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# Dampier Peninsula monitor

The Dampier Peninsula monitor or Dampier Peninsula goanna (Varanus sparnus), described in 2014, is the smallest known species of monitor lizard, growing up to 16.3 grams with a length of almost 23 cm and a SVL (snout to vent length) of 116 mm. It is believed to live only on the Dampier Peninsula of the Kimberley region north of Broome and Derby in Western Australia. It is highly active, making it difficult to photograph in the wild. It has short legs, an elongate body, a reddish-brown back with widely scattered black spots and "a ridged, circular and short prehensile tail."
   "sparnos is Greek for 'rare' or 'scarce' in reference to this species' isolation and small range on the Dampier Peninsula. Latinised to sparnus, and used as an adjective".

## Taxonomy

Described in 2014 and assigned to the genus Varanus, lizards known as monitors and goannas. The specimens were obtained in a location at the Dampier Peninsula in 2009.

## Description

The smallest living monitor lizard species.

## Distribution

Restricted to rocky habitat in the northwest of Western Australia.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Doughty, P.; Shea, G. (2018). "Varanus sparnus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T83778858A101752360. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T83778858A101752360.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
* 1 2 3 Doughty, P.; Kealley, L.; Fitch, A.; Donnellan, S.C. (2014). "A new diminutive species of Varanus from the Dampier Peninsula, western Kimberley region, Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 29 (2): 128. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.29(2).2014.128-140.
* ↑ World's smallest species of goanna found in WA's Kimberley Katrin Long. ABC News 30 December 2014
* 1 2 3 Ellis, R.J. (2018). "An annotated type catalogue of varanid lizards (Reptilia: Squamata: Varanidae) in the collection of the Western Australian Museum". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 33 (2): 187. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.33(2).2018.187-194.
# Goldstone Solar System Radar

The Goldstone Solar System Radar (GSSR) is a large radar system used for investigating objects in the Solar System. Located in the desert near Barstow, California, it comprises a 500-kW X-band (8500 MHz) transmitter and a low-noise receiver on the 70-m DSS 14 antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex. It has been used to investigate Mercury, Venus, Mars, the asteroids, and moons of Jupiter and Saturn. The most comparable facility was the radar at Arecibo Observatory, until that facility collapsed.

## Planetary observations

GSSR can work in two different modes. In the monostatic radar mode, GSSR both transmits and receives. In bistatic mode, GSSR transmits and other radio astronomy facilities receive. Although more difficult to schedule, this offers two advantages - the transmitter does not need to turn off to allow the receiver to listen, and it allows the use of interferometry to extract more information from the reflected signal.
Bodies that have been investigated using GSSR include:
* Mercury: In particular, by watching specific reflected features of Mercury sweep across the Earth's surface (using spatially separated receivers), GSSR enables the pole position to be computed quite accurately. The measured librations show Mercury has a liquid core.
* Venus
* Mars: GSSR was used extensively to characterize sites for Mars landers.
* Asteroids: Small asteroids appear only as unresolved points of light in ground-based optical telescopes. Radar, however, can image near-Earth asteroids and comets with a resolution of several meters. For example, the asteroid 4179 Toutatis was imaged in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. Although spacecraft such as Dawn can image particular asteroids in much finer detail, radar astronomy can investigate many more asteroids of different characteristics. For example, all existing images of binary asteroids were obtained through radar astronomy.
* Moons of Jupiter
* Rings and moons of Saturn
* 4179 Toutatis in 1996
* (53319) 1999 JM8 in 1999
* (308635) 2005 YU55 in 2011

## Other scientific uses

* Recovery of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory after loss of attitude control.
* Investigation of orbital debris around Earth.
# Logan's World

Logan's World (1977) is a science fiction novel by William F. Nolan. It is a sequel to Logan's Run (1967), written by Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.

## Plot

Logan and Jessica have lived on Argos (the fabled Sanctuary), a space station in orbit around Mars, for four years, along with 3,000 other Runners. They have a two-year-old son named Jaq.
On Earth, Ballard's escape line for Runners at Cape Steinbeck is discovered and destroyed by Deep Sleep operatives. Ballard escapes to Crazy Horse Mountain, and sabotages the Thinker complex buried in the catacombs below the statue. While he is killed in the explosion, he succeeds in destroying the computer network and making the world free.
With Ballard's death, supply ships to Argos cease. For six more years the Runners there hang on, until there are less than a few dozen of them. They have no more food, and plague is running rampant. They draw straws — a handful will return to Earth. Logan, Jessica and Jaq are among those chosen.
Logan and family settle with a group called the Wilderness People along the Potomac River in Washington D.C. Life is tough — learning to farm is not easy — but good until Jaq falls deathly ill. Logan sneaks back into the Angeles Complex to get medicine for his son. While he is gone, an insane pack of devilstick-riding Borgia gypsies murders Jaq and kidnaps Jessica. Logan finds himself on the run again, this time to save his wife and avenge his murdered son.
As the story unfolds, he meets blind mystics who live on the rusted shell of the Golden Gate Bridge, he travels to the New York Complex and finally back to Crazy Horse Mountain, where he discovers the Thinker is being reactivated by Gant, a former Deep Sleep operative who despises Logan for his part in destroying his world. Gant has purchased Jessica from the gypsies to lure Logan into a trap.
Mary Mary, a young woman who as a "Cub" met Logan and Jessica on their earlier run, helps them defeat Gant's plan to re-enslave humankind.

## Continuity

Logan still has his Sandman gun in this novel, which is a retcon by Nolan as he lost it at the end of the previous novel when it went "wild" (sounded an alarm when Logan's palm flower went black). In this book, Logan has the gun in a box.
In the third novel in the series, Logan's Search, Nolan addresses this apparent continuity error as Logan muses about how he obtained and altered another Sandman's gun after joining the Wilderness People, to deactivate its identity sensing technology, which is described as an exacting and delicate process, meaning that the gun he uses in Logan's World is not his original gun.

## History

Following the success of the 1976 film version Logan's Run, Nolan had pitched a sequel. MGM expressed interest in adapting Logan's World as a film, but the original film's producer Saul David had opted to focus on a Logan's Run TV series instead. Logan's World was published by Bantam in 1977.

## Comic adaptation

Beginning in May 1991, Adventure Comics published a 6 issue bimonthly adaptation of Logan's World by Tom Mason, Chris Ulm and Barry Blair.
# Jason Niles

Jason Niles (December 19, 1814 – July 7, 1894) was a lawyer, newspaper editor, and politician in the United States. He served as mayor and for one term as a U.S. Representative from Mississippi from 1873 to 1875.

## Biography

Niles was born in Burlington, Vermont on December 19, 1814, the son of Daniel Swift Niles and Alice Reed, both natives of New Hampshire. He attended the local schools of Burlington, received a bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont in 1836, and a master's degree in 1846. He taught school in Quebec, Ohio, and Tennessee, and later moved to Mississippi.
While teaching school, Niles studied law; he was admitted to the bar in 1851 and began a practice in Kosciusko. He served as an anti-secession delegate to Mississippi's 1851 constitutional convention.

## Civil War

During the American Civil War, Niles was a supporter of the Union; he remained in Mississippi, and worked to keep a low public profile. Though he was a diarist and kept a journal for nearly 30 years beginning in 1831, Niles made no entries for the first two years of the war, presumably to avoid having local Confederates use his writings to prove disloyalty. Niles did not want to serve in the Confederate military, and arranged to have the son of a friend serve in Mississippi's state troops as a substitute. He later ran for mayor, presuming that if he won, his status as an elected official would be exempt from military service. He was elected in May 1864, and served one term.

## Post-Civil War

Niles continued his pro-Union politics after the war; he was a delegate to Mississippi's constitutional conventions in 1865 and 1868. He also served in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1870. In 1871 he was appointed judge of Mississippi's 13th district, and he served until 1872.
In 1872, Niles was elected as a Republican to the 43rd Congress. He served one term, March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. With the end of Reconstruction in Mississippi, the Democratic Party returned to power, and Niles was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874.
From 1876 to 1880, Niles was editor of the Kosciusko Chronicle newspaper. He then returned to the practice of law.

## Death and burial

Niles died in Kosciusko, Mississippi, July 7, 1894 and was interred at Kosciusko's City Cemetery.

## Family

In 1847, Niles married Harriet N. McRee in Bedford County, Tennessee; she was the daughter of William Elliot McRee and Sarah McLean Houston. Their children included:
* Alice Redd Niles, born March 15, 1848
* Henry Clay Niles, born June 4, 1840
* Sallie Houston Niles, born December 31, 1852
* Mary Niles, born December 30, 1855
* Lucy Niles, born August 30, 1858
* Jennie Niles, born August 13, 1861
* Lydia Niles, born June 19, 1866
Henry Clay Niles served as a federal judge in Mississippi. Jason Niles was the cousin of Thomas Brackett Reed, who served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
# Jim Vollenweider

Jim Vollenweider was a player in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers in 1962 and 1963 as a halfback. He played at the collegiate level at the University of Miami. Vollenweider was drafted in the eighth round of the 1962 NFL draft by the 49ers. He was also drafted in the eighteenth round of the 1962 American Football League draft by the Oakland Raiders.

## Biography

Vollenweider was born on September 2, 1939. He attended high school in Schofield, Wisconsin. Vollenweider died June 1, 1998, in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.
# Neoplasta discreta

Neoplasta discreta is a species of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae.
# 1858 in Brazil

Events in the year 1858 in Brazil.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Pedro II
* Prime Minister:
** Marquis of Olinda (until 12 December)
** Viscount of Abaeté (starting 12 December)

## Events

* The second and third railroad lines in Brazil begin operation.
# Elizur H. Prindle

Elizur H. Prindle (May 6, 1829 – October 7, 1890) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

## Biography

Prindle was born in Newtown, Connecticut on May 6, 1829. He was raised in Unadilla, New York, completed preparatory studies, and attended the local academy in Homer, New York.
He studied law with his cousin, Horace Gerald Prindle of Unadilla, was admitted to the bar in 1854 and began to practice.
Prindle later moved to Norwich, New York, where he continued to practice law. Originally a Whig, and later a Republican, he was district attorney of Chenango County, New York from 1860 to 1862.
At the start of the American Civil War he was one of several leading citizens in Norwich who worked to raise a company for the Union Army, which was mustered in as Company H, 17th New York Volunteer Infantry. Later in the war he took part in raising a company which was mustered in as part of 114th New York Volunteer Infantry.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Chenango Co., 1st D.) in 1863, and a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868.
Prindle was elected as a Republican to the 42nd United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. After leaving Congress Prindle resumed the practice of law.
He died in Norwich on October 7, 1890, and was interred in Norwich's Mount Hope Cemetery.
# Richard Brent (politician)

Richard Brent (1757 – December 30, 1814) was an American planter, lawyer, and politician who represented Virginia in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate, and at various times Fairfax, Prince William and Stafford counties as he served at various times in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly.

## Early and family life

Brent was born in 1757, the eldest son of lawyer and future patriot legislator William Brent (1732-1782), at his father's plantation estate, 'Richland' on the Potomac River in Stafford County in the Colony of Virginia. Nearly a century earlier George Brent had emigrated across the Atlantic Ocean to the Virginia Colony to avoid England's Civil Wars and persecution as a Catholic and established 'Woodstock' plantation; others from that prominent Catholic family would include Margaret Brent, and Eleanor Carroll, sister of the future Archbishop John Carroll, who as a priest in Maryland crossed the Potomac River to serve the Brents and other Catholics in Northern Virginia Privately educated, Brent also read law, but never married.

## Career

Admitted to the Virginia bar, Brent had a private legal practice in northern Virginia. Although Virginia had several laws (including one requiring an oath the support the Church of England, which restricted Catholics from practicing law and sitting in the legislature, those were not enforced against him. Before his birth, some relatives moved to Prince William County, Virginia and established Brent Town (modern Brentsville) to avoid such anti-Catholic legislation, although such mostly grew after William Brent's death, first when it became the Prince William County government seat, and later with the development of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad.
After his father's death Brent continued his family tradition and several times won election to the Virginia House of Delegates, representing Stafford County in 1788 and representing Prince William County in 1793, 1794, 1800 and 1801.
In 1794, Brent won election to the United States House of Representatives and represented Virginia's 17th congressional district during the 4th and 5th Congresses, serving from March 1795 to March 1799, when he returned to the Virginia House of Delegates, again winning election from Prince William County. Brent again won election to the U.S. House and served another two-year term during the 7th Congress from March 1801 to March 1803. He served in the Virginia State Senate from 1808 to 1810.
Following his service in the Virginia State Senate, fellow delegates elected Brent to the United States Senate, where he served from March 1809 until his death in Washington, D.C., on December 30, 1814.
He is buried at the private Brent family cemetery near Aquia in Stafford County, Virginia.
# Turning On

Turning On is a collection of thirteen science fiction short stories by American writer Damon Knight. The stories were originally published between 1951 and 1965 in Galaxy, Analog and other science fiction magazines.
An Ace paperback reprinting in 1967 omitted the story "The Handler". This story was also omitted in the 1966 reissue of the Doubleday hardback edition.

## Contents

* "Semper Fi"
* "The Big Pat Boom"
* "Man in the Jar"
* "The Handler"
* "Mary"
* "Auto Da Fé"
* "To the Pure"
* "Eripmav"
* "Backward, O Time"
* "The Night of Lies"
* "Maid to Measure"
* "Collector's Item"
* "A Likely Story"
* "Don't Live in the Past"
# Zalve Parish

Zalve Parish (Latvian: Zalves pagasts) is an administrative unit of Aizkraukle Municipality in the Selonia region of Latvia.

## Towns, villages and settlements of Zalve Parish

* Cīruļkalns
* Kalnamuiža
* Pētermuiža
* Salas
* Sierotava
* Smaltāni
* Sproģi
* Suseja
* Vērtūži
* Zalve
* Zvanītāji
* Kalna Pālēni
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* ↑ "Reģionu, novadu, pilsētu un pagastu kopējā un sauszemes platība gada sākumā". Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
* ↑ "Iedzīvotāju skaits pēc tautības reģionos, pilsētās, novados, pagastos, apkaimēs un blīvi apdzīvotās teritorijās gada sākumā (pēc administratīvi teritoriālās reformas 2021. gadā)". Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
# Alma V. Lafferty

Alma V. Short Lafferty (October 12, 1854 – November 17, 1928) was an American suffragist, clubwoman, and politician. She served two terms in the Colorado House of Representatives, from 1908 to 1912.

## Early life

Alma V. Short was born in western Pennsylvania, the daughter of David Short (a Scottish immigrant) and Martha Adams Short. She lived in Kansas before settling in Colorado.

## Career

Alma V. Short was active in the suffrage effort in Colorado in the early 1890s, and in the leadership of the Woman's Club of Denver. She was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 1908. She served two terms as a state representative, the only woman in the state legislature at the time. She chaired the chamber's education committee, and introduced legislation on juvenile justice, alcohol and tobacco sales to minors, teacher certification, and an eight-hour work day for women. "When it comes to making laws for the protection of our children and for the betterment of the conditions of women, who is more capable or better fitted to perform the task than the women themselves?" she wrote in 1909.
She ran for a seat in the Colorado Senate in 1912, but did not win her party's nomination. In 1914 she was president of the Women's Peace Association of Colorado, and with state senator Helen Ring Robinson led a vigil during the violence surrounding the Ludlow Massacre and Colorado Coalfield War. Lafferty also threatened to mobilize thousands of women to march in Denver if the women's organization's concerns about Ludlow were not addressed. In 1923 she attended the Western States Conference of the National Woman's Party.

## Personal life

Alma V. Short married William S. Lafferty. They had two children, Herbert (1876-1898) and Edna (Mrs. Abell) (1880-1958). Her son died in the Spanish–American War. She died at her daughter's home in Glendale, California in 1928, aged 74 years.
# Unnur Steinsson

Unnur Steinsson (born April 27, 1963) is an Icelandic model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Iceland 1983, competed in Miss Universe 1983, and came in the Top 7 position at the Miss World 1983. She is the mother of Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, who won the Miss Iceland pageant in 2005 and became Miss World 2005.
Unnur was three months pregnant when she competed in the 1983 contest, which was strictly forbidden and could have led to disqualification. Her daughter, Unnur Birna, as mentioned, won the pageant 22 years later.
# Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore

Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore is an oil painting by Frederic Leighton, first exhibited in 1868.

## Background

Leighton painted his first nudes, Pan and Venus and Cupid, in 1856. They were ambitious works, as by the mid-19th century, nude paintings had largely lost popularity in English art. The next year, the paintings were exhibited at the Manchester Institution, but were met with accusations of impropriety. By the end of the 1850s, Leighton was planning to paint Venus again, but, likely deterred by the criticism of Venus and Cupid, decided not to do so.
Venus Disrobing for the Bath (1866–67) was Leighton's first major classical nude. A deliberate affront to Victorian conservatism, it was controversial and caused a sensation. The 1867 exhibition of George F. Watts' Thetis and Leighton's Venus Disrobing for the Bath initiated the renaissance of nudes in English painting. From this point on, Leighton's work frequently featured nudity and mythological subjects.
In 1867, Leighton visited Greece. While there, he was heavily inspired by Greek art and landscapes, resulting in him renouncing Renaissance art. Leighton felt that Ancient Greek classical art was superior to Renaissance art, which had been a major source of influence for him. After being elected Royal Academician in 1868, Leighton painted Actaea, the Nymph of the Shore and exhibited it that same year. The painting's landscape was inspired by one he saw during his trip to Greece.

## Subject

Actaea was a Nereid (guardian of the sea) in Greek mythology, one of the 50 daughters of the sea god Nereus. The painting depicts her full-length nude figure lying by the sea shore. Bearing a disdainful expression, she watches her dolphin companions. Her top half is disproportionate to her bottom half, a mistake also evident in Venus Disrobing for the Bath.
# Steven Jacobs (television presenter)

Steven Jacobs (born 8 January 1967) is an Australian actor, comedian, TV and radio presenter and writer.
Jacobs is best known as weather presenter on the Nine Network's breakfast program Today and Weekend Today and has previously been a radio presenter with Nine Radio.

## Career

Jacobs was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, the son of Dutch immigrant parents. Before he made it to national television, he hosted a children's news program known as Kids News, which was produced at WIN Television studios in Wollongong.
Following this, Jacobs started his career in radio, presenting a weekly Top 40 music countdown. He has since appeared in many Nine Network productions, the first notable one being All Together Now, which aired from 1991 to 1993. In 1992, he co-hosted the short-lived Saturday morning program Saturday At Rick's. With Sofie Formica, Jacobs co-hosted the series Just Kidding! and What's Up Doc? in the early 1990s.
Jacobs worked as a comedy writer for the reincarnation of In Melbourne Tonight variety show and also featured prominently as a performer in this show.
Jacobs became the on-location weather presenter for Today in January 2005, when he took over from Sami Lukis.
In April 2008, along with his Today weather commitments, Jacobs hosted the Australian version of US game show Power of 10. The show was subsequently axed after airing only two episodes. In April and August 2009, Jacobs presented weather on Nine News Melbourne in place of Livinia Nixon.
Jacobs has filled in on Kerri-Anne while Kerri-Anne Kennerley was away. In December 2016, Jacobs announced that he would leave Today to spend more time with his family.
In 2017, he swapped places with Natalia Cooper and became the weather presenter on Weekend Today.
In August 2018, Jacobs returned to Today to fill in for Natalia Cooper while she was away on holidays. It was announced at this time that Jacobs would be a presenter on the Nine Network's new travel series Helloworld for its first season, which aired on 7 October 2018 with Jacobs hosting in Vanuatu. But he, Denis Walter, Sonia Kruger and Lauren Phillips were replaced by Giaan Rooney on the Seven Network.
In January 2019, it was announced that Jacobs would return to Today as weather presenter. Jacobs again departed the show in December, replaced by Tim Davies.
In April 2020, Nine Radio announced Jacobs would present a new breakfast radio program on 2UE, 4BH, 6GT and Magic 1278 from 27 April. He remained host until January 2022.
In September 2024, Jacobs joined Sky News Weather as a presenter.

## Personal life

In February 2009, Jacobs announced his engagement to Rose Kelly, a presenter on The Weather Channel, once his divorce was finalised with previous wife of nine years, Alison; they married in Bali in May 2010. In November 2010, he announced on Today that Rose was pregnant with their first child and in May 2011, she gave birth to daughter. In April 2013, Rose gave birth to the couple's second daughter.
In March 2018, Jacobs said that he and Rose had split after seven years of marriage. Jacobs returned to Australia following the split, after living in Vanuatu for the previous year.