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  Aurora Systems, Inc. - Affordable, Effective Solutions for People with Special Needs
If you prefer, as Aurora speaks, each word can be highlighted, like subtitles, to help associate words being spoken with their written form.
Suitable for beginning, intermediate or advanced writers, Aurora's word prediction is surprisingly effective as it helps with spelling, word choice and sentence construction.
Aurora Suite's Professional Edition is our premier solution for learning disabilities, dyslexia and augmentative communication.
www.aurora-systems.com   (547 words)

  
 Aurora Networks
Aurora Networks' high-bandwidth transmission systems are designed for advanced HFC, fiber deep and FTTH networks.
Aurora's products enable service providers to increase capacity for the coming generation of bandwidth-hungry entertainment, information and communications services at costs comparable to HFC designs while offering savings in operating costs and reducing system complexity.
Aurora Networks is in absolutely no way affiliated with or responsible for this malware that is causing unwanted pop-up window activity.
www.aurora.com   (179 words)

  
  AboveTopSecret.com Archive: "The Aurora Top-Secret Hypersonic Spy Plane"
Aurora is the missing factor to the silent closure of the SR-71 program.
Testing such a new radical aircraft brings immense costs and inconvenience, not just in the design and development of a prototype aircraft, but also in providing a secret testing place for aircraft that are obviously different from those the public are aware of.
What is regarded by many as the most successful experimental aircraft program in USAF history, the X-15 rocketplane was created in response to a requirement issued by NASA (then NACA) for an air-launched manned research vehicle with a maximum speed of more than Mach 6 and a maximum altitude of more than fifty miles.
www.abovetopsecret.com /pages/aurora.html   (1862 words)

  
  Aurora, Colorado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2004, Aurora was honored as the Sports Illustrated magazine's 50th Anniversary "Sportstown" for Colorado because of its exemplary involvement in facilitating and enhancing sports.
Aurora straddles Interstate 70, Interstate 225 and the E-470 beltway.
Aurora is composed of dozens of neighborhoods, districts and (former) military installations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aurora,_Colorado   (1011 words)

  
 Aurora
Aurora is the Roman personification of the dawn.
Aurora is seen as a lovely woman who flies across the sky announcing the arrival of the sun.
Aurora is certainly not the most brilliant goddess as she asked Zeus to grant one of her husbands immortality, but forgot to ask for everlasting youth.
www.pantheon.org /articles/a/aurora.html   (166 words)

  
 Aurora FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Aurora Alerts Forum and from various e-mails sent to me. For each question there is a short, one-sentence answer, and a paragraph or two with a bit more explanation.
Aurora is a luminous glow of the upper atmosphere which is caused by energetic particles that enter the atmosphere from above.
Aside from the charged particles that cause the light of the aurora, there are currents flowing between the magnetosphere and the ionosphere inside and in the vicinity of the aurora.
odin.gi.alaska.edu /FAQ   (4246 words)

  
 Aurora Page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Aurora is a beautiful natural phenomenon, that occurs most often in the Polar regions of Earth, in the form of majestic, colorful, and irregular lights in the night sky.
The word Aurora Australis refers to the Aurora that occurs in the southern hemisphere (southern lights), whereas Aurora Borealis refers to the Aurora that occurs in the northern hemisphere (northern lights).
The North American Indians considered the Aurora to be the Gods dancing across the night sky, and the Eskimos in Greenland and the Hudson Bay area thought that the northern light was the kingdom of the dead.
ph99.bc.edu /grad/Tomek/Auroral_Homepage/Aurora.html   (2372 words)

  
 Aurora - Secret Hypersonic Spyplane   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Aurora is the missing factor to the silent closure of the SR-71 program.
What is regarded by many as the most successful experimental aircraft program in USAF history, the X-15 rocketplane was created in response to a requirement issued by NASA (then NACA) for an air-launched manned research vehicle with a maximum speed of more than Mach 6 and a maximum altitude of more than fifty miles.
Firstly, the observer's qualifications, with which he couldn't identify the aircraft; which would have been instantaneous if the aircraft was known to the "white world".
www.firstscience.com /site/articles/aurora.asp   (1889 words)

  
 Aurora Ontario - Recreation (Play)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Town of Aurora is fortunate to have an extensive pedestrian trail system which connects many of its neighbourhood parks and facilities.
Due to the very undulating topography in various locations within the Town of Aurora, it is not uncommon for residents to utilize many of these sloped areas in their own neighbourhoods for the fun of tobogganing.
The Town of Aurora strongly recommends that these water bodies not be used for recreational purposes of any kind, including winter skating, as ice conditions on these ponds are extremely unpredictable and potentially hazardous.
www.town.aurora.on.ca /play/parks.html   (1129 words)

  
 The Polar Aurora
To an observer, an aurora is a fascinating spectacle, constantly moving and changing.
The magnetic connection is also demonstrated by the fact that the rays of the aurora lie along magnetic field lines, and that the Earth's magnetic field observed beneath a bright and active aurora tends to be disturbed.
He enjoys photographing the aurora, and his collection of auroral images can give you a better feeling of "what the aurora looks like" than anything else I have seen on the web.
www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov /Education/waurora1.html   (596 words)

  
 Northern Hemisphere Enlarged View   (Site not responding. Last check: )
For example, the presentation gives a guide to the possibility that the aurora is located near a given location in the northern hemisphere under the conditions that existed at the time of the most recent polar satellite pass.
The process to estimate the hemispheric power, and the level of auroral activity, involves using this normalization factor which takes into account how effective the satellite was in sampling the aurora during its transit over the polar region.
A large (> 2.0) normalization factor indicates that the transit through the aurora was not very effective and the resulting estimate of auroral activity has a lower confidence.
www.sec.noaa.gov /pmap/pmapN.html   (314 words)

  
 Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights
When the aurora is extremely bright (casting a shadow) it is usually moving too fast for 100 speed film.
The aurora season is off to a good start but I haven't had much luck because of the weather.
The aurora was extremely bright during its peak on 9/3 and gave the clouds a green color.
www.ptialaska.net /~hutch/aurora.html   (2344 words)

  
 Aurora School - A progressive, diverse, independent, multi-graded K-5 elementary school in Oakland, CA
Academic excellence at Aurora School is fostered in a spirited atmosphere of invention, curiosity and collaboration.
Aurora is a diverse community honoring the mind, heart and imagination of every learner.
Families at Aurora actively share in the opportunity to grow along with their children, confident they will thrive in the world.
www.auroraschool.org   (264 words)

  
 Aurora Indiana
Aurora Lions Club and Main Street Aurora are proud to present the "Stadium" basket as the 2008 limited edition collector basket.
The Aurora Ferry Co. was established in 1942.
The Aurora Public Library invites everyone in the community to attend their activities throughout the year.
www.aurora.in.us   (1114 words)

  
 ESA - Aurora Exploration Programme - Aurora's origins
Aurora is part of Europe's strategy for space, endorsed by the European Union Council of Research and the ESA Council in 2001.
The primary objective of Aurora is to create, and then implement, a European long-term plan for the robotic and human exploration of the solar system, with Mars, the Moon and the asteroids as the most likely targets.
Aurora's step-by-step approach means that missions will increase in complexity over time, culminating - if all goes well - in a human expedition to Mars by the year 2030.
www.esa.int /export/SPECIALS/Aurora/SEMZOS39ZAD_0.html   (894 words)

  
 Rod Ends, Spherical Bearings & Bushings - Aurora Bearing Company
Aurora also produces a full line of military spec rod ends, spherical bearings, and journal bushings.
Aurora Bearing Company rod ends are manufactured utilizing two main construction styles, two-piece (body and ball), or three-piece (body, ball, and race).
Aurora spherical bearings incorporate single piece race type construction, providing excellent ball-to-race conformity.
www.aurorabearing.com   (201 words)

  
 MARJORIE CLERE INTERPRETER REFERRAL SERVICE
AURORA of Central New York Inc. was created in 1991, when separate organizations assisting people who have visual or hearing impairments joined forces.
AURORA's professional staff is sensitive to cultural diversity and skilled in various modes of sign language and oral communication.
Per Aurora's contractual agreement with the interpreters in private practice in the greater Central New York area, travel compensation is charged at the hourly interpreting rate for interpreters who must travel to the site of an assignment.
www.catholic-church.org /syrdeaf/aurora.html   (1405 words)

  
 Aurora (Oulu)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An often used classification divides the auroras into discrete and diffuse precipitation.
In addition, while the nightside auroras reflect the dynamics of the magnetotail, dayside precipitation relates more directly to solar wind parameters.
Auroras during magnetospheric substorms and, especially, the great auroras during magnetospheric
www.oulu.fi /~spaceweb/textbook/auroras.html   (482 words)

  
 Xilinx : Aurora Link-layer Protocol
Aurora is a scalable, lightweight, link-layer protocol that is used to move data across point-to-point serial links.
Aurora is a very efficient low-latency protocol that uses the least possible amount of logic.
Aurora can be used in any application that requires serial point to point connectivity.
www.xilinx.com /products/design_resources/conn_central/grouping/aurora.htm   (358 words)

  
 Welcome to AuroraWatch
Photograph of an aurora near Monikie, north of Dundee, Scotland, 30th October 2003.
aurora borealis (or northern lights) is a spectacular natural phenomenon which can occasionally be seen in the night sky over Britain.
We offer a free Aurora Alert email service to warn you whenever aurora are likely to be seen across Britain.
www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk /iono/aurorawatch   (112 words)

  
 Aurora
Aurora 2 offers sky, clouds, water, sun, moon, stars, haze, and both volumetric and ambient light.
Aurora 2 has a lot of great new features and an improved user interface.
Aurora 2 has an in-plug-in preview and a zoom tool to let you take a close look without rendering.
www.digi-element.com /aurora/index.htm   (479 words)

  
 RDF: Aurora
Aurora (previously known as 'NavCenter') is a UI widget in Mozilla.
Aurora is a simple tree-column widget (actually, the same widget that is used in Messenger) that NGLayout uses to acquire and display data.
Aurora also makes it very easy to manifest new data sources into Aurora without any changes to the UI code.
www.mozilla.org /rdf/doc/aurora.html   (392 words)

  
 Mystery Aircraft - Aurora
Aurora was being flown from a base in the Nevada desert to an atoll in the Pacific, then on to Scotland to refuel before returning to the US at night.
As previously noted, the case for the existence of all mystery aircraft, including Aurora, must be predicated on identifiable sources of funding.
There are two classes of reports relating to Aurora: those that are consistent with a limited experimental test program; and those that are suggestive of the existence of an operational capability.
www.fas.org /irp/mystery/aurora.htm   (4635 words)

  
 Aurora - Adware removal instructions
Aurora has in some cases been installed without any notice or consent through security holes (1, 2, 3)
If you have any of the files related to Aurora on your system, please send them for additional analysis.
In order to provide correct, accurate and updated information about Aurora I encourage the vendor to contact me if any part of this write-up needs a revision.
www.kephyr.com /spywarescanner/library/aurora/index.phtml   (607 words)

  
 The Aurora Aircraft Page
The name Aurora was included in a Pentagon budget request in 1985, perhaps inadvertently, underneath reconnaissance programs of the SR-71 and U-2.
The Aurora has been attributed to scores of unidentified aircraft reports around the world, including a 1989 sighting from an oil platform in the North Sea, a series of mysterious sonic booms over Southern California in 1991-92, and photographs of unusual "donuts-on-a-rope" contrails.
The story of the Aurora from 1980s to the 1990s.
wave.prohosting.com /aurora85   (481 words)

  
 Aurora by David A. Hardy
'Aurora' is his debut novel and as he has commented on the cover, is the kind of Science Fiction he would buy if he saw it around.
Aurora is a baby girl brought in during the London Blitz of WW2 and replaces the dead baby of a mother caught in a bomb blast.
If there are any weaknesses, then it has to be with the way Aurora conveniently walks through life without anyone else getting the wiser over the decades to her age.
www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/03_nov/review1103_3.shtml   (482 words)

  
 City of Aurora
On Friday, April 27, 2007, Mayor Thomas J. Weisner announced that Aurora’s Park Committee will be recommending The Park Collaborative to design and implement the multi-million dollar River Edge Park along the Fox River in downtown Aurora.
Bid Proposals will be received at the City of Aurora, City Hall at 44 East Downer Place, Aurora, Illinois 60507-2067 delivery or mail, to the attention of the City Clerk located on the 2nd floor by 11:00 a.m., local time on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2007 and will be publicly opened at that time.
This addendum shall be considered as part of the Contract Documents and Bidding Documents, as applicable, and shall govern insofar as it changes, deletes from or adds to the original Contract Documents or Bidding Documents, as applicable.
www.aurora-il.org   (422 words)

  
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The Aurora Police Department is committed to excellence in law enforcement.
The front desk at District 2 is open to the public on a 24 hour basis.
Our 596 sworn law enforcement officers and 135 non-sworn employees appreciate the opportunity to work with you in making Aurora a safer place to live, work, and visit.
www.auroragov.org /AuroraGov/Departments/Police/index.htm   (221 words)

  
 The Aurora Text Editor
Aurora takes advantage of available memory, including disk virtual memory, to load and edit files as large as one gigabyte in the DOS version and 4 gigs in the Win32 console mode version.
Aurora can use regular expressions to search and replace, which is a nice feature if you hop back and forth between DOS and Unix.
Aurora as Open Source: I've heard from one of the members of the Aurora community that Jeff has decided he will not release the Aurora code as open-source.
www-personal.umich.edu /~knassen/aurora.html   (1009 words)

  
 Aurora FAQs
Your best bet for seeing aurora is to get as close as you can to the position of the average auroral oval shown above, and as far away as you can from sources of artificial light.
As solar activity increases towards the maximum in 2000-2001, the aurora will be even less predictable, with forecasts being limited to a few days based on current observations of solar flares and sunspots.
So far, attempts to record sound during aurora have failed to produce any proof that such sounds exist, but it is hard to ignore the numerous reports that go back centuries.
www.pfrr.alaska.edu /aurora/faq.htm   (1154 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Resources: Auroras   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The aurora borealis — or northern lights — have always fascinated and puzzled those who saw them.
But a real scientific understanding of how particles flowing from the sun are caught up in the Earth's magnetic field to interact with molecules of atmospheric gases to cause glowing colors is fairly recent.
The study of the aurora is part of the fairly new field of "space weather," which is concerned with the many interactions between the sun and the earth.
www.usatoday.com /news/science/astro/understanding-aurora.htm   (314 words)

  
 Spaceweather.com Presents: Aurora Galleries
Auroras appeared in Florida, Texas, Australia and many other places where they are seldom seen.
During that time sky watchers spotted weird ring-shaped auroras, auroras in Arizona, auroras in Tasmania, and some auroras that were positively spooky.
This is the year of the "accidental aurora." Thousands of sky watchers saw auroras by accident when they were outdoors looking at something else.
www.spaceweather.com /aurora/gallery.html   (645 words)

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