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After 50 minutes, doctors believed the damage was too severe and Selena was pronounced dead at 1:05 pm local time.
They announced the cause as cardiac arrest and extensive bleeding.
Selena was only two weeks away from her 24th birthday and two days away from her third anniversary to Chris Perez.
During the second hour, the FBI had communication with Saldivar.
They tried to convince Saldivar to give herself up.
One of the negotiators tried talking to Saldivar as if the shooting were an accident.
Saldivar began believing that she did not mean to shoot Selena.
She then stated that the pistol was meant for herself; she was going to commit suicide.
She stated that the "gun went off".
Around this time, a press conference was ordered.
Assistant Police Chief Ken Bung and Selena's father, Abraham Quintanilla Jr, made an on-air announcement about the murder.
Saldivar's name was still not being named in the media.
During the third hour, an autopsy was performed.
This was because of the growing media interest.
The autopsy revealed that the bullet entered Selena's lower back.
It passed through Selena's chest cavity, which instantly damaged Selena's right subclavian artery.
The bullet then exited the right upper chest.
The autopsy also revealed that Selena's heart, fueled by adrenaline, pumped her blood out.
The doctor said that if the bullet had hit Selena a millimeter higher or lower, the wound would not have been as severe.
During the fourth hour, Saldivar exclaimed that the gun was meant for herself.
She also stated that when Selena tried to open the door, she asked her to leave the door closed.
She said at that instant the gun went off.
During the sixth hour, Saldivar agreed to give herself up.
However, a police officer had a rifle.
This caused Saldivar to panic and she went back to her truck.
Saldivar gave herself up during the ninth hour.
As police drove Saldivar away, fans cheered and cried tears of joy nearby.
1990s in Texas
The Maschinengewehr 34, or MG 34, was a general-purpose machine gun.
It was developed in Nazi Germany.
It was first made and accepted in 1934.
It was first given to soldiers in 1935.
It fires the 7.92 x 57mm Mauser cartridge.
It was designed to be able to be a light machine gun and be able to do other things as well.
This was an early example of a general-purpose machine gun.
When it is being used as a light machine gun, a bipod can be attached to it.
If it is being used for other things, it is put onto a tripod and is belt-fed.
In a battle, the bipod version was used mostly.
This turned the MG 34 into an infantry support weapon.
Later, the MG 34 started to be used less for the MG 42.
The MG 34 was used as Germany's main machine gun in the 1930s.
It stayed the main tank and anti-aircraft machine gun.
It was supposed to be replaced by the MG 42.
However, there were not enough MG 42s.
The German Armed Forces still wanted the MG 34 to be made.
It kept being made until the end of WWII in 1945.
However, the German Armed Forces wanted more MG 34s than could be made.
The MG 34 was designed by Mauser Werke.
It was based on the Solothurn 1930 (MG 30).
The Solothurn was developed by Rheinmetall.
It was starting to be used in Switzerland.
The MG 34 began being made right away.
It was used in all parts of the German Armed Forces and even by the police.
When it was first brought into service, it was the very first general-purpose machine gun.
However, the MG 34 took a long time to make, and it was expensive and difficult to make.
The Germans ended up using a weapon they could not afford.
However, because so many were needed, it was still made.
Some MG 34s given to  Chinese Nationalist forces were used during both World War II and the Chinese Civil War.
The MG 34's barrel is designed to be replaced quickly to keep the gun cool.
Changing the barrel took just a few seconds when done by a well trained gunner.
However, when the barrel was being replaced, it was very hot.
The gunner changing the barrel had to wear an asbestos glove to protect his hands while he was changing the barrel.
The MG 34 had a special trigger.
It was split into two parts.
It gave select fire.
Pressing the upper part of the trigger made semi-automatic fire.
Holding the lower part of the trigger made fully automatic fire.
When the MG 34 was being used as a light machine gun it was used with a bipod.
It weighed just  with its bipod.
The MG 34 could be carried around by an infantry squad and be fired from a bipod.
It could also be put onto a tripod to fire for a long time.
It was kept cool by the air.
Different kinds of MG 34
MG 34/41(MG 34S)
The MG 34/41 was the MG 34 used for anti-aircraft.
It could only fire fully automatically.
The length of the MG 34/41's barrel is .
MG 34 Panzerlauf
The MG 34 Panzerlauf was the standard machine gun for tanks during World War II.
To be used in a tank, the barrel of the MG 34 was covered with armour and the butt stock was removed.
MG 81
The MG 81 machine gun was based on the MG 34.
The MG 81 was used on aircraft.
It got its ammunition from a belt and fired 7.9 mm rounds.
There were never enough MG 34s made to make its users happpy.
Even though the MG 81 was much better than the MG 15 and MG 17 used before it, they were still used until the end of the war.
U.S. Army training video about the MG 34
Ramy Ayach () is a Lebanese singer.
He was born on August 18, 1980 in Baakleen, Lebanon.
Ayach was born as the oldest child.
He was raised in the mountains of Lebanon.
He became aware of his music and started singing in public places.
He then became one of the most popular Arabian singers in the Middle East.
Ramy Ayach On Facebook
Ramy Ayach Official Website
Rotana Records Arabia
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي امارت, Da Afġānistān Islāmī Amārāt) is an Islamic state governed by the Taliban that is the de facto current government of Afghanistan since 2021, has also ruled the country from 1996 to 2001.
Between 1996 and 2001, it controlled approximately 90% of the country as an insurgency, whereas remaining regions in the northeast were held by the Northern Alliance, which maintained broad international recognition as a continuation of the Islamic State of Afghanistan.
After the September 11 attacks and subsequent declaration of a "War on Terrorism" by the United States, international opposition to the regime drastically increased, with diplomatic recognition from the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan being rescinded.
The Islamic Emirate was overthrown by the Northern Alliance on 17 December 2001, which had been bolstered by the ISAF coalition established after a U.S.-led invasion of the country two months prior.
The Taliban has continued to refer to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in official communications from 2001 until 2021.
During the 2021 Taliban offensive, the Islamic Emirate regained effective control of the governance of Afghanistan following the Fall of Kabul on 15 August 2021.
Cabinet of Afghanistan
IEA
A Palestinian Jew is a Jewish inhabitant of Palestine (or Land of Israel) at various points in the region's history (see Dispute over usage of the term below).
Jews in Palestine prior to the establishment of the State of Israel are more commonly referred to as "Yishuv" (Jewish Community).
A distinction is drawn between the "Old Yishuv," that is, the pre-existing Jews in the land of Israel, and the "New Yishuv," that is, the newly-arrived Jewish immigrants after the First Aliyah in 1881.
After the modern State of Israel was born in 1948, native Jews in Palestine became citizens of Israel, and the term "Palestinian Jews" largely fell into disuse.
Some people who speak Arabic and live on the territory called Palestine today are Christians.
These include Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholic (Eastern and Western rites), Protestant, and others.
About half of them belong a branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem.
Today, less that four percent of the Palestinian Arabs living inside the borders of Palestine are Christians.
Many Arabs emigrated, mainly because of wars fought between Egypt, Israel and Jordan.
There is also a pressure to join Islam.
Surveys done by the British in 1922 and 1946 showed that in 1922, about 9.5%  and in 1946 approximately 7.6% of the Palestinian Arabs were Christians.
The Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) is  a large bird.
It lives in wet places such as in swamps and shallow lakes.
It can be found from southeastern Europe to Pakistan and China.
It is the largest member of the pelican family.
The average length is  170–190 cm (67-75 inches) The average weight is 11–15 kg (24-33 lbs).
The wings are around 3 m (10 ft) across.
It is the world's heaviest flying bird on average.
However, sometimes a few birds from another species may also be as large or larger.
The Platyzoa ("flat animals") are a group of protostomes proposed by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in 1998.
This is a taxon above the level of phylum, and is not part of the usual system of classification.
Cavalier-Smith included here the Platyhelminthes (flatworms), and a new phylum Acanthognatha, into which he gathered several previously described phyla of microscopic animals.
Subsequent studies have supported Platyzoa as a viable clade, while differing on the phyla included and on relationships within Platyzoa.
The Lophotrochozoa ("crest-bearing animals") are a group of animals above the level of phylum.
They were recently discovered through molecular phylogeny.
They include two of the most successful animal phyla, the Mollusca and Annelida.
The Lophotrochozoa comprise two groups, the trochozoans and the Lophophorata.
However, it seems that neither the lophophorates nor the trochozoa are monophyletic groups by themselves, but are mixed together.
Trochozoans produce trochophore larvae, which have two bands of cilia around their middle.
The Trochozoa include the Nemertea, Mollusca, Sipuncula, Echiura and Annelida.
The Lophophorata are united by the presence of a lophophore, a fan of ciliated tentacles surrounding the mouth.
Some authors considered them deuterostomes, before RNA trees placed them together with the trochozoans.
The Lophophorata include the Bryozoa, Phoronida, and Brachiopoda.
French cooking was introduced in the 20th century by Georges Auguste Escoffier (1846–1935).
He worked out how to run large restaurants, as in a big hotel or a palace: how the staff should be organised; how the menu was prepared.
Escoffier managed the restaurants and cuisine at the Savoy Hotel and Carlton Hotel in London, the Hôtel Ritz Paris, and some of the greatest cruise ships of the day.
Escoffier's other main contribution was the publication of Le Guide Culinaire in 1903, which spread the understanding of French cookery.
However, Escoffier left out much of the culinary character to be found in the regions of France.
Gastro-tourism and the Guide Michelin helped to acquaint people with the rich bourgeois and peasant cuisine of the French countryside in the 20th century.
Many dishes that were once regional have proliferated in variations across the country.
In France, each region has its own special dish; choucroute in Alsace, quiche in Lorraine, cassoulet in the Languedoc-Roussillon, tapenade in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, bouillabaisse in Marseille.
Rock pools (or 'tide pools') are rocky pools by the sea.
They are in the intertidal zone.
They are filled with seawater during high tides, and exist as separate pools at low tide.
The rock pool habitat
Tide pools are a home for hardy organisms such as sea stars, mussels and clams.
They must be able to cope with a constantly changing environment — fluctuations in water temperature, salinity, and oxygen content.
Huge waves, strong currents, exposure to midday sun and predators are only a few of the hazards that rock pool animals must endure to survive.
Waves can dislodge mussels and draw them out to sea.
Gulls pick up and drop sea urchins to break them open.
Starfish prey on mussels and are eaten by gulls themselves.
Although tide pool organisms must avoid getting washed away into the ocean, drying up in the sun, or getting eaten, they depend on the tide pool's constant changes for food.
Tide pool zones, from shallow to deep
The water  level is always changing.
Twice a day, the tide rises up the shore and then goes back again .
When the tide starts to go back out, the upper shore is left exposed until the next high tide, 12 hours later.
The rocks around the rock pool are covered by seaweed, a type of algae that thrives in the ocean.
This zone receives spray from wave action during high tides and storms.
At other times the rocks experience other extreme conditions, baking in the sun or exposed to cold winds.
Few organisms can survive such harsh conditions.
Lichens and barnacles live in this region.
In this zone, different barnacle species live at very tightly constrained elevations.
Tidal conditions precisely determine the exact height of an assemblage relative to sea level.
Since the intertidal zone often desiccates when the tide is out, barnacles are well adapted to water loss.
Their calcite shells are impermeable, and they possess two plates which they slide across their mouth opening when not feeding.
These plates also protect against predation.
High tide zone
The high tide zone is flooded for hours during each high tide.
Organisms must survive wave action, currents, and  exposure to the sun.
The high tide zone is inhabited by sea anemones, starfish, chitons, crabs, green algae, and mussels.
Marine algae can provide shelter for such organisms as nudibranchs and hermit crabs.
The same waves and currents that make the life in  the high tide zone difficult bring food to the filter feeders and other intertidal animals.
Low tide zone
This area is mostly submerged – it is exposed only during low tide.
It is teeming with life.
There is much more marine life, especially seaweed.
There is greater biodiversity, but organisms in this zone are not well adapted to dryness and temperature extremes.
Low tide zone organisms include abalone, sea anemones, brown seaweed, chitons, crabs, green algae, hydroids, isopods, limpets, mussels, nudibranchs, small fish, sea cucumber, kelp, sea stars, sea urchins, shrimp, snails, sponges, sea grass, tube worms, and whelks.
These creatures can grow to larger sizes because there is more available energy and better water coverage: The water is shallow enough to allow more light for photosynthetic activity, and the salinity is at almost normal levels.
The area is still protected from large predators because of the wave action and relatively shallow water.
Species in rock pools
Rock pool fauna
Sea anemone, such as Anthopleura elegantissima, can clone to reproduce.
The process is called longitudinal fission, in which the animal splits in two parts along its length.
Some species, such as Anthopleura sola can fight for territory.
The white tentacles (acrorhagi) are for fighting.
The acrorhagi contain stinging cells.
The sea anemones sting each other repeatedly until one (usually) moves.
Some species of starfish have the ability to regenerate lost arms in time.
Most species must retain an intact central part of the body to be able to regenerate, but a few can regrow from a single ray.
The regeneration of these stars is possible because the vital organs are in the arms.
Rock pool flora
Sea palms look much as palm trees do.
They live in the middle to upper intertidal zones in areas with greater wave action.
High wave action may increase nutrient availability and moves the blades of the thallus, allowing more sunlight to reach the organism so that it can photosynthesize.
In addition, the constant wave action removes competitors.
The Doom engine, sometimes called ID Tech 1, is the computer code behind the video game Doom.
It is also used by several other games, including Doom 2 (but not Doom 3, which has its own engine).
Heavily modified versions of the Doom engine are used in Heretic, Hexen, and Strife.
The Doom engine uses a technique called binary space partitioning to represent 3D levels in a way that a computer can process quickly.
It is written mostly in C. The source code has been released for free under the GNU General Public License.
Many Doom fans have made their own modified versions called source ports.
Source ports often add new features and fix problems in the original engine.
Popular source ports include Boom, PrBoom, PrBoom+, Zdoom, and Chocolate Doom.
The Doom engine represents levels internally using structures called linedefs, sidedefs, sectors, verticies, and things (meaning monsters, items, decorations, etc.).
The doom engine reads levels and other data from a file called a WAD.
The Doom engine renders levels entirely on the CPU, not the video card, as most video cards at the time (1993) did not have 3D acceleration.
This required very efficient algorithms to make the game work on the slow computers of the time.
The Doom engine has been made available for more types of computers than any other first person shooter engine.
It is easy for a programmer to make it work on a new type of computer because it is written in C and it uses very few system resources, allowing it to run on handheld computers and computers without a 3D accelerator.
Sociolinguistics is the study of how language is related to society.
It also studies how people affect language usage.
Sociolinguistics studies how variety in language changes between groups of people because of things such as race, gender, status, age, etc.
Indian and Japanese linguists first studied the social parts of language in the 1930s.
Louis Gauchat in Switzerland also studied this in the early 1900s.
However, none of them were known in the West until much later.
The study of why language changes started during the late 1900's in the wave model.
Thomas Callan Hodson was the first person to us the word sociolinguistics.
It was in an article he wrote in 1939 called "Sociolinguistics in India".
This was printed in a magazine called Man in India.
Sociolinguistics in the West first came in the 1960s.
It was pushed forward by linguists such as William Labov (in the US) and Basil Bernstein (in the UK).
In the 1960s, William Stewart and Heinz Kloss introduced the simple ideas for the concept of pluricentric languages.
This explains how standard language varieties are different between countries (e.g. American/British/Canadian/Australian English; Austrian/German/Swiss German; Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian Serbo-Croatian).
Applications of sociolinguistics
For example, a sociolinguist might research how a particular variety of language (vernacular) would not be considered correct in a business place.
Sociolinguists might also study the grammar, phonetics, and vocabulary of this sociolect.
Similarly, dialectologists would study the same things for a regional dialect.
The study of language variation focuses on how language changes with social pressure and when in a specific environment.
Code-switching is a word used to explain the language changes in new environments.
William Labov is often thought of as the most important person who studies sociolinguistics.
He is especially known for introducing a way to measure language variation and change.
This made the study of language into a scientific area of study.
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This book is a very readable, if Anglo-centric, introduction for the non-linguist.
Watts, Richard J. (2003).
A sociolinguistics book specializing in the research in politeness.
It's a little tough at times, but very helpful and informational.
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James Graham Ballard (often "Jim"; 15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and important member of the New Wave movement in science fiction.
His best-known books are  Crash (1973) and Empire of the Sun (1984).
Ballard's father was a chemist at a company called the Calico Printers Association.
The company was based in Manchester and made cloth.
Ballard was born and raised in the Shanghai International Settlement, an area under foreign control where people "lived an American style of life".
He went to the Cathedral School in Shanghai.
After the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ballard's family temporarily left their suburban home and rented a house in downtown Shanghai to avoid the shells fired by Chinese and Japanese forces.
After the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese occupied the International Settlement.
In early 1943 they began interning Allied civilians.
Ballard was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center with his parents and younger sister.
He spent over two years in the internment camp.
His family lived in a small area in G block, a two-story residence for 40 families.
He went to school in the camp.
England and Canada
In 1946, after the end of the war, his mother returned to England with Ballard and his sister on the SS Arrawa.
They in Plymouth, and he attended The Leys School in Cambridge.
After a couple of years his mother and sister returned to China, rejoining Ballard's father.
Ballard went to live with his grandparents when he was not at boarding school.
In 1949 he went on to study medicine at King's College, Cambridge and planned to become a psychiatrist.
At university, Ballard was writing avant-garde fiction heavily influenced by psychoanalysis and surrealist painters.
At this time, he wanted to become a writer as well as pursue a medical career.
Ballard stopped his medical studies, and in 1952 he enrolled at Queen Mary, University of London to read English Literature.
However, he was asked to leave at the end of the year.
Ballard then worked  for an advertising agency and as an encyclopedia salesman.
He kept writing short fiction but did not get published.
In 1953 Ballard joined the Royal Air Force and was sent to the RCAF flight-training base in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada.
He left the RAF in 1954 after two years and returned to England.
In 1955 he married Helen Mary Matthews and they lived in Chiswick.
Ballard published several novels and short-story collections during the seventies and eighties.
However, he only became popular in the mainstream with his novel Empire of the Sun in 1984.
This novel was based on his years in Shanghai and in an internment camp.
It became a bestseller,
Ballard continued to write until the end of his life.
He died of prostate cancer in London.
Bruce Sterling called Ballard is an important writer leading to cyberpunk in the introduction to the Mirrorshades anthology.
Jean Baudrillard praised Crash as the first great novel of the universe of simulation in Simulacra and Simulation
Ballard was interested in the relationship between different media.
He was one of the trustees of the Institute for Research in Art and Technology in the early 1970s.
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Miracles of Life (Autobiography; 2008)
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Peter Potter (BBC Two)
Crash! (
1971) dir.
"Minus One" (1991) from the story of the same name – short film dir.
by Simon Brooks.
"Home" (2003) primarily based on "The Enormous Space" – dir.
Richard Curson Smith (BBC Four)
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source material
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obituaries and remembrances
Obituary  in the Times Online
Obituary by David Pringle in the Guardian
Obituary by John Clute in The Independent
Obituary in the New York Times
Obituary in the Los Angeles Times
Quotes from other writers on BBC News
More writers' reactions in The Guardian
A short appreciation in The New Yorker
Tribute  by V. Vale from RE/Search
Letter From London: The J.G. Ballard Memorial
The Indian cormorant or Indian shag (Phalacrocorax fuscicollis) is a member of the cormorant family.
It is found mainly along the inland waters of the Indian Subcontinent but extending west to Sindh (S Pakistan) and east to Thailand and Cambodia.
It is a gregarious species that can be easily distinguished from the similar sized Little cormorant by its blue eye, small head with a sloping forehead and a long narrow bill ending in a hooked tip.
Cormorants
The Oriental darter or Indian darter (Anhinga melanogaster), sometimes called snakebird, is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia.
IUCN Red List near threatened species
Charades or charade (  or  ) is a word guessing game.
A player acts out a word or phrase and the other players attempt to guess what the word or phrase is in a certain amount of time.
The person who is acting usually pantomimes similar sounding words.
The game has also been adapted into television shows like Acting Crazy, Party Game, Give Us a Clue, Body Language and Celebrity Charades.
The rules for Charades
Aestivation, spelled estivation in the US, is one way an animal can go dormant, which is like being asleep.
Aestivation is similar to hibernation, but the animal does it when it is hot instead of when it is cold.
The animals stops moving and it sbody uses much less energy (food).
The animal does this when the temperature is high and the weather is dry.
Lungfish have been doing this since the Devonian period millions of years ago.
Many animals aestivate, including the Nile crocodile, many snails, and lady beetles.
Invertebrate and vertebrate animals aestivate so they do not die from the heat or from drying out.
Both land- and water-living animals can do aestivation.
Dormancy is a period in an organism's life cycle when growth, development, and (in animals) physical activity are temporarily stopped.
This minimizes metabolic activity and therefore helps an organism to conserve energy.
Dormancy tends to be closely associated with environmental conditions.
Organisms can synchronize entry to a dormant phase with their environment through predictive or consequential means.
Predictive dormancy occurs when an organism enters a dormant phase before the onset of adverse conditions.
For example, day length and decreasing temperature are used by many plants as triggers to start dormancy before the onset of winter.
Consequential dormancy occurs when organisms enter a dormant phase after adverse conditions arise.
This is often found in areas with an unpredictable climate.
Sudden changes in conditions may lead to a high mortality rate among animals relying on consequential dormancy.
On the other hand, its use can be advantageous, as organisms remain active longer and are able to make greater use of available resources.
Hibernation: Hibernation is a mechanism used by many mammals to save energy and survive food shortage over the winter.
Hibernation may be predictive or consequential.
Diapause: Diapause is a predictive strategy controlled by an animal's genotype.
It is common in insects between autumn and spring.
Aestivation: Aestivation is consequential dormancy in response to very hot or dry conditions.
It is common in invertebrates, and also occurs in lungfish, salamanders, desert tortoises, and crocodiles.
Brumation: Brumation is dormancy in reptiles similar to hibernation.
It differs from hibernation in the metabolic processes involved.
Reptiles usually start brumation in late autumn.
They often wake up to drink water and return to "sleep".
They can go for months without food.
A wedding officiant is a person who is allowed by the government to perform weddings.
This person may be a civil servant, or they may hold a religious position (for example, a priest or a rabbi).
In some countries, certain religious officials are automatically allowed to perform weddings.
In other countries, they must first ask permission from the government.
Wedding officiants who work for the government must often follow special rules, that others do not have to follow.
For example, the government might not allow them to refuse to perform a wedding, if the people who want to get married are allowed to by the law.
Some countries allow anyone, not just civil servants or religious officials, to become wedding officiants temporarily.
A temporary wedding officiant is usually allowed to carry out only one specific wedding that they asked permission for.
If they want to perform another one, they have to ask the government for permission again.
The masked booby, Sula dactylatra, is a large seabird of the booby family, Sulidae.
These birds often fight each other for certain types of fish.
Many adults will create a flock of their own to take down a school of fish but many boobies hunt alone so their catch is not stolen by the other birds in the area.
The masked booby nests in small colonies.
It lays two chalky white eggs on sandy beaches in shallow depressions, which are incubated by both adults for 45 days.
In most cases, the first chick will kill its smaller, weaker sibling after it hatches.
Siblicide is what it is called.
Research shows that the boobies can feed two chicks, but they do so at a cost to health and future reproductive success.
Compared to other species of boobies such as the blue-footed booby, siblicide always happens in the masked booby.
One reason is because the masked boobies build very shallow flat nests, so older chicks can expel their younger siblings with relative ease.
Blue-footed booby parents, meanwhile, build nests with steeper sides, thus preventing some older chicks from engaging in siblicidal behaviour.
The great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds.
It is a large black bird which breeds in much of the Old World and the Atlantic coast of North America.
There is a lot of variation in its size in different parts of the world.
Weight is reported to vary from  to .
The little cormorant (Microcarbo niger) is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds.
The pygmy cormorant (Microcarbo pygmaeus) is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds.
A biographical film or biopic is a movie about a particular person or group of people, based on events that actually happened.
These may present the events as they actually happened, or may stretch and adjust the truth for other purposes.
Biographical movies often single out the most important events of the lives involved to focus on.
They may also cross over between genres, such as drama, comedy and action.
Selena was an American singer–songwriter.
She became the "Queen of Tejano music" by the early 1990s.
She had helped the Tejano genre become very popular in the United States.
After dominating the Latin music charts, winning every nominated award and signing a tour sponsorship with Coca-Cola, Selena had begun recording songs for a crossover attempt.
Songwriting
She wrote the songs "Always Mine", "My Love" and "Amame".
She co-wrote "Amor Prohibido", "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" and "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)".
Her brother, A.B. Quintanilla III, became the main songwriter for Selena's songs in 1989.
Selena y Los Dinos band members such as Ricky Vela (lead keyboardist) and Pete Astudillo (backup dancer) also wrote some songs for Selena.
All the songs that were recorded were on the independent LP records Selena y Los Dinos (1984), The New Girl in Town (1985), Alpha (1986), Muñequito de Trapo (1987), And the Winner Is... (1987), Preciosa (1988) and Dulce Amor (1988).
The other recorded songs were on her studio albums, Selena (1989), Ven Conmigo (1990), Entre A Mi Mundo (1992), Selena Live! (
1993), Amor Prohibido (1994) and Dreaming of You (1995).
Recording with other artists
Selena also had recorded several duets with other singers. "
Buenos Amigos" was a corrido (a Spanish ballad that tells a story) with Salvadorian singer Alvaro Torres. "
Donde Quiera Que Estes" was recorded with the Nuyorican band Barrio Boyzz. "
God's Child (Baila Conmigo)" was a rock-gospel duet that was recorded with former Talking Heads singer David Byrne. "
Puede Ser" had became Selena's final recording, she recorded the song with Puerto Rican-Dominican singer Nando "Guero" Dominguez.
Selena had recorded several duets with backup dancer Astudillo as well.
Range of styles
Selena had used polka, jazz fusion and traditional Tejano music in her songs during the 1980s. "
My Love" is a freestyle song.
Also coming from Selena (1989), "No Te Vayas" is a reggae fusion song.
Songs on Ven Conmigo (1990) had more variety than her last album.
On Entre A Mi Mundo (1992), the album had more Tejano songs. "
Missing My Baby" is a contemporary R&B song and "¿Qué Creias?"
is a mariachi song.
On Selena Live! (
1993) most of the songs were live versions of the songs that were released before.
There were only three new songs that were in the style of cumbia.
On Amor Prohibido (1994), the album had mostly cumbia and Latin dance-pop songs. "
No Me Queda Mas" is a power ballad song, while "Techno Cumbia" had techno fusion mixed with cumbia. "
Ya No" is a rock song.
On Dreaming of You (1995), most of the songs were pop confessionals and contemporary R&B songs recorded in English. "
Captive Heart" is an Synthpop song; it also has soul music. "
I'm Getting Used To You" used baroque– and dream pop music while the songs "El Toro Relajo" and "Tú Sólo Tú" are ranchera songs.
After Selena was killed in 1995, several songs were released. "
Siempre Hace Frio" had a mixture of mariachi and ranchera music and "Only Love" is a pop-confessional.
Both of these songs were on Siempre Selena (1996). "
A Boy Like That" was a charity song to help AIDS patients; it was also a cover version from the West Side Story movie. "
Where Did the Feeling Go?"
is a ballad song, while "Is It the Beat?"
is an electronic dance-pop song.
The "Disco Medley" is a disco melody song; that contained the "Last Dance", "The Hustle" and "On the Radio" mixed into one song; these songs were originally recorded by Donna Summer ("Last Dance", "On the Radio") and Van McCoy ("The Hustle").
The "Cumbia Medley" is a live cumbia melody song; that contained "Como La Flor", "La Carcacha", "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" and "Baila Esta Cumbia" mixed into one song; these songs are on the Selena movie soundtrack (1997).
The "Con Tanto Amor Medley" is a ballad melody that contained "Amor Prohibido", "Si Una Vez" and "Como La Flor" mixed into one song; it was featured on Ones (2002). "
Puede Ser" is a Spanish rock duet and was featured on Momentos Intimos (2004). "
Lo Dejo Solo" is a polka song and was on the Classic Series Vol.
1 album in 2007.
There are currently more unreleased songs Selena had recorded.
Her father, Abraham Quintanilla Jr, and EMI Latin currently hold the rights to those songs.
Joplin is a city in Jasper County Missouri.
In 2011, about 25% of the city was destroyed by an EF5 tornado.
Bonsai Kitten was a satirical website which claimed that you could make a "shaped" cat by putting a kitten in a jar and letting it grow into the shape of the jar.
It was named after bonsai, a Japanese art in which trees are shaped.
The site was made by a university student with the nickname "Dr. Michael Wong Chang".
The site claimed that many different shapes and "containment vessels" are possible, including a cube, a sphere, a wire cage, and even a Klein bottle.
Supposedly, the kittens are force-fed through a tube, and the kitten's anus is sealed with super glue.
Bonsai Kitten (archived)
The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a bird that lives in temperate parts of Europe, Asia and also parts of Africa.
It has long legs and walks through shallow water looking for food.
The bird's scientific name is Ardea cinerea.
The heron is intelligent, and can catch prey so large it can only swallow them with difficulty.
Here a green heron uses bread as a bait for fish: YouTube Video
The Goliath heron (Ardea goliath) is a large wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae.
It is found in sub-Saharan Africa, with smaller numbers in Southwest Asia and South Asia.
The purple heron (Ardea purpurea) is a kind of bird.
It has long legs and walk through shallow water looking for food.
The purple heron breeds in Africa, central and southern Europe, and southern and eastern Asia.
The striated heron (Butorides striata) also known as mangrove heron, little heron or green-backed heron, is a small heron.
A nauplius (plural: nauplii) is the first larval form of most crustacea.
It develops from the egg, and may be followed by later stages before the adult form is reached.
In some groups there can be as many as nine larval stages.
Sometimes the nauplius stage is passed through in the egg, and then a later stage emerges from the egg.
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Arnold Skaaland (January 21, 1925 – March 13, 2007) was an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager who was best known for wrestling and managing with the World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Federation.
He was nicknamed "The Golden Boy".
During his managing career, he managed Bob Backlund, Tony Parisi, Bruno Sammartino and Rick McGraw.
He was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame in 1994 by Bob Backlund.
Other honoree (1994)
He was named "PWI Manager of the Year" in 1978 and 1979.
World Wide Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Federation
Lifetime Achievement Slammy Award (1997)
WWF Hall of Fame (Class of 1994)
WWWF United States Tag Team Championship (one time) - with Spiros Arion
Arnold Skaaland's WWE Hall of Fame profile
The Fiat Duna is an automobile made by Fiat between 1987 and 2000.
It is a sedan and station wagon version of the Fiat Uno.
60 43 kW (58 hp)
70 49 kW (67 hp)
DS 44 kW (60 hp)
Night of Champions (2011) was a professional wrestling event that was done by WWE.
It happened on September 18th, 2011 at the First Niagra Centre in Buffalo, New York.
It was the 4th Annual Night of Champions event, and the 11th overall.
Seven matches were played.
2011 in New York (state)
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European exhibition games
The Vancouver Canucks placed first overall, winning the Presidents' Trophy and home advantage throughout the playoffs.
The Washington Capitals placed first in the Eastern Conference, earning home advantage in Eastern Conference playoffs.
Note: Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.
Under NHL rules, first-place teams in each division receive a conference ranking between 1 and 3 regardless of overall points.
The Pittsburgh Penguins placed fourth yet had more points than the Boston Bruins, but the Bruins placed first in the Northeast Division to get the third-place ranking.
In the Stanley Cup Final series, home ice is determined based on regular season points.
Each best-of-seven series follows a 2–2–1–1–1 format: the higher-seeded team plays at home for games one and two (plus five and seven if necessary), and the lower-seeded team is at home for games three and four (and if necessary, game six).
GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/– = Plus-minus; PIM = Penalty minutes
GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average
2010–11 NHL season at Hockey Reference
2011 in North America
She is known for being the official French voice of actresses such as Margot Robbie, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Brittany Murphy; as well as cartoon characters like Diane in Martin Mystery, Dee Dee in Dexter's Laboratory, and Mandy in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
Pousséo started acting when she was 8 years old, when she appeared in the play Le Malade Imaginaire with French actor Michel Bouquet.
Official weblisting
Dorothée Pousséo on RS Doublage
A parallel universe is a universe that is different from the observable universe.
This may be due to time travel or other things.
Parallel universe may also be:
Science, physics and philosophy
Multiverse, the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes
The many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics
Parallel universe (fiction), alternative universes, worlds, realities and dimensions in fiction
Alternative universe (fan fiction), fiction by fan authors that deliberately change facts of the universe written about
List of fiction employing parallel universes
Parallel Universe (4hero album)
Parallel Universe (Garnet Crow album)
"Parallel Universe" (song), a 2000 song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Kalakala: Songs from a Parallel Universe (with a song cycle for solo cello by Serena Tideman)
Literature, movies, & television
"Parallel Universe" (Red Dwarf), a 1988 episode of Red Dwarf
Parallel Universes (documentary), a 2001 BBC/Horizon documentary movie
Mirror Universe (Star Trek), a fictional parallel universe in which several Star Trek television episodes take place
Parallel Universe (company), a movie company
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Teen Wolf is an American TV series.
It airs on MTV and in reruns on TeenNick.
Season 5 is airing June of 2015.
Teen Wolf is about Scott McCall, who is bitten by a werewolf in the pilot.
He falls in love with Allison Argent, whose family are werewolf hunters.
Teaming up with his best friend, Stiles, Scott must learn to deal with being a werewolf while at high school and encountering many different obstacles and beasts.
Tyler Posey as Scott McCall
Crystal Reed as Allison Argent (seasons 1-3)
Dylan O'Brien as Stiles Stilinski
Tyler Hoechlin as Derek Hale (seasons 1-4)
Holland Roden as Lydia Martin
Colton Haynes as Jackson Whittemore (seasons 1-2)
Shelley Hennig as Malia Tate (recurring season 3; main seasons 4–6)
Arden Cho as Kira Yukimura (recurring season 3; main seasons 4–5)
Dylan Sprayberry as Liam Dunbar (recurring season 4; main seasons 5–6)
Linden Ashby as Sheriff Stilinski (recurring seasons 1–5; main season 6)
Melissa Ponzio as Melissa McCall (recurring seasons 1–5; main season 6)
J.R. Bourne as Chris Argent (recurring seasons 1–5; main season 6)
MTV programmes
Selena, an American singer (1971-1995)
Selena y Los Dinos, the band she was in.
Selena (album), her debut album
Selena (movie), a 1997 biopic film about her life
Selena: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, a 1997 soundtrack of the film
Selena Forever, a 1999 broadway play based on her life
Selena Etc.,
her boutiques
Selena Gomez, an American singer and actress (b. 1992)
Selena Gomez and the Scene, the band she is in.
Odessa is a city in Texas.
Odessa had 99,940 people at the 2010 census.
Mission is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas.
77,058 people lived there at the 2010 census.
City of Mission
McAllen is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas.
As of the 2010 census 129,877 people lived there.
It ranks #22nd as the most populous city in Texas.
McAllen Convention and Visitors Bureau
McAllen Chamber of Commerce
A municipal corporation is a term used by the local government.
An incorporated town is able to create its own laws.
These laws are in addition to the laws of the country, province, or state where the town is located.
Municipal corporation happens when an urban neighborhood becomes a self-governing entity under state laws.
After this event, an award or declaration is presented by the municipal charter.
Municipal charters
A municipal charters is a legal paper that establishes municipality; such as a city or town.
This was created in Europe during the Middle Ages time.
With a municipal charter, the new towns or cities are given rights.
Municipal charters by country
In India the municipal corporation has a local government that is in charge of a city population that has 200,000 people or more.
Because of the panchayati raj system, the city government has to discuss with the state government.
Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad have the biggest municipal corporations.
Members are chosen from the wards of the city.
The municipal corporations are responsible for roads, public transportation, water supply, records of births and deaths, sanitation that includes waste management, sewage, drainage and flood control, public safety services like fire and ambulance services, gardens and maintenance of buildings.
Taxes is where the municipal corporations get their money from to fix problems in their cities.
In Ireland municipal corporations have been in Ireland since the Medieval Times.
In Dublin, the municipal corporation have been there since the 13th century.
In the United States, cities are made by the municipal charters.
This is usually followed by a referendum vote.
Jorge Arias (born September 5, 1977) is a Mexican American professional wrestler.
He is currently portraying the Sin Cara character.
He was formerly known by the ring name Hunico.
Before working with WWE, Arias was better known under the ring name Incognito.
He mainly worked for the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) in Mexico and Chikara in the United States.
Arias first wrestled under the name "Místico"
Incognito is perhaps best known in the USA for being a member of Team Mexico along with Puma, Magno, and Shocker during Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's 2006 World X-Cup Tournament.
Team Mexico finished in 3rd place with Team USA in 1st place, Team Canada in 2nd place, and Team Japan in last place.