Falcon

A falcon (/ˈfɔːlkən, ˈfæl-/) is any one of 37 species of raptors in the genus Falco, widely distributed on all continents of the world except Antarctica.

Adult falcons have thin, tapered wings, which enable them to fly at high speed and to change direction rapidly. Fledgling falcons, in their first year of flying, have longer flight feathers, which make their configuration more like that of a general-purpose bird such as a broadwing. This makes it easier to fly while learning the exceptional skills required to be effective hunters as adults.

The falcons are the largest genus in the Falconinae subfamily of Falconidae, which itself also includes another subfamily comprising caracaras and a few other species. All these birds kill with their beaks, using a "tooth" on the side of their beaks — unlike the hawks, eagles, and other birds of prey in Accipitridae, which use their feet.

Peregrine falcons have been recorded diving at speeds of 200 miles per hour (320 km/h), making them the fastest-moving creatures on Earth. Other falcons include the gyrfalcon, lanner falcon, and merlin. Some small falcons with long, narrow wings are called hobbies, and some which hover while hunting are called kestrels.

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Falcons (disambiguation)

Falcons are a genus of raptor (bird of prey).

Falcons may also refer to:

Atlanta Falcons, an NFL (American) football team

Springfield Falcons, an American Hockey League team

Falcons (rugby team), a South African rugby team who play in the Currie Cup

Newcastle Falcons, a rugby team based in Newcastle, England

Adamson Soaring Falcons, a Collegiate basketball(UAAP) team in the Philippines.

West Perth Football Club, an Australian rules football club

Air Force Falcons, the sports teams of the United States Air Force Academy

Falcons (film), a 2002 film

RAF Falcons, a British military parachute display team

The Falcons, an American rhythm and blues vocal group

The Falcons School for Girls, a British independent girls' school

Falcons (rugby team)

The Falcons – better known by their Afrikaans name the Valke and currently known as the Hino Valke for sponsorship reasons – are a South African rugby union team in Gauteng province that participates in the annual Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup tournaments.

Their home ground is currently Barnard Stadium in Kempton Park, to which they have returned in 2009. The Falcons have operated out of both Bosman Stadium in Brakpan and Pam Brink Stadium in Springs. They occasionally still host matches at Bosman Stadium. The Falcons draw players from Ekurhuleni and other municipalities to the east and south of Johannesburg.

History

The Falcons Rugby Union was originally founded in 1947, and was previously known as the Eastern Transvaal Rugby Football Union. After the 1995 World Cup, rugby was declared a professional sport in South Africa, after which the Eastern Transvaal Rugby Football Union merged with the Vaal Triangle Rugby Union to form the Gauteng Falcons Rugby Union and are one of only fourteen Provincial Unions in the country.

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Jelly

Jelly may refer to:

Objects:

Jelly (fruit preserves), a clear or translucent fruit spread or preserve

Gelatin, a translucent substance extracted from the collagen inside animals' connective tissue, made from bones and pig skin

Gelatin dessert, referred to as jelly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other countries

Temazepam, a powerful hypnotic drug, street name "Jellies"

Jellyfish, also known as jellies

Gelignite, also known as blasting jelly or simply jelly

Jelly shoes, shoes made from semi-transparent PVC plastic

In entertainment:

The Jellys, an English punk/pop band

"Jelly" (song) (2006), by Japanese electronic duo Capsule

Mr. Jelly, title character of the novel Mr. Jelly, in the Mr. Men children's book series

Shadowmoor, a Magic: the Gathering expansion set, codenamed "Jelly" in development

As a name:

Jelly (name), a list of people and one fictional character with the given name, surname or nickname

Other uses:

Jelly (app), an app, and the company behind it (founded by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone)

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Gelatin dessert

Gelatin desserts are desserts made with sweetened and flavored gelatin.

They can be made by combining plain gelatin with other ingredients or by using a premixed blend of gelatin with additives. Fully prepared gelatin desserts are sold in a variety of forms, ranging from large decorative shapes to individual serving cups.

Regional names

In many of the Commonwealth nations including Canada and in Ireland, gelatin desserts are called jelly.

In the United States, gelatin desserts are sometimes colloquially called jello or sometimes gelatin, whereas "jelly" is colloquially a fruit preserve.

Brands

Popular brands of premixed gelatin include:

Aeroplane Jelly in Australia

Hartley's in the United Kingdom

Jell-O from Kraft Foods and Royal from Jel Sert in North America

History

Before gelatin became widely available as a commercial product, the most typical gelatin dessert was "calf's foot jelly". As the name indicates, this was made by extracting and purifying gelatin from the foot of a calf. This gelatin was then mixed with fruit juice and sugar.

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Apache Jelly

Apache Jelly is a Java and XML based scripting and processing engine for turning XML into executable code. Jelly is a component of Apache Commons.

Custom XML languages are commonly created to perform some kind of processing action. Jelly is intended to provide a simple XML based processing engine that can be extended to support various custom actions.

Use by Clarity Software

Clarity PPM Software, a product of CA Technologies, uses Jelly and an additional custom tag library extensively in the implementation of its XML Open Gateway application architecture. The Clarity language is known as GEL (Generic Execution Language) and is a scripting language that is based on the Jelly libraries.

The following example shows how Clarity implements the classical "Hello World" application.