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A wing is an appendage with a surface that produces lift for flight or propulsion through the atmosphere, or through another gaseous or liquid fluid. A wing is an airfoil, which has a streamlined cross-sectional shape producing a useful lift to drag ratio.
The word "wing" from the Old Norse vængr for many centuries referred mainly to the foremost limbs of birds (in addition to the architectural aisle.) But in recent centuries the word's meaning has extended to include lift producing appendages of insects, bats, pterosaurs, boomerangs, some sail boats and aircraft.
"Wing" can also mean an inverted airfoil on a race car that generates a downward force to increase traction.
Various species of penguins and other flighted or flightless water birds such as auks, cormorants, guillemots, shearwaters, eider and scoter ducks and diving petrels are avid swimmers, and use their wings to propel through water.
A wing's aerodynamic quality is expressed as its lift-to-drag ratio. The lift a wing generates at a given speed and angle of attack can be one to two orders of magnitude greater than the total drag on the wing. A high lift-to-drag ratio requires a significantly smaller thrust to propel the wings through the air at sufficient lift.
Jill Stein (born 1950) is an American physician and candidate for President of the United States in 2012 with the Green Party of the United States. Stein was a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in the 2002 and the 2010 gubernatorial elections. Stein is a resident of Lexington, Massachusetts and a 1979 graduate of Harvard Medical School. She serves on the boards of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and MassVoters for Fair Elections, and has been active with the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities.
In October 2011, Stein announced her candidacy for the presidential nomination of the Green Party in the 2012 general election.
Stein advocates for the creation of a "Green New Deal", the objective of which would be to employ "every American willing and able to work" to address "climate change...[and the] converging water, soil, fisheries, forest, and fossil fuel crises" by working towards "sustainable energy, transportation and production infrastructure: clean renewable energy generation, energy efficiency, intra-city mass transit and inter-city railroads, “complete streets” that safely encourage bike and pedestrian traffic, regional food systems based on sustainable organic agriculture, and clean manufacturing of the goods needed to support this sustainable economy". The initial cost of the Green New Deal would be funded by various mechanisms, including "taxing Wall Street speculation, off shore tax havens, millionaires and multimillion dollar estates" as well as a 30% reduction in the U.S. military budget. She cites a study of the economic effects of the 1930s New Deal projects by Dr. Phillip Harvey, Professor of Law & Economics at Rutgers School of Law as academic evidence for the Green New Deal.
Actors: Lewin Webb (producer), Jeff Beal (composer), Meg Ryan (actress), Michael Prupas (producer), Jason Ritter (actor), William H. Macy (writer), Matthew Dylan Roberts (actor), Gary Howsam (producer), Irene Litinsky (producer), Elliott Gould (actor), John Carson (actor), William H. Macy (actor), LL Cool J (actor), Claude Forest (miscellaneous crew), Diana Cilliers (costume designer),
Plot: A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, but can only get financing if he casts a well-known action star. Production is halted however, when the lead actor is kidnapped, so the producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie.
Keywords: actor, actress, african-american, airliner, airport, ambassador, australian, award, based-on-novel, beachActors: Lawrence Cheng (writer), Lawrence Cheng (producer), Koon-Lan Law (actress), Courtney Wu (actor), Sammy Leung (actor), Clarence Hui (actor), Chun-Chun Wong (writer), Chun-Chun Wong (director), Chun-Chun Wong (actress), Candy Lo (actress), Lawrence Chou (actor), Ronald Ng (composer), Patrick Tang (actor), Kar Yan Lam (actress), William So Wing Hong (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Leslie Cheung (actor), Lung Ti (actor), Chi-Leung Kwong (editor), Carrie Ng (actress), Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung (actor), Wei Tung (actor), John Sham (producer), Ka Tung Lam (actor), Amanda Lee (actress), Dante Lam (actor), Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung (producer), Chi Leung 'Jacob' Cheung (director), Jimmy Ga Lok Wong (actor), Hoi Heung (actor), Mathew Tang (writer),
Plot: When Maise's husband walks out on her, she leaves her baby son in a luxury yacht, hoping that he'll be adopted by affluent parents. Little did she know that its owner Daniel has lost everything in derivative speculation that very day. Four years later, Maise has pulled herself together to become a successful charity fund manager. She meets the down-and-out Daniel, living with his adopted son in a shabby rooftop flat...
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I was a wing in Heaven blue
Soared over the ocean, soared over Spain
And I was free needed nobody
It was beautiful, it was beautiful
I was a pawn didn't have a move
Didn't have nowhere that I could go
But I was free I needed nobody
It was beautiful, it was beautiful
And if there's one thing
Could do for you
You'd be a wing in Heaven blue
I was a vision in another eye
And they saw nothing, no future at all
Yet I was free I needed nobody
It was beautiful, it was beautiful
And if there's one thing
Could do for you
You'd be a wing in Heaven blue
And if there's one thing
Could do for you
You'd be a wing in Heaven blue
And if there's one thing
Could do for you