Diary (Ralph Towner album)
Diary is the second album by American guitarist and composer Ralph Towner recorded in 1973 and released on the ECM label.
Reception
The Allmusic review by David R. Adler awarded the album 3 stars stating "It's a solo performance with a twist: Towner plays not only 12-string and classical guitars, but also very competent piano... Towner accompanies himself via overdubs, playing both guitar and piano for an effect vaguely reminiscent of Bill Evans' Conversations With Myself".
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Diary (Charli Baltimore song)
Diary was supposed to be Charli Baltimore's breakout solo hit for Murder Inc. Despite the buzz around Charli and the recording of the album, the single was not promoted and received little airplay. This is mostly due to the single, like her others from the album, being released only as a promo with no video to accompany it. Despite the album not being released and the single receiving such little attention Charli was nominated at the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Solo Performance, but lost to Missy Elliott.
Diaphragm (optics)
In optics, a diaphragm is a thin opaque structure with an opening (aperture) at its center. The role of the diaphragm is to stop the passage of light, except for the light passing through the aperture. Thus it is also called a stop (an aperture stop, if it limits the brightness of light reaching the focal plane, or a field stop or flare stop for other uses of diaphragms in lenses). The diaphragm is placed in the light path of a lens or objective, and the size of the aperture regulates the amount of light that passes through the lens. The centre of the diaphragm's aperture coincides with the optical axis of the lens system.
Most modern cameras use a type of adjustable diaphragm known as an iris diaphragm, and often referred to simply as an iris.
See the articles on aperture and f-number for the photographic effect and system of quantification of varying the opening in the diaphragm.
Iris diaphragms versus other types
A natural optical system that has a diaphragm and an aperture is the human eye. The iris is the diaphragm, and the opening in the iris of the eye (the pupil) is the aperture. An analogous dev in a photographic lens is called an iris diaphragm.
Iris (1987 film)
Iris is a 1987 Netherlands film directed by Mady Saks and starring Monique van de Ven.
Plot
A young woman, Iris, runs away to the big city on her eighteenth birthday. She moves in with an architect and decides to become a veterinarian. With an inheritance she buys an existing clinic in a backwoods town where Iris is leered at by the men, scorned by the women. Cruel jokes and gossip eventually lead to violence.A local thug breaks in her house while she is out. When she returns home late night, he attacks her, drag her to the wooden stairs, ties her hands, stretch her legs wide apart and ties to the railing of stairs and rapes her brutally.
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Iris (EP)
Iris is Miranda Sex Garden's second release, and first EP.
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