title: "Davy Rothbart" content: Practice" premiered internationally at the Edinburgh Film Festival, where it won the prize for Best Feature. In December 2009, "Easier With Practice" was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards. The film was released in theaters in February 2010, and met with great critical success: "The Los Angeles Times" called "Easier With Practice" "fresh, flawless, and totally captivating," and "The Village Voice" praised the film as "emotionally honest and achingly true." In January 2009, Rothbart filmed his first full-length narrative feature, "Overhaul", which stars rapper Daniel "D Shot" Garvatt as a pizza driver in desperate circumstances on New Year's Eve. Rothbart


title: "South East Cape" content: South East Cape The South East Cape is a cape located at the southernmost point of the main island of Tasmania, the southernmost state of Australia. The cape is situated in the southern and south-eastern corner of the Southwest National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, approximately southwest of Hobart in Tasmania, and about east and a little south of the South West Cape. South East Cape is the southernmost point of the mainland of Tasmania, but not of the state of Tasmania. The Maatsuyker Islands and the Pedra Branca island group, just offshore, are also part


title: "Heins & LaFarge" content: feet of wet snow the dome collapsed on the afternoon of February 2, 1916, dropping 400 tons of masonry eighty feet into the empty cathedral, shattering every window and leaving a gaping hole that exposed it to the elements. The cathedral reopened on March 18, 1917, but with a flat roof over the crossing. The central repositioning of the altar in response to reforms of the Second Vatican Council has finally brought it into the position envisaged by the architects. Beginning in 1901, Heins & LaFarge designed subway stations and buildings for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company under the direction


title: "British Rail Class 56" content: Some were reinstated for use on construction trains connected with the LGV Est in France, although all such locomotives have now returned to the UK. In September 2011, DB Schenker (as EWS had become) placed its remaining 33 stored class 56s up for sale with most expected to be sold for scrap. UK-based locomotive provider Europhoenix tendered for three of the DB Schenker locomotives (56 018, 56 115, 56 117) for export to Hungarian freight operator Floyd. They finally bought 56 101 (from preservation), 56 115 and 56 117. With 56 101 moving to Europhoenix, 56 018 has been sold


title: "British Rail Class 56" content: to preservationist Ed Stevenson. 56 101 arrived in Hungary on 19 June 2012 with 56 115 and 56 117 following later in the year. These have been renumbered 0659-001-5, 0659-002-3 and 0659-003-1 respectively. In late 2011, DB Cargo UK sold 27 Class 56s for scrap to European Metal Recycling. These were 56 006, 031, 032, 037, 038, 046, 049, 051, 058, 060, 065, 069, 073, 074, 077, 078, 081, 087, 090, 094, 096, 104, 105, 106, 112, 113, 133. Despite the mass sale of scrap, 56 078, 56 087, 56 094, 56 105 and 56 113 were sold on to


title: "British Rail Class 56" content: when the company went bust. 56 301 was put into store, and 56 302 was purchased and run by Colas Rail. 56 301 was later purchased by the Class 56 Group as a replacement for their own 56 040 'Oystermouth', which had just suffered a serious failure. 56 040 was subsequently stripped of spares and scrapped at Barrow Hill. 56 125 was returned to service after a less thorough overhaul by FM Rail and numbered 56 303. 56 303 was returned to RVEL (successor to FM Rail) and sat out of use at Derby but in September 2009 it was


title: "DeSoto (automobile)" content: host Groucho Marx promoted the product by urging viewers to visit a DeSoto dealer with the phrase "tell 'em Groucho sent you", and to "drive a DeSoto before you decide". There was also a DeSoto Plymouth logo visible in the background all during the show. The Cole Porter song "It's De-Lovely" was used, with his permission, in DeSoto advertising between 1955 and 1957. The revised song lyrics: "It's delovely, it's dynamic, it's DeSoto." DeSotos were used in NASCAR's Grand National series in the 1950s. DeSoto (automobile) DeSoto (sometimes De Soto) is an American automobile marque that was manufactured and marketed


title: "Financier (cake)" content: Financier (cake) A financier () (formerly known as a visitandine ()) is a small French almond cake, flavoured with beurre noisette, usually baked in a small mold. Light and moist with a crisp, eggshell-like exterior, the traditional financier also contains egg whites, flour, and powdered sugar. The molds are usually small rectangular loaves similar in size to petits fours. Originally made by the Visitandine order of nuns in the Middle Ages, the financier was popularized in the nineteenth century. The name "financier" is said to derive from the traditional rectangular mold, which resembles a bar of gold. According to another


title: "Financier (cake)" content: tradition, the cake became popular in the financial district of Paris surrounding the Paris stock exchange, as the cake could easily be stored in the pocket for long periods without being damaged. Financier (cake) A financier () (formerly known as a visitandine ()) is a small French almond cake, flavoured with beurre noisette, usually baked in a small mold. Light and moist with a crisp, eggshell-like exterior, the traditional financier also contains egg whites, flour, and powdered sugar. The molds are usually small rectangular loaves similar in size to petits fours. Originally made by the Visitandine order of nuns in


title: Loin content: that tenderloin is the most tender cut of beef one can get. The loin section of beef is fairly popular among consumers for its low fat qualities. It is the source of filet mignon. Loin The loins (or: lumbus) are the sides between the lower ribs and pelvis, and the lower part of the back. It is often used when describing the anatomy of humans and quadrupeds (such as horses, pigs or cattle). The anatomical reference also carries over into the description of cuts of meat from some such animals, e.g. tenderloin or sirloin steak. In human anatomy the term


title: "Scattered disc" content: Scattered disc The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant circumstellar disc in the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy small solar system bodies, which are a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects. The scattered-disc objects (SDOs) have orbital eccentricities ranging as high as 0.8, inclinations as high as 40°, and perihelia greater than . These extreme orbits are thought to be the result of gravitational "scattering" by the gas giants, and the objects continue to be subject to perturbation by the planet Neptune. Although the closest scattered-disc objects approach the Sun at about 30–35


title: "Scattered disc" content: AU, their orbits can extend well beyond 100 AU. This makes scattered objects among the coldest and most distant objects in the Solar System. The innermost portion of the scattered disc overlaps with a torus-shaped region of orbiting objects traditionally called the Kuiper belt, but its outer limits reach much farther away from the Sun and farther above and below the ecliptic than the Kuiper belt proper. Because of its unstable nature, astronomers now consider the scattered disc to be the place of origin for most periodic comets in the Solar System, with the centaurs, a population of icy bodies


title: "Scattered disc" content: between Jupiter and Neptune, being the intermediate stage in an object's migration from the disc to the inner Solar System. Eventually, perturbations from the giant planets send such objects towards the Sun, transforming them into periodic comets. Many objects of the proposed Oort cloud are also thought to have originated in the scattered disc. Detached objects are not sharply distinct from scattered disc objects, and some such as Sedna have sometimes been considered to be included in this group. Traditionally, devices like a blink comparator were used in astronomy to detect objects in the Solar System, because these objects would


title: "Scattered disc" content: move between two exposures—this involved time-consuming steps like exposing and developing photographic plates or films, and people then using a blink comparator to manually detect prospective objects. During the 1980s, the use of CCD-based cameras in telescopes made it possible to directly produce electronic images that could then be readily digitized and transferred to digital images. Because the CCD captured more light than film (about 90% versus 10% of incoming light) and the blinking could now be done at an adjustable computer screen, the surveys allowed for higher throughput. A flood of new discoveries was the result: over a thousand


title: "Scattered disc" content: trans-Neptunian objects were detected between 1992 and 2006. The first scattered-disc object (SDO) to be recognised as such was , originally identified in 1996 by astronomers based at Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Three more were identified by the same survey in 1999: , , and . The first object presently classified as an SDO to be discovered was , found in 1995 by Spacewatch. As of 2011, over 200 SDOs have been identified, including (discovered by Schwamb, Brown, and Rabinowitz), (NEAT), Eris (Brown, Trujillo, and Rabinowitz), Sedna (Brown, Trujillo, and Rabinowitz) and (Deep Ecliptic Survey). Although the numbers of objects


title: "Schempp-Hirth Discus-2" content: Air Force service the Discus-2b is known as the TG-15B. The Discus-2 has also been successful though the competition from the Rolladen-Schneider LS8 and the Alexander Schleicher ASW 28 has meant that the Discus-2 has not sold in such great numbers as its predecessor, which went unchallenged for many years. A version with an 18-metre span, with the option of smaller wing tips to fly as a Standard Class glider, was launched in 2004 and designated Discus-2c. When fitted with a small sustaining engine (turbo) it is designated Discus-2cT. Schempp-Hirth Discus-2 The Schempp-Hirth Discus-2 is a Standard Class sailplane produced


title: "9.0: Live" content: 9.0: Live 9.0: Live is the first live album by American heavy metal band Slipknot. The band recorded the two-disc album during a 2004–05 world tour that promoted their third studio album "". Released by Roadrunner Records on November 1, 2005, "9.0: Live" features tracks from Slipknot's first three studio albums: "Slipknot", "Iowa", and "". Many of the included tracks are rarely played live; "Skin Ticket" from the album "Iowa" was its first live performance. "9.0: Live" peaked in the top twenty in album sales for Austria and the United States, and was certified gold in the United States. Critical


title: "9.0: Live" content: reception was generally positive, with Adrien Begrand of "PopMatters" calling it a "very worthy live album". While producing their second DVD "Disasterpieces" in 2002, the band members of Slipknot were inspired to produce a live album after noticing how well they performed when they knew they were being recorded. Two years later, in 2004, Slipknot promoted "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)" during a world tour which included 233 concerts across 34 countries in 28 months; music for the live album was recorded during the tour. The tracks on "9.0: Live" were compiled from performances in Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka, Las Vegas,


title: "9.0: Live" content: Phoenix, New York City, and Dallas. Percussionist Shawn Crahan said the band made an effort to pay more attention to detail than usual during the tour, noting, "when you've got a microphone hanging onto your every note, you tend to give maybe 115 percent instead of 110 percent". The album begins with a staged vocal introduction which was recorded before a concert, informing the audience that the band would not be performing, in an effort to incite anger in the crowd. "9.0: Live" includes tracks from the band's first three studio albums, and the banned track "Purity" which was removed


title: "9.0: Live" content: from the band's debut album, "Slipknot", due to copyright issues. It also contains tracks that are rarely played live, such as "Iowa" and "Get This", as well as the only live performance of "Skin Ticket". Before the album's release, a sample from the live recording of "The Nameless" was made available on the Internet through the band's record label. Slipknot attended a signing session at a Best Buy store in New York City the day of "9.0: Live"s release, on November 1, 2005. A music video featuring the live recording of "The Nameless" was created to promote the album. Head


title: "9.0: Live" content: of marketing at Roadrunner Records, Bob Johnsen, stated that the price of "9.0: Live" was reduced in an effort to give "added value", resulting in the double-disc album being "two hours of music for the price of one". Johnsen continued, stating that as with most live albums, "9.0: Live" targeted the "band's most hard-core fans. It's a complete immersion in the band". The album booklet includes 24 pages, most with pictures of band members. Critical reception of "9.0: Live" was generally positive. Reviewing for Allmusic, Johnny Loftus commented that the fans' relationship with Slipknot is "what unifies the performances" on


title: "9.0: Live" content: the live album. He said that throughout the band's history, they have never compromised, and they had become "metal stars the real way, through relentless touring, embracing fan support, and penning some truly brutal songs". "Rolling Stone"s reviewer Christian Hoard wrote that the music featured on the album resembled a "new-school Motörhead", with its "scary-clown rap-metal bullshit getting steamrolled by big riffs and speed-punk beats". However, he noted the songs sounded similar to their recorded performances; Hoard called it the "songs' samey-ness". Adrien Begrand of "PopMatters" called "9.0: Live" a "very worthy live album", and complimented the band for gaining


title: "9.0: Live" content: success the "old-fashioned way, building a strong reputation as an extremely potent live act". Begrand noted the band's relationship with their "extremely devoted fans" as a strong point, and that the band's fans are "arguably the most fervently loyal bunch since the early days of Metallica two decades ago". However, he complained that it was distracting to have the band perform in a variety of undisclosed locations, rather than the one set throughout. Tom Day of "musicOMH" wrote that the song "Before I Forget" is a "true gem and grinds out with a level of devastation that will make you


title: "9.0: Live" content: green with envy if you weren't at these shows", and that drummer Joey Jordison took "centre stage" throughout the performance. Blair Fischer of the "Chicago Tribune" gave the album "three volume levels", writing, "The most amazing feat is that nine genetic defectives can congeal for such synchronous brain-damaged fury". "Billboard" reviewer Christa Titus wrote that Slipknot was "relentless in its delivery" of their live performances, calling the album "an overwhelming frenzy of sound and fury". Titus predicted the album would chart highly. Some critics commented that the album is not as appealing to audiences who are unfamiliar with the band.


title: "9.0: Live" content: Saul Austerlitz from "The Boston Globe" wrote that the album was "intended to cater primarily to rabid fans", commenting that those who are not fans of Slipknot will probably "find the experience of listening to both discs of "9.0: Live" roughly comparable to being hit in the head repeatedly with a two-by-four two hours of sludgy, indistinguishable songs, punctuated by profane outbursts about how the idiot media [...] has ignored and abused them". "9.0: Live" debuted at number 17 on the "Billboard" 200 charts in the United States, selling 42,000 copies in its first week. The album also premiered in


title: "9.0: Live" content: the top 50 in five other countries. On December 9, 2005, the Recording Industry Association of America certified "9.0: Live" gold in the United States. All songs credited to Slipknot and, as noted, were recorded live. Though it still remains unknown, it is believed that "Three Nil" was recorded in Japan in 2004. It is also believed that both "The Blister Exists" and "(Sic)" were performed on the same date. Aside from their real names, members of the band are referred to by numbers zero through eight. 9.0: Live 9.0: Live is the first live album by American heavy metal


title: "Norfolk Southern Railway (1942–1982)" content: 1, 1974, the Southern Railway bought the Norfolk Southern Railway and merged it into the Carolina and Northwestern Railway, but kept the Norfolk Southern Railway name. In 1982 the Carolina and Northwestern name was brought back to free up the Norfolk Southern name for the planned merger of the Southern Railway with the Norfolk and Western Railway. The new Norfolk Southern Railway was formed in 1982. While the name had once represented simply the Virginia and North Carolina based railroad which ran south from Norfolk to Charlotte, it was now a combination of the names of the two merged Class


title: "Norfolk Southern Railway (1942–1982)" content: the current Norfolk Southern Railway's 30th anniversary in 2012, the company painted 20 new locomotives in predecessor schemes. NS #8114, a GE ES44AC locomotive, was painted in the original Norfolk Southern paint scheme. Norfolk Southern Railway (1942–1982) The Norfolk Southern Railway was the final name of a railroad that ran from Norfolk, Virginia, southwest and west to Charlotte, North Carolina. It was acquired by the Southern Railway in 1974, which merged with the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1982 to form the current Norfolk Southern Railway. In May 1920, the NS leased the Durham and South Carolina Railroad, which became


title: "The French Angel" content: span of 19 consecutive months. Tillet acted as the AWA World Heavyweight Champion from May 1940 until May 1942. In early 1942, he also worked as the Montreal-based world heavyweight champion. He re-appeared with the Boston-based title for a short time in 1944. As a result of his success, several Angel imitators emerged, including Paul Olaffsen (Swedish Angel), who also had acromegaly; Tony Angelo (Russian Angel), Tor Johnson (Super Swedish Angel), Jack Rush (Canadian Angel), Wladislaw Tulin (Polish Angel), Stan Pinto (Czech Angel), Clive Welsh (Irish Angel), Jack Falk (Golden Angel), Gil Guerrero (Black Angel), and Jean Noble (Lady Angel).


title: "Ballistic parachute" content: Ballistic parachute A ballistic parachute, ballistic reserve parachute, or emergency ballistic reserve parachute, is a parachute ejected from its casing by a small explosion, much like that used in an ejection seat. The advantage of the ballistic parachute over a conventional parachute is that it ejects the parachute canopy (oftentimes via a small rocket), causing it to open rapidly, this makes it ideal for attaching to light aircraft, hang gliders and microlights, where an emergency situation may occur in close proximity to the ground. In such a situation, a conventional parachute would not open quickly enough. In 1982, Comco Ikarus


title: "Ballistic parachute" content: developed the FRS rocket-launched parachute system for its ultralight and hanglider aircraft. In 1998, Cirrus Aircraft (then known as Cirrus Design) provided the first ballistic parachutes as standard equipment on their line of type-certified aircraft, the Cirrus SR20; and in 2016, the company delivered the Cirrus Vision SF50, the first jet aircraft with a ballistic parachute. Ballistic parachute A ballistic parachute, ballistic reserve parachute, or emergency ballistic reserve parachute, is a parachute ejected from its casing by a small explosion, much like that used in an ejection seat. The advantage of the ballistic parachute over a conventional parachute is that


title: "Genetic distance" content: Genetic distance Genetic distance is a measure of the genetic divergence between species or between populations within a species, whether the distance measures time from common ancestor or degree of differentiation. Populations with many similar alleles have small genetic distances. This indicates that they are closely related and have a recent common ancestor. Genetic distance is useful for reconstructing the history of populations. For example, evidence from genetic distance suggests that Sub-Saharan African and Eurasian people diverged about 100,000 years ago. Genetic distance is also used for understanding the origin of biodiversity. For example, the genetic distances between different breeds


title: Wiyot content: were thus decimated. They were corralled at Fort Humboldt for protection. Survivors were herded mostly to Round Valley, established as an Indian reservation within California, but they kept escaping and returning to their homeland. By 1850, there were about 2000 Wiyot and Karok people living within this area. After 1860, there were an estimated 200 people left. By 1910, there were fewer than 100 full-blood Wiyot people living within their ancestral territory. This rapid decline in population occurred due to disease, slavery, target practice, protection, being herded from place to place (survivors' descendants describe this as "death marches"), and massacres.


title: "Eck Stadium" content: own beverages, food, and grills onto the hill. This provides a "tailgate" atmosphere. Students of Wichita state frequent Coleman Hill and often heckle the opponents outfielders. The Coleman gift also resulted in improvements on the field, including installation of new artificial turf and warning track. The official seating capacity of Eck Stadium is 7,851. This number counts the chairback seats behind home plate, as well as the chairback seats that line the right field line, and the metal grandstands that reside down the right field line as well. Blue "box seats" are closest to the action behind home plate. Followed


title: "Olsztyn-Mazury Airport" content: a slightly modified schedule. The first jet route was announced to Munich on 1 April 1, 2016. Starting 17 June 2016, Adria Airways would operate a thrice-weekly connection to Munich onboard its CRJ aircraft. Adria Airways is the flag-carrier of Slovenia, but at this time had already gained a lot of experience outside of Slovenia, also in Poland where an aircraft is based in Łódź. Furthermore, it is active in Albania and Kosova and supports the establishment of the new Estonian flag-carrier. Another route was just one week later, a thrice-weekly connection to London Luton operated by Wizzair. Wizzair thereby


title: "Olsztyn-Mazury Airport" content: made Olsztyn Mazury its ninth destination in Poland. Flights were due to commence just one day after the Adria Airways launch, on 18 June 2016. By using an Airbus A320 or an odd A321, a far bigger aircraft than a CRJ or Saab 340, Wizzair can offer 29,000-30,000 seats in 2016. On 23 May, SprintAir got renewed its contract to also cover flights beyond June 5 to the end of the summer schedule. In this occasion, a third route with the airline to Wroclaw, starting on June 6, was announced. Ryanair was then selected to become the second low-cost carrier


title: "Lötschberg Tunnel" content: company offers a car transport service through the tunnel, between Kandersteg station and Goppenstein station, for accompanied vehicles. The journey time of approximately 20 minutes, passengers remain in their cars in open sided car transport vehicles. At peak times, the car transport service operates in each direction every 7½ minutes. The new Lötschberg Base Tunnel, opened on June 15, 2007, has been constructed some below the level of the current Lötschberg Tunnel as part of the NRLA (New Railway Link through the Alps) project. Lötschberg Tunnel The Lötschberg Tunnel is a long railway tunnel on the Lötschberg Line, which connects


title: "Rhubarb Triangle" content: Rhubarb Triangle The Rhubarb Triangle (also alliteratively known as the Tusky Triangle, from the Yorkshire word for rhubarb) is a triangle in West Yorkshire, England between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell famous for producing early forced rhubarb. It includes Kirkhamgate, East Ardsley, Stanley, Lofthouse and Carlton. The Rhubarb Triangle was originally much bigger, covering an area between Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield. From the first decade of the 20th century to 1939 the rhubarb industry expanded and at its peak covered an area of about . Rhubarb is a native of Siberia and thrives in the wet cold winters in Yorkshire. West


title: "Rhubarb Triangle" content: are among the attractions. In 2005 Wakefield council erected a sculpture depicting a rhubarb plant in Holmfield Park Wakefield. Rhubarb growing and the 'Rhubarb Express' are featured in Wakefield Museum. Notes Citations Bibliography Rhubarb Triangle The Rhubarb Triangle (also alliteratively known as the Tusky Triangle, from the Yorkshire word for rhubarb) is a triangle in West Yorkshire, England between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell famous for producing early forced rhubarb. It includes Kirkhamgate, East Ardsley, Stanley, Lofthouse and Carlton. The Rhubarb Triangle was originally much bigger, covering an area between Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield. From the first decade of the 20th


title: "Goole railway station" content: continue to or via the Wolds Coast Line) and towards Doncaster station westbound, with an hourly service onwards to . On Sundays there is generally an hourly fast service between Sheffield and Hull calling at Goole and a two-hourly service all stops to Doncaster and Sheffield that starts/terminates here. The Pontefract Line has a very limited service of just two trains per day (Monday to Saturday) to and : one in the early morning (07:42) and one in the evening (19:58). Only one train (the 17:58 from Leeds) runs in the opposite direction (the other early morning one runs empty


title: "Bagot goat" content: breed milking goats which tend to have a triangular appearance), with young (particularly bucks) often appearing triangular in reverse of the milking breeds, in other words deep chested and narrow at the waist. There are also variants on the pure black/white patterning, believed to be the result of recessive genes including: - The "Red cheek" Bagot - which sports red/gold "blusher" on the cheeks but not through the coat. - The "Mahogany" Bagot - which sports gold "frosting" on the outer ears and neck, and sports "eyeliner", "lipstick" and "blusher" again in gold; the coat, whilst black from a distance


title: "Page of the United States Senate" content: meal card at the Senate Cafeterias. On Saturdays, lunch or dinner is usually provided through a voucher for a meal at Union Station or a local eatery, or if the Pages are on a field trip, lunch or dinner will be provided on the trip. On Sundays, the program provides dinner at the residence, or goes out to a restaurant. When not at school or at work, Pages are given some liberty with their free time. Pages are subject to a strict curfew—9:00 p.m. on school nights and 10:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights—and are expected to maintain high


title: "Ben Chapman (baseball)" content: two of which were inside-the-park, and on May 30, 1934 he broke up Detroit Tiger Earl Whitehill's no-hitter in the ninth inning. It was in New York that the extent of Chapman's bigotry first surfaced. He taunted Jewish fans at Yankee Stadium with Nazi salutes and disparaging epithets. In a 1933 game, his intentional spiking of Washington Senators' second baseman Buddy Myer (who was incorrectly believed to be Jewish) caused a 20-minute brawl that saw 300 fans participate and resulted in five-game suspensions and $100 fines for each of the players involved. In June 1936, Chapman – then hitting .266


title: "Garcelle Beauvais" content: after a month-long period of guest hosting the show. In 2008, Garcelle launched her children's jewelry line called Petit Bijou. In 2013, she published a children's book, "I Am Mixed," which was about diversity and race. She was married to producer Daniel Saunders, their marriage ended in divorce. They had a son, Oliver Saunders, born in 1991. Beauvais married Mike Nilon, an Agent for the Creative Artists Agency, on May 12, 2001. Their twin sons, Jax Joseph and Jaid Thomas Nilon, were born on October 18, 2007. They had dealt with treatment over five years for infertility. In April 2010,


title: "Matthew King (Emmerdale)" content: Carl confessed to murdering their father. On 5 August 2008, Healy announced that he was quitting the show after nearly five years on the show, telling the "Daily Star" that "After five years of wearing Matthew's suits every morning and having to shave every day, I feel ready to pull on some Bermuda shorts and grow a goatie!" However he went on to state "But I've had a brilliant time at Emmerdale and I'm excited about what lies ahead." Series producer Anita Turner said of Healy's decision to quit "Matthew King will leave Emmerdale in an explosive storyline. We wish


title: "Jim Flora" content: Flora's album covers, the 1955 RCA Victor release "This is Benny Goodman and his Orchestra", was parodied twice: on a 1998 Pearl Jam tour poster and on the cover art for the 2000 CD "Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas" by the theremin band, The Lothars. The cover of the 2003 CD Conviction by slam poet Taylor Mali parodied Flora's 1947 cover art for Gene Krupa and His Orchestra. In the film "Monsters, Inc." (Pixar, 2001), an abstract poster on Sullivan's bedroom wall is a distinct mimic of Flora's style. Jim Flora James Flora (January 25, 1914 ‒ July 9, 1998), best


title: "Wood grain" content: Wood grain Wood grain is the longitudinal arrangement of wood fibers or the pattern resulting from this. R. Bruce Hoadley wrote that "grain" is a "confusingly versatile term" with numerous different uses, including the direction of the wood cells (e.g., "straight grain", "spiral grain"), surface appearance or figure, growth-ring placement (e.g., "vertical grain"), plane of the cut (e.g., "end grain"), rate of growth (e.g., "narrow grain"), and relative cell size (e.g., "open grain"). Perhaps most important physical aspect of wood grain in woodworking is the grain direction or slope (e.g. against the grain). The two basic categories of grain are


title: Animax content: launching a mobile television service of its network on the mobile phone company MOBAHO! from April 2007, having its programming being viewable by the company's mobile phone subscribers. Since July 2011 a program called "STUDIO MUSIX" has been transmitted the first Sunday of every month, featuring popular singer May'n as the MC. In each episode there's a segment of May'n and the guests on an interview and also a live stage featuring them. Cartoon series broadcasts including "", "Transformers Prime", "", "Yin Yang Yo!", "Jackie Chan Adventures", "Metalocalypse", "Arms Micron", "", "", "Sonic X" and "Digimon Adventure" appear on the


title: Animax content: from operating its programming as a television network, Animax begun launching its programming across mobile television, first beginning in their original home in Japan and subsequently overseas. In February 2007, Animax announced that it would be launching a mobile television service in Japan on the mobile phone company MOBAHO! from April 2007, having its programming being viewable by the company's mobile phone subscribers. Subsequently, in June 2007, it launched in Australia and Canada, its first English language mobile networks, in Latin America on March 18, 2008, and Southeast Asia on November and December 2008, their third mobile English language network,


title: "Benjamin Franklin Ficklin" content: Jared Ficklin, would later appear on the PBS reality show Texas Ranch House portraying a cowboy. Correction: Jared Ficklin is related to Benjamin Franklin Ficklin, but is not a descendant given that Benjamin Franklin Ficklin died without children, therefore, he can have no direct descendants. Benjamin Franklin Ficklin Benjamin Franklin Ficklin (1827–1871) was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, Class of 1849. He is famous for his help in starting the Pony Express and for establishing other stage coach and mail routes in the United States during the nineteenth century. Ficklin was also one of the people responsible for


title: "David Sive" content: this case, Sive argued that the owner of a car that is double-parked is liable for damage incurred to car traveling from the curb to the normal traffic stream. The argument was upheld. As a partner in the firm Winer, Neuberger & Sive, founded in New York City in 1962, and chairman of the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club in the 1960s, Sive developed his reputation as an expert litigator and fierce defender of the environment. The successor firm, Sive, Paget & Riesel, remains a leader in environmental law. Sive lost one of the earliest cases under the National


title: Keelboat content: during the Lewis and Clark Expedition, but were primarily used to transport cargo or settlers in the early 19th century. The process of moving a keelboat upriver was extremely difficult, though current dependent. Most of these keelboats were long and wide. They usually had a cabin in the middle or at the rear, but were sometimes constructed with an open deck. Mike Fink is probably the most noted keelboater in history. Historical account of two keelboats published in the original "Courier Journal" Of Lafayette, Indiana 1833 The term keel was associated in Great Britain with three particular working boat types.


title: "Boll Weevil Monument" content: Boll Weevil Monument The Boll Weevil Monument in downtown Enterprise, Alabama, United States is a prominent landmark and tribute erected by the citizens of Enterprise in 1919 to show their appreciation to an insect, the boll weevil, for its profound influence on the area's agriculture and economy. Hailing the beetle as a "herald of prosperity," it stands as the world's first monument built to honor an agricultural pest. The Monument consists of a statue of a woman holding a pedestal with a boll weevil perched on top. The boll weevil ("Anthonomus grandis"), sometimes referred to as the "Mexican cotton boll


title: "Hoya carnosa" content: The plants should be fed regularly with a fertilizer suitable for epiphytic plants. There is a persistent piece of folklore that hoyas prefer to be potbound - kept in a small pot. It is said that this will hasten flowering. Hoya carnosa Hoya carnosa, the porcelainflower or wax plant, is an Asclepiad species of flowering plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is one of the many species of hoya that are native to Eastern Asia and Australia. It is a common house plant grown for its attractive waxy foliage, and sweetly scented flowers. The flowers are typically light pink,


title: "Tom McClean" content: boat to accomplish that crossing. The self-built boat measured 9 feet and 9 inches, and because of the weight of the food took seven weeks to cross. His record was broken three weeks later by a sailor manning a 9 feet and 1 inch long boat. In response McClean, used a chainsaw to cut two feet off his own vessel - making it 7 feet and 9 inches long. During the return trip he lost his mast and the journey took even longer than his first attempt but he regained the record. In 1985 McClean lived on Rockall from 26


title: "Industrial fermentation" content: Industrial fermentation Industrial fermentation is the intentional use of fermentation by microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi as well as eukaryotic cells like CHO cells and insect cells, to make products useful to humans. Fermented products have applications as food as well as in general industry. Some commodity chemicals, such as acetic acid, citric acid, and ethanol are made by fermentation. The rate of fermentation depends on the concentration of microorganisms, cells, cellular components, and enzymes as well as temperature, pH and for aerobic fermentation oxygen. Product recovery frequently involves the concentration of the dilute solution. Nearly all commercially produced


title: "East Calhoun, Minneapolis" content: East Calhoun, Minneapolis East Calhoun is a neighborhood within the larger Calhoun-Isles community of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is located due south of the East Isles neighborhood and its northern portion along with parts of the East Isles, Lowry Hill East and CARAG neighborhoods forms the Uptown district. East Calhoun is bordered on the north by Lake Street, on the east by Hennepin Avenue, on the south by West 36th Street and on the west by Lake Calhoun. It is sometimes called "ECCO," after its neighborhood organization (East Calhoun Community Organization). East Calhoun has been a center of environmental activity and


title: "East Calhoun, Minneapolis" content: remember to turn off lights in unoccupied rooms in their households to reduce energy consumption. East Calhoun, Minneapolis East Calhoun is a neighborhood within the larger Calhoun-Isles community of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is located due south of the East Isles neighborhood and its northern portion along with parts of the East Isles, Lowry Hill East and CARAG neighborhoods forms the Uptown district. East Calhoun is bordered on the north by Lake Street, on the east by Hennepin Avenue, on the south by West 36th Street and on the west by Lake Calhoun. It is sometimes called "ECCO," after its neighborhood


title: "Yamaha Grizzly 600" content: Yamaha Grizzly 600 The Yamaha Grizzly is a large utility all-terrain vehicle manufactured by the Yamaha Motor Company. It has a 595cc four-stroke engine from the XT600. Yamaha replaced the Grizzly 600 with the new Grizzly 660 using a larger engine that is 660cc derived from the Raptor 660 with a five-valve cylinder head. Beyond the engine, the biggest differences between the Grizzly 600 (offered in the US from 1998 to 2001) and the Grizzly 660 (introduced in 2002), is the rear suspension. The older Grizzly has a rigid rear axle with a single shock. The newer Grizzly has independent


title: "Kneser graph" content: Kneser graph In graph theory, the Kneser graph is the graph whose vertices correspond to the -element subsets of a set of elements, and where two vertices are adjacent if and only if the two corresponding sets are disjoint. Kneser graphs are named after Martin Kneser, who first investigated them in 1955. The complete graph on vertices is the Kneser graph . The complement of the line graph of the complete graph on vertices is the Kneser graph . The Kneser graph is known as the odd graph ; the odd graph is isomorphic to the Petersen graph. The Johnson


title: "Pretty Village, Pretty Flame" content: Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Pretty Village, Pretty Flame ( / "Lepa sela lepo gore", literally ""Pretty villages burn pretty"") is a 1996 Serbian film directed by Srđan Dragojević with a screenplay based on an article written by Vanja Bulić. Set during the Bosnian War, the film tells the story of Milan, part of a small group of Serb soldiers trapped in a tunnel by a Bosniak force. Through flashbacks, the lives of the trapped soldiers in pre-war Yugoslavia are shown, particularly Milan and his Bosniak best friend Halil becoming enemies after having to pick opposing sides in the conflict. The


title: "Pretty Village, Pretty Flame" content: most hallucinatory", concluding overall that "the film is somewhat cliched and a little more pro-Serb than necessary, but packs a genuine punch". Gerald Peary wrote in April 1998 that Dragojević "creates a crass, unsentimental, muscular guys' world on the way to his vivid condemnation of the Bosnian War". "Lepa sela lepo gore" garnered six wins and one nomination: Pretty Village, Pretty Flame Pretty Village, Pretty Flame ( / "Lepa sela lepo gore", literally ""Pretty villages burn pretty"") is a 1996 Serbian film directed by Srđan Dragojević with a screenplay based on an article written by Vanja Bulić. Set during the


title: Kopps content: good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime. This would mean the loss of income for the policemen, so they begin to stage crimes in order to preserve their jobs. This includes burning down the local hotdog stand, hiring a drunk to steal a packet of sausages, thrashing a local car, faking a shootout and staging a kidnapping using their friends as actors. Shortly after Kopps' release in 2003, Adam Sandler and Columbia Pictures bought the rights and announced their plans to remake the comedy into


title: "Glide plane" content: Glide plane In geometry and crystallography, a glide plane (or transflection) is a symmetry operation describing how a reflection in a plane, followed by a translation parallel with that plane, may leave the crystal unchanged. Glide planes are noted by "a", "b" or "c", depending on which axis the glide is along. There is also the "n" glide, which is a glide along the half of a diagonal of a face, and the "d" glide, which is along a fourth of either a face or space diagonal of the unit cell. The latter is often called the diamond glide plane


title: "Glide plane" content: be reduced like that. Thus the effect of a reflection combined with "any" translation is a glide plane operation in the general sense, with as special case just a reflection. The glide plane operation in the strict sense and the pure reflection are two of the four kinds of indirect isometries in 3D. The isometry group generated by just a glide plane operation is an infinite cyclic group. Combining two equal glide plane operations gives a pure translation with a translation vector that is twice that of the glide plane operation, so the even powers of the glide plane operation


title: "Glide plane" content: form a translation group. In the case of glide plane symmetry, the symmetry group of an object contains a glide plane operation, and hence the group generated by it. For any symmetry group containing glide plane symmetry, the translation vector of any glide plane operation is one half of an element of the translation group. If the translation vector of a glide plane operation is itself an element of the translation group, then the corresponding glide plane symmetry reduces to a combination of reflection symmetry and translational symmetry. See also lattice. Glide plane In geometry and crystallography, a glide plane


title: "Hammer Damage" content: Hammer, Zagar, Cabaniss, Winkler, and Kal Mullens teamed up to bring Hammer Damage back to life, and they performed in April 2000 at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, and in May at the Tangier Akron. Hammer Damage Hammer Damage was an American punk rock band from Akron, Ohio, that performed from 1978 until 1984. Hammer Damage was founded in 1978, by Mike Hammer and Dave Zagar (a.k.a. Donny Damage) after their split from the Rubber City Rebels. The original line-up included George Cabaniss on guitar, Scott Winkler on bass, Damage on guitar and Hammer on drums. The Hammer Damage Band


title: "NS Class 1500" content: controls were also relocated from the left side of the cab to the right. They were renumbered in the 1500 series in the order they left their workshops, starting with E27003 as 1501 in May 1970 and ending with E27002 as 1506 in June 1971. The 1500s were primarily used on services in the southern part of the Netherlands. Typical passenger duty was Den Haag to Venlo. Freight duties were mainly operated at night and included Rotterdam Kijfhoek (freightyard) to Roosendaal. By the early 1980s, new electric locomotives in the form of Class 1600 were being introduced. The 1500s were


title: "Metrication in Canada" content: must declare their mass or their volume in metric units, though Canadian imperial units are still legally permitted on packaging. Milk has been thoroughly metric since 1980. In April 1975, Fahrenheit temperatures were replaced by Celsius. In September 1975, rainfall was first measured in millimetres and snow in centimetres. Since April 1976, wind speed, visibility, and barometric pressure have been in metric units, with the pressure in kilopascals instead of the hectopascals (millibars) used in most of the rest of the world. In September 1977, every speed-limit sign in the country was changed from miles per hour to kilometres per


title: Jumo content: Jumo Jumo was a social network service and website launched on November 30, 2010, to index charities so that people can find and evaluate them. Jumo was founded by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes. On August 17, 2011 he announced Jumo was merging with the GOOD organization, providing a social engagement platform to complement their magazine content. On August 17, 2011, Jumo announced that it had been acquired by the GOOD, a collaborative magazine and event media company headquartered in Los Angeles, USA. The company blog states the purpose to be "to create a powerful online content and social engagement platform".


title: "Pitched battle" content: Pitched battle A pitched battle or set piece battle is a battle in which both sides choose the fighting location and time. Either side has the option to disengage before the battle starts or shortly thereafter. A pitched battle is not a chance encounter such as a skirmish, or where one side is forced to fight at a time not of their choosing such as happens in a siege. For example, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, the Battle of Edgehill, was fought when the Royalists chose to move off an escarpment to a less advantageous position


title: "Pitched battle" content: so that the Parliamentarians would be willing to fight. Pitched battles may result from meeting engagement, where—instead of disengaging—the opposing generals choose to reinforce their positions and turn what was initially a skirmish into a pitched battle, as happened in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Recreational battle reenactment tends to focus on pitched battles partially for sake of ease of demonstration. Pitched battle A pitched battle or set piece battle is a battle in which both sides choose the fighting location and time. Either side has the option to disengage before the battle starts or shortly


title: "Police motorcycle" content: Police motorcycle A police motorcycle is a motorcycle used by various police departments. They may be custom designed to meet the requirements unique of a particular use. A police motorcycle is often called a "motor" by police officers in the United States. Similarly, motorcycle units are known as "motor units" and motorcycle officers are known as motor officers. The maneuverability of the motorcycle on crowded streets offer advantages not provided by larger, more traditional police vehicles. The motorcycle's relatively small size allows it to get to accident scenes more quickly when incidents such as traffic collisions slow down access by


title: "Police motorcycle" content: attention in June 2014 when they added the Zero Motorcycles MMX stealth electric motorcycle to its fleet. The motorcycle was praised over the traditional bulky Harley-Davidson and BMW bikes for its stealth, low operational costs, immediate tactical advantage, and green environmental impact. Police motorcycle A police motorcycle is a motorcycle used by various police departments. They may be custom designed to meet the requirements unique of a particular use. A police motorcycle is often called a "motor" by police officers in the United States. Similarly, motorcycle units are known as "motor units" and motorcycle officers are known as motor officers.


title: "Eddie Waitkus" content: Player of the Year. Prior to the 1954 season, the Baltimore Orioles purchased Waitkus from the Philadelphia Phillies for $40,000 ($ in current dollar terms). Released by the Orioles in 1955, he returned to the Phillies for the remainder of the season. After the 1955 baseball season was complete, the Phillies released Waitkus. Waitkus taught at Ted Williams' baseball camp before dying of esophageal cancer at age 53. Author Bernard Malamud, not a baseball fan himself, wove the basic elements of the Waitkus story and other baseball legends (notably that of Joe Jackson) into "The Natural". The book was published


title: "Glycerin soap" content: Glycerin soap Glycerin soaps are soaps that contain glycerin, a component of fat or oil. They are recognizably different from other soaps because they are translucent. The clarity is due to the alignment of the soap molecules, which can be induced through the addition of alcohol and sugar. This is usually done for homemade glycerin soaps that are not remeltable. The process for making glycerin soaps was well known as of 1857 in the Western world. In modern industrial soap-making, the glycerin is usually separated from the soap to be resold and used in a wide variety of areas such


title: "Glycerin soap" content: as for personal care products, pharmaceuticals, chemical intermediates, and food processing. Glycerin soap is made by melting and continuously heating soap that has been partially dissolved in a high percentage alcohol solution until the mixture reaches a clear, jelly-like consistency. The alcohol is added to a slow cooked hot-processed soap and then simmered with a sugar solution until the soap is clear or translucent, and then the simmered soap is chilled in a freezer. With home- and hand-made soaps that still contain glycerin left over from saponification, the grating, melting and cooking can proceed without the addition of anything into


title: "Glycerin soap" content: the mixture, though sugar or more glycerin is sometimes added. Glycerin soap can also be produced without remelting soap through directly cooking raw home-made soap. Modern clear glycerin soaps bases are produced by combining various glycerol and polyols with soap and other surfactants in a manner similar to traditional glycerin soap making methods. These modern clear soaps have the benefit of being easily re-meltable and are often sold in bulk to customers for melt-and-pour soap crafting. Glycerin soap Glycerin soaps are soaps that contain glycerin, a component of fat or oil. They are recognizably different from other soaps because they


title: "American and British English pronunciation differences" content: vowel to a schwa or even elides it completely: or , and -ative. So "military" is AmE and BrE or , "inventory" is AmE and BrE , "testimony" is AmE and BrE and innovative is AmE or and BrE . (The elision is avoided in carefully enunciated speech, especially with endings "-rary","-rery","-rory".) Where the syllable preceding "-ary", "-ery", "-ory", "-mony" or "-ative" is stressed however, AmE also usually reduces the vowel: , . Exceptions include "library", "primary", "rosemary". (Pronouncing "library" as rather than is stigmatized in the United States, for example as associated with African-American Vernacular English, whereas in BrE,


title: "American and British English pronunciation differences" content: BrE–AmE distinction for adjectives carried over to corresponding adverbs ending "-arily", "-erily" or "-orily". However, nowadays some BrE speakers adopt the AmE practice of shifting the stress to the antepenultimate syllable: "militarily" is thus sometimes rather than , and "necessarily" is in BrE either or . Words ending in unstressed "-ile" derived from Latin adjectives ending "-ilis" are mostly pronounced with a full vowel in BrE but a reduced vowel or syllabic L in AmE (e.g. "fertile" rhymes with "fur tile" in BrE but with "furtle" in AmE). AmE will (unlike BrE, except when indicated with) have a reduced last


title: "American and British English pronunciation differences" content: and AmE. Generally, AmE is more likely to favor or , and BrE to favor . BrE , AmE (1) : "carbine", "Florentine", "internecine", "philistine", "pristine", "saline", "serpentine". BrE , AmE (1) (2) : "adamantine". BrE , AmE : "uterine". BrE , AmE (1) (2) (3) : "crystalline", "labyrinthine". BrE (1) , AmE (1) (2) : "strychnine". The title "Saint" before a person's name has a weak form in BrE but not AmE: before vowels, . These tables list words pronounced differently but spelled the same. See also the table of words with different pronunciation reflected in the spelling. Words


title: "Thebe Medupe" content: Thebe to build a crude telescope with a cardboard tube and lenses donated by a school lab technician, at the age of 13. On an unforgettable chilly, windy night, he pointed his telescope at the moon, and found himself looking at mountains, plains and craters on another world. At the age of 17 in 1990 Medupe won a Science Olympiad and was awarded a trip to England to visit the science institutions, which was the first time he had been outside Africa. He told Black Britain: ""I made sure I went to the Greenwich observatory where I saw a working


title: "49th Quartermaster Group" content: corners in width and in height overall with a black border, a black vertical stripe charged with a light blue flash superimposed by a black annulet counterchanged. Symbolism: Buff and light blue are the colors traditionally used by the Quartermaster Corps. Black denotes solidity and refers to petroleum; the light blue flash represents speed and quick response. The vertical stripe symbolizes the flow of fuel and water, while the annulet, suggesting a wheel (as on the Quartermaster insignia of branch), highlights the constant movement of supplies and materiel. Background: The shoulder sleeve insignia (unit patch) was approved on 22 June


title: "Mizar and Alcor" content: (). Mizar is Chickadee and Alcor is his cooking pot in the Mi'kmaq myth of the great bear and the seven hunters. The ability to resolve Mizar and Alcor with the naked eye is often quoted as a test of eyesight, although even people with quite poor eyesight can see the two stars. Arabic literature says that only those with the sharpest eyesight can see the companion of Mizar. The 14thcentury Arabian lexicographer Firuzabadi called it "Our Riddle", while the 13thcentury Persian astronomical writer Zakariya al-Qazwini said that "people tested their eyesight by this star." Humboldt wrote of it as


title: Bresse content: best quality chicken for cooking. The Bleu de Bresse cheese originates here. A chiefly rural region, Bresse was historically organized around an agricultural economy. The countryside is "bocage" (woodlands), resulting in independent individuals within the community, organized around the parish and the commune. Social structures, then, are defined by a mixture of conservatism, attachment to ancestral values, and direct democratic participation in community life. The traditional festival costumes of Bresse are preserved by historical societies. They include, for the women, a wide-brim hat, in the shape of plate, topped by a black cone. For men, they comprise a blue tunic,


title: "Continuous-flow intersection" content: Continuous-flow intersection A continuous flow intersection (CFI), also called a crossover displaced left-turn (XDL or DLT), is an alternative design for an at-grade road junction. Vehicles attempting to turn across the opposing direction of traffic (left in right-hand drive jurisdictions; right in left-hand drive jurisdictions) cross before they enter the intersection. No left turn signal in the intersection is then necessary. Instead, vehicles traveling in both directions can proceed, including through vehicles and those turning right or left, when a generic traffic signal/stop sign permits. A fly-over designed CFI interchange (separated grade) was invented by Francisco Mier. An intersection (at-grade)


title: "Continuous-flow intersection" content: 130 at . Continuous-flow intersection A continuous flow intersection (CFI), also called a crossover displaced left-turn (XDL or DLT), is an alternative design for an at-grade road junction. Vehicles attempting to turn across the opposing direction of traffic (left in right-hand drive jurisdictions; right in left-hand drive jurisdictions) cross before they enter the intersection. No left turn signal in the intersection is then necessary. Instead, vehicles traveling in both directions can proceed, including through vehicles and those turning right or left, when a generic traffic signal/stop sign permits. A fly-over designed CFI interchange (separated grade) was invented by Francisco Mier.


title: "Saddleback (bird)" content: South Island snipe, bush wren and greater short-tailed bat. Saddleback have since been relocated to island nature reserves around New Zealand, and also to mainland fenced sanctuaries. Since roughly 2015, sporadic sightings and evidence of breeding has been confirmed in Polhill Reserve, which neighbours the fenced Zealandia wildlife sanctuary. These have been the first sightings on New Zealand's un-fenced mainland since the bird was declared extinct on the mainland in 1910. The recovery of the saddleback is considered by many to be one of New Zealand's greatest conservation success stories. Saddleback (bird) The saddlebacks or tieke are two species of


title: "The Cubby Bear" content: The Cubby Bear The Cubby Bear is a sports bar, eatery, and music venue . It is located at Addison and Clark Streets across from Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. It was established in 1953 and is formally known as the Cubs Pub and Cubs Grill. The bar has won a few awards including Best Rock Club by the Chicago Music Awards, #1 Neighborhood Bar in Chicago by Maxim magazine and even 7th best sports bar in the United States by "Sports Illustrated". The restaurant includes private rooms that overlook Wrigley Field. The management of the Cubby Bear


title: "Petrus Camper" content: prize contest for the design of the new townhall in Groningen that was awarded to his friend Jacob Otten Husly. Georges Cuvier praised his "genius eye" but criticised him for keeping himself to simple sketches. He had a eulogy in his honour composed by Nicolas de Condorcet and Félix Vicq-d'Azyr. Camper influenced Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton. His son Adriaan Gilles Camper published much of his father's unpublished research in addition to a biography of him. The Dutch author Thomas Rosenboom used Petrus Camper as a character in his novel, "Gewassen vlees" (1994). Petrus Camper Petrus Camper (11 May 1722 – 7 April


title: "JW Marriott Hotels" content: JW Marriott Hotels JW Marriott is a luxury hotel chain of Marriott International. It is named after J.W. Marriott, the founder of Marriott Corporation. JW Marriott hotels are in a higher tier than traditional Marriott Hotels, offering more luxurious rooms and amenities. The JW Marriott brand was established in 1984, with the opening of its first hotel in Washington, D.C. As of January 2017, there are 83 hotels and resorts open and operating under the brand: On August 5, 2003, the JW Marriott Jakarta was the site of a massive terrorist car bombing. The bomb exploded in a car in


title: "Hotel Bristol" content: (1899) has reclaimed its name after changing it to the Krasnaya Hotel during the Soviet era. One of the oldest still functioning is the Bernini Bristol in Rome, which opened in 1874. Bristol hotels also have a presence in the Middle East in Beirut since 1951 with Le Bristol Hotel Beirut. Modern hotels to use the name include those in Frankfurt, San Diego and Gurgaon, India. The city of Bristol in England did not have a Bristol hotel until 2007 when Jurys Hotel Bristol changed its name simply to The Bristol. Hotel Bristol The Hotel Bristol is the name of


title: "Jay Lane" content: own debut album, "Evening Moods", followed by "Live at Roseland" in 2001. Also in 2001, Lane appeared once more alongside Claypool and Huth, plus others, on the Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade albums "Live Frogs Set 1" and "Live Frogs Set 2", the latter of which is a complete performance of Pink Floyd's "Animals". In 2002, Lane guested on the Frog Brigade's studio album, "Purple Onion", and was named "drummer of the year" by the California Music Awards. In 2005, Claypool released his retrospective DVD "5 Gallons of Diesel", featuring many projects that included Lane, and Lane toured


title: "The Solar Project" content: The Solar Project The SOLAR Project consists of the Solar One, Solar Two and Solar Tres solar thermal power plants based in the Mojave Desert, United States and Andalucía, Spain. The US Department of Energy (DOE) and a consortium of US utilities built this country's first two large-scale, demonstration solar power towers in the desert near Barstow, California. Solar One/Solar Two have been scrapped since 2009, and Solar Tres is under construction. Solar One was a pilot solar-thermal project built in the Mojave Desert just east of Barstow, CA, USA. It was the first test of a large-scale thermal solar


title: "Manchester State Park (California)" content: Pomo people, the native peoples at the time. Over time, the Pomo were gradually integrated into white society. Manchester State Park was one of 70 California state parks proposed for closure by July 2012 as part of a deficit reduction program. It was previously one of many state parks threatened with closure in 2008. Those closures were ultimately avoided by cutting hours and maintenance system-wide. Temperatures range from a high of 72 degrees Fahrenheit to a low of 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The park experiences heavy rainfall from September to May with evening fog common throughout the summer months. There are


title: "Realtime Games Software" content: Realtime Games Software Realtime Games Software Ltd. was a British computer game developer, founded in 1984 by three Leeds University students Ian Oliver, Andrew Onions and Graeme Baird. Their first game, "3D Tank Duel", was a wireframe graphics game in the style of the Battlezone arcade machine, written for the ZX Spectrum. This was followed up with "Starstrike 3D", a game based on the "Star Wars" arcade machine. Throughout its existence, the company continued to innovate in the world of 3D graphics, with their most notable release being "Carrier Command". The company was also involved in porting "Elite" to the


title: "Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system" content: Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system This article gives an overview of the shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. The shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities of the NVC were described in Volume 5 of "British Plant Communities", first published in 2000, along with the other maritime communities (those of saltmarshes and maritime cliffs) and vegetation of open habitats. In total, 19 shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities have been identified. The shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities consist of a single community found on coastal shingle (SD1), two communities associated


title: "Flock (web browser)" content: Flock (web browser) Flock is a discontinued web browser that specialized in providing social networking and Web 2.0 facilities built into its user interface. Earlier versions of Flock used the Gecko HTML rendering engine by Mozilla. Version 2.6.2, released on January 27, 2011, was the last version based on Mozilla Firefox. Starting with version 3, Flock was based on Chromium and so used the WebKit rendering engine. Flock was available as a free download, and supported Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and, at one time, Linux as well. Support for Flock was discontinued in April 2011. Flock was the successor


title: "Operational amplifier applications" content: then slowly recharged by the power supply). Additionally, current drawn into the operational amplifier from the power supply can be used as inputs to external circuitry that augment the capabilities of the operational amplifier. For example, an operational amplifier may not be fit for a particular high-gain application because its output would be required to generate signals outside of the safe range generated by the amplifier. In this case, an external push–pull amplifier can be controlled by the current into and out of the operational amplifier. Thus, the operational amplifier may itself operate within its factory specified bounds while still


title: "Butcher knife" content: Butcher knife A butcher knife or butcher's knife is a knife designed and used primarily for the butchering or dressing of animal carcases. Today the butcher knife is used throughout the world in the meat processing trade. The heftier blade works well for splitting, stripping and cutting meat. The French chef's knife is a derivation of the butcher knife, and is used as a general utility knife. Other similar meat-cutting knives include the carving knife and the cleaver. The carving knife usually is designed for slicing thin cuts of meat and often has a blunt or rounded point, with a


title: "Virgin Mobile Canada" content: the Virgin Mobile presents Osheaga Musique Festival et Arts in Montreal, QC, Virgin Mobile Stampede Concert Series at the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, AB, and Virgin Mobile presents Squamish Valley Music Festival in Squamish Valley, BC. Virgin Mobile offers Members the opportunity to enter contests on the Member Benefits webpage to win VIP experiences at these events. Virgin Mobile sponsors the music venues Virgin Mobile Mod Club in Toronto, ON and Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre in Montreal, QC. November 12, 2007 saw the launch of Virgin Unite Canada, a localised arm of Virgin Group's global charitable venture. Virgin Unite, Virgin’s


title: "Vimanmek Mansion" content: Vimanmek Mansion The Vimanmek Mansion (, ) is a former royal villa in Bangkok, Thailand. It is in the Dusit Palace complex, near Dusit Zoo in Dusit District. Today it is a museum. In 1897 King Rama V paid a royal visit to Europe visiting many of the royal palaces. Upon his return he land for the construction of a royal garden which he named "the Dusit Garden". Vimanmek Palace was constructed in 1900 by having the Munthatu Rattanaroj Residence in Chuthathuj Rachathan at Ko Sichang, Chonburi, dismantled and reassembled in Dusit Garden. It was the first permanent residence in


title: "Vimanmek Mansion" content: collected on his European trip are now displayed in the museum. Vimanmek Mansion The Vimanmek Mansion (, ) is a former royal villa in Bangkok, Thailand. It is in the Dusit Palace complex, near Dusit Zoo in Dusit District. Today it is a museum. In 1897 King Rama V paid a royal visit to Europe visiting many of the royal palaces. Upon his return he land for the construction of a royal garden which he named "the Dusit Garden". Vimanmek Palace was constructed in 1900 by having the Munthatu Rattanaroj Residence in Chuthathuj Rachathan at Ko Sichang, Chonburi, dismantled and


title: "Elmo, Kansas" content: a station at nearby Banner City (current location of Elmo). The old Elmo post office was moved to Banner City around 1887. The name Banner City already existed in Jackson and Trego counties, so eventually the Elmo name replaced it. The post office was opened in Elmo on December 16, 1884, and remained in operation until it was discontinued on May 6, 1966. The railroad was removed in the 1990s. In 1899, Elias Sellerds discovered a well-preserved trove of insect fossils about 3 miles south of Elmo in the Lower-Permian Elmo-Limestone member of the Wellington-Formation. In 1925, Frank M. Carpenter


title: "National Federation of the Blind" content: also concern about whether the NFB expects blind people to do things that blind people are not generally expected to know how to do, which leads the NFB to encourage blind people to decline many forms of assistance. The NFB is a participant in the World Blind Union and maintains relationships with groups of blind people in other countries. In the UK, there is a similar organization known as the National Federation of the Blind of the United Kingdom. National Federation of the Blind The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is an organization of blind people in the United


title: "Domestic goose" content: Domestic goose Domestic geese ("Anser anser domesticus" or "Anser cygnoides domesticus") are domesticated grey geese (either greylag geese or swan geese) that are kept by humans as poultry for their meat, eggs, and down feathers since ancient times. In Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, the original domesticated geese are derived from the greylag goose ("Anser anser"). In eastern Asia, the original domesticated geese are derived from the swan goose ("Anser cygnoides"); these are commonly known as Chinese geese. Both have been widely introduced in more recent times, and modern flocks in both areas (and elsewhere, such as Australia and


title: "Domestic goose" content: in a night attack. The story may be an attempt to explain the origin of the sacred flock of geese at Rome. Liliane Bodson and Daniel Marcolungo, "L'oie de bon aloi: Aspects de l'histoire ancienne de l'oie domestique" [The goose in ancient life and folklore]. Vise (Musée Regional d'Archeologie et d'Histoire de Vise), 1994, discusses the image and lore of domestic geese in classical antiquity, with a separate chapter on the goose in folklore. Domestic goose Domestic geese ("Anser anser domesticus" or "Anser cygnoides domesticus") are domesticated grey geese (either greylag geese or swan geese) that are kept by humans


title: "Gilead, New South Wales" content: Gilead, New South Wales Gilead is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Gilead is located 58 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Campbelltown and is part of the Macarthur region. Gilead was a land named in the Bible and famed for its fields of wheat. It obviously seemed like an ideal name for a wheat farm when Reuban Uther was granted in 1812 but Uther only persisted with his dream for six years before selling the estate. The purchaser was Thomas Rose who


title: "Loon Mountain" content: Loon Mountain Loon Mountain is a mountain in Lincoln, New Hampshire, in Grafton County. It is in the White Mountain National Forest. The mountain is known for Loon Mountain Ski Resort, which, like most New England mountain resorts, has expanded into an all-season recreation area. There are two summits to Loon Mountain: the North Peak at , and the South Peak at above sea level. Between the two peaks and slightly to the north, at an elevation of , is Loon Pond. "Loon Peak", with an elevation of , is a northwest spur of North Peak. Each of the three


title: "Racket (crime)" content: Racket (crime) A racket is an organized criminal act, usually in which the criminal act is a form of business or a way to earn illegal money regularly or briefly but repeatedly. A racket is often a repeated or continuous criminal operation. Originally and often still specifically, a racket was a criminal act in which the perpetrator or perpetrators offer a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a nonexistent problem, a service that will not be put into effect, or a service that would not exist without the racket. Conducting a racket is racketeering. Particularly, the potential problem may


title: "Huron University College" content: respecting Huron was given Royal Assent on 23 June 2000. The name was changed to Huron University College on 23 June 2000. The Huron University College Corporation's Arms, Supporters, Flag and Badge were registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority on 15 September 2005. Huron is currently governed by the Ontario "Huron University College Act, 2000". The act provides for an Executive Board composed of The Bishop of Huron, the Coadjutor and Suffragan Bishop or Bishops of Huron, the Principal of Huron, the President of the Huron's Students' Council, the Deans of Huron, the President of the Alumni Association, a full


title: "Henkel North American Consumer Goods" content: acquired the consumer products business of Purex Industries, Inc. which was combined with Armour-Dial to form The Dial Corporation. In 1988, Greyhound acquired the Boraxo, Borateem and 20 Mule Team Borax brands from U.S. Borax. To reflect the parent company's new focus after the sale of Greyhound Lines, Greyhound was renamed Greyhound Dial Corporation in 1990 and renamed again, to The Dial Corp the following year. After the parent company was renamed The Dial Corp, the Dial consumer business was known as The Dial Corp Consumer Products Group. Greyhound also acquired Breck Shampoo from Shulton in 1990 and Renuzit from


title: "Alconbury Weston" content: was one ploughland at Alconbury Weston in 1086 and that there was the capacity for a further one ploughland. The tax assessment in the Domesday Book was known as geld or danegeld and was a type of land-tax based on the hide or ploughland. It was originally a way of collecting a tribute to pay off the Danes when they attacked England, and was only levied when necessary. Following the Norman Conquest, the geld was used to raise money for the King and to pay for continental wars; by 1130, the geld was being collected annually. Having determined the value


title: "Arati Saha" content: and won bronze in 200 metres freestyle. She made an all-India record in 1949. At the 1951 West Bengal state meet, she clocked 1 minute 37.6 seconds in 100 metres breast stroke and broke Dolly Nazir's all-India record. At the same meet, she set new state-level record in 100 metres freestyle, 200 metres freestyle and 100 metres back stroke. She represented India at the 1952 Summer Olympics along with compatriot Dolly Nazir. She was one of the four women participants and the youngest member of the Indian contingent. At the Olympics, she took part in 200 metres breast stroke event.


title: "Balance spring" content: marine chronometers, and other timekeeping mechanisms to control the rate of oscillation of the balance wheel. The balance spring is an essential adjunct to the balance wheel, causing it to oscillate back and forth. The balance spring and balance wheel together form a harmonic oscillator, which oscillates with a precise period or "beat" resisting external disturbances, and is responsible for timekeeping accuracy. The addition of the balance spring to the balance wheel around 1657 by Robert Hooke and Christiaan Huygens greatly increased the accuracy of portable timepieces, transforming early pocketwatches from expensive novelties to useful timekeepers. Improvements to the balance


title: Barnyard content: pets, such as barn cats. On small farms, pasture animals such milk goats or a dairy cow may stay in the barnyard when not in the fields. Depending on climate, barnyards may contain trees for shade. A water source is also common; the watering trough in past times was supplied by water from a hand driven well, with the water kept in wooden or metal containers. The water trough was filled daily, perhaps by a pitcher pump, or by windmill power. Pumping the trough full, by hand, was often the chore of farm children. In modern times, a trough may


title: "Cap-Chat, Quebec" content: Those interested in wilderness and spectacular scenery can explore the areas inland from Cap-Chat, where there was once a village called Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir (which ironically means Saint Octavius of the Future, though it's long in the past now). Salmon fishing and moose hunting are other activities available in the Cap-Chat area, as are hiking, horseback riding, and off-road four-wheel drive excursions in the back country. In winter, Cap-Chat has a downhill skiing centre, as well as trails for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling.

 Cap-Chat, Quebec Cap-Chat is a town in the Canadian province of Québec, in the Regional County


title: "Staples Business Advantage" content: of the leading office-supply firms in northern Ohio, and by the 1950s was also offering metal and wood office furniture. By 1986, it was known as Barker Office Supply Company, with John S. Barker (a great-grandson of Samuel Barker, Jr.) as president. In 1989, the company was sold to Spectrum Office Supply of Rochester, New York, and in 1994, it was sold again, to Staples, which renamed the company Staples Business Advantage. John S. Barker retired from the company in 1989, but another of Samuel Barker, Jr's. great-grandsons, James Barker, remained with the company as a vice president. Buhrmann N.V.


title: "No Enemy But Time" content: No Enemy But Time No Enemy But Time is a 1982 science fiction novel by Michael Bishop. It won the 1982 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was also nominated for the 1983 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. It was included in David Pringle's book "". The novel follows the story of a modern black American man who is able to mentally project himself back to pre-human Africa, where he meets (and eventually mates) with humanity's prehistoric ancestors. At less than 1-year old, John Monegal is abandoned by his mother and adopted by a USAF officer, Hugo Monegal and his


title: "Physical activity" content: When adults of this age group cannot do the recommended amounts of physical activity due to health conditions, they should be as physically active as their abilities and conditions allow. 1. Children and youth aged 5–17 should accumulate at least 60 minutes of moderate- to vigorous intensity physical activity daily. 2. Amounts of physical activity greater than 60 minutes provide additional health benefits. 3. Most of the daily physical activity should be aerobic. Vigorous-intensity activities should be incorporated, including those that strengthen muscle and bone, at least 3 times per week. Early Years (Birth to 5 years) Physical Activity Recommendations


title: "George E. P. Box" content: the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985. His name is associated with results in statistics such as Box–Jenkins models, Box–Cox transformations, Box–Behnken designs, and others. Additionally, Box famously wrote, in various books and papers, that "all models are wrong, but some are useful". Box married Joan Fisher, the second of Ronald Fisher's five daughters. In 1978, Joan Fisher Box published a biography of Ronald Fisher, with substantial collaboration with Box. Box married Claire Quist in 1985. Box died on 28 March 2013. He was 93 years old. George E. P. Box George Edward Pelham Box FRS (18 October 1919 – 28


title: "Pound hug" content: Pound hug The pound hug (also referred to as a pound shake, hip-hop hug, one-armed hug, dude hug, cootie hug, homie hug, shug, hetero hug, bro-grab, bro hug, brah hug, thug hug, man-hug, or a daps) is a stylized greeting, exclusively performed between two people, that consists of a combination of a handshake and one-armed hug. Unlike the traditional hug, which symbolically and effectively removes interpersonal barriers and unites the two persons embracing, the pound hug—performed by keeping the right hand locked in handshake while the left arm wraps around the other's shoulder—interposes the obstacle of the two right arms


title: "Pound hug" content: to the joining of the two bodies. This type of hug has also been frequently used in urban cities and hip hop culture since at least the 70s. An example of the pound hug aka bro hug can be seen in the Tupac Shakur video "I Get Around" in 1993. Pound hug The pound hug (also referred to as a pound shake, hip-hop hug, one-armed hug, dude hug, cootie hug, homie hug, shug, hetero hug, bro-grab, bro hug, brah hug, thug hug, man-hug, or a daps) is a stylized greeting, exclusively performed between two people, that consists of a combination


title: "Dense plasma focus" content: plasma focus machine produces essentially the same plasma characteristics (temperature and density) as the largest plasma focus. Of course the larger machine will produce the larger volume of focused plasma with a corresponding longer lifetime and more radiation yield. Even the smallest plasma focus has essentially the same dynamic characteristics as larger machines, producing the same plasma characteristics and the same radiation products. This is due to the scalability of plasma phenomena. See also plasmoid, the self-contained magnetic plasma ball that may be produced by a dense plasma focus. The fact that the plasma energy density is constant throughout the


title: "48 Hour Film Project" content: in under five days. In 2011, 48 Go Green split off from 48 Hour Film Project to become a separate, independent organization. 48 Go Green had a similar style of competition. The primary differences were an ecological theme, and an entirely online competition to allow worldwide participation. 48 Go Green and 48 Hour Film Project parted ways following a disagreement between 48 Hour Film Project and co-producers Francesco Vitali and Christos Siametis. 48 Go Green soon became 48FILM Project. All cities listed below have participated every year since their introduction, unless otherwise noted. The competition organizers maintain records online that


title: Blusher content: Blusher The blusher is the common name for several closely related species of the genus "Amanita". A. rubescens, found in Europe and eastern North America, and A. novinupta in western North America. Both their scientific and common names are derived from the propensity of their flesh to turn pink on bruising, or cutting. The mushroom is edible. Readily recognizable by its pinkish color on the bottom of the stem, it is avoided by novice mushroomers as it can be confused with deadly poisonous species. The European blusher has a reddish-brown convex pileus (cap), that is up to 15 cm across,


title: Blusher content: and strewn with small cream-coloured warts. It is sometimes covered with an ochre-yellow flush which can be washed by the rain. The flesh of the mushroom is white, becoming pink when bruised or exposed to air. This is a key feature in differentiating it from the poisonous false blusher or panther cap "(Amanita pantherina)", whose flesh does not. The stipe (stem) is white with flushes of the cap colour, and grows to a height of up to 15 cm. The gills are white and free of the stem, and display red spots when damaged. The ring is striate (i.e. has


title: Blusher content: ridges) on its upper side, another feature distinguishing it from "Amanita pantherina". The spores are white, ovate, amyloid, and approximately 8 by 5 µm in size. The flavour of the uncooked flesh is mild, but has a faint acrid aftertaste. The smell is not strong. The mushroom is often attacked by insects. It is common throughout much of Europe and eastern North America, growing on poor soils as well as in deciduous and coniferous woodlands, appearing from June through to November in the UK. It has also been recorded from South Africa, where it is thought to have been accidentally


title: Blusher content: introduced with trees imported from Europe. In eastern North America, "Amanita rubescens" is frequently parasitized by "Hypomyces hyalinus". Parasitized fruiting bodies are extremely difficult to recognize unless they occur in conjunction with healthy ones, although some retain the "blushing" characteristic of the species. A species found in the western U.S., only recently formally described and until then frequently misidentified as "A. rubescens"; see MykoWeb - Fungi of California - "Amanita novinupta" for details. Closely related species include "Amanita brunneolocularis", "A. orsonii", "A. rubescens" var. "alba", and "A. rubescens" var. "congolensis". Both of these species are edible when cooked. European "Amanita


title: Blusher content: rubescens" is known to contain a hemolytic protein in its raw state; it is unknown whether North American "A. rubescens" and "A. novinupta" are similarly toxic when eaten raw. This protein is destroyed by cooking, so it is important to cook this mushroom before eating. "Amanita novinupta" is highly regarded as a choice edible in the region in which it is found. However, the edibility of blusher species other than "A. rubescens" and "A. novinupta" has not been established and experimentation is not advised. Blusher The blusher is the common name for several closely related species of the genus "Amanita".


title: "Yellow-billed stork" content: Yellow-billed stork The yellow-billed stork ("Mycteria ibis"), sometimes also called the wood stork or wood ibis, is a large African wading stork species in the family Ciconiidae. It is widespread in regions south of the Sahara and also occurs in Madagascar. The yellow-billed stork is closely related to 3 other species in the genus "Mycteria": the American woodstork ("Mycteria americana"), the milky stork ("Mycteria cinerea") and the painted stork ("Mycteria leucocephala"). It is classified as belonging to one clade with these 3 other species because they all display remarkable homologies in behavior and morphology. In one analytical study of feeding


title: "Yellow-billed stork" content: and courtship behaviours of the wood-stork family, M.P. Kahl attributed the same general ethology to all members of the genus "Mycteria", with few species-specific variations. These four species are collectively referred to as the wood-storks, which should not be confused with one alternative common name (wood-stork) for the yellow-billed stork. Before it was established that the yellow-billed stork was closely related to the American woodstork, the former was classified as belonging to the genus "Ibis", together with the milky stork and painted stork. However, the yellow-billed stork has actually long been recognised as a true stork and along with the


title: "Milky stork" content: Milky stork The milky stork ("Mycteria cinerea") is a medium, almost completely white plumaged stork species found predominantly in coastal mangroves in parts of Southeast Asia. The milky stork was formerly placed in the genus "Ibis", with the binomial name "Ibis cinereus", but is now included in the "Mycteria" due to large similarities in appearance and behaviour to the three other storks in this genus (the wood stork, yellow-billed stork and painted stork). Phylogenetic studies based on DNA hybridization and cytochrome oxidase b have demonstrated that the milky stork shares a clade with other "Mycteria", and forms a sister pair


title: "Milky stork" content: dark, bare areas on the forehead and sides of the head around the eyes become visible. These dark bare areas are sometimes interspersed with dull orange spots. Nestlings also have a dark brownish grey bill and skin around the bill and eye. By the age of three months, the previously feathered head is now completely bald and the dull bill has become warm yellow with a greenish yellow tip. Both features are characteristic of adults. Milky stork juveniles appear almost identical to painted stork juveniles, but are said to be distinguishable from painted stork juveniles by their paler underwing lining


title: Taffeta content: Taffeta Taffeta (; archaically spelled taffety) is a crisp, smooth, plain woven fabric made from silk or cuprammonium rayons as well as acetate and polyester. The word is Persian in origin and means "twisted woven". It is considered to be a "high-end" fabric, suitable for use in ball gowns, wedding dresses, and in interior decoration for curtains or wallcoverings. It is also widely used in the manufacture of corsets and corsetry: it yields a more starched-like type of cloth that holds its shape better than many other fabrics. An extremely thin, crisp type of taffeta is called paper taffeta. There


title: Taffeta content: are two distinct types of silk taffeta: yarn-dyed and piece-dyed. Piece-dyed taffeta is often used in linings and is quite soft. Yarn-dyed taffeta is much stiffer and is often used in evening dresses. Shot silk taffeta was one of the most highly sought forms of Byzantine silk, and may have been the fabric known as "purpura". Modern taffeta was first woven in Italy and France and until the 1950s in Japan. Warp-printed taffeta or "chiné", mainly made in France from the eighteenth century onwards, is sometimes called "pompadour taffeta" after Madame de Pompadour. Today most raw silk taffeta is produced


title: Taffeta content: in India and Pakistan. There, even in the modern period, handlooms were long widely used, but since the 1990s it has been produced on mechanical looms in the Bangalore area. From the 1970s until the 1990s, the Jiangsu province of China produced fine silk taffetas: these were less flexible than those from Indian mills, however, which continue to dominate production. Other countries in Southeast Asia and the Middle East also produce silk taffeta, but these products are not yet equal in quality or competitiveness to those from India. The most deluxe taffetas, however, are still woven in France, Italy, Russia,


title: Taffeta content: and the United Kingdom. Taffeta has seen use for purposes other than clothing fabric, including the following: Taffeta Taffeta (; archaically spelled taffety) is a crisp, smooth, plain woven fabric made from silk or cuprammonium rayons as well as acetate and polyester. The word is Persian in origin and means "twisted woven". It is considered to be a "high-end" fabric, suitable for use in ball gowns, wedding dresses, and in interior decoration for curtains or wallcoverings. It is also widely used in the manufacture of corsets and corsetry: it yields a more starched-like type of cloth that holds its shape


title: "Hong Kong tropical cyclone warning signals" content: During the year, the Marine Department signal station at Blackhead Hill commenced showing local signals. In addition, equipment for showing full signals was installed in Aberdeen Police Station, Castle Peak Police Station, Cheung Chau Police Station, Lai Chi Kok Mobil Oil Depot, Sai Kung Police Station, Shau Kei Wan Marine Licensing Office, Stanley Village Police Station, Tai O Police Station and Tsuen Wan Caltex Depot. In 1962, visual signals displayed at 33 signal stations in various parts of Hong Kong. During the year, new signal stations were completed at Sha Tin Police Station, Pat Heung Police Station, Rennie's Mill Police


title: Julienning content: Julienning Julienne, allumette, or french cut, is a culinary knife cut in which the food item is cut into long thin strips, similar to matchsticks. Common items to be julienned are carrots for "carrots julienne", celery for "céléris remoulade" or potatoes for "Julienne Fries". Trimming the ends of the vegetable and the edges to make four straight sides makes it easier to produce a uniform cut. Trimmings can be used for stocks, soups, purees, etc. The measurement for "julienne" is 12 mm × 12 mm × 45 cm (0.040.08 in × 0.040.08 in × 1.62 in). "Julienne" usually applies to


title: Orbea content: Orbea Orbea is a bicycle manufacturer in Mallabia, Spain. It began in 1840 as a rifle and gun producer and began making bicycles in the 1930s. It is part of the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation and Spain's largest bicycle manufacturer. Orbea designs and builds bicycles, with some of the higher-cost bikes being made in Portugal but all the others made at the Orbea factory in Mallabia; the steel-framed bikes are made of Columbus tubing. </div> Orbea also manufactures and assembles bikes in China. Orbea has previously sponsored and supplied bikes to teams, including the now-defunct Euskaltel-Euskadi professional team in the Basque


title: Orbea content: area of Spain and the Herring Gas team in the USA. Samuel Sánchez rode an Orbea Orca Carbon to win the road race at the Beijing Olympics and Julien Absalon won the mountain bike gold on an Orbea Alma. Craig Alexander, three time Ironman World Triathlon Champion (2008, 2009, 2011), rode an Orbea Ordu in his first 2 wins and although he had planned to spend the rest of his career racing on Orbea bicycles, having signed a lifetime contract with Orbea in 2010, he switched to another brand for the 2011 race. Orbea Orbea is a bicycle manufacturer in


title: "Revenant (video game)" content: Revenant (video game) Revenant is an action role-playing video game by Cinematix Studios, released in 1999 by the publisher Eidos Interactive. The main character of the story is "Locke D'Averam", a revenant named after the house of Averam, which raised him from the dead. His real name is never revealed in the game. Immediately after being brought back from Anserak (Hell), Locke is sent on a quest by his new master, Sardok, who is the advisor to Lord Tendrick, ruler of the island. The quest is to locate and rescue the Tendricks' long-missing daughter, Andria, who was kidnapped by a


title: "Revenant (video game)" content: to poisoning, and certain spells lock opponents in place allowing Locke to combine a magical attack with a special combat move. In the United States, "Revenant" sold 37,000 copies by March 2000. Commenting on these figures, GameSpot's writer Desslock noted that the game "sold quite poorly". The game received generally positive reviews from critics. Revenant (video game) Revenant is an action role-playing video game by Cinematix Studios, released in 1999 by the publisher Eidos Interactive. The main character of the story is "Locke D'Averam", a revenant named after the house of Averam, which raised him from the dead. His real


title: "Nana Fadnavis" content: concealed in the metre-thick wall, leading to the floor above. The staircase was once secret and easily secured, admitting only one person at a time into Nana Phadnavis's darbar hall. Nana Phadnavis's reception "darbar" hall has an attached bedroom with a teakwood bedstead. The bedstead is an intricately carved four-poster. The floor is paved with clay and cow dung. Wadas are systems of open courtyards with increased security. Nana's corridors on the upper floor are lined with teakwood lattice work. A concealed escape stairway in the wall leads out of the wada. Descending the stone steps leads to the ghat


title: "Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf" content: Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf (Known as Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider in North America) is a puzzle-platformer stealth video game developed and published by Infogrames for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation. The game is based on the popular Warner Bros. series of cartoons featuring Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf. Controlling Ralph, the player must steal sheep from under Sam's nose while navigating through a series of levels including two secret levels and a Bonus level. After another failed attempt at stealing a sheep from Sam Sheepdog, Ralph Wolf returns home after his shift to relax and enjoy some


title: "Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf" content: faster than Ralph so more caution is needed when sneaking around in his area. Each level also has a hidden clock in machine to earn bonuses. The game was met with positive to average reception upon release, as GameRankings gave it a score of 73.04% for the PlayStation version and 75.00% for the PC version, while Metacritic gave it 72 out of 100 for the former version. Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf (Known as Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider in North America) is a puzzle-platformer stealth video game developed and published by Infogrames for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation.


title: "Freddie Davies" content: to bill himself as "Freddie 'Parrot-face' Davies". He made further allusions to birds in jokes about budgies and by playing a character he named Samuel Tweet. His visual identity included wearing a black Homburg hat pulled low on his head, pushing out his ears. From 1968 to 1971, the long-running British children's comic "Buster" featured the comic-strip "Freddie "Parrot-Face" Davies", based upon the adventures of Freddie and his "boodgies" (budgies). In 1974 he had a BBC children's television series, "The Small World of Samuel Tweet". Mr. Tweet worked in a pet shop in Chumpton Green, appearing with many animals during


title: "Freedom of religion in France" content: financial point of view, and does, according to law, not take religious doctrine into account. The population of France is roughly 50% Roman Catholic, 4–5% Muslim, around 3% Protestant, 1% Jewish, 1% Buddhist, 1% other denominations, and 40% not religious (with 30% of atheists). Church attendance is low among Catholics, and polls indicate that a significant proportion of the population is atheist or agnostic. Since the French government does not collect data on religious preferences, all quoted numbers should be considered with caution. Since the 1970s and 1980s, an increasing number of new religious movements have become active in France.


title: "Brick (film)" content: the film, for example, de Ravin walks toward the camera out of a tunnel as a garbage bag floats downstream and engulfs the camera, transitioning to Joseph Gordon-Levitt back in his character's bedroom. To achieve this, the desired effect was filmed in reverse order. The garbage bag began over the camera and was pulled away during filming, as de Ravin walked backwards into the tunnel. This footage was then cut into a scene in which a garbage bag was simply pulled over Gordon-Levitt's head. Filming a car driving slowly in reverse, then playing the footage backwards at a higher speed


title: "Touch-Tone Terrorists" content: Touch-Tone Terrorists The Touch-Tone Terrorists is a series of prank phone calls comedy CDs. The Touch-Tone Terrorists are actually one man, Pete Dzoghi who also goes by the name of "RePete". He purchased a series of 1-800 numbers, including ones that were one digit different than actual customer service numbers for companies such as (apparently) UPS, an oil change business, an auto insurance "claims support line", a psychic hotline, a pen manufacturer, a bank, department store, phone company, and others. Using a Gentner SPH-3A telephone hybrid and a Yamaha SPX-90 electronic pitch transposer to alter his voice over the phone,


title: "Touch-Tone Terrorists" content: he would take incoming calls from people who had misdialed the number and were under the assumption that they had dialed the right number. He created a series of ridiculous exaggerated characters, all of which were voiced by him. Several Touch-Tone Terrorists calls were featured on "Crank Yankers" on Comedy Central and MTV2, most notably the Yankerville Parcel Service calls. At one point UPS tried to stop the sale of the Touch-Tone Terrorists CDs through a series of letters demanding, among other things, that all inventory of Infestation Records' CDs be "delivered" to UPS lawyers "for destruction", because UPS believed


title: "Touch-Tone Terrorists" content: that many of the TTT calls involved customers who thought they were speaking to UPS customer service representatives. Infestation Records refused to comply on the basis that the CDs are a protected parody and the calls were recorded legally. RePete consulted with several attorneys regarding various legal issues to make sure that what he was doing was within legal grounds. All subjects give their permission to have their voices on the CDs, and were "paid well." Pete Dzoghi was also a frequent guest on Howard Stern's radio show, once in person, but usually called upon to crank call "Howard Stern"