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Ujjayi breathing mimics the sound of ocean waves rolling in and out.
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Background on Fragmentation: The computer writes information disk into concentric circles on the hard drive, called tracks. Each track is divided into small sections, called sectors. When a file is written, the computer puts it into the first open sector. If the file is bigger than the sector, it gets written across... |
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Eat more chocolate! Lose weight!
It's a holiday weekend, and many of us will be eating chocolate, especially chocolate bunnies and chocolate eggs. (Where does that come from, anyway? Bunnies don't lay eggs.) We don't really need an excuse to eat chocolate. But isn't it wonderful when a scientific ... |
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Romanticism: Study Guide
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The museum takes you on a journey through time showing how local people lived and worked in Gairloch through the ages.
Marvel at how stone age and bronze age people existed with relatively limited technology and (to us) primitive utensils.
Fathom the mysteries of a Pictish symbol stone.
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In the following video Zizek discusses what he calls ‘cultural capitalism’. It is essentially about how we may do good things within the structures of a bad system, while in fact contributing to it. For example, we ‘offset’ ecological and human damage by buying fair trade and or... |
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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: estraindre, from Latin stringere; STRINGENT
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[transitive]MI to injure a muscle or part of your body by using it too much or making it work too hard:
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Chemical sunscreens rely on synthetic chemicals, or filters, to absorb rays. These filters soak into skin and can cause irritation and allergies. Some, like oxybenzone, have been linked to hormone disruption and cancer. Mineral sunscreens use natural ingredients like zinc oxide and titanium dioxide to physically deflec... |
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Get certifiable about wildlife
The gardens surrounding Acorn Naturalists parking lot in Tustin have been certified as Backyard Wildlife Habitat by The National Wildlife Federation.
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The hat trick
In his book Quantum Computing Since Democritus, Scott Aaronson poses the following question:
Suppose that you’re at a party where every guest is given a hat as they walk in. Each hat has either a pineapple or a watermelon on top,... |
This Pop Up Book Explains the Water Life Cycle
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This animated stop-motion short film illustrates the water life cycle in a visually appealing way that took over a year to create. The name of the project is Revolution and is made up of photograp... |
What is a gastric ulcer?
Gastric ulcer, also known as peptic ulcer, is a localized area of erosion in the stomach lining, resulting in abdominal pain, possible bleeding, and other gastrointestinal symptoms. The most common cause of gastric ulcer is a stomach infection associated with the Helicobacter pylori (H pylori)... |
Concept album
In popular music, a concept album is an album which is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical". Most often they are pre-planned (conceived) and with all songs contributing to a single overall theme or unified story, this plan or story being the concept. This ... |
New procedure to fix damaged vocal cords to give people their voice back
Imagine not being able to speak above a whisper. For one woman, it was a reality for 35 years, but she regained her voice, with help from jet engines.
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Ideas with authors I cannot remember.
1. Do not sing to the data; Let the data sing to you.
2. The first instance of music was early man sitting in the wilderness at night. The noises of individual creatures in the surrounding area coalesced into music w... |
Why do toilets spin in opposite directions on the opposite side of the equator?
Water deflects to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere due to the spin of the earth.
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Foods that Increase Blood Pressure
green and red healthy foodAbout 50 million people in the US have hypertension. One of the primary contributors to high blood pressure can be found in the foods that most people eat on a daily basis. Making healthy food choices and exercising regularly are a large part of fighting hig... |
The Tsáchila people of Ecuador live in the county of Santo Domingo in the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas. They speak the Tsafiki or Tsáchila language of the Barbacoan language family.
The spaniards called them “Colorado” (meaning colored red) because they used to cover their entire bodies in the red juices... |
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The prediction is based on a model that forecasts the potential impact of agricultural intensification on small farmers' behavior in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Whereas subsistence farmers may now accept a pittance for abandoning low-yielding agriculture, in the future, higher-yields from ... |
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Bats set compass by the sun
Despite the fact that bats are active after sunset, they rely on the sun as their most trusted source of navigation, German researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology reported today.
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I need a program in c++ or c that will calculate prime factor,for Example you input 135 i want an output to be like this (3^3)(5^1) instead of 3,3,3,5. Please help me.
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Learning Math Concepts with Shel Silverstein Poems About Money Pin Me
Shel Silverstein Poems for Math Class
written by: Marlene Gundlach • edited by: Amanda Grove • updated: 1/6/2012
Shel Silverstein has written some of the most popular poetry books for children. His books are found on just about every classroom sh... |
In many parts of the country, mosquitoes can be a real problem. They can cause diseases like West Nile virus and are just a real nuisance. We have some great tips that you can try to keep the population of mosquitoes, and other pests, down to a minimum.
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Why frame rate and resolution matter: A graphics primer
Graphics has always been the foremost battleground in the console wars. The participants in those never-ending debates try to bring in objectivity by quoting numbers — and in the case of visual prowess, resolution and frame rate are the two figures most commonly ... |
Persistent programming language
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Programming languages that natively and seamlessly allow objects to continue existing after the program has been closed down are called persistent programming languages. JADE is one such language.
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On a two-dimensional Cartesian plane we can naturally subdivide the space into four quadrants at the origin. In three-dimensions, the partition into eight parts are known as octants. In four-dimensional space we have sixteen parts; what is the corresponding name for each partition?
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West African lion facing extinction
Two west African lion cubs
It would be very easy for small, isolated populations to be wiped out over the next five to 10 years, say the lead researcher (Source: Phillip Henscel/Panthera)
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Harmonium - Indian Musical Instrument
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In India the harmonium or reed-organ, or "the poor man`s pipe-organ," belongs to the same family of instruments as the mouth-organs and accordion-type instruments. It has freely moving reeds (as well as rising reeds) on which a patent was taken out in 18... |
Why teach poetry
Teaching poetry is important, yet often neglected, writes teacher Andrew Simmons in The Atlantic.
“Poetry can become a gateway to other forms of writing” by teaching “precise, economical diction,” Simmons writes.
However, discussing a poem can turn into an “in-class disembowelment of a poem’s meani... |
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Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering behind the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft. It is broken into two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. The former deals with craft that stay within Earth's ... |
Junking Cars to Learn How They Crash
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Engineers, scientists and accident investigators crashed junk cars at Texas Motor Speedway to learn how to better reconstruct accidents.
Engineers, scientists and crash investigators junked four vehicles duri... |
Tsunami map (Los Angeles Times)
The U.S. Geological Survey this week released a report assessing the tsunami risk in California. The research simulated a 9.1 quake off the Alaska coast that would send damaging waves to California.
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Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind
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Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind, by Nancy Sherman (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005), 242 pp., $26.00.
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What do you think is NASA's "big discovery" of mars?
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For Long-Suppressed Libyan Minority, New Freedom Brings an Identity Crisis
After centuries of being told their culture is forbidden, can Berbers figure out what it means to be Amazigh today?
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Genesis, Creation, and Ancient Interpreters: Let There Be Light
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Genesis 1:3 raised some questions among ancient interpreters. What does it mean for God to say, “Let there be light” on t... |
Lifeboat (shipboard)
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Partially enclosed Lifeboats on a passenger liner
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Red Spots on Your Skin
Worried about those red spots that suddenly appeared on your skin? Those spots could be harmless, or could even be beauty enhancing especially if they appeared on the face, but they could also be indications of some serious skin or body ailments.
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13 Milestones in Geography
Perhaps it's been awhile since you studied geography. Here are 13 milestones in the field:
1. 2900 B.C.-The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt is built. Perfectly square at the base and is aligned perfectly on North, South, East, and West lines.
2. 2300 B.C.-A map o... |
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Vitamin D Cuts Cancer Risk by 50%
(Article first published as Reduce Risk of Cancer and Diabetes by 50% with Vitamin D on Technorati.)
Who ever thought that taking an inexpensive nutritional supplement could dramatically lower your risk of developing cancer, diabetes, heart disease and eve... |
Everything you always wanted to know about the welfare state, but were afraid to ask
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I had the good fortune yesterday to attend a lunch at which Tom Gordon Palmer, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and an executive at t... |
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International Notes Epidemic Meningococcal Disease: Recommendations for Travelers to Nepal
During the first 6 months of 1983, an epidemic of serogroup A meningococcal meningitis, resulting in 875 cases and 95 deaths, occurred in the Kathmandu valley of Nepal. The overall annual attack rate was 103 cases per... |
Journalists are telling us that John Maynard Keynes, the intellectual inspiration of the New Deal and its tax-and-spend philosophy, is all the rage again. The Wall Street Journal offers an interesting vignette on Keynes's view of how to create jobs:
Drama was a Keynes tool. During a 1934 dinner in the U.S., after one e... |
Understanding Cystic Fibrosis
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Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease. That means people inherit it from their parents through genes (or DNA), which also determine a lot of other characteristics, including height, hair color and eye color. Genes, found in the nucleus of all the body’s cells, control c... |
Housing Bubble
Definition of 'Housing Bubble'
A run-up in housing prices fueled by demand, speculation and the belief that recent history is an infallible forecast of the future. Housing bubbles usually start with an increase in demand (a shift to the right in the demand curve), in the face of limited supply which ta... |
• The Super 8MM film format was developed by Kodak in 1965 to replace regular 8mm. Regular 8 had the reputation for being very unstable. It didn't get exposed properly through the film gate. Super 8 solved this problem by putting a pressure plate in the film cartridge.
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Epistemology - modernism
Epistemology is a part of philosophy that is to do with how we can know. It represents a foundation for our knowledge. We need to know how we can know before we can draw meaningful conclusions about what we know. Questions of epistemology are deeply fundamental – ev... |
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US energy in five maps (infographics)
America has a lot of energy, but it's not distributed evenly. Various types of energy are concentrated in different parts of the country. To better visualize it, Saxum, an Oklahoma City-based advertising and communications firm, has developed a portrait of ... |
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Harnessing Energy from Renewable SourcesThe search for alternative energy sources has now escalated to global proportions. Government agencies, educational institutions and scientists are all working together to look for alternative sources of fuels other than the tradi... |
ON THE outskirts of Tokyo sits a huge, grey building with concrete walls nearly one metre thick. The Fukagawa fortress, with its sophisticated security and climate-control systems, houses 50,000 tonnes of rice, part of a 2.3m-tonne stockpile, kept off the market by an oddity of the world rice trade.
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New Alzheimer's drug clears amyloid tangles in mice
In the latest effort to find new treatments for Alzheimer's disease, researchers at the University of Lancaster in the U.K. have created a new drug that has reduced the number of senile plaques in the brain, caused by amyloid-beta protein buildup, the major hallmark... |
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The Christological Controversies
With the Council of Constantinople (381) the Trinitarian controversy was settled. However, questions re... |
Place:Bangui, Ombella-M'Poko, Central African Republic
Alt namesBangisource: Rand McNally Atlas (1989) I-14
Bangîsource: Wikipedia
Coordinates4.367°N 18.583°E
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A breeze in the curtains
A curtain (sometimes known as a drape, mainly in the United States) is a piece of cloth intended to block or obscure light, or drafts, or water in the case of a shower curtain.[1] A ... |
This common saying is a simple yet effective way to get backcountry visitors to take their trash home with them. There is no reason why people cannot carry out of the backcountry the extra food and packaging materials that they carried in with them in the first place. Trash and litter in the backcountry ranks high as... |
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Dr. Darold Treffert, a Wisconsin psychiatrist, has been studying Savant Syndrome for nearly 40 years. In his observations, there appears to be traits and abilities that can only be explained by t... |
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Service Learning With Long Island Cares
Students in Mrs. Beovich’s seventh grade Home and Careers classes learned about hunger on Long Island through a unique program with Long Island Cares, Long Island’s food bank and food pantry. They watc... |
Barisal, city, south-central Bangladesh. It lies in the delta of the Padma (Ganges [Ganga]) and Jamuna (Brahmaputra) rivers on the Kirtonkhola, an offshoot of the Arial Khan River.
Incorporated as a municipality in 1876, it is a trade centre, most notably for rice, jute, and fish. It is linked by ship with Dhaka, abou... |
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Davydd Ddu of Hiraddug, who flourished in the Fifteenth century, produced a metrical version of 12 the Officium B. Mariae and of several psalms. Whether any of these were brought into the service of the Welsh Church of that age, or not, we have no means of discoverin... |
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To us, the Shuttle was an obstacle.
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Acidic, basic, or neutral?
Predict whether aqueous solutions of the following compounds are acidic, basic, or neautral: (a) NH4Br, (b) FeCl3, (c) KClO4, (d) KClO4, (e) NaHC2O4
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NH4Br from NH4OH + HBr ( HBr is a strong acid, NH4OH a weak base)
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See some of the oldest parts of London including the Roman wall and the places where the Great Fire of London started and ended. Other tourist attractions include the Bank of England, St Pauls, the Museum of London and the Tower of London.
This is a fairly long walk but can be done easily in two parts.
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CONJUNCTIONS. And or an with the subjunctive
"And" with the subjunctive. The true explanation appears to be that the hypothesis, the if, is expressed not by the and, but by the subjunctive, and that and merely means with the addition of, plus, just as but means leaving out, or minus.
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Running amok
Running amok, sometimes referred to as simply amok (also spelled amuck or amuk), is derived from the Malay/Indonesian/Filipino word amuk, meaning "mad with rage" (uncontrollable rage).
The word was in use in India during the British Empire, originally to describe an elephant gone mad, separated from its ... |
Picture of the Day: Minerals Deposited by Water on Mars
New pictures from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity show a bright vein of a mineral deposit, believed to be gypsum. "This tells a slam-dunk story that water flowed through underground fractures in the rock," said Steve Squyres, a scientist at Cornell Un... |
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I know that Euclid's algorithm is the best algorithm for get the GCD (great common divisor) for a list the positive integer numbers. But, in the practice, you can write two codes por evaluate the gcd (for my case, i decided use java, but c/c++ may be another option).
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Energy Investing: The Growth of Nuclear Power
Energy investors should know that the future of nuclear power in the world is one of growth, even if that growth is delayed due to the slowdown in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Thirty countries worldwide are operating 437 nuclear reactors for electricity generat... |
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Yard and Garden: Shrubs in Winter
AMES, Iowa – Shrubs are integral components of home landscapes. During winter months they not only make eye-catching accent or specimen plants, but they provide food and shelter for birds and other wildlife. Horticulturists with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach discuss shr... |
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Stanford Researchers Report Promising Results in Test of a Treatmentfor Lymphoma
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Water in Colorado
Water is very scarce in Colorado and much of this state's history has been shaped by water wars and water rights. In general this state needs to put a high premium on conserving our water resources, protecting its water quality, providing well engineered storage, and making water available for RESPO... |
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Secret of the Blue Rose
Roses come in a wide variety of colors, but that's not enough for some folks?they're determined to create a blue rose. There are plenty of blue flowers in the world, but no one has yet been able to persuade a rose bush to produce blue flowers. But now, using an enzyme found in the... |
Term: Idiolects
A person's idiolect is their own personal language, the words they choose and any other features that characterise their speech and writing. Some people have distinctive features in their language; these would be part of their idiolect, their individual linguistic choices and idiosyncrasies.
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German Dictionary
Translation of earth in German
to earth erden
the earth die Erde
Translation by Vocabulix
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Potatoes grow under the surface of the earth.
Kartoffeln wachsen unter der Oberfläche der Erde.
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The aftermath of the Second World War left Americans in a profoundly ambivalent state. On the global stage the United States stood as the only major nation the war did not physically ravage. Compared to England, France, Italy, Japan, all that was at one time Germany, and especially the Soviet Union, America suffered mi... |
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A state of the south-central United States. It was admitted as the 28th state in 1845. Explored by the Spanish in the 16th and 17th centuries, the region became a province of Mexico in the early 19th century. Texans won their independence in 1836 after a gallant but losing stand at the Alamo in Februar... |
Land reclamation along Florida's coast
In the early 20th century a number of parcels along Florida's coasts were developed as resort sites. Swamps were filled, causeways built, and housing established, providing significant revenues for the state and areas for an expanding senior citizen population. An example of this... |
Max Ernst: Men will know nothing of this, 1923. Oil on canvas, London, Tate Gallery.
Sigmund Freud said, “Visual thought is closer to the unconscious event than verbal thought, it is older than the latter.” If that’s true, I wonder what Max Ernst was thinking when he created this work of art. Ernst was a self-taught p... |
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1889 Tugboat: Arthur Foss
The tugboat Arthur Foss is a heritage vessel, museum ship with public programs, and platform for public service. In 1989 the vessel was declared a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service.
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Collapse of communism
After Hoxha’s death in 1985, his handpicked successor, Ramiz Alia, sought to preserve the communist system while introducing gradual reforms in order to revive the economy, which had been declini... |
The Prince and the Pauper Summary
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John Canty lures Edward from Miles’s protection and takes the boy to Southwark to join a pack of thieves there. Still vainly declaring himself king, Edward again becomes the center of ridicule. One of the thieves, Hugo, unde... |
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Tools: The Lotus Diagram
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The lotus diagram is a simple, but powerful, brainstorming tool. Consisting of nine squares arranged in a 3x3 grid, a blank diagram looks like a tac-tac-toe board:
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Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)—V. Serventy—Bruce Coleman Inc.
Ratite of Australia. After the ostrich, the emu is the second-largest living bird. They stand more than 5 ft (1.5 m) tall and often weigh more than 100 lbs (45 kg). The common emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae, family Dromaiidae), the only survivor of several f... |
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Ohio magnitude 4.0 earthquake linked to fracking
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Place:Bruges, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
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While messing with Arduino I came across this wireless transceiver. As a newbie in all this stuff, it's written that it operates at 2.4 GHz, so the transmitter crystal and receiver crystal must operate at 2.4 GHz, right? From the photo I can see that the crystal is 16 MHz which is 0.016 GHz. P... |
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late 12c., "scold, nag, rail," originally intransitive, from Old English cidan "to contend, quarrel, complain." Not found outside Old English (though Liberman says it is "probably related to OHG *kîdal 'wedge,'" with a sense evolution from "brandishing sticks" to "scold, reprove"). Past tens... |
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Hashem says: “All who anger me shall not see [the land]” (Bamidbar 14:33)
According to the Midrash (see חידושי מרן הגרי"ז who brings this medrash), this means that everyone, even the young children, would die before entering the land.
From this we can ask a seemingly obvious question: why di... |
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