Virgo cluster - of "only" 60 millions light years, many of its galaxies are visible with small telescopes. A sky field near some of the brighter galaxies in the Virgo cluster. The most prominent galaxies are marked but inspection of the Larger Version of this picture will show dozens more. The large elliptical galaxy at the centre is Messier 84; the elongated image of NGC 4388 (an active spiral galaxy) is in the lower left corner. This is a typical rich galaxy cluster, with up to 2000 members. Its large mass is also shown by the high peculiar velocities of many of its galaxies, sometimes as high as 1,600 km/s (with respect to the cluster's center). For comparison, the cluster redshift equals to a velocity of only 1,100 km/s. The Virgo cluster is the.
Government of the United States - Reclamation manages scarce water resources in the semiarid western United States. The department regulates mining in the United States, assesses mineral resources, and has major responsibility for protecting and conserving the trust resources of American Indian and Alaska Native tribes. Internationally, the department coordinates federal policy in the territories of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and oversees funding for development in the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. Department of Justice The United States Department of Justice represents the U.S. government in legal matters and courts of law, and renders legal advice and opinions upon request to the president and to the heads of the executive departments. The Justice Department is headed by the attorney general of the United States, the.
Guide star - Guide star In astronomy, a guide star is a reference star used to keep atelescope pointing in the right direction while moving to follow the sky rotation. Telescope pointing is critical for obtaining good images and photographs. Unfortunately, the sky is in costantly moving, while the Earth is rotating around its axis. If the movement is visible to the naked eye only on timescales of minutes or our, with the high magnification provided by a telescope the movement becames significant in seconds or even less. Computer-controlled electric motors are commonly used to have the telescope move in synch with the sky. But every mechanical piece is bound to introduce some error in the movement, along with structural bendings. Most modern telescopes can use a guide star:.
Amateur astronomy - sky too, for sunspots, eclipses, etc.), and the plethora of objects found in it, mainly with portable telescopes and binoculars. Even though scientific research is not their main goal, many amateur astronomers make a contribution to astronomy by monitoring variable stars, tracking asteroids and discovering transient objects, such as comets. Such efforts are one of the relatively few ways interested amateurs can still make useful contributions to scientific knowledge. Large encounters of amateur astronomers in dark places suitable for sky viewing are called star parties. Amatuer Telescope Makers (ATM's) combine the hobbies of observing and designing, building and constructing telescopes. This hobby was pioneered in America by Russell Porter, who later played a major role in design and construction of the Hale Telescope. Beginners. A good place to start exploring the.
Temple of Set - of being a Nazi sympathizer, citing a recurrent use of Nazi imagery and symbolism, and frequent references to Nazi theorists and ideology, which they claim are found throughout the Temple of Set's literature. On at least one occasion, Michael Aquino provided the address for the Institute for Historical Review -- a leading proponent of Holocaust revisionism -- to the entire Temple of Set membership, saying that he had found "much food for thought" in their journal. Michael Aquino has filed libel lawsuits against critics. This civil recourse is a fundamental right within the U.S.A., but some of his critics say he has abused this right, calling the 1997 suit he filed against ElectriCiti.com a SLAPP. Some critics claim to have been subjected to campaigns of harassment by Temple of Set members.
Catechism - followed by answers to be memorized. The catechetical style of teaching is rote memorization under the guidance of an instructor. The usual question-and-answer style arises from the tradition of placing disciples under a guide, who would ask the questions and prompt the student toward understanding the answers given to be memorized. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early Christian history 2 Question and answer format 3 Protestant catechisms 3.1 Luther 3.2 Reformed 3.2.1 Genevan Catechism 3.2.2 Heidelberg Catechism 3.2.3 Westminster Catechisms 3.2.4 Other Reformed catechisms 3.3 Anglican Catechism 3.4 Socinian and other sectarian catechisms 4 Non-Christian catechisms Early Christian history Catechesis is simply "oral handing down" from teacher to student: instruction by dialogue. As with many things in Christian custom, the practice of catechizing was adapted from a similar style of instruction.
Rally Navigation techniques, tips and tricks - numbers along the north-south axis are called NORTHINGS. When giving a grid refernence, the Eastings are given first, then the Northings. A mnemonic for this is "crawl before you walk", though that may not help some! A six figure standard grid reference provides a resolution to 1/10th of a grid square, which is 100 metres on the ground. The 1:50,000 map can be used down to 25 metres on the ground, which is where the longer references come in. For pinpoint accuracy - always needed for plotting on rallies - a romer is essential. This is a transparent ruler device which matches the scale of the map being used. By aligning the ruler marks accurately over the map, a pencil mark may be made at the exact spot given by the.
Letterboxing - letterboxing in the United States is generally considered to have started with a feature article in the April 1998 Smithsonian Magazine. Further information: Anne Swinscow has written several popular guide books, e.g. Dartmoor Letterboxes ISBN 0950911429 Letterboxing North America at http://www.letterboxing.org More information at http://www.LetterboxingCentral.com More information at http://www.Letterboxing.info See also: Geocaching, Orienteering 2. "Letterboxing" is also a term used to describe the process of transferring a widescreen image to video in a widescreen ratio. See letterbox.\n.
Penny black printing plates - labels were engraved at the top and bottom of the die, along with corner squares to take the stars and check letters. Finally the stars were engraved into the top corners. At this stage the die was hardened and a series of impression made on a transfer roller which as its name implies, was used to transfer the image from the die to the printing plate. Once these images were complette on the roller, this was in turn hardened. A shhet of soft steel was cut which was sufficient in size to take 240 impressions of the stamps arranged in 20 horizontal rows of 12. Onto this plate were marked a series of guide dots, some of which were joined with guide lines to allow the correct registration of the impressions..
Folic acid - having been raised concerning individual liberty, and the masking effect of folate fortification on B12 deficiency or pernicious anaemia. However, most North and South American countries now fortify their flour, along with Israel. The UK has recently decided not to fortify, mainly because of the B12 concern. Folic acid and ischaemic heart disease Recent research also points out a further benefit of folic acid: that it can help lower levels of homocysteine. High levels of homocysteine are statistically associated with a risk of ischaemic heart disease (IHD). At this time, though, there is no proof of cause and effect and as the AHA says: The American Heart Association has not yet called hyperhomocysteinemia (hi"per-ho"mo-sis-TE'in-E'me-ah) (high homocysteine level) a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. We don't recommend widespread use of folic.
Dorset - of Hall and Woodhouse, whilst Weymouth is acknowledged as the first ever holiday resort, used by King George III, and is still a popular seaside resort. Jutting out into the English Channel is the Isle of Portland. Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of author and poet Thomas Hardy. Many of the places he describes in his novels in the fictional Wessex are in Dorset. The National Trust own Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in woods east of Dorchester, and Max Gate, his house in Dorchester. Stalbridge was home of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Poet William Barnes, authors Theodore Francis Powys, John le Carré and P.D. James and satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock are also locals. The author John Fowles lives in Lyme.
Adaptive optics - optics is a technology to improve the performance reflecting telescopes by reducing the effects of twinkling. Adaptive optics work by rapidly "adapting" and reshaping telescopic mirrors. (Note: adaptive optics should not be confused with active optics, which works on a longer timescale to correct the mirror geometry itself). When light from a star or another astronomical object enters the Earth's atmosphere, the different temperature layers and different wind speeds distort and move the image in various ways (see astronomical seeing for a proper discussion). The net result is that an 8 meter or 10 meter telescope (like the VLT or Keck), while theoretically capable of milli-arcsecond resolution, is limited to what the atmosphere permits, which can easily be a factor of 50 or 100 worse. An adaptive optics system tries to.
Talking to Americans - However, the prime minister's name (back then) was Jean Chrétien; poutine is a French-Canadian fast food dish of french fries and cheese curd, and also was potentially inspired by recent jokes about Russian president Vladimir Putin who has a similar name. Also, Chrétien had not endorsed any candidate at the time and, in any event, it does not behoove the head of a neighboring country's government to take such a stand regarding U.S. presidential races. Bush's opponent, Vice President Al Gore, also fell victim to Mercer, when he was asked about the Canadian capital Toronto (it is actually Ottawa). Read here for more info The special was a co-production between Island Edge Inc and Salter Street Films. Alliance Atlantis has shut the doors of Salter Street Films. Review Why Should Americans.
Amphetamine - Today it is officially admitted for treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and narcolepsy. General Info Amphetamine is a synthetic substance used to suppress appetite, control weight, treat narcolepsy and also ADHD. It is a commonly abused drug, usually bought on the street very impure or mixed with other drugs. Amphetamine can be snorted, taken orally, smoked, or injected. When the drug is snorted, smoked or injected, the effects can be felt within a few minutes, but the duration is usually lessened. When taken orally, the effects of the drug tend to feel “smoother” and are generally longer-lasting. Amphetamine was introduced in most of the world in the form of the pharmaceutical Benzedrine from the late 1920s. It was banned except for prescribed use in the late 1950s. It is also.
Crop circle - people want to believe supernatural explanations for phenomena that are not yet explained. Methods to create a hoaxed crop circles have been well-documented on the Internet. A counter argument to hoaxing is that circles often appears in crops mature-enough that they carry seeds, seed-pods are unbroken, whereas trampling causes seed-pod breakage. Crop circle hoaxers counter that it is easy to leave dry seed pods unbroken during stomping and also leave no trace of entrance and egress trampling when the plants and ground are both dry and some care is taken while walking. Several crop circles that were later to have been determined to be hoaxes were at first certified as being genuine by cerealogists due the lack of seed pod breakage. Farmers are not very happy with crop circles, as they.
Tomahawk missile - and storage, and to act as a launch tube. The submarine AUR is launched from torpedo or vertical tubes (e.g. the later Los Angeles class submarines). Surface ships employ a vertical launching system (VLS). A solid fuel booster with steering vanes in its exhaust is used for launch and to provide steering during the initial few seconds of flight while the wings and control surfaces are deployed. The Tomahawk is launched on a preset course above the water and, as it crosses over land, switches to an inertial and Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) system to guide the missile to its target with terminal guidance from the Digital Scene Matching Area Correlation (DSMAC) sytem, producing an accuracy of around 10m. The Block III TLAMs, entered service in 1993, have an extended range.
Walthamstow - James Street railway station Walthamstow Central railway station Wood Street railway station =See Also= The History of Walthamstow Statistics and further info about Walthamstow The KnoWhere Guide to Walthamstow The William Morris Gallery.
Short-finned eel - years for females. They are carnivorous, eating crustaceans, fish, frogs and even small birds. Like other angullids, Short-finned eels are remarkably hardy: they can tolerate high water temperatures and low oxygen concentrations, endure long periods without food, and bury themselves in mud or sand and enter an energy-saving torpor when the water temperature drops below 10 degrees. They are one of the few Australian freshwater fish to have coped well with the wholesale introduction of European and American species. Short-finned eels make excellent eating. Prior to European settlement at least two Aboriginal Australian civilisations farmed eels on a large scale, trading smoked eel with distant communities in return for other goods. For the Maori people of New Zealand, starved of protein after the extinction of New Zealand megafauna, the Short-finned eel.
Startopia - wander about, although the game is largely about influencing their actions in one way or another. The hardware requirements are low by current standards (350MHz processor, 64 Mb RAM, 8 Mb 3D graphics card), the game is now in the "budget" range, and there is a demo version available. External Links Info from Eidos Official site Really good strategy guide.
PageRank - to a page counts as a vote of support. The PageRank of a page is defined recursively and depends on the number and PageRank metric of all pages that link to it ("incoming links"). A page that is linked by many pages with high rank receives a high rank itself. If there are no links to a web page there is no support of this specific page. The Google Toolbar PageRank goes from 0 to 10. It seems to be a logarithmic scale. The exact details of this scale are unknown. The name PageRankâ„¢ is a trademark of Google. Whether or not the pun on the name Larry Page and the word "page" was intentional or accidental remains an open question. The PageRank process has been patented (US Patent number 6,285,999)..
