Haze

Haze is traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon where dust, smoke and other dry particles obscure the clarity of the sky. The World Meteorological Organization manual of codes includes a classification of horizontal obscuration into categories of fog, ice fog, steam fog, mist, haze, smoke, volcanic ash, dust, sand and snow. Sources for haze particles include farming (ploughing in dry weather), traffic, industry, and wildfires.

Seen from afar (e.g. approaching airplane) and depending upon the direction of view with respect to the sun, haze may appear brownish or bluish, while mist tends to be bluish-grey. Whereas haze often is thought of as a phenomenon of dry air, mist formation is a phenomenon of humid air. However, haze particles may act as condensation nuclei for the subsequent formation of mist droplets; such forms of haze are known as "wet haze."

The term "haze", in meteorological literature, generally is used to denote visibility-reducing aerosols of the wet type. Such aerosols commonly arise from complex chemical reactions that occur as sulfur dioxide gases emitted during combustion are converted into small droplets of sulphuric acid. The reactions are enhanced in the presence of sunlight, high relative humidity, and stagnant air flow. A small component of wet haze aerosols appear to be derived from compounds released by trees, such as terpenes. For all these reasons, wet haze tends to be primarily a warm-season phenomenon. Large areas of haze covering many thousands of kilometers may be produced under favorable conditions each summer.

Haze (disambiguation)

Haze may refer to:

  • Haze, atmospheric condition
  • Haze machine, device used in the entertainment industry to simulate the atmospheric condition
  • Turbidity (or haze), the cloudiness of a fluid or transparent solids, such as glass or plastic, as measured by the percentage of light that is deflected or attenuated
  • Visual appearance (optics, visual perception), scattering of light out of the regular direction during reflection or transmission
  • Corneal opacification (known as haze), central corneal opacification is a diagnostic "danger sign" in red eye (medicine)
  • Hazing, a practice of harassment and initiation
  • Haze may also refer to:

    In films

  • Haze (2005 film), a 2005 Japanese thriller film written and directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
  • Haze (2010 film), a 2010 Turkish film
  • In gaming

  • Haze (video game), PlayStation 3 video game developed by Free Radical Design
  • In music

  • Haze (band), progressive rock band
  • "Haze" (song), song by nu-metal band Korn for the video game, Haze
  • In literature

  • Dolores Haze is the character after whose nickname Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita is named.
  • Harikrish Menon

    Singer/songwriter HAZE (b. Harikrish Menon Ramachandran 2 June 1973, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is known for his work in the dance music genre, with hit singles such as Changes and Freak.

    Career

    He began his professional career at R.A.P. (Roslan Aziz Production) a Malaysian record label owned by acclaimed music producer Roslan Aziz. He has since worked with many of Malaysia's top performing artist such as Sheila Majid, Ning Baizura, Amir Yusoff, Zainal Abidin, Sarifah Aini and Malaysian rap sensation Too Phat just to name a few. Besides producing for local Malaysian performing artist, he has also produced albums for many performing artist around the region. Artist such as Kris Dayanti of Indonesia and Singaporean rap sensation Haikel. Which has allowed him to develop a musical scope that covers across almost all genres. In the Mid 1990's he also performed with the band Asia Beat.

    He was the first Malaysian to appear on the BBC UK Dance Singles Charts, for Changes. His single Freak made the Top 10 of the National Top 100 Singles chart in the Netherlands.

    Creep

    Creep, Creeps, The Creep or The Creeps may refer to:

    History

  • CREEP, the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, associated with the Watergate scandal of U.S. president Nixon's administration.
  • Project management

  • Feature creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of features to software
  • Instruction creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of unnecessary instructions
  • Mission creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a mission
  • Scope creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a project
  • Science

  • Creep (deformation), the tendency of a solid material to slowly move or deform permanently under the influence of stresses.
  • Downhill creep, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low grade slope.
  • Aseismic creep, a slow steady movement along an earthquake fault.
  • Creep, advancing of a railway wheel more or less than is expected from rolling, without large-scale slip, see rail adhesion
  • Superfluid creep, the tendency for a superfluid to crawl up the walls of its container.
  • Creeps (novel)

    Creeps is a 2013 young adult novel that was written by Darren Hynes. It was first published in Canada on July 30, 2013 through RazorBill.

    Synopsis

    Wayne is a teenager growing up in a dysfunctional home. His father is an alcoholic and his mother keeps threatening to desert him all. He can't escape his home life in school either, as Wayne is constantly bullied by his schoolmate Pete "The Meat". One morning he's rescued by Marjorie, a teen girl dealing with her own problematic home life, and the two begin to befriend one another. However even as the two seek solace in one another, Pete has decided to take matters into his own hands and find a way to torment not only Wayne but Marjorie as well.

    Reception

    Quill and Quire panned Creeps overall, criticizing Hynes for "[rehashing] familiar caricatures" and that "aside from Wayne’s fear of daily menace and a subplot involving a play that almost doesn’t go on, there’s not a lot to the story."CM Magazine also heavily criticized Creeps, stating that "the writing style is not terribly problematic in itself—though the first-person unsent letters are a bit jarring and don’t always flow with the rest of the narration—however the failure of Hynes to move beyond stereotypes and flat adult characters—with the possible exception of Mr. Rollie, the drama teacher, and Mr. Ricketts, the janitor—keeps the story from moving beyond a limited exploration of a very haunted group of young people. "

    Creeps (film)

    Creeps is the 168th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959. This short was released in 1951 and features Shemp Howard, Moe Howard and Larry Fine.

    Plot

    The Stooges tell their three sons (also the Stooges) about the time they had jobs as moving men assigned to the haunted Smorgasbord Castle. All goes well until a clanking suit of armor inhabited by the ghost of Sir Tom (voiced by Phil Arnold) instructs the Stooges to leave him be. Shemp, Larry and Moe all take turns trying to move Tom but he spooks the Stooges away.

    Production notes

    Creeps is a remake of 1949's The Ghost Talks using ample stock footage from the original film. The new footage includes the babies (also the Stooges) and a torture room scene where Moe's trousers are sliced off.

    In the scene when Sir Tom is telling the Stooges his story, there is a brief shot added where the boys are smoking; in the next shot (a recycled clip), the boys are not smoking.

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    Kirby's House

    by: Razorlight

    From the stomas came the novation
    It rattled the foundations of the house that I live in
    Now I can't live there anymore
    A child sleeps then he awakens
    He shrieks until he is taken
    To a house he can live in
    Take him to a house he can live in
    And in the morning when you know it's gonna be alright
    In the morning when you know he won't remember a thing
    Well in the morning when you know it's gonna be alright
    Hush-a-bye, it's gonna be alright
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    I need a touch that is gentle
    Just to take me
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    Take me to a house I can live in
    And I heard your crooked words about something
    So I'm sayin nothing
    I know that it's nothin'
    I can hear it in the house that you live in
    Take me to a house I can live in
    Take me to a house I can live in
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