Critical Mass is an event typically held on the last Friday of every month in cities around the world where bicyclists take to the streets en masse.

While the ride was originally founded with the idea of drawing attention to how unfriendly the city was to bicyclists, the leaderless structure of Critical Mass makes it impossible to assign it any one specific goal.

In fact, the purpose of Critical Mass is not formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and traveling as a group through city streets.

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Critical Mass was created in 1996 when The Right Stuf made a deal with Manga Entertainment to release an unedited edition of Violence Jack, which they deemed too intense for their normal line.

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When Central Park Media went bankrupt in the year of 2009, the licenses for all Anime 18-related products and movies were transferred to Critical Mass.

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* Philip Ball: Critical Mass: How one thing leads to another ( 2005 )

During this period the magazine included lots of features such as the satirical comic strip Thrud the Barbarian and Dave Langford's " Critical Mass " book review column, as well as a comical advertising series " The Androx Diaries ", and always had cameos and full scenarios for a broad selection of the most popular games of the time, as well as a more rough and informal editorial style.

Boston has an active Critical Mass ride and MassBike is a bike advocacy group active in supporting cyclists in the area.

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There are also some Roman Catholic bands such as Critical Mass.

On 25 September 1969, two retired cardinals, 79-year-old Alfredo Ottaviani and 84-year-old Antonio Bacci, wrote a letter with which they sent Pope Paul VI the text of the " Short Critical Study on the New Order of Mass ", which had been prepared in the previous June by a group of twelve theologians under the direction of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

" Carry On Wayward Son " has been covered by: Critical Mass, Dream Theater, Yngwie Malmsteen, The Oak Ridge Boys, Rachel Rachel, The Showdown, Stryper, and an off-the-cuff live version by the Foo Fighters.

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* Buy Nothing Critical Mass: As the monthly Critical Mass bicycle ride often falls on this day or near, rides in some cities acknowledge and celebrate Buy Nothing Day.

San Francisco Critical Mass, April 29, 2005.

Critical Mass is a cycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month in over 300 cities around the world.

Full path of Critical Mass in Lisbon on April 2012

It is estimated that there are Critical Mass-type rides in more than 325 cities to date.

Critical Mass rides vary greatly in many respects, including frequency and number of participants.

For example, many small cities have monthly Critical Mass rides with fewer than twenty riders which offer safety in numbers to cyclists in those locales, while on the opposite extreme, in what have been the largest events using the name Critical Mass, cyclists in Budapest, Hungary hold only two rides each year on April 22 ( Earth Day ) and September 22 ( International Car Free Day ).

Corking has sometimes led to hostility between motorists and riders, even erupting into violence and arrests of motorists and cyclists alike during Critical Mass rides.

Examples of Critical Mass rides for political movements includes the Free Tibet Rides ( May 2008 ): Free Tibet Critical Mass in Columbia, Missouri, " Tibetan Freedom Bike Rally " in San Francisco ( Aug 2008 ), and in " Bike Ride for Tibet " in London ( Aug 2008 ).

It is different than Critical Mass in that it rides after rush hour and obeys all traffic laws and has a pre-determined route.

Critical Manners rides through the city on the second Friday of the month, with riders encouraged to obey all traffic laws such as stopping at red lights and signaling.

Critical Mass rides have generated controversy and public opposition.

* Critical-Mass. info: A directory of Critical Mass rides worldwide ( no longer regularly updated )

On October 31, around 150 protests took place across the United Kingdom, including Critical Mass bike rides, occupations, and mass demonstrations in Brighton, Manchester, Glasgow and London.

* Critical Mass bike rides have been perceived as protest activities.

A 2006 New Yorker magazine article described Critical Mass ' activity in New York City as " monthly political-protest rides ", and characterized Critical Mass as a part of a social movement ; and the UK e-zine Urban75, which advertises as well as publishes photographs of the Critical Mass event in London, describes this as " the monthly protest by cyclists reclaiming the streets of London.

The Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park is the commencement point for Sydney's Critical Mass bicycle rides.

Since 1992, cyclists riding in San Francisco's monthly Critical Mass bicycle rides had used the " corking " technique at street intersections to block rush-hour cross-traffic.

The collective got significant local press coverage by organizing Critical Mass bike rides, and Really Free Markets, along with countless small pieces and short interviews / quotes regarding other issues.

) Critical editions of the Arabic text have been published in Cairo, 1952 – 83, originally under the supervision of I. Madkour

Theoretical models have also been developed to study the physics of phase transitions, such as the Landau-Ginzburg theory, Critical exponents and the use of mathematical techniques of quantum field theory and the renormalization group.

No fewer than 545 titles, ranging from satirical poems, political and religious pamphlets and volumes have been ascribed to Defoe ( note: in their Critical Bibliography ( 1998 ), Furbank and Owens argue for the much smaller number of 276 published items ).

Critical studies have been clouded by Thomas ' personality and mythology, especially his drunken persona and death in New York.

* Critical events or event chains: The single events or the event chains that have the most potential to affect the projects are the “ critical events ” or “ critical chains of events .” They can be determined by the analysis.

Critical translations of the Old Testament, while using the Masoretic Text as their basis, consult the Septuagint as well as other versions in an attempt to reconstruct the meaning of the Hebrew text whenever the latter is unclear, undeniably corrupt, or ambiguous .. For example, the Jerusalem Bible Foreword says, "... only when this ( the Masoretic Text ) presents insuperable difficulties have emendations or other versions, such as the ... LXX, been used.

Critical applications have less downtime when using cluster servers, RAID, or a mirroring system.

Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests ; she is the founder of " Critical Resistance ", an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex.

FRCP ( EM ) ED Emergency Medicine Board specialists tend to congregate in academic centers and tend to have more academically oriented careers, which emphasize administration, research, critical care, disaster medicine, teaching and tend to go for subspecialty in toxicology, Critical Care, pediatrics, and sport medicine.

Critical responses to the programme have been polarised ; reviewers praised its dystopian themes and " enormous sense of fun ", but broadcaster Clive James described it as " classically awful ".

Critical opinions of his work have varied widely.

Critical interpretation of the myth has considered Myrrha's refusal of conventional sexual relations to have provoked her incest, with the ensuing transformation to tree as a silencing punishment.

Critical in this regard is the use of aluminized mirrors whose coatings have been optimized for low loss in this region of the spectrum.

While some critics or schools of criticism emphasize one movement over the other, for Frye, both movements are essential: " criticism will always have two aspects, one turned toward the structure of literature and one turned toward the other cultural phenomena that form the social environment of literature " ( Critical Path 25 ).

Critical editions of the Arabic text have been published in Cairo, 1952 – 83, originally under the supervision of Ibrahim Madkour ; some of these editions are given below.

In 1988, with that preliminary phase of the project completed, Professor Skousen took over as editor and head of the FARMS Critical Text of the Book of Mormon Project and proceeded to gather still scattered fragments of the Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon and to have advanced photographic techniques applied to obtain fine readings from otherwise unreadable pages and fragments.

Critical studies, with various approaches, by Dorothy Coleman, Jerry Nash, Nancy Frelick, Cynthia Skenazi, James Helgeson and Thomas Hunkeler are particularly useful ; important articles on the poet have been written by François Rigolot, Enzo Giudici, Edwin Duval, Terence Cave, Gérard Defaux, and Richard Sieburth's " Introduction " to Emblems of Desire: Selections from the " Délie ", a work which Sieburth translated and edited ( see External links below for link to Sieburth's Introduction available on-line ).

The gradual evolution of consensus about the meaning of Carl Andre's art can be found in About Carl Andre: Critical Texts Since 1965, published by Ridinghouse in 2008. The most significant essays and exhibition reviews have been collated into one volume, including texts written by some of the most influential art historians and critics: Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert C. Morgan, Barbara Rose and Roberta Smith.

Marxist approaches have also inspired Critical Theorists such as Robert W. Cox who argues that " Theory is always for someone and for some purpose ".

Because Critical Mass takes place without an official route or sanction, participants in some cities have sometimes practiced a tactic known as " corking " in order to maintain the cohesion of the group.

The practice of corking roads in order to pass through red lights as a group is in contravention of traffic laws in some jurisdictions and is sometimes criticized to be contrary to Critical Mass ' claim that " we are traffic ", since ordinary traffic does not have the right to go through intersections once the traffic signal has changed to red.