Junk (novel)
Junk, known as Smack in the U.S., is a realistic novel for young adults by the British author Melvin Burgess, published in 1996 by Andersen in the U.K. Set on the streets of Bristol, England, it features two runaway teens who join a group of squatters, where they fall into heroin addiction and embrace anarchism. Both critically and commercially it is the best received of Burgess' novels. Yet it was unusually controversial at first, criticized negatively for its "how-to" aspect, or its dark realism, or its moral relativism.
Burgess won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. For the 70th anniversary of the Medal in 2007 Junk was named one of the top ten winning works, selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite.Junk also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a similar award that authors may not win twice. It is the latest of six books to win both awards.
Jane Air discography
This article describes a discography, released by Russian alternative rock band Jane Air. It includes 6 studio albums, 10 singles and 20 music videos.
Junk
Junk (also known as Jazz-funk) is a single released by Jane Air in 2003, as well as the eponymous song that first appeared in the album Pull Ya? Let It Doll Go! (2002). The song has music video and movie. The main idea of the song is the harm of using drugs by young people (presented in satirical form). In 2005 Jane Air was awarded for the song «Junk» with the prize RAMP ("Russian Alternative Music Prize") established by A-One channel, in the category «Song of the year».
The lyrics of the song have been written already in 2000.
Music video
The video was shot in 2003 directed by "Deviant creations". At the beginning is shown a child with his mother playing with a red ball. Than in video appears frontman of the band - Anton Lisow, who is playing a role of drug addict. Also in the video are present two guys smoking at the stairs (symbolise smoke addtiction), big company of people at the party (symbol of drunkenness and alcohol addiction), the woman (who is infected with AIDS and gonorrhea) and also at the chorus appear all members of Jane Air, who are playing in the room and then in the garage. At the end of the song another member of the band is lying in the yard (dead from an overdose of drugs).
Bit (disambiguation)
A bit is a unit of information storage on a computer.
Bit or BIT may also refer to:
Tools and engineering
Arts and entertainment
Organisations
Education
Bit (money)
The word bit is a colloquial expression referring to specific coins in various coinages throughout the world.
United States
In the United States, the bit is equal to one eighth of a dollar or 12 1⁄2 cents. In the U.S., the "bit" as a designation for money dates from the colonial period, when the most common unit of currency used was the Spanish dollar, also known as "piece of eight", which was worth 8 Spanish silver reales. One eighth of a dollar or one silver real was one "bit".
With the adoption of the decimal U.S. currency in 1794, there was no longer a U.S. coin worth 1⁄8 of a dollar but "two bits" remained in the language with the meaning of one quarter dollar, "four bits" half dollar, etc. Because there was no one-bit coin, a dime (10¢) was sometimes called a short bit and 15¢ a long bit. (The picayune, which was originally 1⁄2 real or 1⁄2 bit (6 1⁄4¢), was similarly transferred to the US 5¢-piece.)
In addition, Spanish coinage, like other foreign coins, continued to be widely used and allowed as legal tender by Chapter XXII of the Act of April 10, 1806 until the Coinage Act of 1857 discontinued the practice.
List of Tron characters
This article covers notable characters of Tron franchise, including all of its various cinematic, literary, video game adaptations and sequels.
Development
For the first film, Richard Rickitt explains that to "produce the characters who inhabit the computer world, actors were dressed in costumes that were covered in black-and-white computer circuitry designs....With coloured light shining through the white areas of their costumes, the resulting characters appeared to glow as if lit from within....optical processes were used to create all of the film's computerized characters..." Frederick S. Clarke reports that "Tron: Legacy will combine live action with CGI," adding that "several characters...will be completely digital..."
Tron
Kevin Flynn
Kevin Flynn is a former employee at the fictional software company ENCOM and the protagonist of the first film. He is played by Jeff Bridges.
At the start of the first film, he is manager of "Flynn's", a video arcade where he impresses his patrons with his skills at games that (unknown to them) he designed at ENCOM, but remains determined to find evidence that CEO Ed Dillinger plagiarised Flynn's work to advance his position within the company. Throughout most of the film, Flynn travels around the digital world, accompanying the eponymous character Tron; but later discovers that as a User, he commands the physical laws of the digital world, enabling him beyond the abilities of an ordinary program. Eventually, he enables Tron to destroy the Master Control Program shown to oppress the digital world, and upon return to the material world obtains the evidence necessary to expose Dillinger, and becomes ENCOM's CEO himself.
Happy (disambiguation)
To be happy is to experience happiness: a feeling of contentment or joy.
Happy may also refer to:
Film and television
Music
Bands
Albums
Songs
Happy (Michael Jackson song)
"Happy" is a song recorded by Michael Jackson for the Motown label in 1973. The song featured on Jackson's album Music & Me. Its full title is "Happy (Love Theme from Lady Sings the Blues)", although it was never featured in the film or the soundtrack for Lady Sings the Blues. The song was released as a single in Australia, backed by "In Our Small Way".
Jackson continued to perform the track in concert as late as 1977, citing it as one of his favorite songs.
The song was not released as a single in the UK until 1983 to promote Motown's 18 Greatest Hits compilation album, on which the song was included. Upon its release, "Happy" (credited to Michael Jackson plus The Jackson 5) peaked at #52 on the British pop chart. It was also issued as a single by Bobby Darin and included on his posthumous Motown LP Darin: 1936-1973. It was later recorded by the song's composer, Smokey Robinson, and appeared on his landmark solo album A Quiet Storm.
According to Robinson, the song was inspired by the film's melody, which was originally composed by Michel Legrand. He explained, "I was looking at the movie one day, and I was listening to that melody, and I thought it was just such a beautiful melody, until I wanted to write some words for that melody, which I did, and I went and I sang them for Berry Gordy, and he was really upset because I didn't write them before he finished the movie so they could've been in the movie."
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