Blepharitis is the medical term for the inflamation of which part of the body?

Blepharitis | definition of blepharitis by Medical dictionary Blepharitis | definition of blepharitis by Medical dictionary http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/blepharitis blepharitis  [blef″ah-ri´tis] inflammation of the glands and lash follicles along the margin of the eyelids ; symptoms include itching, burning, photophobia, mucous discharge, crusted eyelids, and loss of eyelashes. Warm saline compresses may be used to soften secretions, and the eyelids are cleansed thoroughly. Exudate and scales should be removed by stroking downward and sideways. Antibiotic salve or eyedrops are administered as prescribed; in some cases systemic antibiotic therapy is indicated. angular blepharitis inflammation involving the outer angle of the eyelids. nonulcerative blepharitis (squamous blepharitis) that in which the edge of the eyelid is covered with small white or gray scales. ulcerative blepharitis that marked by small ulcerated areas along the eyelid margin, multiple suppurative lesions, and loss of lashes. bleph·a·ri·tis /bleph·a·ri·tis/ (blef″ah-ri´tis) inflammation of the eyelids. blepharitis angula´ris  inflammation involving the angles of the eyelids. blepharitis cilia´ris , marginal blepharitis a chronic inflammation of the hair follicles and sebaceous gland openings of the margins of the eyelids. nonulcerative blepharitis , seborrheic blepharitis blepharitis with seborrhea of the scalp, brows, and skin behind the ears, marked by greasy scaling, hyperemia, and thickening. ulcerative blepharitis  that marked by small ulcerated areas along the eyelid margin, multiple suppurative lesions, and loss of lashes. blepharitis [blef′ərī′tis] Etymology: Gk, blepharon + itis an inflammatory condition of the lash follicles and meibomian glands of the eyelids, characterized by swelling, redness, and crusts of dried mucus on the lids. Ulcerative blepharitis is caused by bacterial infection. Nonulcerative blepharitis may be caused by psoriasis, seborrhea, or an allergic response. observations Individuals report a foreign-body sensation of the eye. There are red eyelid margins, flaking and scaling around lashes, an itching and burning sensation, and loss of lashes. Light sensitivity, conjunctivitis, and possible corneal inflammation may also occur. In ulcerative blepharitis there are crusts on the eyelids, which bleed when removed. Small pustules develop in lash follicles, and eyelids become "glued" together by dried drainage during sleep. Lid margins thicken over time with misdirected growth and/or loss of eyelashes. Corneal pannus, ulcerative keratitis, and lid ectropion can occur in severe cases. Diagnosis is made by clinical examination, and lab tests may be run to isolate the causative agent. Individuals with chronic diseases, such as diabetes, gout, anemia, and rosacea, or a history of sties, chalazia, or chronic infections of the mouth and/or throat are at greater risk. intervention Blepharitis is stubborn to treat and is often resistant to various therapies. Topical antiinfective ointments and drops are used, but the mainstay of treatment is the use of eyelid scrubs. Resistant cases may require oral antibiotic treatment. nursing considerations Nurses need to provide individuals with detailed instructions in scrubbing and washing techniques. Eyelid hygiene consists of scrubbing the lid margins and lashes on closed eyelids daily and massaging lid margins to stimulate flow of secretions then cleansing with a cotton swab dipped in a diluted solution of baby shampoo. Careful instructions are needed for the application of antibiotic ointments to lid margins and drops to ocular surfaces. Individuals should also be instructed to use seborrheic dermatitis medicated shampoos and to apply hot compresses for 5 to 10 minutes to closed eyelids to loosen lid debris. Blepharitis


The 2003 film Lost in Translation is set in which city?

Lost in Translation (2003) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 41 titles created 22 Aug 2012 a list of 31 titles created 13 Oct 2014 a list of 39 titles created 24 Aug 2015 a list of 40 titles created 11 months ago a list of 33 titles created 9 months ago Title: Lost in Translation (2003) 7.8/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won     1     Oscar. Another    93 wins & 118 nominations. See more awards  » Videos A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus. Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris Stars: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them. Director: Wes Anderson An estranged family of former child prodigies reunites when their father announces he is terminally ill. Director: Wes Anderson A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid-1970s. Director: Sofia Coppola Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. Director: Jason Reitman A year after their father's funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other. Director: Wes Anderson     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X   The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen and ultimately the fall of Versailles. Director: Sofia Coppola While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s everyday at midnight. Director: Woody Allen A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity. Director: Darren Aronofsky Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture. Director: Woody Allen A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need. Director: Spike Jonze With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son. Director: Wes Anderson Edit Storyline Middle-aged American movie star Bob Harris is in Tokyo to film a personal endorsement Suntory whiskey ad solely for the Japanese market. He is past his movie star prime, but his name and image still have enough cachet for him to have gotten this lucrative $2 million job. He has an unsatisfying home life where his wife Lydia follows him wherever he goes - in the form of messages and faxes - for him to deal with the minutiae of their everyday lives, while she stays at home to look after their kids. Staying at the same upscale hotel is fellow American, twenty-something recent Yale Philosophy graduate Charlotte, her husband John, an entertainment still photographer, who is on assignment in Japan. As such, she is largely left to her own devices in the city, especially when his job takes him out of Tokyo. Both Bob and Charlotte are feeling lost by their current situations, which are not helped by the cultural barriers they feel in Tokyo, those cultural barriers extending far beyond just not... Written by Huggo Everyone w


Who discovered the Victoria Falls in 1855?

Livingstone Discovers Victoria Falls, 1855 Livingstone Discovers Victoria Falls, 1855 Printer Friendly Version >>> Born in Scotland, David Livingstone arrived in Africa in 1840 at the age of 27 as a missionary and physician. He spent most of the remainder of his life on the continent, his exploits making him the most famous explorer of the century. An encounter with a lion in 1843 cost Livingstone the use of David Livingstone his left arm. Undeterred, Livingstone continued his exploration of the African interior, particularly the Zambezi River area in 1852-1856. It was during this expedition that he became the first European to witness the magnificence of Victoria Falls. In 1866, Livingstone set out at the head of an expedition charged with the task of finding the headwaters of the Nile River. His lack of contact with the outside world over a period of four years raised concerns for his welfare and prompted the New York Herald to send Henry Stanley to find Livingstone. Stanley achieved his goal on November 10, 1871 approaching the explorer in an African village with the immortal words "Dr. Livingstone I presume" (see Stanley Finds Livingstone, 1871 ) Years in the wilderness took their toll however, and David Livingstone died in Africa in April 1873 at age sixty. A Scene "Gazed Upon by Angels in Their Flight" In early November 1855, Livingstone traveled down the Zambezi River to see for himself the area the natives called "smoke that thunders." Approaching the spot in canoes, the party could see the columns of spray and hear the thunderous roar of water miles away from the falls: ADVERTISMENT "After twenty minutes' sail from Kalai we came in sight, for the first time, of the columns of vapor appropriately called 'smoke,' rising at a distance of five or six miles, exactly as when large tracts of grass are burned in Africa. Five columns now arose, and, bending in the direction of the wind, they seemed placed against a low ridge covered with trees; the tops of the columns at this distance appeared to mingle with the clouds. They were white below, and higher up became dark, so as to simulate smoke very closely.  The whole scene was extremely beautiful; the banks and islands dotted over the river are adorned with sylvan vegetation of great variety of color and form�no one can imagine the beauty of the view from any thing witnessed in England. It had never been seen before by European eyes; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight. The only want felt is that of mountains in the background. The falls are bounded on three sides by ridges 300 or 400 feet in height, which are covered with forest, with the red soil appearing among the trees. When about half a mile from the falls, I left the canoe by which we had come down thus far, and embarked in a lighter one, with men well acquainted with the rapids, who, by passing down the centre of the stream in the eddies and still places caused by many jutting rocks, brought me to an island situated in the middle of the river, and on the edge of the lip over which the water rolls. In coming hither there was danger of being swept down by the streams which rushed along on each side of the island; but the river was now low, and we sailed where it is totally impossible to go when the water is high. But, though we had reached the island, and were within a few yards of the spot, a view from which would solve the whole problem, I believe that no one could perceive where the vast body of water went; it seemed to lose itself in the earth, the opposite lip of the fissure into which it disappeared being only 80 feet distant. At least I did not comprehend it until, creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambesi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet, and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen or twenty yards. The entire falls are simply a crack made in a hard basaltic rock from the right to the left bank of the Zambesi, and then prolonged from


What Is Ailurophobia? What Is Ailurophobia? What is Ailurophobia? Definiton: a persistent, abnormal and unwanted fear of cats, despite the understandig of the phobic individual and reassurance by others that there is no danger. What Is Ailurophobia? Symptoms of Ailurophobia – irrational fear of cats: breathlessness, excessive sweating, dry mouth, shaking, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly, a fear of dying, becoming mad or losing control, a sensation of detachment from reality or a full blown anxiety attack. Ailurophobia is an intense fear of something that poses no actual danger. While adults with Ailurophobia realize that these fears are irrational, they often find that facing, or even thinking about facing, the feared situation brings on a panic attack or severe anxiety. There is a Way Out What Is Ailurophobia? Imagine what your life will be like when you know that you are not "defective". When you can be confident and at ease in situations where you used to feel your phobia. And when you can talk about your former fear symptoms as though you are describing a movie where the character is someone else, not you. What is Ailurophobia Ailurophobia Treatment Options Hypnotherapy Hypnotherapy helps to reprogram your subconscious "programs" that may be part of your fear. When these programs are "de-bugged" the symptoms of Ailurophobia often are minimized. However, some people don't like the feeling of loss of control in allowing someone else to play with their personal "software". Hypnotherapy is save and works fast. Hypnotherapy Solutions Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) NLP is basically the study and practice of how we create our reality. From the NLP viewpoint, your fear  is the result of your programs or "constructs" that you have created that don't work very well. With NLP, these constructs are revealed and "re-programmed" so that the Ailurophobia is minimized and often eliminated. With the help of NLP techniques you can bring about a long lasting change in your life. NLP interventions are quite rapid and effective. NLP Solutions Energy Psychology Energy Psychology is emerging as an excellent therapy for fears and phobias because in studies it is shown to be rapid, safe, effective and long-lasting. Energy Psychology is based on a theory and practice that has been around for a couple of thousand years. Energy Psychology has the same foundation or roots as acupuncture, except in this case there are no needles used. You could call it emotional acupuncture - without the needles. Recent scientific studies have shown Energy Psychology to be very effective. Energy Psychology combines the benefits of the above treatment therapies. You   quickly and easily change your behaviors. Your   thought patterns change, often very quickly. You develop skills and techniques that are useful   for a lifetime in all situations.


Who wrote the novel The Cider House Rules?

The Cider House Rules (1999) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The Cider House Rules ( 1999 ) PG-13 | A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC 2017 Golden Globes Embraces New Faces Find out which newcomers will make a splash at the 2017 Golden Globes and which of your favorites didn't make the cut. Don't miss our live coverage of the Golden Globes beginning at 4 p.m. PST on Jan. 8 in our Golden Globes section. Watch the video Related News a list of 26 titles created 26 Mar 2011 a list of 22 titles created 01 May 2012 a list of 39 titles created 11 Nov 2013 a list of 21 titles created 01 Sep 2014 a list of 39 titles created 19 Aug 2015 Title: The Cider House Rules (1999) 7.4/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won     2     Oscars. Another    6 wins & 29 nominations. See more awards  » Videos Edit Storyline Homer is an orphan in remote St. Cloud, Maine. Never adopted, he becomes the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch, who imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. When Wally and pregnant Candy visit the orphanage Dr. Larch provides medically safe, albeit illegal, abortions Homer leaves with them to work on Wally's family apple farm. Wally goes off to war, leaving Homer and Candy alone together. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him? Written by Martin Lewison <MLewison@utk.edu> A story about how far we must travel to find the place where we belong. Genres: Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements, sexuality, nudity, substance abuse and some violence | See all certifications  » Parents Guide: 7 January 2000 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: $110,098        (USA) (10 December 1999) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia Three of the actors went on to become superheroes and one played someone close to the superhero. Tobey Maguire went on to portray Spiderman. Charlize Theron was Mary in Hancock. Paul Rudd recently played Ant-Man. And Michael Caine was Alfred in The Dark Knight Trilogy. J.K. Simmons played J. Jonas Jameson with Toby McGuire See more » Goofs In the end credits, the town of Lenox, Massachusetts is spelled "Lennox". See more » Quotes [first lines] [Opening narration; a couple of snippets of interspersed dialog are omitted] Dr. Wilbur Larch : In other parts of the world young men leave home and travel far and wide in search of a promising future. Their journeys are often fueled by dreams of triumphing over evil, finding a great love, or the hopes of fortunes easily made. Here in St. Cloud's not even the decision to get off the train is easily made, for it requires an earlier, more difficult decision - add a child to your life, or leave one ... [...] Published by Rouge Music Ltd. (ASCAP) Courtesy of DeWolfe Music Ltd. (Atlanta, GA) – See all my reviews Nineteen ninety-nine was an outstanding year for adaptations of major literary works, but of all the great books that came to the screen last year, this is my favorite. John Irving's novel and adaptation is one of the most complete stories I can remember in many years. It is poignant, exhilarating, and astutely human in its scope, presenting a myriad of human emotions and experiences. Often, when a story attempts to cross genres so broadly, it fails from lack of depth or insufficiency of the writer or director to meet the variable demands of such a wide-ranging treatment. This film was a comedy, a tragedy, a romance, a human-interest story, a character study, and a period piece, and each element was excellently done. This was all accomplished w


In golf what is the name of a score of one stroke over par for a hole?

Meaning of Golf Words - Par, Bogey, Birdie, Eagle, Albatross - Scottish Golf History Bogey to Blow-Up There is quite a history behind the golfing terms bogey, par, birdie, eagle and albatross. Bogey and par were central to the development of handicapping, pioneered by the LGU . The modern meaning of three of the terms - bogey, birdie and eagle - comes from their use in USA. Bogey Par Birdie Eagle Albatross Bogey "Bogey" was the first stroke system, developed in England at the end of the 19th Century. The full history is given in Robert Browning's History of Golf 1955 . In 1890 Mr Hugh Rotherham Secretary of the Coventry Golf Club conceived the idea of standardising the number of shots at each hole that a good golfer should take, which he called the 'ground score.' Great Yarmouth where term Bogey was first coined Dr Browne, Secretary of the Great Yarmouth Club, adopted the idea, and, with the assent of the club's golfers, this style of competition was introduced there for use in match play. During one competition Mr CA Wellman (possibly Major Charles Wellman) exclaimed to Dr Browne that, "This player of yours is a regular Bogey man". This was probably a reference to the eponymous subject of an Edwardian music hall song "Hush! Hush! Hush! Here Comes the Bogey Man", which was popular at that time. So at Yarmouth and elsewhere the ground score became known as the bogey score. A 'bogle' was a Scottish goblin as far back as the 16th Century and a Bogey-man was a widely used term for a goblin or devil. Golfers of the time considered they were playing a Mister Bogey when measuring themselves against the bogey score. This allowed the introduction of bogey competitions, which we would call handicap competitions or stablefords.  On 2nd January 1892, The Field reported that 'a novelty was introduced in the shape of a bogey tournament for a prize. ... Fourteen couples started but the bogey defeated them all.' In 1892, Colonel Seely-Vidal, the Hon Secretary of the United Servic es Club at Gosport, also worked out the 'bogey' for his course. The United Club was a services club and all the members had a military rank. They could not measure themselves against a 'Mister' Bogey or have him as a member, so 'he' was given the honorary rank of Colonel. Thus the term 'Colonel Bogey' was born.  Later, in the middle of 20th century, bogey was used as the term of one above par. Par Par is derived from the stock exchange term that a stock may be above or below its normal or 'par' figure. In 1870, Mr AH Doleman, a golf writer, asked the golf professionals David Strath and James Anderson, what score would win 'The Belt', then the winning trophy for 'The Open', at Prestwick, where it was first held annually from 1861 to 1870. Strath and Anderson said that perfect play should produce a score of 49 for Prestwick's twelve holes. Mr Doleman called this 'par' for Prestwick and subsequently Young Tom Morris won with a score of two strokes 'over par' for the three rounds of 36 holes. Tom Morris Jnr Youngest Open Winner Although the first noted use of the word "par" in golf was in Britain and predates the  bogey, today's rating system does not and the par standard was not further developed until later. It was the Ladies Golf Association, who, from 1893, began to develop a national handicapping system for women . It was largely in place by the end of the Century. The Men's association, founded in 1894, followed suit a few year's later. In 1911, the United States Golf Association (Men) of the day laid down the following very modern distances for determining par: Up to 225 yards Over 601 yards Par 6 As golf developed, scores were coming down, but many old British courses did not adjust their courses or their bogey scores, which meant good golfers and all the professionals were achieving lower than a bogey score. This meant the US had an up-to-date national standard of distances for holes, while the British bogey ratings were determined by each club and were no longer appropriate for professionals. The Americans began referring to one over par as a bogey, much


What is the name of the casino on the reservation of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe in Connecticut?

The Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation Resources About the Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation The Mashantucket Pequots are a native Algonquin people who endured centuries of conflict, survival, and continuity on and around North America’s oldest Indian reservation (Est. 1666) located in southeastern Connecticut. In 1637, the Pequots became the first native people to survive a genocidal massacre at the hands of European immigrants, in what would become the continental United States. Pequot history is an unprecedented story of redemption and restoration, which is featured at the Tribe’s world-class Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center ( www.pequotmuseum.org ). Today, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation owns and operates one of the largest and most successful resort casinos in North America—Foxwoods Resort Casino ( www.foxwoods.com )—along with a variety of other enterprises, including the Lake of Isles Golf Course ( www.lakeofisles.com ); Pequot Pharmaceutical Network ( www.prxn.com ), and the Spa at Norwich Inn ( www.thespaatnorwichinn.com ). All together, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation remains one of the State of Connecticut’s highest tax payers and largest employers, and has contributed more than $3 billion to Connecticut through the first-of-its-kind tribal gaming revenue-sharing agreement, enacted in 1993. Likewise, the Tribe provides generous assistance to nonprofit organizations that support its local communities. For more information, contact us at MPTNCommunications@mptn-nsn.gov . Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council


Artist and musician Chris Sievey is better known as whom?

Chris Sievey: The man behind the papier-mâché mask of Frank Sidebottom | The Independent Chris Sievey: The man behind the papier-mâché mask of Frank Sidebottom Thursday 24 June 2010 23:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online The Manchester musician and comedian Chris Sievey brought a surreal sense of humour, amazing attention to detail and great fun and dedication to both stages of his career. I first came across him in the late 1970s as a solo artist and the frontman of The Freshies, a punk band who embraced the DIY ethos and released a series of catchy power-pop EPs and singles on Sievey's Razz label. Eventually, Sievey's unbounded enthusiasm and endearing charm and perseverance won through and MCA licensed "I'm In Love With The Girl On The Virgin Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk", replaced the Virgin reference with the vague "A Certain..." to appease Richard Branson and the BBC and secure airplay on Mike Read's Radio One Breakfast Show, and The Freshies spent a couple of weeks on the singles charts in February 1981. In fact, they narrowly missed out on a Top 40 placing and a Top Of The Pops ppearance because a postal strike affected the collection of chart data from the North-west. However, neither the record-shop-themed follow-up "I Can't Get 'Bouncing Babies' by The Teardrop Explodes", nor the anti-war "Wrap Up The Rockets" charted and, after another single on Stiff in 1982 The Freshies broke up. Sievey had already introduced Frank Sidebottom, a character wearing an over-sized papier-mâché head, as a fan of The Freshies in the video for "Rockets", and developed this oddball comic creation further. His alter ego wore a 1950s-style sharp suit, played the banjo or a Casio keyboard, spoke or sang in a nasal whine and found everything "Fantastic". Ever the optimist, Sidebottom still dreamt of pop stardom. He name-checked Timperley, the village within the Altrincham area of Greater Manchester where he lived with his mother, at every opportunity, even when adapting Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" – "Is this the real life, or is this just Timperley?" sung with a stuck-on moustache à la Freddie Mercury – the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy In The UK" or "Panic" by The Smiths. He became a fixture of the comedy circuit, a recurrent guest on Mark Radcliffe's Hit The North programme on Radio 5 in 1990, and developed a cult following. Something of an acquired taste, Sidebottom and his Little Frank puppet sidekick nevertheless proved hugely popular with both children and students. His persona harked back to the days of George Formby but was also the product of a rich Manchester scene which had already seen the emergence of left-of-centre musical acts with a humorous, satirical or poetic bent like Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias, the Smirks, Jilted John and John Cooper Clarke. Indeed, Sievey helped nurture the comedic talent of Caroline Aherne, who debuted her Mrs Merton persona on Frank Sidebottom's Radio Timperley, the comedy series he made for Piccadilly Radio, while early incarnations of Sidebottom's Oh Blimey Big Band featured the broadcasters Radcliffe and Marc "Lard" Riley, and were driven by a young upstart called Chris Evans. Born in 1955 in Ashton-on-Mersey, Sievey was a huge fan of the pop music he would later make gentle fun of, most famously with his take on the Beatles' "Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!" for Sgt Pepper Knew My Father, the charity album for Childline, in 1987. He idolised the Fab Four and in 1971 hitchhiked to London with his brother Martin to stage a sit-in at Apple Records in an attempt to secure a deal. They did get to record a session but Apple folded shortly after. Throughout the rest of the '70s he sent demo tapes to record companies and collected the rejection slips, subsequently publishing them in a booklet packaged with a cassette release, the No-Go Demos, in 1980. He recorded with the drummer Martin Jackson, later of Magazine and Swing Out Sister, and the guitarist Billy Duffy, best known for his work with The Cult, but only began gigging in 1980 when The Freshies settled on a line-up comprisi


Exodus, the second book of the Bible, recounts the departure of the Israelites from which country?

Exodus THE BOOK OF EXODUS, New American Bible, revised edition (NABRE) | Chapter INTRO1 | The Bible App | Bible.com   THE BOOK OF EXODUS The second book of the Pentateuch is called Exodus, from the Greek word for “departure,” because its central event was understood by the Septuagint’s translators to be the departure of the Israelites from Egypt. Its Hebrew title, Shemoth (“Names”), is from the book’s opening phrase, “These are the names….” Continuing the history of Israel from the point where the Book of Genesis leaves off, Exodus recounts the Egyptian oppression of Jacob’s ever-increasing descendants and their miraculous deliverance by God through Moses, who led them across the Red Sea to Mount Sinai where they entered into a covenant with the Lord. Covenantal laws and detailed prescriptions for the tabernacle (a portable sanctuary foreshadowing the Jerusalem Temple) and its service are followed by a dramatic episode of rebellion, repentance, and divine mercy. After the broken covenant is renewed, the tabernacle is constructed, and the cloud signifying God’s glorious presence descends to cover it. These events made Israel a nation and confirmed their unique relationship with God. The “law” (Hebrew torah) given by God through Moses to the Israelites at Mount Sinai constitutes the moral, civil, and ritual legislation by which they were to become a holy people. Many elements of it were fundamental to the teaching of Jesus (Mt 5:21–30; 15:4) as well as to New Testament and Christian moral teaching (Rom 13:8–10; 1 Cor 10:1–5; 1 Pt 2:9). The principal divisions of Exodus are: I. Introduction: The Oppression of the Israelites in Egypt (1:1–2:22) II. The Call and Commission of Moses (2:23–7:7) III. The Contest with Pharaoh (7:8–13:16) IV. The Deliverance of the Israelites from Pharaoh and Victory at the Sea (13:17–15:21) V. The Journey in the Wilderness to Sinai (15:22–18:27) VI. Covenant and Legislation at Mount Sinai (19:1–31:18) VII. Israel’s Apostasy and God’s Renewal of the Covenant (32:1–34:35) VIII. The Building of the Tabernacle and the Descent of God’s Glory upon It (35:1–40:38) Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc


What was the nationality of Lazlo Josef Biro, inventor of the ballpoint pen?

The History of Laszlo Biro and Ballpoint Pens By Mary Bellis Updated August 26, 2016. "No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had." Samuel Johnson. A Hungarian journalist named Laszlo Biro invented the first ballpoint pen in 1938. Biro had noticed that the ink used in newspaper printing dried quickly, leaving the paper smudge-free, so he decided to create a pen using the same type of ink. But the thicker ink wouldn't flow from a regular pen nib. Biro had to devise a new type of point. He did so by fitting his pen with a tiny ball bearing in its tip. As the pen moved along the paper, the ball rotated, picking up ink from the ink cartridge and leaving it on the paper.  Biro's Patents This principle of the ballpoint pen actually dates back to an 1888 patent owned by John Loud for a product designed to mark leather, but this patent was commercially unexploited. Biro first patented his pen in 1938 and he applied for another patent in June 1943 in Argentina after he and his brother emigrated there in 1940.   The British government bought the licensing rights to Biro’s patent during World War II. The British Royal Air Force needed a new pen that would not leak at higher altitudes in fighter planes the way fountain pens did. The ballpoint’s successful performance for the Air Force brought Biro’s pens into the limelight. Unfortunately, Biro had never gotten a U.S. patent for his pen, so another battle was just beginning even as World War II ended.  The Battle of the Ballpoint Pens  A lot of improvements were made to pens in general over the years, leading to a battle over the rights to Biro's invention. The newly-formed Eterpen Company in Argentina commercialized the Biro pen after the Biro brothers received their patents there. The press hailed the success of their writing tool because it could write for a year without refilling. Then, in May 1945, Eversharp Company teamed up with Eberhard-Faber to acquire exclusive rights to Biro Pens of Argentina. The pen was rebranded as the “Eversharp CA,” which stood for “capillary action.” It was released to the press months in advance of public sales. Less than a month after Eversharp/Eberhard closed the deal with Eterpen, a Chicago businessman, Milton Reynolds, visited Buenos Aires in June 1945. He noticed the Biro pen while he was in a store and recognized the pen’s sales potential. He bought a few as samples and returned to America to launch the Reynolds International Pen Company, ignoring Eversharp’s patent rights. Reynolds copied the Biro pen within four months and began to sell his product by the end of October 1945. He called it "Reynolds Rocket" at made it available at Gimbel’s department store in New York City. Reynolds’ imitation beat Eversharp to market and it was immediately successful. Priced at $12.50 each, $100,000 worth of pens sold their first day on the market. Britain was not far behind. The Miles-Martin Pen Company sold the first ballpoint pens to the public there at Christmas 1945.  The Ballpoint Pen Becomes a Fad Ballpoint pens were guaranteed to write for two years without refilling and sellers claimed they were smear-proof. Reynolds advertised his pen as one that could "write under water." Then Eversharp sued Reynolds for copying the design that Eversharp had acquired legally. The 1888 patent by John Loud would have invalidated everyone's claims, but no one knew that at the time. Sales skyrocketed for both competitors, but Reynolds’ pen tended to leak and skip. It often failed to write. Eversharp’s pen did not live up to its own advertisements either. A very high volume of pen returns occurred for both Eversharp and Reynolds. The ballpoint pen fad ended due to consumer unhappiness. Frequent price wars, poor quality products and heavy advertising costs hurt both companies by 1948. Sales nosedived. The original $12.50 asking price dropped to less than 50 cents per pen. The Jotter  Meanwhile, fountain pens experienced a resurgence of their old popularity as Reynolds’ company folded. Then Parker Pens introduced its first ballpoi


Which British singer's real name is Thomas Woodward?

Thomas Woodward (born June 7, 1940), British singer, panelist | Prabook singer, panelist Sir Thomas John Woodward, known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. He became one of the most popular vocalists to emerge from the mid-1960s. Since then he has sung nearly every form of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records. Background Tom Jones was born Thomas John Woodward, at 57 Kingsland Terrace, Treforest, Pontypridd in Glamorgan, South Wales. His parents were Thomas Woodward (died 5 October 1981), a coal miner, and Freda Jones (died 7 February 2003). His paternal grandfather, James Woodward, was an ironmonger's haulier from Gloucestershire, and his paternal grandmother was from Wiltshire. His maternal grandfather was Welsh, and his maternal grandmother, Ada Jones, was born in Pontypridd, to parents from Somerset and Wiltshire. Education Jones began singing at an early age: he would regularly sing at family gatherings, weddings and in his school choir. Jones did not like school or sports but gained confidence through his singing talent. At 12 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Many years later he said: "I spent two years in bed recovering. It was the worst time of my life." During convalescence he could do little else but listen to music and draw. Career Jones, whose voice has been described as a "full-throated, robust baritone", became the frontman for Tommy Scott and the Senators, a Welsh beat group, in 1963. They soon gained a local following and reputation in South Wales. In 1964 the group recorded several solo tracks with producer Joe Meek, who took them to various labels, but they had little success. The group continued to play gigs at dance halls and working men's clubs in South Wales and one night, at the Top Hat in Cwmtillery, Wales, Jones was spotted by Gordon Mills, a London-based manager who originally hailed from South Wales himself. Mills became Jones' manager and took the young singer to London, and also renamed him Tom Jones, to exploit the popularity of the Academy Award winning 1963 film. Eventually Mills got Jones a recording contract with Decca. His first single, "Chills and Fever", was released in late 1964. It did not chart, but the follow-up, "It's Not Unusual" became an international hit after offshore pirate radio station Radio Caroline promoted it. The following year would be the most prominent of Jones's career, making him one of the most popular vocalists of the British Invasion. In early 1965 "It's Not Unusual" reached number one in the United Kingdom and the top ten in the United States. During 1965 Mills secured a number of film themes for Jones to record including the themes for the film What's New Pussycat? (written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David) and for the James Bond film Thunderball. Jones was also awarded the Grammy Award for Best New Artist for 1966. In Hollywood, Jones met Elvis Presley for the first time who he recalls singing his song as he walked towards him on set. In 1966 Jones' popularity began to slip somewhat, causing Mills to redesign the singer's image into that of a crooner. Jones also began to sing material that appealed to a wider audience such as the big country hit "Green, Green Grass of Home". The strategy worked and Jones returned to the top of the charts in the United Kingdom and began hitting the Top 40 again in the United States. For the remainder of the decade he scored a string of hits on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1967 Jones performed in Las Vegas for the first time, at the Flamingo. His performances and style of dress (increasingly featuring his open, half-unbuttoned shirts and tight trousers) became part of his stage act. He soon chose to record less, instead concentrating on his lucrative club performances. At Caesars Palace his shows were a knicker-hurling frenzy of sexually charged adulation and good-time entertainment. Women started throwing hotel room keys onto the stage. Jones and his idol Elvis Presley met in 1965 at the Paramount film stage, when Elvis was filming Pa


Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win a Nobel Prize for what subject?

Sinclair Lewis - Biographical Sinclair Lewis The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 Sinclair Lewis Share this: Sinclair Lewis - Biographical To recount my life for the Nobel  Foundation, I would like to present it as possessing some  romantic quality, some unique character, like Kipling 's early adventures in India, or Bernard Shaw 's leadership in the  criticism of British arts and economics. But my life, aside from  such youthful pranks as sailing on cattleships from America to  England during university vacations, trying to find work in  Panama during the building of the Canal, and serving for two  months as janitor of Upton Sinclair's abortive co-operative  colony, Helicon Hall, has been a rather humdrum chronicle of much  reading, constant writing, undistinguished travel à la  tripper, and several years of comfortable servitude as an  editor. I was born in a prairie village in that most Scandinavian part of  America, Minnesota, the son of a country doctor, in 1885. Until I  went East to Yale  University I attended the ordinary public school, along with  many Madsens, Olesons, Nelsons, Hedins, Larsons. Doubtless it was  because of this that I made the hero of my second book, The  Trail of the Hawk, a Norwegian, and Gustaf Sondelius, of Arrowsmith, a Swede - and to me, Dr. Sondelius is the  favorite among all my characters. Of Carl Ericson of The Trail of the Hawk, I wrote -back in  1914, when I was working all day as editor for the George H.  Doran Publishing Company, and all evening trying to write novels  - as follows: «His carpenter father had come from Norway, by way of  steerage and a farm in Wisconsin, changing his name (to  Americanize it) from Ericsen... Carl was second-generation  Norwegian; American-born, American in speech, American in  appearance, save for his flaxen hair and china-blue eyes... When  he was born the ‹typical Americans› of earlier stocks  had moved to city palaces or were marooned on run-down farms. It  was Carl Ericson, not a Trowbridge or a Stuyvesant or a Lee or a  Grant, who was the ‹typical American› of his period.  It was for him to carry on the American destiny of extending the  Western horizon; his to restore the wintry Pilgrim virtues and  the exuberant October, partridge-drumming days of Daniel Boone;  then to add, in his own or another generation, new American  aspirations for beauty.» My university days at Yale were undistinguished save for  contributions to the Yale Literary Magazine. It may be  interesting to say that these contributions were most of them  reeking with a banal romanticism; that an author who was later to  try to present ordinary pavements trod by real boots should  through university days have written nearly always of Guinevere  and Lancelot - of weary bitterns among sad Irish reeds - of  story-book castles with troubadours vastly indulging in wine, a  commodity of which the author was singularly ignorant. What the  moral is, I do not know. Whether imaginary castles at nineteen  lead always to the sidewalks of Main Street at thirty-five, and  whether the process might be reversed, and whether either of them  is desirable, I leave to psychologists. I drifted for two years after college as a journalist, as a  newspaper reporter in Iowa and in San Francisco, as - incredibly  - a junior editor on a magazine for teachers of the deaf, in  Washington, D.C. The magazine was supported by Alexander Graham  Bell, inventor of the telephone. What I did not know about  teaching the deaf would have included the entire subject, but  that did not vastly matter, as my position was so insignificant  that it included typing hundreds of letters every week begging  for funds for the magazine and, on days when the Negro janitress  did not appear, sweeping out the office. Doubtless this shows the advantages of a university education,  and it was further shown when at the age of twenty-five I managed  to get a position in a New York publishing house at all of  fifteen dollars a week. This was my authentic value on the labor  mark


What is the legislative assembly of Spain called?

Spain - Legislationline   Spain The system of government in Spain takes the form of a parliamentary monarchy. The Constitution was signed by the King of Spain and thus proclaimed on December 27,1978. Articles 1(1) and 1(2) of the Spanish Constitution (herein after referred to as "SC") define it as a democratic and social State of law whose sovereignty belongs to the people. The King is the Head of State and exercises the power conferred to him by Art 56(1) of the SC and other laws. Central State power is divided between the legislative, executive and the judiciary. The SC defines Spain as a unitary and indissoluble State, however, at the same time, by way of Article 2, the principle of autonomy of nationalities and regions is recognized and guaranteed – reflected in the fact that Spain is divided into 17 Autonomous Communities, each with its own Parliament and Government. Therefore, pursuant Article 137 of the SC, Spain has three different levels of Government – Central, Autonomous Community and Municipal (Government). The King, as the Head of State assumes the highest representation of the Spanish State in international relations, and exercises the functions expressly attributed to him in Article 62 of the SC. The Crown of Spain is hereditary for the successors of H.M Don Juan Carlos I of Borbon and succession of the throne follows the order set out in Article 57 of the SC. The King is the commander of the armed forces, his duties (see Article 62 SC), include, among others, the approval and promulgation of laws, convoking and dissolution of Parliament and the calling of elections (in accordance with the terms specified in the SC) appointing and dismissing the Prime Minister and other Ministers, etc. Legislative power is vested in the bicameral Spanish Parliament called the Cortes . It comprises of a lower house – the Congress of Deputies (defined in Art. 68 SC) and an upper house – the Senate (defined in Art.69 SC). Both houses are elected on the basis of universal suffrage and hold office for a term of four years, unless dissolved prior to the lapse of their term by the Head of State. The Congress of Deputies is composed of a minimum of 300 and a maximum of 400 Deputies , who are elected based on the system of proportional representation (Art.68 SC). Whereas, the Senate is comprises of 208 senators, four from each province, as well as 49 regional representatives. Both Houses work in Plenary Sessions and in Commissions. The Parliament may delegate questions for review by a Commission, due to the impossibility of each matter being discussed in a Plenary Session. The Commissions which study the questions and proposals have full legislative power in most matters, they can approve bills or proposals of law, although the Plenary Session may require debate and voting on any bill (Art. 72 SC). Constitutional reform, international affairs, organic and basic laws and the State budget must be dealt with by the Plenary Session. The Congress of Deputies holds greater legislative power than the Senate, as the leader of the dominant political party in the lower house will be designated thePrime Minister and serve as the Head of Government. The Prime Minister chooses the Ministers responsible for each portfolio. The Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers as well as, any other members established by law, together form the Council of Ministers, which holds executive power (Art. 98(1) SC). It is the highest State executive body exercising both policy-making and administrative functions, that is, it directs domestic, foreign, civil and military policy as well as, administration and defense of the State (Article 97 SC). According to Article 108 of the SC, the Government is collectively accountable before the Congress of Deputies. The Congress of Deputies may hold the Government responsible by expressing a vote of no confidence by an absolute majority of votes (Article 113 SC). On his exclusive responsibility, however following deliberation with the Council of Ministers, the Prime Minister may propose to dissolve th


A Rake's Progress | artble.com A Rake's Progress A Rake's Progress Story / Theme Plate 3: Cavorting with prostitutes Plate 5: Marrying an old maid In A Rake's Progress Hogarth depicts the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who inherits money from his late father and squanders it on expensive clothes, prostitutes and gambling. Although Tom is not portrayed as an evil character, he is certainly out of his depth, thrown into a life trying to emulate the aristocracy without the knowledge or the funds to sustain it. Over eight plates Hogarth illustrates the life of Tom Rakewell; after losing his father and his fortune, he indulging in orgies and drunkenly cavorting with prostitutes. Having squandered his fortune Tom is forced to marry an older, wealthy woman in order to pay his debts. However, his attention is directed at the maid rather than his new wife. He then loses his second fortune and is sent to the debtor's jail and eventually ends up in the notorious Bedlam Hospital for the insane which is full of a range of characters. Tom is comforted by the ever present Sarah Young, the maid he so greatly admires. A Rake's Progress Inspirations for the Work Plate 6: A gambling den at Soho's White Club Plate 7: The notorious Fleet debtor's prison Plate 8: Bedlam Debtors' prison: Hogarth's father was detained in Fleet debtor's prison for most of his childhood. Although the artist never talked about this in any of his biographical writings it must have had a profound effect on him. Certainly the conditions which Tom Rakewell found himself in must have been very similar to that of Hogarth's father. Bedlam: Bedlam was an infamous mental hospital in the 18th century and was open for viewing by the public for a small fee. Run by the infamous Baron Henry Brougham, there were many accounts of inmates being badly treated and abused. Hogarth's use of this setting reflects the 18th century view that madness was a result of moral weakness. Local scandals: The social scandals of the day can only have been inspirations for this satirical attack on the upper classes. Wealthy young men were often seen frequenting the drinking holes and brothels of London. Gambling and drinking were so popular that it's very likely Hogarth had read about or knew men in similar positions. It was certainly very common for a poor young man to marry an older woman for her money. Hogarth's Moral Values: In all of Hogarth's paintings his strong moral code is very evident and he uses his work almost as an excuse to preach to society. A Presbyterian upbringing and strong moral standing meant that Hogarth was keen to use art as a way to shock the general public into action, concerning the vices and addictions that he felt were ruining English society. A Rake's Progress Analysis William Hogarth Composition: In A Rake's Progress Hogarth uses his theories on the analysis of beauty by including numerous characters within the scene and using symbolism to create an overcrowded composition in which the narrative is very clear. The artist also uses his serpentine curves and his lighting techniques highlight various characters and aspects, while lesser characters are in the shadowy parts of the painting. Painting style: These works were later made into engravings and became publically available, being displayed in public buildings as well as private houses. Hogarth's style of painting is reminiscent to that of the Rococo fashion where loose lines and free hand movement dominate the work. Color palette: A rich color palette is also used in bright and muted tones as Hogarth makes red his primary color to accentuate the characters in the smoky tavern and dingy buildings. He uses many brown tones in these works and overall warm colors dominate, with numerous chiaroscuro techniques. A Rake's Progress Critical Reception Brian Sewell Industry and Idleness , 1747: Produced later than A Rake's Progress, this series is darker and although still satirical, has a shocking quality to it which is not present in Hogarth's earlier offerings. These plates illustrate the story of two apprentices who


Pelisse | Define Pelisse at Dictionary.com pelisse an outer garment lined or trimmed with fur. 2. a woman's long cloak with slits for the arms. Origin of pelisse Latin 1710-1720 1710-20; < French < Late Latin pellicia mantle, noun use of feminine of Latin pellicius of skin, derivative of pellis skin Dictionary.com Unabridged Examples from the Web for pelisse Expand Historical Examples We accompanied him to the ante-chamber, where he hurriedly put on his pelisse, and again his eyes seemed to avoid mine. My quilt and my pelisse and my cloak were spread out so that I might lie spokewise, with my feet towards the central fire. Eothen A. W. Kinglake English Costume Dion Clayton Calthrop Yes; it is a pelisse of peculiar cut, with hanging sleeves, and fastened by a silk band and buckle. British Dictionary definitions for pelisse Expand a high-waisted loose coat, usually fur-trimmed, worn esp by women in the early 19th century Word Origin C18: via Old French from Medieval Latin pellicia cloak, from Latin pellis skin Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


The Taj Mahal is on the bank of which river?

The Taj Mahal - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com Google Taj Mahal: Shah Jahan’s Romantic Gesture Shah Jahan was a member of the Mughal dynasty that ruled most of northern India from the early 16th to the mid 18th-century. After the death of his father, King Jahangir, in 1627, Shah Jahan emerged the victor of a bitter power struggle with his brothers, and crowned himself emperor at Agra in 1628. At his side was Arjumand Banu Begum, better known as Mumtaz Mahal (“Chosen One of the Palace”), whom he married in 1612 and cherished as the favorite of his three queens. Did You Know? According to one gruesome (and most likely sensational) story, Shah Jahan had his minions cut off the hands of the Taj Mahal's architect and his workers after the structure was completed, ensuring they would never build another of its kind. In 1631, Mumtaz Mahal died after giving birth to the couple’s 14th child. The grieving Shah Jahan, known for commissioning a number of impressive structures throughout his reign, ordered the building of a magnificent mausoleum across the Yamuna River from his own royal palace at Agra. Construction began around 1632 and would continue for the next two decades. The chief architect was probably Ustad Ahmad Lahouri, an Indian of Persian descent who would later be credited with designing the Red Fort at Delhi. In all, more than 20,000 workers from India, Persia, Europe and the Ottoman Empire, along with some 1,000 elephants, were brought in to build the mausoleum complex. Design and Construction of the Taj Mahal Named the Taj Mahal in honor of Mumtaz Mahal, the mausoleum was constructed of white marble inlaid with semi-precious stones (including jade, crystal, lapis lazuli, amethyst and turquoise) forming intricate designs in a technique known as pietra dura. Its central dome reached a height of 240 feet (73 meters) and was surrounded by four smaller domes; four slender towers, or minarets, stood at the corners. In accordance with Islamic tradition, verses from the Quran were inscribed in calligraphy on the arched entrances to the mausoleum, in addition to numerous other sections of the complex. Inside the mausoleum, an octagonal marble chamber adorned with carvings and semi-precious stones housed the cenotaph, or false tomb, of Mumtaz Mahal. The real sarcophagus containing her actual remains lay below, at garden level. The rest of the Taj Mahal complex included a main gateway of red sandstone and a square garden divided into quarters by long pools of water, as well as a red sandstone mosque and an identical building called a jawab (or “mirror”) directly across from the mosque. Traditional Mughal building practice would allow no future alterations to be made to the complex. As the story goes, Shah Jahan intended to build a second grand mausoleum across the Yamuna River from the Taj Mahal, where his own remains would be buried when he died; the two structures were to have been connected by a bridge. In fact, Aurangzeb (Shah Jahan’s third son with Mumtaz Mahal) deposed his ailing father in 1658 and took power himself. Shah Jahan lived out the last years of his life under house arrest in a tower of the Red Fort at Agra, with a view of the majestic resting place he had constructed for his wife; when he died in 1666, he was buried next to her. The Taj Mahal Over the Years Under Aurangzeb’s long rule (1658-1707), the Mughal empire reached the height of its strength. However, his militant Muslim policies, including the destruction of many Hindu temples and shrines, undermined the enduring strength of the empire and led to its demise by the mid-18th century. Even as Mughal power crumbled, the Taj Mahal suffered from neglect and disrepair in the two centuries after Shah Jahan’s death. Near the turn of the 19th century, Lord Curzon, then British viceroy of India, ordered a major restoration of the mausoleum complex as part of a colonial effort to preserve India’s artistic and cultural heritage. Today, some 3 million people a year (or around 45,000 a day during peak tourist season) visit the Taj Mahal. Air pollution from nearby fac


In which year was British Summertime first introduced?

British Summer Time: historical information History of legal time in Britain Introduction Before the railways, local mean time was the time kept by clocks and used for general purposes in the UK, insofar as people kept time by clocks rather than by the sun. (Mean time, as shown by sufficiently accurate clocks, had largely replaced apparent time, as shown by a sundial, from around the end of the eighteenth century.) With the coming of the railways, it became a significant problem for timetables that the time at one end of a railway line should differ significantly from that at the other. For this reason, in the 1840s the railway companies started to keep London time consistently at their stations and on their trains; on 22 September 1847 it was recommended by the Railway Clearing House that all the railway companies should adopt Greenwich time, and by January 1848 this had generally been done. Over the next few years the rest of the country followed the railways, but in the 1858 case of Curtis v. March it was ruled that the time for legal purposes must be considered to be local mean time. In 1880 the legal time for Great Britain was made Greenwich mean time by Act of Parliament; that for Ireland was made Dublin mean time. For a more detailed history of events up to this point, see Derek Howse, Greenwich Time and the Longitude (National Maritime Museum / Philip Wilson Publishers, 1997). Having established a simple, uniform timescale of GMT (the time for Ireland was changed in 1916 to also be GMT), it might be expected that this would have sufficed to establish the legal definition of time until the development of atomic timescales in the 1950s. However, successive governments have proved incapable of avoiding tampering with the clocks, leading to the story described on this page, while the legal definition is still based on GMT, even though time signals have been giving more uniform timescales for decades—UTC, with leap seconds, since 1972. The form of governmental tampering has generally been the institution of Summer Time, advancing the legal time by one hour during the summer months in order to promote greater efficiency in the use of the daylight hours and of artificial lighting; originally introduced as a wartime measure in 1916, this has been continued through peacetime as well, with occasional variations such as double summer time (advancing the clocks by a second hour for part of the summer) in World War 2—the government files on which in the Public Record Office (now National Archives) having, when the closure period was first set (probably late 1960s), been deemed so sensitive as to merit a closure period of 100 years—and the experiment with British Standard Time from 1968 to 1972, by which the time was advanced by one hour from GMT throughout the year. In addition, the precise start and end dates and times for Summer Time have been the subject of a great many individual orders detailed below. Adjusting the clocks has been an extremely effective way of really changing the times at which most people work (as measured on a uniform time scale), while giving the misleading impression that they are not changing the times at which they work, but rather an act of government has changed the times at which the sun rises and sets. (In February 2000 I requested a review of the extended closure period of the World War 2 summer time records, and in May the Home Office concluded that they could now be opened to the public.) Every so often, someone tries again to institute the keeping in the UK of a time one hour ahead of GMT in winter, and two hours ahead in summer. Apart from arguments concerning notional convenience in dealing with Europe, the arguments for this seek lighter evenings (say, after work), the arguments against lighter mornings (say, for children going to school); and either side may quote statistics on accident rates that suit its cause. My personal view is that we should do away with the twice annual changing of clocks and maintain UTC as legal time for the whole year. Those people wishing for ligh


What was the pseudonym of French dramatist Jean-Baptiste Poqueline?

Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin | Great Thoughts Treasury Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin (1622 - ) Biography: French Comic Playwright, Dramatist and Actor, considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature Videos Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin Birth Date:  1673 Bio:  French Comic Playwright, Dramatist and Actor, considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature Search this author only for specific quotes by keyword: Any TED Videos The images and text provided to Internet users through this web site belong to various parties and are covered by copyright. The copyright holders want you to have online access to these materials, but do not want their other rights compromised. Consequently, permission is granted only for personal viewing by individuals who receive these materials through direct Internet transmission from this website. Copying of pictures or text to disk, paper, or any other medium for use by others is not permitted without prior written permission of the copyright holder. Similarly, retransmission of these on-line materials via any mode of telecommunication without prior written permission is also forbidden. Only the copyright holder can grant permission for other uses. Copyright © 2010-2016 by Alan Smolowe


What connects Elizabeth Fry, Sir John Houblon, Adam Smith, George Stephenson, and Sir Edward Elgar?

IIT B L!VE Aug 2011 by Zigu MBA - issuu issuu Issuu on Google+ HOD’S MESSAGE Dear Reader, Greetings from Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay!  The first decade of the 21st century was a time of unprecedented change for India. While the Indian industry confronted the challenges and opportunities of globalizaProf. Karuna Jain tion and liberalization, the nation was faced with the imperative of rapid and sustained economic growth. The second decade of the 21st century is perhaps the most critical decade for India with a tremendous opportunity for India to grow in all aspects. In such a scenario, the School believes that the premium will be on professionals who are equipped to manage human intellect and imagination, on managers who can provide innovative solutions to problems and on executives who can “deliver” when required. Also, the School espouses the belief that the use of technology would be invaluable in providing competitive strategies for overcoming all business challenges.  With this in mind, the School has its quarterly e-magazine called L!VE which aims to provide an interface between the school and the industry. The magazine invites articles from industry experts, students and budding entrepreneurs with an aim to throw light on relevant issues of importance.  This year the unifying theme for the next three issues of L!VE is “Innovation, Leadership and Entrepreneurship” which are the three basic pillars on which SJMSOM rests.  It gives me great pleasure to introduce the “Innovation Special” edition of L!VE which talks about some of the interesting frugal innovations emerging from India. The theme of the next two issues would be “Leadership” and “Entrepreneurship”.  We thank all those who contributed towards this issue and we hope to get more articles in the future from the industry and academia and take L!VE to greater heights. With best wishes, Prof. Karuna Jain Head, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management IIT Bombay EDITOR’S NOTE Dear Readers,  Ever since the liberalization of Indian economy started, Indian companies have steadily grown in their competitive strengths - be it in automobiles, Aerospace, steel, chemicals, pharma, IT, or manufacturing. The success of Indian firms can be attributed to prudent management, cost advantage and innovation. Innovation derives from the Latin word innovates which means “to renew or change”. Although the term is broadly used, innovation generally refers to the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies or ideas that affect markets, governments, and society.  This edition of L!VE is based on the theme of innovation with the cover story focusing on innovation at grassroots level in our country. The story explores those innovations in India which seldom reach the limelight .  Also in this edition we have articles which deal with how to create an online presence using inbound marketing and an analytical report on the influence of personality traits on customer oriented service. We revisit the concept of Lean management through the eyes of Prof Owen Berkley in the Experts speak section.One of our alumni throws light on where the cloud technology is heading in the future in the face to face section. Our Start-up story section features a fast growing SMS service company called SMSGupshup.This edition also features the winning articles of L!VE article writing competition on the oil crisis and surrogate advertising.  With challenges like corruption and terrorism haunting the Indian growth story in recent times I hope some innovation comes as a guiding light to take us past these dark times. Happy reading! Aditya Kaul Editor-in-Chief TEAM L!VE 02 | Grassroot Innovations-The Indian Story 25 | The Difficulty of being good RESEARCH LABS 06 | Influence of Personality Traits on customer oriented service behavior and service recovery CREATIVE BLEND 12 27 | Logos beyond the design 30 | Football in India?? FACE TO FACE 08 | Sudip Mazumdar 32 | Continuums@SJMSOM, IIT BOMBAY EXPERTS SPEAK 10 | The Age of Inbound Marketing 12 | Please, once agai


Which murderer lived at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Kentish Town, North London?

37 Things You Never Knew About Tufnell Park | Page 4 of 7 | Kentishtowner Culture Eating & Drinking Family History Music 37 Things You Never Knew About Tufnell Park Is the bit where NW5 rubs up against N7 and N19 having something of a moment? To celebrate, we unearthed as much trivia as we could 12 Jun 2014 16. The N7 poisoner Creepy: Dr Crippen. Photo: Wikipedia Creepy murderer Dr Crippen clumsily disposed of his wife in a house on Hilldrop Crescent in 1910 (don’t bother to go and gawp, it was reduced to rubble in WWII). As he absconded with his mistress, disguised as father and son, the unfolding case caused a national sensation. 17. Soho Hip is actually from Norfolk Debra in her shop. Pic: Stephen Emms The popular little gift shop on Fortess actually started out in the sleepy East Anglian city back in 2005. “I loved it but missed London too much,” says owner Debra Knowles, “so when the its six year lease came to an end, I literally picked it up and bought it down here to this wonderful area.” Time for a rename then, perhaps? 18. Fans still flock to sitcom flat Photo: Wikipedia Yes, it was aeons ago now, but cult TV sitcom Spaced is an all-time classic. Set in a flatshare at the imposing 23 Carleton Road (better known as Meteor Street to fans), pilgrimages to shoot grinning selfies and carve adoring graffiti still continue today – 15 years on. 19. African destination dining Spongy: injera. Photo: lalibelarestaurant.co.uk Fortess Rd, with Lalibela at the top and Queen of Sheba at the Kentish Town end, is a veritable Ethiopian restaurant hotspot. Drawing in the vegans – religious observance in the country means there are over 200 meat-free days in the calendar – it’s a must-do for adventurous gourmands too. Unroll some spongy injera bread and get dipping. 20. Forgotten Overground stop Betjeman immortalised the lost N19 station. Photo: Stephen Emms Station Rd is the only remaining hint that a busy railway stop once deposited over 140,000 passengers a year where it meets the corner of Junction Road, just next door to today’s Shaolin Temple. Folk alighted mostly for the local cattle market, but when Tufnell Park tube opened nearby in 1907, numbers dwindled so fast that John Betjeman immortalised it in a poem as the “lonely station”.


What is the prehistoric fish considered extinct until found living off the African coast in the 20th century?

Coelacanths are not living fossils. Like the rest of us, they evolve - Scientific American Blog Network Coelacanths are not living fossils. Like the rest of us, they evolve By Lucas Brouwers on February 6, 2012 Share on Facebook Report Ad This stuffed coelacanth, described by Smith in 1939, achieved worldwide fame. Source . It was supposed to be extinct. Yet here it lay, with fins round and fleshy, scales as hard as bone and a tail unlike any living fish. "Lass, this discovery will be on the lips of every scientist in the world", James Smith said to Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer , curator of the East London Museum. Smith had good reasons to make such a grand claim. This was a coelacanth. Naturalists had known about coelacanths for a long time - but only as fossils. It was Louis Agassiz who first described the group in 1839. Paleontologists had found dozens of different coelacanth species since then, but always in rocks older than 70 million years. The lack of coelacanth fossils in younger strata led them to conclude that coelacanths had gone extinct a long time ago. But the fish that now lay before Smith was no fossil. This creature had been caught only weeks ago, as bycatch by a fishing trawler off the coast of South Africa. It was 1939, and the discovery of the first living coelacanth was on the lips of scientists around the world. The press heralded the fish as a ' missing link ', 'prehistoric fish' and 'living fossil'. In doing so, they branded the coelacanths as a backwards fish for years to come. The same stereotypes have haunted the coelacanth to this very day . In most popular accounts, the coelacanth is portrayed as a a forgotten survivor that has been left at the evolutionary wayside. In this modern fable, coelacanths had been trapped in a private bubble of time for millions of years until they re-emerged in the 20th century. Axelrodichthys araripensis, an extinct coelacanth from South America. Photo by Ghedoghedo . But the truth is that evolution leaves no fish behind. Coelacanths are as much affected by evolution as finches, ferns and flying lemurs. They have their own evolutionary history - we only need to look for it. This is what Japanese and African coelacanth researchers did not long ago when they took stock of the genetic diversity amongst coelacanths in the Indian Ocean. Through their research, they uncovered a small part of the coelacanth's history of change. Coelacanths have popped up in many places along the East African coast. Figure from first reference. Coelacanths have popped up in several places in the Indian Ocean over the years, but the majority of them has been found in the Comoros archipelago . In the late eighties, Hans Fricke filmed how coelacanths inhabit rocky crevices and caves around the Comoros. At night he saw them drifting along the up- and downwelling currents, using their fins as stabilizers, to sneak up on unsuspecting fish. A short stroke with its fan-like tail, a sudden and forceful bite and its prey is gone. Other coelacanths have been captured off the coast of Madagascar, South Africa, Mozambique and Kenya, but these fish have been dismissed as strays. Biologists reasoned that coelacanths would not be able to survive on the flat and sandy sea floors near Mozambique and South Africa. They presumed that strong ocean currents had swept the creatures away from the Comoros. These dead-end drifters were destined for death. But there's evidence that these stragglers represent distinct coelacanth populations. Geologists have identified several marine canyons near South Africa and Mozambique in which coelacanths could live. A dozen coelacanths have been caught near Tanzania every year since 2003. It's unlikely that these are all strays. Indeed - when marine biologists let a remotely operated submersible descend in Tanzanian waters, they were able to capture footage of nine living coelacanths. Could this be the second home of coelacanths in the Indian Ocean? In the paper that was published a few months ago, researchers have compare the DNA of Tanzanian and Comoran coelacanths. They found


What water birds and their cries are associated with madness?

Overview Reviews Tell a Friend Fly Your Loon Kite Dockside The Loon bird kite has a 42" wingspan. Like all of our bird kites, it's made of tough tyvek and uses high quality, fade-resistant inks. It looks quite realistic with its wings flapping in the breeze. If you have a high speed Internet connection, check out the manufacturer's video. (It's a very big movie; give it plenty of time to load). Loons are large water birds native to North America and Europe, and frequently associated with rural New England. Their name comes from their haunting territorial yodel call. Loons propel themselves with their feet, quickly diving underwater to catch and swallow prey.  The Unassembled Loon kite is no longer produced. Assembled bird kites require 3-step preparation using no tools or glue, and are ready to fly in minutes. It ships "knocked down" in a large mailing tube. "Assembled" does not mean ready-to-fly. Non-US customers please note: At checkout, our software will offer you a First Class International Package rate based on this product's weight. However, bird kite tubes exceed the maximum allowable length for that rate. Please do not choose First Class International, as we cannot ship your kite outside of the US at that rate. We will have to either cancel your order or collect the additional cost for Priority Mail International. About the Add-Ons Poles:  Jackite constantly sells out and replenishes specific poles. They won't always have all of the colors and sizes shown in our dropdown options. If the pole that you choose is unavailable, we will substitute the closest size and color that they have. The 16' (4.87 m) or 17' (5.18 m) poles are recommended for standard-sized kites, although some customers prefer the 20' (6.09 m) length. And those who believe that higher is always better can go with the 28' (8.53 m) pole. The fiberglass poles telescope like an antenna from a collapsed length of just 46" (1.17 m). Extend the sections and twist to lock (to make your pole shorter, just don't extend all of the sections). These differ from telescoping fishing rods by having a reinforced butt end to prevent splitting, thicker walls for less breakage, and a thicker tip.  We only sell poles as add-ons with kite purchases, not as a standalone product. Adding a pole to your order increases the shipping charge. Orders that include poles require special packaging and will ship factory-direct rather than from Curio City's warehouse, so it might take us an extra day or two to fulfill your order. Jackite usually ships via UPS Ground regardless of the service that you choose at checkout. Jackite guarantees all poles for 90 days and sells replacement sections for a modest fee plus shipping if your pole breaks after that.  Ground Stake: This is simply a 22" (55.9 cm) length of PVC pipe with an angle cut on one end. Push it into soft dirt or sand and insert your pole in the open end to hold it vertically. Adding a stake to your order increases the shipping charge. Recommended for use with 13', 16', and 20' poles. Line Rig:  You don't need a Line Rig to fly your kite, but it's the quickest and easiest way to attach one like a windsock to a fixed pole. The Line Rig can be used with any bird kite, although it was specifically designed for use with Osprey, Loon, Happy Gull, Dove, Eagle, or Goose bird kites. You get 7' (2.13 m) of strong, lightweight line with large swivels on each end. Snap one end onto your bird kite, snap the other end to the top of your pole, and you're ready to fly with minimal wrapping. Recommended for poles at least 13' (4 m) high. Adding a line rig to a kite purchase will not increase your shipping charge. There are no reviews for this product. Go ahead, don't be shy - be the first to share your opinion with others. We publish all reviews from our own customers, and we never plant fake reviews or change your rating. We don't publish drive-by reviews because they might not be accurate if you didn't buy the product from us. We might edit your review for spelling, length, or clarity. Your name will be published just as you enter it in


The wood sorrel plant is more commonly known as what?

common wood sorrel | plant | Britannica.com Common wood sorrel THIS IS A DIRECTORY PAGE. Britannica does not currently have an article on this topic. Alternative Title: Oxalis acetosella Learn about this topic in these articles:   in shamrock any of several similar-appearing trifoliate plants— i.e., plants each of whose leaves is divided into three leaflets. Plants called shamrock include the wood sorrel ( Oxalis acetosella) of the family Oxalidaceae, or any of various plants of the pea family (Fabaceae), including white clover ( Trifolium repens), suckling clover ( T. dubium), and black medic... in Oxalis ...or roots, but most members of the genus are familiar as garden ornamentals. The name is derived from the Greek word oxalis (“acid”) because the plants have an acidic taste. The common wood sorrel ( O. acetosella) of eastern North America and Great Britain is a small, stemless plant with cloverlike three-parted leaves. The leaves arise from a creeping, scaly rootstock,...


What was Pamela Anderson's character in the TV series Baywatch?

Pamela Anderson Officially Joins Cast Of The ‘Baywatch’ Film — Who Will She Play? Pamela Anderson Officially Joins Cast Of The ‘Baywatch’ Film — Who Will She Play? Lawrence Arboleda Pamela Anderson has officially joined the star-studded cast of the Baywatch movie, as announced by The Rock himself. Dwayne Johnson took to Instagram to announce the Pamela Anderson casting, posting a photo of himself posing side-by-side with the 48-year-old actress. “She introduced the world to ‘CJ Parker’ and became one of the most iconic characters of a generation – for the most successful TV show of all time. A pleasure to welcome (as gorgeous as ever) Pamela Anderson to our #BAYWATCH cast,” Johnson continued. “We couldn’t have made this movie without you. Welcome home. Thrilled you had a blast with us!” captioned Johnson. A photo posted by therock (@therock) on Apr 21, 2016 at 8:10pm PDT Pamela Anderson joined the Baywatch television show in 1992, becoming a regular cast member for five seasons. Playing the role of C.J. Parker, Anderson became one of the most recognizable actresses during the 90’s. Her casting in Baywatch paved the way for more roles in numerous Hollywood films, the most notable of which being Barb Wire, where she played the lead role. Weary nation can finally relax, as Pamela Anderson joins the Baywatch movie https://t.co/oy3cq801YH pic.twitter.com/OF1u7XVMcR — The AV Club (@TheAVClub) April 22, 2016 But now that Pamela is officially a cast member of Baywatch‘s movie adaptation, what role will she be playing? It sure won’t be C.J. Parker this time, what with Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kelly Rohrbach already being cast for the role. As of this writing, Pamela’s role in the movie is yet to be announced. Anderson admitted in an interview with ET Canada last February that she had been offered a role for Baywatch but initially turned it down. In an interview with TMZ, the Barbed Wire actress said that “no one appreciates the remakes,” adding that she believes the movie version will struggle to capture the magic of the original material because the era in which it became popular was a “simpler, sweeter time.” After being constantly pursued by the film’s producers, Anderson eventually said that she would think about it. “Baywatch was such a huge part of my life,” Anderson explained. “And really they’re trying to do an homage. It’s an honor to have them want me to be a part of it so bad.” Anderson’s casting in the Baywatch movie will have her reunite with another familiar face from the popular television series – none other than David Hasselhoff. Like Pamela, David won’t be reprising his old role in the film adaptation. The task of playing Mitch Buchannon now goes to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Last March, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson took to Instagram to announce Hasselhoff’s involvement in the Baywatch film, and he made the announcement with a flair worthy of The People’s Champ. He posted a video of himself having a FaceTime session with “The Hoff.” “#BAYWATCH is the most successful TV show of all time and from the day we announced we were turning it into a movie, ‘The Hoff’ has been our greatest supporter. Especially once he knew our RATED R movie was going to be a combination of AVENGERS meets ANCHORMAN.” “Hoff’s a cool dude who’s down to have fun and here’s the best part… He’s been training his ass off and gotten in the best shape he’s been in years! (cue slo-mo running and glistening chest hair.. wait, why the f**k am I even thinking about Hoff’s chest hair!?),” Johnson added. “I don’t know if the world is ready for both of us,” Johnson tells David in the video. “Are you ready?” “C’mon man, Rock and The Hoff, I was born ready!” Hasselhoff replied, to which Johnson exclaimed, “There ain’t no ‘Bay’ without The Hoff. Get ready world.” A video posted by therock (@therock) on Mar 2, 2016 at 6:45pm PST Aside from David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson, Dwayne Johnson will be joined in the Baywatch film by fan favorite Zac Efron, Jon Bass, Alexandra Daddario, Kelly Rohrbach, and Ilfenesh Hadera. Seth Gordon of Horrible Bosses i


What fruity four-letter acronym is used to identify the traditional main foreign (non-English) languages of the European market?

acronyms finder dictionary and abreviations finder dictionary - acronyms and abreviations list, definitions and funny acronyms from medical, military, army, training, business, internet, and emails. | Government for the People acronyms finder dictionary and abreviations finder dictionary - acronyms and abreviations list, definitions and funny acronyms from medical, military, army, training, business, internet, and emails. acronyms and abbreviations free acronyms and abbreviations finder and definitions - business,   training, medical, military, technical, funny - acronyms, backronyms and   abbreviations meanings Some of these acronyms could be considered 'politically   incorrect', including a few which could be interpreted to be rude or offensive.   As such be careful how and where you use them. And if you are easily offended   please don't read the page. This free acronyms and abbreviations finder is a dictionary of   useful acronyms and abbreviations for training, learning, teaching, etc. This   collection is also a study in language and communications. This acronyms list   contains acronyms and abbreviations, and 'backronyms' (acronyms constructed   restrospectively to fit a word), with origins in the armed forces, healthcare,   IT and various other business and training fields, including funny lifestyle   and social acronyms and abbreviations. The acronyms and abbreviations in this listing can therefore be   used for various purposes: for simple amusement; for finding unknown meanings;   for illustrating and emphasising points that you wish to make in training or   speaking or presentations; and for examples of how language and expressions   develop and evolve. Whatever, acronyms and abbreviations add colour and texture   to the written and spoken word, and to life in general. They are a fascinating   reflection of the development of communications, language and social   attitudes. Strictly speaking, acronyms are words formed from the abbreviations   of others, but as you'll see, many of these acronyms aren't words at all, and   even some of the best known acronyms like LASER and RADAR have bent the acronym   rules. 'backronyms' (or 'bacronyms' - reverse acronyms) Some acronyms, usually amusing and ironic, are formed in reverse,   i.e., by starting with a word, especially a brand name, or an existing acronym,   and finding new words to fit each of the letters, for example the 'bacronyms' made from ACRONYM and YAHOO . The amusing term for these types of acronyms   is 'backronyms' (or 'bacronyms'). Backronyms feature strongly in the acronyms   created from aviation and airlines and automotive and car make names, and in corporate name backronyms such as DIAGEO , and more recently AIG . The bacronym or reverse acronym device is not new, as seen in the   old GWR interpretation. Two notable and   quite different examples of bacronyms being used to positive effect are ASDA and PIG . Bacronyms   are often created as hoax explanations for the origins of certain swear words.   The word 'bacronym' is a portmanteau word - which is a   combination of two others, in this case combining the words 'back' and 'acronym'. acronyms and abbreviations Acronyms, whether true acronyms or not, and abbreviations, add   colour, fun and interest to our language, and thereby they act as mnemonics, or   memory devices. Many technical and process-related acronyms and abbreviations   greatly assist in memory retention and learning. Many acronyms and abbreviations when used properly can certainly   enhance communications, because they act as 'short-hand' and therefore increase   the efficiency of communications; in other words, more meaning is conveyed in   less time and fewer words. Many acronyms and abbreviations are also motivational and   inspirational for training, because they contain a special theme, and because   the acronym or abbreviation itself is a mnemonic device (a memory aid). Some of   these acronyms and abbreviations


What company started as 'Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web'?

Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web December 16, 2012 Tweet A little while ago there was a film on TV called Frequency . It’s a sci-fi/mystery film from back in 2000 with Dennis  Quaid . Not great but not horrible either. It’s about a guy who can talk to people in the past via a two-way radio in his basement. He gets in contact with his dad and a zany adventure ensues. But one scene in particular inspired me to write this article. It was as scene where the guy from the future tells a friend from the past that he should ‘Invest in Yahoo!’. Now, in the context of a movie from 2000, this made perfect sense and his mate can later be seen driving away in his convertible with Yahoo number plates, all because of how rich he got from buying Yahoo stocks. What the movie doesn’t show you though is 10 years later, that same guy was likely back home crashing on his mum’s couch asking to borrow $10 for some petrol to get to his job at KFC because all that money he had in Yahoo shares disappeared along with Yahoo’s digital dominance. In a very short time Yahoo! changed from a company that pretty much was the Internet, into being the search engine only used by your parents because they can’t figure out how to make Google the default setting on their browser. So what happened? The Beginning Jerry Yang & David Filo. They enjoy fish Yahoo! began with a similar start-up origin storyline as most big web companies – created in a dorm room by two nerdy guys by the name of Jerry Yang and David Filo in the early 90’s. It actually began with the catchy title of Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web , but in 1994 changed the name to Yahoo! This name change did pose a few problems though as it was also being used at the time by three other established companies. One that made BBQ sauce, one who made knives and another who made canoes. So in order to get past those copyright laws, Jerry and David added the exclamation mark to the end of it. And so Yahoo! was born. A little over a year later the company floated on the stock exchange for a little bit over $13 per share. For the next few years Yahoo! went on a bit of a spending spree, purchasing all sorts of online businesses to build the Yahoo! universe. By the end of 1999, Yahoo! shares were valued at nearly $119 each. The Middle The year 2000 brought with it the dot com boom, and three weeks into a brand new millennium Yahoo! launched into Japan and became the first ever business in Japan to trade at over 100 million yen. Yahoo! were now the world wide kings of the internet. Anyone in the world who used the internet was likely using Yahoo! In June 2000, Yahoo! saw an opportunity to help build the effectiveness of their search results by partnering with a couple of nerds from California who were also playing around with search engine technology. Those two nerds went by the names of Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They owned a little business called Google. The Pop Then the dot com bubble burst. By September 2001 Yahoo! stock had dropped to a low of $8, a vast difference from the $119 from 18 months previously. The next few years Yahoo! started eating up all the other smaller competitors as well as forming a partnership with telecommunication business to form a direct ISP competitor with AOL. In 2004, Yahoo! ended it’s partnership with Google. Later that year Google released Gmail. Yahoo! kept on acquiring businesses, including Flickr and del-icio-us aswell as launching it’s social/blogging offering Yahoo! 360. The En… The Now In early 2008, Yahoo! laid off over 1000 employees (7% of it’s work force) due to financial difficulties faced by the Google juggernaut. Later that year Jerry Yang; one of the original founders stepped down as CEO. 2 months later, Yahoo laid off another 1500 staff. The next few years saw many discussions about mergers and acquisitions, in particular with AOL Time Warner and Microsoft. In 2008, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $44billion (in cash and stock). Yahoo ummed and erred about the deal and floated the idea of a merger with either NewsCorp and Google. Nei


Stacy Adams Men's Homburg at Amazon Menâs Clothing store: Homburg Hat By R.E. Burke on February 12, 2013 Verified Purchase If you've found yourself looking at homburgs, then you may fancy yourself to be Al Pacino in The Godfather. I may be the exception to this rule. I needed a formal hat to wear to Mass with a black suit and a black overcoat. Homburgs were once very popular for this type of purpose, at least until the 1960's. Churchill used to wear one. So did Eisenhower at his 1952 inauguration. I'm generally pleased with this homburg and would rate it at about four stars for quality, five for value. Stacy Adams is a good general brand, but I own other hats of greater quality with respect to materials, design, and construction. Here are some more detailed notes: 1. Value. I've seen this hat listed at $120 and sold on the Internet for $96. $50-60 is more typical. I paid $36 with shipping. That's a bargain. 2. Material. A homburg, like the bowler, is traditionally made of hard felt. This model is indeed of hard wool felt. The texture is a bit on the rough side, as anyone who has handled fur felt would realize if they picked up this hat. 3. Lining and finishing. The lining is decent enough but nothing luxurious. The band is indeed grosgrain. The sweatband is thin leather. 4. Construction. The stitching and boxing of the hat are sound although I think the lining on the brims could have been more finely stitched. 5. Sizing. I wear a medium. The sizing was exact. 6. Style. The styling is correct for a homburg. Although black has tended to be the favorite color since 1960, I chose gray with a black band as the more stylish choice. This hat is more than you need for a costume party and pretty good for most occasions. Only very discerning onlookers will be able to tell that it was inexpensive. For Mass, weddings, and the like, it is very workable.


On UK roads the triangular warning sign for ice shows what symbol?

Warning Sign/Ice - Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki Warning Sign/Ice TSRGD ref  : 554.2, 554.3 From  : 1994 To  : present Common Plates  : Ice  • Snowdrifts  • for x yds / miles Pre-Worboys Sign There is no known pre-Worboys warning sign for ice. Worboys Report Sign The original Worboys warning sign for a ice or drifting snow was a version of the worded warning sign (diagram 554) containing the text "Ice" or "Snow drifts" in the warning triangle. This was replaced in 1994 by a pictorial sign with a symbol in a snowflake pattern in black on the white background within the red triangle. This new sign is numbered 554.2, it should always be accompanied by supplementary plate 554.3 which gives the nature of the ice or snow hazard. It includes the text "Ice" or "Snowdrifts" and can also state the distance over which the hazard extends with "for" and a distance in yards or miles. Many of the Ice signs are mounted on hinged back boards, so that they could be folded up, out of view, during the summer months. However in recent years the signs have been left open, and in some cases fixed open, so that the 'Ice Likely' sign is visible in the height of summer! Prior to the introduction of the modern pictorial sign it was common in some areas to use the slippery road ahead (diagram 557) warning sign accompanied by a plate with the text "road liable to icing" to warn of a likelihood of ice. On occasion temporary signs warning of ice are still seen on our roads. These do not always feature the new symbol, but instead sometimes use the Other Danger "!" symbol with "Ice" on a plate below. Similar signs are also mounted on permanent posts in a few places. Irish Sign The Irish do not appear to have a specific warning sign for ice, perhaps with their slightly milder climate it is seen as unnecessary! Warning Sign/Ice


What is the word for maze taken from Greek legend?

Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Labyrinth   Labyrinth  (LAB-i-rinth) A fiendishly intricate maze devised by Daedalus to house the Minotaur. The myth of an impossibly complex series of corridors may have been inspired by travelers' tales of the historical palace or temple compound of Knossos. The name "Labyrinth" comes from the word "labrys" meaning "double-ax", and the dynasty of King Minos was referred to as the "House of the Double-Ax". Clearly there is history behind the myth here, for many images of double-axes have been found by archaeologists on Crete from a time even earlier than that of the mythological heroes. But such images are far older still, being found on European icons from as long ago as 5000 B.C.E. And before they became stylized as double-headed axes with curved blades, it is clear that they depicted butterflies. Because of its transformation from a caterpillar, the butterfly represented change and rebirth to the people of the Stone Age, and therefore it was revered as a form of the Great Goddess. Other images of the Great Goddess in the form of a snake are characteristic of the Minoan civilization. Snakes were sacred symbols because they shed their skin and were in that sense reborn, and the rebirth of the crops and edible plants in the springtime was humankind's greatest preoccupation. So a snake might be worshipped or serve a ceremonial role, either as a symbol or an embodiment of the Goddess herself. Crete was last outpost of female-oriented religion and the point of contact between prehistoric Europe and the world of the ancient Greeks. Minoan Crete is a window through which we can look back at the spiritual roots of Europe. According to the myths, Zeus was born on Crete or sheltered there in a cave on Mount Dicte. Thus the Greeks acknowledged a more ancient spiritual heritage. Ruins at Knossos. The architectural complexity of this palace or temple compound may have inspired the myth of the Labyrinth. ( zoom )