Twig

A twig is a small thin terminal branch of a woody plant. The buds on the twig are an important diagnostic characteristic, as are the abscission scars where the leaves have fallen away. The color, texture, and patterning of the twig bark are also important, in addition to the thickness and nature of any pith of the twig.

There are two types of twig, vegetative twigs and fruiting spurs. Fruiting spurs are specialized twigs that generally branch off the sides of branches and leading twigs, and are stubby and slow-growing, with many annular ring markings from seasons past. The age and rate of growth of a twig can be determined by counting the winter terminal bud scale scars, or annular ring marking, down the length of the twig.

References

Twig (novel)

Twig is a children's fantasy novel written and illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones. It was originally published by Macmillan in 1942. The book was reissued in a 60th Anniversary Edition by Purple House Press in 2002.

Plot summary

The novel features Twig, a imaginative little city girl who turns a tomato can into a house for fairies. A little elf comes along to live in the house and, at Twig's request, turns her fairy-sized, though he cannot manage wings. A friendly sparrow fetches the Queen of the fairies to help.

Reception

The New York Times praised the book by saying, "Miss Jones, who knows children well, has told stories with warmth and simplicity." The Horn Book Guide's review of the anniversary edition described the book as "full of magic, full of fun, full of fantasy interwoven with reality, and full of the kind of tenderness which belongs most particularly to the very young."

The book was so popular at the time Elizabeth moved to the town of Mason, New Hampshire that Elizabeth herself was known as "Twig" to her neighbors; many residents did not know her as anything else.

Twig (template engine)

Twig is a template engine for the PHP programming language. Its syntax originates from Jinja and Django templates. It's an open source product licensed under a BSD License and maintained by Fabien Potencier. The initial version was created by Armin Ronacher. Symfony2 PHP framework comes with a bundled support for Twig as its default template engine.

Example

The example below demonstrates some basic features of Twig.

Twig defines three kinds of delimiters:

  • {% ... %}, which is used to execute statements, such as for-loops.
  • {{ ... }}, which is used to print the content of variables or the result of evaluating an expression.
  • {# ... #}, which is used to add comments in the templates. These comments aren't included in the rendered page.
  • Features

  • complex control flow
  • automatic escaping
  • template inheritance
  • variable filters
  • i18n support (gettext)
  • macros
  • fully extendable
  • See also

  • Smarty
  • Twital, a template engine that compile its sources into Twig templates, adding some features as context-aware escaping, attribute-expression and creating more readable templates.
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:
    • by The Presidents Of The United States Of America
    • by Presidents of the United States of America
    • by Woven Hand
    • by Beck

    Twig

    by: The Presidents Of The United States Of America

    Some weepy, creepy, willow, pillow boggy shit
    Transcendental big wheel can ya feel it
    I got a chickey face down trippin' so damn hard
    His head splits open, stuffin' spills out into the car
    Cup of dirty water and a lonely boney frog
    Slip me seven dollars and I'll pump it full of smog
    You paint a monkey gold, let him loose downtown
    You start him with a smile, he'll come back with a frown
    He's just a twig in the wind, a twig in the wind
    A twig in the wind, a twig in the wind
    I'm thick and thin and all right
    I'm happy feeling crappy in my nappy little car
    Squozen, frozen, duplicated, drunk in a bar
    Tape recorded all distorted genius machine
    A spokes model dipped in refried beans
    And piggies' fateful price to put their necks on the stump
    Dusty busted skeletons who pay at the pump
    Multi-nippled rotating DJ sap
    I'm shoulder high in crap and my water wings are flat
    I'm just a twig in the wind, a twig in the wind
    A twig in the wind, a twig in the wind
    I'm thick and I'm thin and alright
    I'm twig in the wind, a twig in the wind
    A twig in the wind, a twig in the wind
    A twig in the wind, a twig in the wind
    Well alright




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