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"In an interview with GQ magazine, the "Mummy" star said the alleged incident took place during HFPA luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2003. He alleged that former HFPA president, Philip Berk, came to shake his hand when he was leaving the crowded room. "His left hand reaches around, grabs my ass cheek, and one of his fingers touches me in the taint. And he starts moving it around," Fraser said, adding that in that moment he was overcome with panic and fear."I felt ill. I felt like a little kid. I felt like there was a ball in my throat. I thought I was going to cry," Fraser added."
I prefer to do my rangling and ranging in a regular manner.
Information which is available and relevant to a decision or action, but which is undiscovered or ignored, bringing unnecessary risk to the decision or action.
Australian and New Zealand slang:
no rules at all
If a leg-rope doesn't work, try an ear-rope.
A certain frog makes up a simple word and it never goes away.
Oh, my.
I found a vintage stamp from India with NINE PIES inked across the stamp. Now I understand what it meant.
pies: A former monetary unit of India and Pakistan, equal to one-twelfth of an anna.
NZ, Australian
1(in surfing) a rope attached to a surfboard and tied to the surfer's ankle to prevent the board being washed away by the surf.
In order to relocate a pesky, trespassing bilby, a leg-rope expert was hired.
What exactly is an appropriate manner?
You're a creative genius, madmouth.
COMMENT: she is nothing!. shes famous for a sex video and having lip injections and butt implants. Its too bad she breaths the same air as everyone else, such a waste. Well the whole clan is, from Bruce Jenner aka "caitlyn" to kylie and kendall Jenner. I know i should just skip over anything about them, but i had to see about her sending her haters stuff. I think its just for attention.
REPLY: There was literally no need to deadname Caitlyn in your little rant. If you don't like the Kardashians then don't click on the articles.
(I did not correct any of the punctuation, etc, even though it was tempting.)
Would someone please define deadname? I'm a bit confused. The Twitter feed is all over the place with examples, but none nail it.
At what point does one become coffin-overripe?
Forgot about this! Thanks for reintroducing it.
In cluttering, the breakdowns in clarity that accompany a perceived rapid and/or irregular speech rate are often characterized by deletion and/or collapsing of syllables (e.g., "I wanwatevision") and/or omission of word endings (e.g., "Turn the televisoff"). The breakdowns in fluency are often characterized by more typical disfluencies (e.g., revisions, interjections) and/or pauses in places in sentences not expected grammatically, such as "I will go to the/store and buy apples".--http://www.asha.org/
A well-known example of a nurse name (from a surname) is "Chips" (Professor Arthur Chipping from the 1969 film "Good-bye, Mr. Chips".)
Prior to Professor Chipping's marriage, however, and his subsequent personality change, his pupils called him "Ditchy," short for "dull as ditch-water."
Not sure if "Ditchy" is a "nurse name" since it isn't a term of endearment, but it is a nickname of sorts.
Ha, regarding your Great Aunt Lalla. My guess is that numerous "nurse names" found their origins via baby talk or a toddler's (temporary) fluency disorder.
See also sobriquet.
A nurse name is a hypocorism, a diminutive form of a name. Hypocorisms include pet names or calling names, often a diminutive or augmentative form of a word or a given name when used as a nickname or term of endearment.As described in some old texts, a nurse name is a contraction or an affectionate nickname. One example I found was HUBE, a "nurse name" for HUBERT. Other examples weren't shortened versions of one's given name but as terms of endearment, such as LITTLE ANGEL or DEAR ONE.
"English teachers spent the bulk of year 10 teaching and marking coursework essays, and didn't get on to doing mocks until year 11. I was really pleased when coursework was abolished as I felt it would free up so much more time for teachers to plan and teach, instead of mark and administer coursework. However, it does appear as though a lot of this gained time has now been replaced with equally time-consuming mock marking with mocks being introduced more and more in year 10. Many schools have three assessment points a year. If you were to do two mock papers three times a year in both year 10 and 11, then a teacher who taught one year 10 class and one year 11 class would spend 120 hours of the year marking GCSE mocks. That's three normal working weeks, or nearly 10% of the contracted 1,265 annual hours of directed time."
What are the definitions for mocks and mock marking in the context above?
The retail store Target is sometimes referred to as TAR-zhay. It's supposed to sound French, and thus high-class. This unofficial name change, initiated by customers, took place around the time Target began using some well-known designer(s) to spiffy up their low-priced wares. The term has been used by The New York Times.
Chaetoderma elegans is a species of glisten worm, a kind of shell-less, worm-like mollusk in the family Chaetodermidae. This species is found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. --wikipedia
Here's an archived copy of Clapin's Americanisms, 1902:
The meaning I found was along the lines of frantically removing one's clothes (such as one's pajamas) during a feverish delirium.
The Coxe meaning sounds like a disgruntled fashionista.
An Icelandic tradition known as jólabókaflóð (Christmas book flood). Books are exchanged as Christmas Eve gifts and the rest of the night is spent reading and eating konfekt (filled chocolates) and sipping jólabland, an orange fizzy ale.
Iceland sells the greatest number of books per capita in the world – and most of them are sold in the weeks leading up to Christmas. The book catalog Bókatíðindi is published each November and lists every published book available during the Christmas season.
Heal your feelings by eating sheetcake.
Wordnik is mentioned in this article about sheetcaking.
"Sheetcaking: Seriously?" Chronicle of Higher Education.
"It has made its way into discussions on Wordnik and more than a dozen tweets, though as yet without a definition."
"Why them birds, bein' mostly nuts, is so nervous they can't read, nor work, nor do nothin' to ease the bugs that is bitin' their noodles. That's where this strongarm stuff comes in, and the flydicks knows it."
--Them Was The Good Old Days, W.L. Purcell, 1922.
... a purple BLEE?
In professional wrestling, a heel is a wrestler who is villainous or a "bad guy", who is booked (scripted) by the promotion to be in the position of being an antagonist. They are typically opposed by their polar opposites called faces (the heroic protagonist or "good guy" characters). In American wrestling, it was common for the faces to be American and the heels to be portrayed as foreign.
In order to gain heat (with boos and jeers from the audience), heels are often portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner by breaking rules or otherwise taking advantage of their opponents outside the bounds of the standards of the match. Others do not (or rarely) break rules, but instead exhibit unlikeable, appalling and deliberately offensive and demoralizing personality traits such as arrogance, cowardice or contempt for the audience. Many heels do both, cheating as well as behaving nastily. No matter the type of heel, the most important job is that of the antagonist role, as heels exist to provide a foil to the face wrestlers. If a given heel is cheered over the face, a promoter may opt to turn that heel to face or the other way around or to make the wrestler do something even more despicable to encourage heel heat.
"Armed with theoretical microscopes, quantum physicists keep on magnifying, gazing deeper and deeper into empty space until out of nothing, they suddenly see something. That something is a roiling collection of virtual particles, collectively called quantum foam.... According to quantum physicists, virtual particles exist briefly as fleeting fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime, like bubbles in beer foam." "Is Space Full of Quantum Foam?", LiveScience, 5 August 2017.
In molecular biology, housekeeping genes are typically constitutive genes that are required for the maintenance of basic cellular function and are expressed in all cells of an organism under normal and pathophysiological conditions.
"The scientific study of hereditary disease in Jewish populations was initially hindered by scientific racism, which is based on racial supremacism."
"Soon criminologists started to take killer nurses seriously. In 1995, British forensic chemist Alexander Forrest reviewed about 40 examples of the type and suggested that one or two new cases might be seen each year in the United States. He proposed calling these murders "CASKs," for carer-associated serial killings, and noted that "the numbers of patients involved are not trivial." --"The Killer Nurse", Slate, 2017 July 24. source
Another name for spaghetti squash. I found this word while looking at a recipe for spaghetti squash pizza crust.
St Edmund's College Boat Club (SECBC) is the boat club for members of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
SECBC uses the Cambridge '99 RC boathouse for training and storing its boats. The club has two boats, 'Lily' a men's eight and 'Dotty' a women's eight.
I concur. Check out the hummingbird images!
orange IS the new black, after all.
Don't forget the free bookmark that comes with your Book Book book.
Book Book is a rural community in the central east part of the Riverina. It is situated about 12 km (7 mi) north from Kyeamba and 15 km (9 mi) south from Ladysmith.
Book Book exists now only through a set of old tennis courts and the telephone exchange that sits just off the Tumbarumba road.
(Book Book is considered a New South Wales "ghost town")
The Book Book Public School was discontinued on 27 October 1989.
According to a common misconception, century eggs are or were once prepared by soaking eggs in horse urine. The myth may have arisen from the urine-like odor of ammonia and other amines produced by the chemical reaction used to make century eggs. However, this myth is unfounded as horse urine has a pH ranging from 7.5 to 7.9 and therefore would not work for this process.
In Thai and Lao, the common word for century egg translates to "horse urine egg", due to the distinctive urine-like odor of the delicacy. --Wikipedia
Coywolves are not 'shy wolves'—they are coyote-wolf hybrids (with some dog mixed in) and now number in the millions.
The hybrid, or Canis latrans var, is about 55 pounds heavier than pure coyotes, with longer legs, a larger jaw, smaller ears and a bushier tail. It is part eastern wolf, part wester wolf, western coyote and with some dog (large breeds like Doberman Pinschers and German Shepherds), reports The Economist. Coywolves today are on average a quarter wolf and a tenth dog.
n. A snail-shell or a horse-chestnut used in a boys' game, in which the object is to break the snail-shell or horse-chestnut by striking it, with another.
Wow. So easy even boys are able to grasp the rules. Must be an easy game.
Genuphobia (from Latin word genu meaning "knee") is the fear of one's own knees or someone else's knees or the act of kneeling.
The phobia could be the result of a negative experience in a person's life that was associated with knees. The discomfort at the sight of one's knees could be the result of the person's parents or themselves wearing exclusively clothing that covered the knees growing up, therefore making the person unfamiliar with the sight of them. It could be the result of a traumatic injury that left a scar on the individual's knee or on someone that they know.
Some people fear kneeling because it is a form of submission. Symptoms include but are not limited to becoming sick to the stomach, excessive sweating, dry mouth, and anxiety when presented with a situation including knees or kneeling. Sufferers fear the uncomfortable feeling they experience at the sight of knees or they fear the recollection of the injury and the pain associated with it.
Bilbies are never out of work. Being cute is a full-time job.
Many of these words border on "annoying".
I tried listing the name of the actual prize; however, I kept getting a 404 whenever it came time to add a comment.
The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, originally known as the Diagram Group Prize for the Oddest Title at the Frankfurt Book Fair,1 commonly known as the Diagram Prize for short, is a humorous literary award that is given annually to a book with an unusual title.
Past winners:
--Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice
--The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution
--The Joy of Chickens
--Last Chance at Love – Terminal Romances
--How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
--The Joy of Sex: Pocket Edition
--Developments in Dairy Cow Breeding: New Opportunities to Widen the Use of Straw
--Living with Crazy Buttocks
--The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories
--Bombproof Your Horse
--Too Naked For the Nazis
The Darwin Awards are a tongue-in-cheek honor, originating in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool via death or sterilization by their own actions.
The project became more formalized with the creation of a website in 1993 and followed up by a series of books starting in 2000, authored by Wendy Northcutt. The criterion for the awards states, "In the spirit of Charles Darwin, the Darwin Awards commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives. Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species' chances of long-term survival."
Accidental self-sterilization also qualifies; however, the site notes: "Of necessity, the award is usually bestowed posthumously." The candidate is disqualified, though, if "innocent bystanders", who might have contributed positively to the gene pool, are killed in the process.
The Darwin Awards books state that an attempt is made to disallow known urban legends from the awards, but some older "winners" have been "grandfathered" to keep their awards. The Darwin Awards site does try to verify all submitted stories, but many similar sites, and the vast number of circulating "Darwin awards" emails, are largely fictional.
The Pigasus Award is the name of an annual tongue-in-cheek award presented by noted skeptic James Randi. The award seeks to expose parapsychological, paranormal or psychic frauds that Randi has noted over the previous year. Randi usually makes his announcements of the awards from the previous year on April 1 (April Fools Day).
The Stella Awards are awards that were given between 2002 and 2007 to people who filed "outrageous and frivolous lawsuits". The awards were named after Stella Liebeck who, in 1992, ordered a cup of McDonald's coffee at a drive thru, put it in between her knees while sitting in the passenger seat of her grandson's stationary car, and attempted to remove the lid in order to add cream and sugar. The coffee, 180 to 190 °F (82 to 88 °C), spilled from the cup, causing third-degree burns to her thighs and genitals; after McDonald's refused to pay for her skin grafts, and rejected several attempts at mediation and settlement, Liebeck sued. The awards were an offshoot of the weekly news column This is True written by Colorado writer Randy Cassingham, which featured "wacky-yet-true" news stories.5 The awards were documented on a website and in a 2005 book, both known as The True Stella Awards. There are also a number of false Stella Awards circulating on the Internet.
In July 2012 Cassingham sent a mail to the True Stella Awards mailing list, announcing that after several abortive attempts to restart the list he came to the conclusion that he had said everything about the subject of frivolous lawsuits that he had intended to say, and so was shutting down the Stella Awards.
The Golden Raspberry Awards often shortened to Razzies and Razzie Awards, is an award in recognition of the worst in film. Co-founded by UCLA film graduates and film-industry veterans, John J. B. Wilson and Mo Murphy, the annual Razzie Awards ceremony in Los Angeles precedes the corresponding Academy Awards ceremony by one day. The term raspberry in the name is used in its irreverent sense, as in "blowing a raspberry". The awards themselves are in the form of a "golf ball-sized raspberry" which sits atop a Super 8 mm film reel, the whole of which is spray-painted gold.
Literary Review is well known for its annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Each year since 1993, Literary Review has presented the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award to the author who produces the worst description of a sex scene in a novel. The award itself is in the form of a "semi-abstract trophy representing sex in the 1950s", which depicts a naked woman draped over an open book. The award was originally established by Rhoda Koenig, a literary critic, and Auberon Waugh, then the magazine's editor.
The award is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it".
The Bent Spoon Award is an award given by Australian Skeptics, "presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle". The award is named as allusion to the practice of spoon bending by supposed psychics.
Australian Skeptics facetiously describes the trophy as a piece of gopher wood supposedly from the Noah's Ark, upon which is affixed a spoon that was rumored to have been used at the Last Supper. The spoon was bent by energies unknown to science and was gold-plated through an Atlantean process.1 Although established in 1982 and first awarded in 1983, only one copy of the trophy exists, as "anyone wishing to acquire the trophy must remove it from our keeping by paranormal means" and no winner has yet overcome this obstacle.
The winner should either be an Australian or have carried out their activities in Australia.
The New Zealand Skeptics have a similar Bent Spoon Award.
The Ig Nobel Prizes are parodies of the Nobel Prizes given out each autumn for 10 unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. They have been awarded since 1991, with the stated aim to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think". The awards can be veiled criticism or satire but are also used to point out that even absurd-sounding avenues of research can yield useful knowledge.The name is a play on the words ignoble ("characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness") and the Nobel Prize. The pronunciation used during the ceremony is /ˌɪɡnoʊˈbɛl/ ig-noh-bel, not like the word "ignoble".
Banana messengers or fruit messengers were agents sent on US railroads to accompany shipments of bananas and other fruit. They were accorded special ticket rates, similar to those for railway employees and clergy, as late as the 1960s. The tickets were not honored on some premium trains. Reportedly, the reduced rate also applied to the return trip (sans bananas).
The name was also used to refer to some cabooses. Described in IC 9650-9956, these were steel underframe drover's cabooses built between 1897 and 1913, and reclassified as banana messengers sometime between 1955 and 1963. The last five were scrapped or sold between 1963 and 1971.
This is not the meaning I expected. I figured it had something to do with a gringo changing into something else, and the dégringoler was the one to facilitate that change.
verb intransitive dégringoler /degʀɛ̃gɔle/
=chuter faire une chute précipitée
to tumble , to fall
verb transitive―
=dévaler descendre très rapidement
to race down
Le voleur dégringole les étages de l'immeuble pour échapper aux policiers.
The thief is racing down the stairs in the building to escape from the police.
courage or bravery occasioned by drunkenness; Dutch courage. — potvaliant , adj . See also potvalor, potvalency
The social and political theories of Robert Owen, an early 19th-century British reformer whose emphasis upon cooperative education and living led to the founding of communal experiments, including the ill-fated community of New Harmony, Indiana, purchased from the Rappites. — Owenite , n.
What about chained bears?
The collecting of Camembert cheese labels. Collecting cheese labels, in general, is laclabphily.
To specifically collect Camembert cheese labels is tyrosemiophily.
The collecting of stamps other than postage stamps (green stamps, revenue/tax stamps).
The collecting of cigar bands. Also known as cigrinophily.
The collecting of money boxes, as those found in churches.
Mollusque has addictive lists. Such a learned fellow, and with a nice sense of humor to boot. I still miss all the camaraderie from the days when Wordnik was Wordie. (I wasn't known as vendingmachine around here during the Wordie days.)
"No need to dwell on the legendary beauty of the cornerpieces, the acme of art, wherein one can distinctly discern each of the four evangelists in turn presenting to each of the four masters his evangelical symbol, a bog oak sceptre, a North American puma (a far nobler king of beasts than the British article, be it said in passing), a Kerry calf and a golden eagle from Carrantuohill. The scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long ago in the time of the Barmecides. Glendalough, the lovely lakes of Killarney, the ruins of Clonmacnois, Cong Abbey, Glen Inagh and the Twelve Pins, Ireland's Eye, the Green Hills of Tallaght, Croagh Patrick, the brewery of Messrs Arthur Guinness, Son and Company (Limited), Lough Neagh's banks, the vale of Ovoca, Isolde's tower, the Mapas obelisk, Sir Patrick Dun's hospital, Cape Clear, the glen of Aherlow, Lynch's castle, the Scotch house, Rathdown Union Workhouse at Loughlinstown, Tullamore jail, Castleconnel rapids, Kilballymacshonakill, the cross at Monasterboice, Jury's Hotel, S. Patrick's Purgatory, the Salmon Leap, Maynooth college refectory, Curley's hole, the three birthplaces of the first duke of Wellington, the rock of Cashel, the bog of Allen, the Henry Street Warehouse, Fingal's Cave—all these moving scenes are still there for us today rendered more beautiful still by the waters of sorrow which have passed over them and by the rich incrustations of time." --Ulysses, James Joyce
Thanks for running with this, ru. Finding out about the classification system was about all I could muster. This list idea would have languished without you.
Abetti is a lunar crater that has been completely submerged by mare lavas. It forms a 'ghost crater' in the surface, showing only a curved rise where the rim is located.
Mexican wrestling is characterized by colorful masks, rapid sequences of holds and maneuvers, as well as "high-flying" maneuvers, some of which have been adopted in the United States. The wearing of masks has developed special significance, and matches are sometimes contested in which the loser must permanently remove his mask, which is a wager with a high degree of weight attached.
..for Virginia-based vineyard consultant Lucie Morton, a world-renowned ampelographer, it's still crucial to know how to distinguish vines the old-fashioned way: by sight and touch. It took Morton years to learn ampelography, a skill that few viticulturists in today's high-tech world still work to master. "It's like speaking a new language: practice makes perfect," she says. "Ampelography is really hard, and it takes a trained eye. I would compare it to what a sommelier goes through in identifying wines blind. It takes interest, practice, focus. You build on your knowledge, just like you do with wine tasting, layering your experiences."
Copyright law itself creates strong incentives for copyfraud. The Copyright Act provides for no civil penalty for falsely claiming ownership of public domain materials. There is also no remedy under the Act for individuals who wrongly refrain from legal copying or who make payment for permission to copy something they are in fact entitled to use for free. While falsely claiming copyright is technically a criminal offense under the Act, prosecutions are extremely rare. These circumstances have produced fraud on an untold scale, with millions of works in the public domain deemed copyrighted, and countless dollars paid out every year in licensing fees to make copies that could be made for free.
The term "copyfraud" was coined by Jason Mazzone, a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois. Because copyfraud carries little or no oversight by authorities and few legal consequences, it exists on a massive scale, with millions of works in the public domain falsely labeled as copyrighted. Payments are therefore unnecessarily made by businesses and individuals for licensing fees. Mazzone states that copyfraud stifles valid reproduction of free material, discourages innovation and undermines free speech rights. Other legal scholars have suggested public and private remedies, and a few cases have been brought involving copyfraud.
cryptic sexual dimorphism
Most ducks shed their body feathers twice each year. Nearly all drakes lose their bright plumage after mating, and for a few weeks resemble females. This hen-like appearance is called the eclipse plumage. The return to breeding coloration varies in species and individuals of each species.
A quantitative study, published by folklorist Sara Graça da Silva and anthropologist Jamshid J. Tehrani in 2016, tried to evaluate the time of emergence for the "Tales of Magic" (ATU 300–ATU 749), based on a phylogenetic model] They found four of them to belong to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stratum of magic tales, namely:
ATU 328 The Boy Steals Ogre's Treasure,
ATU 330 The Smith and the Devil (= KHM 81a),
ATU 402 The Animal Bride (= KHM 63 and 106), and
ATU 554 The Grateful Animals (= The White Snake, KHM 17, and The Queen Bee, KHM 62).
The Aarne–Thompson classification systems are indices used to classify folktales: the Aarne–Thompson Motif-Index (catalogued by alphabetical letters followed by numerals), the Aarne–Thompson Tale Type Index (cataloged by AT or AaTh numbers), and the Aarne–Thompson–Uther classification system (developed in 2004 and cataloged by ATU numbers). The indices are used in folkloristics to organize, classify, and analyze folklore narratives and are essential tools for folklorists because, as Alan Dundes explained in 1997 about the first two indices, "the identification of folk narratives through motif and/or tale type numbers has become an international sine qua non among bona fide folklorists"
Not a single word but I never use:
"... at the end of the day ..."
What hidden treasures are waiting to be found in a beard? Food crumbs?
To obtain food, lodging, etc, from others by taking advantage of their generosity; to impose in order to obtain hospitality; sponge.
Spring has sprong. Or is it sprung? Both sound unspringlike.
A stone border at the top of a well.
"The forewings are ochreous-white, strongly suffused with deep gray. The inner angle, veins, a longitudinal dash in the cell and a series of spots around the termen are all blackish fuscous. The hindwings are pale smoky gray."
a suppository or an enema
Wapasha (II) (b.1768–1855) was the name of a Mdewakanton Dakota chief. He sided with the United States in the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk War.
The only idiot here is the one making statements such as yours.
To provide sterile needles for drug users?
I create open lists because others invariably enrich those lists. Kindly add graupel, ru.
@kalayzich. This is an open list. I welcome your additions. What's anal retentive about your suggestions? Thank you.
.50 Marble, moth ball.75 Penny
.88 Nickel
1.00 Quarter
1.25 Half dollar
1.50 Walnut, ping pong
1.75 Golf ball
2.00 Hen egg
2.50 Tennis ball
2.75 Baseball
3.00 Tea cup
4.00 Softball
4.50 Grapefruit
I'm not sure what hail larger than a grapefruit is called. Maybe hail that size has never been reported.
SSPE. A slow virus infection of the brain caused by a defective form of the measles virus that occurs many years after meales.
A free-living burrowing marine worm that lives in tidal mudflats.
A disease of muscle caused by a parasitic roundworm and transmitted by eating undercooked pork or bear meat.
ARDS. A disorder of the lung tissue caused by infection, shock, burns, or other insults in which the capillaries become leaky and the air spaces fill with fluid. With ARDS, the lung tissue loses its watertight seal and becomes soggy; it can't absorb gases, even with 100 percent oxygen on a ventilator. Once a patient develops ARDS, it's usually the point of no return.
An invasive infection by a larval tapeworm, often of the eye, contracted by applying a poultice made of raw frog flesh.
Only dogs? What about other animals... bilbies?
Can't make up stuff like this.
See also carillonist.
I love unusual and niche-y topic lists such as this. Jauks darbs, ruz!
a place where criminals and heretics are burned.
place where pay is distributed to soldiers
the place where alms are deposited.
the place for washing gold ore.
A place where aircraft are repaired.
That's how I purr. When I'm really purring along, I'll release two urinal cakes for the price of one. Tasty!
People who make crossword puzzles are called constructors. All crossword puzzles used to be laid out by hand. Today many crossword puzzle constructors use computer software to assist in the puzzle layout. Crossword puzzles that end up in large newspapers or in syndication are controlled by an editor. Constructors submit their puzzles to a crossword editor and the editor decides which puzzles are selected (and for what day since crosswords raise in difficulty through the week).
While you're waiting for ruzuzu, may I share a doughnut hole with you?
mutualism vs commensalism vs parasitism
a plant of the genus Gaillardia.
A parasite is no doubt altering bilby's dopaminergic neurotransmissions resulting in neuropsychiatric symptoms, including a change in predator vigilance. it's also entirely possible that parasites have affected bilby's sexual arousal pathways when he's exposed to muesli bars soaked in dingo urine.
See mutualism. I'm not sure how an ant benefits from parasitic manipulation in the case of ant brain control (caused by a fungus).
Big surprise that zombie ants originated from a comment by bilby. I'm guessing there is a specific parasite out there that is manipulating bilby's brain into performing erratic behaviors so he'll get the attention of a bilby-eating predator (the next intended host).
Wildlife tourism—which accounts for 20 to 40 percent of all tourism worldwide—is controversial, and can be harmful to animals. After being accused of promoting such attractions, TripAdvisor halted sales to them in 2016.
Many tourists can't tell if the places they visit hurt wildlife, according to a 2015 ranking of wildlife attractions around the world. Every year, two to four million tourists pay for experiences that aren't good for animal welfare or conservation.
According to that ranking, dolphin tourism and shark cage diving, both popular in the Bahamas, have negative impacts on wildlife.
But Bethune hopes that, if the proper changes are made, pig-swimming tourism will continue to thrive.
Hairworms have a perpetual challenge: They infect landlubbing insects like crickets, but the parasites must make their way to an aquatic habitat in order to reproduce.
Researchers at France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique figured out how they accomplish this feat. Hairworms produce mind-controlling chemicals that cause their cricket host to move toward light. Because water bodies reflect moonlight, this often sends crickets toward lakes and streams.
The crickets jump in and drown, and the hairworms emerge, ready to find their next victim.
The fluke Euhaplorchis californiensis begins its life in an ocean-dwelling horn snail, where it produces larvae that then seek their next host, a killifish.
Once it finds a fish, the parasite latches on to its gills and makes its way to the brain. But this isn't its final stop.
The fluke needs to get inside the gut of a water bird in order to reproduce. So inside the killifish's brain, the fluke releases chemicals that cause the fish to shimmy, jerk, and jump.
Jenny Shaw, then at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and colleagues found that the parasite decreases serotonin and increases dopamine levels in the fish's brain. The switch in this brain chemistry stimulates the fish to swim and behave more aggressively.
These moves attract the attention of birds, which may eat the fish—and the flukes. The flukes mate, and their eggs are released back into the water in the bird's droppings to be eaten by horn snails and start the cycle anew.
As an adult, the lancet liver fluke—a type of flatworm—resides in the livers of grazing mammals such as cows.
Its eggs are excreted in the host's feces, which are then eaten by snails. After the eggs hatch inside the snail, the snail creates protective cysts around the parasites and coughs them up in balls of mucus.
These fluke-laden slime balls are then consumed by ants. When the flukes wiggle their way into an ant's brain, they cause the insect to climb to the tip of a blade of grass and sit motionless, where it's most likely to be eaten by a grazing mammal. That way, the liver fluke can complete its life cycle.
Females of the Costa Rican wasp Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga lay their eggs on the abdomens of unlucky orb spiders called Plesiometa argyra.
When the female jewel wasp is ready to procreate, she finds a cockroach to serve as a living nursery for her young.
First, she injects a toxin into the roach that paralyzes its front legs. Then the wasp strikes again in the roach's head. Frederic Libersat of Ben-Gurion University in Israel and colleagues discovered that the venom targets a specific area of the brain responsible for initiating movement.
Stripped of its ability to move of its own free will, the cockroach can be grabbed by the antenna and guided to a burrow, where the wasp will lay her egg on the victim and entomb them together. (Read more about how zombie roaches lose free will because of wasp venom.)
The wasp larva slowly consumes the cockroach for several days before pupating in its abdomen, emerging as an adult about a month later.
Females of the Costa Rican wasp Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga lay their eggs on the abdomens of unlucky orb spiders called Plesiometa argyra.
After living off its host for a few weeks, the wasp larva injects a chemical into the spider that makes it build a strange, new kind of web, unlike anything it's built before.
But this new web isn't for the spider: It's meant to support the cocoon that the wasp larva will build after finally killing and eating the spider.
Normally a rat or mouse will keep to the shadows, thus avoiding cats. But when they are infected by toxoplasma the parasite completely changes their behavior. An infected mouse is attracted to the smell of cat urine and will move out into the open, displaying reckless behavior. The reason, of course, is the parasite wants the mouse to be eaten by a cat, so it can then infect its new host.
Humans also get infected by toxoplasma, though it is only really serious when a woman is pregnant as toxoplasma can damage the unborn child. But new research suggests that toxoplasma may influence us in more subtle ways.
We know, for example, that people who have antibodies to toxoplasma are more than twice as likely to be involved in a traffic accident. It could be that the parasite is making us, like rodents, behave in a more reckless fashion. Research also suggests it may slow down reaction times, with the intention of making us more vulnerable to large predators. Either way it is a chilling thought that parasites may be influencing how we behave in ways we do not yet begin to understand.
-How Parasites Manipulate Us, BBC News, 19 Feb 2014
@bilby. You won me over when you mentioned the dwarf poinsettia leaves.
When performance of polishing of body is underway, is scent of lemon Pledge® used without flaw? I require utmost effective polish service with expediency and professional manner.
"Exobiont growth on these setae might impair odor detection and the ability of the lobsters to evaluate many aspects of their environment. Each annulus of the olfactory organ contains an asymmetric seta that extends nearly perpendicular across the rows of aesthetasc setae."A symbiont living on the outside of a host's body."Exobiont growth on these setae might impair odor detection and the ability of the lobsters to evaluate many aspects of their environment. Each annulus of the olfactory organ contains an asymmetric seta that extends nearly perpendicular across the rows of aesthetasc setae."
--Lobster olfactory genomics, Integr Comp Biol (2006) 46 (6): 940-947.
--Lobster olfactory genomics, Integr Comp Biol (2006) 46 (6): 940-947.
According to twitter, there's the term exokernel as well.
"I will definitely be watching unikernel and exokernel approaches closely in the next years, especially for security."
An anti-debate appeal based on genetic fallacy, which attempts to detract from the validity of a statement by attacking the tone rather than the message.
In Bailey Poland's book, Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online, she suggests that tone policing is frequently aimed at women and derails or silences opponents lower on the "privilege ladder".
In changing their tactics to criticizing how the women spoke instead of what the women said, the men created an environment in which the outcome of a dispute was not decided on the merits of an argument but on whether the men chose to engage with the arguments in good faith.
— Bailey Poland, Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online, page 46
While anyone can engage in tone policing, it is frequently aimed at women as a way to prevent a woman from making a point in the discussion.
— Bailey Poland, Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online, page 47
Beatified individuals or blesseds according to the Catholic Church.
EVERY year the German Language Society selects a word of the year and an "unword", usually something somebody said but should not have done.
Nice example:
"The real reality, the flickering of seen and unseen actualities, the moment under the moment, can't be put into words; the most that a writer can do--and this is only rarely achieved--is to write in such a way that the reader finds himself in a place where the unwordable happens off the page."
A happy number is a number defined by the following process: Starting with any positive integer, replace the number by the sum of the squares of its digits, and repeat the process until the number either equals 1 (where it will stay), or it loops endlessly in a cycle which does not include 1. Those numbers for which this process ends in 1 are happy numbers, while those that do not end in 1 are unhappy numbers (or sad numbers).
672-sided polygon. For a tutorial about naming polygons see NAMING POLYGONS.
Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which new information is added to already established facts in the continuity of a fictional work.
A floating timeline (also known as a sliding timescale) is a device used in fiction, particularly in comics and animation, to explain why characters age little or not at all over a period of time — despite real-world markers like notable events, people and technology appearing in the works and correlating with the real world. A floating timeline is a subtle form of retroactive continuity. This is seen most clearly in the case of comic book characters who debuted as teens in the 1940s or the 1960s but who are still relatively young in current comics. Events from the characters' pasts are alluded to, but they are changed from having taken place years ago to having taken place more recently. -Wikipedia
Why would anyone be anti-Australian? That sounds like a very un-Australian thing to be.
See bevies. Ghastly!
Gasp. I hate truncated, cutesy words like this. From Twitter: Join us for some seasonal bites, bevies and banter. (It doesn't sound so bad in this context, more quaint).
See bevy.
An outside lavatory / Afrikaans: literally, little house)
See also Dumpster Fire.
pink puffer jacket
Apparently, buttman has no churchly duties or super-duper superpowers.
sweet tooth fairy? pink puffer jacket
A person where emphysema is the primary underlying pathology.
A person with chronic bronchitis who demonstrates evidence of cyanosis and pedal edema.
A ripe corpse.
Ha. Another fine example of the grab bag surprise known as RANDOM WORD.
What are the odds?! I can't believe this showed up on RANDOM WORD.
How is this word pronounced?
"...the wingspan is 10–12 millimetres (0.39–0.47 in). The adults have a bronzy or greenish metallic sheen with no markings. They fly during the day as well as after dark. They are on wing in June and July in western Europe and from May to August in North America."
"God-Building was an idea proposed by some prominent Marxists of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party which proved to be very controversial. It was inspired by Ludwig Feuerbach's 'religion of humanity' and had some precedent in the French Revolution with the 'cult of reason'. The idea consisted of the notion that in place of the abolition of religion, there should be a meta-religious context in which religions were viewed primarily in terms of the psychological and social effect of ritual, myth, and symbolism, and which attempted to harness this force for pro-communist aims, both by creating new ritual and symbolism, as well as re-interpreting existing ritual and symbolism in a socialist context. In contrast to the atheism of Lenin, the God Builders took an official position of agnosticism." --Wikipedia
Fly-on-the-wall is a style of documentary-making used in film and television production. The name derived from the idea that events are seen candidly, as a fly on a wall might see them. In the purest form of fly-on-the-wall documentary-making, the camera crew works as unobtrusively as possible; however, it is also common for participants to be interviewed, often by an off-camera voice.
Breeches, a form of pants, came in a wide variety of styles. The most common form of breech was called the trunk hose. Trunk hose were attached to the bottom of the doublet, a padded overshirt, with points, or small ties, and bagged outward before fastening on the upper leg. They looked almost like a puffy short skirt. Trunk hose were often worn with canions, a loose-fitting hose for the upper leg. An exaggerated form of trunk hose was known as pumpkin breeches. Made with contrasting vertical panels of fabric, these breeches ballooned outward, making it look as if the wearer had a large pumpkin about his waist. Venetians were a form of breeches that reached to the knee; they were padded at the waist and upper thighand grew slimmer as they reached the knee. Pluderhose were baggy all the way from the waist to the knee, and the baggy fabric hung down to hide the fastening at the knee. The longest breeches, known as slops, reached all the way to the calf.
Breeches, a form of pants, came in a wide variety of styles. The most common form of breech was called the trunk hose. Trunk hose were attached to the bottom of the doublet, a padded overshirt, with points, or small ties, and bagged outward before fastening on the upper leg. They looked almost like a puffy short skirt. Trunk hose were often worn with canions, a loose-fitting hose for the upper leg. An exaggerated form of trunk hose was known as pumpkin breeches. Made with contrasting vertical panels of fabric, these breeches ballooned outward, making it look as if the wearer had a large pumpkin about his waist. Venetians were a form of breeches that reached to the knee; they were padded at the waist and upper thigh and grew slimmer as they reached the knee. Pluderhose/pluderhose were baggy all the way from the waist to the knee, and the baggy fabric hung down to hide the fastening at the knee. The longest breeches, known as slops, reached all the way to the calf.
"Aren't the dermal piercings with crystal studs brilliant? Wwhite ink tattoos often look like the body-art method of branding or scarring but this is much more delicate and super feminine!"
""This pigment is of major importance, since it represents the bright red color desired by purchasers," reads "Lawrie's Meat Science," one of the tentpole books for students and professionals in the meat industry. Some producers have even gone so far as to treat their meat with carbon dioxide gas in order to lock in this red color far past its normal lifespan."
Mental health in general matters. A lot of people are ignorant about mental hygiene.
n. An area of the coast in southern France, popular with holiday-makers.
I've never heard of a holiday-maker. I believe I'd say holiday-goers.
"The data scientist role was thrust into the limelight early this year when it was named 2016's "hottest job," and there's been considerable interest in the position ever since. Just recently, the White House singled data scientists out with a special appeal for help."
An all-male panel of lawmakers in Utah refused to end the state's sales tax on tampons, voting 8 to 3 against the Hygiene Tax Act.
The committee (again, all men) shot down the proposal because it wanted to keep the tax system predictable and believed that allowing for subjective variations on the tax code would only cause problems, according to reports.
Specifically, state representative Ken Ivory—one of the eight "no" votes—worried that exempting tampons would open the door for all kinds of crazy requests for exemptions, according to CBS News.
"It s expensive to be a woman. Several studies have shown that choosing the shampoo bottle marketed to women (with its pastel colors and floral motif) will cost you more than reaching for the gray bottle of "men's" shampoo, even when both items are essentially the same product. It's referred to as the "pink tax," and Boxed, a bulk shipping retailer, just announced a discount to combat it, Entrepreneur magazine reports. If the women's product you're buying costs more than the men's equivalent, Boxed will cut the price on the ladies' version.Examples of "pink tax" products in 2014, finding that body washes, razors, shampoos, deodorants, and perfumes all charge different prices for the same products depending on whether they're marketed to men or women. And in some states, tampons and other feminine hygiene products are legally considered "luxury" items subject to sales tax. (five states have actively made decisions not to tax tampons: Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and New Jersey. The rest either don't have a sales tax or don't consider tampons a "necessity.")
"Sardinians are a group that people have considered distinct from other Europeans, and in this regard it would be interesting if they were more widely distributed in the past."
A remembrance of someone (particularly a historical figure or a celebrity) who died long ago. The remembrance often appears as an article in a publication and includes details about their life and death.
The Swainson's crow (Euploea swainson) is a species of nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily. It is found in Indonesia and the Philippines.
Carter's Little Liver Pills (Carter's Little Pills after 1959) were formulated as a patent medicine by Samuel J. Carter of Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1868.
Christi's big-eared bat (Plecotus christii) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is endemic to Egypt.
Pirlot's big-eared bat (Micronycteris homezi) is a species of bat endemic to Venezuela.
Robert's snow vole (Chionomys roberti) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Russian Federation, and Turkey.
Jackson's fat mouse (Steatomys jacksoni) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is found in Ghana and Nigeria.
Krebs's fat mouse (Steatomys krebsii) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia.
Bookbinder's soup is a type of soup pioneered in the United States in 1893 when Samuel Bookbinder created Old Original Bookbinder's restaurant in Philadelphia.
erin- Caradja's plague and Caragea's plague add as Caradja and Caragea. Apparently, the 's messes up the works.
Caragea's plague or Caradja's plague (Romanian: Ciuma lui Caragea) was a bubonic plague epidemic that occurred in Wallachia, mainly in Bucharest, in the years 1813 and 1814. It coincided with the rule of the Phanariote Prince John Caradja.
Caragea's plague or Caradja's plague (Romanian: Ciuma lui Caragea) was a bubonic plague epidemic that occurred in Wallachia, mainly in Bucharest, in the years 1813 and 1814. It coincided with the rule of the Phanariote Prince John Caradja.
Curschmann's spirals refers to a microscopic finding in the sputum of asthmatics which are spiral shaped mucus plugs from subepithelial mucous gland ducts or bronchioles. These may occur in several different lung diseases.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It is the basis for the musical Cats.
Père David's rock squirrel (Sciurotamias davidianus), also known as the Chinese rock squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to China, where it is found widely in rocky habitats in the eastern and central parts of the country.
Döbereiner's lamp, also called a "tinderbox" ("Feuerzeug"), is a lighter invented in 1823 by the German chemist Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner.
Great list, alexz. I love how you think.
"The Austrian team doctor collided with another skier and was knocked under a snow-grooming machine, which crushed him instantly."
James Oberg explained many UFO sightings on the Internet. Most of them belong to one of three groups:
super-high plumes – rocket or missile plumes, especially lit by Sun on a dark sky;
space dandruff – ice flakes, fragments of insulation, etc. flying alongside a space vehicle, especially seen on backward-facing camera;
twilight shadowing – objects that move from shadow into sunlight in space appear as if coming from behind the clouds or from beyond the edge of the Earth.
James Oberg explained many UFO sightings on the Internet. Most of them belong to one of three groups:
super-high plumes – rocket or missile plumes, especially lit by Sun on a dark sky;
space dandruff – ice flakes, fragments of insulation, etc. flying alongside a space vehicle, especially seen on backward-facing camera;
twilight shadowing – objects that move from shadow into sunlight in space appear as if coming from behind the clouds or from beyond the edge of the Earth.
James Oberg explained many UFO sightings on the Internet. Most of them belong to one of three groups:
super-high plumes – rocket or missile plumes, especially lit by Sun on a dark sky;
space dandruff – ice flakes, fragments of insulation, etc. flying alongside a space vehicle, especially seen on backward-facing camera;
twilight shadowing – objects that move from shadow into sunlight in space appear as if coming from behind the clouds or from beyond the edge of the Earth.
How many dashes equals a 50-yard dash? (Look at me, asking a Canadian)
From Twitter: "you have a southern jaw". What is a southern jaw?
orthognathic surgery = jaw surgery (a procedure performed by an oral surgeon.)
"Every Aussie I've met, along with many commenters on different Gawker sites have humblebragged about how perfect Australia is compared to the US. "I can't believe X happens in America; Australia has/does Y." Is it not possible to comment on an issue on an American site without also mentioning your own country's superiority?"
--FACTually (http://factually.gizmodo.com)
Neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white nationalists have begun using three sets of parentheses encasing a Jewish surname — for instance, (((Fleishman))) — to identify and target Jews for harassment on blogs and major social media sites like Twitter. As one white supremacist tweeted, "It's closed captioning for the Jew-blind."
The origins of the symbol ((())) can be traced to a hardcore, right-wing podcast called The Daily Shoah in 2014. It's known as an "echo" in the anti-Semitic corners of the alt-right — a new, young, amorphous conservative movement that comprises trolls fluent in internet culture, free speech activists warring against political correctness and earnest white nationalists. Some use the symbol to mock Jews; others seek to expose supposed Jewish collusion in controlling media or politics. All use it to put a target on their heads.
To the public, the symbol is not easily searchable on most sites and social networks; search engines strip punctuation from results. This means that trolls committed to uncovering, labeling and harassing Jewish users can do so in relative obscurity: No one can search those threats to find who's sending them.
The symbol comes from right-wing blog the Right Stuff, whose podcast The Daily Shoah featured a segment called "Merchant Minute" that gave Jewish names a cartoonish "echo" sound effect when uttered. The "parenthesis meme," as Right Stuff editors call it, is a visual pun.
Hm! Fakeymcfakeystarbugs.
I opened the list. Thanks kalayzich and alexz.
Thank you, wordnik!
Inspired by: thank every word
washroom (Can) vs bathroom/restroom (Amer)
"While primary effects of invasive animals are bioturbation, bioerosion, and bioconstruction. For example, invasion of Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis have resulted in higher bioturbation and bioerosion rates."
Weaving a torus with villarceau circles.
The base of the penis
"A chain used to secure something, especially a part of the dress and personal equipment, as, in the middle ages, the hilt of the sword to the breastplate or other part of the body-armor, or at the present day a watch, brooch, or bracelet."
eggplant, hm.
Icy cold and administrative flavored
Tubular nugget sounds tasty.
One who treats of the origin of the universe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
One who understand not the meaning of above the sentence. How does one treat the universe? Antibiotics? Antidepressants?
Gad Bateway again...OK now.
Comments for vendingmachine
Your list of lists is peauetrie
So sorry -- had to delete last comment as it was breaking the community page after I deleted the spammy comment. :-(
Consider your scopes affected. De nada. As long as I was at it I effected 'em too!
Nice detective work on 'on fleek'.
Hey, hey! Checking in. Good to see 'zu get what's coming to her! :) I only occasionally visit these days. I'll try to bring it more into my crosscheck. Toodles for now.
Ooh! Another delicious food pellet!
You're the bestest vending machine ever, vendingmachine!
LDC - Liberal Democrat Conservative
A blend of all 3 major political parties in Canada.
LDC - longform digital crepuscule
Ooh! A delicious food pellet! And two cents!!!
I wonder what would happen if I were to press the "Save" button below this comment box.
Ooh! Look! Delicious food pellets. Looks like you're my new bff, vendingmachine.
I'm sure ruzuzu will be along any minute looking for food pellets.
Do you have anything for two cents?
You know, you're still my favourite vending machine.
What's in the vending machine? The usual bile, or can we now get canned vitriol for a dollar?


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With the start of November less than 24 hours away, investors that follow seasonal trends are aware the eleventh month of the year marks the start of the best six-month period in which to own stocks.
While that is an important factoid for the broader market, investors can do better, and do so starting in November, than simply throwing cash into market-based funds that track large familiar indices such as the S&P 500 or Russell 1000. A more tactical, sector-driven approach is usually more rewarding and that approach should include materials ETFs. [Comparing the Major Sector ETFs]
Materials ETFs such as the Materials Select Sector SPDR (XLB) , the iShares U.S. Basic Materials ETF (IYM) and the Vanguard Materials ETF (VAW) have already been in rally mode. The average gain for the trio over the past 90 days is 8%, but that does not mean the good times are going to run out in November. Actually, the opposite could be true because "buy in November" favors cyclical sectors.
"Rotating into the Consumer Discretionary, Industrials and Materials sectors from November through April, rather than back into the market, beat the S&P 500 by 640 basis points per year, and resulted in an even lower standard deviation of 13.7," said S&P Capital IQ's Sam Stovall earlier this week. [ETFs for Buy in November]
If that is not convincing about materials ETFs and their November potency, then try this factoid: Using the 14 years of available data, CXO Advisory notes that XLB is the best performer among the nine sector SDPR ETFs in the month of November. It might be wise to hold XLB through year end because it is also the best SPDR in December.
For those needing a more real world examination, XLB and VAW returned an average of 1.7% from October 31 through November 30, 2012, roughly triple what the S&P 500 offered over the same time. In 2011, XLB and VAW were only modestly higher, but the S&P 500 traded lower. For the same period in 2010, IYM jumped 2.7% while the S&P 500 was flat.
Materials Select Sector SPDR
ETF Trends editorial team contributed to this post.
The opinions and forecasts expressed herein are solely those of Tom Lydon, and may not actually come to pass. Information on this site should not be used or construed as an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation for any product.

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What does iberian mean?
Definitions for iberianaɪˈbɪər i ən
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word iberian.
Princeton's WordNet
a native or inhabitant of Iberia in the Caucasus
a native or inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula (especially in ancient times)
of or relating to the Iberian Peninsula or its inhabitants
A native of Iberia.
An extinct language isolate that was spoken in the Iberian peninsula.
Native to Iberia.
Of or pertaining to Iberia.
Webster Dictionary
of or pertaining to Iberia
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
ī-bē′ri-an, adj. Spanish.—n. one of the primitive inhabitants of Spain, of whom some think the Basques a remnant. [L. Iberia, Spain.]
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of iberian in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of iberian in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Sample Sentences & Example Usage
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
I first had this festive and delicious Iberian specialty when I was living and writing about food there years ago, since then, it's remained one of my favorites.
We are an Iberian restaurant, we offer wine, tapas and very good, matured grilled meat. I think the key to our success is the simplicity and quality of the ingredients at very good value.
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When I was trying out guitars at G4M, I used a Line 6. To be honest, its clean sounds weren't half bad. I didn't like the distortion though.
When I was trying out guitars at G4M, I used a Line 6. To be honest, its clean sounds weren't half bad. I didn't like the distortion though.
The clean is fine
and then comes distortion
i mean horriblestortion
Quickly setup I got this on my baritone :
Then there's this with my old prestige guitar :
Eh, who am I kidding, I use software modelers because I can't afford a triple rec, too lazy to even buy a hardware unit.
Speaking of which I am this close to giving up on Guitar Rig for anything distorted. Twangy shit, fine, cleans, fine, good effects, fine, but the Uberchall model and the dual rec model both sound really samey and not all that good and that's about all you get for crunch.
I'm so impatient. I really want to get paid so I can start working on this custom build.
Being my first build it's gonna be way fun. I'll be sure to take pics or make videos of the progress.
It's scarily bizarre how much John Mayer sounds like Stevie Ray Vaughan in both guitar playing and singing.
I just bought the body to my custom build..
Already has a couple of scuffs but it's gonna be a lot more than scuffed when it's finished.
Total paid towards build so far: £42.50
That's a fun idea, I guess, looks like I could grab a blemished LP body for $130, generic neck for $110 or less and a handful of crappy parts and have an abomination for $300/400. Guess I'll keep an eye out for parts from here on in. It seems like there's some interesting stuff floating around eBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I only have a crappy p&s picture, I'll get some pictures tomorrow on spring break (week of playing, YAY).
This is a bit old, it's much more dusty.
I promise to get some kind of "photoshoot" guitar pictures done.
I should also mention that the wooden monster cable pictured above has broken. My bassist stepped on the tip by accident when I unplugged my guitar at the end of a performance. It works to an extent; It'll cut out if you move it wrong. That has been pretty embarrassing when it cuts out in the middle of a song, and you can't get it back.
Minor upgrade to my G&L, I want to keep it as stock as possible but I felt like these pot knobs looked nice on the guitar instead of the typical tophat style knobs.
Reference for originals here:
You need to get an HD500 I had one for a while and it really blew all the other Line 6 products I've tried out of the water. (Except for the Pod X3 Pro but that's just because you can run more rigs at once on a X3 pro and it has bass models; the HD500 sounds better for guitar though)
am I the only one that likes the shape of bc rich warlocks
They're okay, I prefer ESP AXs though.
But, I am not really a big fan of either really.
They both look disgusting
Also gimme dat coke
Going for a jam today.. can't decide which guitar to take >_>
The one that plays
Dis mah baybe right here
I wonder what a 'baby' warlock would look like
by baby I mean what the firebird is to the explorer
That's kind of what I pictured from that. Albeit with a headstock
now that's ugly
Oh c'mon guys is this a bad metal tone?
Here's my Casino and VOX Pathfinder 10;
It's a very digital tone
Not a bad tone, but a lot of people dislike digital now and days. I think it's such a cold tone, but it's not bad at all.
So my speaker is rated at 25W in my Peavey Vypyr 15W amp. Is that normal?
Just means it can handle the output of an amp with up to 25w of power.
Oh that makes sense.
Anyone interested in buying a bass?
New: http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and...ar-Natural/2K8
Here's the ebay listing for it
what's with all the knobs and strings on that toilet seat
Let me post my current shit...
MIM Fender Stratocaster (my baby :love:)
Epiphone Les Paul Deluxe Studio
Squier Vintage Modified J Bass
Project Stratocaster
(Started ordering other parts for it)
Trem, Body, Screws, backplate.
Early Fender Frontman 15(Just Acquired broken from a friend.)
Peavey Vypir 15
Fender Mustang I
Peavey TNT 130
Gorilla GB-30
Working on a friend's guitar
I got
Epiphone G-400
Roland Cube 15x
Morris: Vanguard Edition acoustic (not really sure, it's 30 years old and it plays like a dream)
I should get some practice in transcribing songs. Maybe two songs a week could be a goal. Or I could try one song and record the results.
I like the second idea a little more.


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Last week I had the opportunity to be a guest on Blog talk Radio hosted by Dori DeCarlo of Word of Mom and share a little about myself in a one hour interview. I was wondering if I would like being a guest as much as I enjoy being in the chat rooms of my friend's radio shows. I thought speaking for an hour was a long time, and I pondered what the experience would be like. I've spoken before but this time speaking was much easier. So much so that I can say it was absolutely fabulous! After the first 5 minutes I felt comfortable and quite relaxed which was different from doing my presentation at my WOW Network speaking engagement in Atlanta when I introduced my colleague and also different than when I presented about my ebook 'Twitter Magic' in front of a local networking group in New York. Surprisingly, this interview went by real fast as I relaxed and shared the story of how I started working in the investment field 28 years ago and I am still there today. Dori also allowed me the opportunity to discuss my life as an entrepreneur and expand one work life balance. We had a great time!
When you step out of your comfort zone and you make breakthroughs there is no turning back, the fear is gone. These experiences in the past 6 weeks were great and it was a wonderful feeling to have the support of my friends as I enjoyed the interview process. Dori would ask me questions and the answers came out of my mouth with little or no effort. What a great feeling! I enjoyed my Blog Talk experience and know that I can and will do it again in the future.
Working in the investment field serving clients has taught me so much. Building relationships, networking, and exploring the world on Twitter has given me new friendships with people all around the world (a gift that I will always treasure). It is, however, within these past few weeks that everything has been brought full circle since reaching my goal of public speaking and achieving my weight loss goal of 45 pounds. All I can do is smile. What a way to end 2010.
Take a listen to the interview above and learn more about my journey. Dori has a great show and makes it even more interesting by the callers and guests that appear each week. So mark it as one of your favorites. We had a great time! I'd love to hear your story and comments. So make sure to leave your comments below. Create an excellent week! ~Bonnie
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A reflection on love, loss, and death, performance artist Laurie Anderson's Heart of A Dog is as much a guided meditation as a movie. With her eccentric multimedia montage of original music, animation, home movies, stories, and thoughts about life after 9/11, Anderson is a wise guide through the difficult terrain of life, capped by the deaths of her husband Lou Reed as well as her beloved dog and frequent subject Lolabelle. Anderson offers solace and inspiration from art, music, and literature as well as lessons from her Buddhist teachers in this true dharma film.
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Fire erupts at site of Kansas City's former Imperial Brewery
Firefighters were called out at about 11:30 p.m. to the Imperial Brewery building near I-35 and Southwest Boulevard. The brewery had been vacant for about three decades. At one point in 1910, Imperial Brewery was producing about 338,000 barrels a year, a significant amount for the time.
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Artists Paul Powis & Sara Hayward have lived at Four Seasons in Worcester since 1998. "As artists we are very much aware of the importance of light and space; our new apartments are very spacious with high ceilings and huge picture windows with panoramic views. We pride ourselves on great attention to detail."
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Guests love being able to walk or cycle into town but equally love the relaxed feel of the secluded Battenhall area with its mature trees and nearby access to open fields. We have all the benefits of living in a city yet living here is so peaceful and quiet it really is like living in the country. We can recommend lots of great local walks many with panoramic view of the Malvern Hills.
Severn apartment at Four Seasons is a delightful, comfortable & contemporary, architect designed apartment close to Worcester city centre (a 5 minute drive or 20 minute walk) but overlooking open countryside. Guests can immediately relax and unwind in this spacious apartment whilst looking out at long distance panoramic views of the beautiful Cotswold Hills. Worcester is well placed as a fantastic base to explore other parts of England; for example, we are just one hour from the coastal town of Clevedon in Somerset and 2.5 hours from Exmouth on the Devon coast.
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For bookings made more than 8 weeks before arrival, a deposit of 30% of the total cost of the holiday is required. The balance is due 8 weeks before the holiday commences. For bookings made less than 8 weeks before arrival, the total amount is payable in full on booking. Payment can be made by direct transfer, or by cash or cheque. We regret credit/debit cards are not accepted. For bookings made less than two weeks before the start, payment must be made by cash or direct transfer.
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Worcester has two railway stations (Worcester Foregate Street and Worcester Shrub Hill) and both are a pleasant 20 minute walk from Four Seasons. The nearest airport is Birmingham International with a rail link to Worcester via Birmingham New Street. Alternatively it is a 40 minute drive from Birmingham International Airport to Worcester. Bristol airport is the next nearest airport with easy access on the M5 (about 90 minutes). It is an approximately 2.5 hour drive from Portsmouth Port.
Worcester is surrounded by pretty Worcestershire villages like Kempsey, and Crowle, and is approximately 6 miles from market towns such as Pershore and Upton-on-Severn; it is 20 miles from Stratford and Evesham, 25 miles from Hereford and Warwick, 30 miles from Ross-on-Wye and Birmingham, 40 miles from Banbury and Hay-on-Wye, 50 miles from Oxford and Bristol, and 96 miles from London. Worcester is also ideally situated to explore other areas of the Midlands.
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Please note Four Seasons is entirely non-smoking and we do not accept pets. A babysitting service and spoken English lessons are available. A supermarket, post office, pub and hairdressers are a 5 minute walk away down the woodland path. Worcester has many lovely old pubs and restaurants and a folder in the apartment lists many of these. Worcester Porcelain Museum, Worcester Cathedral, Grey Friars (National Trust), The Commandery, the Race Course and the Cricket Ground are within walking distance of Four Seasons and there is a good local bus service available also. Outdoor enthusiasts will enjoy the opportunity to try hill walking, cycling, rowing, canoing, horse riding, sailing, golf and cricket. These popular sports are well served in the area with excellent facilities. The city has two swimming pools and two cinemas. Worcester, Droitwich, Malvern, Tewkesbury, Cheltenham and Birmingham also have excellent theatres.


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Sustrans has described the UK's 10th place ranking in the European Cyclists' Federation's Cycling Barometer table as reflective of "mid-table mediocrity" and show just how far the country has to go to become a true cycling nation.
Commenting on the Cycling Barometer, which ranks all 28 EU member states on five criteria – you can read about the findings together with our analysis here – the sustainable transport charity's policy director, Jason Torrance, said: "These rankings show just how far we have to go to Get Britain Cycling.
"Given the massive transport, public health and environmental challenges that the UK currently faces, mid-table mediocrity just isn't good enough.
"Although the last few years have seen some small steps in helping people to get on bikes, we still need slower speeds on our roads, safer routes around our communities and a greater culture of respect between all road users," he added.
The Cycling Barometer was topped by Denmark and the Netherlands, both on 125 points, while the UK was ranked 10th on 88 points, positioned below Slovakia but above France.
Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.
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Down here in Cornwall, the local authority's main aim seems to be to get cyclists off the road rather than encourage ALL road users to behave better. We don't really need lots of cycleways (IMHO). We just need slightly wider roads in some cases with better driver and cyclist training - that would probably do it. Yes, and better enforcement of laws relating to poor road behavoir. Has anyone compared the costs of doing this with all the millions of pounds spent on cycleway infrastructure? We have a perfectly good cycle network - the road system.


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Chris wrote:No, I don't see that ever happening. DC is never going to shelve its most well-known characters, Batman and Superman, and you're never going to see Marvel shelve Spider-Man or the X-Men. These characters are their bread and butter and have become a part of American pop culture. Superheroes don't just exist in the vacuum of comic books anymore - they have to be multimedia powerhouses. Now you have both DC and Marvel being owned by major movie studios.Arbiter GUNDAM wrote:Concerning the sacred cow: Do you think there's going to come a time when Marvel and DC will just have to shelve the greater part of their superheroes, most of whom, as you pointed out, were created in the 40s, 50s and 60s, and say, "Guys, we just can't keep going over these guys' stories. We need an entirely new cadre of superheroes."
Agree w this. In addition to being cash cows these characters are cultural institutions AND modern western mythology/gods. No amount of clever marketing and introduction of new characters will completely supplant what are essentially, 20th century american Gods in the minds of modern people.


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The Salzburg Pattern is a German regional style deck played in the central northern most section of Italy, and is ussed by a minority of the population.The Salzburg pattern is an Austrian version of the Bavarian Pattern, it has German suit signs, is always single-ended and bears no indices. Card 10 in each suit is numbered with a Roman numeral, whereas the rest of the cards are unnumbered.
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Senator Martins' Bills to Assist Veterans Pass Senate
Senator Jack M. Martins (R-C-I, Mineola) today announced that Legislation (S.2597) he sponsors to assist veterans who own a small business has passed the Senate.
The legislation establishes that three percent of all contracts awarded by the State of New York or any state agency or authority must begranted to veteran-owned businesses.
"Unfortunately, many of our returning veterans are having difficulty finding jobs when they come home," said Senator Martins. "This bill requires that, out of all the state contracts New York awards to companies and businesses each year, three percent of those contracts would have to be specifically designated for veterans who own a small business. Our goal is to support those men and women who served our country, who want to work and support their families, but are struggling to make ends meet."
The bill also creates a statewide certification program to verify those businesses that qualify as veteran-owned enterprises and clarifies the responsibilities of the state agencies that award contracts to veterans.
"We are very fortunate to have many brave men and women willing to fight overseas to protect our freedom and fight for democracy in the most dangerous parts of the world," said Senator Martins. "The very least we can do is support the livelihoods of those who put their careers and their lives on hold serving long tours of duty and risked everything for our freedom."
The bill was sent to the Assembly.
Senator Jack M. Martins (R-C-I, Mineola) today announced that legislation (S.4810) he sponsors to help veterans qualify for three specific property tax exemptions has passed the Senate.
The bill directs the State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance, in consultation with the New York State Division of Veterans' Affairs, to develop a list of acceptable documents that veterans can use to prove they qualify for three real property tax exemptions: 1. The Eligible Funds exemption; 2. The Alternative Veterans exemption; and 3. The Cold War Veterans exemption.
According to the legislation, the Commissioner must work with the New York State Director of the Division of Veterans' Affairs to develop this list of documents and supply this information to local county taxassessors. Every county assessor keeps this information in a manual that Is updated each year by the Office of Real Property Tax Services.
"For quite some time, the Department of Taxation and Finance has been working with the New York State Division of Veterans' Affairs to supply a list of acceptable documents that veterans can used to establish their eligibility for these three veterans' tax exemptions," explained Senator Martins. "This bill simply puts this practice on the books and into state law so that local assessors can continue to help veterans qualify for these exemptions. It ensures that this information is available to the numerous veterans advocates who help those who have served In our military so that they can file for these exemptions properly and receive the tax breaks they deserve."
Included on the list of acceptable documents is the certificate of release or discharge from active duty, also known as the DD-214 form, and the Honorable Service Certificate/Report of Causality from the department of defense.
The bill also states that the complete list of acceptable military records must be made available on the websites of the Division of Veterans' Affairs and the Office of Real Property Tax Services.
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While demand for car-based crossovers remains insatiable, some buyers still need the capability of a traditional SUV. With their rugged truck frames and running gear, SUVs are able to haul heavy loads and tow a boat or camper without breaking a sweat. They can also take you on off-road adventures (some better than others) and sail through deep snow and mud. It's safe to say that the SUV is simply too useful to ever go away. Here are our top picks in this class for 2017.
Now in its third year of production, the full-size Tahoe provides plenty of comfort for up to nine passengers and refined styling inside and out. All models are well-equipped from the start, and you can add just about every convenience and safety feature known to man. With the rear seats folded, the Tahoe can handle up to 95 cubic feet of whatever you want to carry.
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Jeep's traditional SUV, the midsize Grand Cherokee behaves just as well in the wilderness as it does on the road. Buyers can be assured of go-anywhere capability along with all the luxury and technology they can handle. The Grand Cherokee is one size down from the Ford and Chevy, but still provides generous room for five passengers and up to 68.3 cubic feet of cargo pace.
You have a choice of three engines: a 290-horsepower V6, a 5.7-liter V8 with 360 horsepower, or a 3-liter turbodiesel V6 that develops 240 horsepower. With the V8 or diesel under the hood, you're good to tow up to 7,200 pounds. The Grand Cherokee is eligible for numerous mechanical upgrades for enhanced off-road performance. The new Trailhawk model promises the most exhilarating off-road experience yet.
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The four-door version of Jeep's quintessential 4x4, the Wrangler Unlimited looks like nothing else, goes anywhere, and is priced within reach of those spry enough to truly enjoy it. Of course, the Wrangler line has been refined over the years to make it a suitable everyday companion, but the basic formula carries on undiluted.
As expected, four-wheel drive with low-range gearing is standard, along with hill start/descent control. Under the hood is a 3.6-liter V6 that develops 285-horsepower. With the rear seat folded, you get 82 cubic feet of load space, a terrific amount for a vehicle for this type. The top, doors, and windshield are all removable—what other vehicle can you say that about?


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Hi there. I write books for kids—young ones. I also help others write picture books—through The Nuts and Bolts Guide to Writing Picture Books, writing workshops, and PictureBookBuilders, a group blog for writers and illustrators.
To me, a well-done picture book is a work of art. But the real magic happens when a picture book is shared—in a classroom, at the library, or between two people curled up on a couch—and a child laughs, asks questions, studies the illustrations and says "Read it again."
Art from Rock-a-Bye Romp, illustrated by Simona Mulazzani (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Random House, 2016).


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|Reviews for PMD2: Explorers of Fate
| Guest chapter 62 . 12/2/2016
I LIKE IT NEEED MOOOORE please
| Kitsune chapter 1 . 2/15/2016
This fanfiction was seriously one of the most amazing things I've ever read. Thank you so much for making this. I have no words to describe how beautiful this is. It's a nice break from all of those shipping fanfics you see here.
| Roxygirl chapter 62 . 5/8/2015
PERSON! When will you update again?! Do you know how hooked on this story I am?!
| Guest chapter 27 . 4/21/2015
| JessicaThePerson03 chapter 62 . 4/15/2015
| White Wolf of Blizzards chapter 62 . 1/29/2015
OMG! I love the story sooooooooooo much! Please update!
| Arthur Moebius chapter 62 . 1/20/2015
You...YOU LEAVE US ON THIS CLIFFHANGER!? Animatedrose! You need to start finishing your stories.
And get to the part where Dialga takes pity on Sandra and after the story Carlos comes back and the two kiss or something and...have fun...and have a kid.
| Arthur Moebius chapter 38 . 1/19/2015
This amazing Fanfic made me realize why I still love the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon explorers games, it's to this day my fav pokemon spinoff game(s with EOD EOS which is best of all 3) thanks soooooo much, I know it's a lot late seeing it's on chapter 62, but I'm reading this for the first time so :P I hope the rest of the chapters are just as good if not better!
| guardian of the aura Aurasoul chapter 62 . 1/11/2015
Rose I know ur always busy but next chance u get update this!
| Talgoran chapter 4 . 8/12/2014
Ch 3:
- Favorite part: the bird being submissive my pressing his feathers against his body. I love that, and I'm totally stealing it for my own writing.
- Still, I disagree with what you are writing. I like to read and write fan-fiction because it continues on the same trends of the source material. It is similar to it, but different. Like reading a sequel, or an alternate version, that has all of the aspects you like about the source. But it must be DIFFERENT from the source.
I have already thoroughly played the game this fan-fiction is based on. I do not want to read the story once more. I suppose you truly did intend to write the games but with a change of characters. It's almost identical, even including the foreshadowing. Why read a story when I know what happens, regardless of if it's fan-fiction, a screenplay, a novel, a short story, whatever!?
For that reason I must stop reading here. This may be entertaining for some, but not for me. Thank you for the entertainment and some writing tricks that have inspired my own writing.
| Talgoran chapter 3 . 8/12/2014
Ch 2:
- Ha ha, I love Lucar's response to the Diglett and Loudred.
- I'm glad that the Eevee felt so stupid for being that situation. I would, too. It was pretty realistic to me. I love it when characters have realistic reactions to things, instead of just being sourcelessly heroic or willing to go along with the plot.
- Still, I'm not sure why I'm reading this. It seems to be a written form of Explorers of Time, but with the characters changed...
| Talgoran chapter 2 . 8/12/2014
Ch 1:
- Well written! It was extremely similar to Explorers of Time, obviously, but it did have enough of a fresh spin on it that it was readable.
- That Absol, though. PURE MALICE.
| PhoenixInside chapter 62 . 6/13/2014
Update already plz
| EmeraldBot chapter 62 . 5/3/2014
Well, I've just read through the whole story. And you know what? I LIKE IT. It's very good - you've created some great characters, have excellent use of foreshadowing, and you have an intricate plot. I'm really looking forward to more chapters! (Also, I'm sorry to hear people are harassing you to finish the story. They should be better behaved then that :/)
| LovelyLily13 chapter 62 . 4/26/2014
EEEK! FABULOUS! Ugh, Team Skull are such coward that I can't stand it! Let's have more rivals for Sandra in the quest for Carlos' love! Some not as friendly rivals! Ya know? TENSION! Update soon! *Peace sign and eevee pose cutely*