Swatch Internet Time (or beat time) is a decimal time concept introduced in 1998 by the Swatch corporation as part of their marketing campaign for their line of "Beat" watches.
Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided up into 1000 parts called ".beats". Each .beat is equal to one decimal minute in the French Revolutionary decimal time system and lasts 1 minute and 26.4 seconds (86.4 seconds) in standard time. Times are notated as a 3-digit number out of 1000 after midnight. So, @248 would indicate a time 248 .beats after midnight representing 248/1000 of a day, just over 5 hours and 57 minutes.
There are no time zones in Swatch Internet Time; instead, the new time scale of Biel Meantime (BMT) is used, based on Swatch's headquarters in Biel, Switzerland and equivalent to Central European Time, West Africa Time, and UTC+01. Unlike civil time in Switzerland and many other countries, Swatch Internet Time does not observe daylight saving time.
Swatch Internet Time was announced on October 23, 1998, in a ceremony at the Junior Summit '98, attended by Nicolas G. Hayek, President and CEO of the Swatch Group, G.N. Hayek, President of Swatch Ltd., and Nicholas Negroponte, founder and then-director of the MIT Media Lab. During the Summit, Swatch Internet Time became the official time system for Nation1, an online country (supposedly) created and run by children.
Beat (Hangul: 비트; RR: Biteu) is 1997 South Korean gangster film directed by Kim Sung-su and written by Sam Shin about a high school dropout who is forced into gang life. Jung Woo-sung played the lead Min and Ko So-young his love interest Romy. The plot is based on a bestselling graphic novel by Huh Young-man.
The role solidified Jung as a leading Korean actor and was also based on his real-life experience as a high school dropout. This was the third and final film pairing Jung and Ko, but the director would later work with Jung again in Musa (2001).
Three friends in Korea all drop out of high school. Min is a feared brawler whose widowed mother is a drunk. The story traces his journey from high school to the underworld as his best friend introduces him to life in the mob. Complicating Min's life further is his love for the volatile Romy, a girl from an upper-class family with dreams of going to a prestigious college.
In police terminology, a beat is the territory and time that a police officer patrols. Beat policing is based on traditional policing (late 19th century) and utilises the close relationship with the community members within the assigned beat to strengthen police effectiveness and encourage cooperative efforts to make a safer community. Beat police typically patrol on foot or bicycle which provides more interaction between police and community members.
Before the advent of personal radio communications, beats were organised in towns and cities to cover specific areas, usually shown on a map in the police station and given some sort of name or number. Officers reporting on duty would be allocated a beat by their sergeant and sometimes given a card indicating that the officer should be at a particular point at set times, usually half an hour, or forty-five minutes apart. The points would usually be telephone kiosks, police pillars or boxes, or perhaps public houses where it would be possible to phone the officer should he be needed to respond to an incident. The officer would remain at the point for five minutes and then patrol the area gradually making his way to the next point.
Ecstasy is the second studio album by Avant. It includes the singles "Makin' Good Love", "Don't Say No, Just Say Yes" and "You Ain't Right". The album is Avant's biggest selling album to date with over 1.7 Million copies in the US and just over five million worldwide. The album was heavily promoted. A few months before the release Avant's son was born.
Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance is a collection of three novellas by Irvine Welsh.
After suffering a stroke, Rebecca Navarro, a best-selling romance novelist, discovers the truth about her corrupt, pornography-loving husband. With the help of Lorraine, her sexually confused nurse, she plots her revenge.
Another nurse at the hospital, Glen, has been secretly admiring Lorraine but after a night at a club, decides to pursue her friend Yvonne instead. Meanwhile, Glen has been accepting money from Freddy Royle, a necrophiliac TV personality. The hospital trustees turn a blind eye to Freddy's nefarious pastime but have to do some fast talking when the new coroner begins asking questions.
Samantha Worthington, an angry and bitter 'Tenazedrine' (Thalidomide) victim, enlists a football hooligan, Dave, to help her seek revenge on the last man left alive who pushed the drug who caused her deformed arms, the drug's marketing director.
Ecstasy (or ekstasis; from the Ancient Greek ἔκστασις, "to be or stand outside oneself, a removal to elsewhere" from ek- "out," and stasis "a stand, or a standoff of forces") is a term used in Ancient Greek, Christian and Existential philosophy. The different traditions using the concept have radically different perspectives.
According to Plotinus, ecstasy is the culmination of human possibility. He contrasted emanation (πρόοδος, prohodos) from the One—on the one hand—with ecstasy or reversion (ἐπιστροφή, epistrophe) back to the One—on the other.
This is a form of ecstasy described as the vision of, or union with, some otherworldly entity (see religious ecstasy)—a form of ecstasy that pertains to an individual trancelike experience of the sacred or of God.
Among the Christian mystics, Bernard of Clairvaux, Meister Eckhart and Teresa of Ávila had mystical experiences of ecstasy, or talked about ecstatic visions of God.
RAP4 is a manufacturer of paintball markers, paintball equipment, tactical gear and training tools.
In 2002, RAP4 began as a small company that brought a new type of marker to the paintball industry by distribution of R.A.M (real action marker) by APS Airgun Limited (a worldwide supplier for military training and Real Action Game equipment).
RAP4 started as a home business and sold a .43 caliber R.A.M. paintball gun rebranded after the company, the RAP4. The RAP4 used a smaller version of the standard .68-caliber paintball, the measurement was .43. The .43-caliber paintball was encased in an alloy, and when the paintball was fired, the casing would eject from the port while the paintball was projected from the barrel. This marker was designed after and was a replica of the M4. This marker featured an air system in the back of the marker, inside the butt stock. This added to the realism by eliminating an air tank on the bottom of the standard paintball markers. This was the first of its kind in the paintball world. The other unique quality of the marker was that it used a 20-round magazine instead of the standard paintball hopper to chamber paintballs. By using the magazine to feed paintballs, this made it possible to replicate the M4. The R.A.M. was the first marker to utilize a magazine.
Hier kommt der Lyricist, der fast schon irre ist,
Mic in der Hand und die deutsche Sprache im Würgegriff.
Oladidadida, Sam und Don Dougie da.
Für die Rap-Fans, nicht die Hip Hop Dogmatiker,
alle die erzählen, wie derbe alles damals war,
alles nur blablabla, ja Jungs, labert mal.
Ich lieb dies Competition-Ding, bring Songs, die so wicked klingen,
daß dämliche MCs wie Lemminge über die Klippe springen.
Schmeiß dir 'n Trip in'n Drink mit 'nem bitteren Nachgeschmack,
weiß, es war abgefuckt, aber ich hab mich schlapp gelacht.
Was geht ab? Ihr meint doch, daß ihr kifft und fast schon Alkies seid?
Dabei werdet ihr schon von Zigaretten high und Malzbier breit.
Ich kenn euch Typen schon, erzählt viel am Mikrofon.
Nur haben eure Stories mit euch selbst meistens nicht viel zu tun
und deshalb kommt hier der Mikrofon-Check.
Seid ihr am Mikrofon wack, dann legt das Mikrofon weg!
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So bin ich jetzt am Start, Text parat, doch wartet's ab
nächstes Jahr sitz ich dann in der Jury beim Cannabis-Cup,
check da mal die Lage ab, tramp danach nach Skagarag
und mal dort 'n Wholecar mit meiner Frau ihrem Nagellack.
Fabelhaft, der Rap-Superman aus dem Souterrain
neben dem ihr Typen blaß ausseht wie nach'm Blutabnehmen,
schmückt euch ruhig mit Titeln, ich werd euch weiter Looser nennen,
steht da wie der Honk bei der Reise nach Jerusalem.
Und hier ist Bruder Sam, der weiter geht, während ihr im Cypher steht,
ihr jedes Thema weit verfehlt, weil ihr nur Scheiß erzählt,
und wir kommen mit Raps und Beats original und exklusiv
für die echten Freaks, die genießen wie der Text hier fließt.
Und was du jetzt hier siehst, ist nur ein Teil meines Repertoires,
hab noch mehr Ideen, Stimmen, Styles, Flows etcetera.
Check das ab! Seid ihr down mit den M.O.N.G.O.'s?
Gebt mir 'n bißchen Lärm und nehmt mal alle Eure Hände hoch.
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Dies geht an meine Fans, vor allem die zehn Prozent,
die mich seit dem Demo kennen und unten waren seit dem Moment,
denn nur wegen euch Leuten bin ich hier noch am Mikro dran,
mit viel Programm, spreng den Rahmen und spiel zu lang.
Komm irgendwann ins Haus und freß den Arrival-Snack,
der Scheiße schmeckt, dann wird das Mic gecheckt und tight gerappt.
Wer will was? Ich versteh nicht, warum du hier Ärger machst,
der Shit hier ist doch derbe kraß, komm her und erklär mir das.
Schluß mit Streß, ich hab mich selbst genug unter Druck gesetzt,
bin da um mein Bestes zu geben und weiß, ihr wußtet es:
Hab noch immer Raps en masse da, der Textverfasser,
also check meine Fresse auf dem Backspinn-Cover.
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