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Green Chemistry Education Network The Green Chemistry in
Education Workshop is for educators in the chemical sciences
interested in incorporating green or sustainable chemistry
concepts into the organic chemistry curriculum and laboratory.
This five-day workshop held on the University of Oregon campus
will be a combination of lectures, discussion, and hands-on time
in the laboratory. Leaders in the field will address the need
for green chemistry in the undergraduate curriculum and provide
strategies for designing, adapting and incorporating new green
experiments into existing organic chemistry curricula. The
primary goal for this workshop is establishing a network of
chemical educators who are promoting green chemistry and
increasing the number of educators who incorporate green
chemistry experiments and concepts into their teaching. During
the lecture sessions, a panel of speakers will introduce green
chemistry, discuss the adoption of green organic experiments and
lecture materials, address the challenges a
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Treatments for Verbal
Communication Basic & Clinical This study will examine the
relative effectiveness of two communication interventions on the
production of speech in 40 preschool children with ASD (3 to 6
years) who are pre-linguistic i.e. produce fewer than 10
different words. The two experimental treatments will be added
to whatever interventions the child is receiving the community.
The primary aim is to assess the effectiveness of a direct
speech-focused treatment versus a naturalistic approach on the
production of speech and the adaptive use of verbal
communication. The study will also determine the effect of a
parent-delivered generalization program on the maintenance of
gains of the interventions provided. The two treatments that
will be compared are a direct speech-focused treatment, the
Rapid Motor Imitation Training, that reinforces motor imitation
(and later targets verbal requests and labels) versus a
naturalistic approach the Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching
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A Scientist’s Blog from the Arctic: By Steve Zack, Wildlife
Conservation Society Unraveling Mysteries of Migration 12 Jul
2011 “We have the Japan bird over here, and the China bird is
nearby,” Wildlife Conservation Society field assistant Lizzie
Goodrick states confidently into the walkie-talkie. She is
reporting to our other field assistants monitoring birds near
our remote field camp on the Ikpikpuk River on Alaska’s North
Slope. The birds in question — small, long-billed shorebirds
called dunlin — have indeed been photographed in those countries
last winter and have returned to breed again where we captured,
banded, and applied geolocators to them, here in our Ikpikpuk
site. Steve Zack of the Wildlife Conservation Society blogs from
the Arctic for Yale Environment 360. The first in a series. The
Ikpikpuk camp, located on the far western edge of the Teshekpuk
Lake Special Area in the U.S. National Petroleum Reserve —
Alaska, is a 1 1/2 -hour flight by bush plane from near the
Prudhoe Bay oilfields to the ea
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Symbolism is quicker than words. We create symbols when
something becomes important or extremely familiar to us. Like
the American Flag, the sports team signs, like the Boston Red
Sox, or the New York Yankees. We create symbols because we need
to warn people and inform people.We warn people with the symbol
that usually goes on poisonous substances. The symbol usually is
cross bones and a skull. A symbol to inform people can be the
recycling sign, that can be found on plastic bottles. If there
wasn’t a sign on the bottom of plastic bottles or cans, how
would we know that they can be recycled? We create symbols to
inform us about anything harmful or helpful. Everybody needs
symbols to see these things. The American Flag would be
considered a symbol. Every time someone looks at the flag, we
think straight to the United States of America. A symbol is
something that represents a person, place, or thing. This item
is the biggest symbol in America. When we see it, we think of
the President, the White House, patrioti
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Creating a budget and rigorously implementing it is tough, but
it is the best tool to regulate your finances and meet your
monetary goals. What a Budget does for You 1. Gives a meaningful
picture of your spending patterns 2. Alerts you in case you are
living beyond your means 3. Helps identify areas in which to cut
costs 4. Helps set targets to achieve a certain level of income
For a successful budget, here are a few handy hints: 1. Keep it
Simple Identify sources of income and areas of expenditure. Have
broad categories that can easily be identified. For expenditure,
you can have segments like rent, insurance, food and
entertainment, medical etc. Likewise for income, categories
could include interests, salary, bonuses etc. Once the broad
categories have been created, incorporate the details
accordingly. 2. Realistic Targets While estimating your
expenditure, keep it real. Do not write $60 as expenses for food
and entertainment when you know that you will spend over the
limit. Rule out all false assumptions f
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New Alias (Alias Tab) An alias is an alternate name that can be
used to make a connection. The alias encapsulates the required
elements of a connection string, and exposes them with a name
chosen by the user. Use the Alias page on the Alias - New dialog
box to specify the elements of the connection string for an
alias. To change the connection string of an existing alias, see
<Alias> Properties (Alias Tab). All values in the Properties
grid do not have to be completed. Valid combinations vary
depending on the protocol selected. See the topics listed below
for examples of valid combinations. By default, SQL Server
connects to a local instance of SQL Server using the Shared
Memory protocol, and to an instance of SQL Server on another
computer using either TCP/IP or Named Pipes. Create an alias
when you are using TCP/IP, named pipes, or VIA, and you want to
provide a customized connection string, or when you want to use
a name other than the server name for the connection. SQL Server
is not listening on the defa
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From: University of Georgia Inbreeding Natural Among Trees But
Not Without Costs, University Of Georgia Forestry Research Shows
ATHENS, Ga. -- Illegal and socially taboo among humans,
inbreeding is common, even natural between trees. Still, it
isn't without consequences: Inbred trees grow and develop
slowly, they're often deformed and many die suddenly and
inexplicably before reaching maturity. A team of scientists at
the University of Georgia and the New Zealand Forest Research
Institute have discovered why. Using inbred Monterey pines as a
model, they identified seven genes that can cause the pine to
die, far more than they suspected. It's the first time
researchers have isolated lethal genes in any tree species. The
research was funded by the New Zealand Fund for Public Good
Science, the USA Collaborative Science Programme, the New
Zealand Lottery Board and by Georgia McIntire-Stennis funds.
Findings were published earlier this year in the journal
Theoretical and Applied Genetics. "Death is one of the most
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Separation Anxiety Disorder Separation Anxiety Disorder is a
mental health disorder that begins in childhood. It is
characterized by a child’s worrying that is out of proportion to
the situation of temporarily leaving home or separation from
loved ones. Approximately four to five percent of children and
adolescents suffer from separation anxiety disorder. Separation
anxiety first develops when a child is around seven months of
age. This is when the baby begins to understand his or her
caregivers and develops an attachment to them. It is normal for
an infant and toddler to express separation anxiety and the
anxiety is the strongest at 10 to 18 months of age. According
the to the American Academy of Pediatrics, stranger anxiety
begins at eight months and generally ends by three years of age.
However, when this fear occurs in a child over the age of six
and lasts for an extended period of time, the child may have
separation anxiety disorder. Causes of Separation Anxiety
Disorder A child who has separation anxiet
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From Classic Encyclopedia 1911 COLMAR, or Kolmar, a town of
Germany, in the imperial province of Alsace-Lorraine, formerly
the capital of the department of Haut-Rhin in France, on the
Logelbach and Lauch, tributaries of the Ill, 40 m. S.S.W. from
Strassburg on the main line of railway to Basel. Pop. (1905)
41,582. It is the seat of the government for Upper Alsace, and
of the supreme court of appeal for Alsace-Lorraine. The town is
surrounded by pleasant promenades, on the site of the old
fortifications, and has numerous narrow and picturesque streets.
Of its edifices the most remarkable are the Roman Catholic
parish church of St Martin, known also as the Munster, dating
from the 13th and 14th centuries, the Lutheran parish church
(15th century), the former Dominican monastery (1232-1289),
known as "Unterlinden" and now used as a museum, the Kaufhaus
(trade-hall) of the 15th century, and the handsome government
offices (formerly the Prefecture). Colmar is the centre of
considerable textile industries, comprisi
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Introduction to OpenBSD Networking06/13/2000 In today's
Internet-centric computing world, networking components are a
paramount feature of any system worth its salt. Easily falling
into that category, OpenBSD contains strong network code and
configuration interfaces which, with a little research and
learning, can be put to powerful use. This series of articles
aims to illustrate that with practical examples and direct
application to real-world situations. In contrast to its sysv
counterparts like Linux, OpenBSD has a very different way of
controlling network interfaces and setting parameters. Other
competing systems commonly use menu-based or graphical
configuration utilities to make the administrator's life easier.
OpenBSD chooses to stray from this, instead focusing their
efforts on the functionality and correctness of its networking
components. The example being used here is the setup of a
gateway machine with one PPP interface and one Ethernet
interface. The first thing you'll want to do when configuring
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- About us - Laboratory Aims - Laboratory Facilities - Research
Vessel - Marine Geophysical Surveying - Oceanographic &
Environmental Instrumentation - Laboratory Equipment - Sediment
Sampling Devices - Remote Operated Vehicle - Research Activities
There are three main reasons: 1.To take the opportunity
experiencing some XTREME GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS such as: 2. To visit
a natural under and above water laboratory where you can find
out the role that sedimentary deposits laid down close to major
basin-bounding faults could play in deciphering the space and
time evolution of a fault and the history of sea level changes.
Furthermore, the Gulf of Corinth is considered a modern field
analogue for obtaining structural and sedimentological
architectural information, which can be used in reservoir
modeling processes in ancient oil-bearing extensional basins. 3.
To visit some ancient and modern examples of very fine
engineering. Fig.1 (a): Plan view of the Diolkos: a paved ramp
across the Isthmus, the land separating the
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Bird Banding Manual Glossary ADDITIONAL INFORMATION -S A code
describing conditions existing when a bird is banded that may
affect the chance of survival or of subsequent reports of the
bird. See alsoSTATUS. Go to Status and Additional Information
Codes AGE (OR YEAR) CLASS - Alpha and numeric calendar year ages
for birds. See Figure 5-4 for specific designations and
definitions. Go to Current Age Codes Use of the following age
designations was discontinued by the Bird Banding Laboratory on
July 1, 1967: - NESTLING: A bird incapable of sustained flight.
See "L" in current age codes. - IMMATURE: A young bird capable
of sustained flight known to have hatched during the same
calendar year in which it was banded. See "HY" in current age
codes. - SUB-ADULT: A bird known to have hatched in the year
preceding the year of banding. See "SY" in current age codes. -
ADULT: A bird known to have hatched at least two years before
the calendar year of banding. Sub-adults of some species cannot
be distinguished from adults, s
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Watch Out for Falling Bullets Is it dangerous to fire a gun into
the air? A crowd of Libyans fired guns in the air and chanted
slogans in support of Muammar Qaddafi at a rally in the city of
Sirte on Monday. Isn't it kind of dangerous to shoot bullets
into the sky? Yes ... well, probably ... maybe ... it kind of
depends. The Explainer is far from being the first to ask this
question. Everyone from the U.S. military to The Straight Dope's
Cecil Adams has probed the lethality of falling bullets. That
includes forensic scientists, cardio-thoracic surgeons, and the
hosts of the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters—which devoted
nearly a whole episode to the matter. And yet, no one has been
able to come up with a straightforward answer. The general
consensus is that a bullet fired straight up—at precisely 90
degrees to the horizontal—is unlikely to kill a healthy adult
when it returns to Earth. That's because, on the way down, air
resistance prevents the bullet from returning to its initial
velocity. The bullet would d
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The 2007 edition of Everyday Mathematics provides additional
support to teachers for diverse ranges of student ability: - In
Grades 1-6, a new grade-level-specific component, the
Differentiation Handbook, explains the Everyday Mathematics
approach to differentiation and provides a variety of resources.
- The Teacher's Lesson Guide now includes many notes and
suggestions that will help teachers differentiate instruction
for diverse populations. - Every lesson summary includes a list
of Key Concepts and Skills addressed in the lesson. This list
highlights the range of mathematics in each lesson so that
teachers can better use the materials to meet students' needs.
The Key Concepts and Skills are linked to the Grade-Level Goals
and Program Goals and thus clarify how lesson activities connect
to and support Everyday Mathematics long-range goals. - Each
lesson provides point-of-use ways to modify activities. These
suggestions are called "Adjusting the Activity." If children are
having difficulty with a certain act
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This past month, TAASA (Texas Association Against Sexual
Assault) launched a new media campaign called Break the Box. The
goal of the campaign is to highlight the connection between
gender stereotypes and sexual violence. For those of you not as
familiar with the prevention lingo, here is what that means:
Society has created these invisible boxes of what a man or a
lady should be like/look like/act like. Imagine I tell you to
“be a man” or to “man up”- what does that look like? Imagine I
tell you to “act like a lady”- what should you be doing; what
should you not be doing? Now pretend you are not all of those
things in that box and you want to step outside of it. Once you
step outside of the box, are you treated fairly? Often, when
someone steps outside of that box, there are many violent verbal
and physical repercussions. As preventioneers, we want to
communicate that its ok to be inside of the box if that is what
you choose; but its also ok to be outside of the box! What is
NOT ok is when we are criticized
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The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934 Edited by Deborah Wye and
Margit Rowell. Essays by Jared Ash, Gerald Janecek, Nina
Gurianova, Margit Rowell and Deborah Wye. Russian avant-garde
books made between 1910 and 1934 reflect a vivid and tumultuous
period in that nation's history that had ramifications for art,
society and politics. The early books, with their variously
sized pages of coarse paper, illustrations entwined with
printed, handwritten and stamped texts, and provocative covers,
were intended to shock academic conventions and bourgeois
sensibilities. After the 1917 Revolution, books appeared with
optimistic designs and photomontage meant to reach the masses
and symbolize a rational, machine-led future. Later books
showcased modern Soviet architecture and industry in the service
of the government's agenda. Major artists adopted the book
format during these two decades. They include Natalia
Goncharova, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko,
Olga Rozanova, the Stenberg brothers, Varvara St
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Some games can use a dedicated card for PhysX simulation. Other
than that, I can't come up with anything that the second card
could be used for (in terms of enhancing performance). The
difference between x1, x2, x4, x8 and x16 PCIe is the maximum
throughput of the bus (how much data can pass between the card
and the rest of the system in a given time). Directron lists the
following speeds: PCI Express 1x 250 * MB/s PCI Express 2x 500 *
MB/s PCI Express 4x 1000 * MB/s PCI Express 8x 2000 * MB/s PCI
Express 16x 4000 * MB/s PCI Express 32x 8000 * MB/s * Note 1 -
Since PCI Express is a serial based technology, data can be sent
over the bus in two directions at once. Normal PCI is Parallel,
and as such all data goes in one direction around the loop. Each
1x lane in PCI Express can transmit in both directions at once.
In the table the first number is the bandwidth in one direction
and the second number is the combined bandwidth in both
directions. Also please note that in PCI Express bandwidth is
not shared the sam
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Nebraska Wildlife Species Wildlife Species Guide | Furbearers
Guide | Habitat The common name "raccoon" comes from the Indian
word "arakum" or "aracoun," meaning "he scratches with his
hands." Adult raccoons may be up to 3 feet long and weigh up to
30 pounds. They have a black face mask and ringed tail. Their
fur is long and dense, a grizzled brown and black color that has
often been described as "salt and pepper." Although raccoons are
flesh-eaters and have long canine teeth, their molar teeth are
adapted for a varied diet which includes more than just meat.
The raccoon's closest relatives are ringtails and coatis from
the Southwest. Raccoons are inquisitive and seldom pass up the
opportunity to investigate an interesting smell or crevice. They
probe a crack with their front feet and pull anything of
interest from its hole for closer inspection. Raccoons are
usually found near trees because they are adapted to life in the
forest. They are agile climbers and have nimble feet, but they
are flat-footed like hum
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You’ve heard of fighting fire with fire, but fighting cancer
with cancer? A Mayo Clinic Study has found that A mutant gene
long thought to accelerate tumor growth in thyroid cancer
patients actually inhibits the spread of malignant cells,
showing promise for novel cancer therapies. The findings will be
presented by Mayo Clinic researcher Honey Reddi, Ph.D., at the
Endocrine Society meeting in Boston. Dr. Reddi’s discovery could
have widespread implications in cancer research and
endocrinology. It could help oncologists sharpen the diagnosis
of specific types of thyroid cancers, while leading
pharmaceutical researchers toward therapeutics derived from a
protein once thought to feed tumor growth. “It’s not an oncogene
like everyone thought it was,” Dr. Reddi says, referring to a
gene with the potential to cause cancer. “We all knew what
happened in the cell culture, but we said, ‘That’s not good
enough,’ so we asked, ‘What would it do in mice?’” Thyroid
cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the world, and 1
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Researchers at the U-M and several other leading medical centers
are reporting that a high percentage of patients with a life-
threatening heart condition are still dying in the hospital in
spite of recent medical advances. Their findings are published
in the Feb. 16 issue of the Journal of the American Medical
Association. The ailment is called acute aortic dissectiona
rare, but often fatal condition, characterized by separation of
the aortic walls. Aortic dissection occurs in two forms: Type A
dissection involves the ascending aorta; type B occurs near the
left subclavian artery and down the descending aorta. Despite
recent advances in diagnosis and treatment of aortic dissection,
the morbidity and mortality for this rare cardiovascular
disorder remain unacceptably high, says Kim Eagle, interim chief
of the Division of Cardiology and lead author on the new study.
Speaking on behalf of 18 leading aortic centers around the world
that are working together to understand and treat aortic
dissection, Eagle and col
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Learn to Draw > Creating textures with lines The serious student
will progress most rapidly if in his practice he pursues both
these extremes of vision to the utmost. He will then achieve
confidence and certainty in seeing and reproducing and find most
quickly his own personal means of expression. It is always wrong
for a beginner to start with a one-sided program, with a
preconceived notion of how to see and how to reproduce. It is
equally wrong for the teacher to force his own individuality
onto his students. We have shown how in first attempting to make
the ambiguous outline into an unambiguous representation, it is
often the tone value that gives a thing substance. Tone value
can also indicate the kind of material the subject is made of.
The beholder always likes to know if he is looking at stone,
wood, or cloth, whether the material is rough or smooth, soft or
hard, dense or loosely assembled, etc. Lines, or strokes, can
indicate material. Although it is not always ideal, the
relatively stubborn "stroke"
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|Drill & Practice||Drill & Practice||Flashcards||Grade
Books||Lesson Plans & Sports & Racing Calculators & Math Charts
& Graphs Hobbies & Crafts IRC & IM iTunes & MP3 3D & Animation
Classic OS Updates Calendars & Time Disk & File The Cloud & SSBs
RSS & Podcasting AceReader Pro 5.1.5 It can be used to: (1)
assess your current reading level; (2) improve your reading
speed and comprehension, both online and offline; and (3) help
you read faster while on the computer, by utilizing special
display modes. Our goal is to help you read faster, while
maintaining or even improving your comprehension. When you
accomplish this, reading becomes like watching a movie. It
becomes fun to read because you're able to absorb more material
in a shorter amount of time. In short, it leads to more success
and a better overall quality of life. Alchemist's Challenge 1.5
Alchemist's Challenge, a collection of chemistry quizzes
designed to help you learn about one of the central features of
chemistry: the periodic table. We hope you en
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Animal Fish Family: Characidae Classification: Prohibited family
is an extremely large one that includes the various tetra
species commonly found in the pet trade. The genera Pygocentrus
contains what are though of as true piranhas or caribes. This
genera includes P. nattereri, the red-bellied piranha, which
grows to about 12 inches. The genera Rooseveltia has become
invalid, because it had been previously used on another animal
species. The genus Serrasalmus is a large complex of as many as
12-14 closely related species. This classification has been
revised several times. The most common “piranha” in the class is
S. rhombeus, which grows up to 18 inches. The species undergo so
many morphological changes as they mature that the rhombeus is
called “white piranha” and “black piranha.” Generally speaking
these fish have laterally compressed bodies, and short powerful
jaws with triangular interlocking teeth. They are carnivorous
and will bite anything that moves.
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skip to page content - In 1839, the Spanish slave ship Amistad
set sail from Havana to Puerto Principe, Cuba. The ship was
carrying 53 Africans who, a few months earlier, had been
abducted from their homeland in present-day Sierra Leone to be
sold in Cuba. The captives revolted against the ship’s crew,
killing the captain and others, but sparing the life of the
ship’s navigator so that he could set them on a course back to
Africa. Instead, the navigator directed the ship north and west.
After several weeks, a U.S. Navy vessel seized the Amistad off
the coast of Long Island. The Africans were transported to New
Haven, Connecticut, to be tried for mutiny, murder, and piracy.
These charges later were dismissed, but the Africans were kept
in prison as the case turned to salvage claims and property
rights. In a trial in Federal District Court, a group of Cuban
planters, the government of Spain, and the captain of the
Amistad all claimed ownership of the Africans. After two years
of legal battles, the case went bef
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Written by Ron Peltier Dogs have been our loyal companions for
over 10,000 years. They have also been important members of our
community too, helping us in a number of ways. For example,
service dogs happily assist us with a range of needs: helping
the blind; alerting people before a seizure; opening and closing
drawers; protecting our property; etc. Dogs also can be trained
to assist soldiers, police, firefighters, search and rescue
teams, and the list goes on. However, did you know that dogs are
helping children read? That’s exactly what Tales To Tails (T2T)
coordinator and Literary Specialist Laura Bruni says is
happening. The program is part of Heaven Can Wait Animal
Society’s (HCWS) educational outreach, and it has been helping
children read since 2006. Not only has that, the program has
proven to be very successful too. Bruni says, “In October we ran
a program at the Adelson Educational Campus and each student
improved one reading level within the 6 week period.” That is
quite an improvement in less tha
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Data-Mining a City's Visual Identity Paris looks like, well,
Paris, and like nowhere else on earth, which is a large part of
the charm of the French capital. As a tourist, you don’t even
have to visit the Eiffel Tower to know you’ve landed in La
Ville-Lumière. Wander down any side street in a residential
neighborhood, and the city simply has a distinctive look and
feel, the result of myriad small distinctions from the way
Parisian balconies are constructed to the style of the city’s
streetlights. When presented with random images of Paris, people
who have been there are surprisingly good at identifying the
place (as opposed to, say, Barcelona). A delightful research
project, from academics at Carnegie Mellon University and
INRIA/Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, tried exactly this. The
researchers showed subjects a sampling of images of Paris, as
well as decoys from 11 other cities around the world. Subjects
correctly nailed Paris 79 percent of the time. (You can play
along with this game here.) "What this s
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If you don’t mind lots of sand, high temperatures and well…
that’s about it, then you might be excited to hear about the
idea that a planet like Tatooine could possibly exist in
reality. Io9.com reports about Ryosuke Kita of Northwestern
University, who recently presented at the Astrobiology Science
Conference 2008 about the likelihood of a Tatooine-type planet
in a nearby solar system. Of the 200 or so star systems where
we’ve found planets, about 20 percent are binary systems, and
that number should go up as we find more, since about half of
all main-sequence stars are binaries. Kita’s calculations show
that gravity from a second star will perturb an Earth-like
planet’s orbit to the point of making its climate uninhabitable.
The key, he says, is that the planet can’t be alone — it needs a
nearby gas giant to help stabilize its orbit, and allow a
climate that could support life. According to the StarWars.com
Databank entry: Tatooine’s silicate surface reflects the light
of its suns so intensely that legends
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|HIV Screening for Pregnant Women||Percentage of pregnant women
who were screened for HIV infection during the first or second
prenatal care visit||Number of women from the denominator who
were screened for HIV infection during the first or second
prenatal care visit||All patients seen for two prenatal visits
during the measurement year||AMA| |National Quality Forum| Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (AIDS) are leading causes of illness and death in the
United States and only 40 percent of the United States
population has been tested. (1) One of the major ways in which
children become HIV-infected is via perinatal transmission from
the infected mother to her fetus. By targeting pregnant women
for screening, this mode of transmission can be reduced through
monitoring and treatment of HIV-infectesd pregnant women.
Without antiretroviral therapy, approximately 25 percent of
pregnant women infected with HIV in the United States will
transmit the virus to their child.(2) Ap
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If you are looking for somewhere safe from an earthquake, this
might help. For this composited computer generated map above
shows the where from every major quake which has struck our
planet since 1898, and as you can see, the edge of the Pacific
Ocean appears particularly dangerous. In total there are a
staggering 203,186 of them, dotted all over the world. The neon-
coloured map was created as a side-project by mapping manager
John Nelson, in a case of taking his work home with him, as he
works for data-visualisation software maker IDV Solutions. John
revealed on the IDV blog: ‘I’ve been looking at really general
sources of existential risk and visualizing them via the kitchen
sink school of thematic mapping. So the earthquakes map was just
a matter of time. Another composited data-visualization, tornado
tracks, same people … Next time some one tries to tell you our
planet is a nice comfy place to live, roll your eyes.
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From Latin: rectus "right" + angle Drag the orange dots on each
vertex to reshape the rectangle. The rectangle, like the is one
of the most commonly known quadrilaterals. It is defined as
having all four interior angles 90° Properties of a rectangle -
Opposite sides are Adjust the rectangle above and satisfy
yourself that this is so. - The diagonals bisect each other -
The diagonals are Other ways to think about rectangles A
rectangle can be thought about in other ways: is a special case
of a rectangle where all four sides are the same length. Adjust
the rectangle above to create a square. - It is also a special
case of a but with extra limitation that the angles are fixed at
90°. See Parallelogram definition and adjust the parallelogram
to create a rectangle. a rectangle has all the same properties
described here, but also, the coordinates of its vertices
(corners) are known. See Rectangle (Coordinate Geometry) for
more. Other rectangle pages: Area of a rectangle Perimeter of a
rectangle Rectangle (Coordinat
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Maryland Public Lands Managed by the Wildlife and Heritage
Service The Wildlife & Heritage Service (WHS) oversees the
management of 47 Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), ranging in
size from under 20 acres to over 29,000 acres. The WMA system
encompasses a total of 111,000 acres, with WMAs located in 18 of
Maryland's 23 counties. Mission of the WMA System To conserve
and enhance diverse wildlife populations and associated habitats
while providing for public enjoyment of the State’s wildlife
resources through hunting and other wildlife-dependent
recreation. Goals of the WMA System The Wildlife and Heritage
Service manages the WMAs for diverse wildlife populations and
their habitats in a number of ways, such as applying prescribed
burns, planting food plots, establishing native grasses,
managing wetlands and performing timber stand work. Some
habitats, such as forested areas, provide for wildlife without
any direct management. Providing for wildlife-dependent
recreation involves the installation and maintenance
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The poet, essayist, and playwright Ben Jonson was born in 1572
in London, England. His father, a minister, died shortly before
his birth and his mother remarried a bricklayer. Jonson was
raised in Westminster and attended St. Martin's parish school
and Westminster School, where he came under the influence of the
classical scholar William Camden. He left the Westminster school
in 1589, worked briefly in his stepfather's trade as a
bricklayer, then served in the military at Flanders, before
working as an actor and playwright for Philip Henslowe's theater
company. In 1594, Jonson married Anne Lewis and began to work as
an actor and playwright. Jonson and Lewis had at least two
children, but little else is known of their marriage. In 1598,
Jonson wrote what is considered his first great play, Every Man
in His Humor. In a 1616 production, William Shakespeare acted in
one of the lead roles. Shortly after the play opened, Jonson
killed Gabriel Spencer in a duel and was tried for murder. He
was released by pleading "
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Waite Arboretum Labyrinth The purpose of the Waite Arboretum
Labyrinth is to be an aesthetically pleasing element linking the
Urrbrae House Gardens and the Waite Arboretum. The Labyrith aims
to provide a beautiful, tranquil setting for contemplative
walking – but feel free to run, skip or dance it! The Labyrinth
is located on the original site of Peter Waite’s tennis courts,
overlooked from the Rose Garden with a wonderful view towards
the Arboretum. The lines of the labyrinth are formed with 921
timber rounds mostly recycled from Arboretum trees and the paths
are sawdust. The whole installation is intended to be ephemeral
or renewable and sit softly on the landscape. Dr Jennifer
Gardner the Director of the Waite Arboretum and Conservation
Reserve personally designed and constructed this labyrinth,
completing it in mid January 2010. Jennifer states “It was an
enormously pleasurable, stimulating and satisfying way to spend
my Christmas holidays and I am delighted by how many children it
has attracted to the ga
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1st great white tagged off SE coast Researchers, scientists
caught, studied, tagged and released 2,000 lb shark Lydia is a
2,000-pound, 14½-foot Great White Shark who was caught, tagged
and released off the coast of Jacksonville last weekend. It was
just above freezing and blowing 20 knots when fishermen and
scientists captured and tagged her about a half mile from the
mouth of the St. Johns River. It was just above freezing and
blowing 20 knots when fishermen and scientists worked together
to make the capture. "It was against all odds. I mean we were
just out there putting in our time, freezing cold," Ocearch co-
captain Brett McBride said. "Just losing all faith. Is there
really even a shark anywhere close by?" This was the first great
white shark ever caught, studied, tagged and released in the
Southeastern United States. "It is not an adrenaline rush. It is
not fun," expedition leader and Ocearch founder Chris Fischer
said. "It's very stressful and you feel great responsibility
going through the process to
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January 2007, Wiley-Blackwell This price is valid for United
States. Change location to view local pricing and availability.
Other Available Formats: E-book A bold and insightful departure
from related texts, Descartes goes beyond the categorical
associations placed on the philosopher’s ideas, and explores the
subtleties of his beliefs. - An elegant, compelling and
insightful introduction to Descartes' life and work. - Discusses
a broad range of his most scrutinized philosophical thought,
including his contributions to logic, philosophy of the mind,
epistemology, metaphysics, the philosophy of science, and the
philosophy of religion. - Explores the subtleties of Descartes'
seemingly contradictory beliefs. - Addresses themes left
unexamined in other works on Descartes.
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Nothing prepares you for the sight of them. Suddenly, popping
out of the Central Valley like a stage set, are the towering
rock spires of the Pinnacles, a Bryce-Canyon-in-miniature and a
place like no other in California. Thanks to the “Pinnacles
National Park Act” passed in the last hours of the last
Congress, the former national monument was “upgraded” to
national park status, and became America’s 59th and newest
national park. Crowning the obscure Gabilan Range, the Pinnacles
are located some 150 miles south of San Francisco, 300 miles
north of Los Angeles, and about 25 miles from nowhere.Pinnacles
is very much a hiker’s park—and a most memorable one. Besides
the high spires, there are slopes bristling with gray pine, dark
caves, wildflower-strewn meadows, rolling grassland and a pretty
canyon cut by Chalone Creek. Most of the park’s major features
can only be visited on foot. The San Andreas Fault is located
four miles to the east of the national park’s eastern boundary.
Hikers can see the infamous rift z
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Monday, January 17, 2011 - 01:30 in Biology & Nature Does eating
a big breakfast help weight loss or is it better to skip
breakfast altogether? Available information is confusing but new
research published in BioMed Central's open access journal... -
Big breakfast bunkumSun, 16 Jan 2011, 22:21:17 EST - Adults who
eat eggs for breakfast lose 65 percent more weightTue, 5 Aug
2008, 17:23:40 EDT - Regular breakfast helps reduce lead
poisoning in childrenThu, 31 Mar 2011, 21:35:43 EDT - Cereal and
milk is the new sports supplementThu, 14 May 2009, 2:14:39 EDT -
New weight loss diet recommends high-carb and protein big
breakfastTue, 17 Jun 2008, 15:07:44 EDT
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Today in History – November 26, 2003 – The Concorde, the most
successful supersonic passenger jet in history, is completely
retired from flight. Although successful as a collaborative
technical effort, it did not survive the marketplace; it was too
expensive to maintain, demand was not high enough at the prices
required and the public put many constraints on flight paths due
to the noise pollution of the sonic boom. For more information,
see the Engineering Pathway‘s resources on the Concorde,
supersonic flight and aerospace engineering. Curricular
resources and events can be found on the Aerospace Engineering
Education Community site. Also on this date in history in 1789,
the first national Thanksgiving in the United States was
proclaimed by President George Washington. The holiday that
Americans celebrate annually on the last Thursday in November
commemorates an event on the Virginia Berkeley Plantation on
December 4, 1621. Although saved by the charity of the local
Native Americans who supplied much of the
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Laws and Regulations To help achieve the goal of attaining and
sustaining a healthy coast and lake by balancing use and
conservation, working guidelines have been established to manage
coastal areas. These guidelines include laws, regulations and
program documents. Links on this page are a list of existing,
draft and/or proposed laws, regulations and programs that guide
coastal management in Ohio. ODNR Responsibilities assigned to
the Office of Coastal Management Other state of Ohio laws,
regulations and programs that may be applicable to ODNR's
coastal development responsibilities: Federal laws, regulations
and programs that may be applicable to ODNR's coastal
development responsibilities: - The United States Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) enforces federal clean water and safe
drinking water laws, provides support for municipal wastewater
treatment plants, and takes part in pollution prevention efforts
aimed at protecting watersheds and sources of drinking water. -
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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A racecar with a shiny paint job, a new engine, clean filters
and a pristine exhaust system will run as well as a 1985 Yugo if
you're using muddy water as fuel. Similarly in humans, working
out with the right training equipment will get bodies in good
shape, but without the right fuel, they might as well be wasting
away on a couch. Unlike cars though, consuming the appropriate
fuel isn't as simple as finding quality gasoline, it's a bit
more complicated than that. However, the most essential thing
that training athletes can do to be healthy and get the most out
of their workouts is stay hydrated. Amanda Carlson-Phillips,
vice president of nutrition and research at Athletes'
Performance in Phoenix, Arizona, told FITNESS Magazine that
athletes need to drink roughly .5 to 1 ounce of water for every
pound they weigh everyday. During games and matches, coaches
need to make sure that team hydration is a priority. But, if
athletes haven't consumed enough fluids before they get on the
field or court, they won't be ma
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Filbert (Hazelnut) (Corylus sp.) Little research has been done
on the Filbert in California. Thus, we know little about its
specific adaptability or productive capacity. Filberts are
monoecious (separate female and male flowers are borne on one
plant—like walnuts) and some cultivars are self-unfruitful;
thus, two different varieties should be grown for cross-
pollination to produce consistent crops. Trees reach a height of
18 ft. under ideal conditions. Filberts are almost pest free in
California. Seedling is the only known rootstock. - [PDF]
Filbert Varieties for Planting in the Home Garden , Paul Vossen,
Sonoma and Marin Co. UCCE
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Winter Safety Tips for Kids Keep the kids warm when the weather
turns cold Winter creates an ideal setting for fun. Sledding,
ice skating and skiing are just some of the activities that make
the season so enjoyable. But it’s also a time to be careful.
Each winter, hospital emergency rooms treat hundreds of
youngsters for frostbite and other injuries related to outdoor
activity. The Minnesota Safety Council offers these suggestions
to keep your children safe while they’re out in the cold: -
Dress children warmly. Clothing should consist of several layers
and include boots, mittens or gloves, and a hat. - Set
reasonable time limits on outdoor play. Call children in
periodically to warm up with drinks such as hot chocolate. -
Since infants lose body heat quickly, limit the amount of time
they are outdoors when it is colder than 40 degrees. - Make sure
children only skate on approved surfaces. Check for posted signs
or call local authorities to find out which areas have been
approved. Children should never sk
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Issued from the woods of the Loess Hills a few miles east of
NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI, USA April 29, 2012 |CATTLE EGRETS AMONG
CATTLE As in Mexico, around here if you pass by a pasture you're
likely to see Cattle Egrets standing among or on the cows, as
shown at http://www.backyardnature.net/n/12/120429eg.jpg. Cattle
Egrets in their breeding plumage, like the ones in the picture,
can be distinguished from other white egrets and herons by the
patches of light orange-brown on their crests and chests.
Nonbreeding Cattle Egrets can be all white, and then their
relatively thick, yellow beaks and thicker, shorter necks
separate them from similar-sized, white herons and egrets found
here, such as Snowy Egrets and juvenile Little Blue Herons. I
remember the first time Cattle Egrets were spotted in the rural
part of western Kentucky where I grew up, possibly in 1963.
Their appearance was so unusual that a farmer not particularly
interested in Nature called my parents and said that a whole
flock of big white birds had appe
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Steam-Based In-Situ Soil Remediation Mercury occurs naturally in
rocks, soils, water, and air; anthropogenic sources of mercury,
as a contaminant of concern, are found at 290 Superfund National
Priority Sites. Thermal treatment, whether practiced above
ground on contaminated materials removed from a site, or in
ground, is highly effective in removing more than 90 % of
mercury in place, depending on site-specific factors and
temperatures achieved usually heating to greater than 300 C is
required to meet land disposal standards. Treating mercury in
the ground avoids the added hazards of transporting contaminant
soil to a treatment facility and reduces exposure risks. PCI
proposes an innovative direct-fire catalytically stabilized
steam generation technology that offers significant energy
savings compared to steam boilers, and unlike boilers can
operate at the high temperatures needed to be effective for in-
situ mercury removal for a wide range of soil porosities, water
content, and locations below or in the vad
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Durango Herald file photo Durango Herald file photo On a May day
last year in Santa Fe, the national committee reviewing issues
surrounding the Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act received a presentation by a group from
Colorado. A group from Colorado had come to appeal for help
identifying more places on public lands for reburial of Native
American remains. “Today, we are here to express to you a
significant barrier and ask you to be a strong supporter in
partnership with us to make small changes in procedure, policy
and interpretation, so we may utilize state and federal lands
more broadly to provide for reinterment,” Southern Ute Tribal
Council member Pathimi GoodTracks said. “We have hundreds of
relatives waiting, waiting for reburial, and it is distressing
to Native people when our ancestors and relatives are left in
limbo.” Such collaboration between tribes and government
agencies is not new in Colorado and has helped make the state a
model for the implementation of a law that many re
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InfiniBand goes the distance Researchers at the Energy
Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have shown that
InfiniBand can be used to transport large datasets via a
dedicated network thousands of miles in length with a throughput
unmatched by high-speed TCP/IP connections. In a test setup,
researchers were able to achieve an average throughput of 7.34
gigabits/sec between two machines at each end of the 8,600-mile
optical link. In contrast, the throughout of such traffic using
a tweaked high-throughput version of TCP, called Hyper Text
Caching Protocol (HTCP), was 1.79 gigabits/sec at best. Oak
Ridge researcher Nageswara Rao presented a paper on the group's
work, "Wide-Area Performance Profiling of 10GigE and InfiniBand
Technologies," at the SC08 conference last month. Increasingly,
DOE labs are finding they need to move large files over long
distances. In the next few months, for instance, the European
Union's Large Hadron Collider will start operation, generating
petabytes of data that will cross the
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This book provides a social and educational perspective on
contemporary English language learners, especially those large,
fast-growing Hispanic and Asian groups whose presence is felt
strongly in the schools. It is addressed to preservice and in-
service teachers of English, whether in language arts, bilingual
education, or English as a second language classrooms. Part I
describes the makeup of previous generations of English language
learners in the US and provides current demographics on English
language learners. It also examines the process whereby
immigrants come to adopt English. Part II provides teachers with
information on the immigration background, language
characteristics, and language use patterns of the most numerous
groups of present-day English language learners. Part III
explores three types of investment necessary for successful
language learning - individual investment, legal and policy
investment, and educational investment.
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Analysis of Controlled Studies Shows Online Learning Enhances
Classroom Instruction June 26, 2009 Media Contact: David Thomas
| Program Contact: Bernadette Adams Yates Providing further
evidence of the tremendous opportunity to use technology to
improve teaching and learning, the U.S. Department of Education
today released an analysis of controlled studies comparing
online and face-to-face instruction. A systematic search of the
research literature from 1996 through July 2008 identified over
1,000 empirical studies of online learning. Of these, 46 met the
high bar for quality that was required for the studies to be
included in the analysis. The meta analysis showed that
“blended” instruction – combining elements of online and face-
to-face instruction – had a larger advantage relative to purely
face to face instruction or instruction conducted wholly online.
The analysis also showed that the instruction conducted wholly
on line was more effective in improving student achievement than
the purely face to face in
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Farmers in Mozambique trying to adapt farming to climate change
As the rain and water in Mozambique becomes less predictable and
less suited to subsistence farming, aid groups and the local
government are trying to help some change the way they farm so
they're not so paralyzed by a flood or a drought. But there's a
lot of work to do. Over the past two decades, Mozambique has
suffered more than its fair share of weather disasters. The east
African nation has seen more devastating cyclones, droughts and
floods than any country on the continent. Farmers in Mozambique
have been particularly hard hit. This year alone, torrential
rains in the mountains sent flood waters onto fields below,
submerging tens of thousands of acres of crops. And now, farmers
are in the midst of another rainy season, which started in
December. Officials at Mozambique’s National Institute for
Disaster Management have to prepare for rescue operations this
time of year. Figueredo de Araujo, the institute's information
manager, said the emerg
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A new review from the International osteoporosis Foundation
Nutrition Working group has identified nutritional factors that
contribute to sarcopenia. Sarcopenia is the gradual loss of
muscle mass that occurs naturally as people age. Sarcopenia
leads to a higher risk of fractures and other industries as
muscle strength plays a role in the aging population’s tendency
to fall. The review focused on protein, Vitamin D, Vitamin B and
an acid-based diet. Evidence was reviewed from worldwide studies
on how protein, acid-base balance, Vitamin D and Vitamin B
affect sarcopenia. “The most obvious intervention against
sarcopenia is exercise in the form of resistance training.
However, adequate nutritional intake and an optimal dietary
acid-base balance are also very important elements of any
strategy to preserve muscle mass and strength during ageing,”
said Professor Jean-Philippe Bonjour, co-author and Professor of
Medicine at the Service of Bone Diseases, University of Geneva.
The review found that protein plays an im
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Species at Risk How can I help? It is important to keep
shorelines natural. When developing shoreline property set aside
an area that is natural, and refrain from impacting aquatic
vegetation found in the water adjacent to your property that
provides critical habitat for stinkpot turtles. If you own an
altered shoreline there are also ways in which to return all of
it- or part of it- to a more natural setting. For information on
healthy shorelines you can access the Department of Fisheries
and Oceans Shore Primer website. It is important to retain
wetland areas in Ontario to promote the recovery of stinkpot
turtles. Many wetland areas have been removed in Ontario, so it
is important that landowners value and protect their remaining
wetland ecosystems. For more information on wetlands visit
Environment Canada’s website : Working around wetlands? What you
should know . Stinkpot turtles depend highly on natural
shoreline habitat for nesting. Parks Canada and its partners
currently work on restoring and maintaini
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This article only skims the surface of Galois theory and should
probably be accessible to a 17 or 18 year old school student
with a strong interest in mathematics. The binary operation *
for combining sets is defined as the union of two sets minus
their intersection. Prove the set of all subsets of a set S
together with the binary operation * forms a group. An
environment for exploring the properties of small groups.
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Smallpox is something that has been forgotten. Dr Grumble's
students puzzle over smallpox vaccination scars that are an
incidental finding in many patients over a certain age.
Amazingly, Dr Grumble is yet to find a new student who can even
guess what causes these scars. Dr Grumble is not an expert on
smallpox but it is one of the first diseases that he learned
about. He remembers well the fearfulness, almost terror,
smallpox caused in 1962 when he was a young child in South
Wales. Dr Grumble can remember his father telling him that a
South Wales obstetrician had contracted smallpox after attending
a post mortem on a pregnant patient who had died unexpectedly.
It turned out that she had had smallpox. Smallpox, you see, does
not necessarily present with all those ghastly pustules you see
in the pictures of old. As far as Dr Grumble can recall, the
disease had been spread around by the index case, a recent
immigrant from Pakistan, who had visited various prostitutes.
This made any idea of contact tracing awkward
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Motions in a Court Case A motion is an oral or written request
made to the court for a ruling, or an order, on a particular
point. A motion can be made before, during, or after a trial.
It’s a common court procedure for deciding issues that come up
during the course of a lawsuit. - Motions can be made by anyone
named in a court case, on either side. - Motions cannot be made
by someone not named in the case. A witness, for instance, may
not make a motion. Some examples of motions are: - Before a
trial, you may want to ask that the trial itself be postponed
from one date to another. To do this you could file a motion
requesting that the schedule be changed. - During a trial, if
the judge rules that some part of a witness’s testimony is not
relevant, you could make a motion asking that that inadmissible
testimony be deleted from the court’s record. - After a trial,
you may want to have the amount of your court-ordered child
support changed. To do this you would file a motion asking the
judge to make the change.
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Introduction to Ice Science Thousands of scientific papers have
been written on ice science and many scientists have devoted
their lives to the field. Many books have been written and
several of them are sill in print. Most of this work is related
to polar ice, glacial ice, ice physics, etc., however there are
a reasonable number of papers that are relevant to lake ice.
This section of the website looks a bit deeper into why ice
behaves the way it does. It tries to bridge the gap between the
rigorous scientific world and what we see on the ice. One of
best libraries anywhere for lake ice science is the Cold Regions
Research and Engineering Libratory, an Army Core of Engineers
laboratory, located in Hanover New Hampshire. CRREL scientists
have produced a great deal of the scientific work that has been
done on the ice we like to play on. Other hotbeds of ice
research are, as will come as no supprise, Scandanavia, Russia
and Canada. Ref (1) River Lake Ice Engineering Edited by G.
Ashton, Page 184, Water Resource
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Updated on: Oct 24, 2009 UTF-8 is a popular text encoding
format. While not natively supported in Revolution fields you
can display UTF-8 text using some of the built-in Revolution
functions. This lesson will show you how. Updated on: Mar 31,
2010 If you want to create stacks in languages other than
English or the more common European languages then you need to
use Unicode. Luckily Rev handles Unicode text very well in most
cases. This lesson will cover the main tips and tricks you need
to know in order to use Unicode in your stacks. Updated on: Aug
17, 2012 Adapted from a newsletter article by Devin Asay If you
have ever tried to create stacks in a language other than
English and the more common West European languages you may have
run into the problem of how to produce all the character glyphs
that the language requires. Fortunately, Uni...
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His first book got him arrested. When the jury refused to
convict him, the judge put both him and the jury in prison.
Later, the writings of this radical man became foundational for
the Constitution of the United States. If George Washington is
the “Father of our nation,” then William Penn is the
“Grandfather.” Penn’s non-conformist views and actions would
brand him a radical even today. Yet this man, so often
overlooked by contemporary culture, held an ideal of freedom in
his heart that still beats in the heart of our nation 300 years
later. His faith in God and his biblical perspectives drew him
into the fray, not away. Penn said, “It is impossible that any
people of government should ever prosper, where men render not
unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which
is Caesar's.” To have faith, was to be involved. Penn landed in
a splintered land of disparate viewpoints and unyielding
religious prejudices in 1682. The hardy colonists who had
endured the religious persecution of Europe and th
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Minimising the human intervention is the best way to preserve
Kerala’s Silent Valley BeyondHeadlines News Desk Silent Valley
is the best assurance that a forest can speak through human
beings.” said the environmentalist MK Prasad. The tourists and
visitors to Silent Valley cannot disagree with him because
Silent Valley gives an unusual experience of silence while in
the midst of nature. It gives one the rarest of the rare
experience of being with nature, becoming one with it. Silent
Valley National Park is located in the Nilgiri Hills, Palakkad
District in Kerala. The park is one of the last undisturbed
tracts of South Western Ghats rain forests and tropical moist
evergreen forest in India. It is the core of the Nilgiri
International Biosphere Reserve and is part of The Western Ghats
World Heritage Site. The area is locally known as
“Sairandhrivanam” literally, in Malayalam: Sairandhri’s Forest.
In local Hindu legend, Sairandhri is Draupadi. The Pandavas
during their exile wandered into Kerala and came upon a
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How Do You Introduce Computing in an Engaging Way? Meet Them
Where They Are (Case Study 3) Engage students not already drawn
to computing by creating academic and social environments where
these students feel like they belong. Students respond
positively to solving real-life problems that draw on their
existing knowledge and interests and that involve collaboration
in hands-on projects. The Girl Scouts’ “Technobile” is a mobile
technology classroom with 12 workstations. It showcases
technology and technology careers in ways that appeal to girls,
while breaking down the access barriers to IT.
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Vitamins are essential in the diet because the body does not
produce enough of them, or may not produce them at all. There
are thirteen different vitamins, A, eight B-complex vitamins, C,
D, E, and K. Since the body (for the most part) is unable to
make vitamins, they must be supplied in the daily diet or
through supplements. One vitamin, Vitamin D, is produced in the
skin when it is exposed to the sun's rays. Vitamin K is not made
by the body at all, but is formed by microorganisms in the
intestinal tract only when green, leafy vegetables and vegetable
oils are eaten. The body's vitamin requirements are expressed in
terms of recommended dietary allowances, or RDAs. These amounts
are considered to be sufficient by the established medical
community, but I suspect they will learn that we need more or
need different nutrients than they presently think we do.
Proteins, carbohydrates, and fats combine with other substances
to furnish energy and build tissues. These chemical reactions
are enhanced by enzymes produc
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friends and colleagues. Vaginal yeast infections are annoying,
not dangerous, but they can seriously hamper your sex life,
especially if you have diabetes. What's the connection, and what
can you do to prevent and treat yeast infections? According to
Chris Illiades, MD, on the website Everyday Health, "Normally,
Candida albicans, the fungus that causes yeast infection, lives
in balance with the other microorganisms in your body.... But
anything that upsets this normal balance can lead to an
overgrowth of yeast and can cause a yeast infection." Diabetes
is one of the things that can upset the normal balance because
yeast love to eat sugar, especially glucose. In fact, they help
make beer by eating sugar and turning it into alcohol, and they
are crucial in bread-making beca
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Nelson Mandela is a former freedom fighter who became the first
president of South Africa in the post-apartheid period. He was
born in a village in the South African Transkei on 18th July
1918. His father was the principal advisor to the chief of
Thembuland. His ambition as a child was to study law and make a
contribution to the freedom movement in South Africa. An
association of young blacks, whose aim was to improve the
situation of black people in the whole of Africa, was formed in
South Africa in 1912. It became the African National Congress
(the ANC), and Mandela joined it in 1942. During the 1939-45
war, he was one of a small group of intellectuals which tried to
transform the ANC into a mass movement. The wanted to represent
the millions of working people in the towns and country side who
had no vote and no power. During the 1950s, Mandela was banned
from working as a lawyer and was often arrested and imprisoned.
In the early 1960s, the ANC was made illegal and went
underground. Mandela was a leading f
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What is Museum2you? An environmental education program for
communities across NSW on the issues of sustainability, climate
change and biodiversity. Reaching out to communities across NSW
Councils, libraries, regional museums, community groups and
organisations across NSW can host a Museum2you mini exhibition
to make teaching and learning about important environmental
issues empowering and engaging. The Museum2you display and
resource module contains useful information on environmental
issues as well as practical ideas and activities to help
individuals and groups facilitate change in their communities.
What you get Each Museum2you exhibit box contains: - information
panels - display support material - specimens and objects -
practical activities - education resource packs Just a click
away Experts at your fingertips Museum2you includes access to
online discussions and video conferencing links with Australian
Museum experts where communities can ask questions, gather
information and participate in professional
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What is the difference between algae and Chara and how should I
treat them? Veronica – Savannah, GA To an entomologist, the
differences between a cockroach and a termite may be a subject
of profound fascination. However, to a homeowner, they’re both
insect problems. If you have them, you sure as heck want to get
rid of them – and the sooner the better. Likewise, when the
seasoned water biologist sees filamentous algae floating on the
surface of a pond, he can probably identify the strain —
Spirogyra, Oscillatoria, Pithophora, Anabaena or perhaps some
combination thereof. Just beneath the surface, he might point
out the gray-green, cylindrical branches of Chara, another form
of algae that is often mistaken for a submerged flowering plant,
except it has no flower and no defined root system. Most of you
would probably find this at least mildly interesting, unless, of
course, the biologist is talking about your pond. Where he sees
variations of filamentous algae, you see ‘pond scum’:what he
identifies as Chara, y
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Why the Jews?: The Reason for Antisemitism From the bestselling
authors of "The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism" comes a
completely revised and updated edition of a modern classic that
... Show synopsis From the bestselling authors of "The Nine
Questions People Ask About Judaism" comes a completely revised
and updated edition of a modern classic that reflects the
dangerous rise in antisemitism during the twenty-first century.
The very word "Jew" continues to arouse passions as does no
other religious, national, or political name. Why have Jews been
the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history?
Why did Hitler consider murdering Jews more important than
winning World War II? Why has the United Nations devoted more
time to tiny Israel than to any other nation on earth? In this
seminal study, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin attempt to
uncover and understand the roots of antisemitism -- from the
ancient world to the Holocaust to the current crisis in the
Middle East. This postmillenni
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Steamboat Springs, town (1990 pop. 6,695), Routt co., NW Colo.,
on the Yampa River, just W of the Park Range; founded 1875, inc.
1907. It is a resort and skiing center, with ranching, farming,
and light manufacturing. There are hot mineral springs and coal
mines in the area. Steamboat Springs is the headquarters of
nearby Routt National Forest. The Columbia Electronic
Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University
Press. All rights reserved. More on Steamboat Springs from Fact
Monster: See more Encyclopedia articles on: U.S. Political
Geography
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Helping students gain understanding and self-confidence in
algebra. cls wrote:the below is to be simplify to 2/3X^2 but i
just can't get it -:( (R^2)/4 * (3x)^R * (2/9x^2)^(6-R) = 2/3X^2
-- proof it (R is eventually eliminated- how ??) main obstacles
is i can't get rid of the ^R, pls help cls wrote:The recent
topic learnt is Exponential Equation. the complete question is
as follow - If (R^2)/4 * (3X)^R * (2/9X^2)^(6-R) can be
simplified to K/X^3 , find the values of the constants R and K.
(answer R=3, K=2/3)
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Women today represent an abysmal percentage of the population of
most STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math),
and that number is shrinking, rather than expanding. At the same
time, fewer young women are entering the STEM workforce than in
previous years. Why are women leaving STEM fields? Researchers
have been gathering volumes of data as to the why there are
fewer women are staying in, or entering STEM fields, and from
that data we can see many issues that cover a spectrum from that
need to be addressed: - Sexism: overt and subtle (hostile macho
cultures) - Harassment, threats, or potential or actual violence
toward women - Financial Independence - Gender Stereotyping -
Work-life balance Considering the number of challenges,
addressing the lack of women in technology is a multifaceted
phenomenon with no single solution, with each matter deserving
attention. The primary goals of this post will focus on
demonstrating... - Incidents of sexism at industry events, and
online conversations, and t
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Q. What does Jewish tradition teach us about racial profiling?
A. As we explained last week, profiling -- racial or otherwise
-- involves singling out people for suspicion based on
characteristics that are statistically correlated with
wrongdoing but don't have any inherent connection. We gave the
example that most crimes are committed by young men, but being a
young man doesn't "cause" a person to commit a crime. There is a
remarkable story in the Talmud which, it seems to me, bears very
directly on the profiling question. The story is about Rebbe
Elazar the son of Rebbe Shimon bar Yochai. Rebbe Shimon bar
Yochai is widely recognized as one of the greatest rabbinical
scholars and leaders in all of Jewish history, and the stature
of his son Elazar is only slightly below. Yet the Talmud tells
of an astonishing second career imposed on him in his later
years: Rebbe Elazar the son of Rebbe Shimon encountered a
certain inspector whose job was to catch thieves. He asked him,
how are you able to overcome them -- ar
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RECORDS OF THE SLAVE CLAIMS COMMISSIONS, 1864-1867 Volume Three:
Journal of the First Maryland Commission From the Introduction:
Throughout the U. S. Civil War, from its beginning in 1861
through the end in 1865, the United States government attempted
to end slavery as a way of weakening the Confederacy and ending
the War. Among other options, President Abraham Lincoln
supported the idea of “compensated emancipation,” whereby the
federal government would pay slave owners for each slave that
was freed. E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General, issued
General Order 329, by order of the President, on 3 October 1863.
The Orders began, “Whereas, the exigencies of the war require
that colored troops should be recruited in the States of
Maryland, Missouri, and Tennessee,” and further ordered that
recruiting stations should be established within these three
states for recruitment under certain provisions. Among these
provisions were the following: 4. Free persons, and slaves with
the written consent of their owners
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Solar Panels Cost So, exactly what is involved in calculating
solar panels cost? When considering solar power very few of us
know how the cost of solar panels is measured. Or even, for
instance, do we automatically grasp the association between the
cost of solar power and the value of solar power. Everybody
knows that gasoline costs are in dollars per gallon. We
additionally all know about the distance we’ll have the ability
to travel after shelling out $40 for a tank of gas. Unlike a
tank of gas, the value of which is enjoyed (and used up) more or
less immediately, solar panels distribute their value spanning
over a period of time. With that in mind, the objective of this
article is to answer a pair of issues: (1) How much do solar
panels cost? AND (2) Can the value of solar panels outweigh the
cost? The initial question is closely linked to solar panels
cost, so we’ll go over that first. Solar photovoltaic (PV)
panels (which transform the sun’s rays into electricity) usually
are priced in dollars per watt (
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About Learning Disorders The principle characteristics of ADHD
are inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. There are three
subtypes of ADHD recognized by professionals. These are the
predominantly hyperactive/impulsive type (that does not show
significant inattention); The predominantly inattentive type
(that does not show significant hyperactive-impulsive behavior)
sometimes called ADD; and the combined type (that displays both
inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive symptoms). Does This
Situation Describe Your Concern? The Center for Work and Family
Life is available to help in the following ways: - practicing
better self-care - activating and expanding your support sytem -
applying and integrating the information found in these book &
web resources into your daily living - connecting you with
providers or community resources that specialize in this topic
Please call CWFL to request personalized assistance on this
topic Reading List Notations: Green font indicates books that
have been read by Center for
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Competitive Enterprise Institute | 1899 L ST NW Floor 12,
Washington, DC 20036 | Phone: 202-331-1010 | Fax: 202-331-0640
During the past several years, an especially virulent strain of
avian flu has ravaged flocks of domesticated poultry in
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-
com:office:smarttags" />Asia and spread to migratory birds.
Fortunately, only rarely has it been transmitted from bird to
human, and probably not at all between humans . . . yet. But flu
virus mutates readily, and virologists expect that sooner or
later it will acquire the ability to spread from person to
person. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-
com:office:office" /> This is potentially catastrophic. The
avian flu strain H5N1 already has two of the three
characteristics needed to cause a pandemic: It can (1) jump from
bird to human and (2) produce an often fatal illness; more than
60 deaths have been attributed to H5N1. If additional genetic
evolution makes the virus highly transmissible among h
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Published in Cancer Weekly, July 29th, 1996 Empty 22-nm subviral
particles purified from the plasma of chronic carriers were the
first HBV vaccines to be used in humans. The second, and current
generation of HBV vaccines consists of similar subviral
particles which have been produced as recombinant proteins in
stably transfected eukaryotic cell lines. In spite of their high
efficacy, the current subunit HBV vaccines are not widely used
in developing countries owing to the high... Want to see the
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Facts of experience are the phenomena that occur in our day to
day living. These are the experiences we observe for ourselves
and in others. As parents we witness our children’s ‘facts of
experience’and then make relative assessments about how they are
doing with the challenges in their lives. These facts of
experience are the behaviors we can see. On the other hand, the
feelings, attitudes, motivations and other internal processes
our childen privately experience are not necessarily congruent
or apparent with what we witness. This becomes the parental
dilemma in trying to best understand our children. • Trust what
you observe regardless of what is said. • Acknowledge what you
feel in relationship to what your child is experiencing. • Talk
about what you sense is going on in order to get clarification
of your own values. • Keep a rational perspective.
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Science in Focus: Shedding Light: Lights, Camera, Action
Exploring the Photochemical Effect I. The Activity You will be
producing PHOTOGRAMS, shadowlike images made without a camera by
placing objects on top of the sun-sensitive paper and exposing
it to sunlight. An opaque or transluscent object will block out
all or some of the photons. The result is a pattern on the paper
below (rather like a shadow). When the paper is developed
(generally by placing it in water) the photogram is permanent.
This activity does not use film, but instead using Sun Sensitive
Paper (easily obtained in children's toy and craft stores)
Various objects such as: - dried flowers or leaves - salt, sand,
spices - hair, wire, thread - Place chosen objects on the sun-
sensitive paper. - Place the paper in direct sunlight. - The
paper will change (many types do from blue to white and this
takes about 7 minutes). - Place the paper in the developer (in
most cases a tray of water). - The paper will darken and the
shape of the object will be s
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According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the region is
past due for “the big one,” and more deaths from earthquakes are
likely in this century. Though California has many earthquakes,
its deadliest quake was on April 18, 1906, in San Francisco,
when an estimated 3,000 people died in the quake and subsequent
fire. Santa Barbara sustained $8 million damage and 13
fatalities from an offshore shock in June 1925, according to the
USGS. On Jan. 17, 1994, residents of the greater Los Angeles
area woke to the Northridge earthquake. It was the first
earthquake to strike directly under an urban area of the United
States since the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. According to a
study led by USGS engineering geologist Thomas L. Holzer,
earthquake deaths can be prevented by the right kinds of
buildings. Four catastrophic earthquakes have hit so far in the
21st century. Among them were “the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman
earthquake (and tsunami) and 2010 Haiti earthquake that each may
have killed over 200,000 people,” according to
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Poliovirus vaccine, live (By mouth) Poliovirus Vaccine, Live
(POE-lee-oh VYE-rus VAX-een, lyve) Prevents infections caused by
poliomyelitis (polio) in children and adults. Routine production
of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) has been discontinued in the
United States; an emergency stockpile is maintained in the event
of a poliovirus outbreak. There may be other brand names for
this medicine. When This Medicine Should Not Be Used Oral
poliovirus vaccine should not be given to adults or children who
have had an allergic reaction to any type of polio vaccine,
neomycin, or streptomycin, which are antibiotics in the vaccine.
This vaccine should not be given to anyone who has a fever,
severe illness, severe weakness, virus infection, diarrhea,
vomiting, or persons with an immune deficiency disorder. How to
Use This Medicine - The vaccine will be given by your doctor or
nurse. - Your baby should be given 3 doses between 6 weeks and
18 months of age, with a fourth dose when he/she enters
kindergarten. The first dose s
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) -- For decades, posters of celebrities
with milk mustaches have appeared on billboards and in
magazines, telling kids its really "cool" to drink milk. But, if
it were up to a certain health advocacy group, milk would not be
staple in the school cafeteria. The Physician's Committee for
Responsible Medicine advocates a vegan, plant-based diet, and
advocates children replace milk with other foods that provide
the same nutrients. The U.S. Department of Agriculture mandates
low-fat milk as a required food in school lunches, but PCRM says
kids can obtain its key nutrients elsewhere. PCRM recommends
foods like tofu, broccoli, kale and collard greens as sources of
calcium and protein, without the saturated fat and lactose
(dairy sugar) found in milk. "You can eat the green leafy
vegetables too. You can eat the beans and the grains and get all
those nutrients you need, and it's the healthiest source
possible," says Susan Levin, M.S., R.D., the Director of
Nutrition Education for PCRM. The Inter
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Using a Magic Lens Handwriting can be very difficult to read.
When we digitize old letter or diaries (for example), we want
people to see or read the original, but we know that people may
not understand the handwriting. Transcripts can be effective,
but are not glamorous. Last week I was introduced to an
interesting way of overlaying a transcript onto handwritten
text. It's called the "magic lens." Here at the DoHistory web
site, you can see a magic lens applied to Martha Ballard's
diary. As you move the lens over the text, you can view the
transcription. This example from Memorial Hall Museum Online is
a bit different. Here you can expand the magic lens so that more
of the transcribed text can be seen at the same time. This magic
lens provides several benefits: - Users of the site can now
better understand the text because they can read it, while still
viewing the original handwriting. - It allows people who are
visually impaired to better view the text. (There is also an
implementation of the magic lens tha
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It simply means that Christ is uniquely special to God and has
his authority. To sit at the right hand of an earthly king was a
place of honor, denoting special trust, authority from, and
relationship with the king. It was something that was understood
without needing explanation at the time. If you were to sit at
the right hand of the King meant that you acted with his
authority. Those who came to you would treat you with respect
and obedience, as if you were the king yourself. It's one of the
many demonstrations in the Bible, which is not readily
understood by us in our time that made perfect sense to the
culture as it was then. There's an article that explains it a
bit differently, with more detail here:
http://www.letusreason.org/onenes10.htm This is an excerpt: To
sit at ones right hand means a place of authority, it was a
place of honor it meant dignity and rulership. Throughout the
O.T there is used what are called anthropomorphism to describe
God in some function or characteristic. this is figurative
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Main Building excavation site - July 1930 More than two years
passed before work was begun on the capitol's main unit, yet
correspondence flowed frequently between the architect and the
commission. By today's standards, the fiscal planning of the
Legislature and the commission was conservative indeed.
Appropriations were made separately for each unit, and the
business of finalizing contracts, paying fees, and ultimately
inspecting and approving each unit, was completed before steps
were initiated for the next phase. The Legislature enacted a
special levy on March 2, 1929, on all taxable property in the
state, '... not to exceed in any one year the sum of five cents
or so much thereof as may be necessary on the one hundred
dollars valuation of said taxable property...,' for the purposes
of constructing the main unit. A "Capitol Building Fund" was
created in the state treasury for the moneys raised by the levy,
and the governor and building commission were directed to
proceed with 'all reasonable dispatch to co
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Hudson Presents Obstacles to New Crash-Avoidance Technology The
federal government is slowly rolling out technology meant to
protect airplanes against the kind of collision that occurred
over the Hudson River on Saturday. But as currently set up, the
emerging system would not work well in New York. The technology
gives pilots a screen with a moving map showing their position,
as well as those of other planes in flight. It can show the
distance to other planes, and whether that distance is
increasing or decreasing; it can also show the altitude
difference, and whether that is increasing or decreasing. In
crowded airspace, “the increased situational awareness for the
pilot is invaluable,†said David Zwegers, director of flight
safety at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach,
Fla., which has equipped all 75 of its single- and twin-engine
planes with the screen. The system can warn a pilot if his plane
is on a collision course with another, and give an aural or
visual warning, he said.
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Forecasting Flu Outbreaks with Weather Technology Flu season
often coincides with winter months as it has been found that the
influenza virus lasts longer in cold, dry air. Knowing this,
researchers have developed a framework for initializing real-
time forecasts of seasonal influenza outbreaks using a technique
used for weather prediction. The availability of real-time, web-
based estimates of local influenza infection rates can make
quantitative forecasting possible. Scientists at Columbia
University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have
announced a new system that adapts techniques used in modern
weather prediction to generate local forecasts of seasonal
influenza outbreaks. By predicting the timing and severity of
the outbreaks, the system can eventually help health officials
and the general public better prepare for them. Each year, flu
season peaks at various times from region to region. Pinpointing
the outbreaks with the new forecast system can provide "a window
into what can happen week
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Hidden Field Equations ||This article may require cleanup to
meet Wikipedia's quality standards. (January 2009)| Hidden
Fields Equations (HFE) is a public key cryptosystem which was
introduced at Eurocrypt in 1996 and proposed by (French) Jacques
Patarin following the idea of the Matsumoto and Imai system. HFE
is also known as HFE trapdoor function. It is based on
polynomials over finite fields of different size to disguise the
relationship between the private key and public key. HFE is in
fact a family which consists of basic HFE and combinatorial
versions of HFE. The HFE family of cryptosystems is based on the
hardness of the problem of finding solutions to a system of
multivariate quadratic equations (the so called MQ problem)
since it uses private affine transformations to hide the
extension field and the private polynomials. Hidden Field
Equations also have been used to construct digital signature
schemes, e.g. Quartz and Sflash. One of the central notions to
understand how Hidden Field Equations work is
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8 July 2012 by Gwynne Dyer It was 42 degrees C (107 degrees F)
in St. Louis, Missouri, last weekend, about the same as in Saudi
Arabia. Along the US Atlantic coast, it was cooler, but not
much: 41 degrees C (105 degrees F) in Washington DC, just short
of the city’s all-time record. And 46 Americans were already
dead from the heat wave. In Britain, it was incredibly wet.
Almost 6 cm (2.3 in) of rain fell on Saturday in parts of
southern England, and there were over 20 flood warnings and 100
flood alerts in effect. The wettest April ever was followed by
the wettest June (more than double average rainfall), and July
has started the same way. Russia had its hottest summer ever in
2010, with peat wildfires raging out of control – over 5,000
excess deaths in Moscow in July alone – but this summer it’s wet
in Russia too. Last Friday an astonishing 28 cm (11 in) of rain
fell overnight in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia, and
flash floods killed 155 people. It is a big planet, and some
local record for hottest,
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A quick ecology quiz: Is there more life in cold waters or warm
waters? Our journey has provided some wonderful empirical
evidence on this question. When we set out from Cape Town, water
temperatures in the Atlantic hovered around 50 degrees
Fahrenheit. When we reached Richards Bay in northeastern South
Africa, the Indian Ocean clocked in somewhere in the 70s. And as
we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn off the coast of Mozambique,
the mercury was up around 80 degrees. So, where did we see the
most marine life? Around Cape Town. The ocean is cold there,
because it is fed by upwellings from the deep ocean. That deep
water is cold, but it is also full of nutrients. As a result,
the water around Cape Town is rich with sea birds, Penguins, Fur
Seals, and our friend the Great White Shark. The waters around
Richards Bay, on the other hand, appeared virtually devoid of
life. The jetties at Cape Town were crowded with cormorants,
gulls, and terns. The jetties at Richards Bay were empty. This
pattern is not special to S
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Some cultural observations in Mexico Mexican President Enrique
Peña Nieto, shown during a meeting with President Barack Obama.
(White House photo) This has been a fascinating trip, and,
beneath our preoccupations as Americans with drug violence and
immigration, this is a fascinating society. Of many
observations, I offer here two historical ones and two about
current issues. I am really struck by the huge difference in the
relationship between European colonizers (Spanish) and native
peoples in Mexico versus the US. In Mexican high school history
books, the Spanish settlement is referred to as The Conquest (La
Conquista), and the history of the period is written from the
Native people point of view. Why the enormous difference with
the US? First, there were rather few Spanish settlers, and they
came mostly to plunder or search for gold. They employed the
natives, in semi-slave conditions, in mines and on enormous
farms. This is in stark contrast to the English settlers in
North America, who were larger in num
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Poverty mars formation of infant brains Interventions to
counteract the damaging effects of poverty must include
something unique--raising the income level of the poor. Instead,
we institute programs which raise the income of consultants
giving advice to the poor. How earth-shattering would it be for
researchers and policy makers to decide that what people in
poverty need immediately is more money? Note that parents are
coached on how to reduce stress at home. Then the parents send
their kids to schools, with high-stress test prep. When will
researchers study what this type of schooling does to children's
neural development? By Clive Cookson Poverty in early childhood
poisons the brain, the American Association for the Advancement
of Science meeting in Boston heard on Friday. Neuroscientists
said many children growing up in very poor families with low
social status experience unhealthy levels of stress hormones,
which impair their neural development. That effect is on top of
any damage caused by inadequate nu
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Among the most visible prices that consumers may see on a daily
basis are the ones found on the large signs at the gasoline
stations alongside our streets and highways. The biggest single
factor affecting gasoline prices is the cost of crude oil, the
main raw material for gasoline production, which accounts for
well over half the price of gasoline at the pump. But what is
behind the price of crude oil? This week the U.S. Energy
Information Administration (EIA) launched a new web-based
assessment highlighting key factors that can affect crude oil
prices called "Energy and Financial Markets: What Drives Crude
Oil Prices?" Understanding oil price movements and their
underlying drivers was the impetus in creating this new product.
Oil prices have fluctuated a great deal in recent years,
reaching over $140 per barrel in the summer of 2008, then
falling by about $100 in subsequent months before rebounding.
Gasoline prices paid at the pump experienced similar
fluctuations during this period. EIA's traditional covera
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On this page: - What is biliary atresia? - Who is at risk for
biliary atresia? - What are the symptoms of biliary atresia? -
What causes biliary atresia? - How is biliary atresia diagnosed?
- How is biliary atresia treated? - What are possible
complications after the Kasai procedure? - What medical care is
needed after a liver transplant? - Eating, Diet, and Nutrition -
Points to Remember - Hope through Research - For More
Information What is biliary atresia? Biliary atresia is a life-
threatening condition in infants in which the bile ducts inside
or outside the liver do not have normal openings. Bile ducts in
the liver, also called hepatic ducts, are tubes that carry bile
from the liver to the gallbladder for storage and to the small
intestine for use in digestion. Bile is a fluid made by the
liver that serves two main functions: carrying toxins and waste
products out of the body and helping the body digest fats and
absorb the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. With biliary
atresia, bile becomes trapped, b
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Please update your flash player... The Big Picture: Rethinking
Dyslexia Summary: Get a broader, clearer picture of the often-
misunderstood neurological disorder dyslexia in this
illuminating documentary. Weaving together the narratives of
doctors, students, parents and successful professionals, the
film sheds new light on this disorder that hampers the brains
ability to comprehend the written word. Director/producer James
Redford, whose 7-year-old son is dyslexic, explores the topic
from a variety of angles, including medical experts, children
struggling with the disorder, and professionals who have fought
to overcome it. Among those profiled are investment pioneer
Charles Schwab, business magnate Richard Branson, lawyer David
Boies and California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom. (TVG) ()
PRODUCER : James Redford,Windy Borman,Karen Pritzker DIRECTOR :
James Redford Genre : Documentary
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Related Links in the Library: Source: Johann Gottlieb
Heineccius, A Methodical System of Universal Law: Or, the Laws
of Nature and Nations, with Supplements and a Discourse by
George Turnbull. Translated from the Latin by George Turnbull,
edited with an Introduction by Thomas Albert and Peter Schröder
(Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008). INTRODUCTION. Copyright: The
copyright to this edition, in both print and electronic forms,
is held by Liberty Fund, Inc. Fair Use: This material is put
online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc.
Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section
above, this material may be used freely for educational and
academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit. The
development of early modern natural law theories is an integral
part of the Enlightenment, and the writings of Johann Gottlieb
Heineccius (1681–1741) are an important example of this close
relationship. Heineccius wrote when the modern European natural
law tradition was already long
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COLOMBIA (3 February) Abnormally warm and dry conditions persist
in the northwestern parts of the country, where about nine weeks
of moisture deficit have accumulated. Severe dry conditions are
also reported along the Andean mountain range, in the mountain
valleys, and along the Caribbean and parts of the northern
Pacific coasts. Water reservoir levels are reported low and
water and electric power rationing measures have been adopted in
some areas, particularly in the northern departments of Guajira,
Magdalena and Bolivar. Similar measures have been implemented in
the central departments of Santander, Cundimarca, and Tolima, as
well in the departments of Cauca and Nariño in the south- west.
The number of forest fires continues to increase because of the
drought and river transportation and access to marine ports have
become increasingly difficult. By contrast, heavy rains and
flooding are reported in some regions of the Pacific coast, as
well as in the interior departments of Caquetá and Putumayo,
where lands
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WHO Research into global hazards of travel (WRIGHT) project
Final report of Phase I The objectives of the WRIGHT (WHO
Research Into Global Hazards of Travel) project were to confirm
that the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is increased by
air travel and to determine the magnitude of risk, the effect of
other factors on the risk and to study the effect of preventive
measures on risk. To address these objectives, several studies
were performed during Phase I of the WRIGHT project. Additional
proposed studies related to the effect of preventive
interventions were deferred to Phase II. The findings of the
epidemiological studies indicate that the risk of VTE
approximately doubles after a long-haul flight (>4 hours) and
also with other forms of travel where travellers are exposed to
prolonged seated immobility. The risk increases with the
duration of the travel and with multiple flights within a short
period. The risk also increases significantly in the presence of
other known risk factors of VTE. The risk fa
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The April 24, 1960 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's Closer Than We
Think imagined a futuristic world of robot-driven trains.
Looking at this image makes me think that someone could produce
some pretty awesome steampunk art featuring James J. Hill and a
Katrina Van Televox type robot, even though the "robots"
described in this strip weren't of the humanoid variety. Future
trains will be fully automatic -- robots that can regulate their
own speed and control their own movements to meet the most
precise schedules. The Union Switch and Signal Division is
currently working on two kinds of electronic "brains" to make
this possible. One type would be a trackside "decision maker,"
to regulate train speed, routing, starting and stopping. The
other would be a "control servo," to signal that the robot train
is obeying orders -- or isn't, and why. A central monitoring
panel would oversee train movements for hundreds of square
miles. The first such installation may be on the New York subway
shuttle trains. Next week: Lunar P
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The Name Shanghai means 'on the sea' and the city lies on the
east coast of China, just south of the Yangtza river. In the
1930's, Shanghai was called the ‘Paris of the Orient’. It was a
city of shows, restaurants, clubs and gambling – certainly
somewhere it was hard to feel lonely. People from all over the
world were throwing themselves into Shanghai parties. It was
these new immigrants who fuelled the fantastically opulent and
innovative dinning culture in the town, a huge and varied range
of different chinese cuisines were being introduced to the city,
while native food was being subsequently transformed into a
taste and a style of west meets east in order to compete.
Shanghai, was one of the melting pots of the gourmet world
during the 1930's. Visit us now in the heart of Oxford to
experience Oxfords best Chinese.
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Creating Sustainable Solutions in Central America RISD students
have been traveling to Earth U's La Flor campus in Costa Rica to
explore sustainable solutions to global problems. For many
children who grow up in developing countries in Central America,
their classrooms are little more than cement buildings. Indoor
plumbing doesn't exist, clean drinking water is scarce during
the dry season and on sunny days, schoolhouses can turn into
sweltering sweatboxes due to poor ventilation. Given these
conditions, it's common for students to become distracted – even
dizzy – while attempting to concentrate. To help tackle this
ongoing problem, RISD students enrolled in the interdisciplinary
Innovation Studio: A High-Tech, Low-Tech School, a studio that's
offered by the Industrial Design and Landscape Architecture
departments, have developed a prototype off-the-grid schoolhouse
for rural Costa Rica in collaboration with Earth University –
the world's foremost research institute for sustainable
agriculture. Since 2008 RIS
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Instructions to change your password should arrive in your inbox
in a few moments. As upsetting and confusing as it can be to
bring up the subject of HIV/AIDS with young children, it's
essential to do so. By the time they reach third grade, research
shows that as many as 93 percent of children have already heard
about HIV/AIDS. While kids are hearing about HIV/AIDS early on,
what they are learning is often inaccurate and frightening. You
can help them understand--if you know the facts yourself. The
information below provides helpful guidance for talking to young
children in ways that they may better understand. What is
HIV/AIDS? AIDS is a very serious disease that is caused by a
tiny germ called a virus--the name of this virus is HIV. When
people with this virus get very, very sick, it is called AIDS.
When you are healthy, your body can fight off diseases, like
Superman fighting the bad guys. Even if you do get sick, your
body can fight the germs and make you well again. But when your
body is infected with HI
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Hands-On Geological Science Experiments Much more than just a
crystal-growing kit, this experiment set teaches you the
chemistry of crystals and the geological science behind rock
formation. Grow three chemically different types of crystals
that exhibit not only different colors, but also different
shapes. Build three-dimensional geometric models of common
crystal shapes including octahedrons, tetrahedrons, and
rhomboids. Mold your own crystal geode — a hollow rock with
crystals growing inside. Through the activities, you'll learn
how to test and identify minerals with your very own collection
of real specimens supplied including granite, limestone, basalt,
marble, pumice, calcite, pyrite, quartz, hematite, bornite,
fluorite, magnetite, and soapstone. Conduct tests to determine a
mineral’s chemical and physical properties such as color,
luster, streak color, hardness, density, magnetic properties,
and carbon, sulfur, or iron content. Investigate the geologic
rock cycle and learn how the three main categories
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