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"Cat in the Rain" is a short story by American author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), first published by Richard Hadley of Boni & Liveright in 1925 in the short story collection In Our Time. The story is about an American husband and wife on vacation in Italy. Critical attention focuses chiefly on its autobiographical elements and on Hemingway's "theory of omission" (iceberg theory). Background According to the book Hemingway's Cats, Hemingway wrote the story as a tribute to his wife Hadley. The couple had only been married a few years, and lived in Paris where she was left alone for hours at a time while her husband worked. She asked for a cat but he told her they were too poor. When she became pregnant he wrote "Cat in the Rain", apparently based on an incident in Rapallo (where they visited Ezra Pound in 1923). Hadley found a stray kitten and said, "I want a cat ... I want a cat. I want a cat now. If I can’t have long hair or any fun I can have a cat.” Plot summary “Cat in the Rain” is a short story about an American couple on vacation in Italy set in or around the couple's hotel, which faces the sea as well as the "public garden and the war monument". Throughout the story it rains, leaving the couple trapped in their hotel room. As the American wife watches the rain, she sees a cat crouched “under one of the dripping green tables.” Feeling sorry for the cat that “was trying to make herself so compact she would not be dripped on,” the wife decides to rescue "that kitty.” On her way downstairs, the American wife encounters the innkeeper, with whom she has a short conversation. In this encounter, Hemingway specifically emphasizes how the wife "likes" the innkeeper, a word that is repeated often throughout the stories of In Our Time: "The wife liked him. She liked the deadly serious way he received any complaints. She liked his dignity. She liked the way he wanted to serve her. She liked the way he felt about being a hotel-keeper. She liked his old, heavy face and big hands". When the American wife finally arrives outside that cat is gone, and, slightly crestfallen, she returns to the room alone. The American wife then has a (rather one-sided) conversation with her husband about the things she wants with her life, particularly how she wants to settle down (as opposed to the transient vacation life the couple has in the story): “I want to eat at a table with my own silver and I want candles. And I want it to be spring and I want to brush my hair out in front of a mirror and I want a kitty and I want some new clothes.” However, her husband, George, continues to read his books, acting dismissively of what his wife “wants.” The story ends when the maid arrives with a “big tortoise-shell cat pressed tight
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The English-language idiom "raining cats and dogs" or "raining dogs and cats" is used to describe particularly heavy rain. It is of unknown etymology and is not necessarily related to the raining animals phenomenon. The phrase (with "polecats" instead of "cats") has been used at least since the 17th century. Etymology A number of possible etymologies have been put forward to explain the phrase. One possible explanation involves the drainage systems on buildings in 17th-century Europe, which were poor and may have disgorged their contents, including the corpses of any animals that had accumulated in them, during heavy showers. This occurrence is described in Jonathan Swift's 1710 poem "Description of a City Shower": Another explanation is that "cats and dogs" may be a corruption of the Greek word , referring to the waterfalls on the Nile, possibly through the old French word ('waterfall'). In old English, meant a cataract or waterfall. "Cats and dogs" may come from the Greek expression , which means “contrary to experience or belief”; if it is raining cats and dogs, it is raining unusually hard. There is no evidence to support the theory that the expression was borrowed by English speakers. An online rumor largely circulated through email claimed that, in 16th-century Europe, animals could crawl into the thatch of peasant homes to seek shelter from the elements and would fall out during heavy rain. However, no evidence has been found in support of the claim. There may not be a logical explanation; the phrase may have been used just for its nonsensical humor value, or to describe particularly heavy rainfall, like other equivalent English expressions ("raining pitchforks", "raining hammer handles"). Equivalent expressions in other languages Other languages have equally bizarre expressions for heavy rain. See also English-language idioms Rain of animals References Folklore Metaphors referring to dogs Metaphors referring to cats
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The Stray Cat (Spanish title: La Gata) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Gata, produced in 1968 and Mexican telenovela Rosa Salvaje produced in 1987. Maite Perroni and Daniel Arenas star as the protagonists, with Erika Buenfil as the adult protagonist, while Jorge Poza, Mónika Sánchez and first actress Laura Zapata star as the antagonists. Plot The story takes place in the outskirts of Mexico City in Bordo de Xochiaca (a landfill), where a girl Esmeralda 12 years old who is always "disheveled and dirty" like a "Stray Cat" (una "Gata"). Esmeralda is a young neighborhood girl who grew up without her parents and learned to be happy with what little she had. She was raised from childhood by an elderly woman named Mrs. Rita who exploited her by making her go ask alms, sell candy and newspapers. Esmeralda could neither read nor write. She meets Pablo Martínez Negrete, a high society rich boy who teaches her to read and write and with whom she becomes friends. Since then Esmeralda notices that he is the first person to call her by her name and the first person who really truly cares about her. But Pablo's mother opposes his friendship with "The Stray Cat". Several years later, Esmeralda grows up and becomes a beautiful young woman who still does not read nor write and has not changed since childhood. Pablo realizes that his feelings for The Stray Cat are more than that of a friend and feels confused as to what he feels for Esmeralda. Esmeralda starts looking for work, thanks to Pablo, as she does not want to keep asking alms and she does not want him to give her money. Lorenza, Pablo's mother, strongly opposes the friendship between Pablo and Esmeralda and alienates her from him. Pablo is pushed to fall in love with Mónica a girl who comes from "a good social position" and is also his "cousin". Agustín, Pablo's father, convinces Pablo that he should study his masters abroad and marry Monica once he returns, a plot to separate him and Esmeralda. Pablo and Esmeralda decide to marry secretly before he goes abroad. From New York Pablo emails his father Agustín and asks him to help him fix travel papers for Esmeralda so she can reunite with him in New York. Pablo's father pretends to want to help him but has no interest in helping his son. Instead he plans to have Esmeralda kidnapped. Two men walk into Mrs. Rita's hut where they find Esmeralda alone, there the two men grab her and carry her out wrapped in blanklet and throw Esmeralda into the trunk of a stolen car. Esmeralda's friend Damián is going to her hut when he notices that one of the men is carrying something. Damián calls and whistles to his friends. They drive away but are soon closed in by the carriage. Garabato tells them that if they mess with
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Tamsin is a 1999 fantasy novel by American writer Peter S. Beagle. It won a Mythopoeic Award in 2000 for adult literature. Plot summary Jenny Gluckstein, a moody Jewish-American teenager, lives in New York City with her divorced mother Sally. Jenny's closest confidante is her cat, Mister Cat. When Sally marries Evan, an Englishman with two sons, the family relocates to Dorset, where Evan has been hired to renovate 300-year-old Stourhead Farm. Due to the extent of the restoration, the family must live in the farm's dilapidated manor house plagued with unexplained annoyances: erratic electricity and plumbing, strange cold spots and odors, terrifying howling overhead on stormy nights, and a darkened third-story window that does not correspond to any room in the house. For Jenny, already upset with her mother's remarriage, the move, and the state of the house, the final straw comes when Mister Cat must be quarantined for six months. Jenny resolves never to accept her step-family or her new home. After returning from quarantine, Mister Cat's presence attracts a ghostly Persian cat only he and Jenny can see. Following the cats one night, Jenny locates the mysterious third-story room, where she discovers the ghost of 19-year-old Tamsin Willoughby, daughter of the farm's original owner. Ghosts endure as long as they remember being alive, but Tamsin has blocked out the circumstances surrounding her death, including what became of her sweetheart Edric Davies. Jenny comes to believe something sinister happened the night Tamsin died. Jenny and Tamsin become close friends, and Tamsin introduces Jenny to the numerous supernatural creatures that occupy the grounds, including the shape-shifting Pooka, while teaching her to avoid more dangerous beings such as the redcaps who occupy the nearby forest and the all-powerful Old Lady of the Elder Tree, who ruled the land before mankind came. Through her nightly conversations with Tamsin, Jenny learns about Judge Jeffreys, whose Bloody Assizes terrorized the surrounding area after the Monmouth Rebellion, and who once romantically pursued Tamsin. The Pooka warns that Tamsin's return has also summoned the ghost of Judge Jeffreys, who is still intent on possessing her. Jeffreys' presence makes it difficult for Tamsin to retain her memories, imperiling her existence. As Jeffreys grows strong enough to impact the living, Jenny continues to research the farm's history and learns that Tamsin and Edric intended to elope in secret, but that Edric never arrived at the arranged meeting place. Tamsin waited hours in the rain before being discovered by Jeffreys. At Tamsin's bedside when she died of pneumonia, Jeffreys overheard her last words. With this information, Tamsin is able to remember the night she died: delirious with fever and believing Edric abandoned her, she cursed Edric to wait for her as she had waited in vain for him. Jeffreys used the power of Tamsin's dying words to summon the Wild Hunt to chase Edric for all eternity, resulting in the screams heard on stormy nights. The cruelty of Tamsin's curse condemned her soul to be trapped at Stourhead.
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The Perth Central Area Transit (Perth CAT) system, or simply CAT, consists of five bus routes in the centre of Perth and three bus routes in Joondalup. CAT services formerly operated in Fremantle, and similar services exist in Rockingham (the City Centre Transit System) and Midland (the Midland Gate Shuttle). Unlike all other Transperth services, most CAT routes are free. Perth CAT On 23 September 1996, MetroBus commenced operating two CAT routes: the Red CAT and the Blue CAT, replacing the City Clipper services that had operated since September 1973. The Yellow CAT was commenced in 2002 and the Green CAT route began on 30 June 2013. The Purple CAT commenced on 27 February 2022. These CAT services are operated by Transdev WA. Initially Perth CAT buses stopped at every stop, but with the introduction of the Purple CAT service passengers are now required to hail incoming buses and press the bell if they wish to alight. Blue CAT The Blue CAT runs between Kings Park and Perth Busport in Northbridge via Elizabeth Quay Bus Station. Red CAT The Red CAT runs between West Perth and East Perth as bus route number 2. During peak times a shorter Red CAT travels between the Forrest Place stop opposite Perth railway station and the West Perth stop as bus route number 4 to meet high demand for travel between these. In addition, the West Perth Loop of the Red CAT travels from Perth Underground to Raine Square. Yellow CAT The Yellow CAT, introduced on 15 December 2002, runs between East Perth and West Perth as bus route number 3. Green CAT The Green CAT commenced on 1 July 2013, and runs between Leederville railway station and Elizabeth Quay Bus Station as bus route number 5. Intended to ease congestion in the central business district, the Green CAT does not run on weekends nor on public holidays. Purple CAT The Purple CAT commenced on 27 February 2022, and runs between the University of Western Australia and Elizabeth Quay Bus Station via the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre. Joondalup CAT The Joondalup CAT started operating on 9 January 2006. It is currently operated by Swan Transit since 20 January 2020. It runs Monday to Friday around the Joondalup central business district as bus routes 10 (anticlockwise) and 11 (clockwise). On Mondays to Thursdays, Joondalup CAT also runs around the Joondalup Campus of Edith Cowan University as route 13, but only on the university's operating days. Retired services Fremantle CAT A Fremantle CAT service operated in Fremantle between August 2000 and October 2023. Originating in 1997 as the Fremantle Clipper, it only operated on weekdays and public holidays with a 15 minute frequency. The original route alignment spanned between Beach Street and Parry Street on the north and south parts of the Fremantle CBD respectively. The contract to run the service was awarded to Path Transit, which was part of the Australian Transit Enterprises (now Keolis Downer) ownership, using their own (not PTA purchased) low-entry,
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The Wild Goose Chase is an animated short film made in 1932 by the Van Beuren Studios, and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Plot The cartoon starts with a trio of frogs with banjos, singing the song Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella. Other creatures in the wild are shown during the rainy weather. The scene, moments later, turns to a boy cat and a girl cat. The boy cat tries to cheer up his glum girlfriend using quotes from the song. In no time, the rains stops and they are elated. Just then, a tree stump comes to life and tells them there's a pot of gold in the castle up in the sky. When the boy cat asks how they could go there, the stump conjures a large goose which carries them to their destination. As they enter the castle, they meet a spirit who is aware of their purpose. Frightened, they quickly flee the scene. Other inhabitants of the castle include imps, living skeletons, and other supernatural entities. After wandering around the place some more, they once again encountered the spirit who asks if they still want the pot of gold. When they insists, the spirit teleports the cats to the location of the pot. Upon taking the treasure, the cats leap off an edge of the castle. As they drop, the giant goose reappears carrying them safely to the ground. The cats are overjoyed in taking the pot of gold. But their celebration is cut short when the pot suddenly disappears. When the boy cat is depressed, the girl cat cheers him up by singing some words from "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella". Immediately the boy cat gets over his depression. They then embrace each other and sing the remaining lines. References External links The Wild Goose Chase at the Big Cartoon Database 1932 films 1932 animated films American animated short films American black-and-white films 1932 comedy films Aesop's Fables (film series) 1930s American animated films Animated films about cats RKO Pictures short films RKO Pictures animated short films 1930s English-language films
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Hedz was a children's satirical show produced by BBC Scotland for CBBC which parodied various celebrities and politicians as large cardboard cut-outs over people's faces (sometimes with clothing that resembles the celebrity). Voices were provided by Tim Dann, Rupert Degas, Peter Dickson, Adam Longworth, and Kate O'Sullivan. It was filmed on the same set of BBC Scotland soap opera River City. The first series aired during the second series of the children's Saturday morning show TMi on BBC Two in 2007. A second series was produced in 2010 and was aired as part of Sam & Mark's TMi Friday on the CBBC Channel. Recurring gags In Hedz, there are half-minute to a minute short gags, which are similar in one way or another for each character(s). For Russell Brand, he says his catchphrase "... if I tell a lie, let me beautiful barnet sprout forth!" at the beginning of his sketch, and then tells a series of lies, causing his hair to grow abnormally large. After three lies, he trips on his hair and falls down, ending the gag with "Betrayed by my own barnet! The shame!". For Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp, they share a bath, where they play, argue and talk. By the end of the gag, Johnny Depp somehow causes Orlando Bloom to get out of the bathtub. However, at times Orlando gets his own back on Johnny (e.g. throwing Johnny's paper hat into the bath, causing it to go soggy and sink) For Simon Cowell, he first sneaks into his shed, where he tells Cat Deeley (who is in the form of a white cat) to "... bring me [Simon] the leaders of the free world!", causing Deeley to press a red button, bringing George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Queen Elizabeth II, Gordon Brown, Romano Prodi and Bob Geldof onto H.Q.-like screens. After which he explains his "brilliant" plan, usually on the effects of global warming, where the leaders go wild in its sheer flawlessness (at the middle of Cowell's speech, Deeley explains the crucial flaws). After the pitch of his idea Cowell raises up his hands and goes, "For I am a genius!" When he does this a button loosens from Simon's trousers, so they fall down (revealing his boxer shorts) and is sprayed down with something got to do with his idea (e.g. if the plan contained toilet paper, toilet paper will rain down onto him), making the leaders laugh. Another ironic touch is that Deeley speaks in meows, with her words displayed as subtitles, and Cowell cannot understand her, although guesses she is positive about the idea, e.g. "Are you ready for my brilliant plan, Cat?" "No!" "I knew you would be, Cat." On his shed is a sign which says, 'Simon's shed keep out'. Already we can see Simon is not very bright; he writes the 'p' backwards. For Ant & Dec, they spot another celebrity couple from their tree house "oh Ant, can you see out?" and decide to set a
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night ( ) is a 2014 Persian-language American Western horror film written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. Promoted as "The first Iranian vampire Western", it stars Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Mozhan Marnò, Marshall Manesh, and Dominic Rains. It was financed in part by a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night takes place in "the Iranian ghost-town Bad City" and depicts the doings of "a lonesome vampire". It was filmed in Taft, California, in black-and-white. It was chosen to show in the "Next" program of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Plot A young, hardworking Iranian man named Arash lives with and takes care of his heroin-addicted father, Hossein. They are harassed by a cruel, drug-dealer pimp named Saeed, who seizes the young man's prized car in exchange for money the father owes him. In a crime of opportunity, Arash steals a pair of diamond earrings from the wealthy young woman he works for, Shaydah. Saeed comes across a strange young woman in a chador at night. She persuades Saeed to take her back to his apartment. While there, she grows long fangs and first bites off his finger, then goes for his neck, killing him. As she leaves, she passes by Arash, who has come to offer the earrings for his car. He finds Saeed dead, and takes back his car keys along with a suitcase of drugs and cash. Arash decides to sell the drugs, allowing him to quit his job working for Shaydah. Later, he goes to a costume party at a night club dressed up as Dracula, where he is persuaded by Shaydah into taking one of the ecstasy pills he is selling. Under the influence, he becomes disoriented, and ends up lost at night on the street. The woman with the chador spends her time listening to music alone in her apartment, skateboarding, or bedeviling pedestrians at night, until she comes across the lost Arash. He shows vulnerability and compassion, and she takes him to her home, where they listen to music, and she resists his exposed neck. They meet the next night, and she says that he does not know the terrible things she has done. He is unfazed, gives her the earrings and – at her request – pierces her ears with a safety pin, but she eventually leaves. Atti, a prostitute who worked for Saeed, is followed at night by the woman, and they retreat to the prostitute's apartment. The woman gives Atti the payment Saeed owed her. They have a conversation during which the woman realizes that Atti no longer remembers what it is to desire. She leaves. Suffering from heroin withdrawal, Hossein has an episode where he believes that Arash's cat is his dead wife. Infuriated by his father, Arash gives him drugs and money and throws him out, telling him to take the cat with him. Hossein goes to Atti and forces her to take heroin with him. They
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Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories is a posthumous collection of Hemingway's short fiction, published in 1995. Introduced by James Fenton, it is published in the UK only by Random House as part of the Everyman Library. The collection is split in two parts. Part One contains the four individual collections of stories Hemingway published during his lifetime. They are the tiny experimental prose volume, in our time (1924), the much expanded In Our Time (1925, with an extra story added in 1930), Men Without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing (1933). In addition, four further stories were first published in Hemingway's first omnibus, The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Part Two contains anomalous stories which were added to the collections Hemingway (and others) have since published. It is also includes some stories, fragments and juvenilia that have never before been published in book-form. The collection does, however, limit itself to material that had already appeared in print. Some material, first published in The Complete Short Stories (1987), is not included in this edition, as Fenton determined that it was not properly classified as short stories. This includes "One Trip Across" and "Tradesman's Return" (the first two parts of To Have and Have Not); and "An African Story" (filleted from various chapters of The Garden of Eden—itself a posthumous novel). Part One: Stories Collected in Hemingway's Lifetime From Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) Up in Michigan (1923, revised 1938) in our time (1924) In Our Time (1925 and 1930) On the Quai at Smyrna Indian Camp The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife The End of Something The Three-Day Blow The Battler A Very Short Story Soldier's Home The Revolutionist Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Cat in the Rain Out of Season Cross-Country Snow My Old Man Big Two-Hearted River, Part I Big Two-Hearted River, Part II Men Without Women (1927) The Undefeated In Another Country Hills Like White Elephants The Killers Che Ti Dice La Patria? Fifty Grand A Simple Enquiry Ten Indians A Canary for One An Alpine Idyll A Pursuit Race Today is Friday Banal Story Now I Lay Me Winner Take Nothing (1933) After the Storm A Clean, Well-Lighted Place The Light of the World God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen The Sea Change A Way You'll Never Be The Mother of a Queen One Reader Writes Homage to Switzerland A Day's Wait A Natural History of the Dead Wine of Wyoming The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio Fathers and Sons Stories from The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938) The Capital of the World (1936) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1936) The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (1936) Old Man at the Bridge (1938) Part Two: Stories and Fragments from Posthumous Collections Uncollected Stories published in Hemingway's Lifetime The Denunciation (1938) The Butterfly and the Tank (1938) Night Before Battle (1939) Under the Ridge (1939) Nobody Ever Dies (1939) The Good Lion (1951) The Faithful Bull (1951) A Man of the World
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The Brier Score is a strictly proper score function or strictly proper scoring rule that measures the accuracy of probabilistic predictions. For unidimensional predictions, it is strictly equivalent to the mean squared error as applied to predicted probabilities. The Brier score is applicable to tasks in which predictions must assign probabilities to a set of mutually exclusive discrete outcomes or classes. The set of possible outcomes can be either binary or categorical in nature, and the probabilities assigned to this set of outcomes must sum to one (where each individual probability is in the range of 0 to 1). It was proposed by Glenn W. Brier in 1950. The Brier score can be thought of as a cost function. More precisely, across all items in a set of N predictions, the Brier score measures the mean squared difference between: The predicted probability assigned to the possible outcomes for item i The actual outcome Therefore, the lower the Brier score is for a set of predictions, the better the predictions are calibrated. Note that the Brier score, in its most common formulation, takes on a value between zero and one, since this is the square of the largest possible difference between a predicted probability (which must be between zero and one) and the actual outcome (which can take on values of only 0 or 1). In the original (1950) formulation of the Brier score, the range is double, from zero to two. The Brier score is appropriate for binary and categorical outcomes that can be structured as true or false, but it is inappropriate for ordinal variables which can take on three or more values. Definition The most common formulation of the Brier score is in which is the probability that was forecast, the actual outcome of the event at instance ( if it does not happen and if it does happen) and is the number of forecasting instances. In effect, it is the mean squared error of the forecast. This formulation is mostly used for binary events (for example "rain" or "no rain"). The above equation is a proper scoring rule only for binary events; if a multi-category forecast is to be evaluated, then the original definition given by Brier below should be used. Example Suppose that one is forecasting the probability that it will rain on a given day. Then the Brier score is calculated as follows: If the forecast is 100% ( = 1) and it rains, then the Brier Score is 0, the best score achievable. If the forecast is 100% and it does not rain, then the Brier Score is 1, the worst score achievable. If the forecast is 70% ( = 0.70) and it rains, then the Brier Score is (0.70−1)2 = 0.09. In contrast, if the forecast is 70% ( = 0.70) and it does not rain, then the Brier Score is (0.70−0)2 = 0.49. Similarly, if the forecast is 30% ( = 0.30) and it rains, then the Brier Score is (0.30−1)2 =
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Cat Royal (also known as Cat Royal Adventures) is a series of 6 historical fiction adventure books by Julia Golding, a British novelist. The main character of the series is an orphan named Catherine "Cat" Royal. The series is set in 18th Century London where Cat lives in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, after she was abandoned on the front steps of the theatre and taken in by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the owner of the theatre. The main themes are slavery and equality between people from all races and social classes. While the main cast of characters are fictional, some real historical figures, such as Olaudah Equiano, feature as supporting characters. The first book, The Diamond of Drury Lane, takes place in January 1790, and the seventh book, Cat's Cradle, takes place in October 1792. Originally, the books had illustrated covers, but these were later replaced with photographic covers, with a model representing the protagonist, Cat Royal. Themes Themes shown throughout the series include acceptance of different ethnic categories, and expressing the belief that it is not what one likes or social class that matters, but rather, personality. The theme of making one's way through adolescence could also be considered an aspect of the series, as the protagonist struggles to find work, and a home where she can be accepted for who she is and not be pressured into marriage and other issues faced by most young women during the time period in which the books are set. Characters Main characters Catherine "Cat" Royal: An orphan left on the steps of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in January 1780 as an infant child aged two or three years old. She was taken in by Mr Sheridan, the theatre owner. Cat is very strong-willed, independent and feisty, though she does have a sense of humour if she thinks it appropriate to use it. Though often stubborn and headstrong, Cat is compassionate and caring towards her friends, and the lengths she goes to for them often leave her in danger, and leave her friends worried and exasperated. As an orphan, Cat is unsure of her age, but during the events of Cat's Cradle she believes she is about fifteen years old, making her twelve or thirteen at the start of the series. She is described as quite short, just over four foot four, with curly red hair and green eyes; in Cat Among The Pigeons, she crops her hair short when she has to disguise herself as a boy. Cat is an aspiring novelist and loves acting and living in the theatre. In Cat's Cradle, Cat discovers her mother named her Maudie, but that it was never her legal name because, due to her status as an illegitimate child, she was never christened; Cat continues to use the name Sheridan gave her. Pedro Amakye (previously Pedro Hawkins): One of Cat's close friends, a former slave and talented violinist and actor, also a member of Syd's gang. Pedro is very proud of his
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Worcester Music Festival is an annual music festival held in more than 20 venues throughout the city centre of Worcester, England every September. It was founded in 2008 by Chris Bennion as a platform to encourage live, local and original music in Worcester and the surrounding areas and is staged in pubs, clubs, cafes, community buildings, boats, churches, record shops and street performances around or near the city centre with around 250 performances each year. Recently acts have applied from further afield such as Egypt, Russia, Romania and America, however the organisers look at each application carefully as the festival is first and foremost about promoting emerging artists. With more than 20 different promoters now involved in the festival, ensuring that every genre of music is covered and every music fan is catered for, the festival is also closely linked to BBC Hereford & Worcester, with a stage arranged by Andrew Marston from the BBC Introducing show, and features acts that have appeared on the show being broadcast from the festival and the very popular SLAP Magazine. The festival is a non-profit making event run by an enthusiastic team of 20 volunteers, largely local musicians or people associated with the Worcester music scene. Not only does it provide a showcase for local musical talent of all genres, but it provides education and professional development opportunities through a variety of workshops and clinics. The festival also has a history of being the place where new bands and projects have been formed, as musicians and artists have networked over the years. All Worcester Music Festival gigs and workshops are free to attend. Bands The following artists performed at these previous festivals 2008 1147am And What Will Be Left Of Them? Angelcynn /Foxtail Soup /Ouja Anna Rice Babajack Black cat Bone Black Sheep BlueRADIO Brontosaurus Chorus Bruno Gallone BSN [420] Calm Like A Riot Calming Claire Boswell Cmajor7 Cobweb Dilemmas Come Together Corda Crooked Empire Da Vinci Dan Greenaway Dandelion Killers Danse Macabre David Bristow Dissidence Doctor & The Duke Doctors Orders Drumlove Dudes Of Neptune Evangaline Expedestrian Fallen Angel Faullsgold Figures of Hate Fine and Shandy Flames of Our Neighbours Flo Rowland Flo Rowland FreewateR Fury Fusion Fusion Gamble Gamble George Cowley Experience Harlem Dandy Harry Payne Harry Payne Highway 5 HiJack Host Hot Wyred Jamie Knight Jasper Jazica Jess Allen John Perkins Johnny Kowalski Judy Pass Jules Benjamin The Fingers Kahuna Lou Richardson Lounge Potato Martyr De Mona Matt Woozey & Strange Rain Meg Muleskinner Blues Band Natalie Hall Neil Ivision & The Misers Open Savana Penny White Pippa Jennings Poor Bob Reprise Revolver Robin Welch Rupert & The Robbers Sam Eden Experience Scandal House Shellshock Shoot The Moon Shurikume Silver Tequila Skankbox Slidin’ Steve Smokestack Somers Traditional Folk Club Soul Syndicate Steve Maitland Stunt Dog Take The Fifth Ten Fifty Tenth Aggression Terror Mob The Abbot Of Reason The Abbot Of Unreason The Amateurs The Arquettes The Big Cats The Brazilians The Cape Of Good Hope The Dastards The Donns
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Hanna Barbera's Turbo Toons is a 1994 racing video game developed and published by Empire Interactive in Europe for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. In the game, the players take control of one of six playable characters, each with differing capabilities. The playable Hanna-Barbera characters include Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Top Cat, Snagglepuss, Hong Kong Phooey, and Yogi Bear. One or five players race in five cups consisting of multiple courses. During races, the players can obtain crystals that spawn in the tracks and use them to gain an advantage or hinder other opponents. Turbo Toons was co-designed by programmer Adrian Barritt, who had previously worked on Space Ace (1994) for the Super NES, and artist Graham Rice. Barritt's goal was to design a five-player game where characters interacted by knocking each other off the track, borrowing aspects from the racing game Super Sprint. The team made each character act differently but found Hanna-Barbera difficult to work with, as the studio was insistent that the characters looked identical to the originals. Production began in February 1994, lasting six months and concluding in July 1994. It was slated to be published by Allan in North America but it was not released, despite being rated by the ESRB, while a Sega Mega Drive version was also planned but never released. The game garnered mixed reception from critics. Gameplay Hanna Barbera's Turbo Toons is a racing featuring Hanna-Barbera characters played from a top-down perspective, similar to Super Sprint with single-player and multiplayer modes. The player selects a character and participates in a footrace on one of thirty single-screen race courses, trying to finish in first place while competing for the fastest time ahead of the other racers. There are six playable characters, each with their own characteristics: Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Top Cat, Snagglepuss, Hong Kong Phooey, and Yogi Bear. The players can access an options menu where one of four game modes can be selected: a training mode for novices, a single race mode, a league mode consisting of five tracks in each league, and a battle mode where victory is awarded to the first player to collect 50 crystals. During each race, the player is able to collect power-up crystals scattered across the course, bestowing advantages or hindering the players, including a rain cloud that can be passed to another player. The character can be customized by collecting white crystals that lie on the track, and the player can exchange them for better acceleration, higher top speed, improved grip, or more turbo energy. The players collide with each other and can stun their characters by jumping on them. Each track also has its own obstacles, such as lakes or the appearance of other Hanna-Barbera characters. Up to five players can participate simultaneously using the Super Multitap. Development and release Hanna Barbera's Turbo Toons was created by Empire Interactive, a British game developer and publisher. It was co-designed by Adrian "Ade" Barritt, who had previously worked on Space Ace (1994)
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Mona the Vampire is a children's book written and illustrated by Sonia Holleyman and first published in 1990 by Orchard Books. The book is the first in the Mona the Vampire. It was the basis of the YTV television series with the same name. The story centers around a young girl named Mona and her pet cat, Fang, who pretend to be vampires together because of their obsession with spooky stories. Plot The story begins as a girl named Mona and her pet cat, Fang, are being read a spooky bedtime story by Mona's father which they find very intriguing, causing her desire to become a vampire that night before she goes to sleep. Early the next morning, Mona and Fang are experimenting and finding things to match their ideas of vampire costumes. Mona's mother makes them lunch with farfetched foods such as "batwing soup", and Mona takes Fang outside to teach him some "important things that vampires need to know". Then they play "hide-and-seek-a-vampire" and "suck-my-blood". The book then shows an example of Mona obeying her mother as she tells Mona to clean her room. The next morning, Mona makes her own school lunch to help her mother and goes to school, taking Fang with her. At lunchtime (according to the picture on the page), Mona expresses her views on vampires, causing everyone to become uncomfortable and to be driven away from her. After this, the book shows an example of Mona at the gym as she "practiced tying all her special knots" (tying up the other classmates). Later that day, Mona and Fang are painting on the classroom wall, and the teacher (later known as Miss Gotto in the television series) shouts that she is tired of the trouble that Mona is causing and that she doesn't want Mona in her class. She sends for the principal (later known as Ivan Shawbly in the television series), and he simply says that "enough is enough" and that "something must be done". Because of this, Mona and Fang join a ballet class to "calm her down". They teach the ballerinas some vampire tricks of which the teacher, Mr. Kersley, does not approve. When it is time to go home, Mona pedals home with Fang, taking a shortcut beside a local graveyard. As it starts to rain and storm, it remind Mona of things from the spooky stories which she is obsessed with, and she becomes spooked, causing her to pedal faster. When Mona and Fang are back home, they aresick and tired from the storm. Mona's mother makes them hot chocolate, sends them straight to the bath and then to bed. That night, Mona has nightmares about "wicked witches and ghostly ghouls". In the morning, Mona puts away all the parts of her vampire costume and decides to get over her obsession with vampires. The story ends that night as Mona's father reads Mona and Fang a bedtime story about space invaders. Reception A 1991 Publishers Weekly magazine article described
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The Twilight Sad is the debut EP by The Twilight Sad, released on 14 November 2006 on Fat Cat Records. The EP was only released on CD in the United States. Regarding its US-only release, former bassist Craig Orzel stated that "the American side of Fat Cat wanted a release to announce our arrival, so they got that. I think the UK side were, initially, more interested in albums than EPs." The EP was mixed by composer and Fat Cat labelmate Max Richter. "That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy", "Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard", and "And She Would Darken the Memory" also appear on the band's debut album, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters, which followed the EP in April 2007. The EP garnered warm critical reception, with independent music website Delusions of Adequacy praising "the cathartic racket" of the songs as "uplifting and expansive, on the verge of overwhelming with sound, sweeping the listener away from the harsh, earth-bound lyrics and delivery" and hailing the EP as "a bracing distillation of what The Twilight Sad does best, marrying spare to expansive sonics with bitter, sharp, sometimes enigmatic lyrics and a powerful, emotional sing-talking delivery by James Graham, as skeletons are rattled in the old family closet." Critical reception Pitchfork Media reviewer Marc Hogan awarded the EP a 7.8 out of 10 rating, praising the band's "stadium anthem" technique through "lip-quivering emotion punctuated with explosions." Treble zine reviewer Herbert Vigilla stated that the EP shows the band "have a knack for crafting cathartic, visceral shoegazer anthems." Delusions of Adequacy also praised the band's "structural 'formula'" for the songs as "effective and breath-taking", and James Graham's "stark reminisces and recriminations ... expressively wrapped in his pronounced Scottish accent" and lyrics "rife with vague to pointed accusations, which are parsed out piecemeal, giving room for the listener to imagine a stunted familial environment where relationships are divided into victim and perpetrator, where one person talks to the other and vice versa, conversations in an unhappy home, and a looking back at it all through the distance of time and childhood memories." Track listing Personnel The Twilight Sad James Graham – vocals Andy MacFarlane – guitars, accordion Craig Orzel – bass Mark Devine – drums, percussion Recording personnel The Twilight Sad – production, mixing Max Richter – mixing David Paterson – engineering Pam Smith – engineering Alan Douches – mastering dlt – artwork References External links EP synopsis at Fat Cat Records 2006 debut EPs The Twilight Sad albums FatCat Records EPs
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This is a discography for The Stone Coyotes, a family trio consisting of Barbara Keith, husband Doug Tibbles and son John. Albums Church of the Falling Rain 1998, Red Cat Records "Church of the Falling Rain" (3:39) "The Mark of Cain" (3:10) "Hammer On the Nail" (3:16) "My Little Runaway" (3:31) "On the Riverbank" (2:42) "Saw You at the Hop" (4:27) "Odessa" (3:36) "Out of Harm's Way" (4:03) "The Changing of the Guard" (4:10) "Little White Lies" (3:23) "Stealing My Thunder" (4:25) "Folded Wings" (3:17) "Wake Up, What's the Matter?" (3:09) "Highway 61 Revisited" (2:55) Situation Out of Control 2000, Red Cat Records "Situation Out of Control" (3:58) "Lucky Day" (3:29) "Where the Old Oak Grows" (3:20) "The Black Atlantic" (4:47) "When Parliament Convenes" (5:06) "Noah's Ark" (3:21) "My Horse Has Wings" (5:41) "I Want to Rock" (4:16) "Highland Boy" (4:51) "Bone Tired" (3:55) "Season of the Witch" (5:03) "If You See the One" (4:49) "Train to Nowhere" (6:01) "Saw You at the Hop (live)" (5:21) Born to Howl 2001, Red Cat Records "Shake" (4:37) "Torn Asunder" (4:12) "Detroit or Buffalo" (4:00) "The First Lady of Rock" (4:03) "Jolene" (3:07) "Rock It" (5:06) "Four Times Gone" (4:56) "American Child" (2:54) "Death of the American Song" (4:46) "Bound to Burn" (3:33) "Call Off Your Dogs" (4:26) Ride Away from the World 2003, Red Cat Records "I Don't Know Why" (3:42) "Plain American Girl" (3:50) "Mama, Take a Look at me Now" (3:23) "Any Way the Wind Blows" (4:10) "Slip the Shackle" (4:50) "Whole Lotta Money" (3:42) "Cold Hard Winter" (3:41) "Pennsylvania Coal Mine" (3:32) "Born to Howl" (4:38) "Free the People" (3:57) "The Bramble and the Rose" (2:41) "The Tic Toc Lounge" (3:59) "Paranoid" (2:56) "It's Late" (2:113) "Face on the Train" (3:22) Rise from the Ashes 2003, Red Cat Records "House Of Confusion" (4:33) "While Unseen Angels Hover" (4:36) "Wolves at your Door" (4:31) "Heart of a Champion" (3:37) "Ain't Nobody Home" (3:26) "The Sailor's Song" (4:22) "Rock Harder Than You" (3:28) "If You See The One" (4:17) "The Phoenix" (3:47) "Bang Bang Bang Bang" (2:47) "Your Hour to Sing" (4:43) "Thunder On The Left" (4:13) "Adriana" (4:42) Fire it Up 2005, Red Cat Records "All Dressed Up" (3:39) "Rock On" (4:05) "The Valley of Regret" (5:06) "Fire It Up" (3:57) "Rectified" (4:43) "Stars in her Eyes" (3:19) "The Ghost of Vicksburg" (4:02) "The Girls of America" (3:40) "No Turning Back" (3:34) "Dance Band" (5:05) "So Long, I'm Gone, Goodbye" (2:43) "Wake Up, What's the Matter?" (acoustic) (3:56) Dreams of Glory 2006, Red Cat Records "Party Down the Hall" (4:44) "Blue Mountain" (4:22) "Desperate Times" (3:29) "Dreams of Glory" (3:28) "Johnny Rock's Cantina" (3:46) "Back to New York" (3:51) "Bad Luck" (4:11) "Streets of Laredo" (4:09) "Ace of Spades" (2:59) "Peace of Mind" (4:59) "Digging for Gold" (4:26) "Any Way the Wind Blows (re-mix)" (4:03) "Whole Lotta Money (live)" (4:18) "Hammer on the Nail (live)" (3:35) VIII 2008, Red Cat Records "Tomorrow is Another Day" (3:24) "Land of the Living"
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A wet moon (also called a Cheshire moon) is the visual phenomenon when the "horns" of the crescent Moon point up at an angle, away from the horizon, so that the crescent takes on the appearance of a bowl or smile. A wet moon occurs when the crescent Moon is low above the horizon and at a point more or less directly above the Sun's (invisible) position below the horizon. This in turn is determined by the positions of the Moon and Earth in their respective orbits, the inclinations of these orbits relative to one another and to Earth's celestial equator, and the observer's latitude on Earth. Wet moons occur routinely in the tropics (where the Sun and Moon rise and set nearly vertically), but rarely in the polar regions (where the Sun and Moon rise and set at a glancing angle or not at all). By contrast, a dry moon is one where the crescent of the moon is at any other angle. Name The terms wet moon and dry moon originate from Hawaiian mythology, where it was thought that the Moon appeared as a bowl that would fill up with rainwater. The period when this is most common, January 20 to February 18, corresponds with Kaelo the Water Bearer in Hawaiian astrology and makes the Moon known as the "dripping wet moon". As summer comes, the crescent shape shifts, pouring out the water and causing the summer rains. After the "bowl" empties, it dries out and rights itself, creating the "dry moon". However, others say that this is a wet moon because it permitted the water to pour out. The term Cheshire moon is a reference to the smile of the Cheshire Cat from Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Explanation The annual path that the Sun appears to follow against the background of relatively fixed stars is known as the ecliptic. Since the Moon's orbit is inclined 5.14° to the ecliptic, the Moon will always remain within about 5° north or south of the ecliptic. For half of a sidereal month (with respect to the stars), the Moon is either north or south of the ecliptic. The two points where the Moon's orbit intersects that of Earth are called the lunar nodes; at the ascending node, the Moon moves north of the ecliptic, while at the descending node, it moves south. Eclipses occur at these points, hence the name ecliptic. The nodes precess around the ecliptic axis at the rate of one circuit every 18.6 years. The ecliptic makes the steepest angle to the horizon at the equinoxes. Since the crescent Moon appears near the Sun, the crescent would appear to lie on its back when low above the horizon around the equinoxes. See also Black moon Blue moon Libration Lunar precession Lunar standstill Nodal precession Orbit of the Moon Orbital node Lunar node External links StarChild Question of the Month for March 2002, NASA, accessed February 2006 Ask the Astronomer: How often does a 'Dry
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She's the One is a 2013 Filipino Romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mae Cruz-Alviar and stars Bea Alonzo, Dingdong Dantes and Enrique Gil. It is produced by Star Cinema for its 20th Anniversary presentation. Plot Wacky and Cat are childhood best friends. Cat is in love with Wacky, but the two have a fight and Cat decides to go home. On the way one of her car tires gets flat as it rains. David sees her fixing her car, and records it on video. David falls in love with her instantly, and posts the video on the internet entitled "Girl in the Rain", which becomes viral. David's best friend, Gillian does not want him to meet the "Girl in the Rain". Wacky helps David look for the girl, not knowing that it is Cat. Meanwhile, Cat's mentally challenged sister watches the video and points out that it is Cat. At first, Wacky cannot convince Cat to meet with David but eventually, Cat relents. David and Cat fall in love with each other and Wacky realizes that he could have told Cat in the first place that he loved her but it is too late. Wacky tries to impress Cat with the dance he practiced with his friends but then they witness David and Cat kissing. After sometime, the two lovers are seen by Gillian kissing, making her scream in surprise and envy. This surprises Cat and David and the two fall down the stairs, breaking one of their arms. Wacky uses this to let Cat know that he loves her. One night, Wacky tries to tell Cat what his feelings but David interferes. At David's car, he tells Cat that he wants Wacky out of her life because it makes him uncomfortable, so she confesses her feelings for Wacky. The two lovers have a fight, which almost makes them break up. In a bar, David calls Wacky and insults him while drunk before Gillian stops him. Cat and Wacky go to the bar and talk to David, who tells Wacky the truth that Cat loves Wacky. They accompany David home, Gillian confesses her feelings for David to Cat and tells her that she only sees girls chase David but Cat is the only girl that David ever chased. She tells Cat that she was jealous of her and as a friend, she feels bad for David. Wacky finally confesses his feelings to Cat and Cat replies that if he had told it before they could have been together. David finally lets go of Cat and realizes that he loves Gillian and the two became a couple. On Cat's birthday, Wacky and his friends set him up with Cat and the two finally became a couple. Cast Bea Alonzo as Cat Aguinaldo Dingdong Dantes as Wacky Delos Reyes Enrique Gil as David Esguerra Liza Soberano as Gillian Pinky Amador as Judith RS Francisco as Tony Guji Lorenzana as Mike Coleen Garcia as Mandy Daniel Matsunaga as Jason LJ Reyes as Patty
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Scrambled Eggs is a 1926 silent short animated film created by Fables Studios. It is among the cartoons of the Aesop's Fables with the appearance of Farmer Al Falfa, both created when its originator Paul Terry was still involved. One of the reissues of this cartoon, the Commonwealth TV reissue, made in the 50s, titles this cartoon as Closer than a Brother, the same name as a 1925 cartoon, which is also part of Aesop's Fables. Plot A cat stubbornly refuses to get off of bed but eventually does, thanks to his helpful animated clock. He then plays some music in a stereo for exercising, and later goes to the dining room where he has flapjacks for breakfast. Finally he heads for work in his bicycle. The cat works in a poultry compound run by strict Famer Al Falfa. One of his duties is to make sure the hens are laying a sufficient number of eggs. He then courteously directs Farmer Al Falfa to the office. Also entering the office is a ballerina who is a typist as well as the cat's love interest. The cat likes the ballerina a lot that he goes on to trade kisses with her. Finding the romance potentially distracting, Farmer Al Falfa intervenes and tells the cat to package the eggs in racks. At the egg-packaging area in the compound, the cat tells the hens to roll eggs down the slides. As the eggs come down, the cat pushes one rack after another each time one becomes full. After filling several racks and getting tired a little, he becomes uncommitted and therefore abandons his work which is far from finished. He then comes to and invites the ballerina to play with him outside. While they are having fun playing jump rope, a lot of eggs end up smashed on the floor as a result of an overfilled rack which is left unmoved. In the office, Farmer Al Falfa is napping. Momentarily, he gets up and heads to the egg-packaging place to check the cat's work. To his horror, he sees the mess piling up which indicate hundreds of dollars in losses. Just outside the compound, the cat and the ballerina are still playing with each other. The infuriated Farmer Al Falfa comes out, confronts them and fires the cat before taking the ballerina back inside. In the packaging area, Farmer Al Falfa reprimands the weeping ballerina. The disposed cat sneaks in and sees what's going on. The cat then climbs a stack of egg-filled racks before pushing and dropping one off. That rack falls on and flattens the geezer unconscious. The cat picks up the ballerina and runs with her into the horizon. 2600 years ago, Aesop said: "All eggs looks alike until you open them". Characters According to the Motion Picture Copyright Descriptions, the names of the cats in love are "Thomas" and "Stella", and there is a participation here of Farmer Al Falfa, being used a lot in those years by Paul
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Conjunction introduction (often abbreviated simply as conjunction and also called and introduction or adjunction) is a valid rule of inference of propositional logic. The rule makes it possible to introduce a conjunction into a logical proof. It is the inference that if the proposition is true, and the proposition is true, then the logical conjunction of the two propositions and is true. For example, if it is true that "it is raining", and it is true that "the cat is inside", then it is true that "it is raining and the cat is inside". The rule can be stated: where the rule is that wherever an instance of "" and "" appear on lines of a proof, a "" can be placed on a subsequent line. Formal notation The conjunction introduction rule may be written in sequent notation: where and are propositions expressed in some formal system, and is a metalogical symbol meaning that is a syntactic consequence if and are each on lines of a proof in some logical system; References Rules of inference Theorems in propositional logic
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Spy Mouse was a video game developed by Firemint for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. The game was originally released in August 2011 by Electronic Arts. Shortly after being launched, it quickly became the most popular app on the iOS App Store. On May 4, 2015, this and many other old titles were shut down by EA. After the release of iOS 11, all 32-bit apps, including Spy Mouse, can no longer be opened and will prompt the user to uninstall it, and in late 2020, the servers for downloading the resources for SPY Mouse on Android were shut down. The game however can still be played as normal on devices with it pre-installed and on iOS 10 or earlier. Gameplay Mr. Squeak, also known as Agent Squeak, is a spy mouse trying to get as much cheese as possible while avoiding various cats, who will chase or harm him if he is spotted. The player uses line-drawing (similar to the game Flight Control) to direct Agent Squeak through the levels. Players travel along a path by each building as they play each subsequent level. Cheese will slow the player down, causing them to be more vulnerable. If any one of the cats happens to catch Mr. Squeak, he will be defeated, and the player will have to start over the level or the part of the level they were on. Players can use power-ups to help them, such as chilies, which increase speed, or balloons, which also increase speed by decreasing the weight of the cheese Mr. Squeak is carrying. The player can also use power-ups purchased from "Digger's Shop", which help the character get through the level more easily. To get power-ups purchased from the shop, they must use cheese they earned from previous levels they completed to pay for them. If the player does not have enough cheese, they can purchase it as an in-app purchase. One item in Digger's Shop is Kiska the Cat, an option that allows the player to skip a level and move on to the next one. However, this option does not award the player with any cheese they usually earn at the end of a level. There are seven sets of ten levels, each taking place in a different "world". The first world is titled "Prologue". This world introduces the player to many elements of the game including cheese, cats, etc. The rest of the worlds each take place in a unique location: the suburbs, an area with many factories, a village filled with ninja cats, an inner-city, a town home to ghost cats, and a tropical area spiraling a volcano. Levels are each set in a different building or area. Sometimes levels have more than one part to them. Some levels have hidden areas, which can provide the player with score-increasing cheese crumbs, power-ups, or dossiers that reveal information about elements in the game. A few levels have hidden exits, that can cause a player to skip a level while
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is a 1990 magical realist anthology film of eight vignettes written and directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Chishū Ryū, Mieko Harada and Mitsuko Baisho. It was inspired by actual recurring dreams that Kurosawa said he had repeatedly. It was his first film in 45 years in which he was the sole author of the screenplay. An international co-production of Japan and the United States, Dreams was made five years after Ran, with assistance from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, and funded by Warner Bros. The film was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, and has consistently received positive reviews. Dreams addresses themes such as childhood, spirituality, art, death, and mistakes and transgressions made by humans against nature. Plot The film does not have a single narrative, but is rather episodic in nature, following the adventures of a "surrogate Kurosawa" (often recognizable by his wearing Kurosawa's trademark hat) through eight different segments, or "dreams", each one titled. "Sunshine Through the Rain" A young boy's mother tells him to stay at home during a day when the sun is shining through the rain, warning him that kitsune (foxes) have their weddings during such weather, and do not like to be seen. He defies her wishes, wandering into a forest where he witnesses the slow wedding procession of the kitsune. He is spotted by them and runs home. His mother meets him at the front door, barring the way, and says that an angry fox had come by the house, leaving behind a tantō knife. The mother gives the knife to the boy and tells him that he must go and beg forgiveness from the foxes, refusing to let him return home unless he does so. She warns that if he does not secure their forgiveness, he must take his own life. Taking the knife, the boy sets off into the mountains, towards the place under the rainbow where the kitsunes home is said to be. "The Peach Orchard" On the spring day of Hinamatsuri (the Doll Festival), a boy spots a small girl dressed in pink in his house. He follows her outside to where his family's peach orchard once was. Living dolls appear before him on the orchard's slopes, and reveal themselves to be the spirits of the peach trees. Because the boy's family chopped down the trees of the orchard, the dolls berate him. However, after realizing that the boy loved the blossoms and did not want the trees to be felled, they agree to give him one last look at the orchard as it once was. They perform a dance to Etenraku that causes the blossoming trees to re-appear. The boy sees the mysterious girl walking among the blooming trees and runs after her, but she and the trees suddenly vanish. He walks sadly through the thicket of stumps where the trees had been, until he sees a single young peach tree, in full bloom, sprouting in her place... "The Blizzard"
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"The Cat from Hell" is a horror short story by American writer Stephen King. King initially published the first 500 words of the story in March 1977 in Cavalier, and the magazine held a contest for readers to finish the story. The winning entry, as well as King's complete story, was published in the magazine in June of the same year. It also appeared in Gent Vol. 18 #6 (December 1977), credited to King and Marc Rains. King revised the story and it was reprinted in Tales of Unknown Horror (1978), in Year's Finest Fantasy (1978), in Magicats! (1984), and again in Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror (1996). This story was also adapted to film in the anthology film Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990). It was later reprinted as a bonus story in the paperback edition of Duma Key and again in Just After Sunset, Stephen King's fifth collection of short stories. Plot summary Halston, a professional hitman, is offered $12,000 to take out an unusual target—a cat. He accepts, despite being told that the cat was implicated in the murders of three people. He soon discovers that the cat is much more than it seems—the employer reveals that his company tortured and destroyed thousands of cats in the name of research, and he believes this cat is a feline emissary of revenge. While the hitman is driving toward a desolate place to kill it, the cat escapes confinement and eventually attacks him—crawling inside his body to finish the job—after he is temporarily paralyzed in the resulting accident. After killing the hitman, the cat leaves on "unfinished business" to go after the hitman's employer. See also Short fiction by Stephen King External links King's official website Fictional cats Short stories about cats Short stories by Stephen King Horror short stories 1977 short stories Works originally published in Cavalier (magazine) Short stories adapted into films Short stories set in Connecticut
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Sleepy Holler is a 1929 silent animated short film by Winkler Pictures, and stars Krazy Kat. It is the character's last silent film. It is also the last film of the series to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. Plot Krazy Kat is a hired babysitter who looks after three kittens owned by a hefty nagging woman. His duties include rocking the offspring to sleep, making breakfast, and washing the chinaware. All of which he does simultaneously while in his chair. One day, he is so worn out that he takes a snooze in his seat. In his dream, Krazy finds himself in a blank room. After looking around for a few moments, he is amazed to access a bed hidden in one of the walls. He then puts on a nightgown and gets in the bed. But before he could sleep, the three kittens, who are already grown and walking, enter the room. They were marching and playing drums. Bothered by the racket, Krazy tells them to play somewhere but the little cats refuse. Attempting to force them out, he hurled boots and other objects. Just then, the nagging woman came in, and the kittens are quick to blame the situation on him. Not wanting to experience any abuse, Krazy gets off the bed and walks out of the door. Wandering outside, Krazy desperately looks for places where he could relax. Finding a rock under some trees, the feline lies down and puts his head on it. However, disturbances like falling branches and rain keep him awake. When the showers end, Krazy goes to lie on a pile of sand, burying part of himself in the dirt. But it appears there is a bear under the pile which rises, rambles, and unknowingly carries him for a few paces. Surprised by this, Krazy jumps off and goes on walking. Krazy then arrives in a city. There, he sees a shop displaying a bed in the window. As good news to him, he reads an ad hiring someone who would like to prove the bed's quality by dozing in it. Krazy goes inside the shop and takes the job. As he sleeps in the featured product, passers-by outside stop in front of the store and take notice. Finally, Krazy wakes up from his dream and realizes he is still in the kittens' home. The kittens are still in the crib and too young to stand on their feet. The nagging woman then comes in and tells him to resume his work. See also Krazy Kat filmography References External links Sleepy Holler at the Big Cartoon Database An interview with... Nelson Hughes! 1929 short films 1929 animated films American silent short films American black-and-white films Krazy Kat shorts Paramount Pictures short films Films about dreams 1920s American animated films American animated short films Animated films about cats
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The Whole Truth () is a 2021 Thai supernatural mystery thriller film directed by Wisit Sasanatieng, written by Abishek J. Bajaj and starring Sompob Benjathikul, Sadanont Durongkaweroj and Steven Isarapong. It was released on Netflix on December 2, 2021. Cast Sompob Benjathikul as Phong Sadanont Durongkaweroj Steven Isarapong Thasorn Klinnium Mac Nattapat Nimjirawat Keetapat Pongrue Nicole Theriault as Mai Tarika Tidatid Sutatta Udomsilp as Pim Plot Pim and Putt are teenage siblings. Pim is a popular cheerleader while Putt is a bit of a social outcast with a leg brace for unknown reasons. Their mother, Mai, is a working single mom, recently promoted to a higher paid job. One day, Pim comes home from school to find Putt and his friend Fame playing video games. Fame follows her upstairs and tries to force his way into her room while she's changing. Putt is unable to climb the stairs to help her due to his brace. A spurned Fame reminds Putt that he possessed a mysterious video, apparently enough to blackmail Putt into doing what he wants. Pim calls her mother to ask when she'll be home and tell her about Fame, but Mai informs her she has to stay late for a meeting. It starts to rain heavily, and on Mai's drive she gets into a car accident. Back at home, Pim answers the door to a man who says he's her grandfather, Phong, and informs her about her mother's accident. At the hospital they see their mother in a coma in the ICU, and meet their grandmother, Wan, who, after mistakenly calling Putt "Krit", insists the teens stay at their house in their mother's old room. She asserts that Pim and Putt lived there as children, though neither remember their time there. Their grandfather informs them that their grandmother has dementia and might behave strangely He asks they help look after her during their stay and not to take anything upsetting she does to heart. After retrieving their cat Latte from home, Putt discovers a hole in their grandparent's wall. Peering through, he sees a house similar to their grandparents but decaying, along with a dark haired figure. He tells Pim, who dismisses it. At dinner, Pim asks where Latte is and Wan tells her she let the cat outside, which greatly upsets Putt. Pim tells her grandfather about the hole, but when she goes to show him, he cannot see it, nor can Wan. They assume the children are lying, and get irate, particularly Phong who storms off. Wan looks at a blank spot on the wall where a clock used to be and informs Pim and Putt it's time for bed. In their room, Pim and Putt discuss whether their grandparents are lying to them or if the house itself is causing it. Putt asks Pim if she really believes their grandparents are who they say they are, since their mother never mentioned them. The next morning Pim notices the catfood is still untouched. Putt notices that
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This article contains a list of fictional characters from the Japanese comics anime and manga series Haré+Guu. Description Many characters in the series have names relating to weather (including, most obviously 'We-da'). The show's title has a double meaning, sounding like a weather forecast (Mostly fair skies, but then Guu) and a normal title (The Jungle was Nice, then came Guu). Many fans avoid translating the title, some simply referring to it as Hare Nochi Guu or (as the show does) HareGuu. Some fans of the show simply just refer to the show as Guu, being that Guu is a unique character. Characters Main characters Haré (ハレ) (Hale in the manga) One of the main protagonists of the series. Haré is a boy who grew up in a jungle village with Weda. He sports a sleeveless white shirt, red shorts, and is always barefoot. The usually patient and sweet-natured Haré (whose name means 'fair weather') is usually troubled by Guu's joy in creating chaos and he is prone to anxious rants or tantrums whenever Guu does something unnatural. This is accompanied by a sudden downpour of rain. Haré is used by Weda to do household chores and he is teased by Guu for having an Oedipus complex, exhibited in his competitive nature trying to keep Dr. Clive away from Weda. He gets worried about any other male character trying to win over Weda, such as Asio, coming to a boil in an episode where he throws himself into a competition over rights to her for a year, with Dr. Clive, Mari, and Uigher. Haré tends to think about things too much, and Guu takes advantage of that by psychoanalyzing Haré at every opportunity, and playfully taking advantage of Haré's neurosis. Hare is also seen reading the Hare+Guu manga. At the end of the manga, six years after Guu suddenly disappeared, Hare has become a teacher at the village school and marries Marie, who gives birth to his daughter. Upon seeing his face, the child gives him Guu's trademark smirk, which comically alarms Hare and prompts him to name her "Guu". In the omake, it appears the baby also has Guu's snarky attitude and generally demeaning behavior towards Hare, and she likes to act spoiled to annoy Hare. Guu (グゥ) (Goo in the manga) One of the main protagonists of the series. Guu is a young girl with light pink hair, a pink dress, and is always barefoot. Guu's stomach is a world filled with buildings, hundred-legged cats, and a nice young couple of lovers that have been trapped there for ages (but apparently don't mind their predicament). Other than Haré, no character seems to be aware of Guu's strange nature (or for that matter the bizarre circumstances surrounding everything else in the series). The weird events that occur because of her are only ever acknowledged by Haré. Everyone who is eaten by Guu, only to be spat out later (excluding Haré) dismisses what happened as "sleeping" (occasionally, dreaming about Guu's
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This is a list of characters in the American animated television series Top Cat. Characters are listed only once, normally under the first applicable subsection in the list; very minor characters are listed with a more regular character with whom they are associated. Characters that appear in only one episode are not listed. This also includes information and characters from the feature film Top Cat: The Movie and the prequel film Top Cat Begins. Core TV show characters Top Cat Top Cat (or simply T.C.) is the yellow-furred, suave, and cheeky-chappy main character of the series. He wears a purple pork pie hat and a matching waistcoat. He often manipulates or tricks others, mainly Officer Dibble, but even his own gang. He does appreciate the effort the gang does for him, but he often takes credit for it. That said, he is caring toward to the gang and will help one of them if they need it. He also stops Officer Dibble from arresting him by lying to Dibble about how much talent Dibble has. He is voiced by Arnold Stang in the style of Phil Silvers in the TV show, and by Daws Butler in Yogi's Ark Lark. In most of his modern appearances, he is voiced by Tom Kenny. He also appeared in various Wonderland Sydney commercials in Australia where he was voiced by Keith Scott. In the film, Top Cat: The Movie, he is again the main protagonist. His voice, by Jason Harris, is clipped and a bit deeper. This version of the character has a romantic interest in Trixie. He also tells his gang that they only steal from people who deserve it. He is framed by Lou Strickland, who uses a robot look-alike to get him arrested, whereupon he is placed in a dog jail. Top Cat appeared in Jellystone! in where he has a Southern accent, voiced by Thomas Lennon. Benny the Ball Benny, an indigo-colored cat with a white sports jacket that fastens with a single button at his neck, is T.C.'s right-hand man and a youngest member of the gang; they are best friends. He is diminutive, friendly, overweight, and gullible. But he is also loyal, courageous and mature. His eyes are shown as black dots unlike the other cats who have white sclerae with black pupils. Benny may appear to be slow-witted, due to the fact that he always gives the game away, but he manages to ask the most logical questions during the gang's action-packed shenanigans. A number of episodes have focused on Benny, including "The Violin Player", "The Unscratchables" and "The Missing Heir". Benny the Ball is modeled after his voice actor Maurice Gosfield in the TV series. He was voiced by John Stephenson in Yogi's Ark Lark, Avery Schreiber in Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, and Maurice LaMarche in Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. In the movie, he gets Top Cat and his gang in trouble, and his fandom of fictional musician Lazlo-Lazlo serves to introduce
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Gay Purr-ee is a 1962 American animated musical film produced by United Productions of America and released by Warner Bros. It features the voice of Judy Garland as Mewsette, a feline living in the French countryside wanting to go to Paris in her only animated-film role, as well as Robert Goulet in his first feature film as her love interest Jaune Tom. The film received positive reviews, but was a box office failure. It is also the first animated feature film to be theatrically released by Warner Bros, and the second and final animated film by UPA. Plot The story is set in 1895 and takes place predominantly in Paris, but it begins on a farm in rural Provence. The lovely cat Mewsette and the accomplished but shy mouser Jaune Tom are in love, until the former is frustrated with his plebeian ways (and those of the farm), to the point of calling him a "clumsy country clod". Inspired by the human Jeanette's stories of glamour and sophistication in Paris, Mewsette runs away by taking a train to the big city, where she encounters the slick con-cat Meowrice. Taking advantage of the country kitty's naivete, he puts her in the care of the sultry Madame Henrietta Reubens-Chatte, who promises to turn Mewsette into a dainty debutante known as "The Belle of all Paris". Unbeknownst to Mewsette, Meowrice is grooming her to be the mail-order bride of a rich American cat in Pittsburgh known as "Mr. Henry Phtt". Meanwhile, Jaune Tom and his sidekick Robespierre arrive in Paris, searching for Mewsette. Training does not go well. Just as Mewsette is about to give up and return to the farm, Meowrice takes her out to see the cat side of Paris, the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Élysées and the Mewlon Rouge and then take a buggy ride back home. Reinvigorated, she returns to her studies. Jaune Tom and Robespierre arrive just at that moment but get waylaid by one of Meowrice's shadowy cat henchmen and barely escape drowning in Paris's famous labyrinthine sewers. By coincidence, Jaune Tom displays his incredible mouse-hunting skills in front of Meowrice, who sees a money-making opportunity, gets them drunk, and sells them as mousers to a ship bound for Alaska. On the ship, Robespierre consoles a depressed Jaune Tom, telling him that any problem, regardless of size, can be broken up into manageable pieces, by remarking that even the mighty ocean is made up of little drops of water. Jaune Tom has a vision of Mewsette singing about how no problem is unconquerable, and the importance of never giving up. Mewsette finishes her training and is now lovely enough to impress even Meowrice, who commissions a series of paintings of her so that he can send them to Phtt. Meowrice quietly writes a check with invisible ink to pay his "sister" Madame Reubens-Chatte, and takes Mewsette to his hideout in Notre Dame. There, he reveals his plan to ship her to America and tries to coerce her to
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The Bear and the Doll () is a 1970 French romantic comedy film directed by Michel Deville, starring Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Pierre Cassel. Taking place over 24 hours, a rich, beautiful and wilful woman from Paris is determined to seduce a peaceable musician in the country who appears uninterested in her considerable charms. Plot Félicia, a high-spirited society woman, one morning in the country crashes a borrowed Rolls Royce car into the 2CV of Gaspard, a placid cellist who is bringing up his young son and three nieces. Back in Paris, she realises that she has not filled in the compulsory accident report form and spends much of the day trying to locate a cellist with a 2CV. When at last she does, she asks him to the party she is holding in her town mansion to celebrate her latest divorce. As he does not want to stay, full of drink and bravado she drives him erratically through the rain back to his house, where he tries to sober her up and, since she is soaked, puts her in a hot bath . . . . . . Cast Brigitte Bardot as Félicia Jean-Pierre Cassel as Gaspard Daniel Ceccaldi as Ivan as Stephane Patrick Gilles as Titus Julien Verdier as Tabard Claude Beauthéac as Millot as Bernard Olivier Stroh as Arthur Patricia Darmon as Mariette Sabine Haudepin as Julie as Charlotte Claude Jetter as hippie girl Production The film was inspired by American screwball comedies of the 1930s and was written with Catherine Deneuve in mind. Alain Delon and Jean Paul Belmondo were offered the male lead but turned it down. Filming took place in the summer of 1969. Reception Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that "the maneuverings are mostly the tactics of coy moviemaking here involving several awful child actors, windshield wipers that comment on the action, a huge but gentle dog, a Siamese cat named Prudhomme, and endless little rages between the lovers that define their real affection... Charm is the ingredient that is in singularly short supply in The Bear and the Doll, largely, I suspect, because Miss Bardot, once a sex kitten, now approaches middle age with all of the grace of a seasoned predator." References External links The Bear and the Doll at Premiere France 1970 films 1970s French films 1970s French-language films 1970 romantic comedy films Films directed by Michel Deville French romantic comedy films
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Boiga philippina, also known as the tawny cat eyed snake or Philippine cat snake, a species of rear-fanged colubrid snake that is endemic to the Philippines. Description It has a very slender body that can reach lengths of up to . The big head is of typical Boiga fashion with big eyes and elliptical pupils much like a cat's eye. The white chin extends down the neck to almost half of its body. Body coloration maybe tan, light brown, brown, coffee-color to a pale orange. The underside is made-up of big belly scute scales that is usually tan to orange in color. Underneath the scales of the neck are yellow, black and white markings. Tongue color is black with white or gray tips. Distribution Boiga philippina is endemic to the Philippines. It is found in Luzon, Camiguin Norte, Babuyan Claro, and Dalupiri at elevations of above sea level. This snakes has sighting also on any other Luzon province like Quezon/Rizal Boundary according to FB Group Snake Identification of the Philippines and another sighting from Catanduanes according to John Gil and FB pages called Catanduanes Biodiversity: List of Native and Non Native Species. Habitat It is mostly arboreal and occurs in pristine and disturbed old growth tropical moist forest as well as secondary forest and forest edge habitats. Behavior Like all Boigas, it is highly nocturnal. Its generally docile but a very nervous snake when alarmed. It will not hesitate to bite, however. When threatened; it raises its head, expands the scales of its neck to show off its warning coloration, as well as to make itself appear bigger than it really is, then makes a puffing noise and may strike repeatedly. An arboreal snake, it will rarely descend on the ground unless it is looking for prey or a place to hide in times of heavy rain. Diet and feeding habits Like all cat-eyed snakes, it is a very voracious hunter, actively pursuing its prey that consists primarily of birds and their fledglings . They are usually found near chicken coops where they feed on eggs. They may sometimes enter houses and feed on captive pet birds. Other prey may also be taken, given the opportunity. Frogs, lizards and small rodents may sometimes be eaten. Reproduction and lifespan Mating usually begins around November up until January, where it lays 6 to 14 eggs in a single clutch, usually deposited inside holes in tree trunks or on loose ground covered by low vegetation. Males are determined by their slender bodies, brighter coloration and a very long tail. Females on the other hand; are stouter with a much shorter tail and duller colors. They usually live for up to 15 years in captivity and less in the wild. Venom Like most rear-fanged snakes, the tawny cat-eyed snake is mildly venomous. Although its venom is said to be slightly stronger than most Boiga species, its rounded mouth is very unlikely to cause an envenomating bite. If it does come to a point of
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The Secret Hour is a science-fiction fantasy novel written by Scott Westerfeld. It was published by EOS Books, a now defunct branch of HarperCollins, in 2004. It is the first book of The Midnighters Trilogy. Plot summary 15-year-old Jessica Day moves with her family to Bixby, Oklahoma after her mother is employed at a high-tech aerospace company. Soon after the move, Jessica awakens to find time frozen and rain stopped in mid air. Although she thinks it is a dream, she is suspicious when she wakes to find her clothes wet. The next night, it happens again. Leaving her room, she finds that her family is frozen and the only other living thing is a cat, which leads her out of her house. Once outside, the cat transforms into a snake, revealing that it is actually a slither. It, along with other slithers and a darkling in the form of a large cat, attacks her. Jessica is rescued by the "Midnighters": Dess, Rex and Melissa, who chase away the animals using thirteen letter words and steel. The next day, they explain that in Bixby time freezes for an hour every midnight and that only Midnighters - people born at the moment of midnight - can enter it. Creatures known as darklings live in this secret hour where they can hide from advances in human technology. Darklings hate people and fear new inventions, complex concepts and the number 13. It was the darklings who took one hour of each 25-hour-day and hid inside it so that people couldn't get to them. They also explain that each Midnighter has a special power - Dess is a polymath, Rex is a Seer (someone who can read the lore - the ancient history of the midnighters) and Melissa is a mindcaster (meaning she has a variety of telepathic abilities). They don't know what Jessica's power is, except that it isn't the same as any of theirs. The next midnight, Jonathan, a boy from Jessica's school, arrives outside her house, and takes her flying with him - he is an Acrobat, and in the Secret Hour gravity does not have a strong hold on him. He and Rex don't get along, and the other Midnighters avoid talking about him. After flying for most of the hour the pair are chased by a darkling and narrowly escape - only to be arrested by policemen enforcing Bixby's eleven o'clock curfew. Jessica is grounded for the rest of the month. Meanwhile, the Midnighters are becoming suspicious of why the darklings, who normally avoid Midnighters, are so intent on killing Jessica. Rex decides to take Jessica out to the Snake Pit, a place in the badlands, where she will be able to discover her power. Unfortunately, the badlands are also the home to the darklings. Dess sets up protection beforehand and the Midnighters plan to be inside it before the Secret Hour arrives. However, they are all late, and rely on Jonathan to fly them inside the protection, which
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Raining Cats and Frogs (French: , literally "The Prophecy of Frogs") is a French traditional animation children's feature film, released in 2003, directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd and written by Girerd, Antoine Lanciaux and Iouri Tcherenkov at the animation studio Folimage. It is the first feature produced by Folimage and is distributed internationally by Universal Pictures. The film is loosely based on the story of Noah's Ark. It is about a group of frogs who predict an imminent disaster where it will rain for forty days and forty nights. They tell a boy and girl who subsequently help save the animals in a zoo. The French DVD was released in 2005 with English subtitles. The US and Canada DVD Raining Cats and Frogs was released in 2008. Plot Ferdinand Bauer lives with his wife Juliette on a farm on a hill with their adoptive son (actually his grandson), Tom. The film begins when they agree to care of Lili, his other granddaughter, whom they will look after while Lili's parents travel by car and trailer to Africa to find crocodiles for their zoo, which they also leave in the care of Ferdinand and Juliette. On the farm, there is a small pond. The frogs in the pond are restless, as their calculations have shown that the Earth is about to be flooded for forty days and forty nights. The frogs initially are reluctant to tell them, since they cannot change anything but decide to tell Tom and Lili, so that they can warn people. Suddenly the flood starts, apparently washing away all live on Earth. The zoo animals escape to the barn which is on top of a hill, the foundations of the building are torn away by the flood and floats on a huge tractor tire on the water. Ferdinand, an experienced sailor, takes on the role of the captain and every one agrees that they will only survive if they stick together. When the rains finally stop all the animals are very hungry. Ferdinand has stored 28 tons of potatoes which he uses to make French fries, but the carnivores are unhappy because they cannot survive only on French fries but Ferdinand convinces the carnivores to yield in view of the greater good of everyone on the floating barn. A tortoise appears, injured by a crocodile attack and has lost a leg. Lili befriends the tortoise and Tom notices that she has kept her distance from him ever since. The fox and the lion grudge about their lot of having to feed on potatoes when a voice tells them that they should raise against such decision but the lion prevails in that they should respect the captain's law, however after a few days their huger gets the best of them and they attack a sheep and Ferdinand vanishes the carnivores to a bathing tub that floats behind the barn. In the meantime, Ferdinand and Tom talk about his father, who was the machinist at Ferdinand's boat, who was very
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Heart of the Woods is a 2019 yuri romance visual novel developed and published by Studio Élan. The game follows a pair of influencers as they travel to a remote village where ghosts are rumored to reside. The game launched on February 15, 2019 for Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows. A port for the Nintendo Switch released on July 8, 2021, and for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on July 8, 2021, with Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S versions being planned for release. Gameplay The game is a typical visual novel, with the player's main form of interaction being clicking forward through text to progress between scenes. At certain moments, the player can make decisions that can lead to one of the three alternate endings (two of which are bad endings and the third is a good ending). Plot Madison "Maddie" Raines plans to quit her job as manager of her best friend Tara Bryck's paranormal vlog, Taranormal. She agrees to take one last trip with Tara to the village of Eysenfeld at the request of its outcast, Morgan Fischer. Upon arriving, they meet Evelyn, Morgan's abusive mother and the mayor of Eysenfeld. Maddie is skeptical of any supernatural forces in Eysenfeld, and her friendship with Tara strains further. Tara and Morgan begin to fall in love and Morgan reveals the true reason why she called Taranormal: Evelyn is a supernatural creature that plans to take Morgan's body as a vessel. Meanwhile, Maddie befriends a ghostly woman, Abigail, who has been in the forest for over 200 years. Evelyn causes Maddie's death, but Abigail and her friend, the forest spirit, save her soul. Maddie is now like Abigail; incorporeal beings between life and death, sustained by the forest's magic. Abigail takes Maddie to the fairy grove. Here, Abigail reveals that Eysenfeld is cursed and the townsfolk have been performing sacrifices to stop the town being destroyed by a curse, but they didn't know that their church's priest (who would eventually become Evelyn) is the one who is responsible for the curse and had manipulated the townsfolk. Abigail was going to be sacrificed, but the ritual failed and she was saved by the forest spirit. She and Maddie begin to develop romantic feelings towards one another. Morgan's cat Geladura reveals to Tara that she can talk, as she was once a fairy before Evelyn cursed her. Meanwhile, Maddie and Abigail encounter fairies, who are waiting for their queen to return. They ask Maddie to be their new queen, but she declines. Sometime later, Evelyn destroys an ancestral tree in the forest, causing Maddie to start fading. Abigail explains that the forest spirit's destiny is to become a new sacred tree, but it needs the missing fairy queen's help to do so. Out of options, they make a deal with the fairies to restore them to life in return for Maddie becoming their queen. If Maddie does not find someone to become the new queen and stop Evelyn before she can
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A pet door or pet flap (also referred to in more specific terms, such as cat flap, cat door, kitty door, dog flap, dog door, or doggy/doggie door) is a small opening to allow pets to enter and exit a building on their own without needing a human to open the door. Originally simple holes, the modern form is a hinged and often spring-loaded panel or flexible flap, and some are electronically controlled. They offer a degree of protection against wind, rain, and larger-bodied intruders entering the dwelling. Similar hatches can let dogs through fences at stiles. A related concept is the pet gate, which is easy for humans to open but acts as a secure pet barrier. Purpose A pet door is found to be convenient by many owners of companion animals, especially dogs and cats, because it lets the pets come and go as they please, reducing the need for pet-owners to let or take the pet outside manually, and curtailing unwanted behaviour such as loud vocalisation to be let outside, scratching on doors or walls, and (especially in the case of dogs) excreting in the house. They also help to ensure that a pet left outdoors can safely get back into the house unattended, in the case of inclement weather. Features The simplest type are bottom-weighted flaps hung from the top of the opening, which swing shut on their own, but may be spring-aided to increase wind resistance. These flaps often feature magnets around the edges to help keep the door closed against weather and wind. Some pet doors have side-mounted hinges and swing open like saloon doors. These pet doors usually have a spring or other contrivance to force their closure after the pet has gone through. Instead of a rubber flap, saloon style doors are often made from plastic, acrylic, or plexiglass, and the panels are fitted with weather seal to help keep weather outside. Another common feature is an adjustable catch to restrict the opening of the device to either one direction or the other; for example, to allow the pet to come in for the night, but not go out again until the owner releases the catch the next morning. Some pets, mostly cats with their retractile claws and flexible paws, learn to circumvent one-way pet doors, especially the "flap-within-flap" design. Most also have a locking mechanism of some kind, and can be closed off by sliding a rigid plate into parallel rails on the left and right of the interior side of the pet door, useful during bad weather or when the owners are traveling with their pets. Pet doors are generally designed to be safe for any type of pet. The panels are often designed with soft vinyl that does not trap or injure the animal. Cheap, easily replaceable pet doors are made from plastic and may not always be robust enough for large, boisterous pets. Pet doors are most often fitted in a plywood or plastic paneled door, into which
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The Oriental Longhair is a variety of domestic cat. It is closely related to the Oriental Shorthair. The Oriental Longhair in some registries, such as The International Cat Association (TICA), is a separate breed. In others, such as the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA), it is a division, along with the short-haired variety, of a merged breed, the Oriental. With no globally recognised naming convention, other cat fanciers may refer to this type as Foreign Longhair, Javanese or Mandarin. It was formerly known as the British Angora before being renamed in 2002 by British cat fanciers in order to avoid confusion with the Turkish Angora. Description Oriental Longhairs feature a long, tubular, Oriental-style body but with a longer silky coat. The range of possible coat colours includes everything from self-coloured (black, blue, chocolate, lilac, cinnamon, caramel, fawn, red, cream and apricot), tortoiseshell, smoke (silver undercoat), shaded or tipped, tabby or white. The eyes are almond shaped. The preferred eye colour for Oriental Longhairs is green; except for the whites, which may have green or blue eyes, or be odd-eyed (two different coloured eyes). If an Oriental Longhair is bred to an Oriental shorthair or a Siamese, the kittens will all be short-haired. This is because the gene for long hair is recessive. The kittens will, however, be a variant, a carrier of the long-hair gene. If such a "variant" is bred to a cat with long hair, or to another variant, they may produce both short-haired and long-haired kittens. Variants may have a slightly longer coat than Oriental Shorthairs, but this is not always the case. Behavior The Oriental Longhair is an active cat that likes to play. If the owner does not have the time to do so, it will often find a toy to play on its own. The breed enjoys jumping and does it well, usually without breaking any objects due to its agility and elegance. Oriental Longhairs are highly intelligent and are ideal companions for people who like their pets to be close to them. They are loyal and most get along well with other cats, especially if they are of the same breed group. Oriental Longhairs are not adapted to a life of living alone and prefer an interactive home. Orientals, like their cousin breed the Siamese, have loud and expressive voices that are used often. Many Orientals take to leash training quickly if started young. They have been known to open cabinets, doors and even refrigerators. This breed group is often recommended for more experienced cat keepers. Health The Oriental Longhair typically lives for around 15 years. Some can suffer from flat-chested kitten syndrome, which is a condition where the cat's chest does not develop properly. This can result in breathing difficulties. Gallery See also Javanese cat, for the non-traditional coloured Balinese cat Oriental Shorthair List of cat breeds References External links Iams website: Oriental Longhair cat Oriental Longhair Colour Overview (with photos) Cat breeds
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"Clouds on the Horizon" is the 20th and penultimate episode of the second season of the American animated television series The Owl House. In the episode, the Covens Against the Throne try to find a way to stop the Day of Unity, which would essentially kill all life on the Boiling Isles. The plan follows Eda Clawthorne taking over Raine Whispers' place as Bard Coven Head, while Luz and her friends try to stop Abomaton production. The episode premiered on May 21, 2022 on Disney Channel and garnered 0.34 million viewers when it premiered. The episode received critical attention for featuring the first same-sex kiss in a Disney property, between two of the main characters, Luz Noceda and Amity Blight. Plot As Emperor Belos is preparing a portal to the Human Realm, the Collector wonders if it has changed since Belos has left it and mocks him for barely being able to keep his human form. After Belos tries and fails to attack him, the Collector complains that the emperor had not kept with his promises. Belos tells him to be patient, as the Day of Unity will begin soon. Meanwhile, Alador worries about the consequences of the increased supply of Abomatons to Belos, but Odalia brushes the worries off. At the same time, Amity, Edric, and Emira try to sneak out of Blight Manor, their house to try and sabotage Abomaton production. However, Edric and Emira are caught by an Abomaton for trying to burn down one of the abomination factories, and Odalia eventually grounds the aforementioned three. At the Covens Against the Throne's (CAT) hideout, the crew try and figure out how to stop the Day of Unity within 24 hours, where Belos would use a draining spell to exterminate all life on the Boiling Isles. Eda Clawthorne brings up that while the spell can't be stopped, it can be stopped through warping the spell itself. Eda comes up with the plan to replace Raine Whispers as Bard Coven Head, but is worried that she would have to gain a sigil. In the process, Luz Noceda completes a palisman, which she carves into an egg, wanting the palisman to decide its own future. The CAT crew board an airship to see Willow Park, Gus Porter, and Hunter. Hunter, who is ordered to protect Luz from orders from his mentor Darius Deamonne, tells Luz not to tell Willow and Gus that he is a Grimwalker. Afterwards, the group arrives at Blight Manor to see Amity. Luz meets Amity in the latter's room and share a romantic moment together, with Luz promising a peaceful date in the future and Amity reaching in for a kiss afterwards. Meanwhile, Eda is prepared to take Raine's place as Bard Coven Head. Raine is initially worried as Eda would never be able to perform wild magic again, but eventually Raine agrees to the plan and Eda is branded with the sigil. Luz, Amity, Hunter, Willow, and Gus attempt to infiltrate Blight Industries to halt
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Alice Through the Needle's Eye: A Third Adventure for Lewis Carroll's Alice is a 1984 novel by Gilbert Adair that pays tribute to the work of Lewis Carroll through a further adventure of the eponymous fictional heroine, told in Carroll's surrealistic style. Plot Alice spends a winter day continuously failing to thread a sewing needle. When she takes an extremely close look through the eye of the needle, she sees an unknown world on the other side, and finds herself falling through the needle's eye into this world. She falls into a haystack accompanied by frightened Country Mouse. She makes her way out of the haystack and continues in the direction of an inviting beach. Alice does not travel far before she meets two cats that are joined at the tail. The cats, called Ping and Pang, inform Alice that they are "Siamese-Twin Cats". They recite the poem "The Sands of Dee"; Pang forgets the last word of the poem, prompting a duel between them. But before their duel begins, the sky darkens and rains down cats and dogs. When the peculiar shower of animals has stopped, Ping and Pang realize that they must attend the "vote." Alice follows them to find out what the vote is about. Along the way, she meets an Elephant who gives her a ride to "Hide-and-Seek Park." Here, a politician Emu gives a speech which is so brief that Alice misses it entirely. Soon after this, the vote transforms into an auction, and with the final cry of, "Going...going...gone!" everyone abruptly vanishes. A whale she met at the auction, called the Grampus, insists Alice accompany him to board a train. Along the ride, Alice's surroundings transform into a study room. She exits this room and ventures towards a hill she spots in the distance. Here, she finds two 'stick figure people' who she soon identifies as Jack and Jill carrying pails of eels. Jack orders Alice to deliver his pail to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, so she sets off to do so. She reaches a maze and quickly becomes deeply lost. She eventually comes across the center of the maze where a large congregation of animals are also hopelessly lost. Alice is volunteered by the animals to go into a rabbit hole which the cluster of animals within the maze believe leads out. When going down the hole, she feels as if she is falling sideways and soon is rocketed out of the exit hole like a canon. She finds herself in a queue between two small buildings, occupied in part by the Red and White Queens from her previous adventures. Every time they work their way up the queue to one of the small buildings, it closes its operations and directs them to visit the opposite building instead. The length of the queue joining both buildings gets smaller and smaller until Alice finally manages to actually speak to the owner of one of the buildings, who is a butterfly still in his chrysalis. He sells her
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The Law Is the Law (, ) is a 1958 French-Italian comedy film directed by Christian-Jaque. It was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot In the village of Assola, divided into half by the French-Italian border, the Neapolitan smuggler Giuseppe La Paglia (Totò) and the French customs officer Ferdinand Pastorelli (Fernandel), play a daily cat-and-mouse game, with Ferdinand trying to arrest Giuseppe, and Giuseppe trying to smuggle goods under Ferdinand's nose. On a celebration day on the town's French side, Ferdinand catches Giuseppe smuggling goods over the border and, after a chase, finally arrests him, consequently arriving late to the traditional parade, where he was supposed to carry the French flag. During the following reception at the Two Borders Hotel, which, as the name suggests, is divided into half by the border, Giuseppe, still under custody, discovers that Ferdinand was born, to an Italian mother and an unknown father, in the very kitchen of the hotel's restaurant. The kitchen is located in the Italian part of the hotel, so Giuseppe argues that Ferdinand is actually Italian and is thus not entitled to act as a French customs officer, making his arrest unlawful. At a subsequent audit with the municipal authorities of Assola, Ferdinand discovers that the man who recorded his birth, Gaspar Donnadiè, owner of the Two Borders, failed to register him in the right place: the Italian municipality. The same Donadiè tells Ferdinand that he went to the French Townhall because it was raining that day and it was a shorter walk than going to the Italian one. Risking to lose his job, Ferdinand asks for Giuseppe's help, and is taken by him to the Italian side to apply for an Italian identity document, the plan being to subsequently request French naturalisation, thus fixing his position. But, according to a French politician, friend of his father-in-law, having become an Italian citizen will prevent Ferdinand from restoring his French nationality and will also render his marriage invalid and his son illegitimate. As if that was not enough, Ferdinand is placed in custody by the Italian police together with his first wife Antoinette, now married to Giuseppe, because under Italian law, which does not allow for divorce, they are still married and Antoinette is therefore a bigamist. Clarified her marital situation, her first marriage was invalid because of Ferdinand's irregular status, Antoinette is released. On the contrary, Ferdinand is kept because, having served in the war for the French, for the Italians he is a deserter. He is returned to the cell, where now he finds Giuseppe, who has managed to get arrested in order to not leave his wife alone with her ex-husband. Ferdinand, dejected by being called a deserter, attempts suicide, but is persuaded to desist by Giuseppe. He is then released by the police sergeant who, reviewing the case, has discovered that Ferdinand is no longer considered a deserter under the Italian law, but has instead lost all rights to be an Italian citizen. Being
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"Cat Orgy" is the seventh episode of the third season of the American animated sitcom South Park, and the 38th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central on July 14, 1999. It is the first episode of a three-part story arc, often known as "The Meteor Shower Trilogy", which tells three different stories all taking place on the same night. The other two episodes are "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" and "Jewbilee". As such, it features only one of the four main characters, Eric Cartman. Plot On the night of a meteor shower, Liane goes to Mr. Mackey's party, leaving Cartman to be babysat by Stan's 12-year-old sister, Shelley, who is an aggressive bully. While babysitting, she invites her 22-year-old boyfriend, Skyler, over, who in turn invites the rest of his rock band to rehearse (despite Liane specifically telling her not to have anyone over). Cartman is in his room, playing Wild Wild West and dressed up as Will Smith's version of Jim West from Wild Wild West, but becomes upset with Shelley babysitting him and the boys practising (especially when the former gives him wedgies). Meanwhile, Mr. Kitty is in heat, much to Cartman's annoyance. Later, Skyler's bandmates leave in disgust after performing a song made by Shelley. In an effort to get her back, Cartman takes a picture of Shelley and Skyler about to kiss and tries to send it to his mother via Kitty, but Shelley finds the picture with the cat and removes it. Kitty decides to go out in search of a tom. After an unsuccessful attempt with an overweight tom, she winds up seducing a large group of cats, and invites them back to Cartman's house and cracks open catnip. Eric tries to tell his mother that Shelley is breaking Liane's rule about having boys over, but she does not believe that Shelley would do such a thing. Back at home, during the meteor shower, Skyler gets mad at Shelley because she will not "put out" because she is 12 years old. Cartman has taped everything and is about to get Shelley in trouble, but instead comes to pity her when Skyler, angry that Shelley will not "put out" for him, breaks up with her and leaves her crying hysterically. Cartman and Shelley decide to team up for revenge, and sneak into the woods near where Skyler lives. Cartman manages to entice Skyler out of his house with a taping of his Salma Hayek impersonation while Shelley sneaks in and destroys his prized guitar. They return home to find Kitty and many other cats engaged in a massive feline orgy. Skyler shows up, furious, but Cartman throws a box of catnip at Skyler, which attracts the clowder of cats, who attack and rape him. Ms. Cartman returns home. Shelley and Cartman blame the mess on each other, but Liane, being inebriated, passes out without noticing the mess. Shelley, amazed that they got out of the situation unscathed, celebrates
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Freezing drizzle is drizzle that freezes on contact with the ground or an object at or near the surface. Its METAR code is FZDZ. Formation Although freezing drizzle and freezing rain are similar in that they both involve liquid precipitation above the surface in subfreezing temperatures and freeze on the surface, the mechanisms leading to their development are entirely different. Where freezing rain forms when frozen precipitation falls through a melting layer and turns liquid, freezing drizzle forms via the supercooled warm-rain process, in which cloud droplets coalesce until they become heavy enough to fall out of the cloud, but in subfreezing conditions. Despite this process taking place in a subfreezing environment, the liquid water will not freeze if the environmental temperature is above , via supercooling. If ice crystals are already present in this environment, the liquid droplets will freeze onto these crystals and be effectively removed before they can grow large enough to fall out of the cloud. As a result, freezing drizzle develops in shallow low-level stratus-type clouds where air saturation occurs entirely below the layer in which ice crystals can develop and grow. Effects When freezing drizzle accumulates on land, it creates an icy layer of glaze. Freezing drizzle alone does not generally result in significant ice accumulations due to its light, low-intensity nature unlike its rain counterpart. However, even thin layers of slick ice deposited on roads as black ice can be very slippery and cause extremely hazardous conditions resulting in vehicle crashes. Freezing drizzle is extremely dangerous to aircraft in icing conditions, as the supercooled water droplets will freeze onto the airframe, degrading aircraft performance considerably. The loss and accident of American Eagle Flight 4184 on October 31, 1994, has been attributed to ice buildup due to freezing drizzle aloft. See also Black ice Freezing rain References Precipitation Weather hazards ja:雨氷
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Rainmaking is a weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke rain. Among the best known examples of weather modification rituals are North American rain dances, historically performed by many Native American tribes, particularly in the Southwestern United States. Some of these weather modification rituals are still implemented today. Examples North America Julia M. Buttree (the wife of Ernest Thompson Seton) describes the rain dance of the Zuni, along with other Native American dances, in her book The Rhythm of the Redman. Feathers and turquoise, or other blue items, are worn during the ceremony to symbolize wind and rain respectively. Details on how best to perform the Rain Dance have been passed down by oral tradition. In an early sort of meteorology, Native Americans in the midwestern parts of the modern United States often tracked and followed known weather patterns while offering to perform a rain dance for settlers in return for trade items. This is best documented among the Osage and Quapaw tribes of Missouri and Arkansas. In April 2011, Texas governor Rick Perry called the Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas, asking that Texans pray for "the healing of our land [Texas]" and for an end to the drought. In the Ozarks, multiple methods of attempting to call rain have been documented: Africa Rain is a central concern of African societies which depend on it for their sustenance and that of their animals. The power to make rain is usually attributed to African kings. In a number of African societies, kings who failed to produce the expected rain ran the risk of being blamed as scapegoats and killed by their people. A famous rain making monarch is the Rain Queen of Balobedu, South Africa. Tribal rain dances are done to ensure rain comes. Notable peoples known to have done rain dances are tribes on the Sahara Desert and Ethiopia. North Africa thumb|right|175px|Dumagat Rain Dance Southeast Asia In Thailand and Cambodia, various rites exist to obtain rain in times of drought. The most peculiar of these is probably the procession of Lady Cat, during which a cat is carried around in procession through the streets of villages while villagers splash water at the cat, in hope that as water has come on the cat, water will fall on humans as well. China Wu Shamans in ancient China performed sacrificial rain dance ceremonies in times of drought. Wu anciently served as intermediaries with nature spirits believed to control rainfall and flooding. "Shamans had to carry out an exhausting dance within a ring of fire until, sweating profusely, the falling drops of perspirations produced the desired rain." Europe Roman religion had a ceremony called the (Latin: "calling the waters") which sought to produce rain in times of drought. During the ceremony, the had the ("Water-flowing stone". Festus distinguishes it from another , "stone of the Manes") brought from its usual resting place, the Temple of Mars in Clivo near the Porta Capena, into the Senate. Offerings were made
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The Fire Within is a 2001 children's fantasy novel written by Chris d'Lacey. It is the first novel of The Last Dragon Chronicles, a low fantasy series about dragons in the modern world. The series continues with Icefire, Fire Star, The Fire Eternal, Dark Fire, Fire World, and The Fire Ascending. The Fire Within takes place at Wayward Crescent, and it is about a 20-year-old man named David Rain, who tries to find out the mystery behind Liz and Lucy Pennykettle's relationship with dragons. He eventually becomes friends with them and learns the secrets of the dragons. Characters Elizabeth Pennykettle (Liz) - The landlady who makes mysterious clay dragons that come to life. Her special dragon is Gwillan, who sheds his fire tear in Dark Fire. Lucy Pennykettle - Liz's daughter, an 11-year-old girl who strongly believes in dragons, but can be very mischievous. She also loves squirrels and tries to find them. Her special dragon is Gwendolen. She also pushes David to write stories about squirrels and their adventures in Wayward Crescent. David Rain - The main character of the series. He was just an ordinary 20-year-old man looking for a place to stay. David becomes Liz's tenant, and he goes to Scrubbley College. He has written a book called Snigger and the Nutbeast for Lucy's birthday. He also has a writing dragon named Gadzooks. Gadzooks - David's clay dragon that helps him write. Gadzooks carries a notepad and pencil around with him for writing stories or notes. Guinevere - Guinevere, a woman from the far past, caught Gawain's fire tear. She bore one daughter who carries the original fire and passes it down through the years. She is also an ancestor of Liz and Lucy Pennykettle. Gwendolen - Guinevere's child, made from clay, flesh and blood. She is the ancestor of Suzanna Martindale (introduced in Icefire, 2nd book of the series). Gwilanna - An evil sibyl who helps Guinevere and conjures Gwendolen for her. Gawain - The last dragon who shed his fire tear for Guinevere. Henry Bacon - The Pennykettle's next-door neighbour, a protagonist who attempts to help the Pennykettles, but, because of his ignorance, he often does the opposite. Sophie Prentice - A girl who works at the animal shelter and becomes David's girlfriend Greenfingers George (Mr. Digwell) - Scrubbley's gardener for the library gardens. Conker - Lucy's favorite squirrel Bonnington - The Pennykettle's cat Caractacus - The crow which damaged Conker's eye and was the villain in David's book for Lucy. References External links Official The Last Dragon Chronicles Website 2001 British novels The Last Dragon Chronicles 2001 children's books Orchard Books books
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Spy Cat (), also known by its German name Marnie's World, is a 2018 animated spy comedy film written and directed by brothers Christoph and Wolfgang Lauenstein. The film was loosely inspired by the German fairy tale Town Musicians of Bremen. The film is about Marnie, a tabby cat treated like a princess and getting everything she wants, as he becoming a "spy cat" and his friends Elvis the pitbull, Eggbert the rooster and Anton the donkey. Together, the four heroes try to go undercover by one of us and protect them along the way, they are to solve a special agent with bus riders, eating cakes, taking pictures and how to get the lead by the dangerous missions. The film is a co-production between Scopas Medien, Grid Animation, Philm CGI, UFA Fiction, Seven Pictures and S Film. Plot In a fictional town called Drabville, where animals and humans comes in all shapes and sizes and they all together. The postman delivers a mail from the officer. A pair of boys are seen riding a bike. The farmer spreads some of those seeds when a flock of hens come to life with the pigeons are behind the gate, and tell him with the same time, a zen rooster named Eggbert runs away from the hens. Elvis, a white and brown pitbull, who's in the doghouse, comes to the town when she ask me what she did. An orange tabby cat named Marnie is watching television on the room. His mom is making a cake. Marnie becomes a top secret "spy cat" and an undercover agent dons a bow tie, glasses, and serving a mystery, but she is unlikely forced to do everything she has a lonely, pampered housecat. Uncle Phil comes out to the house and Marnie starts to go undercover in the outside. Unfortunately, his mom asks when Marnie grabs it and she tell her to "no going outside!", so she ask Marnie for cake, and he eats it and he ask her to "watch an extra hour of TV tonight". Uncle Phil is cleaning up the whole room, Marnie then sees a map. She prepare to take a picture of Uncle Phil. However, she ask Marnie not to take pictures. Uncle Phil then burns the picture down with a lighter. Elvis is in the tractor and starts to zoom in and falls. The pair of men told them that they are going to it. He then grab a phone and calls them. When Marine met her friends Elvis, Eggbert and Anton the donkey, they are at the bus. As they drive, Elvis shoots a sign and said "nice shot". The friends are in the park and Anton is holding up an umbrella, but in the rain, the stripes became lose. The house came out and, suddenly, the door bell rings, Anton grabs a pizza. Eggbert and Marnie is touch the keyboard and spell it. The evil woman seeks out and shoots them. The four heroes are set in
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Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye () is a 1973 Gothic horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti. It is also a rare example of an Italian giallo that is set in period, taking place some time in the 1890s. Plot In Scotland, a man is murdered with a razor. The killer then drags the body into a dungeon and is followed by a ginger cat. A carriage later drives up to Dragonstone Castle, a castle in the highlands of Scotland. The passenger, Corringa, used to spend her summers with her mother there. A gorilla watches the carriage from an upper window in the castle. At the castle, Corringa reunites with her mother, Lady Alicia, and her aunt, the penniless owner of the castle, Lady Mary MacGrieff. Other residents of the castle are Dr. Franz, a Priest, French teacher Suzanna, and the mad son and heir of Lady Mary, Lord James MacGrieff. After the dinner party, the killer suffocates Lady Alicia with a pillow as she sleeps while the ginger cat watches. Meanwhile, Corringa is disturbed by finding James standing outside her window. Afterward, she hears the cat meowing, which leads her to find a secret passageway hidden behind a portrait in her room. The passageway takes her to the dungeon, where she finds the man's body. Frightened, Corringa faints and is found by the servants. They try to tell her mother of the incident but instead find her dead. During the funeral, the cat jumps on the casket, which is supposedly a sign that the deceased is a vampire, according to the legend of the MacGrieffs. This legend states that any MacGrieff killed by another MacGrieff will come back to life as a vampire. After the funeral, Corringa goes to her cousin James' room seeking answers. There she is frightened to discover the gorilla, James, in a cage among other animals that are dead. She leaves after telling him of the body in the cellar and him telling her to go to the police. Mr. Angus is then murdered outside the tomb of Lady Alicia by a gloved figure who slits his throat with a razor while the cat watches. That same night, Corringa dreams that her mother is a vampire, and the cat disturbs her sleep. Mr. Angus is found by Dr. Franz the following morning. The next night, the gloved hand unlocks the gorilla's cage. Concurrently, Corringa visits her mother's tomb to search for confirmation that her mother is still there. She finds the coffin splintered, and her mother's tomb is open. She runs away, frightened, and James catches her and takes her back to the house. That night, James and Corringa sleep together. They are interrupted by Lady Mary looking for Dr. Franz. When she does not find him there, she goes to his bedroom and sees him kissing Suzanna. Convinced he'll be thrown out of the house, Dr. Franz goes to James' room to tell him the truth about his little sister's death. Once inside, his
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is a Japanese manga series by Satoshi Urushihara which was serialized in Monthly Magazine Z published by Kodansha. Plot synopsis The story begins before the dawn of time, when people (identified as Crimsons) have been under control of a deadly foe (identified as Clients), who consider themselves as gods. At the end of the 20th century, the Crimsons still fall under the domain of the Clients, powerful beings who survive by making sacrificial offerings of live human people. The protagonist is Shion, a child who is half-Client and half-Crimson, i.e. a vampire. He has chosen to fight ceaselessly against the Clients. He is aided by his companion, Rain, a human girl who acts not only as his ally, but also as his source of nourishment and lover. During a mission, Shion meets Helen, a young girl whose family fell victim to the Clients. He makes a blood oath and takes Helen as one of his followers. Characters Shion Shion was born in the home world of the Clients, but his human mother escaped with him through a portal created by Shion's father. His mother was later killed by the Clients. As a vampire, Shion cannot sustain himself on normal food, but must instead drink the blood of others. Shion has a pair of black wings that he keeps folded up in his back until needed. He can also turn his nails into claws, and his eyes become cat-like at times. While Shion is half-Client in his biological nature, his actions constantly defy this. The Clients see humans as cattle and have no qualms with raping them. Shion, by contrast, devotes himself only to protecting humans and truly loves Rain and Helen, only drinking their blood when he needs it and giving them true affection when he makes love to them. Rain Rain is Shion's first companion since childhood, and his weapon. Rain can transform into armor with special abilities to help Shion in battle. Despite being several years older than Shion, Rain is deeply in love with him and quickly becomes jealous when Shion meets or has to help other women, though she ultimately goes along with his decisions. She also enjoys shopping. Helen Helen was orphaned by the Clients and was raised by a church minister. She first met Shion and Rain by accident when the pair were looking for hospitality. She fell in love with Shion but was too shy to act on her feelings. Later, the Clients gained control of her and used her to try to kill Shion. Helen wounded Shion, but regained her senses and offered Shion her blood. She is now Shion's companion with Rain.Like Rain, Helen can turn into armor for Shion, but does not yet have as many abilities as Rain does. Helen also has the power to detect Clients and their minions, and has an exceptionally beautiful singing voice. Publication The manga is published in French by Pika Edition, in Spanish by Planetacomic, in German and Italian by Panini Comics. In
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The Right Attitude to Rain is the third of the Sunday Philosophy Club series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featuring the protagonist Isabel Dalhousie. It was first published in 2006, and is the sequel to Friends, Lovers, Chocolate. Plot synopsis Isabel Dalhousie is in her early forties and lives alone in a large ageing house in the south of Edinburgh. Due to an inheritance left to her by her late mother, she can work for a nominal fee as the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics. Her closest friends are her niece Cat, a young woman who runs a delicatessen; her housekeeper Grace, an outspoken woman with an interest in spiritualism; Cat's ex-boyfriend Jamie, a bassoonist to whom Isabel has been secretly attracted ever since they met; and Brother Fox, an urban fox who lives in Isabel's garden. When visiting an art gallery, Isabel meets an American couple: Isabel sees that the man has Bell's palsy, and takes an instant dislike to the woman for no reason that she can explain. Then she goes to Cat's delicatessen, where Cat's assistant Eddie tells her that Cat has a new boyfriend, Patrick, a workaholic lawyer. Isabel resolves not to judge him without meeting him. Isabel visits a flat that she is considering buying for Grace, who currently rents; Jamie accompanies her. Later, Isabel's agent calls to tell her that she has been offered the flat because the owner, Florence, has assumed that Isabel and Jamie will live in it together as a couple. Isabel calls back to correct the mistake, but when Florence hears that Isabel is buying the flat for Grace, she offers it to her anyway. Isabel's cousins Mimi and Joe visit from Dallas. Mimi tells Isabel that some friends from Texas – Tom Bruce and his fiancée Angie – own a house in Peebles, and that Mimi, Joe and Isabel have been invited to spend the weekend with them. When Mimi says that Tom suffers from Bell's palsy, Isabel realises that he is the man she saw in the art gallery, and Mimi confirms Isabel's negative impressions of Angie: most of Tom's friends think that Angie is marrying him for his money. Isabel goes to visit Jamie at his flat. As she is examining one of his bassoon reeds, he kisses her, but pulls away after a few moments and says that it was a stupid mistake. The next day, Mimi reveals that Isabel's mother had an affair with a younger man, and Isabel is shocked. When Mimi suggests that Isabel invite Tom and Angie to dinner before the weekend away, Isabel also invites Jamie. Isabel likes Tom instantly, but still dislikes Angie, especially when Angie flirts with Jamie and invites him to form part of the weekend party. Isabel wonders if perhaps Jamie is more suited to a younger woman like Angie, but is surprised (and reassured) when Grace announces that it is obvious that Isabel and Jamie are in love
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In lexicography, a lexical item is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words (catena) that forms the basic elements of a language's lexicon (≈ vocabulary). Examples are cat, traffic light, take care of, by the way, and it's raining cats and dogs. Lexical items can be generally understood to convey a single meaning, much as a lexeme, but are not limited to single words. Lexical items are like semes in that they are "natural units" translating between languages, or in learning a new language. In this last sense, it is sometimes said that language consists of grammaticalized lexis, and not lexicalized grammar. The entire store of lexical items in a language is called its lexis. Lexical items composed of more than one word are also sometimes called lexical chunks, gambits, lexical phrases, lexicalized stems, or speech formulae. The term polyword listemes is also sometimes used. Types Common types of lexical items/chunks include: Words, e.g. cat, tree Parts of words, e.g. -s in trees, -er in worker, non- in nondescript, -est in loudest Phrasal verbs, e.g. put off or get out Multiword expressions, e.g. by the way, inside out Collocations, e.g. motor vehicle, absolutely convinced. Institutionalized utterances, e.g. I'll get it, We'll see, That'll do, If I were you, Would you like a cup of coffee? Idioms, e.g. break a leg, was one whale of a, a bitter pill to swallow Sayings, e.g. The early bird gets the worm, The devil is in the details Sentence frames and heads, e.g. That is not as...as you think, The problem was Text frames, e.g., In this paper we explore...; First...; Second...; Lastly.... An associated concept is that of noun-modifier semantic relations, wherein certain word pairings have a standard interpretation. For example, the phrase cold virus is generally understood to refer to the virus that causes a cold, rather than to a virus that is cold. Form-meaning correspondence Many lexical items are either a whole word or part of a word, whereas many other lexical items consist of parts of one or more words or of multiple words in their entirety. A basic question in this area concerns the form-meaning correspondence. Many multi-word lexical items cannot be construed as constituents in syntax in any sense. But if they are not constituents, then how does one classify them? A relatively recent development in the field of syntax envisages lexical items stored in the lexicon as catenae, whereby a given catena may or may not be a constituent. In syntax, a catena is any element or combination of elements (words or parts of words) that are continuous in the vertical dimension, that is, in the hierarchy of words. The elements form a catena insofar as they are linked together by dependencies. Some dependency grammar trees containing multiple-word lexical items that are catenae but not constituents are now produced. The following trees illustrate phrasal verbs: The verb and particle (in red) in each case constitute a particle verb construction, which is
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Spooks is a 1930 animated short subject produced by Walter Lantz and stars Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Plot First glimpsed stalking through a cemetery, a phantom is seen, wearing a hat, mask and coat (who, being magical, will later be shown to be able to fly as well as pass through small openings). While travelling through the air, the phantom finds a studio where actors are making auditions while others are doing rehearsals. As he enters, he sees a female cat weeping. The phantom approaches her and asks why she is crying. Speaking unintelligibly, the cat tells him she desperately wants to sing at the audition and possibly make it to concerts. Her tongue however is knotted, thus she can not say even a simple word. Feeling sorry for the cat and falling in love with her, the phantom decides to help out. To assist his love interest, the phantom places a phonograph in the cat's skirt so she may lip sync as a record plays a song. The cat sets foot on the audition stage and performs her act, although it isn't a smooth one. The record repeats a line many times and slows down, but the studio staff watching don't seem to mind. When the record stops in the middle of the song, the phantom secretly comes to her aid and turns the phonograph's cluster. The song continues and the cat 'sings' again. She manages to do well on the final lines, to the delight of those attending. As the cat happily gets down from the stage, the overjoyed phantom decides to congratulate her with an embrace. Much to the phantom's surprise, however, the cat sidesteps him and walks to another guy standing behind. The other guy is none other than Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Feeling insulted, the phantom grabs the cat and takes her to a secret room within the studio. Upon reaching his secret place, the phantom decides to play the organ of the room. As he plays, he advises the cat not to take off his mask. Curious of why she should not, the cat opts to do so as she tiptoes towards the phantom. As she removes the mask of her captive, the cat is surprised to find out that the phantom's face has no skin or flesh, and is therefore a skeleton in garments. Oswald somehow manages to locate the secret room and knocks on the door loudly. Disturbed by the noise, the phantom leaves the cat inside and decides to confront the rabbit. Seeing the phantom fly toward him, Oswald runs away as quickly as he can. On his getaway, Oswald stumbles and falls into a hole. On landing upon the bottom floor, the rabbit is bumped by a few large lizards that pass by. Oswald then thinks his troubles are over, but more still await as the phantom follows him there. Instead of tormenting the rabbit, the phantom chooses to just ask a riddle. He asks "What does a chicken say
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Tom Tom Tomcat is a 1953 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on June 27, 1953, and stars Tweety and Sylvester. Plot In the Wild West, Granny and Tweety are riding through the desert in their wagon, singing Oh! Susanna, when they are suddenly ambushed by a large group of “puddy tats” posing as Indians – many of whom appear to be clones of Sylvester. They flee to a deserted fort, where Granny begins to shoot them down while Tweety uses tally marks to keep track of how many Indians have been beaten, singing Ten Little Indians. The tenth one nearly takes Tweety away, but he is struck down by Granny just in time. More attempts include an archer and a battering ram, both foiled. Another archer almost drags Tweety out again (“Granny! Help! A Mohican got me!”), but Granny surprises him with a bomb instead. The cats’ attempts continue like this, all of them backfiring or being foiled. In one instance, Chief “Rain-In-The-P-P-Puss” orders the real Sylvester to sneak into the fort, but Sylvester emerges later with the top of his head having been scalped off by Granny (“Ya got any more bright ideas?”). Finally, Granny and Tweety disguise themselves as a fellow Indian, and lead the cats into the powder house. When one of them (named Geronimo) asks for a match, they kindly oblige, and the powder house explodes, causing all the cats to erupt into the sky and then fall. Holding an umbrella, Tweety comments: “Oh my goodness, it’s raining putty cats!” See also List of cartoons featuring Sylvester References External links 1953 films 1953 short films 1953 comedy films 1953 animated films 1950s Western (genre) comedy films 1950s Warner Bros. animated short films Merrie Melodies short films Sylvester the Cat films Tweety films Animated films about Native Americans Films set in 1890 Short films directed by Friz Freleng Films scored by Carl Stalling Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films 1950s English-language films Animated films set in deserts Animated films set in the 1890s Films with screenplays by Warren Foster Films produced by Edward Selzer Granny (Looney Tunes) films
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A domestic cat enclosure, cat cage, cat run, catservatory or catio, a portmanteau of cat and patio, is a permanent or a temporary structure intended to confine a cat or multiple cats to a designated space for the cat to experience the outside. Some cat enclosures have a secondary function of ensuring the cat's safety by keeping other animals out, such as predators of cats (coyotes, wolves, etc.) or the safety of other smaller animals like cat prey (birds, mice, etc.). Enclosures may be constructed in either an indoor or an outdoor environment. Similar to patio, the term catio is specifically used for enclosures, which are adjoining a residence or other structure. When a cat enclosure is constructed outdoors, it is used to prevent cats from wandering off where they may become lost, endangered by cars, or eaten by predators. Cat enclosures may also be constructed outdoors in order to provide a predominantly indoor cat a means of exploration and outdoor enrichment, while maintaining their safety. Domestic cat breeders may use indoor cat enclosures to separate animals or encourage selective breeding. One specific situation where a cat enclosure is particularly useful is when a cat is moved from one house to another. Cats have an instinctive drive to return home, often called a 'homing instinct', which is normally beneficial, but can endanger the cat immediately after a move if the distance between homes is significant. Placing a cat in an outdoor enclosure when it reaches its new home may prevent the cat from attempting to perform this instinctive behavior. Most domestic cat enclosures are constructed of a metal or wood frame with a steel wire mesh. Considering that cats are excellent jumpers and climbers, most enclosures also feature some type of roof structure to prevent cats from escaping. An enclosure may or may not have an integral floor. For those enclosures that do not have an additional floor, the existing surface where the enclosure is constructed serves as the floor. Cat enclosures may be home-built or may be acquired from commercial suppliers. Those enclosures which are home-built are typically custom-made. Enclosures purchased from commercial suppliers may feature a modular design that allows for some customization, or might only be offered in standard shapes and sizes. Ideally, a cat enclosure should be tailored to the cat's needs, considering its breed, personality, behavior tendencies, and age. Some essential factors to consider are access to sunny areas, shelter from harsh weather (including rain, wind, and excessive heat), a sleeping compartment and exercise area, a litter tray, and regular worming and vaccinations as recommended by the veterinarian. See also Birdcage Cage Further reading References Containers Buildings and structures used to confine animals Cat equipment
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