The European/Asian slow worm (Anguis) is what sort of animal?

Slow Worm (Anguis Fragilis) - Animals - A-Z Animals Five groups that classify all living things Animalia A group of animals within the animal kingdom Chordata A group of animals within a pylum Reptilia A group of animals within a class Squamata A group of animals within an order Anguidae A group of animals within a family Anguis Comprised of the genus followed by the species Anguis Fragilis The animal group that the species belongs to Reptile What kind of foods the animal eats Carnivore How long (L) or tall (H) the animal is 20cm - 50cm (8in - 20in) The measurement of how heavy the animal is 20g - 100g (0.7oz - 3.5oz) The fastest recorded speed of the animal 0.5km/h (0.3mph) How long the animal lives for 10 - 30 years Whether the animal is solitary or sociable Solitary The likelihood of the animal becoming extinct Least Concern The colour of the animal's coat or markings Black, Brown, Tan, Yellow, Grey The protective layer of the animal Scales The specific area where the animal lives Grassland and woodlands The average number of eggs laif at once 8 Other animals that hunt and eat the animal Cats, Dogs, Birds Characteristics unique to the animal Long snake-like body and small eyes Slow Worm Location Slow Worm The slow worm is a long species of legless lizard found throughout Europe and in parts of Asia , that is often mistaken for a snake due to it's appearance. The slow worm inhabits warm, moist and shaded areas across the European continent and is also commonly found in gardens throughout the United Kingdom , as well as meadows and farmland. Despite it's snake-like appearance, the slow worm is in fact a lizard but without legs and instead uses the muscles in it's body to move itself around. Slow worms have smooth and shiny skin and a small head in comparison to their body. As with other reptiles , the slow worm has a forked tongue which it uses to sense smells in the air. Slow worms also have eyelids which is the main indicator between lizards and snakes (as snakes are commonly known to not have eyelids but lizards do). The slow worm is a carnivorous animal meaning that the slow worm only feeds on other animals in order to survive. Slow worms primarily feed on small, slow-moving animals like worms, slugs and snails as well as insects , spiders and other invertebrates. Due to it's shiny skin and elongated body, the slow worm is prey to numerous predators within it's natural environment . Cats , dogs , weasels and birds are the most common predators of the slow worm. After mating, the female slow worm produces up to 15 eggs which are incubated in her body for a few months. Once developed, the slow worm babies hatch inside their mother meaning that the female slow worm ends up giving birth to live young. Today, the slow worm population appears to be thriving in parts of Europe , particularly in Britain where the slow worm is commonly found in back gardens across the country. Share This Article


Piscine Molitor Patel is better known by what highly abbreviated name, being the central character of an eponymously titled novel?

2016-10-13T12:30:52.145-07:00 John's Immortal Evening

Acknowledgments
The meal John prepared on Tuesday would rank among our top five--if we had such rankings.  Aided by Dean, Tom, and Mark, John prepared and named the following courses, each reflecting a different sentiment evoked by our book:

Blood, heart, and liver.  Essential to our circulation, blood was transfused as bloody martinis, served from a hanging IV drip bag.  Our most important muscle, heart was rendered into skewered calves hearts sourced from a grass-fed beef producer in West Marin.  And liver was transformed into a foie gras brought in fresh from Sonoma and served on toast. A fine starting course.

Eat Your Veggies.  With this life-enhancing mandate, we weren't allowed to be choosy.  John served us a soup pureed from his own selection of organic vegetables from the farmers market.

Last Supper.  When confronted with one's mortality, only the best will do.  John obliged with a filet mignon, sous vide, accompanied by mashed cauliflower and bacon jam and smashed potatoes with caramelized shallots.

Brain Brownies.  What else but scratch brownies and vanilla ice cream topped with a bourbon and orange bitters drizzle?  Well, here's what else: for a touch of verisimilitude, mini brain lobes in the form of walnut halves atop each brownie.

Thank you, John, and we hope you enjoy your well-deserved trip to Iceland.  We also owe thanks to Paul (and his ever-patient and absent wife Jane) for allowing us, our guests, and a photographer to take over his beautiful home for a night.

The Book
Atul Gawande's Being Mortal is one physician's attempt, in plain English, to expose our frequent resort to aggressive medical intervention as we approach the end of life.  Whether through experimental therapies, life-sustaining assistance, or institutional confinement, we too often seek to extend life without understanding the implications or the alternatives.

Gawande's presentation was disturbing and enlightening at the same time. I felt that his book was a barometer (measured by one's level of unease while reading it) for our readiness to make the hard decisions that lie ahead. Almost everyone shared his own story of family illness and death to illustrate our collective discomfort with what may be an unclear or even false choice as the end nears (i.e., quality over quantity).  While Armando, always the naturalist, read Being Mortal as a field guide to getting old, the scientist in Roy wasn't persuaded.  He found Gawande's prescriptions premature in a world of constant innovation and advancement.

Gawande's recurring question to end-stage patients is:  what do you most want and what are you willing to give up in order to get it? Illustrated by the stories of his patients, Gawande claims that quality of life is desired most and that, surprisingly, less intervention can prolong rather than shorten life.  We discussed his premise and the anecdotes sprinkled through the book (guest Mark declared the book a sales pitch for hospice care; guest Keith noted his personal connection to Sara Monopoli, one of Gawande's featured patients).  In the end, Paul pronounced Being Mortal the "most relevant" book we've read given its insistence that we set clear expectations for the end of our lives.&nbs


The Venetian island of Murano is noted for its centuries-old traditional manufacture of what material in decorative form?

BIG BEAD LITTLE BEAD | History Of Venetian Glass Manufacture History of Venetian Glass History of Venetian Glass Making Venetian glass is a method of glass production developed and refined over many centuries in Venice, Italy, primarily on the island of Murano. It remains a world-renowned centre for colourful, elaborate glass of the highest quality and craftsmanship – be it in glassware, mirrors, chandeliers, or beads and jewellery. This guide to the history of Venetian glass manufacture can be read in conjunction with our Glossary of Venetian Glass Making Processes which describes in more detail the processes discussed below, some of the science involved, and who a technique or process can be attributed to. Early Origins of Venetian Glass The first documented record of Venetian glass production dates back to 982 and references a Master phial and bottle maker named Dominicus Phiolarius. A further reference in 1090 mentions a Petrus Flabianicus (or Peter of the Flacons), involved in the same activity. However, pre-dating this documentary evidence, by some 450 years, archaeological discoveries made in the 1960s suggest the presence of glass workers and furnaces in the Venetian lagoon, centred around the island of Torcello and also Aquileia on the mainland. These sites appeared to be primarily focused on producing glass tesserae (from the Greek meaning ‘four-sided’) which were small glass or stone squares used as mosaic tiles for decorative purposes, possibly to be used in local churches or the villas of wealthy noblemen. This process harks back to far earlier production techniques from the Roman Empire when moulded glass was used to bring light into bathhouses. Several centuries were to pass before the artisans of the Venetian area embarked on what was to become a fully-fledged and unique period of decorative glass production, evolving over time to reach world renown and for a period a virtual monopoly industry in Europe. This shift in emphasis was largely due to Venice’s growing status as a cultural bridge between the west and the east. This was based on its geographic location on the Adriatic – facing the Balkans, and with the Middle East and Asia to the south and east respectively; the fact it was strategically well appointed on a series of islands with a strong navy and merchant fleet; and had a basic devotion to trade, and the power and influence that trade brought them. This role was initially focused on those countries bordering the Mediterranean, but also embodied the Holy Lands and the Orient. In war and peace the Republic of Venice focused on commercial advantage be it negotiating exemption from duties when trading in Byzantium in the 11th century, or the creation of trading bases, or protected ‘colonies’, in the Holy Land and Central Asia in the early 12th century. This policy was to give the Republic of Venice near monopoly status in glass production across Europe for some 300 years. As hinted at above, glassmaking was very much an Eastern skill, and glass-making traditions were already well established in many countries in the Middle East, including Egypt, Palestine and Syria. Although Venice was influential in these regions, Islamic glass didn’t have any great presence in Venice until the capture of Constantinople in 1204 by the Crusaders on their 4th Crusade. This resulted in an influx of fleeing Byzantine glassmakers into Venice bringing with them skills and techniques that were totally new to Europe. By the end of the century, Venetian glassmakers had adapted many of these imported processes, alongside their own, to obtain unique results. This influx of techniques was to be repeated again in 1453 when Constantinople fell to the Ottomans. Political and commercial expediency then played an important part in ensuring that these techniques were retained within Venice and production was regulated to maintain a competitive advantage. In 1271 a legislative edict (or capitulary) was declared with the sole intention of regulating the art of glass making for the purposes of commercial advantage. From this point forw


'Guerilla' street art attributed to 'Banski' became a notable feature of what capital city in 2012?

American | Art Blart | Page 2 Art Blart Exhibition dates: 16th May – 30th October 2016   The best fun I had with this posting was putting together the first twelve images. They seem to act as ‘strange attractors’, a feeling recognised by the curators of the exhibition if you view the first installation photograph by Anders Jones, below. Marcus . Many thankx to photographer Anders Jones and the Duggal website for allowing me to publish the installation photographs in the posting. See their posting about the exhibition .     Artists have always turned to dreams as a source of inspiration, a retreat from reason, and a space for exploring imagination and desire. In the history of photography, dreams have been most closely associated with the Surrealists, who pushed the technical limits of the medium to transform the camera’s realist documents into fantastical compositions. Whereas their modernist explorations were often bound to psychoanalytic theories, more recently contemporary photographers have pursued the world of sleep and dreams through increasingly open-ended works that succeed through evocation rather than description. This exhibition takes a cue from the artists it features by displaying a constellation of photographs that collectively evoke the experience of a waking dream. Here, a night sky composed of pills, a fragmented rainbow, a sleeping fairy-tale princess, and an alien underwater landscape illuminate hidden impulses and longings underlying contemporary life. Drawn entirely from The Met collection, Dream States features approximately 30 photographs and video works primarily from the 1970s to the present. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art   Anselm Kiefer (German, born Donaueschingen, 1945) Brünnhilde Sleeps Acrylic and gouache on photograph 23 x 32 7/8in. (58.4 x 83.5cm) Denise and Andrew Saul Fund, 1995 © Anselm Kiefer     Near the end of Wagner’s second opera of the Ring Cycle, Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), the Valkyrie Brünnhilde, having attempted to help the sibling lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde against their father’s wishes, is punished for her betrayal. Wotan puts her to sleep and surrounds her with a ring of fire (she will be awakened in turn by her nephew Siegfried, the incestuous son of Siegmund and Sieglinde, in the third opera of the cycle). Kiefer portrays the dormant Brünnhilde as French actress Catherine Deneuve in François Truffaut’s film Mississippi Mermaid, using a photograph he snapped in a movie house in 1969. In the film, Deneuve plays a deceitful mail-order bride who comes to the island of Réunion to marry a plantation owner, played by Jean-Paul Belmondo. Aside from the parallels of love and betrayal in both the Ring Cycle and Truffaut’s film, Kiefer thought the choice of Deneuve for Brünnhilde both ironic and amusing: she was for him “the contrary of Brünnhilde. Very slim, very French, very cool, very sexy,” hinting that no man would go through fire to obtain Wagner’s corpulent, armored Valkyrie.   Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902-2002) La Buena Fama Durmiendo (The Good Reputation Sleeping) 1939, printed c. 1970s Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm) The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1973   Eugène Atget (French, Libourne 1857-1927 Paris) Versailles Salted paper print from glass negative Image: 17.5 x 21.9 cm (6 7/8 x 8 5/8 in.) Sheet: 18 × 21.9 cm (7 1/16 × 8 5/8 in.) Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm) Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005     From 1898 until his death in 1927, Atget exhaustively documented the remains of Old Paris: the city’s streets, monuments, interiors, and environs. Among the last entries in this self-directed preservationist effort was a series of images of landscapes and sculpture in the parks of Saint-Cloud and Versailles. Here, the photographer records a statue of a sleeping Ariadne, the mythical Cretan princess abandoned by her lover Theseus on the island of Naxos. Atget’s simultaneously realistic and otherworldly photographs inspired the Surrealist artist Man Ray, who reproduced four of them in a


The fashionable Belstaff clothing label was founded in Staffordshire UK in 1924 initially to produce protective waterprooof clothing for?

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What mixed drink takes its name from the Spanish for 'bleeding'?

8 Classic Spanish Drinks you Must try this Summer! 8 Classic Spanish Drinks you Must try this Summer! leahwarner Being Spanish , Food & Drink , Hints & Tips , Live & Enjoy Madrid 22/05/2015 Can you believe that it is almost summer? If you weren’t in summer mode already, you must be thinking about it now! Its officially time for BBQ’s, days at the beach and long relaxing meals on the many sun drenched terraces around Madrid – or maybe somewhere along the coast if you’re lucky. One of the most rewarding things about the summer is sitting back and sipping a refreshing summer drink, don’t you think? Well Spain is no stranger to such drinks, so we’ve put together a delicious list of typical “bebidas de verano” so you can start the summer off right! If you’re looking drinks without alcohol, check out our traditional non-Alcoholic Spanish drinks  blog. If you’d like to get down to the basics and learn about some of Spain’s most favoured liquors and siders, take a look at our article  “Alcohol made in Spain – Typical Spanish Alcohols! ” Sangría  Everyone around the world has heard of Sangría. It is a true staple in Spanish culture and you must try it at least once while here! It’s best to order this drink in a large jug so that all of the fruits and flavours can sit and mix with each other while you eat and chat with your friends. If you want to make it yourself, in the true Spanish fashion you must pay attention to all of the details. Mix it yourself: 1 bottle of red wine, 2 oranges thinly sliced, 1 lemon thinly sliced, 1 tbsp of sugar and 1 cinnamon stick. If you want to add a little kick to the mixture, add a small amount of lemon flavoured gas water. It is important to let the mixture sit undisturbed for at least 2 hours before enjoying!   Agua de Valencia This drink offers a twist on the traditional mimosa, mixing together cava or champagne, orange juice, vodka and gin. It was created in the coastal city of Valencia and the drink reflects the beautiful sun-filled coastline as well as the famous oranges from the region. Perfect for your next brunch or midday party; mix together all the ingredients in a large jug or pitcher and share with all your friends! Mix it yourself: Add 250ml cup orange juice, 2 shots of gin, 2 shots of vodka, and one 700ml bottle of cava into a large pitcher. Mix in sugar and lemon slices until you reach your desired sweetness! Rebujito If you find yourself in Andalucía during the festival season in spring/summer, you will most likely see everyone drinking a light carbonated drink called Rebujito. Rebujito is a mixed drink made of white sherry and lemon soda or Sprite. The lemon-lime flavor combined with the dry sherry creates a crisp and refreshing drink for the heat of the Andalusian sun.     Tinto de Verano  This is what we like to call “a poor man’s Sangría“. Tinto de Verano is a simple yet amazingly refreshing drink that can be found literally everywhere! The name itself means Wine of Summer! Tinto refers to the red wine – but in all honestly, when making this at home you can use whatever wine you want! Traditionally the beverage is mixed with with lemon juice or gas water.   Clara de Limón If you talk to the locals, lots of them will tell you that this is a girls drink. Whether you care about these stereotypes or not, Clara de Limón is the most refreshing alternative to a simple pint of beer. And, lets face it, if it tastes good who cares! It’s also incredibly easy to make at home – simply mix your favourite beer with a lemon soda (typically Lemon Fanta or Lemon Schweppes).   Cava You don’t need to be celebrating to drink Champagne! And the same goes for the Spanish equivalent called Cava. Cava is a refreshing, bubbly beverage that can be served in white or rose. The drink is served cold and is commonly mixed with a variety of fruits. In fact, some recipes suggest that you add Cava to your Sangría recipe to give it an extra kick!   Kalimotxo If you are looking for a simple mixed drink that is very unique to Spain, look no further than Kalimotxo. Originally made popular in the Basque country, Kal


What instrument is the basis of the occupational name for a stringed instrument maker, notably of violins and guitars?

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What colour/color is the second 'O' in the standard original Google logo?

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The fuel injection system replaced what traditional device for blending air and fuel in car combustion engines?

Illumin - Fuel Injection Tags: chemical engineering , transportation The introduction of fuel injection to the automobile has been a major factor in increasing the power available to engines in recent years. However, its introduction was initially slow due to the inherent complexities of the system. Computer integration revolutionized the design of this automotive subsystem and has become the onboard controller of the fuel injection system itself. Modern automobiles are forced to meet stringent emissions and fuel efficiency standards since the institution of the clean air mandates of the 1970's, and these have for the most part been achieved through improvements in the engine fuel entry systems. We begin with an examination of the basic concepts of the automotive combustion engine and discuss the function and the principles behind the injection system. We then see how intelligent computer controls for fuel-injection system have effectively forced the carburetor into obsolescence. Introduction The desire to create powerful automobiles is a driving force in the advancement of engine technology. Until the early 1970's additional horsepower came from larger and more costly engines [1], which came from the belief that burning more gasoline was the best way to increase available power. However, by the outset of the 1970's cities and countrysides were beginning to be blanketed by thick black smog, a byproduct of the combustion [2]. In an attempt to reverse this, US governmental regulations were enacted that raised minimum fuel efficiency requirements of automobiles. To meet these new standards, car manufacturers were forced to reduce the chassis and engine size in an attempt to decrease overall weight, ultimately increasing fuel efficiency. This resulted in a significant loss of power and "pep." However, with the emergence of computer-automated controls, auto manufacturers are finding that it is possible to build smaller engines with power to spare by increasing the efficiency of the combustion process [1]. Most of these advancements have come from precise timing of the fuel entering the combustion chamber, as well as timing of the ignition itself [3]. The Otto Cycle The principles underlying the combustion engine focus on one concept: burning a chemical to obtain energy and then using this energy to do work. This energy is obtained by burning the gasoline that is put into the automobile. In an automobile, a controlled process called the 4-stroke cycle, or Otto cycle, is utilized to extract the work from the gasoline. The Otto cycle can be viewed as four individual steps: 1. Intake: The piston moves from top to bottom, creating a slight vacuum. This pulls fuel and air into the chamber. When the piston reaches the bottom of its course, the fuel intake valve is closed. This position is normally called bottom dead center. 2. Compression: The intake valve is then closed, and the piston moves upward and pressurizes the air/fuel mixture. An electrical spark is ignited to burn the gasoline. The mixture burns very quickly and the expansion of the exhaust gases causes a rapid rise in the pressure of the system 3. Power: As the pressure increases, the piston is forced downward. This is the only point during the cycle that usable power is actually generated by the engine. 4. Exhaust: The piston then begins to move upward. Simultaneously, a valve is opened to let the exhaust gases leave [3]. Armchoir/Wikimedia Commons Figure 1: Depiction of the Otto cycle. When the engine goes through steps 1-4 once it is called a cycle (Fig. 1), and by repeating cycle after cycle the engine can use the energy gained from many small ignitions to move the vehicle. The movement of the actual vehicle is the result of transferring the cyclic movement of the piston into the rotary movement of the wheels. This distribution is facilitated through the use of a crankshaft, which is connected directly to the pistons. As the pistons go up and down, the crankshaft is forced to rotate. This rotation is then indirectly coupled to the wheels by the front and rear differe


A Pelton wheel converts what power into usable energy?

Water Power: Building a Pelton Wheel - Renewable Energy - MOTHER EARTH NEWS Video Water Power: Building a Pelton Wheel If you're generating power from a flowing water source with a moderate head, a Pelton wheel is a good choice. By C.D. Bassett Tweet Example of a Pelton wheel that receives water through a pipe. While the penstock may be set up to provide either a precipitous or sloping fall, it should be of as large a diameter as possible, have minimum bends, and hold down flow friction to the least amount. ILLUSTRATION: POPULAR SCIENCE Print Email Though one of man's oldest prime movers, a water wheel generator is still a fascinating piece of machinery. Perhaps this is because it appears comprehensible at a glance (although an efficient wheel is actually a product of subtle and inconspicuous design refinements), and because it seems to be a way of getting power for nothing. The wheel we describe here, with accompanying technical diagram , was especially designed for this series on harnessing small streams, and will reward a careful craftsman by delivering years of constant service. It's particularly suited for an installation having a moderate head (25' to 60') and relatively small flow (0.45 to 0.75 cubic feet per second). Subsequent installments will describe the construction of wheels suited for lesser heads of water and other varied conditions. The wheel is an impulse wheel, driven by the impulses produced as water strikes revolving blades or buckets. In a perfectly designed wheel, the water strikes at high speed, exhausts its energy in driving the wheel to which the bucket is attached, and then falls free of the wheel. Known as a Pelton wheel, this type developed from the "hurdy gurdy", a paddle wheel used in California by the forty-niners. The hurdy-gurdy was a wheel that rotated in a vertical plane, had flat vanes fixed around its circumference, and was driven by the force of water striking the vanes. It was not an efficient machine, but it was simple to construct. Then an engineer named Lester Pelton substituted a cup-shaped, divided bucket for each of the vanes, and by that step added a high degree of efficiency to the wheel's other virtues. No single wheel will meet all operating requirements, but some will perform under a reasonably wide range of conditions. The following table indicates the r.p.m. and horsepower output that will be delivered by this wheel under given conditions of head and flow. The latter is measured in cubic feet per second: Head: 25' - Flow: 0.43; RPM: 350; HP: 1.0 Head: 30' - Flow: 0.51; RPM: 390; HP: 1.3 Head: 40' - Flow: 0.59; RPM: 450; HP: 2.0 Head: 50' - Flow: 0.66; RPM: 500; HP: 2.8 Head: 60' - Flow: 0.73; RPM: 550; HP: 3.75 Thus, if a survey of your stream indicates a head and flow close to these values, our Pelton wheel will fit neatly into your plans. Strictly speaking a water wheel is an engine powered by water, just as an automobile engine is powered by gasoline. The important power-producing elements of the wheel are the buckets and the nozzle, and considerable care should be exercised to see that these parts are made correctly. The nozzle meters the correct amount of water to the wheel, and forms and directs the jet against the buckets. Both the inside diameter and the location of the nozzle with respect to the wheel are very important, since the jet must impinge upon each bucket at the correct wheel radius or lever arm. It must also be divided equally by the center ridge of each bucket. The function of the bucket is to convert the energy of the jet, represented by its high speed, into mechanical energy at the wheel shaft. To do this it must slow the water from its high speed in the jet to practically zero speed when it drops into the tail water. Maximum efficiency with this wheel will be obtained if the buckets have the proper form and size. This shape acts to slow the jet by turning it smoothly through 180 deg. The surface of each bucket must be as smooth as possible. A mirror finish is desirable on the inside, and even the back of each bucket should be ground and polished


As at 2012 what 115-island Indian Ocean nation has the smallest population (about 86,000) of any African country?

Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French - Information on Languages by Country for Translation * A * B * C * D * E * F * G * H * I * J * K * L * M * N * O * P * Q * R * S * T * U * V * W * X * Y * Z Language:Fijian Fijian is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken in Fiji. It has 450,000 first-language speakers which is more than half the population of Fiji, but another 200,000 speak it as a second language. The 1997 Constitution established Fijian as an official language of Fiji, along with English and Hindustani, and there is discussion about establishing it as the "national language. Fiji: Fiji officially the Republic of Fiji is an island country in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about 1,100 nautical miles northeast of New Zealand's North Island. Its closest neighbors are Vanuatu to the west, France's New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas and France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast, and Tuvalu to the north. Language: Filipino Filipino is a prestige register of the Tagalog language, based on the dialect of Manila, and is the name under which Tagalog is designated the national language and one of two official languages of the Philippines. Tagalog is a first language of about one-third of the Philippine population; it is centered around Manila but is spoken to varying degrees nationwide. Philippines: The Philippines officially known as the Republic of the Philippines is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan; west across the South China Sea sits Vietnam; southwest is the island of Borneo across the Sulu Sea, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia; while to the east it is bounded by the Philippine Sea and the island-nation of Palau. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and close to the equator make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons, but also endows it with abundant natural resources and some of the world's greatest biodiversity. The Philippines is the 73rd-largest country in the world, consisting of an archipelago of 7,107 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Language: Finnish Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a Finnish dialect, are spoken. The Kven language, a dialect of Finnish, is spoken in Northern Norway. Finland: Finland officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden to the west, Norway to the north, Russia to the east, and Estonia to the south across the Gulf of Finland.About 5.4 million people live in Finland (end of 2012), with the majority concentrated in its southern regions. In terms of area, it is the eighth largest country in Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union. Politically, it is a parliamentary republic with a central government based in the capital of Helsinki, local governments in 336 municipalities and an autonomous region, the Åland Islands (making Finland a federacy). About one million residents live in the Greater Helsinki area (consisting of Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa) and a third of the country's GDP is produced there. Other larger cities include Tampere, Turku, Oulu, Jyväskylä, Lahti, and Kuopio. Language: French French or la langue française is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the provinces of Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick (Acadia region) in Canada, the Acadiana region of the U.S. state of Louisiana, the northern parts of the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont in the


Which country has the international telephone dialling code 27?

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What length is the shortest side of a right-angled triangle whose longest sides are 4cm and 5cm?

Grade 8 Problems and Questions on Triangles with Solutions and Explanations The sum of the three angles in triangle ABC is equal to 180ï¿½. Hence 72 + angle ACB + angle ABC = 180 In the given isosceles triangle, angles ACB and ABC have equal measure. Hence 72 + 2 angle ABC = 180 2 angle ABC = 180 - 72 = 108 angle ABC = 54ï¿½ The perimeter of an equilateral triangle is equal to 210 cm. What is the length of one side of this triangle? Solution The three sides of an equilateral triangle have equal lengths. If x is the length of one side of an equilateral triangle, then its perimeter is equal to 3x. Hence 3x = 210 Find x so that the triangle shown below is a right triangle. . x2 = 1/4 x = 1/2 What will be the vertices of the triangle obtained by reflection on the a axis of the triangle defined by the vertices (1,2), (2,-3) and (4,-1)? Solution When a point of coordinates (x , y) is reflected on the x axis, its y coordinates changes sign and the coordinates become (x , - y). Hence when the vertices of the given triangle are reflected on the x axis, they become. (1,-(2)), (2,-(-3)) and (4,-(-1)) Simplify (1,-2), (2,3) and (4,1) The two triangles shown below are similar. Find the length of the hypotenuse of the larger triangle. . Solution In similar triangles, the corresponding sides have lengths in the same proportion. If h is the hypotenuse of the small traingle and H is the hypotanuse of the larger traingel, then 8 / 15 = h / H 8H = 150 H = 18.75 A 13 foot ladder is leaning against a vertical wall. The lowest point of the ladder is 4 feet from the wall. What is the height of the point where the ladder touches the wall? (round your answer to the nearest tenth of a foot). Solution The ladder, vertical wall and the ground make a right triangle whose hypotenuse is the ladder with length equal to 13 feet. One side of this triangle is 4 feet. If x is the other side, Pythagora's theorem may be used to find its length as follows x2 + 42 = 132 x = 12.4 feet (rounded to the nearet tenth) x is also the height of the point where the ladder touches the wall. The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 40 cm. The size of one of its angles is 45 degrees. What are the exact lengths of the other two sides of the triangle? Solution A right triangle with the size of one angle equal 45ï¿½ will also have the second angle with size equal to 45ï¿½ since the sum of all 3 angles must be equal to 180ï¿½. So this triangle is right and isosceles and therefore its side lengths are equal. Let x be the length of one of its side. Use Pythagora's theorem. x2 + x2 = 402 x2 = 800 = 2ï¿½400 x = sqrt(2ï¿½400) = 20 sqrt(2) Triangle ABC is an isosceles triangle. The length of the base is 20 meters and the corresponding height is 24 meters. Find the perimeter of ABC. (round your answer to the nearest tenth of a meter). Solution The isosceles triangle ABC is shown below. Height AM is drawn. Triangles AMB and AMC are congruent since they have two congruent sides AB and AC and AM is common. Plus angles B and C are equal in size and the right angles are also equal. Hence the lengths of AM and CM are equal and therefore the length of MC is equal to 10 meters. . We now use Pythagora's theorem to find length x of side AB x2 = 242 + 102 = 676 x = 26 meters. The perimeter of the triangle is equal to length of side AC + length of side AB + length of side BC = 26 + 26 + 20 = 72 meters A triangle has an area of 90 square cm. Find the length of the base if the corresponding base is 3 cm more then the height. Solution Let b be the length of the base and h be the length of the height. Hence the area A of the triangle is gievn by A = (1/2) ï¿½ base ï¿½ height = (1/2)ï¿½ b ï¿½ h = 90 length of base is 3cm more that the height. Hence b = h + 3 Substitute b by h + 3 in the equation (1/2)ï¿½ b ï¿½ h = 90 to write (1/2))ï¿½ (h + 3) ï¿½ h = 90 Cross multiply the above equation (h + 3) ï¿½ h = 180 Expand and rewrite with right side equal to 0. h2 3h - 180 = 0 Factor and solve the equation. (h - 12)(h + 15) = 0 h = 12 b = 12 + 3 = 15 cm The perimeter of a triangle is 74 inches. T


A framework beam - a fink - that supports a wide-spanning roof is also known as a '(what nationality) truss'?

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The Turbans, The Five Satins, and The Diamonds helped establish what musical style?

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What psychological condition was named after Greek legend of a beautiful hunter who fell in love with his own reflection?

Narcissus (Greek mythology) - Credo Reference Topic Page: Narcissus (Greek mythology) Definition: Narcissus from The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide In late Greek mythology, a beautiful youth who rejected the love of the nymph Echo and was condemned by Nemesis, goddess of retribution, to fall in love with his reflection in a pool. He pined away, and a flower which appeared at the spot was named after him. In psychology, narcissism signifies excessive love and admiration of oneself. Narcissus was the son of the river god Cephisus and Liriope. Summary Article: NARCISSUS from Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology Image from: Echo and Narcissus in The Bridgeman Art Library Archive The Greek myth of Narcissus, whose pride caused him to fall in love with his own reflection, has inspired artists and writers since the classical period. Some people have seen the story as a warning against the dangers of vanity; others have viewed the tragedy of Narcissus as the result of his grieving over the death of his sister. Narcissus was the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Liriope; he was born when Cephissus enveloped Liriope in his waters. According to Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE–17 CE), who wrote about Narcissus in Metamorphoses, Narcissus's mother was curious to know what sort of life awaited her son. She sought out Tiresias, the blind Greek prophet, and asked him how long Narcissus would live. Tiresias replied vaguely that Narcissus would enjoy a long life if he did not come to know himself. His mother wondered at the meaning of the prophecy, but was encouraged by the prospect of her son thriving to a ripe old age. It was not until Narcissus was 16 years old that his story began to unfold, and his life began to end. Rejecting suitors According to Ovid, the adolescent Narcissus was so beautiful that he was constantly fending off the advances of young men and women alike. One maiden in particular was so infatuated with Narcissus that she followed him when he was hunting in a forest. This maiden was the mountain nymph Echo, whom Hera, queen of the Olympians, had punished for distracting her attention with relentless conversation while her husband Zeus conducted one of his love affairs. Hera's punishment was for Echo always to have the last word, but never the first—all the nymph could do was repeat the words of others. As she followed Narcissus on his hunt, Echo's passion grew stronger and stronger, as did her desire to reveal herself to the youth. When Narcissus became separated from his fellow hunters, Echo began to move among the shadows of the forest. Aware he was being watched, Narcissus called out, "Is there anyone there?" Echo, however, could only repeat his last words, and this exchange continued until he beckoned her out of the woods. When she tried to run into his arms, he resisted her advances, saying that he would rather die than let her possess him. Humiliated and hurt, Echo retreated into the hollows of the mountains and never showed her face again. Only her voice remained, which, for Greeks and Romans, served as an explanation of the echoes they heard in hills and valleys. Condemned to self-love While some suggest that it was Narcissus's rejection of Echo that brought about his fate, others claim that his treatment of Echo was part of a pattern the arrogant youth had established with previous suitors. He had scorned so many potential lovers that one of them, in a moment of vindictiveness, prayed that Narcissus might fall in love and not be able to possess the object of his desires. According to Ovid, this prayer was answered by Nemesis, the goddess of retribution. In other versions, the deity was the virgin goddess Artemis. Either way, the prayer was answered: while Narcissus rested by a pool to quench his thirst, he caught sight of his own reflection and was so captivated by it that he tried to embrace it. After trying repeatedly to grasp the image in his arms, he began to weep, but his tears only created ripples in the pool, thus hampering his efforts to see his own reflection. He ripped o


Which corporation suffered embarrassment after sponsoring and naming the weather system which caused multiple fatalities across Eastern Europe in Feb 2012?

The Pegasus Daily Bulletin | Crap, the Name Escapes Me! Crap, the Name Escapes Me! A comfortable place to hang ~ chat ~ debate ~ have fun! ~*~  Etch a Sketch  ~*~ Post by on Jan 29, 2012 10:45:50 GMT -5 Good morning Miss Who, Sus, Peg and Tuxy Flying Horse Gabber Extraordinaire I am sorry to be posting this. i am FH's son jeff, my Mom passed away last night peacefully. Posts: 16,236 Post by Flying Horse on Jan 29, 2012 14:07:49 GMT -5 Good afternoon from Tuxy :)This is the 29th day of 2012 with 336 days left in the year. Today in NY's Finger Lakes at 2:03 p.m., it's partly cloudy , temp 37ºF [Feels like 26ºF], winds WSW @ 13 mph, humidity 52%, pressure 29.94 in and falling, dew point 21ºF, chance of precipitation 10%. Today in History: 1777--Americans retreat from Fort Independence in Bronx County, NY. 1820--Britain's King George III died insane at Windsor Castle. 1834--Andrew Jackson became the first president to use federal troops to quell labor unrest. 1843--William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, and the first president to ride in a car, was born in Niles, Ohio; assassinated 1901 and Vice Pres. Teddy Roosevelt became president. 1846--Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror. 1850--Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state. 1856--Britain's Queen Victoria introduced the Victoria Cross to reward military acts of valor during the Crimean War. 1861--Kansas became the 34th state of the Union, entering as a free state. 1891--Liliuokalani proclaimed queen of Hawaii. 1900--the American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia. 1919--the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, was certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk. 1929--The Seeing Eye, a New Jersey-based school which trains guide dogs to assist the blind, was incorporated by Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Morris Frank. 1936--the first five members of baseball's Hall of Fame, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y. 1963--the first members of pro football's Hall of Fame were named in Canton, Ohio. 1964--Stanley Kubrick's black comic masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb opened. 1979--Pres. Carter welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House following the establishment of diplomatic relations. 1990--former Exxon Valdez skipper Joseph Hazelwood went on trial in Anchorage, Alaska, on charges stemming from the 1989 oil spill. 1998--a bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse. 2002--in his first State of the Union address, Pres. Bush said terrorists were still threatening America — and he warned of "an axis of evil" consisting of North Korea, Iran and Iraq. 2006--ABC "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq. 2007--Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized because of medical complications eight months after his gruesome breakdown at the Preakness. 2007--a Palestinian suicide bomber killed three Israelis at a bakery in Eilat in the first such attack inside Israel in nine months. 2009--the Illinois Senate voted to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office. 2010--abortion opponent Scott Roeder was convicted of murder by a jury in Wichita, Kan., in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller, one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the U.S. 2011-- Egyptian Pres. Mubarak named his intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, as his first-ever vice president as chaos engulfed Cairo. World News Capsules: 1. Former Taliban officials say US talks started. ....Former officials said Taliban negotiators traveled to Qatar for discussions with American officials that included a possible prisoner transfer. 2. AUSTRALIAN OPEN: Djokovic wins longes Sam final ever. ....No. 1 seed


Named after Hantan River, South Korea, hantaviruses typically infect humans through transfer from bites, waste, etc., of?

Hantavirus - Definition and synonyms of hantavirus in the English dictionary. Translation of hantavirus to 20 languages. hantavirus Meaning of hantavirus in the English dictionary DICTIONARY ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HANTAVIRUS From Hanta( an), river in North and South Korea where the disease was first reported + virus. Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance. PRONUNCIATION OF HANTAVIRUS exclamation Hantavirus is a noun. A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc. WHAT DOES HANTAVIRUS MEAN IN ENGLISH? Hantavirus Hantaviruses are single-stranded, enveloped, negative sense RNA viruses in the Bunyaviridae family. They normally infect rodents and don't cause disease in these hosts. Humans may become infected with hantaviruses through contact with rodent urine, saliva, or feces. Some strains of hantaviruses cause potentially fatal diseases in humans, such as Hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, while others have not been associated with known human disease. Human infections of hantaviruses have almost entirely been linked to human contact with rodent excrement, but recent human-to-human transmission has been reported with the Andes virus in South America. Hantavirus is named for the Hantan River area in South Korea where an early outbreak was observed. The virus was isolated in the late 1970s by Karl M. Johnson and Ho-Wang Lee. Synonyms and antonyms of hantavirus in the English dictionary of synonyms SYNONYMS WORDS RELATING TO «HANTAVIRUS» hantavirus pulmonary syndrome pictures mortality rate treatment symptoms test incubation period hantaviruses single stranded enveloped negative sense viruses bunyaviridae family they normally infect infection progress which people medlineplus medical encyclopedia causes carried especially deer mice found their does make animal sick believed that facts transmitted learn about health rare serious illness typical like include headache nausea vomiting muscle aches diarrhea washington state dept prevention fact sheet exposure occurs having droppings although webmd four died after getting yosemite national park several types particularly alberta Translation of «hantavirus» into 20 languages TRANSLATOR TRANSLATION OF HANTAVIRUS Find out the translation of hantavirus to 20 languages with our English multilingual translator . The translations of hantavirus from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hantavirus» in English. List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «hantavirus». FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HANTAVIRUS» OVER TIME The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hantavirus» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hantavirus» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day. Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hantavirus EXAMPLES 10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HANTAVIRUS» Discover the use of hantavirus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hantavirus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature. 1 Hantavirus Examines the outbreak of the Sin Nombre virus that struck the Four Corners region of Southwestern United States in 1993. Amy Sterling Casil, 2005 9 NORD Guide to Rare Disorders DEFINITION: Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a pan-American rodent- borne viral zoonosis. The disease is characterized by a nonspecific febrile prodrome, followed by severe respiratory compromise accompanied by shock that is ... National Organization for Rare Disorders, 2003 10 The Pathogenic NY-1 Hantavirus Gn Cytoplasmic Tail Regulates ... Peter Joseph Alff. Section 1: The Pathoge


As at 2012 what country is the world's largest democracy?

Two Largest Democracies of the World - Fair Observer Two Largest Democracies of the World Flickr M. Dutta WE BRING YOU PERSPECTIVES FROM AROUND THE WORLD. HELP US TO INFORM AND EDUCATE. YOUR DONATION IS TAX-DEDUCTIBLE. Professor Dutta reports the highlights of the Obamas’ visit to India. He writes about the merits of democracy, non-discrimination and diversity and their importance in the past and future of both the US and India. President Barack Obama and the first lady arrived in Mumbai, India and checked into the Taj Hotel. This is the hotel where jihadists from Pakistan committed the tragic act of terrorism, killing so many innocent men and women. The terrorists from no country could be allowed to control our travel plan, President Obama proclaimed. He invited the Pakistani authorities to condemn the acts of terrorism, as it originated in their country. In Mumbai he visited the Gandhi Museum, and faithfully recalled the date of visit to the Museum by Reverend Martin Luther King. Mahatma Gandhi was a hero to the world, not only to India, he had reminded the entire world. The peoples of all countries salute the Mahatma for his message of peace and non-violence. President Obama next arrived in New Delhi and his visit to the Humayun Tomb became a high point. The Sakas, the Huns, the Pathans, the Moguls came to India and over time became a part of India. Indian civilization became all embracing. All who came from remote lands as invaders found their final resting place in Indian soil. President Obama reminded the world that India was the second largest Moslem country, after Indonesia.  In New Delhi, he took his shoes off and walked the short distance to pay homage at the Gandhi Samadhi, the memorial to Gandhi and a key destination for public figures to visit. India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife hosted a reception for the President and Mrs. Obama.  It became a very, very cordial event. The spicy food was much relished. The Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy comes from the minority Sikh religious community of predominantly Hindu India while the President of the world’s second largest democracy rose to office from the minority community of African American heritage in a country where the White immigrants of European heritage constitute some 85% of the population. Next came the state dinner, hosted by India’s president, Mrs. Pratibha Patil. She had the privilege to propose the toast in honor of the President of the world’s second largest democracy. President Obama in his eloquent response praised the democratic rule of India and India’s efforts in promoting global peace. In his address to the Indian Parliament, President Obama made his case for India’s seat as a permanent member on the Security Council of the United Nations The 1.2 billion people of the Indian democracy rose to applaud him. It merits a mention that democracy in America, based on one person-one vote, came long after the Proclamation of Emancipation, signed by President Lincoln in 1853; even though the law went into effect in 1863.  For millions of Americans of African American heritage, emancipation came only in the 1960s when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and then the Voting Rights Act.  India had its democratic rule, based on one-person-one vote, with no bar for race, sex and religion some ten years sooner than the US did. President Obama returned home after brief stops in Indonesia and Japan. His visit to South Asia, South East Asia, and North East Asia, with his earlier visit to the Peoples’ Republic of China, Central Asia, invited the rest of the world to recognize the increased importance of the Asian family. With half the population of the world in this family with diversities of language, religion, life styles, plus its huge resource base, the time has come to welcome the Asian Century. Economic engagement between India and the USA – trade and investment- is increasing but is yet to reach its potential. American investors would be well advised to explore the Indian market, given the fact that India offers a fr


In 2012 Josefina Vazquez Mota became a presidential candidate for the ruling National Action Party (PAN) in which country?

Female Presidential Candidate Blazes Trail In Mexico : NPR Female Presidential Candidate Blazes Trail In Mexico Embed Embed Female Presidential Candidate Blazes Trail In Mexico Female Presidential Candidate Blazes Trail In Mexico Embed Embed Josefina Vazquez Mota, presidential candidate from the ruling National Action Party, or PAN, delivers a speech during an electoral rally in Jocotepec, in the state of Jalisco, in May. AFP/Getty Images/PAN Press Office hide caption toggle caption AFP/Getty Images/PAN Press Office Josefina Vazquez Mota, presidential candidate from the ruling National Action Party, or PAN, delivers a speech during an electoral rally in Jocotepec, in the state of Jalisco, in May. AFP/Getty Images/PAN Press Office When Mexicans go to the polls on July 1 to choose their next president, a woman will be among the candidates, the first from a major political party. She belongs to the National Action Party — or PAN — the party of current President Felipe Calderon. On a recent visit to the Mexican border city of Juarez, Josefina Vazquez Mota steps onto a catwalk that juts into the center of a long banquet hall crammed with table after table of women. When she speaks, they cheer. It's Vazquez Mota's first official campaign visit to Ciudad Juarez, but she is no stranger to the city. It's where she got her start in politics as a federal representative for a cluster of northern Mexican states. She visited Juarez at a time when foreign factory jobs were drawing in thousands of women from across Mexico. "The women of Juarez are tireless fighters; they are courageous," Vazquez Mota tells them. New Role Model Some of that must have rubbed off on her. Vazquez Mota, 51, says her experience in northern Mexico was empowering. She is an economist who most recently served as secretary of education under Calderon. Article continues after sponsorship Although happily married, Vazquez Mota wrote a best-selling book with an eyebrow-raising title, Dear God, Please Make Me A Widow. The book urges women to take initiative in their lives. Now, playing off that title, she carries campaign posters that say, "Dear God, Please Make Me President." Outside the banquet hall the crowd pulses with girl power. A gang of female bikers poses for pictures beside their motorcycles. They're wearing leather vests imprinted with Vazquez Mota's image. One woman standing by is Alejandra Marquez. A young architect who is visibly pregnant, with her second child, she's also a fan of Vazquez Mota. "I think she's a good role model. She can be a very good leader for the country. We are proud that she's a woman," Marquez says. Uphill Battle In Calderon's Shadow Like most people in Mexico, Marquez's top concern this election is security. Calderon has led an unprecedented offensive against the country's powerful drug cartels. But six years into the fight, more than 50,000 people have died and violence continues to spread across the country. Vazquez Mota has tried to distance herself from Calderon with the slogan "Josefina is different." She has pledged to crack down on government corruption. Tony Payan, who teaches political science across the border in El Paso, Texas, agrees with Vazquez Mota. "I think part of the problem is that we have not fought corruption. We have to go after the politicians," Payan says. "And in the last few speeches that she has given, she has made it very clear that it's about going after corrupt politicians who collaborate with organized crime." The campaign has proved an uphill battle for Vazquez Mota. After a strong start, the latest poll shows her in third place. The front-runner in the race is Enrique Peña Nieto, who belongs to the PRI — the party that ruled Mexico for 71 consecutive years, from 1929 to 2000. Still, about 25 percent of Mexicans say they're undecided, while protests by young voters may continue to shift the popularity of all four candidates in the race.


Emil Boc resigned as prime minister of which European country in Feb 2012?

Emil Boc, Romanian Prime Minister, Resigns Amid Protests - The New York Times The New York Times Europe |Romanian Prime Minister Resigns Amid Protests Search Continue reading the main story BERLIN — After weeks of protests , Romania ’s prime minister resigned Monday, the latest European leader to fall victim to a mood of public outrage over austerity measures and stagnant growth. Thousands of Romanians took to the streets across the country last month to protest austerity measures. The prime minister, Emil Boc, said Monday that he was stepping down because it is important to preserve the stability of the country. The president, Traian Basescu, immediately named the current justice minister, Catalin Predoiu, as interim prime minister. After a meeting on Monday afternoon with leaders from the main political parties, Mr. Basescu announced that he was nominating Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, a former foreign minister who now heads Romania’s foreign-intelligence service, as Mr. Boc’s replacement, pending parliamentary approval. Mr. Basescu said negotiations would begin Tuesday for the appointment of a new government. “The No. 1 priority of the government is the effort to improve the standard of living of the people,” Mr. Basescu said. Romania is by many statistical measures the second-poorest member of the European Union. Parliamentary elections were already scheduled for later this year, by law no later than November, and the government had fallen below 20 percent approval rating in recent opinion surveys. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The economy had begun growing again after a deep recession in 2009 and 2010, but Mr. Boc’s popularity suffered after he raised taxes sharply and made steep cuts in government wages to comply with a rescue program from the International Monetary Fund. With his resignation, Mr. Boc joined leaders from around the European Union who have left office: in countries that have received bailouts, like Portugal, Greece and Ireland; in those on shaky ground like Spain and Italy; and in more fiscally stable countries like Finland, Denmark and Slovakia. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France hopes to avoid seeing his name added to the list of ousted leaders when voters go to the polls this spring, but the public has shown a voracious appetite for political change as difficult economic conditions persist. Even as Europe’s attention remains focused on the debt negotiations in Athens and its repercussions for the euro, Mr. Boc’s resignation served as a stark reminder of the troubles facing countries outside of the euro currency area. The Hungarian national airline, Malev, halted all flights Friday, as creditors began seizing its planes parked on foreign soil over unpaid debts. Hungary, which has also been the scene of large-scale demonstrations, is seeking further assistance from the International Monetary Fund. Photo Prime Minister Emil Boc left the Democratic Liberal Party headquarters in Bucharest after resigning on Monday. Credit Robert Ghement/European Pressphoto Agency Romania suffered a sharp reversal of fortune as the global financial crisis worsened and foreign lending tightened up. After the economy grew 7.3 percent in 2008, it shrank a painful 6.6 percent in 2009, according to Eurostat , the European Union’s statistics agency. The country was forced to turn to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the European Union in 2009 for emergency loans totaling $27 billion at the exchange rates at the time. Unlike Hungary, however, which is also struggling to stabilize itself and has had bumpy negotiations with the I.M.F., Romania is “on track” in goals of improving economic growth while maintaining fiscal and financial stability, according to an assessment of the country’s progress under the loan program released Sunday by staff members from the monetary fund, World Bank and European Union. “I don’t anticipate the change in government would necessarily cause any major changes in that,” said Jeffrey Franks, the fund’s mission chief for Romania , in a telephone interview from Bucharest.


Lisa del Giocondo is better known as what famous characterization?

Mona Lisa | Harry Potter Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia [Source] Lisa del Giocondo, née Gherardini ( 15 June , 1479 – 15 July , 1542 or c. 1551 ), better known as Mona Lisa (archaic Italian for Lady Lisa) was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany in Italy . Little is known about Lisa's life. She was born in Florence and married as a teenager to a cloth and silk merchant who later became a local official. She was mother to six children and led what is thought to have been a comfortable and ordinary middle-class life. She was depicted in an oil portrait by the Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci completed circa 1503 - 1519 . A copy of her portrait was hung in the Hospital wing at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry . [1] In 1996 the newspaper The Guardian reported that "famous painting the Mona Lisa is to appear in latest Tango ads".


The Aquino, Arroyo and Cojuangco families have in recent times ruled what country?

Facts Filipinos never wanted to know about the Aquinos and Cojuangcos - Get Real PostGet Real Post Facts Filipinos never wanted to know about the Aquinos and Cojuangcos November 7, 2011 by benign0 Those who went out and did point-by-point “rebuttals” of the now famous gone-viral YouTube video AQUINO COJUANGCO: FACTS THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW HD miss the point. The point, in my opinion, is that there is a whole swath of information and history that is not routinely highlighted by mainstream media. Yet, blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin makes it sound as if the mega-wealthy Aquinos and Cojuangcos are the hapless victims in this situation… But in peddling a lie, the video misrepresents itself as fact with people gobbling it up: while it fails in its function as a historical resource, it more than succeeds in its function as a cog in the machine of anti-Aquino, Marcos-apologetic, self-mortifying propaganda. …and calls up the scary spectre of a possible “misrepresentation” of the cherished “identity” of the Filipino (an “identity” the coming to terms with I might remind, is in itself a headscratcher of an exercise)… The fact that the video is untrue brings our history to imbalance, and along with it our identity, our connection with our past, and our visions of the future. The fact that the video has less historical rigor than expected and demanded should have consequences in the way we see ourselves, and effects in how we build our nation. Oh, how easy it would be to divide the world between “evil oligarchs” and “good intellectuals.” The world is more complex — much more complex — than that. We might recall that it was the Aquinos (like any other Filipino political dynasty on a mission to grab power) that bulldozed over sensible evaluation of political candidates with a presidential campaign that heavily-leveraged pedigree over platform and emotionalism over logical rigour. Rimorin who describes his day job as being “in advertising” should talk. Advertising is all about creating emotional hooks that don’t necessarily have direct moorings in the facts of the product being pitched. That part of the job is left to the ability of the average consumer to grapple with an abundance of choice, while advertisers are left free to apply the creative license that gets them paid the big bucks. Tough luck for Da Pinoy in that cognitive department. Consider how the Philippine presidential campaign of 2010 offered the political equivalent of a supermarket of choice to the average Filipino voter. Lots of publicists — a.k.a. “media consultants” — made a lot of money off that one. Thus it is no surprise that the candidate who pound-for-pound, fact-for-fact was the most unqualified among the lot for the job of President of the Republic of the Philippines was chosen. That says a lot about the power of advertising. So who is really the “victim” here? Even by the longest stretch of the imagination can we not picture the Aquinos and the Cojuangcos — with their deep and extensive network of lieutenants permeating Philippine Media (and even some so-called “research” firms ) — as the underdogs in a “contest” of influence. My colleague Ben Kritz was one of the first to highlight the fundamental con underlying the Aquino campaign of 2009 in his seminal piece The Non-Platform of Noynoy Aquino published back in August of 2009 where he summarises the (non)essence of then candidate Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s pitch to the Filipino voter… Aquino states that “attempts to weaken our democracy,” “government excesses and misgovernance,” “attempts to impose a repressive government,” and “lack of access of the powerless and the oppressed” are the problems he wishes to address. This is simply grim rhetoric in search of definitions or examples, not a valid statement of the problems or issues. Likewise his plan of action is devoid of, well, action — instead, Aquino vows to “continue to hold government to account,” “oppose attempts to impose a repressive government,” and “be the voice of” a certain vaguely-defined constituency. And why will he pursue these m


In the human body the hypophysis is better known as what gland?

What is The Pituitary Gland in the Human Body What is The Pituitary Gland in the Human Body Know Symptoms And Signs Of Heart Attack In Men What is The Pituitary Gland in the Human Body Hormones are chemical mediators that control and regulate the entire mechanism of the body throughout an individual's lifespan. These hormones are secreted by specific ductless glands spread across various organs of the body. The pituitary gland or hypophysis regulates the hormonal secretions and controls the growth, development, secretions and functioning of other endocrine glands, for example, adrenal glands. This small endocrine gland has got a pea-sized body and is found at the base of brain in the skull cavity lying below the controlling organ, called hypothalamus. Owing to its large impact on the body, pituitary is also known as the “master gland”. Structurally, it can be distinguished into three distinct parts, namely, anterior lobe, the intermediate lobe and posterior lobe. Each lobe has got a different set of functions based on the hormones it synthesizes. The regulation of growth, reproduction, lactation and stress falls under the domain of the anterior pituitary. The intermediate lobe is concerned with the synthesis and secretion of melanocyte-stimulating hormone. Turning to the posterior lobe, it is functionally connected with the hypothalamus. Fun Facts about Pituitary Gland Measuring about the size of a pea, this pink-colored hormone secreting organ measures 5 grams in weight, and is located in the folds of brain. The height, shape and size of an individual is greatly influenced by the activity of pituitary gland. The excessive secretion of growth hormone leads to increased height and its decreased secretion results in dwarfism. Pituitary gland is called the king of all glands (or master gland) as it controls them all and is in-turn controlled by the Hypothalamus. It is pituitary that serves as the center of sexuality and reproduction in your body. In other words, the secretions of the posterior lobe of the pituitary are responsible for child birth and sexual life of an individual. Though many other parts of the body are actively involved in sexual processes, this gland enjoys a prominent position because it initiates all such processes. Do you know around 30 to 40% percent of population suffers from sexual dysfunction at some time in life? It is because of the malfunctioning of the pituitary gland. A connection is built between endocrine and nervous systems through hypophysis (an alternative term to denote hypothalamus). The very reason why humans remain hale and healthy with fast healing and recovery phases in the first 50 years of their lifespan is that pituitary gland functions very best for about 50 years. The gland hangs from a part of the brain called the hypothalamus and is connected with the same through a small stalk called the infundibulum. The hypophysis generates and releases nine hormones, in total, into the blood stream which mainly serve to maintain homeostasis in the body. Having its origin in the pituitary gland, the Cushing’s disease is a deadly condition that is very difficult to diagnose and treat. Cortisol or ACTH is a life hormone that is regulated by the pituitary. We would soon die in the absence of this hormone! The pituitary and the thyroid gland are interconnected, rather dependent on each other, for their normal functioning. This important fact is often overlooked by the doctors while dealing with hormonal diseases. The amount of food you eat is determined by the pituitary secretions. It is because the regulation of metabolic processes falls under the domain of this gland. Also the diseases like bulimia and anorexia have their origin in the pituitary. This master gland also serves as a place for the origin and regulation of lots of mental and emotional processes, including mood and behavior. The regulation of menstrual cycles, opening of the birth canal as well as the secretion of breast milk are the functions to be accomplished by this gland. Disorders of the Pituitary Gland Various pituitary hor


The Bedouin people are so named because they originated in?

Our Bedouin Tribe - Bedouin Adventures Our Bedouin Tribe Our Bedouin Tribe Our Bedouin Tribe: Culture and Tradition The Bedouin are the heart of the Arab peoples. Forged from the desert, the Bedouin have adapted to the harsh conditions before them and thrived to become one of the most well known and most respected cultural peoples in the world. They are the force behind so many achievements in the Middle East. They are world renowned for their honour, courage and hospitality, which are very dominant in all Bedouin. The Bedouin people are bound by a strict code of honour. This is the central focus to their society and dictates all law and custom within the tribes. Honour is gained through heroic deeds. Obviously, the more victories a Bedouin has, the more spoils of war they are able to obtain, therefore increasing the family’s wealth and social position within the larger tribal community. Due to the harshness of the desert, good grazing and watering grounds were strictly protected by those who were able to maintain their hold on the land. This usually meant that different tribes were raided because of this need for resources. However, the Bedouin’s strict code of honour made him bound to protect the women and children, and ensure that they had enough food and transport to survive. It is said that the Western Worlds ideals of chivalry and honour were bought back from the knights of the Crusades, who admired the Bedouin code of honour and adapted it to their own code of ethics. Traditionally, the Bedouin have always lived in a long, low black tent made from goat or camel hair that was woven by the women of the family. The tent is supported by a line of central poles in the middle, and the back and sides of the tent were supported by lower poles. In Bedouin culture the number of poles used in the back and side areas were a general an indication of wealth and social standing. Although to visitors the Bedouin tent may not look suitable to desert living, it is actually the most versatile way to live in the desert. The tent can be packed away and ready to move within an hour. It is also waterproof, because when the wool get wet, it expands and becomes water tight for the occupants inside. In windy weather, the tent is wind proof and protect those inside. During the hot midday sun, the sides and backs can be rolled up to allow a cool breeze to make its way through the tent. These tents can also be easily repaired when damaged.     Central to an individual family’s tent is the hearth. This is situated in the main reception area of the Bedouin Tent and is where all the tea, coffee, and food are served for guests. The Bedouin are very hospitable people. They are obliged to protect whoever enters their tent for three days. The Bedouin host is obliged to house, feed and attend to the needs of his guest for these three days, after which, the guest will be able to leave in peace. A Bedouin is even obliged to house and protect an enemy, if they come seeking hospitality. It is customary to have three small cups of tea or coffee before the host will sit down and discuss affairs with their guest. The host will not generally ask about their troubles, but will discuss matters concerning animals, and news from afar. Women have a very important position in Bedouin society. Not only do they raise the children, herd the sheep, milk the animals, cook, and make the clothes, but they also weave the cloth that makes the Bedouin Tent. The Bedouin men generally gather around the fire, sharing stories and sipping coffee. They might discuss falconry, the saluki greyhound and Arabian stallions, all animals the Bedouins are credited with breeding, as well as other matters of importance to the tribe. Traditionally, one of the men recites poetry or sings. Bedouin poetry and song are ways in which their traditions and histories are handed down through generations. Poetry has been a central cultural form of expression through Bedouin history, representing the ideal standard for other literary achievements in the early centuries of Islamic history. Even today a