the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Chromatin definitions
Simple and concise definition: Chromatin is a macromolecular complex of a DNA macromolecule and protein macromolecules (and RNA).
The proteins package and arrange the DNA and control its functions in the cell nucleus.
The DNA + histone = chromatin definition: The DNA double helix in the cell nucleus is packaged by special proteins termed histones.
The formed protein/DNA complex is called chromatin.
The basic structural unit of chromatin is the nucleosome.
The Santa Claus 3: The Escape Clause is the third movie in The Santa Clause series of movies.
It is an 2006 American Christmas comedy adventure movie directed by Michael Lembeck.
Tim Allen as Santa Claus / Scott Calvin
Martin Short as Jack Frost
Elizabeth Mitchell as Mrs. Claus / Carol Newman-Calvin
Judge Reinhold as Neil Miller
Wendy Crewson as Laura Miller
Liliana Mumy as Lucy Miller
Spencer Breslin as Curtis the Elf
Alan Arkin as Mr. Bud Newman
Ann-Margret as Mrs. Sylvia Newman
Aisha Tyler as Mother Nature
Peter Boyle as Father Time
Michael Dorn as Sandman
Jay Thomas as Easter Bunny
Kevin Pollack as Cupid
Art LaFleur as Tooth Fairy
Small roles
Eric Lloyd as Charlie Calvin
Charlie Stewart as Dr. Hismus
Abigail Breslin as Trish
Movies directed by Michael Lembeck
"Lisa the Greek" is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons third season.
It was first shown on the Fox network in the United States on January 23, 1992.
In this episode, Homer begins to bond with his daughter, Lisa, after learning her unique ability to pick winning American football teams.
When Lisa finds out Homer has only been using her for gambling, she doesn't to speak to her father until he fully understands her. "
Lisa the Greek" was written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky, and directed by Rich Moore.
"Homer Alone" is the 15th episode of The Simpsons ' third season and the 50th episode of the series.
The title is based on the movie Home Alone.
The episode is written by David M. Stern, the brother of actor Daniel Stern, who co-starred in Home Alone and its first sequel.
Marge suffers a nervous breakdown and spends time at a local health spa to recover while the rest of the family struggle without her and Homer loses Maggie but is soon found.
"Bart the Lover" is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons' third season.
In this episode, it takes an early look at the personal life of Mrs. Krabappel.
Marcia Wallace, the voice actress of Mrs. Krabappel, won an Emmy for her performance in this episode.
Nucleosomes are the building blocks which make up chromosomes.
They consist of a segment of DNA wound around a histone protein core.
First, DNA and a protein make up chromatin.
Then the chromatin is packed up into nucleosomes.
Nucleosomes are then packaged up to make a chromosome.
The packages do three things: the chromosomes function in cell division; the very long DNA is wrapped up in a shorter package; and the proteins regulate the gene action in cells.
In mammalian cells about two metres of linear DNA have to be packed into a nucleus of roughly 10 µm diameter.
Nucleosomes are folded, in a series of higher order structures, to form a chromosome.
This folding compacts the DNA and adds a layer of regulatory control.
The control ensures correct gene expression.
Nucleosomes are thought to carry epigenetically inherited information, as modifications of their core histones.
This information can be passed on to daughter cells, but it usually wiped out by meiosis in germ cells.
in 1974, was a big step for understanding eukaryotic gene expression.
Kornberg won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry  (2006) for this and other discoveries.
Nucleosome dynamics
Although the nucleosome is a very stable protein-DNA complex, it is not static.
It undergoes some structural re-arrangements, such as nucleosome sliding and DNA site exposure.
Nucleosomes can inhibit or facilitate transcription.
Some modifications have been shown to be correlated with gene silencing, others seem to be correlated with gene activation.
The information stored in this way is considered epigenetic: it is not coded in the DNA but is nevertheless inherited by daughter cells.
The maintenance of a particular state of a gene is often necessary for cellular differentiation.
Arturo Rodas (born 1954) is a leading Ecuadorian composer.
He has lived in London since 1989.
Rodas has composed 24.5 Preludes for piano; Climax for orchestra, Atonal fugue I for oboe d'amore & piano and electronic music works.
"Since emigrating to England in 1990, he has composed works such as The Book of the Orchestra,(2002-2003)  which is intended to be performed in a house with many rooms so as to allow an “audience” to hear different instrumental groups as they wander from room to room".
Béhague, Gerard.
Art Music".
London: Macmillan Publishers; New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music.
Enciclopedia de la música ecuatoriana.
Corporación Musicológica Ecuatoriana (CONMUSICA).
Edited by Pablo Guerrero Gutierrez.
Quito, 2003.
Walker, John L. 2001. "
The Younger Generation of Ecuadorian Composers".
Latin American Music Review 22, no.
2 (Fall/Winter): 199–213.
Arcaica for full orchestra
24.5 Preludes for piano
Life Class 2005 for piano, electroacoustics & film
El árbol de los pájaros (the birds' tree) an opera for the voice ... of the instruments.
Audio: Tutti frutti for piano & tape (fragment)
Recordings of Rodas' works Reverbnation
El Árbol de los Pájaros
Periferia publisher, Barcelona.
Virtualscore internet publishers, Paris
An extremophile is an organism (a living thing) which lives best in extreme conditions that are harmful to most life on Earth.
They are different from organisms that live in normal places, called mesophiles or neutrophiles.
In the 1980s and 1990s, biologists found that microbes can survive in extreme environments.
These are niches that are extreme in some way.
They may be extremely hot, or cold, or dry, or under huge pressure, or very salty or acidic.
Complex organisms, such as animals or plants, cannot live in these environments.
Some scientists suggest that life may have begun on Earth in hydrothermal vents far below the ocean surface.
Environments such as hot oceans, hot springs and deep ocean hydrothermal vents would have been common during the Archaean eon, about 3.9 billion years ago.
Early forms of life lived in those conditions.
Types of extremophiles
Most known extremophiles are microbes.
The domain Archaea has well-known examples of extremophiles, but some bacteria are also extremophiles.
It is a mistake to use the term extremophile for all archaeans, since some of them are mesophilic.
Not all extremophiles are unicellular: some extreme environments have animals which are multicellular.
Some extremophiles fall under several categories.
For example, organisms living inside hot rocks deep under Earth's surface are both thermophilic and barophilic.
Acidophiles An organism that grows best at pH levels of 3 or below.
Alkaliphiles An organism that grows best at pH levels of 9 or above
Endoliths An organism that lives in microscopic spaces within rocks, fissures, aquifers, and faults filled with groundwater deep under the ground.
Halophiles An organism that needs a high concentration of salt to grow.
Hyperthermophile An organism that can live well at temperatures between 80–122 °C, as in hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean.
Hypoliths An organism that lives inside rocks in cold deserts.
Lithoautotrophs An organism (usually bacteria) that only gets carbon from carbon dioxide and inorganic oxidation.
They are chemolithotrophs, such as Nitrosomonas europaea.
These organisms get energy from mineral compounds such as iron pyrites.
They act in geochemical cycling and wearing away of bedrock to form soil.
Metalotolerant These organisms are not harmed by high levels of dissolved heavy metals in solution, such as copper, cadmium, arsenic, and zinc.
Oligotroph An organism that can grow in environments with very few nutrients.
Osmophile An organism that can grow in environments with lots of sugar.
Piezophile An organism that lives best under high pressure, such as deep inside the Earth's surface and in deep ocean trenches.
Polyextremophile An organism that is in more than one category of extremophiles.
Psychrophile/Cryophile An organism that grows better at temperatures of 15 °C or lower.
They are common in cold soils, permafrost, polar ice, cold ocean water, and under snow in high mountains.
Radioresistant Organisms that can live with high levels of ionizing radiation.
Usually this refers to  ultraviolet radiation, but there are also some organisms which can repair damage cause by gamma radiation.
Thermophile An organism that can live well at temperatures between 60–80 °C.
Thermoacidophile An organism that is both a thermophile and an acidophile.
It grows best in temperatures of 70–80 °C and pH between 2 and 3.
Xerophile An organism that can grow in extremely dry places, such as the Atacama Desert.
is a Pokémon species in Nintendo's Pokémon series.
Meowth first shows in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue.
Meowth is one of the most popular Pokémon, because of an individual Meowth's role in the Pokémon anime series.
This Meowth, owned by Team Rocket, is one of the few Pokémon who can speak in human language.
Meowth has a cat-like design, with cream-colored fur, and has brown paws and tail tip.
It has whiskers, black-and-brown ears, and a gold coin on its head.
Meowth is spends most of the daytime sleeping and walks the city streets at night.
They put their claws back into their paws, so they can move without noise and not leave footprints.
Meowth loves round objects, as well as shiny things.
The item it loves collecting the most are coins, since they are both round and shiny.
Meowth collects them and keeps them in its nest.
Murkrow, a bird Pokémon, also likes coins and steals them from Meowth.
In the video games
Meowth appears as a wild Pokémon in many versions of the games.
Meowth is one of the characters in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games.
Meowth is also seen in the Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap, the Nintendo GameCube game Pokémon Channel, and many others.
Meowth is seen in the Super Smash Bros. series as a Pokémon used with a Poké Ball item, and uses its move "Pay Day" and throws coins at players.
Meowth has made an appearance in almost every episode in the anime because one is owned by Team Rocket agents Jessie and James, the show's main antagonists.
He first lived in the city, and tried to impress a female Meowth named Meowzie by learning to walk on two legs and speak human language.
Instead of being impressed, she told him he was a freak, so Meowth joined Team Rocket.
Meowth was cloned in Pokémon: The First Movie, but his clone could not talk or walk on two legs, because Meowth needed to learn how to do this.
The Meowth clone is shown again in Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns.
A trainer named Tyson owns a Meowth, which beat Ash's Pikachu at the Hoenn Pokémon League.
This Meowth was dressed up like Puss in Boots.
In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Meowth's first appearance is a cameo in the first chapter as one of the Pokémon that escapes from Professor Oak's Laboratory.
Meowth has appeared in the Pokémon Trading Card Game first in the Jungle series.
A special Meowth card was given when buying the Pokémon Trading Card Video Game.
In an open forum interview with ABC News, Pokémon anime director Masakazu Kubo noted Meowth as his favorite Pokémon, saying that while not a major Pokémon in the games, a Meowth is in the anime.
Team Rocket's Meowth ranked fourth on Game Daily's top 10 list of Nintendo characters that deserve their own games, describing him as "adorable" and explaining that his intelligence and ability to speak gave writers more depth than other Pokémon would.
IGN stated that without the anime, the character would not have been as famous, further describing it as "probably the funniest part of the show".
However, another editor stated it was also popular amongst people who have never seen the anime due to being a feline.
IGN also said that Meowth would make a good choice as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl "if Brawl's developers really wanted much more representation for Pokémon as a franchise" also stating "it would be fun to face him in battle as a real fighter, just to be able to send him "blasting off again," referencing Team Rocket's Meowth  GamesRadar described Meowth as "not all that useful", and questioned if the Pokémon would have stood out if it were not for its portrayal in the anime.
ca:Línia evolutiva de Meowth#Meowth
pl:Lista Pokémonów (41-60)#Meowth
pt:Família de Meowth
The Great Seal of the State of Alabama is the state seal of the U.S. state of Alabama.
It was designed in 1817 by William Wyatt Bibb, the governor of the "Alabama Territory" and the subsequent first governor of the state.
When Alabama became a state in 1819, the state  got the design as the official state seal.
The seal  has a map showing one of the state's most valuable resources—its major rivers.
Bibb's design served as the official seal until 1868, when it was replaced by a  design having on it an eagle holding in its beak a banner that read "Here We Rest."
The legislature and Governor Frank M. Dixon restored Bibb's original design in 1939, and it has remained unchanged since.
Modular origami (also called unit origami) is a type of paperfolding that uses many sheets of paper.
Modular origami is used to make large structures that cannot be made with one sheet of paper.
Many sheets of paper are folded in identical shapes, and they are then put together by inserting flaps into pockets.
The first modular origami model comes from a 1734 Japanese book by Hayato Ohoka called Ranma Zushiki.
The book has pictures of many traditional origami models, and one is a modular cube called tamatebako.
Tamatebako is a Japanese word meaning "magic treasure box", and it is called this because the box can be opened on any side.
Another traditional model, kusudamas, are balls of folded paper flowers.
They are often hung as decorations using string or thread.
The various number of modules is combined from two to tens of thousands modules.
When modules are put together, most are supported only by the friction of paper, also they are glued together or sewn by threads.
Module of Sonobe method
Mitsunobu Sonobe designed in 1970s.
It is so simple that most people can make kusudamas.
Module of Sonobe method is one of the most famous modules.
We can make a polyhedron like a cube or a trisoctahedron(a dodecahedron?)
by putting together many modules.
Modular Rate
Modular Rate is the facility of putting together.
This rate is how many people can put together without joining materials like glues.
This rate applies the model that was designed so that it was put together without using joining materials from the beginning.
The University of Missouri (often shortened to MU, and also nicknamed Mizzou) is a public university in Columbia, Missouri, in the United States that was started in 1839.
Missouri's athletics teams are called the Tigers.
Missouri has 18 varsity teams that now compete in the Southeastern Conference.
The school's mascot, Truman the Tiger, is named after President Harry Truman, who was from Missouri.
Missouri School of Journalism
The university's well known school of journalism is the oldest university journalism program in the United States.
The school has awarded its Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism.
The medal has been awarded yearly since 1930.
The University of Missouri
Missouri Tigers
1830s establishments in Missouri
Saltasaurus was a large plant-eating dinosaur with an elongated neck and bony armored plates on its body.
It was a titanosaurid sauropod which lived during the late Cretaceous period, about 83 to 79 million years ago.
Fossils have been found in Argentina.
It was the first genus of sauropod known to have armour of bony plates embedded in its skin.
The small bony plates (called osteoderms, a feature of modern crocodiles) have since been found on other titanosaurs.
Saltasaurus was named by paleontologists José Bonaparte and Jamie Powell in 1980.
Salta is the name of the Northwestern Argentinian Province where fossils were found.
They include: a few oval and circular armored plates, hundreds of bumps which covered its back (roughly 1/4 inch = 6-7 mm in diameter), and several incomplete skeletons, including some vertebrae, limb bones, and jaws.
Titanosaurs
Peter Schwartz (born 1946) is a futurist and an author.
He and his friends Stewart Brand and Jay Ogilvy made Global Business Network.
Global Business Network is a company in San Francisco, California.
Peter was born in 1946.
His parents are named Klara and Benjamin.
He went to college at RPI.
His wife is named Cathleen.
His son is named Benjamin.
Benjamin was born in 1990.
Peter Schwartz wrote a lot of books, mostly about the future.
He wrote about China's economy.
Global Business Network
Global Business Network is Peter Schwartz's company.
He started it in the 1980s with his friends Stewart Brand and Jay Ogilvy.
A fiddler crab, also called a calling crab, is a land crab that lives in mud or sand flats near the beach.
The reason this crab is called a fiddler crab is because it holds its large cheliped in front of its body and moves it back and forth as if it is playing a fiddle.
The male fiddler crab has one huge cheliped and another smaller cheliped.
Sometimes it's the right cheliped that's the big one and sometimes it's the left.
If a male loses its large cheliped, the smaller one will grow large to replace it.
This huge cheliped is so large that it is sometimes bigger than the whole crab.
It is this cheliped they wave back and forth.
Fiddler crab's diet
The fiddler crab eats by first opening its mouth, then using its maxillipeds (a part of its mouth), it scoops in a small amount of mud or sand, depending on where it lives.
Then, it uses its other mouthparts to scrape any food matter (algae, decaying animals or plants)it can from the dirt it has just put into its mouth.
After this, it forms the mud or sand into a little pellet, which is called a feeding pellet.
It then drops the feeding pellet and starts all over again.
The reason the male fiddler crab has such a big claw is to attract females.
Every two weeks during the summer, male fiddler crabs build little round burrows, which are deeper and better than the ones they usually build.
The crabs guard these burrows fiercely.
Where there are lots of fiddler crabs, there are usually hundreds of these little burrows all lined up only a few inches apart.
Each male fiddler crab stands out in front of his burrow waiting for the females to return from eating.
The females then walk around looking at the different burrows.
As they walk past, the males wave their big chelipeds back and forth.
If a female likes a male or burrow, she will stop and stare.
Then the male begins waving his cheliped wildly.
Sometimes the female will run away.
However, if she stays, the male will run between her and the burrow, back and forth, again and again.
If she has still not run away, she will come closer to the burrow.
Then the male will enter the burrow a little and start drumming against the side of the tunnel with his cheliped.
If the female likes what she hears, she will go down into the burrow, and they will mate.
- Videos of Fiddler Crabs
Info on systematics, phylogeny and morphology of fiddlers - Fiddlercrab.info
The colorful fiddler crabs in the mangrove forest of Borneo - mysabah.com
Night or nighttime is the time when the Sun is not in the sky.
Night happens after dusk and before dawn.
The opposite of night is day.
The start and end times of night are different in different geographic locations.
It varies on season, latitude, longitude and timezone.
In other time zones, the night occurs at different times.
This is because the Sun shines on different parts of the Earth at different times.
During a solar eclipse it is also partially night because the Sun is blocked out by the Moon.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that has economic statistics like the gross domestic product of the United States.
Its stated mission is to "promote a better understanding of the U.S. economy by having the most timely, relevant, and accurate economic data in an objective and cost-effective manner."
The Flag of Washington has the state seal (which has an image of George Washington) on a field of dark green with gold fringe being optional.
It is the only U.S. state flag with a field of green as well as the only state flag with the image of an American president.
Back at the Barnyard is a cartoon which is a spinoff from the Barnyard movie.
It began airing on September 2007.
Otis - A cow.
Pip - A mouse.
Abby - A cow.
Freddy - A ferret.
Peck - A chicken.
Duke - A collie.
Bessy - A cow.
Dawn - The farm bully.
Season 1: 2007-2008
5 half episodes were aired in July 2008 as "Barnyard Blowout Week".
5 half episodes have be airing in September 2008 as part of "Barn to Party Week".
Season 2: 2008-2010
In March 2008, Nick renewed Back at the Barnyard for a second season of 20 episodes and two holiday themed specials.
The new season premiered on October 24, 2008, part of "Some Like It Snotty Week", which became the first 30-minute episode called, "Some Like it Snotty".
A brand new Barnyard movie aired on November 29, 2008, which is the third day of the second "Super Stuffed Nicktoons Weekend".
Four new episodes aired from January 20-23, 2009 part of "Battle of the Barnyard Week".
Five more new episodes aired from February 23-27, 2009 part of "Animal Invasion" week, followed by five new episodes aired from May 18-22, 2009 part of an "Barnyard Bizarro Week".
Another quintet new episodes aired June 29 - July 3, 2009 part of "Battle of the Barnyard 2 week".
Barnyard is an animated movie which first shown in theaters on August 4, 2006.
It was directed by Sam FellSteve Oedekerk.
Otis is a cow who likes to play.
His father Ben is the leader of the barnyard when the farmer is away.
Otis interrupts a barnyard meeting with his wild behavior, His father tells Otis he will never be happy if he just goofs off, and that he should grow up.
Otis ignores his advice and leaves to have fun with his friends: Pip the mouse, Pig the pig, Freddy the ferret, and Peck the chicken.
That same day, Otis meets a new cow, Daisy, who is pregnant.
She is with Bessy, another female cow.
That night the animals have a party in the barn.
All the animals are there except Ben, who is guarding the animals.
Otis is supposed to be working with him, but he wants to be at the party.
Ben talks with Otis and says the day he found him alone in the meadow, the stars danced.
Otis is given permission to go to the party and he runs to the barn.
Later on, Ben has to fight a pack of coyotes led by Dag.
They are raiding the chicken coop.
Ben is bitten in the leg by a coyote, and he falls down.
The coyotes pile on Ben, but he manages to grab Dag and escapes the pile.
The hens cheer, but Ben falls on the ground, tired.
Etta, a hen, runs into the barn and tells Otis, who runs outside to his father.
Ben opens his mouth as if to say something, but dies.
After Ben's death, all the animals elect Otis as the new leader of the Barnyard.
He gets out of his duties by leaving Freddy and Peck in charge of the coop.
Later, Otis is sitting with Daisy and he overhears the coyotes chasing a hare.
Otis tries to attack Dag but is outsmarted.
Since Otis is weaker, Dag makes a deal that he and his pack will take some of the animals, but if he tries to stand up for all of them, they will kill everyone.
Otis decides to leave the barnyard because he has no chance against the coyotes.
The next morning, before leaving, Otis finds out that the coyotes have taken some hens and a chick.
Otis knows that he has been tricked by Dag, as he was not expecting them until tonight.
He goes to rescue the poultry.
Otis confronts the pack but is easily defeated.
Pip, Pig, Freddy, Peck and Miles the Mule arrive to help them, along with the gophers and Jersey Cows.
Dag tries to sneak attack Otis from behind, but Otis is alerted when Peck successfully yells a warning.
Otis catches Dag and tells the coyote to never return.
Dag is swung out of the junkyard by Otis's golf skills.
Otis and the rest make it back to the barnyard.
Daisy gives birth to a calf whom she names Ben.
Duke, the farmer's sheepdog, asks Otis if he wants to stay and be their leader.
Otis agrees, and everyone cheers as he walks outside.
Once again, he sees the stars dancing.
Kevin James as Otis
Courteney Cox as Daisy
Sam Elliott as Ben
Danny Glover as Miles
Wanda Sykes as Bessie
Andie MacDowell as Etta
David Koechner as Dag
S. Scott Bullock as Eddy
Maurice LaMarche as Igg
John DiMaggio as Bud and Officer O'Hanlon
Jeff Garcia as Pip
Tino Insana as Pig
Dom Irrera as Duke
Cam Clarke as Freddy
Rob Paulsen as Peck, Pizza Twin and Wild Mike
Lloyd Sherr as Everett
Madeline Lovejoy as Maddy
Earthquake as Root
Steve Oedekerk as Eugene Beady (a.k.a.
Snotty Boy), Mr. Beady and Pizza Twin
Maria Bamford as Mrs. Beady
Fred Tatasciore as The Farmer
Otis (Kevin James) is a handsome, carefree bull (But called a cow) who would rather pull pranks and party than be certain the farm is safe.
He is the  son of Ben and, upon Ben's death, reluctantly assumes the role of leader.
Although he is a male, he has udders (like a female - a cow).
Otis is the protagonist of the film and his love interest is Daisy.
Dag (David Koechner) is a red coyote and the main antagonist of the film.
He and his fellow coyotes killed Ben and captured the Poultry to lead Otis into a trap near the end of the film.
He is eventually defeated by Otis at the end of the movie.
Ben (Sam Elliott) is a bull who was responsible for the barnyard when the farmer is away.
All the time in his later life he tries to teach his son Otis to grow up, as he is sick and tired of Otis fooling around, knowing that when he passes away, Otis must take his place.
Ben is killed by coyotes early in the film.
He had a handmade guitar and on it he played and sang a part of "I Won't Back Down."
He also has udders.
Daisy (Courteney Cox) is a pregnant cow who moves into the barnyard.
She is Otis's love interest and she gives birth at the end of the film, the father being an unnamed bull at her old farm.
She names her baby after Otis's father, Ben.
She is replaced by another character named Abby in the CG cartoon.
Miles (Danny Glover) is a mule that lives in the barnyard.
He along with Pig, Pip, Freddy, and Peck help Otis defeat the Coyote pack.
He is absent in the CG cartoon.
Bessie (Wanda Sykes) is a cow who acts a bodyguard to Daisy.
She intensely dislikes Otis because of his behavior at first and tries to keep him away from Daisy, but then learns to like him in the end.
The Jersey Cows (S. Scott Bullock, John DiMaggio and Maurice LaMarche) are group of three bulls that behave similarly to Otis at the beginning of the movie.
The group's members, Eddy, Bud, and Igg, enjoy driving the farmer's truck, shooting milk from their udders, and partying hard.
Pip (Jeff Garcia) is a mouse that lives in the barnyard.
He is Otis' best friend in both the movie and the TV series Back at the Barnyard.
He has a love interest in Bessie.
Pig (Tino Insana) is a pig who loves to eat constantly.
He is another close friend of Otis's.
Duke (Dom Irrera) is a sheep dog who watches over and guards the sheep.
He is briefly placed in charge of the farm when Otis decides to leave.
Freddy (Cam Clarke) is a ferret who suffers from a need to eat chicken, true to his species.
He resists his instincts, however, to be a part of the farm.
It is revealed in the television series that Freddy has hidden his resolve to vegetarianism from his parents for years and has not spoken to them since years before the events of the movie and series.
Peck (Rob Paulsen) is a rooster who is best friends with Freddy.
He gets worried about Freddy at times.
Peck only learns to crow at the end of the movie.
Etta (Andie MacDowell) is a hen that mothers all the chicks on the farm.
She and her babies are captured by the coyotes in the film and it is up to Otis to rescue her and the children.
Maddy (Madeline Lovejoy) is one of Etta's chicks.
She loves Otis like a big brother as he is just as nice to her.
She is absent in the TV series.
The Farmer (Fred Tatasciore) is a vegan farmer who runs the barnyard where the animals live.
When he leaves, the animals are free to do as they please.
It is revealed in the TV series that his last name is Buyer.
It is also revealed that he has a grandson named Zack (who ends up befriending the animals in the series).
Eugene Beady (Steve Oedekerk) is an obese child nicknamed "Snotty Boy" who enjoys cow tipping.
Otis and the Jersey Cows take revenge on him with a game called "boy tipping."
Mr. and Mrs. Beady (Steve Oedekerk and Maria Bamford) are a married couple who live near the barnyard.
Mrs. Beady is a paranoid, nosy woman that knows the farm animals are anthropomorphic and is "medicated for a chemical imbalance".
Her husband normally ignores what she says.
The Pizza Twins (Steve Oedekerk and Rob Paulsen) are a pair of teenage pizza delivery boys.
It appears that they are not very bright and easily amused, even when they actually witness the anthropomorphic farm animals.
Wild Mike (Rob Paulsen) is an animal of unknown species who is kept in a crate and only let out for parties.
He dances wildly, which to Otis's personality, makes him want to join.
He is let out his crate by Miles to help defeat the coyotes.
His eyes appear at rare points, and he makes shrill screeches.
Everett (Lloyd Sherr) is an elderly dog.
He turns 13 years old in the movie, which, in dog years, is 91 years old.
This article is about the American paperfolder.
For the Czech hockey player, see Robert Lang.
Lang started his career in origami forty years ago, and many think he is now one of the world's best paperfolders.
He travels often, giving lectures about how origami is related to other topics, like science, mathematics, and technology.
Lang is also the author of nine books, and has written articles in several origami magazines.
He has found many uses of origami in real life situations, like airbag design and an expandable space telescope.
Before being a professional origamist, Lang had many different jobs.
He was a physicist, engineer, and research and development manager in chemistry.
Lang has helped to write 80 publications, and has over 50 patents.
Lang was born on May 4th, 1961 in Dayton, Ohio, but he grew up outside Atlanta, Georgia.
He was first introduced to origami when he was six years old.
Lang was very good at math and math class bored him, so his teacher gave him an origami book to keep him entertained.
He quickly folded the models in the book, and then folded models in many other books.
In his early teens, Lang began folding his own models, and he drew diagrams on how to make them.
Lang went to college at Caltech, The California Institute of Technology, where he learned electrical engineering.
He found college very hard, and often folded origami as a distraction from college life.
Lang was afraid to tell people about his hobby, and he was even "a little embarrassed about it."
For a long time, Lang didn't know any other origamists.
He graduated from Caltech with a Ph.D. in physics, and later he graduated from Stanford University with a master's degree in electrical engineering.
While in college, Lang noticed the name and address of the Origami Center of America, and he soon became friends with other experienced paperfolders, including Michael LaFosse, John Montroll, Joseph Wu, and Paul Jackson.
They inspired Lang with their pretty and complex models, and he soon created new models; he designed a hermit crab, an ant, a skunk, and many other others.
Soon afterwards, he took a trip to Germany, where he was fascinated by their beautiful cuckoo clocks.
They inspired him to make origami clocks, which impressed many paperfolders.
Soon after completing his first origami clock, Lang began a job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Writers from Dayton, Ohio
Lent, in the Christian tradition, is a period of about six weeks before Easter.
It is a time in which Christians are supposed to be quiet and thoughtful, preparing themselves for Easter.
They should pray a lot, give money to charities and give up some of the things they might otherwise do for pleasure.
The period of Lent ends at Easter, which is a time of great celebration as the Christians think of how Jesus had died on the cross but then rose again from the dead.
Lent is traditionally supposed to be forty days long.
That is because the Bible says that Jesus spent forty days in the wilderness, preparing for his death and resurrection.
In the Catholic Church, it ends at the Ninth Hour of Maundy Thursday (44 days).
In The Anglican Catholic Church, it ends on Holy Saturday (46 days).
Churches in the Byzantine tradition (for example, Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic) count the days of Lent differently.
There are also different local traditions in the Oriental Orthodox church.
Lent is traditionally a time for fasting (not eating much).
This tradition was useful because it was a time when food which had been kept for the winter had to be eaten up before it went bad.
Many Roman Catholics do not eat meat other than fish on Fridays during Lent.
The word "lent" came from the Old English lencten meaning "spring" (the season).
Eastern Orthodox Church: Fasting
American Catholic
Oskar Schindler (April 28 1908 – October 9 1974) was a Sudeten German industrialist.
He was born in Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary and was a Roman Catholic.
Schindler was a member of the NSDAP.
He saved almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by making them work his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were in what is known today as Poland and the Czech Republic.
He is the subject of the novel Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List.
He died of liver failure in Hildesheim, Germany.
He is buried in the Catholic Cemetery on Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
Donna Karan (born October 2, 1951) is an American fashion designer and the creator of the Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing labels.
She was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City.
Wisteria is a type of plant.
It is a climbing shrub with blue/lilac flowers.
The plant only flowers after a being a few years old but when it does the flowers have a very sweet fragrance.
It looses its leaves in winter.
The seeds come in pods and are disc shaped.
The moment magnitude scale is a way to measure the power of earthquakes.
The higher the number, the bigger the earthquake.
It is the energy of the earthquake at the moment it happens.
Like the similar and older Richter scale, it is logarithmic, with a base of ten.
What is Richter Magnitude?
Basic English (Business Academic Scientific International Commercial) is a controlled language used to explain complex thoughts.
It has 850 basic English words chosen by Charles Kay Ogden.
Some articles in the Simple English Wikipedia use only Basic English.
In 1936, Ogden hired Otto Neurath and Marie Neurath to make International Picture Language as one of group of eight books in a Basic English.
Rules of word use
The word use of Basic English is simpler and more regular than the word use of normal English.
In normal English, words often have a number of different meanings.
To make Basic English easier, not all the meanings of a word are used.
Basic English uses Ogden's rules of grammar.
Ogden's rules of grammar let people use the 850 words to talk about things and events simply.
-s / -es / -ies change singular nouns into plural nouns.
-ing / -ed change verbs into adjectives.
-ing / -er change verbs into nouns.
-ly changes adjectives into adverbs.
-er / -est or more / most describe amounts.
un- changes the meanings of adjectives into their opposites.
The opposite word order with do makes questions.
'Operators' (verbs) and pronouns change as in normal English.
Make combined words (compounds) from two nouns (for example "football") or a noun and a direction ("sundown").
Measures, numbers, money, days, months, years, clock time, and international words are in English forms.
E.g. Date/Time: 20 May 1972 at 21:00
Use the words of an industry or science.
For example, in this grammar, some special words are for teaching languages, and not part of Basic English: plural, conjugation, noun, adjective, adverb, qualifier, operator, pronoun, and directive.
Basic English 850 word list
Basic English alphabetical wordlist
Basic English ordered wordlist
Basic English picture wordlist – 200 Picturable words
Basic English international wordlist
Basic English compound wordlist
Basic English combined wordlist
List of simple adjectives
List of simple verbs
Ogden C.K. 1940.
General Basic English dictionary.
London: Evans Brothers.
The dictionary for Simple English
Basic English Utility
Automatic online simplifying and summarizing tool. -
Detect language and convert to Basic English or summarize many documents into standard or Basic English, reading material and Basic English course included.
Wamsley is best known for his recurring role as "Ronnie Wilson"" on the 1990s sitcom, The Hughleys.
Wamsley has also made appearances on other sitcoms including My Wife and Kids, The Nanny, and Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.
The fork-tailed woodnymph (Thalurania furcata) is a species of hummingbird.
It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and degraded former forests.
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a very strong earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010.
On the scientific scale that measures the magnitude (or strength) of an earthquake, the quake scored a magnitude of 7.3 Mw.
The center of the earthquake was near Léogâne, very close to Port-au-Prince, the capital and largest city of Haiti.
It was only about  west.
The earthquake hit in the afternoon, at 16:53:10 local time (21:53:10 UTC).
Haiti already was the poorest country in the western hemisphere, and was not able to take care of all the people that needed help.
It is the one of the deadliest earthquakes in the world.
Damage and death
About three million people were affected by the earthquake; many homes were destroyed.
Three days after the earthquake, the Haitian Interior Minister said that up to 200,000 had died because of the quake and its effects.
This was many more deaths than officials originally thought.
At first, the Red Cross had guessed a much smaller death toll of 45,000–50,000.
The earthquake caused major damage to Port-au-Prince.
Most major landmarks were badly damaged or destroyed.
The Presidential Palace, the National Assembly building, the Port-au-Prince Cathedral, and the city's main jails were all destroyed.
The president at the time, René Préval, survived.
Most hospitals in the area were destroyed, which made things much worse.
The headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in Port-au-Prince collapsed.
The Mission's Chief (Hédi Annabi), his deputy, and the acting police commissioner were killed in the quake.
Elisabeth Byrs of the United Nations (UN) called the earthquake the worst disaster the United Nations had ever had.
This was not just because of the property damage and deaths from the earthquake.
The roads, phone lines and government buildings of the UN in Haiti and the Haitian government were also destroyed, so trying to just get organized and get help to the people was a real problem.
So many people died in such a short time, that they used dump trucks to haul the dead bodies to mass graves.
After the earthquake, many charities and organizations asked people around the world to help Haiti.
The International Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the United Nations, and president René Préval all asked the world for help.
Raymond Joseph, Haiti's ambassador to the United States, and his nephew, famous singer Wyclef Jean, also begged people to give money. (
A few years before the earthquake, President Preval had asked Jean to become a "roving ambassador" for Haiti.)
Many different countries started raising money and sent medical teams or search and rescue teams to Haiti.
The Dominican Republic, which is next to Haiti, was the first country to give aid.
This helped reduce some bad feelings between the two countries that had been there a long time.
But it takes a long time to rebuild a city and the area around it.
Just finding places to move all the broken parts of buildings was difficult.
And countries promise money to help rebuild, but it takes a while to get the money, and in most disasters, only half the money that is promised is actually sent. (
This doesn't count millions of dollars that people gave directly).
For years many people were living in tents, wherever they could find room.
And workers for the UN introduced cholera to the country in October 2010, which made many people sick and killed thousands more.
The country is still recovering to this day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8455629.stm
2010 earthquakes
2010 in North America
2010s disasters in North America
2010 earthquake
Rödermark is in the Rhine Main area 35 km southeast of Frankfurt.
The whole area of the town is 29.99 km2 large and it is 142 m above sea level.
It is a plain area with nearly no hills.
The town consists out of the 2 former independent villages Ober-Roden and Urberach.
On 1 January 1977 they were united and became the municipality of Rödermark.
On 23 August 1980 the town privileges were given to the municipality.
The city has 5 urban districts.
These are Ober-Roden, Urberach, Waldacker, Messenhausen and Buhlau.
The ending -roden is a hint to the former landscape.
Dietzenbach (North)
Rodgau (East)
Eppertshausen and Messel (South)
Dreieich (West)
Rödermark has 27,858 inhabitants (2008).
10.7% of the people living here are from foreign countries.
The climate of the town is mild.
Today the dialect speakers are a minority and mostly it is no longer the dialect they speak but a kind of regular German with a certain pronunciation.
At that time their names were written down in documents.
Formerly the people in the Rödermark area were farmers and craftsmen but not tradesmen.
Therefore most families had only small farms and were poor.
With the industrial revolution the Rhine Main area got lots of factories and developed to a center for metal working and leather manufacturing, also chemical processing.
Tramin, Italy
Saalfelden, Austria
The Pirate Bay (shortname:TPB) is a Swedish website that indexes Bit Torrent files.
It was created by Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde.
The Pirate Bay is ranked as the 85th most popular website by Alexa.
The Pirate Bay had to face many lawsuits and a raid in relation to copyright violations.
It was shut down on December 9, 2014 by Swedish police, and came back online on January 31, 2015.
Heusenstamm is in the rhein main region 20 km southeast of Frankfurt.
The whole area of the town is 19,03 km2 large and is 130 m above sea level.
The city consists out of 2 urban districts, the town of Heusenstamm and the former independent village, Rembrücken, which became on 1th of January 1977 part of Heusenstamm.
* in the north Offenbach,
* in the east Obertshausen and Rodgau,
* in the south Dietzenbach and
* in the west Dreieich.
The local people are speaking a regional type (dialect) of the German language with a certain tone and special words.
It is spoken in the south of Hesse, named hessisch.
In former times mostly every place had its own special dialect, sometimes hard to understand for people of other parts of Germany.
Formerly the people in the Heusenstamm area were mostly farmers and craftsmen but not tradesmen.
With the industrial revolution the rhein main region got lots of factories and developed to a center for metal working and leather manufacturing, also chemical processing.
Saint-Savin, France
Tonbridge, England
Malle, Belgium
Ladispoli, Italy
Official website of Heusenstamm
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine (Greek ) is a Christian saint and martyr.
She is believed to have been a well-known scholar in the 4th century.
In the 15th century it was claimed she had spoken to Joan of Arc.
The Orthodox Church venerates her as a "great martyr", and in the Catholic Church she is traditionally revered as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
Catherine was the daughter of Costus, a pagan governor of Alexandria.
She announced to her parents that she would only marry someone who was more beautiful, intelligent and rich than herself.
In addition, that person needed to have a better social status than she had.
Eventually, she discovered Christ. "
His beauty was more radiant than the shining of the sun, His wisdom governed all creation, His riches were spread throughout all the world."
She was a martyr, because she died for her beliefs in God.
According to legend, she was supposed to die on a breaking wheel, but the wheel broke as soon as she touched it, so her head was cut off instead.
Because of this, her main symbol is the spiked wheel, which is known as a Catherine wheel.
The Catholic Church of St. Catherine, one of the first Catholic churches built in Russia, was named after her.
Pagbilao Church  - Saint Catherine of Alexandria Church
Iconographical Themes in Art - Saint Catherine of Alexandria
280s births
305 deaths
Seed plants are a group of plants.
Gymnosperms and angiosperms form the group.
Their seeds have three parts: (1) an embryo, (2) a supply of nutrients for the embryo, and (3) a seed coat.
They are also called spermatophytes or phanerogams.
The seed plants dominate almost all the environments on land.
Cycads, a subtropical and tropical group of plants with a large crown of compound leaves and a stout trunk
Ginkgo, a single living species of tree
Conifers, cone-bearing trees and shrubs
Gnetophyta, woody plants in the genera Gnetum, Welwitschia, and Ephedra
Angiosperms, the flowering plants, a large group including many familiar plants in a wide variety of habitats
The fossil seed ferns (Pteridospermatophyta) were one of the earliest successful groups of land plants, and forests dominated by seed ferns were prevalent in the Permian.
Glossopteris was the most prominent tree genus in the ancient southern supercontinent of Gondwana during the Permian period.
By the Triassic period, seed ferns had declined, (perhaps were extinct) and modern gymnosperm groups were abundant and dominant to the Upper Cretaceous, when angiosperms radiated.
Andros is an island of Greece.
It is the second biggest island of the Cyclades group.
It is in the northwest of Cyclades group near Euboea island.
Its total area is .
10,009 people lived there according to the 2001 Greek census.
The biggest town of Andros is Andros city.
Andros is mountainous island with gorges and cliffs which end up at the sea.
The plants include many flowers, bushes and a few trees mainly in the center of island.
The island has many beautiful beaches and beautiful landscape and thanks to these the island is popular for tourists.
Andros island, Cyclades Greece
Dietzenbach is a city in the Offenbach Rural District in the state of Hesse, Germany.
The town is also the capital of the Offenbach Rural District (Landkreis Offenbach)
Dietzenbach is in the Rhine-Main area 25 km southeast of Frankfurt.
The whole area of the town is 21,67 km2 large and it is 135 m above sea level.
The city consists out of the urban districts Neue Stadtmitte, Spessartviertel, Altstadt, Steinberg, Hexenberg and Wingertsberg.
Heusenstamm (north)
Rodgau (east)
Rödermark (south)
Dreieich (west)
Dietzenbach has 33,067 inhabitants (2008).
About 30% of the people living here are from foreign countries.
They come from many different nations.
It is a Hessian dialect (German: Hessisch) and is spoken in the south of Hesse.
Formerly the people in the Dietzenbach area were mostly farmers and craftsmen but not tradesmen.
With the industrial revolution the Rhine-Main area got lots of factories and developed to a center for metal working, leather manufacturing and chemical processing.
Many men became workmen and found a job in the factories and earned money.
Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
Masaya, Nicaragua
Rakovník, Czech Republic
Neuhaus am Rennweg, Germany
Oconomowoc, USA
Kostjukovitschi, Belarus
Official website of Dietzenbach
The octet rule is a general rule of thumb that applies to most atoms.
It states that every atom might want to have eight valence electrons in its outermost electron shell.
According to the Bohr model, an atom consists of a nucleus of protons and neutrons orbited by a number of electrons.