Breach

Breach or The Breach may refer to:

Places

  • Breach, Kent, United Kingdom
  • Breach, West Sussex, United Kingdom
  • The Breach, Great South Bay in the State of New York
  • Law

  • Breach of confidence, a common law tort that protects private information that is conveyed in confidence
  • Breach of contract, a situation in which a binding agreement is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract
  • Breach of promise, a former common law tort
  • Breach of the peace, a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries
  • Efficient breach, a breach of contract that the breaching party considers desirable
  • Fundamental breach, a breach so fundamental that it permits the aggrieved party to terminate performance of the contract
  • Breach of duty of care, common law negligence
  • Science and technology

  • Whale surfacing behaviour, a whale's leap out of the water
  • Breaching experiment, a social experiment that tests people's reactions to the violation of accepted social norms
  • BREACH (security exploit), a security exploit against the HTTPS protocol
  • Breach (comics)

    Breach (Major Tim Zanetti) is a fictional character, a superhero published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Breach #1, (March 2005) and was created by Bob Harras and Marcos Martin.

    Publication history

    Breach was originally intended to be a reboot of Captain Atom, until management at DC decided not to revise the character, who was last rebooted during the late 1980s. With the development of Breach already underway, the decision was made to partially rewrite the plot and characters and create a brand new superhero. Evidence of the change remains in the first issue, where the protagonist, Major Zanetti, is called "Major Adams" twice.

    Fictional character biography

    Breach is a 2005 comic book series from DC Comics. written by Bob Harras with art by penciller Marcos Martin and inker Alvaro Lopez. The series is centered on a US Army Major named Tim Zanetti, who gains superpowers in a scientific experiment gone wrong. Zanetti was working for "Project Otherside," a secret sub-Arctic nuclear reactor where scientists are probing other dimensions. In an accident at the facility, Zanetti is caught in a dimensional rift and afterwards is found in a coma with his body forever changed. His body is placed in an isolation chamber for the next twenty years, at which point he awakens. His body has become a conductor for a mysterious and deadly energy, able to "melt" biological substances with only a touch, and so he has to be dampened with a special containment suit. Left behind while Zanetti is comatose and presumed dead, are his wife Helen and son Tate.

    Cetacean surfacing behaviour

    Cetacean surfacing behaviour is a group of unique behaviours demonstrated by the Cetacea order when they come to the water's surface to breathe. Time intervals between surfacing can vary depending on the species, surfacing style or the purpose of the dive, and some species have been known to dive for up to 85 minutes at a time when hunting. In addition to respiration, cetaceans have developed and use surface behaviours for many other functions such as display, feeding and communication. All regularly observed members of the order Cetacea, including whales, dolphins and porpoises, show a range of surfacing behaviours. Cetacea is usually split into two suborders, Odontoceti and Mysticeti, based on the presence of teeth or baleen plates in adults respectively. However, for the purpose of this article Cetacea will be split into whales (large (> 10 m) sized cetaceans such as sperm and most baleen whales) and dolphins and porpoises (all medium and small sized (< 10 m) Odontocetes including orca) as many behaviours are correlated with size. Although some behaviours such as spyhopping, logging and lobtailing occur in both groups, others such as bow riding or peduncle throws are exclusive to one or the other. It is these energetic behaviours that humans observe most frequently and are generally most fascinated with, which has resulted in a large amount of scientific literature on the subject and a popular tourism industry.

    Detachment

    Detachment may mean:

  • Emotional detachment, in psychology, refers to "inability to connect" or "mental assertiveness"
  • Detachment (philosophy), a philosophical state
  • Detachment (military), a military term
  • Detachment (film), an American film
  • Detachment fault, geological term associated with large displacements.
  • Décollement, a geological term for a zone where rock units are detached from each other
  • Retinal detachment, a disorder of the retina
  • A term used in the United Kingdom for an enclave or exclave
  • Detachment (territory)

    Detachment (Old French de, from, and [at]tach, joining with a stake) under international law is the formal, permanent separation of and loss of sovereignty over some territory to another geo-political entity (either adjacent or non-contiguous). After World War I Alsace and Lorraine were a formal detachment from Germany. More often detachment occurs as a process within a country, for example the creation of the Federal District of Columbia resulted from a detachment of territory from the State of Maryland. The removal of territory from a city or special district is a detachment. Within a country detachment is governed by the laws of the supervening entity. Detachment can be considered the opposite or reverse of annexation.

    Suez Canal

    The formal detachment of Egypt from the Turkish Empire was a condition for British investment in the Suez Canal.

    League of Nations mandates

    Following World War I, a number of colonial territories and border territories were detached from Germany, as well as portions of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and Ottoman Empire being detached. Some of these detachments were incorporated directly into new countries, such as Yugoslavia, or annexed by existing countries such as Northern Schleswig into Denmark. But some, particularly in the Middle East and those of the German colonies, were placed under the "protection" of one or another of the Allied countries who won the war, including Germany's concessions in China, Kiautschou and Chefoo. From a rule of law standpoint these protectorates were not war booty, but "mandates" from a legally constituted international body, so detachment occurred without annexation.

    Detachment (military)

    A detachment (from the French détachement) is a military unit. It can either be detached from a larger unit for a specific function or (particularly in United States Military usage) be a permanent unit smaller than a battalion. The term is often used to refer to a unit that is assigned to a different base from the parent unit.

    An example is the United States Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Airborne) (1st SFOD-D (A)), commonly known as Delta Force by the general public.

    Detachment is also the term used as the collective noun for personnel manning an artillery piece (e.g. gun detachment).

    Use by Cadet forces in the United Kingdom

    The Army Cadet Force in the United Kingdom breaks its structure down into local detachments which usually consist of between 10 and 40 cadets. Several detachments make up a company.

    The Combined Cadet Force, however, does not use this term. Individual units are known as Cadet Contingents.

    See also

  • Geographically Separate Unit
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