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Grass (other)
Grass refers to the many species of plants in the family Poaceae. Grass may also refer to: Grass (surname) Places *Grass Mountain (Vermont) *Grass Range, Montana *Grass Valley, California Art, entertainment, and media Film * Grass (1925 film), ''Grass'' (1925 film), a documentary about the Bakhtiari tribe of Iran * Grass (1999 film), ''Grass'' (1999 film), a documentary about marijuana * ''Grass'' (1968), an independent film by Clarke Mackey * Grass (2018 film), ''Grass'' (2018 film), a South Korean film Games * Grass (card game), a cannabis-themed card game similar to ''Mille Bornes'' Literature * Grass (Tepper novel), ''Grass'' (Tepper novel), a novel in ''The Arbai Trilogy'' by Sheri Tepper * "Grass", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book ''Babel (book), Babel'' * "Grass", a poem by Carl Sandburg * Grass (graphic novel), ''Grass'' (graphic novel), by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim Music * "Grass", Russian art song by Aleksandr Yegorovich Varlamov (1801–1848) * Grass (album), ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poaceae
Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and pasture. The latter are commonly referred to collectively as grass. With around 780 genera and around 12,000 species, the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family, following the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae. The Poaceae are the most economically important plant family, including staple foods from domesticated cereal crops such as maize, wheat, rice, oats, barley, and millet for people and as feed for meat-producing animals. They provide, through direct human consumption, just over one-half (51%) of all dietary energy; rice provides 20%, wheat supplies 20%, maize (corn) 5.5%, and other grains 6%. Some members of the Poaceae are used as building materials ( bamboo, thatch, and straw); oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass (album)
Grass is the tenth studio album by Keller Williams. It was released in 2006. Background ''Grass'' is a jam rock record. Keller is accompanied by The Keels, a husband and wife duo named Larry and Jenny Keel. On this album, Larry Keel, Keller's childhood friend, plays lead guitar, Jenny Keel plays bass, and Keller plays rhythm guitar. The album features covers of songs by Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, the Yonder Mountain String Band and The Grateful Dead. Track listing # Goof Balls # Another Brick in the Wall # Mary Jane's Last Breakdown # Stunt Double # New Horizons # Loser # Crater in the Backyard # Dupree's Diamond Blues # Local # I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail Personnel *Mark Berger – Package Design, Layout Design * Jeff Covert – Producer, Engineer, Mixing *Jenny Keel – Bass, Vocals * Larry Keel – Guitar, Vocals *Charlie Pilzer – Mastering *Keller Williams Keller Williams is an American singer, songwriter and musician who combines elements of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass Dance
The grass dance or Omaha dance is a style of modern Native American men's pow wow dancing originating in the warrior societies on the Northern Great Plains. Unlike most forms of pow wow dancing, the grass dance regalia generally has no feathers besides the occasional roach feather. The regalia consists of brightly colored fringe made of either yarn, broadcloth, or ribbon. Origins The original creators of the grass dance and the purpose of the dance are widely contested. Sources attribute possible origins to the Omaha, Pawnee, Anishnabe people, Ponca, Dakota, or Winnebago tribes. While the specific tribe of origin is unknown, it is generally accepted as a Northern Plains dance that was used by warrior societies. There are several stories behind the origins of the grass dance. One is that a medicine man told a handicapped boy to seek inspiration in the prairie. There he observed the swaying of the grass and received a vision of himself dancing the same style as the grass. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marijuana
Cannabis (), commonly known as marijuana (), weed, pot, and ganja, List of slang names for cannabis, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant. Native to Central or South Asia, cannabis has been used as a drug for both recreational and Entheogenic use of cannabis, entheogenic purposes and in various traditional medicines for centuries. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the main psychoactive component of cannabis, which is one of the 483 known compounds in the plant, including at least 65 other cannabinoids, such as cannabidiol (CBD). Cannabis can be used Cannabis smoking, by smoking, Vaporizer (inhalation device), vaporizing, Cannabis edible, within food, or Tincture of cannabis, as an extract. Cannabis has effects of cannabis, various mental and physical effects, which include euphoria, altered states of mind and Cannabis and time perception, sense of time, difficulty concentrating, Cannabis and memory, impaired short-term memo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Informant
An informant (also called an informer or, as a slang term, a "snitch", "rat", "canary", "stool pigeon", "stoolie", "tout" or "grass", among other terms) is a person who provides privileged information, or (usually damaging) information intended to be intimate, concealed, or secret, about a person or organization to an agency, often a government or law enforcement agency. The term is usually used within the law-enforcement world, where informants are officially known as confidential human sources (CHS), or criminal informants (CI). It can also refer pejoratively to someone who supplies information without the consent of the involved parties."The Weakest Link: The Dire Consequences of a Weak Link in the Informant Handling and Covert Operations Chain-of-Command" by M Levine. ''Law Enforcement Executive Forum'', 2009 The term is commonly used in politics, industry, entertainment, and academia. In the United States, a confidential informant or "CI" is "any individual who provides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supergrass (informant)
Supergrass is a British slang term for an informant who turns King's evidence, often in return for protection and immunity from prosecution. In the British criminal world, police informants have been called "grasses" since the late 1930s, and the "super" prefix was coined by journalists in the early 1970s to describe those who gave evidence against fellow criminals in a series of high-profile mass trials at the time. Etymology The term "grass" in this context is used in Arthur Gardner's crime novel ''Tinker's Kitchen'', published in 1932, in which a "grass" is defined as "an informer". The etymology of "grass" being used as signifying a traitor, a person who informs on people he or she knows intimately, ostensibly can be traced to the expression "snake in the grass", which has a similar meaning. The phrase derives from the writings of Virgil (in Latin, ''latet anguis in herba'') and has been known in the English language, meaning "traitor", since the late 17th century. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gradient Recall Acquisition Using Steady States
Steady-state free precession (SSFP) imaging is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequence which uses steady states of magnetizations. In general, SSFP MRI sequences are based on a (low flip angle) gradient echo MRI sequence with a short repetition time which in its generic form has been described as the FLASH MRI technique. While spoiled gradient-echo sequences refer to a steady state of the longitudinal magnetization only, SSFP gradient-echo sequences include transverse coherences (magnetizations) from overlapping multi-order spin echoes and stimulated echoes. This is usually accomplished by refocusing the phase-encoding gradient in each repetition interval in order to keep the phase integral (or gradient moment) constant. Fully balanced SSFP MRI sequences achieve a phase of zero by refocusing all imaging gradients. Gradient moments are zero or not If, within one TR, either one of the gradient moments of magnetic gradients along three logical directions, including slice selectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GRASS GIS
''Geographic Resources Analysis Support System'' (commonly termed ''GRASS GIS'') is a geographic information system (GIS) software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, producing graphics and maps, spatial and temporal modeling, and visualizing. It can handle raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphic data. GRASS contains over 350 modules to render maps and images on monitor and paper; manipulate raster and vector data including vector networks; process multispectral image data; and create, manage, and store spatial data. It is licensed and released as free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It runs on multiple operating systems, including , Windows and Linux. Users can interface with the software features through a graphical user interface (GUI) or by ''plugging into'' GRASS via other software such as QGIS. They can also interface with the modules directly through a bespoke shell that the appl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GRASS (programming Language)
GRASS (''GRAphics Symbiosis System'') is a programming language created to script 2D vector graphics animations. GRASS was similar to BASIC in syntax, but added numerous instructions for specifying 2D object animation, including scaling, translation and rotation over time. These functions were directly supported by the Vector General 3D graphics terminal GRASS was written for. It quickly became a hit with the artistic community who were experimenting with the new medium of computer graphics, and is most famous for its use by Larry Cuba to create the original "attacking the Death Star will not be easy" animation in ''Star Wars'' (1977). As part of a later partnership with Midway Games, the language was ported to the Midway's Z80-based Z Box. This machine used raster graphics and a form of sprites, which required extensive changes to support, along with animating color changes. This version was known as ZGRASS. History GRASS The original version of GRASS was developed by Tom D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass (TV Series)
''Grass'' is a sitcom starring Simon Day which originally aired in 2003 on BBC Three. Day plays Billy Bleach, a Londoner and pub know-it-all who is relocated to Norfolk in rural England under a witness protection programme after he witnesses a gangland killing. The first episode aired on 8 September 2003. The series was a spin-off from ''The Fast Show''. Cast *Simon Day as Billy Bleach *Robert Wilfort as PC Harriet * Philip Jackson as DCI Maddox *Tristan Gemmill Tristan John Gemmill (born 6 June 1967) is a British actor from London, most notable for his roles as Dr Adam Trueman in ''Casualty'' and Robert Preston in ''Coronation Street''. Early life and education Son of Brasenose College, Oxford-educa ... as DI Veal * Matthew Ashforde as Darren *Josephine Butler as Jemima *David Webber as Youssou * Mark Williams as Ben * William Thomas as Eric * Vilma Hollingbery as Rose *Liam Hess as Crispin * Alex Lowe as Roland *Andrew Clover as David the Poacher *Lynette McMorrough as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass (Robert Wyatt Song)
Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and pasture. The latter are commonly referred to collectively as grass. With around 780 genera and around 12,000 species, the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family, following the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae. The Poaceae are the most economically important plant family, including staple foods from domesticated cereal crops such as maize, wheat, rice, oats, barley, and millet for people and as feed for meat-producing animals. They provide, through direct human consumption, just over one-half (51%) of all dietary energy; rice provides 20%, wheat supplies 20%, maize (corn) 5.5%, and other grains 6%. Some members of the Poaceae are used as building materials (bamboo, thatch, and straw); others can provide a so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass (XTC Song)
"Grass" is a song written by Colin Moulding of the English rock music, rock band XTC, released as the lead single from their 1986 album ''Skylarking''. It reached number 100 on the UK Singles Chart. Background "Grass" is sometimes mistaken to be about cannabis (drug), cannabis, but was actually written about Seven Fields, a parkland in Swindon. Moulding composed it on an open E tuning, open E-tuned guitar and found its harmonic changes by playing the chord shapes of Thunderclap Newman's "Something in the Air" (1969). The mixing of violin and guitar was an idea lifted from John Lennon's "How Do You Sleep? (John Lennon song), How Do You Sleep?" (1971). ''Skylarking'' producer Todd Rundgren added a tiple to the blend. Moulding originally sang the song with a deeper voice. He said Rundgren voiced concern that the effect was too close to "a molester", and so Moulding "did the David Bowie, Bowie thing and added an octave above it". On ''Skylarking'', the track bookends "Summer's Cauldro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
