This course is designed to expose incoming students to the Internet and the resources that it contains. ... Clearly, one's global view is intimately shaped by one's own view of the relationship between Man and Nature. ... The point is then to compare these two opposing views against a body of scientific data about the Natural World in order to have students develop a line of moral reasoning about the future which is based on science, not prejudice, superstition or ego. ...

Building a Student Support Network 161 BUILDING A STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK Judith Fleischman An eort was initiated in October 1991 to build a support network for women students in science, math, and engineering at Columbia University and Barnard College. This eort began with the founding of the \Women In Science Exchange" (W.I.S.E.) which consisted at rst of women undergraduate and graduate students in the physics and astronomy departments. ... At each meeting, the group discusses a speci c topic. ...

CFITSIO Interface Library CFITSIO is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. ... The CFITSIO library is built on Unix systems by typing: > ./configure [--prefix=/target/installation/path] > make (or 'make shared') > make install (this step is optional) at the operating system prompt. The configure command customizes the Makefile for the particular system, then the `make' command compiles the source files and builds the library. ...

... A sundial with a vertical pointer (" gnomon ") will indicate noon correctly when its shadow points north. ... Cut the paper along the marked line: one half will serve as base , the other will be used to construct the gnomon . In the gnomon part, cut away the two marked corners. ... With the page folded in its middle, cut out along the curved line , cutting a double thickness of paper in one cut. ... Score the other two secondary lines, then fold the gnomon sheet along them. ...

... Norm Oberle being reflected by one of his . ... The 31" mirror at the . ... It was through Norm's classes that I made my own two telescope mirrors described elsewhere on this site. ... Soon he made his first first telescope. ... Norm was one of the charter members and organizers of Cuyahoga Astronomy Club and its first president. ... In 1968, Norm formed the LEAP Project (Lake Erie Astronomical Project) partially an out growth of the telescope making class and astronomy meetings at the planetarium. ...

... RU.LINUX Frequently Asked Question (Александр Канавин, 25/10/2002) . ... Linux Newbie Administrator Guide by S.,P.,M.,Klimas v0.193 14/12/2002 . ... The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide перевод 1 . ... Dynamic Kernels: Modularized Device Drivers by Alessandro Rubini . ... Linux Kernel Threads in Device Drivers by Martin Frey . ... Porting device drivers to the 2.6 kernel (Linux Weekly News) . ... Writing Linux Mouse Drivers by Alan Cox . ... Programming Guide for Linux USB Device Drivers by Detlef Fliegl...

... Very few of us can do something without the feeling that it can be done and done good. So, I want to say several words on the possibility of building the Open society in Russia. ... Even if we can't find long happy periods in the history, but can find ideas, which were original for Russia and the whole world, which were created by Russian philosophers, we can say that we can try to build the Open Society, because Russian way of thinking has something in common with the ideas of the Open society. ...

... It is actually a cross staff (or "Jacob's staff"), a tool widely used by astronomers and navigators before the invention of the telescope, and for a while afterwards. ... Astronomers used the cross-staff for measuring the angle between the directions of two stars. ... Since the instrument was symmetric, the angle between the directions of the stars was 2A. You can build the simple cross-staff shown on the right, using no more than a yardstick, an office ruler and simple materials found in the home. ...

The Re/Max Ballunar Liftoff Festival took place at Johnson Space Center on August 27-29. ... Leadership We have a tremendous challenge in front of us. ... As leaders, we are committed to embracing and demonstrating behaviors to help us achieve our goals: Integrity ­ Leaders have total honesty in dealing with the people who work for them, and those for whom they work. ... Compassion ­ Leaders show a genuine understanding of, and care for, the people who work for them. ...

... SSAU History . ... Students from the University of Stuttgart will take part in the English-speaking summer school on engine building and will attend a course on the Theory and Design of Aircraft Engines during three weeks in Samara. ... The Aircraft Engines Design is a unique course for German undergraduate students. ... The course studied in the Samara University will be accepted into the program for German students, and each Bachelor will receive three European academic credit units for it. ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

P.O. Box 797 Sonoita, AZ 85637-0797 June 19, 2000 Prof. David Chalmers Philosophy Department Room 213, Social Sciences Building University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0027 Dear Prof. Chalmers: Well, here's another one from Mr. At-Least-I-Thought-Of-It-Independently. ... So as a thought experiment, let's imagine that instead of having our matter transporter actually move matter, what it moves is information. ... That will make it necessary to move the matter to move consciousness. ...

A gust of wind blows in . ... The Mansion of the Municipal Council of French Settlement (79 Fenyan Rd) has a nick name "Little White House". The French Renaissance stile building completed in 1905. Its white walls remember American President, British Prime Minister Edward Heath and other famous people. Beautiful Magnolia trees - the symbol of the city and the pond in the garden, elegant decor, make the house one of the most beautiful place to see. ... To the second trip . ...

... Since 2011 our observatory is a member of GLORIA (GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent Array for e-Science) project - wide international collaboration of 13 scientific institutions from 8 countries aiming at opening public access to robotic telescopes, as well as propagating astronomy in general. The GLORIA Project offers Internet users the possibility of studying the sky from professional observatories. ... The experiments are available at the users site of GLORIA. ... About GLORIA . ...

... Keck: The Largest Optical Telescope . ... Here's what a spiral galaxy REALLY looks like. ... In the above picture, note how blue the spiral arms are - this indicates the presence of hot young stars and on-going star formation. M81: A Bulging Spiral Galaxy . ... Few stars are still forming in the old giant spiral galaxy M81. The blue regions in this picture - representing ultraviolet light - highlight regions of bright young stars and star formation and appear rare than in M74 and M33. ...

As of 1.3, the Apache source directories have been re-organised. This re-organisation is designed to simplify the directory structure, make it easier to add additional modules, and to give module authors a way of specifying compile time options or distribute binary modules. ... The non-module source files have moved from src into src/main . ... Configure . ... For example, say it is called mod_demo.c. The archive for this module should consist of two files, in a suitable directory name. ...

... CodingљStyle . ... Plugins . ... Building Plugins . ... dynamic plugins are stand-alone dynamic libraries (separate files with .so extension on Linux, .dll in Windows or .dylib on Mac OS X) that are loaded at run-time (on start-up) by Stellarium. This allows dynamic plugins to be distributed separately from Stellarium. static plugins are linked statically at build-time. ... For the rest of this discussion, I will assume you downloaded the source code in the directory /home/me/builds/stellarium . ...

... ASRAS Board Members . ... Site . ... ASRAS Board Positions . ... President - . ... The president has many responsibilities like running monthly meetings, running the monthly board meeting, representing ASRAS at local events like star parties, planetarium events, RMSC events, the monthly newsletter presidents message, etc .. ... The Vice Presidents position is mainly to assist the president and back them up if they cant make a major function like a general meeting or write the newsletter pres message...

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