Tommy also gets involved with Jimmy's widow Sheila ( an absolute no-no among firefighters ), and " probie " Mike Silletti begins to date a " fat chick " named Theresa ( Ashlie Atkinson ), in a relationship he keeps secret.

In every medium, spy thrillers introduce children and adolescents to deception and espionage at earlier ages, as in the Agent Cody Banks film, the Alex Rider adventure novels by Anthony Horowitz, chick lit novels such as I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You and the CHERUB series, by Robert Muchamore.

The chick is fed by both parents.

Two for the Seesaw was a successful Broadway play by William Gibson and was made into a 1962 film which portrayed the fated romance between a small town square ( Jerry ) and Greenwich Village beatnik chick ( Gittel ).

" This was confirmed in the seventies by Marshall W. Nirenberg's work on chick retinas and later on Drosophila melanogaster larvae.

A chick being beak-trimmed without anesthetics, by the use of a heated blade.

The chick will roll the other eggs out of the nest by pushing them with its back over the edge.

The player controls, a sneaker-wearing kiwi who must save his lover and several of his other kiwi chick friends who have been kiwi-napped by Wally, a large blue leopard seal.

* Pulses such as fava beans, chick peas, peas and lupins, although these were only appreciated by peasants, smiths, legionaries and gladiators ; the upper class preferred lentils imported from Egypt.

They qualify as parasitoids because many of them will cause the starvation of the host's chicks by competing with them for food, and many others either will remove host eggs when laying eggs in host nests, ( sometimes eating the eggs removed ), or the chick will eject or kill the eggs or chicks of the host when they hatch.

After hatching the chick is brooded by a parent until it is large enough to thermoregulate efficiently, and in some cases defend itself from predation.

The chicks of some species are abandoned by the parents ; parents of other species continue to bring food to the nesting site after the chick has left.

In 2004, two male chinstrap penguins named Roy and Silo in Central Park Zoo, New York City, formed a pair-bond and took turns trying to “ hatch ” a rock ; this was substituted by a keeper for a fertile egg, and the pair subsequently hatched and raised the chick.

Breeding individuals store energy rich lipids in a sac anterior to their stomach which are used to either sustain themselves while incubating their single egg, to feed their chick, or can also be used as a defensive mechanism when caught by a predator as do many other Procellariformes.

The smallest chick may even be killed by its larger siblings.

Kookaburra babies are often highly aggressive in the first week of life, and the youngest chick is often killed by the older chicks during this period.

According to Dr Claire Spottiswoode, who led the team of scientists, and whose research has been published in the journal Biology Letters, “ The honeyguide mother ensures her chick hatches first by internally incubating the egg for an extra day before laying it, so it has a head start in development compared to the host “.

Parents learn to recognize their own chicks by imprinting on cues from the first chick that hatches.

These plumes are not necessary for chick viability, but increased chick ornamentation increases the likelihood that a chick will be chosen as a favorite by the parents.

Experimental manipulation of chick ornamentation by clipping the bright plumes have shown that parents show clear preferences for ornamented chicks over non-ornamented ones.

In 2003, BookCrossing was criticized by Jessica Adams, author of several " chick lit " novels, who claimed that books were being " devalued " by the website as BookCrossing could lead to lower sales of books and, therefore, the reduction in royalties being paid to authors.

That same year, an orangutan named Jorong was seen rescuing an injured moorhen chick from a pond, " patiently coaxing the bird ashore with a leaf before gently lifting it onto grass "; the rescue became known to the wider public in June 2011, when a four-minute video of the event was posted to YouTube.

When it returns to the nest with food, the parent stands over its chick and taps the bill on the ground in front of it ; this elicits a begging response from a hungry chick ( pecking at the red spot ), which stimulates the parent to regurgitate food in front of it.

The chick will then rest for some hours, absorbing the remaining egg yolk and withdrawing the blood supply from the membrane beneath the shell ( used earlier for breathing through the shell ).

The chick then quickly emerges from out of the hole and rolls or staggers to the base of the mound, disappearing into the scrub within moments.

When a chick becomes too large to absorb oxygen through the pores of its eggshell, it uses its egg tooth to peck a hole in the air sac located at the flat end of the egg.

Buenos Aires, Rosario, and Córdoba also serve it with fainá, which is a chick pea-flour dough placed over the piece of pizza.

** keşkek-boiled wheat and chick peas stewed with meat.

According to one account, the chick was covered with grey down.

Image: Kittiwake with young chick. jpg | Kittiwake with chicks, Iceland

In contrast, bird eggs contain enough to supply the chick with nutriment throughout the whole period of incubation.

Some yolk often remains when a chick is born, and is thought to help sustain it if parents are delayed in returning with food.

A semi-precocial Wedge-tailed Shearwater chick with guarding parent.

After hatching, the incubating adult remains with the chick for a number of days, a period known as the guard phase.

In 1953, Just Born acquired the Rodda Candy Company and its marshmallow chick line, and replaced the painstaking process of hand-forming the chicks with mass production.

In 1969, Steve Cannon wrote Groove, Bang and Jive Around, in which Virginia Dare is one of two stewardesses aboard the Statecraft One who engages in a wild orgy with Annette, the foxy adolescent chick from New Orleans, and Estavanico, " Little Stevie " to some, the flight engineer.

In the further reaches of chick lit, ' the male organ ... becomes a tower of strength, a tree trunk in girth, the pillar that sustains the universe ... a Pillar of Hercules, sustaining heaven ' - evidence perhaps that ' the phallic religious tendency is alive in the modern and the civilized ... a compulsive fascination ' with what Jung termed ' the phallus as the quintessence of life and fruitfulness '.

I'd say Don you have such a beautiful wife but mine is probably out somewhere slashing my tires because I was off with some chick.

This leads to concerns with premature slaughtering, such as the chick culling.

alt = Small fuzzy black chick floats beside a larger bird on calm water with a muddy bank and tall grass in the background

An adult returning with sand eel s to feed the single chick

Adult of American subspecies with chick

The chick encourages the host to keep pace with its high growth rate with its rapid begging call and the chick's open mouth which serves as a sign stimulus.

The shorter trips, which are taken over the continental shelf, benefit the chick with faster growth, but longer trips to more productive pelagic feeding grounds are needed for the parents to maintain their own body condition.

After the riot ( which marked the series ' 600th episode ), Lou's former stooge, Alice Jenkins, switches sides and becomes friends with Rita, who forms a new prison gang – the " Wentworth Warriors " – including Lexie Patterson, Julie Egbert, demure housewife Nancy McCormack ( Julia Blake ), on remand for killing her husband but actually covering up for her son, biker chick " Roach " Waters ( Linda Hartley ) and vivacious con-woman Lorelei Wilkinson ( Paula Duncan ).

Gulban is made of peeled, half beans collected and well cooked with other grains such as wheat, peas and chick peas.