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Coconut chutney is a south Indian chutney, a side-dish or a condiment, common in the Indian subcontinent. The condiment is made with coconut pulp ground with other ingredients such as green chillies, tamarind, salt, coriander and water. Coconut chutney is made with both red chillies or green chillies. It is served with dosas,
idli, bajji, bonda, and vada. In Karnataka, coconut chutney is also served with rice dishes such as pulao, puliyogare, tomato baath, and vangi baath.
See also
Kalathappam
Kinnathappam
Chammanthi podi
List of chutneys
References
Indian condiments
South Indian cuisine
Chutney
Foods containing coconut | wiki |
The majority of rivers in Nicaragua are located on the Caribbean coast and empty out into the Caribbean Sea. The Río San Juan is one of the most important rivers in Nicaragua, it borders Costa Rica and connects the Caribbean Sea to Lake Cocibolca . The Nicaragua Canal was a proposed project for an inter-Oceanic canal to transport cargo ships coming in from the Pacific to the Caribbean, or vice versa, instead of sailing down around Cape Horn. As of 2007 the project is still being considered.
The Río Grande and its tributaries are the most extensive river system, while the Río Escondido provides a major transportation route between the Pacific and Caribbean coasts. The Río Coco, locally known as the Wanks, runs along the border with Honduras and is the longest river in Central America. Other important rivers include Río Tipitapa, which links Lake Cocibolca to Lake Managua and covers 1,050 km² (405 sq mi).
List of rivers in Nicaragua
Río Amaka
Río Carepicha
Río Bambana
Río Bocay
Río Coco – known locally as the Wanks, borders Honduras and is the longest river in Central America.
Río Escondido
Río Grande de Matagalpa
Río San Juan – borders Costa Rica
Río Kukalaya
Río Kurinwás
Río Mi
Río Siquia
Río Tipitapa
Río Tuma
Río Wawa
River NÖamani
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Atlantic Ocean
Coco River (Segovia River) (Wanki River)
Waspuk River
Lakus River
Bocay River
Amaka River
El Jicaro River
Estili River
Ulang River
Wawa River (Huahua River)
Likus River
Kukalaya River
Layasiksa River
Prinzapolka River
Bambana River
Yaoya River
Uli River
Wani River
Río Grande de Matagalpa
Tuma River
Iyás River
Yaosca River
Murra River
Olama River
Kurinwás River
Wawasang River
Escondido River
Kama River
Mahogany River
Rama River
Plata River
Mico River
Siquia River
Kukra River
Punta Gorda River
Maíz River
Indio River
San Juan River
Sábalos River
Lake Nicaragua
Tule River
Canastro River
Tepenaguasapa River
Oyate River
Ojocuapa River
Acoyapa River
Mayales River
Cuisalá River
Malacatoya River
Tipitapa River
Lake Managua
Viejo River (Grande River)
Sinecapa River
Ochomogo River
Sapoá River
Niño River (Pizote River)
Papaturro River
Zapote River
Frío River
Pacific Ocean
Rio Brito
Río Negro
Estero Real River
Tecomapa River
Tamarindo River
Tecolapa River
Casares River
Escalante River
See also
Water resources management in Nicaragua
List of rivers of the Americas by coastline
References
Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
CIA map, 1997.
UN map, 2004.
Weller Cartographic Services map, 1998.
Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudio Territoriales department maps, 2001. (in Spanish)
, GEOnet Names Server
Nicaragua
Rivers
Nicaragua | wiki |
Catch light or catchlight is a light source that causes a specular highlight in a subject's eye in an image; the term may also refer to the highlight itself. They are also referred to as eye lights or Obies, the latter a reference to Merle Oberon, for whom the light was invented by then husband and cinematographer, Lucien Ballard. The catch light is either an artifact for a lighting method, or purposely engineered to add a glint or spark to a subject's eye during photography. The technique is effective in both still and motion picture photography; helping to draw attention towards the subject's eyes, which may otherwise get lost among other elements in the scene.
History
The lighting instrument was invented during filming of The Lodger, on which Oberon's husband was the cinematographer. Ballard wanted to alleviate Oberon's facial scars following a car accident in 1937, successfully done through make up and good lighting; attaching a small light mount on the side of a camera.
Logistics
The Obie light is a small, compact, three bulb light apparatus whose source emits a broad, continuously adjustable pattern within a two-and-a-half stop range. The bulbs come in three basic settings ranging from low to high which can be finely adjusted within each level by disturbing the bulbs and its compound reflector. As a focused light source, it is usually fairly dim and white in color, as to not affect and overpower any other part of the scene or face. Many other lighting methods, however, are known for the distinctive catch light they produce. Among those methods are: a ring flash, which produces several highlights in a ring, and large softboxes, which produce large, square highlights.
In a patent for an Image Editing Apparatus, a catch light makes it "possible to emphasize or add to an expression on a subject's face". There are different optimum catch lights for each definitive facial expression made by actors. Its process reflects light from the surface of the cornea by a built-in flash unit, and is then exposed by an "image pickup element".
A catch light is not the same as a red-eye effect. In general, red-eye is an undesired effect (caused by the reflection of light from the retina inside the back of the eyeball), while catch lights on the eye remain aesthetically desirable. Especially in portraiture, eyes without catch lights are often said to appear dull or lifeless. Lighting is often arranged in studio portraits specifically to create attractive catch lights.
Usage in film and television
This method most often appears as bright spots and reflections of surroundings that can contain entire images in the subject's eyes. This property is sometimes used as a plot point in movies and television. Typically, this trope is represented by computer magnification of an image to gain information about the surroundings of the person being photographed, essentially using the eye as a mirror. Audiences usually perceive eyes without specular highlights to be lifeless or evil, and for this reason many cinematographers specifically eliminate catch lights on antagonistic characters. It is also commonly found in anime, usually used in an over-dramatized manner to show different emotions accompanied by exaggerated expressions.
References
Photographic techniques
Filmmaking
Stage lighting instruments | wiki |
Dagger sign is a radiologic sign seen in advanced cases of ankylosing spondylitis. The appearance of a dagger is seen in the X-ray because of ossification of the supraspinous and infraspinous ligaments. As a result, a central dense line of sclerosis, resembling a dagger can be seen in the AP radiograph of spine and pelvis.
References
Radiologic signs | wiki |
Chuno may refer to the following:
Chuño, a freeze-dried potato product traditionally made by Quechua and Aymara communities of Peru and Bolivia
Chūnō, the central portion of Gifu Prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan
Chuno, a 2010 Korean drama also known as The Slave Hunters, | wiki |
Shawnigan Lake may refer to:
Shawnigan Lake (British Columbia), a lake on Vancouver Island, Canada
Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, a village in the Cowichan Valley Regional District, Canada | wiki |
Rainbow roll is a type of uramaki sushi roll filled with cucumber, avocado and crab stick. It is prepared with multiple types of fish, most commonly tuna, salmon, white fish, yellowtail, snapper, and eel. Rainbow roll is quite similar to the California roll, with the addition of tuna, salmon and avocado. Other variants include slices of mango next to avocado, or uses of imitation crab meat, fried shrimp tempura, and other seafood.
The name of the roll refers to the colourful pattern of raw fish and fruits across its top that resembles a rainbow.
It is also known as Geisha roll, dragon roll, or fish roll.
History
The rainbow roll is considered as the next step of sushi introduction into the United States culinary culture after the California roll, the first roll with nori seaweed leaf hidden inside rice. While the California roll uses no raw fish at all, the rainbow roll takes it one step further by adding raw tuna, salmon, shrimp, and white fish.
References
External links
Sushi in the United States
Avocado dishes
American fusion cuisine | wiki |
18th Street may refer to:
Los Angeles
18th Street gang, an Hispanic street gang
Manhattan, New York City
18th Street (IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line); a subway station serving the trains
18th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), an abandoned subway station; formerly serving the trains
18th Street (IRT Third Avenue Line), (demolished)
18th Street (IRT Sixth Avenue Line), (demolished)
Chicago
18th Street station (CTA), a former 'L' station
Washington, D.C.
18th Street NW (Washington, D.C.)
See also | wiki |
The Wetback Hound is a 1957 American live-action short film produced Walt Disney Productions. It was produced and co-directed by Larry Lansburgh, and it accompanied the theatrical release of the Disney feature Johnny Tremain. In 1958, the film won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 30th Academy Awards.
See also
List of American films of 1957
References
External links
1957 films
1957 short films
Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners
Walt Disney Pictures films
Films produced by Walt Disney
Disney short films
1950s English-language films
American short films | wiki |
Sharjah (emiraat), een emiraat van de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten
Sharjah (stad), de hoofdstad van dat emiraat | wiki |
Nose torture is a classic Japanese form of BDSM, that usually involves a hook applied in the nose — so called nosehook — that pulls the nose backwards. The level of pain and discomfort caused by this form of nose bondage is variable based on how hard the nosehook is made to pull. It is a mixture of real pain and humiliation for the slave to be in nose bondage and other forms of nose torture.
Forms of nose torture
Flip the nose open - pull the nostrils, squeeze and twist
Nosehooks - pulling the nose backwards - nosehook either pulled hard by hand or tied above them to a collar round their neck
Nose caning - a small thin stick (needs to be a flexible stick that can bend/swirp) that can be flicked up on the nose from below.
Clothespegs on and in the nose. Squeezed and played with - snapped on and pulled off - whipped off with a small precise whip.
Metalclamp up the nose - a variety of metal clamps can be used and applied on the nostrils or inside the middle of the nose, a chain is attached to the metal clamps so it can be pulled and weighted.
Hotwaxing the nose - Hotwax on top of the nose, dripped inside from the side, downwards inside.
External links
BDSM terminology | wiki |
L.A. Heat may refer to:
L.A. Heat (TV series), a television show filmed from 1996 to 1998
L.A. Heat (film), a 1989 movie | wiki |
Poly(N-vinylacetamide) (PNVA) is a polymer having affinity for both water and alcohol made primarily from N-vinylacetamide (NVA) monomer. The homopolymer of NVA is called GE191 grade. Copolymer of NVA and sodium acrylate called GE167 grade.
History
Showa Denko succeeded in industrialization for the first time in the world.
Properties
Able to thicken across a wide range of pH
Able to thicken high salt concentration solutions
Resistance to acids and alkalis
Water-soluble
Adhesion and pressure sensitive adhesion
Resistant to heat
References
Acetamides
Vinyl polymers | wiki |
"She's Lying" is a song written by Jan Crutchfield, and recorded by American country music artist Lee Greenwood. It was released in August 1982 as the third single from the album Inside Out. The song reached #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Chart performance
References
1982 singles
Lee Greenwood songs
MCA Records singles
Song recordings produced by Jerry Crutchfield
Songs written by Jan Crutchfield
1982 songs | wiki |
Green Day: Rock Band is a 2010 rhythm game developed by Harmonix and published by MTV Games. It is the fifth major console release in the Rock Band music video game series and it allows players to simulate rock music by using controllers shaped like musical instruments. The game's setlist consists of songs by American rock band Green Day. Rock Band features virtual depictions of the three band members performing the songs in new venues designed for the game.
The game incorporates existing Green Day songs already released for the Rock Band series as downloadable content, and allows players to export its full track list to the other Rock Band game titles except The Beatles: Rock Band. A free playable demo for the game was made available on May 25, 2010 for the Xbox Live Marketplace and on May 27, 2010 for the PlayStation Network. The demo features full, playable versions of two songs from the game, "Welcome to Paradise" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".
Gameplay
Green Day: Rock Band allows players to perform simulated rock music by providing up to four players with the ability to play three different controllers modeled after music instruments: a guitar controller for lead guitar and bass guitar gameplay, a drum controller and a microphone for vocals. Players simulate performances by using their controllers to play scrolling notes. For lead and bass guitar, this is accomplished by holding down colored buttons mimicking guitar frets and pushing the controller's strum bar. For drums, this requires striking the matching colored drumhead, or stepping on the pedal to simulate playing bass drum notes. When singing vocals, the player must sing in relative pitch to the original vocals. A pitch indicator displays the singer's accuracy relative to the original pitch. The game supports harmonies as introduced in The Beatles: Rock Band, allowing multiple singers to perform the vocal portion. Harmonies will be added to the six songs already available as downloadable content for the game when played in Green Day: Rock Band.
As in previous Rock Band games, successfully hitting the proper notes in sequence earns points for each player and boosts their "performance meter". If a player fails to match the notes, their performance meter drops. If the meter empties, that player is forced to drop out of play, temporarily silencing that instrument and causing the band's overall performance to drop. Any player to drop out can be "saved" if another player activates "Overdrive", which is collected by successfully completing specially-marked phrases, and for guitar and bass players, using the controller's whammy bar to alter the pitch of marked sustained notes. Overdrive can also be used to temporarily increase the number of points the band earns. Activating Overdrive is specific to each "instrument". For guitar, the controller must be temporarily shifted to an upright position; for drums, a specific drumhead must be hit at the end of a drum fill when prompted; and for vocals, a noise must be registered by the microphone when prompted. The game does not feature any "Big Rock Endings", which allowed players to improvise at the end of a song for additional scoring as in the other Rock Band games, nor includes any clapping or tambourine sections for the vocalist player, due to lack of places in Green Day's songs to include the features. Immediately before playing a song, players must choose their difficulty level; ranging from "Easy" to "Expert". A "No Fail" mode has been carried over from Rock Band 2 and is accessible from the difficulty menu. Players are also able to identify their handedness for guitar, bass, or drums before the start or during a song via the game's "pause" menu. Upon completing a song, the players are given a star rating, from 1 to 5 stars, or 5 gold stars for very high scores if all band members are playing on Expert.
Green Day: Rock Band features a Career mode, similar to The Beatles: Rock Band. However, it allows the player to immediately select any of the available songs and records to play from the start instead of stepping through specific sets. The Career mode has a "meta-game" through various challenges that subsequently unlock additional rewards (photographs or videos contained on disc), such as by completing every song in a specific set with a 4-star rating or higher. Some challenges require the players' band to earn enough "cred" to unlock them; these additional challenges three or four song challenges built around certain themes. A Quick play mode allows players to select one of more of the songs available to the game to play outside of Career mode. A drum trainer mode is available to help players become accustomed to the instrument controller. The trainer includes a set of stock rhythms that are generic for most songs, and a set of "Tre's Greatest Hits" with drum patterns and solos taken from Tré Cool's performances, including one "ferocious" solo that runs across two different lessons.
Instrument peripherals
All available Rock Band peripherals are compatible with their respective console version of Green Day: Rock Band. Some controllers designed for Guitar Hero games also work with Green Day: Rock Band. While The Beatles: Rock Band received unique instruments bundled with the release, Green Day: Rock Band is a software only release and is not bundled with instruments of its own.
Development
Prior to mid-2009, only some music from Warner Music Group (which includes Green Day's label, Reprise Records) had yet to be included in games like Guitar Hero or Rock Band, with the gaming industry believing that the music publisher was boycotting the music game genre over how little money they saw from the sales of the game. However, Warner Music Group and MTV Games stated that the lack of songs from the publisher was due to current negotiations over new licensing costs. The two companies had reached a deal by June 2009, when a downloadable pack of Green Day songs was made available to the Rock Band series, heralded by both companies.
With the release of the song pack, speculation arose about more band-specific Rock Band titles to accompany The Beatles: Rock Band, and Green Day was mentioned among them most often. Though this was denied, MTV and Harmonix, the team who worked on all Rock Band titles, stated that they were working with a few artists and announcements were to be made soon. This was followed by Green Day's frontman Billie Joe Armstrong leaking that the band was working on a Rock Band project, but details were scarce. This was originally thought to be a track pack disc similar to the AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack or another pack of downloadable songs.
Drummer Tré Cool later confirmed that the band was approached by Harmonix during the development of The Beatles: Rock Band for the band-specific game, while Armstrong stated they first experienced a Rock Band game, specifically The Beatles: Rock Band, at a cast party for the American Idiot musical performance in Berkeley, California. The game was formally unveiled on December 12, 2009 at the Spike TV Video Game Awards 2009. Green Day announced the game via a video and showed the first trailer. A subsequent press release by MTV Games confirmed that the game would arrive on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii with the entire setlist being exportable to other Rock Band titles. A 2010 release date was also stated. In addition, previous Green Day downloadable songs released for Rock Band and Rock Band 2 would be included in the game as well.
Paul DeGooyer, Senior Vice President of MTV Games, stated that Green Day was selected as the next band to focus on due to input from fans of the game. DeGooyer also claimed that the band's music lent itself well to the format, as the music is both "fun to play" and also covers a range of genres from the band's early days in punk rock to their modern, alternative-based works. MTV Games' Global Head of Sales Scott Guthrie believed the band had a larger awareness for their target market (16- to 34-year-old males) than The Beatles, and expected Green Day: Rock Band would see better sales as a result.
Harmonix's Chris Foster noted that the opportunity for making a Green Day-specific game was a matter of happenstance; at the same time they had completed The Beatles: Rock Band and were considering another band-centric game, the licensing deal with Warner Bros. Records presented the opportunity to include a large amount of Green Day's work into the Rock Band series. The Harmonix team felt it best to provide this as a stand-alone game as opposed to large DLC packs. The full game would also allow the developers to capture the "energy" of the band's members, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool, as they perform their songs. Armstrong noted that Green Day was approached "a long time ago by people who will remain anonymous" near the time of release of American Idiot, prior to the popularity of rhythm games, but declined, believing it "didn’t feel right" due to the "cutthroat" nature of the video game industry at that point.
Music selection
The game is the first Harmonix game to feature a full album in the game as shipped, with the entirety of American Idiot, Dookie (except for hidden track "All By Myself"), and 21st Century Breakdown being playable. The inclusion of the full album of American Idiot was the centerpiece of the game's development, according to Harmonix' Chris Foster, due in part to the thematic nature of the album which is meant to be listened as a whole, as well as the album's success and Broadway musical. This led the team to also including 21st Century Breakdown, an album similar to American Idiot that is meant to be heard as one complete work; as Harmonix had already released six songs from the album as downloadable content, they did not want to make those that had purchased the songs have to pay for them again in the full game, and instead designed the game to immediately incorporate those songs into the game if the player had already purchased them. Once these two albums were selected, Harmonix' CEO Alex Rigopulos determined that they needed to include the full Dookie album, the major label debut of the band and one of the most requested albums by Rock Band fans, in order to complete the experience. Though Harmonix had considered including material from the earliest Green Day albums, 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk, master multi-track recordings required by the Rock Band game engine to provide proper feedback when playing were not readily available. According to Cool, while the master tapes for Kerplunk exist, they are in poor shape and the process to digitize them would destroy the tape; as such, Cool stated "We’re making sure we have the right dudes to do it" as potential future downloadable content for the game. Harmonix opted against using live versions of songs on these albums, feeling that the game needed to stay with the studio versions of the songs. Once Harmonix had selected to focus on the three albums, they decided against including any additional non-Green Day songs, instead focusing on rounding out the group's history to present a complete Green Day experience.
Green Day: Rock Band features songs with up to three parts of harmony, featuring the same functionality as The Beatles: Rock Band. Harmonix noted that many of Green Day's songs are actually two part harmonies traded off with other lines, such as in "Homecoming", the only song in the game that features a three-part harmony. They authored the vocals on most of the songs to have the third vocalist (if present) singing the trade-off lines alongside the two-part harmony singers. There is very little censoring of the lyrics; according to the project lead Chris Foster, only about four to five words across the entire game are muted. Harmonix considered their standards for inclusion of songs to be similar to downloadable content, allowing for mature references to drugs and sex. Harmonix left intact certain pairings of songs that "blended" together due to how they were released on media, such as "Brain Stew/Jaded" and some songs on the American Idiot album. They opted to leave the pairing of "Chump" and "Longview" as separate songs due to how "Longview" was eventually released as its own single.
Following the announcement of the band's 2012 album trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!, it was announced that a DLC pack, called Green Day 03, would feature four songs from the existing game, as well as the song "Oh Love" from the album ¡Uno!. However this pack would only be available for Rock Band 3 and Rock Band Blitz and would not work with Green Day: Rock Band.
Art direction
The game includes three venues representing the historical progression of the band. "The Warehouse" is a fictional venue set in 1994 that is based on a composite of "house parties and squats" where Green Day played before they became popular, and where all the songs from Dookie will be played. Part of the design of this venue was inspired by the clubs such as 924 Gilman Street where Green Day played before they were signed as a major label; as Green Day was signed by a major label by the time they recorded Dookie, Harmonix opted not to make the venue exactly based on 924 Gilman Street for historical accuracy. The National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England is used for American Idiot and other albums, having been the site where the 2005 Bullet in a Bible CD/DVD was recorded and where the band performed their first stadium show. The Fox Theatre in Oakland, California is used for songs from 21st Century Breakdown, replicating the debut 21st Century Breakdown 2009 performance by the band there, being the second show in the restored theater. Harmonix considered several other real-life venues based on past Green Day performances. Woodstock '94 was one possibility, but the development team found it difficult to create the daytime setting. The Hatch Shell in Boston was also considered, but the team felt that the venue has only regional awareness and was also marred by the riot that occurred after the Green Day concert there in 1994. They also considered using Madison Square Garden but determined that ultimately, it was not as interesting as the other venues. The band, in their original meetings with Harmonix's Foster, wanted to make sure the game captured the "excitement of their live concerts" and the accuracy of the venues they played at; Cool noted that the game "skips a lot" of the band's history, but provided enough input on the band's history to "personalize [the game] and put our stamp on it".
The band members were modeled using motion capturing performed by actors hired by Harmonix, incorporating video and concert footage to create avatars for each member unique to each venues. The band's support team helped to take photographs of the band member's tattoos, and identified when they were received so that the Harmonix artists could incorporate them properly into the avatars. All the songs, including the six Green Day songs previously released as downloadable content, feature unique animations tied to each song. This was a different approach than as taken for The Beatles: Rock Band, where they created snippets of framing and animation which could be easily repackaged for other songs, including future downloadable content. Because of the integrated nature of the songs and animations, there will be no further downloadable content available for the game. The game includes, as reward items, over 100 photographs and 40 minutes of video footage pulled from Warner Bros. Records' archive of the band. The video content has been pared down from over 20 hours of raw footage from concerts and studio records. Some of the live video footage will be used as part of the 21st Century Breakdown venue backdrops. Many of these rewards are specific to individual songs, such as photos taken during concert performances of the song, and thus given as rewards for completing these songs.
Harmonix has partnered with Demiurge Studios to help develop the game; Demiurge had previously helped Harmonix bring the Rock Band Track Packs to retail. Furthermore, Harmonix is working with design studio MK12, who previously created the interstitial movies in The Beatles: Rock Band, and other studios to bring Green Day and their band's history into the game. The opening cinematic created by MK12 is done in a similar style to what they made for The Beatles: Rock Band, spanning Green Day's career over a brief period of time.
Soundtrack
The game features 47 tracks spanning the band's career, including two full albums—Dookie and American Idiot, and twelve out of eighteen tracks from 21st Century Breakdown (with the remaining six tracks available in the "Plus" edition of the game, or via pre-existing DLC). For Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners, every song in the game can be exported for use within Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and Rock Band 3 for a $10 fee, or included in the cost of the "Plus" edition of the game or for pre-ordering the game at select vendors. Wii users can only export the songs into Rock Band 3. The remaining tracks can also be acquired from the Music Store as of November 13, 2012, as stand-alone or in packs corresponding to their respective albums (in the case of the three complete Green Day albums available).
Reception
Green Day: Rock Band was generally well received by video game critics. Many critics noted the game follows the previous dedication to presentation, audio, and playability that were seen in The Beatles: Rock Band, though some believed it followed the formula too well to make it indistinguishable from the previous titles. Jack DeVries of IGN could not think of any easy way to identify the game from other Rock Band titles; "People kept asking me how the game was and all I could think to say was 'It's Green Day: Rock Band.'" Ben Kuchera of Ars Technica called the game "paint by numbers rocking", commenting that the feature set is essentially the same as The Beatles. Patrick Klepek of G4TV stated the game was "not as ambitious as The Beatles" but still came to help him appreciate the band more.
While the two games have similar content, some reviews felt that Green Day was a weaker title due to the limited number of venues compared with the Dreamscapes used in The Beatles, among other aspects. Johnny Minkley of Eurogamer felt the additional content unlocked by playing through songs was "supplied in a way that feels separate rather than woven in to enrich understanding and appreciation" of the band, and considered the game a "backward step" from The Beatles. 1UP.com's Justin Haywald considered the title less of a tribute to the band and more of a video game due to the need to repeatedly play content over and over again to unlock all of the included band's photos and videos. Critics felt that Harmonix were successful at capturing the sense of being at a live performance of Green Day through the detailed venues, animations of the band members, and banter and antics with the virtual crowds.
From a musical perspective of reviewers, the limited range of Green Day compared to the Beatles creates a much less diverse experience compared to the previous game, diminishing the interest level for those not familiar with Green Day's music. Many stated that one's personal enjoyment of the game would strictly depend on their preference for Green Day. While the inclusion of full albums was well received, some reviewers wished for more songs to be included in the game, particularly from their mid-career albums. Minkley considered that by skipping over these albums, "the experience is robbed of any real insight into Green Day's evolution" between Dookie and American Idiot. However, despite the song selections, reviewers found Green Day's songs to be better suited to Rock Band than The Beatles', in part to how enjoyable it was to play all the songs regardless of the instrument used, and without having to chart atypical instruments, such as piano or cello, to the instrument parts. Reviewers found the guitar portions to be challenging but not impossible due to the endurance of the chord-heavy part. DeVries found the vocal harmonies mechanics to be better suited to Green Day, as with the lyrical trade-offs in many of the songs, "it's less about trying to sing at a slightly higher pitch and more about just having fun". Critics also commented the use of censored radio edits to maintain the game's Teen rating, and felt this weakened the music included in the game. The ability to export the game's songs to other Rock Band was well received. However, Lou Kesten of the Associated Press noted that the added cost to export the game, as well as the cost of the additional six tracks available as downloadable content, made it feel that "MTV is nickel-and-diming its loyal audience".
Sales of Green Day: Rock Band within the month of June 2010 were considered "paltry" by industry analyst Doug Creutz, with only 82,000 units sold in North America.
References
External links
Green Day: Rock Band website
2010 video games
Drumming video games
Guitar video games
Karaoke video games
Green Day
Rock Band series
Band-centric video games
Wii games
Xbox 360 games
PlayStation 3 games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Harmonix games
Demiurge Studios games | wiki |
Grand Canyon is a 1958 American short documentary film directed by James Algar and produced by Walt Disney Productions. The film producer was Ernst Heiniger, assisted by his wife Jeanne. It was shown as a supplement during Sleeping Beauty's initial run. The short won an Oscar at the 31st Academy Awards in 1959 for Best Short Subject (Live Action). It is also included as a bonus feature on the 1997 laserdisc, 2003 DVD, and 2008 DVD & Blu-ray releases of Sleeping Beauty.
According to the opening credits, Grand Canyon is "a pictorial interpretation of Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite", much as the animated segments in Fantasia are pictorial representations of music, and the film is strongly related to its soundtrack. Grand Canyon is one of Walt Disney's more unconventional and experimental works, as it has musical accompaniment, but no dialogue or narration.
References
External links
1958 films
1958 documentary films
1950s short documentary films
American short documentary films
Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners
Disney documentary films
Short films directed by James Algar
Films produced by Walt Disney
Works about the Grand Canyon
Films without speech
Films set in Arizona
Disney short films
Documentary films about Arizona
CinemaScope films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films | wiki |
Parawa is a locality in New Zealand.
Parawa may also refer to.
Parawa, the Aboriginal name for the headland of Cape Jervis in South Australia
Parawa, an alternative name for the village of Parva, Parbhani in India
Parawa, South Australia, a locality
Parawa language, a South American indigenous language | wiki |
Standings and results for Group 1 of the UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying tournament.
Standings
Matches
Goalscorers
Notes
References
Group 1
1998–99 in Italian football
Qual
1998–99 in Welsh football
1999–2000 in Welsh football
1998–99 in Danish football
Qual
1998–99 in Swiss football
1999–2000 in Swiss football
1998 in Belarusian football
1999 in Belarusian football | wiki |
Edward Frederick Mylius (4 July 1878 – 24 January 1947) was a Belgian-born journalist jailed in England in 1911 for criminal libel after publishing a report that King George V of the United Kingdom was a bigamist.
Early life
Mylius was born in Belgium in 1878; his father was born in England, his mother in Italy. By 1891, Mylius was living with a sister in Hammersmith, West London, at the home of an uncle. Between 1895 and 1901, he worked as a clerk. By 1909, he was known to police for attending anarchist and socialist meetings. That year, he visited France, where he met Edward Holton James, an American-born socialist living in Paris.
Libel case
Background
George V became British sovereign on 6 May 1910, upon the death of his father, Edward VII. The king, while still a prince and heir to the throne, had married Mary of Teck in London on 6 July 1893.
In January 1910, Edward Holton James wrote to Mylius, suggesting an article based on an existing rumour that George V had previously married and had children via that marriage. Shortly thereafter, James began publishing a journal called The Liberator. James told Mylius that they had "an opportunity to make a formidable attack on the Monarchy".
Libel publication
In the 19 November 1910 issue of The Liberator, Mylius alleged in an article entitled "Sanctified Bigamy" that in Malta in 1890, George V had married "the daughter" of Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour and the marriage had produced three children. This would have been not only scandalous but also illegal, contravening the Royal Marriages Act 1772. While The Liberator was published in Paris, police seized about 1,000 copies sent to England for distribution.
Normally, royalty avoid suing over lies told about them, but in a break with precedent, the king decided that in this case, he had no choice. The rumours accused him of the crime of bigamy, and questioned the legal status of the queen consort and the legitimacy of their children. The king, with the advice of Home Secretary Winston Churchill, issued proceedings against Mylius for criminal libel and said he was prepared to go into the witness box to disprove the allegations. Sir Rufus Isaacs, the attorney-general, advised the king that it would be unconstitutional for him to give evidence in his own court.
Arrest and trial
Mylius was arrested in London in late December 1910. Charged with criminal libel (not the more serious seditious libel), he was tried before the Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord Alverstone, and a jury. The prosecution, led by Attorney General Rufus Isaacs and assisted by Richard David Muir, asserted that the claims about the king were fiction:
that the king had not been in Malta between 1888 and 1901;
that the admiral, whose daughter the king had supposedly married, had two daughters, of whom:
one (Laura) had never met the king, and;
the other (Mary) had not met the king between 1879, when she was eight, and 1898, when he was already married.
Mylius, representing himself, essentially did not mount a defense, asserting that he had been denied the right to face his accuser. He was convicted in a one-day trial on 1 February 1911 and sentenced to a year in prison.
George V recorded his feelings on the affair in his diary:
The whole story is a damnable lie and has been in existence now for over twenty years. I trust that this will settle it once and for all.
His mother, Queen Alexandra, wrote to him:
Thank God that vile trial is over and those infamous lies and foul accusations at an end for ever and cleared up before the whole world. To us it was a ridiculous story your having been married before ...! Too silly for words ... My poor Georgie - really it was too bad and must have worried you all the same.
Serving his sentence at Wormwood Scrubs Prison, Mylius was released after 10 months due to good conduct.
Additional publication
After Mylius was released from prison, he went to live in the United States. There, beyond the reach of English libel law, he published another version of the claim, appearing in a 1916 pamphlet, The Morganatic Marriage of George V, printed in Greenwich Village by Guido Bruno. The allegation was bolstered by finding a Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle report of Mary Culme-Seymour dancing with the prince at a ball at Portsmouth Town Hall on 21 August 1891. She had testified at the trial that she had not seen the prince between 1879 and 1898.
The king's biographer, Kenneth Rose, acknowledged in his 1983 book that Mary had had "a slip of memory" but judged it "utterly irrelevant to the accusation of bigamy". This inconsistency has been taken up by more recent writers investigating the allegations.
Later years
Mylius' immigration to the United States was not without incident. Upon arrival in December 1912 at Ellis Island, he was interviewed and ordered deported, due to his libel conviction in England. His appeal with the State Departments was denied, but he was successful in federal court, a judge ruling in February 1913 that libel was not a crime of moral turpitude. The government appealed that ruling; it was affirmed in Mylius' favor in January 1914.
In New York City, Mylius associated with activists around Greenwich Village, including Max Eastman, Hippolyte Havel, and Margaret Sanger. On his draft registration card of 1918, Mylius listed Sanger as his nearest relative and gave his occupation as "manager and organiser" for The Liberator. At some point, Mylius was the lover of anarchist Christine Ell, whom Eugene O'Neill modeled the title character of Anna Christie on.
In December 1921, it came to light that Mylius had "borrowed" $4,000 from The Liberator (which he had left three month's prior) and lost it on stock market speculation. Eastman, at that time editor of the publication, received partial repayment, but after being authorized to collect an additional $1,000 from one of Mylius' accounts, found that Mylius had already withdrawn those funds from the bank.
During the 1921 incident, Mylius was using the alias Edward J. Boskin; he also used that name in the 1925 New York State Census. A secretary at a company Mylius worked for was named Lena Boskin.
At the time of his April 1942 draft registration, Mylius was unemployed and living in Brooklyn. Genealogical research by Anthony J. Camp finds that Mylius married Lena Boskin, 20 years his junior, in New York City in July 1944. Mylius died in Kings County Hospital in January 1947 of prostate cancer, and was cremated.
See also
Guy Aldred, an associate of Mylius found guilty of libel in 1909
Ella Rhoads Higginson, an American author who mentioned the George V rumour in a 1910 book
Notes
References
Further reading
Excerpt in the Evening Despatch'' (Birmingham)
1878 births
1947 deaths
People from Ostend
Belgian journalists
Belgian male writers
Prisoners and detainees of the United Kingdom
British monarchy
Royal scandals
English defamation case law
Deaths from prostate cancer
Belgian emigrants to the United Kingdom | wiki |
Round nose pliers, often called rosary pliers in the jewelry trade, are a specialized type of pliers characterized by their jaws of approximately round cross-section, usually of smooth surface finish and diameter tapering toward the tips.
Uses
Round nose pliers are commonly used in electronics and electrical wiring for forming a loop at the end of a wire and in jewelry making to form a variety of bends in wire.
Variations
Often, round nose pliers have insulated handles for safe electrical work, a spring-fitted joint for ready opening and closing, and comfortable grips on the handles to make them easy to manipulate.
Variations particularly favored by jewelers and beadsmiths include one of the jaws flat rather than round (for making chain), jaws of differing diameters or non-tapered jaws which are used to make findings such as bails, jump rings and toggle clasps for wearable items.
References
Pliers | wiki |
Jacobaea adonidifolia is a species (synonym Senecio adonidifolius) of the genus Jacobaea and the family Asteraceae.
References
External links
adonidifolia | wiki |
Kairi may originally refer to: Sea
Places
Trinidad was formerly known as Kairi; see Trinidad and Tobago
Kairi, Queensland, a small town in Far North Queensland, Australia
Kairi Ka Igamba, Kenya
People
Kairi (name)
Fictional characters
Kairi (Kingdom Hearts), a character from the Kingdom Hearts series of video games
Kairi Sanjo, a character from the manga series Shugo Chara! by Peach-Pit
Kairi (Street Fighter), a character from the Street Fighter series of video games
Kairi Tanaga, a minor character who appeared in Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond
Kairi, a character from the manga series Yumekui Kenbun: Nightmare Inspector by Shin Mashiba
Kairi Yano, a character from tokusatsu series Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger
Kairi Imahara, called Valkyrie, a character from the video game Apex Legends
Other uses
Kairi language, another name for the Rumu language and Japanese language as used in Papua New Guinea
Kairi, another word for unripe green mangoes in India, used in dishes like Kairi ka Do Pyaza
Kairi — Rishta Khatta Meetha, an Indian TV series
See also
Karri (disambiguation)
Kyrie (disambiguation)
Japanese unisex given names | wiki |
Eurasian cave lion may refer to:
Panthera leo fossilis, the Middle Pleistocene Eurasian cave lion
Panthera spelaea, the Late Pleistocene Eurasian cave lion
Animal common name disambiguation pages | wiki |
The Mafia Kills Only in Summer may refer to:
The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (film)
The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (TV series) | wiki |
Grade retention or grade repetition is the process of a student repeating a grade due to failing on the previous year.
An alternative to grade retention due to failure is a policy of social promotion, with the idea that staying within their same age group is important. Social promotion is the obligatory advancement of all students regardless of achievements and absences. Social promotion is used more in countries which use tracking to group students according to academic ability. Some academic scholars believe that underperformance must be addressed with intensive remedial help, such as summer school or after-school programs in contrast to failing and retaining the student.
In most countries, retention rates are currently decreasing. In the United States, grade retention can be used in kindergarten through to twelfth grade; however, students in grades seven through twelve are usually only retained in the specific failed subject due to each subject having its own specific classroom rather than staying in one classroom with all subjects taught for the entire school day as it is in grades kindergarten through sixth grade. For example, in grades seven through to twelve, a student can be promoted in a math class but retained in a language class. Some elementary school grades (kindergarten or 1st grade to 5th or 6th grade) are confined to one room for the whole day, being taught all subjects in the same classroom usually by one teacher with the exception of art and gymnastics conducted in the art room and the gymnasium respectively. In these grades, the student must generally fail or score well below the accepted level in most or all areas within the entire curriculum to be retained. The student will then again repeat the entire school year within a single classroom and repeating the same subject matter as the previous year.
Where it is permitted, grade retention is most common among at-risk students in early elementary school. At-risk students with intellectual disabilities are only retained when parents and school officials agree to do so. Children who are relatively young in their age cohort are four times more likely to be retained.
History
Different schools have used different approaches throughout history. Grade retention or repetition was essentially meaningless in the one-room schoolhouses of more than a century ago due to limited access to outside standards and the small scale of the school with only a few students in each age group, was conducive to individualized instruction. With the proliferation of larger, graded schools in the middle of the nineteenth century, retention became a common practice and only one century ago, about half of all American students were retained at least once before the age of thirteen.
Social promotion began to spread in the 1930s with concerns about the psychosocial effects of retention. Social promotion is the promoting of underperforming students under the ideological principle that staying with their same age peers is important to success. This trend reversed in the 1980s as concerns about slipping academic standards rose, and the practice of grade retention in the United States has been climbing steadily ever since. The practice of making retention decisions on the basis of the results of a single test called high-stakes testing is widely condemned by professional educators. Test authors generally advise that their tests are not adequate for high stakes decisions, and that decisions should be made based on all the facts and circumstances.
Research
There is no conclusive evidence that grade retention is significantly helpful, and much of the existing research has been methodologically invalid due to the selection bias in the group allocation phase. The three different types of studies that exist or have been proposed have inherent pitfalls to overcome before the resulting data can be deemed as accurate.
Studies that compare students who were retained with students who were only considered for retention and were eventually promoted, concluded that social promotion is beneficial to the students. The students that were selected for promotion were often viewed as “better”, or “less weak” than the students that were retained, and the “better” students were selected for promotion “because the school believed them to be stronger or more personally mature students”, whereas the students that were selected for retention were viewed as “weaker” students and were retained as a result of this.
Studies that compare retained students with their own prior performance seem to favor grade retention; however, these studies are inaccurate because they do not adequately compensate for personal growth, or stressful changes at home like abusive living conditions, or drastic environmental issues such as living in poverty; all of which will have a definitive impact on the students performance.
Studies which randomly assign a large pool of borderline students to promotion or retention is the most methodologically sound type of research of this topic. It is imperative that the research is provided with sufficiently detailed information on a large enough scale in order to provide valuable or possibly even definitive information. Although this method can potentially provide the most accurate results, schools and parents are unwilling to have a child's future determined by random assignment, therefore, due to institutional and parental opposition, along with other ethical reasons, these types of studies are not utilized.
"Non-academic outcomes": Retention is commonly associated with poor social adjustment, disruptive behavior, negative attitudes towards school and low academic attendance." Retention is a "stronger predictor of delinquency than socioeconomic status, race, or ethnicity," and is also a strong predictor of drug and alcohol use and teenage pregnancy.
International
Australia
Australia uses grade retention, although in 2010 the New South Wales Department of Education and Training enacted a policy that states that student retention will no longer be allowed at any school. For example, as of 2010, students will not be repeating eleventh grade or twelfth grade due to the abundance of post school services available to them after they complete twelfth grade, services such as TAFEs or college universities.
New Zealand
In New Zealand, secondary schools commonly use a system of internal academic streaming in which children of the same age are subdivided on the basis of ability, and lower achieving students (those who would be retained under the North American system) are taught in different classes, and at a different rate, from higher achieving students, but are kept within their own age group. This system has largely rendered grade retention obsolete in all but the most exceptional circumstances.
In most cases where academic streaming is insufficient, additional special services are viewed as being preferential to grade retention, particularly when behavioral challenges are involved.
Argentina
Argentina contemplates grade retention in all grades except first grade and the last course of high school. In elementary school, students are retained when they fail one of the basic areas: math, language and social sciences. In secondary school, students are allowed a maximum of two courses failed in order to be promoted. If they fail three or more, they should repeat.
East Asia
South Korea, Malaysia and North Korea do not practice grade retention. Although grade retention is technically possible in Japan, the practice is largely obsolete.
Singapore
Singapore practices grade retention in secondary schools if a student is unsuccessful in achieving a satisfactory accumulated percentage grade. The school authorities may also decide that it would be more appropriate for the student to advance to a higher level in a lower stream such as in the cases of "express" and "normal" (academic) students. Grade retention is most common in junior colleges where a promotional criterion is set in place.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong practices grade retention in elementary and secondary school if the student obtains a failing grade even after taking a retest.
Western Europe
Norway, Denmark and Sweden do not allow grade retention during elementary school and junior high school (1-10th grade).
In the United Kingdom, a similar streaming system to New Zealand's is used. The exception to this is that students at sixth form (the final two years of secondary education, where there is not usually streaming) may have to repeat a year if they fail a year during this period or complete an access year if they do not get good enough grades at 16.
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland commonly use grade retention.
Greece allows grade retention if a student fails more than five final exams, or five or fewer both in May examinations and in September examinations. A student who has missed more than 114 periods of class can also repeat a grade.
North America
The United States and Canada both use grade retention.
In the U.S., six-year-old students are most likely to be retained, with another spike around the age of 12. In particular, some large schools have a transitional classroom, sometimes called "kindergarten 2", for six year olds who are not reading ready.
Common arguments
The following are common arguments regarding this practice.
Arguments against
Opponents of "no social promotion" policies do not defend social promotion so much as say that retention is even worse. They argue that retention is not a cost-effective response to poor performance when compared to cheaper or more effective interventions, such as additional tutoring and summer school. They point to a wide range of research findings that show no advantage to, or even harm from, retention, and the tendency for gains from retention to see out.
Harm from retention cited by these critics include:
Lowers the academic self esteem of the student and make them feel as if they were mentally inferior and in turn cause them to give up on their academics. It may also cause them to be the subject of ridicule and bullying by other students.
Increased drop out rates of retained students over time. The increased drop out rates of retained students can be explained by the negative impact of grade retention on the self-confidence of students and the psychological impact of not being able to progress with their classmates.
No evidence of long term academic benefit for retained students.
They will not be able to progress with their classmates, which will cause a feeling of separation since most students stay with the same group throughout school.
It keeps the children in the same age groups.
Danger to normally progressing younger students in the class which the older student is required to repeat, when the intellectually challenged older student is likely to possess a great level of physical development.
Decreased hiring chances. Indeed, grade retention has been shown in research to reduce the probability of being invited for a job interview in certain jobs. In cases of grade retention, applicants for jobs for which extra training is important, have 16% less positive reactions on their applications.
Critics of retention also note that retention is expensive for school systems: requiring a student to repeat a grade is essentially to add one student for a year to the school system, assuming that the student does not drop out.
The possibility of grade retention has been shown to be a significant source of stress for students. In one study of childhood fears performed in the 1980s, the top three fears for US sixth graders were a parent's death, going blind, and being retained. After two decades of increasing retention practices, a repeat of the study in 2001 found that grade retention was the single greatest fear, higher than loss of a parent or going blind. This change likely reflects the students correct perception that they were statistically far more likely to repeat the sixth grade than to suffer the death of a parent or the loss of their vision.
Arguments for
Opponents of social promotion argue that passing a child who did not learn the necessary material cheats the child of an education. As a result, when the child gets older, the student will likely fail classes or be forced to attend summer school. Opponents of social promotion argue that some children would benefit from an additional year, especially in Kindergarten, to mature and develop social and emotional skills. This additional time will assist students with improved academic performance.
Opponents of social promotion argue that it has the following negative impacts:
Students who are promoted cannot do the work in the next grade, and so are being set up for further failure.
Students will have many failures in the high school years, which will most likely lead to dropping out.
It sends the message to all students that they can get by without working hard.
It forces teachers to deal with under prepared students while trying to teach the prepared.
It gives parents a false sense of their children's progress.
It will not get them the help they need.
Florida, the first state to end social promotion in third grade, now has the highest reading scores in the nation for disadvantaged fourth grade students according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
See also
Super senior
References
Further reading
Examining the Negative Effects of Retention in Our Schools
Education issues | wiki |
A travel lift or travelift (also called a boat hoist, boat gantry crane, or boat crane) is a specialised type of crane used for lifting boats out of the water and transporting them around docks or marinas. These cranes allow boats with masts or tall superstructure to be transported around hard stands as the tall upper structure can pass through the open end of the crane framework before lifting and after setting down.
Travel lifts typically have two rectangular side frames joined by a beam across one end. The lift is mobile with four groups of steerable wheels, one at each corner. Boats are typically lifted using straps, slung between the two sides which can be passed under boats when either in the water or on the hard stand. Steel wire cables on winches are used to lift the boat.
To remove a boat from the water, two basic methods may be used. In one, the boat is positioned in a narrow dock, or lifting well, with two paths along each side, which are at the same level as the hard stand. The travel lift can then be driven onto the paths so that it is positioned over the boat. The boat can then be lifted above the level of the hard stand and driven around to the place where it is to be lowered. The other method requires the travel lift to be run down a slipway with a shallow slope, until it is deep enough for the boat to be floated between the sides, the slings rigged, and the boat lifted sufficiently to be sure of clearing the slipway surface when the lift is winched, driven, or towed out.
Travel lifts can have a variety of lifting capacities from tens of tonnes used for small boats to well over 1000 tonnes which can be used for sizeable ships. They typically lift loads at around 1 m per minute and can be driven at speeds of up to 40 m per minute.
Boats need to be removed from the water for a variety of reasons including anti-fouling and removal of marine growth, maintenance and inspection, repair, and long term storage. Because of their slow speeds, marine travel lifts are impractical for street transport of boats.
There is also an Amphibious version that can be lift the boat directly from the sea.
See also
References
Marinas | wiki |
Standing on the Edge may refer to:
Standing on the Edge (John Berry album)
"Standing on the Edge of Goodbye", its title track
Standing on the Edge (Cheap Trick album) | wiki |
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The State of Qatar contains several historical sites protected by the Qatar Museums Authority, one of which is classified as a Unesco World Heritage Site, Al Zubarah Fort.
List of heritage areas
See also
Archaeology of Qatar
Heritage sites
Freiha
Ruwayda
List of archaeological sites by country#Qatar
References
Archaeological sites in Qatar
Qatar | wiki |
The brachial fascia (deep fascia of the arm) is continuous with that covering the deltoideus and the pectoralis major muscle, by means of which it is attached, above, to the clavicle, acromion, and spine of the scapula; it forms a thin, loose, membranous sheath for the muscles of the arm, and sends septa between them; it is composed of fibers disposed in a circular or spiral direction, and connected together by vertical and oblique fibers.
It differs in thickness at different parts, being thin over the biceps brachii, but thicker where it covers the triceps brachii, and over the epicondyles of the humerus: it is strengthened by fibrous aponeuroses, derived from the pectoralis major and latissimus dorsi medially, and from the deltoideus laterally.
On either side it gives off a strong intermuscular septum, which is attached to the corresponding supracondylar ridge and epicondyle of the humerus.
References
Fascia | wiki |
The discography of American drag performer and singer Adore Delano consists of three studio albums, one extended play, thirteen singles, one promotional single, and eleven music videos (including one as a featured artist).
Studio albums
Extended plays
Singles
As lead artist
Promotional singles
As featured artist
Music videos
References
Discographies of American artists | wiki |
Sri Lanka Schools XI cricket team was a Sri Lankan cricket team that represents Sri Lankan schools. The team featured in the first-class BCCSL Invitation Quadrangular Tournament in 2001/02 and 2002/03, and the Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament in 2007–08 and 2008–09, finishing in last place on both occasions.
Notable players
Angelo Perera
Bhanuka Rajapaksa
Dhanushka Gunathilleke
Dinesh Chandimal
Vimukthi Perera
References
Former senior cricket clubs of Sri Lanka | wiki |
Ficus variegata may refer to:
Ficus variegata (plant), a species of tropical fig tree
Ficus variegata (gastropod), a species of sea snail | wiki |
Sri Lanka Cricket Combined XI was a Sri Lankan Twenty20 cricket team. The team was established in 2010 and featured only in the 2009–10 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 of the Inter-Provincial Twenty20, in which they came last. The team was captained by Hans Fernando.
History
2009–10 Inter-Provincial Twenty20
Players
Squad
Notable players
Andri Berenger
Bhanuka Rajapaksa
Demintha Dahanayake
Dhanushka Gunathilleke
Rumesh Buddika
Sanjaya Fernando
Honours
Domestic
Twenty20
Inter-Provincial Twenty20: 0
References
Former senior cricket clubs of Sri Lanka | wiki |
Así es la vida may refer to:
Film
Thus Is Life, a 1930 American film
Such Is Life (1939 film)
Such Is Life (1977 film)
Such Is Life (2000 film)
Music
La Vida es Así, a 2010 reggaeton single by Ivy Queen
"Así es la Vida", 1994 song by Luis Enrique
"Así es la Vida", 2002 song by Olga Tañón from the album Sobrevivir | wiki |
Hotel Deauville may refer to:
Hotel Deauville (Miami), Florida, US
Hotel Deauville (Manhattan), New York, US
Hotel Deauville (Havana), Cuba | wiki |
The history of swimwear traces the changes in the styles of men's and women's swimwear over time and between cultures, and touches on the social, religious and legal attitudes to swimming and swimwear.
In classical antiquity and in most cultures, swimming was either in the nude or the swimmer would merely strip to their underwear. In the Renaissance, swimming was strongly discouraged, and into the 18th century swimming was regarded as of doubtful morality, and had to be justified on health grounds. In the Victorian era swimwear was of a style of outer clothing of the time, which were cumbersome and even dangerous in the water, especially in the case of dress-style swimwear for women. Since the early 20th century, swimming came to be regarded as a legitimate leisure activity or pastime and clothing made specifically for swimming became the norm. Since then, swimwear for women has become increasingly more scanty and form-fitting, and the use of high-tech materials has become more common.
Classical ages
In classical antiquity swimming and bathing were done naked. There are Roman murals which show women playing sports and exercising wearing two-piece suits covering the areas around their breasts and hips in a fashion remarkably similar to the present-day bikini. However, there is no evidence that they were used for swimming. All classical pictures of swimming show nude swimmers.
In various cultural traditions one swims, if not in the nude, in a version in suitable material of a garment or undergarment commonly worn on land, e.g. a loincloth such as the Japanese man's .
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages saw a resurgence in bathing, both in indoor bathhouses and open air, and was largely still without clothing. Contemporary illustrations depict men and women bathing together, either nude, or with cloth wrapped around the groin. The end of the era saw more restrictions placed on bathing attire.
In the Renaissance, swimming and outdoor bathing were discouraged in the Christian West and there was little need for swimwear.
17th century
Female bathing costumes were derived from those worn at Bath and other spas. It would appear that until the 1670s nude female bathing in the spas was the norm and that after that time women bathed clothed. Celia Fiennes gave a detailed description of the standard ladies' bathing costume in 1687:
The Ladyes go into the bath with Garments made of a fine yellow canvas, which is stiff and made large with great sleeves like a parson’s gown; the water fills it up so that it is borne off that your shape is not seen, it does not cling close as other linning, which Lookes sadly in the poorer sort that go in their own linning. The Gentlemen have drawers and wastcoates of the same sort of canvas, this is the best linning, for the bath water will Change any other yellow.
18th century
The bathing gown in the 18th century was a loose ankle-length full-sleeve chemise-type gown made of wool or flannel, so that modesty or decency was not threatened.
In the United Kingdom until the mid-19th century there was no law against nude swimming, and each town was free to make its own laws. For example, the Bath Corporation official bathing dress code of 1737 prescribed, for men:
It is Ordered Established and Decreed by this Corporation that no Male person above the age of ten years shall at any time hereafter go into any Bath or Baths within this City by day or by night without a Pair of Drawers and a Waistcoat on their bodies.
In rivers, lakes, streams and the sea men swam in the nude, where the practice was common. Those who did not swim in the nude, stripped to their underwear.
The Bath Corporation official bathing dress code of 1737 prescribed, for women:
No Female person shall at any time hereafter go into a Bath or Baths within this City by day or by night without a decent Shift on their bodies.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was published in 1771 and its description of ladies' bathing costume is different from that of Celia Fiennes a hundred years earlier:
The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces; but, truly, whether it is owing to the steam that surrounds them, or the heat of the water, or the nature of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way.
19th century
The English practice of men swimming in the nude was banned in the United Kingdom in 1860. Drawers, or caleçons as they were called, came into use in the 1860s. Even then there were many who protested against them and wanted to remain in the nude. Francis Kilvert described men's bathing suits coming into use in the 1870s as "a pair of very short red and white striped drawers".
In the first half of the 19th century the top became knee-length while an ankle-length drawer was added as a bottom. By the second half of the 19th century, in France, the sleeves started to vanish, the bottom became shorter to reach only the knees and the top became hip-length and both became more form fitting.
Penelope Byrde points out that Smollett's description may not be accurate, for he describes a two-piece costume, not the one piece shift or smock that most people describe and is depicted in contemporary prints. His description does, however, tally with Elizabeth Grant's description of the guide's costume at Ramsgate in 1811. The only difference is in the fabric the costumes are made of. Flannel, however, was a common fabric for sea bathing costumes as many believed the warmer fabric was necessary in cold water.
In the West, in the 19th century women wore a bathing gown in the water. These were loose ankle-length full-sleeve chemise-type gown made of wool or flannel, so that modesty or decency was not threatened. They were long dresses of fabrics that would not become transparent when wet, with weights sewn into the hems so that they would not rise up in the water. The men's swim suit, a rather form-fitting wool garment with long sleeves and legs similar to long underwear, was developed and would change little for a century.
In the 19th century, the woman's double suit was common, comprising a gown from shoulder to knees plus a set of trousers with leggings going down to the ankles. In the first half of the 19th century the top became knee-length while an ankle-length drawer was added as a bottom. By the second half of the 19th century, in France, the sleeves started to vanish, the bottom became shorter to reach only the knees and the top became hip-length and both became more form fitting. In the 1900s women wore wool dresses on the beach that were made of up to of fabric.
In the Victorian era, Western cultures deplored nudity of any degree, and people took great pains to cover themselves, even bare chested male swimmers at ocean beaches. Popular beach resorts were commonly equipped with bathing machines designed to avoid the exposure of people in swimsuits, especially to people of the opposite sex.
In the United States, beauty pageants of women in bathing costumes became popular from the 1880s. However, such events were not regarded as respectable. Beauty contests became more respectable with the first modern "Miss America" contest held in 1921, though less respectable beauty contests continued to be held.
Early 20th century
In 1907, the swimmer Annette Kellerman from Australia visited the United States as an "underwater ballerina", a version of synchronised swimming involving diving into glass tanks. Her swimsuit showed arms, legs and the neck, a costume she adopted from England, and which was similar to men's swimsuits of the time. Kellerman changed the suit to have long arms and legs and a collar, still keeping the close fit that revealed the shapes underneath. Kellerman marketed a line of bathing suits and her style of one-piece suits came to be known as "the Annette Kellerman". The one-piece swimming tights became accepted swimsuit attire for women in parts of Europe by 1910. Harper's Bazaar praised the Kellerman swimsuit, writing in June 1920 (vol. 55, no. 6, p. 138) "Annette Kellerman Bathing Attire is distinguished by an incomparable, daring beauty of fit that always remains refined." The following year, in June 1921 (vol. 54, no. 2504, p. 101) it wrote that these bathing suits were "famous ... for their perfect fit and exquisite, plastic beauty of line."
1910s
Despite opposition from some groups, the form-fitting style proved popular. It was not long before swimwear started to shrink further. At first arms were exposed and then legs up to mid-thigh. Necklines receded from around the neck down to around the top of the bosom. The development of new fabrics allowed for new varieties of more comfortable and practical swimwear.
Female swimming was introduced at the 1912 Summer Olympics. Competitors from 17 countries took part, with women from nine countries wearing swimsuits similar to Kellerman's swimsuit, which were similar to swimsuits worn by the male swimmers. In 1913, inspired by the breakthrough, the designer Carl Jantzen made the first functional two-piece swimwear, a close-fitting one-piece with shorts on the bottom and short sleeves on top. Silent films such as The Water Nymph (1912) saw Mabel Normand in revealing attire, and this was followed by the daringly dressed Sennett Bathing Beauties (1915–1929). The name "swim suit" was coined in 1915 by Jantzen Knitting Mills, a sweater manufacturer who launched a swimwear brand named the Red Diving Girl. The first annual bathing-suit day at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1916 was a landmark. The swimsuit apron, a design for early swimwear, disappeared by 1918, leaving a tunic covering the shorts.
Public nudity was a major concern in designing early swimwear. It was a major factor behind the non-participation of American women in the 1912 Olympics. At those Games, British women wore full-body silk suits of such a volume that they could be passed through a wedding ring. The suits were complemented by bras and bikini-style briefs as they became transparent when wet. Women's coaches were rare at early Olympics, and to further reduce the chances of harassment women were accompanied by chaperones. Even men wore one-piece swimsuits covering the body from hips to shoulders up to the 1940s.
1920s
During the 1920s and 1930s, people began to shift from "taking in the water" to "taking in the sun", at bathhouses and spas, and swimsuit designs shifted from functional considerations to incorporate more decorative features. Rayon was used in the 1920s in the manufacture of tight-fitting swimsuits, but its durability, especially when wet, proved problematic, with jersey and silk also sometimes being used.
Burlesque and vaudeville performers wore two-piece outfits in the 1920s. The 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera shows Russian women wearing early two-piece swimsuits which expose their midriff, and a few who are topless. Films of holidaymakers in Germany in the 1930s show women wearing two-piece suits, In 1928, Speedo introduced their racerback silk suit that was optimized to fit the body shape.
1930s
By the 1930s men began to go without shirts for swimming, and barechestedness in male swimwear became the norm by the end of the 1940s, including in competitive swimming events, in which men are not only barechested, but wear a swimming suit that is intended merely to meet public decency requirements. The norm of male barechestedness in swimwear extended to other competitive sports, such as professional boxing and professional wrestling.
By the 1930s, necklines plunged at the back, sleeves disappeared and sides were cut away and tightened. With the development of new clothing materials, particularly latex and nylon, through the 1930s swimsuits gradually began hugging the body, with shoulder straps that could be lowered for tanning. Hollywood endorsed the new glamour with films such as Neptune's Daughter (1949) in which Esther Williams wore provocatively named costumes such as "Double Entendre" and "Honey Child". Williams, who also was an Amateur Athletic Union champion in the 100 meter freestyle (1939) also portrayed Kellerman in the 1952 film Million Dollar Mermaid (titled as The One Piece Bathing Suit in UK). American designer Adele Simpson, a Coty American Fashion Critics' Awards winner (1947) and a notable alumna of the New York art school Pratt Institute, who believed clothes must be comfortable and practical designed a large part of her wardrobe which included mostly one-piece suits that were considered fashionable even in the early 1980s. This was when Cole of California started marketing revealing prohibition suits and Catalina Swimwear introduced almost bare-back designs.
Coco Chanel made suntans fashionable, and in 1932 French designer Madeleine Vionnet offered an exposed midriff in an evening gown. They were seen a year later in Gold Diggers of 1933. The Busby Berkeley film Footlight Parade of 1932 showcases aquachoreography that featured bikinis. Dorothy Lamour's The Hurricane (1937) also showed two-piece bathing suits. The 1934 film, Fashions of 1934 featured chorus girls wearing two-piece outfits which look identical to modern bikinis. In 1934, a National Recreation Association study on the use of leisure time found that swimming, encouraged by the freedom of movement the new swimwear designs provided, was second only to movies in popularity as free time activity out of a list of 94 activities. In 1935 American designer Claire McCardell cut out the side panels of a maillot-style bathing suit, the bikini's forerunner. The 1938 invention of the Telescopic Watersuit in shirred elastic cotton ushered into the end the era of wool. Cotton sun-tops, printed with palm trees, and silk or rayon pyjamas, usually with a blouse top, became popular by 1939.
Speedo racerback silk suit that uncovered the shoulder blades almost resulted in disqualification of Clare Dennis at the 1932 Olympics, but became a norm by 1936. Meanwhile, men were allowed to swim in bare-chest suits in 1936, and in briefs only at the 1948 Olympics.
1940s
Wartime production during World War II required vast amounts of cotton, silk, nylon, wool, leather, and rubber. In 1942, the United States War Production Board issued Regulation L-85, cutting the use of natural fibers in clothing and mandating a 10% reduction in the amount of fabric in women's beachwear. To comply with the regulations, swimsuit manufacturers produced two-piece suits with bare midriffs. The fabric shortage continued for some time after the end of the war.
Women's swimwear of the 1930s and 1940s incorporated increasing degrees of midriff exposure. Teen magazines of late 1940s and 1950s featured similar designs of midriff-baring suits and tops. However, midriff fashion was stated as only for beaches and informal events and considered indecent to be worn in public.
Because of the figure-hugging nature of these garments, glamour photography since the 1940s and 1950s has often featured people wearing swimsuits. This type of glamour photography eventually evolved into swimsuit photography exemplified by the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Beauty contests also required contestants to wear form-fitting swimsuits.
Two-piece swimsuits without the usual skirt panel and other superfluous material started appearing in the U.S. when the government ordered the 10% reduction in fabric used in woman's swimwear in 1943 as wartime rationing. By that time, two-piece swimsuits were ubiquitous on American beaches. The July 9, 1945, Life shows women in Paris wearing similar items. Hollywood stars like Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner tried similar swimwear or beachwear. Pin ups of Hayworth and Esther Williams in the costume were widely distributed. The most provocative swimsuit was the 1946 Moonlight Buoy, a bottom and a top of material that weighed only eight ounces. What made the Moonlight Buoy distinctive was a large cork buckle attached to the bottoms, which made it possible to tie the top to the cork buckle and splash around au naturel while keeping both parts of the suit afloat. Life magazine had a photo essay on the Moonlight Buoy and wrote, "The name of the suit, of course, suggests the nocturnal conditions under which nude swimming is most agreeable."
1950s
Swimwear of the 1940s, 50s and early 60s followed the silhouette mostly from the early 1930s whereas after World War II, a new wardrobe and style of vacation-swimwear arose, coupled with an increase of leisure time and bustling postwar resorts.
In 1951, a huge celebration called "The Festival of Britain" was promoted of everything new and modern and cast a line into the future, building on a feeling of hope. Beachwear style were very popular in U.S and Europe, but this fashion originated on the French Riviera, which people was quoted this place as "A sunny place for shady people". Keeping in line with the ultra-feminine look dominated by Dior which brought out his one and only collection of swimwear for the Cole of California in 1955. He designed a series of floral printed swimsuits with halter neckline style. It evolved into a dress followed his New Look silhouette with cinched waists and constructed bustlines, accessorized with earrings, bracelets, hats, scarves, sunglasses, hand bags and cover-ups. American Women inspired by Hollywood's film stars For example, Doris Day offering a 'girl-next-door' look and the accession and coronation of the young Queen Elizabeth in February 1952 and June 1953 respectively.
For the early 50s, despite the reaction to the two-piece swimsuit worn by Brigitte Bardot in Manina, the Girl in the Bikini in 1952, most women in the 1950s still wore one-piece suits. To increasing female emancipation and realized the commercial possibilities of beauty pageants, big companies launched beauty contests to find girls who could help promote products, believing that a picture of a pretty girl in a swimsuit was the best promotion. Instead of swimsuits, these contests popularized the playsuit, but swimsuits remained the highlight in the beauty contest.
The first bikinis appeared just after World War II. Early examples were not very different from the women's two pieces common since the 1920s, except that they had a gap below the breast line allowing for a section of bare midriff. They were named after Bikini Atoll, the site of several nuclear weapons tests, for their supposed explosive effect on the viewer. Beside Christian Dior, some designers also launched the swimwear collection, such as Bob and Bill Meistrell of body glove and Robert and Jack O'Neill of the surf brand O'Neill. Many of these pre-bikinis had fancy names like Double Entendre, Honey Child (to maximize small bosoms), Shipshape (to minimize large bosoms), Diamond Lil (trimmed with rhinestones and lace), Swimming In Mink (trimmed with fur across the bodice) and Spearfisherman (heavy poplin with a rope belt for carrying a knife), Beau Catcher, Leading Lady, Pretty Foxy, Side Issue, Forecast, and Fabulous Fit. However, the bikini was banned from the Miss World contest, following the crowning of Miss Sweden. Some people declared the bikini to be morally "indecent". Even in Europe in 1950, there was an Italian magazine also declared that the bikini should be worn purely for the sunbathing purposes or on board boats.
According to Vogue the swimwear had become more of "state of dress, not undress" by the mid-1950s. Bikini had a colorful period on the cinema screens and made an impact in the late 50s, inspired by the film such as And God Created Woman by Roger Vadim, launched Bardot into the spotlight and became the benchmark for bikini on celluloid. Also, her outfit sets a whole new trend for sex symbols.
Starting in the 1940s, the manufacturing advances enabled swimsuits to fit without the help of elastic, and aid as performance aid in competitive swimming. In the early 1950s, other synthetics beside the screen print technique was being developed, such as polyester and acrylic, with quick-drying properties. In U.S, the Hawaiian -Japanese- inspired prints were often used. In Europe, Emilio Pucci moved swimwear textile on a generation when he began to design prints for Rose Marrie Reid swimwear. By the late 1950s, new materials were developed and applied on the corsetry swimwear, such as Lastex, a fabric woven from artificial chromspun acetate that used for a more tightly fitted appearance.
Speedo produced the wool and cotton swimwear for the Melbourne Olympics in 1956. In 1956, Speedo became the first company to introduce nylon.
Men's swimsuits developed roughly in parallel to women's during this period, with the shorts covering progressively less. Racing-style "speedo" suits became popular, as did thongs, G-strings and bikini style briefs. Typically these are more popular in more tropical regions; however, they may also be worn at public swimming pools and inland lakes.
1960s
In 1964 designer Rudi Gernreich conceived and produced the monokini, a revolutionary and controversial design included a bottom that "extended from the midriff to the upper thigh" and was "held up by shoestring laces that make a halter around the neck."
1970s
In the 1970s Speedo added elastane to their swimsuits that improved their elasticity, durability and reduced water drag – 21 out of 22 records at the 1972 Olympics were broken using nylon/elastane suits.
At the same Olympics, East German swimmers adopted suits that were tightly following the body shape, the so-called "skinsuits". They were initially made of cotton and became virtually transparent when wet. The revealing shape and transparency caused outrage among US swimmers; meanwhile, at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships, East German women won 10 of 14 events and set seven world records. Those championships became the turning point for the world to adopt the skinsuit, modified with novel synthetic materials, as a standard competitive swimwear.
1980s
In 1985, Gernreich unveiled the lesser known pubikini, a bathing suit meant to expose pubic hair. The pubikini is a small piece of fabric that hugs the hips and buttocks but leaves the pubic region exposed, described as a tiny V-shaped fabric strip and a piece de resistance totally freeing the human body. It featured a thong-style bottom while the front was a tiny V-shaped strip of fabric that dipped below the woman's mons pubis, exposing her pubic hair and portions of her vulva. This was his last design, four weeks before his death.
1990s
Tankini and the concept of mix-and-match swimwears were the two major innovations in that genre in the late 1990s. Designer Anne Cole, the US swimwear mogul, was the originator of this style. Hailed as the first major innovation in women's swimsuit design in several decades, the two-piece tankini blended the freedom of a bikini with the more modest coverage of a one-piece bathing suit, and quickly captured nearly a third of the swimwear market. Aimed at closing a gap in the swimwear market, the popularity of tankini largely came from Cole's tapping into women's anxieties about swimwear. In the years following its introduction tankinis diversified in style and range, adding other big name designers such as Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Nautica, and Calvin Klein.
For men, longer and baggier shorts became popular in this era, with the hems often reaching to the knees. Often called boardshorts and swim trunks, these were worn lower on the hips than regular shorts.
2000s
In 2005, a controversy broke out when Buddhists complained against swimwear manufacturer Ondade Mar and lingerie giant Victoria's Secret started marketing tankinis featuring Buddhist iconography. In the same year Nike's breast cancer awareness swimwear collection featured four different cuts of tankini.
In 2000, Speedo launched the Fastskin suit series that mimicked shark skin. Their surface contained bumps and ridges that channeled the water over the swimmer's body approximately 3% more efficiently than traditional materials. Those suits covered most of the body, from neck to ankles and wrists, and their shape was optimized for specific swimming strokes, compressing some body parts while allowing more freedom to the others. Those suits were approved for the 2000 Olympics, where they helped win 83% of the medals. By the next Olympics, similar suits had been developed by Tyr Sport, Inc., but they were not approved by the FINA.
In July 2009, FINA voted to ban non-textile (non-woven) swimsuits in competitive events from 2010. The new policy was implemented to combat the issues associated with performance enhancing costumes, hindering the ability to accurately measure the performance of swimmers. Subsequently, the new ruling states that men's swimsuits may maximally cover the area from the navel to the knee, and women's counterparts from the shoulder to the knee.
See also
History of competitive swimwear
History of the bikini
History of nudity
References
Citations
Sources
Victoriana Maganzine
CNN - 1
CNN - 2
BBC - 1
BBC - 2
CBS News
MNN
History of clothing
History of swimming
Swimming equipment | wiki |
There are several Marshall Middle Schools in the United States.
They include:
Marshall Middle School (Long Beach), California
Marshall Middle School (Olympia), Washington
Marshall Middle School (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Marshall Middle School (San Diego), California
Marshall Middle School (Virginia), in Warrenton, Virginia | wiki |
In nautical terms, the word sound is used to describe the process of determining the depth of water in a tank or under a ship. Tanks are sounded to determine if they are full (for cargo tanks) or empty (to determine if a ship has been holed) and for other reasons. Soundings may also be taken of the water around a ship if it is in shallow water to aid in navigation.
Methods
Tanks may be sounded manually or with electronic or mechanical automated equipment. Manual sounding is undertaken with a sounding line- a rope with a weight on the end. Per the Code of Federal Regulations, most steel vessels with integral tanks are required to have sounding tubes and reinforcing plates under the tubes which the weight strikes when it reaches the bottom of the tank. Sounding tubes are steel pipes which lead upwards from the ships' tanks to a place on deck.
Electronic and mechanical automated sounding may be undertaken with a variety of equipment including float level sensors, capacitance sensors, sonar, etc.
See also
Depth sounding
Sources
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 46
Nautical terminology
Navigational aids
Oceanography | wiki |
Bratz Super Babyz is a video game based on the Bratz Babyz doll line.
Gameplay
Plot summary
Aliens have landed on Earth at the Stylesville Adventure Planet. One of their alien devices, the Matter Exchanger, falls into the wrong hands and transformed the Babyz into superheroes. With their newfound Super Powers, the Babyz use their abilities to help the citizens of Stylesville and battle the evil invading aliens.
Development
Ubisoft published Bratz games for the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance in 2003, but MGA terminated the license that year and moved it to THQ. This led to a licensing legal battle that resulted in Ubisoft being awarded a $13.2 million judgment. While various THQ 2005 and 2006 games sold 700,000 copies, none of the company's 2007 games would sell over 100,000 units.
The game is based on a direct-to-DVD movie of the same name.
Reception
The game received negative reviews. IGN gave the game a 4.0/10 calling it "unengaging... shallow and dull". Common Sense Media felt the title gave misleading messages on how young girls should look. Gamezone thought the gameplay was simple enough and wouldn't frustrate the player. Worth Playing thought it didn't hold up as a worthwhile licensed game. While Game Vortex did their Bratz reviews from the point of view of the target player, the reviewer still felt it was an "Insult to intelligence". JeuxVideo felt the player needed to have an understanding of the film it was based on to understand the plot.
References
Bratz video games
2008 video games
Nintendo DS games
THQ games
Windows games
Video games based on toys
Multiplayer and single-player video games | wiki |
Byzantine Macedonia may refer to:
Byzantine period in the history of medieval Macedonia (region)
Macedonia (theme), a distinctive administrative unit of the Byzantine Empire
See also
Macedonia (disambiguation)
Ottoman Macedonia (disambiguation)
Eastern Macedonia (disambiguation)
Western Macedonia (disambiguation)
North Macedonia (disambiguation) | wiki |
Ivan Lendl was the defending champion.
Jimmy Connors won the tournament, beating Lendl in the final, 6–4, 3–6, 6–0.
Seeds
Jimmy Connors (champion)
Ivan Lendl (final)
Mats Wilander (quarterfinals)
Andrés Gómez (semifinals)
Anders Järryd (first round)
Tomáš Šmíd (first round)
Scott Davis (first round)
Brad Gilbert (first round)
Draw
Finals
Top half
Bottom half
External links
Main draw
1984 Grand Prix (tennis)
Tokyo Indoor | wiki |
Myasthenia is a medical term for muscle weakness. The term may also refer to:
Medical conditions
Myasthenia gravis
Ocular myasthenia
Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome | wiki |
Emu oil is an oil derived from body fat harvested from certain subspecies of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae, a flightless bird indigenous to Australia.
Unadulterated emu oil can vary widely in colour and viscosity anywhere from an off-white creamy texture to a thin yellow liquid, depending on the diet of the emu and the refining method(s) used. Industrially refined emu oil is composed of a minimum of 70% unsaturated fatty acids. The largest component is oleic acid, a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid. Emu oil also contains roughly 20% linoleic acid (an omega-6 fatty acid) and 1–2% linolenic acid (an omega-3 fatty acid). Fully refined emu oil has a bland flavour.
Emu oil has previously been wrongly promoted as a dietary supplement with the claim it can treat a variety of human ailments, including cancer and arthritis.
Research
Since 2015 two small human studies have been done, one for use as a skin moisturizer and the other for use as an insect repellent.
Commercial emu oil supplements are not standardised and vary widely in their potency. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration highlighted emu oils in a 2009 article on "How to Spot Health Fraud", pointing out that many "pure emu oil" products are unapproved drugs.
See also
Snake oil
List of ineffective cancer treatments
References
Dietary supplements
Animal fats
Health fraud | wiki |
Ву́лиця Ни́жній Вал — назва вулиць в різних населених пунктах України.
Вулиця Нижній Вал — вулиця в м. Бориспіль.
Вулиця Нижній Вал — вулиця в м. Київ, Дарницький район.
Вулиця Нижній Вал — вулиця в м. Київ, Подільський район
Вулиця Нижній Вал — вулиця в м. Лубни.
Вулиці | wiki |
Reverse-Transkriptase-Inhibitoren bezeichnen
Nukleosidische Reverse-Transkriptase-Inhibitoren
Nichtnukleosidische Reverse-Transkriptase-Inhibitoren | wiki |
Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina may refer to:
The Boys Didn't Wear Hair Gel Before (Spanish: Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina), a 1937 Argentine historical drama film
Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina (1969 film), a 1969 Argentine drama film | wiki |
An accordion is part of a family of musical instruments.
Accordion may also refer to:
Any object with features resembling an accordion or its bellows
Accordion cut, a technique in butchery similar to butterflying
Accordion (GUI), a graphical user interface widget displaying a list where individual members of the list can be expanded or collapsed
Accordion (film), a 1934 Soviet musical film
Accordion (solitaire), a solitaire card game
"Accordion," a song by Madvillain from their album Madvillainy
Accordion (company), an American consulting company
See also
Accordion effect, in physics
The Accordionist, a 1911 painting by Pablo Picasso | wiki |
Private Enterprise Numbers (PENs) are created and maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) in a public registry, including a publicly revealed email address and "contact name". Any private enterprise (organization) may request, at no cost, a Private Enterprise Number (PEN) to be assigned. All applications are reviewed manually, and the requirements are not explicitly documented. Although the list of PENs includes contact names like "Engineering MIB Administrator", IANA may reject applications if the contact name doesn't 'look like' it corresponds to a real person.
Enterprise numbers are commonly used in the Management Information Base (MIB) associated with the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), in vendor suboptions of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), RADIUS Vendor-specific attributes, PFCP Vendor Specific IEs and in syslog structured data (RFC 5424).
See also
Object identifier
External links
IANA Private Enterprise Numbers
Identifiers
Network management | wiki |
This is a list of programs currently, formerly, and soon to be broadcast on the TV network Cuatro, in Spain.
References
Lists of television series by network
Television stations in Spain
Spanish television-related lists | wiki |
A meat grinder is a culinary tool for grinding (finely shredding into bits) meat.
Meat grinder may also refer to:
Meat Grinder, 2009 Thai horror film
"Meat Grinder," a song by Madvillain from their album Madvillainy
Saddam Hussein's alleged shredder, described as a meat grinder for people
Battles of Rzhev during the World War II, nicknamed the "meat-grinder" by veterans and historians
Operation Killer during the Korean War, nicknamed the "meat-grinder" by popular press for carnage experienced by Chinese forces | wiki |
A solar powered Stirling engine is a heat engine powered by a temperature gradient generated by the sun. Even though Stirling engines can run with a small temperature gradient, it is more efficient to use concentrated solar power.
The mechanical output can be used directly (e.g. pumps) or be used to create electricity.
NASA
NASA patented a type of solar-powered Stirling engine on August 3, 1976. It used solar energy to pump water from a river, lake, or stream. The purpose of this apparatus is to “provide a low-cost, low-technology pump having particular utility in irrigation systems employed in underdeveloped arid regions of the earth…[using] the basic principles of the Stirling heat engine“.
Meijer
One design was patented by Roelf J. Meijer in 1987.
His invention combines a heat engine, such as a Stirling cycle engine, with a solar dish collector to produce electricity. This apparatus consists of a large dish that concentrates solar energy to a focal point at the center of the dish. The concentrated solar energy drives Stirling cycle engine, which operates by letting heat flow from a hot source to a cold sink to do work. The work output of the Stirling cycle then drives a generator to create electric power. Moreover, for optimal heat collection, Meijer’s solar-powered engine requires that the dish always point directly at the sun so no shadows are in the solar dish collector. This presented issues because, for the apparatus to have a complete range of motion, lubrication and rotational systems are necessary, and may compromise structural stability.
Sunvention
Around 2010, a company called Sunvention Solar Energy created a device similar to the NASA design that they say can pump 100,000 gallons per day, purely off of solar energy and the Stirling cycle, and costing only US$1,250. This apparatus, much like the others, used a large solar dish to collect heat from the sun to create a high temperature source, and also used low temperature water from a nearby stream as its low temperature source. This provided a great temperature range, which in turn provided more power. The apparatus pumped the water into nearby crop fields, providing a “low-cost, low-technology pump having particular utility in irrigation systems employed in underdeveloped arid regions of the earth.”
Comparison to Solar Panels
Solar-powered Stirling engines are in some situations more efficient in generating electrical energy than solar panels. Thermal capacity and rotating mass result in less sudden changes in output power. Experiments show the possibility of higher efficiencies.
Solar-powered Stirling engines are less scalable than solar panels.
They are also more complex than a solar-electric system.
Solar-powered Stirling engines can have a secondary heat source (e.g. Gas), allowing operation during night and when the sky is clouded.
See also
Solar thermal energy#Dish designs
Stirling Energy Systems
References
External links
Stirling engines
Solar thermal energy | wiki |
The Maloof family is a prominent American family based in Las Vegas, Nevada, who are owners of numerous business properties in the Western United States. The original spelling of the family name is Maalouf. The family is of Lebanese descent via their paternal grandfather.
Originally from New Mexico, the family's success began with the distribution rights for Coors Brewing Company in the Southwest region of the US in 1937. The Maloofs were the owners of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1998 until 2013 and are minority owners of the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League (NHL). Notable family members include George J. Maloof Sr., Adrienne Maloof, and George J. Maloof Jr.
Sports
The family owned the NBA's Sacramento Kings from 1998 until 2013. The Maloofs acquired a minority interest in the Kings in 1998 and took majority control the following year, with Joe and Gavin operating the franchise. As part of the purchase of the Kings, they also acquired the team's sister franchise in the WNBA, the Sacramento Monarchs. The Maloofs operated the Monarchs until 2009, when the WNBA was unable to find a new owner and the team folded. In 2013, the family sold its 65% stake for $347 million to a Sacramento group led by Vivek Ranadive that was committed to building a new arena in downtown Sacramento that had previously been rebuked by the Maloofs.
Prior to the sale of the team, a deal had been reached to sell the Kings to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and investor Chris Hansen, who hoped to move the team to Seattle. This sale was nullified on May 15, 2013, when the NBA Board of Governors denied the relocation in a vote of 22-8. The Maloof family also owned the Houston Rockets from 1979-1982, and the Rockets made the NBA Finals in 1981 before the team was sold to Charlie Thomas in 1982. The Maloofs are also the minority owners of the Vegas Golden Knights of the NHL, who made it to the Stanley Cup Final in their inaugural season.
Las Vegas
In 1994, the Maloof family opened the Fiesta Rancho hotel-casino in North Las Vegas, and sold it in 2000 for over $185 million. The money was reinvested into the creation of the Palms Casino Resort hotel and casino.
The Maloofs sold their beer distribution in an unsuccessful attempt to save the Palms and Palms Towers. In 2011 a restructuring gave private equity firms TPG Inc. and Leonard Green & Partners each a 49% share, leaving the Maloofs with 2% ownership.
Maloof Productions
The Maloofs have expanded their business ventures into entertainment with the creation of Maloof Productions. Through its television division, Maloof Television, they have produced the reality series Bullrun for Spike TV in 2007, Speed Channel in 2009, and Living Lohan, the E! reality series running in 2008. In 2008 the family was developing Rebuilding the Kingdom with reality television producer Mark Burnett.
The film division, Maloof Motion Pictures, produced the 2005 film Feast and as of 2007 was developing The Big Bizarro, starring Pierce Brosnan.
Skateboarding
Founded in 2008 by Joe and Gavin Maloof, the Maloof Money Cup was a competition for both professional and amateur skateboarders. The Orange County, US, dates of the contest series include the US Pro Men's and Women's Street Championships, the US Pro Vert Championships, and the Maloof Money Cup AM Championships.
A spring New York date and a fall South Africa date were added in 2010 and 2011 respectively. In 2012, the Maloofs focused on the South African event, entitled the Maloof Money Cup World Skateboarding Championships, and canceled the Orange County event due to logistical issues.
The Maloof family is also one of the main sponsors of the game Skate 3, offering a slew of different competitions.
Family members
Formerly headed by George J. Maloof Sr., and now by his wife Colleen, the family includes the following children:
Joe Maloof (born November 15, 1955)
Gavin Maloof (born October 9, 1956)
Adrienne Maloof (born September 1, 1961)
George J. Maloof Jr. (born September 2, 1964)
Phillip Maloof (born May 16, 1967). A New Mexico state senator in the late 1990s, ran unsuccessfully against Heather Wilson for in 1998.
Albert Maloof Sr., a cousin of George J. Maloof Sr., is best known for his distribution business in the Southeastern United States.
In popular culture
The Maloofs sponsor skateboard video game competitions in Skate 3
The Maloofs frequently appeared on the television show, Las Vegas.
Phil Maloof owns the console of the Barton organ installed at Chicago Stadium.
The Maloof brothers made a cameo in Lil Wayne's music video "Lollipop", which was filmed at Gavin Maloof's multimillion-dollar mansion in the Southern Highlands Golf Club, Las Vegas.
They also make an appearance in Ludacris' music video, "What Them Girls Like".
On March 28, 2010, Gavin appeared as a guest judge on Celebrity Apprentice 3, filling in for Ivanka Trump.
George Maloof Jr. made several appearances on "The Girls Next Door" starring Hugh Hefner, Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson.
Adrienne Maloof appeared in Bravo's The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
The Maloofs facilitated regular caller to The Howard Stern Show Eric 'the actor' Lynch to go back stage at the Arco Arena to meet American Idol stars including Carrie Underwood where Eric also distributed tapes of a promising young country singer he met at a county fair.
Attempts to sell the Kings
A proposal to build a new arena at California Exposition (the State Fairgrounds), which would include an upgrade to the fairgrounds as well as retail and housing developments was presented and accepted by the Cal Expo Board of Directors on February 27, 2009 but fell apart soon after, leaving Sacramento without a new arena.
In late 2010 the Maloof family began negotiating with officials in Anaheim, California in an effort to move the Kings franchise to that city, despite repeated assurances that the team would stay in Sacramento. On March 29, 2011, the City of Anaheim approved bond measures aimed at assisting the Kings move. Finally, on May 2, 2012 the NBA put a halt to the move to Anaheim, California because the current bills that were owed to the city of Sacramento gave the city just cause to keep them in Sacramento. In June 2011, the Maloof brothers, Joe and Gavin, along with successful investor Ghassan El Morabit, sold a majority share of the Palms to two lending companies (Leonard Green & Partners LP in Los Angeles and TPG Capital in Texas), allowing them to continue building their stadium.
Upon the news of a possible relocation, the Sacramento Kings launched a grassroots effort with pledges of over $800,000 to go to a new arena. This and other grassroots efforts, along with Mayor Kevin Johnson's presentation to the NBA Board of Governors, convinced the NBA to delay any relocation authorization for one year. Within this one-year time frame a completed arena plan, with funding, was required to be in place by March 2012. Plans were approved by the City Council in March 2012 and construction for the Kings' new arena, the Golden 1 Center, began on October 29, 2014, and it was completed prior to the start of the 2016-17 NBA season.
In February 2013, the Maloofs agreed to sell the Sacramento Kings to a group led by Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer, who promised to relocate the team to Seattle and rename them the Seattle SuperSonics. Kevin Johnson brought a group together led by Vivek Ranadivé to keep the team in Sacramento. The local fan base rallied behind him in an effort to keep the team. The new ownership group was established and a deal struck with the city to build a new arena in downtown Sacramento. On May 15, 2013, the NBA Board of Governors denied the relocation bid, effectively nullifying the sale to the Seattle group. The following day, the Maloofs agreed to sell the team to the Sacramento group.
During the months leading up to the sale, the Seattle group raised its offer twice, and it was reported that the Maloofs would refuse to sell to the Sacramento group. At one point, the Chris Hansen group had offered to buy 20% of the team with the Maloofs retaining their majority ownership, even after the Sacramento group came together with an offer. However, Sacramento continued to work directly with the NBA, and the Maloofs' sale to the Sacramento group eventually went through.
References
External links
Maloof Productions
Maloof family biographies
The Palms Resort and Casino
American families
American people of Lebanese descent
Business families of the United States
Houston Rockets owners
Lebanese business families
Sacramento Kings owners
Sacramento Monarchs owners
Vegas Golden Knights owners | wiki |
The flutter kick is a kicking movement used in both swimming and calisthenics.
Swimming
In swimming strokes such as the front crawl or backstroke, the primary purpose of the flutter kick is not propulsion but keeping the legs up and in the shadow for the upper body and assisting body rotation for arm strokes. The legs are extended straight backwards in line with the body. They are moved up and down, one leg kicking downwards (relative to the front of the swimmer's body) as the other leg moves up. The knees are slightly bent to facilitate the kicking action, but not too much in order to minimise drag created by the thighs as they move out of the shadow of the swimmer's body. Similarly, toes are pointed to minimize drag.
The downward moving leg provides the thrust. An integral part of the kick is the flexing of the ankles; it is the flexing of the ankle that allows the foot to provide thrust. The knees are not kept rigid when kicking but are allowed to flex slightly to allow the required "snapping" action through the end of the toes.
Underwater diving
The flutter kick used with swimfins can be a powerful propulsion technique, and is used by scuba divers and freedivers underwater and at the surface, but there are other finning techniques more appropriate to some underwater environments and some types of fin. Divers in a confined environment or where silting may be a problem may use a modified flutter kick or frog kick, done entirely with bent knees, pushing water up and behind the diver to avoid stirring up sediment on the bottom.
Calisthenics
The calisthenics version of the flutter kick is often used as an intensive training tool in the military. They help to develop the hip flexors, abdominal muscles and leg muscles. Flutter kicks are a four-count exercise. Starting position is lying flat on the back with the feet and head approximately 6 inches (15 cm) off the ground. Hands are under the buttocks to support the lower back. Count one: raise the left leg to a 45-degree angle, keeping the right leg stationary. Count two: raise the right leg off the ground to a 45-degree angle while, at the same time, moving the left leg to the starting position. Counts three and four are repetitions of the same movements. Legs must be locked, with toes pointing away from the body.
References
Swimming styles | wiki |
Darrick Leonard Vaughn (born October 2, 1978 in Houston, Texas) is a former American football defensive back in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons and the Houston Texans. He was drafted in the seventh round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at Southwest Texas State University.
References
Darrick Vaughn. Pro Football Reference. Retrieved 2021-02-07.
1978 births
Living people
People from Houston
American football defensive backs
American football return specialists
Atlanta Falcons players
Houston Texans players
Texas State University alumni | wiki |
"Bradbury House" can refer to:
Bradbury House (Los Angeles, California), a Spanish Colonial Revival adobe residence in Santa Monica, California, built c. 1922 from a design by John Byers.
A dormitory at The University of Chicago. | wiki |
The Sacramento Shakespeare Festival is an annual Shakespeare festival produced by City Theatre at Sacramento City College in Sacramento, California, United States.
References
External links
Sacramento Shakespeare Festival
Shakespeare festivals in the United States
Theatre companies in California | wiki |
Backhand is a stroke used in racquet sports and other sports, including:
Tennis
pickleball
Ice Hockey
Backhand, Back hand, Back-hand or Backhanded may also refer to:
Back Hand, a 1975 album by American jazz musician Keith Jarrett
Backhand, a type of shot in ice hockey
Backhand (comics), a superhero in the Marvel universe
Backhanded apology, a Non-apology apology
Backhanded compliment, an insult disguised as a compliment
Backhanded slap, a slap using the back of the hand as opposed to the palm
See also
Backhander (disambiguation) | wiki |
Hoover House may refer to:
Australia
Hoover House, a home of President Herbert Hoover in Gwalia, Western Australia
Canada
Christian K. Hoover House, a historic house museum in Markham, Ontario
Hoover House, a historic building in Toronto, Ontario
United States
Lou Henry Hoover House, a home of President Herbert Hoover in Stanford, California
Eli Hoover House and Confectionary, Muncie, Indiana, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, West Branch, Iowa
Hoover House (Nicholasville, Kentucky), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jessamine County, Kentucky
Shuford–Hoover House, Blackburn, North Carolina, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Barnet–Hoover Log House, Green Township, Ohio, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wayne County, Ohio
Thomas Benton Hoover House, a historic house in Fossil, Oregon
Hoover–Minthorn House, a childhood home of President Herbert Hoover in Newberg, Oregon
Alexander Hoover House, Hoover, South Dakota, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Hoover House, a historic house in Hoover, Alabama
Hoover House, a landmark house in Riverside, California
Hoover House, a residence hall at the University of Chicago | wiki |
There Will Be No Miracles Here is a 2018 memoir by Casey Gerald.
Further reading
External links
2018 non-fiction books
African-American autobiographies
American memoirs
English-language books
Riverhead Books books | wiki |
Irmulco is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California. It is located on the California Western Railroad north-northeast of Comptche, at an elevation of 436 feet (133 m).
A post office operated at Irmulco from 1911 to 1927. The name comes from an initialism of the Irvine and Muir Lumber Company.
References
Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Mendocino County, California | wiki |
Surroundings are the area around a given physical or geographical point or place. The exact definition depends on the field. Surroundings can also be used in geography (when it is more precisely known as vicinity, or vicinage) and mathematics, as well as philosophy, with the literal or metaphorically extended definition.
In thermodynamics, the term (and its synonym, environment) is used in a more restricted sense, meaning everything outside the thermodynamic system. Often, the simplifying assumptions are that energy and matter may move freely within the surroundings, and that the surroundings have a uniform composition.
See also
Distance
Environment (biophysical)
Environment (systems)
Neighbourhood (mathematics)
Social environment
Proxemics
Geography
Thermodynamics | wiki |
Jeffrey Sneijder, Nederlands voetballer
Rodney Sneijder, Nederlands voetballer
Wesley Sneijder, Nederlands voetballer
Zie ook
Snijder (doorverwijspagina)
Snyder (doorverwijspagina)
Schneider (doorverwijspagina) | wiki |
Siderophile means "iron-loving". This can refer to:
Siderophilic bacteria, bacteria that require or are facilitated by free iron
Siderophile elements, chemical elements such as iridium or gold that tend to bond with metallic iron, as described by the Goldschmidt classification
Siderophilia, another name for haemochromatosis, a disease in which the body accumulates too much iron | wiki |
Wick House may refer to:
in England
Wick House, Richmond Hill, designed by Sir William Chambers for Sir Joshua Reynolds
The Wick, Richmond, Surrey, currently owned by Pete Townshend
in the United States
Jockey Hollow, also known as Wick House
See also
Wick (disambiguation) | wiki |
A taco stand or taquería is a food stall, food cart or restaurant that specializes in tacos and other Mexican dishes. The food is typically prepared quickly and tends to be inexpensive. Many various ingredients may be used, and various taco styles may be served. Taco stands are an integral part of Mexican street food. Tacos became a part of traditional Mexican cuisine in the early 20th century, beginning in Mexico City, as what had been a miner's snack began to be sold on street corners in the city. Shops selling tacos have since proliferated throughout Mexico and other areas with a heavy Mexican culinary and cultural influence, including much of the Western United States and most other larger American cities. More typical taquerías specialize in tacos, as expected, but in some localities it can be used to refer to restaurants specializing in burritos, where tacos themselves are less of a point of emphasis.
In Mexico, taco stands are commonly referred to as taquerías, because originally a taquería was typically a street vendor. However, many taquerías today are restaurants located in buildings. Taco stands may be located at roadsides and in areas where people gather, such as at outdoor mall areas. Taco stands are typically located outdoors, although the term is also used at times to refer to taco restaurants. Some taco stands are temporary operations, set-up for events such as fairs and festivals.
Fare
Meats used include beef (such as carne asada and cabeza), pork (such as al pastor), goat meat (such as tacos de birria), shrimp and fish, as used in fish tacos. Additional ingredients used include cheese, salsa, guacamole, sour cream, various vegetables such as onion and cilantro, and hot sauce, among others.
By location
Mexico
Taco stands are common in Mexico For example, Jalisco, Mexico has a diverse variety of taco stands in many of its neighborhoods. In Banderas, taco stands serve as gathering places for local residents, and stands develop reputations based upon variables such as food quality and variety.
El Taco de la Ermita is a popular outdoor taco stand in Baja California, Mexico that serves a diverse variety of gourmet-style tacos. Wait times can be an hour or longer, and the stand typically has an armed security guard on premises to maintain order.
United States
In the United States, some brick-and-mortar restaurants may be referred to as taco stands. Some American chefs and service industry professionals have left their employment positions to open their own taco stands.
Ninfa Laurenzo, founder of the Ninfa's restaurant chain, started out running a single taco stand in Houston, Texas.
Prior to establishing the Taco Bell restaurant chain, Glen Bell, the company's founder, opened a small chain of taco stands named Taco-Tia in San Bernardino, California. Bell owned and operated a hamburger stand prior to opening Taco-Tia. In 2012, Taco Bell sold over 2 billion tacos annually, and had around 6,500 locations in all U.S. states and in several countries.
California
Due to its proximity to the Mexican border California is home to many taco trucks. Although it is famed for its fusions of flavors within this cuisine, perhaps the most famous one is the Korean taco.
The Cielito Lindo Food Stand in Los Angeles, California is well known for its taquitos, and has been in business since the 1930s.
Tito's Tacos is a family-owned taco stand in Culver City that has been in operation since 1959. Featuring a short menu that has not changed in decades, the stand sells American-style hard-shell tacos filled with shredded beef and topped with shredded iceberg lettuce, and cold, grated cheddar cheese. It has a loyal customer base and is frequently seen with long lines, though the lines "move quickly".
Henry's Tacos was a well-known taco stand restaurant in North Hollywood, California that was in operation for 51 years. It went out of business in January 2013.
Prior to establishing Jimboy's Tacos, Jim and Margaret Knudson ran a mobile taco stand named Jimboy's Spanish Tacos in a converted trailer at King's Beach, Lake Tahoe, California.
La Reyna is a well-known taco stand in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles that serves tacos in front of its identically-named brick-and-mortar restaurant.
Alebrije's Grill Taco Truck based in Santa Ana is a bright pink truck home to the renowned 'Battleship Taco.' This consists of breaded steak, with rice, grilled onions, roasted cactus and hot sauce on a fresh tortilla.
This style of taco has become very popular in the area.
Texas
In August 2006, "hundreds of taco stands" existed in Austin, Texas. AVATACO is a business association of taco stand owners in Austin that was formed circa April 2006.
Wyoming
Taco John's began as a small taco stand in Cheyenne, Wyoming named "Taco House" that opened in 1968.
Kansas
In early 2021, Forbes magazine named Kansas City, Kansas as the "true taco capital of the United States".
See also
Food truck
Hot dog stand
List of Mexican restaurants
List of street foods
Mobile catering
Taco trucks on every corner
References
Mexican cuisine
Food trucks
Street food
Street food in Mexico
Taco | wiki |
Party of the Right may refer to:
Party of the Right (Luxembourg), a defunct conservative party (1914–1944)
Party of Rights, a Croatian political party (1861–1929)
The Party of the Right, an intellectual, fraternal, and political society which holds debates and participates in the Yale Political Union | wiki |
Shedding may refer to:
Shedding or moulting of body parts
Desquamation, pathologic or non-pathologic skin shedding
Peeling of the skin
Shedding game, a family of card games where the objective is to get rid of one's hand first
Natural hair loss in cats and dogs
Viral shedding which is the release of virus progeny following successful reproduction during a host-cell infection
Vaccine shedding an anti-vaccination myth about the release of infective virus following vaccination
Woodshedding, practicing a difficult passage repeatedly until it can be performed flawlessly.
See also
Sheading a subdivision of the Isle of Man | wiki |
Casitas may refer to:
Casitas Dam, dam on Coyote Creek near Ojai, California
Lake Casitas, lake in Ventura County, California, formed by Casitas Dam
Casitas District, Contralmirante Villar, Peru | wiki |
Rock climbing hammers, also known as wall hammers, big wall hammers, or aid hammers, are a type of specialty hammer used mainly in aid climbing for the placement and removal of pitons, copper-heads, and circle-heads. They can also be used in the initial placement of fixed anchors (bolts) or the forceful removal of stuck free climbing protection.
See also
Bolt
Climbing equipment
Piton
References
Climbing equipment | wiki |
In the latter half of the decade, Canada Post continued to issue a large number of stamps with different designs and themes. One of the key changes in the decade was that Canada Post issued series of stamps on a yearly basis. An example is the 400th Anniversary of the French Settlement in North America. These stamps began in 2004 and continue until 2008. Another example of an ongoing collection is the Chinese Lunar New Year stamps. The stamps have been released on an annual basis with a different animal featured every year.
Continuing the trend of putting people that are still alive on its stamps, Canada Post featured Oscar Peterson, the first member of the Order of Canada on a stamp in 2005. The year would also mark the final year of the very popular NHL legends series, which would feature legends such as 11-time Stanley Cup champion Henri Richard and Johnny Bucyk. A four stamp series in 2007 was produced with Canadian music legends. Said legends include Paul Anka, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, and Anne Murray, with the stamps printed on a MetalFX process.
Please see Canada Post stamp releases (2000-2004)'' for any stamps produced between 2000-2004.
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Upcoming releases 2009
Upcoming releases 2010
Commemorative envelopes
Conservation stamps
Conservation stamps and stamp products are issued on an annual basis. These are issued by Quebec Wildlife Foundation and help to fund initiatives tied to the preservation, restoration, and protection of Quebec's wildlife habitat. These annual issues are featured in the Canada Post Stamp Details Magazine.
Gutter Strips
Stamp survey
On an annual basis, Canadian Stamp News holds an annual survey. This gives collectors the opportunity to voice their opinions on what are their favourite stamps, and least favourite stamps. The categories include: Favourite Canadian Stamps, Most Relevant Stamps, Least Favourite Stamps, Least Relevant Stamps. The results are as follows:
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. ANYONE WITH DETAILS IS WELCOME TO CONTRIBUTE.
2006
Favourite Canadian stamps
Most relevant stamps
Least favourite stamps
Least relevant stamps
2007
Favourite Canadian stamps
Most relevant stamps
Least favourite stamps
Least relevant stamps
Choosing Canada's stamps
Although Canada Post is responsible for stamp design and production, the corporation does not actually choose the subjects or the final designs that appear on stamps. That task falls under the jurisprudence of the Stamp Advisory Committee. Their objective is to recommend a balanced stamp program that will have broad-based appeal, regionally and culturally, reflecting Canadian history, heritage, and tradition.
Before Canada Post calls a meeting of the committee, it also welcomes suggestions for stamp subjects from Canadian citizens. Ideas for subjects that have recently appeared on a stamp are declined. The committee works two years in advance and can approve approximately 20 subjects for each year.
Once a stamp subject is selected, Canada Post's Stamp Products group conducts research. Designs are commissioned from two firms, both chosen for their expertise. The designs are presented anonymously to the committee. The committee's process and selection policy have changed little in the thirty years since it was introduced.
Any ideas for a stamp should be sent to: Chairperson of the Stamp Advisory Committee, Canada Post, 2701 Riverside Drive Suite N1070, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0B1.
Philatelic Awards
Canada Post won the Desheng Cup for best printing of a stamp at the 5th Annual Best Foreign Stamp Poll. The cup was awarded for the Big Cats Canada/China joint issue, featuring the Canadian cougar and Amur leopard. Canada Post and Bradbury Branding and Design won a Promotional or Specialty Items Award of Honour in 2006 from ACE Awards. The award was won for the Saskatchewan 1905-2005 stamp issue.
In 2006, Canada Post and the Lowe-Martin Group were honoured with three awards from the 32nd Annual IAPHC International Gallery of Superb Printing for superb craftsmanship in the production of stamps. Gold awards were received for the Year of the Dog Uncut Press Sheet and the Biosphere Reserves Canada/Ireland joint issue, featuring the Canadian cougar and Amur leopard. The IAPHC is an international organization dedicated to the development, promotion, and success of the printing and graphic art industry in society.
References
Postage stamps of Canada
Lists of postage stamps | wiki |
Rahart Adams (31 januari 1996) is een acteur die werd geboren in Australië. Hij is vooral bekend van de tiener-sitcom Verhekst! van Nickelodeon. In deze serie speelde Adams de rol van Jax Novoa.
Televisie
Australisch televisieacteur | wiki |
A peritoneal inclusion cyst is a cyst-like structure that appears in the pelvis due to non neoplastic reactive mesothelial proliferation, often as a consequence of prior episodes of pelvic inflammation, as can occur in pelvic inflammatory disease. It has the potential to mimic ovarian cysts, hydrosalpinx or even malignancy, due to its nonspecific anechoic appearance.
References
Cysts | wiki |
Daniel P. Kelly is an American physician and Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania. He is known for his contributions to biomedical research.
References
Living people
21st-century American physicians
University of Pennsylvania faculty
University of Illinois College of Medicine alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) | wiki |
Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust is a 2011 book by Daniel Ryan Kelly in which the author provides a philosophical examination of disgust.
References
External links
Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust
2011 non-fiction books
Emotions
Ethics literature
Moral psychology books
MIT Press books | wiki |
A wedding dress is a clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony.
Wedding dress may also refer to:
Wedding Dress (film), a 2009 South Korean film
"Wedding Dress" (Onyanko Club song), 1987
"Wedding Dress" (Taeyang song), 2009
"Wedding Dress," a song by Mark Lanegan from his album Bubblegum
"Wedding Dress," a song by Derek Webb from his album She Must and Shall Go Free
"Wedding Dress," a song by Sam Amidon from his album All Is Well | wiki |
A pickle lifter or lifting tray is a device for elevating food from a container to make it more accessible for extraction. Typically, it acts as a strainer to assist in raising pickles and cornichons from their brine solution towards the top of a jar or container. Those used in commercial products are often made of plastic, while some are made of metal.
The Tupperware corporation makes a product under the trademark Pick-A-Deli that contains a built-in pickle lifter in the form of a lift-up strainer.
References
External links
Tupperware Pick-A-Deli
Culinary terminology
Pickles | wiki |
Surotomycin was an investigational oral antibiotic. This antibiotic was under investigation by Merck & Co (who acquired Cubist Pharmaceuticals) for the treatment of life-threatening Diarrhea, commonly caused by the bacterium Clostridium difficile. After reaching phase III in clinical trials, its production was discontinued in 2017 due to its non-superiority to current therapies.
References
Antibiotics | wiki |
Nigma walckenaeri is a green cribellate spider up to five millimetres long, the largest of the family Dictynidae. While most of the body is a somewhat yellowish, the abdomen is a shining green, which makes it rather distinct and hard to confuse with other species. The green color makes it almost invisible. Males have an elevated head region. From August to October these spiders can be found in gardens or on walls - often on big leaves such as lilac or feral grapevine. The spider catches insects, sometimes larger than itself, in its web, which it builds on the surface of leaves. The female hides the 7-millimetre long egg sac on a place distant from its retreat.
The spider has a palearctic distribution. In Great Britain, until 1993, it was only found in London and the Home Counties. It may originally have been imported into Kew Gardens.
Name
The species is named in honor of Charles Athanase Walckenaer.
References
Bellmann, H. (1997). Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. (German)
Dictynidae
Palearctic spiders
Spiders described in 1951
Spiders of Europe | wiki |
This is a list of notables on coins of Canada. Members of the Monarchy of Canada are not included.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Z
References
External links
Royal Canadian Mint's Official Website
Royal Canadian Mint Act
Canadian Numismatic Association
Numismatic Network Canada
Canadian Coin News
Currencies of Canada
Coins of Canada
Canada
Coins
Coins of Canada | wiki |
Earthquake simulation applies a real or simulated vibrational input to a structure that possesses the essential features of a real seismic event. Earthquake simulations are generally performed to study the effects of earthquakes on man-made engineered structures, or on natural features which may present a hazard during an earthquake.
Dynamic experiments on building and non-building structures may be physical – as with shake-table testing – or virtual (based on computer simulation). In all cases, to verify a structure's expected seismic performance, researchers prefer to deal with so called 'real time-histories' though the last cannot be 'real' for a hypothetical earthquake specified by either a building code or by some particular research requirements.
Shake-table testing
Studying a building's response to an earthquake is performed by putting a model of the structure on a shake-table that simulates the seismic loading. The earliest such experiments were performed more than a century ago.
Computational approaches
Another way is to evaluate the earthquake performance analytically.
The very first earthquake simulations were performed by statically applying some horizontal inertia forces, based on scaled peak ground accelerations, to a mathematical model of a building. With the further development of computational technologies, static approaches began to give way to dynamic ones.
Traditionally, numerical simulation and physical tests have been uncoupled and performed separately. So-called hybrid testing systems employ rapid, parallel analyses using both physical and computational tests.
See also
Seismic analysis
References
External links
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
AEM Earthquake Simulation
Building
Earthquake engineering | wiki |
The Memorial to the Confederate Dead is a Confederate memorial in Missouri.
Around 1899, the Ladies’ Confederate Monument Association began raising funds to erect a monument in St. Louis to soldiers who had fought against the United States. After some $23,000 ($ today) was raised, mostly from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the monument was installed in Forest Park, the city's largest park. It was dedicated on December 4, 1914.
It was rededicated in 1964 on its 50th anniversary.
In 2015, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay launched an effort to have the monument removed. He appointed a committee of business and civic interests, which later that year recommended its removal.
in June 2017, the monument was removed from Forest Park, one of at least 36 Confederate memorials removed that year from locations around the country.
As of 2022, it awaits a new home outside St. Louis City and County limits, per an agreement between the city and Missouri Civil War Museum in Jefferson Barracks.
See also
List of Confederate monuments and memorials
Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials
References
Confederate States of America monuments and memorials in Missouri
Outdoor sculptures in Missouri
Relocated buildings and structures in Missouri | wiki |
In economics, a trough is a low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle. The time evolution of many economics variables exhibits a wave-like behavior with local maxima (peaks) followed by local minima (troughs). A business cycle may be defined as the period between two consecutive peaks.
The period of the business cycle in which real GDP is increasing is called the expansion, in which the real GDP moves from the trough towards the peak.
References
Business cycle | wiki |
A basketball is a spherical ball used in games of the same name. Basketballs usually range in size from very small promotional items that are only a few inches (some centimeters) in diameter to extra large balls nearly in diameter used in training exercises. For example, a youth basketball could be in circumference, while a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's ball would be a maximum of and an NCAA women's ball would be a maximum of . The standard for a basketball in the National Basketball Association (NBA) is in circumference and for the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), a maximum circumference of . High school and junior leagues normally use NCAA, NBA or WNBA sized balls.
Aside from the court and the baskets, the basketball is the only piece of equipment necessary to play the game of basketball. During the game, the ball must be bounced continuously (dribbling), thrown through the air to other players (passing) or thrown towards the basket (shooting). Therefore, the ball must be very durable and easy to hold on to. The ball is also used to perform tricks (sometimes called freestyling), the most common of which are spinning the ball on the tip of one's index finger, dribbling in complex patterns, rolling the ball over one's shoulder, or performing aerobatic maneuvers with the ball while executing a slam dunk, most notably in the context of a slam dunk contest.
Characteristics
Nearly all basketballs have an inflatable inner rubber bladder, generally wrapped in layers of fiber and then covered with a surface made either from leather (traditional), rubber, or a synthetic composite. As in most inflatable balls, there is a small opening that allows the pressure to be increased or decreased.
The surface of the ball is nearly always divided by "ribs" that are recessed below the surface of the ball in a variety of configurations and are generally a contrasting color. An orangish surface with black ribs and a possible logo is the traditional color scheme of basketballs but they are sold in various colors. Most famous of these variations, a red/white/blue basketball, was used for the American Basketball Association, the Harlem Globetrotters, and as the "money ball" in the NBA All-Star Weekend's Three Point Contest.
Balls are generally designated for indoor (generally made of leather or absorbent composites), or all-surface use (generally made of rubber or durable composites, also known as indoor/outdoor balls). Indoor balls tend to be more expensive than all-surface balls due to the cost of materials. In addition, brand new all-leather indoor balls must be "broken in" first to achieve optimal grip before use in competition. The abrasiveness of asphalt and the dirt and moisture present in an outdoor setting will usually ruin an indoor ball within a very short period of time, which is why an indoor/outdoor ball is recommended for recreational players. Outdoor balls are commonly made from rubber to cope with rougher conditions, and they need to be filled with more air to retain a suitable level of air pressure in colder weather.
Sizes
Different sizes are used for different age groups. The common standards are:
Note that the ball used for all competitions (men's, women's, and mixed) in the formalized halfcourt game of 3x3 combines characteristics of the size 6 and size 7 balls. Its circumference is that of a size 6 ball, but its weight is that of a size 7.
History
In early December 1891, the chairman of the physical education department at the School for Christian Workers (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, instructed physical education teacher James Naismith, to invent a new game to entertain the school's athletes in the winter season. Naismith assembled his class of 18 young men, appointed captains of two nine-player teams, and set in motion the first-ever basketball game, played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets tacked to either end of the gymnasium.
The first purpose-built basketballs were made from panels of leather stitched together with a rubber bladder inside. A cloth lining was added to the leather for support and uniformity. A molded version of the early basketball was invented in 1942. For many years, leather was the material of choice for basketball coverings, however, in the late 1990s, synthetic composite materials were put forth and have rapidly gained acceptance in most leagues, although the NBA's game balls still use real leather (outside of a brief experiment with a microfiber composite ball in 2006 that was not well received).
From 1967 through 1976, the American Basketball Association (ABA) used a distinctive red, white and blue basketball. It is used in the NBA's three point contest.
Notable basketball manufacturers
See also
List of inflatable manufactured goods
References
Balls
Basketball equipment
Inflatable manufactured goods
American inventions | wiki |
Run for Your Life, published in 2009, is the second novel in the Michael Bennett series by the American authors James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. The novel debuted on the New York Times Best-Seller list at number 2 on February 20, 2009.
Critical reception
James Mitchell of Tonight said that, while he liked the novel, it was "somewhat predictable towards the end".
References
2009 American novels
Novels by James Patterson
American thriller novels
Little, Brown and Company books
Collaborative novels | wiki |
An optical reader is a device found within most computer scanners that captures visual information and translates the image into digital information the computer is capable of understanding and displaying.
An example of optical readers are marksense systems for elections where voters mark their choice by filling a rectangle, circle, or oval, or by completing an arrow. After the voting a tabulating device reads the votes using "dark mark logic", whereby the computer selects the darkest mark within a given set as the intended choice or vote.
See also
Digital paper
Optical character recognition
Optical scan voting system
Optical mark recognition
References
Optical devices | wiki |
Repairing disk permissions is a troubleshooting activity commonly associated with the macOS operating system by Apple. The efficacy of repairing permissions to troubleshoot application errors has been debated.
Overview
The BSD layer in macOS is responsible for file-system security, including the management of the Unix (POSIX) permissions model. Applications depend on the correct assignment and interpretation of permissions in order to function properly.
Repairing permissions involves checking the permissions of a set of files and folders on a volume with macOS installed against a list of correct POSIX permissions and correcting any discrepancies. The list of correct permissions is compiled by consulting the various bill-of-materials (.bom) files. Typically, these files are stored within reduced-size Installer package (.pkg) files in the Receipts folder in the local Library directory () on the volume being checked. Whenever a user installs software that uses the macOS Installer package format, a bill-of-materials file is created which can be consulted for future permission repair.
Files whose permissions have been incorrectly altered by an administrator, an administrator operating with root privileges, or a poorly designed installer package (installed with similar privileges) can cause a wide array of problems ranging from application errors to the inability to boot macOS. Repairing permissions can become necessary, but has become increasingly less so for versions after Panther (10.3).
In OS X El Capitan, Apple introduced a security feature called System Integrity Protection. With it enabled, root privileges are no longer able to change system files and folders, including their permissions. Permissions repairs are instead performed automatically upon system installs and updates. To that end, Disk Utility as well as the corresponding command-line utility lost the ability to repair permissions.
Usage
In systems prior to OS X El Capitan, a permissions repair can be performed by selecting a startup volume and clicking the "Repair Disk Permissions" button in the "First Aid" section of Disk Utility. The operation can also be performed by using the command-line utility. In El Capitan, the user can instead use two command-line utilities: to repair particular packages or to repair a standard set of system packages. In both cases, the user has to disable System Integrity Protection to change permissions of system files and directories. In macOS Sierra, is not available.
Permissions can also be repaired using third-party utilities such as The Apotek's AppleJack or Prosoft Engineering's Drive Genius.
References
Apple Inc. software
MacOS | wiki |
North-American Spanish () is the name of the Spanish dialects spoken in North America, and includes:
Caribbean Spanish
Central American Spanish
List of colloquial expressions in Honduras
Mexican Spanish
American Spanish
Isleño Spanish
New Mexican Spanish
Puerto Rican Spanish
Spanish dialects of North America | wiki |
Stradale (routière, en italien) est une appellation italienne de version GT routière de série, déclinée de voiture de prestige de compétition automobile.
Quelques modèles
Notes et références
Voir aussi
Compétition automobile
Liens externes
Type de carrosseries
Vocabulaire du sport automobile | wiki |
— японская фамилия. Известные носители:
Кояма, Кимико (род. 1979) — японская сэйю.
Кояма, Мами (род. 1955) — японская сэйю.
Кояма, Рикия (род. 1963) — японский сэйю.
Кояма, Рэми (род. 2000) — японская хоккеистка.
Кояма, Цутому (1936—2012) — японский волейболист и тренер. | wiki |
MS 570 may refer to:
Mississippi Highway 570
Morane-Saulnier MS.570, an aircraft produced in the 1940s | wiki |
The following is a list of cast members who portrayed or voiced characters appearing in the Spider-Man films produced primarily by Columbia Pictures and later co-produced by Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures Animation. The list is sorted by film and character, as some characters may have been portrayed by multiple actors.
Nicholas Hammond is the first live-action portrayal of the character, starring in The Amazing Spider-Man television series and its made-for-television films Spider-Man (1977), Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978), and Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge (1981).
Tobey Maguire portrayed Peter Parker / Spider-Man in a trilogy of films produced by Columbia Pictures consisting of Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), and Spider-Man 3 (2007). A new iteration of the character was portrayed by Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).
Tom Holland portrays another iteration of the character set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), headlining a trilogy co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios consisting of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), where he is joined by Maguire and Garfield in supporting roles. Holland also appeared as the character in the MCU films Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019), and had an uncredited cameo appearance in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe film Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).
Shameik Moore stars in the Sony Pictures Animation film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) voicing Miles Morales / Spider-Man, with Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, and Oscar Isaac also featured as Gwen Stacy / Spider-Woman, Peter B. Parker / Spider-Man, and Miguel O'Hara / Spider-Man 2099, respectively. All four actors reprise their roles in the sequels Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse (2024).
Several other cast members who recur in the film series and/or within the franchise include Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Rosemary Harris, Cliff Robertson, J. K. Simmons, Alfred Molina, Thomas Haden Church, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Sally Field, Jamie Foxx, Jon Favreau, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Tony Revolori, and Marisa Tomei.
Early films
Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007)
Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man films (2012–2014)
(2016–present)
(2018–present)
Animated Spider-Verse film series (2018–present)
References
External links
Early films
Full cast and crew for Spider-Man (1977) at IMDb
Full cast and crew for Spider-Man Strikes Back at IMDb
Full cast and crew for Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge at IMDb
Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy
Full cast and crew for Spider-Man (2002) at IMDb
Full cast and crew for Spider-Man 2 at IMDb
Full cast and crew for Spider-Man 3 at IMDb
Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man films
Full cast and crew for The Amazing Spider-Man at IMDb
Full cast and crew for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 at IMDb
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Full cast and crew for Spider-Man: Homecoming at IMDb
Full cast and crew for Spider-Man: Far From Home at IMDb
Full cast and crew for Spider-Man: No Way Home at IMDb
Spider-Verse
Full cast and crew for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse at IMDb
Full cast and crew for Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham at IMDb
Full cast and crew for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse at IMDb
Full cast and crew for Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse at IMDb
Spider-Man in film
Lists of actors by film series
film cast | wiki |
Cefsumide is an antibiotic of the cephalosporin group.
References
Cephalosporin antibiotics | wiki |
A bolster is a type of pillow or cushion.
Bolster may also refer to:
Bolster (knife), the thick metal portion of a knife joining the handle and the blade
Bolster (surname)
Bolster, Washington, a ghost town in Okanogan County, Washington
Bolster the Giant, a giant in Cornish legend
Bolster plate, part of a stamping press
Span bolster, railroad terminology
Truck bolster, railroad terminology
USS Bolster (ARS-38), a Diver-class rescue and salvage ship
A type of Chisel
See also
Bolster heath | wiki |
This is a list of episodes of Television series Mickey's Farm which is a Canadian children's television series show is produced by Best Boy Entertainment in St. John's, Newfoundland and airs on The Pet Network in Canada and in the U.S. on the Trinity Broadcasting Network-owned Smile network, which picked up the U.S. rights to the show in 2012.
Episodes
Season 1 (2009)
Season 2 (2010)
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
References
Lists of Canadian television series episodes | wiki |
XO sauce is a spicy seafood sauce from Hong Kong with an umami flavour. It is commonly used in southern Chinese regions such as Guangdong.
History
Developed in the 1980s in Hong Kong for Cantonese cuisine, XO sauce is made of roughly-chopped dried seafood, including dried scallops (conpoy), fish, and shrimp, which are cooked with chilli peppers, onions, and garlic. This dried seafood-based sauce resembles the Fujianese shacha sauce. Spring Moon, the Chinese restaurant of the Peninsula Hong Kong hotel, is often credited with the invention of XO sauce, although some claim it came from other nearby restaurants in the Tsim Sha Tsui area of Kowloon.
Etymology
The name XO sauce comes from fine XO (extra-old) cognac, which is a popular Western liquor in Hong Kong, and considered by many to be a chic product at the time. The name is a misnomer since the condiment contains no cognac, and it is not really a sauce in the traditional, smooth sense, but more chunky, like a relish. The term XO is often used in Hong Kong to denote high quality, prestige and luxury. Indeed, XO sauce has been marketed in the same manner as French liquor, using packaging of similar colour schemes.
Ingredients
Typical ingredients of XO sauce include dried scallop, red chilli pepper, Jinhua ham, dried shrimp, garlic and canola oil. Some other recipes also call for salted cured fish and diced onion.
Uses
XO sauce can be used as a table condiment or in cooking to enhance the flavour of fish, meats, vegetables, and otherwise bland foods such as tofu or noodles.
See also
Chili oil
Dim sum
List of Chinese sauces
List of fish sauces
List of sauces
References
Further reading
Lo, Eileen Yin-Fei (2012). Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking. Chronicle Books. pp. 157–159.
Cantonese cuisine
Chinese condiments
Hong Kong cuisine
Fish sauces
Umami enhancers
Chinese sauces | wiki |
Here's Johnny may refer to:
"Here's Johnny" (Hocus Pocus song), a 1993 song by Dutch dance music duo Hocus Pocus
"Here's Johnny", the catchphrase used by Ed McMahon for almost 30 years on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992)
"Here's Johnny", catchphrase that was reused by Jack Nicholson in the 1980 film The Shining
"Here's Johnny", a song referencing the McMahon catchphrase by "Weird Al" Yankovic on his 1986 Polka Party! album
Here's Johnny, a 2000 documentary film about John Hicklenton
See also
Now Here's Johnny Cash (1961), the tenth album by Johnny Cash | wiki |
Milton Keynes railway station could mean any of the six stations in the Milton Keynes urban area:
Bletchley railway station
Bow Brickhill railway station
Fenny Stratford railway station
Milton Keynes Central railway station
Wolverton railway station
Woburn Sands railway station
Of these, Milton Keynes Central is the largest and busiest. | wiki |
Snuppy (Korean: 스너피 a portmanteau of "SNU" and "puppy"; April 24, 2005 – May 2015) was an Afghan hound, the first dog clone. The puppy was created using a cell from an ear from an adult Afghan hound and involved 123 surrogate mothers, of which only two produced pups (Snuppy being the sole survivor). The Department of Theriogenology and Biotechnology at Seoul National University, which cloned Snuppy, was led by Woo Suk Hwang. Snuppy has since been used in the first known successful breeding between cloned canines after his sperm was used to artificially inseminate two cloned females, which resulted in the birth of 10 puppies in 2008. In 2017, 4 clones of Snuppy were made by Sooam, and were the first clones made of a cloned dog, to investigate potential health effects of cloning.
History
After Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, scientists had managed to clone numerous other animals, including cats, cows, gaur, horses, mice, mules, pigs, rabbits and rats but had been unsuccessful in cloning a dog due to the problematic task of maturing a canine ovum in an artificial environment. After several failed attempts by other scientists, Woo Suk Hwang, a lead researcher at Seoul National University, created a clone using tissue from the ear of a 3-year-old Afghan hound. 123 surrogate mothers were used to carry the embryos, of which 1,095 were implanted, the procedure resulted in only three pregnancies; one resulted in a miscarriage, the other pup was born successfully but died of pneumonia three weeks after birth, the successful clone was carried by a Labrador Retriever. From the original 1,095 embryos to the final two puppies, this placed the success rate of the project at less than two tenths of a percent. Snuppy was named as a portmanteau of the initials of the Seoul National University (SNU) and the word "puppy".
Process
As the eggs in a female canine are only fertile during the estrus phase of the estrous cycle, the eggs could only be harvested during a three-week period each year. Due to complexities with removing eggs from canine ovaries the eggs had to be extracted from the oviduct, which required constant monitoring to achieve. The nucleus of each egg was replaced with the cell from the ear of the adult dog and then electrified and fused using a chemical reaction. The embryos were then transferred to the surrogate dogs. Three of the surrogate mothers became pregnant and two gave birth. Snuppy, the first to be born, survived while the other died two weeks after birth. This process of cloning Snuppy took nearly three years of intensive effort.
Reaction
Snuppy was named as Time Magazine's "Most Amazing Invention" of the year in 2005. Particular recognition was given to the cloning technique used in the process, which Time stated was "embodied by a history-making puppy". Despite numerous labs performing mammalian cloning, they hailed the achievements of Hwang's team as "extraordinary". The experiment was criticized by Robert Klitzman, director of Columbia University's Masters in Bioethics program, who said that the process raised the question of whether humans are "just a mass of cells and biological processes?" Hwang himself criticized the process, stating that it did not bring science any closer to human cloning and the complexities, coupled with the low success rate (one in 123), did not make it ethical to clone family pets. Ian Wilmut, the scientist behind the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, said that the successful cloning of Snuppy proved that any mammal could be cloned in the correct environments and that a global ban on human cloning needed to be quickly implemented because of this. The Kennel Club criticised the entire concept of dog cloning, on the grounds that their mission is to "To promote in every way the general improvement of dogs" and no improvement can occur if replicas are being created.
Controversy
Between late 2005–2006 Hwang was accused of a series of incidents of misconduct. The first allegations related to his work prior to Snuppy—the claim that he had successfully cloned a human embryo. The charges alleged Hwang had paid for egg donations and that some of the eggs came from his employees, which would constitute serious breaches of the code of bioethics. It was later found that photographs he published did not depict what was suggested and that most of the stem-cell lines he claimed to have created were not clones at all. This brought serious doubts about the validity of Snuppy, which Hwang consistently claimed was a genuine clone. Hwang hired HumanPass Inc., a Korean DNA lab to investigate Snuppy, who found that Snuppy was authentic. The findings by HumanPass were dismissed on the grounds that they were employed by Hwang, and a panel at the Seoul National University ordered their own investigation. The investigation found that, despite his fabrications in previous projects, Hwang's research related to Snuppy was accurate and Snuppy was a clone of the adult Afghan hound. As a result of his forgeries, Hwang was indicted for fraud and dismissed from the university.
Developments
Veterinary professor Byeong Chun Lee took over leadership of the team behind Snuppy. In 2008, Snuppy became involved in the first known successful breeding between cloned canines, after sperm taken from Snuppy was used to artificially inseminate two cloned females, which resulted in the birth of 10 puppies. Nine of the puppies survived. The SNU team, under Lee, have gone on to clone over 30 dogs and five wolves. SNU, which claimed to own the patent for the process used to clone Snuppy, formed a license agreement with RNL Bio, a commercial pet cloning company. Hwang entered into a partnership with RNL Bio's competitor, BioArts International, which caused an ongoing legal battle into who owns the patent rights although Bio Arts withdrew from dog cloning in 2009. RNL completed the first commercial cloning in August 2008 but ran into financial trouble in 2013.
The world's first cloned sniffer dogs (all of which are named Toppy) were put to work by South Korean customs in July 2009.
Supporters of Hwang founded a company called Sooam Biotech where Hwang developed proprietary techniques based on a licence from ViaGen's subsidiary Start Licensing (which owns the original Dolly patent) and created cloned dogs for owners whose dogs had died, charging $100,000 a time Sooam Biotech was reported to have cloned 700 dogs by 2015 and to be producing 500 cloned embryos of various species a day in 2016.
Death
Snuppy died in May 2015 at the age of 10.
See also
List of individual dogs
References
2005 animal births
2015 animal deaths
Cloned dogs
Dog breeding
Science and technology in South Korea
Individual animals in South Korea | wiki |
The 2013 Middle East cold snap, also referred to as Alexa, refers to the winter storm that hit the Middle East region in December 2013, affecting Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, and Egypt. The storm severely affected millions of poor and displaced people across the region, especially afflicting refugees from the Syrian civil war.
Meteorological history
Beginning December 11, a large anticyclone moved northward in the jet stream over Europe; its east edge drew a strong current of cold air south from the Arctic. This polar outbreak overspread Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean region, pushing below moist air associated with a passing front, causing heavy snow and sleet over higher ground in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel. At lower elevations, heavy rain from the system caused flooding in some areas.
(The west edge of the same anticyclone drew in a warm southwest wind from around the Azores to Britain.)
Events by country
Cyprus
By December 14, the storm had covered the island's Troodos mountain range with snow. Snowing had begun several days earlier, with snow reaching a peak thickness of in Troodos. Four hundred customers lost electricity, and several villages, including Armenohori, Farmakas, Kampi, and Sinaoros, completely lost it for extended periods of time.
Egypt
Egypt's capital Cairo witnessed extremely rare snowfall (mostly graupel) on Friday, December 13, that the local media claimed to be the first in 112 years. Nighttime temperatures were expected to drop as low as . Snow also fell heavily on mountains in the Sinai Peninsula.
Israel
On December 13, 2013, of snow fell in Jerusalem and in the Kefar Etzion area. Warmer parts of Israel received heavy rains, causing floods. The railway into Jerusalem operated on the Sabbath for people stranded by blocked roads.
Roads were closed in Israel by deep snow and flooding. Storm clouds prompted Ben Gurion International Airport to shut down, forcing US Secretary of State John Kerry to cut short his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah and return to the West Bank before roads and airports became unusable. Jerusalem was cut off for 48 hours by deep snow and flooding and cars were abandoned after they got stuck in snow.
Palestine, West Bank
On December 13, 2013, 40–70 cm (16–28 in) of snow fell in Jerusalem. Warmer parts of Palestine received heavy rains, causing floods. The railway into Jerusalem was stranded by blocked roads.
Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and Hebron and many other towns and cities were coated in snow and some lower-lying areas suffered flooding from heavy rain.
Snow in Ramallah, Nablus, and Hebron ranged from , and in Bethlehem ranged from . The scene in Manger Square, the square adjacent to the Church of the Nativity was that of a white Christmas with the square fully decorated and covered with a deep coat of snow.
Palestine, Gaza Strip
The Gaza Strip was lashed by torrential rain for a third day, and its Hamas rulers said that residents had been evacuated from 60 flooded homes since storms hit the coastal territory on December 11.
Jordan
In Jordan, Ghazi Sarhan, spokesman for Jordan's Administration of Syrian Refugee Camps, announced on December 13, that "During the past 48 hours 10,000 blankets and 1,500 heaters have been distributed to refugees." Deep snow fell in Amman, where King Abdullah II of Jordan helped to push a car that had got stuck in snow.
Lebanon
While snow is a common yearly occurrence in Lebanon, many Syrian refugees were severely affected by the unusually cold conditions.
It was reported that the Lebanese Army was called in to help distribute emergency aid to refugees, and the UN handed out fuel, blankets, heaters and food rations amid a third day of severe winter weather in the region.
According to Abou Faour's announcement, published in Al Nahar newspaper on December 12, "There are 1,600 refugee [makeshift camps] in addition to 431 random camps, which makes it difficult to reach these places. That is why the cabinet had to ask for the help of the army to make as much aid reach those refugees as possible".
Syria
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) issued plans to airlift of food for 50,000 to 60,000 people into the northeastern province of Hasakah from Iraq. The UN airlift of urgently needed food for tens of thousands of people in northeastern Syria, originally planned for December 12, was delayed by snow.
According to Matthew Hollingworth, Syria Country Director for the United Nations' World Food Programme, most internally displaced Syrians fled their homes with few belongings so they do not even have enough warm clothes or blankets to fend off the freezing weather. They desperately need fuel for heating and to cook the food they receive as humanitarian assistance." Reportedly, a child and a baby died from the cold on December 12, and an activist in a besieged rebel-held town of Harra said residents were struggling to stay warm with the electricity cut off and no food or fuel allowed in.
In southern Syria, the Golan Heights were covered with snow up to at least deep.
External links
Snow in the Egyptian town of Madinaty, 40 km east of Cairo, on December 13, 2013.
'Snow Blankets Eastern Mediterranean: , Palestine, Syria, Cyprus and Lebanon'
King Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman helping to push a car which got stuck in deep snow
Google: snow scenes in Egypt and Sinai
Snow in Cairo
Snow in Egypt and Sinai
References
Middle East cold snap
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2013 disasters in Asia | wiki |
Peen may refer to:
Part of the head of a hammer, as in a ball-peen hammer (also ball-pein, or ball and pein)
Peening, the changing of a metal's properties by impacting its surface
Shot peening, bombarding metal parts with small spherical media
Laser peening, focusing lasers on the surface of a metal part
Peening (scythe blade), peening a scythe or sickle blade as a step in sharpening it
Steel Belt: Shot Peening, an innovative remedial solution for deformed steel belts
A slang term for the penis
See also
Peene (disambiguation)
Pein
Peen tong, a Chinese brown sugar and sugar candy | wiki |
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