Archive for August, 2008

Aug
25

See Severe weather terminology for a comprehensive article on this term and related weather terms.

A Winter Storm Watch is issued by the National Weather Service of the United States when there is a potential for heavy snow or significant ice accumulations. The watch is usually issued at least 24 to 36 hours before the […]

Aug
25

Hear is a 2002 album released by Johnny Diesel.

Track listing

Faith and Gasoline

The Embers

Battleworn

Getta Kick

On Your Sand

Brighter Than The Sun

She’s High

I’m Here

Angel Face

Lotion

I Wanna Fly

Don’t Send Another

All tracks written by Diesel except tracks 1-3, 7, 10-12

Produced by Diesel and Don Gehman *

Produced […]

Aug
25

A Clifton nanolitre osmometer is a device that allows the determination of the melting and freezing point of an aqueous solution. The device consists of a controller box, a cooling stage, and a sample holder. Additionally, various micrometer syringes, immersion oils and microscopes are required for its use.

Cooling of the stage is achieved with […]

Aug
24

A complex hydride is a (usually solid) material such as sodium aluminum hydride (NaAlH4, also known as sodium alanate) or lithium borohydride (LiBH4) which readily accepts or gives up hydrogen atoms.

Applications
Such a material is being examined for its potential to store hydrogen for use as a fuel. A material such as lithium borohydride […]

Aug
24

In the law of civil procedure, election of remedies is the situation in which a winning party in a lawsuit must choose the means by which their injury will be remedied. For example, if a court finds that the plaintiff’s painting was stolen by the defendant, then the plaintiff has two possible routes to restore […]

Aug
23

The term half maximal effective concentration (EC50) refers to the concentration of a drug which induces a response halfway between the baseline and maximum.Introducing doseresponse curves, Graphpad Software] It is commonly used as a measure of drug potency.

The EC50 of a graded dose response curve therefore represents the concentration of a compound where 50% […]

Aug
23

Flicker

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Flicker may mean:

Flicker (razor), women’s disposable razor by ASR

Flicker (movie), intermittent darkening of projection screen

Northern Flicker, a type of woodpecker

Flicker, the original bass guitarist for the band Manic Street Preachers

Flicker (novel), a book by Theodore Roszak

Flicker (film) a movie based upon above mentioned book expected to be released in […]

Aug
23

The Privy Council of Northern Ireland was a formal body of advisors to the Sovereign and was a vehicle for the monarch’s prerogative powers in the province. It was modelled on the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.

The Council was created in 1922 as a result of the division of Ireland into the Irish Free […]

Aug
23

Late Night Tales: Nightmares on Wax is a DJ mix album, mixed by Nightmares on Wax, released as part of Azuli Records’ Late Night Tales / Another Late Night DJ series.

Track listing

“Midnight Marauders” - Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie

“Gravy Train” (N.O.W. Mix) - Ian Brown

“Every Season” (feat. Damon Albarn) - Tony Allen

[…]

Aug
22

George Richards (25 February 1865 – 4 December 1915) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Elected as an independent, he served as the member representing Drummoyne in 1913–1915.

Notes

Aug
22

Nefazodone

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Nefazodone hydrochloride (trade name Serzone) is an antidepressant drug marketed by Bristol-Myers Squibb. Its sale was discontinued in 2003 in some countries, due to the small possibility of hepatic (liver) injury, which could lead to the need for a liver transplant, or even death. The incidence of severe liver damage is approximately 1 in 250,000 […]

Aug
22

Plaggen is a type of soil created in Europe in the Middle Ages, as a result of so called ‘plaggen cultivation’, created by cutting turves of peat from an outfield area, and then using them as bedding for cattle; the slurry-soaked bedding was later spread on the arable fields as fertilizer. Over time, this created […]

Aug
22

Structural road design aims to ensure the road is strong enough for the expected number of vehicles in a certain number of years. The input of a calculation is the number expected of vehicles (e.g. 10,000,000) divided in groups (e.g. trucks, vans, cars) and the number of years that the road has to function before […]

Aug
22

Esso

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Esso is an international trade name for Exxon Mobil Corporation and its related companies. Pronounced S-O, it is derived from the name of the pre-1911 Standard Oil Company, and as such became the focus of much litigation and regulatory restriction in the United States. In 1973, it was largely replaced in the U.S. […]

Aug
21

TI-82

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The TI-82 is a graphing calculator made by Texas Instruments. The TI-82 was designed in 1993 as a stripped down, more user friendly version of the TI-85, and as a replacement for the TI-81. It was the direct predecessor of the TI-83. It shares with the TI-85 a 6 MHz Zilog Z80 microprocessor. […]

Aug
20

Alternative Press EP, sometimes simply referred to as the “AP EP”, is an EP by AFI. Released by Alternative Press in mid 1999, this CD was a bonus when purchasing a copy of their magazine. Cardboard fold-out case. All of the songs on this EP were released on AFI’s fourth album Black Sails in the […]

Aug
19

In finance or when buying things, off the shelf refers to products that have already been designed and made, compared to “made to measure,” (or “one-off,” “custom-built,” “custom made,” etc.), which refers to products that have to be made to a special order.

Off-the-shelf products are generally cheaper and more quickly available than made to measure.

In […]

Aug
19

Serodino

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Serodino is a town (comuna) in the . It is located in the Iriondo Department, 152 km away from the provincial capital (Santa Fe). As of the it has a population of 3,375 (2,969 in urban areas).

The economy of the region is based on soybean, corn and wheat produce, and on cattle raising.

The town […]

Aug
18

George Richards Minot (December 2, 1885 in Boston, Massachusetts – February 25, 1950) won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William P. Murphy and George H. Whipple for their work in the study of anemia.

External links

Nobel e-Museum: George R. Minot – Biography

“Red-Blooded Doctors Cure Anemia”

Pernicious Anemia, a Victory for […]

Aug
18

Potassium propionate has formula K(C2H5COO).

Melting point is 410 °C.

It is the potassium salt of propionic acid.

Use
It is used as a food preservative and is represented by the food labeling E number E283 in Europe.

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Aug
17

Population:
65,365 (July 2005 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years:
18.9% (male 6,177; female 6,154)
15-64 years:
69.2% (male 22,422; female 22,828)
65 years and over:
11.9% (male 3,378; female 4,406) (2005 est.)
<p>Population growth rate:
0.64% (2005 est.)
<p>Birth rate:
11.66 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
<p>Death rate:
7.63 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
<p>Net migration rate:
2.45 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)
<p>Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.02 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.98 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.77 […]

Aug
17

In microeconomics, Marginal Revenue (MR) is the extra revenue that an additional unit of product will bring to a firm. It can also be described as the change in total revenue/change in number of units sold.

More formally, marginal revenue is equal to the change in total revenue over the change in quantity when the change […]

Aug
17

Castor wax

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Castor wax, also called hydrogenated castor oil, is a hard, brittle, vegetable wax. It is produced by the hydrogenation (chemical combination with hydrogen) of pure castor oil, in the presence of a nickel catalyst. It is odorless and insoluble in water.

Uses
Castor wax is used in polishes, cosmetics, electrical capacitors, carbon paper, lubrication, and coatings […]

Aug
17

The House of Shammai (or Beit Shammai, beit is Hebrew for house) was the school of thought of Judaism founded by Shammai, a Jewish scholar of the 1st century. A non literal translation that perhaps gives a better flavour of the expression would be The Academy of Shammai.

The House of Shammai was the most […]

Aug
17

Anant Chaturdashi is the last day of the Hindu festival of Ganeshotsav. It is generally the tenth or eleventh day after Ganesh Chaturthi, and all the Ganesh idols brought into homes and communities are immersed in the sea or nearby lakes and rivers. On this day, people travel to the waterfront with the idols, large […]

Aug
17

The Guinness Brewmasters are animated advertising icons of Guinness beer used since 2004.

One is an inventor, constantly introducing his inventions to the other, who responds unequivocally to every invention with an enthusiastic “Brilliant!” The other than often responds with a just-as-enthusiastic “Brilliant!”, and the two then clink their Guinness beers. Such inventions have included […]

Aug
16

“Mind your own business” is a common English saying which asks for a respect of privacy. It can mean “Stop meddling in what does not concern you,” “Attend your own affairs”, etc.

In American politics
On 21 April 1787, the Continental Congress of the United States authorized a design for an official penny, later referred to […]

Aug
16

SF-Studio

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SF-Studio is a Finnish quiz show hosted by Simo Frangén. It replaced Frangén’s earlier show Maailman ympäri in 2004.

Like Maailman ympäri, SF-Studio is a themed show. This time the theme is news. The questions concern people and events in recent news, and a short parody of a news report (with completely nonsensical contents) appears between […]

Aug
16

The Plaster Sports Complex is a 16,600-seat multipurpose stadium located in Springfield, Missouri. It is home to the Missouri State University Bears football, women’s field hockey, men’s and women’s soccer, and track and field teams.

History
The stadium was built in 1941 as SMS Stadium, a Works Progress Administration project at a cost of only […]

Aug
14

For other senses of dimension, see dimension (disambiguation).

In a data warehouse, a dimension is a data element that categorizes each item in a data set into non-overlapping regions.

Introduction
A data warehouse dimension provides the means to “slice and dice” data in a data warehouse. Dimensions provide structured labeling information to otherwise unordered numeric measures. […]

Aug
14

Revés/Yo Soy (Backwards/I Am - note that “yo soy” is a palindrome) is the fourth album by Café Tacuba. In fact, it’s two albums - Revés is an instrumental album, Yo Soy a collection of songs the band had been saving up since their second album, Re - but it was sold as a single […]

Aug
13

Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) is a drug of the phenethylamine family used as a decongestant and also as an appetite suppressant. In veterinary medicine, it is used to control urinary incontinence in dogs.

Chemistry
There are four optical isomers of phenylpropanolamine: d- and l-norephedrine, and d- and l-norpseudoephedrine. D-norpseudoephedrine is also known as cathine, and occurs naturally in […]

Aug
12

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Aug
12

IBV

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IBV may refer to:

Institute for Business Value, a unit of Innovation and Research wing of IBM Business Consulting.

Infectious bronchitis virus, used to refer to Avian infectious bronchitis, an important poultry disease.

ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar, an Icelandic football club

Independent BIOS Vendor; a company that produces BIOS firmware

Aug
11

El Abayarde

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El Abayarde is the debut album by Tego Calderón. It is one of the very first commercially successful albums in Reggaeton. It included the singles Pa’ Que Retocen, Guasa Guasa and Al Natural. It is considered a classic in the Reggaeton Genre.

Track listing

“Intro”

“Abayarde”

“Al Natural” (produced by LunyTunes)

“Poquito” feat. Don Omar, Hector y Tito (produced by […]

Aug
11

Honey super

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A honey super is a part of a beehive that is used to collect honey. The most common variety is the super with a depth of 6 5/8 inches in the length and width dimensions of a Langstroth hive.
Honey supers may contain 8-10 frames. Western honeybees collect nectar and store the processed […]

Aug
11

Chinese wax

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Chinese wax is a white to yellowish-white, gelatinous, crystalline water-insoluble substance obtained from the wax secreted by certain insects.

It resembles spermaceti but is harder, more friable, and with a higher melting point. It is deposited on the branches of certain trees by the scale insect Ceroplastes ceriferus, common in China and India, or a related […]

Aug
11

Hatchettite

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Hatchettite, sometimes termed Mountain Tallow, Mineral Adipocire, or Adipocerite, is a mineral hydrocarbon occurring in the Coal-measures of Belgium and elsewhere, occupying in some cases the interior of hollow concretions of iron-ore, but more generally the cavities of fossil shells or crevices in the rocks.

It is of yellow colour, and translucent, but darkens and becomes […]

Aug
11

Forge welding is a welding process of heating two or more pieces metal and then hammering them together. Its use is ancient, being one of the least technologically complex methods of joining metals. The metals to be welded can be well below their melting points, greatly reducing the infrastructure needed. Forge welding is […]

Aug
10

In mathematics and computer science, optimal addition-chain exponentiation is a method of exponentiation by positive integer powers that requires a minimal number of multiplications. It works by creating a minimal-length addition chain that generates the desired exponent. Each exponentiation in the chain can be evaluated by multiplying two of the earlier exponentiation results. […]

Aug
09

Motional Feedback (MFB) was a speaker system developed in the early 1970s by Philips. It introduced a feedback system to the woofers of HiFi loudspeakers, enabling them to achieve a more extended low frequency response in a relatively small enclosure.

The key benefits are a very controlled bass response. Any distortion induced by the enclosure or […]

Aug
09

Exhibit A

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Exhibit A is an Alternative Metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Band history
Exhibit A formed in 2000. The music is essentially extreme metal taking in other varied influences outside the genre. They have been featured in mainstream rock music publications such as Metal Hammer and Kerrang! as well as regular play on BBC Radio 1. The […]

Aug
09

Textured or Texturized Vegetable Protein (TVP), also known as Textured Soy Protein (TSP) is a meat substitute made from defatted soy flour, a by-product of making soybean oil. It is quick to cook, high in protein, and low in fat.

Manufacturing process
TVP is made through a process known as “extrusion cooking”. A dough is formed […]

Aug
08

“Equal consideration of interests” is the name of a moral principle that states that one should both include all affected interests when calculating the rightness of an action and weigh those interests equally.

The principle thus opposes those theories that either exclude some interests from the moral calculus or weigh certain interests differently from others. Jeremy […]

Aug
08

Health Check is a food information program created and administered by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. The primary part of the program is the placement of the Health Check certification logo on the packaging of a food product that meets certain requirements. The logo is a white check mark over a […]

Aug
08

DOT 3

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DOT 3 is one of several designations of brake fluid denoting a particular mixture of chemicals imparting specified ranges of boiling point.

In the United States, all brake fluids must meet federal standard #116. Under this standard there are three Department of Transportation (DOT) minimal specifications for brake fluid. They are DOT 3, DOT 4, and […]

Aug
08

I Gotta Make It is the 2005 debut album by contemporary R&B artist, Trey Songz. It features his hits “Gotta Make It” and “Gotta Go”. The album was released on the Atlantic Records record label and features guest appearances by Twista, Aretha Franklin, and Juvenile. According to Billboard the debut album was not successful in […]

Aug
08

Tetramerous

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Aug
08

Seam

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Seam may refer to:

Seam (band), an indie rock band from Chapel Hill, NC

A can seamer, a machine used to seal a lid to a can body, such as in paint or food cans

Seam bowling, in cricket, refers to bowling with the main seam upright

A quarter seam is a thread on the […]

Aug
08

Deep Core is a futuristic platform game developed by Dynafield for the Amiga. It was released in 1993 and pusblished by International Computer Entertainment.

Captain Dawnrazer has been sent to save an underwater nuclear research base which has been invaded by strange aliens. A platform game, Dawnrazer must work himself through nine levels (with additional sublevels […]

Aug
06

This article is about Marlborough House in Brighton. For the property in Westminster, London, please see Marlborough House.

Marlborough House is a mansion in Brighton on the south coast of England. It is a Grade I listed building. Located at 54 Old Steine, it was built as a red brick building circa 1765 for Samuel Shergold, […]

Aug
05

Optical tape is a medium for optical storage generally consisting of a long and narrow strip of plastic on to which patterns can be written and from which the patterns can be read back. It shares some technologies with cinema film stock and optical discs, but is compatible with neither. In the 1990s, […]

Aug
05

Allergy UK

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Allergy UK is a British medical charity dedicated to helping humans with their allergies, food intolerance and chemical sensitivity. It was founded in 1991 as the British Allergy Foundation, and in 2002 the operational name of the charity became Allergy UKhttp://www.allergyuk.org/auk_whoare.aspx. Allergy UK endorses certain products that restrict or remove high levels of allergens and […]

Aug
05

Rich Johnson is a meteorologist from Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, with a B.S. in Meteorology.

Rich holds both the American Meteorological Society’s Seal of Approval as a “Certified Broadcast Meteorologist” and the National Weather Association’s Seal of Approval for his on-air skills and he is a member […]

Aug
05

Ilkka Tuomi

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Ilkka Tuomi (26 September 1958—), a native of Finland, is noted for writings on the subject of the Internet.

Works
Ilkka Tuomi has written books, including Networks of Innovation: Change and Meaning in the Age of the Internet, and Corporate Knowledge: Theory and Practice of Intelligent Organizations.

Tuomi has written several articles in First Monday, an important peer […]

Aug
05

Orthokeratology (Ortho-K) is the use of rigid gas-permeable contact lenses, normally worn only at night, to improve vision through the reshaping of the cornea. This method can be used as an alternative to eyeglasses, refractive surgery, or for those desiring to not wear contact lenses during the day.

History
The idea of correcting vision by reshaping […]

Aug
04

Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts is a village of Newton, Massachusetts on the Charles River. The commercial area extends across the river into Wellesley, Massachusetts, where it is known as Wellesley Lower Falls, where a majority of the retail businesses are.

The Charles River drops 18 feet over less than a quarter mile at Lower Falls. […]

Aug
03

Zayd ibn Umar is the father of Said ibn Zayd, a Companion of Muhammad whom Sunni’s honour as one of the the Ten Promised Paradise. He is also the uncle of Umar ibn al-Khattab, the future second Sunni Caliph.

Biography
He was the son of Umar ibn Nufayl. His mother and grandmother where the same woman (from […]

Aug
03

A Thermostatic Radiator Valve, (TRV), is a self regulating valve fitted to hot water heating system radiators. The TRV controls the temperature of a room by regulating the flow of hot water to the radiator.

TRVs consist of two parts, a valve that opens or closes to control the hot water flow, and an actuator that […]

Aug
03

Catholic Answers, based in El Cajon, California, is one of the largest Lay apostolates of Catholic apologetics and evangelization in the United States.

It was founded in 1979 by Karl Keating in response to a Fundamentalist Protestant church in San Diego that was distributing anti-Catholic propaganda in the form of tracts placed on the cars of […]

Aug
03

AEG G.V

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The AEG G.V was a biplane bomber aircraft of World War I, a further refinement of the AEG G.IV. The type was in use saw limited production before the armistice. After the war, some were converted into airliners.

Specifications (AEG G.V)

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Aug
02

Butterfly Potion is an EP by Foetus Inc, released on Big Cat and Wax Trax! in May 1990. This EP, issued on both 12″ vinyl and CD, was the second and final Foetus record for Wax Trax!

A Canadian version of the Butterfly Potion 12″ on the Self Immolation/Wax Trax! imprint is Self Immolation #WOMB […]

Aug
02

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It leads to the title in accordance with the naming conventions for common names and can help writing.

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Aug
01

Too Hot to Handle may refer to:

Moonraker, a James Bond novel renamed as “Too Hot to Handle” in the United States.

Too Hot to Handle, a 1938 film starring Clark Gable.

Too Hot to Handle, a 1960 film starring Jayne Mansfield and directed by Terence Young.

The Marrying Man, a 1991 film which was re-titled Too Hot to […]

Aug
01

The following is a list of terms used by magicians, sorted alphabetically.

Angles
the lines of vision of people sitting at certain position in the audience which enable a secret to be spotted; usually extreme left or right or behind. If a trick is “angly” it can only be done with limited audience viewpoints.

Back palm
to […]

Aug
01

Lower Falls

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The Lower Falls area is located just to the east of Canyon Village in Yellowstone National Park. A one-way loop drive takes you to the brink of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and offers four views, with the last stop at the trail that leads to the top of the Falls.

Lower Falls is […]

Aug
01

Sebacic acid is a dicarboxylic acid with structure (HOOC)(CH2)8(COOH), and is naturally occurring.

In its pure state it is a white flake or powdered crystal. The product is described as non-hazardous, though in its powdered form can be prone to flash ignition (a typical risk in handling fine organic powders).

Sebaceus is Latin for tallow candle, sebum […]

Aug
01

Tiger Balm

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Tiger Balm is the trade name for a heat rub manufactured and distributed by Haw Par Healthcare in Singapore. It was originally developed in the 1870s by a herbalist, Aw Chu Kin, in Rangoon, Burma, who asked his sons Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par on his deathbed to perfect the product.

Tiger Balm […]