Vine

A vine (Latin vīnea "grapevine", "vineyard", from vīnum "wine") in the narrowest sense is the grapevine (Vitis), but more generally it can refer to any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems or runners. The word also can refer to such stems or runners themselves, for instance when used in wicker work.

In the United Kingdom, the term "vine" applies almost exclusively to the grapevine. The term "climber" is used for all climbing plants.

Growth forms

Certain plants always grow as vines, while a few grow as vines only part of the time. For instance, poison ivy and bittersweet can grow as low shrubs when support is not available, but will become vines when support is available.

A vine displays a growth form based on long stems. This has two purposes. A vine may use rock exposures, other plants, or other supports for growth rather than investing energy in a lot of supportive tissue, enabling the plant to reach sunlight with a minimum investment of energy. This has been a highly successful growth form for plants such as kudzu and Japanese honeysuckle, both of which are invasive exotics in parts of North America. There are some tropical vines that develop skototropism, and grow away from the light, a type of negative phototropism. Growth away from light allows the vine to reach a tree trunk, which it can then climb to brighter regions.

Steven Spence (musician)

Steven Spence is an American musician, composer and drummer from the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. From 2007 to 2012, he was the drummer and keyboardist for the heavy metal band Black Tide.

Career

Spence grew up playing guitar and piano, which he taught himself to play by ear. He was mentored by his uncle who played the keyboard with The Wailers. Spence got his first drum kit in 2001 and taught himself how to play. He was accepted and enrolled in Florida State University in Tallahassee when he auditioned for Black Tide. In 2007, he quit school to tour Ozzfest and record Black Tide’s first album Light From Above in Chicago.

In 2009 he was selected as an "Up and Coming" artist in the Modern Drummer Readers' Poll. The same year he won 1st place at the Vans Warped Tour Drum Off. When playing live with Black Tide, Spence would play the drums and keyboard simultaneously. He also recorded keys and piano on various songs including "Into the Sky" on Post Mortem and the title track on Light From Above. In 2012, Spence left Black Tide to work on other projects.

Lele Pons

Eleonora Pons Maronese (born June 25, 1996), more commonly known as Lele Pons, is an Internet personality most notable for her six-second video loops on the video-sharing service Vine. As of September 30, 2015, Pons has hit 7 billion loops on Vine which makes her the most looped person on Vine. She is also the most followed female star on Vine.

Many of Pons's videos consist of practical jokes on herself, her friends, classmates, and her family.

Pons was born in Venezuela, having moved to the United States at age five. Since immigrating to the US, Pons has resided in Miami, Florida. Pons graduated from high school in 2015 and she moved from Miami to LA.

Her book Surviving High School, cowritten with New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz, is out April 2016.

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Pons received her first phone at age 15, and was soon introduced to Vine by one of her friends, stating, "I started with my friends, and I started becoming good. At first it was just being really creative—it wasn't even funny stuff." Pons would become one of the app's most prominent users, becoming the first user to surpass 1 billion video loops. As of September 1, 2015, Pons' account remains the most looped of all time with over 6.7 billion loops. In addition, Pons' account ranks 8th in terms of followers, with over 9.9 million. Pons is credited as being a creator of the phrase "Do It For The Vine".

Humour

Humour (in Commonwealth English), or humor (in American English) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion.

People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. Most people are able to experience humour—be amused, smile or laugh at something funny—and thus are considered to have a sense of humour. The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humour would likely find the behaviour induced by humour to be inexplicable, strange, or even irrational. Though ultimately decided by personal taste, the extent to which a person finds something humorous depends on a host of variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, intelligence and context. For example, young children may favour slapstick such as Punch and Judy puppet shows or cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, whose physical nature makes it accessible to them. By contrast, sophisticated forms of humour such as satire require an understanding of its social meaning and context, and thus tend to appeal to the mature audience.