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dotMobi engaged with the W3C Mobile Web Initiative MWI to help formulate the MWI Best Practices for mobile content The practices outlined a number of ways to achieve good user experiences on mobile Web enabled devices and recognized several methods of implementing these practices |
mTLD has released a free testing tool called Readymobi see mobiForge to analyze the mobile readiness of websites It does a free page analysis and gives a mobi Ready score from 1 to 5 This report tests the mobile readiness of the site using dotMobi s recommended best practices |
dotMobi does not itself mandate any particular technology but does require that mobi sites produce user experiences consistent with their guidelines and specifically optimized for mobile phones |
The domain has been the target of criticism due to allegedly breaking the principles of device independence Providing content tailored to particular devices can be done by other means than a specific TLD such as using hostnames within an existing domain HTTP content negotiation cascading style sheets or other forms of adaptation |
There are technical solutions that provide similar benefits as mobi compressing downsampling proxy servers and microbrowsers like Opera Mobile which can tailor any website to small display using Small Screen Rendering technique However these browsers must still download an entire page with graphics and other related files which if not optimized for mobile phones can be time consuming and expensive to download To improve the latter issue the two adaptation techniques can be used together This is the idea behind proxy based microbrowsers like Opera Mini that download the optimized and compressed version of web pages through dedicated proxy servers However web pages viewed on a mobile via a proxy based microbrowser are rarely specifically designed for a mobile phone so it is left up to the proxy server and browser to decide what to compress what to display and how to display it which unlike the mobi version of the site may not necessarily be how the web page owner intends for the mobile audience |
There are also specialized content adaptation solutions that typically operate on a server where they employ specialized adaptation techniques to provide optimized representations of Web sites to mobile devices regardless of what browser they use However mobi replaces the intermediary step with the specific adaptation of content for viewing on a mobile phone |
The W3C is also developing new authoring languages such as DIAL the Device Independent Authoring Language which aid authors in creating Web sites that can be used on the huge variety of mobile devices available today Some adaptation solutions already support the use of DIAL and similar languages in creating sites that can be used with mobi domain names Other open source initiatives include WURFL which addresses the problem with a large database of browser identification strings |
All mobi sites must be optimized for viewing on a mobile phone providing the major advantage of the domain from the users perspective of compatible content Websites may be optimized for the special capabilities and restrictions of mobile devices such as smaller screens device form size device input output options existence of embedded sensors acceleration location touch etc as well as human factors such as expectations of immediacy of results context awareness under a shortened attention span compared to nonmobile device use of the Internet Although other top level domains can technically employ the same optimizations for mobile phones in practice only a fraction of them do thus necessitating content adaptation solutions These retrofit the content to target devices independent from the original process of creating the site On the other hand dotMobi promotes creating two separate device dependent World Wide Webs one desktop based and the other mobile based and thus risks producing redundant content From a content provider perspective having to maintain two separate websites also represents more work |
Tim Berners Lee of the World Wide Web Consortium claims that dotMobi breaks the device independence of the web |
It is fundamentally useful to be able to quote the URI for some information and then look up that URI in an entirely different context For example I may want to look up a restaurant on my laptop bookmark it and then when I only have my phone check the bookmark to have a look at the evening menu Or my travel agent may send me a pointer to my itinerary for a business trip I may view the itinerary from my office on a large screen and want to see the map or I may view it at the airport from my phone when all I want is the gate number |
Critics pointed out that mobi is an unfortunate choice for mobile phone text entry interfaces requiring nine or ten keystrokes in many common setups compared to seven for com or what could have only been three if wap was used |
Currently much web development is changing to a mobile first responsive design methodology reducing the need for separate mobile sites and weakening the market for mobi domain names |
mTLD has compiled a list of approximately 5700 commonly used words and phrases that have been set aside for equitable allocation other than in the traditional first come first served system This was designed to 1 create a more level playing field in the allocation of these names 2 increase the likelihood that these domain names will more promptly provide the mobile community with new features and services and 3 preserve the stability and security of registry operations mTLD will be allocating these premium names via auction and Request for Proposal RFP processes on a quarterly basis through 2008 The process was approved by ICANN with input from mTLD s Policy Advisory Board and WIPO Disputes that arise over mobi domain names can be filed and administered by the National Arbitration Forum Disputes are decided by one of 147 experts on the National Arbitration Forum s intellectual property panel |
On 13 September 2007 dotMobi announced the auction of 100 premium mobi domains via Sedo to commemorate their 1 year anniversary since public launch |
dotMobi has sold hundreds of domain names through the auction process but it has not been without controversy In one auction a dotMobi website sold for 616000 The auction was voided due to technical problems at Sedo Also none of the top 25 most expensive domains sold at the first auction met their compliance deadlines to have active web sites |
In connection with the roll out of the mobi top level domain dotMobi has reserved names as per its contract with ICANN These terms include dotMobi terms other TLDs emergency numbers and geographic names The first geographic mobi domain to be released was Helsinkimobi |
A dozen of domain name sales in the mobi TLD have fetched prices in the hundred thousand dollar range including Musicmobi Gamesmobi Flowersmobi Pokermobi Ringtonesmobi Casinomobi Sportsbookmobi Newsmobi Pornmobi Hostingmobi Sportsmobi and Funmobi Thousands of mobi domain names changed hands publicly since its inception |
The draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place on 1 December 2017 at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow Russia It determined the group in which each of the 32 qualified national teams will play in at the start of the tournament The teams were divided into four pots of eight with one team selected from each pot to form a group |
Unlike previous editions of the World Cup all pots were determined by each national team s October 2017 FIFA World Ranking with Pot 1 containing the highest ranked teams Pot 2 containing the next highest ranked teams and so on until Pot 4 containing the lowest ranked teams in previous editions only one pot containing the highest ranked teams was determined by rank with the other three pots determined by continental confederation The hosts continued to be placed in Pot 1 and treated as a seeded team and therefore Pot 1 consisted of hosts Russia and the seven highest ranked teams that qualify for the tournament |
The draw sequence started with pot 1 and ended with pot 4 |
As with previous editions no group had more than one team from any continental confederation with the exception of UEFA which had at least one but no more than two in a group |
All teams were seeded using the October 2017 FIFA World Rankings which numbers in parenthesis show released on 16 October 2017 |
According to the FIFA rankings the strongest group was E combining for 4415 points followed by F 4151 B 4128 C 4101 D 4099 G 3953 H 3944 and the weakest was the host nation s group A 2991 |
Niagara is an hour long episode of the sixth season of the US comedy series The Office It is the 4th and 5th episodes in the season s episode count and the 104th and 105th episode of the series overall The episode was written by executive producer Greg Daniels and Mindy Kaling and was directed by Paul Feig It originally aired on October 8 2009 on NBC in the United States |
The series presented as if it were a real documentary depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company The episode revolves around the wedding of Jim and Pam at Niagara Falls Not all goes smoothly when Jim accidentally reveals Pam s pregnancy to all the guests including Pam s very old fashioned grandmother and Andy injures his scrotum while dancing Meanwhile Michael and Dwight both try to hook up with women with mixed results |
The episode was met with positive reviews from critics and fans Although not all television critics reacted positively to Andy s dancing injury subplot Niagara has nonetheless come to be considered a classic episode of the series In a poll conducted by OfficeTally the episode was named the second best episode of the series after the second season finale Casino Night The episode was viewed by 942 million households with a 48 rating 12 share in the 18 49 demographic making it the second highest viewed episode of the season after The Delivery |
Jim John Krasinski and Pam Jenna Fischer head up to Niagara Falls for their wedding and the rest of the office follows them Michael Steve Carell and Dwight Rainn Wilson seek women to hook up with while Andy Ed Helms pursues Erin Ellie Kemper Kevin Brian Baumgartner and Oscar Oscar Nunez meet Pam s sister Penny Anna Camp who accidentally offends Oscar by thinking Kevin was his boyfriend Gil Pam s mother Helene Linda Purl is visibly disturbed at the fact that Pam s father and Helene s exhusband William Rick Overton has come to the wedding with his new girlfriend who is half his own age |
Pam s grandmother Meemaw played by Peggy Stewart is a woman of conservative morals so everyone is told not to mention Pam s pregnancy At the rehearsal dinner Jim gives a moving toast to his soon to be wife However he finishes by saying that everyone but Pam will drink to the toast for obvious reasons Meemaw questions this remark and after fumbling through several weak excuses Jim finally admits that Pam is pregnant Meemaw then decides not to attend the wedding out of moral outrage Michael later visits Meemaw in her hotel room Despite his indelicate approach to the subject of sex he establishes an instant rapport with Meemaw and convinces her to attend the wedding |
Andy hosts a dance party in his room later that night with the office staff attending Andy punctures his scrotum trying to do a split The guests rouse Pam the only sober person to take him to the hospital Pam reluctantly agrees but Andy still whines throughout the drive to the hospital |
Michael and Dwight try their luck with women at the bar Dwight despite embarrassing both of them is successful in getting Pam s friend Isabel Kelen Coleman to spend the night with him Michael spends the night alone in the ice machine room as he had failed to make a reservation in advance |
Prior to the ceremony Pam accidentally tears her veil and tearfully phones Jim They meet in private where Pam expresses shame at her appearance due to being pregnant Pam is visibly uplifted when Jim cuts his tie in half in an effort to console her and says she regrets inviting their families and the office staff They run away from the church together |
While everyone in the church wonders where they went Michael and Helene begin to bond over their failed relationships Dwight callously rebuffs Isabel s attempts at further contact The rest of the office staff grow impatient bickering about their right to take their gifts back |
Jim and Pam finally return to the church after an hour with no explanation of their absence and the ceremony begins The guests interrupt the ceremony by recreating the dance routines featured in the JK Wedding Entrance Dance Jim and Pam react with uncharacteristic good humor having already been married on board the Maid of the Mist IV ferry boat by the ship s captain below the falls Jim explains to the camera that he had prepared the ferry marriage in advance after seeing the video predicting the guests might imitate it |
When Kevin leaves his only pair of shoes in the care of hotel staff the management decides to incinerate them as a health hazard and he replaces them with Kleenex tissue boxes The end of the episode shows Kevin soothing his feet in the ice machine While he speaks to the camera crew Helene is seen pulling Michael into her hotel room |
The episode was written by developer and executive producer of The Office Greg Daniels and Mindy Kaling who plays Kelly Kapoor on the show It was directed by Paul Feig his 13th directing credit for the series The episode was initially assigned to Mindy Kaling but executive producer Greg Daniels said he was interested in contributing The scene in which Jim cuts his tie off took seven takes and was written by Greg Daniels In the original draft the wedding was supposed to take place on the Booze Cruise The dance sequence during the wedding was choreographed by the same person who worked on Cafe Disco with all of the dancing pairs having 45 minute practice sessions to get their moves down John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer made a surprise trip to the Niagara Falls area with a small crew in order to film the scene with their actual wedding vows and Krasinski was feeling ill during the filming but insisted they do multiple takes even as he was getting soaked with water Brian Baumgartner s parents were on the Maid of the Mist boat where the marriage scene was filmed They were visiting friends from Rochester NY and came into town to be extras |
The dance down the church aisle to Chris Brown s Forever is based on the popular 2009 YouTube viral video JK Wedding Entrance Dance in which a young couple JK standing for Jill and Kevin dance down the aisle to the song along with their wedding party Pam mentions that the song was specifically put on a Do Not Play List but was choreographed by the wedding guests and office workers regardless The song played during Andy s party is Kardinal Offishall s Numba 1 Tide is High featuring Rihanna Dwight is shown wearing the Three Wolf Moon T shirt made famous by humorous reviews on Amazon before going out to the hotel bar with Michael to pick up women commenting that it s suggestive to women because of howling during sex |
In its original American broadcast Niagara was viewed by an estimated 942 million households with a 48 rating and a 12 share in the 18 49 demographic coming second in its timeslot after Grey s Anatomy Greg Daniels and Mindy Kaling received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for their work on Niagara at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards but lost to Modern Family s Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd for their work on the pilot episode |
The episode received positive reviews from critics The episode ranked 24th on BuddyTV s list of best 50 episodes of 2009 with them saying It was nt easy but they did it all creating a goofy joyful and special day for Jim and Pam that brought tears to our eyes Dan Phillip of IGN gave the episode an 83 saying calling it Impressive and The episode certainly could have delivered more in terms of creativity and high comedy but it still contained a great deal of entertainment Despite that he said the episode failed in comparison to Phyllis Wedding Niagara was voted the second highest rated out of 115 from the series according to a poll at the fansite OfficeTally |
Daddy s Home is a 2015 American comedy film directed by Sean Anders and written by Anders Brian Burns and John Morris The film is about a mild mannered step father Will Ferrell who vies for the attention of his wife s Linda Cardellini children when their biological father Mark Wahlberg returns |
The second collaboration between Ferrell and Wahlberg following the 2010 film The Other Guys principal photography began on November 17 2014 in New Orleans Louisiana The film was released on December 25 2015 by Paramount Pictures and grossed 242 million worldwide becoming Ferrell s highest grossing live action film A sequel Daddy s Home 2 was released on November 10 2017 |
Mild mannered radio executive Brad Whitaker struggles to be a good stepfather to his wife Sara s two children Megan and Dylan and is seemingly sterile after an accident to his testicles some years ago The children begin to grow closer to Brad with Dylan confiding in him that he is being picked on at school and Megan asking him to take her to a father daughter dance at her school One night the kids biological father Sara s exhusband Dusty Mayron calls and discovers Sara s marriage with Brad He suddenly announces he will be visiting the next day Sara hesitates to let her exhusband into their home but Brad convinces her that it is important for the kids that their father and stepfather establish a respectful relationship |
When Dusty arrives Brad is immediately intimidated by his tough and muscular appearance and his charm with Megan and Dylan Dusty repeatedly talks Brad into letting him stay despite Sara warning about Dusty s true nature Brad soon wises up when it becomes clear that Dusty intends to drive Brad out of his kids lives and reconcile with Sara After Dusty shows Brad up again and again getting the kids a dog finishing a treehouse that Brad wanted to build with Dylan making Brad appear to be racist Dusty tries to drive a wedge between Brad and Sara by taking them to a fertility doctor hoping that Brad s inability to give Sara a baby will send her into Dusty s arms Still the two men appear to reach an understanding after working together to teach Dylan how to defend himself Additionally Brad and Sara are overjoyed to learn that Brad s sperm count has increased significantly implied to be a result of Dusty invading his territory giving them hope of having a child together |
However Brad is stunned when Dusty reveals that he still intends to drive Brad out of the family Desperate Brad spends tens of thousands of dollars on early Christmas gifts including a pony and 18000 basketball tickets At the game Dusty once again shows Brad up by revealing himself to be friends with the coach of Dylan s favorite team and an enraged Brad begins drinking heavily During half time Brad is chosen to try to shoot a basketball to win a prize Drunk Brad goes on a rant about Dusty before accidentally pelting a cheerleader and a disabled child in a wheelchair in the face with basketballs Humiliated Brad moves out of the house however when Dusty tries to comfort Sara she rejects him and forces him to step up as a dad to help his kids with their busy schedules |
Four days later Brad is living in his office at work depressed Dusty meanwhile is overwhelmed by the responsibilities of being a full time father When Dusty decides to call it quits and leave on the day of Megan s father daughter dance his friend Griff goes to Brad and convinces him to fight for his family Brad catches Dusty at a bar and tries to get him to come back Dusty admits that he can not handle the hard parts about being a father and admires Brad for putting up with all the things that he has to go through Brad says that all of the terrible parts about being a dad are worth it because in the end he is doing it for his kids This convinces Dusty to go to the dance and he and Brad arrive together There they discover that the classmate who was picking on Dylan at school is a girl and almost get into a fight with her father when Dylan physically retaliates However Dusty finally decides to follow Brad s lead on being a father and instead quells the fight by starting a dance off Brad and Sara reconcile and Dusty decides to stay and be a good codad to his kids |
Later the whole family is happy Brad and Sara have a new baby boy named after Griff and Megan and Dylan have finally accepted Brad as their stepfather Dusty who now has a job as a Panda DJ and becomes wealthy through his work has moved in across the street after building a castle there and he and Brad are now friends Dusty eventually remarries to a woman named Karen who has a daughter thus Dusty becomes a stepfather himself Sara is immediately intimidated by Karen after meeting her she feels that Karen s looks surpass hers and she is jealous of the latter s professions as a doctor and a novelist In an ironic twist of fate Dusty is now in exactly the same position that he put Brad in a year ago visibly intimidated by his stepdaughter s more attractive father Roger John Cena |
On November 5 2014 it was confirmed that Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg would play the lead roles in the film On November 12 Linda Cardellini joined the cast of the film to play Ferrell s character s wife On November 18 Hannibal Buress joined the film to play a sarcastic handyman On January 28 2015 Paul Scheer was added to the cast of the film playing The Whip a crazy DJ |
Principal photography began on November 17 2014 in New Orleans Louisiana On November 24 and 25 filming took place at Edward Hynes Charter School On January 12 2015 actors were spotted filming in the Lakeview area On January 21 2015 a scene was shot during a New Orleans Pelicans and Los Angeles Lakers game where Ferrell smashed a cheerleader played by stuntwoman wrestler Taryn Terrell in the face with a basketball Filming was scheduled to wrap on February 3 2015 but lasted through February 6 |
The film premiered in the UK on December 9 2016 and was theatrically released in the UK on Boxing Day December 26 2015 by Paramount Pictures |
Daddy s Home was released digitally on March 8 2016 before being released on Blu ray and DVD on March 22 2016 |
Daddy s Home grossed 1504 million in North America and 924 million in other territories for a worldwide total of 2428 million against a budget of 69 million It is Ferrell s highest grossing live action film surpassing Elf 2204 million |
In the United States and Canada the film opened on December 25 2015 alongside Point Break Joy Concussion and the wide release of The Big Short In its opening weekend the film was projected to gross 20 25 million from 3271 theaters However after grossing 12 million from its early Thursday showings and 157 m on its opening day weekend projections were increased to 43 46 million The film ended up grossing 387 million in its opening weekend finishing second at the box office behind Star Wars The Force Awakens 1492 million It was the second biggest nonanimated opening of Ferrell s career behind Talladega Nights The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 47 million |
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 31 based on 112 reviews and an average rating of 49 10 The site s critical consensus reads Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg have proven comedic chemistry but Daddy s Home suffers from a dearth of genuinely funny ideas and lacks enough guts or imagination to explore the satirical possibilities of its premise On Metacritic the film has a score of 42 out of 100 based on 30 critics indicating mixed or average reviews Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B on an A to F scale |
In April 2016 it was announced that Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg will reprise their characters Anders and John Morris will write the script with Anders directing In January 2017 Paramount Pictures courted Mel Gibson and John Lithgow to star in the sequel The two were later confirmed to star in the film Linda Cardellini Owen Vaccaro and Scarlett Estevez will also reprise their roles John Cena will also return to the film reprising his role from the first film It was released on November 10 2017 |
Lady Deathstrike Yuriko Oyama occasionally spelled Deathstryke is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics She is a foe of the XMen especially Wolverine |
Her father Lord Dark Wind created the adamantium bonding process that was forced on Wolverine by Weapon X A self styled warrior Lady Deathstrike hired the villain Spiral s body shoppe to bond adamantium to her own skeleton in addition to other cybergenetic enhancements She has since worked as a mercenary and assassin and feels a need to prove herself by killing Wolverine Lady Deathstrike is also the sister of Lord Deathstrike |
A mutant version of Lady Deathstrike played by Kelly Hu and without any of Deathstrike s backstory appeared as a brainwashed henchwoman of William Stryker in the 2003 film X2 She also reappeared in XMen The Official Game where she was revealed to be Silver Samurai s apprentice |
In 2009 Lady Deathstrike was ranked as IGN s 78th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time |
She first appeared as Yuriko Oyama in Daredevil 197 and later as Lady Deathstrike in Alpha Flight 33 Yuriko Oyama was created by writer Dennis ONeil and artist Larry Hama Writers Bill Mantlo and Chris Claremont added defining characteristics such as her cyborg abilities while artist Barry Windsor Smith designed her cyborg appearance |
Yuriko Oyama was born in Osaka Japan Her father was Lord Dark Wind Kenji Oyama a Japanese crime lord and criminal scientist who created the process by which adamantium can be bonded to bone Kenji was a former Japanese kamikaze pilot during World War II His face was horribly scarred in a failed suicide attack on an American battleship Feeling shamed by his failure decades earlier he scarred the faces of Yuriko and her two brothers in a ritual design Her two brothers would later die while in the service of their father |
Yuriko teamed up with Daredevil to free her lover Kiro from her father s servitude and to gain vengeance against her father for her scarring and the death of her two brothers She guided Daredevil to Lord Dark Wind s private island in search of Bullseye When Yuriko slew Lord Dark Wind the devoted Kiro chose suicide to honor his master |
Distraught Yuriko belatedly embraced her father s ideals and sought to track down whoever dishonored him and restore Japan s honor She adopted a costumed identity as a samurai warrior She attempted to find Bullseye with an adamantium tracking device intending to take vengeance against him for betraying her father and retrieve the adamantium in his bones for study Instead the device led to Wolverine whose skeleton had also been bonded with adamantium Deathstrike sought to kill him to right the wrong of the theft of her father s theories and to restore her family s honor however she and her followers were defeated by Wolverine and Vindicator of Alpha Flight She then went to the Mojoverse and sought Spiral s body shoppe where she received extensive cybernetic enhancements including adamantium bones and talons As a cyborg she became a professional criminal and joined forces with former Hellfire Club mercenaries turned cyborgs Cole Macon and Reese The four cyborgs stalked Wolverine and Katie Power in New York |
Lady Deathstrike along with Cole Macon and Reese joined the team of criminal cyborgs called the Reavers led by Donald Pierce Together the Reavers captured and crucified Wolverine Lady Deathstrike was accidentally teleported along with Wolverine and Puck to 1937 Spain There she joined forces with a Luftwaffe unit and battled Wolverine Her right arm was destroyed by a tank and when she returned to the present she was given a new right arm The Reavers gang was broken up by Trevor Fitzroy s Sentinels and most of them were destroyed though Deathstrike herself survived She later battled Wolverine and Sabretooth in Times Square |
At times she has resigned her quest to kill Logan and has even worked with the XMen cooperatively toward a common goal such as the defeat of Stryfe In an encounter with Logan shortly after Magneto removed the adamantium from his skeleton Lady Deathstrike again encounters Puck and Vindicator The fight with Wolverine destroys much of Vindicator s house and ends when Wolverine reveals his bone claws As Logan no longer possessed the adamantium stolen from her father she concluded there was no honor to be gained by killing him She leaves the premises peacefully However she still remains a mercenary and an assassin Despite all this Yuriko is set apart from many of the XMens foes in that she adheres to an honor code despite being emotionally disturbed |
When Captain America unexpectedly appears in Japan after a year spent in another dimension he manages to find Lady Deathstrike working with terrorists Their goals were to drive American influence out of Japan by any means possible including mass murder Captain America defeats her before any innocent lives are lost |
Lady Deathstrike resurfaced as an ally of William Stryker She displays a new ability to access the Internet via her cybernetics but this led to her being coopted and controlled by Mount Haven s computer systems |
Lady Deathstrike was responsible for mutilating and nearly killing Sunfire whose legs she severed in battle |
Following her confrontation with Rogue and Sunfire Lady Deathstrike resurfaced as a member of one of the United States government s Army of Thunderbolts in the super hero Civil War temporarily released from prison in order to go after the Secret Avengers who resisted the Superhuman Registration Act She fights alongside other criminals such as Venom Jester Bullseye Jack OLantern Taskmaster and Songbird She participates in the final battle of the Civil War in Times Square New York City before being sent to the Negative Zone Prison |
Lady Deathstrike returns during the Messiah Complex story to play an important role in the series facing off against X23 This was confirmed by IGN Comics who in their editorial analysis 13 Days of Messiah Complex revealed that Deathstrike would be leading a new team of Reavers throughout the event As reported Lady Deathstrike appears alongside the Reavers now made up of nameless Purifiers with armor and weapons instead of any former members Having allied with the Purifiers to destroy mutant kind Lady Deathstrike leads the new Reaver team against the New XMen gravely wounding Hellion in the process Her armor was destroyed by X23 and Rockslide She appears again in pursuit of Cable and the mutant newborn where she battled XForce and X23 again and X23 nearly kills her |
Lady Deathstrike is apparently saved from death due to the actions of Spiral as she is later seen under repair in Spiral s Body Shoppe when Madelyne Pryor approaches Spiral with an invitation of membership in her Sisterhood of Mutants Despite not originally being approached to join the Sisterhood Lady Deathstrike accepts Pryor s offer nonetheless It appears that while Spiral repaired Lady Deathstrike s body she also gave her a more submissive personality as during missions with the Sisterhood she continually does whatever she is told while referring to Spiral as Mistress After the Sisterhood resurrects Psylocke they finally make their move on the XMen with Lady Deathstrike being tasked to take down Wolverine by piercing his lungs Lady Deathstrike kept Wolverine busy while the Sisterhood raided his room for one of his most treasured possessions a lock of Jean Grey s hair |
Lady Deathstrike later reappeared with the Reavers Still driven for revenge against Wolverine Lady Deathstrike worked with the Reavers to suicide bomb Utopia However when XForce intervened Lady Deathstrike escaped her body via Internet |
During the Ends of the Earth storyline Lady Deathstrike was seen in one of Doctor Octopus s facilities in Australia When Kangaroo II enters this facility Lady Deathstrike ambushes and kills him in one swift swipe from her claw |
Lady Deathstrike and the Reavers are later seen in the Core an underground city populated by robots She does battle with Captain Britain after the Secret Avengers arrive in the city in search of Ant Man |
Lady Deathstrike s consciousness was later uploaded in the body of Ana Cortes establishing a symbiotic relationship with Ana s consciousness Cortes was a teenage Latin female that has returned to Bogota Colombia from boarding school after the death of her father to inherit her deceased father s kingdom She then traveled to the Jean Grey Academy alongside her friend Reiko to find Karima Shapandar and retrieve the Omega Sentinel technology Deathstrike and her team see her jogging with Monet and attempt to ambush them During the confrontation Karmina is shot and Monet manages to protect her temporarily until Monet gets caught off guard Before Deathstrike could finish her attack Karmina shoots and injures Lady Deathstrike causing her to retreat to regroup and get more intel She then learns of Arkea and has hired Typhoid Mary to help her achieve this goal Deathstrike and Typhoid Mary argue with John Sublime about Arkea and they manage to get information out of him that there was more than one piece of Arkea that was alive as the one they had was dead and not viable Mary knocks Sublime unconscious and she and Deathstrike manages to escape before Psylocke comes to check on Sublime Deathstrike and Mary makes their way to Troms Norway where they find Amora who has been exiled by Thor and stripped of her powers Deathstrike promises Amora that she will make her powerful once again Amora brings Deathstrike and Mary to where the Arkea meteorite is located when Mary wants to renegotiate the terms of her hire and want to become partners Deathstrike says it was not just a partnership but the formation of a new Sisterhood of Mutants With the live Arkea taking possession of Reiko she empowers Deathstrike Mary and Amora Deathstrike and her Sisterhood manage to escape the XMen and Monet with Arkea activating several sentinels under the ocean The mental conflict between Ana and Yuriko made Lady Deathstrike increasingly unstable Ana Cortes grew to regret her life as a supervillain and did not like the direction Arkea was leading the Sisterhood She notified the XMen of the Sisterhood s location after she became increasingly concerned about Arkea s bold moves such as having Amora resurrect Selene Gallio the Black Queen Ana flipped out and tried to get Typhoid Mary to kill her but Mary refused Upon Arkea asking Ana to come be a part of the procedure to resurrect Madelyne Pryor Ana killed herself to prevent Arkea from using her further Ana s death did nt stop Arkea s plans Arkea simply removed Yuriko s consciousness from Ana s body and placed it in Reiko s body along with Arkea s own Ana s body was spliced with Jean Grey s DNA in order to enable it to host Madelyne Pryor s consciousness Amora then completed the resurrection of Madelyne Pryor After the XMens confrontation with the Sisterhood Karima leaves the XMen to team up with Sabra and investigate the Cortes crime family Though Arkea was destroyed by the XMen Lady Deathstrike s consciousness remained intact inside Reiko s body |
The Reavers later arrived in Killhorn Falls with Lady Deathstrike and attempt to hunt down Logan for good As the Reavers attacked Killhorn Falls Old Man Logan single handedly killed all the Reavers soldiers and confronted Lady Deathstrike before saving Maureen After being wounded multiple times Logan manages to defeat Lady Deathstrike as she started limping away when Logan blacked out Thinking that he failed to protect Maureen from the chaos Logan decided to set off to find Lady Deathstrike |
While in hiding Lady Deathstrike is discovered and captured by the new Weapon X While held in their captivity she is experimented on |
Lady Deathstrike was transformed into a cyborg by Spiral and the Body Shop using alien technology of Mojo s dimension with later modifications by Donald Pierce She has superhuman strength speed stamina durability and agility Deathstrike s skeleton has been artificially laced with molecules of adamantium rendering her skeletal structure physically unbreakable Later in the pages of Uncanny XMen it was shown that Spiral used magic to infuse the metal into Deathstrike s body Deathstrike s fingers have been replaced by five 12 inch 300 mm long adamantium claws replacing each finger of each hand Aside from being as indestructible as her skeleton these talons are capable of slicing through virtually any substance other than adamantium itself and Captain America s shield She is capable of telescoping these claws to twice their usual length She also had the ability to interface with computers allowing direct data access to her brain s memory centers Although her normal form is visibly that of a cyborg she uses disguises when necessary She is a trained assassin and is skilled in a variety of Asian martial arts Lady Deathstrike is especially skilled with swords and while she prefers stealth and subtlety in her killings she is emotionally disturbed and this interferes with her effectiveness Deathstrike suffers from mental instability she is an unbalanced fanatic a condition worsened by her transformation into a cyborg |
Before she received her cybernetic enhancements Deathstrike used a special five foot steel katana that was electromagnetically tempered and sheathed in energy The energy sheath enabled the sword to cut through most substances and made it as resilient as adamantium She has also used shuriken nunchakus a high powered long range blaster which fires armor piercing explosive bullets and wrist bands containing adamantium detectors She also wore a modified traditional Japanese battle armor which could withstand even superhuman blows Her items were constructed by weapon smiths of Lord Dark Wind s organization |
Deathstrike later received an upgrade that provides her with a kind of cybernetic healing factor that functions similarly although not as efficiently to Wolverine s |
Lady Deathstrike is fluent in both English and Japanese and an accomplished pilot of various air and sea craft |
The left side of Yuriko Oyama s face was scarred in a ritual design by her father this was apparently surgically repaired when she became a cyborg |
Lady Deathstrike s original body was destroyed She became a digital consciousness She was downloaded into Ana Cortes who became her host and the new Lady Deathstrike until Ana killed herself Yuriko s mind was placed into the body of her friend Reiko who currently hosts her |
In the Amalgam Comics universe Lady Deathstrike was merged with Talia al Ghul of DC Comics and became Lady Talia She was the lover of Logan Wayne aka Dark Claw but swore revenge when Dark Claw murdered her father Ra s Al Pocalypse to prevent him from unleashing a deadly chemical on the world She became cybernetically enhanced and ambushed Dark Claw in his cave after tying up his sidekick the Sparrow In a choice between love and revenge she nearly murders Logan but his healing factor allows him to recover from the injury |
Lady Deathstrike has also appeared in Ultimate XMen There her connection lies mainly with Storm instead of Wolverine as in the original storyline As Yuriko or Yuri she taught Storm how to hotwire vehicles and be a car thief The two later had a falling out and Yuri ended up being run over by a truck Yuri survived but needed to use a wheelchair There Dr Cornelius of Weapon X offered to have her shattered body rebuilt with adamantium extendable claws and an accelerated healing factor based on Wolverine s DNA which would allow her to have her revenge against Storm though if she wanted to kill Storm she would have to kill Storm s friend Wolverine as well Yuri agreed and underwent the modifications She later went after Storm and Wolverine but was defeated and later imprisoned by SHIELD |
While imprisoned at the Triskelion she encountered the XMen Dazzler and Angel who were out searching for their friends elsewhere in the base After Dazzler taunted Yuri saying how Storm had mentioned her to them the power went out allowing Yuri to escape her cell and stab Dazzler through the stomach Before she could do anything else the mutant Longshot another prisoner at the Triskelion snapped Yuri s neck Whether or not this attack killed her is unknown She has previously survived being struck by lightning and smashed by a falling tree Dazzler survived Yuri s attack remaining in a coma for a few weeks before awakening |
Polka dot is a pattern consisting of an array of large filled circles of same size |
Polka dots are most commonly seen on children s clothing toys and furniture but they appear in a wide array of contexts The pattern rarely appears in formal contexts however and is generally confined to more playful attire such as bathing suits and lingerie Occasionally white on black small dots appear on more formal clothing |
It is likely that the term originated in popularity of polka dance at the time the pattern became fashionable just as many other products and fashions of the era also adopted the polka name |
Traditionally polka dots are used in the clothing of flamenco dancers and performers Frdric Bazille s 1867 painting Family Reunion depicts two women in blue polka dot dresses In 1962 DC Comics introduced Polka Dot Man with irregularly sized and differently coloured dots In 1965 Bob Dylan wore a large print green polka dot shirt in the photo on the cover of his single Just Like Tom Thumb s Blues Musician Randy Rhoads used a Flying V guitar with polka dots Professional wrestler Dusty Rhodes was given a black outfit covered in yellow polka dots during his time in the WWF This seemed strange at the time but went on to become a successful and memorable gimmick Blues guitarist Buddy Guy regularly plays a signature Fender Stratocaster painted in black with cream polka dots Some people associate polka dots with Venezuelan fashion designer Carolina Herrera who used polka dots on most of her dresses during the late 1980s and early 1990s as well as on the boxes of perfume Carolina Herrera Herrera For Men Aquaflore and Flore In the Tour de France the leader in the mountains classification wears a distinctive polka dot jersey French maillot pois rouge Although the King of the Mountains was first recognised in the 1933 Tour de France the distinctive jersey was not introduced until 1975 Much of the Japanese artist s Yayoi Kusama s work features a polka dot motif The world s first crack pipe vending machines are polka dotted |
There were many other polka items some of which include polka hats and polka jackets Most disappeared with the fad of the actual polka dance Only the polka dot fabric pattern remained popular and the name has been left intact over the years |
The polka dot also appears in popular music Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini is a novelty song telling the story of a shy girl in a very revealing bathing suit who stays immersed in the ocean water to hide from view It was written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss and first released in June 1960 by Brian Hyland Before that however Polka Dots and Moonbeams was a popular song with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke published in 1940 It was Frank Sinatra s first hit recorded with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra The song is one of the top 100 most frequently recorded jazz standards with arrangements by Gil Evans and others and notable recordings by Lester Young Sarah Vaughn and many others |
The 1943 Twentieth Century Fox Technicolor musical film The Gang s All Here directed by Busby Berkeley featured a large production number The Polka Dot Polka The song was written by Harry Warren and Leo Robin referencing the 19th Century Polka Dot craze in the lyric and sang by Alice Faye with the Busby Berkeley dancers |
An ignition coil also called a spark coil is an induction coil in an automobile s ignition system that transforms the battery s low voltage to the thousands of volts needed to create an electric spark in the spark plugs to ignite the fuel Some coils have an internal resistor while others rely on a resistor wire or an external resistor to limit the current flowing into the coil from the car s 12 volt supply The wire that goes from the ignition coil to the distributor and the high voltage wires that go from the distributor to each of the spark plugs are called spark plug wires or high tension leads Originally every ignition coil system required mechanical contact breaker points and a capacitor condenser More recent electronic ignition systems use a power transistor to provide pulses to the ignition coil A modern passenger automobile may use one ignition coil for each engine cylinder or pair of cylinders eliminating fault prone spark plug cables and a distributor to route the high voltage pulses |