unreferenced date November 2011 Infobox martial art image deborder1.jpg imagecaption Check hook after a side step imagesize 130px name Check hook aka flagicon France France Crochet en riposte lors du rel chement post attaque focus Strike attack Striking In boxing , a check hook is employed to prevent aggressive boxers from lunging in. There are two parts to the check hook. The first part consists of a regular hook boxing hook . The second, trickier part involves the Footwork martial arts footwork . As the opponent lunges in, the boxer should throw the hook and pivot on his left foot and Swing boxing swing his right foot 180 degrees around. If executed correctly, the aggressive boxer will lunge in and sail harmlessly past his opponent like a bull missing a matador. This is rarely seen in professional boxing as it requires a great disparity in skill level to execute. Floyd Mayweather Floyd Mayweather, Jr . demonstrated a picture perfect example of this punch against Ricky Hatton in their 2007 encounter. Ricky Hatton was caught with the check hook as he was lunging in Hatton continued forward as he was knocked off balance and proceeded to ram his head into the ring post as Floyd Mayweather stepped out of harm s way. When interviewed, Mayweather stated that he was taught the check hook in the Michigan amateurs. Commons Category boxing technique Boxing External links fr http www.wka france.fr Antenne WKA France Lexique des boxes pieds poings Rubrique Formations , onglet Ceinture noire fr http www.netboxe.com rep1 lexique.php Lexique de Netboxe.com fr http www.netboxe.com rep1 pratique.php Fiches pratiques de Netboxe.com en http www.boxrec.com media index.php Main Page BoxRec Boxing Encyclopaedia Movies http www.youtube.com watch?v l0F5SSCQYGg Muay Thai Wells v.s. Beecher Mulberry 8 http www.youtube.com watch?v v0bJJaqdHPg Floyd Mayweather Vs Ricky Hatton Final Round TKO Boxing Category Punches combat Category Boxing terminology boxing stub fr coup de poing crochet de co ... more details
Hobie Call b. 1977 or 1978 ref name albergotti is an American endurance athlete. ref http www.outsideonline.com outdoor adventure multisport adventure racing Obstacle Force.html Obstacle Force, Outside, September 11, 2011 ref as of 2011 he has the fastest known time for lunging a mile 24 56 . Call is a multiple time winner of the Spartan Race , an obstacle race with challenges similar to those found in United States Navy SEAL selection and training Navy SEAL training and American Gladiators . ref name albergotti Reed Albergotti http online.wsj.com article SB10001424052702304657804576402520106391408.html Grueling Race Puts Up Obstacles, Especially for One Man, Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2011 ref He has also run The Spartan Death Race, the most challenging version of the Spartan Race, which consists of a 48 hour run with mud, obstacles, physical and mental challenges. A native of Utah, he is the father of five children. ref http www.newsobserver.com 2011 06 22 1293116 one man in the running for 100000.html One man in the running for 100,000 Spartan Race prize, Raleigh News & Observer, June 22, 2011 ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Call, Hobie ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Runner DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Call, Hobie Category American runners Category Living people ... more details
slapped by the hand to achieve a hit. Lunging To avoid letting the ball fall in a seam, lunging to the side ... is hit short in front of a player, lunging forward is sometimes necessary. In this instance, players ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 File Front handspring.gif right thumb A front handspring , performed as part of an acro dance routine. A handspring is an acrobatic move in which a person executes a complete revolution of the body by lunging headfirst from an upright position into a handstand and then pushing off i.e., springing from the floor with the hands so as to leap back to an upright position. Handsprings are performed in various physical activities, including acro dance , cheerleading and gymnastics . In artistic gymnastics , handsprings are commonly performed in the floor exercise , vault gymnastics vault , and balance beam events. The direction of body rotation in a handspring may be either forward or backward, resulting in a front handspring or back handspring , respectively. In a back handspring which is also known by various other names, including flip flops the performer does not see where the hands will land until after the move has begun. Body movement may be terminated upon completion of a handspring, or the performer s momentum may be leveraged so as to immediately perform another handspring or other rotational move e.g., a Gymnastics flip flip such as a tuck or layout . Similarly, another rotational move e.g., a roundoff may precede a handspring in order to develop sufficient momentum for the handspring. See also Roundoff Somersault Commons position left Category Flic flac floor Handsprings DEFAULTSORT Handspring Gymnastics Category Gymnastics manoeuvres da Flikflak de Handstand berschlag fa ru fi Puolivoltti fr Flip flap gymnastique nl Overslag gymnastiek no Stiften sv Handvolt ... more details
File Fencing PSF .png thumb right 250px The fencer on the right is executing a lunge as the fencer on the left Parry fencing parries . The lunge is the fundamental offensive fencing technique used with all three fencing weapons foil fencing foil , p e and sabre . It is common to all contemporary fencing styles. Background A number of things happen at almost the same time during the execution of a lunge The blade arm extends for the earliest possible arrival on the defender. The front leg kicks forward, with the heel barely skimming the floor. The back leg straightens powerfully and the back arm is forcefully thrown straight back, pushing the body explosively forward. The cut sabre or thrust all three weapons arrives on the defender. The front heel reaches its end and comes firmly into contact with the floor. The front leg absorbs the body s forward momentum as the front foot rocks forward to full contact with the floor, ending with the front knee directly over the heel and the front foot pointed straight ahead. The back arm, shoulders, hips, and the front thigh end up parallel with the floor in a stable and balanced position. The lunge is the most basic and most important method of offensive scoring. It is fundamental to the attack, just as the guard is fundamental to the parry system. A lunge delivers the attack instantaneously and without any warning. It also allows time and a firm position for the fencer to recover safely in the event of failure. History The characteristic motion of the modern lunge traces its ancestry to European swordplay of the 16th and 17th centuries. Scholars of fence such as Egerton Castle attribute the first true lunging attack to Angelo Viggiani and his Lo Schermo of 1575 the punta supramano , or overhand thrust . A simple advance or pass during the thrusting attack is common as early as the Royal Armouries Ms. I.33 , roughly dated to the mid 14th century. References Selberg, Charles A. 1993 The Revised Foil . ISBN 0 9638337 7 4 Castle, ... more details
Wikify date September 2010 ref http www.uconnalumni.com oozeball ref OOzeball is an annual mud volleyball tournament, a tradition at many universities that originated at the University of Connecticut in 1984. OOzeball is volleyball played in 8 inches of mud and is often staged as a fundraising event. ref http www.projo.com yourlife content projo 20040501 oozeball.10ee0.html Big mud on campus Brian Rourke, The Providence Journal,May 1, 2004 ref It is generally held during University of Connecticut Spring Weekend Spring Weekend , which is the weekend before the last week of class, although this has changed recently. Today, OOzeball is organized by the Student Alumni Association, or SSA. Players are forced by the mud to adapt a different style of play than other forms of volleyball, with more leaning and lunging as opposed to running in the deep mud. At UConn, each year over 1,000 players and spectators come out to watch the tournament. 2010 marked the 27th UConn OOzeball, making it the longest running tournament of its kind in the nation. OOzeball has also been recognized three times by Sports Illustrated blockquote Best Mud Volleyball in the Country SI Best of College Sports 33 on the Top 100 Things Gotta Do Before You Graduate No Matter The Cost SI On Campus Best Use of Dirt SI On Campus ref http vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com vault article magazine MAG1009978 2 index.htm The Best Of Everything Sports Illustrated April 28, 1997 ref blockquote Date Change In 2011, in an effort to curb the Spring Weekend partying and violence, the University declared that all University sanctioned events were to be held the weekend before the traditional date. Officially, this was in part due to a late Easter falling during the real Spring Weekend. However, temperature in the upper 30s forced the event to be cancelled early, with at least nine students experiencing hypothermia . ref cite web title OozeBall Shut down After Third Round Daily Campus url http www.dailycampus.com com ... more details
A tempo map is a part of a MIDI file. Musical events occur as a succession of events in time, whose speed is tempo . Music also organizes these according to a framework called meter music meter , by partitioning time into patterns of strong and weak beats. MIDI s tempo map specifies the speed at which a file s events are transmitted within this framework their tempo. If a file plays at a fixed tempo, its map is a horizontal line e.g., measures 38 & 39 in this part of a MIDI Music sequencer sequencer s display of the end of J.S. Bach s prelude 8 from Book I of the Well tempered Clavier Image WTCIPR8end.jpg 800px But, if the tempo fluctuates as a function of time, such as in accelerando , Glossary of musical terminology A allargando , or rubato , the line is respectively an upward or downward climbing one, or in the latter case, a complex curve, as seen here in measures 35 & 36 at left, or the ending in measures 40 & 41. In most music, aesthetics demand that this flow of events not be linear, but fluctuate according to the expression the music intends to convey. Hence, a very emotional piece such as the preceding is excerpted from, although playing at a base tempo of MM 50 which means 50 quarter notes per minute, holding back or lunging forward according to expressive impulse can result in a tempo map similar to that seen above It flexes tempo down for the intermediate cadence at left, and again for the final allargando at the right. After recording a sequence in real time at a fixed tempo, or composing it using step record mode, well written MIDI sequencer software like MasterTracks Pro will have functionality to edit the MIDI tempo map, so as to result in a natural, expressive result, not a machine like one, when playing the file. Category MIDI ... more details
Crocodile Dentist is a game made for young children, first published by Milton Bradley in 1990. ref Nancy Piccin. Zoo time at Toy Fair Turtles have lots of company . The Republican Springfield The Republican . February 17, 1991. H1. ref A smaller travel version of the game was released in 1993. ref Tools for back seat playing . Philadelphia Daily News . July 16, 1993. 60. ref The game was the brainchild of Robert B. Fuhrer, who later created Gator Golf , and many other toys and games. ref name A Drew Fetherston. Playing With Toys Is Serious Work Robert B. Fuhrer s life revolves around games . Newsday . December 5, 1994. C03. ref Gameplay The goal of the game is to extract the plastic teeth from a crocodile toy s mouth by pulling them out with plastic tweezers. If the sore tooth is pulled, the mouth will snap shut, and the person who caused the mouth to shut is the loser. The travel version of Crocodile Dentist featured slightly different gameplay, where instead of pulling the teeth out of the crocodile s mouth the players had to push the crocodile s teeth down into its mouth. Development Crocodile Dentist went through several changes during its development phase. Fuhrer and his technicians were told to tweak the length and speed of the crocodile s lunging motion so that the toy would not cause eye injuries. Fuhrer also added a pair of plastic tweezers to quell fears that children would hurt their fingers. However, the game testers later thought that the toy lacked excitement, and though the tweezers remained in the final product, Fuhrer restored the original lunging motion. ref name A Reception Crocodile Dentist was one of the best selling games of the 1991 Christmas season ref Pete Bishop. Hottest games going from burst to splat . Pittsburgh Post Gazette . December 1, 1991. H4. ref ref Bruce D. Ebert. What s hot in toyland? Daily Press Virginia Daily Press . December 3, 1991. C1. ref and remained a high seller afterwards. ref Beth Snyder. Familiar favorites are sti ... more details
For other uses Hook disambiguation unreferenced date March 2009 Infobox martial art image imagecaption A left hook being used by Miguel Cotto right in a boxing bout. imagesize 300px name Hook aka flagicon Turkey Turkey Kro e flagicon Mexico Mexico Gancho flagicon Estonia Estonia Haak flagicon Serbia Serbia Kro e flagicon France France Coup crochet crochet flagicon Italy Italy Gancio flagicon Thailand Thailand Mat Wiyeng San flagicon Burma Burma Wai Latt di flagicon Poland Poland Sierpowy focus Strike attack Striking A hook is a punch strike punch in boxing . It is performed by turning the Standing Core muscles core muscles and back, thereby swinging the arm, which is bent at an angle near or at 90 degrees, in a horizontal arc into the opponent. A hook is usually aimed at the chin , but it can also be used for body shots, especially to the liver shot liver . Hook punches can be thrown by either the lead hand or the rear hand, but the term used without a qualifier usually refers to a lead hook. When throwing a hook, the puncher shifts his body weight to the rear, or supporting foot, allowing him to pivot his lead foot and torso, swinging his lead fist horizontally toward the opponent. Sometimes, depending on style and what feels comfortable to the individual, the lead foot is not pivoted. Pivoting increases the power of the punch, but leaves one lacking in options to follow up with, such as the right uppercut or right hook. The hook is a powerful punch with knockout power . Variations of the hook are the shovel hook or upper hook they are body punches that combine characteristics of both the hook and the uppercut. Another variation on the hook is the check hook , which combines an ordinary hook with footwork that removes a boxer from the path of a lunging opponent. gallery Image Field Manual No. 3 25.150 Combatives Hook.jpg A hook Image crochet5.jpg Hook in shadow boxing Image lecon crochet.jpg Another hook Image crochet1.jpg Left hook in medium range gallery See als ... more details
refimprove date October 2011 Private First Class Edward L. Richmond was an U.S. Army soldier serving in Iraq who was charged with the unpremeditated murder of Muhamad Husain Kadir, an Iraqi prisoner. Richmond was convicted of manslaughter , and was sentenced to reduction in rank , Asset forfeiture forfeiture of pay, dishonorable discharge , and three years in prison. ref name OpEdNews http www.opednews.com stjacques 081604 military criminal.htm OpEdNews account of the incident ref Incident Richmond was a member of the Headquarters Company, of the 1st Battalion , 27th Infantry Regiment United States , a unit of the 25th Infantry Division United States s 2nd Brigade Combat Team . On February 28, 2004 Richmond s unit had an Iraqi village, near Taal Al Jai , under observation. Sergeant United States Sergeant Jeffrey Waruch described observing Kadir, a cowherd , with Richmond. He testified that Richmond requested permission to shoot Kadir, even though Kadir appeared unarmed. The orders from Captain land and air Captain Carpenter to Waruch at 10 00 February 27, 2004 were to shoot any male leaving the village. citation needed date October 2011 They were supposed to be Fedayeen and carded members of Saddam s group in the village. Waruch made detailed notes in his note book so that he would not rebrief the wrong orders to Richmond and several more members of the platoon for the mission. Their unit was then ordered to detain all the males in an Iraqi village. Waruch bound Kadir s hands with a zip tie handcuff s. When Waruch lead Kadir away, Kadir stumbled, and Richmond then shot him in the back of the head. ref name OpEdNews Richmond claimed that he didn t know Kadir was bound and he thought Kadir was lunging to attack Waruch. Two other witnesses testified they had heard Richmond talking about how he wanted to kill Kadir prior to the shooting. citation needed date October 2011 On trial, Richmond testified he did not directly state he wanted to kill Kadir, he asked for verific ... more details
Infobox NFL player image caption position Linebacker number 98, 57 birth date birth date and age 1964 2 8 death date debutyear 1987 finalyear 1995 draftyear 1987 draftround 8 draftpick 203 afldraftyear afldraftround afldraftpick suppdraftyear suppdraftround undraftedyear college Iowa State Cyclones football Iowa State teams nowiki nowiki Detroit Lions 1987 1993 San Diego Chargers 1994 1995 statlabel1 Tackle football move Tackles statvalue1 582 statlabel2 Quarterback sack Sacks statvalue2 2.5 statlabel3 Interception football Interceptions statvalue3 3 nfl GIB553714 pfr pfrcoach dbf cfl afl highlights nowiki nowiki No notable achievements HOF CollegeHOF CFHOF birth place Des Moines, Iowa Dennis Michael Gibson born February 8, 1964 in Des Moines, Iowa is a former American football linebacker who played in the National Football League from 1987 NFL season 1987 1995 NFL season 1995 for the Detroit Lions and the San Diego Chargers . Perhaps his most memorable moment came in the NFL playoffs 2C 1994 95 AFC San Diego Chargers 17.2C Pittsburgh Steelers 13 1994 AFC Championship game , when he sent the Chargers to the Super Bowl by lunging to block a 4th down pass attempt from Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Neil O Donnell in the end zone to win the game. Encore Pizza Dennis Gibson now owns a pizza place in Johnston, Iowa called Encore Pizza formerly known as the Pizza Oven http www.desmoinesalive.com locations johnston encore pizza . Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Gibson, Dennis ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American football player DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1964 PLACE OF BIRTH Des Moines, Iowa DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Gibson, Dennis Category 1964 births Category Living people Category People from Des Moines, Iowa Category Players of American football from Iowa Category American football linebackers Category Iowa State Cyclones football players Category Detroit Lions players Category San Diego Chargers players linebacker 1960s stub ... more details
More footnotes date November 2010 MedalTableTop MedalSport Men s Athletics sport Athletics MedalCountry FRG MedalCompetition Olympic Games MedalBronze 1976 Summer Olympics 1976 Montreal 5000 metres MedalBottom Klaus Peter Hildenbrand born 11 September 1952 in D rrebach was a West Germany West German athlete who competed mainly in the 5000 metres. In the 1974 European Athletics Championships, he placed eighth in the 5,000 metre final, about fifteen seconds behind the winner, Great Britain s Brendan Foster. He competed for West Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal , Canada in the 5000 metres where he won the bronze medal. ref http www.sports reference.com olympics athletes hi klaus peter hildenbrand 1.html Olympic results ref he had run the second fastest 5,000 metres in the world in 1976, after New Zealand s Dick Quax, who won the silver medal in that closely fought and dramatic race. After running around the middle of the fourteen man group, Hildenbrand took the lead shortly before 3,400 metres. He kept it until he voluntarily surrendered it to Finland s Lasse Vir n at 3,900 metres. On the final back straight, he kicked furiously to draw level with New Zealand s Rodney Dixon at 4,800 metres. At the start of the final bend, he briefly drew level or almost level with Vir n. On the second half of the final bend, Quax kicked past him to challenge Vir n for the lead. Throughout the home straight, Hildenbrand fought Dixon for the bronze. In the final metres, he decided to ensure the bronze medal for himself by lunging across the finish line. This helped him defeat Dixon by 0.12 seconds References Reflist Further reading The Great European Championships Book Suuri EM kirja, published in Finland in 1990 Antero Raevuori, Lasse Viren The Gilded Spikes Lasse Viren Kullatut piikkarit, published in Finland in 1976 Matti Hannus, The Montreal Olympic Book Montrealin Olympiakirja, published in Finland in 1976 Mauno Saari, Lasse Viren The Secrets of Running Lasse Vir ... more details
Infobox VG title Swashbuckler image Image Swashbuckler game title.png 280px Swashbuckler caption Title screen developer Paul Stephenson publisher Datamost designer engine released 1982 genre Fighting game Fighting modes Single player ratings N A platforms Apple II family Apple II media Floppy disk The 5.BC inch minifloppy 5¼ disk requirements Image Swashbuckler game.png 280px thumb right The swashbuckler in combat. Swashbuckler is a 1982 computer game for the Apple II family Apple II family of computers, created by Paul Stephenson and published by Datamost . Gameplay This combat game puts the player in control of a sword wielding swashbuckler who must fight and dispatch various attackers. Combat occurs in a wooden beamed chamber littered with skeletons and cobwebs, which the player views from the side. The fighter s actions are controlled with the keyboard, and include moving left or right A and D , turning S and swinging the sword high I , low M , or lunging straight L . The first opponent is a large, lumbering man with a spiked club once defeated, the second opponent appears, a smaller man armed with a hatchet and a dagger. After defeating him, both opponents return and attack together. As play progresses, more opponents are added to the fray, including enormous rats and venomous snakes. For each enemy dispatched, the game awards a point. The swashbuckler can withstand two hits, but the third kills him and ends the game. The difficulty steadily increases until he s overwhelmed. Reception Computer Gaming World gave the game a glowing review, only lamenting the rollover of the five digit score at 250 which was fixed prior to final publication , appended by an editor s note that, although the graphics were superb and the concept somewhat unique, the players at CGW grew tired of the lack of variety after a few dozen kills. ref citation date May June 1982 last Cranford first Michael periodical Computer Gaming World title Swashbuckler A Different Kind of Piracy ye ... more details
Andy Sherry born 9 July 1943 is one of the most senior Great Britain British practitioners of karate and the chief instructor of the Karate Union of Great Britain KUGB . ref http www.theshotokanway.com andysherryprofile.html www.theshotokanway.com ref Biography Born in Liverpool , Andy Sherry showed an interest in the martial arts as a young man. Initially training in judo and jujutsu , he soon took an interest in karate, starting his study of the art in 1959. In 1966, Sherry became the first person in the United Kingdom UK to earn a Black belt martial arts black belt in Shotokan karate , ref http www.shuriway.co.uk andysherry.html Shuriway Karate & Kobudo resource website ref having trained with Japan Karate Association JKA instructor Keinosuke Enoeda . In 1966, Sherry won the first British all styles championship , beating competitors from all of Britain s karate styles. ref name KUGB http www.kugb.org profiles profiles sherry.html KUGB ref He went on, in 1968, to become European champion in kumite , an achievement he repeated in a number of subsequent years. ref name KUGB Andy dominated the early KUGB karate championships, winning the kata competition for the first four years running 1967 1970 and the kumite in 1968 and 1970. ref name KUGB On the competition circuit, Andy Sherry was well known for using a yori ashi gyaku tsuki lunging rear hand punch as his trademark manoeuvre, leading many competitors of the time to joke that he only knew one technique. Retiring from competition in 1977, Sherry continues to coach the KUGB international competition squad to this day, and now runs his own karate club, the Liverpool Red Triangle. Sherry recently earned 8th dan 8th level black belt making him Britain s highest ranking Shotokan karate practitioner. ref name KUGB He adjudicates many gradings throughout the year in many karate clubs registered under the KUGB. See also Shotokan Karate Union of Great Britain References reflist External links http www.kugb.org KUGB Websit ... more details
Infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Tenth Circle image Image TenthCircle.jpg 220px image caption First edition cover author Jodi Picoult illustrator Dustin Weaver cover artist Zo Sadokierski country United States language English language English genre Family saga publisher Allen & Unwin pub date 17 March 2006 media type Print Hardcover & Paperback pages 387 pp isbn 1 74114 693 3 oclc 224803646 The Tenth Circle 2006 is a novel by Jodi Picoult about date rape and father daughter relationships. It heavily references Dante Alighieri Dante s Inferno Dante Inferno . Plot When freshman Trixie Stone accuses her ex boyfriend Jason Underhill of raping her, everyone is quick to take his side when he claims their intercourse was consensual. Trixie s parents, Daniel, a mild mannered comic book artist from a harsh background, and Laura, a college professor sleeping with one of her students, become involved, and Jason, whose life is supposedly ruined, leaps from a bridge. Although first presumed to be suicide, Trixie is suspected of pushing him, and so she flees to the Yup ik region of Alaska where her father grew up, and Daniel and Laura follow. At the end of the book, Laura confesses to Daniel that she was there when Jason died. Jason who was drunk came lunging at her because he thought she was Trixie. Laura pushed him off the bridge but he held on. Laura reached to his hand but then let go, thus revealing that Trixie is innocent but Laura is not. The book concludes with the final chapter of Daniel s comic showing a father reunited with his daughter after saving her from hell. The main plot and subplots are juxtaposed throughout the book with Daniel s latest comic, The Tenth Circle , which parallels Daniel s life. Development history Explanation of the novel s title The title The Tenth Circle is a reference to the first canticle, Inferno , of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri . Adaptations The book was made into a Lifetime N ... more details
orphan date November 2009 Infobox Book name Foreskin s Lament A Memoir title orig translator image Image Shalom Auslander Foresin s Lament A Memoir.jpg 200px image caption Cover of first run hardcover edition author Shalom Auslander illustrator cover artist country United States language English series subject genre Memoir publisher Riverhead Hardcover pub date October 4, 2007 english pub date media type pages 320 isbn 1594489556 dewey 813 .6 B 22 congress PS3601.U85 Z46 2007 oclc 122425087 preceded by Beware of God Stories 2005 followed by Foreskin s Lament A Memoir is a book by Shalom Auslander . The book chronicles his upbringing as an Orthodox Jew and his efforts to break free from it. Portions of the book have been featured in various media, including the Public Radio International PRI program This American Life . Response The Globe and Mail called the tome humorous but burdened and said the book ably captures the strain between elements of Judaism. ref A. J. Levin. Globe and Mail , Nov. 24, 2007 D28 ref USA Today called it edgy and bitterly funny. ref Minzesheimer, Bob 6 December 2007 , Experience that very special gypped feeling . USA Today ref People magazine People magazine also called it hilarious and gave the book three out of four stars. ref Abrahams, Andrew 29 October 2007 , Foreskin s Lament . People . 68 18 53 ref Regarding it as one of its best memoirs , Time magazine Time magazine called the memoir blackly funny. ref No byline 15 October 2007 , Foreskin s Lament . Time . 170 16 79 ref More conservatively, Entertainment Weekly gave the book a B , calling Auslander a gifted writer but concluding, he s never going to find something deep and rich in his problematic past lunging after every sophomoric laugh. ref Reese, Jennifer 5 October 2007 , Shtick Figure . Entertainment Weekly 957 73 ref References Reflist br Category Memoirs Category 2007 books Category Jewish literature Bio book stub ... more details
Taxobox name Mastiglanis asopos status NE status system iucn3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Actinopterygii ordo Catfish Siluriformes familia Heptapteridae genus Mastiglanis genus authority Fl vio Alicino Bockmann Bockmann , 1994 species M. asopos binomial Mastiglanis asopos binomial authority Fl vio Alicino Bockmann Bockmann , 1994 Mastiglanis asopos is a species of three barbeled catfish . It is the only recognized species in its genus. This species has a broad distribution, mainly throughout the left side tributaries of the Amazon River Amazon basin and the Capim River basin in Brazil , as well as in the right tributaries of the Amazon basin in Brazil, Orinoco basin of Venezuela , and drainages in Guyana . ref name Zuanon M. asopos is a strictly sand dwelling species. It spends the daytime buried in the top layer of sand. ref name Zuanon It forages mostly at night and sometimes in the morning. As an ambush predator , when foraging, it poises in the streamlet channel where water is flowing, supported by a tripod formed by its fish anatomy Fins pelvic and fish anatomy Fins anal fins , spreading both its very long barbel anatomy barbels and the filamentous fish anatomy Fins dorsal and fish anatomy Fins pectoral fin rays , thus forming a kind of drift trap . When the fish intercepts food, it will lunge at these food particles after lunging for a short distance, it will return to its previous hunting spot. This behavior is similar to that seen in the tripod fish . ref name Zuanon cite journal journal Neotropical Ichthyology volume 4 issue 1 pages 107 118 year 2006 title A remarkable sand dwelling fish assemblage from central Amazonia, with comments on the evolution of psammophily in South American freshwater fishes first Jansen last Zuanon coauthors Bockmann, Fl vio A. Sazima, Ivan ref Small trichoptera n larva e ingested with the sand cases and ephemeroptera ns constituted a considerable portion of the gut contents in a study of Mastiglanis asopo ... more details
Spanish name 2 Arguello Benitez Infobox football biography name Francisco Arguello fullname Francisco Antonio Arg ello Benitez image birth date Birth date and age df yes 1980 6 4 cityofbirth Villarrica, Paraguay Villarrica countryofbirth Paraguay height Height m position Midfielder currentclub Oriente Petrolero clubnumber 4 youthyears1 youthclubs1 years1 2006 2008 years2 2009 clubs1 Municipal Real Mamor Real Mamor clubs2 Oriente Petrolero caps1 69 caps2 54 goals1 11 goals2 4 nationalyears1 nationalteam1 nationalcaps1 nationalgoals1 pcupdate 13 June 2010 ntupdate 5 July 2010 Francisco Arg ello born 12 August 1982 in Villarrica, Paraguay is a Paraguay an soccer player, who currently plays midfielder for Oriente Petrolero in the Liga de F tbol Profesional Boliviano . Club career Arg ello joined Municipal Real Mamor Real Mamor in 2006 at the age of 26, and played 35 games for the team during his first year. In 2007, he was named Best Player for Real Mamore, as he helped the club to avoid relegation. Arg ello then signed with Oriente Petrolero in 2009, where in his 1st season he helped the team to qualify for Copa Sudamericana. On 21 September Arg ello suffered a double break of his lower right leg during an away match against Colombia s Deportes Tolima in Copa Sudamericana. As Arg ello tried to shoot, Tolima s defender John Hurtado attempted to block the shot with his foot. Hurtado caught Arg ello on the shin with the sole of his foot as Arg ello struck the shot, and the combined force of Arg ello swinging leg and Hurtado s lunging block caused Arg ello s Tibia and Fibua to break. Currently, the extent of the damage is unknown and no return date has been set for Arg ello. Hurtado received a yellow card for the foul. ref http soccernet.espn.go.com commentary?id 306235&cc 5739&league CONMEBOL.SUDAMERICANA ref references External links http uk.soccerway.com players francisco arguello 25461 Profile http www.facetasdeportivastv.com nota.php?id 12122 Arguello otra ves de ... more details
Image Zebra sideview.jpg thumb 200px right The Zebra is an example of a quadruped. Quadrupedalism is a form of Terrestrial locomotion in animals land animal locomotion using four Limb anatomy limbs or leg anatomy legs . An animal or machine that usually moves in a quadrupedal manner is known as a quadruped , meaning four feet from the Latin quad for four and ped for foot . The majority of quadrupeds are vertebrate animals, including mammal s such as cattle , dog s and cat s, and reptile s, like lizard s. Bird s, human s, insect s, crustacean s, and snake s are not quadrupeds. However, there are some exceptions. For example, among the insects, the praying mantis is a quadruped. A few bird s may use quadrupedal movement in some circumstances, for example the shoebill will sometimes use its wings to right itself after lunging at prey. ref http scienceblogs.com tetrapodzoology 2008 12 balaeniceps rex.php more ref Quadrupeds vs. tetrapods main tetrapod Not all four limbed animals are quadrupeds. Although arms and wings are, in the evolution ary sense, modified legs, four limbed vertebrates are in fact classed as tetrapod s, members of the Linnaean taxonomy taxonomic unit Tetrapoda . These include all vertebrate s with quadrupedal ancestors, including mammals, reptiles, amphibia ns, and birds. The distinction between quadrupeds and tetrapods is important in evolutionary biology, particularly in the context of biped s, winged animals, and animals whose limbs have adapted to other roles e.g. fin s, in the case of cetaceans and pinniped s . All of these animals are tetrapods, but none is a quadruped. Even snake s, whose limbs have become vestigial structure vestigial or lost entirely, are nevertheless tetrapods. Quadrupedalism in humans main Ulas family In July 2005, in rural Turkey , scientists discovered five Kurd ish siblings who had learned to walk naturally on their hands and feet. Unlike chimpanzee s, who ambulate knuckle walking on their knuckles , the The Family That ... more details
The Seacoast Region is the southeast area of the U.S. state of New Hampshire . The region stretches 18 miles along the Atlantic Ocean from New Hampshire s border with Salisbury, Massachusetts Salisbury , Massachusetts to the Piscataqua River and New Hampshire s border with Kittery, Maine Kittery , Maine . The shoreline is generally very rocky and rough in nature, although a few sandy beaches have been created using jetty jetties groins. The Seacoast Region of New Hampshire stretches as far west as Epping, New Hampshire Epping . The Isles of Shoals White and Seavey Islands White, Seavey , Lunging, and Star Island Star are a short ferry ride out into the Gulf of Maine and are considered to be in the Seacoast Region. Collectively, they provide five additional miles of New Hampshire coastline. Towns and cities in the region Coastal town and cities south to north Seabrook, New Hampshire Seabrook Hampton Falls, New Hampshire Hampton Falls Hampton, New Hampshire Hampton North Hampton, New Hampshire North Hampton Rye, New Hampshire Rye New Castle, New Hampshire New Castle Portsmouth, New Hampshire Portsmouth br Other towns and cities valign top Brentwood, New Hampshire Brentwood Danville, New Hampshire Danville Dover, New Hampshire Dover Durham, New Hampshire Durham East Kingston, New Hampshire East Kingston width 50 valign top Epping, New Hampshire Epping Exeter, New Hampshire Exeter Fremont, New Hampshire Fremont Greenland, New Hampshire Greenland Hampstead, New Hampshire Hampstead width 50 valign top Kensington, New Hampshire Kensington Kingston, New Hampshire Kingston Lee, New Hampshire Lee Madbury, New Hampshire Madbury Newfields, New Hampshire Newfields width 50 valign top Newington, New Hampshire Newington Newmarket, New Hampshire Newmarket Newton, New Hampshire Newton North Hampton, New Hampshire North Hampton Plaistow, New Hampshire Plaistow width 50 valign top Rollinsford, New Hampshire Rollinsford Rochester, New Hampshire Rochester Sandown ... more details
image Owen Glynne Jones2.jpg 150px thumb Portrait and signature of Owen Glynne Jones from his book Rock climbing in the English Lake District Owen Glynne Jones 2 November 1867 28 August 1899 was a Wales Welsh rock climber and mountaineer. He established many new routes in the Lake District and elsewhere, often climbing with George and Ashley Abraham , brothers who photographed the climbs for posterity. Rock climbing Jones was born in London , England , the son of a Wales Welsh carpenter builder, and took a first class Honours degree in experimental physics . Not able to obtain a professorship, he became physics master at the City of London School . He began climbing in 1888, and was among those pioneers who first perceived rock climbing as a sport. As a climber, he had an athletic climbing style, and is considered by many to be one of the first rock gymnasts . Although Jones said little in his writings about his training tactics other than working with dumbbells there are several stories regarding his gymnastic feats ref http www128.pair.com r3d4k7 Bouldering History1.1.html Bouldering History ref image Owen Glynne Jones 20.jpg 150px thumb Photograph from Jones s book, Rock climbing in the English Lake District He joked and called himself, the Only Genuine Jones , and he was famous at Wasdale Head in the Lake District for his gymnastic stunts around the inn. As a rock climber, however, he drew disapproval from some of his colleagues particularly Aleister Crowley ref http www128.pair.com r3d4k7 ACrowley.html The Confessions of Aleister Crowley , pair.com. Accessed 29 January 2011 ref for his use of a top rope to explore difficult pitches before attempting them he was, nevertheless, a very daring climber. He was reputed to be fearless when climbing above a drop, though some have conjectured that this was because of his short sightedness . Crowley also criticised his lunging for holds , thought him a self publicist, and was disdainful of Jones teaming up with two photo ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Infobox Disease Name Talusitis Image Caption n bnc DiseasesDB 31624 ICD10 ICD10 M 77 9 m 70 ICD9 ICD9 726.90 ICDO OMIM MedlinePlus eMedicineSubj emerg eMedicineTopic 570 MeshID D052256 Talusitis from the Greek language Greek is a painful inflammation of the ankle, commonly known as Fat Ankles . Generally talusitis is referred to by the body part involved, such as Achilles tendinitis affecting the Achilles tendon , or patellar talusitis jumper s knee , affecting the patellar tendon . It was believed that talusitis was due to inflammation of a tendon in the ankle, although this is coming into doubt. NO SOURCE, AT THIS POINT DUBIOUS Chronic overuse of tendons leads to microscopic tears within the collagen matrix, which gradually weakens the tissue. Individual variation in frequency and severity of tendinitis will vary depending on the type, frequency and severity of exercise or use for example, rock climbers tend to develop tendinitis in their fingers, swimmers in their shoulders. Talusitis is a common injury, particularly in sports that involve lunging and jumping while patella r tendinitis is common among basketball and volleyball players owing to the amount of jumping and landing. Swelling in a region of micro damage or partial tear can be detected visually or by palpation touch . Increased water content and disorganized collagen matrix in tendon lesion s may be detected by medical ultrasonography ultrasonography or magnetic resonance imaging . Symptoms can vary from an ache or pain and swelling to the local area of the ankles, or a burning that surrounds the whole joint . With this condition, the pain is usually worse during and after activity, and the tendon and joint area can become stiffer the following day as swelling impinges on the movement of the tendon. Many patients report stressful situations in their lives in correlation with the beginnings of pain which may contribute to the symptoms. Treatment Due to their highly sp ... more details
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