BYOB

BYOB or BYO is an initialism meant to stand for "bring your own booze", "bring your own bottle", "bring your own beer" or "bring your own beverage".

BYOB is often placed on an invitation to indicate that the host will not be providing alcohol and that guests are welcome to bring their own. Some business establishments allow patrons to bring their own bottle, sometimes subject to fees or membership conditions, or because the establishment itself does not have license to sell alcohol.

Etymology

The term is cited by some online sources to have been used first in the early 1970s to mean "bring your own bottle (of wine)", although in present-day it is just as likely to mean "bring your own booze" or "bring your own beer". It was used by small restaurants that did not have liquor licenses, but which were responding to the new popularity of wine among Americans by advising customers that they could BYOB and drink it with their meal.

Corkage

Some establishments that sell alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption, such as bars or restaurants, may also allow patrons to bring their own alcohol purchased from elsewhere. That alcohol is usually subject to an opening fee. Often the rule is limited to bottles of wine, where the fee is known as corkage or a corking fee. Such policies are greatly regulated by local liquor control laws and licensing restrictions.

BYOB (musician)

BYOB is an alternative/electronica/Dubstep artist signed to Loaded Records

His first release was a free download and a Steve Glashier directed video in late 2009 of the track 'Prescription'.

The first proper single 'Best Shoes' was released in early January 2010, with remixes by Qemists and Marlow. The track was given its premiere on Fearne Cotton's BBC Radio 1 show 'Music Generator' feature in December 2009.

'Best Shoes' was used by Lady Gaga as the music for her stage show at the Jingle Bell Ball at the O2 in London, December 2009.

BYOB's second single is a collaboration with J Majik and Wickaman called Save My Life which will feature on both artists' forthcoming albums.

BYOB is also currently collaborating with Fatboy Slim and Freemasons (band)

His debut album Everything In Moderation was released on 25 October 2010 to great reviews.

Biography

Born in Thornton Heath, Surrey in 1988, Ashley Hamilton a.k.a. BYOB lives and records in Croydon, London.

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Snap! (programming language)

Snap! is a free, blocks- and browser-based educational graphical programming language that allows students to create interactive animations, games, stories, and more, while learning about mathematical and computational ideas. Snap! was inspired by Scratch, but also targets both novice and more advanced students by including and expanding Scratch's features.

Snap! 4.0 is entirely browser-based with no software that needs to be installed on the local device.

History

Snap! 4.0 and its predecessor BYOB were developed by Jens Mönig for Linux, OS X or Windows, with design ideas and documentation provided by Brian Harvey from University of California, Berkeley and have been used to teach "The Beauty and Joy of Computing" introductory course in computer science (CS) for non-CS-major students. As of December 2014, 100 New York City (NYC) high schools will introduce University of California at Berkeley’s “Beauty and Joy of Computing” as a new AP Computer Science Principles course in 2015, using Snap!.

B.Y.O.B. (song)

"B.Y.O.B." ("Bring Your Own Bombs") is the first single released from Armenian American rock band System of a Down's fourth album Mezmerize. Like their earlier song "Boom!", it was written in protest against the Iraq War.B.Y.O.B. means "Bring Your Own Bombs", as opposed to the common interpretation "Bring Your Own Booze", referring to the Iraq War as a party for the United States. It is also a playable track in the music video game Guitar Hero World Tour and a downloadable track in Rocksmith 2014.

Awards

Acronym

An acronym is an abbreviation used as a word and formed from the initial components in a phrase or a word, usually individual letters (as in NATO or laser) and sometimes syllables (as in Benelux).

There is no universal standardization of the various names for such abbreviations and of their orthographic styling. In English and most other languages, such abbreviations historically had limited use, but they became much more common in the 20th century. Acronyms are a type of word formation process, and they are viewed as a subtype of blending.

Nomenclature

Whereas an abbreviation may be any type of shortened form, such as words with the middle omitted (for example, Rd for road or Dr for Doctor), an acronym is a word formed from the first letter or first few letters of each word in a phrase (such as sonar, created from sound navigation and ranging). Attestations for Akronym in German are known from 1921, and for acronym in English from 1940.

Although the word acronym is often used to refer to any abbreviation formed from initial letters, many dictionaries and usage commentators define acronym to mean an abbreviation that is pronounced as a word, in contradistinction to an initialism (or alphabetism)‍—‌an abbreviation formed from a string of initials (and possibly pronounced as individual letters). Some dictionaries include additional senses equating acronym with initialism. The distinction, when made, hinges on whether the abbreviation is pronounced as a word or as a string of individual letters. Examples in reference works that make the distinction include NATO /ˈneɪtoʊ/, scuba /ˈskuːbə/, and radar /ˈreɪdɑːr/ for acronyms - and FBI /ˌɛfˌbiːˈaɪ/, CRT /ˌˈsiːˌɑːrˌtiː/, and HTML /ˌeɪtʃˌtiːˌɛmˈɛl/ for initialisms. The rest of this article uses acronym for both types of abbreviation.