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The Machinery of Criminal Justice
University of Pennsylvania Law School
January 1, 2012
THE MACHINERY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, S. Bibas, Oxford University Press, 2012
U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-16
Two centuries ago, the American criminal justice system was run primarily by laymen. Jury trials pa... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15952000 |
The history and tradition of Patna go back to the earliest dawn of civilization. The original name of Patna was Pataliputra or Patalipattan and its history makes a start from the century 600 B.C. The name Patna has undergone many changes at its earliest stages like Pataligram, Kusumpur,Patliputra, Azimabad etc., ultima... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15956000 |
RE: Plant-based fats question
Posted Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 9:18 AM
It depends on your goals - weight loss? disease prevention? cancer survival? general health and well being?
Here's our general advice with high-fat plant foods:
A low-fat diet is not a no-fat diet. There are traces of natural oils in vegetables, bea... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15957000 |
Although it’s what many people on the Kenai Peninsula associate it with, Memorial Day weekend isn’t just about fishing and barbecues. It’s a time to remember those who have died in battle for this country.
Originally called Decoration Day, the holiday was first widely observed on May 30, 1868, to commemorate the sacrif... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15960000 |
INDIAN PERANAKANS : THE CHITTY MELAKA
The Melaka Chitty community, also known as the Malacca Straits-born Hindus or Indian Peranakans has been in Malacca, Malaysia since the reign of the Malacca Sultanate in the early 15th. century. Years before Parameswara the founder of Malacca in 1401 became the first sultan, Hindu ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15962000 |
Jerusalem, The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
February 2, 2012 by Bob Livingston
The fact that Jerusalem is the center of the spiritual world for so many people seems to make politics there frighteningly complex and deadly. Consequently, if you have any interest in understanding why the area in and around Jerusale... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15966000 |
Closing in on the Planck constant
Sep 25, 1998
Physicists in the US have made the most accurate measurements ever of the Planck constant, h. Edwin Williams and colleagues at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, measured h by comparing the voltage needed to control the velocity o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15974000 |
Ultrafast electron microscope makes movies
Dec 8, 2006
Physicists have created a new form of electron microscopy that can make "movies" of atoms as they undergo ultra-rapid chemical or structural transitions. Ahmed Zewail and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology in the US have used coincident electron a... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15975000 |
Dodgers' progress plan not only about Robinson
Campanella, Newcombe got their shots in Class A ball
LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers were front and center in breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball, but the early movement involved more than Jackie Robinson.
When Robinson was signed by Dodgers president Branch Ric... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15979000 |
In 2009, the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) was formed to promote and protect the human rights of people in the region and was tasked to formulate the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration, which aimed to standardize all human rights of all people in the Southeast region of Asia.
•Five member count... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15981000 |
Puzzle pageIssue 37
Mystery Christmas theft
Where's that missing coin?
As a last treat before the start of the busiest period of the year, Santa Claus and Rudolph the Reindeer decide to go out for a meal. The Easter Bunny comes along for company. They feast on scrumptious food and mulled wine, which makes Rudolph's nos... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15982000 |
A recent report by the World Economic Forum on the future of the gas markets has highlighted the revolution that is currently happening in this sector.
The report started by saying: “What a difference a few years can make in one of the world’s major energy markets. Advances in the production of unconventional gas – sha... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15988000 |
Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
- For a non-technical introduction to the topic, please see Introduction to genetics.
Genetics (from Ancient Greek γενετικός genetikos, “genitive” and that from γένεσις genesis, “origin”), a dis... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15994000 |
Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) describes a continuum of permanent birth defects caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy, which includes, but is not limited to Fetal a... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15995000 |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research
Grammatical relations typology
- Traditionally, the term "grammatical relation" (GR) refers to the morphosyntactic properties that relate an argument to a clause, as, for example, its subject or its object. Alternative terms are "syntactic function" or "s... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16001000 |
asa - interpret carriage-control characters
asa [file ...]
The asa utility will write its input files to standard output, mapping carriage-control characters from the text files to line-printer control sequences in an implementation-dependent manner.
The first character of every line will be removed from the input, and... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16003000 |
The CPSC and the FDA came together yesterday to issue a warning to parents and caregivers to stop using infant sleep positioners immediately as two recent deaths underscore concerns about suffocation.
You may remember the recent recall of the Nap Nanny. Well, now the CPSC is issuing a general warning with regard to sle... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16005000 |
The Kaveri River also spelled Cauvery in English, is one of the major rivers of India, which is considered sacred by Hindus. The origin of the river is traditionally placed at Talakaveri, Kodagu district in the Western Ghats in the state of Karnataka, flows generally south and east through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16010000 |
Mexico - Messico
Photo by Eddie Adams
"Anger is energy, it’s a force. If an act of injustice doesn’t provoke anger in me, it could be seen as indifference, passivity. It’s injustice that motivates us to do something, to take risks, knowing that if we don’t, things will remain the same."
One of the foremost human rights... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16026000 |
Training to Compete
Develop the Engine
The Player - SPECIALIZES
The players in this stage are generally around 16 - 19 years old for boys and around 15 - 18 years old for girls
Players are more likely to have committed themselves to rugby as their chief sport. They are more willing to invest a significant amount of tim... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16037000 |
Save the Clean Air Act to Fight Global Warming
Scientific consensus is clear: We must reduce the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million (ppm) or below to avoid global catastrophe. Unfortunately, pending climate legislation isn't going to get us to 350 ppm -- but the Clean Air Act could.
To reach 3... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16042000 |
Emergency & Security
Medications, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Hepatitis
Medication in School
School personnel may assist a student to manage prescription and non-prescription medication only under the directions of a physician. Prescription medication will be accepted only in the container properly labeled by the p... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16051000 |
Louis XV and science: the most beautiful instruments
Authors: Engineer: Claude-Siméon Passemant (1702-1769); Clockmaker: Louis Dauthiau (1730-1809); Sculptors and bronze artists: Jean-Jacques and Philippe Caffiéri (1725-1772)
Date: Presented to the Royal Academy of Science on 23 August 1749, presented to the king in 17... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16053000 |
For one AES is built for three key sizes
128, 192 or 256 bits.
Currently, brute-forcing 128 bits is not even close to feasible. Hypothetically, if an AES Key had 129 bits, it would take twice as long to brute-force a 129 bit key than a 128 bit key. This means larger keys of 192 bits and 256 bits would take much much mu... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16058000 |
Unions have been fighting the 1% vs 99% fight for more than 100 years. Now the rest of us are learning that this fight is also OUR fight.
The story of organized labor has been a story of working people banding together to confront concentrated wealth and power. Unions have been fighting to get decent wages, benefits, b... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16059000 |
Winsor McCay, pioneering animator and comic strip artist, was a native of Spring Lake, Michigan. Spring Lake is also where he began his career in art. His father, Robert McCay, and mother Janet ran a grocery store in the village. While it is probable that Winsor was born in 1867 during a visit to his mother’s family in... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16060000 |
Spring in the Mountains 2008 / Spring in the Mountains trek pix-13
May 2–4, 2008
The Smokies are home to many species of land snails. Identification is possible (with practice) by examining features such as the shell spiral, overall size, and whether the opening is toothed or not. Snails are important part of the leaf ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16070000 |
The coral is at the mercy of natural circumstances like water quality and starfish population, but can be aided by human intervention. The first step to take will be decreasing population and CO2 emissions.
Coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef has dropped by more than half over the last 27 years, according to scientis... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16073000 |
Knowledge Under Threat in War-Torn Mali
29 Aug 12
The destruction of mausoleums and shrines in Timbuktu by Islamic militias caused international outrage and drew attention to a war that has destroyed not only monuments but also many human lives. Mali’s cultural heritage is under threat, and so is its heritage of tradit... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16076000 |
Tell Us Your Story
And experience the stories of others
Storytelling has been passed down from generation to generation as a way of keeping history alive. We all have our favorite stories that we enjoy hearing when friends and family gather together. What if we could continue listening to these stories anytime we wante... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16085000 |
Air Quality May Be Unhealthy for Some Through Thursday
The Ohio EPA is predicting that the air quality in Northeast Ohio will be unhealthy for some sensitive groups of people because of pollution.
Pollution in the air in Northeast Ohio may be a concern for those who have asthma, lung disease or older adults and childre... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16086000 |
In the Free Software Movement, we believe computer users should have the freedom to change and redistribute the software that they use. The “free” in free software refers to freedom: it means users have the freedom to run, modify and redistribute the software. Free software contributes to human knowledge, while non-fre... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16089000 |
This week we celebrate Congress passing the Judiciary Act of 1789 which established the Supreme Court of United States. President George Washington signed the bill into law and nominated John Jay as the Chief Justice. The whole process-passing the bill, signing the bill into law, and the nomination and approval of the ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16090000 |
Free Search (1444 videos)
IML-1: International Microgravity Laboratory
- Title IML-1: International Microgravity Laboratory
- Released 01/01/1992
- Length 00:16:05
- Language English
- Footage Type Documentary
A 16:07 minute description of Space Lab, the world's first reusable space laboratory built in Europe and launc... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16091000 |
Once affordable only among the wealthy, brick homes became more easily available to the average American in the early years of the twentieth century. This book, originally published in 1920 by a member of The Common Brick Manufacturers' Association, served as a practical guide for prospective homeown... read more
Custo... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16108000 |
Better pollution control technology needed to cut VOC emissions
By Summit Voice
FRISCO — Ongoing studies of winter ozone formation in the Uinta Basin shows the need for better pollution control technology on oil and gas drilling rigs and other equipment used for fossil fuel development.
An emissions inventory developed... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16114000 |
Posted on August 4, 2012 by Bob Berwyn
Parts of the Cascadia subduction zone may be overdue for a large earthquake. Map courtesy USGS.
New research documents timeline of Pacific Northwest fault activity
By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY — The Pacific Northwest could be due for a monster earthquake sometime in the next 50 y... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16115000 |
The CAM-Wizard TAPE editor is used to edit the tape code that is normally created by the POST processor. The tape editor is normally run by typing TAPE while running CAM or by selecting it from other programs. This program can also be run directly from the operating system by using the TAPE command.
The TAPE editor use... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16120000 |
This book is at the opposite end of the spectrum, so to speak, from the previously-mentioned source. In this book, Williamson and the other authors discuss music from an expertise on the art itself. There is no mention of digital music, sampling, file-sharing, or other similar topics to be found anywhere in the book. I... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16122000 |
Who should speak first when evaluating a lesson in the post-observation feedback session, the observer or the observed?
This was the subject of an extended and impromptu debate at an external training session I attended last week. The person leading the session stood back in true ‘facilitator’ style while a room of tea... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16127000 |
What Is the TOEIC?
The TOEIC or Test of English for International Communication, is a standardized, paper-and-pencil test given to non-native English speakers.
Who Uses TOEIC Results?
- Corporations and government agencies recruiting new hires
- Educational institutions establishing placement in English classes.
The tr... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16137000 |
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata was born into a clerical Parsi family in Nausari. His father, Nusserwanji Tata, moved to Bombay and started trading. Jamsetji joined the Elphinstone College in Bombay in 1856. He was considered to be a promising enough student to have his fees remitted. Married while still a student, he passed... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16160000 |
Engineering for the future in Carbondale
CARBONDALE - Several groups of students gathered along the edge of the classroom, some poring over equipment that simulated a magnetic-powered transportation system.
Students hardly noticed the door opening in Brandon Dodson's classroom.
A window on the opposite side of the room... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16167000 |
by Jennifer Johnsen
Last week, I was privileged to attend the 3rd International Workshop on HIV and Women in Toronto, Canada. It was a wonderful gathering of researchers, clinicians, and others committed to forwarding our knowledge and understanding of how HIV affects women. The two-day conference focused on four areas... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16169000 |
A commercial airline? Or a rogue geoengineering experiment?
The World Economic Forum has put out a new report on global risks for 2013, and the report’s chapter on “X factors” — concerns more remote than the report’s primary risks, but still worthy of note — includes a section on rogue “geoengineering” experiments.
Geo... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16170000 |
Over 8,000 websites created by students around the world who have participated in a ThinkQuest Competition.
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Underground in the Deep and Dark
After completing an independent study about our topic, Underground in the Deep and Dark, we will share what we have learned in a creative, educational f... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16171000 |
|Francisco Vasquez de Coronado|
The First Thanksgiving in the New World was held at Palo Duro Canyon on Ascension Thursday, May 23, 1541. On that day, Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his men held a day of thanksgiving after "Coronado's expedition had left Mexico in search of the Seven Cities of Cibol... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16173000 |
On this day in 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter and his financer Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. Carter had been working in the Valley of the Kings for many years, but on 4th November 1922, Carter’s water carrier found the steps leading to Tutankhamun... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16179000 |
Guardian US polling expert Harry J. Enten breaks down the workings of the Electoral College – a mysterious institution that uses the people's votes to select the US president. With 538 electors up for grabs across 50 states and the District of Columbia, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are vying for the 270 votes that will... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16188000 |
Motifs using characters, creatures, and settings from classic Fairy Tales
to represent characters or ideas, for example, a love interest being equated with a Knight in Shining Armor
. Modern day Cinderella stories commonly mine this fairy tale trope as well.
Many of them are, in fact, Dead Unicorn Tropes
. Dragons, uni... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16193000 |
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These are methods which you can register pre-call and post-call external functions to augment their functionality. People familiar with more esoteric languages may think of these as "method combinations".
This could be used to add optional preconditions, user-extensible callbacks (a-l... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16195000 |
The Chateauesque is based on the monumental 16th century chateaus of France. The style combines Gothic elements with the 16th century’s fashionable move to Renaissance detailing. In the United States, the style was popularized by Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to study at France’s prestigious École d... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16206000 |
exactly located (exactlyLocated)
The actual, minimal location of an
Object. This is a subrelation of the more general Predicate
SUMO / BASE-ONTOLOGY
Related WordNet synsets
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street"
Agar obj is part... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16222000 |
The Missouri River remained swollen through parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas in early August 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured the top image on August 2, 2011. For comparison, the bottom image shows the same area one year earlier, on August 3... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16223000 |
The Budapest you'll see today is the result of many years of rich history, with traces of inhabitation dating back as far as the second millennium BC. Hungarian tribes arrived at the end of the ninth century and the Hungarian Kingdom was established in 1000. The city as we know it today was formed through the joining o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16224000 |
Jean de Court, Marguerite de France as Minerva painted enamel, Limoges, 1555 (IIIF253)
In this remarkable portrait, Marguerite de France (1523-1574), daughter of François 1 (d. 1547) and sister of Henri II (d. 1559), is depicted as Pallas/Minerva, classical goddess of war and wisdom.
This alludes to her role as protect... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16226000 |
Marine and Ocean Discharges
|Oceans, Coasts, Estuaries & Beaches Quick Finder|
|Oceans, Coasts, & Estuaries Home Coastal Watershed Protection||Marine Pollution Prevention Monitoring and Assessment||Ocean & Coastal Partnerships Frequently Asked Questions||Coasts for Kids|
Under the Clean Water Act, any discharge of a po... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16230000 |
Meter is the organization of speech rhythms (verbal stresses) into regular patterns, in terms of both the arrangement of stresses and their frequency of repetition per line of verse.
Poetry is organized by the division of each line of verse into "feet," metric units which each consist of a particular arrangement of str... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16233000 |
About the FSA
The Food Standards Agency is responsible for food safety and food hygiene across the UK. We work with local authorities to enforce food safety regulations and have staff who work in UK meat plants to check that the requirements of the regulations are being met. We also commission research related to food ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16236000 |
Knowing how to code is becoming increasingly valuable in the technology-driven world we live in today, but not everyone has the time or money to invest in a sold computer science or programming education.
Most people who have no experience in programming tend to think that learning to code would be an intimidating task... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16243000 |
Failure-to-thrive is when a child is not growing as expected. It does not include children who are small for their age. The exact definition is not completely agreed upon.
Children grow quickly in the first few years of life. A child with failure-to-thrive will have a height and weight that is well below other children... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16247000 |
posted last year in Dev Platform category by Dongsun Choi
There are various techniques to improve the performance of your Java application. In this article I will talk about Statement Pooling Configuration and its effect on Garbage Collection process.
Statement Pooling allows to improve the performance of an applicatio... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16258000 |
207. Yugoslavia Faces the Millennium: Conflict and Continuity
A decade after the fall of Communism, there remains little discussion within the public sphere of the fundamental differences that separate the states and societies of Western and Eastern Europe. This oversight is regrettable not only because it limits our a... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16261000 |
What are the risks of connecting to a hidden network?
A hidden network is a wireless network that is set to not broadcast its name (or service set identifier (SSID)). Normally, wireless networks broadcast their name, and your computer “listens” for the name of the network that it wants to connect to. Since a hidden net... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16262000 |
Viticulture - n. : the cultivation or culture of grapes
Enology - n. :a science that deals with wine and wine making
The V&E Department combines the sciences of viticulture and enology in a single research and teaching unit that encompasses all of the scientific disciplines that impact grape growing and winemaking. For... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16263000 |
2 entries found for shout.
To select an entry, click on it.
Main Entry: 1shout
Function: verb 1: to utter a sudden loud cry <shouted for joy> 2: to utter in a loud voice <shouted out the answers> - shout·ernoun synonymsSHOUT, SHRIEK, SCREECH mean to utter a loud cry. SHOUT suggests any kind of loud cry that is meant to... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16272000 |
Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
- S: (n) bear (massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws)
- S: (n) bear (an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an inves... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16273000 |
Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
- S: (n) skim (a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid) "there was a thin skim of oil on the water"
- S: (n) skim, skimming (reading or glancing through quickly)
- S: (v) pla... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16274000 |
Imagine in this way! Theme defines MAIN STRUCTURE for whole site! Theme is something like structure for a Post, a Page or a custom post type, custom page,..! So far you know theme is really HTML code! In the end of Wordpress excute, it returns HTML code to browser, and browser display for you! That HTML is build based ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16275000 |
Mubarak's Dream Remains Just That In Egypt's Desert
Originally published on Tue July 10, 2012 8:57 am
In the middle of southern Egypt's windy desert, wheat fields stretch as far as the eye can see on a 24,000-acre farm. It's part of a grandiose project called Toshka that was dreamed up 15 years ago by the government of... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16286000 |
Where on Earth...? MISR Mystery Image Quiz #8
Here's another chance to play geographical detective! This Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) image covers an area measuring approximately 297 kilometers x 221 kilometers, and was captured by the instrument's vertical-viewing (nadir) camera on April 12, 2001.
A la... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16294000 |
Romanticism, Poe, and The Raven
The era of Romanticism spans from the late 1700's to the mid 1800's
following the French Revolution; therefore, "Romanticism" encompasses
characteristics of the human mind in addition to the particular time in
history when these qualities became dominant in culture. Romanticism
depicts a... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16295000 |
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In recent years, scientists working at the intersection of two historically well-developed fields, retinal physiology and circadian biology, upended the conventional view of retinal organization with the confirmation of a nonvisual ocular photoreceptor system.
The fact that the eye has functions beyond ima... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16308000 |
Science subject and location tags
Articles, documents and multimedia from ABC Science
Monday, 18 February 2013
Heavy metal music fans in a mosh pit act like atoms in a gas - a finding that could advance emergency evacuation design and planning.
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
An Australian seismologist says this week's tr... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16311000 |
But in response to pressure from a student-led Native American alliance, Northwestern officials say they plan to form a commission to research Evans' connection to the one of the worst massacres of Native Americans in the country's history.
In 1864, Evans was territorial governor of Colorado when a militia of about 700... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16314000 |
created 08/26/97; revised 08/12/00, 07/22/03, 07/22/09
This chapter discusses how to multiply a vector by a real number (called scaling), and how this is used to construct unit vectors. Unit vectors are used to show direction in 3D space, and are essential for 3D graphics.
Change the elements of this column matrix: (3,... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16317000 |
The number of children infected globally with HIV has decreased by more than a quarter (26%) between 2009 and 2011, however more than 90 percent of the 3,4-million children living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Released yesterday (WED), the annual UNAIDS report revealed that there were 34,2-million people living w... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16332000 |
A New Drug to Manage Resistant Chronic Pain Monday, April 30, 2012
TAU develops "BL-7050" to ease the neuropathic pain of millions of sufferers
Neuropathic pain, caused by nerve or tissue damage, is the culprit behind many cases of chronic pain. It can be the result of an accident or caused by a variety of medical cond... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16333000 |
Biodegradable Transistors -- Made from Us Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Award-winning TAU research uses self-assembling blood, milk, and mucus proteins to build next generation technology
Silicon, a semi-conducting element, is the basis of most modern technology, including cellular phones and computers. But according to Tel... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16334000 |
Climate Change May Lead to Fewer -- But More Violent -- Thunderstorms Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Number of flash floods and forest fires could increase with temperature, says TAU researcher
Researchers are working to identify exactly how a changing climate will impact specific elements of weather, such as clouds, rainfall,... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16335000 |
U.S. ag wary as Monsanto heads to Supreme Court
The case also is important to regenerative medicine that relies on stem cell technologies. A stem cell by definition is a cell that can self-replicate, thus the case may answer the question of whether a patentee can control progeny of a patented stem cell, according to An... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16336000 |
With several of his inventions on display in the Smithsonian Institute, 67 patents to his name, and over 100 inventions, Ben Kleinerman, 91, radiates electrifying enthusiasm for improving the lives of others through his creative brainstorms -- from the quirky to the essential.
If there is one thing Ben Kleinerman is pr... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16342000 |
Bikinis are thriving but Lebanon's sea turtles are no longer on the beach
The number of sea turtle nests laid on the Tyre Coast Nature Reserve dropped by half from about ten to just five this year, raising concerns among conservationists that the threatened animals may be losing the battle for survival.
Reserve directo... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16349000 |
Dr. Girish Paniker, director of conservation research, School of AREAS, was among 3,000 scientists, professionals, educators, and students to participate in the 2010 International Annual Meetings of American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) he... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16354000 |
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
by Amity Shlaes
Challenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression that devastated America in the early part ... Show synopsis Challenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16356000 |
By: Ansar Raza
Structure of SGGS
Sri Guru Granth Sahib (SGGS) is the most respected and sacred book of the Sikhs. It contains 5894 hymns, called Shabads, composed in 18 ragas (musical patterns). Out of these 5894 hymns, 976 are by Guru Nanak; 61 by Guru Angad; 907 by Guru AmarDas; 679 by Guru RamDas; 2216 by Guru Arjan... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16357000 |
God's Creatures Ministry
By Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D. November 6, 2006
Not only do animals benefit from our compassion and concern -we, too, benefit by becoming more sensitive and more humane, as Jews and people.
Jewish worshipers chant every Sabbath morning, "The soul of every living being shall praise God's name" (N... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16359000 |
April 1957 | Volume 8, Issue 3
Five successive Benjamin Harrisons created a private empire of tobacco and trade and a great Virginia plantation
One of the very first plantations settled in the New World, Berkeley evolved out of the wilderness to become the demesne of the Harrisons—Presidents of the United States, gover... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16367000 |
Advanced Placement Economics - Macroeconomics : Student Activities - ISBN 1561835676
Advanced Placement Economics: Teacher Resource Manual - ISBN 1561835668
The Council for Economic Education envisions a world in which people are empowered through economic and financial literacy to make informed and responsible choices... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16369000 |
Edward Lear’s natural-history illustration won him scientific credibility. Now his nonsense verse may do the same
“How pleasant to know Mr. Lear,” begins one of Edward Lear’s poems. His bicentennary last year helped many people know him better, with multiple exhibits of his natural-history paintings and drawings.
Lear ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16370000 |
Wildlife Research at the Ames Plantation
Ames Plantation is home to a wide array of wildlife, including species that are not usually found in western Tennessee. For example, eagles have been seen here. Rare species such as the painted bunting and Bachman Sparrow also have been seen at Ames. These animals require specia... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16371000 |
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WELCOME TO THIRD GRADE!!
Welcome to another exciting year! I look forward to working with you and your child in third grade.
Some FYI news:
Birthdays - We celebrate every child’s special day. If you would like to send treats there are 25 students in our class.... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16382000 |
News - Ocean Observations
Photo credit: Peter Rejcek
Posted: July 7, 2010
Courtesy: Antarctic Sun
By Peter Rejcek
Underwater robots and marine animals outfitted with scientific sensors are part of a proposed strategy for monitoring polar oceans into the 21st century, particularly a stretch of sea along the western Anta... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16384000 |
Solar storms active, but normal
Illustration showing blasts of particles and magnetic field from the Sun that impact the magnetosphere, the magnetic bubble around the Earth (courtesy NASA).
Outbursts observed on the sun last week do not portend new problems for GPS reception or other systems as solar flares and eruptiv... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16388000 |
Reishiki - the external expression of respect
In Iaido dojo you will practice with a wooden sword (Bokken), or a training sword (Iaito), or even a real Japanese sword with a cutting blade (Katana). There will be numerous people practicing, all in one room. Following the rules of etiquette ensures that no one gets injur... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16400000 |
What is a poster?
A poster is a “public” piece of paper conveying information through text (words) and/or graphic images (symbols or pictures). It’s usually designed to be displayed vertically on a wall or window and is large enough to be seen and read from a relatively short distance. Its main target audience is the p... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16402000 |
Turner created a revolution in painting at the beginning of the 19th century, responding to a modern industrial landscape with a freer style and new approaches to composition. Yet a lasting dialogue with the 17th-century painter Claude lay at the heart of these developments.
This exhibition offers the chance to compare... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16403000 |
Understanding Children Who Have Been Affected by Maltreatment and Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
Both maltreatment and prenatal alcohol exposure result in lifelong impairments that significantly affect multiple developmental processes of school-age children, including language, social communication, social cognition, and ex... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16405000 |
kalash is a common sight in the Indian household, at the
altar. Any auspicious function has the kalash in place
is a kalash?
earthen or brass pot is a pot with an opening at one end
and is blocked to hold things, usually water. A pot is
empty, but has the potential to contain many a thing!
The pot thus represents the i... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16406000 |
What can we learn about land stewardship from The Lord of the
By John Amodeo, ASLA
Build me an army worthy of Mordor,” commands Sauron in
The Fellowship of the Ring. With a maniacal greed for power,
the easily corrupted Saruman turns his cavernous lair beneath Isengard
into a frenzied factory of orcs and armor, fueled ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-16408000 |
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