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“Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” was the second single from Geri Halliwell’s second solo album. It was released on July 30, 2001. The song peaked at number-eight in the UK charts. It sold around 77,500 copies in the UK and was the 154th best seller of 2001.

Two different versions of the European 2-Track CD Single were made to gain sales adding her previous hit “It’s Raining Men” as the track #2, this edition of the single was released in selected European Countries.

Tracklisting and formats

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster”.

• European 2-Track CD Single (#1)

1. “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” - 3:24
2. “New Religion” - 3:05

• European 2-Track CD Single (#2)

1. “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” - 3:24
2. “It’s Raining Men” [Album Version] - 4:19

• European/UK CD1

1. “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” - 3:24
2. “New Religion” - 3:05
3. “Breaking Glass” - 3:37

• European/UK CD2

1. “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” - 3:24
2. “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” [Sleaze Sisters Anthem Edit] - 4:58
3. “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” [Rob Searle Edit] - 4:25
4. “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” [Burnt Remix] - 7:07

• Australian CD

1. “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” - 3:24
2. “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” [In The Name Of Charlie Rapino] - 5:02
3. “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” [Sleaze Sisters Anthem Mix] - 8:02
4. “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” [Burnt Remix] - 7:07
5. “It’s Raining Men” [Almighty Mix] - 8:12

Chart performance

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M72 or M-72 may refer to:

• Messier 72 (M72), a globular cluster in the constellation Aquarius
• M72 LAW, a United States Army rocket propelled grenade
• M72 automatic rifle, a Yugoslav copy of the RPK
  
• M-72 (Michigan highway), a state highway in Michigan
• M-72 Motorcycle, a combat motorcycle built in the Soviet Union

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A body lift is a common and cheap method to run larger tires on a vehicle. It involves installing a puck where the body mounts to the frame in order to increase the clearance between tires and the body. This is often used to allow the placement of a larger motor for an engine swap. It is considered by many to be inferior to a well built suspension lift. The downfall to installing pucks for spacing is that over time the rubber in the puck tends to deteriorate. This causes the body to sag, and will eventually become unsafe. While the controversy continues about body lifts verses suspension lifts, a properly installed aftermarket body lift kit can give the desired effect just as safely as a suspension lift.

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Pat Hennen (born April 27, 1953) was an American Grand Prix motorcycle roadracer. He became the first American to win a 500cc Grand Prix motorcycle race when he won the 1976 Finnish Grand Prix for Suzuki.

He finished third in the 1976 500cc roadracing World Championship. The following year, he would again finish third in the world championship and won the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone. He also won the New Zealand Marlboro series for three consecutive years in 1974/75 ,75/76 and 1976/77. Riding Suzuki TR500, TR750 and RG500 Machines. The Marlboro Series was run over five seasons of which he won three.

Unfortunately, his promising career was cut short when he crashed while competing in the 1978 Isle of Man TT. He had just recorded the first sub-twenty minute lap in TT history when he struck a bird at approximately 150 mph. The subsequent crash caused severe head injuries from which he was unable to fully recover. He subsequently retired from racing and currently lives in California.

Motorcycle Grand Prix Results

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Hessian (from Hesse in Germany) refers to a style of boot that became popular in the 18th century. Initially used as standard issue footwear for the military, especially officers, it would become widely worn by civilians as well. The boots had a low heel, and a semi-pointed toe that made them practical for mounted troops as they allowed easy use of stirrups. They reached to the knee and had a decorative tassel at the top of each shaft.
The Hessian boot would evolve into the rubber work boots known as “wellies” and the cowboy boot.

When describing the appearance of Marley’s Ghost in A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens mentions the tassels on his boots, indicating that they were Hessian style.

In the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Patience, Colonel Calverley sings a song about the military uniform, how impressive it looks, and the effect it has on women. The song specifically mentions Hessian boots:

When I first put this uniform on,

I said, as I looked in the glass,

“It’s one to a million

That any civilian

My figure and form will surpass.

Gold lace has a charm for the fair,

And I’ve plenty of that, and to spare,

While a lover’s professions,

When uttered in Hessians,

Are eloquent everywhere!”

A fact that I counted upon,

When I first put this uniform on!

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The Mice were a young Cleveland-based power-pop trio active in the mid-80s. Brothers Bill Fox and Tommy Fox played with Bill’s high school friends and performed music in various minor and untitled lineups. Together with an unknown friend who would not end up in the band’s final lineup, two recordings were made which appeared on a self-released (”Mouse Tunes”) 500-copy 7″ single, Can You Walk on the Water Baby?. An ad was placed in the newspaper that read closely to “Mice seek bassist. No metalheads!” and after the responses came in, Fox chose bassist Ken Hall to complete the trio’s lineup. An EP was made on the Herb Jackson Record label called For Almost Ever, recorded in 1985, containing the song “Not Proud of the USA”, which would receive considerable airplay on freeform station WFMU during the Bush Jr. presidential administration. The EP was followed up a year later with the full-length LP entitled Scooter on the St. Valentine record label. Scooter was also released in the UK on the What Goes On label.

The Mice played numerous Cleveland venues, performing a mix of their own songs as well as covers from The Who, The Beatles, Ramones, and others. After touring the mid-Western United States, they broke up when lead singer/songwriter/guitarist Bill Fox left the band, leaving behind the half-finished Canterbury Bells LP (which never saw a release) and cancelling plans for a European tour. The Mice song, Bye Bye Kitty Cat would be covered more than a decade later by the East-cost band, Superchunk.

In 2004, Scat Records released a reissue CD called For Almost Ever Scooter, which compiled together the two Mice professional releases, the For Almost Ever EP and the Scooter LP. The reissue CD was supposed to include the nine completed songs from the Canterbury Bells LP and selections of a live performance from Cleveland radio WRUW’s Live in Cleveland show, but the extra material was taken out at the last minute at the band’s request.

Discography

Singles

• Can You Walk on the Water Baby? / Little Creatures (Self-released Mouse Tunes, 1984)

Split 7″

• Little Rage (The Mice) / House Fall Down (Yo La Tengo) (What Goes On Records, 1987)

Albums

• For Almost Ever (Herb Jackson, 1985)
• Scooter (St. Valentine Records, 1986)
• For Almost Ever Scooter (Scat Records, 2004)

Compilation Contributions

• Jim Clevo Presents - Listen (cassette compilation, Label Unknown, 1987)

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The Čezeta was a motor scooter manufactured from 1957 to 1964 in what was then Czechoslovakia, (now the Czech Republic), by the Česká Zbrojovka Strakonice (ČZ) company, which manufactured motorcycles from 1935 to 1997.

The Čezeta was unusually long for a two-wheeled vehicle, having a torpedo-shaped body with a long seat that lifted to reveal a substantial luggage compartment, using space that in most scooters was occupied by the fuel tank. The front mudguard was fixed to the body and fully streamlined into the legshields. It contained the fuel tank with the headlight fitted into a recess low in the front and a luggage rack on the flat top surface. It was a common joke amongst Čezeta riders that the exposed front tank with built in headlight formed an explosive warhead and detonator for the torpedo, though in practice the Čezetas proved no more likely to catch fire than any other motor scooter, even in serious collisions.

The scooter was driven by the 175cc or 200cc ČZ two-stroke single-cylinder motorcycle engine, giving a top speed of 55mph. The engine was modified for the enclosed scooter by having a drive pulley on the crankshaft driving a fan by means of a Vee belt. There were four foot-operated gears.

The 501 model, built from 1957 to 1959, had the rear wheel supported on one side only and suspended by a rubber block. The later 502 model had a full fork with motorcycle shock absorbers.

A three-wheeled utility version, the 505, was built starting in 1960. This vehicle used mechanical components and front bodywork from the 502.

References

N-Zeta

In New Zealand, during the 1960s a local company, JNZ Manufacturing Ltd assembled the ‘Čezeta’ under the name ‘N-Zeta’.

See also

• List of scooter manufacturers

External links

• http://www.jawaczownersclub.co.uk/

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A superkick is the name used when referring to a high side thrust kick attack in professional wrestling, which sees the wrestler use the sole of the foot to strike an opponent’s head or chin, usually preceded by a sidestep, often referred to as a Crescent Kick, or just a Side kick. The wrestler will often slap the thigh of his kicking leg (or sometimes, his chest since the audience will be focused on his kicking leg), at the point where his foot makes contact with his opponent, to generate an appropriate sound effect.

“Gentleman” Chris Adams was among the first wrestlers to use the superkick and was for years credited as its originator. To set up his finisher, Adams would use a back body drop, then as his opponent gets on his feet, Chris would superkick him in the jaw. Adams first used the enzuigiri as his “superkick”, before touring Japan in the early-1980s and bringing the real maneuver to the United States. He was also the first wrestler to utilize the superkick from the top turnbuckle (around 1989). A martial arts expert and a black belt in Judo, Adams often used thrust kicks and his enzuigiri during his earlier matches while still in England. The term superkick was coined by Adams himself, and was used in wrestling terminology towards the latter-half of 1983 while Adams’ popularity soared in World Class Championship Wrestling.

Many wrestlers have used the superkick as a signature move since then, most notably Shawn Michaels who uses this as his finisher, referring to it as the Sweet Chin Music. Michaels often precedes the move with an inverted atomic drop, followed by a flying elbow from the top turnbuckle. While the opponent gathers himself and stands back up, Michaels usually stands in front of a turnbuckle and taps his feet, called by announcers as “tuning up the band”, before landing the superkick. Michaels kicks the opponent in the chin, thus the move being called a Sweet Chin Music. Michaels in an interview said that he learned the superkick from Adams himself while wrestling in Texas during the mid-1980s.

Shawn Michaels’ nephew, Matt Bentley (as Michael Shane) also used the move, calling it the Sweet Shane Music. However, due to trademark infringement, he now has to go by his real name and refers to his signature move as the Head On Collision. While wrestling as “Dude Love”, parodying Michaels, Mick Foley performed a kick to the shin, calling it Sweet Shin Music.

Others notable wrestlers that have used this kick are Stevie Richards, Eric Bischoff, Derrick King, Tajiri, etc.

Past wrestlers such as Paul Diamond, Marty Jannetty, Hollywood John Tatum, Art Barr, Wendell Cooley, and Eric Sbraccia have also used the superkick as either their finisher or set-up maneuver.

Moves similar to the superkick

• Double superkick - two person tandem superkick
• Flying thrust kick - flying superkick
• Savate kick - a superkick, only without the sidestep.
• Shuffle side kick - after dodging an attack and going behind an opponent the wrestler would lift their leg high into the air as they twisted their hips turning him/herself side-on towards their opponent catching their foot against the opponent’s face
• Single leg running dropkick - jumping version

See also

• Double-team attacks
• Professional wrestling attacks
• Professional wrestling high-flying techniques

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An Option ROM typically consists of firmware that is called by the system BIOS. For example, an adapter card that controls a boot device might contain firmware that is used to connect the device to the system once the Option ROM is loaded.

Standard IBM PC BIOS

This section refers to how option ROMs are used with standard IBM PC compatible BIOSes (e.g. most desktop PCs that will run Windows.)

A common example of an option ROM is the VGA BIOS found on all standard PC video cards. This is a special case of an option ROM, as it is loaded very early on in the boot process (otherwise nothing would appear on the screen during the POST.) It is usually easy to tell when this particular ROM is initialized, as it is the first time something appears on the monitor since the computer was switched on. Unless working with an embedded system, the video BIOS is almost always located in the C000 memory segment (i.e. the very start of the memory area reserved for option ROMs.) Other ROMs can be located from segments C800 all the way up to E000. The BIOS Boot Specification (BBS) requires that option ROMs be aligned to 2kB boundaries (e.g. segments C800, C880, C900, C980, etc.).

After the basic POST checks are complete, the option ROMs are normally initialized. This gives them the chance to hook (intercept) system interrupts, in order to provide increased functionality to the system.

SCSI

For example, a SCSI controller card may hook interrupt 0×13 (INT 13H) which is responsible for providing disk services. Once it has done this, any subsequent calls to INT 13H will be “caught” by the SCSI option ROM (or “SCSI BIOS”), allowing it to insert details about any disks that may exist on the SCSI bus. Before it had hooked the interrupt there may have been no disks on the system, but by intercepting the interrupt and altering the values returned, the SCSI BIOS can make all the disks on the SCSI bus visible to the system.

In this particular case, the BIOS itself may call INT 13H to provide a list of possible boot devices to the user, and because the SCSI BIOS has hooked the interrupt the user will be able to choose not only which standard system devices to boot from, but also which SCSI disks as well.

Network boot ROM

Another common option ROM is a network boot ROM. This allows a computer without any disks or storage to run an operating system by downloading the necessary software over the network. Of course there needs to be some program to do this download of code, and this is what is stored in the option ROM. This option ROM works differently to the SCSI example above, as it does not provide any new devices to the system. Older ROMs hooked either INT 18H or INT 19H as these two interrupts are called when the boot process is about to begin - INT 19H is called to initiate the boot process, while INT 18H is called when the system has tried to boot from all possible devices and none were bootable. By hooking INT 18H, the system would try to boot from the network when all other boot devices (floppy drives, hard drives, etc.) had failed. By hooking INT 19H, the system would attempt to boot from the network before any other devices.

BIOS Boot Specification

Since these two methods don’t offer a large amount of control over the boot process, the BIOS Boot Specification (BBS) was developed. This provided a more standardized approach where an option ROM could be initialized at the start of the boot process, it could inform the BIOS about its functionality, and then it could be called later on in the boot process depending on the order the user had selected.

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Massimo Tamburini is an Italian motorcycle designer for motorcycle companies including: Aprilia, Cagiva, Ducati; and Bimota, which he founded, together with Bianchi and Morri (BiMoTa).

He currently works at the CRC (Centro Ricerche Cagiva), a subsidiary of MV Agusta, in San Marino. He is known for introducing some of the most stunning motorcycle designs, including:

• Bimota DB1

• Ducati Paso

• Ducati 851

• Ducati 888

• Ducati 916

• Cagiva Mito

• MV Agusta F4 750 and 1000

Tamburini’s experience within the motorcycle industry began when he attended the world championship race at Monza in 1961. Captivated by the sound of the MV Agusta’s four stroke engine ridden by Provini, Tamburini devoted his life to the design of motorcycles.

Tamburini’s designs are the most iconic in the world of motorcycle design. The grandmaster of the Italian school of motorcycle design, Tamburini’s motorcycles contrast sharply with the designs of the Japanese school of design.

In 1973, Tamburini was one of three founders of Bimota, but he was to join Cagiva in the mid-1980s. In his new position, he designed the classical Ducati 916. When Cagiva acquired MV Agusta, Tamburini designed the new range.

In the field of product design, Tamburini is on a par with the very best Italian automotive designers such as Giorgetto Giugiaro and Marcello Gandini.

He lives and works at CRC in San Marino.

References

• The Man behind the MV Agusta F4 … and the Ducati 916

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