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Bark
Bark may refer to: * Bark (botany), an outer layer of a woody plant such as a tree or stick * Bark (sound), a vocalization of some animals (which is commonly the dog) Places * Bark, Germany * Bark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Bark'' (Jefferson Airplane album), 1971 * Bark (Blackie and the Rodeo Kings album) * ''Bark'' (short story collection), a short story collection by Lorrie Moore * ''Bark!'', a 2002 film * ''Bark!'', a magazine published by Canada Wide Media * Bark the Polar Bear, a character in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series Brands and enterprises * BARK (computer), a computer Food * Almond bark, a confection * Peppermint bark, a confection Science * βARK, Beta adrenergic receptor kinase, an intracellular enzyme * Bark scale, an auditory frequency metric Other uses * Bark or barque A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bark (sound)
A bark is a sound most commonly produced from dogs. Other animals that make this noise include, but are not limited to, wolves, coyotes, foxes, seals and barking owls. Woof is the most common onomatopoeia in the English language for this sound. "Bark" is also a verb that describes the sound of many canids. University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers define a bark as a short vocalization. Definition While there is not a precise, consistent and functional acoustic definition for barking, researchers may classify barks according to several criteria. University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers define a bark as a short, abrupt vocalization that is relatively loud and high-pitched, changes in frequency and often repeats rapidly in succession.Lord, Kathryn., Feinstein, Mark., Coppinger, RaymondBarking and mobbing. ''Behavioural Processes''. 2009. In dogs Dog barking is distinct from wolf barking. Wolf barks represent only 2.4% of all wolf vocalizations and are describe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bark (botany)
Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots of woody plants. Plants with bark include trees, woody vines, and shrubs. Bark refers to all the tissues outside the vascular cambium and is a nontechnical term. It overlays the wood and consists of the inner bark and the outer bark. The inner bark, which in older stems is living tissue, includes the innermost layer of the periderm. The outer bark on older stems includes the dead tissue on the surface of the stems, along with parts of the outermost periderm and all the tissues on the outer side of the periderm. The outer bark on trees which lies external to the living periderm is also called the rhytidome. Products derived from bark include bark shingle siding and wall coverings, spices and other flavorings, tanbark for tannin, resin, latex, medicines, poisons, various hallucinogenic chemicals and cork. Bark has been used to make cloth, canoes, and ropes and used as a surface for paintings and map making. A number of plants are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peppermint Bark
Peppermint bark is a chocolate confection. Generally it consists of peppermint candy pieces, such as candy canes, in white chocolate on top of dark chocolate, but peppermint bark can refer to any chocolate with peppermint candy pieces in it. It is especially popular around the Christmas season. Companies known for selling it seasonally include Williams Sonoma, Ghirardelli, and Dove. Though they do not label it as peppermint bark, Hershey's also sells peppermint Hershey's kisses. In the United States, peppermint bark is also sold by some Girl Scout troops as part of an expanded range of items other than cookies. Jelly Belly also sells a combination of its dark chocolate and candy cane jelly beans as a "Peppermint Bark Recipe Mix". History The origins of peppermint bark are unclear. Williams Sonoma introduced its version and popularized it in 1998, though the confection existed as early as 1966 in the United States. Peppermint bark is a variation on chocolate bark, which is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above. Etymology The word "barque" entered English via the French term, which in turn came from the Latin ''barca'' by way of Occitan, Catalan, Spanish, or Italian. The Latin ''barca'' may stem from Celtic ''barc'' (per Thurneysen) or Greek ''baris'' (per Diez), a term for an Egyptian boat. The '' Oxford English Dictionary'', however, considers the latter improbable. The word ''barc'' appears to have come from Celtic languages. The form adopted by English, perhaps from Irish, was "bark", while that adopted by Latin as ''barca'' very early, which gave rise to the French ''barge'' and ''barque''. In Latin, Spanish, and Italian, the term ''barca'' refers to a small boat, not a full-sized ship. French inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BARK (organization)
BARK is an Oregon, United States, non-profit organization that was created to combat logging, clear-cutting, deforestation and projects members say cause "commercial destruction" in Oregon forests, specifically those of the Mt. Hood National Forest. Formation In 1993, Greg Dyson and John "Lenny" Rancher began a "call to action" when they noticed clear-cutting happening on Mt. Hood National Forest, which surrounds the Mt. Hood stratovolcano in northern Oregon that is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc. Upset with the old growth logging and the environmental impact of clear-cutting, Dyson and Rancher began training volunteers to bring attention to destructive logging practices. The two began to hike to each proposed timber sale in the forest and documenting the discrepancy between agency documents and on the ground conditions in the forest. Bark continues this foundational program by training "groundtruthers" to hike every timber sale proposed in the forest. The group began its foray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almond Bark
Almond bark (also known as vanilla flavored candy coating) is a chocolate-like confection made with vegetable fats instead of cocoa butter and with coloring and flavors added. It can be bought in packages, blocks, or round discs where candy and baking supplies are sold. The confection is commonly used to cover or dip fruits, caramel, oats, granola, nuts, cookies, or crackers, in place of real chocolate. The term is also applied to a type of candy consisting of sheets or chunks of semisweet or milk chocolate to which almonds or almond pieces, and/or cherry almond flavoring have been added. See also *White chocolate White chocolate is a confectionery typically made of sugar, milk, and cocoa butter. It is pale ivory colored, and lacks many of the compounds found in milk and dark chocolates. It is solid at room temperature because the melting point of cocoa ... * Dark chocolate References {{nut confections Chocolate confectionery Nut confections Almond desserts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bark!
''Bark!'' is a 2002 film written by Heather Morgan, directed by Katarzyna Adamik (the daughter of director Agnieszka Holland) and starring Morgan, Lee Tergesen, and Lisa Kudrow. The film debuted at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize. The "extremely low-budget" film, an August 18, 2002 article from '''' which had its origins in a 90-second comedy sketch,''Bark!'' Review from '' |
Bark (Jefferson Airplane Album)
''Bark'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band Jefferson Airplane. Released in 1971 as Grunt FTR-1001, the album is one of the Airplane's late-period works, notable for the group's first personnel changes since 1966. The album was the first without band founder Marty Balin (who departed the band during the recording process but without featuring in the sessions) and the first with violinist Papa John Creach. Drummer Spencer Dryden had been replaced by Joey Covington in early 1970 after a lengthy transitional period in which both musicians had performed with the band. ''Bark'' was the Airplane's first new album in two years, the previous being 1969's '' Volunteers''. It was the first release on Grunt Records, launched in August 1971 by the band and RCA as an autonomous imprint for Jefferson Airplane-related releases. Lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen received four songwriting credits on the album, indicative of his growing importance as a composer and vocalist. At the time, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bark Scale
The Bark scale is a psychoacoustical scale proposed by Eberhard Zwicker in 1961. It is named after Heinrich Barkhausen who proposed the first subjective measurements of loudness.Zwicker, E. (1961),Subdivision of the audible frequency range into critical bands" ''The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America'', Volume 33, Issue 2, p. 248 (1961) One definition of the term is "...a frequency scale on which equal distances correspond with perceptually equal distances. Above about 500 Hz this scale is more or less equal to a logarithmic frequency axis. Below 500 Hz the Bark scale becomes more and more linear." The scale ranges from 1 to 24 and corresponds to the first 24 critical bands of hearing. It is related to, but somewhat less popular than, the mel scale, a perceptual scale of pitches judged by listeners to be equal in distance from one another. Bark scale critical bands Since the direct measurements of the critical bands are subject to error, the values in this tab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bark, Germany
Bark is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schl ..., Germany. References Municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein Segeberg {{Segeberg-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bark (Blackie And The Rodeo Kings Album)
''Bark'' is the third album by Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, released by True North Records on July 7, 2003. Critical reception Thom Jurek of AllMusic concludes his review with, "Produced by Linden, ''Bark'' is the garage band record of the year so far and reveals a band coming into its own with authority, reckless abandon, and a wicked rock & roll grin." ''No Depression'' writes in their review, "The group’s third album, ''Bark'', also owes much to the chops of three frontmen: Colin Linden, with the reedy voice of an openly passionate Lyle Lovett; Tom Wilson, whose nicotine baritone roughs up everything it touches; and Stephen Fearing, straight-ahead in vocal style and languidly soulful in delivery." Track listing Musicians *Stephen Fearing – Acoustic Guitar (tracks: 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12), Electric Guitar (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14), Harmony Vocals (tracks 1, 2, 7, 9, 11), Lead Vocals (tracks 2, 7, 10, 13), High String Guitar (track 2) * Tom Wilson – Acous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BARK (computer)
BARK () was an early electromechanical computer. BARK was built using standard telephone relays, implementing a 32-bit binary machine. It could perform addition in 150 ms and multiplication in 250 ms. It had a memory with 50 registers and 100 constants. It was later expanded to double the memory. Howard Aiken stated in reference to BARK "This is the first computer I have seen outside Harvard that actually works." History BARK was developed by '' Matematikmaskinnämnden'' ( Swedish Board for Computing Machinery) a few years before BESK. The machine was built with 8,000 standard telephone relays, 80 km of cable and with 175,000 soldering points. Programming was done by plugboard. It was completed in February 1950 at a cost of 400,000 Swedish kronor (less than $100,000), became operational on April 28, 1950, and was taken offline on September 22, 1954. The engineers on the team led by Conny Palm were Harry Freese, Gösta Neovius, Olle Karlqvist, Carl-Erik Fröberg, G. Kellb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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