Organized Crime. Oxford Bibliographies Online Criminology. DEFAULTSORT RacketCrime Category Crimes Category Organized crime Category Organized crime terminology Category Racketeering de Racketeering fr Racket it Racket lt Reketas pl haracz ru ...globalize USA article date December 2010 A racket is an illegal business, usually run as part of organized crime . Engaging in a racket is called racketeering . Several forms of racket exist. The best known is the protection racket , in which criminals demand money from businesses in exchange for the service of protection against crimes that the racketeers themselves instigate if unpaid see extortion . A second example is the Numbers game numbers racket , a form of illegal lottery . Traditionally, the word racket is used to describe a business or syndicate that is based on the example of the protection racket and indicates a belief that it is engaged in the sale of a solution to a problem that the institution itself creates or perpetuates, with the specific intent to engender continual patronage. One example is computer spyware that pretends to be detecting infections and offers to download a cleaning utility for a fee, being itself distributed by the maker of the cleaning utility. In the example of a protection racket, the racketeer informs a store owner that a substantial monthly fee will be required in exchange for protection. The concurrent protection provided takes the form of the absence of damage inflicted upon the store or its employees by the racket itself. The term racketeering ... in June 1927 in a statement about the influence of organized crime in the Teamsters union. ref David ... as the elimination of the infiltration of organized crime and racketeering into legitimate organizations ... room usam title9 110mcrm.htm 9 110.010 title Organized Crime and Racketeering publisher Usdoj.gov ... Secret Service Other Arms trafficking Drug cartel Organized crime Organized retail crime Racketeer Influenced ... more details
wiktionary racketRacket t may refer to Racketcrime , a systematised element of organized crime Rackets sport , a ball game An alternative spelling of racquet , a piece of equipment used to play tennis, badminton, squash or racquetball Racket film 1997 with Michele Placido , Tanya Roberts and Franco Interlenghi Rackett , a Renaissance woodwind instrument Racket programming language , a multi paradigm programming language formerly known as PLT Scheme Radne Racket 120 , aircraft engine disambig de Racket ko ... more details
For the 1951 remake The Racket 1951 film Infobox film name The Racket image The Racket film poster.jpg caption Theatrical release poster director Lewis Milestone producer Howard Hughes writer Bartlett Cormack br Tom Miranda starring Thomas Meighan br Marie Prevost br Louis Wolheim music cinematography Tony Gaudio editing Eddie Adams distributor Paramount Pictures country United States released November 1, 1928 runtime 84 minutes language silent film br English language English intertitles budget preceded by followed by The Racket 1928 in film 1928 is an American crime film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan , Marie Prevost , Louis Wolheim , and George E. Stone . The film was produced by Howard Hughes , written by Bartlett Cormack and Tom Miranda , and was distributed by Paramount Pictures . Background Due to the controversial portrayal of a corrupt police force and city government both the film and the play were Banned films banned at the time in Chicago . ref http www.tcm.com thismonth article.jsp?cid 85281&mainArticleId 155255 The Racket at Turner Classic Movies, by Brian Cady ref Reception File The Racket 1928 film poster.jpg thumb The Racket poster. The Racket is one of the first films nominated for the Academy Awards Academy Award for Academy Award for Best ... PSFL data R Racket1928.html The Racket at silentera.com ref It was long thought lost before being located ..., Turner Classic Movies broadcast The Racket , Two Arabian Knights , and The Mating Call film The Mating ... also List of rediscovered films External links imdb title 0019304 The Racket Lewis Milestone Howard Hughes Films DEFAULTSORT Racket, The Category 1928 films Category American films Category 1920s drama films Category Black and white films Category 1920s crime films Category American silent feature films Category Films about organized crime in the United States Category Films directed by Lewis Milestone 1920s drama film stub de The Racket es La horda fr The Racket id The Racket it The Racket ja ... more details
Racket Busters is a 1938 movie about crime in the trucking industry starring Humphrey Bogart and George Brent . The picture was directed by Lloyd Bacon . External links http www.imdb.com title tt0030650 Racket Busters in the Internet Movie Database Robert Rossen Lloyd Bacon Category 1930 films Category American films Category Black and white films Category English language films Category Films directed by Lloyd Bacon Category Warner Bros. films ... more details
Infobox Film name Racket Girls image director Robert C. Dertano producer George Weiss writer Robert C. Dertano starring Peaches Page br Timothy Farrell br Clara Mortenson br Rita Martinez cinematography William C. Thompson distributor Screen Classics released 1951 runtime 70 mins country Cinema of the United States United States language English language English budget Racket Girls also called Blonde Pickup and Pin Down Girls is an United States American crime film , directed by Robert C. Dertano, released in 1951 by Screen Classics. Plot Umberto Scalli Timothy Farrell is a small time gangster who acts as a manager for women s wrestling in order to cover his involvement in many crime rings, including racketeering, bookmaking, and prostitution. He must dodge both police investigations and the local mob, which he owes 35,000. Real life wrestlers Peaches Page and Rita Martinez, as well as former world champion Clara Mortensen, play fictional versions of themselves. Mystery Science Theater 3000 The film was featured in the sixth season of the movie mocking show Mystery Science Theater 3000 . For example, they criticized the wrestling matches, which are repetitive and hold little bearing on the plot, and the failed attempts at sex appeal one character stated that the film was as sexy as an erotic cave painting . External links imdb title id 0043954 title Racket Girls Category 1951 films Category 1950s crime films Category 1950s drama films Category American crime drama films Category Black and white films Category English language films Category Independent films Category Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes nl Racket Girls ... more details
Infobox television show name Racket Squad image caption genre Police procedural Crime drama writer director starring Reed Hadley narrated Hugh Beaumont actor Hugh Beaumont 1952&ndash 1953 composer Herschel Burke Gilbert br Leon Klatzkin br Alexander Laszlo composer Alexander Laszlo br Herbert Taylor country United States language English language English num seasons 3 num episodes 98 list episodes List of Racket Squad episodes executive producer Hal Roach br Hal Roach, Jr. producer Carroll Case br Hal Roach, Jr. company Showcase Productions, Inc. camera Single camera setup Single camera runtime 22&ndash 24 minutes channel Broadcast syndication Syndication 1950 br CBS 1951&ndash 1953 picture format Black and white audio format Monaural first aired Start date 1951 06 07 last aired End date 1953 09 28 status Ended Racket Squad is an United States of America American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco , California Police Department. The show aired in Broadcast syndication syndication for a season 1950 before ... After Racket Squad Reed Hadley starred from March 1954 to June 1955 in another crime drama on CBS, The Public Defender TV series The Public Defender . Episodes main List of Racket Squad episodes Quotes R r r r racket Squad Captain Braddock prologue, to the camera What you are about to see is a real life story, taken from the files of the police racket and bunco squads, business protective associations ... code DVD Worldwide Distribution . class wikitable DVD Name Ep Release Date Racket Squad, Vol. 1 4 2003 Racket Squad, Vol. 2 4 2005 Racket Squad, Vol. 3 4 2005 Racket Squad, Vol. 4 4 2005 Racket Squad, Vol. 5 4 2009 Racket Squad, Vol. 6 4 2009 Award nominations border 2 cellpadding 4 cellspacing ... id 0042139 tv.com 18422 Racket Squad Category 1951 television series debuts Category 1953 television ... Category Black and white television programs Category CBS network shows Category Crime television ... more details
Infobox Film name Love Is a Racket image image size caption director William A. Wellman producer writer Rian James novel br Courtney Terrett adaptation narrator starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. music cinematography Sidney Hickox editing William Holmes film editor William Holmes distributor Warner Bros. Pictures released June 10, 1932 runtime 72 mins country USA language English language English budget preceded by followed by Love Is a Racket United Kingdom UK title Such Things Happen is a romantic comedy drama 1932 film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Ann Dvorak . The movie was written by Courtney Terrett from the novel by Rian James, and directed by William A. Wellman . Cast Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as James Russell Ann Dvorak as Sally Condon Frances Dee as Mary Wodehouse Lee Tracy as Stanley Fiske Lyle Talbot as Eddie Shaw George Raft as Sneaky scenes deleted External links imdb title 0023157 Amg movie 100381 Love Is a Racket William A. Wellman Category 1932 films Category American films Category Black and white films Category Crime drama films Category English language films Category Films based on novels Category 1930s romantic comedy films Category Films directed by William A. Wellman 1930s comedy film stub ... more details
. The work is divided into five chapters War is a racket Who makes the profits? Who pays the bills? How to smash this racket To hell with war It contains this key summary War Economic theories War is a Racketcrimeracket . It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable ...Infobox book italic title see above name War Is a Racket image File War Is a Racket cover .jpg 200px Cover image caption author Smedley Butler title orig translator illustrator cover artist country series subject War genre publisher Round Table Press pub date 1935 media type pages 51 isbn oclc 3015073 dewey congress preceded by followed by War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired United States Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler Smedley D. Butler . In them, Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests ... tour in the early 1930s giving his speech War is a Racket . The speech was so well received ..., 1933 ref Book In War Is A Racket , Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War ... are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something ... his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. The book is also interesting historically ... effectively only by taking the profit out of war. The only way to smash this racket is to conscript ... war major general smedley butler usm.htm Summary of the book War is a Racket. http www.rationalrevolution.net special library war is a racket.htm War is a Racket images of original publication http feralhouse.com press warisaracket index.html War is a Racket feralhouse press http www.ratical.org ratville CAH warisaracket.html War is a Racket online text, PDF http www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com ... www.archive.org details WarIsARacket War is a Racket Multiple formats Category 1935 books Category Military industry books cs War Is a Racket es La guerra es un latrocinio ... more details
About the genus of parrots the hummingbird Booted Racket tail Taxobox name Racket tails image Prioniturus discurus.jpg image caption Blue crowned Racket tail regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis bird Aves ordo Psittaciformes familia Psittacidae subfamilia Psittacinae tribus Psittaculini genus Prioniturus genus authority Johann Georg Wagler Wagler , 1832 The genus Prioniturus contains nine parrot species found in the Philippines and Indonesia . They are easily distinguished from all other parrots by their elongated central tail feathers with the bare shaft and spatula at the end. ref name forshaw cite book first Joseph M. last Forshaw coauthors Cooper, William T. year 1981 origyear 1973, 1978 edition corrected second edition title Parrots of the World publisher David & Charles, Newton Abbot, London isbn 0 7153 7698 5 ref Taxonomy The following nine species and several subspecies are recognized in the genus ref name zoonomen cite web url http www.zoonomen.net avtax psit.html ... small Montane Racket tail ref name Forshaw 2006 . plate 33. Forshaw 2006 . plate 33. ref Prioniturus waterstradti , small Rothschild 1904 small Mindanao Racket tail ref name Forshaw 2006 . plate 33. Prioniturus .... Prioniturus platenae , small Blasius, W 1888 small Blue headed Racket tail Prioniturus luconensis , small Steere 1890 small Green Racket tail Prioniturus discurus , small Vieillot 1822 small Blue crowned Racket tail Prioniturus discurus discurus , small Vieillot 1822 small Prioniturus discurus mindorensis ... verticalis , small Sharpe 1893 small Blue winged Racket tail or Sulu Racket tail Prioniturus flavicans , small Cassin 1853 small Yellow breasted Racket tail Prioniturus platurus , small Vieillot 1818 small Golden mantled Racket tail Prioniturus platurus platurus , small Vieillot 1818 small ... Hartert 1898 small Prioniturus mada , small Hartert1900 small Buru Racket tail References Reflist Cited ... Racket Tail Category Parrots Category Psittaculini Category Genera of birds parrot stub ca Prioniturus ... more details
crime Pay to Play Pizzo extortion Political corruption Principal agent problem Racketcrime Revolutionary ... Gangitano ran a protection racket along the famous Lygon Street during the 1990s. In Sicily , Italy ... to join a protection racket known as a krysha , the Russian word for roof run by local gangsters. ref ... Category Organized crime terminology de Schutzgelderpressung he ru sv Beskyddarverksamhet ... more details
main Racket programming language Racket has been under active development as a vehicle for programming ... describes and demonstrates some of these features. Note that one of Racket s main design goals is to accommodate ... implemented in Racket. Please refer to Racket programming language the main article for more information. Racket is also highly flexible, even without the use of dialects it can function as a fully ... Safety Racket can use three different Garbage collection computer science garbage collectors ... overflowing available memory. This collector is often referred to CGC in the Racket community. SenoraGC ... tracing. The moving memory manager aka 3m is a precise garbage collector, and it has been Racket ... written in Racket. The build process is therefore using the conservative collector for bootstrapping. Like all implementations in the Scheme programming language Scheme family, Racket implements full Tail call tail call elimination . Racket takes this further the language is made fully safe for space ... like in the implementation of Lazy Racket, the two features are crucial for proper execution. This is in addition ... compilation . System Interface and Scripting Racket s system interface includes asynchronous non blocking .... source lang Scheme lang racket define listener tcp listen 12345 let echo server create a TCP server ... server source The combination of dynamic compilation and a rich system interface makes Racket a capable ... regexp pattern. source lang Scheme lang racket Finds Racket sources in all subdirs for path in directory .... source lang Scheme lang racket Report each unique line from stdin let saw make hash for line in lines ... be run in DrRacket , or on the command line, via the code racket code executable. Racket ignores an initial .... The following script demonstrates this, in addition to using Racket s library for Command line argument parsing source lang Scheme usr bin env racket lang racket command line args base dir ext re for p ... the regexp pattern. Resource Management and Sandboxing Racket features the concept of a custodian a kind ... more details
Infobox Film name image The Big Racket.jpg director Enzo G. Castellari writer starring Fabio Testi music Maurizio De Angelis , Guido De Angelis cinematography Marcello Masciocchi editing producer distributor Titanus released runtime awards country language Italian budget Il grande racket internationally released as The Big Racket is a List of Italian films of 1976 1976 Cinema of Italy Italian poliziottesco film directed by Enzo G. Castellari . Cast Fabio Testi Inspector Nico Palmieri Vincent Gardenia Pepe Renzo Palmer Luigi Giulti Orso Maria Guerrini Gianni Rossetti Glauco Onorato Piero Mazzarelli Marcella Michelangeli Marcy Romano Puppo Doringo Antonio Marsina Attorney Giovanni Giuni Salvatore Borghese Sgt. Salvatore Velasci Joshua Sinclair Rudy Daniele Dublino Commissioner Anna Zinnemann Anna Rossetti Reception The film received mixed reviews. Film critic Morando Morandini started his review writing It s a fascist film. It s a vile film. It s an idiot film and subsequently criticized the violent and reactionary morality of the film. ref cite news last Morando Morandini title Il grande racket accessdate 6 February 2012 newspaper Il Giorno newspaper Il Giorno date 12 September 1976 ref References Reflist External links imdb title 0074586 Enzo G. Castellari Category 1976 films Category Italian films Category Films directed by Enzo G. Castellari Category Titanus films Category Poliziotteschi films Italy film stub de Racket Film it Il grande racket ... more details
Infobox VG title Racket Attack br Moero 2 Pro Tennis image File MoeroProTennisTitle.png 250px Moero 2 Pro Tennis br File RacketAttackTitleScreen.png 250px Racket Attack caption Japanese title screen small top small and North American title screen small bottom small developer Tose company TOSE publisher Jaleco Entertainment ref name famicom released vgrelease JP April 15, 1988 ref name famicom ref name racketattack NA October 1, 1988 ref name racketattack EU March 24, 1994 ref name racketattack genre Sports game Family Children s tennis ref name racketattack modes Single player video game Single player br Multiplayer video game Multiplayer small up to 2 players small ratings vgratings CERO n a small not rated small ESRB n a small not rated small platforms Nintendo Entertainment System ref name famicom cite web url http famicomworld.com game 742 title Release information publisher Famicom World date accessdate 2010 02 03 ref media 6 megabit ROM cartridge cartridge Racket Attack is a Nintendo Entertainment System video game about professional tennis . It was released in Japan as Moero Pro Tennis . ref name racketattack cite web url http www.neoseeker.com Games Products NES moero pro tennis title North America release information and background publisher Neoseeker date accessdate 2010 02 03 ref The gameplay takes place in a Bird s eye view overhead view tennis court with the score being present at all times and an audience of spectator s being shown in multiple colors white, pink, and red . Jaleco was the only sponsor on the grandstand as the game did not carry any licensed sponsors ... Racket Attack publisher PianoChampion90 GameFAQs date accessdate 2010 02 03 ref He or she is known ... Moments to start... Racket Attack has made the player into a a pro, the toughest, most awesome champ ... racket. ref name racketattack The crowd hushes. ref name racketattack Can he or she deliver an ace? ref ... name racketattack References reflist Bases Loaded DEFAULTSORT Racket Attack Category 1988 video games ... more details
It s a Crime may refer to It s a Crime PBM Game It s a Crime , a play by mail game It s a Crime, a song by The Magnetic Fields from their 1999 album 69 Love Songs disambig ... more details
Infobox Film name A Crime image A Crime film poster.jpg image size caption director Manuel Pradal producer Laurent P tin and Mich le P tin writer Manuel Pradal and Tonino Benacquista narrator starring Emmanuelle B art music Ennio Morricone cinematography Giorgos Arvanitis editing Jennifer Aug distributor ARP S lection released 2006 runtime 100 min country France USA language English budget gross preceded by followed by A Crime French title Un crime is a 2006 thriller film directed by Manuel Pradal , written by Manuel Pradal and Tonino Benacquista , and starring Emmanuelle B art . It tells the story of Vincent Norman Reedus who looks for his wife s killer. In the process his neighbor Alice Emmanuelle B art decides to invent a culprit, so that he can find revenge. However there is no ideal culprit and crime. Plot In the evening, while returning to his place, Vincent Reedus crosses a taxi coming from his house. When he arrives, it is too late his wife was brutally murdered. Three years later, Vincent moves to New York, and his neighbor, Alice B art , is frantically in love with him, but having been always distressed and obsessed to discover the assassin of his woman, he himself does not recognize any feeling at least. To make Vincent be free to open his heart to her, Alice is willing to find the man responsible for his wife s death. When Alice hails a cab driven by lonely New Yorker Roger Keitel , her elaborated plan is slowly set into motion in spite of the ignorance of both men. Cast Harvey Keitel as Roger Culkin Emmanuelle B art as Alice Parker Norman Reedus as Vincent Harris ... title A Crime Amg movie 358993 A Crime http movieforumblog.blogspot.com 2006 09 tiff 2006 un crime.html Movieforum TIFF 2006 UN CRIME http twitchfilm.net archives 007498.html Twitch TIFF Report UN CRIME Review DEFAULTSORT Crime, A Category 2006 films Category 2000s drama films Category Neo noir 2000s drama film stub fr Un crime film, 2006 ... more details
Multiple issues lead too short June 2011 expert subject June 2011 refimprove June 2011 It s No Crime by Kenneth Babyface Edmonds Babyface . The single was Babyface s first entry on the Hot 100 as a solo artist, peaking at number seven and reaching number one on the Hot Black Singles chart. ref cite book title Top R&B Hip Hop Singles 1942 2004 last Whitburn first Joel authorlink Joel Whitburn year 2004 publisher Record Research page 40 ref The single was Babyface s only chart entry on the dance charts, where it peaked at number five. ref cite book title Hot Dance Disco 1974 2003 last Whitburn first Joel authorlink Joel Whitburn year 2004 publisher Record Research page 27 ref References reflist s start succession box before Something In the Way You Make Me Feel by Stephanie Mills title Billboard Hot R&B Hip Hop Songs Hot Black Singles R&B number one hits of 1989 USA number one single years August 26, 1989 September 2, 1989 two weeks after My Fantasy by Teddy Riley producer Teddy Riley featuring Guy s end Babyface Category 1989 singles Category Billboard Hot R&B Hip Hop Songs number one singles Category Babyface musician songs 1980s R&B song stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Infobox film name Dance Hall Racket image image size caption director Phil Tucker producer George Weiss producer George Weiss screenplay Lenny Bruce narrator starring Timothy Farrell br Lenny Bruce br Bernie Jones music Charles Ruddy cinematography W. Merle Connell editing Adrian Weiss studio distributor released 1953 runtime country USA language English budget gross preceded by followed by website Dance Hall Racket is a 1953 American film directed by Phil Tucker starring Lenny Bruce who also wrote the script and his wife Honey Harlow. Plot summary Expand section date August 2011 The proprietor of a sleazy dance hall finds himself mixed up with gangsters as well as his own girls. Cast Timothy Farrell as Umberto Scalli Lenny Bruce as Vincent Bernie Jones as Punky, the Swedish Sailor Lenny Bruce Honey Harlow as Rose Lenny Bruce Sally Marr as Hostess Bunny Parker as Dancehall Girl Joie Abrams as Dancehall Girl Soundtrack Expand section date August 2011 External links imdb title id 0045668 title Dance Hall Racket Internet Archive film id DanceHallRacket name Dance Hall Racket action film stub DEFAULTSORT Dance Hall Racket Category 1953 films Category American films Category American thriller films Category American crime films Category American action films Category American adventure films Category English language films Category Films directed by Phil Tucker Category 1950s thriller films Category 1950s crime films Category 1950s adventure films ... more details
Infobox Film name The Racket image The Racket.JPG image size caption Mitchum as Police Captain Thomas McQuigg director John Cromwell director John Cromwell producer Edmund Grainger writer Bartlett Cormack play br William Wister Haines narrator starring Robert Mitchum br Lizabeth Scott br Robert Ryan music cinematography George E. Diskant editing Sherman Todd distributor RKO Radio Pictures released Film date 1951 12 12 runtime 88 min. country Film US language English budget The Racket is a 1951 remake of the 1928 film The Racket . This film noir style black and white film was directed by John Cromwell director John Cromwell with uncredited directing help from Nicholas Ray and Mel Ferrer . The police crime drama is based on a popular Bartlett Cormack play. Edward G. Robinson played the racketeer in the original Broadway theater Broadway production. Plot The plot of the film is very close to the original play and 1928 movie. Racketeer and mobster Nick Scanlon Robert Ryan Ryan has managed to buy several of the local government and law enforcement officials of a large midwestern American city. However, he can t seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg Robert Mitchum Mitchum , who refuses all attempts at bribery. The city s prosecuting attorney, Welch Collins , and a police detective, Turk William Conrad Conrad , are crooked and make McQuigg s job as an honest officer nearly impossible. McQuigg persuades a sexy nightclub singer Lizabeth Scott Scott to testify against Scanlon which makes her marked for death from the mob. McQuigg not only wants to nail Scanlon, but also stop all the mob corruption in the city without getting himself or his witness killed. Cast Robert Mitchum as Captain Thomas McQuigg Lizabeth Scott as Irene Hayes Robert Ryan as Nick Scanlon William ... External links IMDb title 0043955 The Racket John Cromwell DEFAULTSORT Racket, The Category 1951 films ... noir Category Black and white films Category Film remakes Category Films about organized crime in the United ... more details
Taxobox name Montane Racket tail image status NT status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animalia phylum Chordata classis Aves ordo Psittaciformes familia Psittacidae genus Prioniturus species P. montanus binomial Prioniturus montanus binomial authority William Robert Ogilvie Grant Ogilvie Grant , 1895 synonyms The Montane Racket tail , also called Luzon Racket tail Prioniturus montanus is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is Endemism endemic to the Philippines . Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane s. It is threatened by habitat loss . References BirdLife International 2008. IUCNlink 142472 Prioniturus montanus . http www.iucnredlist.org 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 11 July 2009. Psittaculini DEFAULTSORT Montane Racket Tail Category Prioniturus Category Birds of the Philippines parrot stub fr Palette momot it Prioniturus montanus hu Hegyi z szl sfark papag j nl Bergvlagstaartpapegaai pl Listkogonka niebieskolica pt Prioniturus montanus ru fi Vuoriviirikaija sv Bergsflaggstj rtspapegoja ... more details
Taxobox name Booted Racket tail image Booted racket tail Ecuador Ocreatus underwoodii .jpg image caption male, subspecies ssp. melanantherus status LC status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Apodiformes familia Trochilidae genus Ocreatus genus authority John Gould Gould , 1846 species O. underwoodii binomial Ocreatus underwoodii binomial authority Ren Primev re Lesson Lesson , 1832 The Booted Racket tail Ocreatus underwoodii is a species of hummingbird . It is found in the Andes Andean cordillera of Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , and Venezuela Venezuela also has a population on the northern coast. Description The upperparts are a golden green colour and the rump has a white bar. The throat and breast are a brilliant emerald green. The legs are feathered down to the feet with horny white short feasthers. The tail is brownish black and deeply forked. The tail feathers on either side increase in length from the centre and the outermost ones are exceptionally long and have bare shafts tipped by oval plumes, which gives the species its common name. ref cite book title The Naturalist s Library. Ornithology Humming Birds last Jardine first Sir William year 1833 page 110 accessdate 2011 11 27 ref References BulletinOfTheBritishOrnithologistsClub126 38. Caldasia24 157. reflist IUCN2006 assessors BirdLife International year 2004 id 48411 ... especie.phtml?idEspecie 3231 Booted Racket tail videos on the Internet Bird Collection http www.bird ... search.html?Form Search&SEARCHBY Common&KEYWORDS booted racket 3Dtail&showwhat images&AGE All&SEX All&ACT All&Search Search&VIEW All&ORIENTATION All&RESULTS 24 Booted Racket tail photo gallery ... Racket tail, Booted Category Birds of Colombia Racket tail, Booted Category Birds of Ecuador Racket tail, Booted Category Birds of Peru Racket tail, Booted Category Birds of Venezuela Racket tail, Booted Category Hummingbird species of South America Racket tail, Booted hummingbird stub de Flaggensylphe ... more details
Taxobox status VU status system IUCN3.1 name Blue headed Racket tail image image caption regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Psittaciformes familia Psittacidae genus Prioniturus species P. platenae binomial Prioniturus platenae binomial authority August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius Blasius , 1888 The Blue headed Racket tail , Prioniturus platenae , also known as the Palawan Racket tail , is a parrot found in the western Philippines around Palawan . It is 27 28 cm, basically green with a bright, light blue head, blue underwings except for green coverts and, in the male, bluish breast. The beak is bluish gray and iris is yellowish. It inhabits humid lowland forest in small flocks, but is threatened by habitat destruction and trapping for the aviculture cage bird trade . Note formerly considered conspecific with Blue crowned Racket tail , P. discurus . References Juniper & Parr 1998 Parrots A Guide to Parrots of the World ISBN 0 300 07453 0. External links http www.birdlife.org datazone species index.html?action SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid 1435&m 0 BirdLife Species Factsheet. http orientalbirdimages.org search.php?Bird ID 537 Oriental Bird Images Blue headed Racquet tail Selected photos Psittaculini DEFAULTSORT Blue Headed Racket Tail Category Birds of the Philippines Category Psittacidae fr Palette de Palawan it Prioniturus platenae nl Palawanvlagstaartpapegaai ru fi Palawaninviirikaija sv Bl huvad flaggstj rtspapegoja ... more details
0042139 Racket Squad tv.com 18422 Racket Squad Category Lists of crime television series episodes Racket Squad ...DISPLAYTITLE List of Racket Squad episodes This is a list of episodes for the television series Racket Squad . Series overview class wikitable style text align center colspan 2 Season of br episodes Premiered Ended bgcolor EFFFEA 1 13 1951 06 07 1951 08 30 bgcolor F0FFFF 2 50 1951 09 06 1952 08 28 bgcolor EEEEFF 3 35 1952 09 04 1953 09 07 Episodes Ep Episode number within the season Overall episode number Season 1 1951 class wikitable style text align center background EFFFEA style color EFFFEA style background 000000 Ep style background 000000 style background 000000 Title style background 000000 Airdate 1 1 align left Don t Be a Sucker 1951 Jun 07 bgcolor EFFFDA 2 2 align left The Case of the Slightly Used Car 1951 Jun 14 3 3 align left Big Punch 1951 Jun 21 bgcolor EFFFDA 4 4 align left The Case of the Two Little Country Girls 1951 Jun 28 5 5 align left Heaven for Sale 1951 Jul 05 bgcolor EFFFDA 6 6 align left The Case of the Spanish Prisoner 1951 Jul 12 7 7 align left The Case of the Not So Old Masters 1951 Jul 19 bgcolor EFFFDA 8 8 align left The Fabulous Mr. James 1951 Jul 26 9 9 align left The Case of Just a Little Larceny 1951 Aug 02 bgcolor EFFFDA 10 10 align left The Diamond That Wasn t 1951 Aug 09 11 11 align left The Starmaker 1951 Aug 16 bgcolor EFFFDA 12 12 align left Night Bank 1951 Aug 23 13 13 align left The Case of the Perpetual Pellet 1951 Aug 30 Season 2 1951 1952 class wikitable style text align center background F0FFFF style color F0FFFF style background ... Woman 1951 Nov 22 13 26 align left The Bill of Sale Racket 1951 Nov 29 bgcolor E0FFFF 14 ... 35 48 align left The Soft Touch 1952 May 01 bgcolor E0FFFF 36 49 align left Small Town Racket 1952 May ... bgcolor EEDEFF 20 83 align left Friend of the People 1953 Mar 12 21 84 align left Antique Racket 1953 ... more details
Infobox programming language name Racket logo File Racket logo.png paradigm multi paradigm programming ... ref name latestversion Racket blog, http blog.racket lang.org 2012 02 racket v521.html Racket v5.2.1 ... ts guide Typed Racket , http docs.racket lang.org lazy Lazy Racket , http docs.racket lang.org ... language Eiffel ref cite web url http www.ccs.neu.edu racket pubs dls10 sf.pdf title DLS ... URL racket lang.org file ext code .rkt code , code .rktl code , code .rktd code , code .scrbl code , code .plt code , code .ss code , code .scm code Racket formerly called PLT Scheme is a programming ... creation, design, and implementation. ref cite web title Welcome to Racket url http docs.racket lang.org guide intro.html accessdate 2011 08 15 ref ref cite web title Dialects of Racket and Scheme url http docs.racket lang.org guide dialects.html accessdate 2011 08 15 ref The Racket platform has four primary components the implementation of Racket including a rich run time system , various libraries, just in time compilation JIT compiler , and more DrRacket formerly named DrScheme , the Racket ..., ref http planet.racket lang.org PLaneT Racket s centralized package distribution system ref Racket s web based package distribution system for user contributed packages. The programming language ... or modular programming modules , and separate dialects of Racket with different semantics of programming ... language Scheme . Matthew Flatt cobbled together MrEd the original virtual machine for Racket from libscheme, wxWidgets , and a few other free systems. ref cite web title Rebuilding Racket s Graphics Layer accessdate 2011 08 23 date 2010 12 08 url http blog.racket lang.org 2010 12 racket version 5.html ... , and a type system Static typing statically typed dialect. Racket On June 7, 2010, PLT Scheme was renamed Racket. ref cite web url http racket lang.org new name.html title From PLT Scheme to Racket publisher Racket lang.org date accessdate 2011 08 17 ref The renaming coincided with the release of Version ... more details
The tennis racket theorem is a result in classical mechanics describing movement of a rigid body with three distinct Angular momentum angular momenta . It also dubbed Dzhanibekov effect named after Russian people Russian astronaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov who discovered the theorem s consequences while in space in 1985. ref http oko planet.su science sciencehypothesis 15090 yeffekt dzhanibekova gajka dzhanibekova.html ref References reflist Mark S. Ashbaugh, Carmen C. Chicone and Richard H. Cushman, http math.ucalgary.ca files publications cushman tennis.pdf The Twisting Tennis Racket , Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations , Volume 3, Number 1, 67 85 1991 . http www.youtube.com watch?v L2o9eBl Gzw Dzhanibekov effect video demonstrated on the International Space Station classicalmechanics stub Category Classical mechanics Category Physics theorems ... more details
Taxobox name Golden mantled Racket tail image Prioniturus platurus.jpg status LC status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animalia phylum Chordata classis Aves ordo Psittaciformes familia Psittacidae genus Prioniturus species P. platurus binomial Prioniturus platurus binomial authority Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot Vieillot , 1818 synonyms The Golden mantled Racket tail Prioniturus platurus is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is Endemism endemic to Indonesia . Its natural habitat s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest s and subtropical or tropical moist montane s. References BirdLife International 2004. http www.iucnredlist.org search details.php 47963 all Prioniturus platurus . http www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007. External links http orientalbirdimages.org search.php?Bird ID 535 Oriental Bird Images Golden mantled Racquet tail Selected photos Psittaculini DEFAULTSORT Golden Mantled Racket Tail Category Prioniturus Category Birds of Indonesia parrot stub fr Palette manteau d or it Prioniturus platurus pt Prioniturus platurus ru fi Celebesinviirikaija sv Guldmantlad flaggstj rtspapegoja ... more details
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