WITH THEIR engagingly rainbow-coloured beaks, puffins are the star attraction on the Faroe Islands.
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Not booze, but rainbow-coloured potions spiked with noodles, curry-flavoured fruit juices, and soured milk.
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Now, Venmo is expanding its collection of brightly coloured debit cards with a special rainbow-coloured one.
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Uniqlo, known for its HeatTech fabric technology and rainbow coloured-basics, opened its 1,000th overseas store this fiscal year.
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These spectra resemble long rainbow-coloured strips (rendered in black and white on the plates' photographic emulsion) interspersed with numerous dark lines.
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TUCKED away in a corner of Brixton, in south London, a rainbow-coloured ATM dispenses cash, looking for all the world like any other.
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The house founded in 1953 by Angela's parents, Rosita and late Ottavio as a knitwear business, is famous for its rainbow coloured creations and its signature 'Fiammato' — flamed, zig-zag pattern.
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In 23, shortly after Flipkart announced a $21 billion round of funding, Mr Bezos donned Indian clothes in Bangalore, hopped aboard a rainbow-coloured truck and handed Mr Agarwal a $2 billion cheque.
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ONE YEAR ago this week, the Obama administration celebrated the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on same-sex marriage by festooning the White House in the rainbow-coloured lights of the gay pride flag.
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Professional players across Britain will help promote equality and diversity during the next two rounds of games as part of the Rainbow Laces campaign here including using rainbow-coloured captain's armbands and laces.
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ON THE 26th floor of an iconic glass skyscraper, nicknamed the "Trousers", in Beijing's main business district, half a dozen casually dressed 20-somethings gather in a rainbow-coloured lounge, chatting away on ergonomic chairs.
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In the Premier League, Arsenal was singled out as an example of a club who wholeheartedly supported the Rainbow Laces initiative, which calls on players and professional teams to wear rainbow-coloured laces during games.
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The brand famous for its rainbow coloured creations and its signature 'Fiammato' — flamed, zig-zag pattern — was founded as a knitwear business by couple Ottavio and Rosita Missoni in the small northern Italian town of Gallarate.
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The euphoria and emotion among the island's gay community was on display as newly-wed couples walked down a rainbow-coloured carpet in a nearby park, watched by families and friends as well as diplomats and reporters.
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TOKYO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Apart from the rainbow-coloured socks and pride flag flying next to the pitch it looked like any other rugby match, with players smashing into rucks, spinning passes wide and leaping at lineouts.
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MOMBASA, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was 73pm when an unusual rainbow-coloured boat, made of recycled plastic waste and discarded flip-flops gathered from beaches and roadsides, dropped anchor off the beach at Mtwapa, near Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa.
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OFF THE coast of Guyana, 160km beyond the ramshackle, rainbow-coloured roofs and the sea wall meant to protect the low-lying capital, past the mud flats and into the deep, churning Atlantic, a vast drilling vessel sits almost perfectly still.
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It is easy to while away a morning in front of her mural "El Mundo Mágico de los Mayas" (on previous page) which depicts Mexico's Mayan south-east, the syncretism of indigenous and Catholic faiths, flying serpents, rainbow-coloured quetzales, Blakean visions of heaven and hell, and the Virgin of Guadalupe, carried aloft by worshippers, with the face of a monkey.
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NMR structure of bovine β9-thymosin, the orthologue of human β10.; Rainbow coloured where the N-terminus = blue and the C-terminus = red.
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The medal was suspended by a ring through a suspension loop from a 38mm wide silk moiré rainbow coloured ribbon common to the Inter-Allied Victory Medals 1914–1918 of all of the First World War Allies.
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The campaign aimed at celebrating individual right to sexual freedom and identity. The march was filled with songs and slogans; the students also painted a zebra crossing in rainbow colours and wrapped trees with rainbow coloured threads.
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The citizens stop for a moment, and look towards the sky, which is cut off screen. As close-up shots of Amuro finish by the end of the bridge section of the song, the camera pans towards rainbow-coloured clouds, which makes the citizens become more gleeful. The final chorus has Amuro and the children dancing and singing at Pershing Square, surrounding by several lighting effects and rainbow-coloured clouds. Several scenes of the clouds start to float within the city, above and near skyscrapers, and the video ends with Amuro, the children, and the citizens smiling.
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Rainbow Beach is a coastal town in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, near Gympie, famed for its rainbow-coloured sand dunes, sand cliffs and pleasant beaches. The beach is located approximately north of Brisbane, east of Gympie and 700 metres west of Fraser Island on the Cooloola Coast.
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Mammals in the park include otters, polecats, and the feral goat, although the pine marten has not been seen for many years. Birds include raven, red-billed chough, peregrine, osprey, merlin and the red kite. The rainbow-coloured Snowdon beetle (Chrysolina cerealis) is only found in northern Snowdonia.
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Insetting a national animal, the saber-tooth zebra, the Azanian flag, and giving several countries new names. Throughout the geography of Azania he further explores the overlaps of exile and diaspora in the African and Jewish communities. A narrative with five characters, a national flower, crest and animal including the rainbow coloured balloon characters.
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Iridescence is the 'play' or 'fire' of rainbow-coloured light caused by very thin regular structures or layers beneath the surface of a gemstone. Similar to a thin film of oil on water, these layers interfere with the rays of reflected light, reinforcing some colours and cancelling others. Iridescence is seen at its best in precious opal.
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Phases are split into several parts, with each part ending with multiple rainbow-coloured beats. At the end of each phase is a boss. Either through getting a game over or beating the phase, players will then have their final scores tallied. When the beats collide with the paddle, they make a noise, contributing to the background music.
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Ian Appleyard, 'York City Rowing Club in victory at Henley Royal Regatta', York Press (28 June 2017). In 2016 the club became the first UK university boat club to introduce an LGBT policy, promoting it by adopting distinctive rainbow-coloured wellington boots.Callum McCulloch, 'York’s Boat Club have started a ‘rainbow wellies’ LGBT campaign', The York Tab (22 February 2016).
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In Russia Yulia Tsvetkova, an LG+ activist, as of 2020 is awaiting trial on charges of producing and disseminating child pornography - offences punishable with up to six years in jail, due to a series of colourful pictures published online, some showing two men or two women, holding babies or standing with young children, sometimes surrounded by rainbow-coloured love hearts.
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Rainbow Beach is in the Wide Bay–Burnett, east of Gympie. The town's name derives from the rainbow-coloured sand dunes surrounding the settlement. According to the legends of the Kabi people, the dunes were coloured when Yiningie, a spirit represented by a rainbow, plunged into the cliffs after doing battle with an evil tribesman.Hues of a rainbow , Sydney Morning Herald.
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The station was renovated and partially redecorated in the Réno-Métro program in 1999. Part of this work included a large new glassed-in entrance building by Béïque, Thuot, and Legault; a unique part of its design are rainbow-coloured masts over the door, an homage to Montreal's large gay and lesbian neighbourhood, the Village (Village gai), which the station serves. These were created by Jacques Thibault.
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The ribbon is the watered rainbow coloured ribbon common to most East India Company medals, with a pattern of red, white, yellow, white and blue. The recipient's name and regiment were engraved on the edge for the medal. While no official clasps were awarded, 'Marzenia 1842' and 'Tazeane 1842' were sometimes privately added to the ribbon of the Cabul medal. In addition, two erroneous strikings were made.
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Heartsong Bear debuted as a plush toy in 2006. Since then, she has made minor appearances in 2000's Care Bear media. Heartsong Bear loves music. Her talent is being able to turn any feeling or mix any sound into an appropriate song for any situation She has turquoise blue fur and her tummy symbol is a rainbow-coloured musical note surrounded by different coloured hearts.
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This story was first printed in Weird Tales (Jan 1947). Carnacki faces perhaps his most powerful adversary: a disturbing hog spirit of giant proportions which is trying to enter our world, manifesting as a series of horrifying nightmares. He is equipped with a new variant on the electric pentacle involving rainbow-coloured tubes. When connected to the head of the dreamer these tubes fluctuate in color and light intensity.
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In late 1997, the locomotive received new IGBT based converters, which were the first application of this technology in locomotives around the world. In early 1998, the traction control electronics was also replaced. The locomotive also received its final livery, with rainbow-coloured wave patterns on the sidewalls. After extensive trials and trial operation in BLS service on the Lötschberg Line in Switzerland, the locomotive returned to Hennigsdorf.
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The angel's curly hairstyle was inspired by Clapton's hairstyle at the time. Flames come up from the bottom of the guitar (the treble bout with the volume and tone controls) and the bass point has rainbow-coloured arcs. The pick guard contains a landscape with mountains and a red sun on the horizon, a "Dutch miniature" representing paradise. On the back, coloured concentric circles are surrounded by coloured waves.
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The well-known shape and meaning of the infinity symbol have made it a common typographic element of graphic design. For instance, the Métis flag, used by the Canadian Métis people since the early 19th century, is based around this symbol. A rainbow-coloured infinity symbol is also used by the neurodiversity movement. In modern commerce, corporate logos featuring this symbol have been used by, among others, the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
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A versatile player, Jepson played as a backcourt player for Karlshamn but later played primarily as a left winger. His energetic and uncompromising playing style made him highly popular among Kristianstad fans, and in 2016 he became the first player in the club's history to be honoured with a testimonial. In his last season at Kristianstad, Jepson chose to wear a rainbow-coloured captain's armband, a practice that was continued by successor Ólafur Guðmundsson.
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In Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot her focus is more on music than emotional harmony. She hears music in everything and can also "hear" unspoken feelings, which helps her smooth out tense situations. Her flower belly badge can turn into a harmonizing instrument, a keyboard, or even a shield. In her original UK and Australian toy incarnation, Harmony bear had violet fur with 3 rainbow coloured, linked musical notes as her symbol.
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Gameplay in the Coast area The game is set in the fictional Nijiiro (literally "rainbow-coloured") City, presumably located somewhere in Japan, with adjoining areas including Dream Hills (a residential area), Coast Amusement Center and Dragon Peak. Rather than opting for the semi-realistic approach of Crazy Taxi, the cars and people in the game are rendered in a super deformed style similar to the Choro Q video games (some of which were also developed by Tamsoft).
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In 1998, he was posthumously given the Felipa de Souza Award. A Buenos Aires Underground station was named after him in 2017; Santa Fe – Carlos Jáuregui station was opened by Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, chief of local government, and featured rainbow-coloured steps and a large mural. The Independent claimed it was the first station in the world to be named after a LGBT activist. Mabel Bellucci wrote (Pride – Carlos Jáuregui, a political biography), which was published in 2010.
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Following his injuries, Lonergan became an ambassador for Zaidee's Rainbow Foundation, an organisation raising awareness of organ donation. The Geelong senior side wore rainbow-coloured laces (the symbol of the foundation) in their boots during their match against the Brisbane Lions immediately following Lonergan's VFL match. Lonergan was in fact wearing rainbow laces during the match in which he was injured. He is the youngest son of Trish and Bernie (Stump) Longergan, who still live in Yarrawonga.
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Hopeful Heart Bear is a toy exclusive first introduced as a plush in 2005 during the early 2000s Care Bears franchise re-launch. Hopeful Heart Bear shows how important it is to have a positive outlook on life and never give up hope. She has light magenta fur and her tummy symbol is a heart with rainbow-coloured beams of light radiating out of it. In ‘‘Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a- lot’’, she has a short split ponytail.
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Kaur enjoys playing Saanvi in NBC’s Manifest, however, she is a great believer in true diversity and hopes to play a variety of characters with humanity and conviction, not just South Asian women roles, typecast as doctors or intellectuals; as in the short film, Worst Part, where she played a graphic designer with pink and rainbow coloured hair. Kaur is also enthusiastic about fashion, skincare and beauty and would otherwise have chosen that career path if she hadn't been an actor.
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In 1902 he became the head of the company, succeeding Kaji Satarō. Along with Hattori Tadasaburō, Kawade developed the ( "piling up") technique which places layers of enamel upon each other to create a three-dimensional effect, often used in depicting flowers or blossoms. Another technique he invented was (drip-glaze), which produces a rainbow-coloured glaze. In 1902, he was the first Japanese artist to use the () technique, in which the metal foundation is hammered outwards to create a relief effect.
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On 17 May 2016, the satellite dishes at GCHQ Bude Station were lit up in a display of rainbow colours. This was to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBiT). This display was a public act of unity and recognition of Pride GCHQ, and to assert the continued commitment by GCHQ to diversity and pride in its staff. It follows a similar rainbow coloured themed display in support of the 2015 IDAHOBiT at the GCHQ Cheltenham site a year earlier.
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She then performed "Lost Without You", complete with a laser show, and "All the Lovers". The section finished with the conclusion of this song, following the use of rainbow coloured lights and multiple confetti drops. The video screens then displayed the logo of the penultimate "Studio 54" section, with Minogue entering through the stage doors wearing a bespoke golden dress, featuring 120,000 Preciosa crystals. She performed a medley consisting of then- unreleased song "New York City", "Raining Glitter" and "On a Night Like This".
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They made their debut playing in Division 1 when it was the second tier of Swedish hockey. Following the 2002–03 season, the club voluntarily withdrew from the second-tier league Allsvenskan due to financial problems. They have competed in the third-level league Hockeyettan (formerly named Division 1) since the 2003–04 season. In June 2014, Kiruna IF announced that they would play the 2014–15 season with rainbow-coloured match jerseys to support the LGBT community, becoming the first LGBT-certified sports club in Sweden.
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Impressed by their work on the music video for Florence and the Machine's song "Dog Days Are Over", Alison asked the direction duo Legs to produce a script for the song "Alive". Legs decided to create a dark video featured in a demonic world because "Alive" is "so infectiously happy and bright." The video was inspired by heavy metal bands and the music video for Olivia Newton-John's song "Physical". A female vampire sucking the rainbow-coloured blood from one of the male black metal dancers The video was filmed over one day.
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After the chorus, Alison shoots white laser beams from her fingertips, summoning a group of female dancers to join the dancing group of goth men. As the video progresses, Alison uses further powers to make the female dancers, who are actually vampires, attack the dancing metalheads and consume their rainbow-coloured blood. Throughout this, Alison continues to sing and dance, urging the vampires to continue to perform the aerobics routine. The video ends with Alison drinking some of the blood, revealing a pair of vampire fangs and laying down in a neon coffin.
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The Citroën Hypnos is a concept mid-size luxury crossover produced by Citroën at the 2008 Paris Motor Show. It has a 5-door SUV body style and is powered by a diesel hybrid drivetrain with a rear axle-mounted electric motor. The car's most distinctive design feature is its interior, with rainbow-coloured, offset seats, and a system which analyzes the driver's face to gauge his state of mind and adjust the cabin lighting and scented air freshener fragrance in consequence."Citroën Takes Wraps off Hypnos Concept Car".
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The medal, designed by William Wyon, was silver and in diameter, with the following design: The obverse contains a laurel wreath with mural crown at the top of a shield with the inscription KELAT-I-GHILZIE. The reverse has a trophy of arms on top of a plaque bearing the inscription 'INVICTA MDCCCXLII'. The suspension consists of a straight steel suspender, attached to the medal by way of a steel clip and pin. The ribbon is the watered rainbow coloured ribbon common to most East India Company medals.
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Delhi's first Queer Pride March took place on 30 June 2008. In the beginning, only a small bunch of men and women arrived and police was also there, but by evening, there were about 500 people singing, dancing, shouting slogans, holding placards, screaming "377, quit India". The first ever parade was attended by 500 marchers, who carried rainbow coloured flags and "Queer Dilliwalla" banners marched to bhangra beats. The parade began from Barakhamba road in the heart of the city's business district and went on till Jantar Mantar, an 18th- century astronomical observatory.
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In 2005 the school was granted Special Science College status, entitling the establishment to government grants for new educational equipment, such as portable tablets with internet access. These are linked to data projectors so that presentations and research can be done online and easily in front of a class. In April 2009 it was also awarded Leadership College status. Both achievements have been commemorated with the construction of monuments: a rainbow coloured piece of modern art (created by a local artist), for the Science College status; and a large text embossed sun, for the Leadership status.
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Lang Lang playing together with five-year- old Li Muzi on a white grand piano Then followed the modern segment where pianist Lang Lang and five-year-old Li MuziLang delights the crowd with moving performance Chen Jie, China Daily Staff Writer. performed a melody from the Yellow River Cantata. Around the pianists a sea of rainbow-coloured luminescent performers swayed in wave-like unison to suggest the flow of the Yellow River. The illuminated performers, symbolizing modern-day China, then arranged themselves in the shape of the Dove of Peace, which wings were then set into motion as the performers moved about.
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Demantoid is the green variety of andradite garnet,C. Ghisoli, and F. Caucia, "A contribution to the study of FTIR spectra of opals" (abstract), Gems & Gemology (Spring 2011), Gemological Institute of America so demantoids are always primarily green (by definition), but the exact shade ranges from a very strong yellowish green to nearly the color of a fine emerald. Some stones have a brownish cast, which is due to iron. Its dispersion (0.057) is unusually high, and this is often visible as "fire" (rainbow-coloured flashes of light), although in some cases the stone's green body colour can render this effect less noticeable.
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Leak's novel Heart Cancer was published in 2005 and in 2008 ABC TV aired his six-part series Face Painting. Leak's editorial cartoons for The Australian were at the centre of several controversies. Works that received considerable media coverage include a 2006 cartoon drawn during the West Papuan refugee crisis, a series of cartoons in 2007 that featured Kevin Rudd as Tintin, a 2015 cartoon depicting starving Indian people attempting to eat solar panels and two cartoons in 2016, one an illustration of a neglectful Aboriginal father and another that depicted same-sex marriage campaigners wearing rainbow-coloured Nazi uniforms.
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A rainbow coloured pedestrian crossing in Poreč on the occasion of IDAHOT 2014. The former Croatian President, Ivo Josipović, has given strong support to full LGBT rights, along with several other popular celebrities and centre-left political parties such as the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP), the Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats (HNS), the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS), ORaH, and the Labour Party. After Josipović was elected, he met with LGBT associations several times. On 1 June 2012, he published a video message giving support to the 2012 Split Pride and the further expansion of LGBT rights.
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Lifeline Express coach Inside Lifeline Express Lifeline Express is a charitable organization that attempts to reduce blindness in China. Since 1997, the organization has operated rainbow-coloured hospital "Eye-Trains," which provide free cataract surgery to patients in rural parts of China. In addition, Lifeline Express promotes ophthalmological training for Chinese doctors, through constructing training centers and inviting foreign doctors to China as consultants, and builds solar hot water systems in remote parts of China. The development of Lifeline Express is supported by the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Railways and Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office.
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As the player travels, golden coloured "Spin Tokens" occasionally appear, which the player can collect. At the end of each run, these spin tokens are used in a slot machine (one token gives one spin) which can award the player various prizes, including coins, additional spin tokens, a head- start, a player revival, and explosives that can propel the player's body for an additional distance after death. If the player does not wish to spin the slot, they can cash in all remaining spin tokens for 50 coins each. Rainbow- coloured boxes with gears can also be found throughout the game.
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In the adjournment speech of the Western Australian Parliament, Dr Christine Sharpe quoted one of Elanta's poems and added, "Members can see that this was a remarkable and wise woman whom we will all miss greatly." About 250 friends and relatives celebrated her life at a funeral service in Kings Park, Western Australia where a rainbow coloured bracelet was given to everyone. Part of the blessing was; "Wear it constantly and use it as a catalyst for personal activism in your daily life. May you draw strength and inspiration from her outrageous courage, passion and love of the Earth and all her creatures, human and more than human".
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A sheep from Hangekai, who insists he is a dog. He has 3 forms: one where he acts quite human (he can talk and smoke) and the other where he acts like a dog (and only barks), the third form is as known as its original form where Ueki's rainbow coloured mop's pole plug-into the back of Wool and transform into a huge winged-sheep-like creature. But the original form can only be awaken by the recognized mop-holding master of Wool. While in its original form, Ueki can apply his "Grab" effect on Wool as Wool's indestructible wools can act like Ueki's mop.
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Cllr Nick Small, cabinet member for employment and skills, said: "We have made strides in recent years and are being seen as a more gay-friendly city than was the case a few years ago. We now need to look at how we can develop and promote the quarter." As a result of this report in 2011, numerous regeneration options for the Stanley Street quarter were under discussion and include new rainbow coloured paving, artworks, gateway features, street-tree planting, new outdoor seating and street furniture, and a new public square. A consultation on Feria Urbanism's draft report titled "Stanley Street: Strategic direction for a vital urban quarter (May 2011)" has taken place.
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Google marks LGBT pride through a rainbow curtain underneath search-bars retrieved June 16, 2012Google shows its support for Gay Pride Month with rainbow art for LGBT search terms retrieved June 19, 2017Gilbert Baker Google doodle celebrates LGBT-rights activists & creator of the iconic rainbow flag retrieved June 19, 2017 In 2017, Google also included rainbow coloured streets on Google Maps to display Gay Pride marches occurring across the world. retrieved June 26, 2017 At many colleges, which are not in session in June, LGBT pride is instead celebrated during April, which is dubbed "Gaypril". Pride month is not recognized internationally as pride celebrations take place in many other places at different times, including in the months of February, August, and September.
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Liverpool is home to the largest LGBT population in the UK. Official street signage for Stanley Street in Liverpool's Gay Quarter Liverpool is home to the largest LGBT population in the UK, with an estimated 94,000 LGBT people living in the city, equivalent to the LGBT population of San Francisco. Liverpool is also the first and only British city to officially recognise its gay quarter Stanley Street Quarter, installing street signs bearing the rainbow-coloured Pride flag to identify it in 2011 on Stanley Street, Cumberland Street, Temple Lane, Eberle Street and Temple Street. Liverpool Pride was established in 2010 and draws tens of thousands each year. The city's annual Homotopia festival is run by the only lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans combined arts organisation in northern England.
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For their performances, the members wore flamboyant superhero-like costumes, made by Bowie's first wife Angela Burnett, who he married on 20 March, and Visconti's then-girlfriend Liz Hartley. Bowie was Rainbowman (wearing a rainbow-coloured outfit), Ronson was Gangsterman (wearing a "sharp double-breasted suit"), Visconti was Hypeman (sporting a Superman-like outfit was a giant 'H' on the chest), and Cambridge was Cowboyman (wearing a "frilly" shirt and overlarge hat). Hype continued performing in the outlandish costumes for many months; after one performance on 11 March, Visconti's clothes were stolen and he had to return home wearing his Hypeman costume. Bowie halted Hype performances at the end of March so he could focus on recording and songwriting, as well as resolve managing disputes with his manager Kenneth Pitt.
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A number of IYL 2015 initiatives focussed especially on those affected by war and natural disasters: the Physics for All activity from the German Physical Society DPG brought the themes of IYL 2015 to newly arrived refugee communities within Germany, and the Nepalese IYL 2015 committee focussed mainly on activities and support for students and schools in areas impacted by the severe April 2015 earthquake. IYL 2015 also supported the other inclusion challenges faced by society. In Thailand, UNESCO Bangkok and many other partners cooperated to light the façade of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre with a rainbow-coloured display on 17 May 2015 to commemorate the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. In another initiative, iconic landmarks and buildings throughout the Ireland were lit orange to commemorate World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September 2015.
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The island, complete with living trees, was pulled by a tugboat. The Bruce High Quality Foundation responded to the event with their own performance, titled "The Gate: Not the Idea of the Thing but the Thing Itself", in which members of the collective pursued the Smithson island in a small skiff carrying a model of one of the orange gates by Christo and Jeanne-Claude that had been displayed in Central Park earlier that year. "Public Sculpture Tackle", an ongoing work begun in 2007 and documented on video, features one of the members of the collective, wearing "quasi-football gear", climbing, hurling himself against or hanging from various public sculptures in Manhattan. In the fall of 2007, when Ugo Rondinone displayed a rainbow-coloured sign saying "Hell Yes" on the New Museum, the Bruce High Quality Foundation suspended a similar sign saying "Heaven Forbid" from the building opposite.
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Rubik's Magic Rubik's Magic (solved) Rubik's Magic, like Rubik's Cube, is a mechanical puzzle invented by Ernő Rubik and first manufactured by Matchbox in the mid-1980s. The puzzle consists of eight black square tiles (changed to red squares with goldish rings in 1997) arranged in a 2 × 4 rectangle; diagonal grooves on the tiles hold wires that connect them, allowing them to be folded onto each other and unfolded again in two perpendicular directions (assuming that no other connections restrict the movement) in a manner similar to a Jacob's Ladder toy. The front side of the puzzle shows, in the initial state, three separate, rainbow-coloured rings; the back side consists of a scrambled picture of three interconnected rings. The goal of the game is to fold the puzzle into a heart-like shape and unscramble the picture on the back side, thus interconnecting the rings.
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Although the entire story was made on colour videotape, only the first episode was retained in this format. In fact, it is the earliest episode that survives in the series' original videotaped format, either in colour or black and white. The remaining six episodes were retained only as black-and-white film recordings and poor-quality domestic colour recordings made from a US transmission in the 1970s. This recording was severely affected by rainbow-coloured patterns of interference that at times overtook the entire picture. In May 2002, a restoration project for the story's VHS release combined the usable colour information from the domestic recordings with the black and white picture from the film prints, creating a high-quality colour picture. All told, over half of the serial's running time was presented in colour, including all of episodes 1 and 5, and sections from 2, 3, 6 and 7.
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On 3 February 2014, USOC sponsor AT&T; issued a statement in support of LGBT rights at the Games, becoming the first major Olympic advertiser to condemn the laws. Several major non-sponsors also made pro-LGBT statements to coincide with the opening of the Games; Google placed a quotation from the Olympic Charter and an Olympic-themed logo in the colours of the rainbow flag on its home page worldwide, while Channel 4 (who serves as the official British broadcaster of the Paralympics) adopted a rainbow-coloured logo and broadcast a "celebratory", pro-LGBT advert entitled "Gay Mountain" on 7 February 2014, alongside an interview with former rugby union player and anti-homophobia activist Ben Cohen. As part of its Dispatches series, Channel 4 had also broadcast a documentary during the week of the Opening Ceremony entitled Hunted, which documented the violence and abuse against LGBT people in Russia in the wake of the law.
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In May 2014, it was revealed that in accordance with the propaganda law, the computer game The Sims 4—a new installment in a life simulation game franchise published by Electronic Arts which has historically allowed characters to participate in same-sex relationships, and allowed players to give their characters a customised gender, had been given an "18+" rating, restricting its sale to adults only. In contrast, the pan-European ratings board PEGI has historically rated The Sims games as being suitable for those aged 12 and over. In December 2016, the video game FIFA 17 (which is also published by Electronic Arts) was targeted for an event that allowed users to obtain rainbow-coloured shoelaces for their virtual footballers, in support of a pro-LGBT advocacy campaign backed by the English Premier League. MP Irina Rodnina stated that relevant authorities needed to "verify the possibility of distributing this game on the territory of the Russian Federation".
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The Slow Mo Guys is heavily influenced by Mythbusters; in a typical episode, Free and Gruchy attempt to film some sort of natural or physical phenomenon in extreme slow motion: subjects of the filming are often some type of spectacular chemical or physical reaction, stress tests of certain objects under extreme conditions, while some episodes simply aim for an aesthetically pleasing result, usually by the use of rainbow-coloured paints. To emphasise the science angle, the pair wear lab coats; because the original lab coats Free ordered were too small, Gruchy's lab coat has traditionally had a torn off right sleeve. The episodes generally feature Free as the cinematographer and camera operator, and Gruchy, a former explosives expert from the British Army and Afghanistan vet, as the rigger and often also as the stuntman. Over the years, Gruchy suffered numerous injuries, such as a lacerated ear, a glass shard lodged in his finger, an oil burn and a fractured wrist; he jokingly noted that he has suffered more injuries during the filming of the show than during his tour in the Afghanistan war zone.
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The video ends with the music fading out and a closing slide wishing "GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE OUT IN SOCHI." It finally cuts to a station ident that features the Channel 4 logo, a super- imposed, revolving, rainbow-coloured prism and the caption: "BORN RISKY". Channel 4's Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Dan Brooke, has been quoted as saying: "This is a typically Channel 4 way of celebrating the start of the Winter Games and showing our support to all of the athletes out in Sochi, gay or straight." The video was scheduled to be broadcast by the channel for a week after its launch and ties in with Channel 4's temporary rebranding of its logo in the rainbow colours, in response to Russian legislation restricting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, introduced in 2013,LGBT rights in Russia as well as widely reported human rights abuses against members of the LGBT community, such as those investigated in Channel 4's own documentary "Hunted", which was first broadcast in the "Dispatches" series on Wednesday 5 February 2014, in the run up to the Sochi Winter Olympics.
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