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The Black Seeds are a band from Wellington, New Zealand.

Formed in 1998, The Black Seeds fuse dub, reggae and funk sounds to form a unique musical “party” sound. They usually perform with ten members, with instruments including vocals, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums, bongos, keyboard, woodblock and more. The Black Seeds’ lead singer Barnaby Weir is also the mastermind behind the sideproject Flash Harry, and the brainchild of Fly My Pretties, a collaboration of musicians from Wellington, New Zealand that only record their albums live. Former band member Bret McKenzie is also a member of international award-winning comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, and sideproject Videokid, as well as playing Figwit the elf in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings. The Black Seeds have released four albums, Keep On Pushing (2001) and On The Sun (2003), a remix album Pushed, and Into the Dojo (2006).

Discography

External links

• The Black Seeds official site
• Amplifier.co.nz - The Black Seeds

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Vehicle engineering encompasses the fields of Automotive engineering, Aerospace engineering, and Marine engineering.

See also

• Automobile
• Vehicle dynamics

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Marketing as we all know it today began in the 1970s with the birth of the “marketing orientation”. During the first stage of capitalism business had a production orientation. Business was concerned with production, manufacturing, and efficiency issues. By the mid 1950s a second stage emerged, the sales orientation stage. Business’s prime concern was to sell what it produced. By the early 1970s a third stage, the marketing orientation stage emerged as businesses came to realize that consumer needs and wants drove the whole process. Marketing research became important. Businesses realized it was futile putting a lot of production and sales effort into products that people did not want. Some commentators claim that we are now on the verge of a fourth stage, one of a personal marketing orientation. They believe that the technology is available today to market to people on an individual basis (see personalized marketing, permission marketing, and mass customization). They feel it is no longer necessary to think in broad aggregated terms like market segments or target markets.
Marketing has become an academic discipline in itself, with tertiary degrees in the field now routinely awarded. Masters and Doctrinal degrees can be obtained in numerous subcategories of marketing including: Marketing Research, Consumer Behaviour, International Marketing, Industrial Marketing (also called b-to-b marketing), Consumer Marketing (also called b-to-c marketing), Product Management, and e-Marketing.

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A Jumble sale or rummage sale is a social event at which second hand goods are sold, usually by an institution such as a local Scout Group or church, as a fundraising or charitable effort.

Managers will usually ask local people to donate goods, which are set out on tables in the same manner as car boot sales, and sold to members of the general public, who have paid a fee to enter the sale. Typically in the UK the entry fee is somewhere between 50p and ₤1.50. (Rummage sales in the United States generally do not charge an entrance fee, but may place a small jar near the cash register to collect additional donations.)

One of the largest Jumble Sales in the UK is run annually by 1st Northwood Scout group in mid-May, attracting around 1,000 members of the general public.

Jumble Sales are becoming less prevalent in the UK, as car boot sales and the World Wide Web enable people to sell their unwanted goods rather than donate them to charity.

In Australia and the United States, the phrase ‘white elephant sale’ is sometimes used as a synonym of jumble sale.

See also

• Bazaar
• Charity sale
• Flea market (or swap meet)
• Garage sale
• Give-away shop
• Freecycle
• Car boot sale

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The lowsider or lowside is a type of motorcycle accident usually occurring in a curve and most often caused by either locking wheel due to excessive braking or accelerating too hard out through a corner.

Behaviour leading to a lowsider and physical explanation

All forces occurring between the motorcycle and the road (such as accelerating, decelerating and steering) are transmitted by friction occurring in the contact patch. There is a limited amount of force the contact patch can transmit before the tire begins to slide.

If the driver makes a curve on a motorcycle, the driver applies a force on the motorcycle, causing it to alter its course. This force is transferred to the motorcycle through the contact patch. Braking within a curve will increase the stress in the contact patch, because now there is an additional force which also has to be transmitted through the contact patch. This additional amount of force may cause the tire to slide and lock. If braking is applied equally to both tires, the rear tire will begin to slide first because braking causes a weight shift towards the front tire, improving its contact with the road while lessening the rear tire’s grip.

Once a tire slips in a curve, it will move outwards under the motorcycle and cause the cycle to lay down in the direction the driver is already leaning to counteract the centrifugal force. Unless this movement is counteracted, the motorcycle will lay down and slide outwards. Counteracting this movement by reducing brake force may lead to a highsider.

The name derives from the fact that it is usually the inward side the motorcycle will fall on (or the side that points downward in a curve, the low side).

Drivers are usually advised to do a lowsider rather than a highsider if neither can be avoided. The lowsider has the advantage of the motorcycle sliding before the driver, thus not threatening to crush him.

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“Push and Be Damned Rapids” () is the evocative name for rapids on the Southwest Miramichi River, one of the many tributaries of the Miramichi River, New Brunswick, near the village of Juniper.

The name refers to the difficulty of “poling”, or pushing a canoe upstream with a pole, on these particular rapids.Rayburn, A. (1975) Geographical Names of New Brunswick. Toponymy Study 2. Surveys and Mapping Branch, Energy Mines and Resources Canada, OttawaGeographical Names of Canada http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php

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Moskvitch G1 was a sports car from Moskvitch produced in 1951 by the engineer I. Gladilin. It was the first Moskvitch specially developed for racing. It had aluminium coachwork and was powered by a 1100 cc engine giving 70 hp and a top speed of 190 km/h. The engine was derived from the engine used in the Moskvitch 405, but was later replaced with an engine based on the engine in the newer Moskvitch 407. To increase the power it was fitted with four carburettors from the motorcycle Izh-49. The total weight was 670 kg. The G1 would be the base for later racing cars such as the Moskvitch G2.

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A hollow body electric guitar is an electric guitar with a hollow body in contrast to solid body electric guitars. This is not the same as an electric acoustic guitar, which is an acoustic guitar with the addition of pickups or other means of amplification, either added by the manufacturer or the player.

Hollow body electric guitars are further classified into arch-top and thinline guitars.

Generally, hollow body electric guitars are usually lighter than a solid body guitar of comparative size because its body mass is reduced as a result of the addition of sound chambers. However, they face problems in high-gain amplification, as the sound chambers also induces unsavory feedback.

A few of the most famous manufacturers include Gibson, D’Angelico, Gretsch, Epiphone, Rickenbacker and Ibanez.

There are many well-known hollow body electric guitars. a few examples would be:

• The Gibson L5
• The Gibson ES-335 actually semi-hollow electric guitar, similar in appearance to hollow body Gibson ES-330
• The Ibanez Artcore Series Hollowbody guitar line
• The Gretsch White Falcon Electric Guitar
• The Rickenbacker 300 series
• The Epiphone Les Paul Ultra model

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The Grubber kick is a type of kick in rugby or codes of football with an oval ball which results in the ball moving along the ground.

The point of the grubber is to make the ball roll and tumble across the ground, making it hard for the defending team to pick up the ball without causing a knock on. Its properties make it hard to handle, giving it both high and low bouncing. On random occasions, the ball can uncannily sit up in a perfect catching position.

Rugby Football

It is commonly practiced in games derived from rugby football: rugby league and rugby union. In league, the grubber is usually executed when close to the opposition’s line as an attacking play - grubbering into the ingoal. It can produce irregular bounces making it difficult for the opposing team to secure possession.

Mulligrubber

The Mulligrubber kick is a style of kicking used in the games of rugby league, Rugby Union and Force em’ Backs. A mulligrubber is directed towards the ground and forced to bounce. Often used in situations where either the ball needs to be placed in a specific position (ie. on the try line) or to intentionally stop the opponent from being able to catch the ball on the full.

Australian Rules Football

The kick is rare in Australian rules football, usually seen only in rushed, close proximity shots for goal. In recent times, rules players have practised techniques which use the unpredictable bounce of the ball to curve it towards goal, making it possible to kick goals from seemingly impossible angles (see also Checkside punt). Video of Geelong’s Gary Ablett Jnr kicking an amazing grubber goal

A fast kick close to or along the ground in Australian rules football is sometimes also referred to as a worm burner. These kicks are often used to prevent an opposition player from marking the ball.

Execution

To execute a grubber, the ball is held on each side in an upright position slightly tilted toward the body. The kicker leans toward the ball, with their head and eyes over the ball. The release and the contact with the ball is the most important aspect and the most defining feature of the execution from other kicks. Contact is made with a slight bend in the knee on the upper half of the ball, before it makes contact with the ground. The follow through is with a straight leg and results in the ball moving along the ground.

See also

• Punt kick
• Drop kick
• Bomb kick
• Squib kick

References

• Coaching the Grubber

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O-Ringen, or Swedish 5-Days, is a multiday orienteering race. It has been held annually since 1965. The first competition included only 156 competitors, but at its peak in 1985, exactly 23,000 competitors took part. O-Ringen for 2006 was held in the Swedish province of Hälsingland during July 15th-21st. 11,500 orienteers from 32 different countries were registered to participate in this year’s competition.

This race attracts significant media coverage in Sweden and winning O-Ringen is often considered second only to the World Championships in prestige.

Competitors are assigned start times for the first four stages of the race, but on the fifth and final stage a “chasing start” is used. In a chasing start the overall leader in each class starts first and the remaining competitors start according to the total time they trail. This means that the first runner over the finish line on the final stage is the winner.

Trivia

• The first ever stage of the Swedish 5-Days was held in Denmark.
• Ulla Lindkvist has the most titles in the women’s class with eight wins.
• Lars Lönnkvist has won the men’s class four times
• In 1982 one stage was held north of the Arctic Circle

See also

• Tiomila
• Jukola relay
• List of sporting events in Sweden

External links

• O-Ringen

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