query: Thomas Pynchon published short stories in the early 1960s.

pos: Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon , Jr. ( -LSB- ˈpɪnˌtʃɒn -RSB- , commonly -LSB- ˈpɪntʃən -RSB- born May 8 , 1937 ) is an American novelist . A MacArthur Fellow , he is noted for his dense and complex novels . His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter , genres and themes , including history , music , science , and mathematics . For Gravity 's Rainbow , Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction .   Hailing from Long Island , Pynchon served two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University . After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s , he began composing the novels for which he is best known : V. ( 1963 ) , The Crying of Lot 49 ( 1966 ) , Gravity 's Rainbow ( 1973 ) , and Mason & Dixon ( 1997 ) . Pynchon is also notoriously reclusive ; very few photographs of him have ever been published , and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s .   Pynchon 's most recent novel , Bleeding Edge , was published on September 17 , 2013 .

neg: Libertarian science fiction Libertarian science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that focuses on the politics and social order implied by libertarian philosophies with an emphasis on individualism and private ownership of the means of production -- and in some cases , no state whatsoever .   As a category , libertarian fiction is unusual because the vast majority of its authors are self-identified as science fiction authors . This contrasts with the authors of much other social criticism who are largely academic or mainstream novelists who tend to dismiss any genre classification . The identification between libertarianism and science fiction is so strong that the U.S. Libertarian Party often has representatives at science fiction conventions and one of the highest profile authors currently in the subgenre of libertarian science fiction , L. Neil Smith , was the Arizona Libertarian Party 's 2000 candidate for the President of the United States .   As a genre , it can be seen as growing out of the 1930s and 1940s when the science-fiction pulp magazines were reaching their peak at the same time as fascism and communism . While this environment gave rise to dystopian novels such as George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four , in the pulps , this influence more often give rise to speculations about societies ( or sub-groups ) arising in direct opposition to `` totalitarianism . ''   Ayn Rand 's novel Atlas Shrugged is a strong ( perhaps the strongest ) influence with an anti-socialist attitude and an individualist ethic that echoes throughout the genre .  Of more direct relevance to the science fiction end of this genre is Robert A. Heinlein 's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress , which is highly regarded even by non-libertarian science fiction readers . An award for libertarian science fiction , the Prometheus Award , is given out every year . Some winners of the award identify as libertarians ( e.g. , L. Neil Smith , Victor Koman , Brad Linaweaver ) , while others do not ( Terry Pratchett , Charles Stross ) .   Some other prominent libertarian science fiction authors include S. Andrew Swann and Michael Z. Williamson .

neg: Hot Corn Hot Corn : Life Scenes in New York Illustrated is a collection of short stories by Solon Robinson about the life of the poor in New York City , and was a `` runaway bestseller '' when first published in the United States in early 1854 . Along with songs and plays based on the book 's stories , which were first published in the New York Tribune , Hot Corn enjoyed a brief frenzy of popularity .

neg: An Experiment in Criticism An Experiment in Criticism is a 1961 book by C. S. Lewis in which he proposes that the quality of books should be measured not by how they are written , but by how they are read . To do this , the author describes two kinds of readers . One is what he calls the `` unliterary '' , and the other the `` literary '' . He proceeds to outline some of the differences between these two types of readers . For example , one characterization of an unliterary reader is that the argument `` I 've read it before '' is a conclusive reason not to read a book . In contrast , literary readers reread books many times , savoring certain passages , and attempting to glean more from subsequent readings .   Lewis also argued that judging books by whether they are `` lowbrow '' or `` highbrow '' is not necessarily fruitful ; many `` lowbrow '' books prove to be valuable to a literary reader willing to approach without prejudgment . He noted that books classified as `` lowbrow '' , such as science fiction , are also capable of inducing a passion to re-read and imparting experience which changes reader 's worldview . Lewis suggests that books which are capable of doing this may prove to have enduring merit regardless of their genre of origin . He suggested that attempting to judge the literary merit of books based on traditional criteria may not prove fruitful .   Thus , Lewis suggests that a quality book is one that someone , anyone will re-read . A highbrow view that such a book is poor quality has failed to appreciate whatever qualities merit re-reading by someone .

neg: The Saint to the Rescue The Saint to the Rescue is a collection of short stories by Leslie Charteris , first published in 1959 by The Crime Club in the United States . The first British edition by Hodder and Stoughton was not published until 1961 . This was the 34th book to feature the adventures of Simon Templar , alias `` The Saint '' .

neg: Astonishing Stories Astonishing Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine , published by Popular Publications between 1940 and 1943 . It was founded under Popular 's `` Fictioneers '' imprint , which paid lower rates than Popular 's other magazines . The magazine 's first editor was Frederik Pohl , who also edited a companion publication , Super Science Stories . After nine issues Pohl was replaced by Alden H. Norton , who subsequently rehired Pohl as an assistant . The budget for Astonishing was very low , which made it difficult to acquire good fiction , but through his membership in the Futurians , a group of young science fiction fans and aspiring writers , Pohl was able to find material to fill the early issues . The magazine was successful , and Pohl was able to increase his pay rates slightly within a year . He managed to obtain stories by writers who subsequently became very well known , such as Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein . After Pohl entered the army in early 1943 , wartime paper shortages led Popular to cease publication of Astonishing . The final issue was dated April of that year .   The magazine was never regarded as one of the leading titles of the genre , but despite the low budget it published some well-received material . Science fiction critic Peter Nicholls comments that `` its stories were surprisingly good considering how little was paid for them '' , and this view has been echoed by other historians of the field .

neg: The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1963 This is a list of adult fiction books that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 1963 . The list is notable for being blank for part of the winter as the New York Times , like many other newspapers in the city , worked its way through a major newspaper strike . When the strike ended in March , the political thriller Seven Days in May led the list , having also been at the top at the start of the strike in December 1962 . It lasted there only one week before being overtaken by J.D. Salinger 's second No. 1 bestseller in 18 months , the anthologized novellas , `` Raise High the Roof Beam , Carpenters '' and `` Seymour : An Introduction '' .   Salinger 's book led the list for 14 weeks through the spring of 1963 . Daphne du Maurier 's The Glass-Blowers then spent six weeks on the list , followed by Morris West 's novel about the Vatican , The Shoes of the Fisherman ( 14 weeks ) . On October 6 , Shoes gave way to Mary McCarthy 's semi-autobiographical novel The Group , which would spend the next 20 weeks at the top , closing out the year .

neg: The Wild North (short story collection) The Wild North is a 1960 book by Ion Idriess . It is a collection of 24 short stories and sketches about Cape York , some of which were written early in Idriess ' career .

neg: The Early Ayn Rand The Early Ayn Rand : A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction is an anthology of unpublished early fiction written by Ayn Rand , first published in 1984 , two years after her death . The selections include short stories , plays , and excerpts of material cut from her novels We the Living and The Fountainhead .

neg: For a Breath I Tarry `` For a Breath I Tarry '' is a highly regarded 1966 post-apocalyptic novelette by Roger Zelazny . Taking place long after the self-extinction of Man , it recounts the tale of Frost , a sentient machine ( '' ... a silver-blue box , 40x40x40 feet , ... featured in whatever manner he chose . '' ) Though Man has disappeared , his robotic creations ( and their creations in turn ) continue to function .   For ten thousand years Frost sat at the North Pole of the Earth , aware of every snowflake that fell . He monitored and directed the activities of thousands of reconstruction and maintenance machines . He knew half the Earth , as gear knows gear , as electricity knows its conductor , as a vacuum knows its limits . At the South Pole , the Beta-Machine did the same for the southern hemisphere .   Along the way , the story explores the differences between Man and Machine , the former experiencing the world qualitatively , while the latter do so quantitatively . `` A machine is a Man turned inside-out , because it can describe all the details of a process , which a Man can not , but it can not experience that process itself as a Man can . '' This is illustrated by a conversation Frost has with another machine named Mordel .   `` Regard this piece of ice , mighty Frost . You can tell me its composition , dimensions , weight , temperature . A Man could not look at it and do that . A Man could make tools which would tell Him these things , but He still would not know measurement as you know it . What He would know of it , though , is a thing that you can not know . '' `` What is that ? '' `` That it is cold . ''   Driving the plot and setting its tone are allusions to other literature , most specifically the first chapter of the Book of Job , both in situation and language , as verses are both quoted directly and paraphrased . Additionally , echoes of the first three chapters of the Book of Genesis appear . Finally , Frost and Mordel enter into a Faustian bargain , with , however , better results than in the original .   The novelette has appeared in collections of Zelazny 's works and in anthologies .   The title is from a phrase in A. E. Housman 's collection A Shropshire Lad .

neg: Jerome Charyn Jerome Charyn ( born May 13 , 1937 ) is an American author . With nearly 50 published works over a 50-year span , Charyn has a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life . Michael Chabon calls him `` one of the most important writers in American literature . ''   New York Newsday hailed Charyn as `` a contemporary American Balzac , '' and the Los Angeles Times described him as `` absolutely unique among American writers . ''   Charyn 's first novel , Once Upon a Droshky was published in 1964 . Only with Blue Eyes ( 1975 ) , the debut of detective character Isaac Sidel , did Charyn vault to wide attention and acclaim . As of 2017 , Charyn has published 37 novels , three memoirs , nine graphic novels , two books about film , short stories , plays and works of non-fiction . Two of his memoirs were named New York Times Book of the Year . Charyn has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction . Charyn was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Fiction , 1983 . He received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been named Commander of Arts and Letter ( Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ) by the French Minister of Culture .   Charyn was Distinguished Professor of Film Studies at the American University of Paris until 2009 , when he retired from teaching .   In addition to his writing and teaching , Charyn is a tournament table tennis player , once ranked in the top 10 percent of players in France . Noted novelist Don DeLillo called Charyn 's book on table tennis , Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins , `` The Sun Also Rises of ping-pong . ''   Charyn lives in Paris and New York City .

neg: There Is Such a Lad There Is Such a Lad ( -LSB- Живёт такой парень , Zhivyot takoy paren -RSB- ) is a 1964 Soviet comedy film , directed by Vasily Shukshin . The movie is based on Vasily Shukshin 's collection of short stories .

neg: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock `` The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock '' , commonly known as `` Prufrock '' , is the first professionally published poem by American-British poet T. S. Eliot ( 1888 -- 1965 ) . Eliot began writing `` Prufrock '' in February 1910 , and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry : A Magazine of Verse at the instigation of Ezra Pound ( 1885 -- 1972 ) . It was later printed as part of a twelve-poem pamphlet ( or chapbook ) titled Prufrock and Other Observations in 1917 . At the time of its publication , Prufrock was considered outlandish , but is now seen as heralding a paradigmatic cultural shift from late 19th-century Romantic verse and Georgian lyrics to Modernism .   The poem 's structure was heavily influenced by Eliot 's extensive reading of Dante Alighieri and makes several references to the Bible and other literary works -- including William Shakespeare 's plays Henry IV Part II , Twelfth Night , and Hamlet , the poetry of seventeenth-century metaphysical poet John Donne , and the nineteenth-century French Symbolists . Eliot narrates the experience of Prufrock using the stream of consciousness technique developed by his fellow Modernist writers . The poem , described as a `` drama of literary anguish '' , is a dramatic interior monologue of an urban man , stricken with feelings of isolation and an incapability for decisive action that is said `` to epitomize frustration and impotence of the modern individual '' and `` represent thwarted desires and modern disillusionment '' .   Prufrock laments his physical and intellectual inertia , the lost opportunities in his life and lack of spiritual progress , and he is haunted by reminders of unattained carnal love . With visceral feelings of weariness , regret , embarrassment , longing , emasculation , sexual frustration , a sense of decay , and an awareness of mortality , `` Prufrock '' has become one of the most recognised voices in modern literature .

neg: Lessness (short story) `` Lessness '' is a short story by Samuel Beckett originally written in French as `` Sans '' in 1969 , and later translated into English by the author . It was partly inspired by John Cage and the experimental music of the 1960s . The story was included in a book of short stories under the title Friendship launched in 1990 to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping in Beirut of the British television journalist John McCarthy .

neg: The Dead Past `` The Dead Past '' is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov , first published in the April 1956 issue of Astounding Science Fiction . It was later collected in Earth Is Room Enough ( 1957 ) and The Best of Isaac Asimov ( 1973 ) , and adapted into an episode of the science-fiction television series Out of the Unknown . Its pattern is that of dystopian fiction , but of a subtly nuanced flavor . It is considered by some people to be one of his best short stories .

neg: Nightfall and Other Stories Nightfall and Other Stories ( 1969 ) is an anthology book compiling twenty previously published science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov . Asimov added a brief introduction to each story , explaining some aspect of the story 's history and/or how it came to be written . The main criteria for inclusion were that they had to be quality stories , but not included before in any anthologies edited by Asimov himself .

neg: Chiron Review Chiron Review is a literary journal based in St. John , Kansas . It was founded as The Kindred Spirit in February 1982 , by Michael Hathaway shortly after graduating high school and taking a job as typesetter at a local daily newspaper . In March , 1989 , the title was changed to Chiron Review .   Jane Hathaway served as assistant editor until her death on Feb. 20 , 2000 at age 63 . In March 1989 , Gerald Locklin became poetry editor and Rafael Zepeda became fiction editor . In September , 2003 , John Brantingham joined the staff as a second editor in fiction . In March , 2008 , Zachary Locklin joined as a second editor in poetry and resigned in 2015 . In 2014 , Wendy Rainey joined the staff as a poetry editor , and Sarah Daugherty as a fiction editor .   Chiron Review is printed in tabloid format with photos of featured poets . It is noted for publishing the widest possible range of contemporary creative writing . It is also known for fostering a sense of `` community '' in small press circles .   Chiron Review '' 's archives are collected by and housed at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University . The journal is indexed by Humanities Index International Complete , Averill Park , NY . Issues 18-81 were indexed by Index of American Periodical Verse.Chiron Review '' has published work by authors such as Charles Bukowski , William Stafford ( poet ) , Jan Kerouac , Marge Piercy , James Broughton , Edward Field , Elizabeth Swados , Antler ( poet ) , Richard Kostelanetz , Robert Peters , Leslea Newman , Lyn Lifshin , D.A. Levy , Charles Harper Webb , Erskine Caldwell , Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel , Janice Eidus , Denise Duhamel , Wanda Coleman , Charles Plymell , S.A. Griffin , Harry Northup , Hugh Fox , A.D. Winans , Nilda Cepero , Clifton Snider , Felice Picano , Will Inman , Quentin Crisp , Lorri Jackson , James Valvis and Tony Barnstone .

neg: Paraspace The term ` paraspace ' comes from Samuel R. Delany , a ` space ' existing parallel to normal or ordinary space . According to Delany , the para-space is an alternate space that ` exists parallel to the normal space of the diegesis -- a rhetorically heightened  `` other realm ''' ( Bukatman 1993 : 157 ) . Bukatman ( 1993 : 157 ) says `` Cyberspace is clearly a '' paraspace ' . '   `` Delany connects cyberpunk to the mysterious lunar artifact of Algis Budrys ' Rogue Moon and early evocations of outer space , all of which use inflated rhetoric to differentiate `` paraspace '' from mundane dimensions '' Samuel Review Essay .   Paraspace is defined by Barry Malzberg as `` the condition of hyperspace -LSB- that -RSB- is itself insane '' ( as cited by Bukatman , 1993 : 157 ) .   Michael Fisch ( 2004 : 371 , citing Murakami , 2002 : 157 ) comments `` While the para-space is often inaugurated through cognition it is always a ` materially manifested ' and ` linguistically intensified ' space in which ` conflicts that begin in ordinary space are resolved ' ''  ( Murakami 2002 : 157 ) .   Implications   Walter Benjamin ( 1936/1968 ) declare the end of storytelling because of its incapacity to relate traumatic experiences , such as warfare , shell shock in World War I . As work lost its spaces to practice not just storytelling , but storylistening , the skills of interpretation of experience atrophied .   Paraspace is the hyperspace gone insane ( Malzberg , The worker flesh-body is displaced by the corporate ad-inventions , set on the global stage of `` technoorganic reconstructions of the flesh '' ( Bukatman , 1993 : 19 ) .   Walter Benjamin ( 1936 ) declared that the art of storytelling is coming to an end . We can no longer tell a tale of trauma properly . We can no longer exchange our experiences of trauma of war ( PTSD ) , economic collapse sending millions into homelessness , including veterans of the recent wars , the ubiquitousness of sweatshops , and so on . Of relevance to paraspace , the lost art of storytelling has an accumulated effect ( Fisch , 2004 : p. 365 ) ; it gets worth with cyber-real . / When the ` real ' pokes through the cyberspace , it gets quickly displaced by obfuscation . Our ` real ' in hyperspace is not closer to Lacanian Real ( FIsch , p. 372 ) .   Paraspace is invisible , yet has material consequences ( Bukatman , 1992 ) .   Benjamin , W. ( 1936/1968 ) Illuminations , New York : Harcourt Brace & World .   Bukatman , S. ( 1992 ) . Amidst These Fields of Data : Allegory , Rhetoric , and the Paraspace . Critique : Studies in Contemporary Fiction , 33 ( 3 ) , 199-219 .   Bukatman , S. ( 1993 ) Terminal Identity : The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction , Durham ,  NC : Duke University Press .   Delany , Samuel R. ( 1988 ) . Some real mothers : An interview with Samuel R. Delany by Takayuki Tatsumi . '' Science Fiction Eye , 1 , # 3 : 5-11 .   Fisch , M. ( 2004 , October ) . In search of the real : technology , shock and language in Murakami Haruki 's Sputnik Sweetheart . In Japan Forum ( Vol . 16 , No. 3 , pp. 361 -- 383 ) . Taylor & Francis .   Murakami , H. ( 2002 ) Sputnik Sweetheart , trans . P. Gabriel , New York : Vintage International .

neg: Sixty Stories (book) Sixty Stories collects sixty of Donald Barthelme 's short stories , several of which originally appeared in The New Yorker . The book was first published by G. P. Putnam 's Sons in 1981 .

neg: The Trail of Cthulhu The Trail of Cthulhu is a series of interconnected short stories written by August Derleth as part of the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction . The stories chronicle the struggles of Laban Shrewsbury and his companions against the Great Old Ones , particularly Cthulhu .   The stories were originally published in Weird Tales from 1944 to 1952 , and were republished in collected form as The Trail of Cthulhu by Arkham House in 1962 in an edition of 2,470 copies .

neg: Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys Tough , Tough Toys for Tough , Tough Boys is a collection of short fiction by English author Will Self first published in hard cover in April 1998 and paperback in March 1999 . The New York Times Book Review said of the collection ...   `` Mr. Self 's latest book , Tough , Tough Toys for Tough , Tough Boys represents his most disciplined storytelling yet . The tales in this collection demonstrate a new control and polish , without sacrificing anything in terms of inventiveness or plain weirdness . Like his 1994 novel , My Idea of Fun it attests to Mr. Self 's ability to render even the most bizarre , Twilight Zone-like events with convincing verisimilitude while enthralling -- and often horrifying -- the reader with his scathing , Swiftean humor . '' . ''   While the Washington Post considered it in slightly harsher terms ...   The dark devices Self relies on still bring gasps of admiration and shock , but for a successful author who has long since navigated the thicket   of pubescent self-loathing there is a risk that they also serve a cynical purpose , providing cover for a failure of sustained imagination .   Two of these stories , `` Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo : A Manual '' and `` A Story for Europe '' , were also published in a 64-page chapbook , Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo , as part of the 2005 Penguin Books 70th birthday celebration .


query: Delta Air Lines is a major carrier.

pos: Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines , Inc. ( `` Delta '' ; ) is a major American airline , with its headquarters and largest hub at Hartsfield -- Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta , Georgia . The airline along with its subsidiaries and regional affiliates operate over 5,400 flights daily and serve an extensive domestic and international network that includes 319 destinations in 54 countries on six continents , as of October 2016 . Delta is one of the four founding members of the SkyTeam airline alliance , and operates joint ventures with Air France-KLM , Alitalia , Korean Air , China Eastern Airlines , Virgin Atlantic , and Virgin Australia . Regional service is operated under the brand name Delta Connection .   One of the five remaining legacy carriers , Delta is the sixth-oldest operating airline by foundation date , and the oldest airline still operating in the United States . The company 's history can be traced back to Huff Daland Dusters , founded in 1924 in Macon , Georgia as a crop dusting operation . The company moved to Monroe , Louisiana , and was later renamed Delta Air Services , in reference to the nearby Mississippi Delta region , and commenced passenger services on June 17 , 1929 . Among predecessors of today 's Delta Air Lines , Western Airlines and Northwest Airlines began flying passengers in 1926 and 1927 , respectively .   In 2013 , Delta Air Lines was the world 's largest airline in terms of scheduled passengers carried ( 120.6 million ) , and the second-largest in terms of both revenue passenger-kilometers flown ( 277.6 billion ) and capacity ( 4.4 billion ASM/week ; March 2013 ) .

neg: Empires Airlines Empires Airlines was an airline that merged with Zimmerly Airlines in 1946 to form West Coast Airlines . West Coast Airlines later merged with two other airlines to form Hughes Airwest in 1968 . In 1980 Hughes Airwest was acquired by Republic Airlines , which was acquired in 1986 by Northwest Airlines . Northwest Airlines was approved to merge with Delta Air Lines on October 29 , 2008 .

neg: DynCorp DynCorp ( -LSB- ˈdaɪn.kɔrp -RSB- ) , most recently DynCorp International , is an American Global service provider . Begun as an aviation company , the company also provides flight operations support , training and mentoring , international development , intelligence training and support , contingency operations , security , and operations and maintenance of land vehicles . DynCorp receives more than 96 % of its more than $ 3 billion in annual revenues from the U.S. federal government .   The corporate headquarters are in an unincorporated part of Fairfax County near Falls Church , Virginia . However , the company 's contracts are managed from its office at Alliance Airport in Fort Worth , Texas .   The company has provided services for the U.S. military in several theaters , including Bolivia , Bosnia , Somalia , Angola , Haiti , Colombia , Kosovo and Kuwait . DynCorp International also provided much of the security for Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai 's presidential guard and trains much of Afghanistan 's and Iraq 's fledgling police force . DynCorp was also hired to assist recovery in Louisiana and neighboring areas after Hurricane Katrina . DynCorp has held one contract on every round of competition since receiving the first Contract Field Teams contract in 1951 . DynCorp won the LOGCAP II contract and is one of three contract holders on the current LOGCAP IV contract .

neg: Air France–KLM Air France -- KLM is a Franco-Dutch airline holding company incorporated under French law with its headquarters at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Tremblay-en-France , near Paris . The group has offices in Montreuil , Seine-Saint-Denis , Paris , and in Amstelveen , Netherlands . Air France -- KLM is the result of the merger in 2004 between Air France and KLM . Both Air France and KLM are members of the SkyTeam airline alliance . The company 's namesake airlines rely on two major hubs , Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Paris -- Charles de Gaulle Airport . Air France -- KLM Airlines transported 87.3 million passengers in 2014 .

neg: Direct flight A direct flight in the aviation industry is any flight between two points by an airline with no change in flight numbers , which may include a stop at an intermediate point . The stop over may either be to get new passengers ( or allow some to disembark ) or a technical stop over ( i.e. , for refuelling ) . Direct flights are often confused with non-stop flights , which are flights involving no intermediate stops . When there is a change in flight number , the subsequent flight is referred to as a connecting flight .

neg: National Air Transportation Association Founded in 1940 , the National Air Transportation Association ( NATA ) is the public policy group that represents the interests of the general aviation business community before the Congress and federal , state and local government agencies . NATA represents nearly 2,300 aviation businesses .   NATA 's member companies provide a broad range of services to general aviation , the airlines and the military . They also directly serve the traveling public by providing fuel , on-demand air charter , aircraft rental , storage , and flight training . Other services include aircraft maintenance , parts sales , and line support as well as business aircraft or fractional ownership fleet management . NATA member companies also provide airline baggage and cargo handling services .   In addition to giving the association 's constituents a voice in Washington , D.C. , NATA membership offers a number of ancillary benefits including its annual Aviation Business & Legislative Conference , Congressional Reception and Air Charter Summit and its highly regarded Safety 1st Professional Line Service Training ( PLST ) program . Considered the industry standard in line service training program , the PLST program has instructed over 16,000 line service specialists in safe aircraft handling procedures .

neg: Boeing 707 The Boeing 707 is a mid-sized , long-range , narrow-body , four-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes from 1958 to 1979 . Its name is commonly pronounced as `` seven oh seven '' . Versions of the aircraft have a capacity from 140 to 219 passengers and a range of 2500 to .   Developed as Boeing 's first jet airliner , the 707 is a swept-wing design with podded engines . Although it was not the first jetliner in service , the 707 was the first to be commercially successful . Dominating passenger air transport in the 1960s and remaining common through the 1970s , the 707 is generally credited with ushering in the Jet Age . It established Boeing as one of the largest manufacturers of passenger aircraft , and led to the later series of airliners with `` 7x7 '' designations . The later 720 , 727 , 737 , and 757 share elements of the 707 's fuselage design .   The 707 was developed from the Boeing 367-80 , a prototype jet first flown in 1954 . A larger fuselage cross-section and other modifications resulted in the initial-production 707-120 , powered by Pratt & Whitney JT3C turbojet engines , which first flew on December 20 , 1957 . Pan American World Airways began regular 707 service on October 26 , 1958 . Later derivatives included the shortened long-range 707-138 and the stretched 707-320 , both of which entered service in 1959 . A smaller short-range variant , the 720 , was introduced in 1960 . The 707-420 , a version of the stretched 707 with Rolls-Royce Conway turbofans , debuted in 1960 , while Pratt & Whitney JT3D turbofans debuted on the 707-120B and 707-320B models in 1961 and 1962 , respectively .   The 707 has been used on domestic , transcontinental , and transatlantic flights , and for cargo and military applications . A convertible passenger-freighter model , the 707-320C , entered service in 1963 , and passenger 707s have been modified to freighter configurations . Military derivatives include the E-3 Sentry airborne reconnaissance aircraft and the C-137 Stratoliner VIP transports . Boeing produced and delivered 1,011 airliners including the smaller 720 series ; over 800 military versions were also produced . Ten Boeing 707s were in commercial service in July 2013 .

neg: List of aircraft operated by Scandinavian Airlines Scandinavian Airlines ( SAS ) , previously known as Scandinavian Airlines System , is the national airline of Denmark , Norway and Sweden . Headquartered in Sigtuna outside Stockholm , Sweden , it operates out of three main hubs , Copenhagen Airport , Stockholm-Arlanda Airport and Oslo Airport , Gardermoen . Owned by the eponymous SAS Group , the airline transported 22.9 million passengers to 90 destinations on an average 683 flights daily in 2011 . As of May 2017 , SAS utilize 160 aircraft -- jetliners and turboprops -- consisting of 78 Boeing 737 , 23 Bombardier CRJ900 operated by Cimber and Cityjet , 32 Airbus A319/A320/A321 , 16 Airbus A330/A340 and 11 ATR 72 's operated by Jettime and FlyBe .   The airline has operated over 700 aircraft throughout its history . It was a loyal customer of Douglas Aircraft Company and its successor McDonnell Douglas , operating 290 aircraft and all major models from the DC-3 through the MD-90 , except the MD-11 . Boeing is the second-largest manufacturer with 127 aircraft , of which 105 were 737s . Other manufacturers have been Fokker ( 51 aircraft ) , Bombardier ( 40 ) , Airbus ( 29 ) , Convair ( 22 ) , Sud Aviation ( 21 ) , Saab ( 14 ) , Vickers ( 9 ) , ATR ( 6 ) , British Aerospace ( 3 ) , British Aircraft Corporation ( 2 ) , Junkers ( 2 ) and Shorts ( 2 ) . SAS has been the launch customer of the Saab Scandia , the Sud Aviation Caravelle , the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-20 and − 40 and the Boeing 737 -- 600 . SAS was the sole customer of the DC-9-20 ; the DC-9-40 served SAS for 34 years -- longer than any other model . Fourteen aircraft have been involved in hull-loss accidents , four of which were fatal .   SAS started as a cooperation between Norwegian Air Lines ( DNL ) , Aerotransport ( ABA ) , Swedish Intercontinental Airlines ( SILA ) and Danish Air Lines ( DDL ) , who created Overseas Scandinavian Airlines System ( OSAS ) in 1946 and European Scandinavian Airlines System ( ESAS ) two years later . The airlines merged to create the SAS consortium in 1951 . In the early years , SAS would rapidly purchase the newest intercontinental aircraft and gradually relegate them to European and then domestic service . The Caravelle was introduced in 1959 as SAS ' first jetliner ; intercontinental jet services commenced with the DC-8 the following year . The consortium created Scanair as a charter sister company in 1961 . SAS Commuter was created in 1984 to operate regional airliners . The last such aircraft were retired in 2010 . SAS bought its main competitors Linjeflyg of Sweden in 1993 and Braathens of Norway in 2001 ; the latter was merged to operate as SAS Braathens in Norway between 2004 and 2007 .

neg: British Caledonian British Caledonian ( BCal ) was a private , British independent airline , operating out of Gatwick Airport in south-east England during the 1970s and 1980s . It was created as an alternative to the British government-controlled corporation airlines and was described as the `` Second Force '' in the 1969 Edwards report . It was formed by the UK 's second-largest , independent charter airline Caledonian Airways taking over British United Airways ( BUA ) , then the largest British independent airline and the United Kingdom 's leading independent scheduled carrier .   The BUA takeover enabled Caledonian to realise its long-held ambition to transform itself into a scheduled airline . The merged entity eventually became the UK 's foremost independent , international scheduled airline .   A series of major financial setbacks during the mid-1980s combined with the airline 's inability to grow sufficiently to reach a viable size put the airline at serious risk of collapse . BCal began looking for a merger partner to improve its competitive position . In December 1987 , British Airways ( BA ) gained control of the airline . The Caledonian name and livery was then used to rebrand BA 's Gatwick-based subsidiary British Airtours as Caledonian Airways .

neg: Airmanship Airmanship is skill and knowledge applied to aerial navigation , similar to seamanship in maritime navigation . Airmanship covers a broad range of desirable behaviors and abilities in an aviator . It is not simply a measure of skill or technique , but also a measure of a pilot 's awareness of the aircraft , the environment in which it operates , and of his own capabilities .   Airmanship can be defined as :  A sound acquaintance with the principles of flight ,  The ability to operate an airplane with competence and precision both on the ground and in the air , and  The exercise of sound judgment that results in optimal operational safety and efficiency .   The three fundamental principles of expert airmanship are skill , proficiency , and the discipline to apply them in a safe and efficient manner .  Discipline is the foundation of airmanship .  The complexity of the aviation environment demands a foundation of solid airmanship , and a healthy , positive approach to combating pilot error .   The actions of Captain Alfred C. Haynes and the crew of United Airlines Flight 232 are often cited as an exemplar of good airmanship . They were able to maintain control of their crippled McDonnell Douglas DC-10 , bringing it to a survivable `` controlled crash '' in Sioux City , Iowa , after a complete loss of all flight controls following an engine failure in July 1989 . They did this by improvising a control scheme on the spot using differential thrust on the two working engines . Captain Haynes credited his Crew Resource Management training as one of the key factors that saved his own life , and many others .   The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board occasionally cites poor airmanship as a contributing factor in its determination of probable cause in aviation accidents , although it is implicit in many of the pilot error causes it often uses . For example , in its report on the December 1 , 1993 fatal crash of Northwest Airlink Flight 5719 , the Board determined the `` failure of the company management to adequately address the previously identified deficiencies in airmanship '' was a contributing factor .  More recently , in the February 2 , 2005 business jet accident at Teterboro Airport , NTSB investigator Steve Demko , speaking about the probable cause , said determining an aircraft 's weight and balance before takeoff is `` basic airmanship , '' a `` Flying 101 type of thing . ''  And in the 2006 New York City plane crash that killed New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle , the NTSB cited `` inadequate judgement , planning and airmanship '' in its probable cause determination .   A `` failure of airmanship '' was also cited by U.S. Military Authorities in the Tarnak Farm incident in Afghanistan , where the pilot of a U.S. F-16 Fighting Falcon mistakenly targeted a 250-kilogram laser-guided bomb on Canadian troops in April 2003 , killing four of them . Airmanship covers operation of the aircraft and all its systems , so in military usage , this includes the weapons systems of combat aircraft .

neg: Departure control system A Departure Control System ( DCS ) automates processing an airlines ' airport management operation . This includes managing the information required for airport check-in and printing boarding card , baggage acceptance , boarding , load control and aircraft checks .   Today DCS mostly ( 98 % ) manage electronic tickets via interfaces from range of devices including check-in kiosks , online check-in , mobile boarding cards , and baggage handling . DCS are able to identify , capture and update reservations from an airlines Computer Reservation System for passengers stored in a so-called Passenger Name Record ( PNR ) . A DCS is used to update reservations , typically as checked-in , boarded , flown or another status .   Additionally and increasingly a DCS for some city-pair sectors may also be connected with immigration control for visa , immigration and passenger no-fly watchlists .   Historically systems developed in North America have incorporated DCS functions as part of the reservations systems with check-in being initiated directly from the PNR . Load control ( weight and balance ) is then provided by a standalone application . Systems developed by airlines outside North America have traditionally had a separate database for DCS , requiring passenger data to be transferred from the PNR into DCS records . These systems have an integrated weight and balance capability .   So-called `` new generation '' DCSs are being developed and deployed by vendors such as Amadeus and SITA as part of the overall re-engineering of airline Passenger Services Systems . These new systems typically use a common database and a services oriented architecture that allows reservations , check-in and other services to maintain a consistent view of passenger information .   Larger international airports will have a range of DCS or a single DCS which each particular airline carrier can integrate with for streamlined operations .

neg: Shreveport Regional Airport Shreveport Regional Airport is a public use airport in Shreveport , Louisiana , United States . It is owned by the City of Shreveport and located four nautical miles ( 7 km ) southwest of its central business district .   The airport 's runways and terminal are visible to traffic along Interstate 20 , a main east-west corridor of the Southern United States . Shreveport Regional was designed to replace the Shreveport Downtown Airport , which limited growth due to close proximity of the Red River .   The airport had 306,761 passenger boardings ( enplanements ) in calendar year 2015 . According to the FAA 's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011 , it is a primary commercial service airport .   The FAA classifies Shreveport Regional Airport as a `` Small Hub '' airport . For the 2011-2012 calendar years , Shreveport Regional Airport ranked just under Mobile Regional Airport ( Mobile , Alabama ) and Fort Wayne International Airport ( Fort Wayne , Indiana ) and just above Jackson Hole Airport ( Jackson Hole , Wyoming ) and Yeager Airport ( Charleston , West Virginia ) in total enplanements .

neg: General sales agent (airlines) A general sales agent ( GSA ) is a sales representative for an airline in a specific country or region . Typically , the GSA is responsible for selling all products of the airline in its region which includes flight tickets and cargo space . A GSA will typically sell the product of more than one airline .   Airlines normally use a GSA in areas that it does not operate to or from , allowing them to have a sales presence in a country at lower cost than opening their own offices in short term . It may also use their services because the GSA has historical ties with travel and cargo agents which will be too time-consuming for the airline to build itself .   The GSA receives a commission of around 3 -- 5 % on all tickets and unit of cargo space sold in the region that it represents .   All costs related to running the GSA 's business are the responsibility of the GSA including insurance , rent , general office expenses and any travel within the country or region needed to promote and sell the product .

neg: Direct Air Southern Sky Air Tours , d/b/a Direct Air was an airline business based in Myrtle Beach , South Carolina , USA Direct Air started in 2007 and leased aircraft with charter airlines . Its main base was Myrtle Beach International Airport . Direct Air 's flights were operated by Sky King , Inc. , Xtra Airways , World Atlantic Airlines , and USA Jet . In March 2012 Direct Air ceased operations , stranding many of its passengers . The airline planned to resume operations on May 15 , 2012 , although this was contested by the U.S. Department of Transportation . The charter carrier was subject to Chapter 7 liquidation on April 12 , 2012 .

neg: Continental Airlines Flight 12 Continental Airlines Flight 12 , is a scheduled domestic passenger flight that on July 1 , 1965 was operated by a Boeing 707 jet liner , registration from Los Angeles International Airport to Chicago O'Hare International Airport with an intermediate at Kansas City Downtown Airport . After a routine flight the plane was making an approach on the instrument landing system for runway 18 . There was heavy rain and low visibility at the airport . The wind was reported from the East-northeast at 7 knots . At most airports this would normally mean an approach should be initiated from the other direction , runway 36 . Quality Hill , in downtown Kansas City overlooks the airport from this direction . It is so close to the end of the runway that aircraft have to go around it to land safely in good weather . This obstacle prevented the installation of an instrument landing system on this runway . It is normally considered safe to land opposite direction in these conditions but they would be landing with a slight tailwind . The flight landed at 5:29 a.m. CST 1,100 feet down the runway . Reverse thrusting and braking were initiated but did not slow the airplane as anticipated . It began to veer 30 ° left before it ran off the end of the runway . The right wing impacted a blast mound as the aircraft rolled over it , coming to rest in three pieces on the perimeter road between the mound and river levee . After an investigation , the cause of the accident was determined to be `` hydroplaning of the landing gear wheels , which precluded braking effectiveness . ''   Although there were no fatalities in the accident , it highlighted a number of shortcomings with jet aircraft operations at Kansas City Downtown Airport . At 7,000 feet , runway 18-36 was barely long enough for Boeing 707 aircraft . The airport could not be expanded , as it was surrounded on three sides by the Missouri river and a rail yard on the east side . In 1972 airline operations were moved to Kansas City International Airport .   Continental continued to use the `` Flight 12 '' designation on its Honolulu to Los Angeles routing . After its acquisition by United Airlines , the flight number was kept for its LAX-HNL routing but it is now used on an IAH-LGA routing .

neg: LSG Sky Chefs LSG Sky Chefs is the brand name of LSG Lufthansa Service Holding AG , which is the world 's largest provider of airline catering ( although Gate Gourmet claims the title of world 's largest `` independent '' provider ) and in-flight services . It is a subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG . A part of the company was formerly owned by AMR Corporation , parent company of American Airlines . Its primary business function is to prepare and deliver meals , beverages and snacks to aircraft for domestic and international flights . In addition the company also provides extended services on all other aspects of in-flight service , including the design and sourcing of in-flight equipment , in-flight logistics , in-flight management , onboard retail management and the management of airport lounges to name but a few .   The company 's world headquarters is located in Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt , Germany . Its North American headquarters is located in Irving , Texas , United States , where a part of the company was founded in 1942 .

neg: Flight plan Flight plans are documents filed by a pilot or flight dispatcher with the local Civil Aviation Authority ( e.g. FAA in the USA ) prior to departure which indicate the plane 's planned route or flight path . Flight plan format is specified in the ICAO Doc 4444 . They generally include basic information such as departure and arrival points , estimated time en route , alternate airports in case of bad weather , type of flight ( whether instrument flight rules -LSB- IFR -RSB- or visual flight rules -LSB- VFR -RSB- ) , the pilot 's information , number of people on board and information about the aircraft itself . In most countries , flight plans are required for flights under IFR , but may be optional for flying VFR unless crossing international borders . Flight plans are highly recommended , especially when flying over inhospitable areas , such as water , as they provide a way of alerting rescuers if the flight is overdue . In the United States and Canada , when an aircraft is crossing the Air Defense Identification Zone ( ADIZ ) , either an IFR or a special type of VFR flight plan called a DVFR ( Defense VFR ) flight plan must be filed .  For IFR flights , flight plans are used by air traffic control to initiate tracking and routing services . For VFR flights , their only purpose is to provide needed information should search and rescue operations be required , or for use by air traffic control when flying in a `` Special Flight Rules Area '' .

neg: Cargo airline Cargo airlines ( or airfreight carriers , and derivatives of these names ) are airlines mainly dedicated to the transport of cargo by air . Some cargo airlines are divisions or subsidiaries of larger passenger airlines .

neg: Narita International Airport , also known as Tokyo Narita Airport , formerly and originally known as , is an international airport serving the Greater Tokyo Area of Japan . It is located approximately 60 km east of central Tokyo in Chiba Prefecture , straddling the border between the city of Narita and the adjacent town of Shibayama .   Narita is the predominant international airport in Japan , handling around 50 % of the country 's international passenger traffic and 60 % of its international air cargo traffic . As of 2013 , Narita was the second-busiest passenger airport in Japan ( after Haneda Airport in Tokyo ) , and was the tenth-busiest air freight hub in the world . Its 4000 m main runway shares the record for longest runway in Japan with the second runway at Kansai International Airport in Osaka .   Narita serves as the main international hub of Japan Airlines , All Nippon Airways and Nippon Cargo Airlines , and as a hub for low-cost carriers Jetstar Japan , Peach and Vanilla Air . It also serves as an Asian hub for Delta Air Lines and United Airlines .

neg: Gatwick Handling Gatwick Handling Limited was an aircraft ground handling agent headquartered at London Gatwick Airport .   Gatwick Handling was originally established in the late-1960s as a new company jointly owned by Airbourne Aviation and Messrs Metcalfe and Foukes . The company 's liquidation soon after its formation resulted in ownership passing to Davies and Newman ( D&N ) , holding company of UK independentindependent from government-owned corporations airline Dan-Air . D&N 's search for a co-owner for its new ground handling unit led to the sale of a 50 % stake to Laker Airways ( Services ) , an associate company of former Gatwick-based UK independent airline Laker Airways which was a contemporary competitor of Dan-Air .   Gatwick Handling 's official appointment as an airport concessionaire occurred in early-1972 following the signing of an agreement between the British Airports Authority ( BAA ) , Dan-Air and Laker Airways . Under this agreement , the BAA licensed Gatwick Handling to conduct ground handling operations at London Gatwick on behalf of third parties .   In addition to assuming responsibility for handling all Dan-Air and Laker flights at Gatwick , a growing number of third-party airlines appointed Gatwick Handling their handling agent at the airport .   Laker Airways 's demise in early-1982 brought about a change in ownership that initially saw D&N gain 100 % control of Gatwick Handling and the subsequent sale of the 50 % stake previously owned by an associate company of the defunct airline sold on to US carriers Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines .   In the late-1980s , Gatwick Handling extended its geographical coverage of the UK to other airports , leading to establishment of GH Manchester and GH Stansted respectively .   Dan-Air 's takeover by British Airways ( BA ) in late-1992 divided Gatwick Handling 's ownership between Northwest and Delta .   In 1994 , Gatwick Handling extended its geographical coverage to Ghana in West Africa . To give it a more international image , the company abbreviated its name to GHI ( for Gatwick Handling International ) .   In 1998 , Go-Ahead Group replaced Northwest and Delta as GHI 's owner .   In 2000 , Go-ahead merged GHI with its other UK aircraft ground handling operations , Midland Airport Services , British Midland Handling Services and Reed Aviation , under the Aviance UK brand .

neg: Airfone Airfone was an air-ground radiotelephone service developed by MCI founder John D. Goeken , and operated under the names Airfone , GTE Airfone and Verizon . Airfone allowed passengers to make telephone calls ( later including data modem service ) in-flight . Airfone handsets were often located in the middle airliner seatbacks , with two handsets per row for 6-wide coach seating configurations , and more or less depending on the aircraft layout and fare class . First class cabins typically had one handset per seat . Some planes had one or more bulkhead mounted phone stations with cordless handsets that the passengers could use , instead of the multiple wired handsets . Airfone phone calls were usually quite expensive compared to ground-based telephone calls , costing $ 3.99 per call and $ 4.99 per minute in 2006 .   The original Airfone main office and network operations center are located at 2809 Butterfield Rd , Oak Brook , Illinois . The network operations center remains at this location .   Bell Mobility used the Airfone technology on Air Canada flights , but brands its service Skytel ( no relation to the Verizon-owned paging firm of the same name ) .


query: Kong: Skull Island involves multiple people.

pos: Kong: Skull Island Kong : Skull Island is a 2017 American action-adventure monster film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and written by Dan Gilroy , Max Borenstein and Derek Connolly , from a story by John Gatins . The film is a reboot of the King Kong franchise and serves as the second film in Legendary 's MonsterVerse . It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Tom Hiddleston , Samuel L. Jackson , John Goodman , Brie Larson , Jing Tian , Toby Kebbell , John Ortiz , Corey Hawkins , Jason Mitchell , Shea Whigham , Thomas Mann , Terry Notary and John C. Reilly . The film follows a team of scientists and Vietnam War soldiers who travel to an uncharted island in the Pacific and encounter terrifying creatures and the mighty Kong .   Principal photography took place from October 2015 to March 2016 in Hawaii and various locations around Vietnam . Kong : Skull Island premiered on February 28 , 2017 , in London and was released in the United States on March 10 , 2017 , in 2D , 3D , IMAX 3D and in Dolby Cinemas . The film was a critical and commercial success , grossing $ 565 million worldwide against its $ 185 million budget and making it the fifth highest-grossing film of 2017 .

neg: List of birds of Hong Kong This is a list of the bird species recorded in Hong Kong . The avifauna of Hong Kong include a total of 522 species , of which twenty-three have been introduced by humans . Twenty-nine species are globally threatened .   This list 's taxonomic treatment ( designation and sequence of orders , families and species ) and nomenclature ( common and scientific names ) follow the Hong Kong Bird List published by Hong Kong Bird Watching Society . The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy , as do the species counts found in each family account . Introduced and accidental species are included in the total counts for Hong Kong .   The following tags have been used to highlight several categories . The commonly occurring native species do not fall into any of these categories .   ( A ) Accidental - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in Hong Kong  ( I ) Introduced - a species introduced to Hong Kong as a consequence , direct or indirect , of human actions   __ NOTOC __

neg: Three wishes joke The three wishes joke is a form of joke in which the protagonist is given three wishes by a supernatural being , and fails to make the best use of them . Common scenarios include releasing a genie from confinement - perhaps finding an old oil lamp and rubbing it ; catching and agreeing to release a mermaid or magical fish ; or crossing paths with the devil .   The protagonist of the joke makes their first two wishes and finds that all is well . Often , the third wish is either misinterpreted , or intentionally granted in an awkwardly literal fashion , and can not be reversed because it is the final wish , resulting in the punchline of the joke . Alternatively , the wishes are split between three people , with the last person inadvertently or intentionally messing up or undoing the wishes of the others with their wish to form the punchline .   An example of the three wishes joke runs as follows :   Three men are stranded on a desert island , when a bottle washes up on the shore . When they uncork the bottle , a genie appears and offers three wishes . The first wishes to be taken to Paris . The genie snaps his fingers , and the man suddenly finds himself standing in front of the Eiffel Tower . The second man wishes that he were in Hollywood , and with a snap of the genie 's fingers , he finds himself on a Tinseltown movie set . The third man , now alone on the island , looks around and says , `` I wish my friends were back . ''

neg: Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! is a puzzle video game developed by Nintendo Software Technology and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS . It was announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010 and released in North America on November 14 , 2010 . It is the fourth game in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series .   In the game , Mario and Pauline are sponsoring the grand opening of the amusement park `` Mini-Land , '' when Pauline is kidnapped by Donkey Kong and must be rescued by Mario and his team of miniature Mario toys . Instead of playing as Mario , players use a stylus to modify level architecture , allowing the mini Marios to exit the level or attack Donkey Kong . There is also a Construction Zone that allows players to build and share their own levels .

neg: King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa King Kong : Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa ( or simply King Kong ) is an album by French  jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty first released in 1970 on Liberty Records ' World Pacific Records subsidiary label and later released on Blue Note . The album contains numerous selections Zappa had previously recorded either with the Mothers of Invention or under his own name , including :   `` King Kong '' , originally included on the Mothers ' 1969 album Uncle Meat  `` Idiot Bastard Son '' , from the Mothers ' 1968 album We 're Only in It for the Money  `` Twenty Small Cigars '' , from Zappa 's 1970 album Chunga 's Revenge  `` America Drinks and Goes Home '' , from the Mothers ' 1967 album Absolutely Free   In addition , the track `` Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra '' includes the themes from `` Duke of Prunes '' , from Absolutely Free , and `` Pound for a Brown '' , from Uncle Meat . Zappa excised those themes , and everything that followed them , when he later recorded the piece himself under the title `` Revised Music For Guitar And Low-Budget Orchestra '' , which was first released on his 1978 album Studio Tan .   George Duke , who would eventually join Zappa and Ponty in the Mothers , is featured on piano on all tracks . Ernie Watts is featured on alto and/or tenor saxophone on tracks 2 , 3 , 4 , and 6 . Zappa himself plays guitar on track 4 , and Mothers members Ian Underwood ( tenor sax ) and Art Tripp ( drums ) contribute on track 1 , 5 , and 6 .

neg: Black Skin, White Masks Black Skin , White Masks ( Peau noire , masques blancs ) is a 1952 book by Frantz Fanon , in which Fanon studies the psychology of the racism and dehumanization inherent in situations of colonial domination .   With the application of historical interpretation , and the concomitant underlying social indictment , the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon formulated Black Skin , White Masks to combat the oppression of black people . He applied psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory to explain the feelings of dependency and inadequacy that Black people experience in a White world . That the divided self-perception of the Black Subject who has lost his native cultural origin , and embraced the culture of the Mother Country , produces an inferiority complex in the mind of the Black Subject , who then will try to appropriate and imitate the culture of the colonizer . Such behavior is more readily evident in upwardly mobile and educated black people who can afford to acquire status symbols within the world of the colonial ecumene , such as an education abroad and mastery of the language of the colonizer , the white masks .   Based upon , and derived from , the concepts of the collective unconscious and collective catharsis , the sixth chapter , `` The Negro and Psychopathology '' , presents brief , deep psychoanalyses of colonized black people , and thus proposes the inability of black people to fit into the norms ( social , cultural , racial ) established by white society . That `` a normal Negro child , having grown up in a normal Negro family , will become abnormal on the slightest contact of the white world . '' That , in a white society , such an extreme psychological response originates from the unconscious and unnatural training of black people , from early childhood , to associate `` blackness '' with `` wrongness '' . That such unconscious mental training of black children is effected with comic books and cartoons , which are cultural media that instil and affix , in the mind of the white child , the society 's cultural representations of black people as villains . Moreover , when black children are exposed to such images of villainous black people , the children will experience a psychopathology ( psychological trauma ) , which mental wound becomes inherent to their individual , behavioral make-up ; a part of his and her personality . That the early-life suffering of said psychopathology -- black skin associated with villainy -- creates a collective nature among the men and women who were reduced to colonized populations .

neg: The International House of Mojo The International House of Mojo ( often called Mixnmojo ) is a website focused on LucasArts video games . It later expanded to cover studios founded by former LucasArts employees , including Double Fine Productions , Telltale Games , Autumn Moon Entertainment and Crackpot Entertainment . It was founded in 1997 by James Spafford and is among the longest-running `` fan sites '' on the internet .   Mixnmojo once enjoyed an active relationship with LucasArts , and reviews have occasionally been quoted in the company 's marketing such as on the cover of the UK release of Monkey Island Special Edition Collection . The site was also referenced in the book Rogue Leaders : The Story of LucasArts , and staff has been interviewed by the gaming press .   Developers highlighted by the site have often reciprocated its fondness . Tim Schafer of Double Fine Productions called Mixnmojo their `` friendly friends '' and praised the staff for their knowledge . At E3 2003 , in order to make light of an extended downtime the site was experiencing , staffers in attendance playfully cajoled then-producer Dan Pettit of LucasArts into appearing in a video painting him as complicit in the site 's technical woes . The site once even received permission from LucasArts to pull an elaborate April Fools prank that announced a fictional fifth Monkey Island installment ( at the time , the series only had four games ) complete with fake cover art and sound files of Dominic Armato performing dialog invented by the staff .   Though created as an all-encompassing LucasArts site , Mixnmojo has always favored the studio 's original titles , particularly its classic graphic adventure games , over the more popular Star Wars products . This at times strained the relationship with the company . As the site featured the unregulated opinions of its contributors rather a unified editorial point of view , it quickly established an endearingly quirky , if occasionally abrasive , tone in its editorials and news posts .   After the turn of the century , LucasArts began shifting away from original properties and the adventure genre in particular , culminating in the cancellation of Sam & Max : Freelance Police in 2004 . In response to this , Mixnmojo began broadening its coverage to include studios operated by LucasArts alumni that they believe continue the creative spirit abandoned by the original company .   LucasArts was eventually shut down soon after Lucasfilm was purchased by Disney in 2012 . Its oldest fan site remains active as an information hub for LucasArts legacy titles , which have remained topical due to their continued influence , remakes and re-releases , as well as a news source for games produced by key LucasArts alumni .

neg: Kwok Mang Ho Kwok Mang Ho ( born 1947 ) , also known as Frog King , is a multi-media , conceptual , visual and performance artist from Hong Kong . According to Oscar Ho , the former exhibition director of Hong Kong Art Centre , he is one of the pioneers to engage in contemporary art in Hong Kong during the early 70s . His artistic uniqueness is best expressed in his creations `` Frogtopia '' , which takes over the exhibition space with numerous colourful mixed-media installations and graffiti of his signatured frog icon . In addition to his inexhaustible style , Kwok held a solo multimedia art exhibition representing Hong Kong `` Frogtopia-Hongkorucopia '' at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011 . He is currently the director of the Frog King Museum at Cattle Depot Artist Village since 2001 .

neg: Din Dong Din Dong ( Chinese : 癲噹 ) is a Hong Kong based cartoon cat , formed by two comic author - John Chan and Pam Hung . Din Dong cat is a very happy and positive cat that has his dreams , his motto is `` Impossible is possible '' . Din Dong often publishes illustrations on its Facebook page .  Din Dong is also a multimedia creation covering animation , comics , licensing projects ; appearing on books , DVD , Apps , household items , etc. . Din Dong animation was also screened on Japan BS TV Station . His animation collections are picked as `` Famous Animation Section '' in the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival ; Din Dong statue is on the Comic Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui ( Hong Kong )

neg: Those Who Kill Those Who Kill ( Den som dræber ) is a Danish crime TV series from 2011 , which follows a fictitious unit within Copenhagen Police which specialises in investigating serial murders . The series was aired as five two-part stories in Denmark ( i.e. ten episodes in total ) , but has aired as five feature-length episodes in most other countries . A separate 92 minutes feature film , Fortidens skygge , which forms a continuation and ending of the series , premiered in Danish cinemas on 15 March 2012 , and is being aired as a final , sixth episode of the series in many other countries , such as the UK and Germany .   The series is created and written by Elsebeth Egholm and Stefan Jaworski , with various other screenwriters helping out as episode writers , among them Siv Rajendram , Rikke De Fine Licht and Morten Dragsted . Directors have been Birger Larsen , Niels Nørløv and Kasper Barfoed . The series is a Danish-German-Swedish-Norwegian co-production .   Although originally planned to run for several seasons , Danish TV2 announced in October 2011 that there would be no further seasons made , due to falling viewer shares after the first few episodes . TV2 programming manager Keld Reinicke stated that , `` We have no plans to continue the series as it never gave us the audience share we expected in Denmark . ''

neg: Society-related comics Society-related comics are comics ( manhua ) that reflect societal issues and topics . In Hong Kong , some of them are about social satire ; some talk about daily lives of Hong Kongers ; some caricaturists also talk about past lives of Hong Kong in order to recall a collective memory , etc. . McDull is the first well-known society-related comic . McDull was created by two local caricaturists , Alice Mak and Brian Tse . They use a hilarious way to express the core value , diligence .

neg: Madman Entertainment Madman Entertainment is an Australian company that distributes Australian and foreign films as well as Japanese anime and manga in Australia , New Zealand , and Papua New Guinea . Madman is one of the major entertainment companies in Australia . It employs approx 100 people and has an annual turnover of around A$ 50 million . Its headquarters is in Richmond , Victoria .   Madman has secured the local release rights to popular titles including Sailor Moon , One Piece , Dragon Ball , Neon Genesis Evangelion , Akira , Steins ; Gate and almost all of Studio Ghibli 's catalogue . In addition to DVD sales , Madman manages the theatrical release of some of their titles , particularly the Studio Ghibli movies . According to market research , Madman accounts for 97 % of the total anime home media market in Australia .

neg: Crazy Kong For the album by Wild Willy Barrett , released the same year , see Krazy Kong .   is an arcade game created by Falcon , released in 1981 and is similar to Nintendo 's Donkey Kong . Although commonly believed to be a bootleg version , the game was officially licensed for operation in Japan when Nintendo could n't keep up with demand at home ( even though Donkey Kong was still released in Japan ) , and is based on different hardware . The game retains all of the gameplay elements of Donkey Kong , but has all of the graphics redrawn and re-colorized . Crazy Kong is also known as Congorilla , Crazy Kong Part II , Donkey King , and Monkey Donkey .   There are two versions of the original : Crazy Kong and Crazy Kong Part II . The differences between them are in minor cinematic artifacts and bugs , color palette choices and minor gameplay differences . Crazy Kong Part I shows no copyright or company name on the title screen . Crazy Kong ( parts I and II ) runs on modified Crazy Climber hardware . In addition there are other versions of the game that run on Scramble , Jeutel , Orca , and Alca hardware . The official versions of game came in two different stand up cabinets that featured a large and angry , rather than comic , ape embedded in the artwork . The cabinets were created by Zaccaria .

neg: People's Radio Hong Kong People 's Radio Hong Kong ( Chinese : 香港人民廣播電台 ) or its abbreviation PRHK.org ( Chinese : 人民台 ) is a defunct online radio station in Hong Kong . The initial objectives include :   the formation of a local community radio station ,  not accepting donations  participation in political groups independently operated by volunteers ,  accept public donations as the main source of funding .   Radio Hong Kong People 's First , referred to as `` people 's first '' , created mainly to comment on current affairs and public issues , and the main program include the `` Long Menzhen Storm '' and `` ShiuShiu Podcast '' （ 風蕭蕭 ） .   The second station is referred to as `` People 's second '' , mainly to discuss a small minority issues and the users produced programs , the current broadcast programs include `` international free exercise '' , `` Hong Kong people philosophy stresses '' , `` Hong Kong way out '' and '' My Network Places '' and so on .   In Hong Kong , People 's Radio is aired the first Tuesday night with the Neighborhood and Workers Service Center online radio network ; Friday will be two sets of programs broadcast .

neg: Donald Duck universe The Donald Duck universe is a fictional shared universe which is the setting of stories involving Disney cartoon character Donald Duck , as well as Daisy Duck , Huey , Dewey , and Louie , Scrooge McDuck , and many other characters . The world is a part of the Mickey Mouse universe , but is more detailed . Life in the Donald Duck universe centers on the city of Duckburg , usually located in the fictional U.S. state of Calisota , analogous to Northern California . The world also incorporates several other real and fictional locations , as well as historical figures and a fictional timeline , which is followed with varying degrees of consistency .   Disney comics are the primary medium for Donald Duck stories . Contributors include Americans Carl Barks , Ted Osborne , Don Rosa , Tony Strobl , Al Taliaferro , and William Van Horn , as well as Italians Giovan Battista Carpi , Marco Rota , and Romano Scarpa . Other media includes short films in the Donald Duck series , children 's books such as Little Big Books and Little Golden Books , television series such as DuckTales ( 1987 -- 1990 ) and Darkwing Duck ( 1991 -- 1992 ) , and video games such as QuackShot ( 1991 ) , Goin ' Quackers ( 2000 ) , and DuckTales : Remastered ( 2013 ) .   `` Donald Duck universe '' is not an official Disney term , but is sometimes used by fans . Don Rosa has also used the terms Barks Universe and Italian Duck Universe to describe different versions of the world 's continuity . The terms `` Barksian '' or `` Barksian facts '' has also been used to describe the canon of the Donald Duck universe , as many comic book creators and fans only consider the stories by Carl Barks as factual , since he is the creator of many of its major characters , locations and ideas . Don Rosa is an example of this when creating his comic book series The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck , with most of his stories being based on the works by Barks . Additionally , the stories by Al Taliaferro and Ted Osborne are also considered canon by many fans , being that they are the creators of Huey , Dewey and Louie and Grandma Duck , and part of their work precedes Barks ' work .

neg: Ayize Jama-Everett Ayize Jama-Everett ( born 1974 ) is an African-American science fiction and speculative fiction writer . He is the author of the trilogy The Liminal People ( self-published , 2009 ; Small Beer Press , 2012 ) , The Liminal War ( Small Beer Press , 2015 ) and The Entropy of Bones ( Small Beer Press , 2015 ) .   In his review of The Entropy of Bones , the writer Charles Yu describes Jama-Everett 's work as `` resist -LSB- ing -RSB- easy categorization . -LSB- The protagonist 's -RSB- mixed racial background offers a potentially nuanced look from a perspective that seems underserved . '' He goes on to say : `` If the book veers among different approaches -- now a philosophical kung fu master story , now a seduction into a rarefied subculture , now an esoteric universe made from liner notes and the journal entries of a brilliantly imaginative teenager -- there 's nevertheless a vitality to the voice and a weirdness that , while not always controlled or intentional , is highly appealing for just that reason . '' Jama-Everett himself sees his writing as a way to heal people who have long been ignored in mainstream popular culture . He asserts : `` There 's a big wound in not being seen , in having your reality not being represented in any way . ''   Born in Harlem , New York , Jama-Everett is now based in Oakland , California . He has also lived in New Hampshire and Morocco , and traveled extensively across north Africa , Asia and Mexico . He holds master 's degrees in clinical psychology and divinity , and has been a therapist , and a teacher at high school and college levels .   In 2016 , Jama-Everett began collaborating with the illustrator John Jennings , to develop Box of Bones , a comics project . He describes it as unrelated to the Liminal People universe , and like '' ` Tale of the Crypt ' meets Black History . ''   According to Jama-Everett , he was named ` Ayize ' by his mother , a word that means ` let it come ' , in an African root language .

neg: Crocodile Dundee Crocodile Dundee ( stylized as `` Crocodile '' Dundee in the U.S. ) is a 1986 Australian-American comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City . It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee . Hogan 's future wife Linda Kozlowski portrayed Sue Charlton .   Inspired by the true life exploits of Rod Ansell , the film was made on a budget of under $ 10 million as a deliberate attempt to make a commercial Australian film that would appeal to a mainstream American audience , but proved to be a worldwide phenomenon . Released on 30 April 1986 in Australia , and on 26 September 1986 in the United States , it was the second-highest-grossing film in the United States in that year and went on to become the second-highest grossing film worldwide at the box office as well , with an estimated 46 million tickets sold in the US .   There are two versions of the film : the Australian version , and an international version , which had much of the Australian slang replaced with more commonly understood terms , and was slightly shorter . Although the film was a hit both in Australia and abroad , it became controversial with some Australian critics and audiences -- who resented the image of Australians as being ocker .   The first scenes were filmed in the small town of McKinlay in Queensland . The hotel has original warped and polished hardwood floors . There are no crocodiles in the area as it 's in the outback with no major water source .   Crocodile Dundee was followed by two sequels : Crocodile Dundee II ( 1988 ) and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles ( 2001 ) , although both films failed to match the critical success of the predecessor .

neg: Barrel children Barrel children are children who are abandoned or `` left behind '' by their parents who are seeking a better life abroad .   Dr. Claudette Crawford-Brown , the University of the West Indies academic who first described the phenomenon of barrel children , defines `` barrel children '' as those children who , while waiting in the Caribbean to migrate to their parents in the metropoles of North America and the United Kingdom , receive material resources in the form of food and clothing in lieu of direct care . Dr. Crawford-Brown , in her publication Who will save our children : The plight of the Jamaican child in the nineties , showed that these children have surrogate parents who are often unable to give them the emotional support and nurturance that they need , most of these children may be instead raised by grandparents or close relatives .   The impact on these children of this type of neglect includes a range of emotional and behavioural problems including run-away behaviour , withdrawal , depression , and , in some cases , acting-out behaviour . The Trinidad and Tobago News said that for `` barrel children the psychological scars have been great and have been troubling factors unto the second , third and fourth generations . ''   The Wellcome Trust discussed barrel children in an article focusing on violence in the Caribbean while it was the title and subject of a short film by Cara Elmslie Weir about a Trinidadian family split by migration , the parents `` sending barrels full of material goods '' from the U.S.A. to their children in Trinidad .   UNICEF in Jamaica agreed that `` Migration of parents who seek more lucrative employment abroad has had a negative impact on Jamaican children . Some children are left in the care of strangers , neighbours or even older siblings who are still children . These so-called `` barrel children '' are left without parental guidance or adult supervision and with access to significant material resources in the form of cash remittances and barrels of clothing and toys sent by absentee parents . ''   It has also been discussed in Caribbean Studies Journals , conferences on the Caribbean , the Trinidad Guardian and Trinidad Newsday . Discussing absent parents The Trinidad Guardian noted that `` At holiday time , they ship their barrels of love , disguised as brand-name sneakers and clothing , believing that these would make their children happy and make up for them being not around . But the fact remains that children are deprived of the real love of their parents . ''   An article published in Newsweek by Brook Larmar entitled the `` Barrel Children '' dramatised the problem in its effects on one particular family . `` The cardboard barrel has been sitting empty in Marsha Flowers 's backyard for more than a month now , but the Jamaican teenager hangs onto it as though it were a sacred totem . And in a way , it is . Five years after her mother immigrated to the United States , leaving Marsha and two sisters to fend for themselves in a Kingston slum , the barrel is one of the few tangible signs of her mother 's love - and of her own frustrated desires . ''   Blogs also exist highlighting the experiences of barrel children . Memories of a Caribbean Barrel Child was created by Dr. Anthony Salandy ( a native of Trinidad and Tobago ) to shed light of the experiences and outcomes associated with being a barrel child .

neg: Theatre of Cruelty (Discworld) `` Theatre of Cruelty '' is a short Discworld story by Terry Pratchett written in 1993 . The name derives from a concept of Antonin Artaud ( Theatre of Cruelty ) .   It was originally written for W. H. Smith Bookcase magazine and was then slightly modified and extended , being published again in the programme of the OryCon 15 convention , and then again in The Wizards of Odd , a compilation of fantasy short stories .   It has since been made available on the Internet along with dozens of translations by fans , with Pratchett having stated , `` I do n't want to see it distributed in print anywhere but do n't mind people downloading it for their own enjoyment . ''   The story involves both the Ankh-Morpork City Watch and a parallel of Punch and Judy .   A murder has been committed : a street entertainer , found apparently battered to death with a very small blunt object , on him bite marks from a very small crocodile . Investigating the incident in his typically direct manner , Carrot Ironfoundersson discovers the death was an accident , the man having choked on a swazzle . It emerges that the entertainer had invented a parallel , live-action version of Punch and Judy , using -- and abusing -- a troupe of gnomes as the live cast . Carrot asserts that such brutal theatre could never find favour in Ankh-Morpork : `` That 's not the way to do it '' .

neg: Indiana Jones Adventure The Indiana Jones Adventure is an enhanced motion vehicle dark ride attraction at Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea , based on the Indiana Jones film series . Guests accompany intrepid archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones on a turbulent quest , aboard military troop transport vehicles , through a dangerous lost temple guarded by a supernatural power .   The attraction premiered as Temple of the Forbidden Eye at Disneyland in Anaheim , California on March 3 , 1995 , and opened to the general public on March 4 , 1995 . A second , and nearly identical , version of the ride opened as Temple of the Crystal Skull on September 4 , 2001 at Tokyo DisneySea in Chiba , Japan , unrelated to the 2008 film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull .

neg: Alien abduction The terms alien abduction or abduction phenomenon describe `` subjectively real memories of being taken secretly against one 's will by apparently nonhuman entities and subjected to complex physical and psychological procedures '' . Such abductions have sometimes been classified as close encounters of the fourth kind . People claiming to have been abducted are usually called `` abductees '' or `` experiencers '' .   Due to a lack of objective physical evidence , most scientists and mental health professionals dismiss the phenomenon as `` deception , suggestibility ( fantasy-proneness , hypnotizability , false memory syndrome ) , personality , sleep paralysis , psychopathology , psychodynamics -LSB- and -RSB- environmental factors '' . Skeptic Robert Sheaffer sees similarity between the aliens depicted in science fiction films , in particular , Invaders From Mars , and some of those reported to have actually abducted people .   Typical claims involve being subjected to forced medical examinations that emphasize abductee reproductive systems . Abductees sometimes claim to have been warned against environmental abuse and the dangers of nuclear weapons . While many of these claimed encounters are described as terrifying , some have been viewed as pleasurable or transformative .   The first alleged alien abduction claim to be widely publicized was the Betty and Barney Hill abduction in 1961 . Reports of the abduction phenomenon have been made around the world , but are most common in English speaking countries , especially the United States . The contents of the abduction narrative often seem to vary with the home culture of the alleged abductee .   Alien abductions have been the subject of conspiracy theories and science fiction storylines ( notably The X-Files ) that have speculated on stealth technology required if the phenomenon were real , the motivations for secrecy , and that alien implants could be a possible form of physical evidence .