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Baton (running)
Baton may refer to: Stick-like objects *Baton, a type of club *Baton (law enforcement) *Baston (weapon), a type of baton used in Arnis and Filipino Martial Arts *Baton charge, a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people *Baton (conducting), a short thin stick used for directing a musical performance *Baton (military), a symbolic attribute of military or other office *Baton (running), an object transferred by runners in a relay race *Baton sinister, a mark of cadency in heraldry *Baton twirling, a light metal rod used for keeping time, twirling in competitions, etc. *Baton, a smaller version of a baguette *Baton, in stick juggling, the central stick, which is manipulated with the side-sticks (control sticks) *Baton, another word for a batonette, a culinary knife cut *Batons, in the keyboard of a carillon, the stick-like keys used to play the bells *Batons (suit), one of the four suits of playing card in the standard Latin deck *Suit of wands, Batons in the tarot card Oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club (weapon)
A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, bludgeon, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, or impact weapon) is a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon since prehistoric times. There are several examples of blunt-force trauma caused by clubs in the past, including at the site of Nataruk in Turkana, Kenya, described as the scene of a prehistoric conflict between bands of hunter-gatherers 10,000 years ago. Most clubs are small enough to be swung with one hand, although larger clubs may require the use of two to be effective. Various specialized clubs are used in martial arts and other fields, including the law-enforcement baton. The military mace is a more sophisticated descendant of the club, typically made of metal and featuring a spiked, knobbed, or flanged head attached to a shaft. Examples of cultural depictions of clubs may be found in mythology, where they are associated with strong figures such as Hercules or the Japanese oni, or in popular culture, where t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suit Of Wands
The Suit of Wands is one of four suits in tarot, collectively known as the Minor Arcana. Like the other tarot suits, the suit of wands contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page and knight (sometimes referred to as princess and prince), queen and king. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games, where Wands corresponds to the suit of Batons. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes. Huson, Paul, (2004) ''Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage'', Vermont: Destiny Books,''Mystical Origins of the Tarot'' Divinatory and occult meanings In Aleister Crowley's 1944 ''The Book of Thoth'', the suit of wands is associated with the action of the Will and the element of fire. The meaning of the suit as a whole focuses on ideas or readings associated with primal energy, spirituality, inspiration, determination, strength, intuition, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batten (other)
A batten is a piece of construction material. Batten may also refer to: * Batten (surname), for people named Batten * Batten (car), a British automobile produced in the 1930s * Batten (theater), a horizontal pole from which lights, props or curtains may be hung * Batten disease, a disorder of the nervous system * Batten Kill, an American river that rises in Vermont and flows into New York * Batten Kill Railroad, a class III railroad operating in New York * Mount Batten, an outcrop of rock at Plymouth Sound in England * Sail batten, a flexible insert in a sail to help shape it as an airfoil * BBDO BBDO is a worldwide advertising agency network, with its headquarters in New York City. The agency originated in 1891 with the George Batten Company, and in 1928, through a merger with Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BDO), the agency became Batten, B ... (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), an American advertising agency See also * Baton (other) * * Battenberg (disambiguatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batton
Batton is an English and French () surname with several proposed etymologies. In English it may be a diminutive form of Batt – itself derived from the Middle English ''Batte'', a pet form of Bartholomew – and in French a variant of ''Baston''. The occurrence in Germany is attributable to the influx of Huguenot refugees in the 17th and 18th century. Notable people with this name include: *Chris Batton (born 1954), former American baseball pitcher *Dave Batton (born 1956), retired American basketball player *Désiré-Alexandre Batton (1798–1855), French composer *Gary Batton Gary Dale Batton (born December 15, 1966) is a tribal administrator and politician, the current and 47th Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. It is the third-largest federally recognized tribe and second-largest reservation in total area. Bat ... (born 1966), Native American politician * J. D. Batton (1911–1981), American municipal police chief References {{surname, Batton English- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baton Rouge (other)
Baton Rouge is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Baton Rouge may also refer to: Places * Baton Rouge, South Carolina, an unincorporated community Businesses * Baton Rouge (restaurant), a Canadian restaurant chain Ships * USC&GS ''Baton Rouge'' (1875), previously USCS ''Baton Rouge'', a survey ship in commission in the United States Coast Survey from 1875 to 1878 and in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1878 to 1880 * USS ''Baton Rouge'' (SSN-689), a United States Navy submarine in commission from 1977 to 1995 Arts * Baton Rouge (band) Baton Rouge was an American hard rock band, formed in 1986 in Pearl River, Louisiana. The band produced two albums and enjoyed limited success during the final part of the hair metal explosion in the early 1990s, before disbanding. All the band me ..., American hard rock band * ''Bâton rouge'' (film), 1985 French film {{Disambiguation, geo ru:Батон-Руж ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baton River
The Baton River is a river in the Tasman District of the South Island of New Zealand. It rises near the Baton Saddle in the Arthur Range and flows ESE then northeast before feeding into the Motueka River south of Woodstock. A tramping track follows the upper part of the river valley, leading to the Karamea-Leslie track and Kahurangi National Park. See also *List of rivers of New Zealand This is a list of all waterways named as rivers in New Zealand. A * Aan River * Acheron River (Canterbury) * Acheron River (Marlborough) * Ada River * Adams River * Ahaura River * Ahuriri River * Ahuroa River * Akatarawa River * Ākiti ... ReferencesLand Information New Zealand- Search for Place Names * New Zealand Topographical map NZMS 260 sheet: N27 Rivers of the Tasman District Rivers of New Zealand {{Tasman-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baton Records
Baton Records was an American, New York City based independent record label, launched in 1954 by record producer Sol Rabinowitz, mainly to record and release rhythm and blues music. Baton's first record, and subsequent hit, was "A Thousand Stars" by the R&B group the Rivileers. The label's most enduring hit is arguably "Got My Mojo Working" written by Preston Foster and first recorded by singer Ann Cole in 1957. Muddy Waters claimed to have written the song and put out a recording of it on Chess Records ,the same week as Cole's record was released on Baton. Waters had heard Cole sing the song while they were on tour together and adopted it as his own. A court later ruled that the song was indeed written by Foster, who s of 1998is still receiving royalties for "Mojo". Rabinowitz wound up the Baton label in 1959.John Broven with Richard Tapp, ''Sol Rabinowitz's Baton Records'', ''Juke Blues ''Juke Blues'' is a British magazine covering blues, R&B, gospel, soul, zydeco and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BATON Overlay
The BAlanced Tree Overlay Network (BATON) is a distributed tree structure for peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. Different from other overlays that use a distributed hash table (DHT), such as in the Chord system, BATON organizes peers in a distributed tree to support range search. In addition, BATON tries to keep the tree height-balanced, similar to the AVL tree. And hence, the search exact and range queries cost is bounded to O(\log N), such as the cost for an update operation (join/ leave). System model BATON is a binary tree. In each tree level, the node is named by its position in the tree. Each node in BATON keeps four kinds of links: # a link to its parent node (unless it is root) # links up to two-children nodes # a link to left and right adjacent node # links to select neighbor nodes maintained in a left routing table (LRT) and right routing table (RRT). Combining these, the routing table is created RT := \cup The level of any node is one greater than the level of its parent. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baton Bunny
''Baton Bunny'' is a 1959 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon, directed by Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow. The short was released on January 10, 1959, and stars Bugs Bunny. It shows Bugs conducting an orchestra - with a fly bothering him. Bugs conducts, and in part, plays the overture to "Ein Morgen, ein Mittag und Abend in Wien" (A Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna)", a composition by Franz von Suppé. Though Mel Blanc was credited for vocal characterizations, there is no dialogue in the short; the only vocal effect made was when an audience member is heard coughing. This is the third and last Bugs Bunny cartoon (the first two being ''A Corny Concerto'' and ''Rhapsody Rabbit'', although he says three lines in the latter) where Bugs is silent. Or, nearly silent; at one point, he 'shushes' the brass. This is also one of the last cartoons to get a Merrie Melodies Blue Ribbon reissue in 1968. Plot Bugs is about to conduct "The Warner Bros. Symphony Orchestra" (supposedly in concert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baton Broadcasting System
:''This is about the defunct television system owned by Baton Broadcasting. For the history of Baton Broadcasting itself, see Bell Media.'' The Baton Broadcast System ( ), also known as BBS, was a Canadian system of television stations located in Ontario and Saskatchewan, owned by Baton Broadcasting. BBS was the successor to two provincial systems also owned by Baton, the Saskatchewan Television Network (STN) and Ontario Network Television (ONT). During the 1990s, BBS and its predecessors served as a complementary programming service to the CTV Television Network, to which most (but not all) of the system's stations were already affiliated. Shortly after Baton's acquisition of CTV in 1997 and the contemporaneous sale of Baton's independent stations (later re-acquired by Bell and currently part of the parallel CTV 2 system), the BBS brand was eliminated, and the system's operations were merged into the CTV network. History Background During its years as a cooperative, CTV did not b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baton Broadcasting
Bell Media Inc. ( French: ) is a Canadian company formed by the amalgamation of several companies. Establishment (2011–13) On December 9, 2011, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announced the sale of its majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment to BCE and its rival, Rogers Communications, in a deal valued at around $1.32 billion. Additionally, Larry Tanenbaum increased his stake in the company to 25%. The deal closed in August 2012. On March 16, 2012, BCE announced that it had entered in an agreement to acquire Montreal-based broadcaster Astral Media for an estimated value at $3.38 billion; the assets of which were to be incorporated into Bell Media. The acquisition was primarily centered on Astral's premium services (such as The Movie Network and its stake in HBO Canada) and its French-language radio and television stations. Bell planned to use Astral's premium offerings to enhance its own multi-platform services to compete against the likes of services such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baton Bob
Bob Jamerson, known as Baton Bob, is a well known local character and costumed street performer, currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. Baton Bob used to live in St. Louis, Missouri and in both cities is a significant local personality. He typically marches down urban sidewalks dressed in a tutu and occasionally a tiara. As his name suggests, he almost always twirls a baton as well. His stated goal is to amuse and cheer passersby, to "lift people’s spirits and put a simple smile on people’s faces during their daily routine". He occasionally calls himself the "Ambassador of Mirth". Origin Jamerson grew up an only child on a farm in Martinsville, Virginia. As a boy, he became enthralled with band majorettes at college football games. When he went to high school, he asked to be his school's first male baton twirler. Wearing a cheerleader's sweater and white pants with gold stripes, he often was tempted to outperform the majorettes. Jamerson eventually moved to St. Louis and worked a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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