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He had  four sons (Saeed Rafi, Khalid Rafi, Hamid Rafi, Shahid Rafi), three daughters (Parveen, Nasreen, Yasmin) and 18 grandchildren.
Singers from Mumbai
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is a big concert hall and place for arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
It opened on October 3, 2008.
It has a lot of high tech things in it.
EMPAC Main Page
Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city at the eastern end of Lake Ontario.
Here the lake runs into the St. Lawrence River and the Thousand Islands begin.
Kingston is the county seat of Frontenac County.
Kingston is nicknamed the "Limestone City" because of the many old and important buildings built from the local limestone.
Kingston is a very old and historic city.
It has been the site of battles between Canada and the United States.
It was also the Capital of Canada at one time.
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CFLY 98.3
Official City of Kingston Website
Kingston Economic Development Corporation
The Community Foundation of Greater Kingston
Kingston Frontenac Public Library
Community Information Centre database
Kingston Transit routes
The International Hockey Hall of Fame
Kingston Genealogy, Heritage, & History links
Kingston Electors (local government issues)
Kingston Taxpayer's Association
A loon is a bird that lives on water.
It is  in the order Gaviiformes.
This is an order of aquatic birds, the loons or divers and their closest extinct relatives.
Loons are the size of a large duck or a small goose.
Loons can be hard to find because they are shy around people.
The name "loon" is from the Scandinavian word for "clumsy".
Loons are the state bird of Minnesota.
Loons are found in most parts of North America (there are five North American  species) and northern Eurasia.
They enjoy cool climates in the summer and migrate to ocean coasts in the winter.
Loons can dive up to 200 feet underwater for food.
Their bodies are shaped for diving.
To dive better, they have solid bones (most birds' bones are hollow) and feet placed far back for swimming under the water.
They have black (or grey)-and-white heads, pale breasts, and striped back feathers.
Loons can lay up to two eggs.
The females are brownish in color which helps them blend into their surroundings.
Both the male and female parent take turns sitting on the eggs.
After hatching, they fly south when the weather gets cool.
The young loons spend three years in the south before returning to the north.
They are best known for their loud, trumpeting call.
They also make melodic, wailing or laughing sounds.
Loons communicate to each other through their sounds.
They also communicate with humans and other animals through dance.
Loons warn others to stay away from their nests by dancing on the water.
Loons are protective parents and will dance to exhaustion and death to protect their eggs.
Raccoons, gulls, and skunks have been known to devour loon eggs.
Loons eat fish like sunfish, perch, and bullheads.
Loons do not chew their food.
They have elastic throats that allow the loon to swallow their food whole.
When they swallow fish, their throat expands to the size of the fish they eat so they do not choke.
Scientists band, or tag loons to try to understand more about them.
Their life style is similar to the grebes, but they are a different group of birds.
Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum is an open air museum.
It is at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, County Durham England.
The crossbow, or arbalest, is a bow which consists of a bow-like arc called prod and cross-wise body called stock and trigger mechanism.
The crossbow is an invention in which the stock, a piece of wood is mounted on two other crossing pieces.
Crossbows shoot short arrows called bolts which are similar to arrows.
The crossbow was first created by the Chinese people in circa 6 B.C. The Greeks invented crossbow separately in 4th century B.C. The Romans called the weapon arcuballista.
Crossbow was a very popular weapon in the Middle Ages as it was strong and accurate and could be used as a sharpshooter weapon.
The Arabs call crossbow qaws Ferengi, "Frankish bow", as the Crusaders used crossbow a lot.
A good crossbow can shoot the bolt with such immense power that it may pierce armour.
Against unarmoured light opponents, even a single bolt may be lethal.
Compared to the ordinary bow, the crossbows have good and bad sides to them.
They fire much stronger and much more accurately than ordinary bows, and shooting accurately with a crossbow is easier to learn than shooting with an ordinary bow.
On the other hand, because the prod is short and therefore very stiff, a crossbow will take much longer time to load, and a crossbow does not have as good accurate range than a longbow.
Many crossbows have crank or windlass mechanisms to pull the string in drawn position.
Also many crossbows do have safety mechanisms to prevent an accidental shot.
Sonic Battle is a fighting video game for the Game Boy Advance that came out on January 5, 2004.
The game is made by THQ, Sonic Team and Sega.
People can play as Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails the Fox, Knuckles the Echidna, Shadow the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat, Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit, E-102 Gamma, Chaos 0, or a new character called Emerl.
The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 9th Revision (ICD-9) is list of codes that classify diseases and medical problems.
These codes are in the public domain.
The ICD-9 is the ninth version.
001-139: Infectious and parasitic diseases
140-239: Neoplasms
240-279: Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders
280-289: Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs
290-319: Mental disorders
320-359: Diseases of the nervous system
360-389: Diseases of the sense organs
390-459: Diseases of the circulatory system
460-519: Diseases of the respiratory system
520-579: Diseases of the digestive system
580-629: Diseases of the genitourinary system
630-676: Complications of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium
680-709: Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
710-739: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
740-759: Congenital anomalies
760-779: Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period
780-799: Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions
800-999: Injury and poisoning
E and V codes: External causes of injury and supplemental classification
ICD-9 codes
Pathos () () is a form of rhetorics.
Qualities of a fictional or nonfiction work that cause feelings of sorrow or pity.
Over emotionalism can be the result of too much pathos.
Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disorder in people when the indigestion of Gluten leads to problems in the body.
If someone with coeliac disease eats something with gluten (for example, wheat, rye, barley), cells inside the body attack the lining of the intestine.
This means that they cannot digest (eat) food properly, making them unable to have enough energy, vitamins, or minerals.
Children may be unable to grow taller or gain weight properly.
People with coeliac disease often lose weight.
They are also frequently tired.
People with coeliac disease often have bloating and pain in their abdominal (stomach) area, diarrhoea (watery stools) or steatorrhea (fat in their stools).
These symptoms can lead to flatulence.
Their stomachs also start to hurt and they might suffer from joint pains, seizures, rashes, fatigue, slowness in growth and puberty, loss in weight, loss of bone density and fertility issues.
To relieve the effects of coeliac disease, one must stop eating gluten.
There are no medicines or cure that can stop Coeliac disease.
To get fully better, it usually takes about two years of not eating gluten, during which time the previously damaged intestine might recover.
They must remain on a gluten-free diet for the rest of their life in order to treat this condition.
Coeliac disease is genetic and relatives (such a children, siblings, parents) with this disease have a 1 in 10 chance of developing Coeliac disease.
This means that the person affected by it is born with genes that cause the immune system to react poorly to gluten.
However, Coeliac disease is not always present during childhood.
It can be triggered as an adult by an event such as pregnancy (hormone shifts) or illness.
To find out if a person has Coeliac disease, doctors look in the blood to see if they have the cells that attack the intestine when gluten is eaten.
The protein that attacks the intestine is called an antibody.
Antibodies are produced by white blood cells, and they normally stop illnesses from growing in the body, but in the case of coeliac disease, one of the antibodies thinks that gluten is something that will cause illness.
Doctors can also look into the patient's intestines with a camera on a tube called an endoscope.
This can show if the intestines are being or have been damaged, because of coeliac disease.
Celiac Disease Foundation
What is Celiac Disease?
George Smith Patton, Jr. (also George Smith Patton III) (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a U.S. Army officer.
He was in the army from 1909 until he died in 1945.
He was in charge of many soldiers and he worked to defeat Germany during World War II in Europe.
Patton was born on November 11, 1885 in San Gabriel, California.
Patton was married to Beatrice Banning Ayer from 1910 until his death in 1945.
Patton died on December 21, 1945 after a car crash in Heidelberg, Germany, aged 60.
He was later buried at American Cemetery and Memorial in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.
Pakistan is the second largest Muslim country in terms of population (behind Indonesia).
Pakistan is the only Muslim country known to have nuclear weapons.
Pakistan is also an important member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
Pakistan is an active member of the United Nations.
Pakistan had some problems with its Foreign relations.
Pakistan's relations with its neighbor, India is not good.
Both countries have been fighting over the disputed territory of Kashmir,over which they have fought two wars.
Pakistan has also had difficult relations with neighbors Afghanistan and Iran.
Pakistan has had a long and good relationship with the China.
Pakistan has interest over the Persian Gulf and has wide-ranging bilateral relations with the United States and other Western countries.
Pakistan distrusted the Soviet Union during much of the Cold War.
Because of this Pakistan had strong relations with both the United States of America and the People's Republic of China.
Pakistan was a member of the American-sponsored CENTO and SEATO military alliances.
Pakistans' alliance with the United States was especially close after the Soviets invaded the neighboring country of Afghanistan.
In 1964, Pakistan signed the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD) Pact with Turkey and Iran, when all three countries were closely allied with the U.S., and as neighbors of the Soviet Union, wary of perceived Soviet expansionism.
To this day, Pakistan has had a close relationship with Turkey.
RCD became defunct after the Iranian Revolution, and a Pakistani-Turkish initiative led to the founding of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in 1985.
For several years, Pakistan's relations with the Republic of India had been gradually improving, which opened up Pakistan's foreign policy to issues beyond security.
The white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the five species of rhinoceros that still exist and is one of the few megafauna species left.
It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species.
A picture frame is usually a rectangular or oval shaped object designed to hold, protect and display a painting, drawing, or photograph.
Most picture frames are made of wood or metal, and may have a glass cover.
Some can be attached to walls, while others can stand up on a flat surface.
The frames can be works of art themselves.
The color Persian blue is named from the blue color of some Persian pottery and the color of tiles used in and on mosques and palaces in Iran and in other places in the Middle East.
Persian blue is a representation of the color of the mineral lapis lazuli which comes from Persia and Afghanistan. (
The color azure is also named after the mineral lapis lazuli.)
The first recorded use of Persian blue as a color name in English was in 1669.
Meaning of Persian blue
Many beautiful mosques in Iran, such as the enormous Shah Mosque in Isfahan, have interiors that are faced with tiles that are Persian blue or close variations of it.
The Persian blue color of Persian blue tiles is a representation of the color of lapis lazuli which has been mined in Iran and Afghanistan since ancient times.
The color Persian blue, like azure, is suggestive of the sky or the celestial sphere.
When the color Persian blue is used in a religious context as to surface the interior of a mosque, it represents heaven.
Tones of Persian blue color comparison chart
Professor Tim Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist and global warming activist.
Flannery was Australian of the Year in 2007 and previously was a professor at Macquarie University.
He left Macquarie University in mid-2013.
Flannery is also the chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, an international climate change awareness group.
He also has a wife/spouse named Alexandra Szalay who is also a scientist and Italian
Scientists from Victoria (Australia)
Buddha statue formal name is : Puttamingmongkol Akenakkiri(พระมิ่งมงคลเอกนาคคีรี') It is a buddha being built in Phuket island of Thailand.
Once complete, it will be 45 metres tall with a base diametre of 25 metres.
It looks towards Phang Nga Bay in the east and backs towards Andaman Sea in the west.
The partially completed Buddha is open to visitors and there is no charge to enter the site, although there are many opportunities to make voluntary donations.
It is believed to cost no less than 30 million Thai baht.
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Phuket Post  Report The construction of Giant Budha
The history of Phuket budha and Chamlong Temple  history written by Nongpor
Stellar precession is one of the ways the stars slowly move across the sky when seen from the Earth.
The best-known thing this causes is making the north star's place in the sky slowly change over thousands of years.
It is caused by the Sun's gravity pulling the Earth's poles toward itself.
Because the Earth's poles are tilted at an angle of 23.42 degrees from straight up in relation to its orbit, this causes the North Pole to seem to point at different places in the sky.
While the orientation of the Earth with respect to the stars changes, the axial tilt remains constant.
Although it takes a very long time for the pole to make a whole circle in the sky (almost 26,000 years), even over the time period that humans have had writing, this has made a big difference in what star is seen as the north star.
When the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids about 4,000 years ago, they used the stars to make the edges line up with north and south.
However, they did not use the same north star that we do because Earth's North Pole pointed at a different star than it does today.
Astronomers have known about this movement for a very long time, calling it the precession of the equinoxes.
Most people think that Hipparchus discovered it in ancient Greece in about 130 BC, but some people think that even the ancient Egyptians may have known about it.
Harem means the women and the place where they live in a polygynous household.
Most men are not allowed in there.
The word harem comes from the Turkish word haram, meaning a sacred, forbidden place.
Harems were meant for the royal upbringing of the future wives of noble and royal men.
These women would be educated so that they were ready to appear in public as a royal wife.
In the West people thought that harems (especially those in the Ottoman Empire) were brothels full of women who gave themselves up to please rich men.
Chlorpromazine is an antipsychotic drug.
It is the oldest such drug.
It was developed in 1950.
It is typically used to treat Schizophrenia.
It has also been used to treat bipolar disorder.
It has been shown to help uncontrollable hiccups disappear.
It is also used to help with nausea and vomiting.
K'naan (born Kaynaane Warsame in Somalia in 1978) is a Somali-Canadian poet, rapper and musician.
Warsame started writing music in 2002 when recorded songs for his first album released in 2005 called The Dusty Foot Philosopher.
He then made a live album in 2007 called The Dusty Foot in the Road.
In February 2009, he released his third studio album Troubadour.
K'naan including a bunch of Canadian singers called "Young Artists for Haiti" remade the song "Wavin' Flag" for the Earthquake in Haiti.
2004 - My Life is a Movie
2005 - The Dusty Foot Philosopher
2007 - The Dusty Foot in the Road (Live album)
2009 - Troubadour
2012 - Country, God or the Girl
2004-2005 - Soobax
2005 - Strugglin
2005 - In the Beginning
2008 - ABC's
2008 - Dreamer
2008 - If Rap Gets Jealous
2009 - Wavin' Flag'''
2009 - Bang Bang - released February 24th 2009.
The single was released on iTunes February 24th, 2009, as the "Single of the Week".
The song features front-man Adam Levine of Maroon 5.
Bang Bang was from the album Troubadour.
2012 - Is Anybody Out There N/A - Take a Minute''
Somali people
The East Anglia Transport Museum is a transport museum that is completely outside.
It has lots of old public transport vehicles.
Lots of them are also able to operate.
It is the only place in England where visitors can ride on buses, trams trolleybuses and a narrow gauge railway in the same museum.
List of transport museums
List of trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom
Black Country Living Museum - also with trolleybuses and trams
Crich Tramway Village - Large collection of Tramcars
Museum website
Terence Ian "Terry"  Butcher, born 28 December 1958 in Singapore, is the manager of the Scottish Premier League side Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
He was once a professional player.
He played as defender with Ipswich Town and Rangers in the 1980s.
He was also a captain of England and won 77 caps in his career of ten years.
He was born in Singapore but spent his childhood in Lowestoft, Suffolk.
There he attended The Denes High School.
He also met his wife Rita there.
He got a chance to join Norwich City youth team, but refused it.
Butcher made his debut for Ipswich against Everton in the First Division on 15 April 1978.
Over the next eight seasons, he became the club's central defender.
His good performance was noticed by then England coach Ron Greenwood.
He gave him his debut in a friendly against Australia in 1980.
In 1981, Butcher played in the Ipswich side that won the UEFA Cup under Bobby Robson.
That year the club cape close to its first League title since 1962.
However Aston Villa defeated them and won the title.
In 1986, Butcher left Ipswich when they were relegated.
He became one of the first 'English invasion' players to join Scottish club Rangers.
This was after Graeme Souness became its manager.
Souness, the former Liverpool player, paid Ipswich £725,000 for him in July 1986.
As captain, he led them to three League titles in four seasons.
They also won two Scottish League Cups.
In November 1987 he broke his leg during Scottish Premier Division fixture against Aberdeen.
He could not play for the rest of the season.
Before he was injured, Butcher was close to signing a £1million return to England with Manchester United.
His injury cancelled this signing.
United manager Alex Ferguson signed Norwich City's Steve Bruce instead.
His last Rangers game came in September 1990.
Rangers lost 2-1 league against Dundee United in the match.
His performance in that match was bad and he was dropped from the side.
Leeds United manager Howard Wilkinson talked with Graeme Souness about bringing Butcher back to England, but when Butcher did depart from Ibrox it was in a £400,000 deal to become player-manager of Coventry City on 15 November 1990.
Terry Butcher's WTFC.net manager profile
Terry Butcher on RSSSF-site
Butcher is unable to resist chance to live high life Down Under (Times Online)
The Toronto subway and RT is the main rapid transit (RT) railway system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
It is run by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).
Since the first part under Yonge Street opened in 1954 with 12 stations, the system has grown to be Canada's biggest rapid transit rail system.
It has four lines and 69 stations on 68.3 km of track.
The subway system is used very often and has the most number of passengers of any system in Canada.
It has an average of 948,100 passenger trips each weekday (as of 2010).
The system is was made bigger on the western part of the Yonge–University Line with new tracks and stations being made north to York University, Steeles Avenue, and Vaughan Corporate Centre in York Region.
The Government of Ontario said on March 23, 2006 that it will give $670 million for this new work, which is less than one-third of the total money needed.
The new track is about 8.6 km long and was built with six new stations: Downsview Park, Finch West, York University, Pioneer Village, Highway 407, and the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre.
It was expected to cost about $2 billion.
Toronto's subway network
The first part of the subway, replaced a very busy streetcar route, and followed Yonge Street from Eglinton Avenue south to Front Street, then turned west for one block to end at Bay Street, next to the city's main railway station Union Station and so the subway station was also called Union.
This line was finished in 1954 and was 7.4 km long.
The routing of the line across the Don Valley was possible because of a choice made more than forty years before.
When the Prince Edward Viaduct was built across the Don River in 1919, its design included twin decks below the road to allow for future rail lines.
This made it possible for the subway to cross the Don Valley to Danforth Avenue on the east side.
In October 1976, an arson (a fire set on purpose) destroyed subway cars and damage to Christie station.
This caused the closure of the Bloor-Danforth Line for three days, and closed Christie station for some time for repairs.
More track was added in 1980 at both ends of the Bloor-Danforth Line.
These extensions each added one station, bus bays, and, on the eastern end, room to  to the Scarborough RT.
With six stations on 6.8 km of track, the Scarborough RT is a line built almost all above the ground, and which has no direct tracks that connect to the other lines and uses a different trains.
It uses the Intermediate Capacity Transit System (ICTS) trains which are very different from subway trains.
The route is fully separate from road traffic and pedestrians, the stations are fully covered, and the trains have many doors that use high platforms.
In August 1995, the TTC had a really bad subway accident in what it calls the Russell Hill accident, on the Yonge-University-Spadina Line south of St. Clair West station.
Three women died and 100 people were injured, a few badly.
The subway's newest line, Sheppard, opened in 2002.
It runs 5.5 km east, under Sheppard Avenue from Sheppard station on the Yonge line (now called Sheppard-Yonge), to Don Mills station at Sheppard and Don Mills Road.
The Sheppard line has less users than the other two subway lines, and shorter trains run on it.
In its over fifty-year history, the first baby to be born on a TTC subway station platform only occurred recently on February 6, 2006.
This incident occurred at Wellesley station and caused delays on the subway system.
It was front-page news for many days.
An automatic voice system was added to  each station (such as; "The next station is Bloor, Bloor station.")
which ended the need for the train operator to announce each stop.
The automated system is used in the whole subway and RT system.
Until recently, the TTC did not have plans to expand the subway during the last twenty years but only had plans to build new above-ground rapid transit lines based upon streetcars travelling in closed lanes on streets.
Today there are plans to build new subway lines under the ground, including extensions to the Spadina-University line and two lines in the central section of the city south of Bloor-Danforth.
Operations and procedures
Like most subways, the Toronto subway/RT trains get electricity from a third rail that runs next to the tracks. '
Shoes' (pieces of metal that touch the third-rail) mounted on both sides of each coach for contact.
Power is supplied at 600 V DC.
A train guard opens and closes the subway car doors, and makes sure no one is trapped in a door as the train leaves a station.
The train guard tells the driver when it is okay to leave.
The car carrying the guard can be identified by the white or the orange light outside the subway car.
Hours and frequency of operation
On weekdays and Saturday, subway service runs from approximately 6:00 am to 1:30 am, but Sunday service begins at 9:00 am.
Start times on holidays may vary.
For complete lists and details of stations, lines, and their locations in the Toronto subway/RT system, see List of Toronto subway and RT stations.
Current stations
Most stations are named for the nearby road crossed by the line in question.
A few are named for major landmarks, such as shopping centres or other transportation stations near the station.
TTC Special Constable Services are special constables who provide security and some law enforcement on the subway.
The Toronto Police Service are still called for all other law enforcement needs
Emergency medical services as dealt with by the Toronto EMS
Fires are dealt with by the Toronto Fire Services
Welcome Aboard - Tomorrow's Transit Today - UTDC 1985
Official TTC site
Official TTC LRT expansion proposals
News, history and discussion
Rider efficiency guide
CBC Digital Archives: Going Underground: Toronto's Subway and Montreal's Metro
The TTC on Freewebs
The TTC's Official Subway Travel Time Chart
The New "T35A08" Train
The TTC ride guide as searchable Google Map
Yonge Subway North - Finch-407 Subway Link
Rail transport in Canada
Nicole has been performing and acting since she was younger.
She had enrolled in gymnastics at 3-years-old, after 10 years of gymnastics, she took state championships and one national championship.
Nicole had won a scholarship to the Barbizon modeling school in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 13.
She had several printing ads and commercials such as: "Mary Kate and Ashley Online Clothing", "Every Girl", "Stand Up", and "Bratz-Pretty 'n' Punk & Treasures".
Later on, Nicole had a few roles in TV shows as: Unfabulous, Zoey 101, Nobody, Hannah Montana, iCarly, Sunday!
Sunday!
Sunday!,
the ABC Family "Make It Or Break It", and the ABC Family movie Princess.
She did co-star in the Jonas Brothers' Disney Channel Original Series JONAS playing "Macy Misa", the brothers' #1 fan.
Her ethnicity is Spanish and Filipino
She has two siblings, a brother name Kenn and a sister name Nadine.
She's a psychology major in college.
JONAS (2009) - Macy Misa
Make It or Break It (2009) -Kelly Parker
Unfabulous (2005) - Cheerleader #3.
Hannah Montana (2007) - Marrissa Hughes.
Zoey 101 (2007) - Maria.
iCarly (2007) - Tasha (2 episodes).
Beauty & the Beast (2012) - Heather Chandler (3 episodes)
Nobody (2007) - Leila.
Sunday! (
2008) - Dana.
Princess (2008) - Jitterbug/Calliope.
Tar is a sticky black liquid made of thick oil.
It is a natural substance, oozing out of the ground in places like the La Brea tar pits.
Usually it is made by heating coal inside a chemical apparatus.
Most tar is produced from coal as a byproduct of coke production, but it can also be produced from petroleum, peat or wood.
The "destructive distillation" of a ton of coal can produce 700 kg of coke, 100 litres of liquor ammonia, 50 litres of coal tar and 400 m3 of coal gas.
It used to be one of the products of gasworks.
Tar made from coal or petroleum is considered toxic.
It causes cancer because of its high benzene content.
In low concentrations, however, tar is used as a medicine on the skin.
Tar kilns are dry distillation ovens, used in Scandinavia for producing tar from wood.
They were built close to the forest, from limestone or from more primitive holes in the ground.
The bottom is sloped into an outlet hole, to allow the tar to come out.
The wood is split to dimensions of a finger and stacked densely, and finally covered tight with dirt and moss to stop air entering.
After a few hours, the tar starts to pour out, and continues to do so for a few days.
Tar is used in treatment of the skin disease psoriasis, where coal tar is the most effective.
Tar is a general disinfectant.
Petroleum tar was also used in ancient Egyptian mummification circa 1000 BC.
Tar was a vital component of the first sealed, or "tarmac", roads.
The streets of Baghdad were the first to be paved with tar from the 8th century AD.
It was also used as seal for roofing shingles and to seal the hulls of ships and boats.
For millennia wood tar was used to waterproof sails and boats, but today sails made from inherently waterproof synthetic substances have negated the need for tar.
Wood tar is still used to seal traditional wooden boats and the roofs of historical shingle-roofed churches, as well painting exterior walls of log buildings.
Mixing tar with linseed oil varnish produces tar paint.
Tar paint can be used to protect wood from weather.
Tar paint can also be toned with various pigments, producing translucent colours and preserving the wood texture.
Details history and uses of "Rangoon Tar"
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) runs the public transport system that has buses, streetcars, subways, and rapid transit lines in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Started in 1954, the TTC has grown to three subway lines and an elevated rapid transit line with a total of 75 stations, as well as 149 surface routes (buses and streetcars).
Of these 149 routes 148 make 243 connections with a subway or rapid transit station during weekday rush hours.
The TTC also runs a door-to-door (they pick people up at home, the shops or work, and take them anywhere they wish to go) system for people with physical disabilities known as Wheel-Trans; about 5,500 trips are made by this service daily.
This service costs the same as any other trip on the TTC even though it is door-to-door.
The TTC had 11,235 people working for it in 2007.
Toronto buses and trolley buses
Signals on the TTC
Russell Hill subway accident
Route information
TTC schedules by route name
The TTC Ride Guide as searchable Google map
CBC Archives - audio and video about the TTC.
69: TTC station photos
Transit Toronto's YouTube channel
Viscosity is a physical property of fluids.
It shows resistance to flow.
In a simple example, water has a low viscosity, as it is "thin".
Syrup and tar, on the other hand, have a high viscosity, as they are "thick".
A way to test for viscosity is the speed at which the substance runs down a slope.
Syrup would reach the bottom very slowly, and water would be much quicker.
There are two types of viscosity: dynamic viscosity, measured in pascal seconds, and kinematic viscosity, measured in metres per second squared.
Viscosity is used as a way to predict when volcanoes erupt.
When the lava comes out very thickly (viscous), there is more chance that it will erupt violently.
This is because the lava has a hard time getting out and may burst out when it can.
If the lava is thin (low viscosity), then it just flows out like water.
The word viscous comes from the Latin root viscum, meaning sticky.
The first is for persons who ride in cars or vans.
The term is used for these type of passengers if they have or have not paid for the ride.
The second is for persons who pay to ride in public transport vehicles such as buses, trains, aircraft, and ships.
People who work on the vehicle are crew, not passengers.
The Additions to Daniel are three chapters that have been held by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox churches since the council of Rome (380).
These books were removed in most Christian Bibles since Martin Luther's decision to include them in his bible as "Apocrypha" due to the supposed contradiction of the Hebrew Old Testament (the Apostles and Early Church onward using the Septuagint).
The chapters are listed in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England as good but not sacred reading.
Most Protestant Bibles do not have these chapters because most Protestant churches believe these chapters are apocryphal.
The Additions to Daniel are not found in the Hebrew or Aramaic text of Daniel.
These stories are in the Greek Septuagint and a translation by the writer Theodotion.
However, most Protestant Bibles use only the text in the Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts, so they do not have these chapters.
The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children : Azariah prays for God's protection.
Later on, he and his friends sing a prayer of thanks.
These prayers make up Daniel 3:24-90, put between verses 23 and 24 (v. 24 becomes v. 91).
Susanna and the Elders : Two men want to have sex with Susanna but she does not want to.
The men lie to other people and make them want to kill her.
A boy named Daniel shows that the men lied, and they are killed instead.
This story is found before Daniel 1:1 as a prologue in very old Greek texts.
It is found as chapter 13 in the Vulgate and modern Catholic Bibles.
Bel and the Dragon : This chapter has three stories about how Daniel fights against the worship of idols, and how he escapes from lions.
These stories come after Daniel 12:13 in the Greek texts, and they make up chapter 14 in the Vulgate.
NRSV: Prayer of Azariah
NRSV: Susanna
NRSV: Bel and the Dragon
Old Greek and Septuagint translations and text notes from NETS
The Unity of the Old English Daniel
Daniel, Additions to
19521 Chaos is a Kuiper belt object.
Chaos was found in 1998 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey, with Kitt Peak's 4 m telescope.
It is big at about 560 km, and bright at H=4.755.
It is named after the primeval state of existence in Greek mythology, from which the first gods appeared.
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In professional wrestling, a heel is a "bad guy".
It is the opposite of a face, which is the word for a "good guy".
The job of the heel is to be booed by the audience (this is called getting heat), which helps to gain sympathy for the face.
This can be done in many ways.
One common way is to break the rules when the referee is not looking.
Another way is to act in a nasty way towards the audience.
Sometimes in American professional wrestling, a person from a foreign country will play the role of a heel who hates America.
The Iron Sheik, who is Iranian, is one example.
He had a rivalry with Hulk Hogan, who is American and acted as a patriot as one part of his character.
It is not necessary for the foreign heel to really be from a foreign country.
For example, Fritz Von Erich played the role of an evil German, despite really being from Texas.
WWE has said that it has stopped making it clear whether a wrestler is a face or a heel.
This is partly because audiences know professional wrestling is scripted.
Because of this, they might cheer a heel who puts on good matches.
Also, they may boo a face who they think is being featured (pushed) too much and is not skilled enough for it, and so any heel facing them in a match would be cheered.
In lucha libre (Mexican professional wrestling), heels are called rudos.
Rudos tend to use moves that show off their strength and power.
This contrasts with técnicos (faces or good guys), who use a fast-paced style and high-flying moves.
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The Yonge-University-Spadina Line is the oldest and most used subway line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
It is operated by the Toronto Transit Commission, has 32 stations and is 30.2 km in length.
It opened in 1954, and had new stations added in 1963, 1973, 1974, 1978, and 1996.
The line runs from about 6:00 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. Monday to Saturday and 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. on Sunday.
The subway runs every 4–5 minutes, with extra services (2–3 minutes) during rush hour times.
TTC website
TTC Transit City LRT proposal
Spadina line extension
Transit Toronto (not affiliated with the Toronto Transit Commission)
Tenrikyo is a religion that believes in one God.
It was founded in Japan in the 19th century by Miki Nakayama, a Japanese woman who heard instructions from God.
Believers of Tenrikyo call her "Oyasama", which means the "Great Parent", because she acts as a parent to all people.
In Tenrikyo, God is called "Oyagami", which means "God the Parent".
The goal of Tenrikyo is for all people to live a joyous life.
Oyasama stated that the way to save yourself is by saving others.
In other words, to be truly happy you must make other people happy.
Today, Tenrikyo is centered in Tenri City in central Japan.
There is a general hospital, a college, three schools, and a central temple there.
Once a month, there is a big ritual in this central city and many people come from all over the country to pray.
There are two million believers of Tenrikyo in Japan and around the world.
Steeles Avenue is an east-west street that forms the northern city border of Toronto and the southern border of York Region, Ontario, Canada.
It is 38.75 km within Toronto, between Albion Road and the Scarborough-Pickering border.
West of Albion Road, Steeles continues into Peel Region, where it is also known as Peel Regional Road 15.
It runs through Brampton and into the Halton Region town of Milton.
It stops at Appleby Line on top of the Niagara Escarpment due to the Crawford Lake Conservation Area being there, and then the road starts again just east of Guelph Line and goes until the Milborough Townline on the border of Milton and Hamilton.
East of the Toronto-Pickering border, it becomes Taunton Road.
Ontario's Worst Road
Steeles Avenue was listed as the worst road by the CAA in October 2006, and as the fifth worst road in October 2007.
In October 2008, it was re-listed as worst road in Ontario.
Reasons are potholes and the quality of the road.
Soon after the CAA's listing, some parts of the road between Dufferin Street and Bayview Avenue were resurfaced.
Roads in Ontario
Aconitum, known as aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, leopard's bane, women's bane, Devil's helmet or blue rocket, is a genus of flowering plant belonging to the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae).
There are over 250 species of Aconitum.
Tim Hortons Inc. is a Canadian fast food restaurant known for its coffee and doughnuts.
It was started in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario by Canadian hockey player Tim Horton.
In 1967 Tim Horton joined with investor Ron Joyce, who quickly took over running the company and expanded the chain into a multi-million dollar franchise.
Tim Hortons stores quickly spread and together with Subway, became bigger than McDonald's and is now Canada's largest chain of fast food restaurants.
The company opened twice as many Canadian stores as did McDonald's and sales also are bigger than those of McDonald's Canadian restaurants as of 2002.
The chain got 22.6% of all fast food industry revenues in Canada in 2005.
Tim Hortons also has 76% of the Canadian market for baked goods (based on the number of customers) and has 62% of the Canadian coffee market (compared to Starbucks, who is the second largest with 7%).
Tim Hortons had 2,733 restaurants in Canada as of July 1, 2007.
Tim Hortons also has international restaurants with 500 in the United States as of December 2008, with one opened in Detroit and owned by former NBA player Derrick Coleman and one on a Canadian military base outside Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Tim Hortons' other international efforts include a small outlet at the Dublin Zoo.
Tim Hortons also made a deal with the SPAR store chain in the UK and Ireland, with Tim Hortons coffee and doughnuts being sold at small self service counters in 16 SPAR stores.
Tim Horton and Ron Joyce
The company's first store opened in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario under the name "Tim Horton Donuts" (the word donut would later be dropped and the company name ended up as just "Tim Horton's", and later was changed to "Tim Hortons" without the apostrophe).
The business was started by Tim Horton, who played in the National Hockey League from 1949 until his death in a car accident in 1974.
Soon after Horton opened the store, he met Ron Joyce, a former Hamilton police constable.
In 1965, Joyce took over the Tim Horton Donut Shop on Ottawa Street North in Hamilton.
By 1967, after he had opened up two more stores, he and Tim Horton became full partners in the business.
After Horton's death in 1974, Joyce bought the company from the Horton family and took over as the only owner of the now forty stores.
Joyce expanded the chain quickly in geography and in product selection, opening the 500th store in Aylmer, Quebec, in 1991.
By the 1990s, the company name had changed to The TDL Group Ltd but the name of the restaurants are still called Tim Hortons.
This was because the company wanted to also go into other types of business, and not just be seen as a doughnut company.
In March 2006, shares of the company were first sold to the public.
Expansion and takeover
In August 2014, the Brazilian investment company 3G Capital announced it was going to buy out the TDL Group and merge operations of Tim Hortons with that of Burger King.
This was done to make it easier to make Tim Hortons a world-wide chain, just like how Burger King is.
The purchase was completed in December of that year, and since then, both Tim Hortons and Burger King are part of Restaurant Brands International, which is owned mostly by 3G Capital, but also by the previous shareholders of the two chains under the ticker .
But in 2018, it was reported that Tim Hortons franchisees were complaining to the Government of Canada that Restaurant Brands International did not follow the rules that were made in order for the takeover to happen.
Tim Hortons and the Canadian military
Tim Hortons has many stores on or near many Canadian Forces Bases.
TDL Group said in March 2006, that because they were asked by Chief of the Defence Staff, General Rick Hillier, it would open a store at the Canadian Forces operations base in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The new Kandahar store opened on June 29 2006, in a 40 ft trailer on the military base.
Growth of the Tim Hortons Chain
Store #1 - Hamilton, Ontario - May 1964
Store #100 - Thunder Bay, Ontario - December 1978
Store #200 - Hamilton, Ontario - December 1984
Store #300 - Calgary, Alberta - February 1987
Store #400 - Halifax, Nova Scotia - February 1989
Store #500 - Aylmer, Quebec - January 1991
Store #700 - Moncton, New Brunswick - October 1993
Store #1000 - Ancaster, Ontario - August 1995
Store #1500 - Pickerington, Ohio - March 1997 (this was also Wendy's 5000th store)
100th US store – Columbus, Ohio - July 31 1998
Store #2000 - Toronto, Ontario - December 2000
Store #2500 - Cayuga, Ontario - September 2003
Store #3000 - Orchard Park, New York - December 14, 2006
(Source: Tim Hortons Official History)
Tim Hortons' first stores only sold two products - coffee and doughnuts.
As well as its coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and doughnuts, the Tim Hortons menu now includes a number of other baked goods, such as Timbits (small balls of doughnut dough), muffins, croissants, tea biscuits, cookies, rolls, danishes, and bagels (Tim Hortons now sells one out of every two bagels in the whole Canadian food industry).
Cakes to take home are offered in some locations.
Since the mid-1990s, the chain has moved into other areas, such as flavoured cappuccino, iced cappuccino, iced coffee, New York-style cheesecake, and lunch items such as soup, chili, and submarine sandwiches.
In fall 2006, Tim Hortons began selling a breakfast sandwich.
This is made of an egg patty, processed cheese slice, either bacon or sausage, and either a biscuit or bagel, it has sold well.
In October 2007 Tim Hortons began to sell a Chicken Fajita Wrap, which has spiced chicken and sautéed vegetables.
In December 2007, they began to sell hash browns and the Bagel B.E.L.T., a breakfast sandwich that has lettuce and tomato.
Along with the expansion of stores and the expanded menu came the outsourcing of baked goods.
Doughnuts, which used to be made at night so that they were ready for the next morning, are now fully cooked and then frozen and sent to every restaurant from Windsor, Ontario.
The restaurants now bake them during the day.
Throw away cups made by the company are one of the most common litter items in Canada.
Company spokespersons claim that customers are the problem, not Tim Hortons.
In May 2008, the chain came under fire after an employee in London, Ontario was fired for giving away a single $0.16 Timbit to a baby.
A manager was blamed for the .
The employee was hired at a different nearby location.
Tim Hortons official site
1964 establishments in Canada
The Alveolata is a grouping of protists.
One view is that it is a superphylum with at least four phyla.
Ciliates, very common protozoa, with many short cilia arranged in rows
Chromerida – a marine phylum of photosynthetic protozoa
Apicomplexa, parasitic protozoa that lack locomotive structures except in gametes
Dinoflagellate, mostly marine flagellates, many of which have chloroplasts
Ice cubes are small pieces of ice that are often cubes.
These pieces are sometimes used to cool drinks.
Ice cubes are used in mixed drinks, when the drink has the words "on the rocks."
Ice cubes are made by filling a tray with water and putting it in a freezer.
Many freezers also have an icemaker.
Icemakers make ice cubes and put them in a bin.
After that, they can be put in a glass.
Ice cubes are also made commercially and sold in large amounts.
These ice cubes are usually cylindrical, and might have holes through the center.
Commercially made ice cubes are very clear, as the water doesn't have much air dissolved in it.
Ice cubes can also be crushed into different-shaped flakes, which some people think makes some kinds of cocktails look better.
Crushed ice is also used to cool a drink or other liquid quickly because the speed of cooling depends on the amount and average radius of the ice particles.
First artificial ice cubes
American physician and humanitarian John Gorrie built a refrigerator in 1844 to be able to cool air.
His refrigerator made ice, which he hung from the ceiling in a basin.
Gorrie is the creator of ice cubes, even though he was not trying to cool drinks.
Instead, he used the ice to cool the room's temperature.
During that time, people thought that bad air quality made people sick.
So, to help treat sickness, he advocated for the draining of swamps and the cooling of sickrooms.
Ice cube tray
Ice cube trays are designed to be filled with water, then put in a freezer until the water freezes to ice, thus creating ice cubes.
Trays are often flexible, so the ice cubes can be removed easily by flexing the tray.
Another design is an aluminum tray with a lever that raises the ice cubes up, releasing them from the tray.
A motorized kind of this is in most automatic ice-making freezers.
Even though ice cubes are usually shaped like cubes, there are trays that make spherical or cylindrical shapes.
These are sometimes called ice tubes.
Some novelty trays make blocks of ice in seasonal, festive, or other shapes.
The first flexible, stainless steel, all-metal ice cube tray was made by Guy L. Tinkham in 1933.
The tray bent sideways to remove the ice cubes.
The first rubber ice cube tray was made by Lloyd Groff Copeman.
One day in 1928, while walking through some woods getting sap for maple syrup, Copeman saw that slush and ice came off of his rubber boots instead of sticking to them.
After talking about it with his patent attorney at lunch, he did experiments using rubber cups.
Later, he made and patented several kinds of tray: a metal tray with rubber separators, a metal tray with individual rubber cups, and a tray made of only rubber.
A machete is a long cutting tool.
The blade is usually 20-24 inches (50-60 cm) long and less than .2 inches thick.
The machete is a large knife often used in jungles because it can easily cut through plants and vines.
It can be used to open coconuts and cut down small trees (sometimes the back side has edges for sawing wood).
It is also used occasionally outside of jungles.
One such use is in surveying when a line of sight is needed through brush.
It is a lot like the Japanese katana and larger than the American Bowie knife, and is sometimes used in warfare.