Fire is the first instant messenger client for Mac OS X (previously for OPENSTEP), that can access IRC, Jabber, AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, and Apple Rendezvous. All services are built off of GPL’d libraries, including firetalk, libfaim, libicq2000, libmsn, jabber, and libyahoo2.
Fire is released under the GNU_GPL, the most recent (as of January 4, 2005) is 1.5.
Floriberta Jiménez Torres (born 1990) is a Mexican girl who spent approximately 42 hours under extreme heat inside an SUV vehicle after crossing illegally to San Ysidro, California. She was found alive.
Jiménez Torres is a native of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. She managed to survive her ordeal despite being without water or food for the 42 hours after she crossed the United States-Mexico border. On August 9, 2003, two people who had been in the car with her were arrested, and the vehicle was towed away. The persons arrested failed to tell police, however, that Jiménez Torres was still inside the sport utility van. She had boarded the van in Tijuana.
She was found by a federal worker on August 11, in the Otay Mesa vicinity, where the van had been taken by custom officials. She was sent to a hospital, where she was checked and found in good condition.
Alberto Lozano, spokesman for the Mexican consulate's office in San Diego, declared that It's miracle that she's alive and well.
Her case made the news world wide, such newspapers as Puerto Rico's El Vocero and others reporting about it.
Britishisms are expressions peculiar to British English. See also List of British English words not used in American English. The word Britishism is an Americanism.
- As much use as a chocolate fireguard (or teapot) – useless.
- BBC English – the version of Received Pronunciation once considered typical of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Today regional dialects are frequently heard on the BBC.
- Devils on horseback – sausages covered in bacon
- Egg-cosy or -cozy – meal-time egg warmer, usually knitted.
- Hit for six – to hit mightily, to trounce (to hit a cricket ball off the field without a bounce, scoring 6)
- Not much cop. – Not very good.
- Nowt so queer as folk – people are unpredictable (uses the Northern English "nowt" meaning "nothing").
- Go pear-shaped, as in "It all went pear-shaped." – go wrong
- Swings and roundabouts – gains in one area will equal losses in another (short for "what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts")
- Not cricket – not fair
- made redundant - laid off, downsized
Caveat lector: these are often very slangy, quickly obsolescent, age-specific and regional terms. Saying "Nowt so queer as folk" in a Cockney accent will get you mentioned in every conversation in that pub for the next six months. And quite possibly local radio.
In the Gundam anime series, the One-Year War is the first major war of the Universal Century (UC) and is setting of many stories in the series. The One-Year War is analogous to World War II, with the war being between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon, with only very few neutral factions on the sidelines. The analogy is made more clear in later renditions of events during the war, specifically those shown in Gundam 0080 and Gundam 0083, with the 'nazification' of the Zeons.
The One-Year War begins on January 3rd of 0079 of the UC calendar and technically ends on January 14th, UC0080, although hostilities end on January 1st of the same year.