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The Echo Maker is a 2006 novel by American writer Richard Powers. It won the National Book Award for Fiction 
and was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist.

Plot introduction
On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman — who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister — is really an impostor. Shattered by her brother's refusal to recognize her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case histories describing brain disorders. Weber recognized Mark's condition as a rare case of Capgras syndrome — the delusion that people in one's life are doubles or impostors — and eagerly investigates.

What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident.

Characters

Main characters
 Karin Schluter quits her job as a service representative to return home to Kearney, Nebraska to care for her comatose brother.
 Mark Schluter has a mysterious truck rollover on a deserted country road and eventually comes out of a coma suffering from a variety of delusions.
 Gerald Weber is a popular writer of books on neurology who answers a personal email from Karin requesting that he come to Nebraska. Weber may be a partial fictionalization of Oliver Sacks, 1933–2015, who was a neurologist, best-selling author, and professor of neurology at NYU School of Medicine. Sacks was the author of a number of nonfiction books, beginning with Awakenings (1973) and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), which use case histories interwoven with explanatory narrative to describe a range of brain conditions that result in unusual manifestations of neurologic deficits, in much the way Weber does in The Echo Maker.

Analysis
According to Richard Powers, 

In a review in the New York Review of Books, Margaret Atwood described the novel's "underlying sketch" as being from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 

Colson Whitehead, writing in The New York Times, called it a "post-911 novel .. not an elegy for How We Used to Live or a salute to Coming to Grips, but a quiet exploration of how we survive, day to day."

See also
 Sandhill crane

References

External links
"Fresh Air," December 12, 2006, radio interview with Richard Powers
Bibliography of editions of 'The Echo Maker.'
The Echo Maker reviews. Collected list of reviews.
The Echo Maker Reviews at Metacritic
Richard Powers talks with Alec Michod in The Believer

2006 American novels
2006 speculative fiction novels
Farrar, Straus and Giroux books
National Book Award for Fiction winning works
Novels by Richard Powers
Novels set in Nebraska
Woodmar is a neighborhood in southeast Hammond, Indiana, approximately between Columbia and Kennedy Avenues.  It is bounded to the east by Hessville, to the west by South Hammond, to the north by industrial land along United States Route 20, and to the south by the town of Highland. The neighborhood's boundaries correspond to Hammond's Planning District V.

Dominated by large single-family homes, Woodmar was largely built in the 1920s, with the goal of allowing the Calumet Region's wealthier residents to get "out of the smoke zone and into the ozone." In these early years, Woodmar was considered more exclusive than most Hammond neighborhoods.

Woodmar was formerly home to the Woodmar Mall. It is also home to the Hammond campus of Purdue University Northwest, formerly an independent institution known as Purdue University Calumet. Historic residences in the neighborhood include the Morse Dell Plain House and Garden.

References

External links
Woodmar zoning map

Hammond, Indiana
Avraham Shekhterman (, born 1910, died 7 December 1986) was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Gahal and Likud between 1969 and 1977. He was the older brother of Herzl Shafir, a former IDF general.

Biography
Born in Odessa in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Shekhterman made aliyah to Mandatory Palestine in 1924. He attended high school in Tel Aviv and in 1927 he joined Betar, later becoming one of its commanders. He studied civil engineering at Ghent University, where he chaired the Jewish Students Organisation, as well as working as a Betar instructor in Antwerp.

He helped establish Kfar Yavetz in 1932. In 1936 he joined the Betar faction of the Haganah, later becoming an Irgun member after it broke away from the Haganah. In 1938 he became political editor of the HaMashkif newspaper, the publication of the Revisionist Party.

Shekhterman was involved in promoting aviation in Palestine. In preparation for establishing a Jewish air force, he used his contacts to convince the British Mandate's Department of Civilian Aviation to approve a flight school at an  airfield in Lod.

Between 1939 and 1945 he chaired the Tel Aviv Pilots Club.

Political career
Shekhterman served as a member of the Assembly of Representatives. In 1955 he was elected to Tel Aviv city council, remaining a member until 1965 and serving as deputy mayor between 1957 and 1959. In 1969 he was elected to the Knesset on the Gahal list. He was re-elected in 1973, by which time Gahal had merged into Likud, but lost his seat in the 1977 elections.

Business career
Between 1943 and 1946 he managed the Potash Company at the Dead Sea.

References

External links

1910 births
1986 deaths
Betar members
Gahal politicians
Ghent University alumni
Haganah members
Irgun members
Israeli aviators
Israeli chief executives
Israeli journalists
Likud politicians
Members of the Assembly of Representatives (Mandatory Palestine)
Members of the 7th Knesset (1969–1974)
Members of the 8th Knesset (1974–1977)
Odesa Jews
Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
20th-century journalists
The 2018 WAFU/FOX U-20 Tournament was the first edition of the international U-20 men's football event for teams under the West African Football Union. The competition will be hosted by Liberia in April to May 2018 in two match venues. The organizers of the tournament, which is sponsored by FOX Sports, said it will run from April 24, to May 6, 2018 in Monrovia and will feature eight of the nine countries in WAFU Zone A who have confirmed their participation in the zonal youth championship.

Host Liberia, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone make up Group A whilst Senegal, Mali, Gambia and Guinea complete Group B.

Matches will be held at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Stadium and the Antoinette Tubman Stadium, both in Monrovia, Liberia.

Participants

Group A

Group B

Officials

Referees
 Daouda Gueye
 Omar Sallah
 Babacar Sarr
 Harouna Coulibaly
 Gilberto Antonio dos Santos  
 Jerry Yekeh 
 Baba Leno
 Raymond Coker

Assistant Referees
 Serigne Cheikh Touré
 Ebrima Jallow
 Hamedine Diba 
 Baba Yomboliba
 Firmino Bassafim
 Sekou Kanneh Jr
 Ibrahim Ba
 Mamadou Tere

Draw

The draw was held on 26 March in Monrovia.

Player eligibility
Players born 1 January 1998 or later are eligible to participate in the competition.

Group stage
The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.
Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
Drawing of lots.
If, after applying criteria 1 to 3 to several teams, more than two teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the two teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 7 to 9 apply;
Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in matches between the teams concerned;
The greatest number of goals scored in the matches between the teams concerned.

All times are local UTC±00:00.

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals

Third place match

Final

Winners

Awards

References

International association football competitions hosted by Liberia
Foo
Delhi Metropark is a park in the Huron-Clinton system of metro parks.  It is an  park on the Huron River located five miles (8 km) northwest of Ann Arbor.  It has picnic areas, two picnic shelters, swings and slides, river fishing, canoe rental and softball diamonds.  A children's playground features an adventure playship, ride-on toys and swings. A Metropark daily or annual vehicle permit is required for entry to the park. The park will eventually be linked to Dexter-Huron Metropark and Hudson Mills Metropark via the Border-to-Border Trail.

History
In 1835, there was a sawmill located on the Huron River at this site.  That year, Norman Gooddale purchased the mill for $50 and added a flour mill to the site.  Jacob Doremus platted a village adjacent to the mill in 1836 named Michigan Village, although the name was changed to Delhi shortly afterward.  In 1842, Gooddale acquired all of the unsold lots.  His son Frank expanded the mill, shipping flour to New England and employing 20 people; in 1880, Delhi Mills shipped 41,000 barrels of flour on the Michigan Central Railroad.  In 1883, Delhi had 2 flour mills, a woolen mill and a saw mill, taking power from a dam 150 feet long with a 7-foot head and producing 140 horsepower when all mills run at once.

Today's Delhi Rapids is the remains of the collapsed mill dam that once powered Delhi Mills.

References

External links
 Huron-Clinton Metroparks
 U.S. Geological Survey Map at the U.S. Geological Survey Map Website. Retrieved November 16th, 2022.

Huron–Clinton Metroparks
Protected areas of Washtenaw County, Michigan
Huron River (Michigan)
Keep Running (), previously known as Running Man China, is a Chinese variety show, broadcast on ZRTG: Zhejiang Television. This show is classified as a game-variety show, where the MCs and guests complete missions in a landmark to win a race which would provide hints/items to later help them. The show first aired on October 10, 2014.

, 107 episodes of Running Man China have been aired. There are also 2 special episodes and a movie.

Series overview

Episodes
If more than one set of teams are used other than the Race Mission teams, they are divided and distinguished to the corresponding mission under Teams. Team members are listed in alphabetical order from Team Leader to Members, to Guests. As some episodes consisted of road missions and were not confined to a single landmark nor was a landmark officially recognized on-air, the landmark shown for those episodes is the final mission venue.

Season 1 
 (episodes 1-15)

Season 2 
 (episodes 16-27)

Season 3 
 (episodes 28-39)

Season 4 
 (episodes 40-51)

Season 5 
 (episodes 52-63)

Season 6 
 (episodes 64-75)

Season 7 
 (episodes 76-87)

Season 8 
 (episodes 88-101)

Special Season: Yellow River 
 (episodes 102-107)

Season 9 
 (episodes 108-119)

Special episodes

Season 10 
 (episodes 120-131)

Season 11 
 (episodes 132-143)

Movie

References

External links
Running Man China Official Homepage

Keep Running
Portrait of a Lady is an oil on canvas painting by Gustav Klimt, painted between 1916 and 1917.  The painting measures .  It depicts a portrait of a female figure, composed in an unusually lively expressionistic style. It was acquired by the Galleria Ricci-Oddi in Piacenza in 1925.

In 1996, X-ray analysis revealed that the portrait was an overpainted version of Klimt's lost work Portrait of a Young Lady (in hat and with scarf), which disappeared in 1917.  The original portrait showed a woman with whom Klimt is believed to have had a love affair, but after she died suddenly, he painted over the work.

The painting was believed stolen on 22 February 1997, shortly before a special exhibition was planned at the gallery, during the renovation of the building. The frame was found discarded on the roof next to a skylight, which was, however, too small for the painting to have been removed through.

In April 1997, the Italian police authorities discovered a high-quality forgery at Ventimiglia, on the Italian border with France, in a package addressed to the former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi who was hiding from the law in Hammamet, Tunisia.  The "theft" in February may have been staged shortly before the exhibition to cover up the swap of the original painting with the forgery some months before. The case was reopened in 2014 according to the new facts. Various copies of the painting are known to the Italian police.

In December 2019, 23 years after the theft, a bag containing what was believed to be the missing painting was recovered from a recess in an exterior wall of the gallery by gardeners clearing away ivy, which had overgrown over the recess at least 10 years prior. The painting was confirmed to be the missing Portrait of a Lady the following month. Tests will be carried out to confirm if the painting had been in the wall since it was stolen, or placed in there later. The painting will then go back on display at the gallery.

See also
1917 in art
List of paintings by Gustav Klimt
List of stolen paintings

Sources
 Video news about the robbery, 1997

References

Paintings by Gustav Klimt
Stolen works of art
Recovered works of art
Portraits of women
1917 paintings
Oil on canvas paintings
Dera (Oromo: Deeraa) is a woreda in Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Part of the Kaba Shewa Zone, Dera is bordered on the south by the Jamma River which separates it from Hidabu Abote and Wara Jarso, on the west, north and east by the Amhara Region; the Abay River defines the western boundary, and its tributary the Walaqa River the northern. The administrative center of Dera is Gundo Meskel.

The woreda government announced March 2008 the completion of infrastructure improvements, which consisted of 77 kilometers of new road and an additional 366 kilometers renovated at the cost of 2.6 million Birr.

Demographics 
The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 141,426, of whom 70,787 were men and 70,639 were women; 10,531 or 14.89% of its population were urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants said they practised Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 64.87% of the population reporting they practised that belief, and 34.92% were Muslim.

Based on figures published by the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 193,214, of whom 99,085 are men and 94,129 are women; 5,719 or 2.96% of its population are urban dwellers, which is less than the Zone average of 9.5%. With an estimated area of 1,550.47 square kilometers, Dera has an estimated population density of 124.6 people per square kilometer, which is less than the Zone average of 143.

The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 139,661, of whom 68,474 were men and 71,187 women; 3,210 or 2.3% of its population were urban dwellers at the time. Dera is almost evenly divided between the two largest ethnic groups reported in this woreda: the Oromo (50.18%), and the Amhara (49.76%). Further, Amharic was spoken as a first language by 50.69%, and 49.28% spoke Oromo. The majority of the inhabitants professed Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 64.49% of the population reporting they practiced that belief, while 35.45% of the population said they were Muslim.

Notes 

Districts of Oromia Region
Stephen Watt (born January 8, 1956, in Newcastle, Wyoming) is an American politician and a former Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives. Watt served three non-consecutive terms, representing District 16 from 2001 to 2003 and District 17 from 2005 to 2007 and again from 2013 to 2015. Watt was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Wyoming in 2002.

Education
Watt attended Chadron State College in Chadron, Nebraska.

Elections

2000
When Democratic Representative Kenilynn Zanetti retired and left the District 16 seat open, Watt was unopposed for the August 22, 2000 Republican Primary, winning with 500 votes, and won the November 7, 2000 General election with 1,166 votes (51.7%) against Democratic nominee Larry Levitt.

2002
When incumbent Republican Governor of Wyoming Jim Geringer was term limited from seeking a third term, Watt ran in the five-way August 20, 2002 Republican Primary, but lost to Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives Eli Bebout. The primary runner-up was Ray Hunkins, a rancher and lawyer from Wheatland. Bebout then lost the general election to Democratic former United States Attorney Dave Freudenthal.

2004
When Republican Representative and former Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives Fred Parady retired, Watt ran unopposed for the August 17, 2004 Republican Primary, winning with 547 votes, won the November 2, 2004 General election by 85 votes with 1,540 votes (51.4%) against Democratic nominee Stephen Shea.

2010
Watt challenged incumbent Democratic Representative Bernadine Craft.  He was unopposed for the August 17, 2010 Republican Primary, winning with 536 votes, but lost the November 2, 2010 General election to Craft.

2012
When Democratic Representative Bernadine Craft ran for Wyoming Senate and left the House District 17 seat open, Watt was unopposed for the August 21, 2012 Republican Primary, winning with 357 votes, and won the November 6, 2012 General election with 1,680 votes (55.2%) against Democratic nominee JoAnn Dayton.

2014
Watt ran against Democrat JoAnn Dayton in a rematch of the 2012 race.  Dayton defeated Watt, with Watt receiving only 42% of the vote compared to Dayton's 58%.

References

External links
Official page at the Wyoming Legislature
 

1956 births
Living people
American politicians with disabilities
Chadron State College alumni
Republican Party members of the Wyoming House of Representatives
People from Rock Springs, Wyoming
People from Newcastle, Wyoming
In geometry, a hypotrochoid is a roulette traced by a point attached to a circle of radius  rolling around the inside of a fixed circle of radius , where the point is a distance  from the center of the interior circle.

The parametric equations for a hypotrochoid are:

where  is the angle formed by the horizontal and the center of the rolling circle (these are not polar equations because  is not the polar angle). When measured in radian,  takes values from 0 to  (where  is least common multiple).

Special cases include the hypocycloid with  and the ellipse with  and .  The eccentricity of the ellipse is

becoming 1 when  (see Tusi couple).

The classic Spirograph toy traces out hypotrochoid and epitrochoid curves.

Hypotrochoids describe the support of the eigenvalues of some random matrices with cyclic correlations

See also
 Cycloid
 Cyclogon
 Epicycloid 
 Rosetta (orbit)
 Apsidal precession
 Spirograph

References

External links

Flash Animation of Hypocycloid
Hypotrochoid from Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves, Xah Lee
Interactive hypotrochoide animation

Roulettes (curve)

de:Zykloide#Epi- und Hypozykloide
ja:トロコイド#内トロコイド
Chord Master (also rendered Visual Chord Master, chordmaster) is the brand-name for a type of automated chording device produced for the ukulele. Competing products were sold under labels such as Noteless Player by Ferry & Co. These devices allowed a ukulele player to easily play chords simply by choosing the mechanical button on the device labeled for the desired chord, and depressing it, causing mechanical levers to fret each string at the proper place to compose a chord.

The popular Chordmaster was produced by luthier Mario Maccaferri (known for designing plastic ukuleles) and his affiliated French American Reeds Manufacturing company; both his instruments and chord device are desired collectors' items.

The term Chordmaster was also used for a guitar chord reference application for the iPhone OS in 2009. The application ranked #1 on the Apple App Store.

References

External links
Chordmaster.com, a site devoted to the history of automated chording devices

Musical instruments
Ukulele performance techniques
IOS software
Talisay may refer to:

Places in the Philippines
Talisay, Batangas
Talisay, Camarines Norte
Talisay, Cebu
Talisay, Negros Occidental

Other uses
Talisay, the Filipino common name for the tree Terminalia catappa
Iraota timoleon, the silverstreak blue, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia.

Description

Subspecies
Iraota timoleon arsaces (Fruhstorfer, 1907) (south India - Madhya Pradesh to Kerala)
Iraota timoleon timoleon (Stoll, 1790) (Andaman & Nicobar Island, Odisha, Uttarakhand to North-East India, South China)
Iraota timoleon nicevillei (Butler, 1901) (Sri Lanka)
Iraota timoleon wickii (Eliot, 1980) (Malaysia)

Life history

References

Amblypodiini
Butterflies described in 1790
Butterflies of Asia
Tyson Boyd Hinz (born October 12, 1991) is a former Canadian professional basketball player. Hinz played the power forward position, and last played for Mitteldeutscher BC of the German ProA.

College career
Hinz enjoyed a decorated career at Carleton University, winning four straight CIS championships with the Ravens. In 2011, Hinz was presented with the Mike Moser Memorial Trophy as the CIS Outstanding Player and won the Jack Donohue Trophy (MVP of CIS Championship) twice (2011, 2014). In 2011, Hinz also won the OUA and CIS Male Athlete of the Year award.

He received All-Canada First Team honours in 2011, 2012 and 2013 as well as Second Team honors in 2014.

In his last season with Carleton (2013–14), Hinz averaged 17 points and 6 rebounds per game. He was also named the CIS Tournament MVP and was named an Academic All-Canadian in the same season.

Professional career
Hinz started his professional career in the 2014–15 season, with Landstede Basketbal in the Netherlands. He finished 4th with Landstede, and the team was defeated in the playoff semifinals. Hinz averaged 13.1 points over the DBL regular season. He re-signed with Landstede for the 2015–16 season. That season, Hinz was named to the All-DBL Team.

On August 3, 2016, Hinz signed with Mitteldeutscher BC of the German second-tier ProA. Averaging 8.4 points and 3.9 rebounds in 18:18 minutes per contest, he helped them capture the 2017 ProA title.

International play 
Hinz competed with Team Canada in the 2011 Pan American Games in Mexico and was a key-part of Canada’s silver-winning squad at the 2011 World University Games in China. He averaged 15.9 points, 5.3 boards and 2.1 assists a game during the tournament, while receiving eurobasket.com All-World University Games First Team honors.

Statistics

Retirement 
Hinz ended his professional basketball career in 2017 and began a new career in digital marketing. Hinz is currently working for WebMarketers, a local digital marketing agency in Ottawa as an Account Executive.

References

1991 births
Living people
Basketball people from Quebec
Basketball players from Ottawa
Basketball players at the 2011 Pan American Games
Canadian men's basketball players
Carleton Ravens basketball players
Dutch Basketball League players
Landstede Hammers players
Pan American Games competitors for Canada
Power forwards (basketball)
Sportspeople from Sherbrooke
Universiade medalists in basketball
Universiade silver medalists for Canada
Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade