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The Portland Gas & Coke Building, also known as the Gas and Coke Building and Gasco Building, was an administrative building located in northwest Portland, Oregon, United States. It was constructed by Portland Gas & Coke in 1913 as part of a manufacturing plant, in which the company coked gas and fuel from coal. The building was vacated in 1957 due to contamination issues, and demolition of the building began on September 12, 2015, with the demolition project completing in November 2015.

Description
The Portland Gas & Coke Building was an administrative building located along U.S. Route 30, just south of the St. Johns Bridge in Portland's Northwest Industrial neighborhood. It exhibits Gothic architectural style.

History
The building was constructed by Portland Gas & Coke (now known as NW Natural, formerly Northwest Natural Gas Company) in 1913 as part of a plant to manufacture gas from oil. With the arrival of natural gas in the 1950s, the company shut down the plant, which has been vacant since 1958. The administrative building was the plant's longest-remaining structure. It was listed on Portland's Historic Resource Inventory until NW Natural's removal request in August 2012. The company announced removal plans in December 2013 due to a "federally mandated cleanup effort in the area". NW Natural outlined the following concerns with the structure on their website:

Demolition
A community group called Save the Portland GasCo Building attempted to raise $2 million to preserve the building, but their efforts were unsuccessful and resulted in only $4,000 from T-shirt sales. After learning of NW Natural's plans to proceed with the demolition, the historical preservation group's leader made plans to rally supporters at Skyline Tavern and said, "Portland is moving so fast these days—we're ripping out old Portland, and this is one of the last icons. This would be a relic that points to Portland's past. We call it an industrial cathedral." The group also confirmed plans to fly drones over the building to record footage for preservation and to stream video of its demolition via a 24/7 "GASCO cam". Architecture critic Brian Libby said of the building's demolition, "Shame on them, and shame on all of us."

NW Natural began demolishing the building in September 2015; the process began with four to five weeks of stripping the interior before tearing down the exterior. According to the company, many people submitted requests to photograph the building. Requests were declined due to the building's dilapidated state, but NW Natural displays professional photographs of the structure on their website. The demolition was completed in November 2015.

In popular culture
The Gas & Coke Building is featured on the cover of Colin Meloy's 2012 novel, Under Wildwood. Meloy was also a supporter of the preservation efforts for the building.

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1913 establishments in Oregon
2015 disestablishments in Oregon
Buildings and structures demolished in 2015
Commercial buildings completed in 1913
Demolished buildings and structures in Portland, Oregon
Gothic Revival architecture in Oregon
Northwest Portland, Oregon
is a Japanese football manager and former football player, He is the currently assistant coach of Singapore.

Club career
Spending most of his early career with regional league clubs in Japan, Fujimoto joins Hong Kong First Division League club Yuen Long District SA on a free transfer.

Club statistics
 As of 18 February 2014; Stats in Hong Kong only.

References

1986 births
Living people
Association football people from Saitama Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J2 League players
Thespakusatsu Gunma players
Fukushima United FC players
Hong Kong First Division League players
Yuen Long FC players
Men's association football midfielders
Guangzhou City F.C. non-playing staff
The 9M133M Kornet-M (also known by the export designation 9M133 Kornet-EM) Russian anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) is an improved version of the 9M133 Kornet ATGM, with increased range and an improved warhead.

Kornet-EM missiles are chiefly used on the Kornet-D system. Kornet-M missiles are also compatible with standard Kornet man-portable tripod launchers.

Design
Introduced in 2012, its vehicle mounted version is equipped with an automatic target tracker. Instead of manually placing the crosshairs on target throughout the missiles flight, the operator designates a target once and the computer tracks the target as the missile travels towards it. The beam riding system also allows a vehicle equipped with twin launchers to attack two different targets at once, increasing its rate of fire, decreases the number of vehicles needed for a mission, and can defeat vehicles equipped with an active protection system through salvo fire at one target. The system's use of an autotracker can make it more effective against low-flying aerial threats like helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Like the Kornet, the Kornet-M is designed to defeat vehicles with explosive reactive armor via a tandem-warhead. There are also Kornet-M variants equipped with thermobaric warheads. Russia has developed a new X-UAV guided aircraft missile.

Users

 (licensed production)
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 (introduced in 2021)

References

Anti-tank guided missiles of Russia
Anti-tank weapons
Modern thermobaric weapons of Russia
KBP Instrument Design Bureau products
Military equipment introduced in the 2010s
Visconti is a surname which may refer to:

Italian noble families
 Visconti of Milan, ruled Milan from 1277 to 1447
 Visconti di Modrone, collateral branch of the Visconti of Milan
 Visconti of Pisa and Sardinia, ruled Gallura in Sardinia from 1207 to 1250

People

Pre-20th century 
 Alfonso Visconti (1552–1608), Roman Catholic cardinal
 Antonio Eugenio Visconti (1713–1788), Roman Catholic cardinal
 Azzone Visconti (1302–1339), lord of Milan
 Bartolomeo Visconti (died 1457), Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop of Novara
 Bernabò Visconti (1323–1385), Italian soldier and lord of Milan
 Caterina Visconti (1361–1404), Duchess of Milan
 Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751–1818), Italian antiquarian and art historian
 Federico Visconti (1617–1693), Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan from 1681 to 1693
 Filippo Maria Visconti (1392–1447), Duke of Milan
 Filippo Visconti (bishop) (1596–1664), Roman Catholic Bishop of Catanzaro
 Filippo Maria Visconti (bishop) (1721–1801), Archbishop of Milan
 Galeazzo Visconti (disambiguation), several people
 Gaspare Visconti (1538–1595), Archbishop of Milan from 1584 to 1595
 Gian Maria Visconti (1388–1412), Duke of Milan
 Giovanni Visconti (disambiguation), several people
 John of Gallura (died 1275), John (or Giovanni) Visconti, Judge of Gallura, Sardinian ruler
 Louis Visconti (1791–1853), Italian-born French architect
 Ottone Visconti (1207–1295), Archbishop of Milan and lord of Milan
 Teobaldo Visconti (1210–1276), Pope Gregory X
 Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans (1371–1408)
 Valentina Visconti, Queen of Cyprus (c. 1357–before September 1393)

20th-21st century 
 Adriano Visconti (1915–1945), Italian World War II flying ace
 Gary Visconti (born 1945), American former figure skater
 Giovanni Visconti (cyclist) (born 1983), Italian road bicycle racer
 Luchino Visconti (1906–1976), Italian film, theatre, and opera director
 Tony Visconti (born 1944), American record producer, musician and singer

Fictional characters
 Ace Visconti, a character in the 2016 online multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight
 Ercole Visconti, a character in the 2021 Pixar film Luca

Other
 Visconti (company), an Italian manufacturer of pens and other luxury goods
Just a Gigolo is a 1931 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film released by MGM. It was directed by Jack Conway, produced by Irving Thalberg and starred William Haines, Irene Purcell, C. Aubrey Smith, and Ray Milland. It was adapted from the 1930 play of the same name, which also starred Irene Purcell in the role of Roxana 'Roxy' Hartley. The film features the song "Just a Gigolo".

Plot summary
Lord Robert Brummell (William Haines), an impecunious bachelor, is ordered by his wealthy uncle Lord George Hampton (C. Aubrey Smith) to settle down with a wife. Not wishing to tie himself down to any one girl, Brummell endeavors to prove that no woman is worthy of him by pretending to be a gigolo. When he meets the beautiful, wealthy Roxana Hartley (Irene Purcell), Lord Robert becomes increasingly frustrated when she deftly resists all his techniques of seduction. But his realisation that he loves her occurs at the same time that Roxana discovers his true identity and decides to pay him back.

Cast
 William Haines as Lord Robert 'Bobby' Brummel
 Irene Purcell as Roxana 'Roxy' Hartley
 C. Aubrey Smith as Lord George Hampton
 Charlotte Granville as Lady Jane Hartley
 Lilian Bond as Lady Agatha Carrol
 Ray Milland as Freddie
 Yola d'Avril as Pauline, Roxana's Maid

References

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1931 films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Jack Conway
1931 romantic comedy films
Films produced by Irving Thalberg
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
American romantic comedy films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
Films with screenplays by Richard Schayer
Films about gigolos
In numerical analysis, nested dissection is a divide and conquer heuristic for the solution of sparse symmetric systems of linear equations based on graph partitioning. Nested dissection was introduced by ; the name was suggested by Garrett Birkhoff.

Nested dissection consists of the following steps:
Form an undirected graph in which the vertices represent rows and columns of the system of linear equations, and an edge represents a nonzero entry in the sparse matrix representing the system.
Recursively partition the graph into subgraphs using separators, small subsets of vertices the removal of which allows the graph to be partitioned into subgraphs with at most a constant fraction of the number of vertices.
Perform Cholesky decomposition (a variant of Gaussian elimination for symmetric matrices), ordering the elimination of the variables by the recursive structure of the partition: each of the two subgraphs formed by removing the separator is eliminated first, and then the separator vertices are eliminated.

As a consequence of this algorithm, the fill-in (the set of nonzero matrix entries created in the Cholesky decomposition that are not part of the input matrix structure) is limited to at most the square of the separator size at each level of the recursive partition. In particular, for planar graphs (frequently arising in the solution of sparse linear systems derived from two-dimensional finite element method meshes) the resulting matrix has O(n log n) nonzeros, due to the planar separator theorem guaranteeing separators of size O(). For arbitrary graphs there is a nested dissection that guarantees fill-in within a  factor of optimal, where d is the maximum degree and m is the number of non-zeros.

See also
Cycle rank of a graph, or a symmetric Boolean matrix, measures the minimum parallel time needed to perform Cholesky decomposition  
Vertex separator

Notes

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Sparse matrices
Numerical linear algebra
David Duggan (born July 16, 1963) is an American football coach and former player who is currently the defensive coprdinator at Kent State. Prior to Kent State he was the director of recruiting at Troy University. Duggan served as the head coach for the Cologne Centurions of NFL Europe from 2006 to 2007, where he compiled a record of 10–9.

Early life
A native of Maynard, Massachusetts, Duggan played four years of football at the University of New Hampshire. He served as captain in 1986 while playing linebacker for the Wildcats.

Coaching career
Duggan began his coaching career in 1987 at Allegheny College where he worked with the inside linebackers. During his one year stay with the Gators, they won the North Coast Athletic Conference title and participated in the NCAA Division III playoffs. In 1988, he returned to his alma mater for a four-year stint as linebackers coach with the Wildcats. In his final year at UNH, the Wildcats won the Yankee Conference title and participated in the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs.

After the 2011 season, Duggan followed head coach Larry Fedora to the University of North Carolina, where he was named outside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator on January 3, 2012. He spent one season in that capacity before returning to Southern Miss as the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach under newly hired head coach Todd Monken in January 2013.

On August 19, 2019, Duggan was named acting head coach of Arkansas State following head coach Blake Anderson's decision to take a leave of absence. Duggan had been named defensive coordinator of the team earlier in the year.

Duggan was fired on October 16, 2020, less than 24 hours after the Red Wolves defense gave up 52 points against Georgia State.

Duggan was named the director of recruiting at Troy on March 31, 2021.

In late December 2022, Duggan was named the defensive coordinator at Kent State under brand-new head coach Kenni Burns.

Personal life
Duggan and his wife, Lynne, have two daughters, Olivia and Grace. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1986 with a degree in physical education.

Head coaching record

References

External links
 North Carolina profile
 Southern Miss profile

1963 births
Living people
Allegheny Gators football coaches
American football linebackers
Berlin Thunder coaches
Brown Bears football coaches
Cologne Centurions (NFL Europe) coaches
Holy Cross Crusaders football coaches
New Hampshire Wildcats football coaches
New Hampshire Wildcats football players
North Carolina Tar Heels football coaches
Sportspeople from Concord, Massachusetts
Players of American football from Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Southern Miss Golden Eagles football coaches
Troy Trojans football coaches
Western Michigan Broncos football coaches
Robert Benjamin "Speck" Searcy, Jr. (January 8, 1901 – December 22, 1967) was an American politician who served as mayor of Huntsville, Alabama from 1952 to 1964.

He was the mayor of Huntsville when President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, as the home for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on July 1, 1960. The center became the civilian base for Dr. Wernher von Braun who was the center's first Director, presiding from July 1960 to February 1970.

Searcy is buried at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville.

References 

1901 births
1967 deaths
Mayors of Huntsville, Alabama
20th-century American politicians
The Constitutional Law PAC was a center-right political action committee formed in the state of Washington to help elect candidates to the Washington Supreme Court and Washington State Court of Appeals.

Conservatives expressed concerns that the group's leadership was too liberal, while liberals criticized the committee as a conservative attempt to influence judicial elections. The center-left FairPAC was started in response.

Candidate Evaluation Committee

The Candidate Evaluation Committee was chaired by Former King County Prosecutor Christopher T. Bayley a moderate Republican.  Members of the committee were Seattle labor attorney Jerry Rubin of the law firm Stoel Rives (Democrat), Chehalis attorney Renee’ Remund of the firm Vander Stoep, Remund and Blinks (Republican) and Senior Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor Phil Sorenson (Democrat). 
In 2006 the committee formed a bi-partisan Candidate Evaluation Committee to issue rating for appellate level judicial candidates in Washington State. The committee issued two ratings for each candidate: "Judicial Qualifications" and "Judicial Philosophy".

Judicial Qualifications
The Judicial Qualifications rating relied on similar criteria to those used by the King County Bar Association  and other bar associations.  The possible ratings were “Very Well Qualified”, “Well Qualified”, “Qualified” and “Unqualified”.

Judicial Philosophy
The committee based its "Judicial Philosophy" rating reflects on their understanding of a candidate’s “deference to the law, constitution and established legal precedent.”  An “A” was used to indicate that the candidate showed complete deference to the law, constitution and established legal precedent.  A “B” was awarded for significant deference, a “C” for partial deference, a “D” for insufficient deference and an “F” for little or no deference.

Ratings
The committee rated four incumbent judges as “Very Well Qualified”, Chief Justice Gerry L. Alexander, Judge Ronald E. Cox of the Court of Appeals, Judge Marlin Appelwick of the Court of Appeals, and Judge David Armstrong of the Court of Appeals.  State Senator Stephen Johnson was the only non-incumbent rated Very Well Qualified.

Two candidates were rated “Unqualified”, conservative Supreme Court challenger Jeanette Burrage and Joel M. Penoyar who was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 2005.

Leadership 
Chairman of the Board: Former Republican Senator Slade Gorton
Board Members: Christopher T. Bayley, Anthony Sternola, Marianne Jones and Alex Hays
Executive Director: Alex Hays
Chairman, Candidate Evaluation Committee: Christopher T. Bayley.

References

Politics of Washington (state)
Washington (state) political action committees
Kushk-e Ghandi (, also Romanized as Kūshk-e Ghandī; also known as Kooshk Tayyebi Sarhadi, Kūchak, and Kūshk) is a village in Tayebi-ye Sarhadi-ye Sharqi Rural District, Charusa District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 62, in 13 families.

References 

Populated places in Kohgiluyeh County
The Chico Formation is a geologic formation of the Campanian Age during the Cretaceous Period, found in California and southern Oregon.

Geology
The MesozoicEra formation can regionally overlie the Vaqueros Formation, and can regionally underlie the Martinez Formation or Tejon Formation.

The Chico Formation is exposed in the Southern California Coast Ranges, western San Joaquin Valley, north of Mount Diablo, and in the Chico area of the northeastern Sacramento Valley.

It is also found in the eastern Simi Hills in Bell Canyon and Dayton Canyon, located in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, near the community of West Hills.

Paleofauna
Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, from the Late Cretaceous of the Mesozoic Era.

Species
The lizard and bird species listed in the table below date from the Late Cretaceous Epoch.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in California
 List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
 List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils
 
 Paleontology in California

References

Campanian Stage
Cretaceous California
Cretaceous geology of Oregon
Sandstone formations of the United States
Geology of Contra Costa County, California
Geology of Los Angeles County, California
Geology of Ventura County, California
Geography of the San Joaquin Valley
Natural history of Butte County, California
Upper Cretaceous Series of North America
Paleontology in California
Chico, California
Geography of the Sacramento Valley
Simi Hills
Geologic formations of California
The electric flash-lamp uses electric current to start flash powder burning, to provide a brief sudden burst of bright light. It was principally used for flash photography in the early 20th century but had other uses as well. Previously, photographers' flash powder, introduced in 1887 by Adolf Miethe and Johannes Gaedicke, had to be ignited manually, exposing the user to greater risk.

Invention 

The electric flash-lamp was invented by Joshua Cohen (a.k.a. Joshua Lionel Cohen of the Lionel toy train fame) in 1899, and by Paul Boyer in France.  It was granted U.S. patent number 636,492.  This flash of bright light from the flash-lamp was used for indoor photography in the late nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century.

Joshua Lionel Cohen's flash-lamp patent 636,492 reads in part, 

The principle of operation of the electrical flash-lamp is linked to the shutter of an early box camera: tripping the shutter ignites the flash powder and releases the potential energy of the exploding powder causing a bright flash for indoor photography.

Uses of flash-lamp 
The main purpose of Cohen's invention was as a fuse to ignite explosive powder to get a photographer's flash. One of the first practical applications, however, for Cohen's flash-lamp was as underwater mine detonator fuses for the U.S. Navy. In 1899, the year the invention was patented, the government awarded Cohen a $12,000 contract for 24,000 naval mine detonator fuses. The use of the flash for photography was dangerous, and photographers could get burned hands from the flash.

Electric apparatus applications 

A 1910 brochure for the Nesbit High Speed Flashlight Apparatus says,

See also 
 Valentin Wolfenstein
 Flash (photography)
 Flashlight

Footnotes

Bibliography 
Beyer, Rick, The Greatest Stories Never Told - 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder & Stupefy, The History Channel, 2000, 

Photographic lighting
1899 introductions
Obsolete technologies
Scrambled Eggs Super! is a 1953 book written and illustrated by American children's author Dr. Seuss. The story is told from the point of view of a boy named Peter T. Hooper, who makes scrambled eggs prepared from eggs belonging to various exotic birds.

Plot
At the beginning of the story, Peter T. Hooper brags to his sister, Liz, in his mother's kitchen about what a good cook he is. He tells the story of how, when he became fed up with the taste of regular scrambled eggs using hen's eggs, he decided to scramble eggs from other birds. He tells of how he travelled great distances and discovered a variety of exotic birds and their eggs.

He explains his criteria for choosing some eggs, because of their sweetness, and avoiding others. He takes the eggs home but decides that he still needs more, and he calls on the help of some of his friends from around the world, including a "fellow named Ali". After each bird Peter finds he states the phrase..."Scrambled Eggs Super Dee Dooper Dee Booper Special Deluxe a la Peter T. Hooper".

Legacy
In the 2008 American computer animated adventure comedy film Horton Hears a Who!, Long-Legger Kwongs and Ruffle-Necked Sala-ma-gooxes appear as residents of The Jungle of Nool.

Critical reception
Ruth C. Barlow of the Christian Science Monitor called it a "gay extravaganza".

It also received positive reviews from Chicago Sunday Tribune and The New York Herald Tribune for Seuss's illustrations of the birds.

Phillip Nel, in the book Dr. Seuss: American Icon, wrote that Scrambled Eggs Super! was one of Seuss's less politically oriented books.

Withdrawal
On March 2, 2021, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the owner of the rights to Seuss's works, withdrew Scrambled Eggs Super! and five other books because they "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong". The possible scene perceived as "hurtful" is a two page illustration of five persons in a boat from a fictional location (named "Fa-Zoal") near the North Pole, wearing hooded fur parkas (i.e., the moustached white assistants seen elsewhere in the book in cold-weather gear), as these persons endeavored to collect eggs from fantastical birds called "Grice" which "lay eggs on the ice". After the books were removed, nine of the top ten, including the top four, books on Amazon's charts in the United States were Dr. Seuss books, though none were the books removed.  eBay, however, delisted the title for "offensive content".

References

1953 children's books
American children's books
American picture books
Stereotypes of Inuit people
Siblings in fiction
Children's books about birds
Eggs in culture
Race-related controversies in literature
Books by Dr. Seuss
Random House books