CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Rash of random appearances of malevolent clowns The 2016 clown sightings were reports of people disguised as evil clowns in incongruous settings, such as near forests and schools. The incidents were reported in the United States , Canada , and subsequently in other countries and territories from August 2016. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] The sightings were first reported in Green Bay, Wisconsin in what turned out to be a marketing stunt for a horror film. The phenomenon later spread to many other cities in the US, most notably South Carolina where a 9-year-old boy told his mother that two suspicious males dressed as clowns tried to lure him into the nearby woods. [6] By mid-October 2016, clown sightings and attacks had been reported in nearly all U.S. states , 9 out of 13 provinces and territori...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Spreading activation is a method for searching associative networks, biological and artificial neural networks , or semantic networks . The search process is initiated by labeling a set of source nodes (e.g. concepts in a semantic network) with weights or "activation" and then iteratively propagating or "spreading" that activation out to other nodes linked to the source nodes. Most often these "weights" are real values that decay as activation propagates through the network. When the weights are discrete this process is often referred to as marker passing. Activation may originate from alternate paths, identified by distinct markers, and terminate when two alternate paths reach the same node. However brain studies show that several different brain areas play an important role in sema...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Although many people have a fear of mushroom poisoning by " toadstools ", only a small number of the many macroscopic fruiting bodies commonly known as mushrooms and toadstools have proven fatal to humans. This list is not exhaustive and does not contain many fungi that, although not deadly, are still harmful. For a less-detailed list of fungi that include non-deadly poisonous species, see List of poisonous fungi . Deadly Fungi Fungi with significant risk of death if consumed Scientific name Common name Active Agent Toxicity Habitat Similar edible species Picture Amanita arocheae Tulloss, Ovrebo & Halling Latin American death cap amanitins liver Woodland (oak) Mexico Amanita bisporigera G. F. Atk. Eastern destroying angel amanitins liver Woodland (p...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Bjarne Stroustrup Stroustrup in 2010 Born ( 1950-12-30 ) 30 December 1950 (age 68) Aarhus , Denmark Residence New York City , New York , U.S. [1] Nationality Danish Alma mater Aarhus University (MSc) University of Cambridge (PhD) Known for C++ Awards Grace Murray Hopper Award (1993) ACM Fellow (1994) IEEE Fellow (1994) William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement (2005) Dr. Dobb's Excellence Award (2008) Dahl–Nygaard Prize (2015) Fellow of the Computer History Museum (2015) IET Faraday Medal (2017) Charles Stark Draper Prize (2018) Computer Pioneer Award (2018) Scientific career Institutions Aarhus University University of Cambridge Texas A&M University Bell Labs Morgan Stanley Columbia University Thesis Communication and control in distributed computer systems (1979) Doctora...

CentralNotice Burdick v. United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search United States Supreme Court case Burdick v. United States Supreme Court of the United States Argued December 16, 1914 Decided January 25, 1915 Full case name George Burdick v. United States Citations 236 U.S. 79 ( more ) 35 S. Ct. 267; 59 L. Ed. 476; 1915 U.S. LEXIS 1799 Court membership Chief Justice Edward D. White Associate Justices Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr. William R. Day · Charles E. Hughes Willis Van Devanter · Joseph R. Lamar Mahlon Pitney · James C. McReynolds Case opinion Majority McKenna, joined by White, Holmes, Day, Hughes, Van Devanter, Lamar, Pitney McReynolds took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. Burdick v. United States , 236 U.S. 79 (1915), [1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Check kiting or cheque kiting is a form of check fraud , involving taking advantage of the float to make use of non-existent funds in a checking or other bank account . In this way, instead of being used as a negotiable instrument , checks are misused as a form of unauthorized credit . Kiting is commonly defined as intentionally writing a check for a value greater than the account balance from an account in one bank, then writing a check from another account in another bank, also with non-sufficient funds , with the second check serving to cover the non-existent funds from the first account. [1] The purpose of check kiting is to falsely inflate the balance of a checking account in order to allow written checks to clear that would otherwise bounce. [2] If the account is not planned to b...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For the bicycle company, see Flying Pigeon . See also: Pigeon keeping Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specially trained racing pigeons , which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance. The time it takes the animal to cover the specified distance is measured and the bird's rate of travel is calculated and compared with all of the other pigeons in the race to determine which animal returned at the highest speed. Pigeon racing requires a specific breed of pigeon bred for the sport, the Racing Homer . Competing pigeons are specially trained and conditioned for races that vary in distance from approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) to 1,000 kilometres (620 mi). Despite these lengths, races can be won and lost by seconds, so many different timing and measuring...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for products and services . Please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged , redirected , or deleted . Find sources: "File System Visualizer" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( August 2011 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) This article does not cite any sources . Please help improve this article by adding citation...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Free Speech flag , from the HD DVD AACS case An illegal number is a number that represents information which is illegal to possess, utter, propagate, or otherwise transmit in some legal jurisdiction . Any piece of digital information is representable as a number; consequently, if communicating a specific set of information is illegal in some way, then the number may be illegal as well. [1] [2] [3] 1 Background 2 Flags and steganography 3 Other examples 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Background [ edit ] A number may represent some type of classified information or trade secret , legal to possess only by certain authorized persons. An AACS encryption key (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0) that came to prominence in May 2007 is an example of a number...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Avocado toast This is a list of toast dishes , comprising dishes that use toast as a main ingredient. Toast is sliced bread that has been browned by exposure to radiant heat. 1 Toast dishes 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Toast dishes [ edit ] Bagel toast Simple milk toast consisting of toasted buttermilk bread covered in white sauce with a dash of cinnamon Pa amb tomàquet Avocado toast – mashed avocado on toast. [1] A variety of additional ingredients can be used. [1] Beans on toast [2] – Today, baked beans are a staple convenience food in the UK, often eaten as part of the modern full English breakfast and particularly on toast (called simply 'beans on toast') Bruschetta – an antipasto (starter dish) from Italy consisting of grilled bread rubbed with garlic...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search sandwich made with two thin slices of bread Not to be confused with Toasted sandwich . Toast sandwich A piece of toast sandwiched between two pieces of bread to make a toast sandwich. Type Sandwich Place of origin United Kingdom Region or state England Main ingredients Bread , toast , butter , salt , pepper , cumin Food energy (per serving) 330 kcal (1382 kJ ) Cookbook: Toast sandwich Media: Toast sandwich A toast sandwich is a sandwich made with two thick slices of bread in which the filling is a thin slice of toasted bread, which can be heavily buttered. [1] [2] An 1861 recipe says to add salt, pepper and cumin to taste. [1] 1 Victorian recipe 2 2011 publicity 3 Heston Blumenthal 4 U.S. media coverage 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Victorian recipe [ edit ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Mundan ceremony ) Jump to navigation Jump to search Part of a series on Hinduism Hindus History Origins History Indus Valley Civilisation Historical Vedic religion Śramaṇa Tribal religions in India Main traditions Vaishnavism Shaivism Shaktism Smartism Deities Trimurti Brahma Vishnu Shiva Other major Devas / Devis Vedic Indra Agni Prajapati Rudra Devi Saraswati Ushas Varuna Vayu Post-Vedic Durga Ganesha Hanuman Kali Kartikeya Krishna Lakshmi Parvati Radha Rama Shakti Sita Concepts Worldview Hindu cosmology Puranic chronology Hindu mythology Supreme Reality Brahman Om God Ishvara God in Hinduism God and gender Life Varna Brahmana Kshatriya Vaishya Shudra Ashrama (stage) Brahmacharya Grihastha Vanaprastha Sannyasa Purusharthas Dharma Artha Kama Moksha Mind Antahkarana Pramana...

CentralNotice Dragon Ball Super From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Promotional artwork Dragon Ball Super is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation that began airing on July 5, 2015 on Fuji TV . [1] It is the first Dragon Ball television series featuring a new storyline in 18 years. Storywise, the series retells the events of the last two Dragon Ball Z films, Battle of Gods and Resurrection 'F' , which themselves follow the events of Dragon Ball Z . Afterward, the series proceeds to tell an original story about the exploration of other universes, the reemergence of Future Trunks , and new threats to the Future Earth known as Goku Black and a Supreme Kai from Universe Ten named Zamasu . Later on, Goku , Vegeta , Gohan , Krillin , Android 17 , Android 18 , Piccolo , Tien , Master Roshi , and a temporarily revive...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Prehistoric impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico For the town and municipality, see Chicxulub, Yucatán . This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Chicxulub crater" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( July 2019 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) Chicxulub crater Chicxulub impact structure Imaging from NASA 's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission STS-99 reveals part of the 180 km (110 mi) diameter ring of the crater. The numerous sinkholes clustered around the trough of the crater suggest a prehistoric oceanic basin in the depression left by the impact. [1] I...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Not to be confused with Benford's law about the frequencies of leading digits of numbers. Hand with index finger being shorter than the ring finger, resulting in a small 2D:4D ratio, pointing to a high exposure to testosterone in the uterus. The digit ratio is the ratio of the lengths of different digits or fingers typically measured from the midpoint of bottom crease (where the finger joins the hand) to the tip of the finger. [1] The ratio of two digits in particular, the 2nd ( index finger ) and 4th ( ring finger ), is affected by exposure to androgens , e.g., testosterone while in the uterus and that this 2D:4D ratio can be considered a crude measure for prenatal androgen exposure, with lower 2D:4D ratios pointing to higher prenatal androgen exposure. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Cypriot semi-hard, unripened brined cheese Halloumi Fresh sliced halloumi Country of origin Cyprus Source of milk Goat , sheep , sometimes cow Pasteurised Commercially, but not traditionally Texture Semi-soft Aging time Commercially not aged Traditionally aged [ citation needed ] Certification No Related media on Wikimedia Commons Halloumi or haloumi ( / h ə ˈ l uː m i / ) is a semi-hard, unripened, brined cheese made from a mixture of goat's and sheep's milk , and sometimes also cow's milk . [1] [2] [3] [4] It has a high melting point and so can easily be fried or grilled . Rennet is used to curdle the milk in halloumi production, [5] although no acid-producing bacteria are used in its preparation. [6] Halloumi is often associated with the island of Cyprus , where it has been prod...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Martin Drolling 's Interior of a Kitchen made extensive use of mummy brown Mummy brown is a rich brown bituminous pigment, intermediate in tint between burnt umber and raw umber , and was one of the favorite colors of the Pre-Raphaelites . [1] 1 History 2 Present day 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References History [ edit ] Mummy brown was originally made in the 16th and 17th centuries from white pitch , myrrh , and the ground-up remains of Egyptian mummies , both human and feline. [2] [3] As it had good transparency, it could be used for glazes, shadows, flesh tones and shading. [4] However, in addition to its tendency to crack, it was extremely variable in its composition and quality, and since it contained ammonia and particles of fat, was likely to affect other colors with whi...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This article may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards . You can help . The discussion page may contain suggestions. ( July 2015 ) This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia . See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. ( January 2017 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) This article needs attention from an expert in radio transmission . The specific problem is: The article does not really explain what a Fresnel zone is for or why it has the shape it does. In addition, the Talk page lists several errors, m...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search 455 sack of Rome by the Vandals For other uses, see Sack of Rome (disambiguation) . Sack of Rome Part of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire Genseric sacking Rome, by Karl Briullov Date 2 – c. 16 June 455 AD [1] Location Rome , Italy Result Decisive Vandalic victory Belligerents Western Roman Empire Vandal Kingdom Commanders and leaders Petronius Maximus † Genseric v t e Fall of the Western Roman Empire Gothic War (376–382) Pollentia Verona Florence Faesulae Moguntiacum The Rhine Ostia Rome (410) Massilia Nervasos Mountains Tarraco Arles (425) Mérida Hippo Regius Helena Rimini Arles (435) Narbonne Carthage Toulouse (439) Utus Catalaunian Plains (Chalons) Aquileia Rome (455) Agrigentum Corsica Garigliano Camp Cannini Toulouse (458) Arelate Cartagena Orleans Cape Bon Déols A...

CentralNotice Once Upon a Time in Shaolin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Album by Wu-Tang Clan 2015 studio album by Wu-Tang Clan Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Studio album by Wu-Tang Clan Released November 25, 2015 Recorded 2008–2013 Genre Hip hop Length 110 : 12 Producer Cilvaringz RZA Wu-Tang Clan chronology A Better Tomorrow (2014) Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (2015) The Saga Continues (2017) Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is a double album by the New York hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan that was limited to a single copy sold in 2015. It is the most expensive individual album ever sold. The album was recorded in secret over six years. A single two-CD copy was pressed in 2014 and stored in a secured vault at the Royal Mansour Hotel in Marrakech , Morocco , then auctioned through auction house Paddle8 in 2015. [1] The winning b...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Tuckman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bruce Tuckman (born 1938), American psychologist Diane Tuckman , American (born in Egypt) artist and author Frederick Tuckman , Member of the European Parliament Roy Tuckman , American radio personality See also [ edit ] Tuchman Tuckman's stages of group development Surname list This page lists people with the surname Tuckman . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. NewPP limit report Parsed by mw1247 Cached time: 20190518093713 Cache expiry: 2592000 Dynamic content: false CPU time usage: 0.084 seconds Real time usage: 0.121 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 129/1000000 Preproce...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search "Six degrees" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Six degrees of freedom . For other uses, see Six degrees (disambiguation) . Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of " a friend of a friend " statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and popularized in an eponymous 1990 play written by John Guare . It is sometimes generalized to the average social distance being logarithmic in the size of the population. 1 Early conceptions 1.1 Shrinking world 1.2 Small world 1.3 Continued research: Small World Project 2 Research 2.1 Computer networks 2.2 An optimal algorithm to calculate degrees ...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Parachuting or bombing is a method of swallowing drugs by rolling or folding powdered or crushed drugs in a piece of toilet paper (or other similar paper) to ingest while avoiding the unpleasant taste of the chemical . [1] It is sometimes called a "snow bomb", especially if using cocaine . This method is used among many pharmaceuticals that are commonly crushed for recreational use. The toilet paper method must use single ply toilet paper or one must separate the layers of double ply. Tissues are also a common go to for this method of drug ingestion. Another common paper used is rolling paper for smoking herbal substances or tobacco. Opioids, amphetamines, benzodiazepines and other narcotics are commonly parachuted. This method's purpose is recreational because the drugs become absorbe...

CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in German . (December 2018) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation like Deepl or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your transl...

CentralNotice The Diamond Age From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article possibly contains original research . Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations . Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( May 2011 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) The Diamond Age Author Neal Stephenson Cover artist Bruce Jensen Country United States Language English Genre Science fiction Postcyberpunk Nanopunk Publisher Bantam Spectra (U.S.) Publication date 1995 Media type Print (hardback & paperback) & Audio Book ( Cassette , MP3 CD , Audio download. Narrator: Jennifer Wiltsie) & e-book Pages 455 (hardcover), 512 (paperback) Awards Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1996), Hugo Award for Best Novel (1996) ISBN 0-553-09609-5 (hardcover), ISBN 0-553-38096-6 (...