A day spa is a business establishment which people visit for personal care treatments such as massages and facials. It is similar to a beauty salon in that it is only visited for the duration of the treatment. In contrast, a destination spa offers the same services in a hotel setting where people […]

Geodashing is an outdoor sport in which players use GPS receivers on a playing field that covers the entire planet. The waypoints, or dashpoints, to be reached are randomly selected. The win goes to the team that reaches the most dashpoints in a given time.

The game started in early June 2001.

The first game spanned two […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat is a nursery rhyme.

Rhyme

Pussy cat, pussy cat,

Where have you been?

I’ve been to London to visit the Queen.

Pussy cat, pussy cat,

What did you do there?

I chased a little mouse right under the chair.

The last line sometimes sung as:

I frightened a little mouse, under her 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 […]

Pernink (German: Bärringen) is a village in Karlovy Vary District in the Czech Republic. It is situated in the valley of Bílá Bystřice at 840 m above the sea level. It has approximately 650 residents.

At the beginning of the 16th century, mining pioneers settled in the area dominated by dense forest. According to a legend, a […]

A wind controller, sometimes referred to as a “wind synth” or “wind synthesizer”, can loosely be defined as an electronic wind instrument. Wind controllers are most commonly played and fingered like a saxophone though models have been produced that play and finger like other acoustic instruments such as the trumpet, recorder, tin whistle, and others. […]

William James “Kimo” Wall was born in Hawaii in 1943. (”Kimo” is the Hawaiian equivalent of “Jim”.) At the age of six he began training in Goju-ryu karate under teachers who had studied with Miyagi Chojun during his three-year stay in Hawaii. In 1961 he joined the US Marine Corps and was stationed […]

Irish crochet is a type of lace, which has its origin in the famine years of the 19th century in Ireland. Charity groups sought to revive the economy by teaching crochet lace technique at no charge to anyone willing to learn. This type of lace is characterized by separately crocheted motifs which were later […]

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 ZF S6-650 is a 6-speed manual transmission manufactured by ZF Friedrichshafen AG. It is designed for longitudinal engine applications and can handle up to 520 ft·lbf (705 N·m) of torque.

General Motors used the S6 as RPO ML6.

Gear ratios:

1

2

3

4

5

6

R

5.79

3.31

2.10

1.31

1.00

0.72

5.23

Applications:

2001–Present Ford Super Duty F-250 to F-550

2004–2005 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD and 3500

2004–2005 GMC Sierra 2500HD and […]

Liggett Select is a brand of cigarettes manufactured by Liggett Group, Inc., based in Mebane, North Carolina. Liggett Select is the company’s top seller in the United States.

References, external links

Liggett Vector Brands, Inc. products - [1]

List of digital camera brands past and present, updated to 2005, but may miss some. With some of the brands, the name used was of an older or bigger company. Not all makers of devices that can take digital images are listed here, such as many industrial digital camera makers, some webcam brands, and possibly […]

GammaSight Technologies is a leader in the newly established Homeland Security Sector.

Observing vulnerability in existing homeland defense capabilities, GammaSight’s physicists began work on a revolutionary approach for detecting dangerous materials in a fast, safe, secure and accurate manner. The resulting product is a detection and inspection system named NIRIDS (Non Intrusive Rapid Inspection and Detection […]

Dr. Gerald Deskin, Ph.D. (January 10 1929 - March 9 2004) was a clinical child psychologist, marriage and family therapist. He was credited with the founding of The Learning Center Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to research and the diffusion of knowledge for assisting those with learning disabilities, especially dyslexia, in children. The Learning […]

Vermont Route 11 (abbreviated VT 11) is an east-west state highway in Vermont. The western end of the highway is at Vermont Route 7A in Manchester. The eastern end is at the New Hampshire border at the Cheshire Bridge over the Connecticut River, connecting Springfield, Vermont and Charlestown, New Hampshire. The route […]

In BEAM robotics, a walker is a walking machine that has a driven mode of locomotion by intermittent ground-contacting legs. They usually possess 1 to 12 motors. (ed. motors numbering above 3 are uncommon) “Muscle wired” walkers ultilizes Nitinol (nickel - titanium alloy) for its actuators.

BEAM walking robots are creating using something called NV […]

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

The ZERO candy bar, introduced in 1920, is a candy bar composed of a combination of caramel, peanut and almond nougat covered with a layer of white fudge. Its outwardly white color, an unusual color for a candy bar, has become its trademark.

History
ZERO was first launched by the Hollywood Brands candy company […]

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 […]

See the following pages for lists of integrals:

List of integrals of rational functions

List of integrals of irrational functions

List of integrals of trigonometric functions

List of integrals of inverse trigonometric functions

List of integrals of hyperbolic functions

List of integrals of arc hyperbolic functions

List of integrals of exponential functions

List of integrals […]

Gudauri is a ski resort located on the southern slopes of The Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in Georgia. The resort is situated in the Stepantsminda District, along the Georgian Military Highway near the Cross Pass, at an elevation of 2,196 meters (7,200ft.) above sea level. Gudauri lies 120km (75 miles) to the north of the […]

PVP can mean:

Petit Véhicule Protégé, a French military jeep.

Player versus player combat in multiplayer computer role-playing games.

The PvP webcomic.

Portable Video Player, a type of Portable media player

Post-Vasectomy Pain Syndrome

A German-speaking Swiss hip hop crew/rapper/DJ/producer.

PVP-OPM (Protected Video Path - Output Protection Management) is a form of DRM

Polyvinylpyrrolidone, a […]

The Lighted Program Function Keyboard (LPFK) is a computer input device manufactured by IBM that presents an array of buttons associated with lights.
Each button is associated to a function in supporting software, and according to the availability of that function in current context of the application, the light is switched on or off, giving the […]

Lock is a function that locks part of a keyboard keys depending on the lock settings selected.
Most keyboards have three different types of lock functions:

Number Lock – Num Lock

Capital Lock – Caps Lock

Scrolling Lock – Scroll Lock

The lock keys are scattered around the keyboard. Most styles of keyboards have three LEDs indicating which locks […]

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 […]

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 […]

Andréas Voutsinas is a Greek actor. In the English speaking world, he is best known for his roles in three Mel Brooks films:- 1968’s The Producers, 1970’s The Twelve Chairs and 1981’s History of the World, Part I.

Biography
Andréas Voutsinas became the original Carmen Ghia after befriending Mel’s girlfriend of the time Anne Bancroft. She recommended […]

Perineal massage is the practice of massaging the perineum to make it more flexible in preparation for childbirth. The intention is to attempt to prevent tearing of the perineum during birth, the need for an episiotomy or an instrument (forceps or vacuum extraction) delivery.

Randomized clinical trials of perineal massage have shown its effectiveness in reducing […]

Prostate massage and prostate milking are terms used to describe the massage or stimulation of the prostate gland in males, either for medical or sexual purposes. The two terms are interchangeable, although “massage” is more frequently used when the purpose is relief of symptoms of chronic prostatitis, and “milking” when the purpose is the reduction […]

Turf may refer to:

Lawn, an area of grass maintained for decorative or recreational use

Sod, the surface layer of ground consisting of a matt of grass and grass roots, sometimes used as a construction material

AstroTurf, or any variety of artificial turf made to resemble grass

A colloquialism for the world of horse-racing

Slang […]

Lakewood Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory near Atlanta, Georgia. Opened in 1927, the plant was the first that the UAW staged a strike against in 1936.

Intially, Lakewood was referred to as ‘Atlanta’ and coded as ‘8′ on vehicle VIN plates, changing to ‘A’ when GM reshuffled their codes for 1953. For 1972, […]

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 […]

The London Aquarium is located on the ground floor of County Hall on the South Bank of the River Thames in central London, near the London Eye. It first opened in 1997. The aquarium claims that a million visitors a year view its displays.

It is a collection of water tanks showing around 350 species of […]

For other mountains by this name, see Cascade Mountain.

Cascade Mountain is in Essex County of New York. It is one of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks and is located in the Adirondack Park. Its name comes from a series of waterfalls on a brook near the mountain’s base. The lake it flows into and […]

XBCD is a driver that allows owners of a Xbox controller to use it on a Windows computer. The controller itself is an USB device with an extra wire (V-sync, usually yellow). With an appropriate adaptor, users can use the controller with a PC.

XBCD also supports Xbox 360 Controllers, allowing them expanded support for DirectInput.

The […]

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 […]

Interlocking directorate refers to the practice of members of corporate board of directors serving on the boards of multiple corporations. This practice, although widespread and lawful, raises questions about the quality and independence of board decisions.

The average board of directors has nine members, and the total population of board members of public companies traded […]

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 […]

Petrissage are massage movements with applied pressure which are deep and compress the underlying muscles. Kneading, wringing, skin rolling and pick-up-and-squeeze are the petrissage movements. They are all performed with the padded palmar surface of the hand, the surface of the finger and also the thumbs.

When kneading the hands should be moulded to […]

For other uses of Martell please see Martell (disambiguation).

Martell is a leading manufacturer of Cognac, founded by Jean Martell in 1715. It was sold in 1988 by the Firino-Martell family to Seagram and again in 2002 to the Pernod Ricard Group, which also owns the Cognac brands Biscuit and Renault[1].

The cellar master was, up to […]

A long range locator is a device purported to be a type of metal detector used to detect deposits of gold or similar precious materials; most are said to operate on a principle of resonance with the material being detected.

Many treasure hunters swear by the devices; however, skeptics have examined the internals of many such […]

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