"the Census Bureau. The Article One of the United States Constitution (section II) directs the population be enumerated at least once every ten years and the resulting counts used to set the number of members from each state in the House of Representatives and, by extension, in the Electoral College. The Census Bureau now conducts a full population count every 10 years in years ending with a zero and uses the term ""decennial"" to describe the operation. Between censuses, the Census Bureau makes population estimates and projections. In addition, Census data directly affects how more than $400 billion per year"
"Decennalia Decennalia (or decennia, from Latin ""decennium"" - ""tenth anniversary""; ""decem"", ""ten"" + ""annus"", ""year"") were Ancient Roman festivals celebrated with games every ten years by the Roman emperors. This festival owed its origin to the fact that in 27 BC, Augustus refused the supreme power offered to him for life. Instead, he would only consent to accepting power for ten years; during the festival, he would surrender up all of his authority to the hands of the people, who, filled with joy, and charmed with the goodness of Augustus, immediately delivered it back to him again. The memory was"
"Biennale Biennale (), Italian for ""biennial"" or ""every other year"", is any event that happens every two years. It is most commonly used within the art world to describe large-scale international contemporary art exhibitions. As such the term was popularised by Venice Biennale, which was first held in 1895. The phrase has since been used for other artistic events, such as the ""Biennale de Paris"", ""Kochi-Muziris Biennale"", or even as a portmanteau as with Berlinale (for the Berlin International Film Festival) and Viennale (for Vienna's international film festival). ""Biennale"" is therefore used as a general term for other recurrent international"
"for the state, as may be observed from Cassius Dio, and Pliny the Younger. Decennalia Decennalia (or decennia, from Latin ""decennium"" - ""tenth anniversary""; ""decem"", ""ten"" + ""annus"", ""year"") were Ancient Roman festivals celebrated with games every ten years by the Roman emperors. This festival owed its origin to the fact that in 27 BC, Augustus refused the supreme power offered to him for life. Instead, he would only consent to accepting power for ten years; during the festival, he would surrender up all of his authority to the hands of the people, who, filled with joy, and charmed with"
"takes place every 10 years. The data collected by the decennial census determine the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives and is also used to distribute billions in federal funds to local communities. Census data is also used to redistrict state legislative internal boundaries or districts. Through this process, Phil no longer represented the 96th District, but was now to represent the 98th District. Hermanson won re-election to represent southern Wichita, Kansas for the 98th District seat against Geraldine Flaharty (D). The general election took place on November 6, 2012, in Wichita, Kansas. Kansas"
"exhibitions such as: Biennale Biennale (), Italian for ""biennial"" or ""every other year"", is any event that happens every two years. It is most commonly used within the art world to describe large-scale international contemporary art exhibitions. As such the term was popularised by Venice Biennale, which was first held in 1895. The phrase has since been used for other artistic events, such as the ""Biennale de Paris"", ""Kochi-Muziris Biennale"", or even as a portmanteau as with Berlinale (for the Berlin International Film Festival) and Viennale (for Vienna's international film festival). ""Biennale"" is therefore used as a general term for"
"Decade A decade is a period of 10 years. The word is derived (via French and Latin) from the ), which means ""a group of ten"". Other words for spans of years also come from Latin: biennium (2 years), triennium (3 years), quadrennium (4 years), lustrum (5 years), century (100 years), millennium (1000 years). Although any period of ten years is a decade, a convenient and frequently referenced interval is based on the tens digit of a calendar year, as in using ""1960s"" to represent the decade from 1960 to 1969. Often, for brevity, only the tens part is mentioned"
"events that took place between c. 1964 and 1972, and to memories of the counterculture, flower power, protests of 1968 and other things happening at the time. Often, such a nominal decade will come to be known by a title, such as the ""Swinging Sixties"" (1960s), the ""Warring Forties"" (1940s) and the ""Roaring Twenties"" (1920s). This practice is occasionally also used for decades of earlier centuries, for example references to the 1890s as the ""Gay Nineties"" or ""Naughty Nineties"". Decade A decade is a period of 10 years. The word is derived (via French and Latin) from the ), which"
"Year 10,000 problem The Year 10,000 problem (also known as the Y10K problem or the deca-millennium bug) is the class of all potential time formatting and storage bugs that would emerge when the need to express years with five digits arises. The problem can have discernible effects today, but is also sometimes mentioned for humorous effect as in RFC 2550. Five-digit years are already a problem today for many forward-looking analysis programs (e.g. software that examines proposals for the long-term handling of nuclear waste). This problem can be seen in the spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel through at least its Office"
"engagement, improving behavior, and collective confidence. The authors describe each turning as lasting about 20–22 years. Four turnings make up a full cycle of about 80 to 90 years, which the authors term a ""saeculum"", after the Latin word meaning both ""a long human life"" and ""a natural century"". Generational change drives the cycle of turnings and determines its periodicity. As each generation ages into the next life phase (and a new social role) society’s mood and behavior fundamentally changes, giving rise to a new turning. Therefore, a symbiotic relationship exists between historical events and generational personas. Historical events shape"
"""Fourth Turning"", looked at generational similarities and differences going back to the 15th century and concluded that over 80-year spans, generations proceed through four stages of about 20 years each. A definitive recent study of US generational cohorts was done by Schuman and Scott (2012) in which a broad sample of adults of all ages was asked, ""What world events are especially important to you?"" They found that 33 events were mentioned with great frequency. When the ages of the respondents were correlated with the expressed importance rankings, seven (some put 8 or 9) distinct cohorts became evident. Today the"
"celebrations over different transitional periods. Further of his essays on this topic are collected in ""Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown"". Millennium A millennium (plural millennia or millenniums) is a period equal to 1000 years, also called kiloyears. It derives from the Latin ', thousand, and ', year. It is often, but not always, related to a particular dating system. Sometimes, it is used specifically for periods of a thousand years that begin at the starting point (initial reference point) of the calendar in consideration (typically the year ""1""), or in later years that are"
"Cosmological decade A cosmological decade (CÐ) is a division of the lifetime of the cosmos. The divisions are logarithmic in size, with base 10. Each successive cosmological decade represents a ten-fold increase in the total age of the universe. When CÐ is measured in log( seconds/Ð ), ""CÐ"" 1 begins at 10 seconds and lasts 90 seconds (until 100 seconds after Time Zero). ""CÐ"" 100, the 100th cosmological decade, lasts from 10 to 10 seconds after Time Zero. CÐ formula_1 is Time Zero. The epoch ""CÐ"" −43.2683 was 10 seconds, which represents the Planck time since the big bang (Time"
"Century A century (from the Latin ""centum"", meaning ""one hundred""; abbreviated c.) is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. A centenary is a hundredth anniversary, or a celebration of this, typically the remembrance of an event which took place a hundred years earlier. Although a century can mean any arbitrary period of 100 years, there are two viewpoints on the nature of standard centuries. One is based on strict construction, while the other is based on popular perspective (general usage). According to the strict construction of the Gregorian calendar, the 1st"
"Billion years A billion years (10 years) is a unit of time on the petasecond scale, more precisely equal to seconds. It is sometimes abbreviated Gy, Ga (""giga-annum""), Byr and variants. The abbreviations Gya or bya are for ""billion years ago"", i.e. billion years before present. The terms are used in geology, paleontology, geophysics, astronomy and physical cosmology. The prefix giga- is preferred over billion- to avoid confusion in the long and short scales over the meaning of billion; the postfix annum may be further qualified for precision as a sidereal year or Julian year: Byr was formerly used in"
"the ""n cosmological decade,"" meaning 10 years after the Big Bang. In what follows, n refers to the cosmological decade. The Primordial Era is defined as ""−50 < n < 5"". In this era, the Big Bang, the subsequent inflation, and Big Bang nucleosynthesis are thought to have taken place. Toward the end of this age, the recombination of electrons with nuclei made the universe transparent for the first time. The authors discuss the horizon and flatness problems. The Stelliferous Era, is defined as, ""6 < n < 14"". This is the current era, in which matter is arranged in"
"accidents would be expected in that period. To date, there have been five serious accidents (core damage) in the world since 1970 (one at Three Mile Island in 1979; one at Chernobyl in 1986; and three at Fukushima-Daiichi in 2011), corresponding to the beginning of the operation of generation II reactors. This leads to on average one serious accident happening every eight years worldwide. Despite these accidents, the safety record of nuclear power, in terms of lives lost (ignoring nonfatal illnesses) per unit of electricity delivered, is better than every other major source of power in the world, and on"
"particularly important transit is the ""planetary return"". This occurs when a transiting planet returns to the same point in the sky that it occupied at the moment of a person's birth. What this means is that the planet has completed a whole circuit of the sky, and signifies that a new cycle in the person's life is beginning. The most significant returns are those of the outer planets Jupiter and Saturn. The Jupiter return occurs approximately every 12 years and heralds a new phase of growth and development. The Saturn return occurs approximately every 30 years, and heralds a new"
"exceeded in any one year and a 50-year flood has a 0.02 or 2% chance of being exceeded in any one year. This does not mean that a 100-year flood will happen regularly every 100 years, or only once in 100 years. Despite the connotations of the name ""return period"". In any ""given"" 100-year period, a 100-year event may occur once, twice, more, or not at all, and each outcome has a probability that can be computed as below. Note also that the estimated return period below is a statistic: it is computed from a set of data (the observations),"
"Quinquennial Neronia The quinquennial Neronia was a massive Greek-style festival created by the Roman Emperor Nero. The festival was in three parts. The first was music, oratory and poetry, the second was gymnastics, and the last was riding. It was held twice—once in AD 60 and once in AD 65. These games followed a tradition set by Julius Caesar and Augustus of having celebratory games to mark the anniversary of their reign. Timing of the quinquennial Neronia has puzzled historians. ""Quinquennial"" means ""every five"" but in practice means every four. Romans counted things inclusively. So between 1 and 5, there"
"10th millennium The tenth millennium of the Gregorian calendar will begin on January 1, 9001, and end on December 31, 10000. All these dates are in a uniform time scale such as Terrestrial Time. When converted to our ordinary solar time or Universal Time, which is decidedly non-uniform, via ΔT, the dates would be a couple of days earlier. Furthermore, they are only astronomical dates, so they are given in the astronomical format of Year Month Day, which allows them to be ordered. Software that encodes the CE / AD calendar year of a date as a four-character binary-coded decimal"
"diurnal rotation of the Earth on its own axis and the annual revolution of the earth around the sun. Traditionally this 25,800-year-long cycle is calibrated, for the purposes of determining astrological ages, by the location of the sun in one of the twelve zodiac constellations at the vernal equinox, which corresponds to the moment the sun rises above the celestial equator, marking the start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere each year. Roughly every 2,150 years the sun's position at the time of the vernal equinox will have moved into a new zodiacal constellation. However zodiacal constellations are not uniform"
"a frequency of about once per month. Littlewood assumes a significant event frequency at one in a million with a duration of one second, and that an individual is alert to significant events for eight hours per day. The 1993 book, The Celestine Prophecy, by James Redfield encouraged its readers to seek meaning from grouped events. From the book's First Insight: ""In each of our lives occurs mysterious coincidences - sudden, synchronistic events that, once interpreted, lead us into our true destiny'. The book was a 1996 best seller, spent 165 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller list, and"
"color. 2010s The 2010s (pronounced ""twenty-tens"" or ""two thousand (and) tens"") In the English-speaking world, a name for the decade has never universally been accepted in the same manner as for decades such as the '80s, the '90s, etc. Common suggestions for referring to this decade are ""Tens"", ""Tenties"", ""Teens"", or ""Tennies"", but generally the most often used terms are ""Twenty-tens"" or ""Two thousand (and) tens"". The 2010s began amid a global financial crisis dating from the late 2000s. The European sovereign-debt crisis, which stemmed from these economic problems, became more pronounced and continued to affect the possibility of a"
"as distinct from the theoretical value in an idealized distribution. One does not actually know that a certain or greater magnitude happens with 1% probability, only that it has been observed exactly once in 100 years. This distinction is significant because there are few observations of rare events: for instance if observations go back 400 years, the most extreme event (a 400-year event by the statistical definition) may later be classed, on longer observation, as a 200-year event (if a comparable event immediately occurs) or a 500-year event (if no comparable event occurs for a further 100 years). Further, one"
"Millennium A millennium (plural millennia or millenniums) is a period equal to 1000 years, also called kiloyears. It derives from the Latin ', thousand, and ', year. It is often, but not always, related to a particular dating system. Sometimes, it is used specifically for periods of a thousand years that begin at the starting point (initial reference point) of the calendar in consideration (typically the year ""1""), or in later years that are whole number multiples of a thousand years after it. The term can also refer to an interval of time beginning on any date. Frequently in the"
"sexagesimal orders of magnitude rather than decimal, i.e. a year is 12 months, and a minute is 60 seconds. The smallest meaningful increment of time is the Planck time, the time light takes to traverse the Planck distance, many decimal orders of magnitude smaller than a second. The largest ""realized"" amount of time, given known scientific data, is the age of the universe, about 13.8 billion years - the time since the Big Bang as measured in the cosmic microwave background rest frame. Those amounts of time together span 60 decimal orders of magnitude. Metric prefixes are defined spanning 10"
"ending in 2015. There are diverse opinions concerning the thousand years of peace (Millennium) described in Revelation and the events associated with it. Some interpret a literal, future, thousand-year time period in which Christ will rule over the Earth, a time which will be characterized by peace and harmony. Others understand a literal age of peace, but think the ""thousand years"" is a figure of speech. Still others see the Millennium as symbolic of a spiritual ideal, with no corresponding earthly condition. All of these positions fall into the category of millennialism, a broad term which includes any and all"
"which the 30-million year oscillation of the Solar System through the dense Galactic plane leads to periodic comet showers on Earth. More recent work has centered on the severe Permian–Triassic extinction event (252 million years ago), with fieldwork in South Africa, Hungary, Japan, India and China, particularly focused on the so-called “fungal event” marking the devastation of Late Permian vegetation. Rampino and colleagues found evidence that the mass extinction of 96% of marine species and much of life on land may have occurred in a brief period of only a few thousand years, suggesting some sort of cataclysm It turns"
"Jubilee A jubilee is a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, or 70th anniversary. Of biblical origins, the term is often now used to denote the celebrations associated with the reign of a monarch after a milestone number of years have passed. The Jubilee ( ""yūḇāl"") year (every 50th year) selvakumar (every seventh year) are Biblical commandments concerning ownership of land and slaves. The laws concerning the Sabbatical year are still observed by many religious Jews in the State of Israel, while the Jubilee has not been observed for many centuries. According to the"
"and stormier in that region. NASA Scientists have been researching to test if the extremely strong El Niño event of 2015/16, climate change, or some other factor might be involved. They are trying to determine if this is more of a once in a generation event, or if this is a sign of the changing climate. Quasi-biennial oscillation The quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) is a quasiperiodic oscillation of the equatorial zonal wind between easterlies and westerlies in the tropical stratosphere with a mean period of 28 to 29 months. The alternating wind regimes develop at the top of the lower stratosphere"
"long as 10 million years. Tectonics-based events will continue to occur well into the future and the surface will be steadily reshaped by tectonic uplift, extrusions, and erosion. Mount Vesuvius can be expected to erupt about 40 times over the next 1,000 years. During the same period, about five to seven earthquakes of magnitude 8 or greater should occur along the San Andreas Fault, while about 50 magnitude 9 events may be expected worldwide. Mauna Loa should experience about 200 eruptions over the next 1,000 years, and the Old Faithful Geyser will likely cease to operate. The Niagara Falls will"
"will no longer be able to encode the contemporaneous date. This problem will possibly occur from midnight on January 1, 10000. 10th millennium The tenth millennium of the Gregorian calendar will begin on January 1, 9001, and end on December 31, 10000. All these dates are in a uniform time scale such as Terrestrial Time. When converted to our ordinary solar time or Universal Time, which is decidedly non-uniform, via ΔT, the dates would be a couple of days earlier. Furthermore, they are only astronomical dates, so they are given in the astronomical format of Year Month Day, which allows"