Archive for January, 2008



Officious intermeddler

An officious intermeddler is a person who voluntarily, and without request or pre-existing legal duty, interjects herself into the affairs of another, and then seeks remuneration for services or reimbursement. Example: Person “A” leaves for vacation for two weeks during the summer. Person “B” mows “A”s lawn. “B” requests payment for this […]

The Commission of the African Union serves as the AU’s administrative branch. It consists of ten Commissioners, who hold individual portfolios. The Commission implements AU policies and coordinates the body’s activities and meetings. The Commission elects its Chairperson to a four-year term.

List of Secretaries-general of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and African Union […]

Keith R. Thompson

Keith Thompson is a professor at Dalhousie University with a joint appointment in the Department of Oceanography and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

Thompson was trained in the UK and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool. His research interests are ocean and shelf circulation, 4D data assimilation, extremal analysis and applied time series […]

Kneeling chair

A kneeling chair is a type of chair for sitting in a position with the thighs dropped to an angle of about 60 to 70 degrees from vertical (as opposed to 90 degrees when sitting in a normal chair), with some of the body’s weight supported by the shins.

Kneeling chairs were invented in Norway in […]

Oversight

Oversight may refer to:

Government regulation — The role of an official authority in regulating a separate authority.

Checks and balances — The concept whereby separate agencies exercise balancing correctional authority over one another.

United States Congressional Oversight, including:

Intelligence Oversight Act

Budget oversight

Brehon’s Chair

Brehon’s Chair (also known as Taylors Grange) is a sacred megalithic site in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland in the grounds of Glensouthwell. It is a national heritage site. The Grange Road is named after it.

The Brehon Laws were statutes that governed everyday life and politics in Ireland until the Norman invasion of 1171 (the word […]

The Medium is the Massage

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects is a book co-created by media analyst Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore, and coordinated by Jerome Agel. It was published by Bantam books in 1967 and became a bestseller and a cult classic.

The book itself is 160 pages in length and composed […]

Separate Tables (play)

Separate Tables is a 1954 play by Terence Rattigan.

It was premièred in Liverpool in 1954. It was later staged on Broadway in 1956, with Margaret Leighton in the lead role, and filmed in 1958.

External links

List of Rattigan’s plays

IBDB entry for Separate Tables

Type 50

The Type 50 submachine gun was one of the first domestically designed Chinese submachine guns, modeled on the Soviet PPSh-41. Standard ammunition for Type 50 SMG is 7.62mm type 64 cartridge, which is based on 7.62×25mm Type 51 (same as Soviet 7.62×25mm TT).

The Type 50 submachine gun is a simple blowback weapon that fires from […]

Epworth Sleepiness Scale

The Epworth Sleepiness Scale is a questionnaire intended to measure daytime sleepiness. This can be helpful in diagnosing sleep disorders.

The instrument
How likely are you to doze off or fall asleep in the following situations, in contrast to feeling just tired? This refers to your usual way of life in recent times. Even if […]

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 […]

Vajirananavarorasa

Vajirananavarorasa (also spelled Wachirayan, Watchirayanawarorot, correct Pali spelling: Vajirañāṇavarorasa, , full title Somdet Phramahasamanachao Kromphraya Vajirananavarorasa สมเด็จพระมหาสมณเจ้ากรมพระยาวชิรญาณวโรรส ) (April 12, 1860, Bangkok, Thailand - August 2, 1921, Bangkok, Thailand) was the 10th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand from 1910 to 1921 . He helped to institutionalize Thai Buddhism.

Vajirañana was the 47th child of King Mongkut […]

Upper back pain

Upper back pain, also called middle back pain or thoracic pain, is pain that is felt between the bottom of the neck and top of the lumbar spine. The upper spine is very strong and stable to support the weight of the upper body, as well as to anchor the rib cage which provides […]

Model 3107 chair

The Model 3107 chair is one of the most popular chairs in Danish design history. It was designed by Arne Jacobsen, using a new technique in which plywood could be bent in two dimensions. It has been produced exclusively by Fritz Hansen A/S ever since its invention in 1955. It is also the most copied […]

The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) is an independent, private, nonprofit organization formed to set high standards of ethical and professional practice through a recognized, credible credentialing program. NCBTMB also promotes the worth of National Certification to the public and the profession, maintains the quality of the National Certification Program, and […]

Bear Valley (resort)

Bear Valley is a ski area located on highway 4 between Lake Tahoe and Yosemite—about three hours southeast of Sacramento, California. It is about one hour from Angels Camp, California.

For years, Bear Valley Mountain Resort has been known by very few people, and is a favorite over other resorts because of its hometown resort feel.

The […]

Giger Bar

A Giger Bar is a bar themed and modelled by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger. There are two Giger Bars: the first, the Museum HR Giger Bar, is located in Château St. Germain, Gruyères, Switzerland, which opened on April 12, 2003; and the second is the H.R. Giger Bar, in Chur, Switzerland. There was […]

Erotic massage

Erotic massage is the use of massage techniques for erotic. Widely practiced by couples as part of lovemaking. For example, instead of draping the subject’s body with towels, an erotic massage is usually conducted with the subject naked and undraped. Areas of the body such as the areas around the groin and intimate parts of […]

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The Chairman of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto or Metro Chairman was the leader of Metropolitan Toronto, Canada, and the most senior political figure in the municipality. The Metro Chairman was elected by the members of Metropolitan Toronto Council.

New Level of Government
The position was created in 1954 when Metropolitan Toronto was created by the province […]

The Mermaid Chair

The Mermaid Chair is a 2005 novel written by American novelist Sue Monk Kidd, which has also been adapted as a Lifetime telefilm starring Kim Basinger, which premiered on the network September 9, 2006.

Heartwood Institute

Heartwood Institute is located outside Garberville in Humboldt County, California. It calls itself a “holistic learning community” and provides training in massage therapy, nutrition, Asian Healing Arts, yoga, permaculture and herbalism.

External links

Heartwood Institute

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Joseph Betts

Joseph Betts was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford in 1765.

The Native English-speaking Teacher (NET) scheme came into operation in Hong Kong in 1998. It is a scheme which allows governmental and government subsidised primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong to employ English teachers from overseas. The aim of the scheme is to provide local Chinese students with exposure to authentic English language and […]

Shampoo (Massage)

The word ’shampoo’ or ‘champi’ was popularized in England in 1785 by Mr Dean Mahomed who was the first Indian writer to be published in English with his book “The Travels of Dean Mahomet”. He opened a bath in Brighton and also became assistant to Sir Basil Cochrane at his vapour bath in Cochrane Square, […]

Pipe down

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T-cell lymphoma

T-cell lymphoma describes several different types of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma which affect T cells.

An example is cutaneous T Cell lymphoma.

See also

B-cell lymphoma

T-cell leukemia

Only Child (musician)

This article is about the musician, for the birth order see Only children.

Only Child is DJ and musician, Justin Crawford. He was formerly a member of the British band New Fast Automatic Daffodils.

Crawford is now signed to Grand Central Records independent record label under the moniker Only Child.

He is also one half of The Unabombers, […]

Massage parlor

A massage parlor is a place where customers can receive a massage. Sometimes it is synonymous with brothel as the term “massage” is sometimes also used as a euphemism for paid sexual favours. In many countries and regions, particularly (but not limited to), New Zealand, Northern England, Canada, South Korea, the Philippines, and San Francisco […]

1949 in architecture

The year 1949 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

Ford House in Illinois designed by Bruce Goff.

Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut designed by Philip Johnson.

December 16 - The Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, designed by Gerard Moerdijk, was inaugurated.

Awards

AIA Gold Medal - Frank Lloyd Wright.

Royal Gold Medal - Howard Robertson.

Grand […]

Peu difficile

Peu difficile (of small difficulty; moderately difficult) is a French grade for climbing routes. It may be qualified, as PD- or PD+, for slightly easier or harder routes.

Because it includes various factors intrinsic to mountains (glaciers, etc.), it cannot easily be compared with the English rock climbing grading system.

See also

Grade (climbing)

External link

Comparison of alpine […]

Psychotherapeutic Postural Integration (PPI) is a wider development of Postural integration (PI), an alternative body-psychotherapy method, which attempts to help individuals to become aware of themselves in their body and empowering them to change their “bodymind” - their bodies, their emotions and attitudes. At a practical level, PPI is an active therapy in which the […]

The Regional Chair of Ottawa-Carleton was the head of the regional council which controlled the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton since its formation in 1968.

Originally the Regional Chair was selected by other members of regional council who were themselves posted to the council from the region’s individual municipalities. From 1991 the position of regional chair was […]

American Chartered Bank

American Chartered Bank is a full-service commercial and retail bank, serving privately owned small- and medium-sized businesses and individual customers throughout the Chicago area. American Chartered Bank is distinguished by its focus on business owners, providing innovative products and services with exceptional customer service.

Bank Financial Information
American Chartered is employee owned. Exceutives hold […]

Maxine Horner

Oklahoma State Senator Maxine Horner was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1933. She graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and received her BA from Langston University. She is married to the late Donald M. Horner and they have two children, Shari Tisdale, and Donald M Horner Jr. She has several grandchildren, […]

Savilian Professor

For Savilian Professor see

Savilian Chair of Astronomy

Savilian Chair of Geometry

PEBKAC

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

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

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 […]

Kateb al Shammary

Kateb al Shammary is a Saudi Arabian lawyer. His clients include a number of those who were, or remain, detained in Camp Delta in the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
One of his clients is Abdul Salam Gaithan Mureef Al Shehry, who was just 15 years old when captured.

Al Shammary has called on […]

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 […]

Caster

This article is about the type of wheel. For the fictional weapon called a “caster,” see Spellgun.

For caster sugar see sugar.

For other uses of castor, see castor.

See also: Caster (Fate Stay Night), an anime character

A caster (or castor) is a type of wheel mounted with an offset steering pivot such that the wheel will […]

Singing with the Red Wolves

Singing With the Red Wolves is the first independently-produced album by the band Wishing Chair. It was released in 1995 on Terrakin Records. The album cover art is from a painting by artist Dana Tiger.

The title song refers to attempts by biologists to reintroduce red wolves into areas in the Southeastern United States […]

List of database models

A database model is a theory or specification describing how a database is structured and used. Several such models have been suggested.

Common models include:

Hierarchical model

Network model

Relational model

Entity-relationship

Object-Relational model

Object model

Other models include:

Associative

Concept-oriented

Entity-Attribute-Value

Multi-dimensional model

Semi-structured

Star schema

XML database

See Also

Database models

Stouffer’s

Stouffer’s is a brand of frozen prepared foods available in the United States and Canada. Stouffer’s is known for such popular fare as meatloaf, salisbury steak, lasagna, macaroni and cheese, and ravioli. It also produces a line of reduced-fat products under the banner Lean Cuisine.

Recent attempts to modernize the brand with selections such as […]

Eastview

Eastview may refer to several places,

in the United States,

Eastview, Tennessee

Eastview, New York

Eastview, Arkansas

in Canada,

Eastview, Frontenac County, Ontario

Eastview, Ontario was the former name for Vanier, Ontario

Eastview Park, Ontario

There are also:

the ship HMS Eastview

the ship HMCS Eastview

Eastview High School in Apple Valley, Minnesota

A number of communities have a neighborhood known as Eastview and the name is […]

Adaptive coding

Adaptive coding refers to variants of entropy encoding methods of lossless data compression. They are particularly suited to streaming data, as they adapt to localized changes in the characteristics of the data, and don’t require a first pass over the data to calculate a probability model. The cost paid for these advantages is that the […]

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Technics

Technics is a brand name of the Japanese company Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., a company that produces a variety of electronic products.

Name

Technics is a term for the useful arts in general, distinct from that of the performing and fine arts. The name is often mispronounced as “tek-nicks”. However, according to the manufacturer, […]

Triple Crown Records

Triple Crown Records is a New York-based record label. It is home to Folly, The Receiving End of Sirens, The Dear Hunter, and As Tall as Lions, among others. It also helped launch Brand New and Hot Rod Circuit.

Triple Crown Records is a part of the East West family of record labels, a subsidiary of […]

Since 1947, the Democratic members of the United States Senate have elected a policy committee chairman. From 1947 to 2000, the Democratic leader was also the policy committee chairman. From 1989 to 1999, there was a co-chairman. Starting in 1999, the co-chairman was dropped and the position of policy committee chairman became a separate elected […]