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In Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker displays her evolving inventiveness in telling a story. The novel is a series of interior monologues interspersed with a few letters that describe the story’s major events and the major character’s interpretations ... |
Inspire Policy Making by Territorial Evidence
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15 July 2013 - The Territorial Agenda 2020 addresses maritime activities as essential for territorial cohesion in Europe and establishes that Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) should be integrated into the exi... |
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cVanity1 of vanities, says athe Preacher,
cvanity of vanities! dAll is vanity.
eWhat fdoes man gain by all the toil
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A generation goes, and a generation comes,
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Changing Styles and Methods
Whilst the fundamental principles of polar clothing have remained the same over the years, many different types of fabric have bee... |
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Baking soda can be used in many different ways for cleaning, but it is most useful when cleaning more sensitive materials that react poorly to abrasive chemicals. Use baking soda to clean silverware or tile with help from... |
Air Embolism: Causes, Symptoms & Diagnosis
Air Embolism
What is air embolism?
2. If a doctor suspects that you have an air embolism, they may perform an ultrasound or CT scan to confirm.
3. Symptoms of a severe air embolism might include low blood pressure or difficulty breathing.
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Information for People Caring for Someone With Bipolar Disorder
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Bipolar disorder affects more than one person. It also affects that person's family, friends, spouses, and co-workers. If you're caring for someone with bipoolar disorder—which can be as simple as sharing an apartment—Healthlin... |
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Are you different or unique?
Different is not the same as unique.
The word different is defined as "unlike" or "unusual," and it comes from the Latin differre, or "to set apart, differ."
Now, the word unique means something...well...different. (Ha ha.) It's defined as "the only one," and co... |
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Honey bees, like all animals, require a balanced diet of sugar, protein, vitamins and minerals. Water is also a vital nutritional requirement.
Nectar is bees' energy source and is extremely important for growth, breeding, flying and keeping warm.
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Two pairs of timeworn pants recently recovered from an ancient gravesite in China give new meaning to vintage fashion.
The woolen pants date back to between the 13th and 10th centuries B.C. and appear to be the earliest examples of trousers ever found. Researchers say the garments point to a possible origin for pants ... |
What the Term “Interfaith Family” Means
Jewish Genes: Are They in Our DNA or in Our Stories?
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Where are you from? It seems an innocent enough question. But as our families become more and more diverse, the answer can get wonderfully complicated. Recently at a “Saturdays Unplugged” event at the... |
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007
Climate Change 2007: Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change
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SMC - The Small Magellanic Cloud: Irregular Galaxy
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This small constellation, close to the south celestial pole, is best seen in springtime. Though small, with few bright stars, it contains two of the jewels of the southern sky.
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Grapefruit is such a powerful natural nutrient that it can actually act as a drug in the body. Both juice and the fruit itself can significantly slow down the body’s ability to metabolize many drugs. Drugs that usually conflict with grapefruit require metabolizing by the same enzyme in the body, called CYP3A4.
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Stay Heart-Healthy with Thyroid
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Even low-level thyroid dysfunction, common in the elderly,
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he worst industrial accident in history occurred on April 26, 1986, when the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in the... |
What Can I Do About Dizziness That Comes With My Blood Pressure Medications?
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A heat treatment used to strengthen glass, metals (usually steel) and alloys (aluminum) by balancing the materials' inner particles. Such a process improves impact resistance and reduces cracking/breaking. With tempered g... |
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Q. What’s so great about soy-based ink? I didn’t even know regular ink was bad for the environment. –Aimee, Tulsa, OK
A. Soy-based inks do have a smaller environmental impact than do traditional, petroleum-based inks, says Sevim Erhan, PhD, a Department of Agriculture chemist who researched soy ink as part of the USD... |
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Take an old refrigerator and picture 50 pounds of it going into a landfill. That's the norm -- with refrigerator insulation containing greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases. Americans toss around nine million refrigerators and freezers annually, making for one hot en... |
ONCE I was the Lone Snorkeler. For years, I jumped off excursion boats in the Red Sea, the South Pacific and the Caribbean with only mask and fins, while the others aboard strapped on heavy, bulky tanks and vests and plunged into the deep. When I returned to the boat with reports of pretty colors and little fishes, the... |
Continuously Variable Planetary Drive Is For Bikes, Not Spaceships
By Evan Ackerman
The Ride
We’ve seen some bicycles recently with automatic transmissions, but a continuously variable transmission is something new. CVTs work without gears, or rather, they provide an infinite number of gears, increasing engine eff... |
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She hides behind your legs when she meets a new grown-up and refuses to tell the waitress her order. She's in kindergarten! Shouldn't she have outgrown this behavior by now?
Not necessarily. Some kids are simply bashful by nature, says Marilyn Greene, an early-childhood specialist in Agou... |
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Trivia Quiz - James Cook - King of Navigators
The life and achievements of the greatest navigator the world has seen
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The problem with today’s health care insurance is that it is not being viewed like other kinds of insurance.
Getting 'Real' with Health Care
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The process of blending a light ingredient, such as beaten egg whites, into a heavier ingredient by lifting from underneath with a spatula or spoon In order to fold ingredients properly, the heavier ingredient is placed at the bottom of a bowl and the lighter above. A motion commonly used to fol... |
On average, it is the driest, coldest, and windiest continent as well as having the highest average elevation of all the continents. Considered a desert, the annual precipitation is only 8 inches along the coast and far less inland. There are no permanent human residents, but anywhere between 1,000 and 5,000 people r... |
986.420 Min-max Limit Hierarchy of Pre-time-size Allspace-fillers
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986.421 Of all the allspace-filling module components, the simplest are the three- quanta-module Mites, consisting of two A Quanta Modules (one A positive and one A negative) and of one B Quanta Module (which may be either positive or negat... |
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The Struggle for Perfection
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Life is characterised by effort at existence. This inherent urge within every human being is a permanent feature observable through history. Effort and struggle are directed towards the achieving of an end which is realised as one's ideal and which mostly remains as a... |
People are not very good at estimating how many hours they work, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (PDF) in a study highlighted by Harvard Business Review. When asked how much work they do each week, Americans tend to report longer hours than when they keep a more accurate diary of their work, the BLS anal... |
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Your brain and spinal cord are bathed in fluid. A spinal tap, also called a lumbar puncture, is a procedure doctors use to remove and test some of this liquid, called cerebrospinal... |
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The series of commands shown in each tutorial can be written to a single casapy script using the CASA Guides script extractor. The script extractor is described here.
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Wal-Mart's Katrina Heroism: "Above All, Do The Right Thing," CEO Told Managers Before Katrina Struck
A paper written by Steven Horwitz, an Austrian-school economist (we’re still not quite sure what that means, other than it’s considered slightly controversial), recounts Wal-Mart’s relief efforts after Hurricane Katrin... |
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Dedekind domain
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In abstract algebra, a Dedekind domain or Dedekind ring, named after Richard Dedekind, is an integral domain in which every nonzero proper ideal factors into a product of prime ideals. It can be shown that such a factorization is then n... |
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Dunwich (/ˈdʌnwɪ/[1]) is a fictional town that appeared in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Dunwich Horror" (1929). Dunwich is found in the fictional Miskatonic River Valley of Massachusetts, part of the imaginary region sometim... |
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A gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue (GnRH analogue or analog), also known as a luteinizing hormone releasing hormone agonist (LHRH agonist) or LHRH analogue is a synthetic peptide drug modeled after the hum... |
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In a formal system of logic used for knowledge representation, the open-world assumption is the assumption that the truth value of a statement may be true irrespective of whether or not it... |
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Tajikistan: The ice age. Now
Despite the fact that the long-awaited hydropower station Sangtuda-1 in Tajikistan has been launched, the population still does not feel the changes. It is worth of mentioning that only the first (out of four) turbines was launched and the other th... |
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Fiber is present to some degree in almost all plant species. In addition it is produced by marine life, insects, yeasts, fungi, bacteria, and a host of other organisms. Fiber is often referred to as soluble or insoluble, depending on whether it dissolves in water. Food sources incl... |
Our language has moved on a bit . . .
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I just started reading Norman Perrin’s The kingdom of God in the teaching of Jesus, (1963) Philadelphia, Westminster Press and his language is driving me crazy! He is clear and lucid etc, but he uses “man” and “men” as inclusive terms at every turn. My vot... |
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Animal welfare concerns over increased turtle production
Drop in prices unlikely to affect poaching, says activist
Turtle farm bosses have been urged to do proper research to discover the real local demand for turtle meat instead of “manipulating” the market by increasing production and dropping prices.
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Photography, like any other art, demands both compelling content and expert technique to create a pleasing result. In my previous article, I discussed some of the aesthetic choices involved in creating a successful macro image. Technique, however, is an absolute must; it's the artist's tool to convey his artistic visio... |
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If you're suffering from Parkinson's disease, you are not alone. It affects 1.5 million Americans, and approximately 60,000 new cases appear each year. This diagnosis can be a trial both mentally and physically.
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Sir, These Bees Suggest You’re Hiding Explosives
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Another one of honeybees’ amazing capabilities was recently brought to our attention in the March issue of The Scientist, in an article called “T-Bee.” Tuberculosis (TB) has a unique scent, and microbiologist Steve Chambers reasoned that if some... |
Born in the urban South but raised in the countryside, a migrant to the West during the uprooting years of World War II and later to the Northeast, a laborer and an artist, an activist and teacher and, in the end, a very wealthy woman, Maya Angelou knew many worlds, many of them at the edges of the mainstream and well ... |
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Did you ever hear of the "Dr. Fox Effect?"
In a classic experiment conducted by Donald Naftulin, John Ware, and Frank Donnelly in the early 1970s, three separate groups of professionals attended a lecture titled, "Mathematical game theory and its application to physician education.” The professionals, including psy... |
Blogging about projective identification is a bit daunting because not everyone agrees about the definition or what projective identification actually means. Like any hypothetical construct, it can mean more or less what you want it to mean, but I would like to use the following definition: “The attempt by the patient/... |
Oil money has conjured up a pricey experiment in sustainability in a patch of desert between downtown Abu Dhabi and its airport. There, the city of Masdar ("the source") is rising. It is meant to signal a shift away from fossil fuels by hosting a variety of ecofriendly approaches, such as a system of subterranean elect... |
Human embryos could provide stem cells for Parkinson's and liver disease
US scientists could trigger a new debate over the use of human embryos to provide stem cells for medical research.
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Wayne's world: when ballet met science
Britain's foremost choreographer Wayne McGregor teams up with US scientists to discover the theory of creativity
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How to Do the Pilates Roll Up Exercise
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The roll up is one of the classic Pilates Mat exercises. Roll up is a great challenge for the abdominal muscles, and is well known as one of the Pilates flat abs exercises. It has been said that one Pilates roll up... |
While virtually every country in the world is trying to boost growth, China’s government is trying to slow it down to a sustainable level. As China shifts to a more domestic demand-driven, services-oriented economy, a transition to slower trend growth is both inevitable and desirable. But the challenges are immense, an... |
'The Muqaddimah' by Ibn Khaldun
"The Muqaddimah," which translates to "The Introduction," was written in 1377 by the Islamic historian Khaldun. It's an attempt to strip away biases of historical records and find universal elements in the progression of humanity.
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How Doctors Tell Patients They're Dying
Telling patients they're going to die is less dramatic than one might think, and contrary to popular belief, most doctors refuse to estimate how many weeks or months patients have left to live.
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Philip Stieg is a professor and chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and neurosurgeon-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. (Image credit: NYMed/ABC)
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As chief of neurosurgery at a major teaching hospital, I am used to being observed - I al... |
Cuttlefish learn from watching potential prey even before they are born
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Blogging on Peer-Reviewed ResearchFor humans, sight is the most important of senses but only after we are born. Within the womb, surrounded by fluid, muscle and darkness, vision is of limited use and our eyes re... |
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Tuesday marks 48 years since the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. President Kennedy served less than three years in office, but he made a strong mark. Here, we reflect on some of ... |
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Exonization of the LTR transposable elements in human genome
• Jittima Piriyapongsa1,
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Accepted: 28 August 2007
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Your 4 month old baby
The fourth month is full of new sounds from your baby, who'll learn to create all sorts of noises, squeals, sounds, and giggles - a conscious trial at communicating with you. Your baby will even start practicing the same sounds over and over again. Soon, they'll be able to figure out that people ... |
Preliminary estimates show that Hurricane Isaac caused $100 million worth of losses to Louisiana agriculture. It could have been much worse.
“I don’t want to downplay the harm the storm did to people,” says Kurt Guidry, LSU AgCenter economist, who crunched preliminary damage numbers. “For those who were hit, it’s awf... |
Oracle Database architecture on Windows. An Oracle instance is shown as a Windows service (a background process registered with the operating system). The service is started by Windows and requires no user interaction to start. It contains the memory structures and threads needed to access the database.
The client con... |
Reagan’s Greatness
February 6 marked the 99th birthday of one of our most successful and beloved former presidents, Ronald Reagan.
At this time of economic uncertainty and global tension, it’s worth recalling the challenges Reagan faced when he took office and what he did to conquer them.
Reagan’s legacy rests on tw... |
Photo by George Steinmetz for National Geographic
National Geographic just launched a new series of interactive maps that demonstrate just how catastrophic it would be if all five million cubic miles of ice on Earth were to melt. Entire cities would sink as the sea rises by 216 feet, reshaping the world as we know it ... |
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Saint Wilgefortis: Bearded woman
The name Wilgefortis may come from the Latin “virgo fortis” (strong virgin). Her English name Uncumber means escaper, while she was called Liberata in Italy and France, and Librada in Spain -- meaning “liberator” from hardship or husbands! Her veneration arose ... |
Power Words and Action Verbs
Power words or action verbs, are words used to help make a statement stronger. By using action verbs, you can assume an "active voice" instead of a "passive voice" on your resume or letter. Properly merging power words into your resumes or letters and other correspondence can help convey s... |
Second Chance for Juvenile Lifers in California
As it stands now, California law allows minors as young as 14 years old to be sentenced to life in prison, for certain crimes. Currently, the United States is one of the only countries in the developed world that still has life imprisonment available as a punishment for ... |
There are a ton of different types of Arduino boards, and figuring out which one you want isn't always an easy process. Over on Tested, they break down the main differences between the most common Arduino boards.
Tested digs into the key features and differences on a handful of boards, including the Arduino Uno, Leona... |
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On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:44 AM, keydana at gmx.de <keydana at gmx.de> wrote:
> so products and sums would be isomorphic?
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In the Forest of the Text
This post may be the most pedantic, obscure, and boring of all posts on this blog of arcana. Here I will ruminate upon a problem that has been perplexing me of late, as I draw near to completing my edition of Petrus Thomae’s Questiones de esse intelligibili. This is ... |
Make Your Own Percussion Instruments
A few years back, while giving a presentation on homemade musical instruments at the University of Washington, Dr. Craig Woodson created a masenqo—a single stringed violin from Ethiopia—out of dental floss, a Styrofoam box, a plastic tube, and some chopsticks. “There was an Ethiop... |
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