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Potassium cyanate is an inorganic compound with the formula KOCN (sometimes denoted KCNO).  It is a colourless solid.  It is used to prepare many other compounds including useful herbicide. Worldwide production of the potassium and sodium salts was 20,000 tons in 2006.

Structure and bonding
The cyanate anion is isoelectronic with carbon dioxide and with the azide anion, being linear.  The C-N distance is 121 pm, about 5 pm longer than for cyanide.  Potassium cyanate is isostructural with potassium azide.

Uses
The potassium and sodium salts can be used interchangeably for the majority of applications. Potassium cyanate is often preferred to the sodium salt, which is less soluble in water and less readily available in pure form.

Potassium cyanate is used as a basic raw material for various organic syntheses, including, urea derivatives, semicarbazides, carbamates and isocyanates.  For example, it is used to prepare the drug hydroxyurea. It is also used for the heat treatment of metals (e.g., Ferritic nitrocarburizing).

Therapeutic Uses
Potassium cyanate has been used to reduce the percentage of sickled erythrocytes under certain conditions and has also increased the number of deformalities.  In an aqueous solution, it has prevented irreversibly the in vitro sickling of hemoglobins containing human erythrocytes during deoxygenization.  Veterinarians have also found potassium cyanate useful in that the cyanate salts and isocyanates can treat parasite diseases in both birds and mammals.

Preparation and reactions
KOCN is prepared by heating urea with potassium carbonate at 400 °C:
2 OC(NH2)2  +  K2CO3  →  2 KOCN  +  (NH4)2CO3
The reaction produces a liquid.  Intermediates and impurities include biuret, cyanuric acid, and potassium allophanate (KO2CNHC(O)NH2), as well as unreacted starting urea, but these species are unstable at 400 °C.

Protonation gives a 97:3 mixture (at room temperature) of two tautomers, HNCO (isocyanic acid) and NCOH (cyanic acid).  This mixture is stable at high dilution but trimerizes on concentration to give cyanuric acid.

Properties

Potassium carbonate crystals are destroyed by the melting process so that the urea can react with almost all potassium ions to convert to potassium cyanate at a higher rate than when in the form of a salt.  This makes it easier to reach higher purities above 95%.  It can also be made by oxidizing potassium cyanide at a high temperature in the presence of oxygen or easily reduced oxides, such as lead, tin, or manganese dioxide, and in aqueous solution by reacting with hypochlorites or hydrogen peroxide.  Another way to synthesize it is to allow an alkali metal cyanide to react with oxygen in nickel containers under controlled conditions.  It can be formed by the oxidation of ferrocyanide.  Lastly, it can be made by heating potassium cyanide with lead oxide.

References

External links 
 MSDS
 MSDS at jtbaker.com

Potassium compounds
Cyanates
The 1975 Canada Winter Games were hosted in Lethbridge, Alberta from 11–23 February 1975. Despite being hosted by Lethbridge, the games were held in 12 communities in southern Alberta spread out over 34,000 km2 (13,127 sq mi). More than 4,000 local volunteers helped with the event.

The Canada Games caused improvements to sporting events throughout the region, including the construction of the $4 million Canada Games Sportplex.

Medals

Source:

See also
Canada Games
Canada Winter Games
List of Canada Games

References

External links
1975 Canada Winter Games 

Sport in Lethbridge
Canada Games, 1975
Canada Games
Winter multi-sport events in Canada
Canada Games, 1975
Canada Winter Games
Kaido Kalm (born March 24, 1965) is an Estonian ice sledge hockey player.

He was part of the Estonian sledge hockey team at the 1998 Winter Paralympics in Nagano (4th place) and at the 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City (6th place).

References

External links
 

1965 births
Amputee category Paralympic competitors
Estonian sledge hockey players
Ice sledge hockey players at the 1998 Winter Paralympics
Ice sledge hockey players at the 2002 Winter Paralympics
Living people
Paralympic sledge hockey players for Estonia
People from Keila
Justin Jackson may refer to:

Justin Jackson (American football) (born 1996), American football player
Justin Jackson (basketball, born 1990), American basketball player who went to college at Cincinnati
Justin Jackson (basketball, born 1995), American basketball player in the NBA who went to college at North Carolina
Justin Jackson (basketball, born 1997), Canadian basketball player who went to college at Maryland
Justin Jackson (footballer) (born 1974), English footballer
Ellwood, also known as Leeland and the Lawrence Lee House, is a historic home located near Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia.  It was designed by architect Waddy Butler Wood (1869–1944) and built in 1911–1912. It is a -story, Colonial Revival style mansion with a five-part symmetrical plan consisting of a main block with a hipped slate roof connected by hyphens to one- story wings with hipped slate roofs.  The house sits on a rise just above the American Civil War fort, Fort Johnston, which at one time was part of the estate. The house was designed for
Lawrence Rust Lee, who was related to the prominent Rust and Lee families of Leesburg.  Also on the property are the contributing garage and wood / meat house. In the 1980s it was home to Lyndon LaRouche, who named it "Ibykus Farm" after a work by Friedrich Schiller.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia
Houses completed in 1912
Houses in Loudoun County, Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Loudoun County, Virginia
1912 establishments in Virginia
Leesburg, Virginia
Vic Elias (1948–2006) was a poet who was born in Chicago, Illinois, and emigrated to Canada in 1979. Settling in London, Ontario, he was a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario. He was also an Affiliate Member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. In 1997 he received the Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching, UWO's highest teaching award. In addition to his work in mathematics and physics, Vic Elias was an accomplished poet whose work appeared in a number of literary publications including Parchment, Tabula Rasa, and Afterthoughts. He is the author of three full-length collections and one chapbook of poetry. His poems have dealt with his Jewish identity and spiritual themes, humorous anecdotes, and in his final works, his struggle with cancer, which took his life in May 2006.

Books
1991: Reflected Scenery from Where My Eyes Should Be, Moonstone Press 
2004: Drinking with Old Men, South Western Ontario Poetry, 
2006: A Game of Jeopardy, South Western Ontario Poetry,

Chapbooks
2006: The Cataracts of Troy, South Western Ontario Poetry

References

External links
Vic Elias: Publisher Site

American male poets
Poets from Chicago
1948 births
2006 deaths
Chapbook writers
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers
The 1999 World Taekwondo Championships were the 14th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Butterdome, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada from June 2 to June 6, 1999, with 550 athletes participating from 66 countries.

Medal summary

Men

Women

Medal table

Team ranking

Men

Women

References

WTF Medal Winners
Official Results

World
World Taekwondo Championships
World Taekwondo Championships
Taekwondo Championships
Taekwondo in Canada
Year 154 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Opimius and Albinus/Glabrio (or, less frequently, year 600 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 154 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events 
 By place 

 Hispania 
 The Lusitanians harry the inhabitants of the Roman provinces in Hispania. At the same time, the Celtiberians of Numantia on the Douro revolt against their Roman occupation.

 Asia Minor 
 After a two-year struggle, Attalus II Philadelphus of Pergamum is finally able to defeat Prusias II, the aggressive king of Bithynia in northern Anatolia. He is assisted in his battle against Prusias II by Ariarathes V of Cappadocia (who has sent his son Demetrius to command his forces) and by the Romans.
 After his victory, Attalus II insists on heavy reparations from Prusias II. In response, Prusias II sends his son Nicomedes to Rome to ask the Romans' help in reducing the amount of these reparations.

 Egypt 
 The Egyptian king Ptolemy VI Philometor defeats his brother, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes, after he attempts to seize Cyprus by force. Nevertheless Philometor restores his brother to Cyrenaica, marries one of his daughters to him, and grants him a grain subsidy.

 China 
 The Rebellion of the Seven States against the Han Dynasty fails and Emperor Jing of Han further consolidates his power at the expense of the regional, semi-autonomous kings governing the eastern portion of the empire.

Births 
 Gaius Gracchus, Roman politician, younger brother of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, who, like him, will pursue a popular political agenda that ultimately ends in his death (d. 121 BC)
 Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus, Roman philologist and speechwriter (d. 74 BC)

Deaths 
 Chao Cuo, Chinese advisor and official of the Han Dynasty (b. c. 200 BC)
 Liu Pi, Chinese prince and general of the Han Dynasty (b. 216 BC)

References
Insurrection is the first novel in Robyn Young's Insurrection trilogy, her fourth book overall, published on 14 October 2010 through Hodder and Stoughton. The story is based on the exploits of the historical Robert the Bruce.

Plot

The novel is based around the Scottish Wars of Independence and in particular the actions of Robert the Bruce, set in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

Reception
Insurrection was well received, with reviewers praising the novels successful evocation of this little-documented period of the Middle Ages.

Toby Clements, in a review for The Daily Telegraph, stated that the novel is "immaculately researched and carefully written, evoking a very particular – and largely unexplored – time and place." and also commented that "the fights are sensational, too.". Mark Scala, reviewing for Australia's The Daily Telegraph, commented that "this tale captures the struggles of a tumultuous time.".

Scott Wilson, of on-line review site The Fringe Magazine was more critical than most, citing the novels factual inaccuracies as a possible point of contention for readers. He states that "those who like their historical fiction to be 100% factual will find many points to complain about" and comments that his wife "likes historical fiction and could not get into this book because of this". Tempering that, however, Wilson states that the book is "well-paced, with visceral and believable battles scenes".

References

External links
 

2010 British novels
Novels set in the Middle Ages
English historical novels
Novels by Robyn Young
Wars of Scottish Independence
Hodder & Stoughton books
Keith Smith is the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the band Anarchy Club.

Before creating Anarchy Club, Smith was in several bands, including Cobalt 60, known as C60. Smith was also an employee of Harmonix, the company that developed Guitar Hero. According to Rock Band, Smith got a guitar lesson from Kurt Cobain in the hallway of a motel in Rhode Island. Reputed to have punched Billy Idol in the face after Billy insulted American punk rock. 
In 2005, Anarchy Club's hit "Behind the Mask" appeared in Guitar Hero. They have since appeared in Guitar Hero II with their song "Collide", Rock Band with their song "Blood Doll" and Rock Band 2 with their song "Get Clean". Both "Collide" and "Blood Doll" are from their EP A Single Drop of Red released in 2007 while "Behind the Mask" is from their debut album The Way and Its Power and "Get Clean" is from their second full-length album The Art of War.

References 

Living people
African-American guitarists
American rock guitarists
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male guitarists
21st-century African-American people
Firewater is the fifth and final studio album by American hip hop group Tha Alkaholiks. It was released on January 24, 2006, via Waxploitation/Koch Records. Recording sessions took place at Street Soul Studios in Los Angeles. Production was handled by members E-Swift and J-Ro, The Rural, Breakmecanix, Danger Mouse, Evidence and Keezo Kane. It features guest appearances from Bishop Lamont, King T and Styliztik Jones.

Critical reception

Firewater was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 67, based on nine reviews.

Soren Baker of Los Angeles Times called it "a rare modern-day rap album that is as fun as it is good". Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club resumed: "far from classic, but pretty damn fun nonetheless". Spin reviewer described the album as "like your favorite dive bar, it feels uncomfortably familiar". 

In mixed reviews, AllMusic's Andy Kellman noticed: "what prevents the album from being on par with the likes of 21 & Over and Coast II Coast is that the MCs have slowed a little with age". Adrian Covert of Prefix magazine wrote: "the members of Tha Alkaholiks may not have wrapped up their stellar career with the bang many had hoped for, but I'll still drink to this". Eric Neigher of Slant magazine stated "much of Firewater has a blast-from-the-past feel". Michael Frauenhofer of PopMatters wrote: "it may not be their best album, but where it doesn’t really add to their legacy, neither does it really tarnish". NOW magazine reviewer found out that "their beats and rhymes reflect none of the punchliney fun they used to have".

Track listing

Charts

References

External links

2006 albums
E1 Music albums
Tha Alkaholiks albums
Albums produced by Evidence (musician)
Albums produced by Danger Mouse (musician)
A Dream of Happiness (German:Ein Traum vom Glück) is a 1924 German silent film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Harry Liedtke, Ferdinand von Alten and Uschi Elleot.

Cast
 Harry Liedtke 
 Ferdinand von Alten 
 Uschi Elleot 
 Agnes Esterhazy 
 Fritz Kampers 
 Harry Hardt 
 Camilla von Hollay 
 Claire Rommer 
 Max Kronert 
 Hans Junkermann 
 Jakob Tiedtke

References

External links

1924 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Paul L. Stein
German silent feature films
German black-and-white films
The following articles contain lists of sumo wrestlers:

List of active sumo wrestlers
List of heaviest sumo wrestlers
List of komusubi
List of ōzeki
List of non-Japanese sumo wrestlers
List of past sumo wrestlers
List of sekiwake
List of sumo elders
List of sumo record holders
List of yokozuna

 
Sumo wrestlers
"If the World Just Danced" is a song recorded by American singer Diana Ross for her twenty-fifth studio album Thank You (2021). It was released on September 3, 2021 by Decca Records as the second single from the album.

Music video
The official music video was released on October 19, 2021. The video was created based on several dozen videos collected by Ross fans around the world. Imagining what it would be like "if the world just danced", fans sent dozens of videos to TikTok with the tag #IfTheWorldJustDanced.

Critical reception
The song received mostly negative reviews. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian called the song "a frightful bit anaemic pop-house", which, in his opinion, "is so humiliating for Diana Ross that she probably had to wear a diving helmet during the recording". Reviewer Alex Jeffrey of musicOMH also gave a negative assessment of the single, which he believes is "more than half about what Ross' gay audience might want from her today." He noted that "there is no clear chorus in the song, and she herself is too disembodied to gain a foothold in the Billboard dance charts." Nevertheless, he noted Ross's voice, "most of which has changed with age, and fits comfortably into the good-natured dance atmosphere without trying too hard to be spectacular". Steve Govoritz of PopMatters wrote that "the song seems static and tired, despite the dance rhythms", and although "Ross carefully pronounces the words, but she does not put feelings into them".

Track listing
 Digital download and streaming
 "If the World Just Danced" – 3:44

 Digital download and streaming
 "If the World Just Danced" (Eric Kupper Remix) – 3:52

 Digital download and streaming
 "If the World Just Danced" (MOTi Remix) – 3:29

Charts

References

External links
 

Diana Ross songs
2021 songs
2021 singles
Songs written by Amy Wadge
Decca Records singles
Charles Edgar Buckeridge (1864 – 11 May 1898) was an English church decorative artist and the son of Charles Buckeridge, a Gothic Revival architect.

Life and career
Born in Headington, Oxford in 1864, the son of Annie and Charles Buckeridge, a Gothic Revival architect, he trained with Burlison & Grylls, ecclesiastical decorators. He exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1882 with a painting of Hampton Court and became known for his religious works, described as a "highly esteemed painter in this field". He often painted in the style of Van Eyck.

He was employed by C. Hodgson Fowler, Arthur Blomfield, John Oldrid Scott, John Loughborough Pearson and Edmund Harold Sedding. His most important patron was George Frederick Bodley for whom he completed the decoration at St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough, that had been started by Edward Burne-Jones and Morris & Co. in the 1860s.

He worked in partnership with Charles Stephen Floyce or Fleuss (c1857-1895), until the end of 1890. They advertised as 'panel and mural painters' and 'artists in stained glass'. Floyce later (1892) worked with Blomfield on the Royal Memorial Church of St George, Cannes.

Other projects included paintings (1894) for Pearson's chapel at St Antony's College, Oxford; the original architect of the nunnery had been his father.

The reredos formerly in St Mark's Church, Horsham, is now in St Mary's Church. It cost about £200. "The upper part of the reredos is in the form of a triptych. The framework is of oak, and the panels, gilt and coloured, are painted in oils, the work being of the Flemish school. The centre panel represents the adoration of the infant Jesus by the Virgin and St Joseph. The side panels bear figures of the four Evangelists. Sir Arthur Blomfield was the architect, and Messrs. Floyce and Buckeridge, of London, were the artists."

At St Mary Magdalene, Enfield, he painted the East Wall and the angels on the ceiling in the chancel (1897/8).

"The altar and reredos of the church of St. Nicholas, Rodmersham, Kent, have been exquisitely painted by Messrs. Buckeridge and Floyce". "It represents the best order of ecclesiastical art, viz., the 15th Century German, whilst the character of the ornament is founded on the old Norfolk work".

His masterpiece is probably the triptych (1892–93) for the architect Norman Shaw's All Saints' Church, Richard's Castle, Shropshire.

Personal life
Charles married Ellen Dunkley in Marylebone in 1888 and had one son, Albert (b 1881). In 1882 his address was given as 4, Duke Street, Portland Place and in 1891 Wilmot Place, St Pancras. He later lived at Mortimer Street, Marylebone. He died at 64 Agamemnon Road, West Hampstead in 1898, and is buried in Camden. According to Saint "In November 1894 .. his wife destroyed one of his largest paintings and fled".

Gallery

Works
Incomplete. (After Andrew Saint with additions)

References

1864 births
1898 deaths
19th-century English artists
19th-century English painters
Artists from Oxford
British stained glass artists and manufacturers
English male painters
Religious artists
19th-century English male artists
Isabella Minna Veronica Wagner, better known as Veronica (born July 7, 1987), is a gymnast who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics as a member of the Swedish Olympic team. She is coached by Staffan Söderberg.

Wagner was born in Stockholm, and started gymnastics at the age of 5. She progressed quickly through the sport's levels, qualifying as an international elite at the age of 12. She is Sweden's most successful gymnast, having won the national title 7 times (2002, 2004–2008 and 2011) and represented her country at the Olympics, World Championships and European Championships. She has also been a finalist at several World Cup events and in the 2009 Worlds all-around competition.

Wagner is a powerful and innovative gymnast, particularly on the floor exercise. She pioneered the double piked front, which she successfully competed at the 2006 European Championships. She performed well at these championships, with a score that would have been good enough to place her 13th if an all-around competition had been held. She competed with the Swedish team at the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and while the team did not qualify for the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, which served as qualifiers to the Olympics, Wagner qualified as an individual. She stated in an interview with International Gymnast magazine that her goals for 2007 were to win a World Cup medal and to qualify to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Wagner achieved both of these goals. At the 2007 World Championships, she qualified to her second Olympic Games as an individual competitor for Sweden. She also had World Cup success in 2007: She won the silver medal on vault at the Maribor World Cup, held in Slovenia, and two gold medals (vault and balance beam) and a bronze (floor) at the Buenos Aires World Cup.

After winning the Swedish Championships in June 2008, Wagner was told that the Swedish Olympic Committee would not send her to Beijing to compete in the Olympic Games. A fan-driven petition was created in protest.

After this disappointment, Wagner continued to compete in gymnastics. At the 2009 World Championships, she qualified to the all-around final for the first time in her career.

For the 2012 Olympics, she was contracted by Swedish national television as a commentator for the gymnastics competition.

Results

2002 Swedish Championships - 1st AA
2003 Northern European Championships  - 2nd AA, 1st FX, 1st BB, 7th UB, 1st V
2003 Swedish Championships - 2nd AA
2003 Swedish Cup           - 1st AA
2004 Swedish Championships - 1st AA, 1st V
2004 Olympic Games         - 55th AA
2005 Swedish Championships - 1st AA, 1st FX, 2nd BB, 8th UB, 2nd V
2005 World Championships   - 30th AA
2006 Swedish Nationals     - 1st AA, 1st FX, 1st BB, 2nd UB, 1st V
2006 Ghent World Cup       - 6th V
2006 French International - 6th BB, 5th FX
2006 North European Championships - 1st AA, 3rd UB, 1st BB, 1st FX
2006 World Championships - 62nd AA
2007 Maribor World Cup - 2nd V, 7th BB

References

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1987 births
Living people
Swedish female artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Sweden
Gymnasts from Stockholm
USS Squall (PC-7) is the seventh . Squall was laid down 17 February 1993 by Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana and launched 28 August 1993. She was commissioned by the United States Navy 4 July 1994.

Operational history
In 2013, Squall shifted homeport to Naval Support Activity Bahrain.

On August 24, 2016, while operating in the northern end of the Persian Gulf, the Squall fired three .50 caliber machine gun warning shots at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards boat which had been harassing the Squall, the  and a ship of the Kuwaiti Navy.  During the encounter, the Iranian boat closed within  of the Tempest and ignored earlier warnings to leave the area conveyed by radio and loud speaker and reinforced with the firing of flares.  In accordance with standard maritime procedure, the warning shots were fired into the water.  The Iranian boat then left the area.

Squall was decommissioned on 14 March 2022 at Naval Support Activity Bahrain.

References

External links

FAS
navsource.org: USS Squall

 

Cyclone-class patrol ships
Ships built in Lockport, Louisiana
1993 ships