Archive for June, 2008
In mathematical logic, in particular in model theory and non-standard analysis, an internal set is a set that is a member of a model.
Edward Nelson’s internal set theory is a constructivist version of non-standard analysis. Its name should not mislead the reader: conventional infinitary accounts of non-standard analysis also use the concept of internal […]
The death chair is a term for a seating device used in the executions of criminals who have been condemned to the death penalty. A death chair is utilized in the following methods of execution:
Electrocution, where an electric chair restrains the inmate while an electrical current passes through his or her body.
Gas chamber, which has […]
Massage chairs come in 2 main types.
Traditional massage chairs
Ergonomically designed chairs for positioning a person who will be receiving a massage, similar in function to a massage table. Chairs may be either stationary or portable models.
Massage chairs are easier for the therapist to maneuver than massage tables, and clients do not need to disrobe […]
A template is a device used by NASCAR and other sanctioning bodies to check the body shape and height of racing vehicles. The template is used to check that teams have manufactured the sheet metal used in the vehicle bodies to within tight tolerances. Different templates have different tolerances (from 0.07 to 0.5 inches).
NASCAR […]
Festivals in Florida reflect the state’s cultural heritage and play an important role in the cultural life of Floridians. They range from city-wide urban celebrations with corporate sponsors to rural fairs with tents and booths in a large field. Many festivals in Florida center around a food produced in the region, such as the Fellsmere […]
The 260 is a 5-speed manual transmission manufactured by Getrag. It is designed for longitudinal engine applications and can handle up to 221 ft·lb (300 N·m) of torque.
General Motors used the 220 as RPO M35.
Gear ratios:
1
2
3
4
5
R
3.83
2.20
1.40
1.00
0.81
3.71
Applications:
2003–2004 Cadillac CTS
1984-1991 BMW 3-Series
See also
List of Getrag transmissions
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 […]
Tangophobia Vol. 1: Contemporary Sounds of Buenos Aires is a compilation CD released by Argentine independent label Constitution Music. It contains tracks from different neo-tango and electronic artists from Buenos Aires, including NeoShaft, B.A. Jam, Hybrid Tango and Tanghetto.
The most important point of interest of this compilation are five unreleased tracks from the band Tanghetto, […]
Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups (also referred to as Mozilla Mail/News or simply Mozilla Mail) is an e-mail and news client that is part of the Mozilla Application Suite.
Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups features e.g. support for relevant protocols such as IMAP, POP3 and SMTP, a built-in Bayesian spam filter, support for multiple accounts, etc. The feature […]
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 […]
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 […]
The context of Equality of treatment is usually in interpersonal relations, especially in the relation of the individual to an organization (usually government). All persons are treated the same by the person or organization of interest.
No two people are treated differently. Impartiality and fairness are both accepted by all parties, because preference is […]
Andrew Gordon is a prominent scholar of modern Japanese history. He is a faculty member at Harvard University and chairs the Department of History there.
Selected works
The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955. (1985) ISBN 0-674-27130-0.
Postwar Japan as History (ed). (1993) ISBN 0-520-07475-0.
Iron Palm or Iron Hand (Chinese: 铁掌功; Cantonese: tit1 zoeng2 gung1) is a body of training techniques in various Chinese martial arts. These techniques are typically meant to condition the hands and body to allow a practitioner to deliver very powerful blows without injury to his or her body.
Iron palm is a broad term, as […]
A groupset or gruppo (from the Italian for “group”, often misspelled grouppo) is a bicycle component manufacturer’s organized collection of mechanical parts. It generally refers to all of the components that make up a bicycle excluding the bicycle frame, forks, stem, wheels, tires, and rider contact points, such as the saddle and handlebars.
These parts typically […]
In the context of a relational database table, a column is a set of data values of a particular simple type, one for each row of the table.The term “column” also has equivalent application in other, more generic contexts. See e.g., Flat file database, Table (information). The columns provide the structure according to which the […]
Suave is a brand name based in Chicago, IL used by the Unilever company in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Targeting discount stores, the brand represents more than 100 products including shampoo, lotions, soaps and deodorant.
Suave started in the United States in 1937 as a hair tonic. The brand eventually was acquired by Unilever […]
The Science Power Platform (SPP) () was a planned Russian element of the International Space Station (ISS) that was originally planned to be delivered to the ISS by a Russian Proton rocket or Zenit rocket (it was originally designed to be part of Mir-2) but was shifted to launch by Space Shuttle as part as […]
Formal cause is a concept used by Aristotle, and originates from the idea of the form by Plato and Socrates.
The formal cause according to which a statue is made is the idea existing in the first place as exemplar in the mind of the sculptor, and in the second place as intrinsic, determining cause, embodied […]
For other uses, see Oil (disambiguation).
An oil is any substance that is in a viscous liquid state (“oily”) at ambient temperatures or slightly warmer, and is both hydrophobic (immiscible with water, literally “water fearing”) and lipophilic (miscible with other oils, literally “fat loving”). This general definition includes compound classes with otherwise unrelated chemical structures, properties, […]
An orbital maneuver is a change from one orbit to another, accomplished by applying thrust. In deep space it is called deep-space maneuver (DSM).
Impulsive maneuvers
An impulsive maneuver approximates a finite thrust maneuver by adding an instantaneous velocity change to an ephemeris record while maintaining the position. During the planning phase of most space missions, designers […]
Breema is a form of bodywork. Breema has been described as a cross between partner yoga and Thai massage. Self-Breema refers to a vast repertoire of exercises that are a part of the comprehensive system of Breema.
The Nine Principles of Breema
Body Comfortable
When we look at the body, not as something separate, but as […]
Chairs Missing is the second album by the band Wire. It was released in 1978. Although it shares a punk-derived “outsider” voice with the band’s debut, Pink Flag, it features more developed song structure (taking some cues from 70’s prog-rock and art rock) and a broader palette of emotional and intellectual subject matter. The album […]
The Survival Option is the 2002 debut single by thrash metal band Gama Bomb.
Released independently throughout the UK & Ireland. All lyrics and music written by Gama Bomb.
Track Listing
Hell Trucker
Zombie Kommand
Other Information
Re-recorded versions of these songs appear on Gama Bomb’s full length 2006 debut Survival of the Fastest.
External links
Official site
Witches Brew
Breema is a form of bodywork. Breema has been described as a cross between partner yoga and Thai massage. Self-Breema refers to a vast repertoire of exercises that are a part of the comprehensive system of Breema.
The Nine Principles of Breema
Body Comfortable
When we look at the body, not as something separate, but as […]
There are several different types of news clients, depending on the type of service the user needs - whether intended primarily for discussion or for downloading files posted to the alt.binaries hierarchy. Although Usenet originally started as a message board without any file attachment ability, many Usenet users today do not participate in NNTP discussion […]
Volksrods are modified Volkswagen beetles. They are used as an alternative to traditional hot rods and are quickly growing in popularity. Classic Ford Model T’s and Model A’s are becoming more scarce and more valuable. It has reached the point that only people with money can afford to build and hot rod these types […]
The Hardcore Chair Swingin’ Freaks was the tag team of Balls Mahoney and Axl Rotten most notably seen in Extreme Championship Wrestling. Another name used by the pair was Rotten Balls referring to their respective names.
As their original name implies the main weapons used by the team are steel chairs, Balls’ chair usually had “BALLS” […]
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 […]
A substructural logic that denies the structural rule of contraction. It can also be characterized as linear logic with weakening.
Affine logic can be embedded into linear logic by rewriting the affine arrow <math>A \rightarrow B</math> as the linear arrow <math>A {-\!\circ} B \otimes \top</math>.
Whereas full linear logic (ie. linear logic with multiplicatives, additives and exponentials) […]
The Game Gun is the only light gun released for the Panasonic / Goldstar 3DO video game console. It was released in 1994 by American Laser Games, makers of full motion video shooter games. The Game Gun is almost exactly the same as the Peacekeeper Revolver, except with a notable color difference. The peripheral […]
A pinion is usually the smallest gear in a gear drive train. In many cases, such as remote controlled toys, the pinion is also the drive gear. In the case of John Blenkinsop’s The Salamanca the pinion was rather large.
The term is also commonly used to describe the smaller gear that drives in a 90-degree […]
The Cyberflora project is just one of the many projects developed by the media lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The project is part of the Anima Machina program at MIT- a program that was developed by Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Director of the Robotic Life Group Cynthia Breazeal. […]
The Hunkpapa are a Native American group, one of the seven branches of the Lakota Sioux tribe. During the 1870s, when the Native Americans of the Great Plains were fighting the United States, they were asked to join and did fight alongside Sitting Bull. The majority of Hunkpapa Lakota now reside in the Standing […]
The French post offices in Crete were among a collection of post offices maintained by foreign countries during the 1900s in Crete, after Crete had broken away from the Ottoman Empire and before it united with Greece, in 1913.
France issued postage stamps for its offices in Crete in 1902 and 1903. The first set included […]
This is a list of sports similar to baseball.
Sports thought to be descended from baseball:
Softball
Kickball
Punchball
Stickball
Tee Ball
Wiffleball
Finnish baseball
Brännboll / Brennball
Sports thought to share a common ancestor with baseball:
Cricket
Rounders
Town ball
Hurling
Shinty
Other sports:
Oina
Fictional sports:
BASEketball
Blernsball
German batball
Calvinball
Bomba a Mano (Italian meaning bomb by hand), is the Italian name for Hand grenade. The grenades typically take their name from their year of design, for example Mod 35 being from 1935.
Second World War grenades
Mod.35
Impact fuzed offensive hand grenades produced by Breda, OTO Melara and SRCM, typically painted red with a thin metal (normally […]
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 […]
Different uses of Dankali include:
Dankali or Damkali, a location in Georgia (country).
Located here is the Dankali temple from the 10th century.
Dankali, a location in Adamawa Province, Cameroon.
Dankali, the singular form of Danakil, is sometimes encountered as a name for the Afar people and/or their language. Note that Afar is the vernacular name.
The SR West Country and Battle of Britain Classes, also known as Bulleid ‘Light Pacifics’ or ‘Spam Cans’, are classes of ‘air-smoothed’ 4-6-2 steam locomotive designed for the Southern Railway by Oliver Bulleid. Incorporating a number of new developments in British steam locomotive technology, both classes were amongst the first British designs to utilise […]
Credit risk management is the process of finding and managing risk in an investment When the risk has been identified, investment decisions can be made and the risk vs. return balance considered from a better position.
The main way to reducing credit risk is by monitoring the behaviour of clients who wish apply for credit […]
Coining can be:
Production of money — see mint (coin), money, or monetarism.
creation or definition of neologisms (new words or phrases)
A machining process — see coining (machining)
Counterfeiting of coins.
A massage therapy practiced in China and Southeast Asia, also known as “coin rubbing” - see Gua Sha.
An Australian drinking game with similar rules to pennying but using […]
A wet cell is a galvanic electrochemical cell with a liquid electrolyte. A dry cell, on the other hand, is a cell with a pasty electrolyte. Wet cells were a precursor to dry cells and are commonly used as a learning tool for electrochemistry. It is often built with common laboratory supplies, like beakers, for […]
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deckchair is a folding chair with a fabric or vinyl backrest and seat. It may have an extended seat that is meant to be used as a leg rest and may have arm rests. It is meant for leisure, originally on a cruise ship’s deck.
To “rearrange the deck chairs” is a popular saying […]
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