The central character of the film is Tommy Matisse; his name combines the title of The Who's 1969 rock opera Tommy and the last name of twentieth century French painter Henri Matisse. Tommy is a Melbourne boy studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He is a violinist and composer who hears music in unusual sources such as trains on the London Underground or the chirping of insects. He is a rebel against the traditions of classical music as shown by his bringing a homeless woman living in ...

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One Perfect Day, One Perfect Day - Plot, One Perfect Day - Cast, One Perfect Day - Crew, One Perfect Day - Soundtrack, One Perfect Day - One-disc version track listing, One Perfect Day - Two-disc version track listing

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The phrase the perfect storm is also associated with a meteorological event in October 1991, when a powerful weather system gathered force, ravaging the Atlantic Ocean over the course of several days and caused the deaths of several Massachusetts-based fisherman and billions of dollars of damage. In this case, the merging of two low-pressure areas (areas associated with storms), a large flow of warm air from the south, cold air from the north, and moisture feeding into the storm from the warm ocean current (the Gulf stream) all combin ...

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Perfect storm, Perfect storm - Meteorological event

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Like most N64-era Rare games, Perfect Dark has no shortage of easter eggs and strange objects, areas and glitches to fuel the exploration efforts and wild speculation of many gamers. In some cases, people from Rare have actually admitted that some of the oddities in the game were put there "for a laugh", and that the constant barrage of questioning emails they got were sometimes "a free source of amusement"[5]. Among the most notable: One of the most notorious (and earliest known) among these is that a piece of che ...

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Perfect Dark, Perfect Dark - Development and influences, Perfect Dark - Single player, Perfect Dark - Storyline and missions, Perfect Dark - Bonus missions, Perfect Dark - Organizations, Perfect Dark - Extraterrestrial races, Perfect Dark - Characters, Perfect Dark - Multiplayer, Perfect Dark - Simulants, Perfect Dark - Weapons, Perfect Dark - Human weapons, Perfect Dark - Maian weapons, Perfect Dark - Skedar weapons, Perfect Dark - Controversy, Perfect Dark - Easter eggs oddities and glitches, Perfect Dark - Cheats, Perfect Dark - Games in the series, Perfect Dark - Half-Life 2 Mod

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The terms perfective and perfect are used in an unfortunate and highly confusing fashion in different writings about linguistics. Traditional Greek grammar uses the term "perfect" to refer to a grammatical tense encoding what is variously described as a past action with present relevance or a present state resulting from a past action. (For example, "I have gone to the cinema" implies both that I went to the cinema and that I am now in the cinema.) The perfect is opposed to the aorist, describing a simple past action, and the i ...

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Grammatical aspect, Grammatical aspect - Lexical vs. grammatical aspect, Grammatical aspect - Usage of aspects, Grammatical aspect - Aspect in English, Grammatical aspect - Aspect in Slavic languages, Grammatical aspect - Aspect in Finnic languages, Grammatical aspect - Confusing terminology: perfective vs. perfect, Grammatical aspect - Examples of various aspects rendered in English

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Like most N64-era Rare games, Perfect Dark has no shortage of easter eggs and strange objects, areas and glitches to fuel the exploration efforts and wild speculation of many gamers. In some cases, people from Rare have actually admitted that some of the oddities in the game were put there "for a laugh", and that the constant barrage of questioning emails they got were sometimes "a free source of amusement"[5]. Among the most notable: One of the most notorious (and earliest known) among these is that a piece of che ...

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Perfect Dark, Perfect Dark - Development and influences, Perfect Dark - Single player, Perfect Dark - Storyline and missions, Perfect Dark - Bonus missions, Perfect Dark - Organizations, Perfect Dark - Extraterrestrial races, Perfect Dark - Characters, Perfect Dark - Multiplayer, Perfect Dark - Simulants, Perfect Dark - Weapons, Perfect Dark - Human weapons, Perfect Dark - Maian weapons, Perfect Dark - Skedar weapons, Perfect Dark - Controversy, Perfect Dark - Easter eggs oddities and glitches, Perfect Dark - Cheats, Perfect Dark - Games in the series

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Note: While the above is the latest line-up to appear live, as of the release of eMOTIVe and aMOTION, it is unclear as to who exactly is in the band. As there will be no activity from A Perfect Circle for a number of years (due to Maynard James Keenan's commitment to his other band Tool), it is assumed the band will be reformed for the next album depending on which musicians are available. Billy Howerdel has mentioned in November 2004 that the band will definitely contain Keenan and himself, and most likely Josh Freese. ...

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A Perfect Circle, A Perfect Circle - History, A Perfect Circle - Latest Line-up, A Perfect Circle - Discography, A Perfect Circle - Studio Albums, A Perfect Circle - Compilations, A Perfect Circle - Music Videos, A Perfect Circle - Trivia

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Precepts of perfect and immediate enlightenment

(Jpn.: endon-kai)

Also, perfect precepts. One of the three types of learning based on the teaching for perfect and immediate enlightenment, or the Lotus Sutra. The other two are perfect meditation and perfect wisdom.

Dengyo (767-822), the founder of the Japanese Tendai school, adopted the Mahayana precepts, specifically the ten major precepts and forty-eight minor precepts set forth in the Brahma Net Sutra, and interpreted them based on the Lotus Sutra, known in the T'ien-t'ai or Tendai doctrine as the teaching for perfect and immediate enlightenment, or perfect teaching. He thus laid the foundation for the establishment of an ordination platform for administering the precepts of perfect and immediate enlightenment.

(See also: Precepts of perfect and immediate enlightenment, Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary)

In addition to the various anime/cartoon references, PHF also has several visual Easter Eggs that go unnoticed by most viewers. Clown Planet - Various PHF episodes have veiled references to Clown Planet. In Aqua Teen Hunger Force, in the episode "The Clowning", a clown wig turns its wearers into unwitting clowns. In fact, Clown Planet is the birthplace of these wigs. In episode two, at approximately 4:40, a white planet with red nebulae around it (its hair) comes into alignment with a smaller red planet, which lines up pe ...

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Perfect Hair Forever, Perfect Hair Forever - The Strange Circumstances Surrounding The Pilot's First Airing, Perfect Hair Forever - Episodes, Perfect Hair Forever - Characters, Perfect Hair Forever - Easter Eggs, Perfect Hair Forever - Notes

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"The Perfect Drug" originally appeared on the soundtrack for the David Lynch movie Lost Highway. In the movie itself, only a brief sample of the song was used. A music video was made for this song. It was directed by Mark Romanek and released on January 18, 1997. It casts Reznor as a despairing father, who mourns his dead daughter in his gothic estate and loses himself in the consumption of absinthe. The imagery in the video for "The Perfect Drug" was inspired by the art of Edward Gorey. " ...

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"The Perfect Drug" Versions, "The Perfect Drug" Versions - The song, "The Perfect Drug" Versions - The EP, "The Perfect Drug" Versions - Releases, "The Perfect Drug" Versions - Track listing

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Mussina is perhaps most infamously known for his collection of near-perfect outings: On May 30, 1997, he retired the first 25 Cleveland Indians he faced before surrendering a single to Sandy Alomar Jr. with one out in the ninth; Mussina struck-out the last two batters for a one-hit 3-0 shut-out. On August 4, 1998, he retired the first 23 Detroit Tigers he faced before surrendering a double to Frank Catalanotto with two outs in the eighth; Mussina gave up another hit in the eventual 4-0 shut-out. On September 2, ...

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Mike Mussina, Mike Mussina - Brushes With Perfection, Mike Mussina - Salary, Mike Mussina - External link

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Perfect fluids possess a matter tensor of form where is the four-velocity of the matter particles and where hab is the projection tensor onto the spatial hyperplane elements orthogonal to the four-velocity, at each event. (Notice that these hyperplane elements will not form a spatial hyperslice unless the velocity is vorticity-free; that is, irrotational.) With respect to a frame aligned with the motion of the matter particles, the components of the matte ...

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Energy conditions, Energy conditions - Motivation, Energy conditions - Some observable quantities, Energy conditions - Mathematical statement, Energy conditions - Perfect fluids, Energy conditions - A counterexample

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The Perfect Hair Forever pilot first aired on November 7, 2004, in the time slot that had been advertised as the premiere of the Squidbillies pilot. Unknown to the audience at the time, the existing Squidbillies pilot had been scrapped and would not air. Williams Street continued advertising the Squidbillies premiere up to and including the bump directly preceding the show. The night's confusion began when, instead of seeing the opening titles for Squidbillies, viewers were confronted with a title card for an ...

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Perfect Hair Forever, Perfect Hair Forever - The Strange Circumstances Surrounding The Pilot's First Airing, Perfect Hair Forever - Episodes, Perfect Hair Forever - Characters, Perfect Hair Forever - Easter Eggs, Perfect Hair Forever - Notes

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Main article: Bayesian game Sometimes subgame perfection does not impose large enough restriction on unreasonable outcomes. For example, since subgames cannot cut through information sets, a game of imperfect information may have only one subgame – itself – and hence subgame perfection cannot be used to eliminate any Nash equilibria. A perfect Bayesian equilibrium is a specification of players’ strategies and beliefs about which node in the information set has been reached by the play of ...

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Solution concept, Solution concept - Rationalizability & Iterated Dominance, Solution concept - Nash equilibrium, Solution concept - Backward induction, Solution concept - Subgame perfect Nash equilibrium, Solution concept - Perfect Bayesian equilibrium, Solution concept - Forward induction

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Main article: Subgame perfect equilibrium A generalisation of backward induction is subgame perfection. Backward induction assumes that all future play will be rational. In subgame perfect equilibria, play in every subgame is rational (specifically a Nash equilibrium). Backward induction can only be used in terminating (finite) games of definite length and cannot be applied to games with imperfect information. In these cases, subgame perfection can be used. The eliminated Nash equilibrium described above is subgame imperfect because it is not a Nash equilibrium of the ...

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Solution concept, Solution concept - Rationalizability & Iterated Dominance, Solution concept - Nash equilibrium, Solution concept - Backward induction, Solution concept - Subgame perfect Nash equilibrium, Solution concept - Perfect Bayesian equilibrium, Solution concept - Forward induction

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Although similar, complete and perfect information are not identical. Complete information refers to a state of knowledge about the structure of the game, while not necessarily having knowledge inside the game. So for example, one may have complete information in the context of a Prisoner's Dilemma, but nonetheless this is a game of imperfect information since one does not know the action of the other player. Examples of incomplete but perfect information are more difficult. Suppose you are playing a game of chess against an opponent ...

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Complete information, Complete information - Complete vs. perfect information, Complete information - Certain information

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Semiconductors with predictable, reliable electronic properties are necessary for mass production. The level of chemical purity needed is extremely high because the presence of impurities even in very small proportions can have large effects on the properties of the material. A high degree of crystalline perfection is also required, since faults in crystal structure (such as dislocations, twins, and stacking faults) interfere with the semiconducting properties of the material. Crystalline faults are a major cause of defective semiconductor d ...

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Semiconductor, Semiconductor - Fundamental semiconductor physics, Semiconductor - Band structure of a semiconductor, Semiconductor - Doping of semiconductors, Semiconductor - Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, Semiconductor - N-type doping, Semiconductor - P-type doping, Semiconductor - Carrier concentrations, Semiconductor - P-N junctions, Semiconductor - Required purity and perfection of semiconductor materials, Semiconductor - Encompassing fields, Semiconductor - Sub-fields, Semiconductor - Concepts

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In what some see as the prudish United States, women strive to achieve a bodily perfection yet are often uncomfortable in situations requiring nudity, like the shower at the local gym. For Muslim women, not usually seen in public, the hammam is a social center where they feel no self-consciousness about their bodies and where they can catch up on each other's lives and socialize. Public baths do not exist per se in United States today, except in certain resorts and isolated locations. For example, Esalen on the Big Sur coast of Califo ...

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Public bathing, Public bathing - Public baths today, Public bathing - Bodily perfection and self-consciousness

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Kuririn, enraged by Cell's absorbing 18, launched an attack on Cell; Cell barely registered the hits until he "lightly" kicked Kuririn away, nearly killing him. Vegeta, unimpressed by the display, was eager to resume the battle, which Cell obliged. Cell merely toyed with Vegeta at the beginning, absorbing his attacks without any sign of damage; when he did strike back, the kick he delivered blew Vegeta away, smashing him into a rock formation. Vegeta then challenged Cell to take his next attack head on without dodging it and fired his ultima ...

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Cell Dragon Ball, Cell Dragon Ball - Imperfect Cell Saga, Cell Dragon Ball - Perfect Cell Saga, Cell Dragon Ball - Cell Games Saga, Cell Dragon Ball - Non-canon, Cell Dragon Ball - Anime filler and movies, Cell Dragon Ball - Dragon Ball GT, Cell Dragon Ball - Special abilities, Cell Dragon Ball - Notes

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Shilton was selected by Ramsey for the match, walking out behind captain Martin Peters to earn his 15th cap. Aside from one infamous incident, he spent pretty much all of the game watching the heroics of his opposite number Jan Tomaszewski as he kept chance after chance out of his net. Unfortunately, when the ball finally did get into the net, it was at Shilton's end, in the first moment which formed part of the whole definition of Shilton's career. Midway through the second half, Norman Hunter inexplicably trod on the ball near the touchline and Poland broke, with Grzeg ...

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Peter Shilton, Peter Shilton - Local Boy Made Good, Peter Shilton - England Calls, Peter Shilton - Poland & The Perfect Save, Peter Shilton - Stoke City, Peter Shilton - Cups with Clough, Peter Shilton - Spain & Southampton, Peter Shilton - The Hand Of God, Peter Shilton - Disaster at Euro 88, Peter Shilton - Derby County & Italia 90, Peter Shilton - Management, Peter Shilton - One Thousand Matches & Beyond

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A sender of type ,tj sends a message m * (tj) in the set of probability distributions over M (a mixed message!). (m(tj) represents the probabilities that type tj will take any of the messages in M.) The receiver observing the message m takes an action a * (m) in the spac ...

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Signaling games, Signaling games - Perfect Bayesian equilibrium, Signaling games - Definition of perfect Bayesian equilibrium of the signaling game, Signaling games - Requirement 1, Signaling games - Requirement 2, Signaling games - Requirement 3, Signaling games - Requirement 4, Signaling games - Applications of signaling games

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A convex cone is said to be flat if it contains some nonzero vector x and its opposite -x; and salient otherwise. A blunt convex cone is necessarily salient, but the converse is not necessarily true. A convex cone C is salient if and only if C(-C) is {0}; that is, iff C does not contain any non-trivial linear subspace of V. A perfect half-space of V is defined recursively as follows: if V is zero-dimensional, then it is the set {0}, else it is any open half-space H of V ...

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Convex cone, Convex cone - Definition, Convex cone - Convex cones are linear cones, Convex cone - Alternative definitions, Convex cone - Blunt and pointed cones, Convex cone - Half-spaces, Convex cone - Salient convex cones and perfect half-spaces, Convex cone - Cross-sections and projections of a convex set, Convex cone - Flat section, Convex cone - Spherical section, Convex cone - Partial order defined by a convex cone, Convex cone - Proper convex cone

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The number seven was apparently the Egyptian symbol of such ideas as perfection, effectiveness, and completeness. Numbers in Egyptian mythology - Examples of the number seven in Egyptian mythology. Seven thousand barrels of red beer were used to trick Sekhmet out of killing. [18] In her search for her husband’s pieces, the goddess Isis was guarded by seven scorpions. ...

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Numbers in Egyptian mythology, Numbers in Egyptian mythology - Three: symbol of plurality, Numbers in Egyptian mythology - Examples of the use of three in Egyptian mythology, Numbers in Egyptian mythology - Five: representation not listed, Numbers in Egyptian mythology - Examples of the number five in Egyptian mythology, Numbers in Egyptian mythology - Seven: symbol of perfection effectiveness completeness, Numbers in Egyptian mythology - Examples of the number seven in Egyptian mythology, Numbers in Egyptian mythology - Notes, Numbers in Egyptian mythology - General Sources

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