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- Graphing Calculators Tutorials (Texas Instruments)
Provides lessons for using different Texas Instruments (TI) graphing calculators. To find the lesson, first select the product from the menu. 10-01
- Chinese Musical Instruments (Big Sky)
Provides a short description and a picture of the gongs, drums, guan, sheng, suona, bawu, di, and others.
- Rhythm Instruments (Ancient Future)
Provides discussions and sounds of ancient instruments from different countries, such as the tala, gamelon, and other rhythm instruments. 1-99
- $2,400 Electric and Solar Electrilite Concept Tricycle (Omni Instruments)
Costs around $2,400 and goes up to 40 mph. Describes and illustrates many characteristics of a good, three-wheel neighborhood electric tricycle. The design includes important safety features and three sources of energy - electric, solar, and human. 6-01
- Early Instruments (Diabolus.org)
Describes early musical instruments, such as the Flute, Recorder, Whistle, Tabor Pipe, Lute, Viols and Violins, Guitar and Vihuela, Cittern and Bandora, Gittern and Citole, Bagpipe, Shawm and Curtal, Crumhorn and Rackett, Psaltery and Dulcimer, and Cornett. 10-04
- Kilby, Jack (Texas Instruments)
"It was a relatively simple device that Jack Kilby showed to a handful of co-workers gathered in TI's semiconductor lab more than 40 years ago -- only a transistor and other components on a slice of germanium. Little did this group of onlookers know, but Kilby's invention, 7/16-by-1/16-inches in size and called an integrated circuit, was about to revolutionize the electronics industry."
"Recognizing the need for a 'demonstration product' to speed widespread use of the IC, Patrick E. Haggerty, former TI chairman, challenged Kilby to design a calculator as powerful as the large, electro-mechanical desktop models of the day, but small enough to fit in a coat pocket. The resulting electronic hand-held calculator, of which Kilby is a co-inventor, successfully commercialized the integrated circuit." 8-05
- Kamen, Dean (Texas Instruments)
"Kamen sees the lack of appreciation for science in America as a problem - but that's not to say he's calling for a revamping of the educational system. In his view, more teachers, textbooks, PCs, and Internet access won't get students jazzed about learning. 'They need to have access to challenging, hands-on projects that result in a tangible product' - like building robots. And they need role models - engineers - to assist them." 03-06
- -05-25-06 FERC: Dam Break Caused by Faulty Instruments (ABC News)
"Independent consultants have confirmed an earlier finding that broken water level gauges were the primary cause of the Taum Sauk reservoir to overflow and collapse last year, according to a report released Thursday by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission." 05-06
- Music - An Introduction (DataDragon - Lux)
Provides an introduction to reading music, musical instruments, the sounds of different instruments, musical genres, This Day in Music and more. The music is slow to load, but provides recorded sound, not imitation.
- Arts and Crafts Projects (About.com - Osborn)
Provides activities, such making candles or crafting musical instruments. Other examples include books, dolls, hats, jewelry, sewing, paper mache, and more.
- Music Lessons (MusicStaff.com)
Provides sources of music lessons for a variety of instruments. 2-01
- Jazz Elements (PBS - Ken Burns Jazz - Schoenberg)
Provides articles on improvisation, harmony, melody, rhythm, notation, and instruments related to jazz. 2-01
- Interpreting a Code of Business Ethics (International Federation of Accountants - Birkett)
"Corporate Codes of Ethics are not incidental to a corporation’s functioning. They are neither ornamental, nor simply expressions of good intent. Instead, they are practical instruments of management, designed to capture the power of social or community morality and put it to ‘good’ corporate use." 7-02
- 06-23-03 Scientists Begin Quest to Detect Gravity Waves (SpaceDaily.com)
"Armed with one of the most advanced scientific instruments of all time, physicists are now watching the universe intently for the first evidence of gravitational waves." 6-03
- 08-04-03 Mars Rover Expedition (CNN)
"A NASA robot packed with eight cameras, geology instruments and super-rugged wheels roared into space on Tuesday, one of three missions headed to Mars this summer during the most favorable cosmic conditions in centuries."
"Their geologic studies, scheduled to last three months, are designed to find physical evidence of water activity on Mars from billions of years ago, when the planet was thought to have been wetter and warmer -- and possibly inhabited by microbes."
"Like surfers who have been waiting for the big wave, the spacecraft are riding to the red planet as Mars and Earth make their nearest pass to each other since prehistoric times."
"A closer approach won't take place until 2287, according to Sky & Telescope Magazine." 8-03
- Presidential Personalities (American Psychological Association)
"As part of their The Personality and the President Project, psychologist Steven J Rubenzer, Ph.D., of Houston, Texas and co-authors Thomas Faschingbauer, Ph.D., of Richmond Texas and Deniz S. Ones, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota, used several objective personality instruments to analyze the assessments made by more than one hundred presidential experts who were instructed to assess the lives of presidents they studied. The experts were instructed to look only at the five-year period before their respective subject became president to avoid the influence that life in the White House might have had on their behavior."
"Results of the research indicate that great presidents, besides being stubborn and disagreeable, are more extraverted, open to experience, assertive, achievement striving, excitement seeking and more open to fantasy, aesthetics, feelings, actions, ideas and values. Historically great presidents were low on straightforwardness, vulnerability and order."
"Achievement striving was found to be one of the best correlates of greatness in the oval office and competence was also a big predictor of presidential success." 12-03
- 05-23-04 Videos Reveal Americans Bombed Iraqi Wedding (CBC News)
"The videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding party that survivors say was later attacked by U.S. planes early Wednesday, killing up to 45 people."
" 'There was no evidence of a wedding: no decorations, no musical instruments found, no large quantities of food or leftover servings one would expect from a wedding celebration,' Brig.-Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Saturday. 'There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too.' " "An AP reporter and photographer, who interviewed more than a dozen survivors a day after the bombing, were able to identify many of them on the wedding party video - which runs for several hours."
"Prominently displayed on the videotape was a stocky man with close-cropped hair playing an electric organ. Another tape, filmed a day later in Ramadi and obtained by APTN, showed the musician lying dead in a burial shroud - his face clearly visible and wearing the same tan shirt as he wore when he performed."
"[Brig.-Gen.] Kimmitt has denied finding evidence that any children died in the raid although a 'handful of women' - perhaps four to six - were 'caught up in the engagement.' "
"However, an AP reporter obtained names of at least 10 children who relatives said had died. Bodies of five of them were filmed by APTN when the survivors took them to Ramadi for burial Wednesday. Iraqi officials said at least 13 children were killed."
"Haleema Shihab, 32, one of the three wives of Rikad Nayef, said that as the first bombs fell, she grabbed her seven-month old son, Yousef, and clutching the hands of her five-year-old son, Hamza, started running. Her 15-year-old son, Ali, sprinted alongside her. They managed to run for several metres when she fell - her leg fractured."
" 'Hamza was yelling, 'mommy,' " Shihab recalled. 'Ali said he was hurt and that he was bleeding. That's the last time I heard him.' Then another shell fell and injured Shihab's left arm."
" 'Hamza fell from my hand and was gone. Only Yousef stayed in my arms. Ali had been hit and was killed. I couldn't go back,' she said from her hospital bed in Ramadi. Her arm was in a cast."
"She and her stepdaughter, Iqbal - who had caught up with her - hid in a bomb crater. 'We were bleeding from 3 a.m. until sunrise,' Shihab said."
"Soon American soldiers came. One of them kicked her to see if she was alive, she said."
" 'I pretended I was dead so he wouldn't kill me,' said Shihab. She said the soldier was laughing. When Yousef cried, the soldier said: 'No, stop,' said Shihab." 5-04
- Severity of Earthquakes - Scales (InfoPlease.com)
"The severity of an earthquake can be expressed in terms of both intensity and magnitude. The two terms are quite different, however, and they are often confused. Intensity is based on the observed effects of ground shaking on people, buildings, and natural features. It varies from place to place within the disturbed region depending on the location of the observer with respect to the earthquake epicenter. Magnitude is related to the amount of seismic energy released at the hypocenter of the earthquake. It is based on the amplitude of the earthquake waves recorded on instruments, which have a common calibration. Magnitude is thus represented by a single, instrumentally determined value."
"The Richter magnitude scale was developed in 1935 by Charles F. Richter of the California Institute of Technology as a mathematical device to compare the size of earthquakes." 10-04
- Editorial: U.S. Blurred Distinction Between Humanitarian and Military (ElectronicIraq.net - Zaat)
"As the invasion progressed, Margaret and I both became gravely concerned by the blurring of civil-military distinction in Iraq - the involvement of the US and UK military in the delivery of humanitarian assistance and the implications this had for the security of Iraqi communities and aid workers alike. Perhaps this is why she, like so many of us, remained considerably frustrated by the inability of the US and UK Government to provide the security in Iraq that we needed as humanitarians to get the job done."
"Along with our Oxfam colleagues, it was our firm belief that the more humanitarian space was eroded in Iraq, that is, the more the military delivered aid in order to win hearts and minds, the more NGOs were forced to act as instruments of foreign policy, and the closer the humanitarian community naively became to the Occupying Powers in the interests of better coordinating responses to Iraqi need, the greater the risk posed."
"Having wrongly abducted Margaret from the Iraqi battlefield as a prisoner of war, according to The Holy Qur'an (Chapter 47:4), her captors now have two choices - either show generosity and grant her freedom, or take a ransom and release her. These are the only options ordained under Islamic Law. Either way, Margaret must be set free."
Editor's Note: With great sadness we must report that Margaret Hassan, chief executive of CARE Iraq, was killed by her captors. 11-04
- Greenberg, Jay - Child Music Prodigy (FromtheTop.org)
"11-year-old Jay Greenberg, who goes by the name BlueJay, is an exceptionally gifted composer who is simultaneously studying at both the Pre-College and College Division of the Juilliard School. He came up with his fitting nom-de-plume back in the third grade after completing a school project on birds. 'I learned that a blue jay is a rather small bird which makes a lot of noise,' he explains. 'I felt that that characterized me quite well!' "
"BlueJay started composing orchestral music when he was ten, and in the short span of the last year and a half, he has already composed nine pieces for orchestra, including four complete symphonies! BlueJay says he learned about orchestration mostly from reading books about it. 'I wanted to learn about the ranges of the different instruments before actually writing orchestral pieces,' he says."
"When BlueJay sets out to compose, he says that the bulk of the work is done in his head before he ever even writes anything down. 'I'll think of a tune at the end of a piece, and then I'll think of everything before it,' he explains. When BlueJay is ready to write out the piece, he uses a composition computer program." 11-04
- Glossary for Chemistry A - C (Tissue)
Provides definitions and examples at a college level. Includes Absorption of light, Acid-base definitions, Acid-base equilibria, Acid-base titrations, Activity and activity coefficients, Alpha plots, Analytical balance, Analytical chemistry (introduction), Analytical standards, Anodic-stripping voltammetry, Atomic-absorption spectroscopy (AAS), Atomic-emission gas chromatography detector (AED), Atomic-emission spectroscopy (AES, OES), Atomic energy levels, Atomic-fluorescence spectroscopy (AFS), Atomic transitions (theory), Auger-electron spectroscopy (AES), Balance (analytical), Beer-Lambert law, Bipolar transistor, Blackbody source, Born-Oppenheimer approximation, Bronsted-Lowry definition of acids and bases, Buffers (acid-base), Calibration, Capacitor, Capillary electrophoresis, Charge (definition), Channeltron, Charge-coupled device (CCD), Chemical equilibrium (introduction), Chemiluminescence, Chromatography (introduction), Chromatography theory, Complexes, Complexometric titration, Confidence limits, Constants, CW-NMR instruments, Coulometry, Current (definition), Current-to-voltage conversion, and Cyclic voltammetry (CV) 1-05
- Glossary for Chemistry D - F (Tissue)
Provides definitions and examples at a college level. Includes Daly detector, Data acquisition, Data handling, de Broglie equation, Detectors (ion), Detectors (optical), Detectors (GC), Detection Electronics, Diatomic molecule, Differential pulse polarography (DPP), Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Differential thermal analysis (DTA), Diffraction (introduction), Digital oscilloscope, Diodes, Discharge lamps, Discontinuous electrophoresis, Doppler-free laser spectroscopy, Electrochemical Cell, Electrochemistry (introduction), Electrolytic methods, Electromagnetic radiation, Electromagnetic spectrum, Electron-capture gas chromatography detector (ECD), Electron diffraction, Electronics (components), Electronics (introduction), Electronics (signal processing), Electron microscopy, Electron multiplier tube, Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR, ESR), Electron spectroscopy (introduction), Electrophoresis, Emission of light, Energy levels, Entropy, see reaction thermodynamics, ESCA (electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Equilibrium (introduction), Equilibrium (practice problems), Equilibrium constant, Error (types of), Error propagation, Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), Extraction, Fabry-Perot interferometer, Faraday cup, Field-effect transistor (FET), Filters (optical), Flame-ionization gas chromatography detector (FID), Flame photoionization gas chromatography detector (FPD), Fluorescence (introduction), Fluorescence (molecular), Fluorescence (laser-induced), Fluorimetry, Fourier-transform, Fourier-transform NMR instruments, Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR), Fourier-transform mass spectrometry (FTMS), Fluorescence, Fluorescence: atomic fluorescence, Fluorescence: molecular fluorescence, Formation constant, and Kf. 1-05
- Earth Grows Much Darker (CommonDreams.org)
"Defying expectation and easy explanation, hundreds of instruments around the world recorded a drop in sunshine reaching the surface of Earth, as much as 10 percent from the late 1950's to the early 90's, or 2 percent to 3 percent a decade. In some regions like Asia, the United States and Europe, the drop was even steeper. In Hong Kong, sunlight decreased 37 percent." 04-06
- Top Five Things You Can Do to Protect an Elecdtion (BlackBoxVoting.org)
"Government is the servant of the people, and not the master of them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. We insist on remaining informed so that we may retain control over the instruments of government we have created." 07-08
- -01 Both Political Parties Blame Bush for Economic Disaster (New York Times)
"These experts, from both political parties, say Mr. Bush’s early personnel choices and overarching antipathy toward regulation created a climate, that, if it did not set off the turmoil, almost certainly aggravated it."
"The president’s first two Treasury secretaries, for instance, lacked the kind of Wall Street expertise that might have helped them raise red flags about the use of complex financial instruments that are at the heart of the crisis." 09-08
- -Derivatives and Funding for the SEC (U.S. News)
"Despite the trillion-dollar meltdown now underway, the number of SEC enforcement personnel will decline from 1,209 this year to 1,177 in 2009. In all, the SEC expects to have 3,771 employees next year. For comparison, the Smithsonian Institution budget for 2009 includes funding for 4,324 employees."
"Those pitiful numbers lead us to the innumerable problems posed by derivatives, the same financial instruments that led to the chaos at Enron, which before it failed operated a huge—and almost completely unregulated—derivatives exchange business. According to the Bank for International Settlements, the global derivatives market is now worth some $676.5 trillion. That's $676,500,000,000,000. That's a fivefold increase over the value of derivatives that were traded in 2003. Further, that $676.5 trillion is 51 times America's current gross domestic product." 09-08
- -Editorial: Why We Have a Crisis and What's Next (CNN News)
"This is because the credit crisis reflects something more fundamental than a serious problem of mortgage defaults. Global investors, now on the sidelines, have declared a buyers' strike against the sophisticated paper assets of securitization that financial institutions use to measure and offload risk."
"In recent years, our banks, borrowing to maximize the leverage of their assets at unheard-of levels, produced mountains of financial paper instruments (called asset-backed securities) with little means of measuring their value. Incredibly, these paper instruments were insured by more dubious paper instruments."
"Therefore, the housing crisis was a mere trigger for a collapse of trust in paper, followed by a de-leveraging of the entire global financial system. As a result, we are experiencing the painful downward reappraisal of the value of virtually every asset in the world."
"Most banks are leveraged by more than 10 to 1. Translation: The U.S. financial system will have a whopping $15 trillion to $20 trillion less credit available next year than was around a year and a half before. The cost of money is rising and the availability shrinking."
"We need a private/public global bank clearing facility. The bankers don't trust each other. The central banks, working with the private institutions in providing enhanced data, need to begin to refashion the world's financial architecture." 10-08
- -01-23-09 A Recording for Frigid Fingers (New York Times)
"The somber, elegiac tones before President Obama’s oath of office at the inauguration on Tuesday came from the instruments of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and two colleagues. But what the millions on the Mall and watching on television heard was in fact a recording, made two days earlier by the quartet and matched tone for tone by the musicians playing along." 01-09
- -03-26-09 Treasury Calls for Overhaul of Regulations (New York Times)
"The Obama administration on Thursday detailed its wide-ranging plan to overhaul financial regulation by subjecting hedge funds and traders of exotic financial instruments, now among the biggest and most freewheeling players on Wall Street, to potentially strict new government supervision." 03-09
- Hubble Space Telescope Gets Final Upgrade (MSNBC News)
"When astronauts from the shuttle Atlantis open up the Hubble Space Telescope for its final extreme makeover, much of the work will be aimed at fixing what's been ailing the world's premier orbiting observatory. It'll get fresh batteries and brand-new gyros, and if all goes well, Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph will be back in full working order for the first time in years."
"But this is not just a fix-up mission. Two new instruments are due to be swapped into the mix, and those enhancements should give Hubble superpowers it never had before: for example, three-in-one vision that spans the spectrum from ultraviolet to infrared, and the ability to make out the cosmic cobwebs that stretch out between galaxies." 05-09
- -09-07-09 U.N. Worker Tried for Wearing Pants Faces Fine, Not Flogging (CNN News)
"A woman put on trial for wearing clothing deemed indecent by Sudanese authorities was fined Monday, but will not get the 40 lashes she could potentially have faced, her lawyer said."
"Al-Hussein, a journalist who worked in the media department of the United Nations mission in Sudan, is fighting to have the law declared unconstitutional. She resigned from her U.N. position in order to waive her immunity as an international worker."
" 'The manner in which this law has been used against women is unacceptable, and the penalty called for by the law -- up to 40 lashes -- abhorrent,' Tawanda Hondora, deputy director of Amnesty International's Africa program, said in a statement."
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he is concerned about al-Hussein's case."
" 'The United Nations will make every effort to ensure that the rights of its staff members are protected,' Ban said in July. 'The flogging is against the international human rights standards. I call on all parties to live up to their obligations under all relevant international instruments.' " 09-09
- Hubble Telescope Fixed and Improved (BBC News)
"Astronomers are celebrating the release of remarkable new images from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)." Some of the pictures are included in the article.
Hubble discoveries to date include:
"In what was a prime mission objective, Hubble fixed the Universe's age at about 13.7 billion years - later confirmed by other instruments"
"Hubble's ability to detect faint supernovae contributed to the discovery that the expansion rate of the Universe is accelerating"
"Hubble was one of two telescopes to make the first direct images of planets orbiting another star - historic images made public last November"
"Hubble provided the first direct measurements of the three-dimensional distribution of dark matter in space"
"Hubble has shown that monster black holes, with masses millions to billions times the mass of our Sun, inhabit the centres of most galaxies" 09-09
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