Creating Your Own Helioza Pages
by Ray Franklin, 2006-12-07
Creating a Helioza page is easy. Write your article first, collect your photos, links and lists. Optimize each photo to be less than 60 KB. Organize everything and then enter your page.
Costa Rica Travel
by Ray Krueger Koplin, 2006-12-08
Costa Rica is a small tropical country between Panamá ¡nd Nicaragua.
Fix A Stuck BIC 960 Turntable
by Ray Franklin, 2006-12-15
The platter on an old BIC 900 series audio turntable can lock up when the original grease dries out. Freeing the platter is a matter of applying penetrating oil to the right location and having great patience. To avoid additional damage, do not forcibly rotate a frozen platter.
Repair A Damaged BIC 960 Spindle Mount, Page 1
by Ray Franklin, 2006-12-15
The platter on an old BIC 900 series audio turntable can lock up when the original grease dries out. Forcibly rotating the platter damages the spindle by enlarging the hole in the spindle mounting base. This can be repaired by using a center punch to make the hole smaller again.
Repair A Damaged BIC 960 Spindle Mount, Page 2
by Ray Franklin, 2006-12-15
The platter on an old BIC 900 series audio turntable can lock up when the original grease dries out. Forcibly rotating the platter damages the spindle by enlarging the hole in the spindle mounting base. This can be repaired by using a center punch to make the hole smaller again.
Of Quotes and Strings
by Ray Franklin, 2006-12-21
Single and double-quotes are used to define string literals in PHP, HTML and MySQL. Quotes appearing inside strings may appear as-is, or may require escaping. Quotation marks may be represented in several ways, including character entity references.
New carbon nanotube technology could be used to build 22,300-mile long space elevator
by William Atkins, 2007-01-06
The Space Elevator—an elevator that would go up and down between the Earth’s surface and a point in space above the Earth—has been a topic of science and science fiction for years. However, no materials existed that were strong enough to actually build it. In the twenty-first century, that is no longer the case.
Hubble and other space telescopes
by William Atkins, 2007-01-07
We hear much news about the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and, sometimes, it seems that it is the only telescope in space. However, it is not. HST, like other space observatories, is an instrument launched into outer space that is used by astronomers to observe planets, stars, galaxies, and other space objects.
What number year is 2007 in the twenty-first century and third millennium?
by William Atkins, 2007-01-09
With the year 2007 upon us, it is important, in my opinion, to know how many years we are into the third millennium. Back on December 31, 1999, most people celebrated the beginning of the New Millennium with bubbly drinks, noise makers, and a countdown to the big moment—while others waited by their computer to see if the Y2K (Year 2000) bug would hit.
Alzheimer's disease
by Dr Vince Forte, 2007-01-22
Life expectancy in developed countries is higher than ever before. A down side is that more people than ever before are surviving to develop Alzheimer's disease. Dr Vincent Forte describes the history and background of this devastating illness, and describes how it affects the individual. He outlines the medical and social management of Alzheimer's, leading to current research and hopes for the future.
Remembering the Nobel Prize Laureates in 2006
by William Atkins, 2007-01-22
The 2006 Nobel Prizes have been awarded for people who invented, researched, discovered, and contributed to the world in very important ways.
Let’s remember (and reflect) at the beginning of 2007 about these men and women for the contributions they have made to society—for each and every person in the world.
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
by Dr Vince Forte, 2007-01-24
Pelvic Inflammatory disease (PID) causes misery for millions of women round the world. Dr Vince Forte demystifies this often baffling disease and explains what it is in this no-nonsense guide.
Free Internet Marketing: Links
by Ray Franklin, 2007-02-04
Links are essential to effectively marketing your site on the web. Learn how to construct links and how to get others to link to your site.
Mathematical conversions that make sense
by William Atkins, 2007-02-24
What is the ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter? The answer: Eskimo Pi.
U.S. computer scientist and FORTRAN developer John W. Backus dead at 82
by William Atkins, 2007-03-21
John Warner Backus, born December 3, 1924, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died Saturday, March 17, 2007, at his home in Ashland, Oregon. All computer users and the public in general owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Backus’ efforts that paved the way to our modern computing systems.
Space Solar Power could generate power from solar energy with satellites
by William Atkins, 2007-04-12
Space solar power (SSP) is a concept that has yet-to-be developed, which would convert the energy of the Sun into electrical power from artificially-made satellites.
We often complain about weather on Earth, but what about Space Weather?
by William Atkins, 2007-04-20
Space weather concerns various environmental conditions that occur in outer space. But, does it affect us on the Earth?
Colorado Weather Cameras Aid Pilots
by Ray Franklin, 2008-03-16
Live web cameras at Colorado airports assist pilots with flight planning by showing current weather conditions. Time-lapse sequences of 1, 2 and 4 hours show dramatic changes in weather.
Biofuels from Cellulose-based Waste
by Sue Cartledge, 2008-04-15
The growing demand for biofuels,especially in the wealthy developed countries is putting pressure on food crops such as corn, soy and sorghum. To relieve this pressure, scientists in Australian and the US are developing ways of converting lignocelluloses from plant waste rather than crops to renewable biofuels.
Robots to Care for the Elderly
by Sue Cartledge, 2008-04-19
Elderly people living at home will soon have robots to help them and relieve their loneliness, thanks to research at UMass Amherst’s Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics.
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