Acne Treatment for Teens Acne is a skin condition. It includes plugged oil glands (blackheads and whiteheads), pimples and deeper lumps (nodules). Acne occurs on the face, neck, chest, back, shoulders and even the upper arms. It is most often is seen during adolescence but it can occur at any age. During adolescence, acne is caused by an increased amount of, or an increased sensitivity to male hormone levels. Acne cannot be cured, but it can be controlled with medicine and treatment. Treating acne will also help prevent scarring. Learn more Watch the following videos to learn about the causes of acne, skin care tips for teenagers and over-the-counter acne medications.


Get More Out Of Life With Solar A solar system is a great investment for households looking to save money on their electricity bills as well as reduce their carbon footprint. Going solar will reduce a household’s dependency on fossil fuel generated electricity from the grid and allow families to utilise the natural energy of the sun to power homes. It is one of the most sustainable methods of generating electricity and the electricity produced by solar panels generates zero carbon emissions. Most importantly, solar is an unlimited resource unlike most other energy resources, and should be utilised to its maximum capacity.


Pod Cars are automated driverless vehicles that will operate on traditional roadways creating personal rapid transit systems” * use contributes to carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and hydrocarbon emissions * are expensive and if not shared typically are parked for most of there lifetime * uses of cars are for 1-2 people transports * have the technical capability to have small, energy efficient cars * some cases cars with automated drivers are safer than humans * automated shared car system would reduce emissions, decrease grid lock in cities, increase safety, enable faster personalized public transit options, and better utilize vehicles What is your one big idea for cities in 2012? Submit a blog post to firstname.lastname@example.org along with a bio & Pic.


Coia was born in Wolverhampton but grew up in Glasgow. After obtaining a diploma from Glasgow School of Architecture in 1923 he joined the architectural firm of Gillespie, Kidd, and Coia. In the 1930s a series of commissions for Roman Catholic churches cemented Coia's reputation. As the son of an enemy alien, Coia was left vulnerable by the outbreak of war with fascist Italy. He closed his office in 1941, having been elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Coia reopened his office in 1945 and resumed designing churches for the archdiocese of Glasgow. Most of these post-war buildings, however, were severely constrained by limited budgets. During the 1950s Coia's architectural practice expanded and he became a key public figure in Scotland.


Q: Little black bugs are eating the leaves off my corkscrew willow. What can I use to get rid of them? A: Willow leaf beetles are having a feast at your expense! They do great damage to the leaves but rarely kill a willow tree. Adults are oval and have a greenish-blue metallic color. They usually appear in mid-May and are present off and on throughout the summer. Eggs that are laid in early June result in a population explosion a few weeks later. Any insecticide labeled for outdoor use will kill adults and larvae. Look for products containing permethrin, bifenthrin, chlorpyrifos or pyrethrin. Spinosad (Captain Jack’s Dead Bug Brew, etc) or carbaryl (Sevin) are also registered for use on leaf beetles. Spinosad is less toxic; carbaryl is more likely to adversely affect populations of natural enemies or pollinators. Spray when the insects are first seen and repeat in mid-July.


Finally. How plants climb. Tuesday, September 4, 2012 | Categories: Features | Clematis - clever climber. Clever climbing plants could influence building technology. It confounded the great Charles Darwin, but it need confound you no longer. Perhaps you've never given it much thought, but it turns out, it's a pretty sophisticated procedure: science has deduced how climbing plants climb. Sharon Gerbode is the lead author of the study, which is published in the journal, Science. We reached her, via Skype, in Claremont, California.


Oakland school closes achievement gap | Jan 25, 2011 "In public education, closing the 'achievement gap' between students who are poor and middle class, black and white, English learners and native speakers has become a common goal--and a ubiquitous buzzword," writes Katy Murphy on The Oakland Tribune website. "But Oakland's Manzanita SEED Elementary School is doing it," Murphy adds. "And it's doing it more swiftly than almost every other school in the state, by the federal government's calculations." To learn more about the school’s achievement, read the full article.


ascidian: see Chordata; tunicate. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on ascidian from Fact Monster: - Chordata - Chordata Chordata , phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief ... - tunicate - tunicate tunicate , marine animal of the phylum Chordata, which also includes the vertebrates. The ... - Encyclopedia: Vertebrate Zoology - Encyclopeadia articles concerning Vertebrate Zoology.


Western Reserve Heritage Feasibility Study The purpose of the Western Reserve Heritage Feasibility Study is to determine the feasibility of designating the historic Western Reserve of Ohio as a National Heritage Area(NHA). A National Heritage Area is a locally managed place designated by Congress where natural, cultural, historical, and recreational resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally distinctive landscape arising from patterns of human activity shaped by geography. NHAs are built on community partnerships and are planned around a region's shared heritage. The feasibility study was authorized by Congress under 120 STAT. 1846 PUBLIC LAW 109–338, TITLE III—NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA – STUDIES, Subtitle A—Western Reserve Heritage Area Study on OCT. 12, 2006. Study Team Leader Midwest Regional Office Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program


Rough-and-tumble play is when children wrestle, roll, hit, and run after each other (Berk, 2010). It helps to self-regulate aggressive behavior with young children. Boys like to wrestle and hit while girls tend to chase with little physical contact. According to Berk (2010), “dominance hierarchy—a stable ordering of group members that predicts who will win when conflict arises.” There is a hierarchy that is decided by the child assessing their opponent before challenging. Rough play declines when the child gets older and there is less aggression due to self-regulation and dominance hierarchy.


Skip to main content More Search Options A member of our team will call you back within one business day. Headache pain can start in different structures in the head. The brain itself doesn't hurt, but other parts of the head do. Headache is a common symptom of illness, such as a cold or the flu. At other times, headaches occur without seeming to be connected to any illness. Very rarely are headaches a sign of a serious medical problem. Referred pain has its source in one place but is felt in another. For example, pain behind the eyes may actually be caused by tense muscles in the neck and shoulders. This means that the place that hurts may not be the part of the head that needs treatment.


The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park are now believed to have shortened the duration of the Second World War by up to two years. During the dark days of 1941, as Britain stood almost alone against the the Nazis, this remarkable achievement seemed impossible. This extraordinary book, originally published as Action This Day, includes descriptions by some of Britain s foremost historians of the work of Bletchley Park, from the breaking ofEnigma and other wartime codes to the invention of modern computing, and its influence on Cold War codebreaking. Crucially, it features personal reminiscences and very human stories of wartime codebreaking from former Bletchley Park codebreakers themselves. This edition includes new material from one of those who was there, making The Bletchley Park Codebreakers compulsive reading.


So consider the case where there is a particle and a moving telescope: If the particle is located at position 1, and the telescope is moving horizontally as shown, the EM radiation appears to be coming from position 2, from the telescopes perspective. Let us now think of the object 1 as being an electron, producing a static electric field. Now, the telescope will detect the electric field to indeed be at position 1, despite travelling at the horizontal velocity. Why is there such a difference between EM and electric fields.


new(name, utc_offset, tzinfo = nil)public Create a new TimeZone object with the given name and offset. The offset is the number of seconds that this time zone is offset from UTC (GMT). Seconds were chosen as the offset unit because that is the unit that Ruby uses to represent time zone offsets (see Time#utc_offset). # File activesupport/lib/active_support/values/time_zone.rb, line 180 def initialize(name, utc_offset, tzinfo = nil) @name = name @utc_offset = utc_offset @tzinfo = tzinfo end


If distracted drivers and icy sidewalks weren't enough, researchers at the University of Maryland have tracked a new danger for pedestrians: wearing headphones. Closed off to the warning sounds around them, the number of walkers killed or badly injured in crashes in the US tripled from 16 in 2004 to 47 in 2011. It's a small sample, but suggests strolling to your favorite artist's rhythm is unsafe. In a number of the 116 crashes reviewed, motorists blared their car horns as a warning. The web site Healthjockey.com analyzed the important factors at play: distraction and sensory deprivation. Walkers with headphones create an attention deficit. It's reasonable to think that runners and bicyclists create the same hazzard when they are tuned in and tuned out.


POSEIDONAS CAVE that occupies the site known as "Myli" constitutes a monumental rock-cut tomb or sanctuary. This particular type was very common in the Eastern Aegean Sea. Certain traces suggest the existence of a wooden cover at the cave entrance. The cave was probably a sanctuary dedicated to Aphrodite, a very popular goddess with the lower social class. Statuettes of the goddess have been found in Pigadia. In all probability, the open-air sanctuary of the goddess stood in Parthenos Cave, 2 km away, in the area of Vathypotamos. The cave has been eroded over time due to its continuous and extensive use by shepherds.


Manta rays spend their lives in the ocean, sweeping up microscopic animals. And yet scientists have found that their well-being depends on forests. Meadows in the northwestern United States are ecologically linked to salmon thousands of miles out at sea. Today, I’ve got a piece in Yale Environment 360 in which I explore the bonds that join land and sea together. Check it out. Links to this Post - Darwiniana » The Vital Chain: Why Manta Rays Need Forests | May 18, 2012


river 420 miles (676 kilometers) cen Idaho flowing into Snake River Name that originally referred to the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and now also refers to six species of Pacific salmon (genus Oncorhynchus, family Salmonidae): chum, chinook, pink, and sockeye salmon; coho; and the cherry salmon (O. masu) of Japan. Adult salmon live at sea, then migrate, fighting rapids and leaping high falls, to the stream where they hatched to spawn. Pacific salmon die soon after spawning; many Atlantic salmon live to spawn again. See alsotrout.


Published in Blood Weekly, April 8th, 1996 Three GBV viruses - GBV-A, GBV-B, and GBV-C - have recently been identified. In January 1996 hepatitis X, a long-awaited agent referred to informally for several months at scientific meetings, was designated hepatitis G or HGV (Linnen et al., Science, 1996;271:505-509). "Isolation of the GB viruses A and B as novel flavivirus-like agents in tamarins infected originally with acute icteric hepatitis, facilitated the identification... Want to see the full article? Welcome to NewsRx! Learn more about a six-week, no-risk free trial of Blood Weekly NewsRx also is available at LexisNexis, Gale, ProQuest, Factiva, Dialog, Thomson Reuters, NewsEdge, and Dow Jones.


14 Answers votes newest views recent 5Geometric Interpretations of Homotopy Theoretical Constructions 2Topology on extensions of topological groups 1LaTeX based document editors 2What is the proper initiation to the theory of motives for a new student of algebraic geometry? 5A Learning Roadmap request: From high-school to mid-undergraduate studies 0Learning to Think Categorically 41What should be offered in undergraduate mathematics that’s currently not (or isn’t usually)? (2) 5What is lambda calculus related to? 1Why is it a good idea to study a ring by studying its modules? 2How are invariants represented in category theory? 1The importance of EGA and SGA for “students of today” 0“A gentleman never chooses a basis.” 20Free, high quality mathematical writing online? 27Best online mathematics videos?


Yellowknife, home to the 2008 Arctic Winter Games, is the capital city of the Northwest Territories in Canada, just 500 km south of the Arctic Circle. It lies on the shores of the Great Slave Lake, west of the Yellowknife River, in the Mackenzie District. The city has a semi-arid sub artic climate, with an average temperature of 26°C. As it lies in the rain shadow of mountains in the west, it receives less than 300 mm of precipitation in a year. January and February are the coldest, snow-filled months with the thermometer settling at –40°C. Yellowknife has a population of nearly 20,000 people. It gets its name from the Yellowknives tribe that used to be widespread in the region. The city has a flourishing diamond and gold mining industry which has substantially contributed to its commercial revenue. Your contribution can be useful for other tourists


Every day, twice a day, over 800 weather balloons are launched around the world at exactly the same time. The data transmitted from these radiosondes is received by government agencies and shared with climatologists and meteorologist to develop climate models and predect the weather. Near [Carl]‘s native Auckland, a weather balloon is launched twice a day, and since they transmit at 403 MHz, he decided to use a USB TV tuner to receive data directly from an atmospheric probe. The hardware portion of this project consisted of building a high gain antenna designed for 162 MHz. Even though the radiosonde transmits at 403 MHz, [Carl] was easily able to receive on his out-of-band antenna.


Make Clay Letters What you need: What you do: 1. Write a few letters of the alphabet on a piece of paper, at least three inches tall. 2. Roll lumps of clay into long, thin pieces. 3. Help your child form the strips of clay into letters, using the written letters as a guide. Why it works: Your child becomes familiar with creating the shapes of letters. More on: Reading and Language Arts


Creeping Charlie, ground ivy or gill-over-the-ground (Glechoma hederacea) Appearance: Perennial herbaceous plant with creeping square stems (indicates member of the mint family) that grow about 2' long, flowering stems are erect. Leaves: Opposite, long stalked and bluntly toothed, bright green and shiny with palmate veins. Flowers: Light blue to bluish-purple, tubular, directed to one side of the stem. They bloom from April to June. Seeds: Small flat nutlets. Roots: Roots grow from each leaf node that creeps along the soil surface spreading vegetatively as well.


Carbohydrate is an essential nutrient that is an excellent source of energy (measured as calories) for the body and is the preferred fuel for the brain and nervous system. All forms of carbohydrate increase a person's blood sugar level, depending on the amount of carbohydrate in the food. Carbohydrate comes in two forms: starch and sugar. eMedicineHealth Medical Reference from Healthwise To learn more visit Healthwise.org Find out what women really need. Most Popular Topics Pill Identifier on RxList - quick, easy, Find a Local Pharmacy - including 24 hour, pharmacies


One of the Gorgons, and the only one who was mortal. Her gaze could turn whoever she looked upon to stone. There is a particular myth in which Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden. She desecrated Athena's temple by lying there with Poseidon. Outraged, Athena turned Medusa's hair into living snakes. Medusa was killed by the hero Perseus with the help of Athena and Hermes. He killed her by cutting of her head and gave it to Athena, who placed it in the center of her Aegis, which she wore over her breastplate.


This lesson is based on the pointillist technique used by artists such as Andre Derain and Georges Seurat. It introduces the pupils to a different way of painting and includes aspects of colour mixing. Pupils look at a picture painted using this technique and study parts in detail. They then have the opportunity to create their own picture using the pointillist technique and apply previous knowledge of colour mixing to this. Practical activities are then suggested to follow up the activity in groups. Interactive whiteboard activity Download lesson pack Please save and then extract this file to your hard drive first before trying to use.


Learn more physics! as we look into our telescopes, we are looking into the past, so then, theoritically we could someday build a telescope which would see so far back that we could observe the creation of the universe! why not? We can get pretty close. The cosmic microwave background radiation has been travelling pretty much undisturbed since a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. Thatís about 13 billion years ago. It lets us see back to that era. Earlier times have to be inferred from less direct measurements, since most other particles bounced off others sometime in between then and now, scrambling the picture. (published on 11/29/2007) Follow-up on this answer.


Crop circles in rapeseed fields A crop circle measuring some 300 feet diameter has appeared in a field of oil seed rape near Wilton Windmill in Wiltshire. Lucy Pringle, crop circle researcher and author said: "I believe it contains binary. Working from the centre outwards, people are suggesting it has a connection to Leonhard Eulers theorem e^(i)pi+1=0 which is thought to be one of the most beautiful theorems in mathematics. Historically over the years, crop circles have been associated with diatonic scales (white notes on the piano). These diatonic scale frequencies are encoded in each segment of the crop circle and can be played on the piano. This is a unique formation incorporating both music and mathematics and is similar in importance to the famous 2008 Barbury Castle Pi event"


Question: How does a family history of autism affect the risk of my child developing an autism spectrum disorder? Answer: A family history of autism does slightly increase the risk of having another child with autism. This is greatest when a couple has a child with autism and they're considering having further children. Baby boys are at much greater risk than girls for reasons that we don't fully understand. While the risk of having a child with autism is increased significantly over the general population if there's already one child with autism, it is still far more likely that a subsequent child will not have autism than that they will have autism. The great majority of families affected by autism have only a single affected child. The risks are lower if there's a more distant relative, such as a cousin or uncle affected with autism.


Traditional solar cells are able to capture only a small fraction of the energy that fall upon them. In this segment, we'll talk with the developers of flexible sheets of 'nanoantennas' that could aid in getting energy from solar energy or from other heat sources. Repeating arrays of tiny gold foil loops coated on plastic sheets could harvest up to 80 percent of the infrared light that fall upon them, according to scientists involved with the project. The researchers say the material has the potential to cost just pennies a yard -- though a key part of the technology, a method for storing or transmitting the generated electricity, remains to be developed. We'll find out more. Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer


Gerontology: The Study of Aging and Older Adults As the elderly population in the United States continues to grow, there is a corresponding increase in the need to prepare a workforce with the appropriate knowledge, skills and values. Some students are preparing for careers that will bring them in direct contact with older adults in health and human services, government, business, or education. Others may have less direct contact but, because older adults represent a large and growing segment of the population, students in every major will benefit from an understanding of the interests, abilities and needs of older adults. The gerontology program will not only introduce students to the study of aging and the aged, it will provide opportunities for experiential learning, including research training, internships and community service placements working with the elderly.


On the afternoon of August 1, 1936, some 100,000 spectators filled the new Olympic Stadium in Berlin to watch the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympic Games. The next day, Deutsche Reichspost (the German federal postal system) began broadcasting television coverage of events to 18 receivers set up in halls around the city including at the Olympic Village. By the time the games ended, some 70 hours of track & field competitions had been televised. At about the same time and on a more regular basis, the Reichspost was offering "video phone" services to customers at some post offices in Berlin and other major cities like Leipzig. The outbreak of the war in 1939 terminated both of these projects. Anyone able to give us more information and details about the televising of the 1936 Olympics?


It was and still is difficult to do fine stitching in poor light. Before modern lighting was available most quilting was done in the daylight, outside if possible. A good deal of quilting was done in the summer due to longer daylight hours. Farm women may have been too busy to quilt during planting and harvest time but they quilted when they could find the time in the lighter months. Sometimes the quilting frame was brought outdoors in good weather so the quilters could enjoy the good light. More likely women worked on things like mending and knitting when the light was too poor to do careful hand stitching. Yet the quilting by the fireside myth persists along with the myth of Colonial quilting. Hand Quilting History: Gathering Around the Frame Learn more about the kinds of quilting frames used in the past.


Most Active Stories Fri February 10, 2012 Mother and Daughter Team Campaign Against Bullies McCracken County's Susan Guess and her daughter Morgan have a message for bullies: enough is enough. Through videos and posts on social media sites Susan and Morgan are getting the word out on the dangers of bullying and how to stop it. They've even raised money to bring in speakers to talk with local civic groups about bullying. Susan says everyone can be a victim of bullying, even adults. She says she's been concerned about bullying in schools for several years, but found a renewed interest in the subject when she found out here daughter was being bullied at her elementary school. Susan says she thinks it's time to stop blaming schools for the bullying, and start making it socially unacceptable. To view one of Susan's video posts click here.


1an object used to indicate a position, place, or route:they erected a granite marker at the crash site [as modifier]:marker posts figurativethe most portable marker of class privilege, the wearing of natural fibers a thing serving as a standard of comparison or as an indication of what may be expected:such studies may provide a unique marker in the quest to understand the brain a radio beacon used to guide the pilot of an aircraft. North American informal a promissory note; an IOU:Phyllis owed a marker in the neighborhood of $100,000 2a felt-tip pen with a broad tip. 3(chiefly in soccer) a player who is assigned to mark a particular opponent. 4British a person who records the score in a game, especially in snooker or billiards.


At present, local human activities (overfishing and destructive fishing, marine-based pollution and damage, coastal development, and watershed-based pollution) threaten an estimated 60 percent of the world’s reefs (75 percent when including thermal stress). Without intervention, these pressures have trajectories slated to escalate into the future. By the 2030s, our estimates predict that more than 90 percent of the world’s reefs will be threatened by local human activities, warming, and acidification, with nearly 60 percent facing high, very high, or critical threat levels. By the 2050s, estimates predict that almost no reefs will be under low threat and only about one-quarter will be under medium threat, with the remaining 75 percent at a high, very high, or critical threat levels. View Large Size


<language, parallel> An object-oriented, data-parallel superset of ANSI C with synchronous semantics, for the Connection Machine, designed by Thinking Machines, 1987. C* adds a "domain" data type and a selection statement for parallel execution in domains. An unimplemented language called "Parallel C" [which one?] influenced the design of C*. Dataparallel-C was based on C*. Latest version: 6.x, as of 1993-07-27. ["C*: An Extended C Language for Data Parallel Programming", J.R. Rose et al, Proc Second Intl Conf on Supercomputing, L.P. Kartashev et al eds, May 1987, pp 2-16]. ["C* Programming Manual", Thinking Machines Corp, 1986]. Try this search on Wikipedia, OneLook, Google Nearby terms: C « C# « (c) « C* » C++ » C+- » C+@


Researchers at Northwestern University have found that normal-weight people who develop Type 2 diabetes have a higher mortality rate than overweight or obese people who develop the disease. Although weight is one of the factors that puts a person at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, family history, ethnicity and age may also play a role. Since normal-weight people only account for 5 to 15 percent of new diabetes cases, not much is known about how the disease affects this under-studied group. Source: CBS News. Read full article. (link)


Published in Virus Weekly, August 8th, 2000 "Recently, a new paramyxovirus, now known as Nipah virus (NV), emerged in Malaysia and Singapore, causing fatal encephalitis in humans and a respiratory syndrome in pigs," B.H. Harcourt and others in the Center's Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Branch reported in the journal Virology. At first glance, the new virus appeared to be both antigenically and genetically related to the previously identified... Want to see the full article? Welcome to NewsRx! Learn more about a six-week, no-risk free trial of Virus Weekly NewsRx also is available at LexisNexis, Gale, ProQuest, Factiva, Dialog, Thomson Reuters, NewsEdge, and Dow Jones.


Definition of collaring p. pr. & vb. n. - of Collar 2 The word "collaring" uses 9 letters: A C G I L L N O R. Direct anagrams of collaring: Words formed by adding one letter before or after collaring (in bold), or to acgillnor in any order: r - corralling All words formed from collaring by changing one letter Browse words starting with collaring by next letter


Growing up in Scotland (GUS): the impact of children's early activities on cognitive development summary report The Growing Up in Scotland study (GUS) is an important longitudinal research project aimed at tracking the lives of a cohort of Scottish children from the early years, through childhood and beyond. The study is funded by the Scottish Government and carried out by the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen). Its principal aim is to provide information to support policy-making, but it is also intended to be a broader resource that can be drawn on by academics, voluntary sector organisations and other interested parties. Focusing initially on a cohort of 5,217 children aged 0-1 years old and a cohort of 2,859 children aged 2-3 years old, the first wave of fieldwork began in April 2005.


Marsala Sister (ca. 240 BCE) Less than one percent of the hull and no cargo was found on this wreck, located close to the Punic ship above. Its dating comes solely from that proximity. It is generally assumed that this was part of a merchant galley or warship. The outstanding features of these remains are the two tusk-like timbers that curved upward beyond the stem. They were probably part of a very elaborate bow structure for a ram or cutwater. 1 1. Richard Steffy, INA Shipdata Project, Texas A&M University.


- Rodentia -this order contains between 2000 and 3000 species of rodent—roughly half of all mammal species. - Lagomorpha -this order contains Leporidae (hares and rabbits) and Ochotonidae (pikas). - Scandentia -this order contains the family Tupaiidae, the tree shrews. - Primates -this order contains lemurs, monkeys and apes (including humans). - Dermoptera - this order is small, containing Colugos, arboreal gliding mammals found in South-east Asia. Formerly known as flying lemurs, there are just two species in a single genus, which makes up the entire family Cynocephalidae.


Computer-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery Computer-assisted surgery is designed to help the orthopedic surgeon in minimally invasive and traditional knee replacement procedures. This surgery uses powerful digital imaging and information-processing systems that provide surgeons in-depth information when it matters most: during surgery. Specifically, the system assists the surgeon in properly aligning the implants, which increases surgical accuracy. Computer-assisted surgery provides surgeons with an even higher degree of accuracy and control than ever before, and can help reduce your pain and recovery time.


Summary: Need help learning German? Is grammar a problem? Thousands of students like you have found the solution in the clear, simple text of English Grammar for Students of German. This easy-to-use handbook is specifically designed to teach you the English grammar you need in order to learn German grammar more quickly and efficiently. Look at the features of what you'll find in a typical section: * an explanation of a concept as it app ...show morelies to English * a presentation of the same concept as it applies to German * the similarities and differences between the two languages, stressing common pitfalls for English speakers * step-by-step instructions on how to select the correct form * review exercises with answer key More prices and sellers below.


On July 4, 1862, a young mathematician by the name of Charles Dodgson, better-known as Lewis Carroll, boarded a boat with a small group, setting out from Oxford to the nearby town of Godstow, where the group was to have tea on the river bank. The party consisted of Carroll, his friend Reverend Robinson Duckworth, and the three little sisters of Carroll's good friend Harry Liddell—Edith (age 8), Alice (age 10), and Lorina (age 13). To entertain the children, Dodgson fancied a story about a whimsical world full of fantastical characters, and named his protagonist Alice. Alice Liddell loved the story so she asked Dodgson to write it down for her, which he did when he soon sent her a manuscript under the title of Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Alice in Wonderland was always my favorite story. Now I know why.


Why were the statues on Easter Island built? No one is sure. What is sure is that over 800 large stone statues exist there. The Easter Island statues, stand, on the average, over twice as tall as a person and have over 200 times as much mass. Few specifics are known about the history or meaning of the but many believe that they were created about 500 years ago in the of local leaders of a lost civilization. Pictured above, some of the giants were illuminated in 2009 under the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy.


Of or pertaining to geography. Geographical distribution. See Distribution. Geographic latitude (of a place), the angle included between a line perpendicular or normal to the level surface of water at rest at the place, and the plane of the equator; differing slightly from the geocentric latitude by reason of the difference between the earth's figure and a true sphere. Geographical mile. See Mile. Geographical variation, any variation of a species which is dependent on climate or other geographical conditions. Origin: L. Geographicus, Gr., cf. F. Geographique. (01 Mar 1998) |Bookmark with:||word visualiser||Go and visit our forums|


Apache processes requests in phases (e.g. read the request, parse headers, check access, etc.). These phases can be implemented by functions called handlers. Traditionally, handlers are written in C and compiled into Apache modules. Mod_python provides a way to extend Apache functionality by writing Apache handlers in Python. For a detailed description of the Apache request processing process, see the Apache API Notes, as well as the Mod_python - Integrating Python with Apache paper. To ease migration from CGI, a standard mod_python handler is provided that simulates the CGI environment allowing a user to run legacy scripts under mod_python with no changes to the code (in most cases).


Downloads for Solar Electricity Our sun provides us with an abundance of clean and renewable solar energy. Solar energy can be converted into electricity by utilizing proven and robust technologies. With increased awareness of the environmental, health, and security impacts related to the burning of fossil fuels, it's clear that generating more of our electricity from solar energy is becoming a wiser choice every day. Recently Added Downloads San Francisco is habitat for 800,000 people – meeting needs for space to work, play, and learn; for food, water, and air; for community with local flora and fauna. SF Environment provides support for urban agriculture and forestry and green buildings, helping residents and businesses harness environmental opportunities.


A normal probability curve shows the theoretical shape of a normally distributed histogram. The shape of the normal probability curve is based on two parameters: mean (average) and standard deviation (sigma). The equation behind the normal probability curve itself is fairly complex, but defect-rate predictions for Six Sigma projects are made easily by using normal probability tables (commonly known as z-tables – see the PPM calculator and z-table Excel files on our excel templates page). The example below shows a a normal probability curve, fit to a histogram using statistical software. In the DMAIC world, normal distributions are used for making predictions and conducting certain hypothesis tests. The 3.4 DPM rate associated with Six Sigma processes is based on the normal distribution curve.


Have you ever looked at the man-made materials around you and wondered how they came to be? One of Chemistry's most exciting attributes is its ability to affect how individual substances bond and interact to create new materials. Chemistry contains the inventors or inventions that have contributed to the understanding, use and science of chemical substances and their transformation including their composition, structure and properties.


The Disease Process of Cancer According to the most widely accepted theory of cancer development, cancer originates in a single cell somewhere in the body. The cell divides and grows in the organ of origin, causing a localized tumor. Cancer cells then spread to adjacent tissues or regional lymph node drainage areas, and then advance to distant organs or structures, creating metastatic tumors. Cancer can spread directly from the organ of origin through the bloodstream into distant organs without involving adjacent organs and regional lymph nodes. Many cancers go through a matured course, advancing in tumor size or involvement to regional nodal involvement and eventually to distant metastasis. Small tumors can metastasize, with the first sign of the cancer being the metastasis.


Art by Mark Hallett Oviraptor has a reputation it doesn't deserve. Discovered in 1923 in the Gobi in Mongolia, its first known fossil lay on a nest of fossil eggs thought to belong to Protoceratops. Scientists called the toothless, beaked theropod "egg thief," assuming it had been stealing from Protoceratops nests. What's wrong with this picture? Everything, says evidence from the past decade. "Now we know Oviraptor was brooding its own eggs," says Catherine Forster, a paleontologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. "Paleontologists have found several more Oviraptors squatting over similar nests, with their forearms spread protectively around the nest just like birds." The clincher? Eggs from some nests in the group held 80-million-year-old Oviraptor embryos.


BE FOOD SMART: CFI's Six Safe Food Practices The best way to ensure safe food is to prevent food from becoming contaminated. People can help reduce – but not eliminate – the risk of foodborne illness by following CFI’s Six Safe Food Practices. CFI's first 5 safe food practices are based on the World Health Organization's Five Keys to Safer Food. CFI has also added a 6th practice -- report foodborne illness -- so that researchers can increase their understanding about the sources, trends, health outcomes and preventive strategies related to foodborne disease. Food safety is everyone’s responsibility! Eat safe! Eat Smart! - Use safe water and food - Report foodborne illness Please read our detailed CFI's Six Safe Food Practices document.


Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. A composition of chlorate of potash and antimony, which readily ignites by friction. “A friction-primer consists of a tube charged with gunpowder, to the top of which is fastened a spur containing friction-powder, which is exploded by means of a slider pulled out by a lanyard.” ‘friction-powder’ hasn't been added to any lists yet. Looking for tweets for friction-powder.


Now Playing:Aerial video Japan's mega-quake near nuclear plant center Description: Japanese Prime Minister Naota Kan is telling people living near a crippled nuclear power plant to stay indoors. Kan went on NHK Television in Japan today to warn people of the dangers of being exposed to elevated radiation levels. He says radiation has spread from four reactors of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan following Friday's 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami. And, he says, there's a threat of further leaks of radioactive substances. Some 70000 people living within 12 miles of the nuclear plant already have been evacuated. But another 140000 remain in the new warning zone of within 19 miles of the plant. The prime minister says engineers are working hard to prevent any further radioactive leaks or explosions.


Dust and ash plumes off California Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC October’s massive wildfires in Southern California stripped the ground of the vegetation that holds dirt in place. The freshly exposed soil and the overlying ashes are vulnerable to winds, as this true color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image shows. Here, a tan plume of dust and ash is blowing over the Pacific Ocean and San Clemente Island. In this image, newly burned areas are dark brown against the tan of the surrounding land. The sprawling grey patch along the coast is Los Angeles. Beneath the dust plume, a smaller grey area is the city of San Diego. The dust is clearly coming from the burn scar left by the Cedar fire near San Diego. The Terra satellite captured this image on November 27, 2003.


|Product #: TCR3999| Ancient History Readers' Theater Grd 5 & up Why use Readers' Theater in history classes? The format gives students a sense of involvement with the human dramas that make up history. Performers can relate to the tension of a young married couple escaping from slavery to freedom. They can imagine the terror of wading through the water at Omaha Beach as bullets strike their buddies. They can visualize Hugh Glass crawling across rocks and cactus on his 100 mile journey to safety. Each of 15 scripts is accompanied by background information, extension activities (including literature connections), and discussion questions. Submit a review


valence electronArticle Free Pass valence electron, any of the fundamental negatively charged particles in the outermost region of atoms that enters into the formation of chemical bonds. Whatever the type of chemical bond (ionic, covalent, metallic) between atoms, changes in the atomic structure are restricted to the outermost, or valence, electrons. They are more weakly attracted to the positive atomic nucleus than are the inner electrons and thus can be shared or transferred in the process of bonding with adjacent atoms. Valence electrons are also involved in the conduction of electric current in metals and semiconductors. What made you want to look up "valence electron"? Please share what surprised you most...


The name “cottonmouth” is from the whitish lining of its mouth. When alarmed, it opens its mouth widely, showing the cotton-white lining. The body is black with little or no pattern or dark brown with darker bands on the back. Belly is dark brown or black. Young cottonmouths are patterned something like a copperhead and usually have a yellowish-green tail. Like all venomous snakes in Missouri, cottonmouths have a hole between the nostril and the eye, and the pupils are vertical, like a cat’s.


by Ben Chapman Below is the infosheet and highlights: - Storing low-acid foods in a jar and sealing them without either acidifying or processing using pressure creates the ideal conditions for toxin formation. - Tested recipes and directions for safe canning can be found at the National Center for Home Food Preservation: - In 1977, 59 patrons of a Detroit Mexican restaurant became ill with botulism after consuming improperly canned peppers after restaurant staff put lightly-cooked peppers and water in jars and sealed them. - Low acid foods (pH greater than 4.6) like beets cannot be safely canned using a boiling water bath unless acidified according to a tested recipe. Click here to download. © 2012 US Food Safety Corporation. No copyright claim is made for portions of this blog and linked items that are works of the United States Government, state governments or third parties


Most Active Stories Tue February 5, 2013 Michigan veggie crop relatively unscathed last year LANSING, MI (AP)-- The Michigan Farm Bureau says the state's vegetable crops suffered only minor damage from bad weather last year, unlike the heavy losses to fruit, corn and hay. The group says statistics released last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that vegetable production in Michigan was down about 2 percent in 2012 from the previous year, while the combined value of the vegetable crop rose by 3 percent. The numbers are based on harvests of a dozen consumer staples, such as asparagus, snap beans, cabbage, carrots, squash and tomatoes. Statewide production of most vegetable crops decreased slightly, but celery and sweet corn output rose. Fruit crops such as cherries and apples were devastated last year by an early spring thaw, followed by a deep freeze that killed buds.


Strep throat is caused by Group A Streptococcus bacteria. It is the most common bacterial infection of the throat. Pharyngitis - streptococcal; Streptococcal pharyngitis Strep throat is most common in children between age 5 and 15, although anyone can get it. Strep throat is spread by person-to-person contact with nasal secretions or saliva. It commonly spreads among family or household members.


Your child will discover furry and fuzzy animals in this gentle introduction to the wonderful world of mammals. Journey through a rainbow of colors in the animal kingdom as your child discovers the many patterns and shades of the natural world. Animals can move in ways people can only dream of--birds soar above the treetops, monkeys swing from branch to branch. Learn how gorillas knuckle-walk, snakes slither, and rabbits hop in this fun-filled exploration of animal movement. We will find out how animals use their special senses to help them survive and compare their senses to our own. Sizing the Seas Explore aquatic life both big and small as we learn about creatures of the sea. Due to the nature of marine life, this program is only available at the Zoo.


Search within this Book: Guide to Language Network ClassZone Power Presentation Answer Key Professional Development Articles Online Lesson Planner Parts of speech. Subject-verb agreement. Sentence structure. You've learned the basics; now, put your skills to the test! Still have questions? Get answers from the experts on key concepts. Click on a resource below to get started. Media Literacy Links Test Preparation Links Speaking and Listening Links Copyright © 1995-2008 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.


The Brisbane Times reports that Australian scientists have used a new supercomputer to simulate the movement of the virus that causes the common cold. The breakthrough opens up new targets for potentially life-saving drug treatments. The deputy director of St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Professor Michael Parker, said he and his team had been working with the pharmaceutical company Biota Holdings to understand the rhinovirus, in an effort to develop a new drug to treat it in vulnerable people. If you consider a virus as an organism, this is the first simulation of a whole organism, which is pretty exciting,” he said. His team had used Melbourne’s synchrotron microscope to look at the three-dimensional structure of the virus and the supercomputer to show how the virus moves. Read the Full Story.


ACCOUNTING TERMS - ACCOUNTING DICTIONARY - ACCOUNTING GLOSSARY From the web's #1 provider of financial analysis / ratio analysis VALUE ADDED TAX Definition VALUE ADDED TAX is a consumption tax where taxes are levied at each step of a manufacturing process where value is added to that product at that point in the manufacturing cycle; as well as at the point where the consumer purchases the end product. Learn new Accounting Terms FULL COSTING see ABSORPTION COSTING. MARKET ANAMOLY is a persistent and systematic differential of returns that cannot be accounted for by systematic risk factors, i.e. it is an inexplicable price distortion on a market.


Baltimore with a Dusting of Snow While traveling to the International Space Station aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor, astronauts photographed the northeastern United States blanketed in fresh snow. This image, taken in early December 2002, shows the city of Baltimore, and the surrounding area. An inset shows the center of the city (rotated so north points up). Astronauts routinely track weather phenomena on Earth, and use their onboard cameras to document their observations. Ground support in the Earth Observations Lab at the Johnson Space Center also track weather events world wide as part of the image planning activities, and alert the crews to significant events such as winter storm systems. This image originally appeared on the Earth Observatory. Click here to view the full, original record.


It's known that our solar system has always had four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Now, astronomers claim to have found evidence which suggests that the solar system might have a fifth giant planet, which was mysteriously knocked out into deep space. Computer simulations by researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, showed that it is statistically extremely unlikely that the solar system began with four giants. By their calculations, it only had a 2.5 per cent chance of reaching its current population and orbital layout with four giants, but was 10 times more likely to have developed to its present state if there was a fifth monster body in the mix, The Daily Mail reported. To reach this conclusion, the researchers ran 6,000 simulations of the solar system's birth.


SmartDraw includes thousands of professional-looking diagrams like this that you can easily edit and make your own. Text in this example: The Essentials of Fire. Air: Any Surface trying to burn needs Oxygen to ignite. Fuel: The most common type of fuel is wood. combined with heat and oxygen, fuel should ignite. Heat: Heat provided by the smaller fuel should allow item to ignite. FIRE


Cultural heritage is generally associated with archives, works of art, places of worship and monuments. But it also exists in less tangible forms: language, music and dance, festivities, rituals and traditional craftsmanship. Cultural heritage is important to the identity of a society. In times of need, songs, writings and works of art can be a beacon of hope and comfort. Cultural heritage reinforces cultural and historical self-awareness. Monuments and art treasures make a shared past visible and thus strengthen inter-cultural ties. In this section you will find news stories and articles on cultural heritage, that were published on the Power of Culture website between 2003 and 2010. More recent articles from our network you'll find on our Facebook page.


"Getting Moore from Solar Cells" by David J. Norris and Eray S. Aydil, Science 2012, 238, 625. After describing some new and interesting materials for solar cells, the authors state: "Although this sounds exotic, these materials are known to behave like semiconductors, allowing them to absorb the sunlight and create electrons"At the risk of sounding pedantic, electrons are not created--nor are they destroyed. They are there in the dark in the beginning, and they are still there after the lights go out. The electrons are merely excited by the light. Photons knock up electrons and then leave the seen.


Name: Regina M. I would like to try to propagate pine trees with a group of students (grades 3 to 5). We are located in South Jersey. The pine trees around the school are mostly White Pine and Scotch Pine. *I also have a bag of pine cones (I think they are Loblolly) that I just collected from a park in Delaware. Do you think we could be successful at this in a classroom setting? (We have a Grow Lab) Where exactly are the seeds on the pine cone? I can not seem to figure that part out?


Organisers of the International Barcode of Life conference, in Adelaide this week, plan to use miniature DNA decoding devices to answer the question: “What species is that?” Conference co-chair and director of the Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity at the University of Adelaide, Professor Andrew Lowe, says this is one of the most exciting developments in genomics. “You point this thing at an alien species and it tells you all about it. That’s where we want to get to … maybe in five years, which is really neat.” By 2015 scientists expect to have a reference library of five million standardised DNA sequences they can use to identify 500,000 species, which is more than a quarter of all known species on Earth. They would take a sample and then compare it with the sequences in the database, looking for a match.


Last weekend, the night sky was illuminated in New York by two twin beams of light shining upward from Lower Manhattan. The 9/11 “Tribute in Light” memorial is in its ninth year. The rays, which are made up of more than 40 xenon light bulbs, are the strongest shafts of light ever projected from Earth into the night sky. Each year, they evoke the shape of the Twin Towers beginning at dusk on September 11 and fading with the dawn on September 12. Each year, they honor the victims of the terrorist attacks of 2001 and illuminate the sky as a silent, symbolic tribute. The Municipal Art Society sponsors the display each year. For more information, see the New York Times article.


Mary MacKillop was an early adopter of education methods, and her modern sisters are early adopters of computing technology. If you wander into the Mary MacKillop museum next to her shrine in North Sydney, you will find a large table-top screen, a unique nexus of computing design. You can manipulate images 360 degrees (for a class gathered around), you can access historic documents and information in surprising ways, delving into the finest detail of who Mary MacKillop was. This is one saint who, through the mysteries of modern computing science, we can know in great detail - someone who can be really known as a person. St Mary of the Cross is a saint who can be accessed through the touch screen. This is spirituality of the most practical kind. This program, though broadcast last weekend, can be dowloaded from the ABC website.


In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered The Americas. This is how the Europeans learned that North America and South America were there. The Europeans colonized the Americas. Because of this, most people now living in North America are the descendents of Europeans. Sometimes, science fiction stories talk about humans colonizing outer space on space stations or planets other than Earth. Some science fiction stories like The Matrix speak of the robots the human beings made, taking over, and colonizing Earth.


Step 7: Remove, Dry, and Finish the Gourd A plaster mold adheres to the gourd more tenaciously and usually the mold is destroyed in the course of removing it from around the gourd. The gourd is then allowed to dry slowly, and the outer coating called the "cuticle" is removed. Then the finishing steps, if any, are done. On this gourd, the details of the face and hair were then traced with the point of a jade knife to enhance the detail, It was dyed with dark tea, and a coat of varnish was applied to make it shiny.


Drury - Meaning of Drury [ 2 syll. dru-ry, dr-ury ] The baby boy name Drury is also used as a girl name. It is pronounced as DRUWRiy †. Drury is largely used in the English language and its origin is Old French. The name is of the meaning friendship. Its meaning is derived from the element 'druerie'. Drury has 11 variants. Variants include Drewrea, Drewree, Drewrey, Drewri, Drewrie, Drewry, Drurea, Druree, Drurey, Druri, and Drurie. Drury is infrequently used as a baby name for boys. It is not listed in the top 1000 names. † Pronunciation for Drury: D as in "day (D.EY)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"


Internet-linked history encyclopedias Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece - A fascinating guide to Ancient Greek civilisation from the Minoans to Alexander's empire. - Includes information on the key figures, battles and geography of the Ancient Greek empire, as well gods and goddesses, the Olympic games and the day-to-day life of its citizens. - Features stunning photographs and illustrations, a comprehensive factfinder section with a time chart, who’s who and glossary, making it perfect for reference use. - Internet links to websites with virtual tours, reconstructions and more information. We don’t have any reviews for this book yet. Why not write your own?


Identifying remote survey material via the web – combining traditional invertebrate collecting methods with modern biodiversity informatics tools. I’ve joined a camel trek run by Australian Desert Expeditions with Beth Mantle (CSIRO) to survey the invertebrate fauna of remote red dune country on the Ethabuka reserve in south-western Queensland, owned by Bush Heritage. Although we will use the usual collecting methods such as pitfall trapping, malaise nets, light trapping, beating, sweeping, litter sifting and hand collection, Beth and I are using a satellite modem to blog our daily activities and upload images of noteworthy specimens in order to seek assistance to help identify specimens as we post them to the web. Follow our journey via the Atlas of Living Australia blog, and my Museum colleague, Lynda Kelly, will also be helping me post our progress. Watch this space!


English form of the name of the Christian evangelist, author of the first gospel in the New Testament. His name is a form of the Hebrew name Mattathia, meaning ‘gift of God’, which is fairly common in the Old Testament, being rendered in the Authorized Version in a number of different forms: Mattan(i)ah, Mattatha(h), Mattithiah, Mattathias, and so on. In the Authorized Version, the evangelist is regularly referred to as Matthew, while the apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot is distinguished as Matthias. A related name from the same Hebrew roots, but reversed, is Jonathan. Throughout the English-speaking world Matthew has been particularly popular since the 1970s.


For our first milestone in in our cure (integrated math and science) class, we made 3D models of medicine. I made zolpidem. It is used to treat insomina and is used in drugs like Ambien, Stilnox, and Sublinox. We did this to get a better understanding of how our medicine works by making a 3D version of it. We built our medicines out of Styrofoam balls and sticks, then we spray painted them. The white balls represent hydrogen, blue balls are nitrogen, black balls are carbon, and the red ball represents oxygen (Pub Med Health, 2011).


Download This Lesson Modeling Solar System Objects Grade Level: K-4 Science Education Standards: Earth and Space Science -- Content Standard D: Changes in the Earth and Sky - The surface of the Earth changes. Some changes are due to slow processes, such as erosion and weathering, and some changes are due to rapid processes, such as landslides, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Short Description: Summit Up is a 20 minute activity in which children make paper models to scale of the tallest volcanic mountains on Earth and Mars and discover a big difference between volcanoes on these two planets. Source: Lunar and Planetary Institute


Truvada, the HIV prevention drug approved by US health regulators. The opinion of the Food and Drug Administration is that Truvada can be used by persons at high risk of disease and anyone who may hold in sexual activity with HIV-infected partners. There have been concerns the circulation of such a drug could engender a false sense of security. Present have also been worries that a drug-resistant strain of HIV could expand. Studies since 2010 showed that Truvada reduced the risk of HIV in healthy gay men and among HIV-negative heterosexual partners of HIV-positive people by between 44% and 73%. A number of health workers and groups active in the HIV society opposed a green light for the once-daily pill. Truvada, made by California-based Gilead Sciences, is previously backed by the FDA to be in use with existing anti-retroviral drugs for people who contain HIV.


Weird Creatures From the Deep A massive census of the oceans has turned up a trove of strange marine wildlife, from jellyfish to octopuses to anemones - By Jess Righthand - Smithsonian.com, August 06, 2010 The giant Caribbean anemone (Condylactis gigantean) is commonly found in the inner reefs and lagoons of the West Indies and the western Atlantic. It can grow up to 16 inches in diameter and is identifiable by the brightly colored tips of its tentacles. But beware: these eye-catching anemones have venom in their tentacles, which they use to stun and capture their prey.


A Cricket Magazine Group magazine Science for grades 5-9 Have a young reader who's interested in everything? MUSE® is for them, because it's about everything: past, present, and future; history, science, and the arts. Not just a collection of facts, MUSE is a guidebook for exploration with intelligent writing and amazing photographs. Each issue is enlivened with the nine New Muses, smart alecks who inhabit the margins and offer their own unique brand of humor and pointed commentary. - Wide range of topics covered in every issue - Unique, zany sense of humor - Wisecracking characters offer quirky observations and jokes "MUSE® is an essential aid in helping to prepare students for the complicated world out there." - Leon L. Lederman, Nobel Laureate in Physics Interactive Sample | MUSE's Web Site for Kids


Citrus aurantifolia is a shrubby tree, to 5 m (16 ft), with many thorns. Dwarf varieties are popular with home growers and can be grown indoors during winter months and in colder climates. The trunk rarely grows straight, with many branches that often originate quite far down on the trunk. The leaves are ovate 2.5–9 cm (1–3.5 in) long, resembling orange leaves. The flowers are 2.5 cm (1 in) in diameter, are yellowish white with a light purple tinge on the margins. Flowers and fruit appear throughout the year but are most abundant from May to September. Citrus aurantifolia are used to flavour many foods. High in vitamin C, they were formerly used in the British navy to prevent scurvy—hence the nickname “limey” for British sailors.


English | 简体中文 Resistor Color Code Calculator A resistor is an electrical component that limits or regulates the flow of electrical current in an electronic circuit. A resistor is perhaps the most common building block used in circuits. This tool is used to decode information for color banded axial lead resistors. Select the number of bands, then their colors to determine the value and tolerance of the resistors or view all resistors Digi-Key has to offer. Number of Bands: IEC Resistor Color Code Standards available here. By clicking this link you will be exiting the Digi-Key site.


cnSTM Jan 10, 2012 St John's Innovation centre The CNSTM is a simple to use and highly affordable yet powerful ambient STM capable of obtaining atomic resolution yet able to image areas as large as 10 microns across. The CNSTM is an ambient Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) capable of obtaining atomic resolution imaging, point spectroscopy, nanomanipulation and large-scale imaging up to areas as large as 10 microns. This system was designed to be both affordable and easy enough to use to be used in the classroom yet precise enough to be used as a research tool for even the most demanding of samples. The microscope comes complete with passive vibration isolation.


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Subject Index][Author Index] Re: "Dinosaurs Died Within Hours After Asteroid Hit Earth..." > And - they had FEATHERS, which turned out to be > remarkably good insulation against cold - think of > birds huddling together in a burrow, and you get an > idea why they survived while the dinosaurs did not. - most birds did die out; - likewise, lots of mammals died out; - while lizards were heavily culled and turtles didn't exactly sail through unscathed, many of them survived, and crocodiles fared even better, so that alone can't be it; - most if not all small theropods of the time, not just birds, had feathers.


Lessons From Chile Topics: Engineering, Geology, Radio - Copy and Paste to Embed The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Chile last month may offer some clues for how California would withstand such a massive quake. Andrea Kissack spoke with one Bay Area engineer who just returned from Chile where he was looking at how U.S. building codes held up in the quake.


Volt (or Volts): Unit of measure for electromotive force (EMF), the electrical potential between two points. An electrical potential of 1 volt will push 1 ampere of current through a 1-ohm resistive load. Using a common plumbing analogy, voltage is similar to water pressure and current is analogous to flow (e.g. liters per minute). In equations, the symbol E is often used (as in: E = IR). V is the symbol for the unit of measure, Volt. - Electromotive Force Find a term alphabetically: Comment on This Term (Corrections, Suggestions, etc.) Suggest Another Term We Should Add


HAVING two copies of a mutant gene for haemoglobin almost eliminates your risk of developing malaria, say Italian researchers. One in five people they studied in the West African country of Burkina Faso has at least one copy, which they predict will spread through the population. David Modiano and his colleagues at the University of Rome examined 4348 people835 with the disease and 3513 without. They found that those who were free of the disease were much more likely to carry the The mutation doesn't stop you being infected with plasmodium, the single-celled parasite that causes malaria. ... To continue reading this article, subscribe to receive access to all of newscientist.com, including 20 years of archive content.


Alexander Runciman was a Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects. He spent five years in Rome before returning to Edinburgh where in 1772 he became master of the Trustees? Academy. This miniature pencil drawing by John Brown was created in 1785, the year of Runciman?s sudden death. Brown was therefore keen to point out that he had drawn his sitter `ad vivam? ? from the life. Runciman?s hands rest on a book entitled `Ossian?: James MacPherson?s translations of ancient Gaelic poetry supposedly by the third-century Scottish bard. Several years earlier Runciman had decorated parts of Sir John Clerk?s Penicuik House with large-scale murals. His famous ceiling of `Ossian?s Hall? depicted narrative scenes from these poems. Sadly all murals were destroyed in a fire in 1899.


Watching Your Sugar Intake One factor in a healthy diet is the amount of sugar consumed. Sugar comes in many forms, including white sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, corn syrup, honey and molasses. It provides you with calories, but little else nutritionally, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. To avoid getting too many calories from sugar, try to limit the amount of sugars added to your diet to 6 teaspoons a day if you eat about 1,600 calories, 12 teaspoons at 2,200 calories or 18 teaspoons at 2,800 calories. Added sugar doesn't just mean the sugar you add at the table, but also the sugar found in candy, soft drinks, jams, jellies and other sweetened foods.


A Canadian project to create genetically-modified pigs whose waste is less harmful to lakes and rivers has had its funding cut, before the animals could be commercialised. The "Enviropigs" project began in 1999 with the objective of creating an animal that digests its feed more efficiently than naturally-bred pigs. Eight generations of the pig were produced, and the current herd is 16 animals strong, but the association of farmers that sponsored the project, Ontario Pork, has now pulled its funding.


Read and Listen To Sentences Using the Word - Get your things together. - Let's get together tomorrow. - They agreed to work together. - They don't get along together. - Let's go to a concert together. - The family ate dinner together. - Birds of a feather flock together. - Let's get together again next year. - He stuck the broken pieces together. - How long have you two been together? - I wish that we could spend more time together. - Last Sunday, Mary and I went to the library together. - Let's go out and eat dinner together from time to time. - I always thought that Shirley and Alan would get together. - The faster we rub our hands together, the warmer they get. - I can still remember the time when we went on a picnic together. - This is a time of year when people get together with family and friends to observe Passover and to celebrate Easter.


|About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us| A.Word.A.Daywith Anu Garg plural beaux gestes (bo ZHEST) MEANING:noun: A gracious, but often meaningless, gesture. ETYMOLOGY:From French, literally fine gesture. Earliest documented use: 1920. USAGE:"An effective encore doesn't risk becoming an empty beau geste; it is an emotional p.s. somehow relating to the mood of the written program." Peter Dobrin; Applauding the Orchestra for Offering Encores; The Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania); Jan 15, 2011. Explore "beau geste" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (1918-2008) Contribute | Advertise © 2013 Wordsmith


Grades K,1,2 | Science Counting an animal's legs is one way to identify it. In this science worksheet, your child will count the legs on each animal and connect the animal's name with its number of legs. This worksheet originally published in Learn Science! for grades K-2 by © Dorling Kindersley Limited. Skills: observational skills, guided inquiry, properties of life, learning about animals, science experiment to tryPrint Full Size Don't have Acrobat Reader? Get it now.


- Source: Museum entry book 1847-55, pp203-4: The transverse plaits in these are made with the teeth. They are painted with garajure. The Tururí are Artocarpaceous trees, among the loftiest in the forest. The commonest species has red bark; this white barked one called Tururí morotenga. I have not seen it flower. Among the Uaupe Indians the tanga is the only article of dress, barely sufficing to hide their nether regions. It is passed under the thighs and tucked in, before and behind, under a string which passes around the loin. It is usually a rough strip of Red Tururí or a piece of curana cloth of their own manufacture. What is singular is that its use is confined to men; the women (except in festas when they wear tangas of plaited beads) going entirely naked. - Record posted on March 27, 2009 and last updated March 27, 2009


Ethiopia: Building a Better Future In Ethiopia, the MERET programme has helped communities rehabilitate their local environment, which has been damaged by decades of erosion and deforestation. At the same time, they improve livelihoods for local families through the sustainable use of natural resources. This helps communities cope better with natural disasters such as drought, building a brighter, more food-secure future. These photos show the impact of MERET programme in the community of Abraha Atsbeha, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia.


|Documentation: Pointers to architecture-specific documentation| Also known as i386 or x86, the most common ISA on desktop machines for historical reasons. Recent implementations have many sophisticated features such as deep pipelines with out of order execution and good branch prediction. The SPARC is a reduced instruction set architecture whose origins go back to the early work on RISC at Berkeley. Its original features include register windows and support for tagged arithmetic. Recent members of the family are 64 bit. Most SPARCS now have deep pipelines, but are in order.


Aero-Terms are designed to be a daily reminder of the terms, names, acronyms and explanations of the unique language that populates the aviation world. Aerospace, sport aviation, fixed wing, helo, you name it... it's all fair game. Aero-Terms should serve as a quick but intriguing reminder of the terms you may use every day, or an introduction to an aspects of the Aero-World you may not yet be familiar with. ANN also encourages readers to go beyond the FMI link, and further research any intriguing terms. A propeller whose blades have been rotated so that the leading and trailing edges are nearly parallel with the aircraft flight path to stop or minimize drag and engine rotation. Normally used to indicate shutdown of a reciprocating or turboprop engine due to


Your 30 human rights-the Universal Declaration of Human Rights In 1948, in the wake of World War II, a short document was placed before the United Nations affirming the inalienable rights of people and attempting to document the lessons learned from decades of unimaginable violence and destruction. The document contains a preamble and thirty articles outlining human rights. It is called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Did you know? Download your copy of the UDHR - The UDHR process was led by a woman--Eleanor Roosvelt. - The Center offers one of the biggest celebrations of the UDHR in the world each December. - No country voted against the UDHR. - The writer, John Peter Humphrey, was Canadian. - The UDHR was used as a framework for the UN to create the Millennium Development Goals.


The Slide Rule The slide rule is a tool that has long since been outdated by computers. It performed simple multiplication and division problems, as well as trigonometrical equations and logarithms. The rule below is a working Java applet; to use it, simply slide the center piece or the glass to the left or right to position them, and the computer will calculate the result in relation to the cursor. This is the Java Slide Rule Java Slide Rule courtesy of System Source


Manipulating typography to make its form reflect its meaning is a great technique. In this weeks assigned reading the words zoom, jump, spin, blur and even outline were mentioned. The key is to find verbs that indicate action and implying that action in the type design. Some other great examples I have seen are “topple”, I have even used this technique myself on a paper sample. I used the phrase “ The perfect paper for an imperfect world” and flipped the “e’s ” around in Imperfect. (See Link) As the chapter mention “the possibilities are endless.” There is even a childrens show on PBS called word world that does exactly this. Graphic Design School 3rd edition pages 92, 93


Lincoln Playing the Banjo This cartoon shows Lincoln playing the banjo. Lincoln's friend Ward Hill Lamon sang a few of Lincoln's favorite songs to him as they traveled to the troops at Antietam, and the incident was blown out of proportion to suggest Lincoln's indifference to the casualties of the Battle of Antietam. - October, 1862 circa 5 years - Original Format: - download hi-res watermarked image All Licensed images are available for download as jpeg files at 300 dpi of original size. If your project requires an image at higher resolution, please contact us (be sure to include item number). Custom requests may require an additional charge.


Computed Axial Tomography Learn More About Cancer Treatment Centers of America: Chat with Us | Email Us Computed Axial Tomography - Also known as a CAT scan or CT scan, computed axial tomography, or computed tomography, is an x-ray procedure that uses a computer to create three-dimensional pictures of the inside of the body. By producing cross-sectional images, CAT scans can sometimes reveal items that conventional x-rays can not. Computed axial tomography is frequently used in both cancer diagnosis and treatment to isolate the location of cancerous cells in the body. Previous: Complete Blood Count Back to the Cancer Glossary


stony (Heb. marg. "Amanah," perennial), the chief river of Damascus ( 2 Kings 5:12 ). Its modern name is Barada, the Chrysorrhoas, or "golden stream," of the Greeks. It rises in a cleft of the Anti-Lebanon range, about 23 miles north-west of Damascus, and after flowing southward for a little way parts into three smaller streams, the central one flowing through Damascus, and the other two on each side of the city, diffusing beauty and fertility where otherwise there would be barrenness.


Arbor Day is coming up. According to the National Arbor Day Foundation, National Arbor Day is the last Friday in April, but many states observe it on different dates according to their best tree-planting times. Colorado’s date is the third Friday in April. Celebrations in Colorado take place the entire week especially in the Denver area. If you would like to celebrate by planting a tree, our library has many resources to help select an appropriate tree. A search of “trees” in our online catalog turns up 125 items covering such varieties as evergreen, deciduous, mountain trees, natives; topics such as how to plant trees; xeriscaping; pests, diseases, and more. Most of these resources are from the Colorado State University Cooperative Extension.


Welcome to the discussion forum. In this forum, you may ask questions, start new discussions, and view existing posts. Click to create a discussion account. Click on the button to receive email notifications each time a new discussion is added to this forum. I am looking for some idea as to the ascent rate of carbonatite magma and the depth from which carbonatite magma might originate. Largest underground magma formations are what which can forms large hills? The largest underground magma formatoins are_whiuch can form large hills? How does an increase in temperature cause rock to form into magma


Local legend says that Colmcille stood on this hill - Cnoc na Naomh - with his companions Saints Fionán, Dubthach and Begley. As they stood here above Magheraroarty, they discussed who would have the task of converting the Tory islanders to Christianity. They decided to answer the question by throwing their croziers. Whoever threw his crozier as far as the island would carry out the conversion. Two landed near Falcarragh, another on Inis Dubthaigh (Inishdooey Island) and Colmcille’s crozier landed on Tory, winning him the reward of converting the islanders. His crozier is said to have formed a crater on Tory’s northeast cliffs. Cnoc na Naomh translates as hill of the saints.


Join the colours Enlist in the army. Each regiment in the British Army had a flag, which called its colour. This dates back to at least the 16th century. In this citation from Certain discourses concerning the formes and effects of divers sorts of weapons, and other verie important matters militarie, 1590, Sir John Smythe appears to be disparaging about what must then have been new practise of called an ensign (flag) a colour: "Colours is by them so fondlie & ignorantly given, as if they should (in stead of Ensignes) be asked how manie Colours of footmen there were in the Armie." The word colour in this context is now best remembered via the annual ceremony of Trooping The Colour. In this, various regiments of the British Army, notably the Household Division, parade their regimental colour before the monarch.


The weather in New York City improved a little this week. So I am posting a photo of this carousel at Bryant Park. The carousel, from the Italian word garosello and Spanish word carosella ("little war"), was first built by Turkish and Arabian cavalries in the 1100s as a training apparatus for combat on horseback. Soldiers would practice their archery skills and sword plays while sitting on the moving wooden horses. These carousels were usually kept within the castle walls and not seen by the public. In the early-1800s, colorful wooden horses suspended on a poles and powered by ropes and pulleys were unveiled at carnivals and fairs in England and Europe. Steam powered machines and music were added later and the popularity of carousels began to rise. The golden age of carousels were in the early 1900s when elaborate animals and decorative chariots were added to the rides.


English Vocabulary refers to the words in the English language. Learning English requires many skills, and vocabulary can be seen as knowledge you can’t do without. The English Words in this section is that required by the IELTS external exam, and represents a good to very good level of the English language. At English we believe that English learners would benefit greatly from a large word in all areas of their language ability. In this site, you could find many lists of words related to Places, Profession, Number, Character, Church, Governmenr, Marriage, Medicine,Science,Art etc... Take your own time to go through all these lists of Vocabulary and note down the words which you may need for your writings. From English Vocabulary to HOME PAGE


Patients with blood cancers that are not cured with a stem cell transplant do not have standard treatment options. Studies have shown that natural killer (NK) cells, a type of white blood cells, donated by another person can be given safely and may be helpful for treating some blood diseases. These NK cells are collected from the donor and purified before infusion into the patient. In this study, researchers want to determine the effectiveness of giving NK cells to patients with leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) that has come back after a transplant and cannot be treated with a second transplant or with chemotherapy alone. They hope that giving chemotherapy and then NK cells will be a better treatment for these patients than currently available treatment options.


Bordered to the north by the North Downs and the west by The Weald, Romney Marsh was originally created by the sea after the last ice age and with the help of man, is now an expanse of rich farmland. During the middle ages, it was a centre of commerce and was home to many smugglers. Romney Marsh also has the largest expanse of shingle in the world and with its associated flora and fauna is home to Britain's only designated desert area. It is also on the migratory path of a huge number of visiting birds. To browse through the website, use the navigation bar at the top or


What is the Ashford Green Corridor? Nine out of ten people in the UK live in towns and cities, so green spaces in urban areas are very important. They provide a pleasant, relaxing environment for people and habitats for wildlife. Ashford is lucky to have a haven for people and wildlife, a green space that runs right through the town: the Ashford Green Corridor. The Green Corridor is made up of parks, recreation grounds and other green spaces alongside the rivers that flow through Ashford. The Green Corridor has been designated as a Local Nature Reserve, and is being looked after by a partnership of organisations.


BILL OF RIGHTS: FREEDOM OF THE PRESS This issue is one of a series on the Bill of Rights. It explores freedom of the press through U.S. history. Meet John Peter Zenger, a newspaper editor in pre-Revolutionary America who was arrested for libel but eventually cleared of any wrongdoing. Read about the first issues of national security and censorship of the press during the Civil War. Explore what the definition of "press" means in the 21st century and how it affects how we use the Internet. You can read about how freedom of the press has both been the subject of and been used to censor some "classic" children's literature. Follow some suggestions to create your own newspaper. Paperback 48 pgs. Full Color Suggested for ages: 9-14 Product Code: COB9901


|Product #: MTM404166EB_TQ| Nonfiction Reading Comprehension: Grades 5-6 (Resource Book Only) eBookGrade 5|Grade 6 Please Note: This ebook is a digital download, NOT a physical product. After purchase, you will be provided a one time link to download ebooks to your computer. Orders paid by PayPal require up to 8 business hours to verify payment and release electronic media. For immediate downloads, payment with credit card is required. This book provides students in grade 5 6 with practice in reading nonfiction selections and testing for comprehension with reading selections in science, history, geography, economics, and informational text. Submit a review


Tropical Storm Hanna over United States East Coast Tropical Storm Hanna did not reach hurricane strength before making landfall near the South Carolina-North Carolina state line in the pre-dawn hours of September 6, 2008. Instead it hovered just on the brink of minimal Category 1 hurricane status. The storm continued up the East Coast bringing rain and winds. This image captured by the MODIS on the Terra satellite shows the storm on September 6, 2008 just after noon. The storm moved very quickly - on Sept 5th, the eye of the storm was about 250 kilometers east of the Florida-Georgia state line. In just under a day, the weakening center of the storm was located west-northwest of Norfolk, Virginia, and Hampton Roads Harborâ€”more than 730 kilometers (more than 455 miles) north-northeast.


When did FM radio begin? Howard Armstrong broadcast the first radio transmission employing frequency modulation (FM) in 1935. However, experiments with FM had been conducted years before. For more information on frequency and amplitude modulation, check out our encyclopedia. You can also find a good online history of FM radio here.


Jar is defined as to shock, shake, vibrate or quarrel.(verb) An example of jar is to jump out from behind a door and surprise someone. The definition of a jar is a harsh sound, a jolt or a quarrel, or a container made of stone, glass, etc.(noun) See jar in Webster's New World College Dictionary Origin: ult. echoic Origin: ME jarre < Fr jarre < OProv or Sp jarra < Ar jarrah, earthen water container See jar in American Heritage Dictionary 4 Origin: Middle English jarre, a liquid measure Origin: , from Old French (from Provençal jarra) Origin: and from Medieval Latin jarra Origin: , both from Arabic jarra, earthen jar Origin: , from jarra, to draw, pull; see grr in Semitic roots. verb jarred jarred, jar·ring, jars verb, intransitive Origin: Perhaps of imitative origin. Learn more about jar


Diarrhea is common in patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Infections with the organisms Isospora or Cyclospora frequently cause diarrhea in those patients. The antibiotic trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole is effective treatment for these infections, usually given at a dose of one tablet four times per day for 10 days. It is unknown whether lower doses or shorter courses of this antibiotic would be effective. Since these infections often come back if the treatment is stopped, patients are usually continued on the antibiotic (secondary prophylaxis). Unfortunately, some patients develop side effects related to the trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole, and others may be allergic to it. Another antibiotic, ciprofloxacin, has been suggested as an option for treating and preventing infections with Isospora and Cyclospora species.


|Adult male in-flight| The Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) is a species of Blackbirds. Its bill is pointed. The adult females are more greyer then the adult male. The population of the Rusty Blackbird has declined in recent decades nobody know's why for sure. The birds usually breed in muskeg and forests across Canada and Alaska and migrate to the eastern and southeastern United States, into parts of the Grain Belt and sometimes straying into Mexico These birds feed insects, small fish and some seeds in wet ground or in shallow water.


Since leaves require light to perform photosynthesis, the colour of a leaf kept in the dark changes from a darker to a lighter shade of green. Sometimes, it also turns yellow. The production of the chlorophyll pigment essential for photosynthesis is directly proportional to the amount of light available. In the absence of light, the production of chlorophyll-a molecules stops and they get broken slowly. This changes the colour of the leaf gradually to light green. During this process, the xanthophyll and carotenoid pigments become predominant, causing the leaf to become yellow. These pigments are more stable as light is not essential for their production. They are always present in plants.


The file_exists() function returns TRUE if the file or directory specified by filename exists; FALSE otherwise. Syntax of file_exists() Function PHP bool file_exists (file_name ) It test the existence of the file or the directory given as argument name It return true if the file or the directory given is existing If Not existing then it returns FALSE Code for file_exists() Function PHP echo "file is existing ".file_exists("c:/rose1/ram.txt"); echo "<br>file is existing ".file_exists("c:/rose1/ram1.txt"); If you are facing any programming issue, such as compilation errors or not able to find the code you are looking for. Ask your questions, our development team will try to give answers to your questions.


Security company Multicom of Stockholm, Sweden, has found a way to use cellphones to help track valuable goods. Guards who accompany valuable cargo will carry a phone with a built-in GPS chip. The phone automatically makes a call to a control centre every 60 seconds giving the time and its current position (WO 2004/28184). This information is stored, and should the cellphone fail to make two or more calls, or if its signal is jammed, the centre can help police by producing a trail showing the cargo's recent movements. The trail should help police narrow their search. To continue reading this article, subscribe to receive access to all of newscientist.com, including 20 years of archive content.


Meanders are semicircular bends in stream channels. The meander in this picture is in a creek near my house. The most famous meandering river in history was the Meander River in western Turkey, now known by its Turkish name as the Büyük Menderes (Big Meander). The word meander derives via Greek from the name of this river in the antiquity, Maiandros. Maiandros is neither Turkish nor Greek; it appears to be a very old Anatolian word with an obscure meaning. To the north of the Büyük Menderes is the Küçük Menderes (Little Meander), the ancient Cayster (Caystros). The next posts in this series will be about the colorful (mostly, turbid brown, actually) histories of the Meander and the Cayster rivers.


Noctilucent Clouds are usually spotted in areas closer to the poles, but recently they have become more common in areas further away. Many believe this to be caused from the continual day to day atmospheric spraying that occurs daily, reacting with HAARP's continual radiation of the earth's upper ionosphere. you can clearly see the frequency waves present in this example. Noctlucent Clounds Over Wester Washingto This story is inappropriate and should be flagged for moderation. Please choose from one of the following options:


Did you know that macular degeneration affects one in three people over the age of 75? Keep your eyesight healthy by loading up on foods that are rich in beta carotene, a carotenoid that is found in orange and dark green vegetables. Eat foods like carrots, spinach, collard greens, and winter squash. Lutein and Zeaxanthin are also important to include in your diet as they protect vision cells from oxidative damage. You can find these two compounds in peppers, sweet potatoes, parsley, and snow peas. Studies have suggested that eating foods rich in selenium, such as barley and Brazil nuts, can help prevent macular degeneration as well. Also be sure you are eating plenty of food with vitamin C, such as berries, oranges, lemons, and broccoli.


Posted at 2:39 PM on January 19, 2010 by Sanden Totten This month scientists announced some new findings on what may be the world's first "plant-imal", an animal that works like a plant. The species in question in elysia chlorotica , a green sea slug found in Northeastern U.S. and parts of Canada. It has the uncanny ability to steal the genes from the plants it eats and use their chloroplast to start turning sunlight into energy. This amazing little creature inspired In The Loop's own Sanden Totten to pick up a guitar and sing this song. (This tune was part of ITL's latest podcast) Photo via PNAS Comment on this post


There is a wealth of information available in journal articles to support almost any international law topic. Journal articles can… - offer important analysis and commentary on a topic; - set out the history or chronology of events for a treaty or topical issue; - furnish definitions and explanations of important legal concepts; and - provide citations to treaties and other documents. Relevant articles can be found in journals from a variety of disciplines: law, international relations, political science, economics, etc. There are several ways to locate articles:


Statistics about New Zealand women include details about age, ethnic affiliation, language, religion, families and households, fertility, work (paid and unpaid) and income, education, housing, and where they live. Also available is information about women's health and disability status, life expectancy, and the ratio of women to men. New Zealand General Social Survey The New Zealand General Social Survey (NZGSS) provides information on the well-being of New Zealanders aged 15 years and over. It covers a wide range of social and economic outcomes, and shows how these outcomes are distributed across different groups within the New Zealand population. Reports and articles Search for more information.


No matter what you do with your computer, storage is an important part of your system. In fact, most personal computers have one or more of the following storage devices: Usually, these devices connect to the computer through an Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) interface. Essentially, an IDE interface is a standard way for a storage device to connect to a computer. IDE is actually not the true technical name for the interface standard. The original name, AT Attachment (ATA), signified that the interface was initially developed for the IBM AT computer. In this article, you will learn about the evolution of IDE/ATA, what the pinouts are and exactly what "slave" and "master" mean in IDE.


During the Baroque era, Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) was one of the most important and influential keyboard composers of the day. His works for harpsichord and organ feature typically complex interweaving melodies which continue to present technical challenges -- including crossing hands -- to performers who attempt his pieces. Scarlatti's most lasting contribution may be the influential forms he pioneered, including an Italian style of Sonata that features two repeating sections, each complete with a change of key and distinct, recapitulating melodies. Through his travels to Portugal and Spain, Scarlatti added distinct influences to his compositions, including that of Spanish guitar music. It's possible that some of Scarlatti's innovations were inspired by his father Alessandro, an important composer in his own right.


Scientists discover Earth-sized planet ORLANDO, Fla. (MCT) — University of Central Florida scientists have discovered a new planet outside our solar system that is the closest Earth-size planet ever discovered. And they have named it after UCF. Planet UCF 1.01, an “exoplanet” orbiting a red dwarf star called GJ 436, is about two-thirds the size of Earth and only 33 light years distant. “Cosmically speaking, that’s right around the corner,” said discoverer Kevin Stevenson, though that works out to 194 trillion miles. If you have any technical difficulties, either with your username and password or with the payment options, please contact us by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.org


|Needham was named after a town in Suffolk, England, called Needham Market. This area of Massachusetts was settled mostly by East Anglians, and many of the local towns are named after English towns in Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk (in fact, Needham is in Norfolk County). Needham was originally part of Dedham, the county seat, which was named after the English town of Dedham (in Essex). Thus, when Needham became a separate village from Dedham in 1711, it was also given the name of a familiar East Anglian village. None of the early residents of Needham bore the surname "Needham". | The word "Needham" comes from the Anglo-Saxon, and means "Lower Village" (Germanic nieder- = nether or lower, and -ham, signifying a village or hamlet).


squinch, in architecture, a piece of construction used for filling in the upper angles of a square room so as to form a proper base to receive an octagonal or spherical dome. It was the primitive solution of this problem, the perfected one being eventually provided by the pendentive. Squinches may be formed by masonry built out from the angle in corbeled courses, by filling the corner with a vise placed diagonally, or by building an arch or a number of corbeled arches diagonally across the corner. In Islamic architecture, especially in Persia, where it may have been invented, the squinch took the form of a succession of corbeled stalactites. It was also commonly used in the early churches of Europe and the East. More on squinch from Fact Monster: See more Encyclopedia articles on: Architecture


HaShem brought us out of Egypt with a Mighty Hand and an Outstretched Arm (Deuteronomy 26:8) When Does Passover Begin? According to Biblical law, Passover is determined by the Jewish lunar calendar, and begins on the eve of the fifteenth day of the month of Nisan. The English date varies from year to year, falling in March or in April.


Humidifiers and Vaporizers A humidifier is a device that blows cool to lukewarm mist (vapor) into the air to increase humidity (moisture) in a room. A vaporizer is a device that releases a cool to hot mist into the air to help increase humidity or to help with breathing. These devices tend to be used when a person is sick or when air in the house is dry (low indoor humidity). When a person's skin and mucous membranes are dry, the dryness can aggravate an illness of the head, neck, or chest. Or it can lead to chapped lips, a dry throat, or dry and itchy skin. Mist therapy with one of the devices can help provide relief. These devices differ in a few ways. eMedicineHealth Medical Reference from Healthwise To learn more visit Healthwise.org Find out what women really need. Pill Identifier on RxList - quick, easy, Find a Local Pharmacy - including 24 hour, pharmacies


Photo #: NH 83003 Admiral Graf Spee (German Armored Ship, 1936) Ship's port bow, taken while she was at Montevideo, Uruguay in mid-December 1939, following the Battle of the River Plate. Note crew members working over the side to repair damage from an eight-inch shell fired by the British heavy cruiser Exeter. The notation "The 'Moustache'" refers to the false bow wave painted on Admiral Graf Spee's bows. The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 46KB; 740 x 530 pixels Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image. If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." Image posted 3 August 2006


Talking About Tides Astrobiology Magazine presents its latest podcast with our host Simon Mitton. In this interview, Brian Jackson, a NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellow in the Department of Planetary Sciences at the University of Arizona, explores the importance of tidal heating in determining the habitability of planets. Tidal heating, which is generated by orbiting a massive gravitational body like a star or giant planet, can heat up a planet or moon. If there is too much tidal heating, though, the resulting volcanism can create torrid conditions unsuitable for life. Listen to our other podcasts The Evolution of EPOXI: Interview with Tim Livengood and Vikki Meadows