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BranchOut on Facebook. Connect and Collaborate With NASA. Emergent. Atlantic NOAA Nautical Charts. High-Resolution Quaternary Seismic Stratigraphy of the New York Bight Continental Shelf, USGS Open-File Report 02-152, DVD-ROM Contents. High-Resolution Quaternary Seismic Stratigraphy of the New York Bight Continental Shelf USGS Open-File Report 02-152 by Schwab, W.C.1, Denny, J.F.1, Foster, D.S.1, Lotto, L.L.2, Allison, M.A.3, Uchupi, E.4, Danforth, W.W.1, Swift, B.A.1, Thieler, E.R.1, and Butman, B.1, 1 U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA 2 Texas A & M University, Department of Oceanography, Galveston, TX 3 Tulane University, Department of Geology, New Orleans, LA 4 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Table of Contents: Return to the top of page Introduction A principal focus for the U.S.

The goal of the reconnaissance mapping was to provide a regional synthesis of the sea-floor geology in the New York Bight area, including: (a) a description of sea-floor morphology; (b) a map of sea-floor sedimentary lithotypes; (c) the geometry and structure of the Cretaceous strata and Quaternary deposits; and (d) the geologic history of the region. Getting Started DVD Contents Top level Directory: Directories: Current Missions. Agent. An agent is one who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one entrusted with the business of another. In philosophy[edit] In sociology[edit] A social "agent"; See Structure and agency In law enforcement[edit] Special agent, title for a detective or investigator for a state, county, municipal, federal or tribal governmentSecret agent, spy involved in espionage. In law[edit] In economics[edit] In medicine[edit] A pharmacological agent is a chemical substance with pharmacological or biological activity, i.e., a pharmaceutical drug In chemistry and warfare[edit] In linguistics[edit] In computer science and artificial intelligence[edit] In culture and entertainment[edit] See also[edit]

Police Officer vs Peace Officer. Home - Co-Creator Radio Network. Bertrand Russell. Russell led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 20th century.[58] He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, colleague G. E. Moore, and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. He is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians.[55] With A. N. Whitehead he wrote Principia Mathematica, an attempt to create a logical basis for mathematics. His philosophical essay "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy".[59] His work has had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science (see type theory and type system), and philosophy, especially philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.

Biography Early life and background Young Bertrand Russell Childhood and adolescence Russell had two siblings: brother Frank (nearly seven years older than Bertrand), and sister Rachel (four years older). Early career. Instagram Is Now Worth $77 Million Per. Ten Lost Tribes. The motif of "the lost tribes" first appeared in the post-biblical era, and was subsequently elaborated upon in a number of apocryphal texts. In the 7th and 8th centuries CE, the return of the lost tribes was associated with the concept of the coming of the messiah. [2] The recorded history is at variance with the legends elaborated in apocryphal texts.

Historian Tudor Parfitt has declared that "the Lost Tribes are indeed nothing but a myth", and writes that, "...this myth is a vital feature of colonial discourse throughout the long period of European overseas empires, from the beginning of the fifteenth century, until the later half of the twentieth. "[3] Zvi Ben-Dor Benite states that "The fascination with the tribes has generated, along side ostensibly nonfictional scholarly studies, a massive body of fictional literature and folktale".[4] DNA studies have found no evidence of any lost tribes. The Bible[edit] The twelve tribes[edit] Thus, the two divisions of the tribes are: Judaism[edit] Freezing in San Francisco | Linux Format. I missed blogging Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, because the days were rushed and we all enjoyed our first break all week.

So, to catch you up, here's Friday: Friday For us, OSCon kind of fizzled out: we had a busy day on Friday, going to the Women in Open Source talk (you'd be surprised how many attended!) , then the EU Software Patents talk with Marten Mickos (MySQL), Michael Tiemann (Red Hat), and Hartmut Pilch (FFII). The patents talk was interesting for two reasons. First, Nat Torkington (the chair of OSCon and all-round important person) greeted Hartmut in a very interesting way: "Congratulations on your success, if you call it a success.

The other interest was the quotes - when not competing with each other for the best simile for software patens (Pilch, "Patents are like a ladder"; Mickos, "Patents are like tobacco"), they actually had some worthwhile things to say: Tiemann 1, Mickos 0. Mickos: "There are patent trolls out there, and they can kill any open source company or project. " Winnie Pooh without drugs. What Space Looks Like to Kids | Wired Science. Obvious to You. Amazing to Others. « Jeff Unleashed. New Online Database Enables Researchers to Update Risks to Crew Health. New Online Database Enables Researchers to Update Risks to Crew Health An online database of critical medical conditions that could impact the health and performance of crew members on future long-duration space missions has been established. The NASA Human Research Wiki is an online collaborative environment developed to enable authors internal and external to NASA to update the evidence base for medical conditions which are of concern for spaceflight.

This evidence base, which is key to designing adequate medical support for these novel missions, is available to the general public through the NASA Human Research Wiki. The Wiki was developed by the Exploration Medical Capability (ExMC) element within NASA's Human Research Program. The Wiki contains information on medical capabilities including medical condition pages. The new website is intended to increase collaboration with subject matter experts within and outside of NASA. Want to Raise Money With Crowdfunding? Consider These Tips.

The law that President Obama is set to sign this week is expected to unleash a wave of crowdfunding. That promises to give some startups access to capital they wouldn't have had otherwise, but it could set up unwary entrepreneurs for a headache. Crowdfunding is a way of raising capital that involves getting small amounts of money from a large number of investors. A new law, called the JOBS Act, changes the formerly donate-to-my-cause-for-a-tote-bag industry into a popular way for small companies to raise the cash in two ways: It allows businesses to raise money from investors in exchange for a piece of their company (equity) and it allows non-accredited investors (regular Joes and Janes like your neighbor and Grandma) to sink their own cash into startups. Related: Crowdfunding's Wild West Awaits a Stampede If you have been quietly sitting on a business idea that you are convinced will change the world, but you have been struggling to get money to get started, this is great news. 1. 2. 3.

A Rare Mix Created Silicon Valley's Startup Culture. Courtesy of Intel The first in a 3-part series airing this week on Morning Edition. When Facebook goes public later this spring, its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, will be following in the footsteps of a long line of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs that includes Steve Jobs and Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

But there was a time when the idea of an engineer or scientist starting his or her own company was rare. In 1956, what is now called Silicon Valley was called the Valley of the Heart's Delight. Its rolling hills were covered with farms and orchards. Collecting Scientific Talent William Shockley was certainly brilliant, says Leslie Berlin, a historian and archivist at Stanford University. "People tend to collectively agree," she says, that "[Shockley] was one of the smartest people to walk about this valley for quite a long time. " In 1956, Shockley won the Nobel Prize for co-inventing the transistor. "He'd grown up in Palo Alto," Berlin says. An Entrepreneurial Spirit Cindy Carpien/NPR. Kate Middleton’s family gets coat of arms. Kate Middleton’s family gets coat of arms The new Coat of Arms for Catherine Middleton's family is displayed at the College of Arms in London in London England.

Catherine Middleton will use this Coat of Arms until her April 29th royal wedding to Britain's Prince William, when it will be merged with his Coat of Arms. Image by: Suzanne Plunkett - WPA Pool / Getty Images Kate Middleton’s family unveiled a new coat of arms on Tuesday commissioned by her father Michael in time for her marriage to Prince William and designed with the approval of England’s senior herald. The coat of arms features three acorns representing the Middleton children, chosen because the oak tree traditionally symbolises England and strength, and a gold chevron to represent Kate’s mother whose maiden name was Goldsmith.

The colours red and blue are used because of their prominence on the Union Jack flag and the coat of arms is in the shape of a lozenge, suspended from a ribbon to signify Kate is an unmarried daughter. Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs. What are three quick ways to become a leader? A) Execute on the firm’s “axes,” which is Goldman-speak for persuading your clients to invest in the stocks or other products that we are trying to get rid of because they are not seen as having a lot of potential profit. b) “Hunt Elephants.” In English: get your clients — some of whom are sophisticated, and some of whom aren’t — to trade whatever will bring the biggest profit to Goldman. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t like selling my clients a product that is wrong for them. c) Find yourself sitting in a seat where your job is to trade any illiquid, opaque product with a three-letter acronym. Today, many of these leaders display a Goldman Sachs culture quotient of exactly zero percent.

I attend derivatives sales meetings where not one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help clients. It’s purely about how we can make the most possible money off of them. Omega Vector.

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Community Organizations. Must Do Queue. Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future | Wind Fights Solar; Triangle Wins. Earth’s Energy Budget Since many of the options I will discuss in the coming weeks ultimately derive from the Sun, it is useful to throw up an energy budget. Figure 1 Of the 1370 W/m² incident on the upper atmosphere from the Sun, 30% is reflected straight away without pausing long enough to say hello.

About 20% is absorbed in the atmosphere and clouds, and 50% gets absorbed at ground level. For comparison, the energy consumption (conversion) rate of the human race is about 13 TW (13 trillion Watts), which works out to an average of about 2,000 W per person on the globe (Americans are 10 kW). Solar Potential If 50% of the incoming solar radiation makes its way to the ground, then we have about 700 W/m² for the average terrestrial square meter facing the Sun. Note how much bigger the solar potential is than our demand of 0.09 W/m² of land area. But once we factor in efficiency—say 10% for simplicity and conservatism—we need ten times the land area computed above.

Figure 2. Capturing Sun. Emmanuel College - About Emmanuel - The Fellows. The College was relaxed, beautiful yetnot intimidating, extremely friendly and open Emily, 2nd Year MA, LittD, PhD(Groningen), FRHistS Official Fellow; Member of the College Council; Financial Tutor; Tutor; Director of Studies in History College Lecturer in History; Honorary Professor of Medieval European History in the Faculty of History Liesbeth van Houts was born in 1952 in Zaandam (Netherlands), went to school in Amsterdam and studied History at the University of Groningen. She received her Teachers’certificate in 1975 and went on to do a Masters and PhD degree.

In October 1997 she became a Fellow, Tutor, College Lecturer and Director of Sudies in History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Interested in Medieval History and Latin, she has published and lectured extensively on Anglo-Norman history, medieval historiography and literature and the history of gender in the Middle Ages. Further details of her publications. Subject History Email emcv2@cam.ac.uk. Interactive: Timeline of Syria unrest - Interactive. It has been more than one year now that Syria has been in turmoil. What initially started out as protests for reforms has escalated into an armed uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s one-party rule, dragging the country into chaos. Parts of Syria today resemble a war zone. Few cities and towns have been left unscathed by the political upheaval as the opposition has increasingly turned to arms in its struggle to topple the regime. As the government responds with a brutal security crackdown, province after province has risen up in revolt against Assad, whose family has ruled the country with an iron-grip for decades.

Buoyed by support that he evidently enjoys within some sections of Syrians, Assad has dug in his heels. Thousands of lives have already been lost in the violence and the death toll is rising daily. If you are having trouble viewing the interactive below, please upgrade your browser. Plizy - The Pandora of Video! - AppJudgment. Sirians. The symbols they used throughout time were usually of serpents or dogs. Physically, as a generality, the Sirians had darker skin, darker hair and eyes, and were not as large as the Lyrans. As far as their personality characteristics, we would say that they were very devoted to serving mankind. Whereas the Lyrans were committed to ruling mankind, the Sirians were interested in helping or sometimes even saving mankind. They could be very, very zealous, and because of that trait, they often interfered where they did not belong. But you could say they were the crusaders for mankind.

Sirians are principally benign, or Service-to-Others. They are a watery, dreamy race who are basically an evolved version of dolphins and whales, somewhat. HUMAN TYPE C: Very little is known about these. The Sirians are a people whom assist Earth and its inhabitants. Second Generation Mutants: A Descriptive List. Legion. Origin David Charles Haller is the son of Charles Xavier, who later became the founder of the X-Men, and Gabrielle Haller, who later became the Israel ambassador to Great Britain.

Xavier and Gabrielle Haller had an affair in Israel nearly two decades ago, and Xavier was unaware when he left Israel that Haller was pregnant with his son. Haller concealed the fact that Xavier was the father of her son, David, and Xavier himself only learned that he was David's father recently. Because Xavier was himself a superhuman mutant, David was born a mutant with the potential for superhuman powers. Creation Legion was created by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz and first appeared in The New Mutants #26 (1985), although he made a cameo in New Mutants Issue #25 where a photo of him was seen and his character was discussed on paper by Professor Xavier.

Mayor Story Arcs Getting his Powers During his late teenage years, David Haller had left his catatonic state and become autistic. Muir Island Powers. Reincarnation and Gods. Weekly geo-political news and analysis. “The Act of Vaccination or Inoculation With a Needle Arrogantly Bypasses All Three of Nature’s Defense Mechanisms…”, says Dr. Tim O’Shea. Home Page. Dr. Nickolas Themelis: Tapping Into America's Garbage Power. Breakdown to Breakthrough: A Powerful Time. Join Page. Geraint Anderson.

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