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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Design-build (or design/build, and abbreviated D–B or D/B accordingly) is a project delivery system used in the construction industry. It is a method to deliver a project in which the design and construction services are contracted by a single entity known as the design–builder or design–build contractor. In contrast to "design–bid–build" (or "design–tender"), design–build relies on a single point of responsibility contract and is used to minimize risks for the project owner and to reduce the delivery schedule by overlapping the design phase and construction phase of a project. "DB with its single point responsibility carries the clearest contractual remedies for the clients...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Neutron Imaging is the process of making a image with neutrons. The resulting image is based on the neutron attenuation properties of the imaged object. The resulting images have much in common with industrial x-ray images, but since the image is based on neutron attenuating properties instead of x-ray attenuation properties, some things easily visible with neutron imaging may be very challenging or impossible to see with x-ray imaging techniques (and vice versa).

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Australian Football League celebrates the best mark of the season through the annual Mark of the Year competition. In 2011, this is officially known as the Hungry Jack`s AFL Mark of the Year. Each round three marks are nominated and fans are able to vote online for their favourite here .

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is an upcoming 2011 American drama film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer, directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Eric Roth. It stars Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, and James Gandolfini.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2011 SaskTel Tankard was held February 2–6 at the Battleford Curling Club in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. The winning team of Pat Simmons will represent Saskatchewan at the 2011 Tim Hortons Brier in London, Ontario.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In six-dimensional geometry, a stericated 6-simplex is a convex uniform 6-polytope with 4th order truncations (sterication) of the regular 6-simplex.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Madeleine Hutin, taking the name Little Sister Magdeleine of Jesus, founded a Roman Catholic community of religious sisters, the Little Sisters of Jesus, on September 8,1939 in Touggourt, Algeria. She was inspired by the life and writings of Charles de Foucauld (also known as Father de Foucauld or Brother Charles of Jesus).

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Newcomb-Brown Estate is located at the junction of the US 44 highway and Brown Road in Pleasant Valley, New York, United States. It is a brick structure built in the 18th century just before the Revolution and modified slightly by later owners but generally intact. Its basic Georgian style shows some influences of the early Dutch settlers of the region.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! German submarine U-607 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German Kriegsmarine for service during the Second World War. She was commissioned in January 1942 and was sunk in July 1943, having sunk four ships and damaged two others. Her commanders were Ernst Mengersen and Wolf Jeschonnek.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! MV Kalia (formerly the MV Montauk) is a small double-hulled oil tanker managed by Adminros Shipmanagement Company, Ltd. and registered under the flag of Cyprus. The 109-meter-long ship has a nominal crew of 13 and can carry 30,000 barrels (4,770 m3) of oil. While known as the MV Montauk, the ship was owned by the American company Sealift Incorporated, and sailed under long-term charter to the United States Military Sealift Command where it transported oil for the U.S. Department of Defense.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This article shows U.S. Census totals for Knox County, Maine, broken down by municipality, from 1900 to 2000.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The UK Ultraspeed line is a proposed magnetic-levitation train line between London and Glasgow, linking Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester and Newcastle, and with a spur to Liverpool.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! K. A. (Kim) Taipale is a lawyer, scholar, and social theorist specializing in information, technology, and national security policy. He is a partner in Stilwell Holding, a private investment firm and in Parkview Ventures, a technology merchant bank. He is the founder and executive director of the Stilwell Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy, a private, nonpartisan research organization, a director of the Stilwell Charitable Fund, and a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute. He was previously an investment banker at Lazard Freres & Co. and a lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David Lee Davis (born November 6, 1959) is a Republican politician from Tennessee and one-term member (2007–2009) of the United States House of Representatives and Tennessee House of Representatives. He represented Tennessee`s 1st congressional district, located in the northeastern portion of the state and centered around the Tri-Cities area, but was defeated in the 2008 primary by Johnson City Mayor Phil Roe.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Action Masters are a sub-line of the Transformers toy franchise, first released in 1990, with a wave of new releases released in Europe in 1991. It featured Transformers action figures who were unable to transform, but came with transforming partners, weapons or exo-suits. Some of the larger sets came with transforming vehicles or bases. This was the last sub-line release as part of the original Transformers toyline before the launch of Generation 2.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Mk/B53 was a high-yield bunker buster thermonuclear weapon developed by the United States during the Cold War. Deployed on Strategic Air Command bombers, the B53, with a yield of 9 megatons of TNT (38 PJ), was the most powerful weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal after the last B41 nuclear bombs were retired in 1976.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States Navy Mark 12 Mod 0/1 Special Purpose Rifle (SPR) is a rifle in service with United States Special Operations Forces in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. SPR initially stood for Special Purpose Receiver, but that nomenclature has been replaced as the weapon became a stand-alone weapons system, and not just an add-on upper receiver assembly (part of the proposed SOPMOD upgrades). The SPR was eventually type classified by the U.S. Navy as the Mk 12. Note that the weapon was developed by a Navy office (Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division) for SOCOM units, not for use by units that fall under the conventional US Navy.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In physics, certain systems can achieve negative temperatures; that is, their thermodynamic temperature can be a negative quantity. Negative temperatures can be expressed as negative numbers on the kelvin scale.

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Old Bess is an early beam engine built by the partnership of Boulton and Watt. The engine was constructed in 1777 and worked until 1848.