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Kaslinsky (masculine), Kaslinskaya (feminine), or Kaslinskoye (neuter) may refer to:
- Kaslinsky District, a district of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
- Kaslinskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Kasli in Kaslinsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as
Synoemis pandani is a species of beetle in the family Silvanidae, the only species in the genus Synoemis.
Sangpang is a village development committee in Bhojpur District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3567 persons living in 718 individual households.
Tudjaat are Madeleine Allakariallak and Phoebe Atagotaaluk, two Inuit women from Nunavut, Canada who are keeping the ancient tradition of Inuit throat singing alive. Tudjaat got its start when Madelaine, who performed as part of a backup chorus with Susan Aglukark's third CD, was noticed by its producer, Randall Prescott. When he learned that she had a cousin who was also a throat singer, he arranged to have them brought together for a recording session which combined their traditional singing and modern music.
This short (six tracks) self-titled CD features "Kajusita (When My Ship Comes In)", a song written by Madeleine Allakariallak, Jon Park-Wheeler, and Randall Prescott. The CD won its producers the 1997 American Indian Film Institute Awards Best Song award, was included on a United Nations compilation CD entitled HERE and NOW, A celebration of Canadian Music,The Music of The First Peoples and Folk Music, and was made into a music video. The song, which describes the forced exile of a group of Inuit to the High Arctic in the last century, is a tribute to those who suffered and died as a consequence of a government decision.
The next year Tudjaat's "Qingauiit", written by Jon Park-Wheeler and Randall Prescott, was included on Putumayo's A Native American Odyssey: Inuit to Inca.
After the short-lived career of Tudjaat , Allakariallak worked for the CBC Northern Service and then in 2005 became a news host on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.
or is a coastal town in the comarca of Marina Alta, in the province of Alicante, Valencia, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. Situated on the back side of the Montgó, behind a wide bay and sheltered between two rocky headlands, the town has become a very popular small seaside resort and market town. Half of its resident population and over two thirds of its annual visitors are foreigners.
Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) by individuals with access to nonpublic information about the company. In various countries, some kinds of trading based on insider information is illegal. This is because it is seen as unfair to other investors who do not have access to the information, as the investor with insider information could potentially make far larger profits that a typical investor could not make.
The authors of one study claim that illegal insider trading raises the cost of capital for securities issuers, thus decreasing overall economic growth. However, some economists have argued that insider trading should be allowed and could, in fact, benefit markets.
Trading by specific insiders, such as employees, is commonly permitted as long as it does not rely on material information not in the public domain. Many jurisdictions require that such trading be reported so that the transactions can be monitored. In the United States and several other jurisdictions, trading conducted by corporate officers, key employees, directors, or significant shareholders must be reported to the regulator or publicly disclosed, usually within a few business days of the trade. In these cases, insiders in the United States are required to file a Form 4 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) when buying or selling shares of their own companies.
The rules governing insider trading are complex and vary significantly from country to country. The extent of enforcement also varies from one country to another. The definition of insider in one jurisdiction can be broad, and may cover not only insiders themselves but also any persons related to them, such as brokers, associates and even family members. A person who becomes aware of non-public information and trades on that basis may be guilty.
Countersignaling or countersignalling is the behavior where agents with the highest level of a given property invest less into proving it than individuals with a medium level of the same property. This concept is primarily useful for analyzing human behavior and thus relevant to economics, sociology and psychology; there is no known animal behavior which conforms to the predictions of the countersignaling model.
KSF may refer to:
- Kassel Calden Airport, IATA code
- Kjøbenhavns Skøjteløberforening
- Knowledge and Skills Framework
- Kosovo Security Force
- Kayyali Space Foundation
Kaznac was a court title of the state employee in medieval Bosnia and Serbia who was in charge for the treasury in the territory under his jurisdiction — kaznačina . The name of the title is derived from Serbo-Croatian word kazna . The kaznac was a financial-taxation service, translated into Latin camerarius (itself rendered " chamberlain").
In the Dečani chrysobulls, King Stefan Dečanski (r. 1321–1331) mentioned that the court dignitaries present at the Dečani assembly were the kaznac, tepčija, vojvoda, sluga and stavilac.
The title of veliki kaznac was later transformed into protovestijar.
M.I.A.M.I. ( backronym of Money Is a Major Issue) is the debut studio album by rapper Pitbull. The album was released on August 3, 2004, and peaked at number fourteen on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.
Several moth species are known as skeletonizers, including:
- Aglaope infausta (almond-tree leaf skeletonizer moth)
- Bucculatrix ainsliella (oak leaf skeletonizer, oak skeletonizer)
- Bucculatrix albertiella (oak-ribber skeletonizer)
- Bucculatrix canadensisella (birch skeletonizer)
- Catastega aceriella (maple trumpet skeletonizer moth)
- Choreutis nemorana (fig-tree skeletonizer moth, fig leaf roller)
- Choreutis pariana (apple-and-thorn skeletonizer, apple leaf skeletonizer)
- Harrisina americana (grapeleaf skeletonizer)
- Harrisina metallica (western grapeleaf skeletonizer)
- Prochoreutis inflatella (skullcap skeletonizer moth)
- Schreckensteinia festaliella (blackberry skeletonizer)
is a 1992 Japanese film by filmmaker Juzo Itami. It is also known by the titles Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion, The Gangster's Moll and The Anti-Extortion Woman. The film was widely popular in Japan and a critical success internationally. It satirizes the yakuza, who retaliated for their portrayal in the film by assaulting the director.
Twin city or twin town may refer to:
- Twin Town, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Twin towns and sister cities, two distant cities or towns agree to partner each other, for various reasons
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Twin cities, two towns or cities that are geographically close to each other, and often referred to collectively
- Minneapolis–Saint Paul in the U.S. state of Minnesota, most commonly referred to as the Twin Cities
- The Twin City, a nickname for the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Twin City, Georgia, taken as a proper name when two adjacent municipalities merged
- Lewiston–Auburn, in the U.S. state of Maine, often called the Twin Cities
- Champaign-Urbana, in the U.S. state of Illinois, often called the Twin Cities
- Twin City (Bratislava), name of the biggest multifunction building complex in Central Europe, under construction
- Twin Town, a 1997 comedy film
Twin City, the biggest regeneration project in Central Europe started in Bratislava in 2011. Its goal is to build a multifunctional complex (culture, entertainment, commercial, business, residence, accommodation and transport). Twin City is located at the border of the Old Town and Ružinov districts. The cost of the investment is approximately 17 billion Slovak koruna (about € 500 million).
A 22-floor high-rise building will be the dominant object of the complex (88 metres in height). The original study assumed 42 floors and 170 metres in height but the change was incorporated after public negotiations. A new central bus station will be a part of the complex.
The investment is expected to be completed by 2019.
A pugil stick is a heavily padded pole-like training weapon used since the early 1940s by military personnel in training for rifle and bayonet combat. The pugil stick is similar to a quarterstaff or Japanese bo, and may be marked to indicate which end represents the bayonet and which the rifle butt. Dr. Armond Seidler of the University of New Mexico invented the Pugil Stick training method during World War II. It was initially adopted by the United States Marine Corps, but was later included in United States Army combat training as well. Dr. Seidler received an award from the Marine Corps for his invention.
Pugil bouts are usually conducted with hard contact while wearing protective gear such as groin protectors, American football helmets, hockey gloves, and chest protectors or shin guards, such as those worn by baseball catchers. Some pugil sticks are made with integrated hand guards to reduce the potential for injury. Military procedures for pugil bouts are often detailed, with United States Army and United States Marine Corps both prohibiting pugil training by anyone who has recently suffered concussion of the brain, lest they suffer traumatic brain injury, or had a tooth extraction within the past 24 hours.
Some organizations, such as the Society for Creative Anachronism, use similar weapons for sport purposes, but it is generally discouraged as too dangerous. Practitioners of modern Eskrima spar with full contact, using lighter but unpadded sticks and protected only by gloves and a fencing mask. Unarmed techniques (punches, kicks etc.) are also a part of discipline, as is grappling. This style of fighting is more realistic than pugil stick training, but is regarded as too hazardous and technically demanding for the average Soldier or Marine. Pugil training gives recruits the adrenaline rush of combat minus the potential for serious injury. Benefits are gained even with the minimal amount of training they receive.
Pugil stick sparring was popularized in the United States by the American Gladiators, a physical game show which ran from 1989 to 1996, and again in the 2008 revival, as well as in the UK version. In the popular "Joust" contest, competitors would try to knock each other off pedestals using pugil sticks.
The name "pugil stick" is a neologism from the Latin noun pugnus (fist), the source for other English words such as "pugilist" (boxer) and "pugnacious" (eager to fight).
Ranganayaki, is the presiding Goddess of Ranganatha Swamy temple at Srirangam. Affectionately called ThAyAr ("Holy Mother" in Tamil), she is the consort of Lord Ranganatha, the male deity of Srirangam. She is regarded as the manifestation of Lakshmi. She is also called Ranga NAchiAr.
Ranganayaki is held in high reverence by the people of Srirangam and by Vaishnavites. Acharyas that sang the grace of Ranganatha venerate her. She is the feminine aspect of the universe and certain Vaishnavite traditions regard her co-equal to Ranganatha himself; she is both the means and the end of worship to them. Other traditions of Vaishnavism hold her only as the means--the end is Narayana alone. Despite these philosophical differences, all Vaishanvites revere her as ThAyAr.
Ranganayaki (, The Heroine of the Stage) is a 1981 Kannada film directed by Puttanna Kanagal starring Aarathi, Ambarish, Ramakrishna, Ashok, Rajanand. The film is an based on the novel Ranganayaki by Ashwattha.
Ptychodes is a genus of flat-faced longhorn beetles in the subfamily Lamiinae.
Homaloderodes germaini is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Homaloderodes.
Usage examples of "homaloderodes".
Then there was also the fact that the waters of the Orinoco had never been reliably mapped, not even by the Spaniards, even though the best engineers from the School of Navigation and Cartography in Seville had been tramping through the Guianan forests for decades.
Eldridge, formerly of Hakodate, obtained a small quantity of the poison, and, after trying some experiments with it, came to the conclusion that it is less virulent than other poisons employed for a like purpose, as by the natives of Java, the Bushmen, and certain tribes of the Amazon and Orinoco.
Sir Robert Schomburgh found on some of the affluents of the Orinoco a tribe known as Frog Indians, whose heads were flattened by Nature, as shown in newly-born children.
In the same cunty deft, trapped and undazzled, millions have walked before me, among them one, Blaise Cendrars, who afterwards flew to the moon, thence back to earth and up the Orinoco impersonating a wild man but actually sound as a button, though no longer vulnerable, no longer mortal, a splendiferous hulk of a poem dedicated to the archipelago of insomnia.
The itinerary called for them to spend one more day on this tributary of the Orinoco before lifting on air suspension and crossing through the jungle to the Rio Negro and thence on down to Manaus.
The legend of this city and its unfathomable riches had been repeated by all of the Spanish chroniclers, and for seventy years the conquistadores, those knight-errants of the jungle, had navigated the Orinoco and its tributaries in search of it.
It was a sturdy piece, having been fashioned from the wood of a mahogany tree felled on the shores of the Orinoco.
This was also the year when, flying in the huge Sikorsky helicopter, Settiniaz flew over Amazonia for three days, going as far as the llano of Colombia and Venezuela, following at a low altitude the flow of the Guaviare and the Orinoco, to the small town of San Fernando de Atabapo.
Wishing that she hadn't read that the Venezuelan government was reintroducing man-eating Orinoco crocodiles into the wild, Gamay Morgan Trout jackknifed her lithe body in a surface dive and with strong kicks of her slender legs descended into the Stygian darkness.