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Guidance for Using the Interactive Tool for Understanding NEPA at General Aviation Airports

Most general aviation (GA) airports are minimally staffed and rarely employ environmental specialists, and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) can be overwhelming to work through for those not familiar with the requirements. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 211: Guidance for Using the Interactive Tool for Understanding NEPA at General Aviation Airports , and the accompanying interactive tool that was developed, will help airport staff from GA airports understan...



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Deicing Planning Guidelines and Practices for Stormwater Management Systems, second edition

The first edition of this report, in 2009, provided a comprehensive industry reference for the management of airport deicing runoff. The second edition has been wholly updated to reflect the latest industry practices. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 14: Deicing Planning Guidelines and Practices for Stormwater Management Systems, second edition , explores a wide array of practices designed to provide for the practical, cost-effective control of runoff from aircraft and ...



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Publication: All-Ages Lead Model (AALM), Version 2.0 (External Review Draft)

EPA announces the availability of the All-Ages Lead Model (AALM), Version 2 software with updated supporting documentation (External Review Draft). The AALM Model is scheduled to undergo an independent peer review by EPA's Science Advisory Board in October 2019. For more information related to scheduling and peer reviewers for this new tool, please visit the SAB AALM Project website. [Federal Register Notice Sep 24, 2019]




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Publication: Guidelines for Human Exposure Assessment (Final Report)

EPA announced the availability of the Guidelines for Human Exposure Assessment (hereafter "Guidelines"). The Guidelines present the current policies and practices of exposure assessors across the Agency and supersede the 1992 Guidelines for Exposure Assessment Edition.





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Models – All

Upcoming Models No applications have been received since the last update. Finished Models No finished forms have been received since the last update. Moved Models No moved forms have been received since the last update. Closed Models (Open for application) No closed forms have been received since the last update. Report Forms: None. Overdue Models: […]




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Musicians: Bands/Groups – Troubles Removals

Removed From Troubles – Problem Resolved (NOT open for application) Core of Soul Removed From Troubles – Removed From Network (OPEN for application) Finch; Nine Inch Nails



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Mythology/Religion – Troubles

Removed From Network (Open for application) Astrology: Gemini (Astrology and New Age); Witchcraft (Religion: Paganism)




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Websites: Troubles

Removed From Troubles (Open for application) Goodreads.com




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Computer Miscellany and Internet – Troubles

Removed From Troubles (OPEN for application) Fonts: Pixel / Bitmap (Graphics / Layouts / Effects); Domains (.com) (Web Miscellany)



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TFL Joining Spree

It’s time for the next round of TFL’s Joining Spree: Third Edition! Please take this week to join the fanlistings for subjects in the following categories that you are a fan of! (If you don’t have a chance to join everything in one week, we’ll be doing more ‘Catch-Up’ weeks later on.) Songs: Bands/Groups 0-M […]




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Literature: F/U/C/O

Please include the full title on your forms and the authors last name first. Finished Literature River Rose and the Magical Christmas (Clarkson, Kelly); River Rose and the Magical Lullaby (Clarkson, Kelly) Moved Literature Fantasy (Genres); Vampire Chronicles, The: The Queen of the Damned (Rice, Anne) Closed Literature (Open for application) None on this update. […]




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Comics – F/U/C/O/T

Finished Comics Characters DC Comics: Grayson, Richard ‘Dick’ (Nightwing/Robin); DC Comics: Death Moved Comics Comic Book Series Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (JtHM) (All) Relationships DC Comics: Kyle, Selina (Catwoman) and Bruce Wayne (Batman); Marvel Comics: Hardy, Felicia (Black Cat) and Peter Parker (Spider-Man) Closed Comics (Open for application) There are no closed forms to process […]




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History/Royalty – Full

Upcoming History/Royalty There are no applications to process at this time. Finished History/Royalty There are no finished forms to process at this time. Moved History/Royalty Pirates (People: Groups) Closed History/Royalty (Open for application) There are no closed forms to process at this time. Troubled History/Royalty(Not open for application) The following fanlisting is scheduled for removal […]




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Sports – Full

Upcoming Sports There are no applications to process at this time. Finished Sports Piazza, Mike (Baseball); Bryant, Kobe (Basketball); Jordan, Michael (Basketball); Pulisic, Christian (Football: Soccer); Gauff, Coco (Tennis) Moved Sports No moved forms have been received since the last update. Closed Sports (Open for application) No closed forms have been received since the last […]




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Cisco Webex Email Scam

"Cisco Webex" email scam removal guide

What is the "Cisco Webex" scam email?

"Cisco Webex" is an email phishing scam. These letters claim to be official mail the Cisco Webex Team, stating that issues have been detected with recipients' Webex Mettings SSL certificates; therefore, their accounts must be verified. Cisco Webex is the name of a legitimate company, developing web conferencing and videoconferencing software. While the scam emails closely copy the graphic design and formatting of genuine Cisco Webex Team letters, they are illegitimate. If recipients attempt to log-in via link presented in the fake email to rectify the nonexistent problems, they are redirected to a phishing website that looks identical to the legitimate Webex Meetings log-in page. It is noteworthy that there has been an increase in scams/infections centering Cisco Webex services/products.




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Myappsclub.net Redirect

Myappsclub[.]net redirect removal instructions

What is myappsclub[.]net?

Myappsclub.net is the address of a fake search engine. Such illegitimate web searching tools typically cannot generate search results and record information relating to browsing activity. Fake search engines are usually promoted by PUAs (Potentially Unwanted Applications), called browser hijackers. They do so by making modifications to browsers and often monitor users' browsing habits.




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M0rphine Ransomware

M0rphine ransomware removal instructions

What is M0rphine?

Similar to SatanCryptor ransomware, M0rphine is a malicious program. Credit for its discovery belongs to dnwls0719. Systems infected with this ransomware experience data encryption and receive ransom demands for the decryption tools/software. During the encryption process, all affected files are retitled according to this pattern: original filename, unique ID assigned to the victims, cyber criminals' email address and the ".M0rphine" extension. For example, a file like "1.jpg" would appear as something similar to "1.jpg. [ID-764E0CF4DF4828D6303F40B19514805A] -[EMAIL-M0rphine@cock.li].M0rphine" - following encryption. After this process is complete, a ransom note - "# M0rphine Help #.hta" is dropped into every compromised folder.




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DictionaryPro Browser Hijacker

DictionaryPro browser hijacker removal instructions

What is DictionaryPro?

DictionaryPro is a piece of software, categorized as a browser hijacker. It is endorsed as a tool for easy access to online dictionaries, spell checking and grammar websites. It operates by altering browser settings in order to promote dictionarypro.co - an illegitimate search engine. Additionally, this browser hijacker spies on users' browsing activity. Furthermore, due to its dubious proliferation method, DictionaryPro is also deemed to be a PUA (Potentially Unwanted Application). Users should note that DictionaryPro often promotes another browser hijacker called Protect My Search Daily.




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Download Apps Now Browser Hijacker

Download Apps Now browser hijacker removal instructions

What is Download Apps Now?

Download Apps Now is a rogue application, categorized as a browser hijacker. It is endorsed as an easy access tool to a variety of content. For example, to popular email providers as well as weather, news and video streaming websites. This app operates by modifying browsers in order to promote hdownloadappsnow.app - a fake search engine. Most browser hijackers are able to track browsing-related data, and it is highly likely that Download Apps Now possesses such abilities as well. Since most users download/install it inadvertently, it is also deemed to be a PUA (Potentially Unwanted Application).




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ConsoleLog Adware (Mac)

How to remove ConsoleLog from Mac?

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What is ConsoleLog?

ConsoleLog adware is designed to promote the Safe Finder website (by opening it through akamaihd.net), serve various advertisements and collect sensitive information. It is not common for users to download and install adware knowingly, intentionally. Therefore, ConsoleLog and other apps of this type are categorized as potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).




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Cosappzsearch.online Redirect

Cosappzsearch.online redirect removal instructions

What is cosappzsearch.online?

Cosappzsearch.online is a useless, fake search engine. As a rule, such search engines are promoted through potentially unwanted applications (PUAs), browser hijackers. Apps of this type promote fake search engines by changing certain browser's settings. It is common that they gather browsing data and/or other information as well. Quite often users download and install potentially unwanted apps unknowingly, accidentally.




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Ossearch.online Redirect

Ossearch.online redirect removal instructions

What is ossearch.online?

Ossearch.online is one of the many fake search engines that do not generate individual results. As a rule, their addresses are promoted through potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) that are classified as browser hijackers. In most cases apps of this type are designed to promote some fake search engine by changing browser's settings and collect browsing-related (and/or other) information. Browser hijackers are categorized as PUAs because users often download and install them inadvertently.




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Find Local Classifieds Browser Hijacker

Find Local Classifieds browser hijacker removal instructions

What is Find Local Classifieds?

Find Local Classifieds browser hijacker is designed to promote the findlocalclassifiedstab.com address, a fake search engine. Like most apps of this type, it promotes it by changing certain browser's settings. Usually, browser hijackers not only modify settings but also collect various (mostly browsing-related) information. Since users often download and install apps like Find Local Classifieds unintentionally, unknowingly, they are categorized as potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).




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Pdfsearchhouse.com Redirect

Pdfsearchhouse.com redirect removal instructions

What is pdfsearchhouse.com?

Pdfsearchhouse.com is an address of a fake search engine which is promoted through a potentially unwanted application (PUA), a browser hijacker. Typically, fake search engines are promoted by changing certain browser's settings. Additionally, apps of this type often are designed to collect various information related to user's browsing activities. Browser hijackers are categorized as PUAs because in most cases users download and install them unintentionally.




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Aria-body Malware

Aria-body virus removal guide

What is Aria-body?

Aria-body is a piece of malicious software, also known as Aria-body RAT (Remote Access Trojan). RATs allow remote access and control over an infected machine. Aria-body malware has various abilities/features that enable likewise varied misuse. It has been observed being employed primarily for stealing information; this trojan can locate and exfiltrate specific data. This malicious program has been used for espionage, extensively targeting the APAC (Asia Pacific) region. Aria-body has been leveraged against governmental institutions (e.g. science and technology, foreign affairs ministries, government-owned companies, etc.) of Australia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand.




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Compliments Of The Day Email Scam

"Compliments of the day" email scam removal guide

What is "Compliments of the day" email scam?

In most cases scams that are sent via email are used to trick recipients into providing some sensitive information, transferring money or even opening files designed to install some malware. In this case scammer seeks to trick recipients into believing that he can get a huge sum of money out of his country but he cannot do that on his own and requests for assistance, in return for an investment opportunity. Typically, scams of this type are used to extract money from unsuspecting people. This or any other similar scam should be ignored.




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Attn Lucky Winner Email Scam

"Attn Lucky Winner" email scam removal guide

What is the "Attn Lucky Winner" email?

"Attn Lucky Winner" is an email scam, targeting Australian users. These letters claim that recipients have been selected as winners of "Mega Millions" raffle, sponsored by "OZ Australia". Supposedly, users have won a ludicrous sum of money - ten million dollars. The content of the letter is vague, mentioning the names of legitimate, generic, as well as nonexistent lotteries, companies and entities. This type of scam is typically used to trick recipients into revealing their personal and banking information, making monetary transactions, calling expensive phone numbers and similar.




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CapitaSearch Browser Hijacker

CapitaSearch browser hijacker removal instructions

What is CapitaSearch?

CapitaSearch is a piece of software, classified as a browser hijacker. Following successful infiltration, it modifies browser settings in order to promote search.capita.space - a fake search engine. Additionally, CapitaSearch adds the "Managed by your organization" feature to Google Chrome browsers. Most browser hijackers spy on browsing activity. Since most users download/install CapitaSearch unintentionally, it is also considered to be a PUA (Potentially Unwanted Application). One of the dubious methods used to distribute CapitaSearch is via illegal software activation ("cracking") tools. It is noteworthy that these tools are often used to proliferate malicious content as well (e.g. ransomware, trojans and other malware).




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Go-movix.com Redirect

Go-movix.com redirect removal instructions

What is go-movix.com?

When certain browser's settings are set to go-movix.com, it means that there is some browser hijacker installed on it. Go-movix.com is an address of a fake search engine. As a rule, such search engines are promoted by browser hijackers. It is uncommon for users to download and install such apps knowingly, intentionally. Therefore, they are categorized as potentially unwanted applications.




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UB chemist awarded $2 million NIH grant for enzyme research

A University at Buffalo-led research team is studying the details of how enzymes perform their job. The focus of the project is on understanding the molecular interactions that enable enzymes to accelerate chemical reactions.




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Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss RNA Discovery




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Cycling to work? You may live longer

People who cycle to work have a lower risk of dying, a New Zealand study has found.




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Particle Physics Turns to Quantum Computing for Solutions to Tomorrow's Big-Data Problems

Giant-scale physics experiments are increasingly reliant on big data and complex algorithms fed into powerful computers, and managing this multiplying mass of data presents its own unique challenges. To better prepare for this data deluge posed by next-generation upgrades and new experiments, physicists are turning to the fledgling field of quantum computing.




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Meet the Director: Guy Savard

This is a continuing profile series on the directors of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facilities. These scientists lead a variety of research institutions that provide researchers with the most advanced tools of modern science including accelerators, colliders, supercomputers, light sources and neutron sources, as well as facilities for studying the nano world, the environment, and the atmosphere.




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The Medical Minute: Is 'impossible' meat too good to be true?

It sizzles on the grill. But does it fizzle in terms of nutrition? That's the question when it comes to the new burgers made of plant-based meat substitutes that are flying off grocery store shelves and restaurant tables.




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Genetics Society of America honors outstanding contributions to genetics with 2020 GSA Awards

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce the 2020 recipients of its annual awards for distinguished service in the field of genetics. The awardees were nominated and selected by their colleagues and will be recognized with presentations at The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC), held April 22-26, 2020, in the metro Washington, DC area.




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Scientists Find Record Warm Water in Antarctica, Pointing to Cause Behind Troubling Glacier Melt

A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, the presence of warm water at a vital point underneath a glacier in Antarctica--an alarming discovery that points to the cause behind the gradual melting of this ice shelf while also raising concerns about sea-level rise around the globe.




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Drug Lord's Hippos Make Their Mark on Foreign Ecosystem

Scientists published the first assessment of the impact that invasive hippos imported by drug lord Pablo Escobar are having on Colombian aquatic ecosystems. The hippos are changing the area's water quality by importing large amounts of nutrients and organic material from the surrounding landscape.




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New Centers Lead the Way towards a Quantum Future

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that it will establish Quantum Information Science Centers to help lay the foundation for these technologies. As Congress put forth in the National Quantum Initiative Act, the DOE's Office of Science will make awards for at least two and up to five centers.




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Marivi Fernandez-Serra: Then and Now

Marivi Fernandez-Serra is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University.




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The Big Questions: Sally Dawson on the Higgs Boson

The Big Questions series features perspectives from the five recipients of the Department of Energy Office of Science's 2019 Distinguished Scientists Fellows Award describing their research and what they plan to do with the award. Sally Dawson is a senior scientist at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory.




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The Big Questions: Ian Foster on High-Performance Computing

The Big Questions series features perspectives from the five recipients of the Department of Energy Office of Science's 2019 Distinguished Scientists Fellows Award describing their research and what they plan to do with the award. Ian Foster is the director of Argonne National Laboratory's Data Science and Learning Division.




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NSF's Newest Solar Telescope Produces First Images

Just released first images from the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal unprecedented detail of the Sun's surface and preview the world-class products to come from this preeminent 4-meter solar telescope. NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope, on the summit of Haleakala, Maui, in Hawai'i, will enable a new era of solar science and a leap forward in understanding the Sun and its impacts on our planet.




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The "Firewalkers" of Karoo: Dinosaurs and Other Animals Left Tracks in a "Land of Fire"

Several groups of reptiles persisted in Jurassic Africa even as volcanism ruined their habitat




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Tiny, ancient meteorites suggest early Earth's atmosphere was rich in carbon dioxide

Tiny meteorites that fell to Earth 2.7 billion years ago suggest that the atmosphere at that time was high in carbon dioxide, which agrees with current understanding of how our planet's atmospheric gases changed over time.




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New Product Award Winners Announced at SLAS2020

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) announced the winners of its annual New Product Awards Monday afternoon at the 9th Annual SLAS International Conference and Exhibition in San Diego, CA, USA.




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Smaller Detection Device Effective for Nuclear Treaty Verification, Archaeology Digs

Most nuclear data measurements are performed at accelerators large enough to occupy a geologic formation a kilometer wide. But a portable device that can reveal the composition of materials quickly on-site would greatly benefit cases such as in archaeology and nuclear arms treaty verification. Research published this week in AIP Advances used computational simulations to show that with the right geometric adjustments, it is possible to perform accurate neutron resonance transmission analysis in a device just 5 meters long.




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Monitoring Intermediates in CO2 Conversion to Formate by Metal Catalyst

The production of formate from CO2 is considered an attractive strategy for the long-term storage of solar renewable energy in chemical form.




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Speedy Recovery: New Corn Performs Better in Cold

Nearly everyone on Earth is familiar with corn. Literally. Around the world, each person eats an average of 70 pounds of the grain each year, with even more grown for animal feed and biofuel.