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Carnivorous plants are plants which get nutrients from trapping and eating animals. They are often called insectivorous plants, because they usually trap insects. Since they get some of their food from animals, carnivorous plants can grow in places where the soil is thin, or poor in nutrients. This is true for soils with little nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcrops. Charles Darwin wrote the first well-known book on carnivorous plants in 1875. This ability of plants to catch animals is true carnivory. There are more than twelve genera in five families. These include about 625 species that attract and trap prey, produce digestive enzymes, and use their nutrients. In addition, there are more than 300 species in several genera that show some but not all of these characteristics. These are usually called "protocarnivorous plants". Trapping mechanisms. Insectivorous plants have leaves that are made like pitchers or bladders which catch insects. Today, five different ways of trapping are known: These traps are all classified as "active" or "passive". "Triphyophyllum" is a liana (a climber in tropical forests). It has three types of leaves. When needed, it puts out long leaves. These are passive 'flypapers' which hide mucus. The leaves of the plant do not grow or move as a response to moving prey. The Sundew "Drosera", on the other hand, is an active flypaper. All species of Sundew are able to move their sticky tentacles in response to a contact. The tentacles are very sensitive and will bend toward the center of the leaf in order to bring the insect into contact with as many stalked glands as possible. According to Darwin, the touch of legs of a small gnat with a single tentacle is enough to cause this response. This helps the catch and digestion of prey. The Venus flytrap, "Dionaea muscipula", is one of a very small group of plants able to move fast. When an insect or spider crawls along the leaves and touches a hair, the trap closes "only if a different hair is contacted within twenty seconds of the
Joseph Patrick Kinnear (27 December 1946 – 7 April 2024) was a football player. He played for the Republic of Ireland national team. He also coached football. Death. In 2021, it was announced that since 2015 he had been living with dementia. Kinnear died on 7 April 2024 from problems caused by vascular dementia at the age of 77. Source: Honours. Player. Tottenham Hotspur Manager. Nepal Luton Town Individual
Sir Alexander Matthew Busby was a Scottish footballer and football manager. He played for Scotland national team. Busby managed Manchester United and led them to great success. Many people believe that Busby is one of the greatest football managers of all time. As a player, Busby played for Manchester City and Liverpool. After his playing career, he went to manage Manchester United and built a great team called the Busby Babes. Eight of those players died in an airplane accident in Munich. This accident was called the Munich air disaster. But Busby again built a winning team after the disaster. He spent 25 years with Manchester United and won 13 trophies. Career statistics. Managerial career. 1Does not include matches for which Jimmy Murphy served as acting manager following the Munich air disaster. Honours. Player. Manchester City Manager. Manchester United
Brett Michael Emerton (born 22 February 1979) is an Australian former professional footballer who played for Sydney Olympic, Sydney FC, Feyenoord Rotterdam, Blackburn Rovers and the Australia national team. "Scores and results list Australia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Emerton goal." Honours. Feyenoord Australia Individual
David Carlyle Rocastle (2 May 1967 – 31 March 2001) was an English professional footballer who played as a midfielder in the roles of a playmaker and a winger. Honours. Arsenal Leeds United Sabah England youth Individual
The flag of Azerbaijan () is one of the national symbols of Azerbaijan and consists of three equal horizontal bands, from top: blue, red, and green; a white crescent and an eight-pointed star are centered in the red band. The official colours and size were adopted on February 5, 1991. The flag is used on land as the civil, state and war flag, and at sea as the civil, state and naval ensign and naval jack. The specific shades of the national flag were laid out in a 2004 law. The Cyan blue color at the top of the flag stands for Azerbaijan’s Turkic heritage, the red in the middle stands for Azerbaijan’s desire to create a modern society and the green at the bottom of the flag symbolizes Azerbaijan’s Islamic civilization. The eight point star on Azerbaijan’s flag stands for the eight original Turkic peoples - the Azerbaijani’s, Ottomans, Jagatais, Tatars, Kazakhs, Kipchaks, Seljuqs and the Turkmen.  History. The Azerbaijani flag was first created by the Azerbaijani nationalist Alī bay Huseynzada. He originally used it to promote Azerbaijani independence from the Tsarist Russian Empire. He exhorted his followers to “Turkify, Islamicize and Europeanize” in order to emphasize ethnic pride, religious devotion and modernization. The flag was first adopted by his Musavat party in 1917. The modern Azerbaijani flag was first adopted in 1918 and served as the flag of Azerbaijan from 1918 until the in 1920.  The flag then became popular again in early 1989, as a way of protesting against the failure of the soviet government to protect them from Armenian attacks on their territory. The flag was officially readopted on February 5, 1991 - it continued in use after Azerbaijan’s independence on August 30th, 1991.  Note - both the 1st and 2nd Azerbaijani republics used the Turkish flag briefly
The Coat of arms of Azerbaijan mixes traditional and modern symbols. The focal point of the emblem is the fire symbol. This symbol comes from the fact that Azerbaijan has many everlasting fires which also gives the name "land of eternal fire". The colors used in composing the emblem are taken from the national flag. These colors are found in the background behind the eight pointed star (۞ Rub El Hizb) upon which the flame is shown. The star itself stands for the eight branches of the Turkic peoples, and between each point of the star, there is a smaller eight pointed star found.  Like other post-Soviet republics whose arms do not predate the October Revolution, the current arms retains some components of the Soviet one. At the bottom of the emblem is a stalk of wheat, representing the main agricultural product of the nation, which was also part of the earlier arms. The other plant represented at the bottom is oak.
"For other uses, see" Roquefort (disambiguation) Roquefort-la-Bédoule is a commune of 5,016 people (2006). It is in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the south of France.
"For other uses, see" Roquefort (disambiguation) Roquefort is a commune of 230 people (1999). It is located in the region Occitanie in the Gers department in the southwest of France.
Roquefort is a commune of 1,894 people (1999). It is in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the Landes department in the southwest of France.
Roquefort-sur-Soulzon is a commune of 691 people (2007). It is in the region Occitanie in the Aveyron department in the south of France. It is famous for its cheese (named after the village).
"For other uses, see" Corn (disambiguation) Corn is a commune of 157 people (1999). It is located in the region Occitanie in the Lot department in the south of France. The commune of "Roquefort" was attached to it.
"For other uses, see" Roquefort (disambiguation) Roquefort-de-Sault is a commune of 113 people (1999). It is in the region Occitanie in the Aude department in the south of France.
"For other uses, see" Roquefort (disambiguation) Roquefort-des-Corbières is a commune of 664 people (1999). It is in the region Occitanie in the Aude department in the south of France.
"For other uses, see" Roquefort (disambiguation) Roquefort-les-Cascades is a commune of 107 people (1999). It is located in the region Occitanie in the Ariège department in the south of France.
"For other uses, see" Roquefort (disambiguation) Roquefort-sur-Garonne is a commune of 715 people (1999). It is located in the region Occitanie in the Haute-Garonne department in the southwest of France.
The avalanche effect (“landslide effect”) is a property of block ciphers and cryptographic hash function algorithms. It is often desired in cryptography. The effect says that a lot of the output must change, even when the input changes only a little. In good block ciphers this means: A small change in the key or the plaintext should cause a strong change in the ciphertext.  This means that small changes can spread fast, when the algorithm uses iterations. Thus, every bit of the output depends on every bit of the input. The term "avalanche effect" was first used by Horst Feistel (Feistel 1973). Later, the concept was identified by "Shannon's property of confusion".  If a block cipher or cryptographic hash function does not satisfy the avalanche effect to a significant degree, then it has poor randomization. Thus, a cryptanalyst can make forecasts about the input, if given only the output. This may be sufficient to partially or completely break (crack) the algorithm.  It is one of the primary design objectives when people create a strong cipher or cryptographic hash function. They try to build a good avalanche effect in it. Mathematically this uses the butterfly effect. This is why most block ciphers are product ciphers. It is also why hash functions have large data blocks.  Name. The name comes from landslides. A small rock can fall down, go along with some snow and make a destructive landslide. The rock was small, but was able to cause a lot of destruction. This is the same as what this effect does. A small change in the input (the rock) should change the output (the landscape). Strict avalanche criterion. The Strict Avalanche Criterion (SAC; a “strong landslide criterion”) is a property of boolean functions. It is of importance to cryptography. It is satisfied if all output bits change with a probability of 50 percent, if a single input bit is changed.  The SAC was built on the concepts of evolution completeness and avalanche. It was introduced by Webster and Tavares in 1985. Nowadays it is a requirement for every modern cryptographic system. It was e.g. satisfied by all finalists of the
Rocquefort is a commune of 270 people (1999). It is in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in the northwest of France.
BBC Radio 1Xtra (also known as 1Xtra) is a digital British contemporary black music station from the BBC. The station was launched at 6pm on 16 August 2002. It was called "Network X" during the planning period. It is the complement station to Radio 1 and is broadcast from the same building as Radio 1 - Yalding House in central London. This is part of the BBC's massive Broadcasting House complex of radio studios and other offices. Music policy. The playlist generally includes British, Caribbean, African and North American hip hop, grime, bassline, garage, dubstep, funky, drum and bass, bashment, soca, reggae, gospel music, bhangra, soul and R&amp;B. It is available on digital radio (DAB), digital satellite television, digital terrestrial television (Freeview), and the Internet. It has its own news team: 1Xtra News. Audience profile. 1Xtra's audience is usually aged between 15 and 30 years old. The upper age range is deliberately lower than sister station Radio 1 which is closer to 35. According to the "Submission to the Secretary of State's review of digital channels" in March 2004, 1Xtra "provides music output 24 hours a day, punctuated by bespoke BBC  news bulletins and other speech output designed specifically to be pertinent to the  audience."
Barrel is an old English word for a big holder of liquids, such as petrol, beer, wine or oil. Barrels are most commonly made of either wood or metal but many are plastic Barrels are used to age wine, and other beverages such as whisky and beer. Most of those are made of oak wood. A barrel is also used to measure liquids. One barrel of oil is 158.987 litres (42 US gallons). It is shortened as "bbl". This use may have come from the early Pennsylvanian oil fields where wooden barrels were used to store and move oil around. In 1866, the people of West Virginia started using it regularly. At this time, the amount was set to 42 American gallons. It was later world-wide for measuring amounts of oil and pricing it. Today, oil is rarely stored or transported in actual barrels, but the term "barrel" is still used to mean a 42-gallon measurement. A barrel can also be used to measure dry goods. For example, a barrel can mean 196 pounds (about 89 kilograms) of flour. Different sizes. The size of some standard barrels is not the same in all countries. Some countries have different sizes for different liquids. History. The first people to start using barrels were the Celts about 350 BC. The Roman Empire started using barrels after trading with the Celts. Barrels remained popular for shipping items until the 20th century.
Meshuggah is an extreme metal band from Umeå, Sweden. The band was also named Metallien. The band has been playing music since 1985. Meshuggah's music uses changing time signatures and polyrhythms. The band inspired djent, a genre of metal. They made many new sounds using the guitar. The band's current members are singer Jens Kidman, guitar players Fredrik Thordendal and Mårten Hagström, drummer Tomas Haake and bass guitar player Dick Lövgren. Meshuggah has been nominated for Grammis two times: once for "Catch Thirtythree", and once for "obZen". In 2018, the band was nominated for a Grammy Award for their song "Clockworks". All of the band's albums after "Nothing" have been on the "Billboard 200" music chart. History. Band starts and "Contradictions Collapse" (1987–1994). In 1985, guitarist Fredrik Thordendal started a band in Umeå. The band was named Metallien. Metallien made many demo tapes. After they made these demos, the band ended. Thordendal used the band's name while playing music with other people. Meshuggah was made in 1987 by singer and guitarist Jens Kidman. He named it "Meshuggah" because the word means "crazy" in Yiddish. The band recorded many demos. It broke up after Kidman left. Kidman made a new band named Calipash. It had Thordendal as a guitarist. It also had bassist Peter Nordin and drummer Niklas Lundgren. Kidman and Thordendal decided to rename the band to Meshuggah. In 1989, Meshuggah released an extended play (EP) with three songs. It was named "Meshuggah". It is also known as "Psykisk Testbild". The band made 1,000 vinyl copies of the EP. The copies were sold at a local music store. In 1990, drummer Tomas Haake replaced Niklas Lundgren.  Meshuggah joined Nuclear
Beverly Hills Chihuahua is a 2008 movie by Walt Disney Pictures directed by Raja Gosnell. The first preview of the movie was seen next to "", and originally the movie was scheduled for a September 26, 2008 release, but the release was moved to October 3. The story is about a chihuahua who gets dognapped in Mexico and has to escape from an evil Dobermann. "Destino", a 2003 short movie made by Walt Disney Pictures based on an idea started by Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí in the 1940s, was thought to be seen before "Beverly Hills Chihuahua", but this didn't happen. Insteed, a sneak-peek of the Disney movie "Bolt" was seen. The story. The movie is about a spolied chihuahua from Beverly Hills named Chloe (voiced by Drew Barrymore). Her owner, "Aunt Viv" (Jamie Lee Curtis), has to go to Italy, so she leaves Chloe with her niece, Rachel Ashe Lynn (Piper Perabo). Rachel and her friends go on vacation to Mexico, and Chloe gets dognapped by an evil Mexican dognapper who at first wants to use her in dog fights but sees her value and wishes to put her at ransom (have the owners have to pay money to get her back). In the meantime, Papi (voiced by George Lopez), a male chihuahua who is in love with her is on the lookout for her. Chloe makes friendship with a lonely German Shepherd named Delgado (voiced by Andy Garcia) who travels with her to protect her from the evil Dobermann (voiced by Edward James Olmos) who wants to kill her and steal her diamond collar to return it to the dognapper who owns him. Music. The music to "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" was written by composer Heitor Pereira, who recorded the score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Brothers. Reception. "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" earned $29 million USD in its opening weekend. It was #1 in the box office for two weeks. Despite this, the movie was rather poorly received by critics.
Hans-Christian Ströbele (7 June 1939 – 29 August 2022) was a German politician and lawyer. Ströbele made his school exam abitur in Marl (Westphalia). Then he studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin (at the Free University of Berlin. He was a lawyer in Berlin (until 1990 West Berlin) from 1969. He was involved in the student revolt of 1968. He was one of the lawyers of the Rote Armee Fraktion terrorists in the Stammheim trial. From 1970 to 1974 he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Later he was one of the founders of the "Alternative List for Democracy and Environmental Protection," which later became the Berlin section of the Green Party of Germany. He died on 29 August 2022 in Berlin, Germany from a long-illness at the age of 83.
Banksy is a British street and graffiti artist. He likes to remain anonymous and not let people know his true identity. He often draws in high visibility public places such as on buildings or train stations. His paintings are often about politics, war and other important topics. His satirical street art and mind-hurting pictures combine dark humour with graffiti. The graffiti is done with a stencilling technique. Such works have been done on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world. Banksy's work started in the Bristol underground scene, which had collaborations between artists and musicians. According to graphic designer Tristan Manco and the book "Home Sweet Home", Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s". His style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris, and to members of the anarcho-punk band Crass, which did a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Underground system in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Banksy displays his art on public surfaces such as walls and even going as far as to build physical prop pieces. He does not sell photos of street graffiti directly himself. However, art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder. Banksy's first movie, "Exit Through the Gift Shop", billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie," made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The movie was released in the UK on 5 March 2010. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the movie. Identity. There have been numerous rumours as to Banksy's identity. Names often suggested include Robert Banks and Robin Gunningham. In 2004 an alleged photograph of him in Jamaica surfaced. In October 2007 the BBC website featured a photo allegedly taken by a passer-by in Bethnal Green
Rodney Mullen (born August 17, 1966 in Gainesville, Florida) is a professional freestyle skateboarder, and considered to be one of the most influential skaters in the history of the sport. He is credited with inventing many tricks, including the flat-ground Ollie (originally called the 'ollie pop'), the kickflip (originally called "magic flips"), the Heelflip, the 360 flip, and the Ollie Impossible (more often called the Impossible). Tricks he invented. Mullen has invented many tricks. These are: Movie appearance. Rodney Mullen did many of the skateboarding stunts for Christian Slater in the 1989 skateboarding movie "Gleaming the Cube". He can be seen performing in order to look like Slater. At the end credits he can be seen from an overhead view riding his skateboard with the camera zooming in on his foot work. Video game appearances. Mullen has appeared in many video games related to the Tony Hawk Pro Skater (THPS) console games. These include:
Anthony Frank Hawk (born May 12, 1968) is an American retired professional skateboarder and actor. He is credited with being the first recorded skater to land the 900, which consists of two-and-a-half rotations (900°) in the air before landing back on the pipe during the televised June 27, 1999 X Games, for which he received an enormous amount of attention. He is also known for his "Tony Hawk's" video game series. In July 2021, Hawk briefly ended his competitive retirement to participate in the Vert Best Trick event at that year's X Games, finishing in fourth place out of nine competitors.
Santa Maria is a municipality (town) in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. It lies 32 kilometers northeast of Manila and is located at the eastern portion of the province. It is surrounded by the towns of Angat and Pandi in the north; by San Jose del Monte City in the south; by Norzagaray in the east; and by Marilao and Bocaue in the west. According to the 2007 Philippine national census (a total count of the country's population), it has 205,258 people. It is divided into 24 barangays (villages). These barangays are:
Winton Malcolm "Red" Blount, Jr. (February 1, 1921 – October 24, 2002) was the United States Postmaster General from 1969 to 1972. He is also known as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of construction giant Blount International. He was the last Postmaster who led the Post Office as an Executive Department and held cabinet-member rank.
This list of sex positions is a list of different ways to have sexual intercourse and other sexual acts. Intercourse. These positions involve a penis going into a vagina, or the anus. On top with front entry. These positions are used for vaginal, or anal sex. The basic position is called the missionary position. In it, the receiving partner lies on their back with legs apart. The penetrating partner lies on top of the receiving partner, facing them. The penetrating partner enters so that the base of the penis rubs the clitoris. From behind. Most of these positions can be used for either vaginal, or anal sex. The receiving partner is kneeling or on all four limbs. The penetrating partner inserts their penis from behind. This position is sometimes called as the doggy style position. On top. Most of these positions can be used for either vaginal, or anal sex. The receiving partner is on their hands and knees with their bottom exposed. The penetrating partner then pumps away at the receiving partner's vagina or anus with his penis. Sitting and kneeling. Most of these positions can be used for either vaginal, or anal sex. The penetrating partner sits down, with their legs stretched out. The receiving partner sits on top and wraps their legs around the penetrating partner. This is called pounding on the spot. Standing. In the basic standing position, both partners stand facing each other and have vaginal sex. The shorter partner can stand on a stair if the partners are different heights. It may be easier if the person being penetrated has their back to a wall. Partners can also face the same direction while having sex. Anal. Most of the above positions can be used for anal sex. Outercourse. Outercourse is sometimes part of foreplay, or to avoid intercourse. Genital-genital sex. Genital-genital sex, sometimes called GG rubbing, is when two people rub penises together (sometimes called frot, or frottage), or when two people rub vulvae together (sometimes called tribadism, or scissoring). Oral sex. Oral sex is the term given to genital stimulation by the mouth. People may engage in oral sex as part of foreplay before intercourse, or during, or following