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bell
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This bell was captured by Peshwa Bajirao I's brother, Chimaji Appa, from a cathedral in the Portuguese fort at Bassein.
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A mural here depicts Sita in Marathi saree.,
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Some of the paintings depict Krishna with Gopis The bell house of the Meneshwar temple houses a six hundred and fifty kilogram bell.
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Dated 1707, the five-alloy bell bears a bas-relief of Mary carrying the infant Jesus Christ cast into it.
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An ancient tree, with a massive coniform trunk has a platform constructed around it is as old as the Wada itself.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menawali
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Menawali
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METONYMIC
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artist
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This connection has helped make Tiken Jah Fakoly a much-listened artist throughout the world.
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His music speaks about the many injustices done to the people of his country and Africans in general, as well as inciting calls for pan-Africanism and an African economic, political and cultural resurgence.
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As such, many African listeners feel a deep affinity with his lyrics as Fakoly speaks for oppressed people.
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Since the rise in political instability and xenophobia in Côte d'Ivoire and after receiving death threats due to his lyrics, Fakoly has lived in exile in Bamako, Mali since 2003.
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In December 2007, Fakoly was declared persona non grata in Senegal after criticizing President Abdoulaye Wade.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiken%20Jah%20Fakoly
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Tiken Jah Fakoly
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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foliage
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This effect does not apply equally to long-range Wi-Fi, since longer links typically operate from towers that transmit above the surrounding foliage.
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Wi-Fi signals are very strongly affected by metallic structures (including rebar in concrete, low-e coatings in glazing) and water (such as found in vegetation.)
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Due to the complex nature of radio propagation at typical Wi-Fi frequencies, particularly around trees and buildings, algorithms can only approximately predict Wi-Fi signal strength for any given area in relation to a transmitter.
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Mobile use of Wi-Fi over wider ranges is limited, for instance, to uses such as in an automobile moving from one hotspot to another.
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Other wireless technologies are more suitable for communicating with moving vehicles.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi
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Wi-Fi
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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explosion
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This explosion, which resembled a floral mechanism, was perceived by Kirili as a very expressionistic and emotional sign, which emerged from the regularity of the vertical.
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Kirili's innovative use of different materials led him eventually, in 1986, to experiment with aluminum.
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While applying a torch to the aluminum, Kirili discovered the material's explosive reaction.
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Art critic Philippe Dagen emphasized the "velvetiness and metallicness" of these aluminum pieces in his essay for the catalog of Kirili's solo exhibition at the Musée d'art moderne de Sainte-Etienne where he presented several of these sculptures, e.g. King I (1986) and Symphonie des Psaumes (1988).
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From 2008 on, Kirili devoted himself to the creation of several series of organic wire sculptures, with partial rubber inclusions, in different colors, which he conceptualized as three-dimensional drawings.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Kirili
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Alain Kirili
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CAUSER
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string
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This gives a different sound from a stopped string, since the string vibrates more freely at the nut than under a finger.
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Even without an explicit instructions in the score, an advanced violinist will use her/his discretion and artistic sensibility to select which string to play specific notes or passages.
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Open strings If a string is bowed or plucked without any finger stopping it, it is said to be an open string.
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Further, it is impossible to use vibrato fully on an open string (though a partial effect can be achieved by stopping a note an octave up on an adjacent string and vibrating that, which introduces an element of vibrato into the overtones).
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In the classical tradition, violinists will often use a string crossing or shift of position to allow them to avoid the change of timbre introduced by an open string, unless indicated by the composer.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin
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Violin
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CAUSER
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surroundings
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This gives the user an augmented sound while they commute so they will be able to hear their surroundings while listening to their favorite music.
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Jabra has released earbuds, in 2018, that cancel the noise around the user and can toggle a setting called "hearthrough."
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This setting takes the sound around the user through the microphone and sends it to the user.
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Many other devices can be considered entertainment wearables and need only be devices worn by the user to experience media.
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Gaming The gaming industry has always incorporated new technology.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable%20technology
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Wearable technology
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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train
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This habit causes him a problem when he walks on a set of railway tracks and cannot hear the oncoming train.
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Headless Town - A man tries to sell hats in a town where no one has a head.
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Headphone Harold - A boy named Harold is always listening to music on his headphones rather than paying attention to the world around him.
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NONE
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A unicorn has his horn stuck in a tree, but when offered help, he asks a lot of ridiculous questions.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling%20Up%20%28poetry%20collection%29
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Falling Up (poetry collection)
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CAUSER
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gun
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This is because the defending party may perceive the gun as loaded and thus lethal.
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This means that the peril is measured from what the defending party perceived as peril and not the actual peril.
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For example, if a person were to threaten someone with an unloaded gun (not an actual lethal threat), the defending party would not be convicted if defending themselves as if the gun were loaded (a lethal threat).
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Excess A person who commits acts which are "blatantly unjustifiable" while in peril may also escape conviction if the situation were such that the person "could not be expected to maintain control of himself".
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For instance, such a situation might be if the defending party were in a state of great fear or severe rage because of the peril.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-defense%20%28Sweden%29
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Self-defense (Sweden)
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CAUSER
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shells
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This is one of the most prominent circumstellar dust shells detected in the IRAS all-sky survey.
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An estimate from Jim Kaler gives the star a luminosity between and radius between based on an assumed temperature of 3,000 K, and the author then classified it as a C7 or CN5 supergiant star although its mass is too low to be a true supergiant.
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Observations in the 60 and 100 micron infrared bands by the IRAS satellite showed that Y CVn is surrounded by a dust shell 0.9 parsecs in diameter.
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Evolution After stars up to a few times the mass of the sun have finished fusing hydrogen to helium in their core, they start to burn hydrogen in a shell outside a degenerate helium core, and expand dramatically into the red giant state.
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Once the core reaches a high enough temperature, it ignites violently in the helium flash, which begins helium core burning on the horizontal branch.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Superba
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La Superba
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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machine
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This is the brutal guitar machine thousands of lonely adolescent cowards have heard in their heads.
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Don't worry about their longevity, as Philips will pronounce them obsolete when the next phase of the market-squeezing technology bonanza begins."
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Reception Reviewing for The Village Voice in September 1986, Robert Christgau wrote that, "Though they don't want you to know it, these hateful little twerps are sensitive souls—they're moved to make this godawful racket by the godawful pain of the world, which they learn about reading everything from textbooks to bondage mags.
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Its creators deserve credit for finding each other and making their obsession real." "
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After countless rock and neo-industrial outfits attempted to one-up each other's levels of extremity over the years, Atomizer holds up extremely well" writes Andy Kellman of Allmusic, "It's not every day that one hears a song considering self-immolation as "just something to do" or another that tackles the case of an alleged parent-child molestation ring from the viewpoint of the offender.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomizer%20%28album%29
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Atomizer (album)
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CAUSER
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notes
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This means the notes that harmonize the melody follow its characteristic shape and rhythm.
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This predates exposure to Western and Arab musics.
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Principles Homophonic parallelism and homophonic polyphony Homophonic parallelism is the harmonizing of a single melody, or subordinate melody and moving with it in parallel.
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This type of parallelism is common to all African peoples, but the degree to which it is employed varies.
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It is important to note that parallelism in thirds (inversely tenths), fourths, fifths, and octaves (inversely unison) are Pan-African methods of homophonic parallel harmonization.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional%20sub-Saharan%20African%20harmony
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Traditional sub-Saharan African harmony
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CAUSER
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receiver
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This new receiver reduced the weight of the rifle by a small amount, and increased the width by 1/16 of an inch.
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By today's standards however, the design is considered relatively weak, and not suited to high pressure loads.
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Around serial number 5000, a new receiver profile was introduced which had fluted (scalloped) sides, as opposed to the original flat sided design.
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By serial number 6000, it is thought that the last of the flat sided M1895s left the factory.
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These early rifles are now exceedingly rare.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester%20Model%201895
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Winchester Model 1895
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CAUSER
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alarm
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This power was controlled by some form of oscillating mechanism, probably derived from existing bell-ringing or alarm devices.
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In Europe, between 1280 and 1320, there was an increase in the number of references to clocks and horologes in church records, and this probably indicates that a new type of clock mechanism had been devised.
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Existing clock mechanisms that used water power were being adapted to take their driving power from falling weights.
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This controlled release of power—the escapement—marks the beginning of the true mechanical clock, which differed from the previously mentioned cogwheel clocks.
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Verge escapement mechanism derived in the surge of true mechanical clocks, which didn't need any kind of fluid power, like water or mercury, to work.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock
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Clock
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CAUSER
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gun
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This results in a violent, bloody shootout—dominated by the machine gun—in which Pike and his men are killed, along with most of Mapache's present troops and the remaining German adviser.
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For a moment, the federales are so shocked that they fail to return fire, causing Engstrom to laugh in surprise.
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Pike calmly takes aim at Mohr and kills him, too.
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Thornton finally catches up.
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He allows the remaining members of the posse to take the gang members' bullet-riddled bodies back to collect the reward, while electing to stay behind, knowing what awaits the posse.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wild%20Bunch
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The Wild Bunch
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CAUSER
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violinist
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This tells of the visit of a group of pitmen from Shiney Row to hear the great violinist Paganini.
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The tune is "The Campbells Are Coming"; the story is about James Candlish, one of the champion Tyne rowers circa 1850 "Come up to the scratch!" (
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or "The pitman haggish'd") "Fishwife and mustaches" (or "Sandhill oratory"), a comic song about a fishwife and a Scottish colonel "Fish-wives' complaint" (on their removal from the Sandhill to the new fish market, on 2 January 1826) "Hydrophobie" (or "The Skipper and the Quaker") "The Newcastle Spaw" (or "Rory O'More") "Paganini, the Fiddler".
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The pitmen are unimpressed by the performance.
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"The Pitman's Dream" (or "A description of The North Pole").
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Emery%20%28songwriter%29
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Robert Emery (songwriter)
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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tool
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This tool enhances capture and replay with the systematic generation of derived test oracles.
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propose to generate ad-hoc tests that replay recorded user execution traces in order to test candidate patches for critical security bugs.
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Pankti collects object profiles in production to generate focused differential unit tests.
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Measurement in software testing Quality measures include such topics as correctness, completeness, security and ISO/IEC 9126 requirements such as capability, reliability, efficiency, portability, maintainability, compatibility, and usability.
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There are a number of frequently used software metrics, or measures, which are used to assist in determining the state of the software or the adequacy of the testing.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20testing
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Software testing
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CAUSER
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loudspeaker
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This voltage signal would then be directed to an amplifier, and on to a loudspeaker from which the amplified "electric" sound of the bagpipe can thus be heard.
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Pickup types suitable for bagpipes Magnetic pickup To use a magnetic coil pickup, the bagpipe needs to be equipped with a reed or reeds made from a ferrous metal.
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As with a magnetic guitar pickup, the magnet in the pickup creates a magnetic field, which is then disturbed by the oscillation (in this case of the metal reed, rather than the string), inducing a voltage in the coil.
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The main advantage of using this pickup is that the acoustic feedback can be controlled, even in a very noisy environment i.e. full drum kit.
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Piezo pickup In the case of some single reed bagpipes, a piezo pickup may be attached directly to the reed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20bagpipes
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Electric bagpipes
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CAUSER
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speaker
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This was due to a group of hackers deliberately trying to drown out a political speaker who had social networking problems from continuously speaking against the Iranian election results.
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In spite of these occurrences, a report issued by Pingdom found that Facebook had less downtime in 2008 than most social-networking websites.
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On September 16, 2009, Facebook started having major problems loading as people signed in.
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Just two days later, on September 18, Facebook went down again.
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In October 2009, an unspecified number of Facebook users were unable to access their accounts for over three weeks.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Facebook
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Criticism of Facebook
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CAUSER
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instrument
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This was the first occasion that music had ever been heard inside the structure and effectively transformed Wren's design into a gigantic reverberating musical instrument.
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The Monument closed in July 2007 for an 18-month, £4.5 million refurbishment project and re-opened in February 2009.
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Between 1 and 2 October 2011, a Live Music Sculpture created especially for the Monument by British composer Samuel Bordoli was performed 18 times during the weekend.
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As a scientific instrument Wren and Hooke built the monument to double-up as a scientific instrument.
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It has a central shaft meant for use as a zenith telescope and for use in gravity and pendulum experiments that connects to an underground laboratory for observers to work (accessible through a hatch in the floor of the present-day ticket booth).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument%20to%20the%20Great%20Fire%20of%20London
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Monument to the Great Fire of London
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CAUSER
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tones
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Though it is the sound of a distant machine, the tones harmonize with the procession music.
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It includes more motorcycle sounds, this time with the soloist playing along with the entire trombone section.
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Eventually the upper winds start playing a religious-sounding melody, and the soloist plays very lightly in the background, the sound of a motorcycle.
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Eventually the soloist plays a countermelody against the processional music.
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The movement ends with the soloist playing a very high and loud note until his air is gone.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorbike%20Odyssey
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Motorbike Odyssey
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CAUSER
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machine
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though she'd heard the things he'd done...""Russia's greatest love machine".
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Rasputin" starts to retell contemporary accounts of his powerful personality: "He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow...""He could preach the bible like a preacher, full of ecstasy and fire..." The song depicts Rasputin as being extremely popular with the Russian elite, something that is historically supported: "to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear".
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The song also depicts Rasputin as being sexually promiscuous, another contemporary rumour: "..But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze." "..
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The song claims that Rasputin's political power overshadowed that of the Tsar himself in "all affairs of state", which was one of the main arguments of his contemporary rivals.
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The bridge of the song states that when his purported sexual escapades and political acts became intolerable, "men of higher standing" plotted his downfall, although "the ladies begged" them not to.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin%20%28song%29
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Rasputin (song)
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CAUSER
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reality
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Though still sceptical of Marxist theory, he believed that the economic reality of capitalism suppressed the individual rights of workers, and agreed with many socialist perspectives.
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This defeat greatly disillusioned Breitscheid and, convinced that liberal parties were doomed either to irrelevance or collaboration with conservatives, he left the DV and joined the SPD.
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His own convictions aligned closely with the SPD's Erfurt program, which advocated for parliamentary democracy, legal equality, separation of church and state, and various other social reforms.
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Breitscheid quickly gained prominence among the SPD press, but his record as a bourgeois liberal made him unpopular with many of the party's leaders.
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After he made inaccurate claims to a British newspaper about the party's stance on the First World War, he was attacked scathingly at a party meeting in October 1914 by Friedrich Ebert, who described him as "the last person who should play the role of party schoolmaster abroad".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Breitscheid
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Rudolf Breitscheid
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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radio
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Throughout Hendrix was beset by technical problems (during "Machine Gun" the security personnel's radio is clearly heard through Hendrix's amplifier).
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During Sunday morning the audience were entertained by a rehearsal/sound-check by Jethro Tull.
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Jimi Hendrix: Performed in the early hours of 31 August with Mitch Mitchell on drums and Billy Cox on bass.
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David Gilmour claims to have helped mix the sound that night.
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The set has been released on CD and video in various forms. "
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle%20of%20Wight%20Festival%201970
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Isle of Wight Festival 1970
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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guitar
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Throughout the entirety of the track, a reverberated guitar is constantly bending on a single string, conveying a "feeling of delirium".
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Like other dance tracks from the era, "Egyptian Shumba"'s lyrics are brief and inconsequential.
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The group begins singing "shimmy shimmy shimmy shy-yi meece-e-deece", followed by the first verse: "Last night I dreamed I was on the Nile/Dancing with you Egyptian style/Way down in Egypt land/The mummies took our hand".
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The song's energetic drumming has been described as "troglodytic" and "head-splitting".
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The overall instrumentation was compared to that of Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian%20Shumba
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Egyptian Shumba
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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clarinet
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Thus the clarinet heard during the film's first scenes was played by Steve Allen.
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Goodman was by then so accomplished that he could no longer reproduce the sound of an amateur clarinetist.
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The film's star, Steve Allen, was himself a pianist but had never played clarinet, and the squeaky attempts of a beginner were the only sounds Allen could make on a clarinet.
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Many of Goodman's contemporaries made appearances in this film.
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However, while Ziggy Elman appeared on screen recreating his trumpet solo on "And the Angels Sing", he was unable to record his portion for the soundtrack; Mannie Klein actually performed it, off-camera.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Benny%20Goodman%20Story
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The Benny Goodman Story
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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rain
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Time magazine coverJessica's Joy – And Tragedy People magazine coverMama, do you hear the rain?
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Burial Dubroff was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Pescadero, California.
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References Further reading External links Who Killed Jessica?
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song by Pam O'Daniel and Jeff Stewart Jessica Dubroff website by Dubroff's mother Lisa Blair Hathaway; includes "Hey Jess" song by Ed Truthan Jessica's Final Flight Newsweek, April 22, 1996.
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1988 births 1996 deaths Accidental deaths in Wyoming American children People from Falmouth, Massachusetts Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1996 Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the United States Articles containing video clips People from Pescadero, California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica%20Dubroff
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Jessica Dubroff
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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helicopter
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Tina explains that as soon as that happened, they heard not only police squad cars but also a helicopter.
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Tina and Roxanne explain that they were on a "simple operation" describing a "trip" to Atlanta.
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Roxanne tells Sylvester that a high Twan was swerving on the road and cutting up on the both of them, even turning his music loud playing "Mary Jane" and screaming "I'm Rick James, bitch!"
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Twan's car breaks down and all three are eventually arrested.
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In the interrogation room, the police tell the women that Twan blamed the drug deal on them in order to save his own skin.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapped%20in%20the%20Closet
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Trapped in the Closet
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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river
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To know why the birds flyIt is not necessary to see the sophisms of their wings,Only to hear the illuminated riverThat begins in its throat.
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Translation: Hypothesis of Flight They do not compete, the bird and the wind.
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The bird is music And the air its bewitched instrument.
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The reasons of the flight are reasons of music And if the bird flies, it is solely because it sings.
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Her published books include the following.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarita%20Michelena
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Margarita Michelena
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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meat
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Tocino is traditionally boiled in water (just enough to cover the meat), fried in oil, or cooked over medium heat until the fat is rendered.
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Anise wine, annatto, water, sugar, and salt are combined in a container, and the meat strips are sprinkled with the mixture and stacked in a container, which is covered and refrigerated for three days to cure.
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In an alternate recipe, the meat strips are marinated with salt, sugar, and salitre (saltpetre), and pineapple juice may be added for a slightly tart flavor.
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The Kapampangans (kapampangan: Pindang) who make tocino mix it for four to six hours in order to achieve thickness and softness in the meat, then leave it overnight at room temperature before serving it as burong baboy (fermented pork).
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Tocino is often served as the popular breakfast or lunchtime combination called tosilog, which name is a portmanteau of tocino, sinangág (garlic rice) and itlóg (egg, which is cooked either sunny-side up or scrambled).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocino
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Tocino
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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instrument
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Today the instrument is sometimes heard in contemporary pop styles, such as rock and pop-rock, and occasionally even in serious classical music concerts, as well as advertisements.
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Use in various music genres The accordion has traditionally been used to perform folk or ethnic music, popular music, and transcriptions from the operatic and light-classical music repertoire.
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It was also used by the Kikuyu tribe in Kenya and is the main instrument in the traditional Mwomboko dance.
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Use in traditional music The accordion's popularity spread rapidly: it has mostly been associated with the common people, and was propagated by Europeans who emigrated around the world.
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The accordion in both button and piano forms became a favorite of folk musicians and has been integrated into traditional music styles all over the world: see the list of music styles that incorporate the accordion.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accordion
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Accordion
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CAUSER
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rifle
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Today, it is so difficult to find one in original condition that the Krag–Petersson has been described as "the rifle everybody has heard about, but hardly anybody has ever seen".
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The rifle was extensively tested by other nations, but none adopted it.
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After being phased out around 1900, the remaining rifles were sold to civilians and often were extensively rebuilt.
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It was the first rifle designed by Ole H. J. Krag to be adopted by an armed force.
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Design and development The mechanism was developed by Ole Herman Johannes Krag, with vital help from his friend Axel Petersson on the actuation of the mechanism.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krag%E2%80%93Petersson
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Krag–Petersson
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CAUSER
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flesh
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Toxicity The entire yew bush, except the aril (the red flesh of the berry covering the seed), is toxic due to a group of chemicals called taxine alkaloids.
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Individual trees from Sikhote-Alin are known to have been 1,000 years old.
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Uses It is widely grown in eastern Asia and eastern North America as an ornamental plant.
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Their cardiotoxicity is well known and act via calcium and sodium channel antagonism, causing an increase in cytoplasmic calcium currents of the myocardial cells.
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The seeds contains the highest concentrations of these alkaloids.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus%20cuspidata
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Taxus cuspidata
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CAUSER
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flesh
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ToxicityThe entire yew bush is poisonous, with the exception of the aril (the red flesh of the berry covering the seed).
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The oldest Irish Yew (Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata'), the Florence Court Yew, still stands in the grounds of the Florence Court estate in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
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The Irish Yew has become ubiquitous in cemeteries across the world, and it is believed that all known examples are from cuttings from this tree.
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Yews contain numerous toxic compounds, including "at least ten alkaloids, nitriles (cyanogenic glycoside esters), ephedrine", and their essential oil, but the most important toxins are taxine alkaloids, cardiotoxic chemical compounds which act via calcium and sodium channel antagonism.
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If any leaves or seeds of the plant are ingested, urgent medical attention is recommended as well as observation for at least 6 hours after the point of ingestion.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus%20baccata
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Taxus baccata
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CAUSER
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piano
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Twenty minutes into the program, he describes an unusual method of playing the piano muting the strings, a development inspired by watching blues guitar players.
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On the latter, he created remarkable 'hollowed' sounds to some notes by reaching inside the piano and muting strings with one hand while striking keys with the other."
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On April 19, 2010, he appeared as the sole guest on show 575 of the multimedia WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour.
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He can be seen reaching into the piano with his left hand and muting the strings, while with his right hand he is playing "An African in the Americas".
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Personal life Winston resides in Santa Cruz, California.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Winston
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George Winston
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CAUSER
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brass
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Typical soundsThe DX9 contains 20 pre-programmed voices which include: brass, string sounds, piano, organ and synth sounds.
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It uses FM synthesis and has 16 note polyphony; however, it only has four FM operators for sound generation compared with six on the DX7.
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It is the least complex of the DX range of synthesizers and has only 20 on board memory locations.
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Storage User created voices (sounds) can be saved on cassette tape for later use.
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See also Yamaha DX1 Yamaha DX7 Yamaha DX11 Yamaha DX21 References Further reading http://www.synthzone.com/midi/yamaha/dx9/yamaha_dx9_owners_manual.pdf DX7 Polyphonic synthesizers Digital synthesizers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20DX9
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Yamaha DX9
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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bombs
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U-521 submerged, and, after it had gained considerable depth, several bombs were heard to explode.
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Bargsten thought at first that it was a new weapon.
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The bomb-bay doors were open, but the aircraft did not drop any bombs.
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The first war cruise lasted over nine weeks and accounted for five merchant vessels and a corvette.
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Two ships were sunk from an eastbound convoy and two more from one that was westbound.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20submarine%20U-521
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German submarine U-521
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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echo
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Ultimately, while the accomplishments of Ettore were limited, the echo of his passion reverberated among Romantic revolutionary movements in Southern Italy.
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Legacy Ettore's life was short; the battles won by his legions, meager; and at the time of his death, the republic was overthrown, and Naples was in the thrall of a brutal reactionary purge.
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However, the King and Queen would again flee when the Napoleonic armies swept again into Campania, this time maintaining rule through French authorities, including King Joachim Murat from 1808 till 1815, when the Bourbon monarchy was restored.
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He rebelled against his upbringing: an aristocrat who fought for the rights of all men; a literate young man versed in cavalry battles.
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Ultimately, Ettore joined the legions of the tragic young patriots seeking liberty, who were executed by the Neapolitan "Ancien Régime".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore%20Carafa
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Ettore Carafa
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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gun
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Unfortunately, the plan fails when an X-ray scanner detects the gun.
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Absalom duct tapes his gun to Doggett's back in a plan to get Salt's information, with Doggett used as a hostage.
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The two attempt to sneak into the census bureau's database, which Absalom claims contains data showing the aliens are already here.
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Absalom is shot and killed by security.
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Mulder later accuses Doggett of deliberately attempting to cover up the truth by setting up Absalom to be killed, to which Doggett takes great offense.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20Words%20%28The%20X-Files%29
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Three Words (The X-Files)
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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machine
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Unless you were told, you'd have no idea that you heard a rhythm machine."
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Rather than use it to create rhythms, Mtume processed the drum machine through several different pedals and phase shifters such as the Mu-Tron Bi-Phase, creating a sound he said was "total tapestry". "
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I'm also using a volume pedal, so I'm bringing the sounds in and out", Mtume recalled. "
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Soloists Unlike Davis' previous recordings, the cadenzas throughout Agharta were mostly played by Fortune and Cosey.
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Fortune alternated between soprano and alto saxophones and the flute, performing with a "substance and structure" Gilmore believed was very much indebted to John Coltrane during his A Love Supreme (1965) period.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agharta%20%28album%29
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Agharta (album)
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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bee
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Unlike the majority of glyciphagous dipterans, the bee flies feed on pollen (from which they meet their protein requirements).
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Biology Adults favour sunny conditions and dry, often sandy or rocky areas.
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They have powerful wings and are found typically in flight over flowers or resting on the bare ground exposed to the sun (watch video) They significantly contribute to cross pollination of plants, becoming the main pollinators of some plant species of desert environments.
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A similar trophic behavior occurs among the hoverflies, another important family of Diptera pollinators.
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As with hoverflies, bee flies are capable of sudden acceleration or deceleration, all but momentum-free high-speed changes of direction, superb control of position while hovering in mid-air, as well as a characteristically cautious approach of a possible feeding or landing site.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombyliidae
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Bombyliidae
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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megaphone
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Unlike the trombone, the remainder of the bazooka works mainly as a megaphone to amplify the volume of the sound.
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All of the bazooka's notes are produced purely in falset.
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In other words, the player's lips produce pitches as they vibrate on the bare pipe end or in conjunction with the optional mouthpiece and leadpipe unit, but not in resonance with the full tube length of the instrument.
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It can be seen being played by Bob Burns in the 1936 movie Rhythm on the Range during the song "I'm an Old Cowhand".
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Name The name "bazooka" comes from an extension of the word "bazoo", which is slang for "mouth" or "boastful talk", and which ultimately probably stems from Dutch bazuin (trumpet).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka%20%28instrument%29
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Bazooka (instrument)
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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shells
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Upon hearing the conch-shells Lenormand de Mezy is frightened and manages to hide.
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A secret gathering of trusted slaves takes place: Bouckman, the Jamaican, speaks of possible freedom for the blacks emerging in France and also mentions the opposition from the plantation landowners.
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An uprising is planned; as a result of this meeting, conch-shell trumpets sound and slaves, armed with sticks, surround the houses of their masters.
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The slaves kill the white men and drink much alcohol.
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Ti Noel, after drinking, rapes Mademoiselle Floridor, who is Lenormand de Mezy's latest mistress.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Kingdom%20of%20This%20World
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The Kingdom of This World
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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flute
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Upon his arrival, the locals heard his flute and the rhythm of the new drumbeat, believing it was the god Kupulupulu.
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Laʻa came as a younger member of the Moikeha family of North Tahiti, older members of whom had settled earlier in the Hawaiian archipelago.
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He brought with him a small hand-drum, and a flute for the hula.
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Kupulupulu was worshiped as god of the hula, who also took the form of the flowering lehua tree as well as the god of native fauna that sustained early Polynesian settlers.
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Especially on Oahu, this Laʻa-mai-kahiki took wives in various districts.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lono
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Lono
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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fly
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Upon reviewing the recordings at his hotel room, he heard a mosquito fly by the microphone during one of his improvisations.
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The opening track, "Prologue/Inside", features the guard's chants.
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Horn soon found his arms covered with mosquitoes, but he continued to play.
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It can be heard around 42 seconds in on "Agra".
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A fireworks display as part of a wedding celebration can be heard in the background of "Mumtaz Mahal".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%20%28Paul%20Horn%20album%29
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Inside (Paul Horn album)
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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vehicles
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Urtasun uses artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, to make vehicles and other machines perceive the world more accurately and efficiently.
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Raquel Urtasun is a Professor at the University of Toronto.
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She holds a Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision in the Department of Computer Science.
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In May 2017, Uber hired her to lead a Toronto-based research team for the company's self-driving car program.
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Education Urtasun's bachelor's degree is from Universidad Publica de Navarra in 2000 and her Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science department at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raquel%20Urtasun
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Raquel Urtasun
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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bee
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Using this machine, I transposed the bee buzzes to the subdivisions of the 12-tone equal-tempered scale and rerecorded them on another tape machine.
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On the Moog Indigo track "Flight of the Bumblebee" (adapted from an interlude composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov), Perrey began with a recording of actual bees: For this composition, I took a Nagra tape recorder to an apiary in Switzerland to record the live sounds of bees buzzing about their hive.
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I took these bee tapes back to New York, where my studio had a variable-speed tape recorder.
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Then, using manual splicing techniques, I edited the melody for one verse.
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Just this part took 52 hours of splicing work.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%20Perrey
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Jean-Jacques Perrey
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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piano
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Vibe praised "the piano-drenched mid-tempo single", noting how "K sings of finding the good in goodbye and realizing she's better off alone."
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The Memphis songstress makes her triumphant return on her soulful new single "Not a Little Bit."
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Over a piano instrumental, she sings about moving on from a relationship and not looking back."
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The song was applauded by Idolator as "a welcome return to the music scene" for K. Michelle, adding, "The first taste of the R&B diva's third LP is a soulful ballad that showcases her powerful pipes and fiery attitude."
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While reviewing the video, Ni'Kesia Pannell of This Is RnB described the song as a "soulful woman empowerment tune".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not%20a%20Little%20Bit
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Not a Little Bit
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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symphony
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Vienna itself had to wait until 1918 before the symphony was heard there.
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During the next three years, according to the calculations of Mahler's friend Guido Adler the Eighth Symphony received a further 20 performances across Europe.
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These included the Dutch premiere, in Amsterdam under Willem Mengelberg on 12 March 1912, and the first Prague performance, given on 20 March 1912 under Mahler's former Vienna Hofoper colleague, Alexander von Zemlinsky.
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In the U.S., Leopold Stokowski persuaded an initially reluctant board of the Philadelphia Orchestra to finance the American premiere, which took place on 2 March 1916.
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The occasion was a great success; the symphony was played several more times in Philadelphia before the orchestra and choruses travelled to New York, for a series of equally well-received performances at the Metropolitan Opera House.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20No.%208%20%28Mahler%29
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Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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owl
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VoiceMost people hear the barking owl rather than see it as it has a loud and explosive voice.
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A clutch of 2 or 3 roundish, dull-white eggs, each measuring , is laid and incubated by the female for about 36 days.
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The young at first are covered in white down and fledge by 5 to 6 weeks.
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The main territorial vocalisation is in the form of a double 'hoot', similar in pattern to the other Australian hawk owls.
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It sounds like a double dog bark that so closely resembles a small dog that it is difficult to tell the difference.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barking%20owl
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Barking owl
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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engine
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We are at war in 1940 but not an aeroplane engine is heard.
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Chiding the producers, Sydney Box and his sister Betty, who also wrote the screenplay, he describes it as a "novelettish distortion" of a contemporary problem.
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"Alas'' he continues, "the note is one of genteel reverence.
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A realistic plastic reproduction of the House of Commons was erected solely for the purpose of allowing Miss Valerie Hobson M.P. to make her maiden speech [strong on] cliché value.
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Yet Mr Churchill's and Mr Morrison's doubles – and the whole House – are staggered by its brilliance.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Years%20Between%20%28play%29
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The Years Between (play)
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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fans
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We cut to each; Bosko silences his cheering fans to serenade them with a song, at last leaping happily upon the ropes before taking his seat.
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Stuffed trolleys bear myriads to fill the seats, deflating on the evacuation of their passengers.
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Honey still sits at home, lightly tickling her piano as the radio sounds: Graham Cracker announces that the great opposites are entering the ring.
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Gas House Harry laughs derisively at something his manager whispers to him.
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The names of the competitors are announced and the match begins when the referee, an ostrich, rings the bell by means of a cat's tail.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battling%20Bosko
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Battling Bosko
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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radio
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Webb grew up in a conservative religious home where his father restricted radio listening to country music and white gospel.
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His father, Robert Lee Webb, was a Baptist minister and veteran of the United States Marine Corps who presided over rural churches in southwestern Oklahoma and west Texas.
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With his mother's encouragement, Webb learned piano and organ and by the age of 12 was playing in the choir of his father's churches, accompanied by his father on guitar and his mother on accordion.
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During the late 1950s, Webb began applying his creativity to the music he was playing at his father's church, frequently improvising and rearranging the hymns.
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He began to write religious songs at this time, but his musical direction was soon influenced by the new music being played on the radio, including the music of Elvis Presley.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Webb
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Jimmy Webb
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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detector
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When a RTE button is pushed, or the motion detector detects motion at the door, the door alarm is temporarily ignored while the door is opened.
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In cases where the exit is also controlled, a second reader is used on the opposite side of the entry.)
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Locking hardware, such as electric door strikes and electromagnetic locks A magnetic door switch for monitoring door position Request-to-exit (RTE) devices for allowing egress.
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Exiting a door without having to electrically unlock the door is called mechanical free egress.
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This is an important safety feature.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20control
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Access control
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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sea
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When asked in an interview about the success of the 2007 reunion tour, Masvidal said:"...it was just really disorienting to hear a sea of 10,000 people singing 'Veil of Maya'.
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It was therefore a hard album to market.
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Cynic found themselves touring to promote the album with brutal death metal band Cannibal Corpse and predictably received a mixed reception from their fans.
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You know, it was just wait, the last time we did this song I think a bottle hit my head and we were in Texas somewhere with Cannibal Corpse..."This negative reaction from within the metal scene was part of the reason Cynic broke up in 1994:"...We were just really sensitive, creative people that wanted to make music and we were devoured by the industry and we didn't get a lot of support and people didn't understand Focus at the time.
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"In 2005 the album was placed number 496 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus%20%28Cynic%20album%29
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Focus (Cynic album)
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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symphony
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When Beethoven's younger contemporary Hector Berlioz heard the symphony he wrote that the slow movement was the work of the Archangel Michael, and not that of a human.
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Other critics were less hostile, praising the composer's "richness of ideas, bold originality and fullness of power" though finding the Fourth and the works premiered alongside it "rough diamonds".
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Beethoven's biographer Anton Schindler later recalled the Fourth as being a great success from the outset, although later scholars have expressed reservations about his reliability.
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Nonetheless, by the time Berlioz was writing musical criticism, the Fourth was already less often played than other Beethoven symphonies.
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Robert Schumann is said to have called the Fourth Symphony "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants", and it was an important influence on his First Symphony.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony%20No.%204%20%28Beethoven%29
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Symphony No. 4 (Beethoven)
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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waves
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When Cú Chulainn struck his shield, the three waves of Erin echoed the sound and roared across the ocean.
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The castle and land were subsequently submerged, but the gardens and castle can still be seen beneath the waves in Straghbregagh.
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According to Donegal folklore, Manannán is said to be buried in the Tonn Banks off the coast of Inishowen, which form part of a Triad called the Three Waves of Erin.
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Manannán's spirit is believed to ride the storms that occur when ships are wrecked.
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The three legs of Manannán are called "paradoxically" his three arms, and are said to represent the "storm-god careering over land and sea with whirling motion."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manann%C3%A1n%20mac%20Lir
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Manannán mac Lir
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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receiver
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When eavesdropping on conversations, one can gather facts that may not always be true, or the receiver may hear the message incorrectly and spread the information to others.
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Allcott, Gentzkow, and Yu concur that the diffusion of misinformation through social media is a potential threat to democracy and broader society.
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The effects of misinformation can lead to decline of accuracy of information as well as event details.
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On the Internet, one can read content that is stated to be factual but that may not have been checked or may be erroneous.
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In the news, companies may emphasize the speed at which they receive and send information but may not always be correct in the facts.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation
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Misinformation
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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surroundings
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When enabled, it reduces the sound of breeze under windy conditions, while still letting the user hear the surroundings.
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To activate the touch interface, the user needs to remove the left Dash and insert into ear again.
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WindShield WindShield is another audio transparency feature of Bragi OS that was introduced with version OS 2.2.
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Release history Criticism According to the production timeline presented during the Kickstarter campaign, The Dash was supposed to be in full-scale production by November 2014.
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However, the product experienced delay for months because of various challenges in production.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bragi%20%28company%29
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Bragi (company)
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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train
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When he heard the approaching train he ran towards it blowing his whistle and waving the lamp.
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The 14-carriage 9:15pm from Strood, which was running 15 minutes late, pulled up 200 yards short of Lewisham station at a red signal.
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The guard took a red lamp to the rear of the train to warn the 9:30 train following.
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It appears that he was not seen by the driver and the standing train was struck at a speed of around , destroying the brake van and rear carriage.
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A telegraph system was in place which should have prevented the second train from leaving the preceding station until the leading train had cleared Lewisham, using a system of signal bells being rung in the signal boxes.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1857%20Lewisham%20rail%20crash
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1857 Lewisham rail crash
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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tone
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When he submitted his work to the Beatles, Epstein wept, overjoyed that Voormann had managed to capture the experimental tone of the Beatles' new music.
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Turner writes that the drawings show each Beatle "in another state of consciousness", such that the older images appear to be tumbling out from them.
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Voormann's aim was to reflect the radical departure in sound represented particularly by "Tomorrow Never Knows", and his choice of a black-and-white cover was in deliberate defiance of the preference for vivid colour.
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Voormann also designed a series of four images, titled "Wood Face", "Wool Face", "Triangle Face" and "Sun Face", which appeared on the front of the Northern Songs sheet music for each of the album's songs.
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The LP's back cover included a photograph of the Beatles, in Riley's description, "shaded by the hip modesty of sunglasses and cigarette smoke".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver%20%28Beatles%20album%29
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Revolver (Beatles album)
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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bird
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When hearing a non-predatory bird little or no change happens.
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Anoles mainly detect potential enemies by sight, but their hearing range also closely matches the typical vocal range of birds.
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If hearing a predatory bird, like a kestrel or hawk, they increase their vigilance.
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Most anole species will try to escape from a predator by rapidly running or climbing away, but some will move to the opposite side of a tree trunk (facing away from the would-be attacker), jump to the ground from their perch, or freeze when disturbed, hoping the adversary does not spot it.
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Some anole species will show their fitness by displaying their dewlap when encountering a predator; the greater the endurance of the anole, the greater the display.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactyloidae
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Dactyloidae
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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timer
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When interviewed, Harper elaborated; "as she wrote up the interview in the office, an old timer heard the record and asked what she was doing on Roy Harper?
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Music magazines were sent the 7" single, along with an accompanying fake biography describing the artist they were being introduced to.
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An employee from Sounds interviewed Per Yarroh and apparently fell for the publicity stunt "hook, line and sinker".
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She'd loved the record originally, but then turned right around and wrote the most vindictive piece about me.
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I also had loads of radio lined up, but as soon as they found out it was me they all cancelled.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descendants%20of%20Smith
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Descendants of Smith
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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foliage
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When manufactured correctly, the suit will move in the wind in the same way as surrounding foliage.
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Military personnel, police, hunters, and nature photographers may wear a ghillie suit to blend into their surroundings and conceal themselves from enemies or targets.
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The suit gives the wearer's outline a three-dimensional breakup, rather than a linear one.
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Some ghillie suits are made with light and breathable material that allows a person to wear a shirt underneath.
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A well-made ghillie suit is extremely effective in camouflaging its wearer.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghillie%20suit
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Ghillie suit
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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notes
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When members of the quartet respond to Jenkins's invitation to improvise... their bent notes and dramatic glissandos echo the songful cries of Jenkins's own playing."
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The results are astounding... Most of Jenkins' compositional work can be described as a frame around which the musicians can improvise with simple thematic instructions... This is an exciting listen with much to stimulate the mind and ear."
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In a New York Times article titled "5 Minutes That Will Make You Love String Quartets," Seth Colter Walls commented: "Some of the writing has a puckish air reminiscent of Neo-Classical Stravinsky, refracted through an American prism.
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Track listing All compositions by Leroy Jenkins.
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"Themes & Improvisations on the Blues" - 18:31 - The Soldier String Quartet: David Soldier and Laura Seaton, violin; Ron Lawrence, viola; Mary Wooton, cello "Panorama 1" - 13:31 - Leroy Jenkins, violin; Henry Threadgill, flute; Don Byron, clarinet; Marty Ehrlich, bass clarinet; Vincent Chancey, French horn "Off Duty Dryad" - 13:04 - The Soldier String Quartet: David Soldier and Laura Seaton, violin; Ron Lawrence, viola; Mary Wooton, cello; with Lindsey Horner, bass "Monkey on the Dragon" - 15:31 - Tania León, conductor; Leroy Jenkins, violin (solo); Henry Threadgill, flute; Don Byron, clarinet; Marty Ehrlich, bass clarinet; Janet Grice, bassoon; Frank Gordon, trumpet; Jeff Hoyer, trombone; Vincent Chancey, French horn; Myra Melford, piano; Thurman Barker, drums; David Soldier, Jane Henry, violin; Ron Lawrence, viola; Mary Wooton, cello; Lindsey Horner, bass Recorded April 9, 1992 at Merkin Concert Hall New York City References 1994 live albums Leroy Jenkins (jazz musician) albums 20th-century classical music Live albums by American artists 1994 classical albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes%20%26%20Improvisations%20on%20the%20Blues
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Themes & Improvisations on the Blues
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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bombs
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When one hears bombs coming that close there is no time to do anything.
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The second or third of the sticks landed in the street right outside my window.
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Only a split second later the next bomb hit the cornice of the hotel and went off, and almost immediately after that the other one hit the rear of the building.
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One hasn't time to be afraid, that comes later.
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'In February 1941, an article appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune: "The 19th annual Front Page Ball of the New York Newspaper Women's Club was held last night [at] ... the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tania%20Long
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Tania Long
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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cut
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When the algorithm terminates, at least half of the edges incident to every vertex belong to the cut, for otherwise moving the vertex would improve the cut.
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One such algorithm starts with an arbitrary partition of the vertices of the given graph and repeatedly moves one vertex at a time from one side of the partition to the other, improving the solution at each step, until no more improvements of this type can be made.
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The number of iterations is at most because the algorithm improves the cut by at least one edge at each step.
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Therefore, the cut includes at least edges.
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The polynomial-time approximation algorithm for Max-Cut with the best known approximation ratio is a method by Goemans and Williamson using semidefinite programming and randomized rounding that achieves an approximation ratio where If the unique games conjecture is true, this is the best possible approximation ratio for maximum cut.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20cut
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Maximum cut
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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animal
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When the artist discovered this unique Schomburgk's deer specimen in Paris, he finally realized that the legendary, beautiful animal that he had heard about since childhood actually once existed.
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In the forests of Kanchanaburi Province in 1932, the last Schomburgk's deer fell to a hunter's gun.
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In Samut Sakhon in 1938, a drunkard beat the last recorded Schomburgk's deer to death at a local temple.
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"A Talebearer's Tale: The Last Deer" conveys the tragedy of the extinction of this beautiful, legendary species, but the show also explores the greed in human nature, and the irreversible impact people have had on the world and later generations due to a lack of moral restraint and reverence.
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The artist hopes that viewers will, through the story and extinction of the Schomburgk's deer, consider Thailand's social transformation, and the country's distinctive cultural identity, values, and traditions as it attempts to find balance between the past and the future amidst globalization and economic and social development.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakarin%20Krue-On
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Sakarin Krue-On
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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stream
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When the attended speech stream wasn't disrupted by background noise a bilateral connection was displayed, but as more background noise was introduced the connection became left-hemisphere-dependent.
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A magnetoencephalography study was conducted on participants that were exposed to five differing listening conditions each with a different level of background noise.
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It was discovered that the STG has a strong connection with the attended speech stream in a cocktail party setting.
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Additional images References [1] Erin D. Bigler, Sherstin Mortensen, E. Shannon Neeley, Sally Ozonoff, Lori Krasny, Michael Johnson, Jeffrey Lu, Sherri L. Provençal, William McMahon & Janet E. Lainhart (2007): Superior Temporal Gyrus, Language Function, and Autism, Developmental Neuropsychology, 31:2, 217-238 External links Gyri Temporal lobe
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NONE
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20temporal%20gyrus
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Superior temporal gyrus
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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bird
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When the avalanche stopped, so did the noise; one resident recalled that "in that silence you couldn't hear a bird or a child".
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Dai Beynon, the deputy headmaster, tried to use a blackboard to shield himself and five children from the slurry pouring through the school.
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He and all 34 pupils in his class were killed.
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Rescue efforts and retrieval of the bodies After the landslide stopped, local residents rushed to the school and began digging through the rubble, moving material by hand or with garden tools.
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At 9:25 am Merthyr Tydfil police received a phone call from a local resident who said "I have been asked to inform that there has been a landslide at Pantglas.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan%20disaster
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Aberfan disaster
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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detonations
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When the employees of El Mañana heard the detonations, they threw themselves on the floor, while others suffered nervous breakdowns.
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A group of armed men attacked the offices of El Mañana newspaper in Nuevo Laredo at around 23:00 hours on 11 May 2012.
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The Mexican authorities stated that no one was injured in the 5-minute shootout, but the offices and some vehicles were damaged when bullets impacted from the outside.
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Some witnesses said that they heard grenade explosions during the attack.
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In addition, a message was reportedly left behind by the perpetrators.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Ma%C3%B1ana%20%28Nuevo%20Laredo%29
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El Mañana (Nuevo Laredo)
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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protein
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When the heat treated and denatured, whey protein is covering the casein micelle, isoelectric point of the micelle elevated to the isoelectric point of β lactoglobulin (approximately pH 5.3).
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The stability of milk is largely due to the electrostatic repulsion of casein micelles.
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These casein micelles aggregated and precipitated when they approach the absolute zeta potential values at pH 4.0 – 4.5.
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Rheological properties Sour cream exhibits time-dependent thixotropic behaviors.
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Thixotropic fluids reduce in viscosity as work is applied, and when the product is no longer under stress, the fluid returns to its previous viscosity.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour%20cream
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Sour cream
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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phone
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When the phone you rang is available, your phone will ring with five ring bursts.
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Using callback on popular business telephone systems Comdial Digitech, DSU, Impact Place an intercom call and press CAMP.
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Your phone will disconnect from the attempted call.
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Press intercom to ring the other phone.
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To use with calls made in the voice-announce mode, press intercom before the camp button.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20callback
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Automatic callback
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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phone
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When the phone you wish to reach becomes idle, your phone will ring with five short tones.
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To cancel auto call back before it rings, press "ITCM", dial "#6" and hang up.
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Comdial Digital Impression When you reach a station that is busy or does not answer, press CAMP.
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Press ITCM to cause the other phone to ring.
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To cancel the callback, press ITCM and dial "#6".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20callback
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Automatic callback
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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instrument
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When the player misses a note, that specific instrument is muted until he catches the next.
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However, this mechanic only defines where the players have to have their hands at certain times.
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How the player actually gets there is up to the player, so it can be dancing but it can also just be hitting orbs, allowing the players to find their own way of expressing themselves in the game.
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This mechanic that has since used by many other Virtual Reality rhythm games was inspired by a gamejam project called E-Motion and first made public by Holodance in July 2015.
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Following Splines This mechanic is introduced in Level 4 of the story mode of Holodance.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodance
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Holodance
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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performer
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When the poor performer is perceived to have high g and low conscientiousness, other team members exhibit the least amount of prosocial behavior.
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Investigations examining the impact of the interaction between low performing members' g and conscientiousness on team-level prosocial behavior demonstrates that other team members are likely to exhibit high prosocial behavior when the poor performer is perceived to have low g and high conscientiousness or high g and high conscientiousness.
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Team members exhibit moderate levels of prosocial behavior when the poor performer exhibits low g and low conscientiousness.
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Conscientiousness and emotional stability predict low employee turnover and high job performance, indicating that these personality traits are robust and should be assessed during personnel selection in subsequent validation and utility analysis.
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Conscientiousness is considered to account for possible moral, ethical, and contractual obligations that may lead to employee turnover.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective%20events%20theory
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Affective events theory
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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string
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When the string vibrates, the shape of the crystal is distorted, and the stresses associated with this change produce tiny voltages across the crystal that can be amplified and manipulated.
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These employ piezoelectricity to generate the musical signal and are popular in hybrid electro-acoustic guitars.
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A crystal is located under each string, usually in the saddle.
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Piezo pickups usually require a powered pre-amplifier to lift their output to match that of electromagnetic pickups.
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Power is typically delivered by an on-board battery.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar
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Guitar
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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receiver
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When this receiver hears the signal from the other station, referred to as the "primary", it triggers its own broadcast.
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Both stations are equipped with identical transmitters set to broadcast a short pulse at a specific frequency.
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One of these stations, called the "secondary" is also equipped with a radio receiver.
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The primary station can then broadcast any series of pulses, with the secondary hearing these and generating the same series after a 1 ms delay.
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Consider a portable receiver located on the midpoint of the line drawn between the two stations, known as the baseline.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20navigation
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Hyperbolic navigation
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
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clarinet
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When you hear [Licari's] clarinet you know it's him."
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He has used some of their ideas and rejected others to come up with his own style.
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To achieve [your own] identity is the goal of all serious [jazz] players.
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In a 60 plus-year career Licari (who also plays the soprano and alto saxophones) has worked alongside Roy Eldridge, "Wild" Bill Davison, Conrad Janis, Big Chief Russell Moore, Connie Kay, Bob Haggart, Vic Dickenson, Pee Wee Erwin, Doc Cheatham and the vocalist Julie Wilson.
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He's also appeared in films, on The Today Show, on Jim Lowe's radio show (eight years), and in venues that have included The Algonquin, Eddie Condon's, Jimmy Ryan's and Michael's Pub (where he was a stand-in for Woody Allen).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Licari
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Joe Licari
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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singer
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While at the Spanish court, the famous castrato singer Farinelli heard him sing.
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An example of Alberti bass (Mozart's Piano Sonata, K 545): In his own lifetime, Alberti was known as a singer, and often used to accompany himself on the harpsichord.
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In 1736, he served as a page for Pietro Andrea Cappello, the Venetian ambassador to Spain.
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Farinelli was said to have been impressed, although Alberti was an amateur.
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Alberti's best known pieces are his keyboard sonatas, although even they are very rarely performed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico%20Alberti
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Domenico Alberti
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LITERAL
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CAUSER
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symphony
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While in Vienna Rossini heard Beethoven's Eroica symphony, and was so moved that he determined to meet the reclusive composer.
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He was therefore happy to permit the San Carlo company to perform the composer's operas.
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In a three-month season they played six of them, to audiences so enthusiastic that Beethoven's assistant, Anton Schindler, described it as "an idolatrous orgy".
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He finally managed to do so, and later described the encounter to many people, including Eduard Hanslick and Richard Wagner.
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He recalled that although conversation was hampered by Beethoven's deafness and Rossini's ignorance of German, Beethoven made it plain that he thought Rossini's talents were not for serious opera, and that "above all" he should "do more Barbiere" (Barbers).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioachino%20Rossini
|
Gioachino Rossini
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LITERAL
|
CAUSER
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owl
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While most birds have an upper hearing limit of only about 6 kHz, the barn owl can hear up to 12 kHz and thus close to the human upper limit.
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Archosaurs In birds and crocodilians, the similarity of the structure of the basilar papilla betrays their close evolutionary relationship.
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The basilar papilla is up to about 10mm long and contains up to 16,500 hair cells.
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Mammals Egg-laying mammals, the monotremes (echidna and platypus), do not have a spiral cochlea, but one shaped more like a banana, up to about 7 mm long.
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Like in lepidosaurs and archosaurs, it contains a lagena, a vestibular sensory epithelium, at its tip.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20of%20the%20cochlea
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Evolution of the cochlea
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METONYMIC
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CAUSER
|
artist
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While recording Deftones' Diamond Eyes, he claimed that the only artist he listened to was American rapper Tech N9ne.
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He has also stated that his favorite album of all time is Chaosphere by Meshuggah, saying: "The most brutal record I've heard, from second one to second last.
|
It left me wondering where the hell I'd been the whole time."
|
Other projects Carpenter is a member of the underground instrumental project Sol Invicto, formed by producer Richie Londres alongside Technical Itch & Dan Foord.
|
The band released its debut EP, Initium in 2011 for free.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Carpenter
|
Stephen Carpenter
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METONYMIC
|
CAUSER
|
creature
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While the men are driven off, the children stumble upon an old abandoned swamp cabin and hide inside when they hear the creature about.
|
Three children secretly follow.
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Little do they know a hurricane is about to commence.
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Discovering stolen food and soda bottle, they figure out the cabin is actually where Big Bay-Ty had taken us residence.
|
As the hurricane touches down, the children try to seek refuge in a boat to survive the waves and hide from the ape-like creature.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return%20to%20Boggy%20Creek
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Return to Boggy Creek
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LITERAL
|
CAUSER
|
bicycle
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While waiting for him to return, Tina notices Terri's bicycle out in the rain before Jason suddenly bursts through the window and hurls her from the second floor.
|
She is impaled through the back by Jason and killed before she can gather her bike and leave.
|
After Tina and Jimmy have sex, Jimmy goes downstairs and is murdered.
|
She falls onto the teens' parked car below and hits it with enough force to blow out all the windows in the vehicle and falls into the darkness.
|
Her body is later discovered by Trish.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Friday%20the%2013th%20characters
|
List of Friday the 13th characters
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LITERAL
|
CAUSER
|
meat
|
WhitbreadWhitbread, which was at the time Britain's biggest hotel group, also discovered through tests that it had unknowingly sold concealed horse meat in food products.
|
The contamination may have gone on since summer 2012 according to a leaked document.
|
Compass Group Compass Group was the world's biggest catering firm at the time and discovered through conducting tests that it was unknowingly supplying concealed horse meat in food products to a "small number" of schools in Northern Ireland.
|
Source of meat The horse meat that was found in Comigel products originated at Doly Com, a Romanian-based slaughterhouse.
|
An inquiry by the French government showed that "the meat had left Romania clearly and correctly labelled as horse.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20horse%20meat%20scandal
|
2013 horse meat scandal
|
LITERAL
|
CAUSER
|
detector
|
With a triaxial accelerometer, the shock detector detects sudden acceleration, such as when the computer is dropped, and prepares the relatively fragile hard disk drive mechanism for impact.
|
Apple introduced the system January 1, 2005 in its refreshed PowerBook line, and included it in the iBook line July 26, 2005.
|
Since that time, Apple has included the system in all of their non-SSD portable systems (since October 2006), now the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.
|
The system disengages the disk drive heads from the hard disk platters, preventing data loss and drive damage from a disk head crash.
|
When the computer is stable, the drive operates normally again.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden%20Motion%20Sensor
|
Sudden Motion Sensor
|
LITERAL
|
CAUSER
|
piano
|
With him the piano sounded like a whole orchestra, not only as far as the power of sound was concerned but in the variety of timbres.
|
The German critic Ludwig Rellstab called him "the Hercules of the piano; the Jupiter Tonans of the instrument."
|
Tone Pressman attested to the singing quality of Rubinstein's playing, and much more: "His tone was strikingly full and deep.
|
With him, the piano sang as Patti sang, as Rubini sang."
|
Schonberg has assessed Rubinstein's piano tone the most sensuous of any of the great pianists.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Rubinstein
|
Anton Rubinstein
|
LITERAL
|
CAUSER
|
fly
|
With its abdomen removed, an adult drone-fly buzzed for more than an hour.
|
Toughness The toughness and resilience of E. tenax increases with age; the skin is insoluble even in strong alkaline solutions.
|
There have been reports of decapitated drone-flies living for three days and nights on the stage of a microscope.
|
The thorax can be sliced open for examination, and the muscular bundles inside may still twitch when an irritant or needle-point is used.
|
Removing the wings seems to produce very little inconvenience to the fly, when put on a flower the fly without wings immediately plunged its proboscis into the center of the flower, and continued to feed for several minutes.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eristalis%20tenax
|
Eristalis tenax
|
LITERAL
|
CAUSER
|
explosion
|
With the gradual relaxation of mores in Spain in the mid-1980s, there was a perceived explosion of out-of-wedlock births.
|
It produced songs for the public that were marked by an individual and irreverent originality and edgy humor.
|
Their first single was Yo no me llamo Javier.
|
This song was a barbed commentary written from the viewpoint of a young man named Javier accused of fathering a child.
|
It was one of the songs included on their album 30 años de éxitos (Ariola, 1986).
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Toreros%20Muertos
|
Los Toreros Muertos
|
METONYMIC
|
CAUSER
|
creature
|
With their senses failing, they must confront not only their feelings for each other, but also a creature they can only hear.
|
It is the beginning of the "Divergent Universe" saga which continued until The Next Life.
|
Plot The Doctor and Charley are all alone in a new universe without the TARDIS as it, much like them, has no meaning.
|
Cast Paul McGann as the Doctor India Fisher as Charley Continuity The "Divergent Universe" story arc that begins here comes to an end in The Next Life.
|
Notes A drama for two actors is often referred to as a "two-hander".
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scherzo%20%28audio%20drama%29
|
Scherzo (audio drama)
|
LITERAL
|
CAUSER
|
clock
|
Without exercise he lies awake after midnight, restless, when he hears the communal grandfather clock strangely strike 13.
|
The elderly and reclusive landlady, Mrs Bartholomew, lives above them.
|
Because Tom may be infectious, he is not allowed out to play, and he feels lonely.
|
He gets up to investigate and discovers that the back door now opens on a large sunlit garden.
|
Every night the clock strikes 13 and Tom returns to the Victorian era grounds.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%27s%20Midnight%20Garden
|
Tom's Midnight Garden
|
LITERAL
|
CAUSER
|
rain
|
Without the Śarīra, the pagoda loses its magical shine, and the king perceives the blood rain as an ill omen.
|
He marries his daughter, Wansheng Princess, to the Nine-Headed Beast.
|
He plots with his son-in-law to steal a Śarīra from the pagoda in Golden Ray Monastery (金光寺) in Jisai and release a rain of blood in the kingdom.
|
He believes that the monks in the monastery are responsible for stealing the Śarīra and starts persecuting them.
|
Sun Wukong uncovers the truth when he and his companions arrive in Jisai.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Journey%20to%20the%20West%20characters
|
List of Journey to the West characters
|
METONYMIC
|
CAUSER
|
aircraft
|
Witnesses heard an aircraft flying low, saw that its cockpit was illuminated and then it crashed.
|
61 Squadron claimed they heard him say he had a damaged engine.
|
Gibson's aircraft crashed at Steenbergen in the Netherlands at around 22:30.
|
At first, Gibson's failure to return to Woodhall Spa was not considered out of the ordinary, as it was assumed he had landed at Coningsby.
|
Likewise at Coningsby there was no immediate concern as there was fog and it was assumed he would have landed elsewhere.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Gibson
|
Guy Gibson
|
METONYMIC
|
CAUSER
|
helicopter
|
Witnesses reported hearing a helicopter struggling before crashing.
|
Bryant, his daughter, and the other seven occupants were all killed on impact.
|
Initial reports indicated that the helicopter crashed in the hills above Calabasas in heavy fog.
|
Investigations On January 28, Bryant's identity was officially confirmed using fingerprints.
|
The following day, the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner stated that the official cause of death for him and the eight others on the helicopter was blunt force trauma.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe%20Bryant
|
Kobe Bryant
|
LITERAL
|
CAUSER
|
engine
|
Witnesses reported hearing engine sputtering noises and a flash of light after the last radio transmission.
|
The flight was carrying 55 passengers and three crew members; the loss of all 58 on board made it the deadliest commercial airliner accident in America at the time.
|
The aircraft was at approximately over Lake Michigan, NNW of Benton Harbor, Michigan when flight controllers lost radio contact with it soon after the pilot had requested a descent to .
|
A widespread search was commenced including using sonar and dragging the bottom of Lake Michigan with trawlers, but to no avail.
|
Considerable light debris, upholstery, and human body fragments were found floating on the surface, but divers were unable to locate the plane's wreckage.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest%20Orient%20Airlines%20Flight%202501
|
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501
|
LITERAL
|
CAUSER
|
pistol
|
Wuornos was found to be carrying spare ammunition, and police discovered a .22 pistol under the passenger seat she had occupied.
|
Miami police officers found a .38-caliber revolver and a box of ammunition in the stolen car.
|
On June 2, 1986, Volusia County deputy sheriffs detained Wuornos for questioning after a male companion accused her of pulling a gun in his car and demanding $200.
|
In 1986, 30-year-old Wuornos met 24-year-old Tyria Moore, a hotel maid, at a Daytona Beach gay bar called Zodiac.
|
They moved in together, and Wuornos supported them with her earnings as a prostitute.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen%20Wuornos
|
Aileen Wuornos
|
METONYMIC
|
CAUSER
|
synthesizer
|
Wyman's synthesizer can be heard faintly during the verses on the right channel/speaker and plays a simple pattern of a few notes using a string-synth set up.
|
They then added the saxophone part played by Bobby Keys.
|
Bass guitarist Bill Wyman plays synthesizer on the record, while Jagger and Ian Stewart play electric piano.
|
Jagger said the song was about "a girl who's in some sort of manhood problems", not that she was going crazy but she's "just a little bit screwed up and he wants to be the one to help her out".
|
Released as the album's lead single on 20 June 1980, "Emotional Rescue" was well received by some fans.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional%20Rescue%20%28song%29
|
Emotional Rescue (song)
|
LITERAL
|
CAUSER
|
symphony
|
You see, I'd heard this symphony by Mahler and I really wanted a boy's choir.
|
I said that we needed a real boy's choir but he insisted.
|
But it didn't work out so we weren't able to use it.
|
There's nothing more beautiful than the sound of 20 boy sopranos singing.
|
Motorcycle Steinman insisted that the song should contain the sound of a motorcycle, and complained to producer Todd Rundgren at the final overdub session about its absence.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat%20Out%20of%20Hell%20%28song%29
|
Bat Out of Hell (song)
|
METONYMIC
|
CAUSER
|
trumpet
|
Zarchy's trumpet can be heard on recordings as Benny Goodman's "Bugle Call Rag", Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Cocktail", and Bob Crosby's "South Rampart Street Parade".
|
He was then with Bob Crosby and Red Norvo (1937–39), Tommy Dorsey (1939–40), and Glenn Miller (1940).
|
Between 1942 and 1945 he played in US Army bands: he was part of what became Miller's Army Air Force Band (officially, the 418th Army Band), playing lead trumpet as Master (First) Sergeant.
|
After the war, singer Frank Sinatra invited Zarchy to move to Los Angeles, where he became a first-call studio musician.
|
He played on numerous recordings, including those led by Boyd Raeburn, Jerry Gray, Sarah Vaughan, and Frank Capp.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeke%20Zarchy
|
Zeke Zarchy
|
LITERAL
|
CAUSER
|
instrument
|
Zolani enhanced the instrument by creating a chromatic santour, which essentially allows the use of both black and white keys.
|
Professional background Zolani is known for the development of a new tuning technique for the santour, which is an ancient Iranian instrument.
|
The traditional Iranian santour is a diatonic instrument, which is relative to playing a piano without the use of the black keys.
|
Over the history of the Persian santour, unsuccessful attempts had been made to create a chromatic santour, but the enhanced instrument remained in experimental phases, never becoming functional.
|
Zolani's change and enhancement of the santour was an historical first in the presentation and playing capabilities of the instrument.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kourosh%20Zolani
|
Kourosh Zolani
|
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