Vice (TV series)

VICE is a documentary TV-series created and hosted by Shane Smith of Vice magazine. Produced by Bill Maher, it uses CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria as a consultant, and covers topics using an immersionist style of documentary filmmaking. It premiered April 5, 2013, on HBO. The show's second season aired in 2014 and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series or Special.

On May 7, 2014, HBO renewed the show for two more seasons. The 14-episode third season began March 6, 2015, one week after the hour-long "VICE Special Report: Killing Cancer" aired on February 27. Vice's fourth season is set to air in 2016.

Synopsis

It follows VICE journalists and founders Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi, and segment hosts Ryan Duffy and Thomas Morton as they go to different parts of the world interviewing people on political and cultural topics. Subjects include political assassinations, young weapons manufacturers, child suicide bombers, Indian and Pakistani border politics, the Chinese one-child policy, climate change, and bonded laborers in Pakistan's brick kilns, featuring the work of human and labor rights activist Syeda Ghulam Fatima.

Princess Jasmine

Princess Jasmine Al-Hamed of Agrabah is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' 31st animated feature film Aladdin (1992) and its sequels The Return of Jafar (1994) and Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996), as well as its television series.

Jasmine's speaking voice is provided by American actress Linda Larkin. Filipina singer and actress Lea Salonga provides the character's singing voice in the first film, while American actress and singer Liz Callaway replaces her in The Return of Jafar.

Jasmine was based on the character Princess Badroulbadour from the Arabic folk tale "Aladdin", part of the One Thousand and One Nights series. She was adapted for the film by directors Ron Clements and John Musker, and animated by Mark Henn. In the first film, Jasmine is the beautiful and well sought-after Princess of Agrabah who is being forced by an age-old law to marry a prince in time for her next birthday. Notorious for having rejected several noble and wealthy suitors, Jasmine, fed up with her controlled and sheltered life as a princess, wishes to marry someone she loves for who they are as opposed to what they own.

Jasmine (JavaScript testing framework)

Jasmine is an open source testing framework for JavaScript. It aims to run on any JavaScript-enabled platform, to not intrude on the application nor the IDE, and to have easy-to-read syntax. It is heavily influenced by other unit testing frameworks, such as ScrewUnit, JSSpec, JSpec, and RSpec.

Usage

Jasmine aims to be easy to read. A simple hello world test looks like the code below, where describe() describes a suite of tests and it() is an individual test specification. The name "it()" follows the idea of behavior-driven development and serves as the first word in the test name, which should be a complete sentence. Usage follows syntax similar to that of RSpec.

The code below tests a function named

and verifies that its output is the text "Hello world!".

Jasmine has a number of other features, such as custom matchers, spies, and support for asynchronous specifications.

History

The developers at Pivotal Labs for Jasmine previously developed a similar unit testing framework called JsUnit before active development of Jasmine.

Jasmine (TV series)

Jasmine (stylized as JASMINE) is a Philippine mystery drama series broadcast by TV5, which produced it together with Ace Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, Inc. (the Philippine affiliate of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide) and Unitel Productions Inc. It premiered on June 1, 2014 and airs every Sunday evenings at 9:15 PM, under the direction of Mark Meily.

Starting June 22, 2014, the Philippine mystery drama series will airs earlier every Sunday afternoon 5:00pm, and replays evening 10:00pm. The series ended on August 3, 2014.

Synopsis

She is shooting her launching teleserye titled URLoved when she acquires a stalker called Maskara. Now Jasmine must find out who Maskara is. Can he be trusted? Is he just another creepy fan who wants a piece of her? How far is she willing to go to achieve her dream of fame and fortune? It’s a fictional TV show about an actress making a TV show.

Cast

Lambic

Lambic is a type of beer traditionally brewed in the Pajottenland region of Belgium (southwest of Brussels) and in Brussels itself at the Cantillon Brewery and museum. Lambic is now mainly consumed after refermentation, resulting in derived beers such as Gueuze or Kriek lambic.

Unlike conventional beers, which are fermented by carefully cultivated strains of brewer's yeasts, lambic is produced by spontaneous fermentation: it is exposed to the wild yeasts and bacteria that are said to be native to the Zenne valley, in which Brussels lies. It is this unusual process which gives the beer its distinctive flavour: dry, vinous, and cidery, usually with a sour aftertaste.

Lambic beer is widely consumed in Brussels and environs, and frequently featured as an ingredient in Belgian cuisine.

Etymology

The name "lambic" entered English via French, but comes from the Dutch language. Lambic is probably derived from the name "Lembeek", referring to the municipality of Lembeek near Halle, close to Brussels.

Mars (Gackt album)

Mars is the first full-length studio album released by Japanese solo artist Gackt on April 26, 2000.

Release

The album was released on April 26, 2000, by Nippon Crown. In the second counting week of May it reached number three on the Oricon charts, with sales of 153,500 copies. In the upcoming week, it was at the number sixteen, with sales of 23,540 copies. It charted for only 5 weeks. Since its release the album has sold more than 200,000 copies.

Preceding the album release, were released three singles, "Vanilla", "Mirror" and "Oasis". The first single "Vanilla" is one of his most popular and commercially successful. It reached number four on the fourth counting week of August 1999, with sales of 104,650 copies. In the upcoming three weeks, it was at number thirteen two times, and fifteen, with sales of 40,990, and 31,810, and 22,440 copies. It charted for 10 weeks, and with 248,360 copies sold was the 89th best-selling single of the year, and was certified Gold by RIAJ. The single was later in 2002 re-released, it reached number twelve with sales of 19,220 copies, and charted for 6 weeks.

The Planets

The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its corresponding astrological character as defined by Holst.

From its premiere to the present day, the suite has been enduringly popular, influential, widely performed and frequently recorded. The work was not heard in a complete public performance, however, until some years after it was completed. Although there were four performances between September 1918 and October 1920, they were all either private (the first performance, in London) or incomplete (two others in London and one in Birmingham). The premiere was at the Queen's Hall on 29 September 1918, conducted by Holst's friend Adrian Boult before an invited audience of about 250 people. The first complete public performance was finally given in London by Albert Coates conducting the London Symphony Orchestra on 15 November 1920.