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Welcome to Science
Science Topic Overview
|What is Science? Explain the relevance of Science to our lives. Identify where Science can be found in the world around us
Set up folder for Science.
|SFL07 p1
|Headline News
|Scientific thinking: explain changes in terms of cause and effect
|SFL07 p2
|Predict, Observe, Explain (candle, mystery object in box)
|Scientific equipment: identify and explain how and when each is used.
|SFL07 p3-5
|Which piece of equipment is it quiz.
HW - OTY p6
|Science Safety in the Lab: Rules
|SFL07 p7-10
|Safety Poster
|Science is carrying out experiments: Safe Clothes in Science
|SFL07 p11-13
|Prac report
|Science skills: Bunsen Burner
|SFL07 p14-15
|Test and licence
|Science skills: Handling Chemicals
|SFL07 p16-19
|HW – OTY p18, Key Ideas p20
|Assessment Tasks
|1. Which piece of equipment is it?
2. Safety Poster.
3. Notes, prac reports and exercises.
What is Science?Draw a picture of you as a Scientist on the front page of your exercise book.
This book will be used for all of your scientific drawing and some of your prac reports.
Google "Science" in Google News - What headlines can you find? Do you know of any research in our area?
Visit Double Helix, Questacon, CSIRO Education, SJE rss feed (news)
Find a story about some cool Science happening in the world around you... locally... or as far away as Antarctica!
Fit as much information as possible into the 200 word limit.
- briefly describe your amazing scientific story in one or two sentences
- who is doing the science...
- how are they doing this science?...
- why are they doing the science?...
- diagrams and pictures to help the reader understand more about your story
- what have they found?
- How could this be applied elsewhere?
Science Skills: ObservationHow many observations can you make from a burning candle
FACT - Michael Faraday was able to make 100!
The colour of the flame is?
The flame is ...... colour at the top
The flame is ....... colour at the base
The flame is ........ colour in the middle
The brightest part of the flame is (where)?
Do the colours change?
Does the smell change as the candle burns? How?
The flame is almost transparent (where)?
The hottest part of the flame is (where)?
The flame moves most (where)?
The flame moves (how) in a small breeze
The flame smells like .....
As the candle burns the wax .....
What happens to the wick as the candle burns?
What happens to the height of the wax as the candle burns?
Is the flame sensitive to movement?
Is the flame sensitive to a knock on the table?
Does the flame go back to its original position after being disturbed?
Where are the embers on the wick?
Scientific ThinkingScientific thinking: explain changes in terms of cause and effect
Science searches for understanding of the things that happen in the world around us.
To check whether they have really understood they
- Predict: a prediction about how things work is called a theory.
- Observe: scientists observe whether their prediction was right. Think about the role of controlled conditions.
- Explain: scientists try to explain why they were right, why some parts of their prediction were right, or why they were wrong.
Working in groups, make as many observations of a burning candle as you can. Can you make more than the other groups?
Mystery Box
Hey! An experiment for you to do at home!
Fresh eggs sink in drinking water. What would happen if you added salt?
P Write a prediction of what will happen.
If you have an egg at home ask if you can put it in a glass of water from the tap.
O Observe what happens. Write down your observations. This is called recording.
down the steps you would take to do a scientific experiment.
Hint: You can improve your record by filming what happens with the camera on your laptop.
E Explain: Try and explain what happened in your own words.
Scientific Equipment
Science Equipment Quiz
Read page 2 - 6
What scientific equipment have you used in primary school?
BBC: The Beauty of Diagrams - Vitruvian Man (1/2)
Uploaded by xSilverPhinx.
How to draw a correct scientific diagram:1. Use a very sharp lead pencil, preferably 2B.
2. Print a heading at the top of the page. Underline it.
3. Draw a simple, side-on view of the experiment/animal/plant (the focus of your diagram). Include only the essential details (e.g. if drawing a beaker, just draw sides and base)
4. Print (no running writing) all labels. Write them horizontally to the diagram and close to the relevant feature. Arrange them neatly around the drawing. Rule a straight line (no arrowheads) between the label and the feature. Labels should include purpose of feature (e.g. pouch: where immature young develop)
5. Rule all straight lines, including underlining headings and titles.
Do not underline labels!
The diagram above left has many flaws:
* unnecessary shading makes the image unclear
* unnecessary detail is shown - e.g. three dimensional drawing of table and flask
* label lines have arrowheads
* labels are arranged all over the diagram and are too far away from the relevant label line
* it has no title or date
The diagram above right is correct
Try this memory game.
Ask your teacher if they can set up five pieces of equipment in the laboratory and cover them with towels.
Get a pencil and a workbook ready. When you are ready, ask the teacher to remove the towels. Now you have 50 seconds to memorise what the laboratory equipment looks like. Using the images in your textbook as a clue draw as many of the pieces as you can remember in 2D (xray). Only one image per page please! How did you go?
Look at and discuss the scientific equipment on p4 again with your partner, then try the science quiz again. Did you improve your score?
Assessment: (to be completed in your PAGES notes and emailed to your teacher before the end of the lesson).
- Select 10 scientific equipment from p4 of the textbook.
- Identify them correctly and find out what they are used for.
- Match their use with the description on p5 of the textbook.
- Find a picture of each in the internet.
Safety in the LaboratoryFollowing Instructions
- Copy the science safety rules from this file into your PAGES notes.
- Which do you think is most important?
- Which are you most likely to forget?
- Draw a map of the science laboratory and show where the fire extinguisher is, the fire blanket, the first aid cabinet, the gas isolation tap, the electricity kill switch and the emergency evacuation door.
- Explain in your PAGES notes why we have to be especially careful in Science laboratories.
Assessment: Make a poster or a sticker! - Design an A4 Poster or sticker highlighting a science rule that you would like to remind people of. Submit this via email as a separate file. Save your file as "Initials_scisafetyposter".
Science Skills: Bunsen Burner
Read and discuss the text on bunsen burners.
Learn how to check a bunsen burner for defects.
Learn how to check whether gas taps are turned off.
Learn where the fire blanket and other fire equipment is kept.
Learn the procedures for accidents and fire.
Visti these links for more information on bunsen burners
Complete the test (checked by your partner and the teacher).
NOTE: Each student must complete the Bunsen Burner Test before being able to use the bunsen in science pracs at our school.
Science Safety: Safety clothing
Prepare a prac report based on the experiment on p12 of your text.
Write the headings...
- write the title of the prac
- write the aim
- list what materials you will need to do the prac
- under results copy and paste the table in this file
- complete the questions from the book (as well as any that your teacher has set you).
- conclusion: decide as a class what should go in the conclusion
Once you are finished...
- Discuss the purpose of having structure in prac reports.
- Why are thy important in Science?
Look at the report below
- What is good about it?
- What could be done better?
- How can you improve your prac report?
- Improve your prac report.
- Email it to your teacher for grading


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The Perth Wildcats survived a spirited comeback then turned on the afterburners to beat the Adelaide 36ers 90-79 in their NBL game at Adelaide Arena on ...
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The Paraguay international has already agreed to leave for Guangzhou Evergrande this summer, but wants to finish his BVB career on a highLucas Barrios is desperate to beat Bayern Munich in Saturday's DFB Pokal final in Berlin in order to end his Borussia Dortmund career on a high before leaving the club this summer.
The Paraguay international has already signed a contract with Guangzhou Evergrande, but wants to complete the domestic double with BVB before saying farewell to the Bundesliga champions.
"My biggest wish is to win the DFB Pokal final in my last game for Dortmund. I want to say farewell to the fans by winning the double. Preferably by scoring against Bayern in Saturday's game," Barrios was quoted as saying by Bild.
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The seeds for For No One were first planted back in the mid-90's, when bassist Wayne Mitchell forged a lasting musical partnership with singer T Keegan, based on an affinity for the then burgeoning grunge rock explosion. Their first venture together was the grunge rock powerhouse Andalusion, for which Wayne provided the drumming. After that band folded, younger brother Josh Mitchell stepped up to the fore with some serious drumming heat, and with Wayne moving over to bass along with guitarist Ryan Olive, they formed the band Blue Stigmata. As new songs were being developed, the band decided a name change was in order, and For No One (based on the Beatles song of the same name), was born.
The band has always been known for cranking out great, straight-to-the-point tracks reminiscent of their 90's rock and old school punk influences (Nirvana, Misfits, etc.). With the addition of Aaron Magram on guitar in 2011, the band soon began to incorporate other classic hard rock influences into their sound (Black Sabbath, Queens of the Stone Age, etc.). Now sporting a broader range of styles in their arsenal, the band believes their sound has evolved to the point where they can simply be referred to as a kick-ass heavy rock band.
For No One spent the majority of late-2011 and 2012 playing various local haunts, at times opening for national acts such as Middle Class Rut and Foxy Shazam. The band then spent most of early 2013 working on their debut self-recorded, self-titled album, followed by a brief Mid-West tour that summer. The songs cherry picked for the album bridge the gap between old and new; tying different eras of the band together with the same distortion, booming drums, and raw vocal hooks that hit the spot. With additional mixing & mastering by Darin Rose, the finished product has both the clarity and raw immediacy that any fan of heavy music could ask for.
The band is proud to carry the torch for hard rock music, as they continue to put together tracks for a second release. Playing heavy rock music may seem like a commercial proposition to many, but For No One believes that, at least in their neck of the woods, straight-up rock bands feel a bit scarce, and they are more than happy to be a part of the proud few that keep on rocking in the free world.


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Svetlana Pankratova
|Svetlana Pankratova
Светлана Панкратова
April 29, 1971
Volgograd, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
|Virginia Commonwealth University
|Known for
|Longest legs of any woman in the world
|1.956 m (6 ft 5 in)
Svetlana Pankratova (born April 29, 1971[1]) has, according to Guinness World Records, the longest legs of any woman in the world.[2][3]
While she is not the world's tallest woman, her legs are 132 centimeters long. Because her upper body is of much more typical dimensions, she is 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) tall. She has also very large feet, size 13 (US) / 46 (EU).[4]
Pankratova was born in Volgograd, Russian SFSR, USSR. She played women's basketball at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, USA, from 1992 to 1995. She was an impact player, setting two school records which are still unbroken:
No. 1 ⁃ Career Blocked Shots, 1992–95 (176)
No. 1 ⁃ Single Season Total Blocked Shots, 1994–95 (75)
No. 8 ⁃ Single Season Field Goals, 1994–95 (178)
Pankratova appeared in Trafalgar Square in London on September 16, 2008 with He Pingping, then the smallest man in the world (before his death in March, 2010), to promote the 2009 edition of the Guinness World Records.[5][6] Along with her native Russian, Pankratova speaks English and some Spanish. She lived in Torremolinos, Spain.[3]
On March 11, 2013 it was reported that Pankratova returned to Virginia after marrying local resident Jack Gosnell. She accepted a position as an assistant coach for the George Mason High girls' basketball team.[7]
- ^ "Svetlana Pankratova, the woman with the world's longest legs". MONACO. 12 November 2008. Retrieved 19 November 2008.
- ^ Longest legs - female Svetlana Pankratova (Russia) has the world's longest legs, verified as measuring 132 cm (51.9 in) in Torremolinos, Spain on 8 July 2003. Guinness World Records, updated 8th July 2003
- ^ a b Longest Female Legs - Die Längsten Frauenbeine!! -- Guinness World Records on YouTube 11-03-2009
- ^ "Svetlana Pankratova: World's Longest Legs Strut in the City". wowOwow.com. 11 November 2008. Retrieved 13 November 2008. External link in
- ^ "World's shortest man meets leggiest woman". USAToday.com (Associated Press). 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2008-09-27. External link in
- ^ "World's shortest man, leggiest woman". ChicagoTribune.com (Associated Press). 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2008-10-21. External link in
- ^ "Svetlana Pankratova, woman with the world's longest female legs, is now a high school basketball coach". Washington Post (Associated Press). 2013-03-11. Retrieved 2013-03-11. External link in
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- Svetlana Pankratova on Facebook
- Times article September 2008
- Record pair size each other up The Sun September 2008
- Leggy lady: Former basketball player shows off her world record-breaking 4ft 4in legs By THAIR SHAIKH FOR MAILONLINE. Daily Mail November 2008 updated 00:35 GMT, 11 November 2008
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My incredible experience at Geneseo led me to pursue the Higher Education field as a career. I love the university environment and wish to play a part in helping other students enjoy their time at university as they learn and grow, both socially and academically. After I graduated from Geneseo, I went on for my Master's degree in Higher Education Administration at the University at Buffalo.
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Another day, another reality show.
Meet the ladies of VH1′s new reality show "Hollywood Exes." The series stars Nicole Murphy (ex-wife of Eddie Murphy – 13 years), Jessica Canseco (ex-wife of Jose Canseco – 4 years), Sheree Fletcher (ex-wife of Will Smith – 3 years), Mayte Garcia (ex-wife of Prince – 3 years), and Andrea Kelly (ex-wife of R. Kelly – 12 years).
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Staerk RTW Spring 2011
The designer presented a beautifully appointed series of sleek zigzag-seam day dresses and draped gowns.
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Staerk balanced her essential separates and various length dresses, draping and twisting some to nearly navel-baring perfection.
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Camilla Staerk designs for a strong woman, but her signature black leathers — even with some silk and lace layers worked into it — felt a bit heavy for spring.
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Fortune Street is Fun for All, Dull for One
Nintendo's new party game has nothing in common with Mario Party, save one: It sucks solo.
Sure, you can play Fortune Street solo, but you won't enjoy it. Not for lack of effort on the developers' part, though; the game sells on the strength of its Mario and Dragon Quest cameos, and those really come to the fore when playing the single-player game. Each CPU-controlled opponent burbles with a constant stream of unique dialogue to liven things up. Mario characters like Toad and Peach riff on their one-dimensional in-game personalities, while the Dragon Quest crew carry forward their various whimsical personalities (Slime makes lots of puns on the words goo and ooze, while Platypunk talks like a wiseguy gangster in reference to Rocket Slime) from the recent DQ localizations. The problem is that after a few rounds of this, you'll have seen all the dialogue and will no longer care.
More disappointingly, though, the game just isn't very well-balanced for a single player. Even on the easiest boards against the simplest foes, they'll always make smart moves and -- despite the "random chance" element of it all -- they'll always seem to have luckier rolls of the dice than you. One match on the beginner's board ended with me getting absolutely trounced, and not because I didn't know how to play; I simply kept rolling low numbers and fell almost an entirely lap of the board behind my A.I. competitors due to sheer bad "luck." Maybe it really was random happenstance, but matches against live competitors never seem to turn out quite so badly.
Take away the cheating A.I. and go up against living, breathing opponents and Fortune Street shines. With four players on equal footing, Fortune Street is as complex and demanding a money-chasing board game as you could hope to find. A simplified mode is available for relatively quick -- i.e., about an hour -- matches, but that's basically just Mario Monopoly. With the full rules turned on, however, the game reveals its true depth by demanding strategic thinking, careful planning, and the occasional mad risk. Fortunes can be won, lost, and reclaimed quickly, and entire matches can hinge on a final few maneuvers.
Be warned; Fortune Street is not a game for casual play. It's not a party game in the sense that you can jump in and jump out for a quick minutes of fun. It's a game about making investments, and that begins with an investment of time. Again, it's very much an old-fashioned board game experience, the kind of thing you played with your grandparents long into the night before setting the board aside for the evening and resuming the next day. Heck, even that part of the experience carries over here: Fortune Street includes a "quick save" ability for those especially grueling sessions. Up to three games-in-progress can be saved, so you can switch back and forth between opponents both local and online.
Really, Fortune Street only suffers from a few small issues. As I mentioned in my recent preview, the lack of thematic applications for individual board spaces is disappointing and makes the licensed tie-ins seem essentially superficial; buying a generic bake shop is a lot less interesting than buying Princess Peach's Cakery Bakery would be. And the uneven single-player experience is a letdown, though perhaps that's to be expected from a board game. They are, after all, inherently social experiences. And Fortune Street excels as a social experience: The sort of thing that fosters knock-down, drag-out competition over the course of long, grueling hours. Just the thing for the holidays, really.
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Comments (26)
turns out i was right :)Posted: Sep 29, 2012 12:00AM PST by Dragongod83
this is a great game... for me. not everyone will enjoy this game. i like the board game aspect and the nostalgia aspect. it is fun in single player but a blast to play with friends
Really fun, even with just one friend.Posted: Dec 14, 2011 12:00AM PST by camac
My girlfriend and I have been enjoying the heck out of this game. Even with 2 of the players being controlled by the computer it has been a lot of fun playing together. I just wish we could unlock stuff in multiplayer because if we want any of the customization we have to play alone and that just isn't as much fun.
so...Posted: Dec 10, 2011 12:00AM PST by Iamsmartyouarenot
it's as good as Skyward sword then? Because it really doenst look like it is. 1up sucks now.
No me agradoPosted: Dec 09, 2011 12:00AM PST by navyivan
La verdad ese juego nooooo me agrado, que padre que sea mario y los amigos de Quest, pero hasta ahi... sinceramente solo se trata de leer, seleccionar y apretar el boton, solo se lo recomiendo a los que realmente sean fan de mario y fan de Monopoly, de ahi en fuera, solo tendran la sensacion de malgastar su dinero, mejor compren el mario party 8 que es mucho maaaaas divertido
If You Haven't Noticed...Posted: Dec 05, 2011 12:00AM PST by XBox360Master
I'm pretty sure it's in every employee's contract at 1UP to include the word 'inherently' in every article they write. At least, it's been that way for the past 5 years. Someone buy them a thesaurus for Christmas!
This looks similar,Posted: Dec 03, 2011 12:00AM PST by samstersos
i think this i sjust like the command boards in Kingdom Hearts BBS
If this were on 3DS, I'd probably get it..Posted: Dec 03, 2011 12:00AM PST by smokeyflea
It might require them to make the games shorter, .. but how much is this really going to sell on the Wii?
Meanwhile, 3DS gamers are hungry for decent games. Mario Land 3D won't hold them for long.. I'm thinking this would have been a fun game for multiplayer, and could have had some really neat street pass features.
Same shit, different toilet!Posted: Dec 02, 2011 12:00AM PST by n0gar
Nintendo needs to retire Mario and come up with some NEW shit.
Same comment, different reviewPosted: Dec 03, 2011 12:00AM PST by Kays Addiction
Do you have to post irrelevant videos on every review on this site?
WowPosted: Dec 02, 2011 12:00AM PST by octoberfleshed
I was NOT expecting it to be good. However, I don't have friends who play board games....so this would suck for me lol. DARN.
Love this series...Posted: Dec 02, 2011 12:00AM PST by Coarse_Limely
Played the shit out of Dragon Quest/Final Fantasy Itadaki Street. Thought it was pretty fun in single-player, myself.
I hope the game does well enough that Nintendo and Squenix do another one with more Nintendo characters. Link, Zelda, and the Fire Emblem crew would be great.
Review ScorePosted: Dec 02, 2011 12:00AM PST by jordanzelda23
They seriously gave this game a better score than Skyward Sword, Mario 3DS, and Mario Kart 7?
1UP is insane. Will never trust their review scores again. Every one of those games are at least A-'s.
Not sure if seriousPosted: Dec 02, 2011 12:00AM PST by milkman_v1
I hope that was pure sarcasm.
AlsoPosted: Dec 02, 2011 12:00AM PST by VeryMadMage
I don't care for their choice of hats. I will never trust thier hat advice again. But I'll talk about. Oh, don't you worry about that. Every time they put on a new hat I'll be there to remind them how stupid I think it looks.
I have friends who would play this with mePosted: Dec 02, 2011 12:00AM PST by VeryMadMage
But I'm not really sure why we should play this over Culdcept. We've played Culdcept to death, but Fortune Street just seems like Culdcept's stock aspect without all the fighting and spells.
Single player loneliness expectedPosted: Dec 02, 2011 12:00AM PST by almostautumn
But this does sound like a lot of fun in a "learning entertainment" type-of way.
No online, also, I gather? Which is the biggest shame. Just doesn't make sense... at all.
Look carefully!Posted: Dec 02, 2011 12:00AM PST by jparish
"Up to three games-in-progress can be saved, so you can switch back and forth between opponents both local and online."
It does support online play. I'd have scored it lower if it didn't -- there's no excuse for something like this not to support WFC.
He mentioned online in the review, however...Posted: Dec 02, 2011 12:00AM PST by paranoid_kanser
I can't see any decent reason you'd want to play it online. Its a damn board game, you should really want to be in the same room as people. Tis why I'm nabbing this during Gamefly and it will be put to use when I visit home for the holidays XD
I think we've found something to take over Dokapon Kingdom's spot in my house.
Awesome!Posted: Dec 03, 2011 12:00AM PST by almostautumn
Totally missed that segment. And then yes, this game is definitely going in the shopping cart!
i think this might be a game for mePosted: Dec 02, 2011 12:00AM PST by Dragongod83
not only do i have friends who i play board games with on a regular basis, but because of LOZ Skyward Sword, my Wii is in functional dust free condition once again!
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Extracting landuse information from Beijing-1 micro satellite images in Longqiao town, Chengdu city, China is discussed here. Firstly, the images are geometrically corrected and registered by several ground control points. Secondly, the images such as panchromatic band with the resolution of 4 meters and multi-spectral band with the resolution of 32 meters are enhanced and fused. Thirdly, the Maximum Likelihood Classifier (MLC) is used to extract landuse information from the fused images. Finally, the Method based on Knowledge Discovering (MKD) is used to extracting landuse information from the Beijing-1 Micro-satellite images. The accuracies of the landuse information extracted by the two methods are evaluated by sampling and visual interpretation. The average accuracies of MLC and MKD are 65.7% and 89.3% respectively. It is shown that the landuse information with higher accuracy can be obtained from the Beijing-1 micro-satellite images by using MKD.
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Recent U.S. government guidelines recommended 60 minutes of physical activity daily to prevent weight gain. For those of us who have lost weight, they recommend 60 to 90 minutes a day to keep the pounds off.
But don't let that scare you. Many cardiologists in the "trenches" say you can improve your heart health with less exercise.
"I think it's a little excessive to expect 60 to 90 minutes -- even if it is a healthy goal; I'm happy if I can get a patient to exercise 30 minutes three to five times a week. And in truth, mortality studies suggest that this really is adequate," says Boyd Lyles, MD, medical director of the Heart Health and Wellness Center in Dallas, Texas.
What's more, says Lyles, splitting those 30 workout minutes into three 10-minute or two 15-minute segments works just as well.
Recently a second study in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise compared the benefits from 30 minutes of brisk walking with those from 10-minute walks several times a day. The result: Both the long and the short walks improved aerobic fitness equally well in previously sedentary people. And they proved equally effective in decreasing other risk factors for heart disease, including body fat and blood pressure.
"The point is to get up off the sofa and move -- because it's the moving that reaps the benefits," he says.
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If you're like most adults, it could be 10, 20, or even 30 years since you participated in any kind of meaningful physical activity. And if that is the case, doctors say the last thing you want to do is put on the football jersey and head for a weekend game of touch football with your nephew and his college buddies. Likewise ladies, don't dust off those old aerobic tapes and expect to go full tilt on day one.
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He looks Strogg. Probably because one of my first encounters with open tech-wings was the Icarus in Quake 2.
I used to play CoV, so fav'd.
This is badass!! Love the angle and perspective!
Ahhhh Techwings. Why do they flap? Great job on the perspective!
Because of technology?
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Centered around "MyStory" video narratives, Pearson's 5th Grade "myWorld Social Studies" curriculum provides an integrated program that will connect social studies with literary instruction.
Student Workbook chapters are divided into individual lessons with reading skills and media /technology/graph skills taught throughout. In Grade 5, overarching chapters cover the basics social studies, the first Americans, the Civil War, the American Revolution, and life in the colonies. Chapters begin with a "spark" question that asks children to apply their understanding of the main concept; a song; connection to "myStory" video; and vocabulary preview. Lessons provide a brief instruction in a large-print font that's perfect for beginning readers; important words are highlighted. Reading skill exercises are integrated into the lesson and "Got It?" summary questions provide an opportunity for application and assessment.
The myStory video DVD-ROM gives students the opportunity to see kids their own age talking about the Big Question and key ideas of each chapter, and concludes with a question about how the material affects their own life. Video "field trips" and animated graphic novel elements are also included to help children personally connect to the lesson.
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We would like to take this opportunity at the beginning of another school year to thank the school district IT staff for their hard work. This summer the district updated and added more technological opportunities for students and staff. The start of school has put great pressure on the IT staff to get everyone up and running. While there are still "glitches" in the system they have done an incredible job so far! Over the past seven years Rob Sparks, Gregory Weissenberg and Greg Zorbas have been developing and implementing the "Classroom WithOut Walls" program.
Central Peninsula Habitat for Humanity sends a very big thank you to all of the community-minded folks who purchased art at the Kaladi's on Kobuk August Art Show. Jay and Connie Golz, the artists, dedicated one-hundred percent of money to Central Peninsula Habitat for Humanity. Your money helps to build safe, affordable homes for families in need. Thank you artists and community members.
From Voices of the Peninsula, Aug. 20, "Sometimes Fisheries Must Change with the Times," I offer some timely rebuttal.
Commercial fishermen were limited to protect the resource on the heels of the same laws introduced in Washington and Oregon. The law was also enacted to ensure that permit holders could earn a livelihood. Guides remain unlimited. Dipnetters remain unlimited. Charters are now limited, somewhat. Area H extends from Seward to Susitna. If the permit card spoke it would say salmon, all species!
Yes, you read it right, free. Earlier this spring the Kenai City Council approved a resolution granting free boat launch benefits to senior citizens age 60 years and older. This benefit is available for the entire boating season except during the personal use dip-net fishery July 10 — July 31.
Last August as the Volleyball season started our family realized that the Soldotna High School bleachers had stairs that were difficult to maneuver. At Soldotna High School we are blessed to have SO many grandparents, parents and fans who come to support the younger generations in all of their Sports, so having accessibility up and down the bleachers is important. We mentioned this problem to Mr.
I am supporting Peter Micciche for Senate in the August 28 primary election. Peter has a long track record of success in our community. His tireless energy, vision and knowledge are characteristics that will help him continue to achieve success and which make him the best candidate to move the State of Alaska forward.
The debate on Prop. 2 is much too detailed. I do not care about outside money or any other political tactic. The first couple of paragraphs begin with the sentence, "This bill would create..." Create? We need to dissolve. The answer is no!
Attention Voters!
At your voting place, before you vote, stop and remember how our legislators conducted themselves during the last session.
1. They found time and money to go to Norway, to study the fishing industry.
2. They did not take care of their duties, and were asked to return to Juneau to finish needed legislation. That was a useless expense as they still didn't take care of legislation needed for our coast line.
3. It is time they put politics and party aside and worked together.
Peggy Mullins recently attacked Mayor Peter Micciche in a letter to the editor. Peggy and I have served together on the City Council with Mayor Micciche. I consider Peggy a friend but couldn't disagree more with her assessment of Peter and most of the claims made in her letter.
Your recent article about Gov. Parnell requesting disaster relief for commercial fisherman is a political tactic only. Whose department closed the fisheries? Right! Why ask the Federal Government for something you should have prevented by proper oversight. Parnell's Dept. of Fish and Game premeditated these actions without proper science and data. The northern district commercial fishery was restricted back in May of this year prior to any science or data of low runs. Explain why these fisherman were restricted before any current data was available.
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Recieved this card when my XFX PVT98GYDLU GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP SLI card failed on me after 2 years.
My nvidia card died and I set up a support ticket on the xfx website not sure what to expect given past reviews of xfx support. I did register my card when I first bought it - this insures the warranty (not sure if the lifetime warrenty is offered on this card though). Turn around on the online support tickets are around 24hrs on business days. 2 response/replies and I got the go ahead for the RMA - yes I had to pay shipping - but my card was dead so $10 is not that big of a deal. 5 business days there - 3 business days to test and replace (they can send an ati card in lieu of an nvidia or vice verca - I asked for an ati) - and 5 more days to come back (so your looking at 3 weeks give or take a couple of days turn around). The time is a little long but rather than being stuck with a broken card - I got a new one! XFX was true to their word!
I did have some issues getting this set up as I have never owned an ATI card before and have to run my system memory at 1333MHz to keep everything stable (the 5 eggs are really for the xfx support that I received). I would give the card 3 eggs as it does not offer crossfire support (but given that it was a replacement for an SLI card that I did not plan on running in SLI - can't complain too much - but would have been nice to have crossfire).
If you are switching from nvidia make sure you uninstall EVERYTHING nvidia - and keep your updates current for Win7. I did have multiple crashes due to system instablity running at 1600MHz - I dropped my DDR3 memory to 1333MHz and increased the voltage manually to 1.6v and have been running smoothly ever since (sucks that I can't get the full 1600MHz out of my memory but not really seeing a performance decrease)
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This is quite a quick question. I currently use*
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Which works just fine.
But this approach unnerves me because while fast, it does not short-circuit like
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I enjoy the very reasonable fact that instance variables are nil before assignment, but I'd like for the situation to be just as easy for local variables.
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We have hundreds of trees at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. This show highlights twelve of those trees considered to be special. These slides don't do these regal and varied trees justice, so please come to the Garden and see them, and all the other trees in person. Photos and text by Jeannie Waltman, Garden volunteer.
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I used the Sesame Ginger dressing from this recipe over a salad of spinach, blackberries, raspberries, and almonds. It was amazing! I can't wait to try the whole recipe.
Grilled Tempeh Salad with Sesame-Ginger Dressing
From EatingWell: May/June 2012
This bold sesame-ginger dressing recipe is perfect with this salad of grilled tempeh, pineapple and crisp snow peas. If you can't find mixed Asian greens, try another spicy green, such as arugula.
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I've only used tempeh a handful of times and this was my first time grilling it. The "meaty" chunks added a nice texture and heartiness to the salad. For the dressing, I didn't have any fresh ginger so I used about a 1/4 tsp. ground ginger. The dressing was bright and tasty and went well with the peas and pineapple. This recipe is a keeper.


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Browns CEO, GM leaving team in stunning shakeup
BEREA, Ohio — The Browns fired their coach after one season. Now they're sweeping out their front office.
Owner Jimmy Haslam announced Tuesday that CEO Joe Banner will step down in the next two months and general manager Michael Lombardi is leaving the team.
"Mike and Joe have left us in good position in terms of free agency and cap space as well as this year's draft, where we have 10 overall picks and three of the first 35," Haslam said at a news conference.
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The stretch of University Avenue in and around St. Paul's Frogtown neighborhood represents what's sometimes called a "transitioning" neighborhood. Here and there one finds nondescript, seemingly empty brick warehouses built at some point in the century well before the notion of urban renewal had taken hold. There are endless hardscrabble shopping centers and retail spaces filled with second-rate Targets and Kmarts. Pawnshops, auto-repair garages, thrift stores, and endless fast-food outlets fill many of the rest of the lots.
Yet despite this mass of mind-numbing ugliness, entrepreneurs of all sorts have moved here in the past five or ten years, filling dying old buildings with all manner of businesses. There are ethnic markets and restaurants, and specialty clothing, book, and video shops run by Hmong, Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Somali immigrants. There is a Russian Piroshki and Tea House in perhaps the last ramshackle Victorian home still to be found on the street. There is a greasy-spoon café in an old auto garage. On one corner of University, in a plain and square brick building, commonly called the Sunrise Market Building after its anchor business, there is a bustling mall with shops of all sorts: a pharmacy, a restaurant, a clothing store, a music store, a chiropractic office, and a large open supermarket with brimming shelves of brightly colored pink and green and gold cans and boxes, aisle after aisle of Asian foodstuffs. All of which is pleasing to 29-year-old artist, politician, community activist, and new father and husband, Cy Thao.
"This area is growing. I want to help it grow further," says Thao on a recent Tuesday morning as we drive through the neighborhood in his red Toyota pickup truck, parking in the lot behind the Sunrise Market Building. Thao is relaxed and self-assured, wearing casual clothes--shorts and T-shirt--on a slightly stocky body. His head is round and balding, and he wears a goatee, which makes him seem much older than he is. He seems hardly to regret his loss in a November 2000 run for the Frogtown seat of the Minnesota House of Representatives--a race in which he pulled a surprising 25 percent of the votes as an upstart Independence Party candidate trying to unseat incumbent Andy Dawkins. "As a politician, I was aware that a lot of local businesses were started with no help at all," Thao explains, dusting off a few words from his stump speech. "They were just mom-and-pop shops. A lot of businesses never get funding from government agencies. I was interested in helping develop the area and putting folks in touch with funding opportunities."
Though there are some historical examples of artists doubling as politicians--German art and performance guru Joseph Beuys, for instance, helped found the Green Party and ran for several offices--there is much about Thao that seems almost paradoxically non-artistic. Perhaps it was this kind of dual nature that led Thao to study both political science and art at the University of Minnesota at Morris, and graduate with a double major in 1995. Or perhaps his study of politics was to please his father, who was a naikong, or a kind of country governor, in Laos before coming to the United States, and who now works in a machine shop in Fridley.
Thao spent time as intern at the state capitol while a junior at Morris. "I got sick of it," he says, "and became an art student. I saw a lot of politicians who were paying more attention to wealth, and to people who knew the system. They never paid any attention to the little guys. I saw one state representative write a letter to a high school football star from his hometown who scored two touchdowns in some game. I just think that's not very important to government."
Yet despite this disillusionment, and his turn toward art, something restless in his intellect seems to have brought him back to politics. "I guess it's easy for me to jump back and forth," says Thao. "At school, I became an American kid; at home, I was a Hmong kid....I think that's a good description of what I'm doing."
A Hmong man, somewhat older than Thao, stops him as we walk through the Sunrise Market. The man shakes Thao's hand and says he hasn't seen him for a while. Thao smiles and says something to him that I don't hear over the music playing in a nearby shop.
For a time, we go upstairs to visit the offices of the Center for Hmong Arts and Talent (CHAT), a nonprofit arts organization that Thao helped found a few years ago. The open studio has a classroom feel. Shelves hold students' early attempts at pottery and other art forms. Painted on one wall is a preliminary sketch of a mural--a landscape scene of St. Paul. Thao explains that the arts group creates a new mural every year as a way to teach students the rudiments of painting. CHAT provides art instruction to Hmong youth in painting, ceramics, and creative writing; publishes a literary journal called Paj Ntaub Voice; and occasionally collaborates on theatrical performances that run around town. On another wall, large photo collages detail the six or seven shows the group has staged in the past five years--pieces such as Hmong Tapestry and The Garden of the Soul, which have run at the Great American History Theatre, the Minneapolis Theater Garage, and at other venues across the Cities and in Wisconsin.
Thao first got involved with the theater group, which is called Pom Siab Hmoob (Gazing into the Heart of the Hmong) Theatre, in 1994, just before graduating from Morris. "It was the only arts group having anything to do with the Hmong community," he explains. With typical enthusiasm and organizational flair, Thao acted, worked on sound design, and did publicity and other odd jobs for the troupe. In 1998 the theater company began talking about the need for more arts opportunities in the community, and the group decided to turn the theater into an arts organization. Thao was the first director of CHAT, starting with a budget of $5,000. He worked tirelessly at raising money, a talent foreign to most artists. But Thao found he was good at it. "This year's budget is $300,000 and growing," he says proudly.
Thao has since applied his fundraising skills beyond the community arts organization: For his recent state House campaign, he raised $8,000 dollars in cash (in turn drawing $4,000 in state matching funds). With these funds, he mounted TV commercials such as the much-talked-about "Cy the Cleaner" ad, in which he carried a broom and chased after prostitutes in an effort to "clean up the city." He also was able to attract and motivate some 60 volunteers to work on his campaign.
And as an artist, meanwhile, Thao has won a $40,000 Bush Artist Fellowship, which explains why he's been keeping a somewhat lower profile in the community in recent months--he's been busy painting. Though there's probably a bit of wound-licking going on, too.
"It's a little strange," Thao says softly, thinking back on his run for office. "In the community, I got support from regular folks in the district....But the politically active Hmong were not supportive. I think it was because I was in the wrong party. They all support the DFL. Even many of my friends kept quiet and shied away from me until after the election. But I'm not discouraged by that.
"If I managed to influence the kids, to get them interested and involved in politics, then it's a victory. Maybe ten years from now these kids will grow up and want what I want. Maybe it's the start of a movement."
In a sense, there are two University Avenues in St. Paul: One is a stagnant strip of widely known national chains, the other a private realm of resourceful community businesses. This same distinction might represent the different sides of Cy Thao: His public side is as a politician and performer, his private side is as an artist struggling in his home studio.
A few days before our jaunt around Frogtown, Thao had given me tour of his domestic world by showing me his current project--an ambitious series of 50 paintings (of which he has completed 33). He spoke while his three-week-old daughter Cyanne slept in his arms. His wife, Lee Vang, herself an actor in Pom Siab Hmoob and now the current director at CHAT, works while Thao (who stepped down a year ago) stays home and cares for the baby, painting when he can.
We stand in the cozy living room of his simple Victorian house in a heavily Hmong-populated part of Frogtown, one block from University Avenue, as he pulls one painting at a time from a pile leaning against a wall near a small stairway foyer. Thao tells stories about the scene depicted in each painting--though, to some degree, the story is Thao's fusion of seemingly competing artistic influences.
On the one hand, he uses the very "Western" medium of oil paint on canvas, creating simple figures, shapes, and objects in bright colors. On the other hand, Thao draws on oral storytelling traditions, in particular Hmong story quilts, to document the culture and history of his people--delving into the most painful of political subjects: rape, terror, and community betrayal during the wars of this century.
Hmong story quilts are called paj ntaub, or "flowering cloth," in the Hmong language. Typically of modest size, about as big as an average TV screen, they are hand-embroidered in very small and precise stitches, usually by women who were taught the craft as children. Traditionally, in Hmong villages in Laos, a woman hand-stitched her family's garments for daily work and ceremonial occasions. Hand sewing was highly valued, and an ability to sew often determined a woman's suitability for marriage.
As the Hmong did not have a written language until recently, they expressed narrative through embroidered design. A few years ago, bolstered by a Jerome Foundation grant, Thao traveled to China to study the art and folklore of the Hmong. There he learned that during wars against the Chinese or other enemies in this century, hand-sewn Hmong clothing was used to communicate to villages the time and place for actions and uprisings.
Paj ntaub itself is something of a cultural fusion. While living in refugee camps in Thailand, Hmong women continued their sewing to pass time. "We did a lot of waiting in the camps," says Thao, who spent five years, from age three to eight, in a Thai refugee camp before his family was allowed to come to the United States. Aid workers in the camps suggested that the women transfer their skills to making flat pieces that could hang on walls or cover pillows. At the same time, the first "story cloths" were made, perhaps as a kind of therapy. Each depicted a different Hmong experience: life in a village, the animals and plants in the jungle, or the escape from Laos across the Mekong River.
The imagery in Thao's paintings draws on the folklore of the Hmong, on historical recollections of recent and more distant events, and on the artist's own observations from his life. In this mode, Thao flips to a painting he has made to document past years of the Minnesota Hmong Annual Sports Tournament, an event held at St. Paul's Como Park each year around Independence Day. The whole event is there on the canvas: hordes of people flooding into the flat lower soccer pitches of McMurray Field, painted as nothing more than a mass of tiny heads lining up at food-vending tents. Kids are running here and there on the fringes of the scene, while a soccer game plays itself out in the lower left-hand corner. In a display of honest verisimilitude, Thao has painted tiny squiggles and white blobs of trash on the ground at the edges of the crowds. He smiles when I point it out, saying that trash-collection is sometimes a problem at the event, which can draw up to 25,000 visitors from around the country.
I tell him he has captured a spirit of a large pageant. "Go there," he replies, "and this picture will come alive for you." (I do; it does.)
Thao's style of painting can seem unusual to Western viewers; while indisputably representative--these are story paintings, after all--it is not what would normally be called "naturalistic." In the sports tournament painting, for instance, everything is exactly represented from the viewpoint of someone hovering overhead in a helicopter. Yet the space is distorted; or rather, it is not organized according to some (persuasive yet artificial) approximation of the way the human eye perceives spatial perspective. That is, some objects or figures in Thao's scene appear larger than they might in real life, and the field seems to be tipped upward, as if at any moment the figures depicted could roll off the bottom of the image. Also, no one person could ever see so many things occurring at once (even in a helicopter).
"Each piece tells a story," Thao says of his work. "I grew up in a narrative tradition....The Hmong lack a written language, so a lot of their stories are hidden in their songs and poetry and their quilts. I want to bring our story cloths into a painting form and merge our own traditions with Western style. In this way I hope to talk about the 5,000-year history of the Hmong."
The merging of Western and Eastern art traditions is not wholly novel. Van Gogh made use of the traditions of Japanese wood-block printing in the late 19th Century to develop his own idiosyncratic style of Western painting. Van Gogh happens to be one of Cy Thao's favorite artists--he studied him in school--along with the African-American artist Jacob Lawrence, who painted storytelling images similar to Thao's in many respects.
As the afternoon wears on, Thao dutifully shows each of his paintings one by one, reciting a well-practiced narrative for each. This play-by-play guide is particularly helpful because at this stage, all of his paintings remain untitled and unnumbered. "I sort of have in my head where everything will be [in the end]," says Thao.
Though the visual technique seems simple on the surface, the paintings contain a kind of compressed encyclopedia of the social pressures the Hmong have experienced through history. In one image, a long line of figures rises through mountain paths toward a bridge--the passage to Thailand. There a communist leader has directed his soldiers to open fire on the waves of people, and figures tumble off to the sides like rag dolls, bloodied and spent. The rest of the line of refugees quivers with despair and horror at the killing.
"When I saw scenes on TV of the war in Kosovo," says Thao, "I could identify with what people were going through. I was there, and I remember lots of fleeing."
Thao's paintings as a whole are meant to contain a collective history of his people, as filtered through his own perspective. In fact, Thao's most affecting recollections are events from his childhood--the trials and mundane suffering his family has endured. In one image, children play in the rain during a funeral festival, which Thao describes as a near daily event in the camps. So, too, Thao recalls that the camp lacked showers, and the only way to bathe was to wait until a rainstorm. In another image, people crowd wildly around a bus that will take them to the U.S.--though only if they claim to have taken part in the Vietnam War. During their five years in the camp, his family was often disappointed to miss yet another "bus to America."
The arrival in the U.S. would stand as something less than a docking at the promised land. Later images from Minnesota show the problems the Hmong have encountered adjusting to life in this country. Thao's family lived in the housing projects of north Minneapolis when they first arrived, which he depicts as a dreary maze of squat brick buildings with barred windows. (One of these, Thao has ironically painted as a zoo cage with animals behind the bars.) A car in the foreground bears a harsh spray-painted welcome to their new country: "Go Home Chink."
On the whole, Thao pulls no punches in relating the stories he has heard or seen. There is much blood, decapitation, and violence in the war scenes, which span most of the century and include historical battles against China in the late 1800s, against the French in the mid-1900s, and against communists during the American war against Vietnam and Laos. (Hmong soldiers were recruited by the CIA to wage secret warfare against the communists, leading to civil conflicts in the Hmong community.) Given this history of bloodshed, there are scenes of Hmong-on-Hmong violence, of blond-haired French soldiers caught killing scarcely armed Hmong soldiers. And then there are the pictures of the aftermath--long lines of families fleeing through mountains or across rice fields or rivers, the dead bodies left behind on the paths or floating in the water. As mountain dwellers, the Hmong, according to Thao, generally never learned how to swim. In a final painting, then, small figures come out of thick green foliage, holding flotation devices made out of plastic bags or large bamboo tubes, on the way to crossing the wide and flat-blue Mekong River. Some of the devices fail, and these figures are then seen drowning. Also in the river is an overturned boat, its passengers flailing in the water. As Thao recounts, refugees would often be betrayed mid-river by the guides they had paid to bring them across.
Thao's family had to cross this very river. "We came very early, before the big problems occurred," he says. "But still I can remember going by car through a lot of checkpoints. At the river, we split into groups in order to fit on the boats. We had to dress as servants and told the guards that we were going across to work in the fields. My brother and sister went first. Then I went. Then my mother and two brothers." Thao's father went last, the rest of the family waiting for him for a week until he finally managed to cross. "It was pretty tense for a while," Thao says.
He pauses briefly, then continues: "I'm painting a lot of stuff that people don't want to acknowledge"--referring particularly to the betrayal of Hmong by Hmong, as not all sided with the U.S. in the war. "It's just the way we are. We're not good at expressing ourselves."
Just as Cy Thao's vision is expansive, his goals for the display of the work are similarly deliberate. He hopes to exhibit his completed series of paintings in its entirety, preferably at a venue on University Avenue such as the Sunrise Market. In this way, his vision of Hmong history can be visible within the community itself. Afterward, Thao hopes to find a buyer--perhaps a museum or a foundation--who will purchase the paintings as a package, so the story will always remain intact. If he can't find such a buyer, Thao says, he will likely store the paintings--bringing them out to show his grandchildren when no one bothers to remember the old stories and the old hardships any longer.
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Its no secret that my kid has his and probably half the august babies share of hair. Everywhere I go the first thing everyone notices is "All that hair" and in most instances it causes them to tell me how "Beautiful SHE is" whichi s annoying but whatever. Regardless, My husband is jewish and he is struggling with the idea of cutting his hair. In the Jewish religion they dont cut a boys hair until they are three years old and they have a big party about it, its a pretty big deal. Neither of us are uber religious but I can understand how for him it would feel wrong to do it. We still arnt sure what we are going to do but I told hubby if he wants to wait then we will wait. No big deal. My family however is not as understanding -_- Everytime I go over to my grandparents house everyoen is always telling me how we need to "Cut that kids hair" and my brother even threatened that the next time he babysits he is going to bring a pair of scissors. (needless to say he wont bebabysitting anytime soon) Pretty much last time I was over there I "playfully/seriously" told them that the next person who says anything about cutting his hair is going to get shanked. No one said anything anymore but I got alot of dirty looks e.e
I dont paticularly want to not cut his hair till he is three but my husband has been very understanding about my families religious preferenes and was cool with letting me bring LO to church for Christmas and Easter and go see santa and the easterbunny and celebrate them equally. So I think its pretty fair that if he wants to do a couple jewish-ey things with LO like that then whatever. Its just frustrating that my family is so rude about it. I feel like they are pressuring my husband into making him cut his hair -__-
I think he is cute with his long hair :/


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LISA Pathfinder will pave the way for the eLISA mission by testing in space the very concept of gravitational wave detection. The LISA Pathfinder Mission was successfully launched from Kourou on Arianespace Flight VV06 on 3rd December 2015 and has now reached to Lagrange Point L1. It entered orbit around L1 on 22nd January 2016.
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Gravitational Observatory Advisory Team says it sees no showstoppersWhile LISA Pathfinder is busy demonstrating technology for space-based gravitational-wave observatories, ESA's Gravitational Observatory Advisory Team (GOAT) sees no showstoppers for a full-scale eLISA mission, writes Jonathan Amos for BBC News:
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11th INTERNATIONAL LISA SYMPOSIUM, 5-9 SEPTEMBER 2016, ZURICHThe eleventh International LISA Symposium jointly organized by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich will take place at the Irchel Campus of University of Zurich, Switzerland September 5 – 9, 2016. Deadline for registration is 31 July 2016.
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"Workouts can be tailored to different levels of fitness and for different muscles," he told us about the THQ game we were about to throw ourselves into. Naturally, he chose the toughest setting.
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