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Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter from Evanston, Illinois.
She was the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship.
singers from Illinois
Jefferson Airplane members
Founded in 1885, the newspaper has been published daily since 1894, except for a hiatus from May 1943 to November 1945 on account of World War II.
The DP broke away from the university in 1962 to become an independent publication.
It incorporated in 1984 to solidify its financial and editorial independence from the university.
Today the newspaper's budget is funded primarily through the sale of advertising by a student business staff.
The Daily Pennsylvanian has won many of the most prestigious awards in college journalism.
In 2008, the newspaper was awarded the Society of Professional Journalist's National Mark of Excellence Award.
In the same year, the paper won the Spring 2008 Columbia Gold Crown, awarded to only eight college newspapers nationwide, an award it has won many times before.
It also received first place in the Associated Collegiate Press's Kansas City Convention Best of Show Competition in 2008.
In 2004, the DP won the Pacemaker, awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press and the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, for a record-setting fourth consecutive year.
It also won the award in 1990, 1997, and 1998, and most recently in 2007.
Several of its writers win Gold Circles from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association every year.
It was also ranked as the "most read" college newspaper by The Princeton Review in 1990, 1997, 1998, and 2001.
In 2006, College Publisher awarded the DP first place in the category of Best Online Sports Coverage and, in 2008, it was awarded an online Gold Crown for dailypennsylvanian.com.
Home Page of The Daily Pennsylvanian
Home Page of 34th Street Magazine (affiliate of The Daily Pennsylvanian)
College Papers Grow Up (Newsweek article)
Photography Department Blog (maintained by current and past Photo Editors)
Newspapers in Pennsylvania
The Pomeranian is a dog from Pomerania (in Eastern Germany and Northern Poland).
Queen Victoria, Queen Charlotte, and Joséphine de Beauharnais all owned Pomeranians.
Luxating patella (where the kneecap dislocates, or slips out of place)
Tracheal collapse (collapse of the tube that brings air to the lungs and makes breathing possible)
Io9 is a blog launched in 2008 by Gawker Media.
The blog focuses on the subjects of science fiction, futurism and advancements in the fields of science and technology.
io9.com
Jacob Dowell (born March 4, 1985 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin) is an American professional ice hockey center that currently plays for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL).
He was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks with the 140th pick in the 2004 NHL Draft and played 4 seasons with them before being signed to the Dallas Stars on July 1, 2011.
Brian David Josephson, FRS (born 4 January 1940; Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh physicist who became a Nobel laureate in 1973.
As of late 2007, he was a retired professor at the University of Cambridge, where he is the head of the Mind–Matter Unification Project in the Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) research group.
He is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Josephson is one of the more well-known scientists who say that parapsychological phenomena may be real, and is also interested in the possibility that Eastern mysticism may have relevance to scientific understanding.
In 2005, Josephson said that "parapsychology should now have become a conventional field of research, and yet parapsychology's claims are still not generally accepted".
He compared this situation to that of Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, where there was initially great resistance to acceptance despite the strength of the evidence.
British physicists
British parapsychologists
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a buffalo jump in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains about 18 km northwest of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada.
The plains Indians used Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump for over 5,500 years to kill buffalo.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and became one in 1981.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump's Official website
Michael A. Thalbourne, Ph.D., (March 24 1955 – May 4 2010) was an Australian psychologist and parapsychologist.
He was educated at the University of Adelaide and the University of Edinburgh.
His books include: A glossary of terms used in parapsychology (2003), The common thread between ESP and PK (2004), and Parapsychology in the Twenty-First Century: Essays on  the future of Psychical research (2005).
In mechanics, the internal friction may be one of the causes of such damping effect.
For many purposes the damping force Ff can be modeled as being proportional to the velocity v of the object:
where c is the damping coefficient, given in units of Newton-seconds per meter.
Dale Webster, also called "The Daily Wavester", is a surfer who lives in Valley Ford, California.
People know him for making the official Guinness Book of World Records record for the "most days in a row surfed" 10,407 and his acting in the movie Step into Liquid.
Yūrakuchō Line
Tsukishima （Y 21） - Toyosu （Y 22） - Tatsumi （Y 23）
Shin-toyosu （U 15） - Toyosu （U 16）
Moreau was born in Paris, France, the daughter of an English mother, a dancer at the Folies Bergères, and a French father, a restaurateur.
She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris.
She began her career as a stage actress and joined the celebrated "Comédie-Française" in 1948, aged only 20, one the youngest ever member of the company.
During the same time, she was in small roles in movies.
She got her first major break when she met French director Louis Malle.
He cast her in his movies L'ascenceur pour l'échafaud (1957) and Les amants (1958), which established her as a movie star in France.
She also appeared in Roger Vadim's Les liaisons dangereuses (1959) and Peter Brooks's Moderato cantabile (1960), but it is with François Truffaut's iconic movie Jules et Jim (1961) that she became an international star.
She then went on to work with directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni (La Notte), Orson Welles (Le procès), Luis Bunuel (The Diary of a Chambermaid), etc.
In the 1970s, she attempted directing with Lumières (1976) and L'adolescente (1979) with mixed success.
Moreau received many awards for best actress, including a César Award, a BAFTA, a prix d'interprétation at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1996 she received a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, a lifetime achievement award.
The Illustrated Who's Who of the Cinema, Lloyd, Weber & Dessler, Portland House, 1987.
A V12 engine often just called a V12 is an internal combustion engine with 12 cylinders.
The engine has six cylinders on each side called banks.
In most engines, the two banks are at a 60° angle to each other.
All twelve pistons turn a common crankshaft.
It can be powered by different types of fuels, including gasoline, diesel and natural gas.
Each cylinder bank is basically a straight-6.
This set-up has perfect balance no matter which V angle is used.
A V12 engine does not need balance shafts.
A V12 angled at 45°, 60°, 120°, or 180° from each other has even firing and is smoother than a straight-6.
This provides a smooth running engine for a luxury car.
In a racing car, the engine can be made much lighter.
This makes the engine more responsive and smoother.
In a large heavy-duty engine, a V12 can run slower, and  prolonging engine life.
V12 engines were first used in aircraft.
By the end of World War I, V12s were popular in the fighters and bombers.
Many Zeppelins had V12 engines.
The Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 powered the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire fighters that played a vital role in Britain's victory in the Battle of Britain.
The long, narrow configuration of the V12 contributed to good aerodynamics, while its exceptional smoothness allowed its use with relatively light and fragile airframes.
After World War II, V12 engines were mostly replaced by turbojet and turboprop engines.
These engines produced more power for their weight, and fewer problems in large aircraft.
In cars, V12 engines are not common because of their complexity and cost.
They are normally found only in high-end sports cars and luxury cars.
For these cars, they are desired for their power, low vibration, and distinctive sound.
Before World War II, V12 engines were found in many luxury cars.
In the 1930s, V8 engines started to replace the V12s.
The V8 engine design was improved to make it lighter and produce more power than the V12.
Since World War II, only a few car manufactures have used V12 engines.
In 1997, Toyota equipped their Century Limousine with a 5.0 L V12, making it the first Japanese production passenger car with a V12.
In 2009, China FAW Group Corporation equipped their Hongqi HQE with a 6.0 L V12, making it the first Chinese production passenger car so equipped.
In the past, V12 engines were common in Formula One and endurance racing.
Ferrari used V12 engines in 1950, the first year of Formula One.
Several factors made teams stop using the V12 engine.
Improvements to the V8 engine, in particular Ford Cosworth engine.
Small, lightweight turbocharged engines were developed that produced more power for the weight.
And finally rule changes that limited the size of engines and the power they could produce.
In the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans, the first place car was a Audi R10 TDI, with a V12 diesel engine.
The second place car was a Peugeot 908, also with a V12 diesel.
Large diesel engines
V12 is a common configuration for large diesel engines.
Heavy trucks often use large V12 engines.
Many diesel locomotives have V12 engines.
Mercedes (MTU) builds V12 diesel engines for marine use.
Technical history of the Jaguar V12
Gawker Media is an American online media company and blog network.
It was founded and is owned by Nick Denton.
Gawker Media.
Penenberg, Adam L.  "Can Bloggers Strike It Rich?"
September 22, 2005.
Denton, Nick. "
Nano Wars"  March 8, 2005.
Thompson, Clive. "
Blogs to Riches - The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom"  New York Magazine.
February 20, 2006.
Carr, David. "
A Blog Mogul Turns Bearish on Blogs", New York Times, July 3, 2006
Pareene, Alex. "
Memo: Gawker Sells Three Sites" April 14, 2008.
Tom Zeller, Jr.. "A Blog Revolution?
Get a Grip", New York Times, May 8, 2005  (registration required)
Vanessa Grigoriadis, "Everybody Sucks: Gawker and the rage of the creative underclass, New York magazine, October 22, 2007
Gawker Media Traffic
Gawker.com
The Philadelphia Inquirer is a newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States.
The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States.
Owned by the local group Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC, The Inquirer has the nineteenth largest average weekday U.S. newspaper circulation and has won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Online
Philadelphia Media Holdings website
The Philadelphia Inquirer Frontpage (Updated)
1829 establishments in the United States
1820s establishments in Pennsylvania
Chinese martial arts is also known by the Mandarin Chinese term, wushu.
It is popularly known as kung-fu.
It includes a number of fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in China.
These fighting styles are often classified according to common features, identified as "families" (jiā), "sects" (pài) or "schools" (mén) of martial arts.
Examples of such features include physical exercises that copy certain animals, or training methods inspired by Taoism, and legends.
Styles focusing on qi are called "internal" (nèijiāquán), while others concentrate on improving muscle and heart fitness, and are called "external" (wàijiāquán).
They are also often classed according to region, that is "northern" (běiquán) and "southern" (nánquán).
Eighteen Arms of Wushu
Hard and soft (martial arts)
List of Chinese martial arts
Wushu (term)
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A series finale is the last instalment of a television series.
These terms refer to an intentionally planned ending, rather than one in which the series is unexpectedly cancelled after the last episode is produced.
Episodes labeled "series finale," or ones leading up to it, often include remarkable events in the overall series story arc.
An extended length episode, or television or theatrical film may serve as the series finale.
The finale may also be used as a device to create a spin-off series.
TV Series Finale - site devoted to final episodes and life after the shows
Mazdak (died 524 or 528) was a Persian reformer and religious activist.
He became influential under the reign of the Sassanian Shahanshah Kavadh I. He claimed to be a prophet of God, and started communal possessions and social welfare programs.
Some people have argued, his teachings show influences from Manichaeism as well.
Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion of Sassanid Persia.
Mazdak was a Zoroastrian priest.
Most of the Zoroastrian clergy regarded his teaching as a heresy.
There is very little information about Mazdakism.
The teaching of Khurramism developed from Mazdakism and can be used to tell certain details about Mazdakism.
520s deaths
Box Car Racer was an American Alternative rock/Post-hardcore band from San Diego, California that were active from 2001 to 2003.
Box Car Racer was a side-project for Blink-182 members Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker and lead guitarist of Hazen Street, David Kennedy and touring bassist Anthony Celestino.
When they were active they were signed to the record label MCA Records.
Box Car Racer (2002)
"I Feel So" (2009)
"There Is" (2003)
Box Car Racer at Interscope records
Tatshenshini-Alsek Park (also known as Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Wilderness Park) is a provincial park in British Columbia.
It is part of the Kluane / Wrangell–St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The park is on the northwestern corner of British Columbia.
It borders the U.S. state of Alaska and Canadian Yukon Territory.
The park has many Grizzly Bears, Glacier Bear, Dall's Sheep, Mountain Goats, Kenai moose, grey wolves, eagles (Bald & Golden), falcons (peregrine & gyr), trumpeter swans, Sea lions, and Humpback whales.
Official website on BC Gov.ca
Parks in British Columbia
This is a list of the world's best-selling albums.
The criteria are that the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the album must have sold at least 20 million copies worldwide.
Most albums have different estimates of sales.
In this list, the highest sales reported for an album is added to the list.
Groupings are based on different sales benchmarks.
The highest benchmark is for claims of at least 100 million copies, and the lowest are for claims of 20–29 million copies.
Albums are listed in order of number of copies sold and by the artist's first name.
This list contains all types of albums, including studio, greatest hits, compilation, various artists, soundtrack and remix.
A number of issues make exact figures difficult to calculate, as historical data before the 1980s and from developing countries is incomplete.
Also, fans, record companies and the media are prone to making the sales figures higher than they actually are to boost the image of the act.
The list also does not take into account the resale of used albums or as the emergence of illegal downloading of digital music.
Michael Jackson's Thriller is the best selling album of all time.
The album is cited as selling as many as 110 million copies worldwide.
Over 50 million copies
40–49 million copies
30–39 million copies
20–29 million copies
Shibuya Station () is a railway station of JR East, Tokyu Corporation, Keio Corporation and the Tokyo Metro in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
Ebisu - Shibuya - Harajuku
Commuter Rapid, Rapid, Local
Ebisu - Shibuya - Shinjuku
Special Rapid
Shinjuku - Shibuya - Ōsaki
Shinjuku - Shibuya - Ebisu
Tokyu Corporation
Tōyoko Line
Ltd. Exp.,
Commuter Ltd. Exp.,
Shibuya - Naka-meguro
Shibuya - Daikan-yama
Den-en-toshi Line
Through to Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line - Shibuya - Sangen-jaya
Semi-Express, Local
Through to Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line - Shibuya - Ikejiri-ōhashi
Keio
Inokashira Line
Expless
Shibuya - Shimo-Kitazawa
Shibuya - Shinsen
Shibuya （G 01） - Omote-sando （G 02）
Hanzomon Line
Through to Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line - Shibuya （Z 01） - Omote-sando （Z 02）
Fukutoshin Line
Shinjuku-sanchome （F 13） - Shibuya （F 16）
Meiji-jingumae （F 15） - Shibuya （F 16）
Oakland Tribune is newspaper in Oakland, California.
Oakland Tribune is estimated February 21 1874 and today its owned by MediaNews Group.
Loving County is a county in the state of Texas in the United States.
It is the United States' smallest county by number of people.
In 2000, only 67 people lived there.
The county seat is Mentone.
The County is named for Oliver Loving, a cattle farmer who, along with Charles Goodnight, developed the Goodnight-Loving Trail.
He died of wounds from Comanches while on a cattle drive in 1867 near the county.
"I'm Outta Time" is a single by the rock band Oasis.
The song is featured on their seventh studio album Dig Out Your Soul.
The second single from the album, "I'm Outta Time" was written by lead vocalist Liam Gallagher and released on 1 December 2008.
The song has similarity, in style, to John Lennon's work in the early 1970s.
The piano which features on the track partly sounds like Lennon's "Jealous Guy".
The song also has a backing piano similar to The Beatles' "A Day in the Life".
Liam jokingly claims that it took him nine years to write the song.
The song features a short speech from John Lennon taken from one of his last interviews in 1980.
The speech sample says: "As Churchill said, it's every Englishman's inalienable right to live where the hell he likes.
What's it going to do, vanish?
Is it not going to be there when I get back?".
The song has been noted as one of the highlights of the album, with guitarist Noel Gallagher labeling it "deceptively brilliant".
It has also been praised by music critics, with NME calling it a return to form, and comparing it to the music of Oasis-admired rock band The Beatles.
It charted at #12 in the UK Singles Chart - the first Oasis single to miss the top ten since 1994, ending the band's streak of 22 consecutive top tens.
It has so far spent a total of 24 weeks in the French Singles Chart, the most ever by any Oasis single.
However, the single spent only two weeks in the UK top 75, the least ever by any Oasis single.
The music video for "I'm Outta Time" was released in November 2008.
It was filmed in black and white, and shows Liam Gallagher, the only band member to appear in the clip, on a "surreal journey through a moon-lit English landscape".
At the end of the video, Liam is filmed in a close-up profile shot lying down.
This bears resemblance to the back cover artwork for John Lennon's album "Imagine".
Nick.com is a website created and owned by Nickelodeon.
It started in October 1995.
The website is an online portal for Nickelodeon content, and has online games, message boards, and individual websites for each show it has broadcast.
Corey Crawford (born December 31, 1984 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.
He made his debut with the Blackhawks on January 22, 2006 against the Minnesota Wild.
Crawford also played in the QMJHL for the Moncton Wildcats.
William M. Jennings Trophy (shared with Ray Emery) (2012-13)
NHL Second Star of the Week of Jan. 19–27 2013
NHL Star of the Week of Feb. 20–27 2011
NHL All-Rookie Team (2011)
QMJHL Second All-Star Team (2004-05)
QMJHL Telus Defensive Player of the Year (2003-04)
QMJHL Second All-Star Team (2003-04)
Oasis were formed in 1991 by vocalist Liam Gallagher, guitarist Paul Arthurs (also known as "Bonehead"), bassist Paul McGuigan (also known as "Guigsy") and drummer Tony McCarroll, a unit soon joined by guitarist, vocalist and lead songwriter Noel Gallagher, Liam's older brother.
The band's debut album, Definitely Maybe, went straight to #1 in the UK Albums Chart and went on to be certified seven-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and the Canadian Recording Industry Association.
Oasis' debut single, "Supersonic", peaked at #31 in the UK Singles Chart.
The follow-up to Definitely Maybe was Oasis' highest-selling album to date; (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.
It was recorded with new drummer Alan White, and is the third highest-selling album in the United Kingdom as of 2006, with 4.4 million units sold.
The album was commercially successful, reaching #1 in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland.
It was certified 14 times platinum by the BPI, four times platinum by the RIAA, eight times platinum by the CRIA and six times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association.
The first single from Morning Glory, "Some Might Say", was also the band's first #1 single.
Oasis' third album, Be Here Now, reached the top spot in the albums charts of nine countries, and was their most successful album in the Billboard 200 where it reached #2.
In 1998 the band released The Masterplan, a compilation of B-sides, which reached #2 and was certified platinum in the UK.
The Dreams We Have as Children (Live for Teenage Cancer Trust) (2009)
The Hemichordata is a phylum of worm-shaped  marine deuterostome animals, generally considered the sister group of the echinoderms.
They date back to the Lower or Middle Cambrian and include an important class of fossils called graptolites, most of which became extinct in the Carboniferous.
Living hemichordates are a phylum with two living classes: the enteropneusts and the pterobranchs.
Since the hemichordates are the closest living relatives  to the chordates, they are of great interest to those studying the origins of chordate development.
The bodies of Hemichordates are divided into three parts, proboscis, collar and trunk.
They have open circulatory systems and a complete digestive tract but the musculature in their gut is very poorly developed, and food is mostly transported through it by using the cilia that cover its inside surface.
Hemichordates are known to develop in two ways: either directly or indirectly.
The enteropneusts have both types of development.
The indirect development has a long pelagic larval stage.
These species have a larval stage which feeds on plankton before turning into an adult worm.
Those species which develop directly bypass this prolonged larval stage and develop straight into an adult worm.
Graptolites are common fossils from the Palaeozoic.
They are colonial animals known chiefly from the Upper Cambrian to the Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian).
A possible early graptolite, Chaunograptus, is known from the Middle Cambrian.
The name graptolite comes from the Greek graptos, meaning 'written', and lithos, meaning 'rock'.
Many graptolite fossils resemble hieroglyphs written on the rock.
Linnaeus originally regarded them as "pictures resembling fossils rather than true fossils".
More recent work places them near the pterobranchs, possibly within.
Graptolite morphology
Each graptolite colony is known as a rhabdosome and has a variable number of branches (called stipes) coming from an initial individual.
Each subsequent zooid is housed within a tubular or cup-like structure (called a theca).
In some colonies, there are two sizes of theca, and it has been suggested that this difference is due to sexual dimorphism.
The number of branches and the arrangement of the thecae are important features in the identification of graptolite fossils.
Their general shape has been compared with that of a hacksaw blade.
Most of the tree-like forms are classified as dendroid graptolites (order Dendroidea).
They appear earlier in the fossil record (in the Cambrian), and were benthic animals attached to the sea-floor by a root-like base.
Graptolites with relatively few branches were derived from the dendroid graptolites at the beginning of the Ordovician period.
This latter type (order Graptoloidea) were pelagic, drifting freely on the surface of ancient seas or attached to floating seaweed by means of a slender thread.
They were a successful and prolific group, being the most important animal members of the plankton until they died out in the early part of the Devonian period.
Acorn worms
The Acorn worms or Enteropneusta are a Hemichordate class of invertebrates, closely related to the chordates.
There are about 70 species of acorn worm in the world, the main species for research being Saccoglossus kowalevskii.
All species are benthic, and either deposit feeders or suspension feeders.
Some of these worms may grow to be very long; one particular species may reach a length of 2.5 meters (almost eight feet), although most acorn worms are much smaller.
One genus, Balanoglossus, is also known as the tongue worm.
Pterobranchs
Pterobranchia is a clade of small, worm-shaped animals.
They belong to the Hemichordata, and live in secreted tubes on the ocean floor.
Pterobranchia feed by filtering plankton  out of the water with the help of cilia attached to tentacles.
There are about 30 known living species in the group.
The class Pterobranchia was established by E. Ray Lankester in 1877.
It contained, at that time, the single genus Rhabdopleura.
The publication of the Challenger Report (Cephalodiscus) in 1887, showed that Cephalodiscus, the second genus now included in the order, had affinities in the direction of the Enteropneusta.
CraveOnline is an entertainment website.
It is based in Los Angeles and has sales offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.
The site is owned by media company AtomicOnline.
CraveOnline maintains a network of male-centric sites.
AtomicOnline
"Wibbling Rivalry" is the title of a single released under the name "Oas*s" by the Fierce Panda record label in 1995.
It is a recording of John Harris interviewing brothers Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher of Oasis in early 1994.
The musicians live up to their reputation as fighting siblings by getting sidetracked into an argument over an incident that happened on a ferry.
The title is a portmanteau of the expression sibling rivalry and the word wibble.
The single contains a 'Liam Track' featuring predominantly Liam's use of profanities and a 'Noel Track' featuring Noel. "
Wibbling Rivalry" holds the record as the highest charting interview release in the UK, reaching number 52 on November 25, 1995.
"Noel's Track"
"Liam's Track"
William Lloyd Garrison (December 13, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was an American abolitionist, meaning he wanted to end slavery in the United States.
He wrote a newspaper called The Liberator.
He also worked to allow women to vote.
Garrison was born in Massachusetts.
Animation Magazine is a monthly publication covering the animation industry, including different reviews about film and television animation, visual effects and video games.
Animationmagazine.net
Animation Magazine Online TV
Article on Jason Donati's Unique Teaching Techniques - "Canvassing the Big Screen" by Ellen Wolff – Animation Magazine - December 2006
Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American company that measures media audiences (people), including television, radio, theatre films and newspapers.
Automated Measurement of Lineups (AMOL)
Media Market or Designated Market Area (DMA)
'The Nielsen Company' formerly known as VNU Group B.V.
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Deus ex machina  is the Latin version of an ancient Greek phrase ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός.
The phrase means "the god from the machine".
It comes from the theatre of ancient Greece.
They had a kind of crane for delivering gods onto the stage on wires.
For example, in Euripides' play Alcestis, the heroine agrees to give up her own life in order to spare the life of her husband, Admetus.
At the end Heracles shows up and seizes Alcestis from Death, restoring her to life and to Admetus.
A more frequently cited example is Euripides' Medea in which the deus ex machina is used to take Medea (who has murdered people and babies) away from her husband Jason to the safety and civilization of Athens.
Aristotle criticized this device in his Poetics.
He argued that the resolution of a plot should follow the logic of the play.
It should not come from something outside that logic.
"It is obvious that the solutions of plots... should come about as a result of the plot itself, and not from a contrivance, as in the Medea and in the passage about sailing home in the Iliad.
A contrivance must be used for matters outside the drama—either previous events which are beyond human knowledge, or later ones that need to be foretold or announced... There should be nothing improbable in the incidents; otherwise, they should be outside the tragedy as, for example, in Sophocles' Oedipus.
There are many examples of the same dramatic device in modern movies and novels.
For example, in H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds, the aliens attacking Earth are suddenly killed by bacteria.
The movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail makes fun of this plot device when the heroes barely escape from an animated monster because the animator died from a heart attack before finishing the movie's animation.
Since the monster only existed in the animated scenes in the movie, the animator's death caused the monster to completely disappear from the movie.
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Actors on high: the Skene roof, the Crane and the Gods in Attic drama.
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Greek tragedy in action.
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"Dig It" is a song by The Beatles from their album Let It Be.
The song is credited to Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey.
It is one of the few songs to be credited to all of the Beatles; the others are "Flying" (Magical Mystery Tour), "Suzy Parker" (Let It Be movie), "12-Bar Original" (Anthology 2), "Los Paranoias" (Anthology 3) and the Beatles' version of "Free as a Bird".
John Lennon – vocal and 6 string bass
Paul McCartney – piano
Billy Preston – Hammond organ
The length of the day is how long a day is.
On Earth, it is 24 hours long.
There are other planets with different types of day.
Length of the day on other planets
Mercury - about 59 days
Venus - 243 days
Earth - 1 day
Mars - about 1 day, 0.6 hours
Jupiter - 9 hours
Saturn - about 10 hours
Uranus - about 13 hours
Neptune - about 15 hours
Increasing day length on Earth
The Earth is constantly losing angular velocity and rotational energy through a process called tidal acceleration, which leads to a slow lengthening of the day.
Tidal acceleration is an effect of the tidal forces between an orbiting natural satellite (e.g. the Moon), and the primary planet that it orbits (e.g. Earth).
A century ago, the average day was about 1.7 milliseconds shorter than today.
In the late Neoproterozoic about 620 million years ago a day had only about 21.9±0.4 hours.
Sidereal day
Moe, Larry, and Curly join a Woman Haters club.
When Larry falls in love, Moe and Curly get mad, for he is breaking the rules of the club.
Larry eventually gets married and gets kicked out of the club.
Several years later, Larry rejoins (Moe and Curly are still members).
WAZE-TV is a TV channel from Evansville, Indiana.
It is known as "The C-W 19."
It broadcast on digital channel twenty until May 2011, when it stopped operating.
WAAY-TV is a TV channel in Huntsville, Alabama in the United States.
Its display channel number is 31.
It is an ABC station.
It once also was an NBC, CBS, and DuMont station.
The station's first broadcast was on August 1, 1959 as WAFG-TV.
It was the second television outlet in the Huntsville region, signing on five years after NBC affiliate WMSL-TV (now WAFF).
In addition, WAFG-TV is the longest serving station licensed to Huntsville, as WMSL was still licensed to Decatur, Alabama at the time.
From its launch, WAFG was Alabama's first primary ABC affiliate, which was an unusual arrangement for a two-station market, especially one as small as Huntsville was at the time.
When the station was sold to Smith Broadcasting (owners of WAAY radio, now WLOR) in 1963, the call sign was changed to WAAY-TV.
At the time Smith Broadcasting held a permit from the FCC to put a new station on the air broadcasting on UHF channel 25, but when the Smith family received the offer to purchase WAFG, they decided to take that instead of building a new facility. (
Channel 25 was later licensed to Alabama Public Television station WHIQ.)
WAAY-TV switched its network affiliation to NBC on September 2, 1968 but returned to ABC nine years later, on December 11, 1977, citing ABC's higher network ratings at that time and the lack of a duplicate ABC affiliate in Florence (where WOWL, now WHDF, was then an NBC affiliate) as reasons.
Despite ABC's fall from first place in the 1980s in favor of a renewed NBC, WAAY still routinely came in first or second place in the ratings during the 1980s and 1990s.
However, despite having left full NBC affiliation behind back in 1977, WAAY would once again clear some NBC programming during the 1980s, most notably Late Night with David Letterman and Friday Night Videos, which WAFF preempted in favor of evangelist Jimmy Swaggart's daily program at 11:30 p.m. It was only when Swaggart had to discontinue his weekday show in the aftermath of his sexual scandal in 1988 that WAFF resumed carrying Letterman and FNV.
Since that time, WAAY has remained an exclusive ABC affiliate, clearing most if not all its programs.
WAAY-TV was an early adopter of weather radar systems for its weather coverage in the early 1970s.
During the 1974 tornado outbreak, the station was able to track the storms in real time using its radar system, while other media outlets had to rely on telephoned reports of visual sightings, as had been done traditionally.
In 1995, the station decided to expand its internal data network to become the Internet service provider now known as HiWAAY Information Services.
The service survived a period of intense local competition in the Huntsville area in the 1990s and 2000s, and remains in business as an independent regional provider.
Smith Broadcasting sold WAAY-TV to GOCOM Broadcasting (originally Grapevine Communications, later renamed Piedmont Communications) in 1999.
The Smith family, who previously owned broadcasting properties in Birmingham before coming to Huntsville, was the last local owner of a Huntsville television station as rivals WHNT-TV and WAFF had been sold to larger corporations years before.
WZDX, which was the first station in northern Alabama not affiliated with the traditional networks or the educational television system, has always belonged to outside interests.
The Smith family also, at various times, owned radio stations in Fort Walton Beach, Florida and South Pittsburg, Tennessee.
Between 1969 and 1982, all three of Huntsville's major-network affiliates (WAAY included) had studios located beside its transmitters and towers on Monte Sano.
After a 1982 fire gutted the building of WAFF, that station and later WHNT moved offices and production facilities into the city itself employing microwave relays to send signals to the transmitters.
Only WAAY continues to maintain its full operations on Monte Sano Boulevard.
WHIQ-TV, which is a PBS member station, serves as a translator relay of Alabama Public Television with programming originating from Birmingham, not Huntsville.
On September 4, 2003, the 1,000-foot (305 m) broadcasting tower leased by WAAY collapsed, killing three people.
In 2006, Piedmont Broadcasting agreed to sell WAAY to Calkins Media, a Pennsylvania-based company that owned several small newspapers in Pennsylvania and two other television stations, (WWSB in Sarasota, Florida and WTXL in Tallahassee, Florida).
The sale to Calkins became official on February 1, 2007.
WAAY was Calkins' only broadcasting property outside of Florida.
On April 11, 2016, it was reported that Calkins would exit the broadcasting industry and sell its stations to Raycom Media.
As Raycom already owned WAFF, WAAY's license was instead to be sold to American Spirit Media, with Raycom operating the station under a shared services agreement.
However, on August 26, 2016, Calkins agreed to instead sell WAAY to Heartland Media, through its USA Television MidAmerica Holdings joint venture with MSouth Equity Partners.
The sale was completed on April 30, 2017, making WAAY a sister station to adjacent market station WTVA in Tupelo, Mississippi.
In October 2019, Allen Media Broadcasting announced that it would acquire eleven of Heartland Media's television stations, including WAAY and WTVA, for $290 million.
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Analog-to-digital conversionEdit
WAAY-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 31, on February 17, 2009, to conclude the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.
The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 32, using PSIP to display WAAY-TV's virtual channel as 31 on digital television receivers.
ProgrammingEdit
Syndicated programming on WAAY includes Entertainment Tonight, The Doctors, Jeopardy!
and Live with Kelly and Ryan.
's sister game show, Wheel of Fortune, airs on NBC affiliate WAFF, making the Tennessee Valley one of the few regions of the country in which the two game shows, which have always been produced by the same packager, do not air on the same station.
News operationEdit
Senator Tommy Tuberville being interviewed by Dan Schaffer of WAAY-TV in 2021.
In the Spring 2007 ratings period, all of the station's newscasts ranked in third place.
This is in contrast from the 1970s through the early 1990s, when WAAY was still family-owned.
On July 16, 2007, WAAY unveiled a new set and graphics package similar to that of sister stations WWSB and WTXL.
Beginning September 13, 2010, its news title became WAAY 31 FirstNews.
The station was the first to air a 4:30 a.m. newscast in the market and is the only station in the area airing local news weekday at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. The channel produced a prime time newscast at 9 p.m. for UPN affiliate WHDF during the early 2000s.
On September 20, 2010 through a new news share agreement, a second WAAY-produced broadcast at 9 began airing every night on Fox affiliate WZDX.
In addition to its main studios, WAAY maintains news bureaus in Decatur (on Lee Street Northeast) and Florence (on North Pine Street within the University of North Alabama campus).
The station operates its own weather radar at the main studios called "Live Storm Force 31 Doppler Max".
On December 12, 2011, WAAY began broadcasting its news programming in high definition, making it the third station in the Huntsville television market to do so behind WAFF and WHNT.
The WZDX broadcasts were included in the upgrade.
In mid-2014, the station launched three websites, SpaceAlabama.com, RedstoneAlabama.com, and TechAlabama.com to cover the space, military, and technology industries in the Northern Alabama area.
As of 2021, though, the websites are defunct.
In late-September 2014, the StormForce 31 Weather Team launched a 24/7 weather channel for Northern Alabama called StormForce 31 WeatherNation.
The channel featured regional and national weather from WeatherNation TV with local forecasts from the WAAY weather team, every 10 minutes on the 5's.
The channel was seen on digital channel 31.2 until August 2017.
In August 2017, WAAY-TV announced that Ion Television would replace WeatherNation on 31.2.
KTUU is a TV channel.
Its display channel number is 2.
It is an NBC channel.
It is located in Anchorage, Alaska.
KPXI is a television channel in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
It first went on the air in 1982 as KXLI.
Adam Birch (born July 18, 1979) is an American professional wrestler.
Birch wrestled in the indies with the name Joey Matthews, and is now working with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a trainer in WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling.
In pro wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many wrestling shows that are much smaller than major wrestling companies, like World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
Some popular "indy promotions" are Ring of Honor (ROH), CHIKARA, Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA), and  National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).
The white-crested cockatoo, Cacatua alba, is a bird.
It is also called the white cockatoo and the umbrella cockatoo.
It is one of a larger group of birds in the family Cacatuidae.
Cockatoos are a kind of parrot.
Cockatoos have black bills made of keratin.
They have black feet.
The white-crested cockatoo is about 17.5 inches long.
The White Cockatoo is considered vulnerable by the IUCN.
Its numbers in the wild have declined owing to capture for the cage bird trade and habitat loss.\  It is listed in appendix II of the CITES list which gives it protection by restricting export and import of wild-caught birds.
BirdLife International indicates that catch quotas issued by the Indonesian government were 'exceeded by up to 18 times in some localities' in 1991.
RSPCA supported surveys by the Indonesian NGO ProFauna suggest that significant levels of trade in wild-caught White Cockatoos still occur, with 200+ taken from the wild in north Halmahera in 2007.
Approximately 40% of the parrots (White Cockatoo, Chattering Lory, Violet-necked Lory and Eclectus Parrot) caught in Halmahera are smuggled to the Philippines, while approximately 60% go to the domestic Indonesian trade, especially via bird markets in Surabaya and Jakarta.
The Roraiman barbtail (Roraimia adusta) is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family.
It is placed in the monotypic genus Roraimia.
It is found in Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela.
Roraimia adusta.
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"Fuckin' in the Bushes" is the first track on British band Oasis' fourth studio album, Standing on the Shoulder of Giants.
The song was frequently used as the first song in Oasis' concerts, such as on their Don't Believe the Truth Tour, played on a tape.
It contains samples taken from Murray Lerner's movie Message to Love - Isle of Wight 1970.
It is featured during the climactic scene of the movie Snatch, and it was played when Oasis received their award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
The Quaker Oats Company is an American food division business headquarted in Chicago.
Quaker's products include, oatmeal, cereal, and granola bars.
Since 2001, Quaker Oats Company is owned by PepsiCo, Inc..
The Quaker Mill Company of Ravenna, Ohio
A cereal mill in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The German Mills American Oatmeal Company
The Rob Lewis & Co. American Oats and Barley Oatmeal Corporation.
In 1969 Quaker got Fisher-Price, a toy business.
Fisher-Price stopped being owned by Quaker in 1991.
In 1983, Quaker bought Stokely-Van Camp, Incorporated.
The company makes Gatorade.
In 1994, Quaker bought Snapple for $1.7 billion.
Quaker sold it to Triarc in 1997 for $300 million.
United States Brands
Cap'n Crunch
Quisp
Mother's Natural Foods
Quaker 100% Natural Granola
Kretschmer Wheat Germ
Muffets
Quaker Oatmeal Squares
Quaker Toasted Oatmeal
Quaker Oh's
King Vitamin
Quaker Corn Bran
Quaker Oat Bran
Quaker Puffed Rice
Quaker Puffed Wheat
Other breakfast foods
Quaker Oatmeal
Quaker Oatmeal To Go
Quaker Grits
Aunt Jemima Syrups and Mixes
Quaker Breakfast Cookies
Quaker Instant Oatmeal
Quaker Crispy Minis (Rice Chips and Rice Cakes)
Quakes Rice Snacks
Quaker Soy Crisps
Quaker Snack Bars
Chewy Granola Bars
Quaker Mini Delights
Quaker Tortilla Mix
Rice-A-Roni
Pasta Roni
Near East Food Products
Milk Chillers
United Kingdom Brands
Hot cereals
Oatso Simple
Scott's Porage Oats
Scott's So Easy
Pawridge
Ready to eat cereal
Harvest Crunch
Cereal bars
Oat Bars
Snack-a-Jack bags
Snack-a-Jack Jumbos
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The Lafayette Quaker Oatmeal Festival
Quaker Oats Page on PepsiCo UK & Ireland
Story about the radioactivity experiments
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The Toyota Sienna is a family-sized Minivan that is built by Toyota Motor Corporation in Princeton, Indiana.
Three generations of the Toyota Sienna have been produced since 1997.
Both the second and third generations received an overall "Good" score from the IIHS and a 4-star rating for frontal and side impacts from the NHTSA.
The second generation of the Sienna was sold for the 2003 - 2010 model years with seating for 7 passengers and featured a 3.3L V6 from the start, which was later replaced by a 3.5L V6.
The third generation has been sold since the 2011 model year and is powered by the 3.5L V6 with 265 hp and still seats seven passengers.
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A Cloister is a term in architecture.
It describes a structure which is usually found in monasteries, churches and old colleges.
It is a rectangular open space surrounded by covered walks or open galleries.
It has open arcades on the inner side, running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle.
The Chevrolet Lumina was a mid-sized sedan that is built by the Chevrolet brand.
The Lumina was discontinued in North America from 1990 to 2001 and is currently being produced in the Middle East and South Africa.
The Lumina has four generations, the first generation was a mid-sized 2-door coupe and 4-door sedan and was produced from 1990 to 1994, The second generation which is a mid-sized 4-door sedan and was produced from 1995-2001, The third generation which was a mid-sized 4-door sedan and was produced from 1998 to 2006 and the fourth generation which is a mid-sized 4-door sedan and is produced from 2006 to present.
The Lumina is manufactured by General Motors company.
The Lumina could be bought in a minivan, coupe or sedan.
In North America Chevrolet discontinued the Lumina in 2000 due to dwindling sales and the success of the reborn Impala.
The Lumina nameplate was still used in some markets, in parts of Asia it was applied to the mid-sized Buick Century/Regal and a badge engineered version of the Holden Commodore sports sedan.
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A scaffold is a temporary structure used for support.
Originally scaffolds were made of wood, and bamboo scaffolds are still used in many parts of the world.
In the western world they are now made of metal.
The most common use of scaffolds is to allow work on buildings.
Another use of the word was the wooden platforms built for executions.
This is now a rare use of the word.
Types of scaffolding
Wooden & Bamboo Scaffolding: Bamboo scaffolding is more common outside of North America and Europe.
Pre-cut lumber was the most common type of scaffolding until steel, and the fabrication of materials, became much more affordable.
Bamboo is more commonly used in Asia where it’s favored for strength, flexibility, and eco-friendliness.
Tube & Clamp Scaffolding: This is one of the earliest types of steel scaffolding and consists of two parts, including the tubes and clips, sometimes called ‘couples.’
The idea is really simple, and one reason why it’s so popular is because of the ease in assembly and disassembly.
To erect the scaffold, you need to connect tubes together to make long runs and then connect the verticals and horizontals together with clamps built specifically for these tubes.
Systems Scaffolding: Sometimes referred to as modular scaffolding, systems scaffolding consists primarily of vertical and horizontal pre-engineered components that connect together in a systematic fashion.
Systems scaffolding is likely the most used type of scaffolding across the globe and there are hundreds of manufacturers, each having specific efficiencies.
Some perform well in very highly loaded conditions and others are more suited to smaller repeated scaffold structures.
Cuplock Systems Scaffolding: Commonly made from galvanized steel, cuplock systems scaffolding is popular for its ability to support heavy loads.
With cuplocks at every 500mm to 1,000mm, this type of scaffolding creates highly standardized systems that work well for scaffolding designs with repeated patterns.