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Its chemical formula is TeBr2.
It contains tellurium and bromide ions.
The tellurium is in the +2 oxidation state.
Tellurium(II) bromide is a green brown crystalline solid.
It is made when tellurium(IV) bromide is heated in air.
It can also be made by careful reduction of tellurium(IV) bromide.
Tellurium(IV) bromide, also known as tellurium tetrabromide, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is TeBr4.
The tellurium is in the +4 oxidation state.
Tellurium(IV) bromide is a yellow-orange solid.
It conducts electricity when molten.
It decomposes to bromine and tellurium(II) bromide when heated strongly.
Cadmium telluride is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is CdTe.
It contains cadmium and telluride ions.
Cadmium telluride is a black solid.
It reacts with acids to make toxic cadmium compounds and toxic hydrogen telluride gas.
Cadmium telluride is used to make electricity in solar cells.
It is one of the best things.
It can be mixed with mercury to make mercury cadmium telluride, good in infrared detectors.
Lead telluride, also known as lead(II) telluride, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is PbTe.
It contains lead and telluride ions.
Lead telluride is a gray crystalline solid.
It reacts with strong acids to make toxic hydrogen telluride and toxic lead salts.
Tellurium(II) bromide, TeBr2
Tellurium(IV) bromide, TeBr4
Sphalerite is a mineral.
Its is a mixed zinc and iron sulfide.
The chemical formula is (Zn,Fe)S. It can be brown, yellow, red, green, and black.
It is normally found with galena, a lead ore.
It is also known as zinc blende.
It has a Mohs hardness of 3.5 to 4.
It is the main ore of zinc.
It has a non-metalic sheen.
Vale Park is a football stadium in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England.
It is the home ground of Port Vale F.C., who have played at the ground since 1950.
A model rocket is a miniature rocket.
They are not launched by the government or a space program.
They are used by people interested in rockets.
They are normally made of light (not heavy) materials.
Even though it seems dangerous, it is quite safe and is a way many people start getting interested in rockets and space exploration.
Rocket motors come in many different sizes, and they are indicated by a code on the motor.
There are also many ways for the rocket to fall back down after it is ignited.
Some of them use parachutes.
FAA launch regulations for the United States
Guides are people who lead people.
This includes people of the real world (such as a person who helps travelers and tourists through a place).
In figurative language it may mean person who leads someone to some goal such as to knowledge or wisdom.
A blast furnace is a special type of furnace for smelting iron from ore.
Blast furnaces are very large.
They can be up to  tall and  in diameter.
The blast furnace is the biggest chemical reactor.
Blast furnaces are also called high ovens.
A blast furnace is usually built with a steel case and bricks made of magnesium oxide or other refractory material inside the case.
The hot furnace cannot melt these bricks.
The furnace is cooled with water running inside part of the case and bricks.
The process of making iron is simple.
Iron ore is basically iron oxide.
Iron is made by removing the oxygen.
This leaves crude iron called pig iron.
This process of removing oxygen is called smelting.
Carbon is used in the reduction process, with the ore heated to a high temperature.
Carbon easily takes the oxygen off the ore in high temperatures.
Ore, limestone and carbon in the form of coke are put into the top of the blast furnace in layers.
At the same time, hot air called "wind" is blown inside the furnace.
Special nozzles called "tuyeres" are used to put the air in the furnace.
The nozzles are at the bottom of the furnace.
This process is called "blasting".
It is why it is called a "blast furnace".
The coke ignites (lights on fire) and burns.
This creates carbon monoxide because there is not enough oxygen to make carbon dioxide.
The carbon monoxide then reduces the metal oxide to the metal and makes carbon dioxide.
This process is used to make iron.
The limestone forms a substance called slag with the rock of the iron ore.
The bottom part of the furnace is called the hearth.
When it has filled with liquid pig iron and slag, the slag is removed.
This is called skimming.
Slag is lighter than iron and does not mix with iron.
It floats on top of the iron.
A hole is made in the hearth at the level of the slag with a special drill.
The liquid slag moves out through the hole into a container called slag pot.
The iron is then drained from the hearth.
This is called tapping.
A hole is made at the bottom and the liquid pig iron comes out.
It is either used directly for steelmaking, put into a special railway wagon called torpedo car or made into molds.
When all the pig iron has been removed, fire-resistant clay is used to close the two holes.
The clay becomes solid very quickly because of the high heat.
The pig iron contains some 4% of carbon and it would be too hard and too brittle to use.
The extra carbon must first be burned away.
The pig iron is refined into steel by decarburizing (burning the extra carbon off of) it.
A modern method for decarburizing the pig iron and refining it into steel is basic oxygen furnace.
Historically there has been other methods as well, such as Bessemer converter, open hearth furnace and puddling furnace.
The gases rise up and are collected on the top of the furnace.
As the gas contains a lot of carbon monoxide, it is a valuable fuel.
The gas collected on the top of the blast furnace is called blast furnace gas.
It is then washed and dried and all solid particles such as soot or ore dust are collected.
The gas is then burned in special ovens called Cowper stoves or hot blast stoves into carbon dioxide.
The heat from burning the blast furnace gas is then used to pre-heat the blasting air, "wind", which in turn is blasted into the blast furnace itself.
The slag is not waste.
It can be used in various ways.
It can be made into bricks and used for construction, or it can be mixed with concrete.
Concrete which contains blast furnace slag is stronger than ordinary concrete and is almost pure white, where normal concrete is dirty grey.
A blast furnace can usually work for 10 to 20 years without stopping.
This is called a "campaign."
Chemical example
Włocławek is a town in northern Poland in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship with a population of 117,785 (June 2009).
It has a large Jewish community.
In 1939, when the Nazis invaded, the Jewish people of this town were the first to have to wear yellow Stars of David.
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Hurricane Carla was one of two Category 5 tropical cyclones.
It hit the Texas shore in the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season as a Category 4 hurricane, becoming  one of the most powerful storms to ever strike the United States.
Hurricane Carla was the second strongest storm to ever hit the Texas shore.
The storm caused over $2 billion (2005 US dollars) in damages, but because over 500,000 people who lived there moved out only 43 were killed.
A tropical depression started in the western Caribbean Sea on September 3 from a disturbance in the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
It moved northwestward, to become Tropical Storm Carla on the 5th and Hurricane Carla on the 6th.
After touching the Yucatán Peninsula as a weak hurricane, Carla moved into the Gulf of Mexico and headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast.
As it moved slowly across the Gulf of Mexico, Carla got stronger to its peak of 175 mph (280 km/h) winds (Category 5 intensity) on September 11.
Just before landfall, it weakened, but Carla was still a very strong and unusually large Category 4 hurricane when it touched the shore between Port O'Connor and Port Lavaca, Texas, on the 11th.
At the time, Carla became the largest hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin.
Along the whole Texas shore, hurricane warnings were given, and people were moved out of their homes in low-lying areas.
Storm surge was measured at 22 feet (6.6 m) near the heads of bays, in some places reaching 10 miles inland.
Because of its large size, the whole Texas shore was hit, and damage was seen as far away as Dallas.
Winds were reported to be 115 mph in Matagorda, 110 mph in Victoria and 88 mph in Galveston.
Wind gusts as high as 170 mph were recorded at Port Lavaca.
Pressure at landfall was measured at 931 mb (hPa), making it the eighth most intense hurricane to strike the United States in the 20th century.
Then little-known newsman Dan Rather reported live from the Galveston Seawall during the storm, an act that would be imitated by later reporters.
This marked the first live television broadcast of a hurricane.
Much of the damage was done well away from the landfall site, as Carla caused one of the largest hurricane-related tornado outbreaks on record at the time, when 26 tornadoes touched down within its circulation.
One F4 tornado ripped through downtown Galveston, killing several (sources differ on the exact number, varying from 6 to 12).
Outside the protection of the Galveston Seawall, structures on the island were severely damaged by storm surge.
Damage was reported as far east as the Mississippi River delta.
Carla killed 43 people, 31 of them in Texas.
The low number of deaths was due to what was then the largest movement of people out of their homes in US history except during a war.
One half million people moved inland from exposed coastal areas.
Carla caused a total of $325 million (1961 USD, $2.36 billion 2010 USD) in damage, not much considering Carla's strength at landfall.
Owing to the intensity of and destruction by the storm, the name Carla was retired, and will never again be used for an Atlantic hurricane.
It was replaced by Carol in the 1965 season.
Hurricane Carla radar loop
NOAA hurricane lists
NOAA Carla page
1961 in the United States
is a Japanese prefecture in the Chūgoku region of the island of Honshu.
The capital is the city of Matsue.
It has the second smallest population of any prefecture in Japan.
Shimane Prefecture is part of the San'in area.
San'in means "the shady side of the mountains".
There is a mountain range separating Shimane and neighboring Tottori from Hiroshima and Okayama.
That means that the weather here is much wetter than further to the south.
The history of Shimane starts with Japanese mythology.
In these myths, the Shinto god Ōkuninushi lived in Izumo, an old province in Shimane.
Izumo Shrine honors this god.
Later on in the Kamakura period, the Kamakura Shogunate forced Emperor Gotoba and Emperor Godaigo into exile on Oki Island.
Emperor Godaigo got away from Oki and successfully fought back against the shogunate.
During the Muromachi period, many clans fought over this area because there was a lot of silver.
The Kyogoku clan controlled Izumo and Oki.
However, after the Ōnin War, the Amago clan in Gassan-Toda castle increased in power, and the Masuda clan controlled Iwami.
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine was in between Amago clan territory and Masuda clan territory, so there were many battles between these lords for the large amount of silver.
However, in 1566 Mouri Motonari (毛利元就) conquered Izumo, Iwami, and Oki.
After over 30 years of Mori control, in 1600 Horio Yoshiharu entered Izumo and Oki after the Battle of Sekigahara which Mouri lost.
Horio Yoshiharu decided to move and build Matsue Castle instead of Gassan-Toda.
The castle was completed soon after Yoshiharu's death.
Later in 1638, the grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Matsudaira Naomasa entered the castle because the Horio clan had no heir.
Matsudaira's family ruled until the end of the han system.
The Iwami area was split into 3 clans.
The mining district was under direct control of the Shogunate.
The Hamada clan and the Tsuwano clan each controlled their own areas.
Iwami Ginzan produced silver and was one of the nation's largest silver mine by the early 17th century.
The Hamada clan was on the shogunate's side in the Meiji Restoration, and the castle was burned down.
The Tsuwano clan, despite the Matsudaira (relative of the shogun) rule was on the emperor's side in the restoration.
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine (石見銀山) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Yunotsu - An old onsen town with architecture preserved from the 1920s
Shimane faces the Sea of Japan on its north.
Its southeastern border meets Tottori Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture and Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Matsue (松江) - The prefectural capital city, Matsue has an original castle.
Most castles in Japan have been rebuilt in modern times.
Lafcadio Hearn lived and wrote here.
Izumo (出雲) - Site of Izumo Taisha, one of Japan's most famous shrines.
Hamada (浜田) - Fishing port and recreation area.
Tsuwano (津和野) - This is also called "Little Kyoto".
Mori Ogai was born here.
Masuda (益田) - The westernmost city in Shimane and long-time home of Sesshu, an important artist in Japanese history.
Gotsu (江津) - A small industrial city between Hamada and Oda.
Ōda (大田) - Close to Iwami Ginzan and Mt. Sanbe.
Yasugi - Site of the Adachi Art Museum.
Izumo taisha, Mononobe jinja, Mizuwakasu jinja and Yurahime jinja are the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.
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Shimane Prefecture website
Matsue (松江) is a city in Japan on the Japan Sea coast.
It is the capital of Shimane Prefecture.
It is known for its historic castle and as the home of Lafcadio Hearn.
Settlements in Shimane Prefecture
The  was a civil war in Japan.
It lasted 10 years, starting in 1467 and ending in 1477.
Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Sōzen had a conflict that grew into a war throughout the country.
The Ashikaga shogunate and some daimyo in many regions of Japan fought in this war.
He played for England when the team won the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
He was awarded the MBE in 2003 and then the OBE in 2004.
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Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author.
He began his career during the Golden Age of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century.
Anderson also wrote books of fantasy, historical novels, and a very large number of short stories.
He received many awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.
Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948.
He married Karen Kruse in 1953.
They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to the science fiction author Greg Bear.
Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, starting in 1972.
He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism.
Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.
Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital.
Several of his novels were published after his death.
Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system made by the Roblox Corporation.
It was created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in 2006.
It allows players to create games and play games created by others, with many different types of games available.
Roblox can be used on most devices such as iOS, XBOX, or Playstation, however it cannot be played on a browser (e.g. Google).
Roblox itself is free to play, however, virtual accessories can be purchased in the store using "Robux".,
a currency which costs real money to obtain.
Roblox has over 164 million monthly active players and began to grow fast in 2021.
It has 43.2 million daily active users worldwide.
This is an increase from 19.1 million daily active users by the end of 2019.
Roblox had a big change in 2006.
In January 2006, Roblox removed their special points and made multiplayer, but the API was never used until March 2006.
In February 2006, Roblox left beta and was made free for all players.
In September 2006, Roblox made changes to the multiplayer API so that players could make their own multiplayer games for free instead of the Roblox developers making them.
In May 2007, the Roblox developers began making virtual items, and its first virtual item was a top hat.
Roblox also started the Builders Club which is a paid membership.
Guest mode, which is for players that want to play Roblox without making an account, was introduced in 2008.
Later, higher forms of the Builders Club (known as the Turbo Builders Club and the Outrageous Builders Club) were started in 2009.
In 2010, Roblox Studio was changed so that game developers could understand its features easily.
and new Roblox hats got released
In 2011, Roblox released its first commercial.
The commercial had the well-known quote, "IT'S FREE."
On 1 April 2012,  Roblox was hacked.
It caused the Roblox website to be shut down that day.
On 2 April 2012, the website was recovered.
In 2013, Roblox added dynamic lighting.
Its purpose was to make more realistic lighting.
This update would eventually receive more updates in the coming years.
In June 2015, Roblox released Smooth Terrain which made the terrain (such as sand, grass, water, etc.)
more realistic.
On 14 April 2016, another currency on Roblox, Tix was removed.
The game's YouTube channel also released a music video to showcase it.
In December 2020, Roblox announced that players would soon no longer need Premium to upload clothing, but instead, pay a fee for 10 Robux per upload.
The change was added in March 2021.
In May 2021, an anonymous user filed a class action lawsuit against the Roblox Corporation for supposedly scamming players for not giving out refunds when banned items get deleted.
In June 2021, a group of music publishers sued the Roblox company for mass copyright infringement (using many copyrighted songs without being allowed to), with the publishers seeking 200 million US dollars from them.
In August 2021, Roblox bought the development team of a communication app known as Guilded for 90 million USD.
In the same month, they chose some developers to test out voice chatting features.
Roblox lets its players create their own games using its own separate application, Roblox Studio.
Players can build anything they want to using the Studio, and then publish their game to the Roblox website for anyone to play.
Virtual items and currency
Players on Roblox can buy virtual items from the Catalog using virtual currency named 'Robux'.
This currency is obtained initially by buying a Roblox Premium membership or from a gift card, but can also be made by selling items like gamepasses, or accessories, which other players can buy with their own Robux.
It can be used by players to buy accessories and items for their character, or in game benefits.
Another form of currency that was discontinued was the Tix, also known as Tickets.
All players could get a few Tix each day they log into Roblox, and trade those Tix in to get Robux.
Tix were removed from the game in March 2016.
Builders Club was Roblox's first membership club which could only be used through a purchase.
Builders Club gave its members more features in Roblox, such as earning its virtual currency called Robux, and the ability to trade items.
Another thing players could do was sell Limited items (buy-able and sell-able items on the Avatar Shop).
There were three types of Builders Club: Classic, Turbo, and Outrageous.
Classic was the original Builders Club type and Outrageous was the newest.
Players would either buy it monthly or annually.
In 2019, Builder's Club was removed and replaced with Premium.
Premium is very much like the original Builders Club except it gives players Robux every month instead of daily.
Premium players also get access to perks in select games.
Coco is an Mexican-American computer-animated musical fantasy movie made by Pixar and was released on November 22, 2017.
It was directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, and stars the voices of Anthony Gonzalez and Benjamin Bratt.
The movie centers on a boy named Miguel who dreams of being a musician and is later taken to the afterlife on Día de los Muertos.
Coco was released with Olaf's Frozen Adventure, a short movie that runs for about 14 minutes in theaters before Coco is shown.
2017 animated movies
2010s musical movies
2010s American adventure movies
Movies set in Mexico
A blimp is a kind of airship.
Some airships have a structure in them.
They have no structure in them.
They were used by the United States in WWII to fight against submarines.
They are now used mostly for advertising.
A balloon is a kind of aircraft that stays in the sky by floating.
People fly in balloons mostly for fun.
A balloon is different from an airship.
An airship is a floating aircraft that has an engine and can change its direction of movement.
A balloon has no engine and has no way to change its direction of movement (except up and down).
A balloon travels by moving with the wind.
Kinds of balloon aircraft
There are three  kinds of balloon aircraft:
Hot air balloons stay in the sky by making the air inside the envelope hot.
Making the air hot makes the air spread out (have lower density).
Hot air balloons are the most common kind of balloon aircraft.
People sometimes say "hot air balloon" to mean any kind of balloon aircraft.
But this is not exactly correct.
Gas balloons are not hot.
Gas balloons have gas of low density in their envelopes.
Examples of the gas used in gas balloons are helium and hydrogen.
Rozière balloons are like both hot air balloons and gas balloons.
Part of the envelope has hot air in it.
Part of the envelope has a gas that's not hot in it.
Rozière balloons can fly very far.
Rozière balloons have flown around the world without stopping.
Videos for Balloon
The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF)
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Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-French-American mathematician.
Mandelbrot was born in Warsaw into a Jewish-Lithuanian family.
He is best known for his works with fractal geometry.
He lived and worked until his death in the United States.
He was a professor at the University of Yale.
Mandelbrot was born in Warsaw, Poland.
His family lived in France under German occupation.
He died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 85 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
French economists
Echolocation is a way that some animals use to determine the location of things.
They emit sound waves and listen for the echo.
They use the delay to determine the distance.
It is a kind of biological sonar.
Microbats find their insect prey in the dark this way.
Whales and dolphins are two other kinds of mammals that use echolocation.
Their sound waves go through the water, while the bats' sound waves go through the air.
Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American science fiction author.
He has written about war across the galaxy, artificial universes, consciousness, and evolution.
From 1968 to 1973 he attended San Diego State University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree.
In 1975, he married Christina M. Nielson, but they divorced in 1981.
He remarried in 1983, to Astrid Anderson, the daughter of science fiction author Poul Anderson.
They live outside of Seattle, Washington.
Bear often answers major questions in contemporary science and culture with fictional solutions.
For example, The Forge of God tries to explain the Fermi paradox.
If the galaxy is filled with intelligences that could be very dangerous, young civilizations could only survive by staying quiet so nobody would notice them and attack.
In Queen of Angels Bear examines crime, guilt and punishment in society.
He does this by examining consciousness and awareness.
Part of the novel is about highly advanced computers that begging to become intelligent and aware of themselves as they communicate with humans.
In the two books "Darwin's Radio" and "Darwin's Children" he writes about the problem of overpopulation with a mutation the human genome making, basically a new series of humans.
The books bring up the question of cultural acceptance of something brand new that cannot be stopped.
One of Bear's favorite themes is how observers effect or create reality.
In Blood Music reality becomes unstable as the number of observers–trillions of intelligent single-cell organisms–gets higher and higher.
Both Anvil of Stars–a sequel to The Forge of God–and Moving Mars propose a physics based on information exchange between particles, capable of being altered at the "bit level." (
Bear has credited the inspiration for this idea to Frederick Kantor's 1967 treatise, "Information Mechanics.")
In Moving Mars this knowledge is used to remove Mars from the solar system and transfer it to an orbit around a distant star.
Blood Music (first published as a short story in 1983, and expanded to a novel in 1985) has also been credited as being the first account of nanotechnology in science fiction.
The short story described microscopic medical machines.
He described DNA as a computer system that could be changed.
In Queen of Angels and Slant, Bear gives a detailed description of a near-future nanotechnological society.
This historical sequence continues with Heads–which may contain the first description of a "quantum logic computer"–and with Moving Mars.
These books also show the historical development of self-awareness in AIs.
One AI character called Jill is in all of these books.
Bear was influenced by Robert A. Heinlein's self-aware computer Mycroft Holmes ("High-Optional, Logical, Multi-Evaluating Supervisor") in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress when creating Jill.
More recent works, such as the two novels Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children stick closely to the known facts of molecular biology of viruses and evolution.
These books are about the impact of a strange disease that appears to make evolutionary transitions happen.
Bear includes some very speculative ideas, but he wrote about them so carefully that Darwin's Radio gained praise in the science journal Nature.
Bear, Gregory Benford, and David Brin wrote a series of three novels that take place before Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation series.
Bear is named as the author of the second of the three books.
While most of Bear's writing is science fiction, he also wrote in other genres.
Two of his early works, The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mageare clearly fantasies.
These are now published together as one novel called Songs of Earth and Power.
Psychlone is horror.
Bear called his story Dead Lines a "high-tech ghost story."
He has received many accolades, including five Nebula awards and two Hugo awards for science fiction.
Darwin's Radio (1999) Nebula Award winner, Hugo, Locus SF, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards nominee, 2000
Darwin's Children (2003) Locus SF, Arthur C. Clarke, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards nominee, 2004
The Forge of God (1987) Hugo, and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1988; Nebula Award nominee, 1986
Anvil of Stars (1992)
Songs of Earth and Power
The Infinity Concerto (1984) Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 1985
The Serpent Mage (1986)
Songs of Earth and Power (1994 - combines The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage)
Quantico (books set before the Queen of Angels series)
Quantico (2005)
Mariposa (2009)
Queen of Angels (1990) Hugo, Locus, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards nominee, 1991
/ (also known as Slant; 1997) John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee, 1998
Eon (1985) Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, 1987
Eternity (1988)
Legacy (1995) Locus SF Award nominee, 1996
The Way of All Ghosts (1999)
Series he added to, but did not begin
The Foundation Series
Foundation and Chaos (1998) (Second Foundation series: book 2)
The Man Who Would Be Kzin (with S.M. Stirling) (1991)
Corona (1984)
Rogue Planet (2000)
Non-series
Psychlone (1979)
Hegira (1979)
Beyond Heaven's River (1980)
Strength of Stones (1981)
Blood Music (1985) Hugo, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards nominee, 1986; British Science Fiction Award nominee, 1986; Nebula Award nominee, 1985
Sleepside Story (1988)
Heads (1990)
Moving Mars (1993) Nebula Award winner; Hugo, Locus SF, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards nominee, 1994
New Legends (1995)
Dinosaur Summer (1998) (winner 1999 Endeavour Award)
Country of the Mind (June 1998)
Vitals (2002) John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee 2003
Dead Lines (2004)
City at the End of Time (Gollancz edition published 7/17/2008; Del Rey Books edition August, 2008) (Nominated for the Locus and Campbell Awards, 2009)
Hull Zero Three (to be released November 2010)
The Mongoliad (expected 2010)
Short Fiction
The Wind from a Burning Woman (1983)
Early Harvest (February 1988)
Tangents (1989)
The Venging (1992)
Bear's Fantasies (1992)
W3 Women in deep time (2003)
Sleepside: The Collected Fantasies (November 2005)
Before Blood Music was a novel, it was a story published in the June 1983 issue of Asimov's.
It won the Best Novelette Nebula Award (1983) and Hugo Award (1984).
Darwin's Radio won the Endeavor Award in 2000
Hayakawa Award "Heads" Best Foreign Short Story (1996).
Praise from other authors
Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, wrote, "I also admire the classic sort of science fiction, like Blood Music, by Greg Bear.
He's a great writer."
Greg Bear's Official Site
All of Greg Bear's audio interviews on the podcast The Future And You (in which he describes his expectations of the future)
Quantico: Official Website
Complete list of sci-fi award wins and nominations by novel
Greg Bear on Worlds Without End
Higashi was born in Kitakyushu on July 20, 1990.
He joined J1 League club Oita Trinita from their youth team in 2009.
However Oita was relegated to J2 League end of the 2009 season.
In 2011, he moved to Omiya Ardija and played in 2 seasons.
In 2013, he moved to FC Tokyo.
In July 2012, Higashi was selected to the Japan U-23 national team for 2012 Summer Olympics.
At this tournament, he wore the number 10 shirt for Japan and played all 6 matches.
The team finished 4th place.
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The serval (Leptailurus serval) is a medium-sized wild cat which lives in sub-Saharan Africa.
The serval has the longest legs of all cats, relative to its size.
Not only can it run fast, but it is an amazing jumper: two to three metres from a standing start.
Its length as an adult is about 32 inches (body) and 16 inches (tail).
It weighs about four pounds.
There are a number of subspecies, and its geographical range is from the Cape of South Africa to Algeria, wherever the circumstances are right for it.
It is lightly built, with very large ears and long legs.
The back of the ears is black with a big white spot, and the tip of the tail is black.
These signs serve as signals to other servals, including kittens.
The serval needs access to water, and dense grassland.
Reed beds, scrub or high grass are typical habitats.
It is territorial.
The serval is nocturnal, and hunts mostly at night.
The serval is  an opportunistic predator whose diet includes rodents, hares, hyraxes, birds, reptiles, insects, fish, and frogs.
As part of its adaptations for hunting in the savannas, the serval's long legs help it achieve a top speed of 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph), and has large ears with acute hearing.
Its long legs and neck allow the serval to see over tall grasses, while its ears are used to detect prey, even those burrowing underground.
Servals have been known to dig into burrows in search of underground prey, and to leap 2 to 3 metres (7 to 10 ft) into the air to grab birds in flight.
Using its spectacular jumping ability, the serval leaps into the air and bats the bird with its front paws.
When the bird is on the ground, it bites its neck, killing it.
Like most cats, the serval is a solitary animal.
It travels as much as  each night in search of food.
The female defends home ranges of , depending on local prey availability.
The male defends larger territories of , and marks its territory by spraying urine onto bushes.
0.999... (also written as 0.,
and read as "0 point 9 repeating") is one of the ways the number 1 (one) can be written.
Even though it is written like this, no matter how many nines there are before the ellipsis, it is still equal in value to 1.
0.999... is a repeating decimal, which means the digit "9" is repeated forever.
It is different from 0.999, which only has three 9s.
It is hard for many people to understand why 0.999... is the same as 1.
There are many proofs that show why they are the same number, but many of these proofs are very complex.
One simple way of showing that 0.999... and 1 are the same thing is to divide them both by the number 3.
When 0.999... is divided by 3, the answer is 0.333..., which is the same as  (the fraction one third).
When 1 is divided by 3, the answer is .
Since the answers are the same, that means that 0.999... and 1 are the same.
Another way of thinking about it is if  = 0.333... and  = 0.666..., then  = 0.999... therefore, as  = 1, 0.999... must also equal 1.
There are many other ways of showing this.
Another way of proving that 0.999... = 1 is by accepting the simple fact that if two numbers are different, there must be at least one number between them.
For example, a number between 1 and 2 is 1.5, and a number between 0.9 and 1 is 0.95.
Since 0.999... has an infinite number of 9s, there cannot be another number after the "last" 9, meaning there is no number between 0.999... and 1.
Therefore, they are equal.
As the Internet developed, arguments about 0.999... are often on newsgroups and message boards.
Even newsgroups and message boards that do not have much to do with math argue about this.
In the newsgroup sci.math, arguing about 0.999... is a "popular sport".
It is also one of the questions in its FAQ.
Why does 0.9999... = 1 ?
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Within Ophthalmosauridae there are two lineages, one including Aegirosaurus and Ophthalmosaurus, and the other including Brachypterygius, Caypullisaurus and Platypterygius.
Only three genera survived the end-Jurassic extinction event: Caypullisaurus, Maiaspondylus, and Platypterygius.
They did, however, have a worldwide distribution.
The last to survive was Platypterygius.
This genus became extinct about 30 million years before the end of the Upper Cretaceous period.
It happened when there was a deep ocean anoxic event, which wiped out all the animals below pelagic waters.
Ichthyosaurs, being reptiles, came to the surface to breath, but the extinction event removed their prey species.
An anoxic event (AE) is an event in which parts of the ocean have become low in oxygen (O2) below the surface levels, or when all the oxygen has gone.
They may be called oceanic anoxic events or deep ocean anoxic events.
Major anoxic events have happened, though not for millions of years.
The geological record of organic-rich sediment (black shales) shows that they happened in the past.
However, only "in rare, extreme cases, [did] euxinia lead to biotic crises. [
The] hypothesis  [is] best supported by evidence from the end-Permian mass extinction".
Anoxic events may have caused mass extinctions.
These mass extinctions were so characteristic that they have been used by geologists as markers in biostratigraphic dating.
Typically, oceanic anoxic events last for under half a million years, before a full recovery.
There are several places on earth today that show the features of anoxic events on a localized level. '
Dead zones' exist off the East Coast of the United States in the Chesapeake Bay, in the Scandinavian strait Kattegat, the Black Sea, in the northern Adriatic and off the coast of Louisiana.
Events which may have caused anoxic events
It is not known why anoxic events may have happened.
Some ideas include:
Global warm climate leading to a huge growth of biomass.
High rainfall sweeping organic material down into the oceans.
Deep water circulation between poles and the equator stopping.
Oceanic oxygen being used up, and not being replaced fast enough.
Poisonous hydrogen sulphide collecting in the oceans.
Oceans becoming hostile to most forms of life
Historic examples
Toarcian event 183 million years ago (mya)
Aptian: mid-Aptian extinction event, 116/7 mya.
Cenomanian–Turonian boundary event: black shale deposition in ocean basins.
91.5 (±8.6) mya.
Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), 55.8 mya.
Metriacanthosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in Europe during the Middle Jurassic period, about 160 million years ago.
Its name means "Moderate-spined lizard", because its back vertebrae are taller than other meat-eating dinosaurs such as Allosaurus, but shorter than those of other meat-eating dinosaurs, such as Acrocanthosaurus.
Like most theropods, Metriacanthosaurus was a meat-eater.
It had three fingers on each hand.
Each finger ended in a sharp, hook-like claw that was used to grab prey before giving the killing bite with its jaws.
It probably preyed on the large, long-necked sauropods, such as Pelorosaurus, that lived in the same time and place as it.
It was originally classified as a megalosaurid, but recent studies show that it belongs to its own family, the Metriacanthosauridae
In Jurassic Park, one of the vials of dinosaur DNA that Dennis Nedry steals is labeled Metriacanthosaurus.
Acrocanthosaurus was a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Lower Cretaceous period.
Its name means "high-spined lizard".
This refers to the spines on its vertebrae which formed a sail or hump when the animal was alive.
Its classification is uncertain.
It was originally classified as a spinosaur, because the spines on its back looked like those of Spinosaurus.
However, Acrocanthosaurus is now classified as a carnosaur.
Most paleontologists believe that it was a carcharodontosaurid.
Acrocanthosaurus was 39 feet long, almost as large as Tyrannosaurus rex, and weighed about 6 or 7 short tons.
It was the largest theropod in North America before the evolution of the tyrannosaurs.
Long, low ridges start at the nasal bones.
They run along each side of the snout from the nostril back to the eye, and they continued onto the lacrimal bones.
This is a characteristic feature of all allosaurids.
There is a famous trackway in Paluxy, Texas, which shows tracks of what might be an Acrocanthosaurus and its prey.
While interesting and plausible, this hypothesis is difficult to prove and there are other explanations.
Acrocanthosaurus was featured in an episode of the television documentary Monsters Resurrected.
It was depicted as the top predator in early Cretaceous North America.
A juvenile was scared away from its kill by a pack of Deinonychus, and was forced to hunt more difficult prey, such as a Sauropelta.
Flood basalts have covered areas as large as a continent in prehistory, creating great plateaus and mountain ranges.
Flood basalts have erupted at various times throughout Earth history.
They are clear evidence that the Earth has periods of higher activity rather than being in a uniform steady state.
One explanation for flood basalts is that they are caused by the combination of continental rifting and its associated melting.
Then a mantle plume produces vast quantities of a basaltic magma.
These have a low viscosity, which is why they 'flood' rather than form taller volcanoes.
Flood basalts start at between 100 and 400 km depth, in the asthenosphere.
To get a partial melting as large as that of the traps, expelling huge quantities of lava, it is necessary to have a large heat input.
Such melting can take place near a hotspot, resulting in a mixture of magma from the depths of the hotspot with superficial magma produced by a mantle plume.
Lava plateaux
A lava plateau is a flat, wide surface (plateau) that is formed when lava comes out of the ground and spreads out very quickly.
The layers of lava can build up over time to form a lava plateau.
Here are the general properties of lava plateaux:
They are very large areas of basaltic lava with a layered structure.
Lava makes the plateau bigger, and higher, with each eruption.
They tend to be flat.
Mid-ocean ridge eruptions make large plains on the sea floor.
The lava of these plateaux are thin and runny.
These plateaux may take millions of years to form.
Overtime a number of fissure eruptions in the same area can build up a high plateau.
The Emeishan Traps in southwestern China, around Sichuan province, the Deccan Traps of central India, the Siberian Traps, and the Columbia River Plateau of western North America are four large regions covered by prehistoric flood basalts.
The two largest flood basalt events in historic time have been at Eldgjá and Lakagigar, both in Iceland.
The largest and best-preserved continental flood basalt terrain on Earth is part of the Mackenzie Large Igneous Province in Canada.
Flood basalts on the ocean floor produce oceanic plateaus.
The surface covered by one eruption can vary from around 200,000 km² (Karoo) to 1,500,000 km² (Siberian Traps).
The thickness can vary from 2000 metres (Deccan Traps) to 12,000 m (Lake Superior).
Another example of a lava plateau is the Giant's Causeway, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
This is was originally part of a great volcanic plateau called the Thulean Plateau.
Monterrey is a city in northern Mexico.
It is the capital of the state Nuevo León.
It is the third largest city in Mexico.
It has 2,056,538 people.
The large eruptions which formed the traps were one of the largest known volcanic events of the last 500 million years of Earth history.
They continued for a million years and spanned the Permian-Triassic boundary, about 251 to 250 million years ago.
It was the same time as the Permian–Triassic extinction event, which is estimated to have killed 90% of species existing at the time.
The eruption of the Siberian Traps is a possible cause of this "Great Dying".
The term "traps" is derived from the Swedish word for stairs (trappa, or sometimes trapp), referring to the step-like hills forming the landscape of the region, which is typical of flood basalts.
Geographical extent
Vast volumes of basaltic lava paved over a large expanse of primaeval Siberia in a flood basalt event.
Today the area covered is about 2 million km² – roughly equal to western Europe in land area – and estimates of the original coverage are as high as 7 million km².
The original volume of lava is estimated to range from 1 to 4 million km³.
The source of the Siberian Traps basalt was, probably, a mantle plume at the base of the crust which erupted through the Siberian craton (the oldest part of the Siberian continental plate).
Helium isotope analysis from the basalts indicates a plume origin.
The scientific debate continues.
There is a minority controversial theory which argues that the traps were caused by a large asteroid impact.
This massive eruptive event spanned the Permian-Triassic boundary, about 250 million years ago, and is widely cited as a cause of the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
This extinction event, also called the Great Dying, affected all life on Earth, and is estimated to have killed 90% of species living at the time.
Life on land took 30 million years to recover from the environmental disruptions caused by the eruption of the Siberian Traps.
Siberian Traps and nickel
The Siberian Traps are considered to have erupted through numerous vents over a period of a million years or more, probably east and south of Norilsk in Siberia.
The giant Norilsk nickel-copper-palladium deposit formed within the magma flows in the main Siberian Traps.
The presence of extensive tuff and pyroclastic deposits suggests that a number of large explosive eruptions occurred during or before the eruptions of basaltic lavas.
The presence of silicic volcanic rocks such as rhyolite is also indicative of explosive eruptions.
Deccan Traps
The Siberian Traps
The Siberian Traps, by Richard Cowen
The Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province
Toxic Gases Caused World's Worst Extinction
The College of Marin is a community college in Marin County, California, U.S.. It has one campus in Kentfield and another in Novato.
Tellurium(II) chloride, also known as tellurium dichloride, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is TeCl2.
It contains tellurium in its +2 oxidation state.
Tellurium(II) chloride is a black solid.
It can be oxidized to tellurium(IV) chloride.
It reacts with water.
Tellurous acid is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is H2TeO3.
It contains hydrogen and tellurite ions.
It can be made by reacting tellurium dioxide with water.
It is not made as easily as telluric acid.
It is a weak oxidizing agent and a weak reducing agent.
It easily turns back into tellurium dioxide and water.
It reacts with bases to make tellurites.
Tellurium(IV) chloride, also known as tellurium tetrachloride, is a chemical compound.
Its chemical formula is TeCl4.
It contains tellurium in its +4 oxidation state.
Tellurium(IV) chloride is a pale yellow solid.
It melts easily to a red liquid.
It reacts with water to make tellurium dioxide and hydrochloric acid.
U.S. Route 78 is an east–west highway.
It goes from Memphis, Tennessee to Charleston, South Carolina.
Kim Clijsters (; born 8 June 1983)is a Belgian retired tennis player.
She used to be ranked as the World No.
On 22 August 2011 she was ranked third in the world.
U.S. Route 25 is a US highway in the east part of the United States of America.
It goes from north to south.
The road begins in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Ohio River and ends in Brunswick, Georgia, close to the Atlantic Ocean.
Asheville is the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina.
It is located where the Swannanoa River and the French Broad River meet.
The population of Asheville was counted in 2000 as 74,543 and 83,393 in 2010.
Asheville is the largest city in the North Carolina mountains.
June Cleaver is a literary reference meaning "the perfect stay-at-home mom" referring to the mother in the U.S. television show Leave it to Beaver which was released from 1957 to 1963.
Women writers viewing the show sometimes had difficulty living up to or agreeing with such a feminine mystique.
June Cleaver is often referred to in remarks justifying a messy home such as “June Cleaver made having a spotless house look so effortless . . .”
The character was played by actress Barbara Billingsley, a lifelong resident of Los Angeles county, California, U.S.A.
Tweed started his career as Jade Goody's partner.
He became widely known in 2007 after being on Celebrity Big Brother UK.
He caused controversy when he called housemate Shilpa Shetty a "cunt" and "Paki" and said that she should remove objects from the toilet with her teeth.
After Celebrity Big Brother, Goody miscarried his child in 2007.
He married her on 22 February 2009 and she died of cervical cancer a month later.
He appeared in 2010 ITV2 programme The Only Way Is Essex.
In 2010, he had a relationship with Chanelle Hayes.
Tweed has had several legal issues.
These include an 18-month prison sentence in September 2008 for assault occasioning actual bodily harm for attacking a 16-year-old boy with a golf club in December 2006.
In March 2009, he was found guilty of common assault for attacking a taxi driver in May 2008.
He was tried for the rape of a 19-year-old woman in April 2010, but found not guilty.
In January 2011 he punched a man, for which he was convicted of common assault in August 2011.
In Euclidean plane geometry, a quadrilateral is a polygon with four edges (or sides) and four vertices (or corners).
Sometimes, the term quadrangle is used (similar to the term "triangle"), while other times, the term tetragon is used (similar to pentagon, 5-sided polygon, and hexagon, 6-sided polygon).
A quadrilateral with vertices , , ,  is sometimes written as .
The origin of the word quadrilateral is the two Latin words quadri, a variant of four, and latus, meaning "side".
Quadrilaterals can be either complex, also called crossed (self-intersecting), or simple (not self-intersecting).
This is a special case of the n-gon interior angle sum formula: (n − 2) × 180°.
There are 6 special kinds of quadrilaterals; square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, kite, and trapezoid.
Technically, squares, rectangles, and rhombuses are types of parallelograms.