title: "LGBT rights in Venezuela" content: or debase their dignity or allow such acts without trying to stop it by means authorized by law, shall be punished with imprisonment of one to three years and separation of the Armed Forces. The same penalty shall apply to any military who commit sexual acts against nature". A number of cases have been known in recent years that some members of the military have been harassed or dismissed for being gay. Venezuela is home to a thriving gay community. Since 2000, International Day of Gay Right has been marked, while recently the Government began participating in Gay Pride Day


title: "Finland at the 1992 Summer Olympics" content: Backstroke Women's 100 m Breaststroke Women's 100 m Butterfly One synchronized swimmer represented Finland in 1992. Men's Lightweight Men's Middle-Heavyweight Men's Heavyweight Men's Flyweight (Greco-Roman) Men's Bantamweight (Greco-Roman) Men's Welterweight (Greco-Roman) Men's Middleweight (Greco-Roman) Men's Light-Heavyweight (Greco-Roman) Men's Super-Heavyweight (Greco-Roman) Men's Middleweight (Freestyle) Finland at the 1992 Summer Olympics Finland competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 88 competitors, 60 men and 28 women, took part in 85 events in 16 sports. The Finnish team sent only men to the 1992 archery tournament. Individually, only Jari Lipponen had much success, taking eighth place after losing in the quarterfinal.


title: Visibility content: Visibility In meteorology, visibility is a measure of the distance at which an object or light can be clearly discerned. It is reported within surface weather observations and METAR code either in meters or statute miles, depending upon the country. Visibility affects all forms of traffic: roads, sailing and aviation. Meteorological visibility refers to transparency of air: in dark, meteorological visibility is still the same as in daylight for the same air. ICAO Annex 3 "Meteorological Service for International Air Navigation" contains the following definitions and note: Annex 3 also defines Runway Visual Range (RVR) as: In extremely clean air


title: Visibility content: in Arctic or mountainous areas, the visibility can be up to 160 km (100 miles) where there are large markers such as mountains or high ridges. However, visibility is often reduced somewhat by air pollution and high humidity. Various weather stations report this as haze (dry) or mist (moist). Fog and smoke can reduce visibility to near zero, making driving extremely dangerous. The same can happen in a sandstorm in and near desert areas, or with forest fires. Heavy rain (such as from a thunderstorm) not only causes low visibility, but the inability to brake quickly due to hydroplaning. Blizzards


title: Visibility content: and ground blizzards (blowing snow) are also defined in part by low visibility. To define visibility the case of a perfectly black object being viewed against a perfectly white background is examined. The visual contrast, "C"(x), at a distance "x" from the black object is defined as the relative difference between the light intensity of the background and the object formula_1 where "F"(x) and "F"(x) are the intensities of the background and the object, respectively. Because the object is assumed to be perfectly black, it must absorb all of the light incident on it. Thus when "x"=0 (at the object),


title: Visibility content: "F"(0) = 0 and "C"(0) = 1. Between the object and the observer, "F"(x) is affected by additional light that is scattered into the observer's line of sight and the absorption of light by gases and particles. Light scattered by particles outside of a particular beam may ultimately contribute to the irradiance at the target, a phenomenon known as multiple scattering. Unlike absorbed light, scattered light is not lost from a system. Rather, it can change directions and contribute to other directions. It is only lost from the original beam traveling in one particular direction. The multiple scattering's contribution to


title: Visibility content: the irradiance at "x" is modified by the individual particle scattering coefficient, the number concentration of particles, and the depth of the beam. The intensity change "dF" is the result of these effects over a distance "dx". Because "dx" is a measure of the amount of suspended gases and particles, the fraction of "F" that is diminished is assumed to be proportional to the distance, "dx". The fractional reduction in "F" is formula_2 where "b" is the attenuation coefficient. The scattering of background light into the observer's line of sight can increase "F" over the distance "dx". This increase is


title: Visibility content: defined as "b' F"("x") "dx", where "b"' is a constant. The overall change in intensity is expressed as formula_3 Since "F" represents the background intensity, it is independent of "x" by definition. Therefore, formula_4 It is clear from this expression that "b"' must be equal to "b". Thus, the visual contrast, "C"("x"), obeys the Beer–Lambert law formula_5 which means that the contrast decreases exponentially with the distance from the object: formula_6 Lab experiments have determined that contrast ratios between 0.018 and 0.03 are perceptible under typical daylight viewing conditions. Usually, a contrast ratio of 2% ("C" = 0.02) is used


title: Visibility content: to calculate visual range. Plugging this value into the above equation and solving for "x" produces the following visual range expression (the Koschmieder equation): formula_7 with "x" in units of length. At sea level, the Rayleigh atmosphere has an extinction coefficient of approximately 13.2 × 10 m at a wavelength of 520 nm. This means that in the cleanest possible atmosphere, visibility is limited to about 296 km. Visibility perception depends on several physical and visual factors. A realistic definition should consider the fact that the human visual system (HVS) is highly sensitive to spatial frequencies, and then to use


title: Visibility content: the Fourier transform and the contrast sensitivity function of the HVS to assess visibility. The international definition of fog is a visibility of less than ; mist is a visibility of between and and haze from to . Fog and mist are generally assumed to be composed principally of water droplets, haze and smoke can be of smaller particle size; this has implications for sensors such as Thermal Imagers (TI/FLIR) operating in the far-IR at wavelengths of about 10 μm which are better able to penetrate haze and some smokes because their particle size is smaller than the wavelength; the


title: Visibility content: IR radiation is therefore not significantly deflected or absorbed by the particles. With fog, occasional freezing drizzle and snow can occur. This usually occurs when temperatures are below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit). Hazards can include slipping and falling on ice or slipping in your car on ice causing a potential lethal crash. Low visibility below 1000 yards is usually accompanied with this. Low lying stratus clouds are the culprit of most of these cold weather events. Visibility of less than is usually reported as zero. In these conditions, roads may be closed, or automatic warning lights and signs may be


title: Visibility content: activated to warn drivers. These have been put in place in certain areas that are subject to repeatedly low visibility, particularly after traffic collisions or pile-ups involving multiple vehicles. In addition, an advisory is often issued by a government weather agency for low visibility, such as a dense fog advisory from the U.S. National Weather Service. These generally advise motorists to avoid travel until the fog dissipates or other conditions improve. Airport travel is also often delayed by low visibility, sometimes causing long waits due to approach visibility minimums and the difficulty of safely moving aircraft on the ground in


title: "Bid whist" content: trump suit, if applicable, and takes the kitty. That player is then solely responsible to take at least the number of tricks bid. At the conclusion of the hand, each player, including the winner of the bid, scores 1 point, individually, for each trick taken. If the bid winner fails to make his bid, he scores zero points, and loses the amount of his bid. The first player to score 30 points, individually, is the winner. Bid whist Bid whist is a partnership trick-taking variant of the classic card game whist. As indicated by the name, bid whist adds a


title: "Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics" content: Individual Competition: Men's Team Competition: Men's 50 m Freestyle Men's 100 m Freestyle Men's 400 m Freestyle Men's 1500 m Freestyle Men's 100 m Backstroke Men's 200 m Backstroke Men's 100 m Breaststroke Men's 200 m Breaststroke Men's 100 m Butterfly Men's 200 m Butterfly Men's 200 m Individual Medley Men's 400 m Individual Medley Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay Women's 50 m Freestyle Women's 100 m Freestyle Women's 200 m Freestyle Women's 400 m Freestyle Women's 800 m Freestyle Women's 100 m Backstroke


title: "Twisted (software)" content: Twisted (software) Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework written in Python and licensed under the MIT License. Twisted projects variously support TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IP multicast, Unix domain sockets, a large number of protocols (including HTTP, XMPP, NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others), and much more. Twisted is based on the event-driven programming paradigm, which means that users of Twisted write short callbacks which are called by the framework. Twisted is designed for complete separation between logical protocols (usually relying on stream-based connection semantics, such as HTTP or POP3) and physical transport layers supporting such stream-based semantics (such


title: "Snowboard Kids" content: Snowboard Kids Snowboard Kids , is a snowboarding video game for the Nintendo 64. It was developed by Racdym and published by Atlus. Many reviewers compared its style to that of the "Mario Kart" series. An enhanced port, Snowboard Kids Plus, was released in Japan in January 1999 for the PlayStation. In addition to the usual gameplay of a snowboarding game, "Snowboard Kids" adds "Shots" (special weapons used to attack players) and items which can help the player, hinder other players, or both. The game has nine main courses. Although many of the courses are snowy mountains, some are courses


title: "Bungee ball" content: Bungee ball Bungee balls are toys that are produced as a means of enhancing a person's hand–eye coordination. Traditionally, a bungee ball is made of plastic. At one end or an elastic cord a person slips his/her finger into a notch and at the other end is an elastic hollow ball containing synthetic liquid. Bungee balls were a fad in February 1991 and most bungee balls were sold during this time period. After March 2003, they started vanishing from stores partly due to controversy over what was contained inside them. They were also discontinued in many stores because often after


title: "Bungee ball" content: about 4–7 hours of use, the Bungee Ball's bungee cord would snap, and the ball itself would break, releasing synthetic liquid. They were recalled in October 2003. By then, nearly all Bungee Balls had vanished from retail stores. Bungee Balls are now most available by online shopping. Bungee ball Bungee balls are toys that are produced as a means of enhancing a person's hand–eye coordination. Traditionally, a bungee ball is made of plastic. At one end or an elastic cord a person slips his/her finger into a notch and at the other end is an elastic hollow ball containing synthetic


title: "Bourbon biscuit" content: Bourbon biscuit The Bourbon biscuit (; is a sandwich style biscuit consisting of two thin rectangular dark chocolate–flavoured biscuits with a chocolate buttercream filling. The biscuit was introduced in 1910 (originally under the name "Creola") by the biscuit company Peek Freans, of Bermondsey, London, originator of the Garibaldi biscuit. The new name was taken from the European royal House of Bourbon. A 2009 survey found that the Bourbon biscuit was the fifth most popular biscuit in the UK to dunk into tea. The small holes in bourbon biscuits are to prevent the biscuits from cracking or breaking and to allow


title: "Bourbon biscuit" content: steam to escape during the baking process. Many other companies make their own version of the biscuit under the "Bourbon" name, including major supermarkets. Bourbon biscuit The Bourbon biscuit (; is a sandwich style biscuit consisting of two thin rectangular dark chocolate–flavoured biscuits with a chocolate buttercream filling. The biscuit was introduced in 1910 (originally under the name "Creola") by the biscuit company Peek Freans, of Bermondsey, London, originator of the Garibaldi biscuit. The new name was taken from the European royal House of Bourbon. A 2009 survey found that the Bourbon biscuit was the fifth most popular biscuit in


title: "Central City (DC Comics)" content: museum dedicated to the exploits and memorabilia of the city's hero. Central City's main newspaper is the "Central City Citizen" (previously the "Central City Picture-News"), for which Barry's wife Iris West Allen is currently once again a reporter after an absence of several years. As seen in Flash Vol. 2 #177, it has developed a thriving theatre district, second only to New York City. Later, much of downtown was demolished by the Rogues, acting under the orders of the other-dimensional Crime Syndicate. Due to a miscommunication and the Rogues' own decency, only property was damaged, they avoided taking lives. Central


title: "Donkey (Shrek)" content: Lewis. The lead character of Rucio from the animated film "Donkey Xote" intentionally bears a resemblance to the character of Donkey. "Empire" listed Donkey as No. 21 on their "50 Best Animated Movie Characters". Donkey was also in a Christmas movie. Donkey (Shrek) Donkey is a fictional fast-talking donkey created by William Steig and adapted by DreamWorks Animation for the "Shrek" franchise. The character is voiced by Eddie Murphy. Donkey first makes his debut at a sale of mythical characters from beloved fairy-tales being sold to the evil Lord Farquaad's knights. An old woman attempts to sell Donkey, but magic


title: "Terry Kennedy (skateboarder)" content: Terry Kennedy (skateboarder) Terry Kennedy (born May 27, 1985), commonly as "TK", is an American professional skateboarder. He rides his skateboard with a regular footed stance. He is the Co-Founder of Fly Society, a clothing and music brand. His sponsors are Baker Skateboards, Active Ride Shop, Venture, Shake Junt, Gold Wheels and FootPrint Insoles. Kennedy appeared on Bam Margera's MTV television shows, "Viva La Bam", "Bam's Unholy Union" and Rob Dyrdek's MTV show "Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory". He had also made cameo appearance in Snoop Dogg's chart topping song Drop It Like It's Hot, as well as in the video


title: "Terry Kennedy (skateboarder)" content: made a full recovery. Terry Kennedy (skateboarder) Terry Kennedy (born May 27, 1985), commonly as "TK", is an American professional skateboarder. He rides his skateboard with a regular footed stance. He is the Co-Founder of Fly Society, a clothing and music brand. His sponsors are Baker Skateboards, Active Ride Shop, Venture, Shake Junt, Gold Wheels and FootPrint Insoles. Kennedy appeared on Bam Margera's MTV television shows, "Viva La Bam", "Bam's Unholy Union" and Rob Dyrdek's MTV show "Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory". He had also made cameo appearance in Snoop Dogg's chart topping song Drop It Like It's Hot, as well


title: "Romema (Haifa)" content: walls are standing some 15 feet high in places. The building measures 35 feet north and south, and 45 east and west outside. The tower is about 15 feet square, and intended to flank the northern entrance. The east wall has been destroyed. The walls are 7 feet thick, built of courses of ashlar, the stones averaging 2 feet 3 inches by 1 foot, 2 inches by 1 foot 2 inches. The material used is very soft, and the stones much worn ; the mortar joints are very thick, and large pieces of pottery are used. No drafted stones were


title: "Vehicular cycling" content: 2.8 minutes on bike paths. A study of cyclists in Washington D.C. found that cyclists were willing to spend on average 20.38 extra minutes per trip to travel on an off-street bicycle trail when the alternative was riding on a street with parked cars. Forester believes segregated cycle facilities to be more dangerous than on-road cycling and that, in the case of sidepaths, they can only be used safely by cycling "very slowly". Urban planning professor John Pucher writes that "Forester makes a number of theoretical arguments why bikeways are unsafe." Forester objects to rejection of his test results. Pucher's


title: "PGA Tour (video game series)" content: DS and PlayStation Portable. Released in 2005 for Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable. Released in 2006 for Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3 and Wii. Released in 2007 for Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, Wii and DS. Released in 2008 for PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3 and Wii. Released in 2009 for PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3 and Wii. Released in 2010 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and iOS. Released in 2011 for Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and


title: "Abell catalogue" content: were too distant to be included in the main catalog. The standard format used to refer to Abell clusters is: Abell X, where . E.g. Abell 1656. Alternative formats include: ABCG 1656; AC 1656; ACO 1656; A 1656, and A1656. Abell himself preferred the latter, but in recent years ACO 1656 has become the preferred format among professional astronomers and is the one recommended by the "Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg" (see SIMBAD). Some notable members of Abell’s catalog include: About 10% of Abell clusters at redshift z < 0.1 are not genuine rich clusters but, rather, the result


title: "Cessna 402" content: from the Cessna 414. The landing gear track was also increased by four feet. The engines’ output was boosted to 325 hp each and max gross weight increased to 6,850 pounds, creating a much more useful airplane. Fuel capacity was increased to 213 gallons. Even with the weight increase, single-engine performance went up and the stall speed went down by a couple of knots. After this change, the plane was named the Cessna 402C. Production stopped after the 1985 model year. In 1969, American Jet Industries began work on a turboprop-powered conversion of the Cessna 402, named the Turbo Star


title: "Coast Daylight" content: locomotives on a -hour schedule. It was the first of the "Daylight" series that later included the "San Joaquin Daylight", "Shasta Daylight", "Sacramento Daylight", and "Sunbeam". By June 30, 1939, the streamlined Daylights had carried 268.6 million passenger-miles on 781,141 train-miles for an average occupancy of 344 passengers. The "Coast Daylight" ran behind steam until January 7, 1955, long after most streamliners had been powered by diesel. A second train, the "Noon Daylight", ran the same route 1940-42 and 1946-49 with a suspension during World War II. The original "Coast Daylight" became the "Morning Daylight" during this time. In 1949


title: "LeMat Revolver" content: with a 24 gauge shot barrel, was made in later years in Belgium. While having better sales than its pinfire relative, the centerfire LeMat also had no real commercial success due to the invention of the double-action system. With both weapons, loading was accomplished via a loading gate located at the 4 o'clock position for the cylinder, and by swinging the breech of the shot barrel up and left. The Pietta company of Brescia, Italy has manufactured modern reproductions of the LeMat revolver since 1985. United States distributors include Navy Arms Company, Dixie Gunworks and Cabela's. Canadian distributors include Marstar


title: "Gas generator" content: an electrical generator. Gas generators have also been used to power torpedoes. For example, the US Navy Mark 16 torpedo was powered by hydrogen peroxide. A concentrated solution of hydrogen peroxide is known as high test peroxide and decomposes to produce oxygen and water (steam). Hydrazine decomposes to nitrogen and hydrogen. The reaction is strongly exothermic and produces high volume of hot gas from small volume of liquid. Many solid rocket propellant compositions can be used as gas generators. Many automobile airbags use sodium azide for inflation (). A small pyrotechnic charge triggers its decomposition, producing nitrogen gas, which inflates


title: "Mad Catz" content: January 4, 2018, Mad Catz Global Limited (a new company headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong), with new ownership of previous Mad Catz trademarks, announced the return of the Mad Catz brand and the launch of a new line of products at CES 2018. Mad Catz Mad Catz Global Limited (formerly Mad Catz Interactive, Inc.) was an American company that provided interactive entertainment products marketed under Mad Catz, GameShark (gaming products) and TRITTON (audio products). Mad Catz developed flight simulation software through its internal ThunderHawk Studios, developed flight simulation and chess hardware under its Saitek brand, published games under its Mad


title: "Fender Swinger" content: Fender Swinger The Fender Swinger (also known as the Fender Musiclander and Fender Arrow – as the "Swinger" emblem is usually missing from the headstock) was a short-lived electric guitar model released by Fender in 1969, with few made. The Swinger was an attempt by CBS (which had bought the company in 1965) to extract cash from inventory by combining unused bodies from the failed Fender Bass V with parts from the Fender Musicmaster. Another use of surplus stock was the Fender Custom (a.k.a. Fender Maverick). The Swinger was marketed as another cheaper, short-scale 'student' guitar, but never seriously promoted,


title: "Continuous linear operator" content: Continuous linear operator In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics, a continuous linear operator or continuous linear mapping is a continuous linear transformation between topological vector spaces. An operator between two normed spaces is a bounded linear operator if and only if it is a continuous linear operator. If for every formula_1 there exists a formula_2 such that formula_3 we say the operator formula_4 is continuous. A continuous linear operator maps bounded sets into bounded sets. A linear functional is continuous if and only if its kernel is closed. Every linear function on a finite-dimensional space is continuous. The


title: "Stéphane Provost" content: Stéphane Provost Stéphane Provost (May 5, 1967 in Montreal, Quebec – April 22, 2005 in Weston, Florida) was a French Canadian National Hockey League linesman. Provost was killed in a road accident at approximately 3:30 a.m. Eastern Time while travelling on his motorcycle west on State Road 84 after hitting a tractor trailer. He was 37 years old. The motorcycle burst into flames, falling onto Provost, who was not wearing a motorcycle helmet. Police reports indicate Provost was leaving a bar. The driver of the tractor trailer was uninjured. He was survived by his wife, Sandra, and two daughters, Ashley


title: "Texas toast" content: Texas toast Texas toast is a toasted bread with butter, and often garlic, that is often made from a type of packaged bread that has been sliced at double the average thickness of most sliced breads. The Texas toast loaf itself is often more squarish compared to most sliced breads which have a more curved side and top. While Texas toast bread can be used in the same manner as ordinary bread slices such as in sandwiches, it is especially useful for dishes involving liquids, such as barbecue sauce, or where extra thickness could improve the product, such as French


title: "Maremma Sheepdog" content: Maremma Sheepdog The Maremma Sheepdog or Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog (), usually referred to simply as the Maremmano or Abruzzese Sheepdog, is a breed of livestock guardian dog indigenous to central Italy, particularly to Abruzzo and the Maremma region of Tuscany and Lazio. It has been used for centuries by Italian shepherds to guard sheep from wolves. The literal English translation of the name is "The dog of the shepherds of the Maremma and Abruzzese region". The English name of the breed derives from that of the Maremma marshlands, where, until recently, shepherds, dogs and hundreds of thousands of sheep over-wintered, and


title: "Maremma Sheepdog" content: wolves and coyotes, reducing their predation by 70% to 80% or more. Maremma Sheepdog The Maremma Sheepdog or Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog (), usually referred to simply as the Maremmano or Abruzzese Sheepdog, is a breed of livestock guardian dog indigenous to central Italy, particularly to Abruzzo and the Maremma region of Tuscany and Lazio. It has been used for centuries by Italian shepherds to guard sheep from wolves. The literal English translation of the name is "The dog of the shepherds of the Maremma and Abruzzese region". The English name of the breed derives from that of the Maremma marshlands, where,


title: "Li Na" content: Sharapova, with the latter winning their first five matches dating back to 2005, including Li's Grand Slam debut at the 2005 Australian Open. Li won her first match against Sharapova in the 2009 Birmingham semifinals, starting a series of four consecutive wins against Sharapova. Li beat Sharapova again in Birmingham in 2010, this time in the final, and in the semifinals of the 2011 French Open, on her way to winning her maiden Grand Slam. At the Year-end Championships later that year, Li defeated Sharapova in the round robin stage. In 2012, Li and Sharapova met three times, with Sharapova


title: "Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station" content: Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, a nuclear power plant, is located southeast of Harrisburg in Peach Bottom Township, York County, Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River three miles north of the Maryland border. The Philadelphia Electric Company (later shortened first to PECO Energy and later to just PECO) became one of the pioneers in the commercial nuclear industry when it ordered Peach Bottom 1 in 1958. The U.S.'s first nuclear power plant (the Shippingport Reactor) had gone on line a year earlier. Peach Bottom Unit 1 was an experimental helium-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor. It operated from 1966


title: "Hastings Ranch, Pasadena, California" content: Homes a fact not lost on Lawson. The idea garnered widespread attention by just about every local and regional newspaper, radio and television station - traditions which continue to this day. Many believe that this was one of, if not Southern California's, first organized Christmas Light displays of scale and shortly thereafter, another local Realtor named Howard B. Lawson [William's Uncle and ultimately Commodore of the Newport Harbor Yacht Club in Newport Beach] revitalized another Christmas Light Display, which has evolved in the Newport Harbor Festival of Lights Boat Parade. Ask a local and they will likely tell you how


title: "London slang" content: used such slang and the only way to raise that amount of money would have been to mortgage the house. 500 pounds would have been about the average value of a London house at the time the term originated in the early 20th century according to the CPBS mortgage registers 1919-1922. However the true origin of these terms is uncertain. Another money slang word, "", which means £1, is thought to be connected to the American "". "", which describes an unspecified amount of money, may come from the Romany word for coal, "wanga". In 2005, Professor Sue Fox from


title: "Pitch (card game)" content: track of overall wins and losses of each player individually. Each winning player earns +$1.00 (or +1 if playing points only) and each losing player -$1.00. If the winning team had hickeys, these are not penalized. However, if the losing team had hickeys, each losing player loses another $1.00 per hickey, and each winning player gains $1.00. In this way, the total for the entire list should always equal zero. At the end of all play, for example at the end of a week long vacation, a winner is declared and everyone is paid out. Each player is dealt six


title: "Pitch (card game)" content: bid fails to reach the amount they bid, they go set. When a team goes set, they lose whatever amount that they won the bid with. For example, if a team wins the bidding with a 6 bid and is only able to take 5 points on that hand, they lose 6 points from their total. Negative points are allowed. In some variations, doubling of the bid is allowed as a half-point bet. For example, if one player bids 5, the next player may bid '5 for 10', effectively doubling the outcome if they're right or wrong. A bid of


title: "Weak topology (polar topology)" content: Weak topology (polar topology) In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics the weak topology is the coarsest polar topology, the topology with the fewest open sets, on a dual pair. The finest polar topology is called strong topology. Under the weak topology the bounded sets coincide with the relatively compact sets which leads to the important Bourbaki–Alaoglu theorem. Given a dual pair formula_1 the weak topology formula_2 is the weakest polar topology on formula_3 so that That is the continuous dual of formula_5 is equal to formula_6 up to isomorphism. The weak topology is constructed as follows: For every


title: "Weak topology (polar topology)" content: formula_7 in formula_6 on formula_3 we define a seminorm on formula_3 with This family of seminorms defines a locally convex topology on formula_3. Weak topology (polar topology) In functional analysis and related areas of mathematics the weak topology is the coarsest polar topology, the topology with the fewest open sets, on a dual pair. The finest polar topology is called strong topology. Under the weak topology the bounded sets coincide with the relatively compact sets which leads to the important Bourbaki–Alaoglu theorem. Given a dual pair formula_1 the weak topology formula_2 is the weakest polar topology on formula_3 so that


title: "Ford EXP" content: pans are identical between the 3-door Escorts, Escort GTs, and EXPs, however the lower roof line makes rear seating uncomfortable. From 1982 to 1983, the EXP was sold by Lincoln-Mercury dealers as the Mercury LN7. The LN7 was distinguished largely by its "bubbleback" hatch, large bumper strips across the doors, "black-out" tail lights, and more slits in the nose clip than those of an EXP. The vehicle, however, was dropped after failing to meet sales expectations. By 1980, Ford Motor Company had entered a period of major transition. Following the termination of Lee Iaccoca (to become CEO of Chrysler), chairman


title: "Ford EXP" content: producing 4 all-electric EXPs. These selected 1982 EXPs are powered by 39HP GE (General Electric) electric motors and Soleq parts all built together by EVA out of Cleveland, OH. Electric Vehicle Associates (EVA) used their technology from the Escorts they made ("EVcorts"). Production of both vehicles were limited as the costs to convert these 2 cars was far beyond the cars' original values. Its original range is estimated between 20 and 60 miles with a top speed of 70MPH. This idea didn't meet expectations either as these EXPs were lacking both sport and practicality. It's unsure if EVA went on


title: "Possessive determiner" content: Possessive determiner Possessive determiners constitute a sub-class of determiners which modify a noun by attributing possession (or other sense of belonging) to someone or something. They are also known as possessive adjectives, although the latter term is sometimes used with a wider meaning. Examples in English include possessive forms of the personal pronouns, namely: "my", "your", "his", "her", "its", "our" and "their", but excluding those forms such as "mine", "yours", "hers", "ours", and "theirs" that are used as possessive pronouns but not as determiners. Possessive determiners may also be taken to include possessive forms made from nouns, from other pronouns


title: "Possessive determiner" content: by declining personal pronouns in the genitive or possessive case, or by using possessive suffixes or particles. In Japanese, for example, "boku no" (a word for "I" coupled with the genitive particle "no"), is used for "my" or "mine". In Mandarin Chinese, the possessive determiner and possessive pronoun take the same form as each other: the form associated with "wǒ" ("I") is "wǒ de" ("my", "mine"), where "de" is the possessive particle. Some languages use the same word for both the possessive determiner and the matching possessive pronoun. For example, in Finnish "meidän" can mean either "our" or "ours". On


title: "Possessive determiner" content: to personal pronouns. In addition, they have corresponding possessive pronouns, which are also phonetically similar. The following chart shows the English, German, and French personal pronouns, possessive determiners and possessive pronouns. Possessive determiner Possessive determiners constitute a sub-class of determiners which modify a noun by attributing possession (or other sense of belonging) to someone or something. They are also known as possessive adjectives, although the latter term is sometimes used with a wider meaning. Examples in English include possessive forms of the personal pronouns, namely: "my", "your", "his", "her", "its", "our" and "their", but excluding those forms such as "mine",


title: "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" content: Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" is the thirteenth episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> eighth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 7, 1997. When Marge becomes stressed, the Simpsons hire a nanny, a Mary Poppins parody, Shary Bobbins (voiced by Maggie Roswell). The episode was directed by Chuck Sheetz and written and executive produced by Al Jean and Mike Reiss. It was the last episode for which Reiss received a writing credit. In 2014, Jean selected it as one of five essential episodes in the show's history. After discovering that she is losing hair at


title: "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" content: Stratchy" episodes of all time. Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious" is the thirteenth episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> eighth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 7, 1997. When Marge becomes stressed, the Simpsons hire a nanny, a Mary Poppins parody, Shary Bobbins (voiced by Maggie Roswell). The episode was directed by Chuck Sheetz and written and executive produced by Al Jean and Mike Reiss. It was the last episode for which Reiss received a writing credit. In 2014, Jean selected it as one of five essential episodes in the show's history. After discovering that


title: "Chernobyl (Hasidic dynasty)" content: survived the ravages of the Holocaust, although many of its members perished. There are many scions of the Chernobyl dynasty alive today. Generally, at present, anyone with the last name Twersky (or Twerski) is likely to be a descendant of the Chernobyl dynasty. The founder of the Chernobyl dynasty was Rebbe (Menachem) Nochum, the "Meor Einayim", a disciple of Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, who established the Hasidic movement. He was also a disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch: Among the famous scions of the Chernobyl dynasty are: Chernobyl (Hasidic dynasty) Chernobyl is a Hasidic dynasty that


title: "The Registry" content: The Registry In housing, The Registry is a risk management tool used by landlords as a screening mechanism for prospective renters. The term is most commonly used as a form of synecdoche to refer to a handful of the most common registry systems in the United States, "The New American Registry", "The First American Registry", "The Registry Saferent", and "The U.D. Registry". Each registry automatically receives a notification from various metropolitan housing courts whenever any tenant is sued by a landlord. In areas without housing courts, lists of named defendants in unlawful detainer (eviction) suits will be compiled from court


title: "Calm technology" content: Calm technology Calm technology or Calm design is a type of information technology where the interaction between the technology and its user is designed to occur in the user's periphery rather than constantly at the center of attention. Information from the technology smoothly shifts to the user's attention when needed but otherwise stays calmly in the user's periphery. Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown describe calm technology as "that which informs but doesn't demand our focus or attention." The use of calm technology is paired with ubiquitous computing as a way to minimize the perceptible invasiveness of computers in everyday


title: "Calm technology" content: these devices. Another development of calm technology is its transformation into unattended technology, where the technology always exists in the periphery and never requires central attention from the user. Calm technology Calm technology or Calm design is a type of information technology where the interaction between the technology and its user is designed to occur in the user's periphery rather than constantly at the center of attention. Information from the technology smoothly shifts to the user's attention when needed but otherwise stays calmly in the user's periphery. Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown describe calm technology as "that which informs


title: "Secrets (Herbie Hancock album)" content: album. Where "Man-Child" was evenly divided between up-tempo and laid-back tracks, "Secrets" emphasized the more mellow, softly rounded mood. Even the more up-tempo tracks, "Doin' It" and "Cantelope Island", are suffused with a relaxed Caribbean influence, and overall the album tends towards restrained, rolling grooves rather than overtly high-energy funk. Appropriately, Hancock spent much of his time using the mellow tones of the Rhodes piano, and took advantage of the new polyphonic synthesizers to contribute thick pads, foreshadowing ambient music. Although summery and mellow, the album was far from lounge music, with some extremely abstract and intense sections, particular in


title: "Sloppy Joe's" content: Sloppy Joe's Sloppy Joe's Bar is a historic American bar in Key West, Florida. It is now located on the north side of Duval Street at the corner of Greene Street, (201 Duval Street). Sloppy Joe's also has a location in Treasure Island, Florida and a third location in Daytona Beach, Florida opened in February 2010. Founded on December 5, 1933, the bar's most famous patrons were Ernest Hemingway and the infamous rum runner Habana Joe. The original location at the time Hemingway frequented Sloppy Joe's is a few doors down to the west, just off Duval Street, at 428


title: "Nokia N91" content: unparalleled sound quality through headphones. It also features 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity. The phone features a 176 x 208, 262,144 colours TFT LCD display and dedicated music functionality buttons (XpressMusic) that slide down to reveal traditional mobile phone keys. Battery life when solely playing music has been estimated at 12 hours. The N91 was not the first smartphone with a gigabyte hard drive: the Samsung SGH-i300, announced just a month before the N91, was the first. However the N91 packed in 4 GB, compared to 3 GB for the i300. An 8GB variant or N91 8GB, internally known as N91-2,


title: "Nokia N91" content: was announced on September 26, 2006. This upgraded model features some minor improvements in addition to the extra storage space. The most prominent feature on the N91-2, apart from the increased memory, was the inclusion of A2DP Bluetooth Profile. This profile enabled wireless music playback over Bluetooth, in full stereo (2 different channels, L+R). Compatible Bluetooth headsets were already available in the market by then. N91 8GB had a distinct Black color, that added to its face value. Once again breaking a record: it was the first phone with an 8GB hard disk. N91-5 was a version of the N91


title: "Cable tie" content: Cable tie A cable tie (also known as a wire tie, hose tie, steggel tie, zap strap or zip tie, and by the brand names Ty-Rap and Panduit strap) is a type of fastener, for holding items together, primarily electrical cables or wires. Because of their low cost and ease of use, cable ties are ubiquitous, finding use in a wide range of other applications. Stainless steel versions, either naked or coated with a rugged plastic, cater for exterior applications and hazardous environments. The common cable tie, normally made of nylon, has a flexible tape section with teeth that engage


title: "Cable tie" content: such as the surgeon's knot or constrictor knot, Velcro brand hook-and-loop strips, conveyor belt hooks, twist ties, Rapstrap fasteners, metal buckle clips or Cablox cable management. Cable tie A cable tie (also known as a wire tie, hose tie, steggel tie, zap strap or zip tie, and by the brand names Ty-Rap and Panduit strap) is a type of fastener, for holding items together, primarily electrical cables or wires. Because of their low cost and ease of use, cable ties are ubiquitous, finding use in a wide range of other applications. Stainless steel versions, either naked or coated with a


title: "Cessna 177 Cardinal" content: Cessna 177 Cardinal The Cessna 177 Cardinal is a light single-engine, high-wing general aviation aircraft that was intended to replace Cessna's 172 Skyhawk. First announced in 1967, it was produced from 1968 to 1978. The Cessna 177 was designed in the mid-1960s when the engineers at Cessna were asked to create a "futuristic 1970s successor to the Cessna 172". The resulting aircraft featured newer technology such as a cantilever wing lacking the lift struts of previous models, and a new laminar flow airfoil. The 177 is the only production high-wing single-engined Cessna since the Cessna 190 & 195 series to


title: SMALL content: SMALL SMALL, Small Machine Algol Like Language, is a programming language developed by Dr. Nevil Brownlee of Auckland University. The aim of the language was to enable people to write ALGOL-like code that ran on a small machine. It also included the string type for easier text manipulation. SMALL was used extensively from about 1980 to 1985 at Auckland University as a programming teaching aid, and for some internal projects. Originally written to run on a Burroughs Corporation B6700 Main frame in Fortran IV, subsequently rewritten in SMALL and ported to a DEC PDP-10 Architecture (on the Operating System TOPS-10)


title: SMALL content: and IBM S360 Architecture (on the Operating System VM/CMS). About 1985, SMALL had some object-oriented features added to handle structures (that were missing from the early language), and to formalise file manipulation operations. SMALL SMALL, Small Machine Algol Like Language, is a programming language developed by Dr. Nevil Brownlee of Auckland University. The aim of the language was to enable people to write ALGOL-like code that ran on a small machine. It also included the string type for easier text manipulation. SMALL was used extensively from about 1980 to 1985 at Auckland University as a programming teaching aid, and for


title: "William Phelps Eno" content: William Phelps Eno William Phelps Eno (June 3, 1858 – December 3, 1945) was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the "Father of traffic safety", despite never having learned to drive a car himself. Among the innovations credited to Eno are traffic regulations, the stop sign, the pedestrian crosswalk, the traffic circle, the one-way street, the taxi stand, and pedestrian safety islands. His rotary traffic plan was put into effect at Columbus Circle, New York City, in 1905, at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris,


title: "William Phelps Eno" content: 1907, Piccadilly Circus in 1926, and the Rond Point on the Champs-Élysées in 1927. Eno was born in New York City, the youngest child of Amos R. Eno and his wife, Lucy Jane Phelps, daughter of Elisha Phelps. He attended Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven and Williston Academy, and graduated from Yale University in 1882, where he had been a member of Skull and Bones. Eno died of bronchopneumonia, and is buried in Center Cemetery, Simsbury, Connecticut. Though automobiles were rare until Eno was an older man, horse-drawn carriages were already causing significant traffic problems in urban areas like


title: "William Phelps Eno" content: Eno's home town of New York City. In 1867, at the age of 9, he and his mother were caught in a traffic jam. He later wrote, "That very first traffic jam (many years before the motor car came into use) will always remain in my memory. There were only about a dozen horses and carriages involved, and all that was needed was a little order to keep the traffic moving. Yet nobody knew exactly what to do; neither the drivers nor the police knew anything about the control of traffic." As reported in 1909: In 1900, Eno wrote a


title: "William Phelps Eno" content: piece on traffic safety entitled "Reform in Our Street Traffic Urgently Needed". In 1903, he wrote a city traffic code for New York, the first such code in the world, and subsequently designed traffic plans for New York, London, and Paris. During that same year, Eno proposed the first version of today's roundabouts or traffic circles, which he termed "the rotary or gyratory traffic system". In his 1920 book, Eno recalled that "in 1903, the New York Police Department asked that a plan be suggested for Columbus Circle, where accidents were occurring almost daily. It was advised that vehicles should


title: "William Phelps Eno" content: keep to the right, going around the circle in one direction instead of two. In 1905, the plan was put in operation... In 1907, the system was put in operation at the "Arc de Triomphe" in Paris, but whether due to the suggestion sent them from New York or not is not clear." His 1909 book, "Street Traffic Regulation", contains a diagram of the Columbus Circle rotary. The stop sign has 8 sides. Eno also appears to have introduced one-way streets, as recalled in "The Science of Highway Traffic Regulation 1899-1920", page 39: "On the author's advice, One-Way Traffic was


title: "William Phelps Eno" content: put in force in a few streets in New York in the spring of 1908; in Boston in the autumn of the same year; in Paris in 1909, where it has since been greatly extended, and in Buenos Aires in 1910. It is now used in many cities throughout the world." In 1921 Eno founded the Eno Foundation for Highway Traffic Control in Westport, Connecticut, today known as the Eno Center for Transportation. The Foundation is a non-profit organization with the mission of improving transportation policy and leadership. His Westport office has been recreated as the William Phelps Eno Memorial


title: "William Phelps Eno" content: Center in the Simsbury Free Library in Simsbury, Connecticut. Eno was awarded the cross of the Legion of Honour by the French government, and was one of the first honorary members of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. He was a member of the New York Yacht Club and the first owner of the steam yacht "Aquilo", built in Boston in 1901. William Phelps Eno William Phelps Eno (June 3, 1858 – December 3, 1945) was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the "Father of traffic


title: "Spice Bazaar" content: Spice Bazaar The Spice Bazaar (Turkish: Mısır Çarşısı, meaning Egyptian Bazaar) in Istanbul, Turkey is one of the largest bazaars in the city. Located in the Eminönü quarter of the Fatih district, it is the most famous covered shopping complex after the Grand Bazaar. There are several documents suggesting the name of the bazaar was first "New Bazaar". The building was endowed to the foundation of the New Mosque, and got its name "Egyptian Bazaar" () because it was built with the revenues from the Ottoman eyalet of Egypt in 1660. The word "mısır" has a double meaning in Turkish:


title: "Assamese cuisine" content: and greens as per preference and availability. Fish is also prepared by roasting or char grilling. A favorite is small fish roasted in banana leaves ("paatotdia"). "Hukoti" is a special fish dish prepared from dried small fish like ("puthi maas") pounded with arum stem and dried and stored in bamboo tubes. Variations of this exist among the ethnic communities of northeast India in general and Assam in particular. Dried and fermented small fish "puthy mas" (Ticto barb), three to four in number, are roasted with lavish amounts of green chilis, tomatoes, ginger and garlic (all roasted). The ingredients are then


title: "Rooster (song)" content: he won't talk about it, but when I wrote this it felt right...like these were things he might have felt or thought. And I remember when we played it he was back by the soundboard and I could see him. He was back there with his big gray Stetson and his cowboy boots — he's a total Oklahoma man — and at the end, he took his hat off and just held it in the air. And he was crying the whole time. This song means a lot to me. A lot. Cantrell said of the song in a 2006


title: "Not Fade Away (Angel)" content: last day on Earth: Gunn visits his old neighborhood; Wesley tends to the wounded Illyria; Lorne spends some time onstage; Spike performs poetry at an open mic, and Angel visits his son. When night falls, the team divides and sets out to eliminate the members of the Black Thorn, incurring the wrath of the armies of hell. Angel briefs his team on his plan to kill all the members of the Circle of the Black Thorn. Marcus Hamilton calls Angel to an emergency meeting of the circle, where the other members express doubts about Angel's loyalties. Angel proves himself to


title: "Fox NFL" content: the quarter returned to being numerically represented for the regular season. On the rare occasion during a game in which the field lines are not visible (such as those dealing with snow or rain), a small bug pops up on the bottom left side of the screen with the logo of the team that is currently in possession as well as text indicating where the ball is (e.g., Arizona-Own 41 Yard Line). Beginning on November 15, 2009 (Week 11 of the 2009 season), scores from other ongoing NFL games that appear on the right side of the banner would have


title: "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" content: Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex is a 1969 essay in which science fiction author Larry Niven details the problems that Superman would face in sexual intercourse and reproduction with a human woman, using arguments based on humorous reconciliation between physics, biology, and the abilities of Kryptonians as presented in Superman comic books. The issues discussed include Superman's loss of physical control during intercourse, the presumed "super powers" of Superman's sperm cells, genetic incompatibility between humans and Kryptonians, and the dangers to the woman during gestation. The title is a reference to Superman's power


title: "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" content: was reprinted in the 1990 Niven compilation "N-Space". It was published with softcore illustrations by classic Superman artist Curt Swan with all identifying logos and names removed, in a 1995 edition of "Penthouse Comix". In 1986 it was posted to Usenet, leading to an early debate about online copyright violation. Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex is a 1969 essay in which science fiction author Larry Niven details the problems that Superman would face in sexual intercourse and reproduction with a human woman, using arguments based on humorous reconciliation between physics, biology, and the


title: "Crimson-crested woodpecker" content: eat wood-boring insects and larvae, as well as ants, termites, small vertebrates and caterpillars. The animal matter is sometimes supplemented with berries. Several of these large woodpeckers may be seen (4 or more) attracted to the same dead tree while feeding. The call of this widespread but wary bird is a loud, ringing "CHEE-sic". Both sexes drum. Crimson-crested woodpecker The crimson-crested Woodpecker ("Campephilus melanoleucos") is a very large woodpecker which is a resident breeding bird from Panama south to northern border regions of Argentina, and on Trinidad. The habitat of this species is forests and more open woodland. A nesting


title: "Long boat rescue" content: bow pair. Second Stroke (3) - the next seat away from the bow and probably the seat closest to the centre of the boat, their main role is to stabilise the boat. Their oar is on the same side of the boat as the bow rower. Stroke (4) - the seat closest to the stern (back) of the boat and the rower responsible for setting the speed and timing of the crew's rowing stroke. They combine with Second Stroke to make up the stern pair and their oar is on the same side as that of Second Bow. Sweep -


title: "Rydalmere, New South Wales" content: at Rydalmere. He still owned most of his Rydalmere property at the time of his death. Fairmount was later sold by the family and remained an orchard with a few building lots sold. It was not until after WW 2, when the Housing Commission acquired it for public housing, that it was fully developed. So why did he name his property Rydalmere, a lake he probably had never seen? Well, he had owned an estate named Rydalmere, which he had sold years before buying the Vineyard estate and must have liked the name which he reused. Exactly where his first


title: "Biggest ball of twine" content: Biggest ball of twine There are multiple claims to the world's biggest ball of twine record in the United States. As of 2014, the ball of twine with the largest circumference is located in Cawker City, Kansas. In Cawker City, Kansas, Frank Stoeber created a ball that had 1.6 million feet (490,000 m) of twine and when he died in 1974. Cawker City built an open-air gazebo over Stoeber's ball where every August a "Twine-a-thon" is held and more twine is added to the ball. By 2006, the twine ball had reached 17,886 pounds (8,111 kg, 8.9 US tons), a


title: "Biggest ball of twine" content: feet (12.6 m) in circumference, was certified as the world's largest ball of twine by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1993. It is, however, the lightest of the four contenders, weighing 12,000 pounds. Biggest ball of twine There are multiple claims to the world's biggest ball of twine record in the United States. As of 2014, the ball of twine with the largest circumference is located in Cawker City, Kansas. In Cawker City, Kansas, Frank Stoeber created a ball that had 1.6 million feet (490,000 m) of twine and when he died in 1974. Cawker City built an


title: "Josephus problem" content: thrown overboard. All 30 stand in a circle and every ninth person is to be tossed into the sea. Where should the Christians stand to ensure that only the Turks are tossed? In other versions the roles of Turks and Christians are interchanged. In "Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science", Graham, Knuth and Patashnik describe and study a "standard" variant: Determine where the last survivor stands if there are people to start and every second person ( = 2 below) is eliminated. A generalization of this problem is as follows. We suppose that every th person will be executed


title: "Hyundai Equus" content: engine types were changed to 3.3 and 3.8 Lambda V6 engine types which were designed and developed by Hyundai Motors. But the automatic transmission was not changed. Hyundai officially ceased the production of 1st generation Equus in November 2009. A new bigger, rear-wheel drive Equus was launched in March 2009. A limousine model was made for the Korean market. Equus Limousines have been used by famous company owners in Korea as well as foreign VIPs. The second generation Equus, codename "VI", was unveiled in Grand Hyatt Seoul. Unlike the old Equus, the VI has a rear-wheel drive architecture, a longer


title: "DINA S.A." content: diverse line of buses: F11, F12 and F14 using its new HTQ technology. In 1998 DINA, launched a new line of HTQ vehicles. They also ended the alliance with Navistar, and signed a contract with Western Star, whose order cancellation was the primary cause of DINA's subsequent economic collapse. DINA was forced to sell 6`% of its MCI shares to Joseph Littlejohn & Levy. The same year, DINA opened Mexicana de Manufacturas Especiales, SA of C.V. in Guadalajara, Jalisco. An industrial complex consisting of five plants, it produces autobodies and parts. Since 2001, DINA has applied its proprietary HTQ manufacturing


title: "Missile boat" content: Missile boat A missile boat or missile cutter is a small fast warship armed with anti-ship missiles. Being smaller than other warships such as destroyers and frigates, missile boats are popular with nations interested in forming a navy at lower cost. They are similar in concept to the torpedo boats of World War II; in fact, the first missile boats were modified torpedo boats with the torpedo tubes replaced by missile tubes. The doctrine behind the use of missile boats is based on the principle of mobility over defence and firepower. The advent of proper guided missile and electronic countermeasure


title: "Act II (popcorn)" content: Act II (popcorn) Act II is a brand of microwave popcorn in North America that is ostensibly based on the look and taste of movie theater popcorn. It is currently made and distributed by Conagra Brands. Act II was preceded in the popcorn market by Act I, an early microwave popcorn that had to be stored in the refrigerator due its real butter content. Act I was introduced in 1981. In 1984, Act II, a shelf stable microwave popcorn was released, becoming the first mass-marketed microwave popcorn. Act II was manufactured by the Golden Valley Microwave Foods (frequently abbreviated as


title: "Baltimore Terrapins" content: Baltimore Terrapins The Baltimore Terrapins were one of the most successful teams in the short-lived Federal League of professional baseball from to , but their brief existence led to litigation that led to an important legal precedent in baseball. The team played its home games at Terrapin Park. Most of the professional baseball teams in Baltimore have been called the Orioles, in reference to the Baltimore oriole bird. There was already a minor league Baltimore Orioles, and the new Federal League club built their ballpark directly across the street from the Orioles park. The new club chose to call itself


title: "Anvil of Stars" content: to their vast technological resources. They have created hundreds of sentient races, interlocked in a culture of breathtaking complexity and beauty. The execution of justice falls to children of the destroyed planets. Those from Earth base their on-ship culture on Peter Pan, calling themselves Wendys and Lost Boys. It is revealed once the Leviathan system is destroyed that the Killers were in fact still in the system, and had continued to manufacture fleets of self-replicating machines to destroy alien races. However, while the Killers were destroyed and justice served, trillions of what were likely innocents had to die to accomplish


title: "Charlie Utter" content: Charlie Utter Charles H. Utter (Colorado Charlie) (around 1838, near Niagara Falls, New York – after 1912) was an early figure in the American Wild West, best known as a great friend and companion of Wild Bill Hickok. He was also acquainted with Calamity Jane. Utter grew up in Illinois, then went westwards in search of his fortune, becoming a trapper, guide, and prospector in Colorado in the 1860s. In early 1876, Utter and his brother, Steve, took a 30-wagon wagon train of prospectors, gamblers, 180 prostitutes, and assorted hopefuls from Georgetown, Colorado to the gold rush in Deadwood, South


title: "Charlie Utter" content: not bring Hickok to a bad end. Unfortunately, Utter was not present on August 2, 1876, when Jack McCall fatally shot Hickok in the back of the head, as Hickok played poker. Utter claimed the body and placed a notice in the local newspaper, the Black Hills Pioneer, which read: Attendance at the funeral was heavy, and Utter had Hickok buried with a wooden grave marker which read: Utter left for Colorado but returned in 1879 to have Hickok reinterred, at Calamity Jane's urging, in a ten-foot square plot at the Mount Moriah Cemetery, surrounded by a cast iron fence


title: "Charlie Utter" content: slept under the highest quality blankets, imported from California, and carried with him mirrors, combs, razors, and whisk brooms. Most unusual of all, he was well known for his "bizarre habit" of bathing daily. Utter was portrayed in the HBO television series "Deadwood" by Dayton Callie. Contrary to the historical Utter, the character was portrayed as rough-mannered and often unkempt in his appearance. Charlie Utter Charles H. Utter (Colorado Charlie) (around 1838, near Niagara Falls, New York – after 1912) was an early figure in the American Wild West, best known as a great friend and companion of Wild Bill


title: "Rotary Youth Exchange" content: bold, the other ones are used in some regions): Rotary Youth Exchange from Rotary International Rotary International A Primer for Exchange Students A Guide for Host Families Rotary Youth Exchange from USA-Canada youth exchange network Cultures Shocked: International Youth Exchange Forum YEP-Online A place where Rotary Youth Exchange Students can meet Rotary Youth Exchange Program (Belgium/Luxembourg) D1620, D2170, D1630 Rotary Youth Exchange The Netherlands Rotary Youth Exchange for Britain & Ireland Rotary Youth Exchange for Spain Rotex Belgium 2nd International Rotex Convention July 2014, Brussels, Belgium Rotary Youth Exchange Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) is a Rotary International student exchange program


title: "Tom Morey" content: Kauai beach, where "whites, blacks and Hawaiians, mixed cordially" "After a couple of months of attending informal meetings on Bahá'í teachings - I realized this was very something important not to toy with; rather to become immersed in." "I withdrew immediately from alcohol, drugs and sexual promiscuity". Morey attributes inspiration for invention of the Boogie board (July 7, 1971) to a particular Baha'i prayer he kept coming across which included the passage "convey upon me, oh, my God, a thought which will turn this planet into a rose garden.'" He married Marchia Nichols, now Marchia Morey, "mother of bodyboarding", who


title: RRRecords content: two 10" x 10" steel plates. A collaborative LP by SBOTHI, Merzbow, and P16.D4 came packaged in between two silk-screened sheets of plexi-glass. "God Bless America" was a 3xLP box set compilation of American experimental music which came wrapped in a purpose-made American flag. For a period of a few years in the late 1990s, RRRecords would host free Saturday afternoon concerts at the store, which were called the "2 O'Clock Matinee" series. Concerts were never advertised or promoted, but every one was recorded by Ron Lessard and every band always got paid $20. Lessard's Xeroxed copies of a mail


title: "Lightbulb Sun" content: Lightbulb Sun Lightbulb Sun is the sixth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in May 2000, and later reissued in 2008 on CD, DVD-A surround sound, and vinyl. This album, along with their prior album "Stupid Dream", are considered to have a more commercial, poppier sound, as opposed to the abstract instrumental sound of their prior albums, or the heavier metal sound in their subsequent albums of the 2000s. The album is divided into two parts between "Rest Will Flow" and "Hatesong". The first part concentrates more on melodic, pop elements of Porcupine Tree's style,


title: "Lightbulb Sun" content: metal direction with 2002's "In Absentia"), and continued "Out of that old band, Lightbulb Sun is the very best album they created". Many reviewers felt the album sounded similar to the work of Pink Floyd. The album has also been praised for being more accessible than most progressive rock, with Bill Kopp of "Musoscribe" stating ""Lightbulb Sun" is, like all (Porcupine Tree), really, very accessible stuff. In many ways, Porcupine Tree can serve as a listener's entree into a heretofore unexplored genre: if you're a rock fan but not so into prog, (it) can ease you in gently. If...you're no


title: "Lightbulb Sun" content: metal fan, the band ... can show you the benefits of that genre without going all Metallica on you." In October 2011, it was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association (IMPALA), which indicated sales in excess of 75,000 copies throughout Europe. Lightbulb Sun Lightbulb Sun is the sixth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in May 2000, and later reissued in 2008 on CD, DVD-A surround sound, and vinyl. This album, along with their prior album "Stupid Dream", are considered to have a more commercial, poppier sound, as opposed to the


title: "Table Rock Lake" content: expanded menu and bait shop. The RV park features views of Table Rock Lake with long term site rental agreements. Seventeen people were killed on July 19, 2018 when a duck boat filled with tourists capsized and sank in high winds on Table Rock Lake. Table Rock Lake Table Rock Lake is an artificial lake or reservoir in the Ozarks of southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. The lake is impounded by Table Rock Dam (located ) constructed from 1954 to 1958 on the White River by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It is a popular attraction for the nearby


title: "Eastern elk" content: Eastern elk The eastern elk ("Cervus canadensis canadensis") was a subspecies or distinct population of elk that inhabited the northern and eastern United States, and southern Canada. The last eastern elk was shot in Pennsylvania on September 1, 1877. The subspecies was declared extinct by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1880. Another subspecies of elk, the Merriam's elk, also became extinct at roughly the same time. As of 2017, the IUCN has reclassified all North American elk subspecies aside from the tule and Roosevelt elk as "C. c. canadensis". If this is accurate, this means that the


title: "Eastern elk" content: early 1980s. These elk could be of eastern origin—and could still exist in the wilds of Ontario. Eastern elk The eastern elk ("Cervus canadensis canadensis") was a subspecies or distinct population of elk that inhabited the northern and eastern United States, and southern Canada. The last eastern elk was shot in Pennsylvania on September 1, 1877. The subspecies was declared extinct by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1880. Another subspecies of elk, the Merriam's elk, also became extinct at roughly the same time. As of 2017, the IUCN has reclassified all North American elk subspecies aside from


title: "Wimbledon (UK Parliament constituency)" content: 1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Wimbledon, and the Urban District of Merton and Morden. 1950-1955: The Municipal Boroughs of Wimbledon, and Malden and Coombe. 1955-1974: The Municipal Borough of Wimbledon. 1974-1983: The London Borough of Merton wards of Cannon Hill, Priory, West Barnes, Wimbledon East, Wimbledon North, Wimbledon South, and Wimbledon West. 1983-2010: The London Borough of Merton wards of Abbey, Cannon Hill, Dundonald, Durnsford, Hillside, Merton Park, Raynes Park, Trinity, Village, and West Barnes. 2010-present: As above less Durnsford ward and with Wimbledon Park ward added. The seat has a commuter-sustained suburban economy with an imposing shopping centre, overwhelmingly


title: "Low-frequency radar" content: Low-frequency radar Low-frequency radar is radar which uses frequencies lower than 1 GHz such as L-band, UHF, VHF, and HF, as opposed to the usual radar bands, which range from 2 GHz and up, and the maximum is 40 GHz.The radar cross section of any target depends on the radar transmitted frequency. Below 900 MHz the target radar cross section increases exponentially, however the increased radar cross section means that there is much more radar return from undesirable sources, such as cloud cover and rain ("cf." weather radar). It is because of this that radars are traditionally at much higher


title: "Low-frequency radar" content: transport and making for an easy target. A long-wave radar may detect a target and roughly locate it, but not identify it, and the location information lacks sufficient weapon targeting accuracy Low-frequency radar Low-frequency radar is radar which uses frequencies lower than 1 GHz such as L-band, UHF, VHF, and HF, as opposed to the usual radar bands, which range from 2 GHz and up, and the maximum is 40 GHz.The radar cross section of any target depends on the radar transmitted frequency. Below 900 MHz the target radar cross section increases exponentially, however the increased radar cross section means


title: "Rare Bird" content: More And More 4.05 Side Two 1. Hard Time 3.06 2. Who Is The Hero 3.39 3. High In The Morning 3.30 4. Dollars 8.38 Incorporating Extracts From: A Few Dollars More. Personnel: Steve Gould - Guitar. Bass guitar on "Who Is The Hero". Dave Kaffinetti - Pianos, Clavinette, Organ. Andy Curtis - Guitar Nic Potter - Bass guitar Fred Kelly - Drums, Northern Percussion. Rare Bird Rare Bird were an English progressive rock band, formed in 1969. They had more success in other European countries. They released five studio albums between 1969 and 1974. In the UK, they never


title: "Feed and Forage Act" content: ""The Department shall limit its use of the authority in 41 U.S.C 11 to emergency circumstances."" Many sources refer to a "Food and Forage Act" but the name used by the U.S. Government is "Feed and Forage Act". Feed and Forage Act The Feed and Forage Act of 1861 is legislation passed by the United States Congress that allows the Military Departments to incur obligations in excess of available appropriations for clothing, subsistence, fuel, quarters, transportation and medical supplies. This provision is codified in Section 3732 of the Revised Statutes (). It also authorizes incurring deficiencies for costs of additional


title: "Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad" content: railroad from interchanging with the Rochester & Southern at Genesee Junction. With fierce opposition from CSX, the Surface Transportation Board granted the LA&L trackage rights across the Genesee Junction Yard, trackage rights into the R&S and its yard at Brooks Avenue, and haulage rights on the R&S to Silver Springs, New York. This gave the LA&L access to three Class I railroads: CSX, Norfolk Southern, and Canadian Pacific Railway. 1998 was a busy year for the LAL. A number of infrastructure rehabilitation projects resulted in the line from Lakeville to Genesee Jct becoming a 25MPH railroad – not the 5-10MPH


title: "Food and drink in Birmingham" content: empire in Birmingham which now has its headquarters in the Chinese Quarter, along with other fine oriental restaurants. In 1945 Abdul Aziz, one of the first East Bengali (later known as Bangladeshi) immigrants to live in Birmingham, opened a cafe shop selling curry and rice in Steelhouse Lane with many policemen from the local police station as customers as well as lawyers and barristers who worked at the nearby law courts. This later became The Darjeeling and was the first Asian restaurant in Birmingham, owned by Afrose Miah. The second Asian restaurant in Birmingham was The Shah Bagh on Bristol


title: "Food and drink in Birmingham" content: spring 2018 - 'The Opheem' which serves 'Progressive Indian cuisine' and the neighbouring 'Mi Amore Ristorante Pizzaria'. Outside the city centre and Balti Triangle, the many suburbs of Birmingham are home to numerous South Asian-style restaurants, some of which are award-winning, an example being "Thania Spice", situated in the small suburb of West Heath, whose chef, Abdul Subhan, was awarded the "Curry Life" award of 2013 as one of the 42 best curry chefs in The United Kingdom. After World War II, the Berni brothers (Frank and Aldo), two Welshmen of Italian ancestry, established what became known as a "Berni


title: "Naples Botanical Garden" content: opened the Scott Florida Garden, Buehler Enabling Garden, Garden Club of Naples Idea Garden, Lea Asian Garden and the Water Garden. In October 2014 the master plan implementation was completed with the opening of the Chabraja Visitor Center including Kathryn’s Garden, Irma’s Garden, LaGrippe Orchid Garden, Kapnick Hall, Berger Shop in the Garden and the Fogg Café. Naples Botanical Garden Naples Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in Naples, Florida, United States. Incorporated in 1994, the Garden consists of 170 acres of cultivated gardens and preservation land, representing seven distinct natural habitats and ecosystems, and featuring over 1000 species, with


title: "Andy Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show)" content: Andy and Barney are featured in a musical sketch about their friendship and recreate some classic moments between the characters. Andy Griffith, as Sheriff Taylor, also has a brief comedy cameo in "Rowan and Martin at the Movies" (1969), a PSA short subject promoting the purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds. Andy Taylor appeared in all 249 episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show" and was played by comedian, musician, and actor Andy Griffith. Andy Taylor lives in the fictional, sleepy community of Mayberry, North Carolina. Andy is a widower and father to one young son, Opie. In the backdoor pilot episode


title: "National Hobo Convention" content: & Hobo 10K Walk/Run, Hobo King & Hobo Queen coronation, Hobo Museum, Hobo Auction, Hobo Memorial Service, Hobo Sunday Outdoor Church Service, Hobo Classic Car Show, Hobo Arts and Crafts Show and various hobo musical entertainment. The Hobo Jungle is open to the public. National Hobo Convention The National Hobo Convention is held on the second weekend of every August since 1900 in the town of Britt, Iowa, organized by the local Chamber of Commerce, and known throughout the town as the annual "Hobo Day" celebration. The National Hobo Convention is the largest gathering of hobos, rail-riders, and tramps, who


title: "Winter savory" content: Maurice Messegue claimed that savory was 'the herb of happiness'. Winter savory Satureja montana (winter savory or mountain savory), is a perennial, semi-evergreen herb in the family Lamiaceae, native to warm temperate regions of southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and Africa. It has dark green, leaves and summer flowers ranging from pale lavender, or pink to white. While the closely related plant, summer savory ("Satureja hortensis" L.) is an annual plant. It grows to between tall. The leathery, dark green, leaves are opposite, oval-lanceolate, (or needle-like , 1–2 cm long and 5 mm broad. The flowers appear in summer, between July


title: "Advertising campaign" content: audience can work out well if they're already interested in what you're selling. Over time target markets can change. People interested today might not be interested tomorrow, and those not interested in the present time, might become interested over time. Analysing sales data and customer information helps businesses and individuals understand when their target market is increasing or decreasing. There are many advantages that are associated with finding your Target Market. One advantage is the “ability to offer the right product” (Suttle. R. 2016) through knowing the age and needs of the customer willing to purchase the item. Another advantage


title: "Crack spread" content: included 3:2:1, 5:3:2 and 2:1:1. As the 3:2:1 crack spread is the most popular of these, widely quoted crack spread benchmarks are the "Gulf Coast 3:2:1" and the "Chicago 3:2:1". Various financial intermediaries in the commodity markets have tailored their products to facilitate trading crack spreads. For example, NYMEX offers virtual crack spread futures contracts by treating a basket of underlying NYMEX futures contracts corresponding to a crack spread as a single transaction. Treating crack spread futures baskets as a single transaction has the advantage of reducing the margin requirements for a crack spread futures position. Other market participants dealing


title: KEZI content: special in 2005. In late 2005, KEZI pioneered high-definition television (HDTV) programming in the Eugene market by airing a locally originated Oregon Ducks football game in HDTV. KEZI coordinated the broadcast with the Oregon Sports Network and ESPN Plus. Up until that point, no other broadcast station had aired local HDTV programming in western Oregon (all HDTV broadcasts had been network). On April 26, 2010, KEZI became the first station in the Eugene market to broadcast local news in high definition. The KEZI news department is a large operation serving most of southwestern Oregon. KEZI's sister stations KDRV Medford and


title: "Budweiser Frogs" content: Bowl commercial featuring the frogs had them riding on the back of an alligator into the bar, where they croak their names at the startled patrons, and leave with a crate of Budweiser beer strapped to the alligator's waist while dancing to Jamming by Bob Marley and the Wailers. After the initial ads generated great interest, new creatures began making appearances in the swamp. Beginning at Super Bowl XXXII, a new campaign created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners introduced two wisecracking chameleons made their debut. Louie, notable for his distinct Brooklyn accent (he was voiced by New York City voice


title: "Budweiser Frogs" content: findings Budweiser eventually slowed down the ad campaign in the years ahead, and by 1998 the frogs were discontinued and replaced by lizards, which appealed to an older audience than the frogs did. Budweiser Frogs The Budweiser Frogs are three lifelike puppet frogs named "Bud", "Weis", and "Er", who began appearing in American television commercials for Budweiser beer during Super Bowl XXIX in 1995. They are part of one of the most well-known international alcohol advertising campaigns. The first Budweiser Frogs commercial was created by David Swaine, Michael Smith and Mark Choate of DMB&B/St. Louis, but only after their ACDs


title: "European Portuguese" content: European Portuguese European Portuguese (, ), also known as Lusitanian Portuguese (') and Portuguese of Portugal (') in Brazil, or even “Portuguese Portuguese” refers to the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal. Standard Portuguese pronunciation, the prestige norm based on European Portuguese, is the reference for Portugal, the Portuguese-speaking African countries, East Timor and Macau. The word “European” was chosen to avoid the clash of “Portuguese Portuguese” (“""”) as opposed to Brazilian Portuguese. The language is the same with different accents in many countries. It is a Latin based language, with Gaelic, Germanic, Greek and Arabic influence. It was spoken in


title: "European Portuguese" content: the Portuguese language but also Portuguese culture. Thus, it promotes European Portuguese as a norm for learners. RTP is the Portuguese public television network and also serves as a vehicle for European-Portuguese-providing media content throughout the world. There is a branch of RTP Internacional named RTP África, which serves Lusophone Africa. In estimating the size of the speech community for European Portuguese, one must take into account the consequences of the Portuguese diaspora: immigrant communities located throughout the world in the Americas, Australia, Europe and Africa. European Portuguese European Portuguese (, ), also known as Lusitanian Portuguese (') and Portuguese


title: "Reproductive biology" content: Reproductive biology Reproductive biology includes both sexual and asexual reproduction. Reproductive biology includes a wide number of fields: Human reproductive biology is primarily controlled through hormones, which send signals to the human reproductive structures to influence growth and maturation. These hormones are secreted by endocrine glands, and spread to different tissues in the human body. In humans, the pituitary gland synthesizes hormones used to control the activity of endocrine glands. Internal and external organs are included in the reproductive system. There are two reproductive systems including the male and female, which contain different organs from one another. These systems work


title: "Equivalent carbon content" content: how alloying elements will affect the heat treatment and casting behavior. It is used as a predictor of strength in cast irons because it gives an approximate balance of austenite and graphite in final structure. The following formulas are used to determine the CE in cast irons: This CE is then used to determine if the alloy is hypoeutectic, eutectic, or hypereutectic; for cast irons the eutectic is 4.3% carbon. When casting cast iron this is useful for determining the final grain structure; for example, a hypereutectic cast iron usually has a coarse grain structure and large kish graphite flakes


title: "California State Route 76" content: Fe Avenue (CR S14), Guajome Lake Road (near Guajome County Park), and Melrose Drive. SR 76 intersects the southern segment of CR S13, known as East Vista Way, and passes over the San Luis Rey River on roughly parallel bridges before an intersection at North River Road. The highway passes through Bonsall, intersecting Via Montellano, Olive Hill Road, and Throughbred Lane. SR 76 then meets the northern segment of CR S13, known as South Mission Road, while heading north into Fallbrook; SR 76 is the primary road connecting the two portions of CR S13. Here, SR 76 becomes known as


title: Modenas content: on imported motorcycles placed by the government and also refusal of the banks to finance loans on large motorcycles. During these recent years, more and more scooter models were introduced in Malaysia. However, Kawasaki never produced any scooters, therefore Modenas had to source from a Taiwanese scooter company for the technology transfer. The earliest production batches suffered poor handling, and after some improvements the handling of this model became better and Modenas Karisma dominates the Malaysian scooter market since 2004. On August 2003, Modenas introduced three scooters, based on models produced by PGO Scooters of Taiwan. Mostly as the great


title: "Theresienstadt concentration camp" content: for prisoners. Many of the functionaries in the Transport Department enriched themselves by accepting bribes. Powerful individuals attempted, and often succeeded, to exempt their friends from deportation, a fact that was noted by prisoners at the time. Because Czech Zionists had a disproportionate influence in the self-administration, they were often able to secure better jobs and exemptions to transport for other Czech Zionists. Because of the unhygenic conditions in the camp and shortages of clean water, medicine, and food, many prisoners fell ill. 30% of the camp's population was classified as sick with scarlet fever, typhoid, diphtheria, polio, or encephalitis


title: "Sustain pedal" content: Sustain pedal A sustain pedal or sustaining pedal (also called damper pedal, loud pedal, or open pedal) is the most commonly used pedal in a modern piano. It is typically the rightmost of two or three pedals. When pressed, the sustain pedal "sustains" all the damped strings on the piano by moving all the dampers away from the strings and allowing them to vibrate freely. All notes played will continue to sound until the vibration naturally ceases, or until the pedal is released. This lets the pianist sustain notes which would otherwise be out of reach, for instance in accompanying


title: "Sustain pedal" content: pedaling by some pianists is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Most recent digital pianos also support this effect. Sustain pedal A sustain pedal or sustaining pedal (also called damper pedal, loud pedal, or open pedal) is the most commonly used pedal in a modern piano. It is typically the rightmost of two or three pedals. When pressed, the sustain pedal "sustains" all the damped strings on the piano by moving all the dampers away from the strings and allowing them to vibrate freely. All notes played will continue to sound until the vibration naturally ceases, or until the pedal is released. This


title: "Final protective fire" content: positions that are at risk of being overrun by the enemy. Final Protective Fire is commonly also incorporated into a defensive plan that incorporates a Final Protective Line, in which the Final Protective Line is a line that once the enemy has crossed, the FPF plan is enacted. Reference: ATP 3-09.30 Final protective fire Final protective fire refers to a tactical plan for a military unit, set up in support of the infantry, to protect itself against overwhelming attack. Final protective fire ("FPF") is a request for artillery support (a "fire mission") generally reserved for a unit being overrun, and


title: "Totino's" content: Totino's Totino's and Jeno's are brands of frozen pizza products owned by General Mills. Rose Totino and her husband, Jim, founded a take-out pizzeria in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1951. They later expanded it to a full-service restaurant, which closed in 2011. They also founded a frozen-pizza manufacturing company. The Totinos eventually sold their frozen pizza business to the Pillsbury Company, where Rose Totino was named as vice-president. The Totino's brand was acquired by General Mills with its purchase of Pillsbury. Separately, Jeno Paulucci developed a series of food businesses starting in the late 1940s, including the Chun King line of


title: "Totino's" content: fair for nutrition" because of "high total fat and trans fat and low fiber." Totino's Totino's and Jeno's are brands of frozen pizza products owned by General Mills. Rose Totino and her husband, Jim, founded a take-out pizzeria in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1951. They later expanded it to a full-service restaurant, which closed in 2011. They also founded a frozen-pizza manufacturing company. The Totinos eventually sold their frozen pizza business to the Pillsbury Company, where Rose Totino was named as vice-president. The Totino's brand was acquired by General Mills with its purchase of Pillsbury. Separately, Jeno Paulucci developed a series


title: "Green Giant" content: Green Giant Green Giant and Le Sueur are brands of frozen and canned vegetables owned by B&G Foods. The company's mascot is the Jolly Green Giant. The Minnesota Valley Canning Company was founded in 1903 in Le Sueur, Minnesota. It used the brand name "Le Sueur Z" for canned vegetables starting in 1903; "Le Sueur" by itself was first used in 1933. The brand "Green Giant Great Big Tender Peas" was first used in 1925, and the figure of a giant was introduced three years later by Carly Stanek (Bingum). The brand was created in response to the discovery of


title: "Green Giant" content: a new variety of pea, the Prince of Wales: they were, as Martin Sloan relates, "oblong, wrinkled, and, as peas go, huge. Despite their size, they were tender, and had a special flavor and sweetness that couldn't be matched. The company went to the brands for which it canned and found that none of them wanted to sell the new peas. So Minnesota Valley decided to sell them under its own label. Rather than apologize for the size of the peas, they decided to emphasize it. They named the peas 'Green Giant.'" The original mascot had very little in common


title: "Green Giant" content: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Green Valley Singers was released. Side one was a medley of popular folk songs, while side two told the story of how Ford and the Jolly Green Giant collaborated on writing his signature TV song ("How The Green Giant Found His Song (And Almost Lost His Ho! Ho! Ho!)"). The jacket for the record gives the official "biography" of the Jolly Green Giant. In 1964 The Kingsmen scored a hit at #4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 with "The Jolly Green Giant," a novelty tune about the Giant's love life. In 1999 the marketing industry's


title: "Green Giant" content: leading publication, "Advertising Age", posited a list of the twentieth century's top ten advertising icons, and placed the Green Giant third (behind the Marlboro Man and Ronald McDonald, and ahead of Betty Crocker, the Energizer Bunny, the Pillsbury Doughboy, Aunt Jemima, the Michelin Man, Tony the Tiger, and Elsie [the Borden cow]). "The Valley of the Jolly Green Giant" refers to the Minnesota River valley around Le Sueur. Today, just before dropping down into the valley heading south on U.S. Route 169 an enormous wooden sign of the Jolly Green Giant, along with the Little Green Sprout, is visible with


title: "Green Giant" content: the Fourth of July. In 2014, in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Green Giant statue's installation on its base, Paul Hedberg was asked to serve as Grand Marshal of the parade that culminates the festivities. Every year during Giant Days, green footsteps are painted on sidewalks throughout downtown Blue Earth, leading to local businesses . Green Giant Green Giant and Le Sueur are brands of frozen and canned vegetables owned by B&G Foods. The company's mascot is the Jolly Green Giant. The Minnesota Valley Canning Company was founded in 1903 in Le Sueur, Minnesota. It used the brand


title: Male content: Male A male (♂) organism is the physiological sex that produces sperm. Each spermatozoon can fuse with a larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilization. A male cannot reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. Not all species share a common sex-determination system. In most animals, including humans, sex is determined genetically, but in some species it can


title: Male content: be determined due to social, environmental, or other factors. For example, "Cymothoa exigua" changes sex depending on the number of females present in the vicinity. The existence of two sexes seems to have been selected independently across different evolutionary lineages (see convergent evolution). The repeated pattern is sexual reproduction in isogamous species with two or more mating types with gametes of identical form and behavior (but different at the molecular level) to anisogamous species with gametes of male and female types to oogamous species in which the female gamete is very much larger than the male and has no ability


title: Male content: to move. There is a good argument that this pattern was driven by the physical constraints on the mechanisms by which two gametes get together as required for sexual reproduction. Accordingly, sex is defined operationally across species by the type of gametes produced (i.e.: spermatozoa vs. ova) and differences between males and females in one lineage are not always predictive of differences in another. Male/female dimorphism between organisms or reproductive organs of different sexes is not limited to animals; male gametes are produced by chytrids, diatoms and land plants, among others. In land plants, "female" and "male" designate not only


title: Male content: the female and male gamete-producing organisms and structures but also the structures of the sporophytes that give rise to male and female plants. As of the year 2012, the United Arab Emirates had the highest ratio of human males in the world, followed by Qatar. A common symbol used to represent the male sex is the Mars symbol, ♂ — a circle with an arrow pointing northeast; in Unicode . The symbol is identical to the planetary symbol of Mars. It was first used to denote sex by Carl Linnaeus in 1751. The symbol is often called a stylized representation


title: Male content: of the Roman god Mars' shield and spear. According to Stearn, however, all the historical evidence favours that it is derived from "θρ", the contraction of the Greek name for the planet Mars, which is Thouros. The sex of a particular organism may be determined by a number of factors. These may be genetic or environmental, or may naturally change during the course of an organism's life. Although most species with male and female sexes have individuals that are either male or female, hermaphroditic animals, such as worms, have both male and female reproductive organs. Most mammals, including humans, are


title: Male content: genetically determined as such by the XY sex-determination system where males have an XY (as opposed to XX) sex chromosome. It is also possible in a variety of species, including humans, to be XXY or have other intersex/hermaphroditic qualities, though one would still be considered genotypically (if not necessarily phenotypically) male so long as one has a Y-chromosome. During reproduction, a male can give either an X sperm or a Y sperm, while a female can only give an X egg. A Y sperm and an X egg produce a male, while an X sperm and an X egg produce


title: Male content: a female. The part of the Y-chromosome which is responsible for maleness is the sex-determining region of the Y-chromosome, the SRY. The SRY activates Sox9, which forms feedforward loops with FGF9 and PGD2 in the gonads, allowing the levels of these genes to stay high enough in order to cause male development; for example, Fgf9 is responsible for development of the spermatic cords and the multiplication of Sertoli cells, both of which are crucial to male sexual development. The ZW sex-determination system, where males have a ZZ (as opposed to ZW) sex chromosome may be found in birds and some


title: Male content: insects (mostly butterflies and moths) and other organisms. Members of the insect order Hymenoptera, such as ants and bees, are often determined by haplodiploidy, where most males are haploid and females and some sterile males are diploid. In some species of reptiles, such as alligators, sex is determined by the temperature at which the egg is incubated. Other species, such as some snails, practice sex change: adults start out male, then become female. In tropical clown fish, the dominant individual in a group becomes female while the other ones are male. In some arthropods, sex is determined by infection. Bacteria


title: Male content: of the genus "Wolbachia" alter their sexuality; some species consist entirely of ZZ individuals, with sex determined by the presence of "Wolbachia". In those species with two sexes, males may differ from females in ways other than the production of spermatozoa. In many insects and fish, the male is smaller than the female. In seed plants, which exhibit alternation of generations, the female and male parts are both included within the sporophyte sex organ of a single organism. In mammals, including humans, males are typically larger than females. In birds, the male often exhibits a colorful plumage that attracts females.


title: "Klaus Woerner" content: Ryerson University after he and his wife moved to Toronto, Ontario. He graduated in 1972 and began working for Ford, which introduced him to automated manufacturing technology. Woerner was keen to start his own business and in 1978 he started the engineering company which grew into Automation Tooling Systems. The company now has 26 worldwide divisions and over 4000 employees. Woerner won many distinguished business awards, including the Ernst & Young Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997. He was a great philanthropist, and donated 5 million dollars to the main theatre of Kitchener, Ontario, the Centre in the Square,


title: "Cowboy poetry" content: Cowboy poetry Cowboy poetry is a form of poetry that grew from a tradition of cowboys telling stories. Contrary to common belief, cowboy poetry does not actually have to be written by cowboys, though adherents would claim that authors should have some connection to the cowboy life such that they can write poetry with an "insider's perspective". One example of a popular "cowboy poem" written by a non-cowboy is "The Ride of Paul Venarez" by Eben E. Rexford, a 19th-Century freelance author. Newcomers are surprised to hear cowboy poetry that is contemporary. Many people tend to focus on the historic


title: "Cowboy poetry" content: cowboy lifestyle, but the work that cowboys do continues. The cowboy lifestyle is a living tradition that exists in western North America and other areas, thus, contemporary cowboy poetry is still being created, still being recited, and still entertaining many camp visitors around campfires and convention halls. Much of what is known as "old time" country music originates from the rhyming couplet style often seen in cowboy poetry along with guitar music. Typical themes of cowboy poetry include: The following is a verse from LaVerna Johnson's poem "Homestead", which exhibits traditional cowboy poetry features: (Note the use of cowboy vernacular


title: "Cowboy poetry" content: matter. Regardless, most cowboy poets stay within more classical guidelines, especially rhyming verse. So-called "free verse" poetry is uncommon in cowboy poetry. Cowboy poetry continues to be written and celebrated today. Baxter Black is probably the most famous, and possibly the most prolific, contemporary cowboy poet. In addition to the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering held every year in Elko, Nevada, many cities in the United States and Canada have annual "roundups" dedicated to cowboy poetry. Cowboy Poetry week is celebrated each April in the United States and Canada. In addition, Robert W. Service is sometimes classified as a cowboy poet.


title: "Cowboy poetry" content: Famed spoken-word artist Bingo Gazingo has done at least one cowboy poem, "Everything's OK at the OK Corral." Cowboy poetry Cowboy poetry is a form of poetry that grew from a tradition of cowboys telling stories. Contrary to common belief, cowboy poetry does not actually have to be written by cowboys, though adherents would claim that authors should have some connection to the cowboy life such that they can write poetry with an "insider's perspective". One example of a popular "cowboy poem" written by a non-cowboy is "The Ride of Paul Venarez" by Eben E. Rexford, a 19th-Century freelance author.