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Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 10/03/08 08:46:36 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 75% Barometer: 29. (Florida Today)
Child Witnesses: How To Improve Their Performance Sep 19, 2008
18, 2008) A study at the University of Leicester into how to improve child and young adult witnesses' evidence has looked at several issues that affect witnesses' accuracy. The investigation, carried out in Estonia by postgraduate psychologist Kristjan Kask, looked at issues such as police officers' interviewing methods with children; young adults' skill in describing people; and the ability of both children and young adults to identify faces with different racial features. (Science Daily)
Weather: Partly cloudy, afternoon storms likely Jul 30, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32940 Last Updated: 07/30/08 08:45:41 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 97% Barometer: 30. (Florida Today)
The rise of a teaching tool May 22, 2008
The University of British Columbia entries are among some 70 academic projects now registered at Wikipedia, by institutions from Yale University to the University of Tartu, Estonia. Wikipedia itself invites professors "to use Wikipedia in your class to demonstrate how an open content website works". (iAfrica.com)
Torrey Pines swimmer awaits Beijing fling Apr 15, 2008
Born in Tartu in 1990, just months after Estonia declared independence from the Soviet Union, Anna-Liisa Pold moved to the United States with her parents when she was 2. This summer she'll have a chance to give back to her homeland when she dons the black, blue and white of Estonia and swims in the 400-meter individual medley for her native country at the Olympics in Beijing. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Sports)
Taxman ordered to recognize London School of Economics Apr 11, 2008
It included the University of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, and even God's Bible School and College in Cincinnati, the Life Chiropractic College in California and the University of Tartu in Estonia ... Ukrainian Free University, Munich University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. (Globe and Mail -- National)
Gene That Controls Ozone Resistance Of Plants Could Lead To Drought-resistant Crops Mar 1, 2008
The discovery is detailed in the advance online publication of the journal Nature by biologists at UCSD, University of Helsinki in Finland, University of Tartu in Estonia and the University of the West of England. Last year, the journal published another study by British researchers that found that ozone generated from the nitrogen oxides of vehicle emissions would significantly reduce the ability of plants to increase photosynthesis and store the excess carbon in the atmosphere projected from... (Science Daily)
Obituary: Jaan Kross Jan 7, 2008
Jaan Kross, Estonia's most famous writer, who has died aged 87, was born two weeks after the Treaty of Tartu, in which the Soviet Union guaranteed Estonia's independence in perpetuity ... Kross grew up in Tallinn and, just before the first Soviet occupation, embarked on a legal degree at Tartu University ... It is largely thanks to him that the French department at Tartu University was not allowed to fade and also that Kafka's The Trial was published in Estonian. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Hour-by-hour forecast Jan 3, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 01/03/08 07:15:48 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 55% Visability: 10 miles (16 km). (Florida Today)
Complete weather forecast Dec 7, 2007
Jackson, MS 39201 Last Updated: 12/07/07 07:45:24 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 74% Barometer: 30. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Estonian prime minister opens San Jose trade office Dec 3, 2007
The Prime Minister of Estonia came to San Jose Friday to open a trade office that he hopes will bring startups from his small country and Silicon Valley technology companies together ... " Estonia has been scouting the valley for two years. The prime minister officially opened an office of Enterprise Estonia, located in the U.S. Market Access Center on Market Street in Downtown San Jose. The one-person office will be headed by Andrus Viirg. Estonia is an emerging technology center, aided in part... (San Jose Business Journal)
37 comments Nov 10, 2007
Justin, Tartu, EstoniaNov 09, 2007 @ 01:05 PMPat is right on here. I just hope Republicans realize that Rudy is a nightmare candidate. (Human Events Online)
WEATHER: Thunderstorms possible Aug 28, 2007
Weather - 7-day Forecast Summaries. Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 08/28/07 09:30:35 EDT. (Florida Today)
Infotainment Aug 7, 2007
The 20-year-old was driving in the southern city of Tartu helped by instructions from his 16-year-old passenger. At first they thought he was just drunk, but the man. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Blind man arrested for driving car Aug 6, 2007
The 20-year-old was driving in the southern city of Tartu early Sunday -- helped by instructions from his 16-year-old passenger. "At first they thought he was just drunk, but the man kept missing the tube for the breath test, then they realized he was blind" and arrested him, Tartu Police spokeswoman Marge Kohtla said Monday. (Yahoo News)
Metso Supplies Heat Recovery Boiler for Fortum's Power Plant in Finland Jun 7, 2007
Metso is currently also supplying a power boiler for Fortum's new combined heat and power plant in the city of Tartu, Estonia. The power boiler (70 MWth), which utilizes bubbling fluidized bed technology, will burn biomass and local peat to produce electricity and district heat. (Primezone Releases)
Estonia opens first new synagogue May 17, 2007
Previous synagogues in Tallinn and the second city, Tartu, were destroyed during the war which saw a Jewish community of about 4,500 displaced or destroyed. A memorial marks the site of a notorious work camp at Klooga. (BBC News -- Europe)
Estonia's warVersions of WWII history from veterans of both sides May 10, 2007
The 12, he says, belonged to mobile units sent on an overnight dash from Narva and Tartu to reach Tallinn before it could be dynamited by the retreating Germans, and they died in skirmishes along the way. With no time to stop, their comrades drove into the capital with the bodies on their vehicles and the commander picked out the park as a good place to bury them, according to the Soviet veteran. (BBC News -- Europe)
Russia cries blasphemy as statue to war dead is taken down Apr 29, 2007
Russia threatened to punish Estonia yesterday for the blasphemous and inhuman removal of a monument to the Red Army after deadly rioting took over Tallinn, the capital. The Estonian Government moved the bronze statue of a Soviet soldier in the dead of night after the Baltic state s worst violence since independence more than 15 years ago. (Times Online)
Country profile: Estonia Mar 5, 2007
Russia recognised it as an independent state under the 1920 Treaty of Tartu. During the two decades that followed it tried to assert its identity as a nation squeezed between the rise of Nazism in Germany and the dominion of Stalin in the USSR.. (BBC News -- Europe)
Status Quo Expected as Estonians Go to Polls Mar 1, 2007
"We can expect Estonia to follow the trend set in Latvia last year... and re-elect the government for the first time," said Andres Kasekamp, professor of Baltic politics at Tartu University ... "They haven't attacked each other much during campaigning, so nothing precludes their continuing cooperation. It's a victory of pragmatism over ideology, and it shows the pragmatization of politics," said Vello Pettai, professor of political science at Tartu University. (Ocnus.net)
