Archive for April, 2008

Credit manager | covered by The Business

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

A credit manager is a person employed by an organization to make credit decisions concerning terms of payment to their customers.

There are two broad categories of credit managers:

  1. Business-to-Consumer
  2. Business-to-Business


United States

Business-to-Business Professional Credit Managers can receive a Credit Business Associate CBA or a Credit Business Fellow CBF certification from the National Association of Credit Managers

There are two programs offered by affiliates of the NACM.

  1. Credit Administration Program CAP
  2. Advance Credit Administration Program ACAP

A low to mid level manager in most organizations, Credit Managers are known for avoiding risk and are often viewed as making decisions based on an agenda that is not always in sync with corporate objectives. Credit management is usually not a path into executive management.

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Sembayashi Station | covered by the

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Sembayashi Station (千林駅, -eki) is a railway station in Asahi ward of Osaka, Japan and is on the Keihan Main Line. It was opened in 1910. It is famous for it’s long covered shopping street known as the Sembayashi Shotengai. The shopping street even has a theme song that can be heard as you walk along the covered part of the street. Sembayashi-Omiya subway station can be found at the other end of the shopping street.
The first Daiei store opened near this station.


Stations next to Sembayashi

Local (普通)

Morishoji Station - Sembayashi Station - Takii Station

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Single track (rail) | track

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

A single track railway is one where traffic in both directions shares the same track. In the early days of railways, especially before the telegraph, operation of significant numbers of trains on a single track railway was fraught with difficulties, including delays and accidents, particularly head-on collisions.

Some early wagonways, such as the Gloucester and Cheltenham Railway, were primarily single track with crossing loops at frequent intervals. The crossing loops were arranged to be in line of sight of one another, so that drivers in one direction could see if vehicles in the opposing direction were already in the single line section. The single line sections needed to be straight, so the profile of the line tended to be a series of chords rather than a smooth arc.

When a single track railway is converted to a double track railway, in some countries this is called duplication or doubling. The converse operation, converting a double track railway to single track, is known as singling.

Though single track is significantly cheaper to build, it has a number of operational disadvantages. Single track typically has only one seventh of the capacity of a double track, rarely allowing more than about three trains an hour per direction, depending on the passing track frequency, while a double track typically can allow between 20 and 30 trains per hour. Also, there can be problems with long freight train if there are not enough long passing stretches, reducing the capacity of the track even more. Other disadvantages include the spread of delays, since if one train on a single track is delayed, any train waiting for it to pass also will be delayed, and will continue on to delay more trains. Also, single track does not have a “reserve” track that can allow a reduced capacity service to continue if one track is closed, but not the other.

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Silverbird (album) | released in 1973.

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Silverbird is the debut album by British singer/songwriter Leo Sayer, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music).


Track listing

all songs written by Leo Sayer, except where noted

  1. “Innocent Bystander” – 3:02
  2. “Goodnight Old Friend” – 2:50
  3. “Drop Back” – 3:29
  4. “Silverbird” – 1:12
  5. “The Show Must Go On” – 3:32
  6. “Dancer” (David Courtney, Sayer) – 4:30
  7. “Tomorrow” – 4:12
  8. “Don’t Say It’s Over” – 3:15
  9. “Slow Motion” – 1:44
  10. “Oh Wot a Life” – 2:53
  11. “Why Is Everybody Going Home?” – 4:14


Personnel

  • Leo Sayer - guitar, harmonica, vocals
  • Russ Ballard - guitar, keyboard
  • Max Chetwyn - guitar
  • David Courtney - piano
  • Michael Giles - drums
  • Robert Henrit - drums
  • Henry Spinetti - drums
  • Dave Wintour - bass


Production

  • Producers: David Courtney, Adam Faith
  • Engineers: Richard Dodd, Keith Harewood, Tom Newman

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Smoke (album) | originally released as

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Smoke is an album by Paul Kelly and Melbourne bluegrass band, Uncle Bill. It was originally released in 1999.

It was released on EMI Records in Australia.


Track listing

  1. “Our Sunshine”
  2. “You Can’t Take It With You”
  3. “Until Death Do Us Part”
  4. “I Can’t Believe We Were Married”
  5. “I Don’t Remember A Thing”
  6. “Teach Me Tonight”
  7. “Sydney From A 747″
  8. “Night After Night”
  9. “Whistling Bird”
  10. “Stories Of Me”
  11. “Taught By Experts”
  12. “Gathering Storm”
  13. “Shy Before You Lord”


Credits

  • Produced by Paul Kelly and Gerry Hale

URL http://www.gerryhale.com

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Royal College of Pathologists | Be Continued and The

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

The Royal College of Pathologists, was founded in 1962, and is a medical organisation that promotes and sets standards for the study and practice of pathology.

The College has oversight of the following main disciplines

  • Histopathology

    • Neuropathology
    • Cytopathology
    • Paediatric pathology
  • Chemical Pathology
  • Haematology (with the Royal College of Physicians)
  • Immunology (with the Royal College of Physicians)
  • Microbiology & Virology

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Training and Examinations

The College is responsible for oversight of postgraduate education and training in all branches of pathology in the UK.

The College has an active educational programme and sponsors workshops, lectures and courses.


Continued Professional Development

The College runs a national scheme for oversight of continued education of pathologists in clinical practice.


Membership

Membership in the College can be obtained by several routes, the most usual being via a postgraduate examination, indicated with the designation Member of the Royal College of Pathologists (MRCPath). The designation Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath) is bestowed upon members who are in good standing, as an indication of seniority.


Presidents

Professor Sir James Underwood 2004-2006


External links

  • Royal College of Pathologists, UK

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1 E17 s | years the

Monday, April 28th, 2008

To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 1017 seconds and 1018 seconds (3.2 and 32 billion years) See also times of other orders of magnitude.

  • Shorter times
  • 3.9 to 4.1 billion years — age of oldest cellular life (cyanobacteria)
  • 3.7 to 3.9 billion (3.7e9 to 3.9e9) years — age of the Mare Imbrium, the Lower Imbrian epoch
  • 4.468 billion years — half-life of uranium-238
  • 4.5 billion years — age of the Earth (see: Precambrian)
  • 10 billion years — expected main sequence lifetime of a G2 dwarf star (like the Sun)
  • 13.7 ± 0.2 billion years (4e17 seconds) — estimated age of the universe according to the Big Bang theory
  • 20 billion years — time until the end of the universe in the Big Rip scenario
  • Longer times

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Democratic Socialist Party (Argentina) | Party is

Monday, April 28th, 2008

The Democratic Socialist Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Popular) was a political party in Argentina formed in 1959 as a division of the Socialist Party.

The most important figure of the PSD was Alfredo Bravo, a teacher and civil rights activist, which was a deputy and the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party in the 2003 elections.

The party joined the Popular Socialist Party in 2002 to form the Socialist Party.

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Utkala Kingdom | Kingdom

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Utkala Kingdom is located in the north western Orissa. This kingdom was mentioned in the epic Mahabharata, with the names Utkala and Utpala.


References in Mahabharata

The Dasarnas, the Mekalas (a kingdom to the west of Utkala) and the Utkalas were mentioned as kingdoms of Bharata Varsha (Ancient India) at (6:9). Utkalas were mentioned as taking part in the Kurukshetra War siding with the Kauravas. Many Mekalas and Utkalas, and Kalingas, and Nishadas, and Tamraliptakas, advanced against Nakula, showering their shafts and lances, desirous of slaying him (8:22).

The Utpalas, the Mekalas, the Paundras, the Kalingas, the Andhras, the Nishadas, the Trigartas, and the Valhikas, were all vanquished by Karna (7:4).


See also

  • Kingdoms of Ancient India


References

  • Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

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Raj Bhavan (Goa) | links Official

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Raj Bhavan (Hindi for Government House) is the official residence of the Governor of Goa. It is located in the capital city of Panaji, Goa. The present governor of Goa is S. C. Jamir


History

During the Portuguese regime, it was the official residence of the Governor General of Goa and was known as “Palacio do Cabo”. After the liberation of Goa, Goa along with Daman and Diu became a union territory of India and hence “Palacio do Cabo” became “Cabo Raj Niwas” the official residence of the Lt. Governor of the Union Territory of Goa, Daman and Diu. When Goa got statehood in 1987, the building was renamed to Raj Bhavan to match the names of other official residences of governors of states in India.

It is located at the extreme end of a narrow cape jutting into the Arabian Sea. Situated on the rim of the water-space formed by the merging of the perennial rivers of Mandovi, on one side, and Zuari, on the other, into the Arabian Sea.


External links

  • The official web site of Governor of Goa

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Raised on Rock/For Ol’ Times Sake | released in 1973. Though

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Raised on Rock/For Ol’ Times Sake was a studio album by Elvis Presley from 1973. It along with the album Elvis were both released after the massive success of Aloha From Hawaii. This record sold over 1 million copies worldwide.


Track Listings

  1. Raised on Rock
  2. Are You Sincere
  3. Find Out What’s Happening
  4. I Miss You
  5. Girl of Mine
  6. For Ol’ Times Sake
  7. If You Don’t Come Back
  8. Just a Little Bit
  9. Sweet Angeline
  10. Three Corn Patches

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Oak Park | MVMCP Park

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Oak Park or Oaks Park is the name of some places around the world.

In the United States of America:

  • Oak Park, California
  • Oak Park, Georgia
  • Oak Park, Illinois
    • Oak Park (Metra), a railroad station
    • Oak Park Township, Cook County, Illinois
  • Oak Park, Indiana
  • Oak Park, Michigan
  • Oak Park, Minnesota
  • Oaks Amusement Park in Portland, Oregon
  • Oaks Pioneer Park in Portland, Oregon
  • Oaks Park (Stadium) in Emeryville, California

In Australia:

  • Oak Park, Victoria

    • Oak Park railway station, Melbourne

In the United Kingdom:

  • Oaks Park, Carshalton

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Tangos | performed by

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Tangos is a flamenco cante closely related in form and feeling to the Rumba. It is often performed as a finale to a Tientos. Its compass and llamada are the same as that of the Farruca and share the Farruca’s lively nature. However, Tangos is normally performed in the A Phrygian mode.

Tangos is distinct from the Rumba primarily through the guitar playing. In Rumba the guitar flows more freely, whereas in Tangos the accents on beats 2, 3 & 4 are marked clearly with heavy strumming.

Tangos flamenco is not related to Argentine Tango, besides binary compás (rhythm).

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Just One Night | Night before

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Just One Night can refer to:

  • Just One Night (Eric Clapton album) (1980), by Eric Clapton
  • Just One Night (Samantha Fox album) (1991), by Samantha Fox
  • “Just One Night (song)”(1992), a single by McBride & the Ride
  • Just One Night (documentary), a PBS program about drunk driving
  • Just One Night (movie) (2000), a film starring Timothy Hutton

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Hostile takeover | themed Wishes

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Hostile takeover can refer to:
A takeover which goes against the wishes of the target company’s management and board of directors. opposite of friendly takeover.

  • For the business usage see takeover.
  • For the science fiction series see Hostile Takeover Trilogy.


See also

  • Corporate raid
  • Mergers and acquisitions

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Bath chair | versions It was

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

A bath chair — or Bath chair — is a wheeled vehicle with a folding hood, which can be used open or closed, and a glass front, mounted on three or four wheels and drawn or pushed by hand. It is so named after its similarity in appearance to an old fashioned bath. If required, the chair can be drawn by a donkey or small pony, when it is mounted on four wheels, with the usual turning arrangement. James Heath, of Bath, who flourished rather before the middle of the 18th century, was the inventor.

Later versions were a type of a wheelchair (as illustrated) which is pushed by an attendant, rather than pulled by an animal — in the 19th century they were often seen at spa resorts such as Buxton. Some versions incorporated a steering device for the use of the invalid.


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List of asteroids/108001–109000 | Christmas. edit

Friday, April 25th, 2008

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”001″| 108001–108100 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”101″| 108101–108200 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”201″| 108201–108300 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”301″| 108301–108400 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”401″| 108401–108500 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”501″| 108501–108600 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”601″| 108601–108700 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”701″| 108701–108800 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”801″| 108801–108900 [ edit]

! colspan=”5″ style=”background-color:silver;text-align:center;” id=”901″| 108901–109000 [ edit]

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Cojones | for the ‘Bollocks to

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Cojones is a vulgar Spanish word for testicles, corresponding to “balls” or “bollocks”.

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Usage in English

The word has entered popular use in the United States as a slang term meaning to have a brave attitude. It is used in a way similar to chutzpah or sisu. Anglicized/Americanized pronunciations include or the less accurate . A very frequent misspelling (sometimes done deliberately as a euphemism) is cajones, which actually means “drawers” (the piece of furniture) or “wooden box drums” (see cajón) in Spanish.


Notable recent usage

The word was famously used in 1996 by Madeleine Albright, then serving as the USA’s ambassador to the United Nations, in the aftermath of the downing of a Hermanos al Rescate light civilian aircraft by Cuban airforce MiG 29s on 24 February 1996. Following the release of a transcript of radio traffic between the fighter pilots in which one exclaimed, ¡Le partimos los cojones! (”We busted his balls!”), Albright offered the following comment: “Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.” Albright later described the vulgarism as “the only Spanish word I know”.Transcript of a CNN interview with Albright that discusses the cojones quote

In April 2004 when Bob Woodward reported in his book Plan of Attack—an account of the build-up to the 2003 Iraq War—that U.S. President George W. Bush had remarked to Alastair Campbell, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s official spokesman, that “Your man has got cojones”.Reports on Bush’s description of Blair Bush was referring to Blair’s continuing support for the invasion of Iraq despite mounting opposition from his domestic political party and Britons at large. The meeting at Camp David in September 2002 at which Blair made his commitment on invasion to Bush, and Bush made his comment to Campbell, was later repeatedly referred to by Bush as “the cojones meeting”. The word is also used frequently by TV pundit Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report.


Use in Spanish and etymology

Cojón (plural: cojones) along with huevos (literally “eggs”) is one of the most common ways of referring to the testicles in Spanish. It contains the augmentative suffix -ón (which implies largeness), and derives from Vulgar Latin coleonem, the accusative form of coleo “testicle”, an augmentative form of cōleus (variants: cūleus and culleus), which meant “bag”, particularly “leather bag for holding liquids”.

The lej or lij pronunciation shift is a common one, as shown by other Latin and Spanish examples such as foliahoja, meaning “leaf”, which is a cognate with the English word “foliage”.

It can be used as in English to imply virility or courage: tener cojones = “to have balls”.

The same word exists in Catalan as colló, very commonly used in the plural (collons) as an exclamation. Other cognates include the French couilles, Italian coglioni, Portuguese colhões, Romanian coaie. Finnish language has multilateral expression sisu.

In Galician, the word for “cojones” is “collóns”, similar to Catalan.


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External links

  • Rincón de Chistes - humorous page in Spanish describing various slang uses of the term (in Spanish)
  • Cojones Del Fuego - A London based rock band.


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