding of the
fundamentals of matter and invented the world wide web is exactly 50 years
old.
Wednesday's celebrations will be marked by a 27km-long ring of light..
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I'll email them asking where the lights will shine via:
http://intranet.cern.ch/Chronological/2004/CERN50/annonce/040921Illumination/Il$
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:14:02 -0000
From: "ctstarwchr" <ctstarwchr@aol...>
Subject: Re: Annoying physicists again...
--- In DarkSky-list@yahoogroups..., Darren Baskill <dbl@s.....> wrote:
> These damn physicists really hate us astronomers/dark-sky
> activists.
> This is their latest....
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3698578.stm
I suppose we should all write to Dr. Max Lippitsch and thank
him for planting this daft idea. Give them a *surge of data*
from the CfDS Das and thanks for the heads up!
Didn't René Kobler from Switzerland recently win a Galeleo
award from the IDA? I wonder what he has to say about it?
Send the word to the IAU Commission 50 also.
Clear skies,
Cliff Haas
http://www.crlaction.org
http://members.aol.com/ctcadman
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:39:56 -0500
From: "Michael Stephan" <mstephan@kconline...>
Subject: RE: Dark Skies PA
Our county tourism bureau ran a feature in a tourism promo magazine
(Northern Indiana Getaway Guide). That is put together for the 80/90
toll road by 12 counties here in Indiana along the toll Road. It
featured "Starry, Starry Night" promoting the Dark-Sky Preserve.
Michael D. Stephan
Executive Director
Potawatomi Wildlife Park
Indiana's First Dark-Sky Preserve
www.getintonature.com
-----Original Message-----
From: KDConod [mailto:kdconod@yahoo...]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:21 AM
To: Dark Sky List
Subject: [DSLF] Dark Skies PA
All:
Rick Kurczewski in Bayonne mentioned to me that
he heard a radio spot for tourism in Pennsylvania
during the fall foliage season and they actually
mentioned the dark skies in Cherry Springs as an
attraction.
Pretty cool. Hopefully more states will catch the
astro-tourism bug!
=====
Kevin Conod
kdconod@yahoo...
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