Archive for February, 2008

Round table

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

A round table is one which has no “head” and no “sides”, and therefore no one person sitting at it is given a privileged position and all are treated as equals. The idea stems from the Arthurian legend about the Knights of the Round Table in Camelot.

Today, round tables are often used at conferences involving many parties. The most famous modern round table was the one used for talks between the Communist government and Solidarity in Poland in 1989; see: Polish Round Table Agreement. Hence, the term “round table” is also used figuratively to refer to a peaceful way of achieving a compromise solution.

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Jacking

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Jacking is a dance technique that was popular in the late 1980s (Reynolds 1999:29) . “Jacking” came from the early Chicago house music scene. The dance itself was sexually charged, with couples (often two men or two women) grinding their pelvises together. The style gave birth to the dance styles popular during the early UK acid house scene.

When referring to house dancing this word has taken on a slightly more specific and less sexual meaning. Jacking is the technique that comes from moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion, as if a wave were passing through it. When this movement is repeated and sped up to match the beat of a song it is called jacking, or “the jack.” This technique is the most important movement in house dancing because it is the foundation that initiates more complex movements and footwork.

Just as House music itself grew from the disco tradition, so too did Jacking develop from the self expressive stylings of disco dancing (Reynolds 1999:29) . Unlike partner dances such as the waltz and foxtrot, both disco and house are considered a freestyle dance.

Because of jacking’s association with early house music, many early house tracks used the word in their titles. Examples include Raze’s “Jack the Groove” and Steve “Silk” Hurley’s “Jack Your Body”.


External Links

  • The House Dance Project
  • Lawrence Liner Notes
  • A History of House Dancing
  • “Time to Jack”
  • Video clip “House Dance Practice”


References

  • Reynolds, Simon. “Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture.” Routledge, 1999. pp. 1025-1039.

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Phosphorus acid

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Phosphorus acid are oxoacids of phosphorus. Examples include:

  • H3PO2; Hypophosphorous acid. Formed by the hydrolysis of phosphorus.
  • H3PO3; Phosphorous acid.
  • H2PO3; Hypophosphoric acid. Formed during the oxidation of phosphorus.
  • H3PO4; Phosphoric acid.
  • H4P2O8; Perphosphoric acid.
  • H3PO5; Permonophosphoric acid.
  • H2PO3+; Phosphonic acid.


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TV tray

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

A TV tray or TV dinner tray is a type of collapsible furniture that functions as a small, portable table. It became popular in the 1950s as a way to hold food and beverage items while watching TV, the iconic item being a TV dinner.

The original, popular models consisted of two pieces: an aluminum tray with grips mounted on its backside, and a set of tubular aluminum legs with rubberized tips at the bottom. The tray clips on to the legs, which can be opened up to support the tray, or collapsed for stackable storage. The tray remains clipped to one leg support during storage.

A set of four TV tables could be mounted to a rack when not in use. The rack was popularly placed in a corner of the living room.

As times changed, so did construction techniques.

Today TV dinner trays are being marketed as “retro” or kitsch items.

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Gagetown

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Gagetown can refer to several different things:


Military base

  • CFB Gagetown, a Canadian Forces Base located in southwestern New Brunswick, headquartered in the town of Oromocto and having an extensive training area.


Communities

  • Gagetown, New Brunswick, a historic village and shire town of Queens County, located along the Saint John River approximately half-way between the cities of Fredericton and Saint John. CFB Gagetown derives its name from this village, although the two are not co-located.


Schools

  • Gagetown Elementary School, located in the village of Gagetown.

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Second London Naval Treaty

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

The Second London Naval Disarmament Conference opened in London, the United Kingdom, on December 9, 1935. It resulted in the Second London Naval Treaty which was signed on March 25, 1936.

The signatories were the governments of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The government of Japan, which had been a signatory of the First London Naval Treaty, had withdrawn from the conference on January 15. Italy also declined to sign the treaty, largely as a result of public hostility over her invasion of Abyssinia.

The conference was intended to limit the growth in naval armaments until its expiry in 1942. The absence of Japan (a very significant naval power) prevented agreement on a ceiling on the numbers of warships. The treaty did limit the maximum size of the signatories’ ships, and the maximum calibre of the guns which they could carry. For example, submarines could not be larger than 2,000 tons or have a gun armament of greater than 5.1-inches, cruisers were restricted to 8,000 tons or less and capital ships to 35,000 tons and 14-inch guns. An escalator clause was included which allowed capital ships 16-inch guns and 45,000 tons displacement if foreign navies began commissioning such ships.

This treaty effectively ended on 1 September 1939 with the beginning of World War II. Even during its brief period of supposed effectiveness, its clauses were honored more in the breach than in the observance; the only “treaty” cruisers the United States commissioned (the St. Louis class light cruiser), for example, were over 5,000 tons heavier than the treaty tonnage. Two classes of “Treaty” Battleships were built by the United States: the North Carolina class and the South Dakota class (the “SoDaks” were designed with and protected against 16-inch guns; the North Carolinas were gunned with 16-inch weapons after Japan refused to accept the Treaty but they were designed to be only proof against 14-inch shells). The Iowa class was designed after the beginning of World War II and was developed without any thought in mind of the treaties; other than the monstrous Yamato class, the Iowa class was the heaviest class of battleship ever put to sea (Vanguard was heavier than the Iowas at standard loading, but lighter at full load).

Article 22 of the 1930 Treaty of London relating to submarine warfare declared that international law applied to them as to surface vessels. Also merchant vessels which did not demonstrate “persistent refusal to stop” or “active resistance” could not be sunk without the ship’s crew and passengers being first delivered to a “place of safety”. The 1936 treaty confirmed that Article 22 of the 1930 treaty remained in force, and “all others Powers [were invited] to express their assent to the rules embodied in this Article”
Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armaments, (Part IV, Art. 22, relating to submarine warfare). London, 22 April 1930
Procès-verbal relating to the Rules of Submarine Warfare set forth in Part IV of the Treaty of London of 22 April 1930. London, 6 November 1936 It was this provision which was used at the post war Nuremberg Trial of Karl Dönitz for ordering unrestricted submarine warfare.


External link

  • Text of treaty on Navweaps.com


See also

  • Washington Naval Treaty
  • Anglo-German Naval Pact
  • Treaty of London - List of treaties signed in London.


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Hack job

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
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Randonnée

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Randonnée (French for excursion) can refer to:

  • Brevet (cycling), an organized long-distance bicycle ride.
  • Ski randonnée, also known as ski touring or Alpine touring (AT), a form of backcountry skiing. Randonnee skis and bindings allow the skier’s heel to release and pivot at the toe while traveling up hill, similar to a telemark ski, but to be locked down for ski descents, similar to an alpine ski. Like an alpine binding, the randonnee binding is releaseable and DIN adjustable. See Ski binding.

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Étagère

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

An étagère is a piece of light furniture very similar to the English what-not, which was extensively made in France during the latter part of the 18th century. As the name implies, it consists of a series of stages or shelves for the reception of ornaments or other small articles. Like the what-not it was very often cornerwise in shape, and the best Louis XVI examples in exotic woods are exceedingly graceful and elegant.

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Albin Vega

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

The Albin Vega was a brand of yacht designed in 1965 and put into production in 1966 after extensive sea trials. Production ended in 1979 with almost 3400 hulls built. The manufacturer was Albin Marin of Kristinehamn, Sweden.

The Vega is considered a solid sailboat and it has cruised around the world on many occasions the more extreme being trips to Antarctica and to the north of Spitsbergen.


Technical data

LOA          8,25 m
LWL          7,00 m
Beam         2,46 m
Draught      1,17 m
Displacement 2300 kg
Ballast       915 kg
Sail Area     31.7 m^2


Albin Vega Reviews

  • http://www.bluemoment.com/boatreviews/vegareview.html


References


Additional links

  • Albin Vega Worldwide Page
  • American Vega Association
  • British Albin Vega Association

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Referential integrity

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Referential integrity in a relational database is consistency between coupled tables. Referential integrity is usually enforced by the combination of a primary key or candidate key (alternate key) and a foreign key. For referential integrity to hold, any field in a table that is declared a foreign key can contain only values from a parent table’s primary key or a candidate key. For instance, deleting a record that contains a value referred to by a foreign key in another table would break referential integrity. The relational database management system (RDBMS) enforces referential integrity, normally either by deleting the foreign key rows as well to maintain integrity, or by returning an error and not performing the delete. Which method is used would be defined by the definition of the referential integrity constraint.


Example

An employee database stores the department in which each employee works. The field “DepartmentNumber” in the Employee table is declared a foreign key, and it refers to the field “Index” in the Department table which is declared a primary key. Referential integrity would be broken by deleting a department from the Department table if employees listed in the Employee table are listed as working for that department, unless those employees are moved to a different department at the same time.


See also

  • entity integrity
  • propagation constraint
  • dangling pointer

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Agentive ending

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

An agentive ending in the English language is the use of the suffix -er, -or, -ist, or -ian at the end of a verb in order to create a noun meaning “someone or something that does the action the verb describes.” Examples include provider (from provide) and builder (from build).

Examples of words with -ist and -ian endings include pianist and librarian.

See also: gerund

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Alan Peters

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Alan Peters is a British furniture designer maker who is one of the very few direct links with the Arts and Crafts Movement, having apprenticed to Edward Barnsley. He set up his own workshop in the Sixties. He is well known for his book Cabinetmaking - a professional approach, and his revision (for the fourth edition) of Ernest Joyce’s The Technique of Furniture Making.

In 1990 he was awarded an OBE for his services to furniture and he currently has a workshop in West Somerset. He was a main exponent of the Seventies British Craft Revival. His work is rooted in tradition and shows a deep understanding and respect for his material wood.

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Cane Pace

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

The Cane Pace is a harness horse race run annually since 1955. In 1956 the race joined with the Little Brown Jug and the Messenger Stakes to become the first leg in the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers.

Drivers, Stanley Dancer and John Campbell hold the record for the most Cane Pace wins with four each.

Since 1998, the race is held at the Freehold Raceway in Freehold Borough, New Jersey. Established in 1853, Freehold Raceway is the oldest half-mile racetrack in the United States.

From 1955 to 1997, the race was held at Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York.


Cane Pace winners

  • 2007 - Always A Virgin
  • 2006 - Total Truth
  • 2005 - Royal Flush Shark
  • 2004 - Timesareachanging, Western Terror (dead heat)
  • 2003 - No Pan Intended
  • 2002 - Art Major
  • 2001 - Four Starzz Shark
  • 2000 - Powerful Toy
  • 1999 - Blissful Hall
  • 1998 - Shady Character
  • 1997 - Western Dreamer
  • 1996 - Scoot To Power
  • 1995 - Mattgrilla Gorilla
  • 1994 - Falcons Future
  • 1993 - Riyadh
  • 1992 - Western Hanover
  • 1991 - Silky Stallone
  • 1990 - Jake And Elwood
  • 1989 - Dancing Master
  • 1988 - Runnymede Lobell
  • 1987 - Righteous Bucks
  • 1986 - Barberry Spur
  • 1985 - Chairmanoftheboard
  • 1984 - On The Road Again
  • 1983 - Ralph Hanover
  • 1982 - Cam Fella
  • 1981 - Wildwood Jeb
  • 1980 - Niatross
  • 1979 - Happy Motoring
  • 1978 - Armbro Tiger
  • 1977 - Jade Prince
  • 1976 - Keystone Ore
  • 1975 - Nero
  • 1974 - Boyden Hanover
  • 1973 - Smog
  • 1972 - Hilarious Way
  • 1971 - Albatross
  • 1970 - Most Happy Fella
  • 1969 - Kat Byrd
  • 1968 - Rum Customer
  • 1967 - Meadow Paige
  • 1966 - Romeo Hanover
  • 1965 - Bret Hanover
  • 1964 - Race Time
  • 1963 - Meadow Skipper
  • 1962 - Ranger Knight
  • 1961 - Cold Front
  • 1960 - Countess Adios (Filly)
  • 1959 - Adios Butler
  • 1958 - Raider Frost
  • 1957 - Torpid
  • 1956 - Noble Adios
  • 1955 - Quick Chief

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13 Chapters

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

13 Chapters is a “Best Of” album of sorts, by singer and songwriter Jade Villalon of Sweetbox. It was released in 2004 in Europe, and in 2005 in Taiwan. It has a blend of various hit songs both from her new album After the Lights and her previous one, Adagio. The Taiwanese edition comes with a VCD. Its main purpose was to blend an array of popular songs from albums, Adagio and upcoming After the Lights, for promotion purposes, and to sell in a region Sweetbox had not released many albums in. Many of Adagio’s songs were left out, with only 3 from Adagio on making it to this album, and some songs from After The Lights, such as “Girl from Tokyo”, “Crown of Thorns”, “Don’t Wanna Kill You”, and others did not make it as well.


Track listing

  1. “Piano in the Dark”
  2. “After the Lights”
  3. “Killing Me DJ” (featuring Toby)
  4. “Life Is Cool”
  5. “More Than Love”
  6. “Waterfall”
  7. “God on Video”
  8. “Beautiful”
  9. “Hate Without Frontiers”
  10. “Chyna Girl”
  11. “Time of My Life”
  12. “Pretty in Pink”
  13. “Sorry”
  14. “This Christmas” (Bonus Track)


VCD (Taiwan only)

  1. “More Than Love (Music Video)”
  2. “Interview with Jade”
  3. “Life Is Cool (Studio Footage)”
  4. “More Than Love (Studio Footage)”


Singles

  • “Killing Me DJ”
  • “Life Is Cool”
  • “This Christmas/More Than Love”

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  • Silent Light Beginning The same cold, grey statues littered the length of the platform. . The band played devotedly at the old, wooden bandstand every Thursday but no one came
  • Guyana's Towns A tour of Georgetown provides several examples of the city's colonial architecture (eighteenth and nineteenth century), its monuments, statues, bandstands,
  • Alpine Village 56.53166, "Monster Park Statues". 56.53126, "Phantom Of The Organ". 56.53128, "Rock-A-Bye Vampire" 56.53188, "String of 12 Christmas Presents Lights"
  • North East Derbyshire District Council Join in and dance around the bandstand to their unique blend of jazzy bhangra music. Stroll around the park and be amazed by statues that talk, jugglers,
  • bigchill.net -installation trail artist trees painting light works Projects range from an octophonic bandstand on Brighton

Days of Wild: 1993-2001

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Days of Wild: 1993-2001 is a promotional-only greatest hits release by Prince.


Track listing

  1. “Letitgo”
  2. “Space”
  3. “Interactive” (special re-edit)
  4. “Acknowledge Me” (special re-edit)
  5. “Dolphin”
  6. “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World”
  7. “Lovesign” (special re-edit)
  8. “Get Wild” (special re-edit)
  9. “I Hate U”
  10. “Gold”
  11. “Dinner With Delores”
  12. “Betcha By Golly Wow!”
  13. “The Holy River”
  14. “Somebody’s Somebody”
  15. “Come On” (special re-edit)
  16. “The One”
  17. “The Greatest Romance Ever Sold”
  18. “Baby Knows”
  19. “Last December” (special re-edit)

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Tux MacAuley

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Tux MacAuley is an American businessman and founder of Auction Partner. Auction Partner was formed in November of 2001 to help companies sell excess assets on eBay under the seller name auction-partner. Eventually, Auction Partner grew into a liquidation company focusing on corporate IT assets. In mid-2004 Jeff Searcy came aboard as a business partner. In the same year, Auction Partner began offering services to liquidate and source office furniture. Because of this, the division of Furniture Partner was established. In 2005, parent company Liquis Inc. was created. The Auction Partner division is responsible for niche IT equipment sales, primarily on eBay while Furniture Partner is responsible for office furniture sales and acquisitions. Liquis Inc. is responsible for sales related to bulk IT equipment, product sourcing and any service offerings helping to dispose of, track or reuse the infrastructure assets.

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Bank rate

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Bank rate, also referred to as the discount rate, is the rate of interest which a central bank charges on the loans and advances that it extends to commercial banks and other financial intermediaries. Changes in the bank rate are often used by central banks to control the money supply.


Various Uses for the Term “Bank Rate”

The term bank rate is most commonly used by bankers to refer to the Federal Discount Rate of interest charged to Federally Chartered Savings Banks. The term bank rate is commonly used by consumers to refer to the current rate of interest given on a savings certificate of Deposit. The term bank rate is most commonly used by consumers who are interested in either obtaining a purchase money mortgage, or a refinance loan, when referring to the current mortgage rate.

Types of bank interest rates

  • Bank rate on a Certificate of Deposit “CD”.
  • Bank Rate on a credit card or other loan
  • Bank Rate on an automobile or real estate loan

Bank rate[Discount Rate] used to have a close relation with consumers Bank Rate[current rate of interest]. With an increase in Bankers Bank Rate the Consumers Bank Rate also used to increase. With vast changes in Bank Financial Structure and with less dependancy on Central Bank for financing customers credit, the control on Bankers Bank Rate has very less impact on Consumers Bank Rate.


Consumer Use of the Current Bank Rate

Consumers will check the current “Bank Rate” by comparing CD rates in the local newspaper or by visiting website’s online, in order to determine which will pay the highest Annual Yield on their savings.
Consumers will compare mortgage interest rates by visiting mortgage websites that show the various rates of interest of mortgage companies.


Regional Bank Rate

While influenced heavily by the Federal Reserve Interest rate, all bank rates will vary regionally. It pays to compare interest rates on a regional or state wide level.

The best way to compare various rates of interest offered


United Kingdom

In the UK bank rates are set by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. One of these rates is the Minimum Lending Rate which is the lowest rate at which the Bank acts as lender of last resort to the money markets.


References

  • List of New York Lenders, Websites, and New York Bank Rate Data
  • Tiscali reference article

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  • Bedroom Furniture, Bedroom Set The bedroom furniture, bedroom sets and bedroom furniture collections below are priced as groups, however you can mix-and-match the pieces for a custom
  • Furniture.com Welcome to the Web's best furniture store, where the convenience of online shopping is combined with the local service and quick delivery of the nation

List of asteroids/108001–109000

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

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Blind faith (computer science)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

In computer programming blind faith (also known as blind programming or blind coding) is a situation whereby a programmer develops a solution or fixes a computer bug and deploys it without ever testing his creation. The programmer in this situation has blind faith in his own abilities, but this often results in catastrophic failure.

Another form of blind faith is when a programmer calls a subroutine without checking the result. E.g.: A programmer calls a subroutine to save user-data on the harddisk without checking whether the operation was successful or not. In this case the programmer has blind faith in the subroutine always performing what the programmer intends to accomplish.

Blind faith is an example of an Anti-pattern. Other common names for blind faith include “God oriented programming” and “divine orientation”.

Blind faith programming can also be used as a challenge to test programming skills.

The recommended alternative to blind programming is test-driven development.

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Disney Publishing Worldwide

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Disney Publishing Worldwide is the publishing group controlled by The Walt Disney Company. Its imprints include Disney Editions, Hyperion Books for Children and Disney Press. Through this group, Disney gets the royalties for any kind of licensed publication.

Disney Book Group (DBG) is a leading U.S. publisher of children’s books. With an extensive catalog that encompasses both in-house and licensed publishing imprints, DBG offers a variety of formats including novelty, story, reader, chapter, sound, graphic novel and coloring/activity books. Moreover, DBG publishes fiction, non-fiction, bilingual, educational and direct-to-mail titles.

DBG is part of Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW), the world’s largest publisher of children’s books and magazines with 441 children’s magazines published and 120 million children’s books sold each year. Headquartered in New York, DPW publishes books and magazines in 85 languages in 75 countries, reaching more than 100 million readers each month.

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Yorks Wood

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Yorks Wood is an eleven hectare ancient wood of predominantly oak trees in Kingshurst, Birmingham, England. Records which mention a wood there date back hundreds of years; it is likely that it was formerly much more extensive than it is at present.

During May, the floor of the wood is covered in bluebells and towards the closing of the year, fungi can be seen. During spring, Wood Anemone, and Celadine are located in different parts of the forest.

The wood is home to various species of birds, such as spotted woodpeckers and sparrowhawks, which breed throughout the year there.

The wood was previously owned by the Scout movement, before the Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council purchased it from them in 1980s. Ten years later, the wood was made a Local Nature Reserve and eventually became part of Project Kingfisher which helps protect it.

The River Cole is located slightly south of the wood.

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Gating

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
A gating is also a form of punishment used in educational establishments.

In telecommunication, the term gating has the following meanings:

1. The process of selecting only those portions of a wave between specified time intervals or between specified amplitude limits.

2. The controlling of signals by means of combinational logic elements.

3. A process in which a predetermined set of conditions, when established, permits a second process to occur.

Source: From Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

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Parity

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Parity is a concept of equality of status or functional equivalence. It has several different specific definitions.

  • parity (physics): In physics parity is the name of the symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
  • parity (mathematics): In mathematics, parity indicates whether a number is even or odd.
  • parity (medicine) refers to the number of times a woman or female animal has given birth.
  • In computing, a parity bit is a very simple example of an error detecting code. See also RAM parity.
  • In economics, purchasing power parity (PPP) is an estimate of the exchange rate required to equalise the purchasing power of different currencies, given the prices of goods and services in the countries concerned.
  • in economic history, parity was the ratio of farm income to farm expenditure with 1910-1914 as a base. Farm interests from 1920s to 1960s wanted federal programs to raise their income to parity.
  • In finance, interest rate parity refers to the notion that the differential in interest rates between two countries is equal to the differential between the forward exchange rate and the spot exchange rate.
  • In Human Genetics, base parity is the G/C ratio in regions of DNA.
  • In financial mathematics, put-call parity defines a relationship between the price of a European call option and a European put option - both with the identical strike price and expiry.
  • In sports, parity refers to engineering an equal playing field in which all teams can compete, regardless of their economic circumstances.
  • In demography, parity means the number of reproductive events (births).
  • Potty parity attempts to equalize the waiting times of males and females in restroom queues by designating or building more women’s restrooms, giving them more facilities to use.
  • Parity is a tactic in othello.
  • Militarily, it refers to having a comparable force as one’s enemy, such as geopolitically as in mutual assured destruction.

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No. 14 chair

Monday, February 25th, 2008
No. 14 Chair
Designer : Michael Thonet
Date : 1860
Country : France
Materials : Wood, Steam-bent Beechwood, 10 screws, and 2 nuts.
Style/Tradition : Classic
Dimensions:
Colours : Light brown wood.

The No. 14 chair is the most famous chair made by the Thonet chair company in the 19th century in Middle Europe. It was also known as the Bistro Chair. The unique technology of wood profile bending heated by steam made it one of the best-selling chairs ever designed.

Thonet’s No. 14 is made of six pieces of steam-bent wood, ten screws, and two nuts. It could be taken apart easily so it was similar to flat pack Ikea furniture. It was a response to a requirement for cafe-style chairs. Over 15 million were sold between 1860 and 1930. The seat would often be made out of woven cane/palm|raffia]], because as this was a cafe chair the holes in the chair would let spilt liquid drain off the chair.

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Wegener

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Wegener may refer to:

  • The disease Wegener’s granulomatosis
  • Alfred Wegener, German geologist and meteorologist
  • Friedrich Wegener, a German pathologist
  • Gerda Wegener, Danish illustrator
  • Mike Wegener, Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Paul Wegener, German actor and film director
  • Ulrich Wegener, German police officer.
  • Wolfgang Wegener, German admiral and naval historian
  • Kapitänleutnant Wegener, Commander of German submarine UB-27, killed in the Baralong Incident in 1915
  • Wegener Communications, a maker of television broadcast equipment including the WeatherStar systems, and developers of the Wegener Panda analogue audio compression system used on analogue satellite television.

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Queen’s Theatre, Dublin

Monday, February 25th, 2008

The Queen’s Theatre, Dublin, located in Pearse Street was originally built in 1829 as the Adelphi Theatre. This building was demolished in 1844 and rebuilt. It reopened that same year as the Queens Royal Theatre, the new owner having been granted a Royal Patent to operate as a patent theatre. The theatre quickly became known as simply the Queen’s. It was most famous in the 20th century as the home of the Happy Gang, a troupe of comics, singers and musicians including Danny Cummins and Cecil Nash. The Abbey Theatre took over the building after the Abbey fire of 1951 and remained until 1966. The theatre closed in 1969 and was demolished in 1975.


References

Print

  • Ryan, Philip B. The Lost Theatres of Dublin. (The Badger Press, 1998) ISBN 0-9526076-1-1

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Box-spring

Monday, February 25th, 2008

A box-spring is a hard sturdy wooden frame, covered in cloth, containing springs or some other form of torsion. Usually the box-spring is placed on top of a wooden or metal bedframe which sits on the floor and acts as a brace. The box-spring is usually the same size as the much softer mattress which is placed above the box-spring. Working together, the frame, box-spring, and mattress make up a bed. It is not uncommon to find a box-spring and mattress being used together without the support of a frame underneath (with the box spring placed directly on the floor).

The box-spring serves three main purposes: To help raise the mattress’s height, making it easier to get in and out of bed; to help absorb shock and reduce wear to the mattress; and to help create a perfectly flat and firm structure for the mattress to lay upon. Some beds do not need a box-spring, but most traditional frame or four poster beds require one.


See also

  • Box Spring
  • Box Springs Mountain

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Fixative

Monday, February 25th, 2008

A fixative is a stabilizing or preservative agent. There are several different compounds called fixatives:


Drawing

In drawing, a fixative is a liquid, similar to varnish, which is usually sprayed over a finished piece of artwork to better preserve it and prevent smudging. Artwork media requiring fixative include drawings done in pencil, charcoal, and pastel. An artist will often fix layers of a work in progress, in order to easily add further layers. Such a technique requires a workable fixative. Fixative is available in aerosol sprays.


Biology

In biology, a fixative is a solution used to preserve or harden fresh tissue of cell specimens for microscopic examination. Usually they stabilize and firm tissues by denaturing or cross-linking constituent proteins. Formaldehyde solution is an example of a fixative. Use of fixatives is an important technique in the discipline of cellular pathology.


Embalming

Modern embalming chemicals are fixatives, as were the historical chemicals employed in mummification.


Perfumery

In perfumery, a fixative is a natural or synthetic substance used to reduce the evaporation rate, increase perceived odor strength, and improve stability when added to more volatile components. This allows the final product to last longer while keeping its original fragrance. Fixatives are indispensable commodities to the perfume industry. Some examples of fixatives are sandalwood, musk, Ambergris and orris root. Natural fixatives usually have a fragrance considered a base note, reflecting their low volatility.

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Superquadrics

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Superquadrics is a mathematical modeling technique for objects.

Superquadratics are a set of parametric geometrical shapes which are useful for modeling an object, it allows robust recovery data for reconstructing the object. This technique is important because it has a compact representation.

This technique has several problems for complex natural objects like animal bodies.

Important applications of superquadratics are object recognition and computer modelling.


References

Barr, A.H., Superquadrics and Angle-Preserving Transformations, IEEE_CGA(1), No. 1, January 1981, pp. 11-23.

Jaklič, A., Leonardis, A., Solina, F., Segmentation and Recovery of Superquadrics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000.


See also

  • Super ellipse


External links

  • Bibliography: SuperQuadric Representations
  • Superquadric Tensor Glyphs
  • SuperQuadric Ellipsoids and Toroids, OpenGL Lighting, and Timing

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Park furniture

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Park furniture is similar to street furniture but located in a park or garden. Examples include:

  • Benches
  • Lights
  • Bandstands
  • Statues
  • Fountains
  • Picnic tables

See also garden furniture.

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Dinaric

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

The term Dinaric comes from the name of a mountain called Dinara, on the border of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • In geography, it is used to describe the Dinaric Alps mountain chain.
  • In physical anthropology, it is used to describe the Dinaric race.

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Patent family

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

A patent family is all the patents and patent applications resulting from a specific patent application.

Generally, a patent application for an invention is originally filed in one country. Sometimes that original patent application is the basis for filing patent applications in several other countries (see also right of priority). Each of these new patent applications can become the basis for filing subsequent patent applications. A single patent occasionally results in many, many patents throughout the world.

When one patent application results in several patents in many different countries, all of the patents and applications associated with the original patent application is called the patent family.


See also

  • Continuing patent application
  • Triadic patent

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Jake Burns and the Big Wheel

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Jake Burns and the Big Wheel were a band put together by former Stiff Little Fingers vocalist Jake Burns in 1982. The band consisted of Jake, Steve Grantley on drums, Sean Martin on bass guitar, and Pete Saunders on keyboards. They split up in 1987 when Jake rejoined Stiff Little Fingers.



Discography


Singles

  • On Fortune Street
  • She Grew Up
  • Breathless


Albums

  • On Fortune Street, a compilation CD was released after they split.

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Göppingen Gö 4

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

The Göppingen Gö 4 was a German sailplane used for training pilots. Its most notable features included a side-by-side seating format and dual controls, making the plane ideal for use as a trainer. It boasted average performance, compared to other gliders of the day, and was advertised as making the process of learning to fly sailplanes easier.

The Go.4 had been designed primarily as an improvement over the Go.2, which sported inline seating rather than the more instruction-friendly format of the Go.4. Despite the alterations, the fuselage was kept as narrow as possible. The Go-4 was produced in Kirchheim, and was first flown in 1937.

Specifications:

  • Wingspan: 14.8 m
  • Length: 6.74 m
  • Wing area: 19 m²
  • Empty weight: 180 kg
  • Flying weight: 350 kg
  • Surface Loading: 18.4 kg/m²
  • Mininium sink rate: 1 m/s
  • best lift/drag ratio: 1:19


See also

  • Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS)
  • List of aircraft of the WW2 Luftwaffe,
  • List of gliders

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Garden Road

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Garden Road may refer to:

  • Garden Road, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
  • Garden Road: Former name of Hankow Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
  • Garden Road, Singapore
  • An early Rush song that was never officially released

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Five Points (Columbia)

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Five Points in Columbia, South Carolina is a shopping, restaurant, and nightlife area that attracts customers from the nearby University of South Carolina and throughout the Columbia metropolitan area. It is the center for the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Festival.

It was Columbia’s first neighborhood shopping district, named for the intersection of Harden Street, Devine Street and Santee Avenue. It was home to Columbia’s first supermarket (an A & P), first Chinese restaurant (Kester’s Bamboo House), and the first bar in South Carolina to serve a cocktail (the Stage Door, which claimed to sell the state’s first mixed drink after the South Carolina General Assembly approved the use of minibottles in 1973).

When streetcars ruled the roads, Five Points was a hub (rotating circle) for moving between downtown Columbia and the residential area of Shandon.

In 1993, Five Points was the site of the tragic death of Senator Strom Thurmond’s daughter Nancy Moore, who was hit by a drunk driver only feet from the limousine of South Carolina’s lieutenant governor at the time, Nick Theodore.


External links

  • Five Points Mall : Local area business and community guide, celebrating the 5 Points business community
  • Five Points Association of Columbia
  • Five Points: Looking back. Looking ahead, a March 2005 article from The State

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