Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
It has been used for thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers (which are strong in tension) embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in the roots of trees or shrubs. In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up by themselves. It also conveys water and nutrients between the leaves, other growing tissues, and the roots. Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, or wood chips or fiber.
The Earth contains about 434 billion cubic meters of growing stock forest, 47% of which is commercial. As an abundant, carbon-neutral renewable resource, woody materials have been of intense interest as a source of renewable energy. In 1991, approximately 3.5 cubic kilometers of wood were harvested. Dominant uses were for furniture and building construction.
"Wood" is a song by English post-trip hop band Second Person, which will be on the band's second album: "The Elements" - the follow-up to their debut album "Chromatography". Released on 9 August 2007, this song has a music video created by a collaboration of artists, animators and the band. This video is the first chapter in a story spanning five videos that make up a short animated film also called "The Elements". These video along with the album were created for "believers" in the band on Sellaband.com who helped the band raise $50,000 to record their album. These videos and songs can be download from their site.
Wood (Chinese: 木; pinyin: mù), sometimes translated as Tree, is the growing of the matter, or the matter's growing stage. Wood is the first phase of Wu Xing. Wood is yang in character. It stands for springtime, the east, the planet Jupiter, the color green, wind, and the Azure Dragon (Qing Long) in Four Symbols.
The Wu Xing are chiefly an ancient mnemonic device for systems with 5 stages; hence the preferred translation of "tree" over "wood".
In Chinese Taoist thought, Wood attributes are considered to be strength and flexibility, as with bamboo. It is also associated with qualities of warmth, generosity, co-operation and idealism. The Wood person will be expansive, outgoing and socially conscious. The wood element is one that seeks ways to grow and expand. Wood heralds the beginning of life, springtime and buds, sensuality and fecundity. Wood needs moisture to thrive.
In Chinese medicine, wood is associated with negative feelings of anger, positive feelings of patience, and altruism.
Actors: Alvin Anson (actor), Gianluca Baldari (actor), Beau Ballinger (actor), Ronny Boos (actor), Michael Bruggink (actor), Daniele Campelli (actor), Alessio Cherubini (actor), James 'Scotty' Crawford (actor), Riccardo Flammini (actor), Joe Goodall (actor), Michael Thomas McCullough (actor), Joe Suba (actor), Yvette Yzon (actress), Giovanni Paolucci (producer), Giovanni Paolucci (writer),
Genres: War,Actors: Dante Boens (actor), Hashim Brown (actor), Eugene Bush (actor), Will Clinger (actor), George de Lama (actor), William Dick (actor), Kevin Michael Doyle (actor), Sam Dyer (actor), Kendall Gill (actor), Ja'mal Green (actor), Vince Green (actor), Llou Johnson (actor), Kevin R. Kelly (actor), Herb Kent (actor), Scott Baity Jr. (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Eric Blaine (actor), Braxton Bond (actor), Riley Burke (actor), Lou Cass (actor), Cort Donovan (actor), Noah Driver (actor), Roman Heart (actor), Dallas Reeves (actor), Erik Rhodes (actor), Tyler Riggs (actor), Matthew Rush (actor), Tyler Saint (actor), Jack J. Shamama (actor), Mason Wyler (actor), Adam Q. Robinson (producer),
Genres: Adult,Actors: Moses Chan (actor), Ken Chang (actor), Alex Fong (actor), Lap Sam Lam (actor), David Wai-Sheung Lee (actor), Dat Wai Lok (actor), Danny Summer (actor), Tin-chiu Wan (actor), Chi-Wang Wong (actor), Ken Wong (actor), Anya (actress), Serena Po (actress), David Chan (producer), Hin Koon Chan (producer), Gin Lau (producer),
Plot: Tricky On, a tough as nails man, is brought to Macau by his best friend Ban, to rescue his daughter. However, he cannot do it alone. On hires sharpshooter Wood and martial arts assassin Rain to assist him. The trio learn they have more than just an easy task in their hands. A tale of honor, double crossing, betrayal, and high octane action.
Keywords: crooked-cop, kidnapping, macauActors: Corbin Allred (actor), Chris Bentley (actor), Sterling Brimley (actor), Jason deVilliers (actor), Clayton Taylor (actor), Karl Wilson (actor), Patti Miner (actress), Brooke Schaertl (actress), Kim Smith Yandow (actress), Kent Phillip Johnson (producer), Greggory Peck (producer), Michael L. Schaertl (producer), Michael L. Schaertl (writer), Kurt Bestor (composer), Michael L. Schaertl (director),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Bernard Breuse (actor), Kent Broadhurst (actor), Matthew Burton (actor), Blaise Chakir (actor), Jerry Dean (actor), Jean-Baptiste Filleau (actor), Paul Guilfoyle (actor), William Hurt (actor), Richard Jenkins (actor), Lusako Karonga (actor), Bruce Katzman (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), Boris Leskin (actor), David S. Lomax (actor), Henry Bean (actor),
Plot: Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Both don't know each other and both find themselves deeply involved into the social settings of the other, because the decision to change their flats is made overnight. Could be the perfect amusement, but suddenly Henry finds himself beaten up by Beatrice' lover and Beatrice is considered to be Dr. Harriston's substitute by his clients.
Keywords: apartment, assumed-identity, big-city, bohemian, cultural-exchange, culture-clash, dog, france, frenchman-abroad, messy-apartmentActors: Ray Barrett (actor), Todd Boyce (actor), Bryan Brown (actor), Richard Carter (actor), Spike Cherrie (actor), Lance Curtis (actor), Matt Dillon (actor), Roy Dudley (actor), Roy Dudley (actor), D.J. Foster (actor), David Frezza (actor), Chris Hession (actor), Bill Hunter (actor), Wayne Scott Kermond (actor), Tom Appleton (actor),
Plot: This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in battle. He is weary of war and is intent on going AWOL and escaping from Australia. He becomes infatuated with a local singer, Kathy and pursues her. Kathy is married and initially is not interested in him, but later begins to love Rebel. Kathy receives a letter advising her that her husband was killed in battle. The local police and the U.S. Military are searching for Rebel as an AWOL soldier. Rebel arranges to escape Austalia by a cargo ship, but eventually allows himself to be arrested in order to keep the local police from arresting Kathy for harboring him.
Keywords: 21-year-old, american-abroad, american-soldier, arrest, australia, awol, ballad, bare-chested-male, based-on-play, bathtubActors: Paul Benson (actor), Gengher Gatti (actor), Fernando Hilbeck (actor), Joaquín Hinojosa (actor), Arthur Kennedy (actor), José Lifante (actor), Ray Lovelock (actor), Aldo Massasso (actor), Roberto Posse (actor), Vito Salier (actor), Francisco Sanz (actor), Giorgio Trestini (actor), Vicente Vega (actor), Anita Colby (actress), Vera Drudi (actress),
Plot: A cop chases two young people visiting the English countryside, suspecting them of a local murder; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh by radiation being used by area farmers as a pesticide alternative.
Keywords: 1970s, anger, anthropophagus, anti-technology, antique-dealer, apocalypse, arrest, art-dealer, axe, axe-in-the-headActors: Ronald Adam (actor), Victor Beaumont (actor), John M. East (actor), Frank Hawkins (actor), Dermot Walsh (actor), Theodore Wilhelm (actor), Zoreen Ismail (actress), Lynn Redgrave (actress), Joy Webster (actress), Olive Negus-Fancey (producer), Michael Winner (writer), Cy Payne (composer), Michael Winner (director), Monica Kimick (editor),
Genres: ,Actors: Morris Ankrum (actor), Warren Ashe (actor), David Bacon (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Lane Bradford (actor), Joe Brown Jr. (actor), Ralph Byrd (actor), Eddy Chandler (actor), Davison Clark (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Max Cole (actor), Chick Collins (actor), Laird Cregar (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor),
Plot: Among those who are fighting to have Congress re-establish the military academy at West Point in the beginning of the nineteenth century is a young Washington socialite, Carolyn Bainbridge. Congress resolves to revive the Academy on a one-year trial basis. Major Sam Carter, a martinet who doesn't believe a college can produce real fighting men, is made the Commandant, and determines to make soldiers - or failures - out of the small band of cadets, by enforcing stringent disciplinary action. Among the cadets are Howard Shelton, Carolyn's fiancée, and Dawson, a Kentucky frontiersman. There is bad blood between the two from the start, and matters are worsened when Dawson falls in love with Carolyn. Many of the cadets resign, under the discouraging conditions and grueling punishment that is part of Carter's plan to make the school hard and the exercises difficult, and the number of cadets left is down to ten. Word arrives that the Indian chief Tecumseh has gone on the warpath, and Carter is ordered to take part in quelling the rebellion, and to include the cadets along with the regular Bombadiers. Shelton, on patrol, is shot at by an Indian, and hot-headedly leaves his post in pursuit. Dawson leaves to bring him back followed by Major Carter who is captured by the Indians. Using tactics learned at West Point, the small band of cadets attack and demoralize the much larger Indian force, and succeed in rescuing Carter, and Dawson is wounded. Carter is grateful for the actions taken by the band, but says that Shelton and Dawson cannot remain as cadets since they had violated the rules by leaving their posts, and would be a bad precedent for future cadets. Carolyn has come to the Point to marry the unsuspecting Dawson, who thought she loved Shelton.
Keywords: kicked-in-the-butt, number-in-title, u.s.-military-academy, west-pointYou try to multiply your speed by time to get your distance
But you don't see the wood for the trees
An experiment with existence
Is showing up anomalies
You see the day dissolve into the morrow
And the slow growing of your second skin
Adrenaline begins in the marrow
And then intoxicates your oxygen
Count one to a hundred and then you are ready to go
What do you know
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
What do you get
What do you like
We have a savage energy tonight
I'm not the light outside of the window
I'm not a damsel in distress
I'm not the gold at the end of the rainbow
And I am not a lost princess
Are you my love, my landlord, my lawyer
Are you the one I build my world around
Or are we wrapped in black paranoia
Ready to attack and take each other down
Exactly like Alice in Wonderland now when we grow
What do you know
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
What do you get
What do you like
We have a savage energy tonight
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
Oh my dear it's dark in the dungeon
This is where the demons dwell
A sign says beware of the dragon
You don't attend it very well
Who was it who said that it's better the devil you know
Ain't it so
What do you say
We have an acid chemistry today
What do you get
What do you like
We have a savage energy tonight
What do you say
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