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There are 3 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

      1. article about Bob Crelin
           From: "Karolyn Beebe" <keedo@merr...>
      2. Feature! article about Bob Crelin
           From: "Karolyn Beebe" <keedo@merr...>
      3. UK government debate on light pollution and astronomy
           From: "Barry Clark" <bajc@alphalink....au>


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Message: 1
   Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:33:54 -0600
   From: "Karolyn Beebe" <keedo@merr...>
Subject: article about Bob Crelin

"You may want to see the Milky Way or the Great Square,
but you have to settle for the Golden Arches. .. We pull into
a quiet street in a residential part of Branford. There's a subtle
but useful light over Bob Crelin's driveway. 

This is where we begin our journey back to the stars."
.    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .
. * . * . * . * . * . * . * . * . * . * .

STARRY BLIGHT
by Christopher Arnott

Hartford Advocate - Hartford, CT | February 12, 2004 
 <http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:53369>




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Message: 2
   Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:42:14 -0600
   From: "Karolyn Beebe" <keedo@merr...>
Subject: Feature! article about Bob Crelin

Click: "Also see cover art" above the 1st photo
<http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:53369>



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Message: 3
   Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:50:27 +1100
   From: "Barry Clark" <bajc@alphalink....au>
Subject: UK government debate on light pollution and astronomy

The UK House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology
issued a report (HC747) on light pollution and astronomy in 2003.  The
UK government's written response to this was so disappointing that I
complained about it to the Committee on 10 February 2004.

A debate on the government response took place in Westminster Hall on
Thursday 12 February 2004.  The 26-page record of this can be found by
following the link to Westminster Hall from
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm/cmhansrd.htm

Dr Paul Marchant's  criticism of the Home Office report (HORS 251) on
lighting and crime is referred to in Columns 497WH and 498WH.

Some of my comments on the government response were repeated during
the debate (Column 489WH): "A Dr. Clark from Melbourne has written to
us that he found the Government's reply to be cynical, evasive and
foolish. He remarked that it was like a "Yes, Minister" script but
without the jokes. I am sure that the Minister will right that today.
Dr. Clark has obviously not read as many Government replies as I have,
because I would describe 90 per cent. of them in that way."

The response to this from the Minister was that she would "not attempt
to put the jokes back in" (Column 510WH).  Not even hints of promises
were given to fix anything.

My original input to the Committee took days to compose, but it seems
my throw-away lines had a bigger impact.  It remains to be seen
whether the ultimate effect of the Committee's report on the
government will be splashes and waves any bigger than from a
peppercorn dropped into honey.

Barry Clark



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