(1) Short of setting up a hotline to the Met Office – or, more prosaically, moving to a country where the weather best suits our condition, as Dawn Binks says several sufferers she knows have done – migraineurs can do little to ensure that the climate is kind to them.
(2) The 'prequel' trilogy, featuring Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side and the much-maligned Jar Jar Binks, was released between 1999 and 2005 but Lucas has developed the franchise far beyond those six original films.
(3) The classic Jedi response to subservience can be seen in the contrast between Luke’s first meeting with C-3PO – “I see, Sir”; “You can call me Luke”; “I see, Sir Luke,”; “No, just Luke” – and Qui-Gon Jinn meeting Jar Jar Binks: “Mesa your humble servant”; “That won’t be necessary”.
(4) I've long suspected a connection between my migraines and thunderstorms, as well as hot, bright weather; but that's nothing compared with Dawn Binks's experience of the links between weather and migraine.
(5) With Abrams having revived Star Trek's fortunes on the big screen (unless one asks hardcore Trekkies), most filmgoers are keenly anticipating a triptych of movies that could consign George Lucas's hapless prequel trilogy to a dustbin filled with the rotting remains of Jar Jar Binks and that guy with the cucumber-shaped forehead from Yoda's Jedi council.
(6) In the spoof commentary, Lucas and the “force ghost” of Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker lament the addition of a new, three-pronged lightsaber and complain about the absence of Jar Jar Binks’ race, the Gungans , in the teaser.
(7) You still owe us big time for introducing us to Jar Jar Binks."
(8) They are characters that could yet become as famous as Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia - or suffer the ignominy of comparisons to Jar Jar Binks and Nute Gunray.
(9) However, all three movies found “success” via the Razzie awards, with wins in the worst supporting actor category for Ahmed Best as bumbling CGI alien Jar Jar Binks, and Hayden Christensen for his portrayal of moody Jedi Anakin Skywalker in both 2002’s Attack of the Clones and 2005’s Revenge of the Sith.
(10) According to tweeters' yakking, the novelist hates everything from "Emoticons, because it takes 600 pages to accurately convey emotion", to puppies, people who hate Jar Jar Binks, and cameras, because "real pictures should be painted".
(11) Ask more about the characters So much prettier in 3D ... A two-dimensional Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
(12) The even slower-witted cousin of Jar Jar Binks, who keeps falling over and can only communicate in farts?
(13) Later, like most adult Star Wars fans, I thought the entire Hayden Christensen as a young conflicted D Vader episode was pure garbage, because also Jar Jar Binks.
(14) Honestly, give me Bella and Edward over Jar Jar Binks any day.
(15) He said: “My advice to anyone making a Star Wars movie is there’s more to it than just spaceships ... I’m curious about what happened to Darth Vader’s grandkids.” Asked which Star Wars character he would like to be, Lucas chose Jar Jar Binks, in a clear dig at his critics.
(16) For me, any defence of nearly every Star Wars IP released after The Phantom Menace can be stopped dead in its tracks by uttering the words, "Jar Jar Binks".
(17) When Anthony Daniels told me, ‘Oh my God, I love BB-8!’ I said, ‘We’re going to be OK.’ Because if he’s OK, it’s working.” Is Jar Jar Binks the ultimate Star Wars bad guy?
(18) Will new characters like Poe Dameron and Kylo Ren wash away the bad taste of hated Prequel characters like Jar-Jar Binks and Dexter Jettster?
(19) Simon Binks (@Simon__Binks) #Hull town centre flooding!
(20) They also did not generate the same adoration as the original films, partly because of the introduction of clumsy characters such as the now infamous alien Jar Jar Binks, whose comically thick extraterrestrial accent was condemned as an unintentional stereotype of black people.
Mink
Definition:
(n.) A carnivorous mammal of the genus Putorius, allied to the weasel. The European mink is Putorius lutreola. The common American mink (P. vison) varies from yellowish brown to black. Its fur is highly valued. Called also minx, nurik, and vison.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acini in the parotid gland of the North American mink (Mustela vision) are composed of seromucous cells that contain secretory granules of peculiar morphology.
(2) Analysis of 15 other biochemical markers located on 12 of the mink chromosomes revealed the activities of mink galactokinase (a syntenic marker) in 5 transformed clones, and that of mink aconitase-1 (the marker of mink chromosome 12) in 1 clone.
(3) Naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been recognised in sheep, man, mink, captive deer and cattle.
(4) After euthanasia and removal of the pelts, liver and kidney samples were collected from 174 mink and analyzed for 22 elements using inductively coupled argon plasma emission spectroscopy.
(5) Campbell said that if all signatories to the convention killed as many minke whales as Japan does, then more than 83,000 would be slaughtered in the Southern Ocean every year.
(6) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
(7) 154 renal samples from sick animals and 10 samples from uninfected mink were processed by routine histopathological techniques and metacrylate inclusions.
(8) The RSPB said it was also concerned at the potential release of American minks and ring-necked parakeets into the wild.
(9) By using strand-specific in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry, evidence for replication of the Aleutian mink disease parvovirus was observed in cells resembling macrophages and cells resembling follicular dendritic cells at 10 days after infection but only in macrophages at 60 days.
(10) Japan should undertake some DNA research in Japanese fish markets, where endangered whales - including orcas and humpbacks - are being sold as minke whales.
(11) Pastel mink inoculated with parallel doses of ADV also produced antibody but did not develop AD.
(12) The thyroid gland functional state was studied by means of 131J-triiodothyronine in minks of two genotypes.
(13) We have now found that the level of xenotropic MuLV (defined operationally as MuLV able to infect mink cell cultures) is also markedly increased in thymus of 6-month-old AKR mice and that this increase in virus correlates closely with increased MuLV-antigen expression.
(14) At a level of 0.64 ppm of PCB in ration one of 12 mink produced three kits, all of which died during the first day after birth.
(15) The sequence relationships betwen AKR ecotropic virus and an AKR-derived "mink cell focus-inducing" (MCF) isolate (AKR MCF 247), between Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MLV) and an M-MLV MCF isolate (M-MLV83), and between AKR and M-MLV were studied by electron microscopic heteroduplex analysis.
(16) We conclude that mink and A. speciosus cannot serve as definitive hosts and intermediate hosts of E. multilocularis, respectively, in Hokkaido.
(17) To explain these results, it is suggested that in the mink exposure to light during the circadian photosensitive phase induces inhibition of testicular activity and stimulation of prolactin secretion.
(18) We thus attempted to identify melatonin binding sites in the mink brain.
(19) The survivability of the adult mink was adversely affected only at 350 ppm supplemental F. At the termination of the study, no differences were observed in hematologic parameters or serum calcium concentrations between the controls and treated mink (P greater than .05), but serum alkaline phosphatase activities were increased (P less than .05) by the two highest dietary F levels.
(20) The CD8 antigen-reactive antibody reacted with lymphocytes from mink, cat, dog, and sheep, while the CD4 antigen-reactive antibody reacted with lymphocytes from mink.