Åsen is a village and former municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. The former municipality constitutes the southern part of the present-day municipality of Levanger, bordering Stjørdal to the south.
The village of Åsen is located along the European route E6 highway and the Nordlandsbanen railway line with the Åsen Station. The village sits between the lakes Hammervatnet and Hoklingen. It is home to the Åsen Church. The 0.52-square-kilometre (130-acre) village has a population (2013) of 593. The population density is 1,140 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,000/sq mi).
The municipality of Aasen was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The spelling was later changed to Åsen. On 1 January 1962, Åsen was merged with Frol, Levanger, and Skogn to form a new, larger Levanger municipality. Prior to the merger, Åsen had a population of 1,939.
Thailand adopted the metric system on 17 December 1923. However, old Thai units are still in common use, especially for measurements of land.
Before metrication, the traditional system of measurement used in Thailand employed anthropic units. Some of these units are still in use, albeit standardised to SI/metric measurements. When the Royal Thai Survey Department began cadastral survey in 1896, Director R. W. Giblin, F.R.G.S., noted, "It so happens that 40 metres or 4,000 centimetres are equal to one sen," so all cadastral plans are plotted, drawn, and printed to a scale of 1:4,000. The square wa, ngan and rai are still used in measurements of land area.
The baht is still used as a unit of measurement in gold trading. However, one baht of 96.5% gold bullion is defined as 15.16 grams rather than the generic standard of 15 grams. The baht has also become the name of the currency of Thailand, which was originally fixed to the corresponding mass of silver.
Professional go handicaps were a system developed in Japan, in the Edo period, for handicapping professional players of the game of go against each other. With the abolition of the Oteai system, which from the 1920s had used some handicap games to determine the go ranking of professional players, this system has become obsolete. It is now completely superseded by the use of komidashi. Knowledge of it is required to understand the conditions of play in historical go matches, particularly the jubango that died out around 1960.
The professional go ranks have traditionally been divided into nine levels, with shodan or 1 dan being the initial grade for a student player certified as professional (kishi in Japanese). The ranks go up to 9 dan, the whole system being based on old customs from the Chinese Imperial court. (The imperial court had 1 pin as highest and 9 pin as lowest however) To this day there are nine professional dan levels in China and South Korean as well as in Japan; the same applies in Taiwan. The basic system described at go handicaps is insufficient to provide an accurate ranking, because professional levels are closer together. It is considered inconceivable that any pro should take a four-stone handicap from another.
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Iraí is a municipality in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
IRA - Polish rock band formed in 1987 in Radom by Jakub Płucisz (guitar), Wojciech Owczarek (drums), Artur Gadowski (vocal, guitar), Dariusz Grudzień (bass) and Grzegorz Wawrzeńczuk (keyboards). They gained a wide popularity in Poland in the early nineties, mainly after releasing the "Mój Dom" album, with the hit title song, which was still during their garage and semi-professional days. They also gained some local popularity amongst the Polish-speaking citizens in the United States, where they lived and worked for few months. After signing a professional contract back in Poland, they released a few albums which didn't prove to be commercially successful (except for the "Mój Dom" follow-up, which was "IRA 1993"), and the band disbanded afterwards. Artur Gadowski started a solo career. He opened for Brian May before his show in Warsaw in September 1998. Artur's solo efforts weren't very successful either, and what success he did gain was largely based on the then legendary status of IRA. A few years later the band reunited, and exists up to now. Once again, they have not attained much popularity, but are well-known amongst hard rock fans in Poland (though they play mainly pop-oriented hard rock), and their concerts are selling rather well.
Body like a goddess, some say you're the hottest,
I gotta be honest, I ain't seen a body this cold in a long damn time, girl,
Soon as I saw you, knew I had to make you mine, girl (oh),
Ain't nobody, gon' stop me neither,
You been stuck in my mind, bet you got cabin fever,
You got the coldest kisses,
You got the sickest touch,
I might just freeze the death,
But I can't get enough..
I gotta be wrapped up in love with you,
When you do, what you do, when you do it,
(I gotta be wrapped up in love with you)
I don't even think you know what you're doing,
(You're so hot so cool, you're so hot so cool, baby)
It's something about the way you love,
(You're so hot so cool, you're so hot so cool, baby)
All year 'round, you don't give up
Chorus:
You are my, winter time, summer shine, you brighten my days,
Ice or snow, you always know, just how to keep, the heat away,
You're my cool breeze, You're my cool breeze
You're my cool breeze, You're my my my my cool breeze
You're my cool breeze, You're my cool breeze
You're my cool breeze, You're my my my my cool breeze
You turn me on whenever you turn me down, Oh, you're so cold,
I put my heart in the wind and it just follows,
Wherever that, cool breeze goes,
Aye, girl, say, girl,
I'm just tryin chill,
And you're the coolest thing walking with a sex appeal,
You got the coldest kisses,
Yougot the sickest touch,
I might just freeze to death,
But I can't get enough..
I gotta be wrapped up in love with you,
When you do, what you do, when you do it,
(I gotta be wrapped up in love with you)
I don't even think you know what you're doing,
(You're so hot so cool, you're so hot so cool, baby)
There's something about the way you love,
(You're so hot so cool, you're so hot so cool, baby)
All year 'round, you don't give up
[Chorus:]
I've, never met anyone, quite as real as you,
I wouldn't change a thing, I'm so complete with you,
Baby, make a promise, you will never leave me,
Cause you are sun, you are my moon, you're my everything
[2 x Chorus:]
cool breeze, cool breeze