FlashBake is a high tech cooking technology invented in 1993. FlashBake is a registered trademark of Quadlux, Inc., a company from Fremont, California, USA. Quadlux's Flashbake oven cooks with intense infrared and visible light radiation. It can cook like a regular oven with a speed close to that of a microwave oven. This technology is not popular in the home market due to the high price.
This patented technology was licensed to various restaurant equipment suppliers, such as Wolf Stoves and Vulcan-Hart. Other licensees include home appliance manufacturer GE for their Advantium line of oven, and Bosch and Siemens in Europe. Amana developed similar technology for their own WAVE ovens after failing to license the technology from Quadlux. Amana later lost a lawsuit with Quadlux regarding this dispute.
Some high-end products still use the technology, but Quadlux ended production on 1 July 2000 because of production difficulties with the contract manufacturer, Watertown Metal Products. They ceased research and development and dropped to a staff of four. It is unclear as to whether they are still in business.
An ecolect is a language variety unique to a household (from the Greek eco (oikos) for house, as in economy or ecology, and lect for language). An ecolect probably evolves from an idiolect, which is individual specific, when other household members adopt that individual's unique words and phrases, that are not in use in surrounding households or the wider community. (The word ecolect is a neologism.)
- For the singer with a similar name, see Cliff Richard.
Cliff Richards is a comic book artist, best known as the penciller of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer monthly series from Dark Horse Comics, as well as the artist on the Buffy limited series, Haunted. He also penciled Sojourn #30 for CrossGen.
He has also worked on Birds of Prey, OMAC Project and Wonder Woman for DC Comics, and Rogue and New Thunderbolts for Marvel Comics.
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A curelom is an animal mentioned, together with the cumom, in the text of the Book of Mormon:
- And they also had horses, and asses, and there were elephants and cureloms and cumoms; all of which were useful unto man, and more especially the elephants and cureloms and cumoms. ()
According to Latter-day Saint belief, Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from an ancient language. In this line of thinking, the words curelom and cumom were transliterated instead of translated, meaning that while the ancient word is roughly transmitted, the actual animal intended is ambiguous. The context may imply beasts of burden. Some Mormons have speculated about what the terms refer to, including:
- Mastodons or mammoths. Early Mormon apostle Orson Pratt identified cureloms as mammoths in the Journal of Discourses (12:339-340).
- A yet undiscovered, probably extinct species.
- Some other South/Central American animal species with which Joseph was unfamiliar such as the llama, alpaca, tapir, or jaguar. For a Mormon view on the possibility of renaming animals in the Book of Mormon, see this article on fairlds.org.
- Another theory, although little known, may hold some ground. It theorizes that one of the creatures may in fact be some sort of bison. Be this an American buffalo, or some sort of extinct American auroch.
Modern paleontologists contend that mastodons and mammoths became extinct thousands of years before the time when the Book of Mormon is set.