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206508 | Phagocytosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phagocytosis | Phagocytosis
immune system.
## Initiating receptors.
Receptors for phagocytosis can be divided into two categories by recognised molecules. The first, opsonic receptors, are dependent on opsonins. Among these are receptors that recognise the Fc part of bound IgG antibodies, deposited complement or receptors, that rec... | 4,400 |
206508 | Phagocytosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phagocytosis | Phagocytosis
targets. The main recognised part is the Fc fragment. The molecule of the receptor contain an intracellular ITAM domain or associates with an ITAM-containing adaptor molecule. ITAM domains transduce the signal from the surface of the phagocyte to the nucleus. For example activating receptors of human macro... | 4,401 |
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domain. Recognition by complement receptors is not enough to cause internalisation without additional signals. In macrophages, the CR1, CR3 and CR4 are responsible for recognition of targets. Complement coated targets are internalised by 'sinking' into the phagocyte membrane, without any protrusions.
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206508 | Phagocytosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phagocytosis | Phagocytosis
by the actin-myosin contractile system. The phagosome is the organelle formed by phagocytosis of material. It then moves toward the centrosome of the phagocyte and is fused with lysosomes, forming a phagolysosome and leading to degradation. Progressively, the phagolysosome is acidified, activating degradat... | 4,403 |
206508 | Phagocytosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phagocytosis | Phagocytosis
enzymes such as lysozymes, and cationic proteins such as defensins. Other antimicrobial peptides are present in these granules, including lactoferrin, which sequesters iron to provide unfavourable growth conditions for bacteria. Other enzymes like hyaluronidase, lipase, collagenase, elastase, ribonuclease,... | 4,404 |
206508 | Phagocytosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phagocytosis | Phagocytosis
aureus", are able to avoid phagocytosis by several mechanisms.
# In apoptosis.
Following apoptosis, the dying cells need to be taken up into the surrounding tissues by macrophages in a process called efferocytosis. One of the features of an apoptotic cell is the presentation of a variety of intracellular... | 4,405 |
206508 | Phagocytosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phagocytosis | Phagocytosis
bind to other receptors on the macrophage such as CD36 and alpha-v beta-3 integrin. Defects in apoptotic cell clearance is usually associated with impaired phagocytosis of macrophages. Accumulation of apoptotic cell remnants often causes autoimmune disorders; thus pharmacological potentiation of phagocytos... | 4,406 |
206508 | Phagocytosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phagocytosis | Phagocytosis
object with pseudopods, as in animal phagocytes. In humans, the amoebozoan "Entamoeba histolytica" can phagocytose red blood cells.
- Ciliates also engage in phagocytosis. In ciliates there is a specialized groove or chamber in the cell where phagocytosis takes place, called the cytostome or mouth.
As in... | 4,407 |
206508 | Phagocytosis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phagocytosis | Phagocytosis
n ciliates there is a specialized groove or chamber in the cell where phagocytosis takes place, called the cytostome or mouth.
As in phagocytic immune cells, the resulting phagosome may be merged with lysosomes containing digestive enzymes, forming a phagolysosome. The food particles will then be digested... | 4,408 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instruments, such as the jazz quartet or the orchestra. Some mus... | 4,409 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
(such as piano, strings, and wind instruments) or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles (e.g., string quartet) or wind ensembles (e.g., wind quintet). Some ensembles blend the sounds of a variety of instrument families, such as the orchestra, which uses a ... | 4,410 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
a drummer or percussionist. Jazz ensembles may be solely instrumental, or they may consist of a group of instruments accompanying one or more singers. In rock and pop ensembles, usually called rock bands or pop bands, there are usually guitars and keyboards (piano, electric piano, Hammond organ, synthe... | 4,411 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
the orchestra. In orchestras, the individual sections also have leaders, typically called the "principal" of the section (e.g., the leader of the viola section is called the "principal viola"). Conductors are also used in jazz big bands and in some very large rock or pop ensembles (e.g., a rock concert... | 4,412 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
found in "The Carnival of the Animals", is called either a "hendectet" or an "undectet" (see Latin numerical prefixes). A soloist playing unaccompanied (e.g., a pianist playing a solo piano piece or a cellist playing a Bach suite for unaccompanied cello) is not an ensemble because it only contains one ... | 4,413 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
of a soprano saxophone, an alto saxophone, a tenor saxophone, and a baritone saxophone.
## Five parts.
The string "quintet" is a common type of group. It is similar to the string quartet, but with an additional viola, cello, or more rarely, the addition of a double bass. Terms such as "piano quintet"... | 4,414 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
and horn; the brass quintet, consisting of two trumpets, one horn, a trombone and a tuba; and the reed quintet, consisting of an oboe, a soprano clarinet, a saxophone, a bass clarinet, and a bassoon.
## Six or more instruments.
Classical chamber ensembles of six (sextet), seven (septet), or eight mus... | 4,415 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
A sinfonietta usually denotes a somewhat smaller orchestra (though still not a chamber orchestra). Larger orchestras are called symphony orchestras (see below) or philharmonic orchestras.
A pops orchestra is an orchestra that mainly performs light classical music (often in abbreviated, simplified arra... | 4,416 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
divided into families of instruments. In the string family, there are sections of violins (I and II), violas, cellos (often eight), and basses (often from six to eight). The standard woodwind section consists of flutes (one doubling piccolo), oboes (one doubling English horn), soprano clarinets (one do... | 4,417 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
period music (1750–1820), the percussion parts in orchestral works may only include timpani.
A concert band is a large classical ensemble generally made up of between 40 and 70 musicians from the woodwind, brass, and percussion families, along with the double bass. The concert band has a larger number... | 4,418 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
contrabass clarinet or contra-alto clarinet), alto saxophones (one doubling soprano saxophone), tenor saxophone, and baritone saxophone. The brass section consists of horns, trumpets or cornets, trombones, euphoniums, and tubas. The percussion section consists of the timpani, bass drum, snare drum, and... | 4,419 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
such as the wind machine or cannons. When orchestras perform music from the 20th century or the 21st century, occasionally instruments such as electric guitar, theremin, or even an electronic synthesizer may be used.
# Jazz ensembles.
## Three parts.
In jazz, there are several types of trios. One ty... | 4,420 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
simultaneously playing chords or lead lines on the keyboard manuals. Other types of trios include the "drummer-less" trio, which consists of a piano player, a double bassist, and a horn (saxophone or trumpet) or guitar player; and the jazz trio with a horn player (saxophone or trumpet), double bass pla... | 4,421 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
described above. Slightly larger jazz ensembles, such as quintets (five instruments) or sextets (six instruments) typically add other soloing instruments to the basic quartet formation, such as different types of saxophones (e.g., alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, etc.) or an additional chordal instrume... | 4,422 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
ensemble is formed by adding "sections" of like instruments, such as a saxophone section, a trumpet section and a trombone section, which perform arranged "horn lines" to accompany the ensemble. Some Swing bands also added a string section for a lush sound. In a 1970s-style jazz fusion ensemble, a larg... | 4,423 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
in providing all of the musical elements which are part of the rock or pop sound (vocals, chords, bass lines, and percussion or drumming). Two-member rock and pop bands typically omit one of these musical elements. In many cases, two-member bands will omit a drummer, since guitars, bass guitars, and ke... | 4,424 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
The Black Keys, Twenty One Pilots, Tenacious D, Simon and Garfunkel, Hall & Oates, Johnossi, The Pack A.D., Air Supply and Royal Blood.
When electronic sequencers became widely available in the 1980s, this made it easier for two-member bands to add in musical elements that the two band members were no... | 4,425 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
and bassist at the same time, thanks to a special custom instrument he invented (an electric guitar with five regular guitar strings paired with three bass guitar strings). Heisenflei of Los Angeles duo The Pity Party plays drums, keyboards, and sings simultaneously. Providence-based Lightning Bolt is ... | 4,426 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
or blues-rock band, or heavy metal rock group, a "power trio" format is often used, which consists of an electric guitar player, an electric bass guitar player and a drummer, and typically one or more of these musicians also sing (sometimes all three members will sing, e.g. Bee Gees or Alkaline Trio). ... | 4,427 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
The Presidents of the United States of America, Venom, and Cream. Some power trios feature two lead vocalists. For example, in the band blink-182 vocals are split between bassist Mark Hoppus and guitarist Tom DeLonge, or in the band Dinosaur Jr., guitarist J. Mascis is the primary songwriter and vocali... | 4,428 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
Dead-influenced jam bands such as Medeski Martin & Wood. In organ trios, the keyboard player typically plays a Hammond organ or similar instrument, which permits the keyboard player to perform bass lines, chords, and lead lines, one example being hard rock band Zebra. A variant of the organ trio are tr... | 4,429 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
power trio with the guitarist on lead vocals is a popular record company lineup, as the guitarist and singer will usually be the songwriter. Therefore, the label only has to present one "face" to the public. The backing band may or may not be featured in publicity. If the backup band is not marketed as... | 4,430 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
formation was a vocalist, electric guitarist, bass guitarist, and a drummer (e.g. The Who, The Monkees, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Ramones, Sex Pistols, Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M., Blur, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Stone Roses, Creed, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Rage Against the Machine, Gym Clas... | 4,431 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
which plays the chords or countermelody, and vocals on top.
In some early rock bands, keyboardists were used, performing on piano (e.g. The Seeds and The Doors) with a guitarist, singer, drummer and keyboardist. Some bands will have a guitarist, bassist, drummer, and keyboard player (for example, Talk... | 4,432 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
Some bands, such as The Beatles, Dire Straits and Metallica have a lead guitarist, a rhythm guitarist and a bassist that all sing lead and backing vocals, that also play keyboards regularly, as well as a drummer.
## Five parts.
Five-piece bands have existed in rock music since the development of the ... | 4,433 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
lineup replaces the rhythm guitarist with a keyboard–synthesizer player (examples being the bands Journey, Elbow, Dream Theater, Genesis, Jethro Tull, The Zombies, The Animals, Bon Jovi, Yes, Fleetwood Mac, Marilyn Manson and Deep Purple, all of which consist of a vocalist, guitarist, bassist, keyboard... | 4,434 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
guitarists, a keyboardist, a bassist and a drummer, with one or more of these musicians (typically one of the guitarists) handling lead vocals on top of their instrument (examples being Children of Bodom, Styx, Sturm und Drang, Relient K, Ensiferum and the current line up of Status Quo). In some cases,... | 4,435 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
whilst singing at the same time. Keith Relf of the Yardbirds played harmonica frequently, though not often while also singing. Ozzy Osbourne was also known to play the harmonica on some occasions (i.e. "The Wizard" by Black Sabbath). Vocalist Robert Brown of lesser known steampunk band Abney Park plays... | 4,436 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
they are quite uncommon, larger bands have long been a part of rock and pop music, in part due to the influence of the "singer accompanied with orchestra" model inherited from popular big-band jazz and swing and popularized by Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.To create larger ensembles, rock bands oft... | 4,437 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
custom percussionists/backing vocalists, a turntablist, and a sampler/keyboardist.
In larger groups (such as The Band), instrumentalists could play multiple instruments, which enabled the ensemble to create a wider variety of instrument combinations. More modern examples of such a band are Arcade Fire... | 4,438 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
groups have a large number of members that all play the same instrument, such as guitar, keyboard, horns or strings.
# Electronic music groups.
Electronic music groups typically use electronic musical instruments such as synthesizers, sequencers, samplers and electronic drums to produce music. The pr... | 4,439 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
Jaxx, Flip & Fill, Tin Tin Out, The Chainsmokers, Cheat Codes, Cash Cash and Major Lazer.
# Role of women.
Women have a high prominence in many popular music styles as singers. However, professional women instrumentalists are uncommon in popular music, especially in rock genres such as heavy metal. "... | 4,440 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
in music. "[S]everal scholars have argued that men exclude women from bands or from the bands' rehearsals, recordings, performances, and other social activities." "Women are mainly regarded as passive and private consumers of allegedly slick, prefabricated – hence, inferior – pop music..., excluding th... | 4,441 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
rebellion of rock music was largely a male rebellion; the women—often, in the 1950s and '60s, girls in their teens—in rock usually sang songs as personæ utterly dependent on their macho boyfriends...". Philip Auslander says that "Although there were many women in rock by the late 1960s, most performed ... | 4,442 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
are almost exclusively male" "...[a]t least until the mid-1980s" apart from "...exceptions such as Girlschool." However, "...now [in the 2010s] maybe more than ever–strong metal women have put up their dukes and got down to it", "carv[ing] out a considerable place for [them]selves."
When Suzi Quatro e... | 4,443 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
as operas and musicals usually have numbers where several of the principals are singing together, either on their own or with the chorus. Such numbers ("duets", "trios", etc.) are also referred to as 'ensembles'.
# Other western musical ensembles.
A choir is a group of voices. By analogy, sometimes a... | 4,444 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
popular music to military-style marches. Drum corps perform on brass and percussion instruments only. Drum and Bugle Corps incorporate costumes, hats, and pageantry in their performances.
Other band types include:
- Brass bands: groups consisting of around 30 brass and percussion players;
- Jug band... | 4,445 |
20180 | Musical ensemble | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble
rporate costumes, hats, and pageantry in their performances.
Other band types include:
- Brass bands: groups consisting of around 30 brass and percussion players;
- Jug bands;
- Mexican Mariachi groups typically consist of at least two violins, two trumpets, one Spanish guitar, one vihuela (a high-... | 4,446 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
Andy McCoy
Antti Hulkko (born 11 October 1962), better known as Andy McCoy, is a Finnish musician. He is most famous for his role as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of Hanoi Rocks, but has also played with Iggy Pop.
McCoy's works cover a wide range of music genres, including rock 'n' roll, punk rock... | 4,447 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
of their own, but because McCoy was currently in Pelle Miljoona Oy, he told Monroe to start the band without him in 1979. After McCoy left Pelle Miljoona Oy, he joined Monroe in Hanoi Rocks, with another former-Pelle Miljoona Oy member, Sam Yaffa. At this point, the Hanoi Rocks line-up consisted of Michael M... | 4,448 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
and released their second studio album "Oriental Beat" in London. The original cover's back side featured Andy McCoy's then girlfriend Anna's naked breasts painted blue and red with "Hanoi Roxx" written across it. After the album's release, the band moved to London the same year, and subsequently fired drumm... | 4,449 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
Asia for the first time. The next year 1983, the band released "Back to Mystery City" and after that, in 1984, the band worked with producer Bob Ezrin, and released "Two Steps from the Move". Before this, McCoy had written most of the songs by himself, but for this album Bob Ezrin helped McCoy with the writi... | 4,450 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
bassist René Berg), but things didn't work out, so the band disbanded in 1985.
In 2001 McCoy and Michael Monroe started working together again and decided to reform Hanoi Rocks with two new members on guitar and bass, with Michael Monroe's solo career drummer, Lacu. They released "Twelve Shots on the Rocks"... | 4,451 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
gigs in 6 days at Tavastia Club, Helsinki. The original guitarist Nasty Suicide appeared as a special guest on three of the last gigs.
## Other work (1985–1999, 2009–2012).
After Hanoi Rocks' break-up in 1985, McCoy continued with his next project "The Cherry Bombz" which featured the last Hanoi line-up (e... | 4,452 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
and in the United States in 1985 and 1986 and released two EPs and a live album and video, but never a full-length studio album. In 1986, Timo Kaltio was replaced by bassist Dave Tregunna (Sham 69, Lords of the New Church), but the group broke up the next year.
McCoy also worked with Nasty Suicide under the... | 4,453 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
else. In 1988 McCoy released his first solo-album titled "Too Much Ain't Enough." For the rest of 1988 McCoy did some acoustic gigs in Finland, moved to London and then to Los Angeles. Next McCoy struck a record deal with BMG. McCoy also became the first Finnish artist to have a gold record in the US, when S... | 4,454 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
Stradlin). McCoy formed the band Shooting Gallery and married Angela in October 1991. Shooting Gallery toured as an opening act for Kiss during a U.S. tour and also released an album in 1992, before breaking-up that same year. Shooting Gallery shortly came back and toured in Finland with Gyp Casino on drums ... | 4,455 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
which featured McCoy (guitar, vocals), Angela McCoy (vocals), Dan Lagerstedt (guitar, vocals), Andy Christell (bass), Gyp Casino (drums) and Christian André (keyboards). Christell had to soon leave the band for family reasons, so Lagerstedt started to play bass. André was also fired from the band, and they s... | 4,456 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
That same year filmmaker Pekka Lehto started the filming for the movie "The Real McCoy", a half-real, half-fictional bio-pic on McCoy. The film was released in 1999.
After Hanoi officially ended in 2009, Andy McCoy formed a band called "The Real McCoy Band", but this band broke up after just three shows, wh... | 4,457 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
(which he had played before joining Hanoi Rocks) as well as Bam Margera's band in which he toured in Australia in 2015.
# Personal life.
Besides music, Andy McCoy is an avid painter and he also makes a lot of his own and his wife's clothes, along with designing jewellery, scarfs and other accessories. Andy... | 4,458 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
on 17 September 2009 by Bazillion Points Books.
McCoy was previously married to Anastasia Maisonneuve, the ex-girlfriend of his Hanoi Rocks bandmate Michael Monroe, and the former common-law wife of musician Stiv Bators. She and McCoy have a son together named Sebastian. McCoy has been married to Angela Nic... | 4,459 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
his appearance in "Viva la Bam", "" and appeared several times on radio Bam. Bam Margera has a tattoo of Andy McCoy on his right arm.
# Discography.
## Solo.
- Too Much Ain't Enough (1988)
- Building on Tradition (1995)
- The Real McCoy – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1999)
- R'n'R Memorabilia – ... | 4,460 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
Bombz/Hot Girls in Love (Mini-LP) (1985)
- House of Ecstasy (EP) (1986)
- Coming Down Slow (Live) (1987)
## Shooting Gallery.
- "Shooting Gallery" 1992 (Mercury records)
## Grease Helmet.
- "Grease Helmet" (2012)
## Guest appearances.
- Maukka Perusjätkä: Ennen kolmatta maailmansotaa (1980)
- Pete M... | 4,461 |
206544 | Andy McCoy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andy%20McCoy | Andy McCoy
ays guitar on "Screams") (1992)
- The 69 Eyes: Savage Garden ("Wild Talk" with/by McCoy) (1995)
- The 69 Eyes: Velvet Touch (McCoy plays guitar on "TV Eye") (1995)
- Juice Leskinen: Kiveä ja sämpylää (1996)
- XL5: Taas Mennään (Guitar by McCoy) (1996)
- 22 Pistepirkko: Downhill City (McCoy on the song "... | 4,462 |
206515 | Matsu Islands | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matsu%20Islands | Matsu Islands
Matsu Islands
The Matsu Islands (; Fuzhou dialect: Mā-cū liĕk-dō̤ or less frequently, ; Fuzhou dialect: Mā-cū dō̤) are a minor archipelago of 36 islands and islets in the East China Sea administered as Lienchiang County (; Fuzhou dialect: Lièng-gŏng gâing) under streamlined Fujian Province, Republic of C... | 4,463 |
206515 | Matsu Islands | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matsu%20Islands | Matsu Islands
along the coast of Fujian, namely the Kinmen Islands and the Wuqiu Islands, which together make up Kinmen County.
# Name.
The Lienchiang name is derived from the original Lianjiang County of Fujian province in Mainland China. In April 2003, the county government started considering changing the name to ... | 4,464 |
206515 | Matsu Islands | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matsu%20Islands | Matsu Islands
() (today Changle, Fujian). The popular net fishing industry had established the base for development of Fuao settlement and industrial development of the region over several hundred years.
## Ming Dynasty.
Some crewmen of Zheng He temporarily stayed on the islands.
## Qing Dynasty.
During the early Q... | 4,465 |
206515 | Matsu Islands | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matsu%20Islands | Matsu Islands
the Dongyong Lighthouse in Dongyin Island in 1912 to facilitate ships navigation.
## Republic of China.
In 1911, the Qing Dynasty was toppled after the Xinhai Revolution on 10 October 1911 and the Republic of China (ROC) was established on 1 January 1912. Matsu Islands was subsequently governed under th... | 4,466 |
206515 | Matsu Islands | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matsu%20Islands | Matsu Islands
covers the Lianjiang County of Fujian. The KMT subsequently retreated from mainland China to Taiwan in end of 1949.
After their retreat, the KMT retained the offshore part from the original Lianjiang County located on Matsu Islands, and also all of Kinmen County. In July 1958 the PRC began massing forces... | 4,467 |
206515 | Matsu Islands | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matsu%20Islands | Matsu Islands
"Quemoy and Matsu" became part of American political language in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. During the debates, both candidates, Vice-President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy, pledged to use American forces if necessary to protect Taiwan from invasion by the PRC, which the United Stat... | 4,468 |
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were not essential to the defense of Taiwan. On the contrary, Vice-President Nixon maintained that since Quemoy and Matsu were in the "area of freedom," they should not be surrendered to the Communists as a matter of "principle."
Self governance of the county resumed in 1992 after the normalization of th... | 4,469 |
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from mainland China could directly apply the Exit and Entry Permit upon arrival in Matsu Islands. This privilege also applies to Penghu and Kinmen as means to boost tourism in the outlying islands of Taiwan.
# Geography.
The Matsu Islands comprise 19 islands and islets, which include five major islands,... | 4,470 |
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the Chinese Mainland.
- The soil is not ideal for farming.
- The highest point is on Beigan, 298 metres.
Areas:
- Nangan:
- Beigan:
- Dongyin:
- Juguang islands: see Juguang
## Climate.
Average annual temperature is 18.6 °C, with the average low being at 13 °C and average high at 29 °C. The daily... | 4,471 |
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County under the Fujian Provincial Government. Nangan Township is the county seat which houses the Lienchiang County Government and Lienchiang County Council. The county is headed by a magistrate which is elected every four years in the ROC local elections. The incumbent magistrate is Liu Cheng-ying of Ku... | 4,472 |
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Politics.
Lienchang County voted one Kuomintang legislator out of one seat to be in the Legislative Yuan during the 2016 Republic of China legislative election.
## Cross-Strait Relations.
Since March 2019, the Lienchiang Cross-Strait Matters Forum started as an official forum between Lianchiang County ... | 4,473 |
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stationed in the county since the end of Chinese Civil War in 1949 and during the First and Second Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1954 and 1958 respectively. Due to that high military demand large numbers of military personnel stationed on the islands produced unprecedented population growth in the county. The p... | 4,474 |
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due to the improved transportation between Taiwan Island and Matsu Islands as well as mass construction projects.
## Language.
Mandarin Chinese is the official language of Lienchiang County. The native language spoken by Matsu residents is Matsu dialect, a subdialect of Fuzhou dialect.
## Name.
Chen (... | 4,475 |
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Tianhou Temple (), a temple dedicated to the goddess, contains the sarcophagus of Lin Muoniang. It is, however, not as popular as the Meizhou temple.
Most Taiwanese pilgrims to Meizhou start off their journey in the Matsu Islands because they are the closest ROC-controlled territory to Meizhou, which is ... | 4,476 |
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military consumption. Farm products of Matsu include rice, sugar cane, tea plant, orange. Sea animals, such as fish, clams, and jellyfish, are also popular exports due to its nature as the major traditional industry in Matsu. However, the flourish of fishing ground is almost exhausted by arbitrary fish bo... | 4,477 |
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Plant located in Cingshuei Village of Nangan Township with a capacity of 15.4 MW commissioned on 22 March 2010. The other power plant is Xiju Power Plant in Xiju Island of Juguang Township.
## Pollution.
Generally, the environment of Matsu Islands is still good. The major source of pollution is from fam... | 4,478 |
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of Matsu and it is noted for its granite tunnel and the Iron Fort. It has two interconnected main roads.
The Beihai Tunnels are manmade granite tunnels. Both tunnels were remarkable for their time, and they took great effort to construct. The tunnel in Nangan was built in 1968. The completion of Beihai T... | 4,479 |
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Located by a small cliff, it is a vulnerable spot for outside attacks or illegal smuggling of materials. With that in mind, the fort was built for defence. It is equipped with multiple machinegun rooms and rudimentary living facilities. It is now open to the public, and although most of the equipment has ... | 4,480 |
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30 species in 15 orders, mostly gulls and terns. In 2000, four pairs of the critically endangered Chinese crested tern, previously thought to be extinct, were discovered nesting on the Matsu Islands, giving them global conservation importance.
There are also mosses and ferns rare or absent elsewhere in t... | 4,481 |
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Air.
Both Nangan and Beigan have airports which are the Matsu Nangan Airport and Matsu Beigan Airport respectively. Dongyin and Juguang (in Xiju Island) house heliports which only operates during winter time and priority is given to local residents to travel to Nangan.
## Water.
Due to the fact that th... | 4,482 |
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the journey takes only 20 minutes.
## Road.
Due to their size, travelling by motorized scooter is an ideal way to get around the main islands such as Nangan and Beigan. Both Islands have regular buses and taxis are also economical.
# See also.
- Lianjiang County
- Administrative divisions of the Repu... | 4,483 |
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y takes only 20 minutes.
## Road.
Due to their size, travelling by motorized scooter is an ideal way to get around the main islands such as Nangan and Beigan. Both Islands have regular buses and taxis are also economical.
# See also.
- Lianjiang County
- Administrative divisions of the Republic of Ch... | 4,484 |
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Simple living
Simple living encompasses a number of different voluntary practices to simplify one's lifestyle. These may include, for example, reducing one's possessions, generally referred to as "minimalism", or increasing self-sufficiency. Simple living may be characterized by individuals being satisfi... | 4,485 |
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in quality time for family and friends, work–life balance, personal taste, financial sustainability, frugality, or reducing stress. Simple living can also be a reaction to materialism and conspicuous consumption. Some cite socio-political goals aligned with the environmentalist, anti-consumerist or anti-w... | 4,486 |
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his disciples "to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics."
Various notable individuals have claimed that spiritual inspiration led them to a simple living lifestyle, such as Benedict of Nursia, Francis of Assis... | 4,487 |
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a simple life was necessary for virtue, and was said to have lived in a wine jar.
Plain people are Christian groups who have for centuries practised lifestyles in which some forms of wealth or technology are excluded for religious or philosophical reasons. Groups include the Shakers, Mennonites, Amish, H... | 4,488 |
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that the Bruderhof don't have electricity are also false.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau strongly praised the simple life in many of his writings, especially in his "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences" (1750) and "Discourse on Inequality" (1754).
## Secular.
Epicureanism, based on the teachings of the Athens-ba... | 4,489 |
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necessary for happiness, bodily comfort, and life itself should be maintained at minimal cost, while all things beyond what is necessary for these should either be tempered by moderation or completely avoided.
Henry David Thoreau, an American naturalist and author, is often considered to have made the cl... | 4,490 |
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Edward Carpenter, William Morris, and the members of the "Fellowship of the New Life". Carpenter popularised the phrase the "Simple Life" in his essay "Simplification of Life" in his "England's Ideal" (1887).
C.R. Ashbee and his followers also practised some of these ideas, thus linking simplicity with t... | 4,491 |
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mineralogist, development critic, writer, and artist, is known as the Thoreau of Maine. He lived a wilderness lifestyle, advocating through his creative work a simple life and reverence for nature. During the 1920s and 1930s, the Vanderbilt Agrarians of the Southern United States advocated a lifestyle and... | 4,492 |
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(1936). From the 1920s, a number of modern authors articulated both the theory and practice of living simply, among them Gandhian Richard Gregg, economists Ralph Borsodi and Scott Nearing, anthropologist-poet Gary Snyder, and utopian fiction writer Ernest Callenbach. E. F. Schumacher argued against the no... | 4,493 |
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developed with the "Ethify Yourself" project in Austria, having a simplified life style in mind and accompanied by an online book (2011). In the United States voluntary simplicity started to garner more public exposure through a movement in the late 1990s around a popular "simplicity" book, "The Simple Li... | 4,494 |
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states ideas are simply just thoughts, but implementing and acting on these ideas in our own lives is what will make it habitual, and allowing a change in mindset. Leo Babauta believes finding beauty and joy in less, is what advocates the thought of "more is better" to be untrue. It is quality over quanti... | 4,495 |
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what drove their impulses to keep buying and filling this void of acceptance and approval. Realizing there was this emptiness of being able to get anything they want, there was no meaning behind what they had. This called for a change in mindset with what they see as important and truly valuable before th... | 4,496 |
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to improve their quality of life, for example pursuing creative activities such as art and crafts. Developing a detachment from money has led some individuals, such as Suelo and Mark Boyle, to live with no money at all. Reducing expenses may also lead to increasing savings, which can lead to financial ind... | 4,497 |
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a different value over their homes. Joshua Becker suggests simplifying the place that they live for those who desire to live this lifestyle. He addresses the fact that the purpose of a home is a place for safety and belonging. Many get caught up over all of the space they have in their house and feel the ... | 4,498 |
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and simple life is to stop consuming and start producing. This is a sentiment shared by an increasing number of people, including those belonging to the millennial generation such as writer and eco blogger Jennifer Nini, who left the city to live off-grid, grow food, and "be a part of the solution; not pa... | 4,499 |
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