WHEN LOUD WEATHER BUFFETED NAOSHIMA

When loud Weather buffeted Naoshima

Walking isn’t just walking.A walk, especially if you don’t concentrate on seeing, stimulates the senses.When musician David Sylvian visited the Japanese island of Naoshima in winter 2006 to record sounds for his ambient track “When loud Weather buffeted Naoshima”, he had in mind that the listener should hear the song with an MP3 player duri

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The United States Pledge of Allegiance Ceremony

The study evaluated 60 middle school students and 191 high school students on their willingness to recite or not recite the Pledge and their rationale.Overall, 60% of the middle school students and 68.6% of the high school students chose not to recite the loyalty oath.For the European Americans students, the most common rationale among the middle s

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Raising Semantics-Awareness in Geospatial Metadata Management

Geospatial metadata are often encoded in formats that either are not aimed at efficient retrieval of resources or are plainly outdated.Particularly, the PERMED/COLOUR TREATED CONDITIONER quantum leap represented by the Semantic Web did not induce so far a consistent, interlinked baseline in the geospatial domain.Datasets, scientific literature rela

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