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Britons in Japan make up one of the slightly larger foreign resident communities in Japan.
Overview
As of June 2022, according to data released by the Ministry of Justice Immigration Bureau, there were 17,311 people from the United Kingdom who were classified as either permanent or long-term residents in Japan.
Professional associations
The British Chamber of Commerce in Japan is an independent non-profit organisation that promotes trade and networking opportunities for member firms and business professionals living and working in Japan.
Education
The British School in Tokyo provides an English language based educational curriculum for students of over 50 different nationalities and serves a number of children of British heritage living in the city.
See also
United Kingdom–Japan relations
Japanese in the United Kingdom
British Embassy, Tokyo
References
British diaspora in Asia
European diaspora in Japan
Japan | wiki |
The Squaw Ridge lava field, also known as the East Lava Field, is a young basaltic field located in the U.S. state of Oregon southeast of Newberry Volcano. The flow erupted from the Lava Mountain shield and is likely related to the Four Craters Lava Field, both of which were created after Mount Mazama erupted.
Notable Vents
See also
List of volcanoes in the United States
Types of volcanic eruptions
References
Volcanic fields of Oregon
Landforms of Lake County, Oregon
Lava fields | wiki |
A Little Less Sixteen Candles, a Little More "Touch Me" – trzeci, a zarazem ostatni singel z albumu From Under the Cork Tree amerykańskiego zespołu Fall Out Boy. Pete w teledysku wcielił się w rolę wampira.
Single Fall Out Boy
Single wydane w roku 2006 | wiki |
"So Hard Done By" is a song by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It was released in May 1995 as the fourth single from the band's 1994 album, Day for Night. A different version is also on the 2014 re-issue of Fully Completely.
Charts
References
1994 songs
1995 singles
The Tragically Hip songs | wiki |
The Laws of Physics (Science & Discovery) () is a book by Milton A. Rothman, published in 1963. It describes some fundamental laws of physics in language that is both easy and pleasant to read.
References
Popular physics books
1963 non-fiction books | wiki |
Dinosaur Ridge is a ridge in Colorado, United States.
Dinosaur Ridge may also refer to:
Dinosaur Ridge (Gangwon), a ridge in Gangwon-do, South Korea
Dinosaur Ridge (Alberta), a ridge in Alberta, Canada | wiki |
Caesium bicarbonate or cesium bicarbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CsHCO3. It can be produced through the following reaction:
Cs2CO3 + CO2 + H2O → 2 CsHCO3
The compound can be used for synthesizing caesium salts, but less common than caesium carbonate.
References
Caesium compounds
Bicarbonates | wiki |
Совє́тськ:
Совєтськ — місто в Калінінградській області Росії.
Совєтськ — місто в Кіровській області Росії.
Совєтськ — місто в Тульській області Росії.
Див. також
Совєтське
Совєтський | wiki |
Martin Štrba may refer to:
Martin Štrba (cinematographer)
Martin Štrba (ice hockey) | wiki |
In a particle detector experiment, event reconstruction is the process of interpreting the electronic signals produced by the detector to determine the original particles that passed through, their momenta, directions, and the primary vertex of the event. Thus the initial physical process (for instance, that occurred at the interaction point of the particle accelerator), whose study is the ultimate goal of the experiment, can be determined. The total event reconstruction is not always possible and necessary; in some cases, only a part of the data described above is obtained and processed.
Experimental particle physics | wiki |
The Drama Desk Special Award is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements by an individual or an organization that has made a significant contribution to the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions.
Winners and nominees
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
See also
Society of London Theatre Special Award
Special Tony Award
References
External links
Drama Desk official website
Special | wiki |
A connoisseur is a person who has expert knowledge in matters of taste or the fine arts.
Connoisseur may also refer to:
In arts and media:
Connoisseur Media, a US radio station holding company
The Connoisseur (magazine), a periodical on fine art, collectables and antique furniture founded in 1901, closed in 1992
The Connoisseur (newspaper), a London weekly 18th century newspaper
The Connoisseur, a 1962 work by Norman Rockwell
Connoisseur Society, a US audiophile classical and music jazz record label
Other uses:
Connoisseur (Hi-Fi), a British manufacturer of Hi-Fi equipment
Connoisseur Grammar School, a private school in Pakistan
Connoisseur's Bakery, a bakery company in Northern Ireland
The Connoisseur car, a long-distance passenger railway carriage
Rover 75 Connoisseur, a British luxury motor car | wiki |
Snow Place Like Home may refer to:
A 1948 Popeye cartoon
Chapter IV of the episodically released King's Quest (2015) | wiki |
Big & Betsy is a Belgian children's television series produced by Studio 100. The show is centred on the female farmer Betsy, her talking pig Big and their friends.
In 1999, the duo Big and Betsy announced children's television shows for Kanaal 2. This proved very successful and they were given their own television series in November 2000. Approximately 75 episodes have been made. There are a number of Big and Betsy songs, including "The Big Song" which was an animated hit on the Internet.
Characters
References
External links
2000s Belgian television series
2000 Belgian television series debuts
2003 Belgian television series endings
Belgian children's television shows
Fictional farmers
Television series about pigs
Television duos
Children's television characters
Television shows adapted into comics
Belgian television shows featuring puppetry | wiki |
Whiteout is a snowmobile racing video game published by Konami for PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox in 2002.
Reception
The PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2002 video games
Konami games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 2 games
Racing video games
Vicarious Visions games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Xbox games | wiki |
Christopher Moore, Chris Moore
Christopher Moore – amerykański pisarz
Christopher W. Moore – amerykański mediator
Christopher Liam Moore – amerykański aktor
Chris Moore – amerykański producent filmowy
Chris Moore – amerykański muzyk | wiki |
The team portable apparatus was an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics. It was only held at the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games. While it is no longer officially contested, it did contain many similarities to modern day rhythmic gymnastics.
Medalists
Team medal counts
References
Team portable apparatus | wiki |
Conati is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Cristina Conati, Italian and Canadian computer scientist
Gianfranco Conati, Italian soldier in World War II, captain of 8th Paratroopers Engineers Regiment (Italy)
Luciano Conati (1950–2016), Italian cyclist
Italian-language surnames | wiki |
Pokkiri refers to two Indian films:
Pokiri, 2006 Telugu film
Pokkiri, 2007 Tamil film
See also
Pokkiri Raja (disambiguation) | wiki |
The black-chinned laughingthrush or rufous-breasted laughingthrush has been split into the following species:
Nilgiri laughingthrush, Montecincla cachinnans
Banasura laughingthrush, Montecincla jerdoni
Birds by common name | wiki |
The term epidural (from Ancient Greek ἐπί, "on, upon" + dura mater) is an adjective referring to the epidural space, part of the spinal canal in mammals. The term is most commonly used to refer to epidural administration of analgesics and anesthetics.
It may also refer to:
Anatomy
Epidural administration
Epidural space
Epidural venous plexus
Anaesthesia
Epidural needle (Tuohy needle)
Epidural blood patch
Caudal epidural
Combined spinal and epidural anaesthesia (CSE)
Epidural steroid injection
Patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA)
Pathology
Epidural abscess
Epidural haematoma | wiki |
A hard disk drive is a computer storage device containing rigid rotating platters.
Hard Drive may also refer to:
Solid-state drive, a computer storage device that has no moving parts
Hard Drive (The Sorry Kisses album), a 2008 album by The Sorry Kisses
Hard Drive (Art Blakey album), a 1957 album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Hard Drive (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
HardDrive (radio show), a rock radio show
Hard Drive, a 1993 techno-thriller novel by David Pogue
Hard Drive (film), a film starring John Cusack
Hard Drive (website), a satirical video game vertical published by The Hard Times
See also
Hardrive, an American garage house production and remix team better known as Masters at Work | wiki |
"Best Friends" is a song by rapper Froggy Fresh from his debut album, Money Maker (Re-Loaded). It was originally released on May 31, 2012, under the name Krispy Kreme. The song was accompanied by a music video, just as "The Baddest", and all other of Froggy's songs. The video, Froggy's third overall, has accumulated over 6.5 million views, as of December 1, 2013.
Release
"Best Friends" was released following "The Baddest", and "Haters Wanna Be Me". Both of the preceding songs thrust Froggy into the spotlight.
Music video
The music video depicted the friendship between Froggy Fresh, and Money Maker Mike. It also displays the "beef" that Mike has with the main antagonist of Froggy's raps, James. James, a drug lord, kidnaps Mike. This propels Froggy to salvage his friendship, by rescuing Mike.
Reception
The music video, just as Froggy's previous two, as well as his subsequent videos, went viral, being featured on Complex, and CollegeHumor, among other online publications.
One source used the video as a criticism and point to determine that Froggy is a troll.
The video was highlighted for having a more serious tone than his previous works. Froggy's shout out to rapper Tupac Shakur, at the end of the song, was also heavily noted.
References
2012 songs
American hip hop songs
Viral videos
2012 YouTube videos
Songs about friendship | wiki |
Nel 2021 è stato inserito fra i membri del Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in qualità di contributore.
Palmarès
2 volte NBA Coach of the Year (1979, 1989)
Note
Collegamenti esterni
Membri del Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame | wiki |
The term Celtic astrology may refer to
Various systems of astrology invented by enthusiasts of Robert Graves Celtic Tree Alphabet, (ogham), see Celtic Astrology (Graves)
hypothetical astrological systems of the prehistoric Celts, see Celtic calendar | wiki |
Raiffeisen International Bank Holding est une entreprise autrichienne qui fait partie de l'indice ATX.
En , Raiffeisen Zentralbank annonce fusionner avec Raiffeisen International Bank, sa filiale, reprenant son nom.
Références
Lien externe
Entreprise fondée en 1991
Banque ayant son siège en Autriche
Entreprise de l'ATX | wiki |
Sheep Ridge Wilderness was designated in 1984, and it covers in the Croatan National Forest in eastern North Carolina. The Wilderness Area is a vast wetland, and it lacks trails and campsites. Travel through this wilderness is difficult.
See also
List of U.S. Wilderness Areas
Wilderness Act
References
External links
Sheep Ridge Wilderness, Wilderness.net website
Protected areas of Craven County, North Carolina
IUCN Category Ib
Croatan National Forest
Protected areas established in 1984
Wilderness areas of North Carolina
1984 establishments in North Carolina | wiki |
This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Belgium. For other countries, see: List of World War II aces by country.
B
D
H
L
M
O
P
V
References
Belgium
Aces
World War II Aces
World War II Aces
Belgian World War II flying aces | wiki |
Trench shoring is the process of bracing the walls of a trench to prevent collapse and cave-ins. The phrase can also be used as a noun to refer to the materials used in the process.
Several methods can be used to shore up a trench. Hydraulic shoring is the use of hydraulic pistons that can be pumped outward until they press up against the trench walls. This is typically combined with steel plate or a special heavy plywood called Finform. Another method is called beam and plate, in which steel I-beams are driven into the ground and steel plates are slid in amongst them. A similar method that uses wood planks is called soldier boarding. Hydraulics tend to be faster and easier; the other methods tend to be used for longer term applications or larger excavations.
Shoring should not be confused with shielding by means of trench shields. Shoring is designed to prevent collapse, whilst shielding is only designed to protect workers should collapse occur. Most professionals agree that shoring is the safer approach of the two.
See also
Retaining wall
References
Geotechnical shoring structures
Cuts (earthmoving) | wiki |
This is a list of Portuguese winter football transfers for the 2015–16 season. The winter transfer window opened on 1 January 2016 and closed on 31 January 2016. Players could be bought before the transfer window opened, but could not join their new clubs until 1 January. Additionally, players without a club could join at any time and clubs were able to sign a goalkeeper on an emergency loan if they had no registered goalkeeper available. Only moves involving Primeira Liga clubs are listed. This list includes transfers featuring Primeira Liga clubs which completed transfers after the closing of the summer 2015 transfer window due to other domestic leagues having a later closure date to their transfer window.
Transfers
Some players may have been bought after the end of the 2015 summer transfer window in Portugal but before the end of that country's transfer window closed.
References
2015–16 in Portuguese football
Football transfers winter 2015–16
Lists of Portuguese football transfers | wiki |
In botany, waterleaf can mean:
Any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum
Any plant which is a member of the waterleaf family, Hydrophylloideae
Talinum fruticosum, a leaf vegetable of the family Talinaceae
In architecture, waterleaf means:
Waterleaf (architecture), sculptural decoration used on the capitals of columns in late twelfth century Romanesque architecture | wiki |
NGC 7415-1
NGC 7415-2 | wiki |
The Latin Bit is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Blue Note label. It is a loose concept album inspired by Latin American music. It features tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec, pianists Sonny Clark and John Adriano Acea, bassist Wendell Marshall and percussionists Willie Bobo, Garvin Masseaux and “Patato” Valdes.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 3½ stars and stated "This CD always yielded mixed results for staunch fans of Green, but a revisit shows it to be a credible effort, even if slightly flawed in part".
Track listing
All compositions by Grant Green except where noted
"Mambo Inn" (Mario Bauzá, Edgar Sampson, Bobby Woodlen) – 5:52
"Bésame Mucho" (Consuelo Velázquez) – 7:12
"Mama Inez" (L. Wolfe Gilbert, Eliseo Grenet) – 6:42
"Brazil" (Ary Barroso) – 5:01
"Tico Tico" (Zequinha de Abreu) – 7:46
"My Little Suede Shoes" (Charlie Parker) – 6:23
Bonus track on CD reissue:
"Blues for Juanita" – 7:06
"Granada" (Agustín Lara) – 6:27
"Hey There" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) – 7:24
Recorded on April 26 (tracks 1-7) and September 7 (tracks 8-9), 1962.
Personnel
Grant Green - guitar
Ike Quebec - tenor saxophone (tracks 8-9)
John Adriano Acea (tracks 1-7), Sonny Clark (tracks 8-9) - piano
Wendell Marshall - bass
Willie Bobo - drums
Carlos "Patato" Valdes - conga (tracks 1-6, 8-9)
Garvin Masseaux - chekere (tracks 1-6)
Charts
References
Blue Note Records albums
Grant Green albums
1963 albums
Albums produced by Alfred Lion
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio | wiki |
A Norwegian passport (, ) is the passport issued to nationals of Norway for the purpose of international travel. Beside serving as proof of Norwegian citizenship, they facilitate the process of securing assistance from Norwegian consular officials abroad (or public officials in the mission of another Nordic country in case a Norwegian consular official is absent).
The passport, along with the national identity card allows for the freedom of movement in any of the states of the European Free Trade Association and the European Economic Area. This is because Norway is a member state of EFTA, and by virtue of it also being a member of the EEA and part of the Schengen Area. For travel within the Nordic countries no identity documentation is legally required for Nordic citizens due to the Nordic Passport Union.
Types of passport
Norway issues seven types of passports and travel documents:
Ordinary Norwegian passport, issued to Norwegian citizens. Their covers are red. Passports issued to adult are valid for 10 years.
Emergency passports, sporting white covers.
Diplomatic passports, sporting turquoise covers.
Service passports, sporting turquoise covers.
Special passports, sporting turquoise covers.
Immigrant passport, issued to those who lack Norwegian citizenship and have a residence permit in Norway, but cannot get a passport from their country of citizenship. Their covers are grey. Holders are not permitted to travel to their country of citizenship with the passport.
Immigrant passport for a single journey, issued to those who lack Norwegian citizenship and have a residence permit in Norway, but cannot get a passport from their country of citizenship in time for a sudden trip abroad. Their covers are also grey. The passport may only be used for a single journey.
Refugee travel document, issued to those granted asylum in Norway. Their covers are blue.
Physical appearance and data contained
Current Norwegian passports are red in colour, with the coat of arms of Norway emblazoned in the top left of the front cover. The words "Kongeriket Norge", "Kongeriket Noreg", "Norgga gonagasriika" and "Kingdom of Norway" ("Kingdom of Norway" in Bokmål and Nynorsk (the two forms of Norwegian), Northern Sami and English respectively) are inscribed in the bottom left corner and the word "Pass", "Pássa" and "Passport" emblazoned below the name of the country. In the bottom right corner is the standard biometric symbol.
The pre-october 2020 version of the regular Norwegian passports was burgundy in colour, similar but not identical to the design of most EU countries. It had the coat of arms of Norway emblazoned in the top of the front cover. The words "NORGE", "NOREG" and "NORWAY" ("Norway" in Bokmål, Nynorsk and English, respectively) are inscribed below the coat of arms and the word "PASS" and "PASSPORT" emblazoned below the name of the country. Biometric passports have the standard biometric symbol at the bottom.
Identity information page
The current version Norwegian passport includes the following data:
Photo of passport holder
Type (a two-letter code beginning with "P")
Code of Issuing State (NOR)
Passport No.
Surname
Given Names
Nationality (NORSK/ NORWEGIAN)
Date of birth
Date of issue
Date of expiry
Issuing authority (The police district)
Sex
Height
Place of birth (Three letter country code, NOR for those born in Norway)
CAN (six digit number)
The holder's signature and Personal No. was included on the information page in the previous passport version but was moved in the current version.
The information page ends with the machine-readable zone starting with "P<NOR", the previous version started with "PxNOR, where x indicated the type of passport. For example, ordinary passports contained "PVNOR", where the "V" presumably means "vanlig" ("ordinary" in Norwegian.)
Biometric data
According to Council Regulation (EC) 2252/2004 and 444/2009, Norwegian passports have to comply with minimum security standards. Norway is bound by the regulations as they constitute a development of provisions of the Schengen acquis within the meaning of the Agreement concluded by the Council of the European Union and Iceland and Norway.
The biometric passports contain a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip containing the passport's printed data in a digital format along with the photograph in a JPEG format and with a digital key to verify that the data contained is authentic and hasn't been tampered with. Fingerprint data was required to be stored on Schengen member states’ passports from 2009. Norway started storing fingerprint data of persons applying for a new passport on 6 April 2010.
Languages
For ordinary and emergency passports, the data page/information pages are printed in Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Northern Sami and English. Northern Sámi was added in 2020. However, for diplomatic, service and special passports, all content (including the cover and inner pages) are printed in English and French only.
Until the 1990s, the data and information pages of ordinary passports were printed in Norwegian, French, English and German. French and German were dropped when the data were moved to just one page.
New passports
The Norwegian Police Directorate and Kripos (the national unit for combating organized and other serious crime) launched a design competition for new passports, ID-cards and travel documents. It was later announced that the winner of the competition was “The Norwegian Landscape” by Neue Design Studio, an Oslo-based graphic design company.
The new passports were set to be issued in 2016. But first Neue had to work closely with the National Police Directorate in order to combine the winning design with the necessary security measures that are required of passports. The purpose of the competition was to redesign the document with a high quality of design whilst still serving its purpose and functionality. Further, the new design was to increase the security of Norwegian passports, ID-cards and travel documents.
In 2016 it was announced that the introduction of new passports was postponed to the middle of 2018. In August 2019 it was announced that the introduction of new passports was postponed for the seventh time, to October 2020. The new passports were introduced on 19 October 2020.
National ID card
Norwegian national ID cards were released 30 November 2020. As an alternative to presenting a passport, Norwegian citizens are entitled to use a valid national identity card to exercise their right of free movement within EFTA the EEA, and Svalbard.
Furthermore, the card can be used as a travel document to the European Microstates, Balkan countries, French Overseas Territories, Montserrat (for max. 14 days) and organized tours to Tunisia.
It was usable to the United Kingdom until 1 October 2021.
Issuing
Application is done at special passport offices or embassies. As of 2021 there were 79 indoor offices (including one in Svalbard) and 43 locations for mobile (bus) offices. Emergency passports are only issued at major Norwegian airports (Oslo-Gardermoen, Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim) or embassies.
Identification requirements
When doing the application identification of the applicant is needed. This is done by:
Showing a Norwegian passport, valid or expired, if having any (if stolen or lost, must be reported as such)
If having no Norwegian passport, showing a valid Norwegian identity card, e.g. bank card
If having no identity document, a document such as a letter from employer or school certifying the identity
New citizens need a letter of approval of Norwegian citizenship, the Residence permit card, and passport from the other country or Refugee travel document
The identity is clarified when there is no doubt that the information or documents that the applicant has given supports the applicants identity.
Different spellings of the same name
Names containing special letters (æ, ø, å) are spelled the correct way in the non-machine-readable zone, but are mapped in the machine-readable zone, æ becoming "AE", ø becoming "OE", and å becoming "AA". This follows the standard for machine-readable passports, which must not contain letters other than A–Z.
Manufacturing defect
Machine-readable Norwegian passports issued between 1999 and 2005 suffered from a manufacturing defect that could result in the identity page coming loose, thus invalidating the passport. The Norwegian passport authorities replaced such passports free of charge.
Visa requirements
Visa requirements for Norwegian citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Norway. Norwegian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 185 countries and territories, ranking the Norwegian passport 7th overall in terms of travel freedom (tied with the Czech Republic, Greece, Malta, the United Kingdom and the United States) according to the Henley Passport Index.
As a member state of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), Norwegian citizens enjoy freedom of movement to live and work in other EFTA countries in accordance with the EFTA convention. Moreover, by virtue of Norway's membership of the European Economic Area (EEA), Norwegian citizens also enjoy freedom of movement within all EEA member states. The Citizens’ Rights Directive defines the right of free movement for citizens of the EEA, and all EFTA and EU citizens are not only visa-exempt but are legally entitled to enter and reside in each other's countries.
See also
Norwegian nationality law
Visa requirements for Norwegian citizens
Passports of the EFTA member states
Norwegian identity card
References
General references
Council regulation 539/2001
Council regulation 1932/2006
Council regulation 539/2001 consolidated version, 19.1.2007
Specific citations
External links
About Passport and ID Card on Norwegian Police Service
Norwegian Passport Info on PRADO
Images of a 1923 Norwegian passport on Passportland
Norway
Foreign relations of Norway
European Economic Area
European Free Trade Association | wiki |
SkyRider is an airliner saddle seat, a type of airplane seat shaped similar to a horse saddle. It was designed by the Italian firm Aviointeriors and reduces economy-class seating spacing (seat pitch) from an average of 32- to 30-inches, to 23-inches (58cm), a 25% decrease. The creator describes it as for use for ultra-high density seating configurations, allowing up to 40% increase in passenger capacity.
The seat was designed to reduce ticket prices and increase profits. It is for use on flights less than 3-hours in duration. The company notes that cowboys ride in similar style seats for more than 8-hours a day in comfort. The seat requires passengers to be seated partially upright, with their weight taken up by their legs. The seat does not recline, and leaves the occupant's knees in contact with the seat in front of them. The seat still contains a fold-down tray, and back of seat pocket, both for storage of carry-on items. The design was unveiled at the 2010 Aircraft Interiors Expo Americas on 13 September 2010, in Long Beach, California, US.
The design is superficially similar to the vertical seat design proposed by RyanAir. This stand-up seat design was met with initial skepticism by the safety and licensing authority, the European Aviation Safety Agency and the UK Civil Aviation Authority, and has not yet been licensed for use. However, the SkyRider is not expected to meet with as much regulatory resistance as the RyanAir seat.
The SkyRider seat is not currently approved by the FAA for use in the USA.
References
External links
Sunday Morning Herald, "Saddle up: world's smallest airline seat unveiled", Craig Platt, 14 September 2010 (accessed 15 September 2010)
Aircraft cabin components
Airliner seating | wiki |
Peak debt is a term meaning borrowing limit, in the same way peak water is a term meaning water limit.
Peak debt is the stage at which an economy or an individual's debt servicing costs become so high relative to income that spending must slow down or stop. The term 'peak debt' was coined by Jaswant Jain PhD in 2006. Jain concluded that debt will eventually reach a limit at which point consumption must be reduced to pay the debt and interest. This reduction in consumption will inevitably have a deflationary or disinflationary effect.
Seemingly, the first person to use peak debt in relation to house prices was Michael McNamara. He contends that, specifically house prices have risen dramatically through the increased borrowing power of purchasers. This was facilitated through rapidly expanding loan to valuation ratios adopted by lenders since the deregulation of financial markets in the early 1980s. Logically, the argument posed states that as growth in credit slows limited by incomes, so too shall the price growth in housing become more subdued.
Since then, growth in asset markets and median property values have been outstripping incomes in many countries, and some people believe the corresponding international, national and household debt levels are unsustainable. To many people, it seems impossible for prices to keep rising faster than incomes, because eventually so much would be spent on debt servicing costs that there would be no money remaining for anything else.
Some observers such as Professor Steve Keen of University of Western Sydney, believe that many countries are hurtling towards peak debt, fueled by excess borrowing and an addiction to credit. To such observers, it appears illogical to take on ever increasing debt just to bid against each other for the same assets. Nations must at some stage reach their maximum debt limit. The timeframe for reaching this limit is always unknown but some believe we are at that limit already, or very close, in many countries.
Ron Laszewski attempts to determine the peak debt limit for America in his 2008 Peak Debt paper. Since the Bureau of Economic Analysis has statistics on how much Americans earn, how much they save, and how much they spend on debt servicing, it was possible for Laszewski to estimate how close America might be to a peak debt limit.
The term 'peak debt' has similar origins to other 'peaks' such as peak oil, peak water, peak food, peak minerals, and peak population.
Articles
Notes
Debt | wiki |
The ECHL presents numerous annual awards to recognize its teams, players, front office staff, and media contributors. The first awards were given out in recognition of the achievements of the league's teams and players in the league's inaugural season of 1989 and included the Jack Riley Cup and Brabham Cup awarded to the league's teams and the Most Valuable Player, Playoffs Most Valuable Player, Rookie of the Year, Defenseman of the Year, Coach of the Year, and Leading Scorer awards to the league's players. The league has added many other awards since the league's inception including, the Goaltender of the Year award in 1994, the Sportsmanship Award in 1997, separate titles for each of its conference playoff champions in 1998, and the Plus Performer Award in 2000.
Team trophies
Individual trophies and awards
Staff and miscellaneous awards
Gallery
References
See also
ECHL | wiki |
The Muppets on Puppets is a 1970 TV special created by Jim Henson. The special was produced in June 1968 at public television station WITF-TV in Hershey, Pennsylvania, for National Educational Television (now PBS). It aired on New York's WNET on January 5, 1970, as part of the station's Adventure in the Arts anthology series. Henson and company made three additional specials in color as part of the series at WITF-TV. The special is included as a bonus feature on the DVD set The Muppet Show: Season Three. This release includes a few audio drop-outs due to the video source.
Plot
Jim Henson and Rowlf the Dog explain the arts of puppet building and puppeteering as well as describing the different type of puppets used in his performances.
Cast
Jim Henson - Himself
Jerry Juhl - Himself
Frank Oz - Himself
Don Sahlin - Himself
Muppet performers
Jim Henson - Kermit the Frog, Rowlf the Dog, King Fred, King Goshposh, Rock and Roll Monster (Middle Head), Southern Colonel, Wontkins
Frank Oz - Beautiful Day Monster, Gretel the Cow, Little Girl Sue, Princess Gwendolynda, Right Hand of Southern Colonel, Rock and Roll Monster (Right Head), Splurge
Jerry Juhl - Charlie, Grump, Hansel, Henrietta, Rock and Roll Monster (Left Head), Scritch the Witch, Taminella Grinderfall
Credits
Writer: Jerry Juhl
Host: Jim Henson
Puppeteers: Frank Oz, and Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl
Puppet builder: Donald Sahlin
Piano Music: Dennis Stoner
Historical Puppets Courtesy Of: Bil Baird and Milton Hapert
Settings: Charles Rice
Lighting: Bill Coss
Technical Supervision: Larry Winemiller, John Bosak
Producer and Director: Tim Steele
External links
The Muppets on Puppets at Muppet Wiki
1970 television specials
The Muppets television specials | wiki |
REpower Systems, devenue Senvion, est une société anonyme allemande dans le domaine de l'énergie éolienne;
Repower est une entreprise suisse d’approvisionnement énergétique. | wiki |
Killjoys is a Canadian space adventure drama television series that aired on Space channel in Canada. The show was officially ordered to series on October 7, 2013, with a ten-episode pick-up. In April 2014, it was announced that Syfy would co-produce the series, and the first season premiered June 19, 2015.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
Season 2 (2016)
Season 3 (2017)
Season 4 (2018)
Season 5 (2019)
References
External links
Killjoys | wiki |
Opel Automobile is a German car manufacturer.
Opel may also refer to:
OPEL Networks, a former Australian telecommunications provider
Opel (album), an album by musician Syd Barrett
People
Adam Opel (1837–1895), founder of Opel, the company
Fritz von Opel (1899–1971), German automotive engineer
Jackie Opel (1938–1970), Barbadian singer
John R. Opel (1925–2011), U.S. computer businessman
Nancy Opel (born c. 1957), American singer, actress, and teacher
Rikky von Opel (born 1947), Liechtenstein racing driver
Robert Opel (1939–1979), American photographer
Wilhelm von Opel (1871–1948), co-founder of Opel | wiki |
The Delano Police Department is the agency responsible for law enforcement within the City of Delano, California. The department is divided into three divisions; Administrative Division, Patrol Division, and Investigations Division. It contains approximately 80 employees, which consists of California Sworn Peace Officers and civilian employees. The Delano Police Department headquarters is located at 2330 High Street Delano, CA 93215 Kern County. The department also maintains a type 1 jail.
See also
List of law enforcement agencies in California
References
External links
Delano Police Department
Municipal police departments of California
1913 establishments in California
Kern County, California | wiki |
A German passport (, ) is an identity document issued to nationals (for example, G01E) of Germany for the purpose of international travel. A German passport is, besides the German ID card and the German Emergency Travel Document (called "Reiseausweis als Passersatz"), the only other officially recognised document that German authorities will routinely accept as proof of identity from German citizens. Besides serving as proof of identity and presumption of German nationality, they facilitate the process of securing assistance from German consular officials abroad (or other EU members in the case that a German consular facility is absent). German passports are valid for ten years (for people over the age of 24) or six years (for people under the age of 24) and share the standardised layout and burgundy red design with other EU passports. Every German citizen is also a citizen of the European Union. The passport, along with the national identity card, allows for free rights of movement and residence in any of the states of the European Union, European Economic Area and Switzerland.
History
The first passport regulations of what nowadays constitute Germany were first enacted by the North German Confederation on 12 October 1867.
During the First World War and in the interwar period thereafter, supplementary ordinances were issued on the obligation for German citizens to possess a passport. This determined that a visa was required for entry and exit. Passports issued until the end of 1922 were only valid for one year; they could not be renewed after the introduction of the new model after 1923. The Bekanntmachung zur Ausführung der Paßverordnung as enacted on 4 June 1924 stipulated that only the new type in the form of a 15½ x 10½ cm booklet could be used. Entry and exit visas were also abolished. Such passports, which could only be issued to citizens of the Reich, were now valid for two years. The fee was set at 5 RM in 1924. They could be extended for a total period of five years, by one year each. Service passports also followed this pattern. However, their covers were green instead of the otherwise used grey covers. Diplomatic and ministerial passports continued to be issued in sheet form until further notice. Identity cards, which could also be issued to foreigners who could not obtain a passport in their native countries, were regarded as a full-fledged passport replacement. Such documents were valid for one year and could be extended for another year. The fee was set at 10 RM in 1924. These identity cards were also considered to be precursors of the Nansen passport.
Between 1933 and 1936, the enactment of foreign exchange restrictions (10 marks of silver as cash) and the thousand-mark ban by the Nazi government effectively constituted exit permits.
From 1949 until 1950, the issuance of West German passports mainly fell under the authority of the Allied High Commission which governed West Germany at that time. On 1 January 1950, the German Office for Entry and Exit Affairs became the main authority for issuing West German passports, although it was still under the control of the Allied High Commission. Only on 1 February 1951 did West Germany gain full rights to issue its own passports independent of the Allied occupying forces. West German passports at that time contained a "Job Description" field of the passport holder; this was initially necessary as the Allied occupying forces reserved the right to approve West German citizens obtaining travel visas until 1955. The "Job Description" field was eliminated after a passport regulation change on 12 June 1967.
In 1980, the biggest passport scandal in the history of Germany (de:Passfälscherskandal) was uncovered when 19 North American ice hockey players were found to have been issued fake German passports in order to play in the Eishockey-Bundesliga.
After the reunification of Germany in 1990, residents of the former East Germany were allowed to use valid East German passports for overseas travel until 31 December 1995, after which any such passports with remaining validity were automatically deemed invalid and these people had to apply for and obtain a German passport to travel overseas.
Time of processing
Processing time for a German passport is usually four to six weeks, but one can be issued in three days by using the Express service if processed before 11 am
Physical appearance
German passports have, since 1 January 1988, followed the standard European Union passport design, with burgundy red cover and the German Eagle emblazoned in the centre of the front cover. On 23 February 2017, Germany unveiled a new passport design to be put in use from 1 March 2017. The words Europäische Union (German for European Union) and Bundesrepublik Deutschland (German for Federal Republic of Germany) are inscribed above the coat of arms. The words "Reisepass" (German for travel passport) and "Passport" and "Passeport" (English and French respectively, printed in a smaller font) appear below.
German passports are normally 32 pages long; a 48-page version for frequent travellers can be issued on request.
Identity Information Page
The first two pages of a German passport are security laminated and the second page includes the following data:
Photo of passport owner
Type of document (P = passport)
Code for issuing country (D = Germany)
Passport number (9 alphanumeric digits, e.g. C3JJ4789L, chosen from numerals 0–9 and letters C, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, R, T, V, W, X, Y, Z. Thus, "0" denotes the numeral, not the letter "O". The first character is always a letter.)
Surname )
Name at birth
Given names
Date of birth
Sex
Nationality Deutsch
Place of birth
Date of issue
Date of expiry
Authority that issued the passport
Owner's signature (___)
The page ends with a 2-line machine readable zone, according to ICAO standard 9303. The country code is not DEU as is the standard country code for Germany (according to ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), but D. This is the only country/citizen code which does not consist of 3 letters.
In November 2001, the so-called Identigram feature was added – a number of holographic security elements, including a three-dimensional eagle, a holographic copy of the holder's picture (the so-called Holographic Shadow Picture), a holographic copy of the machine-readable zone, holographic microprinting, and kinematic elements.
Following page
The following page lists:
Residence
Height
Colour of eyes (in German language)
Religious name or pseudonym
Languages
The data page/information page is printed in German, English, and French. On the second cover (information page) and Page 2, 4, 5, and 32 or 48 there are all 24 official Languages from the European Union which describe the information in other EU languages, for example the Romanian word for authority is Autoritatea emitentă. (German passport page 4/5 number 9).
Required documents to apply for the passport (Adult) outside Germany
Completed application FORM
Two identical, biometrically compatible, recent passport photos.
Your birth certificate (notarised) with information about the exact place of birth, and one copy thereof.
If married, divorced, or widowed, marriage certificate, divorce decree, or death certificate of your spouse, and one copy thereof.
In case your last name in your birth certificate and in your passport is not the same, provide proof on how you changed your name. It might be necessary to make a name declaration.
Confirmation of deregistration ("Abmeldebescheinigung") from the German place of residence if it is entered in the current passport as the place of residence, and one copy thereof.
Valid residency permit, and one copy thereof.
Your driver's license or a utility bill in your name as proof of legal address, and one copy thereof.
Your German doctorate certificate if you would like to have your German doctorate degree entered in your passport, and one copy thereof
If applicable, German naturalisation document, and one copy thereof
If dual citizen, Naturalization Certificate with "Beibehaltungsgenehmigung”
Passport fee
Your Family Register Extract may be needed.
If it is the first time you apply as an adult you will need your parents' German passports or a Certificate of Nationality ("Staatsangehörigkeitsausweis").
RFID chip with biometric certificate
Since 1 November 2005, German passports have had a contactless smartcard (proximity card) chip and 13.56 MHz loop antenna embedded into the front cover page, in accordance with ICAO standards. The chip and antenna are not easily visually recognisable, but their presence is indicated using the ICAO biometric passport symbol at the bottom of the front cover. It carries all the data printed in the passport, including a JPEG file of the photo, protected by a digital signature. Germany therefore became only the fifth country in the world (after Malaysia, Thailand, Sweden, and Australia) to introduce biometric passports.
On 1 November 2007, several changes were made to the passport:
Applicants have to provide, in addition to the traditional passport data, scans of two fingerprints, which are added to the chip.
The previously 9-digit, all-numeric, sequentially assigned serial number was replaced with a new alphanumeric pseudorandomly assigned higher-entropy serial number, to increase the entropy of the serial number from the previous 35 digits to 45 bits. This improves the cryptographic key strength of the Basic Access Control mechanism of the RFID chip by 10 bits, which makes a brute force attack approximately 1000 times more expensive.
The validity period of passports issued to holders under the age of 24 increases from five to six years; older applicants receive a passport valid for ten years.
Different spellings of the same name within the same document
German names: German names containing umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and/or ß are spelled in the correct way in the non-machine-readable zone of the passport, but with AE, OE, UE, and/or SS in the machine-readable zone, e.g. Müller becomes MUELLER, Groß becomes GROSS, and Gößmann becomes GOESSMANN.
The transcription mentioned above is generally used for aircraft tickets etc., but sometimes (like in US visas) also simple vowels are used (MULLER, GOSSMANN), so passport, visa, and aircraft ticket may display different spellings of the same name.
The three possible spelling variants of the same name (e.g. Müller / Mueller / Muller) in different documents sometimes lead to confusion, and the use of two different spellings within the same document may give persons unfamiliar with German orthography the impression that the document is a forgery.
Non-German names: In some names of naturalised citizens, some special letters that are not available may always be replaced by simple letters, also in the non-machine-readable zone. The "Bundesdruckerei AG," which prints the German passports, uses the font LA8 Passport, which includes a Latin subset of the Unicode characters (ISO 10646), so that letters such as ç and ł can be displayed at least in the non-machine-readable passport zone. In the machine-readable zone, special characters are either replaced by simple characters ( e.g., é becomes E) or transcribed according to the ICAO rules (e.g., å becomes AA, ø becomes OE, etc.).
Names originally written in a non-Latin writing system may pose another problem if there are various internationally recognised transcription standards.
For example, the Russian surname Горбачёв is transcribed
"Gorbatschow" in German,
"Gorbachev" in English (also ICAO standard),
"Gorbatchov" in French,
"Gorbachov" in Spanish,
"Gorbaczow" in Polish, and so on.
German naming law accepts umlauts and/or ß in family names as a reason for an official name change (even just the change of the spelling, e.g. from Müller to Mueller or from Weiß to Weiss is regarded as a name change).
Issuing process
German passports are issued, just like German ID cards, by local municipal registration offices. Applicants have to apply for a new passport in person and the data in newly issued passports is essentially an authenticated copy of the personal data found in locally stored registration documents. Passports are then manufactured centrally at the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin.
A German passport (32 pages, delivered within a month, issued to a person 24 years and older) costs €60. A passport for a person under the age of 24 which has a validity of six years costs €37.50. A 48 pages passport costs a premium of €22, express delivery a premium of €32.
Child's Passport
A type of passport issued by Germany since 2006 is a child passport (in German: Kinderreisepass). Unlike a regular German passport, the Kinderreisepass does not include biometric features and lacks the inscription "European Union" at the top of the front cover. The exclusion of biometric information is due to the ongoing development of infants and young children and the low security risk they pose; nevertheless, the photo used in the passport does have to comply with biometric standards. All other features are similar to those of a regular passport: the burgundy red colour and the German coat of arms printed at the centre of the front cover. Children's passports are issued for children up to twelve years of age and are valid for a period of six years. When a child reaches the age of twelve, a regular passport must be obtained for international travel.
A child passport has sixteen pages (unlike the regular's 32), of which eleven are designated for stamping and the others are used for a title page, instructions and personal information. The first page features the words “Child's Passport” in three languages: German, English, and French.
Unlike a regular passport, the information pages in a Kinderreisepass are not security laminated (yet do have other security features) and have a different format. The information included is more or less the same, with the following differences: The type of passport is PC (Passport for children) instead of P (Passport). As in other passports, the main information page ends with a 2-line machine-readable code, according to ICAO standard 9303.
A child passport serves just like any other passport, with the exception that it is not biometric (or e-Passport). As a result, travelling to the US, for example, requires a tourist visa in spite of Germany's participation in the United States Visa Waiver Program. Alternatively, infants and children of any age are allowed to obtain a regular German passport (biometric) instead of a child's passport, which nevertheless has the advantages of low cost, short processing times, and being issuable by honorary consuls (making them easier to obtain by German emigrants who live far away from a German embassy or consulate). Just like provisional passports, children's passports are issued without being sent to the Bundesdruckerei GmbH in Berlin, which is the main reason behind these advantages.
Holding a second passport
Second German passport
Germany allows its citizens in exceptional cases to hold more than one valid German passport to circumvent certain travel restrictions. (For example, some Arab countries refuse entry if the passport contains an Israeli stamp; journalists may need several passports when travelling abroad when passports have been sent to consular officials for visas that take a long time to issue.) In extreme cases, up to 10 German passports can be held at the same time. However, these additional passports are valid for only 6 years even if the "original" passport is valid for 10 years.
Dual citizenship
The right to hold both a German passport and a foreign passport at the same time (dual citizenship) is restricted under the current German nationality law. Germany allows dual citizenship with other EU countries and Switzerland; dual citizenship with other countries is possible with special permission or if obtained at birth (for example, one German parent and one foreign parent, or if a child is born to German parents in a jus soli country such as the United States of America). Under Article 116 par. 2 of the Basic Law (Grundgesetz), former German citizens who between January 30, 1933, and May 8, 1945, were deprived of their German citizenship on political, racial, or religious grounds may re-invoke their citizenship and the same applies to their descendants, and are permitted to hold dual (or multiple) citizenship.
Children born on or after 1 January 2000 to non-German parents acquire German citizenship at birth if at least one parent has a permanent residence permit (and had this status for at least three years) and the parent was residing in Germany for at least eight years. The children must have lived in Germany for at least eight years or attended school for six years until their 21st birthday. Non-EU- and non-Swiss-citizen parents born and grown up abroad usually cannot have dual citizenship themselves (but exceptions are made for citizens of countries that do not allow the renunciation of citizenship or have too expensive / difficult / humiliating renunciation procedures and for citizens whose citizenship was restored under Article 116 (2)).
Naturalized Germans can lose their German citizenship if it is found out that they got it by willful deceit / bribery / menacing / giving intentionally false or incomplete information that had been important for the naturalization process if they still own a citizenship of a different country. In June 2019, it was decided to prolong the deadline from 5 to 10 years after naturalization.
A law adopted in June 2019 allows for the revocation of the German citizenship of dual citizens who have joined or supported a terror group such as the Islamic State and are at least 18 years old.
The travel freedom of German citizens
Visa requirements for German citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Germany. As of 19 September 2022, German citizens had visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 190 countries and territories, ranking the German passport third in the world and first in Europe and the EU in terms of travel freedom (tied with the Spanish passport) according to the Henley Passport Index.
German citizens can live and work in any country within the EU as a result of the right of free movement and residence granted in Article 21 of the EU Treaty.
Gallery of German passports
See also
East German passport
German identity card
Passports of the European Union
References
External links
http://www.epass.de/
Germany : Child's Passport (2006 — 2015) Issued in Peking, China + 2 Residence Permits
Passports by country
Identity documents of Germany
European Union passports | wiki |
The Caponioidea or caponioids are a group of haplogyne araneomorph spiders that have been treated as superfamily with two members, the families Caponiidae and Tetrablemmidae. Phylogenetic studies from 1991 onwards have shown that the group is not monophyletic, being composed of two basal members of a larger clade. The precise members of that clade differ from study to study; one hypothesis is shown below.
References
Historically recognized spider taxa
Araneomorphae | wiki |
PUVA lentigines is a cutaneous condition caused by PUVA therapy.
References
Melanocytic nevi and neoplasms | wiki |
Harm Reduction Journal is a peer-reviewed online-only medical journal covering harm reduction with respect to the use of psychoactive drugs. It was established in 2004 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media's BioMed Central imprint. It is affiliated with both Harm Reduction International and the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association. The editors-in-chief are Nick Crofts (University of Melbourne) and Euan Lawson (Lancaster University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 4.362.
References
External links
Addiction medicine journals
BioMed Central academic journals
Online-only journals
Publications established in 2004
English-language journals | wiki |
Badcock Home Furniture & more is a chain of over 370 company and dealer owned furniture stores in eight states across the southeastern United States. Robert B. Burnette is president of Badcock Home Furniture and previously served as chief operating officer for the company.
History
The first store was opened by Henry S. Badcock in Mulberry, Florida in 1904.
Badcock was recognized as a centennial retailer by Florida governor Jeb Bush in 2004. In 2005, Badcock was listed by Furniture Today magazine in the top 25 furniture retailers by sales.
References
Furniture retailers of the United States
Companies based in Polk County, Florida
Economy of the Southeastern United States
Mulberry, Florida
Retail companies based in Florida
Retail companies established in 1904
American companies established in 1904
1904 establishments in Florida | wiki |
The notional amount (or notional principal amount or notional value) on a financial instrument is the nominal or face amount that is used to calculate payments made on that instrument. This amount generally does not change and is thus referred to as notional.
Explanation
Contrast a bond with an interest rate swap:
In a bond, the buyer pays the principal amount at issue (start), then receives coupons (computed off this principal) over the life of the bond, then receives the principal back at maturity (end).
In a swap, no principal changes hands at inception (start) or expiry (end), and in the meantime, interest payments are computed based on a notional amount, which acts as if it were the principal amount of a bond, hence the term notional principal amount, abbreviated to notional.
In simple terms, the notional principal amount is essentially how much of an asset or bonds a person owns. For example, if a premium bond were bought for £1, then the notional principal amount would be the face value amount of the premium bond that £1 was able to purchase. Hence, the notional principal amount is the quantity of the assets and bonds.
Examples
Interest rate swaps
In the context of an interest rate swap, the notional principal amount is the specified amount on which the exchanged interest payments are based; this could be 8000 US dollars, or 2.7 million pounds sterling, or any other combination of a number and a currency. Each period's rates are multiplied by the notional principal amount to determine the height and currency of each counter-party's payment. A notional principal amount is an amount used as a reference to calculate the amount of interest due on an 'interest only class' which is not entitled to any principal.
Total return swaps
In a typical total return swap, one party pays a fixed or floating rate multiplied by a notional principal amount plus the depreciation, if any, in a notional amount of property, in exchange for payments by the other party of the appreciation, if any, on the same notional amount of property. For example, assume the underlying property is the S&P 500 stock index" A would pay B the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, multiplied by a $100 notional amount plus depreciation, if any, on a $100 notional investment in the S&P 500 index. B would pay A the appreciation, if any, in the same notional S&P 500 investment.
Equity options
Shares also have a notional principal amount, but it is called nominal instead of notional.
For example, if stock option contracts are being bought, those contracts could potentially give a lot more shares than would be possible to control by buying shares outright. So the notional value is the value of what is controlled, rather than the value of what is owned.
For instance, if a 100 share equity call option is purchased with a strike of $60 for a stock that is currently trading at $60, then it has the same upside potential as holding $6,000 of stock (1 option × 100 multiplier × $60), but the shares may have been purchased for $5 each (for a total of $500). By this measure, a leverage of $6,000/$500 = 12x has been achieved. Note that if the stock price moves to $70, the dollar notional is now $7,000 (minus the cost of option and commission differential), but the quantity (unit notional) is still 1 contract.
Foreign currency/exchange (FX derivatives)
In FX derivatives, such as forwards or options, there are two notionals. For example, if an individual has a call option on USD/JPY currency struck at 110, and one of these is purchased, then this gives the buyer the option to pay 100 USD and receive 110 × 100 = 11,000 JPY, so the USD notional is 100 USD, and the JPY notional is 11,000 JPY.
Note that the ratio of notionals is exactly the strike, and thus if the strike is moved, one of the notionals will change. For instance, if the strike is moved to 100, and the USD fixed at 100, the JPY notional becomes 10,000; the buyer will pay the same number of USD and receive fewer JPY. Alternatively, JPY currency could be held constant at 11,000 and change the USD notional to 110: hence, the buyer will pay more in USD and receive the same number of JPY.
When hedging foreign currency exposure, such as for an American business in USD, an outflow of 11,000 JPY, the foreign currency notional must be fixed.
ETFs
Exchange-traded funds track underlying positions, so an investment performs equivalently to purchasing that number of physical positions, though the fund may in fact not directly purchase the positions, and instead use derivatives (especially futures) to produce the position.
Levered ETFs, notably inverse exchange-traded funds, have the unusual property that their notional changes every day; they pay the compounded daily return, so it is as if one were re-investing each day's earnings at the new daily price. If an investor has an inverse ETF in an asset that goes down, they will have more money, which can be used to short a cheaper asset, hence one's unit notional goes up. Conversely, if the asset has gone up in value in this situation, the notional will go down, as seen in inverse exchange-traded funds,
Notes
External links
Chicago Mercantile Exchange: Glossary
Derivatives (finance)
Interest rates
Swaps (finance) | wiki |
A political endorsement is a public declaration of one's personal or group's support of a candidate for elected office. In a multiparty system, where one party considers that it does not have enough support to win power, just prior to the election, the official representative of that party may give an official endorsement for a party that they consider more likely to be a contender. In Australian electoral law, "electoral endorsement" is a specific term and a candidate can only be endorsed by a registered party. There are also presidential endorsements.
Literature
Elections
Voting theory | wiki |
Cinema
Mandy – film britannico del 1952
Mandy – film statunitense del 2018
Musica
Mandy – canzone di Irving Berlin del 1919
Mandy – canzone di Barry Manilow del 1974
Mandy – canzone dei Jonas Brothers del 2006
Onomastica
Mandy – forma diminutiva inglese del nome proprio di persona Amanda
Personaggi
Mandy – personaggio del manga Kimba - Il leone bianco
Televisione
Mandy – serie televisiva britannica trasmessa da BBC Two dal 2019 | wiki |
Convalescence is the gradual recovery of health and strength after illness or injury. It refers to the later stage of an infectious disease or illness when the patient recovers and returns to previous health, but may continue to be a source of infection to others even if feeling better. In this sense, "recovery" can be considered a synonymous term. This also sometimes includes patient care after a major surgery, under which they are required to visit the doctor for regular check-ups.
Convalescent care facilities are sometimes recognized by the acronym TCF (Transitional Convalescent Facilities).
Traditionally, time has been allowed for convalescence to happen. Nowadays, in some instances, where there is a shortage of hospital beds or of trained staff, medical settings can feel rushed and may have drifted away from a focus on convalescence.
See also
Rehabilitation, therapy to control a medical condition such as an addiction
Recuperation (recovery), a period of physical or mental recovery
Recuperation (sociology), a sociological concept
Relapse, reappearance of symptoms
Remission, absence of symptoms in chronic diseases
References
External links
Health care
Medical phenomena | wiki |
Alcohol is a liquid form substance which contains ethyl alcohol (also known formally as ethanol) that can cause harm and even damage to a persons DNA. "Alcohol consumption is recognized worldwide as a leading risk factor for disease, disability, and death" and is rated as the most used substance by adolescences. Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological changes, usually a time in a person life in which they go through puberty. Combining these transitional stages and the intake of alcohol can leave a number of consequences for an adolescent.
Consequences of alcohol use disorder throughout adolescence
Most research is based on alcohol and the effects on people in general, essentially relating to adults. Little to no research is shown on the intake of alcohol throughout adolescents and the consequences that binge drinking from a young age can create. "The rate of alcohol use increases sharply between the ages of 12 and 21 years, and adolescents frequently adopt a binge-like drinking pattern". These patterns can then lead to various consequences including automobile accidents, substance use disorders, sexual activity, skipping school and failing grades. "Recent studies show that alcohol
consumption has the potential to trigger long-term biological changes that may have detrimental effects on the developing adolescent brain, including neurocognitive impairment."
Underage drinking causes 5,000 deaths a year. 1,900 by motor vehicle, 1,600 involving homicides, 300 suicides.
Underaged drinking can cause higher risks for depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. If you're going through puberty, it can also cause changes in your hormones. It can also disrupt growth and puberty. And if you drink too much you can die from injury or alcohol poisoning. It also kills brain cells over time, which can cause behavioral changes, sleep deprivation, permanent damage to memory, and could eventually start to affect your grades. It can also lead to sexual behavior, and could also lead to sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancy, and sexual assault or rape. It can also lead to these things: car accidents, falls or drowning, suicide, violence and homicide, being a victim of a violent crime, and many more accidents, that affect underage drinkers. And if a child drinks, they have a better chance of being an alcoholic when they are older. That means they might get drunk, be involved in drunken accidents, get into trouble with the law, their family, their friends, schools, and their love interest.
Reason for occurrence
Marquis states how "Adolescent alcohol use is not an acceptable rite of passage but a serious threat to adolescent development and health, as the statistics related to adolescent impairment, injury, and death attest." Research shows how an adolescent makes the decision to consume alcohol because they are influenced by various factors. "These factors include normal maturational changes that all adolescents experience; genetic, psychological and social factors specific to each adolescent and the various social and cultural environments that surround adolescent, including their families, schools and communities". It is also shown that early onset of alcohol intake can lead to high levels of alcohol use in adulthood. Alcoholism throughout adolescents is increasing yearly for a number of different reasons. These reasons include:
Availability of alcohol
Peer pressure
Role model
Television
Anxiety or stress
Prevention
There are a number of ways to preventing alcohol use disorder throughout adolescents. One of the main ways to do this is to "Promote an understanding of underage alcohol consumption in the context of human development and maturation that takes into account individual adolescent characteristics as well as environmental, ethic, cultural and gender differences". Another way in preventing underage drinking would be by reducing the cultural forces which are encouraging and supporting underage drinking will also contribute to preventing adolescents from consuming alcohol as a culture in which adolescents feel that it is acceptable, will allow them to think that it is appropriate. Another important component to preventing alcohol use disorder throughout adolescence is the responsibility of the government, to send a message to underage drinkers informing them how themselves and the rest of society strongly disapprove underage alcohol use because of the severe consequences it can cause and also informing that it will not be tolerated.
Legal drinking age
A legal drinking age for the buying or consuming of alcohol is in place in many of the world's countries, typically with the intent to protect the young from alcohol-related harm. This age varies between countries; for example, the legal drinking age for Australia is 18, whereas the legal drinking age in the United States is 21.
See also
Adolescence
Short-term effects of alcohol consumption
Long-term effects of alcohol consumption
References
Alcohol
Alcohol law
Substance-related disorders
Alcohol abuse | wiki |
A Madea Christmas may refer to:
A Madea Christmas (musical play)
A Madea Christmas (film) | wiki |
Mayonnaise is a sauce.
Mayonnaise may also refer to:
Mayonnaise (band), a Filipino alternative rock/pop-punk band
Mayonnaise (Mayonnaise album), released in 2004
Mayonnaise (Hypnotic Clambake album), 2005
"Mayonaise" (song), a song on The Smashing Pumpkins album Siamese Dream
"Mayonnaise" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), a television episode
DJ Mayonnaise, American alternative hip hop producer and DJ
May O'Naize, a character in the Alien Nation: Dark Horizon
See also
"Mayonesa" (Chocolate song), 2001 | wiki |
Nyma or NYMA may refer to:
People
Nyma Akashat Zibiri, Nigerian lawyer and television host
Nyma Tang, American beauty vlogger
Other
New York Military Academy | wiki |
Cowbane is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
Cicuta virosa, a poisonous species of Cicuta, native to northern and central Europe, northern Asia, and northwestern North America
Oxypolis, a small genus of North American flowering plants in the carrot family | wiki |
This glossary is split across multiple pages due to technical limitations.
By Alphabetical Order
Glossary of engineering: A–L
Glossary of engineering: M–Z
By Category
Glossary of civil engineering
Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering
Glossary of mechanical engineering
Glossary of structural engineering
Glossary of aerospace engineering | wiki |
Yellow coneflower is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
Rudbeckia hirta, native to eastern and central North America
Rudbeckia pinnata, native to the central and eastern United States and Ontario
Echinacea paradoxa | wiki |
Sebi may refer to:
People
Dr. Sebi or Alfredo Bowman, Honduran self-proclaimed herbalist and healer
Sebi Tramontana (born 1960), jazz trombonist
Places
Sebi, Zaveh, Iran
Other
Sebi (song)
Securities and Exchange Board of India | wiki |
Inherited patterned lentiginosis is an inherited skin condition that results in widespread small, flat areas of more-pigmented skin with clearly defined borders, generally noticed when the affected person is an infant or young child. The inheritance pattern is autosomal dominant, and organs other than the skin are not affected; therefore, it is distinct from Carney complex.
References
External links
Melanocytic nevi and neoplasms | wiki |
Social Lion is a 1954 Walt Disney-produced animated short film directed by Jack Kinney. The short was released by Buena Vista on October 15, 1954. The film was written by Milt Schaffer and Dick Kinney and animated by Norman Ferguson.
Synopsis
A safari captures a lion in Africa. However, the lion's cage falls off the boat once it arrives in the US. The lion gets out of the cage but fails to intimidate anyone, even several people interact with it in places such as a bus or a bar. In the end, the lion is captured by a group of policemen and taken to a zoo.
Cast
Stan Freberg - Lion (uncredited)
Paul Frees - Lions Club President / Drunkards / Clothing Salesman (voice) (uncredited)
James MacDonald - Lion (roaring) (voice) (uncredited)
Home media
The DVD "Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts: 1920s–1960s" featured this short.
References
1954 animated films
1950s Disney animated short films
Films directed by Jack Kinney
Films produced by Walt Disney
Films scored by Oliver Wallace
1950s English-language films | wiki |
This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Norway. For other countries see List of World War II aces by country
External links
Article that presents Norwegian ace, Rolf Arne Berg
Norway
Royal Norwegian Air Force
World War II aces from Norway | wiki |
ВМИ — аббревиатура. Может означать:
Винницкий медицинский институт
Внутриматочная инсеминация
Вологодский молочный институт | wiki |
Henry Knox (1750–1806) was a Continental Army general in the American Revolutionary War. General Knox may also refer to:
Alfred Knox (1870–1964), British Army major general
Charles Edmond Knox (1846–1938), British Army lieutenant general
Harry Knox (1873–1971), British Army general
Jean Knox (1908–1993), Auxiliary Territorial Service major general
William Knox (British Army officer) (1847–1916), British Army lieutenant general
See also
Attorney General Knox (disambiguation) | wiki |
Folding bed may refer to:
Wall bed, a bed that is hinged at one end to store vertically against the wall, or inside a closet or cabinet
Camp bed, a narrow, light-weight bed, often made of sturdy cloth stretched over a folding frame | wiki |
This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Southern Rhodesia. For other countries see List of World War II aces by country
See also
Southern Rhodesia in World War II
Notes and references
Notes
References
Southern Rhodesian World War II flying aces
Southern Rhodesia
World War II Flying aces
Southern Rhodesian military personnel of World War II | wiki |
Donald's Camera is a 1941 American Donald Duck short film directed by Dick Lundy and produced by Walt Disney.
Plot
Donald decides to bring his camera to "hunt" some wildlife. He encounters several, including a woodpecker, who quickly torment him and make his efforts to photograph them difficult.
Voice cast
Clarence Nash as Donald Duck
Home media
The short was released on May 18, 2004, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume One: 1934-1941.
References
External links
Donald Duck short films
Films produced by Walt Disney
1940s Disney animated short films
1941 animated films
1941 films | wiki |
Sobe may refer to:
People
Sobe (sister of Saint Anne)
Sobe Charles Umeh
Other
SoBe, American brand of teas
SoBe Entertainment
South Beach, a neighborhood of Miami Beach, Florida | wiki |
This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from South Africa.
See also
List of World War II aces by country.
Military history of South Africa during World War II
South African Air Force
Notes
DFC - Distinguished Flying Cross
DFM - Distinguished Flying Medal
DSO - Distinguished Service Order
MBE - Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
KIA - Killed in action
References
Footnotes
Citations
South Africa
World War II flying aces
World War II aces | wiki |
The supraspinatus (plural supraspinati) is a relatively small muscle of the upper back that runs from the supraspinous fossa superior portion of the scapula (shoulder blade) to the greater tubercle of the humerus. It is one of the four rotator cuff muscles and also abducts the arm at the shoulder. The spine of the scapula separates the supraspinatus muscle from the infraspinatus muscle, which originates below the spine.
Structure
The supraspinatus muscle arises from the supraspinous fossa, a shallow depression in the body of the scapula above its spine. The supraspinatus muscle tendon passes laterally beneath the cover of the acromion. Research in 1996 showed that the postero-lateral origin was more lateral than classically described.
The supraspinatus tendon is inserted into the superior facet of the greater tubercle of the humerus. The distal attachments of the three rotator cuff muscles that insert into the greater tubercle of the humerus can be abbreviated as SIT when viewed from superior to inferior (for supraspinatus, infraspinatus, and teres minor), or SITS when the subscapularis muscle, which attaches to the lesser tubercle of the humerus, is included.
Nerve supply
The suprascapular nerve (C5) innervates the supraspinatus muscle as well as the infraspinatus muscle. It comes from the upper trunk of the brachial plexus.
This nerve can be damaged along its course in fractures of the overlying clavicle, which can reduce the person's ability to initiate the abduction.
Function
The supraspinatus muscle performs abduction of the arm, and pulls the head of the humerus medially towards the glenoid cavity. It independently prevents the head of the humerus from slipping inferiorly. The supraspinatus works in cooperation with the deltoid muscle to perform abduction, including when the arm is in an adducted position. Beyond 15 degrees the deltoid muscle becomes increasingly more effective at abducting the arm and becomes the main propagator of this action.
Clinical significance
The supraspinatus forms part of the rotator cuff and is one of its most frequently damaged components, whether from acute injury or gradual degeneration. Bad posture and age are leading risk factors, with a high prevalence of unsymptomatic partial and full tears, as well as symptomatic syndromes with chronic pain. Connected pathologies include acromial impingement, frozen shoulder, and poor sleep, especially on the side. Both ultrasound and MRI are now effective methods of diagnosis.
Tear
Diagnosis
Antero-posterior projectional radiography of the shoulder may demonstrate a high-riding humeral head, with an acromiohumeral distance of less than 7 mm.
Repair
One study has indicated that arthroscopic surgery for full-thickness supraspinatus tears is effective for improving shoulder functionality.
A comparative effectiveness review of nonoperative and operative treatments for rotator cuff tears was performed at the University of Alberta Evidence-based Practice Center in 2010. The review identified one study which reported that, "Patients receiving early surgery had superior function compared with the delayed surgical group". The review noted that the level of significance of the study was not reported, and the review chose not to include it as one of their conclusions. Instead it concluded that "The paucity of evidence related to early versus delayed surgery is of particular concern, as patients and providers must decide whether to attempt initial nonoperative management or proceed immediately with surgical repair". In terms of operative techniques, differences in neither cuff integrity nor shoulder function were reported in studies comparing single-row versus double-row suture anchor fixation and mattress locking versus absorbable sutures. Postoperatively, a slight advantage was evident in patients who performed continuous passive motion alongside physical therapy, as opposed to those who solely performed physical therapy. There is insufficient evidence to adequately compare the effects of operative against nonoperative interventions. Complications were reported very seldom, or were not determined to be clinically significant.
A 2016 study evaluating the effectiveness of arthroscopic treatment of rotator cuff calcification firmly supported surgical intervention. Calcification of the supraspinatus tendon is a major contributor to shoulder pain in the general population and is often worsened following a supraspinatus tear. The results of the study included the return to sports and original functionality of 95.8% of the patients after a mean of 5.3 post-operative months. A significant decrease in pain was observed over time following removal of the calcification. The study showed the overall effectiveness of arthroscopic procedures on shoulder repair, and the lack of risk experienced. Before surgery, supraspinatus tendonitis should be ruled out as the cause of pain.
Gallery
References
Muscles of the upper limb
Rotator cuff
Shoulder abductors | wiki |
The ADG Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded to individuals who are outstanding in each of the guild's four crafts.
The guild's four crafts are, Art Directors; Scenic, Title and Graphic Artists; Illustrators and Matte Artists; and Set Designers and Model Makers.
Winners
See also
Art Directors Guild
ADG Excellence in Production Design Award
Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame
References
Art Directors Guild Awards
American film awards
American television awards
Awards established in 1996
Lifetime achievement awards | wiki |
Enola Holmes (personatge), personatge de ficció germana de Sherlock Holmes
The Enola Holmes Mysteries, sèrie de novel·les escrita per Nancy Springer sobre Enola Holmes
Enola Holmes (pel·lícula), pel·lícula de 2020, basada en el primer llibre de la sèrie de novel·les de Nancy Springer
Enola Holmes 2, pel·lícula de 2022, seqüela de la primera adaptació cinematogràfica | wiki |
Late night television is one of the dayparts in television broadcast programming. It follows prime time and precedes the overnight television show graveyard slot. The slot generally runs from about 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. ET, with variations according to the time zone and broadcaster.
In the United States and Canada, the term is synonymous with the late-night talk show, a type of television comedy talk show and variety show. Thus, the late night programming block is considered more important in North America. On most major-network stations, a late-night news airs at the beginning of the block.
Due to the complications of effects of time zones on North American broadcasting, live professional sporting matches such as baseball, hockey, and basketball played in Pacific and Mountain Time Zone cities, such as Denver, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, and Seattle, are often played in the primetime of the Pacific and Mountain Time Zones, but late night in the Central and Eastern time zones, and their lateness often contributes to a perceived East Coast bias in sports media.
In the United Kingdom, the late night spot is from 11:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. and not seen as a priority; ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 air repeat programs in the time slot, and the BBC's channels (BBC One, Two, Three and Four) primarily show BBC News, air movies, or repeats. Similarly, Australian and New Zealand television primarily air American late shows, lower-priority imported series, late movies or overflows of sports programming in the late night time slot.
On cable television, programming strategies in this time slot include timeshift channel of prime time programs and, in the case of children's television series channels, sign-on and sign-off and allowing more adult-oriented fare for the overnight hours under another brand. Two examples are the children's channels Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, which changes over to Adult Swim and Nick at Nite, respectively, at an hour when most pre-adolescent children go to sleep. Adult Swim and Nick at Nite typically airs series programming, such as reruns of sitcom, that may have coarser language and more adult themes than Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.
After 11:00 p.m., Japan airs adult talk or variety shows as well as late night anime. This is also true of the United States-based cable channel Cartoon Network, which targets children and young teens during daytime and primetime hours, but changes over to its Adult Swim brand in late night slots, which targets young adults with its content.
See also
Late-night news
Late-night talk show
Late night television in the United States
List of late-night American network TV programs
References
Television genres
Television programming
Television terminology | wiki |
Video painting is a form of video art presented via projectors, LCD or other flat panel display and wall-mounted in the same manner as traditional paintings. Video painting is a relatively new concept that was first coined by Brian Eno in the 1980s to refer to his experimentations with long-form video art. It was later developed upon by Hilary Lawson.
History
Video painting began as a way for Eno to expand upon the ambient philosophy of his music in a visual form. He explained the coinage and practice of video painting to NME:
"I was delighted to find this other way of using video because at last here's video which draws from another source, which is painting... I call them 'video paintings' because if you say to people 'I make videos', they think of Sting's new rock video or some really boring, grimy 'Video Art'. It's just a way of saying, 'I make videos that don't move very fast."
The idea of video painting was later taken up in Hilary Lawson’s theory of Closure (published 2001), in which he proposed that the world is open and that we close that openness with thought and language. He reinterpreted art as the attempt to avoid closure and approach openness.
Lawson eventually set about creating a narrative-less frame which he hoped would avoid closure. Working with a close friend and artist, Sanchita Islam, a small initial group was formed which also included artists William Raban, Isabelle Inghillieri, Nina Danino, and Tina Keane. The group met regularly and discussed and shared their work.
Technology
Flatscreen technologies such as plasma, LCD, DLP and OLED displays are on the cusp of exploding in terms of marketplace penetration. Currently, the market offers both existing hybrid (video projection boxes) and true flatscreen technologies, and video art projections using cutting-edge projection technology. Even as these devices are being steadily introduced to domestic and creative cultural spheres, more revolutionary technologies are being developed and implemented. Bill Buxton (University of Toronto, former chief scientist for Alias Wave Front and Silicon Graphics) maintains that gel, thin film, and painted surface video technologies are the inevitable next step in this development. Massively large scale moving images, beyond anything we have experienced, will be part of our everyday lives. As a result, our domestic (and public) visual spaces will be profoundly transformed.
There are several artists and designers who are producing video paintings and ambient art that is intended to repurpose the blank space of an idle flatscreen. In addition to this, there is an ever-increasing number of companies specialising in video paintings to varying degrees. Companies such as Plasma Window, Vat19, and Digital Hotcakes have all contributed to this growing phenomenon often providing the archetypal classical ambient video paintings. These companies and increasingly other artists and companies are expanding the availability of this genre. Ambient Digital Art have evolved the concept to more specialised markets including bespoke personalised service additionally with expansion into the realm of generative art.
TransLumen Technologies was founded in 2000 and applied for patents on imperceptibly different images or Subthreshold Extreme Gradual Change (STEGC) also called Fluid Stills Art Illusions. These patents were subsequently awarded and additional patents filed. TransLumen creates and provides ambient video DVD’s, HD and custom installations. They specialize in ultra-slow-motion technology and video painting.
Jim Bizzocchi, an artist and Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology, describes the new form: "Ambient video will emerge as a supremely pictorial form - relying on visual impact and the subtle manipulation of image, layer, flow, and transition. It sits in the visual background of our lives - always changing, but never too quickly. It does not conquer, it seduces. It rewards attention, but never commands it. Rather, its aim is to support whatever level of attention the viewer cares to bestow in the moment: a passing glance, a more intentional look, or a longer and deeper immersion within the dynamically changing experience of an ambient video world." Bizzochi must be credited with advancing the academic study of this phenomenon from his earliest papers on streaming video and other academic papers on video paintings.
NomIg were among the first to create video paintings with their 2001 piece ‘Ad Infinitum’. Working as audiovisual artists, the NomIg. duo questioned what would happen if the concepts of Eno's ambient works were applied to the visual domain. As a result their works place paramount importance on fluidity of movement; an absence of direct cuts/edits; and the removal of a linear time experience for the viewer. Their video paintings are centered on near-imperceptible movement where the works cause the viewer to question whether there is any movement at all. Upon a passing glance the work appears to be still - it is only after a returning glance or concentrated awareness that the motion of the piece reveals itself. Their work takes a fleeting second and expands it into a timeless contemplation of the moment. To achieve their extreme slow motion NomIg. have heavily researched and developed editing techniques which layer and blend frames while not succumbing to the artifacts of the standard digital slow motion process (jerky movement, blurry content). The actual duration of their paintings often exceeds 3 hours and are regularly produced in 1080p HD format. They are seamless loops.
In 2003, while curating the audiovisual component of the New Forms Festival, the nomigs met Bizzocchi and quickly formed an alliance. Bizzocchi's "Rockface" was used as the intermission piece during the aforementioned audiovisual evening in place of traditional intermission background music thereby playing with the conventional structure of the ambient paradigm. 2004 saw NomIg. and Bizzocchi team up to curate a video painting exhibition at the 2004 New Forms Festival.
Believing that this infant art form needs to develop a strong community, NomIg. developed a dedicated video painting & ambient video resource in an effort to grow the video painting community as well as offer a resource for those looking for information about video painting in general.
2007 sees NomIg. continue to advance the video painting form with a newly developed slow-motion technique; artistic manipulation of the display device itself; as well as the integration of the display device into sculptural works.
Visual artist Jeffers Egan has been working with the video painting medium for some time, producing works described as references to Rothko and Pollock.
Malcolm Daniel (who was involved in the New Forms Festival exhibition mentioned below) has recently started producing a series of work as well. To the rich tapestry of ambient video, Malcolm Daniel adds commentary on culture and society with his Video Paintings. Filmed on location in India, Malcolm’s works speak to the integration of society and spiritualism that is so prominent to the region. The cultural significance of this relationship is explored through layering and slow motion effects which serve to foster an ethereal and meditative presence for the viewer.
An early pioneer of the ambient video art movement and video painting is Douglas R. Siefken. His first public exhibit of the Fluid Stills artform was sponsored by Sony on 02/02/02 at the Julia Friedman Gallery in Chicago. Doug is a founder and Chief Technology Officer of TransLumen Technologies, LLC. Their Fluid Stills Art Illusions are a new genre of art merging with technology. The art imbues each digital frame with the integrity of an independent artistic still that cohesively changes over time without any visible or detectable change as that change occurs, creating a serene, temporally streaming subthreshold ultra-slow motion video composition. This tranquil and harmonious art form obviates the visual noise and environmental disruption presented by some other digital art alternatives. Doug has a version of the Chicago Skyline series that was installed at the Hotel Cass, Chicago in August 2007. The piece is running on an 80” DLP screen in the main lobby. In 2008 Chicago’s Mayor Daley was flanked by two images from that series on large screens at a luncheon.
One of the early participants in the growing ambient video genre, Detourdvd have been designing ambient video since 2003. Slow moving videos, with no audio track play in infinite loops, the Detourdvd Collection references modern design themes, with some titles available in a choice of color palettes. With sales of flatscreens soaring (Keepmedia), and with the new, sleek screens on display instead of being hidden away in an armoire or closet, more people are searching for sources moving art to display in their homes. As Jim Bizzocchi says, "We believe artists will use the flat-panel displays as frames for "video paintings"—slow moving but highly pictorial works of televisual art that explore light, shape, texture and motion. The next decade will be a rich test-bed for new forms of domestic visual art."
See also
Video art
Hilary Lawson
References
Lawson, H: Closure: A story of everything. Routledge, 2001.
External links
http://www.voltcafe.com/home/?p=2948
http://aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com/2010/07/open-prize-for-video-painting-2010.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20100719014431/http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/645727
http://www.artrabbit.com/uk/features/features/july_2010/open_prize&p=2250
https://web.archive.org/web/20100825110034/http://www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/news/karolina_raczynska_shortlisted_for_open_gallery_prize_for_video_painting/
https://web.archive.org/web/20110707121523/http://www.alyswilliams.com/Artscape-project/articles/artscape-project.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20110720062012/http://www.intelligencesquared.com/people/l/hilary-lawson
Visual arts media
Video art | wiki |
Script coverage is a filmmaking term for the analysis and grading of screenplays, often within the "script development" department of a production company.
While coverage may remain entirely oral, it usually takes the form of a written report, guided by a rubric that varies from company to company. Criteria include, but are not limited to:
Identification: Title, Author, Type of Material, Locale, Genre
Logline: A one sentence summary
Comment summary: A paragraph summary of the analysis
Grade: Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor for categories that include characterization, premise, storyline, production values, dialogue and more
Synopsis: Summary of plot: 1–3 pages depending on script quality
Budget: The script reader's estimated budget
Analysis
Script timeline
Script coverage is the summary and analysis of a script's plot and writing quality, used by production companies to track film and TV screenplays. Coverage consists of a number of elements. The first is a 1-to-2-page synopsis of the script's story highlighting the main characters and events of the tale. The second is a subjective review of the piece (typical length of which could range anywhere from 1 sentence, in short-form contest coverage, to 2 or 3 pages) which assesses the effectiveness of the screenplay's various components—including its concept, story structure, story development, characters, dialogue, and writing style—and points out its strong points and problem areas. The evaluation ends with a recommendation from the analyst as to what he/she feels the production entity should do with the script. This recommendation usually employs 1 of 3 terms:
Pass: The reader feels the script fails to make the grade in most areas and that the production entity should not proceed with it.
Consider: The reader feels the script has a considerable number of strong points and is good enough to proceed with, while acknowledging that it has a number of significant problems that need to be successfully solved before the piece can be considered suitable for production.
Recommend: The reader feels the script is extremely strong in all respects and that the production entity should proceed with it without reservation.
When completed, the synopsis, review, and evaluation are assembled and fronted with a cover page that lists the script's vital information (author's name, story genre, time and locations in which it takes place, length of the script, etc.) and contains a brief summary of the story and the review. The cover page usually includes a checklist in which the script's various aspects are rated on a scale ranging from poor to excellent. Finally, the cover page highlights the analyst's ultimate recommendation.
Although script coverage is a tool used primarily by motion picture production entities, it is sometimes used by screenwriting competitions as a way of separating "wheat from chaff." The coverage done for script competitions is usually simpler than that done for production companies — substituting a logline (a brief 1 or 2 line summary of the story) for the synopsis and simplifying the assessment — often employing only the checklist rating of the script's various aspects.
In addition to production entities and screenwriting competitions, a number of independent services employ a roster of veteran script analysts to provide professional-level coverage for screenwriters who wish to see how their scripts will be received by the industry. This gives the writers a chance to identify and resolve problems before submitting them to production entities.
Issues in coverage
Economy of the script
By the very nature of summarizing a complicated plot, the coverage will not include every plot twist and subplot. Some characters will be omitted, or only briefly introduced for the sake of brevity. In order to decide on what will stay and what will go, the character and actions must support the main plot, and ultimately the premise of the story. Scripts that are not economical and include peripheral characters, scenes, and storylines that do not support character or plot development do not affect their motivation, and therefore can be omitted from the coverage. In this manner, well-written scripts may have longer synopses than poorly written scripts with a lot of extraneous action.
References
Filmmaking
Screenwriting | wiki |
A jig is a type of custom-made tool used to control the location and/or motion of parts or other tools.
Description
A jig's primary purpose is to provide repeatability, accuracy, and interchangeability in the manufacturing of products.
An example of a jig is when a key is duplicated; the original is used as a jig so the new key can have the same path as the old one. Since the advent of automation and computer numerical controlled (CNC) machines, jigs are often not required because the tool path is digitally programmed and stored in memory. Jigs may be made for reforming plastics.
Jigs or templates have been known long before the industrial age. There are many types of jigs, and each one is custom-tailored to do a specific job.
Drill jig
A drill jig is a type of jig that expedites repetitive hole center location on multiple interchangeable parts by acting as a template to guide the twist drill or other boring device into the precise location of each intended hole center. In metalworking practice, typically a hardened drill bushing lines each hole on the jig plate to keep the tool from damaging the jig.
Drill jigs started falling into disuse with the invention of the jig borer.
Since the widespread penetration of the manufacturing industry by CNC machine tools, in which servo controls are capable of moving the tool to the correct location automatically, the need for drill jigs (and for the jobs of the drill press operators who used them) is much less than it used to be.
PCB jig
Printed circuit board (PCB) jigs are used to test PCBs. They have a dump board inside the jig which can find faults in the PCBs.
Jewelry jig
A jig used in making jewelry, a specific type of jig, is a plate or open frame for holding work and helping to shape jewelry components made out of wire or small sheets of metal. A jig in the jewelry making application is used to help establish a pattern for use in shaping the wire or sheets of metal. In the jewelry application, the shaping of the metal is done by hand or with simple hand tools like a hammer.
See also
Jig grinder
Staircase jig
Sharpening jig
Tapering jig
References
Bibliography
Woodworking jigs
Woodworking tools
Metalworking tools | wiki |
Trollz may refer to:
"Trollz" (song), a 2020 song by 6ix9ine and Nicki Minaj
Trollz (TV series), an animated show based on the Troll doll
See also
Troll (disambiguation) | wiki |
Balloon cell nevus is a benign nevus. It appears like a melanocytic nevus.
Histologically it is characterized by swollen, pale, polyhedral melanocytes, with pale cytoplasm and a central nucleus. It is different to balloon cell melanoma, which has larger nuclei and is structured like a melanoma.
It was first described by Judalaewitsch in 1901.
See also
Pseudomelanoma
Skin lesion
References
External links
Melanocytic nevi and neoplasms | wiki |
Clarabella may refer to:
"Clarabella" (song), a pop song composed by Frank Pingatore and recorded by The Jodimars
Clarabella (organ stop), an 8′ organ stop with a clear flute-quality tone
The Dutch and Italian names of the Clarabelle Cow fictional character from the Mickey Mouse universe | wiki |
Anisha may refer to
Anisha Ambrose, Indian film actress and model
Anisha Basheel (born 1997), Malawian professional boxer
Anisha Nagarajan (born 1983), American actress and singer
Anisha Nicole (born 1985), American singer
Anisha Vekemans (born 1991), Belgian professional racing cyclist
See also
Anish, a given name
feminine given names | wiki |
L'Auberge rouge pode se referir a:
L'Auberge rouge (livro)
L'Auberge rouge (1951), filme de Claude-Autant Lara
L'Auberge rouge (2007), filme com Christian Clavier
Desambiguações de artes | wiki |
Longport is a borough in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey on the Atlantic Ocean shore of Absecon Island. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 893, a decrease of two people (−0.2%) from the 2010 census count of 895, which in turn reflected a decline of 159 (−15.1%) from the 1,054 counted in the 2000 census.
History
James Long, an absentee owner, purchased a parcel in 1857 that grew over the years as sand accumulated and as additional property was purchased. Acquired by M. Simpson McCullough in 1882, the community was named Longport in honor of Long.
Longport was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 7, 1898, from portions of Egg Harbor Township.
In 2014, residents of Seaview Harbor, located across Beach Thorofare, submitted a petition to join neighboring Longport, citing lack of access to the rest of Egg Harbor Township and high taxes. In November 2016, the Township Committee voted to deny the secession plan. The plan has been brought before an appeals judge and the outcome is pending.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough had a total area of 1.56 square miles (4.03 km2), including 0.40 square miles (1.02 km2) of land and 1.16 square miles (3.01 km2) of water (74.49%).
Longport is located on the southwest corner of long Absecon Island, along with Margate City, Ventnor City and Atlantic City to the northeast.
Streets at the southern end of the borough start at 11th Avenue, as the that made up the ten numbered streets below it were washed out on the barrier island by a series of storms between 1900 and 1916. The Great Egg Harbor Inlet shifted north, and Ocean City island was extended by what is now the Gardens neighborhood of that city.
Demographics
2010 census
The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $70,625 (with a margin of error of +/− $13,665) and the median family income was $107,188 (+/− $48,480). Males had a median income of $72,143 (+/− $53,388) versus $65,357 (+/− $24,760) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $78,988 (+/− $16,924). About 1.0% of families and 5.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under age 18 and 5.8% of those age 65 or over.
2000 census
As of the 2000 United States census there were 1,054 people, 544 households, and 317 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 1,574 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 98.58% White, 0.09% African American, 1.14% Asian, and 0.19% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.47% of the population.
There were 544 households, out of which 10.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.3% were married couples living together, 5.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.7% were non-families. 37.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.94 and the average family size was 2.53.
In the borough the population was spread out, with 11.4% under the age of 18, 2.6% from 18 to 24, 18.9% from 25 to 44, 32.6% from 45 to 64, and 34.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 57 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.0 males.
The median income for a household in the borough was $51,324, and the median income for a family was $68,194. Males had a median income of $53,250 versus $36,146 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $50,884. About 2.9% of families and 3.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.5% of those under age 18 and 5.5% of those age 65 or over.
Parks and recreation
Longport offers surfing and other water sports recreation on the beaches.
Government
Local government
Longport operates under the Walsh Act commission form of New Jersey municipal government. The city is one of 30 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use the commission form of government. The governing body is comprised of three commissioners, who are elected at-large to four-year concurrent terms of office on a non-partisan basis as part of the May municipal election. Each commissioner is assigned a department to oversee and administer. The Mayor is then selected from among the three elected Commissioners by a vote between them and assigned to the office by resolution.
, members of the Longport Borough Commission are
Mayor Nicholas Russo (Commissioner of Public Works, Parks and Public Property),
Daniel Lawler (Commissioner of Public Affairs and Public Safety) and
James P. Leeds Sr. (Commissioner of Revenue and Finance), all of whom are serving terms that end December 31, 2024.
In July 2016, the Board of Commissioners voted to shift municipal elections from May to November, which also had the effect of extending the four-year terms of the three commissioners by another six months. The change allows the borough to save the costs associated with conducting the May municipal election.
In 2018, the borough had an average property tax bill of $10,872, the highest in the county, compared to an average bill of $8,767 statewide.
Federal, state and county representation
Longport is located in the 2nd Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 2nd state legislative district.
Atlantic County is governed by a directly elected county executive and a nine-member Board of County Commissioners, responsible for legislation. The executive serves a four-year term and the commissioners are elected to staggered three-year terms, of which four are elected from the county on an at-large basis and five of the commissioners represent equally populated districts. , Atlantic County's Executive is Republican Dennis Levinson, whose term of office ends December 31, 2023. Members of the Board of County Commissioners are:
Ernest D. Coursey, District 1, including Atlantic City (part), Egg Harbor Township (part), and Pleasantville (D, 2022, Atlantic City), Chair Maureen Kern, District 2, including Atlantic City (part), Egg Harbor Township (part), Linwood, Longport, Margate City, Northfield, Somers Point and Ventnor City (R, 2024, Somers Point), Andrew Parker III, District 3, including Egg Harbor Township (part) and Hamilton Township (part) (R, Egg Harbor Township, 2023), Richard R. Dase, District 4, including Absecon, Brigantine, Galloway Township and Port Republic (R, 2022, Galloway Township), James A. Bertino, District 5, including Buena, Buena Vista Township, Corbin City, Egg Harbor City, Estell Manor, Folsom, Hamilton Township (part), Hammonton, Mullica Township and Weymouth Township (R, 2018, Hammonton), Caren L. Fitzpatrick, At-Large (D, 2023, Linwood), Frank X. Balles, At-Large (R, Pleasantville, 2024) Amy L. Gatto, Freeholder (R, 2022, Hamilton Township) and Vice Chair John W. Risley, At-Large (R, 2023, Egg Harbor Township)
Atlantic County's constitutional officers are:
County Clerk Joesph J. Giralo (R, 2026, Hammonton),
Sheriff Eric Scheffler (D, 2024, Northfield) and
Surrogate James Curcio (R, 2025, Hammonton).
Politics
As of March 2011, there were a total of 774 registered voters in Longport, of which 146 (18.9% vs. 30.5% countywide) were registered as Democrats, 366 (47.3% vs. 25.2%) were registered as Republicans and 262 (33.9% vs. 44.3%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were no voters registered to other parties. Among the borough's 2010 Census population, 86.5% (vs. 58.8% in Atlantic County) were registered to vote, including 97.9% of those ages 18 and over (vs. 76.6% countywide).
In the 2012 presidential election, Republican Mitt Romney received 337 votes (66.5% vs. 41.1% countywide), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 160 votes (31.6% vs. 57.9%) and other candidates with 4 votes (0.8% vs. 0.9%), among the 507 ballots cast by the borough's 791 registered voters, for a turnout of 64.1% (vs. 65.8% in Atlantic County). In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain received 372 votes (64.4% vs. 41.6% countywide), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 195 votes (33.7% vs. 56.5%) and other candidates with 10 votes (1.7% vs. 1.1%), among the 578 ballots cast by the borough's 903 registered voters, for a turnout of 64.0% (vs. 68.1% in Atlantic County). In the 2004 presidential election, Republican George W. Bush received 412 votes (62.0% vs. 46.2% countywide), ahead of Democrat John Kerry with 242 votes (36.4% vs. 52.0%) and other candidates with 2 votes (0.3% vs. 0.8%), among the 664 ballots cast by the borough's 946 registered voters, for a turnout of 70.2% (vs. 69.8% in the whole county).
In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 306 votes (76.1% vs. 60.3% countywide), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 81 votes (20.1% vs. 34.9%) and other candidates with votes (0.0% vs. 1.3%), among the 402 ballots cast by the borough's 803 registered voters, yielding a 50.1% turnout (vs. 41.5% in the county). In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 280 votes (63.9% vs. 47.7% countywide), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine with 135 votes (30.8% vs. 44.5%), Independent Chris Daggett with 14 votes (3.2% vs. 4.8%) and other candidates with 4 votes (0.9% vs. 1.2%), among the 438 ballots cast by the borough's 817 registered voters, yielding a 53.6% turnout (vs. 44.9% in the county).
Education
For kindergarten through eighth grade, public school students from Longport attend the Margate City Schools in Margate City as part of a sending/receiving relationship. Longport is a non-operating school district that had 49 students in the Margate district and 8 in Atlantic City for high school as of 2010, operating with a three-member board of education that oversaw its relationships with its sending districts. As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 351 students and 48.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 7.2:1. Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are
William H. Ross III Elementary School 169 students in grades K–4 and
Eugene A. Tighe Middle School with 181 students in grades 5–8.
Starting in the 2014–15 school year, public school students from Longport in grades 9–12 attend Ocean City High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Ocean City School District; the Longport district, which is closer to Ocean City and would save significantly on tuition costs per student, received permission from the New Jersey Department of Education to end the relationship with Atlantic City. As of the 2018–19 school year, Ocean City High School had an enrollment of 1,245 students and 98.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.6:1.
Through the 2013–14 school year, Longport's students had attended Atlantic City High School, along with those from Brigantine, Margate City and Ventnor City, as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Atlantic City School District. The Longport Board of Education had investigated the possibility of offering city students the option of attending either Atlantic City High School or Ocean City High School, as part of an effort to control the costs for the average of ten Longport students sent to attend public high school annually. With the Atlantic City district charging tuition estimated at nearly $24,000 per student as of 2013–2014 and the Ocean City School District charging 25% less per student, district officials estimated prospective savings of $128,000 in the first five years, though those savings could disappear if more of the nearly two-thirds of students attending private high schools were to shift to choose the new Ocean City option. In June 2014, the Acting State Commissioner of Education approved the end of the relationship with the Atlantic City district under which Longport's students could start attending Ocean City High School starting with the 2014–2015 school year.
Borough public school students are also eligible to attend the Atlantic County Institute of Technology in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton Township or the Charter-Tech High School for the Performing Arts, located in Somers Point.
Private school options in the area include Holy Spirit High School in Absecon, under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden and St. Augustine Preparatory School, which is an all-boys Augustinian, Catholic college preparatory institution.
Transportation
Roads and highways
, the borough had a total of of roadways, of which were maintained by the municipality and by Atlantic County.
No Interstate, U.S., state or major county highways directly serve Longport. The only numbered roads in Longport are minor county routes, such as County Route 629.
The Longport Bridge
There is access to and from the mainland and Ocean City by way of a series of bridges and causeways including the JFK Memorial Bridge, The Ocean City Bridge, and the Dolores G. Cooper Bridge, also known as Longport-Somers Point Boulevard.
Public transportation
NJ Transit provides bus service on the 505 route between the borough and Atlantic City.
Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Longport, New Jersey has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa) with hot, moderately humid summers, cool winters and year-around precipitation. Cfa climates are characterized by all months having an average mean temperature > 32.0 °F (> 0.0 °C), at least four months with an average mean temperature ≥ 50.0 °F (≥ 10.0 °C), at least one month with an average mean temperature ≥ 71.6 °F (≥ 22.0 °C) and no significant precipitation difference between seasons. During the summer months in Longport, a cooling afternoon sea breeze is present on most days, but episodes of extreme heat and humidity can occur with heat index values ≥ 95 °F (≥ 35 °C). During the winter months, episodes of extreme cold and wind can occur with wind chill values < 0 °F (< −18 °C). The plant hardiness zone at Longport Beach is 7b with an average annual extreme minimum air temperature of 7.0 °F (−13.9 °C). The average seasonal (November–April) snowfall total is between 12 and 18 inches (31 and 46 cm), and the average snowiest month is February which corresponds with the annual peak in nor'easter activity.
Ecology
According to the A. W. Kuchler U.S. potential natural vegetation types, Longport, New Jersey would have a dominant vegetation type of Northern Cordgrass (73) with a dominant vegetation form of Coastal Prairie (20).
Notable people
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Longport include:
Leland Beloff (born 1942), member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and the Philadelphia City Council who resigned from office after being convicted in Federal court on extortion charges
Jack Crawford (born 1988), professional American football player for the Oakland Raiders
Thomas Cruse (1857–1943), United States Army brigadier general who was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for valor in action in 1882 at the Battle of Big Dry Wash
Louis Johanson (1929–2004), member of the Pennsylvania State Senate and the Philadelphia City Council who was convicted for accepting a bribe in the Abscam sting operation
Howard Kupperman (1931–2014), politician who represented the 2nd Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1976 to 1978 and served as the mayor of Longport from 1983 to 1992
Heinie Miller (1893–1964), football player who played in the early years of the National Football League for the Buffalo All-Americans and the Milwaukee Badgers
Paul Steelman (born 1955), architect
James Hugh Joseph Tate (1910–1983), mayor of Philadelphia from 1962 to 1972
References
External links
Longport Borough website
Margate City Schools
School Data for the Margate City Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
Atlantic City High School
The Current of Longport
Longport, South of Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 5, 1889 by D.J. Kennedy, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
1898 establishments in New Jersey
Boroughs in Atlantic County, New Jersey
Jersey Shore communities in Atlantic County
New Jersey District Factor Group none
Populated places established in 1898
Walsh Act | wiki |
An expansion pack is an addition to an existing game.
Expansion pack or Expansion Pak may refer to:
Expansion Pak, a Nintendo 64 accessory that enhances many of the system's games, and is required for a few games
Memory Expansion Pak, a Nintendo DS accessory that adds 8 MB of system memory, and is required for the web browser
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I Want Candy a song written and originally recorded by The Strangeloves
I Want Candy can also refer to:
I Want Candy, a compilation album by Bow Wow Wow released by EMI in the UK. Released in the US as Twelve Original Recordings.
I Want Candy (album), another compilation album by Bow Wow Wow, released by RCA in the US
I Want Candy (film), a 2007 British comedy film from Ealing Studios
I Want Candy (D:TNG episode), an episode of the Canadian serial teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation
I Want Candy, a song from the American animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode MC Pee Pants by MC Chris | wiki |
White River Bridge may refer to:
White River Bridge, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington state
White River Bridge at Elkins, Elkins, Arkansas
White River Bridge (Clarendon, Arkansas) | wiki |
The surface wave magnitude () scale is one of the magnitude scales used in seismology to describe the size of an earthquake. It is based on measurements of Rayleigh surface waves that travel along the uppermost layers of the Earth. This magnitude scale is related to the local magnitude scale proposed by Charles Francis Richter in 1935, with modifications from both Richter and Beno Gutenberg throughout the 1940s and 1950s. It is currently used in People's Republic of China as a national standard (GB 17740-1999) for categorising earthquakes.
Recorded magnitudes of earthquakes through the mid 20th century, commonly attributed to Richter, could be either or .
Definition
The formula to calculate surface wave magnitude is:
where A is the maximum particle displacement in surface waves (vector sum of the two horizontal displacements) in μm, T is the corresponding period in s (usually 20 2 seconds), Δ is the epicentral distance in °, and
Several versions of this equation were derived throughout the 20th century, with minor variations in the constant values. Since the original form of was derived for use with teleseismic waves, namely shallow earthquakes at distances >100 km from the seismic receiver, corrections must be added to the computed value to compensate for epicenters deeper than 50 km or less than 20° from the receiver.
For official use by the Chinese government, the two horizontal displacements must be measured at the same time or within 1/8 of a period; if the two displacements have different periods, a weighted sum must be used:
where AN is the north–south displacement in μm, AE is the east–west displacement in μm, TN is the period corresponding to AN in s, and TE is the period corresponding to AE in s.
Other studies
Vladimír Tobyáš and Reinhard Mittag proposed to relate surface wave magnitude to local magnitude scale ML, using
Other formulas include three revised formulae proposed by CHEN Junjie et al.:
and
See also
Seismic magnitude scales
Notes and references
External links
Seismic magnitude scales | wiki |
Lattinella palliolatus is a species of mite in the family Parholaspididae.
References
Parholaspididae
Articles created by Qbugbot
Animals described in 1993 | wiki |
This is a list of notable alumni of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni | wiki |
Student gowns (or more correctly undergraduate gowns) are a form of academic dress worn by undergraduate students at a number of institutions. In the past, there used to be many different gowns for different ranks of undergraduates, but these were abolished in the 20th century. Currently there are just one or two gowns for a single class of undergraduate. The exception is Cambridge University, where each college has its own gown, though technically all undergraduate students are of the same rank or standing.
Ancient universities in the United Kingdom
Undergraduate gowns in Scotland (red gowns)
Academic dress of the University of St Andrews
Academic dress of the University of Oxford
Academic dress of the University of Cambridge | wiki |
The 5th Wave may refer to:
The 5th Wave (novel), a 2013 young adult science fiction novel by Rick Yancey
The 5th Wave series, the series of novels including Yancey's novel
The 5th Wave (film), a 2016 film based on Yancey's novel
The 5th Wave (comic strip), a weekly gag cartoon by Rich Tennant that started in 1981
The Fifth Wave may refer to:
Fifth-wave feminism, concept of future feminism | wiki |
The Open Network Install Environment ( ONIE ) is an open-source "install environment", that acts as an enhanced boot loader utilizing facilities in a Linux/BusyBox environment. This small Linux operating system allows end-users and channel partners to install a network operating system as part of data center provisioning, similar to the way servers are provisioned with an operating system of choice.
ONIE enables network switch hardware suppliers, distributors and resellers to manage their operations based on a small number of hardware stock keeping unit (SKUs). This in turn creates economies of scale in manufacturing, distribution, stocking, and return merchandise authorization (RMA) enabling an ecosystem of both network hardware and operating system alternatives.
ONIE was created by Cumulus Networks (now a part of NVIDIA) in 2012 before it was adopted by the Open Compute Project in 2013.
See also
Open-source computing hardware
Pica8
Software-defined networking
References
External links
Free boot loaders | wiki |
Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα — skin and φαγεία eating) or dermatodaxia (from δήξις, biting) is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers. This action can either be conscious or unconscious. Those affected with dermatophagia typically bite the skin around the nails, leading to bleeding and discoloration over time. Some people also bite on their skin on their finger knuckles which can lead to pain and bleeding just by moving their fingers. In herpetology, dermatophagia is used to correctly describe the act in which amphibians and reptiles eat the skin they shed, but this is not what occurs in humans. Those diagnosed with this disorder do not develop wounds on the bitten areas of their hands or lose any skin. Instead, they experience a thickening of the skin being repeatedly bitten. Contemporary research suggests a link between impulse-control disorders and obsessive–compulsive disorders, and this was addressed in the DSM-5 when dermatophagia and other related disorders were classified as 'other specified obsessive-compulsive related disorders' and are given the specification of body focused repetitive behavior. Further information on OCD, other anxiety disorders, dermatophagia and other related body focused repetitive behaviors can be found in the DSM-5.
Behavior
People with dermatophagia chew their skin out of compulsion, and can do so on a variety of places on their body. Those with dermatophagia typically chew the skin surrounding their fingernails and joints. They also chew on the inside of their mouth, cheeks, and/or lips, causing blisters in and outside of the mouth. If the behavior is left unchecked for an extended period, calluses may start to develop where most of the biting is done.
Skin chewing can be bolstered by times of apprehension and other unpleasant events. Blisters in particular can cause a feeling of desire to pull or bite off the affected skin and nails (since the skin is dead, thus easily pulled off), which could be detrimental, causing infection. Another disorder, known as excoriation disorder, the repetitive action of uncontrollably picking at one's skin, can sometimes accompany dermatophagia. Dermatophagia differs from excoriation disorder in that the repetitive motion affected persons partake in is the biting of the skin. People who have dermatophagia can also be prone to infection as when they bite their fingers so frequently, they make themselves vulnerable to bacteria seeping in and causing infection. Dermatophagia can be considered a "sister" disorder to trichophagia, which involves compulsively biting and eating one's hair.
Management
Habit reversal training and variants thereof, like decoupling, are recommended for body-focused repetitive behaviors, including dermatophagia. Other techniques derived from cognitive-behavioral therapy recommend replacing things that do not actually dissolve with edibles that would. Moreover, it has been suggested to delay the urge by chewing gum, or on a soft drink straw.
Management in children with disabilities
There is no therapy known to effectively treat dermatophagia, but there have been attempts at stopping those affected from being able to chew on their skin. One notable method that is currently in development is focused on in curbing dermatophagia in children with cerebral palsy. This method is known as the PLAY (Protecting Little and Adolescent hands) hands protective glove. This method of intervention involves small, non-invasive plastic brackets being placed around the affected fingers. These brackets do not hinder movement or tactile feedback, and they are constructed from non-toxic durable plastic that can withstand the force of chewing. Presently PLAY hands protective gloves exist in concept and prototype only, but this intervention method could improve the quality of life of those with CP-induced dermatophagia.
See also
Excoriation disorder
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
Body-focused repetitive behavior
Notes
Body-focused repetitive behavior
Conditions of the skin appendages
Habit and impulse disorders
Neurocutaneous conditions
Pica (disorder) | wiki |
"It All Depends on You" is a 1926 popular song with music by Ray Henderson, lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lew Brown. The song, written for the musical Big Boy, was published in 1926. It was featured in the hit 1928 Warner Bros. film The Singing Fool, starring Al Jolson, Betty Bronson and Josephine Dunn, and directed by Lloyd Bacon.
Recorded versions
Shirley Bassey
Ben Bernie and his Orchestra (vocal: Lambert & Hillpot) (1927)
Arthur Briggs' Savoy Syncopators (vocal: Al Bowlly) (1927)
The Broadway Bellhops (1927)
Hadda Brooks
Nat King Cole (1957)
Eddie Condon and his Band (1952)
Doris Day (1955) in the film Love Me or Leave Me and Day's Love Me or Leave Me album.
Craig Douglas
Ruth Etting (1927)
Connie Francis (1961)
Four Freshmen - The Four Freshmen and Five Guitars (1959)
Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand (As part of their "Hooray For Love" medley in 1963)
Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli (1964)
Jackie Gleason Orchestra (1957)
Dolores Hope
Jack Hylton and his orchestra (1927)
Phyllis Dare and the Gaiety Theatre Orchestra (1927)
Harry James
Al Jolson (Stage production, 1925)
Al Jolson (1928) The Singing Fool motion picture
Dick Jurgens and his Orchestra (vocal: Ray Mcintosh) (1950)
Peggy King
Jerry Lewis - a single release in 1957.
Dorothy Loudon
Gordon MacRae
Joni Mitchell (2000)
Jaye P. Morgan
Patti Page (1959)
Johnnie Ray (1958)
Barbara Rosene
Pee Wee Russell
Dinah Shore (1949)
Frank Sinatra (with Billy May) (1958)
Frank Sinatra (with Nelson Riddle) (1960)
Frank Sinatra (with Hugo Winterhalter) (1949)
Whispering Jack Smith (1927)
Sonny Stitt
Barbra Streisand
Steve Tyrell
Jerry Vale
Helen Ward
Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra (Instrumental) (1927)
Faron Young
Lester Young
References
1926 songs
Al Bowlly songs
Doris Day songs
Frank Sinatra songs
Pop standards
Songs from musicals
Songs with lyrics by Buddy DeSylva
Songs with lyrics by Lew Brown
Songs with music by Ray Henderson | wiki |
Global Environmental Politics (GEP) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which examines the relationship between global political forces and environmental change. It covers such topics as the role of states, international finance, science and technology, and grass roots movements. Issues of Global Environmental Politics are divided into three types of articles: short commentaries for a section called Current Debates/Forum, full-length research articles, and book review articles.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 3.091, ranking it 19th out of 180 journals in the category "Political Science".
Scope
Articles published in Global Environmental Politics include issues concerning certain countries and small groups within those countries, but they must address environmental disputes that are relevant on a global scale. Due to the primary focus of political and policy issues discussed in GEP articles, the range of reader and author backgrounds is presumed and expected.
The range of submissions focuses on how local-global interactions affect the natural environment, as well as how environmental change affects world politics. The articles published address issues like poverty and inequality, norms and institutions, and economic relationships. The scope of articles also includes specific environmental issues, for example, ozone depletion, climate change, and deforestation.
GEP also offers an "Early Access" submission option. The Early Access option applies to articles that have been accepted for publication and copyedited, but are not yet finished. These articles are displayed online for durations spanning from weeks to months. They are only to be replaced once the final version is completed and its issue is published. The Early Access option allows the peer review process to begin, increasing the opportunities for feedback and displaying what an uncorrected proof looks like before it is ready for publication. This helps establish the standards for what GEP accepts as an uncorrected proof and expects once it is finalized, while also creating transparency in the editing process that benefits peer reviewers.
Editorial History
The journal was established in 2000 and is published by MIT Press online . The founding editor was Peter Dauvergne. Jennifer Clapp and Matthew Paterson were the co-editors 2007 through 2012, and Kate O'Neill and Stacy VanDever led the journal 2013-2017. The editors for 2018-2022 are Steven Bernstein, Matthew Hoffmann, and Erika Weinthal.
Current Debates/Forum
Originally called "Current Debates", the emphasis for this section of the article was shifted when the new editorial team consisting of Jennifer Clapp and Matthew Paterson took over the editorial board. The shorter articles in the Forum section are included in the journal as a means to encourage debate as well as future research. They include new theoretical or historical insights, emerging environmental issues, and discussion of controversial developments in environmental policy.
Some issues of Global Environmental Politics feature numerous articles discussing a single topic while others contain only one article with the goal of inciting debate on a range of connected issues. These forum articles comprise short commentaries (2000-3000 words) that prompt discussion on salient issues of interest to other readers and scholars in the field.
Research Articles
The journal hosts full-length research articles that provide an academic setting for original theoretical or empirical contributions relating to global environmental or comparative politics on a global scale. Research Articles are full-length papers of a maximum of 8000 words, including footnotes and bibliography, that must contain original first-party research. Each journal edition typically consists of four to six articles.
Book Reviews
Each addition of Global Environmental Politics contains an array of book reviews pertaining to global political forces and environmental changes. The current book review editor is Elizabeth DeSombre. The book review process consists of the editor choosing a number of books per journal edition to which a reviewer may submit a single book review or a review essay. Review essays contain a collective analysis of multiple books on one topic which have been previously outlined by the review editor.
Most cited papers
Global Environmental Politics maintains a list of top-cited papers which is updated on a monthly basis according to CrossRef’s Database from the past three years.
These are the currently most cited papers:
Most downloaded papers
Global Environmental Politics updates a list of their most downloaded papers on a daily basis based on full-text downloads of the last year.
These are the currently most downloaded papers:
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List of political science journals
MIT Press
Jstor
References
External links
Environmental social science journals
International relations journals
MIT Press academic journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Publications established in 2000
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Globalization-related journals | wiki |
Visual C++ är en utvecklingsmiljö för programmeringsspråket C++ och en del av Visual Studio utvecklad av Microsoft.
Integrerade utvecklingsmiljöer
Microsoft | wiki |
Joanne may refer to:
Music
Joanne (album), 2016 album by Lady Gaga
"Joanne" (Lady Gaga song), a 2016 song from the album Joanne
"Joanne" (Michael Nesmith song), a 1970 song from the album Magnetic South
"Joanne", a song by Cherry Ghost from the 2014 album Herd Runners
Other uses
Joanne (given name)
Joanne (Coronation Street), a character from the British television soap opera Coronation Street
JoAnne's Bed and Back, defunct U.S. furniture retailer
See also
Jo-Ann (disambiguation)
Joanna (disambiguation)
Joannes (died 425), western Roman emperor
Jehanne (disambiguation)
Jeanne (disambiguation)
Joan (disambiguation) | wiki |
An intermodal car is a type of rail vehicle, which may refer to:
A car specifically designed for transporting intermodal containers
A well car, capable of double-stacking intermodal containers
A generic flatcar re-purposed for container transport
A spine car
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The music of New Orleans assumes various styles of music which have often borrowed from earlier traditions. New Orleans, Louisiana, is especially known for its strong association with jazz music, universally considered to be the birthplace of the genre. The earliest form was dixieland, which has sometimes been called traditional jazz, 'New Orleans', and 'New Orleans jazz'. However, the tradition of jazz in New Orleans has taken on various forms that have either branched out from original dixieland or taken entirely different paths altogether. New Orleans has also been a prominent center of funk, home to some of the earliest funk bands such as The Meters.
Background
The African influence on New Orleans music can trace its roots at least back to Congo Square in New Orleans in 1835, when slaves would congregate there to play music and dance on Sundays. African music was played as well as local music, including that of local white composers, such as Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Along with European musical forms that were popular in the city, including the brass band traditions, the cultural mix laid the groundwork for the New Orleans musical art forms to come.
By 1838, the local paper—the daily Picayune—ran a scathing article complaining about the emergence of brass bands in the city, which it stated could be found on every corner.
Jazz
The term "jazz" (early on often spelled "jass") did not become popular until the mid and late 1910s, when New Orleans musicians first rose to prominence in other parts of the US and the New Orleans style needed a new name to differentiate it from the nationally popular ragtime. Before then, the New Orleans style was frequently simply called "ragtime" (Sidney Bechet continued to call his music "ragtime" throughout his life), along with such local terms as "hot music" and "ratty music".
The local New Orleans dance music style was already distinctive in the 19th century. When this style became what was later known as "jazz" remains a matter of debate and definition, although most New Orleans music historians believe what became known as New Orleans style jazz was the product of a series of developments, probably reaching its famous form no earlier than the 1890s and no later than the mid 1910s.
By the 1890s a man by the name of Poree hired a band led by cornetist Buddy Bolden, many of whose contemporaries as well as many jazz historians consider to be the first prominent jazz musician. The music was not called jazz at this time, consisting of marching band music with brass instruments and dancing. If anything, Bolden could be said to have been a blues player. The actual term "jazz" was first "jass", the etymology of which is still not entirely clear. The connotation is sexual in nature, as many of the early performers played in rough working class venues. Despite colorful stories of mid-20th century writers, the prostitution district known as Storyville was no more important in the development of the music than the city's other neighborhoods, but did play a role in exposing some out of town visitors to the style. Many instruments used were often acquired second-hand at pawn shops, including used military band instruments.
The Creole people of New Orleans also contributed greatly to the evolution of the artform, though their own music became heavily influenced by the pioneering work of Bolden. New Orleans-born musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet and Jelly Roll Morton all recalled the influence Bolden had on the direction of the music of New Orleans (Armstrong himself had no memory of Bolden, but was told about him by his mentor King Oliver) and jazz itself.
Sicilian influence
New Orleans had experienced a large wave of migration from the Italian region of Sicily between the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Sicilian capital of Palermo had long held cotton and citrus fruit trade with New Orleans. This resulted in the establishment of a direct shipping line between the two port cities which enabled a vast number of Sicilians to migrate to New Orleans, as well as other American cities. As a result of this migration, much of New Orleans jazz was modeled from the music of Sicily. This was shown in the New Orleans group the Original Dixieland Jass Band. Bandleader Nick LaRocca and drummer Tony Sbarbaro were both born to parents who were Sicilian migrants. The band's "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz record ever issued.
Cuban influence
African American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban musical motifs in the nineteenth century, when the habanera (Cuban contradanza) gained international popularity. The habanera was the first written music to be rhythmically based on an African motif. From the perspective of African American music, the habanera rhythm (also known as congo, tango-congo, or tango) can be thought of as a combination of tresillo and the backbeat.
Musicians from Havana and New Orleans would take the twice-daily ferry between both cities to perform and unsurprisingly, the habanera quickly took root in the musically fertile Crescent City. John Storm Roberts states that the musical genre habanera, "reached the U.S. 20 years before the first rag was published" (1999: 12). The symphonic work La nuit des tropiques (lit. "Night of the Tropics") by New Orleans native Louis Moreau Gottschalk, was influenced by the composer's studies in Cuba. Gottschalk used the tresillo variant cinquillo extensively. With Gottschalk, we see the beginning of serious treatment of Afro-Caribbean rhythmic elements in New World art music. For the more than quarter-century in which the cakewalk, ragtime, and proto-jazz were forming and developing, the habanera was a consistent part of African American popular music.
Whether tresillo was directly transplanted from Cuba, or if the habanera merely reinforced tresillo-like "rhythmic tendencies" already present in New Orleans music is probably impossible to determine. It is reasonable to assume that tresillo-based rhythms were performed in Congo Square by Caribbean slaves. There are examples of tresillo-like rhythms in a few African American folk musics such as the foot stomping patterns in ring shout and the post-Civil War drum and fife music. Tresillo is also heard prominently in New Orleans second line music.Early New Orleans jazz bands had habaneras in their repertoire and the tresillo/habanera figure was a rhythmic staple of jazz at the turn of the 20th century. Comparing the music of New Orleans with the music of Cuba, Wynton Marsalis observes that tresillo is the New Orleans "clave". Although technically, the pattern is only half a clave, Marsalis makes the important point that the single-celled figure is the guide-pattern of New Orleans music. The New Orleans musician Jelly Roll Morton considered the tresillo/habanera (which he called the Spanish tinge) to be an essential ingredient of jazz. The habanera rhythm and tresillo can be heard in his left hand on songs like "The Crave" (1910, recorded 1938). Morton stated, "Now in one of my earliest tunes, "New Orleans Blues", you can notice the Spanish tinge. In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning, I call it, for jazz."
Although the exact origins of jazz syncopation may never be known, there's evidence that the habanera/tresillo rhythm was there at its conception. Buddy Bolden, the first known jazz musician, is credited with creating the big four, the first syncopated bass drum pattern to deviate from the standard on-the-beat march. As the example below shows, the second half of the big four pattern is the habanera rhythm.
In Early Jazz; Its Roots and Musical Development, Gunther Schuller states:
Second line
The use of brass marching bands came long before jazz music through their use in the military, though in New Orleans many of the best-known musicians had their start in brass marching bands performing dirges as well as celebratory and upbeat tunes for New Orleans jazz funeral processions from the 1890s onward. The tradition drove onward with musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Henry "Red" Allen and King Oliver. The presence of marching bands lives on today in New Orleans, with musicians such as the Marsalis family doing some of their earliest work in such bands.
Much of New Orleans music today owes its debt to the early marching bands, even those marching bands which predate the birth of jazz music. In the late 19th century marching bands would often march through the streets of the city in second line parades. Some of the earliest bands originated from the Tremé neighborhood, and the city gave birth to such bands as the Excelsior, Onward and Olympia brass bands. The Onward and Olympia bands each have sustained incarnations that continue performing to this day. Modern examples of the brass band tradition can be heard in the playing of groups like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, or the Rebirth Brass Band founded by Phillip "Tuba Phil" Frazier, Keith Frazier, and Kermit Ruffins.
The history of the marching band in New Orleans is a rich one, with the various bands performing at virtually every major social event the city has to offer. They perform at funerals, picnics, carnivals and parades. The relationship between jazz bands and brass bands is one of co-influence. Jazz bands of this era began to go beyond the confines of the 6/8 time signature the marching bands utilized. Instead, New Orleans jazz bands began incorporating a style known as "ragging"; this technique implemented the influence of ragtime 2/4 meter and eventually led to improvisation. In turn, the early jazz bands of New Orleans influenced the playing of the marching bands, who in turn began to improvise themselves more often. Again, yet another indication that jazz music is symbolic of freedom.
Dixieland
The term dixieland was first coined by Dan Emmett in his song "Dixie's Land" in 1859. It was not a positive term for African-Americans, as its usage defined any area of the south where slaves had not yet received emancipation. Dixieland music can be defined in a number of ways, though its origin is to be found in New Orleans, present first in the music of King Oliver. It quickly spread north and became popularized along with the migration of southern blacks to areas like Chicago. Today the term is used in reference to the music, which provides a general description of any form of jazz that is derived from early New Orleans jazz.
The term dixieland is generally not used very much by New Orleans-based musicians, for there is good evidence that the term was imposed on them. For instance, the first band to actually use the term in reference to the music in their name was the all-white Original Dixieland Band. This band played no small role in the coinage of the term dixieland in reference to jazz in New Orleans, though they were not the innovators of the music. The only true barrier this band broke was being the first to record New Orleans music, which happened in New York City of all places in 1917. Despite the criticism Paul Barnes made about them, he also said that they had a "first class band".
An early student of Dixieland was the young Louis Prima, as well as his older brother Leon, both of whom lived outside the French Quarter in a working-class neighborhood populated by Italian-American and African-American musicians. Into his early 20s, Louis Prima performed on trumpet and cornet throughout New Orleans before following in the path of his idol Armstrong, and moving North for career reasons, where he appeared at the Famous Door in New York City, eventually relocating to Las Vegas where, beginning in the mid-1950s, he regularly appeared with another New Orleans musician, saxophonist Sam Butera.
Rhythm & blues and rock & roll
A new style came out of New Orleans after World War II. Prominent musicians such as Fats Domino helped shape what was first widely known as "Rhythm and Blues", which was an important ancestor of rock and roll, if not the first form of the music. In addition to the local talent, early rockers from elsewhere recorded many of their early hits in New Orleans using bands of New Orleans musicians.
In 1949, New Orleans jazz musician, and Fats Domino producer Dave Bartholomew brought the tresillo directly from Cuban music into early R&B.
In a 1988 interview with Robert Palmer, Bartholomew revealed how he initially superimposed tresillo over swing rhythm.
Bartholomew referred to the Cuban son by the misnomer rumba, a common practice of that time. On Bartholomew's 1949 tresillo-based "Oh Cubanas" we clearly hear an attempt to blend African American and Afro-Cuban music.
Hip-hop
Pivotal in the emergence of New Orleans into the mainstream hip hop community was the establishment of No Limit Records (now New No Limit Records) and Cash Money Records. These labels produced dozens of albums by young New Orleans rappers beginning in the mid-1990s. Some seminal New Orleans artists from No Limit included Mia X, Mystikal, Master P, Soulja Slim, C-Murder, and Silkk the Shocker. Cash Money likewise signed and released albums by several New Orleans artists including BG, Juvenile, Turk, Big Tymers, and Lil' Wayne. The city is also the birthplace of bounce music which is gaining popularity. Former Cash Money in-house producer Mannie Fresh is often credited for much of the popularity for Bounce outside of New Orleans. Drake, also signed to Cash Money recently collaborated with New Orleans Bounce producer Blaqnmild on his international hits "Nice For What" and "In My Feelings". Jay Electronica, signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation record label, has projected into the hip-hop scene.
Eastside New Orleans Rapper Currensy resides in New Orleans. Rappers Corner Boy P, Young Roddy, Trademark da Skydiver, and Fiend are from New Orleans. Most of the Jet Life collective is from New Orleans or surrounding areas.
New Orleans is also known for a hip hop duo known as the $UICIDEBOY$, who are known for their blend of Memphis Hip-Hop beats with guttural, heavy lyrics dealing with drug usage and depression, similar to sludge metal, another prominent genre of the city.
Heavy metal
New Orleans has an active metal scene which began to take real form in the late 1980s. Bands such as Eyehategod, Down, Exhorder, Crowbar, Acid Bath, Soilent Green, Goatwhore, Kingdom of Sorrow, Graveyard Rodeo and Superjoint Ritual are either based in the city, or have a majority of their members hailing from the area. Artists such as Mike Williams, Jimmy Bower, Brian Patton, Phil Anselmo, Kirk Windstein, Pepper Keenan, Pat Bruders, Stanton Moore and Kyle Thomas are New Orleans residents.
The city is known for the "Louisiana sound", which was pioneered by Exhorder, who was the first band to combine doom metal and up-tempo thrash metal. Several of these metal groups share a style which draws inspiration from Black Sabbath, Melvins, hardcore punk as well as Southern rock. There is still variance within the sounds of the scene, however. Eyehategod features very harsh vocals and guitar distortion; Down has a style closer to classic rock; Crowbar's music has mostly slow tempos and a downtuned guitar sound; and Soilent Green has a sound which is closer to grindcore.
It's quite usual for a member of one of these bands to be part of another band from New Orleans or Louisiana. Collaborations by members of a band on another are also fairly common. In addition to being one of the founding members of Eyehategod, Jimmy Bower is also a member of Down, a member of Superjoint Ritual and has worked several times with Crowbar. Pepper Keenan, member of Corrosion of Conformity, is a member of Down and also worked on Eyehategod's album Dopesick. Kirk Windstein is a founding member of Crowbar and a member of Kingdom of Sorrow and was a member of Down. Phil Anselmo is a member of Down, a member of Superjoint Ritual as well as various metal acts based in New Orleans; he also has a hardcore punk side project along with Mike Williams of Eyehategod and Hank Williams III named Arson Anthem. Brian Patton is a member of Eyehategod and Soilent Green. L. Ben Falgoust II is the singer of Goatwhore and Soilent Green.
See also
Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens
References
External links
A History of New Orleans Music in 100 Tracks, edited by Ted Gioia (jazz.com)
Biographical sketches of New Orleans African American composers B. Barés, E. Dédé, L. Lambert, S. Lambert, J. W. Nickerson, A. J. Piron, and F. V. Seymour, and notes regarding their downloadable music. Site also has notes on 22 downloadable Creole melodies.
NOLA Underground
No Questions, No Answers New Orleans Punk Compilation 1980
One Note at a Time, 2017 film—covers New Orleans musicians post Katrina and the struggling healthcare system
African-American history in New Orleans
American music history
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