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The Bats (New Zealand Band) Albums
Bats are flying mammals. Bats may also refer to: Film and television * ''Bats'' (film), a 1999 American horror film * ''The Bats'' (film), a 1999 American animated short film * "Bats!", episode from ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' (season 4) * "Bats", a Series B episode from the television series ''QI'' (2004) Music * The Bats (South African band) * Bats (Irish band) * The Bats (New Zealand band), a rock band * "Bats!", a song by The Bronx * The Bats, a short-lived American band formed by Jon Brion in 1982 * The Bats, an early 1980s San Francisco area rock band related to The Sorentinos Other uses * Bats people, a small Nakh-speaking community in the country of Georgia * Bats language, the language spoken by the Bats people * Bats, Landes, a commune in France * Louisville Bats, a minor league baseball team People with the surname * Joël Bats, a former French goalkeeper and international footballer * Rob Bats, Dutch politician See also * Bat (disambiguatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bats (film)
''Bats'' is a 1999 American horror film directed by Louis Morneau, written by John Logan and produced by Bradley Jenkel and Louise Rosner. The film stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton and Leon. It was the first film released by Destination Films. A hostile swarm of genetically mutated bats terrorize a local Texas town, and it is up to zoologist Sheila Casper, who teams up with town Sheriff Emmett Kimsey, to exterminate the creatures before they take more lives. The film grossed $10 million against a $5 million budget. The Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus calls it "neither scary nor creepy". Plot After people start to die in the fictional small Texas town of Gallup, the prime suspects are bats. The CDC calls in chiropterologists Dr. Sheila Casper and her assistant, Jimmy Sands, to investigate the situation. Dr. Alexander McCabe is secretive about the situation, but admits that the bats were genetically modified by him to become more intelligent and also om ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bats People
The Bats people ( ka, ბაცი, tr) or the Batsbi (ბაცბი), are Nakh-speaking Tushetians in the country of Georgia. They are also known as the Ts’ova-Tush (წოვათუშები) after the Ts’ova Gorge in the historic Georgian mountain region of Tusheti. The group should not be confused with the neighbouring Kists – also a Nakh-speaking people who live in the nearby Pankisi Gorge. Language and customs Part of the community still retains its own Bats language ("batsbur mott"), which has adopted many Georgian loan-words and grammatical rules and is mutually unintelligible with the two other Nakh languages, Chechen and Ingush. As Professor Johanna Nichols put it, " he Batsburlanguage is related to Chechen and Ingush roughly as Czech is related to Russian nd the Batsbinot belong to vai naakh nor their language to vai mott, though any speaker of Chechen or Ingush can immediately tell that the language is closely related and can understand some phrases of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bat (other)
A bat is a flying mammal of the order Chiroptera. Bat or The Bat may also refer to: Sport *Bat, the stick-like implement used to hit the ball in bat-and-ball sports **Baseball bat **Cricket bat *Bat, an alternate name for a Racket **Table tennis racket or bat *Bolo bat Computing * Bat (metasyntactic variable), a placeholder name *The Bat!, an email client by RitLabs for Microsoft Windows *.bat, file extension for a batch file Film * ''The Bat'' (1926 film), a silent film * ''The Bat'' (1959 film) Literature * ''The Bat'' (play), a 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood * ''The Bat'' (novel), a 1997 detective novel by Jo Nesbø *The Bat, a character in short stories by Johnston McCulley Military *McDonnell XP-67 Bat, a U.S. Army Air Forces experimental fighter *Bat (guided bomb), developed by the U.S. during World War II * HMS ''Bat'', a Royal Navy destroyer * USS ''Bat'' (1864), a steamer captured by the U.S. during the American Civil War *Northrop Grumman Bat, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Bats
Jan Hendrik "Rob" Bats (born 1 April 1962 in Winterswijk) is a Dutch politician. He is a member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). From 1 May 2012 to 1 April 2013 he was mayor of Haren, Groningen. Previously he worked as a civil servant in Sint Maarten. From 2002 to 2006, he was a member of the municipal council of Meppel. During this time he was also corporate director of the Thorbecke Academy for public administration and public management. From 2007 to 2010, he was a representative for the States Deputed of the province of Drenthe. Rob Bats studied public administration at the University of Twente The University of Twente (Dutch: ''Universiteit Twente''; , abbr. ) is a public technical university located in Enschede, Netherlands. The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. .... He is married and has two sons. References * 'Nieuwe burgemeester Bats in mei aan de slag', '' Algeme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joël Bats
Joël Bats (born 4 January 1957) is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He spent his entire senior club career in his native France, appearing in a total of 553 competitive club matches and 504 Division 1 matches for Sochaux, Auxerre and Paris Saint-Germain from 1976 to 1992. He made 50 appearances, 35 competitive matches and 15 friendly matches, for the France national team. Club career Sochaux Bats joined the youth academy of FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. He played for Sochaux's U19 youth team until the summer of 1974. He began his Sochaux professional career at the start of the 1974–75 season. Bats spent the 1974–75 and 1975–76 seasons playing only for the club's reserve team. After Bats was promoted to the club's first team in the summer of 1976, he had to compete with Albert Rust for playing time over the next four seasons, with the two of them being alternated in matches. Bats stayed at Sochaux until the end of the 1979–80 season. Aux ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisville Bats
The Louisville Bats are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League (IL) and the Triple-A (baseball), Triple-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds. They are located in Louisville, Kentucky, and are named in dual reference to the bat, winged mammal and baseball bats, such as those manufactured locally under the Louisville Slugger brand. The team plays their home games at Louisville Slugger Field, which opened in 2000. The Bats previously played at Cardinal Stadium (1956), Cardinal Stadium from 1982 to 1999. The club began play as the Louisville Redbirds in the Triple-A American Association (1902–1997), American Association (AA) in 1982. Louisville won three List of American Association (1902–1997) champions, AA championships: in 1984, 1985, and 1995 as the top affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. They joined the Triple-A International League in 1998 following the dissolution of the AA after the 1997 season. The Redbirds rebranded as the Louisville RiverBats in 1999; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bats, Landes
Bats ( Gascon: ''Vaths'') is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Landes department The following is a list of the 327 communes of the Landes department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Landes (department) {{Landes-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bats Language
Bats (also Batsi, Batsbi, Batsb, Batsaw, Tsova-Tush) is the endangered language of the Bats people, a North Caucasian minority group and is part of the Nakh family of Northeast Caucasian languages. It had 2,500 to 3,000 speakers in 1975. There is only one dialect. It exists only as a spoken language, as Bats people use Georgian as their written language. The language is not mutually intelligible with either Chechen or Ingush, the other two members of the Nakh family. History Tusheti, the northeastern mountainous region of Georgia, is home to four tribes that consider themselves Tushetians: the Batsbi - also known as Tsovatush; the Gometsari; the Piriqiti; and the Chagma-Tush. Tsovatush people make up 50% of Tushetians. As of today only several hundred Tsovatush people speak ''Batsbur Mott – (Bats language), whereas the other tribes (Gometsari, Piriqiti and Chagma-Tush) have lost the language. Evidence from toponymics indicates that the other three Tushetian tribes formerly s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sorentinos
The Sorentinos are an American rock music band based in Sonoma County, California, formed in 1985. The main members are Danny Sorentino (lead vocals, guitar, harmonica), Rob Ruiz (bass guitar, backing vocals), Rory Judge (drums), Steve Barbieri (lead guitar, backing vocals), Russ Kerger (keyboards), and Steve Lee (lead guitar, backing vocals). Danny Sorentino, by his own estimation, has written about 1,000 songs. The Sorentinos, including solo albums and side projects by Danny Sorentino, have recorded 29 albums. They have performed thousands of gigs, mostly in the greater San Francisco Bay and North Bay Areas, but also throughout California and the United States, and have toured in the United Kingdom as well. They have performed as an opening act for dozens of well-known artists. History Danny Sorentino was born in 1955 in San Francisco, and grew up in the Excelsior District. He moved to Petaluma (Sonoma County) in 1970. He graduated from Rancho Cotate High School in Rohn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bats (film)
''The Bats'' is a 1999 American short animated film written and directed by Jim Trainor, who also narrates the film alongside Marianne McGinnis. Hand-drawn by Trainor with felt-tip pens, the film follows the life of a bat who resides in a cave near a Mayan temple. He is raised by his mother, learns to use echolocation, and embarks on a journey of sexual and metaphysical discovery before ultimately completing his life cycle. ''The Bats'' won an Honorable Mention in the Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,66 ...'s Short Filmmaking category in 2000. References External links * 1999 films 1999 animated films 1999 short films American animated short films Animated films about bats Animated films about death Films about puberty Films abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Brion
Jon Brion is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer. He performed with the Excerpts, the Bats, 'Til Tuesday and the Grays before becoming an established producer and film score composer. Brion has produced music for artists and bands including Of Montreal, Aimee Mann, Love Jones, Eels, Fiona Apple, Elliott Smith, Robyn Hitchcock, Rhett Miller, The Crystal Method, Kanye West, Sky Ferreira and Mac Miller. According to ''Stereogum,'' Brion's work on Mann's first solo albums "lay the groundwork for a sound that became synonymous with a strain of notable alternative acts at the turn of the century". Brion's film scores include '' Hard Eight'' (1996), ''Magnolia'' (1999), ''Punch-Drunk Love'' (2002), '' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' and ''I Heart Huckabees'' (both 2004), '' Synecdoche, New York'' (2008), ''ParaNorman'' (2012), '' Lady Bird'' (2017), and ''Christopher Robin'' (2018). He released his debut solo album, '' Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bats!
"Bats!" is the debut single by Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...-based punk rock band The Bronx (band), The Bronx, released in 2003 by Tarantulas Records. It was produced by Beau Burchell and recorded at his home in Los Angeles. The single was released on both compact disc and gramophone record#Formats, 12-inch vinyl, the latter a Picture discs, picture disc limited to 1,000 copies. The A-side and B-side, B-side is backmasking, backmasked, playing from the inner edge to the outer. Track listing CD version Vinyl version Personnel Band * Matt Caughthran – lead singing, vocals * Joby J. Ford – electric guitar, guitar, backing vocals, graphic design * James Tweedy – bass guitar, backing vocals * Jorma Vik – drum kit, drums Production * Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
