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Motherboard
The motherboard, also known as a mainboard, is the main circuit board in any electronic system. It's what holds together all the components needed for an electronic system to function. Although there may be other circuit boards attached to the motherboard, the motherboard is the largest.
Composition
The painted, base material of a motherboard is composed of fiberglass yarn strands that have been woven together and coated with a liquid resin and set to dry. This combination of woven fiberglass and resin is sent through an oven at a high temperature. When it comes out, it hardens and becomes stronger than it was before. This finished, very-hard, lightweight material, called pre-preg, is layered together and then painted, typically green. It forms what is the base material of the motherboard. This material acts as an electrical insulator and holds everything in place.
Copper is used to form the communication pathways that connect all the different parts on the motherboard, and is used because of its excellent ability to conduct electricity.
“On-board” is a term used to refer to anything that is permanently embedded onto the motherboard. Electrical parts are soldered onto the motherboard. These parts include transistors and resistors. Other parts that are attached to the motherboard are able to be removed in the future so that they can be upgraded. The CPU is an example of a part that is usually removable.
Parts that are not "on-board" can be bought as a card. Some of these parts include RAM and CPU. Computers today usually have a memory port, 2 or more USB ports, a parallel port (for use with old printers usually), audio & microphone jacks, a network port and ports for the keyboard and mouse. There are also some rare motherboards that have plugs only for very specific parts.
All of the slots and plugs both inside and outside the computer case are shaped a certain way to accept a certain type of part. Some will not even accept parts even one generation behind, such as the CPU and memory. Others, like the video plug have not changed in years. Some of the plugs, such as the video, keyboard and mouse plugs, are a special color. These colors make it easier to pair the plug to the port. The motherboard may also be referred to as the PCB which stands for ‘printed circuit board’, though it is essentially a gigantic PCB and can be considered the 'primary' PCB.
The Reagan Diaries
The Reagan Diaries is an edited version of diaries written by Ronald Reagan while he was President of the United States.
The book is edited by Douglas Brinkley. The unedited version of Reagan's diaries were published in 2009. Ronald Reagan was president for eight years. During his terms in office, Reagan wrote in his diary about conflicts with the Soviet Union, the Iran–Contra affair, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and his Alzheimer's diagnoses. The edited diaries reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Reagan's original diary is on display at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
Fasting
Fasting is a kind of abstinence. It is when someone does not eat or drink for some specified period of time. It is only the case if the person does so of his or her own will. It may also be that the person only eats and drinks certain kinds of food. Most often, fasting is done for religious reasons. Depending on the tradition, fasting practices may forbid sexual intercourse, (or any sexual desire), masturbation, as well as refraining from eating certain types or groups of food (e.g. meat).
Arnulfo Fuentebella
Arnulfo Palma Fuentebella (October 29, 1945 – September 9, 2020) was a Filipino politician. He was the Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives from 2000 to 2001. He was also a representative of House of Representatives between 1992 to 2001, 2004 to 2019. Fueneblla was born in Goa, Camarines Sur.
Fasting
Fasting for religious and spiritual reasons has been a part of human custom since pre-history. It is mentioned in the Qur'an, in the Mahabharata, in the Upanishads, and in the Bible, in both the Old and New Testament. In Buddhism it is also taught as a way to getting Nirvana.
In almost all cases, there are exceptions for observing the fasting. These are made for the following groups of people
Politics
Fasting as a form of protest is called a hunger strike.
Intermittent fasting
Timed fasting is known as Intermittent fasting. It is sometimes used for weight loss.
There are different ways to time your fast. You can:
Gurgen Egiazaryan
Gurgen Ambartsumovich Egiazaryan (29 September 1948 – 28 October 2020) was an Armenian politician and writer. He was born in Yerevan. From 1999 to 2003, he was a member of the Armenian Parliament.
In his later years he wrote three books, The Children of the Sun (2011), The Thief (2016) and The Wolf Knot Operation (2016).
Egiazaryan died on 28 October 2020, aged 72, of COVID-19, during the pandemic in Armenia.
Rita Sargsyan
Rita Aleksandri Sargsyan (Ռիտա Ալեքսանդրի Սարգսյան, née Dadayan (Դադայան), 6 March 1962 – 20 November 2020) was an Armenian socialite. She was the wife of President and Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan from 1983 until her death.
From 2008 to 2018, she was the First Lady of Armenia.
Sargsyan was born to a military family in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. She was a music teacher.
Sargsyan died at the age of 58 from COVID-19 on 20 November 2020.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a park in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The park has many different plants from many parts of the world. It is near the Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, and Park Slope neighborhoods. The area of the garden is 52 acre. It includes several special gardens or plant collections. The Steinhardt Conservatory which has the C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum is also there. The garden was founded in 1910.
Trillion (disambiguation)
Trillion may mean:
Badagry Heritage Museum
Badagry Heritage Museum is a museum in Badagry town of Lagos, Nigeria. It is also known as Black Heritage Museum Badagry. The museum was built in 1863.
Trillion (disambiguation)
Numbers
Either of the following two numbers (see Names for large numbers for more information):
Jack Buck
John Francis "Jack" Buck (August 21, 1924 – June 18, 2002) was a sportscaster. He was the father of Joe Buck and the brother of another late sportscaster Bob Buck. Buck was best known for working with the St. Louis Cardinals. His other play-by-play jobs include these:
Peter Barry
Peter Barry (10 August 1928 – 26 August 2016) was an Irish politician and businessman. He was from Cork city. He was a member of Fine Gael. He was a Teachta Dála (TD; member of parliament) from 1969 to 1997, and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1982 to 1987. He helped negotiate the Anglo-Irish Agreement. In 1987, he served for a short time as Tánaiste (deputy prime minister).
Herford
Herford is a town in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was founded in 789.
Herford has about 67,000 inhabitants.
Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell (September 27, 1923 – October 6, 2014) was an American sportscaster in the Philadelphia area calling games for the Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, and college football.
James Brown (sportscaster)
James Brown (born February 25, 1951) is an African-American sportscaster and the current host of The NFL Today. His other jobs include these:
Rocket Mania!
Rocket Mania is a computer puzzle video game made by Nuclide Games and PopCap Games.
Arcade
The game starts empty, with tiles filling up the board. The player must lead fuses to rockets before the board fills.
Strategy
The player starts with a number of matches. Launching multiple rockets will bring bonus matches to the board, but they will burn out if left there. If the match is carried by the fuse light, the player gets the match. The game ends if the player runs out of matches.
Thomas Bangalter
Thomas Bangalter (born 3 January 1975) is a French musician, half of the duo Daft Punk, together with Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, in the sub-genre known as French House (Filter House/Tekfunk).
Tart
A tart is a type of pastry, that is like a pie and we usually put some types of food inside it, like berries, or fruit.
Never Gonna Not Dance Again
Never Gonna Not Dance Again is a pop song by American singer Pink, released on November 4, 2022. It is from her ninth upcoming studio album, Trustfall. Critics have described this song as "vibrant, joyful, and euphoric" and "an upbeat anthem about dancing through our perpetually hard times". It commercially reached the top 10 in 7 countries.
Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) is Malaysia's main international airport and a Southeast Asian airport. It costed US$3.5 billions to build. It is in Sepang district of Selangor. It is located approximately 45 km from Kuala Lumpur and serves the Greater Klang Valley conurbation.
It is the major hub of Malaysia Airlines, MASkargo, AirAsia, AirAsia X, Malindo Air and Department of Civil Aviation (DCA).
High-definition television
Most HDTV systems use digital signals with a 16:9 aspect ratio (width to height). This is different to SDTV (standard-definition television) which uses analog signals and a 4:3 aspect ratio.
HDTV picture resolution is at least twice that of SDTV, so it can present a more vivid screen than analog television or DVD. HDTV can control resolution efficiently.
Some videos on the website YouTube, a free video sharing website that lets people upload and view videos, are in HD.
There are different standards. Common ones are:
As a comparison, PAL plus is at 1024x576 pixels, and NTSC at 853x480 pixels.
Love Myself (Hailee Steinfield song)
Love Myself is an electropop song and debut single by actress and singer Hailee Steinfeld, released on August 7, 2015. It is from her debut EP, Haiz. The lyrics speak of self-confidence, and an "ode to masturbation" in the media. It reached the top 10 in Belgium, Israel, and the United States.
Palme d'Or
The Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was created in 1955 by the festival's organizing committee.
The Palme d'Or is widely seen to be one of the most well known awards in the movie industry.
Varusanadu
Varusanadu is a village panchayat (code: 232202) in Theni District of Tamil Nadu, which is located in the bank of Vaigai River. This village comes under Kadamalaigundu - Mayiladumparai Panchayat union and Andipatti Taluk.
The valley around this area is called Varusanadu Valley, which is a part of Cumbum Valley in Western Ghats and is connected to Meghamalai Mountains. Vaigai River is originating from this valley under Periyar Plateau of western ghats.
Fernando González
Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi (born 29 July 1980) is a Chilean former professional tennis player. He played in all quarterfinals of all four Grand Slam tournaments. He played his only major final at the 2007 Australian Open, losing to top-seeded Roger Federer. He has also won Olympic gold, bronze and silver medals.
Since 2017, he is in a relationship with retired Argentine field hockey player Luciana Aymar. They have a son.
Sirenia (band)
Sirenia is a gothic metal band from Stavanger, Norway, founded in early 2001. Sirenia play a mix of gothic metal, symphonic metal, extreme metal and death metal sounds. The vocals are two male, one hard voice, from death metal, and a clean male singer. The female voice is used in moments with melody or chorus. The band uses melodic instrumentals, synthesizers, and distorted guitars with female vocals, and a choir, and violins, for the male voices. Lyrics spoke about human existence, emotion, and mental states.
The band has changed tree female voices, first Fabienne Gondamin for the recording of At Sixes and Sevens, then Henriette Bordvik with whom the band recorded two albums ("An Elixir For Existence" and plus one EP "Sirenian Shores", and thenMonika Pedersen for recording Nine Destinies and a Downfall in 2007.
The lyrics, are written by Morten Veland.
In Plenty and In Time of Need
In Plenty and In Time of Need is the national anthem of the country of Barbados. It was written by Irving Burgie. The music was written by C. Van Roland Edwards. As one part of the West Indies Federation Barbados' anthem was supposed to be Forged from the Love of Liberty. The current anthem was made with Barbados' moves toward independence. This song was then taken by Barbados when it became independent in 1966.
Touch and Go
"Touch and Go" is a song by American rock band The Cars from their 1980 album Panorama. It peaked at number 37 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980.
The song's verses feature the use of polymeter. The bass and drums are playing in a time signature of 5/4, while the vocals, keyboards, and guitar are playing in 4/4. For the lengthy pre-chorus and chorus, all instruments (and vocals) conform to the 4/4 signature. As with the guitar solo, only some sections are "stretched out" to give Elliot Easton more measures on Eminor, F, and G, to build his flashy, yet melodic, solo.
Release
"Touch and Go" was released as the debut single from Panorama. It peaked at number 37 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980, making it the highest-charting US single from Panorama. Its follow-up singles, "Don't Tell Me No" and "Gimme Some Slack" failed to chart.
"Touch and Go" has appeared on many of The Cars' compilation albums. These include Greatest Hits, Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology, Complete Greatest Hits, Shake It Up & Other Hits, and The Essentials. Aside from Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology, it is the only Panorama track to appear on said albums.
Bäretswil
Bäretswil is a municipality in the district of Hinwil in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Siniša Mihajlović
Siniša Mihajlović (born 20 February 1969) is a former Serbian football player. He has played for Yugoslavia national team and Serbia national team.
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Ryo Okatani
Ryo Okatani (born 13 January, 1981) is a Japanese football player.
Anna Karen
Anna Karen (born Ann McCall; 19 September 1936 – 22 February 2022) was a South African-born British actress. She is best known for playing Olive Rudge in the sitcoms On the Buses (1969–1973) and The Rag Trade (1977–1978), as well as three spin-off movies. From 1996 to 2017, she had the regular role of Aunt Sal in the soap opera EastEnders. She also appeared in two Carry On movies, Carry On Camping (1969) and Carry On Loving (1970).
Karen was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa. Her mother was English and her father was Irish. She moved to London at the age of 17. She was married to actor and comedian Terry Duggan from 1967 until his death in 2008.
On 22 February 2022, Karen died in a fire at her home in Ilford, east London. She was 85.
Popping boba
Popping boba, also known as Popping pearls, is a topping used in bubble tea. Unlike traditional tapioca pearls (which are made of tapioca), Popping boba consists of a gel-like skin with juice of any flavor on the inside. This requires a spherification process.
Popping boba is also used as a topping in smoothies, slushies, and frozen yogurt.
Red River of the North
The Red River of the North is in North America. It starts between the U.S. states of North Dakota and Minnesota. It starts where the Bois de Su River and Otter Tail River come together. It goes north through the Red River Valley. It is the border between North Dakota and Minnesota. It goes through Manitoba, Canada. It ends in Lake Winnipeg. From Lake Winnipeg, the water goes to the Nelson River. Then it ends in the Hudson Bay. The Red River flows through the cities Fargo-Moorhead and Grand Forks in the United States.
Deprisa, Deprisa
Deprisa, Deprisa (Hurry, Hurry!) is a 1981 Spanish French drama movie directed by Carlos Saura and starring André Falcon, Yves Barsacq, Berta Socuéllamos Zarco, José Antonio Valdelomar, Jesús Arias Aranzueque.
James–Lange theory
The James-Lange Theory is a hypothesis about emotions. It is one of the earliest theories of emotion. The theory is that emotions come from the physiological response to what is happening around us.
It was developed independently by two 19th-century scholars, William James and Carl Lange. The basic idea of the theory is that physiological arousal triggers the experience of a specific emotion. The theory is that the physiological change is primary, and emotion is caused by the information from the body's nervous system.
The theory has been criticised and modified over the course of time. There are several competing theories.
Catherine, Princess of Wales
Catherine, Princess of Wales, (born Catherine Elizabeth Middleton; 9 January 1982) is the wife of William, Prince of Wales. Their wedding took place on 29 April 2011. She became Duchess of Cambridge upon her marriage to the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William.
Picardy Spaniel
The Picardy Spaniel (Épagneul Picard) is a medium size spaniel type of gun dog. It was developed in France in the 19th century, but has even older origins with the French nobility. It is closely related to the Blue Picardy Spaniel, and they are very alike in appearance (except for the colour), but the Picardy Spaniel is the older of the two breeds.
Catherine, Princess of Wales
Middleton was born at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, She was grew up in Berkshire. She went to Marlborough College. She met Prince William when she was studying at the University of St Andrews in 2001. When they started a relationship, the attention from the media made Middleton feel harassed. In April 2007, the press reported that William and Middleton had split up. They continued to be friends and didn't stay away from each other, and later in 2007 they got back together. Since then, Middleton has attended many royal events. Many people like her fashion sense and she has been placed on many "best dressed" lists. On 22 July 2013, the Duchess gave birth to a baby boy in a London hospital. On 24 July, it was announced that the baby would be called Prince George of Cambridge, with the full given name George Alexander Louis. On 2 May 2015, she gave birth to Princess Charlotte of Cambridge. Their third child, Prince Louis of Cambridge, was born on 23 April 2018.
Picardy Spaniel
Colour
These dogs are always light brown with darker brown patches (called brown roan in dogs).
Temperment
The Picardy Spaniel has a gentle nature and likes to take care of children in a family. As they are natural hunting dogs they require lots of exercise.
Popularity
Because English spaniels had been introduced to France in the early 20th century, this dog became less popular with the French hunters who liked the English dogs and their numbers began to get smaller. Then World War I and World War II both caused the breed to nearly become extinct and a lot of effort was needed in to save the breed, they saved the breed but it is still not widely known outside of France.
Congress of People's Deputies of Russia
The Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian SFSR (Съезд народных депутатов РСФСР) and since 1991 Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation (Съезд народных депутатов Российской Федерации) was the main government legislature in the Russian SFSR and in the Russian Federation from 16 May 1990 to 21 September 1993. Members were elected on 4 March 1990 for a five year term. It was dissolved on 4 October 1993.
Memoir
A memoir (from the French word mémoire or the Latin memoria, meaning "memory") is a literary genre and a kind of autobiography. A person who writes memoirs can be called a memoirist. An autobiography tells the story of a life, while a memoir tells a story from a life, such as touchstone events and turning points from the author's life.
Eugenio Scalfari
Eugenio Scalfari (6 April 1924 – 14 July 2022) was an Italian journalist and politician. He was editor of the news magazine L'Espresso. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1968 to 1972 as a member of the Italian Socialist Party. He was a co-founder of the newspaper La Repubblica and its editor from 1976 to 1996. Scalfari was born in Civitavecchia, Italy. He also wrote for Il Mondo and L'Europeo.
Scalfari died on 14 July 2022 in Rome, Italy at the age of 98.
Max Kaur
Max Kaur (born December 9, 1969 in Tallinn) is an Estonian politician. He is a member of the Centre Party. He was Mayor of Mustvee 2013-2017. Since 2018 he is a Jõhvi municipality vice-governor. Since 2019 he is a Mayor of Johvi.
Education
Max Kaur studied law at Moscow International Independent University of Environmental and Political Sciences (IIUEPS), LL.B., and economics at Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics, MS in Economics. He earned his PhD in 2013 from Saint Petersburg State University of Economics.
Career
Max Kaur was counsellor of the Mayor of Tallinn, Edgar Savisaar from 2002 to 2005. He was vice-mayor of Maardu from 2005 to 2006. Max Kaur was first elected to Tallinn City Council in the Estonian local elections 2009. He was elected Mayor of Mustvee in April 2013. He was re-elected in December 2013.
He was a founder and leader of the Estonian social movement against gambling. He is an author of the idea to create a unique sculpture in Tallinn against addiction.
Central Franconian languages
Central Franconian (mittelfränkische Dialekte, mittelfränkische Mundarten, Mittelfränkisch) is a variant of the Franconian languages.
Taihō Code
The Taihō Code had two kinds of laws. It had ritsu which were laws about crime and how to arrest people. It had ryō, which were laws about how to run the government. For example, the ryō said which areas were provinces and who would run them and what things the governors were and were not allowed to do.
The lawmakers who wrote the Taihō Code copied things from Chinese laws. This was the Tang Dynasty in China. But the Japanese lawmakers wrote the Taihō Code to give more government jobs to Japanese noblemen. This was different from the Tang Dynasty laws, which said anyone from any family could work for the government if they took and passed the right tests.
Modern scholars do not have a copy of the entire Taihō Code, but they think it is about the same as the later Yōrō Code.
If the Taihō Code and the Yōrō Code count as the same thing, then they lasted from 702 c.e. until the start of the Tokugawa period in 1232 c.e.
Code Geass
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ, Kōdo Giasu: Hangyaku no Rurūshu?), often called simply Code Geass, is a 2006 Japanese animeseries. It was created by Sunrise. The series was directed by Gorō Taniguchi and written by Ichirō Ōkouchi. The character designs were made by manga artist group Clamp. The series was broadcast from October 5, 2006 until July 28, 2007.
Plot
The main character, Lelouch vi Britannia, used to be a prince of the Holy Empire of Britannia. He is a genius strategist. He meets a female named CC (referred to as C2). She gives him the power of "geass", which works differently for each person. His power is to force a person to do whatever he tells them to do. The power only works once per person and he must look them in the eyes for it to work. He wants to destroy Britannia. His only childhood friend, Suzaku Kururugi, is the main person stopping him from doing this because he thinks that Britannia can be changed from the inside. Lelouch and Suzaku are at Japan. Britannia conquered Japan after Lelouch was disowned for disrespecting his father, the king. Britannia stripped Japan of its prestige and renamed it Area 11. Lelouch's goal is to destroy Britannia. Suzaku does not agree with how Lelouch plans to do this. Suzaku joins the Britannian army to change the country from the inside. They fight each other—Lelouch's brains versus Suzaku's fighting talent.
Lelouch Lamperouge
His real name is Lelouch vi Britannia. He is the eleventh prince of the empire of Britannia. His mother, Marianne vi Britannia was murdered when he was child. Then his younger sister Nunnally became blind and could not walk by herself. She needed a wheelchair. Therefore, he hated Britannia and decided to create the kind world where Nunnally can live safely. He obtained Geass from C.C. and leaded a group of terrorists he united as the Black Knights with his well-known identity as Zero towards his revenge against Britannia and to create a better world for Nunnally. He latter wields the Knightmare Gawain with C.C. and Shinkirō in R2.
Suzaku Kururugi
He is the son of the former Japanese prime minister and friend of Lelouch in childhood before he joined the Britannian military hoping to change Britannia from the inside. He wields the Knightmare Lancelot.
C.C.
She gives Lelouch the power of Geass. She is immortal because she bears the code.
Kallen Stadtfeld
She is half Japanese and half Britannian. She is the pilot of the Knightmare Guren Mk-II. She is an important member of the Black Knights.
Anime
Code Geass premiered on the Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) television station at 25:25 on October 5, 2006. Its satellite television premiere across Japan on Animax was on November 7, 2006. Its sequel, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 was first announced on the March 2007. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 premiered on all Japan News Network (JNN) member stations on April 6, 2008.
Another OVA anime titled Code Geass: Nunnally in Wonderland (コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ： ナナリーinワンダーランド) was made known through the anime's official website. Takahiro Kimura did the character designs of the series. Makoto Baba was assigned as the director of the OVA. In the story, Lelouch makes the ultimate use of his Geass for his little sister Nunnally. The Blu-ray was released by Bandai Visual on July 27, 2012 with English subtitles.
Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 American comedy movie by John Hess and starring Jon Heder.
Code Geass
Anime
A 3-part theatrical movie remake of the first 2 seasons of the anime was released with the first movie released on October 21, 2017. The second movie titled Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion II - Transgression (コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ 叛道) was released on February 10, 2018. The third compilation movie, titled Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion III - Glorification (コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ 皇道) was released on May 26, 2018.
Napoleon Dynamite
Story
Napoleon is an unusual school teenager who lives in Preston, Idaho. He does not have a good home life. Napoleon lives with his older brother Kip and their grandmother. Napoleon’s grandmother goes to see some friends. Napoleon and Kip are left to stay with their uncle Rico. One day Napoleon meets Pedro. They become good friends. Pedro runs for school president. Pedro has to compete with the most popular girl in school, Summer Wheatly, to win the school vote. Napoleon meets a girl named Deb who he begins to like. Deb, Napoleon and Pedro keep working for Pedro to beat Summer Wheatly for president. Napoleon dances in a skit at the announcing of the president for Pedro. Kip gets married and Pedro becomes school president. Napoleon and Deb live a happy life together.
Tribune, Kansas
Tribune is a city in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is the county seat of Greeley County. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 772.
Education
The city has 3 schools in total: 1 Elementary, 1 Middle, and 1 High School.
IOS 9
iOS 9 (codenamed Monarch) is a version of iOS released on September 16, 2015. iOS 9 added many things to make the operating system better. Some of the things it added were a new News application, updates to the Notes and Map applications, and improvements to Siri and the Spotlight feature. For the iPad, iOS 9 also added a split screen feature. The current version of iOS 9 is iOS 9.3.6.
King River (Victoria)
King River is a river in the north east of Victoria, Australia. It flows into the Ovens River and which then joins the Murray River at Echuca. The King River is used for kayaking with many level two and three rapids. In 2008 it was the site for the Victorian and Australian Downriver Championships. The King Valley is a beautiful, cool climate wine grape growing area.
King Valley History
The Italians came to the area in the 1940s and 50's and like the Chinese grew tobacco. They soon saw that it was a good place to grow wine grapes. The valley has become famous for its different wines, such as sangiovese, nebbiolo and barbera. The vineyards have Italian names like Pizzini, Dal Zotto, Corsini, Sartori, Ciccone and Politini. The King Valley has some of the highest altitude vineyards in Australia.
Whitfield and Moyhu are the major towns in the King Valley along the road from Wangaratta or Mansfield.
Straight ally
A straight ally, heterosexual ally, or hetero ally (often simply called an ally) is a heterosexual and cisgender person who supports LGBT rights and movements. Straight allies help members of the LGBT community. Straight allies think that heteronormativity, homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia are bad and should not exist.
Avian influenza
Avian influenza (bird flu, or grippe of the birds), is an illness caused by a virus. The virus, called influenza A or type A, usually lives in birds. Sometimes it infects mammals, including humans.
There are many types of influenza A, which was first found in a bird in Italy in 1878. Most types have weak symptoms, such as breathing problems, similar to the common cold.
A subtype, called H5N1, killed six people in Hong Kong in 1997, but did not kill again until 2003, this time in China. Until the middle of 2005, it was primarily found in southeast Asia but since then has spread to parts of Africa and Europe. It has killed tens of millions of birds and resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of millions of other birds to limit its spread. So far it is mostly a bird disease and rarely infects humans. The concern about H5N1 is that it is constantly evolving at a very fast rate. It might create a human flu pandemic. Governments around the world are spending money to deal with this problem: studying H5N1, creating vaccines, conducting pandemic practice exercises, stockpiling useful flu medication, and many other activities.
White House (Moscow)
The White House (Белый дом; officially: The House of the Government of the Russian Federation, Дом Правительства Российской Федерации), also known in Russia in the 1990s as the Russian White House, is a government building in Moscow. It is the primary office of the government of Russia and is the official workplace of the Russian Prime Minister.
Nour El-Sherif
Nour El-Sherif (نور الشريف; 28 April 1946 – 11 August 2015) was an Egyptian actor. His birth name is Mohamad Geber Mohamad ِAbd Allah (Arabic: محمد جابر محمد عبد الله). El-Sherif was born in the working-class neighbourhood of Sayeda Zainab in Cairo (السيدة زينب). He was known for his conspiracy theories about the Holocaust and the September 11 attacks.
El-Sherif died from a heart attack in Cairo at the age of 69.
Los Gatos, California
Los Gatos is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is in the San Francisco Bay Area, about 70 miles south of San Francisco. It is on the edge of Silicon Valley.
The town grew rapidly in the 1960s. As of 2020, it has 33,529 inhabitants. California State Route 17 runs through the town from south to north.
List of Blue's Clues episodes
This is a List of Blue's Clues episodes on Nickelodeon from September 8, 1996 to May 10, 2004.
Anna Demidova
Anna Demidova (1878 – July 17, 1918) was a Lady in Waiting for Tsarina Alexandra of Russia. She was exiled with the Romanov family to Tobolsk and Ekaterinburg after the Russian Revolution of 1917. She was also killed with them on July 17, 1918. She was later canonized as a martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in 1981 for being hurt by the Soviet. Her nickname was "Nyuta" and she was described as a tall blonde.
Alexander Palace
The Alexander Palace (Александровский дворец) was a palace near Tsarskoye Selo, St. Petersburg, Russia. It is mostly famous for being the place where the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family lived. It is in the Alexander Park. It was called an "elegant building" with the "greatest simplicity" and "comfort".
Gronau, North Rhine-Westphalia
Gronau (Westf.) is a city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is near the border with the Netherlands, about 10 km east of Enschede. As of 2018, the city has about 48,000 people living there.
Rock musician and singer Udo Lindenberg was born here.
Twin towns
Gronau is twinned with:
Tápiószentmárton
Tápiószentmárton is a large commune in Pest county, Hungary.
Loan
A loan is a type of debt. The borrower agrees to repay the lender the sum of money loaned, at a particular time. It is often paid part by part over time, in order to clear the debt.
Tápiószentmárton
Connections
A minor road heading through Tápiószentmárton beetween Tápiószecső and Cegléd. Three other minor roads also connect the village with Albertirsa, Göbölyjárás (where the train station is located) and Tápiószele.
Trialware
Trialware is one type of shareware. It is software that the user can only use for a short time. Then it expires. If the person wishes to keep using the program, he or she must buy a registration key or password. Trialware may be set up by date or days. For example, a 30-day trialware program may expire in 30 days or after it has been used for 30 non-contiguous days. Also called "demoware," sophisticated trialware prevents a user from installing new trial versions over and over without paying. For example, it can look for a hidden file or an entry in the Windows Registry that it created when it was previously installed. See shareware and wares.
Loan
Important components of a loan
A loan can be broadly described by the following terms.
Big Three (management consultancies)
MBB, or alternatively the Big Three when used in relation to the consulting industry, refers to the three major strategic consulting companies. They are considered to be the most prestigious firms in the management consulting industry.: These three firms have stood out from other competitors and have consolidated as the top-tier of management consulting business. Fundamental differences against other consultancies include: Fundamental differences among the three include: These firms have had a significant impact in the development of modern-day business world and education, notably for the development of new intelligence, such as the Net Promoter Score and the BCG Matrix.
Loan
Deposit or Down-payment
The deposit or down-payment is an amount of money that the borrower is required to pay, as the first contribution towards clearing the debt, so that the loan deal can be finalized. The deposit is usually higher than the monthly contribution towards the loan. Some loans require a deposit while some do not. The deposit is usually a fraction, typically a percentage, of the total amount that is loaned out.
Installments
An Installment is money that is a monthly payment towards the loan. It may not be necessarily paid monthly but it has to be paid from time to time over throughout the loan deal. Installments are paid according to a loan rate.
Interest
Interest is a charge on top of the value of the loan, that acts as a cost of the loan. Interest is paid according to a rate called an interest rate. The interest rate varies from loan to loan and from lender to lender.
Loan payment
The most typical loan payment type is the fully amortizing payment in which each monthly rate has the same value over time.
The fixed monthly payment P for a loan of L for n months and a monthly interest rate c is:
Types of loan
Loans can be broadly classified as either secured or unsecured loans.
AirAsia
AirAsia Berhad (myx: 5099) is a Malaysian low-cost airline based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It has been named as the world's best low-cost airline, and a pioneer of low-cost travel in Asia. AirAsia group operates domestic and international flights to 100 destinations in 22 countries. Its main hub is the klia2 (LCCT) at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).
Affliates
These are AirAsia's affiliate airlines and their hubs:
Loan
Secured and unsecured loans
Unsecured loans are loans that are given without pledges of repayment. This means that the borrower is not required to provide security to get the loan. Because of the high risk involved, unsecured loans are given out in smaller amounts and have higher interest rates. The lenders raise the interest rates in an effort to recover their money as quickly as possible. Most personal loans are unsecured loans.
Personal loans
A personal loan is a 'small expense' loan that is mostly used by people to finance their day to day emergencies. They come in smaller amounts and therefore, just like most unsecured loans, they are easily approved.
Home loans
Home loans are loans that are taken for the purpose of buying a house. Home loans are secured loans. The house acts as a collateral or security to the loan.
Payday loans
Payday loans are signature loans or cash advances that requires no security. This means that it is possible to get a payday loan even with a bad credit status or no credit at all. Payday loans are given on the basis of employment and income.
However, payday loans have a high interest rate especially when the paying schedule is not followed. The high interest rates are a cost of convenience. Interest could run as high as 2000%, for this reason, it is not a good idea to take a payday loan if you don't expect to earn enough to repay it.
Auto loans
Auto loans are loans given out by financial institutions or car dealerships, for the purpose of buying an automobile. Due to the nature of automobiles to lose value with time, Auto loans usually have high interest rates. The shorter the time an auto loan is paid, the lower the overall cost of the loan will be.
Mortgage
Mortgage is a loan that is used specifically to purchase a house. Usually, a mortgage is given to you by a mortgage company or any financial institution, after evaluation of your potential to pay back the loan in full. A mortgage is a secured loan, therefore, providing collateral is necessary. Mortgage can be further classified into long-term and short-term mortgages, depending on the length of time required for the mortgage to be paid. Short-term mortgages usually have a term of 15 years while long–term mortgages have a 30-year term.
Credit card loans
When you get a credit card, you have taken a loan. This is a credit card loan, and just like any other loan, it comes with interest and fees. Credit card loans are given out by credit companies and most banks today. The interest rates on credit card loans are higher than that on most personal loans, often around 15%.
Cowra
Cowra is a city in the central west of New South Wales, Australia. It is in Cowra Shire. It is 310m above sea-level and about 300 km west of Sydney. Cowra is on the banks of the Lachlan River.
The first name for Cowra was Coura Rocks. This may have been the name of one of the first cattle farms. This name is probably the name of the river ford (crossing) where people could cross the Lachlan River.
The name Cowra comes from a local aboriginal word meaning "eagle on the rocks".
It should not be confused with another New South Wales town named Corowa.
History
The first people to live in the area were the Wiradjuri people. The first European explorer, George Wilson Evans, came into the Lachlan Valley in 1815. He named the area the Oxley Plains after his boss, the Surveyor-General, John Oxley. In 1817 he said the area was "unfit for white settlement". An army camp was set up soon after at Soldiers Flat near present-day Billimari. Arthur Ranken and James Sloan, from Bathurst, were amongst the first European settlers on the Lachlan. They moved to the area in 1831.
The township of Coura Rocks began in 1840. By 1847 the township was called Cowra. The village was officially listed in 1849.
In the 1850s many people looking for gold went through on their way to the gold fields at Lambing Flat (Young) and Grenfell. The first school was started in 1857. The first bridge over the Lachlan River was built in 1870. Gold was found at Mount McDonald in the 1880s. The railway, from Sydney, reached Cowra in 1886. Local government started in 1888. The first telephone were connected in 1901. The town water supply was started in 1909, the gas in 1912, and town supplied electricity was connected in 1924.
Cowra is home to the Australian copy of the United Nation's World Peace Bell. These are normally kept in a nation's capital city. It was given to Cowra because of its special role in international understanding, world peace and as a centre of world friendship.
The Cowra breakout
During World War II Cowra was the site of a prisoner of war (POW) camp. Most of the prisoners were captured Japanese and Italian soldiers, sailors and airmen. On August 5, 1944 about 545 (some sources say over 1000) Japanese POWs attempted a mass escape from the camp. This is perhaps the largest prison escape in the world. At the same time, other Japanese prisoners killed themselves, or were killed by their countrymen, inside the camp.
During the escape 231 Japanese and 4 Australian guards were killed, and 108 prisoners were wounded. The dead Japanese were buried in Cowra in a specially made Japanese War Cemetery. This is the only such cemetery in Australia. It also has some of the dead from the WWII air raids on Darwin.
An Avenue of Honour also remembers those who died in World War I.
Japanese Garden
The Japanese War Cemetery was looked by members of the Cowra RSL and given to Japan in 1963. In 1971 the Cowra Tourism Development decided to celebrate this link with Japan. They planned a Japanese garden for the town. The Japanese Government agreed to help as a sign of thanks for the respectful treatment of their war dead. The garden also received money from the Australian Government and private groups.
The garden was designed by Ken Nakajima (1914 - 2000). He was a world famous designer of Japanese gardens. The first part was opened in 1979, with a second part opened in 1986.
San Chiang tree frog
The San Chiang tree frog or Sanchiang tree toad (Hyla sanchiangensis) is a frog from China. Scientists saw it between 500 and 1560 meters above sea level in southern Anhui Province, Zheijiang Province, Fujian Province, Guangdong Province, Hunan Province, and Guizhou Province.
This frog is green in color with a light colored belly. It has black spots on its sides and legs. It has a black stripe from its nose over its eye and eardrum down its side. It has vomerine teeth in its upper jaw.
Bandwidth (computing)
In computer network and computer science, digital bandwidth or just bandwidth means the amount of data that can be sent from one point to another in a certain period of time. It is measured as a bit rate expressed in bits per second (bits/s) or multiples of it (kbit/s Mbit/s etc.)
Digital bandwidth should not be confused with:
Bandwidth in web hosting
In web hosting, the term "bandwidth" is often used to describe the amount of data transferred to or from the website within a defined period of time. Another more specific phrase used for this meaning of bandwidth is monthly data transfer.
Web hosting companies often quote a monthly data transfer for a website, for example 500 gigabytes per month. If the total amount of data downloaded from the website in a particular month reaches this limit, the hosting company may shut off further public access to the site.
Broadband
Sometimes, the word "broadband" is used to mean "high-speed", especially with high-speed internet connections. "Broadband" means "wide band", and suggests high-speed. However, the term is not clear; "high-speed" is more clear. A dial-up telephone connection is most often thought to be low-speed, at less than 56,000 bit/s (bits per second). High-speed is usually 200,000 bit/s or faster. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) or Cable modem connections are usually high-speed.
List of Mesopotamian deities
The following is a list of Mesopotamian deities.
Minor deities
This is only some of them. There are thousands. This is in Alphabetic order.
Legendary beasts
The eleven mythical monsters created by Tiāmat in the Epic of Creation, Enûma Eliš:
San Ramon, California
San Ramon is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located 34 miles east of San Francisco, and within the San Ramon Valley. San Ramon's population was estimated as 76,134 in mid-2015 by the US Census Bureau, making it the 4th largest city in Contra Costa County, after Richmond, Concord and Antioch.
Tell Her About It
"Tell Her About It" is a 1983 song by Billy Joel. It is the leading single from his ninth studio album An Innocent Man. It went to number 1 in the United States, number 2 in Ireland, number 3 in South Africa, number 4 in the United Kingdom, number 5 in Canada, number 9 in Australia and number 12 in New Zealand.
Löhne
Löhne is a town of the district Herford, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
Ten'yō
Ten'yō (天養) was a Japanese era name (年号,) after Kōji and before Kyūan. This period started in February 1144 and ended in July 1145. During this time, the emperor was Konoe-tennō (近衛天皇).
Masaaki Hatsumi
Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi is Grandmaster of the oldest of the shinobi clans in Japan, the Togakure clan. He teaches the history of ninjas at Mie University.
Hatsumi founded the martial arts group Bujinkan, which had more than 300,000 members in 2012. He has also helped moviemakers make martial arts scenes for their movies.
Pauly Shore
Paul Montgomery Shore (born February 1, 1968) is an American actor, comedian and movie director. He's best known for his roles in several comedy movies in the 1990s.
Greg Gumbel
His jobs include these:
Fikret Otyam
Fikret Otyam (December 19, 1926 – August 9, 2015) was a Turkish painter and journalist. He began his career in journalism. He later moved to painting and photography. He worked for the Son Saat, Dünya, Akın, Ulus, Kudret and Cumhuriyet newspapers.
Pulchérie Gbalet
Pulchérie Edith Gbalet is an Ivoirian scholar and activist. She led the "Orange Vests" movement against the government of Ivory Coast. She has been involved in union organizing as well. During the 2020 protests against Alassane Ouattara, she was sent to jail for her activism. She is still a political prisoner today.
Ixia
Ixia is a genus of plants in the family Iridaceae. All of these plants are herbs with corms. The plants grows in South Africa. In total, there are 40-60 species.
Swalla
"Swalla" is a dancehall song by Jason Derulo featuring Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla Sign, released on February 24, 2017. The song was originally going to be the first single from Jason Derulo's fifth studio album. Commercially, the song has peaked the top 10 in 23 countries, making it a worldwide success.
Epic Games
Epic Games is a video game company based in North Carolina, USA. They are famous for making the Fortnite, Unreal Tournament, and Gears of War series' of video games.
Ixia
Common names for this kind of flower are Corn lily and African Corn-Lily and Wand flower.
The leaves look like swords. The flowers look like stars.
Some species of Corn lilies are cultivated as garden plants and houseplants.