41. THE GENERAL We don t laugh at Keaton, but identify with him. ``The general is an epic ofsilent comedy, one of the most expensive films of its time, including an http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/the_general.html

Home News Sports Business ... Zwecker THE GENERAL BY ROGER EBERT Buster Keaton was not the Great Stone Face so much as a man who kept his composure in the center of chaos. Other silent actors might mug to get a point across, but Keaton remained observant and collected. That's one reason his best movies have aged better than those of his rival, Charlie Chaplin. He seems like a modern visitor to the world of the silent clowns. Consider an opening sequence in ``The General'' (1927), his masterpiece about a Southern railway engineer who has ``only two loves in his life''his locomotive and the beautiful Annabelle Lee. Early in the film, Keaton, dressed in his Sunday best, walks to his girl's house. He is unaware that two small boys are following him, marching in lockstepand that following them is Annabelle Lee herself (Marion Mack). He arrives at her door. She watches unobserved. He polishes his shoes on the backs of his pants legs, and then knocks, pauses, looks about, and sees her standing right behind him. This moment would have inspired an overacted double-take from many other silent comedians. Keaton plays it with his face registering merely heightened interest. They go inside. He sits next to her on the sofa. He becomes aware that the boys have followed them in. His face reflects slight unhappiness. He rises, puts on his hat as if to leave and opens the door, displaying such courtesy you would think the boys were his guests. The boys walk out and he closes the door on them.

42. Welcome To The Joint Committee On Postgraduate Training For General Practice Web on parttime training apply to both the general practice and no rigid definitionof what constitutes full time training and, therefore, what its part time http://www.jcptgp.org.uk/policy/policy_part_time_training.asp

Chairman's statement Officers and Staff Committee members History and functions ... Home PART-TIME TRAINING FOR GENERAL PRACTICE Introduction GP training in the UK can be done part time/flexibly. A mixture of full and part time posts is also acceptable. Part time/flexible training should be organised in consultation with the GP director to ensure that it complies with these requirements. Person-specific guidance on part time/flexible training is available from the Joint Committee on request. For financial reasons, it will not always be possible for deaneries and/or trusts to offer part time/flexible training to all trainees who apply for it. Regulatory Framework Both the hospital component and the general practice component of any part time training that begun/begins after 31 December 1994 must have included/must include one period of full-time employment lasting at least a week. (1) and (2) above apply to UK training only. The JCPTGP will consider EEA and overseas training of at least 50% of full time.

43. Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack Known as a “soldier’s general,” Franks made his mark as a set of playing cards,Franks explained its genesis doubt that we’ll ever have a time when the http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11/20/185048.shtml

focusIN Specialty Web Network June 09, 2004 Dr. Laura: Joins NewsMax Home Late-Night Jokes Archives ... More Inside Cover Stories Click Here Click Here Click Here Click Here NewsMax Top 10 Hottest Sellers June 8, 2004 USS Reagan Hat Reagan's Greatest Laughs Deck of Reagan Presidential Coffee Mugs ... VISIT OUR STORE New items all the time Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack John O. Edwards, NewsMax.com Friday, Nov. 21, 2003 Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. Franks, who successfully led the U.S. military operation to liberate Iraq, expressed his worries in an extensive interview he gave to the men’s lifestyle magazine Cigar Aficionado. In the magazine’s December edition, the former commander of the military’s Central Command warned that if terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government. Discussing the hypothetical dangers posed to the U.S. in the wake of Sept. 11, Franks said that “the worst thing that could happen” is if terrorists acquire and then use a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon that inflicts heavy casualties.

44. MAGIC Throught Two MILLENNIA and the measured decrease in its period caused the blue curve is the time delay caused bygravitational radiation, calculated from general Relativity, knowing http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Key/relgen.htm

To the MAGIC Homepage MAGIC through two MILLENNIA GENERAL RELATIVITY - a primer Gravity and Time Gravity and Space Bending of Light in a Gravitational Field Experimental Verification Gravity and Time. Consider three clocks. Clocks 1 and 2 are mounted on a rotating disk, with clock 1 exactly at the centre, and clock 2 fixed on the rim, and clock 3 is sitting at rest with respect to the centre of the disk. Note that the disk exerts a force on clock 2 which forces it to follow a circular path; since, without this force, clock 2 would move in a straight line, it is clear that the force and the resultant acceleration are both directed towards the centre of the disk. Clocks 1 and 3 are not moving relative to one another (there is some rotation involved, but their relative position in space does not change with time); thus, as far as Special Relativity is concerned, they keep the same time. However, clock 2 is moving with respect to clock 3; thus clock 2 is running slow as seen by clock 3. Since clocks 1 and 3 keep the same time, this means that clock 2 runs slow compared to clock 1, even though clocks 1 and 2 have no relative translatory motion. (Note that, since clock 2 is not in an inertial frame, Special Relativity does not make any statement about its timekeeping - this is a new effect) . Finally, consider a clock situated on the disk somewhere between clocks 1 and 2; the acceleration of such a clock is less than that of clock 2, and since it is also moving more slowly than clock 2, it is running less slowly.

45. General Thrust Equation its dimensions are mass/time (kg/sec, slug/sec, ) and it is mass/time * length/time= mass * length / time^2. The general thrust equation is then given by http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/thrsteq.html

Thrust is the force which moves an aircraft through the air. Thrust is generated by the propulsion system of the airplane How is thrust generated? Thrust is a mechanical force which is generated through the reaction of accelerating a mass of gas, as explained by Newton's third law of motion. The gas or working fluid is accelerated to the rear and the engine and aircraft are accelerated in the opposite direction. To accelerate the gas, we need some kind of propulsion system. We will discuss the details of various propulsion systems on some other pages. For right now, let us just think of the propulsion system as some machine which accelerates a gas. From Newton's second law of motion, we can define a force F to be the change in momentum of an object with a change in time. Momentum is the object's mass m times the velocity V . So, between two times and , the force is given by: F = ((m * V)2 - (m * V)1) / (t2 - t1) If we keep the mass constant and just change the velocity with time we obtain the simple force equation - force equals mass time acceleration a F = m * a If we are dealing with a solid , keeping track of the mass is relatively easy; the molecules of a solid are closely bound to each other and a solid retains its shape. But if we are dealing with a fluid (liquid or gas) and particularly if we are dealing with a moving fluid, keeping track of the mass gets tricky. For a moving fluid, the important parameter is the

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47. The University Of St Andrews - General Council - Introduction Today the general Council is limited in the issues to which it can competently contributesince its response time is essentially the six months between meetings http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/generalcouncil/gc_intro.shtml

w Home General Council - Introduction Back General Council - Introduction The General Councils of the four "Ancient" Scottish universities are advisory bodies to their respective universities made up principally of all the graduates. They may "take into consideration all questions affecting the well-being and prosperity of the University" and "make representations from time to time on such questions to the University Court". These activities are carried out by half-yearly meetings whilst a Business Committee prepares the papers put forward to these meetings. The General Council is also charged with providing people to serve on the University Court, of whom there must be at least four, and of electing the Chancellor. The origins of the General Council lie in the reforming spirit of the 19th century. The universities at that time suffered from varying degrees of difficulty. Glasgow was relatively successful. It was felt that Aberdeen would benefit from the union of its two institutions. St Andrews was slowly recovering from the lean times of the 18th century but still had problems with dilapidated buildings. However, it was the problems of government at Edinburgh University, a dispute between the professors and the Town Council, ending in the courts, that led to the Royal Commission on the Universities and Colleges of Scotland, established in 1826. This Commission reported in 1831 after exhaustive work and recommended that university courts look after administrative and financial matters, while academic senates would determine matters related to teaching.

48. ITS Help Desk: General Information The its Help Desk seeks to provide quick resolution of problems Parttime studentconsultant jobs become available on a regular Help Desk general Information. http://www.utexas.edu/its/help/information/

Help Desk General Information Getting Help Employment ... Help Desk General Information Hours How to contact us How can we help you? About the Help Desk ... Jobs Hours Monday-Thursday: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Friday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Intersemester Hours: Monday-Friday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. How to Contact Us Location: Flawn Academic Center, room 200-B (between the Tower and Student Union) Phone: Web Form: Please use this Web Form to send us e-mail When you call or come by, be prepared to provide your IF account number departmental computer account number or UT ID number. You will typically receive a response to an e-mail request within three working days. Providing a clear, specific subject line on your message will help us process it faster. How can we help you? Whether you want access to the Internet, have forgotten your password, or just have a question about using the computers, we can help you. Help Desk staff can: Help you set up a new IF account for Internet access on campus and at home. Help you get Internet access and electronic mail Assist you in obtaining and using UT Connect (soon to become "Bevoware") to install useful software and improve security on your computer.

49. A General View Of Positivism to complete and at the same time coordinate Natural Philosophy, by establishingthe general law of the discussion of this law, since its truth is no http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/comte.htm

Auguste Comte (1856) A General View of Positivism Source General View of Positivism (1830-42). from A General View of Positivism , translated by J H Bridges, Robert Speller and Sons, 1957; about 15 pages from the middle of the first chapter reproduced here. from Chapter I: Its Intellectual Character The spirit and the principle of the synthesis which all true philosophers should endeavour to establish, have now been defined. I proceed to explain the method that should be followed in the task, and the peculiar difficulty with which it is attended. The object of the synthesis will not be secured until it embraces the whole extent of its domain, the moral and practical departments as well as the intellectual. But these three departments cannot be dealt with simultaneously. They follow an order of succession which, so far from dissevering them from the whole to which they belong, is seen when carefully examined to be a natural result of their mutual dependence. The truth is, and it is a truth of great importance, that Thoughts must be systematised before Feelings, Feelings before Actions. It is doubtless, owing to a confused apprehension of this truth, that philosophers hitherto, in framing their systems of human nature, have dealt almost exclusively with our intellectual faculties. The necessity of commencing with the coordination of ideas is not merely due to the fact that the relations of these, being more simple and more susceptible of demonstration, form a useful logical preparation for the remainder of the task. On closer examination we find a more important, though less obvious reason. If this first portion of the work be once efficiently performed, it is the foundation of all the rest. In what remains no very serious difficulty will occur, provided always that we content ourselves with that degree of completeness which the ultimate purpose of the system requires.

50. People For The American Way offers a rehash of the common rightwing arguments against gay marriage Now thatsame sex marriage is on its way to a spurious legality, it is time to ask http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/

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52. Physical Activity And Health At-A-Glance This report brings together, for the first time, what has been learned about physicalactivity and health from decades of research. Among its major findings http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/sgr/ataglan.htm

Report Home Ordering Information Related Links Contact Us Physical Activity and Health Executive Summary Report Contents At-A-Glance Fact Sheets ... Nutrition and Physical Activity At-A-Glance The At-A-Glance is presented here in its entirety. You may also download a PDF version (205K) for Adobe Acrobat Reader or a PostScript version (432K) A NEW VIEW OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: This report brings together, for the first time, what has been learned about physical activity and health from decades of research. Among its major findings: People who are usually inactive can improve their health and well-being by becoming even moderately active on a regular basis. Physical activity need not be strenuous to achieve health benefits. Greater health benefits can be achieved by increasing the amount (duration, frequency, or intensity) of physical activity. THE BENEFITS OF REGULAR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: Regular physical activity that is performed on most days of the week reduces the risk of developing or dying from some of the leading causes of illness and death in the United States. Regular physical activity improves health in the following ways: Reduces the risk of dying prematurely.

53. Time Line Of The Civil War - 1864 This time line was compiled by general Benjamin F. Butler s command was in the vacinityof Petersburg as early as May 11, missing its opportunity to http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1864.html

Civil War Photographs Home Page Time Line of The Civil War, 1864 Other Photographs This time line was compiled by Joanne Freeman and owes a special debt to the Encyclopedia of American History by Richard B. Morris. January - April 1864 Winter Quarters at Brandy Station All was quiet beyond the Rappahannock, but there was a rich harvest for the photographers. Some photographs date from December 1863. May 1864 Grant's Wilderness Campaign. General Grant, promoted to commander of the Union armies, planned to engage Lee's forces in Virginia until they were destroyed. North and South met and fought in an inconclusive three-day battle in the Wilderness. Lee inflicted more casualties on the Union forces than his own army incurred, but unlike Grant, he had no replacements. Grant's Wilderness Campaign May-June, 1864 Photographer Timothy H. O'Sullivan followed the federal army and documented the actual course of operations as had not been possible since the middle of McClellan's Peninsular Campaign. May 1864 The Battle of Spotsylvania.

54. Company General Information The excellence, versatility, and affordability of its realtime MPEG technologieshave made Ligos a leader in the global digital video market, meeting the http://www.ligos.com/company_general.htm

Ligos' mission is to push the limits of standards-based video compression technology, and to deliver complete solutions in the form of modular, scalable software components designed to run on standard platforms. By aggressively leveraging its patented software-based encoding methodologies, Ligos is demonstrating compelling new solutions that scale from low bit rate encoding to real-time broadcast studio quality video. The excellence, versatility, and affordability of its real-time MPEG technologies have made Ligos a leader in the global digital video market, meeting the diverse needs of the broadcast and network video industries, as well as those of desktop video applications. Ligos Corporation, founded in 1997, is a privately held, venture-funded, software encoding company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

55. Cover Pages: General SGML/XML Applications has been under development for some time principally through and robust DTD, andbecause its main structures correspond to the general notion of http://xml.coverpages.org/gen-apps.html

SEARCH ABOUT INDEX NEWS ... LIBRARY SEARCH Advanced Search ABOUT Site Map CP RSS Channel ... Historic Last modified: November 11, 2002 Technology Reports General SGML/XML Applications SGML/XML Applications in Cross-Domain and Multi-Disciplinary Enterprises This document provides brief description of and pointers to general industry applications that use SGML/XML encoding for structured information processing and data interchange. Specific XML applications and XML vocabularies are listed in the main XML Page , while XML/XLL/XSL software tools are listed in the software section. Academic applications of SGML and XML are described in the document "Academic Applications" Contents HyTime: ISO 10744 Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language SMDL - Standard Music Description Language, ISO/IEC DIS 10743:1995 SGML Initiative in Health Care (HL7 Health Level-7 and SGML/XML) National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) ... Open Financial Exchange (Based on XML/SGML) Meta Content Framework (MCF) - An XML Application The Corpus Legis Project Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) - SIM SGML Database Technology ... GNUstep Documentation Markup Language (GDML) HyTime: ISO 10744 Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language [CR: 19980318] [Table of Contents] [March 18, 1998] Note: Information on HyTime is now being maintained in a separate document

56. Its-test: General Policies itstest. A) The College of Pharmacy shall provide full-time administrative staffwith a task-appropriate computing hardware configuration (see Appendix Y http://sitemaker.umich.edu/its-test/cop-its-policies/general_policies

Home About ITS Getting Help User Information ... Approved Configurations General Policies Priorities and Procedures Statement of Strategic Plan ITS Admin Only Other UM Resources its-test Policies for Computing Support in the College of Pharmacy I. SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION A) The College of Pharmacy, Computer Support System Administration Team shall consist of the following people: o The System Administrator (manages the Team) o Other Computer Support Group staff o ITCS contract support as deemed appropriate o Facilities Coordinator o Business Manager B) The System Administrator shall report to the Dean of the College, or the Dean's designee. C) A budget for the Computer Support System Administration Team shall be provided by the Dean. The System Administrator shall be responsible for developing a projected budget on a yearly basis and for the oversight of expenditures. D) The System Administration Team shall follow University guidelines regarding appropriate policies and procedures. The College shall commit the resources necessary to maintain compliance with these guidelines. E) The duties of the System Administration Team shall be to provide reliable and timely support for the College computing infrastructure as detailed elsewhere in this policy statement and in the relevant Appendices which describe specifics regarding hardware and software configurations supported and procedures for obtaining assistance. In order to carry out these duties, the System Administration Team shall: develop a well organized service and backup system including phone numbers, beeper numbers, schedules of hours and information distributed to all staff; communicate vacation schedules regularly with backup coverage information; and respond to people who e-mail COP.HELP so it is known that the message was received, where they might be on the schedule, and what priority their request has been given.

57. The Twin Paradox: The "General Relativity" Explanation b) the Principle of Equivalence then implies time dilation for theory from 1907 to1915; by 1915, general Relativity had assumed pretty much its modern form http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/TwinParadox/twin_gr.html

[Physics FAQ] [Top] [Intro] [Prev] ... [Next] Original by Michael Weiss. The Twin Paradox: The "General Relativity" Explanation Calling this the "General Relativity Explanation" raises some people's hackles; I'll say why below . That's why "General Relativity" is in quotes, and why "gravitational" is in scare-quotes for much of this entry. Some background This explanation relies on a couple of assertions that are true, according to GR. (We postpone asking what SR has to say about these assertions.) Free choice of reference frames: You can describe the physics of a situation in pretty much any reference frame you like, but some frames demand the introduction of force fields that don't show up in other frames. You can call these "pseudo-force fields", or even "gravitational fields". Uniform "gravitational" time dilation: Say you have two identically constructed clocks. One is deep down in a uniform "gravitational" potential well (or "pseudo-potential" well, if you prefer); the other is higher up. If the two clocks compare rates by sending light signals back and forth, then both will agree that the lower clock runs slower than the higher clock. I've phrased these statements as carefully as I know how, short of resorting to formal mathematics. The short and sloppy versions say, "You can use accelerated frames of reference, so long as you throw in some pseudo-force fields"; and "Time runs slower as you descend into the potential well of a uniform pseudo-force field."

58. GNU General Public License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and may publish revisedand/or new versions of the general Public License from time to time http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

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60. History Of Rice the precise time and place of its first development At that time, migration of faunaacross the proto In several regional languages the general terms for rice http://www.riceweb.org/History.htm

Here you will find a brief history of rice and some general information sources. There is so much to discover as one digs deeper into the world of rice that it cannot all fit in RiceWeb . We will use the General Information Sources area to point out some other sources as well as highlights or new linkages to explore. We hope that the many other World Wide Web sites that can be accessed through RiceWeb will also provide links from their sites to RiceWeb. HISTORY OF RICE Introduction Origin and diffusion of rice Early spread of rice ... GENERAL INFORMATION SOURCES A Brief History of Rice * From the publication Rice: Then and Now by R.E. Huke and E.H. Huke, International Rice Research Institute, 1990. Introduction Rice is intimately involved in the culture as well as the food ways and economy of many societies. For example, folklore tells us that when the Kachins of northern Myanmar (Burma) were sent forth from the center of the Earth, they were given the seeds of rice and were directed to a wondrous country where everything was perfect and where rice grew well. Rice is an integral part of their creation myth and remains today as their leading crop and most preferred food. In Bali, it is believed that the Lord Vishnu caused the Earth to give birth to rice, and the God Indra taught the people how to raise it. In both tales, rice is considered a gift of the gods, and even today in both places, rice is treated with reverence, and its cultivation is tied to elaborate rituals. Chinese myth, by contrast, tells of rice being a gift of animals rather than of gods. China had been visited by an especially severe period of floods. When the land had finally drained, people came down from the hills where they had taken refuge, only to discover that all the plants had been destroyed and there was little to eat. They survived through hunting, but it was very difficult, because animals were scarce. One day the people saw a dog coming across a field, and hanging on the dog's tail were bunches of long, yellow seeds. The people planted these seeds, rice grew, and hunger disappeared. Throughout China today, tradition holds that "the precious things are not pearls and jade but the five grains", of which rice is first.

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