Archive for August, 2008



Facial

A facial is a cosmetic treatment of the face, commonly involving a variety of skin treatments, including: steam, exfoliation, extraction, creams, lotions, masks, peels, and massage. Normally performed in a beauty salon but it is also a common spa treatment.

Facials go by different categories of facials, for example:

European Facial

Mini-Facial

Tools used in facial treatments

facial bed […]

Osim and Akuma Nnubi

Osim and Akuma Nnubi were brothers and merchant princes of the Akpa people from the east of the Cross River in the late 17th century. Their people had firearms and were allies with the Igbo. When Nnachi called them to assist the Igbos in the Aro-Ibibio wars, they answered. Leading their people, they helped defeat […]

Resemblance

Resemblance may refer to:

Resemblance: as in “you have a resemblance to your brother” (In the case of twins) see analogy and similarity.

Resemblance nominalism

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s family resemblances.

In text mining, the degree to which two documents resemble each other, calculated using shingles.

Congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (CLDO) is literally a tear duct that has failed to open at the time of birth. Around 6% of infants have CLDO, usually experiencing a persistent watery eye even when not crying. If a secondary infection occurs, purulent (yellow / green) discharge may be present.

Most cases resolve spontaneously, with antibiotics […]

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

There are many different massage therapist organizations with many different purposes. Many separate techniques have their own professional association to support their work.

ABMP
Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP) is the largest membership organization of Professional Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers in the United States.

The AMTA
The American Massage Therapy Association was founded in 1943. […]

Corporate action

A corporate action is an event initiated by a public company that affects the securities (equity or debt) issued by the company. Some corporate actions such as a dividend (for equity securities) or coupon payment (for debt securities (bonds)) may have a direct financial impact on the shareholders or bondholders; another example is a […]

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Duet Acting

Duet Acting (often shortened to “Duet” or abberviated as “DA” in tournament schedules and results) is an event in competitive high school forensics. Similar to Duo Interpretation, Duet Acting varies in two major respects: first, Duet is not an official National Forensic League event although some state organizations, such as the Texas Forensic Association and […]

Intensity (physics)

In physics, intensity is a measure of the time-averaged energy flux. To find the intensity, take the energy density (that is, the energy per unit volume) and multiply it by the velocity at which the energy is moving. The resulting vector has the units of power divided by area (i.e. watt/m²). It is possible to […]

Rescue craft

A rescue craft is a boat or ship used in rescuing.

Some of these are found on beaches used by Lifeguards, they also operate at events, such a service is provided by Colwick Park Lifeguards who are based in Nottingham but operate throughout the UK.

Crash rescue boat
Crash rescue boats are military high-speed offshore rescue […]

Deal Casino

The Deal Casino is a recreational area located on the Atlantic Ocean shore of Deal, New Jersey.

Although the facility is called a “casino,” there is no gambling on the premises.

It features swimming pools, beach and snack bar.

Behind the main gate, the complex opens on a large saltwater swimming pool. The 50 m pool is one […]

The Chair

For the method of execution nicknamed The Chair, see electric chair.

For the game show known as The Chair, see The Chair (game show).

The Chair is a fence jumped during the Grand National horse race at Aintree, Liverpool, England.

It is one of only two fences (the other being the Water Jump) in the race […]

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 […]

Solage (poetry)

Solage is a specific form of humorous verse with the following properties:

It has three lines (called the hook, the line and the sinker) of irregular length.

The rhyming structure is AAB.

The third line is a pun based on the previous two lines.

The form was invented by the Melbourne-based performance poet Cameron M. Semmens.

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX7

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX7 is a compact digital camera that was announced in July, 2004. (The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX2 was announced at the same time.) It has Universal Serial Bus connectivity and has a mass of 153 grams.
Like most Lumix models the DMC-FX7 is equipped with a Leica lens. Its 2.5 inch LCD display […]

How to Solve It By Computer is a 1982 book by R. G. Dromey (Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-434001-9).

It is an introduction to the whys of algorithms and data-structures.
Features of the book :

The design factors associated with problems

The creative process behind coming up with innovative solutions for algorithms and data structures

The line of reasoning behind the […]

Quickshot Trackball

The Quickshot Trackball was an NES controller with two buttons, a limited-movement trackball, and a switch to set it for either a right-handed or left-handed player. Like most non-standard NES controllers of the time, it was difficult to work properly, as games usually were not designed with it in mind. An exception is […]

Production Bike Racing

Production Bike Racing is a form of Motorcycle sport that involves racing motorcycles virtually unmodified from those that can be bought in shops and then ridden on public highways.

The most common subcategory is the 250 cc production bike class, in which “race-replica” motorcycles that superficially resemble Grand Prix machines but have engines capable of meeting […]

Plymouth Voyager

The Plymouth Voyager and Plymouth Grand Voyager were minivans marketed by DaimlerChrysler (they were sold by the Chrysler Corporation until 1998). The Voyager was originally a full-size van from 1974 to 1983, but the name was used again for a minivan in 1984. The Voyager minivan, along with the Chrysler Town and Country and Dodge […]

Word formation

In linguistics, word formation is the creation of a new word. Word formation is sometimes contrasted with semantic change, which is a change in a single word’s meaning. The line between word formation and semantic change is sometimes a bit blurry; what one person views as a new use of an old word, another person […]

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 […]

Power Of The Dragonflame is a promo for the album Power of the Dragonflame released by Symphonic Metal band Rhapsody in 2002.

Track listing

“Knightrider Of Doom (Full Song)” - 3:58

“The March Of The Swordmaster (Edit)” - 2:07

“Agony Is My Name (Edit)” - 1:47

“Steelgods Of The Last Apocalypse (Edit)” -2:25

“Lamento Eroico (Edit)” - 1:41

Immelmann turn

The Immelmann Turn (also spelled as Immelman turn; also known as a roll-off-the-top, or simply an Immelmann) is an aerial maneuver, named after World War I German flying ace Max Immelmann. It is an aerobatic maneuver, of little practical use in aerial combat, and in fact is a different maneuver altogether from the original dogfighting […]

Proto Motors

Proto Motors is a South Korean sports car manufacturer and refitter. It was established in 1997, and has forged partnerships with Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors, and GM Daewoo. It introduced the Spirra (a production model of PS-ll) at the 4th Seoul Motor Show. Presently, the company specializes in redesigning existing models by […]

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]

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 […]

Botkin

Botkin (), or Botkina (feminine; Боткина), is a common Russian or Scottish surname, which may refer to:

Benjamin A. Botkin, American folklorist

Cordelia Botkin, American murderer

Daniel Botkin, author and environmentalist, son of Benjamin A. Botkin

Eugene Botkin, Russian court physician, father of Gleb and Tatiana

Gleb Botkin, Russian court physician, son of Eugene Botkin

Perry Botkin, Jr., American composer, […]

Oil Jeans

Oil Jeans is a domestic Korean clothing manufacturer and jeans label. The label targets their products on younger generation of South Korean as:

urban street style

vintage denim look

men and women in the early 20s

Domestic brands compete with imported brands from Europe and the United States.

Reference

Oil Jeans

Sick role

The Sick Role was a concept invented by Talcott Parsons in 1951. It is a term widely used in medical sociology. The theory outlined two rights of a sick person and two obligations:

Rights:

The sick person is exempt from normal social roles

The sick person is not responsible for their condition

Obligations:

The sick person should […]

Job lock

Job lock occurs when a person feels unable to leave a job which is strongly disliked or unsuitable to their abilities because doing so will result in the loss of employee benefits (usually health or retirement related). It is more common in the United States where most people have health insurance through their employer.

An example […]

Susan Turnbull

Susan Turnbull is an American political organiser, who has served as a Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee since February of 2005.

She has been a DNC Member since 1992. During her tenure at the DNC she has also served as a DNC Deputy Chair and Chair of the DNC Women’s Caucus. She served as […]

Chris Parker, Chief Development Officer and Senior Producer, Obsidian Entertainment - Mr. Parker entered the Electronic Entertainment industry in 1995 and has directly managed all phases of the internal and external development of over twenty published products including the over two million unit seller – Baldur’s Gate. He has also developed a key understanding of […]

Type I keratin

Type I keratins (or Type I cytokeratins) constitutes the Type I intermediate filaments (IFs) of the intracytoplasmatic cytoskeleton, which is present in all mammalian epithelial cells. Most of the type I cytokeratins consist of acidic, low molecular weight proteins which in vivo are arranged in pairs of heterotypic Type I and Type II keratin chains, […]

GEOnet Names Server

The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names’ (BGN) database of geographic feature names and locations for locations outside the United States. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN. Approximately 20,000 of the database’s features […]

Regimen

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