Archive for June, 2007

Christmas Pie | Merry Christmas

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

Christmas Pie is a village, in Surrey, England. Named after Christmas Pie Farm (1823) a name probably associated with the Christmas family that is mentioned in 16th century records.


References


External links

  • Normandy and Christmas Pie, local history site

Rocky Road Cereal | and also covered by

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Rocky Road was a breakfast cereal, created and sold by General Mills. The cereal was made up of balls of cornmeal, chocolate-covered cornmeal, and chocolate-covered marshmallows. Advertising for the product consisted of three cartoon characters who embodied the three constituents of the cereal noted above.


External links

  • Topher’s Breakfast Cereal Character Guide

Julemanden | a Christmas

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Julemanden can be directly translated to “Christmas Man”. In modern Danish culture Julemanden is the equivalent of the English Santa Claus although the roots of the character reaches into Danish folklore and mythology wherein julemanden is a mythical character who is said to bring Christmas presents to children in Denmark on Christmas eve, celebrated December 24th.

The main differences to the English Santa Claus is that Julemanden lives in Greenland, loves Rice pudding and are assisted by nisser.

1 E+20 m | years the

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

To help compare different orders of magnitude, this page lists distances starting at 1020 m (100 Em or 11,000 light years).

Distances shorter than 1020 m

  • 1.5×1020 m — 16,000 light years — Diameter of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way
  • 2.0×1020 m — 21,500 light years — Distance to OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, the most distant and the most Earth-like planet known
  • 2.4×1020 m — 25,000 light years — Distance to the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy
  • 2.6×1020 m — 28,000 light years — Distance to the center of the Galaxy
  • 8.3×1020 m — 88,000 light years — Distance to the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy
  • 9.5×1020 m — 100,000 light years — Diameter of the disc of the Milky Way Galaxy

Distances longer than 1021 m


See also

  • List of nearest galaxies
  • Orders of magnitude (length)

The Edge of Christmas | Christmas

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

The Edge Of Christmas was a Christmas compilation album released in 1995.


Track listing

  1. “Thank God It’s Christmas”
  2. “Please Come Home For Christmas”
  3. “2000 Miles”
  4. “December Will Be Magic Again”
  5. “Peace On Earth-Little Drummer Boy”
  6. “Winter Wonderland”
  7. “Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer”
  8. “Run Run Rudolph”
  9. “Christmas Is Coming”
  10. “Fairytale Of New York”
  11. “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight)”
  12. “Christmas Wrapping”

Christmas Island Internet Administration | until Christmas.

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Christmas Island Internet Administration Limited (CIIA) is a community-owned non-profit Christmas Island company, the objects of which are to be trustee and policy-setting body for the .cx ccTLD, and administrator of the Christmas Island Information Economy Development Trust. Christmas Island Internet Administration owns and operates the only Internet Service Provider (http://www.pulau.cx) in the Territory on a not-for-profit basis.

Rayxanber | released

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Rayxanber is the name of a series of scrolling shooter type video games in which the first installment was released in 1990. The games were developed by Japanese software company Data West. The format of the games are horizontally aligned in vein of shooters like Gradius and R-Type.

Contents


Legacy


Rayxanber

Year Released:1990

Format: Fujitsu FM-Towns


Rayxanber II

Year Released:1991

Format: NEC PC-Engine/TurboGrafx 16


Rayxanber III

Year Released:1992

Format: NEC PC-Engine/TurboGrafx 16


Gameplay Mechanics

Christmas Sunday | Christmas

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Christmas Sunday is a name for 26 December when it is a Sunday.

In the United Kingdom, if Christmas Day falls on a Saturday, 26 December is correctly referred to as “Christmas Sunday”, and Boxing Day moves to 27 December. However, since 1999 common practice has seen 26 December called “Boxing Day” even when it falls on a Sunday.

In Western Christianity, the first Sunday after Christmas is called “the First Sunday of Christmas”.

The christmas sunday is a special time of year for all. It symobolizes the passing of the year.

Christmas creep | Christmas. edit

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Christmas creep is the commercial phenomenon of merchants and retailers exploiting the commercialized status of Christmas (see Christmas season) earlier and earlier every year. It is most often attributed to the desire of many merchants to take advantage of particularly heavy Christmas-related shopping well before Black Friday in the US and before Halloween in Canada and the UK. It can apply for other holidays as well, notably Valentine’s Day, Easter and Mother’s Day. The key for holiday creep is for retailers to lengthen their selling season for seasonal merchandise in order to maximize profit and to give early-bird shoppers a headstart on that holiday.


External links

  • Christmas Creep: The Shopping Season Is Longer, but Is It Better?

Galactan | External links

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Galactan is a polysaccharide consisting of polymerized galactose.


See also

  • agar


External links

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When We Fall | released

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

The Swedish hardcore act When we fall was formed in Gothenburg in the fall of 2003.
Their music is fast, aggressive. Mix that with a lot of anxiety and emotional parts and you’ll have When we fall. Their first EP, A Cry in Despair was released on The Emo Foundation in 2005 and then re-released on Panic Records in 2006. According to the band’s website, they have recorded a full-length album which will be released in Fall 2007.


External links

  • Official Website

Elton and Orston railway station | by Elton John released

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Elton and Orston railway station serves the villages of Elton and Orston in Nottinghamshire.


History

In 1904, the name of the station was just ‘Elton’. It was a Great Northern Railway station.


External links

Web page about the station

Lantmanna Party | party has

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Lantmanna Party (Lantmannapartiet; literally ‘Party of the Rural People’) was a political party in Sweden. It was founded in 1867 and represented in the second chamber of the Riksdag. The party did not have any clear political ideology but claimed to represent farmers and ordinary people, although it was never a real agrarian party. The party was also supported by the main Swedish newspaper at the time, Dagens Nyheter.

In 1888 the party was split in two parties over the issue on free trade contra protectionism; the free trade advocates founded the Old Lantmanna Party and the protectionists founded the New Lantmanna Party. In 1895 the two parties reunited under its old name. In 1912 the Lantmanna Party merged together with the National Progress Party to the new Farmer and Bourgeoisie Party (Lantmanna- och borgarepartiet).

Easy street | Main Street Cookies

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Easy Street refers to a carefree situation, existence or lifestyle, as well as to

  • Easy Street (film) a Charlie Chaplin comedy made in 1917
  • Easy Street Casino in Colorado
  • Paul Smiths Easy Street is a hamlet east of Paul Smiths, New York.
  • Easy Street (novel), about mobster David Berman written by his daughter Susan Berman
  • Easy Street, a song in the musical Annie
  • “Easy Street”, a song by Soul Asylum from their 1990 album And the Horse They Rode in On
  • Easey Street, in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia, site of the Easey Street murders
  • Easy Street, an unreleased song by Randy Newman.
  • Easy Street, a 2007 documentary about the homeless in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Performance transformation | Business for the ‘Bollocks

Sunday, June 17th, 2007


Performance Transformation aligns a company’s competencies to their business strategy and vision. It is linked to their business operations (results) as human capital, the most important asset in a company—its people.


Overview

Perhaps the most import set of competencies for any company are those of project management used during sales (prospecting campaigns, proposal and contract development), delivery (goods and services), and support (sustaining the goods and services over a specified period).

Performance Transformation focuses on project management competencies as essential to any businesses mission, goals, and objectives. It is this set of competencies that support capability within a business to both assist its own organizational initiatives as well as assist in their own goods and services to market.

Performance Transformation supports Business Transformation initiatives as the “people” component that applies “process” and “tools” to support the business.

Baskil | Turkey

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Baskil is a town and a district of Elazığ Province of Turkey.

Billy Trudel | by Elton John released

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Billy Trudel is a vocalist from Los Angeles He sung backing vocals with artists such as Elton John, and lead vocals for Warpipes and most recently Public Domain.


Musical credits

  • Wag the Dog (movie-1997)
  • Elton John One Night Only-The Greatest Hits (2000)
  • Andrew W.K The Wolf (2003)
  • www.smaktones.com (2006)


External links

Informer | Snow on Main

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

The word Informer can refer to:

  • Informer or Informant - member of an underground organization, a criminal gang or any other group outlawed, persecuted or harassed by the civil or military authorities, who gives the authorities information about the group as a whole and/about other members.
  • Informer (song), a song on the 1993 album 12 Inches of Snow, by Canadian singer Snow
  • The Informer (novel), a 1925 novel by Liam O’Flaherty
  • The Informer (1912 film), directed by D. W. Griffith
  • The Informer (1914 film), director unknown
  • The Informer (1929 film), directed by Arthur Robinson
  • The Informer (film), a 1935 film directed by John Ford, written by Dudley Nichols, and starring Victor McLaglen
  • The Informer (1980 film), a Chinese film
  • The Informer (TV series), directed by Ridley Scott

Hail to the Hills of Westwood | written and performed by

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Hail to the Hills of Westwood is the school song or alma mater of the University of California, Los Angeles. It was written by Jeane Emerson, a 1929 graduate of UCLA, and adopted by the school in 1960. The current arrangement performed by the UCLA Marching Band was written by band member Dwayne S. Milburn for the 1985 football season.

Until 1925, UCLA shared the University of California alma mater, Hail to California!. “Hail Blue and Gold,” written by a UCLA student in 1925, preceded “Hail to the Hills of Westwood”, and was the school song until 1960.


External links

  • MP3 of “Hail to the Hills of Westwood”
  • UCLA History Project - Hail to The Hills of Westwood (lyrics)
  • UCLA Marching Band web site

School District 39 Vancouver | website

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Vancouver School Board (School District #39) is a school district based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A board of nine trustees manage this district.

The school board serves the city of Vancouver and the University Endowment Lands.


External links

  • Vancouver School Board official website