Startopia - members of various alien species to the station. The game has an interesting sense of humour, similar to that of Dungeon Keeper in many ways. The player has no direct control over the characters that wander about, although the game is largely about influencing their actions in one way or another. The hardware requirements are low by current standards (350MHz processor, 64 Mb RAM, 8 Mb 3D graphics card), the game is now in the "budget" range, and there is a demo version available. External Links Info from Eidos Official site Really good strategy guide.
Whoopi - hotel in New York City. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Cast and Characters 2 Program Information 2.1 Debut Information 2.2 Distribution 3 Critical Review Cast and Characters Mavis Rae, an irritated one hit wonder, reduced to running a small and unsuccessful NYC hotel. Played by Whoopi Goldberg. a character with implied terrorist connections. Played by Omid Djalili Wren T. Brown Elizabeth Regen Program Information Debut Information The show aired at 8:00 PM, EST/PST, on Tuesdays starting with September 9, 2003. Distribution United States of America on CH Canada on CTV; debuted on September 22, 2003 at 8:30 PM, EST/PST on CTV Critical Review In their new season overview, under the "What's Good" category, TV Guide (Canada) said "We'll get back to you." The show has an "abysmal and intrusive laugh track.".
North Korea - - Density Ranked 49th 22,224,195 182.25/km² Independence - Date From Japan August 15, 1945 Currency North Korean won Time zone UTC +9 National anthem A ch'im un pinnara, i kangsan ungum e Internet TLD None (.KP is reserved) Calling Code 850 (1) Kim Yong-nam is the de facto head of state; Kim Il-sung is "eternal president" (2) Kim Jong Il is the most powerful figure in the DPRK; the Chairman of the National Defence Commission is accorded the nation's "highest administrative authority" Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Politics 3 Provinces and Cities 4 Geography 5 Economy 6 Demographics 7 Culture & Tourism 8 Miscellaneous topics 9 External Links 10 Further reading History For pre-1945 history, see Korea Main article: History of North Korea Japanese occupation of Korea ended after.
Las Vegas (television) - style of zoom in-zoom out camera angles that CSI made popular. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Cast and Characters 2 Program Information 2.1 Debut Information 2.2 Distribution 3 Critical Review 4 Trivia Cast and Characters Danny McCoy, an ex-marine whom works for Ed Deline in security at a fictional Las Vegas casino called the "Montecito". The show is narrated by this character in the first few episodes. Played by Josh Duhamel Ed Deline, a former CIA officer, he is now the the tough-guy head of security at a Las Vegas casino. Played by James Caan Mary Connell, a former whore who "makes good" and becomes the "Special Events Director" at the casino. Played by Nikki Cox Mike Cannon, a brainy but goodlooking engineer who takes a job as Montecito's head valet.
Kukai - it to him. In 804 he travelled managed to be included in a diplomatic mission to China, perhaps with the help of the Emperor Kanmu. In Ch'ang-an he studied Sanskrit and met his teacher Hui-kuo who gave him tantric initiation and taught him the esoteric doctrines contained in the Dainichikyo. Hui-Kuo decided to make Kūkai his successor, but asked him to return to Japan and teach the esoteric doctrines there for the benefit of the Japanese people. He returned to Japan with many scriptures and art objects. Kūkai returned to a new emperor, Heizei, who showed little interest in Kūkai or his new teachings. The Tendai School run by Saicho was very popular and for a while eclipsed Kukai. Later however they assimilated many Shingon doctrines, and Saicho even approached Kukai.
Abbreviation - particular collocations of letters represented by somewhat arbitrary symbols. The commonest form of abbreviation is the substitution for a word of its initial letter; but, with a view to prevent ambiguity, one or more of the other letters are frequently added. In some languages, letters are often doubled to indicate a plural or a superlative. In modern English there are several conventions in use for abbreviations and it may not be clear which one is best. Publishers sometimes express their preferences in a style guide. Some of the questions which may arise: Upper or lower case letters? If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation will also be capital, e.g., U.S. for United States. But when abbreviating lower case letters, there is no clear guide. Usage.
Phelsuma - novorum ab ill. Dr. Christ Rutenberg in insula Madagascar collectorum. Zool. Anz. Leipzig 4: 46-48. Boettger, O. (1881 b). Reliquiae Rutenbergiana II: Reptilien und Amphibien. Abl. bremer naturwiss. Ver. Bremen 7: 177-190. Boettger, O. (1881 c) Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagaskar. Dritten Nachtrag Abh. senck. naturfors. Gesellschaft 12: 435-558. Boettger, O. (1893). Katalog der Reptilien Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. I. Teil Frankfurt a/M.Gesellschaft 12: 435-558. Boettger, O. (1894). Diagnose eines Geckos und Chameleons aus Südmadagascar. Zool. Anzeiger (Leipzig) 17: 137-140. Boettger, O. (1913). Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagaskar, den Inseln und dem Festland Ostafrikas (Sammlung Voeltzkow 1889-1895 und 1903-1905) in: Voeltzkow, A. 1908-1917, Reise in Ostafrika. Stuttgart 3: 269-375. Böhme, W. & Meier, H. (1981) Eine neue form der madagascariensis-Gruppe der Gattung Phelsuma.
List of leading legal cases in copyright law - for the legal reasoning or the conclusions they reach. Please note: Wikipedia does not give legal advice. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Advent Sys. Ltd. v. Unisys Corp (1991) held that the sale of software is the sale of a good within the meaning of Uniform Commercial Code. Applied Info. Mgmt., Inc, v. Icart (1997) held that the sale of software is the sale of a good. Autodesk v Dyason (No.2) (1993) 176 CLR 300 (the idea-expression divide is the "dominant principle in copyright law" per Mason CJ: "when the expression of any idea is inseparable from its function, it forms part of the idea and is not entitled.
Concepts and minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Concepts and minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy There are many minor characters in the 5-part fictional "trilogy" The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. They include: Eddie the Shipboard Computer, Hotblack Desiato, Lintilla, Prosser, various Vogons, Roosta, Trillian, Frankie and Benjy mouse, and Zarquon. Eddie Eddie is the shipboard computer on the Heart of Gold, with an over-excitable, over-enthused, extremely irritating personality. He is only found in the first two books of the series. Frankie Frankie is one of the twin-mice that Arthur (et. al) encounter on Magrathea. Frankie, along with Benji, wish to extract the final readout data from Arthur's brain to get the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything. (Frankie and Benji are, after all, part of.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was first and foremost a radio comedy series written by Douglas Adams. It has been adapted as a series of novels, as a television series and as a computer game, and as of 2003 there are still plans for a film version. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Introduction 2 History of the radio series and novels 3 Books in the trilogy 4 Characters 5 Other Articles 6.
Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Brontitall Brontitall is a planet populated by a highly evolved bird people who live in the right ear of a 15-mile high marble statue of Arthur Dent. Originally the bird people were ground dwellers, but gradually the planet was taken over by the shoe shops of the Dolman-Saxlil Shoe Corporation, thanks to the shoe-shop intensifier ray they deployed. In order to keep the populace buying more and more shoes, they were badly made and ill-fitting. Eventually the shoe event horizon is reached, whereby all of the shops on the planet are shoe shops, but none of the shoes actually fit. The result is economic collapse, ruin.
Information science glossary of terms - between browsing and searching is that with browsing you have very little advance knowledge of what will be on the next page. A call number is an identification marker used in libraries to categorize and locate books and other resources. Each resource is assigned a combination of letters and numbers which correspond with a location in the library. For example the call number for the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is BF76.7 .P83 2001. A catalog is a complete and systematically organized enumeration of items, particularly the complete enumeration of a libraries' resources on a set of paper cards (card catalog) or in an electronic database (bibliographic database). A citation is the quoting or mentioning of a source. All works used in preparing a paper should be cited. A.
Education in the People's Republic of China - there were dramatic advances in primary education after 1949, achievements in secondary and higher education were not as great. Although the government has authority over the education system, the Chinese Communist Party has played a role in managing education since 1949. The party established broad education policies and under Deng Xiaoping, tied improvements in the quality of education to its modernization plan. The party also monitored the government's implementation of its policies at the local level and within educational institutions through its party committees. Party members within educational institutions, who often have a leading management role, are responsible for steering their schools in the direction mandated by party policy. New Directions The May 1985 National Conference on Education recognized five fundamental areas for reform to be discussed in connection with implementing.
Enigma machine - work. In the frequency analysis technique, letters and letter patterns are counted. Since certain letters appear much more frequently than others in every language, these counts usually reveal information about likely substitutions in the cipher. Users typically look for some important letters and combinations. For instance, in English, E, T, A, O, I, N and S, are usually easy to identify, as well as NG, ST and other similar combinations. Once these are found, the message is partially decrypted, revealing more information about other likely substitutions. Simple frequency analysis relies on any one letter always being substituted for another letter in the cypher: if this is not the case the situation is more difficult. For many years, cryptographers attempted to hide the frequencies by using several different substitutions for common letters,.
Alexandrian school of anatomy - of the nerves, which he made issue from the brain; and that he discovered lymphatic vessels in the mesentery, first in brute animals, and afterwards, it is said, in man. He appears also to have distinguished the nerves into those of sensation and those of motion. Herophilus Of Herophilus it is said that he had extensive anatomical knowledge, acquired by dissecting not only brutes but human bodies. Of these he probably dissected more than any of his predecessors or contemporaries. Devoted to the assiduous cultivation of anatomy, he appears, to have studied with particular attention those parts which were least understood. He recognized the nature of the pulmonary artery, which he denominates arterious vein; he knew the vessels of the mesentery, and showed that they did not go to the vena.
Fictional character - is the person or conscious entity we imagine to exist within the world of such a work. In addition to people, characters can be aliens, animals, gods or, occasionally, inanimate objects. Characters are almost always at the center of fictional texts, especially novels and plays. It is, in fact, hard to imagine a novel or play without characters, though such texts have been attempted (James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the most famous examples). In poetry, there is almost always some sort of person present, but often only in the form of a narrator or an imagined listener. In theater and movies (except animations), fictional characters are played by actors. In animations, they are voiced by voice actors. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Names of Characters 2 Some ways of.
Descriptive chess notation - "-" (no capture) or "x" (capture), its final square at the end of the move, and special indicators if any. The piece names are K (King), Q (Queen), R (Rook), B (Bishop), Kt [or N] (Knight), and P (Pawn); note that English versions of algebraic notation use the same abbreviations except for the Knight and Pawn. Special indicators include e.p. (en passant), Ch (Check), and Mate (Checkmate). If the move is a capture, the final square may be indicated by naming the piece being captured rather than by naming the final square. Typically, the move will record only enough information to make the move unambiguous, and piece names may be combined with a location to eliminate ambiguity. So, depending on the available possibilities, a pawn capturing a pawn may be noted.
Table of Chinese monarchs - Qin, the title of a sovereign was wang 王 wang2 which is translated as king. Only the most recognized posthumous or temple names were used for all tables of sovereigns and referencing. For example, many kings of the Ten Kingdoms in the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms had tiresome posthumous names consisted of 10 to 20 Chinese characters. Why bother quoting them while only clear referencing is needed. Xia Dynasty Sovereigns of Xia Dynasty Posthumous Names ( Shi Hao 諡號) Convention: posthumous name Note: 1) all dates are approximate until the Duumvirate when first accurate dating of Chinese history began. Refer to Zhou dynasty for more info. Yu禹 yu3 or Xia Yu夏禹 xia4 yu3 or Da Yu大禹 da4 yu3 Qi啟 qi3 Tai Kang太康 tai4 kang1 Zhong Kang仲康 zhong4 kang1.
Catch phrase - repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. They are especially common among cartoon characters. Today, catch phrases are frequently seen as an important part of marketing a character, with the phrase appearing on t-shirts and other promotional materials for the character's respective show or film. Catch phrases attributed to real people often are often based on something that the person would be expected to say, as opposed to something they actually did. These are also known as misquotations. "Beam me up, Scotty" (see below) is a good example of this. Some well-known catch phrases "All your base are belong to us." - Zero Wing, a Japanese video game translated into Engrish "And away we go!" - Jackie Gleason "And it's goodnight from me..." - "And it's goodnight from him!".
Characterization - to assume the point of view of another person and to write from a different point of view from their own. Fiction writers must be like a actor and become another person A good writer makes characters sympathetic, well-rounded, or complex even though the writer may not be like the character or even like him or his beliefs. This allows for a sense or realism. You have to reveal some basic facts to the reader about a character. The reader should know the following things about a character: appearance, age, gender, educational level, vocation or occupation, financial status, marital status, hobbies, religious beliefs, ambitions, motivations, etc. A good writer is able to reveal all of the above by giving the readers clues and hints. Never should a writer directly disclose info..
