Sex education - whether society or the individual should dictate sexual mores. Sexual education may thus be seen as providing individuals with the knowledge necessary to liberate themselves from socially organized sexual oppression and to make up their own minds. In addition, sexual oppression may be viewed as socially harmful. A more common approach to sex education is to view it as necessary to reduce risk behaviors such as unprotected sex, but these views sometimes go hand in hand. Additionally, proponents of comprehensive sex ed contend that education about homosexuality encourages tolerance, but does not "turn students gay" as some conservatives believe. To another large and vocal group in the sex education debate, the political question is whether the state or the family should dictate sexual mores. They believe that sexual mores should be.
PageRank - family of algorithms for assigning numerical weightings to hyperlinked documents (or web pages) indexed by a search engine. Its properties are much discussed by search engine optimization (SEO) experts. The PageRank system is one of the methods that the most successful search engine, Google, uses to determine a page's relevance or importance. It was developed by Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin while at Stanford University in 1998. As Google puts it: PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page.
The Canon of Medicine - centuries, and is the great Persians' well-renowned masterpiece. Through it Ibn Sina is now known to be the father of modern-day medicine. The principles of medicine described by him ten centuries ago in this book, are still taught at UCLA and Yale, among others, as part of the history of medicine. Ibn Sina's compendium of medical knowledge guide to clinical teaching, was based upon writings of Galen but infused with Arabic medical lore and personal experience. In his book he determined the causes of health and diseases. Ibn Sina believed that the human body cannot be restored to health unless the causes of both health and disease are determined. He stated that Medicine (tibb) is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body when in health.
Witchcraft - itself. I have seen people haggle over the term on end, and the best way I've seen it explained by one of the latter that is fair to the former is that witchcraft (lowercase "w") denotes the practice, while Witchcraft (uppercase "w") refers to the religion. A witch can be of any (or no) religion and is not always necessarily a Pagan. (Someone should clean this up for me. This is the first time I'm posting anything here). Source material for this info includes: The Truth About Witchcraft Today, 1988, Scott Cunningham; The Encyclopedia of Witches & Witchcraft, Second Edition, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Checkmark Books, 1999, pp. 366, 372-374, 378. ; http://members.aol.com/dissonantia (a large number of the links there are now defunct, but the site includes pertinent snippets from the sites);.
Weblog - Weblog simple:blog A weblog (often web log, also known as a blog, see below) is a website which contains periodic, chronologically ordered posts in a common webspace. The individual posts (which taken together are the weblog) either share a particular theme, or a single or small group of authors. The totality of web logs and blog-related webs is usually called the blogosphere. The format of web logs varies, from simple bullet lists of hyperlinks, to article summaries with user-provided comments and ratings. Individual web log entries are almost always date and time-stamped, and tend to be presented in reverse chronological order, with the newest post at the top of the page. Because links are so important to web blogs, most web blogs have a way of archiving older entries and generating.
Information foraging - "built-in" food foraging mechanisms that evolved to help our animal ancestors find the prey. Better understanding of human search behaviour can improve the usability of the web-sites. In 1970s a theory was developed by anthropologists and ecologists to explain animal foraging strategies. It suggested that animals constantly consider the available food and the cost of obtaining it, deciding to stay for a while or move on to the next food patch. In the early 1990s Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card from PARC noticed the similarities between users' information searching patterns and animal food foraging strategies. Working together with psychologists on analysing users' actions, the information landscape that they navigated (links, descriptions, and other data) they showed that information seekers do indeed use the same strategies as food foragers. Informavores constantly make.
Management information systems - research data, advertising data, and other marketing records - processing these marketing records into advertising elasticity reports, marketing plans, and sales activity reports - recording and storing business intelligence data, competitor analysis data, industry data, corporate objectives, and other strategic management records - processing these strategic management records into industry trends reports, market share reports, mission statements, and portfolio models - use of all the above to implement, control, and monitor plans, strategies, tactics, new products, new business models or new business ventures The decision support role The business decision making support function goes one step further. It is an integral part of making decisions. It allows users to ask “What if . . . ?” questions : What if we increase the price by 5%? ; What if we increase.
John Wesley Harding - influences include: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Ray Davies, Phil Ochs... Discography It Happened One Night (live) God Made Me Do It (EP) Here Comes The Groom The Name Above The Title Why We Fight Pett Levels (EP) John Wesley Harding's New Deal Dynablob (studio outtakes, fan club release) Dynablob 2 (live recordings, fan club release) Awake Trad Arr Jones (a tribute to Nic Jones The Confessions of St. Ace Dynablob 3 (live, fan club release) The Man with No Shadow (unreleased) Dynablob 4 (studio, new material, fan club release) Garden of Eden (EP) Adam's Apple (upcoming release) Web Sites John Wesley Harding's web site.
Vladimir Nabokov - documented. In his own words: "I have been forced to invent a simple little terminology of my own, explain its application to English verse forms, and indulge in certain rather copious details of classification before even tackling the limited object of these notes to my translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, an object that boils down to very little -- in comparison to the forced preliminaries -- namely, to a few things that the non-Russian student of Russian literature must know in regard to Russian prosody in general and to Eugene Onegin in particular." His career as a lepidopterist was equally distinguished. Throughout an extensive career of collecting he never learned to drive a car, and he depended on his wife Vera to bring him to collecting sites. During the 1940s he.
Homeschooling - for their curricula. The fear of extremism deserves attention. In the United States, a significant minority of homeschooling parents are conservative Christians who distrust the "secularism" and "liberal politics" of government schools. These were, for about 20 years, the loudest and most visible homeschoolers and their homeschool organizations have done much to create the common belief that all homeschoolers fit into this category. Some persons oppose homeschooling because they fear that children in such homes could be trapped into a cultic atmosphere and raised entirely without a view of the larger social world. Such indoctrination has been observed in public-schooled children. Public schooling is therefore not a perfectly reliable solution. Proponents argue that most homeschoolers have a wider experience of society than public-schooled children, because of greater community involvement through clubs,.
A Hacker History - of BBSs in 14 U.S. cities including the Legion of Doom, conducting early-morning raids and arrests. The arrests involve and are aimed at cracking down on credit-card theft and telephone and wire fraud. The result is a breakdown in the hacking community, with members informing on each other in exchange for immunity. 1990, LOD and MOD engaged in almost two years of online warfare — jamming phone lines, monitoring calls, trespassing in each other's private computers. Then the Feds cracked down. For Phiber and friends, that meant jail. A woman who goes by the handle Natasha Grigori (Bullwinkle’s nemesis in the classic cartoon) started out in the early starts running a bulletin-board system for software pirates. Now, at age “40-plus,” she’s the founder of antichildporn.org, a group of hackers who use.
Search engine optimization - engine listings. The term also refers to an industry of consultants that carry out optimization projects on behalf of client sites. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Controversy 3 Reconciliation 4 Paid Inclusion 5 Techniques 6 External Links History SEO began in the mid-1990s, as the first search engines were cataloging the early Web. Many site owners quickly learned to appreciate the value of a new listing in a search engine, as they observed sharp spikes in traffic to their sites. Site owners soon began submitting their site URLs to the engines on a regular basis, and began modifying their site to accommodate the needs of search engine spiders, the software programs sent out to explore the Web. Special features such as the Meta tag became a common feature of.
Software patent - large companies can be at risk of a patent suit. However, these companies may exist solely to create patents of previously existing or obvious ideas, and litigating these patents can be more expensive than the product is worth. Patent officers tend to be paid less than they could make doing other activities in software, so they tend to be less skilled. In addition, they must be generalists, so they are unlikely to be aware of well-known approaches in any particular area. Databases of prior work are inadequate for the task of determining if something has already been done before. The patent process has little incentive to identify pre-existing work. The process rewards patent requesters who do poor research, since by doing poor research, they will not find preceding work that would.
Orders of magnitude (numbers) - the ratio of a circle's diameter to its circumference 7 ± 2, in cognitive science, George A. Miller's estimate of the number of objects that can be simultaneously thought of by the human mind nine planets in the solar system 10 there are 10 fingers on a pair of human hands there are 26 letters in the Latin alphabet 102 there are 128 characters is the ASCII character set there were 191 member states of the United Nations as of 2003 103 2000-3000 letters on a typical typed page of text the DNA of the simplest viruses has some 5000 base pairs. 104 Each neuron in the human brain is estimated to connect to 10,000 others There are 20,000 - 40,000 distinct Chinese characters, depending on how you count them Each.
List of Internet topics - Cyber law -- Cyberpunk -- Cybersex -- Cyberspace D DDP -- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- Delivermail -- Demilitarized zone (computing) -- Denial of service -- DHCP -- Dial-up -- Dial-up access -- DiffServ -- Digital divide -- Digital Equipment Corporation -- Digital subscriber line -- DirecTV -- DISH Network -- Disk image -- Distance-vector routing protocol -- DNS -- Domain forwarding -- Domain name registry -- Dust storm -- DVB -- Dynamic DNS E E-card -- E-mail -- E-Services -- EBay -- Echo -- Eldred v. Ashcroft -- Electrical engineering -- electricity -- Electronic mailing list -- Electronic money -- Embrace, extend and extinguish -- End-to-end connectivity -- Epoch date -- Ethernet -- European Installation Bus -- EverQuest -- Everything2 -- Extended ASCII -- Extranet F Famous non-quotation --.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity - 26 April 2003: VIPS Memorandum: "The Stakes in the Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction" by David MacMichael and Ray McGovern; "Weapons of Mass Distraction: Where? Find? Plant?" in Scoop. 1 May 2003: "Intelligence Officers Challenge Bush" - VIPS Memorandum for the President: "Intelligence Fiasco" at BNfP.org; Also. 17 May 2003: "The Moment of Lies Has Arrived" by Hwaa Irfan, Staff Writer, IslamOnline: VIPS credited with bringing "to light" the forged Iraqi documents that were "supposed to provide evidence for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction." 19 May 2003: VIPS Letter sent via fax to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations: "We Are Perplexed at the US Refusal to Permit the Return of UN Inspectors to Iraq" (published in Dissident Voice, May 21, 2003). Also at Truthout. 25 May 2003:.
Jumpstart 3rd-6th Grade - game for each of them, and only that particular game will give the user that particular Mission Clues. Botley will use his powerful sensory devise, to tell the user which games to play. Invention Points are rewared if there are no Mission Clues hidden a particualar activity. Polly remains her father's secret chamber for the entire game with a little robot that looks somewhat like a shark. She occationally drops from moniters which seam to be in every room to talk to Botley, give game instructions, ect. There is limited amount of "power" in the game. Using the odd inventions in the Mountain wasts electrical power. When the power is low, the user must go to the Jumbo Electro Generator to juice up. The lower the power less activities are available,.
Hacker - - and people say they are hackers because of the mass media's sensationalist portrayals. This deceptive cycle will probably only come to an end with the education of reporters and the general public on what constitutes a hacker and what does not. A group known as the "Hacker Antidefamation League" has this goal. But, indeed, it's likely that the confusion and dissonance exists precisely because "hacking" describes a *skill set* -- akin to picking locks -- whose tools can be used both ethically and unethically, by both people who are basically ethical, and those who are not (these are two related, but separate distinctions -- what long-time system administrator has not violated a company policy by breaking into some company facility for an authorized user in order that that person can.
Volkert van der Graaf - their child on December 6, 2001. Killing of Fortuyn On May 6, 2002 Fortuyn was murdered outside a radio studio in Hilversum just after he finished an interview. Van der Graaf was arrested near the scene of the crime after a pursuit by witnesses. Details of the suspect have always been officially reported as "Volkert van der G." in accordance with Dutch privacy practice. However his full name was readily available on the net and addresses were soon circulating on web sites used by Fortuyn's supporters. With passions running high and angry mobs of supporters gathering in several cities, several people related to Van der Graaf went into hiding. His girlfriend and their daughter left their house on the evening of the murder. The details of the murder emerged later, with.
History of the Internet - a important tool in developing the Internet (being used for communication between the groups working on internetworking research). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Motivation for the Internet 2 Early Internet Work 3 Growth 4 Commercialization and Privatization 5 Early applications 6 Standards and Control 7 World Wide Web 8 External Link Motivation for the Internet The need for an internetwork appeared with ARPA's sponsorship, by Robert Kahn, of the development of a number of innovative networking technologies; in particular, the first packet radio networks (inspired by the ALOHA network), and a satellite packet communication program. Later, local area networks (LAN's) would also join the mix. Connecting these disparate networking technologies was not possible with the kind of protocols used on the ARPANET, which depended on the exact nature of the subnetwork..
