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The NES Advantage is an arcade style controller manufactured by Asciiware and released by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987. The device is meant to rest on a flat surface at a comfortable level, such as a tabletop or the floor, with the player seated behind it. This way, it can be used like an arcade game joystick—with the left hand using the joystick and the right hand operating the buttons.

Features
The NES Advantage features adjustable turbo controls for the A and B buttons which could be toggled on or off with a button; users can adjust the rate of the turbo (i.e., how quickly the A or B button is pressed) by adjusting the respective turbo dials located above each button. The Advantage features a pseudo–slow motion feature, which users can toggle on and off by pressing the "slow" button. However, the slow motion feature does not work with all games, including games compatible with the NES Zapper or R.O.B.  accessories. The slow button works by very rapidly pressing a virtual start button, which could lead to problems when the player attempts to do an action while the game is paused (e.g., jumping or firing). This feature was not compatible with games with start menus or pause screens. The slow motion feature was unique at release, though it became a popular feature on later controllers. The controller has two wires to plug into both controller ports. By toggling a switch between "Player 1" and "Player 2", the Advantage can be shared with another player for games where two players alternate gameplay.

Design
The NES Advantage is designed to simulate the look and feel of cabinet arcade game controls, the idea being to make gaming at home feel more like gaming in a video arcade. However, unlike actual arcade cabinets, the NES Advantage uses rubber switches for the buttons and joystick (like a controller), rather than microswitches. The device has a rugged plastic exterior case with a stainless steel bottom plate, and four rubber feet to prevent skidding. Due to the shape, size and styling the Advantage looks and feels very similar to the NES itself.

In popular culture
In the film Ghostbusters II, an NES Advantage was used to guide the Statue of Liberty to the center of the city during the climax of the movie.

In the 1989 television series Captain N: The Game Master, the main character Kevin Keene can be seen in a live-action sequence playing Punch-Out!!, and another one playing The Adventures of Bayou Billy, both with an NES Advantage.

Christina Aguilera uses one in the video for "Your Body".

Reception
Upon the Advantage's initial release in 1987, it was well received as a great way to get the "arcade experience" at home. Since its successful release in the '80s, the NES Advantage has received little media attention, but has continued to be regarded as one of the best NES accessories ever produced.

See also

Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Advantage
NES Max
List of Nintendo controllers

References

Arcade controllers
Nintendo Entertainment System accessories
Nintendo controllers
Products introduced in 1987
Cornelis Giles (in Dutch: Cornelis Cornelisz. Gielis;  – 2 July 1722) was a Dutch whaler, navigator, cartographer, and polar explorer.

Life 
As a whaler in 1707, Giles traveled north of Nordaustlandet in Svalbard, and managed to reach a degree farther north of Sjuøyane without encountering ice. A published abstract in the Royal Geographical Society's proceedings remarked in 1873 that such voyages "have never been equalled  up to the present day".

He then continued his route eastward in an open sea and sighted an unknown high land at 80 degrees north—the island of Kvitøya—which would not be seen again until 1876. The location appeared on charts as "Giles Land" for a number of years, and it was visited for an exploration in 1898 by Alfred Gabriel Nathorst.

Somehow hence, the island came to be considered mythical—as late as 1935—when an expedition by Georgy Ushakov in the icebreaker  was described in the news as seeking "a phantom island" or "the alleged island" of Giles Island.

Giles died at sea on 2 July 1722, and was buried in Den Helder on 19 August. The Gilessundet inlet in Svalbard was named in his honor.

References

Further reading 
 Michel d'Arcangues, Dictionary of pole explorers, Séguier, 2002, p. 223.

18th-century Dutch cartographers
18th-century Dutch explorers
1670s births
1722 deaths
Dutch polar explorers
Navigators
People from Den Helder
People in whaling
Bosqueville High School or Bosqueville Secondary School is a public high school located in a Bosqueville on the north edge of Waco, Texas that serves about 300 students in grades 6-12.  It is part of the Bosqueville Independent School District and classified as a 2A school by the UIL.  The district covers unincorporated Bosqueville and parts of Waco.  Even though the district is mostly in Bosqueville area, it is actually addressed to Waco.  In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.

Athletics
The Bosqueville Bulldogs compete in the following sports: Cross Country, Volleyball, Football, Basketball, Golf, Tennis, Track, Softball and Baseball.

State Titles
Baseball - 
2008(1A)
Softball - 
2007(1A)

References

External links
Bosqueville ISD

Schools in McLennan County, Texas
Public high schools in Texas
Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1609 or 1610 – 1663) was a French novelist and dramatist.  He was born at the Château of Tolgou in Salignac-Eyvigues (Dordogne). After studying at Toulouse, he came to Paris and entered the regiment of the guards, becoming in 1650 gentleman-in-ordinary of the royal household. He died in 1663 in consequence of a kick from his horse.

La Calprenède wrote several long heroic romances that were later ridiculed by Boileau, and most of them were also referenced in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. They are: Cassandre (5 vols., 1642–1650); Cléopâtre (1648); Faramond (1661); and Les Nouvelles, ou les Divertissements de la princesse Alcidiane (1661) published under his wife's name, but generally attributed to him. His Le Comte d'Essex, produced in 1638, supplied some ideas to Thomas Corneille for his tragedy of the same name.

Works online 
 Édouard, 1640
 Phalante, 1642
 Herménigilde, 1643
 Jeanne, reyne d’Angleterre, 1638
 La Bradamante, 1637
 La Mort de Mitridate, 1637
 La Mort des enfants d’Hérodes, ou Suite de Mariane, 1639
 Le Clarionte, ou le Sacrifice sanglant, 1637
 Le Comte d’Essex, 1638

References

17th-century births
1663 deaths
People from Dordogne
17th-century French dramatists and playwrights
17th-century French male writers
17th-century French novelists
Deaths by horse-riding accident in France
French male novelists
French male dramatists and playwrights
Gerardo Elías Cortés Hermosilla (born 17 May 1988) is a Chilean footballer who currently plays for Chilean Segunda División side San Antonio Unido.

Honours

Club
Colo-Colo
 Primera División de Chile (1): 2009 Clausura

International
Chile
 FIFA U20 World Cup (1): Third place 2007

References

External links
 Cortés at Football Lineups
 

1988 births
Living people
People from Concepción, Chile
People from Concepción Province, Chile
Footballers from Concepción, Chile
Chilean men's footballers
Chile men's youth international footballers
Chile men's under-20 international footballers
Chilean Primera División players
Primera B de Chile players
Segunda División Profesional de Chile players
Deportes Concepción (Chile) footballers
Ñublense footballers
Colo-Colo footballers
Unión Española footballers
Club Deportivo Palestino footballers
San Marcos de Arica footballers
Deportes La Serena footballers
Santiago Morning footballers
Coquimbo Unido footballers
Deportes Melipilla footballers
CD Colchagua footballers
San Antonio Unido footballers
Men's association football midfielders
21st-century Chilean people
Ljabru is a hill and neighborhood in the borough of Nordstrand in Oslo, Norway.

It is mainly a residential area with detached housing as well as larger blocks. It is served by the Ekeberg Line terminal station Ljabru. It is located south of Nordstrand, east of Ljan, west of Mortensrud and north of Hauketo.

Toponymy
The neighbourhood is named after an old farm – Old Norse Ljarnarbrú. The first element is the genitive of an old rivername Ljǫrn, the last element is brú 'bridge'.

References

Neighbourhoods of Oslo
CSI Holy Trinity Church in Yercaud, Tamil Nadu, India was built in 1834 and was rebuilt in 1853 after a damaging accident. It belongs to the Church of South India Trust Association.

The church is the resting place of Robert Bruce Foote, (1834–1912), the British archaeologist and geologist who is considered the "Father of Indian Prehistory". A memorial to him may be found there. The churchyard also has the grave of Peter Percival (1803–1882). He was a  missionary, linguist and a pioneering educator in Sri Lanka and South India.

References

Churches completed in 1834
Anglican church buildings in India
Churches in Tamil Nadu
Masse and Massé are French surnames that may refer to

Alfred Massé (1870–1951), French lawyer, journalist and politician
Arthur Massé (1894–1972), Canadian politician
Bill Masse (born 1966), American baseball outfielder
Bob Masse, Canadian artist 
Brian Masse (born 1968), Canadian politician
Carole Massé (born 1949), Canadian writer
Charles August Masse, 19th century American politician
Dany Massé (born 1988), Canadian ice hockey player 
Énemond Massé (1575–1646), French Jesuit missionary
Francis Masse (born 1948), French cartoonist 
Heather Masse, American alto singer
Henri Massé (1886–1969), French orientalist
Jean-Baptiste Masse (c. 1700–1757), French composer and violoncello player
John Massé (born 1969), American animator, voice over artist and producer
Julie Masse (born 1970), Canadian pop singer
Kylie Masse (born 1996), Canadian competition swimmer 
Manon Massé, Canadian politician 
Marcel Masse (1936–2014), Canadian politician
Marcel Massé (born 1940), Canadian politician
Papa Massé Fall (born 1985), Senegalese-born Bissau-Guinean football player and coach
Paul-André Massé, (1947–2019), Canadian politician
Pierre Massé (1898–1987), French economist, engineer, applied mathematician, and high government official
Victor Massé (born Félix-Marie Massé; 1822–1884), French composer

See also
Masse (disambiguation) – includes non-surname entries
Massie
Massee
Massay, a commune in the Cher department of France

French-language surnames
ʿAbdullāh Al-ʿAydarūs ( also spelled in romanized as Al-Aidrus, Al-Aidroos, Al-Aydarus, Al-Edrus or Al-Idrus) is the name of several people of Hadhrami heritage:

ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman as-Saqqāf Al-Aydarus, scholar and father of Abu Bakr al-Aydarus, the founder of the al-ʿAydarūs branch of the Bā ʿAlawiyyah clan
ʿAbdullāh al-ʿAydarūs (died 1582), a Gujarati Sufi scholar
 Abdullah ibn Shaykh al-Aydarus (died 1609), Acehnese religious leader (naqib)
Wandal may refer to the following places:

Australia 
 Wandal, Queensland, a suburb in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia

India

Karnataka 
 Wandal, Nidagundi, a village in Basavana Bagevadi Taluk, Bijapur district
 Wandal, Sindagi, a village in Sindgi Taluk, Bijapur district
 Wandali, Karnataka, a village in Lingsugur Taluk, Raichur district

Maharashtra 
 Wandali, Maharashtra, a village in Teosa Taluka of Amravati district
Josée Piché (born July 19, 1974) is a Canadian former ice dancer. She was born in Montreal and competed with partner Pascal Denis for 17 years, winning a bronze medal at the 2000 Canadian Figure Skating Championships and finishing 23rd at the 2004 World Figure Skating Championships, their final competition together.

Programs 
(with Denis)

Results
GP: Grand Prix

with Denis

References

External links

1974 births
Canadian female ice dancers
Living people
Figure skaters from Montreal
Ebba-Stina Arnoldsdotter Schalin-Hult (December 22, 1913 – October 3, 1999) was a Finnish-Swedish architect. From 1942 she was married to army commander Bjorn Halt.

Life and works 
Schalin-Hult's parents were Arnold Schalin and Verna Andersen. She matriculated from high school in 1931, graduated as an architect from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1940 and studied at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology (1943–44). From 1938 she worked at the Helsinki Building Board, from 1940 at the Tampere City Planning Office, from 1943 at the Stockholm County Architect's Office, from 1949 as an inspector at the Swedish Building Agency in Stockholm, and from 1952 as an architect in Stockholm's regional planning.

References

20th-century Finnish architects
20th-century Swedish architects
Finnish women architects
1913 births
1999 deaths
People from Chernivtsi
Nyengo (Nhengo) is a minor Bantu language of Angola.

References

Chokwe-Luchazi languages
Languages of Angola
Álvaro Manuel Rojas Marín (born 9 May 1953) is a Chilean scholar and researcher who served as minister during the first government of Michelle Bachelet (2006–2010).

References

1953 births
Living people
University of Chile alumni
Technical University of Munich alumni
21st-century Chilean politicians
Christian Democratic Party (Chile) politicians
Ministers of Agriculture of Chile
Politicians from Santiago
Ambassadors of Chile to Germany
Heads of universities in Chile
The 2022 NAPA Auto Parts 150 was an ARCA Menards Series West race that was held on March 26, 2022 at Irwindale Speedway in Irwindale, California. It was contested over 153 laps on the  short track due to an overtime finish. It was the second race of the 2022 ARCA Menards Series West season. Tanner Reif of Sunrise Ford Racing would win the race, after dominating and leading every lap. It was Reif's first career win in his second start. It was also the first win for Sunrise Ford Racing since 2020. To fill out the podium, Cole Moore and Austin Herzog of Bill McAnally Racing, would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

Background

Entry list 

 (R) denotes rookie driver.
 (i) denotes driver who is ineligible for series driver points.

 **Withdrew prior to the event

Practice/Qualifying

Starting Lineups

Race

Race results

References

2022 in sports in California
NAPA Auto Parts 150
2022 ARCA Menards Series West
R.E. Mountain Secondary is a public high school in northern Langley, British Columbia and is a part of School District 35 Langley. It originally opened in 1977 and was relocated to a new facility in 2019. As of 2014, the school no longer offers Grade 8 as Yorkson Creek Middle School took the position. As of the 2020-2021 schoolyear, the administration changed the schedule layout to a quarterly system as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia.

International Baccalaureate Program
R.E. Mountain Secondary offers the International Baccalaureate program for Grade 11 and 12 students. It is currently the only school in Langley to offer the program. The program is preceded by the Pre-IB Honours program for grades 9 to 10. Students completing the honours program are not required to enter the IB program.

Fine arts
R.E. Mountain Secondary delivers extensive IB and non-IB programs in the Arts, Music, and Drama. The school currently offers varied levels of competitive and non-competitive choirs and bands. The music program has two directors, a choir director, and a band director. The ensembles at the school include Senior Concert Choir, Senior and Intermediate Vocal Jazz, Senior Chamber Choir, Senior and Intermediate Jazz Band, and Senior and Intermediate Concert Band.

The school has a theatre company entitled "A Class Act" as well as a seasonal Improv Drama team.

There is also a visual arts program including sculpting, painting, drawing, photography, and film. The latter two are taught in separate classes, and the school has a dark room and a small film program.

Athletics
Mountain has an athletics program that focuses primarily on soccer, basketball, and volleyball. The Langley Events Centre is adjacent to the school, providing facilities for extension of the school athletics. A 'Strength and Conditioning' program broadens the athletic focus to include year-round attention to non-sport specific training. The current athletics department includes rugby, badminton, ice-hockey, dragon boating, cross country running and track & field.

Deaf and Hard Of Hearing Program
R.E. Mountain used to house the Langley school district's Deaf and Hard of Hearing program, but that program is no longer operating as a separate program.

Notable alumni
Lights, musician
Dennis Cholowski, hockey player
Kellin Deglan, baseball player
Brad Turner, jazz musician
Sunny Chen, actor and artist
Kenny Wong, Kya's father

References

External links
R.E. Mountain Secondary School

High schools in British Columbia
International Baccalaureate schools in British Columbia
School District 35 Langley
Schools for the deaf in Canada
Educational institutions established in 1977
1977 establishments in British Columbia
Media Asia Entertainment Group (), Media Asia Group (, ), is a Hong Kong production company and film distributor for films made in Hong Kong and throughout China. It is a subsidiary of Lai Sun Development Company Ltd.

History 
Headquartered in Hong Kong, Media Asia is one of Asia's largest Chinese language film studios. Listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited Dealing and Automated Quotation System in November 2004. The executive officer of the company is John Chong, a co-founder of Media Asia. The chairman of the company is Peter Lam, the younger son of Lim Por-yen, who founded the Lai Sun Group.

Media Asia was also the only international entertainment company listed on the bourse. On 25 June 2007 the Singapore exchange approved the request to delist the company. 1 August 2007 following a compulsory buyout of minority interests in the company, it was successfully delisted.

Films 
Media Asia has produced or co-financed over 50 Chinese language films. These include box-office successes such as Initial D, Wait 'Til You're Older, A World Without Thieves, Magic Kitchen, and the Infernal Affairs trilogy.

Media Asia has a library of over 269 Chinese language films that it distributes to more than 30 major international markets. It has built up a range of output agreements with Asia-leading television channels, including Hong Kong Cable TV (Hong Kong), CCTV-6 (China), Eastern Broadcasting (Taiwan), MediaCorp TV (Singapore) and Celestial Movies (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Brunei) and has formed a joint-venture with China Film Group for film distribution in China. From 1997 until 2004, it held the pre-1997 Golden Harvest film library with Mega Star handling home video distribution. When Mega Star went into Fortune Star (under Star TV), and with backing 20th Century Fox, it took the rights to the Golden Harvest film catalogue with them.

Awards 
Media Asia's films have won 183 awards and have been nominated more than 250 times at international film awards and at film festivals such as the Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Biennale, the Tokyo International Film Festival, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and the Hong Kong Film Awards.

References

External links 
 Media Asia – Official Website

Film production companies of Hong Kong
Entertainment companies established in 1993
1993 establishments in Hong Kong
Hong Kong brands
Lai Sun Group
Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Victoria Lautman is a Los Angeles-based journalist, writer, and lecturer. Her focus is on art and culture, including architecture, design, and literature, particularly of India. Her book, The Vanishing Stepwells of India, was published by Merrell Publishers (London) in 2017.

Education 
Lautman received an M.A. in art history from George Washington University and a B.A. in anthropology and art history from the University of New Mexico.  She attended Merton College at Oxford University for archaeological field training, and following graduate school was employed by the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Career 
Lautman worked at the National Public Radio outlet in Chicago, WBEZ, beginning in 1984 as a weekly arts reviewer. During the next two decades, she founded and published a long-running arts and culture magazine, Artistic License, and then went on to be an interviewer and contributor to the station. In 2004, she moved to WFMT radio and created the Chicago author-interview series, Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman, with authors including Junot Diaz, Edward P. Jones, Elizabeth Strout, Louise Erdrich, Frank McCourt, Michael Cunningham, Augusten Burroughs, Edwidge Danticat, Peter Carey, Anne Lamott, Martin Amis, Russell Banks, Richard Price, and Mary Gaitskill. Lautman's interviews with Jonathan Lethem, Lady Antonia Fraser, Amitav Ghosh, and others have also been heard at the Chicago Humanities festival.

As a print journalist, Lautman has written for a wide array of publications and was formerly the Chicago editor for the magazines Metropolitan Home, Art+Auction, Architectural Record, and House & Garden. 

Lautman became fascinated with the ancient subterranean step-wells of India after encountering one on her first trip to the country in the early 1980s. Decades later she pursued her interest in earnest, spending several months each year finding and photographing the dilapidated structures throughout the country. This body of work eventually led to the publication in 2017 of The Vanishing Stepwells of India (Merrell publishers, London). Subsequent exhibitions of her stepwell photographs have been mounted at The Fowler Museum at UCLA (2019) and The RMIT University Gallery in Melbourne (2018) Lautman has lectured widely on the topic throughout the United States and India.

Lautman's earlier non-fiction book, The New Tattoo, was published by Abbeville Press in 1994.

External links
Official website

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American radio personalities
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
George Washington University alumni
University of New Mexico alumni
Bosea vestrisii is a bacterium from the genus of Bosea which was isolated from hospital water.

References

External links
Type strain of Bosea vestrisii at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Hyphomicrobiales
Bacteria described in 2003
The 1941 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1941 college football season. In their 13th and final year under head coach Fred Thomsen, the Razorbacks compiled a 3–7 record (0–6 against SWC opponents), finished in last place in the SWC, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 149 to 118.

Arkansas was ranked at No. 49 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.

Schedule

References

Arkansas
Arkansas Razorbacks football seasons
Arkansas Razorbacks football
Dahmer is an unincorporated community located in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. Established in 1896, Dahmer is the only place in the United States bearing this name. Its post office was discontinued December 1, 1941.

The community is so named for John G. Dahmer, a late 19th-century resident, and first Postmaster.  His son also became the school teacher for three generations of children at the local Dahmer school. His grandson, Johnny Arvin Dahmer became a noted local historian for the county, and wrote "The Dahmer Letter", a weekly article in the Pendleton Times highlighting news, local history, folklore, and activities taking place in the Dahmer community between 1968 and 1982.  The "Dahmer Letters" were compiled by David Kuykendall and published as a book in 2002. Dahmer is also home to the historic Ananais Pitsenbarger Farm.

References

Unincorporated communities in Pendleton County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Populated places established in 1896
Fasser may refer to:

 Alexander Fasser (born 1975), Austrian ski mountaineer and mountain biker
 Ekkehard Fasser (1952–2021), Swiss bobsledder