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# Ross (optics)

Ross is the name of a succession of London-based lens designers and their company.
Andrew Ross (1798–1859) founded his company in 1830; from 1840 he began producing camera lenses signed "A. Ross". During his lifetime, the company was one of the foremost lens manufacturers. The year after his death in 1859, his son-in-law John Henry Dallmeyer left the firm to establish his own optical company and the company was run by Ross's son, Thomas, and became known as Ross & Co. By the 1890s it was also making Zeiss and Goerz lenses under licence for sale in the UK and the British Empire. Ross patented a wide-angle lens design and Zeiss took this further to produce their EWA Protars. Before World War 1, Ross and Zeiss worked quite closely together, but at the outbreak of War the British Government put Ross in control of the newly opened Carl Zeiss binocular and optical factory in Mill Hill, London.
A 1902 Ross advertisement includes:
* Ross Symmetrical Anastigmats
* Zeiss New Planar and Unar lenses
* Zeiss Convertible Anastigmats
* Goerz Double Anastigmats
Ross also made some cameras from about 1855 to the late 1930s. A range of Ross Standard Reflex cameras is listed with an illustration in the 1935 British Journal Photographic Almanac, the sizes ranged from 3+1⁄2 by 2+1⁄2 inches (89 mm × 64 mm) up to half plate.
During WWI and WWII Ross Limited produced pattern 373 and 373B "Officer of the Watch" telescopes for the Royal Navy.
In the mid-20th century, Ross continued to produce lenses, as well as binoculars, epidiascopes, etc. They had begun supplying lenses for Ensign cameras in the 1930s. After World War II Ross merged with Barnet Ensign, and the company later became Ross Ensign, lenses were also made for other companies such as MPP.
Ross was taken over by Avimo in 1975; Avimo was later taken over by Thales Optics.
* A Ross wide-angle lens mounted in an aerial surveillance camera, Swedish Air Force Museum, Linköping.
* Close-up of the Ross wide-angle lens.

## Sources

* Wilkinson, Matthew, and Colin Glanfield. A lens collector's vade mecum. (CD publication) "Version 7/5/2001" (7 May 2001).
* British Journal Photographic Almanac 1935, Henry Greenwood & Co 1935
# Nojiri Station

Nojiri Station (野尻駅, Nojiri-eki) is a railway station in the village of Ōkuwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai).

## Lines

Nojiri Station is served by the JR Tōkai Chūō Main Line, and is located 288.8 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Tokyo and 108.1 kilometers from Nagoya.

## Layout

The station has one opposed ground-level side platform and one island platform connected by a footbridge with the wooden station building, which dates from the 1909 construction of the station. The station is staffed.

### Platforms

| 1 | ■ Chūō Main Line | For Nakatsugawa and Nagoya |
| 2, 3 | ■ Chūō Main Line | For Kiso-Fukushima and Nagano |

## Adjacent stations

| ← | Service | → |
| JR Central Chūō Main Line |||||
| Ōkuwa | Local | Jūnikane |

## History

Nojiri Station was opened on 1 September 1909. On 1 April 1987, it became part of JR Tōkai.

## Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 116 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

## Surrounding area

* Ōkuwa Elementary School
* Nojiri Post Office
* Kiso River
* National Route 19
* Nojiri-juku (Nakasendō)
# John T. Manske

John T. Manske (born November 6, 1952) is an American politician. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

## Early life

Manske was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin. He graduated from Milton High School in Milton, Wisconsin before obtaining a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Manske worked as a part-time college instructor and production worker before beginning his political career.

## Career

He was elected as a Republican candidate to the Milton City Council in 1973. He served on the city council from 1973-1977 and from 1979-1981. In 1981, he won a special election to serve as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly representing the 47th district. He won reelection in 1982 and 1984, serving as a member of the Assembly from 1981 until 1986. In 1988, he was hired by the Illinois chapter of Common Cause to serve as its executive director.
# Larry F. Hodges

Larry Franklin Hodges (born 1958), is an American computer scientist and theologian, best known for his work in computer graphics and virtual reality therapy.

## Education and personal life

Larry Franklin Hodges was born in 1958 in North Carolina. Hodges attended North Stanly High School, where he played the trumpet, and graduated with the class of 1976. Initially, Hodges was interested in becoming a musician, but he later found a passion for computer science. After graduating, Hodges enrolled in Elon University, and subsequently earned his Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Mathematics. After earning his Bachelor's, Hodges enrolled in Lancaster Theological Seminary, earning his Master of Arts in Religious Studies. Hodges then enrolled in North Carolina State University and earned his Master's Degree in Computer Science in 1982, then his doctorate in 1988.

## Career

In 1993, Hodges organized team a of clinicians and computer scientists to investigate the effectiveness of virtual reality as a treatment for various phobias. In 1995, this team published the seminal paper Effectiveness of computer-generated (virtual reality) graded exposure in the treatment of acrophobia in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The paper was the first published report of a controlled study on the use of virtual reality (VR) for psychotherapy in the psychiatric literature and received widespread media attention, including an announcement of the paper’s results on CBS Evening News the day the journal article was released and follow-up stories in a number of venues, including Scientific American Frontiers, CNN, Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, US News & World Report, MIT Technology Review, Discover, and the New York Times. Following that paper, Hodges continued to publish papers regarding VR therapy.
In 1996, Hodges founded Virtually Better, Inc., with his research colleague Barbara Rothbaum of Emory University. Virtually Better is a company that creates virtual reality software designed to treat patients with mental issues such as phobias or traumas.
Later, in 2006, Hodges was awarded the IEEE Virtual Reality Career Award for his contributions to the field. In 2007, Hodges was also awarded the Georgia Tech GVU Impact Award for his contributions. Since 2021, Hodges has worked at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics as an instructor of Computer Science, a department he chaired until January of 2025.
# Sheila Frahm

Sheila Frahm (née Sloan; born March 22, 1945) is an American politician who served in the United States Senate as a Republican from Kansas for a brief period in 1996.

## Life and career

Frahm was born in Colby, Kansas. In 1979, she served as a member of the town school board. She was appointed to the Kansas state Board of Education in 1985 and was re-elected in 1986. In 1988, she was appointed to the position of vice-president. Frahm was a member of the Kansas State Senate from 1989 to 1995. She became the first woman to be given the title of majority leader of the Kansas Senate when she was elected in 1993. Frahm was the 44th Lieutenant Governor of Kansas from 1995 to 1996. While serving as lieutenant governor, Frahm also served as the state's Secretary of Administration.
On May 16, 1996, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, announced that he would resign from the Senate to focus all of his time on his presidential campaign, stating that he would formally leave by June 11. Eight days later, Governor Bill Graves announced that he would appoint Frahm to replace Dole. On June 11, Dole resigned and Frahm was sworn in. During her time in the Senate, Frahm voted with the Republican Party 92.9% of the time. The Senate average was 87.5%. Around the time she was sworn in as Senator, she labeled herself as "traditionally conservative...very tight-fisted, very prudent. That's what Kansas is."
Frahm ran in the Republican special primary on August 6 to serve Dole's remaining two years of his term, where she immediately ran into competition in first-term U.S. Representative Sam Brownback (who had asked Graves to appoint him but was rejected). He campaigned in favor of banning legal abortion and a constitutional amendment allowing school prayer, each of which Frahm opposed. Frahn received just 41% of the vote; Brownback went on to win the November 1996 special general election, taking office two days after winning. Frahm was the first appointed senator to lose a party primary since Maryon Pittman Allen in 1978 and the last until Luther Strange did so in 2017.

## Other

Frahm is an Honorary Chair of Women for Kansas. She moved back to Colby, Kansas, and became the executive director of the Kansas Association of Community College Trustees. For the 2018 gubernatorial election, Frahm joined many other high-profile Republican current and former legislators and politicians in endorsing the Democratic nominee, and eventual victor, Laura Kelly. Frahm endorsed Kelly again in her successful 2022 reelection bid.
# Cedar Breaks Archeological District

The Cedar Breaks Archeological District, in Cimarron County, Oklahoma near Felt, is a 160-acre (65 ha) archeological site that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It includes three contributing sites denoted Ci-193, Ci-194 and Ci-195; it includes rock art and at least one camp site area. It was listed on the National Register for its potential to yield information in the future.
Within the three sites are "a series of six, well-defined stone circles with scattered lithic debris; a small cave/shelter with petroglyphs; and a cliff face with prehistoric petroglyphs and historic carvings."
# Rusty Hardin

Russell "Rusty" Hardin Jr. (born October 6, 1941) is an American attorney and head of the Houston law firm Rusty Hardin & Associates, P.C. which he established in 1996.

## Early life

Hardin attended a private military academy in Chattanooga, Tennessee, called Baylor School (now a coed, independent day and boarding school). He graduated in 1960 and was influenced by one of his teachers at Baylor, Stan Lewis, to attend Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Hardin is a 1965 graduate of Wesleyan and went on to earn his J.D. degree in 1975 at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas.

## Career

During the Enron scandal, Hardin represented the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen. His efforts resulted in the US Supreme Court unanimously overturning the firm's conviction of obstruction of justice in 2005.
Hardin has represented and won favorable verdicts for athletes such as Rudy Tomjanovich, Warren Moon, Wade Boggs, Rafer Alston, Scottie Pippen, Steve Francis, and Calvin Murphy. Another former client is Roger Clemens, who had been embroiled in accusations of having perjured himself before Congress over alleged steroid use. Clemens was acquitted on June 18, 2012, on all charges that he obstructed justice and lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs as a Major League Baseball pitcher. Other clients include Michael Bennett of the New England Patriots; Deshaun Watson formerly of the Houston Texans and currently of the Cleveland Browns; Adrian Peterson, accused of child abuse; and NASCAR driver Kurt Busch, who was accused of domestic abuse against his former girlfriend.
Hardin successfully represented Victoria Osteen, wife of TV evangelist and bestselling author Joel Osteen, in a civil lawsuit filed by a Continental Airlines flight attendant. The flight attendant claimed that she had been pushed by Osteen, and sought civil damages, but a Houston jury acquitted her in 2008. Hardin also won a favorable verdict for the estate of Texas millionaire J. Howard Marshall. A jury found that the estate owed nothing to Marshall's widow, former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, who married Marshall when he was 89 years old.
Hardin represented the family of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs, who died on July 1, 2019.
In early June 2023, the Texas House committee investigating Texas attorney general Ken Paxton announced the hiring of Hardin and fellow high-profile attorney Dick DeGuerin as impeachment prosecutors.
# Julien Le Devedec

Julien Le Devedec (born 6 June 1986 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France) is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing for Provence Rugby in the Pro D2. His usual position is at Lock or Number 8. Prior to joining CA Brive he played for Stade Toulousain where he won the 2007-08 Top 14 and the 2004-05 Heineken Cup and the 2009-10 Heineken Cup.

## Honours

* Top 14, 2008 with Stade Toulousain
* Heineken Cup, 2005 and 2010 with Stade Toulousain
# Barikak

Barikak (Persian: باریکک) is a village in Bamyan Province in northern-central Afghanistan.
# Yamakoshi Station

Yamakoshi Station (山越駅, Yamakoshi-eki) is a railway station in Yakumo, Futami District, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan.

## Lines

* Hokkaido Railway Company
** Hakodate Main Line Station H55

## History
### Future plans

In June 2023, this station was selected to be among 42 stations on the JR Hokkaido network to be slated for abolition owing to low ridership.

## Adjacent stations

| « | « | Service | » | » |
| Hakodate Main Line |||||
| Nodaoi | Nodaoi | Local | Yakumo | Yakumo |
# Tsuji Station

Tsuji Station (辻駅, Tsuji-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Miyoshi, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Shikoku and has the station number "B23".

## Lines

Tsuji Station is served by the Tokushima Line and is 1.5 km from the beginning of the line at Tsukuda. Only local trains stop at the station.

## Layout

The station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. A siding branches track 1. The station building is unstaffed and serves only as a waiting room. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge.
* A view of the station platforms and tracks. The siding can be seen to the right.

## Adjacent stations

| « | Service | » |
| Tokushima Line |||||
| Limited Express Tsurugisan: Does not stop at this station |||||
| Tsukuda | Local | Awa-Kamo |

## History

Tsuji Station was opened on 25 March 1914 as one of several intermediate stations built when Japanese Government Railways (JGR) extended the track of the Tokushima Main Line from Awa-Yamakawa to Awa-Ikeda. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor to JGR, on 1 April 1987, Tsuji came under the control of JR Shikoku. On 1 June 1988, the line was renamed the Tokushima Line.

## Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 185 passengers daily

## Surrounding area

* Tokushima Prefectural Ikeda High School Tsuji School
* Yoshino River
* Japan National Route 192
* Miyoshi City Hall Igawa Branch office
* Miyoshi City Ikawa Junior High School
# Bhalia wheat

Bhalia Wheat, also known as Daudkhani Wheat is a type of long grain Wheat cultivated in Bhal region in the north of Gulf of Khambhat, Gujarat, India. It received registration as Geographic Indication in 2011.

## Location

Bhal region is situated between Ahmedabad and Bhavnagar districts where this wheat are cultivated starting much before independence of India. They are widely cultivated in Dhandhuka, Dholka and Bavla talukas of Ahmedabad district; Limbdi of Surendranagar district; Vallabhipur of Bhavnagar district; Tarapur and Khambhat of Anand district; Matar of Kheda district; Jambusar and Vagra of Bharuch district.
Bhalia Wheat were registered as Geographic Indication in 2011 with help of state-run Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation and Anand Agricultural University. They are widely used for preparing semolina which is used for making pasta, macaroni, pizza, spaghetti, vermicelli, noodles etc. Gujarat Wheat-1, a variety of Bhalia Wheat, is popular in Gujarat.

## Production

The sowing starts in late October to the first week of November after rain water gets drained to the gulf. The produce is reaped in March — April. Every year 1.7 to 1.8 Lakh (170,000 to 180,000 long tons) of wheat is produced across 2 lakh hectares (490,000 acres). Bhalia wheat does not require irrigation or rain as they are cultivated on conserved soil moisture.

## Nutrition

Bhalia Wheat are rich in gluten, a type of amino acid. It is also rich in protein. It has high amount of carotene and has low absorption of water.
# Hugues Miorin

Hugues Miorin (born 30 November 1968) is a French former rugby union player. He played as a lock.
He played for Stade Toulousain. He won six titles of French Champion, for 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2001 and the first European Cup in 1996. Miorin also earned six caps with the French national team from 1996 to 2000. He made his international debut on 20 April 1996 against Romania.
Miorin retired in 2003 due to thrombosis in an arm.

## Honours

* French rugby champion, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2001
* Challenge Yves du Manoir 1993, 1995 and 1998
* Heineken Cup 1996
# Nagiso Station

Nagiso Station (南木曽駅, Nagiso-eki) is a railway station in the town of Nagiso, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai).

## Lines

Nagiso Station is served by the JR Tōkai Chūō Main Line, and is located 298.0 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Tokyo and 98.9 kilometers from Nagoya.

## Layout

The station has one side platform and one island platform connected by a footbridge. The station is staffed.

### Platforms

| 1 | ■ Chūō Main Line | For Kiso-Fukushima and Nagano |
| 2 | ■ Chūō Main Line | (starting trains only) |
| 3 | ■ Chūō Main Line | For Nakatsugawa and Nagoya |

## Adjacent stations

| « | Service | » |
| Chūō Main Line |||||
| Agematsu or Kiso-Fukushima | Limited Express Shinano | Nakatsugawa |
| Terminus | Rapid | Tadachi |
| Jūnikane | Local | Tadachi |

## History

The station opened on 15 July 1909 as Midono Station (三留野駅). It was renamed Nagiso Station on 1 October 1968. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Central.

## Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 303 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

## Surrounding area

* Nagiso Town Hall
* Nagiso Junior High School
* National Route 19
# Allen S. Baker

Allen S. Baker (January 12, 1842 – January 1916), was an American politician and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. He was born near what is now Evansville, Wisconsin.

## Background

During the American Civil War, he served with the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He died of influenza.
Baker's son, John Baker, would also become a member of the Assembly.

### Assembly career

Baker was a member of the Assembly during the 1905 and 1907 sessions. He was a Republican.
# Amy Friedkin

Amy Rothschild Friedkin (born 1947) was the first female president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), from May 2002 until May 2004, then served as the national chair of AIPAC's board.

## Biography

Friedkin is a fourth-generation San Franciscan. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1968. According to Howard Kohr, AIPAC's executive director, "[Friedkin] is deeply committed to American politics and a belief in the American political system and in the empowerment of American Jewry."
She was president of the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay from 1988-1990. She served on the United Jewish Appeal Young Women’s Leadership Cabinet and led numerous community missions to Israel. Friedkin was honored by the Jewish Women’s Archive and the Lions of Judah. Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) said, “Amy is a bridge between Israel and America.” Additionally, long-time friend Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said, “When Amy looks into the eyes of a legislator, they know she speaks from the heart. She has her facts straight. She has a deep commitment for Israel. It comes through. It’s contagious and very effective.”
In 2000, Friedkin was AIPAC vice president on the national board. She took the position of president from 2002 through 2004, the first woman to do so.
As of 2020, Friedkin was close with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Friedkin has two sons by a former marriage to California attorney Alan J. Sternberg. Her grandson is Brian Sternberg, a speaker at the 2017 national AIPAC conference.
She is the co-founder and currently the major donor and advisor to the Israeli advocacy online magazine Israel21c although this is not publicly known.

## Related links

* List of AIPAC officers
# Fly by Night (Rush song)

"Fly by Night" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush. It was released in 1975 and is the title track of their second studio album. The music was written by bassist Geddy Lee and the lyrics were penned by drummer Neil Peart. Peart wrote the song about his first trip away from home. In 1971, at 18 years old, he left behind his small-town Canadian life and flew to England. Lee sings the lead vocals and on the song's middle eight, his voice is fed through a Leslie speaker.
It was released as a single in April 1975. It marked the first time a single by the band was also released in markets other than the United States or Canada, as it was released in The Netherlands and Australia during the summer of 1975.
Cash Box described it as "a hard-rocking, well-produced cut" that is "very Zeppelinish, with lead guitar and rhythm tracks that could have you evicted." Record World said that a live medley with "In the Mood" "puts the emphasis on fuzz toned guitar and histrionic vocals."
Peart wrote a prologue that is not in the song: "airport scurry / flurry faces / parade of passers-by / people going many places / with a smile or just a sigh / waiting, waiting, pass the time / another cigarette / get in line, gate thirty-nine / the time is not here yet."
In December 1976, the song was released as a single a second time, in a live medley with "In the Mood" from the band's live album All the World's a Stage. This version became the band's first single to reach the US Billboard Hot 100, charting at No. 88.

## Personnel

* Geddy Lee – bass, vocals
* Alex Lifeson – guitar
* Neil Peart – drums

## Use in media

* It was used in the Canadian TV series Degrassi High, in the season two episode "Home, Sweet Home".
* The song was used in TV series Supernatural, in the season one episode "Wendigo".
* In 2012, it was used in an American TV commercial for the Volkswagen Passat.
* It was one of three Rush songs made available to download for play in Rock Band 3 on December 13, 2011, along with a live version of "The Spirit Of Radio" and the single edit of "Caravan".
* In the video game Dota 2, the playable character known as "Dragon Knight" has a voice line referencing the song.