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In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

  
 Penn State Eberly College of Science -- Sokol Spearheading Portion of Spallation Neutron Source Research Facility
Sokol is leading an instrument-development team of more than 30 members from both universities and national laboratories--one of the first such collaborations for a Department of Energy instrument.
Second, it trains the next generation of scientists and researchers in the current and potential use of the facility.
Penn State's Paul Sokol is leading a team of more than 30 members from both universities and national laboratories that is building the Cold-Neutron-Chopper Spectrometer instrument for the Spallation Nuclear Source, which will work like the shutter on a camera to allow neutrons with desired energies to slip through.
www.science.psu.edu /alert/Sokol4-2003.htm   (1464 words)

  
 "Sokol" VSM250 EMU
Starostenko noted the courage of RAO VSM and all those involved in putting together the Sokol train 'at a time that is so unfavourable for Russia' and emphasised that more than 90% of the train's components were manufactured in Russia.
Once the trials are completed, the train will be tested on the 654 km main line between St Petersburg and Moscow, parts of which have been fettled up for 200 km/h.
Sokol features all welded bodies of aluminium alloy, magnetic rail brakes, dual-system traction equipment for 3 kV DC and 25 kV 50 Hz operation, VVVF traction controls with three-phase asynchronous induction motors, a new design of pantograph, environmentally-friendly air-conditioning and vacuum toilets.
emupages.newmail.ru /history/vsm-e.htm   (420 words)

  
 Sokol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The union centralized all the Sokols in the Czech lands and sent missionary Sokol trainers to the rest of the Slavic world to found Sokol institutions in Kraków, Ljubljana, Zagreb, and even Russia.
Last Slet was hold in 2000 (25,000 Sokols), next one should be held in 2006.
At the beginning of the twentieth century sokols were introduced in Catalonia and soon was considered and had the rang of a new tradition.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sokol   (1938 words)

  
 Russian Train Ticket
Sokol (train) - Sokol (Russian for "falcon") is a high speed train planned in Russia.
From the Southern Pacific line of California russian train ticket and the Southwest to the Green Mountain Railway of Vermont, from the Louisiana russian train ticket and Delta line of the South to the Wisconsin Central of the Midwest, here are trains from all over America.
Evocative pictures of trains climbing mountains, crossing prairies, stopping in small towns, russian train ticket and penetrating deep into the heart of our cities capture nearly two hundred years of railroading history.
www.wm2001.com /russiantrainticket.html   (817 words)

  
 Russia Train Ticket
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From the Southern Pacific line of California russia train ticket and the Southwest to the Green Mountain Railway of Vermont, from the Louisiana russia train ticket and Delta line of the South to the Wisconsin Central of the Midwest, here are trains from all over America.
Evocative pictures of trains climbing mountains, crossing prairies, stopping in small towns, russia train ticket and penetrating deep into the heart of our cities capture nearly two hundred years of railroading history.
www.wm2001.com /russiatrainticket.html   (837 words)

  
 Tr101000
Three state highways are blocked and delays in excess of nine minutes at the Five Corners intersection are caused by trains stopped in the Village while the wye switch is operated.
Upgrade of the switch on the south end may be necessary in the future once the commuter train in on the line.
Bill Kalanges, Village resident, expressed appreciation to the Board for moving forward on the problem of delay in the Village by the train, and urged the Board to keep this item on their agenda until the situation is rectified to the satisfaction of the Village.
www.essexjunction.org /TR101000.HTM   (2108 words)

  
 Passaic, NJ
Originally, the train ran from Passaic Bridge (Aycrigg and Main Avenues) to Paterson (near Grand Street.) Eventually, the success of the railroad for both passengers and freight caused its expansion south to Jersey City and north to upper Bergen and Passaic Counties and west to Morris County and to points beyond.
Sokols were an important outlet especially for the youth but the pan-slavic overtones of these Sokols were at odds with the ruling Hapsburg Empire.
The Passaic Sokol began printing their newspaper on April 15, 1911 which was titled "Katolicky Sokol." This newspaper has been printed for the last 86 years and is still printed for the benefit of the membership.
www.tccweb.org /passaic.htm   (10742 words)

  
 NEWSLETTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sokol love conquers all: Report by sister Anna Janouš on her visit of the Czech Republic in September 2003 where she conducted a clinic for her composition of calisthenics to be performed next year at Sokol Canada's XI.
Sokol quickly spread through all lands of the South Slavs; at the outbreak of the First World War Sokol in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia had 41,000 members associated in 406 local units, prior to the Second Word War, Sokol membership in Yugoslavia totalled 297,000 and 882 local units.
Sokol and February 25, of 55 years ago: Excerpt from a soon to be published book describing events in February 1948 relating to the Sokol organization during the communist coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia.
www.sokolcanada.org /html/canada/newsletter.htm   (5015 words)

  
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Polish (Sokól), Czech, Slovak, Belorussian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Belorussian and Czech sokol, Polish sokól `falcon', hence a metonymic occupational name for a falconer, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a falcon in some way.
Sokol is a city and river port, centre of Sokol rayon (sector), Vologda oblast (province), Russia.
The Sokol is a very well known organization in what is now the Czech republic, Slovakia, and America.
www.dnull.com /~sokol/sokolname.html   (193 words)

  
 JAG TV Episode Summaries & Spoilers - Most complete synopsis of stories.
Webb appeared in Russia and disclosed that ONE of the KGB agents (either Sokol or Parlovski) was procuring six nuclear tipped missiles for the Mafia, which they intended to sell to the highest bidder.
M convinced H to follow her intuition and believe her that Sokol was NOT the one trying to kill them..
Sokol landed with H and M alive, so they realized that the rogue agent had to be Parlovski.
home.att.net /~rrjmd4/jsFour.html   (15055 words)

  
 Fear of Polio in the 1950s
Whether the fund-raiser was a citizen who had been transformed into a promoter by his position as chapter chairman or a famous entertainer auctioning off his shirt off to the highest bidder, it was common knowledge that dignity had very little to do with the matter at hand.
In response to this, the members of this organization would simply state that it was the scientists' job to be "all pure and intellectual", but that somebody needed to raise the money to pay for their work.
Professional training and research were not the kinds of things that got people to donate.
www.honors.umd.edu /HONR269J/projects/sokol.html   (3600 words)

  
 Live from the Third Rail
The Boston Globe reports that a teenager jumped from a moving commuter rail train is Boston yesterday when a conductor told him that the train he was on was an Express train and would be missing his stop.
The train will (as with all other things casino-related) be funded largely by casino owners Borgata, Caesars, and Harrah's, "who are hoping the direct route will appeal to young gamblers who don't want to take the bus." Approximately 1,100 riders are expected per weekend.
Passengers on the trains during both incidents believed the woman was in the cabin with the driver or was a voice on a 1900 sex call.
thirdrail.smorgasblog.com /authors.php?author=amg   (2491 words)

  
 Electric Train "Sokol-250"
Starting from 2000 and till March 2002 preliminary acceptance and check tests of the experimental train at speed up to 236 km/hr when power was supplied from the d.c.
In 2000 a special shed equipped with the state-of-the-art equipment for diagnostics and maintenance of electric trains “Sokol” was put into operation in small town Metallostroy (St.Petersburg).
The electric train is equipped with a modern microprocessor control system and traffic safety systems, self-contained life support systems (heating, ventilation, air conditioning, water supply, sewage water and garbage collection) ensuring environmental safety, power absorption units for impact load absorption in extreme situations.
www.ckb-rubin.ru /eng/project/electrot/sokol/index.htm   (201 words)

  
 Sokol Tours: Travel Services: Transportation: Train Tickets: One way
If no trains are available on a given date, try expanding the search (max.
Click on the "train number" or "price" to open a window with further train information.
Please note that information displayed here is the train timetable only.
www.sokoltours.com /trains.phtml?t=ow   (200 words)

  
 Sokol Tours: Travel Services: Transportation: Train Tickets
Due to system limitation, and other restrictions, train tickets and seat reservations cannot be reserved in advance without full payment.
Train tickets and train reservations are sold on “first comes first served” basis.
The centralized booking system and “army like” discipline keeps all trains on a precise schedule despite the distances and economic troubles.
www.sokoltours.com /trains.phtml?m=21   (233 words)

  
 PATH opens to tears and joy
Sokol, 53, was on one of the last PATH trains to stop at the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, and she said that her first trip since then brought back the horror of that day.
Still, Sokol acknowledged that she was one of the lucky ones.
Many commuters said they were moved to discover themselves in the pit as the train wended its way into the station.
www.downtownexpress.com /de_31/pathopens.html   (808 words)

  
 Graphic Ghana - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The programme, which is under the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA), is to train young West African military officers and establish a strategic cell at ECOWAS headquarters to command and control its proposed multinational force.
Mr Sokol said the move was also to help ECOWAS expand its proposed 5,000-standby force to enable it to effectively and efficiently tackle the crisis situation in the region.
He explained that 5,000 perfectly trained peacekeepers were of limited value without a trained, competent headquarters that could provide command and control.
www.graphicghana.info /article.asp?artid=14833   (254 words)

  
 Hear this: These earplugs block out snoring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The earplugs are different from the traditional foam version, Sokol said, in that they don’t produce “muffling or distortion.” The Good Night version is made of thermoplastic elastomer material and a patented dual density foam construction.
That means unlike the traditional plugs, the interior portion of the plugs is much denser and the exterior has more air.
Sokol said there’s no risk to wearing earplugs to sleep on a regular basis.
www.pbn.com /stories/printdetails.php?id=110151   (664 words)

  
 Munny Sokol Park
Once in the park the trail head is near the barn that does not have any sides on it.
Munny Sokol is a well-maintained, winding single track through the woods on the outskirts of Tuscaloosa.
Apparantly whoever trew the race back in march (in the rain) did not repair the course and erosion has eaten away at the poor trail.
www.mtbr.com /trails/Alabama/MunnySokolPark.html   (2201 words)

  
 Modeling and Simulation of Colliding Cars
In this study, we are interested in modeling and simulating a train crash incident from previous experiments and incidents.
In this experiment, a train car is separated from a train and it is moving towards two stationary train cars.
By simulating the impact, one is interested in the time behavior of the distance the trains will travel after the impact and how fast the trains will move.
www.msu.edu /~muhannad/modelcars.html   (1339 words)

  
 Greenwich Village Gazette: Columns: Rachel Sokol
But in my eyes, hoching a loogie on the street, complete with that gurgle-throat sound, is on the same level of gross as leaving female products out for display.
He was casually waiting next to me for a downtrain train when he just leaned over and spit on the track.
Rachel Sokol, a native New Yorker and Yankees fan, is a Manhattan-based writer, sot.com staffer and editor.
www.gvny.com /columns/sokol/sokol08-27-04.html   (830 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - News - IN BRIEF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The train, which is being built by the Transmash factory in the Lenin grad Oblast town of Tikhvin, completed the penultimate phase of testing this week, the news agency reported, citing officials at the plant.
The train completed the Moscow to St. Petersburg run in four hours and forty minutes without any technical difficulties, at an average speed of about 200 kilometers per hour.
The Sokol train is 323 meters in length and consists of 12 cars.
www.sptimes.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=6206   (1295 words)

  
 The Transport Ministry Renews the High-Speed Rail Co. - Kommersant Moscow
In order to build the high-speed rail line from St. Petersburg to Moscow, the High-Speed Railway Co. was founded in 1991, 87.38 percent of which belonged to the Ministry of Property Relations.
The project was to construct rail lines and commercial transport structures and build the high-speed Sokol train, which would reach 350 km/hr.
In 2003, the last active segment of the project, the construction of the SOKOL high-speed railcar, was shut down.
www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=531795   (804 words)

  
 Sokol SK-1
Chief of Staff F A Agaltsov visits the Institute of Aviation and Space Medicine (IAKM) to review the six cosmonauts' training for flight.
An 11-day trial is underway of the hot mock-up of the Vostok capsule's environmental control system.
Nikolayev conducts a three-day simulated spaceflight in his suit, in the spacecraft, including centrifuge runs at the beginning and end.
www.astronautix.com /craft/sokolsk1.htm   (1701 words)

  
 ISMP 2000 - Meeting Topics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We focus on the Dutch situation, which is highly complex due to the fact that trains may be composed of train sets of different types (lengths).
The consequence is that not only the number of train sets in a train is relevant, but also their order in the train.
Here the scheduling problem involves supplying each scheduled train with a sufficient number of train sets of the right type in the right order, and the maintenance routing problem involves routing individual train sets in such a way that they arrive in a maintenance facility in time.
www.isye.gatech.edu /ismp2000/schedule/session_pages/WEB-19-IC217.html   (333 words)

  
 Minutes from Nutmeg BOD Meetings
Attending were Joe Sokol, Al Daley, Jack Kreeger, Charlie Bettinger, Bob Van Cleef and George Reitze.
Attending were Joe Sokol, Al Daley, Charlie Bettinger, and George Reitze.
A discussion was held on holding a modular layout display in the fall, replacing the train show.
www.trainweb.org /nutmegdivision/NutmegBOD.htm   (607 words)

  
 The Disinvestment Campaign
Once you get to the Camp Sokol Troja (directions at the end), go to the reception office (Recepce in Czech), which is next to the pub.
The name of the station will be on the opposite wall in silver letters (unless a train is standing in the way...) This is the final stop on the line, so if you don't get off, you will be forced off anyway.
This is the signal to the bus driver that you want to get off at the next stop; do not use the red buttons marked 'stop' on the bus to indicate the stop, as that in Prague is the sign of an emergency.
www.wbbeurope.org /meeting.php   (3562 words)

  
 Section of Moscow tunnel collapses - Europe - MSNBC.com
Train catches fire after collapse; no injuries reported
Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov said a concrete section fell on a train between the Sokol and Voikovskaya stations in north-central Moscow, and that train caught fire.
Moscow subway chief Dmitry Gayev said the accident apparently was caused by workers who were erecting a street billboard in the area and damaged piles supporting the tunnel’s roof, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11908594   (259 words)

  
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www.usagetfit.com /faq/10.htm   (1255 words)

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