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2002 FA Cup Final

The match is remembered for Chelsea fan Tim Lovejoy's famous quote "It's alright, it's only Ray Parlour", who seconds later put the ball in the top corner from 25 yards.

Another Body Murdered

#"Just Another Victim (T-Ray Dead and Stinking Mix)" – 4:35 — Helmet and House of Pain

Arizona Summer League

All teams are based in the Yuma, Arizona, area playing all games at Desert Sun Stadium (home of the Scorpions) and utilizing the Ray Kroc Complex which used to house the San Diego Padres and Yakult Swallows spring training operations.

Blu Mar Ten

Following these releases Blu Mar Ten were offered a long-term deal by LTJ Bukem's Good Looking Records, which was accepted.

BLU-116

The shape and size mean that the BLU-116 could be used by unmodified existing aircraft and bomb guidance units such as the GPS guided GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition and GBU-24 Paveway III laser-guided bomb.

Blue-backed fish

Beloniformes: the order of ray-finned fish that includes Adrianichthyidae (ricefish and medakas); Belonidae (needlefish); Exocoetidae (flyingfishes); Hemiramphidae (halfbeaks): and the Scomberesocidae (sauries).

Bulldog Edition

Newspaper Editors Ken Dwyer (Ray Walker) and Evans (Robert Warwick) compete for circulation, and the heart of star reporter / cartoonist Randy Burns (Evalyn Knapp).

Chaumont, New York

In 1750, Ray had bought the Chaumont castle (named from the Old French for "bald hill", and built in two periods around 1500), in the Loire Valley of France.

Critica Botanica

The terms genus and species acquired their specialized biological usage from Linnaeus's predecessors, in particular Ray and Tournefort.

Daniel Fish

In January 2011, Fish directed an adaptation of Nicholas Ray's film Bigger Than Life, entitled Tom Ryan Thinks He's James Mason Starring in a Movie By Nicholas Ray in which a Man's Illness Provides an Escape from the Pain, Pressure and Loneliness of Trying to be the Ultimate American Father, Only to Drive Him Further Into the More Thrilling Though Possibly Lonelier Roles of Addict and Misunderstood Visionary.

Danielle LeRay

Danielle Le Ray was also Head Coach of the Australian women's rhythmic gymnastics team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

David Webster

David L. Webster (1888–1976), American physicist in early X-ray theory

Distant Thunder

Ashani Sanket, Distant Thunder in English, a 1973 film by Indian director Satyajit Ray

DITTO

The company carries brands such as Ray-Ban, Persol, Chloé, TAG Heuer, and Vera Wang, as well as niche fashion and boutique brands like Jason Wu, Selima Optique, Alain Mikli, Anglo American, and John Varvatos.

Elise Ray

Ray attended Steven's Forest Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland and went on to train at Hill's Angels club in Maryland under Kelli Hill, coach of Olympic medalists Dominique Dawes and Courtney Kupets.

Ernst Neubach

1964 La Môme aux dollars ( Einer frißt den anderen ) La Vie en Rose to dollars (Einer frisst den anderen), Richard E. Cunha, Gustav Gavrin, Ray Nazarro and Albert Zugsmith (producer)

Errortype: Eleven

Errortype:11's eponymous debut on Some Records, the record label started by Walter Schreifels who played in many New York hardcore bands, most notably Youth Of Today and Gorilla Biscuits, the (post-hardcore band Quicksand and CIV), was recorded in seven days in Ray Martin's makeshift Operating Room.

Eye burns

There is physical trauma like UV exposure Photokeratitis, thermic trauma by means of infrared ray leading to infrared cataract and more severe alteration of the eye by heat deriving from hot steam liquid metals.

Gary Basaraba

He appeared as Sergeant Richard Santoro on Steven Bochco's Brooklyn South and Officer Ray Heckler on the critically acclaimed but shortly lived Boomtown.

Guided Functional Peer Support

The houses are financed by Finland's Slot Machine Association (RAY).

In the Best Interest of the Children

The film opens with Callie Cain (Parker) leading her kids in singing along to John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" as she moves back to her hometown of Estherville, Iowa with her 4 young daughters (plus another baby on the way) and boyfriend Ray (Hodges).

Johnny Fourie

A short while after this, Johnny Fourie auditioned for the Ray Ellington Quartet of The Goon Show fame.

KPovModeler

The users needed to type commands in the raw POV-Ray to implement a non-standard texture or finish.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko

On Friday November 21 1942, Lieutenant Pavlichenko visited Coventry, UK, and accepted donations of £4,516 from Coventry workers to pay for three X-ray units for the Red Army.

Malcolm Peyton

Chamber Cantata Part II (Bethany Beardslee, soprano; Ray DeVoll, tenor; Gustav Meier, conductor; 1959)

Order of Ramkeerati

The obverse has a silver face of a tiger and trident on a blue enamel background, surrounded by a gold and silver ray design.

Putto

In the 1st-person shooter Team Fortress 2, the Meet the Pyro video has the BLU Team appear as putti in Pyroland (The Pyro's vision).

Rabi Ray

Ray was born on 26 November 1926 at Bhanaragarh village in the Puri district of Orissa, He passed his B.A. examination in History from the Ravenshaw College in Cuttack and later studied Law in the Madhusudan Law College in Cuttack.

Ray Chadwick

Ray is the father of former Canadian Youth International and current US Soccer International Sydney Leroux.

Ray Johnson

John Cale's song "Hey Ray" from the Extra Playful EP (2011) is about Cale's encounters with Johnson in New York during the 1960s.

Ray Lowry

An exhibition at the See in 2008 proved very successful and Ray began to plan new schemes including paintings inspired by another namesake Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano.

Ray Melikian

A portion of one of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk aircraft Ray Melikian flew during World War II is also displayed at the Museum of Charters Towers.

Richard Ray

Ray lost to Republican state senator Mac Collins, a resident of the former Gingrich territory, by almost 10 points.

Rodney Sheppard

Rodney's admiration for the actor, and the entire Kung Fu genre, can be seen in his role in the video for Sugar Ray's "When It's Over" where he attempts karate with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Rough cownose ray

It is also found off the coast of Ajman, United Arab Emirates, as mentioned in a picture of this species in Ajman Museum (which is located in the Emirate of Ajman) as follows: (غُرابي, Rhinopetra adspersa, Eagle ray).

Sammy Bland

Also a track announcer at several of the tracks, including Darlington, Rockingham and Richmond International Raceway, Bland's “partner” was Ray Melton.

Scented Gardens for the Blind

Dragon formed in Auckland, New Zealand, in January 1972 with a line-up that featured Todd Hunter on bass guitar, guitarist Ray Goodwin, drummer Neil Reynolds and singer/pianist Graeme Collins.

Suffragette Sessions

In 1998, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls initiated the Suffragette Sessions Tour, a loose amalgamation of female artists that Ray described as "a socialist experiment in rock and roll--no hierarchy, no boundaries."

Sylvia McNeill

In 1971 she acted in Emil Dean Zoghby and Ray Pohlman's musical, Catch My Soul, at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, England with Lance LeGault, Lon Satton, Sharon Gurney, and Malcolm Rennie in the cast.

The Freddie

In The Simpsons episode "Duffless", Bart dreams of a "Go-Go Ray" with the ability to force teachers and administrators to perform various fad dances, including the Mashed Potato, the Jerk, and the Freddie.

The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

The former members of Timbuk 3 have refused to license the song for commercials, including a $900,000 offer from AT&T and offers from Ford, the U.S. Army, and Bausch & Lomb for their Ray-Ban sunglasses.

The Mersey Pirate

Actors Andrew Schofield and Ray Kingsley, who would later work together on the television series Scully, played stowaways.

The Truth of Lie

Shot on an Arri Alexa camera, it had its theatrical release on 29 March 2012 in German cinemas and its DVD and Blu-ray release on 27th July 2012.

Veasey

Nick Veasey, British photographer working primarily with images created from X-ray imaging

Villa Noailles

Villa Noailles features prominently in Man Ray's film Les Mystères du Château de Dé.

Wade Wilson

Wade Wilson, the alter ego of fictional comic character Deadpool, an identity possibly stolen from his nemesis, T-Ray

WGPA

The FM station's daytime programming was beautiful music featuring the likes of Mantovani, Ferrante and Teicher, Ray Conniff and Henry Mancini.

WUSN

In 2010, the station won Country Radio Broadcasters/Country Aircheck Awards for Station of the Year for a Major Market; the Lisa Dent and Ramblin’ Ray Show for Major Market Morning Show and Marci Braun (weeknight host/MD) for Major Market MD.

X-ray fluorescence holography

X-ray Fluorescence Holography (XFH) is a relatively new technique that benefits greatly from the coherent high-power X-rays available from synchrotron sources, such as the Japanese SPring-8 facility.


see also

88 Films

88 Films was one of the labels praised for "providing a valuable service in preserving the more obscure titles and keeping them alive, while proving themselves bigger lovers of film than the uninterested majors" in the UK's The Guardian newspaper's annual article on the year's best DVD/ Blu Ray companies.

Bring Me Home: Live 2011

The DVD and Blu-ray contain twenty-one tracks, as well as rare glimpses of behind-the-stage scenes with a twenty-minute documentary, exclusive candid moments, a short technical documentary by Stuart Matthewman, and outtakes from the crew.

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

In 2010, the BFI released a Region 2 DVD of the film as a bonus feature on its Dual Format Edition (Blu-ray + DVD) of Tokyo Story.

Chasing Amy

Smith revealed in early 2009 at a Q&A session in Vancouver that he and the film's cast were currently recording new material for an upcoming Criterion Blu-ray release of the film.

Diabolic Video

In April 2008 Diabolic released its first Blu-ray title, Top Shelf, starring Amy Ried, Courtney Cummz, Jenna Haze, Sarah Vandella, Brianna Love, Audrey Bitoni and Shawna Lenee.

Disk storage

Disk storage is now used in both computer storage and consumer electronic storage, e.g., audio CDs and video discs (standard DVD and Blu-ray).

Drift: The Sideways Craze

The film was aired for four years by Discovery HD and is included as bonus content in Fast and The Furious Blu-ray Box Set.

DVD Show

The series made a move to HD in 2009., the series reviews movies and television programs newly released on DVD and re-releases on Blu-ray, suggesting viewers to Buy, Rent, or Skip.

Filmmaking

This is the final stage, where the film is released to cinemas or, occasionally, to consumer media (DVD, VCD, VHS, Blu-ray) or direct download from a provider.

Fingerprints of the Gods

In the extras of the Blu-ray 10,000 BC, the director Emmerich and his co-writer Harald Kloser said that they had found inspiration in the same book.

From Hare to Eternity

It is included as a special feature on the DVD for The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie as well as the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 Blu-ray box-set on the third disc.

High-definition pre-recorded media and compression

Since the DVD Forum and the Blu-ray Disc Association failed to agree on standards for high-definition 12-cm discs, a format war was under way between the DVD Forum's HD DVD (formerly "Advanced Optical Disc") standard and the Blu-ray Disc Association's Blu-ray Disc standard.

Hollywood to Dollywood

The Lane twins donate 10 percent of each DVD and Blu-ray sale to the Imagination Library, an organization administered by Parton’s Dollywood Foundation.

Home theater

Home theater in a box, HTIB is an modestly-priced integrated home theater package which "bundles" together a combination DVD-Video or Blu-ray Disc player and multi-channel amplifier (which includes a surround sound decoder, a radio tuner, and other features), speaker wires, connection cables, a remote control, a set of five or more surround sound speakers (or more rarely, just left and right speakers) and a low-frequency subwoofer

Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse

It was adapted into a feature film, This Is the End, and was finally released in full on its full-length counterpart's Blu-ray release.

JB Hi-Fi

JB Hi-Fi has diversified its business from predominantly selling music CDs, and are now a major retailer for Plasma and LCD televisions, audio/visual, digital camera photography, portable audio, in-car entertainment, computer/video games, DVD & Blu-ray movies, gadgets and information technology.

Jim Cliffe

Donovan's Echo was released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download in Canada in September 2012 by Anchor Bay Entertainment, and will be coming to the U.S. in May 2013.

Koda Kumi Driving Hit's 5

It is set to release on March 20, 2013, on the same day as live DVD/Blu-ray Premium Night: Love & Songs and 6 rental live albums.

La Rose de Fer

"La Rose de Fer" was released in 2012 by Kino Lorber in a five Blu-ray collection, along with Fascination, La Vampire Nue, Le Frisson des Vampires, and Lèvres de Sang.

Le Frisson des Vampires

Le Frisson des Vampires was released in 2012 by Kino Lorber in a five-disc Blu-ray collection, along with La Rose de Fer, Fascination, La Vampire Nue, and Lèvres de Sang.

Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection

Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection is a DVD and Blu-ray set featuring cartoons focusing on Hubie and Bertie and Sniffles and featuring various other mouse characters in Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes shorts.

Mac Blu-ray Player

It provides playback functionality for Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, and other media formats for Mac and Microsoft Windows.

Mad Detective

Eureka Entertainment acquired the distribution rights for the United Kingdom, opening theatrically on 18 July 2008 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London and nationwide after that, with DVD and Blu-ray Disc editions released on 20 October 2008 as part of their Masters of Cinema series.

MODISC

M-DISC, an archival type of recordable DVD or Blu-ray disc media

MPEG-2 transport stream

.m2ts, a filename extension used for the BDAV MPEG-2 Transport Stream, defined by Blu-ray Disc Association

Nana Mizuki Live Diamond x Fever

Nana Mizuki Live Diamond x Fever is the 8th live DVD and 2nd Blu-ray Disc release from J-pop star and voice actress Nana Mizuki.

Nana Mizuki Live Fighter -Blue x Red Side-

Nana Mizuki Live Fighter -Blue x Red Side- is the 7th live DVD and 1st Blu-ray Disc release from J-pop star and voice actress Nana Mizuki.

Natalia Tena

She hosted a behind-the-scenes featurette entitled "Trailing Tonks" for the subsequent DVD and Blu-ray release, and is credited as producer and director of the featurette, in which she also performs an original Christmas-themed blues song on guitar, which she composed while working as a busker on the London Underground.

Newport Transporter Bridge

The bridge provided the setting for some scenes in the 1959 British crime drama film Tiger Bay and also featured in an early scene in the 1972 experimental film The Other Side of the Underneath by Jane Arden which was reissued on DVD and Blu-ray by the British Film Institute in 2009.

Night of the Scarecrow

Jeffrey Kaufman of Blu-ray.com compared a violent scene in the film to a scene in another horror film with a murderous scarecrow, the television film Dark Night of the Scarecrow.

Paramount Home Media Distribution

PHMD also had agreements with DreamWorks Animation, PBS, and Hasbro for DVD/Blu-ray distribution of various programs that the former aired, and several films and TV series based on franchises owned by the latter.

Picture-in-picture

Several studios have released Bonus View PiP Blu-ray Disc titles in 2008 such as Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Resident Evil: Extinction, V for Vendetta, and War.

PictureBox Films

PictureBox online is available as a free app from iTunes for Apple iOS devices and on Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players.

Remux

A rip of Blu-ray or HD DVD disk to another container format or just stripping the disc of menus and bonus material while keeping the contents of its audio and video streams intact, guaranteeing the exact 1:1 movie quality as on original disk.

Roger Corman's Cult Classics

Roger Corman's Cult Classics is a collection of DVD and Blu-ray Discs of films produced by Roger Corman.

Sigma Designs

The company develops products for the following connected media platforms: IPTV (video over IP) set-top boxes, TV media players (such as Blu-ray), HDTVs, multimedia players, digital media adapters, portable media players, and home networking products, such as HomePlug AV, HomePNA and G.hn.

Still Walking

A digitally restored version of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection in February 2011.

The Crow: City of Angels

On September 11, 2012, Echo Bridge released another Blu-ray release of the film (once again, a double feature with The Crow: Wicked Prayer.) It was already being sold at Walmart stores before its official release date had been reached.

The Old Grey Hare

The short is available in its entirety (with the shaking end card) in the documentary Bugs Bunny: Superstar Part 2, which is available as a special feature on Disc 2 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4, and was released independently on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5 and on Blu-ray in 1080p high definition on the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1.

The Pixar Story

It was then included as a special feature on the WALL-E special edition DVD and Blu-ray releases, which were launched on November 18, 2008.

The Times of Harvey Milk

A digitally restored version of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection in March 2011.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Shout! Factory released The Town That Dreaded Sundown on Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack along with The Evictors on May 21, 2013, the first time the film made an appearance on any home video format since the VHS release.

True Justice

True Justice is gradually being released as a series of DVD (and some Blu-ray) "movies" in the UK, with each disc editing together two episodes (see List of True Justice episodes).

Up from the Depths

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Shout Factory in 2011 as a double feature alongside the similar Demon of Paradise.

VCR/Blu-ray combo

When Blu-ray Disc players went on the market in mid-2006, the final major Hollywood motion picture on VHS (David Cronenberg's A History of Violence) had already been released.