query: where did expression knock on wood come from

positive: Knocking on wood The origin of the custom may be in German folklore, wherein supernatural beings are thought to live in trees, and can be invoked for protection.[1][2]

negative: Cricket bat Before first being played, a bat should be "knocked in". Knocking a bat in compresses the surface wood fibres and allows it to be ready for use, as most brand-new bats will crack or badly dent if used in competition without being knocked-in. This is usually done after purchase, although some are sold ready-knocked.

negative: Knocking on wood Only the spoken party (a singular person) is to actually "knock on wood" at a time.

negative: Safety coffin Folk etymology has suggested that perhaps the phrases "saved by the bell", "dead ringer" and "graveyard shift" come from the use of safety coffins in the Victorian era; however, these have been dispelled as urban myth, attributed to a linguistic e-mail hoax Life in the 1500s.[4][5] The "saved by the bell" expression is actually well established to have come from boxing, where a boxer who is still on their feet but close to being knocked down can be saved from losing by the bell ringing to indicate the end of the round.[6]

negative: Cricket bat During the knocking-in process, a fingernail is pressed into the front face of the bat to check if the bat is properly knocked in. If an indentation is left on the bat during this process, it shows that the wood is still not fully compressed, and should be knocked in for longer.

negative: Bretton Woods Conference The Articles of Agreement for the IMF and IBRD signed at Bretton Woods did not come into force until ratified by countries with 80 at least percent of the capital subscriptions ("quotas"). The threshold was reached on December 27, 1945.

negative: Athabasca River The name Athabasca comes from the Woods Cree word aðapaskāw, which means "[where] there are plants one after another",[5] likely a reference to the spotty vegetation along the river.

negative:
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck Another proposed response comes from the parody-filled video game Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, where the protagonist asks a carpenter the question and gets the response:
"A woodchuck would chuck no amount of wood since a woodchuck can't chuck wood."[12]

negative: Wood Brothers Racing The Michigan victory supported a unique record for the Wood team. Every rookie driver who had ever driven for them for at least a full season had at least scored 1 victory in the No. 21 car. More impressive was that every driver to have driven for the Wood Brothers for a full season from 1953 to 2002 had won at least one race behind their wheel (although in one case, the win did not come in a points paying race).

negative: Knock, Knock, Ginger Knock, knock, ginger (also known as knock down ginger, ding dong ditch and numerous variants) is a prank or game dating back to 19th-century England, or possibly the earlier Cornish traditional holiday of Nickanan Night.[dubious â€“ discuss] The game is played by children in many cultures. It involves knocking on the front door (or ringing the doorbell) of a victim, then running away before the door can be answered.[1]

negative: Open the Door, Richard In the song, accompanied by a rhythm section and McVea's expressive tenor honking, the intoxicated, rowdy band members come home late at night, knowing Richard has the only key to the house. Knocking and repeated calls from McVea and the band members for Richard to open the door get no result. The musical refrain kicks in with the musicians singing in unison:

negative: The Polar Express Van Allsburg based the story on a mental image of a child wandering into the woods on a foggy night and wondering where a train was headed.[4]

negative: Talk:The Impression That I Get I think the postulations regarding the AIDS virus in this piece are, at this point, mostly speculative. More complete analysis of the idiomatic "knock on wood" and "but for the grace of God do I" phrases could point out valuable metaphors. I'm not against the plausibility of this song being about AIDS or STDS in general, but a paucity of sources may make that difficult to prove. There are some contradictions in the phrasing of this song that are interesting in their own right, from a linguistic point of view. There is some good information here, and I wouldn't delete a thing unless we can provide sources to that end. 184.7.175.199 (talk) 02:45, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

negative: Kilroy was here It is believed that James J. Kilroy was the origin of the expression, as he used the phrase when checking ships at the Fore River Shipyard in Massachusetts during WWII.[3]

negative: OK In the United States and much of Europe a related gesture is made by touching the index finger with the thumb (forming a rough circle) and raising of the remaining fingers.[58] It is not known whether the gesture is derived from the expression, or if the gesture appeared first. The gesture was popularized in America in 1836 as a symbol to support then Presidential candidate Martin Van Buren. This was because Van Buren's nickname, Old Kinderhook, derived from his hometown of Kinderhook, NY, had the initials O K.[58] Similar gestures have different meanings in other cultures, some offensive.[59][60]

negative: Annie (musical) Annie decides to escape to find her parents, but is caught by Miss Hannigan, who is currently suffering from a hangover. She is angered by this and forces all the girls to vigorously clean the orphanage ("Hard Knock Life") before their day of sweatshop labour sewing for a dress manufacturing company (from which Miss Hannigan pockets the proceeds). Shortly after, Mr. Bundles, the laundry man, comes in to pick up the blankets. While Miss Hannigan is flirting with him, Annie climbs into the laundry basket and the orphans cover her up with the blankets. Once Miss Hannigan realizes she is gone, the other orphans express their frustration ("Hard Knock Life (Reprise)").

negative: Stiff upper lip The ideal of the stiff upper lip is traced back to Ancient Greece – to the Spartans, whose cult of discipline and self-sacrifice inspired the English public school system; and to the Stoics. Stoic ideas were adopted by the Romans, particularly the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who wrote, "If you are distressed by any external thing, it is not this thing which disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."[5] The concept reached England in the 1590s, and featured in the plays of William Shakespeare; his tragic hero Hamlet says, "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so".[1] Poems that feature a memorable evocation of Victorian stoicism and a stiff upper lip include Rudyard Kipling's "If—" and W. E. Henley's "Invictus".[5] The phrase became symbolic of the British people, and particularly of those who were products of the English public school system during the Victorian era. Such schools were heavily influenced by stoicism, and aimed to instill a code of discipline and devotion to duty in their students through competitive sports, corporal punishments and cold showers.[5]

negative: Expressionism While the word expressionist was used in the modern sense as early as 1850, its origin is sometimes traced to paintings exhibited in 1901 in Paris by an obscure artist Julien–Auguste Hervé, which he called Expressionismes.[6] Though an alternate view is that the term was coined by the Czech art historian Antonin Matějček in 1910, as the opposite of impressionism: "An Expressionist wishes, above all, to express himself... (an Expressionist rejects) immediate perception and builds on more complex psychic structures... Impressions and mental images that pass through mental peoples soul as through a filter which rids them of all substantial accretions to produce their clear essence [...and] are assimilated and condense into more general forms, into types, which he transcribes through simple short-hand formulae and symbols."[7]

negative:
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negative: Old Oaken Bucket Although Samuel Woodworth was not from Indiana, the poem exemplifies the sentiment felt by the people of Indiana towards their home state. The poem was set to music in 1826 by G. F. Kiallmark (1804â€“1887)[2] and memorized or sung by generations of American schoolchildren; it made the poet's unpretentious childhood home in Scituate, Massachusetts the goal of sentimental tourists in the late 19th century.

negative: Last Post This custom dates from the 17th century or earlier. It originated with British troops stationed in the Netherlands, where it drew on an older Dutch custom, called taptoe, from which comes the term Tattoo as in Military tattoo. The taptoe was also used to signal the end of the day, but originated from a signal that beer taps had to be shut, hence that the day had ended. It comes from the Dutch phrase Doe den tap toe, meaning "Close the tap". The Dutch bugle call Taptoesignaal, now used for remembrance events, is not the same tune as the Last Post.

negative: Wood drying Where the wet weight is the weight of the original 'wet' sample and the dry weight being the weight of the sample after drying in an oven. Moisture contents being expressed as a percentage.

negative: Fuck A different false etymology, first made popular on the radio show Car Talk, states that the phrase "fuck you" comes from the phrase "pluck yew" and relates the origins of fuck to the myth surrounding the V sign. This myth states that French archers at the Battle of Agincourt insulted the English troops' ability to shoot their weapons by waving their fingers in a V shape; after the English secured an overwhelming victory, they returned the gesture. The addition of the phrase "fuck you" to the myth came when it was claimed that the English yelled that they could still "pluck yew" (yew wood being the preferred material for longbows at the time), a phrase that evolved into the modern "fuck you".[9]

negative: Log Kya Kahenge The name "Log Kya Kahenge" (What will People Think) stems from a common Indian yardstick and social stigma against women who may challenge social norms of marriage and other expected forms of behaviour, a "stress-inducing" expectation surrounding women and arranged marriages.[5][6][7][8] One author said "In our sheltered Indian middle class homes, for every woman there is an unconsciously used Indian yardstick called, 'log kya kahenge'."[9]

negative: Taps "Taps" originates from the Dutch taptoe, meaning "close the (beer) taps (and send the troops back to camp)".  An alternative explanation, however, is that it carried over from a term already in use before the American Civil War.  Three single, slow drum beats were struck after the sounding of the Tattoo or "Extinguish Lights".  This signal was known as the "Drum Taps", "The Taps", or simply as "Taps" in soldier's slang.[3][4]

negative: There's a sucker born every minute According to David W. Maurer, writing in The Big Con (1940),[7] there was a similar saying amongst con men: "There's a mark born every minute, and one to trim 'em and one to knock 'em." Here "trim" means to steal from, and "knock" means to persuade away from a scam. The meaning is that there is no shortage of new victims, nor of con men, nor of honest men.

negative: Slapstick The name "slapstick" originates from the Italian language word batacchio or bataccio — called the "slap stick" in English — a club-like object composed of two wooden slats used in commedia dell'arte. When struck, the batacchio produces a loud smacking noise, though little force transfers from the object to the person being struck. Actors may thus hit one another repeatedly with great audible effect while causing no damage and only very minor, if any, pain. Along with the inflatable bladder (of which the whoopee cushion is a modern variant), it was among the earliest special effects.

negative: Pineapple Express (film) Dale flees to Saul's apartment and learns that Ted is a dangerous drug lord and could trace the roach back to Saul. Dale and Saul flee into the nearby woods while Ted's henchmen persuade Red to arrange a meeting with Saul. They accidentally fall asleep in Dale's car and wake up to find that they missed their meeting with Red. They leave the woods and arrive at Red's house, hoping to determine whether Ted has linked them with the Pineapple Express. Red says Ted isn't after them, but Dale realizes that he's lying, and starts a fight that results in Red getting knocked out. They wake Red and question him until he reveals that Ted has discovered who they are and that he is going to kill them. Dale and Saul decide that they must leave the city.

negative: Mind your Ps and Qs Quinion cites an apparently related expression of pee and kew for "highest quality" used in 17th-century English.[7]

negative: Knockin' on Heaven's Door The title was used for the 12th episode of Angel Beats! and Bob Dylan along with the song was mentioned in the episode by T.K. and Hinata

negative: Knock on Wood (song) David Bowie released a live performance of the song as a single in the UK in 1974; the recording was taken from Bowie's live album David Live. (The B-side, "Panic in Detroit", was not on that album but was from the same concert. It was added to the 2005 release of the album.)

negative: Harper's Island On a bike ride in the woods, Trish and her father trip a swinging log booby trap that knocks them off their bikes. They start walking back towards the Candlewick Inn, toughing out their injuries. They come upon a figure in the woods and ask for help. In response, the figure sets a German Shepherd on them. They evade the dog and then kill it in a struggle, then escape and make their way back to the Candlewick Inn. The wedding rehearsal begins. At the altar, Henry stands with Trish and Mr. Wellington. Abby is asked to turn off the lights. As she does, a head spade inserted into the chandelier above Henry, Trish, and Thomas drops from the fixture and pierces Wellington's skull.

negative: Wot Cher! Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road The refrain describes the reaction of the neighbours to the news of the couple's good fortune. "Wot cher!" was a Cockney greeting â€“ a contraction of "What cheer" used as a greeting since the Middle Ages.[5] To "knock em" is an idiomatic phrase, to knock them on the head i.e. to stun them.


query: who has the most subscribers in faze clan

positive: FaZe Clan The FaZe Clan began its existence through YouTube in 2010. FaZe started as a clan that would perform trick shots in Call of Duty and post clips and montages on YouTube. As the members' personalities and audience preferences changed, so did the video content. The FaZe YouTubers—including FaZe Banks, FaZe Apex, FaZe Blaze, FaZe Rug, FaZe Adapt, FaZe Censor, and FaZe Rain—started to vlog and do creative skits to further develop their channels. Although the FaZe YouTubers are the more famous FaZe Clan members, they do not compete in any competitive gaming for FaZe. These YouTubers strictly make YouTube videos in order to extend the FaZe Clan brand and entertain their fans. Currently, each major FaZe member has over 1 million subscribers on YouTube, with some having between three and five million subscribers. The official FaZe Clan YouTube channel has 4.8 million subscribers,[4] while FaZe Rug has the most subscribers out of all the FaZe Members with 8 million subscribers.[5]

negative: FaZe Clan Within the last few years, the Call Of Duty community has been frustrated with the way FaZe Clan has been/not been involved in the game in which it was founded. As of August 2017, Spratt has left FaZe Clan.[6] Following this, Carl has also left to join 'Red Reserve.'[7] FaZe Apex notes that both Spratt and Carl were on good terms with the clan and that Spratt has considered leaving for 'a while now'.[8] Carl said the reason he left FaZe Clan is because he still wanted to make Call of Duty videos, as most other FaZe members changed their video topics and mostly do vlog videos. This sparked FaZe Clan to organize the highly successful "FaZe Bootcamp" at the release of Call of Duty: WWII. Trickshotters known as FaZe Kitty, FaZe Dirty, FaZe Bloo, FaZe GwidT and FaZe Replays were brought in to all contribute to a week dedicated to creating Call of Duty content.

negative: FaZe Clan FaZe Clan is an American eSports organization that competes in Call of Duty, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, FIFA and Fortnite Battle Royale tournaments. The team was founded as a gaming clan on YouTube by players known as FaZe Housecat (later renamed Timid), FaZe ClipZ, and FaZe Resistance[1] in the year 2010 who all created "trickshot" videos for the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. These types of montages are still produced by various members. In 2012, with the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the organization decided to expand into competitive play.

negative: FaZe Clan In 2016, a new era for FaZe began when the organization bought a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) professional team[2]. This moment marked the beginning of FaZe Clan expanding into various esports. This movement is referred to as "FaZe 2.0"[3] by FaZe members and fans alike. The FaZe CS:GO team went on to become the 2nd most successful roster for the 2017 season.

negative: FaZe Clan The announcement FaZe Clan expanding into Rainbow Six Siege was made on January 1, 2018.[187] The roster has participated in Six Invitationals in Montreal from February 13th, 2018 to February 18th, 2018.

negative: FaZe Clan FaZe Clan acquired an Overwatch roster on June 23th, 2016. After 1 year of acquiring the team, the organisation disbanded their team. The last remaining active member, FCTFCTN, left the roster on February 16th, 2018 marking the end of the FaZe Overwatch roster. No official announcements have been made about the situation but the community believes that the lack of events in the game was what made FaZe leave the Overwatch scene.

negative: FaZe Clan Bold denotes a CS:GO Major sponsored by Valve.[169]

negative: FaZe Clan On the March 3rd, 2018, FaZe announced the roster of their Fortnite Battle Royale team.[172]

negative: FaZe Clan The 2015 Call of Duty Championship marked the return of FaZe Red and FaZe Black. ACHES, SlasheR, Parasite, and Enable were transferred over from the main FaZe roster to FaZe Red. This time around, FaZe Red was much more successful, securing 3rd place at the 2015 North America Qualifier and at 2015 Call of Duty Championship. Following these placings, SlasheR and Enable were transferred back to the main roster, while ACHES and Parasite parted ways with the organization. FaZe Red had disbanded for good.

negative: FaZe Clan On January 24th 2018, FaZe Clan makes their way into FIFA after their signing the former Team Dignitas and Hashtag United F.C player Tass.[170] His first tournament under the organization was the FIFA eWorld Cup in Barcelona, from January 26th 2018.

negative: FaZe Clan On April 5th, 2014, FaZe Clan announced their acquisition of an additional roster, dividing the two teams into FaZe Red and FaZe Black. Replays, Classic, and JKap were transferred from the main roster, and Theory joined them. This roster found mediocre results, placing 9-12th at UGC Niagara 2014, 5-8th at the eight team MLG X Games Invitational 2014, and 9-11th at MLG Anaheim 2014. FaZe Red had yet to outplace their FaZe Black counter-part at any event they both attended, and the FaZe organization dropped the FaZe Red roster, leaving only their FaZe Black roster.

negative: FaZe Clan The FaZe Clan qualified for the 2016 Call of Duty World League Championship - the biggest tournament ever played at that time. FaZe performed excellently in pool play, not dropping a single map going into the winners bracket. Their performances continued in bracket play, defeating Team Infused 3-0 in the first round. The team had high expectations going into Day 3, however they were sent into the losers bracket, again by eventual winners Team EnVyUs. FaZe came up against Millenium, and won the series 3-1, to set up a match against Splyce once more. The match went to an intense Game 5 Search and Destroy, which FaZe lost 6-2. FaZe finished the championship event in 7th-8th, netting them $50,000 in prize money.

negative: FaZe Clan After aizy's departure to North, FaZe were able to strengthen their team even more by buying out one of the biggest stars in CS:GO—Nikola "NiKo" Kovač from mousesports. The implementation of the Bosnian star proved to be successful, as FaZe were able to reach the finals of IEM Katowice 2017[145] and win the StarSeries Season 3 finals.[146]

negative: FaZe Clan After the major captain Mikail "Maikelele" Bill was replaced by Fabien "kioShiMa" Fiey.[143]

negative: FaZe Clan The announcement of FaZe buying Gorilla Core's PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) team was made on November 11th, 2017.[184]

negative: FaZe Clan After Maikelele stepped down FaZe started to search for a replacement and only three days before DreamHack Masters MalmÃ¶ FaZe acquired the French player Fabien "kioShiMa" Fiey from Team EnVyUs.[143]

negative: FaZe Clan Despite having a consistent streak of top placings following StarSeries at IEM Sydney,[147] ECS Season 3 Finals[148] and ESL One: Cologne 2017,[149] FaZe bombed out of 2017's 2nd Major, PGL Major Kraków 2017, in 15th-16th place without winning a single game.[150] Following the team's stunning elimination at the Major, the team bought out the contract of Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács from Natus Vincere to replace Aleksi "allu" Jalli as their new AWPer.[151] Also following the major, kioShiMa was replaced by the 2015 world number one, Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer.[152]

negative: FaZe Clan With the 2015 Call of Duty Championship around the corner, FaZe Clan decided it was time once again to split into two teams. The new FaZe Black roster would feature Censor, Apathy, ProoFy, and StuDyy. They would easily pass through the online qualifiers to find themselves at the Call of Duty Championship NA Regional Finals 2015, where they would place 7-8th after forfeiting their final match. FaZe Black would start off with a strong performance at the Call of Duty Championship 2015 finishing 3-0 in Group G, but they would end up under-performing in Winner's bracket losing 2-3 and 2-3 in Loser's Bracket, finishing with a disappointing 13-16th placement. FaZe Black would disband again, leaving only FaZe Red for the second time

negative: FaZe Clan With the rosters finally settled, the teams began practicing for UGC Niagara. Unfortunately, Saints wasn't attending the event, so FaZe Black was forced to find a replacement: Saint. FaZe Red ended 5-6th and FaZe Black 9-12th.

negative: List of most-subscribed YouTube channels This article lists the fifty most-subscribed channels on the video platform YouTube.[2] The ability to "subscribe" to a user's channel was added to YouTube by late October 2005,[3] and the "most subscribed" list on YouTube began as a chart by May 2006, at which time Smosh was number one with fewer than three thousand subscribers.[4] Since December 22, 2013, the most subscribed user has been PewDiePie, whose channel has over 63 million subscribers as of June 2018

negative: FaZe Clan As Advanced Warfare continued to move along, a deal was struck upon between FaZe and Denial Esports. FaZe reportedly found that Huke and Slasher were unsettled at FaZe and were seeking other teams. As a result, the organization and key members, ZooMaa and Enable, traded Huke and Slasher for Denial COD Champions James "Clayster" Eubanks and Dillon "Attach" Price.[135] The deal established FaZe as a top three team, and the new squad made strong showings in the Pro League, as well as multiple LAN wins, their first of which being the UMG Dallas 2015 event, where they beat OpTic 3-0.[136] Soon after, the squad traveled to Europe to try and win the Gfinity Summer Championship 2015. FaZe ran through the tournament with ease and were pitted, once again, against OpTic gaming in the finals. OpTic picked up a 3-0 lead in the best of seven; however, FaZe completed the near impossible yet again and made the 4-3 comeback to win the LAN event.[136][137] Doubts resurfaced about the FaZe team after a poor showing at UMG Washington DC 2015, but they didn't continue for long after they won MLG Pro League CoD AW Season 3 Playoffs.[138] At the MLG World Finals 2015, FaZe would finish pool play with a 4-0 record, placing them against Elevate, who they lost to 4-1, sending FaZe down to the losers bracket. Where they won the matches 3-2 and 3-1 respectively. FaZe then played against Denial eSports, where they would fall 3-1, placing 5th-6th at the event.

negative: FaZe Clan FaZe Black was initially formed after the Call of Duty Championship 2014 after ProoFy was given his own team after leaving the main FaZe roster. ProoFy was to be the captain of the team and he picked up Saints, FormaL and Censor to make up the remainder of the team. They were called a 'God Squad' and were predicted to be a team that would be able to take down compLexity. However, after MBoZe left the OpTic Gaming team, ProoFy left FaZe Black to join OpTic Gaming. As a result, Censor became captain of the team and picked up Dedo, who had teamed with Censor and Saints under Strictly Business. The team's first event was UGC Niagara 2014 where they finished in 5th place, taking home $1,000. Sadly, Saints wasn't able to make it to the event, using Saint as a substitute. Going into one of the biggest events of the year, MLG X Games Invitational 2014, the team failed to accumulate enough pro points and they were not one of the eight teams to attend the event. After finishing Season 2 of the MLG Pro League in 4th place, they earned themselves the #4 going into MLG Anaheim 2014. At the event, they took advanced to play in the Winner's Bracket semi-final. They lost the match 3-0 and fell to the Loser's Bracket. There, they were eliminated from the tournament after falling to a 3-2 loss. Following the event, the FaZe Black became the only roster for the FaZe Clan organization after the entire FaZe Red roster was dropped.

negative: FaZe Clan With the launch of Ghosts they decided to replace Slacked with Classic, hoping to have a strong showing in the MLG Fall Championship 2013, but came 24th in the event. Following this result, the team decided to remove SpaceLy and Huhdle for JKap and Methodz. This swap was followed by a respectable showing in UMG Philadelphia 2014, where they placed 7th. However, when Call of Duty Championship 2014 was announced and revealed that all players had to be over 18 years old, they had no choice but to drop Methodz. FaZe picked up NameLeSs, but dropped him for ProoFy shortly after.

negative: FaZe Clan A month later, FaZe attended CWL Dallas 2017, labelled as favourites to win. They performed to this expectation, facing off against OpTic Gaming in the Winners Final. But OpTic defeated FaZe with a 3-0 blowout. FaZe once again met eUnited, this time in the Loserâ€™s Final, where they lost 3-1 to take home 3rd place.

negative: FaZe Clan On February 9th, 2016, FaZe Clan added Robert "RobbaN" DahlstrÃ¶m as a coach. Formerly, he was widely regard as one of the best in Counter-Strike, where he and his team placed highly in many events. With more experience on FaZe's side, the first tournament that was to be attended with this new coach would be the Intel Extreme Masters X - World Championship, which gave the team a month of preparation.

negative: ELEAGUE Astralis defeated Fnatic and Cloud9 to reach the finals and FaZe Clan defeated Team EnVyUs and North on its path to the finals. Astralis kept its same lineup as it had when it won the ELEAGUE Major 2017 while FaZe Clan brought in its new superteam and had not lost a map on LAN since losing to Gambit Esports at DreamHack Masters MalmÃ¶ 2017.[19] FaZe Clan defeated Astralis 2-0 after a huge comeback from 12-3 on the first map and dominated the second map to take home the fourth rendition of ELEAGUE.

negative: ELEAGUE The top eight teams in this major were Natus Vincere, Virtus.pro, Astralis, and North, FaZe Clan, Fnatic, SK Gaming, and Gambit Gaming, who were called Legends by making the top eight.

negative: FaZe Clan At DreamHack Masters MalmÃ¶ they would start in Group D with teams Virtus.pro, Tempo Storm, and Team EnVyUs. FaZe would play their first match against Virtus.pro. FaZe lost the first match 16-8 on Train and were heading to a match with Team EnVyUs. The match was very close on Cache and FaZe managed to win the first half 9-6, but in the second half FaZe started to struggle and Team EnVyUs managed to win the match 12-16, marking an earning of $2,000 as well as another group stage exit for the team.[144]

negative: FaZe Clan FaZe kept their roster and were invited to Totino's Invitational. FaZe lost 2-0 in the first round, eliminating them from the tournament with a 5th-8th finish. Unfortunately, this set a precedent for the rest of Black Ops 3 for FaZe. Next, they were invited to the Invitational CWL Stage 1 Qualifier. FaZe won both their matches against Happy Hour and compLexity Gaming, granting them a spot in the upcoming CWL Stage 1 NA Online League.

negative: FaZe Clan FaZe Clan first came into the scene with the acquisition of the roster of G2 Esports (Mikail "Maikelele" Bill, HÃ¥vard "rain" Nygaard, Ricardo "fox" Pacheco, Joakim "jkaem" Myrbostad, Philip "aizy" Aistrup).[139] The team's first tournament under FaZe would be at DreamHack Leipzig 2016, where they would start in Group A up against Luminosity Gaming in a best-of-one. Their first match of the tournament would go well for the Europeans, with a 16-9 victory. The next match for the team would be against Natus Vincere, who were the favorites of Group A. This match-up would not go as well for FaZe, as the team would be completely shut out and would end the match 9-16. After losing their previous match, the deciding factor between moving on and going home would lie within a rematch with Luminosity Gaming, this time in a best-of-three- The first map would go poorly for FaZe, bombing out 7-16 and 5-16. This would mark a 5-6th group stage finish and an earning of $3,000.[140]

negative: FaZe Clan The first match of Group B would be against E-Frag.net Esports Club, whom they took down 16-5 in a best-of-one. The next match for FaZe would be against Tempo Storm. This match-up would prove to be quite a struggle, where the match would be taken into overtime after a 10-5 deficit for FaZe. However, the Norwegian duo would help pull in the win for FaZe, ending the match with a score of 19-16. The next match-up would mark the third match of the day for and they would be going against Team EnVyUs, which were in a slump at the time. Despite this, FaZe would be taken down by the opposing French side 12-16, which would be their first loss in the group. The next match would be against Astralis. FaZe would continue their losing spree here as well, being easily taken down by Astralis, ending the battle 5-1. The final match-up of the group would decide whether FaZe Clan or Virtus.pro, who like were also considered to be in a slump at the time, would be going home. The final match would prove to be a close game, with the first half ending 8-7. However, FaZe continued to slip and would lose the match 13-16, marking an earning of $7,000 as well as another group stage exit for the team.[141]

negative: PewDiePie PewDiePie's subscriber count surpassed that of the leading channel, Smosh, on 15 August 2013.[55] On becoming the most subscribed YouTube user, PewDiePie commented, "When I started my YouTube channel in 2010, I never imagined that one day it would be the most subscribed channel in the world and that I would be a part of such a great community."[56] After becoming the most subscribed user, Ben Donovan of Maker Studios stated that PewDiePie "is a great example of how a YouTube content creator can amass a worldwide following due to passion and creativity, and his large subscriber base showcases the loyalty and strong connection he has to his 'bros'."[57] On 1 November, PewDiePie became the first channel to reach 15 million subscribers;[58] the following day, the channel was surpassed by YouTube's Spotlight account at the top of the site's subscriber rankings.[59] In the same month, PewDiePie proclaimed his dislike of YouTube's new comment system.[60] In December, PewDiePie overtook the YouTube Spotlight channel to once again become the most subscribed user on YouTube.[61][62]

negative: List of most subscribed users on YouTube This list of most subscribed users on YouTube contains the top 50 channels with the most subscribers on the video platform YouTube.[1] The ability to "subscribe" to a user's channel was added to YouTube by late October 2005,[2] and the "most subscribed" list on YouTube began as a chart by May 2006, at which time Smosh was number one with fewer than 3,000 subscribers.[3] Since December 22, 2013, the most subscribed user has been PewDiePie.


query: where do peaches come from in the us

positive: Peach The U.S. state of Georgia is known as the "Peach State" due to its significant production of peaches as early as 1571,[42] with exports to other states occurring around 1858.[43] In 2014, Georgia was third in US peach production behind California and South Carolina.[42]

negative: Mechanised agriculture There has been an ongoing transition to mechanical harvesting of cling peaches (mostly used in canning) where the cost of labor is 70 percent of a grower's direct costs. In 2016, 12 percent of the cling peach tonnage from Yuba County and Sutter County in California will be mechanically harvested.[19] Fresh peaches destined for direct consumer sales must still be hand-picked.

negative: Peach The peach tree can be grown in an espalier shape. The Baldassari palmette is a palmette design created around 1950 used primarily for training peaches. In walled gardens constructed from stone or brick, which absorb and retain solar heat and then slowly release it, raising the temperature against the wall, peaches can be grown as espaliers against south-facing walls as far north as southeast Great Britain and southern Ireland.

negative: Peach The number of flowers on a peach tree are typically thinned out, because if the full number of peaches mature on a branch, they are undersized and lacking in flavor. Fruits are thinned midway in the season by commercial growers. Fresh peaches are easily bruised, and do not store well. They are most flavorful when they ripen on the tree and are eaten the day of harvest.[35]

negative: Peach In Korea, peaches have been cultivated from ancient times. According to Samguk Sagi, peach trees were planted during the Three Kingdoms of Korea period, and Sallim gyeongje also mentions cultivation skills of peach trees. The peach is seen as the fruit of happiness, riches, honours and longevity. The rare peach with double seeds is seen as a favorable omen of a mild winter. It is one of the ten immortal plants and animals, so peaches appear in many minhwa (folk paintings). Peaches and peach trees are believed to chase away spirits, so peaches are not placed on tables for jesa (ancestor veneration), unlike other fruits.[48][49]

negative: Peach Peaches are climacteric[38][39][40] fruits and continue to ripen after being picked from the tree.[41]

negative: List of Mario franchise characters Toadsworth (キノじい, Kinojii) is an elderly Toad and Princess Peach's longtime steward, first appearing in Super Mario Sunshine, when he comes along with Princess Peach and Mario to Isle Delfino. He makes a brief appearance in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga at the beginning (where he presents Mario and Luigi with a suitcase) and end of the game. Paper Toadsworth accompanies Paper Princess Peach on her trip to Rogueport during Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, keeping Paper Peach very close to him, but ends up losing her. In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, he is with Mario and Luigi when Princess Peach takes an experimental trip back in time. He is also included in Super Princess Peach where he gives Peach a parasol named Perry in the cinema and is seen as a lead guitarist of the band called Peach Hit Five in the music room. He also appeared in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, where he was inhaled by Bowser. In Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, Toadsworth appeared as the gang went on a vacation in Pi'illo Island.

negative: James and the Giant Peach (musical) The next morning, Spiker and Sponge take James back out to the garden to do more work. The three of them are surprised as they see a gigantic peach has grown on the tree. Spiker realizes that she and Sponge can use the peach to make money, and make deals with companies, allowing the peach to be used for lots of commercial use and media ("There's Money on That Tree"). James tells the aunts that he made the peach grow. They call him a liar and force him to sleep outside. James decides that he'd rather live on his own than with Spiker and Sponge ("Middle of a Moment").

negative: Princess Peach After Super Princess Peach in 2005, Nintendo used a new voice for Princess Peach. Although Mario Hoops 3-on-3 in 2006 still used Taylor's voice, Peach in Super Mario Strikers, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, and New Super Mario Bros. has a new voice, Nicole Mills. However, in Super Paper Mario, Peach is once again voiced by Leslie Swan. Peach has been voiced by Samantha Kelly since Mario Strikers Charged. In Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Peach is again voiced by Taylor, although much is from sound clips recycled from previous Mario games. Likewise, if a player selects Peach in Brawl using a Wii Remote or classic controller, Peach's taunt from Super Smash Bros. Melee (then voiced by Taylor) will sound over the Wii Remote's speaker if the volume is on.

negative: Peach Fossil endocarps with characteristics indistinguishable from those of modern peaches have been recovered from late Pliocene deposits in Kunming, dating to 2.6 million years ago. In the absence of evidence that the plants were in other ways identical to the modern peach, the name Prunus kunmingensis has been assigned to these fossils.[8]

negative: Great Migration (African American) The Great Migration had effects on music as well as other cultural subjects. Many Blues singers migrated from Delta-Mississippi to Chicago to escape racial discrimination. Muddy Waters and Chester Burnett are two of the most well-known Blues singers who migrated to Chicago. Great Delta-born pianist Eddie Boyd told Living Blues Magazine, "I thought of coming to Chicago where I could get away from some of that racism and where I would have an opportunity to, well, do something with my talent.... It wasn't peaches and cream [in Chicago], man, but it was a hell of a lot better than down there where I was born."[25]

negative: Peach Peaches and nectarines are the same species, even though they are regarded commercially as different fruits. In contrast to peaches, whose fruits present the characteristic fuzz on the skin, nectarines are characterized by the absence of fruit-skin trichomes (fuzz-less fruit); genetic studies suggest nectarines are produced due to a recessive allele, whereas peaches are produced from a dominant allele for fuzzy skin.[4]

negative: James and the Giant Peach When night comes, the aunts release James and send him to collect rubbish discarded by the crowd. James goes to take a closer look at the giant peach, but he discovers a tunnel, which leads to a secret room inside the peach's seed, inhabited by a rag-tag band of human-sized, talking invertebrates (an old green grasshopper, centipede, earthworm, spider, ladybug, and a silkworm), also transformed by the magic of the crocodile tongues given him earlier. These bugs then become James' companions in his adventure, and the companionship is prompted by a common hatred of the aunts. Upon James' arrival, the Centipede bites through the stem of the peach, whereupon it rolls down the hill early next morning, crushing and killing Spiker and Sponge on the way. Everyone inside the peach feels it rolling over the aunts and bursts out cheering. It rolls through villages, houses, and a famous chocolate factory before falling off the cliffs of Dover into the sea. James and the bugs emerge to find themselves floating in the sea but manage to sustain themselves on the delicious flesh of the peach. Hours later, near the Azores, the peach is surrounded by sharks. Using the Earthworm as bait, James and the others of the peach lure five hundred seagulls to the peach from the nearby islands, which they tie to the broken stem as a source of flight.

negative: Feist (singer) In 1999, Feist moved into a Queen West apartment above Come As You Are with a friend of a friend, Merrill Nisker, who then began to perform as electro-punk musician Peaches.[14][15] Feist worked the back of the stage at Peaches' shows, using a sock puppet and calling herself "Bitch Lap Lap".[16] The two also toured together in England from 2000â€“2001, staying with Justine Frischmann of Elastica and MIA[17] Feist appeared as a guest vocalist on The Teaches of Peaches. Feist appears in Peaches' video for the song "Lovertits", suggestively rubbing and licking a bike. Later, Feist covered this song with Gonzales (whom she met while touring with Peaches) on her album Open Season. In 2006, Feist contributed backup vocals on a track entitled "Give 'Er", which appeared on Peaches' album Impeach My Bush.

negative: Peach Peach blossoms are highly prized in Chinese culture. The ancient Chinese believed the peach to possess more vitality than any other tree because their blossoms appear before leaves sprout. When early rulers of China visited their territories, they were preceded by sorcerers armed with peach rods to protect them from spectral evils. On New Year's Eve, local magistrates would cut peach wood branches and place them over their doors to protect against evil influences.[44] Peachwood was also used for the earliest known door gods during the Han. Another author writes:

negative: Peachtree Road Race The Triple Peach is limited to 4,000 participants. Registration includes one low price for the Atlanta 10-Miler and the Thanksgiving Day Half Marathon. All participants receive a Triple Peach finisher's medal and Triple Peach finisher's T-shirt. The program also uses unique bibs that allow participants the opportunity to self-seed in the start corrals at both the Atlanta 10-Miler and the Thanksgiving Day Half Marathon. Upon finishing the Thanksgiving Day Half Marathon, Triple Peach participants meet at a special celebration area to be officially recognized and to fine-tune the program for the coming year.[17]

negative: Princess Peach In the Super Smash Bros. series, Peach first appears in Super Smash Bros. Melee, the second game of the series. She has the unique ability to float for seconds, much as she can in Super Mario Bros. 2, an advantage which is balanced by the fact that she is one of the lighter fighters and in Super Smash Bros. Brawl her killing ability has been decreased since Super Smash Bros. Melee and making kills in Brawl can prove to be quite difficult. However, Peach's float is one of the main elements of her game, as it allows her to combo players from above and dodge horizontal attacks. It serves as an amazing horizontal recovery. Her attacks include the Peach Bomber (where she leaps forward, twirls and rams her rear into her opponent which causes an explosion); her forward throw (a massive slap that kills players at higher percentages); her parasol; using Toad as a human shield; using golf clubs, tennis rackets, and frying pans as melee weapons; and pulling turnips from the ground. Her Final Smash in Brawl is unique in that it does not kill opponents outright. Instead, it puts them to sleep and spawns peaches across the battlefield that restore Peach's health. Additionally, in the Subspace Emissary story mode, Princess Peach is a very prominent character, being present throughout most of the storyline. Peach has returned in the recent installments released for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U.[4]

negative: Eat a Peach The other material on Eat a Peach comes from live recordings. Dowd later said, "When we recorded At Fillmore East, we ended up with almost a whole other album's worth of good material, and we used [two] tracks on Eat a Peach. Again, there was no overdubbing".[17] Dowd started the mixing process for Eat a Peach but had run overtime and was called to commitments with Crosby, Stills and Nash; longtime Allman friend and colleague Johnny Sandlin took over for the remaining mixes.[18] Sandlin later said of the mixing process, "As I mixed songs like "Blue Sky," I knew, of course, that I was listening to the last things that Duane ever played and there was just such a mix of beauty and sadness, knowing there's not going to be any more from him".[18] He was particularly proud of his mixing work on the album, but was angry because he did not receive credit, only a "special thanks."[18]

negative: Peach Cultivated peaches are divided into clingstones and freestones, depending on whether the flesh sticks to the stone or not; both can have either white or yellow flesh. Peaches with white flesh typically are very sweet with little acidity, while yellow-fleshed peaches typically have an acidic tang coupled with sweetness, though this also varies greatly. Both colors often have some red on their skin. Low-acid white-fleshed peaches are the most popular kinds in China, Japan, and neighbouring Asian countries, while Europeans and North Americans have historically favoured the acidic, yellow-fleshed cultivars.

negative: Peach It was in an orchard of flowering peach trees that Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei took an oath of brotherhood in the opening chapter of the classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Another peach forest, “The Peach Blossom Spring” by poet Tao Yuanming is the setting of the favourite Chinese fable and a metaphor of utopias. A peach tree growing on a precipice was where the Taoist master Zhang Daoling tested his disciples.[47]

negative: Peach Particular emphasis in this study is reserved to the analysis of the genetic diversity in peach germplasm and how it was shaped by human activities such as domestication and breeding. Major historical bottlenecks were individuated, one related to the putative original domestication that is supposed to have taken place in China about 4,000â€“5,000 years ago, the second is related to the western germplasm and is due to the early dissemination of the peach in Europe from China and to the more recent breeding activities in the United States and Europe. These bottlenecks highlighted the strong reduction of genetic diversity associated with domestication and breeding activities.[19]

negative: Peach In India, the peach first appeared by circa 3700 BP (1700 BC), during the Harappan period.[14]

negative: San Joaquin Valley By some estimates, federal restrictions on shallow well irrigation systems threaten the productivity of the San Joaquin Valley, which produces the majority of the 12.8% of the United States' agricultural production (as measured by dollar value) that comes from California.[9] Grapes—table, raisin, and to a lesser extent wine—are perhaps the valley's highest-profile product, but equally (if not more) important are cotton, nuts (especially almonds and pistachios), citrus, and vegetables. Though it has been called "The food basket of the World", the San Joaquin Valley has not been nationally recognized for the diversity of its produce. Walnuts, oranges, peaches, garlic, tangerines, tomatoes, kiwis, hay, alfalfa and numerous other crops have been harvested with great success. DeRuosi Nut, a large walnut processing plant in Escalon, has been in the valley since 1947.[citation needed] Certain places are identified quite strongly with a given crop: Stockton produces the majority of the domestic asparagus consumed in the United States, and Fresno is the largest producer of raisins.

negative: Peach The variety P. persica var. nucipersica (or var. nectarina), commonly called nectarine, has a smooth skin. It is on occasion referred to as a "shaved peach" or "fuzzless peach", due to its lack of fuzz or short hairs.

negative: Princess Peach In Japan, the Princess's name has always been Peach (ピーチ姫, Pīchi-Hime, Princess Peach) since her debut in the original Super Mario Bros. (1985), but she would go on to be renamed Toadstool in the English language manual. The English version of Yoshi's Safari (1993) marked the first usage of the name "Peach" in the Western world, although she would go back to being named "Toadstool" in Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (1994). In Super Mario 64 (1996), she uses both names in a letter addressed to Mario, with "Peach" being used for her signature. From Mario Kart 64 (1996) and onward, the name Peach was kept unchanged for the English version of games in the franchise.

negative: Peach It was by a peach tree that the protagonists of the Tale of Kieu fell in love. And in Vietnam, the blossoming peach flower is the signal of spring. Finally, peach bonsai trees are used as decoration during Vietnamese New Year (Tết) in northern Vietnam.

negative: Peach Climates with significant winter rainfall at temperatures below 16 °C (61 °F) are also unsuitable for peach cultivation as the rain promotes peach leaf curl, which is the most serious fungal disease for peaches. In practice, fungicides are extensively used for peach cultivation in such climates, with >1% of European peaches exceeding legal pesticide limits in 2013.[22]

negative: Peach In April 2010, an international consortium, the International Peach Genome Initiative (IPGI), that include researchers from the United States, Italy, Chile, Spain, and France announced they had sequenced the peach tree genome (doubled haploid Lovell). Recently, IPGI published the peach genome sequence and related analyses. The peach genome sequence is composed of 227 millions of nucleotides arranged in eight pseudomolecules representing the eight peach chromosomes (2n = 16). In addition, a total of 27,852 protein-coding genes and 28,689 protein-coding transcripts were predicted.

negative: Peach Most peach trees sold by nurseries are cultivars budded or grafted onto a suitable rootstock. Common rootstocks are 'Lovell Peach', 'Nemaguard Peach', Prunus besseyi, and 'Citation'.[34] This is done to improve predictability of the fruit quality.

negative: James and the Giant Peach A huge passenger jet flies past the giant peach and severs the silken strings connecting the seagulls to the peach, which is then impaled upon the tip of the Empire State Building. The people on the 86th floor at first believe the inhabitants of the giant peach to be monsters or extraterrestrials; but when James appears and explains his story, the people hail James and his friends as heroes. The remains of the giant peach are brought down to the streets, where it is consumed by the town's children, and its seed is established as a mansion in Central Park, where James lives, while his friends establish careers in the human world. In conclusion, James is said to have written the preceding story.

negative: Citrus production In the United States, most orange juice and grapefruit is produced in Florida, while citrus fruits for consumption as fresh fruit are mainly grown in California, Arizona, and Texas. Smaller markets for citrus growth in the United States originate in South Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and the gulf coastal states, including Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia, as well as North Carolina. Independent cultivars are found in Kentucky, Virginia, and even Missouri, Southern Illinois, and far Southern Kansas. The farther north the range, the more seasonal the cultivation.[2]  Florida produces approximately 100 million boxes annually (each box is 90 lbs).[3]

negative: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is a painting by French artist  Paul Gauguin. Gauguin inscribed the original French title in the upper left corner: D'où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous.  The inscription the artist wrote on his canvas has no question mark, no dash, and all words are capitalized. In the upper right corner he signed and dated the painting: P. Gauguin / 1897.[1] The painting was created in Tahiti, and is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, US.

negative: Cuisine of the United States The fruits of the region include the Vitis labrusca grapes used in grape juice made by companies such as Welch's, along with jelly, Kosher wine by companies like Mogen David and Manischewitz along with other wineries that make higher quality wines. Apples from New England include the traditional varieties Baldwin, Lady, Mother, Pomme Grise, Porter, Roxbury Russet, Wright, Sops of Wine, Hightop Sweet, Peck's Pleasant, Titus Pippin, Westfield-Seek-No-Further, and Duchess of Oldenburg. Beach plums a small native species with fruits the size of a pinball, are sought after in summer to make into a jam. Cranberries are another fruit indigenous to the region, often collected in autumn in huge flooded bogs. Thereafter they are juiced so they can be drunk fresh for breakfast, or dried and incorporated into salads.[52] Winter squashes like pumpkin and butternut squashes have been a staple for generations owing to their ability to keep for long periods over icy New England winters and being an excellent source of beta carotene; in summer, they are replaced with pattypan and zucchini, the latter brought to the region by immigrants from Southern Italy a century ago. Blueberries are a very common summertime treat owing to them being an important crop, and find their way into muffins, pies and pancakes. Typical favorite desserts are quite diverse, and encompass hasty pudding, blueberry pie, whoopie pies, Boston cream pie, pumpkin pie, Joe Frogger cookies, hand crafted ice cream, Hermit cookies, and most famous of all, the chocolate chip cookie, invented in Massachusetts in the 1930s.


query: what is creed with arms wide open about

positive: With Arms Wide Open Scott Stapp wrote the lyrics when he found out, with great surprise, that he was going to be a father.

negative: Nicene Creed What is known as the "Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed" or the "Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed"[18] received this name because of a belief that it was adopted at the Second Ecumenical Council held in Constantinople in 381 as a modification of the original Nicene Creed of 325. In that light, it also came to be very commonly known simply as the "Nicene Creed". It is the only authoritative ecumenical statement of the Christian faith accepted by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and the major Protestant denominations.[19][20] (The Apostles' and Athanasian creeds are not as widely accepted.)[21]

negative: Desmond Miles According to lead designer Steve Masters, Desmond's story ends in Assassins Creed III: "What we’re trying to do is bring some finality to Desmond’s story. To actually wrap up what you’ve opened and experienced with him." Creative director of the series, Jean Guesdon, said that Desmond is an important character in the Assassin's Creed series, and will be playing a large part in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.[29]

negative: Montford Point Marine Association Membership in the nonprofit organization is open to veterans and active members of all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces regardless of race, creed, or national origin. The MPMA also hosts the MPMA Ladies Auxiliary.  Membership in the Ladies Auxiliary is open to wives, daughters, sisters, and mothers of members or former members of the United States Armed Forces.

negative: Apostles' Creed The title Symbolum Apostolicum (Symbol or Creed of the Apostles) appears for the first time in a letter, probably written by Ambrose, from a Council in Milan to Pope Siricius in about ADÂ 390 "Let them give credit to the Creed of the Apostles, which the Roman Church has always kept and preserved undefiled".[4][5] But what existed at that time was not what is now known as the Apostles' Creed but a shorter statement of belief that, for instance, did not include the phrase "maker of heaven and earth", a phrase that may have been inserted only in the 7th century.[6]

negative: Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák) Dvořák was influenced not only by music he had heard, but by what he had seen, in America. He wrote that he would not have composed his American pieces as he had, if he had not seen America.[16] It has been said that Dvořák was inspired by the American "wide open spaces" such as prairies he may have seen on his trip to Iowa in the summer of 1893.[17] Notices about several performances of the symphony include the phrase "wide open spaces" about what inspired the symphony and/or about the feelings it conveys to listeners.[18]

negative: Apostles' Creed The first mention of the expression "Apostles' Creed" occurs in a letter of ADÂ 390 from a synod in Milan and may have been associated with the belief, widely accepted in the 4th century, that, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, each of the Twelve Apostles contributed an article of a creed.[2][3]

negative: Sabretooth (comics) After the events in "Evolution", Wolverine has been waiting for an unspecified length of time at Silver Fox's cabin in the Canadian wilderness. Sabretooth finally shows up and immediately attacks him. In the ensuing battle Wolverine cuts off Sabretooth's left arm with the Muramasa. Sabretooth, still in his animalistic state tries to re-attach his arm allowing his healing factor to kick in, but it does not work. Wolverine explains to a bewildered Creed that it is because the sword interrupts the healing factor and that he has to finally kill Sabretooth for what he's done. Managing to regain control and speak between grunts, Sabretooth tells him, "Do it". Wolverine then decapitates Sabretooth, finally putting an end to his long-time enemy. Logan then walks away, leaving both Creed's body and head in the snow to rot.[53]

negative: First Council of Nicaea The Council declared that the Son was true God, coeternal with the Father and begotten from His same substance, arguing that such a doctrine best codified the Scriptural presentation of the Son as well as traditional Christian belief about him handed down from the Apostles. This belief was expressed by the bishops in the Creed of Nicaea, which would form the basis of what has since been known as the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed.[51]

negative: Nicene Creed The Nicene Creed (Greek: Σύμβολον τῆς Νικαίας or, τῆς πίστεως, Latin: Symbolum Nicaenum) is a statement of belief widely used in Christian liturgy. It is called Nicene /ˈnaɪsiːn/ because it was originally adopted in the city of Nicaea (present day İznik, Turkey) by the First Council of Nicaea in 325.[1] In 381, it was amended at the First Council of Constantinople, and the amended form is referred to as the Nicene or the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed.

negative: First Council of Constantinople Traditionally, the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed has been associated with the Council of Constantinople (381). It is roughly equivalent to the Nicene Creed plus two additional articles: an article on the Holy Spirit—describing Him as "the Lord, the Giver of Life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, and Who spoke through the prophets"—and an article about the Church, baptism, and the resurrection of the dead. (For the full text of both creeds, see Comparison between Creed of 325 and Creed of 381.)

negative: History of baptism What is now generally called the Nicene Creed, longer than the text adopted by the First Council of Nicaea of 325, and known also as the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed because of its adoption in that form by the First Council of Constantinople in 381, was probably the baptismal creed then in use in Constantinople, the venue of the 381 Council.[36][pageÂ needed]

negative: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Black Flag was generally praised as superior to Assassin's Creed III,[67][71] with Game Informer's Joe Juba noting that Ubisoft responded to criticisms the previous game faced and rectified them.[63] CVG's Matt Gilman called the game "a return to form for the franchise,"[58] while Mikel Reparaz of Official Xbox Magazine stated that "After weathering the somewhat diminishing returns of Revelations and ACIII, Black Flag is exactly the shot in the arm Assassin's Creed needed."[69] Two days after its release, IGN ranked Black Flag as the 2nd best game in the Assassin's Creed series, only behind Assassin's Creed II.[74]

negative: Assassin's Creed Assassin's Creed: Lineage is a 36-minute film serving as a prequel to Assassin's Creed II.[77][78] The film, released in three parts on YouTube, promoted the game and is the first attempt for Ubisoft to make its first step in the film industry. It is about the story of Giovanni Auditore, Ezio's father, who investigates the mysterious assassination of Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforza and first learns about Rodrigo Borgia's conspiracy.

negative: Assassin's Creed Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade is the third Assassin's Creed book by Oliver Bowden and published by Penguin Books. The story is told by Niccolò Polo, father of Marco Polo, and is about the life of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. It was released on June 20, 2011.[90]

negative: Wide Open Spaces (song) "Wide Open Spaces" has been a constant on the Chicks' concert tours, and indeed was the only song from Wide Open Spaces still in the set list as of the 2006 Accidents & Accusations Tour. The New York Times said that in one such 2006 performance, in light of the still-ongoing Dixie Chicks political controversy, "songs like 'Wide Open Spaces' ..., about women leaving home and striking out on their own, sounded more than ever like mission statements."[21] Gibson also continues to perform it at her live performance outings.

negative: Assassin's Creed Odyssey IGN praised the "world building, environment and engaging gameplay" and summed up its 9.2/10 review with "Assassin's Creed Odyssey's open-world adventure through ancient Greece is a gorgeous thrill, and the best the series has ever been."[27] GamesRadar+ gave it 5 out of 5 stars, praising the characters, opening world and engrossing story, saying that it "perfects everything Origins did and enhances them in ways you never thought an Assassin's Creed game could. Odyssey has it all."[24]

negative: Nicene Creed The following table, which indicates by [square brackets] the portions of the 325 text that were omitted or moved in 381, and uses italics to indicate what phrases, absent in the 325 text, were added in 381, juxtaposes the earlier (AD 325) and later (AD 381) forms of this Creed in the English translation given in Philip Schaff's compilation The Creeds of Christendom (1877).[33]

negative: Assassin's Creed Asked about the future of the series in 2009, SÃ©bastien Puel from Ubisoft said that "we could do 35 of these [Assassin's Creed games]",[54] while Laurent Detoc from Ubisoft later said "we hope to reach Assassin's Creed 10".[55]

negative: Apollo Creed By the start of the second round, Drago pummels Creed with ease. Rocky again tries to stop the fight by throwing in the towel. Apollo tells Rocky not to stop the fight, giving Drago a chance to deliver a fatal blow (as Rocky drops the towel causing the fight to stop) to Apollo, who dies in Rocky's arms in the middle of the ring. Drago wins by technical knockout.

negative: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag The graphics were also widely acclaimed. The Edge staff stated that "From a graphical standpoint, Black Flag's world is built to amaze regardless of which console generation you're playing it on."[59] Reviewers praised the game's open world as "beautiful" and "gorgeous;"[58][64] Sliva called Black Flag "one of the best looking games of 2013."[66] The game's level of detail was also acclaimed,[60] with the open world's water, rain and sea, being cited as "amazing" to look at.[58][63]

negative: Nicene Creed The Nicene Creed of 325 explicitly affirms the co-essential divinity of the Son, applying to him the term "consubstantial". The 381 version speaks of the Holy Spirit as worshipped and glorified with the Father and the Son. The Athanasian Creed (not used in Eastern Christianity) describes in much greater detail the relationship between Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Apostles' Creed makes no explicit statements about the divinity of the Son and the Holy Spirit, but, in the view of many who use it, the doctrine is implicit in it.

negative: Mary, mother of Jesus The Virgin birth of Jesus was an almost universally held belief among Christians from the 2nd until the 19th century.[235] It is included in the two most widely used Christian creeds, which state that Jesus "was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary" (the Nicene Creed in what is now its familiar form)[236] and the Apostles' Creed. The Gospel of Matthew describes Mary as a virgin who fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah 7:14, mistranslating the Hebrew word alma ("young woman") in Isaiah 7:14 as "virgin", though.[citation needed] The authors of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke consider Jesus' conception not the result of intercourse and assert that Mary had "no relations with man" before Jesus' birth.[Mt 1:18] [Mt 1:25] [Lk 1:34] This alludes to the belief that Mary conceived Jesus through the action of God the Holy Spirit, and not through intercourse with Joseph or anyone else.[237]

negative: Battle of Agincourt It is open to debate whether these should all be counted as non-combatants; Rogers (for example) accepts that the French probably had about 10,000 men-at-arms, but explicitly includes one "gros valet" (an armed, armoured and mounted military servant) per French man-at-arms in his calculation of the odds.[87]

negative: Hold Me (Teddy Pendergrass & Whitney Houston song) The original arrangement of the song, titled as "In Your Arms", written by Linda Creed & Michael Masser, features on the Diana Ross 1982 album Silk Electric.[2]

negative: Assassin's Creed III: Liberation Assassin's Creed III: Liberation is a 2012 action-adventure video game developed and published by Ubisoft, initially as an exclusive title for PlayStation Vita. Sony announced the game at its press conference during the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012, few days after first leaks about the game presented in Game Informer.[10] It was released on October 30, 2012 alongside Assassin's Creed III, with which it can be linked.[11] The game was re-released as Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows via the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade and Steam,[8][12] respectively. It was later packed as part of "Assassin's Creed The Americas Collection" for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, along with Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

negative: Assassin's Creed: Revelations Assassin's Creed: Revelations was initially conceived as a Nintendo 3DS game called Assassin's Creed: Lost Legacy about Ezio traveling east to the Assassins' former city of Masyaf, where he would have discovered the origins of the Assassin Order.[16] It was first announced during Nintendo's E3 2010 press conference.[17] It was quietly cancelled and its main concept was developed into Assassin's Creed: Revelations.[18]

negative: Russian tea culture In pre-Revolutionary Russia there was a joke "что после чаю следует?" ('what follows after tea?') with the correct answer being "the resurrection of the dead" from the creed.[12] This is based on the word "чаю" (chayu), the homograph designating formerly "I expect" ("look for" in the creed) and the genitive case of the word "tea", still in use.

negative: Assassin's Creed III In February 2012, Ubisoft officially confirmed the existence of Assassin's Creed III, and its North American release date of October 30, 2012.[25] Guillemot described Assassin's Creed III as "the true next generation of both the Assassin's Creed brand and interactive entertainment/storytelling in general. We will push the title a lot because it's a fantastic product that the team has been working on for three years. What we have seen is just fabulous."[25][26] Guillemot went on to say the publisher's investing more heavily in the game than in any other title in the series.[26]

negative: Assassin's Creed Unity Marty Silva from IGN gave the game 7.8/10, praising the recreation of Paris and ambitious ideas presented in the multiplayer, but criticizing the unrefined stealth, weak story and lack of a strong lead character. He stated that "the true new-gen Assassin’s Creed game is a gorgeous, entertaining, and successful proof of concept for what lies ahead for the series, though it isn’t what I’d call revolutionary."[64]

negative: Carl Friedrich Gauss Apart from his correspondence, there are not many known details about Gauss' personal creed. Many biographers of Gauss disagree about his religious stance, with Bühler and others considering him a deist with very unorthodox views,[32][33][34] while Dunnington (though admitting that Gauss did not believe literally in all Christian dogmas and that it is unknown what he believed on most doctrinal and confessional questions) points out that he was, at least, a nominal Lutheran.[35]

negative: The Journalist and the Murderer Malcolm's thesis, and the most widely quoted passage from The Journalist and the Murderer, is its opening paragraph: "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible." She continues:[3]

negative: Equal opportunity There is agreement that the concept of equal opportunity lacks a precise definition.[3][109] While it generally describes "open and fair competition" with equal chances for achieving sought-after jobs or positions[5] as well as an absence of discrimination,[5][13][110] the concept is elusive with a "wide range of meanings".[41] It is hard to measure, and implementation poses problems[3] as well as disagreements about what to do.[19]


query: when does a dieback or population crash occur

positive: Overshoot (population) In population dynamics and population ecology, overshoot occurs when a population temporarily exceeds the long term carrying capacity of its environment. The environment usually has mechanisms in place to prevent overshoot. For example, plants are only able to regenerate and regrow a few times after being consumed before completely dying off. [1] The consequence of overshoot is called a collapse, a crash or a die-off in which there is a decline in population density. The entire sequence or trajectory undergone by the population and its environment together is often termed 'overshoot-and-collapse'.

negative: Introduction to evolution A population bottleneck occurs when the population of a species is reduced drastically over a short period of time due to external forces.[51] In a true population bottleneck, the reduction does not favor any combination of alleles; it is totally random chance which individuals survive. A bottleneck can reduce or eliminate genetic variation from a population. Further drift events after the bottleneck event can also reduce the population's genetic diversity. The lack of diversity created can make the population at risk to other selective pressures.[52]

negative: Ecological crisis In the absence of predators, animal species are bound by the resources they can find in their environment, but this does not necessarily control overpopulation. In fact, an abundant supply of resources can produce a population boom that ends up with more individuals than the environment can support. In this case, starvation, thirst, and sometimes violent competition for scarce resources may effect a sharp reduction in population, and in a very short lapse, a population crash. Lemmings, as well as other less popular species of rodents, are known to have such cycles of rapid population growth and subsequent decrease.

negative: Varroa destructor The model for the population dynamics is exponential growth when bee brood are available, and exponential decline when no brood is available. In 12 weeks, the number of mites in a western honey bee hive can multiply by (roughly) 12. High mite populations in the autumn can cause a crisis when drone rearing ceases and the mites switch to worker larvae, causing a quick population crash and often hive death.

negative: Demographic transition Some countries have sub-replacement fertility (that is, below 2.1-2.2 children per woman). Replacement fertility is typically 2.1-2.2 because this replaces the two parents and boys are born more often than girls (somewhat 1.05-1.1 to 1) and adds population to compensate for deaths (i.e. members of the population who die without full reproducing, for example, in the age of 30-35, giving a birth just to one baby) with approx. 0.1 additional. Many European and East Asian countries now have higher death rates than birth rates. Population aging and population decline may eventually occur, assuming that the fertility rate does not change and sustained mass immigration does not occur.

negative: Tesla Model S The first known fatal accident involving a Model S occurred when Autopilot was active in Williston, Florida on May 7, 2016. In June 2016, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened a formal investigation into the accident, working with the Florida Highway Patrol. According to the NHTSA, preliminary reports indicate the crash occurred when a tractor-trailer made a left turn in front of the Tesla at an intersection on a non-controlled access highway, and the car failed to apply the brakes.[175][176][177] The NHTSA's preliminary evaluation was opened to examine the design and performance of any automated driving systems in use at the time of the crash, which involves a population of an estimated 25,000 Model S cars.[178]

negative: Demographic transition The decline in death rate and birth rate that occurs during the demographic transition may transform the age structure. When the death rate declines during the second stage of the transition, the result is primarily an increase in the child population. The reason being that when the death rate is high (stage one), the infant mortality rate is very high, often above 200 deaths per 1000 children born. When the death rate falls or improves, this may include lower infant mortality rate and increased child survival. Over time, as individuals with increased survival rates age, there may also be an increase in the number of older children, teenagers, and young adults. This implies that there is an increase in the fertile population proportion which, with constant fertility rates, may lead to an increase in the number of children born. This will further increase the growth of the child population. The second stage of the demographic transition, therefore, implies a rise in child dependency and creates a youth bulge in the population structure.[24] As a population continues to move through the demographic transition into the third stage, fertility declines and the youth bulge prior to the decline ages out of child dependency into the working ages. This stage of the transition is often referred to as the golden age, and is typically when populations see the greatest advancements in living standards and economic development.[24] However, further declines in both mortality and fertility will eventually result in an aging population, and a rise in the aged dependency ratio. An increase of the aged dependency ratio often indicates that a population has reached below replacement levels of fertility, and as result does not have enough people in the working ages to support the economy, and the growing dependent population. [24]

negative: Population decline Statistical data, especially those comparing only two sets of figures, can be misleading and may require careful interpretation. For instance a nation's population could have been increasing, but a one-off event could have resulted in a short-term decline; or vice versa. Nations can acquire territory or lose territory, and groups of people can acquire or lose citizenship, e.g. stateless persons, indigenous people, and illegal immigrants or long-stay foreign residents. Political instability can make it difficult to conduct a census in certain regions. Further, a country's population could rise in summer and decline in winter as deaths increase in winter in cold regions; a long census interval could show a rise in population when the population has already tipped into decline.

negative: Midlife crisis When it does occur, a midlife crisis is not typically actually experienced during the midpoint of one's life, which for most developed human populations would be at the age of 35 to 40.

negative: Numerical control Many CNC tools also don't know anything about their working environment. Machines may have load sensing systems on spindle and axis drives, but some do not. They blindly follow the machining code provided and it is up to an operator to detect if a crash is either occurring or about to occur, and for the operator to manually abort the active process. Machines equipped with load sensors can stop axis or spindle movement in response to an overload condition, but this does not prevent a crash from occurring. It may only limit the damage resulting from the crash. Some crashes may not ever overload any axis or spindle drives.

negative: Phytophthora ramorum Phytophthora ramorum is the oomycete plant pathogen known to cause the disease sudden oak death (SOD). The disease kills oak and other species of trees and has had devastating effects on the oak populations in California and Oregon, as well as being present in Europe. Symptoms include bleeding cankers on the tree's trunk and dieback of the foliage, in many cases eventually leading to the death of the tree.

negative: Hemlock woolly adelgid One factor giving hope is that the adelgid does not seem able to survive prolonged or bitter cold.[18] Following the winter of 1999-2000, a considerable dieback of adelgids and subsequent regrowth of infested trees was observed across Connecticut. The same phenomenon was repeated after the prolonged winter of 2013-2014, in time to save numerous nearly succumbed forests.

negative: Wall Street Crash of 1929 The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 or the Great Crash, is the stock market crash that occurred in late October, 1929. It started on October 24 ("Black Thursday") and continued through October 29, 1929 ("Black Tuesday"), when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.

negative: Pattern hair loss Female androgenic alopecia has become a growing problem that, according to the American Academy of Dermatology, affects around 30Â million women in the United States. Although hair loss in females normally occurs after the age of 50 or even later when it does not follow events like pregnancy, chronic illness, crash diets, and stress among others, it is now occurring at earlier ages with reported cases in women as young as 15 or 16.[35]

negative: Rhododendron Major diseases include Phytophthora root rot, stem and twig fungal dieback; Ohio State University Extension provides information on maintaining health of rhododendrons.[48]

negative: Population decline A population decline (or depopulation) in humans is any great reduction in a human population such as long-term demographic trends, as in sub-replacement fertility, urban decay, white flight or rural flight, or due to violence, disease, or other catastrophes.[1]

negative: Political violence A youth bulge occurs when there is disproportionate percentage of a state population being between the ages of 15 and 24 years old. It occurs when infant mortality rates decrease and fertility rate increase. This youth bulge increases the working-age population; however, it does not translate to more jobs being available, which leads to severe unemployment. This will cause the young adult male population to "prolong dependency on parents, diminish self-esteem and fuel frustrations".[40] This leads the youth to "seek social and economic advancement by alternative, extralegal means", which means that the opportunity costs to join armed movements are low.[40]

negative: Population growth Most populations do not grow exponentially, rather they follow a logistic model. Once the population has reached its carrying capacity, it will stabilize and the exponential curve will level off towards the carrying capacity, which is usually when a population has depleted most its natural resources.[10]

negative: History of ballooning On 26 February 2013 the deadliest ballooning accident in history occurred when a hot air balloon exploded and crashed near Luxor, Egypt. The crash killed 19 of the 21 people on board.[58]

negative: Adaptation If a population cannot move or change sufficiently to preserve its long-term viability, then obviously, it will become extinct, at least in that locale. The species may or may not survive in other locales. Species extinction occurs when the death rate over the entire species exceeds the birth rate for a long enough period for the species to disappear. It was an observation of Van Valen that groups of species tend to have a characteristic and fairly regular rate of extinction.[74]

negative: Rate of evolution This implies that evolution can only occur when mutant mates cannot be avoided, as a result of a severe scarcity of potential mates. This is most likely to occur in small, isolated communities. These occur most commonly on small islands, in remote valleys, lakes, river systems, or caves,[14] or during the aftermath of a mass extinction.[13] Under these circumstances, not only is the choice of mates severely restricted but population bottlenecks, founder effects, genetic drift and inbreeding cause rapid, random changes in the isolated population's genetic composition.[14] Furthermore, hybridization with a related species trapped in the same isolate might introduce additional genetic changes. If an isolated population such as this survives its genetic upheavals, and subsequently expands into an unoccupied niche, or into a niche in which it has an advantage over its competitors, a new species, or subspecies, will have come in being. In geological terms this will be an abrupt event. A resumption of avoiding mutant mates will, thereafter, result, once again, in evolutionary stagnation.

negative:
Maximum sustainable yield Figure 3 shows how growth rate varies with population density.  For low densities (far from carrying capacity), there is little addition (or "recruitment") to the population, simply because there are few organisms to give birth.  At high densities, though, there is intense competition for resources, and growth rate is again low because the death rate is high.  In between these two extremes, the population growth rate rises to a maximum value (

N

M
S
Y

{\displaystyle N_{MSY}}

).   This maximum point represents the maximum number of individuals that can be added to a population by natural processes.  If more individuals than this are removed from the population, the population is at risk for decline to extinction.[15]  The maximum number that can be harvested in a sustainable manner, called the maximum sustainable yield, is given by this maximum point.

negative: Population decline A declining population (regardless of the cause) can also create a labor shortage, which can have a number of positive and negative effects. While some labor-intensive sectors of the economy may be hurt if the shortage is severe enough, others may adequately compensate by increased outsourcing or automation. Initially, the labor participation rates (which are low in many countries) can also be increased to temporarily reduce or delay the shortage. On the positive side, such a shortage increases the demand for labor, which can potentially result in a reduced unemployment rate as well as higher wages. Conversely, a high population means labor is in plentiful supply, which usually means wages will be lower. This is seen in countries like China and India.

negative: Aardwolf There are two distinct populations: one in Southern Africa, and another in East and Northeast Africa. The species does not occur in the intermediary miombo forests.

negative:
Maximum sustainable yield Where H represents the number of individuals being removed from the population – that is, the harvesting rate.  When H is constant, the population will be at equilibrium when the number of individuals being removed is equal to the population growth rate (figure 3).  The equilibrium population size under a particular harvesting regime can be found when the population is not growing – that is, when

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.  This occurs when the population growth rate is the same as the harvest rate:

negative:
Maximum sustainable yield An important feature of the MSY model is how harvested populations respond to environmental fluctuations or illegal offtake.  Consider a population at

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{\displaystyle N_{b}}

 harvested at a constant harvest level

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{\displaystyle H_{1}}

.  If the population falls (due to a bad winter or illegal harvest) this will ease density-dependent population regulation and increase yield, moving the population back to

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{\displaystyle N_{b}}

, a stable equilibrium.  In this case, a negative feedback loop creates stability.  The lower equilibrium point for the constant harvest level

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{\displaystyle H_{1}}

 is not stable however; a population crash or illegal harvesting will decrease population yield farther below the current harvest level, creating a positive feedback loop leading to extinction.  Harvesting at

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{\displaystyle N_{MSY}}

 is also potentially unstable.  A small decrease in the population can lead to a positive feedback loop and extinction if the harvesting regime (

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{\displaystyle H_{2}}

) is not reduced.  Thus, some consider harvesting at MSY to be unsafe on ecological and economic grounds.[15][16]  The MSY model itself can be modified to harvest a certain percentage of the population or with constant effort constraints rather than an actual number, thereby avoiding some of its instabilities.[15]

negative: Arctic fox The abundance of the Arctic fox tends to fluctuate in a cycle along with the population of lemmings and voles (a 3- to 4-year cycle).[15] The populations are especially vulnerable during the years when the prey population crashes, and uncontrolled trapping has almost eradicated two subpopulations.[12]

negative: Demographic transition In Stage 3 of the Demographic Transition Model (DTM), death rates are low and birth rates diminish, as a rule accordingly of enhanced economic conditions, an expansion in womenâ€™s status and education, and access to contraception. The decrease in birth rate fluctuates from nation to nation, as does the time span in which it is experienced.[14]Stage Three moves the population towards stability through a decline in the birth rate.[15] Several fertility factors contribute to this eventual decline, and are generally similar to those associated with sub-replacement fertility, although some are speculative:

negative: Fraxinus The European ash, Fraxinus excelsior, has been affected by the fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, causing ash dieback[18] in a large number of trees since the mid-1990s, particularly in eastern and northern Europe.[19][20] The disease has infected about 90% of Denmark's ash trees.[21] At the end of October 2012 in the UK the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) reported that ash dieback had been discovered in mature woodland in Suffolk; previous occurrences had been on young trees imported from Europe.[22] In 2016, the ash tree was reported as in danger of extinction in Europe.[23]

negative: Potassium deficiency (plants) In gooseberries, currants, and raspberries, dieback of shoots and branches is common and although the plant may produce many blossom buds in the early stages of deficiency, fruit yields turn out low and the fruits are of poor quality.

negative: Population decline A long-term population decline is typically caused by sub-replacement fertility, coupled with a net immigration rate that fails to compensate the excess of deaths over births.[11] A long-term decline is accompanied by population aging and creates an increase in the ratio of retirees to workers and children.[11] When a sub-replacement fertility rate remains constant, population decline accelerates over the long term,[11] however short term baby booms, healthcare improvements, among other factors created can cause flip-flops of trends. Population decline trends have seen long term reversals in places such as Russia, Germany, Ireland, and the UK, the latter two seeing declines as early as the 1970s, yet the UK now is growing more rapidly than any year since it first tipped into declines.[12] In spite of more recent declines, it is very uncommon for population to have dipped under the levels of the early post-world war 2 years. Bulgaria and Latvia are the only nations with a net population decline since 1950, and half of all nations worldwide have more than quadrupled their populations.[13] UAE's current population is over 120 times that of 1950, and Qatar's population has grown over 80 times the 1950s level.[13]

negative: Market segmentation Demographers, studying population change, disagree about precise dates for each generation.[57] Dating is normally achieved by identifying population peaks or troughs, which can occur at different times in each country. For example, in Australia the post-war population boom peaked in 1960,[58] while the peak occurred somewhat later in the USA and Europe,[59] with most estimates converging on 1964. Accordingly, Australian Boomers are normally defined as those born between 1945–1960; while American and European Boomers are normally defined as those born between 1945–64. Thus, the generational segments and their dates discussed here must be taken as approximations only.

negative: Union Pacific Railroad On November 15, 2012, the Midland train crash occurred, in which four United States military veterans were killed when their parade float was struck by a train in Midland, Texas.