title: Fastball content: relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman. It was clocked at 105.1 miles per hour. April 19, 2011 Chapman lit up the stadium radar gun at 106 MPH (the TV-reading had his pitch at 105 MPH, and the pitchF/X reading was actually 102.4 MPH). Two general methods are used to throw a four-seam fastball. The first and most traditional way is to find the horseshoe seam area, or the area where the seams are the farthest apart. Keeping those seams parallel to the body, the pitcher places his index and middle fingers perpendicular to them with the pads on the farthest seam from


title: Fastball content: him. The thumb then rests underneath the ball about in the middle of the two fingers. With this grip, the thumb will generally have no seam on which to rest. The four seam fastball is widely regarded as the main key to advancing to the next level of play. One of a baseball scout's main criteria when scouting a prospect is how fast he throws a four seam fastball. The game of baseball keeps on progressing, and as research on the physics of throwing is published and recognized, fastball velocity training has become more effective. This can be shown by


title: Fastball content: looking at the average fastball velocity in the major leagues as time progresses. In 2008 the average fastball thrown in the MLB was 90.9 mph. 5 years later it had risen to 92.0. To show the effect that this increase in velocity has had on hitters in the big leagues, we can look at the runs scored stat. In 2008, the average number of runs a team scored a game was 4.6; 5 years later as the velocity increased, the average dropped by half a run a game, to 4.0. How has pitch velocity gone up so much? Mostly by


title: Fastball content: the development of better training and clearer communication within the baseball community that velocity is so valued. People like Tom House, Eric Cressey, Kyle Boddy, and Ron Wolforth have all pushed the edge and dedicated careers to research on what makes the ultimate pitcher. Pitchers are getting bigger, faster and stronger, and pushing their bodies in the weight room as well as with weighted ball throwing. All of this has created a faster, more powerful game for pitchers on the mound today. A two-seam fastball, sometimes called a two-seamer, tailing fastball, running fastball, or sinker is another variant of the


title: Slider content: Slider In baseball, a slider is a breaking ball pitch that tails laterally and down through the batter's hitting zone; it is thrown with less speed than a fastball but greater than the pitcher's curveball. The break on the pitch is shorter than that of the curveball, and the release technique is 'between' those of a curveball and a fastball. The slider is similar to the cutter, a fastball pitch, but is more of a breaking ball than the cutter. The slider is also known as a yakker or a snapper. Depending on velocity, a pitch can fall anywhere on


title: Slider content: the continuum from "fastball" to "slider": The difference between a slider and curveball is that the curveball delivery includes a downward yank on the ball as it is released in addition to the lateral spin applied by the slider grip. The slider is released off the index finger, while the curveball is released off the middle finger. If the pitcher is snapping his wrist as he throws, and the movement is more downward than sideways, then he is probably throwing a curveball or slurve, and not a true "slider". It is important when throwing a slider, or any breaking pitch


title: Slider content: Philadelphia Phillies. Closer Francisco Cordero also throws a slider. Other top pitchers to throw a slider included Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers, who used the pitch to win a Cy Young Award in 1981,and Seattle Mariners and Arizona Diamondbacks starter Randy Johnson, whose slider's lateral movement eventually spawned its own nickname, "Mr. Snappy". At times, Johnson's slider was faster than most pitchers' fastballs. Mike Jackson, who tied Paul Assenmacher with the most games pitched in the 1990s (644), also threw a slider. Ron Guidry threw a slider, which he was taught by Sparky Lyle. Armando Galarraga threw sliders 38.9% of


title: "Rich Dad Poor Dad" content: Rich Dad Poor Dad Rich Dad Poor Dad is a 1997 book written by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter. It advocates the importance of financial literacy (financial education), financial independence and building wealth through investing in assets, real estate investing, starting and owning businesses, as well as increasing one's financial intelligence (financial IQ) to improve one's business and financial aptitude. "Rich Dad Poor Dad" is written in the style of a set of parables, ostensibly based on Kiyosaki's life. "Rich Dad Poor Dad" has sold over 58 million copies in more than 51 languages across more than 109 countries, been


title: "Rich Dad Poor Dad" content: published and in a preface to this 20th Anniversary edition "Robert T. Kiyosaki" asserts that an estimated 40 million copies of the book had been sold worldwide. Rich Dad Poor Dad Rich Dad Poor Dad is a 1997 book written by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter. It advocates the importance of financial literacy (financial education), financial independence and building wealth through investing in assets, real estate investing, starting and owning businesses, as well as increasing one's financial intelligence (financial IQ) to improve one's business and financial aptitude. "Rich Dad Poor Dad" is written in the style of a set of


title: "Sophie Ellis-Bextor" content: Ellis-Bextor posted an image on Instagram captioned "Last song written. Next stop - rehearsals! "#album6 #whatthehellshouldicallit"." She also posted a YouTube video of the making of the album. Ellis-Bextor announced on Facebook that the new album was inspired by a recent visit to North America, particularly Mexico. It was titled "Familia", which is the Spanish word for "family" (a tatoo Elis Bextor wears in her arm since her first child's birth) and a sound closer to that of her earlier albums. Referring to its content, the singer explained that she "wanted something with a Spanish or Italian feel" and that


title: "Seal script" content: U+33D1F (Plane 3, Tertiary Ideographic Plane) have been tentatively allocated. Seal script Seal script () is an ancient style of writing Chinese characters that was common throughout the latter half of the 1st millennium BCE. It evolved organically out of the Zhou dynasty script. The Qin variant of seal script eventually became the standard, and was adopted as the formal script for all of China during the Qin dynasty. It was still widely used for decorative engraving and seals (name chops, or signets) in the Han dynasty. The literal translation of the Chinese name for seal script, (""), is "decorative


title: "Monkey wrench" content: like a monkey wrench. He could not have invented or named the "monkey wrench" because he was born after the term, "monkey wrench", first appeared in print. In 2015 it was circulated on social media via viral picture-sharing that African-American boxer Jack Johnson invented and patented the wrench and the term "monkey" was applied to it as a derogatory name for black people. In fact, Johnson did receive a patent for "a" wrench, but this was for improvements on an existing wrench, and unrelated to the monkey wrench, which had been so-named almost a century prior. He patented his improvements


title: Edgeley content: Edgeley Edgeley is a suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Edgeley is characterised largely by Victorian terraced housing and council estates around Alexandra Park. The population in 2011 was 14,176. Edgeley Park is home to Stockport County F.C. References to Edgeley, or "Eddyshelegh", are recorded in the early part of the 13th century. However the main history of the area dates from the beginning of the industrial revolution where it was a working-class hub, after the fall of industrial Britan, Edgeley like a lot of northern urban areas suffered economically and the area fell into decay, after some subtle investment


title: "Steve Rothman" content: Postal Service located at 14-24 Abbott Road in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, as the "Mary Ann Collura Post Office Building". Rothman's bill was passed by the House and Senate; and then it was signed by President George W. Bush on June 25, 2004. Officer Collura, an 18-year veteran of the Fair Lawn Police Department, and the Borough's first female officer, was killed in the line of duty on April 4, 2003, in Fair Lawn. She was 43 years old at the time of her death. The renaming ceremony took place on November 1, 2003, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. On


title: "Video camera" content: Video camera A video camera is a camera used for electronic motion picture acquisition (as opposed to a movie camera, which records images on film), initially developed for the television industry but now common in other applications as well. The earliest video cameras were those of John Logie Baird, based on the mechanical Nipkow disk and used in experimental broadcasts through the 1918s–1930s. All-electronic designs based on the video camera tube, such as Vladimir Zworykin's Iconoscope and Philo Farnsworth's image dissector, supplanted the Baird system by the 1930s. These remained in wide use until the 1980s, when cameras based on


title: "Video camera" content: solid-state image sensors such as CCDs (and later CMOS active pixel sensors) eliminated common problems with tube technologies such as image burn-in and made digital video workflow practical. The transition to digital TV gave a boost to digital video cameras and by the 2010s, most video cameras were digital. With the advent of digital video capture, the distinction between professional video cameras and movie cameras has disappeared as the intermittent mechanism has become the same. Nowadays, mid-range cameras exclusively used for television and other work (except movies) are termed professional video cameras. Video cameras are used primarily in two modes.


title: "Video camera" content: The first, characteristic of much early broadcasting, is live television, where the camera feeds real time images directly to a screen for immediate observation. A few cameras still serve live television production, but most live connections are for security, military/tactical, and industrial operations where surreptitious or remote viewing is required. In the second mode the images are recorded to a storage device for archiving or further processing; for many years, videotape was the primary format used for this purpose, but was gradually supplanted by optical disc, hard disk, and then flash memory. Recorded video is used in television production, and


title: "Video camera" content: more often surveillance and monitoring tasks in which unattended recording of a situation is required for later analysis. Modern video cameras have numerous designs and uses. Video camera A video camera is a camera used for electronic motion picture acquisition (as opposed to a movie camera, which records images on film), initially developed for the television industry but now common in other applications as well. The earliest video cameras were those of John Logie Baird, based on the mechanical Nipkow disk and used in experimental broadcasts through the 1918s–1930s. All-electronic designs based on the video camera tube, such as Vladimir


title: "Goiânia" content: 1987, an old medical radiation source was scavenged from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, causing four deaths and many non-fatal cases of radiation poisoning. Several city blocks had to be demolished due to the contamination. The International Atomic Energy Agency report noted that city and state officials acted with remarkable speed to prevent injury to the population. The city has a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen: Aw) with an average temperature of . It has a wet season, from October to April, and a dry one, from May to September. Annual rainfall is around . The lowest temperature ever


title: "Picea abies" content: of Norway spruce, but it is as distinct as many other spruces, and appears to be more closely related to Siberian spruce ("Picea obovata"), Schrenk's spruce ("Picea schrenkiana") from central Asia and Morinda spruce ("Picea smithiana") in the Himalaya. Treated as a distinct species, it takes the name Alpine spruce ("Picea alpestris" (Brügger) Stein). As with Siberian spruce, it hybridises extensively with Norway spruce; pure specimens are rare. Hybrids are commonly known as Norwegian spruce, which should not be confused with the pure species Norway spruce. The Norway spruce is one of the most widely planted spruces, both in and


title: "Panama hat" content: than the "Brisa" weave. The "Brisa" weave has the appearance of small diamonds/squares. This type of weave is less intricate but perceived as finer than the "Cuenca" weave by some as it is lighter. Other types of weaves include the "Crochet, Fancy," "Torcido", and "New Order." The quality of a Panama hat is defined by the tightness of the weave. The fine weave of the hat was ideal for protection against the tropical sun. Historically, to measure the tightness of the weave, a simple square tool that looks like a frame for a one-inch picture was used. The aperture of


title: Conga content: Conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest). Congas were originally used in Afro-Cuban music genres such as conga (hence their name) and rumba, where each drummer would play a single drum. Following numerous innovations in conga drumming and construction during the mid-20th century, as well as its internationalization, it became increasingly common for drummers to play two or three drums. Congas have become a popular instrument in


title: Conga content: a role in the popularization of conga drums. However, the drum he played (which everyone called a conga drum at the time) was similar to the type of drum known as "bokú" used in his hometown, Santiago de Cuba. The word "conga" came from the rhythm "la conga" used during "carnaval" (carnival) in Cuba. The drums used in carnaval could have been referred to as "tambores de conga" since they played the rhythm "la conga", and thus translated into English as "conga drums". There are five basic strokes: The "moose call" or "glissando" is done by rubbing the third finger,


title: Conga content: a major chord (e.g. F, A, C). Some players use the second inversion of a major chord (e.g. G, C, E); and some prefer a major second between the "quinto" and "conga", with a perfect 4th descending to the "tumba". Raul Rekow of Santana often plays five conga drums and tunes them to the opening phrase of a Latin tune. Conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest).


title: "Viscount Cowdray" content: Viscount Cowdray Viscount Cowdray, of Cowdray in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1917 for the industrialist Weetman Pearson, 1st Baron Cowdray, head of the Pearson conglomerate. He had already been created a Baronet, of Paddockhurst, in the Parish of Worth, in the County of Sussex, and of Airlie Gardens, in the Parish of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, in the County of London, on 26 June 1894, and Baron Cowdray, of Midhurst in the County of Sussex, in 1910. His son, the second Viscount, sat as a Liberal


title: "Scrambled eggs" content: of undercooking, overcooking or adding undercooked high-moisture vegetables. Scrambled eggs can be cooked in a microwave oven, and can also be prepared using sous-vide cooking, which gives the traditional smooth creamy texture and requires only occasionally mixing during cooking. Another technique for cooking creamy scrambled eggs is to pipe steam into eggs with butter via a steam wand (as found on an espresso machine). Classical haute cuisine preparation calls for serving scrambled eggs in a deep silver dish. They can also be presented in small croustades made from hollowed-out brioche or tartlets. When eaten for breakfast, scrambled eggs often accompany


title: "Scrambled eggs" content: toast, bacon, smoked salmon, hash browns, cob, pancakes, ham or sausages. Popular condiments served with scrambled eggs include ketchup, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce. Scrambled eggs Scrambled eggs is a dish made from eggs (usually chicken eggs) stirred or beaten together in a pan while being gently heated, typically with salt, butter and various other ingredients. Only eggs are necessary to make scrambled eggs, but salt and pepper are often used, and other ingredients such as water, milk, butter, chives, cream or in some cases crème fraîche or grated cheese may be added. The eggs are cracked into a bowl


title: "Soufflé" content: with a thin film of butter to prevent the soufflé from sticking. Some preparations also include adding a coating of sugar, bread crumbs, or a grated hard cheese such as parmesan inside the ramekin in addition to the butter; some cooks believe this allows the soufflé to rise more easily. After being cooked, a soufflé is puffed up and fluffy, and it will generally fall after 5 or 10 minutes (as risen dough does). It may be served with a sauce atop the soufflé, such as a sweet dessert sauce, or with a sorbet or ice-cream on the side. When


title: "USS Flier" content: USS Flier USS "Flier" (SS-250) was a "Gato"-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flier. Her keel was laid down 30 October 1942 by Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 11 July 1943 (sponsored by Mrs. A. S. Pierce), and commissioned on 18 October 1943 with Lieutenant Commander John D. Crowley in command. "Flier" reached Pearl Harbor from New London, Connecticut, on 20 December 1943, and prepared for her first war patrol, sailing 12 January 1944. However, the submarine ran aground near Midway Island on 16 January.


title: "USS Flier" content: History and Heritage Command revealed that no other submarine, American or Japanese, had been reported lost in that general vicinity. In addition, footage of the wreck showed a gun mount and radar antenna, both of which were similar to the same equipment seen in contemporary photographs of "Flier". The ship rests in of water. USS Flier USS "Flier" (SS-250) was a "Gato"-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flier. Her keel was laid down 30 October 1942 by Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 11 July 1943


title: Yolk content: Yolk Among animals which produce one, the yolk (also known as the vitellus) is the nutrient-bearing portion of the egg whose primary function is to supply food for the development of the embryo. Some kinds of egg contain no yolk, for example because they are laid in situations where the food supply is sufficient (such as in the body of the host of a parasitoid) or because the embryo develops in the parent's body, which supplies the food, usually through a placenta. Reproductive systems in which the mother's body supplies the embryo directly are said to be matrotrophic; those in


title: Yolk content: which the embryo is supplied by yolk are said to be lecithotrophic. In many species, such as all birds, and most reptiles and insects, the yolk takes the form of a special storage organ constructed in the reproductive tract of the mother. In many other animals, especially very small species such as some fishes and invertebrates, the yolk material is not in a special organ, but inside the ovum. As stored food, yolks are often rich in vitamins, minerals, lipids and proteins. The proteins function partly as food in their own right, and partly in controlling the storage and supply


title: Yolk content: of the other nutrients. For example, in some species the amount of yolk in an egg cell affects the developmental processes that follow fertilization. The yolk is not living cell material like protoplasm, but largely passive material, that is to say deutoplasm. The food material and associated control structures are supplied during oogenesis. Some of the material is stored more or less in the form in which the maternal body supplied it, partly as processed by dedicated non-germ tissues in the egg, while part of the biosynthetic processing into its final form happens in the oocyte itself. Apart from animals,


title: Yolk content: other organisms, like algae, specially in the oogamous, can also accumulate resources in their female gametes. In gymnosperms, the remains of the female gametophyte serve also as food supply, and in flowering plants, the endosperm. In the avian egg, the yolk usually is some shade of yellow in color. It is spherical and is suspended in the egg white (known alternatively as albumen or glair/glaire) by one or two spiral bands of tissue called the chalazae. The yolk mass, together with the egg cell or ovum properly (after fertilization, the embryo) are enclosed by the vitelline membrane, whose structure is


title: Yolk content: different from a cell membrane. The yolk is mostly extracellular to the oolemma, being not accumulated inside the cytoplasm of the egg cell (as occurs in frogs), contrary to the claim that the avian egg cell (in strict sense) and its yolk are a single giant cell. After the fertilization, the cleavage of the embryo leads to the formation of the germinal disc. As food, the chicken egg yolk is a major source of vitamins and minerals. It contains all of the egg's fat and cholesterol, and nearly half of the protein. If left intact when an egg is fried,


title: Yolk content: the yellow yolk surrounded by a flat blob of egg white creates a distinctive "sunny-side up" form. Mixing the two components together before cooking results in a pale yellow mass, as in omelets and scrambled eggs. The yolk makes up about 33% of the liquid weight of the egg; it contains about 60 Calories, three times the energy content of the egg white. The yolk of one large egg (56.7 g total, 17.6 g yolk) contains around 2.8 g protein, 191 mg cholesterol, 0.63 g carbohydrates, and 4.66 g total fat. All of the fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and


title: Yolk content: K) are found in the egg yolk. Egg yolk is one of the few foods naturally containing vitamin D. The composition (by weight) of the most prevalent fatty acids in egg yolk typically is: Egg yolk is a source of lecithin, as well as egg oil, for cosmetic and pharmaceutical applications. Based on weight, egg yolk contains about 9% lecithin. The yellow color is due to lutein and zeaxanthin, which are yellow or orange carotenoids known as xanthophylls. The different yolk's proteins have distinct roles. Phosvitins are important in sequestering calcium, iron, and other cations for the developing embryo. Phosvitins


title: Yolk content: are one of the most phosphorylated (10%) proteins in nature; the high concentration of phosphate groups provides efficient metal-binding sites in clusters. Lipovitellins are involved in lipid and metal storage, and contain a heterogeneous mixture of about 16% (w/w) noncovalently bound lipid, most being phospholipid. Lipovitellin-1 contains two chains, LV1N and LV1C. Yolks hold more than 90% of the calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, thiamine, vitamin B, folate, vitamin B, and pantothenic acid of the egg. In addition, yolks cover all of the fat-soluble vitamins: A, D, E, and K in the egg, as well as all of the essential fatty


title: Yolk content: acids. A single yolk from a large egg contains roughly 22 mg of calcium, 66 mg of phosphorus, 9.5 micrograms of selenium, and 19 mg of potassium, according to the USDA. Double-yolk eggs occur when ovulation occurs too rapidly, or when one yolk becomes joined with another yolk. These eggs may be the result of a young hen's reproductive cycle not yet being synchronized. Double-yolked eggs seldom lead to successful hatchlings without human intervention, as the chicks interfere with each other's hatching process and do not survive. Higher-order yolks are rare, although heavier poultry breeds such as the Buff Orpington


title: Yolk content: have been known to lay triple-yolk eggs occasionally. Eggs without yolks are known as "dwarf" or "wind" eggs, or the archaic term "cock egg". Such an egg is most often a pullet's first effort, produced before her laying mechanism is fully ready. Mature hens rarely lay a yolkless egg, but sometimes a piece of reproductive tissue breaks away and passes down the tube. Such a scrap of tissue may stimulate the egg-producing glands to react as though it were a yolk and wrap it in albumen, membranes, and a shell as it travels through the egg tube. This is usually


title: "Cultivation theory" content: who do not watch television or who do not watch television nearly as much. From this study, Gerbner also began working on what would become his Mean World Index, which subscribes to the notion that heavy consumption of violence-related television content leads the viewer to believe the world is more dangerous than it actually is. "In most of the surveys Gerbner conducted, the results reveal a small but statistically significant relationship between TV consumption and fear about becoming the victim of a crime. The question at the start of the chapter is illustrative: Those with light viewing habits predict their


title: "Crimean Gothic" content: typical Gothic "sharpening" of Proto-Germanic to "-ddj-" (as in Ulfilian Gothic "iddja" "went" from PGmc. *"ijjē"), being from Proto-Germanic *"ajja-". There are also examples of features preserved in Crimean Gothic and Biblical Gothic but which have undergone changes in West and North Germanic. For example, both Crimean Gothic and Biblical Gothic preserve Germanic as a sibilant, while it became in all other Germanic dialects: Crimean Gothic "ies" and Biblical Gothic "is" vs. German "er", all meaning 'he'. Also, Crimean Gothic and Biblical Gothic both preserve the medial -"d"- in their reflexes of Proto-Germanic *"fedwōr" (stem *"fedur-") 'four': "fyder" in the


title: "Crimean Gothic" content: possibly exhibited in Crimean Gothic "tria" (cf. Biblical Gothic "þriu"). Several historical accounts mention similarity of Crimean Gothic to Low German, as well as the intelligibility of Crimean Gothic to German speakers, with the Dutch-speaking Busbecq's account being by far the most important. There are two alternative solutions: that Crimean Gothic presents a separate branch of East Germanic, distinct from Ulfilas' Gothic; or that Crimean Gothic is actually descended from the dialect of West Germanic settlers who migrated to the Crimea in the early Middle Ages and whose language was subsequently influenced by Gothic. Both of these possibilities were first


title: "Color histogram" content: into a number of bins, and counting the number of image pixels in each bin. For example, a Red–Blue chromaticity histogram can be formed by first normalizing color pixel values by dividing RGB values by R+G+B, then quantizing the normalized R and B coordinates into N bins each. A two-dimensional histogram of Red-Blue chromaticity divided into four bins ("N"=4) might yield a histogram that looks like this table: A histogram can be N-dimensional. Although harder to display, a three-dimensional color histogram for the above example could be thought of as four separate Red-Blue histograms, where each of the four histograms


title: "Limehouse Link tunnel" content: has a speed limit, enforced by SpeedCurb speed cameras above the carriageway at the tunnel entrances, exits and inside the tunnel. The Limehouse Link tunnel is notable for including slip roads to and from Westferry Road towards the eastern end of the twin tunnels. Complex ground conditions and the need to avoid several key existing structures including other tunnels and a river basin increased costs. New radio and loudspeaker public address systems were installed in early 2008. The tunnel structures feature substantial works of public art. The western portal has Zadok Ben-David's circle of silhouettes, "Restless Dream". The eastern portal


title: "George Blake" content: Act 1911 is 14 years, but his activities were divided into five time periods charged as five offences and, in May 1961 after an "in camera" trial at the Old Bailey, he was sentenced to the maximum term of 14 years consecutively on each of three counts of spying for a potential enemy and 14 years concurrently on both the two remaining counts – a total of 42 years imprisonment – by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker of Waddington. This sentence was reported by newspapers to represent one year for each of the agents who were killed when he


title: Stoneware content: 15 percent. Stoneware can be once-fired or twice-fired. Maximum firing temperatures can vary significantly, from 1100 °C to 1300 °C depending on the flux content. Typically, temperatures will be between 1180 °C and 1280 °C, the higher end of which equate to Bullers Rings 38 to 40 or Seger cones 4 to 8. To produce a better quality fired glaze finish, twice-firing can be used. This can be especially important for formulations composed of highly carbonaceous clays. For these, biscuit firing is around 900 °C, and glost firing (the firing used to form the glaze over the ware) 1180–1280 °C.


title: "Relief pitcher" content: record, 22 saves, and a 2.66 ERA. Mike Marshall in 1974 was the first reliever to win the Cy Young Award after a record 106 games, 15–12 record, 21 saves, and 208 innings pitched. In 1992, Dennis Eckersley was the first modern closer (first player to be used almost exclusively in ninth inning situations) to win the Cy Young, and since then only one other relief pitcher has won the Cy Young, Éric Gagné in 2003 (also a closer). Three relief pitchers have won both the MVP and Cy Young Awards in one season; Rollie Fingers in 1981, Willie Hernández


title: "The Red Green Show" content: Red Green, titled "North of 40" in which he would give advice to readers. In previous years, the show would stage live mini-telethons (sometimes called ""Red Green"-a-thons") for public television stations in the United States. These usually coincided with national PBS fundraising drives, and featured contests between various PBS stations carrying the show. This was done to encourage new stations to carry Red Green, for those who already have it to continue it, and in one year Red playfully dumped stations that chose to discontinue the show in a wheelbarrow. Since 2000, Red Green has been the "Ambassador of Scotch


title: "The Red Green Show" content: were released in "The Red Green Show: The Midlife Crisis Years". On 20 September 2011, Acorn released "The Red Green Show: The Geezer Years", which contains episodes from the final three seasons (13–15). The Red Green Show The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) stations in the United States, from 1991 until the series finale 7 April 2006, on CBC. "The Red Green" Show is essentially a cross between a sitcom and a sketch comedy series, and is


title: "Auburn State Recreation Area" content: any other place in the world, giving Auburn the title "Endurance Capital of the World." Examples include the Western States Endurance Run, Western States Trail Ride also known as Tevis Cup Equestrian Ride, American River 50 Mile Endurance Run, American River 50 Mile Equestrian Ride, Way Too Cool 50 Kilometer Endurance Run, Auburn International Half-Ironman Triathlon, Auburn Century 100 Mile Bike Ride, Coolest 24 Hour Mountain Bike Ride, Rio Del Lago 100 Mile Endurance Run, Sierra Nevada 50 Mile Endurance Run, and the Coolest Run: Ride & Tie. A stunt from the 2002 film "XXX" was filmed in the park,


title: "Data striping" content: "chunks", "strides" or "stripe units", while their logical groups forming single striped operations are called "strips" or "stripes". The amount of data in one chunk (stripe unit), often denominated in bytes, is variously referred to as the "chunk size", "stride size", "stripe size", "stripe depth" or "stripe length". The number of data disks in the array is sometimes called the "stripe width", but it may also refer to the amount of data within a stripe. The amount of data in one stride multiplied by the number of data disks in the array (i.e., "stripe depth" times "stripe width", which in


title: "Professional wrestling holds" content: George Scott was credited by Ric Flair as the person who came up with the idea that to reverse the figure-four leglock, the opponent would simply turn over onto their stomach. For a figure eight the wrestler will then push up into a bridge This modified inverted reverse figure-four leglock variation sees the wrestler cross one leg of an opponent over them and stand on the crossed leg, then take hold of the free leg and lay down on his back, raising the opponent's legs up into the air and causing pain to their legs and lower back. The name


title: "Quartz 2D" content: Quartz 2D Quartz 2D is the native two-dimensional graphics rendering API for macOS and iOS platforms, part of the Core Graphics framework. Quartz 2D is available to all macOS and iOS application environments and provides resolution-independent and device-independent rendering of bitmap graphics, text, and vectors both on-screen and in preparation for printing. Its responsibilities within the graphics layer include: Because Quartz 2D is one of several Quartz Technologies, the term "Quartz" by itself must be taken in context. Quartz 2D expands the drawing functions associated with QuickDraw. The most notable difference is that Quartz 2D eliminates output device and resolution


title: "Quartz 2D" content: Quartz. Quartz (and its renderer) were first demonstrated at WWDC in May 1999. Presently, the name "Quartz 2D" more precisely defines the 2D rendering capabilities of Core Graphics (Quartz). With the release of Mac OS X 10.2, marketing attention focused on Quartz Extreme, the composition layer, leaving the term "Quartz" to refer to the Core Graphics framework or just its 2D renderer. Presently, "Quartz" technologies can describe all of the rendering and compositing technologies introduced by macOS (including Core Image for example). Prior to Mac OS X Tiger, QuickDraw rendering outperformed that of Quartz 2D. Mac OS X 10.4 rectified


title: "Quartz 2D" content: this, substantially increasing the standard rendering performance of Quartz 2D. Tiger also introduced Quartz 2D Extreme: optional graphics processor (GPU) acceleration for Quartz 2D, although it is not an officially supported feature. Quartz 2D Extreme is disabled by default in Mac OS X 10.4 because it may lead to video redraw issues or kernel panics. In Mac OS X Leopard, Quartz 2D Extreme was renamed QuartzGL. Quartz 2D Quartz 2D is the native two-dimensional graphics rendering API for macOS and iOS platforms, part of the Core Graphics framework. Quartz 2D is available to all macOS and iOS application environments and


title: "Wound Man" content: labelled ‘"Wo eine spynne gesticht," 20’ [When a spider bites, 20] - directing the reader to paragraph 20 of the book for an appropriate cure. Similarly, written along the large spear piercing the figure’s left side and penetrating into his stomach is the legend ‘"So der gross viscus wund wirt", 14’ [If the large intestine is injured, 14’]. Turning to the corresponding cure number 14, the reader finds:14. Item: If the "groze darm" [large intestine] or the "magen" [stomach] or the "gederme" [entrails] are injured, you can heal it thus: sew it together with a fine thread and sprinkle "rot


title: "Dairy Farm International Holdings" content: store at the Central District depot. The second Dairy Farm store was established on Nathan Road, Kowloon towards the end of the war in 1918. Amongst other things, this store provided fishing boats in Hong Kong with large amounts of ice. In 1960, Dairy Farm and Lane Crawford formed a merged food retailing operations and renamed these supermarkets as Dairy Lane under Dairy Lane Limited. This joint business was undone by the acquisition of the Wellcome chain in 1964. In 1972, Dairy Farm was acquired by Hong Kong Land, a Jardines subsidiary. In 1986 Dairy Farm was relisted on the


title: "Dairy Farm International Holdings" content: Hong Kong Stock Exchange after it was demerged from Hong Kong Land. Dairy Farm acquired a 50% interest in Maxim's at the same time from Hong Kong Land. The 7-Eleven convenience store chain in Hong Kong and Singapore was acquired from Jardine Matheson in 1989. Since 1999, Dairy Farm has continued to expand its footprint by acquiring supermarket and other retail operations in Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Notably, it also acquired IKEA Hong Kong, Taiwan in 2002 and began Ikea's Indonesian operation in 2014. In May 2012, Dairy Farm bought a 50% stake in the Rustan Supercenters, Inc., the


title: "Dairy Farm International Holdings" content: Rustan group's supermarket chain. 36% came from the Tantoco family and 14% from the Spinnaker group. Its holdings increased to 64% in 2015 and 100% in 2017. On March 23, 2018, the entire stake was sold to Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of JG Summit Holdings, through a stock swap yielding Dairy Farm 18.25% of Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc., stock. As of June 2011, Dairy Farm is 78% owned by Jardine Matheson Holdings. Dairy Farm International Holdings Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited is a Hong Kong retail company with its legal base in Bermuda. A member of the Jardine


title: Bre-X content: Bre-X Bre-X was a group of companies in Canada. Bre-X Minerals Ltd., a major part of Bre-X based in Calgary, was involved in a major gold mining scandal when it reported it was sitting on an enormous gold deposit at Busang, Indonesia (in Borneo). Bre-X bought the Busang site in March 1993 and in October 1995 announced significant amounts of gold had been discovered, sending its stock price soaring. Originally a penny stock, its stock price reached a peak at CAD $286.50 (split adjusted) in May 1996 on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE), with a total capitalization of over CAD


title: Bre-X content: $6 billion. Bre-X Minerals collapsed in 1997 after the gold samples were found to be a fraud. Busang's gold resource was estimated by Bre-X's independent consulting company, Kilborn Engineering (a division of SNC-Lavalin of Montreal), to be approximately . Reports of resource estimates of up to were never made by Bre-X though the property was described as having this potential by John Felderhof, Bre-X's Vice-President for Exploration, in an interview with Richard Behar of Fortune Magazine. Bre-X's gold resource at Busang was a massive fraud. Encouraging gold values were intersected in many drill-holes and the project received a positive technical


title: Bre-X content: reasons, and to enhance the appeal of the film to American audiences, the film's producers denied that the film was in any way connected to the Canadian Bre-X story. Bre-X Bre-X was a group of companies in Canada. Bre-X Minerals Ltd., a major part of Bre-X based in Calgary, was involved in a major gold mining scandal when it reported it was sitting on an enormous gold deposit at Busang, Indonesia (in Borneo). Bre-X bought the Busang site in March 1993 and in October 1995 announced significant amounts of gold had been discovered, sending its stock price soaring. Originally a


title: "Lost in a Good Book" content: Lost in a Good Book Lost in a Good Book is an alternative history fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde. It won the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association 2004 Dilys Award. It is the second in the Thursday Next series. "Lost in a Good Book" is the second book by Jasper Fforde and the sequel to the first adventure of literary detective Thursday Next, "The Eyre Affair". "Lost in a Good Book" uses a variety of literary allusions as it follows Thursday through a vast government conspiracy. Three months after the events of "The Eyre Affair", Thursday Next is happily married to


title: "Lost in a Good Book" content: Fforde to both Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett and called "Lost in a Good Book" "a light-hearted and delightful farce", while "Salon" called it "as sweet and light as the promise of spring". Lost in a Good Book Lost in a Good Book is an alternative history fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde. It won the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association 2004 Dilys Award. It is the second in the Thursday Next series. "Lost in a Good Book" is the second book by Jasper Fforde and the sequel to the first adventure of literary detective Thursday Next, "The Eyre Affair". "Lost in


title: "Bob Feller" content: cost him at least 100 career wins. Based on his exceptional 1941 and 1946 seasons, it is likely that Feller would have finished his career with more than 300 wins and perhaps 3,800 strikeouts. Feller said "I know in my heart I would have ended up a lot closer to 400 than 300 if I hadn't spent four seasons in the Navy. But don't take that as a complaint. I'm happy I got home in one piece." There is footage of a Feller fastball being clocked by Army ordnance equipment (used to measure artillery shell velocity) and registering at .


title: Amazake content: ginger) was popular with street vendors, and it is still served at inns, teahouses, and at festivals. Many Shinto shrines provide or sell it in the New Year. In the 20th century, an instant version became available. "Amazake" is believed to be very nutritious. It contains vitamin B1, B2, B6, folic acid, dietary fiber, oligosaccharide, cysteine, arginine and glutamine. It is often considered a hangover cure in Japan. Outside Japan, it is often sold in Asian grocery stores during the winter months, and, all year round, in natural food stores in the U.S. and Europe, as a beverage and natural


title: "Palm cockatoo" content: Palm cockatoo The palm cockatoo ("Probosciger aterrimus"), also known as the goliath cockatoo or great black cockatoo, is a large smoky-grey or black parrot of the cockatoo family native to New Guinea, Aru Islands, and Cape York Peninsula. It has a very large black beak and prominent red cheek patches. The palm cockatoo was originally described by German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788 as "Psittacus aterrimus ". Its specific name, "Probosciger aterrimus", is from Latin "proboscis", long thin nose + "-ger", carry, and Latin superlative adjective for "ater", black, hence a "black [bird] with a long thin nose (beak)".


title: "Palm cockatoo" content: The only member of the monotypic genus, "Probosciger", the palm cockatoo is a member of the white cockatoo subfamily Cacatuinae. Earlier limited genetic studies found it to be the earliest offshoot from the ancestors of what have become the cockatoo family. Four subspecies are recognized, three poorly differentiated and one distinctive. The Cape York cockatoo ("P. a. aterrimus"), the larger goliath cockatoo ("P. a. goliath"), "P. a. macgillivrayi", intermediate in size, and the northern palm cockatoo ("P. a. stenolophus", similar to the goliath, but crest feathers are much narrower). "Palm cockatoo" has been designated the official name by the International


title: "White cockatoo" content: White cockatoo The white cockatoo ("Cacatua alba"), also known as the umbrella cockatoo, is a medium-sized all-white cockatoo endemic to tropical rainforest on islands of Indonesia. When surprised, it extends a large and striking head crest, which has a semicircular shape (similar to an umbrella, hence the alternative name). The undersides of the wings and tail have a pale yellow or lemon color which flashes when they fly. It is similar to other species of white cockatoo such as yellow-crested cockatoo, sulphur-crested cockatoo, and salmon-crested cockatoo, all of which have yellow, orange or pink crest feathers instead of white. The


title: "HMS Grenade (H86)" content: the rescue of 33 survivors on 28 May from the coaster , which had been torpedoed by an E-boat. She made one trip to Dunkirk during the night of 28/29 May and was caught in Dunkirk harbour by German Stukas during the following day. "Grenade" was hit by two bombs which set her afire and killed 14 sailors and mortally wounded another four men. The ship was cast off from her berth, in case she sank there, and then drifted into the harbour channel. The trawler "John Cattling" towed "Grenade" over to the west side of the outer harbour where


title: "West Highland White Terrier" content: West Highland White Terrier The West Highland White Terrier, commonly known as the Westie, is a breed of dog from Scotland with a distinctive white harsh coat with a somewhat soft white undercoat. It is a medium-sized terrier, although with longer legs than other Scottish breeds of terrier. It has a white double coat of fur which fills out the dog's face, giving it a rounded appearance. The breed is intelligent, quick to learn, and can be good with children, but does not always tolerate rough handling. The Westie is an active and intelligent breed, and is social with a


title: "West Highland White Terrier" content: both food- and toy-possessive. This makes regular training from a young age of particular importance. It is normally independent, assured, and self-confident, and can make a good watchdog. It is a loyal breed that bonds with its owner, but is often always on the move, requiring good exercise (15–30 min). The Westie is highly social and is the most friendly and jolly of all the Scottish breeds of terriers. It is a hardy breed, and can be stubborn, leading to issues with training. A Westie may need to have its training refreshed on occasion during its lifetime. Having a typical


title: "West Highland White Terrier" content: a median of 13 years. The typical litter size is between three and five puppies. The breed is predisposed to conditions found in many breeds, such as abdominal hernias. Westie puppies may be affected by craniomandibular osteopathy, a disease also known as "lion jaw", and is sometimes also referred to as "westie jaw". The disease is an autosomal recessive condition, so a puppy can only be affected by it if both its parents are carriers of the faulty gene. The condition appears across many breeds, including several different types of terriers, as well as other unrelated breeds such as the


title: "Jalapeño" content: Waltrip. A newer variety 'Tricked You' is replacing 'Fooled You'. A raw jalapeño is 92% water, 6% carbohydrates, 1% protein, and contains negligible fat (table). In a 100 gram reference serving, raw jalapeños provide 29 calories, and are a rich source (20% or more of the Daily Value, DV) of vitamin C, vitamin B6, and vitamin E, with vitamin K in a moderate amount (table). Other micronutrients are low in content (table). Compared to other chillies, the jalapeño heat level varies from mild to hot depending on cultivation and preparation and can have from a few thousand to over 10,000


title: Chipotle content: Whereas "moritas" from Chihuahua are purple in color, "chile meco" is tan/grey in color and has the general appearance of a cigar butt. Most chipotles found in the United States are of the "morita" variety. Almost all of the "chipotle meco" is consumed in Mexico. Chipotles are purchased in numerous forms: chipotle powder, chipotle pods, "chipotles en adobo" in a can, concentrated chipotle base and wet chipotle meat marinade. Other varieties of chilis are smoke-dried, including red jalapeños, serranos, habaneros, New Mexico chiles, Hungarian wax peppers, Santa Fe Grande chiles, and a milder jalapeño called the TAM (a cultivar named


title: "Centennial Challenges" content: successfully completed Level 1 challenge. No teams completed Level 2 challenge in 2014. The fourth competition took place June 8–12, 2015, at WPI. 16 teams competed for Level 1 and Level 2 prizes. Team Mountaineers from West Virginia University successfully completed Level 2 challenge (with two collected samples or 3 points) and brought home a $100,000 prize. No other team completed Level 1 or Level 2 challenge in 2015. The fifth year challenge was divided into two events. The Level 1 challenge happened between June 6–11, 2016. Five new teams completed Level 1. The final Level 2 challenge was performed


title: "1920 in sports" content: 1920 in sports 1920 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. England Germany Men's 100 metres VFL Premiership South Australian Football League West Australian Football League Sweden World Series Major League Baseball Negro League Baseball Events Lineal world champions Grey Cup Events England Australia India New Zealand South Africa West Indies Tour de France Giro d'Italia Olympic Games (Men's Competition) World Figure Skating Championships 1920 Summer Olympics Major tournaments Other tournaments Events England Australia Canada France Ireland USA Events 1920 Summer Olympics Stanley Cup Events 1920 Summer Olympics The Boat Race England Australia Five Nations Championship Speed Skating


title: "1921 in sports" content: 1921 in sports 1921 in sports describes the year’s events in world sport. Brazil England Germany Republic of Ireland Men's 100 metres Lithuania Monaco VFL Premiership South Australian Football League West Australian Football League Sweden World Series Major League Baseball Negro League Baseball Events Lineal world champions Grey Cup Events England Australia India New Zealand South Africa West Indies Tour de France Giro d'Italia World Figure Skating Championships Major tournaments Other tournaments England Australia Canada France Ireland USA Stanley Cup Far Eastern Championship Games Women's World Games The Boat Race England Australia Five Nations Championship Germany Speed Skating World Championships


title: "1925 in sports" content: 1925 in sports 1925 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. Events England Germany Russia VFL Premiership Brownlow Medal Events Sweden World Series Negro League Baseball Mexico Events Events Lineal world champions Grey Cup Events England Australia India New Zealand South Africa West Indies Tour de France World Figure Skating Championships Major tournaments Other tournaments England Australia Canada France Ireland USA Stanley Cup Events Far Eastern Championship Games FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The inaugural world championships are held at Johannisbad in Czechoslovakia for men only. Winners are: The Boat Race England Australia Five Nations Championship Speed Skating


title: Tyumen content: and Schlumberger), design institutes, shipyard and other oil servicing companies located in Tyumen. Schwank, market leader for industrial heaters, has its subsidiary, SibSchwank, in Tyumen, holding market shares of approx. 25%. Tyumen is one of the Russian towns which have its own Technopark. UTair is also based in Tyumen. Town has a quite good selection of recreational activities of all kinds for all ages. Tyumen is also a destination for a fair number of tourists, in particular from Germany. The Tyumen railway station was built in 1885. Currently the station administratively belongs to the Tyumen Division of Sverdlovskaya Rail Road.


title: "Narrow Street" content: Narrow Street Narrow Street is a narrow road running parallel to the River Thames through the Limehouse area of east London, England. It used to be much narrower, and is the oldest part of Limehouse, with many buildings originating from the eighteenth century. Most archaeologists believe that Narrow Street represents the line of the medieval river wall. The eastern end of Narrow Street was previously known as Fore Street. A combination of tides and currents made this point on the Thames a natural landfall for ships, the first wharf being completed in 1348. Lime kilns or oasts ("lymehostes") used in


title: "Narrow Street" content: the production of mortar and pottery were built here in the fourteenth century. The area grew rapidly in Elizabethan times as a centre for world trade and by the reign of James I nearly half of the area's 2,000 population were mariners. The area supplied ships with ropes and other necessities; pottery was also made here for the ships. Ship chandlers settled here building wooden houses and wharves in the cramped space between street and river. Narrow Street may take its name from the closeness of the original buildings, now demolished, which stood barely a few metres apart on each


title: "Narrow Street" content: side of the street. The Limehouse Cut for barges, which ran under Narrow Street and led to the Lee Navigation, was established in 1766. Limehouse Basin was built in 1820, to transship goods to barges on the Regent's Canal. The two were linked in the early 19th century, and the lock from the Cut to the river, filled in. In 1661, Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary of a visit to a porcelain factory in Narrow Street alighting via Duke Shore Stairs while en route to view work on boats being built for herring fishing. The Limehouse area fitted out,


title: "Narrow Street" content: repaired and resupplied ships. In 1772, Smith & Sykes ran a sugar house, a small factory that baked and refined sugar. Limehouse Cut was redirected into Limehouse Basin, which was one of the first docks to close in the late 1960s. Nicholas Hawksmoors' Church St Anne's Limehouse was designated a conservation area by the London Docklands Development Corporation in the 1980s. For much of the 20th century the area was dominated by the tall chimney of Stepney Power Station at Blyth Wharf, which has since been demolished. Access to the area was always difficult, with the dock standing to the


title: "Narrow Street" content: north, and the entrance to the Rotherhithe Tunnel at one end. In 1993 the Limehouse Link tunnel was completed, further restricting traffic to the riverside area. The Narrow Street Swing Bridge is sited between the Limehouse Basin Lock and the Thames. In 1977 the north side of the street was demolished. Until then it was half its present width. In the eighteenth century a small group of Chinese sailors from Canton and Southern China settled along the old Limehouse Causeway creating the original London Chinatown. The Chinese community later moved to Soho following the Blitz. On the south side of


title: "Narrow Street" content: Narrow Street is a rare example of an early Georgian brick terrace. With the exception of the westernmost property ("The Grapes" public house) it was standing derelict and abandoned, but in 1964 the writer Andrew Sinclair bought and saved one of the houses and persuaded his Cambridge friends to buy the others. (Early Georgian houses can be distinguished from late ones in the way that the windows are not set back from the brick frontage.) "The Grapes" (formerly "The Bunch of Grapes", and known to the young Charles Dickens) was notably bought in 2011 by actor Sir Ian McKellen, director


title: "Narrow Street" content: Sean Mathias and "Evening Standard" owner Evgeny Lebedev. The late twentieth century brought much development to the area, with the erection of the Canary Wharf tower close by. Since the 1990s, many new apartment complexes have been built around the Limehouse Basin as well as Victorian warehouse conversions, with Limehouse now being one of the most sought after property sites in London. Its close proximity to the River Thames has made property prices around Limehouse and the Docklands soar over the last decade. However a 2001 Census listed 5.4 percent of homes in Poplar and Limehouse as being without central


title: "Narrow Street" content: heating and/or private bathroom. The street is home to a number of good pubs and restaurants, including "The Narrow", a gastropub run by Gordon Ramsay. Booty's Riverside Bar, which closed in 2013, was an independently owned pub dating to the 16th century. In the 18th century Booty's was an engineering shop for the barge builders, Sparkes. In the 19th century it was re-fronted, and by the 1870s it was a licensed bar called The Waterman's Arms owned by Taylor Walker. It was absorbed by Woodward Fisher, a lighterage firm run by Anne Fisher, popularly known as "Tugboat Annie". She was


title: "Narrow Street" content: a real-life London version of the protagonist in the film of that name. One of the great East End characters, she commanded a fleet of 200 barges. Famous residents include or have included the actors Sir Ian McKellen, Steven Berkoff and Cleo Rocos, the politician David Owen, and the authors Matthew Parris and Andrew Sinclair. It was also the home of the film director Sir David Lean, whose Narrow Street house, regarded as one of the best riverside houses in London, is still owned by his family. Its picturesque buildings and atmospheric location abutting onto the River Thames attracted artists


title: "Narrow Street" content: and writers. Cycle Superhighway 3 CS3 between Tower Gateway to Barking and is one of London's first Cycle Superhighways. Some residents raised a petition calling for CS3 to be moved from Narrow Street onto the A13 Commercial Road, arguing that the street was too narrow and that incidents of abuse and aggression had risen sharply since the route was introduced. Transport for London (TfL) said they had no plans to move it. Mayor Boris Johnson defended the choice as a road that was already popular with cyclists to and from the City. The London Cycling Campaign supported the route but


title: "Flight deck" content: Flight deck The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the surface from which its aircraft take off and land, essentially a miniature airfield at sea. On smaller naval ships which do not have aviation as a primary mission, the landing area for helicopters and other VTOL aircraft is also referred to as the flight deck. The official U.S. Navy term for these vessels is "air-capable ships". The first flight decks were inclined wooden ramps built over the forecastle of warships. Eugene Ely made the first fixed-wing aircraft take-off from a warship from on 14 November 1910. Two months later,


title: "Flight deck" content: on 18 January 1911, Ely landed his Curtiss pusher plane on a platform on anchored in San Francisco Bay using the first tailhook system, designed and built by circus performer and aviator Hugh Robinson. Ely told a reporter: "It was easy enough. I think the trick could be successfully turned nine times out of ten." On 9 May 1912, Commander Charles Samson became the first man to take off from a ship which was underway when he flew his Short S.27 off of , which was steaming at . Because the take-off speed of early aircraft was so low, it


title: "Flight deck" content: was possible for an aircraft to make a very short take off when the launching ship was steaming into the wind. Later, removable "flying-off platforms" appeared on the gun turrets of battleships and battlecruisers starting with , allowing aircraft to be flown off for scouting purposes, although there was no chance of recovery. On 2 August 1917, while performing trials, Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning landed a Sopwith Pup successfully on board the flying-off platform of , becoming the first person to land an aircraft on a moving ship. However, on his third attempt, a tire burst as he attempted


title: "Flight deck" content: to land, causing the aircraft to go over the side, killing him; thus Dunning also has the dubious distinction of being the first person to die in an aircraft carrier landing accident. The landing arrangements on "Furious" were highly unsatisfactory. In order to land, aircraft had to maneuver around the superstructure. "Furious" was therefore returned to dockyard hands to have a deck added aft for landing, on top of a new hangar. The central superstructure remained, however, and turbulence caused by it badly affected the landing deck. The first aircraft carrier that began to show the configuration of the modern


title: "Flight deck" content: vessel was the converted liner , which had a large flat wooden deck added over the entire length of the hull, giving a combined landing and take-off deck unobstructed by superstructure turbulence. Because of her unobstructed flight deck, "Argus" had no fixed conning tower and no funnel. Rather, exhaust gases were trunked down the side of the ship and ejected under the fantail of the flight deck (which, despite arrangements to disperse the gases, gave an unwelcome "lift" to aircraft immediately prior to landing). The lack of a command position and funnel was unsatisfactory, and "Argus" was used to experiment


title: "Flight deck" content: with various ideas to remedy the solution. A photograph in 1917 shows her with a canvas mock-up of a starboard "island" superstructure and funnel. This was placed on the starboard side because the rotary engines of some early aircraft created torque which pulled the nose left, meaning an aircraft naturally yawed to port on take-off; therefore, it was desirable that they turned away from the fixed superstructure. This became the typical aircraft carrier arrangement and was used in the next British carriers, and . After World War I, battlecruisers that otherwise would have been discarded under the Washington Naval Treaty—such


title: "Summit Series" content: win, largely on the strength of Tretiak's goaltending. Prior to the series, Bobrov held a press luncheon in Moscow. He refused to consider that either team would sweep the series. To him, Team Canada had "the fire power, know-how and goaltending", but how would it adapt to international rules, two-referee system and amateur officials? He conceded that Phil Esposito would "be difficult to move from the front of the net. I expect there will be some surprises for us when we meet your Canadian stars." He also predicted that Valeri Kharlamov "will stand out, even against your best Canadians. By


title: Metrosideros content: spread plants in the Pacific, and is not present in Australia today. These fossils may also point towards an Australian origin for the genus. "Metrosideros" are often cultivated for their showy flowers, as street trees or in home gardens. The flowers are generally red, but some cultivars have orange, yellow or white flowers. Some names listed in horticultural catalogues and other publications, such as "M. villosa" and "M. vitiensis", are actually the names of varieties or cultivars (usually of "M. collina") rather than valid scientific species. The pōhutukawa of New Zealand has several cultivars grown in Australia, Hawaii and California


title: "Dioscorea alata" content: Australia, the southeastern U.S., "D. alata" has many different common names from these regions. In English alone, aside from purple yam, other common names include greater yam, Guyana arrowroot, ten-months yam, water yam, white yam, winged yam, or simply yam. In other cultures and languages it is known variously as "ratalu" or "violet yam" in India, "rasa valli kilangu" (இராசவள்ளிக்கிழங்கு) in Tamil, "dandila" (දන්දිල) in Sinhala, "ube" in the Philippines, "thuppa genasu" (ತುಪ್ಪ ಗೆಣಸು) in Kannada, "thoona" or "soona kerungu" (ತೂ/ಸೂಣ ಕೆರುಂಗು) in Tulu, "kondfal" (कोंदफळ) in Marathi, "kachil" (കാച്ചില്) in Malayalam, and "khoai mỡ" in Vietnam. For the Igbo


title: Shower content: Shower A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a spray of typically warm or hot water. Indoors, there is a drain in the floor. Most showers have temperature, spray pressure and adjustable showerhead nozzle. The simplest showers have a swivelling nozzle aiming down on the user, while more complex showers have a showerhead connected to a hose that has a mounting bracket. This allows the showerer to hold the showerhead by hand to spray the water at different parts of their body. A shower can be installed in a small shower stall or bathtub with a


title: Shower content: have multiple showers. There may be communal shower rooms without divisions, or shower stalls (typically open at the top). Many types of showers are available, including complete shower units which are all encompassing showers that include the pan, walls, and often the shower head, as well as pieced together units in which the pan, shower head, and doors are purchased separately. Each type of shower poses different installation issues. Though the installation requirements of each of shower will differ, the installation of a shower in general requires the laying of several water transportation pipes, including a pipe for hot water


title: Shower content: with magnetic discs or suction cups which adhere to the bathtub itself. These curtains are usually made from vinyl, cloth or plastic. Shower or bathtub doors are doors (also called screens) used in bathrooms that help keep water inside a shower or bathtub and are alternatives to shower curtains. They are available in many different styles such as framed or frameless, sliding or swing. They are usually constructed of aluminium, clear glass, plexi-glass or tempered glass. Shower doors can come in many different hardware finishes and glass patterns that can match other bathroom hardware such as faucets and shower heads.


title: Shower content: There are also shower doors that are in a neo angle design for use on shower pans that have the neo design as well. The design of the shower pan is extremely important as the shower door must be the type required for the pan in order to work. A shower door requires plastic lining along the edges of the door to protect against water leaking out. Shower A shower is a place in which a person bathes under a spray of typically warm or hot water. Indoors, there is a drain in the floor. Most showers have temperature, spray


title: Lemur content: a few days, dwarf lemurs experience five months of continuous deep hibernation (May through September). Before and after this deep hibernation, there are two months (April and October) of transition, where they will forage on a limited basis to reduce demands on their fat reserves. Unlike any other hibernating mammal, the body temperature of hibernating dwarf lemurs will fluctuate with the ambient temperature rather than remaining low and stable. Other lemurs that do not exhibit dormancy conserve energy by selecting thermoregulated microhabitats (such as tree holes), sharing nests, and reducing exposed body surfaces, such as by hunched sitting and group


title: "Sexagenary cycle" content: Yǔshuǐ () "zhōngqì", etc. Intercalary months have the same branch as the preceding month. In the other system (; "jiéyuè") the "month" lasts for the period of two solar terms (two "qìcì"). The "zǐyuè" () is the period starting with Dàxuě (), i.e. the solar term "before" the winter solstice. The "chǒuyuè" () starts with Xiǎohán (), the term before Dàhán (), while the "yínyuè" () starts with Lìchūn (), the term before Yǔshuǐ (), etc. Thus in the solar system a month starts anywhere from about 15 days before to 15 days after its lunar counterpart. The branch names


title: Furosemide content: kidney function, and is not recommended for kidney disease. It is also used to treat congestive heart failure (pulmonary edema, pleural effusion, and/or ascites) in cats and dogs. It can also be used in an attempt to promote urine production in anuric or oliguric acute renal failure. Furosemide is injected either intramuscularly or intravenously, usually 0.5-1.0 mg/kg twice/day, although less before a horse is raced. As with many diuretics, it can cause dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, including loss of potassium, calcium, sodium, and magnesium. Excessive use of furosemide will most likely lead to a metabolic alkalosis due to hypochloremia and


title: "Aloha Airlines Flight 243" content: premature fatigue cracking. One board member dissented, arguing that the fatigue cracking was clearly the probable cause, but that Aloha Airlines maintenance should not be singled out because failures by the FAA, Boeing, and Aloha Airlines Maintenance each were contributing factors to the disaster. Pressure vessel engineer Matt Austin has proposed an additional hypothesis to explain the scale of the damage to Flight 243. This explanation postulates that initially the fuselage failed as intended and opened a ten-inch square vent. As the cabin air escaped at over 700 mph, flight attendant Lansing became wedged in the vent instead of being


title: "Topper (dinghy)" content: The Topper has been in continuous production for over four decades and over 50,000 models have now been sold. The Topper dinghy is built in the UK, to the One-Design of Ian Proctor, by Topper International Ltd. owned by Martin Fry who purchased the company from Guinness Leisure in 1983. In 1977 the boat won the Design Council Award and the Horner Award for achievements in plastics. The Topper dinghy is widely used for racing, but it has also gained popularity as a boat in which to learn how to sail. The Topper was originally designed with a glass reinforced


title: Bartender content: Bartender A bartender (also known as a barkeep, barman, barmaid, bar chef, tapster, mixologist, alcohol server, flairman or an alcohol chef) is a person who formulates and serves alcoholic or soft drink beverages behind the bar, usually in a licensed establishment. Bartenders also usually maintain the supplies and inventory for the bar. A bartender can generally mix classic cocktails such as a Cosmopolitan, Manhattan, Old Fashioned, and Mojito. Bartenders are also usually responsible for confirming that customers meet the legal drinking age requirements before serving them alcoholic beverages. In certain countries, such as Canada, the United Kingdom and Sweden, bartenders


title: Bartender content: are legally required to refuse more alcohol to drunk customers. Historically, bartending was a profession with a low reputation. It was perceived through the lens of ethical issues and various legal constraints related to the serving of alcohol. The pioneers of bartending as a serious profession appeared in the 19th century. "Professor" Jerry Thomas established the image of the bartender as a creative professional. Harry Johnson wrote a bartending manual and established the first bar management consulting agency. At the turn of the 20th century, slightly less than half the bartenders in London were women, such as Ada Coleman. "Barmaids",


title: Bartender content: as they were called, were usually the daughters of tradesmen or mechanics or, occasionally, young women from the "better-born" classes who had been "thrown upon their own resources" and needed an income. The bartending profession was generally a second occupation, used as transitional work for students to gain customer experience or to save money for university fees. The reason for this is because bartenders in tipping countries such as Canada and the United States, can make significant money from their tips. This view of bartending as a career is changing around the world, however, and bartending has become a profession


title: Bartender content: by choice rather than necessity. It includes specialized education — European Bartender School operates in 23 countries. Cocktail competitions such as World Class and Bacardi Legacy have recognised talented bartenders in the past decade and these bartenders, and others, spread the love of cocktails and hospitality throughout the world. In the United Kingdom, bar work is often not regarded as a long-term profession (unless the bartender is also the landlord), but more often as a second occupation, or transitional work for students to gain customer experience or to save money for university fees. As such, it lacks traditional employment protections


title: Bartender content: and therefore has a high turnover. The high turnover of staff due to low wages and poor employee benefits results in a shortage of skilled bartenders. Whereas a career bartender would know drink recipes, serving techniques, alcohol contents, correct gas mixes and licensing law and would often have cordial relations with regular customers, short-term staff may lack these skills. Some pubs prefer experienced staff, although pub chains tend to accept inexperienced staff and provide training. Tipping bartenders in the United Kingdom is uncommon, not considered mandatory but is greatly appreciated by the bartender. The appropriate way to tip a bartender


title: Bartender content: in the UK is to say 'have one for yourself', encouraging the bartender to buy themselves a drink with one's money, where a bartender may instead opt to add a modest amount to a bill to take in cash at the end of their shift. The Bureau of Labor Statistics data on occupations in the United States, including that of bartender, publishes a detailed description of the bartender's typical duties and employment and earning statistics by those so employed, with 55% of a bartender's take-home pay coming in the form of tips. Bartenders may attend special schools or learn while


title: Bartender content: on the job. Bartenders in the United States may work in a large variety of bars. These include hotel bars, restaurant bars, sports bars, gay bars, piano bars, and dive bars. Also growing in popularity is the portable bar, which can be moved to different venues and special events. Bartender A bartender (also known as a barkeep, barman, barmaid, bar chef, tapster, mixologist, alcohol server, flairman or an alcohol chef) is a person who formulates and serves alcoholic or soft drink beverages behind the bar, usually in a licensed establishment. Bartenders also usually maintain the supplies and inventory for the


title: "Weather vane" content: Weather vane A weather vane, wind vane, or weathercock is an instrument for showing the direction of the wind. It is typically used as an architectural ornament to the highest point of a building. The word "vane" comes from the Old English word "fana" meaning "flag". Although partly functional, weather vanes are generally decorative, often featuring the traditional cockerel design with letters indicating the points of the compass. Other common motifs include ships, arrows and horses. Not all weather vanes have pointers. When the wind is sufficiently strong, the head of the arrow or cockerel (or equivalent depending on the


title: "Weather vane" content: chosen design) will indicate the direction from which the wind is blowing. The weather vane was independently invented in ancient China and Greece around the same time during the 2nd century BCE. The earliest written reference to a weather vane appears in the "Huainanzi", and a weather vane was fitted on top of the Tower of the Winds in Athens. The oldest textual reference to a weather vane comes from the Chinese "Huainanzi" dating from around 139 BCE, which describes a "wind-observing fan" ("hou feng shan", ). The Tower of the Winds on the ancient Greek "agora" in Athens once


title: "Weather vane" content: patron saints. The City of London has two surviving examples. The weather vane of St Peter upon Cornhill is not in the shape of a rooster, but a key; while St Lawrence Jewry's weather vane is in the form of a gridiron. Early weather vanes had very ornamental pointers, but modern wind vanes are usually simple arrows that dispense with the directionals because the instrument is connected to a remote reading station. An early example of this was installed in the Royal Navy's Admiralty building in London – the vane on the roof was mechanically linked to a large dial


title: "Weather vane" content: in the boardroom so senior officers were always aware of the wind direction when they met. Modern "aerovanes" combine the directional vane with an anemometer (a device for measuring wind speed). Co-locating both instruments allows them to use the same axis (a vertical rod) and provides a coordinated readout. According to the Guinness World Records, the world's largest weather vane is a Tío Pepe sherry advertisement located in Jerez, Spain. The city of Montague, Michigan also claims to have the largest standard-design weather vane, being a ship and arrow which measures 48 feet tall, with an arrow 26 feet long.


title: "Weather vane" content: A challenger for the title of world's largest weather vane is located in Whitehorse, Yukon. The weather vane is a retired Douglas DC-3 CF-CPY atop a swiveling support. Located at the Yukon Transportation Museum beside Whitehorse International Airport, the weather vane is used by pilots to determine wind direction, used as a landmark by tourists and enjoyed by locals. The weather vane only requires a 5 knot wind to rotate. A challenger for the worlds tallest weather vane is located in Westlock, Alberta. The classic weather vane that reaches to 50 feet is topped by a 1942 Case Model D


title: "Linear trend estimation" content: concrete example, the global surface temperature record of the past 140 years as presented by the IPCC: then the interannual variation is about 0.2 °C and the trend about 0.6 °C over 140 years, with 95% confidence limits of 0.2 °C (by coincidence, about the same value as the interannual variation). Hence the trend is statistically different from 0. However, as noted elsewhere this time series doesn't conform to the assumptions necessary for least squares to be valid. The least-squares fitting process produces a value – r-squared ("r") – which is 1 minus the ratio of the variance of the


title: Anniversary content: Anniversary An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration of that event. For example, the first event is the initial occurrence or, if planned, the inaugural of the event. One year later would be the first anniversary of that event. The word was first used for Catholic feasts to commemorate saints. Most countries celebrate national anniversaries, typically called national days. These could be the date of independence of the nation or the adoption of a new constitution or form


title: Anniversary content: of government. The important dates in a sitting monarch's reign may also be commemorated, an event often referred to as a "jubilee". The Latin phrase "dies natalis" (literally "birth day") has become a common term, adopted in many languages, especially in intellectual and institutional circles, for the anniversary of the founding ("legal or statutory birth") of an institution, such as an "alma mater" (college or other school). In ancient Rome, the "[dies] Aquilae natalis" was the "birthday of the eagle", the anniversary of the official founding of a legion. Anniversaries of nations are usually marked by the number of years


title: Anniversary content: elapsed, expressed with Latin words or Roman numerals. Latin terms for anniversaries are mostly straightforward, particularly those relating to the first twenty years (1–20), or multiples of ten years (30, 40, 60, 70 etc.), or multiples of centuries or millennia (100, 200, 300, 1000, 2000, 3000, etc.) In these instances, the name of the anniversary is generally derived from the Latin word(s) for the respective number of years. However, when anniversaries relate to fractions of centuries (125, 150, 175, 250 years—i.e. 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, and 2.5 centuries), the situation is not as simple. Roman fractions were based on a duodecimal


title: Anniversary content: system. From to they were expressed as multiples of twelfths ("uncia" "twelfth"; the source of the English words "inch" and "ounce") and from to they were expressed as multiple twelfths less than the next whole unit—i.e. a whole unit less , or respectively. There were also special terms for quarter ("quadrans"), half ("semis"), and three-quarters ("dodrans"). "Dodrans" is a Latin contraction of "de-quadrans" which means "a whole unit less a quarter" ("de" means "from"; "quadrans" means "quarter". Thus for the example of 175 years, the term is a quarter century less than the next whole (bi)century or 175 = (−25


title: Anniversary content: + 200). In Latin, it seems that this rule did not apply precisely for 1½. While "secundus" is Latin for "second", and "bis" for "twice", these terms are not used such as in sesqui-secundus. Instead "sesqui" (or "ses") is used by itself. Many anniversaries have special names. "Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home" by Emily Post, published in 1922, contained suggestions for wedding anniversary gifts for 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, and 75 years. Wedding anniversary gift suggestions for other years were added in later editions and publications; they now comprise what is referred


title: Anniversary content: to as the "traditional" list. Generally speaking, the longer the period, the more precious or durable the material associated with it. See wedding anniversary for a general list of the wedding anniversary symbols; however, there are variations in some national traditions. Furthermore, there exist numerous partially overlapping, partially contradictory lists of anniversary gifts (such as wedding stones), separate from the 'traditional' names. The concepts of a person's birthday stone and zodiac stone, by contrast, are fixed for life according to the day of the week, month, or astrological sign corresponding to the recipient's birthday. Anniversary An anniversary is the date


title: "Species reintroduction" content: in captivity versus the wild. The genetic basis of this adaptation is selection of rare, recessive alleles that are deleterious in the wild but preferred in captivity. Consequently, animals adapted to captivity show reduced stress tolerance, increased tameness, and loss of local adaptations. Plants also can show adaptations to captivity through changes in drought tolerance, nutrient requirements, and seed dormancy requirements. Extent of adaptation is directly related to intensity of selection, genetic diversity, effective population size and number of generations in captivity. Characteristics selected for in captivity are overwhelmingly disadvantageous in the wild, so such adaptations can lead to reduced


title: "US Airways Shuttle" content: US Airways Shuttle US Airways Shuttle was the brand name for US Airways' hourly air shuttle service operating in the Northeastern United States. It served Logan International Airport in Boston, LaGuardia Airport in New York City, and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. The shuttle had various food and beverage offerings that included: First class service was available on all Shuttle flights. Complimentary spirits were offered in addition to the economy offerings. On October 17, 2015, the shuttle service became known as American Airlines Shuttle. The US Airways Shuttle was the descendant of the Eastern Air Lines Shuttle,


title: "Walter Brennan" content: "See America Thirst" (1930) with Harry Langdon and Slim Summerville and "Ooh La-La" (1930), another short). The following year Brennan could be glimpsed in "Hello Russia" (1931, a short with Slim Summerville), "Many a Slip" (1931) with Summerville, "Heroes of the Flames" (1931) a serial with Tim McCoy, "Honeymoon Lane" (1931), "Dancing Dynamite" (1931), "Grief Street" (1931) directed by Richard Thorpe, and "Is There Justice?" (1931). Brennan had a decent-sized role in "Neck and Neck" (1931), directed by Richard Thorpe. His parts tended to remain small, however: "A House Divided" (1931) for director William Wyler, "Scratch-As-Catch-Can" (1931, a Bobby Clark


title: "Walter Brennan" content: "George White's Scandals" (1934), "Good Girl" (1934), "Riptide" (1934), "Uncertain Lady" (1934), "I'll Tell the World" (1934), and "Fishing for Trouble" (1934, a short). Brennan was in the Three Stooges short "Woman Haters" (1934), then did "Half a Sinner" (1934), "The Life of Vergie Winters" (1934), "Murder on the Runaway Train" (1934), "Whom the Gods Destroy" (1934), "Gentlemen of Polish" (1934, a short), "Death on the Diamond" (1934), "Great Expectations" (1934), "Luck of the Game" (1934), "Tailspin Tommy" (1934, a serial), "There's Always Tomorrow" (1934), and "Cheating Cheaters" (1934). Brennan was back with McCoy for "The Prescott Kid" (1934) and


title: "Walter Brennan" content: of Frankenstein" (1935), in which he had a brief speaking part and also worked as a stuntman. Brennan's parts remained small in "Party Wire" (1935), "Spring Tonic" (1935), "The Gay Lady" (1935), "Man on the Flying Trapeze" (1935), and "Welcome Home" (1935). He did a short, "The Perfect Tribute" (1935) and was in George Stevens' "Alice Adams" (1935), but his scenes were deleted. He could be seen in "We're in the Money" (1935), and "She Couldn't Take It" (1935). Brennan finally moved up to significant roles with a decent part in Goldwyn's "Barbary Coast" (1935), directed by Howard Hawks and


title: "United States twenty-dollar bill" content: United States twenty-dollar bill The United States twenty-dollar bill ($20) is a denomination of U.S. currency. The seventh U.S. President (1829–1837), Andrew Jackson, has been featured on the front side of the bill since 1928; the White House is featured on the reverse. As of December 2013, the average circulation life of a $20 bill is 7.9 years before it is replaced due to wear. About 11% of all notes printed in 2009 were $20 bills. Twenty-dollar bills are delivered by Federal Reserve Banks in violet straps. Andrew Jackson first appeared on the $20 bill in 1928. Although 1928 coincides


title: "United States twenty-dollar bill" content: the next redesigned bill will be the ten-dollar bill, not set to be released into circulation until at least 2026. Because of this, it appears that a redesigned twenty-dollar bill featuring Tubman might not be released until years after the original 2020 release date. United States twenty-dollar bill The United States twenty-dollar bill ($20) is a denomination of U.S. currency. The seventh U.S. President (1829–1837), Andrew Jackson, has been featured on the front side of the bill since 1928; the White House is featured on the reverse. As of December 2013, the average circulation life of a $20 bill is


title: "Kaiser Permanente" content: Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente (; KP) is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser Permanente is made up of three distinct but interdependent groups of entities: the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. (KFHP) and its regional operating subsidiaries; Kaiser Foundation Hospitals; and the regional Permanente Medical Groups. As of 2017, Kaiser Permanente operates in eight states (Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia) and the District of Columbia, and is the largest managed care organization in the United States. As of


title: "Just Married" content: Just Married Just Married is a 2003 American romantic comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, written by Sam Harper, and stars Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy. Produced by Robert Simonds, the film was successful at the box office despite generally negative critical reviews. The film opens with Tom and Sarah in the airport, then flashes back from the moment they met up to the present. Working-class Tom Leezak and upper-class Sarah McNerney meet up when Tom accidentally hits Sarah with a football. A few months later, despite opposition from Sarah's rich family, they get married. They have kept a secret


title: "Just Married" content: from each other: Tom doesn't tell Sarah that he accidentally killed her dog and Sarah doesn't tell Tom that she slept with Peter Prentiss, a childhood friend and her family's friend, after she and Tom started dating. Flying to Europe for their honeymoon, they attempt to consummate their marriage by joining the mile high club, but fail rather publicly. They arrive at their classy hotel at the foot of the Alps to find that Peter has sent them a bottle of cognac "with love", while Tom's friend Kyle has sent them a "Thunderstick A-200" sex toy. Tom tries to force


title: "Just Married" content: the toy's American plug into the European outlet and he shuts down the entire village's electricity. The newlyweds leave the hotel after Tom has a heated argument with the hotel owner and pays a large bill to repair the power. While trying to find another hotel they crash their undersized car into a snowbank, stuck until daylight and once again unable to consummate their marriage. They make their way to Venice, staying at a "pensione" recommended by Tom's father. The "pensione" turns out to be a wreck, and they soon check out after a cockroach crawls over Tom when they


title: "Just Married" content: tried to have sex. The couple secure a nice Venetian hotel with the grudging financial help of Sarah's father. They go sightseeing, but Tom quickly gets bored and abandons Sarah so he can watch sports in a bar. Sarah runs into Peter, who is staying at their hotel on business. This prompts her to initiate a conversation with Tom in which he reveals that he accidentally killed her dog and she reveals she slept with Peter. The couple storm out of the hotel and each go their separate ways: Tom going back to the bar, where he meets American tourist


title: "Just Married" content: Wendy, and Sarah going sightseeing, where Peter follows her. Wendy flirts and dances with Tom, who escapes through a bathroom window when he realizes she wants to have sex with him. He returns to the hotel, only to learn from the maître d' that Sarah has gone out with Peter for the evening. Tom returns to the bar, only to be accosted by Wendy again. Tom tries to think of a clever way to get out of his situation, and finds himself tricked into walking her to his hotel room, where the girl rips off her top before Tom blurts


title: "Just Married" content: out that he's on his honeymoon, upon which the girl finally leaves. Sarah gets drunk so Peter takes her back to the hotel. When he kisses her at the entrance, she slaps him and reminds him that she's on her honeymoon. Tom sees the kiss from the balcony but not the slap. When Tom confronts her in their room, Sarah finds Wendy's bra. Peter bursts in to ask Sarah to run away with him to Seattle, leading to a fight that lands Tom and Sarah in jail – still without consummating their marriage. Peter bails them out and the couple


title: "Just Married" content: angrily decide to go home to Los Angeles, returning to the opening moments of the film. Sarah has moved out and Tom wants to get back with her. Upon receiving advice from his father, Tom attempts to see Sarah at her family's estate, but gives up after unsuccessfully trying to ram the gate. However, Sarah opens the gate herself after seeing Tom make a romantic speech to the camera and the two rush out to proclaim their love for each other. Sarah's family finally accepts Tom and Sarah's relationship. "Just Married" was successful at the box office. On a modest


title: "Just Married" content: budget of $18 million, the film went on to gross $56,127,162 domestically and earned an additional $45,437,773 in foreign box office receipts, giving it a total worldwide gross of $101,564,935. "Just Married" was released to generally negative critical reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes it has score of 20% based on 110 reviews, and the website's consensus states: "Just Married's plot is predictable, and the overdone pratfalls get tiresome." At Metacritic the film has a score of 28 out of 100 based on reviews from 27 critics indicating "Generally unfavorable reviews".Two out of five stars from MSN. Roger Ebert gave the film


title: "Just Married" content: 1 1/2 stars out of 4 stars, and called it a dumb sitcom. The film earned three Razzie Award nominations including Worst Actor (Ashton Kutcher), Worst Supporting Actress (Brittany Murphy) and Worst Screen Couple (Kutcher and Murphy), but failed to win in each of these categories. Just Married Just Married is a 2003 American romantic comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, written by Sam Harper, and stars Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy. Produced by Robert Simonds, the film was successful at the box office despite generally negative critical reviews. The film opens with Tom and Sarah in the airport, then


title: "Woolly lemur" content: Woolly lemur The woolly lemurs, also known as avahis or woolly indris, are nine species of strepsirrhine primates in the genus "Avahi". Like all other lemurs, they live only on the island of Madagascar. With a body size of 30 to 50 cm and a weight of 600 to 1200 g, the woolly lemurs are the smallest indriids. Their fur is short and woolly. The body can be grey brown to reddish, with white on the back of the thighs, with a long, orange tail. The head is round with a short muzzle and ears hidden in the fur. Woolly


title: "Gene duplication" content: and continue to function correctly. Thus, duplicate genes accumulate mutations faster than a functional single-copy gene, over generations of organisms, and it is possible for one of the two copies to develop a new and different function. Some examples of such neofunctionalization is the apparent mutation of a duplicated digestive gene in a family of ice fish into an antifreeze gene and duplication leading to a novel snake venom gene and the synthesis of 1 beta-hydroxytestosterone. Gene duplication is believed to play a major role in evolution; this stance has been held by members of the scientific community for over


title: HowStuffWorks content: Blucora for $45 million. In July 2016, Blucora announced the sale of its Infospace business, including HowStuffWorks, to OpenMail for $45 million in cash. OpenMail was later renamed System1. In 2014, HowStuffWorks moved its headquarters from Buckhead to Ponce City Market, a new mixed-use development in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta. In June 2017, they announced the hiring of Cracked.com founder and former editor-in-chief Jack O'Brien for their new comedy podcasting division. In 2017, System1 was spun-off as Stuff Media. In September 2018, Stuff Media announced its sale to radio broadcaster iHeartMedia for $55 million. HowStuffWorks maintains a


title: "What If (comics)" content: November 1998, Marvel published 114 monthly "What If" issues. The second series revisited and revised ideas from volume 1. In volume 2, stories could span multiple issues (every issue of volume 1 contained a complete story). Also, sometimes, the volume 2 stories would offer multiple plots and endings. The reader could decide which to adopt. For example, in "What If the War Machine Had Not Destroyed the Living Laser?", three endings were offered. The humorous aspect of volume 1 was retained through volume 2, particularly in issue #34, an all-humor issue containing a number of single-page gags and two complete


title: "Marker pen" content: Marker pen A marker pen, fineliner, marking pen, felt-tip marker, felt-tip pen, flow marker, texta (in Australia), sketch pen (in India) or koki (in South Africa), is a pen which has its own ink-source and a tip made of porous, pressed fibers such as felt. A permanent marker consists of a container (glass, aluminum or plastic) and a core of an absorbent material. This filling serves as a carrier for the ink. The upper part of the marker contains the nib that was made in earlier time of a hard felt material, and a cap to prevent the marker from


title: "Lada Riva" content: introduced in 1970 as a modified license copy of the Fiat 124. The Riva itself is officially designated – and known in the home market – as VAZ-2105 (base saloon [sedan]), VAZ-2104 (station wagon), and VAZ-2107 (deluxe saloon identified by the large chromed grille). In Russia, VAZ-2105, VAZ-2104, and VAZ-2107 are considered to be different cars rather than variants but nonetheless all of them are part of a single "Klassika" ("Classic") family along with older models such as the VAZ-2101. They are popularly known as Pyatyorka ("the five"), Chetvyorka ("the four") and Semyorka ("the seven"). Mechanically, the car is virtually


title: "Yell, Shetland" content: water, but is easily eroded, particularly when it comes near to the coast. As Jill Slee Blackadder writes: The island was anciently divided into the parishes of North Yell, Mid Yell, and South Yell. More recently the parish of North Yell was merged with that of Fetlar, and Mid Yell and South Yell were amalgamated. In 1991, North Yell was merged with Mid and South Yell to the new civil parish of Yell, leaving Fetlar a parish of its own. The island is still divided into the ecclesiastical parish Mid Yell and the quoad sacra parishes North Yell and South


title: "Carolina chickadee" content: have a short dark bill, short wings and a moderately long tail. Very similar to the black-capped chickadee, the Carolina chickadee is distinguished by the slightly browner wing with the greater coverts brown (not whitish fringed) and the white fringing on the secondary feathers slightly less conspicuous; the tail is also slightly shorter and more square-ended. The calls and song also differ subtly to an experienced ear: the Carolina chickadee's "chick-a-dee" call is faster and higher pitched than that of the black-capped chickadee, and the Carolina chickadee has a four note "fee-bee-fee-bay" song, whereas the black-capped omits the high notes.


title: "Gordon Blake" content: Washington assignment, he was given the aeronautical rating of command pilot and was promoted to major general, the highest permanent rank in the regular service. General Blake left Washington on January 4, 1957, to become commander of the US Air Force Security Service, a major component of the US Air Force with its Headquarters in San Antonio, Texas. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service to the United States as commander, US Air Force Security Service. On September 1, 1959, he was assigned as vice-commander-in-chief and chief of staff, Pacific


title: ChucK content: beneficial environment for everyone". The ChucK programming language is a loosely C-like object-oriented language, with strong static typing. ChucK is distinguished by the following characteristics: ChucK standard libraries provide: The following is a simple ChucK program that generates sound and music: ChucK has been used in performances by the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) and for developing Smule applications, including their ocarina emulator. PLOrk organizers attribute some of the uniqueness of their performances to the live coding they can perform with ChucK. ChucK ChucK is a concurrent, strongly timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on