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High density lipoprotein High-density lipoproteins (HDL) form a class of lipoproteins, varying somewhat in their size (8–11 nm in diameter), that carry cholesterol from the body's tissues to the liver. About one-third to a quarter of blood cholesterol is carried by HDL.
High descent High Descent is a massively multiplayer browser game which was officially launched May 15th, 2001. Players attempt to ascend through the ranks of nobility by hiring mercenaries and battling with other noblemen.
High dynamic range High dynamic range (or HDR for short) is a term generally used for media applications such as digital imaging and digital audio production. Generally it is a feature that is capable of producing a much higher dynamic range than what is already available.
High dynamic range rendering High dynamic range rendering (HDRR or HDR Rendering), also known as high dynamic range lighting, is the rendering of 3D computer graphics scenes by using lighting calculations done in a larger dynamic range. Video games and computer generated movies greatly benefit from this as it creates far more realistic scenes than with the previous lighting model (dubbed low dynamic range lighting or standard lighting).
High Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance High Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance, or HANA, is a media industry group of leading companies established to create a design guideline for secure high-definition audio-visual networks. The alliance, whose founding members include Charter Communications, JVC, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc.
High Definition Compatible Digital High Definition Compatible Digital, or HDCD (also known as High Definition Compact Disc) is a patented encode-decode process that endeavors to improve the sound quality of standard audio CDs. A HDCD-encoded CD usually, but not always, has the HDCD logo printed somewhere on the back cover.
High Definition Websites High Definition Websites will be in near future (about one to three years), these websites will be normal websites except they will be in widescreen format, containing high resolution media (pictures, movies, flash, etc), and will utilize the latest XHTML and CSS standards. Consumers will be able to open and enjoy websites at full 1080p resolution on high-definition televisions.
High Deryni High Deryni is a fantasy novel by American-born author Katherine Kurtz. It was first published by Ballantine Books as part of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September, 1973, and has been reprinted a number of times since.
High Desert Museum The High Desert Museum is a museum located in Bend, Oregon, United States that serves to teach the public about the wildlife, culture, art and natural resources of Oregon's high desert topography. The museum opened in 1982 and was originally named the Oregon High Desert Museum.
High Desert, New Mexico High Desert, New Mexico is a development by High Desert Investment Corporation located in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It has undertaken the most environmentally sensitive development of its kind, establishing standards for design, construction and landscape.
High Diving Hare High Diving Hare is a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. It was released to theaters on April 30, 1949 and as of 2006 is available in the DVD box-set Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1.
High Druid of Shannara High Druid of Shannara is a trilogy of fantasy novels in the Shannara series by Terry Brooks. Set 20 years after the events of The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, the series chronicles the adventures of Pen Ohmsford as he seeks to rescue his aunt, the High Druid Grianne Ohmsford.
High efficiency solar cells The use of solar cells for the generation of electricity has been mainly limited by their poor efficiency and high exploitation costs. But over the last years, research has been focussed on developing high efficiency solar cells.
High elves High elves are distinguished from other fantasy elves by their place of living, as they usually dwell in stone cities, instead of woods, like wood-elves. High elves and dark elves can be used to contrast respectively the good elves and the evil elves, as done in Warhammer.
High energy X-rays High Energy X-rays or HEX-rays are very hard X-rays, with 80 keV - 1000 keV typically one order of magnitude higher in energy than conventional X-rays. They are produced at modern synchrotron radiation sources such as the beamline ID15 at the ESRF.
High explosive anti-tank High explosive anti-tank (HEAT) rounds are made of an explosive shaped charge that uses the Neumann effect (a development of the Munroe effect) to create a very high-velocity jet of metal in a state of superplasticity that can punch through solid armor.
High explosive squash head High explosive squash head (HESH) is a type of explosive ammunition designed to defeat tank armour. It was fielded chiefly by the British Army during the Cold War, being the main explosive round of British main battle tanks during this period.
High Earnock Situated West of Hillhouse and built in the 1950s and '70s, High Earnock is a lower-middle class private housing estate to the west of Hamilton Town Centre with panoramic views across Clydesdale towards Motherwell, Shotts, Hillhouse and Little Earnock. The community is served by Townhill Primary School and Earnock High School with a pupil roll of around 450 and 850 respectively.
High Elf (Warcraft) In the Warcraft Universe, a fictional universe in which the Warcraft series of computer games is set, the High Elves, also known alternatively either as the Highborne or Quel'dorei, are one of the races that inhabit Azeroth. The Blood Elves, a militant faction of the High Elves, are now a playable Horde race with release of the expansion The Burning Crusade for World of Warcraft, and have a campaign in "The Frozen Throne" expansion of Warcraft III "Reign of Chaos".
High Elves (Warhammer) In Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy setting, the High Elves are a race of Elves who live on the Isle of Ulthuan, analogous to Atlantis. They are nearly immortal, and their Mages are among the best in the world.
High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System The High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS), a weapon system that is under development by The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), will weigh around 1,650 lb (750 kg) and fit in the space of 2 cubic meters (70.6 cubic feet).
High Energy Transient Explorer The High Energy Transient Explorer (abbreviated HETE) is an American astronomical satellite. The prime objective of HETE is to carry out the first multiwavelength study of gamma-ray bursts with UV, X-ray, and gamma-ray instruments mounted on a single, compact spacecraft.
High Explosive Incendiary/Armor Piercing Ammunition High Explosive Incendiary/Armor Piercing Ammunition (HEIAP) is a form of shell which combines both an armour piercing capability and a high explosive effect. In this respect it is modern version of armour piercing shell.
High fantasy High fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction that is set in invented or parallel worlds. Built upon the platform of a diverse body of works in the already very popular fantasy genre, high fantasy came into fruition through the work of authors such as C.
High fibre composting High-fibre composting is a system which has been developed and trialled at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales with promising results so far. It consists of adding all cardboard (including packaging,
High fidelity High fidelity or hi-fi reproduction is a quality standard that means the reproduction of sound or images is very faithful to the original. High fidelity aims to achieve minimal or unnoticeable amounts of noise and distortion.
High five A high five is a celebratory gesture made by two people, each raising one hand to slap the raised hand of the other — usually meant to communicate to spectators mutual self-satisfaction or to extend congratulations from one person to another. The arms are usually extended into the air to form the "high" part, and the five fingers of each hand meet, thus making the "five".
High frequency approximation A high frequency approximation (or "high energy approximation") for scattering or other wave propagation problems, in physics or engineering, is an approximation whose accuracy increases with the size of features on the scatterer or medium relative to the wavelength of the scattered particles.
High frequency computing High frequency computing is a class of computer programming applications that relate to the processing of high-volume data streams, usually in real-time or near real-time. In general, its purpose is to enable high-speed decision making in a rapidly changing environment.
High Falls of Lookout Mountain High Falls of the Lookout Mountain is a manmade waterfall that is located in the Rock City Gardens and is one of its attractions. The waterfall is approximately 140 feet high and falls into a base which appears like a small pool.
High Fens The Hautes Fagnes (from the French; German: Hohes Venn; Dutch: Hoge Venen, English translation: high fens) are an upland area in the province of Liège (Belgium) and nearby parts of Germany, between the Ardennes and the Eifel highlands. Its highest point, at 694 m above sea level, is the Signal de Botrange near Eupen, which is also the highest point in Belgium.
High Fidelity (film) High Fidelity is a 2000 film directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, Tim Robbins, Lisa Bonet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joan Cusack, Joelle Carter, and Lili Taylor. It is based on the 1995 English novel of the same name by Nick Hornby.
High Fidelity (novel) High Fidelity is a British novel by Nick Hornby, first published (ISBN 0-575-05748-3) in 1995. It was made into a film in 2000 directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack, and served as the basis for a 2006 Broadway musical of the same name.
High Five Interchange The High Five Interchange is a large freeway interchange that connects LBJ Freeway (Interstate 635) and Central Expressway (US 75) in north Dallas, Texas (USA). The High Five is the first five-level stack interchange in Dallas.
High Flight Society High Flight Society is an alternative Christian rock band formed in 2001 in Cedartown, GA. High Flight Society has a general Alternative Rock sound similar to that of Forever Changed, Acceptance, Thrice and Jimmy Eat World.
High Flux Isotope Reactor The High Flux Isotope Reactor (or HFIR) is a research nuclear reactor located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Operational since 1966, the HFIR is an 85 MW reactor designed for the production of special radioisotopes (including the only US source of Californium-252) and high thermal neutron fluxes for research purposes.
High Force High Force is a waterfall on the River Tees, near Middleton-in-Teesdale, Tees Valley, England. Despite popular belief, it is not, at 20 metres (70 feet), the highest waterfall in England: Cautley Spout, in Cumbria's Howgill Fells, is almost 180 metres (600 feet) high; and Hardraw Force, in North Yorkshire, has an unbroken drop of 30 metres (100 feet).
High Forest The High Forest is a fictional region in Northwest Faerûn, of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. This is a vast region of old forest growth that stretches from the Nether Mountains range in the north to near the settlement of Secomber in the south, and along the Dessarin Valley along the western face.
High Frequency Content measure The High Frequency Content measure is a simple measure, taken across a signal spectrum (usually a STFT spectrum), which can be used to characterise the amount of high-frequency content in the signal. The magnitudes of the spectral bins are added together, but mutliplying each magnitude by the bin "position" (proportional to the frequency):
High Frequency Ventilation High frequency ventilation is a type of mechanical ventilation that employs very high respiratory rates (>150 breaths per minute) and very small tidal volumes (usually below anatomical dead space). The primary goal of HFV is to achieve ventilation and oxygenation at a reduced risk of ventilator induced lung injury (VILI).
High German consonant shift In historical linguistics, the High German consonant shift or Second Germanic consonant shift was a phonological development (sound change) which took place in the southern parts of the West Germanic dialect continuum in several phases, probably beginning between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD, and was almost complete before the earliest written records in the High German language were made in the 9th century. The resulting language, Old High German, can neatly be contrasted with the other continental west Germanic languages, which mostly did not experience the shift, and with Old English, which was completely unaffected.
High German languages The High German languages (in German, Hochdeutsch) are any of the varieties of standard German, Luxembourgish and Yiddish as well as the local German dialects spoken in central and southern Germany, in Austria, in Liechtenstein, in Switzerland, in Luxembourg and in neighbouring portions of Belgium, France (Alsace and northern Lorraine), Italy and Poland. It is also spoken in former colonial settlements, for instance in Romania (Transylvania), Russia, U.
High Guard The High Guard is a fictional military organization in the TV series Andromeda. Its origins can be traced back to a legendary Vedran warrior, General Huascar nax Yoweri, whose campaign of conquest across the Six Galaxies produced the Vedran Empire.
High Hat High Hat is a US album compiling tracks from Boy George's first two solo albums, Tense Nervous Headache and Boyfriend. Since those two albums are no longer available, High Hat remains the only place to find any of Boy George's songs from 1988-89, though High Hat, like Tense Nervous Headache and Boyfriend are out of print.
High Heat Major League Baseball 2003 High Heat Major League Baseball 2003 was the second-to-last of a successful series of baseball computer games, released on Xbox, PlayStation 2, PC, and Game Boy Advance. There were two versions of the game released, 2002 and 2003, featuring Curt Schilling on the box cover.
High Heat: Major League Baseball Series High Heat: Major League Baseball, was a successful series of baseball computer games, released on XBOX, Playstation 2 and PC. There were two versions of the game released, 2002 and 2003, featuring Curt Schilling on the box cover.
High Hopes (1959 song) "High Hopes" is a popular song, introduced in the 1959 film A Hole In The Head, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1959. The music was written by Jimmy Van Heusen, the lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
High Hopes (TV series) High Hopes is a sitcom made in Wales, produced and directed by Gareth Gwenlan and is set in a fictional area of the South Wales Valleys. It stars Margaret John as widow Elsie Hepplewhite, Steven Meo as (Dwayne) Hoffman and Ben Evans as Charlie.
High Hoyland High Hoyland is a village and a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley (part of South Yorkshire, England), on the border with West Yorkshire. It lies to the west of Kexbrough, and is located at approximately , at an elevation of around 200 metres above sea level.
High Huts of the White Mountains The High Huts of the White Mountains are a series of eight alpine huts in the White Mountains, owned and maintained by the Appalachian Mountain Club and modeled after similar huts in the Alps. They are positioned at intervals along the Appalachian Trail, allowing "thru-hikers" (those who hike the entire Appalachian Trail) to benefit from their services.
High chair A high chair is a piece of furniture used for feeding older babies and younger toddlers. The seat is raised a fair distance from the ground, so that a person of adult height may spoon-feed the child comfortably from a standing position.
High church "High Church" is a term that may now be used in speaking of viewpoints within a number of denominations of Christianity in general, but it is one which has traditionally been employed in Churches associated with the Anglican tradition in particular.
High Chaparall Taking a camera-team to America, Filip and Fredrik filmed a series of interviews with minor celebrities and has-beens such as Fabio Lanzoni, Ron Jeremy, Tonya Harding, Uri Geller, and Gary Busey. Rather than just sit down and talk, they also followed the stars around, sometimes for several days, and engaged themselves in various activities.
High Charity In the video game Halo 2, High Charity is the name of the mobile capital city of the Covenant. Its structure consists of one half of a small planet or moon that has been hollowed out, forming a roof over the city and a spire sticking out from underneath it.
High Church Lutheranism High Church Lutheranism or Evangelical Catholicism is a form of Lutheranism which emphasizes worship practices and doctrine that are similar to those of the high church movement within Anglicanism, and therefore also to those of
High impedance In electronics, high impedance (also known as hi-Z, tri-stated, or floating) may depict the state of an output terminal which is temporarily not driven by the output circuitry. In digital circuits, it means that the signal is neither driven to a logical high nor to a logical low level (hence "tri-stated").
High intensity focused ultrasound HIFU (high intensity focused ultrasound) (sometimes FUS or HIFUS) is a highly precise medical procedure using high-intensity focused ultrasound to heat and destroy pathogenic tissue rapidly. It is one modality of therapeutic ultrasound, and although it induces hyperthermia it should not be confused with this technique which heats much less rapidly and to much lower therapeutic temperatures (generally < 45oC).
High island A high island is, in geology (and sometimes in archaeology), an island of volcanic origin. The term is used to distinguish such islands from low islands, whose origin is due to sedimentation or uplifting of coral reefs.
High Icelandic High Icelandic (Háfrónska) is an artificial language started by the Belgian Jozef Braekmans, aimed at removing loan words from the modern Icelandic language. Its vocabulary is described by its creator as an "ultrapurist" compilation of already existing Icelandic neologisms, and other neologisms created by Braekmans himself.
High IQ society A high IQ society is an organisation that limits membership to people who are within a certain high percentile of IQ test results, theoretically representing the most intelligent people in the world. The oldest, largest, and most well-known such society is Mensa International, which was founded by Roland Berrill and Dr.
High Island Offshore System High Island Offshore System is a natural gas pipeline system that gathers gas in the offshore Gulf of Mexico and brings it into ANR Pipeline's eastern leg and Enbridge Pipelines UTOS. It is owned by El Paso Corporation.
High Island Reservoir The High Island Reservoir (Chinese: 萬宜水庫, Pinyin: Wànyí Shǔikù), located in the far south eastern part of the Sai Kung Peninsula, was opened in 1978 helping to alleviate water shortage problems in Hong Kong. Its water capacity is approximately 273 million cubic metres.
High Island, Hong Kong High Island or Leung Shuen Wan (糧船灣洲) is an island in the southeast of Sai Kung Peninsula, Hong Kong. The island is connected to the peninsula by dams to enclosed the Kwun Mun Channel to form High Island Reservoir.
High Island, Texas High Island is an unincorporated area located in Galveston County, Texas. The city is located in the extreme eastern part of the county on Bolivar Peninsula, less than one mile from Chambers county and less than two miles from Jefferson county.
High jump The high jump is an athletics (track and field) event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without aid of any devices. It has been contested since the Olympic Games of ancient Greece.
High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of is a national institution responsible for many aspects of the judicial system Bosnia and Herzegovina. It appoints, trains and disciplines judges and is responsible for advising other levels of government about judicial budgets and administration.
High King of Ireland High King of Ireland (Irish: Ard Rí na hÉireann) refers to legendary, pagan kings of Tara. It also refers to later kings, who were, depending on the period, either the most powerful king of their day, or, in later times, exercised authority over most of Ireland.
High leg delta A high leg delta (also known as wild-leg or red-leg delta) is a type of transformer winding connection sometimes found in older electrical installations. A transformer wound in this fashion will have four wires coming out of the secondary: the three phases, plus a neutral that is used to center-tap one of the windings.
High level waste High level Waste (HLW) is a type of nuclear waste that arises from the use of uranium fuel in a nuclear reactor and nuclear weapons processing. It contains the fission products and transuranic elements generated in the reactor core.
High Legh High Legh is a village in Cheshire, England, lying six miles north west of Knutsford, and seven miles east of Warrington. The historical seat of two titled families, the Leghs and the Leighs, the family halls no longer remain.
High Level Architecture The High Level Architecture (HLA) is a general purpose architecture for distributed computer simulation systems. Using HLA, computer simulations can communicate to other computer simulations regardless of the computing platforms.
High Level Assembly High Level Assembler (HLA) is an assembly language developed by Randall Hyde which can use high-level language constructs to aid x86 assembly programmer beginners and advanced assembly developers alike. It fully supports advanced data types and object-oriented assembly language programming.
High Level Bridge (Edmonton) The High Level Bridge, opened in 1913, spans the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton, Alberta. Located next to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, the bridge linked the then-separate communities of Edmonton and Strathcona.
High Level Shader Language The High Level Shader Language (HLSL) is a proprietory shading language developed by Microsoft for use with their Microsoft Direct3D only. It is competing against GLSL but is not compatible with the OpenGL standard.
High Level Threat Panel The High Level Panel on Threats, Challegenges and Change of the United Nations, chaired by former Thai Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun and including former US National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and several former heads of government and foreign ministers as members, produced what may be the single best intelligence estimate with respect to the future of mankind and its habitat. The two references below detail the panel's mission and composition, and provide access to the final report in multiple forms.
High Littleton High Littleton () and its hamlet Hallatrow () are located in the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset and straddle both the A39 and A37, 8 miles from Bath, 12 miles from Wells and 10 miles from Bristol.
High memory High Memory is the part of physical memory in a computer which is not directly mapped by the page tables of its operating system kernel. The phrase is also sometimes used as shorthand for the High Memory Area, which is a different concept entirely.
High modernism High modernism is a particular instance of modernism, coined towards the end of modernism. "High modernism", like similar names designating intellectual and artistic eras such as "the high Middle Ages" or "the high Baroque", presumably is meant to specify the most characteristic, developed, consistent, or florid manifestation of modernism.
High motion High motion is the characteristic of video or film footage displayed possessing a sufficiently high frame rate (or field rate) that moving images do not blur or strobe even when tracked closely by the eye. The most common forms of high motion are NTSC and PAL video (ie.
High Middle Ages The High Middle Ages was the period of European history in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries (AD 1000–1300). The High Middle Ages were preceded by the Early Middle Ages and followed by the Late Middle Ages, which by convention ends around 1500.
High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle The M998 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Humvee) is a military motor vehicle. It has largely supplanted the role formerly served by the Jeep, Gama Goat, and other light trucks with the United States military, and is also used by a number of other countries and organizations.
High Moon Studios High Moon Studios is a video game developer formerly known as Sammy Studios, Inc, originally a subsidiary of Sammy Corporation. In 2005, Sega Sammy Holdings, the result of the merger between Sammy Corporation and Sega, decided to close Sammy Studios so that they could disengage from game development in North America and instead focus on its Japanese productions.
High Mountain Park Preserve High Mountain Park Preserve is a protected area of the Preakness Range of the Watchung Mountains in Wayne, New Jersey, United States. Established in 1993, it is comprised of 1153 acres of woodlands and wetlands owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy.
High Mountain Rangers High Mountain Rangers was a weekly television show about a group of highly trained search and rescue law enforcement officers in Tahoe. It starred Robert Conrad as Jesse Hawkes and also starred his two sons, Christian Conrad and Shane Conrad.
High Museum of Art The High Museum of Art is the primary art museum in Atlanta, Georgia. The museum is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center, which also includes the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Young Audiences and the 14th Street Playhouse.
High net worth individual In private banking, a high-net-worth individual (HNWI) is a person with a high net worth. Typically these individuals have investable assets (financial assets not including first piece of real estate) in excess of US$1 million.
High North Alliance The High North Alliance (Norwegian; Høge Nord Alliansen) is an umbrella organisation of several fishing, whaling and Nordic municipal councils. The organisation objectives are, it says, "to protect the rights of whalers, sealers and fishermen to harvest renewable resources in accordance with the principle of sustainable management.
High of 75 High of 75 is a song by the Christian rock band Relient K, and it appeared as the third track on their fourth full-length album, Mmhmm. It is also the first and only Christian radio single from the album, as two more singles were released in the mainstream as well, along with a music video for both.
High on Fire High on Fire is a metal band from Oakland, CA, USA. Their music is a combination of the sounds created by bands such as Venom, Motörhead, Celtic Frost, Black Sabbath, and Slayer, although guitarist and singer Matt Pike claims influence from a variety of sources, including Beethoven.
High Order Language Working Group The High Order Language Working Group (HOLWG) was a working group instrumental in the development of the Ada programming language. The group was established in 1975 with the goal of establishing a single high order computer programming language appropriate for DoD real-time embedded computer systems.
High Ozone Shock Treatment for mold remediation High Ozone shock treatment or ozone blasting has been promoted in recent years as a fast and inexpensive method of mold remediation in commercial and residential buildings. There is little scientific evidence that it is effective, and some that it is not; governmental standards on mold remediation frequently recommend against the use of this method.
High performance liquid chromatography High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is a form of column chromatography used frequently in biochemistry and analytical chemistry. It is sometimes referred to as high pressure liquid chromatography, although this terminology has been deprecated.
High performance vehicle Typically describes a vehicle (generally a car) that has been designed with specific performance capabilities, above and beyond those of normal vehicles. Enhancements such as higher engine output (power), enhanced braking and suspension systems, are all hallmarks of high-performance vehicles.
High pressure High pressure science and engineering is studying the effects of high pressure on materials and the design and construction of devices, such as a diamond anvil cell, which can create high pressure. By high pressure it is meant pressures of thousands (kilobars) or millions (megabars) of times atmospheric pressure (about 1 bar).
High pressure cleaning High Pressure Cleaning was developed as a fast effective way of removing mould, grime, dust and dirt from surfaces. In its extreme high pressure form it is used in many industrial cleaning applications requiring surface layers removed from some materials as well as dust free cutting of some metals and concrete.
High pressure nervous syndrome High pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS) is a dangerous diving disorder that can arise when a diver spends too much time breathing a high-pressure mixture of helium and oxygen (heliox) at depths in excess of 130 metres (430 feet). Its symptoms include dizziness, nausea, vomiting, tremors, myoclonic jerking, and decreased intellectual performance.
High pressure steam locomotive A high pressure steam locomotive is a steam locomotive with a boiler that operates at pressures well above what would be considered normal. In the later years of steam, boiler pressures were typically 200 to 250 PSI (1.
High protein diet A high protein diet is often recommended by bodybuilders and nutritionists to help efforts to build muscle and lose fat. It should not be confused with low-carb diets such as the Atkins Diet, which are not calorie-controlled and which often contain large amounts of fat.
High Park (electoral district) High Park (also known as High Park—Humber Valley) was a federal electoral district in the west end of the city of Toronto, in the province of Ontario, Canada. It was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1979.
High Park Forest School The High Park Forest School was first created around the beginning of the 1900s. It was initially a place for children with tuberculosis but through the years it became a summer school for underprivileged children.

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