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The Clapp oscillator or Gouriet oscillator is an LC electronic oscillator that uses a particular combination of an inductor and three capacitors to set the oscillator's frequency. LC oscillators use a transistor (or vacuum tube or other gain element) and a positive feedback network. The oscillator has good frequency stability.

History 
The Clapp oscillator design was published by James Kilton Clapp in 1948 while he worked at General Radio. According to Czech engineer Jiří Vackář, oscillators of this kind were independently developed by several inventors, and one developed by Gouriet had been in operation at the BBC since 1938.

Circuit 

The Clapp oscillator uses a single inductor and three capacitors to set its frequency. The Clapp oscillator is often drawn as a Colpitts oscillator that has an additional capacitor () placed in series with the inductor.

The oscillation frequency in Hertz (cycles per second) for the circuit in the figure, which uses a field-effect transistor (FET), is

The capacitors  and  are usually much larger than , so the  term dominates the other capacitances, and the frequency is near the series resonance of  and . Clapp's paper gives an example where  and  are 40 times larger than ; the change makes the Clapp circuit about 400 times more stable than the Colpitts oscillator for capacitance changes of .

Capacitors ,  and  form a voltage divider that determines the amount of feedback voltage applied to the transistor input.

Although, the Clapp circuit is used as a variable frequency oscillator (VFO) by making  a variable capacitor, Vackář states that the Clapp oscillator "can only be used for operation on fixed frequencies or at the most over narrow bands (max. about 1:1.2)." The problem is that under typical conditions, the Clapp oscillator's loop gain varies as , so wide ranges will overdrive the amplifier. For VFOs, Vackář recommends other circuits. See Vackář oscillator.

References

Further reading 

 Ulrich L. Rohde, Ajay K. Poddar, Georg Böck "The Design of Modern Microwave Oscillators for Wireless Applications ", John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, May, 2005, .
 George Vendelin, Anthony M. Pavio, Ulrich L. Rohde " Microwave Circuit Design Using Linear and Nonlinear Techniques ",  John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, May, 2005, .
 A. Grebennikov, RF and Microwave Transistor Oscillator Design. Wiley 2007. .

External links
 
 EE 322/322L Wireless Communication Electronics —Lecture #24:  Oscillators. Clapp oscillator. VFO startup

Electronic oscillators
Vladimir Magomedovich Semyonov (; ) (b. 1940) is a Russian General of the army and the first president of the Karachay–Cherkess Republic (1999–2003).

Biography 
Semyonov was born on 8 June 1940 in the village of Khuzruk, Karachayevsky District, and has an ethnic Karachay father and an ethnic Russian mother. He is a Sunni Muslim. He joined the Soviet Army in 1958. He completed the Baku military college in 1962, the M. V. Frunze Military Academy in 1970 and the General Staff Academy in 1979.

Career 
He is a professional military commander. In 1988, Vladimir Semyonov was appointed as the head of the Transbaikal Military District. In 1991, he became a commander-in-chief of Soviet Land Forces and deputy minister of the Ministry of Defence. From 1992 to 1996 Vladimir Semyonov headed the Russian Ground Forces. He was dismissed from his post by the Russian Defence Minister Igor Rodionov in 1996 but returned to duty in 1998 as Chief Military Adviser to the Minister of Defense of Russia.

In May 1999 he won the presidential elections in Karachay–Cherkessia which caused ethnic tension between Karachays and Cherkesses. The tension was pacified without bloodshed. Vladimir Semyonov tried to solve socio-economic problems of the Republic but in vain. On August 31, 2003, he lost in the general election and left his post to Mustafa Batdyyev.

Semyonov is married with one daughter.

External links 
in Russian

References 

1940 births
Living people
People from Karachayevsky District
Soviet colonel generals
Generals of the army (Russia)
Heads of Karachay-Cherkessia
Members of the Federation Council of Russia (1996–2000)
Frunze Military Academy alumni
Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
Members of the Central Committee of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Knives, Forks and Spoons Press is an independent publishing house based in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, United Kingdom. It was established by Alec Newman in April 2010.

The press publishes avant-garde and experimental poetry, full collections, pamphlets and anthologies. A typical year's output is 24 titles, by new and established poets and artists.

History 

The Knives Forks and Spoons Press emerged from The Other Room reading series – a bimonthly night of experimental poetry that takes place in Manchester. The press name was coined by Richard Barrett as a tribute to Kitchen sink realism.

KFS started out as a publisher of poetry pamphlets in 2010, and it was shortlisted for the publisher award in the Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets in its first year. In 2012, KFS started publishing full collections of poetry. In 2013, Robert Hampson's Reworked Disasters received a Highly Commended in the Forward Prize For Poetry. In 2014, KFS was awarded Arts Council Funding to publish and promote 10 poets. The press's output has diversified to cover a wider range of experimental styles.

Authors 
Poets and artists whose work has been published by KFS include Alan Baker, Wayne Clements, Steven J Fowler, Robert Gavin Hampson Daniele Pantano, Geraldine Monk, Robert Sheppard, Rupert Loydell and George Szirtes.

References

External links 
 
 https://web.archive.org/web/20140427054633/http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/poetry_portal/knives_fists_and_spoons
 http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/Stride%20mag%202013/October%202013/Paterson.4KFS.htm

Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Publishing companies established in 2010
British companies established in 2010
2010 establishments in the United Kingdom
Azal Region is one of the six regions of Yemen expected to be established in the upcoming constitution, to become an autonomous federal region in northern Yemen. Azal Region includes four Yemeni "governorates": Sa'dah, Sana'a, Amran, and Dhamar, with its capital being Sana'a.

Ancient history

Geography and Climate

Climate 
Average temperatures by governorates in the region

Administrative divisions

Demographics

Government

Military

Health

Education

Economy

Media and Culture

Holidays and Official Occasions

References 

Yemeni peace process
Yemen
Decentralization
Proposals in Asia
Proposed political divisions
Public policy proposals
Jordi Arquer  (19071981) was a Spanish communist politician and writer from Catalonia.

Biography
Arquer was born in Barcelona in 1907.

During the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, he participated in the clandestine opposition, collaborating with the independentista groups of Francesc Macià. He was a part of the Centre Autonomista de Dependents del Comerç i de la Indústria and the newspaper Lluita. In 1927 he was one of the founders of the Círculo de Estudios Marxistas (Circle of Marxist Studies), and in 1928 participated in the clandestine congress of the Partit Comunista Català (Catalan Communist Party), which attracted Marxist militants from the Estat Català.

Once the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed, Arquer was one of the founders of a Communist "Right Opposition" party, Bloc Obrer i Camperol (BOC), and an advocate of the Working Alliance (Aliança Obrera). In 1931 he published Los comunistas ante el problema de las nacionalidades ibéricas, and after reviewing the history of Catalonia and the Catalan movement, was favorable to the recognition of self-determination of Catalonia and indicated the convenience of a Union of Iberian Socialist Republics.

1n 1935, BOC merged with the Trotskyist Communist Left of Spain (Izquierda Comunista de España; ICE) to form POUM, bringing together communists dissatisfied with the other communist and socialist parties in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), he was one of the organizers and heads of the POUM militia,  which operated on the Aragon front.

Arquer went into exile in France in 1939. There he formed the Moviment Socialista de Catalunya (Catalan Socialist Movement). He continued to advocate for this organisation in publications and magazines such as Endavant, L'Insurgent, Quaderns de l'exili, La Nostra Revista (Mexico), Ressorgiment (Argentina), Germanor (Chile) and others, circulated in countries including the United States.

In 1977, Arquer moved back to Barcelona, where he resided until his death in 1981.

Works
 El Comunisme i la qüestió nacional i colonial (1930)
 Crítica del programa de Gotha (1936)
 De Francesc Pi i Margall al Comunisme (1931)
 Los comunistas ante el problema de las nacionalidades ibéricas (1931)
 L'evolució del problema agrari a Rússia, des de la servitud feudal al Comunisme (1934)
 Las interpretaciones del marxismo (1937).
 El futur de Catalunya i els deures polítics de l'emigració catalana (1943)

See also

 «Arquer, Jordi, 1907-1981» Antics Posseïdors (Universitat de Barcelona. CRAI Biblioteca de Reserva)

1907 births
1981 deaths
Writers from Barcelona
Communist writers
Marxist writers
POUM politicians
Catalan Communist Party politicians
The 2004 Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland season was the 19th German Porsche Carrera Cup season. It began on 18 April at Hockenheim and finished on 3 October at the same circuit, after nine rounds. It ran as a support championship for the 2004 DTM season. Mike Rockenfeller won the championship by 21 points.

Teams and drivers

Race calendar and results

External links
The Porsche Carrera Cup Germany website
Porsche Carrera Cup Germany Online Magazine

Porsche Carrera Cup Germany seasons
Porsche Carrera Cup Germany
Ogledalo may refer to:

Ogledalo (Peychinovich book), a religious collection written by Kiril Peychinovich in modern Bulgarian
Ogledalo (group), a Serbian chamber music theater group formed by Boris Kovač
"Ogledalo," a song by Bulgarian rock band Ostava
Chat Room is a thriller novel that was published in Australia in 2006. It is the most recent work from Australian author Barbara Biggs.

Plot 
A young girl aged 13, Samantha, is extremely lonely after moving from Sydney to Melbourne. Both of her parents work long hours and she starts getting interested in chat rooms, where she meets new friends. While in the chat rooms she stumbles across a guy named Robin. He pretends to be 17, though he is really 27, and makes Sam feel special. He is charming, smart, romantic and good-looking.

Robin tells Sam that they have to wait for a while before he can tell her his final secret, which she does not realise is his age. Eventually he lets her know that he is 27, which upsets her. After 10 days of stress and depression, she goes back online and asks to talk to him. He answers her and they confess to liking each other, then they decide to meet. She goes to meet him and finds him attractive. They go for a walk.

While Sam is away, Erica, her babysitter, realises Sam is missing and finds the emails from Robin. She calls the police and they set out to find her. Robin is caught and Sam is told what happened. Robin has been to court several times on child sexual abuse charges and has been let go on all charges before now because there was a lack of evidence. Now Robin is taken in by the police and will be sent to prison.

2006 novels
Australian thriller novels
Novels by Barbara Biggs
Novels set in Melbourne
Society of Women Writers & Journalists (SWWJ) is a British learned society for professional women writers.

The society's aims include the "encouragement of literary achievement, the upholding of professional standards, and social contact with fellow writers and others in the field". It was founded as the Society of Women Journalists in 1894 by J. S. Wood, the editor of The Gentlewoman. Original members included Mary Frances Billington, Lady Colin Campbell, Mrs. Frank Leslie, Henrietta Stannard, Charlotte O'Conor Eccles, Marie Belloc, Madeline Greenwood, Lady Violet Grevile, and Mrs. Jack Johnson. Charlotte Humphry was the organisation's first president. The society adopted its current name in 1954.

The society began publishing a thrice yearly house magazine, Woman Journalist, in 1910. Its title was changed to Woman Writer in 2000.

Men who are published writers can now join the society as associate members.

References

External links
Official site
Society of Women Journalists 1894-1914

1894 establishments in the United Kingdom
Learned societies of the United Kingdom
Organizations for women writers
The 1995 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition held on September 10, 1995, at the Atlanta Civic Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Results
The total prize money awarded was $275,000.

Notable events
Dorian Yates won his fourth consecutive Mr. Olympia title

References

External links 
 Mr. Olympia
 1995 IFBB Mr. Olympia Bodybuilding Contest "Wins Dorian Yates"

 1995
1995 in American sports
Mr. Olympia
1995 in bodybuilding
The 1979 Swiss Indoors was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland that was part of the 1979 Colgate-Palmolive Grand Prix. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and was held from 15 October through 21 October 1979. Third-seeded Brian Gottfried won the singles title.

Finals

Singles
 Brian Gottfried defeated  Johan Kriek 7–5, 6–1, 4–6, 6–3
 It was Gottfried's 2nd singles title of the year and the 17th of his career.

Doubles
 Frew McMillan /  Bob Hewitt defeated  Brian Gottfried /  Raúl Ramírez 6–3, 6–4

References

External links
 Official website 
 ITF tournament edition details

Swiss Indoors
Swiss Indoors
indoor
The Tigress () is a 1922 German silent film directed by . The film's art direction was by Franz Schroedter.

Cast
In alphabetical order

References

Bibliography

External links

1922 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Ernst Wendt
German silent feature films
Circus films
German black-and-white films
Terra Film films
Franca Afegbua (20 October 1943 – 12 March 2023) was a Nigerian beautician and politician who represented Bendel North in the Nigerian Senate in 1983. Elected as a National Party of Nigeria (NPN) senator, she was the first elected woman senator in Nigeria.

Afegbua was born in Okpella, Edo State in 1943 and completed her post-secondary education in Sofia, Bulgaria. Prior to the beginning of the second republic, she worked as a hairdresser in Lagos serving high-income clients. Afegbua had a close relationship with Joseph Tarka, who introduced her to his party, NPN. In 1983, when she announced her intention to make a challenge for a senatorial seat in Bendel, few felt that she could win. 

Her party was in opposition and the incumbent governor and senator were respected men in the community. But Afegbua, who had won an international hairstyling competition in 1977, strategized that wooing more women to vote could give her a victory. Her victory in the hairstyling competition had made her name popular within her Etsako community; she targeted women voters, and, as her campaign gained steam, it was too late to curb. She won a slim victory in the August election, defeating John Umolu.

Afegbua died on 12 March 2023, at age 79.

References

1943 births
2023 deaths
Nigerian women in politics
Members of the Senate (Nigeria)
Beauticians
National Party of Nigeria politicians
People from Edo State
Sarah Evershed Brackett (13 May 1938 – 3 July 1996) was an American-born television and film actress who worked mostly in Britain.

Brackett's parents were William Oliver Brackett, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife Nancy Alexis Thompson, who had been born in Scotland. They were married in Edinburgh in 1931, and Brackett was born in Lake Forest, Illinois. In 1945, her father died, and her mother decided to return home, so that from the age of seven Brackett was brought up in Scotland. She trained for an acting career at the Edinburgh College of Speech and Drama. Her entry in Spotlight in 1966 reported that she spoke fluent French and German.

Brackett began her career in the theatre. In 1960 she was in repertory at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews, and in 1961 played Portia in a production of The Merchant of Venice at the Colchester Repertory Theatre. She also appeared in West End musicals, including A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Strand Theatre, and in a production of Funny Girl at the Prince of Wales in 1966 she played Vera, a showgirl.

She last worked as an actress in the late 1980s. On 3 July 1996, she was found dead, aged 58, in her flat in Westminster, London. The cause of death was found to be suicide and the date was estimated as 17 June.

Filmography
Hugh and I, episode "April in Paris" (1963): Check-in Clerk
The Third Secret (1964): Nurse
The Saint, episode "The Unkind Philanthropist" (1964): Tristan Brown
The Masque of the Red Death (1964): Grandmother
Danger Man (1965): Annette / Glover's secretary
BBC Play of the Month Lee Oswald: Assassin (1966): Katherine Mallory
Funeral in Berlin (1966): Babcock
George and the Dragon, episode "The French Lesson" (1967): Air Hostess
Battle Beneath the Earth (1967): Meg Webson
Detective, episode "Deaths on the Champs-Élysées" (1968): Valerie Dupont
The Portrait of a Lady (television series, 1968): Henrietta Stackpole
The Way We Live Now (television series, 1969): Mrs Hurtle
Counterstrike (1969 BBC television series): Mary
 The Golden Bowl (1972, TV series): Mrs. Rance
Sex Play (1974): Harriet Best
Katy (television series, 1976): Mrs Florence
The Awakening of Emily (1976): Margaret Foster
Oppenheimer (1980 miniseries): Priscilla Duffield
Priest of Love (1981): Achsah Barlow Brewster
The Lords of Discipline (1983): Mrs Durrell
The Old Men at the Zoo (1983): Reporter at White House 
Scream for Help (1984): School Secretary
What Mad Pursuit? (1985): Lady at Literary Luncheon
Odyssée d'amour (1987)

References

External links
 

1938 births
1996 deaths
American film actresses
American people of Scottish descent
20th-century American actresses
American emigrants to Scotland
Scottish actresses
1996 suicides
Suicides in Westminster
Mark B. Barron (born Mark Bowen; 1958 - ) is an American entrepreneur and inventor. He is the founder of Public Transportation Safety International Corporation (PTS), which invented and produces the S-1 Gard Dangerzone Deflector for transit buses and the Minimize Danger Zone (MDZ) Shield for school buses.

Early life
Mark Barron was born in San Diego, California.  At the age of five, he and his family relocated to Los Angeles, CA.  His parents were divorced by the time he was eleven years old; subsequently, he was sent to reform school.

Professional life
Barron is who invented and patented the Chemo Cap, a therapeutic hypothermic device, in 1979. The Chemo Cap was designed to prevent alopecia from chemotherapy treatment by freezing the scalp and decreasing blood flow to areas of hair growth during administration of the drug. While success was initially limited, more recent "cold caps" have recently achieved more widespread adoption and shown success rates of 80 to 90 percent with certain chemotherapy regimens, in addition to helping prevent cerebral palsy in babies, providing neuroprotection after cardiac arrest, inhibiting stroke paralysis, and as cryotherapy for migraine headaches.

In subsequent years, he launched ventures in long distance telecommunications and legal referral consulting.

Public Transportation Safety Int'l Corp.
In 1994, Barron invented the S-1 Gard Dangerzone Deflector and founded Public Transportation Safety International.  The S-1 Gard is a device installed in front of the dual right rear wheels of transit buses, engineered to deflect a person out of the path of the wheels, preventing injury or death.  It is currently installed on bus fleets in major cities such as Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Chicago and Baltimore.

In 2010, PTS launched the MDZ Shield as an alternative to the S-1 Gard for school buses.

Bel Air X
Bel Air X is a on-demand telepresent service application which utilizes personal assistants who will go to stores or merchants and purchase items for consumers.  Bel Air X is unique in that the personal assistant can transmit images of the items via an imaging capturing device from the store to the consumer so they can see what the item looks like as if the consumer was actually there in-person. The assistant can also show other similar products to the consumer if they prefer to make product substitutions.

Personal life
In 2005, Barron purchased the home of music producer Quincy Jones in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles. The home was previously occupied by singer Connie Francis, and later singer Julio Iglesias, who made it famous in 1984 by naming his multi-platinum album 1100 Bel Air Place after the home.  
In 2010, Mark Bowen legally changed his name to Mark Bowen Barron.

References

External links
 Mark B. Barron (Personal Site)
 S-1 GARD (Official Site)
 MDZ Shield (Official Site)
 Consumeron (Official Site)

1958 births
20th-century American inventors
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
Living people
People from Bel Air, Los Angeles