You can play multiple cards at once. Go to the Fast Mart and use the CD. Turn the volume all the way up, to get rid of the teenagers. The teenagers will go away and you will get No Freez Wiper Fluid! Go to the guy having trouble at the main street and use it. Open the curtains, and Greg will snap out of it. If you can find Tingy, you can find Manny. Exit the house. A truck comes. And Manny is in it! Run after him, and find him in the Laundromat. Now you get to sled home! You are commenting using your WordPress.

You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Dodge them as best as you can and pick up the Snow Shovel that is there.

If you were successful, this will propel the trash can onto the second floor of the school building. He will leave and take his van with him. A Wimpy restaurant in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Run toward the tree at the right of the school, and get the Combo.

Push the trash can onto the left side of the see-saw, and jump off the school onto the other end to launch the can. Push it toward the trash-can underneath the window Manny jumped into. Jump into the school using the can as a step stool. It was released on March 14, for members. Manny wears black winter clothing and a scarf. He has three hairs on his head, and a crocodile-like head with two front teeth.

He also wears little shoes. His windshield wipers are frozen, so give him the anti-freeze. You'll have to play a minigame where you pour it and get it to exactly four liters. The snowplow driver then decides to go and get some coffee, and you'll wonder where Greg went.

At his house, Greg is too busy "concentrating" on his game to talk to you. Open the curtains, then he'll tell you that Manny was probably looking for Tingy , and wherever Tingy is, Manny must be. Leave the house, and you'll see Manny driving the snowplow!

He stops in front of the laundromat, where he finds Tingy. Manny has finally been found. However, as you and Greg are about to walk home, the Whirley Street kids come back and start throwing snowballs! After you help Greg roll a snowball at them, you'll get to play a sledding minigame. There's no way to lose this minigame, and you'll always make it home. You'll get to Greg's house just as Susan comes back.

Greg then thanks you for getting him out of trouble and gives you the island's medallion. Characters who do not have an official name will be italicized and referred to by their internal name. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Wiki Explore. Book Series. Roll back edits Content Moderation Adminship Bureaucratship. German Spanish French Polish Ukrainian.

Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Wimpy Wonderland. History Talk 0. The island's banner. Then exit the house and go into the garage. Click on the leaf blower hanging on the wall to pick it up.

Then leave the garage and walk to the left until you see a snowman. Use the leaf blower to blow the snow away.

The kid inside of the snowman will give you a Bingo Troll as a reward for saving him. Run back to the right until you get to Leisure Towers.

Go inside to the bingo area and take out your Bingo Troll. Follow the instructions and mark your cards when you see a number roll along the top line.

Exit Leisure Towers and run to the left until you get to the Fast Mart. Go inside and take out the Soothing Sounds CD. Turn the volume all the way up and the teens will leave from outside of the store. The store owner will give you a bottle of No-Freez Wiper Fluid for your help. Exit the store and run to the right until you see the guy standing by the snow plow truck. Take out the No-Freez wiper fluid. He says he needs exactly 4 liters of wiper fluid. Pour 3 liters into the dog bowl, then pour that into the white cup.

Then pour 3 more liters into the dog bowl which will leave 4 liters in the bottle. He says Manny is probably looking for is blanket. Walk outside and Manny drives by in the snow plow. Follow the plow to the left and go inside the Laundromat. Greg shows up and says you have to get him home before their mom gets home.

The capital gives visitors plenty of opportunities for adventure, both on the land and in the waters. Sailing has been an important part of the island's culture for hundreds of years, and visitors can hire boats of all kind on the coast. The offshore waters are filled with wrecks to explore and good opportunities for shelf diving, and Dutchman's Bay offers some of the world's best conditions for windsurfing. The quiet fishing village of Seatons is not far from the capital, and visitors embark from the village to the North Sound's mangrove-lined islands.

The picturesque trip ends at Barge reef, where Southern Stingrays abound in the crystal clear waters. Visitors are welcome to play with, feed and pet the tame creatures, and the amazing animals often astound with their friendliness. The unforgettable memory is made even better thanks to the pristine coral reefs and unbeatable scenery. On land, visitors can hike through the island's many trails, spot over species of birds, golf at two world-class courses, ride horses from several stables and ride scooters through St.

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Days and nights are refreshingly cooled by the gentle trade winds. Barbuda became separated from Antigua by about 28 miles, when the sea-levels of the world rose considerably at about 10, BC. Today parts of Barbuda are geologically flooded to form interesting lagoons. Here may be seen the largest breeding and nesting colony of the Magnificent Frigate Bird in the world. Barbuda supports a tremendous diversity of native habitats, as yet unthreatened by development. It was at this time that slaves were brought from Africa to work the plantations.

At its height, about 37, slaves were in forced labour and living in wretched conditions. Happily, the slave trade was abolished in and by , all slaves were emancipated. In Antigua became an Associated State, with an entirely independent internal affairs administration, culminating on 1 November with the twin islands becoming fully independent with its own Prime Minister. Local businesses Visiting Antigua and Barbuda and wondering where to stay, what to do, where to eat and how to get around?

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Illustrations by Kat Whelan Website by Goldhosts. Tansy or Tanacetum vulgare, is a decorative and pungent hardy perennial that was once important medicinally but is now seldom used. Tansy can grow to a height of cm in dry, stony soil and a sunny site, Tansy will produce a beautiful display of finely divided compound leaves which are a rich green, and clusters of bright yellow button-like flowers held above on long stems in late summer July-Sept.

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The early evidence for the utilisation of plants for basketry is known from Israel 23, BP. Although plants were used most probably for making cord and possibly nets, there is, however, so far no tangible record indicating textile production Nadel et al. It is important to remember that the cold environment of the tundra in which textile production first appeared, rather than the warm climate of the Mediterranean or the Caucasus, does not necessarily mean that it was linked with clothing, since animals skins and fur unarguably provided the best protection against the cold.

My own research relating to the use of plants by Mid-Holocene north European fisher-gatherer-hunters has identified the use of particular plants sedges, nettles, birch and lime bast in weaving, and the production of basketry, cords and nets allowed me to focus on the use of plant fibre within the native environment outside the communities' reliance on domesticated plants and animals for clothing Janik By combining the three strands of evidence outlined above, this project will enhance understanding of the 'know how' of weaving technology.

Specific research questions include: 1 Which plants could be used? The methodology to be used in this project will build an understanding of plant utilisation in the process of textile production based on ethnographic, historical and archaeological data. To achieve this, a reference collection of plants known to have been used in textile production within the indigenous environment of temperate and cold climate of Eurasia has been established Phytoliths , answering the first question which plants could be used?

Plants that were introduced into temperate Eurasia by farming communities, such as cotton, flax or hemp, were not included in this stage in the reference collection. Different types of reference material for particular plant specimens have been acquired: 1 herbarium specimen, 2 phytolith specimen of steam, leaf and fluorescent part of the plant , 3 microscope-magnified photographs of phytoliths that are an integral part of the plant fibre.

The creation of phytolith reference specimens has been vital in trying to establish the presence of plant fibres in the archaeological record.

Phytoliths are inorganic plant structures created by depositing silica during the plant's lifetime, and recoverable from soil samples after all plant organic remains have decomposed. Such preservation allows the recovery of different plant remains and their parts as well as permitting the reconstruction of plant utilisation thousands of years ago without any organic preservation present on an archaeological site. For example, the phytoliths of sedges, rushes and nettles are very distinctive and preserve well in most archaeological contexts.

It was vital to create reference material to find out to what extent we can define phytoliths of particular species used as fibre versus, for example, a plant's genus or family. This has never been done before and there is no phytolith atlas or any other publication that will allow us to conduct such recognition based on already existing research.

By establishing the phytolith reference material, different scholars will be able to compare the phytoliths captured in archaeological samples on order to establish textile production and weaving without the presence of any organic remains. The plants included in the reference material are of two types: first, the particular plant species known to have been used in textile production; and second, plants that belong to genuses we know were used in textile making, although individual species are not defined.

The first category includes: common rush or soft rush Juncus effuses L. The second category includes the genus of club-rushes or bulrushes Scirpus sp , common reeds Phragmites sp , reedmaces Typha sp , sedges Carex sp and small-reed grasses Calamagrostis sp. In the second category, the four most common and distinctive species which were most abundant under prehistoric climatic conditions has been analysed. Selecting particular plants that are known to be used in fibre production from ethnographic, historical and archaeological records will allow the seasonality and scheduling of plant gathering and various activities associated with textile production to be established in the future Barber , Ericksen et al.

This in turn will allow us to answer the second and third questions what methods were used in preparing woven fibres? Those analyses have the potential to lead to a deeper understanding of the origins of weaving as well as developing a new understanding of the earliest technology of plant use, both in terms of technological 'know-how', and what symbolic significance weaving and woven materials had in the everyday life of Palaeolithic communities.

Web access to the plant reference material will provide a focus on the origins of weaving and plants use over the millennia. The research also offers an interdisciplinary platform for multi-disciplinary approaches to plant utilisation going beyond the discipline of archaeology itself.

Updated: Weaving became an indispensable skill for Neolithic people and was consequently closely connected to the family unit, a tradition that would endure for millennia. The art of weaving was slowly perfected and refined over thousands of years, eventually leading to highly specialised cloth produced by skilled practitioners.

It is no surprise that the production of this cloth, demanding higher levels of skill, coincided with the gradual movement of weaving away from the household and into the workplace.

By the Middle Ages, a well-developed supply chain consisting of dyers, spinners, weavers, fullers, drapers, and tailors had been implemented to support the booming textile and weaving industry that was fast becoming one of the most lucrative trades across Europe.

The city of Coventry was made particularly wealthy through the explosive weaving trade. At this time, weaving in Europe continued to take place at the loom that had dominated the weaving process for millennia, although a number of improvements, imported from China and other global empires, were gradually introduced to expedite the process.

For instance, in the 11th-century the introduction of horizontal, foot-operated looms enabled an easier, much more efficient weaving process. Furthermore, the spinning wheel, likely originating in India sometime between and CE and eventually imported to Europe from the Middle East, replaced the earlier method of hand spinning. Colonial America relied on Great Britain for manufactured goods so they began to weave cloth from locally produced fibers.

Cotton and wool was mostly used but because of the labor-intensive process to separate the seeds from the cotton fiber, wool was used more.

That changed with the invention of the cotton gin, a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds. Flax and hemp were also used as a material for fabrics. Plain weave was preferred at the time with decorations woven into the fabric or wood block printing.

Industrial revolution switched weaving from hand to machine. John Kay invented the flying shuttle in and enabled weaving of wider fabric as well as made it faster. The first factories for weaving were built in For many centuries the arrangement of the weaving tools did not change, horizontal looms with several heddles were used for fabrics, while tapestries and carpets continued to prefer the vertical loom.

As the industrial revolution approached, the logic of production and use of manufactured goods changed, the new requirements also involved weaving which, born as a family-run business, was now forced to respond to large-scale production demands.

The new socio-cultural context calls for a simplification and speeding-up of weaving operations by trying to mechanize the action of the loom. After several attempts, started around the second half of , E. Cartwright patented, in , the first mechanically driven chassis, driven by a steam engine, which formed the basis of industrial production.

Nevertheless, the processing of textured fabrics fabrics characterized by a design that is not printed but is obtained with complex warp and weft weaves remained very complicated. The solution arrived in with the French entrepreneur J. M Jacquard: he built a weaving machine to be applied to the loom, which allowed the automatic movement of the single warp threads by means of a perforated card. The Jacquard loom is probably the most important invention in the textile sector, besides allowing the processing and production of very complex fabrics, it reduces the need for manpower because it replaces the drawlooms or heddles, originally the weaver had to be assisted by a helper, who had to manually move the heddles.

Despite being very innovative, the new loom was not well received; on the contrary, its spread was long opposed by the weavers themselves for fear of losing their jobs, and the Council of the City of Lyon even ordered its destruction.

Called Me at the Zoo, it is a frankly embarrassing 18 seconds of a young man standing in front of the elephant enclosure and almost completely obscuring the animals while explaining the elephants have really, really long trunks. Today more than hours of video content is uploaded to YouTube every minute.

Yes: those units are the right way around. There are those in broadcasting who believe that, if you only look hard enough, every single television programme ever recorded is available on the web somewhere.

Commercial VoD services like Netflix and Amazon Prime have moved on from being a convenient repository of content — the modern equivalent of the Blockbuster store — to creating their own programming, from dramas like Orange is the New Black to The Grand Tour. As a result, broadcasters are now expected to provide their own VoD services. Catch-up TV services are the most popular, giving the effect of a VCR without the troublesome hardware, and allowing you to watch a programme at your convenience after its original transmission.

Broadcasters are moving into original content for VoD, either as supplementary material for on-air programming or as showcases for new ideas. Whether it is big budget, Ultra HD premium productions or a day at the zoo, video on demand will dominate our online world. I certainly wrote it a lot 15 or more years ago, and it seemed to stick. The big trend today is being driven by consumers, who want one thing above all others. They want to choose when, where and how they watch programmes. Live events — particularly sport — apart, the idea of … Continued.

Subscribership to high-speed Internet access service via cable modems had grown to more than 10 million by the end of the third quarter of As for telephone service using the cable conduit, growth was evident in all the limited market areas where such service was offered.

More than 2 million customers were using cable for their phone connections by mid To accommodate accelerating demand, cable programmers are rapidly expanding their menu of digital cable offerings. By , about nationally-delivered cable networks were available, with that number growing steadily. A security device called a CableCARD is provided by cable operators to allow cable customers to view encrypted digital programming after it is authorized to do so by the cable operator.

Competitive digital phone service gained momentum as cable introduced Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP telephone services. At the start of , cable companies counted a total of about 5 million telephone customers, representing VoIP customers and customers for traditional circuit switched telephone service. One year later, at the end of , NCTA estimated that number had reached , Today, cable provides video entertainment, Internet connectivity, and digital telephone service to millions of consumers.

Cable Operators have reinvented television, creating TV that goes where our customers go. Wherever you are, on whatever device you choose. Nov 10, Oct 29, Oct 28, History of Cable. Click on the graph above for a more in depth view. The s and s Cable television originated in the United States almost simultaneously in Arkansas, Oregon and Pennsylvania in to enhance poor reception of over-the-air television signals in mountainous or geographically remote areas. The s By , almost cable systems serving , subscribers were in business.

The s In the early s, the FCC continued its restrictive policies by enacting regulations that limited the ability of cable operators to offer movies, sporting events, and syndicated programming. However, concerted industry efforts at the federal, state, and local levels resulted in the continued lessening of restrictions on cable throughout the decade. The s The Cable Act established a more favorable regulatory framework for the industry, stimulating investment in cable plant and programming on an unprecedented level.

With Restream Studio, anyone can easily create professional live streams and truly maximize their audience reach in a matter of just a few clicks. In the year , the world faced something it has never faced before, something petrifying — the global COVID pandemic. Although the whole global economy received a stunning blow, live streaming, on the contrary, encountered new opportunities.

When it comes to live streaming and the reasons behind its incredible popularity, one of the most important is the ability to engage with thousands of people across the globe in real time. Streamers can communicate with their viewers via live chat and make their streams truly interactive and interesting to watch.

Another crucial reason that brought live streaming to fame is its cost-efficiency. Moreover, live streams can be way less expensive in terms of production. Such cost-efficiency attracts not only individual streamers but also many businesses all over the world — not to mention the ability to easily monetize live streams.

Finally, considering the regulations regarding the recent pandemic, live streaming allows people to stay connected while staying at home. The technology has already helped a lot in global attempts to stop the coronavirus from spreading. And given the lockdowns that have continued ever since, this growth has remained steady.

There are no apparent reasons for live streaming to stop growing in the foreseeable future. Smaller streaming platforms like Trovo, Picarto, and Mixcloud will continue to attract specific audiences, slowly but surely grow, and develop their services.

Top social media companies are monopolizing internet communication, and live streaming is no exception. The internet continues to grow, and live streaming is growing with it. Regardless, video games will keep the live streaming industry safe and sound even if all other segments fail to live up to expectations.

Most people desire to see things happening here and now. Live content has always been spicier. And live streaming is simply the natural evolution of the very same technology that took its roots back in the early s with the first radio broadcasts. We can only guess how live streaming will transform in the future, but it surely will live. Live Streaming Feb 02, Intro Today, live streaming has already lost its status as groundbreaking tech and has transformed into one of the most popular forms of broadcasting.

Situated in the heart of historic Rochester, Eastgate House featured in the work of…. Located in the heart of Chatham town centre, this beautiful seat venue is already…. A 13th century great chamber, on a vaulted undercroft, of a manor house of the Knights…. Sixty-acre lake with footpaths, cliff top walks, bird hides and views over surrounding…. Riverside Country Park is an excellent site for Winter birdwatching. Situated alongside…. St James' Church dates from the late 13th century.

No evidence of an earlier building…. Capstone Farm Country Park is one of Medway's finest green spaces, offering wonderful…. By using our site you agree to the use of cookies. We use them to increase the quality of this site especially for you, they help us understand your needs help us collect statistics , help our partners deliver the right content displayed on our website. To learn more about the cookies please click here. Upnor Castle started to be built in , and took five years to finish.

The sheltered position of the River Medway, so close to London, was the main reason why it was used to build and repair warships, as well as being used as a mooring point, in the 16th century. After building a naval dockyard at Chatham, they realized that a fort needed to be built a short way downstream, in order to protect the anchorage, and fill a void in coastal defences.

One of the intriguing and unusual features at Upnor is a spiral stair inside the keep. The stair has a hoist inside the stairwell to raise and lower ammunition quickly.

But what is unusual is that the stair itself is cantilevered out from the wall, without supports, making it perhaps the earliest example of a cantilevered stair in England.

Another unusual feature to look out for are a pair of turkey oak trees in the courtyard. These are thought to have been grown from seeds brought to England from Crimea after the Crimean War.

Inside an upper chamber in the gatehouse is an intriguing bit of graffiti, discovered when the castle was being restored in The graffiti shows a ship under sail and has been dated to experts as being made around Most photos are available for licensing, please contact Britain Express image library. Pedestrian access from the High Street. We've 'tagged' this attraction information to help you find related historic attractions and learn more about major time periods mentioned.

Heritage Rated from 1- 5 low-exceptional on historic interest. Historic Dockyard Chatham - 0. Royal Engineers Museum - 1. Rochester Guildhall Museum - 1. Rochester Cathedral - 1. Restoration House - 1. Rochester Castle - 1. To the north east and south west are two square, flanking towers linked to the main building by a crenellated curtain wall. These are fronted by semicircular stair turrets which incorporate splayed gun embrasures at first floor level. To the north west the main building is backed by a rectangular courtyard bounded by a stone built curtain wall topped with brick coping.

This enclosing wall was largely rebuilt, after being allowed to fall into disrepair, during the 17th century, and is now around 1m thick and c. Running along the inside of the curtain wall are the brick foundations of now ruined, narrow lean-to buildings, also dating to the 17th century, which were originally used for storage.

In the north western corner is a sallyport, with a later inserted oven beside it. The castle's well is situated within the north western quarter of the courtyard. The castle buildings are entered by way of a centrally positioned, four-storeyed gatehouse in the north western side of the curtain wall. This has a central, round-headed gateway, above which is an inserted, late 18th century clock, leading into a wide entrance passage.

Flanking the gateway on its inner side are two tall, rectangular corner towers. Gun embrasures pierce the walls of the gatehouse and provide further protection for the entrance. The gatehouse was remodelled during the early 's, and heightened in brick after a fire caused substantial damage in It is now capped by an early 19th century wooden bellcote and modern flagpole.

The castle is enclosed on the landward side by a substantial dry ditch, originally 9. This was originally spanned by a drawbridge , although this no longer survives. By , the year of the Spanish Armada, the castle's garrison included six gunners and a master gunner, and in it is recorded as housing 19 heavy guns. The castle did not see action until June when, during the Second Dutch War, an enemy navy squadron under de Ruyter launched a successful surprise attack on the Thames and Medway defences.

The squadron broke through the chain boom-defence which had been positioned across the river between Hoo Ness and Gillingham and threatened Chatham dockyard. Much English shipping was destroyed before a hastily organised defence at Upnor stalled the Dutch attack.

This episode provoked a radical revision of south eastern coastal defences and the building of new forts along the Medway. These reduced the strategic importance of the by now old fashioned castle and in it was converted into a magazine and naval storage depot. The depot buildings gradually extended into the area to the north east of the monument which is still used by the Ministry of Defence, disturbing and overlying earlier gun emplacements associated with the castle.

The earthwork remains of these are thought to be represented within the monument by a broad bank around 14m wide running parallel with the river from the ground immediately to the north east of the castle towards the adjoining naval depot to the north east.

During the 18th century, the castle's accommodation was extended by the construction of a new barracks block and associated storage buildings on land immediately to the south west of the monument.

The castle and its depot continued to supply munitions to the navy until , when it was fitted out as an ordnance laboratory. In responsibilty for the administration of the castle was transferred from the War Office to the Admiralty, and the newly created Naval Armament Supply Department began to use it, amongst other things, as a proofyard. The castle served as part of the Magazine Establishment during World War II, and in was partially damaged by two bombs which fell in the garden of nearby Upnor House.

After the castle went out of military use and was opened to the public. Upnor Castle continues to form part of the Crown Estate and is now in the care of the Secretary of State. All modern signs, fixtures, fittings and the modern surfaces of all paths and tracks are excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath these features is included. Most date from the period of Henry VIII's maritime defence programme between and , though the earliest and latest examples date from and respectively.

They were usually sited to protect a harbour entrance, anchorage or similar feature. These monuments represent some of the earliest structures built exclusively for the new use of artillery in warfare and can be attributed to a relatively short time span in English history. Their architecture is specific in terms of date and function and represents an important aspect of the development of defensive structures generally.

Image: Getty Images. Share Facebook Twitter Mail Whatsapp. Here's how Australia got the album first, and what happened next.

How The Strokes ended up in Australia on the eve of their big breakthrough When You Am I's support act dropped out, one of the world's biggest bands stepped in.

Thu 6 Feb , pm. Fri 12 Nov Thu 11 Nov Others would follow -- Kings of Leon , Jet, the Killers -- but few would be as instantly influential. In a sense, the Strokes kicked off their own retro-rock movement, and the critical praise was swift and positive.

Music writers dug the old-timey sounding band -- especially given all the day's saccharine pop and daddy-hating cock-rock. Not surprisingly, U. As a result, Stadium Arcadium is best viewed as an incredibly rewarding and varied tribute to the group's history. It was almost inevitable that the Chili Peppers would issue one, too. In fact, they'd intended to release Stadium Arcadium as a trilogy, dropping six months apart, before deciding to put out everything at once, the band told NME in In his July interview with Total Guitar , Frusciante revealed they had no reservations about attempting such a feat, either: "We don't just make music … for our own pleasure; we make music for our audience.

We write 28 songs that we think are top-notch, that's what we want to give to the public … We're putting out what we believe is worthy. It's also worth noting that making Stadium Arcadium was more congenial and collaborative than By the Way , due mostly to the repaired relationship between Frusciante and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea.

Due to his melodic prowess and characteristically adaptable methods, Frusciante was often seen as the heart of the Chili Pepper's sound around this time. That was especially evident on By the Way , on which he desired to move further away from the edginess of the band's past and toward the harmonious arrangements of groups like the Beatles , the Beach Boys and his own fruitful solo discography.

Consequently, Flea, who wanted to emphasize their prior funk and punk elements, felt somewhat uninvolved and unappreciated to the point that he contemplated quitting after the band finished their By the Way World Tour; the two worked out their differences by the time Stadium Arcadium got underway.

Speaking to Kerrang! I don't force my ideas on people as much as I did. In a chat with MTV News , vocalist Anthony Kiedis noted, "There was very little tension, very little anxiety, [and] very little weirdness going on … everyone felt more comfortable than ever bringing in their ideas. Those creative peaks and compromises undoubtedly make Stadium Arcadium such an all-encompassing victory.

In fact, it became the Chili Pepper's first No. Fifteen years later, Stadium Arcadium endures as one of the quartet's most representative and striving projects. Divided into two parts—the engaging "Jupiter" and the comparatively esoteric "Mars"—it logically continues the contemporary rock templates and earworm songwriting of By the Way and Californication.

Specifically, the ironically sunny elegy "Dani California," which centers on the same character from the title tracks off the aforementioned predecessors, is undeniably catchy and tightly composed, while "Snow Hey Oh " and "Stadium Arcadium" are lovingly poppy and symphonic. Later, the acoustic guitar strums and radiant harmonies of "Slow Cheetah," "Desecration Smile" and "Hey" border on folk rock, whereas "So Much I" is peak alternative rock smoothness.

Of course, the real brilliance of Stadium Arcadium is how it peppers no pun intended more modern flavors with comprehensive doses of wide-ranging nostalgia. Similarly, songs like "Charlie," "Hump de Bump," "Warlocks" and "Readymade" recall the frisky funkiness of Freaky Styley and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan via playful horns, resourceful percussion and Flea's trademark slap bass vigorousness.

Although Kiedis, Flea, and drummer Chad Smith excel throughout the album's two-hour runtime, it's perhaps Frusciante who shows the most range and advancement throughout Stadium Arcadium.

Red Hot Chili Peppers have long been one of the most daring and diverse bands of their generation; each album and phase has its unique touch and deserves its own audience. Even so, Stadium Arcadium , an all-encompassing magnum opus, offers just about everything one could possibly want from a Chili Peppers record—and then some.

It sees the quartet expanding upon their stylistic past while commemorating their newly restored bond; all the while, Stadium Arcadium amplifies the idiosyncratic essentialness of the Red Hot Chili Peppers as both a collective force and individually distinctive musicians. John Lennon asked The Beatles for a "divorce ," and he got his wish. After the group's breakup in , quarreling and competition were the norm between himself, Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

In Lennon's case, this tension added to a slightly tainted reputation derived from the public's disappointment upon The Beatles' end, his unpopular marriage to Yoko Ono and an artistic dispersion. The latter resulted from an ongoing quest to find his spot in a world he'd grown frustrated with yet to which he desperately wanted to belong. As evidenced by his songs and remarks , Lennon's efforts to find himself often left him feeling empty, and he regularly lacked unconditional trust or engagement.

Standing in the way of this self-discovery process was an inability to resolve past traumas , which was one of the main reasons why Lennon decided to undergo Arthur Janov's primal scream program. He had the apparent goal of finally dealing with childhood wounds related to his mother's death and feelings of rejection linked to his father's absence.

But the treatment also addressed the recent pain of losing his other family—the one Lennon had shared a life with for the past decade. In short, how could he go forward when he didn't know which way he was facing? December also marks the 40th anniversary of his murder.

This intimacy was also apparent in the recording process: Apart from Lennon and Ono, the latter of whom is credited on the album sleeve for contributing "wind," the only other musicians were Starr and bassist Klaus Voormann , along with former Beatles roadie Mal Evans for "tea and sympathy" , pianist Billy Preston and Phil Spector , who played piano on "Love" and "God," respectively.

When a cycle doesn't end fast enough, there's often a tendency to accelerate it, and Lennon was a man on a mission. The previous year, Lennon had been creatively disengaged from the Let It Be sessions and generally disapproving of the approach McCartney and producer George Martin wanted for Abbey Road , as he attempted to destroy the entity he helped create. This self-sabotaging process, which coincided with his dangerous affair with heroin, often translated into a deafening silence that Beatles scholar Stephanie Piotrowski describes in her Ph.

But silence wasn't his sole strategy. For anyone unable to take a hint, in September , he privately told the other three Beatles he was leaving the group. Their financial manager, Allen Klein, asked them to keep this development a secret for as long as possible, fearing the news would undermine sales of the forthcoming album, Let It Be , which was taking forever to mix and master.

Lennon's apparent hurry to break free makes it odd that Plastic Ono Band only came out in December , rendering him the last Beatle to release a proper debut album. And don't forget the hastily put-together Live Peace In Toronto , which partly consisted of early rock covers and featured Ono, guitarist Eric Clapton , bassist Voormann and drummer Alan White.

Spector was supposed to be producing, but he was missing in action when the sessions began, leading Lennon to publish a full-page ad in Billboard saying, "Phil! John is ready this weekend. Lennon and Ono's minimalist approach matched the content better, allowing the emotional outpouring to sound adequately barer. Revolving around themes of healing, surrender and replacement, Plastic Ono Band is a prime example of Lennon's songwriting particularities. These include his remarkable ability to craft instant hooks, focus on the lyrical element and rely on subjectivity in storytelling, which contrasted with McCartney's general preference for third-person points of view.

Always with a way with words, Lennon refrained from complicating his message, choosing direct statements " Hold On ," " Look At Me " over the elusive metaphors and cryptic references he often returned to during The Beatles' later years. This aspect made the album vaguely echo his mid-'60s confessional period that produced " Help! This harsh perception mostly came from the absurdly high expectations following The Beatles' breakup.

It's not about freedom and love, but madness and pain. Fans embraced its relatability. It's easier to identify with one's idol opening up about their problems of love and loss than hearing them discuss overly abstract concepts, the renunciatory "God" and tender "Love" being exceptions. But it also helped that the album didn't become as heavy an institution as Imagine did. Less over ab used by pop culture and more grounded in both content and form, Plastic Ono Band felt more human and accessible, despite coming from the myth-ridden colossus called John Lennon.

In September , three months before his death, Lennon gave an extensive interview to David Sheff for Playboy magazine.

Sheff asked what Ono had done for him. It kick-started a new life Lennon knew would be radically different from everything he had previously experienced. In addition to representing a threshold moment for Lennon, the album underwent a mutation with regard to its critical reception.

Over the decades, Plastic Ono Band received praise that was anything but a given at its release. They even played a hugely memorable Halloween show at Hammerstein Ballroom. But enough with the logistics. It still became the only thing I wanted to listen to, over and over and over again. Mowing the lawn?

The Strokes. Driving to practice? And yet, Is This It remains my top pick, an indelible masterpiece, one that I still play almost every single day. As I listened to Is This It, I dreamed up my own New York City in my mind, with visions of rock concerts, skyscraper vistas, an apartment filled with band posters. My trajectory in life became a little more clear in , thanks to a stint at a college radio station and a job at the student newspaper at Michigan State, where I was attending school.

New York City felt far removed from snowy, quiet winters in mid-Michigan. I was fully onboard and in awe. The Strokes, on SNL? How very New York. The seeds of an idea were planted. What would that be like? What would it feel like to live there?

And how on Earth could I possibly make it happen? The desire blossomed across the next year or so. That video became the world I wanted to live in: The denim jackets, the quiet, sweet yet sad perspective of the song, the sensation that this band just might be the coolest on the planet.

Cry for Help. But some of Astley's vocals sound technically augmented. The producers used a double-tracking technique that's employed to make weak voices sound more muscular. That double-tracking is just a production technique. The thing that the younger generation of Rick Astley fans gets wrong, however, is that he is far from a one-hit wonder. Artist Biography Wielding a rich, deep voice, Rick Astley became an overnight sensation in the late '80s with his well-crafted dance-pop. His brother Mark Astley helped to refute this assertion.

The song became a lasting part of internet culture thanks to the Rickroll meme and reached the impressive milestone a couple days ago. The song was popularized by "rickrolling," an internet prank that started in the mids.

A truly solidifying track on the charts for Astley. Rick Astley, originally due to take place on 10 April and later rescheduled to 13 May , has been further postponed. The new date for the show is now Thursday 4 November This led to criticism from those in the entertainment industry and media.

His place was filled by opera singer Russell Watson, who eventually won the competition. Astley would have missed a crucial part of the show by attending the awards ceremony and so withdrew before the show started its run. Based on various music charts in the UK, U. A link would be submitted to the forum, in the first instances to a supposed trailer of a new game, and would redirect the user to the video. This artist doesn't have any upcoming events at The Vogue. Artists Rick Astley. Critics had praise for his striking voice, but many complained that the songs lacked substance.

Astley, however, is untroubled by their opinion; he explained his own philosophy about his work to Miller: "Popular music should be popular music--lighthearted. Something that you look back on in your thirties and say, 'That was fun. I don't think it's right to make people aware of your own views. I'm not Peter Gabriel. We can't all be.

Astley released his second album, Hold Me in Your Arms, in ; it received a similar critical response. David Hiltbrand of People carped at Stock, Aitken, and Waterman's method of employing "a beat so solid you could balance a herd of elephants on it," but conceded that "Astley's voice is still an intriguing instrument.

While a teenager played drums in groups, including Give Way and FBI; drove a plant truck; recording artist and concert performer, Free RCA, Sources Glamour, August People, February 8, ; June 27, ; February 20,

The Colonia Tea-Room served peanut butter on toast triangles and soda crackers. For variety, some day try making little sandwiches, or bread fingers, of three very thin layers of bread and two of filling, one of peanut paste, whatever brand you prefer, and currant or crab-apple jelly for the other.

The combination is delicious, and, so far as I know, original. Military ration menus in World War II It is said that the American soldiers added jelly to their peanut butter to make it more palatable. Peanut butter provided an inexpensive and high protein alternative to meat for soldiers.

It was an instant hit and returning servicemen made peanut butter and jelly sales soar in the United States. Margarine, butter, sugar, lard, shortening, oils and assorted fresh meats were rationed and expensive.

When they returned to the states after the war peanut butter sales and jelly sales both soared. It would seem most likely this would be the birth of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Here is some more links to the different Elements of the PB and J sandwich. Like the idea of theSandwich The Bread Peanut Butter The who? Is still a mystery. Let's start with a quick study of the ingredients. Food historians tell us that finely chopped nuts especially almonds were regularly used by ancient cooks in a variety of dishes. It wasn't until the late 19th century that peanut butter Did you know that peanut butter was first marketed as a health food?

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Log In Sign Up. By Greg Stegeman September 26, Edit. Even More to Love. Greg is a Chicago guy who likes to cook, dine, and help others navigate their food choices. Because food is an integral part of our lives, and he's the best version of himself when he's well fed. Rohwedder kept refining his invention and changing things until it was ready to use in bakeries. Sliced bread proliferated. Soon people were looking for spreads to use with this newfound wonder food.

In , Welch secured a patent for pureeing grapes and turning them into jelly. When soldiers came home after the war, it was popular to spread Grapelade on bread. Contrary to popular belief, peanut butter was not invented by Dr. George Washington Carver. The forerunner of the peanut butter we know today was first brought to light sometime during the s when a St.

Louis physician , Dr. Ambrose Straub, made a peanut paste for geriatric patients who had trouble swallowing, or had bad teeth.

These dust envelopes are formed by the high mass emission rate. Because of its unique position in the Milky Way, the star does not dominate its local interstellar environment. NML Cyg is a massive oxygen-rich star. All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles including the article images and facts can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise.

Apparent Magnitude is also known as Visual Magnitude. Absolute Magnitude is the apparent magnitude of the star from a distance of 10 parsecs or This assumes that there is nothing in between the object and the viewer such as dust clouds. To really compare the brightness of the star, it is best to use Absolute rather than Apparent Magnitude.

Our own Sun is the brightest star and therefore has the lowest of all magnitudes, A faint star will have a high number. NML Cygni is an estimated 5, It would take a spaceship 5, We don't have a space ship that can travel that distance or at that speed yet.

If placed at the center of the Solar System , its surface would extend the orbit of Saturn or Uranus. NML Cygni was discovered in by American astronomers Neugebauer, Martz, and Leighton who described two extremely red luminous stars, their colour being consistent with a black body temperature of 1, K.

The name NML comes from the names of these three discoverers. NML Cygni has since also been given the designation V Cygni on account of the small semi-regular brightness variations, but is still most commonly referred to as NML Cygni.

Its composition began to be revealed with the discovery of OH masers MHz in It is also a semiregular variable star with a period of either 1, or days. The annual parallax of NML Cygni is measured to be around 0. From the observations, it is estimated that NML Cygni has two discrete optically thick envelopes of dust and molecules. The optical depth of the inner shell is found to be 1. Because of the star's position on the outskirts of the massive Cygnus OB2 association, the detectable effects of NML Cygni's radiation on the surrounding dust and gas are limited to the region away from the central hot stars of the association.

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Amid the heated air war, a young Navy aviator — noteworthy at the time mostly because his father was a top admiral — was shot down over Hanoi on Oct. His name was John McCain.

Word of what he could be experiencing trickled out in bits, if at all. Commander John S. By the time McCain was released in , Americans were learning more about the treatment of prisoners in North Vietnam. The return of almost all of the Vietnam POWs meant that former prisoners could finally tell what they had seen — free from the fear that their comrades would be targets of retribution.

The end goal of such torture was often the extraction of information. But, along with those reports came word that American prisoners had proved tough to break. Asked to list the names of the men in his squadron, McCain instead listed the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers. All told, he had spent five and a half years as a prisoner, with a substantial amount of that time in solitary confinement.

Thursday marked the 46th anniversary of John McCain's release after being held captive as a prisoner of war at the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War. McCain, who died last year at the age of 81 after a lifetime of service in the military and as a senator, was greeted by a cheering crowd at Clark Airbase in the Philippines on March 14, McCain, who Dunning described as the "probably the best known" of the prisoners, limped off the plane gripping a hand rail and with white hair.

Dunning described him as "the most seriously marked" of all the prisoners. Gayler, who replaced McCain's own father, Adm. John S. Previous Next. September 01, AM. Marissa Melton. Text of Farewell Statement From Sen. McCain Before His Death.

More US Stories. Some emails, sent in the name of the Homeland Security cyber threat detection group, were headlined: 'Urgent: threat actor in systems'. The Day in Photos. When a Republican primary opponent accused him of carpetbagging in his race, McCain invoked his Navy upbringing, which necessitated that his family move frequently. He leaned on his POW experience again as a senator while caught up in a lates scandal connected to Charles Keating Jr.

A Cold War-informed hawk, McCain in became the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and would be consistent in his support of a strong national defense and muscular foreign policy, which included a vote to authorize the Iraq War. It also helped develop McCain's sense of patriotism. Though instinctively conservative, McCain came from the military and not the conservative movement and thus did not always adhere to conservative orthodoxy.

His priorities, such as national defense, often were bipartisan. In , his presidential campaign's motto was "Country First. Unlike many in his party, McCain always was at ease working across the aisle with Democrats on issues such as campaign-finance and immigration reform.

The McCain brand was so synonymous with his war record that Trump attacked it directly when Trump's public feud with McCain erupted in As part of what was viewed as the "healing process" between Vietnam and the United States a decade after Saigon fell, then-Rep.

McCain announced that he intended to raise the issue of missing-in-action U. Vietnam denied him a visa on his first try. Once inside the country, the Vietnamese people were "quite friendly" to McCain, Cronkite would say. McCain and Cronkite visited the monument commemorating the "air pirate" — John Sidney McCain — who was shot down and captured at the site in Over the years, McCain would laugh about how the monument incorrectly identified him as an Air Force pilot instead of a Navy pilot.

They also visited the prison where McCain was held and tortured. He and Cronkite were served tea in the old interrogation room. McCain's long Senate career would allow him to track the changes in Vietnamese society over the decades. During an August visit, McCain posted on Twitter a photo of himself with a cappuccino that he purchased at what he identified as Hanoi's first Starbucks coffee shop, which had opened the month before.

Got a cappuccino at the first Starbucks in Hanoi - opened last month!