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Analyze, graph and present scientific data faster than ever with GraphPad Prism v7!
Check out the new features here
Origin 2016 has many new features and improvements. Version 2016 is fully compatible with Windows 10 and Apps have been introduced in Origin and OriginPro. OriginLab can now put standalone features into Apps, so you can decide what features you need to add to your Origin installation. Apps can also be updated independently so fixes and updates can be done quickly.
New features include:
Apps to add specific graphing and analysis functionality
New and powerful Colour Chooser
Smart Plotting with Cloneable Templates to quickly create multi-layer graphs with complex mapping of data plots to worksheet columns
Batch Analysis by cloning current workbook during multi-file import
Professional reports from Batch Analysis using Microsoft® Word templates
Dockable Object Manager window to manage layers and data plots in a graph
Skip weekends and holidays in financial plots
Three-way ANOVA and Partial Correlation in OriginPro
Compare your version to the new features by viewing the reasons to upgrade to version 2016. Also view the full features list.
View the differences between Origin and OriginPro here.
Voxler 4, 3D well and volumetric data visualization application, is designed to fit well in the geosciences because of its well and borehole data rendering and its 3D gridding capabilities. Voxler 4 is also very appealing to users outside of the geosciences realm, stemming from the immense list of supported data formats including numerous image formats, 2D and 3D point data formats, vector and GIS data formats, and countless grid and 3D lattice formats. Almost any type of 2D and 3D data can be visualized in Voxler!
We are pleased to announce the release of ESDAT Desktop.
ESDAT Desktop includes new functionality that builds upon the existing features available in ESDAT 4, as well as a new look and some interface enhancements to make using ESDAT even easier.
Do you have a previous version of ChemBioOffice or ChemBioDraw or ChemBio3D and want to upgrade to v15?
View preview version migration to ChemOffice v15 and ChemDraw v15 here
Introducing ChemOffice 15 and ChemDraw 15
Version 15.0 delivers all the features and functionalities found in version 14, in two incremental versions of ChemDraw (ChemDraw Prime and ChemDraw Professional) and one version of ChemOffice (ChemOffice Professional).
These are designed to meet the needs and budgets of everyone who wants to use the leading chemical drawing package and its optional chemically intelligent database, spreadsheet, 3D modeling and data analysis and visualisation tools.
ChemDraw Prime is the complete entry-level drawing program that provides all the tools you need to quickly create chemically intelligent, publication-ready chemical structures and reactions, laboratory notes and experiment write-ups.
ChemDraw Professional includes all the features in ChemDraw Prime extended with biopolymer tools, BioDraw, NMR prediction, Name=Structure, enables structure data exploration, organization and processing with ChemDraw for Excel, ChemFinder Standard, and ChemScript.
ChemOffice Professional includes all the features and functionality in ChemDraw Professional plus Chem3D with 3rd party interfaces and ChemFinder Ultra. It helps chemists and biologists to efficiently keep track of their work, visualize and gain a deeper understanding of their results and correlate biological activity with chemical structures.
ChemDraw Prime is the complete entry-level drawing program that provides all the tools you need to quickly create chemically intelligent, publication-ready chemical structures and reactions, laboratory notes and experiment write-ups.
ChemDraw Professional includes all the features in ChemDraw Prime extended with biopolymer tools, BioDraw, NMR prediction, Name=Structure, enables structure data exploration, organization and processing with ChemDraw for Excel, ChemFinder Standard, and ChemScript.
ChemOffice Professional includes all the features and functionality in ChemDraw Professional plus Chem3D with 3rd party interfaces and ChemFinder Ultra. It helps chemists and biologists to efficiently keep track of their work, visualize and gain a deeper understanding of their results and correlate biological activity with chemical structures.
Compare each edition here.
EViews 9 is now available and features an innovative graphical object-oriented user-interface and a sophisticated analysis engine. EViews blends the best of modern Windows-based econometric software technology with the features you've always wanted. The result is a state-of-the art program that offers unprecedented power within a flexible, easy-to-use interface. EViews 9 features a wide range of exciting changes and improvements. The following is an overview of the most important new features in EViews 9.
- An Intuitive, Easy-to-Use Interface
- Powerful Analytic Tools
- Sophisticated Data Management
- Presentation Quality Output
- Traditional Command Line and Programming Interface
Found out more about EViews 9 here
IBM SPSS Statistics v23 is now available and continues to deepen its advanced analytics capabilities with new ways to analyze data, including geospatial analytics, new and improved algorithms, more data types and better reporting, including the next generation of web reports.
New features of IBM SPSS Statistics v23 include the following:
- Expanded big data analytics
- Geospatial analytics
- Improved flexibility
- Improved productivity
SPSS Grad Packs v23 and SPSS Faculty Packs v23 now available. Found out more at http://www.hearne.software/Software/SPSS-Grad-Packs-for-Students-by-IBM/Editions
Origin 2015 provides more than 100 new features and improvements. It adds better useability to perform and manage complex data analysis and provides new and improved graphing capabilities to produce publication-quality graphs tailored to your specifications...
RATS v9 now available. RATS provides all the basics, including linear and non-linear least squares, forecasting, and arima models, but goes far beyond that with support for techniques like GMM, ARCH and...
Version 11 adds many exciting new features to make your surveys and reports even more impressive...
Remark Office OMR 2014 is now available.
Remark Office OMR 2014 is both streamlined and packed with new features, some of which are outlined below. Gravic have heard your requests, and they are changing the technical support agreements to... More Information
Complex Graphing Made Easy!
Top Grapher 11 new features are new plot types (ternary class, doughnut, 3D doughnut, polar vector), Linked axes, Improved error bars, Enhanced class plots, Plus many more...
Mathematica 10 is now available with over 700 new functions--the single biggest jump in new functionality in the software's entire history--Mathematica 10 is the first version of Mathematica based on the complete Wolfram Language. Integration with the Wolfram Cloud and access...
Origin 9.1 is now available. There has been over 200 new features and improvements added to version.
Key New and Improved Features in Origin and OriginPro 9.1 are...
Mathcad Prime 3.0 has significantly improved its calculation capability to allow bigger problems to be solved, faster. With hundreds of built-in...
KaleidaGraph 4.5 has been released. View the full list of the new features here.
Wolfram is excited to announce that one of their most popular virtual seminars is back by popular demand. Register now for the rebroadcast of the finance virtual workshop
Hearne is pleased to announce Crystal Ball public training courses in September and October 2013.
SPSS Statistics v22 continues to add to its predictive analytics techniques through improved tools, output, and ease-of-use features. This release focuses on increasing the analytic capabilities of the software
Hearne has a great Mathcad Prime 2.0 (includes Mathcad 15) offer available now, for all orders until the end of September 2013, you get three licenses for the price of two. This is our best ever Mathcad Prime 2.0 deal and only valid for a limited time.
With the foundation of saving schools money and building easy to use products comes our Remark Test Grading Edition. This product easily grades tests using built-in answer sheets that you print on plain paper.
In association with the Association of Building Sustainability Assessors (ABSA), Hearne is pleased to announce upcoming course dates for AccuRate Sustainability training.
RockWorks 16 is the latest version of RockWare's flagship software program. RockWorks has long been the standard in the petroleum, environmental, geotechnical...
Strater 4 is now available and a highly-requested feature that has been added to version 4 is the ability to display deviation paths in the map view. Previous versions of Strater allowed...
With recent's release of Mathematica 9, Wolfram is pushing the boundaries of usability, automation, data science, and a host of other fields with more than 400 new capabilities. One highlight is the Wolfram Predictive Interface — a suite of features that intelligently suggests what to try next based on sophisticated heuristics and data from millions of Wolfram|Alpha queries.
Origin 9 and OriginPro 9 now available.
Hearne is now accepting enrolments for training in Residential Thermal Performance Assessment and AccuRate Sustainability, in partnership with the Association of Building Sustainability Assessors (ABSA).
gridMathematica 8 adds to the existing CPU capabilities a range of high-performance technologies, from CUDA and OpenCL support to dynamically generated C code generation, as well as new application-specific technologies in statistics, image processing, signal processing, finance, and network analysis.
Origin, the base version, and OriginPro, with extended functionality, provide control over every visual and contextual parameter of a plot.
AccuRate Sustainability Service Pack 1 is now available.
Mathcad Prime 2.0 now available with 64-bit support and multithreaded processing, Mathcad Prime 2.0 is the most advanced and robust Mathcad ever - while still allowing you to reuse old worksheets. Mathcad Prime 2.0 combines ease-of-use with superior performance and powerful capabilities, like a symbolic algebra solver.
TracePro 7.3 with new solar utility is now available. This release features a fully automated interactive solar analysis utility and the addition of two geometric modelers to the LC edition.
New version includes Native 64-bit Application, Advanced Statistics, New Gadgets, and Other Improvements based on customer feedback
Greatly simplifies analyzing and managing multiple CFD cases to accelerate Engineering Decision-Making
In the data-driven worlds of research and engineering, more truly is better. OriginPro 8.5.1, released in April, "provides tools for serious data analysis, such as Peak Fitting, Surface Fitting, Statistics, Signal Processing, and Image Handling," says Joe Przechocki, business development manager of OriginLab Corp., Northampton, MA.
Arction Ltd has just recently released the latest LightningChart Ultimate 3.0 with new features and improvements.
A new simulation analytics tool being developed by Tecplot, Inc., called Tecplot® Chorus™, will allow engineers to more easily discover trends and anomalies in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies and simultaneously gain insights into the underlying, fluid-dynamic phenomena that cause these variations. By allowing engineers to collaborate in analyzing large sets of simulation data, the tool will help them make more informed decisions faster.
OriginLab Corporation recently released the latest version of Origin and OriginPro 8.5.1. This version is available to all Maintenance customers. New Gadgets, improved graphing capabilities and worksheets are among the new features.
We are excited to announce that AccuRate Sustainability has been released. AccuRate Sustainability contains all the vital thermal assessment functionality, as well as new additional sustainability features to help assessors provide detailed construction and planning advice to their clients.
Mathcad Prime 1.0 is PTC's latest release of the industry standard software for engineering calculations. Completely re-designed, Mathcad Prime 1.0 provides a task-based interface for enhanced usability. Plus it delivers powerful capabilities within a document-centric calculations environment for users to create complex, professional engineering design documents quickly and easily.
The Victorian Groundwater Management System (GMS) is a database of groundwater related data (ie groundwater, geology or chemistry data) across Victoria that is delivered quarterly by DVD from the Department of Sustainability and Environment to registered subscribers.
ESdat has pre-loaded Environmental Standards so once environmental mining data is entered into the software managers can immediately see environmental regulatory compliance and non-compliance throughout the mining site.
Creative Research Systems released a new Web CATI Module that brings sophisticated telephone interviewing to the Internet. This new addition to its world renowned survey software package - The Survey System - saves research companies money by letting interviewers work from home or other remote locations, instead of locating them in a central phone bank.
During the recent rescue of miners trapped in the San José mine in Chile, mining expert Manuel Viera was asked by the Chilean government to advise on the best way to rescue the miners. Mr. Viera developed a new model using PrecisionTree to analyse the risks and predict the best way to rescue the miners.
98.8% of users from a recent survey said they would recommend ESdat to a colleague.
Associate Professor Steve Keen at the University of Western Sydney has made a major impact on economic debate in recent years. All of his work has been done using Mathcad.
Mathcad 15.0 includes over 25 new Design of Experiment functions, more robust reference libraries and integration with third-party tools, including Microsoft Excel 2007.
The 2010 version of Tecplot 360 and Tecplot Focus, the visualisation software used by more than 45,000 engineers worldwide, is now available. The newest versions of Tecplot handle larger data sets faster, provide more versatile output options that meet highest quality standards for professional presentations. In addition to the ease-of-use and flexibility you\'ve always enjoyed with Tecplot, the 2010 version helps you work more effectively thanks to enhanced performance and more versatile options for outputting professional presentations.
Crystal Ball is a leading predictive modelling suite for transforming Excel spreadsheets into risk models. It allows users to perform Monte Carlo simulation, forecasting as well as optimisation. Version 11.1.2 includes a number of enhancements including the ability to define assumptions from forecasts and an updated Scenario Analysis tool.
Origin and Origin Pro 8.1 are probably the current holders for the most accessible and user friendly (graphical) tool on the market… it is the inclusion of "gadgets" in this latest service release that pulls everything together in a decisive leap forward.
To allow Origin and OriginPro to be more accessible in your organisation, Hearne is offering 15% discount for any new Site licences (minimum of 6 users).
New version also adds handwritten math support to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
Tecplot has released updates to the 2009 versions of Tecplot 360 and Tecplot Focus that deliver greater speeds and larger data set handling capabilities than ever before. Benchmarking on 186M data sets yield speeds up 2.5 times faster than the previous version.
Hearne Scientific Software recently introduced a new advanced Crystal Ball training course specifically tailored for oil and gas professionals. Crystal Ball software is a leading spreadsheet-based software suite for predictive modelling, forecasting, Monte Carlo simulation and optimisation. Applications include financial risk analysis, valuation, reserve estimation, Six Sigma, portfolio allocation, and project management.
New 9.5 versions of Risk Solver Platform, Premium Solver Platform, Premium Solver, Risk Solver Premium and Risk Solver are a major new release, with a deeply parallelised software design to exploit the multi-core processors in modern PCs that allow analysis and solving of larger models faster than ever before.
Remark Office OMR 8 has many new features.
Boeing, the largest aerospace company in the world is looking to ProModel to gain insights into their production process and model future improvements.
What'sBest! 22.214.171.124, a new build of LINDO Systems' solver add-in for Excel, is faster, more powerful, uses the latest calculation libraries and adds support for the recently released Microsoft Office 2007 as well as Microsoft Vista.
Hearne Scientific Software is partnering with the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (URZF 633, Forest Zoology Unit) to develop simulation models to predict the potential distribution of invasive insect species.
What do more than 45,000 engineers worldwide do when they need a CFD visualisation tool that's easy to use and fast on the draw? They turn to Tecplot 360, the CFD visualisation software that combines vital engineering plotting with advanced data visualisation into a single tool.
The new release of LINDO API includes new features to allow users to incorporate uncertainty into their optimisation models. LINDO API 6.0 also includes enhancements to the linear, integer and global solvers.
Need to minimise cost, maximise throughput, optimise design, model uncertainty or start other performance improvement projects?
Need to minimise cost, maximise throughput, optimise design, model uncertainty or start other performance improvement projects?
Apple has chosen MathType as the equation editor for its new iWork '09 suite of applications. MathType works with all three iWork applications: Pages (word processor), Keynote (presentation), and Numbers (spreadsheet).
Hearne Scientific Software is partnering with Austral Bricks to develop a plant simulation model to understand the current operations and model future improvements. This information will enable Austral Bricks to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs whilst maintaining safety and product quality.
These updates provide enhancements to the leading simulation-based decision making tools for improving enterprise performance.
New versions of Intel software Compilers, Cluster Tools and Performance Libraries for Windows, Mac and Linux are now available. Intel and Hearne will be conducting seminars in Sydney and Melbourne in December.
Hearne Scientific Software is now the exclusive distributor for ProModel software in Australia and New Zealand. ProModel is a leading business process optimisation and decision support application serving the pharmaceutical, healthcare, manufacturing and logistics industries.
The new Oracle Crystal Ball is a major new release for one of the world's most popular Excel add-ins for Risk Analysis, Forecasting and Spreadsheet Optimisation.
In order to validate the heating and cooling energy requirements predicted by AccuRate, a comparison was made with detailed monitoring of heating and cooling energy data for 6 suburban Adelaide houses over 2 years.
ModelAssist is the most comprehensive training and reference software available for risk analysis software. It can be used as a 'personal risk analysis expert' and has a number of distinct strengths. It is an ideal precursor to Crystal Ball training and it is free.
GKN Aerospace Engineering Services Pty Ltd, Australia's leading aerospace design services organisation, offers a full range of engineering and design services to the aerospace and defence markets. Engineers provide calculations and designs of structures for customers aimed at ensuring safety, performance and manufacturability. These services range from the supply of engineers to the execution of complete design packages.
EViews software provides sophisticated data analysis, regression and forecasting tools on Windows based computers. With EViews you can quickly develop a statistical relation from your data and then use the relation to forecast future values of the data.
Intel Cluster Toolkit Compiler Edition for Windows and Linux and Intel Compiler Suite Professional Edition for Windows and Linux have been released with support for 45nm Next Generation Intel Core 2 and Intel Xeon Family processors (Penryn).
A new release of CSIRO's AccuRate software package is now available. AccuRate is the fully featured software package developed by CSIRO for rating the energy efficiency of residential building designs.
Origin 8.0 introduces a new multi-sheet workbook to facilitate the management of data, images, graphs and results.
Crystal Ball software is used by the world's largest oil, gas and mining companies to analyse spreadsheet models and improve decision making. To address the financial and economic uncertainty in the global markets, these companies are increasingly using Crystal Ball for their modelling and risk analysis.
Training in the use of The Survey System for survey and market research data collection, analysis and presentation, is now available from Hearne Scientific Software. This course also teaches you how to conduct surveys online with The Survey System.
You need to upgrade if you have Vista or Word/PowerPoint 2007. Also runs on Windows XP, 2000 and works with Word/PowerPoint 2003 (XP).
Roadside surveys conducted over three years support CLIMEX predictions of negligible naturalisation potential for cotton in northern Australia.
Intel Corporation today announced the availability of two software products that help developers efficiently create more reliable, high-performing applications that speed up a computer's responsiveness.
The Survey System 9.5 is the most complete software package available for working with telephone, online and printed questionnaires. It handles all phases of survey projects, from creating questionnaires through data entry, telephone or PDA interviewing or email or Web page Internet surveys to producing tables, graphics and text reports.
New Intel Thread Checker, Intel Thread Profiler, Intel VTune Performance Analyzer and Intel Threading Building Blocks help developers create, debug and tune applications for Windows Vista and latest multi-core processors.
EViews 6.0 gives you powerful statistical, forecasting and modelling tools through an innovative, easy-to-use object-oriented interface. EViews is the worldwide leader in Windows-based econometric software and the choice of those who demand the very best.
Mathcad 14.0 is now available in Australia and New Zealand. This new version extends integration with Pro/ENGINEER and Improves Calculation Power and Clarity.
Hearne Scientific Software is now distributing the specialised Natural Resources Data Management system ESDAT.
An efficient and powerful graphing program for all of your most complex graphing needs. Ideal for scientists, engineers, and business professionals.
TracePro optical design and analysis software version 4.0 now available.
Hearne Scientific Software has today released new versions of the award winning CLIMEX and DYMEX programs.
Intel release major update to software development tools to make it easier to create, debug, and optimise parallel applications for server clusters.
PIPE-FLO Professional 2007 simulates the operation of piping systems transporting liquids and industrial gases under a variety of expected operating conditions.
CLIMEX software from Hearne Scientific Software used to examine the potential distribution of genetically modified Cotton in Australia.
CLIMEX software from Hearne Software used to examine the potential distribution of genetically modified Cotton in Australia.
Purchase Mathcad 13.1 before September 30, 2006 and you will receive the Data Analysis Extension Pack and the Mathcad Add-on Collection FREE. Availability is limited while stock lasts.
Thread like an expert, without being one! The NEW Intel Threading Building Blocks is a C++ runtime library that simplifies threading for performance. It provides parallel algorithms and concurrent data structures that eliminate tedious threading implementation work. It's a tested and performance-tuned parallel substrate for your application.
The School of Natural and Built Environments at the University of South Australia is gearing up to introduce AccuRate and Energy Express into its Construction Management & Economics degree program.
Forecast Pro Basic version 5 and Forecast Pro XE version 5 are now available. Forecast Pro Basic replaces Forecast Pro Standard. Forecast Pro Unlimited version 5 is currently under development.
A revolutionary new software program developed by Golden Software for the visualisation of three dimensional data is now available in Australia and New Zealand. The name Voxler comes from the term voxel - a volumetric element.
Hearne Scientific Software has released a new software program for modelling the energy usage of residential buildings in Australia.
PUMP-FLO Version 9.0 is a major upgrade to the industry standard pump selection software.
Tecplot has now released Tecplot 360 and Tecplot Focus! This is a software release that is unrivaled by any other Tecplot visualisation software release.
Effective May 15, 2006 the PIPE-FLO Lite program will be replaced by the Flow of Fluids Premium program. Existing PIPE-FLO Lite customers that purchase or receive free upgrades will now receive the Flow of Fluids Premium program.
Hearne Scientific Software and Creative Research Systems will be holding a seminar on Market and Survey Research using the Survey System
At the Annual Asia Pacific ICT awards Hearne Scientific Software and CSIRO Entomology received a merit award for CLIMEX and DYMEX.
Chemoffice 2006, Chemdraw 10.0 and Chem3D 10.0 are now available from Hearne Scientific Software.
More than 460 pages of illustrated tutorials are now available for CLIMEX and DYMEX. These new tutorials are an excellent way of learning about biological Modeling with DYMEX and CLIMEX.
VisSim version 6.0 is now available in Australia and New Zealand. VisSim version 6.0 adds new blocks, an improved simulation engine, and enhanced user interface.
Mathematica, Origin and ChemDraw are winners of Scientific Computing reader's choice awards for 2005.
Mathematica, Origin and ChemDraw are winners of Scientific Computing reader's choice awards for 2005.
GraphPad Prism Add-in enables Google Desktop Search to locate and search the contents of GraphPad Prism files.
Climex, from Hearne Scientific Software, was recently used to model and understand the Potential Global Distribution Threat from the Red Imported Fire Ant. The Fire Ant has recently been discovered in Australia and New Zealand.
Grapher version 6.0 is now available in New Zealand and Australia. With Grapher, creating graphs is quick and easy.
With four years development GraphPad Prism 4.0 balances new-and-improved with comfortably familiar.
TracePro the software of choice by the winner of the prestigous Medical Design Excellence Award.
Australian Information Industry Association's (AIIA) iAwards recognise the industry's most innovative companies for excellence in the development and deployment of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
The Australian Information Industry Association's (AIIA) Community iAward recognises a commitment to corporate social responsibility.
DeltaGraph adds seven additional chart types to Windows version and improves the interoperability of DeltaGraph for Macintosh and increases overall functionality in each version.
EViews 5 - blending the best of modern spreadsheet and relational database technology with the traditional tasks of statistical software.
Forecast Pro Unlimited Version 4.3 is a state-of-the-art statistical forecasting package that uses artificial intelligence and powerful methodology to yield unsurpassed forecasting accuracy.
Design Science announced today the release of MathType 5.1 for Macintosh that works with Microsoft Office 2004.
PUMP-FLO Version 2004 is a major upgrade to the industry standard pump selection software. PUMP-FLO 2004 has been re-engineered to represent the center of the pump selection process.
@Risk 4.1 for Project - Add risk analysis and simulation to your Microsoft Project models
Strater, high-performance well log and borehole plotting software. Discover how easy it is to present and display subsurface data.
MathType 5.0 for Macintosh is here. Major upgrade for OS 9 & OS X
CART 5.0 - Offers the most intuitive decision-tree interface with an underlying algorithm that is more versatile and powerful than ever.
The new Property Inspector in Grapher 5 streamlines the process of making common graph modifications.
Discover what's new in Gaussian 03 - Enhanced ONIOM Method, Solvent Effects and more.
Visual Analytics gets better with Tecplot 10 release 2
Create a Variogram Map and Surface using the 3D surface mapping program Surfer.
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry acquires econometrics and forecasting technology.
Visual Solutions is the sponsor of the 1st International Conference on Computational Methods in Fluid Power Technology.
Pre purchase the soon to be released ChemOffice 2004 and Chem3D version 8 now and save!
Design test & simulate your fluid piping systems easily with PIPE-FLO. Use virtual pumps, and other components to build your piping system and then simulate for analysis!
ChemOffice has been awarded the Chemical Information Management 2002 Readers' Choice Award.
Chem3D Ultra 6.0 & ChemFinder Ultra 6.0 are now ready and will join with ChemDraw Ultra 6.1 to form ChemOffice Ultra/Pro 2001.
Proctor & Gamble Uses @RISK and PrecisionTree Worldwide!
Whether you use EViews for general statistical analysis, time series estimation and forecasting, large scale model simulation, presentation graphics, or simple data management, Version 4 provides new features that expand your capabilities.
Amtec Engineering brings out Tecplot version 9.0
Salford Systems Wins the KDDCup 2000 Data Mining/Web Mining Competition
Hearne Scientific Software becomes Government Endorsed Supplier
MathType 4.0 for Windows Released
Media Release - MathType 5 New Release: Math Equations Over The Internet
Melbourne data-mining courses from Salford Systems, Dec 11-13, 2001
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Marquette's vast research environment is primarily housed in the Raynor Memorial Libraries. The libraries offer more than 1.5 million volumes, hundreds of research databases, computer access, laptops on loan, a CD and video collection, and library staffs who help researchers from around the world.
Opened August 4, 2003, offers research services, sources, and technology in a state-of-the-art facility. Designed around the Information Commons concept, Raynor Library incorporates in an open setting a variety of print and electronic resources, technology to support new forms of digital scholarship, areas for group and individual work, and a variety of staff to provide assistance. The building also houses Special Collections and University Archives, a conference center, the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Norman H. Ott Memorial Writing Center, and library administrative offices.
Accessed via the second level bridge, houses the bulk of the more than 1.6 million volume collection, including all books and most bound journals. The newly-renovated building provides quiet study seating for over 1,000 on six levels and computer workstations on level 2. Circulation services and Interlibrary Loan staff are available adjacent to the bridge to assist with questions.
The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) office obtains material through local, state, and national networks. Loan of books and periodicals article copies can be obtained at not cost for Marquette students, faculty and staff. Forms for using ILL are available at either library's Reference/Information Desk, in the ILL office, or within the "Online Request Forms" option on the Libraries' Web site. The Reference staff can help users with other library catalogs or explore other direct access programs.
Housed in the Memorial Library are manuscripts, rare books, and Marquette University records including administrative files, publications, photographs, films, audio/video tapes, and papers of faculty, students, staff, and alumni. Major holdings related to Catholic social action in the 20th Century include the records of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker, the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, the National Coalition of American Nuns, and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, and the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records and related Native American collections Also held here are the original manuscripts and multiple working drafts for three of J.R.R. Tolkien's most celebrated books, "The Hobbit" (1937), "Farmer Giles of Ham" (1949), and "The Lord of the Rings" (1954-1955), and a small collection of incunabula (from the "cradle period" of Western printing), including a 1473 edition of St. Augustine's "De Civitate Dei" (The City of God). Also from the 15th century is a two-volume edition of the Old Testament.
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Discussion in 'Chevy Truck Accessories' started by blacksilverado07, Mar 20, 2008.
has anyone put a vynil sticker on their Chevy bowtie logo and if you have do yall have any pictures?
I have not done it myself, but have seen several "Texas Flag" stickers in shape of the "bowtie"! I think I've seen on-line. That is the way I'd go. Good luck!
I have seen them on Ebay
I have the Texas flag on mine. I will try to post a picture a little bit later.
Here ya' go.
thanks so its better to do that than to paint it?and were do you get it?
It's probably better to buy a sticker if you want it to be that shiny metallic blue color since it would be difficult to match that color/scheme with paint. I only recommend you paint the bow tie if your doing a single color or if the bow tie is damaged/scratched bad. Your truck is black right?
yes its black if i get the emblem painted or a sticker it would be black
I've been off line for a couple of days but it seems that your still debating what to do with your bowtie. I'll post a pic of mine tomorrow. Mabey that will help you decide.
thanks what color is urs and its a sticker right
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I've found a lot of posts on how far to put traps from existing hives, but not a lot of info on how close I can put swarm traps to each other. How close can I go without either confusing the scouts or splitting a swarm? The area I can trap has many small fields separated by pretty dense woods (but not wider than 100 yards). From my surveys of the area there's almost no honeybees in the area (lots of other bees though), I don't think anyone has had bees in this area for a long time, with the exception of me (no swarms yet, hives are new starts).


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ECSA/LPT - Never Hire An Ex Hacker
The reasoning behind that practice is due to the fact the client may not feel too comfortable having an ex hacker snooping around on his network. They want a security firm, not hackers.
I ask a question in class, "How can a white hat hacker really be effective if he has never been a black hat?" Just trying to think like the enemy is not enough. Where does experience come in? Book smarts or real world experience? Which would you prefer?
I would like to get your opinions on this.
Just a note to all the black hats that read this forum, "If you think you are going to get certified and then be accepted by the corporate world, think again. You better not ever breathe a word that you were ever a black hat. The only way that will happen is if they made a movie about you."


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Hash, Halloween and History
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Dave and I stayed with his Step Dad who was the most gracious host one could ever ask for. He took us out for nice dinners, showed us around and even gave me some clothes when I discovered that I had left my backpack with a bitch that was crazier than a run over dog. I only had the clothes on my back.....Email me if you want to know the backpack story...it keeps getting better and better.
Our first order of business was to hash
Our next order of business was to party in Georgetown for Halloween. Dressed as a Monty Python Knight (with coconut shells to boot) with Dave dressed as a hot dog, we set out to plunder the town. Only problem was that everyone else had the same idea. It was to much of a good thing! The bar streets were packed as was every single pub. Places were charging enormous covers just to stand in a room that was more crowed than a Tokyo subway. Dave brought a couple packs of raw hot dogs and would give them randomly to strangers, street musicians and waitress as a tips....needless to say they did not seem very pleased with his room tempature sausage...(thats what she said! BaaaddaaaBing!) The best part of the night was seeing an old friend I use to work with in Yellowstone. I knew she lived in DC so it was fantastic that we could catch up!
Finally after hashing and Halloween I put on my tourist hat and went out to see the sites of DC. By this time I felt simply terrible but I trudged on through the sites and museums. Seeing the White House and the Mall and the Tomb of the Unknown Solider were pretty sweet but they would have been alot better if I did not have the Man flu.
All in all....it was a great trip to DC. I would love to come back, be healthy and see more! (and have more than one change of clothes)


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But we settle in to enjoy the sights and sounds of Arica....I hear that there are sea lions near the port...I'm picturing something like San Francisco where they are piled up on docks in the sun just waiting to be photographed. But this is a little different. Once we find the right area of the port, the animals are there, playing and swimming around but amongst the trash in the water. Tossing paper towels and plastic bags across the water and retrieving them...they're even enjoying the unique construction of the six-pack plastic rings we've provided for them. They're big and I could watch them forever but with mixed feelings...the nastiness in the water is disappointing and in contrast to their beauty. I am surprised that in a place like Chile, and in a vacation seafront town, there wouldn't be more of an effort to take care of the trash. Got to say, I'm just not finding the environmental ethic to be a strong one in South America....yes, sweeping generalization, but supported not only by what I see but in the perspective of locals. "We're just not green down here", I'm told, and while I search for some expression of environmental activism, I find little concrete evidence. Perhaps, beyond the surface exposure, there is a greater awareness.
What is a new experience for me is witnessing the lives of people in the desert. The water for this town is supplied by subsurface flow from the high mountains to the east...water is always a concern...shortages occur...yet the bottomlands of the valleys leading up to the mountains are rich agriculturally...there are nurseries for palms and other desert ornamentals, there are acres and acres of olives...right now, I'm not sure who has better olives, Chile or Greece. These areas of agronomic significance are sharply delineated on the landscape...they are green and lush and much cooler (the ability of vegetation to moderate the air temperature is striking), their perimeter...hot, dry sands...
So how can and why do humans settle in such austere places? Apparently there have been civilizations here for ages...way before colonialism. And the remnants of their existence have been well preserved by the dehydrating conditions (mummies are big here). But still, people land in places like Arica and the surrounding area and settle in. We adapt with sun protection, fans and maybe air conditioners, living our lives either early in the morning or late in the evening (siestas are a must), becoming accustomed to water shortages, regular power outages....maybe its simply a different end of the same spectrum we have adapted to in Syracuse. We dress in layers, insulate our houses, burn up fossil fuels, and import year-round fresh fruits and vegetables on in order to survive in our own extreme conditions. What's increasingly apparent is the degree to which humans have bent over backwards to widen their range of occupancy on earth....way beyond our natural habitat. And with that comes increased consumption...in the name of adaptation and survival. In fact, how much of the world really is within our natural habitat requirements? Now that would be some low impact living.


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The Effort to End Teacher Tenure
RALEIGH -- State Senate leader Phil Berger may be making no friends among school teachers.
For a second straight year, the Rockingham County Republican is proposing that tenure for North Carolina public school teachers be eliminated.
Berger would replace tenure, which now kicks in after three years of teaching, with contracts. Local school boards could offer teachers employment contracts for up to four years.
So, essentially, for experienced teachers, lifetime career protection would be replaced by a four-year career protection.
Berger's proposal is again being attacked by opponents as anti-teacher and anti-public school.
One of the unfortunate things about the current Republican leadership in the North Carolina General Assembly is that they have opened up themselves to the criticism.
Legislation weakening the state's primary teacher organizing group, the N.C. Association of Educators, started the bad press. Rhetoric about "broken public schools" -- referring to schools that produce graduates accepted into Ivy League universities and now graduate 80 percent of students -- has not helped.
But Berger's reform ideas have been focused on making public schools better and more accountable, even as other legislators have pursued school choice legislation doing an end-run around the public schools.
Critics can call tenure reform "anti-teacher," but that ignores a key problem that many school administrators will acknowledge: It takes a lot of time and money to get rid of bad teachers once they enjoy tenure.
A few years ago, the Associated Press reported that it sometimes costs $250,000 in legal and other expenses to fire a teacher in New York City, under a process that takes six to 18 months.
Teacher tenure laws vary by state, so the same time and expense may not be required here. Still, the North Carolina tenure law makes clear that the process can be long, with requirements for notifications, meetings, hearings and other legal due process obligations.
The requirements come into play because tenure, under legal theory, makes the job the same as possessing property. To deprive the person of the job requires the same legal due process.
Berger and others who favor reform of teacher tenure laws, here and elsewhere, know that these legal hoops deter school superintendents from getting rid of bad teachers.
That same AP story noted that 47 tenured teachers in New Jersey were fired during a 10-year period, out of 100,000 employed.
Few professions see those kinds of job security numbers.
The flip side of tenure laws, and a key reason that they were put in place, is that schools can be very political places. Without some job protections, teachers' jobs can be targeted for reasons that have nothing to do with their abilities in the classroom.
If Berger is to be successful with tenure reform this time around, he needs to articulate why his proposal won't allow superintendents and principals to turn their schools into job fiefdoms.
A little more talk about the good things that teachers and public schools are doing wouldn't hurt his cause either.


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The 2013 Microsoft Imagine Cup registration is well underway with the tag line, "All dreams are now welcome." When I first heard about the changes, I was concerned about the shift in focus. After all, part of what made the Imagine Cup distinct among programming competitions was its focus on global challenges as defined by the UN's Millennium Development Goals. But now, the next social media sensation can stand side by side with the next solution for combating the spread of malaria. Is this a model for strengthening the competition?
The Imagine Cup is a world-wide programming competition hosted by Microsoft. In the last decade, teams from more than 190 countries and regions have created solutions to solve some of the world's toughest challenges. That's over 1.65 million students, each bringing with them their own unique perspective on the world and what those challenges are. They've competed in software and game design, worked with embedded and open source technology along side Microsoft's traditional development stack, and created games and applications for XBox, Kinect and the Windows Phone platform. Their solutions have spawned companies that have gone on to help legally blind people see, make distance education attainable in the developing world and aid rescue works in collecting and sharing geolocation data in the field. Continue Reading "Microsoft Expands the Imagine Cup for 2013″ »


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WOW that looks great.
How hard is it to do a "hot salt" bluing?
Don't need details, I can look that up, just want to know difficulty level.
Of course I just ordered a kit and mount last week and missed out on the free shipping deal...
WOW that looks great.
How hard is it to do a "hot salt" bluing?
Don't need details, I can look that up, just want to know difficulty level.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
Difficulty of the actual hot salt blue is pretty simple. Hang clean piece of steel from iron wire in the hot salt solution until it's the color you want, rinse and oil. pirate56 is doing Dulite, it's different. It's the quite hot fluid and metal prep that can be killer. For milsurp finishes there's not a lot of labor-intensive work, for a SxS presentation shotty you might be at it a while
I have a daughter. I tell her, "911 is what you dial after you're raped. 1911 is what you should have before they try."
Russian.. Thank you guys. Do not want too be down range of anything that comes in on wheels or takes two men or more to carry.
That weapon is way nice. What a great piece of history.
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
the process is actually a black oxide, the parts need to be washed in a very corrosive soap, and the salt bath is also very nasty stuff. we refer to it as a "salt" bath so it sounds green!! the bath runs at 285 degrees and is hell on your skin, hot or cold. it is not really for the home gunsmith unless you are doing a lot of guns. the chemicals are expensive, it uses a lot of propane and is a real mess. however it produces a professional nice looking finish.
But as much trouble as it sounds like you sure got a beautiful blue/black there Pirate!!!
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here is a photo of the setup, the top tank is the caustic soap, second is rinse, third is the black oxide solution, you need to disolve about 7 lbs of chemical iper gallon of water to get it to boil at hte correct temp. the last tank is rinse. after the rinse there is another tank with neutralizing / penetrating oil it goes in after the rinse.
Th next photo is the wet area in our refinishing shop across the street from the main shop. we just put up a wall and airconditioned the back half that is the blasting and storage room. we have 2 cabinets, one for alox and the other for glass beads.
I'm thinking the savings with free shipping might offset the cost of a barrel without holes in it. ( side ways holes)
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Susan B. Anthony and Women's History
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American civil rights and social justice leader and an important figure in the early women's rights movement. She was born in Massachusetts and moved several times before settling in Rochester, New York, in 1849. Anthony was raised in a Quaker household with a long history of activism and a deep interest in social issues. This environment no doubt influenced her development as a leader in issues of justice and equality.
Anthony took a prominent role in not only the women's rights movement, but also the anti-slavery, temperance, education reform, and labor movements. She traveled across the United States and Europe for much of her adult life, delivering speeches and lectures on the issues that she cared for so passionately. She persevered in her efforts despite aggressive criticism and opposition.
In 1900, Anthony was the key figure in persuading the University of Rochester to admit women into the University. She helped to raise $50,000 in pledges, which included the cash value of her life insurance policy. The University later repaid Anthony the cost of her insurance policy.
Anthony was involved in many civil rights organizations, including the American Anti-Slavery Society and the National Woman Suffrage Association. She co-founded the women's rights journal The Revolution in 1868. Though Anthony did not live to see women gain the right to vote, her work with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in drafting and introducing the 19th Amendment, which prohibited the denial of a U.S. citizen to vote based on sex, laid the foundation for its ratification fourteen years after her death.
Anthony is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. Her house on 17 Madison Street in the city of Rochester has been preserved and is now known as the Susan B. Anthony House and Museum.
*All information adapted from the Susan B. Anthony House biography.


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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have become the latest celebrities to turn their hand to winemaking with the launch next month of their own rose wine.
The couple have teamed up with the French winemaking Perrin family to develop the Miraval Cotes de Provence label.
The wine, produced from the couple's sprawling estate near the town of Brignoles, will be priced at around NZ$24 a bottle.
Jolie and Pitt bought the 500 hectare estate in 2008 for around $63 million and have used it as a summer house.
The estate includes around 50 to 60 acres of vines.
The couple are just the latest in a long list of stars who have invested in wine from ex-Formula One champion Michael Schumacher, singer Sting and footballer David Beckham to actor Gerard Depardieu, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, singer Madonna and Tool frontman Maynard Keenan.
The website mesvignes.com says the majority of celebrity vineyard owners are not actively involved in the process.
Jolie and Pitt, however, want to do more than "just put their name" on the bottle, according to Marc Perrin.
"They want to be proud of the wine on their property. They are really looking for excellence," he said.
"We are two families at the service of the estate."
Perrin said he expected there to be around 150,000 bottles of the rose wine on the market in the first year, followed later by red and white wine.
The wines would be sold through "good wine merchants and in good restaurants", he added.


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California home prices on the rise
Local real estate experts predict a busy summer
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A new report released by Data Quick Thursday shows California home prices are up more than 25 percent from this time last year.
There are several reasons for the uptick. First--those all time low interest rates.
"We're still at a historic low, but we've seen the bottom of a 6-year historical low," explained Randall Figgins, a home mortgage consultant with Wells Fargo.
Real estate experts say they won't last.
"We've seen a major increase in the last few weeks of mortgage rates," said Figgins.
Also, as the economy improves, home values will increase.
So is it a buyers or a sellers market? Experts say both. Buyers can still take advantage of the historic low interest rates.
"Values have gone up about 15 percent, with interest rates low it means you have more purchasing power," explained Figgins.
Sellers also have an advantage -- inventory is low.
"Fifteen months ago you got a deal, because you got a property under price. The deal in today's market is if you beat out four other offers," said Keller Williams realtor Justin Etherton.
Homes that were foreclosed upon during the previous year accounted for 11 percent of existing home sales. That's down from a peak of nearly 60 percent in early 2009.


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October 08, 2011/The Grand Rapids Press
Guest Commentary
The Grand Rapids Press in its Oct. 2 editorial rightly points out that the cost of public higher education is an issue worthy of serious public discussion. As The Press observed, this need not be a debate about governance. Rather, it's about what we can do together to make college more affordable.
Necessarily, this discussion begins with two elemental questions: what do state policy makers expect from their public universities; and, how will the state fulfill its constitutional obligation to maintain them? We welcome this kind of all-encompassing discussion.
Constructive engagement is key to a productive outcome. Unfortunately, many find it easy to just blame universities for the high cost of tuition, ignoring — often conveniently — the fact that tuition has gone up because state funding has gone down. Thirty years ago, the state provided 75 percent of Grand Valley's operating revenue. Today, it is just 14 percent, yielding a per student allocation that is almost last in the nation.
We are not complaining. The state cannot appropriate money it does not have, so the need for us to economize has never been greater. Grand Valley has cut budgets, frozen salaries, restricted new positions, and developed new health insurance options that share expenses 80/20 with faculty and staff. In hundreds of ways every year, we avoid millions of dollars in expense.
And we do so in ways that protect the quality of our programs. Need proof? For 16 years in a row, Grand Valley has been named one of America's 100 Best College Buys — and ours is the only Michigan university on the list. Grand Valley's tuition is, and has been, consistently below the state university average while our careful financial management has enabled us to reduce operating costs per degree by 15 percent.
Grand Valley was created to fill the need for public higher education in West Michigan. With Michigan public university enrollment at an all-time high, we disagree with those who think the campuses are overbuilt. We hope to need more room in future years. Michigan is a state where not nearly enough high school students continue their education after graduation.
For those who think new buildings at Grand Valley are driving costs, let us say how grateful we are for our generous givers in West Michigan whose gifts have made our newest facilities possible without increasing the burden on students or taxpayers.
Grand Valley is clear on its mission, established 50 years ago by its founders and maintained since by dedicated trustees: a high quality public university accessible to qualified students, responsive to regional needs, with affordable tuition, private-sector job creation, and value for taxpayers. Let's work together to figure out how we can continue these outcomes for future generations of Michigan residents.
Noreen K. Myers is chair of the Grand Valley State University Board of Trustees. Thomas J. Haas is president of GVSU.


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HOW THE HIPPIES SAVED PHYSICS: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival. David Kaiser. xxviii + 372 pp. W. W. Norton and Company, 2011. $26.95.
In the United States, the job market for people with doctorates in physics collapsed around 1970, as the huge post-Sputnik expansion of American university hiring and military spending came to an abrupt halt. By the mid-1980s, things hadn't improved much, and it seemed likely that my recent Ph.D. in theoretical physics would be of little use in finding conventional permanent academic employment. One possible career path that came to mind was to try to follow the example of a sizable group of physicists who lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1970s. They appeared to have managed to pursue scientific research by dropping out of academia and adopting a countercultural lifestyle that included soaking in hot tubs at Big Sur, engaging in Tantric sex, hanging out at North Beach cafes and taking psychedelic drugs. Some of them had gotten rich writing books that mixed physics with various kinds of mysticism. I wasn't very interested in the mysticism part, but I figured I could handle the rest.
For better or worse, I did end up moving to the Bay Area for a year, but as a respectable post-doc in mathematics I saw little or no evidence of the continued existence of these countercultural physicists, and I wondered what had happened to them. David Kaiser's entertaining new book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, does a wonderful job of recounting the twists and turns of the story of how the members of this group came together, interacted with one another and with the more conventional physics community, and then dispersed to various fates.
Kaiser takes as the center of his account the activities of Jack Sarfatti and other physicists who met from 1975 to 1979 at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, sometimes calling themselves the "Fundamental Fysiks Group." The group, whose core members included John Clauser, Elizabeth Rauscher, Saul-Paul Sirag, Nick Herbert, George Weissmann and Fred Alan Wolf, was open to anyone interested in the interpretation of quantum theory. One subject that occupied its members was what is now known as Bell's theorem, which shows that quantum systems are "entangled" in a rather counterintuitive way. Although it was a fringe topic at the time, in recent years Bell's theorem has played a part in the active field of quantum information theory, which raises serious hopes that important new technology such as quantum computers may soon be within reach.
Many members of the Fundamental Fysiks Group had unconventional motivations for their research: Some were hoping to explain parapsychological phenomena, and others were trying find a scheme for faster-than-light communication. Sarfatti has continued this sort of search, supported by various patrons over the years, but more recently his attention has turned to unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and faster-than-light interstellar travel. Other members or associates of the group were responsible for wildly successful popular books, including Fritjof Capra (The Tao of Physics, 1975), Gary Zukav (The Dancing Wu-Li Masters, 1979) and Nick Herbert (Quantum Reality, 1985). Off and on, these books have even found their way into the syllabi of university physics classes.
Kaiser is a professional historian of science, and his account is exhaustively and carefully researched. He has uncovered a wealth of revealing detail about the various physicists involved, making for a very lively tale. One focus is on the significant interaction between the countercultural physicists and the more conventional physics community, and this is taken as evidence for an argument which, like many of those favored by the counterculturalists, is provocative but unconvincing. Kaiser maintains that World War II had led the conventional physics community to abandon philosophical engagement with quantum physics, a mistake only rectified starting in the late 1970s, in part through the impetus of the activities of the Fundamental Fysiks Group. Therefore, he argues, the hippies were responsible for saving the field that had quantum information theory as its future.
There are several problems with this argument. Kaiser makes much of the disappearance of philosophical discussion of quantum theory from physics textbooks and curricula after the war, but there were very good reasons for this. The birth of quantum mechanics in 1925 was followed by dramatic and important debates over the meaning of the formalism (the relationship between the mathematical equations and experiments), but by the war years it was clear that the formalism of quantum theory was sound and highly successful; an ad hoc but workable prescription for its relation to conventional experiment and observation was in place. The issue of how to understand the emergence of the classical world as an approximation was not resolved (and remains unresolved to this day), but it had become clear that for practical purposes the problem could be ignored. Only much later, as technological progress enabled the preparation of larger-scale coherent quantum systems, could experimental investigation of fundamental quantum measurement problems proceed, driving new theoretical work.
Quantum mechanics has generated a huge amount of pseudoscientific nonsense about its supposed relation to the question of consciousness and to parapsychology. Unfortunately, members of the Fundamental Fysiks Group were and are among those responsible for this nonsense, which has seriously damaged their credibility as scientists. In 2004 one of them, Wolf, played the role of Dr. Quantum in What the Bleep Do We Know!?, an atrocious but highly popular film, which argues that proper understanding of quantum physics allows one to make anything happen that one desires. Kaiser does make a good case that the process of debunking Nick Herbert's proposals for using quantum mechanics for superluminal communication was one historical factor in the development of what is now known as the "no-cloning theorem," on which quantum encryption technology is based. This, however, is a very long way from making Herbert responsible for saving physics.
To place the story Kaiser tells in context requires noting that, although the job situation in the 1970s was awful, it was during this era that the fantastically successful Standard Model of particle physics fell into place; the Standard Model is a quantum field theory based on fundamental symmetry arguments. But Berkeley was the center of a failed research program ("S-matrix philosophy") that claimed such a thing couldn't work. In The Tao of Physics, Capra argued extensively for the triumph of an allied S-matrix/Eastern mysticism point of view (as opposed to a symmetry/Western one), right at the moment that S-matrix philosophy lost the battle. Particle physicists during the 1970s were very busy working out the lessons of a new enlightenment and were not paying much attention to grandiose claims about quantum mechanics coming from a center of reaction.
One of the intriguing issues that the story of the Fundamental Fysiks Group raises, which Kaiser discusses, is what philosophers of science refer to as the demarcation problem. How do you decide what is science and what isn't? You can't just decide based on whether someone has a respectable academic position (Einstein didn't in 1905). A continuum connects the solidest experimentally verified science with the rankest pseudoscience. Some of the work of the countercultural physicists clearly fell into the "legitimate science" portion of the continuum, and some of it just as clearly did not. The demarcation problem has recently reared its head again as debate rages about the scientific status of speculative ideas involving extra dimensions and a supposed Multiverse. This time one center of controversial research is across the Bay from Berkeley at Stanford University, and highly ranked academic figures are involved.
Kaiser's fascinating book does make one other difference between the countercultural and conventional physicists very obvious: Whether they were doing science or pseudoscience, and whether they saved physics or not, the hippies were having a lot more fun.
Peter Woit is departmental computer administrator and Senior Lecturer in Discipline in the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University. He is the author of Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law (Basic Books, 2006). His blog, Not Even Wrong, can be found at http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/.
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Congrats to Jason!
I heard Han Yan caught a bad cold and had a high fever during the competition. Hope he'll recover soon.
Congrats to Jason!
I heard Han Yan caught a bad cold and had a high fever during the competition. Hope he'll recover soon.
〜( ̄▽ ̄〜)(〜 ̄▽ ̄)〜 Words cannot express how happy I am that Jason won, and did so with one of the most beautiful performances in any discipline this season. Simply sublime. There is just something so satisfying and complete about his every move. And that footwork sequence was nuts: going from near standstill to halfway across the rink on just one foot, without any stroking. O_O And that final spin! Lambiel would be proud. I don't entirely fathom how he only got level 4 on one spin (and not the last one, either), or why his SS didn't crack 7. But at least his footwork got a level 4, and he got great +GOE all around.
Just watched JB....he was awesome. He just has to get that axel. I want him to succeed in the future.
OK, I already lost my temper in another thread tonight, so I am trying to remain calm from now on, but I strongly disagree with this.
It's not even about mastering- how about an attempt? So he won the JRGPF. He won it without a 3A - couldn't mean less.
Brown displayed senior level ability in a number of areas crucial to PCS. Yes, he is missing a 3A or quad. But he is extremely advanced for his age other than that. Is it too early to declare him the next great competitive skater? Obviously. And I think I've been critical in the past of comments about Sochi. But reactions that are extreme in the other direction are silly, too.
BTW, Evan Lysacek didn't get his triple axel until he was a few months shy of turning 18 and I'd say his senior competitive career certainly went places. Jason is 16. Just something to keep in mind...
Josh didn't shake hands with the other two on the podium, ummm...
Han coughed a lot on the podium, seems really ill
And Jason just keeping giggling like a silly girl
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Jason Brown far exceeds the top level senior skaters in many areas of skating even. The kid is special. I wish him a 3axel and/or quad just so I can see more of him in the future. But his performance today stands as an indelible piece of art.
I read a couple of days ago that Han Yan had a bad flu and lost substantial weight.
"Bent knees"? Do you look at his jump landings? How about this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL...wK2wJrg#t=122s
And what's so bad about his upper body gesture? He is ridiculously fluid in his movements.
Do you have some sort of problem with Brown? Judging from your comment about his "giggling like a silly girl"... the boy is 16 and has just won the biggest title of his career. Do you want him stony-faced?
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Didn't Rohene Ward do Jason's programs?
Yup, Rohene did the choreo. And it shows.


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I posted this topic last night but somehow it did not make it to the BB. My sincere apologies. As you may have noticed, I have not posted lately on the BB. It is not due to lack of subject data, but rather due to my hectic schedule.
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In the cozy kitchen with a dining table you will find a fridge, electro stove with oven, a dish washer, water boiler, coffee machine, microwave, table linen, tea towels, a basic set of glasses, dinnerware and cooking utensils as well as a kitchen radio with CD player for your personal breakfast, dinner or a snack.
The apartment also has a spacious hallway with wardrobe and a small library for free use, as well as a newly renovated tiled bathroom with shower. Large bath towels are also provided in addition to shampoo and shower gel. A separate basin, hand soap, hand towels and washcloths, as well as Kleenex and hairdryer for your morning and evening toilet is due state of repair of the old building in the kitchen.
For longer stays you can reach in a distance of 5 minutes walk a clean and modern laundry shop and you will find an iron board, an iron and a drying rack in the appartement.
The infrastructure is wonderfully for Viennese conditions. Only about a minute walk away you will find the subway station U1 (Südtiroler Platz / Hauptbahnhof), which brings you in three to five minutes directly in the first district at St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Opera, the famous Kärntner Straße, the Naschmarkt or the Ring with its magnificent sandstone buildings, such as the Imperial Palace , the museums , the Parliament and others . At the underground station "Karlsplatz" or "Stephansplatz" you can change to the other subway lines (U2 , U3, U4), which bring you easily and quickly to Schönbrunn, the Hundertwasser House, the Town Hall and the Burgtheater, but also to the Vienna International Centre or the Donau City, with the newly opened DC Tower at Kaisermühlen (U1). The Vienna Prater with its amusement park and the Riesenrad as well as the Old Danube and Danube island for walking, boating and a place in the sun is reachable within eight to 12 minutes with the U1 (Praterstern, Donauinsel, Alte Donau).
Also in just a minute walk distance from the apartment you can find the bus line 13A which will bring you directly to the main shopping street of the city - the Mariahilfer Straße - and further into the 7th, 8th and 9th district where you can find a lot of theaters, museums and historical areas of Vienna, such as Spittelberg.
You can also reach easily within eight minutes walking distance the Belvedere Palace with its spacious gardens and the beautiful Botanischer Garten, which are very popular also for joggers. About three minutes walking distance you can find a children's playground in the nearby Drasche Park.
Other bus and tram lines, the high-speed rail, local buses out of the city, as well as the central station, fully operating in fall 2014 are reachable in five minutes walking distance from the apartment.
The parking situation is really not that easy in Vienna, but there is the possibility to get a free parking space in a distance of about 10 to 15 minutes walk , or you can park your car safely in the nearby car parks during your stay.
For your physical well-being you will find on the Favoritenstraße numerous supermarkets, restaurants, bakeries and shops, as well as a bank and post office for your financial transactions. And in autumn 2014 an entire shopping mall with about 100 shops at the main station will wait for you.
Whether private or professional- enjoy your stay in Vienna in this tender decorated apartment. I'm looking forward to welcome you in my beautiful city.
If you are a larger group of people and want to live together in one location, then simply give us a notice. My cousin Katharina also has a holiday apartment (for max 4 persons) in the same building, which you can - depending on the workload – book together. We will send you at any time the necessary information.
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We spent a wonderful week-end in a cozy and warmly designed apartment. We can confirm all positive things reported about it on this web-site. Location, close to the Central Station and the Underground, is very convenient. Moreover, Verena was highly flexible, most vriendly and very accommodating. Thanks for that. Volker & Rohlee
We hebben genoten van ons verblijf in Wenen in het appartement van Verena. Het was groot, licht, en warm vanwege het gebruik van de kleur oranje. De keukenuitrusting was compleet. Alles was heel goed en schoon. Het bed sliep geweldig. De boeken creëerden een gevoel van 'thuis'. Het appartement ligt op de derde etage, en er is geen lift, dus voor sommigen kan dit een probleem zijn, maar wij genoten van de sfeer in het trappenhuis. Het appartement ligt dicht bij de ingang van de metro U1. Dat betekent dat je in 'no time' in het centrum bent. Het ligt ook dicht bij Wien Hauptbahnhof, en is daardoor ook met een trein vanaf het vliegveld (die naar Salzburg) goed te bereiken.
We loved staying in Verena's appartment! There was more than enough space, everything was good and clean. The atmosphere was warm, because of the use of the colour orange in the appartment . The bed slept very well, and everything we needed was provided for, like kitchenutensils, kitchenpaper, towels etc. She also was as kind as to leave some tourist information on the table! The appartment is close to the subway U1, which makes you reach the centre very fast. Wien Hauptbahnhof is also nearby, and easy to reach from the airport (train to Salzbug). We would recommend this appartment to anyone wanting to go to Vienna! The only point of attention might be the fact that the appartment is on the third floor, with no elevator at hand, but if you can walk, this should be no problem! We loved the authentic atmosphere of the stairway, which was great and big, so easy to go, anyway!
Apartment quiet and confortable situated in a very good place close to the center the host Verena very kindly and helpful. But the wifi it is not very good principally in the night but I think it could be resolved without problems.
We were welcomed by Verena,
We could find everything we needed in the appartment, which is very well-situated (station, undeground, monuments...very close), cosy and well-decorated.
We could enjoy a very good stay in Wien.
This is the place to stay in Vienna. Close to everything, i.e. transport, stores and a park for running or recreation. Nice and cosy apartment and a very nice host as well. Don't hesitate. In less than 15 minutes you are in the centre of Vienna combined with a quiet neighborhood in a very nice apartment complex from the 1900's
Alles war top! Nette Gastgeberin. Gut zu kontaktieren. Unterkunft sehr schön, sauber und geräumig mit Allem dran und drum.
WLAN, Küche usw.
Unglaublich zentrale Lage, gerade zwei Stationen vom Karlsplatz entfernt. Falls man etwas korpulenter sein sollte,
ist das WC/Dusche vielleicht ein bißl schwierig zu manövrieren. Wir kommen jederzeit wieder.
Schöne Grüße
Eine schöne kleine Altbau-Wohnung, die ein nach Hause kommen möglich machte, nachdem wir diese Fülle in der Stadt "satt" hatten. Verkehrstechnisch zentral gelegen, wenn man sich gerne eine Stadt erläuft. Aber der 13-er Bus vor der Türe und die U1 um die Ecke, was braucht man mehr. Danke Verena. Uwe & Christine
Das Apartment ist super. Richtig schön eingerichtet und sehr geräumig. Die Lage nur ein paar Gehminuten vom Hbf ist auch klasse.
Die Kommunikation war sehr einfach und ging schnell, Verena war sehr nett und war sehr hilfreich.
Auf jeden Fall zu empfehlen! :)
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text: I was looking at the GM Tech 2 at some point since all my vehicles have been GM and I would get many years of use out of it for diagnosing issues and potentially re-programming their ECU. Well GM has upgraded and the new diagnostic tool is called MDI and it requires an annual subscription to work. This is the: GM Tech 2 Deluxe with 2010 Software and Candi Module This sells for about $4500 brand new and is the old technology. This is the: GM MDI Multiple Diagnostic Interface for Tech 2 The hardware sells for about $1500 brand new and replaces the Tech 2. It looks a little strange right? Well it is the interface to connect your OBDII to your laptop with Tech 2 software installed on the laptop. It has a connection for the OBDII to the MDI and leaving the MDI you have the option of a USB cable or a Cat 5 network cable (Much higher bandwidth than USB). That "should" relate to faster data logging and true real time displays in gauges and charts on your laptop. GM lets 2 different manufactures create these diagnostic and programming tools: Bosch Diagnostics: http://www.boschdiagnostics.com/TESTEQUIPMENT/DIAGNOSTICS/SCANTOOLS/MDI/PAGES/MDI.ASPX OTC: [*=1]http://www.otctools.com/products/gm_mdi It also requires an annual subscription from AC Delco found here: [*=1]https://www.acdelcotds.com/acdelco/action/subscribehome So the cheapest you will get away with one is for the $1500 + the annual $1395 fee for the Tech 2 and Service Programming Package (if you want diagnostics and programming features to be enabled). I called ACDelco and asked them if these subscriptions were only for dealers large chain auto shops and they said that anyone that wanted to would be able to purchase either the Tech 2 or the MDI and a subscription to the service (Why woudn't they right). Anyway I am posting this for information purposes if anyone is interested, I am, but not with the annual subscription fee. I guess its not for me then.


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The SAT II, or SAT 2, or SAT Subject Tests, are like the SAT except they claim to test specific knowledge, like Spanish or more complex math. More and more bullshit to waste your money and make sure you don't get into a good college.
SAT: Literature
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Set in the heart of beautiful historic Ellicott City, Portalli's is an Italian restaurant like no other. Portalli's was designed to offer a nice mixture of traditional Italian dishes and Italian-inspired preparations unique to Chef Holsey.read more
Our menu was designed by Chef Keith Holsey in the spirit of traditional Italian dining, where it is common for people to enjoy an appetizer (antipasti), followed by a salad (insalate), then a pasta and finally a meat (carne) or fish (pesce).read more
Portalli's is an upscale Italian restaurant tucked into the main strip of historic Ellicott City. Take a tour of our restaurant to see our interior and the many delicious food items we offer on our lunch and dinner menus. You won't be disappointed.read more
half-priced all bottles of wine
half-priced all beer
$3 red or white sangria
lobster night!view our menu
3 - 6
in the bar
half-priced cocktails + martinis
half-priced all bottles of wine
I went for brunch and not only was the food amazing and plentiful, but the drinks really were bottomless, and the servers were so nice. There was even a live pianist.
I am going back.
My husband and I frequent Portalli's. The food is very good and the service too! Their prices are reasonable. We absolutely love their buffet styled Sunday brunch. The shrimp is very good and they have a good variety.
My wife and I recently enjoyed a remarkable meal at Portalli's in Ellicott City, Maryland. Our crab cake appetizers, pasta entrees, and decadent desserts were each and all culinary delights. And our waiter was both well-informed and appropriately attentive (but not overbearing). All things considered, this was one of our finest dining experiences in recent memory. And the bill, while not inconsequential, was most certainly reasonable for the value received.
A nice venue in old Ellicott City featuring very good Italian food at a reasonable price. The spaghetti and meatballs are outstanding as is their chicken and mushroom dish. Service is good but not overly attentive. A very nice place for couples.


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