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FreeStyle
Freestyle may refer to: Brands * Reebok Freestyle, a women's athletic shoe * Ford Freestyle, an SUV automobile * Coca-Cola Freestyle, a vending machine * Abbott FreeStyle, a blood glucose monitor by Abbott Laboritories Media * '' FreeStyle'', a television show on HGTV * ''Free Style'' (film), a 2009 American film * ''Freestyle'' (radio program), a radio program on CBC's Radio One * FreeStyleGames, a UK video game developer * Freestyle Releasing, an independent film studio * Freestyle (software), a renderer for non-photorealistic line drawing from 3D scenes * '' Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme'', a 2000 documentary film about freestyle rap Music * Freestyle music * Freestyle rap Performers and groups * Freestyle, an American electro-funk band on the compilation album ''Street Sounds Electro 10'' * Freestyle (Filipino band), an alternative-soul jazz-RnB band from the Philippines * Freestyle (Russian group), a Soviet group with frontman Vadim Kazachenko * Freestyle (rapper), memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is an American multinational medical devices and health care company with headquarters in Abbott Park, Illinois, in the United States. The company was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 to formulate known drugs; today, it sells medical devices, diagnostics, branded generic medicines and nutritional products. It split off its research-based pharmaceuticals business into AbbVie in 2013. Abbott's products include Pedialyte, Similac, BinaxNOW, Ensure, Glucerna, ZonePerfect, FreeStyle Libre, i-STAT and MitraClip. History Foundation and early history In 1888 at the age of 30, Wallace Abbott (1857–1921), an 1885 graduate of the University of Michigan, founded the Abbott Alkaloidal Company in Ravenswood, Chicago. At the time, he was a practising physician and owned a drug store. His innovation was formulating the active part of alkaloid Herbalism, medicinal plants—morphine, quinine, strychnine and codeine—as tiny "dosimetric gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FreeStyleGames
Ubisoft Leamington (formerly FreeStyleGames Limited) was a British video game developer and a studio of Ubisoft based in Leamington Spa. Founded in November 2002 by six industry veterans formerly of Codemasters and Rare, the studio was bought by Activision in September 2008. In January 2017, Ubisoft acquired the studio from Activision and renamed it Ubisoft Leamington. Ubisoft Leamington worked on AAA games in a supporting capacity, primarily the ''Tom Clancy's The Division'' franchise, in close cooperation with sister studio Ubisoft Reflections. In January 2025, Ubisoft announced a series of layoffs that would ultimately affect the Leamington studio, which officially shutdown after a consultation process on 1 April 2025. History Early years (2002–2008) FreeStyleGames was founded on 29 November 2002 by Alex Darby, David Osbourn, Phil Hindle and Jamie Jackson, formerly of Codemasters, and Alex Zoro and Jonny Ambrose, formerly of Rare. Their first title, ''B-Boy'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FreeStyle
Freestyle may refer to: Brands * Reebok Freestyle, a women's athletic shoe * Ford Freestyle, an SUV automobile * Coca-Cola Freestyle, a vending machine * Abbott FreeStyle, a blood glucose monitor by Abbott Laboritories Media * '' FreeStyle'', a television show on HGTV * ''Free Style'' (film), a 2009 American film * ''Freestyle'' (radio program), a radio program on CBC's Radio One * FreeStyleGames, a UK video game developer * Freestyle Releasing, an independent film studio * Freestyle (software), a renderer for non-photorealistic line drawing from 3D scenes * '' Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme'', a 2000 documentary film about freestyle rap Music * Freestyle music * Freestyle rap Performers and groups * Freestyle, an American electro-funk band on the compilation album ''Street Sounds Electro 10'' * Freestyle (Filipino band), an alternative-soul jazz-RnB band from the Philippines * Freestyle (Russian group), a Soviet group with frontman Vadim Kazachenko * Freestyle (rapper), memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freestyle (software)
Freestyle is a free, open source renderer for non-photorealistic line drawing from 3D scenes. Model The program uses a shader script model inspired by the RenderMan Shading Language, allowing different shading styles to be written as a script that's interpreted at the render time. The different rendering styles are based on "style modules" that are written in Python programming language. The stand-alone program, which uses OpenGL and the Qt widget toolkit, can render images based on .3ds files. The stand-alone version of Freestyle is not under active development anymore, since 2008. Freestyle is integrated with Blender as of version 2.67. The Freestyle version integrated with Blender is under active development. See also *Aqsis Aqsis is a free rendering suite compliant with the RenderMan standard. It is available under the BSD, previously under GPL. Its main author and project manager is Paul Gregory. The Aqsis project consists of a renderer, shader compiler and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Style (film)
''Free Style'' is a 2008 coming-of-age film about an 18-year-old young man (Corbin Bleu), who is devoted to his family, and finds love and himself in his quest to win the Amateur National Motocross Championship. ''Free Style'' is directed by William Dear ('' Angels in the Outfield'', ''Harry and the Hendersons''). Plot Cale Bryant is a young man who delves deeper into his passion, debuting in the world of Motocross. Now that he is an adult, he decides to choose his own future, for once, independently, to help him become a champion with the support of parents and his girlfriend. After hard training, Cale decides to enroll in the National Championship for amateur motocross, convinced that he can win. In the last race, Cale is in the lead until the last lap where his bike breaks down. Cale beats his arch rival Derek Black by pushing his bike across the finish line but is disqualified for pushing his bike across the line. Derek celebrates his victory until it is revealed that Derek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Life Of Pablo
''The Life of Pablo'' is the seventh studio album by American rapper Kanye West. It was released on February 14, 2016, through GOOD Music and distributed by Def Jam Recordings. Recording sessions took place from 2013 to 2016, in Italy, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. West and a variety of producers, including co-executive producers Rick Rubin and Noah Goldstein handled production. West enlisted guest vocals for the album from The-Dream, Kelly Price, Chance the Rapper, Kirk Franklin, Kid Cudi, Desiigner, Rihanna, Young Thug, Chris Brown, the Weeknd, Ty Dolla Sign, Vic Mensa, Sia, Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone, and Sampha. Several Promotional recording, promotional singles preceded the release of ''The Life of Pablo'', including the tracks "Real Friends (Kanye West song), Real Friends" and "No More Parties in LA". During the months before its release, the album's title and tracklist went through several publicized changes. West premiered an early version at Madis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freestyler (song)
"Freestyler" is a song by Finnish hip hop group Bomfunk MC's. It was released in Finland on 30 October 1999 as the third single from their debut studio album, '' In Stereo'' (1999), and was released internationally in February 2000. "Freestyler" peaked at number four on the Finnish Singles Chart and topped the charts in more than 10 countries, including Australia, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and Sweden. The song also peaked within the top 10 of the charts in Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Composition "Freestyler" is primarily a breakbeat song, with strong influences of UK dance culture and electronic dance music, as well as some influences from drum and bass and hip hop. It is written in the key of E minor and composed in a tempo of 164 beats per minute. Critical reception '' Daily Record'' described "Freestyler" as a "cracking old-skool track". ''CMJ New Music Monthly'' described the track as "a housed-up hip-hoppity mélange of sampled slide-guitar, rubbery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fundamental Elements Of Southtown
''The Fundamental Elements of Southtown'' is the third studio album and major label debut by American Christian metal band P.O.D., released on August 24, 1999 by Atlantic Records. It retains the heaviness of the band's previous albums, but is less punk-influenced and has a higher production value. The song " Southtown" was rerecorded from '' The Warriors EP'' (1998), a transitional extended play from Rescue Records to Atlantic Records. The album also includes a cover of U2's 1987 single "Bullet the Blue Sky". ''The Fundamental Elements of Southtown'' went on to become the band's first platinum album, peaking at No. 51 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart in April 2000. It was the 143rd best-selling album of 2000 in the United States. " Southtown" and " Rock the Party (Off the Hook)" became the album's singles in 2000, both of which were accompanied by music videos. An extended play, ''Limited Edition Bonus CD'', was given away for free with the purchase of the album and contains six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freestyle (Lady Antebellum Song)
"Freestyle" is a song written and recorded by American country music trio Lady Antebellum. It was written Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott and Shane McAnally, and co-produced by Nathan Chapman. The song served as the second single for the trio's sixth studio album, '' 747'' and was released on October 20, 2014, and it features lead vocals from Kelley. Background and composition During the group's 2014 tour, Charles Kelley told ''Rolling Stone'', "Songs like 'Freestyle'" was a departure for them but "it's been proven to us over the past couple of years — is that when we do take chances, the fans have responded really well." Critical reception Giving it a "C+", Bob Paxman of '' Country Weekly'' praised the song's "catchy" production, but felt that Lady Antebellum was "nearly unrecognizable" due to the rapid-fire lyric delivery. He also criticized the lyrics for having "buzzwords and imagery" that were "scattered". Music video The music video for "Freestyle" was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reebok Freestyle
Reebok Freestyle is an sneakers, athletic shoe introduced in 1982 by Reebok. The Freestyle was the first sneaker designed (by Angel Martinez) and marketed for women. It helped Reebok into the mainstream athletic wear market and fashion scene along with becoming one of the most popular athletic shoes of all time. In 1984, the shoe accounted for more than half of Reebok sales. The Reebok Freestyle was popular during the 1980s in fashion#Aerobics craze, 1980s aerobics craze and is still in production and remodeled through various collections and style variations. History Released in 1982, the Reebok Freestyle was the first athletic shoe designed for women, even though it has also become fairly popular among males. Martinez and Steve Liggett, head of Reebok production, were instrumental developing the shoe. The shoe was made to accommodate aerobics workouts and was released during the height of the 1980s aerobics craze. Fitness Instructor Denise Austin was one first to promote the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freestyle (Lil Baby Song)
"Freestyle" is a song by American rapper Lil Baby. It was released on November 5, 2017 with an accompanying music video, to promote his mixtape ''Too Hard'' (2017). The song became one of his most popular hits and helped him rise to prominence. The song is a sleeper hit which began charting outside of the United States in 2022 and has consistently charted high on Apple Music charts. Composition In the song, Lil Baby raps about his usage of lean and percocets, over production by Joseph DaVinci. He gives numerous name-drops, including that of basketball player Philip Champion, and also interpolates "Hail Mary" by Tupac Shakur. Critical reception ''Billboard A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertis ...'' ranked the song at number five on their list of Lil Baby's best songs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
