Archive for July, 2008

Jul
31

Krishna Rajendra Hospital (K R Hospital) and Cheluvamba Hospitals are both tertiary referral centers and teaching hospitals attached to the Mysore Medical College in Mysore, Karnataka, India.

K R Hospital has a total bed capacity of around 1330 beds which includes 335 beds in general medicine, 313 in general surgery and about 500 in other specialties […]

Jul
31

In geology, the Bagshot Beds are a series of sands and clays of shallow-water origin, some being fresh-water, some marine. They belong to the upper Eocene formation of the London and Hampshire basins, in England and derive their name from Bagshot Heath in Surrey. They are also well developed in Hampshire, Berkshire and the Isle […]

Jul
31

Mount Druitt Hospital is a 200 bed hospital in the Mount Druitt suburb of Blacktown (in Western Sydney), Australia. It was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in October 1982.

Both Mt Druitt Hospital and the near-by Blacktown Hospital operate under one administration, the Blacktown/Mt Druitt Health (BMDH). BMDH is a unit of the Sydney […]

Jul
31

Bracklesham Beds, in geology, are a series of clays and marls, with sandy and lignitic beds, in the Middle Eocene of the Hampshire Basin, England.

They are well developed in the Isle of Wight and on the mainland opposite; and receive their name from their occurrence at Bracklesham in Sussex. The thickness of the deposit is […]

Jul
31

Cains River

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The Cains River is a Canadian river in New Brunswick.

The Cains River has its origins in the “Bantalor Game Refuge” in the eastern part of York County, near the boundary with Sunbury County. Generally flowing northeast through heavy forests, the Cains River joins the Southwest Miramichi River at Howard, NB. The Southwest Miramichi River then […]

Jul
30

Teleoceras

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Teleoceras is an extinct genus of grazing rhinoceros that lived in North America during the Miocene epoch, which ended about 5.3 million years ago, all the way to the early Pliocene epoch. Teleoceras had shorter legs than modern rhinos, and a barrel chest, making its build more like that of a hippopotamus than a […]

Jul
30

Going Away

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Going Away is the debut release of Montreal-based Brit-Rock act The Beds.

Track listing

“Vacation” – 2:36

“Listen” – 3:15

“Circles” –3:12

“Can’t Sleep” – 1:52

“Mistakes” – 3:33

“Mexico” – 3:46

“Thoughts” – 3:06

“Road Trip” – 3:47

“Jeanie” – 4:02

“Give it All” – 3:24

“Everything is Okay” – 1:05

“Sleepyhead” – 9:09

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Jul
30

Bracklesham Beds, in geology, are a series of clays and marls, with sandy and lignitic beds, in the Middle Eocene of the Hampshire Basin, England.

They are well developed in the Isle of Wight and on the mainland opposite; and receive their name from their occurrence at Bracklesham in Sussex. The thickness of the deposit is […]

Jul
30

Speeton Beds, in English geology, a series of clays well exposed at Speeton, near Filey on the Yorkshire coast.

Peculiar interest attaches to these beds for they are the principal representatives in Britain of the marine phase of the Lower Cretaceous system. The Speeton Clays pass downwards without break into the underlying Kimeridgian; they are capped […]

Jul
30

Double distilled water (abbreviated “ddH2O” or “Bidest. water”) is prepared by double distillation of water. It is used, among other things, when single distillation does not lead to sufficiently pure water for some applications in biochemistry.

Bidest water is used when pure, sterile water is essential. Whereas distilled water is enough for most chemical reactions, […]

Jul
29

Bovey Beds

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The Bovey Beds are a deposit of sands, clays and lignite, 200–300 ft. thick, which lies in a basin extending from Bovey Tracey to Newton Abbot in Devonshire, England. The deposit is evidently the result of the degradation of the neighbouring Dartmoor granite; and it was no doubt laid down in a lake. O. Heer, […]

Jul
29

Double distilled water (abbreviated “ddH2O” or “Bidest. water”) is prepared by double distillation of water. It is used, among other things, when single distillation does not lead to sufficiently pure water for some applications in biochemistry.

Bidest water is used when pure, sterile water is essential. Whereas distilled water is enough for most chemical reactions, […]

Jul
29

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 […]

Jul
29

Speeton Beds, in English geology, a series of clays well exposed at Speeton, near Filey on the Yorkshire coast.

Peculiar interest attaches to these beds for they are the principal representatives in Britain of the marine phase of the Lower Cretaceous system. The Speeton Clays pass downwards without break into the underlying Kimeridgian; they are capped […]

Jul
29

An adjustable bed (also called a Semi-Fowler bed) can be adjusted to a number of different positions. For individuals with certain types of back problems, sleeping on an adjustable bed that is at a slight incline (”semi-Fowler position“, e.g. 30 to 45 degrees) may be comfortable, with the upper body positioned higher up than the […]

Jul
28

An adjustable bed (also called a Semi-Fowler bed) can be adjusted to a number of different positions. For individuals with certain types of back problems, sleeping on an adjustable bed that is at a slight incline (”semi-Fowler position“, e.g. 30 to 45 degrees) may be comfortable, with the upper body positioned higher up than the […]

Jul
28

Chellian

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In geology, Chellian was the name given by the French anthropologist G. de Mortillet to the first epoch of the Quaternary period when the earliest human remains were discovered. The word is derived from the French town Chelles in the department of Seine-et-Marne. The climate of the Chellian epoch was warm and humid as evidenced […]

Jul
27

Bovey Beds

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The Bovey Beds are a deposit of sands, clays and lignite, 200–300 ft. thick, which lies in a basin extending from Bovey Tracey to Newton Abbot in Devonshire, England. The deposit is evidently the result of the degradation of the neighbouring Dartmoor granite; and it was no doubt laid down in a lake. O. Heer, […]

Jul
26

Soft water

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Soft water is the term used to describe types of water that contain few or no calcium or magnesium ions. The term is usually relative to hard water, which does contain significant amounts of such ions.

Soft Water usually comes from peat or igneous rock sources, such as granite but may also derive from sandstone sources, […]

Jul
26

Portland stone is limestone from the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively throughout the UK, notably in major public buildings in London such as St Paul’s Cathedral and Buckingham Palace. It is also exported […]

Jul
26

An adjustable bed (also called a Semi-Fowler bed) can be adjusted to a number of different positions. For individuals with certain types of back problems, sleeping on an adjustable bed that is at a slight incline (”semi-Fowler position“, e.g. 30 to 45 degrees) may be comfortable, with the upper body positioned higher up than the […]

Jul
26

Toby Riddle

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Toby “Winema” Riddle (1848-1920) was a Modoc interpreter who helped with negotiations between the Native American Modoc tribe and the United States Army during the Modoc War (also called the Lava Beds War).

Riddle was a cousin of Kintpuash, the leader of the Modoc tribe at the time of the Modoc War, and was married to […]

Jul
25

This article is about the lake in Australia. For the similarly spelled lake and settlement in Canada, see McLeod Lake, British Columbia.

Lake Macleod (located at ) is the westernmost lake in Western Australia. It is located north of the small coastal city of Carnarvon, estimated population 7,200. Climatically, this part of Western Australia is greatly […]

Jul
25

A rock or fault is younger than any rock (or fault) through which it cuts. This principle was developed by James Hutton.

Example

In a series of horizontal sedimentary beds, there is an igneous dyke which cuts vertically through them.
The dyke is younger than the sediment beds, as the beds would have had to be around before […]

Jul
25

Southlake Regional Health Centre (formerly York County Hospital) is a hospital located in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.

A private hospital was founded in 1932 and on August 22 the province granted a Charter of Incorporation for the York County Hospital Corporation. In 1924, it became a public hospital. In 1946, the Margaret Johnson Davis Wing […]