Track (rail transport)

The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade. It enables trains to move by providing a dependable surface for their wheels to roll. For clarity it is often referred to as railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (predominantly in the United States). Tracks where electric trains or electric trams run are equipped with an electrification system such as an overhead electrical power line or an additional electrified rail.

The term permanent way also refers to the track in addition to lineside structures such as fences etc.

Structure

Traditional track structure

Notwithstanding modern technical developments, the overwhelmingly dominant track form worldwide consists of flat-bottom steel rails supported on timber or pre-stressed concrete sleepers, which are themselves laid on crushed stone ballast.

Fidelipac

The Fidelipac, commonly known as a "NAB cartridge" or simply "cart", is a magnetic tape sound recording format, used for radio broadcasting for playback of material over the air such as radio commercials, jingles, station identifications, and music. Fidelipac is the official name of this industry standard audio tape cartridge. It was developed in 1954 by inventor George Eash (although the invention of the Fidelipac cartridge has also been credited to Vern Nolte of the Automatic Tape Company), and commercially introduced in 1959 by Collins Radio at the 1959 NAB Convention. The cartridge was widely used at radio stations until the late 1990s, when such formats as MiniDisc and computerized broadcast automation made the Fidelipac cartridge obsolete.

History

The Fidelipac cartridge was the first audio tape cartridge available commercially, based on the endless-loop tape cartridge design developed by Bernard Cousino in 1952, while Eash shared space in Cousino's electronics shop in the early 1950s. Instead of manufacturing the Fidelipac format himself after developing it, Eash decided to license it for manufacture to Telepro Industries, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Telepro then manufactured and marketed the format under the Fidelipac brand name.

4-track

4-track or 4-track tape may refer to:

  • The 4-track cartridge as an analogue music storage format popular from the late 1950s
  • A 4-track tape for multitrack recording used in professional recording studios
  • Laura (TV series)

    Laura (also known as Laura en América, Laura sin censura, Laura de todos, and Laura en acción) is a Peruvian talk show, hosted by lawyer Laura Bozzo.

    The show originated as Laura en América ("Laura in America") and first aired on America TV in February 1998. Bozzo had previously done a similar program called Intimidades ("Intimacies") in 1997. Laura is known for displaying various social problems such as domestic violence, adultery, alcoholism and drug addiction.

    Laura en América was the most-watched program in Peru in the late 1990s and one of the most tuned-in talk show in several Latin American countries. The talk show stopped broadcasting in 2001, after the Alberto Fujimori controversy, which involved Bozzo. In the following years, Bozzo continued to record different programs with the same format, but were only transmitted abroad for the Telemundo International chain or cable television. Bozzo had planned to return to Peruvian television through Panamericana Television in 2007, but the project was canceled due to differences between her and her producers. She then returned for a short time at the Peruvian channel ATV, with a program of the same format called Laura en acción ("Laura in action"), which was cancelled due to several complaints.

    Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)

    "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Leon Ashley. Recorded in 1967 and released on his own Ashley Records label, the song was his only No. 1 single that September. Frankie Laine and Brook Benton took cover versions to the pop and Adult Contemporary charts that year, while Claude King, Marty Robbins and Kenny Rogers charted their own versions on the country charts.

    Background

    Ashley had previously released several singles on the Goldband and Imperial record labels, but none of his singles were successful. Then, in 1967, Ashley founded his own label, Ashley Records. That year, he recorded a song he co-wrote with his wife, Margie Singleton: "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)." Released that July, "Laura" went on to become a No. 1 smash on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart by the end of September.

    Plot

    The song is told from the perspective of Laura's husband, and depicts a confrontation the two are having regarding an apparently crumbling marriage.

    Laure (film)

    Laure (also known as Forever Emmanuelle and Laura) is a 1976 Italian erotic film directed by Louis-Jacques Rollet-Andriane and Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli, even if the film was advertised as directed by Emmanuelle Arsan. The first choice for the title role was Linda Lovelace, but due to her personal problems at the time, she was first recast in the secondary role of Natalie Morgan, and eventually put out of the film. It was shot in the Philippines and in Rome.

    Cast

  • Annie Belle: Laure
  • Al Cliver: Nicola
  • Orso Maria Guerrini: Professor Gualtier Morgan
  • Michele Starck: Natalie Morgan
  • Emmanuelle Arsan: Myrte
  • References

    External links

  • Laure at the Internet Movie Database

  • Podcasts:

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    Dark & Grey

    by: Kid Rock

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    I'll probably never make it therrreee
    I never went to college, I ain't got no skills
    I got hair to my shoulders and a bottle of pills
    I got bills stacked up like a turkey club
    I blew my last dime drinkin at the local pub
    I am not sunshine
    I am dark and grey
    For this life of sins
    I live, each day I pay
    I am not Jesus
    But I died in vain
    Only to relive each day I'll pay
    Unlike me, you're gonna run away
    Unlike me, you'll see another day
    Run like me, out on the highway
    I will ride so faaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrr
    I'll probably never make it therrrreeee
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    To the beat y'all
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    You come alive y'all
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    Come on
    I never felt at home, although I grew up loved
    I got a junkies mind in a ramblin man's blood
    Got a flood full of thoughts that's caught in a dam
    Somedays I'm gone, but that's where I am
    I'm fit to slip another rippin rhyme
    I'm so ahead of the game, I feel left behind
    Another dime to boost, I got boots of lead
    Hope I live to see this virus spread
    I am not sunshine
    I am dark and grey
    For this life of sins I live
    Each day I pay
    I am not Jesus
    But I died in vain
    Only to relive each day I pay
    Unlike me, you're gonna run away
    Unlike me, you'll see another day
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