Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia and the West Indies. It is the grain with the second-highest worldwide production, after maize (corn), according to data for 2010.
Since a large portion of maize crops are grown for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important grain with regard to human nutrition and caloric intake, providing more than one fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by the human species.
There are many varieties of rice and culinary preferences tend to vary regionally. For example in India, there is a saying that "grains of rice should be like two brothers, close but not stuck together"[citation needed], while in the Far East there is a preference for softer, stickier varieties. Because of its importance as a staple food, rice has considerable cultural importance. For example, rice is first mentioned in the Yajur Veda and then is frequently referred to in Sanskrit texts.[citation needed] Rice is often directly associated with prosperity and fertility, therefore there is the custom of throwing rice at weddings.
Damien Rice (born 7 December 1973) is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer who plays guitar, piano, clarinet and percussion.
Rice was raised in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland and began his musical career as a member of the 1990s rock group Juniper. After leaving the band he worked as a farmer in Tuscany and busked throughout Europe before returning to Ireland in 2001 and beginning a solo musical career.
In 2002 his debut album O reached #8 on the UK albums chart, won the Shortlist music prize and generated three top-30 singles in the UK. Rice released his second album 9 in 2006 and his songs have appeared in numerous films and television episodes.
Rice's personal activities include musical contributions to charitable projects such as the Songs for Tibet, Freedom Campaign and the Enough Project.
Rice was born to George and Maureen Rice and raised in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland.
Rice began his music career using the stage name "Dodima" Rice[citation needed] and formed the rock band Juniper along with Paul Noonan, Dominic Philips, David Geraghty and Brian Crosby in 1991. The band met whilst they were attending Salesian College secondary school in Celbridge, Co. Kildare as students. After touring throughout Ireland the band released their debut EP Manna in 1995.
Based in Straffan, Kildare the band continued touring and signed a six album record deal with Polygram. Their recording projects generated the singles “Weatherman” and “Single of the Fortnight” which received favorable reviews.
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Captain Saxon, and agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew members of a secret space mission who returned to Earth against orders. It seems that they were all infected with an alien parasite, and they were trying to bring its eggs back to Earth. The eggs were lost in an accident, and both Saxon and the astronauts are trying to locate them. What could the government want them for?
Keywords: abandoned-church, abandoned-warehouse, ak-47, alien, alien-invasion, alien-parasite, alien-possession, armored-car, armory, astronaut
The Unknown Has Revealed Itself
The Future Of Mankind Hangs In The Balance ...
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In rural Comfort, Texas, the strict protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, pretty strictly supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for fraternizing teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the busses even ride early to keep ahead, but the wind makes a river rise too fast: the busses are caught, everybody must run on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can't cling on very long. Some kids break down in understandable panic, others prove true and unselfish courage, including Brad, the natural leader, every girl's dream and the most boisterous of the pack, occasionally braving the rather totalitarian system. Worried parents fly in to the rescue center in a public school, where survivors and corpses are brought in, including that of Tonya Smith; her overprotective father heartlessly does like always: rebuke poor older brother Michael, an obedient, fat kid who never gets a break or treat and still is never good enough for pa's praise, now even gets blamed for 'failing' to watch over his kid sisters, obviously brother Koons's adult team's job, actually just beyond human strength. A brave reporter can't stand by idly as too many victims are still in desperate need for the military rescue crew to handle, but his own helicopter gets in trouble. The growing victims list and guilt feelings, even just for surviving when others didn't, cause a flood of tears too...
Keywords: bus, family-relationships, flood-victim, loss-of-child, loss-of-friend, male-bonding, natural-disaster, prayer, punctuation-in-title, question-in-title
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Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, Kaminsky must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.
Keywords: 1980s, action-hero, adultery, alley-fight, ambush, ashtray, bar-brawl, bar-fight, beretta, blonde
The government gave him a raw deal. Nobody gives him a raw deal.
Nobody gives him a Raw Deal.
His trigger has all the answers.
The system gave him a raw deal. Nobody gives him a raw deal.
Monique: The only way you'll ever end up lying next to me, Max, is if we're run down by the same car.
Monique: Losing improves your character.
Mark Kaminsky: What do you think I look like, Dirty Harry?
Monique: When I want to make friends, I'll go to summer camp.
Luigi Patrovita: Smart I like. Smart ass, I don't!
Mark Kaminsky: Max, if you're the best there is, the wheel would never have been invented.
Chief Harry Shannon: You remember my son Blair?::Mark Kaminsky: Yeah. We went to a few ball games together. He joined the bureau, didn't he?::Chief Harry Shannon: Yeah.::Mark Kaminsky: How is he?::Chief Harry Shannon: [pauses] Dead.
Mark Kaminsky: You should not drink and bake!
[Taking off Kaminski's shirt]::Monique: Oh... my... God!
Mark Kaminsky: Magic? Or magnet?
They hold their forty-four magnums with two hands and keep firing until they hit something ... anything.
They're not cool slick heroes. They're worn, tough men and that's why they're so dangerous.
Frank Boggs: [Hickey and Boggs are loading their revolvers after a run-in with some heavies] Al... You ever kill anybody? In the united states? Because I know you mean it any everything, but I know these guys better than I know you. They're soldiers, that's all. No questions, no time to ask, no talk. Cops are worse, and less predictable. When you pull a gun, you've gotta be ready to kill somebody, and I'm telling you it's better to run.::Al Hickey: Finished?
Al Hickey: It's not about anything.::Frank Boggs: Yeah, it's about four hundred grand.
Al Hickey: [following the final shootout] Nobody came... nobody cares. It's still not about anything.::Frank Boggs: Yeah, you told me.
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While in Vietnam, a GI promises his dying buddy that he'll take care of his motorcycle, "Baby", when he gets back home. After his discharge, he meets up with his dead friend's girlfriend, gets the bike, and then runs into trouble from some other bikers who don't like the idea of his having the motorcycle or the girl.
Keywords: biker, death-of-friend, independent-film, motorcycle, motorcycle-gang, vietnam-veteran
Some machines are more than most men can handle!
Two pretty classy machines... it will take some kind of man to handle both.
He came home for love and peace and found another kind of war.
A BIG CHROME BABY and a BLACK LEATHER DOLL...Both hotter, faster, tougher than most men can handle.
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Charlie and son Jimmy visit an exotic Rio nightclub in the company of local police chief Suoto in order to arrest nightclub chanteuse Lola Dean, whom Charlie believes killed her paramour a year earlier in Honolulu after discovering that he was married. Rather than cause a public scene, the always discreet Chan decides to wait until she gets home. By the time the minions of the law arrive, they find the singer has been stabbed to death, her jewels stolen, and a bevy of clues seemingly planted at the crime scene. Among the suspects are the singer's companion, an ex-husband, a Dean friend along with her boyfriend, an amateur sleuth, her rich playboy fiancée, a rival for his affections, a mind-reading mystic, and, of course, the butler.
Keywords: amateur-detective, asian-comedian, asian-detective, asian-hero, brooch, butler, carioca, character-name-in-title, chinese-hero, chinese-maid
it's Chan's most Spine-tingling mystery!
Charlie Chan: Interesting problem in chemistry: sweet wine always turn women sour.
Jimmy Chan: Watch out, Pop, he's oily and slippery.::Charlie Chan: Slippery man sometimes slip in own oil.
Charlie Chan: Experience teach unless eyewitness present, every murder case is long shot.
He had just returned from Monte Carlo
He was on his way to Japan
And everything they did made me want to emulate them
Made me want to be just like them
And his wife, looking very Japanese
Had never been to Japan
She sang Japanese songs, I tried my best to sing along
And the sky was gray and it looked like it might rain
And I decided that
I was only eating rice from then on
And he spoke of places and of people that I knew very
well
And I asked about them, it seemed painful for him to
speak
She said maybe later, if we go to the movies you can
speak
He was reading heavy books, and seemed burdened by his
knowledge,
She wore a thin Japanese robe
And the sky was gray and it looked like it might rain
And I decided that I was only eating rice from then on
Hey, sweet dreams, great teacher
Hey, great teacher, sweet dreams
Hey, sweet dreams, great teacher
Hey, great teacher, sweet dreams
I will meditate each morning at the sunrise
I will write down all of my dreams
I will travel on the backroads , I will
Keep myself open to whatever
Every day I will learn a secret language
I will make my living in the casino
With 11 or less against a bust card
I will double down
And the sky is gray and it looks like it might rain
And I've decided that I'm only eating rice from now on
Hey, sweet dreams, great teacher