But the sewage samples obtained from Mogden and Beckton plants indicated that the actual figures for cocaine abuse were far higher. Tests found that 37,638 doses of cocaine, or 150,552 lines, are consumed in London every day, nearly 16 times more than the government figure of 2,397 doses.
Just this summer, at a conference on democracy no less, the president announced a “directive” to every U.S. ambassador working in an unfree nation: Seek out and meet with democracy and human rights activists.
Recently I gave a talk in which I explored the idea of a hosted lifebits service. I think it’ll turn out to be fundamental principle and an enabler of many things, including the social network portability that is the blogosphere’s topic du jour. But before we go there, let’s explore how a series of more basic scenarios might play out in the context of a hosted lifebits service.
Siggraph 2007 presentation of an all new way to automatically resize images tracing 'seams' with the least amount of energy. The eraser thing at the end is totally worth it.
Researchers in the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified taste receptors in the human intestines. The taste receptor T1R3 and the taste G protein gustducin are critical to sweet taste in the tongue. Research now shows these two sweet-sensing proteins are also expressed in specialized taste cells of the gut where they sense glucose within the intestine.
Vi kommer att presentera det nya i Plone 3 på nästa kurs.
Aims to make Plone more efficient to work with. This release adds versioning, locking, inline editing and validation, link integrity, intranet/extranet workflows, wiki support, OpenID support, and full-text indexing of Word/PDF. (If you're not using the installers, please note that this release requires Zope 2.10.4 and Python 2.4.4 — earlier versions will not work)
"Walk Close To Me" - The Bangles Vs. The Cure
En sak är att få mail i brevlådan som man inte vill ha, som mer eller mindre öppet försöker rycka en på pengar. Värre är när riktiga mail, som man vil ha, felklassas och hamnar i spammen.<br /><br />Roade mej idag med att gå igenom spammen på ett av mina gmail-konton. Av de 1000 senaste spammen visade sig 8 vara sådana som inte är spam. Det var 7 stycken från olika organisationer som var bekräftelser på köp, online-aktivitet, medlemskap osv, och ett från en privatperson som jag kommunicerar med ibland.<br /><br />Det ger totalt 8 riktiga mail av 1000, vilket gör en felprocent på nästan 1%. Och 8 felsorterade på en knapp vecka. Inte alls bra.<br /><br />Och när jag tänker efter nu så har jag dessutom manuellt lyft en 4-5 ur spammen senaste dagarna, när jag väntat på olika kvitton och bekräftelser.<br />
Welcome to the Semantic Web Terrorism Knowledge Base, a project of the Semantic Web Research Group of the MIND LAB at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. This website was built in order to explore how the Semantic Web can be used to analyze terrorist activity. Research on the site is also supported by the Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery.
We are almost there! I just tagged Plone 3.0. Over the next couple of days we will be making the installers and preparing the press materials so we can do the proper release on Tuesday.
Om det föreligger ett etablerat kundförhållande (ingånget avtal) mellan en marknadsförare och en privatperson strider det inte mot god marknadsföringssed att ringa personen för att lämna erbjudanden om samma typ av varor eller tjänster, inte ens om personens telefonnummer finns i NIX-Telefon. Ett kundförhållande enligt ovan skall anses bestå även en tid efter det att avtalsförpliktelserna fullgjorts,[...]
The best performers are the Acura RL, Kia Amanti, and Volvo S80, all 2007 models. The S80 also earns the Institute's 2007 TOP SAFETY PICK award for superior overall crash protection.
Forskning om undervattenskommunikation hade från början militära syften. Idag finns flera drivkrafter. Nu gäller trådlösa förbindelser i vattnet även i civila tillämpningar. – Inom forskningsprojekt som sponsras av EU byggs en infrastruktur av sensorer upp på havets botten, förklarar Erland Sangfelt, undervattensexpert på FOI. Man vill övervaka miljöförändringar i havet, få förvarning om jordskalv, följa undervattensvädret och inte minst leta efter olja och gas. För sådana forskningsstationer har trådlös undervattenskommunikation en viktig roll.
The council said it spent 250,000 pounds (US$500,000; €370,000) cleaning up contaminated sites, while the Health Protection Agency spent 2 million pounds (US$4 million; €2.9 million) checking people and places for radiation. The police investigation cost another 1 million pounds (US$2 million; €1.45 million).
The secret files had been buried since the fall of communism and only recently opened to the public. Now a growing tide of ordinary Romanians is plunging into the past to find out what neighbors, friends and even family were whispering about them to authorities. The release of the files has reopened old wounds and raised wrenching moral questions: Do Romanians really want to expose their spouses and children to rumors fed to the authorities over a lifetime? Is the information in the files reliable? And if so, is learning the truth about those one trusted most worth the anguish that can result? Revelations have already been tearing families apart and destroying friendships, a measure of the trauma in store for the nation as the 1.3 million Securitate files become public. Other former Soviet states released their own secret police files years ago.
It demonstrates that a superconductive gyroscope is capable of generating a powerful gravitomagnetic field, and is therefore the gravitational counterpart of the magnetic coil. Depending on further confirmation, this effect could form the basis for a new technological domain, which would have numerous applications in space and other high-tech sectors" says de Matos. Although just 100 millionths of the acceleration due to the Earth’s gravitational field, the measured field is a surprising one hundred million trillion times larger than Einstein’s General Relativity predicts. Initially, the researchers were reluctant to believe their own results.
In 1962, then-King Faisal abolished slavery in Saudi Arabia by royal decree. Over forty years later, migrant workers in the purportedly modern society that the kingdom has become continue to suffer extreme forms of labor exploitation that sometimes rise to slavery-like conditions. Their lives are further complicated by deeply rooted gender, religious, and racial discrimination. This provides the foundation for prejudicial public policy and government regulations, shameful practices of private employers, and unfair legal proceedings that yield judicial sentences of the death penalty. The overwhelming majority of the men and women who face these realities in Saudi Arabia are low-paid workers from Asia, Africa, and countries in the Middle East. This report gives voice to some of their stories.
Quite bizarrely, not only do these helical strands interact in a counterintuitive way in which like can attract like, but they also undergo changes that are normally associated with biological molecules, such as DNA and proteins, say the researchers. They can, for instance, divide, or bifurcate, to form two copies of the original structure. These new structures can also interact to induce changes in their neighbours and they can even evolve into yet more structures as less stable ones break down, leaving behind only the fittest structures in the plasma.
So, could helical clusters formed from interstellar dust be somehow alive? "These complex, self-organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter," says Tsytovich, "they are autonomous, they reproduce and they evolve".
He adds that the plasma conditions needed to form these helical structures are common in outer space. However, plasmas can also form under more down to earth conditions such as the point of a lightning strike. The researchers hint that perhaps an inorganic form of life emerged on the primordial earth, which then acted as the template for the more familiar organic molecules we know today.
Fatty acids are chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms strung together in a particular arrangement, with a carboxylic acid group made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen attached at one end. Take away the acid, and you're left with a hydrocarbon that can be made into fuel.