LOWER MERION, Pa. -- A local school district will pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits over secret photos taken on school-issued laptop computers. The Lower Merion School District in Montgomery County admitted capturing thousands of webcam pictures and screen shots from the student laptops. Officials said the photos were taken for the purpose of finding missing computers. Harriton High School student Blake Robbins said the district photographed him 400 times in a two-week period, sometimes as he slept in his bedroom. District officials voted on October 11 to pay Robbins $175,000, a second student $10,000,and their lawyer, Mark Haltzman,425,000. http://www.wfmz.com/bucksnews/25366777/detail.html

ness (plural nesses) (geography) A promontory; a cape or headland. (frequently used as a suffix in placenames)
Old English næs; cognate with Icelandic nes, Swedish näs, Danish næs. Related to nose. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ness

Places using "Ness" Loch Ness River Ness, links the Loch to the North Sea at Inverness, Scotland, UK Ness: East Ness & West Ness, Ryedale, North Yorkshire Ness, Western Isles, the most northerly area on Lewis, Scotland, UK Ness Football Club, Football club based in the Western Isles Ness, Cheshire, a village in Cheshire on the Wirral Peninsula, England, UK Ness Botanic Gardens, owned by the University of Liverpool and located on the Wirral Peninsula, England, UK Ness City, Kansas Ness Township, Minnesota

Places with "ness" in the title Caithness, a Scottish county Dungeness (headland), shingle promontory and site of a nuclear power station in Kent, England Inverness, a Scottish city Langness Peninsula, in the Isle of Man Sheerness, an English town in Kent Shoeburyness, an Essex Town on the North Bank of the Thames Estuary Stromness, a harbour town in the Orkney Isles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ness

A blue plate special is a set meal provided at a reduced price. Webster's Dictionary defines it:
1. A restaurant dinner plate divided into compartments for serving several kinds of food as a single order.
2. A main course (as of meat and vegetable) served as a single menu item. Webster's doesn't cite an origin but there seems little reason to look further than the colour for the derivation of the phrase - blue plate specials were served on blue plates, The earliest citation of the phrase that I've found is in this advert for the Young Women's Christian Association, printed in the Illinois newspaper The Decatur Daily Review, September 1924. The food writer Daniel Rogov claims that blue-plate special was first used on 22 October 1892, on a menu of a Fred Harvey restaurant on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/blue-plate-special.html

As worldwide population increases by 40 percent over the next 40 years, sparsely populated Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and the northern United States will become formidable economic powers and migration magnets, Laurence C. Smith writes in "The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future" (Dutton Books). While wreaking havoc on the environment, global warming will liberate a treasure trove of oil, gas, water and other natural resources previously locked in the frozen north, enriching residents and attracting newcomers, according to Smith. And these resources will pour from northern rim countries — or NORCs, as Smith calls them — precisely at a time when natural resources elsewhere are becoming critically depleted, making them all the more valuable. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/global-warming-s-silver-lining-169919.aspx

The Gulf Stream ensures Reykjavik winter weather is milder than the country's name, Iceland, would suggest. Average winter temperatures are around 0ºC, but this makes Reykjavik warmer than New York and considerably warmer than Moscow and St Petersburg. However, winter weather in Reykjavik can feel a lot colder due to bitter winds and an icy atmosphere. Snow does not usually settle in the city. http://www.directline-citybreaks.co.uk/Reykjavik%20Weather

Climate (from Ancient Greek klima, meaning inclination) is commonly defined as the weather averaged over a long period of time. The standard averaging period is 30 years, but other periods may be used depending on the purpose. Climate also includes statistics other than the average, such as the magnitudes of day-to-day or year-to-year variations. The difference between climate and weather is usefully summarized by the popular phrase "Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get." See more plus world climate classifications at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate