Archive for April, 2008

Apr
30

Zust

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Zust (originally Züst) was an Italian car manufacturing company operating from 1905 to 1917.

The company was founded by engineer Roberto Züst, an Italian industrialist of Swiss origin, who owned a precision tool manufacturing plant at Intra, near Lago Maggiore (formerly the Guller & Croff iron foundry). Züst experimented with prototypes of cars from around […]

Apr
30

Chi Ma Wan

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Chi Ma Wan () is a bay on southeastern Lantau Island, New Territories, Hong Kong. Chi Ma Wan Peninsula is where the Chi Ma Wan, as well as Cheung Sha Wan, Tai Long Wan, Yi Long Wan and Mong Tung Wan are located.

The Chi Ma Wan Correctional Institution is near Cheung Sha Wan on the […]

Apr
30

Les McKeown

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Leslie Richard McKeown (born November 12, 1955 at Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a pop singer. He was the lead singer for the ’70s pop sensation the Bay City Rollers during their most successful period.

McKeown joined the Bay City Rollers in late 1973, replacing original lead singer Nobby Clark. The […]

Apr
29

The star-height problem in formal language theory is the question whether all regular languages can be expressed using regular expressions with a limited nesting depth of Kleene stars. Specifically, is a nesting depth of more than 2 required? If so, can we determine how many are required?

Both questions have now been answered. In 1963, L. […]

Apr
29

Safe prime

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A safe prime is a prime number of the form 2p + 1, where p is also a prime. (Conversely, the prime p is a Sophie Germain prime.) The first few safe primes are

5, 7, 11, 23, 47, 59, 83, 107, 167, 179, 227, 263, 347, 359, 383, 467, 479, 503, 563, 587, 719, 839, […]

Apr
28

AFB

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AFB is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:

Absolute fairness bound

Acid-fast bacilli

Air Force Base

American Farm Bureau

American foulbrood, a honeybee disease

American Foundation for the Blind

Amt für Berufsbildung, Lucerne

Anaerobic fluidized bed

Anglo-Franco-Belge

Anti-friction bearing

Arbeitsstelle Friedensforschung Bonn

Atmospheric fluidized bed

SIL code for spoken Gulf Arabic

Apr
28

A stored procedure is a subroutine available to applications accessing a relational database system. Stored procedures (sometimes called a sproc or SP) are actually stored in the database.

Typical uses for stored procedures include data validation (integrated into the database) or access control mechanisms. Furthermore, stored procedures are used to consolidate and centralize logic […]

Apr
27

Gordon Fraser ‘Nobby’ Clark (born 10 September 1950, in Edinburgh) is a Scottish pop singer, and the original lead singer as well as a founding member of the Bay City Rollers.

Clark sang the lead vocal on the band’s 1971 UK hit “Keep On Dancing”, but left the band in late 1973, just before the group […]

Apr
27

Landesbergen is a municipality in the district of Nienburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Weser, approx. 10 km southwest of Nienburg, and 35 km northeast of Minden.

Landesbergen is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde (”collective municipality”) Landesbergen.

Lower Saxony international Information about Lower Saxony in seven different languages.
United […]

Apr
27

An electric knife is an electrical kitchen device used for slicing hard-to-slice foods. The advantage of an electric knife is less physical effort is required and it’s easier to make cleaner slices. The device consists of two serrated blades that are clipped together. When the appliance is switched on the blades continuously move sideways to […]

Apr
27

The following table displays the rank insignia worn by officers of the Argentine Army.

Argentine Army officers wear their rank insignia in shoulderboards. Generals and Senior Colonels may be distinguished for the red trim of their shoulderboards and around the suns denoting their rank; they also wear golden wreath leaves in their coat lapels. The suns […]

Apr
27

A rolling machine is a machine that is designed to roll either tobacco or cannabis into individual cigarettes or joints. To roll a cigarette (B) with cannabis, one must break up the smoking material (C) as well as remove any stems so they won’t puncture the paper. Rolling a cigarette with tobacco does not require […]

Apr
27

Sean Murphy is an Irish American Correctional Officer on the HBO drama Oz, played by Robert Clohessy. A fair and honest officer, Murphy is handpicked by Tim McManus to act as the head CO of Emerald City as he and McManus are lifelong friends. Throughout the series, he is highly regarded by both McManus and […]

Apr
27

Hallowe’en was a clipper ship, measuring 216.6ft x 35.2ft x 20.5ft and with a tonnage of 920 tons. She was built in 1870 by Maudsley, Sons & Field at Greenwich for John “Jock” “White Hat” Willis, and was a sister ship to Blackadder.

Due to faults in Blackadder, which caused dismasting on her maiden voyage, […]

Apr
27

Renziehausen Park Rose Garden and Arboretum (258 acres) is a city park with rose garden and arboretum located on Eden Park Boulevard off Walnut Street, in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. It is open to the public daily without charge.

The rose garden contains some 1,200 rose bushes in 28 beds, plus an additional 3 […]

Apr
27

Zootopia

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Zootoopia is an annual concert put on by New York top-40 radio station Z-100. The show is usually put on in New York and includes the artists who garner great airplay on the station in the year. The concert’s recent performers have included TLC, Jennifer Lopez, Ashlee Simpson and many others.

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Apr
27

Skinning

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Skinning commonly refers to the act of skin removal, from the verb to skin.

This is usually done with dead animals, mainly as preparation for consumption of the meat beneath and/or use as fur. The skin can also be used as a trophy or a simple proof of the kill to collect a premium from health, […]

Apr
26

Bone bed

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A bone bed is any geological stratum or deposit which contains bones of whatever kind. Inevitably, such deposits are sedimentary in nature. Not a formal term, it tends to be used more to describe especially dense collections. It is also applied to brecciated and stalagmitic deposits on the floor of caves, which frequently contain osseous […]

Apr
26

Chile uses 4 different UTC offsets:

Except for Easter Islands, it uses UTC-4 and in summer as daylight saving time UTC-3.

For Easter Islands, it uses UTC-6 and in summer as daylight saving time UTC-5.

Trivia

In 1987, the daylight saving time change was delayed for a day to accommodate a visit by the Pope.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7779875

References

Fairchild Semiconductor to Present […]

Apr
25

Viscount Southwell, of Castle Mattress in the County of Limerick, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1776 for Thomas Southwell, 3rd Baron Southwell. He had previously represented Enniscorthy in the Irish House of Commons. The title of Baron Southwell, of Castle Mattress in the County of Limerick, had been […]

Apr
25

Space monkey can refer to:

Space programs

a monkey that has been in space

Music industry

Space Monkey, a 1980s British pop group led by Paul Goodchild

Space Monkeys, 1990s band from Manchester, England

Spacemonkeyz, group that remixed the Gorillaz album in 2002

“Space Monkey”, a song by Placebo from the album Meds

Space Monkey, a popular […]

Apr
25

Track listing

“The Hole Is the Law”

“Death To The Dodgers of Soap”

“Re-Anaconda”

“Legion of Flames”

“Well of Misfortune”

“Aerometh”

“Evil Robots”

“Gender of the Beast”

“Rock Move 47″

“1000 Miles of Cock”

“Sodomanaz”

“That’s How Drunks Drink”

“Doggy Style”

“This Flight Tonight”

“White Trash Momma”

“Gaysong”

“Mushroom Mattress”

“Satan Is a Gay Porno Star”

“Platinum Shine”

“The Death of the Resurrection of the Death of Metal”

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Apr
25

Sixlets

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Sixlets are a small, round candy-coated chocolate-flavored candy. The chocolate centers are made from a mixture of cocoa and carob, giving them a “malted” taste. They are usually sold in thin cellophane packages that hold them in a tube-like formation. The ball-shaped candies come in a number of colors, including red, brown, yellow, green, and […]

Apr
24

East San Jose (or the East Side; less commonly the East Valley) is the name for several neighborhoods east of downtown San Jose, California. These neighborhoods include:

King and Story

Alum Rock, California

East Foothills, California

Little Portugal

Demographics
East San Jose’s residents are predominantly Mexican American and also includes Vietnamese, Cambodians, Samoans, and Filipinos, respectively in […]

Apr
24

Storage Networking World (commonly called SNW) is a conference for data storage professionals in the United States. Sponsored by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association, SNW is held twice each year. Common locations include Orlando, Florida and San Diego, California. The event is oriented towards manufacturers of storage equipment and software, […]