query: How tall are zebra?

title: Grévy's zebra

text: The Grévy's zebra is the largest of all wild equines. It is 2.5–2.75m (8.2–9.0ft) from head to tail with a 55–75cm (22–30in) tail, and stands 1.45–1.6m (4.8–5.2ft) high at the withers. These zebras weigh 350–450kg (770–990lb).[11][12] Grévy's zebra differs from the other two zebras in its more primitive characteristics.[13]:147 It is particularly mule-like in appearance; the head is large, long, and narrow with elongated nostril openings;[13]:147 the ears are very large, rounded, and conical and the neck is short but thick.[14] The zebra's muzzle is ash-grey to black in colour with the lips having whiskers. The mane is tall and erect; juveniles have a mane that extends to the length of the back and shortens as they reach adulthood.[14]

title: Plains zebra

text: Zebras have been featured in African art and culture for millenia. They have been depicted in rock art in Southern Africa (modern Botswana, Nambia and South Africa) dating from 20,000–28,000 years ago, though not as commonly as antelope species like eland. How the zebra got its stripes has been the subject of folk tales, some of which involve it being scorched by fire. The San people associated zebra stripes with water, rain and lighting due to its dazzling pattern. The zebra has also been associated with beauty and the women of various societies would paint much of their bodies in stripes. For the Shona people of Zimbabwe, the zebra is a totem animal, along with the eland, buffalo, lion and monkey. The zebra is praised in a poem as a "iridescent and glittering creature". Its stripes have symbolised the joining of male and female and at Great Zimbabwe, zebra stripes decorate what is believed to be a "domba", a premartial school meant to initiate woman into adulthood. In the Shona language, the name "madhuve" means "woman/women of the zebra totem" and is a given name for girls in Zimbabwe.

title: Zebra

text: There are three species of zebras: the plains zebra, the mountain zebra and the Grévy's zebra. The plains zebra and the mountain zebra belong to the subgenus "Hippotigris", while Grévy's zebra is the sole species of subgenus "Dolichohippus". The latter resembles an ass, to which zebras are closely related, while the former two look more horse-like. All three belong to the genus "Equus", along with other living equids.

title: Plains zebra

text: A dispute exists among biologists as to how to properly classify the various species of zebras. The plains zebra and mountain zebra are thought to belong to the subgenus "Hippotigris" and that Grévy's zebra is the sole species of subgenus "Dolichohippus". This is on account of Grévy's zebra resembling an ass (subgenus "Asinus"), while the plains zebra and mountain zebra are more horse-like. All three animals belong to the genus "Equus" along with other living equids. However, recent phylogenetic evidence finds that plains zebras are more closely related to Grévy's zebras than mountain zebras. In areas where plains zebras are sympatric with Grévy's zebras, finding them in the same herds is not unusual, and fertile hybrids occur. In captivity, plains zebras have been crossed with mountain zebras. The hybrid foals lacked a dewlap and resembled the plains zebra apart from their larger ears and their hindquarters pattern.

title: Green Zebra

text: Common varieties include Green Zebra, Black Zebra, Big Zebra, and Red Zebra.

title: Zebra striping (computer graphics)

text: The term is also used for tables with every other row colored to make it easier to read tables. Although Zebra striping has been used for a long time to improve readability, there is relatively little data on how much it helps.

title: Chapman's zebra

text: Chapman's zebra is distinguished by stripes similar to the Burchell's zebra and on the lower halves of the legs, which break up into many irregular brown spots. The pastern is not completely black on the lower half. When foals are born, they have brown stripes, and in some cases, adults do not develop the black colouration on their hides and keep their brown stripes. Males usually weigh pounds and stand at tall. Females weigh about and stand as tall as the males.

title: Grant's zebra

text: This northern subspecies is vertically striped in front, horizontally on the back legs, and diagonally on the rump and hind flanks. Shadow stripes are absent or only poorly expressed. The stripes, as well as the inner spaces, are broad and well defined. Northerly specimens may lack a mane. Grant’s zebras grow to be about tall, and generally weigh about . The zebras live in family groups of up to 18 zebras, and they are led by a single stallion. Grant’s zebras typically live 20 years.

title: Relevant alternatives theory

text: You take your son to the zoo, see several zebras, and, when questioned by your son, tell him they are zebras. Do you know they are zebras? Well, most of us would have little hesitation saying that we did know this. We know what zebras look like, and, besides, this is the city zoo and the animals are in a pen clearly marked "Zebras." Yet, something's being a zebra implies that it is not a mule and, in particular, not a mule cleverly disguised by the zoo authorities to look like a zebra. Do you know that these animals are not mules cleverly disguised by the zoo authorities to look like zebras?

title: Zebroid

text: A zebroid is the offspring of any cross between a zebra and any other equine: essentially, a zebra hybrid. In most cases, the sire is a zebra stallion. Offspring of a donkey sire and zebra dam, called a zebra hinny, or donkra, and offspring of a male horse and a female zebra called a hebra do exist, but are rare and are usually sterile and infertile. Zebroids have been bred since the 19th century. Charles Darwin noted several zebra hybrids in his works.

title: La Paz traffic zebras

text: To develop the Vial Plan, a group young and creative people had the idea to show the zebra crossing, with a character that would represent a Zebra: a two pieces costume that emulates the animal. In a playful way they could make people notice that there is a space for them to exercise their rights as citizens and to walk safely through the streets. That’s how they realized that there was a great amount of citizens of La Paz that didn’t know there was a zebra crossing or what was it for. For this initiative they invited young people that worked polishing shoes or selling candies on the streets to play this curious character.

title: Burchell's zebra

text: Burchell's zebra ("Equus quagga burchellii") is a southern subspecies of the plains zebra. It is named after the British explorer and naturalist William John Burchell. Common names include bontequagga, Damara zebra, and Zululand zebra (Gray, 1824). Burchell's zebra is the only subspecies of zebra which may be legally farmed for human consumption.

title: Grévy's zebra

text: The Grévy's zebra was first described by French naturalist Émile Oustalet in 1882. He named it after Jules Grévy, then president of France, who, in the 1880s, was given one by the government of Abyssinia. Traditionally, this species was classified in the subgenus Dolichohippus with plains zebra and mountain zebra in Hippotigris. Fossils of zebra-like equids have been found throughout Africa and Asia in the Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits.[5] Notable examples include E. sanmeniensis from China, E. cautleyi from India, E. valeriani from central Asia and E. oldowayensis from East Africa.[5] The latter, in particular is very similar to the Grévy's zebra and may have been its ancestor.[5] The modern Grévy's zebra arose in the early Pleistocene.[5] Zebras appear to be a monophyletic lineage[6][7][8] and recent (2013) phylogenies have placed Grevy's zebra in a sister taxon with the plains zebra.[6] In areas where Grévy's zebras are sympatric with plains zebras, the two may gather in same herds[9] and fertile hybrids do occur.[10]

title: Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

text: Rothschild was tall, suffered from a speech impediment and was very shy, but he had his photograph taken riding on a giant tortoise and drove a carriage harnessed to four zebras to Buckingham Palace to prove that zebras could be tamed.

title: Zebra

text: The plains zebra ("Equus quagga", formerly "Equus burchelli") is the most common, and has or had about six subspecies distributed across much of southern and eastern Africa. It, or particular subspecies of it, have also been known as the common zebra, the dauw, Burchell's zebra (actually the subspecies "Equus quagga burchellii"), Chapman's zebra, Wahlberg's zebra, Selous' zebra, Grant's zebra, Boehm's zebra and the quagga (another extinct subspecies, "Equus quagga quagga").

title: Mountain zebra

text: In 2004, C. P. Groves and C. H. Bell investigated the taxonomy of the zebras (genus "Equus", subgenus "Hippotigris"). They concluded that the mountain zebra ("Equus zebra zebra") and Hartmann's mountain zebra ("Equus zebra hartmannea") are distinct, and suggested that the two would be better classified as separate species, "Equus zebra" and "Equus hartmannae".

title: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

text: "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" explains how social phenomena such as child abuse and the chronic stress of poverty affect biological stress, leading to increased risk of disease and disability.

title: Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City

text: By 2025, fifteen years after the events of "Zebraman", Tokyo has renamed itself Zebra City, and has instituted a "Zebra Time" starting at 5:00 AM/PM for 5 minutes (in which all crime is legal) the government allows the Zebra Police to attack any and all presumed criminals. One Zebra Time results in the attempted murder of Shinichi Ichikawa, also known as Zebraman. Surviving the attack but having lost his memories, he must team up with television's fake Zebraman and a young protégé to save a mysterious little girl from Zebra Queen and her Zebra Police, and then the world from Zebra Queen's ultimate plan to use the strange aliens from 2010 to bring Zebra Time to the whole world.For the film, Riisa Naka as the Zebra Queen released a single titled on April 21, 2010, to serve as the film's theme song. A music video was also released featuring Naka in the character of Zebra Queen singing the song. A music video was also recorded for the other song included on the single, , which is also used in the film's trailers. For the music videos and all performances of the song, Zebra Queen has a Lady Gaga-like persona.

title: Cape mountain zebra

text:
The Cape mountain zebra ("Equus zebra zebra") is a subspecies of mountain zebra that occurs in certain mountainous regions of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. It is the smallest of all existing zebra species and also the most geographically restricted. Although once nearly driven to extinction, the population has now been increased by several conservation methods, and is classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN.
The Cape mountain zebra is one of two geographically separated subspecies of the species "Equus zebra" (mountain zebra), the other being Hartmann's mountain zebra ("Equus zebra hartmannae").
The Cape mountain zebra was once was regarded as a separate species from Hartmann's mountain zebra based on taxonomic evidence, but recent genomic evidence has led to the two populations now being reclassified as subspecies of "Equus zebra".

title: Dendrochirus zebra

text: The zebra turkeyfish is an unusual looking fish with vertical stripes in orange, white and black on the body, and large, banded fan-like pectoral fins that flare out on either side as the fish lies on the seabed. The front dorsal fin is made up of thirteen tall, quill-like spines and the second dorsal fin has ten to eleven soft rays. The anal fin has three spines and about ten soft rays. The second dorsal fin, the anal fin and the rounded caudal fin are transversely banded in black and white. This fish grows to a maximum length of about .

title: Plains zebra

text: The striping pattern of the zebra is unique among sympatric ungulates. One suggested function for the stripes is to provide crypsis for the animal in tall grass or in the dappled shade beneath bushes and trees. However, cryptically coloured species, such as the kudu and bushbuck, tend to be quiet and stealthy. They freeze during danger and flee only at the last moment. By contrast, the zebra is active and noisy, and makes no attempt to hide itself. Another suggestion is motion camouflage, that the stripes affect a predator's judgement of the zebra's size, distance, and what direction it is going. A 2014 study supports this hypothesis, finding that, when moving, the stripes may confuse observers, such as mammalian predators and biting insects, via two visual illusions, the wagon wheel effect, where the perceived motion is inverted, and the barber pole illusion, where the perceived motion is in a wrong direction. A related hypothesis is that the stripes make it difficult for a predator to single out and learn about an individual during a chase.

title: The Namao

text: The scientists aboard the Namao monitored the presence of zebra mussels as they became established, studied the environmental impacts of zebra mussels in the lake including the decline of native mussel populations, researched how they became introduced, and helped create and conduct control operations.

title: Zebra

text: Although zebra species may have overlapping ranges, they do not interbreed. In captivity, plains zebras have been crossed with mountain zebras. The hybrid foals lacked a dewlap and resembled the plains zebra apart from their larger ears and their hindquarters pattern. Attempts to breed a Grévy's zebra stallion to mountain zebra mares resulted in a high rate of miscarriage. In captivity, crosses between zebras and other (non-zebra) equines have produced several distinct hybrids, including the zebroid, zeedonk, zony, and zorse. In certain regions of Kenya, plains zebras and Grévy's zebra coexist, and fertile hybrids occur.

title: Grévy's zebra

text: The Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi), also known as the imperial zebra, is the largest living wild equid and the largest and most threatened of the three species of zebra, the other two being the plains zebra and the mountain zebra. Named after Jules Grévy, it is the sole extant member of the subgenus Dolichohippus. Grévy's zebra is found in Kenya and Ethiopia. Compared with other zebras, it is tall, has large ears, and its stripes are narrower.

title: Zebra

text:
Zebras have been the subject of African folk tales which tell how they got their stripes. According to a San folk tale of Namibia, the zebra was once all white, but acquired its black stripes after a fight with a baboon over a waterhole. After kicking the baboon so hard, the zebra lost his balance and tripped over a fire, and the fire sticks left scorch marks all over his white coat. In the film "Fantasia", two centaurs are depicted being half human and half zebra, instead of the typical half human and half horse.
Zebras are a popular subject in art. The fourth Mughal emperor Jahangir (r.1605–24), commissioned a painting of the zebra, which was completed by Ustad Mansur. Zebra stripes are also a popular style for furniture, carpets and fashion.

title: Crawshay's zebra

text: Crawshay's zebra ("Equus quagga crawshayi") is a subspecies of the plains zebra native to eastern Zambia, east of the Luangwa River, Malawi, southeastern Tanzania, and northern Mozambique south to the Gorongoza District. Crawshay's zebras can be distinguished from other subspecies of plains zebras in that its lower incisors lack an infundibulum. Crawshay's zebra has very narrow stripes compared to other forms of the plains zebra.

title: Mountain zebra

text: The mountain zebra has a dewlap, which is more conspicuous in "E. z. zebra" than in "E. z. hartmannae". Like all extant zebras, mountain zebras are boldly striped in black or dark brown, and no two individuals look exactly alike. The whole body is striped except for the belly. In the Cape mountain zebra, the ground colour is effectively white, but the ground colour in Hartmann's zebra is slightly buff.

title: Grant's zebra

text: Duncan (1992) recognized the Upper Zambezi zebra ("Equus quagga zambeziensis" Prazak, 1898). Groves and Bell (2004) came to the conclusion that the zebras from West Zambia and Malawi cannot be distinguished cranially and that they differ only slightly from other northern plains zebras. The rather minor size difference does not justify a separate subspecific status for the Upper Zambezi zebra. Therefore, they combine these zebras with Grant's zebra ("Equus quagga boehmi").

title: Zebra Media Access Control

text: Zebra Media Access Control (Z-MAC) is a network protocol for wireless sensor networks. It controls how a Media Access Control (MAC) accesses a common communication medium of a network.

title: Donkey

text: The offspring of a zebra-donkey cross is called a zonkey, zebroid, zebrass, or zedonk; "zebra mule" is an older term, but still used in some regions today. The foregoing terms generally refer to hybrids produced by breeding a male zebra to a female donkey. "Zebra hinny, zebret" and "zebrinny" all refer to the cross of a female zebra with a male donkey. Zebrinnies are rarer than zedonkies because female zebras in captivity are most valuable when used to produce full-blooded zebras. There are not enough female zebras breeding in captivity to spare them for hybridizing; there is no such limitation on the number of female donkeys breeding.


query: What is scorched earth strategy?

title: Scorched earth

text: A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while it is advancing through or withdrawing from a location. Any assets that could be used by the enemy may be targeted, for example food sources, water supplies, transportation, communications, industrial resources, and even the locale's people themselves.

title: Scorched earth

text: In 1945, Adolf Hitler ordered his minister of armaments Albert Speer to carry out a nationwide scorched-earth policy, in what became known as the Nero Decree. Speer, who was looking to the future, actively resisted the order, just as he had earlier refused Hitler's command to destroy French industry when the Wehrmacht was being driven out of France and he managed to continue doing so even after Hitler became aware of his actions.[53]

title: Escape from Planet Earth

text: Scorch Supernova (voiced by Brendan Fraser) is a heroic alien on a mission to rescue captured babies from the Gnarlachs. He rescues them just in time before the Gnarlachs wake up. Scorch returns to Planet Baab where he is known as a famous hero and works at BASA with his older brother Gary (voiced by Rob Corddry). Gary's son Kip (voiced by Jonathan Morgan Heit) is a big fan of his uncle Scorch. Soon, Gary receives a message from Lena Thackleman (voiced by Jessica Alba), the head of BASA, that Scorch will be sent to the "Dark Planet" (the Baabians' name for Earth) due to a SOS call. Scorch decides to go to the Dark Planet, as he already made a press conference and contacted his sponsors. However, Gary opposes as Scorch is not serious and no alien has ever returned from the Dark Planet. After further arguing, Gary finally says that he won't be helping Scorch and quits BASA before Scorch himself fires him. Gary then goes home to his wife Kira (voiced by Sarah Jessica Parker) and Kip only to find out that Scorch has already gone to the Dark Planet, while Kip is watching it on live TV in excitement.

title: Scorched earth

text: In the year AD 363, the Emperor Julian's invasion of Sassanid Persia was turned back by a scorched-earth policy:

title: Counter-insurgency

text: The Dutch formulated a new strategy of counter-insurgency warfare, during the Aceh War by deploying light-armed Marechaussee units and using scorched earth tactics.

title: Scorched Earth (disambiguation)

text: Scorched earth is the military strategy or operational policy of destroying everything useful to the enemy in areas that cannot be defended.

title: Military strategy

text: As a counterpoint to European developments in the strategic art, the Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan provides a useful example. Genghis' successes, and those of his successors, were based on manoeuvre and terror. The main focus of Genghis' strategic assault was the psychology of the opposing population. By steady and meticulous implementation of this strategy, Genghis and his descendants were able to conquer most of Eurasia. The building blocks of Genghis' army and his strategy were his tribal levies of mounted archers, scorched earth-style methods, and, equally essential, the vast horse-herds of Mongolia.

title: Scorched earth

text: The strategy of destroying the food and water supply of the civilian population in an area of conflict has been banned under Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Conventions. The relevant passage says:

title: Scorched earth

text: The strategy was widely used in the Romanian principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia. Prince Mircea I of Wallachia used it against the Ottomans in 1395 and Prince Stephen III of Moldavia scorched the earth in his country as the Ottoman army advanced in 1475 and 1476.

title: Scorched earth

text: Near the end of the Summer of 1944, Finland, which had made a separate peace with the Allies, was required to evict the German forces, which had been fighting against the Soviets alongside Finnish troops in the Northern part of the country. The Finnish forces, under the leadership of general Hjalmar Siilasvuo, struck aggressively in August 1944 by making a landfall at Tornio. This accelerated the German retreat, and by November 1944 the Germans had left most of northern Finland. The German forces, forced to retreat due to an overall strategic situation, covered their retreat towards Norway by devastating large areas of northern Finland using scorched-earth strategy. More than one-third of the dwellings in the area were destroyed, and the provincial capital Rovaniemi was burned to the ground. All but two bridges in Lapland Province were blown up and all roads were mined.[51] In Northern Norway which was at the same time invaded by Soviet forces in pursuit of the retreating German army in 1944, the Germans also undertook a scorched-earth policy, destroying every building that could offer shelter and thus interposing a belt of "scorched earth" between themselves and the allies.[52]

title: Scorched Earth (disambiguation)

text: Scorched Earth may also refer to:

title: Scorched earth

text: In World War I, Imperial Russian army forces created a zone of destruction by using a large-scale scorched-earth strategy during their retreat from the German army in the summer/autumn of 1915. The Russian troops, retreating along a front of more than 600 miles, destroyed anything that might be of use to their enemy, including crops, houses, railways and entire cities. They also forcibly removed huge numbers of people. In pushing the Russians back to their homeland, the German army gained a large area of territory from the Russian Empire (in an area that is today Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania).[48]

title: Scorched-Earth Policy

text: Scorched-Earth Policy is a thrash metal band from Oakland, California. It was formed in 1997 by current members Mark Lamb, and Lance Lea.

title: Scorched Earth (video game)

text: Starting with 1.0 in 1991, the game became Shareware and was graphically the same "Scorched Earth" that is widely known of today.

title: Scorched earth

text: On 24 February 1917, the German army made a strategic scorched-earth withdrawal from the Somme battlefield to the prepared fortifications of the Hindenburg Line, thereby shortening the front line they had to occupy. Since a scorched-earth campaign requires that there be a war of movement, World War I provided little opportunity in general for this policy as it was a stalemated war fought mostly in the same concentrated area for its entire duration.

title: Trần dynasty military tactics and organization

text: Thăng Long capital of Đại Việt collapsed every time Mongolian come, but they do not know Vietnamese prepared psychological to leave Thăng Long in soon. Because, early time, Vietnamese understood they could not protect. Scorched earth strategy, Vietnamese carry what they needed and could, and destroy everything they can not bring to, so Mongolian troops can not used anything. This strategy, Vietnamese calls: ""Vườn không nhà trống"" (meaning: Both garden and house are emptys)

title: Fabian strategy

text: During the First Indochina War, the Vietnamese independentists used the Fabian strategy by utilizing delaying and hit-and-run tactics and scorched-earth strategy against the better-equipped French forces, which prolonged the war but later made both the French high command and home front weary against it, much worsened by the eventual Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu.

title: Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy

text: The Russian Campaign takes place from 1805 to 1813, during the era of the Napoleonic Wars. The main character is Tsar Alexander I, the "Tsar of all Russia". Most of the scenarios focus on giving resources to allies, so the player can build up his or her army in order to defeat the French Army under Napoleon. This occurs in the second to last mission, where Napoleon has invaded Russia. A favored strategy of players playing this mission is to use a strategy similar to the "scorched earth" policy used by Russia in both the Napoleonic Wars and The Great Patriotic War (World War II).

title: Scorched earth

text: The Sudanese government has used scorched earth as a military strategy in Darfur.

title: Roman infantry tactics

text: As noted above, the fierce charge of the Gauls and their individual prowess is frequently acknowledged by several ancient Roman writers. The Battle of Gergovia however demonstrates that the Gallic were capable of a level of strategic insight and operation beyond merely mustering warriors for an open field clash. Under their war leader Vercingetorix, the Gallics pursued what some modern historians have termed a "persisting" or "logistics strategy" - a mobile approach relying not on direct open field clashes, but avoidance of major battle, "scorched earth" denial of resources, and the isolation and piecemeal destruction of Roman detachments and smaller unit groupings. When implemented consistently, this strategy saw some success against Roman operations. According to Caesar himself, during the siege of the town of Bourges, the lurking warbands of Gauls were:

title: Crop destruction

text: There can be numerous reasons for crop destruction. In scorched-earth strategy, crops and other useful materials are destroyed to prevent the enemy from gaining hold of them. The strategy of destroying the food supply of the civilian population in an area of conflict has been banned under Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Conventions.

title: Scorched-earth defense

text: The scorched-earth defense is a form of risk arbitrage and anti-takeover strategy.

title: Bituriges

text:
Their name supposedly meant "kings of the world". Early in the 1st century BCE, they had been one of the main Gallic tribes, especially in terms of druids and their political influence. But they soon declined in power as the druids were an important target for Julius Caesar in his conquest of Gaul. What is more, the fact that Avaricum (Bourges) was the only Celtic city that Vercingetorix did not burn, contrary to his scorched earth strategy, upon the approach of Caesar's legions is another proof of the political importance of the Bituriges.
Eventually, the town was to be buried by the Roman legions.

title: Scorched earth

text: Notable historic examples of scorched-earth tactics include the Russian army's strategy during the failed Swedish invasion of Russia, the failed Napoleonic invasion of Russia, William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea in the American Civil War, colonel Kit Carson's subjugation of the American Navajo Indians, Lord Kitchener's advance against the Boers, the initial Soviet retreat commanded by Joseph Stalin during the German Army's invasion of the Soviet Union in the Second World War,[1] and the subsequent Nazi German retreat on the Eastern Front.

title: Scorched earth

text: Area bombing Aerial bombing of cities Area denial Bellum se ipsum alet, the strategy of relying on occupied territories for resources Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate Carthaginian peace Chevauchée Early thermal weapons Ecocide Environmental impact of war Harrying of the North Railroad plough Salting the earth Sherman's neckties Total war

title: Scorched Earth (video game)

text: "Scorched Earth" is one of many games in the genre of "turn-based artillery games". Such games are among the earliest computer games, with versions existing for mainframes with only teletype output. "Scorched Earth", with a plethora of weapon types and power-ups, is considered the modern archetype of its format.

title: Scorched earth

text: Efraín Ríos Montt utilized this method in the Guatemalan highlands in 1981-1982, though scorched-earth tactics were first used under the previous president Romeo Lucas García. Upon entering office, Ríos Montt implemented a new counterinsurgency strategy that called for the use of scorched earth to combat the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca rebellion, known as Plan Victoria 82 or, more commonly, by the nickname of the rural pacification elements of this strategy – Fusiles y Frijoles (Bullets and Beans).[57] Ríos Montt's policies resulted in the death of thousands (most of them indigenous Mayans).

title: Salvadoran Civil War

text: Aryeh Neier, the executive director of Americas Watch, wrote in a 1984 review about the scorched earth approach: "This may be an effective strategy for winning the war. It is, however, a strategy that involves the use of terror tactics—bombings, strafings, shellings and, occasionally, massacres of civilians."

title: Scorched Earth (video game)

text: There is also a similar game from the same era called "Tank Wars" and another on the Commodore Amiga computer system called "Scorched Tanks". "Tank Wars" was made in 1990 by Kenny Morse, a year before "Scorched Earth". Commodore also released a similar version in their educational software catalog called "Artillery".

title: Scorched earth

text: During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army had a scorched-earth policy, known as "Three Alls Policy". Due to the Japanese scorched-earth policy, immense environmental and infrastructure damage have been recorded. Additionally, it contributed to the complete destruction of entire villages and partial destruction of entire cities like Chongqing or Nanjing.


query: What does Sagarmatha mean?

title: Sagarmatha Zone

text: Sagarmāthā Zone took its name from the Nepalese name for Mount Everest, which is located in the very north of the zone within the Sagarmatha National Park (1,148km²) in the Solu Khumbu district. Sagarmāthā means "the Head in the Great Blue Sky".[3]

title: Bastipur, Sagarmatha

text: Bastipur, Sagarmatha is a village development committee in Siraha District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 6361 people living in 1158 individual households.

title: What Does Anything Mean? Basically

text: "What Does Anything Mean? Basically" was released 1 October 1985 on record label Statik.

title: Raniban, Sagarmatha

text: Raniban, Sagarmatha is a village development committee in Okhaldhunga District in the Sagarmatha Zone of mid-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1874 living in 372 individual households.

title: Mangaltar, Sagarmatha

text: Mangaltar, Sagarmatha is a village and Village Development Committee in Khotang District in the Sagarmatha Zone of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,140 persons living in 376 individual households.

title: Kabilasi, Sagarmatha

text: Kabilasi, Sagarmatha is a village development committee in Siraha District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2730 people living in 535 individual households.

title: Sagarmatha National Park

text: "Sagarmāthā" is a Nepali word derived from सगर् sagar meaning "sky" and माथा māthā meaning "head".

title: Radio Sagarmatha

text:
Radio Sagarmatha is a FM radio stations in Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. Established in May 1997, Radio Sagarmatha is the first independent community radio broadcasting station in South Asia.
The meaning of Sagarmatha is Mount Everest, which is the highest mountain in the world. It airs its programs in FM 102.4 MHz.

title: What Does Anything Mean? Basically

text: "What Does Anything Mean? Basically" has been generally well received by critics.

title: Kent Bach

text: In his paper, "Content Ex Machina" Bach argues against over-interpreting what he labels the "contextualist platitude" which he defines as: “Generally what a speaker means in uttering a sentence, even if the sentence is devoid of ambiguity, vagueness, or indexicality, goes beyond what the sentence means.” Bach asserts that context does not establish meaning but is merely one of several conversational principles. He states that “context does not determine (in the sense of constitute), but merely enables the hearer to determine (in the sense of ascertain) what the speaker means.” Context provides constraints on what a speaker can reasonably mean and on what a hearer can reasonably interpret a speaker to mean. “contextualist platitude” does not preclude the “older picture of language and communication” and “a fairly standard semantic-pragmatic distinction.” Pragmatic considerations and context do not contribute to the content of what is said. Bach admits that there is meaning in utterances beyond the semantic content of a sentence, but he maintains that context does not determine speaker meaning but rather constrains how a speaker can expect to be understood and helps the hearer understand what is said. “We need the level of locutionary act and, correlatively, a strict, semantic notion of what is said in order to account for (the content of) what a speaker does in uttering a sentence independently of whatever communicative intention (if any) he has in uttering it and regardless of how the content of that intention may depart from the semantic content of the sentence.”

title: Rozzano Locsin

text: Nurses use and encounter technology in nearly every aspect of their profession. What does it mean to be technologically competent? What does it mean to be a caring nurse? How does technology support nursing work? How does it hinder nursing work? How can nurses care for their patients as technological advancements are introduced nearly every day? "Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: A Model for Practice" provides insight and answers into how nurses can express their nursing by being technologically competent. As such, Locsin sustains the understanding that being technological competent is being caring.

title: Marcel Danesi

text: His works typically offer readers an approachable invitation to the use of semiotics to help explain everyday phenomena. For instance, his book "Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice" provides readers with a simple three-fold way of considering semiotic inquiry as trying to answer "What does it Mean? How does it convey meaning? And Why does it mean what it means?"

title: Differentiable manifold

text: Suppose "M" and "N" are two differentiable manifolds with dimensions "m" and "n", respectively, and "f" is a function from "M" to "N". Since differentiable manifolds are topological spaces we know what it means for "f" to be continuous. But what does ""f" is " mean for ? We know what that means when "f" is a function between Euclidean spaces, so if we compose "f" with a chart of "M" and a chart of "N" such that we get a map that goes from Euclidean space to "M" to "N" to Euclidean space we know what it means for that map to be . We define ""f" is " to mean that all such compositions of "f" with charts are . Once again, the chain rule guarantees that the idea of differentiability does not depend on which charts of the atlases on "M" and "N" are selected. However, defining the derivative itself is more subtle. If "M" or "N" is itself already a Euclidean space, then we don't need a chart to map it to one.

title: Adam Cost

text:
When asked in 1993 by a "The New York Times" Style reporter what it all meant, Cost said, "If you could give us [Cost and Revs] the meaning of life, I’d give you the meaning of us." At that time the posters included a phone number; those who called heard a woman's recorded voice repeat their questions back to them: "My intuition tells me that you're asking yourselves who are Revs and Cost and what are they doing? What is it? What does it mean? What does it mean? What does it mean?"
Cost and Revs continued to write in New York City with impunity, highly visible examples of the graffiti that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was determined to eradicate. One letter writer called Cost "probably the worst graffiti vandal in the history of New York."

title: Cognitive semantics

text: As a field, semantics is interested in three big questions: what does it mean for units of language, called lexemes, to have "meaning"? What does it mean for sentences to have meaning? Finally, how is it that meaningful units fit together to compose complete sentences? These are the main points of inquiry behind studies into lexical semantics, structural semantics, and theories of compositionality (respectively). In each category, traditional theories seem to be at odds with those accounts provided by cognitive semanticists.

title: Annabel Port

text:
"Chorus"
Oh what does it mean when the pubs are all packed at five-thirty?
Oh what does it mean when we're all having fish for our tea?
Oh what does it mean when Top of the Pops is on the telly?
Oh yes, the weekend's nearly here;
So sing along with meeee-ee hee hee...

title: Radio Sagarmatha

text: When it began, Radio Sagarmatha was broadcast by a 100 watt capacity transmitter. But these days, the broadcasting capacity of Radio Sagarmatha is 1 kilowatt. It has claimed that around 2.5 million people listen to it regularly. More than 70 journalists are working at Radio Sagarmatha, among them half volunteers. An Ex-Supreme Court Judge and Ex-Chief Election Commissioner have been volunteer producers of Radio Sagarmatha. Bharat Dutta Koirala, prominent media person and the winner of the 2002 Ramon Magsaysay Award in Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts, is one of the founders of Radio Sagarmatha.

title: Baburam Acharya

text:
Nepal’s eminent historian late Baburam Acharya is credited with the Nepali name Sagarmatha for Mount Everest that straddles Nepal-China border. Nepal had no official name of its own for the world’s tallest peak in Nepali (although official name among many Nepalese peoples - Sherpa, Limbu, etc., existed long ago) until the historian found out one. What may not be true however is that he coined the name for the mountain (as is put in the Wikipedia under his name).
Baburam wrote an essay in late 1930s in which he said that among the local populace of the remote Everest region the mountain was popular by the name Sagarmatha (meaning the Head of the Earth touching the Heaven); some even called it Jhomolongma.
In his own words:

title: What Does Anything Mean? Basically

text: "What Does Anything Mean? Basically" was recorded in January 1985 at Highland Studios in Inverness, Scotland.

title: Janakinagar, Sagarmatha

text: Janakinagar, Sagarmatha is a village development committee in Siraha District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3972.

title: Baraha, Sagarmatha

text: Baraha, Sagarmatha is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2738 people living in 471 individual households.

title: Two Dogmas of Empiricism

text: Paul Grice and P. F. Strawson criticized "Two Dogmas" in their (1956) article "In Defense of a Dogma". Among other things, they argue that Quine's skepticism about synonyms leads to a skepticism about meaning. If statements can have meanings, then it would make sense to ask "What does it mean?". If it makes sense to ask "What does it mean?", then synonymy can be defined as follows: Two sentences are synonymous if and only if the true answer of the question "What does it mean?" asked of one of them is the true answer to the same question asked of the other. They also draw the conclusion that discussion about correct or incorrect translations would be impossible given Quine's argument. Four years after Grice and Strawson published their paper, Quine's book "Word and Object" was released. In the book Quine presented his theory of indeterminacy of translation.

title: Analytic–synthetic distinction

text: Paul Grice and P. F. Strawson criticized "Two Dogmas" in their 1956 article "In Defense of a Dogma". Among other things, they argue that Quine's skepticism about synonyms leads to a skepticism about meaning. If statements can have meanings, then it would make sense to ask "What does it mean?". If it makes sense to ask "What does it mean?", then synonymy can be defined as follows: Two sentences are synonymous if and only if the true answer of the question "What does it mean?" asked of one of them is the true answer to the same question asked of the other. They also draw the conclusion that discussion about correct or incorrect translations would be impossible given Quine's argument. Four years after Grice and Strawson published their paper, Quine's book "Word and Object" was released. In the book Quine presented his theory of indeterminacy of translation.

title: Rhetorical situation

text: In essence, Vatz claims that the definitive elements of rhetorical efforts are the struggle to create for a chosen audience saliences or agendas, and this creation is then followed by the struggle to infuse the selected situation or facts with meaning or significance. What are we persuaded to talk about? What are we persuaded it means or signifies? These questions are prior to: What does the situation make us talk about? or, What does it intrinsically mean?

title: What Does Anything Mean? Basically

text: What Does Anything Mean? Basically is the second studio album by English post-punk band the Chameleons. It was recorded in January 1985 and released 1 October 1985 by record label Statik.

title: Lekhani, Sagarmatha

text: Lekhani, Sagarmatha is a village development committee in Udayapur District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2141 people living in 373 individual households.

title: P.S.K. What Does It Mean?

text: "P.S.K. What Does It Mean?" (also written as "P.S.K. (What Does It Mean?)") is a song released in 1985 by Philadelphia rapper Schoolly D on his independent label Schoolly D Records. P.S.K. is the abbreviation for Park Side Killas, a street gang with which Schoolly D was affiliated. The highly influential song is considered the first hardcore rap song and features incidents of graphic sex, gunplay, drug references and one of the first uses of the word "nigga" in a rap song (earlier uses include "Scoopy Rap" and "Family Rap" in 1979, and "New York New York" in 1983).

title: Sherman Alexie

text: Alexie's poetry, short stories and novels explore themes of despair, poverty, violence and alcoholism among the lives of Native American people, both on and off the reservation. They are lightened by wit and humor. According to Sarah A. Quirk from the "Dictionary of Library Biography," Alexie asks three questions across all of his works: "What does it mean to live as an Indian in this time? What does it mean to be an Indian man? Finally, what does it mean to live on an Indian reservation?" The protagonists in most of his literary works exhibit a constant struggle with themselves and their own sense of powerlessness in white American society.

title: Antonio Cañizares Llovera

text: In response to an interview in December 2008 Cardinal Cañizares Llovera stated regarding the best way to receive the Eucharist: "What does it mean to receive communion in the mouth? What does it mean to kneel before the Most Holy Sacrament? What does it mean to kneel during the consecration at Mass? It means adoration, it means recognizing the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist; it means respect and an attitude of faith of a man who prostrates before God because he knows that everything comes from Him, and we feel speechless, dumbfounded, before the wondrousness, his goodness, and his mercy. That is why it is not the same to place the hand, and to receive communion in any fashion, than doing it in a respectful way; it is not the same to receive communion kneeling or standing up, because all these signs indicate a profound meaning."

title: The Killing (Danish TV series)

text: As well as the UK, DR also sold the series to a number of other broadcasters worldwide, and "The Killing" was eventually shown in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Russia and Spain with varying degrees of success. Producer Piv Bernth described the broad appeal of the show as "groundbreaking", and explained what she believed to be the root of its popularity: "It's the first time you have a detective drama over 20 episodes – other series had one killing per episode. And we also have this three-plot structure – what does it [a murder] mean for a police investigator, what does it mean for the parents, what does it mean for the politicians. It's not just about finding the murderer. That's important, but it's not all."


query: How well did The Last of Us sale?

title: List of best-selling video games

text: This is a list of the best-selling video games of all time. The best-selling video game to date is Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally released for the Electronika 60 in 1984 and then popularised upon its Game Boy release in 1989. The game has been ported to a wide range of platforms and sold in excess of 170 million copies, including 100 million paid mobile game downloads and 35 million Game Boy version sales.[1] Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto V are the only other games to have sold over 100 million copies. The best-selling game on a single platform is Wii Sports, with nearly 83 million sales for the Wii console.

title: Amnesia: The Dark Descent

text: A year after the original release of "Amnesia", the developers revealed that they had sold around 391,102 units and were continuing to sell about 6000 units per month. They also released details about how much money each platform generated for them by analyzing the sales from their online store, with 70% of sales coming from Windows users and 15% coming from users of Linux and another 15% coming from users of Mac OS X. Frictional did however note that their store was the only place anyone could purchase the Linux version of the game, whereas the Mac OS X and Windows versions could be purchased from other sources, meaning that the total percentage of Linux sales is actually considerably smaller compared to other platforms taken collectively. Observing that their own Mac OS X sales did not go down from their own store even as services like Steam picked up the game for that platform, meaning that it did not steal customers from their store but instead opened up a new market, they decided this makes a good incentive for other stores to support Linux as well. As of September 2012, the game sits at an estimated 1.4 million sales.

title: Libel trial of Joseph Howe

text: Lyndsay M. Campbell argues that the trial did eventually change the law. Howe was the first in Nova Scotia to argue intent before a jury. Campbell also notes that while Howe's defence did not persuade the presiding judge, it was a defense that would be used by lawyers in future cases. Howe changed how the law was perceived by both the legal profession and by the general public. The timing of the trial was crucial to the lasting effect it had on Canada. It occurred when the number of newspapers was growing rapidly and they were all pushing their own boundaries when it came to political commentary. Howe's trial removed the fear of prosecution from these newspapers for having political commentary of their own, as Campbell puts it, "The sense of what was possible had changed."

title: How to Have Sex in an Epidemic

text: "How to Have Sex" was met with a mixed response from its target audience (queer men/MSM) in New York City. Sales exceeded what the authors had expected, and within two weeks of the initial publication they had ordered a second batch, and, soon after, a third to meet popular demand. David France describes himself and his friends being "absorbed" by the material: "the pool table sat idle as a dozen of us passed around copies, hungry for guidance through the terror that sex was causing." It has been lauded as the "first sex-positive guide to practicing safe sex" and is widely regarded as revolutionizing the tone of safe sex education, particularly in the LGBT community. The only real sacrifices in behavior that it required were abstaining from substance use in sex-related situations, rather than abstinence from any form of sex itself. Most readers reacted well to the positive and casual tone of the writing, as well as the frank descriptions of sexual acts. Edmund White, author of "The Joys of Gay Sex", said of the pamphlet: "this is the sanest, most sensible advice I've read yet about AIDS" and Dennis Altman, author of "The Homosexualization of America" said, "at last: a response to the effect of aids on our lives that goes beyond fears and myths to suggest positive actions." David France called it "a survival guide for the plague years." Many gay men were simply glad for any concrete advice in the midst of such confusion, particularly advice that did not present celibacy as the only safe option.

title: Oscar bait

text: Rossman and Schilke used their data to develop an algorithm that could predict how many Oscar nominations a film would get, based on its similarities to other recent Oscar nominees. It did not take sophisticated statistical analysis, they noted—"Entertainment Weekly" had for many years correctly predicted the Oscar nominees. Using data on how much the films had cost to make, they treated the system of nominating as a Tullock lottery to determine the studios' rate of return on their investments. They found that while Oscar-nominated films do indeed get at least a small bonus in ticket sales, directly proportional to the number of nominations, films with what they called "Oscar appeal" took a loss when they did not get any nominations.

title: Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation

text: The VHS release of "How I Spent My Vacation" was one of the highest selling videos in the United states; on the "Billboard" charts, the video ranked 12th in sales in April 1992. In May 1992, "How I Spent My Vacation" rose to 9th in video sales. On July 18, 1992, "How I Spent My Vacation" had been on "Billboard Magazine"'s 40 "Top Video Sales" for 16 weeks. On June 27, 1992, the film was ranked the 5th highest on "Billboard"'s "Top Kid Video". On February 6, 1993, "How I Spent My Vacation" had been on the "Top Kid Video" list for 41 weeks. While it did not state the revenue of the film, the "Toronto Star" stated that the film sold so well that Warner Bros. decided to release videos of "Tiny Toon Adventures" episodes.a. "Billboard Magazine" and some reviews state that the film was released in 1991. The "Miami Herald", "Bowker's Complete Video Directory: 1997", "The Animated Movie Guide", "TV Guide", "Toonzone"'s "Tiny Toon Adventures" episode guide, and the "New York Times", state that the film was or will be released in 1992.

title: No Line on the Horizon

text: Sales of the album stalled midway through 2009. By October, just over one million copies had been sold in the US, the group's lowest in more than a decade. Through March 2014, the album's lifetime sales in the country totaled 1.1 million copies. In the UK, the record sold less than a third of "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb"s figures, and a quarter of "All That You Can't Leave Behind"s. Global sales of "No Line on the Horizon" remained at five million copies through September 2010. The album did not generate a hit single; ABC noted that sales of "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" had been propelled by the track "Vertigo" which, although not a chart success, had become well-known to the public from its use in iPod commercials.

title: John Jovino Gun Shop

text: Although many of its customers are in law enforcement, the company was near the top of a list of sellers whose guns were linked to New York City crimes in a 2003 report by a Columbia University researcher using data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Some 102 guns of 11,700 used in crimes and later identified came from the Jovino shop. According to current owners, until the 1980s the Jovino Company was "one of the biggest dealers in the country" and sold guns to many police departments. The study did not suggest any wrongdoing by the dealers listed (the store is not responsible for how people use the products they legally sell) and did not take into account that a store that has a higher volume of sales would most likely have a higher number of sales to people who later used the firearms in crimes, even if the store had a lower ratio of firearms used in crimes bought from the store per total sales than a store with a smaller volume of sales. A 2007 "Village Voice" article raised questions about the store's sales to United Nations diplomats from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

title: How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted in Ten Easy Steps

text: The album charted at #15, with the then current single "Lonely at the Top" dropping from 10 to 31 on album release week. After this the album left the top 75 after three weeks in the chart. It did re-enter after the release of "I Luv U", but the last reported sales figures claimed that the album is their least successful sales-wise.

title: How Does a Moment Last Forever

text: Disney released Dion's version on its official YouTube channel on March 8, 2017, nine days before the release of the film. Although not officially released as a single from "Beauty and the Beast"'s soundtrack, due to Dion's unavailability to promote it, "How Does a Moment Last Forever" has made an impact in certain countries due to the film's success at the box office. It has peaked at number one for two weeks in the singer's native Canadian province of Quebec, number nine on the US "Billboard"s Kid Digital Song Sales, number 94 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart (number 80 in Scotland) and number 124 on the French Digital Singles Chart (number 125 on the Overall Sales Chart). "How Does a Moment Last Forever" also proved to be successful in South Korea, where it reached number six.

title: Bantè

text: In truth, it was only the non-Africans who gained in the long run. They used the free labor of Africans to build a new world and advance their world. Africans who participated in the slave trade on the other hand, only helped to harm Africa, to depopulate Africa, to deprive Africa of young men and women who could have helped build a strong Africa. They traded their most valuable commodities (humans) for liquor, guns and various western goods that were all of inferior quality and of no value. They did nothing to build and advance their nations and they wondered why Europeans scrambled to colonize them. In fact, it was the Europeans who eventually outlawed slavery and had to stop the Africans who were all to happy to keep the trade alive. Africans biggest mistake was viewing other Africans as well ”Others”. They only sought to conquer others, instead of harmonizing with others. Just think how great Africa might have been had there not been ethnic fragmentation. Africa suffers til this very day as a direct result from the sins of the slave trades all across Africa. They say the Africans participated because they didn’t know any better or to prevent themselves from becoming slaves. These are lies, they knew exactly what they were doing and what was going on. Slaves were sought from Africa because Africans were the only ones willing to steal people and sale them. There would have been no Europeans going to Africa if there were no slaves to buy. Africans were the most culpable in this sad saga. They say that Africans didn’t sale their people. Well, they are right. What Africans did was sale human beings. The greatest crime of all. They caused great suffering to Cudjo Lewis, all the survivors of the last slaver Clotilda, the millions of enslaved before them and to their homelands in Africa.

title: Impression Prods., Inc. v. Lexmark Int'l, Inc.

text: The court did say that the US patent statute gives patentees the reward available from "sales in American markets, not from sales in foreign markets." A sale in a foreign market therefore does not furnish a proper basis for finding exhaustion. "American markets differ substantially from markets in many other countries, and not just because of disparities in wealth that can lead to dramatically different prices" in this country and abroad (as was the case in "Kirtsaeng"). "Government policies differ dramatically, including policies on price regulation and, most particularly, policies on the availability and scope of patent protection." The court did not explain further, however, whether and how such dramatic differences in policy applied to the toner cartridges at issue in the present case.

title: Sales process engineering

text: Meanwhile, another executive from IBM, Daniel Stowell, had participated in IBM's expansion from selling hardware in the 1960s and '70s "the only way it knew how, through face-to-face sales" to the company's first use of a market channel in a project known as the "Alternate Channels Marketing Test." The idea was to incorporate direct response marketing techniques to accomplish the job of direct salespeople, and the initiative was quite successful. Notably his story illustrated the need for "consensus management" of the sales team. Traditional ways of managing sales people did not work when team members who had to develop a new way of selling were embedded in 14 different sales offices around the US.

title: Market penetration

text: As a strategy, market penetration is used when the business seeks to increase sales growth of its existing products or services to its existing markets in order to gain a higher market share. This strategy is often used during the early stages of the business or before it enters the market, in order to prove the market existence and show market size for its products or services, also to gain an understanding to the number of competitors and how well they are doing. Hence, the business can decide on either it is a good to enter their target market or not, and how it can make its products or services more attractive to consumers than its competitors. During the operation of the business, if the sales are decreasing or flatlining comparing to previous years, then it is also appropriate to apply market penetration strategy to seek for opportunities to increase sales. Therefore, it is unnecessary to this strategy if the sales are increasing. However, it is exceptional if the sales growth trend shows the gross increase but is much less significant comparing to its competitors, because this could indicate the business's market share is actually shrinking, then this strategy can be a good approach to try regain its market share.

title: How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

text: "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales of 68,788 copies, earning the band their third consecutive number-one album. The album slipped to number two for two weeks in a row, before reclaiming the number-one spot in its fourth week on the chart, with 14,419 copies sold. In the United States, the album debuted atop the "Billboard" 200 with 137,000 album-equivalent units, of which 128,000 were pure album sales. It marked the band's first number-one album on the chart, as well as their largest sales week. As of December 2015, "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" had sold 290,000 copies in the US. The album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 19,000 copies in its first week. In Australia, the album debuted at the top of the charts, with sales of 15,706.

title: Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012

text: Sales figures for "Rogue Trip" are unknown. Publisher GT Interactive claimed that the game did contribute significantly to its fiscal revenue during the release period, despite an overall loss during the quarter. There were various, unofficial reports that a sequel to the game was in development by SingleTrac between 1999 and 2000. However, nothing concrete was ever made public and many key members of the company, such as producer and designer Scott Campbell, left the company in late 1999 to form Incognito Entertainment. Former SingleTrac employee Jay Barnson told "PC World" that he was unaware of any plans for a sequel and that GT Interactive never disclosed to the development team how well its projects "Rogue Trip" or "Critical Depth" had sold. "Maybe they both sold very well and they never told us, but it sure seemed like management wasn't enthusiastic about sales," he explained.

title: Outboard Marine Corporation

text: Johnson's fate was worse. A too-costly advertising campaign, as well as an ill-timed offering of matched motors and hulls, drained all cash reserves by 1930, when control of the company passed to its bankers. Next came an attempt to lessen its reliance on seasonal sales by entry into the refrigerator-compressor market. This last-ditch effort did not revive the business, and shortly thereafter Johnson was for sale.

title: Peggle

text: The game did not initially perform well in sales when released for Windows, but according to Sidhu, sales of the game took off following the release of "Peggle Extreme" as part of "The Orange Box"; Sidhu stated that the special version of the game helped to bring in video game players that would "never be caught dead playing a game with unicorns and rainbows". "Peggle" (both trial and full versions) has been downloaded more than 50 million times from the Internet as of early 2009, though PopCap has not released how many of these downloads were for full sales of the game.

title: Drones (Muse album)

text: "Drones" debuted at number one the US "Billboard" 200 chart in the week ending 14 June, earning 84,200 album-equivalent units in its first week (including 79,400 copies on traditional sales, 26,000 on single sales and 3.3 million on single streams), surpassing estimations. "Drones" replaced "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" by Florence and the Machine in the previous week, the first time two British artists had debuted consecutively at number one on the US chart since 1956. Its traditional sales took "Drones" to number one of the Top Album Sales. The following week it fell to #19, tying with Bon Jovi's "The Circle" and Sia's "1000 Forms of Fear" for the tenth-largest drop from #1 on the Billboard 200 as of January 2017.

title: Fixed-asset turnover

text: Fixed-asset turnover is the ratio of sales (on the profit and loss account) to the value of fixed assets (on the balance sheet). It indicates how well the business is using its fixed assets to generate sales.

title: Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death

text: Used car dealer Ralph Spoilsport (Proctor), last heard in "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All", appears selling used body parts in a "going out of body" sale.

title: Capitulare de villis

text: In terms of food, less instruction is given in terms of how and where to grow them but the iudex is tasked with ensuring both quantity and quality. Special attention is paid to wine, especially how it should be made and stored. In case of excess production, the "[p]rovision is made for the sale of fish and other goods that are not used because the king did not visit".

title: Long tail

text: They used a theoretical model to show how a reduction in search costs will affect the concentration in product sales. By analyzing data collected from a multi-channel retailing company, they showed empirical evidence that the Internet channel exhibits a significantly less concentrated sales distribution, when compared with traditional channels. An 80/20 rule fits the distribution of product sales in the catalog channel quite well, but in the Internet channel, this rule needs to be modified to a 72/28 rule in order to fit the distribution of product sales in that channel. The difference in the sales distribution is highly significant, even after controlling for consumer differences.

title: David Ford (musician)

text: From 2001 to 2004, the group released one mini-album, two full-length albums and several singles. After lacklustre sales of their final record, "Kill the Last Romantic", Ford privately announced his intention to disband the group. After several short festival performances and radio appearances to promote their final single, "How Did It Ever Come to This?", Easyworld announced their split in September 2004. Their last public performance was at the Staffordshire date of 2004s V Festival on 22 August.

title: Lotus Improv

text: Improv's disappointing sales and eventual cancellation on the PC platform has been used as a case study in numerous post-failure analyses of the software market. Sales on the NeXT platform could be explained by NeXTs limited marketshare, but the failure on the PC was another issue. Among the favored explanations are the fact that, unlike the release on NeXT, the Windows version faced strong internal resistance from 1-2-3, and corporate immune response became an issue. Lotus' sales and marketing teams, well versed in selling 1-2-3, did not know how to sell Improv into the market, so they simply didn't, selling the well known and understood 1-2-3. Other explanations include the fact that Microsoft Excel was being offered as part of the Office bundle at marginal rates that were tiny in comparison, as well as several mis-steps during introduction, like the lack of a macro language or undo. Joel Spolsky blames it on the design itself, claiming it was too perfectly aimed at a specific market and lacked the generality that Excel featured.

title: Greatest Love Classics

text: Although the album did not make it onto the "Billboard" 200 chart in the US, it did enter the UK album chart on October 27, 1984, and reached #22 during its 10 weeks there. On November 12, 1984, it was awarded with Silver certification for sales of 60,000 units as well as Gold certification for sales of 100,000 units in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry.

title: Joshua Dziabiak

text: Dziabiak used the proceeds from the sale of Media Catch to launch Next In Line Records, an online record label. His plan was to distribute music online, but the company did not work out. Dziabiak had a roster of recording artists that played small- and medium-size venues. He noticed how costly it was for these artists to manage ticket sales for these venues without paying expensive fees to Ticketmaster.

title: Smiley Bates

text: To illustrate how successful Smiley's recordings were, TeeVee Records, a direct to consumer sales company, put together a package of 20 songs and instrumentals from Smiley's previous albums entitled "The Best of Smiley Bates". This album sold in excess of 100,000 units of records and tapes and did particularly well in the Maritimes. Due to the success of the TV record sales Smiley was offered long term recording contracts by three major recording companies.

title: Software Star

text: Having a large portfolio of games has its advantages by increasing the player's monthly sales. However, money must be spent on promoting aging titles. Each game has its own quality rating, where the quality increases with the amount of time spent on development. Managing the productivity of the player's staff is also key to the game, giving him a snapshot of the last six months. He could decide to either discipline offer incentives or take no action. There are four sales regions where the player's products are sold. These regions are ordered from one to four, depending on how much importance he gives to them by consulting the sales from the previous month. Public relations also needs tweaking by choosing Honesty or Hype. Each decision has an effect on his company image. Finally, the player will have to evaluate his potential market depending on the time of year and decide how many advertising pages to buy. Markets are larger around Christmas and New Year. It is then time to sit back and look at the sales figures as the player's game enters the Top 20. He is then given a sales break even figure and each game climbs the chart if it sells well to the Number One spot.

title: Vickie Winans

text: "Share the Laughter" did not do as well, but for a standup comedy album, its sales were far from disappointing considering Intersound/CGI was on its last legs and soon closed.

title: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874

text: The resolution is vague on how to implement sanctions on North Korean air cargo, in contrast to the provisions for sea cargo. However, it is alleged that North Korea uses air traffic more than sea traffic to transport or exchange weapons technology. The Congressional Research Service report identifies the Pyongyang–Tehran air route as a matter of concern, as most of the US$1.5 billion North Korea earns in weapons sales comes from Iran. In addition to this, the report claims the air route is also used for the exchange and collaboration of WMD technology, as well as a route for visits by scientists, technicians and nuclear and ballistics officials. Most of the route passes over China, and a U.S. delegation held talks with Chinese officials over how to implement the resolution regarding the aircraft which regularly refuel at Chinese airports, but did not report on the response.


query: How large is Navajo County, Arizona?

title: Navajo County, Arizona

text: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 9,960 square miles (25,800km2), of which 9,950 square miles (25,800km2) is land and 9.3 square miles (24km2) (0.09%) is water.[3]

title: Navajo Nation

text: Monument Valley (on the Utah and Arizona border, near the town of Kayenta, Arizona) Shiprock Pinnacle (large volcanic remnants, elevation 7,178, located in New Mexico near Shiprock) Navajo Mountain (mountain along Utah and Arizona border, elevation 10,318) Navajo Nation Tribal Memorial Park Chaco Canyon Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Canyon De Chelly Window Rock Tribal Park Antelope Canyon Lake Powell Navajo Bridge Little Colorado River Gorge Kinlichee Ruins Four Corners Monument Hubbell Trading Post Grand Falls Rainbow Bridge National Monument Narbona Pass

title: Navajo County, Arizona

text: Navajo County comprises the Show Low, Arizona Micropolitan Statistical Area.

title: Navajo County, Arizona

text: Navajo County has 6,632.73 square miles (17,178.7km2) of federally designated Indian reservation within its borders, the third most of any county in the United States (neighboring Apache County and Coconino County are first and second). In descending order of territory within the county, the reservations are the Navajo Nation, Hopi Indian Reservation, and Fort Apache Indian Reservation, all of which are partly located within Navajo County.

title: Black Mesa (Navajo County, Arizona)

text: Black Mesa is a mesa in the White Mountains of Navajo County, Arizona. Located on the Navajo Nation, it is just off State Route 77 between Snowflake and Show Low.

title: Church Rock (Navajo County, Arizona)

text: Church Rock is a pillar in Navajo County, Arizona. It is located near the mouth of Church Rock Valley with a summit elevation of .

title: Padre Canyon incident

text: The Padre Canyon incident was a skirmish in November 1899 between a group of Navajo hunters and a posse of Arizona lawmen. Among other things, it was significant in that it nearly started a large-scale Indian war in Coconino County and it led to the expansion of the Navajo Reservation. It was also the final armed conflict during a land dispute between the Navajo and American settlers, as well as one of the bloodiest.

title: Navajo County, Arizona

title: Red Lake (Arizona–New Mexico)

text: Red Lake is a lake located next to Navajo, New Mexico, in the Red Valley in McKinley County, New Mexico, and Apache County, Arizona. The lake has a surface elevation of . Navajo, New Mexico, lies on the southeast corner of the lake.

title: Navajo Nation

text: In early 2008, the Navajo Nation and Houston-based IPP entered into an agreement to monitor wind resources, with the potential to build a 500-megawatt wind farm some 50 miles (80km) north of Flagstaff, Arizona. Known as the Navajo Wind Project, it is proposed as the second commercial wind farm in Arizona after Iberdrola's Dry Lake Wind Power Project between Holbrook and Overgaard-Heber. The project is to be built on Aubrey Cliffs in Coconino County, Arizona.[81]

title: Hopi Reservation

text: The Hopi Reservation is a Native American reservation for the Hopi and Arizona Tewa people, surrounded entirely by the Navajo Nation, in Navajo and Coconino counties of Arizona, United States. The site in north-eastern Arizona has a land area of 2,531.773 sq mi (6,557.262 km²) and as of the 2000 census had a population of 6,946. The Hopi Reservation, like most of Arizona but unlike the surrounding Navajo Nation, does not observe daylight saving time. Until recently, the two nations shared the Navajo–Hopi Joint Use Area. The partition of this area, commonly known as Big Mountain, by Acts of Congress in 1974 and 1996, has resulted in continuing controversy.

title: Navajo Gospel Mission, Arizona

text: Navajo Gospel Mission is a populated place situated in Navajo County, Arizona. It has an estimated elevation of above sea level.

title: Navajo County, Arizona

text: Navajo County contains parts of the Hopi Indian reservation, the Navajo Nation, and Fort Apache Indian Reservation.

title: Navajo Mountain (Chapter)

text: Navajo Mountain () is a Chapter straddling the Utah/Arizona border. The bulk of the chapter lies in San Juan County, Utah, with portions in Coconino and Navajo counties in Arizona. It is one of the eighteen Chapters which make up the Western Agency, one of five agencies which make up the Navajo Nation. As of the 2010 census, the Chapter had a total population of 542, of which 501 were Navajo. It has an estimated elevation of above sea level.

title: Hunts Mesa

text: Hunts Mesa is a rock formation located in Monument Valley, south of the border between Utah and Arizona in the United States and west of the border between Arizona's Navajo County and Apache County. It is one of two popular interior destinations in the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park for tourists to experience panoramic views of the popular sandstone formations from a distance. The other is Mystery Valley. A Navajo guide is required to hike to either.

title: Coconino County, Arizona

text: Coconino County contains Grand Canyon National Park, the Havasupai Nation, and parts of the Navajo Nation, Hualapai Nation, and Hopi Nation. It has a relatively large Native American population at nearly 30% of the county's total population, being mostly Navajo with smaller numbers of Havasupai, Hopi, and others.

title: Navajo County, Arizona

text: Navajo County leans towards the Republican Party. Although its Native American population makes up nearly half of the county, a demographic that politically favors those of the Democratic Party, the county has a strong The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints presence (particularly in population centers such as Snowflake) that normally allows Republican candidates to carry the county by small margins. However, the last (2018) gubernatorial midterm races, the county voted Republican over Democrat by large margins (56.4%-41.5%).

title: Physaria navajoensis

text: Physaria navajoensis, the Navajo twinpod or Navajo bladderpod, is a plant species native the US states of Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. It is known from only one county in Arizona (Apache), one in Utah (Kane) and two counties in New Mexico (San Juan and McKinley). Much of the plant's range is on land of the Navajo Nation. The plant occurs in open, sunny locations at elevations of 2200–2400 m.

title: Twin Buttes, Navajo County, Arizona

text: Twin Buttes is a populated place situated in Navajo County, Arizona. It is one of two populated locations in Arizona with this name, the other being in Pima County. It has an estimated elevation of above sea level.

title: 2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona

text: Kirkpatrick earned endorsements from leaders in government, education, tribal communities, first responders, and other groups. Among those endorsing her were: Governor Janet Napolitano, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. Representative Harry Mitchell, the Arizona Education Association, the Arizona Police Association, the Arizona Conference of Police and Sheriffs, the International Association of Firefighters, Navajo County School Superintendent Linda Morrow, county sheriffs in Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, Navajo, and Pinal Counties, Coconino County School Superintendent Cecilia Owen, Pinal County School Superintendent Orlenda Roberts, Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, San Carlos Apache Tribal Chairman Wendsler Nosie, White Mountain Apache Tribal Chairman Ronnie Lupe, former Navajo Nation president Dr. Peterson Zah, and many other tribal leaders. The "Arizona Republic", the state's largest newspaper, and the "White Mountain Independent" and the "Arizona Daily Sun", two of the most widely read newspapers in the district, also endorsed her candidacy.

title: Black Mesa (Apache-Navajo Counties, Arizona)

text: Black Mesa (also called Big Mountain) is an upland mountainous mesa of Arizona, north-trending in Navajo County, west and southeast-trending in Apache County, in the south/southeast. In Navajo it is called ('Black Mountain') and during Mexican rule of Arizona it was called Mesa de las Vacas (Spanish for 'mesa of the cows'). It derives its dark appearance from the numerous seams of coal that run through it.

title: Kayenta, Arizona

text: Kayenta () is a U.S. census-designated place (CDP) which is part of the Navajo Nation and is in Navajo County, Arizona. The population was 5,189 at the 2010 census. Kayenta is located south of Monument Valley and contains a number of hotels and motels which service visitors to Monument Valley. Like other places on the Navajo Nation, it is illegal to serve alcohol. Arizona does not observe Daylight Time; however, the Navajo reservation does.

title: Holbrook, Arizona

text: Holbrook () is a city in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city was 5,053. The city is the county seat of Navajo County.

title: Navajo, Arizona

text: Navajo is a populated place situated in Apache County, Arizona. It has an estimated elevation of above sea level.

title: Tuba City, Arizona

text: Tuba City () is an unincorporated town in Coconino County, Arizona, on Navajo lands, in the United States. It is the second-largest community in Coconino County. The population of the census-designated place (CDP) was 8,611 at the 2010 census. It is the Navajo Nation's largest community, slightly larger than Shiprock, New Mexico, and the headquarters of the Western Navajo Agency. The Hopi village of Moenkopi lies directly to its southeast.

text: This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Navajo County, Arizona. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.

title: Navajo Mountain Mission, Arizona

text: Navajo Mountain Mission is a populated place situated in Coconino County, Arizona. It has an estimated elevation of above sea level.

title: Pinon, Arizona

text: Pinon () is a census-designated place (CDP) in Navajo County, Arizona, United States, and on the Navajo Nation. The population was 904 at the 2010 census.

title: Navajo County, Arizona

text: Navajo County is located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2010 census, its population was 107,449.[1] The county seat is Holbrook.[2]

title: Evelyne Bradley

text: After retiring as a Navajo Nation judge, Bradley was elected as a Justice of the Peace for Navajo County, Arizona. Her county office was based in Kayenta, Arizona. On January 9, 2007, she administered the oath of office to President of the Navajo Nation, Joe Shirley, Jr., for his second term.

title: Apache County, Arizona

text: The Navajo Nation Museum and Library is located in Window Rock, Arizona. The library and museum is the largest one on the Navajo Nation and in Apache County.


query: When was Daydream Software founded?

title: Daydream Software

text: Daydream Software is a defunct Swedish video game developer founded in 1994.[1] They released four games[2] (with another in the works)[3] before closing in 2003.

title: Randy Saaf

text:
Randy Saaf is the CEO of Lucid Sight, a game studio that has released several VR titles for the PlayStation, Gear, and Google Daydream. Saaf co-founded OnSystems in 2000 which specialized in encrypted P2P messaging and file transfer. Saaf was the chief executive officer, and founder, of MediaDefender, Inc., which was purchased by ARTISTdirect, Inc. in 2005 for $42.5 million in cash.
Saaf co-founded Jirbo, a large developer of iPhone games, in 2008. Jirbo rebranded itself to AdColony and was sold to Opera Software for $350 million.
Saaf co-founded AlphaGenius. AlphaGenius is an investment and technology development firm that farms social media data and produces trading models for the hedge fund industry.

title: Daydream

text: Other recent research has also shown that daydreaming, much like nighttime dreaming, is a time when the brain consolidates learning. Daydreaming may also help people to sort through problems and achieve success. Research with fMRI shows that brain areas associated with complex problem-solving become activated during daydreaming episodes.

title: Daydream Software

text: Daydream's next game was a more ambitious title called Clusterball, a futuristic sports game released in late 2000 for PC computers after a successful run as a downloadable title on Real.com. The game garnered mixed to positive reviews[13] but low sales for the company.[14]

title: The Lovin' Spoonful

text: John Lennon's personal jukebox was found to contain the Lovin' Spoonful record "Daydream." Interviewed about the find, John Sebastian revealed he had been given a Beatles rehearsal tape that contained Lennon singing "Daydream."

title: Daydream Software

text: Most of Daydream Software's games were continued by other companies later.

title: Daydream Software

text: Their first game was Safecracker, a point and click adventure game published by DreamCatcher Interactive. The game had a tumultuous production, starting when GT Interactive bought initial publisher Warner Interactive Europe.[5] Daydream Software went public in late 1996.[6][7] The company's goal was to increase its economic and decision-making freedom, and to secure the ability to select a publisher at the end of each game's development rather than at the beginning.[7] President Jans Phersson-Broburg argued that self-financing Daydream's future games with money from Swedish investors, instead of obtaining "funding linked to specific projects" from publishers, would offer the developer more stability, flexibility and room for growth.[8] For Daydream's public launch, roughly 20 million kr worth of shares, or 45.5% of the company, were offered to investors in Sweden.[7] The initial public offering was a success,[9] and Daydream opened on the Stockholm Stock Exchange's Stockholm Börsinformation (SBI) list in January 1997.[10] Daydream was eventually able to buy back the rights to Safecracker.

title: Daydream (Mariah Carey album)

text: "Daydream" was well received by contemporary critics. In "The New York Times", Stephen Holden wrote that her songwriting had improved dramatically, "becoming more relaxed, sexier, and less reliant on thudding clichés". "One Sweet Day", "Melt Away", "Always Be My Baby", and "Underneath the Stars" were singled out as highlights, while "Fantasy" featured what Holden described as "some of the most gorgeously spun choral music to be found on a contemporary album". "Los Angeles Times" journalist Cheo H. Coker said "Daydream" boasted material that would silence Carey's critics—especially "Fantasy" and "Underneath the Stars"—and offered "something for everybody while somehow remaining true to her essence". "People" deemed it Carey's best record, benefiting from "funkier and mellower" songs and the singer's improved control over her voice, "evincing greater muscularity and agility". According to "Encyclopedia of Popular Music" writer Colin Larkin, "some critics questioned whether "Daydream" was a controlled exercise in vacuous formula writing, with little emotion or heart." Reviewing the record for "Entertainment Weekly", Ken Tucker preferred the "less dignified tunes"—particularly "Daydream Interlude (Fantasy Sweet Dub Mix)"—over the "monuments to assiduous good taste" in "When I Saw You" and "I Am Free", which he panned as overwrought ballads. Tucker nonetheless called the album Carey's best since her 1990 self-titled debut.

title: Samsung Galaxy S8

text: In May 2017, Google announced that the Galaxy S8 and S8+ will support the company's Daydream virtual reality platform after Samsung rolls out a software update scheduled for mid-2017. In July 2017, Verizon began rolling out an update for its devices, with support for Daydream. The Galaxy S8 was one of the first Android phones to support ARCore, Google's augmented reality engine.

title: Safecracker (video game)

text: Safecracker is a 1997 graphic adventure game developed by Daydream Software and published initially by GT Interactive. It sold 300,000 units by 2001.

title: Clusterball

text: Clusterball is a 2000 video game featuring futuristic sport gameplay created by the Swedish Company Daydream Software and published by Strategy First, RealNetworks and Daydream Software itself.

title: Daydream

text: Research by Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett has found that people who experience vivid dream-like mental images reserve the word for these, whereas many other people when they talk about "daydreaming" refer to milder imagery, realistic future planning, review of past memories, or just "spacing out".

title: Dream

text: A daydream is a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake. There are many different types of daydreams, and there is no consistent definition amongst psychologists. The general public also uses the term for a broad variety of experiences. Research by Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett has found that people who experience vivid dream-like mental images reserve the word for these, whereas many other people refer to milder imagery, realistic future planning, review of past memories or just "spacing out"—i.e. one's mind going relatively blank—when they talk about "daydreaming."'

title: Bobby's World

text:
A video game adaptation of Bobby's World was made for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1995. It was developed by Riedel Software Productions and published by Hi Tech Entertainment. In the game, Bobby's mother tells him to clean his room. As he is cleaning his room, Bobby starts daydreaming about a toy. After beating a level, Bobby has another daydream about another toy that he puts away.
Due to the bankruptcy of Hi Tech Entertainment later in 1995, the game was cancelled.

title: Daydream Software

text: Safecracker (1997) Traitors Gate (1999) Ski-Doo: X-Team Racing (2001) Clusterball (2001) Campfire: Become Your Nightmare (Canceled)

title: Clusterball

text: A sequel to "Clusterball" called "Clusterball Arcade" was released on iPhone by Resolution Interactive, a team consisting of ex-Daydream Software members.

title: Traitors Gate (video game)

text: At the 1998 European Computer Trade Show (ECTS), Daydream landed distributors for "Traitors Gate" in eight countries. By the end of September, completion of the game was scheduled for fall; development costs had climbed to 8.06 million kr by late November. In January 1999, Daydream announced a release date of April, and confirmed K.E. Media as the game's distributor in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Deals with companies in France, Italy, Britain and the Netherlands were secured by February. However, as the year progressed, "Traitors Gate" encountered a four-month delay to fall 1999. This event was blamed by Daydream on numerous software bugs, caused by the game's "size and complexity". It proceeded to appear at E3 1999, and development costs rose to 10.6 million kr by the end of May, with 2.03 million of this figure depreciated through capitalization. Papworth estimated the final budget for "Traitors Gate" as between $1 and $2 million in United States currency.

title: Safecracker (video game)

text: Daydream Software went public in late 1996. The company's goal was to increase its economic and decision-making freedom, and to secure the ability to select a publisher at the end of each game's development rather than at the beginning. President Jans Phersson-Broburg argued that self-financing Daydream's future games with money from Swedish investors, instead of obtaining "funding linked to specific projects" from publishers, would offer the developer more stability, flexibility and room for growth. For Daydream's public launch, roughly 20 million kr worth of shares, or 45.5% of the company, were offered to investors in Sweden. The initial public offering was a success, and Daydream opened on the Stockholm Stock Exchange's Stockholm Börsinformation (SBI) list in January 1997. Around the time that Daydream Software launched its initial public offering, Warner Interactive was purchased by GT Interactive.

title: Google Daydream

text: Daydream is a virtual reality (VR) platform developed by Google that is built into the Android mobile operating system (versions "Nougat" 7.1 and later). Compatible phones that follow the platform's software and hardware specifications (and are thus designated "Daydream-ready") are used in the Google Daydream View VR headset. The Daydream platform was announced at the Google I/O developer conference in May 2016, with the first VR headset released on November 10, 2016. Daydream is the company's second VR platform following Google Cardboard, which was a low-cost system intended to encourage interest in VR and was built into compatible mobile apps rather than the operating system itself.

title: Daydream

text: Eric Klinger's research in the 1980s showed that most daydreams are about ordinary, everyday events and help to remind us of mundane tasks. Klinger's research also showed that over 75% of workers in "boring jobs", such as lifeguards and truck drivers, use vivid daydreams to "ease the boredom" of their routine tasks. Klinger found that fewer than 5% of the workers' daydreams involved explicitly sexual thoughts and that violent daydreams were also uncommon.

title: Daydream Software

text: Daydream Software was founded in 1994 in Umeå, Sweden.[4] Its starting team of five was headed by lead designer Nigel Papworth on the principle that they would develop their own games without working with other major publishers to develop commissioned games.

title: Clusterball

text: When asked how the team initially came up with the idea for "Clusterball" in an interview with Eurogamer, Daydream Software's Nigel Papworth responded with "We sat around and discussed what we thought were the greatest aspects of real life games and computer games, and concluded that ball games rule in real life, flight sims in the digital universe. The conclusion was to build a flight sim ball game!"

title: Daydream

text:
In the late 1960s, cognitive psychologists Jerome L. Singer of Yale University and John S. Antrobus of the City College of New York, created a daydream questionnaire. The questionnaire, called the Imaginal Processes Inventory (IPI), has been used to investigate daydreams. Psychologists Leonard Giambra and George Huba used the IPI and found that daydreamers' imaginary images vary in three ways: how vivid or enjoyable the daydreams are, how many guilt- or fear-filled daydreams they have, and how "deeply" into the daydream people go.
Humanistic psychology on other hand, found numerous examples of people in creative or artistic careers, such as composers, novelists and filmmakers, developing new ideas through daydreaming. Similarly, research scientists and mathematicians have developed new ideas by daydreaming about their subject areas.

title: Niem Green

text: Niem M. Green (born October 9, 1982), also known by his stage name The Daydreaming Mogul, Nye, and Nye the Daydreaming Mogul, is an American businessman, Internet entrepreneur, rapper, songwriter, author, motivational speaker, record producer, film and television producer and founder of "creditscoredating.com". He was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He worked as a credit underwriter at JPMorgan Chase and spent 10 years in the financial sector. He specialized in lending, risk and credit analysis and project management before founding his online dating service Credit Score Dating in 2006. In 2009, he released "The Daydreaming Mogul's Guide Vol. 1 Daydreams and Success". The book explored his philosophy on how to achieve one's desires through the power of daydreaming.

title: Maladaptive daydreaming

text:
Some individuals possess the ability to daydream so vividly that they experience a sense of presence in the imagined environment. This experience is reported to be extremely rewarding to the extent that some of those who experience it develop a compulsion to repeat it that is often described as an addiction. The scientific literature suggests that a portion of people with maladaptive daydreaming can spend up to 60% of their waking time daydreaming, and could, therefore, be classified as suffering from a behavioral addiction.
There is a large and growing number of online international maladaptive daydreaming groups that provide information and peer-support, on which individuals profess to have been secretly suffering from maladaptive daydreaming for years.

title: Traitors Gate (video game)

text: "Traitors Gate" was commercially successful and became Daydream Software's top-selling game. It sold 48,000 units worldwide by the end of May 2000, and was a hit in Spain, which accounted for 22,000 sales by April 10. The game spent over three months in the top 10 of Spain's sales charts. However, it was a commercial failure in Germany, where it sold 4,000 copies; and in the United Kingdom, which bought 3,000 units. It also failed in Italy. The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound) traced "Traitors Gate"s country-by-country success rate to the quality of Daydream's distribution partners in each region. By September 30, worldwide sales of the game had risen to roughly 120,000 copies. Daydream told investors that the jump from May came due to "increased marketing efforts by us and our distributors."

title: Eidetic imagery

text: Though spontaneous and repeatable like an eidetic, when the daydream does not progress independently on its own, it is not an eidetic. However, daydreams have easily been confused with eidetic images because, as Allport recognized, spontaneous images of fantasy can be eidetic images if they are of a perceptual character and have a healthy orientation. This healthy orientation is what distinguishes an eidetic from a daydream. Only daydreams being of the healthful and releasing type are eidetic, while negative daydreams go against the nature of the eidetic in not being healthy and restorative.

title: Well-being contributing factors

text: Advocates of focusing on present experiences also mention research by Psychologist Daniel Gilbert, who suggested daydreaming, instead of a focus on the present, may impede happiness. Fellow researcher, Matt Killingsworth, found evidence to support the harm of daydreaming. Fifteen thousand participants from around the world provided over 650 000 reports (using an online application on their phones that requested data at random times). Killingsworth found people who reported daydreaming soon reported less happiness; daydreaming is extremely common. Zimbardo (see "Time Perspectives" above) bestowed the merits of a present-focus, and recommended occasional recall of past positive experiences. Reflecting on past positive experiences can influence current mood, and assist in building positive expectations for the future.

title: List of Mr. Men

text: The story tells of a little boy named Jack. Jack is a nice boy, and he likes to daydream a lot. He is at school when his teacher is talking about history. He looks out the window and meets Mr. Daydream, who invites Jack to come on an adventure with him. They get on the back of a huge bird, and the bird flies them from place to place. In the jungle, a crocodile tricks them into using his back as a bridge, and tries to toss them into his mouth, reminiscent of what the fox did to The Gingerbread Man. The bird rescues them and takes Jack and Mr. Daydream to other places, such as the North Pole, and finally to the Wild West, where Mr. Daydream puts on a hat too big for him, and cannot see. He calls Jack's name from under the hat, and Jack realizes that it wasn't Mr. Daydream calling Jack's name, but his teacher. When the teacher says Jack has been daydreaming, the reader realizes daydreaming is more fun than history!

title: Daydream Software

text: Daydream Software was put through liquidation in February 2003[17] before closing in 2004. Most employees moving on to form a new development company: Resolution Interactive, which focused on iPhone games.[18] The company filed for bankruptcy in 2012.[19]