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An indirect free kick is a method of restarting play in a game of association football (soccer). Unlike a direct free kick, a goal may not be scored directly from the kick. The law was derived from the Sheffield Rules that stated that no goal could be scored from a free kick. This law was absorbed into the Laws of the Game in 1877 and later adapted to allow direct free kicks as a result of dangerous play.

Award

An indirect free kick is awarded to the opposing team when a player commits a foul other than a penalty foul (e.g. dangerous play) or infringes certain technical requirements of the laws (e.g. touching the ball a second time following a restart, or the keeper touching the ball with his hands when a team mate has used his foot to pass it back to the keeper). An indirect free kick is also awarded to the opposing team when play is stopped to caution or send-off a player when no specific foul has occurred (e.g. when play is stopped to caution a player for dissenting the decision of the referee). The most common cause is the offside offense.

Unlike a direct free kick, an offence punishable by an indirect free kick does not result in a penalty kick when it occurs in the penalty area, rather it continues to be taken as an indirect free kick.

Procedure

The kick is taken from where the foul occurred, unless the offense was committed within the goal area of the team awarded the kick, in which case the kick may be taken from anywhere within the goal area. An indirect free kick within the opposing team’s goal area is taken from the spot where the offense was committed.

The ball must be stationary prior to being kicked. Opponents must remain 10 yards (9.15m) from the ball (and also outside of the penalty area if the kick is taken from within the kicking team’s penalty area) until the ball is in play. An exception to this is that opponents may be within 10 yards of the ball provided they are standing on their goal line between the goal posts.

The ball becomes in play as soon as it is touched, unless the kick was taken from within the kicking team’s penalty area, in which case it is in play once it has passed completely out of the penalty area.

A goal may not be scored directly from an indirect free kick, rather it must be touched by a second player before a goal can be scored. If the ball goes in goal directly from an indirect free kick, a goal kick is awarded to the defending team. If the ball goes in own goal from an indirect free kick, a corner kick is awarded.

The referee signals that a free kick is indirect by raising one arm until the ball has been touched a second time or has gone out of play.

Infringements

Opposing players must retire the required distance as stated above. Failure to do so may constitute misconduct and be punished by a caution (yellow card).

It is an offence for the kicker to touch the ball a second time until it has been touched by another player; this is punishable by an indirect free kick to the defending team from where the offence occurred, unless the second touch was also a more serious handling offence, in which case it is punishable by a direct free kick or penalty kick, as appropriate.

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Erv Kanemoto (Born May 7, 1943 in Utah) is known as a World Champion motorcycle mechanic and motorcycle race team owner. The son of a farmer, he began boat racing as a child then switched to tuning karts raced by his sister.

He was hired as a race mechanic by Kawasaki in 1968 and became famous for his partnership with motorcycle racer Gary Nixon when they won the 1973 U.S. Road Racing National Championship aboard a temperamental and brutally fast Kawasaki H2R, a 750cc three cylinder, two-stroke.

When Nixon retired in 1979, Kanemoto joined a young up and coming road racer named Freddie Spencer and won the U.S. 250cc Roadracing National Championship with a Yamaha. He spent the 1980 season with Spencer before moving to Europe in 1981 to be a Yamaha mechanic for former 500cc World Champion Barry Sheene.

He is perhaps best known for the World Championships won with Spencer for the Honda Grand Prix team in 1983 and 1985 when Spencer accomplished the double by winning both the 250cc and the 500cc Roadracing World Championships in the same year, a feat once common but rare by this time.

He joined forces with Eddie Lawson in 1989 to win another 500cc World Championship for Honda. Kanemoto also won 250cc World Championships for Honda in 1991 and 1992 with Luca Cadalora as the rider, and in 1997 with Max Biaggi as the rider.

In 2001 Kanemoto was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame. Kanemoto is currently still involved in motorcycle Grand Prix racing.

Reference

• Motorcycle Hall of Fame
• Kanemoto Racing

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For information about the form of substance abuse known as huffing, see inhalant. For the Transformers character, see Huffer (Transformers).

In aviation, a huffer is an external engine used to start large gas turbine jet engines on some types of aircraft.

The huffer works by blowing compressed air through the engine’s turbines, which causes them to spin. Once there is enough air blowing through the compressor and the combustion chamber to light the engine, fuel in the form of vapourised kerosene starts flowing and an igniter similar to a spark plug ignites the fuel. Then fuel flow is increased to spin the engine up to its operating speed, at which point it starts producing thrust. When this happens, obesrvers can sometimes hear a pop and see smoke come out of the back of the engine.

Some aircraft engines do not use huffers, but instead are started using a starter motor, usually electric. This is attached to the main turbine shaft and does the same job as the huffer. The application of the huffer is mainly restricted to very large engines such as those on a Boeing 747, where very large starter motors would be impractical, or to military aircraft, many of which use a huffer to save on weight.

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STart Magazine was a spin-off computer magazine started by ANTIC magazine. Unlike ANTIC, STart focused on Atari’s new ST computer line. The magazine lasted 42 issues, from 1986 to 1991, actually outliving its parent. It originally started from Atari ST specific sections in ANTIC magazine, later becoming a separate monthly publication in 1986. Each issue included a 3.5-inch cover disk.

Its main rivals were ST-Log, which spun out of A.N.A.L.O.G. magazine, and Compute!’s ST Magazine. Both of these also included a cover disk, and STart out lived both of them.

See also

• Atari ST User – A British Atari ST magazine
• Page 6 – Long-running Atari magazine for 8-bit and ST machines

External links

• STart Magazine archive – At the Classic Computer Magazine Archive

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A dopaminergic nerve fibre is a nerve fibre for which the neurotransmitter is dopamine; that is to say, it is triggered into firing when incident nerves that form a synapse with it releases dopamine into the synaptic cleft.

Dopaminergic nerve terminals are present in many brain nuclei, and are particularly associated with those that control emotional and motivational behaviour, as well as the control of movement. Disorders in the dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra in the basal ganglia of the brain are known to result in Parkinson’s Disease.

Dopaminergic nerve terminals contain a number of uptake mechanisms for the transmitters that are released into the synaptic cleft. These uptake mechanisms are the target for numerous drugs.

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Ironstone is a fine-grained, heavy and compact sedimentary rock. Its main components are the carbonate or oxide of iron, clay and/or sand. It can be thought as a concretionary form of siderite. Ironstone also contains clay, and sometimes calcite and quartz.

Appearance

Freshly cleaved ironstone is usually gray. The brown external appearance is due to oxidation of its surface.
Ironstone, being a sedimentary rock is not always homogeneous, and can be found in a red and black banded form called tiger iron, sometimes used for jewelry purposes.

Sometimes ironstone hosts concretions or opal gems.

Occurrence

Ironstone mostly occurs in the form of nodules. It is easy to find ironstone overlying coal measures.

Ironstone as a source of iron

Ironstone is a bountiful and widespread source of iron (Fe), although it only contains <50% iron, far less than the other main source of iron, hematite. Historically, most of British iron originated from ironstone, but it is now rarely used for this purpose.

See also

• Iron ore
• Banded iron formation

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Yamoto can refer to:

• the former town of Yamoto, Miyagi, now part of Higashimatsushima
• Japanese battleship Yamato
• Yamato 1, a boat built in the early 1990’s by Mitsubishi which uses a magnetohydrodynamic drive, is driven by a liquid helium-cooled superconductor, and can travel at 15 km/h.
• a brand of off-road motorcycles and all terrain vehicles owned by Patriot Motorcycle Company

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The no shadow kick () is a martial arts technique associated with the martial arts master Wong Fei Hung. Said to be so fast that it casts no shadow, the no shadow kick actually involves launching a fast, swift front kick while an opponent’s attention is drawn elsewhere, usually by keeping his arms occupied.

The traditional Chinese long robe offers an additional way to execute the no shadow kick. By flipping the front of one’s robe towards one’s opponent, his view of the kick underneath is obscured.

While widely exaggerated by Jet Li’s Wong Fei Hung in the Once Upon a Time in China movie series as a flurry of aerial kicks, you can actually see a glimpse of the real kick, when Jet Li’s character kicks his student, Butcher Lam or Porky as a reprimand, in one of the scenes of the first movie in the series.

Another example can be found in Jackie Chan’s first Drunken Master movie. The antagonist uses the no shadow kick as a bit of a signature move and executes it by flailing his kicking leg rapidly to confuse his opponent before making the strike.

See also

• Wong Fei Hung

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AntiCMOS.B is a boot virus. It was isolated in mid-1995. Like AntiCMOS.A, AntiCMOS.B became common worldwide. However, this variant never reached the success level of the original, and is now consiered obsolete (the original is still occasionally reported).

Infected floppy disks contain the following text:

I am Li Xibin

Additionally, AntiCMOS.B attempts to play a tune, but this fails due to coding errors [1]. AntiCMOS.B is otherwise a typical boot virus, much like its predecessor.

External links

• McAfee

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Cooper was a brand of off-road motorcycles made in Mexico using engine parts made in Italy and later, engines made by Sachs. Imported into the United States in the early 1970’s by Frank Cooper and sold as Cooper. Frank Cooper was a dealer for Maico when he contracted with Mexican motorcycle company, Islo to produce an Enduro and also a motocross model.

Islo also made a trials bike from 1971 - 1975 called GRM (Grapevine Racing Motors) that was imported to the USA, for Bill Grapevine, who designed the bike. Islo also supplied the engines for California’s Jones Motorsports who had the AMMEX motorcycle franchise. The Islo manufacturing facilities and name were bought by Honda around 1982

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