A nostril (or naris, pl. nares) is one of the two channels of the nose, from the point where they bifurcate to the external opening. In birds and mammals, they contain branched bones or cartilages called turbinates, whose function is to warm air on inhalation and remove moisture on exhalation. Fish do not breathe through their noses, but they do have two small holes used for smelling which may be called nostrils.

The Procellariiformes are distinguished from other birds by having tubular extensions of their nostrils.

In humans, the nasal cycle is the normal ultradian cycle of each nostril's blood vessels becoming engorged in swelling, then shrinking.

The nostrils are separated by the septum. The septum can sometimes be deviated, causing one nostril to appear larger than the other. In extraordinary cases such as that of British television actress Danniella Westbrook, excessive use of cocaine can cause the septum to become disfigured or destroyed. In such an event, the two nostrils are no longer separated and form a single larger external opening.

Humans have two external with two additional nostrils inside the head. These internal nostrils are called "choana" and each contain approximately 1000 strands of nasal hair. They also connect the nose to the throat aiding in respiration. Scientists believe they migrated back inside as evidenced by the discovery of "Kenichthys campbelli", a 395 million-year-old fossilized fish which shows this migration in progress. It has two nostrils between its front teeth, similar to human embryos at an early stage. If these fail to join up it causes a 'cleft palate'.

It is possible for humans to smell different olfactory inputs in the two nostrils and experience a perceptual rivalry akin to that of binocular rivalry when there are two different inputs to the two eyes.

References

See also

Dilator naris muscle

External links

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Name	Aira Yuhki 結城アイラ
Background	solo_singer
Born	August 28, 1981
Origin	Japan
Genre	J-pop
Occupation	Singer
Years active	2007 – present
Label	Lantis
Url	spacecraft.co.jp/yuuki_aira/index.html

}} is a female Japanese singer attached to record label Lantis and belongs to the Space Craft Group agency. She began her career in 2007 and since then has primarily sung songs that were used for theme music in anime. She has put out seven singles and released her debut album Reflection on July 2, 2008. Her second album Eternalize. was released on June 9, 2010.

Discography

Singles

#"Colorless Wind", released April 25, 2007 #, released August 8, 2007 #, released February 6, 2008 #"Blue sky, True sky", released April 22, 2009 #"Weeping Alone", released August 26, 2009 #"Dominant Space", released February 10, 2010 #, released July 21, 2010 #, released on October 27, 2010

Compilations

Oratorio, released August 8, 2007 Metamorphoses, released March 12, 2008 Tears for truth: True Tears Image Song Collection, released April 16, 2008 Shina Dark: Kuroki Tsuki no Ō to Sōheki no Himegimi Vocal Album, released November 26, 2008 Brilliant World, released January 7, 2009 Tears to Tiara Prologue Sound Track "origo cunctarum rerum", released March 4, 2009 Sora o Miageru Shōjo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai Inspired Album, released March 25, 2009 Gundam Tribute from Lantis, released December 9, 2009 Densetsu no Yūsha no Densetsu no Radio Omatome'ban 1, released September 22, 2010 Mojūtsukai to Ōji-sama Character Song Album, released October 20, 2010 Aijō Kakyoku, released October 27, 2010 Fortissimo Songs, released October 27, 2010

Appearances

Radio

, Nippon Cultural Broadcast's Chou!A+G since October 2010

Drama CDs

Anikoi - Female student

Vomic - Katekyō Hitman Reborn! - Adell Suzuki

Strobe Edge - Tamaki

References

External links

Aira Yuhki at Space Craft Group Aira Yuhki at Lantis Aira Yuhki at Oricon Aira Yuhki and Yuuka Nanri at 'Yuuka to Aira no Radio Hako'iri Hime' blog Interview with Aira Yuhki for Lantis Festival

Category:1981 births Category:Japanese female singers Category:Japanese-language singers Category:Lantis Category:Living people

Name	Minoru Suzuki
Caption	Suzuki in April 2008.
Birth date	June 17, 1968
Birth place	Yokohama, Kanagawa
Nationality	Japanese
Height
Weight
Style	Catch wrestling
Team	Pancrase Mission
Rank	Olympian Alternate Freestyle Wrestler
Mma win	28
Mma kowin	2
Mma subwin	19
Mma loss	19
Mma draw	0

is a Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. Suzuki was the co-founder of Pancrase, one of the first mixed martial arts organizations in the world. During the 1990s he was known as one of the best fighters in the Pancrase promotion and was the second King of Pancrase world champion. Suzuki returned to regular puroresu in 2003, where he has become a perennial top contender for all major Japanese heavyweight championships. He is currently performing at All Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a former two-time AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion.

Suzuki is well noted for his excellence in freestyle wrestling and catch wrestling. He was an Olympic alternate freestyle wrestler for Japan and former Japanese freestyle wrestling national champion. As good as his wrestling credentials are, Suzuki is even more respected for his excellence in the art of catch wrestling and submissions. Suzuki has been praised many times by elite fighters such as Josh Barnett, Bas Rutten and Ken Shamrock for his outstanding grappling and submission skills.

Career

Pancrase

Suzuki trained at the New Japan Pro Wrestling dojo and made his pro wrestling debut in 1988, but soon after left with catch wrestling mentor Yoshiaki Fujiwara for the newborn UWF. He joined Fujiwara's Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi but then left the organization to form Pancrase, one of the first mixed martial arts organizations in the world, in 1993 with Masakatsu Funaki.

Despite his significant size disadvantage against most competitors, Suzuki became one of the most successful fighters in Pancrase with his amazing submission skills and top wrestling ability. Suzuki began his MMA career going 7-0, including a huge upset win over Pancrase's #1 fighter Ken Shamrock in early 1994. He did not lose a match until he lost to Bas Rutten via Liver shot KO due to a knee to the body. In 1995, he won the King of Pancrase (now KOP Open-Weight) title to become the second ever King of Pancrase. Suzuki twice defeated Ken Shamrock and is the only man to hold two wins over Shamrock in the Pancrase era.

Over time, Suzuki's body became damaged and worn down from various injuries and resulted in his skills diminishing. He then decided to focus on the business and training side of Pancrase. He collaborated with the Tekken series of fighting video games as a motion actor. His last non-worked fight for Pancrase was against a professional wrestler, Jushin Liger, whom Suzuki had known as Keiichi Yamada in his first NJPW stint. At the time he competed in grappling matches almost exclusively. Suzuki witnessed the transition Pancrase made from the so-called "hybrid wrestling" style to that of regular MMA and was instrumental in paving the way for mixed martial arts in Japan.

Suzuki is also erroneously credited on his mixed martial arts record by various MMA websites with a loss to Maurice Smith on the event Pancrase- Yes, We are Hybrid Wrestlers 3. Suzuki did lose the bout with Smith, but the bout was a kickboxing match with kickboxing rules and kickboxing gloves and was not a mixed martial arts match.

Return to professional wrestling

show.]] In 2003, Suzuki and Yusuke Fuke announced their plan to return to puroresu and invade promotions under the stable name Pancrase MISSION. Suzuki began competing for New Japan Pro Wrestling as a freelancer, where he aligned himself with Yoshihiro Takayama and won the IWGP Tag Team Titles from Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Osamu Nishimura on February 1, 2004. They were stripped of the titles later in the year, following Takayama's mounting injuries. In 2005, Suzuki began competing in Pro Wrestling Noah, and would receive a GHC Heavyweight Championship shot against then Champion Kenta Kobashi, but he was defeated. After this, he found an unlikely ally in Naomichi Marufuji, whose style was Lucha Libre (rather than shoot-style). Nonetheless, Suzuki taught Marufuji some of what he knew and they clicked, winning the GHC Tag Team Titles from 2 Cold Scorpio and Doug Williams on June 18, 2005. After losing the belts to Muhammad Yone and Takeshi Morishima in October, Suzuki challenged for the GHC Heavyweight Championship shot against champion Jun Akiyama on March 5, 2006, but he was once again unsuccessful.

All Japan Pro Wrestling

On March 10, 2006, Suzuki made a surprise appearance in All Japan Pro Wrestling, attacking then Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion Satoshi Kojima after he had just defended his title against The Great Muta. Pundits at once considered Suzuki to have issued a challenge for the Triple Crown. Suzuki participated in the 2006 Champion's Carnival, and made it to the semifinals before being defeated by Taiyō Kea. On September 3, Suzuki challenged Kea, who had won the Triple Crown from Kojima in July. He was successful in his bid to become the new Triple Crown Champion, and will end up having successful defenses against RO'Z, Yuji Nagata, Kojima, Tajiri and Keiji Mutoh. Suzuki has formed a grouping called "Minoru Gundan" consisting of himself, Nosawa Rongai, and MAZADA. In May 2007 he went on a tour of Mexico's CMLL with Takayama and experienced Lucha Libre battles. He lost the Triple Crown Championship to Kensuke Sasaki on August 26, 2007 at AJPW's PRO WRESTLING LOVE in RYOGOKU pay-per-view event.

At the All Japan FAN APPRECIATION DAY event on December 16, 2007, the Mexico Amigos teamed with "Ray Suzuki" and defeated Ryuji Hijikata, Kikutaro, T28 & Ryuji Yamaguchi. After the match, Ray Suzuki reveled himself as Minoru Suzuki and vowed that El NOSAWA Mendoza would throw his Amigos tights away and return as NOSAWA Rongai, and then kidnapped him to start early training.

On March 1, 2008, Minoru Suzuki made an appearance at the Dory Funk, Jr. retirement show, providing commentary for the Triple Crown Championship main event (between Kensuke Sasaki and Satoshi Kojima), as well as pledging to participate in the upcoming Champion's Carnival. From April 5 to 9, Suzuki competed in Block B of All Japan's annual Champion's Carnival, finishing the league with 2 wins (over Kensuke Sasaki and Suwama) and 2 losses (to Osamu Nishimura and Joe Doering), as well as teaming with TAKEMURA to defeat Toshiaki Kawada and Nobutaka Araya on Day 2 (April 6) of the Carnival. During the Hold Out tour, Suzuki confronted a losing-streak Taiyō Kea about joining the stable GURENTAI (alongside NOSAWA, MAZADA and TAKEMURA), which resulted in Kea joining and focusing on winning the tag titles with Suzuki. On June 28, 2008, Suzuki and Kea won the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship from Joe Doering and Keiji Mutoh. On September 28, 2008 he attacked The Great Muta after Muta had successfully defeated Suwama for the Triple Crown Championship, setting up a match between the two in which he lost on November 3, 2008.

On January 3, 2009, Suzuki and stable mate NOSAWA Rongai won the restored AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship, over the course of a 2-day tournament. Later in the year, Suzuki won the 2009 Champion's Carnival beating Kaz Hayashi in the Finals. He would end up challenging the then Triple Crown Champion, Yoshihiro Takayama, on May 30, 2009, albeit in a losing effort. On September 23, 2009, Suzuki and NOSAWA lost the All Asia Tag Team Championship at the hands of Akebono and Ryota Hama. On January 3, 2010, Suzuki and Kea lost the Unified World Tag Team Championship at the hands of Masakatsu Funaki and Keiji Mutoh.

On March 21, 2010, Suzuki lost to long-time rival Masakatsu Funaki in All Japan's First Cage Match. Suzuki then entered the Champion Carnival and won it for the second straight year, being the third man to do so by beating Funaki in the Final - weeks removed from their Cage Match. After the final, Suzuki buried the hatchet with Funaki by shaking his hand, thus ending the decade-long rivalry. Suzuki then declared his GURENTAI stable on hiatus. As a result of his Champion Carnival victory, Suzuki earned a Triple Crown championship match versus Ryota Hama on May 2. In the match, Suzuki defeated Hama to claim his second Triple Crown championship. He would go on to lose the title to Suwama on August 29, 2010.

On December 12, 2010, Suzuki returned to New Japan Pro Wrestling, attacking old rival Yuji Nagata. On January 4, 2011, at Wrestle Kingdom V in Tokyo Dome, Suzuki faced Nagata in a losing effort.

In wrestling

Finishing moves

*Saka Otoshi (Inverted facelock takeover followed into a rear naked choke)

*Sleeper hold

*Gotch Piledriver (Cradle piledriver)

Signature moves

*Hard slaps to the opponent's face

*Octopus hold, sometimes to a seated opponent

*Running low-angle dropkick to an opponent seated in the corner

Championships and accomplishments

Professional wrestling

All Japan Pro Wrestling

*AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Nosawa Rongai

*AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship (2 times)

*AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Taiyō Kea

*Champion's Carnival (2009, 2010)

*Kokomi Sakura Cup (2010)

New Japan Pro Wrestling

*IWGP Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Yoshihiro Takayama

Pro Wrestling Illustrated

PWI ranked him #14 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2007

Pro Wrestling Noah

*GHC Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Naomichi Marufuji

Tokyo Sports Grand Prix

Best Tag Team (2004) - with Yoshihiro Takayama

Best Tag Team (2008) - with Taiyō Kea

Best Technique (2004)

Most Valuable Player (2006)

Mixed martial arts

Pancrase

*King of Pancrase Openweight Championship (1 time)

Mixed martial arts record

References

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Name	Ali Azmat
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Ali Azmat
Born	April 20, 1970
Music origin	Lahore, Pakistan
Instrument	Vocals, guitar
Genre	Rock
Occupation	Singer
Label	Sadaf StereoFire Records (Pakistan)
Associated acts	JupitersJunoon
Url	http://www.aliazmat.com/

Ali Azmat (Urdu: علی عظمت; born April 20, 1970 in Abbottabad) is a Pakistani musician, who gained recognition as the lead vocalist of the pop/rock band Junoon.

Music career

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Early career

Azmat was born in Abbottabad and grew up in Garhi Shahu, Lahore, which he credits for his unconventional attitude. He went to Sydney, Australia for his higher studies, but due to financial difficulties, returned back to Pakistan before completing university.

His first band 'Jupiters' was known for performing covers at small gigs, such as weddings, in Lahore. While with them, Azmat wrote his legendary hit song Dosti. He later sang and recorded Dosti with Junoon, after which the song gained national fame.

He is a cousin of Mustafa Zahid, the lead vocalist of Roxen.

Junoon

Junoon was Pakistan's biggest band famous for combining traditional poetry and instruments with rock music. Azmat was the lead vocalist of the band. With Junoon, he toured extensively, doing two North American tours a year since 1992. He performed in Europe, the Middle East and China and at the European rock festival, Roskilde in June 2000. He left Junoon in 2005 to pursue a solo career.

Solo career

Ali Azmat released his first solo album, Social Circus, in March 2005 to critical acclaim. Social Circus was a massive departure from Junoon's style and won 23 awards in Pakistan, including Best Album and Best Producer. In India, Azmat was nominated for Best Soundtrack and Best Song at the Sahara Awards held in London, for his single "Garaj Baras" in the Pooja Bhatt film Paap. Azmat's second album, Klashinfolk, was released in August 2008 and recorded at Mekaal Hasan Studios in Lahore. Klashinfolk also received significant critical acclaim across Pakistan, although (like Social Circus) it was not a huge commercial success.

Bollywood

Azmat made his Bollywood music debut with the song Garaj Baraj that was chosen by Pooja Bhatt, a close friend of Azmat. The song was picturized on John Abraham.

Apart from that, Azmat gave his song Naina and Teri Perchahian, from Klashinfolk and Social Circus respectively, to the film Tera Kya Hoga Johnny''. The film only recently made it to the limelight after a leaking controversy.

Discography

Studio albums

Social Circus (2005)

Klashinfolk (2008)

Band

Azmat often plays rhythm guitar, besides singing, during concerts. He also plays drums but rarely in concerts. The current lineup of Ali Azmat's band for live performances and albums worked with him on Klashinfolk and has remained since. It includes Omran "Momo" Shafique (of Mauj) on lead guitar, Kamran "Mannu" Zafar on bass guitar and Louis J. "Gumby" Pinto on drums.

Television

Azmat has also acted in Pakistani television series. He also sang the title songs of many series. He played the role of a con artist in a Pakistani tele film. Azmat also wrote the theme song for a children television series, 'The Magic Tent'. Azmat also hosted a show called "Pappu Yar Tang Na Kar" for Aag television. He also starred in a telefilm, "ChaalBaz" in 2006 which was aired on ARY Digital. He has also worked with local pop musicians such as Omran Shafique from Mauj and Gumby, the former drummer of Noori.

Awards and nominations

First Indus Style Awards (2006) Won - Best Sound of Style Award.

3rd Jazz IM Award (2006) Won - Best Pop Male Artist.

References

External links

Ali Azmat's website

Ali Azmat's Video Collection

Interview with Ali Azmat conducted by Washington Post

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