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Temperature Behavioral Adaptations by Birds
A bird's behavior can also help it cope with cold. It may tuck its bill under feathers of its back or wing, draw one leg into its feathers, or fluff its feathers to trap a larger volume of air. It my stay in the sun and position its body to maximize heat absorption or remain... | web |
America’s highest court has declined to even hear a case brought by a retired lawyer that claimed President-elect Barack Obama is not qualified to take the highest office in the land.
The issue of whether the candidates were “natural-born citizens” of the United States, as stipulated in the Constitution, was raised du... | web |
American Indians-Alaskan Natives
American Indians and Alaska Natives (Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts), referred to here as Indians/Natives, are very diverse in culture and language. More than 4 million Americans, approximately 1.5% of the U.S. population, identify themselves as having American Indian or Alaska Native h... | web |
Reasons to Believe
The Physics of Sin
"What difference does it make? As long as I'm not hurting anyone else, I should be able to live with my girlfriend."
"I never loved my wife. Don't I deserve to be happy?" "I needed that money more than he did, so it's okay that I took it. Besides, he owes me for the time when…" ... | web |
Energy Storage Breaking Through
Harnessing the power of wind and solar
Ken Silverstein | May 31, 2011
Duke Energy is now part of the next wave of clean energy technology: Energy storage, which gives utilities and large industrials the flexibility they need to respond to power shortages and price spikes. As for Duke... | web |
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ID theft automated using keylogger Trojan
John Leyden, The Register 2005-08-09
Anti-spyware researchers have uncovered a massive identity theft ring linked to keylogging software. The malware was discovered by Patrick Jordan of Sunbelt Software while doing research on the infamou... | web |
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Acquainted with the Night
Acquainted with the Night
by Robert Frost
Stanza 4 Summary
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But not to call me back or say good-by;
• Now we find out why the speaker was so interested in this interrupted cry, other than that it's a dark, creepy sound on a d... | web |
The tech that never arrived: whatever happened to augmented reality?
It was the future once. Is it time to get excited again?
While AR has lost some of its initial excitement - for Madden in 2013, "every app, email or press release I received was from a developer releasing something that I'd seen a thousand times bef... | web |
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Time's Flow - Is Past-Present-Future notion of time an illusion?
I asked about the perspective of decision making, authority or authenticity, in the conversation titled ‘What leads us to decide?’
The time perspective of decision making as presented by Philip Zimbar... | web |
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Overview of noun dust
The noun dust has 3 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (38) dust
(fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air; "the furniture was covered with dust")
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0:11 Now, extinction is a different kind of death. It's bigger. We didn't really realize that until 1914, when the last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, died at the Cincinnati zoo. T... | web |
5 Simple Ways to Cut 500 Calories per Day
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Making small changes to your diet and daily routine can make a big difference at the end of the day. If you are striving to lose 10 pounds as a part of Project 10 or just looking to lose a few pounds for better health, there are many ... | web |
At long last, Congress has passed the child nutrition bill. Among its important achievements, it bans (some) junk food in schools, authorizes new programs to automatically enroll needy kids for free meals, and gives a small, if virtually unprecedented, boost—six cents per lunch—to the federal reimbursement rate that pa... | web |
The Sunni militants who now threaten to take over Iraq seemed to spring from nowhere when they stormed Mosul in early June. But the group that recently renamed itself simply “the Islamic State” has existed under various names and in various shapes since the early 1990s. And its story is the story of how modern terroris... | web |
Apollo 8's astronauts celebrated Christmas in space during the mission that set the groundwork for Apollo 11. Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders orbited the Moon in December of 1968 and witnessed the first Earthrise in human history. Looking back at the tiny blue planet rising over the Moon's horizon, one a... | web |
Snake Dance: Journeys Beneath a Nuclear Sky by Patrick Marnham – review
Patrick Marnham's meandering, powerful exploration of the dawn of the atomic age fascinates and frustrates
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The Hopi snake dance: Patrick Marnham explores Aby Warburg’s studies of the tribe. Photograph: Culture Club/ Hulton... | web |
Joel Barlow – revolutionary atheist
A new biography by Richard Buel Jr shows just how radical the religious views of the American poet and polemicist were
Following the American victory in the war of independence, most young men on the make headed west, to colonise the frontier. Poor, ambitious and disappointed in th... | web |
A fine romance: how humans and chimps just couldn't let go
Dr David Reich at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT in Boston said: "The study gave unexpected results about how we separated from our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. We found that the population structure that existed around the time of human-chi... | web |
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While United States President Barack Obama has begun developing further economic ties with South Africa, his speech delivered in a tightly-packed Jameso... | web |
Six ordinary opportunities for raising good kids
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The scary part of parenting is that you never know when you're making an indelible impression on your kids, nor what lesson your child is taking from it. Looking back war... | web |
A Great Equalizer: Computers Give Disabled Kids Opportunities Once Unimaginable
Lynda V. Mapes Staff writer
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Three Parts:Understanding the Source of Your FearConsidering the DecisionMaking the Decision
We make decisions every day; everything we say and do is the result of a decision, whether we make it consciously or not. For every choice, big or small, there's no easy formula for making the right decision. The... | web |
Place:Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France
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Adjective: cropped krópt
1. (of land or soil) used for growing crops
"cropped soil"
Verb: crop (cropped,cropping) króp
1. Cut short
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2. (farming) prepare for crops
"crop the land";
- cultivate, work
3. Yield crops
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Verb: disengage ,dis-in'geyj
1. Release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
"disengage the gears"; "I want to disengage myself from his influence";
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Find more free software Kids make a coat of arms (shield) - Free Software. Learn about knights, knighthood, medieval life, chivalry, heraldry and the Middle Ages.
How to Make an Authentic Medieval Coat of Arms
Using Shields, Knights and Heraldry educational software to print a shield and traditional medieval de... | web |
Adonis Diaries
Cold War effectively started in 1917 and not in 1945: Similar reasons for dominating Third-World countries
Posted on: March 21, 2011
The US historian John Lewis Gaddis analyzed declassified documents in the 70’s and recounted the causes of the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union. Gaddis con... | web |
A RECENT visitor from Singapore, an able and well-informed reporter from the Straits Times, wanted me to know that the people of East Asia were uneasy about what they perceived as a crisis in Chinese-American relations and that they expected the United States to back off. Didn't we realize that the Chinese had never be... | web |
Venezuelan University Law Creates Student Bill of Rights, “Democratizes” Higher Education
Mérida, December 24th 2010 ( – As students in the United States and Europe protest against soaring tuition and lack of funding for public higher education, the Venezuelan National Assembly has passed an unprecedented law to inclu... | web |
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What is an Earmark?
Earmarks are funds provided by the Congress for projects, programs, or grants where the purported congressional direction (whether in statutory text, report language, or other communication) circumvents otherwise applicable merit-based or competitive allocation proces... | web |
A Short History of French Literature, by George Saintsbury
Chapter 2.
The Chansons De Gestes.
The earliest form which finished literature took in France was that of epic or narrative poetry. Towards the middle of the eleventh century certainly, and probably some half-century earlier, poems of regular construction an... | web |
Bath bomb
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A bath bomb is a hard-packed mixture of dry ingredients which effervesces when wet. They are also used to add essential oils, scent and colour to bathwater. They are a form of bath fizzies.
A picture of different types of bath bomb
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Declaration at the Congress of Vienna
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The powers who have signed the Treaty of Paris, assembled at the Congress of Vienna, being informed of the escape of Napoleon Bonaparte, and of his entrance into France with an armed force, owe it to their own dignity, and the interest... | web |
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Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why
The Science of Sexual Orientation
Simon LeVay
• Neuroscientist Simon LeVay presents the best current sum... | web |
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a filament of solar material
a glowing light bulb filament
From Medieval Latin filamentum, from Late Latin filare (to spin, draw out in a long line), from Latin filum (thread)
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GeometryCombineMode Enumeration
Specifies the different methods by which two geometries can be combined.
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Is this the resaon why the Paperless Office is still a concept ?(Pt2)
……………So how is the Schumpeter’s wave connected to the paperless office? If you understand the concept of destructive innovation then this may give you some idea or thoughts of that may be happing or not which more the case is…………
Incremental Inno... | web |
Captured German & Japanese Air Technical Documents
In the final days of World War II, the advancing Allies captured a number of German and Japanese documents on various technical subjects. The United States Army Air Force (later the United States Air Force) had a number of these documents microfilmed by the Air Docume... | web |
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Quantum teleportation finds a place in quantum computers
Researchers apply quantum teleportation's ability to transmit information to …
The resiliency of quantum teleportation may help quantum computers function as well as traditional digital ones when doing calculations, ac... | web |
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Climate skeptics perform independent analysis, finally convinced Earth is getting warmer
A group of physicists decided they didn't trust climate scientists, so they …
Last week, a project called Berkeley Earth released drafts of its findings. The project was started by a phy... | web |
Don Johnson, the television actor who played one of the lead roles in "Miami Vice," used to talk about the hazards of working with the trained alligator that was supposed to be his pet on the series. As he would say, the term "trained alligator" is actually a contradiction in terms; like "military intelligence," or "Po... | web |
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is the incisive fossa, and beneath the second premolar tooth the mental foramen which transmits the mental nerve and vessels. The oblique line runs upward from the mental tubercle and is continuous behind with the anterior border of the ramus. The posterior border of the... | web |
Why NFL Must Get over Fear of Homosexuality, Embrace Openly Gay Players
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Esera Tuaolo, former NFL defensive tackle, at the premiere of "All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise," in which he appears.
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When Seeing Isn't Believing: Charles Bonnet Syndrome
Liliputs and little people, cartoon characters dancing on your desk, a civil war soldier in your living room, a zebra walking down the street. Typically not what we’d expect to see with o... | web |
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I'm Shocked! Shocked! to Find There Are Neutrinos Going On Here
First, to the neutrinos themselves. For many of the actually knowledgeable folks I talk to (i.e., not me) the question about infamous Faster Than Light gang of neutrinos is no... | web |
ESL Term:
TPR Total Physical Response
ESL/EFL Glossary: A Guide to applied linguistics terminology.
Back to ESL Resources | Back to Glossary
TPR, total physical response: A teaching technique whereby a learner (usually young learner) responds to language input with body motions. This could be, for example, the ... | web |
What Version of Clojure Does This Guide Cover?
This guide covers Clojure 1.5+ and Emacs 24.x. Earlier Clojure and Emacs releases are not supported.
Emacs has traditionally been one of the best development environments for functional languages and Lisps in particular. This guide will explain how to get it installed... | web |
Touch 2.1.1 Sencha Docs
Introduction to Sencha Cmd
Sencha Cmd is a cross-platform command line tool that provides many automated tasks around the full life-cycle of your applications, from generating a new project to deploying an application to production.
Sencha Cmd provides a collection of powerful, time-saving fe... | web |
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1. He was charged with killing 13 people.
2. He was charged with having killed 13 people.
3. He was charged with the crime he killed 13 people.
I suppose the phrase no. 1 is correct but the others also make sense or are they grammatically wrong?
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Saturday, December 4, 2010
I/Q-SDR Local Oscillator
Just an idea, have not tried it yet... Inspired by YU1LM, I thought of a frequency independent method for creating the I/Q phase shift of 90 degrees.
You may remember my sub-harmonic approach at half the operating frequency. Here a RC network took care about the 45 ... | web |
Proper Greeting Between Dogs
by Simon Foden Google
Well-socialized dogs allow the greeting to flow slowly.
Well-socialized dogs allow the greeting to flow slowly.
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As you’ve already figured out, every dog has his own personality and quirks. Some are gregarious and outg... | web |
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Gossamer silk from balloon spiders
Ballooning is a term used for the mechanical kiting that many spiders, especially small species…use to disperse through the air. Many small spiders use gossamer or especially fine silk to lift themselves off a surface or use the silk as an anchor in mid air. The ... | web |
WinterStorms 2003 General Info
What The 2003 Winter Storms study was an adjunct effort to measure ozone (O3) during NOAA's annual Winter Storms Reconnaissance and research project.
When January - March 2003
Where Northeastern Pacific Ocean
How The NOAA Gulfstream G-IV completed 24 flights, primarily from airports i... | web |
Fifth Grade Writing Fluency Activities
by Kori Morgan Google
Fifth grade often introduces students to writing fluency, the process of creating sentences that read with smoothness and variety. Breaking a student's habit of using repetitive sentence structures and introducing them to creative phrasing can broaden t... | web |
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Ruby Iterators And The Law Of Demeter
Here's a simple Ruby collection iteration:
collection.each {|element| do_something.with(element)}
Of course this comes straight from Smalltalk:
Collection select: [:each | each doSomething]
1. The Smalltalk code snippet you have there is no... | web |
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I have a postGIS installation running on an old computer that I'd like to move. I spent a bunch of time playing with pg_dump and pg_dumpall without success. It seems the normal dump procedures don't work with postGIS because file paths get hard coded in the output fr... | web |
What is the difference between ROUTES and TRACKS in my GPS? (Rev A, 3/16/00)
Routes are generally made up of a series of significant points along your path. The GPS will tell you the bearing and distance to the next point in sequence as you navigate along your route. Each point is usually named (in fact, a route ... | web |
Portable Electric Car Chargers Travel to Where They're Needed Most
Electric car "range anxiety?" Real, says GM, anyway. So, to limit the potential for mass hysteria as future commuters' e-tank gauges slide slowly towards E, a solution is needed. Mitsubishi's portable, networked charging stations could be a start.
The... | web |
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The Blackface sheep is the most common hill breed in Scotland. They are extremely hardy and can survive in the harsh climate associated with the hills of Scotland. All Blackface sheep have horns and have black... | web |
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1.Noun- an ambiguous term known only by Canadians. The noun form has a variety of different meanings all of witch are uncertain.
ex. Youve got alot of jornk in there.
2. Verb - again this usage is ambiguous and has a variety of different meanings. Its verbal form can take on the forms jornks, jornked, jo... | web |
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Lua inside Python, Python inside Lua - Lunatic Python
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Lunatic Python - Labix
As the title of this post says, Lunati... | web |
Give electoral power back to the people
Letter to the editor
Posted: Tuesday, July 20, 2004
As we wind our way through the summer the presidential election process is becoming more heated as each candidate raises new issues and tries to bash the other to score political points. One issue that will remain unchanged h... | web |
What’s In Our Water?
“That will be one dollar and eighty nine cents, will you be paying in cash?” A bottle of soda or water on a hot day is the ultimate refreshment. We assume the water in that drink is clean, or else they would not sell it. A simple act like buying a bottle of water or soda can change everything – wh... | web |
How to Tell the Difference Between a Cold and Allergies
When you're struck down by nasty symptoms like a sore throat or sneezing in the middle of spring it's often hard to differentiate between a cold and allergies. To help tell the difference between the two, health blog Greatist has put together a guide to narrowing... | web |
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Student loan debt is growing at an alarming rate, and it doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reports that there is $902 billion in outstanding student loan debt in the U.S.
The Consumer Finance ... | web |
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If one views a group as a one object category with the elements of the group as morphisms then a natural transformation between functors of such categories is an inner automorphism, i.e. if we have two group homomorphisms $f,g: A\to B$ then a natural transformation $\eta :f\to g$ is just an el... | web |
apologetics,in Christianity, the intellectual defense of the truth of the Christian religion, usually considered a branch of theology. In Protestant usage, apologetics can be distinguished from polemics, in which the beliefs of a particular Christian sect church are defended. Roman Catholics, however, use the term to m... | web |
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I got an album by Ornette Coleman and Pat Methany, "X", and on the linear notes it talks about atonal experiments within the song structures. Are there scales and chord progressions that go along with atonal music?
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Ruling of tattoos in Islam
Ruling of Tattoos in Islam
Are Tattoos Haram in Islam
A question often asked is "Are tattoos haram in in Islam ?"
The Answer is that permanent Tattoos are Haram in Islam and the Prophet of Allah has cursed the person who has tattoos done on them and the one on whom tattoos are done.
It... | web |
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Gender: M Meaning of Reed: "red-haired" Origin of Reed: English Reed's Popularity in 2014: #317
The versatile Reed can be seen as a grass-like nature name and a musical name.
There have been Reeds on Grey's Anatomy and Party of 5, and on the big screen in Boogie Nights. Reed Richards was the human name ... | web |
Ida Barrow in the US
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people in the U.S. have this name View Ida Barr... | web |
Evolving slower gets you the bigger piece of the pie
A well known effect in the arms race that ensues between host and parasite, the red queen effect, states that the species that is able to evolve countermeasures faster than its partner will gain the upper hand. New research claims that this is not so when considerin... | web |
Ontario government making it easier to say, I'm sorry
Apology Act will make it easier to acknowledge mistakes
Toronto (9 Oct. 2008) - The Ontario government is introducing legislation that will make it easier for citizens to say, I'm sorry.
Attorney General Chris Bentley and Health Minister David Caplan say the Apo... | web |
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Berserkers were Norse warriors who were commonly understood to have fought in an uncontrollable rage or trance of fury; the berserkergang.
In 1015 Jarl Eiríkr Hákonarson of Norway outlawed berserkers. Grágás, the medieval Icelandic law-code, sentences berserker warriors to outlawry. By the 1100... | web |
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Physical: Physical wellness encourages participation in regular physical activities which improve cardiovascular strength and endurance, flexibility and muscular strength. This dimension involves understanding and appreciating the relationship between so... | web |
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A conservative force is a force with the property that the work done in moving a particle between two points is independent of the taken path. Equivalently, if a particle travels in a closed loop, the net work done (the sum of the force acting along the path multiplied by the distance travell... | web |
Passover Today
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Why even the most assimlated Jews still keep Passover Seder
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For most Jewish families the highlight of Passover is the Seder. For that matter for most Jews the only part of Passover is the Seder. It seems that even as Jews have grown estranged form the... | web |
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Say you are dividing 2 times with uncertainties:
$$\frac{t_1}{t_2} ~=~ \frac{0.551s \pm 0.002s}{ 0.712s \pm 0.002s}.$$
After doing the calculations you get:
$$\frac{t_1}{t_2} ~=~ 0.774 \pm \ldots?$$
How do you calculate your uncertainty with the two uncertainties $\pm0.002s$?
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In April 1975, gunmen fired on a church in East Beirut in what appeared to be an attempt to kill Pierre Gemayel, founder of the main right-wing Lebanese Christian militia. He was not killed, but the shooting set off a cycle of revenge that became a 15-year civil war.
Last week, three gunmen assassinated Mr. Gemayel's ... | web |
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I have a system wide install of a software . The source is located at /opt/Software . There is a bashrc file of the Software which is needed to be sourced for every user using it . Will the addition of
to their ~/.bashrc work for all users ? How should I set the permissions for the file at $P... | web |
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I'm not even sure if I asked that right. Anytime someone mentions changing the root password, they mention changing /etc/passwd, or just using the passwd command, but I've never heard of having to change it in an authorized_keys file as well. Where might I find that, and how can I safely delet... | web |
Wireless broadband deployment: Calculating bit density
When looking at wireless broadband deployment, geographic population density must be weighed against bandwidth limitations to plan what services the chosen technology can support.
Technology debates are almost universally viewed as debates about products or stand... | web |
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Showing posts with label quantum theory. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Amazing demo
This Israeli demo is so weird that it looks like a magician's trick:
And so it should. That's normal whenever quantum physics appears on the scene. If a quantum ph... | web |
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There is some existing code of the follow form which is used for format numerical values:
String.format( pattern, value )
Note that I cannot change the code itself - I can only change the format pattern supplied to the code.
What is the format pattern to output a currency symbol for the def... | web |
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Spacecraft Emergencies and Pointing Modes
An overview
You may at times notice that some of the SOHO real-time images do not update at all, and that some of them look very, very strange, like these:
There may also be a notice above the images that "SOHO is in ESR (or CRP, RMW, or 'safe') Mode".
As w... | web |
Potential for Carbon Capture and Storage
As energy demand increases worldwide, along with a continued reliance on fossil fuel resources, developing technologies for carbon capture and storage has become a pressing initiative. Scientists say the process is one option for combating climate change, as it aims to preven... | web |
In his first television interview since his arrest in New York City, former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) described his encounter with the African maid from Guinea as a “moral failing.” It was a consensual act, DSK insisted; there was no “violence, constraint or aggression”... | web |
Nature’s Also Human Tune
Vignette by Fred Leeds
Morning, autumn by the lake. Cushions of leaves encircle the trees. The birds in the trees begin to sing. It is a sound with which the ears of the heart are already familiar. The song is a part of nature’s also human tune. While the notes are recognizable as nature’s an... | web |
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While I use a application, the following error message appears (depending on the version of Windows):
Windows XP
[application name] has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
[application name] has stopped working
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Simple question. I made a class called Tester1 which extends another called Tester2. Tester2 contains a public string called 'ABC'.
Here is Tester1:
public class Tester1 extends Tester2
public Tester1()
ABC = "Hello";
If I instead change line 5 to
super.ABC = "Hello";
am I s... | web |
The nation’s 26th president was both a leader of the Republican Party and a Progressive. A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin explores Theodore Roosevelt’s effective use of the press and the presidency to push his agenda. He called it his “bully pulpit.” He employed presidential power... | web |
Suzanne Fields
Long before the Sexual Revolution changed everything in the 1960s, only the overclass and the underclass could flaunt middle class morality without public recriminations. The rich could do whatever the rich wanted to do because they could afford it, and the poor could do whatever they wanted because they... | web |
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You think you see the famous "Indian head test pattern", but all this is is the manifestation of how the electrons arranged themselves on your... | web |
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Fit For Life: Are You Reading That Label Right?
Saturday, August 24, 2013
The word "healthy" may ease your conscience, but don't believe everything you read.
It says it’s healthy, right on the label! Right?
I have dealt with many people that claim they can't get the results th... | web |
A Facilitator’s Guide to Increasing Civic Participation and Leadership Among Young Women in Emerging Democracies
Client: International Organization for Adolescents
Faculty: Jody Spiro
Team: Renee Dugan, Chulwoo Kim, Patty Mejia, Jasmine Vallejo
Year: 2005
The International Organization for Adolescents (IOFA) is a nonp... | web |
Microsoft has spent several years working on antispam technology, and beginning in 2003, we finally started seeing some results, including a new spam filter that debuted in the company's MSN Hotmail and MSN 8 mail servers. In late 2003, Microsoft added this technology, dubbed SmartScreen Technology, to its Microsoft Of... | web |
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