This is a page for some odd miscellaneous info from Professor Larchez

How to find the TRUTH
Harry F. Good Laboratories

Physics UW-Stout Physics Dept. homepage .... UW-Stout homepage .... UW-Stout Directory .... Direct link to GOOGLE.com
Calendar (This week, the last few weeks, and the next few weeks.
Transit of Mercury (2006) simulation from NASA
Music . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . Weather
Research . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . Museums
Transportation . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . What Does It Mean?
Newspapers, Baseball . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . Time,Geography
Stout Stuff
Physics Topics
Stars & Stripes, or just stars
Have You Paid Your Taxes?
There didn't seem to be a category for these
Testing some strange things that MAY or MAY NOT work
Special Info Items (Auto recalls, Electric Utilities,Google Groups)




Pictorial Tour of the Physics Department

Special Info Items

These VENDORS sometimes helpful
20 years of Usenet archives in Google Groups
Automobile and equipment safety recalls: from NHTSA, but I don't think the listings are complete.

Electricity Prices

Xcel Energy home page will lead you indirectly to their rate book
The link below will get the information more quickly.
  • Electricity prices for Wisconsin
  • Electricity prices for MN, SD, & ND
  • There also may be an 'ADJUSTMENT' (surcharge).
    Dividing $1.70 by 750 kWh gives 0.22667 cents per kWh
  • Power from Poop

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    Music

    Physics of Music: I don't know how accurate, but these are interesting:

    Acoustic The Basics of the Acoustic Phonograph -- The Victor Victrola Page-{new link}
    Acoustic -- The Basics of the Acoustic Phonograph - The Victor Victrola Page-{old link}
    Digital CD - How does it work?
    How a violin is made using a take-apart instrument
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    Music -- sources

    Blue Man Group(This site use to play sounds)
    Blue Man Group (Doesn't seem to play sounds.)
    Classical MIDI with Words(needs special software)
    Lied and Art Song Texts
    Volkslieder
    Minnesota Orchestra
    RADIO-SCHEDULES
  • WPR Music Network schedule (works Apr 2005)
  • Search for NPR radio by City, Zipcode, or call letters.
    RADIO-LISTEN
  • Listen to Wisconsin Public Radio anytime. (Either RealAudio or Windows Media live streaming and either 'Ideas' or 'Classical". Also link to Audio Archives.) (For MET OPERA, choose NPR News & Classical)
  • WPR radio Listen Now
  • KSJN Minnesota Public Radio streaming
  • BBC Radio Player - Audio on Demand Charlie Gillett's World of Music
  • BBC Listen: World Service(live) (Has links to other listening options)

    Music -- info

    Karadar Classical Music has lots of ads, but they are not very annoying
    Libretti (400 of 'em). . .Lieder lyrics . . . MIDI . . . Music (varia) in great quantity . . . Opera . . . from Karadar.com
    FAQ: rec.music.classical has a lot of text info about MUSIC, including "how to pronounce........."
  • CD: JOYOUS LIGHT, ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN Language: ARMENIAN
    O GARDENER     is at 26:45 near the end of the audio.(Doesn't seem to work any more)
  • Kullervo
  • www.beethoven.com
  • Finlandia - Sibelius
  • Metamorphoses (Broadway play) [Warning: Web page is noisy.]

    Opera


    *** Cav & Pag done locally -- Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) & Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) "Those familiar with the music found the ear's memory soon added the full orchestral colour.
    Chicago -- Lyric Opera of Chicago
  • 2005-2006 Season Preview - Lyric Opera of Chicago (Works 2005-03-16. Starts with Carmen)
  • 2004-2005 Season Preview - Lyric Opera of Chicago (Works 2005-03-16. Starts with Don Giovanni)
    Covent Garden -- Royal Opera House in Covent Garden
  • Covent Garden restaurants, pubs, shops, opera, theatre and street performers make it the entertainment centre of London.
    Minnesota Opera
    New York NYC
  • Amato Opera
  • Metropolitan Opera
  • Metropolitan Opera season calendar 2006-07
  • Met Opera Braodcast Schedule (Date is on same line as title.)
  • Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center
    WPR radio Listen Now
    Washington National Opera

    Opera synopses and libretti

    Opera's Librettos - Karadar - index
    Opera synopses index-Met
  • La Forza del Destino - Verdi - synopsis = La Forza del Destino - Verdi - libretto Karadar
  • Das Rheingold - Wagner - synopsis = Das Rheingold - Wagner - libretto Karadar
  • A First-Timer's Guide to Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen
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  • Rodelinda - G.F. Handel - synopsis
  • La Traviata - Verdi - synopsis
  • Il Trovatore - Verdi - synopsis
  • The Vesti la giubba Page (maybe moved)

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    Research


  • Liquid Crystals
    What are Liquid Crystals?
    Was sind Flüssigkristalle?
    transparenten Elektroden (meist Indiumzinnoxid) "Twisted Nematic"-Flüssigkristallzellen
    Condensed Matter Lab - U Colorado
    History & Philosophy of Science in Science Education Research Group
    History of Chemistry

    X-rays or Xrays

    U of Minnesota Institute of Technology Characterization Facility
    Xray info from U of Kansas
    Xray info from U of Wisconsin
    Xray info from U of Georgia
    Diffraction of the K-alpha Xrays emitted from copper (An Excel spreadsheet)
    Xray info from Virginia Tech (Scintag)
    Xray info from Texas A&M University (brochure)
    Xray info from the Ruhr-University at Bochum
    Xray info from SUNY Binghamton (lab exercise)
    Scintag is now in Thermo ARL (previously ARL Applied Research Laboratories)
    U of Minnesota X-ray Crystallographic Laboratory
    Can We See Bonds with X-Rays?
    The Other Double Helix--The Fascinating Chemistry of Starch
    Introduction to Crystallography and Mineral Crystal Systems (from Rockhounds)

    Search-Match & SDPD

  • X-ray search-match is no trivial problem: Round Robin
  • Round Robin Results: a so sadly famous molecule
  • SDPD Tutorial: Structure Determination by Powder Diffractometry

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    Weather

     Click for Minneapolis, Minnesota Forecast Click for Menomonie, Wisconsin Forecast
    MINNEAPOLIS MENOMONIE
    http://www.wunderground.com/geo/InfoboxBannerPromo/US/MN/Minneapolis.html
    Above is where I got the weather stuff (html)
    printer-friendly version of Menomonie forecast
    printer-friendly version of Minneapolis forecast
    Intellicast Radar Weather Map: I think that Menomonie is in the bottom part of the "E" in "EAU"DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE
    Weather Map-Radar-Intellicast St Cloud MN (I think that Menomonie is in the bottom part of the "E" in "EAU") USE THIS INSTEAD
    Weather Radar - Intellicast - One KM Radar (1 kilometer (km) resolution radar imagery for many sectors)Cambridge MN - zoomed in more that the other one
    Radar Weather Map: old link doesn't work
    Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) / Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS) click here for explanation

    UW-Stout Physics Dept Weather Station
    Weather for the location you can choose by zipcode. "CHART"
    Weather - IWIN - Interactive Weather Information Network interfaces
    Weather - Current Warnings for Wisconsin

    S:\www\WX\weatherlink\sample.htm
    http://physics.uwstout.edu/wx\weatherlink\sample.htm
    http://physics.uwstout.edu/wx/weatherlink/sample.htm

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    go to Stout Stuff: Administrative............................ go to Stout Stuff: Registrar

    Stout Stuff: Academic

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    Downloadable software for Stout students (I think they are the same)
    Downloadable software for Stout faculty (I think they are the same)
    Course Descriptions: UW-Stout Undergrad Bulletin
    Course Descriptions: UW-Stout Undergrad Bulletin - Physics
    B.S. degree in Applied Science
    Chemistry: Professor Martin G. Ondrus
    Program Directors

    Registrar stuff

    Registrar's timetable page with General and Procedural Information
  • 2007sp REGISTRATION for spring - Tells who can register when
  • 2008sp Registration Calendar (important dates during the semester)
  • 2007sp Evaluation Week Spring

  • REGISTRATION for 2007fa - Tells who can register when
  • 2007fa Registration Calendar (important dates during the semester)
  • 2007fa Evaluation Week Fall

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    My phone numbers, including fax . - . - . Search the Stout Faculty and Staff Directory
    Course openings in Physics for Spring semester former link
    Course openings in Physics for Fall semester former link
    Course openings and other info from Registrar's office
    REGISTRAR's page of TIMETABLE-type links
    UW-Stout academic calendars
    Flexline - CampusCard (old link - probably won't work
    Flexline online campus card office
    LIBRARY Stout Library Catalog ( http://voyager.uwstout.edu/ )
    LIBRARY For renewing books click here then CATALOG==>patron information==>LOGIN
    Stout KEYSERVER software - http://software.uwstout.edu/keyserver/

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    go to Stout Stuff: Academic

    Stout Stuff: Administrative

    NETREG Registering your computer on the UW-Stout network -- If you receive a "page cannot be displayed" error type: http://net.uwstout.edu into your browser's address bar --
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx FBMC for ERA administration
    FORMS (Stout) Departmental and Alphabetical Listings
    FORMS: Human Resources link is here obsolete link
    Human Resources: FORMS link is here
    FBMC for ERA administration
    Humana: PreferredOne Management Corporation
    Sick Leave: Generic form to use when sick leave info is missing.
    FORMS: ASLS=Admin & Stud Life Services
    HANDBOOK (Classified, Student, Unclassified): Click on Personnel/Payroll here
    Purchasing Services info
    Keyserver Software at Stout
    PROJECTORS Jarvis SW
    wireless connectivity status
    115comp.htm 121comp.htm 115wire.htm 121wire.htm 121wire.htm but without quotes
    http://www.compaq.com/products/notebooks/n400/n400-subfamily.shtml
    http://web23pro.compaq.com/ccn/ccn.asp
    UW-Stout Factbook [lots of data]
    WISCONSIN ADMINISTRATIVE CODE - BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UW SYSTEM
    Ask5000
    UW-Stout Home Page
    UW-Stout Physics Department Home Page
    Stout Physics Dept. Agenda & Minutes
    Wisconsin Politics from thewheelerreport

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    Physics Topics

    Acceleration of gravity: precise values of g from NOAA
    Animated (Java) Illustrations including some neat astronomy. Interesting - try some.
    Fourier Synthesis (audio) and some other good Physics from Taiwan Interesting - try some.
    Waves: Demo showing phase velocity. (Tricky. The explanation given is difficult.)
    RED CEDAR RIVER flow and level ____________ Real-time data for USGS 05369000
    HAY RIVER AT WHEELER, WI _____________ Real-time data for USGS 05368000
    SENECA CREEK AT DAWSONVILLE, MD ___ Real-time data for USGS 01645000
    Access to real time hydrologic data from USGS (supposedly obsolete, but still works)
    Program for Magnetic Force display (Quickbasic) (Skip it.)
    Program for Magnetic Force display (.exe) (public) (Skip it.)
    Program for Magnetic Force display (.exe) (Skip it.)
    Energy,Velocity,Wavelength,etc Calculations (Quickbasic) (Skip it.)
    Energy,Velocity,Wavelength,etc Calculations (.exe) (public) (Skip it.)
    Energy,Velocity,Wavelength,etc Calculations (.exe) (Skip it.)
    QuantenMekanik
    The TRIBOELECTRIC SERIES
    Triboelectric Charging of Common Objects
    Triboelectric Charging of Common Objects

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    When, Where & What

    Set your computer's clock according to NIST***This may not do Daylight Savings properly.
    Set your computer's clock according to NIST. [Choose QUERY SERVER, NOW]
    Set your computer's clock according to NIST. [Choose "File", select server #5 (Colorado), then choose QUERY SERVER, NOW]
    Compute Local Apparent Sidereal Time (USNO)
    What Time Is It? (USNO)
    LEAP SECONDS and comparisons of various time scales
    Geodetic Survey Markers (worldwide)
    Geodetic Survey Markers (NGS NOAA)
    A source for MAPS
    Today Date and TimeMore than anybody could possibly want to know about calendars
    International Standard Date and Time Notation ISO 8601 has been adopted as European Standard EN 28601 and is therefore now a valid standard in all EU countries and all conflicting national standards have been changed accordingly.

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    Transportation

    Wisconsin Winter Road Conditions (NOTE: Gives reported conditions, not forecast)
    Highway cameras (former URL)
    Auto Accident - What To Do - Wisconsin
    www.saintpaulparking.com/
    Minneapolis: index to construction projects and some handy MAPS of MPLS
    Minneapolis 3rd Ave S reconstruction project
    Washington D.C. Airport ground trans. info & flight schedules
    IAD <===> West Falls Church
    Eau Claire Pax airport shuttle schedule (obsolete link?)
    Eau Claire Pax airport shuttle schedule
    EauClairePax 715 835-0399 or 800 869-5796 Mon-Fri 7:00am-8:00pm SatSunHol 9:00am-3:00pm
    EauClairePax after hours emergency reservations: voice mail at 715 835-0565 (probably old)
    EauClairePax (Motel 6 715 285-6901 probably 235)
    EauClairePax (Baldwin US63 & I94 715 684-2482) (HudsonHouse 715 386-2394)
    Chippewa Valley Airport Service 715 830-9400
    NWA main
    NWA plan
    NWA history
    Northwest - seat maps
    United.com - Seat maps
    Austrian Railway Info ÖBB
    German Rail tables
    Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund
    Transportation Security Administration

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    News, Baseball

    St Paul Pioneer Press
    St Paul Pioneer Press - Wisconsin section
    The Wisconsin State Legislature
    Washington Post main Search Page
    Washington Post (ignore the error messages)
    Washington Post "Style"


    Wash Post Style section


    Baseball teams including the Yahoos
    Bundesliga Baseball
    Stadt Wolfsburg Geschäftsbereich Abfallwirtschaft

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    Have You Paid Your Taxes?

    IRS tax forms
    IRS tax forms (This one is slower, but worked on a day the other one didn't
    The trick for the ones below is to change \irs-pdf\ to \irs-fill\
    Unfortunately you can't save the 'fill' type.
    If you try to use the "back" and "forward" buttons of Internet Explorer the filled-in data is lost.
    But the big left/right arrows within Acrobat reader seem to preserve it if the forms have been downloaded as
    follows: Right click, Save Target as [Then run from Explorer.]. 
    http://www.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf
http://www.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-fill/f1040.pdf
http://www.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040sab.pdf
http://www.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-fill/f1040sab.pdf
http://www.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8606.pdf
http://www.fedworld.gov/pub/irs-fill/f8606.pdf
    US Treasury
    Wisconsin tax forms
    Maryland tax forms

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    What Does It Mean?

    This old way to get an English dictionary is slow
    This new way to get an English dictionary is quicker.
    Merriam-Webster OnLine (works)
    German Vocabulary
    Dictionary Quick German/English and English/German

    Demo spreadsheet for Spreadsheet Review lab
    Stuff to buy 2

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    Museums

  • Science & Technology
    Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
    Harrisonburg VA James Madison University Mineral Museum Mineral specimens from around the world incl. an extensive micro-mount collection & many high-quality photos
    Hove UK The British Engineerium
    London UK National Museum of Science and Industry
    Milwaukee Discovery World
    Minneapolis The Bakken Library and Museum
    Oxford (U of) UK Museum of the History of Science
    Philadelphia The Franklin Institute Science Museum
    San Francisco Exploratorium
    St. Paul Science Museum of Minnesota
    Wash DC National Museum of American History (Smithsonian)
    Wash. DC Koshland Science Museum (Natl.Acad.Sci.)
    heute The former Computer Museum is now part of the Boston Museum of Science
    The Computer Museum's collection has been moved to The Computer Museum History Center in Moffett Field, California.
    The Computer Museum History Center (including songs for the musical 1403 printer)
    Links to lots more science museums
  • Museums - Art
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    Chicago Art Institute of Chicago
    NYC et al. Guggenheim Museum (Modern and contemporary international art), New York,Bilbao,Venice,Berlin,Las Vegas Hermitage
    NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art
    NYC MoMA Museum of Modern Art
    Wash. DC National Gallery of Art
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    Stars & Stripes, or just stars

    Specifications for US flag
    Flags of the US, or just the stars

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    There didn't seem to be a category for these

    Telephone Directory - Switchboard Internet Yellow Pages and White Pages - Maps
    Extensive Info about lots of things
    Outerbridge Crossing
    This guy was a fabulous inventor. (Also, I like that the pop-up aid fails to work.)
    from the CDC: Health Related Hoaxes and Rumors
    International Standard Paper Sizes
    The tourbillon, a complex mechanism
    Schmuckecke - Uhren und Schmuck
    Vincent in Brixton, by: Nicholas Wright, Directed by: Richard Eyre
    Katie Kaczrnarcezyk
    KACZMARCZYK kaczmarczyk

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    Testing some strange things that MAY or MAY NOT work

    Some really ridiculous fun
    Test document file
    test1
    Test document file
    test2
    directory of c:\
    haiopeis
    HTML Workshop (Pejsa)

    redgreen
    public redgreen
    Gwyzorp
    text here
    How to find the TRUTH at UW-Madison

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    Teaching Guide - NANOTECHNOLOGY: THE NEXT REVOLUTION
    Congressman Ron Kind's Plan for Energizing American Manufacturing

    Council Schedule Spring 2005 Council Schedule Fall 2004 Council Schedule Summer 2004
    Council Schedule Spring 2004 Council Schedule Fall 2003 Council Schedule Summer 2003
    Council Schedule Spring 2003 Council Schedule Fall 2002 Council Schedule Summer 2002





    THE STUFF AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE HERE IS IN PROCESS FOR INCLUSION ON THIS PAGE.

    DONT'T BE SURPRISED IF IT IS INCOMPLETE OR INCORRECT


    WEATHER

    HEALTH -- MEDICAL
    Knee - Mayo - Reducing Knee Pain -- Without Surgery
    Mayo Clinic Health Info
    knees-AARP article with exercises for strengthening knees.
    knee surgery alternatives (AARP)
    Knee Troubles - AARP
    Thyroid-info.com

    American Science & Surplus





    CITIES--
    BREWSTER
    BOSTON
    MBTA Green Line with map
    MBTA Breda Type 8s Update April 2005

    MASSACHUSETTS
    info moved to cities category
    MENOMONIE
    info elsewhere
    NEW YORK NYC
    NYC Bus Triboro Coach LGA LaGuardia Trips123
    NYC transit info TRIPS123 How to get from xxxx to yyyy. This page for info. Choose SKIP to get page for origin and destination. (works ok in office Apr 2005)
    NYC transit info HOPSTOP How to get from XXXX to YYYY. (causes error in Win 95)
    QUINCY
    Quincy TCPL Museum passes
    Quincy apartments
    QUINCY HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY






    Phone SBC ebill

    Cape Cod Canal CAMERA TEST SITE has links to TIDAL CHART data
    ERA FBMC
    UW-System Budget Planning & Development, with links to Redbooks, Tuition/Fee Schedules, and Distribution of Undistributed Template





    MUSIC
    Are Ye Right There Michael Lyrics & Melody from ingeb.org
    Lots of Fish in Bonavist' Harbour (with: I'se The B'y)
    I'se the B'y (with: Lots of Fish)
    Ann Boleyn With her head tucked underneath her arm
    Google Corigliano soprano Hila Plitmann Bob Dylan
    Wash Post Style section
    Finding the Center of a Circle snd the radius from Three Points (for magnetic trajectories)
    Maximum Performance (MaP™) TESTING - a new and better measurement of toilet performance
    How a Microwave Oven works (There were mistakes in the previous version of this. Most of it looks pretty good to me, although some details leave me unsure.)
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    HOW TO FIND THE TRUTH
    How to find the TRUTH (link doesn't work anymore)
    Phys-l -- Forum for Physics Educators subscribe, unsubscribe, options, archives, etc (Feb 2006)
    DOS Command-line reference A-Z


    Memory Upgrade info


    Metros to Beaches cities with beaches reachable by transit

    NANOTECH ITEMS

    NanoDynamics has officially received word from the USGA that the NDMX golf balls (Feb-14-2006)
    National Nanotechnology Initiative

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    Hotels
  • NYC Algonquin Hotel
  • NYC Belvedere Hotel 319 West 48th Street New York, NY 10036 reservations (link broken?)
  • NYC Hotel Best Western President
  • NYC hotel Broadway Inn 264 West 46th Street
  • NYC Hotel La Quinta (W 32 Street)
  • NYC Hotel La Quinta (Queens)
  • NYC Michelangelo Hotel 152 WEST 51ST STREET
  • NYC Hotel Newton
  • NYC Hotel Park 79
  • NYC Hotel Park 79 (via Quikbook)
  • NYC Hotel Riverside Tower
  • NYC hotel Salisbury
  • NYC Wellington Hotel
  • NYC WestPark Hotel (link broken?)
    Best Western hotels everywhere
    hotel La Quinta Inn and Suites everywhere(they say LQ.com, but you need www.)
    Quikbook (for hotels)

    Opentable.com Restaurant Reservations
    Sonsie Restaurant - Boston




  • MPR Minnesota Public Radio broadcasts on 37 stations
  • MPR News progs weekly schedule (incl KNOW 91.1 FM)
  • MPR Music progs weekly schedule (incl KSJN 99.5 FM) w links to playlist
    Map (Google) centered in Boston at Mass Ave & Marlboro St













    Re: Wheel Axels [sic] Axles (On a curve the outside wheel rotate more rapidly in order to not slip)
    BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM page includes link to complete text of UWS Chapter 14 and UWS Chapter 17 as on page 2 of Stout's "The Campus Climate" booklet from the Dean of Students
    Wisconsin Administrative Code table of contents page
    Board of Regents agenda index
    U-238 Decay Chain -- Uranium Radium Radon Polonium etc.(from nysdoh)


    http://www.intellicast.com/National/Radar/Current.aspx?location=USMN0657&enlarge=true&animate=true Weather Radar Intellicast St Cloud MN



    MagForce.exe on web

    Handy Calendar (This week, the last few weeks, and the next few weeks with options for more.)
    Special Calendar starting Spring semester 2007
    Special Calendar starting Summer 2007
    Special Calendar starting Fall semester 2007


    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 1999-2000 not available
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2000-2001
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2001-2002
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2002-2003
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2003-2004
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2004-2005
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2005-2006
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2006-2007

    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2007-2008
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2008-2009 ERROR-This gives another copy of a different year--maybe it has been fixed?
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2009-2010 Not Yet Available
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2010-2011
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2006-2007
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2006-2007
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2006-2007
    UW-Stout Academic Calendar 2006-2007

    Stuff might be added to this page but is not ready.
    West Wisconsin Telcom Bandwidth Speed Test