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Shade

Shade is the blocking of sunlight (in particular direct sunshine) by any object, and also the shadow created by that object. It may refer to blocking of sunlight by a roof, a tree, an umbrella, a window shade or blind, or anything else. Shade is an important issue in temperate and tropical zones for providing cooling and shelter from the sun. Providing certain configurations of shading is an important passive solar technique. This may be done with overhangs, with shade trees, or with vines. Shading using non-living materials blocks the sun, but also results in sunlight being absorbed and re-radiated as heat, or in sunlight being reflected as glare. Green plants, on the other hand, not only absorb a significant portion of the sunlight to invest as energy in photosynthesis to produce sugar, but also actively transpire, producing an additional cooling effect. ---- Shading is a process used in drawing for depicting levels of darkness on paper by applying more pressure with a drawing impelement for darker areas, and less pressure for lighter areas. There are various techniques of shading including cross hatching where perpendicular lines of varying closeness are drawn in a grid pattern to shade an area. The closer the lines are together, the darker the area appears and vice versa. Light patterns, such as objects having light areas and shaded areas, help when creating the illusion of depth on paper and on computer screens. See also 3D computer graphics / Reflection and shading models. ---- A Shade in the esoteric or spirtual sense can be one of many things. A spiritual or emotional imprint left on a person, place or thing. A "presence" that which is seen out of the corner of the eye or known (sometimes physically felt) only under conditions and times. They can come in many forms, anything from a deceased (or living for that matter) person's or animal's imprint left on something or someone, to something invoked into the "possesion" of an

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Evening Shade

Evening Shade aired on CBS from 1990 to 1994. The sitcom starred Burt Reynolds as ex-professional football player "Wood Newton" who returns to rural Arkansas to coach a high school football team with a years-long losing streak. Episodes ended with a closing narration by Ossie Davis summming up the events of the episode. Category:Sitcoms Category:1990s TV shows in the United States Category:CBS network shows

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Shades

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These Old Shades

''These Old Shades'' (1926) is a Regency romance novel written by British novelist Georgette Heyer (1902-1974). The wealthy and powerful British Duke of Avon buys a young boy, Leon, suspecting that the child is being mistreated by his older brother; the Duke is also struck by the boy's unusual coloring, which reminds him of his enemy's red hair and dark brows. Making the boy his page, the Duke wins the child's devotion, much to the amusement of his friends, who find the Duke forbidding, selfish, and sometimes cruel. When it is revealed the Leon is actually Leonie, the Duke adopts the spirited, winsome girl as his ward and introduces her into society. Intrigues, romances, and the trademark Heyer wit ensue. Heyer's ''Devil's Cub'' is a sequel to ''These Old Shades.'' Category:1926 books

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LAMP

:''Note: this article discusses "LAMP" the acronym and related concepts; for discussion of the light-source, see lamp.'' The acronym LAMP refers to a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers:

Linux, the operating system;

Apache, the Web server;

MySQL, the database management system (or database server);

Perl, PHP, and/or Python, scripting languages. Though the originators of these open source programs did not design them all to work specifically with each other, the combination has become popular because of its low cost and because of the ubiquity of its components (which come bundled with most current Linux distributions). When used in combination they represent a solution stack of technologies that facilitate electronic activity. Other such stacks include Java/J2EE and Microsoft's .NET architecture. The scripting component of the LAMP stack has its origins in the CGI web interfaces that became popular in the early 1990s. This technology allows the user of a web browser to execute a program on the web server, and to thereby receive dynamic as well as static content. programmers used scripting languages with these programs because of their ability to manipulate text streams easily and efficiently, even when they originate from disparate sources. For this reason system designers often referred to such scripting systems as glue languages. Michael Kunze coined the acronym ''LAMP'' in an article for the German computing magazine ''c't'' in 1998 (12/98, page 230). The article aimed to show that a bundle of free software could provide a viable alternative to commercial packages. Knowing about the IT-world's love of acronyms, Kunze came up with ''LAMP'' as a marketing-like term to popularize the use of free software. O'Reilly and MySQL AB have popularized the term among English-speakers. Indeed, MySQL AB has since based most of its

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Two Lamps

In the mythology of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, Illuin (Sky-blue) and Ormal (high gold) were great lamps which once stood respectively at the northern and southern ends of Arda. After the Valar entered the world, there was a misty light veiling the barren ground. The Valar took this light and concentrated it into two large lamps, Iluin and Ormal. Aulë forged great towers, one in the furthest north, Helcar, and another in the deepest south, Ringil. In the middle of Arda, where the light of the lamps mingled, laid the Great Lake with the island Almaren, where the Valar dwelt. The lamps were destroyed by an assault by Melkor, and the Valar fled Middle-earth for Valinor. At the site where Illuin fell, the inland Sea of Helcar was formed, of which Cuiviénen was a bay. According to the earlier writings of Tolkien, there was also the Sea of Ringil to the south, perhaps associated with the roots of Ormal. ----- According to older writings not used in the published The Silmarillion, the Valar wanted peace with Melkor, and decided to ask his assistance: they wished to fix the lamps upon Arda's ground. Melkor, black with hate and envy of the rest of the Valar, agreed to help. He gave Aulë a substance which was both sturdy and strong: ice. Melkor bided his time and allowed the Valar to do as they wished until the fateful day when the Lamps' light and heat melted the ice and crashed upon Arda, flooding it with water and darkness. Category:Middle-earth it:Due Lampade pl:Ormal

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