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Together with Didier Queloz in 1995 he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. Because of this, Mayor and Queloz won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star".
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E. D. Hirsch
E. D. Hirsch is Eric Donald Hirsch Jr. (; born March 22, 1928. He is an American educator and academic literary critic. He is professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia.
In the 1960s Hirsch's "Validity in Interpretation" made an important work to contemporary literary theory and he was called "the founder of contemporary intentionalism".
In popular culture Hirsch is best known for his work on cultural literacy, and is the founder and chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation.
He is a long-term critic of American schools, and promotes ideas for improving the education of children. His "The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them" (1996) was hated by the liberal left. It also managed to annoy the right wing because it attacked the local control of schools. in 2016 he published " Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing our Children from Failed Educational Theories". This outlined three major problems with education in the United States. These are, according to him, the emphasis on teaching skills, such as critical thinking skills, rather than knowledge, individualism rather than communal learning, and developmentalism, that is, teaching children what is "appropriate" for their age.
Beginning in 1990s, Hirsch began publishing books in the "Core Knowledge Grader Series" which the Foundation describes as "an engaging, illustrated guide to the essential knowledge outlined in the Core Knowledge Sequence". This series of books was received well by parents educating children at home, and it has been adopted by many school systems.
Sol Stern, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute who has written extensively on education reform, wrote in 2013 that Hirsch was "the most important education reformer of the past half-century."
Eduard Admetlla i Lázaro
Eduard Admetlla i Lázaro (10 January 1924 – 8 October 2019) was a Spanish scuba diver, underwater cameraman and photographer. He was the designer of a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) and also was the tester of scuba diving gear for the Nemrod trade mark. He was born in Barcelona.
He wrote five books describing his underwater experiences: "La llamada de las profundidades", "Mis amigos los peces", "¡Fondo!", "Tierras y profundidades" and "Mi aventura submarina".
Admetlla i Lázaro died on 8 October 2019 in Barcelona at the age of 95.
Municipalities of Spain
Vlasta Chramostová
Vlasta Chramostová (17 November 1926 – 6 October 2019) was a Czech movie actress. She appeared in 35 movies from 1950 until her death. She starred in the 1950 movie "The Trap" which was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. She was born in Brno.
Other movie roles include: "The Secret of Blood" (1953), "The Cassandra Cat" (1963), "The Cremator" (1969), "Sekal Has to Die" (1998) and "Leaving" (2011).
Chramostová died in Brno on 6 October 2019 at the age of 92.
Masaichi Kaneda
Kaneda died on October 6, 2019 in Tokyo of sepsis at the age of 86.
Martin Lauer
Karl Martin Lauer (2 January 1937 – 6 October 2019) was a West German sprinter. He won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Lauer died on 6 October 2019 at the age of 82.
Karen Pendleton
Karen Anita Pendleton (August 1, 1946 – October 6, 2019) was an American child television actress. She was the original "Mickey Mouse Club" Mouseketeer on ABC television from 1955 to 1959. She was one of only nine Mouseketeers who were on the show during its entire original run. Pendleton was born in Glendale, California.
Pendleton died in Fresno, California on October 6, 2019 from a heart attack at the age of 73.
David Petel
David Petel (, 6 September 1921 – 6 October 2019) was an Iraqi-born Israeli politician. He was a member of the Knesset for Mapai from 1959 until 1969. He was born in Basra, Iraq. He was a member of the Alignment after the Mapai party ended. Petel died in Ramat Gan on 6 October 2019 at the age of 98.
In statistics, an estimator is a rule for calculating an estimate of a given amount based on observed data: thus the rule (the estimator), the amount that is being measured (the estimand) and its result (the estimate) are different.
An estimator of a parameter formula_1 is often written as formula_2. If the expected value of the estimator is equal to the parameter, then the estimator is called unbiased. Otherwise, it is called biased.
Statistical parameter
A statistical parameter or population parameter is an amount put into the probability distribution of a statistic or a random variable. It can be thought of as a numbered amount of a trait of a statistical population or a statistical model.
A statistical parameter is different from its estimator in that the parameter is a fixed amount, while the value of an estimator changes according to some probability distribution. The notations formula_1 (for the parameter) and formula_2 (for the estimator) are often used to clarify this distinction.
Efficiency (statistics)
Method of moments (statistics)
In statistics, the method of moments is a method of estimation of population parameters.
Suppose that the problem is to estimate formula_1 unknown parameters formula_2 describing the distribution formula_3 of the random variable formula_4. Suppose the first formula_1 moments of the true distribution (the "population moments") can be expressed as functions of the formula_6s:
Suppose a sample of size formula_8 is drawn, and it leads to the values formula_9. For formula_10, let
be the "j"-th sample moment, an estimate of formula_12. The method of moments estimator for formula_13 denoted by formula_14 is defined as the solution (if there is one) to the equations:
The method of moments is simple and gets consistent estimators (under very weak assumptions). However, these estimators are often biased.
IPhone 11
The iPhone 11 is a smartphone sold by Apple Inc. It is replacing the iPhone X that was released in 2018. The iPhone 11 has two rear camera lenses but still has a 6.1-inch screen, like the X. It is available in purple, white, yellow, green, black, and PRODUCT(RED) finishes, with 64 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB storage options. The starting price is US $699. It is the least expensive 2019 iPhone model, when compared to the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max.
FightAIDS@home
The FightAIDS@Home project uses the technique of distributed computing to find a way to eradicate the HIV.
FightAIDS@Home has been running since 2002 and joined World Community Grid on 21 November 2005.
The project uses the World Community Grid distributed computing platform that uses the well-known Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing distributed computing platform.
Andy Etchebarren
Andrew Auguste "Andy" Etchebarren (June 20, 1943 – October 5, 2019) was an American professional baseball player and minor league manager. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) for a total of 15 seasons for the Baltimore Orioles (1962 and 1965–75), California Angels (1975–77) and Milwaukee Brewers (1978).
Etchebarren died on October 5, 2019 in Santee, California at the age of 76.
Santee, California
Santee is a suburban city in San Diego County, California, with a population of 53,413 at the 2010 census.
Marcello Giordani
Marcello Giordani (born Marcello Guagliardo; 25 January 1963 – 5 October 2019) was an Italian operatic tenor.
He sang leading roles of the Italian and French repertoire in opera houses throughout Europe and the United States. He worked with the New York Metropolitan Opera, where he sang in over 240 performances from the time of his debut there in 1993. He founded the Marcello Giordani Foundation to help young opera singers.
Giordani died on 5 October 2019 in Augusta, Sicily from a heart attack at the age 56.
Ella Vogelaar
Catharina Pieternella "Ella" Vogelaar (23 December 1949 – 7 October 2019) was a Dutch politician. She was a member of the Labour Party (PvdA) and trade union leader. Vogelaar was born in Steenbergen, Netherlands. She was the Minister for Housing, Communities and Integration from February 2007 through November 2008.
Vogelaar killed herself on 7 October 2019 in Utrecht at the age of 69.
Black, Illinois
Black is an unincorporated community in Edwards County, Illinois, in the United States.
Adair, Illinois
Adair is an unincorporated census-designated place in McDonough County, Illinois, in the United States. It had a population of 210 in 2010.
Adams Corner, Illinois
Adams Corner is an unincorporated community in Wabash County, Illinois.
PlayStation 5 (also known by the abbreviated name PS5) is the fifth home video game console made by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released at the end of 2020. Most games from the PlayStation 4 work with it. There are two versions of the console, one with a Blu-ray optical disc drive that costs $500. The second version costs $400 and does not have the disc drive. On the version with no disc drive, games can only be bought and downloaded from the PlayStation Store.
7.8 million PlayStation 5 consoles were sold (March 31, 2021).
John Bannister Goodenough (born 25 July 1922) is an American professor and solid-state physicist. He is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at The University of Texas at Austin. He is known for his development of the lithium-ion battery. which is used on handheld electronic devices.
In 2014, he received the Charles Stark Draper Prize for his contributions to the lithium-ion battery. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, This made him the oldest person to receive a Nobel prize. He also made other fundamental contributions in the field of magnetism.
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Cession
The act of cession is the transfer of property to another entity (person, country, etc.). In international law, it commonly refers to land transferred by a treaty. It is different from annexation, where property is taken by force. Cession is voluntary or is supposed to be.
Retrocession is to return something (e.g., land) that was ceded.
Spring River (Missouri)
The Spring River is a river in southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma. It is
Deficit spending
Deficit spending is when someone is spending more money than they have. In other words, it is when there is more spending than there is revenue. It is also called simply deficit, or budget deficit. The opposite of a deficit is a budget surplus. The term may be used for the budget of a government, private company, or person.
Government deficit spending is a point of controversy in economics, with important economists having different views.
Monument Rocks (Kansas)
Monument Rocks (also Chalk Pyramids) are a series of big chalk formations in Gove County, Kansas. It has many fossils. The formations were the first landmark chosen by the US Department of the Interior as a National Natural Landmark. The chalk formations reach a height of up to . It includes formations such as buttes and arches. The carbonate deposits were laid down during the Cretaceous Period in what was then the Western Interior Seaway. It split the continent of North America into two landmasses. They are estimated to have been formed 80 million years ago.
On January 29, 2008, Monument Rocks, 25 miles south of Oakley, Kansas, and Castle Rock, 31 miles to the east, together were named as one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas.
Marija Pejčinović Burić
Marija Pejčinović Burić (; born 9 April 1963) is a Croatian politician. She was the 14th Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia and Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia from 19 June 2017 to 19 July 2019.
On 26 June 2019, she was elected as the 14th Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Pejčinović Burić's term began on 18 September 2019.
Halle and Landsberg attack
The 2019 Halle and Landsberg attack was a shooting incident that happened on 9 October 2019 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Two people were killed, and two others were severely injured.
The suspect was arrested later the same day. He is 27-year-old German, Stephan Balliet from Saxony-Anhalt. Federal investigators called the attack a far-right and antisemitic crime.
2019 Ecuadorian protests
The 2019 Ecuadorian protests are an ongoing series of protests and riots against the end of fuel subsidies and austerity measures by President of Ecuador Lenín Moreno and his administration.
The protests began on 3 October 2019, as taxi, bus and truck drivers came out in protest against the planned fuel subsidy abolition. Indigenous peoples groups joined the protests shortly thereafter, along with university students and labour unions. The protesters declared their plan to hold an indefinite general strike, which would last until the government overturned its decision.
President Moreno declared a state of emergency on October 4, 2019, amid nationwide protests against a hike in fuel prices. The protests had weakened the country's transport network with all major roads and bridges blocked in the capital Quito.
Shortly thereafter, President Lenín Moreno refused to discuss a potential reversal of the fuel plans and called protesting crowds as "criminals".
On 8 October 2019, President Moreno said his government had relocated to the coastal city of Guayaquil after anti-government protesters had overrun the capital Quito. On the same day, President Moreno accused his predecessor Rafael Correa of creating a coup against the government with the help of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, a charge which Correa denied.
During the late-night hours of 13 October, the Ecuadorian government and CONAIE reached an agreement during a televised negotiation. Both parties agreed to collaborate on new economic measures to combat overspending and debt. The austerity measures were reversed.
John M. Kosterlitz
John Michael Kosterlitz (born June 22, 1943) is a British-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics.
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Drummond (provincial electoral district)
Drummond was an electoral district in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada, which elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec. Its last election had most of the city of Drummondville and all of Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Saint-Eugène, Saint-Germain-de-Grantham and Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham.
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer and activist.
In 2018, she won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel "Flights", becoming the first Polish writer to do so. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2018 (awarded in 2019).
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Mikhail Biryukov (tennis)
Mikhail Sergeyevich Biryukov (; 28 April 1992 – 4 October 2019) was a Russian junior tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking was 292. After his retirement from professional tennis at age 22, he was a coach of under 16 player Alexey Zakharov. He was the son of four-time World Champion in modern pentathlon, Irina Kiseleva. He won the silver medal in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games held in Singapore.
On 4 October 2019, Biryukov was found dead in Moscow at the age of 27.
Yevgeny Bushmin
Yevgeny Viktorovich Bushmin (, 4 October 1958 – 6 October 2019) was a Russian politician. He was a Deputy of the 1st State Duma and Deputy Finance Minister. He was the member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly as the representative of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.
Bushmin died on 6 October 2019, two days after his 61st birthday, after a long-illness.
Ugo Colombo
Ugo Colombo (22 February 1940 – 10 October 2019) was an Italian racing cyclist. He rode the Giro d'Italia in 1964–1974 with Filotex, with the best result of third place in 1971, and the Tour de France in 1966–1968, placing tenth in 1968.
Colombo died on 10 October 2019 at the age of 79.
Andrés Gimeno
Andrés Gimeno Tolaguera (3 August 1937 – 9 October 2019) was a Spanish tennis player. In 1972, when he won the French Open and he was the oldest first-time grand slam champion of the open era at 34 years of age.
Gimeno died of cancer, on 9 October 2019, at the age of 82.
Jan Szyszko
Szyszko died on 9 October 2019 in Warsaw of a heart attack at the age of 75.
Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof
Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof (born Ludwik Krzysztof Zamenhof, 23 January 1925 – 9 October 2019) was a Polish-French civil and marine engineer of Jewish descent. He worked in the design of structural steel and concrete construction. Zaleski-Zamenhof wrote a foreword to "L'homme qui a défié Babel" ("The man who defied Babel", 2003), a French-language biography, by René Centassi and Henri Masson, of the originator of Esperanto.
J. P. Bonin, G. Deleuil and L. C. Zaleski-Zamenhof. "Foundation analysis of marine gravity structures submitted to cyclic loading." Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas (1976). pp. 571–579
Tony Hoar
Tony Hoar (10 February 1932 – 5 October 2019) was a British racing cyclist. He represented England in the road race at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada.
He finished in last place in the 1955 Tour de France.
Hoar died on 5 October 2019 of cancer at the age of 87.
Harold Blaine Lindgren (June 26, 1939 – October 5, 2019) was an American sprinter. He competed mainly in the 110 m hurdles. He won this event at the 1963 Pan American Games. He won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Lindgren died on October 5, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 80.
Rolle
Rolle is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It was the capital of the district of Rolle until 2006, when it became part of the district of Nyon. It is on the northwestern shore of Lake Geneva ("Lac Léman") between Nyon and Lausanne. Rolle is about northeast of Geneva (Genève) in the La Côte wine-growing region, and has views of the high Alps. It has a population () of .
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Matteson, Illinois
Matteson is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States and southern suburb of Chicago. The population was 12,928 at the 2000 census and 19,009 in 2010.
Westchester, Illinois
Westchester is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a western suburb of Chicago. The population was 16,718 at the 2010 census.
Worth, Illinois
Worth is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is a suburb of Chicago. The population was 10,789 at the 2010 census.
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Bo Horvat
Bo Horvat (born April 5, 1995) is the current captain of the Vancouver Canucks. He has played for the Canucks since 2014.
Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762)
The Treaty of Fontainebleau was a secret agreement in 1762. In this treaty, France ceded Louisiana to Spain. The treaty happened shortly after the last battle in the French and Indian War in North America. This battle was the Battle of Signal Hill, and it happened in September 1762. This battle strengthened British control of Canada. In Europe, the related Seven Years' War continued. Because France already lost Canada, King Louis XV of France proposed to King Charles III of Spain that France should give Spain "the country known as Louisiana, as well as New Orleans and the island in which the city is at." Charles accepted on November 13, 1762.
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Manchester, Illinois
Manchester is a village in Illinois in the United States.
List of County Highways in Douglas County, Kansas
Douglas County, Kansas, keeps many county highways to serve the rural areas and state parks of the county. It is one of a few of Kansas counties to do so.
The major county highways are built on a grid. East–west-oriented roads have a three-digit number beginning with the number "4" and ending in an even number. The further north the road, the lower the number; the further south, the higher the number. North–south-oriented roads have a four-digit number beginning with "10" and ending in an odd number. The further west the road, the lower the number; the further east, the higher the number.
There are also minor county roads with one or two digits that go a short distance or serve a state park.
None of the county highways enters Lawrence, the county seat.
The maximum speed limit on all county highways in Douglas County is .
Black Hills Corporation
Black Hills Corporation is an energy company that is an electric and gas utility in South Dakota and Wyoming. They sell power throughout the American West. They are in Rapid City, South Dakota.
It gets its name from its home in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Exede
Exede Internet was launched in 2012 through ViaSat. It provides broadband internet to the United States. Exede service is powered by the ViaSat-1 satellite. ViaSat-1 earned the Guinness World Record title for the highest capacity communications satellite. The Exede service currently serves 687,000 customers in the U.S.
Launched in 2012, Exede Internet is a broadband internet service that covers areas traditional internet service providers do not reach. In 2013, Exede introduced Exede Voice home service as a companion to the data service.
Exede also offers Exede Business. It launched in 2014. It also offers Exede Enterprise for live events, field operations, and disaster response.
Hughes Network Systems
Hughes Communications is a subsidiary of EchoStar. It is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland. It provides a high-speed satellite internet service. That service is called HughesNet. It is the biggest service of its kind because it has more than 1.3 million subscribers in the Americas.
In 1996, Hughes created a satellite Internet service for people and small businesses. The service was called DirecPC. It was renamed to Direcway in May 2002. In 2012, with Hughes' first offering of broadband satellite Internet, it was renamed HughesNet.
Gitanas Nausėda
Gitanas Nausėda (born 19 May 1964) is a Lithuanian politician and economist. He is the 9th and current President of Lithuania since July 2019. He is an Independent.
Electric utility
An electric utility is a company in the electric power industry (often a public utility). This kind of company does electricity generation and distribution of electricity for sale generally in a regulated market. The electrical utility industry is a major provider of energy in most countries.
Electric utilities are facing increasing demands including aging infrastructure, reliability, and regulation.
Enrique Moreno
Enrique Moreno (December 28, 1955 – October 10, 2019) was a Mexican-American attorney. His career was based in El Paso, Texas. Moreno was once a federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by President Bill Clinton in 1999. The Republican controlled United States Senate denied to approved his nomination twice.
Moreno was born in Chihuahua, Mexico and the son of a carpenter and a seamstress, Moreno earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1978 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1981.
Moreno began his career as a personal injury and product liability attorney in 1981 in El Paso, Texas. He has worked for four different law firms in his career. He has been the practitioner of the Law Offices of Enrique Moreno since 1999.
Moreno won several large judgments in his legal career. In August 2001, Moreno was one of five lawyers to win a $55,515,000 judgment for an El Paso man against Kelly-Moore Paints for placing asbestos-containing fibers in a joint compound product that caused pleural mesothelioma in a patient.
On April 12, 2006, Moreno won a $27.5 million judgment for an Iran-born American citizen against Southwest Airlines in a landmark racial profiling case after Southwest's flight attendants had her arrested after she had complained about poor service on the airline.
Moreno died of cancer-related problems in El Paso on October 10, 2019 at the age of 63.
Lightspeed (magazine)
Lightspeed is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. John Joseph Adams edits and publishes the magazine. The first issue was published in June 2010 It is published every month. The magazine publishes four new, original stories and four reprints in every issue. It also includes interviews with the authors and other nonfiction. All of the content published in each issue is sold as as an ebook and for free on the magazine's website. "Lightspeed" also makes a free podcast with some stories. Stefan Rudnicki produces the podcast.
"Lightspeed" was started by publisher Sean Wallace of Prime Books with John Joseph Adams as editor. Wallace also published "Fantasy Magazine." Adams also started to edit "Fantasy Magazine" from March 2011. "Lightspeed" became an SFWA-qualifying market in July 2011.
In November of 2011 Adams purchased "Lightspeed" and "Fantasy Magazine" from Wallace. From January 2012 issue, both magazines were combined with the name "Lightspeed." "Fantasy Magazine" stopped publishing. The "Fantasy Magazine" staff was also absorbed into "Lightspeed".
In September 2013, "Lightspeed" published their first Special Issue. It was called "Women Destroy Science Fiction", an anthology entirely written and edited by women. Lightspeed got $53,136 from a Kickstarter to pay for the special issue. This was much more than their goal of $5,000. The additional funds allowed "Lightspeed" to publish further volumes, entitled "Women Destroy Fantasy" and "Women Destroy Horror."
"Lightspeed" was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine in 2011 and 2012, and, 2013, and won the Hugo in 2014. In 2011 its podcast was awarded a Parsec award for Maggie Clark's "Saying the Names."
In 2010 two Lightspeed stories were finalists for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story: Adam-Troy Castro's "Arvies" and Vylar Kaftan's "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno." In 2011 "Amaryllis" by Carrie Vaughn was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short story. Also in 2011, Adam-Troy Castro's "Her Husband's Hands" and Tom Crosshill's "Mama, We are Zhenya, Your Son" were finalists for the Best Short Story Nebula. Jake Kerr's "The Old Equations" was nominated for Best Novella. In 2012, Maria Dahvana Headley's "Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream" and Ken Liu's "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" were both finalists for the Best Short Story Nebula. In 2014, Ken Liu's "The Litigation Master and the Monkey King" and Christopher Barzak's "Paranormal Romance" were both finalists for the Best Novelette Nebula. In 2014, Matthew Kressel's "The Sounds of Old Earth" and Sylvia Spruck Wrigley's "Alive, Alive Oh" were both finalists for the Best Short Story Nebula.
Some stories were nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Award: Yoon Ha Lee's "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" in 2011, Jake Kerr's "The Old Equations" in 2012, and Ken Liu's "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" in 2013
Several stories from the magazine have been printed again in anthologies showing excellent writing:
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Lavinia is a Locus Award-winning 2008 novel by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. It tells the life of Lavinia. She was a minor character in Virgil's epic poem the "Aeneid". The novel is based on the last six books of the "Aeneid".
An ansible is a kind of fictional device or technology. Ansibles can communicate faster than light. It can send and receive messages to and from a corresponding device over any distance or obstacle whatsoever with no delay, even between star systems. As a name for such a device, the word "ansible" first appeared in a 1966 novel "Rocannon's World" by Ursula K. Le Guin The word shortened from "answerable." It allowed users to receive answers to their messages quickly, even over interstellar distances.
Any ansible may be used to communicate through any other, by setting its coordinates to those of the receiving ansible. They have a limited bandwidth which only allows for at most a few hundred characters of text to be communicated in any transaction of a dialog session, and are attached to a keyboard and small display to perform text messaging.
Many other writers have ansibles in their fiction. Examples include:
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Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. She lives and teaches in Riverside, California. Her novels ("Brown Girl in the Ring", "Midnight Robber", "The Salt Roads", "The New Moon's Arms") and short stories such as those in her collection "Skin Folk" often use Caribbean history and language. Hopkinson's favorite writers include Samuel R. Delany, Tobias S. Buckell, and Charles Saunders.
Hopkinson won the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the Ontario Arts Council Foundation Award for Emerging Writers.
"Brown Girl in the Ring" was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1998, and received the Locus Award for Best First Novel.
"Skin Folk" received the World Fantasy Award and the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic in 2003.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, or SFWA ( or ) is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. SFWA is based in the United States but membership is worldwide. Damon Knight started the organization in 1965 with the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. The president of SFWA as of 2019 is Mary Robinette Kowal.
SFWA has about 1,900 professionally published writer members worldwide.
SFWA Active members vote for the Nebula Awards. They are some of the most important English-language science fiction awards.
SFWA's Board of Directors includes the current president, vice president, secretary, chief financial officer, and five directors-at-large.
Raoni Metuktire
Raoni Metuktire (born ), also known as Chief Raoni or Ropni, is a Brazilian leader and environmentalist. He is a chief of the Kayapo people, a Brazilian Indigenous group from the plain lands of the Mato Grosso and Pará in Brazil. He is internationally famous as a living symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest and indigenous culture.
Landsberg, Saxony-Anhalt
Landsberg is a town in the Saalekreis in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
The town is located between the cities of Halle, about in the southwest, Leipzig, about in the southeast, and Bitterfeld-Wolfen, about in the north.
The oldest known trace of early settlements in what is now Landsberg dates from the Neolithic.
Bitterfeld-Wolfen
Bitterfeld-Wolfen is a town in the district Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is located in south-eastern Saxony-Anhalt, west of the river Mulde. The average air temperature in Bitterfeld is and the yearly rainfall .
More than 40,000 people live there.
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Gaston Bussière (painter)
Gaston Bussiere was a French symbolist painter, who was born on 24 April 1862 and died 29 October 1928.
Bussière studied at l'Académie des Beaux-Arts in Lyon before entering l'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He studied under Alexandre Cabanel then under Pierre Puvis de Chavannes . In 1884, he won the Marie Bashkirtseff Prize. In 1885, he displayed his works at the Salon.
He was close to Gustave Moreau. Bussière was inspired by the works of Hector Berlioz, William Shakespeare and Richard Wagner. He made the illustrations of the works of Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Oscar Wilde and Gustave Flaubert. He also contributed to the magazine "Le Monde moderne" .
He has been close to Joséphin Péladan for a short period of time, which allowed him to display his works at the Salon of the Rose-Cross between 1893 and 1895.
The Museum of Ursulines in Macôn keeps a collection of his works.
Demeke Mekonnen
Demeke Mekonnen Hassen (; born 27 September 1963) is an Ethiopian politician and has served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia, since 2012.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (movie)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a 2002 fantasy movie directed by Chris Columbus. It is based on J. K. Rowling's 1998 novel of the same name. The movie stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, with Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.
It was the last movie to have Richard Harris as Professor Albus Dumbledore, because of his death that same year.
"Chamber of Secrets" was released in theatres in the United Kingdom and the United States on 15 November 2002. It was nominated for many awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design, Best Sound, and Best Special Visual Effects.
Northfield, Illinois
Northfield is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is about north of downtown Chicago. As of the 2010 census, the village's population was 5,420.
The headquarters of Kraft Foods used to be in Northfield.
Arenzville, Illinois
Arenzville is a village in Illinois in the United States.
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Cisco, Illinois
Cisco is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Bement, Illinois
Bement is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Seán William McLoughlin (born 7 February 1990), known online as Jacksepticeye, is an Irish YouTuber and philanthropist. He was born in Cloghan, County Offlay, Ireland. He is best known for his vlogs and comedic Let's Play series. He is the most-subscribed Irish channel.
Jackie Keith Whitley (July 1, 1954 – May 9, 1989) was an American country music singer. During his career, Whitley only recorded two albums but charted 12 singles on the "Billboard" country charts, and 7 more after his death.
Thomas Carney (August 20, 1824 – July 28, 1888) was the second Governor of Kansas.
Carney was born in Delaware County, Ohio. His parents were James and Jane (Ostrander) Carney. James died in 1828, making his wife a widow, and it left four young sons without a father. Thomas stayed at home, farming with his mother, until he turned 19 years old. He studied in Berkshire, Ohio. He lived there with an uncle. He worked in mercantile businesses. He created a successful wholesale business in Leavenworth, Kansas. He was elected to the Kansas Legislature in 1861. He married Rebecca Ann Cannady on November 13, 1861.
After he was State Representative, Carney was elected Governor of Kansas. He was governor from 1863 through 1865. While he was governor, he focused on developing the state and solving the problems caused by the Civil War. He was elected Mayor of Leavenworth in 1865. He created the First National Bank of Leavenworth. He was also director of the Lawrence and Fort Gibson Railroad Company. He continued in business until 1875.
Carney died on July 28, 1888 in Leavenworth, Kansas. He died of apoplexy. He is buried in Leavenworth in Mount Muncie Cemetery.
Cutler, Illinois
Cutler is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Danvers, Illinois
Danvers is a village in Illinois in the United States.
Mamlakat Yusupova
Mamlakat Saidakhmadovna Yusupova (nee - Aripbayeva; ; born October 31, 1948, Andijan, Andijan region, Uzbek SSR, USSR ) — National Teacher of Uzbekistan (2009), Honored Worker of Public Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2006), Excellence in Public Education of Uzbekistan (2009), holder of the Order “20 Years of Independence of Uzbekistan” . Head of the kindergarten No. 9 of the city of Andijan (1990—2017).
Mamlakat Yusupova was born on October 31, 1948 in Andijan. After leaving school in 1973, she entered the Andijan State University as a teacher. After training, she began teaching activities.
In 1977, she began her career as a teacher of Uzbek and Russian at school №42 in Andijan. After 3 years, in 1980, she began working in 25 Andijan kindergarten. After working in it for 10 years, she was appointed head of kindergarten №9. She worked in it from 1990 to 2017, receiving awards for long service
Niece of opera singer Saodat Kabulova
Husband Ulugbek Yusupov (died in 1996), married 3 children
In 2017, Mamlakat Yusupova retired, lives in Fergana
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"Stacy's Mom" is a pop rock song by the American rock band Fountains of Wayne. It was on their third studio album, "Welcome Interstate Managers". "Stacy's Mom" was released on the radio on May 20, 2003. The song was released as the main single from "Welcome Interstate Managers" on September 29, 2003. The album was released through S-Curve Records and Virgin Records. "Stacy's Mom" was written by bassist Adam Schlesinger and vocalist Chris Collingwood. Both of them created the song alongside Mike Denneen. The song was inspired by Schlesinger's friend when he was young who had a crush on his grandmother.
"Stacy's Mom" was written by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger. It is a power pop song.
"Stacy's Mom" debuted on the "Billboard" Hot 100 the week of October 11, 2003, at number 59. It was their first song to appear on that chart. It peaked at number 21 the week of November 21, 2003. It stayed there for two weeks. It stayed on the chart for seventeen weeks.
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Still Swingin' is a song by the American rock band Papa Roach. It was released as the first single from their album "The Connection". It was released on June 24, 2012. The single was well liked by the fans for having the rap-style vocals of the band's early songs.
Parks and Recreation is a television sitcom. It was on TV from April 9, 2009 to February 24, 2015, with a special reunion episode airing on April 30, 2020. During this time, it showed 126 episodes over seven seasons. It ran on the channel NBC. It was created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur. The show is about a group of people who live in a fictional town called Pawnee in the state of Indiana. They work in the government of Pawnee, in the Department of Parks and Recreation. The main character of the show is Leslie Knope. She is an optimistic person who loves her job and the city of Pawnee. The actress who plays her is Amy Poehler. There are many other characters in the show. They are: Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones), Mark Brendanawicz (Paul Schneider), Tom Haverford (Aziz Ansari), Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman), April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza), Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt), Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott), Chris Traeger (Rob Lowe), Jerry Gergich (Jim O'Heir), Donna Meagle (Retta), and Craig Middlebrooks (Billy Eichner).
The series changed as time went on. The writers wanted to make the show like real life. To do this, they learned about how governments of cities really worked. They also talked about current political issues in episodes of the show. For example, one episode has the government of Pawnee shut down. This means that there is not enough money for the government to work correctly, so it stops doing everything that is not very important. The writers put this in the show because of a real government shutdown. The real shutdown happened because of a financial crisis in 2007-2008, and this was the same time that the episode was being written. Sometimes, real politicians also acted on the show. Joe Biden, John McCain, and Michelle Obama were some of the politicians who did this. The characters in the show also changed. Some people watched the first season and thought that Leslie Knope was too ditzy—that is, unintelligent and unable to do her job correctly. So the writers changed the way they showed Leslie. They wanted viewers to know she really was smart. During the show, many of the characters have changing romantic relationships and get different jobs. They changed just like people change in real life.
The first season only had six episodes. It got mixed reviews. People thought some things about it were good, and some things about it were bad. Many people thought it was too much like "The Office." Like "Parks and Recreation, The Office" was another sitcom that Daniels created. But after the first season, it got positive reviews. Many people thought it was good, and it won many awards. It was nominated for an Emmy Award 14 times. It was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series—Musical or Comedy. It won a Golden Globe Award for the good job Poehler
did playing Leslie Knope.
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is a lifetime honor from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The SFWA gives up to one award each year to a writer of fantasy or science fiction. It started in 1975 when Robert Heinlein became the first SFWA Grand Master. The name Damon Knight was added in 2002. He started the SFWA and died in 2002.
The award is given each year at the SFWA Nebula Awards banquet, but it is not one of the Nebulas. Only SFWA officers and past presidents suggest Grand Masters, and the final choice must be approved by a majority of that group. The winner is announced in advance.
There have been 34 in the 44 years from 1974/1975 to 2017/2018.
May Hill Arbuthnot
May Hill Arbuthnot (August 27, 1884 – October 2, 1969) was an educator, editor, writer, and critic. She worked to support children's literature. She was listed in the "American Libraries" article “100 Most Important Leaders we had for the 20th Century”.
Zenaida Moya
Zenaida Victoria Moya is a former mayor of Belize City, Belize. She was mayor from 1 March 2006 to 7 March 2012. She was first elected in the 2006 municipal elections. She is a former member of the United Democratic Party (UDP). Moya was Belize City’s first female mayor.
Division of Burt
The Division of Burt is an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia.
The division was created in 2015. It was named after the Burt family, especially Sir Archibald Burt, Septimus Burt and Sir Francis Burt. The division is in the south-eastern suburbs of Perth. It covers areas that were once in the divisions of Canning, Hasluck and Tangney.
The seat was first contested at the 2016 federal election.
The seat includes large parts of the City of Gosnells and the City of Armadale and portion of the City of Canning. Suburbs included are:
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Drosophilidae
The Drosophilidae is a huge, widespread (cosmopolitan) family of flies, which includes the famous fruit flies. The family has over 4000 species in 75 genera. A recent publication lists the species:
There is another unrelated family of flies, the Tephritidae, which includes species also known as "small fruit flies".
The best known species of the Drosophilidae is "Drosophila melanogaster". This species and its relatives are often used for studies on genetics, development, physiology, and behaviour.
"D. melanogaster" is not so much studied in the field as in the laboratory. The best-known studies of "Drosophila" in a natural environment was done by Dobzhansky and colleagues on "Drosophila pseudoobscura" from the early 1930s to 1970. Reprints and discussions are in Lewontin "et al" 2003, and theoretical discussions in Dobzhansky, 1970.
The cells of fruit flies usually do not divide after the imago is hatched. The fruit fly is mostly composed of post-mitotic cells, has a very short lifespan, and shows gradual ageing. As in other species, temperature influences the life history of the animal. They live longer in colder weather. Several genes can be manipulated to extend the lifespan of these insects.
The Drosophilidae has two subfamilies, the Drosophilinae and the Steganinae.
Sara Danius
Sara Maria Danius (5 April 1962 – 12 October 2019) was a Swedish scholar of literature, aesthetics and former member of the Nobel prize in literature committee. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University, docent of literature at Uppsala University and professor in literary science at Stockholm University.
Danius was a member of the Swedish Academy and its first female permanent secretary. She was one of the central figures in the 2018 controversies resulting in the cancellation of the Nobel Prize in Literature that year and the following restructuring of the academy. She was born in Täby.
Danius died on 12 October 2019, aged 57, after having suffered from breast cancer for several years.
Steganinae
Drosophilinae
The Drosophilinae are the largest subfamily in the Drosophilidae. The other subfamily is the Steganinae.
A huge amount of research has shown the way the fly has evolved many species as it spread across the world.
The genus "Drosophila" is paraphyletic because several genera (with many species), such as "Zaprionus", "Scaptomyza" and "Lordiphosa", are within the genus. What this means is that they have evolved from more standard "Drosophila" over time. This is pretty well supported by the evidence of their genome.
In taxonomy, there are two ways of solving this kind of problem:
Genus "Drosophila" could be raised to a supergenus, or the related offshoot genera could be demoted to subgenera.
Bantam, Ohio
Wheelchair rugby
Wheelchair rugby is a team sport for athletes who are differently abled. It is played in over twenty-five countries around the world. It is a summer Paralympic game. It is also called as quad rugby in the United States.
Jolene Marie Rotinsulu
Jolene Marie Cholock-Rotinsulu (; born May 15, 1996) is an Indonesian-American member of the International Paralympics Games committee, Disability rights activist, TV commercial model, actress, singer, young entrepreneur, mountaineer, and a beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Puteri Indonesia Lingkungan 2019. She will represent Indonesia at the Miss International 2019 pageant at the Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
Seulgi (singer)
Kang Seul-gi is a South Korean singer, actress, and model. She goes by the mononym Seulgi. She is known for being a member of k-pop girl group Red Velvet.
Seulgi was born in South Korea on 20 Feburary 1994. In 2013, she joined SM Entertainment as a trainee. Later she became a member of Red Velvet in 2014. In 2015, she made her first appearance as an actress.
Sugarcane juice
Sugarcane juice is the liquid extracted from pressed sugarcane. Especially, in places where sugarcane is grown commercially, it is a popular drink. Today, most sugarcane comes from Southeast Asia, India, Northern Africa, and Latin America. In Spanish-speaking countries, sugarcane juice is usually called Guarapo, or guarapa. In Portugese, it is called garapa. These names can also refer to palm syrup.
In the United States where processed sugarcane syrup is used as a sweetener in food and beverage manufacturing, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers "evaporated cane juice" to be a misleading term for "sugar" on product labels. The FDA regards "juice" as a liquid derived from fruits or vegetables, so the preferred term is "cane sugar".
In Brazil, laboratories use sugarcane juice to make ethanol fuel.
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John Saldivar
John Birchman Saldivar is a Belizean politician. A member of the United Democratic Party (UDP), Saldivar is currently serving as the Minister of National Security and Defence since 8 March 2012. He is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Belmopan constituency in the House of Representatives (Belize) since it’s creation on 7 February 2008. He was previously Area Representative for Cayo South from 29 October 2003 to 7 February 2008.
John Birchman Saldivar was born in 1967 in Belmopan, then known as British Honduras. He is a current Resident of Belmopan and has lived there since Birth.
Saldivar first joined the UDP in 1993 and officially entered Electoral politics in 1997 after he submitted his Nomination to be endorsed as the new UDP Standard Bareer for Cayo South constituency in a convention and election. The former Standard-Bareer, Melvin Hulse Sr. was thought to contest the Convention (meeting), but declined the offer and resigned from the UDP to join the National Alliance for Belizean Rights (NABR). Leaving Saldivar to be endorsed. Saldivar went on to face PUP Standard-Bareer, Agripino Cawich. Both Saldivar and Cawich were political newcomers. The PUP was at the helm of Cayo South for over 3 decades. So Saldivar knew that defeating Cawich would not be easy, despite the lack of his political Experience.
Erwin Contreras