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NEW YORK and SAGINAW, Mich., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- State and local government agencies, K-12 schools, colleges and universities, libraries and nonprofit organizations across the U.S. will continue to have access to a broad array of advanced communications and information technology solutions under a renewed agreement between Verizon and MiCTA, a nationwide group-purchasing organization. Under the agreement with MiCTA (previously known as Michigan Collegiate...
PHOENIX, Oct. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cable ONE, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, was recently ranked by PC Magazine as one of the top 10 fastest internet Service Providers (ISP) in the nation. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121012/LA92137LOGO) PC Magazine, the leader for rigorous, labs-based comparative reviews of computing, consumer electronics, business technology, and internet products, tested ISPs from January 2012 through September 2012,...
[ Watch the Video: ESO Celebrates its 50th Anniversary ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Researchers' discovery of self-organized electromagnetic fields in counter-streaming ionized gases is paving the way for scientists to have new ways to explore how order can emerge from chaos in the universe. "We've created a model for exploring how electromagnetic fields help organize ionized gas or plasma in astrophysical settings, such as in the plasma flows that emerge...
As NASA's Curiosity rover scours the surface of Mars and beams pictures of the stark and desolate landscape back to Earth, we've begun to paint a picture of what living on the red planet might actually be like. In this month's Physics World, Ashley Dale, a PhD student at the University of Bristol, brings this image to life by giving his account of the two weeks he spent living in the Utah desert as part of a simulated Mars mission. Comparing his surroundings to a "Monet landscape", Dale...
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Instructure and Internet2 announced today at the 2012 Fall Internet2 Member Meeting a partnership to establish an advisory board and develop the Internet2 NET+ Canvas learning management system for teaching, learning and administration. The service benefits Internet2's 221 higher education member institutions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120201/SF45541LOGO) "Canvas is currently the learning platform for more than 250...
NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) announced today that it has reached a tentative agreement with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) on new, three-year contracts for about 43,000 East wireline associates. The agreement is in the process of being signed. "We believe this is a fair and balanced agreement that is good for our employees as well as for the...
PHOENIX, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The bilingual call center of CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) is celebrating 28 years of meeting the needs of Spanish-speaking customers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090602/DA26511LOGO) "El Centro de CenturyLink" was founded in Phoenix in 1984 by three employees who saw a need to provide in-language customer service to the company's Spanish-speaking customer base. Today, El Centro remains based in Phoenix, and has more than 180...
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- L'Oreal USA celebrated five post-doctoral female scientists as the recipients of the 2012 L'Oreal USA Fellowships For Women in Science at an awards ceremony last evening. This national awards program, created in 2003, supports the advancement of women in the sciences. Criterion included, among other things, an exemplarily commitment to the achievement and advancement of science, technology, engineering and math (S.T.E.M.) under the...
New Content Featured on www.NSTeens.org Teaches Online Safety to Kids Ages 8 to 12 ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) and Sprint (NYSE:S) announced today that their free Internet-safety site, www.NSTeens.org, has been expanded to help tweens (8-12 year olds) start the school year right. The new content available today includes: "Stop That Post...Again!" is a game where players race to stop...
MONROE, La., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) announces that it is scheduled to participate in the following analyst conference: Error occurred while generating ASCII Content for table (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090602/DA26511LOGO) For information regarding the specific presentation times and webcast availability, please visit the Investor Calendar on CenturyLink's Investor Relations Web site at ir.centurylink.com. Participation in...
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Karl Henize was an astronomer, space scientist and a NASA astronaut. He was born Karl Gordon Henize on October 17, 1926 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He grew up on a small dairy farm outside the city, where he grew his interest in Buck Rogers and Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach the peak of Mount Everest. He attended primary and secondary schools in Plainville and Mariemont, Ohio and then continued on to the University of Virginia. There he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics...
Velcro is a brand name, two layered system of fabric hook-and-loop fasteners. There is a "hook" side, which is a piece of fabric covered with tiny hooks, and a "loop" side, which is covered with even smaller and "hairier" loops. Pressing the two sides together will cause the hooks and loops to catch and hold the pieces together. The hooks and loops can be made of various materials, although the first was made of cotton, which turned out to be impractical. Today the most common material is...
