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L.V. (singer)

Larry Sanders (born November 21, 1960), better known by his stage name L.V. (which stands for "Large Variety"), is an American award-winning R&B singer. He is best known for his collaboration with rapper Coolio on the Grammy Award-winning single, " Gangsta's Paradise", and has been featured on multiple soundtracks since then. Having released two solo albums to date, he was also a member of the gangsta rap group South Central Cartel since their beginning, usually singing the vocals and chorus.

Beta-Araneosene

β–Araneosene is a molecule first isolated in 1975 from the mold Sordaria araneosa by Borschberg. This unprecedented diterpene framework was given the name “araneosene”. In 1976, the skeletal class was renamed to “dolabellane” due to the isolation of several compounds containing this framework found from the sea hare Dolabella californica. Since their initial discovery, there are now more than 150 known dolabellanes, mostly isolated from marine sources.

Cleptacaca

Cleptacaca is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae.

Buckra

Buckra is a slang offensive term primarily used by African-Americans in the Southeast United States to describe a white man or a boss. It is generally thought to derive from a word in the Efik and Ibibio languages, "mbakara", meaning "master."

"De nigger was de right arm of de buckra class. De buckra was de horn of plenty for de nigger. Both suffer in consequence of freedom."...(Moses Lyles, a former slave in South Carolina, speaking in the 1930s). As clearly noted in this 1916 publication, there was also the white trash level of buckra, referred by both Southern races as "poor buckras"...locally pronounced "po' buckras".

Chlumčany (Plzeň-South District)

Chlumčany is a village and municipality ( obec) in Plzeň-South District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic.

The municipality has a population of 2,367 (as at 2005).

Chlumčany lies approximately south of Plzeň and south-west of Prague.

Moonsorrow

Moonsorrow is a pagan metal band formed in Helsinki, Finland, in 1995. Musically, the band incorporates elements of black metal and folk metal in their sound. The band call their sound "epic heathen metal" and try to distance themselves from the term " Viking metal". They have distanced themselves from other folk metal bands, emphasizing that their music is pagan and spiritual and is challenging for its listeners, rather than happy or danceable. The band members have varying levels of pagan belief but they draw on pagan spirituality for lyrics and inspiration.

Limuchi

Limuchi (, also Romanized as Līmūchī; also known as Līmūchīhā) is a village in Pian Rural District, in the Central District of Izeh County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 79, in 15 families.

Caradhras

In the fictional universe of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, Caradhras, also called the Redhorn (the literal English translation of the Sindarin name), and known in the Dwarves' language as Barazinbar, is one of the mightiest peaks in the Misty Mountains. It stands above the Redhorn Gate, the only known surface route through the Misty Mountains between Rivendell and the Gap of Rohan. Along with Celebdil and Fanuidhol, Caradhras is one of the three Mountains of Moria, beneath which the great Dwarf palace of Khazad-dûm was built. Below the snowline, Caradhras is described as having dull red slopes, "as if stained with blood", which is perhaps the origin of its name.

Caradhras is the northernmost of the three Mountains of Moria. The mithril mines, on which Khazad-dûm's wealth was founded, were gradually extended north under Caradhras. It was here that miners found Durin's Bane, the Balrog of Moria.

Caradhras has for centuries had an evil reputation, earning the sobriquet "the Cruel". Gimli says that Caradhras bore that name before Sauron was known in the area, and dislikes both Elves and Dwarves.

The Redhorn Gate originally linked the former Noldorin realm of Eregion in the west to the Dimrill Dale and hence the Vale of Anduin in the east. After Eregion was destroyed in the War of the Elves and Sauron, this pass was predominantly used by Elves travelling between Lórien and Eriador. The Hobbits used this pass on their migration to Eriador from the Gladden Fields. The Redhorn Gate is notoriously treacherous, being noted especially as the site of Elrond's wife Celebrían's abduction by Orcs. Later, the Nine Walkers' attempt to traverse the pass nearly ended in disaster in a snowstorm. Besides the storm itself they endured distressing noises from the wind as well as a barrage of stones and were very nearly trapped by suspiciously placed snowdrifts. Gimli especially, as well as Boromir and to a lesser extent Aragorn, attributed this combination of threats to the malice of Caradhras. In the Peter Jackson film the "fell voice" is Saruman speaking in Quenya, who exhorts cruel Redhorn to strike at the Fellowship while Gandalf pleads for Caradhras to sleep.

Caradhras is reminiscent (in form and meaning) of the Greek word χαράδρα (charadra), which means "mountain stream".

Calatrava

Calatrava can refer to:

Calatrava (watch)

The Patek Philippe Calatrava is a line of dress watches built by Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe, introduced in 1932. These watches are considered the flagship model of Patek Philippe. The first version of the Calatrava was launched in 1932, inspired by the Bauhaus principle.

The most popular model in the Calatrava range was the 3919, with the guilloché “Clous de Paris” bezel, introduced in 1985. After 21 years, it was replaced in March 2006 by the slightly larger 5119 model. This change in size reflected a growing trend for larger watches. Another famous model was the 96, whose modern incarnation is the considerably larger 5196. Some Calatravas (such as the current 5227) feature a date function, whereas others (such as the 5116, 5119, 5120, 5123, 5196) display only hours and minutes (and, in some cases, seconds). Current (2014) prices start from around US$19,000

Models in the 2014 Calatrava range have either automatic or manual movements. Patek have developed a quartz movement but it is not currently used in the Calatrava range.

Apparitor

In ancient Rome, an apparitor (also spelled apparator in English, or shortened to paritor) was a civil servant whose salary was paid from the public treasury. The apparitores assisted the magistrates. There were four occupational grades (decuriae) among them. The highest of these was the scribae, the clerks or public notaries, followed by the lictores, lictors; viatores, messengers or summoners, that is, agents on official errands; and praecones, announcers or heralds.

The term has hence referred to a beadle in a university, a pursuivant or herald; particularly, in Roman Catholic canon law, which was largely inspired by Roman law. Apparitor remained an official title for an officer in ecclesiastical courts. They were designated to serve the summons, to arrest a person accused, and in ecclesiastico-civil procedure, to take possession, physically or formally, of the property in dispute, in order to secure the execution of the judge's sentence. This was done in countries where the ecclesiastical forum, in its substantial integrity, is recognized. He thus acts as constable and sheriff. His guarantee of his delivery of the summons is evidence of the knowledge of his obligation to appear, either to stand trial, to give testimony, or to do whatever else may be legally enjoined by the judge; his statement becomes the basis of a charge of contumacy against anyone refusing to obey summons.

Qawra

Qawra (, ) is a zone within St. Paul's Bay in the Northern Region, Malta. It is located close to Buġibba and Salina, and it is a popular tourist resort, containing many hotels and restaurants.

Although there is no beach, many people swim and bathe off the rocks, which provide ample space for sun bathing. It is popular with tourists who like to walk by the sea at night.

In around 1638, the Order of St. John built Qawra Tower at Qawra Point. A battery was built around it in 1715, while an entrenchment wall was added in the 1760s. Today, the tower and battery are a restaurant, and parts of the entrenchment can still be seen.

The town is home to many water-sport activities, including banana boat, speed boat and jetski rides, as well as kayaking, snorkeling and diving. The area is also well known as the "touristy" area of Malta due to the many bars which show British football. Summer temperatures can be as hot as , with an average of over . Casinos, bars, and clubs are also a major part of this small town.

Qawra is also home to many nightclubs and bars. This seaside resort is just away from Valletta, the capital city of Malta.

Hamilton—Wentworth (provincial electoral district)
For the defunct federal electoral district, see Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale

Hamilton—Wentworth was a provincial electoral district represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1934 to 1971.

It was located in the province of Ontario.

Caussade

Caussade is a commune in the district of Montauban, located in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in the south of France.

Caussade, an ancient city of the white Quercy or lower Quercy, is located in the hills of Quercy and nicknamed " hat city" due to milliner production in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The straw hat, the famous boater was made in Caussade.

The inhabitants are called the Caussadais and Caussadaises .

Cavallari

Cavallari is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Aristide Cavallari (1849–1914), Patriarch of Venice
  • Giulio Cavallari (born 1992) Italian footballer
  • Kristin Cavallari (* 1987), American television personality and actress
  • Simona Cavallari (actress) (* 1971), Italian actress
  • Simona Cavallari (handball player) (* 1992), Swiss women's handball player
Qayesh

Qayesh (, also Romanized as Qāyesh; also known as Ghayesh and Qaīsh Tepe) is a village in Sardrud-e Sofla Rural District, Sardrud District, Razan County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,385, in 323 families.

MGV

MGV may refer to:

  • MGV (company), a video production company
  • The US Army's XM1202 Mounted Combat System
  • MGV (composition) ("Musique à Grand Vitesse"), a 1993 composition by Michael Nyman
  • Yugoslavian sub-machine gun
MGV (composition)

MGV, or Musique à Grande Vitesse (High-Speed Music) is a 1993 musical composition by English composer Michael Nyman. It was commissioned by the Festival de Lille for the inauguration of the TGV North-European Paris-Lille line and was first performed by the Michael Nyman Band and the Orchestre national de Lille under Jean-Claude Casadesus on 26 September 1993.

From the program note by the composer: "MGV runs continuously but was conceived as an abstract, imaginary journey; or rather five inter-connected journeys, each ending with a slow, mainly stepwise melody which is only heard in its 'genuine' form when the piece reaches its destination. The thematic 'transformation' is a key to MGV as a whole, where musical ideas- rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, motivic, textural - constantly change their identity as they pass through different musical 'environments'. For instance the opening bars establish both a recurrent rhythmic principle - 9, 11, or 13-beat rhythmic cycles heard against a regular 8 - and a harmonic process - chord sequences (mainly over C and E) which have the note E in common. (Coincidentally, MGV begins in C and ends in E). A later scalic, syncopated figure (again first heard over C, E and A) begins the second section, featuring brass, in D flat. And so on: the topography of MGV should be experienced without reference to planning, description or timetables. Tempo changes, unpredictable slowings down, bear no logical relation to the high speed of the Paris-Lille journey, while the temptation to treat MGV as a concerto grosso, with the Michael Nyman band as the ripieno, was resisted: more suitably the Band (amplified in live performance) lays down the tracks on which MGV runs."

MGV was presented on The Piano Concerto/MGV by Argo Records, released in 1994.

Cushioning

Package cushioning is used to help protect fragile items during shipment. It is common for a transport package to be dropped, kicked, and impacted: These events may produce potentially damaging shocks. Transportation vibration from conveyors, trucks, railroads, or aircraft can also damage some items. Shock and vibration are controlled by cushioning so that the chance of product damage is greatly reduced.

Cushioning is usually inside a shipping container such as a corrugated box. It is designed to deform or crush to help keep levels of shock and vibration below levels that may damage the product inside the box. Depending on the specific situation, package cushioning can often be between 50 and 75 millimeters (two to three inches) thick.

Internal packaging materials (sometimes the same ones used for cushioning) are also used for functions other than cushioning. Some are used just to immobilize the products in the box and to block them in place. Others are just used to fill a void and do not have a cushioning function.

Metacolpodes

Metacolpodes is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:

  • Metacolpodes amoenulus Jedlicka, 1934
  • Metacolpodes buchanani Hope, 1831
  • Metacolpodes buxtoni (Andrewes, 1927)
  • Metacolpodes cyaneus (Perroud, 1864)
  • Metacolpodes deliasianum Morvan, 1999
  • Metacolpodes fryi (Bates, 1889)
  • Metacolpodes godavaricus Kirschenhofer, 1992
  • Metacolpodes grandis (Landin, 1955)
  • Metacolpodes hardwickii Hope, 1831
  • Metacolpodes hopkinsi (Andrewes, 1927)
  • Metacolpodes incertus (Chaudoir, 1879)
  • Metacolpodes janakpurensis Kirschenhofer, 1992
  • Metacolpodes janelloides (Louwerens, 1953)
  • Metacolpodes janellus (Bates, 1892)
  • Metacolpodes laetus (Erichson, 1834)
  • Metacolpodes landrungensis Kirschenhofer, 1992
  • Metacolpodes laticeps (Emden, 1936)
  • Metacolpodes limodromoides Bates, 1883
  • Metacolpodes monticola (Fairmaire, 1849)
  • Metacolpodes nilgherriensis (Chaudoir, 1878)
  • Metacolpodes olivius Bates, 1873
  • Metacolpodes parallelus (Chaudoir, 1859)
  • Metacolpodes planithorax (Louwerens, 1953)
  • Metacolpodes rambouseki Jedlicka, 1934
  • Metacolpodes rotundatus (Chaudoir, 1878)
  • Metacolpodes rotundicollis (Landin, 1955)
  • Metacolpodes superlita Bates, 1888
  • Metacolpodes tetraglochis Andrewes, 1929
  • Metacolpodes truncatellus (Fairmaire, 1881)
Jenišovice

Jenišovice is name of several locations in the Czech Republic:

  • Jenišovice (Chrudim District), a village in the Pardubice Region
  • Jenišovice (Jablonec nad Nisou District), a village in the Liberec Region
Jenišovice (Chrudim District)
See other places named Jenišovice.

Jenišovice is a village in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 450 inhabitants.

Hamlets Martinice, Mravín, Štěnec and Zalažany are administrative parts of Jenišovice .

Jenišovice (Jablonec nad Nisou District)

Jenišovice is a village and municipality in Jablonec nad Nisou District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic.

Category:Villages in Jablonec nad Nisou District

Counterplot

Counterplot is a 1959 crime film directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Richard Blake. The film stars Forrest Tucker, Allison Hayes, Gerald Milton, Jackie Wayne, Richard Verney and Miguel Ángel Álvarez. The film was released in October 1959, by United Artists.

It was the final film directed by the German-born Neumann.

Crotyl

A crotyl group is an organic functional group with the formula RCHCH=CHCH. Systematically, it is called a but-2-en-1-yl group and exhibits geometric isomerism, being either cis (Z) or trans (E). There are many simple compounds in which the crotyl group forms base carbon chain: crotyl alcohol, crotonaldehyde, crotonic acid, and crotyl acrylate are examples.

Triciribine

Triciribine is a cancer drug which was first synthesised in the 1970s and trialled clinically in the 1980s and 1990s without success. Following the discovery in the early 2000s that the drug would be effective against tumours with hyperactivated Akt, it is now again under consideration in a variety of cancers. As PTX-200, the drug is currently in two early stage clinical trials in breast cancer and ovarian cancer being conducted by the small molecule drug development company Prescient Therapeutics.

Phlyctaina

Phlyctaina is a genus of litter moths of the Erebidae family.

Urtsadzor

Urtsadzor , is a village in the Ararat Province of Armenia, containing the former village of Chimankend.

Horribians

Horribians is a Ghanaian professional football team that plays in the 3A Zone of the Ghana Division One League. Zone 3A has seven competing teams from the part of the Greater Accra Region and the Volta Region of Ghana.

Markabygd

Markabygd or Markabygda is a village in the municipality of Levanger in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the northeast side of the lake Movatnet, about south of the town of Levanger. Markabygda Church is located here. There is also a private Montessori school.

Drinkwise

DrinkWise Australia (DrinkWise) is an Australian social change organisation created to harness the power of evidenced based social marketing to bring about a healthier, safer drinking culture in Australia – where drinking to excess or drinking too young is considered undesirable.

DrinkWise's philosophy is founded on industry leadership and community partnerships. It is currently funded by voluntary contributions from alcohol industry participants, and has in the past received some government funding to support specific initiatives.

The organisation is governed by a board of eminent Australians with backgrounds including business, politics, community service, academia, education, research and marketing. DrinkWise's alcohol industry contributors are directly represented on its board.

Usage examples of "drinkwise".

It was now late in the afternoon, and Ralph pondered whether he should abide the night where he was and sleep the night there, or whether he should press on in hope of winning to some clear place before dark.

He rested her back against the wall, his forehead pressed to hers, struggling to regain his ability to breathe.

Quite the contrary, proper discipline had to be maintained, and in wartime, with pressed men aboard ship, a firm hand was something he deemed a necessity.

With bestial grace, the Scylvendi pounded the abomination, pressing him back.

His chest hair abraded her nipples, his erection pressed hard against her belly.

But even if we were to assume that freedom of speech and freedom of the press were protected from abridgment on the part not only of the United States but also of the States, still we should be far from the conclusion that the plaintiff in error would have us reach.

It took the position that even if freedom of the press was protected against abridgment by the State, a publication tending to obstruct the administration of justice was punishable, irrespective of its truth.

So to assure the impartial accomplishment of justice is not an abridgment of freedom of speech or freedom of the press, as these phases of liberty have heretofore been conceived even by the stoutest libertarians.

She ached for him to move away from her, panic surging over her as he pressed the cloth to her damp jeans.

The artful, evocative temptation he pressed on her held her captive, unable to think, unable to actable only to feel.

Still an actress, she pressed her handkerchief to her eyes, pretending to weep, and assuring me that I was not to doubt the truth of what she said.

He pressed her up against the adobe wall and held her there with the length of his hard, sinewy body.

But, if the political principles of the great man who has now departed were not always reconcilable with the opinions and demands of modern advancement, they were at least consistent in themselves, were never extravagantly pressed, never tyrannically promoted, and never obstinately maintained to the hindrance of the government or the damage of the state.

Clodius Afer, with a grimace that reflected his own distaste for the situation, thrust himself back into the press.

Belisarius pressed his retreat, by affecting to oppose a measure so salutary to the empire, and which could scarcely have been prevented by an army of a hundred thousand men.