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Serious Eats: Drinks
The Cider Press: Cider From Fruit to Glass
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The story of cider begins on the farm: great cider starts with great apples. This is by far the longest and least controllable part of the process. First, a farmer must decide which apple varietals to p... | web |
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AUTH_DES Authentication
Use AUTH_DES authentication for programs that require more security than AUTH_SYS provides. AUTH_SYS authentication is easy to defeat. For example, instead of using authsys_create_default(), a program can call authsys_create() and change the RPC authentication handle to ... | web |
Agricultural revolution
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For the Agrarian Revolution in China between 1927–1937, see Chinese Civil War.
An agricultural revolution or agrarian revolution is a period of transition from the pre-agricultural per... | web |
Boulder clay
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Boulder clay cliffs in Gwynedd with Dinas Dinlle in the background
Boulder clay, in geology, is a deposit of clay, often full of boulders, which is formed out of the ground moraine material of glaciers and ice-sheets wherever they are foun... | web |
Since Benjamin Franklin demonstrated the effectiveness of lightning rods in preventing or greatly reducing the damage from direct strikes, there have been many attempts to market other types of lightning protection systems (LPSs). These systems, which were touted by aggressive salespeople eager to share testimonials fr... | web |
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MIM-104 Patriot
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MIM-104 Patriot
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A Patriot system of the German Air Force in August 2005.
Type Mobile long range surface-to-air missile with anti-ballistic missile capability
Place of origin United States
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In service 1... | web |
The Staple
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The Staple in European historiography, refers to the entire medieval system of trade and its taxation; its French equivalent is étape, its German equivalent stapeln, words deriving from Late Latin stapula,[1] derived from stabulum.[2] design... | web |
Constructible universe
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"Gödel universe" redirects here. For Kurt Gödel's cosmological solution to the Einstein field equations, see Gödel metric.
In mathematics, in set theory, the constructible universe (or Gödel's constructible universe), denoted L, ... | web |
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The N,N,N-trimethylethanolammonium cation, with an undefined counteranion, X
In general, the word choline refers to the various quaternary ammonium salts containing the N,N,N-trimethylethanolammonium cation. Found in most animal tissues, choline is a pr... | web |
Information Literacy’s Role in the Penn State Story
Everyone has been talking about the Penn State pedophilia/rape story, and it is absolutely horrifying. But there was something in this story that jumped out at me that I wanted to highlight. It was a just an offhanded comment in the NY Daily News piece about “victi... | web |
Festive Food
Because Food Should be a Celebration of Life!
“Room” for Dessert? The Psychology of Eating
When I was little I used to stubbornly insist to my mom that after eating a full dinner I could still eat dessert because I had a separate stomach where the dessert went. With the same adamant fury that I used to ... | web |
Japanese friendship dolls
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Viscount Eiichi Shibusawa with two dolls
Japanese friendship dolls (友情人形 jūjō ningyō?) or Japanese ambassador dolls and the American blue-eyed dolls (青い目の人形 aoi me no ningyō?) were programs of goodwill between Japan and the Un... | web |
CSS Shaders
One of the more exciting features for the web which I've been looking forward to some time now are CSS shaders. You might remember when 3D transforms were new and hot, CSS shaders will bring content transformations to a whole new level. The ability to perform any sort of transformations up-to single pixel... | web |
Profits--Their Consequences
From the 1962 Annual Report, United States Steel Corporation.
The year 1962 was one in which the nation’s total production, employment, and money income were all greater than they were in any previous year. The record was marred, however, by the failure of expenditures for new plant and ... | web |
Is the Pressure Getting to You?
The seventeenth century was quite an age of discovery. Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo, invented the first mercurial barometer. It consisted of a glass tube open at one end and closed at the other. The open end was covered and immersed into an opened container of mercury. T... | web |
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Étienne de Silhouette (July 8, 1709 – January 20, 1767) was a French Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV.
Sometimes said to be the next Niccolò Machiavelli, he was born in Limo... | web |
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Freedom of choice is a broad term and includes several ideas associated with feminism (such as reproductive choices), but it has a couple of specific usages in geek circles which defend sexism:
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diagrams-contrib- Collection of user contributions to diagrams EDSL
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Solve equations due to John Hobby, as implemented in Donald Knuth's Metafont, to create (usually) smooth paths from specified points and directions.
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Process Planning Made Accurate Through a BPM Calculator
Time is essential in business processes. The more time allotted to finish a particular process means more resources and man-hours are being consumed. The finished output therefore could have a diminished value. This means that productivity and profitability of a ... | web |
Blogs > Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica > The Myth of the All-Powerful President: A Very Brief History
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FDR with Ibn Saud, first king of Saudi Arabia, in February 1945.
In a column I’ve just posted on I summarized the tremendous task Barack Obama seemed to commit himself to, in his recent Middle Eas... | web |
Neanderthals were separate species, new study finds
A new, simplified family tree of humanity has dealt a blow to those who contend that the enigmatic hominids known as Neanderthals intermingled with our forebears.
Neanderthals were a separate species to Homo sapiens, as anatomically modern humans are known, rather t... | web |
If we accept that the energy intensity and, thus, the greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions of hospitals are two-and-a-half times those of commercial office buildings, then hospitals consume around 836 trillion Btu of energy a year. In 2007, more than half of that energy—458 trillion Btu, or approximately 5.5 percent of the t... | web |
(Paper) Political Science and International Relations : Main Examination Exams in India
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Political Theory and Indian Politics
1, Approaches to the study of political theory: historical, normative and empirical.
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How trapped key interlocks can ensure the long-term safety of electrostatic precipitators
The hazards of electrostatic precipitators in power generation are well known. High-voltage current, confined spaces and the respiratory risk of fly ash all put workers in potential danger. These issues are compounded by infreque... | web |
Outside editorial: Weaning ourselves from a China import
Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
The following editorial first appeared in the Miami Herald:
An integral part of that cellphone you can't live without is neodymium, a rare earth mineral used in magnets for computers, audio speakers and those ubiquitous pho... | web |
The Control Hammer
It's another installment of Entropist, a scifi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, editor of BLDG BLOG. Tucked away in a museum at the University of Toronto is a collection of small devices known as the Museum of Psychological Instruments. These contraptions were assembled and put... | web |
Mao Fever
An Exhibit at the Honnold/Mudd Library, November 2, 1998 - February 1, 1999
Little Red Book
The Little Red Book
Mao "bamboo" button
The TeacherIn The People's Republic of China, the popularity of "Chairman Mao" reached proportions of a personality cult during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Dur... | web |
A Half Hour of Exercise Can Boost Creativity for Hours
If you feel like you have your best ideas after a jog or while mountain biking you're not imagining things. Small lengths of exercise produce long lengths of boosted creativity.
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Many people who exercise attribute the change in scenery to t... | web |
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Question: Let $X$ be a topological space, what is a continuous path in $X$?
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Nuclear Bomb vs. Dirty Nuclear Bomb: What's the Difference?
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nuclear-b.jpgThe Quick Trick: If you're standing in an absolute wasteland amid thousands of corpses, it was a nuclear bomb. If you're standing in a norm... | web |
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Let $S=\{1,2,\dots,m+n-1\}$.
An $m\times n$ matrix($\in S^{m\times n}$) is called silver matrix if
(a) There is no same numbers in the row or column. (like latin square)
(b) {$i$ th row}$\cup${$i$ th column}=S for all $1\leq i\leq min(m,n)$
Does silver matrix exist for all $m\neq n$ ?
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Major birth defects associated with moderately increased cancer risk in children
An estimated 3 percent of U.S. babies, approximately 120,000, are born with major birth defects each year. In many countries, including the United States, birth defects are the leading cause of infant death and a major contributor to dis... | web |
Top 100 Best Places To Live - Education as a Criteria for Livability
We want to love where we live. That’s part of why we’re not a very mobile society. We have our habits, our networks (and sometimes our mortgages) and our jobs. Each year about one in eight households moves, but that varies a lot by age and other fact... | web |
5 Reasons Why You Need an Editor
Here are five reasons why every writer needs an editor:
3. Microsoft Word doesn’t catch all mistakes.
• Verb Mix-Ups (lie vs. lay).
• Homophone Mix-Ups (their vs. they’re).
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quadratic formula
The quadratic formula
Consider the equation
(1)ax 2+bx+c=0, a x ^ 2 + b x + c = 0 ,
(3)x ±=2cbb 24ac, x_\pm = \frac { 2 c } { - b \mp \sqrt { b ^ 2 - 4 a c } } ,
which may be obtained from (2) by rationalising the numerator; this works as long as c0c \ne 0. (Note that ±\pm and \mp appear h... | web |
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The settlers in the New World adopted few dishes from the culinary repertoire of the Native Americans. Yet succotash may be second only to popcorn on the list of such dishes that have maintained popularity over the centuries.Succotash is a name for corn in the language of the Narragansett Indians of Rhode Island, who m... | web |
Problem #12
A number (written in base 10) is said to be weakly prime if it is prime, but all the numbers obtained by changing one of its digits are not prime. [For the record: 1 is not prime.] For example, 17 is not weakly prime, since changing the first digit to 0 gives 07 which is prime.
Are there any weakly prime ... | web |
When light hits an object, diffraction causes the beam to spread over an area that depends on the aperture of the lens. The phase filters make this area smaller but also cause a reduction in the beam brightness (see image). Sales wondered what could be the smallest possible focal spot a beam could be subjected to befor... | web |
Weighting cancer drugs to make them hit tumors harder
Mar 02, 2006
Scientists have devised a blueprint for boosting anti-cancer drugs' effectiveness and lowering their toxicity by attaching the equivalent of a lead sinker onto the drugs. This extra weight makes the drugs penetrate and accumulate inside tumors more ef... | web |
R Tutorial Series: Labeling Data Points on a Plot
There are times that labeling a plot's data points can be very useful, such as when conveying information in certain visuals or looking for patterns in our data. Fortunately, labeling the individual data points on a plot is a relatively simple process in R. In this tut... | web |
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Visual Basic Programming With Cobol-RPC
Cobol-RPC works in a Visual Basic environment by providing a Visual Basic function named CallCobol that allows the Visual Basic application to execute server Cobol programs.
The CallCobol function allows the Visual Basic application to supply the name of the Cobol program to e... | web |
Human Hardware: Men And Women
Just Behave - A Column From Search Engine Land In this week’s column on Human Hardware, we look at the differences between the two basic models of humans: men and women.
As a species, the vast majority of our history has been spent not really thinking about the differences between men an... | web |
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Early TV technology
In 1928, when this incredibly futuristic cover of the US magazine Radio News was published, my father was ten years old.
Two decades later, when I... | web |
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Does anyone knows a good bit manipulation library for ANSI C? What I basically need, is ability, like in Jovial to set specific bits in a variable, something like
// I assume LSB has index of 0
int a = 0x123;
setBits(&a,2,5, 0xFF);
printf("0x%x"); // should be 0x13F
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The user input is given in the format a:b>c>d>e... and so on. I would like to parse the input into :(a,>(b,>(c,>(d,e))) would that be possible and is there any suggestion to do that? I tested with this
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see captionScientists have long known that hurricanes that lash the Atlantic coasts of North and Central America are born in storm systems off the west coast of northern Africa. In an ironic twist, these wett... | web |
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I want to change the values on the x axis in my histogram in R.
The computer currently has it set as
0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100.
I want the x axis to go by 10 as in:
I know to get rid of the current axis I have to do this
(hist(x), .... xaxt = 'n')
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axis(side = 1) .....
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`Asqalani on Ibn Taymiyya
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
Translated from Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani’s biography of Ibn Taymiyya in al-durar al-kaamina fi a`yaan al-mi’at al-thaamina [The Hidden Pearls Concerning the Famous People of the Eighth Century] Hyderabad: Daa’irat al-ma`aarif al-`uthmaaniyya, 1384 H, vol. 1:144-1... | web |
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“Rows and rows of calf hutches for a 16,000 cow dairy farm in eastern Oregon - one of the many dairy farms in the US.
On dairy farms, there are new babies being born every single day. Many dairy farms use the “hutch housing” system. Babies stolen from their mothers after birth (standard dairy industry practice) are h... | web |
Lesson 9
Onomatopoeia is the imitation of natural sounds in word form. These words help us form mental pictures about the things, people, or places that are described. Sometimes the word names a thing or action by copying the sound. For example: Bong! Hiss! Buzz!
Students, work in groups of three to four. Brainstorm... | web |
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The use of chemical weapons has been taboo since World War I, when poison gas inflicted a million casualties. Despite the destruction of large stockpiles, controlling or destroying re... | web |
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We would like to clear up the difference between a Registration and a Domain, for every website there are pretty much two parts. The Registration and the Domain, The Registrations or Domain Registrations as some call it can ... | web |
Note: This piece was originally written in Tzotzil. The village of Chamula, where Tzotzil is spoken far more frequently than Spanish, has maintained much of its Tzotzil Maya language and tradition.
It was on a Sunday when he returned to the village. It was a feast day, the celebration of the patron saint. He came back... | web |
Mozart activates your dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
The argument as to whether or not Mozart, or classical music in general, makes you smarter may never be resolved. One writer says his experiences with music in multiple settings proved that it might not have made him smarter, but it might have enabled him to get sm... | web |
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What is the correct tense to use in an academic paper when speaking about correspondence? Say one of my source materials is a letter written by someone named William, in which he says he went to the store.
Would I say
William writes that he went to the store.
William wrote that he went to ... | web |
The Center for AAC and Autism
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AAC Evaluations
Think about the components of language and choose an AAC system that best matches the way we learn and use language. Think of a voice output communication device as a replacement for articulation. To be effective, one must be able to "t... | web |
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Ancient plague threatens world crops anew
A field of golden-coloured wheat
Wheat makes up a fifth of the world's food and is second only to rice in the diets of people in developing countries (Source: Patrick Hajzler/stock.xchng)
Food threat Diseases that ravage wheat fields are... | web |
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Astronomers discover planet made of diamond
Diamond planet orbiting a plusar
Pulsar in the sky with diamond: astronomers believe the planet is the remains of a former star (Source: Swinburne astronomy productions)
This is only the second time a planetary mass has been found orb... | web |
Enhance Your Professional Credibility
By Jean Kelley
Credibility is not something you automatically have, nor is it something you can bestow upon yourself — it's something others bestow upon you. And, like beauty, credibility is in the eye of the beholder. Therefore, in order for others to view you as credible, you ... | web |
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An animal called the re'em is mentioned in several places in the Bible, often as a metaphor representing strength. In the King James Version, as well as some other translations, the word is translated as "unicorn," producing such phrases as "His st... | web |
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DNA Breakthrough Could Give Humans Lifespans Lasting Hundreds of Years
The science world is divided on a discovery that could soon have humans living for multiple lifespans -- if we want to.
A genetically engineered organism that lives 10 times longer than normal has been cr... | web |
The Man Who Saved The Cadillac
Although this will come as a surprise to most academic economists, economics is .one of the biological sciences. Free markets operate according to the rules that govern life itself, rules that are not always fair. And just as in a biological ecosystem, the fit (and the lucky) survive th... | web |
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Number theory is to mathematics as evolution is to biology or electromagnetism to physics: None is the final word in its discipline, but each is a f... | web |
Climatic Anomalies, Indonesian Vegetation Fires and Terrestrial Carbon Emissions.
TitleClimatic Anomalies, Indonesian Vegetation Fires and Terrestrial Carbon Emissions.
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We observe variation, mutation and natural selection in living things.
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A cold beverage bottle “sweats” in summertime when exposed to the warm air. A toilet tank can “sweat” in summertime when the cooler incoming water reacts to the warmer temperature of the ceramic tank. Likewise, in the winter time, the cold incoming wate... | web |
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It can happen--if you practice the Art of Memory--that the symbols you put next to one another will modify themselves without your choosing it, and that when next you call them forth, they may say something new and revelatory to you, something you didn't know you knew.
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he figure shows a model for the motion of the human forearm in throwing a dart. Because of the force applied by the triceps muscle, the forearm can rotate about an axis at the elbow joint. Assume that the forearm has the dimensions shown in the figure and a moment of inertia of 0.054 kg·m2 (including the effect of the ... | web |
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An October 2010 survey on green and sustainable issues found that most people are fairly clear about what it means when a product''s packaging says it is made from recycled materials and/or is recyclable.
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What are the most important kinds of INTERmolecular forces present in each of the following substances:
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c) ammonia, NH3
d) ethanol, CH3CH2OH
e) chloroform, CHCl3
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The principal quantum number is the quantum number that determines the size and (in hydrogen atoms) the energy of an orbital. n is used to label electron shells. n can be any integer value from 1 to infinity. [1]
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Carbon potentiometers boast new outputs
Piher's PT10 and PT15 potentiometers aim to provide special stepped outputs or constant voltage zones, for more consistent control.
Piher's PT10 and PT15 potentiometers aim to provide special stepped outputs or constant voltage zones, for more consistent control. Courtesy: Pih... | web |
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Fossil Precambrian embryos found, according to Science vol. 312, p1587 and p1644, 16 June 2006. Palaeontologists studying the Doushantuo Formation phosphates in Weng'an, Guizhou Province, China have found hundreds of fossil embryos. The embryos are a... | web |
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19th Century New England Trunk: What Is It? What Is It Worth?
Is it possible that my trunk (28"W x 12"H x 12"D) has its original paint?
Your 19th-century New England example does, indeed, have its original red paint. The piece was used for storing bed linens, clothing, a... | web |
• Outage Restoration Process
• When power goes out, our restoration process begins as soon as conditions are safe for our professionals. Here is the order that we approach systems to help ensure quick and safe restoration of power.
Restoration Process
1. Downed live wires or potentially life-threatening si... | web |
As a longtime businessman, I see a deficit in America that has received far too little attention. That's the wage deficit experienced by growing numbers of Americans, with serious consequences for our economy.
On January 1, the minimum wage increases in Rhode Island and in nine states that adjust their minimum wage to... | web |
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The State of the Language: An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup : Page 6
It's probably not complete nonsense. C++ use appears to be declining in some areas and appears to be on an upswing in other areas. If I ... | web |
Definitions for pretence
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word pretence
Princeton's WordNet
1. pretension, pretense, pretence(noun)
a false or unsupportable quality
2. guise, pretense, pretence, pretext(noun)
an artful or simulated semblance
"under the guise of fri... | web |
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