The other type of online games is a larger network where players log in with a user name and the game lets them interact with other 'players' and develop statistics, high scores, earn money, awards, badges or stamps. The games tend to be based on animals or virtual worlds.
Damocloid
A damocloid is an asteroid that takes a long time to orbit the Sun. They are very similar to the periodic comets, like Halley's Comet, but a damocloid does not have a tail like a comet. They are believed to be comets that have lost their volatile material and are dormant. Scientists think that they come from the Oort cloud. This is because some damocloids, such as C/2001 OG (LONEOS), later developed tails and became comets. Some damocloids also orbit in the same direction as comets, which is the opposite direction to asteroids. By January 2010, scientists had found 41 damocloids.
Survivor: South Pacific
Survivor: South Pacific is the upcoming twenty-third season of the American CBS reality television series "Survivor", which will premiere on Wednesday, September 14, 2011. "Survivor: South Pacific" was filmed in Upolu, Samoa, where and had took place.
Chaykovskiy, Perm Krai
Chaikovskiy is a town in Perm Krai, an administrative centre of Chaikovskiy region. It was established in 1962. 82,400 people live in the town.
The town is west of the Ural Mountains, on the left bank of the Kama at the mouth of the small river Saygatka in the southwest of Perm Krai. The territory of Chaikovskiy is about 31 square kilometers. The town is on the plain at the bank of the Kama river.
Chaikovskiy is relatively far from Perm, but it has a good geographical position. It is at the meeting point of Udmurt Republic, Bashkortostan and Perm Krai.
Chaikovskiy is a green, comfortable town. It is surrounded by water from three sides. There are parks in the town and forests around it. A notable place of interest is a quiet street with many apple trees going from the river port to the town center. The air and water are clean in Chaykovskiy.
Local people like swimming, boating and water skiing in the summer. Ski jumping and biathlon are popular winter sports.
Abilene, Texas
Abilene is a city in the US state of Texas. It is the County seat of Taylor County. About 120,000 people live there.
The city of Abilene was started in 1881. Clabe Merchant named it after a city in Kansas. A lot of people came to live in the city. It soon became very important. Some people called it the 'Future Great City of West Texas.' A US Army base was built there in 1940. The base closed in 1945. After the base closed, it got changed to the Dyess Air Force Base. A lot of people work in the Air Force base today.
An American football team called the Abilene Ruff Riders is based in the city. They play their home games in the Taylor County Expo Center. Their colors are black, white and red.
Port Antonio, Jamaica
Port Antonio is a costal town in eastern Jamaica which is about 60 miles (100 km) from Kingston. In the 1880s Lorenzo Dow Baker started the banana trade in Jamaica which made Port Antonio grow quickly, with more and more tourists arriving and departing in the banana boats. Its population 1982 was 12,285 growing to 13,246 in 1991. It is the island's third largest port, famous as a shipping point for bananas and coconuts, as well as one of its most important tourist attractions. Tourism is a major contributor to the town's economy.
Copy editing
Copy editing, or "sub-editing", is the work an editor does to improve the style or accuracy of a text. The revised text should be more readable and sometimes more interesting after the editing. Also, punctuation and grammar may need correcting, but without changing the writer's general style.
Copy editing might not involve changing the substance of the text, unless supposed facts need correction. The word 'copy' refers to written or typewritten text for typesetting, printing, or publication. Copy editing is usually done before typesetting and proofreading. Proofreading is the last step in the editing process.
In the United States and Canada, an editor who does this work is called a copy editor, and an organization's highest-ranking copy editor, or the supervising editor of a group of copy editors, may be known as the copy chief, copy desk chief, or news editor.
In book publishing in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world that follow UK nomenclature, the term 'copy editor' is also used, but in newspaper and magazine publishing, the term is 'sub-editor' and commonly shortened to 'sub' or 'subbie'. As the 'sub' suggests, UK copy editors usually have less authority than regular editors. 'Editors' in book publishing generally have a responsibility for choosing authors and titles which will make for good sales. In magazines and newspapers they are executives, responsible for the business success of the enterprise.
According to experienced editors, the main things a sub-editor does are:
Above all, the sub should "approach every story from the point of view of the reader".
Mika Newton
Mika Newton (; born Oksana Stefanivna Gritsay, ; March 5, 1986) is a Ukrainian singer and actress. She represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and finished fourth.
Mika was never married and has no children. Currently, she lives in Los Angeles, California, in the United States.
Quellón, Chile
Quellón is a commune, city and port of Chile. According to the Chilean census on 2002, Quellón has an area of and 21,823 inhabitants.
The name of this city comes from the mapudungun term "külon", it means Maqui in Spanish.
It was founded on 1905 by the distilling company "Quellón" who extracted Alcohol from the forest trees.
Actually, this city is the most important port in Chiloé Island because there are industries dedicated to the salmon industry and the extraction of marine products from the sea.
San Pedro de la Paz
San Pedro de la Paz is a commune and city in Chile. According to the Chilean census in 2002, San Pedro de la Paz has an area of and 80,447 inhabitants.
It was founded on 1604 by the Spaniard governor Alonso de Ribera but the commune was established on 1995.
Reed
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Reed (plant)
Reed is the general botanical term used for tall, grass-like plants of wet places. They occur in reed beds. They are all members of the order Poales.
Reeds are many polyphyletic species, which have all adapted to this wet habitat by convergent evolution.
"Phragmites australis", the common reed, is used in many areas for thatching rooves (roofs). When thatched rooves were common, rivers were harvested for reeds every year. The reeds were stored in barns, and purchased by roofers for thatching. In the United Kingdom, common reed used for this purpose is known as "Norfolk reed" or "water reed". However, "wheat reed" and "Devon reed" are not reeds but long-stemmed wheat straw.
In Britain, thatching began to be less used in the early 19th century. It was replaced by slates from quarries in Wales. Later still, slate tiles were replaced by the cheaper mass-manufactured plastic tiles.
Reeds come from many different plants, all of which grow in or near to water. The many species come from these four families:
Erwin Helfer
Erwin Helfer (born January 21, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American boogie-woogie, blues and jazz pianist.
Erwin Helfer was born in Chicago and grew up there. In his younger life he was more interested in classical music than in blues. But grewing up in the 50s he got contact to blues anyway. He studied music at Tulane University in New Orleans, completing college with a degree in music. In New Orleans he studied also the local music style of the city.