The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a non-profit organization. The organization helps children that have life-threatening medical conditions by arranging experiences known as "wishes". The age limit is between 2 and a half and 18 at the time of referral. The person that decides if the child is eligible is the child's physician. The organization is based in Phoenix, Arizona. David A. Williams is the president and CEO of Make-A-Wish America. The person that holds the title of most wishes granted is professional wrestler John Cena who has grants over 450 wishes.
Gotham (TV series)
Gotham is an American television series created by Bruno Heller. It is based on the characters of DC Comics. It is set in Gotham City, but was filmed in New York City and parts of Chicago and Detroit.
The show takes place when then rookie detective police commissioner James Gordon and when Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered. It stars Ben McKenzie, David Mazouz, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Sean Pertwee. It will be aired by Fox. The first episode aired in fall 2014, and the last episode aired in spring 2019.
Benjamin McKenzie
Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan (born September 12, 1978) is an American comedian, actor and producer. He is also known as Benjamin McKenzie and Ben McKenzie, and was born in Austin, Texas. He plays Ryan Atwood in the television series "The O.C." and Ben Sherman in "Southland".
Michael Elgin
Aaron Michael Frobel is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is better known by his ring name Michael Elgin. He regularly works for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) and is best known for his time with Ring of Honor (ROH). Elgin was the winner of the 2011 Survival of the Fittest tournament. On July 4, 2013, Elgin married fellow professional wrestler Rachel Collins.
Hyaenodontidae
The Hyaenodontidae ("Hyaena teeth") is a family of the extinct order Creodonta, which contains several dozen genera.
The Hyaenodonts were important mammalian predators that arose during the late Paleocene and persisted well into the Miocene. They were more widespread and successful than their sister family, the oxyaenids.
They had long skulls, slender jaws, slim bodies, and a tendency to walk on their toes rather than flat-footed (plantigrade). They ranged in size from 30 to 140 cm at the shoulder. "Hyaenodon gigas", the larger species, was as much as 1.4 m high at the shoulder, 10 feet long and weighed about 500 kg, but most were in the 5–15 kg range, equivalent to a mid-sized dog. Fossil evidence of their skulls shows that they had a particularly acute sense of smell, while their teeth were adapted for slicing, rather than crushing.
Hyaenodonts were mainly meat-eaters. They did not crack main bones because they lacked
crushing teeth. This contrasts with modern hyaenas, which can crush bones of larger prey. This gives then a good source of calcium, and access to the highly nutritious bone marrow. Modern bears and dogs also have bone-crushing capability, though not to the same extent as hyaenas. Hyaenodonts thus thus lacked dental versatility for processing any foods other than meat.
The carnassials in a hyaenodontid are generally the second upper and third lower molars. However, some hyaenodontids had as many as three pairs of carnassials or carnassial-like molar teeth in their jaws.
Because of their size range, it is probable that different species hunted in different ways and allowed them to fill many different predatory niches. Smaller ones would hunt in packs during the night like wolves, and bigger, fiercer ones would hunt alone during the daylight, using their sheer size and their mighty jaws as their principal weapon.
Methanogen
Methanogens are microorganisms that make methane as a metabolic byproduct in anoxic conditions. The organisms are archaea, a different domain from bacteria. They are common in wetlands, where they make marsh gas.
Methanogens are also common in the digestive tracts of animals such as ruminants and humans. Methane is often belched out.
In marine sediments methane is produced when sulfates are low. This happens below the top layers. Methanogenic archaea populations play an important role in anaerobic wastewater treatments. Some methanogens are extremophiles, found in environments such as hot springs and submarine hydrothermal vents as well as in the "solid" rock of the Earth's crust, kilometers below the surface.
Methanogens convert acetic acid to methane in a fermentation process. Do not confuse them with methanotrophs, which use up methane for their carbon and energy requirements.
Selfie
A selfie is a self-portrait photograph. It is typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone.
Selfies sono un autoritratto fotografia , tipicamente fatte con una fotocamera digitale o smartphone , che Louis Tomlinson non fa da 109 giorni ( quattro mesi)
One of the first self-portraits was taken in 1839 by Robert Cornelius, an American photographer. The term "selfie" was first used by photographer Jim Krause in 2005.
A black crested macaque ("Macaca nigra") stole a camera, and took a photo of herself. The selfie seemed to set a legal precedent when the Wikimedia Foundation rejected a copyright claim. The ground was that a non-human could not own a copyright, and the camera owner had not taken the photo, and so also could not own the copyright. And so, the photo was not under copyright.
La Crosse, Wisconsin
La Crosse is a city in the southwestern part of Wisconsin. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is there. A 2012 Census estimate had 51,647 people living there.
It is across from Winona, Minnesota. The city was incorporated in 1856.
Concrete pump
A concrete pump is a machine to move liquid concrete by using a pump. The pump uses piston pumps to move the concrete.
Types of concrete pumps:
Chamba State
Chamba State was one of the oldest Princely states in present-day Republic of India. It was founded during the late 6th century. It is situated in the Himalaya mountains.
Wild Bill Hickok
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876) was a figure in the American Old West. He was also known as "Wild Bill" Hickok. He was a gunfighter, gambler, and lawman.
Hickok was born and raised on a farm in Homer, Illinois (now Troy Grove, Illinois). He went west at age 18 as a fugitive from justice. He worked first as a stagecoach driver, then as a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
He fought (and spied) for the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he gained fame as a scout, marksman, actor, and professional gambler. Calamity Jane claimed in her autobiography that she was married to Hickok and divorced him.
Hickok was involved in several notable shootouts. He was shot from behind and killed while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. The card hand he held at the time of his death is known today as poker's "Dead Man's Hand". In 1979, Hickok was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
Nick Cvjetkovich
Nicholas "Nick" Cvjetkovich (born August 29, 1973) is a Canadian professional wrestler, television actor, comic book artist and tattoo artist. Cvjetkovich is best known for his short time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) where he wrestled on their "SmackDown" brand under the ring name Kizarny. Cvjetkovich has also worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Sinn. He currently competes on the independent circuit.
He is childhood friend with Edge and Christian. He is also a close friend and protégé of Jake "The Snake" Roberts. Cvjetkovich married former professional wrestling valet Stacy Carter on August 2, 2010. The later divorced on March 12, 2013.
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
Menomonee Falls is a village in southeastern Wisconsin. It is near Milwaukee. About 35,626 people lived there as of the 2010 census.
This village was incorporated in 1892.
Menomonie, Wisconsin
Menomonie is a city in northwest Wisconsin. It is near Eau Claire. At the 2010 census, 16,264 people lived there.