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by Michael F. Reber
Abstract: In today’s society, a peculiar understanding of distributive justice has developed which holds that “social justice must be distributed by the coercive force of government.” However, this is a perversion of the ideal of distributive justice. The perspective of distributive justice which sh... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38128000 |
A Nuclear Nightmare
Engineers at a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, in the former Soviet Union, were working on an experiment which reduced the energy of the plant. Because of this, the cooling pumps slowed down. Briefly after midnight the water in the cooling pumps began to boil which lead to a rapid rise in temperat... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38131000 |
|Once your computer is assembled
and connected, you must partition the hard drive and install your
operating system. Although there are many operating systems
available, the most popular operating systems are Microsoft Windows 98 and
Windows 2000. Both can be purchased at your local computer or office
store, and variou... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38132000 |
Welcome to the Ethics Subject Guide
This guide covers ethics specific resources for research and is arranged by resource types
Please use the links on the left to Navigate to specific resource types.
An ideal place to start your ethics research is the Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (2nd Ed.) This comprehensive online e... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38133000 |
The Centers for Disease Control eliminated Leptospirosis from the “reportable human diseases” list, there is, however, still significant concern about this zoonotic disease. Our pets are at risk of lepto as well, however, many owners are afraid to vaccinate for the illness. What’s the true story and just how can we con... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38164000 |
The Georgian conflict ended 1,716 days of no war between nations. But trends favor peace.
Chapel Hill, N.C.; and Bowling Green, Ohio
When Russian troops attacked Georgia this month, rolling tanks into Tskhinvali and bombing Gori, it was not just a tragedy for the Caucasus. It also marked the demise of more than four ye... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38168000 |
Provided by: libacl1-dev_2.2.49-2_i386
acl_from_text - create an ACL from text
Linux Access Control Lists library (libacl, -lacl).
acl_from_text(const char *buf_p);
The acl_from_text() function converts the text form of the ACL referred
to by buf_p into the internal form of an ACL and returns a pointer to the
working s... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38181000 |
Correlate is a new, typically quirky beta service from Google. It’s tricky to understand the concept at first, but essentially the service does for data what TinEye does for online images – provides a reverse search mechanism for finding similar data-sets from trends. Correlating one set of information with another.
Th... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38182000 |
New book reviewed on NPR, Fresh Air
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson
In an effort to better understand the composition of feathers, author Thor Hanson disassembled a wren bird, which he learned how to pluck from reading The Joy of Cooking. After hours of plucking, Hanson says, he learned how ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38183000 |
Constructing an Open Box: An open box with a square base is requried to have a volume of 10 cubic feet.
a) Express the amount A of material used to make such a box as a function of the length x of a side of the square base. MY answer: S=x^2 + 4x(10/x^2)
b)How much material is required for a base 1 foot by 1 foot?
c)How... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38190000 |
United Nations Medals - The United Nations Special Service Medal
About the United Nations Special Service Medal
The United Nations Special Service Medal (UNSSM) was created in 1995 to recognise United Nations service of at least 90 days duration by military personnel and civilian police for which no other award is auth... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38198000 |
(Medical Xpress)—A painstaking effort to create a biocompatible patch to heal infant hearts is paying off at Rice University and Texas Children's Hospital.
Medical research Dec 12, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 6 |
(Medical Xpress)—Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and language are cognitively separate or that music ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38201000 |
Laura Niklason, M.D., Ph.D., has spent the past 15 years in the lab developing ways to build new arteries using tissue engineering techniques, but as an anesthesiologist who works in the intensive care unit, she always had another idea rolling around in the back of her head.
Niklason, professor of anesthesiology and bi... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38202000 |
Salmonella “syringe” ready for its close-up
Salmonella bacteria are tiny, but they wreak mighty havoc on human health, causing serious, sometimes fatal, food poisoning. In 1998, Jorge Galán, Ph.D., D.V.M., the Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis, threw new light on Salmonella’s virulence when his rese... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38203000 |
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are used to treat pain, fever, and inflammation. Traditional NSAIDs block COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes that the body uses to manufacture substances called prostaglandins. Since COX-1 prostaglandins are stomach-protective, blocking this enzyme is associated with gastrointestinal ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38205000 |
BAR 38:02, Mar/Apr 2012
Tales from Tombstones
Amid the desolate, rocky wasteland of Biblical Zoar, Konstantinos Politis and others have discovered hundreds of remarkable tombstones that preserve detailed portraits of life—and death—among the Christians and Jews who once dwelled there. The often brightly colored and int... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38206000 |
School kids have come across human skeletal remains revealed by coastal erosion at Crimdon Dene near Hartlepool, north-east England. As a crouched burial, assuming it is a burial, could it be prehistoric? Bronze Age? Or even older? Evidence for Mesolithic burial in the UK, for example, is virtually non-existent outside... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38213000 |
These notes from special intensive summer programs on Analog-Digital conversion held at MIT from 1956-1957 focus on problems created when digital equipment is linked with physical systems. A "language" problem arises, for the language of the information-processing equipment is digital and the language of communication ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38215000 |
Radical new Boeing aircraft takes flight
The company's new blended-wing plane prepares for its first test, carrying with it the airline's hopes for fuel-saving planes.
(Business 2.0) -- -- It would be a dream come true for the airline industry: A plane that uses up to 30 percent less gas to reach its destination, compa... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38220000 |
This is the third post on Richard L. Bushman's Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2008). [See Part 1 and Part 2.] In Chapter Three, Bushman reviews the several meanings of the term "Zion" in LDS doctrine and thinking.
The Mormon sense of Zion has no real parallels in Protestant thought. In a general sense, Zion... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38223000 |
Add or modify a hotspot
A picture can contain one or more clickable hyperlinked areas that are called hotspots, which function like any other hyperlink. You can also set a default hyperlink for all other areas on the picture where you haven't defined a hotspot.
The Pictures toolbar provides tools that enable you to dra... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38227000 |
Socrates, an Athenian Greek of the second half of the fifth century bc, wrote no philosophical works but was uniquely influential in the later history of philosophy. His philosophical interests were restricted to ethics and the conduct of life, topics which thereafter became central to philosophy. He discussed these in... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38230000 |
Today’s topic was chosen by Gautum U, who attends Caltech. He specifically asked for a “serious blog post” as opposed to a “satire” for this one. (Interestingly, the only other person who asked explicitly for a serious post was someone who chose the topic of Free Will for the 30th. It seems that philosophy is quite som... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38236000 |
Martin Harwit has argued that we cannot have made more than ten per cent of the crucial discoveries in Astronomy. He uses what John Barrow aptly calls `the proof-readers argument'. If two independent readers look at a manuscript then it is possible to estimate, by comparing their different results, how many errors the... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38241000 |
|Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 1991. 29:
Copyright © 1991 by . All rights reserved
Several major themes have emerged from the preceding discussion:
|1.||In most or all galaxies, globular clusters are distinctly more metal-poor, by [Fe/H] ~ -0.5, than the spheroid-population field stars.|
|2.||Both the average and range... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38242000 |
In the depths of the mountainous jungle terrain of the Macarena National Park in southern Colombia, hundreds of labourers toiled amid endless fields of coca bushes under a scorching sun. Using their bare hands, they tore out the green coca plant – the main ingredient for cocaine – from its roots and destroyed it. Surro... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38244000 |
Left: Cars in the bed of the derelict canal. Right: The canal today, with the access to the Falkirk Wheel.
By Trevor Timpson
The Forth and Clyde Canal was derelict for decades. Its locks blocked up with rubbish, and wherever it interfered with road plans it was filled in and channelled through a pipe. It was seen only ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38247000 |
The start of school means it’s vaccine time, and a new 667-page report released today from the Institute of Medicine should offer parents some reassurance. It found that there is no connection between the vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and autism, despite some parent’s lingering concerns. And it said tha... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38250000 |
- Dense and accessible patches of prey, as opposed to just more food options, is better for marine animals.
- How different species are able to determine where the best patches of food sources are located is uncertain.
Marine animal populations thrive when presented with dense and accessible patches of prey, as opposed... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38251000 |
According to CorkMasters, cork forests are indeed nearly natural: the cork is harvested off trees without permanently harming the trees, and no herbicides, fertilisers or irrigation are needed. Although a cork forest must involve some meddling with nature (keeping access roads to trees clear, perhaps even mowing around... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38263000 |
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Overview
This expanded factsheet provides an overview of child sexual abuse prevention and offers resources and answers the following questions:
- What is child sexual abuse?
- How common is child sexual abuse?
- Who are the victims of child sexual abuse?
- Who are the perpetrators of chil... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38271000 |
|A man looks at a satellite image of North Korea’s nuclear test site in Punggye-ri.(Yonhap News)|
North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test complex is an ideal place to conduct underground atomic detonations due to its geological features and isolated location, South Korean observers said.
Observers in the military and gov... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38276000 |
At my talk last night to the Friends of Sausal Creek, I delivered a lot of information about the rock units exposed along Shephard Creek. For a while here I will post what I showed the crowd, starting at the bottom.
The Joaquin Miller Formation is a thick sequence of mostly shale, around 95 million years old (Late Cret... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38278000 |
David M. Lane
Values of Pearson's Correlation, Variance Sum Law, Measures of Variability
The collection of data involves measurement. Measurement of some characteristics such as height and weight are relatively straightforward. The measurement of psychological attributes such as self esteem can be complex. A good measu... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38296000 |
By Gwen Hill MS, RD, LD
Happy Sweet Potato Month! Sweet potatoes are what we consider a “nutrient dense food.” They are filled with many important nutrients that your body needs and are low in the nutrients you should limit. One medium sweet potato has only 100 calories, less than one gram of fat and 41 mg of sodium. Y... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38298000 |
After the hurricane passed, some of the lilacs in my yard were lying on their sides with half their roots out of the ground. Can I do something to save them?
It’s best to leave the righting of large, heavy plants like trees to the professionals (as well as the decision of whether or not a tree can be saved). But straig... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38303000 |
Definition of aconite
a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which bears hooded pink or purple flowers. It is native to temperate regions of the northern hemisphere.
- Genus Aconitum, family Ranunculaceae: many species, including monkshood and wolfsbane
an extract of aconite, used as a poison or in medicinal prepar... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38308000 |
Eaton's, which was once Canada's largest department store chain, partnered with development companies throughout the 1970s and 1980s to develop downtown shopping malls in cities across Canada. Each mall contained an Eaton's store, or was in close proximity to an Eaton's store, and typically the mall itself carried the ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38309000 |
Betsy's Plesiosaur, Nichollsia borealis
Nichollsia borealis, one of the oldest and most complete plesiosaur fossils recovered in North America, and the oldest yet discovered from the Cretaceous Period, was uncovered in a Syncrude Canada Ltd. mine near Fort McMurray, Alberta, in 1994.
Two U of Calgary scientists, Dr. Pa... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38311000 |
Constitutionalism: A Skeptical View
New York University School of Law
May 1, 2012
NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-87
This paper examines the ideology that goes by the name of "constitutionalism." The first part of the paper considers the significance of "written constitutions" The second part of the... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38314000 |
The Other Loving: Uncovering the Federal Government's Racial Regulation of Marriage
Rose Cuison Villazor
Hofstra University - Maurice A. Deane School of Law
New York University Law Review, Vol. 86, p. 1361, 2011
Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-11
This Article seeks to fill a gap in legal history. The ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38315000 |
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Brooke of Alberta, Canada and Nirav of Pleasanton, CA
Play it again, Sam.
- 3 glasses of each of 3 different sizes and shapes (9 glasses total)
- 4 glasses of the same size and shape
- different liquids like vinegar, water, milk, tomato juice, maple syrup, oil or apple juice
- Check with a grown-up before y... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38317000 |
Who Says It’s Hard to Stick to a Diet? A Vegan Diet Might Be Easier Than You Think, According to a New Study
Study in Diabetic Patients Shows Cravings for Fatty Foods Recede and Transition to Healthful Diet Surprisingly Quick
WASHINGTON—Adopting a vegan diet is not just healthy; it’s surprisingly easy, according to a n... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38318000 |
Saturn's potato-shaped moon Prometheus is rendered in three dimensions in this close-up from Cassini.
This 3-D view is a color composite picture made from two different black and white images that were taken from slightly different viewing angles. The images are combined so that the viewer's left and right eye, respect... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38332000 |
Liquid crystals, the state of matter that makes possible the flat screen technology now commonly used in televisions and computers, may have some new technological tricks in store.
Writing today (May 3, 2012) in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38334000 |
A constant shower of subatomic particles rains down from space. A hundred years ago, this "cosmic radiation" was discovered by the Austrian physicist Victor Franz Hess. Among other things, the discovery laid the foundation for a whole new field of research: high energy physics - which recently gave us, for instance, th... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38335000 |
Researchers at Disney Research, Zürich, ETH Zürich, and Cornell University have invented a system to digitize facial hair and skin. Capturing facial skin and geometry is a fundamental technology for a variety of computer-based special effects for movies. Conventional face capturing is well established and widely utiliz... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38336000 |
New A team of researchers including scientists from the University of Florida has shown insect colonies follow some of the same biological "rules" as individuals, a finding that suggests insect societies operate like a single "superorganism" in terms of their physiology and life cycle.
For more than a century, biologis... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38337000 |
There are two different questions at work here, that you've kind of mashed together. The first question is "What is the speed at which a change in the electric field propagates?" The answer to that is the speed of light. In QED terms, the electromagnetic interaction that we see as the electric field is mediated by phot... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38338000 |
Baltimore County Fire Chief John J. Hohman
In my 35 years in the Fire Service, I’ve seen how advances in technology, equipment and building codes have saved lives. One of the most important advances is one of the most humble: the small, inexpensive carbon monoxide detector.
Here in Baltimore County, the Fire Department... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38342000 |
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November 23, 2010 | 8:17 AM |
Farewell and Best Wishes
As this research project is now in the final stages of wrapping-up, we wish to thank everyone who participated in this inquiry; the student... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38345000 |
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
What is Environmental Purchasing?
Although different organizations (government, nonprofit, or industry) may define environmental purchasing in somewhat different ways, it generally refers to buying products and services with reduced effects on human health and the environment. Also... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38354000 |
Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
It was a subject-oriented adjective that was used to label the harmful, injurious, unpleasant, or undesirable reactions (or responses) that a subject manifested (thus, "nocebo reactions" (or "no... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38364000 |
The interaction of invasive bacterial pathogens of the gut such as Yersinia
with the host causes a potent inflammatory response and tissue damage, leading to significant human morbidity and mortality (16
). Several lines of evidence suggest that even during the acute response to infection tempering the inflammatory res... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38365000 |
Of the 594 children randomised, 571 started the study, receiving either milk containing Lactobacillus GG (n=282) or control milk (n=289) (figure ). Fifty eight children did not complete the follow up period.
Progress of participants during seven month study
Table details characteristics of the children before treatment... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38367000 |
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
Introduction | "R" Reading | Curse of the Pharaoh | End-of-the-World Prophecies
Index | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z
Zener, Dr. Karl (1903-1963) In the early 1930s, a Swiss p... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38373000 |
Chile is a country located on the southwestern coast of South America. It is best known in the Anglosphere for being the site of a military dictatorship from 1973 to 1990 under General Augusto Pinochet.
Pinochet dictatorship
In 1970, the Marxist Salvador Allende was elected president of Chile. After his government was... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38374000 |
The Tell Me Why Series, based on the books by Arkady Leokum, gives informative and easy-to-understand answers to the many types of questions that children ask about everyday subjects. This program answers questions children ask about computers, such as: What can you do with a computer? What is a "Motherboard?" What pie... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38386000 |
This teacher's edition accompanies Vocabulary Level A. Full-page, full-color reproductions of the student pages are included, with the correct answers overlaid in a hot-pink, italicized font. A page of notes to the teacher include suggestions for presentations, optional plans, rationale, features of the series and more... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38387000 |
It’s a common misconception that diets and weight-loss programs are the only ways to get healthy. However, Helen Lawler, nutritionist for the Floyd County Health Department, believes that that is not the case. “Instead of dieting, have a lifestyle change. Pick the most nutritious options and start small. Pick two small... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38393000 |
Dragons and Dragon Lore, by Ernest Ingersoll, , at sacred-texts.com
THE DRAGON'S PRECIOUS PEARL
A MOST curious, interesting, and at the same time obscure feature of this whole baffling subject is that of the so-called Pearl which accompanies the dragon in pictures and legends from the earliest times, and is common to t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38397000 |
In Jena, Graph is an interface. It abstracts anything that looks like RDF - storage options, inference, other legacy data sources.
The main operations are
addition, there are a number of getters to access handlers of various features
(query, statistics, reification, bulk update, event manager) .
Having handlers, rather... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38412000 |
Youth Apprenticeship Program
The Wisconsin Youth Apprenticeship program began with passage of 1993 Wisconsin Act 16 (the 1993-
1995 biennial budget) which appropriated funds to the Department of Workforce Development (then
known as the Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations) to support: an Office of Workforc... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38413000 |
Text::UnicodeBox::Text - Objects to describe text rendering
This module is part of the low level interface to Text::UnicodeBox; you probably don't need to use it directly.
The string representation of the text.
How many characters wide the text represents when rendered on the screen.
The following methods are exportabl... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38414000 |
"Be spontaneous!" Paradoxes
A vexing communication block occurs when one person requests or demands something from another that can only be given sponta-neously - like trust, love, interest, acceptance, appreciation, desire, and respect. If the second person tries to comply, the first person may then say - "You're just... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38425000 |
Enter HAMLET and HORATIO. Full Summary
3 Remember it, my lord?
4 Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,
5 That would not let me sleep: methought I lay
6 Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly
7 And praised be rashness for itlet us know,
8 Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,
9 When our deep plots d... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38426000 |
The U.S. military is embracing alternative energy—but not because of climate change. Up to half of the yearly American casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan have been incurred guarding fuel convoys, and the Pentagon will no longer tolerate oil's "burden in blood."
By Edward Humes
The Marines of India Company harbored grav... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38430000 |
Creating a Distributed Wireless Monitoring System for Aircraft Noise
"During the hardware evaluation process, we decided to use NI products because of their high measurement quality, ruggedness, and reliability compared to lower cost sound-level meters."
- Luis Fernández,
National Polytechnic Institute
Developing an au... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38435000 |
The worst example of cruel fishing concerns sharks. Shark fin soup, greatly esteemed in certain parts of Asia, is now sadly also in fashion in some Western countries. Before ordering a bowl in some supposedly sophisticated restaurant, remember that it raises ethical questions on at least two fronts:
• At the top of the... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38442000 |
Day 12 of White History Month: The Imposition of Colorism and Colonial Beauty Standards on People of Color
This is a long post adapted from a longer essay which references a lot of studies so you might notice there’s no works cited, but if you really want it, send me an ask.
Related to racism and colonialism, colorism ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38450000 |
||Big Wyoming, Equality State, Cowboy State
|Admitted to Union
||July 10, 1890, 44th State
||97,914 square miles, 9th largest state
||Gannett Peak, 13,804 feet
||3,100 feet, Belle Fourche River
|Average Annual Precipitation
|Population (2010 Census)
State of Wyoming
Wyoming is in the western United States. It is border... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38452000 |
Extreme star cluster bursts into life (ground-based image)
A wide-field image of the Milky Way stretching across the southern sky. The beautiful Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) is seen at the right of the image glowing in red. It is within this spiral arm of our Milky Way that NGC 3603 resides. At the centre of the image is t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38456000 |
New SRNL Device Measures Liquid Fill Level
( Download printer-friendly, PDF version)
AIKEN, S.C. (November 18, 2010) – The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently granted Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) a U.S. Patent for an Ultrasonic Liquid Level Detector developed by Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38464000 |
Once the Sample Return Capsule is
recovered at the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR),
its contents will be placed in the capable hands of
the Stardust Curation Team - who are based at the Johnson
Space Center (JSC).
This team will then go about the business of carefully
transporting the aerogel containing grains from... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38469000 |
U.S. Department of Education officials last week strongly urged local educators to provide more opportunities for students with disabilities to participate in after-school sports; opportunities, a recent report suggests, that such students sorely lack.
But the guidance — which some advocates likened to Title IX’s expan... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38471000 |
A beautiful Aritaware porcelain plate in the Museum’s collection, decorated with underglaze blue, dates to the mid-Edo period (1615–1868). Its exquisite design features a simple yet precisely painted radiating flower, unfolding with weblike precision. Our watch has been adapted from this elegant motif.
Resin case. Resi... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38477000 |
What is Culture Shock?
Culture Shock is the name given to a feeling of disorientation or confusion that often occurs when a person leaves a familiar place and moves to an unfamiliar place. The reaction may be both physical and psychological, and some students will probably at some point ask themselves why they chose to... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38481000 |
Mathematics, one of the very oldest human disciplines, is an indispensable tool for analysing and explaining the world around us, providing us with the skills to deal with the most abstract concepts. Mathematics and statistics play a fundamental role in the sciences, in commerce and in every other activity where quanti... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38489000 |
Inauguration of the University
The University of Sydney was inaugurated on 11 October 1852 in premises formerly belonging to Sydney College, now Sydney Grammar School. The ceremony was reported in detail in the Illustrated London News on 29 January 1853.
The Governor of New South Wales' chair had a shield bearing the R... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38490000 |
Just go outside on a sunny day and start shooting whatever's nearby. And aren't I glad that this is a camera thread to give context to that sentence...
Anyway, you want to understand the relationship of three things, represented with different numbers: Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO. Changing either one of them will ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38501000 |
Trees are the largest plants in Terraria, appearing only at the surface and often in clusters with similar height. Trees can be chopped down with an axe or explosives. Destroying or chopping a tree will yield many units of wood, an essential crafting material, and give a chance of dropping one or more acorns that can b... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38505000 |
The Halliburton Loophole
Despite the widespread use of the practice, and the risks hydraulic fracturing poses to human health and safe drinking water supplies, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") does not regulate the injection of fracturing fluids under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The oil and gas industr... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38506000 |
Everyone knows that Earth Day is coming up, but there are also a few other environmentally-related events going on this month.
-NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION WEEK (April 13-19)
National Environmental Education Week promotes the understanding and protection of the environment by actively engaging students and teacher... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38525000 |
News > Scientists reconstruct Red Sea parting
Researchers at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have produced a computer simulation that demonstrates how the parting of the Red Sea described in the Book of Exodus could have been caused by strong winds.
The study, which is part of a larger project lo... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38531000 |
Texas skunks risk life and limb during mating season.
By Sheryl Smith-Rodgers
Alas, pity the poor skunk. Like snakes, spiders and vultures, this much-maligned creature receives little positive publicity and has next to no admirers. To top off its dismal — and foul-smelling — reputation, a skunk’s love life is rife with... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38549000 |
Pest Advice - General Publications
Full Title: A Field Key to the Most Common Lygus Species Found in Agronomic Crops of the Central San Joaquin Valley of California. Correct identification of captured Lygus bugs and similar-looking insects is a key to accurate research and pest control. This publication and its compani... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38563000 |
War of Colonial Aggression
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|War of Colonial Aggression|
|Colonial Insurgents||British Peacekeepers ("Redcoats")|
|the Great Traitor, George Washington||General Cornwallis|
|Rich slave-owning aristocrats, ignorant mobs||Truth, justice, and the British Way|
|"Don't Tread o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38568000 |
Even earlier at the beginning of the nineteenth century,
British traders already sensed that their reliance on China as the sole source of tea could not continue
indefinitely. China's monopoly on commercial tea production was fast becoming unacceptable to England,
and the illicit opium trade continually aggravated the ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38572000 |
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In the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa it is said that in the intestine of the mother the umbilical cord, which is known as āpyāyanī, joins the mother to the abdomen of the child, and through this passage the child within the womb accepts the mother’s assimilated foodstuf... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38581000 |
Surprise, surprise... Junk food is bad for you. Back in January, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reported that just one high-fat, high-sugar meal can trigger a biochemical cascade, causing inflammation of blood vessels and immediate, detrimental changes to the nervous system. The good news is that jus... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38583000 |
VOLUME AND INTENSITY Training volume and training intensity have historically been the two main variables in any plan to improve physical fitness. Volume refers to how much you train. Intensity refers to how hard you train.
Manipulating these variables has traditionally been the staple of any endurance program. The tra... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38586000 |
Anatomic and physiologic considerations are the basis for proper diagnostic techniques. We will discuss basic diagnostic procedures
and relative pharmacological consideration to enhance the ophthalmic examination.
Normal anatomy and physiology
The eye is a sensitive neurological tissue and is considered the anterior ex... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38590000 |
What are bitcoins, everybody asks. The usual answer is “they are a distributed, semi-anonymous, peer to peer, cryptographic digital currency” or something along those lines, but there is another simpler way to look at bitcoins.
Bitcoins are a tech stock – tech because they solve a technological problem and have a techn... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38593000 |
Authors: J. Marvin Herndon
Ours is a time of unparalleled richness in astronomical observations, but understanding seems to be absent throughout broad areas of astrophysics. Among some groups of astrophysicists there appears to be measured degrees of consensus, as indicated by the prevalence of so-called "standard mode... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38595000 |
Authored by: Sam Jarmasz, Rachel Erickson, and Helga Jakobson on August 25, 2011
And so, the end of summer has arrived. After six adventurous weeks we find ourselves reminiscing about our many adventures. From day one, we knew that we would have an exciting summer. The energy and enthusiasm that the campers brought wit... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38597000 |
A People's Constitutional Convention
From previously written material that needs repeating-
The idea of a People's Constitutional Convention is not new. Over the years, many individuals and organizations have advocated such an event for a variety of causes. The original Constitutional Convention convened on and off in ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38598000 |
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On the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Ray Suarez talks to retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. James Zumwalt about his new book on the Vietnam War, as seen through the eyes of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong veterans.
RAY SUAREZ: So, give us some examples of the kind of techniques and tactics the Nort... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38599000 |
This page lists climate science and climate impact claims that have either not been proven, or have had the claim modified, moved, or expanded to protect the claimant from having to admit the original claim was wrong.
This will always be a work in progress. New items will be added as they are examined and will include:... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38604000 |
By Ellen Brown / www.webofdebt.com
— President John Adams is quoted as saying, “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” The major conquests today are on the battlefield of debt, a war that is raging globally. Debt forces individuals into financial slavery to the b... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38612000 |
“Drunkorexia”: Worrying Trend Has Students Eating Less, Drinking More
It is hardly news that eating disorders and alcohol abuse both have a significant presence on college campuses. However, a disturbing trend among young adults called “drunkorexia,” a combination of these two disorders, has recently been which is maki... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38617000 |
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