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Technical note: thyratron performance--dependence on mounting in a medical linear accelerator -- Balakrishnan et al. 68 (815): 1242 -- The British Journal of Radiology

Link: Technical note: thyratron performance--dependence on mounting in a medical linear accelerator -- Balakrishnan et al. 68 (815): 1242 -- The British Journal of Radiology.

Technical note: thyratron performance--dependence on mounting in a medical linear accelerator IS Balakrishnan, R Jayaraman, BK Bhaskar and AV Lakshmanan Department of Physics, Cancer Institute, Adyar, Madras, India. A thyratron is an important component of a medical linear accelerator. The working life of a thyratron has been found to be dependent on its physical orientation in the accelerator. This observation is a result of maintaining accelerators for over 15 years.

Campaign to Save Blue Hole -- A Texas Treasure, Leave a Legacy -- Naming Opportunities for Significant Gifts: The Trust for Public Land

Link: Campaign to Save Blue Hole -- A Texas Treasure, Leave a Legacy -- Naming Opportunities for Significant Gifts: The Trust for Public Land.

Leave a Legacy -- Naming Opportunities for Significant Gifts

We would like to invite you and your family to participate in a historic opportunity to name a special and unique feature of the Blue Hole Regional Park. Your significant gift will not only help protect the Blue Hole, but also provide an everlasting tribute to your family or a friend.
For more information, please call Anjali Kaul, campaign director, at 512-478-4644, or e-mail anjali.kaul@tpl.org.

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Park Naming Opportunity
For $2 million you can name one of Texas' most well known regional parks. The name will appear on the park entrance, park map, city map, and on a permanent centralized donor recognition wall in the park.

Facing the Failures of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Regime, by David Krieger and Devon Chaffee, April 23, 2003

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Facing the Failures of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Regime by David Krieger and Devon Chaffee*, April 23, 2003 Each year the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) regime becomes more uncertain. In the past year alone: • North Korea has become the first country ever to withdraw from the treaty. • There has been virtually no progress and considerable regression on the thirteen practical steps for nuclear disarmament agreed to at the 2000 NPT Review Conference. • The US has reasserted policies of nuclear weapons use that undermine the negative security assurances promised to non-nuclear weapon states parties (NNWS) to the NPT in 1978 and again at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference. • The doctrine of preemption, pursued by the United States and adopted by other states with nuclear weapons, threatens to accelerate nuclear weapons proliferation in the face of the threat of aggressive use of force.

Daily Times - Site Edition

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Saturday, March 22, 2003

‘Politicians to blame for frequent military interventions’
By Shahzad Raza

ISLAMABAD: His grandfather ruled the country for over 10 years. His father remained in the corridors of power in the last two decades. And now he has stepped into the mainstream politics by being elected to the august National Assembly.

As the transfer of power within the family continues, the young and talented Omar Ayub Khan is determined to establish his own recognition by following the footsteps of his ancestors and remembering the lessons which he learnt from the laureates of George Washington University during his stay there as a politically sound student.

Radio Prague: Living Czech

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A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss...

Hello and welcome to Living Czech. I'm Nick Carey, and I am joined today in the studio today by Jana Durč᫯vᮠOur theme for today is Czech proverbs and sayings, what they mean, and what their English equivalents are. These, of course, split into different categories. Some of them, you will notice, are exactly the same as in English, and many of the others are fairly close.

The first category is love. There is the old saying štěst� kartᣨ, smůla v l᳣e, which is lucky in cards, unlucky in love. The power of love should never be underestimated as is testified to by the saying lᳫa hory přenᅡ�or love moves mountains. If you have once loved and parted, but you still have residual feelings, then perhaps the saying starᠬᳫa nerezav�ill apply to you. It literally means old love will not rust, or can be translated as old love will not be forgotten.

Sir Alf Ramsay

Libya Accedes to the Chemical Weapons Convention

United Nations, New York – 7 October 2003

On 18 December 2003, the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Libya) announced its renunciation of all weapons of mass destruction, including chemical weapons. Libya joined the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) by depositing its instrument of accession with the Secretary General of the United Nations on 6 January 2004. On 5 February 2004, thirty days after the deposit of its instrument of accession, Libya became the 159th State Party to the Convention.

The OPCW is committed to working closely with the Libyan Government on the legal and practical aspects of Libya’s accession to the Convention, including Libya’s obligation to declare and destroy under international verification, its declared chemical weapons stockpile.

In response to the Libyan Government’s request for technical support, a team of experts from the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) led by the OPCW Director-General Rogelio Pfirter visited Libya from 4 to 5 February 2004. The Director-General met senior Libyan Government officials in Tripoli to discuss and ensure the effective and comprehensive implementation of the chemical weapons ban.

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MOMENTUM TO RATIFY KYOTO PROTOCOL ON CLIMATE CHANGE

3 November 1999

BONN - Greenpeace today welcomed commitments by a significant group of industrialised counties to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, in time for it to enter into force (become legal) by 2002, ten years after the Rio Earth summit where the Climate Convention was initiated.

"These commitments give the Kyoto Protocol vital political momentum as the complex details of how to implement the agreement are refined in Bonn this week," said Greenpeace International political director Bill Hare. "This will give hope to those countries most at risk from climate change such as the small island states of the Pacific who face evacuation as sea levels rise and those countries in the path of more frequent severe storms, floods and droughts."

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, in his opening speech last Monday, made a commitment to ratify the Kyoto Protocol in time for it to enter into force by the Rio+10 summit in 2002. Yesterday the European Union and its member states, Japan and New Zealand followed Germany's lead. This group makes up 41% of industrialized country emissions. So far only 14 countries, all of them developing, have ratified the Kyoto Protocol which, to come into force and become international law, requires ratification by industrialised countries responsible for 55 per cent of the developed world's 1990 carbon dioxide emissions. "With the announcements at COP5 we are 80% towards reaching this target in 2002," said Hare. (Ministerial statements to the Bonn meeting on Tuesday afternoon and evening. included: UK, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Greece, Italy, France, Finland, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand.)

The US has been restricted by the US Senate from ratifying the protocol before there is "meaningful participation" from developing countries. However the US delegation told the conference that it supported early ratification without nominating a date.

How to determine when your Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) pine plantation is ready to thin

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How to determine when your Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) pine plantation is ready to thin Stephen G. Dicke, Andrew J. Londo & Timothy A. Traugott Mississippi State University - Central Research and Extension Center, 1320 Seven Springs Road, Raymond, MS 39154. USA. Department of Forestry, Box 9681, MS, 39762.USA. Extension Specialist, 1241 Mound Street, Grenada, MS, 38901. USA. Abstract An outdoor workshop, “Are My Pine Trees Ready to Thin?”, was developed to help small private landowners decide when their CRP pine plantation was ready to be thinned. The goal was to train landowners to measure their own plantation and make a preliminary evaluation. This half-day workshop did not replace professional advice by a forester but helped landowners decide when to contact a forester. This workshop is easily adaptable for other species in different timber economies. The CRP program was initiated in 1985 by the United States Department of Agriculture to protect topsoil from erosion. Many farmers converted marginal cropland into pine plantations under this program. Approximately 1.2 million acres of CRP pine plantations have been established nationwide (308,000 acres in Mississippi). Many of these plantations will soon be ready for the first thinning.