AFR

AFR may refer to:

  • AFR (film), a 2007 film
  • Afrikaans language
  • Air France
  • Air–fuel ratio
  • Alternate frame rendering
  • American Family Radio
  • American Film Renaissance, a non-profit organization
  • American flag rugby
  • Americans for Financial Reform, a non-profit organization
  • Arbel Fauvet Rail, a French rolling stock manufacturer
  • Annualized failure rate, a measure of reliability
  • Les Assassins en Fauteuils Roulants, a fictional terrorist cell in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
  • Australian Financial Review, a business newspaper
  • Africa, as a UNESCO region; see List of World Heritage Sites in Africa
  • AFR (film)

    AFR (abbreviation for Anders Fogh Rasmussen) is a Danish mockumentary released in 2007, directed by Danish filmmaker Morten Hartz Kaplers, who also appears in the movie. AFR was produced by the Zentropa-producer Meta Louise Foldager.

    The film uses archival footage, actors, and computer effects to portray an assassination of the Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and even before the release received substantial criticism from those who believed the subject was exploitive and in bad taste, and is therefore very similar to the controversial British mockumentary Death of a President which portrays the fictional assassination of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush.

    The faux documentary broadcast surrounds the Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and his secret homosexual lover, Emil (Morten Hartz Kaplers) until the Prime Minister is assassinated.

    Among the real archival footage there was a clip of Pia Kjærsgaard, who says, "[...]og så var han jo bøsse, det var kendt for enhver" ("and he was also gay; everybody knew that"). Pia Kjærsgaard has dissociated herself from the use of the clip which origins from a statement to the assassination of the homosexual Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002. Several other politicians and leaders appear in the movie as well.

    Air France Flight 8969

    Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) at Houari Boumedienne Airport, Algiers, Algeria, where the terrorists murdered three passengers, with the intention to blow up the plane over the Eiffel Tower in Paris. When the aircraft reached Marseille, the GIGN, a counter-terror unit of the French National Gendarmerie, stormed the plane and killed all four hijackers.

    Flight

    Algeria was in a state of civil war at the time of the hijacking. Aircraft flying to Algiers faced the possibility of missile attacks. As a result, Air France's flights to Algiers had crews entirely made of people who volunteered for the route. Air France had asked government officials if it absolutely had to continue flying to Algeria; as of the time of the hijacking, there had been no replies. Bernard Dhellemme was the captain of the flight. Jean-Paul Borderie was the copilot, and Alain Bossuat was the flight engineer. The Airbus A300B2-1C, tail number F-GBEC, had first flown on 28 February 1980.

    Tune

    Tune may refer to:

    Actions

  • To tune a car (Car tuning)
  • To tune an engine (Engine tuning)
  • To tune an instrument (Musical tuning)
  • To tune a radio (Radio tuning)
  • Art, entertainment, and media

    Music

  • Tune (folk music), a short piece of instrumental music, usually with repeating sections, and often played a number of times
  • A melody
  • A tune-family
  • British slang term, often said when referring to a piece of music that is enjoyed
  • Periodicals

  • Tune, a Japanese fashion magazine
  • People

  • Tommy Tune
  • Places

  • Tune, a town in Denmark
  • Tune, a village in Norway
  • Other uses

  • Tune ship, a museum exhibition in Norway
  • Tune Ventures, Malaysian investment company
  • See also

  • All pages beginning with "Tune"
  • All pages with titles containing Tune
  • Looney Tunes
  • Tone (disambiguation)
  • Tuner (disambiguation)
  • Tunes (disambiguation)
  • Tuning (disambiguation)

  • Melody

    A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include successions of other musical elements such as tonal color. It may be considered the foreground to the background accompaniment. A line or part need not be a foreground melody.

    Melodies often consist of one or more musical phrases or motifs, and are usually repeated throughout a composition in various forms. Melodies may also be described by their melodic motion or the pitches or the intervals between pitches (predominantly conjunct or disjunct or with further restrictions), pitch range, tension and release, continuity and coherence, cadence, and shape.

    Elements

    Given the many and varied elements and styles of melody "many extant explanations [of melody] confine us to specific stylistic models, and they are too exclusive." Paul Narveson claimed in 1984 that more than three-quarters of melodic topics had not been explored thoroughly.

    Winx Club

    Winx Club is an Italian animated television series made in 2003 on 19 August directed, created and produced by Iginio Straffi and his company Rainbow S.r.l. in co-production with Rai Fiction. It is part of the larger Winx Club franchise. The series is the first Italian cartoon to be sold in the United States. It is also broadcast in over 130 countries worldwide, and is Straffi's most successful creation. In June 2014, it was announced an agreement with China Central Television for the construction of a theme park dedicated to Winx in Beijing.

    According to Iginio Straffi's website, "Winx Club is an action and fantasy show combined with comedic elements. In the mystical dimension of Magix, three special schools educate modern fairies, ambitious witches, and supernatural warriors or specialists, and wizards from all over the magical universe."

    Plot

    In the first season, Bloom, a teenager from Earth, discovers she has magical abilities when she saves Stella, a fairy princess. Stella persuades Bloom to enroll in Alfea, a school for fairies in the Magical Dimension. There, she meets roommate Flora and apartment mates Tecna and Musa; together they form the Winx. They encounter and befriend the boys from the Red Fountain school of Specialists. They also make enemies, mainly a trio of witches called the Trix. Together, the Winx go through many adventures and discover many secrets about Bloom's past while fighting their enemies and studying at Alfea. Their power in Season 1 is Winx.

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    Just a Little [#]

    by: Danny Vera

    Remember the days when it all was just fine
    We sat at your house, doing pot and red wine
    Now the years have gone by and some of us changed, died
    or left.
    But still I like to think of way back then, the best
    bunch guys who I call my friends
    But I can see the changes everyday
    Just a little bit longer
    Just a little more time
    Just a few hours longer
    That'll make me much stronger, and it'll all be just
    fine
    The nights that we spent above the pizza store
    The parties we had, cops knocking on our door
    Everyone laughed and didn't give damn
    The life that we lived was of a different kind
    Nobody cared how we fucked up our lives
    But everyone of us just turned out right!
    Just a little bit stronger
    Just a little more tough
    Just a little less weakness
    That will stop my hunger, and I'll be strong enough
    Just a little bit wiser
    Just a little more smart
    Just a little more knowledge
    So I can't stand my desire, before it all falls apart
    Just a little bit longer
    Just a little more time
    Just a few hours longer
    That'll make me much stronger, and it'll all be just
    fine
    Just a little bit wiser
    Just a little more smart
    Just a little more knowledge
    So I can't stand my desire, before it all falls apart
    Just a little bit older
    Just a few wrinkles more
    Just a little more stories




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