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Hostile environment sexual harassment In employment law, hostile environment sexual harassment refers to a situation where employees in a workplace are subject to a pattern of exposure to unwanted sexual behavior from persons other than an employee's direct supervisor where supervisors or managers take no steps to discourage or discontinue such behavior. It is distinguished from "quid pro quo" sexual harassment, where a direct supervisor seeks sexual favors in return for something within the supervisor's powers, such as threatening to fire someone, or offering them a raise.
Hostile media effect The hostile media effect, sometimes called the hostile media phenomenon, refers to the theory that ideological partisans often think that media coverage is biased against their particular opinions on an issue. This phenomenon has been identified experimentally (Vallone, Ross, & Lepper, 1985).
Hostile Space Hostile Space is a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) that takes place in a vast persistent galaxy. Players take on the role of a star ship captain with goals including planetary exploration, mining, bounty hunting, smuggling goods, and taking on terrible space monsters.
Hostile Visit "Hostile Visit" is the ninth episode in the first season of Space: Above and Beyond, and the first of two parts, followed by Choice or Chance. It originally aired in North America on November 19, 1995.
Hostile witness In United States law, a hostile witness is a witness in a trial who testifies for the opposing party or a witness who offers adverse testimony to the calling party during direct examination. A witness called by the opposing party is presumed hostile.
Hostile work environment A hostile work environment exists when an employee experiences workplace harassment and fears going to work because of the offensive, intimidating, or oppressive atmosphere generated by the harasser. Hostile work environment is also one of the two legal categories of sexual harassment.
Hostile Waters (film) Hostile Waters is a 1997 television movie about the loss of the K-219, a Yankee II class nuclear ballistic missile sub. The film stars Rutger Hauer as the commander of K-219 and claims to be based on the true story.
Hostile Waters (game) Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising is a hybrid vehicle and strategy game released on the PC in 2002 by the British company Rage Games Limited. It was inspired by an earlier game known as Carrier Command (Realtime Games, 1988).
Hostilian Gaius Valens Hostilianus Messius Quintus (died 251), was Roman emperor in 251. Hostilian was born in an unknown date, after 230, as the son of the future emperor Decius by his wife Herennia Cupressenia Etruscilla.
Hostilities between North and South Korea since 1953 The following is a partial list of border incidents between North and South Korea since the official cease-fire began in 1953. Most of these took place near either the Korean Demilitarized Zone or the Northern Limit Line.
Hostname A hostname (occasionally also, a sitename) is the unique name by which a network attached device (which could consist of a computer, file server, network storage device, fax machine, copier, cable modem, etc.) is known on a network.
Hostos Community College Eugenio MarĂ­a de Hostos Community College of The City University of New York is a community college in the City University of New York system. Located in the Bronx, New York City, Hostos Community College was created by an act of the Board of Higher Education in 1968 in response to demands from the Hispanic/Puerto Rican community who were urging for the establishment of a college to serve the people of the South Bronx.
Hostosian National Independence Movement The Hostosian National Independence Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano, MINH) is a leftist and pro-independence organization in Puerto Rico. The MINH was formed on May 6, 2004, by a merger of the National Hostosian Congress (CNH) and the New Puerto Rican Independence Movement (NMIP).
Hosts file In computing, a hosts file, stored on the computer's filesystem, is used to look up the Internet Protocol address of a device connected to a computer network, such as your home computer connected to the Internet. The hosts file describes a many-to-one mapping of device names to IP addresses.
Hot & Wet "Hot & Wet" is the fourth album by R&B group 112. The album followed the highly successful Part III album which featured the hit "Peaches & Cream" with the club tracks "Hot & Wet" (who was produced by Stevie J) and "Na Na Na Na".
Hot 100 Singles Sales The Hot 100 Singles Sales (also known as Singles Sales) is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures sales of commercial singles and is one of three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Airplay and the Hot Digital Songs, that determine the chart positions of singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Hot 8 Brass Band The Hot 8 Brass Band is a New Orleans based brass band that blends hip-hop, jazz and funk styles with a traditional New Orleans brass sounds. It was formed in 1995 by tubist Bennie "Big Peter" Pete, merging two earlier bands, the Looney Tunes Brass Band and the High Steppers Brass Band.
Hot air balloon Hot air balloons are the oldest successful human flight technology, dating back to the Montgolfier brothers' invention in Annonay, France in 1783. The first flight carrying humans was made on November 21, 1783, in Paris by Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes.
Hot as Sun Hot As Sun is an instrumental penned by Paul McCartney and included on his 1970 album McCartney coupled with the non-song "Glasses" (which also contained a snippet of "Suicide", another unreleased Paul McCartney tune). In that album's press release, Paul informs us that it was a "song written in about 1958 or 59 or maybe earlier, when it was one of those songs that you play now and then".
Hot Adult Contemporary radio panel The R&R Adult Top 40 panel is a list of Adult Top 40 stations that are monitored by Nielsen BDS. The stations are ranked by the highest audience cumes based on Arbitron ratings and are modified twice a year.
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart (formerly known as Adult Contemporary Singles and only Adult Contemporary) lists the most popular songs weekly calculated by airplay and occasionally sales in the United States. Billboard magazine publishes this listing which includes adult contemporary and pop songs played on "lite-pop" and adult contemporary radio stations and available for sale in stores across the United States.
Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks (formerly known as Adult Top 40) is a variation on the United States Billboard charts. It is a format in which this genre is more geared towards an adult audience who are not into hard rock, teen pop, dance music, hip-hop, or slower adult contemporary fare.
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems is a book of poems written by Eli Siegel, founder of the philosophy Aesthetic Realism. Definition Prees, who prpinted it, is the publishing arm of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation.
Hot Apple Pie Hot Apple Pie is an American country music band who debuted in 2005 with the single "Hillbillies". The band was named by lead singer and former Little Texas member Brady Seals and his wife Lisa Stewart.
Hot Autumn The Hot Autumn of 1969-1970 was a massive series of strikes in the factories and industrial centers of northern Italy, during which workers demanded better pay and better conditions. Between 1969-1970 there were over 440 million hours of strikes alone.
Hot bulb engine The hot bulb engine is a type of internal combustion engine; more specifically, it is a compression ignition engine, in which the fuel is ignited by being suddenly exposed to high temperature and the pressure of a compressed gas, rather than by a separate source of ignition, such as a spark plug, as is the case in the gasoline engine.
Hot bunking The practice of hot bunking is a system of sleeping in shifts that is used when there are more crew members than bunks (beds), as is typical on submarines. Depending upon the watch system, two or even three people may end up sharing the same bunk.
Hot Bird Hot Bird or Hotbird is the common name of a family of satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13°E over the Equator (orbital position) and with a transmitting footprint over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Hot Blooded "Hot Blooded" is the title of a 1978 song released by the Britsh-American rock band Foreigner, from their album Double Vision. It reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the same year of its release.
Hot Box Hot Box (or simply Box) is a non-contact team sport which is similar to Ultimate, but played on a smaller field and with fewer players. Like Ultimate, the object of the game is to score points by passing the disc into the endzone; however, in Hot Box there is generally only one end zone and it is of much smaller size than an Ultimate end zone.
Hot carrier injection Hot carrier injection is the phenomenon in solid state devices or semiconductors where either an electron or a "hole" gains sufficient kinetic energy to overcome a potential barrier, becoming a "hot carrier", and then migrates to a different area of the device. The term usually refers to the effect in a MOSFET where a carrier is injected from the silicon substrate, to the gate dielectric.
Hot cell A hot cell is a heavily shielded room in which radioactive materials can be handled remotely using robotic (see picture) or otherwise remote manipulators and viewed through shielded windows. Many hot cells have walls made of concrete or metal which are a meter or more in thickness.
Hot cross bun A hot cross bun is a type of sweet spiced bun made with currants and leavened with yeast. It has a cross on the top which might be made in a variety of ways: it could be pastry, made from a simple flour and water mixture, cut from rice paper and glazed onto the bun, or simply cut into the bun itself.
Hot Club of Portugal The Hot Club of Portugal ( Hot Clube de Portugal ) is the oldest club of jazz in Portugal and has uninterruptedly developed its activity since 1948. It occupies a cellar in Praça da Alegria (Square of Joy), in Lisbon and it is a must for jazz lovers, offering always high quality musical programming.
Hot Coffee mod The Hot Coffee mod is a mod created for the 2005 PC port of the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas by Rockstar North. When installed, it enables access to an otherwise inaccessible part of the game which involves a sex minigame (featuring oral sex with an "invisible" penis and dry humping) with the main character's girlfriend to try to improve the relationship between the two.
Hot Creek Range The Hot Creek Range is a line of mountains in Nye County, in central Nevada in the western United States. From the historic community of Warm Springs, the range runs north-northeast for approximately 43 miles (69 km).
Hot Cross Hot Cross is a screamo band from Philadelphia currently on Hope Division Records / Equal Vision Records. The band is comprised of members of such bands as Saetia (vocalist Billy Werner and drummer Greg Drudy, who was also a founding member and the original drummer of post-punkers Interpol), Off Minor (bassist/guitarist Matt Smith), You and I (guitarist Casey Boland), Neil Perry, The Now and Joshua Fit For Battle (bassist/guitarist Josh Jakubowski).
Hot Cross Holy Shroud Split The genesis of this superb split 7” was the Hot Cross/The One AM Radio/The Holy Shroud Canadian tour in the summer of 2004. After playing a week of dates together, and feeling the primordial rock energy flowing each night it only seemed natural for these two bands to split time on a slab of vinyl.
Hot dog A hot dog is a type of fully-cooked, cured and sometimes smoked sausage of even texture and flavor that is softer and more moist than most other sausages. It is the sausage most readily eaten as finger food, especially in the United States.
Hot dog bun A hot dog bun is a type of bun shaped specifically to contain a hot dog. There are two basic types: top loading, which is popular in New England, and side loading, preferred in the South and Midwest United States.
Hot Dance Airplay Hot Dance Airplay is a monitored dance music radio chart that is featured weekly in Billboard magazine. The chart was also featured in its sister publication R&R, but it has since been removed, although a summary are still featured in the chart highlight section.
Hot Dance Singles Sales Hot Dance Singles Sales (formerly known as Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales) is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures the sale of commercially released singles that deal with dance music and remixes.
Hot Digital Tracks The Hot Digital Tracks is a song popularity chart that ranks the best selling digital tracks in the United States according to Billboard magazine. It is not to be confused with the Hot Digital Songs chart, which combines different versions of songs for a summarized figure (for example remixes, "explicit" or "clean" versions, and/or any other alternate versions can chart separately here, whereas all versions of the same track occupy only one position on Hot Digital Songs).
Hot Dog (song) "Hot Dog" is a recorded song on English rock band Led Zeppelin's 1979 album, In Through The Out Door. A short, punchy number done in the style of a rockabily country hoe-down, it features some Elvis-style vocals from singer Robert Plant.
Hot Dog on a Stick HDOS Enterprises, commonly known as Hot Dog on a Stick, is a company originating in Long Beach, California originally founded by Dave Barham. Their first store opened at the former Muscle Beach location next to the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California in 1946.
Hot Dog Safari The Hot Dog Safari is an annual charity benefit founded by Boston sports radio host, Eddie Andelman. The charity began in 1990 to help find a cure for cystic fibrosis, raising money for the Joey Fund, named after a friend of his who died of the disease in 1986 at the age of twelve.
Hot Eyes Hot Eyes was the name adopted for international acts by the Danish singing duo known in their home country as Kirsten and Søren. It was formed by Kirsten Siggard (born 7 September 1954) and Søren Bundgaard (born 4 March 1956).
Hot foot powder Hot foot powder is used in African American hoodoo folk magic to drive unwanted people away. It is a mixture of hot, spicy herbs and minerals, usually including cayenne pepper, sulfur, black pepper, and salt.
Hot Feet Hot Feet is a jukebox musical featuring the music of Earth, Wind & Fire, conceived, directed, and choreographed by Maurice Hines. It opened on Broadway at the Hilton Theatre on April 30, 2006 and closed on July 23rd, 2006.
Hot Fun in the Summertime "Hot Fun in the Summertime" is a 1969 hit single recorded by Sly & the Family Stone. The single was released in the wake of the band's high-profile performance at Woodstock, which greatly expanded their fanbase.
Hot glue Hot glue (or hot melt glue) is a form of thermoplastic adhesive that is commonly in solid sticks designed to be melted in a special gun. The glue comes in cylinders of various lengths, and is pushed inside of an electric hot glue gun.
Hot Gossip Hot Gossip were a British dance troupe most notable for their appearance on the TV series The Kenny Everett Video Show, which aired on ITV in the late 1970s. It was created and choreographed by Arlene Phillips.
Hot Grrrl (Close To Home) "Hot Grrrl" is Close to Home episode number 22 (the first season's finale). District Attorney Annabeth Chase is once again involved in an odd case when she prosecutes a girl accused of running a strip-cam website with unknowing subjects.
Hot Heels Hot Heels was the name of a downhill "gravity sports" race held in the Kaunertal Valley, in the western Austrian Alps from 1993 to 2003. It showcased some of the best, fastest and most extreme gravity sports racing ever seen , and was seen by many as the blue riband event of gravity sports of classic luge (aka "Buttboarding") and street luge, and downhill skateboarding, along with some other gravity sports such as downhill inline skating, gravity biking, and dirtsurfing.
Hot Hits Hot Hits was a radio format created by consultant Mike Joseph in 1977. That concept, which helped spur the birth of what is now known as contemporary hit radio, also revitalized the Top 40 format and would play a role in bringing the format to the FM band throughout the 1980s.
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot is the title of a 1982 soca song by Arrow (Alphonsus Cassell). The original version became an instant dance floor hit and was later covered by artists around the world, including a 1987 US version by David Johansen in his Buster Poindexter persona.
Hot House (Heather Small) Hot House were a British soul band featuring Heather Small, Martin Colyer and Mark Pringle, who first came to the attention of the British Music Press (Record Mirror etc) in January 1987. This was when they released the broody ballad Don't Come To Stay on the deConstruction Records label (then billed as De Construction).
Hot chocolate Hot chocolate, hot cocoa or drinking chocolate is a beverage, usually served hot, typically consisting of milk, chocolate or cocoa powder, and sugar. It became popular in Europe after being introduced from the New World.
Hot Chocolate Hot Chocolate was a British pop band of the 1960s, and 1970s, and 1980s formed by Errol Brown (a Briton who was born in Jamaica). They were originally named 'The Hot Chocolate Band' by Mavis Smith, who worked for the Apple Corps press office.
Hot Jupiter Hot Jupiters (also called roasters, pegasids, Pegasi planets or Pegasean planets) are a class of extrasolar planets whose mass is close to or exceeds that of Jupiter (1.9 Ă— 1027 kg), but unlike in our own solar system, where Jupiter orbits at 5 AU, the planets referred to as Hot Jupiters orbit within approximately 0.
Hot Karl Hot Karl, born Jensen-Gerard Karp, is an American rapper. He does not claim to possess "street cred" or to be from rough backgrounds, but rather is drawn to hip-hop as an artform independent of its socioeconomic roots.
Hot lap Hot lapping is the action of driving a vehicle on a race track without actually competing for a position or any other recording of performance. Multiple vehicles will be on the track typically, but no passing is allowed, nor any contact.
Hot Latin Tracks Billboard Magazine's Hot Latin Tracks chart is the most important music chart for Spanish language singles in the American music market. It was established by the magazine in the 1970s, when music labels and Billboard realized that Spanish-language songs had a great potential to the American audiences, growing greatly during the past few decades.
Hot Lava (game) Hot Lava is an indoor children's game, in which the players imagine the floor to be made of lava, or variably as any other unsavory substance, such as acid, and thus avoid touching the ground. The players stay off of the floor by standing on furniture or the room's architecture.
Hot Love (Five Star) "Hot Love" is the name of a 1990 minor hit single by British pop group Five Star, peaking at UK #68 in July of that year and becoming their second single for their new record label, Epic. This single would be their last appearance on the UK Top 75 to date.
Hot metal typesetting Hot metal typesetting (also called hot lead typesetting or simply hot metal) is a term used to encompass a range of different 19th century technologies to create or compose text for use in the letterpress method of printing.
Hot mirror A hot mirror is a specialized dielectric mirror, a dichromatic interference filter often employed to protect optical systems by reflecting heat back into the light source. Hot mirrors can be designed to be inserted into the optical system at an incidence angle varying between zero and 45 degrees, and are useful in a variety of applications where heat build-up can damage components or adversely affect spectral characteristics of the illumination source.
Hot Metal Bridge The Hot Metal Bridge is a truss bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which crosses over the Monongahela River. The bridge consists of two parallel spans, the former Monongahela Connecting Railroad Bridge, built in 1887, on the upstream side and the former Hot Metal Bridge, built in 1900, on the downstream side.
Hot Mix 5 The Hot Mix 5 were an American DJ crew originating from Chicago, Illinois. The founding members were Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Mickey "Mixin" Oliver, Scott "Smokin" Silz, Ralphi Rosario and Kenny "Jammin" Jason.
Hot Nasties The Hot Nasties were a punk rock band from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They were of the first wave of Canadian punk rock and notably featured future Liberal Party of Canada strategist and lawyer Warren Kinsella on bass and vocals.
Hot or Not Hot or Not is a Rate Me website that allows users to rate the attractiveness of photos submitted voluntarily by others. Photos are approved by a panel of volunteer moderators, who strive to keep the site "fun, clean, and real.
Hot particle A hot particle is a small, highly radioactive object, with significant content of radionuclides. Hot particles are usually released into the environment during a nuclear accident or when high-level radioactive waste is improperly handled, and are the principal hazard of the nuclear fallout from nuclear explosions.
Hot Pants (French band) Hot Pants is one of the numerous groups involving the French/Latin singer-songwriter Manu Chao and his cousin, drummer Santi. As with all of Chao's music, the group had many influences, most notably The Clash, which contributed to their rockabilly sound.
Hot Pants Patrol The Hot Pants Patrol was a promotion used by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1970s, designed to draw more Phillies fans, particularly men, to baseball games at Veterans Stadium. It consisted of a large number of attractive young "fillies" or "usherettes" who were assigned to various sections thoughout the stadium.
Hot Pantz Hot Pantz are a UK female vocal duo, whom released the single "Give U One 4 Christmas" which despite being occasionally played on musical stations (such as "The Hits"), was a flop and failed to reach the top 10 chart in the UK. The song has often been criticised as cheap and Hot Pantz are often referred to as chavs amongst the general public.
Hot Pockets Hot Pockets are microwaveable sandwiches usually composed of cheese and meat, sometimes accompanied with vegetables or a type of sauce, wrapped up in a flaky crust. Hot Pockets are advertised as "America's Favorite Stuffed Sandwich" and are currently produced by Nestlé.
Hot Potato (song) "Hot Potato" is a single by American singer La Toya Jackson, the third single from her successful 1984 album Heart Don't Lie. It peaked at #43 (Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks) and #38 (Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play).
Hot Pursuit (film) Hot Pursuit was a 1987 comedy film starring John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Jerry Stiller, Ben Stiller and Keith David. The plot centers around a student named Dan Bartlett (John Cusack) who is planning to go on a vacation in the Caribbean with his rich girlfriend's family, when there is a sudden change of plans.
Hot rolling The metallurgical process of Hot rolling, used mainly to produce sheet metal or simple cross sections from billets describes the method of when industrial metal is passed or deformed between a set of work rolls and the temperature of the metal is generally above its recrystallization temperature, as opposed to cold rolling, which takes place below this temperature. This permits large deformations of the metal to be achieved with a low number of rolling cycles.
Hot runner A hot runner is an injection mold component containing a series of channels that distributes molten plastic within a mold. Unlike an ordinary cold runners, the hot runners are heated, so the plastic melt in the hot runners never freeze.
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart is the airplay component chart of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. It is not the R&B subset of The Hot 100 Airplay, but rather a separate panel of R&B stations in urban markets used.
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales chart is the sales component chart of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles And Tracks. It is not the R&B subset of The Hot 100 Singles Sales, but rather a separate panel of sales of commercial singles in the urban market.
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, formerly known as Top Soul Singles, Top Black Singles, and Top R&B Singles (before the hip-hop term was added in the late 1990s), is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.
Hot Rap Tracks Hot Rap Tracks is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. It lists the most popular hip-hop/rap songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations and sales in hip hop-focused or exclusive markets.
Hot Rize Hot Rize is a bluegrass music band composed of Tim O'Brien (mandolin, fiddle), Pete Wernick (banjo), Charles Sawtelle (guitar), and Nick Forster (electric bass). In 1999, Charles Sawtelle died and 3 years later Forster and O'Brien
Hot Rod (film) Hot Rod is a movie starring Andy Samberg, Sissy Spacek, Jorma Taccone, Will Arnett, Danny McBride, Ian McShane, Isla Fisher, Sarah Wulfeck, Amy Palant and Bill Hader. The film is currently on post-production, and due out on June 1 2007.
Hot Rod Lincoln Hot Rod Race, or Hot Rod Lincoln, was a country music song, sometimes said to be an early Rockabilly song. Written By George Wilson, and recorded as Hot Rod Race by Arkie Shibley and His Mountain Dew Boys in late 1950, the song reached #5 on the country charts in 1951.
Hot Rod Rebels Hot Rod Rebels is the unpublished sequel to San Francisco Rush 2049 coin-op. It was being developed by Atari Games / Midway Games West when investors from parent company Midway Games decided to pull the plug on all coin-op development company-wide.
Hot Rods (oval racing) Hot Rods or simply Rods refer to a number of British oval racing formula (not to be confused with hot rods, which are generally road-going modified vintage cars). Hot Rods were introduced at Hednesford Hills Raceway in the early 1960s as a British counterpart to NASCAR-style production car racing.
Hot Rods to Hell Hot Rods to Hell is a 1967 suspense film, originally intended for television but released in theaters instead after its producers considered it too intense for TV viewers. It is one of many exploitation-type films from noted producer Sam Katzman, whose work is generally regarded as of higher quality than are most such films.
Hot spot volcanoes Hot spot volcanoes are created due to sea-floor spreading caused by divergent movement of the plates. It is given the term "hot spot" due to the fact that it is created over an opening to the mantle which contains magma and is very hot.
Hot spring A hot spring is a spring that is produced by the emergence of geothermally-heated groundwater from the earth's crust. There are hot springs all over the earth, on every continent and even under the oceans and seas.
Hot springs around the world There are hot springs on all continents and in many countries around the world. Countries that are renowned for their hot springs include Iceland, New Zealand, Chile and Japan, but there are interesting and unique hot springs in many other places as well.
Hot stove league The Hot Stove League is a baseball-related term, referring to the off-season. Therefore, it is not actually a "league", but the term instead calls up images of baseball fans, anxious for the start of the new season, gathering around a hot stove during the cold winter months discussing their favorite baseball teams.
Hot summer cold winter zone Hot-summer/cold-winter zone is the transient climate region between the cold and the hot zones in China. It includes the whole of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang provinces, Shanghai and Chongqing two municipalities, the eastern part of Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, the southern part of Henan, Jiangsu, Shanxi and Gansu provinces, and the northern part of Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces.
Hot swapping Hot swapping or hot plugging is the ability to remove and replace components of a machine, usually a computer, while it is operating. Once the appropriate software is installed on the computer, a user can plug and unplug the component without rebooting.
Hot switch A Hot Switch in television is where the ending of one show leads directly into the start of the show in the next time slot without a commercial break. The concept is used to reduce the chances that people will switch to another TV network during the commercial break and allow the cold open of the new show to attract viewers.
Hot Seat (talk show) Hot Seat was a syndicated politically-orientated, though often satirical and comedic, television talk-show that began in the early 1980s, hosted by conservative commentator Wally George. It was shot in the studios of KDOC, a UHF television station licensed to (and, at the time, having their studios in) Anaheim, California.
Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse were two popular British football-themed comic strips, which later merged together, and which appeared in various publications from the 1970s to the 1990s. Both are amongst the best remembered football characters from the "golden age" of British boys' comics.
Hot Shots (The Wire episode) "Hot Shots" is the third episode of the second season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Elodie Keene.

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