title: .416 Barrett

text: A few jurisdictions in the United States, most notably California, as well as a few nations such as Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, and Denmark restrict or prohibit civilian ownership of rifles chambered to use the .50 BMG cartridge, but not other calibers (e.g., .416 Barrett).


title: Isa (name)

text: Isa () is a classical Arabic name and a translation of Jesus. The name "Isa" is the name used for Jesus in the Quran. However, it is not the only translation; it is most commonly associated with Jesus as depicted in Islam, and thus, commonly used by Muslims. Christians commonly refer to him by a different name ().


title: Isa (name)

text: The English form of the name "Jesus" is derived from the Latin "Iēsus", which in turn comes from the Greek (Iēsoûs). The Greek is a Hellenized form of the Hebrew name Yēšua (), which is in turn a shortened form of Hebrew Yhōšua () or "Joshua" in English. Aramaic (Classical Syriac) and East Syriac, which are ancestral to West Syriac, render the pronunciation of the same letters as ܝܫܘܥ ishoʕ (išoʕ) /iʃoʕ/. The Aramaic Bible (c. 200 AD) or the Peshitta preserve this same spelling. The "Encyclopedia of the Qur'an" by Brill Publishers quotes scholarship that notes that the Greek name Iesous, (Iēsoûs), also is known to have represented many different Biblical Hebrew names (which causes issues when seeking to find what Jesus' original Hebrew name would have been from the Greek) "Josephus used the Greek name lesous to denote three people mentioned in the Bible whose Hebrew names were not Yeshua', Y'hoshua' or Y'hoshua'. They were Saul's son Yishwi (Anglicized as 'Ishvi' in the RSV of I Samuel 14:49), the Levite Abishua' (mentioned in I Chronicles 6:4, etc.) and Yishwah the son of Asher (Anglicized as 'Ishva' in the RSV of Genesis 46:17). ... Josephus furnishes important evidence for the wide variety of Hebrew names represented in Greek by Iesous."


title: Isa (name)

text: Also, the classical theologians Clement of Alexandria and Cyril of Jerusalem both stated that the Greek name Iesous was allegedly Jesus' original name.


title: Isa (name)

text: There is a major discrepancy between the Hebrew/Aramaic and Muslim Arabic forms of this name, since the Hebrew form of this name has the voiced pharyngeal ʿAyin or ʿAyn consonant at the end of the name (as does Christian Arabic "yasūʿ"), while the Muslim Arabic form "ʿīsā" has the ʿAyn at the beginning of the name. It is also similar in the vowels to an Aramaic version of Jesus, viz. "Eeshoʿ" (Aramaic forms of the name, however, still have the voiced pharyngeal `Ayn consonant at the end of the name). [Other Aramaic pronunciations of the same name include yeshuuʕ (ʕ is IPA ayin). Vowels in Semitic languages are somewhat fluid between dialects while consonants are structurally more stable. The vowels in an Anglicized quote "Eesho`" by themselves are insignificant for this discussion since "i" and "e" and short "a" can interchange between dialects, and "u" and "o" can also interchange between dialects. The dominant consonantal discrepancy remains, between Aramaic yeshuuʕ [consonantal y-sh-w-ʕ] and Arabic ʕiisa [consonantal ʕ-y-s-alef].]


title: Isa (name)

text: Scholars have been puzzled by the use of "ʿĪsā" in the Qur'an since Christians in Arabia used "yasūʿ" before and after Islam, itself derived from the Syriac form "Yēshūaʿ" by a phonetic change. The Encyclopedia of the Qur'an by Brill Publishers states this has also come about because many Western scholars have held a "conviction that Jesus' authentic Hebrew name is Yeshua'" and because of this they often "have been puzzled by the Qur'an's reference to him as 'Isa". Brill's Encyclopedia of the Qur'an further states "It is not certain that Jesus' original name was Yeshua'" However, the early Syriac/Aramaic form of the name Yeshua, the etymological link with 'salvation' (note the Hebrew consonantal root y-sh-`) in Matthew 1:21, all of the correspondences of in the Greek OT and Second Temple Jewish writings, and the common attestation of Yeshua among first century Jewish names have led to a consensus among scholars of the gospels that Yeshua was "Jesus"'s original name. "Esau" (and derivatives with `ayin as a first letter) is not a realistic possibility. With all this in mind, some scholars have proposed a number of explanations. James A. Bellamy of the University of Michigan suggested that the quranic name is a corruption of "Masīḥ" itself derived from "yasūʿ", suggesting that this resulted from a copyist error and an attempt to conceal the Arabic verb "sāʿa"/"yasūʿu" which has obscene connotations, though no evidence has been found to support this claim.


title: Isa (name)

text: Josef Horovitz on the other hand holds that the quranic form is meant to parallel "Mūsā" (Moses). Similar pairs are also frequently found in the Quran as well which supports this theory. For example, compare Ismā‘īl and Ibrāhīm (Ishmael and Abraham) or Jālūt and Tālūt (Goliath and Saul). It is thus possible that the Arabs referred to him as Yasaʿ, but the Quran reversed the letters so as to parallel Mūsā.


title: Isa (name)

text: Another explanation given is that in ancient Mesopotamia divine names were written in one way and pronounced in another. Thus it is possible for borrowed words to have their consonants reversed. Another explanation is that Muhammad adopted "Isa" from the polemical Jewish form "Esau". However, there is no evidence that the Jews have ever used "Esau" to refer to Jesus, and if Muhammad had unwittingly adopted a pejorative form his many Christian acquaintances would have corrected him. A fourth explanation is that prior to the rise of Islam, Christian Arabs had already adopted this form from Syriac. According to the "Encyclopaedia of the Qurʼān", "Arabic often employs an initial 'ayn in words borrowed from Aramaic or Syriac and the dropping of the final Hebrew 'ayin is evidenced in the form Yisho of the 'koktiirkish' Manichaean fragments from Turfan." This is supported by Macúch with an example in classical Mandaic, a variety of Eastern Aramaic (hence closely related to Syriac) used as liturgical language by the Mandaean community of southern Mesopotamia, where the name for Jesus is rendered "ʿ-š-u" (ࡏࡔࡅ), though the pharyngeal ('ayin) is pronounced like a regular long i ("Īshu"). Also the name Yeshu (ישו in Hebrew and Aramaic) lacking the final 'ayin is also used to refer to Jesus in the Jewish work the Toledot Yeshu, and scholar David Flusser presents evidence Yeshu was also a name itself rather than claims it was meant to supposedly be an acronym to insult Jesus. The Brill Encyclopedia of the Qur'an notes scholar Anis al-Assiouty as noting the fact that "In the Talmud, however, he (Jesus) is called Yeshu." Scholar David Flusser and other scholars like Adolf Neubauer, Hugh J. Schonfield, and Joachim Jeremias also further argued that the name or pronunciation Yeshu (ישו in Hebrew and Aramaic) could also be "the Galilean pronunciation" of Yeshua' that came about because of an inability to pronounce the 'ayin in the Galilee region where Jesus came from. Scholar Alphonse Mingana writes there may have been a monastery named "ʿĪsāniyya" in the territory of the Christian Ghassanid Arabs in southern Syria as early as 571 CE.


title: Isa (name)

text: Christoph Luxenberg's "The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran" equates the quranic name with Hebrew "Jesse". However, neither "Yeshu" nor "Jesse" begins with a pharyngeal consonant in their original Hebrew forms.


title: Isa (name)

text: The earliest archaeological evidence of an Arabic name for Jesus is a Jordanian inscription. Enno Littman (1950) states: "Mr. G. Lankaster Harding, Chief Curator of Antiquities Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan, kindly sent me copies of a little more than five hundred Thamudic inscriptions. [...] It is the inscription [Harding No. 476] that interests us here. [...] Below the circle there are four letters: a y, a sh, a ʿ, and again a y." He also states: "These letters are so placed that they can be read from right to left or from left to right y-sh-ʿ, probably pronounced Yashaʿ, and this name is the same as Yashuaʿ, the Hebrew form of the name of Christ." An archaic Arabic root for 'Salvation' exists in Yatha, which may have later formed this name: y-sh-ʿ. The lack of a "Waw" is still unexplained. Also, the closer correspondence with another name [y'sha'yá, "Isaiah" in English] needs explanation or discussion before this inscription can be entertained as an Arabic "Jesus".


title: Isa (name)

text: ʿĪsā is used as well by several Christian groups in Muslim countries. A 14th-century Persian translation of Matthew, one of the earliest surviving Persian manuscripts of the scripture, uses "ʿĪsā". Ahmad Al-Jallad has argued that a precedent of the quranic name "ʿsy" was already used in a Christian Safaitic inscription from the fourth century CE. Later translations in other languages also follow suit. Some modern Evangelical translations also use Isa, such as David Owen's "Life of Christ" (Arabic 1987).


title: Isa (name)

text: Nicolas Notovitch's 1894 book "Life of Saint Issa" claims that during his unknown years, Jesus ("īśa" meaning 'the Lord' in Sanskrit) left Galilee for India and studied with Buddhists and Hindus there before returning to Judea.


title: Isa (name)

text: Among some Turkic peoples, such as the Tatars and Bashkirs, the name is spelled as Ğäysä/Ğaysa (Гайсә/Ғайса), or as Aisa (Айса).


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: Chinese culture attaches certain values to colors, like which colors are considered auspicious () or inauspicious (). The Chinese word for "color" is "yánsè" (). In Classical Chinese, the character "sè" () more accurately meant "color in the face", or "emotion". It was generally used alone and often implied sexual desire or desirability. During the Tang Dynasty, the word "yánsè" came to mean all color. A Chinese idiom which is used to describe many colors, "Wǔyánliùsè" (五顏六色), can also mean colors in general.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: In traditional Chinese art and culture, black, red, qing () (a conflation of the idea of green and blue), white and yellow are viewed as standard colors. These colors correspond to the five elements (五行) of water, fire, wood, metal and earth, taught in traditional Chinese physics. Throughout the Shang, Tang, Zhou and Qin dynasties, China's emperors used the "Theory of the Five Elements" to select colors. Other colours were considered by Confucius as 'inferior'.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: Yellow of a golden hue, corresponding with earth, is considered the most beautiful and prestigious color. The Chinese saying "Yellow generates Yin and Yang" implies that yellow is the center of everything. Associated with but ranked above brown, yellow signifies neutrality and good luck. Yellow is sometimes paired with red in place of gold.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilisation. Yellow was the emperor's color in Imperial China and is held as the symbolic color of the five legendary emperors of ancient China, such as the Yellow Emperor. The Yellow Dragon is the zoomorphic incarnation of the Yellow Emperor of the centre of the universe in Chinese religion and mythology. The Flag of the Qing dynasty featured golden yellow as the background. The Plain Yellow Banner and the Bordered Yellow Banner were two of the upper three banners of Later Jin and Qing dynasty.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: Yellow often decorates royal palaces, altars and temples, and the color was used in the dragon robes and attire of the emperors. It was a rare honour to receive the imperial yellow jacket.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: Yellow also represents freedom from worldly cares and is thus esteemed in Buddhism. Monks' garments are yellow, as are elements of Buddhist temples. Yellow is also used as a mourning color for Chinese Buddhists.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: Yellow is also symbolic of heroism, as opposed to the Western association of the color with cowardice.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: Black, corresponding to water, is a neutral color. The "I Ching", or "Book of Changes", regards black as Heaven's color. The saying "heaven and earth of black" was rooted in the observation that the northern sky was black for a long time. They believed Tian Di, or Heavenly Emperor, resided in the North Star.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: The "Taiji" symbol uses black and white to represent the unity of yin and yang. Ancient Chinese people regarded black as the king of colors and honored black more consistently than any other color. Lao Zi said "know the white, keep the black" and the Dao school believes black is the color of the Dao.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: In modern China, black is used in daily clothing. Black, along with white, is associated with death and mourning and was formerly worn at funerals, but depends on the age of passing.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: White is also the color of mourning. It is associated with death and is used predominantly in funerals in Chinese culture. Ancient Chinese people wore white clothes and hats only when they mourned for the dead.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: Red is found everywhere during Chinese New Year and other holiday celebrations and family gatherings. In addition to the new year, red has been used in Chinese weddings since ancient times, which can represent the traditional Chinese wedding color.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: A red envelope is a monetary gift which is given in Chinese society during holiday or special occasions. The red color of the packet symbolizes good luck. Red is strictly forbidden at funerals as it is a traditionally symbolic color of happiness; however, as the names of the dead were previously written in red, it may be considered offensive to use red ink for Chinese names in contexts other than official seals.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: In modern China, red remains a very popular color and is affiliated with and used by the Chinese government.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: Generally blue or azure and green is associated with health, prosperity, and harmony. The old term is "qing". Azure was used for the roof tiles of the Temple of Heaven as well as its ornate interior and a number of other structures to represent heaven. It is also the color of jade as well as celadon that was developed to imitate it.


title: Color in Chinese culture

text: Separately, green hats are associated with infidelity and used as an idiom for a cuckold. This has caused uneasiness for Chinese Catholic bishops, who in ecclesiastical heraldry would normally have a green hat above their arms. Chinese bishops have compromised by using a violet hat for their coat of arms. Sometimes this hat will have an indigo feather to further display their disdain for the color green.


title: Bobby Ewing

text: Bobby James Ewing is a fictional character in the American television series "Dallas" and its 2012 revival. The youngest son of Jock and Miss Ellie Ewing, he was portrayed by actor Patrick Duffy (1978–1985, 1986–1991). Bobby had been killed off in the final episode of the 1984–1985 season, and Patrick Duffy left the show for a year. Bobby returned in the famous "shower scene" at the end of the following season. The subsequent "dream revelation" at the start of the next season explained Bobby's accident, his death, and all but the final scene, as a dream of Bobby's fiancée and ex-wife, Pamela Barnes Ewing (Victoria Principal).


title: Bobby Ewing

text: Patrick Duffy returned to play Bobby in the films "" (1996) and "" (1998), as well as in the new "Dallas" series (2012–2014).


title: Bobby Ewing

text: "Dallas" was planned to center on Bobby's "Romeo and Juliet"-style marriage to Pamela Barnes, who was from the rival Barnes family. According to "Dallas" scriptwriter and story editor Camille Marchetta, Bobby was initially going to be killed off by the end of season 1, leaving Pamela to become the central character of the series. Bobby's character was kept, but the show ended up focusing on his older brother, J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), as it became clear that he was the breakout character. Still, Bobby retained his central role as the show's primary hero, and the Abel to J.R.'s Cain.


title: Bobby Ewing

text: Bobby was born February 16, 1949 (according to a shot of his passport in season 14 episode "Charade") on Southfork Ranch. Bobby became a successful (though reluctant) oil baron, like his father and brother, but he lacked J.R.'s ruthlessness and insisted on playing fair which resulted in his limited success. Bobby would also take part in the raising of cattle on the family ranch, Southfork. He was also a state senator in Austin for a while.


title: Bobby Ewing

text: Bobby's most defining character trait was his altruistic desire to do the right thing. This almost always put him in the cross-hairs of his older brother JR, who was known as a conniving and ruthless oilman. Bobby did on many occasions use ruthless tactics in failed attempts to beat J.R. Bobby was one of few people openly to take a stand against J.R. on numerous occasions (at times physically), yet the two never forgot they were brothers. In addition to the differences between their treatment of others, as well as their conflicting views on morality, another reason for J.R. and Bobby's rivalry was their father's preference for Bobby (their mother, Miss Ellie, favored second son Gary). Growing up, and even into adulthood, Jock made no secret of the fact that Bobby was his favorite son and Bobby was very dependent on Jock's support in his fights with J.R. This caused a major rivalry with J.R., who was jealous of the unearned favoritism Bobby got from Jock. Bobby was known for his short temper and emotional reactions.


title: Bobby Ewing

text: In the first episode of "Dallas" in 1978, Bobby Ewing brought his new wife to meet his family at Southfork Ranch. However, Bobby's family were dismayed to discover that Bobby's wife was Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal, briefly Margaret Michaels), the daughter of Digger Barnes (Keenan Wynn, originally David Wayne) and the sister of Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), both of whom were arch-enemies of the Ewing family. In 1982, Bobby and Pam adopted a boy named Christopher (Joshua Harris, originally Eric Farlow), who was the biological son of J.R.'s deceased sister-in-law, Kristin Shepard (Mary Crosby). Pam had always wanted a child but was unlikely to be able to have one of her own. Bobby's sister-in-law, Katherine Wentworth (Morgan Brittany), later had an unrequited crush on Bobby and began to become obsessed with him. Katherine broke up Bobby's marriage to Pam by writing a letter (pretending to be Pam) addressed to her lawyer. Bobby turned to childhood sweetheart Jenna Wade (Priscilla Presley; previously Morgan Fairchild and Francine Tacker) and they became engaged. Katherine ran Bobby down with her car, where he later died in hospital from his injuries. However, a year later, the storylines of the preceding season, including the accident and death of Bobby, were nothing more than a lengthy dream of Pam's. Bobby and Pam were reunited but Jenna discovered that she was pregnant with his child. Bobby wasn't interested in getting back with Jenna, and Jenna later gave birth to his son, Lucas Krebbs. When Pam was involved in a car crash which resulted in her suffering severe burns, she disappeared from the hospital and divorced Bobby and gave him sole custody of Christopher. Bobby became close to April Stevens (Sheree J. Wilson) and they began a relationship and eventually married. However, while on their honeymoon in Paris, April is kidnapped and later shot; she dies in Bobby's arms.


title: Bobby Ewing

text: Bobby is first on the scene after hearing a gunshot from J.R. (Larry Hagman) room uttering the words "Oh my God." The camera never shows what Bobby actually saw and it was thought J.R. committed suicide, although in subsequent films it was explained J.R. shot a mirror.


title: Bobby Ewing

text: In "", Bobby had a relationship with Julia Cunningham before taking over Ewing Oil. In the follow-up film "", he is no longer with Julia and the reasons are not even explained. He eventually starts a relationship with European oil heiress Jennifer Jantzen, who was a business associate of his brother J.R. and whose father's company Jantzen Oil was saved from bankruptcy by J.R. Between 1996 and 1998, Bobby is CEO of Ewing Oil. In 1998, Bobby retires from Ewing Oil and begins travelling with Jennifer Jantzen.


title: Bobby Ewing

text: By 2012, Bobby has remarried again, this time to a woman named Ann Smith, and is the owner of Southfork Ranch, according to the terms of Miss Ellie Ewing's will (in season 14 (ep. 353), Miss Ellie had deeded Southfork to Bobby while she was still alive, thereby suggesting a continuity error). Bobby has retired from the oil business, believing that alternative energy is "the future", a belief he shares with his now grown adopted-son Christopher, and is content to raise cattle on the ranch. He has decided to sell Southfork, due to his contracting a gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and resulting fears that he will not be around to keep the ranch safe, and that Christopher is not yet ready to take over from him. Once again, this brings him into conflict with his older brother J.R. and his nephew, John Ross Ewing III (who has discovered oil on the ranch). Bobby is shocked and saddened when he finds out his brother J.R. is dead. When J.R.'s will is read Bobby receives J.R.'s entire boot collection on the condition that he keeps them cleaner than he keeps his own. Also an old letter from Miss Ellie reveals that John Ross gets half of Southfork. Bobby doesn't agree but goes along with it for now, although it later leads to some disputes between Bobby and John Ross. Bobby also learns that his first wife Pam died of cancer in 1989.


title: Bobby Ewing

text: Bobby Ewing appeared in three episodes of the "Dallas" spin-off series, "Knots Landing", between 1979 and 1982.


title: Bobby Ewing

text: As many storylines on "Knots Landing" depended on the actions of several characters following the death of Bobby Ewing in 1985, the subsequent dream revelation from "Dallas" in 1986 did not get applied to the continuity of "Knots Landing". Bobby's return was never addressed or even mentioned and, following this, no further crossover storylines were featured on "Knots Landing".


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport is a South Africa-based group of television channels carried on the DStv & Canal+ satellite platforms as well as GOtv terrestrial platform. It provides sports content in South Africa, Nigeria and many other African countries.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport previously also had operations in Europe in the Scandinavian, Benelux, Italy, Eastern Europe, Greek & Cypriot regions and had sports channels started by FilmNet, being owned by MultiChoice at the time which have since been replaced. They also had operations in Thailand, under the current name True Sport & Egypt and Middle East via Cable Network of Egypt (CNE) & Arab Radio and Television Network respectively.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: The channel broadcasts most of the major sporting events and leagues of association football, rugby, cricket, tennis, golf, motorsport, cycling, boxing, wrestling, hockey, athletics. It was formerly the world's largest broadcaster of live rugby and cricket (having been overtaken by Sky Sports), and also the world's second largest Premier League broadcaster, broadcasting matches live and, where possible, in HD through the Premier League's Content Service Sr.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: Apart from its satellite channels, SuperSport also feeds content to M-Net, CSN and occasionally to M-Net HD. As of September 2020, much the same way Sky Sports has done, SuperSport started to run thematic channels with most major sports getting their own channels.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: In 1986, M-Net was launched as South Africa's first pay-television channel and, along with Canal+, only the second outside of the United States. The channel immediately showed its intention to include sport in its programming line-up, by securing exclusive rights of an important Currie Cup match between Transvaal and Western Province for its first ever broadcast. From 1988, sports coverage on M-Net ran under the banner of "M-Net SuperSport".


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: M-Net SuperSport expanded its range of coverage, including live overseas rugby, cricket, golf, boxing and cycling. Following South Africa's readmission into international cricket, SuperSport scored another marketing coup by securing exclusive rights to the 1992 Cricket World Cup.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: When rugby turned professional in 1995, a deal was struck between the newly formed SANZAR and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. In South Africa, SuperSport was awarded exclusive broadcasting rights of the Super 12 competition, as well as the Tri Nations. Following this deal, rugby gradually ceased broadcasting on the SABC, while SuperSport became a carrier of live rugby broadcasts.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: At the same time, Naspers expanded its pay-television operations to a satellite carrier. With the launch of DStv in 1995, SuperSport became a multi-channel network and an independent brand, although it was still primarily associated with M-Net. The network made full use of the satellite platform to expand its sports offering: For the Olympic Games, six channels are generally used for live events.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: In 2007, the SABC lost its exclusive rights to the local Premier Soccer League (PSL) to SuperSport, in a deal worth R1.6 billion. The deal stipulated that some matches had to be shared with the SABC. In August 2011, SuperSport renewed its contract with the PSL for another five years.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: Since 2011, SuperSport's association with M-Net began to fade, when M-Net split its terrestrial feed from its DStv channel. DStv viewers can no longer watch sports events on M-Net, although terrestrial subscribers still get feeds on the main channel, as well as the Community Services Network (CSN).


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: A Premier Soccer League team bears the channel's name. SuperSport United F.C. was originally known as Pretoria City but bought by M-Net in 1995 after which it was renamed.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: On August 8, 2020, SuperSport announced a gradual makeover/revamp of its channels, meaning the numbering of the channels since the channel's commencement of expansion in 2003 such as "SuperSport 3" would be replaced with specific-sport TV channels which they ""enhances the sports viewers' experience"" and ""makes it easier to find and watch a favorite league, competition or sport"". The revamp would be operational from September 1, 2020, onwards.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: On April 22, 2021, SuperSport got ownership of School Sport Live and rebranded it into SuperSport Schools. Under the new ownership, SuperSport Schools will continue to broadcast the best of School Sports online and also through SuperSport linear channels bringing it close to their other content. In this agreement, the brand is expected to get a mobile app later in the year.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport has 3 broadcast feeds on the African continent; South Africa, Nigeria & Rest of Africa (ROA).


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: Most of the channels for SuperSport Nigeria are shared with the Rest of African (ROA) Feed, excluding only 3 channels as SuperSport has catered for a separate ROA feed for these. They are SS Football Plus, SS Premier League & SS LaLiga. The Sub-Saharan African feed is divided into 2 zones, Anglophone Africa (English-speaking countries) & Lusophone Africa (Portuguese-speaking countries).


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport Blitz, formerly known as SuperSport Update, was launched on 1 October 2006 & remains undoubtedly to be Africa's premier dedicated 24-hour sports news channel featuring the latest news, features, announcements, highlights, previews & sporting events all around the world. For some hours it relays Sky Sports News live from the UK.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport's top channel which features the best of the day's live content including top events from tennis, rugby, cricket and live WWE pay-per-views. This channel is only available to DStv Premium subscribers.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport PSL focuses mainly on domestic soccer matches in South Africa and other African countries through live broadcasts, magazine shows and highlights. They now show Premier Soccer League (PSL) matches every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday as part of their "Super Diski" shows. The channel also shows many PSL themed news and talk shows under the "PSL TV" brand. These shows air at least one new show nightly. They include Extra Time, Back Pages, Mzansi Legends, National First Division Show, PSL News, Thursday Night Live With Robert Marawa, Love PSL and various club magazine shows. All local matches have Zulu and Sesotho commentary.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: As this channel is locally oriented (South Africa), it is included on the Compact bouquet for South African & Southern African viewers.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport Football Plus is a 24-hour dedicated football/soccer channel, specifically made for as the new home of UEFA Champions League for ROA Viewers alongside featured soccer documentaries, shows, news & matches. It also acts as a soccer overflow channel broadcasting other live fixtures when other SuperSport channels are occupied with live events.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: This channel is available for Nigeria (Ch. 202) & The Rest of African (ROA》Ch. 222/622) audiences on the DStv Compact Plus package.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport Premier League is a 24-hour football/soccer channel. SuperSport has the exclusive rights of telecasting the Premier League as well as the UEFA Champions League (For South African Viewers), and other major football tournaments. It is available on the DStv Compact & Canal+ English Plus (Rwanda) packages.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: Home of the Spanish LaLiga & UEFA Europa League while also showcasing overflow matches from the UEFA Champions League.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: In South Africa & The Rest of Africa, The channel is available to DStv Family customers, as well as DStv Confam (Nigeria), GOtv Max (Nigeria & ROA) & Canal+ English Plus (Rwanda)


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: Primarily showcases Italy's Serie A while also broadcasting matches from the Premier League, UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, and selected international matches. The channel is available for DStv Family and upper packages in South Africa


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: The Nigerian & ROA Channel usually broadcasts delayed as well as a select number of live matches from the Premier League, LaLiga, Serie A and the Premier Soccer League (PSL) as well as UEFA Europa League & Ethiopian Football matches. The channel is available for DStv Access and GOtv Plus for Rest Of Africa customers & DStv Yanga and GOtv Jolli for Nigerian customers.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: Variety 1 focuses on cycling and swimming events while also functioning as an overflow channel for soccer, golf, tennis, rugby and cricket events.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: As the channel includes involvement with overflow content with rugby, tennis and other Premium sports, the channel is available to DStv Compact Plus customers in South Africa & The Rest Of Africa (incl. Nigeria)


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: Variety 2 features gymnastics, hockey, sailing and squash events while also functioning as an overflow channel for soccer matches.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: The channel is available to DStv Compact Plus (South Africa) & DStv Compact (Nigeria & Rest Of Africa) customers as part of the offering SuperSport gives


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: Variety 3 broadcasts athletics events, marathons, UEFA Europa Conference League, live WWE & UFC programming including pay-per-view events, and also functions as an overflow for some soccer matches from the PSL, Premier League & UEFA Champions League for South African viewers. The channel is available for DStv Compact subscribers.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: With the exclusion of overflow PSL, Premier League & UEFA Champions League matches as well as live UFC PPVs for Nigeria & Rest Of African audiences, the channel primarily broadcasts Italian Serie A. The channel, which also resembles Select 1 for GOtv subscribers, is available for DStv Confam (Nigeria), DStv Family & GOtv Max subscribers.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: Variety 4 focuses on grassroot sports including varsity rugby, netball, BNL, DStv Diski Challenge, SRC, as well as WWE highlights in South Africa. The channel is offered under the DStv Access package.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: For Nigeria & ROA audiences (Channel resembles Select 2 on GOtv), it focuses on African sports including live football from Zambia & South Africa (PSL), magazine & variety shows as well as WWE highlights. The channel is offered under the DStv Access and GOtv Value packages for ROA & DStv Confam and GOtv Jinja in Nigeria.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport Action broadcasts a range of extreme sports as well as major boxing matches, UFC and EFC mixed martial arts programming and overflow content from rugby, soccer and cricket.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport Rugby is the channel which focuses mainly on rugby. It shows all national team rugby matches live, as well as all Super Rugby fixtures, the Currie Cup, Varsity Rugby and certain top high school and club matches. Most matches have commentary in both English and Afrikaans, with a growing number also featuring a Xhosa feed.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: As the world's second largest broadcaster of live rugby, SuperSport's commentators read like a "who's who" of South African rugby greats. Current lead commentators in English are Matthew Pearce, Hugh Bladen, Gavin Cowley, Owen Nkumane and Paul Stubbs, while their analyst pool includes Joel Stransky, Gcobani Bobo, Bobby Skinstad, Breyton Paulse, Nick Mallett, Ashwin Willemse, Kobus Wiese, Victor Matfield, Jean de Villiers and Naas Botha.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: As a large broadcaster with expensive rights to the sport, the channel is exclusively on DStv Premium.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport Cricket primarily shows Cricket. All international cricket involving the South African national cricket team, as well as certain domestic cricket, is shown on this channel. The presentation and commentary team who cover South African home games include Mark Nicholas, Mike Haysman, Pommie Mbangwa, Michael Holding, Shaun Pollock, Makhaya Ntini, JP Duminy and guest pundits from the opposition team.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport Golf is the home of the majors with coverage of the PGA tour and other major golfing events including the Open, The Masters and many more.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport Tennis is a 24-hour dedicated tennis channel showcasing live tennis from Grand Slams to the ATP World Tour, WTA & other major tennis events.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport Motorsport features live and archive content from the world of motorsports including Formula 1, DTM, MotoGP, Superbikes, Formula E, NASCAR and more.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: In addition to the WWE Network being made locally available, SuperSport's WWE channel features live broadcasts of WWE's flagship programming of WWE Raw and WWE SmackDown, along with additional WWE Network content including pay-per-view events, WWE NXT, WWE 24, WWE Ride Along and more.


title: SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

text: SuperSport Maximo is the Portuguese-language channel broadcasting the same events from the other SuperSport channels. It is available mainly in the countries of Lusophone Africa, but also in other African countries including South Africa.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Kyle Brandon Fuller (born February 16, 1992) is an American football cornerback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft and played college football at Virginia Tech.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Fuller attended Mount Saint Joseph High School, where he played high school football. He recorded one interception his senior year, and played in the Maryland Crab Bowl, an all-star game, despite missing most of his season with a finger injury. He had four interceptions as a junior, returning two of those for touchdowns. He also had a punt return touchdown and kick return score that season.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Fuller was also on the school's track & field team, where he competed as a sprinter and jumper. He won the long jump at the 2010 Woodlawn Warrior Invitational, with a personal-best mark of 6.41 meters. At the 2010 IAAM-MIAA Champs, he took fifth in the 300-meter dash, clocking at 37.98 seconds.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Considered a three-star recruit by ESPN.com, Fuller was listed as the No. 43 cornerback in the nation in 2010.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Fuller started seven games in 2010 as a true freshman, primarily in the Hokies’ nickel defense. He recorded 32 tackles, four for a loss, broke up six passes and forced a fumble. In 2011, as a second-team All-ACC selection at corner, he started all 14 games at two different positions. He started at nickelback/whip linebacker for seven games and corner for the other seven games. He played over 1000 snaps on defense and 100 on special teams. He recorded 65 tackles, a team-high 14.5 tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks on the season. He also added seven pass breakups, two interceptions, five quarterback hurries, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. In 2012, as honorable mention All-ACC at corner, he started all 13 games and recorded 52 tackles, including three for loss, two interceptions and five pass breakups. In 2013, he was one of the Hokies’ four permanent captains. He was named a third-team All-ACC selection, and played in nine games, making eight starts and missing the team's final four games due to injury. He recorded 24 tackles, two interceptions and 10 pass breakups in his final season.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Fuller attended the NFL Scouting Combine and performed all of the combine drills. On March 19, 2014, Fuller participated at Virginia Tech's pro day, but opted to stand on his combine numbers and only performed positional drills. He was projected to be a first round pick by NFL draft experts and scouts. Fuller was ranked as the top cornerback prospect in the draft by NFL draft analyst Mike Mayock, was ranked the third best cornerback by DraftScout.com, and was ranked the sixth best cornerback by Sports Illustrated.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: The Chicago Bears selected Fuller in the first round (14th overall) of the 2014 NFL Draft. He was the second cornerback selected in the draft, behind Justin Gilbert (eighth overall, Browns).


title: Kyle Fuller

text: On May 14, 2014, the Chicago Bears signed him to a four-year, $9.68 million contract with a signing bonus of $5.36 million.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Head coach Marc Trestman named Fuller the third cornerback on the Bears' depth chart to start the regular season, behind Tim Jennings and Charles Tillman.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: He made his professional regular season debut in the Chicago Bears' season-opener against the Buffalo Bills and recorded five combined tackles in their 23–20 loss. On September 14, 2014, Fuller made a season-high seven combined tackles, two pass deflections, and two interceptions during a 28–20 victory at the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday Night Football. He made his first career interception off a pass by quarterback Colin Kaepernick, that was intended for wide receiver Michael Crabtree, and returned it for a 20-yard gain in the fourth quarter. He became the first Bears' rookie to record two picks in a game since Chris Harris in . He was named the NFC Defensive Player of the Week and became the first Bears' rookie defensive back to receive the award since Mark Carrier in . In Week 3, Fuller earned his first career start after Charles Tillman sustained a triceps injury and was placed on injured reserve. He recorded seven combined tackles, two pass deflections, forced two fumbles, and made an interception as the Bears defeated the New York Jets 27–19 on Monday Night Football. He became the first NFL player in 20 years to record three interceptions and two forced fumbles in their first three games. In Week 13, he collected a season-high seven solo tackles and broke up a pass during a 34–17 loss at the Detroit Lions. On December 29, 2014, the Chicago Bears fired head coach Marc Trestman after they finished with a 5–11 record in 2014. He finished his rookie season in 2014 with 64 combined tackles (51 solo), ten pass deflections, four interceptions, and three forced fumbles in 16 games and 14 starts.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Fuller entered training camp slated as a starting cornerback. Head coach John Fox officially named Fuller a starting cornerback to start the regular season, opposite Tracy Porter. On October 18, 2015, Fuller collected a season-high eight combined tackles during a 37–34 loss at the Detroit Lions. In Week 8, he made two combined tackles, a season-high two pass deflections, and intercepted a pass by quarterback Teddy Bridgewater in the Bears' 23–20 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. He started all 16 games and recorded 55 combined tackles (47 solo), nine pass deflections, and two interceptions. Fuller struggled through the early portion of the season, which included being responsible for two major defensive pass interference penalties, raising the possibility of being moved to safety. He eventually improved as the year progressed.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Throughout training camp, Fuller dealt with a knee injury. On August 18, 2016, he underwent arthroscopic knee surgery to repair his knee injury. On September 28, 2016, the Chicago Bears placed Fuller on injured reserve after being inactive for the first three games while recovering from knee surgery. On November 30, 2016, Fuller returned to practice, but was not added to the active roster and remained on injured reserve for the entire 2016 season.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: On April 29, 2017, Chicago Bears' general manager Ryan Pace announced that the team would not pick up the fifth-year option on Fuller's rookie contract.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Throughout training camp, he competed to be a starting cornerback against Marcus Cooper and Prince Amukamara. Head coach John Fox named Fuller the third cornerback on the depth chart to start the regular season, behind Cooper and Amukamara.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Fuller started in the Chicago Bears' against the Atlanta Falcons after Prince Amukamara injured his ankle during the preseason and was inactive for the first two regular-season games. Fuller recorded six combined tackles and broke up a pass in their 23–17 loss. In Week 5, he earned the start after Marcus Cooper was unable to play due to a back injury. Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio chose to retain Fuller as a starting cornerback for the rest of the season. On December 3, 2017, Fuller collected a season-high seven combined tackles, two pass deflections, and intercepted a pass by quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo during a 15–14 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in Week 13.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: combined tackles (61 solo), a career-high 22 pass deflections, and two interceptions. He earned an overall grade of 84.3 from Pro Football Focus, which ranked 21st among all qualifying cornerbacks in 2017.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: On March 6, 2018, the Chicago Bears placed the transition tag on Fuller worth $12.971 million. On March 16, 2018, the Green Bay Packers extended a four-year, $56 million contract with $18 million guaranteed offer to Fuller, which the Bears then matched later that day, keeping Fuller under contract with the Bears through 2021.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Fuller's 2018 season opened on a disappointing note when he dropped a potential game-sealing interception against the Packers, who eventually scored on the drive to win 24–23; after the game, he commented, "All I got to say is I got to catch it." In Weeks 6 and 7 against the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots, he recorded three total interceptions, two off the former's Brock Osweiler and once off the latter's Tom Brady. The two picks in Miami marked the first time that a Bear recorded two interceptions in a game since Fuller's performance against the 49ers in 2014.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: During the remainder of the regular season, he recorded four more interceptions against Nathan Peterman of the Buffalo Bills, Matthew Stafford of the Detroit Lions, Eli Manning of the New York Giants, and Jared Goff of the Los Angeles Rams. Fuller finished the season with 55 tackles, 21 passes defended, and shared a league-leading seven interceptions with Xavien Howard and Damontae Kazee. He received an overall grade of 81.4 from Pro Football Focus in 2018, which ranked as the 7th highest grade among all qualifying cornerbacks in 2018.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: On December 18, Fuller was selected to his first Pro Bowl. He was later also named to first-team All-Pro along with teammates Khalil Mack, Eddie Jackson, and Tarik Cohen.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: In week 2 against the Denver Broncos, Fuller made his first interception of the season off a pass from Joe Flacco that was intended for Emmanuel Sanders in the 16–14 win.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: In week 3 against the Washington Redskins, Fuller intercepted a pass from Case Keenum in the 31–15 win. In week 8 against the Los Angeles Chargers, Fuller recorded a team high 7 tackles and made an interception off Philip Rivers in the 17–16 loss.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Fuller ended the 2019 season with three interceptions and 12 pass breakups. His 82 combined tackles were a career best. On January 9, 2020, he was named to the 2020 Pro Bowl roster in place of an injured Jalen Ramsey after being voted as an alternate.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: In Week 1 against the Detroit Lions, Fuller recorded his first interception of the season off a pass thrown by Matthew Stafford during the 27–23 comeback victory.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: In Week 5 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on "Thursday Night Football", Fuller forced a fumble on running back Ke'Shawn Vaughn which was recovered by teammate Robert Quinn during the 20–19 win.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Due to poor play, Fuller did not appear in the Broncos’ week 8 matchup against Washington, after losing possible playing time in previous weeks to Nate Hairston and Patrick Surtain II.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Leading up to the 2021 trade deadline, it was widely speculated that the Broncos would trade away Fuller. However, he ultimately was not traded. He finished the season with 51 tackles, four pass deflections and no interceptions through 16 games and 10 starts.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: On May 24, 2022, Fuller signed with the Baltimore Ravens. On September 14, the Ravens placed Fuller on injured reserve after suffering a torn ACL in the Week 1 game against the New York Jets.


title: Kyle Fuller

text: Kyle's older brothers are former Virginia Tech Hokies football players, as well. His eldest brother, Vincent, is a retired NFL safety who spent the majority of his career with the Tennessee Titans. His older brother, Corey, is a retired wide receiver, who previously played for the Detroit Lions and New Orleans Saints. Their younger brother, Kendall, is a cornerback for the Washington Commanders. Kendall won Super Bowl LIV with the Kansas City Chiefs.


title: IFB Home Appliances

text: IFB Home Appliances is an Indian home appliances company and a division of IFB Industries. It has its manufacturing locations in Kolkata and Verna, Goa. The company has a chain of ~530 retail outlets called ‘IFB Point’.


title: IFB Home Appliances

text: Originally IFB Industries was known as Indian Fine Blanks Ltd and started operations in India in 1974 in collaboration with Heinrich Schmid AG of Switzerland. In 1989, it entered an agreement with Bosch-Siemens Hausgerate to produce fully-automatic washing machines and other domestic appliances. The Home Appliances Division started in 1990-91. The factory is based at Verna Industrial Estate, Verna, Goa, India and Visveswariah Industrial Estate, Bengaluru, India.


title: IFB Home Appliances

text: The company currently offers products for laundry, kitchen, living and industrial purposes along with additives and accessories. It offers appliances such as washing machines, washer-dryers, laundry dryers, dishwashers, microwave ovens, air conditioners, hobs, chimneys and other cooking appliances.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: Look Who's Talking Now is a 1993 American romantic comedy film, and the third and final installment in the film series that began with "Look Who's Talking" in 1989. It finds John Travolta and Kirstie Alley reprising their roles as James and Mollie Ubriacco, respectively, and introducing the newly extended family members to it.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: David Gallagher and Tabitha Lupien portray Mikey and Julie respectively. Unlike the previous films, it does not feature the voiceover talents of Bruce Willis, Roseanne Barr, or Joan Rivers as their interior monologues; rather, Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton provide voiceover roles for their newly acquired dogs, Rocks and Daphne, respectively, and it focuses more on their lives. Lysette Anthony and Olympia Dukakis costar. George Segal and Charles Barkley have cameo roles.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: The film was released on November 5, 1993, by TriStar Pictures. It received negative reviews from critics and underperformed at the box office, grossing $10.3 million against a production budget of $22 million.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: A puppy who needs an owner, and is talking, sees Mikey passing by and begs him to take him home. Mikey, however, has to hurry past in tow of his mother, so other people take him. He manages to escape and starts his life as a stray.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: James is a pilot working for Samantha - who extends trips to spend more time with him. Mollie is looking for a job after getting laid off. Mikey tells Santa Claus that he wants a dog for Christmas, James feels the time has come to give him one and tells Samantha.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: One day, the dog gets caught by a catcher and taken to a kennel. He is about to be put down when James brings Mikey there to select one. Overjoyed, he bumps into the dog he saw as a puppy and decides to take him home. He names him Rocks.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: When they get home, they see Samantha is there with her highly trained dog Daphne, who wants James to have her as a present. Rocks and Daphne do not get along. Rocks is messy and untrained while Daphne is well-trained and spoiled. However, Daphne bonds with Julie while Rocks does with Mikey. Rocks wears Mollie's patience due to his behavior, leaving her to clean up after his messes.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: Samantha starts having James fly on long trips. Mollie has to job hunt and take care of the kids and dogs. James and Mollie develop tensions over Samantha, she suspects that James is cheating on her.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: James states he has faith in his wife and wants her to have faith in him. She agrees but still distrusts Samantha's intentions. After another trip, both have dreams of the other being unfaithful. James and Mollie are still in love with each other and miss one another while they are apart. As Mollie becomes more tired, Daphne realizes that she needs to become more independent. Rocks helps her learn how to go outside by herself and use her sense of smell to track people or things. The dogs start becoming friends.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: On Christmas Eve, Samantha tricks James into coming to fancy cabin in the woods by saying that she wants to introduce him to a prospective client. She stalls for time until James cannot leave because of a snowstorm. James calls Mollie to tell her that he cannot make it home for Christmas. Mollie learns that he is alone with Samantha and becomes worried he is going to cheat on her. However, Mollie's mother convinces her to trust her instincts that James loves her and would never do that.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: Mollie drives through the storm with the kids and dogs to "bring Christmas to Daddy". Their car gets stuck in the woods due to the storm. They are attacked by a wolf, and Rocks scares them off while Mollie and the kids get inside the car. Daphne sets out to find help using the tracking skills that Rocks taught her.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: Rocks runs out to track down James on his own. He finds Samantha's cabin, and James realizes that Mollie has set out to find him. He confronts Samantha about her lies and quits his job, then goes with Rocks to track down his family. They are attacked by wolves, and Rocks fights them off while James escapes.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: Meanwhile, Daphne finds a forest ranger that takes Mollie, the kids, and Daphne to safety into his cabin. James finds them, and Rocks runs in. Then James tells Mollie that if it wasn't for Rocks he would've not even made it and then Mollie says he stays so James and Mollie carry Mikey and Julie to bed to wait for Santa.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: Unlike the previous films, the children no longer have voiceovers for their inner thoughts, since they are now old enough to talk for themselves. Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton portray the Ubriaccos' dogs. This also marked the film debuts of Tabitha Lupien, and David Gallagher, best known for his later role as Simon Camden on "7th Heaven". Charles Barkley makes a cameo appearance as himself.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: George Segal, who portrayed Albert, the first film's antagonist and Mikey's biological father, reappears briefly. Both Twink Caplan, who portrayed Mollie's best friend, Rona, in the previous two films, and Elias Koteas, who portrayed Mollie's brother, Stuart, in the second film, declined to return for this film.


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: French singer Jordy performs, alongside David Gallagher, Tabitha Lupien, and other children, in a special music video for the film, titled "It's Christmas, C'est Noel", from the album of Christmas, "Potion Magique".


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with reviews, the film has a approval rating of, receiving an average rating of . The site's critical consensus simply reads ""Look Who's Talking Now": "Look" away". Roger Ebert gave the film one star out of four and remarked that "it looks like it was chucked up by an automatic screenwriting machine". Gene Siskel gave the film zero stars and called it "an abysmal, embarrassing sequel".


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: Dan Cox of "Variety" wrote: "Stretching a premise that one might say has gone to the dogs, "Look Who's Talking Now" runs feebly on the calculated steam of its forebears". Rita Kempley of "The Washington Post" wrote: "Take the 'dle' out of 'poodle' and you've pretty much got the leitmotif of "Look Who's Talking Now", a crude and mawkish film in which dogs attempt to communicate with Kirstie Alley and John Travolta".


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: Stephen Holden of "The New York Times" was somewhat positive, writing that "the sound of stars mouthing the inner thoughts of dogs is somehow funnier than that of grownup actors doing wisecracking voice overs for gurgling infants". Peter Rainer of the "Los Angeles Times" was also somewhat positive, calling the film "borderline pleasant" because Travolta and Alley "are a marvelous team".


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: Leonard Maltin's film guide gave it two stars out of four, saying "the first one was cute, the second one was dreadful; this third entry in the series falls somewhere in between".


title: Look Who's Talking Now

text: "Look Who's Talking Now" was a box office bomb, only earning over $10 million against its $22 million budget, making it the lowest-grossing film in the series. In its opening week, the film also faced stiff competition for an audience from "The Nightmare Before Christmas".


title: Steve Augeri

text: Steve Augeri (born January 30, 1959) is an American rock singer best known for his work as the lead singer of Journey from 1998 to 2006. He was also affiliated with Tall Stories and Tyketto. In 2014, he formed the band Ünderwörld.


title: Steve Augeri

text: Steve Augeri, the son of Joseph and Emma Augeri, was born on January 30, 1959, and raised in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn.


title: Steve Augeri

text: He attributes his love and of music and inspiration to his father, Joseph, and their many years of listening to Sinatra, R&B, soul, and country music on their Emerson clock radio. His grammar school music teacher, Fredrick Torregrossa, also had a direct influence by encouraging Augeri to develop and improve upon the potential of his voice and by casting him to sing Puccini's "La Donna Mobile" in the school's 4th grade musical.


title: Steve Augeri

text: Initially studying woodwinds at New York City's High School of Music and Art, Augeri switched to bassoon and soon discovered his love for classical music.


title: Steve Augeri

text: Attending, and then teaching at, French Woods Festival for the Performing Arts summer camp, he supervised children from ages 6–16 for their "Rock Band" classes.


title: Steve Augeri

text: When Augeri's tuition check for college bounced, he returned home to start a rock and roll band. Working as a session vocalist, as well as bartending and waiting tables, it was not until 1984 when Augeri received his first break and was hired as background vocalist for Michael Schenker of UFO and Scorpions fame.


title: Steve Augeri

text: While in the market for a new guitar at Manny's Music on NYC's 48th St., Augeri met guitarist Jack Morer. Together they formed the critically acclaimed Epic Records recording and performing group "Tall Stories", along with Kevin Totoian on bass guitar, and Tom De Faria on drums. Tall Stories was nominated for “Best Debut Album”, and Augeri for “Best Debut Male Vocalist”, at the 1992 New York Music Awards. The band held its last performance in Paris on New Year's Eve 1995.


title: Steve Augeri

text: Augeri soon forged a song-writing bond with Brooke St. James of Geffen's hard-melodic rock band Tyketto, which in turn led to an invitation to join the group as their lead vocalist. The album "Shine" was released in 1995, with a subsequent tour of Europe resulting in the album "Take Out & Served Up Live" in 1996.


title: Steve Augeri

text: He and Lydia Augeri (née Cirillo) had a son in 1996. Augeri decided to stay closer to home and return to his father's profession of carpentry by accepting a position with the GAP as a maintenance manager for their network of stores in New York City.


title: Steve Augeri

text: In 1997, just short of his one-year anniversary with the GAP, and after an introduction from guitarist Joe Cefalu, Augeri received a phone call from both Jonathan Cain and Neal Schon and was offered an audition to front the legendary rock band Journey.


title: Steve Augeri

text: In 1998, Augeri was officially named the group's new lead vocalist following the departure of Steve Perry. Augeri recorded three albums during a successful eight-year tenure with Journey. He toured with the band almost constantly during that period. The song "Remember Me", from the seven-times-platinum soundtrack album from the movie "Armageddon", represents Augeri's recording debut with the band, followed by the album "Arrival" in 2001, and the EP "Red 13", in 2002. The album "Generations", released in 2005, would be his last studio album with the group, after his departure due to recurring vocal problems (from which he had been suffering since 2003) mid-tour in 2006. The live DVD of their Las Vegas concert recorded in December 2000, titled "Journey 2001", acquired platinum status.


title: Steve Augeri

text: Augeri and his wife Lydia supported various charities with personal appearances and live performances, including Journey to the Cure (Breast Cancer Foundation), Little Baby Face Foundation, Diamond Angels (Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital), and March of Dimes.


title: Steve Augeri

text: In 2010, he released the single "Riverside". He released another single entitled "Photograph" in September 2011. A third single, "Hours In The Day", was released in September 2012. Two more singles - "For The Rest Of My Life" and "Behind The Sun" - were released in August 2013. "Home Again" was released January 2014.


title: Steve Augeri

text: In March 2014, it was announced Augeri had formed the supergroup Ünderwörld, alongside guitarist Kee Marcello (Easy Action, Europe), bassist Svante Henryson (Yngwie Malmsteen, Brazen Abbot) and drummer Virgil Donati (Southern Sons, Ring of Fire, Planet X, Soul SirkUS), however as of 2020 no recordings from the band have been officially released.


title: Steve Augeri

text: In March 2021, Steve Augeri, who fronts his own band, Steve Augeri Band, collaborated with Bad Penny, consisting of guitarist and songwriter Mike Holtzman, Danny Miranda (Queen + Paul Rodgers) on bass, and Jules Radino (Blue Öyster Cult) on drums. The first single released "Lose Yourself" was released shortly thereafter in March, followed up in December with an additional single "Don't Forget (This Christmas).


title: Pisces Iscariot

text: Pisces Iscariot is a compilation album by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, released in 1994 through Virgin Records, consisting of B-sides and outtakes. Reaching number 4 in the US upon its 1994 release, "Pisces Iscariot" was certified platinum by the RIAA on November 23, 1994. The album was initially to be called "Neptulius".


title: Pisces Iscariot

text: The CD, LP, and cassette issues were each released with unique cover artwork. The US vinyl release was pressed on amber vinyl, and the first 2,000 copies included a bonus 7" single with "Not Worth Asking" from the original "I Am One" 7", backed with "Honeyspider II". The UK LP has identical artwork to its US counterpart, although the printing is much lighter and the inner sleeve is a heavier stock.


title: Pisces Iscariot

text: According to a December 1, 1994 review by Al Weisel, writing for "Rolling Stone", ""Pisces Iscariot" doesn't really sound like the compilation of rejects it actually is. In fact, it's better than a lot of albums that bands labored hard to put together. Although definitely not the Pumpkins' best album, it's more varied, if less cohesive, than "Gish" or "Siamese Dream"." "Rolling Stone" gave 3 out of 5 stars to the album.


title: Pisces Iscariot

text: In 2012, EMI released a "Deluxe Edition" that included a cassette tape with the first Smashing Pumpkins demo tape on it. The deluxe version of "Pisces Iscariot" is listed by Spotify under the band's main "album" section (along with its studio albums), rather than in the "compilations" section. According to Ian Cohen, writing for "Pitchfork", "Pisces Iscariot is painstakingly sequenced to maintain a concept record's sonic peaks and valleys, favoring stylistic cohesion over protracted diversity. Its ratio of sweet acoustic strummers, barnstorming riff-rockers, and expansive guitar freakouts is balanced almost exactly akin to that of "Siamese Dream" or "Gish". It still works as an album if you want it to, meaning it's not exactly "Incesticide" or "Masterplan" as far as alt-rock cash-ins go."


title: Pisces Iscariot

text: In July 2014, "Guitar World" placed "Pisces Iscariot" among its "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994" list. For the 20th anniversary of the album, Ryan Leas, writing for "Stereogum", commented that "[e]very now and then, a band releases a collection of B-sides and outtakes and otherwise semi-available material that transcends the notion of an artist emptying the vaults to buy a bit of time between full-fledged albums, or simply trying to cash in a bit... Of the already anomalous nature of these odds-and-ends turned important touchstones in an artist’s catalog, "Pisces Iscariot" is amongst an even rarer category: the very early vault emptying that results in a shockingly strong collection of lesser or entirely unknown songs. So shockingly strong, in fact, that an album like "Pisces Iscariot" is often placed head and shoulders above almost anything Billy Corgan did after, save the following year's monolithic "Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness"."


title: Latin grammar

text: Latin is a heavily inflected language with largely free word order. Nouns are inflected for number and case; pronouns and adjectives (including participles) are inflected for number, case, and gender; and verbs are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, voice, and mood. The inflections are often changes in the ending of a word, but can be more complicated, especially with verbs.


title: Latin grammar

text: Thus verbs can take any of over 100 different endings to express different meanings, for example "I rule", "I am ruled", "to rule", "to be ruled". Most verbal forms consist of a single word, but some tenses are formed from part of the verb "I am" added to a participle; for example, "I was led" or "he is going to lead".


title: Latin grammar

text: Nouns belong to one of three genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter). The gender of a noun is shown by the adjectives and pronouns that refer to it: e.g., "this man", "this woman", "this name". There are also two numbers: singular ( "woman") and plural ( "women").


title: Latin grammar

text: As well as having gender and number, nouns, adjectives, and pronouns have different endings according to their function in the sentence, for example, "the king" (subject), but "the king" (object). These different endings are called "cases". Most nouns have six cases: nominative (subject), accusative (object),


title: Latin grammar

text: genitive ("of"), dative ("to" or "for"), ablative ("with" or "in"), and vocative (used for addressing). Some nouns have a seventh case, the locative; this is mostly found with the names of towns and cities, e.g. "in Rome".


title: Latin grammar

text: There is no definite or indefinite article in Latin, so that can mean "king", "a king", or "the king" according to context.


title: Latin grammar

text: Latin word order tends to be subject–object–verb; however, other word orders are common. Different word orders are used to express different shades of emphasis. (See Latin word order.)


title: Latin grammar

text: An adjective can come either before or after a noun, e.g. or "a good man", although some kinds of adjectives, such as adjectives of nationality ( "a Roman man") usually follow the noun.


title: Latin grammar

text: Latin usually omits pronouns as the subject except for emphasis; so for example by itself means "you love" without the need to add the pronoun "you". (A language with this characteristic is known as a pro-drop language.) Latin also exhibits verb framing in which the path of motion is encoded into the verb rather than shown by a separate word or phrase. For example, the Latin verb (a compound of and ) means "he/she/it goes out".


title: Latin grammar

text: Most Latin nouns have two numbers, singular and plural: "king", "kings". A few nouns, called ("plural only"), although plural in form, have a singular meaning, e.g. "a camp", "a letter", "a wedding".


title: Latin grammar

text: Nouns are divided into three genders, known as masculine, feminine, and neuter. The difference is shown in the pronouns and adjectives that refer to them, for example:


title: Latin grammar

text: To a certain extent, the genders follow the meanings of the words (for example, winds are masculine, tree-names feminine):


title: Latin grammar

text: Neuter nouns differ from masculine and feminine in two ways: (1) the plural ends in "-a", e.g. "wars", "bodies"; (2) the subject (nominative) and object (accusative) cases are identical.


title: Latin grammar

text: Nouns in Latin have a series of different forms, called "cases" of the noun, which have different functions or meanings. For example, the word for "king" is when subject of a verb, but when it is the object:


title: Latin grammar

text: Further cases mean "of" (genitive case), "to/for" (dative case), and "with" (ablative case). A few nouns have a separate form used for addressing a person (vocative case), but in most nouns the vocative is the same as the nominative.


title: Latin grammar

text: Some nouns, such as the names of cities and small islands, and the word "home", have a seventh case called the locative, for example "in Rome" or "at home". But most nouns do not have this case.


title: Latin grammar

text: The order in which the cases are given in grammar books differs in different countries. In Britain and countries influenced by Britain, the order nominative, vocative, accusative is used as in the table below. In the United States, in grammars such as Gildersleeve and Lodge, (1895) the traditional order is used, with the genitive case in the second place and ablative last. In the popularly used Wheelock's Latin (1956, 7th edition 2011) and Allen and Greenough's "New Latin Grammar" (1903), however, the vocative is placed at the end.


title: Latin grammar

text: The following table shows the endings of a typical noun of the 3rd declension. If Gildersleeve and Lodge's order is preferred, click on the symbol "GL" in the seventh column in the table below; for Wheelock's order click on "Wh":


title: Latin grammar

text: Sometimes the same endings, e.g. and , are used for more than one case. Since the function of a word in Latin is shown by ending rather than word order, in theory could mean either "the kings lead" or "they lead the kings". In practice, however, such ambiguities are rare.


title: Latin grammar

text: Latin nouns are divided into different groups according to the patterns of their case endings. These different groups are known as "declensions". Nouns with "-a" in the nominative singular, like "girl" are known as "1st declension nouns", and so on.


title: Latin grammar

text: The following table shows the declension of "girl" (1st declension), "lord, master" (2nd declension masculine), and "war" (2nd declension neuter):


title: Latin grammar

text: 1st declension nouns are usually feminine, except for a few referring to men, such as "farmer" or "poet". The nouns "daughter" and "goddess" have dative and ablative plural . The locative case ends in "-ae", pl. "-īs", e.g. "in Rome", "in Athens".


title: Latin grammar

text: 2nd declension nouns in "-us" are usually masculine, but those referring to trees (e.g. "pine tree") and some place names (e.g. "Egypt") are feminine. A few 2nd declension nouns, such as "man" and "boy", lack endings in the nominative and vocative singular. In the 2nd declension, the genitive plural in some words is optionally "-um", especially in poetry: or "of the gods", or "of men".


title: Latin grammar

text: Neuter nouns such as "war" have "-a" in the nominative plural. In neuter nouns, the vocative and accusative are always the same as the nominative; the genitive, dative, and ablative are the same as the masculine. Most 2nd declension neuter nouns end in "-um" but "poison" and "crowd" end in "-us".


title: Latin grammar

text: Third declension nouns have various patterns of declension. Some decline like the following: "soldier", "city", "body":


title: Latin grammar

text: There are some variations, however. A few, such as "force", have accusative singular "-im" and ablative singular "-ī"; some, like "fire", optionally have "-ī" instead of "-e" in the ablative singular. The genitive plural in some nouns is "-um", in others "-ium". (For details, see Latin declension.) 3rd declension nouns can be of any gender.


title: Latin grammar

text: It is not usually possible to guess the genitive of a noun from the nominative. "leader" has genitive but "king" has ; "father" has genitive but "journey" has . For this reason the genitive is always given in dictionaries, and can be used to discover the remaining cases.


title: Latin grammar

text: 4th and 5th declension nouns are less common. They decline like the following ( "hand", "knee", "day"):


title: Latin grammar

text: 4th declension nouns are usually masculine, but a few, such as "hand" and "old lady", are feminine. There are only four 4th declension neuter nouns.


title: Latin grammar

text: 5th declension nouns (except for (m) "day") are usually feminine. "thing" is similar to except for a short "e" in the genitive and dative singular .


title: Latin grammar

text: In addition to the above there are some irregularly declined nouns, mostly borrowed from Greek, such as the name "Aeneas" (1st declension masculine).


title: Latin grammar

text: The vocative is nearly always the same as the nominative, except in 1st and 2nd declension masculine singular words, such as "Aeneas!" and "master!/lord!". Some words, such as "god", have no separate vocative, however.


title: Latin grammar

text: A genitive noun can stand for the phenomenon of mental processes such as "I pity" and "I forget", or the senser of mental processes such as "it interests":


title: Latin grammar

text: A genitive noun can stand for either the senser or phenomenon of a mental process represented by a noun:


title: Latin grammar

text: The ablative case can mean "with", especially when the noun it refers to is a thing rather than a person:


title: Latin grammar

text: Often a phrase consisting of a noun plus participle in the ablative can express time or circumstance. This is known as an "ablative absolute":


title: Latin grammar

text: It is also frequently used with prepositions, especially those meaning "from", "with", "in", or "by":


title: Latin grammar

text: Another use is in expressions of time and place (except those that give the length of time or distance):


title: Latin grammar

text: The locative is a rare case used only with names of cities, small islands, and one or two other words such as "domus" "home". It means "at" or "in":


title: Latin grammar

text: Adjectives, like nouns, have different endings for the different cases singular and plural. They also differ as to gender, having different forms for masculine, feminine, and neuter. (But masculine and neuter are identical in the genitive, dative, and ablative cases.)


title: Latin grammar

text: Many adjectives belong to the 1st and 2nd declensions, declining in the same way as the nouns . An example is the adjective "good" shown below:


title: Latin grammar

text: Other adjectives belong to the 3rd declension, in which case the masculine and feminine are usually identical. Most 3rd declension adjectives are i-stems, and have ablative singular "-ī" and genitive plural "-ium". An example is "huge" shown below:


title: Latin grammar

text: In a very few 3rd declension adjectives such as "sharp, keen", the feminine is different from the masculine, but only in the nominative and vocative singular.


title: Latin grammar

text: A few adjectives (especially comparative adjectives) decline as consonant stems, and have ablative singular "-e" and genitive plural "-um". An example is "better":


title: Latin grammar

text: Participles such as "leading" usually have "-e" in the ablative singular, but "-ium" in the genitive plural.


title: Latin grammar

text: The adjectives "only" and "the whole of" decline like pronouns, with genitive singular "-īus" and dative singular "-ī":


title: Latin grammar

text: Any adjective that describes or refers to a noun must be in the same case as the noun, as well as the same number and gender. Thus in the phrase below, where "rēx" is in the vocative singular case, "bonus" must be in the vocative singular also:


title: Latin grammar

text: Adjectives have positive, comparative and superlative forms. Superlative adjectives are declined according to the first and second declension, but comparative adjectives are third declension.


title: Latin grammar

text: The comparative adjective can be used absolutely (i.e. without any overt comparison) or with the comparison made explicit:


title: Latin grammar

text: Superlative adjectives are most frequently used absolutely, but they can also be used with the genitive "of all":


title: Latin grammar

text: Pronouns are of two kinds, personal pronouns and 3rd person pronouns. Personal pronouns decline as follows.


title: Latin grammar

text: The genitive is used partitively ( "each one of us"), objectively ( "remembering us, mindful of us").


title: Latin grammar

text: 3rd person pronouns are those such as "this" and "(he) himself". The 3rd person pronouns can also be used adjectivally (except that "what?" when adjectival becomes ). The declension of these pronouns tends to be irregular. They generally have "-īus" in the genitive singular, and "-ī" in the dative singular. In a few pronouns ( "that", "that (of yours)", "it, that", "which", "anything; what?", "another", "something") the neuter singular ends in "-d".


title: Latin grammar

text: Other very common 3rd person pronouns are "this" and "he, she, it; that". Like other 3rd person pronouns, these can be used either independently ( "he") or adjectivally ( "that man"):


title: Latin grammar

text: Before a vowel, and are pronounced as if spelled and . is pronounced as if spelled with a long first syllable.


title: Latin grammar

text: Also very common is the relative pronoun "who, which". The interrogative "who? what?" and indefinite "anyone, anything" are similar apart from the nominative singular:


title: Latin grammar

text: Like adjectives, pronouns must agree in gender, case, and number with the nouns they refer to, as in the following, where "hic" is masculine agreeing with "amor", but "haec" is feminine, agreeing with "patria":


title: Latin grammar

text: There is no indefinite article or definite article (the, a, an). Sometimes the weak determiner "" (English "that, this") can serve for the definite article:


title: Latin grammar

text: Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs by indicating time, place or manner. Latin adverbs are indeclinable and invariable. Like adjectives, adverbs have positive, comparative and superlative forms.


title: Latin grammar

text: The positive form of an adverb can often be formed from an adjective by appending the suffix "-ē" (2nd declension adjectives) or "-(t)er" (3rd declension adjectives). Thus the adjective , which means "bright", can be contrasted to the adverb , which means "brightly". The adverbial ending is used to form adverbs from 3rd declension adjectives, for example "quick", "quickly". Other endings such as "-ō", "-e", "-tim" are also found.


title: Latin grammar

text: The comparative form of an adverb is the same as the neuter nominative singular form of a comparative adjective and usually ends in "-ius". Instead of the adjective , which means "brighter", the adverb is , which means "more brightly".


title: Latin grammar

text: The superlative adverb has the same base as the superlative adjective and always ends in a long "-ē". Instead of the adjective , which mean "very bright" or "brightest", the adverb is , which means "very brightly" or "most brightly".


title: Latin grammar

text: A prepositional phrase in Latin is made up of a preposition followed by a noun phrase in the accusative or ablative case. The preposition determines the case that is used, with some prepositions allowing different cases depending on the meaning. For example, Latin "in" takes the accusative case when it indicates motion (English "into") and the ablative case when it indicates position (English "on" or "inside"):


title: Latin grammar

text: Most prepositions take one case only. For example, all those that mean "from", "by", or "with" take the ablative:


title: Latin grammar

text: In addition, there are a few postpositions. "as far as" usually follows an ablative, sometimes a genitive plural case:


title: Latin grammar

text: The word "with" is usually a preposition, but with the personal pronouns "me, you sg., him/herself/themselves, us, you pl." it follows the pronoun and is joined to it in writing:


title: Latin grammar

text: The numbers 11 to 17 are formed by affixation of the corresponding digit to the base , hence . The numbers 18 and 19 are formed by subtracting 2 and 1, respectively, from 20: and . For the numbers 21 to 27, the digits either follow or are added to 20 by the conjunction : or or etc. The numbers 28 and 29 are again formed by subtraction: and . Each group of ten numerals through 100 follows the patterns of the 20s but 98 is and 99 is rather than * and * respectively.


title: Latin grammar

text: However, 1000 is , an indeclinable adjective, but multiples such as (2000) have as a neuter plural substantive followed by a partitive genitive:


title: Latin grammar

text: Ordinal numbers are all adjectives with regular first- and second-declension endings. Most are built off of the stems of cardinal numbers (for example, (30th) from (30), (609th) for (609). However, "first" is , and "second" is (literally "following" the first; means "to follow").


title: Latin grammar

text: Each tense has endings corresponding to three persons in the singular, known as 1st person singular ("I"), 2nd person singular ("you sg."), 3rd person singular ("he, she, it"), and three in the plural, known as 1st person plural ("we"), 2nd person plural ("you pl."), and 3rd person plural ("they"). Unlike Ancient Greek, there is no dual number in the Latin verb.


title: Latin grammar

text: Unlike in Spanish, French, and other Romance languages, there are no respectful 2nd person forms in Latin grammar: the 2nd person singular is used even when addressing a person of high status. However, the 1st person plural is often used to mean "I".


title: Latin grammar

text: Most verbs do not show grammatical gender: the same ending is used whether the subject is "he", "she", or "it". However, when a verb is made periphrastically out of a participle and part of the verb "I am", the participle shows gender, for example:


title: Latin grammar

text: In addition there are a few verbs (e.g. "I follow") which have the endings of passive verbs but with an active meaning. These verbs are known as deponent verbs.


title: Latin grammar

text: Intransitive verbs such as "I am" usually have no passive voice. However, some intransitive verbs can be used in the passive voice, but only when impersonal, e.g. "(a battle) was fought", "they came" (literally, "it was come").


title: Latin grammar

text: Ordinary statements such as "I lead" or "he came" are said to be in the indicative mood. The subjunctive mood (e.g. "he may lead, he would lead" or "he would have led") is used for potential or hypothetical statements, wishes, and also in reported speech and certain types of subordinate clause. The imperative mood (e.g. "lead!") is a command.


title: Latin grammar

text: In addition Latin verbs have a number of non-finite forms, such as the infinitive and various participles.


title: Latin grammar

text: Most Latin verbs are regular and follow one of the five patterns below. These are referred to as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th conjugation, according to whether the infinitive ends in or . (Verbs like are regarded as variations of the 3rd conjugation, with some forms like those of the 4th conjugation.)


title: Latin grammar

text: Compound verbs such as "I am present", "I don't want", "I go back", etc., usually have the same endings as the simple verbs from which they are made.


title: Latin grammar

text: Latin verbs have six basic tenses in the indicative mood. Three of these are based on the present stem (e.g. "dūc-") and three on the perfect stem (e.g. "dūx-").


title: Latin grammar

text: Further tenses can be made periphrastically by combining participles with the verbs "I am" or "I have", for example "I was going to lead" or "I have led".


title: Latin grammar

text: The following table gives the various forms of a 3rd conjugation verb . As with other verbs, three different stems are needed to make the various tenses: in the three non-perfect tenses, in the three perfect tenses, and in the perfect participle and supine. The perfect and supine stems for any particular verb cannot always be predicted and usually have to be looked up in a dictionary.


title: Latin grammar

text: A distinction between perfective aspect ("I did") and imperfective aspect ("I was doing") is found only in the past in Latin. In the present or future, the same tenses have both aspectual meanings.


title: Latin grammar

text: Unlike in Ancient Greek or modern English, there is no distinction between perfect ("I have done") and simple past ("I did"). The same tense, known in Latin grammar as the perfect tense, has both meanings.


title: Latin grammar

text: In the various perfect tenses, all verbs have regular endings. However, the stem to which the perfect endings are added cannot always be guessed, and so is given in dictionaries.


title: Latin grammar

text: Latin allows a very flexible word order because of its inflectional syntax. Ordinary prose tended to follow the pattern of subject, direct object, indirect object, adverbial words or phrases, verb (with the proviso that when noun and verb make a compound, as "I attack / make an attack" the noun is generally placed close to the verb). Any extra but subordinate verb, such as an infinitive, is placed before the main verb. Adjectives and participles usually directly follow nouns unless they are adjectives of beauty, size, quantity, goodness, or truth, in which case they usually precede the noun being modified. However, departures from these rules are frequent.


title: Latin grammar

text: Relative clauses are commonly placed after the antecedent that the relative pronoun describes. Since grammatical function in a sentence is based not on word order but on inflection, the usual word order in Latin was often abandoned with no detriment to understanding but with various changes in emphasis.


title: Latin grammar

text: While these patterns of word order were the most frequent in Classical Latin prose, they were frequently varied. The strongest surviving evidence suggests that the word order of "colloquial" Latin was mostly Subject-Object-Verb. That can be found in some very conservative Romance languages, such as Sardinian and Sicilian in which the verb is still often placed at the end of the sentence (see Vulgar Latin). On the other hand, subject-verb-object word order was probably also common in ancient Latin conversation, as it is prominent in the Romance languages, which evolved from Latin.


title: Latin grammar

text: In poetry, however, word order was often changed for the sake of the meter for which vowel quantity (short vowels vs. long vowels and diphthongs) and consonant clusters, not rhyme and word stress, governed the patterns. One must bear in mind that poets in the Roman world wrote primarily for the ear, not the eye; many premiered their work in recitation for an audience. Hence, variations in word order served a rhetorical as well as a metrical purpose; they certainly did not prevent understanding.


title: Latin grammar

text: In Virgil's "Eclogues", for example, he writes, : ""Love" conquers "all", let us too yield to "love!"". The words (all), "amor" (love) and (to love) are thrown into relief by their unusual position in their respective phrases.


title: Latin grammar

text: The ending of the common Roman name "Mārcus" is different in each of the following pairs of examples because of its grammatical usage in each pair. The ordering in the second sentence of each pair would be correct in Latin and clearly understood, whereas in English it is awkward, at best, and meaningless, at worst:


title: The Cowboys

text: The Cowboys is a 1972 American Western film starring John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Bruce Dern, and featuring Colleen Dewhurst and Slim Pickens. It was the feature film debut of Robert Carradine. Based on the 1971 novel of the same name by William Dale Jennings, the screenplay was written by Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr., and Jennings, and the film was directed by Mark Rydell.


title: The Cowboys

text: When his ranch hands abandon him to join a gold rush, aging rancher Wil Andersen is forced to find replacement drovers for his upcoming cattle drive. He rides into deserted Bozeman, Montana, where his friend Anse Peterson suggests hiring local schoolboys. Andersen visits the school, but departs, skeptical that such immature boys could handle the job.


title: The Cowboys

text: The next morning, the boys show up at Andersen's ranch to volunteer for the drive. Andersen reluctantly tests their ability to stay on a bucking horse, and as they successively take turns, Cimarron, a boy slightly older than the others, rides up. He subdues the test horse but then gets into a fight with Slim, the next-oldest boy. With no other options and somewhat impressed, Andersen hires all of the boys, though he sends Cimarron away after the older boy pulls a knife on Slim during another fight.


title: The Cowboys

text: Andersen locks all of the boys' guns in a box that will be kept on the chuck wagon during the drive, and they practice roping, branding, and herding cattle and horses. While they prepare, a group of mysterious men led by Asa "Long Hair" Watts shows up asking for work, but Andersen catches Watts in a lie about his past and refuses to hire them. The arrival of Jebediah Nightlinger, a black cook, completes Andersen's crew.


title: The Cowboys

text: On the trail, Andersen notices Cimarron following the herd, which slightly nettles him. When Slim slips off his horse while crossing a river and Cimarron appears and saves him, however, Andersen decides to let Cimarron join the drive.


title: The Cowboys

text: Slowly, the boys become good cowhands, impressing both Andersen and Nightlinger. One day Dan, a boy who wears glasses, is chasing a stray horse when he stumbles upon Watts and his gang of cattle rustlers. Watts, who reveals he has been trailing the herd, releases Dan but threatens to slit the boy's throat if he says anything to Andersen. Dan is reluctant to go on watch that night, but Andersen, who thinks the boy is just afraid of the dark, convinces him to do his duty. Dan drops his glasses off a cliff overlooking the cattle, and Charlie, another one of the boys, falls off his horse and is trampled to death when he goes to get them.


title: The Cowboys

text: Soon after, the chuck wagon throws a wheel. While the others continue on, Nightlinger and a boy named Homer hang back to handle the repairs. Seeing this, Watts and his gang come out of hiding and begin to openly parallel the herd. Andersen sends another boy named Weedy back to tell Nightlinger to rejoin the herd as soon as possible and then gathers the remaining boys together. So they will not be harmed, he tells them to act like boys rather than the men they are becoming when the rustlers approach that evening. Dan tells Andersen he knew Watts had been following them but was scared to tell, and Andersen comforts the boy.


title: The Cowboys

text: After dark, Watts and his gang surround Andersen and the boys in their camp. They deliver a battered Weedy, and Watts forces Andersen to surrender his gun and begins to taunt Dan. Andersen finally intervenes when Watts crushes Dan's glasses, and a brutal fist fight ensues between Andersen and Watts, with Andersen coming out on top. He tells the boys to get ready to leave and starts to walk away, ignoring Watts' calls to stop. Watts wings Andersen in both arms and a leg before shooting him twice in the torso. The boys remain passive as instructed, and the rustlers steal the herd.


title: The Cowboys

text: In the morning, Nightlinger and Homer rejoin to the group and find the boys tending to Andersen, who is near death. Andersen instructs Nightlinger to take the boys home and in his final moments tells the boys how proud he is of them.


title: The Cowboys

text: Following Andersen's burial, the boys overpower Nightlinger and seize the box of firearms stored in the chuck wagon, planning to avenge Andersen's death and finish the cattle drive. When they catch up to the rustlers, Nightlinger offers to help the boys make a plan. The boys silently kill three of the outlaws and then use Nightlinger to draw Watts and the rest of his gang into an ambush. Riding in among a stampede of horses, the boys kill all of the rustlers except Watts, whom they find pinned beneath his horse with a foot entangled in a rope. Rather than kill him outright, Dan cuts the reins so the horse can get up and Cimarron spooks it with a shot, sending Watts to be dragged to death.


title: The Cowboys

text: Once the boys complete the drive to Belle Fourche, South Dakota, and sell the cattle, they have a stonemason carve a gravestone with Andersen's name and the inscription "Beloved Husband and Father", a reference to the paternal role Andersen came to hold in their lives. Unable to find exactly where they buried him, they place the marker in the approximate location of his grave and head for home, accompanied by Nightlinger.


title: The Cowboys

text: Robert Carradine made his feature film debut in the film, as did fellow child actor Stephen Hudis. The production was filmed at various locations in New Mexico and Colorado, as well as at Warner Brothers Studio in Burbank, California.


title: The Cowboys

text: "The Cowboys" has earned somewhat mixed reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an approval rating of 80% based on reviews from 15 critics, with an average score of 7.00/10, while, on Metacritic, it has a score of 52/100 based on reviews from seven critics. The film received praise for its musical score, the original plot, and John Wayne's performance, but several critics debated the film's implication that boys become men or confirm their manhood through acts of violence and vengeance; Jay Cocks of "TIME" and Pauline Kael of "The New Yorker" were especially critical of this aspect of the film.


title: The Cowboys

text: Writing about "The Cowboys", film historian Emanuel Levy noted that Wayne frequently appeared in father-like roles throughout his career: Aware of his repetitive screen roles as a paternal figure, [Wayne] said the movie was based on a formula that worked in "Goodbye Mr. Chips" and "Sands of Iwo Jima". In all three films, an adult takes a group of youngsters and initiates them into manhood by instructing them the "right" skills and values. Wayne did not hesitate to appear in "The Cowboys", despite the fact that "no actor in his right mind, would try to match the antics of eleven kids on screen," but for him it became "the greatest experience of my life."


title: The Cowboys

text: The film won the Bronze Wrangler Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture at the Western Heritage Awards. It is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:


title: The Cowboys

text: In 1974, Warner Bros. developed "The Cowboys" as a television series for ABC starring Jim Davis, Diana Douglas, and Moses Gunn. David Dortort, best known for "Bonanza", "The High Chaparral", and "The Restless Gun", produced the series. A Martinez, Robert Carradine, Sean Kelly, and Clay O'Brien were all in both the film and the television series, though only Martinez and Carradine played the same character in each project. At the last moment, ABC decided to reduce the show's runtime from one hour to thirty minutes, which, given the show's large cast, made it difficult to tell stories effectively. Only 13 episodes were filmed before the series was cancelled.


title: Crash Bandicoot (character)

text: Crash Bandicoot is the title character and main protagonist of the "Crash Bandicoot" series. Introduced in the 1996 video game "Crash Bandicoot", Crash is a mutant eastern barred bandicoot who was genetically enhanced by the series' main antagonist Doctor Neo Cortex and soon escaped from Cortex's castle after a failed experiment in the "Cortex Vortex". Throughout the series, Crash acts as the opposition against Cortex and his schemes for world domination. While Crash has a number of offensive maneuvers at his disposal, his most distinctive technique is one in which he spins like a tornado at high speeds and knocks away almost anything that he strikes.


title: Crash Bandicoot (character)

text: Crash was created by Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin, and was originally designed by Charles Zembillas. Crash was intended to be a mascot character for Sony to use to compete against Nintendo's Mario and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog. Before Crash was given his name (which stems from the visceral reaction to the character's destruction of boxes), he was referred to as "Willie the Wombat" for much of the duration of the first game's production. Crash has drawn comparisons to mascots such as Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog by reviewers. His animations have been praised, while his voice has faced criticism. He has been redesigned several times throughout many games, which have drawn mixed reactions.