... Christmas is a home and family celebration, and therefore those who live away try to get back home. Everyone is buying Christmas presents for friends and relatives; parents try to present their children with everything they want. A Christmas tree stands in the everybody's living-room at Christmas. ... On Christmas Eve, when children are asleep, their parents come into their bedrooms and leave the presents near their beds or under the Christmas tree. ...

... NASA Astronaut (former) . ... Graduated from East Detroit High School, Eastpointe, Michigan, in 1973; received a bachelor of science degree in bioscience from the U.S . Naval Academy in 1977; a doctorate in medicine from Wayne State University in 1981; a master of science degree in systems management from University of Southern California in 1988; a master of public health degree in health policy from the ... Top graduate, Naval Flight Surgeon Training and Naval Safety Officer's School. ...

Birthday in the USA . ... Hello, my name is Crystal. My family does not celebrate birthday's as big as we used to. Now that we are older we just have some family members over for some cake and ice cream and to open a few presents. When I was younger my friends & family would come over for a party and we would eat cake & ice cream and open presents. ... The average American family celebrates birthdays by having parties and giving gifts. ... My family celebrate birthdays by having parties. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Space Flight . ... Rockets . ... 10- Rocket Light Shade . If you google rocket light shade you will get a range of different options to decorate your childБЂ™s room. б The one I spotted was a light shade which featured two tiers with planets and rocket designs on it.б  It would make a really cool addition to any space-themed room. б  . ... 8- Personalised Space Book . ... 7- Rocket pop-up tent . ... 3- Space Centre Lego set . ...

... A brief discussion of the potential and problems of the Astronomy Thesaurus and UDC classification system took place. ... The introduction to the thesaurus explains its use and construction in detail (Shobbrook & Shobbrook 1993a). ... Discussion ensued about the use or rather non-use of the thesaurus by the editors of the core astronomy journals. ... A sprinkling of hands was raised in answer to the question of who uses UDC and those people were invited to form a separate discussion group. ...

... Two high school students from Texas and Louisiana are the winners of the 2012 Priscilla and Bart Bok Awards for their astronomy projects presented at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May. The awards were presented on May 18 by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) in partnership with the American Astronomical Society (AAS), supported by funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). ... The Bok prize is named for Bart and Priscilla Bok. ...

... In combining the data, it is assumed that the low resolution image better represents the short spacing data, whereas the high resolution best represents the fine structure. ... Key: out The output image. ... Key: factor The flux calibration factor. ... In practise, the calibration may not be perfect, and an extra calibration factor will be required to align the flux scales. "factor" gives the factor to scale the low resolution image to put it on the same flux scale as the high resolution image. ...

... Fortranљ66 . ... Fixed form . ... Whole Fortranљ66 . ... Continuation line indicated in column 6 . ... Blank line as comment . ... Extension in Unix .f .f .f .f90 .f .f90 . Extension in DOS .FOR .FOR .FOR .F90 .FOR .F90 . ... This applies to both fixed form and free form source code. ... Fixed form of the source code is discouraged in Fortran 95! ... In UNIX there is no concept called extension, and the extensions are not specified in the Fortran standard, but in informal manufacturer standards. ...

Paolo Padovani , II Universit di Roma , Paolo Giommi , ASI, SDC and Fabrizio Fiore, ASI, SDC and Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma . Original Version: MNRAS, (1997), 284, 569 . Text copyright (c) 1997. ... We study the X-ray spectra of 114 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) using the hardness ratios as given in the WGA catalogue of ROSAT sources. ... We find that FSRQ have a distribution of energy spectral indices ranging between 0 and 3 with a mean value alpha_x ~ 1. ... Figure 1 (13kb) . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... BBC Stargazing LIVE . An Creag n . Beaghmore Stone Circles . Beaghmore drawings . ... Armagh Observatory and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) together with An Creag n and the Omagh and Cookstown District Councils are hosting a day of free BBC Stargazing LIVE and Universe Awareness (UNAWE) activities at An Creag n and the nearby Beaghmore Stone Circles. ... Living History and Observing at Beaghmore . ...

... country name . ... Query " Moscow's celebrations hotel Moscow, Russia" would failed if search attributes separately, but could be succeeded if search their concatenation. ... hotel". ... Simple search for "Moscow": # select name, country, place, rank( idx, ftsquery ) as r from hotels, to_tsquery('Moscow') as ftsquery where idx @@ ftsquery order by r desc; name | ... Query "Moscow hotel" (rewritten by hand): # select name, country, place, rank( idx, ftsquery ) as r from hotels, to_tsquery('Moscow | ...

... Archives . ... If you do not mind the time predictor, it is hard to believe that this is a light curve, time dependent data. ... It?s hard to say this data set is designed for time series analysis apart from the complication in statistical inference due to measurement errors. How to design the statistical study with measurement errors, huge gaps in time, and unequal time intervals is complex and unexplored. ... The following is R output without measurement errors. ... Chandra Blog . ...

... The magnetic field of the Earth has been investigated by satellites for several decades now, and enough of it is known to model its average strength and shape during different levels of overall magnetic activity. Presently the most used empirical global magnetic field models are the Tsyganenko models (1987, 1989) , referred to as T87 and T89, respectively, although even these consist of several submodels. ... Earth's magnetic field from T89c model during Kp=2 for different seasons. ... Res. ...

Stellar Clusters are very useful laboratories for empirically studying stellar evolution. ... All cluster stars are at the same distance . All cluster stars have the same physical age . ... CM diagram Young Cluster In this case we see the Main Sequence fully represented. The blue dots represent massive stars with short main sequence lifetimes. ... Thus, identifying the most massive star which is still on the main sequence is an effective means of determining the age of a stellar cluster. ...

Welcome to Where's Waldo? , a new and excitingly interactive Web game based on the timeless children's classic. ... Hopefully some day a text-only version, la Find-the-Spam , will be made available. This game is for advanced players only. ... To accommodate the bandwidths of different users, two versions of the game are available: . Large Format (233 k) . Small Format (57 k) . Boy, you'd think the little guy would want to be rescued! ...

Name: Alexei SOSSINSKI . ... Equally fluent in Russian, French, and English . ... Laboratory of mathematical methods, Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1995) . ... Higher Mathematics College, Independent University of Moscow (since 1992) . ... Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics, editor (since 1991) . ... How to write a mathematical paper in English (in Russian), IUM Publications, Moscow, 1993; 2nd Edition ISLC, Minsk, 1994; 3rd Edition, Factorial Publ., ...

Next Previous Contents . ... There are filesystems on disk partitions and other devices, and there is the filesystem as it is presented to you by a running Linux system. In Linux, you ``mount'' a disk filesystem onto the system's filesystem. ... A filesystem imposes some structure on this, and makes it look like files within directories within directories.. ... If the power cuts out at this point, the filesystem will be broken. ... Usually, the kernel mounts its root file system read-only. ...

... 2000 September 21 . XZ Tauri System Ejects Gas Bubble . ... Explanation: Why is the binary star system XZ Tauri emitting a hot bubble of expanding gas? ... The XZ Tauri star system is known to reside in the Taurus star forming region located about 500 light-years away. ... The bubble has been expanding over the past thirty years and now extends to nearly fifteen times the binary separation. Tomorrow's picture: Star Cluster . ... About APOD | ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Access . ... We present the results of the development of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Catalog Access Services (SAI CAS) project - the first and the only project in Russia, which provides online access to the major astronomical catalogues and different services on top of them. ... SAI CAS is an open-source implementation of the general Catalogue access service (influenced by SDSS CAS CASjobs project), based on original algorithms and open-source software. ... SAI MSU | ...

On Systematic Differences in Individual Solutions and IERS Products Zinovy Malkin Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia 1 Present status Proper determination, modelling, and accounting for systematic differences between contributed series is of the great importance in compilation of the IERS products. ... Possible sources of systematic differences are: · Different reference systems (e.g. TRF, CRF, geopotential, time scale). ... 87 IERS Technical Note No. ...