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Janet Barresi State Superintendent
If you're a parent, do you know how your childs' school is doing? What if the school received an annual report card – a grade of A to F – just like the report cards students receive?
If you heard that a school had an Academic Performance Index (API) score of 921, would you know what t... |
According to my understanding, it is a Roman adaptation of the Epitrachelion and Orarion - essentially priestly neck-garments. I wouldn't read too much into the clothing style itself, as it changes infrequently and often erratically and illogically. But the garment itself, functionally, is simply the symbol of the prie... |
|Title||The National pictorial primer, or, The first book for children (p. 42) |
|Publisher||George F. Cooledge & Brother|
|Publisher Location||United States--New York--New York |
|Publication Date||1850-1859? |
|Image Production Process||Relief prints--wood engravings|
|Notes||Illustrated with uncolored wood engraving... |
Eat and Be Young
But we’d like to add this simple thought: What you eat can make you old.
Last month we explained how age equals inflammation and why inflammation could play a role in many degenerative processes, including diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, high blood pressure and cancer. (See the April 17 issue of th... |
Picture this: flourishing soybean fields. Green leaves, thick canopy, strong stands and roots, an abundance of pods. Optimal moisture, not too hot, not too cold. No disease or pest incidence. The best possible soybean-growing environment you can imagine.
Now picture this: reality. Though the optimal growing conditions ... |
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|Cat neutering practices in the UK
and swine flu
|Cats and avian flu
foetus infection in cats
- the dangers to cats
cat rescue - helpful information from Canada
Despite neutering being one of the most common veterinary procedures, questions remain about what constitutes best practice, and when is the ideal time to neut... |
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PHYSICS FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS
This course is a one-semester introduction to physics with curriculum and instruction designed as an activity-based hands-on course for K-8 elementary education students and open to all education majors. The course emphasizes a student-oriented pedagogy in order to develop various physic... |
The natural objects that I propose to consider are broadly those physical objects which are studied and referred to by science and by a common sense view, informed by science, of the world. Natural objects are, philosophically speaking, individuals; they are involved as units in dynamic, causal processes. I shall draw ... |
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Who needed the Holy Land when they could fight a crusade on their doorstep?
Throughout the 12th century, Danish forces raided the northern coasts of Germany and Poland time and time again. The aim was to fight the region’s pillaging pagans, the Wends, a mixture of tribes that in turn attacked the Danish coastline with ... |
|Foundation of Quantum Theory|
The following well-known experiments serve as a motivation for studying quantum theory. The experimental results cannot be explained using ideas from classical physics.
|1. Blackbody Radiation||2. Photoelectric Effect||3. Compton Effect|
It is well-known that when a body is heated it emit... |
It is possible to use a hash function to construct a block cipher with a structure similar to DES? Because a hash function is one way and a block cipher must be reversible (to decrypt), how is it possible?
migrated from security.stackexchange.com Nov 8 '12 at 12:26
It is possible to build a block cipher out of a great ... |
Who We Are
What is the CTBT?
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans nuclear explosions by everyone, everywhere: on the Earth's surface, in the atmosphere, underwater and underground.
Why is the CTBT important?
It makes it very difficult for countries to develop nuclear bombs for the first time, or for co... |
Produce hay to make a profit
Whether a rancher grows hay to feed his livestock or someone else’s, the enterprise isn’t worthwhile unless it makes money.
Surprisingly, many hay producers have no idea how much it costs them to produce a crop.
University of Kentucky Extension hay marketing specialist Tom Keene says essent... |
Over the weekend, the Washington Post published a series of articles on the poor health of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Cleaning up the bay, which has been in serious trouble since the early 1980s is especially complicated since its tributaries pass through multiple jurisdictions; New York, Pennsylvania, Mar... |
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Bivalves in Time and Space (BiTS): Clams as tools to understand macroevolution
2011 REU Project:
This study is part of a collaborative effort (see also www.bivatol.org/BiTS/) to develop bivalves as a model clade for macroevolutionary studies. By integrating molecular, morphological and paleontological datasets, BiTS ai... |
Robert A. Pritzker Assistant Curator of Meteoritics and Polar Studies Philipp Heck and co-authors from the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry in Germany had their paper on the first isotopic analysis of sulfur-rich comet dust published in the April issue of the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. The dust was capt... |
Published in Speaking Tree, Nov. 28, 2010
The Kanda Puranam, the Tamil version of the Sanskrit Skanda Purana, retells the story of how Shiva’s son, Murugan, (known as Kartikeya, in North India) defeated the demon Taraka and his brothers, Simhamukhan and Surapadman. On his defeat, Simhamukhan begs forgiveness so Murugan... |
On This Day - 22 May 1918
Theatre definitions: Western Front comprises the Franco-German-Belgian front and any military action in Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandinavia and Holland. Eastern Front comprises the German-Russian, Austro-Russian and Austro-Romanian fronts. Southern Front comprises the Austro-Italian and Ba... |
Cyanobacterial Emergence at 2.8 Gya and Greenhouse Feedbacks
D. Schwartzman, K. Caldeira & A. Pavlov
Approximately 2.8 billion years ago, cyanobacteria and a methane-influenced greenhouse emerged nearly simultaneously. Here we hypothesize that the evolution of cyanobacteria could have caused a methane greenhouse.
Appar... |
<networking> (CMIS) Part of the OSI body of network standards.
Network management information services are used by peer processes to exchange information and commands for the purpose of network management. CMIS defines a message set (GET, CANCEL-GET, SET, CREATE, DELETE, EVENT-REPORT and ACTION), and the structure and ... |
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Pronunciation: (rīkhs'rät"), [key]
1. Ger. Hist.the upper house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.
2. Hist.the legislature or parliament in the Austrian division of Austria-Hungary. Also,Reichs'rath".
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, In... |
Photo by Della Chen
At the crux of most debates on the future of food production is one often-contentious point of comparison: the viability of organic versus conventional farming methods. On one hand, our growing populations require an affordable, nourishing, and immediately available food supply — a demand that many ... |
|a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.|
|the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.|
a wind that is strong enough to cause at least light damage to trees and buildings and may or may not be accompanied by precipitation. Wind speeds during a windstorm typically ... |
|Did You Know?|
|Acidic drinks such as soda, energy drinks, and water with lemon erode the surface of the tooth, called enamel, which can lead to decay. Instead of letting acid from drinks sit on your teeth, rinse your mouth with plain water.|
If eyes are the window to the soul, then a smile offers a peek at the pancre... |
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The Aslan base their calendar and timekeeping
units on the period of Kusyu
(the Aslan homeworld) around Tyeyo, its star.
The Aslan year is the ftahea, 212.2 eakhau (Aslan days) long. A
is 319.98 standard days in
length; an eakhau is 36 hours long. Each eakhau has a unique
name; for convenience they are numbered from on... |
KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine for Linux
KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware. It consists of a loadable kernel module (kvm.ko) and a userspace component.
Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each vi... |
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|Part of the Politics series on|
| Communism Portal|
Communism is a social structure in which classes are abolished and property is commonly controlled, as well as a political philosophy and social movement that advocates and aims to create such a society. Karl Marx, the father of ... |
Air Force project could 'transform' supercomputing
Recent advances in supercomputing haven’t just been about speed, but in developing more energy-efficient architectures, as the Energy Department has shown with Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and work on Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The Air... |
Date: August 18, 1995
Creator: Riva, Joseph P
Description: Deficient productive capacity has not yet caused an oil crisis, but that does not mean it never will. Significant increases in world oil demand will have to be met primarily from Persian Gulf supplies. This is a region with a history of wars, illegal occupation... |
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Date: January 2011
Creator: National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (U.S.)
Description: On May 22, 2010, President Barack Obama announced the creation of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling: an independent,nonpartisan entity, direct... |
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E.J. Campbell High School; Prior to 1903 African American children in Nacogdoches were taught at two different locations by Will Sanders, Peyton Edwards Walton, Sr., and T. C. Ayers. In 1903, the schools were combined and moved to a building on Shawnee Street to create the Nacogdoches Colored School. This building, whi... |
Date of Award
Master of Public Health (MPH)
Dr. Frances McCarty - Chair
Dr. Carol Hoban
Postpartum depression is recognized as an important maternal and child health issue. Postpartum depression is the most common perinatal psychiatric disorder and one of the most common complications of childbirth. Studies show preval... |
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How to Create an Aerial Panorama from Google Earth
Peter Murphy (one of the leading lights in the panoramic world) sent us a email on Monday with the thought of creating panoramas from a Digital Earth. The concept is simple - grab a series of screen shots while rotating above the earth and then stitch the images as if ... |
It’s been two years since rumors of mad cows in Texas sank cattle futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange when a woman with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), human mad cow disease, was admitted to an Amarillo hospital.
“The rumor was started, and it’s totally unfounded, that there were cattle with BSE in Texas,” Ted ... |
The sum utility calculates and prints a 16-bit checksum for the named file and the number of 512-byte blocks in the file. It is typically used to look for bad spots, or to validate a file communicated over some transmission line.
The following options are supported:
Use an alternate (machine-dependent) algorithm in com... |
Note: Using access() to check if a user is authorized to e.g. open a file before actually doing so using open() creates a security hole, because the user might exploit the short time interval between checking and opening the file to manipulate it.
Note: I/O operations may fail even when access() indicates that they wou... |
(Acute Bronchitis; Lower Respiratory Tract Infection)
|Bronchi of Lungs|
|Copyright © Nucleus Medical Media, Inc.|
- Acute bronchitis—This is a sudden onset of symptoms. It only lasts a short time and lung function is fully recovered.
- Chronic bronchitis—This is a serious, long-term condition. It causes blockage and d... |
Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the... |
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The concept of disability has changed significantly through history. At one point, disability was seen as the result of sin, either by the person with the disability or his or her parents. Disability was associated with guilt and shame, and people with disabilities were hidden away.
Merriam-Websterís definition of disa... |
|Home > News & Policies > Proclamation Archives|
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 18, 2001
National Park Week, 2001
By the President of the United States of America
The United States boasts an incredible wealth of natural beauty. From rugged coastlines and thick forests to arid deserts and cany... |
16 Jun 2008: Report
The Limits of Climate Modeling
As the public seeks answers about the future impacts of climate change, some climatologists are growing increasingly uneasy about the localized predictions they are being asked to make.
Now that the world largely accepts our climate is changing, and that humans are to ... |
For plug-in car and battery makers, there’s a lesson in the Obama administration’s recent decision to pull funding for research of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles: Don’t rely too heavily on the dole for too long.
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, you may recall, formed a cornerstone of what Bush administration officials en... |
and German Socialism
Written by: Hanna C. Sanchez
Rosa Luxemburg was the youngest daughter of a middle class family in Poland. Although she learned about politics from her father who often read from the newspaper and discussed politics with his family, her commitment to socialism emerged only from herself. Originally f... |
1 Peter 1:1 identifies the author of the Book of 1 Peter as the apostle Peter.
Date of Writing: The Book of 1 Peter was likely written between A.D. 60 and 65.
Purpose of Writing: 1 Peter is a letter from Peter to the believers who had been dispersed throughout the ancient world and were under intense persecution. If an... |
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The neem tree has been called "the village pharmacy" because its bark, leaves, sap, fruit, seeds, and twigs have so many diverse uses in the traditional medicine of India. This member of the mahogany family has been used medicinally for at least 4,000 years and is held in such esteem that Indian poets called it Sarva R... |
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Lawrenceville, Georgia (CNN) -- You might recognize prominent primatologist Frans de Waal from lectures he has given about his research on primate behavior, which have been popularized on YouTube.
His face is familiar to chimpanzees, too; some chimps that he knew as babies still recognize him even after decades apart, ... |
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Exotic pests are nothing new. The hemlock wooly adelgid, which has turned woods from green to brown from the Poconos to the Great Smoky Mountains, arrived 70 years ago on a single hemlock a Virginia landowner imported for his Japanese-style garden.
But while federal agriculture officials struggle with adelgid and other... |
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||This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. (January 2010)|
Aldine Press was the printing office started by Aldus Manutius in 1494 in Venice, from which were issued the celebrated Aldine editions of the classics (Latin and Greek masterpieces... |
Dr. Jane Lubchenco, a marine ecologist from Oregon State University, has been elected to many scientific honors, one of which was the presidency of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science. For her presidential address at the AAAS annual meeting, she looked straight out at the huge assembly of scientists and... |
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Temporal range: 0Ma Recent
|Range of Chinchilla lanigera and Chinchilla chinchilla.
Chinchillas are crepuscular rodents, slightly larger and more robust than ground squirrels, native to the Andes mountains in South America. They live in colonies at high altitudes (up to 15,000 ft/4,270 m). Historically, they lived in t... |
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How often have you driven somewhere, perhaps for a day out in the countryside or on your way to a holiday destination, and have passed an unsightly heap of rubbish bags, a discarded armchair or a filthy sodden mattress by the side of some secluded country B-road?
These piles of refuse, whether household junk or builder... |
S. 3rd Street in German Village
|Added to NRHP:||December 30, 1974|
German Village (Boundary Increase)
|Architectural style:||No Style Listed|
|Added to NRHP:||November 28, 1980|
German Village is a historic neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, just south of downtown. It was settled in the early-to-mid-19th century by a lar... |
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African American Sites to Break Brick Walls
I recently received a phone call from a lady asking when Beginning Genealogy Classes were starting up. After talking a little further to her, I realized she could be teaching the Beginning Genealogy classes. She had gotten her African American ancestors to the 1870 census, an... |
National Trust and Savings Association
|This article does not cite any references or sources. (December 2009)|
National Trust and Savings Association, abbreviated NT&SA, is a designation used by national banks in the United States to denote their national charter. It is significantly less popular than the standard desi... |
August 4, 2004
HONOLULU - The public should stay out of streams, coastal, and
standing waters that are contaminated by storm water (usually brown or
murky in color). Storm water can contain harmful micro-organisms
(pathogens), from overflowing cesspools or septic tanks as well as
animal feces washed into streams and st... |
||This article needs additional citations for verification. (February 2010)|
Opacity is the measure of impenetrability to electromagnetic or other kinds of radiation, especially visible light. In radiative transfer, it describes the absorption and scattering of radiation in a medium, such as a plasma, dielectric, shiel... |
Editor’s note: This story is the first of a multi-part series on the French-Eversole War of Perry County. Part two will be published next week.
The History Channel’s hit miniseries, “Hatfields and McCoys,” chronicled the feud between two families in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. That famous feud is certainly the ... |
Public international law
Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyon... |
Charles Peirce and Allan Marquand
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) was a famous American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist. Peirce was an innovator in many fields, including philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics, mathematics, statistics, research methodology, and the design of experiments... |
Support vector machine
In machine learning, support vector machines (SVMs, also support vector networks) are supervised learning models with associated learning algorithms that analyze data and recognize patterns, used for classification and regression analysis. The basic SVM takes a set of input data and predicts, for... |
Although it is composed in Old English, Beowulf is nevertheless about Danes and Geats, inhabitants of South Sweden as well as modern Denmark. There are eerie parallels between this poem and a late saga, that of Grettir the Strong, who operated in Iceland and Norway. Both authors dealt with the same cultural problem: gh... |
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The troposphere is the lowest portion of Earth's atmosphere. It contains approximately 80% of the atmosphere's mass and 99% of its water vapor and aerosols. The average depth of the troposphere is approximately 17 km (11 mi) in the middle latitudes. It is deeper in the tropics, up to 20 km (12 mi), and shallower near t... |
In the applet below you see 1D realisation of white and correlated noise
with equidistant step in x. Independent random points
uniform distribution on interval (-1, 1) make the white noise (the blue
curve). Correlated random points Vi (the red curve) are
obtained by averaging of white noise in radius Rc sphere, i.e.
ke... |
Case study is often defined in different ways, reflecting evolving practice. What is important then is to define the concept for yourself, and explain to your audience how you are using the term.
- A research approach in which one or few instances of a phenomenon are studied in depth (Given, 2008).
- An empirical inqui... |
New Delhi: The population of the great Indian Bustard has reduced to less than 300, making the bird twice as endangered as the tiger. The rare bird has now been put on the Critically Endangered List by the World Conservation Union.
Alarm bells are ringing for the 'Son chidiya' or the great Indian Bustard. The grassland... |
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What are the rules for splitting words at the end of a line?
In printed texts, especially those with narrow columns, it's necessary from time to time to divide the last word in the line, and put some of it on the line below. The computer's automatic word-breaking system can execute this, but sometimes the output is 'wr... |
After maintaining a steady pace for a century, lighting technology has begun to leap forward, fueled by tightening energy efficiency standards and hefty incentives for manufacturers. And despite a bit of price shock on some lighting products, co-op members-especially large commercial and industrial accounts-are working... |
- Common names: Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat, Queensland Hairy-nosed Wombat, Yaminon
- Scientific name: Lasiorhinus krefftii
- National conservation status: Endangered (likely to become extinct if threats continue)
- Size: 35 cm high, 1 m long
- Weight: up to 35 kg (Females slightly heavier than males)
The Northern Hair... |
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