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GainSpan, a San Jose, California-based semiconductor company, designs and markets wireless connectivity products. It offers Wi-Fi chips, software, and embedded Wi-Fi modules. The company provides Wi-Fi technology for the residential housing, healthcare, and smart energy industries.
Walthamstow ( or ) is the principal town of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in North East London, England. It is located northeast from Charing Cross.
Historically in the county of Essex, it significantly increased in population as part of the suburban growth of London and was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1929 before becoming part of Greater London in 1965.
Walthamstow is a large town, situated between the North Circular Road to the north, Lee Valley and the Walthamstow Reservoirs to the west, and Epping Forest to the east. The town centre consists of Walthamstow Market, the longest single street market in Europe.
Walthamstow (Contemp. and Cons. RP) /wɔːlθm̩stəʊ/, (Est. Eng.) /woːwfm̩stɐʏ/ is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Stella Creasy, a member of the Labour Party and of the Cooperative Party.
Walthamstow is the debut album by East 17. The album entered the charts at number 1 on 27 February 1993, and contained three UK Top 10 singles, including their debut single " House of Love", released in 1992 - with two different music videos (#10), third single " Deep" (#5), and fifth single " It's Alright" (#3).
The album was shortlisted for the 1993 Mercury Prize and was certified as Platinum in the UK.
Tomboutou or Toumboutou or Toumbouctou is a town and arrondissement in the Alibori Department of northeastern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Malanville. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on February 15, 2002, the arrondissement had a total population of 10,026.
Gergen is the surname of several persons:
- David Gergen (born 1942), American political consultant
- John Jay Gergen, American mathematician
- Kenneth J. Gergen (born 1935), American psychologist and professor
- Mary Gergen, American social psychologist
- Michael Gergen (born 1987), American-born professional hockey player
Protolophotus is an extinct genus of crestfishes, family Lophotidae.
Serviam is Latin for "I will serve." This was the cry of St. Michael the Archangel as a response to Lucifer's "I will not serve" ( Non serviam) when God put the angels to the test.
Catholics use this term as a prayer which emphasizes their willingness to love and serve God. Catholic bishops, schools, publishers, and institutions have used it as their motto.
Bishops who have used it as their motto are Cardinal Jaime Sin of the Philippines, and Gerard L. Frey, who once headed the dioceses of Savannah, Ga., and Lafayette.1 In honor of Cardinal Sin, the Catholic Mass Media Awards grant a Serviam Award for outstanding service.
The Ursulines Sisters "who opened the first Catholic school in Newham created a school following the "serviam" philosophy of education espoused by the Ursuline foundress, Saint Angela Merici. Her approach to education was simple and yet profound. She encouraged her Sisters to not only teach the required academic subjects and to integrate elements of Catholic faith with the learning process, but she also required her Sisters to integrate service into the learning process. Serviam became a motto for all Ursuline schools and continues as such to this day."2
It is also recommended as a morning prayer or morning offering. The Ursuline prayer is used to ask God to help people show Serviam throughout the day. Serviam is a motto also used in a school called St.Angela's Ursuline, Newham in London. St. Angela's was the first Ursuline school to be opened, which was in 1683. The school is currently an Ursuline school alongside Ilford Ursuline and Wimbledon Ursuline, both also in London.
The Möhlintal is a 10-kilometre long valley running between Möhlin and Wegenstetten in the Rheinfelden district of Canton Aargau, Switzerland. The five municipalities in the valley ( Möhlin, Zeiningen, Zuzgen, Hellikon and Wegenstetten) have a total population of around 14,000 people.
The upper part of the valley is also known as the "Wegenstettertal". This name was particularly used by associations and groups related to the upper Möhlintal municipalities. In Habsburg times the area was known as Landschaft (territory) Möhlinbach. The valley was also sometimes known as the "Chläfflital". The official name of the valley given by Canton Aargau is "Möhlintal".
Alar is the common term for Daminozide, a chemical compound that serves as a plant growth regulator.
"Alar" may also refer to:
- Alar ligament, connection between head and neck
- Alar fascia, layer of fascia
- Alar plate (also known as alar lamina), neural structure in the embryonic nervous system
- Lamborghini Alar, mid-engined sports car produced by Lamborghini LatinoAmerica
Millendreath is a hamlet in the parish of Looe, Cornwall, England, situated two miles east of the town of Looe.
Lill pins are pins used by entomologists and botanists.
They are short pins, with a head. Entomologists use them for holding down setting paper, and for pinning name labels inside collection cases. Botanists use them for mounting specimen envelopes containing bryophyte specimens.
Majarshin (, also Romanized as Majārshīn and Majāreshīn) is a village in Gonbar Rural District, in the Central District of Osku County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 1,112, in 304 families.
Majarshin is one of the villages of East Azerbaijan province which is located in Gonbar Rural District, in the Central District of Osku County and is located nearly 65 from the city of Tabriz, Majarshyn.
Majarshin is the ancient and historical village that has a green positive nature and is mountainous.
The Majarshin is considered as a treasure of monuments, landscapes and tourist attractions. The village currently has a population of approximately 1300 people.
Majarshin was originally Mirza neshin ( a place where the people of high rank of society mostly lived) and in Reza Shah Pahlavi's time of policy of cultural assimilation which changing the name of cities was part of it, the name of village was changed. But, the residents of this village and surrounding villages apply the name of the village with its old dialect "Mirzeh Neshin" or (mirza neshin) the main activities of village's residents are in the areas of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry and carpet. The main source of income for the village Majarshin, is selling agricultural products such as nuts, raw rose and pussy. The milk production of heavy and light traps is another source of income that all these happen in the spring and summer. In winter, carpet weaving and selling it, is the most important source of income for village residents. It’s interesting to know that potatoes are the symbol of Majarshin.
In Majarshin often walnut and willow Tabrizi are to be seen. Livestock in the village due to the high meadows and postures, especially Suyukh Boulagh and Agh valley in comparison with surrounding villages is wider done. Income resulting from the sale of surplus dairy products and consequently contribute to the economy of rural households.
Majarshin is a mountainous village with beautiful staircase home. An asphalt road connects the village with the town Osku and Azarshahr. Majarshin village location is so that makes it a top rating to the surrounding villages. This village is the confluence of two roads, Azarshahr to Gonbar and Osku to Gonbar.
The highest point of village is the Orian Mountain; the peak height of it is 2850 mtr.
Majarshin village is located in the foothills of Yeke Soura Majarshin village.
Adendorf is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
AnyBand ( Hangul: 애니밴드) is the K-pop EP, released by South Korean project group AnyBand. It featured three songs "Talk Play Love", "Promise U" and "Daydream.
Musical group AnyBand is a promotional band formed by cell phone brand Samsung's Anycall, which promoted their product "AnyBand" new cell phones. Musical group AnyBand consists of BoA, Xiah Junsu, Tablo, and jazz pianist Jin Bora.
In electronics, motorboating is low frequency parasitic oscillation (unwanted cyclic variation of the output voltage) that occurs in audio and radio equipment and often manifests itself as a sound similar to an idling motorboat engine, a "put-put-put", in audio output from speakers or earphones. It is a problem encountered particularly in radio transceivers and older vacuum tube audio systems, guitar amplifiers, PA systems and is caused by some type of unwanted feedback in the circuit. The amplifying devices in audio and radio equipment are vulnerable to a variety of feedback problems, which can cause distinctive noise in the output. The term motorboating is applied to oscillations whose frequency is below the range of hearing, from 1 to 10 hertz, so the individual oscillations are heard as pulses. Sometimes the oscillations can even be seen visually as the woofer cones in speakers slowly moving in and out.
Besides sounding annoying, motorboating can cause clipping of the audio output waveform, and thus distortion in the output.
Rapstar is an hip hop duo consisting of two Italian rappers, Fabri Fibra and Clementino.
Protocalicium is a genus of fungi in the Ascomycota phylum. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown ( incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any class, order, or family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Protocalicium jaczevskii.
johnnie-O is a clothing company started in 2004 by John O'Donnell. This company combines "east coast preppy" with "west coast ' dude'" to a create a lifestyle brand referred to as west coast preppy. They use a surfer with his board as their logo which immediately triggers images of an active but casual outdoor way of life in our social consciousness. The unique style of the johnnie-O clothing line has made it increasingly popular among golf and entertainment circles. Actors including John's brother Chris O'Donnell have appeared on popular television shows wearing johnnie-O apparel.
The presence of the brand is apparent in various magazines and websites. The company makes numerous charitable contributions to organizations such as Autism Speaks, The Brees Dream Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Surfrider Foundation, Mobile C.A.R.E. Foundation, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Allendale Shelter Club, among others.
Ballymacward is a village in County Galway, Ireland, on the R359 regional road between the main road and rail networks which traverse east-west, 15 miles from Ballinasloe and approximately 30 miles from Galway City. It was once part of the kingdom of the Soghain of Connacht.
It lies 4 km north of Woodlawn railway station.
Manamin (, also Romanized as Manāmīn; also known as Manāman, Mānāmūn, Manānom, and Mananum) is a village in Khvoresh Rostam-e Shomali Rural District, Khvoresh Rostam District, Khalkhal County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 357, in 111 families.
"Adorations" is Killing Joke's first single from their sixth studio album, Brighter than a Thousand Suns, released in August 1986.
"Adorations" was released in several versions including remixes.
The 12", released by E.G. Records in the UK, Virgin Records in Spain, and Virgin Schallplatten GmbH in Germany, featured "Adorations (The Extended Mix)" as the A-side, with the B-side of "Exile" and "Ecstasy (The Extended Mix)".
"Adorations (The Supernatural Mix)" was also released on 12" vinyl in the UK and featured " Love Like Blood (The '86 Remix)" and "Exile" as B-sides.
The 7" vinyl single, released in the UK, France, and Spain, featured a shortened, non-remixed version of the original "Adorations" from the album, with "Exile" as its B-side. E.G. also released a 7" limited-edition double vinyl single exclusively in the UK featuring the remix of "Adorations" as the A-side, "Exile" as the B-side, "Ecstasy" as the C-side, and "Adorations (Instrumental Mix)" as the D-side.
The cassette maxi release of "Adorations" featured "Adorations (The Extended Mix)" and "Ecstasy" as side one and "Exile" and "Love Like Blood (The '86 Remix)" as side two.
All of the releases were mixed by Julian Mendelsohn and Zeus B. Held, and produced by Chris Kimsey and Stewart Levine.
El Rancho may refer to:
- El Rancho Charter School, a public charter school located in Anaheim, California
- El Rancho High School, a public school in Pico Rivera, California
- El Rancho Hotel & Motel, a Gallup, New Mexico Hotel listed as a National Historic Site
- El Rancho Hotel (Las Vegas), a Las Vegas hotel previously known as the Thunderbird (resort)
- El Rancho Unified School District, the school system in Pico Rivera, California
- El Rancho Vegas, the name of the first hotel on the Las Vegas Strip
- El Rancho (Shortland Street), a location in the fictional soap opera Shortland Street
- El Rancho Hotel (Williston, North Dakota), Hotel, Restaurant, Coffee Shop, Lounge in Williston, North Dakota
- El Rancho Restaurant & Tavern in Evergreen, Colorado
- El Rancho common house types in Central and South America.
Places named El Rancho:
- El Rancho, California
- El Rancho, New Mexico
- El Rancho, Guatemala
Cheol-min, also spelled Chol-min or Chul-min, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 11 hanja with the reading " cheol" and 27 hanja with the reading " min" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.
People with this name include:
- Kang Cheol-min (born 1939), South Korean go player
- Park Chul-min (born 1967), South Korean actor
- Jang Chul-min (born 1972), South Korean football player
- Ri Chol-min (born 1980), North Korean ice hockey player
- Pak Chol-min (judoka) (born 1982), North Korean judo practitioner
- Jong Chol-min (born 1988), North Korean football player
- Pak Chol-min (footballer) (born 1988), North Korean football player
- Rim Chol-min (born 1990), North Korean football player
- Kim Cheol-min (born 1992), South Korean speed skater
Assaye is a small village in the Jalna district of the state of Maharashtra in western India. The village was the location of the Battle of Assaye in 1803, fought between the Maratha Empire and the British East India Company.
It became the first real victory for the young general Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). Here he commanded a vastly outnumbered combined force of British and Sepoy regiments against a mixed modernised and tribal Maratha army. He always described this as his greatest military victory.
The Assaye battle honour was awarded by the Governor General of British India to all East India Company battalions and British Army regiments that took part of the Battle of Assaye. The battle occurred on 23 September 1803, near the village of Assaye in western India where a small force under the command of Major General Arthur Wellesley defeated a 50,000 strong army of the Maratha Confederacy. The British and native troops (which consisted of Madras Line only) were awarded the battle honour Assaye with the device of Elephant vide General Order of Governor General dated 30 October 1803. The British regiments and Madras battalions involved were also presented with an honorary colour to mark their achievement. The Madras Battalions celebrated the victory for over a century till their disbandment in the 1920s.
Of the sepoy battalions which faced the Maratha line, the only surviving battalion is the 1st Battalion, the Punjab Regiment of the Pakistan Army, the erstwhile 1st/1st Madras Infantry.
In the Indian Army only the Madras Sappers have this unique battle honour now but it counts as repugnant.
The Royal Highland Fusiliers which were formed on 20th Januar 1959 by an amalgamation of The Royal Scots Fusiliers and the Highland Light Infantry, are the descendant of the 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot who first became The Highland Light Infantry in 1881, are the only British infantry regiment to still carry the battle honour.
The Light Dragoons, as the descendant of the 19th Light Dragoons, the only British cavalry regiment present, are the only British cavalry regiment to carry the battle honour. They became 19th PWO Hussars and used the Assaye Elephant as their cap badge.
The Assaye was a barque that was lost with all 25 hands on a voyage from London to Wellington, New Zealand in 1890.
Turuvekere is a panchayat town and Taluk in Tumkur district in the Indian state of Karnataka.
An egg is an organic vessel in which an embryo begins to develop.
Egg or eggs may also refer to:
An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches. An egg results from fertilization of an ovum. Most arthropods, vertebrates, and mollusks lay eggs, although some do not, such as scorpions and most mammals.
Reptile eggs, bird eggs, and monotreme eggs are laid out of water, and are surrounded by a protective shell, either flexible or inflexible. Eggs laid on land or in nests are usually kept within a favorable temperature range (warm) while the embryo grows. When the embryo is adequately developed it hatches, i.e. breaks out of the egg's shell. Some embryos have a temporary egg tooth with which to crack, pip, or break the eggshell or covering.
The largest recorded egg is from a whaleshark, and was in size; whale shark eggs normally hatch within the mother. At and up to , the ostrich egg is the largest egg of any living bird, though the extinct elephant bird and some dinosaurs laid larger eggs. The bee hummingbird produces the smallest known bird egg, which weighs half of a gram (around 0.02 oz). The eggs laid by some reptiles and most fish can be even smaller, and those of insects and other invertebrates can be much smaller still.
Reproductive structures similar to the egg in other kingdoms are termed " spores," or in spermatophytes " seeds," or in gametophytes "egg cells".
Egg were an English progressive rock band formed in January 1969.
Egg was a style magazine for gyaru fashion, distributed in Japan. It featured photos of ganguro girls and synopses of their tastes and popular trends. The magazine also usually had photos of the newest fashions, where to buy them, latest hairstyles, cell phones, and make up tips. It also had candid photos of ganguro girls on the streets of Japan, similar to Fruits magazine. Egg had its own models which starred in every magazine. Due to the decline of Gyaru popularity, the magazine shut down with the last issue on 31 May 2014.
The Egg is a chair designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1958 for the Radisson SAS hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is manufactured by Republic of Fritz Hansen.
The Egg was designed in a typical Jacobsen style, using state-of-the-art material.
It is believed to be inspired by Eero Saarinen's "Womb chair", from which it borrows some traits.
Related to the Egg is the Swan chair and, to some degree, many of Jacobsen's plywood chairs such as "7", the Ant, the Cigar, the Grand Prix-chair, the Pot, the Drop and the Giraffe.
The Egg (like the Swan) was also designed as a couch. While the Swan couch is still in production, only a handful of Egg couches have ever been made. A few were made for the Radisson Hotel, and a few years back, some were made as a "special edition" couch. The price was quite high — about 400 000 DKR, the equivalent of roughly 75 000 USD.
The reason for the limited production of the Egg couch, besides the wish for exclusivity, is the difficulty involved in making it, plus a design flaw: the couch is too big to be covered by two entire cow-hides, which is only just possible with the Egg-chair. This leaves a very visible stitching down the middle of the couch. This problem can, however, be solved by making the upholstery in fabric rather than leather.
According to a New York Times article, the Egg chair has also been used by McDonald's as part of a high-concept redesign of one of its restaurants in London. Furthermore, The Egg is in a McDonald's restaurant in Nørrebrogade, Copenhagen, among other furniture by Arne Jacobsen, although some are imitations.
It was used as the diary room chair in the first UK series of "Big Brother".
The newly renovated Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport features the Egg in its boarding area.
Egg is the 1970 debut album by British prog rock band Egg.
Egg is a 2007 Turkish drama film directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu. The film is the first instalment of the Yusuf Trilogy, named after the eponymous lead character of the series, which includes Milk and Honey, filmed and released in reverse chronological order. It was shown Directors' Fortnight at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.
Egg or Egg & Egli was a Swiss car made in business from 1896 to 1919. It was one of the more long-lived early Swiss car makes. It appeared at numerous auto shows and competed in France's annual smash-up derby.
The ancient Egyptian Egg hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. H8, is a portrayal of an oval-shaped egg, tilted at an angle, within the Gardiner signs for parts of birds.
The EGG file format is a compressed archive file format that supports for Unicode and intelligent compression algorithms. EGG format is created by ESTsoft and was first applied in their file compression software ALZip.
The filename extension used by EGG is .egg . If an EGG archive is split into multiple smaller files, those files use the .egg extension by placing .volX (X for sequence number starting from 1) ahead of it, i.e. .vol1.egg, .vol2.egg, .vol3.egg and so on.
Semliya is a small village/hamlet east of Namli in Ratlam district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Semliya is among the four most ancient pilgrimage for Jains of Malwa viz. Semliya,Bhopavar,Mandav,Maksi and vai. It is the temple of the 16th tirthankar Shri Shantinath.
Magni is a Marvel Comics character adapted from Magne, a character in Norse mythology, by Dan Jurgens. The character exists in an alternate future in which Thor rules over the entire Earth.
Magni is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Caterina Magni (born 1966), Italian-born French archaeologist and anthropologist
- Cesare Magni (14951534), Italian painter
- Claude Magni (born 1950), French cyclist
- Fiorenzo Magni (19202012), Italian bicycle racer
- Gabriele Magni (born 1973), Italian fencer
- Luigi Magni (19282013), Italian screenwriter
- Nicholas Magni (13551435), Silesian theologian
- Pietro Magni (disambiguation), various people
Given name:
- Magni Ásgeirsson (born 1978), Icelandic singer/musician and a contestant in the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova
- Magni Wentzel (born 1945), Norwegian jazz musician
Fictional characters:
- Magni (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Móði and Magni, the sons of Thor and Jarnaxa in Norse mythology
Chekonidhara is a census town in Jorhat district in the state of Assam, India.
Bsames is a Syrian village located in Ihsim Nahiyah in Ariha District, Idlib. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Bsames had a population of 3638 in the 2004 census.
Karai is a fictional character in various installments of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) comics and related media, where she is usually a high-rank member of the Foot Clan outlaw ninja organization. She was originally introduced in Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's comic book series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 1992. Since then, she has appeared in several different TMNT comics, cartoons and films, as well as in about a dozen video games (including as a playable character in Tournament Fighters, Battle Nexus and Smash-Up).
In some incarnations of the character (including the 2003 cartoon, the 2012 cartoon, and the 2010s comics), she is closely related to the villain Shredder as his adopted daughter or biological granddaughter. However, in her original comic incarnation, Karai was completely unrelated to the Shredder and was actually higher in the Foot Clan's global hierarchy. In most works, she shares a particular rivalry and love-hate relationship with the Turtle leader, Leonardo. In the animated and game adaptations, Karai is primarily voiced by Karen Neil, Zhang Ziyi and Kelly Hu, while Minae Noji and Brittany Ishibashi portray the character in live-action films.
Shipwright is a specialist ship-modelling annual published by Conway Publishing. Its full title is Shipwright: The International Annual of Maritime History & Ship Modelmaking.
A shipwright is a person in the trade of yacht and/or shipbuilding. Shipwright may also refer to:
- Shipwright (annual)
- Denis Shipwright (1898–1984), British Royal Air Force officer
Hegyvidék (, literally "Highlands", "Mountain-land" or "Mountain-range") is the official name of the XII district of Budapest , capital of Hungary. It is a region of Buda, on the west bank of river Danube.
Stara is a village in the administrative district on Gmina Aleksandrów, within Piotrków County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Aleksandrów, south-east of Piotrków Trybunalski, and south-east of the regional capital Łódź.
The village has a population of 160.
(stylized as "mini-moni.") was a subgroup of the Japanese idol pop girl group Morning Musume, and a later a group within Hello! Project. In 2009, Minimoni was revived as and remained active until 2011.
A cap is a form of headgear.
Cap may refer to:
Čáp is Czech surname:
- František Čáp, also known as "Franz Cap" in Germany (1913–1972), a Czech film director and screenwriter
- Gabriela Beňačková-Čápova (born 1947), a Slovak soprano
- Růžena Čápová
- Tomáš Čáp (born 1978, Hranice na Moravě), a Czech footballer (midfielder)
- Vladimír Čáp (born 1976, Ostrava), a Czech footballer
- Ladislav Čáp (born 1926), a figure skater
The cap of a crown is the cap which fills the inner space of a modern crown. While ancient crowns contained no cap, from mediaeval times it became traditional to fill the circlet with a cap of velvet or other such cloth, with a base of ermine.
While the precise reason for the inclusion of a cap is unknown, two reasons are often given:
- to add to the visual impact of the crown, while showing off the golden circlet to maximum effect;
- to keep a monarch's head warm in drafty mediaeval buildings during long coronation ceremonies or public events where crowns were worn.
Not all crowns contained cloth caps. Some caps were metallic and heavily jewelled.
In British sport, a cap is a metaphorical term for a player's appearance (not including substitute appearances) in a game at international level. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of association football. In the early days of football, the concept of each team wearing a set of matching shirts had not been universally adopted, so each side would distinguish itself from the other by wearing a specific sort of cap.
An early illustration of the first international football match between Scotland and England in 1872 shows the Scottish players wearing cowls, and the English wearing a variety of school caps. The practice was first approved on 10 May 1886 for association football after a proposal made by N. Lane Jackson, founder of the Corinthians:
The act of awarding a cap is now international and is applied to other sports. Although in some sports physical caps may not now always be given (whether at all or for each appearance) the term "cap" for an international or other appearance has been retained as an indicator of the number of occasions on which a sportsperson has represented a team in a particular sport. Thus, a "cap" is awarded for each game played and so a player who has played x games, for the team, is said to have been capped x times or have won x caps.
Cap is the nickname of the following people:
- Charles A. Allen (Los Angeles), city councilman in the 1940s
- Cap Anson (1852-1922), American Major League Baseball player
- C. E. "Cap" Barham (1904-1972), American politician
- Cap Boso (born 1963), American former National Football League player
- Irwin Caplan (1919-2007), American illustrator, painter, designer and cartoonist
- Wilbur Wade Card (1873-1948), American baseball player, coach and athletic director at Duke University
- Cap Crowell (1892–1962), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Cap Dierks (born 1932), American politician
- Cap Edwards (1888-?), National Football League coach and player
- Cap Fear (1901-1978), Canadian Football League player
- Ernest R. Graham (politician) (1886-1957), American politician
- Walthall Robertson Joyner (1854-1925), mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
- Austin E. Lathrop (1865-1950), American industrialist and outspoken opponent of Alaskan statehood
- Bill Narleski (1900-1964), American Major League Baseball player
- John Oehler (1910-1983), American National Football League player
- Cap Peterson (1942-1980), American Major League Baseball player
- Cap Raeder (born 1953), American former World Hockey Association goaltender and National Hockey League coach
- Joseph Shaw (editor) (1874-1952), American magazine editor and fencer
- George Streeter (1837-1921), American crook
- Andrew Tilles (1865-1951), American business magnate and philanthropist
- Cap Timm (1908-1987), longest-tenured college baseball coach for the Iowa State University Cyclones
- Caspar Weinberger (1917-2006), American politician and businessman, Secretary of Defense under President Reagan
- Clarence W. Wigington (1883-1967), African-American architect
- Marsh Williams (1893-1935), American Major League Baseball pitcher in 1916
Churs (, also Romanized as Chūrs, Chowras, and Chowrs; also known as Choras, Chors, and Jūres) is a village in Churs Rural District, in the Central District of Chaypareh County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,367, in 636 families.
The location of modern-day Churs proved to be extremely pivotal in Armenian history. On 26 May 451 AD, a decisive battle was fought at the location that would be one of the single most important events in Armenian history. On the Avarayr Plain, at what is modern-day Churs in the West Azerbaijan Province, the Armenian Army under Vardan Mamikonian clashed with Sassanid Persia. Although the Persians were victorious on the battlefield itself, the battle proved to be a major strategic victory for Armenians, as Avarayr paved the way to the Nvarsak Treaty (484 AD), which affirmed Armenia's right to practice Christianity freely.
White Man or White Men may refer to:
- White Man (film), a 1924 film by Louis J. Gasnier
- " White Man", a 1976 song by Queen
- " (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais", a 1978 song by The Clash
- White Men Can't Jump, a 1992 film
- A ring name for professional wrestler Alberto Muñoz in the 1970s
- White van man, a stereotype
White Man is a lost 1924 American silent drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and is also Clark Gable's film debut. The film is set in a diamond mine in South Africa.
Pins and Needles is an idiom revue with a book by Arthur Arent, Marc Blitzstein, Emmanuel Eisenberg, Charles Friedman, David Gregory, Joseph Schrank, Arnold B. Horwitt, John Latouche, and Harold Rome and music and lyrics by Harold Rome. The title Pins and Needles was created by Max Danish, long-time editor of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)'s newspaper Justice. It ran on Broadway from 1937 to 1940, was revived in 1978, and produced again in London in 2010 to positive reviews. In 2016, the show ran at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City, where it was produced by the Steinhardt School at New York University. The revue was also performed in 1938 in the White House for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Pins and Needles is a 2007 album by Savatage guitarist Chris Caffery.
"Pins and Needles" is a single by New Zealand rock band Opshop. It was released in April 2010, and charted on the New Zealand Singles Chart at number 20. The post-apocalyptic themed video was filmed using blue-screen technology.
Pins and Needles is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band The Birthday Massacre. The album was released on September 14, 2010. The first single and video from the album, "In the Dark," premiered on September 7, 2010, directed and edited by M.Falcore and Rodrigo Gudiño of Rue Morgue.
Pins and needles, or paresthesia, is the physical sensation of tingling, pricking, or numbness.
Pins and Needles may also refer to:
- Pins and Needles, a 1937 musical revue with a book by various authors
- Pins and Needles (The Birthday Massacre album)
- Pins and Needles (Chris Caffery album)
- "Pins and Needles" (song), a song by Opshop
Goofer dust is a traditional hexing material and practice of the African American tradition of hoodoo from the South Eastern Region of the United States of America.
SPECS may refer to:
- SPECS (speed camera), a brand of speed cameras in the United Kingdom
- SPECS Sport, a shoe company from Indonesia
- Shaheen Public English Cambridge School, a school in Karachi
SPECS is an average speed measuring speed camera system originally manufactured by the Speed Check Services Limited, from which it takes its name (Speed Check Services). It is one of the systems used for speed limit enforcement in the United Kingdom. Speed Check Services was acquired by Vysionics in 2010.
SPECS cameras were introduced in 1999.
Middha (Sanskrit, Pali; Tibetan phonetic: nyi) is a Buddhist term that is translated as "torpor", "drowsiness", "sleep", etc. In the Theravada tradition, middha is defined as a morbid state that is characterized by unwieldiness, lack of energy, and opposition to wholesome activity. In the Mahayana tradition, middha is defined as a mental factor that causes the mind to draw inward, lose discrimination between wholesome and unwholesome activities, and drop out of activities altogether.
Middha is identified as:
- One of the fourteen unwholesome mental factors within the Theravada Abhidharma teachings
- One of the four changeable mental factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings
- One of the five hindrances to meditation (in combination with thīna)
Demetriapolis, or Demetrias was a Greek city in Arachosia, thought to have been founded by the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius as he invaded areas south of the Hindu Kush. In the 1st century BCE in his "Parthian stations", Isidorus of Charax mentions the rule of the Parthians over Arachosia, an area south of the Hindu Kush and next to today's Afghanistan, and populated by Greek colonies:
"Beyond is Arachosia. And the Parthians call this White India; there are the city of Biyt and the city of Pharsana and the city of Chorochoad and the city of Demetrias; then Alexandropolis, the metropolis of Arachosia; it is Greek, and by it flows the river Arachotus. As far as this place the land is under the rule of the Parthians." "Parthians stations", 1st century BCEConceiveAbilities is a Chicago-based egg donation and gestational surrogacy agency founded in 1996 by Nazca Fontes. ConceiveAbilities is an agency that facilitates the process of surrogacy for families that wish to have children but have difficulty doing so due to infertility or natural obstacles (in the case of same-sex couples).
Theodoridis is a Greek surname. It is a patronymic surname which literally means "the son of Theodoros (Theodore)". Notable people with surname Theodoridis:
Acanthodus is an extinct genus of conodonts.
Acanthodus humachensis and A. raqueli are from then Late Cambrian (late Furongian) or early Ordovician ( Tremadocian) of the Santa Rosita Formation in Argentina.
Bitch Magnet was an American post-hardcore band who formed in 1986 at Oberlin College in Ohio and later moved to North Carolina. They released their first record in 1988. All of the band's full-length albums were released on Communion Records in the US; they were also signed to the European labels Shigaku/What Goes On and Glitterhouse. The band disbanded in 1990. Frontman Sooyoung Park later formed the band Seam with Mac McCaughan (of Superchunk) and Lexi Mitchell. Post-Seam, Park also played guitar in Ee. David Grubbs, who was a founding member of Squirrel Bait, was briefly a member of the band while also leading Bastro. Orestes Morfin went on to drum for Walt Mink and God Rifle. Jon Fine formed Vineland and Coptic Light, and was briefly a touring guitarist for Don Caballero.
On March 31, 2011, Bitch Magnet announced that the lineup of Fine, Morfin and Park - the band's original recorded lineup - would reunite to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival "Nightmare Before Christmas," held in the UK in December 2011. In addition to performing at ATP, the band also played shows in London, Brussels, Cologne and in the Netherlands at Groningen's Vera club. The band played its first reunion shows in Asia in November of 2011, in Seoul and Tokyo.
Bitch Magnet's three albums were reissued on December 6, 2011 by Temporary Residence Limited, as a deluxe limited-edition triple-LP set and as a triple CD. The reissues include non-LP tracks and previously unreleased recordings that were remixed with John Congleton in late 2010.
Bitch Magnet is a career-spanning three-disc box-set of the band Bitch Magnet, released on December 6, 2011 through Temporary Residence Limited. It contains all of the band's recorded output, including two studio albums, an EP, and alternate mixes of previously released songs. The tracks were completely remastered by Alan Douches for their inclusion in the set.
Theosodon is an extinct genus of litoptern mammal from the early Miocene of South America. Theosodon bore a superficial resemblance the modern guanaco, and was around in length, weighing up to 95.6 kg. It had a long neck and tapir-like, three-toed feet. Judging from the position of its nostrils, Theosodon had a short trunk, though shorter than its other relatives, such as Macrauchenia.
Theosodon had a full set of 44 teeth, and its lower mandible was very thin and large.
Zebre (, meaning " Zebras"), are an Italian professional rugby union team competing in the Guinness Pro12 and the Heineken Cup from the 2012–13 season. They are based in Parma ( Emilia-Romagna), Italy. They are operated by the FIR and replaced Aironi in the Pro12.
Zebre, often referred to as "the XV of the North-West" , represents the four committees of Emilia-Romagna, Liguria, Lombardy and Piedmont, which includes tens of thousands of members and several clubs.
XcodeGhost (and variant XcodeGhost S) are a modified versions of Apple's Xcode development environment that are considered malware. The software first gained widespread attention in September 2015, when a number of apps originating from China harbored the malicious code. It was thought to be the "first large-scale attack on Apple's App Store," according to the BBC. The problems were first identified by researchers at Alibaba, a leading e-commerce firm in China. Over 4000 apps are infected, according to FireEye, far more than the 25 initially acknowledged by Apple, including apps from authors outside China.
Security firm Palo Alto Networks surmised that because network speeds were slower in China, developers in the country looked for local copies for Apple Xcode development environment, and encountered altered versions that had been posted on domestic web sites. This opened the door for the malware to be inserted into high profile apps used on iOS devices.
Even two months after the initial reports, security firm FireEye reported that hundreds of enterprises were still using infected apps and that XcodeGhost remained "a persistent security risk". The firm also identified a new variant of the malware and dubbed it XcodeGhost S, and among the apps that were infected were the popular messaging app WeChat and a Netease app Music 163.
Tectorigenin is an O-methylated isoflavone, a type of flavonoid. It can be isolated from leopard lily ( Belamcanda chinensis), in Iris unguicularis or Pueraria thunbergiana.
Delicacy is a 2011 French romantic comedy-drama directed by David and Stéphane Foenkinos based on a novel of the same name by David Foenkinos. David was nominated for the 2012 Best Writing (Adaptation) César Award and the film was nominated as Best First Film.
A delicacy is a usually rare or expensive food item that is considered highly desirable, sophisticated or peculiarly distinctive, within a given culture. Irrespective of local preferences, such a label is typically pervasive throughout a region. Often this is because of unusual flavors or characteristics or because it is rare or expensive compared to standard staple foods.
Delicacies vary per different countries, customs and ages. Flamingo tongue was a highly prized dish in ancient Rome, but is not eaten at all in modern times. Lobsters were considered poverty food in North America until the mid-19th century when they started being treated, as they were in Europe, as a delicacy. Some delicacies are confined to a certain culture, such as fugu in Japan, bird's nest soup (made out of swiftlet nests) in China, and ant larvae ( escamoles) in Mexico.
The Matis people (also called Nutioy, Bimbos, Mikitbo, and Mushabo) are an indigenous people of Brazil. They live in two separate villages with total population of roughly 290. They live in the far west of Brazil, in the Vale do Javari Indigenous Territory, an area covering . They practice both hunting and agriculture.
The Matis are an indigenous people of Brazil.
Matis may also refer to:
- Matis language
- MATIS Group, a French based group of companies for technological and management consulting
Ayla is a common feminine given name in Turkish. In that language, it means " halo of light around the moon". Less commonly, it is also a name in other languages.
Ayla may refer to:
- Ayla (name), a given name in some languages, especially a common Turkish name
- Ayla (city), an ancient Islamic city which was established on the site of the present Aqaba in Jordan
- Daihatsu Ayla, another name for the car Toyota Agya
- Lae Airfield, an airport with ICAO code "AYLA"
- Ayla (producer), a German trance producer and DJ
Ayla is the main character of Jean Auel's Earth's Children novels. She is a Cro-Magnon woman who was raised by Neanderthals. Ayla was played by Daryl Hannah in the 1986 movie The Clan of the Cave Bear. Ayla's character has been described as an example of the "rebellious primordial" that conquers adversity with wit and will.
Ingo Kunzi (born 7 November 1966) is a German trance producer and DJ, best known for his work under Ayla. The name was inspired by the name of a girl in the recording studio during his first recording. Kunzi is also related to other projects including Elastique Culture, Tarot and Intrance.
Ayla (Arabic: آيلة) is an ancient Islamic city which was established on the site of the present Aqaba in Jordan. It was the first Islamic city founded outside the Arabian Peninsula. Its ruins are located northwest of the current city center.
Kaman may refer to:
- Kaman (surname) Meaning 'responsible'
- Kamein (Kaman), an ethnic group in Burma
- Kaman Aircraft, an American aerospace company and helicopter manufacturer
- Kaman Music Corporation, a company of several musical instrument manufacturers
- Kaman Road, a railway station on the Mumbai Suburban Railway in Mumbai, India
- Kamadeva, the Hindu god of human love
Kaman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charles Kaman (1919-2011), American aeronautical engineer and manufacturer
- Chris Kaman (born 1982), professional basketball player
- Rob Kaman (born 1960), Dutch kickboxer
Théoden is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings. The King of Rohan, he appears as a major supporting character in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.
Lability refers to something that is constantly undergoing change or something that is likely to undergo change.
Bossam is an inference engine (a Semantic Reasoner) for the semantic web. It is basically a RETE-based rule engine with native supports for reasoning over OWL ontologies, SWRL ontologies, and RuleML rules.
Additionally, Bossam includes several expressivity features including: 1) URI references as symbols, 2) 2nd-order logic syntax, 3) disjunctions in the antecedent and conjunctions in the consequent (both via Lloyd-Topor transformation), 4) URI-based java method attachment, 5) support for both negation-as-failure and classical negation.
Bossam loads, performs reasoning over, and answers to the queries over a knowledge set, which can include any combination of the following document types.
- RDF(S) documents (in RDF/XML or in N3)
- OWL documents (in RDF/XML or in N3)
- Bossam rule documents
- SWRL(+OWL) documents (in OWLX or in RDF/XML)
Bossam can call Java objects from the antecedent or consequent of rules through the URI-based java method attachment. It's possible to easily mix Java objects into the combination of rules and ontologies.
Bossam is a pork dish in Korean cuisine. The centerpiece is pork belly, boiled in spices and thinly sliced. The meat is served with side dishes including garlic, onion, ssamjang (wrap sauce), saeujeot (pickled, fermented shrimp) and newly made kimchi. Upon eating, the meat and sides are often wrapped in vegetable leaves such as red lettuce, sesame or napa cabbage, hence the literal meaning of bossam: "wrapped" or "packaged."
Bossam is a popular dish in Korea, often served as anju (dishes that accompany alcohol consumption).
Bossam may refer to:
- Bossam (food), Korean steamed pork
- Bossam (software), software
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A hörgr ( Old Norse, plural hörgar) or hearg ( Old English) was a type altar or cult site, possibly consisting of a heap of stones, used in Norse religion, as opposed to a roofed hall used as a hof (temple).
The Old Norse term is attested in both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, in the sagas of Icelanders, skaldic poetry, its Old English cognate in Beowulf. The word is also reflected in various place names (in English placenames as harrow), often in connection with Germanic deities.
Old Norse hǫrgr "altar, sanctuary", Old English hearg " holy grove; temple, idol". Old High German harug continue a Proto-Germanic *harugaz, possibly cognate with Insular Celtic carrac "cliff".
Theodectes (; c. 380 – c. 340 BCE) was a Greek rhetorician and tragic poet, of Phaselis in Lycia.
Krasheninnikov is two overlapping stratovolcanoes inside a large caldera located in the eastern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It is named after explorer Stepan Krasheninnikov.
Krasheninnikov may refer to:
- Stepan Krasheninnikov, Russian explorer
- Krasheninnikov (volcano), two stratovolcanoes in Kamtchatka named for Stepan Krasheninnikov
- Krasheninnikov Peak
''' Castelnau-Barbarens ''' is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.
Kreia is a fictional character and party member in Obsidian Entertainment's Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. She is a blind Force-sensitive who forms a "bond" with the player character, the Jedi Exile, through the Force. Kreia sets herself up as the Exile's mentor, and rejects the divide of the light and dark side of the Force, as well as the predestination the Force entails. By the game's end, it is revealed she is the Sith Lord Darth Traya and is planning on destroying the Force, and she becomes the final boss of The Sith Lords. Kreia makes no more appearances in Star Wars fiction, though a miniature by Wizards of the Coast was released in August 2008.
Written by Chris Avellone, the character was created as a sounding board for the game's theme of the role of the Jedi and the nature of the Force, and was heavily influenced by Planescape: Torments Ravel Puzzlewell. She served both to test the player and to act as a mouthpiece for any questions Avellone thought should be asked about the Star Wars universe. Sara Kestelman voiced the character, with Kreia's casting being considered the most important of all the characters. Her name references Princess Leia of the original Star Wars trilogy, while her character design draws both on Palpatine's hood and Obi-Wan Kenobi's robes.
She was positively received, and is often pointed as the highlight of The Sith Lords. Praise went to the questions and dialogue she provided, as well as her voice acting. The character has appeared in numerous "top lists", often commending her as a Star Wars character. Attention was drawn to one moment where Kreia lectures about the dangers of charity. Despite this, Avellone felt he failed in creating a "sympathetic" Sith Lord, though has called her one of his favorite characters in the game.
AVERT (formerly also known as the AIDS Education and Research Trust) is an international AIDS charity based in Horsham, South East England, United Kingdom.
An epithet (from epitheton, neut. of epithetos, "attributed, added") is a sobriquet, or a descriptive term (word or phrase), accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It can be described as a glorified nickname. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It can also be a descriptive title: for example, Suleiman the Magnificent or Władysław I the Elbow-high.
In contemporary use, epithet often refers to an abusive, defamatory, or derogatory phrase, such as a racial or animal epithet. This use as a euphemism is criticized by Martin Manser and other prescriptive linguists.
An epithet in taxonomic nomenclature is a word or phrase ( epithet) in the name of an organism. It can be:
- a specific epithet:
- the second part of a species name in binomial nomenclature in any branch of biology
- in botany, the second part of a botanical name
- Specific epithet (zoology), also called the specific name, meaning the second part of the species name or binomen
- the second part of a species name in binomial nomenclature in any branch of biology
- a genus epithet
- a subgenus epithet
- in botanical nomenclature:
- a section epithet
- a series epithet
- a variety epithet
- a forma epithet
- in horticulture:
- a Group epithet, for plants within a species that share characteristics
- a grex epithet for cultivated orchids, according to their parentage
- a cultivar epithet
''' Saconin-et-Breuil ''' is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.
The Olivists (Ulivisti) are a faction within the Democratic Party (PD), a political party in Italy.
The group includes both Christian left politicians, social democrats and social liberals. They have been close supporters of Romano Prodi, hence the term Prodiani, and want the party to be stuck in the tradition of The Olive Tree. The group, whose long-standing leader of the group has been Arturo Parisi, is the bulk of the former party of Prodi, The Democrats and of the former internal opposition within Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy.
The Ulivists are keen supporters of the use of primary elections and the original idea of Democratic Party according to Prodi, a party open to all the centre-left forces or, at least, to an alliance with all them, including Italy of Values and the communist parties.
A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. The history of musical instruments dates to the beginnings of human culture. Early musical instruments may have been used for ritual, such as a trumpet to signal success on the hunt, or a drum in a religious ceremony. Cultures eventually developed composition and performance of melodies for entertainment. Musical instruments evolved in step with changing applications.
The date and origin of the first device considered a musical instrument is disputed. The oldest object that some scholars refer to as a musical instrument, the Divje Babe flute dates back as far as 45,000 years. Some consensus dates early flutes to about 37,000 years ago. However, most historians believe that determining a specific time of musical instrument invention is impossible due to the subjectivity of the definition and the relative instability of materials used to make them. Many early musical instruments were made from animal skins, bone, wood, and other non-durable materials.
Musical instruments developed independently in many populated regions of the world. However, contact among civilizations caused rapid spread and adaptation of most instruments in places far from their origin. By the Middle Ages, instruments from Mesopotamia were in maritime Southeast Asia, and Europeans played instruments from North Africa. Development in the Americas occurred at a slower pace, but cultures of North, Central, and South America shared musical instruments. By 1400, musical instrument development slowed in many areas and was dominated by the Occident.
Musical instrument classification is a discipline in its own right, and many systems of classification have been used over the years. Instruments can be classified by their effective range, their material composition, their size, etc. However, the most common academic method, Hornbostel-Sachs, uses the means by which they produce sound. The academic study of musical instruments is called organology.
Selection generally refers to the pressures on crops and organisms to evolve. These pressures include natural selection, and, in eukaryotic cells that reproduce sexually, sexual selection. Certain phenotypic traits (characteristics of an organism)—or, on a genetic level, alleles of genes—segregate within a population, where individuals with adaptive advantages or traits tend to succeeded more than their peers when they reproduce, and so contribute more offspring to the succeeding generation. When these traits have a genetic basis, selection can increase the prevalence of those traits, because offspring inherit them from their parents. When selection is intense and persistent, adaptive traits become universal to the population or species, which may then be said to have evolved.
Whether or not selection takes place depends on the conditions in which the individuals of a species find themselves. Adults, juveniles, embryos, and gamete eggs and sperm all undergo selection. Factors fostering natural selection include sexual selection, primarily caused by mate choice in the mating phase of sexual reproduction, limits on resources (nourishment, habitat space, mates) and the existence of threats (predators, disease, adverse weather). Biologists often refer to such factors as selective or evolutionary pressures.
Natural selection has, since the 1930s, included sexual selection because biologists at the time did not think it was of great importance though it has become to be seen as more important in the 21st Century. Other subcategories of natural selection include ecological selection, stabilizing selection, disruptive selection and directional selection. Selective breeding can be seen in the breeding of dogs, and the domestication of farm animals and crops, now commonly known as selective breeding.
Selection is the stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding (using the crossover operator).
A generic selection procedure may be implemented as follows:
- The fitness function is evaluated for each individual, providing fitness values, which are then normalized. Normalization means dividing the fitness value of each individual by the sum of all fitness values, so that the sum of all resulting fitness values equals 1.
- The population is sorted by descending fitness values.
- Accumulated normalized fitness values are computed (the accumulated fitness value of an individual is the sum of its own fitness value plus the fitness values of all the previous individuals). The accumulated fitness of the last individual should be 1 (otherwise something went wrong in the normalization step).
- A random number R between 0 and 1 is chosen.
- The selected individual is the first one whose accumulated normalized value is greater than R.
For a large number of individuals the above algorithm might be computationally quite demanding. A simpler and faster alternative uses the so-called stochastic acceptance.
If this procedure is repeated until there are enough selected individuals, this selection method is called fitness proportionate selection or roulette-wheel selection. If instead of a single pointer spun multiple times, there are multiple, equally spaced pointers on a wheel that is spun once, it is called stochastic universal sampling. Repeatedly selecting the best individual of a randomly chosen subset is tournament selection. Taking the best half, third or another proportion of the individuals is truncation selection.
There are other selection algorithms that do not consider all individuals for selection, but only those with a fitness value that is higher than a given (arbitrary) constant. Other algorithms select from a restricted pool where only a certain percentage of the individuals are allowed, based on fitness value.
Retaining the best individuals in a generation unchanged in the next generation, is called elitism or elitist selection. It is a successful (slight) variant of the general process of constructing a new population.
Selection is a 1982 EP by Canadian band 54•40. It was the band's first release, appearing on the independent label Mo-Da-Mu.
Although now out of print, the album and its 1984 follow up Set the Fire were re-released in 1997 on the compilation album, Sound of Truth: The Independent Collection.
Selection may refer to:
In computing:
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Selection (user interface)
- X Window selection
- Selection (genetic algorithm)
- Selection (relational algebra)
- Selection-based search, a search engine system in which the user invokes a search query using only the mouse
- Selection algorithm, an algorithm that finds the kth smallest number in a list
Other uses:
- Selection of candidates in British elections
- Selection (biology), selection in evolution
- A store brand used by Metro Inc.
- Selected (album), the compilation album by Recoil
- Selection (Australian history), an area of crown land acquired under legislation
- Selection (album), by 54•40
- Selection in schools, the admission of students on the basis of selective criteria
- Selection effect, a distortion of data arising from the way that the data are collected
- Selektion, selection of prisoners for execution at a Nazi concentration camp
- The Selection, a novel by Kiera Cass
Selection referred to "free selection before survey" of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. These acts were similar to the United States Homestead Act and were intended to encourage closer settlement, based on intensive agriculture, such as wheat-growing, rather than extensive agriculture, such as wool production. Selectors often came into conflict with squatters, who already occupied the land and often managed to circumvent the law.
In computing and user interface engineering, a selection is a list of items on which user operations will take place. The user typically adds items to the list manually, although the computer may create a selection automatically. Selections are enacted through combinations of key presses on a keyboard, with a precision pointing device ( mouse or touchpad and cursor, stylus), or by hand on a touchscreen device. The simultaneous selection of a group of items (either elements in a list, or discontinuous regions in a text) is called a multiple selection.
Context menus will usually include actions related to the objects included in the current selection - the selection provides the "context" for the menu.
In linguistics, selection denotes the ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Predicates select their arguments, which means they limit the semantic content of their arguments. One sometimes draws a distinction between types of selection; one acknowledges both s(emantic)-selection and c(ategory)-selection. Selection in general stands in contrast to subcategorization: predicates both select and subcategorize for their complement arguments, whereas they only select their subject arguments. Selection is a semantic concept, whereas subcategorization is a syntactic one.
Mammonart. An Essay on Economic Interpretation is a book of literary criticism from a Socialist point of view of the traditional ‘great authors’ of Western and American literature (along with a few painters and composers). Mammonart was written by the prolific muckraking journalist, novelist and Socialist activist Upton Sinclair, and published in 1925.
Calmont may refer to:
- Several communes in France:
- Calmont, Aveyron, in the Aveyron department
- Calmont, Haute-Garonne, in the Haute-Garonne department
- Calmont (hill), a 380m high hill on the Moselle in Germany
The Calmont, also called the Calmond, between Bremm and Ediger-Eller in the county of Cochem-Zell in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, is a steep hill on the heights above the Moselle river to a height of . It lies within the Moselle wine region and is home to the vineyards of Bremmer Calmont and Ellerer Calmont which, with gradients of up to over 65º, are among the steepest vineyards in the world.
The Mové, also called Movere, Western Guaymi, or Ngäbere, are a Chibchan (Dorasque-Guaymi) speaking people in Panama (150,000) and Costa Rica (4,300). This tribe, like the Murire (Eastern Guaymi), is a division of the Guaymi. They are further subdivided into the Valiente.
The Mové live in a tropical forest (hunters and gatherers), also gather wild plants. Among their crafts are basket weaving and pottery.
Sphaerophysa may refer to:
- Sphaerophysa, a genus of fish in the family Nemacheilidae.
- Sphaerophysa, a genus of plants in the family Fabaceae.
Sphaerophysa is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Faboideae. There are two species. Sphaerophysa kotschyana is a sensitive plant endemic to Central Anatolia. Sphaerophysa salsula, on the other hand, is an Asian plant that is well-known on other continents as an introduced species and sometimes a weed.
Sketty is the name of an electoral ward, a community and a suburb in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK. The community is coterminous with the electoral ward.
It is bounded to the following parishes: North by Cockett, East by Uplands, South by the coast, South West by Mumbles and West by Killay. It does not have a Community Council.
The electoral ward is divided into a number of polling districts by the City and County of Swansea. They are Tycoch, Sketty Park, Vivian Road, Sketty Green, Derwen Fawr, Gwerneinon. It is the largest ward in the UK Parliament and Welsh Assembly Swansea West. It is bounded by the other Swansea electoral wards of Mayals to the south; Killay South and Killay North to the west; Cockett to the north; Uplands to the east; and Swansea Bay to the south east.
Sketty could also be described as consisting of some or all of the following areas: Carnglas, Clyne Valley (Gwerneinon), Derwen Fawr, Hendrefoilan, Killay, Singleton Park, Sketty, Tycoch, Cwmgwyn, A very small part of the Cockett postal district is in the Sketty community, and a part of the Sketty postal district is in the Uplands community.
Due to the large size of Sketty, there are recognisable sub-divisions of Sketty. Whilst the boundaries used for electoral or postal purposes are clearly defined, although they do not always correspond, in the public mind the boundaries are not totally clear. Indeed, many residents of some of the sub-divisions would describe themselves as a residents of the sub-division rather than use the term Sketty. Indeed, residents of the western part of the Uplands would consider their vicinity as part of "Sketty", as indeed would the post office.
The suburban district of Sketty is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the west of the Swansea city centre on Gower Road. Sketty falls within the Sketty council ward of Swansea.
An overpass (called a flyover in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries) is a bridge, road, railway or similar structure that crosses over another road or railway. An overpass and underpass together form a grade separation. Stack interchanges are made up of many overpasses.
Overpass is a digital typeface, closely related to the FHWA Series Highway Gothic fonts, a signage alphabet drawn for the United States Federal Highway Administration in 1949.
It was commissioned by Red Hat from designer Delve Withrington as a freely usable replacement for Interstate, which is used by Red Hat as its corporate typeface. Red Hat created the family as a freely redistributable alternative, since it does not own all rights to Interstate. It continues to use Interstate, a much larger font family, on printed material.
Overpass currently is released with four weights and obliques. Delve Fonts announced in 2016 that an expanded, eight-weight version (four extra weights) was in development.
Overpass is a 2015 Canadian short film directed by Patrice Laliberté.
Overpass was shot in September 2014.
The film was presented by Telefilm Canada at the Cannes Marché du Film in May 2015.
Overpass had its world premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film
The film was included in the list of "Canada's Top Ten" short films for 2015, chosen by a panel of five filmmakers and industry professionals. It was also selected for inclusion in "The Shortest Day", a program of free screenings of short films, in several Canadian cities, in conjunction with the winter solstice.
The Panke is a small river in Brandenburg and Berlin, a right tributary of the Spree.
Preetha is a television personality and film producer. She also hosted Cinema Karam Coffee on STAR Vijay and the popular cookery show Sunday Samayal on Sun TV. While still in college she received an offer for acting in an advertisement. After a one-year career in advertisements Preetha began her television career with the serial Aalayam which aired on Sun TV in 1999. She has acted in several Tamil language serials that were screened on Sun TV. She also has participated in the first series of the dance reality show Jodi Number One along with her husband Raaghav in STAR Vijay. The couple was one of the three finalists.
Preetha produced the fantasy thriller film Nanjupuram which featured her husband Raaghav in the lead role. It was Raaghav's debut film. She also participated in the music show Gold Winner Isai Kudumbam and serials like Chithi (Sun TV) and Marumagal (Vijay TV). She acted in the serial Maanada Mayilaada on Kalaignar TV along with his husband. They both played the characters of terrorists. She is also a Mohiniattam and Bharatnatyam dancer.
Preetha's first film appearance was alongside actor Madhavan and Jyothika in Dum Dum Dum. She received her school education in Muscat, bachelor's degree in travel management from Ethiraj College in Chennai. Master's degree in Social Work from DG Vaishnav College. While studying in DG Vaishnav College she married music director and television actor Raaghav. She studied in Ohio University on a scholarship. To earn her living in Ohio Preetha taught Public Speaking and Bharatnatyam. She also works as a soft-skills trainer in Wipro.
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Gomon is a town in southern Ivory Coast. It is a sub-prefecture of Sikensi Department in Agnéby-Tiassa Region, Lagunes District.
Gomon was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished.
Karres is a municipality in the district of Imst in Austria and is located 2.5 km east of Imst near the mouth of the Pitze River. The village was founded in the Middle Ages because of mining. It has 589 inhabitants.
Goneda is located in South India within the state of Andhra Pradesh. Goneda is a small village.
Havenstein is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Birgit Havenstein (born 1954), German classical flautist and composer
- Klaus Havenstein (1922–1998), German actor
- Rob Havenstein (born 1992), American football player
- Rudolf Havenstein (1857–1923), German lawyer and banker
- Walt Havenstein (born 1949), American businessman
Houédomè is an arrondissement in the Ouémé department of Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Aguegues. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on February 15, 2002, the arrondissement had a total population of 8309.
Usage examples of "houedome".
This roused my choler, and taking Percy aside I told him that such a trick was unworthy of a gentleman.
It was now for more than the middle span of our allotted years that he had passed through the thousand vicissitudes of existence and, being of a wary ascendancy and self a man of rare forecast, he had enjoined his heart to repress all motions of a rising choler and, by intercepting them with the readiest precaution, foster within his breast that plenitude of sufferance which base minds jeer at, rash judgers scorn and all find tolerable and but tolerable.
Yes or no, did I yield to the paroxysm of choler which possessed me on hearing of the engagement of Ardea and on finding that I was in the presence of that equivocal Hafner?
King had never left his apartment except in the company of Indra Sen, and while Bharata Rahon had warned him against any such independent excursion the American had not taken the suggestion seriously, believing it to have been animated solely by the choler of the Khmer prince.
It was now for more than the middle span of our allotted years that he had passed through the thousand vicissitudes of existence and, being of a wary ascendancy and self a man of rare forecast, he had enjoined his heart to repress all motions of a rising choler and, by intercepting them with the readiest precaution, foster within his breast that plenitude of sufferance which base minds jeer at, rash judgers scorn and all find tolerable and but tolerable.
This roused my choler, and taking Percy aside I told him that such a trick was unworthy of a gentleman.
But he, not like a wearie traueilere,Their sharpe assault right boldly did rebut,And suffred not their blowes to byte him nereBut with redoubled buffes them backe did put:Whose grieued mindes, which choler did englut,Against themselues turning their wrathfull spight,Gan with new rage their shields to hew and cut.
Others were undone by the perils of the itinerant life attendant upon their pursuit of wisdom: the cholers of nature, the intemperance of wild beasts, the deprivations of disease, and the like.
Alexander, God knows, andyou know, in his rages, and his furies, and hiswraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and hisdispleasures, and his indignations, and also being alittle intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales andhis angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus.
As far as the understanding of the uses of life goes, Isser Jang, for all its seasonal cholers, has the advantage over Chicago.
And if my choler had been up too, agad, there would have been mischief done, that's flat.
Galen's physiological explanation for the four temperaments had been wrong, of course, and bile, choler, blood and phlegm had now been replaced as causative agents by the ascending reticular activating system and the autonomic nervous system.
Culpepper states: 'The first shoots of the common Elder, boiled like Asparagus, and the young leaves and stalks boiled in fat broth, doth mightily carry forth phlegm and choler.
Full of his choler and his refusal of further responsibility, he geed up and sped on, rehearsing some choice things to say when his barrel-boss reproached him for his undelivered load.
The man complained furiously a second time, and then a third, speaking with choler and no respect, interjecting while she was still addressing them.