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Half-life

2008-04-11T20:22:19Z

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'''Half-Life''' is the time it takes for half of the original sample of a [[radioactive]] [[isotope]] to decay.<ref>Wile, Dr. Jay L. ''Exploring Creation With Physical Science''. Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 1999, 2000</ref> Knowing these decay rates are important for dating, such as with [[carbon|carbon-14]].

==Other Uses==
'''Half-Life''' is also the name of a popular [[video game]] franchise. It is composed of two games, Half-Life and Half-Life 2, both of which are first person shooter style games.([[ESRB]] rating: M).

==See Also==
*[[Carbon dating]]

==References==
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[[Category:Video Games]]

Half-life

2008-04-11T20:19:29Z

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'''Half-Life''' is the time it takes for half of the original sample of a [[radioactive]] [[isotope]] to decay.<ref>Wile, Dr. Jay L. ''Exploring Creation With Physical Science''. Apologia Educational Ministries, Inc. 1999, 2000</ref> Knowing these decay rates are important for dating, such as with [[carbon|carbon-14]].

==Other Uses==
[www.halflife2.zoy.org '''Half-Life'''] is also the name of a popular [[video game]] franchise. It is composed of two games, Half-Life and Half-Life 2, both of which are first person shooter style games.([[ESRB]] rating: M).

==See Also==
*[[Carbon dating]]

==References==
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[[Category:physics]]
[[Category:Video Games]]

Charles Gleyre

2008-04-11T20:16:04Z

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[[Image:Charles Gleyre.jpg|left]]
'''Charles Gleyre''' (Chevilly 1808 - Paris 1874) was a [[Swiss]] painter.

In 1862 [[Renoir]] began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris. Gleyre also taught [[Alfred Sisley]], [[James Whistler]], [[Frédéric Bazille]] and [[Claude Monet]]. During his early adult years he traveled six years wanderings though [[Greece]], [[Egypt]], [[Nubia]] and [[Syria]]. In [[Cairo]], Gleyre was attacked with ophthalmia, and later in [[Lebanon]] he was struck down by fever. This shattered health forced him to return home.

[[Image:Gleyre The Departure of the Apostles.jpg|thumb|right|The Departure of the Apostles.]]

== See also ==
*[[Painting Schools]]
*[[Painting Masterpieces ]]
*[[Francisco Goya]]
*[[Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema]]

== External links ==

*[http://www.beaux-arts.vd.ch/mcba/collection/gleyre.html Charles Gleyre] Musee cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne.
*[http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=230&page=1 Charles Gleyre]
*[http://aimtools.serialchiller.org Gallery]

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Jesse Jackson

2008-04-11T20:12:01Z

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[[Image:Wld3.jpg|right|400px|thumb|Jesse Jackson with [[PLO]] Chairman [[Yasser Arafat]].]]
'''Reverend Jesse Jackson''' is a Democratic black political activist. He is highly controversial for various reasons, including [[anti-Semitic]] remarks when using a slang name to refer to New York City. Jesse Jackson was part of [[Martin Luther King]]'s circle, although how close is debated. His perceived self promotion with Dr. King's death led to an alientation from the King family. Jackson ran for President on the [[Democrats|Democratic]] ticket in 1984 and again in 1988. He fared much better in 1988, but his past New York City slur came back to haunt him and he was especially lambasted by then New York City mayor [[Ed Koch]], who is also [[Jewish]].

According to ''[[Washington Post]]'' reporter Milton Coleman, Jackson remarked about "the preoccupation of some with [[Israel]]." Coleman quotes Jackson as saying,
{{Cquote|That's all Hymie wants to talk about, is Israel; every time you go to Hymietown, that's all they want to talk about. <ref>[http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=187440 Jesse and the Jews], Michael W. Hirschorn, ''The Harvard Crimson'', March 05, 1984.</ref>}}

The ''American Journalism Review'' reported Jackson issued a non-denial-denial.<ref>[http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=370 "Hymietown" Revisited], Gigi Anders, ''American Journalism Review'', May 1999.</ref>

Jesse Jackson was arrested by Decatur, Illinois in December 1999 and charged with criminal trespass and contributing to the delinquency of a minor <ref>[http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2006/jackson-report.pdf Jesse Jackson Exposed,] A Judicial Watch Special Report. Retrieved from judicialwatch.org 06/04/07.</ref> in connection with a demonstration at a local high school.

Jackson runs the Rainbow coalition, a group with much controversy such as in 2001 when it was revealed payments were made from the organization to Jackson's mistress.

In the wake of the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] Rev. Jackson was virtually alone in opposing retaliation on terrorists and the regimes that harbored them. Speaking in a meeting at Operation PUSH headquarters in Chicago four days after the attacks, Jackson told listeners rather than deploy troops the U.S. should,
{{Cquote|launch the fight for the redistribution of resources. One hundred million people will have AIDS in five years. We should use our strength for that. <ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_38_17/ai_79027414 A Tale of Two Preachers - Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson], by Kenneth R. Timmerman, ''Insight on the News'', Oct 15, 2001.</ref>}}

He was prominent in the [[Michael Richards]] and [[Don Imus]] cases.

In June 2007, Jackson was again arrested outside a gun shop. Jackson was allegedly protesting the killing of a 16 year old honor student who was the unitended victim of gang violence. <ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,286412,00.html Rev. Jesse Jackson Arrested at Gun Shop Protest], June 24, 2007.</ref>

==References==
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==External link==
*[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26851 Jesse Jackson's ties to terrorists exposed], By Paul Sperry, ''WolrdNetDaily.com'', March 18, 2002.

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[[Category:African Americans]]
[[Category:Liberal Activists]]

Internet

2008-04-11T20:09:48Z

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The '''Internet''' is a global network of interconnected smaller [[computer]] networks. Data is transmitted between computers and networks in small packets using the Internet Protocol (IP); they are reassembled at their destination. It originated in the work of DARPA, a research division of the [[United States Army]].

==Origin==
The conceptual foundation for the internet's creation was significantly developed by three individuals and a research conference, each of which changed the way we thought about communication, business and the exchange of technology:

*Vannevar Bush wrote the first description of the potential uses for information technology with his description of the "memex" automated library system.
*Norbert Wiener invented the field of Cybernetics, encouraging future researchers to focus on the use of technology to extend human capabilities.
*The 1956 Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence conference defined the concept that technology was improving at an exponential rate, and provided the first serious consideration of the consequences, the benefits and advantages or such a network.
*Marshall McLuhan made the idea of a global village interconnected by an electronic nervous system part of our popular culture. <ref>http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii.htm </ref>
*Ethan K. Heinz (cousin of Teresa Heinz), originally developed Internet as ARPANET in the US as a means for various institutes to communicate with each other even in an event such as war. <ref>[http://www.internetisseriousbusiness.com]</ref> The Internet has grown into a worldwide computer network where anyone can have a chat with anyone else almost anywhere in the world, and is a vast source of free information.

==Description==
The Internet is sometimes also known as "[[cyberspace]]." Sometimes it is inaccurately referred to as the Web or the [[World Wide Web]], because the Web is only one of numerous protocols that operate on the Internet.

The common protocol used to access websites (including this one) is the Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The creator of this is [[Sir Tim Berners-Lee]], who recently in an online magazine article claimed that given the opportunity, he wouldn't use the HTTP format for websites. Berners-Lee is currently the director of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).

[[Ted Stevens]] famously referred to the internet as "a series of tubes" during a panel on [[network neutrality]]. While the statement was technically inaccurate, it is a reasonable depiction of the internet as an interconnected system to a lay person. The internet is formed from two basic elements, routers and connections. A router is basically a small computer that acts like a switching station, similar to the pumping stations of public water utilities. The connections are the pipes themselves, acting as a means to move packets from one router to another, and eventually from server to client.

==Controversy==
Although the Internet has been shown to contain valuable information, it also contains pornographic or otherwise vulgar material. Therefore, some conservatives would like to see tighter controls on the Internet which would limit what can be hosted and what can be downloaded.

In 1999, [[Democratic]] presidential candidate [[Al Gore]] misspoke when intending to take partial credit for the development of the internet when he referenced his High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991, commonly known as the "Gore Bill":<ref>http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/</ref>

:CNN's WOLF BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.

:Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?

:AL GORE: Well, I will be offering -- I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.

:But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

==See Also==
*[[Digital Philosophy]]

== References ==
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