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The final symposium I attended on Sunday before heading to the airport was a real brain bender. Titled "Nuclear physics: New answers, new questions about the visible universe." The talks spanned both theoretical and experimental aspects of the field—this article will focus on the theoretical lectures, a second article will cover the experimental discussions. The first speaker, Dr. Don Geesaman, eloquently stated the goals of the field: "the mission in nuclear physics is to understand the origin, evolution, and structure of baryonic matter in the universe—the matter that makes up stars, planets, and human life itself." All of the talks, both experimental and theoretical focused on hadrons, their substituent quarks, and the forces that hold them together. Hadrons are strongly interacting subatomic particles that are composed of quarks.
Back up photos on the road
Every minute of footage can fill 100MB or more of storage. To save space, you may want to edit video on the camera to remove the less interesting parts. This kind of feature is available on newer Canon, Olympus, and other cameras. It's no iMovie, but it typically allows you to trim a series of frames from the beginning or end of a clip. Create backups There's a downside to relying solely on media cards for storage: if a problem develops with your card, you could lose all your photos. Flash-memory cards are susceptible to accidental erasure and even corruption. They're also small (especially SD cards), and therefore easy to misplace. That's why it's a good idea to back up images. Here are some options: Transfer to an iPod Using the $29 Apple iPod Camera Connector, you can transfer images from a digital camera to a photo-capable iPod (except the iPod nano, alas) via your camera's USB cable (see “Image Go-Between").
Card mills take 'agents' for a ride
The pitch is seductive and sophisticated.
Qualify for deeply discounted travel. Earn commissions on your own travel expenditures and on that of your friends and family. Build your own travel business with income from others you bring into the fold. Deduct your travel spending from your taxes. Do all of this for less than $500 up front and $50 per month.
Tens of thousands of people are giving it a whirl by buying travel agent credentials. Some do prosper, but many who got their credentials through these "card mills" will be out of the business in less than a year, according to documents from one company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Budget fight looms for teachers
As this plays out, I would expect a real mobilization of the education community," said Bill Hedrick, president of the Rialto Education Association. Schwarzenegger faced off against teachers - and lost - in the 2005 special election when the governor backed a package of ballot measures intended to increase his ability to cut spending, reduce the power of public employee unions and require teachers to work more years before attaining tenure. In the weeks before the election, it was almost impossible to watch television in the Golden State without viewing teacher-backed ads against the ballot measures. Aaron McLear, a .
Ibanez feels M's have assembled title contender
He's like me, just go out and prepare to do the best job you can," Ibanez said. "For him, at the end, he's the World Series MVP. And then he realizes, 'Oh, yeah, I'm a free agent.' " Lowell, who's a year younger than Ibanez at 34, parlayed his strong season into a three-year contract extension with the Red Sox. "I'll either be (extended) or I'll be a free agent," Ibanez said. "Either way, I'm getting ready to play baseball." SPRING FLINGERS: Mariners manager John McLaren said he'd go with Opening Day starter Bedard to pitch the Cactus League opener Friday against the Giants in Scottsdale. Bedard likely will throw two innings, though pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre will have his pitchers working on pitch counts more than innings pitched.
FROM GRIND TO GRACE: Ex-Wing Darren McCarty tries to find himself and ...
"I was in Detroit this summer during the boat races, the hydroplanes in July. And I called Cheryl, and we were talking. It was sort of like the first time I had been in town awhile. I was so miserable and down. I was so disgusted and embarrassed. I couldn't even see my kids. She said to me, 'Don't you think that if you do something, put forth the effort to come out of this, that everybody that loves you won't come back?' "Hearing that coming from her ... I wanted to be accountable. I wanted to be a positive influence in my kids' life now and let them know that their dad loves them and he's there and it's not just talk -- it's action. "So I went home and made a call that I needed to make. I called a friend to go take care of what I needed to take care of: to go away for a while." -- Darren McCarty, Jan.
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I believe it was Tim McCarver who said it best: "Some ground balls are hit into places where you have no play." And some mailbag columns are meant to be tainted by the unforeseen distraction of the longest game in World Series history. Oh well. As always, these are actual e-mails from actual readers. Q: What would be the sports equivalent of Jeffrey Ross' famous (and unprintable) line about Bea Arthur and Sandra Bernhard at Jerry Stiller's roast? Since it came out of nowhere and defined roasts as we know it, the best I could come up with was either the Stansbury Statue of Liberty dunk or Dr. J's dunk from the free throw line, as they both came out of nowhere and vaulted the contests to the next level, just as Ross' line did for celebrity roasts. A case could also be made, I suppose, for Bob Beamon's long jump in '68, because I can't see anyone topping the joke for quite some time.
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