Hot rod

Hot rods are typically old, classic American cars with large engines modified for linear speed. The origin of the term "hot rod" is unclear. A possible origin includes replacement of the camshaft with a new ("hotter") version, sometimes known as a hot stick or hot rod. Roadsters were the cars of choice because they were light, easy to modify, and inexpensive. The term became commonplace in the 1930s or 1940s as the name of a car that had been "hopped up" by modifying the engine for higher performance. A term common in the early days was "gow job". This has fallen into disuse except with historians.

The term has broadened to apply to other items that are modified for a particular purpose, such as "hot-rodded amplifier".

History

Late 1930s–1950s

The term seems first to have appeared in the late 1930s in southern California, where people raced modified cars on dry lake beds northeast of Los Angeles under the rules of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), among other groups. The activity increased in popularity after World War II, particularly in California, because many returning soldiers received technical training in the service. Many cars were prepared by bootleggers in response to Prohibition to enable them to avoid revenue agents ("Revenooers"); some police vehicles were also modified in response.

Hot Rod (meat snack)

A Hot Rod is a Canadian dry sausage snack food made by Schneider Foods. They are sold in many convenience stores, and concession stands throughout the country. Hot rods have a salty, slightly spicy, beef flavour, and are similar to the American "Slim Jim" brand snack. They are available in Original, Barbecue and Hickory Smoke flavours, in 8 and 19g sizes, and in packs of 20 and 40.

History

Hot Rods were created in 1969 and took a total of 191 hours to develop. They were originally developed as a “different” everyday snack that could also be enjoyed at parties, and were originally sold for 10 cents each. Throughout its history, Schneider’s has experimented with several flavours. In 1970, they created cheese-flavoured Hot Rods, but found their original flavour to be more popular. The snack gained popularity into the 1980s, culminating with the introduction of three new flavours in 1986 – Taco, Pepperoni and Mild. In 2004, Hot Rod Bites were introduced in Chicken, Barbecue and Teriyaki flavours.

Rute (music)

The rute (also spelled ruthe, from the German for 'rod' or 'switch') is a beater for drums. Commercially made rutes are usually made of a bundle of thin birch dowels or thin canes attached to a drumstick handle. These often have a movable band to adjust how tightly the dowels are bound toward the tip. A rute may also be made of a bundle of twigs attached to a drumstick handle. These types of rutes are used for a variety of effects with various musical ensembles. A rute may also be a cylindrical bunch of pieces of cane or twigs, bound at one end, like a small besom without a handle. The Rute is used to play on the head of the bass drum. Rute are also constructed from a solid rod thinly split partway down.

Orchestral usage

In orchestral music, rute (or ruthe) first appeared in the music of Mozart, in his opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 384 (1782). The setting of the opera is Turkey, and rute were imported from Turkish Janissary music, the martial music of the Sultan's royal guard, very much in vogue at the time. (James Blades, "Percussion Instruments and their History" 1992) The rute were played by the bass drum player, with a mallet striking on downbeats and rute being struck on offbeats. A typical pattern in this style would generally go, in 4/4 time, boom-tap-tap-tap boom-tap-tap-tap, the taps representing strikes of the rute. Mozart's contemporaries and immediate successors used the rute in a similar fashion for military effect. Mahler's use of the rute in the third movement of the Symphony No. 2 broke completely with traditional military writing for the instrument, focusing more on its coloristic possibilities than on the rhythmic role. This application was continued by Edgard Varese in his wildly coloristic use of percussion.

Deja Vu All Over Again (album)

Deja Vu All Over Again is the sixth solo studio album by John Fogerty. It was released in 2004, following a lapse of 7 years from his previous studio album Blue Moon Swamp. Originally issued by DreamWorks Records, it was reissued by Geffen Records after it absorbed DreamWorks.

Track listing and personnel

All music and words by John Fogerty.

Déjà Vu (video game)

Déjà Vu is a point-and-click adventure game set in the world of 1940s hard-boiled detective novels and movies. It was released in 1985 for Macintosh – the first in the MacVenture series – and later ported to several other systems, including the Commodore Amiga. Subsequent releases featured improved graphical features, including color.

Plot and gameplay

The game takes place in Chicago during December 1941, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The game character is Theodore "Ace" Harding, a retired boxer working as a private eye.

The player awakes one morning in a bathroom stall, unable to remember who he is. The bathroom stall turns out to be in Joe's Bar. A dead man is found in an upstairs office, and Ace is about to be framed for the murder. There are some clues as to the identity of the murdered man and to the player himself. A strap-down chair, mysterious vials, and a syringe are found, suggesting (together with a needle mark on the player's arm) that some kind of elaborate torture has taken place.

Déjà Vu (Inna song)

"Déjà Vu" is a song by Romanian disc jockey Bob Taylor which features guest vocals by Romanian dance/pop vocalist Inna. Released in summer 2009, the single appears on Taylor's sophomore studio album and on Inna's full-length record Hot (2009). The initial version of the song features Romanian singer Alessia. However, Inna recorded her own version.

"Déjà Vu" was a commercial success, reaching the top-twenty in most of the countries it peaked. A music video for the single was shot by Bob Taylor in summer 2009 and premiered mid 2009 on MTV Romania. It presents him mixing in a club. Credited also as 'Inna featuring Bob Taylor' in selected countries, "Déjà Vu" was released internationally as the third single extracted from Inna's debut album. It is featured on the British dance compilation album Clubland 18. The single sold 15,400 registered copies in France as of 2010.

Background

Spring 2009, Inna collaborated Taylor for his still untitled sophomore studio album. After she recorded the guest vocals for "Déjà Vu", they decided to promote the song undercover. They sent it to the mainstream radio under the names of Anni (backwards to Inna) and Bob Taylor (known as Fizzy). The single quickly became a hit in Europe and subsequently, Inna and Bob Taylor officially confirmed that they are the performers of the song. Shortly after they did so, Inna posted an article on her blog, where she says that "a song must have also success if its singers aren't known."