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Historian questions Dunnichen Stone
Work is progressing well on The Dunnichen Stone - but should it be called St Orlands Stone?
As the countdown continues to the opening of a new pub and restaurant on the outskirts of Forfar, a local historian has questioned its name.
He contacted our office after it emerged the n... |
The evil of paternalism
Paternalism is forcing people to do things “for their own good”. Since force is involved, the person applying the force judges what is best for the person being forced.
Most of us would say that paternalism is sometimes acceptable for children. Parents occasionally have to force their children... |
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The book, Belliotti's 14th, was published by Rodopi Editions in Ethical Theory and Practice, a special series in its "Value Inquiry" book series.
Belliotti frames both Jesus and Nietzsche as moral revolutionaries. Jesus modified the imperatives of Jewish law to conform to what he was firmly convince... |
Natural rubber is a pliable, stretchy material made from the milky juice of various tropical plants. Synthetic rubber synthesized from petroleum and other minerals, was developed as a substitute for natural rubber. The material is called rubber because it appeared that one of the most practical uses of the gum would be... |
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Hellenistic Art
Considered the period between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BC) and the beginnings of the Roman Empire (146 BC)
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Ideas on how to teach young children cell phone etiquette/safety
I decided to write this blog because we seem to be ignoring some important statistics when it comes to cell phones and young children. According to the Yankee Group (2006) survey by 2010 54% of tweens ages 8-12 will have a cell ph... |
Nixie (postal)
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A Nixie is an undeliverable-as-addressed mailing.
As used by the United States Postal Service, a Nixie is distinguished from other address errors in that the mail piece is always returned to the sender. (Vs. a Change of Address (COA) whi... |
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I've noticed in IELTS reading that there was a sentence as below:
disappointing results were achieved by the Australian Academy.
I looked this verb up in Longman dictionary, It's been said that:
To get a good result or succeed in doing something.
It has positive meaning. How we could use "achieve" w... |
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Magnetism Explorations
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Silent Collisions, Collide magnets on a pencil. For 40 years I bounced magnets on a pencil until a seventh grade student opened my eyes to a world of possible experiments. If you can find a pencil with a steel eraser, a donut magn... |
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The Art of Saying No to Your Child
The “talk to the hand” strategy simply isn’t going to cut it.
No. It’s one of the simplest words in the English language, and yet, it’s one of the hardest to say. Though, that’s debatable once a toddler picks up the ‘no’ word. In fact, many parents can vouch th... |
wafer irons
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Wafer \Wa"fer\, n. [OE. wafre, OF. waufre, qaufre, F. qaufre; of
Sw. v[*a]ffla; all akin to G. wabe a honeycomb, OHG. waba,
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Agree with Thine Adversary
Jesus said,
These words present a metaphor for the path of man's life, a path along which man, as the accused, is being dragged by his adversary. The adversary is man's conscience, which acts as the prosecutor. "Whiles thou art in the way wi... |
Longevity in Lululemons
Seniors in the studio? Well, perhaps you can’t picture Aunt Willa in Warrior’s Pose, but the benefits gained from energizing, heart opening yoga can benefit everyone, seniors included.
There has been much research on the benefits of exercise in the elderly. Exercise can delay the mental and ph... |
The bise is a northern wind, cold and generally dry, that blows from the north-east of France to the south of the Massif Central, where it is called bise noire ("black bise"). The bise can also come from the north-east in Touraine and Quercy and even from the east in Deux-Sèvres.
Blowing year-round, the bise is usuall... |
Last chance to see the Motya charioteer
The spectacular 5th century BC statue known at the Motya Charioteer will be in London for just a few weeks more, after the British Museum today (31 August) announced that its loan had been extended until 19 September.
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Serious illness or complications from whooping cough are almost unheard of in these age groups. Most people never seek medical attention. If they do, doctors may misdiagnose pertussis symptoms as bronchitis or asthma.
Despite th... |
Microwave oven
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Are Search Engines And Internet Use Making Our Brains Lazy?: The Effects of Having Information At Our Fingertips
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In Sefer Yona 3:4 why was it so easy to convince the city of Ninveh to do teshuva (5 words!) if they were so evil?
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The Phoenix Through the Ages
The self-renewing bird is one of our most enduring myths.
By Heather Shumaker ’91
The mythical Phoenix. (Bettman/Corbis photo)
Unraveling the legend of the phoenix is trickier than it might seem. The fabled bird is so thoroughly entwined in our culture that most pe... |
‘In Flanders Fields’
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
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The infamous Higgs particle has a weighty task: It grants all the other elementary particles their mass. Without it, they — we — would zip around frantically at the speed of light, too foot-loose to form atoms. But how does the Higgs do it?
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A U.N. report on climate change said that while human activity is "extremely likely" to blame for global warming, temperatures aren't expected to rise as quickly as previously thought. Gunnar Myhre, coordinating lead author for the IPCC, explains the details to WSJ's Gautam Naik.
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I am exposing several experimental organisms to a toxin in the food. If the dosage is high enough, they will die. I am examining the number that are dead after a day. For practical reasons, the dosage they get is not directly under my control. I have decided to model the number that are dead after one d... |
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Floats and Iterators
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100 years: Auto assembly lines still moving
Henry Ford launched the first auto assembly line 100 years ago on October 7, 1913, a truly significant manufacturing innovation that has brought about huge economic and social changes.
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Battle of the Plains of Abraham
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Internationalism (politics)
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Internationalism is a movement which advocates a greater economic and political cooperation among nations for the theoretical benefit of all. Partisans of this movement, such as supporters of the World Federalist Movement, c... |
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Panchakki,(Devanagari: पानचक्की) also known as the water mill, takes its name from the mill which used to grind grain for the pilgrims. This monument located in Aurangabad, Maharastra, displays the scientific thought process put in medieval Indian archi... |
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Prior to DB2 9 any non long data types (i.e. not blobs, clobs or long varchar) were stored in "regular" tablespaces. Data stored in these tablespaces always had a 4 byte record identifier known as a RID. The 4 bytes are made up of a 3 byte page number and a 1 byte slot number. Th... |
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Recycling with Coffee
Six uses for coffee cans and coffee grounds.
1. Make a feeder with an empty can. Remove the top and bottom, place on its side, fill with seed and hang.
2. Put an empty open can over your tender plants to prevent cutworms from harming them.
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Turning is the art of shaping wood while it is revolving, consequently to produce curved surfaces that may be anything from simple cylinders to more complex wreathed or spiral shapes.
As such, for a very long time the art and trade of the turner was considered and kept separate from that of the joiner, although there ... |
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What's all that noise? Cicadas!
Millions of those red-eyed bugs will come out of the ground this spring, but don't worry
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For the most part, no. If an especially large swarm lays eggs on the branches of young and tender trees or plants, t... |
Region IX Pigna
There used to be a tradition, wholly unfounded, but deeply rooted in the Roman mind, to the effect that the great bronze pine-cone, eleven feet high, which stands in one of the courts of the Vatican, giving it the name 'Garden of the Pine-cone,' was originally a sort of stopper which closed the round a... |
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What is CCSVI?
Chronic cerebro-spinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI)
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Friday, June 06, 2008
On Definitions
I learned something new about the Ten Commandentments yesterday.
You may ask, what's new about them? Haven't they been sitting there in Exodus 20 for, roughly, ever?
The ten commandments are not specifically numbered, and in fact span 15-16 verses in chapter 20, depending on whe... |
Just as all modern crimes against habitation have their origins in the ancient law of trespass, all modern theft laws have their origins in the ancient law of larceny. Trespass was designed to protect real property (items of possession affixed to the ground) from invasion, damage, and destruction. Larceny was designed ... |
Saturn's Moon - Rhea
R hea is the largest airless satellite of Saturn. It was discovered in 1672 by Giovanni Cassini. Rhea is an icy body with a density of 1.33 gm/cm3. The low density indicates that it is composed of a rocky core taking up less than one-third of the moon's mass, with the rest composed of water-ice. R... |
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Top 10 Milestones In Movie History
A tribute to the films, people, and technology that have shaped our modern cinema.
10. Titanic - 1997. The first Billion Dollar film. With a worldwide box office of over a billion dollars, James Cameron ushered in a new era of blockbuster films, and has r... |
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Themes > Science > Physics > Electromagnetism > Magnetostatics > Electromagnetic Application > The Solenoid
A solenoid is simply a special-
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Corn Song
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A day's drive from urban Los Angeles, a Hopi woman stood on the edge of a cliff winnowing beans. Her basket moved in a rolling motion, sending the beans into the air in a wave, catching and tossing them in the stillness. I observed as she coaxed ... |
The Old Nile Inn
Why is it Significant?
The building is an outstanding example of an early colonial Inn designed in the Georgian tradition. Having a commanding presence on the streetscape of Nile, the unusual fenestration gives the building a unique character due to its large window openings in proportion to wall are... |
Universal Precaution
Catheters are sized in units called French, where one French equals 1/3 of 1 mm. Catheters vary from 12 (small) FR to 48 (large) FR (3-16mm) in size.
They also come in different varieties including ones without a bladder balloon, and ones with different sized balloons - you should check ho... |
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Testing: How the Sausage is Made
By Alain Jehlen
How do standards become test scores?
What do 'proficient' and 'grade level' really mean?
How are high-stakes tests dumbing down education?
These aren’t questions you’ll see on any test, but the answers might surprise you.
Little Jimmy opens his test... |
Also known as: Sleep disorder - insomnia, Learned insomnia, Chronic insomnia or Primary insomnia
Insomnia is trouble falling asleep or staying asleep through the night.
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• Poor sleeping environment, such as to... |
Anti-Platelet Drug Blocks Bone Metastases in Mice
Michael C. Purdy
Based on earlier experiments, scientists had hoped the drug, ML464, would block the spread of a melanoma cell line into bones. They were pleasantly surprised to find that not only did the treatment block bone metastases, but it also reduced the devel... |
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a) The gas is cheaper
b) The boiler efficiency is normally higher
c) The gas is cleaner
d) Easier to obtain
2 Which of the following is a harmful by – product of coal combustion?
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I was always dissatisfied with inverters because it seems like an LC tank and transistors would be all you need. However, after much time spent simulating and a few false positives experimenting, I am beginning to think it is flat out impossible. I have no way to prove it, but it seems that you need at ... |
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Dualism in the news
That old chestnut of mind-body dualism - the freaky idea that our minds can somehow continue to exist after our brain has been destroyed - has been cropping up a bit recently in the media. Here's a snapshot.
Never say die: why we can't imagine death
First up is a great article i... |
Friday, August 8, 2008
Protect Livestock from Prussic Acid
As feed prices have risen, many livestock producers have turned to alternative means for providing feedstuffs for their livestock. One popular option has been to follow wheat harvest with a planting of sorghum. While a sorghum crop can be a valuable resource ... |
Practice: Securing a Database
Task: Give restricted privileges to a user so he can access the hardware database from your computer.
1. Connect to the MySQL server using your root MySQL password. Then go to the mysql database within it.
2. Create a user fred at localhost with SELECT and INSERT privileges on the da... |
A world without mosquitoes?
Wouldn’t you like to hit the mosquitoes back? Well, my friends, science is here to help.
You’ve probably heard public health experts advising you to empty water containers around your yard to help limit mosquito activity. Did you ever wonder why? It’s because certain kinds of mosquitoes li... |
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2. 2. What is the source of the microbe? (eg. feces, tap water)
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Although it's been almost 90 years since the flood, they say that on a hot day, the streets in some parts of Boston still bleed molasses.
On January 15, 1919, a sound later described as a dull, muffled roar emanated briefly from the six-story-tall molasses tank at the Purity Distilling Company. This grumbling was hear... |
Summary (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Warren broke away from his somewhat morose obsession with evil with his sparkling Promises, winner of his first Pulitzer Prize in poetry. The first five poems of Promises are dedicated to Warren’s daughter Rosanna under the general title “To a Little Gi... |
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Type 2 Diabetes in Children - Medications
The same medicines are used to treat adults and children with type 2 diabetes. These medicines increase insulin production, make the body better able to use insulin (decrease insulin resistance), o... |
• Hereditary Colon and Rectal Cancer
For individuals in the United States, the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is approximately 6 percent, or one in every 17 people. Most of the time, colorectal cancer occurs in people over 50 years of age. If you have a first degree relative (for example, a parent, ... |
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
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Tybalt Capulet Timeline and Summary
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Philosophy literally means "the love of wisdom." It deals with speculative issues such as human nature, the structure of reality, the existence of God, and the processes involved in human knowledge. It is also concerned with practical issues such as the nature of the morally good life and the ideal political society. P... |
Greco-Italian War
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Greco-Italian War
Part of the Balkans Campaign of World War II
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Greek newspaper announcing the war
Date 28 October 1940 – 23 April 1941
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Wason and crab.
Liz Wason is a fan of all sorts of creepy, crawly creatures. (Image courtesy of Liz Wason.)
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The Lie in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Komala, Cindy Natalia (2009) The Lie in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.
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Climate change’s dominos
Arctic sea ice melt starts the cascade
When I was young, I enjoyed setting dominos on end in complex branching rows. Then, by pushing one ever-so-slightly until it toppled over, I created a whole cascade of falling dominos rippling out across the floor. Humanity is playing th... |
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Will Neuroscience Challenge The Legal Concept Of Criminal Responsibility?
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Question: How deep should I bury my tomato plants in the ground when planting?
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The sky is full of holes. Black holes. At least that's the conclusion a recent map of a large region of the sky by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This wide area survey of a region of the sky in the Bootes constellation, shown above, is about 40 times larger than the full moon.... |
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Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Local and Regional Policy and Management
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November 2005 edition
Aircraft boosted by the sound of music
An Australian aerospace engineer has developed a technique that boosts aircraft lift by using sound to control air flow over wings.
According to its developer, Ian Salmon, aircraft development engineer at Qantas Airways, the discovery would allow UAVs an... |
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The increase in heroin addiction is reaching epidemic proportions because of the abuse of prescription pain killers such as Oxycodone and Vicodin. Most modern pain relievers are opiates or come from the p... |
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