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Sake news
Do ladies love sake?
by Arline Lyons | Jan 5, 2018 | Sake News from Japan
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The Marketing Cloud Laboratory site delves into the continued popularity of sake among Japanese women. (And I roll my eyes again, briefly, because of the sheer amount of sake-related marketing aimed at women, but the article has figures and charts so let's do this.)
A graph taken from a Mainichi Shinbun newspaper article (31 May 2017), based on data from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare national surveys on health and nutrition, shows a familiar decline in alcohol consumption habits.
With points for 2005, 2010 and 2015, the data shows the percentage of men and women in their 20s and 40s who say they drink regularly. (Numbers below are estimates are there aren't enough lines on the chart to read it properly.)
Men in their 40s: 2005 49%, 2010 40%, 2015 36%
Women in their 40s: 2005 14%, 2010 13%, 2015 14%
Women in their 20s: 2005 8%, 2010 5%, 2015 5%
Compared to the steep drop in young male drinkers, the number of young women drinking regularly remains relatively unchanged. The Mainichi article suggests that as more young women increase their disposable income they spend it on small quantities of high quality food and drink, in contrast to male drinkers who consume large volumes of cheap alcohol.
The article also touches on the bulk of the decrease in consumption affecting the futsu-shu (table sake) category, while the tokutei meisho-shu (literally, styles of alcohol with defined name/titles, like an appellation contrôlée or German beer purity legislation) are actually seeing an increase, suggesting that the industry is being pushed upmarket towards higher quality products. The tokutei meisho-shu, often referred to as "premium" sake, have a restricted set of ingredients (rice, rice inoculated with the essential fungus kōji, water, and optional brewing alcohol), must use rice milled to a specified minimum percentage of its original weight, and use a defined brewing style for some categories. The eight styles are daiginjō, junmai daiginjō, ginjō, junmai ginjō, tokubetsu honjōzō, tokubetsu junmai, honjōzō and junmai. (Although you have to be careful with that last one as it also just means "no added alcohol" so a futsu-shu can be junmai.)
The next graph, taken from the Sake Science site, shows the changing fortunes of two styles of sake: aruten (brewing alcohol added) and junmai (no brewing alcohol added). Although alcohol is added to increase yield in non-premium sake (futsu-shu), it has a different role in in premium styles where it is added just before pressing in order to extract certain aromas and flavours from the mash, which generally creates a slightly lighter end result. Although the graph is hard to make out, it shows a gradual fall in consumption of aruten sake contrasted with a steep rise for junmai.
And the sake "boom" among young women? The author puts forward two recently-coined words, ochoko-joshi (おちょこ女子, a combination of the "ochoko" traditional drinking cup and the word for "women" or "ladies"), and yōjo (酔女, "drunken woman/women"), and the fact that a recent search for "ladies' sake night" on Google year gets 2,720,000 hits. (There's so much wrong with that, I don't know where to start. What were the numbers before this alleged boom? Are all the hits referring to the same small number of events, signifying nothing? Is it all froth generated by the marketing industry with no basis in reality?) Oh, and Kurand are publishing articles about sake aimed at women. Hmm. (Accompanied by a link to an article on the Kurand site explaining the term ochoko-joshi and how women like easy-to-drink, sweet, fruity sake. I feel like I need a stereotype rating…)
The stereotyping continues: ladies like atypical sake that tastes like wine, with stylish packaging design and original brand names, such as those from the Aramasa brewery. Brewers are putting their heads together with female staff and releasing nigori in bottles with snowmen on them!! (I'm starting to wish I was making this up.) The labels are designed to be photographed and shared on social media, there are articles telling women what sake to buy as gifts, and reports from women who went to a ladies' sake night… yes, but it's all very circumstantial and only adds up to a "boom" if you want to see one.
It's not clear if brewers are marketing to women because they think there's a market there, or whether it's a response to a genuine increase in demand among women. Some of the marketing material I've read has baldly stated that women are an untapped market because they don't currently drink sake (or much else), or even that people who don't drink regularly are a target market for the same reason. Unless talking about a sake boom among young women is going to call one into existence, I'm not convinced there is one. (Yet, anyway.)
Original article (Japanese, Marketing Cloud Laboratory, 15 December 2017)
Mainichi Shinbun newspaper article for first graph (Japanese, Mainichi Shinbun newspaper, 31 May 2017)
Sake Science article for the second graph (Japanese, Sake Science, 26 January 2017)
Kurand article about ochoko-joshi (Japanese, Kurand, 28 February 2016)
Aramasa brewery (Japanese)
Article from John Gauntner, quoting legendary tōji Naohiko Noguchi on junmai versus non-junmai (English, no date) There is a belief that junmai is somehow "better" but it's not clear where it comes from.
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Long-awaited surgery drug gets FDA OK
FDA approved Bridion (sugammadex) injection today – after a long wait by Merck & Co. – to reverse the effects of neuromuscular blockade induced by rocuronium bromide and vecuronium bromide, used during certain types of surgery.
Bridion is marketed by Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck and Company. Merck acquired the drug in 2009 as part of its takeover of Schering-Plough.
However, the FDA rejected Schering-Plough's original application in 2008, citing concerns about possible allergic reactions and increased risks of bleeding when it was used with certain blood-thinning drugs, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Related:Once-daily maintenance tiotropium bromide and olodaterol combo drug approved for COPD
Then, the agency rejected Merck's application for Bridion in 2013, citing operational concerns.
However, after its approval this week, Sharon Hertz, MD, director of the Division of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Addiction Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said that the drug "enables medical personnel to reverse the effects of neuromuscular blocking drugs and restore spontaneous breathing after surgery."
The safety and efficacy of Bridion were evaluated in three phase 3 clinical trials involving 456 participants. The return to recovery time was faster overall for the Bridion treatment groups compared to the comparator groups, with most participants recovering within 5 minutes of routine use of Bridion.
And, due to concerns about anaphylaxis reactions reported in the clinical trials, Bridion was further evaluated in a randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, repeat-dose trial. Of the 299 participants treated with Bridion, one person had an anaphylactic reaction. "Clinicians should be aware of the possibility of a hypersensitivity reaction or anaphylaxis and should intervene as appropriate," the FDA said in a statement.
FDA also said that cases of marked bradycardia (abnormally slow heart action), some of which have resulted in cardiac arrest, have been observed within minutes after the administration of Bridion. "Patients should be closely monitored for hemodynamic changes during and after reversal of neuromuscular blockade, and treatment with anticholinergic agents, such as atropine, should be administered if clinically significant bradycardia is observed," FDA said.
The most common adverse reactions reported in clinical trials included vomiting, low blood pressure (hypotension), pain, headache and nausea. Doctors should also advise women using hormonal contraceptives that Bridion may temporarily reduce the contraceptive effect so they must use an alternate method of birth control for a period of time.
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This husband and wife's longtime love of gardening has resulted in a stunning lush landscape they love to share with all.
White daisy-like feverfew and daylilies.
A cultivar of Monarda given to the homeowners as a gift.
Carol and Dan Gravens in their garden.
For Dan and Carol Gravens, gardening is about sharing. Married for 56 years, it is a passion they share with each other that has grown and evolved over time. They also abundantly share their gardening expertise with a variety of community organizations and willingly share the garden itself. Just ask.
When they purchased their Glendale home in 1971, their focus was mainly on renovating the house and raising three children. What is now a garden that has been opened to others on every garden tour imaginable — including the prestigious Missouri Botanical Garden tour — at that time featured a grassy area for childhood games and an above-ground swimming pool. As the children grew, so did the garden with pool and play areas giving way to flowerbeds, pathways and a koi pond.
Both Gravens come upon their love of gardening naturally. Carol came from gardening parents with a father that was a rosarian. Dan grew up on a farm with vegetable gardens and roses. When they began to plant on their own plot, "we realized it was mostly clay," Dan recalls. That confrontation with poor soil may have been a blessing in disguise as it caused Carol and Dan to focus foremost on the soil in the creation of their lush landscape. "We've been working the soil ever since," Dan emphasizes. "We compost everything, including vegetable scraps."
"Gardening is 90 percent soil and 10 percent plant," Carol says emphatically. As well as coming from a gardening background, both Carol and Dan have a scientific bent. Carol's career was in microbiology while Dan, a marketing manager, was also a microbiologist. When they retired from their first careers, they both went full speed into another. Carol became a Master Gardener in 2001; Dan followed by becoming a Master Gardener in 2004. Both also became Master Naturalists. In 2013, Carol went on to receive a degree in horticulture from St. Louis Community College at Meramec.
Both have actively shared their talents with the community at large through the Master Gardener program, with Carol contributing approximately 8,000 volunteer hours to area gardening projects and Dan at approximately 5,000 hours. Carol's passion is orchids, and she has been invited to work alongside Missouri Botanical Garden orchid expert Babs Wagner in the three greenhouses that comprise the garden's orchid range. In addition, Carol has created 16 different talks that she shares with community groups on a variety of gardening topics, including orchids.
She estimates that she has 250 different orchids in her own collection. "I think you have at least 275," Dan quips, laughing. "You're always adding. Just last night you came home with five new plants."
"They just fascinate me," Carol continues. "The colors are so uplifting. I can never learn enough about them. You can enjoy orchids on any level; you can belong to societies or you can go to Sam's Club and buy one for 10 bucks."
Both Dan and Carol are active in plant societies including the Orchid Society of Greater St. Louis, where they served as co-presidents, and the St. Louis Water Gardening Society. Both volunteer at the Plant Doctor Desk at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
In their own nearly quarter-acre garden, their talents blend seamlessly. "I have a wheelbarrow and a shovel," says Dan. "I was in marketing, and I am the big idea guy. I will try different things; create paths so people can walk through the garden. She is more nuts and bolts as far as plants for the garden go. "She decides what we are going to plant; I am the one who carries it out," he summarizes.
In recent years, Carol has delved more into native plants. "They are beautiful, and they require less water. They're tough because they have evolved along with the climate. Our front yard now is almost all natives, although I'm not a purist. I am trying to work on plants for pollinators. We avoid pesticides." While the Gravenses' garden focuses on flowering shrubs, perennials and annuals, they share a vegetable garden with their next-door neighbor.
Some of Carol's current favorite plants include clematis 'Rooguchi' and clematis 'Princess Diana.' Both climbing vines have long bloom times that last from spring through fall. She interplants the two so the blue, bell-shaped flowers of 'Rooguchi' intertwine with the star-shaped pink blossoms of 'Princess Diana' to create a spectacular display. Another favorite, oakleaf hydrangea 'Ruby Slippers', provides a show of blossoms that initially flower white but turn ruby red as summer progresses.
Other lesser known plant favorites include shooting star (Dodecatheon meadia) a shade-loving, May-blooming native wildflower with pastel blossoms that look as the name implies; bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), another native, spreading, low-growing wildflower that features multi-petaled, white flowers with yellow centers atop rounded leaves; and Chinese ground orchid (Bletilla striata), which in spring produces small, Cattleya-orchid-shaped blossoms on 18-inch stems above sword shaped foliage. This plant also prefers partial shade.
Those ground orchids are not the only ones to grace the Gravenses' garden when the weather warms. Carol's orchids all go outside where they hang from special hooks on a fence that runs along the side of the couple's home.
In gardening season, Carol and Dan begin each day at 6 a.m. when they together water the garden and then enjoy morning coffee at a small outdoor table surrounded by the plants they love. The benefits of gardening, Carol and Dan agree, are physical in the exercise that is required to tend the plants, spiritual in that they are creating something beautiful, and social in that they are always delighted to invite even passersby on the street to come in and share what they have created. "People can come anytime and bring anyone they want," Carol emphasizes.
One of the highest tributes to their garden that Carol can recall came from a friend who was having health problems and went out of his way to frequently pass by the garden because, "everything you do here makes me feel so good."
"What I love about gardening," Carol adds, "is that there is no politics involved. You can come together in all this beauty and nothing divides us."


Insomnia is a common problem for people at all stages of life. In Canada, more than 50% of women and 43% of men have problems falling asleep or staying asleep, and about one-third of Canadians aren't getting enough sleep . Symptoms of insomnia can include fatigue, trouble concentrating, and mood disturbances . Chronic insomnia can also have a negative impact on your overall health.
For individuals who experience any chronic pain, the pain doesn't just impact their day-to-day life when they're awake. Chronic pain is a 24-7 problem and can make a good night's sleep a daunting and difficult prospect.
When your chronic pain is leading to difficulties sleeping, there are things you can do to make your life more peaceful.
There is a variety of evidence that suggests sleep and pain are related [3,4]. For people who are on leave from work due to chronic pain, the majority of them also experience sleep disturbance, and not being able to sleep can have a dramatic impact on your ability to function . Insomnia is particularly associated with chronic pain conditions, and insomnia should be addressed as an important component of pain management for those with chronic pain conditions. Although the specific relationships between sleep and chronic pain can vary, it's important to address the sleep problems in order to treat the chronic pain effectively.
Whether your pain means you have difficulties falling asleep or staying asleep, there are things you can do to sleep a little easier. There are several elements of good "sleep hygiene" that you can adapt that may help. Sleep as much as you need to feel healthy and refreshed, but try not to oversleep. Having a regular time to wake up in the morning, regardless of how much sleep you've gotten, also helps to keep a regular sleep schedule. You should never be "trying" to sleep, so if you find yourself lying in bed unable to sleep, switching on the light and doing something else until you feel tired again can be helpful. Alcohol and caffeine are known to affect sleep, so it's important to monitor your intake of both of those substances. Finally, by using the bedroom only for sleep, you have a greater chance of eliminating nighttime distractions, helping you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer .
Massage therapy is a great option to help you get a better night's sleep. Massage therapy can reduce fatigue and improve sleep quality in people at all stages of life, from infants [7,8,9] to the elderly , both improving the ability to fall asleep and the quality of sleep .
Massage therapy has been shown to increase levels of serotonin which is a precursor to melatonin, the hormone that controls your sleep and wake cycles . Massage therapy not only feels relaxing, it can also be a positive sleep-inducing option.
Massage therapy has also been shown to benefit those with conditions that may keep you awake including cancer , psychiatric disorders , fibromyalgia , migraines , and chronic pain [17,18,19,20,21,22] to name a few.
Oftentimes chronic conditions also come with difficulty sleeping, and massage therapy is a great option to improve sleep quality for these patients. Massage therapy can help reduce pain associated with a variety of conditions, which may assist in improved quality of life with a better night's sleep.
No matter the reason you have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, and no matter why you're experiencing poor sleep quality, massage therapy is a great option to help you get some rest. Ask your RMT how they can help.
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Q: How to write a List of Byte Arrays to a file c# I have an uploader that I use to split files up and upload them to my sql server. I then download each chunk and create a temporary file.
I am trying to write a list of byte arrays(byte[]) into one file to recreate that file. This is because when I try to read the list of byte arrays
into one array, I get an OutOfMemory exception. I am just wondering what the best way to do this is. Thanks!
 string path = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop);
        int currentRowSelection = fUS_FileDataGridView.CurrentCell.RowIndex;
        var totalNumber = fUS_FileDataGridView.Rows[currentRowSelection].Cells[6].Value;
        for (int i = 1; i < 149; i++)
        {
            using (var stream1 = new FileStream(path + @"\" + i + ".zip", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
            {
                using (var reader = new BinaryReader(stream1))
                {
                    list_.Add(reader.ReadBytes((int)stream1.Length));
                    stream1.Close();
                    stream1.Dispose();
                    reader.Close();
                    reader.Dispose();

                }
            }
        }
        //array_ = list_.SelectMany(a => a).ToArray();

        filePaths_ = @"C:\Users\ATLAS\Desktop\13\fun.zip";
        foreach (byte[] bytes in list_)
        {
            var doc = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(bytes);
            string textToAdd1 = bytes.ToString();
            try
            {
                using (FileStream fs = File.Create(filePaths_))
                using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(fs, Encoding.Default, 512))
                {
                    writer.Write(textToAdd1);
                    writer.Close();
                    writer.Dispose();
                }
            }
            finally
            {
            }
        }
    }

Update: my question is different from the others I have found because I cannot put my list of byte arrays into a single array to write a file. I am currently only getting a 1 KB file out of my code where I should be getting a 100KB file.
Update 2: The code below makes much more sense but now I am getting a "stream was not writable error"
filePaths_ = @"C:\Users\ATLAS\Desktop\13\fun.zip";
        using (FileStream fs = File.Create(filePaths_))
        for (int i = 0; i < 151; i++)
        {
            using (var stream1 = new FileStream(path + @"\" + i + ".zip", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
            {
                using (var reader = new BinaryReader(stream1))
                {
                    using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(fs, Encoding.Default, 512))
                    {
                        writer.Write(reader);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

A: If the problem is out of memory then you should think about how to reduce the amount of memory being used.
I don't know what your requirements are but based on the code you provided you could do all the writing inside your first foreach loop. This way you are only loading one file at a time and GC will free up the memory once you are done with each file.
    using (FileStream fs = File.AppendText(filePaths_))
    {
        for (int i = 1; i < 149; i++)
        {
            using (var stream1 = new FileStream(path + @"\" + i + ".zip", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
            {
                using (var reader = new BinaryReader(stream1))
                {
                    //list_.Add(reader.ReadBytes((int)stream1.Length));
                    //Instead of adding that to list, write them to disk here
                    //fs.Write(...)
                    //...

                    stream1.Close();//No need for this, using is going to call it.
                    stream1.Dispose();//No need for this, using is going to call it.
                    reader.Close();//No need for this, using is going to call it.
                    reader.Dispose();//No need for this, using is going to call it.

                }
            }
        }
     }

A: If I right understand what do you want:
// Fill list_
List<byte[]> list_ = null;
// ....

string filePaths_ = @"C:\Users\ATLAS\Desktop\13\fun.zip";
// Create FileStream and BinaryWriter
using (var fs = File.OpenWrite(filePaths_)){
    using (var bw = new BinaryWriter(fs)){
        foreach (var bytes in list_)
            bw.Write(bytes); // Write each byte array to the stream
    }
}

Updated. You can do it in a better way, direct copy one stream to another:
string filePaths_ = @"C:\Users\ATLAS\Desktop\13\fun.zip";
// Result FileStream and BinaryWriter
using (var fs = File.OpenWrite(filePaths_))
{
    for (int i = 1; i < 149; i++)
    {
        using (var stream1 = new FileStream(path + @"\" + i + ".zip", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
        {
            // Just copy stream1 to fs
            stream1.CopyTo(fs);
        }
    }
}

A: It sounds like what you effectively want to do is append each byte array to the existing file. So I think at the time you want to write each individual array to the file you would simply open the filestream using FileMode.Append (instead of FileMode.Open).

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Q: How to implement Fastlane Match into an existing enterprise project Self explanatory, but a few points:
Our enterprise app solution is already using Fastlane using sigh and cert commands with the certs stored locally on a Jenkins node. We want to migrate to using Match, however I am having a hard time finding good examples of how to accomplish this in an existing project and to be honest it seems a little 'automagical' as I am not a Devops person. We are using Match, Jenkins and AWS S3 & Parameter Store for the certs and creds.
Some curiosities:

*

*Are there any good examples of Match being used with this setup?

*How does the Matchfile pull environment variables from a Jenkins pipeline script?

*Is Match essentially a replacement for cert storage?

*Does the match function in a lane replace sigh and cert functions?

Before someone says, "ShOw YoUr FaStFiLe"; I'm not able to share any code. This is more a question to obtain good resources for implementation of match and to gain a better understanding.
Thanks


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Pharmacy (work by Duchamp)
Marcel Duchamp: Farewell to art: In 1914 Pharmacy consisted of a commercial print of a winter landscape, to which he added two small figures reminiscent of pharmacists' bottles. It was nearly 40 years before the ready-mades were seen as more than a derisive gesture against the excessive importance attached to works of…
pharmacy, the science and art concerned with the preparation and standardization of drugs. Its scope includes the cultivation of plants that are used as drugs, the synthesis of chemical compounds of medicinal value, and the analysis of medicinal agents. Pharmacists are responsible for the
pharmākos (Greek religion)
pharmākos, in Greek religion, a human scapegoat used in certain state rituals. In Athens, for example, a man and a woman who were considered ugly were selected as scapegoats each year. At the festival of the Thargelia in May or June, they were feasted, led round the town, beaten with green twigs,
pharming (genetics)
pharming, the generation of pharmaceuticals using animals or plants that have been genetically engineered. Pharming is a useful alternative to traditional pharmaceutical development because genetically engineered livestock and plants are relatively inexpensive to produce and maintain. In addition,
Pharnabazus (Persian statesman)
Pharnabazus, Persian soldier and statesman who was the hereditary satrap (provincial governor) of Dascylium under Darius II and Artaxerxes II. Pharnabazus was an outstanding military and naval commander in Persia's wars against Athens and Sparta. In the war with Athens, beginning in 413 bc, he
Pharnaces II (king of Pontus)
Julius Caesar: Antecedents and outcome of the civil war of 49–45 bce: …war in northeastern Anatolia with Pharnaces, king of the Cimmerian Bosporus, who was trying to regain Pontus, the kingdom of his father, Mithradates. Caesar's famous words, Veni, vidi, vici ("I came, I saw, I conquered"), are his own account of this campaign.
Pharnacia (Turkey)
Giresun, city and seaport, northeastern Turkey. It lies along the Black Sea about 110 miles (175 km) west of Trabzon. The older parts of the city lie on a peninsula crowned by a ruined Byzantine fortress, sheltering the small natural harbour. Nearby is Giresun Island, in ancient times called Ares.
Pharoah's Army (film by Henson [1995])
Chris Cooper: …the American Civil War movie Pharoah's Army. In Lone Star (1996) he portrayed a character created for him by Sayles, that of a Texas sheriff investigating a long-ago murder that may have been committed by his father. He appeared in A Time to Kill (1996), based on a novel by…
Pharoanic circumcision (ritual surgical procedure)
female genital cutting: The procedure: Infibulation (also called Pharoanic circumcision). The vaginal opening is reduced by removing all or parts of the external genitalia (the clitoris, labia minora, and labia majora) and sewing, pinning, or otherwise causing the remaining tissue to fuse together during the healing process. Those procedures that…
Pharomachrus (bird)
quetzal, (genus Pharomachrus), any of five species of colourful birds belonging to the genus Pharomachrus of the trogon family (Trogonidae). All five species—the white-tipped quetzal (P. fulgidus), the crested quetzal (P. antisianus), the golden-headed quetzal (P. auriceps), the resplendent quetzal
Pharomachrus antisianus (bird)
quetzal: fulgidus), the crested quetzal (P. antisianus), the golden-headed quetzal (P. auriceps), the resplendent quetzal (P. mocinno), and the pavonine quetzal (P. pavoninus)—reside in the neotropics (Central America and South America).
Pharomachrus auriceps (bird)
quetzal: antisianus), the golden-headed quetzal (P. auriceps), the resplendent quetzal (P. mocinno), and the pavonine quetzal (P. pavoninus)—reside in the neotropics (Central America and South America).
Pharomachrus fulgidus (bird)
quetzal: All five species—the white-tipped quetzal (P. fulgidus), the crested quetzal (P. antisianus), the golden-headed quetzal (P. auriceps), the resplendent quetzal (P. mocinno), and the pavonine quetzal (P. pavoninus)—reside in the neotropics (Central America and South America).
Pharomachrus mocinno (bird)
trogon: …(or Guatemalan) quetzal, also called resplendent trogon (Pharomachrus mocinno), which is about 125 cm (50 inches) long. The graduated tail, of 12 feathers, is carried closed (square-tipped) and typically has a black-and-white pattern on the underside (as in cuckoos). The wings are rounded, legs short, feet weak. Uniquely, the second…
Pharomachrus mocino (bird)
Pharomachrus pavoninus (bird)
quetzal: mocinno), and the pavonine quetzal (P. pavoninus)—reside in the neotropics (Central America and South America).
Pharos (island, Egypt)
Alexandria: City site: …founding, links the island of Pharos with the city centre on the mainland. Its two steeply curving bays form the basins for the Eastern Harbour and the Western Harbour.
Pharos of Alexandria (lighthouse, Alexandria, Egypt)
lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and the most famous lighthouse in antiquity. It was a technological triumph and is the archetype of all lighthouses since. Built by Sostratus of Cnidus, perhaps for Ptolemy I Soter, it was finished during the reign of Soter's son
Pharr (Texas, United States)
Pharr, city, Hidalgo county, southern Texas, U.S., in the lower Rio Grande valley. It is one of several small cities in the area (including McAllen, San Juan, and Edinburg) with mixed farm, oil, and gas economies. Settled in the 1900s and named for a local sugarcane grower, it developed as a
Pharsalia (work by Lucan)
Lucan: …civile, better known as the Pharsalia because of its vivid account of that battle, is remarkable as the single major Latin epic poem that eschewed the intervention of the gods.
Pharsalus, Battle of (ancient Roman history [48 bce])
Battle of Pharsalus, (48 bce), the decisive engagement in the Roman civil war (49–45 bce) between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. After failing to subdue his enemies at Dyrrhachium (now Dürres, Albania), Caesar clashed with Pompey somewhere near Pharsalus (now Fársala, Greece). Although Caesar
pharyngeal fricative (phonetics)
Afro-Asiatic languages: Phonetics and phonology: …this inventory is called the pharyngeal fricatives and is exemplified in Egyptian, Cushitic, Amazigh, and Semitic by ħ and ʿ ("ayn"). A second commonly used group of consonants is an emphatic set, similar to the pharyngeal fricatives but with phonetically quite different articulations; characteristically, emphatics are formed deeper down in…
pharyngeal gland (zoology)
hymenopteran: Internal structure: …bees have one pair of pharyngeal glands that produce food, especially royal jelly, for the young larvae. The pharyngeal glands are rudimentary in drones and absent in queens.
pharyngeal pouch (anatomy)
elephant: Sound production and water storage: …structure associated with it, the pharyngeal pouch. In the vast majority of mammals, the throat contains nine bones connected in a boxlike structure, the hyoid apparatus, that supports the tongue and the voice box. Elephants have only five bones in the hyoid apparatus, and the gap formed by the missing…
pharyngeal tonsils (human anatomy)
adenoids, a mass of lymphatic tissue, similar to the (palatine) tonsils, that is attached to the back wall of the nasal pharynx (i.e., the upper part of the throat opening into the nasal cavity proper). An individual fold of such nasopharyngeal lymphatic tissue is called an adenoid. The surface
pharyngealization (phonetics)
Afro-Asiatic languages: Phonetics and phonology: …three major types of consonants: pharyngealized (articulated at the back of the vocal tract with the pharynx), velarized (in which the back of the tongue touches the soft palate), and uvularized (articulated at the back of the vocal tract with the uvula). In South Arabian, Ethio-Semitic, Cushitic, and Chadic languages,…
pharyngitis (pathology)
pharyngitis, inflammatory illness of the mucous membranes and underlying structures of the throat (pharynx). Inflammation usually involves the nasopharynx, uvula, soft palate, and tonsils. The illness can be caused by bacteria, viruses, mycoplasmas, fungi, and parasites and by recognized diseases
pharynx (anatomy)
pharynx, (Greek: "throat") cone-shaped passageway leading from the oral and nasal cavities in the head to the esophagus and larynx. The pharynx chamber serves both respiratory and digestive functions. Thick fibres of muscle and connective tissue attach the pharynx to the base of the skull and
Phascogale (mammal)
marsupial mouse: …marsupial mice, or tuans (Phascogale), are grayish above and whitish below in colour; the distal half of the long tail is thickly furred and resembles a bottle brush when the hairs are erected. Tuans are arboreal but may raid poultry yards. In both appearance and behaviour the flat-skulled marsupial…
Phascolarctidae (marsupial family)
koala: …only member of the family Phascolarctidae. Unlike those of other arboreal marsupials, its pouch opens rearward. Births are single, occurring after a gestation of 34 to 36 days. The youngster (called a joey) first puts its head out of the pouch at about five months of age. For up to…
Phascolarctos cinereus (marsupial)
koala, (Phascolarctos cinereus), tree-dwelling marsupial of coastal eastern and southern Australia classified in the family Phascolarctidae (suborder Vombatiformes). The koala is about 60 to 85 cm (24 to 33 inches) long and weighs up to 14 kg (31 pounds) in the southern part of its range (Victoria
Phascolomis ursinus (marsupial)
wombat: The common wombat has coarse dark hair and a bald, granular nose pad. It is common in woodlands of hilly country along the Dividing Range in southeastern Australia, from southeastern Queensland through New South Wales and Victoria into South Australia, and in Tasmania. In historic times…
phase (astronomy)
phase, in astronomy, any of the varying appearances of a celestial body as different amounts of its disk are seen (from Earth, ordinarily) to be illuminated by the Sun. The Moon displays eight phases: new, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, last quarter, and
phase (state of matter)
phase, in thermodynamics, chemically and physically uniform or homogeneous quantity of matter that can be separated mechanically from a nonhomogeneous mixture and that may consist of a single substance or a mixture of substances. The three fundamental phases of matter are solid, liquid, and gas
phase (mechanics)
phase, in mechanics of vibrations, the fraction of a period (i.e., the time required to complete a full cycle) that a point completes after last passing through the reference, or zero, position. For example, the reference position for the hands of a clock is at the numeral 12, and the minute hand
phase alternation line system (television)
television: PAL: PAL (phase alternation line) resembles NTSC in that the chrominance signal is simultaneously modulated in amplitude to carry the saturation (pastel-versus-vivid) aspect of the colours and modulated in phase to carry the hue aspect. In the PAL system, however, the phase information is reversed…
phase angle (physics)
phase: …period, having passed through a phase angle of 90°, or π/2 radians. In this example the motion of the minute hand is a uniform circular motion, but the concept of phase also applies to simple harmonic motion such as that experienced by waves and vibrating bodies.
phase change (physics)
phase: …altered to another form, a phase change is said to have occurred.
phase diagram (physics)
phase diagram, graph showing the limiting conditions for solid, liquid, and gaseous phases of a single substance or of a mixture of substances while undergoing changes in pressure and temperature or in some other combination of variables, such as solubility and temperature. The Figure shows a
phase equilibrium (physics)
separation and purification: Separations based on equilibria: All equilibrium methods considered in this section involve the distribution of substances between two phases that are insoluble in one another. As an example, consider the two immiscible liquids benzene and water. If a coloured compound is placed in the water and the two phases are…
phase focusing (physics)
particle accelerator: History: Phase focusing, the implementation of the principle of phase stability, was promptly demonstrated by the construction of a small synchrocyclotron at the University of California and an electron synchrotron in England. The first proton linear resonance accelerator was constructed soon thereafter. The large proton synchrotrons…
phase I reaction (physiology)
poison: Biotransformation: In phase I, an exogenous molecule is modified by the addition of a functional group such as a hydroxyl, a carboxyl, or a sulfhydryl. This modification allows phase II, the conjugation, or joining, of the exogenous molecule with an endogenous molecule (one naturally found in the…
Phase II Pan Groove (Trinidadian musical ensemble)
steel band: …and Len ("Boogsie") Sharpe (Phase II Pan Groove) helped to create a new style of steel band music for Panorama, and by the end of the 1970s the Panorama competition had eclipsed fetes and Carnival masquerades as the major venue for steel band performance.
phase II reaction (physiology)
poison: Biotransformation: In phase II reactions an altered exogenous chemical binds with an endogenous molecule, leading to the formation of a final product (the conjugate), which is usually much more water-soluble and easily excreted than the parent chemical. There are four types of parent compounds whose excretion can…
Phase IV (film by Bass [1974])
Saul Bass: …the sci-fi thriller feature film Phase IV (1974) and wrote, produced, and directed several short films. His Why Man Creates (1968) won the Academy Award for best short-subject documentary.
phase modulation (telecommunications)
modulation: Phase modulation: The phase of a carrier wave is varied in response to the vibrations of the sound source in phase modulation (PM). This form of modulation is often considered a variation of FM. The two processes are closely related, because phase cannot be changed…
phase polymorphism (biology)
orthopteran: Hormones: …has both solitary and gregarious phases. Gregarious locusts outnumber solitary ones, migrate both as nymphs and adults, and travel in swarms. Swarming adults are tremendously destructive to crops. Typically, gregarious locusts have darker bodies and longer wings compared with solitary forms. Colour changes in adults are correlated with maturation of…
phase rule (physics)
phase rule, law relating variables of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium, deduced by the American physicist J. Willard Gibbs in his papers on thermodynamics (1875–78). Systems in thermodynamic equilibrium are generally considered to be isolated from their environment in some kind of closed
phase separation (physics)
industrial glass: Phase separation: On the scale of several atoms, the structure of multicomponent glasses usually is not as random as that shown in Figure 2. This is because the various components of a molten mixture may display liquid-liquid immiscibility during cooling; that is, the components may…
phase shift (physics)
phase speed (hydrology)
wave: Physical characteristics of surface waves: …troughs and crests, called the phase speed, and the speed and direction of the transport of energy or information associated with the wave, termed the group velocity. For nondispersive long waves the two are equal, whereas for surface gravity waves in deep water the group velocity is only half the…
phase stability (nucleonics)
particle accelerator: Linear proton accelerators: …device, but the principle of phase stability reduces to a manageable magnitude the need for precision in construction. It also makes possible an intense beam because protons can be accelerated in a stable manner even if they do not cross the gaps at exactly the intended times. The principle is…
phase transition (physics)
Kenneth Geddes Wilson: …did his prizewinning work on phase transitions while at Cornell. Second-order phase transitions of matter take place at characteristic temperatures (or pressures), but unlike first-order transitions they occur throughout the entire volume of a material as soon as that temperature (called the critical point) is reached. One example of such…
phase velocity (physics)
radiation: Dispersion: …referred to, however, is the phase velocity or the velocity with which the sine-wave peaks are propagated. The propagation velocity of an actual signal or the group velocity is always less than the speed of light in vacuum. Therefore, relativity theory is not violated. An example is shown in Figure…
phase-contrast microscope
microscope: Phase-contrast microscopes: Many biological objects of interest consist of cell structures such as nuclei that are almost transparent; they transmit as much light as the mounting medium that surrounds them does. Because there is no colour or transmission contrast in such an object, it is…
Phase—Mother Earth (work by Sekine Nobuo)
Lee Ufan: Mono-ha group: …Japanese artist, Sekine Nobuo, created Phase—Mother Earth (1968) in a park in Kōbe. This conceptual work, consisting of a large hole dug in the ground with a cylinder of earth of corresponding size and shape next to it, would become known as a signature of the Mono-ha group. It drew…
phase-shift keying (communications)
telecommunication: Phase-shift keying: When phase is the parameter altered by the information signal, the method is called phase-shift keying (PSK). In the simplest form of PSK a single radio frequency carrier is sent with a fixed phase to represent a 0 and with a 180° phase…
phased array (radar)
radar: Antennas: ) This is called a phased-array antenna, the basic principle of which is shown in part C of the figure.
Phaseolus (bean plant)
bean: The genera Phaseolus and Vigna have several species each of well-known beans, though a number of economically important species can be found in various genera throughout the family. Rich in protein and providing moderate amounts of iron, thiamin, and riboflavin, beans are used worldwide for cooking in…
Phaseolus aureus (vegetable)
bean: Other beans: The mung bean, or green gram (V. radiata), is native to India, where the small pods and seeds are eaten, as are the sprouts. Azuki (or adzuki) beans (V. angularis) are popular in Japan.
Phaseolus coccineus (vegetable)
bean: Other beans: The scarlet runner bean (P. coccineus) is native to tropical America. Naturally a perennial, it is grown to a small extent in temperate climates as an annual. It is a vigorous climbing plant with showy racemes of scarlet flowers, large coarse pods, and large coloured seeds.…
Phaseolus lunatus (vegetable)
bean: Lima bean: Of Central American origin, the lima bean (P. lunatus), also known as the sieva bean, is of commercial importance in few countries outside the Americas. There is a wide range of pod size and shape and of seed size, shape, thickness, and colour in both bush and climbing forms. Pods…
Phaseolus lunatus (plant, Phaseolus lunatus)
lima bean, (Phaseolus lunatus), any of a variety of legumes (family Fabaceae) widely cultivated for their edible seeds. Of Central American origin, the lima bean is of commercial importance in few countries outside the Americas. There is a wide range of pod size and shape and of seed size, shape,
Phaseolus vulgaris (vegetable)
common bean, (Phaseolus vulgaris), any of a variety of legumes (family Fabaceae) widely cultivated for their edible seeds and seedpods. The common bean is second to the soybean in economic and societal importance as a leguminous food crop. As with other beans, it is rich in protein and provides
Phasi, Isaac ben Jacob al- (Jewish scholar)
Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi, Talmudic scholar who wrote a codification of the Talmud known as Sefer ha-Halakhot ("Book of Laws"), which ranks with the great codes of Maimonides and Karo. Alfasi lived most of his life in Fès (from which his surname was derived) and there wrote his digest of the Talmud,
Phasianellidae (gastropod family)
gastropod: Classification: …(turban shells), and Phasianellidae (pheasant shells). Superfamily Neritacea Small, generally intertidal marine shells (Neritidae), with some freshwater dwellers, particularly in Indonesia and the Philippines (Neritidae), and 2 groups of land dwellers: 1 sparsely distributed in the Old World (Hydrocenidae) and 1 widely distributed in both Old and New
phasianid (bird family)
Phasianidae, the pheasant family, a bird family (order Galliformes) that includes among its members the jungle fowl (from which the domestic chicken is descended), partridge, peacock, pheasant, and quail. Some classifications assign the turkey to Phasianidae, whereas several others place it in the
Phasianidae (bird family)
Phasianus colchicus (bird)
pheasant: The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) has 20–30 races ranging across Asia. Birds naturalized elsewhere are mixtures of races, with the gray-rumped ringneck (or Chinese) strain usually dominating.


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The Picture of Dorian Gray (2017-18)
A literary adaptation from the novel in original language
This new production of The Picture of Dorian Gray is characterised by a modern and elegant style. The director, John O'Connor (Pride and Prejudice, The Importance of Being Earnest, Waiting for Godot, Pygmalion) chooses to set the play in the present in order to increase the topicality and universality of Oscar Wilde message. The set mirrors this choice: each space is made different from the others by specific props and by nimble panels that are placed each time in a different way and that reveal, when necessary, a symbolic and evocative 3-dimensional "room" where multiple images are projected. All this involve the young audience and makes them feel "surrounded" by the story. This feeling is enhanced by light and sound effects, sensibly created with state-of-the-art instruments that underline the atmosphere of each scene and that makes the main points of the plot even clearer.
The audience's attention is kept high from the beginning to the end, thanks to the music that accompanies the performance of its whole length. The music genre, thriller/gothic, fits particularly well into this production, and the soundtrack is inspired by it. Costumes are contemporary and well refined: precise in every detail, they define the characters while, at the same time, letting their personality shine through.
Directors: Eva Savage & John O'Connor
Music Composition: Jeph Vanger
Production: European Arts Company
Dorian Gray - Excerpt 1
The play toured in various cities of Italy in 2017/18.
JEPH VANGER
SOUND AS BODY - BODY AS SOUND


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Clint Robinson Called Up
At every level he's played in the minors, Clint Robinson has hit.
Sure, we could count his second pro season in Burlington as a rough patch. After all, he only had an .806 OPS, his lowest at the end of a full season in his minor league career.
In 2010, he won the Triple Crown in the Texas League, helping lead Northwest Arkansas to a championship. He had 75 extra base hits that season. Last year, he helped lead Omaha to a Pacific Coast League title with his bat. Opening up 2012, he's sitting on a .312/.383/.532 line over 620 games as a minor leaguer.
Now, he finally gets his chance in the big leagues.
With the Royals heading to Pittsburgh for their first series in a National League park, Robinson was added to the Royals roster as an extra bat off the bench. To make room, Ryan Verdugo was optioned back to Omaha after being called up. Verdugo didn't make an appearance in his brief time in Kansas City.
Robinson has toiled in the minors for a long time, but his trip to Pittsburgh may be the extent of his action for now in the big leagues. The Royals will return to Kansas City to face Milwaukee next Tuesday at home but also hit the road right after that three game series to play at St. Louis and at Houston, so Robinson might stick around through those series if the Royals pitching staff doesn't get overworked and necessitate a 13th pitcher.
Why hasn't Robinson been up sooner? First, Billy Butler and Eric Hosmer are firmly ahead of him and Robinson doesn't have any flexibility to play anywhere but first base (much lIke Butler). Also, Robinson has always inspired skepticism. As a former 25th round pick, he's been a pleasant surprise. Scouts question his bat speed and ability to hit major league lefties (sounds familiar). He's also 27 years old – older than both players ahead of him on the depth chart – and the upside is limited.
Still, it's a great story and it's good to see him get any opportunity. Maybe he can hit a little in limited time and if an injury befalls Butler or Hosmer, the nerves may not be there should he be pressed into action. He might impress someone on another team and become part of a trade. Who knows?
We talked to Clint Robinson on the inaugural episode of the Kansas City Baseball Vault and he spoke about his approach to his game while waiting for his chance behind Hosmer and Butler.


A beautifully organised Sion trip to The Sleeping Beauty panto on Saturday 7th January was a wonderful way to 'end' the Christmas season (apart from Epiphany Sunday, of course). There was lots of laughter for the children and, as one expects and hopes from good pantos, humour for the adults too (particularly relating to Brexit and Trump!). The ice-creams and mulled wine (the latter for the adults!) went down a treat too.


James Albon's first solo show will bring together a selection of recent woodcut prints as well as a number of drawings and watercolours in a bold, new series of pictorial art works to stir the imagination.
The work is inspired by stories and literature, some of his own writing, some from others. It is filled with characters, figures, and scenes, researched and drawn from life and then translated, developed, and exaggerated until they take on a colourful world of their own.
James is from Aboyne and has recently graduated with a First from Edinburgh college of Art.
The gallery welcomes visits outside gallery opening times, please call to arrange a time.
Reblogged this on Creative Cultures Scotland.


The GHLCD is an LCD that features the ability to display characters and graphics on three different layers. Unlike the CLCD, the GHLCD supports many different commands for easily drawing lines, circles, and boxes. There are also commands to copy, cut, and paste graphics, and a BMP downloader for downloading images to the GHLCD.
The GHB3224C model is a blue and white STN type LCD with a display area of 320 by 240 pixels. There are 3 layers. The first layer is for text and the other 2 layers can be used for graphics.
* GHB3224C Library is 99% compatible with Cutouch modules.
The text layer is a 40×15 grid as illustrated below. Each character size is 8 by 16 pixels.
The GHLCD series features a 320 by 240 pixels for graphics.
Please note that graphics or characters will appear randomly when trying to print outside the specified range of pixels shown here.
The GHB3224C model supports CuNET. When using Cubloc with the GHCLD, using CuNET instead of serial communications will free up the serial port for other uses.
Set Display 1,0,1,50     ' GHLCD, CUNET, Set Address to 1. Send buffer to 50.
*Warning : The CuNET slave address and display slave address must match. The display lave address can be set with the DIP switch.
On the back of the GHB3224C, there are DIP switches to set the RS232 baud rate and I2C slave address. GHB3224C DIP Switch number 4 is not used.


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İntikam (Vengeance) est une série télévisée turque. La série compte parmi ses acteurs principaux Beren Saat, Nejat İşler et Mert Fırat.

Acteurs principaux

 Beren Saat : Yağmur Özden
 Nejat İşler : Rüzgar Denizci
 Mert Fırat : Emre Arsoy
 Engin Hepileri : Hakan Eren
 Zafer Algöz : Haldun Arsoy
 Arzu Gamze Kılınç : Şahika Arsoy
 Ezgi Eyüboğlu : Cemre Arsoy
 Dilşat Çelebi : Aslı Sağlam

Distribution internationale

Série télévisée turque des années 2010
Série télévisée de Kanal D

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An odd feud between the son of President Donald Trump and PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, erupted on social media after the animal rights organization marketed a Halloween costume meant to mock his hunting hobby.
PETA, which is opposed to hunting animals, is selling the "Donald Trump Jr. Hunting Halloween" costume for $169 on its website. The costume features a hunter being attacked by a plush animal leopard, with bloody results.
"This limited-edition Donald Trump Jr. Halloween costume was inspired by and is a twist on the trophy-hunting photo that showed the Trump brothers grinning over the body of a dead leopard," read the website.
Donald Trump Jr. and his brother Eric Trump are avid hunters and have been criticized by the left for their excursions into Africa that resulted in trophy photos posted to social media.
Trump Jr. didn't find the joke to be very humorous, and fired back from his Twitter account the statistics on PETA's euthanization policies.
"In the last 11 years, PETA has killed 29,426 dogs, cats, rabbits, & other domestic animals," he quoted from a Huffington Post article entitled "PETA's Secret Slaughter of Kittens, Puppies" and provided a link.
"There's nothing more frightful than an entitled ghoul who gets his kicks from gunning down wild animals," said PETA President Ingrid Newkirk in a statement about the costume.


Wilson's Mills Park is located at 988 Powhatan Road in Wilson's Mills, North Carolina. The GameTime play structure is a Powerscape Ionix hybrid unit with integrated shade, ShadowPlay roof, 3D panels, GT Jams, triple wilder slide, large TriNet and activity panels. Lot's of climbing activities that can be used differently every time you visit Wilson's Mills Park. The play area also features a ShadowPlay Sky Runner and uses engineered wood fiber safety surfacing and borders. A great play space with a modern look.


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The Backstreet Boys (sometimes referred to as BSB) are an American vocal harmony group, formed in Orlando, Florida in 1993.
The group consists of A.
McLean, Howie Dorough, Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, and Brian Littrell.
They rose to fame with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys (1996).
In the following year, they released their second international album Backstreet's Back (1997) and their U.S.
debut album which continued the group's success worldwide.
They rose to superstardom with their third studio album Millennium (1999) and its follow-up album, Black & Blue (2000).After a two-year hiatus, they regrouped and released a comeback album Never Gone (2005).
Richardson left the group after the conclusion of Never Gone Tour in 2006 to pursue other interests.
The group then released two albums as a quartet: Unbreakable (2007) and This Is Us (2009).In April 2012, the group announced that Richardson had rejoined them permanently, and in August, they made their very first performance as a reunited five-piece, closing out Good Morning America's Summer Concert Series.
Their first album back as a quintet, In a World Like This, which was also their first independent album, was released in July 2013.The Backstreet Boys have sold over 130 million records worldwide, making them the best-selling boy band in history, and one of the world's best-selling music artists.
They are the first group since Sade to have their first nine albums reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200, and the only boy band to do so.
They also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 22, 2013.Formation and early years: 1992–1994Cousins Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell, both from Lexington, Kentucky, sang in local church choirs and festivals when they were children.
Howie Dorough and A.
McLean were natives of Orlando, Florida, who met each other and later discovered Nick Carter through auditions.
The three, realizing that they could harmonize together, decided to form a trio.
Meanwhile, Richardson moved to Orlando in 1990, where he worked at Walt Disney World and concentrated on music at night.
Eventually, he met Dorough, Carter, and McLean through a co-worker, and the four decided to form a group.In the course of all this, Lou Pearlman in 1992 placed an ad in the Orlando Sentinel to compose a vocal group.
McLean, who was the first to audition for Pearlman in his living room, became the group's first member.
In January 1993, Pearlman held an open casting call and hundreds of young performers auditioned at his blimp hangar in Kissimmee.
Eventually, Carter, Dorough, and Richardson were selected after meeting Pearlman's expectations.
Littrell flew from Kentucky to Orlando to formally join the group on April 20, 1993, a day after receiving a phone call from Richardson about it.
Thus April 20 became their anniversary date.
Pearlman decided to call them Backstreet Boys, after Orlando's Backstreet Market, an outdoor flea market near International Drive which was also a teen hangout.The Backstreet Boys had their very first performance at SeaWorld Orlando on May 8, 1993.
The group then continued to perform in various venues during summer 1993, from shopping malls, restaurants, to a high-profile charity gala in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
With a change in management in the fall, they began to tour schools across the U.S.
(including Littrell's former school, Tates Creek High School), building a fan base while trying to get a record deal.
Mercury Records nearly signed them in 1993, but the deal fell through at the last minute because longtime Mercury recording artist John Mellencamp threatened to leave the label if they got in boy band business.
However, in February 1994, Jeff Fenster (then senior VP A&R Zomba/Jive Records) and David Renzer (then senior VP/GM of Zomba Music Publishing) caught the group performing at a high school in Cleveland, and signed them to their first record deal.Debut album, worldwide success, and sophomore album: 1995–1997In June 1995, the group flew to Sweden to record some songs with Max Martin and Denniz PoP, including "We've Got It Goin' On", which ended up being their very first single.
"We've Got It Goin' On" was sent to radio in August 1995 and released as a physical single on September 5, 1995.
In North America, Mix 96 in Montreal broke the group after the programmers heard it on the radio in Europe.
The song was a minor success in the U.S., peaking at only No.
69 by December 1995, but it entered the top 5 in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, and the Netherlands.
European success sent them there on a summer tour and shifted their promotion being mostly done in Europe.
They finished recording their first album Backstreet Boys in April 1996 and it was released internationally on May 6, 1996, excluding U.S.
and Canada; however, it was later released in Canada in October 1996.Their popularity grew in Europe.
"I'll Never Break Your Heart" reached a Gold status in Germany for selling 250,000 copies and they were voted the No.
1 international group there in 1996.
They also earned their first platinum record in Germany in 1996 for selling 500,000 copies of their debut album and shortly thereafter they began touring Asia and Canada.
They also became one of the most successful debut artists in the world, collecting awards such as Durchstarter (Best Newcomers) in Germany's Viva Comet Awards in 1996."Anywhere for You" was released as the last single from their international debut album on February 17, 1997.
"Quit Playing Games (with My Heart)", which was originally released in Europe as their fourth single in October 1996, was released in the U.S.
in May 1997 for their upcoming U.S.
debut album.
It managed to climb as high as No.
2 on Billboard Hot 100, eventually earning them a platinum-award for selling over one million copies.The group began working on their second album, Backstreet's Back, in 1996.
They also recorded the song "If You Stay" for the Booty Call soundtrack in the same year, which was released in February 1997.
Backstreet's Back was released internationally (except in the U.S.) on August 11, 1997.
Their self-titled U.S.
debut album, which consisted of songs from their 1996 international debut album and Backstreet's Back, was released in the U.S.
a day later, August 12, 1997.
self-titled debut peaked at No.
4 on the U.S.
album chart and eventually sold 14 million copies.
Meanwhile, the second international release, Backstreet's Back, peaked at No.
1 in Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Austria, selling well over five million copies in Europe alone.
The two self-titled albums, the international debut and the U.S.
debut, sold more than 28 million copies worldwide.In 1997, Littrell brought a lawsuit against Lou Pearlman and Trans Continental claiming that Pearlman had not been truthful about the earnings made by the group.
In the following year, McLean, Richardson, and Dorough joined the lawsuit which eventually resulted in a number of settlements.Millennium and superstardom: 1998–1999In November 1997, doctors discovered that a congenital hole in Littrell's heart had enlarged to dangerous proportions.
Littrell postponed the open-heart surgery twice to meet touring obligations, and he finally underwent the surgery on May 8, 1998, in the middle of the Backstreet's Back Tour.
The group postponed the tour until July 1998 to give Littrell time to recover.
In September 1998, the group for the first time had to cancel a show due to Dorough's sister Caroline's death a day before.On October 7, 1998, the group received the keys to the city from the mayor of Orlando in honor of the tornado relief concert the group headlined in March that raised over $250,000.
The day was also declared as Backstreet Boys Day in Orlando.
They also began recording their third studio album, Millennium, at the beginning of that month while in the middle of a lawsuit.
The worldwide hit single "I Want It That Way" which topped the single-charts in over 25 countries made anticipation for Millennium high.
Millennium was released on May 18, 1999, on which day the Backstreet Boys made a heavily publicized appearance on MTV's Total Request Live.The album entered the Billboard 200 at No.
1, and managed to sell 1,134,000 copies in its first week of release.
Four singles were released from Millennium: "I Want It That Way", "Larger than Life", "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely", and "The One".
Millennium became the best-selling album of 1999 in the U.S., selling 9,445,732 albums.
It also holds the record for most shipments in one year, with 11 million shipment.
Millennium remained on the Billboard chart for 93 weeks, eventually selling over 12 million copies in the United States and being certified 13 times platinum.
As of January 2013, the album stands as the fourth best selling album in the U.S.
of the SoundScan era.On June 2, 1999, the Backstreet Boys embarked on the Into the Millennium Tour, which comprised 115 sold-out shows in 84 cities, with some additional dates put due to high demand.
The second leg, which was sponsored by Sears, was sold out on August 14 onsale date and broke sales records.
The concert at Georgia Dome, Atlanta, was the 5th most attended concert in American history and the most attended concert by a pop artist.By October 1999, the Backstreet Boys faced new problems declaring their current Jive contract null and void, soon striking one of the largest record deals ever valued at $60 million with Jive.Black and Blue, The Hits: Chapter One, and hiatus: 2000–2003A trip to the Bahamas was made by the group members in May 2000 to write songs for their fourth album.
They began recording the album on July 1, 2000 in Stockholm, Sweden, and wrapped up the recording sessions in September.
A song completed during the July recording sessions, "It's True", was released on August 28, 2000 in a compilation album sold exclusively at Burger King restaurants, titled For the Fans.The album, Black & Blue, was released on November 21, 2000.
To promote its release, they traveled around the world in 100 hours, visiting Stockholm, Tokyo, Sydney, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, and New York.
55 of the hours were spent traveling and 45 were spent making public appearances.
A DVD of the short tour, as well as a board game, was released in 2001, titled Around the World.
The album itself recorded the best international sales in a week for an album in history by selling over 5 million copies in its first week of sales.
In the United States, it sold 1.6 million discs in the first week making them the first artist since The Beatles to achieve back-to-back million plus first week sales.
Three singles were released from Black & Blue: "Shape of My Heart", "The Call", and "More than That".On January 28, 2001, the Backstreet Boys performed the American national anthem at the Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa, Florida.
A week earlier, the group began the "Black & Blue Tour", which featured shows in five continents.
The tour was put on hold in July when it was reported that McLean had entered rehab to battle alcoholism and depression after Richardson held an intervention for him at a Boston hotel.
The tour resumed in August and concluded in November.The Hits: Chapter One, their first compilation album, was released on October 23, 2001.
It also included a previously unreleased song, "Drowning".
The album entered the top 5 in the U.S., UK, Germany, and Canada, and the top 10 in Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.
In the U.S., The Hits: Chapter One was certified platinum for selling over one million copies.
It was also certified platinum by IFPI for selling over one million copies in Europe.
"Drowning" reached top 10 in many countries and as of 2002, the album had sold almost six million worldwide.In 2002, the group expressed a strong desire to leave their management company, The Firm.
However, Carter chose to remain with The Firm to manage his solo career.
Shortly afterwards, the rest of the group began recording their next album without him.
The relationship with Jive Records worsened when the Backstreet Boys filed a $75–100 million lawsuit against Zomba Music Group (Jive's parent company), claiming breach of contract.
They claimed that the label promoted Carter's solo album Now or Never at the expense of the group.In November 2003, McLean appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to talk about his addiction to alcohol and drugs, and his struggles rising to fame for the first time in public.
The rest of the group surprised him by appearing in person to give him support, marking the first time the Backstreet Boys had appeared together in public in almost two years.
The group began to reform and reconcile their differences, planning to start recording a comeback album at the beginning of the following year.Never Gone and Richardson's departure: 2004–2006The Backstreet Boys entered the studios in January 2004 to start recording the new album.
They also started performing together to promote their return to the music scene.
In September, they kicked-off a small Asian tour, visiting Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Manila, performing some new material.
Based on the success of this tour, they announced a Mexican tour, visiting Mexico City and Monterrey.The album's first single, "Incomplete", was released to radio stations on March 28, 2005.
Following the release of the single, they embarked on their Up Close & Personal Tour in March which served as a pre-album release tour.
"Incomplete" peaked at number 13 on the U.S.
Billboard Hot 100, and charted within the top 10 in 13 countries.
It debuted at number one in Australia, becoming their first number-one hit in the country.After spending more than a year recording, the Backstreet Boys finally released their comeback album Never Gone on June 14, 2005.
The album debuted at No.
chart with first week sales of 291,000 copies.
However, the drastic style change drew negative criticism from Rolling Stone.
Never Gone was certified platinum in the U.S.
and four singles were released from the album.
The second single, "Just Want You to Know", hit the top 10 in the UK.
The third singles were "Crawling Back to You" for the U.S.
and "I Still..." for the rest of the world.
Never Gone has sold approximately 10 million copies worldwide as of 2008.The Backstreet Boys began the first leg of their Never Gone Tour on July 22, 2005 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The first leg ran until November 2005 in Europe and in January 2006 the second leg started in Tokyo, Japan.
The tour concluded on February 2, 2006 in Melbourne, Australia.On June 23, 2006, it was announced that Richardson had left the Backstreet Boys to pursue other interests.
Both Richardson and the rest of the group issued a statement on their official site, stating that he departed amicably and the door was always open for him to return.
Following Richardson's departure, the group was suggested to change their name to Backstreet, but they decided against it.
They also turned down an offer to star in a reality show to find a new member and musicians who had expressed interest in replacing Richardson, such as Sam Licata and former 'N Sync members Lance Bass and Joey Fatone, stating that they weren't planning to replace him.Unbreakable and This Is Us: 2007–2010Two days after Richardson's departure announcement, the Backstreet Boys entered the studio to record their sixth album.
The album, titled Unbreakable, was released on October 30, 2007.
It received positive reviews, and opened at No.
7 on the Billboard 200, selling 81,000 copies in its first week of release.
It performed well in Japan, debuting at No.
1 on the Japanese Oricon weekly album charts and staying there for another week.
They released two singles from the album, "Inconsolable" and "Helpless When She Smiles".The group went on a world tour to promote Unbreakable, starting in Tokyo, Japan on February 16, 2008.
The tour included shows in Australia, Japan, Mexico, UK, Europe, Asia, Canada, and United States.
The show in London's The O2 Arena was filmed and is available to watch online on MSN website.
Richardson rejoined the rest of the group on stage at the Palladium in Hollywood, Los Angeles on November 23, 2008 for the last North American stop of the tour.On October 6, 2009, the group released their next album, This Is Us.
On this album, their sound went back to their original dance-pop beats and contains a more R&B sound.
It peaked at No.
2 in Japan and was certified Platinum for shipments of 250,000 copies.
Two singles were released from this album: "Straight Through My Heart" and "Bigger".A few days after promoting the new album and filming the music video for "Bigger" in Japan, Littrell contracted swine flu, causing the group to cancel a signing at Hard Rock Café in New York for the NYC Pinktober event on October 5, 2009.
The rest of the group were prescribed Tamiflu by a doctor, even though they weren't showing any symptom of the flu.
The group subsequently canceled a scheduled CBS Early Show performance the next day on October 6, 2009, which was also the release day of their new album, This Is Us.
In late October 2009, the group embarked on the This Is Us Tour, which lasted over a year and consisted of 122 shows.The Backstreet Boys, including Richardson, filmed a segment for The Oprah Winfrey Show on October 22, 2010.
Richardson also performed with the group in the show's studio later that day, making it the second time he had performed with the group since his departure.NKOTBSB and Richardson's return: 2011–2012In May 2011, the group announced that they had left their longtime label Jive Records.
In the same month, they embarked on a joint tour with New Kids on the Block as NKOTBSB.
Prior to the tour, they released a compilation album of their biggest hits, also titled NKOTBSB, which also includes a mash-up and two new songs.
At the conclusion of 2011, the tour placed 17th on Billboard's annual "Top 25 Tours", earning over $40 million with 51 shows.
The tour lasted until June 2012, comprising 80 shows in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
During the show in Staples Center, LA, in July 2011, Richardson once again joined the group on stage.As he had announced before on On Air with Ryan Seacrest in October 2011, Richardson hosted a beach party, part of the group's second annual cruise, in the Bahamas on December 3, 2011, where he performed with them.
On Seacrest's radio show, he also stated that he would love to perform with the group again on a more regular basis.
The statement, along with his appearance at the cruise event, prompted speculations that he might rejoin the group for good, but both he and the group remained quiet on the matter.The Backstreet Boys finally announced that Richardson had rejoined them permanently during a show in London on April 29, 2012.
A few days later, McLean and Littrell revealed on separate occasions that Richardson had returned since 2010, before NKOTBSB Tour started.
He had been in talk to join the tour but ultimately decided not to.
They supported his decision and kept his return a secret until the tour was over.
The group spoke positively about Richardson's return, stating that they couldn't be happier to have him back.
Richardson himself was thrilled to be back with his old bandmates, saying that they have a chemistry and a bond.The Backstreet Boys moved into a house together all by themselves in July 2012 as they started working on their new album with producer Martin Terefe in London.
On August 31, 2012, they closed out Good Morning America's Summer Concert Series in Central Park, in New York.
It was their first performance as a fivesome since Richardson rejoined the group.
During the show, they announced that they were going to have their third cruise in October 2013.
It will be the first cruise to feature all five members.The first single featuring Richardson's vocals in six years, a Christmas song titled "It's Christmas Time Again", was premiered on AOL Music on November 5, 2012, and released on November 6, 2012.
The song reached No.
1 on Billboard's Holiday Digital Songs chart in the same month.20th anniversary and In a World Like This: 2013–presentThe Backstreet Boys celebrated their 20th anniversary, which was on April 20, 2013, with a fan celebration event in Hollywood that day.
At the event, they previewed several songs from their new album and showed a teaser of their documentary film, due for release to theaters in 2014.
The group also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 22, 2013, and had the day declared as Backstreet Boys Day in Hollywood.
In May 2013, the group embarked on their 20th anniversary tour officially titled In A World Like This Tour which began in China.
The group also made a cameo in the 2013 movie This Is The End as fictional version of themselves, performing their song "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)".The group released the first single from their eighth studio album, In A World Like This, digitally on June 25, 2013.
The song, also called "In A World Like This", was later released as a physical CD in Japan on July 3, 2013, and released to the radio on July 22, 2013.
The album itself was released in the US on July 30, 2013 and in other countries some time later.
It was the group's first independent album, released under their own label, K-BAHN.
It reached the top 5 in the US, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Taiwan, and Japan.
The group released a second single from the album, "Show 'Em (What You're Made Of)" in November 2013.In December 2013, the Backstreet Boys performed their two original Christmas songs in the annual "Christmas in Washington" TV special which was also attended by the President of the United States Barack Obama and his family.The Backstreet Boys members were due in court on March 24, 2014 over a claim they filed against their former manager Lou Pearlman.
The group alleged that Pearlman still owes them $3,451,456.04 and they are also asking for $87,728.58 in legal fees for having to fight him in court for years.
But in March 2014, the group stated that they have a scheduling conflict and discussed postponing the hearing by 90 days.The group is nominated for "Best Musical Moment" at 2014's MTV Movie Awards for their performance in the movie This Is The End.ArtistryThe Backstreet Boys have always prided themselves as a vocal harmony group and not a boy band.
In order to fight the boy band stereotype and the backlash from New Kids on the Block's lip-sync scandal in the beginning, they sang a cappella at every chance they got.
The ad they answered in 1993 was for a singing group with "New Kids on the Block look with a Boyz II Men sound", and they aimed to have a white version of Boyz II Men.
"We were fans of New Kids, but were we really modeled after them? No.
We looked at ourselves as Shai, Jodeci, Boyz II Men, the true vocal groups.
That's who we listened to and who we really wanted to be like," Littrell stated in 2011.
The Backstreet Boys often employ polyphonic harmony, which sets them apart from many other singing groups.
In choruses, Littrell, Carter, and McLean usually sing the melody with Dorough harmonizing above the melody and Richardson covering the bass parts.
During Richardson's absence, McLean and Carter together covered his part in choruses while Dorough took his solo parts.The Backstreet Boys' musical style has evolved over the years.
On their debut and sophomore album, they sang a hybrid of R&B and dance club pop mixed with new jack balladry and hip-hop.
With Millennium and Black & Blue, they started to abandon R&B and shift more toward pop and pop rock, as demonstrated on songs like "I Want It That Way", "Shape of My Heart", "Larger than Life", and "Not For Me".
The group drastically changed their style in 2005 with their comeback album Never Gone, which is an adult contemporary record featuring only live instruments, a departure from their previous pop sound that features a lot of synthesizer.
Compared to their previous albums, Never Gone is "more organic, more stripped-down, less harmonies, more instrumentation".
Their first album without Richardson, Unbreakable, is similar to Never Gone.
It leans toward adult contemporary and contemporary pop music and features interwoven choral harmonies, piano, strings, guitar, and drums, with a little bit of hip-hop and reggae elements on some tracks, such as "One in A Million".
With their seventh studio album, This Is Us, they went back to their original dance-pop beats combined with electropop.
It also contains a more R&B sound compared to Unbreakable.
The group's first independent album, In A World Like This, which is also their first album back with Richardson, is a mixture of modern pop, adult contemporary, and dance music, with a hint of singer/songwriter genre as demonstrated on "Try", "Madeleine", and "Trust Me".Partnerships and other venturesThe second leg of Into the Millennium Tour, which was also the first North American leg, was sponsored by Sears and was officially titled "Sears Presents Backstreet Boys Into The Millennium".
The sponsorship was a part of Sears' new integrated marketing campaign that exclusively featured the Backstreet Boys.
The campaign included a 30-second advertisement, featuring the group, which was aired from August 1–15, 1999.
The advertising promoted a back-to-school sweepstakes which gave each of five fans the chance to win a $2,000 Sears shopping spree with their favorite Backstreet Boys member, and a trip for four to the group's concert on December 1, 1999 in Tampa, Florida.Carter, who was a comic fan, met comic book writer Stan Lee through his manager from The Firm in February 2000.
Carter subsequently told Lee about his original concept of a six-issue series of comic books featuring members of the Backstreet Boys as superheroes called "Cyber Crusaders".
Lee was interested in the concept; however, they ultimately decided to make it into only one issue.
The comic book, titled Backstreet Project, was released in 2000 and was available for purchase at their concerts and online stores in 2000–2001.
In addition to the book, a series of flash-based webisodes were also published in 2000.In January 2000, the Backstreet Boys signed a deal with Burger King.
The deal included an exclusive compilation set that was only available for sale at Burger King restaurants.
The compilation consisted of three CDs featuring a new song called "It's True" and live songs from the group's previous tours, and a VHS tape featuring backstage footage and interviews.
In August 2000, it was announced that the deal would also include three TV commercials featuring the Backstreet Boys, and a promotion, which was the inclusion of an exclusive Backstreet Project Cyber Crusader toy in each Burger King Big Kids Meal and Kids Meal.In August 2012, it was revealed that the Backstreet Boys would be starring in an Old Navy commercial.
The commercial featuring the group started airing on September 19, 2012.
"It was a great way to show people that we're back," Richardson said regarding the commercial.
The group also performed at an Old Navy event "Fit For Fall Fashion Show for All" in Bryant Park, New York on September 14, 2012.
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