Archive for February, 2008

Ragged Glory | written and performed by

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Ragged Glory is a 1990 album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

The album revisits the hard rock style previously explored on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere and Zuma. Indeed, the first two tracks are songs originally written and performed live by the band in the 70s. “Farmer John” is a cover of a 60s song, written and performed by R&B duo Don and Dewey and also performed by garage band The Premiers.


Track listing

All songs written by Neil Young, except “Farmer John”, written by Harris/Terry:

  1. “Country Home” – 7:05
  2. “White Line” – 2:57
  3. “F*!#in’ Up” – 5:54
  4. “Over and Over” – 8:28
  5. “Love to Burn” – 10:00
  6. “Farmer John” – 4:14
  7. “Mansion on the Hill” – 4:48
  8. “Days That Used to Be” – 3:42
  9. “Love and Only Love” – 10:18
  10. “Mother Earth (Natural Anthem)” – 5:11


Personnel

  • Neil Young - guitar and vocals
  • Crazy Horse
    Frank Sampedro - guitar and vocals
    Billy Talbot - bass guitar and vocals
    Ralph Molina - drums and vocals


Charts

Album - Billboard

Year Chart Position
1990 The Billboard 200 31

Singles - Billboard

Year Single Chart Position
1990 “Mansion on the Hill” Mainstream Rock Tracks 3
1990 “Over and Over” Mainstream Rock Tracks 33

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List of asteroids/113001–114000 | EP. edit

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

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Hopper car | covered by

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

A hopper car is a type of railroad freight car used to transport loose bulk commodities such as coal, ore, grain, track ballast, and the like.

This type of car is distinguished from a gondola car in that it has opening doors on the underside or the sides to discharge its cargo. The development of the hopper car went along with the development of automated handling of such commodities, with automated loading and unloading facilities. There are two main types of hopper car: open and covered.

Covered hopper cars are used for cargo that must be protected from the elements (chiefly rain) such as grain, sugar, and fertilizer. Open cars are used for commodities such as coal, which can get wet and dry out with less harmful effect. Hopper cars have been used by railways worldwide whenever automated cargo handling has been desired.

Recently in North America the open hopper car has been in a terminal decline due to the advent of the rotary car dumper (which simply inverts the car to unload it, and has become the preferred unloading technology). A rotary dumper permits the use of simpler, tougher, more compact (because sloping ends are not required) gondola cars instead of hoppers. Covered hoppers, though, are still in widespread use. For loads that are less dense (such as grains) or susceptible to damage in the weather (such as unmixed cement), covered hoppers are normally used.


External links

  • Union Pacific #7801 — photos and short history of an example of a typical self-clearing, open-top triple hopper.

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Greatest Hits (Better Than Ezra album) | it was originally released

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Greatest Hits is a 2005 greatest-hits album by Better Than Ezra, released by Rhino Records.


Track listing

  1. “King of New Orleans” (originally from Friction, Baby)
  2. “Good” (originally from Deluxe)
  3. “At the Stars” (originally from How Does Your Garden Grow?)
  4. “In the Blood” (Single Remix) (originally from Deluxe)
  5. “Live Again” (originally from How Does Your Garden Grow?)
  6. “Extra Ordinary” (originally from Closer)
  7. “Rosealia” (Single Remix) (originally from Deluxe)
  8. “Desperately Wanting” (originally from Friction, Baby)
  9. “Misunderstood” (originally from Closer)
  10. “This Time of Year (French Radio Version)” (originally from Deluxe)
  11. “Under You” (originally from How Does Your Garden Grow?)
  12. “Tremble” (originally from artifakt)
  13. “One More Murder” (originally from How Does Your Garden Grow?)
  14. “Porcelain” (VooDoo Mix) (originally from Deluxe)
  15. “Laid” (James cover) (not previously released)
  16. “Wallflower” (originally from artifakt)

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Kurtz’s Mill Covered Bridge | and also covered by

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Kurtz’s Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans Mill Creek in the Lancaster County Park in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The bridge is also known as the County Park Covered Bridge, Baer’s Mill Covered Bridge, Isaac Baer’s Mill Bridge, Keystone Mill Covered Bridge, Binder Tongue Carrier Covered Bridge, and Mill 2A Covered Bridge. The bridge is accessible to road traffic from within the park.

The bridge has a single span, wooden, double Burr arch trusses design with the addition of steel hanger rods. The deck is made from oak planks. It is painted red, the traditional color of Lancaster County covered bridges, on both the inside and outside. Both approaches to the bridge are painted in red with white trim.

The bridge’s WGCB Number is 38-36-03. Unlike most historic covered bridges in the county, it is not listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located at (40.0135, -76.2833).

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History

The bridge was built in 1876 by W. W. Upp over the Conestoga River. In 1972, it was damaged by the floodwaters caused by Hurricane Agnes. It was repaired by David Esh in 1975 and moved to its present location in the Lancaster County Park over Mill Creek, a tributary of the Conestoga River.


Dimensions

  • Length: 94 feet (28.7 m) span and 90 feet (27.4 m) total length
  • Width: 11 feet 8 inches (3.6 m) clear deck and 15 feet (4.6 m) total width
  • Overhead clearance: 11 feet 6 inches (3.5 m)
  • Underclearance: 19 feet 6 inches (5.9 m)


Gallery


See also

  • Burr arch truss
  • List of Lancaster County covered bridges


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References

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Complete Works of Shakespeare | Other versions

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare. Some editions include The Two Noble Kinsmen, a collaboration with John Fletcher, and some do not.

The Complete Works form one of the two books (the other being the Bible) “given” to guests on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, so that they cannot choose it. In their 2006/7 season the Royal Shakespeare Company committed to the performance of the Complete Works in a single year. In 1987 Adrian Hilton acquired a Guinness World Record for reciting the Complete Works non-stop, enduring 5 days without sleep.


References

  • Best, Michael. Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria. (Accessed 11/29/06) http://ise.uvic.ca/
The University of Victoria is providing proofread versions of the plays and poems. For all the plays (except Pericles) they have now on site quarto and/or folio versions. They intend to provide, in addition, modern edited versions, with annotations. Right now, just three plays and one of the poems have been so provided.
  • The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Fifth Edition, David Bevington, ed. Longman, 2003.
After a useful introduction, provides well-glossed, conservatively-edited versions of each play, preceded by an informative essay, and with auxiliary matter (dating, text versions, sources, etc.) in appendices. The typeface is clean and good-sized, nor is the book unwieldy.
  • The Riverside Shakespeare, Heather Dubrow, William T. Liston, Charles H. Shattuck, G. Blakemore Evans, Joseph Jay Tobin, Herschel Baker, Anne Barton, Frank Kermode, Harry Levin, Hallett Smith, Marie Edel, eds. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Long the standard, it boasts a glittering array of editors.


See also

  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a slapstick speeded-up version by the Reduced Shakespeare Company (1987), cramming all the familiar bits into a single performance.


External links

  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - plain vanilla text at Project Gutenberg.

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File control block | Other versions It was

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

A File Control Block (FCB) is a file system structure in which the state of an open file is maintained.
The FCB originates from CP/M and is also present in all versions of MS-DOS. A full FCB is 36 bytes long; in early versions of CP/M, it was 33 bytes.

The meanings of several of the fields in the FCB differ between CP/M and MS-DOS, and also depending on what operation is being performed. The following fields have consistent meanings:

Offset Size Contents
00 Byte Drive number — 0 for default, 1 for A:, 2 for B:,…
01 8 bytes File name and file type — together these form a 8.3 file name
09 3 bytes
0C 20 bytes Implementation dependent — should be initialised to zero before the FCB is opened.
20 1 byte Record number in the current section of the file — used when performing sequential access.
21 3 bytes Record number to use when performing random access.


Usage

In CP/M and MS-DOS 1 (which did not include support for directories), the FCB was the only method of accessing files. When directories were introduced in MS-DOS 2, FCBs were superseded by file handles.

FCBs were supported in all versions of MS-DOS and Windows until the introduction of the FAT32 filesystem. Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me do not support the use of FCBs on FAT32 drives, except to read the volume label. This caused some old DOS applications, including Wordstar, to fail under these versions of Windows.

The FCB interface does not work properly on Windows NT, 2000, etc either - WordStar does not function properly on these operating systems. The emulator DOSEMU implements the FCB interface properly, and is one way to run older programs.

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Agrarian Party | Party Rare

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Agrarian Party is the name of at several political parties:

  • Agrarian Party of Albania, Albania
  • Agrarian Party of Belarus, Belarus
  • Agrarian Party of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan
  • Agrarian Party of Kyrgyzstan, Agrarian Labour Party of Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan
  • Agrarian Party of Moldova, Moldova
  • Agrarian Party of Russia, Russia
  • Agrarian Party of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • Agrarian Party of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia

Former political parties with that name:

  • Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, Bulgaria (1899-1946)
  • Agrarian Labor Party, Chile (1945-1958)
  • Finnish Agrarian Party, Finland (1959-1995)


See also

  • Agrarianism, as a political ideology, has however been the basis for many more parties
  • Peasants’ Party, a name also used by agrarian parties, but not limited to them

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Chatyr-Dag | was covered by the

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Chatyr-Dag (, , ) is a mountain in Crimea, near Simferopol-Alushta highway. In the Crimean Tatar language çatır means tent and dağ means mountain.

The mountain consists of two plateaus: the lower (north) and the upper (south). The lower plateau slopes gently down to its northern side, which is covered in steppe grass. On its southern end (near the steep slope of the higher plateau), the lower plateau is covered with beech forests and juniper glades. It has many hiking trails and several beautiful caves (see a list below). On the east side of the lower plateau there is an outpost grove of yews.

The upper plateau has a shape of a giant bowl and on its brim, the highest peaks are each named. The upper plateau is covered with alpine meadows. Its slopes are very steep and offer climbing and alpine mountaineering at all levels of difficulty.


Some caves of Chatyrdag mountain:

  • Mramornaya cave
  • Emine Bair Hosar cave
  • Fur-tree cave
  • Obval’naya cave
  • Vyalova cave
  • Artuch-Koba

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Jack Snow | Snow on Main

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Jack Snow can refer to:

  • Jack Snow (writer) (1907-1956), a writer of Oz books.
  • Jack Snow (football) (1943-2006), an American football player.
  • J.T. Snow (Jack Thomas, born 1968), an American baseball player and son of the football player.

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ABC Entertainment | Walt Disney World

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

ABC Entertainment is a network production company owned by The Walt Disney Company and ABC that created in 1982. It produced shows like America’s Funniest Home Videos, America’s Funniest People, and H.E.L.P..

The company was originally known as ABC Television Network Productions, ABC Circle Films, and later ABC Productions.

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Snow cave | Wishes Snow

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

A snow cave is a shelter constructed in snow by mountain climbers, winter recreational enthusiasts, and winter survivalists. It has thermal properties similar to an Igloo and is particularly effective at providing protection from wind as well as low temperatures. A properly made snow cave can be 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer inside, even when outside temperatures are -40 °C (-40 °F).

A snow cave is built by excavating snow such that the entrance tunnel enters below the main space to retain warm air. Construction is simplified by building it on a steep slope and digging slightly upwards and horizontally into the slope. The roof is domed to prevent dripping on the occupants. Adequate snow depth, free of rocks and ice, is needed. Generally at 4 or 5 feet is sufficient. The snow must be consolidated, so it retains its structure. The walls and roof should be at least 12 inches thick.

A narrow entrance tunnel, a little wider than a human leads into the main chamber which consists of a flat area, perhaps with elevated sleeping platform(s), also excavated from snow. Most sources agree that using tools such as a shovel and ice axe are vital; digging by hand is for emergencies only.


See also

  • Mountaineering


References


External links

  • Snow as insulation
  • PBSkids.com Denali for kids Survival Skills: Building a Snow Cave
  • Outdoors With Dave Building Snow Caves for Fun & Recreation
  • Traditional Mountaineering Why are snow caves dangerous?

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Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life | Disney World

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life ISBN 0-7868-6070-7), 1981, is an acclaimed book by two of Disney’s Nine Old Men, Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas. It is widely considered to be one of the best books ever published on the topic of character animation, in fact, it tops the list of “best animation books of all time” in a poll at AWN [1].

Totalling 576 pages, a revised edition, with the inverted title The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation was published October 19, 1995. It contains 489 plates in full colour, and thousands of black and white illustrations, ranging from storyboard sketches to entire animation sequences, all of which illustrate the exquisite art of Disney style animation.

The book gives many glimpses into the workings of the animation masters at Disney’s during the Golden Age of animation. It is a frequently used reference among professional animators.

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London Chronicle | Continued and

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

The London Chronicle was an early family newspaper of Georgian London. It appeared three times a week and contained world and national news, and coverage of artistic, literary, and theatrical events in the capital.

A typical issue was eight pages, quarto size. Many of the stories were copied from government reports published in the official London Gazette. Copying from other newspapers was rife, and many reports were in the form of letters from so-called gentlemen.

Originally titled The London Chronicle: or, Universal Evening Post it first ran from 1757 to June, 1765.

It was continued by The London Chronicle which appeared in 113 volumes from July 2, 1765 to April 23, 1823.

It was then absorbed by the Commercial chronicle and continued in its original title (London chronicle: or, Universal evening post).

In 1823 it was absorbed into the London Packet.

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The Best of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas | Christmas

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

The Best of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas is a compilation of tracks that were recorded live at the Acoustic Christmas by the Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ, released in 1999.


Track listing

  1. “Dammit” - Blink-182 – 2:58
  2. “Stupid Girl” - Garbage – 3:58
  3. “What It’s Like” - Everlast – 7:48
  4. “Doll Parts” - Hole – 3:51
  5. “Walkin’ On The Sun” - Smash Mouth – 3:22
  6. “Spiderwebs” - No Doubt – 4:21
  7. “I Will Buy You A New Life” - Everclear – 4:32
  8. “Everything Zen” - Bush – 7:15
  9. “The Distance” - Cake – 3:05
  10. “Fake Plastic Trees” - Radiohead – 4:44
  11. “I Alone” - Live – 3:49
  12. “Blister In The Sun” - Violent Femmes – 2:40

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Pocket Monsters Zensho | edit Other versions It

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Pocket Monsters Zensho (ポケットモンスター全書 Poketto Monsutā Zensho) is a manga graphic novel written by Satomi Nakamura (中村里美 Nakamura Satomi). The novel takes place in the Pokémon universe.

The series was never translated in English, but was translated in Asian countries. The manga closely follows the video game storyline, even offering a guide on how to play the game, in correct storyline order.


Storyline

The story starts with Satoshi (known as Ash Ketchum in English-language releases) going to see Shigeru (Gary Oak). The two see some wild Pokémon, and then they go to the laboratory of Yukinari Okido (Professor Oak) to get their first Pocket Monsters. Satoshi chooses Hitokage (Charmander) and Shigeru chooses Zenigame (Squirtle). The two have a battle, and Satoshi manages to win. Then Okido gives them their Pokédexes and Satoshi goes home. After a night of rest, Satoshi heads off on his journey, getting a town map from Shigeru’s sister.


External links

  • Ultimate Pokémon Network
  • Bulbapedia article

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Supremacy | themed

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Supremacy can refer to:

  • A racial or political philosophy of Supremacism
  • A 1940 military-themed variant of Monopoly
  • Supremacy: The Game of the Superpowers, a 1984 strategic board game
  • (called Overlord in USA), a computer game by Probe for the Amiga and C64 computer
  • Air supremacy, aerial control of a battlefield by one side’s air force.
  • The Bourne Supremacy (film), the second installment of the Bourne film trilogy, loosely based on the novels by Robert Ludlum.

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Resource (Java) | Continued and The

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

In the Java programming language a resource is a piece of data that can be accessed by the code of an application.
An application can access its resources through Uniform Resource Locators, like web resources, but the
resources are usually contained within the JAR file(s) of the application.

A resource bundle is a set of key and value pairs, stored as a resource, that is commonly used to allow the localization of an application. For this purpose different resource bundles with a
common set of keys are used to store translations for the messages and user interface texts of an application.


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Maximum Overdrive (song) | single

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Maximum Overdrive” was the fourth single taken from the 2 Unlimited album No Limits. The single reached #15 in the UK.


Remixes

  • X-Out Mix
  • Extended Mainstream Vibe
  • Speedaumatic Remix
  • X-Out In Trance
  • Extended
  • Radio
  • Spanish

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Popular Socialist Party (Argentina) | Party

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

The Popular Socialist Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Popular) was a political party in Argentina formed in the 1960’s when the Socialist Party divided itself in half.

Headed by the more radical left group of the Party, it became important in the province of Santa Fe.

The party joined the Democratic Socialist Party in 2002 to form the Socialist Party.

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