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Urban gardening Urban gardening involves using available soil and containers to grow plants in an urban environment. Usually this refers to growing inside the home or on a roof or terrace, though urban gardening may also include growing plants in windowboxes.
Urban growth boundary An urban growth boundary, or UGB, is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urbanization by designating the area inside the boundary for higher density urban development and the area outside the boundary for lower density rural development.
Urban Gothic Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on UK terrestrial Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a comparatively low budget, it nonetheless acquired a cult following despite its late air time and the patchy coverage of Channel 5.
Urban heat island An urban heat island (UHI) is a metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surroundings. As population centres grow in size from village to town to city, they tend to have a corresponding increase in average temperature, which is more often welcome in winter months than in summertime.
Urban H. Broughton Urban Hanlon Broughton (April 12, 1857-January, 1929) was a civil engineer, railroad and mining executive, and Member of the British Parliament. In 1929, he was in line for elevation to the peerage, but he died in January before the process was finalized.
Urban Harvest Urban Harvest is a local nonprofit organization in Houston, Texas dedicated to strengthening communities through gardening education. They support a network of inspirational and educational gardens and orchards throughout the greater Houston area which build community health, vitality and pride.
Urban Health Resource Centre Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC) is a non-profit Indian organization which aims to address health issues of the urban poor through a consultative and knowledge-sharing approach in partnership with government and civil society.
Urban History Urban history is a field of history that attempts examine the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanisation. The approach tends to be multidisciplinary, crossing boundaries into fields like local history, architectural history, urban sociology and urban geography.
Urban Jungle (Danny Phantom) "Urban Jungle" is the forty-sixth episode in the TV-series Danny Phantom. When a villainous plant ghost takes over Amity Park, a chilly Danny must cope with him as well as his newfound ice powers before it is too late.
Urban Legend (film) Urban Legend is a 1998 horror film starring Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, Rebecca Gayheart, Robert Englund, Tara Reid, Joshua Jackson, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Michael Rosenbaum, Danielle Harris, John Neville, and Loretta Devine.
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary Urban Legends: Bloody Mary is a 2005 horror film starring Kate Mara, Robert Vito, Tina Lifford, Ed Marinaro, Michael Coe, Lillith Fields, Nancy Everhard, Audra Lea Keener, Don Shanks, and Jeff Olson. It went straight to DVD in mid-2005.
Urban Lindgren Urban Lindgren (born 1973) is a Swedish cross country skier who competed from 1993 to 2002. He earned a silver medal in the 4 x 10 km at the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, and finished 14th in the 30 km event at those same championships.
Urban morphology Urban morphology is the study of the physical form of a city, which consists of street patterns, building sizes and shapes, architecture, population density and patterns of residential, commercial, industrial and other uses, among other things. Special attention is given to how the physical form of a city changes over time and to how different cities compare with to each other.
Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (, ) provided $375 million for large-scale urban public or private rail projects in the form of matching funds to cities and states. The Urban Mass Transit Administration (now the Federal Transit Administration) was created.
Urban MĂĽller Urban Dominik MĂĽller is the creator of the Aminet Amiga archive, the original author of the XPK compression library and the creator of the Brainfuck programming language. Besides this, he enjoys skydiving, juggling hard drives, and is a long-time supporter of the Amiga series of computers.
Urban Music Association of Canada Urban Music Association of Canada (UMAC) established in 1996, is a Canadian non-profit organization focused on showcasing and expanding Canadian urban music. UMAC offers a variety of service such as workshops, tours and also hosts the Canadian Urban Music Awards.
Urban Mystic Urban Mystic (born Brandon Williams in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1984) is an American R&B singer. The son of a minister, Urban Mystic had a Billboard R&B hit with both the KayGee Produced singles "Where Were You" and "It's You" and the Scott Storch produced "I Refuse", in 2005 & 2006.
Urban Myth Club Urban Myth Club is a UK–based collective consisting of a number of established artists and vocalists. Known to have worked as part of the collective has includes electronica artist Dezz, samplist and producer Ian Sanderson aka Cuckooland (with Simon Mills of Bent), Hollywood film composer Stephen Barton, Andy Dragzis (Blue States), Clare Szembek (Captain) & (The Funky Lowlives), keyboard player Shannon Harris (Wheatus).
Urban park An urban park, also known as a municipal park, is a park that is built in cities mostly to reduce air pollution and as a place to relax. The design and maintenance is mostly done by city government, or by a county or state government on certain occasions.
Urban planner An Urban planner is a professional who works in the field of urban planning. They work with local governments to formulate plans for the short- and long-term growth and renewal of urban and suburban communities.
Urban planning [planning is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest towns to the world's largest cities.]Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of land use planning which explores several aspects of the built and social environments of municipalities and communities.
Urban planning areas in Singapore Singapore is divided into 55 urban planning areas by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, organised into five regions. A Development Guide Plan is then drawn up for each planning area, providing for detailed planning guidelines for every individual plot of land throughout the country.
Urban planning in communist countries Urban planning in communist countries was subject to the ideological constraints of the system. Except for the Soviet Union where the communist regime started in 1917, in Eastern Europe communist governments took power after World War II.
Urban planning in Singapore Urban planning in Singapore has formulated and guided its physical development from the day the modern city-state was founded in 1819 as a British colony to the developed, independent country it is today. Urban planning is especially important due to land constraints and its high density.
Urban prairie Urban prairie is a recently-coined term to describe what is forming in some North American cities as the process of urban sprawl takes hold. When people abandon the inner city to relocate to the suburbs, large swaths of buildings are torn down or neglected due to a shrinking tax base and increased crime.
Urban Pasifika Urban Pasifika is a sub-genre of hip hop which combines American style hip hop or R&B rhyming and beats with Pacific Island or Māori instrumentation (such as ukulele samples) and Pacific Island or Māori language singing/rapping.
Urban Planning: Walkable Communities The topic of urban planning is one that most people have heard of, but not many people know what it really means. Urban Planners in the past have zoned cities and designed communities, and today, Urban Planners still do these things, but the profession has come to include so much more.
Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men-Englewood Campus, or "Urban Prep" for short, is a secondary charter school located within the Englewood community area of Chicago, Illinois. Urban Prep is the first school created under Urban Prep Charter Academies, and is also Chicago's first (and currently only) charter school for boys, catering chiefly to the improvement of Englewood's young African-American male population.
Urban renaissance Urban renaissance is a term used to describe the recent period of repopulation and regeneration of many British cities, including, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, and parts of London after a period of suburbanisation during the mid-20th century. This was achieved through a number of initiative including tax incentives and the lifting of some planning restrictions, as well as positive state intervention encouraging business and residents back into city centre areas.
Urban renewal Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in British English) is a function of urban planning that in Europe and the United States reached its peak from the late 1940s through to the early 1970s. It has had a massive impact on the urban landscape of many cities and continues to do so in the present day.
Urban rural fringe The urban rural fringe, also known as the outskirts or the urban hinterland, can be described as the "landscape interface between town and country" or alternatively as the transition zone] where urban and rural uses mix and often clash.
Urban Redevelopment Authority The Urban Redevelopment Authority (Abbreviation: URA; Chinese: 市区重建局; Malay: Lembaga Pembangunan Semula Bandar) is the national urban planning authority of Singapore, and a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development of the Singapore Government.
Urban Redevelopment in Sacramento The City of Sacramento, which serves as the state capital of California, was founded in December of 1848 by John Sutter. The following year, California's Gold Rush brought an influx of "forty-niners" and, shortly thereafter, goods, services, and industry to meet the needs of the booming population.
Urban Regeneration Company Urban Regeneration Companies are private companies in the United Kingdom that seek to achieve a radical physical transformation of their areas through masterplanning and co-ordinating financial assistance to developers from both the public and private sector.
Urban Renewal Authority The Urban Renewal Authority (市區重建局; URA) is a statutory body in Hong Kong responsible for accelerating redevelopment to provide a better living environment and neighbourhood. It was set up in 1999, replacing its predecessor Land Development Corporation (土地發展公司, or 土發 for short) which was set up in 1988.
Urban Ring Project (MBTA) The Urban Ring is a project of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to develop new public transportation routes that would provide improved circumferential connections among many existing transit lines that project radially from downtown Boston, allowing easier travel to locations outside of downtown. The project corridor passes through various neighborhoods of Boston, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Somerville, Cambridge, and Brookline.
Urban Rush Urban Rush is a Canadian entertainment talk show based out of Vancouver, British Columbia and is hosted by Fiona Forbes and Michael Eckford. Urban Rush features guests from the genres of film, television, music, literature, sports and pop culture.
Urban scout Urban Scout (AKA Peter Bauer) is an environmental educator, primitivist and local celebrity icon from Portland, Oregon. He believes that civilization is going to collapse and so has decided to drop out of the economic system to live as a primitive hunter-gatherer believing when collapse happens it won't affect him.
Urban search and rescue Urban search-and-rescue (USAR) involves the location, extrication, and initial medical stabilization of victims trapped in confined spaces. Structural collapse is most often the cause of victims being trapped, but victims may also be trapped in transportation accidents, mines and collapsed trenches.
Urban secession Urban secession is a city's secession from its surrounding region, to form a new political unit (usually a state or district or province of the same country as its surroundings, but not always). It is the extreme form of urban autonomy, which can be expressed in less formal terms or with ordinary legislation such as a City Charter.
Urban sprawl Urban sprawl (also: suburban sprawl) refers to expansion of a metropolitan area, with largely uncontrolled new land use of previously less developed areas surrounding a more urban core. The term is typically used to describe suburbs, largely residential and often built in tracts by commercial developers.
Urban streetwear Modern urban streetwear was born out of the sub-cultures in American Metropolis' such as New York and Los Angeles. The movement was generally accepeted to have been born out of the surf culture in late 1970s / early 1980s in LA.
Urban structure Urban structure is the arrangement of land use in urban areas. Sociologists, economists, and geographers have developed several models, explaining where different types of people and businesses tend to exist within the urban setting.
Urban survival syndrome In American jurisprudence, urban survival syndrome is a so-called "innovative defense", via which a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for actions which broke the law, as they were trying to survive within a violent urban area. This is similar to the justification of provocation, temporary insanity, and self-defense.
Urban Sax Urban Sax is an ensemble founded by the French composer Gilbert Artman made up of massive numbers of saxophones, accompanied by percussion and sometimes voices. The group is directed by Artman and performs his compositions, which are generally repetitive and minimalist, often sounding somewhat mechanistic rather than conventionally expressive.
Urban Search and Rescue New York Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue New York Task Force 1 or NY-TF1 is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in New York City, New York. NY-TF1 is jointly sponsored by the Fire Department of New York and the New York City Police Department.
Urban Shamanism Urban Shamanism, also known as Digital Shamanism or Psychedelia, is an artistic school of thought born out of the social upheavals of the past four decades, the artistic and technological movements of the 20th century, and the philosophies of various non-western cultures. It parallels and is often associated with Technopaganism.
Urban Soul Urban Soul is a house music studio project assembled by producer, songwriter and vocalist Roland Clark. Urban Soul hit the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart seven times through the 1990s, including hitting #1 in 1997 with the track "Show Me.
Urban Splash Urban Splash, set up in 1993, is a British company which regenerates decaying industrial warehouses and mills into modern apartments and penthouses as well as construct new build developments. They are mainly based in the northwest cities of the United Kingdom such as Manchester and Liverpool, but have expanded into the Midland an the south, in such places as Birmingham and Plymouth.
Urban Strawberry Lunch Urban Strawberry Lunch (USL) are a Liverpool, England, based group who make music on everyday objects. Formed by Benjamin F Tin and Ambrose Reynolds in 1987, USL began making their own musical instruments after a fire destroyed all of their (uninsured) musical instruments.
Urban town An urban town is a proposed classification for towns in the state of Wisconsin, similar to the urban townships of Minnesota and Ohio. The concept, originally proposed in 2001, as AB501limited the classification to towns with over 7,500 people.
Urban township (Ohio) An urban township is a designation of a unit of local government in Ohio as prescribed by chapter 504 of the Ohio Revised Code. Chapter 504 outlines the procedures for an Ohio civil township to adopt limited home rule government.
Urban Takeover Urban Takeover is a drum and bass record label founded by DJs and recording artists Micky Finn and Aphrodite. The label is often associated with the Hip-Hop-influenced Jump-Up style of Drum and Bass which was highly popular in the mid-nineties.
Urban Terror Urban Terror, commonly abbreviated as UrT is a total conversion mod of id Software's first-person shooter Quake III Arena by Silicon Ice Development (hereafter referred to as Frozen Sand). It introduces many elements of the tactical shooter genre — team-driven gaming in more realistic environments.
Urban Top 40 Urban Top 40, also known as Urban Contemporary Hits, is another form of the Mainstream Urban format, and it is similar to Top 40 radio. It is usually geared toward a predominantly African American audience and can include Latino, Asian and Caucasian listeners.
Urban Transportation Development Corporation The Urban Transportation Development Corporation was a corporation created in the 1970s by the Government of Ontario, Canada, to develop transit vehicles for the province's public transit authorities; largely this work would be for the province's largest authority, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) for whom the H4/H5 subway cars and ALRV streetcars were manufactured. It had its main plant just west of Kingston, in nearby Millhaven.
Urban Trash Urban Trash is a witty and satirical daily comic strip, originating in South Africa on 14 March 2005, focusing on the exploits of urban street life in South Africa. Its writer and and artist, Jeremy Nell, has unofficially claimed an incrementally growing readership of between five hundred thousand and nine hundred thousand.
Urban university An urban university is an institution of higher learning that is socially involved and serves as a resource for educating the citizens of the city in which it is located. That is, the urban university must by “of” the city as well as “in” the city.
Urban wilderness Where appreciation for the importance of biodiversity meets the New Urbanism, you'll find the pursuit of the creation of urban wilderness. Key traits of urban wilderness that differentiate it from lawns and other ecologically questionable forms of plantings are:
Urban Warrior Operation Urban Warrior is a United States Marine Corps (USMC) program and exercise meant to test Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (MOUT), and Urban warfare in general. It was developed in the late 1990s by the U.
Urban Waste Urban Waste(active 1981-83) was a hardcore punk band that was part of the New York renaissance of hardcore punk in the early 1980s. Much more raw, visceral, and overtly confrontational than their New York punk predecessors, they were contemporaries of Reagan Youth (of which bass player Andy Apathy was an early member), the earliest incarnation of the Beastie Boys, and the Bad Brains.
Urban-rural split A political phenomenon in which the people of urban areas of a state or its subdivisions vote for a different political party or interest than the people of rural areas. Generally today, the urban areas vote for the more liberal party or issue and the rural areas for the more conservative party or issue.
Urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement (, posyolok gorodskogo tipa; , selyshche mis'koho typu; abbreviated as in Russian and as in Ukrainian) is an official designation for a certain type of urban localities used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Urbana (convention) Urbana is a major Christian missions convention sponsored by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for college students. This event is designed to inform Christian students about current issues around the world that missionaries face, to declare the biblical mandate for cross-cultural missions, and motivate them to participate in missions.
Urbanate An Urbanate is the name given by the Technocracy movement to their proposal for an entirely new living environment, which is envisioned to replace cities in a possible future technate. The construction of Urbanates is one of the major infrastructure plans the Technocracy movement has for the technate.
Urbandale, Iowa Urbandale is a city in Polk County, and partially in Dallas County, in the state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 29,072; a special census taken by the city in 2005 counted 35,904 residents.
Urbanfetch Urbanfetch was an Internet company founded in 1999 which enabled customers to order products (DVDs, music, books, snacks, gifts, etc.) online and have them delivered by bike messenger in under an hour within a certain delivery areas covering most of Manhattan and London.
Urbanism Urbanism is the study of cities - their economic, political, social and cultural environment, and the imprint of all these forces on the built environment. In addition Urbanism is also the practice of creating human communities for living, work, and play; covering the more human aspects of urban planning.
Urbanite Urbanite is a word used in the United Kingdom and Ireland to describe a demographic of people who, like yuppies, are young, urban professionals, but unlike yuppies, are socially conscious. This group of people has been called the yuppies of the 21st Century.
Urbanity The concept of urbanity, of the characteristically citified view of life, referred originally to the view of the world from Rome, and the popes who took Urbanus for a pontifical name were expressing their solidarity with the city they ruled as Bishop of Rome. The converse of Urbanus is Rusticus.
Urbanizm Music Urbanizm Music is an independent record label and music production company that specializes in urban music. It was founded in 2004 by record producer Duane "DCT" Thorpe, who sought to "bring music back to the music business and give true music fans something to look forward to.
Urbano Lugo Rafael Urbano Lugo Colina (born August 12, 1962 in Punto Fijo, Venezuela), best know as Urbano Lugo, is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the California Angels (1985-88), Montreal Expos (1989) and Detroit Tigers (1990).
Urbe Bikini Urbe Bikini is a Venezuelan, Maxim-styled monthly with original photographs of famous models and editorial content geared to men 25 to 40. From its launch in December 2003, Bikini or UB has been the largest circulation glossy in the country.
Urbemis URBEMIS software is designed to estimate air emissions from land use development projects. Early versions of URBEMIS (URBEMIS versions 1 through 5) were designed to estimate only motor vehicle emissions from trips generated by land use development.
Urbi et Orbi Urbi et Orbi, literally "to the City [of Rome] and to the World," was a standard opening of Roman proclamations. Nowadays the term is used to denote a papal document that is addressed to the City of Rome as to the entire Catholic World.
Urbian Urbian or Urian is a possible Old European or Pre-Indo-European (Pre-IE) language defined by Sorin Paliga. The Proto-Indo-European (Proto-IE) language, the descendants of which should have replaced the Pre-IE language or language family, ought not to include a root corresponding to Latin urbs, as the Proto-IE were nomadic or semi-nomadic (in the Kurgan model and most reconstructions of IE society from the roots).
Urbici Soler y Manonelles Urbici Soler (Urbici José Francisco Soler y Manonelles) (1890-1953) was born in Ferran (Lleida), Spain, and died in Anapra, New Mexico at the foot of Mount Cristo Rey. Soler is remembered chiefly for a monumental statue of Christ atop Mount Cristo Rey, completed in 1939.
Urbie Green Urban Clifford "Urbie" Green (born August 8, 1926) is an American professional jazz trombonist who toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, and Frankie Carle. He appears on over 250 recordings and has released more than two dozen albums as a soloist and is highly respected by his fellow trombonists.
Urbs beata Jerusalem dicta pacis visio Urbs beata Jerusalem dicta pacis visio was the first line of a hymn of probably the seventh or eighth century sung in the in the Office of the Dedication of a Roman Catholic church before the Second Vatican Council.Urbs Beata Jerusalem dicta pacis visio - Catholic Encyclopedia article
Urdă Urdă is a Romanian cheese-like dairy product made by reprocessing the whey drained from cheeses such as caş or telemea. The process of making it is somewhat similar to the one for Italian fresh ricotta cheese.
Urdd Gobaith Cymru Urdd Gobaith Cymru, literally, the Welsh League of Hope, but normally translated as the Welsh League of Youth, or merely referred to as the Urdd, is a Welsh-medium youth movement with over 1,500 branches and over 50,000 members (as of 2006). The Urdd organises activities for its members ranging from small-scale meetings to the Urdd eisteddfod which lasts for a week, is attended by tens of thousands of visitors (over 100,000 in 2005) and is televised on S4C.
Urdinarrain Urdinarrain is a city in the center-south of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina, 240 km southeast from the provincial capital Paraná and 40 km west from Gualeguaychú, on Provincial Route 20. It has 7,992 inhabitants as per the .
Urdoviza Glacier Urdoviza Glacier (Lednik Urdoviza 'led-nik ur-do-'vi-za) is a glacier bounded by the eastern slopes of Oryahovo Heights on Livingston Island, Antarctica. The glacier drains eastwards into Hero Bay between AgĂĽero Point and Sandanski Point.
Urdoxa Urdoxa derives from the ancient Greek, meaning "primary" or "first" doctrine. For Plato and Aristotle, the notion of "doxa" meant "opinion" (for an interesting treatment of the Greek conception of Urdoxa, see Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, What is Philosophy?
Urdu (band) Urdu was an experimental pop music group that formed in California, USA in 1983. It was a trio consisting of ambient musician and multi instrumentalist Robert Rich, guitarist Rick Davies and bassist Andrew McGowan.
Urdu Defence Association The Urdu Defence Association was an organisation developed by Mohsin-ul-Mulk for the advocacy of Urdu as the lingua franca of the Muslim community of India. The association is regarded as an off-shoot of the Aligarh Movement.
Urdu keyboard Urdu keyboard refers to the keyboard layout on Urdu computer and typewriter keyboards. Over the years, the layout has gone through various phases of evolution since the first Urdu typewriter was made available in 1911.
Urdu literature Urdu literature has a long and colorful history that is inextricably tied to the development of that very language, Urdu, in which it is written. While it tends to be heavily dominated by poetry, the range of expression achieved in the voluminous library of a few major verse forms, especially the ghazal and nazm, has led to its continued development and expansion into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana.
Urdu movement The Urdu movement was a socio-political movement aimed at making Urdu the universal language and symbol of the cultural and political identity of the Muslim communities of India. The movement began with the fall of the Mughal Empire in the mid-19th century, fueled by the Aligarh movement of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.
Urdu poetry Urdu poetry (Urdu: اردو شاعری, Urdu Shayari) is one of the most dominant and prominent poetries of times and has many different colours & types. It has generated its root from Arabic and mainly from Persian and is an important part of Indian culture.
Ure2p Ure2p is a yeast protein and is a negative regulator of the utilization of poor nitrogen sources in the presence of preferred nutrients such as ammonia or glutamine. Autocatalytic conversion of Ure2p into the inactive prion form of the protein is causing the URE3 prion phenotype.
Urea cycle The urea cycle, also known as the ornithine cycle, is a cycle of biochemical reactions occurring in many animal organisms that produces urea from ammonia (NH3). This cycle was the first metabolic cycle discovered (Krebs and Kurt Henseleit, 1932).
Urea cycle disorder An urea cycle disorder is a genetic disorder caused by a deficiency of one of the enzymes in the urea cycle which is responsible for removing ammonia from the blood stream. The urea cycle involves a series of biochemical steps in which nitrogen, a waste product of protein metabolism, is removed from the blood and converted to urea.
Urea-formaldehyde Urea-formaldehyde (also known as Urea-methanal) is a transparent thermosetting resin or plastic, made from urea and formaldehyde heated in the presence of a mild base such as ammonia or pyridine. These resins are used in adhesives, finishes, and molded objects.
Urea-treated rice straw Urea-treated rice straw, is produced from using solution of 100 kg water and 5 kg urea, fertilizer grade and sprinkle/pour over stack of air-dried straw, 100 kg and covered with plastic covers to prevent in/out of air for 10 days and then being fed directly to ruminants, more details can be searched from, AJAS, Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
Ureli Corelli Hill Ureli Corelli Hill (1802 - September 2, 1875) was an American conductor notable for being the first president and conductor of the New York Philharmonic Society. His grandfather, Frederick Hill, had been a fifer in the Revolutionary army and his father, Uri Keeler Hill, was a music teacher and composer.
Ureme 2 Wuroemae from the Outside, Part II (외계에서 온 우뢰매 2) (Thunder Hawk from Beyond, Part 2) was the second in the Ureme series of Korean children's science-fiction films directed by Kim Cheong-gi and starring Shim Hyung-rae.
Ureme 6 The Third Generation Uremae 6 (1989) was the sixth in the Ureme series of Korean children's science-fiction films directed by Kim Cheong-gi. In a break from tradition, Shim Hyung-rae did not star in this installment of the saga.
Ureme 8 Ureme 8: Esperman and Ureme 8 (1993) was the eighth in the Ureme series of Korean children's science-fiction films. After separating in the previous two entries, director Kim Cheong-gi and star Shim Hyung-rae were reunited in this film.
Uremia Uremia is a toxic condition resulting from renal failure, when kidney function is compromised and urea, a waste product normally excreted in the urine, is retained in the blood. Uremia can lead to disturbances in the platelets and hypersomnia, among other effects.

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