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I've seen the honorific "o"/"go" (is it called bikago?) being used as politness or reverence: o-cha for non-western tea, o-namae when talking about someone else's name, o-genki instead of just genki, and o-tera for Buddhist temple.
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We have a project involving Linux programming. Unfortunately, we have only an ssh interface, and not a convenient graphic one. What can we do? We heard that xterm can solve our problems, but we couldn't run it properly (We get: cant open DISPLAY, depite the fact that we tried DISPLAY=:0.0 and ... | web |
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In the aftermath of the Tupolev 154 crash which killed Poland's president last Saturday, scrutiny initially focused on the aircraft, an obsolescent design that hard largely been retired from fleets elsewhere in the world. The implication was that here in the West, where aircraft are newer and better maintained, this ac... | web |
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Reasonable people can disagree vehemently on the meaning of the First Amendment, as demonstrated by the 5-to-4 margin of Monday's Supreme Court ruling on prayer. The court ruled that the First Amendment permits even a Christian prayer at the start of a government board meetin... | web |
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years
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Wildlife comprises those forms of animal life that are not domesticated. Individual members of wild species held tame in captivity are still considered "wildlife" as they are not genetically different from those remaining in a wild state. Wildlife conservation and management is t... | web |
The Truth about Data Mining
Data mining has a significantly broad reach and application. It can be applied in any situation where it is necessary to discover potential knowledge from vast amounts of data. Throughout this article, the word knowledge is used to refer to meaningful patterns derived through techniques i... | web |
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When there's a nip in the air, you can count on many things. One such thing is that there will be bags of cranberries available at your local supermarket. Nothing heralds the coming holidays quite like piles of bright red berries.
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This is the definitive study of the history and accomplishments of the Frankfurt School. It offers elegantly written portraits of the major figures in the school's history as well as overviews of the various pos... | web |
Where Will Jesus Live?
Q. I get myself confused trying to decipher where Jesus will be during the Millennium. I understand that the New Jerusalem is a “satellite” where we the church will reside. Will what we now know as the current Jerusalem still exist on the earth? I tend to think it will based on Zech. 8:4-5. From... | web |
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A linear system of divisors algebraicizes the classic geometric notion of a family of curves, as in the Apollonian circles.
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Women’s historically unequal social status is systematically misunderstood by feminist theory. Status, women’s status included, is best explained by reference to the pressing problems a society needs to solve to preserve itself and flourish. Simply put, th... | web |
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Hernia surgery treatments are used to repair a variety of types of hernias including epigastric, umbilical, incisional, lumbar, hiatal and Spigelian hernias.
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Although the influence powerhouses that line Washington's K Street are just a few miles from the U.S. Capitol building, the most direct path between the two doesn't involve public transportation. Instead, it's through a door-the revolving door that deposits federal employees in jobs as lobbyists, con... | web |
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Complete all of the following assignments:
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Nuclear reactions and Einstein's famous formula
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Data Caps and 1-800 Numbers
If data caps are like 1-800 numbers, the same consumer protections that apply to phone numbers must also apply to data.
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Vortex Point Experiments
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As promised, here is an account of our experiments. I work with one researcher who doesn't want his names to be used, Jean-louis Naudin, and a few others who contribute from time to time. The theory comes from me, for the most part. I became interested in the subject of possible poin... | web |
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Obedience: An Introduction
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Who’s Training Who?
I tell my students that the race starts the second that you get your new dog / puppy. Are you going to train them, or are they going to train you? If you do not train them, they have trained you, and won that race. My second lesson is that it is not t... | web |
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Thanks to Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" the global warming debate is back in the news. In reading up on this debate I have encountered another example of intellectual recklessness in the attempt to convince people that they have nothing... | web |
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Most computers make it especially easy for users to backup their data. Usually all that’s required is an external drive, which is relatively inexpensive. Both PC’s and Macintosh computers come equipped with built in backup software that is easy to navigate, but you may also elect to purchase backup software that is cap... | web |
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The clone
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Consistent Bedtime Could Be Good for Kids' Health
Sleep issues can oftentimes a concern for both parents and their children alike.
Anxiety over sleeping patterns generally begin when children are infants and continue as they age. Oftentimes, as research indicated, a consistent bedtime may not only be good for parent... | web |
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In Exodus 3:5 KJV God tells Moses to remove his shoes:
There is no doubt that God deserves and should be given every respect we can offer.
I can find no information as to why Moses was to remove his shoes at the burning bush, other than as a form of respect.
While I understand that the gro... | web |
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This answer says that the serpent convinced Eve to eat the apple to avoid death by saying "surely not die".
Since they are described as the first people that existed, what could death mean to them?
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Why New BP (NYSE:BP) Containment Cap Takes Time to Test
The first thing to understand about the new containment cap being tested on the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, is it's a temporary measure, and is being put in place until the more permanent relief well is put in place, which wi... | web |
Why do pipes burst they way they do?
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Why do pipes burst they way they do?
We’re currently experiencing colder-than-seasonal weather here in Seattle. This is causing a lot of problems with burst water pipes. Here is a picture of a couple of issues suffered by a friend... | web |
The Dallas Pike
The “Dallas Pike” was developed by members of the Dallas Fire Department and is known throughout the United States. It is used for ripping through the tongue and groove ceilings of buildings in older cities. It requires a one-man operation of driving the point into the wood ceiling, slamming it up and... | web |
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Though it may sound a very primitive question to native English speakers, the use of ‘article’ is always the greatest headache to me because we don’t have this part of speech in our language system (I don’t think Chinese language has it either).
I’ve vaguely learned the rules of articles in E... | web |
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