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New data acquired on the active, cool binary CC Eri ranged across the spectrum from Chandra X-ray to broadband photometry and microwave observations using the VLA and ATCA. Also, high-dispersion spectropolarimetry using the AAT enabled Zeeman-Doppler imaging to be performed. Our interpretations infer strong localised concentrations of the stellar magnetic field, manifested by surface activity and related large coronal plasma structures. Comprehensive matching of the modelling parameters awaits more detailed investigation. This brief interim review includes consideration of the ATCA data. Microwave radio emission is usually low level (‘quiescent'), but occasionally flares of several mJy peak intensity are observed. We associate the emission, generally, with wave-like mechanisms, expanding through the outer atmosphere. Related characteristics of this emission are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The EU Water Framework Directive requires European Union Member States to establish `type-specific biological reference conditions΄ for streams and rivers. Types can be defined by using either a fixed typology (System-A), defined by ecoregions and categories of altitude, catchment area and geology, or by means of an alternative characterisation (System-B) that can use a variety of physical and chemical factors. Several European countries also have existing RIVPACS-type models that give site (rather than stream type) specific predictions of benthic macroinvertebrate communities. In this paper we compare the Water Framework Directive (WFD) System-A physical typology and three existing European multivariate RIVPACS-type models as alternative methods of establishing reference conditions. This work is carried out in Great Britain – using RIVPACS, Sweden – using SWEPACSRI and the Czech Republic – using PERLA. We found that in all three countries, all seasons and season combinations, and for all biotic indices tested, RIVPACS-type models were more effective (lower standard deviations of O/E ratios) than models based solely on the WFD System-A variables or null models (based on a single expectation for all sites). We also investigated the explanatory power of whole groups of WFD System-A variables and RIVPACS-type model variables, and the explanatory power of individual variables. We found that variables used in the RIVPACS-type models were often better correlates of macroinvertebrate community variation than the WFD System-A variables. We conclude that this is primarily because while the latter use very broad categories of map-derived variables, the former are based on continuous variables selected for their ecological significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents the short story "Legends of the Province House," by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Presents the short story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Chapter XIII of the book "Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White," Volume I, is presented. It discusses the renewal of the author's acquaintance with President Grover Cleveland and George Bancroft. It explores the author's experience in a dinner at the house of Fairchild, Secretary of the Treasury. It highlights the author's resignation as president of Cornell University in 1885 and his declination on President Cleveland's offer of an Interstate Railway commissionership.

The poem "At the End of Things," by Arthur Edward Waite is presented. First Line: THE world uprose as a man to find Him-- Last Line: Since the voice of death must be His true voice.

The short story "Howe's Masquerade" is presented.

The short story "The Real Thing," is presented.