Two jump pilots with obsolete navigational brain implants and a number of characters ( the quaddies, Betan hermaphrodites, Taura, Guppy, even to some extent the clones rescued in Mirror Dance ) are psychologically stranded by the termination of the program for which they were designed.

* Cordelia Naismith – Aral's second wife, Miles's mother of Betan birth.

Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, the protagonist of most of the series, is the son of a Betan mother and a Barrayaran aristocrat, embodying this contrast.

The Betans, on a hostile planet where they must live in domes, rely on industrial export ; they limit not only childbearing but also every kind of behavior that might be considered “ antisocial .” From their point of view, Barrayaran society is irrational and backwards, while the Barrayarans view them as undisciplined in every way, referring to a “ Betan vote ” as an obstacle to decision-making.

The lead developers of the project are Ariel S. Betan and Eric Manuel N. Pareja, both system developers at UPM.

Powerful Trantor High Council member Betan Lamurk opposes the independent Seldon ’ s appointment.

Hari Seldon and Dors Venabili flee Trantor, escaping High Council member Betan Lamurk ’ s forces.

This culminates in his assisting in the thwarting of a direct attempt to reverse the Betan surgery with far more crude field surgery.

* Canadian Survey Ship ( CSS ), of the Canadian Hydrographic Service

* July 8 – Service of Reclamation within U. S. Geological Survey.

The Department of the Interior oversees such agencies as the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Geological Survey, and the National Park Service.

Under the act, the Secretary of the Interior created the United States Reclamation Service within the United States Geological Survey to administer the program.

( html ) Soil Survey Manual USDA Handbook 18, Soil Conservation Service.

The transfer of NOAA into the Department of the Interior has also received commentary, with its climate and terrestrial operations and fisheries and endangered species programs expected to integrate well with agencies already in the Interior Department, such as the United States Geological Survey and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Fish and Wildlife Service was finally created in 1940, when the Bureaus of Fisheries and Biological Survey were combined after being moved to the Department of the Interior.

* Soil Survey of Otsego County, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Michigan State University Agricultural Extension Service ( lots more here, such as history, economy, etc.

The communities of Bard and Felicity, California, appear in the US Geological Survey, National Geographic Names Database and the US Postal Service database and adjoin the community of Winterhaven.

Washington, D. C .: Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, 1990.

Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record: National Park Service.

Washington, D. C .: Historic American Building Survey / Historic American Engineering Record: National Park Service, 1991.

Washington, D. C .: Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, 1989.

Washington, D. C .: Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, 1990.

*, was a Van Buren-class schooner built in 1832 for United States Revenue Service and was returned to the Treasury Department and later ( 1850 ) to the United States Coastal Survey.

Data from the 2005 School Nutrition and Dietary Assessment Survey, sponsored by USDA ’ s Food and Nutrition Service, showed that 14 percent of school districts participated in Farm to School programs, and 16 percent reported having guidelines for purchasing locally grown produce.

Conducted with assistance from the United States Geological Survey and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, this study attempts to arrive at a better understanding of the geology and hydrology of the Platte River basin from the Colorado and Wyoming borders to Columbus, including the Loup basin.

Rebel Flags Afloat: A Survey of the Surviving Flags of the Confederate States Navy, Revenue Service, and Merchant Marine.

However, recent studies by U. S. Geological Survey ( USGS ) scientists, working in cooperation with the National Park Service to better understand volcano hazards in the Lassen area, have firmly established that Cinder Cone was formed during two eruptions that occurred in the 1650s.

This is a cooperative effort of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the US Geological Survey, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Louisiana Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at LSU, and the International Crane Foundation.

Recordation of historic resources for the National Park Service documentation programs: the Historic American Buildings Survey ( HABS ), the Historic American Engineering Record ( HAER ), and the Historic American Landscape Survey ( HALS ) requires large format film-based photography.

The department was formed in 1987, as one of several reforms of the public service, when the Conservation Act 1987 was passed to integrate some functions of the Department of Lands and Survey, the Forest Service and the Wildlife Service.

This center also receives prompt reports on earthquakes from four Coast Survey stations in the Pacific which are equipped with seismographs.

* Breeding Bird Survey, which monitors the status and trends of bird populations

The first account of this story is to be found in Risdon's Survey of Devon which was completed in around 1632:

The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey ( ARIS ), which involved 50, 000 participants, reported that the number of participants in the survey identifying themselves as deists grew at the rate of 717 percent between 1990 and 2001.

* European Petroleum Survey Group ( EPSG ) ( which despite being officially disbanded in 2005 continues to refine a well tested set of Geodetic Parameters )

A self-described liberal media watchdog group, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ( FAIR ), in consultation with the Survey and Evaluation Research Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University, sponsored an academic study in which journalists were asked a range of questions about how they did their work and about how they viewed the quality of media coverage in the broad area of politics and economic policy.

The seismic survey was part of the National Seabed Survey which has been ongoing for four years.

The base at King Edward Point was expanded as a research facility in 1949 / 1950 by the British Antarctic Survey, which until 1962 was called the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey.

The King Edward Point base, which had become a small military garrison after the Falklands war, returned to civilian use in 2001 and is now operated by the British Antarctic Survey.

The World Refugee Survey 2008, published by the U. S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, estimates that 110, 600 Somali refugees lived in Yemen in 2007, which is a fraction of the estimated 700, 000-strong Somali nationals already living and working in Yemen.

Dr. Caleb B. R. Kennerly, surgeon and naturalist, collected a wolf specimen on Lopez Island which is in the National Museum of Natural History, probably collected during the Northwest Boundary Survey from 1857-1861.

The ICFTU published its " Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights " every June, the publication of which was usually accompanied by extensive press coverage of the violations of trade union rights around the world.

The Survey of English Dialects took a recording from a long-time resident of Hackney, and the BBC made another recording in 1999 which showed how the accent had changed.

A further key publication was Randolph Quirk's ' Towards a description of English Usage ' ( 1960 ) in which he introduced The Survey of English Usage.

The Scottish Mountaineering Club have carried out a number of revisions of the tables, both in response to new height data on Ordnance Survey maps and to address the perceived inconsistency as to which peaks qualify for Munro status.

Power and Associates put Hyundai's 2002 vehicles below the industry average according to its annual Initial Quality Survey, which looks at problems in the first 90 days of ownership.

Despite the lack of universal agreement upon definition for determining a stream's source, the United States Geological Survey, the National Geographic Society, and the Smithsonian Institution agree that a stream's source should be considered as the most distant point ( along watercourses from the river mouth ) in the drainage basin from which water runs.

There is not agreement about the " most distant point ( along watercourses from the river mouth ) in the drainage basin from which water runs ", and the source of the Garonne, according to the United States Geological Survey, the National Geographic Society, and the Smithsonian Institution convention upon determining a stream's source.

According to the 2009 American Community Survey, Brooklyn's population was 46. 6 % white, of which 36. 9 % were non-Hispanic whites.

According to prestigious Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior corporate and financial decision makers in the world ’ s largest companies and financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 33 % of the universe, 6 % more than The Wall Street Journal.

His works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as " the most important architect of our age ".

further tested a modified definition of metabolic syndrome in which waist circumference was replaced with ICO in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ( NHANES ) database and found the modified definition to be more specific and sensitive.

The 1990 Global Forest Survey found that 1. 1 % of tropical mountain and highland forests were lost each year, which was higher than in any other tropical forests.