Archive for February, 2008



Mercury battery

A mercury battery (also called mercuric oxide battery, or mercury cell) is a non-rechargeable electrochemical battery, a primary cell. Due to the content of mercury, and the resulting environmental concerns, the sale of mercury batteries is banned in many countries.

Sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide are used as an electrolyte. Sodium hydroxide cells have nearly constant […]

CuteFTP

CuteFTP is a series of FTP (file transfer) client applications developed by GlobalSCAPE since 1996, with both a Windows-based or Mac-based interface and made for both home and professional use.

CuteFTP is used to transfer files between computers and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers. Since 1999, CuteFTP Pro (now called CuteFTP Professional) has also been available […]

The Principles of European Tort Law (PETL) are a compilation of guidelines by the European Group on Tort Law aiming at the harmonization of European tort law. They are not intended to serve as a model code, even though their wording may resemble statutory texts. At least with respect to form and structure, they resemble […]

Streaking

Streaking is the non-sexual act of taking off one’s clothes and running naked through a public place.

Definitions and etymology
The word is recorded in its modern sense only since 1973. Before, to streak in English since 1768 meant “to go quickly, to rush, to run at full speed,” and was a re-spelling of streek: “to go […]

Bodywork is a term used in alternative medicine or complementary medicine to describe any therapeutic, healing or personal development work which involves some form of touching, energetic work or the physical manipulation of a rational and practically oriented physical and somatic (see somatics) understanding of the body.

Somatic disciplines of bodywork
Most forms of bodywork are listed […]

Communicatio idiomatum

In Christian theology communicatio idiomatum is a term from the theology of the Incarnation, attempting to explain the relationship between two natures (divine and human) in one person (Jesus Christ). The theory is that both the properties of God the Son and the properties of the human nature can be ascribed to the person […]

Nutmeg oil

Nutmeg oil is a volatile oil containing borneol and eugenol.

General uses
The essential oil is obtained by the steam distillation of ground nutmeg and is used heavily in the perfumery and pharmaceutical industries.
The oil is colorless or light yellow and smells and tastes of nutmeg. It contains numerous components of interest to the oleochemical […]

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Prime factor

In number theory, the prime factors of a positive integer are the prime numbers that divide into that integer exactly, without leaving a remainder. The process of finding these numbers is called integer factorization, or prime factorization.

For a prime factor p of n, the multiplicity of p is the largest exponent a for […]

There are a number of organizations known as the Office of Special Investigations:

The U.S. DOJ Office of Special Investigations which detects and investigates individuals in the U.S. who took part in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution abroad before and during World War II

The Air Force Office of Special Investigations

The U.S. GAO Office of […]

Tokyo Commodity Exchange

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) is a non-profit organization, and regulates trading of futures contracts and option products of all commodities in Japan. The Tokyo Gold Exchange, the Tokyo Rubber Exchange, and the Tokyo Textile Exchange merged in 1984 to form TOCOM.

Traded contracts are:

Futures

Metals

Gold

Silver

Platinum

Aluminum

Palladium

Oil

Crude oil

Kerosene

Gasoline

Rubber

Option

Metals

Gold

See also

List of futures exchanges

External link

TOCOM […]

Jendrassik maneuver

Jendrassik maneuver is a medical maneuver wherein the patient flexes both sets of fingers into a hook-like form and interlocks those sets of fingers together. The tendon below the patient’s knee is then hit with a reflex hammer. The elicited response is compared with the reflex result of the same action when the maneuver […]

Nicolas Gessner

Nicolas Gessner (b. 17 August 1931 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-born film maker who mostly worked in France.

His movies are often characterized by strange, quirky atmospheres and unusual cast mixing French and international actors. From the early eighties, Gessner mostly worked for television.

Filmography

The Thirteen Chairs (1969)

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

External […]

Electronic products

Electronic Products is an electronic component and technology trade magazine serving the electronic design community. Reaching over 120,000 electronic engineers (EEs) and others in the trade across the United States in print and over twice that number online worldwide, Electronic Products is one of the leading trade publications in its category.

Electronic Products’ editorial sections provide […]

Rocking chair

A rocking chair or rocker is a chair with two curved bands of wood (also known as rockers) attached to the bottom of the legs (one on the left two legs and one on the right two legs). This gives the chair contact with the floor at only two points granting the occupant the ability […]

Prostatic congestion

Prostatic congestion is a medical condition of the prostate gland (prostatosis) that happens when the prostate becomes swollen by excess fluid. The condition often results in a sufferer feeling the urge to urinate frequently.

Some physicians recommend reducing congestion in the prostate by ejaculating more frequently or by massaging the prostate regularly. Excessive alcohol intake, perineal […]

Triangulation (chess)

Triangulation is a tactic used in chess endgames to put one’s opponent in zugzwang. It is normally used in king and pawn endgames when one king can maneuver on three adjacent squares in the shape of a triangle and maintain the basic position while the opposing king only has two such squares. Thus, […]

The Crow: City of Angels (album)

The original soundtrack of the 1996 motion picture The Crow: City of Angels, sequel to the 1994 film The Crow. The album includes a cover of the Fleetwood Mac song “Gold Dust Woman” by Hole, as well as tracks by other heavyweight artists such as White Zombie, Korn and Iggy Pop.

Initial pressings contained a […]

X-chair

An X-chair is a chair with X-shaped frame. It was known in Ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece.

History
A type of folding chair with a frame like an X viewed from the front or the side originated in medieval Italy. Also known as a Savonarola or Dante chair in Italy, or a Luther chair in […]

SVS

SVS may refer to:

Spy vs Spy

Sakam Vo Sonje (SVS) - Sakam sakam ke poludam.

IBM Single Virtual Storage (SVS) - precursor of MVS which had a very short life

Software Virtualization Solution- Altiris Software Virtual Layering Software.

Standard VIE Settings - The original settings used by the creators of the internet multiplayer game […]

Sour Punch

Sour Punch is a brand of sour candy, manufactured by American Licorice Company, and they come in the following variety: straws, bites, ropes, beans, and twists. It is one of the first brands to enter the sour candy market in North America by 1990.

Original flavors

Grape

Cherry

Strawberry

Apple

Watermelon

Blue […]

Type 97

Type 97 may refer:

Japanese weapons

Type 97 grenade

Type 97 Sniper Rifle

Type 97 20mm AT Rifle

Type 97 Light Machine Gun

Type 97 81 mm infantry mortar

Type 97 90mm Infantry Mortar

Type 97 150mm Infantry Mortar

Type 97 Chi-Ha, a medium tank

Type 97 Te-Ke, a light tank

Type 97 torpedo

Don Clune

Donald Andrew Clune (born August 31, 1952 in Havertown, Pennsylvania) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned All-American honors in both football and track. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the 1974 NFL Draft. […]

Ambrogio Casati

Ambrogio Casati (december 27 1897 – july 19 1977) was an Italian painter.

He was born in Voghera, Italy in 1897 and was schooled in Paris in the plastic arts. Upon his return to Italy, he became associated with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the Futurist movement that was gaining force in the Italian arts scene of […]

Wassily Chair

The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-26 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty. However, Kandinsky […]

Sotai

Sotai is a Japanese form of Therapy, which was invented by Keizo Hashimoto a Japanese Medical Doctor (1897 - 1993) who had trained in Martial Arts and Massage. He developed a model of treatment that was based on returning natural body alignment by working with the breath and moving toward comfort rather than adjusting […]

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 […]

Magnetic gun

There are several types of guns which operate on principles based on magnetism:

coilgun

railgun

See
also

electromagnetic bomb

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Central Transitway (OC Transpo)

The Central Transitway is the downtown section of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s transitway. This section of the transitway uses dedicated lanes on existing streets, namely Albert Street for westbound routes and Slater Street for eastbound routes. These lanes are dedicated to buses only on weekdays from the start of morning rush hour (6:00AM) to the end […]

Don Clune

Donald Andrew Clune (born August 31, 1952 in Havertown, Pennsylvania) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned All-American honors in both football and track. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the 1974 NFL Draft. […]

C battery (vacuum tubes)

In electronics, a C battery is any battery used to provide bias to the control grid of a vacuum tube. Until the early 1930s this was common practice in valve (tube) radio sets but was largely superseded by grid leak resistors or voltage divider biasing.

Grid bias batteries are still manufactured today, but not for radio […]

Kamai

Kamais are a Himalayan people who are Aryan in origin. The Kamais resemble the Damais closely in physical features and are found in Sikkim and Kalimpong in India. They are mostly Hindus and their traditional occupations were as smiths, namely goldsmiths and blacksmiths and believed to be the designer of Khukuri, the Nepalese traditional weopon. […]

Glastonbury chair

Glastonbury chair is a 19th century term for an earlier wooden folding chair, usually of oak, possibly based on a chair made for the last Abbot of Glastonbury, England. The Glastonbury chair was known to exist since the Early Middle Ages, but seems to have disappeared from use in part of the Later Middle Ages;Folding […]

Renaissance Malibu

Renaissance Malibu Treatment Center is an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center in Malibu, California. The center can accommodate both men and women seeking residential, outpatient, day treatment, extended care, and/or sober living services. The maximum number of clients at any given time is twelve. This creates an opportunity for individual care not found in the […]

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, […]

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Pyramid (cigarette)

Pyramid is a cigarette brand manufactured by Liggett Group, Inc., based in Mebane, North Carolina. Pyramid was introduced in 1988 as the first “branded discount” cigarette. It is available in 11 versions as of February, 2006.

External link

Liggett Vector Brands, Inc. products - [1]

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 […]

Korea Computer Centre Sinhung Company is a software development group headquartered in Pyongyang, North Korea. The company is involved in software on order, bioinformatics, video games, multimedia and recognition systems.

Sinhung Computer has diversified into massage gels and agar-agar.

It imports software, hardware, network equipment and other electronics into Korea.

External links

Sinhung’s corporate listing on Naenara

Information Bridge

Information Bridge Framework is an Office programmability framework from Microsoft Corp targeting Microsoft Office 2003. It can be used to extract data from Office documents or embedding functionality of Office applications in custom applications.

External links

Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework

Vasyl Volha

Vasil Volga was a candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the non-governmental organization “Public Control”, of which he has been chair since 2000. Born in 1968 he is one of the youngest presidential candidates. From 1997 to 2000 he was chair of the International Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs. The major thesis of […]

LMT

LMT may stand for:

Klamath Falls Airport in Klamath Falls, Oregon, the IATA airport code.

Large Millimeter Telescope, the largest single dish radiotelescope at millimetric and submillimetric wavelenghts.

Latvian Mobile Telephone (Latvian: Latvijas Mobilais Telefons), the largest mobile phone operator in Latvia.

Licensed Massage Therapist

Liquid mirror telescope, a type of telescope that uses a rotating surface of liquid metal […]

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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Catherine Dauvergne

Catherine Dauvergne is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law and she holds the Canada Research Chair in Migration Law. Her book Humanitarianism, Identity and Nation: Migration Laws of Australia and Canada was published in 2005. She is currently working on a new book on globalization and illegal migration.

Armchair

An armchair is a chair with arm rests.

Armchair may also refer to:

Armchair nanotube, a carbon nanotube with chiral symmetry

Armchair, a sitting sex position

Armchair (bus company), a bus operator in London

“Armchair”, a song by Avail from their 1996 album 4am Friday

Armchair can also be used as a pejorative modifier to refer to a person who experiences […]

Tony Price

Tony Price (1937-2000) was a self-styled “Atomic Artist” and outspoken antinuclear activist. After visiting Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1967 and discovering their salvage yard, he began to create utilitarian objects such as chairs and tables and musical instruments, especially wind chimes and gongs, out of their discarded scraps. He later moved on to creating […]

Smaller Chairs for the Early 1900s is the first release by the rock band Moneen.

Track listing

“How Many Other Girls Are There In The World Anyway?” – 4:03

“Wrath of the Donkey Remix” – 5:24

“The Passing of America”(Demo) – 4:37

“This Year I’ve Had Enough” – 5:57