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- [The Register] - Users ask to party like its 2001 Dell is to once again offer Windows XP on new systems, responding to online customer complaints. The decision reverses a Vista-only policy the PC seller has moved to since the release of Microsoft's latest OS. The move is a reaction to online complaints at Dell's recently-launched Ideastorm website.? |
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- Raistlin: Wie wäre es mit "Eis" statt Strand? Klingt nach kühlen Köpfen. |
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- An Anglo-American team of astronomers have used the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to obtain the first direct optical images of the aftermath of a recent titanic explosion that took place in a star system 5,000 light years from Earth. In a talk at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Professor Michael Bode of Liverpool John Moores University described how these unique observations shed new light on the circumstances of such events. During the night of 12 February 2006, Japanese amateur astronomers reported that a star in the constellation of Ophiuchus (known as RS Oph for short) had suddenly brightened and become visible even with the unaided eye in the night sky. Although this was the latest in a series of such outbursts of this star that have been spotted over the last hundred years or so, it was the first one since 1985 and gave scientists an opportunity to study it with new, more powerful, telescopes on the ground and in space. |
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- The Sun's outer atmosphere or corona is incredibly complex, as shown in observations from space. It is also extremely hot, with a temperature of over a million degrees by comparison with that of the Sun's surface of only 6000 degrees. Scientists have now made a major breakthrough in understanding this complexity by studying the ‘skeleton’ of the magnetic field. A team of scientists from St Andrew’s University presented the results on 16 April at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston. "It is the Sun's magnetic field that dominates the behaviour of the corona and determines its structure", said team member Andrew Haynes, “and our work is a key step forward in understanding its structure”. |
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- One of NASA's newest workers is a top dog … literally. A golden retriever puppy named Aries goes to work every day at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. as part of the "Leader Dogs for the Blind" program. Her mentor is structural engineer Evan J. Horowitz. |
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- Spring's temperate observing weather comes just in time for April's Lyrid meteor shower. This is the first shower since January's Quadrantids. The Lyrid shower produces meteors from April 16 to 25 and peaks with about 20 meteors per hour April 22. With the Moon's first-quarter phase April 24, this year's prospects are good. The shower radiant - in the constellation Lyra - rises by midnight, local daylight time, just as the Moon dips below the western horizon. |
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- The Kremlin has vetoed a move to launch a fresh investigation into the death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, despite aviation specialists' belief that they have unravelled one of the 20th century's greatest enigmas. The rebuff comes as Russians celebrate Cosmonauts' Day today, the anniversary of Gagarin's historic flight around the Earth on 12 April 1961. That foray, which lasted just 68 minutes, was a milestone in the space race between the Soviet Union and the US. But Gagarin was destined to a short, controversial life. On 27 March 1968, Gagarin died in a mysterious plane crash while on a routine training mission in a MiG-15 with his flight instructor, Vladimir Serugin, just outside Moscow. |
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- Launch of the shuttle Atlantis on a hail-delayed flight to the international space station is slipping to no earlier than June 8, officials said today, to give engineers more time to repair damaged foam insulation on the ship's external fuel tank. The decision was made after assessing the progress of repairs to date and extensive testing and analysis to evaluate how those repairs will stand up to the thermal and aerodynamic rigors of launch. While agency managers were forced to give up any hope of launching before the May 21 end of the current launch window, the assessment showed it made more sense to stick with the current tank and launch in early June than it did to switch to a new tank. "If we continue at this pace of repair, we should be looking at a vehicle rollout to the launch pad perhaps as early as May 6 and launch that would come ... no earlier than June the 8th," said shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale. |
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- A hot Jupiter-like planet orbiting a distant star has water in its atmosphere, according to a new analysis. Three teams of astronomers reported in February that they could not detect water vapor in light coming from a pair of gaseous planets outside our solar system, even though theories predicted it should be there. Now astronomer Travis Barman of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., says he found the missing water by analyzing light that shined through the atmosphere of one of those planets, called HD209458b. "It's not really that surprising," Barman says, because models of such planets' atmospheres predict that water should be mixed in. |
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- Asteroids are Earth's closest celestial neighbors, sometimes passing closer to Earth than even the Moon. And yet, to date, only two spacecraft have ever remained in proximity to one of these bodies. Last month, orbit mechanics experts from around the world met to discuss methods for finding the best possible spacecraft trajectory, or flight path, for visiting a sequence of asteroids. The gathering was part of the second Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition, organized by JPL The idea of an asteroid grand tour is a celestial analogue to the Grand Tour embarked upon by Renaissance travelers seeking to further their cultural knowledge of Europe. Just as the traveler had to judge carefully which cities to visit based on his or her available resources, so must designers of a spacecraft flight path contend with limited resources and constraints. |
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- In one of their last days before blasting off in a closet-sized capsule, two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. billionaire computer programmer enjoyed an array of earthly pleasures Wednesday -- a springtime stroll, a game of pingpong and a freshly cooked lunch. Engineers, meanwhile, were finishing the assembly of the Russian-made Soyuz rocket that will be launched Saturday night carrying Fyodor Yurchikhin, Oleg Kotov and Charles Simonyi to the international space station. As they took a stroll down the so-called Cosmonauts' Alley at the training center in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Yurchikhin quipped to reporters that he was more worried about saying goodbye to his wife than about the spaceflight |
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- Shifting dust storms on Mars might be contributing to global warming there that is shrinking the planet's southern polar ice caps, scientists say. Computer simulations similar to those used to predict weather here on Earth show that the bright, windblown dust and sand particles affects Mars’ albedo—the amount of sunlight reflected from the planet’s surface. The research, detailed in the April 5 issue of the journal Nature, suggests these albedo variations play an important role in the climate of Mars. It could also potentially explain how global dust storms are triggered on the red planet. |
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- Forbes - BEAUMONT, Texas, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Lamar University, a Member of the Texas State University System is offering Professional Wedding Planning Certification as a special interest course for Beaumont area residents through a partnership with The ... From Lamar University Offers Professional Wedding Planning |
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- To learn something at the office can be difficult. But to refrain from learning something requires years of practice and refinement. |
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- Well i was trying to download project reality and the files were corrupt every time. it seems like everytime i download something its corrupt, americas army did the same thing. i've only been using this machine since december 2006 so its not very old at all. i'm hoping it software and not hardware thats the problem... What causes files to be corrupt and how can i fix it? |
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- Hi, I am a part of the subtechnology.com team (http://www. subtechnology. com) – new website about electronica IDM and its lifestyle. |
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Ruben Nusz (Apr 20 2007 20:52 GMT) - Naturaleza Muerta (Death's Head Moth) Taoist Matches Born 1978, United Statesthe artist lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United StatesBorn in the United States, Ruben Nusz currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Nusz is interested in life cycles and elapsed time via still photography using traditional painted vanitas imagery as the initial impetus. |
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QVC (Apr 20 2007 20:52 GMT) - Price: $38.60; Rating: 4. |
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- -Deadspin and AOL Fanhouse give a preview of the Mavs/Warriors series. -Tim Kawakami makes some predictions before the big series. -Bruce Jenkins looks at the NBA playoffs and goes with a team from Texas. -Golden State of Mind is pumping the stuff out in preparation of this weekend's games with an interview with Tim Kawakami, predictions, and a smackdown of something on a Mavs blog. Oh, thanks for the shout out GSM! |
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- *IHR Employment Opportunity* http://www. ihr. org/news/050106. shtml The Institute for Historical Review needs another full-time staff member to join our team here in southern California. |
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- A Philadelphia-area private equity fund has invested in a Maryland media production company. |
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- ok. i hate to be redundant, but i want to ask one last time, just for peace of mind. will .50 mg/day of letro suffice for any estrogen related problems throughout my cycle?? cycle looks like this: |
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- WE REAP WHAT WE SOW! Galatians 6:7 To watch The Day They Kicked God out of the School From American Family Association click here>http://www. afr. |
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