Datasets:
hypender
/
orion_data

Dataset card Data Studio Files
xet
 Community
1
text
stringlengths
198
630k
Pot O' Gold: 10 Great Irish Children's Authors (page 2) - 10 Great Independent Bookstores - Choosing Children's Books - 10 Great Subtraction and Addition Apps for Kids - 10 Great Kindergarten Apps for Your Tiny Learner - 10 Great Sand Activities - 10 Great Family-Friendly Activities Ireland’s written heritage is almost...
A treaty is a written agreement between nations. Treaties provide information about relations between countries or groups, including agreements about land boundaries, natural resource use, and cooperation. Below is part of a treaty between the United States and the nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, or Haudenosaunee....
Description from Flora of China Stems clustered, short and subterranean, mostly obscured by persistent leaf bases. Leaves 6-20 per stem, pinnate, sometimes undivided, spiny; leaf sheaths open, not forming crownshafts, sheaths and petioles elongate, covered with flattened spines often in short rows or sometimes arranged...
From Our 2010 Archives High BPA Levels May Hurt Sperm Quality Men With High Levels of Chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) More Likely to Have Low Sperm Count, Motility, Study Finds By Denise Mann Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD Oct. 27, 2010 -- Men with high urinary levels of the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) may hav...
Wednesday May 22, 2013 Library Hours: 7:30am to 10:00pm Eastern Michigan University Library Why use scholarly sources? Because of the level of authority and credibility evident in scholarly sources they contribute a great deal to the overall quality of your papers. Use of scholarly sources is an expected attribute of a...
Algae Farm Power Algae fuel or Algal biofuel is an alternative to fossil fuel that uses algae as its source. Several companies and government agencies are funding efforts to reduce capital and operating costs and make algae fuel production commercially viable. Harvested algae, like fossil fuel, release CO2 when burnt b...
Come With Me on a Plastic Carpet Ride! Cities are often littered with trash and plastics on every street corner. The haphazard candy wrapper, bottle, or plastic bag blowing in the wind creates eyesores for locals and tourists alike. But what is the litter situation in the desert? You won't find too much garbage where t...
The issue of global climate change was identified decades ago. In fact, it was first noted in the media in the 1930s, when a prolonged period of warm weather demanded explanation, yet interest in the matter disappeared as cooler temperatures returned. For the past decade, most experts have accepted climate change as a ...
Earth & Space Week 2005: Celebrating our planet while reaching for the stars ESA PR 07-2005. From 12 to 20 February, world leaders, policy makers and space experts will gather in Brussels for a week packed with events organised with a view to the 3rd Earth Observation Summit - taking place for the first time in Europe ...
First Published in EOS/ESD Technology Feb/March 1989 Grounding Of Static Controlled Workstations Although ESD-protective grounding is often crucial, it is far from the only consideration in workstation grounding; the avoidance of shock hazard to personnel is even more Member, EOS/ESD Assn. Grounding Standards Subcommit...
Many students may need to use free dissertations for a variety of reasons. A dissertation is a formal academic document that a learner will create in order to graduate from a PhD program. Because there are so many different writing styles, levels, requirements, and more, the specific needs that a student has for a free...
Iowa State University Study Examines Farmer Use of Conservation Loan Programs AMES, Iowa – Iowa is one of the most productive agricultural states in the U.S., but it also faces water quality challenges related to crop and livestock production practices. A number of conservation programs are in place to help farmers and...
nielsbohrium (nēlzbôrˈēəm) [key], symbol Ns, former suggested name for both element 105, now called dubnium, and element 107, now called bohrium. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on nielsbohrium from Fact Monster: - Ns - Ns Ns, formerly...
Kumamoto (kōmäˈmōtō) [key], city (1990 pop. 579,306), capital of Kumamoto prefecture, W Kyushu, Japan. It was an important castle town in the 17th cent.; one of its castles (built 1651) still stands. There are also several shrines in the city. Kumamoto prefecture (1990 pop. 1,840,383), 2,872 sq mi (7,438 sq km), is not...
What is AEZ The main system for land resource assessment is FAO’s agro-ecological zoning (AEZ) methodology and supporting software packages for application at global, regional, national and sub-national levels. AEZ uses various databases, models and decision support tools. When to use AEZ Useful as a tool of assessment...
Terrorism, Philosophical and Ideological Origins █ ERIC v.d. LUFT Terrorism is the systematic belief in the political, religious, or ideological efficacy of producing fear by attacking—or threatening to attack—unsuspecting or defenseless populations, usually civilians, and usually by surprise. Terrorist attacks are des...
It is known that calorie restriction increases stem cell capacity in aging, thereby helping to maintain tissues for longer. From Extreme Longevity, a recent commentary on the mechanisms involved: "Like it or not food lovers, the single most effective known means of extending animal lifespan is through reducing daily ca...
English painter, illustrator, designer, writer and teacher. He showed artistic inclinations as a boy and was encouraged to draw by his father, the portrait painter and miniaturist Thomas Crane (1808-59). A series of illustrations to Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott (Cambridge, MA, Harvard U., Houghton Lib.) was shown fir...
Launch your students into a discussion of chemical reactions with this fun, safe, and exciting demonstration. This thrilling demonstration of the controlled combustion of isopropyl alcohol teaches students the concepts of combustion, thermochemistry, exothermic reactions, and gas laws. When the vapor is ignited, the fo...
Signing up could earn you gear and it helps to keep offensive content off of our site. Visit our Flying shop Hi!!! Would like to know how the oxygen system works on the Piper Matrix, when the plane is flying at high altitudes. :confused: Pressurization. When you pressurize the cabin the air is condensed and contains su...
This adventure book by Armstrong Sperry is published by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing and is written for kids 8 to 12. The age range reflects readability and not necessarily content appropriateness. Mafatu is a young boy living in the South Seas. As a toddler, he was shipwrecked with his mother during a hurric...
Tips on eating fewer empty calories Posted on 12/3/2012 Many of the foods and beverages Americans eat and drink contain empty calories – calories from solid fats and/or added sugars. Solid fats and added sugars add calories to the food but have few or no nutrients. For this reason, the calories from solid fats and adde...
Click on an image to enlarge the slideshow. The Photoarchive is a study collection of more than one million photographic reproductions of works of art from the fourth to the mid-twentieth century by artists trained in the Western tradition. The Photoarchive was founded first and foremost to facilitate object-oriented r...
Basics of photovoltaic systems The solar energy received globally is approx. 1,540,000,000,000,000,000 kWh/year (1,540 peta kWh/year). This is 15,000 times more than the worldwide energy consumption. Congratulations on your decision to actively use this largest energy pool worldwide. By the way, did you know that solar...
Convergence of technologies has drastically changed the way that Americans communicate and how they access goods, services, and information. Consumers can use a single device to talk to friends, edit and send work documents, pay bills, read the news, watch videos, and listen to music. Convergence also allows consumers ...
Migratory Bird Day on Saturday, May 14, with Festivals, Bird Walks and Boat Tours FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE With the arrival of spring, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and several conservation organizations made an historic announcement on April 28. The Ivory-billed woodpecker, a species that has been thought to be exti...
Efficient solar cells may be one part of the puzzle for providing green energy in the future, but they currently suffer from a major problem. Many of the most efficient solar cell solutions rely on very rare materials such as copper indium, gallium selenide, and cadmium telluride. As long as such materials are required...
The first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix was published on February 21, 1828. In 1829 the name of the Cherokee Phoenix was changed to the Cherokee Phoenix and Indians' Advocate to reflect the expanding scope of the publication. The impending removal of the Cherokees from Georgia was a closely watched issue nationally. As...
Tanks are a basically mobile armoured fortresses, so-to-speak. They are the most heavily armored unit on the modern battlefield. Given the large chassis, heavy armor, and a large calibre, a tank has the potential to deal large amounts of damage to the opponent if not dealt with right off the bat. The concept of the tan...
Best viewed as a PDF Download This Chapter As A PDF Please ensure you have the latest Adobe Reader Broadly speaking, four models of social-political structures for a sustainable future have been proposed, whether by environmentalists or by branches of the left. Each of these can be regarded as an ideal type so authors ...
When one rear wheel drum is pulled forward, the one on the other side moves backwards At first glance, a proposal to replace a bicycle's familiar chain and cog drive with one that uses string may sound like lunacy, but that's exactly what's been done to produce the Stringbike. The system features freewheel mechanisms o...
NTRIP (Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol) NTRIP is a protocol for streaming Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data over the Internet. Based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP/1.1. NTRIP began as an RTCM standard designed for disseminating differential correction data (e.g in the RTCM-104 fo...
Saber para Reagir According to a survey of 600 adolescents from the impoverished Sao Jorge community in the Brazilian city of Londrina, 60% do not use contraceptives and 30 percent have used illegal drugs. To protect these vulnerable teens from infectious diseases, ALIA began the Saber para Reagir (To Know Is to React)...
Mental Mondays: Adjust For The Wind The general rule for dealing with breezes is to add or subtract one club for each 10 mph of wind. The trick is knowing just how fast the wind is blowing. The Beaufort Wind speed scale can give you an idea of wind speed: Wind Speed: Indicators 4 - 7 mph :Win felt on exposed skin. Leav...
Question: "What does the Bible say about satire and/or sarcasm?" Answer: Sarcasm is the use of irony (saying one thing while meaning another) or other rhetorical devices in a biting, hurtful way. There is a difference between sarcasm and satire, although they are related. Satire is the use of irony or ridicule to expos...
for one reason, their will be enough computers for everyone. For one reason, their will be enough computers for everyone. Their is a possessive pronoun - Their books are on the table. There refers to a place or an existance - The table is over there. In the case of your sentence, there refers to the existance of someth...
Langley – The temperatures and the shoreline scenery may be different in the winter months, but many still consider this time of the year to be perfect for a visit to Grand and Hudson lakes. In fact, boating, fishing and hunting take place all around the lakes, all around the year. Safe boating is also something that s...
Learn the ins and outs of an Individualized Education Program (IEP). A grrateful Jacob Landers tells how his mother's support and advocacy on his behalf led him out of struggles with school and substance abuse. New federal initiatives aim to improve early reading instruction in schools across the country. If your child...
Learning standards describe what students should learn at each grade in a particular subject. State standards are created by the state's department of education. Show me standards for a different state Learn more: Why are standards important? National standards are created by national education organizations. They are ...
Glossary of Green Power Terms |What Is Green Power?||What Are the Benefits of Green Power?| |What Is Renewable Energy?||Glossary of Green Power Terms| Annual Consumption – Annual consumption refers to the amount of electricity used by a consumer in one year and is typically measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh). This inform...
are a glass-like surface derived from sand. Some manufacturers offer tiles containing recycled glass light bulb waste, automobile windshield waste and a waste product from feldspar mining. tiles are growing in popularity for many reasons. They are highly durable, freeze-proof and easy to clean and maintain. They also h...
Bakari Kitwana kicked off Martin Luther King Jr. week events at Grand Valley with a speech Monday that drew connections between activists from the civil rights era and activists from the hip-hop era. Kitwana’s latest book is Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era. He is a senior media fellow at the Jamestown Project, a Harv...
TUESDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- When taken shortly after the onset of symptoms, the antiviral drug Tamiflu seems to have protected otherwise healthy swine flu patients from contracting pneumonia during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Chinese researchers Tamiflu may also have shortened the period that patients were contag...
TUESDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Many first-year medical students in the United States may have an unconscious preference for white and upper social class people, but these biases don't appear to affect patient care, according to the results of a survey at one medical school. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine resear...
The Ummah’s Sole Way to Salvation: Al-Firqah Al-Najiyyah Our Prophet (saas) stated, “My ummah will divide into seventy-three sects. And all of them will belong to Hell except for one (which will belong to Paradise): the one that will follow the path on which I walk and my Companions walk” (al-Tirmidhi). This hadith car...
Although all ants may seem alike, they are divided into many different species based on their lifestyles and physical attributes. These living beings in fact have approximately 8800 species. Each species also has special admirable attributes. Now, let us discuss some of these species, their lifestyles and characteristi...
AN INTRODUCTION TO HAUNTED SCOTLAND By Richard Jones A variety of ghosts are to be found in the houses, castle, inns, moors, lochs and ruins of Haunted Scotland. A DIVIDED NATION Scotland has always been a divided nation and its history is spattered with the blood of countless conflicts, many of them fought between the...
Researchers finally know why people with diabetes are more likely to get Alzheimer's disease. That alone would be big news. The huge news is that we now know what we have to do to break the link. Did you miss the growing number of reports in the past few years about how those of us who have diabetes are more likely to ...
Dengue fever is a disease spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito and caused by one of four dengue viruses that are closely related. The viruses that cause dengue fever are related to those that cause yellow fever and West Nile virus infection. Every year, it is estimated that at least 100 million cases of dengue fever oc...
Has Rover been limping around your house lately? Is he having trouble making it up the stairs? Does he seem sluggish and reluctant to stand up? If so, your pet may be suffering from hip dysplasia, which affects the connection between the ball and socket of the hip joint. Even if your pet is free of these symptoms, he m...
What is Ayurveda? Ayurveda, a natural system of medicine, originated in India more than 5,000 years ago. The term Ayurveda is derived from the Sanskrit words ayur (life) and veda (science or knowledge). Thus, Ayurveda translates to knowledge of life. Based on the idea that disease is due to an imbalance or stress in th...
Most of our learning is non-conscious. Schools make use of displays to communicate information to children. This kind of information immersion is used to good effect by advertisers. Just think how easily children learn a tune or pop-song. At this stage we are making no conscious attempt to memorise facts and will not a...
You know what they say about success having a thousand fathers. Those who sired the original Ford Mustang would certainly liven up any cocktail hour with their brains and ego. The folk legend creator of Ford's sporty compact is Lee Iacocca, who more accurately deserves credit for believing that people would buy it; Hal...
- HHMI NEWS - SCIENTISTS & RESEARCH - JANELIA FARM - SCIENCE EDUCATION - RESOURCES & PUBLICATIONS BROWSE ALL RESOURCES BY TYPEAnimation (3) Book/Manual (4) CD (1) Classroom Activity (12) College Course (6) Curriculum (11) Game (1) Kit (1) Lab (9) Lesson Plan (5) Publication (23) Software (3) Tutorial (5) Video (24) Web...
January 07, 2010 Researchers Reveal Molecular Origin of a Spectrum of Human Axon Guidance Disorders Scientists who searched across five continents for patients who have a rare eye movement disorder have finally identified its genetic root. In the process, they have found that specific mutations in this new disease gene...
Every minute of its existence, a living cell must assess and analyze myriad bits of information—everything from the temperature of its environment to the chemical makeup of its surroundings. Sometimes, these inputs cause a cell to change how it functions, but other times, the information may not lead to a measurable ch...
Dr. Katz was also James B. Duke Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center. He received his B.A. degree in biology from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked with Masakazu Konishi. Before moving to Duke, he did postdoctoral ...
Skin and Hair This site is provided for informational purposes only. The information here is not intended to diagnose or treat any condition, and should not replace the care and attention of qualified medical personnel. Use the information on these pages at your own risk, and, as with any information pertaining to heal...
Upvaas, or fasting, in Hinduism is mainly observed for the fulfillment of a vow. Upvas is also referred as 'Vrats.' But 'Vrat' has a wider meaning and it is not just curtailed to the fasting observed for material or other gains. Each day in a week is dedicated to one or more of the gods in the Hindu pantheon. A particu...
ever wonder about the history & heritage of your bison burger? AHH WTF? // This photo from the 1870s shows a man proudly standing in front of a mountain of tens of thousands of bison skulls - an iconic American species that was systematically slaughtered by the millions as European Americans settled the west. The US Ar...
Despite a growth in the number of Hispanics in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), recent studies show Latinos are still underrepresented in these critical professions. To help reverse this situation, the U.S. Army announced today its continued support of Great Minds in STEM (GMiS). GMiS is ...
Pythons are thought to be slithering around southern Florida like crazy but so far a contest to catch them has produced a paltry 21 of the invasive snakes. The first week of the state's 2013 Python Challenge ended Friday with fewer than two dozen Burmese pythons received by the University of Florida even though 777 peo...
Nowadays, whether it’s for a sandwich or a 10-course tasting menu, many people don’t think twice about getting a bite to eat at a restaurant. In fact, nearly every street corner presents a new opportunity to enjoy a meal without the hassle of messing up our own kitchens. Of course, it wasn’t always this way, and our an...
When Francis Gary Powers took off from Peshawar, Pakistan, in May 1960, there was no reason to think his flight above Moscow would differ from any of the other missions conducted by the CIA over the metropolis since 1956. Powers’ U-2 spy plane flew at 80,000 feet, an altitude believed to be out of reach of any Soviet a...
Anne of Denmark was the wife of James I, the first of the Stuart monarchs. Anne was born on October 14th, 1574 at Skanderborg Castle in Denmark. She married James by proxy in August 1589 though the actual marriage took place in Oslo on November 23rd, 1589. James thought of himself as an intellectual and academic. It is...
Creating Heat and Light A Canadian program tests the efficiency and future potential of residential combined heat and power systems at its residential building test center. Combined heat and power systems (CHP), which jointly produce heat and electricity from a single fuel source, can be up to 90% efficient, compared w...
ADHD is a neurochemical brain disorder that affects behaviors related to attention, activity and impulsivity. Hope Haven provides expert evaluation, treatment, therapy, summer camps and tutoring to address the special challenges ADHD poses for children, their families and their teachers. The first step in evaluating AD...
Graduates need to understand credit Published: Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 8:17 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 8:17 p.m. If you've got a recent high school graduate who's getting ready to head off to college or join the workforce, let me share a few lessons I learned the hard way about managing p...
en Español en Français Table of Contents: - Sexual Violence - Harassment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect peopl...
Evolution of physical activity guidelines reflects changing body of evidence Scientific knowledge about physical activity and health is of little value if people cannot understand it and apply it to their lives. For the past three decades, there has been a gradual but steady development in the effort to present informa...
|POLNA: Jihlava, Bohemia| Founded in the second half of the 12th century, Polna is first mentioned in a written document in 1242 as having a church. Originally, Polná was a forest collier settlement near a castle called Polná, originally Polmna. On the line between tBohemia and Moravia, Polna became an important mercan...
THE CIVILIAN ECONOMY The Lean Years By the time Pearl Harbor was attack, civilian claims upon the war economy had been severely reduced. The national store of capital equipment employed in purposes other than those directly concerned with the war was diminishing through under-maintenance and lack of replacement.1 The c...
Spewing Hot Rocks on Old Ideas by David F. Coppedge * The most volcanically active body in the solar system is a little moon of Jupiter named Io. This moon is pumping out the hottest lavas known, from equator to pole, 24/7. That a small body could be this hyperactive is one of the major mysteries for adherents to the b...
The Impact of Evolution on the Humanities and Science by John N. Moore, M.S., Ed.D. The novels of Jack London, the plays of George Bernard Shaw, and even the poetry of Alfred Tennyson contain a seemingly convincing basis for belief in the "evolution" of humankind.1 Tennyson had expressed an evolutionary viewpoint actua...
Wartime violence against women: States must do more to end it Millions of women and girls bear the brunt of today's wars. They are particularly exposed to sexual violence and other injury. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the UN Security Council resolution on women, peace and security, Christine Beerli, Vice...
Did you know? Type 2 diabetes is skyrocketing in India: there are now upwards of 63 million people with the disease nationwide, compared with 50.8 million in 2010.1 India’s economic boom has been accompanied by a meteoric increase in the number of people with diabetes – and those at risk for the disease. Prevalence rat...
.: My Research The universe entered a dark age 300,000 years after the big bang as the primordial radiation cooled and shifted into the infrared. Darkness remained until the first non-linearities developed, eventually evolving into the galaxies that illuminate the universe today. To understand how the galaxies in the e...
IHC History: Part 1 The history of IHC starts in the wheat fields of Virginia during the 1830s on the farm of Robert McCormick. Farming at that time was hard work using only the power and sweat of the farm workers aided by horses. One of the most backbreaking and important jobs was reaping the standing grain, a job don...
Vol. 13 No. 133 SUMMARY OF THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS FORUM ON FORESTS: The fifth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF-5) was held from 16-27 May 2005, at UN headquarters in New York. The main task before UNFF-5 was to review the effectiveness of the international arrangement on forests (IA...
“Every year in our country, the legal and social equality of all races continues to come closer to our ideal,” said James M. Cornelius, curator of the Lincoln Collection at the Presidential Library and Museum. “The great break with the past, the seminal event, the leap forward, began with Lincoln's pen in September 186...
Note: This message is displayed if (1) your browser is not standards-compliant or (2) you have you disabled CSS. Read our Policies for more information. The document includes 11 plates which are also available for download. Plates 2-9 are in shapefile, .JPG, and .PDF format. Plate 1 is available in .JPG and .PDF format...
History | Society, Culture, and Politics in Antebellum America A384 | 2830 | Gamber Above section open to undergraduates only This course examines major developments in the United States roughly from 1815 to 1860. Its primary focus is the widespread economic, social, cultural, and political impact of the market revolut...
- Digital pills make their way to market (Nature, July 30, 2012): Digestible microchips embedded in drugs may soon tell doctors whether a patient is taking their medications as prescribed. These sensors are the first ingestible devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To some, they signify the beg...
The line fastened to the log (q.v.), and wound round a reel in the ship's gallery. The whole line (except some five fathoms next the log, called stray line) is divided into equal lengths called knots, each of which is marked with a piece of coloured tape or bunting. Suppose the captain wishes to know the rate of his sh...
In Orders or in Holy Orders. Belonging to the clerical order or rank. The word “order” means not only a mandate, but also an official rank, and in the Catholic Church, a “rule” of life, as Ordo albus (white friars or Augustines), Ordo niger (black friars or Dominicans). In “Holy Orders” is in the plural number, because...
Robert Falcon Scott Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868–1912, British naval officer and antarctic explorer. He commanded two noted expeditions to Antarctica. The first expedition (1901–4), in the Discovery, organized jointly by the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society and well equipped for scientific research, was c...
Farming and plant protection are segments of agriculture and forestry an independent area. Agriculture involves all issues related to the production of food for humans and animals. Farming is the segment of agriculture that cultivates and farms fields to produce renewable raw materials. In addition to the targeted cult...
March 5, 2013 LONDON (AP) -- Despite six decades of free medical care and widespread health campaigns, Britons are among the unhealthiest people in Western Europe, a new study says. International researchers analyzed the country's rates of sickness and death from 1990 to 2010 in comparison to those of 15 other Western ...
What Is It? Acne is a common skin condition. It is caused by inflammation of the hair follicles and oil-producing (sebaceous) glands of the skin. Hair follicles are the tiny structures that grow hair in the scalp. Sebaceous glands produce sebum. Sebum moisturizes hair and skin. Each hair pushes up through the skin surf...
EUCRATIDES, name of two Greco-Bactrian kings. 1. Eucratides I (r. 170-145 B.C.E.), one of the last and most powerful of the Greco-Bactrian kings. After taking Bactria (q.v.) from the Euthydemid Demetrius II (q.v.), he subjugated the Indo-Greek kingdoms south of the Hindu Kush and seized northwest India as far as the Jh...
Climate Change: Where do we go from here? Kyoto and Beyond Future actions in response to the threat of climate change should emphasize adaptation and new energy technology. The international agreement concluded in Kyoto, Japan, during the first two weeks of December 1997 to limit greenhouse gas emissions to forestall c...
October 20, 2008, 5:44 AM — I’ve spoken about Certificate Authorities and Certificates already. Remember that Certificates include: a public key, the owner and a digital signature. Well you’ve probably asked “what is a digital signature†and how do you “digitally sign†a certificate? A digital signature is ba...
Introduction / History The Luri are a nomadic tribe of shepherds who live in the Zagros Mountains of southwestern Iran. Many believe that they were, in fact, the original inhabitants of this area. Others suggest that they immigrated there from Syria during the seventh century A.D. The Luri are primarily located in thre...
© Evanston Photographic Research: Professor Angela Lee, Marketing is critical to make advertising dollars deliver best return, says Kellogg School marketing scholar morning we wake to our favorite music blaring from the alarm clock and grab a cup of coffee. At lunch we search the crowd for friendly faces to chat with w...
Ra - "Sun" Embodied in the golden sun which is His Symbol, Ra is Netjer of light, life, and heat, and the power inherent in the sun which warms our planet. In several forms, Ra has been venerated as the central Name of Netjer of the Kemetic faith through its entire history, considered both Father and the King of All Ne...
Pulitzer Prize–winner D’Antonio (The State Boys’ Rebellion, 2004, etc.) provides a solid biography of the man whose name lives on through his eponymous chocolate bar. And unlike his near-contemporaries, those evil robber barons, the name of Milton S. Hershey (1857–1945) remains fairly sweet upon the tongue. General con...
As debate rages over sexism and misogyny in Canberra and across the country, a global survey has found Australian women are the most economically empowered in the world. The study says Australian women are the world's most economically advanced in terms of access to education, market participation and anti-discriminati...
By Tracey, Pure Matters As a mother, I’m never really sure whether I should give my child supplements. With so much conflicting information on necessity and quality, it’s hard to determine what’s right for my son and what’s gratuitous. Interestingly enough, new findings were revealed this week that help make my decisio...
We all know that vaccines save lives by protecting people against disease. What is less well-known is that vaccines also are an engine for economic growth -- far beyond their health benefits. I am reminded of this in Tanzania this week, where my organization, the GAVI Alliance, is hosting a conference for its partners....
STATEWIDE - Learn your vulnerability to flooding by determining the elevation of your property. Evaluate your insurance coverage; as construction grows around areas, floodplains change. If you are in a flood area, consider what mitigation measure you can do in advance. In highly flood-prone areas, keep materials on han...