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Source: State Library of NSW  For the first time, visitors to the State Library can explore five centuries of cartography from around the world in one place with the opening of the new Map Rooms.    Across two beautiful rooms visitors will find some of the most important maps, globes and navigation instruments from the Library’s maps collection – arguably the most significant in Australia.  According to State Librarian John Vallance: “The Map Rooms have been designed for everyone, but we hope they will also encourage specialist cartographic research.” One of the major hig...

Gerrymanders the process of drawing district lines to favor one party over the other. the analysis said the democrats would have to win by 11 percentage margins. the brennan center told the associated press, it would be the equivalent of a tsunami. democrats would have to win larger than any recent mid-term wave, almost double what they got in 2006 to win in their own majority. the president said the republican state leadership committee matt walters dismissing the report. he says it's a politically motivated documents and that its authors want to see more of what happened in pennsylvania wher...

Have to understand some of the rockets do pierce through this shield. the reason we're succeeding is because we're targeting the rocketeers, these homes are actually command posts of the hamas and islamic jihad army. that's where they have their secure communications, weapon caches, rockets hiding, map rooms, so on. these are the command posts. obviously we're not going to give them immunity. we have to attack and we try to minimize civilian casualties. with this kind of enemy, we'll take whatever necessary means we need to take. i tell you, brit, we've tried surgical action. we're not indiscr...

Mini drones that can act like first responders. they may have been able to help in boston. >> reporter: i have to say it is fascinating technology. these mini drones fly around. you have to see it to believe it. check this out. >> reporter: here at the university of pennsylvania they're developing very small vehicles uavs that will travel in fleets. >> think of these as the first responders. it gets to the scene before a human responder can. >> reporter: it's technology being built by academics that is yet to hit the market. >> we want to make the robots really small. >> reporter: they'll have...