Ilex ( /ˈaɪlɛks/), or holly, is a genus of 400 to 600 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family. The species are evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs, and climbers from tropics to temperate zones worldwide.
Ilex is a genus belonging to the family Aquifoliaceae, native of Afro-Eurasia, Australia and the Americas, established by Carl Linnaeus. It has over 300 species in the subtropical regions of both hemispheres. The genus includes species of trees, shrubs, and climbers, with evergreen or deciduous foliage and inconspicuous flowers. The genus was more extended in the tertiary and many species have adapted to laurel forest habitat. Ilex is adapted from sea level to more than 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) with high mountain species. Ilex are dioecious and have smooth, glabrous, or pubescent branchlets. The plants are generally slow-growing but over time can reach more than 10 m (33 ft). The genus name aquifolium is derived from the Latin (acer = "acute" & folium = "leaf"). Many are evergreen tree with some species growing to 25 m (82 ft) tall. Type species is the Mediterranean Ilex aquifolium described by Linnaeus.
Federico Buffa (28 July 1959, Milan) is an Italian journalist, writer and television sportscaster.
He has studied sociology at UCLA Summer Session in 1978. He obtained his degree at University of Milan in 1986 (Law). In the same year he wrote his first article for Italian Magazine "Superbasket" (which has been published on September's Number). Two years later he began working as basketball agent and started his career as NBA's commentator for Italian TV. He still works as journalist for Sky Sport Italia and Milan Channel.
Holly Holm (born October 17, 1981) is a female boxer (who won titles in three divisions), mixed martial artist, and former kickboxer currently contracted under Fresquez Productions promoted by Lenny Fresquez.
5'8" southpaw Holly Holm from Sandia Heights in Albuquerque, New Mexico was born on October 17, 1981. Holm grew up in Bosque Farms and graduated from Manzano High School in 2000 and studied for a year at the University of New Mexico. She played soccer and tried gymnastics, swimming and diving before getting into boxing and kickboxing. Holly's path to a boxing career began with aerobics. "I started aerobics to keep in shape, saw the (kickboxing) class, thought it looked pretty cool, so I thought I'd try it for one fight and see what it was like," says Holm.
Her aerobics instructor was Mike Winkeljohn, who also taught kickboxing. Winklejohn soon saw Holm's potential. "She's got that instinct," he says, "When she gets hit, she knows it's time to come back. I wish I could bottle (what she has) and sell it." "(Boxing) came easier to me than I thought it would," says Holm. "When I first started, my punches seemed real clumsy, but Mr. Winkeljohn is a great instructor. He helped me with my technique, and he felt ... he could work with me." In Kansas City, MO in the Fall of 2001, Holly competed in the International Kickboxing Federation and Ringside's annual amateur kickboxing USA national championship tournament. Holly defeated Chrisanne Roseleip by unanimous decision in the final round of the tournament, winning the national title in the international rules adult women's welterweight division, which would mark her last kickboxing appearance before her pro debut. Her overall amateur kickboxing record stood at 6-0-2.
Ronda Rousey (born February 1, 1987) is an American judoka and mixed martial artist and the current Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion. She has finished all of her opponents by armbar in the first round. She formerly trained at the Olympic Training Center in Wakefield, Massachusetts under guidance of Jimmy Pedro and is now part of Team Hayastan in Santa Monica, California.
Rousey trains under Gokor Chivichyan and Edmond Tarverdyan of the Glendale Fighting Club in Glendale, CA. Rousey also trains with Leo Frincu and Gene Lebell, along with Team Hayastan fighters such as Manny Gamburyan, Karen Darabedyan, Sako Chivitchian and Sevak Magakian. She is managed by Darin Harvey of Fight Tribe MMA.
Rousey is currently the #1-ranked pound-for-pound female MMA fighter in the world by MMARising.com, and is ranked #1 at 135 pounds and #2 at 145 pounds according to the Unified Women's MMA Rankings.
At just 17, Rousey qualified for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, becoming the youngest judo player in the entire Games. Also in 2004, Rousey won a gold medal at the 2004 World Junior Judo Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and innovations inspired and influenced contemporary and later musicians, notably The Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Don McLean, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, and exerted a profound influence on popular music. Holly was among the first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Holly #13 among "The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time".
Charles Hardin Holley was born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, to Lawrence Odell and Ella Pauline (Drake) Holley. In Philip Norman's biography it is stated that his mother's family claimed to be descended from the English navigator Francis Drake.
Golden sun is rising in the sky
Emerald birds glide through a rainbow as they fly
Bringing beauty Holly enters my mind.
Where the crystal ocean finds the shore
Diamond waves reflect the love we shared before
Through the silence Holly enters my mind.
All alone as I walk by the sea
Thoughts of Holly are my company
For she calls to me with each shining ray
With each season's change
With the sun and the sea and the sky she remains.
Though the world must take her far away
On a velvet wind she comes to me each day
When I'm lonely Holly enters my mind
I think you should leave him
The next time you see him
I can't let you get hurt again
And I don't want your reasons
I know what your feeling
But he'll let you down in the end
Cause if things were the way that you say
Then you wouldn't call me like everyday
Girl I know that your young
And he seems like the one
But I think your just hurting yourself (yourself)
He'll break your defenses
And make you feel helpless
You'll fell like there's no one but him
But you'll soon regret this
Cause all this in senseless
The struggle that your caught up in
Cause if things were the way that you say
Then you wouldn't call me like everyday [x2]
When the weekend is over
You'll lay on my shoulder
And tell me that you don't want him
But when he gets his boner
You'll go running over
And all that shit starts up again
I know who you are
I've been there from the start
So I'm telling you this as a friend
Don't wait till that part
When that boy tears your heart
Before you start to think with your head
Cause if things were the way that you say
Marilyn baby, wants to be a pop star
She's seventeen, and very unhappy
Frankie baby, used to be a big fish
He's ethnic boy and aint got no money
And Holly wouldn't be so precious
If the beach bum beauties
Weren't so delicious in Hollywood
Who cares anyway?
Who really cares anyway?
Frankie baby, sees punks on the sidewalk
Freaks on the freeway
Someone blows a kid away
Have a nice day
And sweet sweet Marilyn
A streetwise heroine
A tricks, a fix, a fix, a tricks, a fix, a fix
She'll do anything
And Holly woudn't be so tragic
When everybody trips the light fantastic
In Hollywood
Who cares anyway? Who really cares anyway?
In the Hollywood bowl of serial killers
Who cares anyway?
Holly doesn't give a damn...
Holly doesn't give a damn...
Who cares anyway? Who really cares anyway?
Whenever your heart feels like giving in
Always remember that I'll be there for it all
Cause there's nothing I would rather do
You always gotta remember
It's me and you and you and me
Against it all that's the way it gonna be
So don't forget
I'll catch ya through it all
No thunder no storm can stop me now
Cause I'll be to catch you through it all
No lighting can come between us no thunder no storm is gonna break me down
I'll fight to my very breath for you all always will
The world can't pull us down
Nothing can stop us it never will
Cause it always gonna be me and you against it all
Through to the very end
No storm can bring us down
No gravity can pull us down
So why fight the feeling it was always meant to be
It gonna be me and you and you and me against all it
And nothing can stop uo from winning the fight
L.A. L.A. hasn't killed me yet, oh no Err anyways Anyways, the Sun still shines through
HOLLY
[A.HAGGAR/D.RAMBO]
I WAS TALKING TO THIS FRIEND OF MINE
AND THE DETAILS OF HIS CRAZY LIFE
REMIND ME THAT WE’RE NOT ALONE
THERES A WINDOW WHERE
THERE WAS ONCE A WALL… THATS ALL
COULD’VE BEEN MYSELF AROUND YOU
WHEN THE LIGHT GOES DOWN ON YOUR FACE
THE MOMENT I LEARNED THIS ALONE
YOU WERE MY SPECIAL PLACE… TO BE
NOW I’M ADDICTED TO YOU
HOLLYWOOD YOU KNOW
I’VE COME ADDICTED TO YOU
BUT I’M STRANDED IN A RESTAURANT
I’VE GOT NO IDEA WHAT I WHAT
MY HEART WAS IN ANOTHER ROOM
AND I LOVED HER THERE
BUT SHE NEVER KNEW
NOW EVERY TIME I’M ABOUT TO LEAVE
WHY DO YOU CONTROL EVERYTHING?
IT’S SO BENEATH YOU
BUT YOU GET ME EVERY TIME
NOW I’M- I’M SLIPPING
I’M SLIPPING, I’M SLIPPING OFF AGAIN
Holly, maybe it's a clue that something's strange when
you're lying in pajamas in the rain and screaming
nonsense. Holly, my sandals are solid on the street while
you're stuck in stocking feet, soaked on the sidewalk.
Holly, your closet full of turtlenecks (all black) made
me think it was just an act. I've been so stupid. But,
Holly, I swear I'll take you seriously now, though I
wonder exactly how I should approach you when all the
spaces in your head become like border lines instead
around your dormitory bed. I'll get you past them then,
this time for real. And what does this mean to you? I
know you're not in any shape to say. What does this mean
to me? I know that when you're pushing me away, you think
you're doing me a favor. Well, you're someone that I'll
stay for now. Holly, this waiting room is all I've seen.
I'm thumbing through a children's magazine to curb my
worry. But, Holly, I'm still the one you cannot drive
away. By your side I swore I'd stay, and I'm still right
here. I've had this blanket since I was born. It's all
chewed up, it's all torn. I know it will not keep you
warm, but maybe you'll see its ratty charm when you can