Samantha912/NLP_A2_WTH huggingface dataset:
Blue Streak is a wooden roller coaster located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. Built by Philadelphia Toboggan Company, Blue Streak opened to the public on May 23, 1964. In addition to being the oldest roller coaster operating at Cedar Point, it is also the park's only wooden coaster. In 2013, Blue Streak achieved its highest ranking in the annual Golden Ticket Awards publication by Amusement Today, ranking 27th among the world's top wooden roller coasters. In 2022, it was awarded a Coaster Landmark designation by American Coaster Enthusiasts.

History

Following the removal of Cyclone in 1951, more than a decade passed before Cedar Point decided to add another major roller coaster to its list of attractions. Several smaller coasters were added during this time, but only two remained by 1963. For the 1964 season, Philadelphia Toboggan Company was hired to build a new roller coaster under the direction of Frank F. Hoover and John C. Allen. Blue Streak opened to the public on May 23, 1964. It was one of only three roller coasters operating at the time within the park. The attraction's success led to a rebirth of roller coasters at Cedar Point, including the installation of Cedar Creek Mine Ride (1969), Corkscrew (1976), Gemini (1978) and Wilderness Run (1979).

Blue Streak features a traditional "out-and-back" layout design. The roller coaster was named after the local Sandusky High School athletic nickname "The Blue Streaks". Cedar Point invested  to construct the wooden roller coaster, and it remains a favorite at the park, consistently getting 30 minute to hour waits, and within annual roller coaster polls. In Amusement Today's 2013 Golden Ticket Awards, Blue Streak was ranked 27th among wooden roller coasters worldwide – its highest ranking to date.

On July 20, 2022, during Coaster Con 44, American Coaster Enthusiasts designated Blue Streak a Coaster Landmark.

Ride experience

After a  up its lift hill, the train descends  at a 45-degree angle reaching a top speed of . Riders then enter a series of two short hills which provide the ride's maximum airtime followed by a larger, third hill that slows the train slightly. After the next drop, the train climbs into a 180-degree turn that sends riders over a short hill followed by three medium-sized hills on its way back. The ride ends on the track's final brake run before returning to the station.

Rankings

References

External links

 Cedarpoint.com – Official Blue Streak page
 Official POV of Blue Streak
 Blue Streak Photo Gallery at The Point Online

Cedar Point
Roller coasters introduced in 1964
Roller coasters operated by Cedar Fair
Roller coasters in Ohio
Smoltification (also known as Parr-Smolt transformation) is a complex series of physiological changes where young salmonid fish adapt from living in fresh water to living in seawater. Physiological changes during smoltification include modified body shape, increased skin reflectance (the measure of the proportion of light or other radiation striking a surface which is reflected off it.), and increased Na+/K+-ATPase in the gills. A number of mechanisms assist with osmoregulation.

References 

Salmoniformes
The Tuzhong-class patrol ship (as designated by NATO) is a class of oceangoing rescue and salvage ship in the People's Republic of China's China Coast Guard (CCG). Four were built at the Zhonghua Shipyard, and entered service with the People's Liberation Army Navy in the late-1970s. In 2009, each of the three fleets had one and the fourth was in reserve. In 2012, three were transferred to China Marine Surveillance and from there to the CCG.

The Tuzhongs have a 35-ton capacity towing winch. In PLAN service, T 710 was fitted with a Type 352 radar, possibly for cruise missile tests.

Ships of the class

References

Sources

Patrol vessels of the People's Republic of China
Patrol ship classes
Thomas Bscher (born 2 April 1952) is an automobile race car driver and banker.

External links
Driver DB Profile

German racing drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
American Le Mans Series drivers
1952 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Marburg
West Competition drivers
David Price Racing drivers
The Incurable Tragedy is the fifth full-length studio album by Canadian progressive death metal band Into Eternity. The album was released on August 25, 2008, in Europe through Century Media Records. This is the first album which does not feature longtime drummer Jim Austin, and the first to feature new drummer Steve Bolognese (although Steve toured with Into Eternity during the tour supporting Scattering of Ashes and appeared in the "Timeless Winter" video from the same album), and guitarist Justin Bender.

According to the band's site, the album is a concept album focusing on the struggles of a man who is diagnosed with a terminal illness, specifically cancer. The concept was inspired by the deaths of the two best friends and father of guitarist Tim Roth.

The first single off the album is "Time Immemorial", and the music video for the song was released on the band's MySpace page on December 10, 2008.

Critical reception

In its first week of release, the album sold 1,900 copies in the United States.

Track listing
 All songs written by Into Eternity
 All lyrics written by Tim Roth and Stu Block

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. 

Into Eternity
 Stu Block − lead clean/death vocals
 Tim Roth − clean vocals/guitar
 Troy Bleich − bass
 Steve Bolognese − drums
 Justin Bender − guitar

Production and other
 Recorded, mixed & mastered at Touchwood Studios, Regina, SK
 Produced and engineered by Grant Hall and John Gasparic
 Mixed and mastered by Grant Hall
 Mixing assistant: Justin Bender
 Additional Pro Tools editing: Tyler Kuntz and Justin Bender
 Artwork: Mattias Norén, 
 Band photos: Cortney Bodnar − Light Artist Photography,

References

External links
 Into Eternity - Official News Page
 Century Music Audio Studios

2008 albums
Into Eternity (band) albums
Century Media Records albums
Concept albums
Wab is an Austronesian language spoken by about 120 people in the coastal villages of Wab and Saui, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

References

Bel languages
Languages of Madang Province
Vulnerable languages
Wireless telephone may refer to:

 Cordless telephone, a telephone in which the handset is portable and communicates with the body of the phone by radio, instead of being attached by a cord
 Mobile phone, a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area
 Photophone, a device invented jointly by Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter in 1880

See also 
 Cordless
 Wireless
 Telephone (disambiguation)
 Phone (disambiguation)
Anita Ho-Baillie is an Australian scientist who is the John Hooke Chair of Nanoscience at the University of Sydney. Her research considers the development of durable perovskite solar cells and their integration into different applications. She was named as one of the Web of Science's most highly cited researchers in 2019–2022.

Early life and education 
Ho-Baillie was attended Monte Sant'Angelo Mercy College in North Sydney. She was an undergraduate student at the University of New South Wales, where she studied electrical engineering. She remained at UNSW for her graduate studies, where she developed contacting techniques for buried contact solar cells. After earning her doctorate, Ho-Baillie joined the faculty at the UNSW as a Senior Research Fellow. In 2008, she was one of the team who developed the record-breaking efficiency for a silicon solar cell. The following year they showed a multi-cell architecture comprising the record-breaking silicon solar cell could convert 43% of sunlight into electricity, another world first. She eventually moved to perovskite solar cells, and in 2016 broke the efficiency record for large area devices (12.1%).

Research and career 
In 2016, Ho-Baillie was appointed Program Manager for Perovskite Solar Cell Research at the Australian Centre for Photovoltaics. She joined the faculty at Macquarie University as an associate professor in 2019, before moving to the University of Sydney as the John Hooke Chair of Nanoscience. She is particularly interested in the translation of perovskites into real-world devices, including their integration into double-glazed windows.

Ho-Baille was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to develop photovoltaics. She has worked to improve the durability of perovskite solar cells. Under stress, perovskite solar cells become unstable and release gas. Ho-Baille has made use of gas chromatography–mass spectrometry to identify the degradation pathways of perovskite solar cells. She showed it is possible to prevent degassing using a low-cost polymer-glass stack, which protects the perovskite solar cells from damage. In 2020 her perovskite solar cells passed rigorous heat and humidity tests. She has demonstrated that all inorganic perovskite quantum dots make for highly efficient photovoltaics, with good mechanical stability.

Awards and honours 
 2001 University of New South Wales Photovoltaics Thesis Prize
 2016 Lane Cove Council Citizenship Award in Leadership
 2019 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
 2020 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
 2021 Australian Museum Eureka Prize Finalist
 2021 Australian Research Council Future Fellowship
 2021 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
 2022 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
 2022 Warren Prize, Royal Society of New South Wales

Selected publications

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of New South Wales alumni
People educated at Monte Sant'Angelo Mercy College
Academic staff of Macquarie University
Academic staff of the University of Sydney
Australian women scientists
Australian women academics
Piazza del Duomo is a city square in San Gimignano, Italy.

Buildings around the square
Palazzo vecchio del Podestà
Torre Rognosa
Torre Chigi
Torri dei Salvucci
Palazzo Comunale, San Gimignano
Loggia del Comune
Torre Grossa

Piazzas in San Gimignano
Lindstrand Balloons was a manufacturer of hot air balloons and other aerostats. The company was started by Swedish-born pilot and aeronautical designer Per Lindstrand in Oswestry, England, as Colt Balloons (later Thunder & Colt Balloons, then Lindstrand Balloons) in 1978. Lindstrand Balloons was known for its leading-edge engineering, which included sophisticated testing and production facilities.

Lindstrand Balloons designed and built the hot air balloons flown by Per Lindstrand and Richard Branson on their record breaking flights; first across the Atlantic Ocean in 1987 and then the Pacific Ocean in 1990. Subsequently Lindstrand designed and built three Rozière balloons which Per Lindstrand and Branson and others used in their unsuccessful attempts to circumnavigate the Earth by balloon. Per Lindstrand played an instrumental role in making these flights possible, and was pilot for all of them.

Ownership structure

In the late-1990s, Cameron Holdings and its owner Don Cameron acquired two-thirds ownership of Lindstrand Balloons. Cameron bought the majority stake in Lindstrand Balloons from Rory McCarthy, a British industrialist associated with Richard Branson, who had invested in Lindstrand to support Branson's series of record-setting balloon flights. The remaining third of the company was owned by its founder Per Lindstrand, until 2003 when Per sold his remaining share to Cameron Holdings.

Despite Cameron's ownership, Lindstrand Balloons continued to operate as an independent company with separate management and its own distinct designs and products.

Lindstrand Technologies
Per Lindstrand independently operates a separate company, which designs and builds gas balloons, innovative buildings, specialized aerospace equipment (including an advanced parachute for the Beagle 2 Mars-lander) and cutting edge inflatable structures including aircraft hangars, plugs for fire-containment for road tunnels and flood prevention systems.

On 15 April 2015 it was reported that Lindstrand Balloons had closed, with 19 workers losing their jobs, citing the strength of the pound and terrorism threats in the Middle East as factors in the slow sales of balloons.

References

External links
 Lindstrand Hot Air Balloons Ltd. (UK company)
 Lindstrand Technologies Ltd. (UK company)
 Lindstrand Balloons US (independently owned US affiliate/licensee)

See also
 2012 Ljubljana Marshes hot air balloon crash
 hot air balloon
 hopper balloon
 Rozière balloon

Balloon manufacturers
Ballooning
Manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Aerospace engineering organizations
The Waterboro Grange is a historic civic building at 31 West Road in Waterboro, Maine.  Built in 1948-50, it is a simplified recreation of a 1920s Craftsman/Bungalow building that was destroyed by a massive wildfire that swept through the region in 1947, and is one of the last Grange halls built in the state.  In addition to serving as home to the local Grange organization since then, it has been a major community resource, hosting all manner of social and civic functions.  The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

Description and history
The Waterboro Grange is located on the north side of West Road, a short way west of Waterboro's village center and United States Route 202.  It is a single story wood frame structure, with a hip roof, wooden shingle siding, and a concrete block foundation.  The rectangular building is oriented with its long axis perpendicular to the road, with the main entrance facing south.  The main facade is symmetrical, with sash windows in the outer bays and a central entrance sheltered by a projecting hip-roof porch supported by square columns with simple capitals.  The side walls have five windows, spaced symmetrically yet slightly unevenly.

The entrance opens into a wide foyer area, with stairs leading downstairs in one corner to a fully finished basement, and doors providing access to the main hall.  Walls are finished in tongue-and-groove wainscoting, with plaster above.  Ceilings consist of plaster panels with wooden battens between.  The basement space consists of a dining room, kitchen, and storage space.

The Waterboro Grange #432 was established in 1904, and has since then been a mainstay of the rural community.  Its first hall, previously used by the Odd Fellows, burned in 1911.  The organization's first purpose-built structure was built in 1923; it was a two-story structure, built in a restrained vernacular Craftsman/Bungalow style.  After a wildfire devastate the community in 1947, destroying that building among many others, the present single-story structure was built in homage to the earlier hall.  The building is now owned by the Waterboro Historical Society; the Grange organization was reported in 2012 to be very small.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in York County, Maine

References

Buildings and structures in York County, Maine
Grange organizations and buildings in Maine
National Register of Historic Places in York County, Maine
Grange buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
Annapolis West was a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It existed from 1956 to 1993.  Prior to 1956, it was a part of the district of Annapolis County.

It was abolished when it was merged into Digby-Annapolis.

Members of the Legislative Assembly
Greg Kerr, Progressive Conservative (1978–1993)
Peter M. Nicholson, Liberal (1956–1978)

Election results

1956 general election

1960 general election

1963 general election

1967 general election

1970 general election

1974 general election

1978 general election

1981 general election

1984 general election

1988 general election

References
Elections Nova Scotia - Summary Results from 1867 to 2011 (PDF) 

Former provincial electoral districts of Nova Scotia
is a Japanese economist and has been the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics at New York University since 1985. He made notable contributions to the fields of mathematical economics and economic growth.

Selected publications

References 

1931 births
Living people
Japanese economists
People from Yuzawa, Akita
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Hitotsubashi University alumni
New York University faculty
Bawa Mumuni (born 13 October 1986) is a Ghanaian football player who last played for Vietnamese Second Division club Nam Dinh. He is a central defender.

Career
He began his football career in 2001 with Fauzan F.C. before he moved to Liberty Professionals FC. Where he was made the captain of the team. In December 2008 Mumuni left his club Liberty Professionals FC on loan to Bendel Insurance F.C., after his return in October 2009 he signed for Accra Hearts of Oak SC. The 2008 league champions and the most successful club in Ghanaian top league on 7 October 2009 he signed a new contract with them. Best defender Ghana Premier League 2007/2008. Most disciplined player 2008/2009 League season.

References

1986 births
Living people
Ghanaian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Liberty Professionals F.C. players
Bendel Insurance F.C. players
Expatriate men's footballers in Nigeria
Accra Hearts of Oak S.C. players
Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Nigeria
Expatriate men's footballers in Vietnam
Pterophorus ceraunia is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It is mostly white with distinct black fringe markings.

The larvae feed on Merremia hederacea and Oldenlandia corymbosa.

References

ceraunia
Insects of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Moths of Africa
Moths described in 1969
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Listed below is a table of historical exchange rates relative to the U.S. dollar, at present the most widely traded currency in the world. An exchange rate represents the value of one currency in another. An exchange rate between two currencies fluctuates over time. The value of a currency relative to a third currency may be obtained by dividing one U.S. dollar rate by another. For example, if there are ¥120 to the dollar and €1.2 to the dollar then the number of yen per euro is 120/1.2 = 100.

The magnitude of the numbers in the list does not indicate, by themselves, the strength or weakness of a particular currency. For example, the U.S. dollar could be rebased tomorrow so that 1 new dollar was worth 100 old dollars. Then all the numbers in the table would be multiplied by one hundred, but it does not mean all the world's currencies just got weaker. However, it is useful to look at the variation over time of a particular exchange rate. If the number consistently increases through time, then it is a strong indication that the economy of the country or countries using that currency are in a less robust state than that of the United States (see e.g., the Turkish lira). The exchange rates of advanced economies, such as those of Japan or Hong Kong, against the dollar tend to fluctuate up and down, representing much shorter-term relative economic strengths, rather than move consistently in a particular direction.

The data are taken at varying times of the year or maybe the average for the whole year. Some of the data for the years 1997-2002 refers to the rate on, or close to, January 1 of that year. Some of the data for 2003 refers to rates on May 28 for countries beginning with A-E, and June 2 for countries listed F-Z. Exchange rates can vary considerably even within a year and so current rates may differ markedly from those shown here. Caveat lector.

Table for 1850 to 2000

Table for recent years

2020 Exchange rate 
USD exchange rate in May 2020 according to XE:

See also 

Bretton Woods system for more exchange rates 1945 to 1971
Gold standard for exchange rates around 1900 for currencies using the gold standard
Fixed exchange rates to the euro
Currency pair
ISO 4217 currency codes
Historical exchange rates of Argentine currency

References

Sources 

 http://investintaiwan.nat.gov.tw/en/env/stats/exchange_rates.html
 The 2003 data was taken from Pacific Exchange Rate Service
 The graph back to 1969 was generated using data from the Reserve Bank of Australia

External links
 Historical Exchange Rates (Chart and Table, 1971-present)
 Foreign Currency Units per 1 U.S. Dollar, 1948 - 2007

Foreign exchange market
Currencies of the United States
Exchange rates, historical
Dollar
The AUT.18 was a prototype fighter aircraft developed in Italy by Aeronautica Umbra shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It was designed in 1934 by Felice Trojani, who at that time was collaborating with Umberto Nobile on the Arctic flights of the airships Norge and Italia. The aircraft's designation came from initials of the manufacturer, the surname of the designer, and the aircraft's wing area (18 m²), the sole prototype receiving the serial no. M.M.363.

Design & Development
Born from the same Regia Aeronautica requirement that spawned the Caproni-Vizzola F.5, FIAT G.50, Macchi C.200, Meridionali Ro 51 and Reggiane Re 2000 fighters, the A.U.T.18 flew for the first time on 22 April 1939, powered by a  Fiat A.80 R.C.41 radial engine. The fighter had an all-metal stressed-skin structure, covered in duralumin, featuring an inwardly-retracting undercarriage and retractable tail-wheel and was armed with two  Breda-SAFAT machine-guns mounted in the wings just outboard of the undercarriage.

Flight trials proved disappointing and lagged behind the other fighters in Progetto R - the modernisation (riammodernamento) of the Regia Aeronautica. With no production orders forthcoming, despite the prototype being returned to the Umbra factory at Foligno for modifications on 20 February 1940 and a second flight test series from 5 November 1940, no improvement was demonstrated over fighters already in production so the A.U.T.18 was abandoned.

Operational history
After delivery to the Regia Aeronautica on 5 November 1940 the fate of the prototype is not known, possibly being transferred to Germany for evaluation, it was also rumoured to have been captured by British forces, but it is more likely that it was destroyed in a raid after its transfer to Orvieto.

Specifications (AUT.18)

See also

Further reading
Taylor, J. H. (ed) (1989) Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. Studio Editions: London. p. 30
F. Trojani, La coda di Minosse, Mursia, Milano, 1964
Lanfranco Cesari, AUSA - Una fabbrica una storia, Pro Foligno, Foligno, 2004
R. Gentilli L'aviazione da caccia italiana 1918-1939. Volume 2o: tecnica, stemmi, esportazioni, Ed.A.I. s.r.l., Firenze, 1982

Single-engined tractor aircraft
1930s Italian fighter aircraft
Aeronautica Umbra aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
This article lists all power stations in Algeria.

Gas

Hydroelectric

Integrated solar combined cycle 
 Hassi R'Mel – the steam generated integrates into the steam cycle of a 150MW combined cycle gas turbine plant

See also 

 List of largest power stations in the world
 List of power stations
 List of power stations in Africa

References 

Algeria
Energy in Algeria
Economy of Algeria-related lists
Power stations
Shybyndy (; ), is a salt lake in Sarybel District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan.

The lake is located  to the SSE of Molodezhny town. The nearest inhabited pace is Shiderti village,  to the NNW of the northern tip of the lake.

Geography  
Shybyndy is an endorheic lake in the central Kazakh Uplands,  to the east of the Irtysh–Karaganda Canal. It lies in a basin surrounded by smooth hills. Its shape is ovoid and its shores are even, with no indentations. There are no islands on the lake 

A small intermittent river flows into Shybyndy from the southeast. There is agricultural land near the lake, mainly on the western side.

Flora and fauna
Reeds and sedges grow by the shoreline. Many birds, mostly waterfowl, are found in the lake during their breeding season.

See also 
List of lakes of Kazakhstan

References

External links
Tourism - Осакаровский район (in Russian)

Lakes of Kazakhstan
Endorheic lakes of Asia
Karaganda Region
Kazakh Uplands