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Published in 1888, this book is a record of the patents that were granted to women inventors in the United States up to that time. It includes brief biographies of the inventors and descriptions of their inventions, which range from a 'corrugated dress shield' to a 'semaphore signaling apparatus.' While some of the inventions are now obsolete, others were groundbreaking in their time and had a significant impact on society. Women Inventors to Whom Patents Have Been Granted by the United States Government is a fascinating glimpse into the history of women in science and technology.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excessive heat events (EHEs) are and will continue to be a fact of life in the United States. These events are a public health threat because they often increase the number of daily deaths (mortality) and other nonfatal adverse health outcomes (morbidity) in affected populations. Distinct groups within the population, generally those who are older, very young, or poor, or have physical challenges or mental impairments, are at elevated risk for experiencing EHE-attributable health problems. However, because EHEs can be accurately forecasted and a number of low cost but effective responses are well understood, future health impacts of EHEs could be reduced. This guidebook provides critical information that local public health officials and others need to begin assessing their EHE vulnerability and developing and implementing EHE notification and response programs.

This NLRB FOIA manual has been prepared, as updated, by the General Counsel of the NLRB to furnish guidance to Agency employees in making determinations concerning the public release of Agency records under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), as amended,1 and in litigating FOIA-based lawsuits. The Manual provides a basic review of the FOIA and its exemptions, as well as operational guidance on how to process a FOIA request-including threshold procedural issues, case assignment, creation of a FOIA Docket and File, search procedures, preparation of responsive documents for release, and assessment of charges. This Manual does not constitute a final determination by the General Counsel or the Board concerning the availability of any document; nor does it create legally binding obligations to release or withhold documents. Similarly, these guidelines are not intended to be and should not be viewed as binding procedural rules; nor should they be construed as creating any legally enforceable rights on the part of FOIA requesters.

NLRB manuals are written for legal and non-legal audiences and provide a wealth of material useful for understanding and navigating NLRB cases. The NLRB Style Guide provides guidance in drafting and writing in the context of working with the NLRB.

This Plan implements the National Strategy for Maritime Security3 (Strategy) and the Policy for the Repression of Piracy and other Criminal Acts of Violence at Sea4 (Policy). The Strategy affirms the vital national interest of the United States in maritime security and recognizes that nations have a common interest in achieving two complementary objectives: facilitating the vibrant maritime commerce that underpins economic security; and protecting against piracy, robbery at sea, and related maritime crime. Our Policy provides that we shall "continue to lead and support international efforts to repress piracy and urge other States to take decisive action both individually and through international efforts."5 Through this Plan, the United States will seek to involve all nations, international organizations, industry, and other entities that have an interest in maritime security to take steps to repress piracy and related maritime crime. An integrated and comprehensive approach, through international coordination and cooperation, will advance objectives that enhance the global economy and promote freedom of the seas. The nations of the world have long considered pirates to be universal enemies of mankind. Under customary international law, as reflected in the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, every nation has jurisdiction to prosecute a suspected pirate for the crime of piracy, regardless of any connection between the State and the suspected pirate, the vessel, or the victims. Our interdependent and interconnected global society revolves around a world economy that depends upon maritime shipping. Governments must collaborate with international organizations and the shipping industry to confront and repress any persistent threat to global commerce.Piracy and related maritime crime continue to plague mariners throughout the world and will continue to pose obstacles to the lawful use of the maritime domain. Due to changing conditions around the world, this Plan and its annexes will be periodically reviewed and updated to reflect United States Government policy regarding countering piracy and related maritime crime. As required, scalable, flexible annexes will be developed to address regional maritime criminal activities and coordinate U.S. and international policies to prevent, suppress, and prosecute these crimes effectively. Flag, victim, and coastal States all have a stake in repressing piracy and related maritime crime. The United States will continue to foster international cooperation and integration among nations, international organizations, and industry, and to support and encourage affected States to exercise jurisdiction, including efforts to build justice-sector capacities. The United States will provide appropriate investigative and logistical support and assistance to other foreign States involved in response to acts of piracy and related maritime crime. When appropriate, the United States will prosecute persons or entities involved in piracy and related maritime crime.

This guide provides basic information about mold, mold sources, and building-related illnesses. Brief discussions are included on building design considerations for healthy indoor air, as well as building evaluation and sampling for mold. The purpose of this guide is to help owners, managers, and occupants understand and prevent building-related illnesses associated with mold problems in offices and other indoor workplaces. U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA 3304-04N 2006.

The purpose of the Handbook is to help acquisition personnel develop sound business strategies for procuring commercial items. The Handbook focuses on how market research and cross-competency teaming can increase the Government's cost-effective use of commercial items to meet warfighter needs. The Handbook offers suggestions on questions to ask, and it points to additional sources of information, sources of training, and available tools. The Handbook is designed to be a practical reference tool for use in commercial item acquisitions. Appendix B defines terms used in the Handbook.

CURRENT AS OF MARCH 20, 2012. This document contains the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure together with forms, as amended to December 1, 2010. The rules and forms have been promulgated and amended by the United States Supreme Court pursuant to law, and further amended by Acts of Congress. This document has been prepared by the Committee in response to the need for an official up-to-date document containing the latest amendments to the rules. For the convenience of the user, where a rule has been amended a reference to the date the amendment was promulgated and the date the amendment became effective follows the text of the rule. The Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure and the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Judicial Conference of the United States, prepared notes explaining the purpose and intent of the amendments to the rules. The Committee Notes may be found in the Appendix to Title 28, United States Code, following the particular rule to which they relate.

This BENCH BOOK has been compiled to provide the National Labor Relations Board's administrative law judges with a reference guide during trials when other resources are unavailable. It does not deal with issues that may arise during decision writing. It represents an effort to set forth Board precedent and other rulings and authorities on certain recurring procedural issues that may arise during the course of an NLRB trial. It is not a digest of substantive law. Nor should it be cited as precedent, or be considered a substitute for issue specific research. The basic sources that govern Board trials are the National Labor Relations Act (the Act), the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the Board's Rules and Regulations (Board's Rules), Statements of Procedure, Board decisions, and the Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) applicable in U.S. district courts, so far as practicable. The Bench Book sometimes refers to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). It also refers to unpublished Board orders, unappealed administrative law judges' decisions, and other Board documents that are not binding precedent, but are included because they provide useful guidance. * Useful information is also available in the NLRB's Classification Outline and Index (also known as CITENET, the Board's website search database of Board cases) particularly in Chapter 596 "Procedure in ULP Proceedings," in Chapter 737 "Evidence," and in Chapter 700 "General Legal Principles."

The Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) is a code of evidence law governing the admission of facts by which parties in the United States federal court system may prove their cases, both civil and criminal. The Rules were enacted in 1975, with subsequent amendments. The Rules were the product of protracted academic, legislative, and judicial examination before being formally promulgated in 1975. U.S. states are free to adopt or maintain evidence rules different from the Federal Rules, but a substantial majority have adopted codes in whole or part based on the FRE. Because they govern the initial presentation of evidence in a trial, the Rules primarily serve to govern federal trial courts rather than appellate courts, as appellate courts, due to their function and scope address very few questions touching upon the facts of a case. Appellate courts do, however, monitor the application of the rules to ensure consistent application and coherent development of the federal common law of evidence. The Rules are also a focus of most Evidence courses in American law schools. In general, the purpose of rules of evidence is to regulate the evidence that the jury may use to reach a verdict. Historically, the rules of evidence reflected a marked distrust of jurors. The Federal Rules of Evidence strive to eliminate this distrust, and encourage admitting evidence in close cases. Even so, there are some rules that perpetuate the historical mistrust of jurors, expressly limiting the kind of evidence they may receive or the purpose for which they may consider it. At the same time, the Rules center on a few basic ideas - relevance, unfair surprise, efficiency, reliability, and overall fairness of the adversary process. The Rules grant trial judges broad discretion to admit evidence in the face of competing arguments from the parties. This ensures that the jury has a broad spectrum of evidence before it, but not so much evidence that is repetitive, inflammatory, or unnecessarily confusing. The Rules define relevance broadly and relax the common-law prohibitions on witnesses' competence to testify. Hearsay standards are similarly relaxed, as are the standards for authenticating written documents. At the same time, the judge retains power to exclude evidence that has too great a danger for unfair prejudice to a party due to its inflammatory, repetitive, or confusing nature or its propensity to waste the court's time.

The Citizen's Almanac is a publication developed for new citizens. It includes information on U.S. civic history, rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship, biographical details on prominent foreign-born Americans, landmark decisions of the Supreme Court, presidential speeches on citizenship, and several of our founding documents including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

This primer highlights structured analytic techniques-some widely used in the private sector and academia, some unique to the intelligence profession. It is not a comprehensive overview of how intelligence officers conduct analysis. Rather, the primer highlights how structured analytic techniques can help one challenge judgments, identify mental mindsets, stimulate creativity, and manage uncertainty. In short, incorporating regular use of techniques such as these can enable one to structure thinking for wrestling with difficult questions.

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

After World War II, investigations were made and trials were held. Today, the most well known of these were the Nuremberg "Doctor's Trial", which probed the various euthanasia programs carried out by the defeated Germans. However, there were other trials, no less important and of continued historic interest, which explored and documented how and why the Nazi's acquired and applied their power. In these trials, "The Nuremberg Trials" men like Wilhelm Goering, Rudolf Hess, and Karl Doenitz, were prosecuted. The generated documents and testimony were then collated by the US Government into a set of publications called "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression", which were also called "The Red Series" (named after the color of the binding). Out of print for decades, facsimiles of this series is now available in print.This is Volume XII. (Volume 12, Supplemental B, Part 1)Please understand, that as these volumes are FACSIMILES, they contain the flaws and imperfections that were present in the originals. Buyers should understand this in advance, and set their expectations accordingly. Due to their extreme length, the original supplemental volumes have been divided into a 'part 1' and a 'part 2.'The ISBNs of the entire series:Volume I -- 978-1-64594-023-4 Volume II -- 978-1-64594-024-1 Volume III -- 978-1-64594-025-8 Volume IV -- 978-1-64594-026-5 Volume V -- 978-1-64594-027-2 Volume VI -- 978-1-64594-028-9 Volume VII -- 978-1-64594-029-6 Volume VIII -- 978-1-64594-030-2 Opinion and Judgment -- 978-1-64594-031-9 Supplement A [Part 1] -- 978-1-64594-032-6 Supplement A [Part 2] -- 978-1-64594-035-7 Supplement B [Part 1]-- 978-1-64594-033-3 Supplement B [Part 2]-- 978-1-64594-036-4 The ISBN of the entire set -- 978-1-64594-034-0More information can be obtained at http://suzeteo.com/catalog/nazi-conspiracy-and-aggression.

In the "The Nuremberg Trials" men like Wilhelm Goering, Rudolf Hess, and Karl Doenitz, were prosecuted. The generated documents and testimony were then collated by the US Government into a set of publications called "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression", available now as facsimiles after being out of print for decades.