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Why I'm learning to bake Schubert strudel
If you've been listening to Radio 3 over the weekend, you'll now be fully immersed in the music of Franz Schubert. The station's latest complete-works survey of a major composer follows seasons on Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. As a Radio 3 presenter, I'm... |
"Squeezing the shorts" refers to a questionable practice in which a trader takes advantage of a stock that has been short sold substantially by buying up large blocks of the stock. This causes the stock's price to increase and forces short sellers to attempt to buy the stock in order to close out their positions and cu... |
An ambitious plan to end statelessness
The plan breaks down the issue into 10 action points, addressing the main reasons why people end up stateless. Sometimes it's because children were not registered at birth, or because discriminatory laws prevent their mothers from passing on their own nationality. Some are the... |
Sweet Songs of Freedom: Jamaica's Music Since Independence Image
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When one thinks of Jamaica's music, its history is so diverse that the images which come to mind range from couples intimately gyrating in a dancehall, to well-clad dancers performing the latest moves in a new hip-hop/reggae collaborat... |
Where do old refrigerators go to die?
The decline of my 10-year-old refrigerator started with an unsettling wheezing sound and ended with a death rattle that would have cost $500 to fix. So I, like 10 million other Americans each year, dropped money on a new fridge and had the broken one hauled away.
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LED Ceiling Lights is a type of LED Light. The following provides information on why you need to buy LED Ceiling Lights.
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Pocket Pets: Early Explorers Brought Guinea Pigs to Europe
Spanish explorers brought guinea pigs back from the New World to Europe, where they were kept as exotic pets.
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Childhood Obesity Blamed on Virus
During adulthood, our bodies tightly regulate the number of fat cells, which could explain why it seems easy to gain back lost weight.
Doctors have found more evidence that a viral infection can trigger obesity. And no, the virus doesn't live on cheese puffs and Twinkies.
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Tropical Storm Chantal is churning through the Lesser Antilles islands and possibly heading toward the East Coast, a path that is more common in the heart of hurricane season than in early July.
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Leagues’ rules vary on uniform digits
Athletes are often associated with their uniform numbers, but the process of how those digits are attached to a uniform and player has changed over the years.
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The Underwater Mortgage Problem: A Solution in California?
San Bernardino county, Ontario, and Fontana have proposed a way to help underwater homeowners.
As a way to help underwater homeowners, local officials in California's San Bernardino County and two cities, Ontario and Fontana, proposed using the power of emine... |
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As stated in the introduction to the "Undernutrition and malnutrition" panel, farm animals are really inefficient as "machines" which convert vegetal proteins into animal proteins; as a consequence, animal products use far more resources overall than vegetable. A huge global waste of res... |
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a. Olympic Math's systematic curriculum makes your children proficient from the basic skills to high level math. The skills they learn are sharpened and broadened through a continuous variety of questions and practices.
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4 Teen Geniuses Whose Science Projects Blew Us Away
The new book Science Fair Season profiles students as they wow the circuit with their brainiac inventions.
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It's common knowledge that rights holders are scouring file sharing networks for TV shows, Hollywood blockbusters and pop albums to fight against infringement. A list of works that have attracted lots of attention from lawyers in Germany reveals an unusual trend: More and more publishing houses fight infringement of li... |
The Transgenic Tomato
Timothy Rockey
1. The Need for Genetic Engineering of Crops
2. For most Americans, fresh vegetables come from the supermarket. One only has to walk down an aisle loaded with gleaming red tomatoes, juicy melons, fresh potatoes, and a plethora of other vegetables and fruits and gather whatev... |
Can you take the pressure?
by B.B. Pelletier
Fortunately, this isn’t about you. It’s about your airgun. Let’s look at how much air pressure we put into precharged pneumatic (PCP) guns.
More is not always better!
If you are new to airgunning in general or to PCPs, you may think that the greater the pressure the faste... |
Melting Permafrost Amplifies Global Warming Effect
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Melting Permafrost Amplifies Global Warming Effect
According to a survey published in the November 30 issue of the journal Nature, melting permafrost in the northern climes is releasing large amounts of methane and carbon, amplifying the global warmi... |
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WHEN Manoa Rasigatale became the face of shark conservation this year, he had never met a shark.
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Fun with JavaScript Numbers and Prototype
One of the things that makes JavaScript so portable is it's intentionally minimal library of built-in functions. By reducing the assumption that some off-the-wall function is available in a given version, we are nearly guaranteed that our scripts will work in any environment.
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Doctor ExamYour thoracic spine—the upper back or mid-back region—is the most stable part of your spine. It is very stiff, and the thoracic spine has a limited range of motion. It is like that for several reasons, all of which you can understand by looking at the anatomy of the ... |
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Simplifying Earth Day 2011: Picnic for the Planet
The first Earth Day in 1970 centered on political activism. In recent years, the event often mirrors something closer to a combination of a state fair and a trade show. Nothing wrong with that: these events likely bring out a much more diverse mix of people than the ea... |
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Cargo ship arrives at space station
Washington: Orbital Sciences Corporation's unmanned Cygnus cargo ship has arrived at the International Space Station on the company's first regular supply mission to the research outpost.
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There is a cost to not educating young people. The evidence is around us and all over the world.
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Hi- baby names and what they mean, with 26 results. Hi- names are used more often as masculine names. These boy names were at the height of their popularity during the years 1880-1889 (usage of 0.09%) and are now significantly less popular (usage 0.01%, down 89%), with nam... |
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Mark Eagleton speaks about some recent findings in the U.S. Trust Insights on Wealth and Worth Survey
Business owners and entrepreneurs play a significant role in wealth creation within the Kansas City economic landscape. The recently released U.S. Trust Insight... |
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Year of Publication2011
AuthorsNew, M., D. Liverman, H. Schroeder, and K. Anderson
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The Greater Mekong region holds irreplaceable riches—ranging from rare wildlife in spectacular natural landscapes to communities with distinct cultural heritages. The vast region spans six countries: Chi... |
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ALKOL, W.Va. -- Research says people who live in isolated areas, who don't make much money, who don't have a college education and who don't live near a gym or grocery store have a tough time staying fit or losing weight.But the five core members of the Mud River Volunteer Fire ... |
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The XPointer and XLink specifications, currently under development, introduce a standard linking model for XML. In consideration of space, a... |
Archaeologists have started excavating a large site in York which could hide significant remains relating to the city's Roman and medieval past.
The Hidden Guildhall investigation will focus on river-side land next to the Guildhall, once home to a friary where Richard III famously stayed.
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Language is at the center of almost every human activity. Yet producing and understanding even the simplest of sentences is one of the most complicated tasks that humans perform. Linguistics, the general study of language, attempts to answer the following questions: How do we produce and understand sentences? How is la... |
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The Smoking Hills are located on the east coast of Cape Bathurst[1] in Canada's Northwest Territories, next to the Arctic Ocean and a small group of lakes. The cliffs were named by explorer Joh... |
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Yadava, U.L. 1996. Guava production in Georgia under cold-protection structure. p. 451-457. In: J. Janick (ed.), Progress in new crops. ASHS Press, Arlington, VA.
Guava Production in Georgia under Cold-protection Structure
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Stories, requirements, and language
The negotiation between client and team on what gets delivered is the toughest aspect of software development that I’ve encountered. Something that’s eased this aspect for me is adopting User Stories and abandoning “Function Requirements” and “Feature Requests”. I’m reading throug... |
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One of the privileges of living as long as some of us have is that you get to witness a respectable amount of history. I have clear personal memories of Bill Mazeroski’s walk-off home run to win the 1960 World Series for Pittsburgh; Alan Shepard’s ride into space in 1962; John ... |
Kyphosis, Stenosis and Multiple Sclerosis
The spine has four curves. Two of them curve forward toward the belly side of the body. They are the cervical (neck) and lumbar (low back) spines. The other two arch backward toward the back and buttocks. They are the thoracic spine which supports the ribcage, and the sacrum... |
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Lesson 1: Heavenly Father’s Plan for Us
Primary 6: Old Testament, (1996), 1–5
To help the children understand that they are spirit children of Heavenly Father and that he has a plan that will help them become like him and return to live with him again.
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With the ancient Israelites the first day of a new moon was the first day of a new month, so that a month would consist of either... |
Navajo Bridge
Two almost identical steel-arch bridges span the canyon. A parking area is on the other side.
The wider modern Navajo Bridge on the right replaced the historic Navajo Bridge for driving safety.
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Farm virus 'came from Africa in a dust storm': Foot and mouth disease was carried to Britain from the Sahara, claim scientists
Farm virus 'came from Africa in a dust storm':
September 9, 2001 The Observer by Robin McKie
BRITAIN'S foot and mouth epidemic may have been caused by a cloud of infected dust blown from th... |
The simplest definition of emotionally abusive behavior is anything that intentionally hurts the feelings of another person. Since almost everyone in intimate relationships does that at some time or other in the heat of an argument, emotionally abusive behavior must be distinguished from an emotionally abusive relation... |
Recently, I was talking to a friend about the way we think, perceive, and act, and he said, "a person is merely the result of his/her neural circuits." Does that mean that it is our neurons that are in control?
I don't think that people can be summed up by their neural circuits for the simple reason that we, to a larg... |
Probiotics are live and active microorganisms comparable to those present in the human intestinal flora. Usually referred to as good" or friendly" bacteria, probiotics may aid treat and relieve symptoms of particular health circumstances, such as diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome and decrease bladder cancer, according... |
The GM scientists' risky strategy that won public support
Research group pleaded with protesters to call off their threat to destroy trials – and even offered to fund public debate
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Media Matters: Blank Media Guide
Media Matters: Blank Media Guide
It's easier now than ever to fit large quantities of video into a very small physical space. For you to be able to acquire video, you need media of some kind, whether it's videotape, optical media, a hard drive or even a memory card.
For you to be ab... |
Town twinning
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Town twinning is a special friendship agreement between two communities, in different countries, supported by both local councils. Twinned communities organ... |
On April 19, 1587, the British fleet under Sir Francis...
April 19, 1991
On April 19, 1587, the British fleet under Sir Francis Drake sacked Cadiz, Spain.
In 1775 the American Revolutionary War against the British began at Lexington and Concord, Mass.
In 1782 Holland recognized the independence of the American colo... |
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Linguistic Education
By Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)
From “The Book le Grand”
NEXT day the world was going on as usual, and, as usual, we had to repair to school and learn things by heart—the kings of Rome, dates, then Latin nouns and verbs, Greek, Hebrew, geography, German, arithmetic—I grow dizzy whe... |
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Leveraging the billions of hours annually spent playing video games could help children learn and bring families closer together, say researchers who have studied the effects of video game use across generations. "For example, in 2009, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the University of So... |
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Was Jewish Center Shooting a Hate Crime?
The suspect of Jewish center shooting in Kansas has been charged with premeditated murder, but some groups believe that the killings were hate crimes.
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Self-expression in Web Design
In The Power of Positive Whining, Jeffrey Zeldman writes:
I think Jeffrey is right: no designer can expect perfection in design. They can neither expect to create the perfect design nor expect to be able to know it if they did. And even if they did, somebody would hate it just because ... |
"Numerical abstractions, in our context, are finite representations of (possibly infinite) sets of points in some vector space.
Many applications in the area of analysis and verification require information about the numerical values of a number of parameters. By identifying each parameter with a unique dimension of t... |
In parts of the country where mass transit isn’t an option, driving is the only way to go. So while higher gasoline prices might not matter as much to someone living in New York City where subways are king, that’s not true in states like Mississippi, where you need a car to get around. CNNMoney explains:
There a... |
Ceramic Processing
What is a Ceramic ?
Ceramics are typically produced by the application of heat upon processed clays and other natural raw materials to form a rigid product. Ceramic products that use naturally occurring rocks and minerals as a starting material must undergo special processing in order to control ... |
We have found that words are useless without action!1
Gudrun Ensslin (1940-1977) was one of the founders of the so-called Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany, and its leading woman member. Together with her lover Andreas Baader, and their Red Army Faction, she bombed, robbed and shot her way through Germany in in the late ... |
Context: finance, interest rate
For a fixed interest security such as bonds and debentures, the (Macauley) duration of such a security is the present-value-weighted mean time that a cash flow will be received. It is calculated using the following formula:
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The Monkey's Paw
Margarita Altidis
The Monkey's Paw
I. Synopsis of the story: Set in England, Sergeant Morris visits the White family after returning from a foreign military mission. Sergeant Morris brings along a small souvenir—a monkey’s paw. The paw is said to bring thr... |
Natural vegetation is plants that have not been grown by humans. It doesn’t need help from humans and gets whatever it needs from its natural environment. Some types of natural vegetation are Forests, tundra, grass lands and rainforests. Here is an example of where in the world to find these different types of vegetati... |
The U.S. Has Abandoned Natives
Dale Schlundt
When one says American Indian, what comes to mind? Is it the fierce-looking warrior on horseback or perhaps the individual in war paint holding a repeating rifle, ever ready for battle? We have so many political and societal issues being discussed regarding 21st century Am... |
What To Wear To A Japanese Wedding
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The traditional Japanese wedding dress is a white silk kimono called a shiro-maku, meaning “pure white.” For the ceremony, the bride also puts on a white hood known as a Tsuno kakushi that, according to custom, is meant to hide the bride’s horns ... |
Atomic sector writes and misdirected writes
I discovered a very good blog post by J.R. Tipton
a Principal Development Lead on ReFS (Resilient File System) at Microsoft. He writes about atomic sector writes and how we shouldn’t assume that the disk will provide them.
The post includes a great quote from Theodore Tso ... |
A leader of the Chicano movement, photojournalist and independent curator Luis Garza, explained why the mural, titled "Mitin Obrero" (Workers' Meeting), was so controversial in its day.
"Because of the subject matter, a 'Workers' Meeting,' with a labor organizer with a red shirt, the controversy was a bit heated," h... |
The more I thought about the concept of fromness, the more convoluted it seemed. “Who we are is made up of a compilation of our origins and experiences,” I continued. “Our origins represent the parts of ourselves we can’t control, while our experiences are a by-product of our choices and circumstances. When I say I’m I... |
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Giant Sunflower, three of them
It's giant sunflower, that's what written on the seed packets, a giveaway from Diana; a PhD researcher, a keen gardener, the mother of Rayyan. We have been waiting how high they will reach up to, and how big will the flowers be. So in the end, the seeds reveal th... |
Can politicians shape our behaviour?
By Martin Rosenbaum
Producer, BBC Radio 4's Persuading Us to be Good
Poster in Barnet encouraging residents to reduce their carbon emissions
Is the gentle application of peer pressure the way to change behaviour
Are you a good citizen?
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Baekje Kingdom established its capital in the lower reaches of the Han River basin. For 678 years, Baekje was one of the ancient kingdoms of the Three King... |
Insights into Halacha
For the week ending 18 April 2015 / 29 Nisan 5775
Parsha Permutations
by Rabbi Yehuda Spitz
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This time of year is an interesting one. For the next month or so, the Jewish world will not be aligned. No, I am not referring to constellations, but rather to the weekly p... |
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when the angle of incidence is acute, right, or obtuse, or from a convex, a plane, or a concave surface; or from an opaque or a transparent body. Besides this, ... |
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