The World Toilet Organization is an organization dedicated to issues involving toilets and sanitation. It is based in Singapore and, as of 2004, includes toilet associations from 17 countries around the world, from Russia to the United States to Australia to Japan [1]. Every year, the World Toilet Organization sponsors the World Toilet Summit. This has been held in various places around the world: 2001 - Singapore 2002 - Seoul, South Korea 2003 - Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China 2004 - Beijing, People's ...

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See the main article at electronic organ for more details and history. Since the 1930s, pipeless electric instruments have been available to produce similar sounds and perform similar roles to pipe organs. Many of these have been bought both by houses of worship and other potential pipe organ customers, and also by many musicians both professional and amateur for whom a pipe organ would not be a possibility. Far smaller and cheaper to buy than a corresponding pipe instrument, and in many cases portable, they have taken organ music into private homes and into dance bands and other new environments, an ...

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See the main article at pipe organ for details on history and construction. The pipe organ is the grandest musical instrument in size and scope, and has been around in its current form since the 14th century. Along with the clock, it was considered one of the most complex man-made creations prior to the Industrial Revolution. Organs (the "pipe" designation is generally assumed) range in size from a single short keyboard to huge instruments which can have over 10,000 pipes. A large modern organ typically has three or four manuals with five octaves (61 notes) each, with a ...

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Organ music - Classical music. See the main article at organ repertoire for details on specific countries and styles. The organ has had a strong place in classical music throughout its history. Antonio de Cabezón, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Girolamo Frescobaldi were three of the most important composers and teachers before 1650. Influenced by these composers, the North German school then rose to prominence with notable composers including Dieterich Buxtehude and especially Johann Sebastian Bach, considered by many to have achieved the height of organ composition. During this time, t ...

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A more detailed article is to be written at styles of pipe organ. During its history, several distinctive styles of pipe organ have been developed and achieved popularity at particular times and places, for example the baroque organ, the English romantic organ, the French classical organ, the symphonic organ and the theatre organ. Even after their period of popularity, instruments of each popular style have continued to be constructed. Each style has its own music (see organ repertoire) which is most authentically ...

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See the main article at pipe organ for more details and the history of the pipe organ. The original organ was the pipe organ, and many organ enthusiasts still regard all other forms as imitations. Pipe organs may be broadly divided into three categories: The church organ was developed originally for congregational singing, and is still found in many houses of worship. Accompaniment of human voices, whether a congregation, a choir or a cantor or soloist is the primary purpose of the church organ, and i ...

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Modern professional electronic organs have reached a degree of sophistication, complexity, and expense surpassed only by the pipe organ itself. The consoles of some of these instruments, at first glance, may be almost indistinguishable from those of pipe organs (although a closer examination, as well as the obvious absence of pipes, will quickly reveal the difference). Electronic organs are still made for the home market, but they have been largely replaced by the digital keyboard or synthesizer, which is not only smaller and cheaper than ty ...

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Modern professional electronic organs have reached a degree of sophistication, complexity, and expense surpassed only by the pipe organ itself. The consoles of some of these instruments, at first glance, may be almost indistinguishable from those of pipe organs (although a closer examination, as well as the obvious absence of pipes, will quickly reveal the difference). Electronic organs are still made for the home market, but they have been largely replaced by the digital keyboard or synthesizer, which is not only smaller and cheaper than ty ...

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See the main article organ repertoire and the article on early organ tablature. There is a large repertoire of religious music for the pipe organ, dating from the Renaissance to the present day; in the 19th century and later compositions that were effectively secular also became common, many in symphonic style. Some of the leading composers for the pipe organ, such as Cesar Franck and Charles-Marie Widor, are relatively little-known outside the organ world; probably the two composers who both enjoy a stellar reputation in the broader musical world and composed extensively for the pipe organ are J ...

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The vital organs are the internal organs of the human body necessary to maintain life. Without all vital organs functioning adequately, a person will quickly die. The major vital organs are the brain, which regulates biorhythms such as respiration, heart rate, hormone production, sensory information, and muscle movement the heart, which maintains the flow of oxygenated blood throughout the body the lungs, which inhale air and oxygenate the blood the liver, which removes cellular waste from ...

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The vital organs are the internal organs of the human body necessary to maintain life. Without all vital organs functioning adequately, a person will quickly die. The major vital organs are the brain, which regulates biorhythms such as respiration, heart rate, hormone production, sensory information, and muscle movement the heart, which maintains the flow of oxygenated blood throughout the body the lungs, which inhale air and oxygenate the blood the liver, which removes cellular waste from ...

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Prior to the development of electric and electronic organs, the only alternative to the pipe organ was the reed organ, which generated its sounds using reeds similar to those of a piano accordion. Smaller, cheaper and more portable than the corresponding pipe instrument, these were widely used in smaller churches and in private homes, but their volume and tonal range was extremely limited, and they were generally limited to one or two ...

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See the main article electronic organ for more details and history. Since the 1930s, pipeless electric instruments have been available to produce similar sounds and perform similar roles to pipe organs. Many of these have been bought both by houses of worship and other potential pipe organ customers, and also by many musicians both professional and amateur for whom a pipe organ would not be a possibility. Far smaller and cheaper to buy than a corresponding pipe instrument, and in many cases portable, they have taken organ music into private homes and into dance bands and other new env ...

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Anything is commonly considered organized when it looks like everything has a correct order of placement. But it's only ultimately organized if any element has no difference on time taken to find it. In that sense, organizing can also be defined as the act to place different objects in order for better searching. Organizations are groups of people frequently trying to organize some specific subject, such as political issues. So, even while organizing can be viewed as a simple definition, it can get as complex as ...

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Because so very many compounds exist, a clear, unambiguous naming system is necessary. Organic nomenclature is the system established for naming and grouping organic compounds. Organic subtances are classified by their molecular structural arrangement, and by what other atoms are present: hydrogen is impicitly assumed. Other atoms such as O, N, or Cl almost always bond in certain relative ways, forming functional groups. In chemistry, structure is quite synonymous with function, and so the structural categories double as categories of proper ...

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Organic reactions are chemical reactions involving organic compounds. While pure hydrocarbons undergo certain classes of reactions, many more reactions which organic compounds undergo is largely determined by functional groups. The general theory of these reactions involves careful analysis of such properties as the electron affinity of key atoms, and bond strengths. These issues can determine the relative stability of short-lived reactive intermediates, which usually directly determine the path of the reaction. A common reaction is generically written here as ...

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Pipe organ - Predecessors. The word organ originates from the Latin word "organum", the earliest predecessor of the instrument used in ancient Roman circus games and similar to a modern portative. Pipe organs date back to classical antiquity. Early organs were often hydraulic; the inventor most often credited is Ctesibius of Alexandria, an engineer of the 3rd century BC, who created an instrument called the hydraulis. The hydraulis was common in the Roman Empire, and was capable of being immensely l ...

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The main elements of a pipe organ are the pipes, the console, and the blower which supplies the air to operate the instrument. Pipe organ - Pipes. Organ pipes are arranged in ranks. A rank of pipes contains a set of pipes of a similar tone tuned to a chromatic scale. Most pipes are vertical, but a few ranks may consist of horizontal pipes. At the base of the vertical pipes is a wind chest which supplies air to the pipes. The manner in which the air is controlled varies depending on the ...

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Historically, humans have always tried to organize ourselves. Be it on religion, through books and spoken word, or in science, through journals and studies, or in many other ways. Writing ideas in a book, not to talk to someone, but to specific catalog is also an attempt to organize information. Science books are notable by their organization attempt of an specific subject. Encyclopedias, instead, usually try to organize any subject into one place, for fa ...

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Organic foods, like food in general, can be grouped into two categories, fresh and processed, based on production methods, availability and consumer perception. Fresh food is seasonal and highly perishable. Fresh produce — vegetables and fruits — is the most available type of organic food, and closely associated with organic farming. It is often purchased directly from the growers, at farmers' markets, from on-farm stands, through speciality food stores, and through community-supported agriculture (CSA) projec ...

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Definitions of organic food vary. Organics can be difficult to explain by empirical measurement. For one thing, the majority of food industry research of the last 100 years has been focused solely on developing chemical agriculture and modern food processing -- almost nothing has been done to formally investigate side effects of conventional agriculture that are not immediately obvious. Also, organics is an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" proposition, concerned in large part with what NOT to do -- "as much as possible, let Nature do its th ...

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