text stringlengths 166 589k | __index_level_0__ int64 1 312k |
|---|---|
Pest control has never looked so sweet. Scientists have found that a simple derivative of sugar can shut down the immune defenses of ravaging termites, thus leaving the insects open to attacks from bacteria and fungus. Says lead researcher Ram Sasisekharan: “When you have an immune system that is compromised, you have ... | 121,673 |
Skip to main content
It looks like you're using Internet Explorer 11 or older. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results.
Search the Catalog
EAST PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL
Click below to g... | 111,672 |
Detectives will send youngsters into almost 2000 pubs, clubs, corner shops and supermarkets, as part of a "test purchasing" scheme.
It is part of a major crackdown aimed at
violent criminals, gangs and serious and organised crime groups, which gets under way today.
Operation Relay, which starts in the Govan and Craigto... | 14,357 |
The Mississippi Association of Supervisors finished its fall workshop Wednesday in Meridian.
Supervisors took part in an educational session in the morning before packing up and going back to their respective counties.
About 300 supervisors from all over the state attended the meeting to share information on combating ... | 83,457 |
Ninth lord if in mruduswabhava rasi or in aspect or association of Jupiter ,the native will have Gurubhakti . if associated with malefics the native will go against Guru .
Ninth lord in navasmsa if placed well , the navamsa lord if aspected by jupiter , the person will be endowed with guru bhakti , if afflicted the per... | 13,140 |
Imagine how things might have turned out had the Neanderthals or Denisovans survived alongside Homo sapiens. What kind of cultures, societies and political structures would have emerged in a world where several different human species coexisted? How, for example, would religious faiths have unfolded? Would the book of ... | 179,017 |
Common Wealth and the 'Entirely Self-Made' Myth
Every year since 1982 Forbes magazine has published a list of the 400 richest Americans. Anyone who wants to attach names and faces to the abstract notion of a "ruling class" should pick up a copy of the October 8, 2007, special issue. In profiling these richest of the ri... | 209,093 |
Twenty Seventh February 1882 Age: 21 years [est birth year: 1861].
Registration District: Poole Union 1863 Sub-district: Poole County: Dorset Date: 7th March 1863 Place: Parkstone Name: William Frederick Wareham, boy Father: Francis Wareham, Potters Labourer Mother: Sarah Wareham formerly Kent Informant: Francis Wareha... | 259,013 |
You can also use the menus below for more search options.
Local Cultural Centers
Fengyuan Museum of Lacquer Art, Taichung City
No. 1-1, Shuiyuan Rd., Fengyuan Dist., Taichung City
Hits : 215
The reason for founding the Fengyuan Museum of Lacquer Art stems from Fengyuan’s lacquerware culture dating back to the Japanese ... | 45,232 |
Because of her family’s status as members of the local gentry, Martha was able to acquire the values and behavior that would enable her to marry well. She imbibed the fine points of etiquette, learned to dance, and mastered the art of horseback riding.
Martha Dandridge left behind no diaries or letters from her early y... | 306,773 |
Versinthe La Blanche Absinthe is produced at La Liquoristerie de Provence. White absinthe is the only alcohol in the world to be vacuum distilled at a low temperature (just 48 degrees Celsius). The same technique used in the perfume industry, this helps to keep some very delicate aromas. A blend of 20 plants, this can ... | 177,832 |
I kept coming across reports from hillwalkers of a 'small Newgrange like' tomb on Two Rock Mountain and was mystified. I knew for a fact that the cairn on Two Rocks was indistinguishable from a cairn as the passage is now hidden by fallen cairn rubble.
After some digging about I finally found out that they were referri... | 280,618 |
JVM has constant pool of string objects.that's why "Java"=="Java" always evaluates to true. is the same case with wrapper objects? Integer i=3; Integer j=3; i==j ?
posted 8 years ago
Not for all values.
This is from the Java Language Specification, 5.1.7.
If the value p being boxed is true, false, a byte, a char in the... | 154,553 |
According to Western diplomats and policy experts, the State Department's recent remarks on human rights violations in the Baloch region of Pakistan are as far as the U.S. Government and Obama Administration are willing to go in support of Baloch separatism. Absent a complete rupture in U.S.-Pakistan relations, the Bal... | 202,779 |
- Visit the Aquarium
- Animals & Exhibits
- Fun & Learning
- Aquatic Research
Although males reaching close to 3500 pounds have been documented, the estimated average range is between 12-15 feet (3.7-4.6m) and 1600-2500 pounds in weight. Females are slightly smaller than the males with an average length of 11-13 feet a... | 138,593 |
By now, employers and business owners are very familiar with California’s Assembly Bill 5 and the new – and highly controversial – rules for classifying whether workers are employees or independent contractors. Regardless of what an employer’s feelings are about these new guidelines, they are a reality for California e... | 97,852 |
Cover your nose.
Perhaps the biggest mistake that many folks are making with face masks — besides not wearing them in public at all — is pulling the facial coverings down so that the nose is exposed.
Amid the ongoing debate over when and where people should wear masks, and the mixed messaging behind that, what’s perhap... | 206,487 |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Department of Environmental Conservation is planning its 16th CleanSweepNY program in western New York.
The program gives an opportunity for businesses, farms and schools to properly dispose of unwanted or obsolete pesticides and other chemicals. Empty, triple-rinsed plastic pesticide containers... | 310,778 |
HAZRAT NASIR MOHAMMED FAKIR SOOFI ALQADRI
“Choose a master, for without him this journey is full of tribulations, fear and dangers. With no escort, you would be lost on a road you would have already taken. Do not travel alone on the Path. - Rumi
Sainiji, as he was popularly known as, was a devout Sufi who saw Allah in ... | 281,590 |
Fun Facts on the Light Bulb
Wild and wacky truths you probably didn't know about light bulbs
So far we've indulged you with a history of the light bulb, the kind of lighting best for romantic encounters and the best choices in the market for automotive headlamps. Want to learn more? Here are a few unexpected and widely... | 164,437 |
Illegal ivory trade booms during Egypt's Arab Spring
The new report, Illegal ivory sales in Egypt, published in the latest issue of the TRAFFIC Bulletin states “Egypt remains one of Africa’s largest markets for illegal ivory items,” adding “No ivory items—old or new—can be sold legally in Egypt without a special permit... | 129,350 |
Jurema Action Plant
an interactive bio-machine by Ivan Henriques
Jurema Action Plant aims to empower plants by enabling them to
use similar technologies as humans use. It is also explores new ways of
communication and co-relation between humans, living organism and a
machine. The Jurema Action Plant responds to human t... | 91,006 |
The Storyteller : on essays by Walter Benjamin and Dale Peck (5 December 2003)
"To write a novel is to take to the extreme that which is incommensurable in the representation of human existence. In the midst of life's fullness and through the representation of this fullness, the novel gives evidence of the profound per... | 160,372 |
The active use of civilian drones to drop small-caliber ammunition on the enemy, which has become a traditional tool of fire impact on the enemy for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has become a catalyst for work on this topic for the USA and China as well.
Each of these countries has demonstrated its own 'development' fea... | 7,345 |
Hundreds of Mongolians in Taiwan, including those who followed the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime as it fled across the Taiwan Strait in 1949, as well as Mongolian students yesterday paid their tribute to the Mongol Empire founder, Genghis Khan, at a ceremony in Taipei organized by the Mongolian and Tibetan Aff... | 268,448 |
Suppose that the marketing manager for the Famous Retail Appliance Store proposes a sale. Customers can buy now but donít have to pay for their appliance purchases for eighteen months. From a time value of money perspective, selling appliances at full price with payment in eighteen months is equivalent to selling appli... | 137,660 |
When you buy a business, you should make sure that the seller is caught up on paying state taxes. If you don’t, you might find yourself stuck with the bill after closing. Worse yet, you might find that your shiny new business is encumbered by a tax lien.
In every state I’m aware of, the law allows state taxing authorit... | 81,912 |
Laguna, Philippines — Government information officers, journalists and members of the ASEAN Heritage Parks (AHP) Committee from the ten ASEAN Member States will meet in Surabaya, Indonesia on November 19-21 for an international meeting-workshop on promoting public awareness of the role of taxonomy in biodiversity conse... | 305,035 |
Active Directory, AS/400, Business Intelligence, Career Development, CIO, CRM, Data Management, Database, DataCenter, Development, Hardware, IBM DB2, IBM iSeries, IT Strategy, Linux, Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes, Management, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Exchange 2003, Microsoft Exchange... | 29,055 |
Dreaming of moving to Florida for your retirement? How about Hawaii? What if you could do this by the age of 40? It may just be well in reach if you start putting measures in place early and have laser-like focus toward that goal.
Early Retirement By the Numbers
According to Statistics Canada, since 2009 the average re... | 311,067 |
Report of General Robert E. Lee, C. S. Army, commanding Army of Northern Virginia.
Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia,
April 18, 1863.
General S. Cooper,
Adjutant and Inspector General, C. S. Army, Richmond, Va.:
General: I respectfully submit herewith my report of the operations of this army from the battles befor... | 280,466 |
Several technologically superior equipments are utilised by the dentist to discover out the dental defect. A number of exams are carried out by the dentist to locate out the root cause of your dental issue. Soon after all the tests, the dentist will prescribe you about the treatment options that will do to your tooth.
... | 26,928 |
The Russia-Ukraine war is exacerbating international food price volatility
- Impact Area
The IFPRI Food Security Portal’s Excessive Food Price Variability Early Warning System is showing excessive levels of price volatility in the four major food commodities: Wheat, maize, rice, and soybeans, as well as for cotton. Mar... | 97,239 |
The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South), fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day ... | 122,788 |
The Puente de la Mujer (Spanish for "Woman's Bridge") is a footbridge in the Puerto Madero district of Buenos Aires, Argentina that spans dock 3 (dique 3). It is of the Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge type and is also a swing bridge, but somewhat unique in its asymmetrical arrangement. It has a single mast with cab... | 249,430 |
References to the works of Evelyn Whitaker in current scholarship:
Laddie is cited as the descriptor of the Victorian ideal of manhood by John C. Spurlock and Cynthia
A. Magistro: "Dreams never to be realized": the emotional culture and phenomenology of emotion.
J. Social History 28:2, winter 1994, note 42.
Link to art... | 290,372 |
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. "In the Heart of the Sea" rev... | 259,153 |
I believe the correct thickness factor is 0.1266. I ran your numbers (baker's percents, pan size, total dough weight, dough depth, and 1/4-inch dough thickness) through my spreadsheet and got the above thickness factor number, which seems more in line with the thickness factors I have seen and used for deep-dish. Since... | 251,924 |
The City of Tampa, located in Hillsborough County in Florida, has a population of 352,000 residents in 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau reports. Hillsborough County, at just under 1.3 million people, is the third-largest population center in the state of Florida, behind Jacksonville and Miami.
There were 844,040 cars and t... | 153,741 |
Office 2007 (Office 12) is just available and Microsoft is already releasing some details about the next version, which will be codenamed Office 14. Just like many other companies Microsoft wants to prevent bad luck by skipping the "13th" version.
As stated, the codename for the upcoming release of Office, currently sl... | 111,487 |
When MS impairs your mobility more and more, exercise can pose yet one more challenge. For some the word “exercise” conjures up negative feelings or nervousness while for others, exercise represents ‘me time’, empowerment, a feeling of wellness, accomplishment, and taking care of yourself.
There are adaptations that ca... | 50,601 |
Serial killer PYTHONS stalk Florida's Everglades
Rapacious reptiles scoff mammal population
Pesky pythons are wiping out mammals and birds – some of which are protected species – in Florida's Everglades National Park, according to a new study.
What's for dinner? Credit: Mannes Fotos (GNU license)
Non-native Burmese pyt... | 65,428 |
This thesis builds a bridge between singularity theory and computer algebra. To an isolated hypersurface singularity one can associate a regular meromorphic connection, the Gauß-Manin connection, containing a lattice, the Brieskorn lattice. The leading terms of the Brieskorn lattice with respect to the weight and V-fil... | 235,718 |
St. Sarkis the Warrior and His Son, St. Mardiros
The feast day honoring St. Sarkis is movable. It occurs between January 11th and February 15th. Each year it follows the five-day Fast of Catechumens.
Sarkis was a Greek from the area of Cappadocia on the Anatolian plain. He was a proud, brave Christian and served as a R... | 238,511 |
Tougher sentencing laws over the last several decades have resulted in fewer criminal cases going to trial. Instead, defendants are choosing plea bargains, rather than going to court and facing the possibility of harsher, lengthier sentences. The New York Times article below gives a good overview of the sentencing shif... | 251,351 |
As the preceding post might suggest, French was a fascinating man. But he lived at a time when few New Englanders wrote memoirs, or were celebrated in an individual way. We are lucky that the Rev. Timothy Alden felt French’s life was sufficiently important to merit any biography at all, however brief.
I won’t say this ... | 66,707 |
Forewarned, Forearmed: Self Background Checks Named “Trend” for 2012
With the unemployment rate hovering between 8 and 9 percent, job seekers still face a lot of competition for every opening. At a time when you need to pull out all the stops to impress potential employers and stand out from the crowd, don’t get caught... | 115,359 |
MASON COUNTY — Western Washington's largest wildfire of the summer was reduced to a smolder over the weekend.
The Haven Lake Fire burned about 168 acres on steep, rugged terrain about 10 miles northwest of Shelton before firefighters contained its progress. Fire officials Monday downgraded an earlier estimate of 186 ac... | 227,966 |
As snow blankets the traditional Appalachian Mountains, most of the area’s inhabitants come collectively to have a good time the vacation season, with traditions and time-honored recipes on the forefront of those festivities.
The Appalachian area is well-known for its delicacies, developed from a melting pot of Native ... | 228,870 |
SCB4010T: Biology (2013-2014)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Virtual School Program
COURSE TITLE: Biology
CALENDAR YEAR: 2013-2014
GRADE LEVEL: 9-12
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
This course is an introduction to general biology and scientific inquiry. It will include the fundamental principles of living organisms, including physical a... | 30,682 |
When the angry young Beats became the jazzy Beatniks, pop culture found something to dig, writes Barry Divola.
In the beginning there was Beat. Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Allen Ginsberg's Howl, William Burroughs's Naked Lunch. Here were writers who took the same words everyone else had at the time and used them in new... | 17,073 |
False Discovery Rate and Audience Segments
In this article on Optimizely's StatsEngine it notes, "Because of false discovery rate control, you can now test as many goals and variations in an experiment as you want, without increasing your chance of statistical error."
Beyond goals and variations, are audience segments ... | 280,825 |
I am subject to the noise of hammering and the dragging of furniture in the unit above mine between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. A director of our condo board spent two nights in my unit and confirmed the noise. But the board refuses to act and says they are not acoustic engineers. Is there anything I can do?
If the board refuse... | 302,929 |
First look: Space shuttle Enterprise exhibit opening in New York City
Photos credit: collectSPACE.com / Ben Cooper / Katie Darby / Robert Z. Pearlman
"We have designed this specifically so visitors and students can get as up-close and personal to [space shuttle Enterprise] as possible," Intrepid's president Susan Maren... | 133,715 |
European Economic and Social Committee
|European Economic and
|Represents||Employers, employees and various interest groups|
|Seat||Jacques Delors building, 99 Rue Belliard, Brussels|
This article is part of a series on the
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is a consultative body of the European Union (... | 190,135 |
My post on Henry Porter’s article about privacy concerns emanating from the development of technology garnered a lot more comment than most. And I was reminded of that post when reading Anna Minton’s article on the SBD award:
Not long ago, I was shown around an award-winning housing estate in east London, which was the... | 267,491 |
-are one of the ethnicities who came and stayed in
- Some sources state that they are quite nice and
-The physical appearance of most Filipinos could
also be traced to the Malays.
- it is believed that the Malays are trained
seafarers—ones who could brave the oceans where
land bridges used to stand.
Japan conquered the... | 96,044 |
A Short History of Boat Anchors
There are two basic theories floating around as far as the history of anchors is concerned. One must picture early men learning one floating log can assist in crossing a river or stream. Two logs lashed together was much more stable and did not roll over on the captain, and ultimately co... | 41,800 |
Amazon’s cloud web hosting service is the backbone for much of the Internet these days, from websites to apps. Last week, an Amazon employee accidentally took down several of the company’s cloud servers, leaving many businesses offline for hours. In October, some of the most Internet’s most popular services such as Twi... | 251,435 |
Are you developing a Mobile Health App? Please look to this Mobile Health Apps Interactive Tool for the scoop on what laws you’ll need to abide by!
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decided to pioneer the mobile health app service sphere. This new web-based tool has been designed to aidcreators of mobile... | 270,040 |
- This event has passed.
Children and Traumatic Stress
June 16, 2015
Child traumatic stress refers to the physical and emotional responses of a child to events that threaten the life of the child or of someone critically important to the child. Those who work with children, caregivers and/or students preparing to becom... | 140,905 |
Can you imagine being yanked out of your family social structure in the ocean where you swim 100 miles a day, being put in a tank, and fed frozen fish? Can you imagine being afflicted with all kinds of physical and psychological illnesses which will reduce your live to an average of only 5.8 years!?
Well, this is exact... | 231,390 |
Objective: To describe the relationships among sedation, stability in physiological status, and comfort during a 24-hour period in patients receiving mechanical ventilation. Methods: Data from 169 patients monitored continuously for 24 hours were recorded at least every 12 seconds, including sedation levels, physiologi... | 148,087 |
Ofelia has been using Tachyon Energy devices since 2008 and as a result, has personally experienced significant improvements in health and spiritual development. Since then, she's helped others improve specific health issues and overall well-being through the use of Tachyon Energy healing, health coaching and yoga teac... | 73,997 |
Author Eliza Suggs in 1906. New York Public Library Digital Collections
“My father and mother were slaves,” began Eliza Sugg’s remarkable autobiography, Shadow and Sunshine. In this 1906 publication, she recounted for readers the story of her parents.
The first Suggs referenced in the book is a Mississippi slave owner.... | 19,675 |
iTunes home sharing on iPad
If you have iOS 4.3 on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch you can easily stream media from iTunes on your computer. You will also need iTunes 10.2 or later on your Mac or PC.
Of course, your computer and iOS device will need to be on the same Wi-Fi network. Using this feature to stream media ca... | 131,234 |
My "Watzit Say?" programs are similar to the famous TV game, Wheel of Fortune, but with some rule changes. The purpose of each game is to determine an unknown phrase. Students chose letters as the teacher makes them appear on the screen. The first player or team to identify the phrase wins the round. A game consists of... | 140,629 |
Are you drowning in a sea of paperwork? Invoices, receipts, notes, business cards and bills are just a few documents that come to mind. You can’t throw them away, but you don’t want them cluttering up your house.
Leaving paper documents lying around not only clutters up your workspace, but if they contain personal or s... | 168,553 |
Ideas for Administering the Staff Climate
An important ingredient in a successful school is a staff whose members
believe they are valued, clear about their role, and have adequate resources
to do their job. The WINSS Staff Climate Survey is a tool to help assess
the confidence and morale of all staff members in a scho... | 205,675 |
Surface EMG, biceps, electrode 'scope'
BOYDJ at QUCDN.QueensU.CA
Thu Mar 11 22:45:00 EST 1993
(Sorry if this appears twice, I made a formatting error when I sent it
the first time and I don't think it was successfully sent.)
A question has arisen in a MUAP simulation I'm running. If I define the
'scope' of an electrode... | 132,503 |
There's More to Love in Puppy Linux 5.2.5
Back in January I wrote about some of the features of Puppy Linux that make it particularly suitable for use on old and slow computers, but over the weekend a new version of the open source operating system was released with even more reasons to check it out.
Launched on Saturd... | 307,747 |
Believe it or not, some people still use Windows 98. Microsoft abandoned Windows 98 to the wolves in 2006 and no longer fixes known bugs or known security flaws in Windows 98. Yet some folk still use Windows 98. There may be a business reason such as a critical hardware controller that is built on Windows 98 for a manu... | 62,424 |
The following appeared in the May/June issue of International Educator magazine.
Josh Kessler, a student at Middlebury College, describes his sustainable education abroad experience, as told to IE.
I had some previous experience with sustainability projects but this was the first time that I would be leading an effort ... | 67,155 |
To tell someone about this page, just click the "Tell a Friend" link below the video.
How is a piano built?
This video shows how a Mason & Hamlin Grand piano is built.
JOIN the Piano Forums...Join our 71,000+
piano community members today. (It's FREE)
If you've always wondered how they build a high-end hand-crafted gra... | 138,782 |
Skin Necrosis w/ Dermal Filler - How Rare is It?
- Asked by DeniJ
- 2 years ago
I cannot find the overall statistics for the chance of skin necrosis while receiving a dermal filler. I know this is "rare", that is all I hear, but HOW RARE? Does anyone have overall statistics? Also WHY is this so rare to happen? (also ve... | 138,808 |
|Type of record:||Monument|
|Name:||World War Two pillbox|
An extant World War Two pillbox and a destroyed weapons pit are visible on aerial photographs.
Images - none
|Grid Reference:||TG 3446 3374|
|Parish:||BACTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK|
Pill box. On New Road (Mill Lane).
Brick, octagonal, chamfered concrete loopho... | 7,531 |
ISSUED: 10 November 2014
MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Owens
SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV — More than 140 nurses from the region attended the 6th annual nursing research conference “Leading Change Through Evidence-Based Practice” on Thursday, November 6 at Shepherd University’s Erma Ora Byrd Hall. The day-long event, sponsored by the De... | 17,069 |
Not all frozen foods are created equal; there are plenty of healthy options in the freezer aisle.
Gone are the days from our childhood microwavable TV dinners of mushy mac ‘n’ cheese and unidentifiable meats. A wholesome meal is always touted the best meal, but when we’re crunched for time, it’s easy to pick up a quick... | 125,736 |
Addiction can be the biggest obstacle to treatment. Family and friends can find it difficult. Due to the damaging nature of addiction, family support may be able to help an individual. In some cases, families don’t really know how to approach the subject of drug and alcohol addiction. Instead of bringing it up to their... | 42,821 |
Brook Watts announced that he is pulling out of the 2022 UCI Cyclo-Cross World Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, come January, and will not serve as the race organizer. He also bowed out of the Fayetteville World Cup.
“The situation in Arkansas remains problematic,” he stated. “And I don’t see any satisfactory s... | 305,763 |
Out-of-Pocket Medicare Costs: What’s the Limit?Posted by Medicare Made Clear
In order to plan your budget, you may be trying to predict what you’ll spend on upcoming Medicare health care costs. One question you may have is about cost limits. What you spend on your health care is called your “out-of-pocket” cost, becaus... | 68,920 |
Last month an international team of paleontologists lifted the veil on one of the most spectacular fossils ever discovered; a 47-million-year-old primate they named Darwinius masillae. It was a major event, but not everything went as planned. This fossil, popularly known as “Ida”, immediately sparked a controversy abou... | 264,983 |
Federal Hiring Boom Would Benefit Washington Region
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
If projections bear out that the federal government will hire up to 120,000 people for jobs in the region over the next few years, the Washington area economy could be on its way to a rebound faster than most of the nation.
Such a hiring boo... | 5,105 |
18 August 2004
Volume 13 - 2004 Issue 33 (17 Aug. 2004)
IFEX members are calling for an end to a "culture of impunity" in the Philippines in which dozens of journalists have been killed in the past two decades without anyone being brought to justice. In the past two weeks, four alone have been murdered and a fifth one ... | 146,150 |
Nail artist Robert Nguyen lends his 3-D nail artistry to this month’s Lunar New Year-themed cover to help us welcome the Year of the Dragon.
The winner of VietSALON Magazine's dragon nail art mural contest, nail artist Robert Nguyen lent his 3-D nail artistry to this month’s Lunar New Year-themed issue to help us welco... | 160,381 |
Write it down! The notation will help you.
Are we getting anywhere?
The question is:
If the volume of the sphere doubles, what is the ratio of the surface area of the new, larger sphere to the old, smaller sphere? The answer is 2^(2/3). A good method for tackling these types of problems would be great. Should I just pl... | 150,787 |
First Lecture Drawing on academic literature, lectures, panel discussions and films, Conceptual Foundations of International Politics examines many of the central concepts, theories, and analytical tools used in contemporary social science to understand and explain international politics. The theoretical literature is ... | 288,345 |
Why do we avoid difficult conversations? At some point, many of us have had to deliver the dreaded line, “We need to talk.” And this often precedes an argument rather than any conversation.
How do you disentangle difficult conversations? Some conversations are so difficult that we’ll do anything to avoid them. This is ... | 245,317 |
- Historic Sites
A Spanish Colonial Christmas
Traditions nearly five hundred years old underlie San Antonio’s month-long celebration
December 1997 | Volume 48, Issue 8
I know I get sentimental about the holiday for which I was named, but I could have sworn that the stuffed “Pancho Claus” on a balcony above San Antonio’... | 252,164 |
Boston — The 32 members of the Boston-based Mandala Folk Dance Ensemble spend what appears to be three-quarters of their time in rehearsal and performance, with the other half is spent in jobs as computer specialists, teachers, and engineers to support their dancing habit.
If the mathematics sounds impossible, it is ne... | 244,809 |
A CDC Prevention Research Center
The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC) is part of the Yale University School of Public Health, based in New Haven CT, and housed about 10 miles from New Haven at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut.
Our center was established in 1998 through a grant from the Centers for Di... | 133,168 |
Webmaster here. Last time we talked about the format of the file. Assuming you know that now. Lets move on to creating one.
**Note: The images below are not the actual templates used. They have been scaled way down for this post. I may post the actual templates at some point later, but for now these are just examples**... | 305,107 |
Declines in Hungary’s exports and imports slowed in May after plunging during a lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus in April, and the trade balance returned to a surplus, data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) on Thursday show.
Declines in trade volume remained in the double digits in May b... | 284,580 |
There are a limited number of magazines that focus on the Autism Spectrum or issues that also pertain to those within the Autism Spectrum. This is a compilation of those I am aware of.
If you are a member of the Autism Society of America you receive The Advocate that is published four times a year and reaches over 50,0... | 270,143 |
In an interview with Israeli daily Globes (April 19, 2012), the father of Holocaust Museum industry, Elie Wiesel, 83, has cautioned Israeli propagandists to avoid comparing Iranian threat to the Zionist regime with the Zionist patent ‘Holocaust’.
In response to the question that Benji Netanyahu has frequently compared ... | 62,812 |
Why Parents Decide on a Home School Education
Progressively more young boys and girls these days happen to be experiencing a home school education. The motives for electing the option to homeschool their kids differs from family to family however you will find three primary explanation why parents happen to be extracti... | 212,978 |
2013 ORS § 757.600¹
Definitions for ORS 757.600 to 757.689
As used in ORS 757.600 (Definitions for ORS 757.600 to 757.689) to 757.689 (Recovery of costs of energy conservation measures in rates of electric company), unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) Aggregate means combining retail electricity consumers into a... | 287,266 |
What treatment can be used to stop bleeding, due to a flare up from Crohn's Disease in a 14yr. old?
He is currently on, Omeprazole, Prednisone, Flagyl, 6MP, Pentasa, and iron tablets.
At the moment, he is having a bad flare up with, a lot of bloody diarrhea, his potassium level is very low, and he is lethargic as well.... | 83,369 |
The early weeks of pregnancy are fragile—and confusing. Here, the answers to your questions.
Read more »
You may have noticed something besides your belly growing during pregnancy: your breasts. In fact, it’s not uncommon for, ahem, the girls, to grow up to two cup sizes, especially if this is your first pregnancy. Thi... | 23,284 |
Best Water Filters
Best Home Water Filters Available In the Market
Water is the source of all life but the sad truth is that not all water is clean. Having a water filter system installed in your home is very important as this could potentially save you and your family from any water borne diseases. However, finding th... | 83,820 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.