Hiro Motorcycle motorcycle
Hiro Motorcycle Pty Ltd is a company based in Dili, East Timor, with a trade office in Singapore.
The company manufactures many types of motorcycles, ATVs, 3 wheelers, and dirt bikes from 50cc to 150cc.
Electrolytic process starter. Many
An electrolytic process is the use of electrolysis industrially to refine metals or compounds at a high purity and low cost. Some examples are the Hall-Héroult process used for aluminium, or the production of hydrogen from water. Electrolysis is usually done in bulk using hundreds of sheets of metal connected to an electric power source. In the production of copper, these pure sheets of copper are used as starter material for the cathodes, and are then lowered into a solution such as copper sulfate with the large anodes that are cast from impure (97% pure) copper. The copper from the anodes are electroplated on to the cathodes, while any inpurities settle to the bottom of the tank. This forms cathodes of 99.999% pure copper.
Free kick Kick
A free kick is a method of resuming play in various forms of football, including:
- Football (soccer)
- Indirect free kick
- Direct free kick
- Penalty kick
- American football
- Free kick; used to restart play after a safety, touchdown, or field goal, or, rarely as a field goal attempt following a fair catch (a fair catch kick)
- Rugby football
- Free kick
- Australian rules football
- Free kick
Online Film Critics Society Awards 1999 run down much
3rd Online Film Critics Society Awards
2000
Best Film:
American Beauty
The 3rd Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 1999, were given in 2000.
Winners
- Best Actor:
- Kevin Spacey - American Beauty
- Best Actress:
- Reese Witherspoon - Election
- Best Cast:
- American Beauty
- Best Cinematography:
- Sleepy Hollow - Emmanuel Lubezki
- Best Director:
- Sam Mendes - American Beauty
- Best Editing:
- Lola rennt (Run Lola Run) - Mathilde Bonnefoy
- Best Film:
- American Beauty
- Best Foreign Language Film:
- Lola rennt (Run Lola Run), Germany
- Best Screenplay - Adapted:
- Election - Alexander Payne
- Best Screenplay - Original:
- Being John Malkovich - Charlie Kaufman
- Best Supporting Actor:
- Haley Joel Osment - The Sixth Sense
- Best Supporting Actress:
- Catherine Keener - Being John Malkovich
Kickoff (American football) Kick
A kickoff is a method of starting or restarting play in American football.
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A kickoff occurs at the start of each half and before each overtime (in the National and Arena Football Leagues). It is also traditionally decided by a coin toss at the beginning of each game carried out by the referee. The visiting team captain calls either heads or tails. If he is right, he gets to choose whether to receive the ball or to defer to the second half. If an overtime is required, another coin toss takes place to decide who gets first possession during the overtime. After a touchdown or field goal, there is also a kickoff with the team being scored against receiving. There is a special “free kick” after a safety.
Procedure
The ball is to be placed between the kicking team’s goal line and their own 30-yard line (35-yard line in Canadian football, 40-yard line in American high school football). All players except for the kicker on the kicking team must not cross the line at which the ball is placed until the ball is kicked. The receiving team must stay behind the line that is 10 yards from where the ball is placed. The ball can be fielded by the receiving team at any point after it has been kicked, or by the kicking team after it has traveled 10 yards or has been touched by a member of the receiving team. If it is fielded by the kicking team, it is called an onside kick. A low, bouncing kick is called a squib kick. Although a squib kick typically gives the receiving team better field position than they would if a normal kick had been used, a squib kick is sometimes used to avoid giving up a long return, as well as to give the kicking team the best chance of recovering the ball, typically when behind near the end of the game.
Penalties
If a receiving player crosses the 40-yard line before the kick, the ball is to be advanced 5 yards, then re-kicked. If a kicking team player crosses the line at which the ball is placed before it is kicked, a loss of 5 yards is incurred and a re-kick takes place. If the ball goes out of bounds without being touched by a player, the receiving team can choose either to have the ball moved back 10 yards and re-kicked, to take the ball thirty yards past the kick (usually at their own 40 yard line), or to take the ball where it went out of bounds. However, if a kick does not go ten yards out of bounds, the kicking team will take a 5-yard penalty and has the chance to kick another onside kick. If the onside goes out of bounds again the receiving team will receive the ball at the spot the ball went out of bounds. Should the ball go out of bounds in the receiving team’s endzone or is recovered and downed in the receiving team’s end zone, the ball is to be placed at the receiving team’s 20-yard line (25-yard line in Canadian football) and possession is given to the receiving team (this is known as a touchback). Recovering the ball outside the endzone and then downing it inside the endzone results in a safety.
Sources
- NFL rulebook online
- NFL rulebook on kickoffs
The One with Monica’s Boots boots
“The One with Monica’s Boots” is the tenth episode of the eighth season of the television situation comedy Friends.
First aired: December 6, 2001
Plot
When Monica purchases a pair of ridiculously expensive boots, Chandler is less than satisfied. To top this, the boots are actually extremely uncomfortable and when told by Rachel to return them, answers “I can’t. They’re filled with my blood!”
Phoebe learns that Sting’s son attends the same school as Ben and asks if he can try and get tickets for his next concert. Ross replies that Ben and Sting’s son, Jack, don’t get along well, on account of Jack laughing at the fact that Ben’s parents are lesbians, or as Jack puts it “lesbinims”. Phoebe goes to the school anyway and, while pretending to be Susan, schedules a meeting with Jack’s parents about Ben.
Joey tells Rachel that his baby sister is interested in fashion and asks her if she’ll have a meeting with her to talk about her choices in that field. However, Dina isn’t interested in fashion. She’s pregnant and she needs help.
Phoebe’s meeting with Jack’s mother goes badly when she lets slip that she isn’t actually Susan and that she’s just after the tickets. Luckily, Ross tells Phoebe that he managed to get tickets and that her seats aren’t close enough to Sting for her to be arrested for violating the restraining order.
Monica has to go to a party in the boots, but on the walk home, admits to Chandler that they’re killing her feet. She takes them off and Chandler gives her a slow piggy-back ride home. Well, it starts slow. When Monica sees a pair of half-price boots in the window, Chandler promptly runs for his life.
Joey pulls in the baby’s father, Bobby, and attempts to wed them. Rachel makes him see that he is acting stupidly, as per usual, and should realize that Dina’s an adult now. Joey agrees reluctantly.
Additional cast
Dina Tribbiani - Marla Sokoloff</br>Bobby - Marc Rose</br>Herself - Trudie Styler</br>Ben Geller - Cole Sprouse</br>The Teacher - Tammy Townsend</br>
External links
- TV.com - Episode guide: The One With Monica’s Boots
Carry On Doctor carry
Carry On Doctor (1967) is the fifteenth film in the “Carry On” series.
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Francis Bigger, ‘preacher and healer’, ends up in hospital in this chaotic Carry-on medical movie. With Dr. Kilmore in trouble, Matron refuses to support him after the amorous attentions she has fed Dr. Tinkle have paid off. There’s a humorous but slight role for Charles Hawtrey suffering from a sympathetic pregnancy and the film closes with the patients’ revenge on Dr. Tinkle and the formidable Matron because of their conspiracy against Dr. Kilmore.
Trivia
- The exterior shots of the hospital are actually of Maidenhead (in Berkshire, England) Town Hall.
- The portrait hanging over one of the doors is that of Sir Lancelot interpreted by James Robertson Justice in the rival series “Doctor”, produced by Peter Rogers’ wife, Betty E. Box.
- Contains a sly reference to Carry On Nurse (1959), specifically the daffodil thermometer scene. When a nurse approaches Francis Bigger with a daffodil, he says, “Oh no you don’t! I saw that film!”
- The film is entitled in Québec L’hôpital en folie meaning The messed-up hospital.
Business data
Filming dates: 11 September1967 – 20 October1967
External links
- Carry On Doctor Location Guide at The Whippit Inn
Interstate Batteries automotive batteries.
Interstate Battery System of America, Inc., a.k.a. Interstate Batteries, is a privately-owned company that markets automotive batteries manufactured by Johnson Controls through nearly 300 independent distributors. The company is based in Houston, Texas. The current owner and chairman, Norm Miller, is a born-again Christian who promotes Biblical values.
Distributors service more than 200,000 dealers in the United States, Canada and select international locations that mainly include car dealerships and repair shops. IBSA also manages marine/RV, motorcycle, lawn and garden, and other lines of batteries in the starting, lighting and ignition (SLI) markets.
Interstate Batteries PowerCare division supports the major industrial markets of critical and motive power. Services include engineering, installation, testing, UPS, telecommunications and switchgear applications.
Interstate All Battery Centers are franchise retail stores that sell a large variety of batteries, including custom-made batteries. The company also makes battery recycling a priority.
Interstate Batteries is a sponsor for Joe Gibbs Racing car No. 18 driven by J.J. Yeley, and previously driven by Bobby Labonte and Dale Jarrett.
External links
- Interstate Batteries
New Zealand cycling history two-wheelers
The bicycle reached New Zealand in the 1860s in the form of the velocipede, also known as the ‘boneshaker’. These bikes, as elsewhere, soon evolved into the elegant ‘high wheelers’, known
today as penny-farthings. Popular among wealthy young men, they offered adventure and speed (”Colonials like to get along fast”, one newspaper wrote ), but were also dangerous, due to the lack of modern features like efficient brakes. This, and the fact that they were useless on the rough and hilly roads of most of the country, ensured that they were seldom used for more than sport and recreation.
It was the ’safety bicycle’, with its chain, sprockets and similar sized wheels that catapulted the bike into the public arena. Sales boomed, prices dropped and, for half a century, the bicycle became a transport of the masses, at least in the somewhat more level and developed areas of the country.
In the 1950s and 60s, however, New Zealanders turned away from most other transport methods to become one of the countries with the highest car ownership ratios of the world. This led to cycling being relegated back to its recreational and sporting roots.
The oil shocks of the 1970s triggered the first of several bicycle resurgences. New bicycles, first road racing bikes, then BMXs and finally mountain bikes became popular. By 1990, a survey showed cycling to be the second most popular participation sport. Since then, cycle sales have remained high, averaging over 150,000 per annum.
From January 1994 the wearing of cycle helmets became mandatory.
Reference
- Some content copied with permission from RIDE - the story of cycling in New Zealand. Published by The Kennett Brothers, 2004, ISBN 0-9583490-7-X
External links
- RIDE - the story of cycling in New Zealand
- Research on New Zealand Cycling History
Fuse Games in developing
Fuse Games is a Cotswold, Burford based computer and video game developer best known for developing pinball games for Nintendo and is currently a second-party company for the video game console maker.
The small team were founded by the makers of the award winning Pro Pinball series of computer games. At E3 2005, Fuse Games announced that they were developing Metroid Prime Pinball. The game has since been released to generally favorable reviews.
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Games
Game Boy Advance
- Mario Pinball Land
Nintendo DS
- Metroid Prime Pinball
External links
- Official Website