Baba 30

The Baba 30 was the smallest craft in the range but very popular, with some 170 having been built. They were built as sturdy vessels suitable for making long offshore and ocean passages needing only a couple of people to crew the boat. Although capable of sleeping 5 people they are generally sailed by couples. Most of these boats can be found in NW America but are also spread all around the worlds ports and anchorages

History

In 1977 Bob Berg, founder of Flying Dutchman International, commissioned Robert Perry to design a new small luxury cruising yacht for him. The result was the range of Babas. Production soon started in Taiwan in the yard of Ta Shing. This yard is still producing high quality motoryachts. The yachts were transported to Seattle in the USA, the home of Bob Berg. Many of the Babas produced still reside in the Puget Sound area. It is believed that the name of the boat came from the way the Taiwanese workers pronounced Bob Berg's name, Ba-Ba, which also means "father" in Chinese.

Baba (name)

Baba is a name and may refer to:

Given name

Surname

Honorific

Baba is often used as an honorific or sobriquet, usually prefixed or suffixed to a name.

Familial

See also

Kelly Key (2001 album)

Kelly Key is the debut album by Brazilian recording pop artist Kelly Key, released on December 22, 2001 by Warner Music. The album brought ten fully copyright tracks, composed by Kelly in partnership with Andinho, Gustavo Lins and Rubens de Paula, plus a remix of "Escondido" as a bonus track. The tracks were produced by DJ Cuca and Sergio Mama, bringing the artistic production was created by Tom Capone and amixagem the Afegan producer directly from the recording studios in New York. Kelly Key brought a differential to join R&B and dance-pop to the mode used by international artists, a novelty in Brazil at that time, with the biggest inspirations the American singers Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna and Janet Jackson, beyond Brazil Luciana Mello and Fernanda Abreu. The album reached the top spot on the music charts in Brazil, selling a total of 500,000 copies and winning the platinum certificate.

The album received mostly positive reviews. Alex Antunes, Portal Dedo do Meio, said the work could address gender and feminism without using profanity and sounding more natural and less "virgin" that other Brazilian artists of pop romantic music, which meant that there was a greater identification of young people with his drive. The portal Contém Pop said the drive was well structured and significantly contributed to the construction and history of Brazilian music. Naiady Piva, the Portal Pop, compared to disk ...Baby One More Time Britney Spears work. Carlos Eduardo Lima, the Scream & Yell magazine, said the album broke the "prefabricated good mocismo hypocritical" in Brazilian music, portraying young people as something enclosed, being the opposite of double Sandy & Junior.

Golem

In Jewish folklore, a golem (/ˈɡoʊləm/ GOH-ləm; Hebrew: גולם‎) is an animated anthropomorphic being, magically created entirely from inanimate matter. The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material (usually out of stone and clay) in Psalms and medieval writing.

The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late-16th-century rabbi of Prague. There are many tales differing on how the golem was brought to life and afterwards controlled.

History

Etymology

The word golem occurs once in the Bible in Psalm 139:16, which uses the word גלמי (galmi; my golem), meaning "my unshaped form", "raw" material, connoting the unfinished human being before God's eyes. The Mishnah uses the term for an uncultivated person: "Seven characteristics are in an uncultivated person, and seven in a learned one," (שבעה דברים בגולם) (Pirkei Avot 5:6 in the Hebrew text; English translations vary). In Modern Hebrew, golem is used to mean "dumb" or "helpless". Similarly, it is often used today as a metaphor for a brainless lunk or entity who serves man under controlled conditions but is hostile to him under others. "Golem" passed into Yiddish as goylem to mean someone who is clumsy or slow.

Mega Man Zero

The Mega Man Zero series, known as Rockman Zero (ロックマンゼロ, Rokkuman Zero) in Japan, is the series succeeding the Mega Man X story-line, and a series in Capcom's Mega Man video game franchise, co-produced by Keiji Inafune, and directed by Mega Man Legends series director Yoshinori Kawano. Consisting of four games developed for the Game Boy Advance by Inti Creates, the series began with the release of Mega Man Zero in 2002. The story follows Zero who is awakened by Ciel from a century-long hibernation to face his former friend Mega Man X, who has begun a genocide on the Reploids. The games follow from the ending of Mega Man X 5, which was intended as the conclusion of that series by Inafune; the further sequels X 6-8 are ignored as they were produced by another unit at Capcom.

Gameplay

Like the Mega Man X series, the Mega Man Zero series is a two-dimensional platform game with run and gun elements that places a heavy emphasis on memorizing boss patterns and selecting the correct weapons to use against enemies. Unlike previous series, the stages of Mega Man Zero are inside of areas that are part of a larger map, and the player could freely explore these areas once the respective mission(s) in each area is completed. However, Mega Man Zero 2 and later entries removed this and returned to the standard format that allowed the player to select a mission from a stage select screen.

Golems (Discworld)

Golems in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series are derived from golems in Jewish mythology; early forms of a clay robot, supposedly awakened by a spell or priestly words to do people's bidding.

Pratchett's golems emphasise the similarity between golems and robots, especially Asenian (Asimov's own term for robots which obey the Three Laws) robots. Their "Chem" (the magic writing in their heads) restricts their behaviour, and is described in similar terms to the Three Laws of Robotics, except that the Chem powers the golem, as well as programming it. However, the Three Laws are considered fundamental to a robot's construction and cannot be changed: by contrast a golem's Chem is in full control of its behaviour. Thus, as Moist von Lipwig discovers, the First Law of Pump 19 (Mr Pump) begins as normal, "A golem cannot harm a human being, nor through inaction allow a human being to come to harm", but has as an addendum '... Unless Ordered To Do So By Duly Constituted Authority."