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US-PA-Philadelphia-H1B Visa Sponsorship- US openings (This role is only available to India residents or to those who hold valid working visas or permits)
Post Date: 2005-05-22 09:07:31 by RickyJ
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US-PA-Philadelphia-H1B Visa Sponsorship- US openings This role is only available to India residents or to those who hold valid working visas or permits. ACS International Resources, Inc. (ACSIR) an Inc. 500 Hall of Fame Company and an IBM National Technical Services Core Supplier is a global provider of Information Technology Solutions & Consulting Services to prominent large and small businesses in North America, Europe and Asia. ACSIR is a very exclusive group of 5-time award winners, which comprises the Inc. 500 “Hall of Fame”. ACSIR’ Corporate Headquarters are located Newark, Delaware (USA). In addition to our offshore facilities in India (Mumbai) and in the UK ...
Dr. Marc Lappé, 1943-2005
Post Date: 2005-05-21 16:20:11 by robin
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Dr. Marc Lappé, 1943-2005Tue, 17 May 2005 18:33:07 -0500 A man of deep integrity By Anthony LappéGNN's editor remembers his father - a scientist who stood up for the planet's most vulnerable “Three interrelated issues mark our times: We have altered the planet with our chemicals; we are transforming agriculture with bioengineering; and we are contemplating the recreation of humankind through genetic technologies. All three compel us to reexamine how we use scientific knowledge: will our new technologies be greeted with ‘hurrahs’ or a whisper of despair from the species that we have decimated, crops that are gene-contaminated and people who, though yet to ...
Tsunami Earthquake ´Unzipped´ the Earth
Post Date: 2005-05-21 00:58:21 by robin
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May 19, 2005— The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of Dec. 26"unzipped" an 800-mile stretch of the planet and released twice the energy first thought; it also bowed Earth like a gigantic cello string, a series of studies say. The remarkable geophysical effects of the terrible quake were explored in several research papers in the May 20 issue of the journal Science. First consider the unzipping: Instead of just rupturing at one point underground and being followed by aftershocks around that point, the 9-plus magnitude quake set off a series of ruptures from Banda Aceh northward, taking anywhere from seconds to hours to unevenly push up different locations 17 to 50 feet. ...
New technology reveals ancient math texts
Post Date: 2005-05-20 14:51:42 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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New technology reveals ancient math texts By Esther Landhuis, Mercury News Fri May 20,11:01 AM ET It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi novel: Powerful X-ray beams are used to illuminate the long-lost theorems of ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, lifting them from faded 10th-century parchments. In fact, it happened last week at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Using state-of-the-art circular particle accelerators called synchrotrons, the scientists shone ultra-fine light beams onto three pages of the aged texts. Tuned to a specific energy, the light caused traces of iron in the ink to fluoresce, revealing for the first time the wispy outlines of Archimedes' 2,000-year-old ...
East Antarctica puts on weight
Post Date: 2005-05-20 12:25:30 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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East Antarctica puts on weight Mark Peplow Increased snowfall could slow sea-level rise. Increased snowfall over a large area of Antarctica is thickening the ice sheet and slowing the rise in sea level caused by melting ice. A satellite survey shows that between 1992 and 2003, the East Antarctic ice sheet gained about 45 billion tonnes of ice - enough to reduce the oceans' rise by 0.12 millimetres per year. The ice sheets that cover Antarctica's bedrock are several kilometres thick in places, and contain about 90% of the world's ice. But scientists fear that if they melt in substantial quantities, this will swell the oceans and cause devastation on islands and coastal lands. The ...
Fairchild International Corp. Announces Discovery of Almost Unlimited Inexpensive Natural Gas Substitute
Post Date: 2005-05-20 09:40:57 by Grumble Jones
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Fairchild International Corp. Announces Discovery of Almost Unlimited Inexpensive Natural Gas Substitute No airborne emissions from inexpensive process that creates gas from biomass, waste wood, and low-grade coal. VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA -- SynGas has completed development of its synthetic, low-cost, natural gas production technology. Fairchild International Corporation (OTCBB:FCHL), the holding company for SynGas, is encouraged by the preliminary test results. The prototype model has already been successfully tested using a number of inputs including low-grade coal, wood waste and other biomass, yielding superior results with lower costs and emissions than currently available ...
The Greenhouse Effect
Post Date: 2005-05-18 06:54:28 by toddbrendanfahey
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NOAA ISSUES SPACE WEATHER WARNING
Post Date: 2005-05-16 12:49:09 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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NOAA ISSUES SPACE WEATHER WARNING May 15, 2005 ? Forecasters at the NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., observed a geomagnetic storm on Sunday, May 15, which they classified as an extreme event, measuring G-5?the highest level?on the NOAA Space Weather Scales. (Click image for larger view of the sun from the SOHO spacecraft of the intense solar activity taken May 15, 2005, at 7:50 a.m. EDT. Click here to view high resolution version, which is a large file. Click here to view latest images. Please credit ?SOHO.?) "This event registered a 9 on the K-Index, which measures the maximum deviation of the Earth's magnetic field in a given three-hour period," said Gayle ...
Radical change in water use urged to avoid food shortages
Post Date: 2005-05-15 22:08:15 by DeaconBenjamin
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Governments must start devising ways of allocating water more efficiently if they are to avoid food shortages and political instability, the World Agricultural Forum (WAF) will warn on Monday. The call, to be made at the group's annual meeting in St Louis, Missouri, comes amid increasing concern about a link between water shortages, agricultural productivity and threats to global food security. “We have to manage water much better and that's going to require a new system of allocation,” said Jim Bolger, the former New Zealand prime minister who chairs the WAF. The non-profit group was founded in 1997 to raise awareness of agricultural issues among government leaders. The WAF ...
Seaweed to breathe new life into fight against global warming
Post Date: 2005-05-14 20:04:17 by robin
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Huge water-borne farms can turn the tide against increasing greenhouse gases REMEMBER the names sargassum and Sostera marina: if a group of Japanese scientists is to be believed, the fate of humanity may rest on colossal floating islands of the stuff. The team envisages 100 vast nets full of quick-growing seaweed, each measuring six miles by six miles, floating off the northeast coast of Japan. The seaweed in each net, growing to a weight of 270,000 tonnes a year, will absorb prodigious quantities of greenhouse gases and convert them to oxygen before being harvested 12 months later as a rich source of biomass energy. If a pilot version of the project indicates that the idea is viable, ...
'Oddball Rodent' Is Called New to Science
Post Date: 2005-05-13 15:21:30 by crack monkey
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'Oddball Rodent' Is Called New to Science By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD They live in the forests and limestone outcrops of Laos. With long whiskers, stubby legs and a long, furry tail, they are rodents but unlike any seen before by wildlife scientists. They are definitely not rats or squirrels, and are only vaguely like a guinea pig or a chinchilla. And they often show up in Laotian outdoor markets being sold as food. It was in such markets that visiting scientists came upon the animals, and after long study, determined that they represented a rare find: an entire new family of wildlife. The discovery was announced yesterday by the Wildlife Conservation Society and described in a report in the ...
Geneticists Link Modern Humans to Single Band Out of Africa
Post Date: 2005-05-12 19:40:18 by crack monkey
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Geneticists Link Modern Humans to Single Band Out of Africa By NICHOLAS WADE A team of geneticists believe they have shed light on many aspects of how modern humans emigrated from Africa by analyzing the DNA of the Orang Asli, the original inhabitants of Malaysia. Because the Orang Asli appear to be directly descended from the first emigrants from Africa, they have provided valuable new clues about that momentous event in early human history. The geneticists conclude that there was only one migration of modern humans out of Africa - that it took a southern route to India, Southeast Asia and Australasia, and consisted of a single band of hunter-gatherers, probably just a few hundred ...
Mozilla releases Firefox security update
Post Date: 2005-05-12 18:31:32 by RickyJ
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update A security update for the Firefox open-source browser has been released by the Mozilla Foundation, a move that follows the public disclosure of exploit code for two "extremely critical" vulnerabilities. Mozilla's Firefox 1.0.4, released Wednesday, addresses vulnerabilities that surfaced earlier this week. The update includes several security fixes, as well as a fix to DHTML errors that were encountered on some Web sites, according to a posting on Mozilla's Web site. The update is designed to address the two flaws, which when combined could allow malicious attackers to engage in cross-site scripting and remote system access. Although the two vulnerabilities could be ...
Weasel Award May 4, 2005 Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
Post Date: 2005-05-12 15:53:07 by RickyJ
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The IT Professionals Association of America (ITPAA) has awarded its second Weasel Award of 2005 to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates for his recent remarks supporting the lifting of restrictions on the H-1b visa. The Information Technology Professionals Association of America (ITPAA), an advocacy group based in Wilmington, Delaware representing professionals in the high-tech field has handed out its second Weasel Award of 2005 to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates for his comments calling for the unrestricted importation of high-tech workers into the United States under the H-1b visa program. The organization, representing over 1,200 IT professionals nationwide, presents this award to business and ...
Dashboard Leaves Macs Vulnerable
Post Date: 2005-05-11 23:56:02 by RickyJ
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A security hole in Dashboard could expose users of Apple Computer's new Tiger operating system to attack, and may put personal information like passwords and credit card data at risk. A new feature of Mac OS X Tiger, Dashboard is a suite of simple programs called widgets that often access information on the internet. Tiger comes preloaded with 14 widgets, including a world clock, a dictionary and a weather station. For the convenience of users, most widgets automatically install themselves. But experts fear any program that auto-installs is ripe for exploitation. Dashboard allows any user with basic skills in HTML or JavaScript to build their own widgets. Apple's Dashboard widgets page, ...
Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows
Post Date: 2005-05-10 15:35:39 by robin
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CLIMATE change researchers have detected the first signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream — the mighty ocean current that keeps Britain and Europe from freezing. They have found that one of the “engines” driving the Gulf Stream — the sinking of supercooled water in the Greenland Sea — has weakened to less than a quarter of its former strength. The weakening, apparently caused by global warming, could herald big changes in the current over the next few years or decades. Paradoxically, it could lead to Britain and northwestern and Europe undergoing a sharp drop in temperatures. Such a change has long been predicted by scientists but the new research is among the ...
Intruder Attack on Computer Net Is Called Broad
Post Date: 2005-05-09 22:50:59 by robin
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 - The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach of a Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming instructions for many of the computers that control the flow of the Internet. Now federal officials and computer security investigators have acknowledged that the Cisco break-in last year was only part of a more extensive operation - involving a single intruder or a small band, apparently based in Europe - in which thousands of computer systems were similarly penetrated. Investigators in the United States and Europe say they have spent almost a year pursuing the case involving attacks on computer systems serving the American military, NASA and research ...
Gay and Straight Men React Differently to Sexual Odors
Post Date: 2005-05-09 20:23:32 by crack monkey
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Gay and Straight Men React Differently to Sexual Odors By NICHOLAS WADE Using a brain-imaging technique, Swedish researchers have shown that men and women respond differently to two odors that may be involved in sexual arousal, and that homosexual men respond in the same way as women. The two chemicals, one a testosterone derivative produced in men's sweat and the other an estrogen-like compound found in women's urine, have long been suspected of being pheromones, chemicals emitted by one individual to trigger some behavior in another of the same species. The role of pheromones, particularly in guiding sexual behavior, has been well established in animals but experts differ as to what ...
Critical Flaw Found in Firefox
Post Date: 2005-05-09 16:28:50 by Eoghan
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Firefox has unpatched "extremely critical" security holes and exploit code is already circulating on the Net, security researchers have warned. The two unpatched flaws in the Mozilla browser could allow an attacker to take control of your system. A patch is expected shortly, but in the meantime users can protect themselves by switching off JavaScript. In addition, the Mozilla Foundation has now made the flaws effectively impossible to exploit by changes to the server-side download mechanism on the update.mozilla.org and addons.mozilla.org sites, according to security experts. The flaws were confidentially reported to the Foundation on May 2, but by Saturday details had been ...
Nano World: Ten overlooked nano firms
Post Date: 2005-05-09 12:46:32 by Eoghan
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Some relatively unknown companies could someday make as much of a splash in nanotechnology as the big companies that usually are regarded as the bellwethers, experts told UPI's Nano World. "I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the biggest winners in nanotech come from the overlooked companies," said Doug Jamison, president of Harris and Harris Group, a publicly held venture-capital firm in New York City and co-editor-in-chief of Nanotechnology Law & Business. In the NLB's latest issue, experts identified 10 nanotech companies with great potential from some 200 candidates that had not yet received significant attention either from venture capitalists or the media. Front ...
California to ban hunting over Internet
Post Date: 2005-05-07 21:04:43 by robin
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SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Wildlife regulators took the first step Tuesday to bar hunters from using the Internet to shoot animals, responding to a Texas Web site that planned to let users fire at real game with the click of a mouse. The Fish and Game Commission ordered wildlife officials to prepare emergency regulations to ban the practice. A period of public comment will follow. "We don't think Californians should be able to hunt sitting at their computers at home," said Steve Martarano, a spokesman for the state Department of Fish and Game. A bill passed by the state Senate two weeks ago would prohibit use of computer-assisted hunting sites and ban the import or export ...
Student Organizes Time Traveler Conference
Post Date: 2005-05-06 13:52:17 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Student Organizes Time Traveler Conference By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) -- Attention, time travelers: Amal Dorai hopes you enjoyed the party he's throwing this weekend. Dorai, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is hosting a Time Traveler Convention on campus this Saturday. Make plans now, because it's the last such party. "You only need one," he said. "The chance that anybody shows up is small, but if it happens it will be one of the biggest events in human history." There's no dress code. No need to R.S.V.P. Refreshments (chips and dip) will be provided. Dorai only asks his guests to show proof they come from the ...
Scientists Clueless over Sun's Effect on Earth
Post Date: 2005-05-06 11:02:02 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Scientists Clueless over Sun's Effect on Earth Robert Roy Britt LiveScience Senior Writer LiveScience.com Thu May 5, 5:29 PM ET While researchers argue whether Earth is getting warmer and if humans are contributing, a heated debate over the global effect of sunlight boiled to the surface today. And in this debate there is little data to go on. A confusing array of new and recent studies reveals that scientists know very little about how much sunlight is absorbed by Earth versus how much the planet reflects, how all this alters temperatures, and why any of it changes from one decade to the next. Determining Earth's reflectance is crucial to understanding climate change, scientists ...
Government Set To Issue 20,000 New H-1B Visas
Post Date: 2005-05-05 19:30:10 by RickyJ
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There is a catch: To qualify for the additional H-1B visas, immigrant workers must hold a graduate degree from a U.S. institution. By Eric Chabrow InformationWeek A new law designed to ease the H-1B visa cap will allow an extra 20,000 foreign workers into the United States this year, provided they hold a master's degree or higher from an American institution, according to new regulations forwarded by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Wednesday to the Federal Register, the official daily publication for rules and notices of federal agencies. The H-1B visa program is designed to help employers hire foreign workers with special expertise when such know-how can't be found ...
THE CLIMATE OF MAN—II
Post Date: 2005-05-05 10:15:32 by crack monkey
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(This is a really long article, but it makes some great points and does a good job of explaining how some of the measurements were made and how some of the models work. It completely contradicts Limbaugh and Newsmax on the subject. Parts 1 and III can be found at: New Yorker) THE CLIMATE OF MAN—II by ELIZABETH KOLBERT The curse of Akkad. Issue of 2005-05-02 Posted 2005-04-25 The world’s first empire was established forty-three hundred years ago, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The details of its founding, by Sargon of Akkad, have come down to us in a form somewhere between history and myth. Sargon—Sharru-kin, in the language of Akkadian—means “true ...
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