Vegas (song)
"Vegas" is the fourth single by English Britpop band Sleeper, written by the band's vocalist and guitarist Louise Wener. It was the fourth and final single to be released from their debut album Smart in March 1994 (see 1994 in British music). The single peaked at #33 on the UK Singles Chart.
The single version, also used in the video, is a completely re-recorded version of the song originally featured on the album. This version features saxophone credited to Morgan C. Hoax- an anagram of Graham Coxon from Blur who recorded his contribution after Sleeper supported Blur on tour.
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Vegas (pinball)
The Vegas is a Gottlieb pinball machine with a card game theme. It first appeared in July 1990. About 1500 were manufactured.
Description
Several strategies allow players to win a free game:
The motif feature graphics that were already retro in the era of its release. The dominant color is pink with a charming hostess on the vertical display at the back of the machine.
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Vegas (disambiguation)
Vegas (Spanish for "fertile valleys") is short for Las Vegas, and usually refers to:
Places
Entertainment
Television
Music
Other entertainment
Jack (chacma baboon)
Jack (died 1890) was a chacma baboon, who attained a measure of fame for acting as an assistant to a disabled railroad signalman in South Africa.
History
Jack was the pet and assistant of paraplegic signalman James Wide, who worked for the Cape Town-Port Elizabeth Railway service. James "Jumper" Wide had been known for jumping between railcars prior to an accident where he fell and lost both of his legs. To assist in performing his duties, Wide purchased the baboon named "Jack" and trained him to push his wheelchair and to operate the railways signals under supervision.
An official investigation was initiated after a concerned member of the public reported that a baboon was observed changing railway signals at Uitenhage near Port Elizabeth.
After initial skepticism, the railway decided to officially employ Jack once his job competency was verified. The baboon was paid twenty cents a day, and a half-bottle of beer each week. It is widely reported that in his nine years of employment with the railroad, Jack never made a mistake.
Jack Shephard
Dr. Jack Shephard is a fictional character and the protagonist of the ABC television series Lost, played by Matthew Fox. Lost follows the journey of the survivors of Oceanic Airlines flight 815 on a mysterious island and their attempts to survive and escape, slowly uncovering more of the much broader island history they are a part of. The character was originally conceived by creator J. J. Abrams, though the direction of storylines owes more to co-creator Damon Lindelof and fellow showrunner Carlton Cuse. J.J. Abrams, the creator of Lost, once told Entertainment Weekly, "Jack Shephard may be the greatest leader in any television series." Actor Matthew Fox would have some influence on the character during the course of the series' production. For example, Fox's own tattoos were incorporated into the character's backstory. Although at an early stage in the show's development, the character was originally intended to die in the pilot, the writers soon changed this plan, and Jack became the show's main character from its pilot episode onwards.
Jack (human modeling)
The Jack human simulation system was developed at the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1980s & 1990s. Conceived as an ergonomic assessment and virtual human prototyping system for NASA space shuttle development, it soon gathered funding from the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army for dismounted soldier simulation, from the U.S. Air Force for maintenance simulation, and from various other government and corporate users for their own applications. In 1996 the software was spun off into a privately held company and is now sold as an ergonomic human simulation toolkit (called Tecnomatix Jack) by Siemens. The research and development of the Jack system have led to such standards as H-anim and MPEG4 Body Animation Parameters.
The roots of most modern human animation Inverse kinematics systems can be traced to the research and development done for the Jack system. Some of these animation systems include those integrated with Autodesk's 3ds max, Maya, and proprietary in-house systems used by various animation studios, such as Industrial Light and Magic.
Vegas, Jack Filmography
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Jack Vegas
Flash my face no intro needed
My self-awareness has not been mistreated
The times the fire on a blackened sky
I won't break my in a selfish try just to
Create my ideal picture
Sex is free and my check's nine figures
The gold on my teeth draw the attention
Away from my suit, pure velvet body suspension
You know who I am
Jack's the name, style in a frame
My ego is fit and my account the same
Shelby GT, black eyes behind shades
I get out of bed as the daylight fades on me
I will knock you out, by sheer appearance
Blinded by grace, you know me
Sharpened moves, to clear interference
You know my face, yeah you know me
You know, I feel your eyes on me
I know you're watching me
Who I am, I know it's hard to say
Want to be me in every way
There's nothing wrong with the things I do
I only do them because you want me to
Ignorant, the things I do you despise
What you don't understand, I'm beyond life and you
I will knock you out, by sheer appearance
Blinded by grace, you know me
Sharpened moves to clear interference
