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Due to its mountainous course and shallow bed, it is hardly used for irrigation purposes.
For grinding wheat, you can find ancient types of flour mills near Chakian.
Fishing is not possible in this stream as a profession.
Rohu is the main species of fish in this stream.
Kingfisher birds hunt here too.
The Fox and the Hound 2 is a 2006 American animated direct-to-video movie.
It was produced by DisneyToon Studios.
It is a sequel to the 1981 Disney animated movie The Fox and the Hound.
The movie was directed by Jim Kammerud.
It was released on December 12, 2006.
The story of the movie takes place during the childhood of Tod and Copper.
In this movie, Copper wants to join a band of singing stray dogs.
The movie features the voices of Reba McEntire and Patrick Swayze.
The movie had an official soundtrack album released on November 21, 2006.
The movie opens with Tod and Copper chasing a cricket together.
They see a line of trucks bringing the county fair to town.
Copper is mesmerized by the sound of dogs singing together in an old school bus with "The Singin' Strays" painted on the side.
The pair are eager to go see the fair, but when Copper's clumsy tracking skills disappoint his master Amos Slade yet again, the pup is tied up in the yard while Slade and Chief go to the fair without him.
Tod arrives and pulls Copper's collar off.
The two friends head to the fair.
Tod and Copper get to meet The Singin' Strays.
The band has five members: Dixie, Cash, Granny Rose, and twin brothers Waylon and Floyd.
It is important that they perform well because a talent scout from the Grand Ole Opry will be at the fair.
Cash and Dixie get into an argument.
Dixie walks off before their performance, forcing them to go on stage without her.
During the show, Copper sings along.
Cash invites Copper up on stage to sing with them.
The musical number is a success.
Cash invites Copper to join the band.
Copper joins the band after Tod lies that Copper is a stray.
Copper spends the entire day with Cash, forgetting his promise to watch fireworks with Tod.
Dixie finds Tod and sympathizes with his feelings of abandonment.
During their conversation, Tod tells Dixie that Copper is not a stray.
Dixie then hatches a plan to get Copper kicked out of the band.
Tod sneaks into Chief's barrel, luring him and Slade to the fair in a wild chase.
The chase leads to widespread mayhem in the fair.
The Singin' Strays' performance is sabotaged right in front of the talent scout Mr. Bickerstaff.
Copper is fired from the band and returns home with Slade.
Granny Rose and the rest of the members of Cash's band feel quite sorry for Copper about this.
This causes the band to break up.
Tod tries to apologize to Copper, but Copper is angry at the fox for ruining everything.
Tod is brought home by his owner, Widow Tweed.
Along the way, Tweed narrowly misses being hit by the talent scout's car.
Bickerstaff's hat flies off and lands on Tod.
The following day, Tod and Copper admit their mistakes and are friends again.
Hoping to make up for his doings, Tod gives Bickerstaff's hat to Copper.
Copper uses it to track down the talent scout at a local diner.
Tod tricks Cash and Dixie into thinking the other is in trouble.
The entire band end up meeting up at the diner.
Copper convinces the band the importance of harmony.
The Singin' Strays howl a reprise of their song We're in Harmony, attracting the attention of the talent scout and reuniting the band.
Impressed with the band, he arranges for the dogs to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.
The movie ends with Copper choosing to leave the band and play with Tod again.
Reba McEntire as Dixie
Patrick Swayze as Cash
Jonah Bobo as Tod
Harrison Fahn as Copper
Jeff Foxworthy as Lyle
Vicki Lawrence as Granny Rose
Stephen Root as Winchell P. Bickerstaff, the Talent Scout
Jim Cummings as Waylon and Floyd
Rob Paulsen as Chief
Russi Taylor as Widow Tweed
Jeff Bennett as Amos Slade
Kath Soucie as Zelda the cat
Hannah Farr as Olivia Farmer
Kevin Carr of 7M Pictures gave the movie two stars out of five.
He said that "“The Fox and the Hound 2” is never going to live down as a classic, but it isn’t terrible.
It falls somewhere in the middle of the Disney DVD sequel spectrum."
John J. Puccio of Movie Metropolis gave the movie 4/10.
He said that "Like most sequels, it's a pale imitation of the original."
The Fox and the Hound 2 Soundtrack Album is the soundtrack album to the movie.
It has songs from Reba McEntire, who was the voice of Dixie in the movie.
It also has songs from other well-known artists.
They include Trisha Yearwood, Chip Davis, and Little Big Town.
Composer Joel McNeely has a few score tracks on the album: "Depressed Dixie", "Sad Puppy Blues", "Nashville 7", and "Sticky Hound Puppy".
The Fox and the Hound 2 Soundtrack Album features a combination of country and bluegrass writers.
Performers were found in Nashville by Disney according to the music supervisor Kimberly Oliver, and Matt Walker Senior VP, DisneyToon Studios.
Background music score composer Joel McNeely composed bluegrass music for setting the moods of scenes.
They were performed by many famous bluegrass performers.
DVD Review at UltimateDisney.com
Director Jim Kammerud on The Fox and the Hound 2 Animated News & Views interview
[ The soundtrack] on Allmusic
A movie that is released direct-to-video (also known as made-for-video, straight-to-video, more recently, straight-to-DVD) is one which has been released to the public on home video formats (historically VHS) before or without being released in movie theaters or broadcast on television.
The term is also at times used as an insulting term for sequels of movies that are not expected to have financial success.
Reasons for releasing direct-to-video
Direct-to-video releases can occur for several reasons.
Often a production studio will develop a TV show or movie which is not generally released for several possible reasons: poor quality, lack of support from a TV network, controversial nature, or a simple lack of general public interest.
Studios, limited in the annual number of movies they grant cinematic releases to, may choose to pull the completed movie from the theaters, or never exhibit it in theaters at all.
Studios then recover some of their losses through video sales and rentals.
In the case of a TV show, low ratings may cause a studio to cancel the show, possibly after having filmed an entire season and aired some episodes.
If the show has a considerable fanbase, the studio may release unaired episodes on video to recover losses.
Clerks: The Animated Series and Firefly are examples of canceled shows which were successful cult hits on DVD.
Occasionally outstanding DVD sales may revive a canceled show, as in the case of Family Guy.
Originally canceled in 2004,the series was revived in 2005 due partly to its excellent DVD sales.
Direct-to-video releases have historically carried a stigma of lower technical or artistic quality than theatrical releases.
Some studio movies released direct-to-video are movies which have been completed but were never released.
This delay often occurs when a studio doubts a movie's commercial prospects would justify a full cinema release, or because its "release window" has closed.
A release window refers to a timely trend or personality, and missing that window of opportunity means a movie, possibly rushed into production, failed to release before the trend faded.
In movie industry slang such movies are referred to as having been "vaulted."
There is a positive side to direct-to-video releases.
They have become something of a lifeline for independent filmmakers and smaller companies.
Direct-to-video releases can be done for movies which cannot be shown theatrically due to controversial content, or because the cost involved in a theatrical release is beyond the releasing company.
Almost all pornographic movies are released direct-to-video.
Animated sequels and movie-length episodes of animated series are also often released in this fashion.
The Walt Disney Company began making sequels of most of its animated movies for video release beginning with The Return of Jafar (the sequel to Aladdin) in 1994.
Universal Studios also began their long line of The Land Before Time sequels that same year.
In 2005, Fox released Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story for DVD and Universal Media Disc.
Direct-to-video movies screened theatrically
Once in a while, a studio that makes a movie that was prepared as a direct-to-video movie and release it theatrically at the last minute due to the success of another movie with a similar subject matter or an ultimate studio decision.
Doug's 1st Movie is an example of this, quickly changed from a DTV to a theatrical release due to the surprise success of The Rugrats Movie.
Television spin-offs are animated or live action television series or made for TV movies which contain either characters or theme elements from an older series or movie (Clerks: The Animated Series, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures).
While the most common examples of a television spin off are animated series there are also live action examples (Robocop: Prime Directive)
Some SpongeBob SquarePants DVD volumes contain episodes not yet aired in the United States.
Certain special episodes of Pokémon were released directly on video such as Pikachu’s Winter Vacation.
Some Disney Channel shows, such as That's So Raven, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Phil of the Future, and Lilo & Stitch: The Series have also had direct-to-video episodes.
Direct-to-DVD market
As the DVD format supplants the videocassette, companies have increasingly released movies in DVD format rather than VHS, causing the term "direct-to-DVD" to replace "direct-to-video" in some instances.
However, the word "video" does not necessarily refer to VHS cassettes.
The new term used is DVDP ("DVD Premiere").
Such movies can cost as much as $20 million (about a third of the average cost of a Hollywood release) and feature actors like Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal.
Salaries for such actors range from $2 to $4 million (Van Damme) to $4.5 to $10 million (Seagal).
According to Variety, American Pie: Band Camp sold a million copies in one week, despite retaining only two actors from the original trilogy.
In recent years, DVD Premieres have become a substantial source of revenue for movie studios.
DVDPs have collectively grossed over $3 billion over the last few years, and have matured enough that DVDP divisions of studios now option their own movies.
Studios realized that DVDP movies can be shot on a smaller budget, thus allowing studios larger profits with the combined revenues of home video sales and rentals, in addition to licensing movies for television and for distribution abroad (where some DVDP movies do see theatrical releases).
Distributing DVDPs is not a practice reserved solely for larger Hollywood studios.
Several companies, such as The Asylum, MTI Home Video, and York Entertainment distribute DVDPs almost exclusively.
The budgets for movies distributed by these companies are even smaller than those of ones distributed by a larger studio, but these companies are still able to profit off their sales.
In Japan, the direct-to-video movement carries different connotations, being a niche product rather than a fallback medium.
Despite having lower budgets than features intended for theater release, Japanese direct-to-video productions are rarely marred by the poor storyline and lower quality production often associated with the DTV market in the US.
So-called V-Cinema has more respect from the public, and affection from movie directors for the greater creative freedoms the medium allows.
DTV releases are subject to fewer restrictions.
In the case of anime, this is called Original Video Animation (OVA or OAV), and their production values usually fall between those of television series and movies.
They are often used to tell stories too short to fill a full TV season, and were particularly common in the early 1990s.
Sometimes OVAs garner enough interest to justify commissioning a full television series, like Tenchi Muyo!,
One Piece, and El Hazard.
With the advent of the 13-episode season format, OVAs are less common now.
The majority of OVAs released in today's market are usually continuations or reworkings of recently completed TV series.
For instance, the DVD release of a TV series might include a bonus episode that was never broadcast as a sales hook.
List of Disney direct-to-video films
Website about direct-to-video films
Movie critic on the future of Direct-to-DVD
A Perfect Circle, often called APC by fans, is an alternative rock band.
It was put together by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool lead singer Maynard James Keenan.
Although the group never officially broke up, A Perfect Circle has not performed or written anything since 2006.
The band members still keep busy with other projects.
On September 17, 2009, Keenan confirmed that new material from A Perfect Circle was on the way during a live radio interview with BJ Shea on Seattle rock station KISW.
The band's biggest hits have been "Judith", "Weak and Powerless", and "The Outsider".
They have released the albums Mer De Noms, Thirteenth Step, and Emotive.
A Perfect Circle.com – official website
Interview with Billy Howerdel  - at College Crier
UNetbootin is an open-source software project.
It has 130,000+ weekly downloads.
Biersdorfer, J.D. (2009).
"UNetbootin" at NetBooks: The Missing Manual.
Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly Media. ;
OCLC 435462743
Ciampa, Mark. (
"UNetbootin" at Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals.
Boston, Massachusetts: Course Technology. ;
OCLC 707969716
UNetbootin Official Website
UNetbootin Official Wiki
UNetbootin Launchpad Development Page
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure is a 2002 direct-to-video sequel to the Disney animated movie One Hundred and One Dalmatians, which is voiced by Martin Short, Jason Alexander, and Barry Bostwick.
It was released on January 21, 2003 and won awards for best animated feature, best director, best editing, and best musical score.
Disney re-released the movie on September 16, 2008.
The movie tells the story of Patch, the loneliest dalmatian, who felt "lost in a sea of spots" until he met his TV hero Thunderbolt.
Unlike many of the Disney direct-to-video sequels that just retell the original movie's story, 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure takes characters from the original movie in some new directions.
The family of Roger, Anita, and the dalmatians plan to move to Dalmatian Plantation, a home in the country with plenty of room for the 101 pups and far from the clutches of Cruella de Vil, located at Cherry Tree Farm, Little Devon.
One of the dalmatians, Patch, feels lost in a sea of spots and wants to be a one-of-a-kind wonder dog like his TV hero, Thunderbolt.
While watching the Thunderbolt Adventure Hour, Patch hears about a chance to appear on the show while it's filming in London.
However, the family move will cause a problem for Patch's opportunity.
However, he is accidentally left behind in the commotion.
Patch heads for the audition to meet his hero and find out if he one of a kind, or just one of 101.
Meanwhile, Thunderbolt's "trusty" sidekick, Lil' Lightning, tells Thunderbolt the producers want to replace him with a younger dog.
In order to save his job, Thunderbolt decides he will go into the real world and perform an act of true heroism to prove himself.
A relible reference book to Thunderbolt's many adventures, Patch provides the perfect guide for the TV star in his attempts at real-life heroics.
As for Cruella - she's back and more obsessed with Dalmatians than ever.
At first, an artist named Lars can calm her down, but he cannot make the perfect spot painting, so she locks him up and returns to her old ways.
Lil 'lightning tells Thunderbolt and Patch that Thunderbolt was not going to be replaced but it is just a trick to make him quit once and for all and make Lightning the star.
Patch becomes heartbroken when he finds out that his favorite wonderdog just a TV actor.
Bobby Lockwood as Patch
Barry Bostwick as Thunderbolt
Jason Alexander as Lil'Lightning
Susan Blakeslee as Cruella de Vil
Martin Short as Lars
Jodi Benson as Anita
Tim Bentinck as Roger
Jeff Bennett as Jasper
Maurice LaMarche as Horace
Michael Lerner as the Producer
Tony Pope as Danny
Samuel West as Pongo
Kath Soucie as Perdita
Mary MacLeod as Nanny
Jim Cummings as Coronel
Ben Tibberas as Lucky
Tara Strong as Two-Tone
Kasha Kropinski as Penny
101 Dalmatians II Disney DVD
The Live USB system creator is to tool designed to create Live USBs of Ubuntu from a running Ubuntu Live CD
Detects available USB flash drives (using HAL)
Partitions USB flash drive with 1 partition
Sets partition bootable
Writes MBR to USB flash drive
Formats partition FAT32
Installs bootloader (syslinux) to partition
Writes bootloader configuration file
Copies necessary files from running Live CD to USB flash drive
Sets language and keyboard of USB Live system to match running Live CD
Optionally: Downloads and integrates Adobe Flash Player
Optionally: Enables persistent /home (Ubuntu 8.10 and later only)
The Fedora Live USB creator is an official tool designed to create Live USBs of Fedora.
Cross-platform (available for Windows and Linux)
Non-destructive install (does not format the device)
Supports various Fedora releases, including Fedora 19
Automatically detects all removable devices
Persistent storage creation, to save all documents created and modifications made to the system (only works with Fedora 9)
SHA1 checksum verification of known releases, to ensure that there is no corruption when downloading
The University of Texas at Arlington is a public university in Arlington, Texas.
About 25,000 students are enrolled (currently taking classes).
It was founded in 1895.
The University of Texas at Arlington
1895 establishments in the United States
The Old Persian language is one of two Old Iranian languages.
The other is Avestan).
Old Persian was used during the Achaemenid era (c. 600 BC to 300 BC).
Examples of Old Persian have been found in Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt.
Old Persian is an Old Iranian language, a member of the Southwestern Iranian language group.
As an Iranian language, Old Persian is a member of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.
Long:
Short:
a-stems (-a, -am, -ā)
i-stems (-iš, iy)
u- (and au-) stems (-uš, -uv)
consonantal stems (n, r, h)
Active, Middle (them.
-aiy-, -ataiy-), Passive (-ya-).
In Old Persian were used mostly the forms of first and third persons.
Only Dual form used was ajīvatam 'both lived'.
References and bibliography
: 238-245
: 56–85
University Of Chicago (2007, June 22).
Everyday text shows that Old Persian was probably more commonly used than previously thought.
8 Eyes is a 1988 video game created by Thinking Rabbit for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
The game has eight levels in it, and can be played by one or two players.
In the game, a soundtrack, composed by Kenzou Kumei, had three songs for each of the eight levels, each set in a different part of the world.
It has almost the same gameplay and graphics to Castlevania.
The name of the main character of the game is Orin, and he looks like Simon Belmont from the Castlevania games.
, and has one of the highest average SAT scores  and one of the highest percentage of students successfully completing the advanced placement exams  in the county.
Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean films were partly photographed on and off the coast of Palos Verdes Peninsula.
A tent city for production was constructed in the Redondo Beach Marina.
The Black Pearl and several production vessels were seen on the waters daily as were helicopters filming for overhead shots.
The name "Palos Verdes" is Spanish for green sticks.
George Takei - actor, famous as Hikaru Sulu from Star Trek
Chuck Norris - Walker, Texas Ranger, owns several properties in the region
Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee - who sold U.S. secrets to the Soviets and were portrayed in the book and movie The Falcon and the Snowman
Body Glove - co-founder Bob Meistrell, who invented the first "practical" wet suit
John Tu Billionaire
Pete Caroll - USC Head Football Coach
Gary Wright - Musician
Angelyne - Billboard model
Michael Dudikoff - Actor
Scott Shaw - Author, actor and filmmaker
Sasha Vujacic and Elden Campbell - Former pro basketball players
Deepak Chopra - Writer
History of Palos Verdes
Palos Verdes Chamber of Commerce
Welcome to Palos Verdes California
Marymount College
Palos Verdes Library District
Settlements in California
Geography of Los Angeles County, California
P.U.N.K.S. is a 1999 movie.
It stars Jessica Alba, Randy Quaid, and Henry Winkler.
Troy  was a city in north-west Asia Minor.
It was the center of the Trojan War, as told in eight long epic poems, six from the Epic Cycle, and two written by Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
"The archaeological site of Troy is of immense significance in the understanding of the development of European civilization at a critical stage in its early development.
It is, moreover, of exceptional cultural importance because of the profound influence of Homer’s Iliad on the creative arts over more than two millennia".
UNESCO citation.
Homer's Troy
Troy as seen in Homer's account is probably true in part.
However, it is wrong to think his account is historically exact.
With that warning, this is a summary of events leading up to the Trojan war, mostly derived from the Iliad.
Troy was a powerful kingdom in the Mediterranean sea, and thrived under the long rule of King Priam.
His many sons, including the valiant, strong, unbeatable Hector, and Paris, a creative character who was not a strong fighter but a passionate man, are the best known in the Troy myth.
In Greece lay a Kingdom called Mycene, owned by Mycenaean or Mykene people, ruled by King Agamemnon.
He started a campaign to pressure the Greece cities or kingdoms and to join him and attack Troy, to capture its many riches.
The King of Ithaca, Odysseus (or Ulysses, as he was also known), along with King Idomenous of Crete, with up to 22 more Kingdoms and Kings, spent ten years attacking Troy.
Eventually, Troy fell after a coup that Odysseus had thought up, using a wooden trojan horse to hide soldiers within in order to get soldiers behind the Trojan line of defence.
Before the fall of Troy, during the dawn of the War, King Priam sought to create an alliance with the strong Kingdom of Sparta in Northern Greece, to defend Troy when the war had begun.
King Aeneas, or Helikaon as he was said to be known, King of Dardanos, was a good friend of Hektor and King Priam, and sided with the Trojans in the war.
Unfortunately, on the journey back, after Hektor and Paris had forged an alliance in Sparta,  Paris took the wife of the King of Sparta, Princess Helen, without his consent, as they had fallen in love.
This ended the alliance,and Sparta eventually joined the fighting cause of King Agammenon.
Troy on the Internet  Educational website, University of Cincinnati
The Identification of Troy  by Jan Sammer
Troy -Citizendium
Hisarlık Troy
Project Troia - The new excavations at Troy
digital reconstructions of the city
Greek, Roman and Byzantine Pottery at Ilion (Troia)
Troy VII and the Historicity of the Trojan War
Photos from Troy
Troy pictures
Livius.org: Troy and plain of Troy
the Troad  (with an image of a model of Troy II)
Geology corresponds with Homer’s description of ancient Troy, article by Neil Thomas on the University of Delaware site.
Standard Publications
Some FIPS standards were originally developed by the U.S. government.
For instance, standards for encoding data (e.g. country codes), but more significantly some encryption standards, such as the Data Encryption Standard (FIPS 46) and the Advanced Encryption Standard (FIPS 197).
FIPS homepage
FIPS resource center
Computer Security Division
A maggot is the common name of the larval phase of development in insects of the order Diptera (flies).
Sometimes, the word is used to describe the larval stage of any insect.
Parasitic Maggots
While large maggots only eat necrotic tissue in living animals and can be symbiotic, certain types of maggots are parasitic, like the Botfly larvae.
These larvae spend part of their life cycle as parasites under the skin of living animals.
As a result myiasis will take place in the host causing symptoms like sores and irritating lesions and even death.
Maggot vending machines in the UK
Maggot Therapy Project - Website at the University of California, Irvine, list of maggot therapy practitioners
suppliers of Medical Maggots (disinfected Phaenicia sericata larvae), picture of Medical Maggots vial
BioTherapeutics Education and Research Foundation
Get rid of Maggots - Website with visitors' input on getting rid of maggots
Biotherapy with leeches and maggots
Undertow is Tool's first full-length album, released in 1993.
When this album was released, grunge music was at its most popular, and pop punk was slowly beginning to become popular.
Undertow helped heavy metal music continue as a leading mainstream musical style, and allowed several later bands to break through to the mainstream.
Allmusic saw the album's success in the "striking, haunting visuals that complemented the album's nihilistic yet wistful mood."
It was eventually certified double platinum by the RIAA on May 14, 2001.
The album was recorded between October and December 1992 at Grand Master Studios, Hollywood, California, and includes songs that the band decided to not release on their previous EP, Opiate.
Intolerance" – 4:53
Prison Sex" – 4:56
3. "
Sober" - 5:06
4. "
Bottom" - 7.13 (Tool, Henry Rollins)
5. "
Crawl Away" - 5:29
6. "
Swamp Song" - 5:31
Undertow" - 5:21
8. "
4°" - 6:02
9. "
Flood" - 7:45
69. "
Disgustipated" - 15:47
"Disgustipated" is track 69 on most pressings in North America (causing most CD players upon reaching the end of track 9 to advance through tracks 10-68, which contain no data, at a rate of about 2 per second until track 69 is reached).
It also appears as track 39, track 10 (mostly in Europe) or as a hidden track following "Flood" on track 9.
Percussion/Animal sounds - 0:00 - 1:10
Preacher - 1:11 - 2:32
Disgustipated - 2:33 - 6:45
Crickets - 6:46 - 13:50
Phone message - 13:51 - 15:47
"Intolerance"
"Prison Sex"
"Sober"
"Bottom"
"Crawl Away"
"Swamp Song"
"Undertow"
"4°"
"Flood"
"Disgustipated"
(*) designates unordered lists.
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom,  (Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore; 14 April 1857 – 26 October 1944), later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was a member of the British Royal Family.
She was the youngest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe - Coburg and Gotha.
Isle of Wight Beacon on Princess Beatrice
Information about Queen Victoria's journals
Regiments page on Princess Beatrice
Xbox Live (trademarked as Xbox LIVE) is the online gaming service created by Microsoft for the Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
It costs about $50 USD per year (in America) and has over 31 million subscribers as of 2013.
There are two versions of Xbox Live; Gold and Free.
Free allows an online 'friends list' and downloads, but does not allow users to play games against other people online.
Gold is the same as Free, but with the addition of online gaming and cost $50/£40 a year.
Subscribers can pay with a credit card or by special cards which are bought in shops and enter the codes online.
Microsoft Points
Microsoft Points or MS points was the previous currency of Xbox Live.
In 2013 they changed it to actual currency such as Dollars or Euros.
On Xbox Live you can buy many things ranging from movies to games to DLC.
You can buy full games on Xbox 360 and Xbox One or Xbox Live Arcade games.
Zanskar River has two branches of origin.
One of them takes birth in Ropshu area and flowing west-ward reaches Zanskar town; see Zanskar Gorge.
The other branch is formed from the waters of the glaciers of central Zanskar and flowing south-east reaches Padam.
From this place it turns to the north and collecting the waters of Khurna River empties into the Indus River.
Another stream called Zora flowing to the north from the southern frontiers, also joins Zanskar river.
The camera can be used for video chat, personalized gamer pictures, in-game video chat, and still pictures.
The camera features 640 × 480 video at 30 fps and is capable of taking still images at 1.3 megapixels.
It allows for video chat and picture messages using an Xbox Live Gold Subscription with video effects along with in-game compatibility.
It also features three camera effects, in which the currently captured video image is overlaid on the dashboard background.
The three effects are 'watery', 'edgy', and 'dotty'.
The camera uses a standard USB 2.0 connection and is also Windows (XP and newer) and Mac OS X (v10.4.9 and newer) compatible.
The Xbox Live Vision Camera was announced at E3 2006 and released in North America on September 19, 2006, following a 1-month pre-launch period in which Toys "R" Us stores in New York City and Los Angeles sold them to build up hype.
It was released in Europe and Asia on October 6, 2006, and November 2, 2006 in Japan.
PC compatibility
The Vision Camera is compatible with Windows XP Service Pack 2 using USB 2.0 connection.
It requires a microphone for audio when used on a PC.
Drivers are not included with the Vision Camera–you must allow Windows to download them automatically when prompted.
Go to Device Manager
Go to USB Controllers, select the camera, right click, and choose Update Driver
Choose "Install from Specific Location"
Choose "Don't Search"
Select USB Composite device
After a few seconds, the device will appear in "Imaging Devices."
In "USB Controllers" there will be an entry called "Microsoft Xbox 360 Live Vision Security Method 3."
This indicates the camera is installed and ready for use.
Mac OS X 10.4.9 added support for the USB "video class" group of peripherals, including Vision Camera.
They work in iChat, Photo Booth and other applications that use Quicktime for video display, such as Skype.
Connection over USB2 is also mandatory.
Xbox Live Vision , Xbox.com
Xbox Live Membership levels explained on Xbox.com
Using Xbox Live Vision with Windows
es:Xbox Live Vision
Arutunian Trumpet Concerto is Armenian composer Alexander Arutunian’s sixth major composition.
It was written for the Soviet trumpet player Timofei Dokschitzer, who moved to the USA and represented the concerto there.
According to J. Sundram, "it is an energetic powerhouse of Eastern European lyricism and harmonic textures".
According to Philip Smith, the principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic, Arutunian's Trumpet Concerto is too much popular among the trumpet players.
Andante—Allegro energico
Concerto for trumpet and orchestra.
Bernar Sustro, trumpet.
Philharmonic Orchestra "Des Pays de la Loire".
Conductor: Mark Sustro.
PierreVerani.
78801.
France, 1987
Timofey Dokshitser.
The Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra.
Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
TD - 950101- AT 2000.
Jucko Kharyane, trumpet.
Symphony orchestra "Kuopio".
Conductor: Pekka Savidtsuki.
Concerto for trumpet and orchestra. (
Cadence by A. Sandoval).
Arturo Sandoval, trumpet.
The London Symphony orchestra.
Conductor: Luis Has.
RCA Victor 09026-62661-2.
USA, 1994
Arrangement for trumpet and wind orchestra by Roger Harvey).
James Watson, trumpet. "
The Black Dyke Mills" Orchestra.
Conductor: Roger Harvey.
Doy CD 036.
Bebe Black, trumpet.
The Moscow Chamber Orchestra.
Concerto of trumpet and orchestra.
Harry Lidsle, trumpet.
The Oulu Symphony orchestra.
Conductor: Atso Almila.
Mils 9651 Finland, 1996
Timofey Dokshitser, trumpet.
The Orchestra of the Bolshoy Theatre.
Conductor: Gennady Rojdestvenskiy. "
Melodia"-Veb Deutsche Schall-platten, Berlin, DDR
Concert for trumpet with orchestra.
Same performance. "
Melodia", Angel, SR-1-40149
Melodia", C10-06785
Performer: Vatslav Yunek.
Prague Symphony orchestra De l'Office de Radiodifffusion Television Francaise.
Conductor: Moris Suzan.
STU 70714 A, France .
Same performance.
STU 70915 B, France
Victor (vic-2015), Japan
S. Leonchik, trumpet.
The Bolshoy Theatre Orchestra.
Conductor: Boris Haykin. "
Melodia", 33D-015506
Arutunian Trumpet Concerto at YouTube
Comparison between J. Haydn Trumpet Concerto in Eb and A. Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto in Ab
Alexander Arutiunian (born September 23, 1920, Yerevan; died March 28, 2012) was an Armenian composer and pianist, widely-known particularly for his Trumpet concerto.
He was awarded by the State Prizes of USSR (1949) and Armenia (1970), People's Artist of the USSR (1970) and Armenian SSR (1964) honorary titles, "St Mesrop Mashtots" and "Khorenatsi" Armenian medals, "Alexandrov" Gold medal (1976), "St Sahak and St Mesrop" Order by Holy Etchmiadzin (2004).
He graduated from the Music Conservatory of Yerevan, then he studied composition with Genrikh Litinsky.
After graduation he returned to Yerevan to teach at the local Conservatory and later he became artistic director of the Armenian Philarmonic Orchestra.
In 1948 he was awarded the USSR State Prize for the Motherland cantata, a graduation piece he wrote as a student at the Moscow Conservatory.
He has continued to win acclaim at home and abroad for his works, many of which are quickened by the folk traditions of Armenian music.
Some of Arutiunian's works for wind instruments, notably the 1950 concerto for trumpet, the concerto for tuba, and the brass quintet Armenian Scenes, have secured their place in the international repertory, having been performed by conductors such as Valeri Gergiev, who has recorded his Symphony for large orchestra, composed in 1957 with the Symphony orchestra of the Russian All-Union Radio.
In 1988, he composed his Violin Concerto "Armenia-88".
Nahapet (1977) (as Life Triumphs in USA)
Za chas do rassveta (An Hour Before the Dawn, 1973, TV)
Sirtn e yergum (The Heart Sings, 1957)
Urvakannere heranum en lernerits (Ghosts Leave the Peaks, 1955)
Aleph, lectures contades (2000) Italian TV episode (soundtrack: "Concerto for trombone and orchestra")
Lalvari vorskane (Lalvar Hunter, 1967) as Zako
www.alexanderarutiunian.com
Arutiunian's 85th Birthday Concert in Yerevan
Arutunian at IMDB
Epicurus (Samos, 341 BC – Athens, 270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher.
He started a school of philosophy called Epicureanism.
As a boy he studied philosophy under the Platonist teacher Pamphilus for about four years.
At the age of 18 he went to Athens for his two-year term of military service.
Epicurus never married and had no children, so far as we know.
Epicurus helped in the development of science and the scientific method because he said that nothing should be believed except what we can test through direct observation and logical deduction.
His ideas about nature and physics hinted at scientific concepts developed in modern times.
Epicurus' only surviving complete works are three letters, which can be found in book X of Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers, and two groups of quotes: the Principal Doctrines, reported as well in Diogenes' book X, and the Vatican Sayings, preserved in a manuscript from the Vatican Library.
Many pieces of his thirty-seven volume treatise On Nature have been found in the burnt papyrus fragments at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum.
Bailey C. (1928) The Greek Atomists and Epicurus, Oxford.
Bakalis Nikolaos (2005) Handbook of Greek Philosophy: From Thales to the Stoics Analysis and Fragments, Trafford Publishing,
Digireads.com The Works of Epicurus, January 2004.
Eugene O’ Connor The Essential Epicurus, Prometheus Books, New York 1993.
Edelstein Epicureanism, Two Collections of Fragments and Studies Garland Publ.
March 1987
Farrington, Benjamin.
Science and Politics in the Ancient World, 2nd ed.
New York: Barnes and Noble, 1965.
A Marxist interpretation of Epicurus, the Epicurean movement, and its opponents.
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance.
London: Penguin, 2001.
Inwood, Brad, tr.
The Epicurus Reader, Hackett Publishing Co, March 1994.
Oates Whitney Jenning, The Stoic and Epicurean philosophers, The Complete Extant Writings of Epicurus, Epictetus, Lucretius and Marcus Aurelius, Random House, 9th printing 1940.
Panicha, George A. Epicurus, Twayne Publishers, 1967
Prometheus Books, Epicurus Fragments, August 1992.
Russel M. Geer Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, Bobbs-Merrill Co, January 1964.
Diogenes of Oinoanda.
The Epicurean Inscription, edited with Introduction, Translation and Notes by Martin Ferguson Smith, Bibliopolis, Naples 1993.
Epicurus.info  – Epicurean Philosophy Online: features classical e-texts & photos of Epicurean artifacts.
Epicurus.net – Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Entry for "Epicurus"
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Entry for "Epicurus"
Epicurus & Lucretius – Small article by "P. Dionysius Mus"
The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature – Karl Marx’s doctoral thesis.
"Epicurus on Happiness"  – A documentary about the philosophy of Epicurus.
Principal Doctrines
Vatican Sayings
The Garden of Epicurus – useful summary of the teachings of Epicurus
Letter to Herodotus
Letter to Pythocles
Letter to Menoeceus
The Hundred and One Dalmatians, or The Great Dog Robbery is a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith.
The story is about Cruella de Vil and her plans to skin 101 Dalmatian puppies to make a fur coat.
The puppies are rescued by other animals.
Disney released an animated movie in 1961 based on the book as One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
The book has been published as 101 Dalmatians.
Smith wrote a sequel to the book called The Starlight Barking.
1956 books
Books about dogs
The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a 1956 novel written by Dodie Smith
One Hundred and One Dalmatians, a 1961 Walt Disney animated movie
101 Dalmatians (1996 movie), a 1996 live-action remake of the Walt Disney movie
101 Dalmatians: The Series, a Disney television series that aired from 1997-1998
101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure, an animated sequel to the 1961 Disney movie
102 Dalmatians, a sequel to the 1996 movie released in November 2000.
Coulomb's law is a function developed in the 1780s by physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.
It explains how strong the force will be between two electrostatic charges.
Electrostatic means electric charges without any motion.
Let's think of two electric charges existing in an empty space.
If the two charges are opposite, (+) and (-) charges for example, they will attract each other.
And if two charges are both the same, both (+) or both (-) for example, they will push each other.
This is similar to how magnets act, as N and S attract each other, and as N and N, S and S push each other.
This is because electric charges make an electric field.
If two fields exist in the same space at the same time, then the two fields exert (~ put) force on each other.
The force they make on each other is called 'Coulomb's force' or the electrostatic force.
Coulomb's law explains how big the force will be.
Coulomb's law explains that the force scale F is relative to ratio of ,.
and  are the scales of each electric charge.
is the distance between the two electric charges.
And  has a certain value.
It does not change relative to ,  or .
While  remains constant, when multiples of  and  become bigger, the electrostatic force will also get bigger.
When the distance  becomes bigger, the electrostatic force will become smaller by the ratio of .
The exact size of  is
N m2 C−2 (or m F−1).
This constant is called Coulomb's force constant or the electrostatic force constant.
The relation between the force of pushing or pulling (F) and the distance between the particles () follows the Inverse-square Law.
Inverse-square law means that when the distance  grows bigger, the force gets weaker by the ratio .
Gravitation, Electromagnetic radiation, and sound loudness also follow this law.
Coulomb, the SI unit of electric charge named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Inverse-square law, the physical law that shows the relation between distance and Intensity.
Electrostatic
Coulomb's Law on Project PHYSNET.
A maze game for teaching Coulomb's Law
Snow White, title character of various popular fairy tales
Snow White, a title character in Snow White and Rose-Red, a fairy tale unrelated to the Snow White listed above
Snow White (Fables), a character in the comic book Fables, created by Bill Willingham as an amalgam of the two characters mentioned above
Snow White, a 1967 novel by Donald Barthelme
Snow White, a 1987 novelization by Suzanne Weyn
Snow White (1916 movie), a Famous Players-Lasky Corporation silent movie
Snow White (1933 movie), a cartoon with Betty Boop, from Fleischer Studios
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 movie), a feature-length animated movie produced by Walt Disney
Snow White (1987 movie), a 1987 movie
The Legend of Princess Snow White,an anime production
Snow White: A Tale of Terror, a 1997 movie
Snow White (TV film), a 2001 TV movie
Snow White (2005 movie), a modern adult drama set in Zurich, Switzerland
History of IBM#1960–1968: The System/360 era|IBM and its major mainframe competitors in the 1960s, who were sometimes referred to as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (ballet)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1912 play), a Broadway play
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1979 musical), a Broadway musical based on the 1937 film
Schneewittchen (opera), a 1998 opera by Heinz Holliger
Snow White design language,a design profile used for a number of Apple computers
Operation Snow White,an infiltration effort perpetrated by the Church of Scientology against the United States of America
Snow White (horse)
Snow White (album), a 2007 album by Corinna Fugate
In Irish mythology, a leprechaun () is a type of male fairy said to live in the island Ireland.
They are a class of fairy folk" in Irish mythology and folklore, as with all fairies, with the Tuatha Dé Danann
They usually form into the look of old men and who enjoy doing trouble.
They are said to be very rich, having many treasure crocks buried during war-time.
Legend says, if someone looks at one of them, the leprechaun cannot escape, but the moment the person looks away, he disappears.
The Leprechaun Companion (an illustrated guide)
Irish culture
The Greater Middle East (also known as "The New Middle East") is a political term that groups together various countries, related to the Arab world with Iran and Turkey, marginal countries such as Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Various Central Asian countries and the lower Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia) and Cyprus and Greece are sometimes also included.
Some speakers may use the term to denote areas with significant Muslim majorities, but this usage is not universal.
The countries and Territories of the GME are as the following:
The Asian snake-eyed skink (Ablepharus pannonicus) is a species of skink.
It lives in the Caucasus Mountains and the Greater Middle East.
It is a small skink, with a body color that can be brown or copper green, and some have a white stripe along their side.
Like a snake, it does not have moveable eyelids.
Crosswords DS (also known as CrossworDS) is a crosswords video game made by Nuevo Retro Games and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS game console.
It has three games - Crosswords, Word search, and Anagrams.
IGN web page for Crosswords DS
Re-spins
http://fedoraunity.org/
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/
Picross DS got many great reviews.
IGN gave it a 9.0/10 and an Editor's Choice Award.
The magazine said the game was one of the most addictive games for the Nintendo DS.
They liked it for its downloadable puzzles, create-a-puzzle mode, and the number of puzzles to play.
They said that the game's biggest mistake was that it penalized the player for missing by adding time, but doesn't count how many times the player misses.
A type is a category of being
Type-token distinction
Type theory, basis for the study of type systems
Type (model theory)
Type or Arity, the number of operands a function takes
Type, any proposition or set in the Intuitionistic type theory
Data type, collection of values used for computations
Type (command), a shell command.
Type system, defines a programming language's response to data types
Ideal type
Normal type
Typification
Type (band), name of Portuguese DJ and musician Cyz (Cynthia Zamorano)
Typeface, used in typesetting
Typing, Pressing buttons (keys) on a keyboard to enter text
Architectural type, classification of architecture by functional types (houses, institutions), morphological types or historical types
The yellowchair performance experience, a theatre company often abbreviated to TYPE
Dog type, categorisation by use or function of domestic dogs
Biological type, which fixes a scientific name to a taxon
A free agent is a professional sports player who is not part of a specific team, especially whose contract has expired with the team he or she was on.
That player can then sign a new contract with any team.
An out in baseball happens to the batter or his teammates on the field in a game.
When a player is out, they leave the field, and when there are 3 outs, the other team goes up to bat.
One way to get an out is if a baseball is caught while in the air and before it touches the ground after being hit by the batter.
Another way is to strike out.
To strike out you have to either miss the ball or not swing at good pitches three times while batting.
Tag outs and force outs are the other main ways players get out.
Out (cricket)
A run in baseball is when a player on a team scores a point.
It can be a walked in run, a batted run, or a home run.
Maxis Software is an American company that was founded as a video game developer and is now a brand name of Electronic Arts (EA).
Maxis' second software title was SimCity, a city simulation and planning game.
Maxis is also the creator of the best-selling computer game of all time, The Sims and its sequel The Sims 2 and a title called Spore in which you guide a creature from cell form to smart, developed creatures.
These four titles and their related products are the brand's most popular and successful lines.
Most Maxis titles are simulation-based, though none are considered traditional simulations.
Maxis founder Will Wright likens them as "digital dollhouses."
Maxis has also released games developed by other production houses, such as A-Train and SimTower.
Acquisition by EA
Electronic Arts (EA) completed its acquisition of Maxis on July 28, 1997.
EA kept some of the original staff, including Will Wright.
Products were shipped under the Maxis logo for several years until 2004, when The Sims 2 had only the Electronic Arts logo on the box cover.
As of October 18 2006, with the release of The Sims 2: Pets expansion pack, the Maxis title has been removed from the game's start.
Also, up until The Sims 2: FreeTime, the logo of Maxis was used for a button in the Options panel of the game to display the credits.
In FreeTime, the Maxis logo was replaced by a symbol of the Sims plumbob.
Underwater is a term telling what is below the surface of a body of water such as an ocean, sea, lake, pond, or river.
Most of the planet Earth is covered by water.
The bottom of the ocean is called the sea-bed.
Most of the sea-bed is between  below the surface of the ocean.
Just like the Earth's dry land, the sea-bed also has mountains, valleys and flat plains, although they are covered with water.
The deepest part of all the world's oceans is a place called the Challenger Deep, which is in the Mariana Trench.
It is  under the sea.
Originally from Herefordshire, England, they are found in the temperate parts of Australia.
The breed also enjoys great popularity among ranchers in the desert American Southwest of the United States, as well as in the centre and east of Argentina and in Uruguay.
Herefords made up the largest percentage of registered cows among herders in New Zealand.
This is a testament to the hardiness of the breed; while originating in cool, moist Britain, they have thrived in much harsher climates.
The breed has adapted to a wide range of climates on nearly every continent.
Hornless variants with the polled gene are known as the Polled Herefords.
Breeding horned and hornless together functions as a genetic dehorner.
This is often used as an alternative to a dehorning process, which causes stress and often weight loss.
Beef cattle are cattle raised for meat production (as distinguished from dairy cattle).
The meat of cattle is known as beef.
While the principal use of beef cattle is meat production, other uses include leather, and products used in shampoo and cosmetics.