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In June every year, the US celebrates Father’s Day to honor fathers, who take care of their families and contribute so much for their growth. Father’s Day was first celebrated in 1910 in Spokane, Washington, after the prevailing efforts of a young girl named Sonora Dodd. Sonora was raised by her father alone after her ... |
a sermon on Mother’s Day, this young girl thought fathers too deserve to be recognized for their efforts and that a day should be declared as Father’s Day in their honor. So, it all started because one little girl thought, it is important to celebrate fathers efforts and spread across the world. Fathers contribute so m... |
their children and family. With guidance from father, young kids learn to gain strength in facing the world to reach their best. Sometimes it may be difficult to appreciate father’s role in raising a family, how despite working so hard and not keeping much to himself, an ordinary father gives rise to such great sons an... |
father Karam Chand Gandhi must have been to present the nation and the world, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi who become the Father of the Nation? He was a loving father when the child was unable to grasp right from wrong, he made him realize what truth is and elevated him to reach the heights of humanity. Fathers of empath... |
willingness to train their children, guide them, mentor them and pay the ultimate price till the end, of breathing the last breath and reaching Him. When the baby is taking its first steps, father is elated, and when the baby utters the first words, dada or papa or nana or baaba, father’s happiness has no bounds. It is... |
thing to be a father, because that is when they see their own creation in flesh and blood and love them immensely. Sometimes, it is also the child that teaches a mom or a dad. When the darling child is sleeping in the arms of its papa, it will be too difficult for the father to remove them off of |
their chest and rest them on the bed or crib. They wait until the child is so sound asleep that it will not wake up and get disturbed. Child teaches them to be patient and more understanding of the needs of their offspring. When a child is ill with fever or wheezing, fathers rush them to the doctor, give them |
needed care and may just carry them in arms all night long, without the worrying about having to attend meetings the next day or teach or attend the office or design bridges and have them constructed or do whatever that they do for their living. He does all this and also takes care of the home. When the mom is |
ill, it is once again father to the rescue, in single families. He kneads flour, makes bread, cooks meals, makes the home spic and span, and yet he attends to his work without even so much as a complaint, especially when the kids are young. This kind father does not remain young and able all the while. He, the invincib... |
hero in the eyes of his kids, does grow old. He reaches his time, and kids should remember, it is not always possible for the dad to be active and alert as always. He might grow old, unable to recognize even his own kids, and may become dependent on others for every little thing. Like a cycle, life goes on |
and the grand child develops a bond with the grand dad, and reaches a full circle. I remember listening to my dad when he spoke, “talking to others is like a penance”. It is not right to raise voice and lose temper with parents, especially to mom. If one cannot control their temper because the other person is testing t... |
nerves, they have to remember their temper should not be affected by others but by their own thinking. One can control their own thinking and not lose balance, because it is ones own attitude that one can control. He would always tell us the saying from Swamy Dayanand Saraswathi ji, “Satyam bruyath, Priyam bruyath; Na ... |
think about talking in a pleasing manner, as the sayings of the Swamy Dayanand Saraswathi ji, I recall in May 2012, there was a special visit by a very well known singer to Houston, TX, Dr. Ghazal Srinivas. He presented Houstonians with his melodious music that was almost divine in nature. Dr. Ghazal Srinivas garu was ... |
“Devalayo Rakshati, Rakshitah,” meaning ‘Temples protect, when protected’. He sang many compositions about the theme, but the best part of it was the song about Dad. Dad is not given his due love either in families or in culture and society, mother taking that place! However, dad’s place is irreplaceable especially in ... |
raising them as good citizens. When a dad is raising the baby into the air and holding it, he is not only raising the baby but also raising it above himself, so he can be a greater person than himself. When Dr. Ghazal Srinivas was singing this song, I was so much touched that one of the member from the |
audience asked me if I remembered my dad. I said, “yes indeed”. It was just this year in February that my father reached the Divine Father, and until I heard that song, I never realized that when the parents are raising the child into the air and holding them, it is because they want to see their child in higher |
position than themselves. It was an eye opener regarding the sentiments about father. The amount of happines Dr. Ghazal Srinivas was showing was greatest when he let his daughter take the stage and present us with her melody. He is a proud father, training his daughter to reach heights with a sound foundation of classi... |
MIT professor’s book digs into the eclectic, textually linked reading choices of people in medieval London. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Following the 1997 creation of the first laser to emit pulsed beams of atoms, MIT researchers report in the May 16 online version of Science that they have now made a continuous source of cohe... |
emits a continuous stream of atoms. MIT physicists led by physics professor Wolfgang Ketterle (who shared the 2001 Nobel prize in physics) created the first atom laser. A long-sought goal in physics, the atom laser emitted atoms, similar in concept to the way an optical laser emits light. "I am amazed at the rapid prog... |
Bose-Einstein condensate is just one of many recent advances." Because the atom laser operates in an ultra-high vacuum, it may never be as ubiquitous as optical lasers. But, like its predecessor, the pulsed atom laser, a continuous-stream atom laser may someday be used for a variety of applications in fundamental physi... |
the precision and accuracy of atomic clocks and gyroscopes. It could aid in precision measurements of fundamental constants, atom optics and interferometry. A continuous stream laser could do all of these things better than a pulsed atomic laser, said co-author Ananth P. Chikkatur , a physics graduate student at MIT. "... |
for more things than a pulsed laser," he said. In addition to Ketterle and Chikkatur, authors include MIT graduate students Yong-Il Shin and Aaron E. Leanhardt; David F. Kielpinski, postdoctoral fellow in the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE); physics senior Edem Tsikata; MIT affiliate Todd L. Gustavson; and... |
MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and the RLE. A NEW FORM OF MATTER An important step toward the first atom laser was the creation of a new form of matter - the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). BEC forms at temperatures around one millionth of a degree Kelvin, a million times colder than interstellar space. Ketterl... |
the observation of BEC in 1995, first by a group at the University of Colorado at Boulder, then a few months later by Ketterle at MIT. It was for this achievement that researchers from both institutions were honored with the Nobel prize last year. Ketterle and his research team managed to merge a bunch of atoms into wh... |
then used fluctuating magnetic fields to shape the matter-wave into a beam much like a laser. To test the coherence of a BEC, the researchers generated two separate matter-waves, made them overlap and photographed a so-called "interference pattern" that only can be created by coherent waves. The researchers then had pr... |
and BEC have been produced in a pulsed manner, emitting individual pulses of atoms several times per minute. Until now, little progress has been made toward a continuous BEC source. While it took about six months to create a continuous optical laser after the first pulsed optical laser was produced in 1960, the much mo... |
seven years since Ketterle and colleagues first observed BEC in 1995. A NEW CHALLENGE Creating a continuous BEC source involved three steps: building a chamber where the condensate could be stored in an optical trap, moving the fresh condensate and merging the new condensate with the existing condensate stored in the o... |
1998.) The researchers built an apparatus containing two vacuum chambers: a production chamber where the condensate is produced and a "science chamber" around 30 centimeters away, where the condensate is stored. The condensate in the science chamber had to be protected from laser light, which was necessary to produce a... |
laser-cooled atom has enough energy to knock thousands of atoms out of the condensate. In addition, they used an optical trap as the reservoir trap, which is insensitive to the magnetic fields used for cooling atoms into a BEC. The researchers also needed to figure out how to move the fresh condensate - chilled to astr... |
the science chamber without heating them up. This was accomplished using optical tweezers - a focused laser light beam that traps the condensate. Finally, to merge the new condensate with the existing condensate in the science chamber, they moved the new condensate in the tweezers into the science chamber by merging th... |
like a faucet that drips, Chikkatur says the new innovations create a sort of bucket that collects the drips without wasting or changing the condensate too dramatically by heating it. This way, a reservoir of condensate is always on hand to replenish an atom laser. The condensate pulses are like a dripping faucet, wher... |
have now implemented a bucket (our reservoir trap), where we collect these drips to have continuous source of water (BEC)," Chikkatur said. "Although we did not demonstrate this, if we poke a hole in this bucket, we will have a steady stream of water. This hole would be an outcoupling technique from which we can produc... |
here is that we have invented the bucket, which can store atoms continuously and also makes sure that the drips of water do not cause a lot of splashing (heating of BECs)," he said. The next step would be to improve the number of atoms in the source, perhaps by implementing a large-volume optical trap. Another importan... |
condensate merger using a matter wave amplification technique pioneered by the MIT group and a group in Japan, he said. This work is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, the Packard Foundation and NASA. |
Nova Scotia is one of Canada’s three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province of the four in Atlantic Canada. Located almost exactly halfway between the Equator and the North Pole, its provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest province in Canada with an area of 55,284 |
square kilometres (21,300 sq mi), including Cape Breton and some 3,800 coastal islands. As of 2011, the population was 921,727, making Nova Scotia the second-most-densely populated province in Canada. Nova Scotia was already home to the Mi’kmaq people when French colonists established Port Royal, Nova Scotia, the first... |
settlement in North America north of Florida in 1605. Almost one hundred and fifty years later, the first English and German settlers arrived with the founding of Halifax (1749). The first Scottish migration was on the Hector (1773) and then the first Black migration happened after the American Revolution (1783). |
Despite the diversity of the cultural heritage of Nova Scotia, much of the twentieth-century tourism efforts focused primarily on all things Scottish. Many recent tourism efforts embrace and showcase Nova Scotia’s diversity. In 1867 Nova Scotia was one of the three founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation. |
Forth Lesson 0 Why Bother? Forth is weird compared to most popular computer languages. Until you learn how, it is hard to read because it is not based on the syntax of algebraic expressions. But it is worth learning because |
a running Forth system gives you an extraordinary degree of low-level control over the system. Unlike most other programming environments that put up walls to hide or block access to "unauthorized" things, Forth makes it easy to get at anything, |
at any level from low to high. Forth syntax Here is syntactically-valid line of Forth code: this is a test 123 456 Don't try to guess what it does; in fact it doesn't necessarily actually work, because some of the |
symbols might not be defined. But it is syntactically valid. It consists of 6 words, "this" "is" "a" "test" "123" "456". Words are separated by white space - spaces, tabs, and newlines. In most cases, spaces and newlines are the |
Forth implementations limit valid word names to 31 or fewer characters. Left to right execution The Forth interpreter is very simple. It parses the next word (i.e. it skips whitespace, then collects characters until it sees another whitespace character) and |
executes it. That is it in a nutshell. So if you are trying to understand a Forth program in detail, you have to look at each word in turn and work out what it does. That sounds simple, but it |
will trip you up if you insist on looking for algebra. Just go left to right, one word at a time. With practice, you will learn enough of the Forth vocabulary (the meanings of standard words) so that you can |
see what is going on at a glance, without having to puzzle out each individual word. It is just like learning to read - it is tedious until you get the basic vocabulary down, then it is easy. Thus endeth |
Enology - n. :a science that deals with wine and wine making The V&E Department combines the sciences of viticulture and enology in a single research and teaching unit that encompasses all of the scientific disciplines that impact grape growing and winemaking. For over one hundred years the University of California has... |
and education in viticulture and enology. The continuing excellence of the Department has enabled California growers and vintners to develop practices that have allowed the Golden State to achieve its potential and become a premier wine-producing region. Our students are innovators. We prepare our students to advance t... |
& Enology teaches students to think critically, based on an understanding of the sciences that are the foundation of grape growing and winemaking. Our programs are based on a comprehensive preparation in mathematics and statistics, chemistry and biochemistry, microbiology and plant biology. The focus of our coursework ... |
MAGNETITE FeFe2O4 ISOMETRIC Magnetite is a common mineral found at many localities in Wisconsin. Only localities that where the mineral is present in great abundance or as unusual material are listed here. Magnetite occurs as an accessory in most igneous, |
metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, where it is found as small equant, euhedral to rounded grains. It is an abundant heavy mineral in sediments and is usually the major constituent of certain metamorphosed iron formations, where it forms an important ore |
mineral. It is exceptionally common on Wisconsin's iron ranges, such as at Black River Falls, the Gogebic Range in Iron County and in Florence County. Magnetite may also form in high-temperature hydrothermal veins in association with ore minerals such as |
pyrrhotite, sphalerite and galena. Magnetite octahedral crystal in talc schist, Jackson County Iron Mine, near Black River Falls, WI. Crystals is about 5 mm across. ASHLAND COUNTY - Abundant constituent of the iron formation in the Gogebic Range from Mineral |
Lake to Hurley where it is found as small crystals and masses intergrown with siderite, chamosite, stilpomelane, ferrodolomite, chlorite, calcite and quartz. Magnetite is also in actinolite schists associated with the iron formation where it forms small crystals, masses and |
clusters. (Van Hise and Irving, 1892; Huber, 1959; USGS, 1976) Outcrops occur along Ballou Creek (NW NE Sec. 11 T.44N. R.2W). where magnetite occurs with quartz, grunerite, siderite and minnesotaite. Also in outcrop on the west side of Hwy. 13 |
near Mellen (SE NW Sec. 13 T.44N. R.3W.) where it occurs with grunerite, tremolite, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and talc. Also in Penokee Gap (NW NW Sec. 14 T.44N. R.3W.) on the west side of Bad River where it occurs with quartz, |
actinolite, orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene. (Laybourn, 1979). - Magnetite is a major component of the ore at the Berkshire Mine, (SW 1/4 SW 1/4 SE 1/4 Sec. 9 T.44N. R.2W) near Mellen. Associated minerals are quartz, talc, dolomite, grunerite and almandine |
- (Mudrey, 1979, Laybourn, 1979). - Small octahedra of magnetite are found in slatey layers of the Palms Formation west of the Tyler Forks River. Mudrey (1979) suggests this is due to contact metamorphic effects from the Mellen gabbro. - |
With specular hematite and chert at Michigan Mine, 20 km. NE of Butternut, N.42N. R.1E. (USGS, 1976). - At Hanna Mining Co. Test Pit in SW SE Sec. 18 T.44N. R.4W. with clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene and abundant grunerite (Laybourne, 1979). - |
Near Mineral Lake Lookout Tower (NE NE Sec. 24 T.44N. R.4W.) with grunerite, actinolite, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and tremolite. (Laybourne, 1979). - In SE NE Sec. 14 T.44N. R.4W. 20 km. west of Mellen, in hornfels with fayalite, pigeonite, grunerite and |
quartz. (Laybourn, 1979). - Magnetite and ilmenite make up nearly 60% of the rock in drill core through gabbroic rocks near Clam Lake in T.43N. R.4W. (Dugan and Ervin, 1977). CLARK COUNTY: Magnetite occurs with quartz in "thin discontinuous" iron |
formation found in scattered outcrops about 5 km. south of Neillsville (Dutton and Bradley, 1970). FLORENCE COUNTY: Massive magnetite associated with stilpomelane is found with sideritic carbonate and pyritic chert on the dump from the Dunkel exploration shaft and adit |
in sec. 25 T.40N. R.17E. (Dutton, 1971) - Magnetite crystals, partly to completely replaced by hematite ("martite"), occurs in quartzite in the Michigamme Slate in outcrop and small pits in Sec. 31 and 32 T.40N. R.18E. near Commonwealth. The magnetite |
is associated with iron silicates, garnet, chlorite and tourmaline. (Dutton, 1971). - Small magnetite crystals in a grunerite-quartz iron formation within the Michigamme slate is found at SW 1/4 NE 1/4 Sec. 28 T.39N. R.18E. (Dutton, 1971). - Magnetite-grunerite-stilpnomelane-garnet assemblages |
outcrop in the W 1/2 Sec. 26 and in Sec. 35 and 36 T.40N. R.17E. (Dutton, 1971). - Euhedral xls. about 1 mm across are abundant in the Riverton iron formation in Sec. 26, 27, 34 and 35 T.40N. R.17E. |
(Dutton, 1971). IRON COUNTY Magnetite is abundant in the iron formation in the Gogebic Range from Upson to Hurley where it is found as small crystals and masses intergrown with siderite, ferrodolomite, chlorite, calcite and quartz. It is also a |
component of the actinolite schists with the iron formation, where is forms small crystals, masses and clusters intergrown with actinolite and other iron silicates. (Van Hise and Irving, 1892) (Huber, 1959). - Found as small octahedral xls. in chloritic slate |
in sec. 1 T.45N. R.1E. (Van Hise and Irving, 1892). - Magnetite-rich iron formation occurs in the Potato River section (SE SE Sec. 19 T.45N. R.1E.) associated with minnesotaite and stilpnomelane (Laybourne, 1979). - Found as crystals in ore vugs |
at the Montreal Mine, Montreal. (Laybourne, 1979). - Fine-grained laminated rocks with magnetite, siderite, chlorite, minnesotaite, stilpnomelane, specular hematite and quartz are found along the gorge of Tyler Fork (SE 1/4 NE 1/4 Sec. 33 T.45N. R.1W.) (Van Hise and |
Irving, 1892, Laybourn, 1979). - Magnetite occurs with hematite and siderite in the banded iron formation in the Pine Lake area, T.44N. R.3E. (U.S.G.S., 1976). - Magnetite and grunerite occur at the Ford and Lucas Whitside exploration near Butternut in |
sec. 2 and 4 T.41N. R.1E. (Dutton and Bradley, 1970). JACKSON COUNTY Magnetite was the major ore mineral at the Jackson County Iron Mine near Black River Falls (Sec. 15 T.21N. R.3W). It is found as small octahedra and masses |
associated with quartz, cummingtonite, grunerite, ferroactinolite, biotite, hastingsite, hedenburgite and garnet. (Jones, 1978). It also occurs as euhedral octahedra up to 1 cm. in diameter in talc schist. Magnetite partly converted to hematite ("martite") occurs in iron formation on several |
mounds near Black River Falls. Some examples are in NE sec. 12 and SW SE sec. 11 T.21N. R.4W. (Klemic and Ohlson, 1973). MARATHON COUNTY: Magnetite may form up to 10% of some quartz syenite bodies in outcrops and roadcuts |
near the Employer's Mutual Insurance Co. offices (NW SE sec. 27 T.29N. R.7E. , accounting for a magnetic anomaly there. (LaBerge and Myers, 1983). - Coarse magnetite octahedra occur locally in the nepheline syenite of the core zone of the |
Stettin Pluton, with K feldspar, fluorite, zircon, apatite, and a variety of amphiboles and pyroxenes. (LaBerge and Myers, 1983). MARINETTE COUNTY: Magnetite forms up to 10% of the iron formation at the Duval massive sulfide deposit Sec. 2 and 3 |
T.35N. R.18E. and Sec. 28 T.36N. R18E. Here it is associated with grunerite, pyrrhotite and stilpnomelane. (Hollister and Cummings, 1982). - Described as large crystals with serpentine and carbonates in Sec. 21 and 22 T.37N. R.21E. , near Pembine (Sims |
et. al. 1984). ONEIDA COUNTY - Magnetite is a minor component of the Pelican River massive sulfide deposit east of Rhinelander in Sec. 29 T.36N. R.9E., here it formed during metamorphism of the body. (Mudrey, 1979). POLK COUNTY - Magnetite |
is a widespread but minor component of the Keweenawan volcanic rocks exposed throughout the county. - Magnetite is found in masses with gabbroic lenses in the thick lava flow exposed in the north quarry of the Dresser Trap Rock Quarry |
NW 1/4 Sec. 5 and NE 1/4 Sec. 6 T.33N. R.18W. Some lodestone present affects instruments lowered down drill holes in the quarry, causing them to stick to the sides of the holes. (Cordua, 1989b). SAWYER COUNTY: Titaniferous magnetite is |
abundant in gabbro and troctolite in the Round Lake Intrusive east of Hayward (T.41N. R.8W.). The pluton is only poorly exposed. The magnetite occurs with olivine, plagioclase, augite and apatite (Stuhr and Cameron, 1976). WAUPACA COUNTY: Magnetite was reported as |
small crystals in road cuts in pegmatite cutting granite along County G near Keller Lake., NE of Big Falls. (Tom Buchholz, 2002, pers. com.) WOOD COUNTY - Magnetite octahedra occur in talc schist and chlorite schist at the Trowbridge Mine, |
North of Milladore (SW NW Sec. 11 T.25N. R.5E.) (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1963, Crowns, 1976). - Magnetite octahedra occur in talc, chlorite, and tremolite schists at the Something Mine (old Czaikowski property) N. of Milladore in the NE SW |
Sec. 15 T.25N. R.5E. (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1963, Crowns, 1976). - Tiny euhedral to rounded octahedra of magnetite occur in calcite veins and serpentine country rock in excavations on Tower Hill, north of Rudolph. (Buchholz, 1994, pers. comm.). Return |
One of the most significant fault lines in Western culture opened up in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when what we now know as the “modern” world separated itself from the classical and medieval world. The thinking of Descartes, Spinoza, |
Leibniz, Kant, Newton, Jefferson, and many others represented a sea change in the way Western people looked at practically everything. In almost every telling of the story, this development is presented as an unmitigated good. I rather emphatically do not |
subscribe to this interpretation. It would be foolish indeed not to see that tremendous advances, especially in the arenas of science and politics, took place because of the modern turn, but it would be even more foolish to hold that |
modernity did not represent, in many other ways, a severe declension from what came before. This decline is particularly apparent in the areas of the arts and ethics, and I believe that there is an important similarity in the manner |
in which those two disciplines went bad in the modern period. In his classic text After Virtue , the philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre lamented, not so much the immorality that runs rampant in our contemporary society, but something more fundamental and |
in the long run more dangerous; namely, that we are no longer even capable of having a real argument about moral matters. The assumptions that once undergirded any coherent conversation about ethics, he said, are no longer taken for granted |
or universally shared. The result is that, in regard to questions of what is right and wrong, we simply talk past one another, or more often, scream at each other. In his masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh implicitly lays out |
a program of evangelization that has particular relevance to our time. “Brideshead” refers, of course, to a great manor house owned by a fabulously wealthy Catholic family in the England of the 1920’s. In the complex semiotic schema of Waugh’s |
novel, the mansion functions as a symbol of the Catholic Church, which St. Paul had referred to as the “bride of Christ.” Just in advance of Christmas, the film version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit appeared. As I and many |
other commentators have pointed out, Tolkien’s great story, like its more substantive successor The Lord of the Rings , is replete with Catholic themes. On Christmas day itself, another film adaptation of a well-known book debuted, namely Victor Hugo’s Les |
Misérables . Though Hugo had a less than perfectly benign view of the Catholic Church, his masterpiece is, from beginning to end, conditioned by a profoundly Christian worldview. It is most important that, amidst all of the “Les Miz” hoopla, |
the spiritual heart of Hugo’s narrative not be lost. Like Star Wars , The Divine Comedy , and Moby Dick , J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is the story of a hero's journey. This helps to explain, of course, why, like |
Definitely Probably One Definitely Probably One: A Generation Comes of Age Under China's One-Child Policy Had China not imposed its controversial but effective one-child policy a quarter-century ago, its population today would be larger than it presently is by 300 |
million-roughly the whole population of the United States today, or of the entire world around the time of Genghis Khan. The Chinese population-control policy of one child per family is 25 years old this year. A generation has come of |
age under the plan, which is the official expression of the Chinese quest to achieve zero population growth. China's adoption of the one-child policy has avoided some 300 million births during its tenure; without it, the Chinese population would currently |
be roughly 1.6 billion-the number at which the country hopes to stabilize its population around 2050. Many experts agree that it is also the maximum number that China's resources and carrying capacity can support. Standing now at a pivotal anniversary |
of the strategy, China is asking itself, Where to from here? China's struggle with population has long been linked to the politics of national survival. China scholar Thomas Scharping has written that contradictory threads of historical consciousness have struggled to |
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