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Impact

Impact may refer to:

In science:

Impact (mechanics), a high force or shock (mechanics) over a short time period

Impact crater, a meteor crater caused by an impact event

Impact event, the collision of a meteoroid, asteroid or comet with Earth

Impact factor, a measure of the citations to a science or social science journal

In development:

Impact evaluation, a way of evaluating changes from an intervention or development programme.

In computing:

IMPACT (computer graphics), a computer graphics architecture for Silicon Graphics computer workstations

In film, television and radio:

Impact, a BBC World News weekday programme.

Impact (1949 film), a 1949 film noir starring Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines

Impact (1963 film), a 1963 crime thriller starring Conrad Phillips

Impact (mini-series), a 2008 television mini-series starring Natasha Henstridge and David James Elliott

Impact Wrestling, the primary weekly television program of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

In literature:

Bath Impact, the student newspaper for the University of Bath Students' Union, England

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Impact (comics)

Impact, in comics, can refer to:

Impact Comics, a DC Comics imprint

Impact (EC Comics), an EC Comics title

Impact (Image Comics), an Image Comics superhero

Impact (novel)

Impact is a science fiction thriller novel by American writer Douglas Preston, published on January 5, 2010 by Forge Books. The novel is the third book in the Wyman Ford series. The book was reviewed on All Things Considered in February 2010.

Plot summary

Ex-CIA agent Wyman Ford returns to Cambodia to investigate the source of radioactive gemstones and uncovers an unusual impact crater. A young woman on the other side of the world photographs a meteoroid's passage in the atmosphere with her telescope and deduces that it must have struck on one of the islands just offshore from Round Pond, Maine. A NASA scientist analyzing data from the Mars Mapping Orbiter (MMO) spots unusual spikes in gamma ray activity. These threads intersect with discovery of an alien device that has apparently been on Deimos, one of the two moons of Mars, for at least 100 million years. Something has caused it to activate and fire a strangelet at Earth, setting off the events in the novel.

Timeline

The events in this novel follow those of The Codex, Tyrannosaur Canyon, and Blasphemy. As such, Wyman Ford is the protagonist once again (having appeared in Tyrannosaur Canyon and Blasphemy), and the character of Stanton Lockwood III (who debuted in Blasphemy) also returns.

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Front

Front may refer to:

Front (military), a geographical area where armies are engaged in conflict

Front (military formation), roughly, an army group, especially in eastern Europe

Front (sociology), term used by Goffman

Front organization, any entity set up by and controlled by another organization

Ice front of a glacier

Grill (jewelry), also known as "front", jewelry for teeth

Weather front

Front (oceanography), a place where two water masses come together in the ocean

The Front, 1976 film

The Front, now part of the Delaware Park-Front Park System, in Buffalo, New York, United States

The Front (band), an American rock band signed to Columbia Records and active in the 1980s and early 1990s

The Front (Canadian band), a Canadian studio band from the 1980s

"The Front" (The Simpsons), a 1993 episode of the TV series The Simpsons

"The Front" (The Blacklist), a 2014 episode of the TV series The Blacklist

Front (magazine), British men's magazine

Front, Piedmont, Italian municipality

Front, California, former name of Brown, California

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Anatomical terms of location

Standard anatomical terms of location deal unambiguously with the anatomy of animals, including humans.

All vertebrates (including humans) have the same basic body plan — they are bilaterally symmetrical. That is, they have mirror-image left and right halves if divided down the centre. For these reasons, the basic directional terms can be considered to be those used in vertebrates. By extension, the same terms are used for many other (invertebrate) organisms as well.

While these terms are standardized within specific fields of biology, there are unavoidable, sometimes dramatic, differences between some disciplines. For example, differences in terminology remain a problem that, to some extent, still separates the terminology of human anatomy from that used in the study of various other zoological categories.

Introduction

Standardized anatomical and zoological terms of location have been developed, usually based on Latin and Greek words, to enable all biological and medical scientists to precisely delineate and communicate information about animal bodies and their component organs, even though the meaning of some of the terms often is context-sensitive.

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Nando

Inception

Nando was produced by the New Media division of The News & Observer newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1993 George Schlukbier , a news librarian from McClatchy Newspapers became the first New Media Director, hired by Frank Daniels III, editor of the daily paper, to build this new division. The core developers for this effort to prove the Internet was a better partner for newspapers than AOL or Prodigy, were Dave Livingston (nicknamed "Sleepy Squirrel"), Charles Hall, James Calloway, Alfred Filler, Fraser Van Asch, "Zonker" Harris, Mike Emmett and Schlukbier. This team built a GUI to the Internet using The Major BBS as a front end, extended to use traditional Internet applications such as Gopher, WAIS, Lynx and Telnet. With this ad-hoc system, Nando.net provided classified news and became a commercial Internet service provider (ISP) in North Carolina's Research Triangle area, which encompasses Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill.

Technology

Networking

In 1993 networking standards were not as pervasive as they are now. The newspaper publishing tools were based on proprietary networking cards and terminals used with a Tandem mini-computer. AppleTalk over coax cable was the way Macintoshs communicated. Windows 3.1 did not even have a network layer installed by default.

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Nando (Mozambican footballer)

Fernando Paulo "Nando" Matola (9 August 1982 - 2 September 2007 near Duiwelskloof) was a Mozambican football (soccer) player who last played for Black Leopards in South Africa. He was a defender.

Death

Matola was driving from Johannesburg to Maputo for an African Nations Cup qualifier against Tanzania when his car veered off the road and went up in flames. He and his family were burnt beyond recognition and the bodies were discovered four days later in South Africa's mountainous Limpopo province.