Archive for November, 2007



Stone massage

Hot Stone Massage can be a dual purpose massage. Due to the heat of the stones, it is always a highly relaxing, stress reduction massage. The hardness of the stones allows the therapist to address specific problem areas with more detailed work or deeper pressure.

Basalt stones of various sizes, shapes and weights […]

Suudu

Suudu (IPA or ) is a culture-specific syndrome of painful urination and pelvic “heat” familiar in south India, especially in the Tamil culture. It occurs in males and females. It is popularly attributed to an increase in the “inner heat” of the body often due to dehydration. It is usually treated by the following.

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Exotic dancer

The terms exotic dancer and exotic dance can have different meanings in different parts of the world and depending on context.

In a non-erotic sense, the word “exotic” applies to the fact that something is out of the ordinary or perceived by spectators as unusual. It can also apply to those dancers who master a rare […]

Detachable chairlift

A detachable chairlift or high-speed chairlift is a type of passenger aerial lift, which, like a fixed-grip chairlift, consists of numerous chairs attached to a constantly moving wire rope (called a haul rope) that is strung between two (or more) terminals over intermediate towers. They are now commonplace at all but the smallest of ski […]

1712 in architecture

The year 1712 in architecture involved some significant events.

Events

Buildings

Castle Howard (begun 1699), designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, is completed.

Roehampton House in England, designed by Thomas Archer is completed.

Births

Deaths

Watsu

Watsu, a portmanteau of water and shiatsu, is a form of body massage performed while lying in warm water (around 35 °C or 95 °F). The receiver of Watsu treatment is continuously supported by the therapist while he or she rocks and gently stretches the body. Because it is performed in the water, the body […]

Ventilation (firefighting)

In firefighting, ventilation refers to the tactic of creating a draft with an opening above or opposite the entry point so that heat and smoke will be released, permitting the firefighters to find and attack the fire. If a large fire is not properly ventilated, not only will it be much harder to fight, […]

The Sedleian professor of natural philosophy is the name of a chair at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford.

The Sedleian Chair was founded by Sir William Sedley who, by his will dated October 20, 1618, left the sum of ₤2,000 to the University of Oxford for purchase of lands for its endowment. Sedley’s […]

Ita Wegman

Ita Wegman (* February 22, 1876 in Kravang, West Java; † March 4, 1943 in Arlesheim, Switzerland) is known as the co-founder of Anthroposophical Medicine with Rudolf Steiner. In 1921, she founded the first anthroposophical medical clinic in Arlesheim, now known as the Ita Wegman Clinic. She also developed a special form of massage therapy, […]

PEBKAC

PEBKAC is an acronym which stands for “Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair”.<ref>The Jargon File, version 4.4.7, maintained by Eric S. Raymond</ref> The phrase is used by computer experts as a semi-humorous<ref>* PEBKAC in the webcomic User Friendly</ref> way to describe user errors.

Other variations are POBCAC (”Problem Occurs Between Computer and Chair”), PIBKAC (”Problem Is […]

Iomega Zipcam

Zipcam was a prototype digital camera shown at Comdex 1999 by Iomega (Iomega Labs) that used 100 MB Zip disks. The 2.1 megapixel camera had a body that was a bit larger than a 100 MB Zip Drive, with a larger lens housing on one side. It had Iomega Labs, 2.1 Megapixels, and ZipCam logos […]

C. F. Streit Mfg. Co.

The C. F. Streit Mfg. Co. was a furniture maker located on Kenner St. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Streit manufactured a number of adjustable furniture pieces, most notably the Slumber Chair which had a combination upholstered seat and back element which could be inclined at various angles. Streit also manufactured a Slumber Davenport with a […]

Pre Existing Duty Rule

The pre-existing duty rule is a legal concept relating to when the performance of a legal duty is classified as consideration.

Definition
Generally, performing a legal duty which is already owed does not constitute consideration, unless that duty is doubtful or honestly disputed.

In some states, parties may renegotiate contracts to include additional benefits if, for […]

People That Are Going to Hell

People that are going to Hell is the first track from The Vandals album Hitler Bad, Vandals Good. It describes how, even though some may not receive their just deserts while on earth, in the end all will be rectified, as all that are evil are “the people that are going to hell”.

Adirondack chair

An Adirondack chair (or in some parts of Canada, a Muskoka chair) is a type of chair used primarily in an outdoors setting. The precursor to today’s Adirondack chair was designed by Thomas Lee in 1903. He was on vacation in Westport, New York and needed outdoor chairs for his summer home. He tested the […]

Harriet Spicer

Harriet Greville Spicer is a lay member of the Judicial Appointments Commission. She was born on 24th April 1950 to James Spicer, the then owner of Spicer’s Paper and Patricia Palmer. She lived in Chelsea before attending Lillsden School for Girls and then Benenden School. She went on to graduate from St. Annes College, Oxford […]

Kelly Meighen

Kelly Meighen was born on 8 November 1949 in Cambridge MA, just outside Boston.

Currently she is active at the Stratford Festival of Canada where she serves as Chair of the Board of Governors. She is President of the T. R. Meighen Foundation of Toronto, and is Vice Chair of Upper Canada College. She lives in […]

The Association for Reformational Philosophy, formerly the Association for Calvinistic Philosophy, was incorporated in the Netherlands where the majority of its members are still located along with the Foundation (Stichting in Dutch) and the Centre for Reformational Philosophy. The Dutch title of the Association was changed from Vereniging voor Calvinistische Wijsbegeerte to Vereniging voor Reformatorische […]

No Forcefield

No Forcefield is the creation of Bryan “Brain” Mantia (Primus, Praxis & El Stew), Extrakd (El Stew), Larry LaLonde (Primus, Possessed), and The Filthy Ape Adam Gates (Bob Cock). Besides the founding members, No Forcefield features guests DJ Disk (founding member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz) and DJ Flare.

Discography

Lee’s Oriental Massage 415-626-1837 (2000)

God Is an […]

Zaisu

A is a unique form of Japanese chair which has no legs, but has a normal chair back. It is generally used by people who require more back support than the traditional kneeling method that most Japanese people use for sitting. Zaisu are not particularly expensive, but are not commonplace in Japan.

References

Irasshai. [1]. Retrieved […]

Brookstone

Brookstone is a chain of retail stores in the United States. Its first store was opened in 1973 in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Its headquarters are currently located in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
Brookstone sells many types of products ranging from radar detectors to massage chairs. The company has its own brand and makes many electronic […]

PICNIC

PICNIC is an acronym which stands for “Problem In Chair, Not In Computer”, or “Person in Chair, Not In Computer”.

It is most commonly used by experts to describe to one another that the problem was not in the computer but was instead caused by the user operating it.[1]

See also

PEBKAC

ID10T

Layer 8

Transmittance

In optics and spectroscopy, transmittance is the fraction of incident light at a specified wavelength that passes through a sample.

<math>T = {I\over I_{0}}</math>

where <math>I_0</math> is the intensity of the incident light and I is the intensity of the light coming out of the sample. The transmittance of a sample is usually given as a percentage, […]

Nukta

Nukta is a generic term for the diacritic mark in several Brahmic scripts, like Devanagari that is used to represent sounds from other languages by being applied to an existing character. The word nukta, originates from Arabic.

External links

An Introduction to Indic scripts

Kum Nye

Kum Nye (Tibetan: sKu-mNyé) is a Tibetan Buddhist movement practice, somewhat in the tradition of Yoga or Tai Chi. Kum Nye literally means “subtle body massage” in Tibetan. There are many forms of Kum Nye which have been practiced in Tibet.

One form belongs to the “Medical Tantras”: the body of knowledge which describes Tibetan medical […]

AMTA

This acronym can refer to any of several organizations:

American Massage Therapy Association

Alabama-Mississippi Telecommunications Association

American Mock Trial Association

American Music Therapy Association (www.musictherapy.org)

Antenna Measurement Techniques Association

Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Aeron chair

The Aeron chair is a product of Herman Miller, designed in 1994 by Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf. It is an ergonomic chair which is expensive but regarded by many as very comfortable. The chair became a symbol of the rise and fall of the dot-com industry in the late 1990s. However, its breakthrough design […]

Table d’hôte

Table d’hôte is a French phrase which literally means “host’s table”. It is used in restaurant terminology to indicate a menu where multi-course meals with limited choices are charged at a fixed price. Such a menu may also be called prix fixe (”fixed price”). Because the menu is set, the cutlery on the table […]

Dutch Council of State

In the Netherlands, the Council of State (Raad van State) is a constitutionally established advisory body to the government which consists of members of the royal family and Crown-appointed members generally having political, commercial, diplomatic, or military experience. The Council of State must be consulted by the cabinet on proposed legislation before a law is […]

Dive tables

Dive Tables, Decompression Tables or Tables are printed cards or booklets that allow divers to determine for a particular dive profile and breathing gas, the Decompression stops required for that dive in order to avoid decompression sickness.

With dive tables, it is assumed that the dive profile is a square dive, meaning that the diver descends […]

Patricia Fearing

Patricia Fearing is a fictional character in the James Bond novel Thunderball. For the 1965 film of the same name she went by the nickname ‘Pat’ and was portrayed by Molly Peters. Fearing is a shapely, blonde, brown-eyed nurse who looks over James Bond while he is a guest at the Shrublands’ health farm.

Biography
In both […]

Stiga

Stiga is a trade mark for various products.

GGP Sweden AB
GGP Sweden AB, previously named Stiga AB, is a maker of lawn mowers, snow blowers, chainsaws, and other lawn machinery with the trade mark Stiga. The company is from 2002 a part of GGP Group.

Table tennis, table hockey and snowracers
The Stiga trade mark for table tennis […]

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America Is Dying Slowly

America Is Dying Slowly (AIDS) is a compilation album which was the eighth entry in the Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series of recordings, organized by Red Hot Organization. This installation in the series featured collaborations from several hip hop acts, including Mobb Deep, De La Soul, Coolio, Biz Markie, Chubb Rock, The Lost Boyz, Pete […]

Watsu

Watsu, a portmanteau of water and shiatsu, is a form of body massage performed while lying in warm water (around 35 °C or 95 °F). The receiver of Watsu treatment is continuously supported by the therapist while he or she rocks and gently stretches the body. Because it is performed in the water, the body […]

Oldster

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Cantilever chair

A cantilever chair has no back legs, relying for support on the properties of the material from which it is made. This famous form was pioneered by several people, but was officially designed by Mart Stam in 1926, and remains an important example of 20th century design.

Another designer of Cantilever chair design was Hungarian […]

Set (gaming)

With Tap patented by Wizards of the Coast, the game Ophidian used a very similar mechanic with a similar symbol, .

Like tapping, to set a card is to turn it 90 degrees sideways, which shows that it has been used. Since cards only unset after each Wave, an ability that requires you to set a […]

Thacholikali

Thacholikali is a folk art performed during the ‘Mandala Utsavam’, forty-one day annual festival at the Lokanarkavu Bhagavathy Temple. Lokanarkavu temple is situated 5 km from Vatakara, a small town in Kerala state of south India. This dance, performed during the festival resembles the martial art Kalarippayattu.

Many of the traditional performing art forms of Kerala […]

23257 Denny

23257 Denny is an asteroid discovered by William Kwong Yu Yeung in late 2000. It is named in honour of Bob Denny, a developer of software for robotic telescopes and inventor of the Astronomy Common Object Model (ASCOM) standard.

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Red and Blue Chair

Red and Blue Chair

Designer : Gerrit Rietveld

Date : 1917

Country : Netherlands

Materials : wood (lacquered}.

Style/Tradition : De Stijl

Dimensions: 66×83×88cm (WxDxH)

Colours : Black, red, blue and yellow

The Red Blue Chair was a chair designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld. It represents one of the first explorations by the De Stijl art movement in three dimensions. The original chair was not painted […]

The Twelve Chairs (film)

The Twelve Chairs, a 1928 novel by Soviet writers Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, has been adapted for film numerous times, including:

Las doce sillas, 1962 Spanish language Cuban film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. ([1])

The Twelve Chairs, 1970 film directed by Mel Brooks, starring Frank Langella, Ron Moody, and Dom DeLuise.

The Twelve Chairs, 1971 film […]

Result chart of 1999 elections

General

Elections held the 17 October of 1999

Voters

5,293,657

Voting

3,133,926

Turnout

59.20%

Valid Votes

3,126,090

Valid %

99,75%

Invalid Votes

7,836

Invalid %

0,25%

Party

Primary Votes

%

Swing

Seats

Change

Convergència i Unió

1,178,420

37.70

-3.25

56

-4

P. dels Socialistes de Catalunya - CpC

948,202

30.33

+12.97 […]

Ragged Mountain Resort

Ragged Mountain is a privately owned ski and golf resort in Danbury, New Hampshire in the United States. As of July 2004, it was the only New Hampshire ski resort to have a six-person chairlift. It is also the only ski resort in New Hampshire to offer a championship golf course at its […]

Semen collection

Semen collection refers to the process of obtaining semen from domestic animals or humans with the use of various methods, for the purposes of insemination, or medical study (usually in fertility clinics). Semen can be collected via masturbation, prostate massage, artificial vagina, penile vibratory stimulation (vibroejaculation) and electroejaculation.

External links

The men’s rooms A British journalist […]

The One with Joey’s Bag

“The One With Joey’s Bag” is the 13th episode of season 5 of the sitcom Friends.

First aired: February 4, 1999

Plot
After getting an excruciating massage from Monica, Chandler doesn’t tell her because he doesn’t want to screw up their relationship by telling the truth. When Phoebe, as a masseuse and human, asks Monica […]

Manettino dial

Manettino dials are a part of some modern Ferrari cars (like the new Ferrari 599 GTB and Ferrari F430). These adjustment dials are mounted on the steering wheel, usually just underneath the center of the wheel. They’re inspired by the controls found on F1 steering wheels, but have a more polished appearance.

The dial […]

PICNIC

PICNIC is an acronym which stands for “Problem In Chair, Not In Computer”, or “Person in Chair, Not In Computer”.

It is most commonly used by experts to describe to one another that the problem was not in the computer but was instead caused by the user operating it.[1]

See also

PEBKAC

ID10T

Layer 8

Daddies

For the plural of Daddy, see Father.

Daddies is a popular brand of ketchup and brown sauce in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The brown sauce product, known as Daddies Favourite, was first launched in 1904, and the ketchup launched in the 1950s. The brands are owned by H. J. Heinz Company, having been […]

Pamper party

A pamper party (or pampering party) is a party held primarily amongst females where each guest receives beauty and massage treatments and generally spend time indulging and pampering themselves.

Pamper parties are usually held in the hostess’s home although they are sometimes offered by spas and salons. In the UK, a pamper party is a […]