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Kappa Centauri

Kappa Centauri (κ Cen, κ Centauri) is a binary star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. With an apparent visual magnitude of +3.14, it can be viewed with the naked eye on a dark night. Parallax measurements place it at an estimated distance of  from Earth.

This is a spectroscopic binary system where the presence of an orbiting companion is revealed by shifts in the absorption lines caused by the Doppler effect. The primary component is a huge star, with about seven times the Sun's mass and four times the Sun's radius. It has a stellar classification of B2 IV, indicating that it is in the subgiant stage of its stellar evolution. An effective temperature of 19,800 K in the outer envelope is what gives it the blue-white hue of a B-type star.

The primary is a candidate Beta Cephei variable that shows line-profile variations in its spectrum. However, the nature of the variability remains uncertain because of the binary nature of the system. As of 2007, the secondary component was separated from the primary by 0.128 arcseconds at a position angle of 156°. It has about 68% of the mass of the primary. This system is a proper motion member of the Upper Centaurus–Lupus sub-group in the Scorpius–Centaurus OB association, the nearest such co-moving association of massive stars to the Sun.

In Chinese,  (), meaning Imperial Guards, refers to an asterism consisting of κ Centauri, γ Lupi, δ Lupi, β Lupi, λ Lupi, ε Lupi, μ Lup, π Lupi, ο Lupi and α Lupi. Consequently, the Chinese name for κ Centauri itself is  (, .). From this Chinese name, the name Ke Kwan has appeared.

See also
 Traditional Chinese star names

References

Centauri, Kappa
B-type subgiants
Centaurus
Spectroscopic binaries
Upper Centaurus Lupus
Beta Cephei variables
5576
132200
073334
Durchmusterung objects
Steve Baxter (musician)

Steve Baxter (September 23, 1952 – September 9, 2020) was an American songwriter and guitarist, best known as one of the founding members of the rock group Daniel Amos. He died on September 9, 2020, at the age of 67.

References 

1952 births
2020 deaths
American rock guitarists
American male guitarists
American male songwriters
Daniel Amos members
South Amboy Public Schools

The South Amboy Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from South Amboy, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of two schools, had an enrollment of 1,100 students and 81.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.6:1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "CD", the sixth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.

Awards and recognition
NAMM named the district in its 2008 survey of the "Best Communities for Music Education", which included 110 school districts nationwide.

Schools
Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
South Amboy Elementary School with 514 students in grades PreK-5
South Amboy Middle High School with 559 students in grades 6-12

Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
Dr. Frederick D. Williams, superintendent
Peter Frascella, business administrator and board secretary

Board of education
The district's board of education, comprised of nine members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2014) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the day-to-day operation of the district.

References

External links
South Amboy Public Schools
 
School Data for the South Amboy Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

South Amboy, New Jersey
New Jersey District Factor Group CD
School districts in Middlesex County, New Jersey
Goat roti

Goat roti ( ) is a type of wrap roti, and a traditional Trinidadian dish of Indian origin, popular in the Caribbean and in Indo-Caribbean diasporas throughout the world. It consists of curried goat and aloo (potatoes) wrapped in a roti.

See also
 Curry puff
 List of goat dishes

References

Trinidad and Tobago cuisine
Jamaican cuisine
Guyanese cuisine
Roti
Flatbread dishes
Goat dishes
Indo-Caribbean cuisine
Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian culture
Stuffed dishes
Michael Fowler Centre

The Michael Fowler Centre is a concert hall and convention centre in Wellington, New Zealand. It was constructed on reclaimed land next to Civic Square, and is the pre-eminent concert site in central Wellington.

Commissioned in 1975, building began in 1980; the centre officially opened on 16 September 1983. It was designed by Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney of Warren and Mahoney, with acoustic assistance from Professor A. Harold Marshall, formerly the Head of Auckland University's Acoustics Research Centre. It is named after the primary promoter of its construction, Sir Michael Fowler, at the time the mayor of Wellington. The auditorium seats 2210 people during a concert, and 1035 during a classroom type event.

Events and performances 

The centre is used by international and local acts, conferences, and summits; it is also the home of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Wellington, and Arise Church.

The venue is now part of the Venues Wellington group of venues, managed by the Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency.

Exterior lighting 
The exterior of the Michael Fowler Centre contains a lighting system which allows light to be reflected off the concrete panels of the building. These lights have been used to mark significant occasions such as local LGBT Pride events, one hundred and twenty five years of women's suffrage in New Zealand, the birth of Prince George of Cambridge,  or in memory of the victims of the November 2015 Paris attacks.

See also
 List of concert halls

References

External links
 
 

Convention centres in New Zealand
Concert halls in New Zealand
Buildings and structures in Wellington City
Tourist attractions in Wellington City
1980s architecture in New Zealand
Brutalist architecture in New Zealand
Wellington Central, Wellington
Weston, Winnipeg

Weston is a neighbourhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, located south of the Canadian Pacific Railway Weston Yards, west of McPhillips Street, north of Notre Dame Avenue, and east of Keewatin Street. It is a working-class residential and industrial district with some retail establishments along Logan Avenue and on Keewatin Street.

Historically, the neighbourhood was nicknamed "CPR Town" due to the large number of railway workers who resided there. As the number of jobs at the Weston Shops declined, correspondingly, so did the neighbourhood. About 80% of the housing stock was constructed before 1960.

Demographics

The 2016 Census reported that there were 6,235 people living in the neighbourhood. Weston is 1.4 km2, therefore the population density is 4,500 people per km2. The median household income in Weston is $31,766, much lower than the city median at $49,790.

The racial make-up of the neighbourhood in 2006 was:

Sources

Neighbourhoods in Winnipeg
Nu Centauri

Nu Centauri, Latinized from ν Centauri, is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. The combined apparent visual magnitude of the pair is +3.41, making this one of the brightest members of the constellation. Based upon parallax measurements made during the Hipparcos mission, this star system is located at a distance of roughly  from Earth. The margin of error for this distance is about 2%, which is enough to give an error in distance of ±10 light years.

This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary system, which means that the two stellar components have not been individually resolved with a telescope. Instead, their orbital motion can be tracked through periodic shifts in the spectrum of the primary. The gravitational perturbation of the hidden secondary component upon the primary is causing the latter to first move toward and then away from the Earth, creating Doppler shift changes in the spectrum. From these subtle shifts, the orbital elements of the pair can be extracted. The pair are orbiting their common center of mass in a circular orbit with a period of only 2.622 days, indicating that they are in a relatively tight orbit.

The interaction between the two components of this system appears to be creating emission lines in the spectrum, turning the primary into a Be star. It has a stellar classification of B2 IV, which matches a massive B-type subgiant star. The primary has 8.5 times the mass of the Sun and 6.4 times the Sun's radius. It is a Beta Cephei type variable star with a brightness that periodically varies from magnitude +3.38 to +3.41 over an interval of 0.17 days. The tidal interaction with the secondary component has turned it into a rotating ellipsoidal variable.

This star system is a proper motion member of the Upper Centaurus–Lupus sub-group in the Scorpius–Centaurus OB association, the nearest such association of co-moving massive stars to the Sun.

References

B-type subgiants
Beta Cephei variables
Rotating ellipsoidal variables
Spectroscopic binaries
Upper Centaurus Lupus

Centaurus
Centauri, Nu
Durchmusterung objects
120307
067464
5190
Oracle Advanced Queuing

In computing, Oracle Advanced Queuing (AQ) is a sort of message-oriented middleware developed by Oracle Corporation and integrated into its Oracle database.

AQ uses database structures as a repository for asynchronous queuing as an element in various Oracle-oriented and heterogeneous operations. Oracle features utilising Advanced Queuing include:
 Oracle Data Guard
 Oracle Streams

In Oracle Data Guard primary databases the queue monitor process (often running as qmn0) interacts with AQ.

As of Oracle release 9.2, AQ comes bundled with Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition at no extra cost.

As of Oracle release 10.1, AQ is integrated into Oracle Streams, and is called "Oracle Streams AQ".

As of Oracle release 12.1, Oracle Streams is deprecated  and AQ is again named just "Oracle AQ".

Oracle AQ is used as the internal Java Message Service provider in the Oracle Enterprise Service Bus. In addition to asynchronous message exchanges (point-to-point and publish–subscribe), Oracle AQ can also perform message transformation via SQL functions.

Oracle AQ is available in all editions of Oracle database, including XE.

References

External links
 Oracle 11g Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide  (11.2)
 Oracle 11g Streams Advanced Queuing Java API / Reference 11g Release 1 (11.1) 
 
 Oracle9i Advanced Queuing manual 
 Oracle Database 10g Product Family

Message-oriented middleware
Oracle software
Arkansas Highway 2

State Road 2 (AR 2, Ark. 2, and Hwy. 2) is a former east–west state highway in the Arkansas Timberlands and Lower Arkansas Delta. The route was approximately , and ran from US Route 67 (US 67) in Texarkana east to cross the Mississippi River near Lake Village, continuing as Mississippi Highway 10. On July 1, 1931, the route was entirely replaced by US Highway 82 (US 82) by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHTO). The route was maintained by the Arkansas Highway Department (AHD), now known as the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT).

Except near cities, the current US 82 closely follows the original 1926 routing. One section of State Road 2 original pavement, known as the Old Arkansas 2-Mayton Segment, survives north of Garland. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 16, 2008.

Route description

The route served the southern tier of counties in Arkansas, connecting several cities of regional importance. State Road 2 connected six county seats and included three toll bridges. State Road 2 also provided an important connection between the Arkansas Timberlands, approximately the western half of its Arkansas alignment, and the Arkansas Delta on the eastern half of the state.

History
Several bypasses have been built since the original 1926 routing following the growth of the cities it passes through.
 Garland was bypassed in the 1980s by a new bridge over the Red River; the western part of old Highway 2 (from modern U.S. 82 into Garland) is now Highway 134.
 North of Garland, an S-shaped section of the highway was replaced with a new alignment in 1948, smoothing out the sharp curves.  The old alignment, now part of County Roads 122 and 123, and one of the drivable sections of AR 2's original pavement, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Old Arkansas 2-Mayton Segment" in 2008.
 East of Lake Village, U.S. 82 (Highway 2) turned northeast along Lake Chicot to the old ferry crossing near Greenville, Mississippi; that alignment is now Highway 144 from Lake Village past Lake Chicot State Park to its end at the Mississippi River levee.  U.S. 82 was rerouted south of Lake Chicot when the Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge opened in 1940, and retained most of that alignment for the current Greenville Bridge.

Major intersections

See also

 Red River Bridge (Arkansas)
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Miller County, Arkansas

References

External links

002
Arkansas 002
Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Transportation in Miller County, Arkansas
Transportation in Lafayette County, Arkansas
Transportation in Columbia County, Arkansas
Transportation in Union County, Arkansas
Transportation in Ashley County, Arkansas
Transportation in Chicot County, Arkansas
Texarkana metropolitan area
National Register of Historic Places in Miller County, Arkansas
Tennessee State Route 331

State Route 331 (SR 331) is a mostly west–east, signed north–south, secondary highway in Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

Route description

SR 331 begins in Knoxville at an intersection with US 441/SR 33 (Broadway). SR 331 goes north as Old Broadway to enter Fountain City, where it has an interchange with I-640/US 25W (Exit 6) before having a partial interchange with US 441/SR 33. It then turns northeast to come to a Y-Intersection between Jacksboro Pike and Tazewell Pike, where SR 331 becomes Tazewell Pike. The highway continues northeast through suburbs before leaving Knoxville and going through farmland. SR 331 then enters Corryton comes to an intersection with SR 131 (E Emory Road), where SR 331 turns east onto E Emory Road while SR 131 turns north onto Tazewell Pike. SR 331 continues northeast to pass through downtown, where it has an intersection with Corryton Road, a major county Road that leads to Plainview and SR 144. It then leaves Corryton to continue northeast through farmland to come to an end at an intersection with SR 61 just west of Blaine.

Major intersections

References

Tennessee Department of Transportation (24 January 2003). "State Highway and Interstate List 2003".

External links

Tennessee Department of Transportation

331
Transportation in Knox County, Tennessee
Transportation in Knoxville, Tennessee
Bark Like a Dog

Bark Like a Dog is the eighth studio album by the American punk rock band Screeching Weasel. It was released in 1996 through Fat Wreck Chords. It was the band's first album released through Fat Wreck Chords. It was also the band's first album since they disbanded for the second time. The split lasted just over a year, and during that time 3/4 of the band (all minus Jughead) played together in the Riverdales. It was the band's only album to ever place a ranking on the Billboard Charts.

Track listing 
All songs by Ben Weasel, except where noted.

 "Get off My Back" (Ben Weasel/Dan Vapid) – 2:38
 "Cool Kids" – 2:13
 "First Day of Summer" – 3:38
 "You'll Be in My Dreams Today" – 2:38
 "You Blister My Paint" – 3:20
 "Stupid Girl" – 2:38
 "Phasers on Kill" – 2:29
 "Handcuffed to You" – 3:25
 "(She Got) Electroshocked" – 2:27
 "It's Not Enough" – 3:52
 "I Will Always Be There" – 2:38
 "Your Name Is Tattooed on My Heart" – 2:46

Chart performance

Personnel 
 Ben Weasel - lead vocals, guitar
 Jughead - guitar
 Dan Vapid - bass, backing vocals
 Dan Panic - drums, backing vocals
 Teakettle Jones - keyboards on "Cool Kids" (Teakettle Jones are Ben Weasel & Mass Giorgini playing together)
 Jimmy Spectacular - keyboards on "The First Day of Summer" (Jimmy Spectacular is Ben Weasel)

External links 
[ Billboard Heatseekers Chart]

References 

1996 albums
Screeching Weasel albums
Fat Wreck Chords albums
Mu Centauri

Mu Centauri, Latinized from μ Centauri, is a third-magnitude star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. With the stars ν and φ Centauri, it marks what has been traditionally portrayed as "dextro Latere" (the right side) of the Centaur. The apparent visual magnitude of this star is 3.42, making it one of the brighter members of the constellation. The distance to this star can be estimated directly using parallax measurements, which yield a value of roughly 510 light years (155 parsecs) from Earth.

The spectrum of Mu Centauri is considered to be a standard for a B2 Be star with the stellar classification of B2V:e. The 'e' suffix is used to mark the presence of emission lines, caused by a circumstellar disk of hot gas that was formed from material ejected from the star. Mu Centauri is a pulsating variable star that has multiple non-radial cycles with a primary period of 0.503 days. Three other pulsation cycles have a similar period, while two have a shorter interval of about 0.28 days. It undergoes outburst events that result in the transfer of additional material to the surrounding disk. During these outbursts, the star can experience transient periodicities. Mu Centauri is classified as a Gamma Cassiopeiae type variable star and its brightness varies from magnitude +2.92 to +3.49.

This star is spinning rapidly, with a projected rotational velocity of 194, km s−1 and is completing a full rotation in about 11.615 hours. The equatorial azimuthal velocity is around 85% of the critical velocity where the star would start to break up, resulting a pronounced equatorial bulge that is about 26% wider than the radius at the poles. Because of the oblate spheroidal shape of this star, the polar region is at a higher temperature than the equator—23,000 K versus 17,600 K respectively. Likewise, the gravitational force at the poles is greater than along the equator. The axis of rotation of the star is tilted by an angle of about (19 ± 3)° to the line of sight from the Earth.

At an estimated age of nearly 20 million years, this star is around 55–65% of the way through its evolutionary period on the main sequence of core hydrogen burning stars. It has around nine times the mass of the Sun and four times the Sun's radius, but emits over 2,000 times as much energy as the Sun. The outer atmosphere has a mean effective temperature of 22,410 K, giving the star a blue-white hue.

This star is a proper motion member of the Upper Centaurus–Lupus sub-group in the
Scorpius–Centaurus OB association,
the nearest such co-moving association of massive stars to the Sun.

References

B-type main-sequence stars
Gamma Cassiopeiae variable stars
Upper Centaurus Lupus

Centaurus
Centauri, Mu
Durchmusterung objects
120324
067472
5193
Degenerate dimension

According to Ralph Kimball, in a data warehouse, a degenerate dimension is a dimension key in the fact table that does not have its own dimension table, because all the interesting attributes have been placed in analytic dimensions. The term "degenerate dimension" was originated by Ralph Kimball.

As Bob Becker says:

Other uses of the term
Although most writers and practitioners use the term degenerate dimension correctly, it is very easy to find misleading definitions in online and printed sources. For example, the Oracle FAQ defines a degenerate dimension as a "data dimension that is stored in the fact table rather than a separate dimension table. This eliminates the need to join to a dimension table. You can use the data in the degenerate dimension to limit or 'slice and dice' your fact table measures."

This common interpretation implies that it is good dimensional modeling practice to place dimension attributes in the fact table, as long as you call them a degenerate dimension. This is not the case; the concept of degenerate dimension was developed by Kimball to support a specific, well-defined exception to the otherwise ironclad rule that dimension attributes are always pulled out into dimension tables.

See also
 Data warehouse
 Dimension table
 Early-arriving fact
 Fact table
 Measure (data warehouse)

Notes

Bibliography
 Kimball, Ralph et al. (1998); The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit, p17. Pub. Wiley. .
 Kimball, Ralph (1996); The Data Warehouse Toolkit, p. 100. Pub. Wiley. .

External links
 

Data warehousing
Metadata
Phi Centauri

Phi Centauri, Latinized from φ Centauri, is a blue-white hued star in the southern constellation Centaurus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +3.7. The annual parallax shift is 6.21 mas as measured from Earth, which yields a distance estimate of around 530 light years. It is moving further from the Sun with a radial velocity of +5 km/s.

This is a B-type subgiant star with a stellar classification of B2 IV. It has no known companions, but does show radial velocity variations and higher order pulsations in the spectrum. The star is just 18 million years old with 8.5 times the mass of the Sun and has 4.2 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating around 4,000 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of about 21,638 K.

This star is a proper motion member of the Upper Centaurus–Lupus sub-group in the
Scorpius–Centaurus OB association, the nearest such co-moving association of massive stars to the Sun.

References

B-type subgiants
Upper Centaurus Lupus
Centaurus
Centauri, Phi
Durchmusterung objects
068245
121743
5248
For Fair Elections

For Fair Elections was an electoral alliance formed by four opposition parties in Kyrgyzstan. It was formed on May 20, 2004, in preparation for the February 2005 parliamentary elections. 
Former Security Council secretary Misir Ashyrkulov was chosen as the blocs leader.

The Alliance consisted of 
El Dobushu 
Ata-Meken Socialist Party
Ar-Namys
Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan

The alliance gained a key member when the Ar-Namys (Dignity) party, the nation's largest opposition party joined the alliance.

Following the Tulip Revolution the alliance collapsed as Ar-Namys joined the new government of Kurmanbek Bakiyev while the Social Democratic Party of Kyrgyzstan later resigned in 2006.

Defunct political party alliances in Asia
Political party alliances in Kyrgyzstan
Shining Victory

Shining Victory  is a 1941 American drama film based on the 1940 play  Jupiter Laughs, by A. J. Cronin.  It stars James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, and Barbara O'Neil. It is the first film directed by Irving Rapper. Bette Davis makes a brief cameo appearance as a nurse.

Plot summary
Dr. Paul Venner, a brilliant research psychiatrist, is driven from Budapest by his superior, who has published and taken credit for Paul's work. In London, an old friend, Dr. Drewett, introduces him to the head of a Scottish sanatorium who offers him the opportunity to continue his research on dementia praecox, a disease from which Paul's father suffered.

Dr. Mary Murray becomes his laboratory assistant. They fall in love, but she plans to engage in medical missionary work in China in a year's time.  Paul convinces her to remain with him, and the two become engaged. A fire breaks out in the lab, and Mary dies saving Paul's irreplaceable records. Heartbroken, Paul declines posts at several prestigious universities in order to realize Mary's dream of helping the sick in war-torn China.

The working title of the film was Winged Victory, but it was changed after it was discovered that Moss Hart was writing a play with this title. Hart's Winged Victory was filmed in 1944.

Cast
 James Stephenson as Dr. Paul Venner
 Geraldine Fitzgerald as Dr. Mary Murray
 Donald Crisp as Dr. Drewett
 Barbara O'Neil as Miss Leeming
 Montagu Love as Dr. Blake
 Sig Ruman as Professor Herman Von Reiter
 George Huntley, Jr. as Dr. Thornton
 Richard Ainley as Dr. Hale
 Bruce Lester as Dr. Bentley
 Leonard Mudie as Mr. Foster
 Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Foster
 Frank Reicher as Dr. Esterhazy
 Hermine Sterler as Miss Hoffman 
 Billy Bevan as Chivers
 Clare Verdera as Miss Dennis 
 Crauford Kent as Dr. Corliss
 Alec Craig as Jeweller
 Louise Brien as Nurse 
 Bette Davis as Nurse
 Barlowe Borland as Patient (uncredited)

See also
 List of American films of 1941

External links 

 Shining Victory at Turner Classic Movies (trailer)
 TCM article
 
 
 

1941 films
1941 drama films
American drama films
American black-and-white films
1940s English-language films
Films scored by Max Steiner
Films about psychiatry
Films based on works by A. J. Cronin
American films based on plays
Films directed by Irving Rapper
Films set in Scotland
Films set in London
Films set in the 20th century
Medical-themed films
Warner Bros. films
Films with screenplays by Howard Koch (screenwriter)
1941 directorial debut films
1940s American films
English-language drama films
Cooperalls

Cooperalls were a brand of ice hockey equipment manufactured by Cooper Canada. The name has since become a generic term for all hockey pants featuring a waist-to-ankle outer shell and the basic design remains popular in the sports of ringette and broomball but not ice hockey.

Design
Cooperalls were designed by Brian Heaton, the senior designer for Cooper Canada from 1972 to 1975 and were used in ice hockey, ringette, and broomball. Promoted as "a complete hockey uniform system" it consisted of an elasticated girdle extending from the middle of the rib cage to the top of the knees, worn beneath a tracksuit-style woven nylon outer shell covering waist to ankle. The girdle had pockets in to which lightweight, compression moulded foam pads were placed and the close fitting nature of the garment ensured that the pads always stayed in contact with the areas of the body they were designed to protect. This replaced the traditional combination of short hockey pants and socks, and Cooper claimed that when combined with their own brand of extra light shin guards, shoulder pads and gloves the system weighed 40% less than a conventional uniform. As well as being considerably lighter, the system offered players greater freedom of movement and improved hip, pelvis and thigh protection.

A short-legged outer shell, called the "Cooperall Coupé" (from the French past participle coupé, to cut) was also available for traditionalists. The long pant was first adopted by the Ontario Hockey League in the late 1970s and was tested in training camps by a number of National Hockey League teams, including the Winnipeg Jets and the Quebec Nordiques.

CCM Propac
A similar style of girdle and long pant, called the "Propac", was manufactured by CCM. This design was worn by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1981-82 NHL season, and both the Flyers and the Hartford Whalers in the 1982-83 NHL season.

Ringette and Broomball
Today, players in the sports of ringette and broomball still wear ankle length sports pants whose designs were inspired by the original design of Cooperalls and can be seen widely used across both sports including at major international events. Ringette players however also wear ice hockey skates while broomball players do no use ice skates of any kind.

Criticism in ice hockey
The long pant design received considerable criticism in ice hockey circles:
 Player safety compromised by less friction with the ice during a fall, causing players to slide more violently into the boards. 
 Design was too warm.
 Goalies complained that the puck was difficult to see against the long black pants worn by the Flyers players. 
The NHL subsequently passed a rule that teams had to wear short pants and home and away socks from the 1983–84 season onwards. However, they remained popular in amateur hockey and inline hockey throughout the 1980s and the girdle and short shell design is still available from some hockey manufacturers.

See also
Hockey pants

References

External links

Ice hockey equipment
Tau Centauri

Tau Centauri, Latinized from τ Centauri, is a solitary star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +3.86. The distance to this star, based upon an annual parallax shift of 24.85 mas, is 131 light years. There is a 98% chance that it is a co-moving companion of Gamma Centauri; the two stars have an estimated separation of .

This is an A-type star with stellar classifications of A0 V or A1 IVnn, indicating it may be a main sequence star or a more evolved subgiant star. It is around 132 million years old and is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 296.8 km/s. This is giving the star an oblate shape, with an estimated equatorial girth that is 30% larger than the polar radius. The star has an estimated 2.3 times the mass of the Sun and 2.2 times the Sun's radius.

References

A-type main-sequence stars
Centaurus
Centauri, Tau
Durchmusterung objects
109787
061622
4802
The Mind's Construction Quarterly

The Mind's Construction Quarterly was a UK-based magazine and webzine edited by Neil Scott and reporting upon the psychological dimensions of arts and culture. It had a postmodern slant but is classical in terms of its aesthetics.

With its roots in webzine format, a successful pilot issue of a paper version was launched in 2005 featuring a wealth of interviews, features and artworks around the theme of the human form.

The website explains: 

Past writers have included Neil Scott, Rhodri Marsden, Laura Gonzalez, Richard Herring and Robert Wringham. Interviewees have included Stewart Lee, Alex Kapranos, Simon Bookish, Pat Kane and Momus. The magazine folded in 2006.

References

External links
 The Mind's Construction Quarterly
 tMCQ at Zine Wiki
 Noble Savage Publisher of tMCQ

Visual arts magazines published in the United Kingdom
Quarterly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 2005
Magazines disestablished in 2006
The Anatomy Of

The Anatomy Of is a studio album by American progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me. It is the second release to include Dan Briggs, Blake Richardson, and Dustie Waring and consists entirely of cover songs by Between the Buried and Me's favorite bands and musical inspirations.

The band stays close to the original style of each song, resulting in an album of widely varying genres.

Track listing

Chart positions

Personnel

Between the Buried and Me
Tommy Giles Rogers – vocals, keyboards
Paul Waggoner – guitars, vocals on track 10
Dan Briggs – bass
Dustie Waring – guitars
Blake Richardson – drums, percussion

Production and art
Jamie King – production, mixing, mastering
Paul Friemel – art direction, layout, illustration

References

Between the Buried and Me albums
2006 albums
Victory Records albums
Covers albums
Albums produced by Jamie King (record producer)
Valentin Demyanenko

Valentin Demyanenko (), born 23 October 1983 in Cherkasy, is a former Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani flatwater canoeist. He is a four times world champion, three times European champion and silver medalist of 2016 Summer Olympics in C-1 200 metres.

Career
Demyanenko was a late developer and only came to prominence in 2004 with a shock victory in the C-1 500m final at the European under-23 championships in Poznań, Poland. His time of under 1:50 was comparable with those recorded by the finalists at the Athens Olympics.

In 2005 his coaches judged he was ready to take on the seniors but no one expected what was to follow. In his first international appearance as a senior he won a silver medal at the 2005 European championships in the C-1 200m sprint, just one tenth of a second behind the three-times champion Maxim Opalev of Russia.

The following month, at the 2005 Flatwater Racing World Championships at Zagreb, Croatia, he was entered in two events. In the C-1 500m he came fourth. Then in the C-1 200m final he turned the tables on Opalev, winning the final in a time of 39.264 seconds.

After these successes Demyanenko began to concentrate on the C1 500m in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics, where there would be no 200m races. He didn't appear at the 2006 European Senior Championships; instead he was entered for the under-23 championships in Schinias, Greece, where he won the C1 500m silver medal. At the senior World Championships in Szeged, Hungary, however he returned to the 200m distance to defend his title. This time he finished in the silver medal position. In both events he was beaten by Russia's Nikolay Lipkin.

References

External links
 
 
 

Living people
1983 births
Sportspeople from Cherkasy
Ukrainian male canoeists
Azerbaijani male canoeists
Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic canoeists for Azerbaijan
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
European Games medalists in canoeing
Canoeists at the 2015 European Games
European Games silver medalists for Azerbaijan
Ukrainian emigrants to Azerbaijan
Naturalized citizens of Azerbaijan
Olympic silver medalists for Azerbaijan
Olympic medalists in canoeing
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Charlie Siringo's West

Charlie Siringo's West: An Interpretive Biography is a biography of former Pinkerton Detective Charlie Siringo, by historian Howard R. Lamar. It was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2005.

In addition to its purely biographical theme, the book examines Siringo's life in the context of the Pinkerton agency's descent into illegality, and the increasing romanticisation of "Wild West" characters by a fast-growing Hollywood film industry of the 1920s.

The book won the 2006 Bronze Wrangler award for nonfiction from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.

Editions
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2005 ,

References

American biographies
History books about the American Old West
2005 non-fiction books
University of New Mexico Press books
Trịnh Căn

Trịnh Căn (chữ Hán: 鄭根; 18 July 1633 – 17 June 1709) ruled northern Vietnam from 1682 to 1709 (he ruled with the title Định Vương).

Trịnh Căn was one of the Trịnh lords who ruled Vietnam. With the Trịnh–Nguyễn War ended, his reign was mostly devoted to administrative reforms.

Trịnh Căn, the son of Trịnh Tạc, ruled Vietnam during a time of peace and general prosperity. He devoted his time to administrative affairs. One of his improvements was to force all government officials to take examinations in order to promote honesty and to remove incapable civil servants. He also reformed the laws and punishments; under Trịnh Căn mutilation was no longer a punishment for crimes, and public gambling was prohibited.

In 1694, the last effective leader of the Lān Xāng federation died. The resulting succession battle caused the federation to collapse. The Vietnamese sent an army into Laos to assert their authority in the area in 1694. After 10 years of conflict with other Lao forces and with Ayutthaya forces under king Phetracha, three weak Lao kingdoms emerged, each of which paid tribute to both Vietnam and Ayutthaya (modern day Thailand). (Note: it is possible, but less likely, that it was a Nguyễn army under Nguyễn Phúc Chu which intervened in Laos).

As far as the Lê dynasty was concerned, the emperor, Lê Hy Tông, was forced to abdicate the throne in 1706. He was replaced by Lê Du Tông.

See also 
 Lê dynasty
 List of Vietnamese dynasties

Sources 

Annam and its Minor Currency Chapter 16 (downloaded May 2006) 
A Glimpse of Vietnam's History (downloaded May 2006)

1633 births
1709 deaths
Trịnh lords
17th-century Vietnamese monarchs
18th-century Vietnamese monarchs
17th-century Vietnamese poets
Upsilon Centauri

The Bayer designation Upsilon Centauri (υ Cen / υ Centauri) is shared by two star systems, in the constellation Centaurus:
 Upsilon¹ Centauri
 Upsilon² Centauri
They are separated by 0.96° on the sky.

All of them were member of asterism 柱 (Zhǔ), Pillars, Horn mansion.

See also:
Y Centauri, a variable star called by the Latin letter Y

References

Centauri, Upsilon
Centaurus
Luton East (UK Parliament constituency)

Luton East is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was created in 1974 from the bulk of abolished Luton constituency. It was abolished in 1983 when it was absorbed into the new Borough Constituency of Luton South.

Boundaries
The County Borough of Luton wards of Central, Crawley, High Town, South, Stopsley, and Wardown.

Members of Parliament

Elections

See also
List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies

References

Parliamentary constituencies in Bedfordshire (historic)
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1974
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1983
Politics of Luton
Upsilon1 Centauri

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Upsilon1 Centauri, Latinized from υ1 Centauri, is a single star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It has a blue-white hue and is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +3.87. The distance to this object is approximately 427 light years based on parallax, and is receding with a radial velocity of +9 km/s. It is a member of the Lower Centaurus Crux group of the Scorpius–Centaurus association.

The stellar classification of this object is B2 IV/V, matching a massive B-type star with a luminosity class displaying mixed traits of a main sequence and a subgiant star. It is 13 million years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 124 km/s. The star has 7.9 times the mass of the Sun and 3.7 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 1,884 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 21,411 K.

References

B-type main-sequence stars
B-type subgiants
Lower Centaurus Crux

Centaurus
Centauri, Upsilon1
Durchmusterung objects
121790
068282
5249
One Hit Wonder (band)

One Hit Wonder was an American punk band, from Long Beach, California.

The bands original line-up featured singer/guitarists Dan Root and Robbie Allen, bassist Randy Bradbury, and drummer Christopher Webb. Allen and Root had previously played together in Tender Fury, while Webb had been the drummer of No Doubt.

In 1993, Allen left the band, after recording the single "Long Beach vs. the World". Their debut EP was issued in 1995, and was produced by the Robb Brothers. After the death of Jason Thirsk in 1996, Randy Bradbury left to join Pennywise and was replaced by Daniel Gadberry. Former pro-skater Ray "Bones" Rodriguez also joined the band on guitar and they released their debut EP Where's the World in 1994.

Front man Dan Root is currently the guitarist in Adolescents. He is credited with recording and playing guitar with Tender Fury, Rik L Rik, Cathedral of Tears, Keith Morris' band Buglamp, Adolescents, C.J. Ramone,The Vandals, and appearing in the 1987 movie Dudes and "Me First and the Gimme Gimmes".  Randy Bradbury played bass on the first two One Hit Wonder albums, before leaving to join the skate punk band Pennywise. Chris Webb previously played drums for the alternative rock band No Doubt, but never appeared on any albums. Trey Pangborn from the Falling Idols, Bargain Music, and later Long Beach Short Bus played guitar.

On October 6, 2016, One Hit Wonder played in Long Beach with The Cadillac Tramps.

Line up
Dan Root - vocals/guitar
Daniel Gadberry - bass
Chris Webb - drums
Trey Pangborn - guitar

Discography
Where's the World? (EP) (1994)
Clusterphukastuff (1996)
Outfall (1997)
Who the Hell Is One Hit Wonder? (1998)

References

Punk rock groups from California
Musical groups established in 1993
Musical groups disestablished in 1999
1993 establishments in California
Nitro Records artists
Upsilon2 Centauri

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Upsilon2 Centauri (υ2 Centauri) is a binary star system in the southern constellation Centaurus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.33. Based upon an annual parallax shift of just 2.57 mas as seen from Earth, this star is located roughly 1,300 light years from the Sun. Relative to its neighbors, the system has a peculiar velocity of  and it may form a runaway star system.

This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary star system with an orbital period of 207.357 days and an eccentricity of 0.55. The primary component has the spectrum of an evolved F-type giant/bright giant hybrid with a stellar classification of F7 II/III. It is around 46 million years old with 6.9 times the mass of the Sun. The star is radiating 3,919 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,495 K.

References

F-type bright giants
Runaway stars
Centauri, Upsilon2
Centaurus
Durchmusterung objects
122223
068523
5260
Spectroscopic binaries
Luton West (UK Parliament constituency)

Luton West is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was created in 1974 parts of the abolished Luton constituency and parts of South Bedfordshire. It was abolished in 1983 when it was largely absorbed into the new constituency of Luton North.

Boundaries
The County Borough of Luton wards of Dallow, Icknield, Leagrave, Lewsey, Limbury, and Sundon Park.

Formed for the February 1974 general election primarily from the Leagrave and Limbury wards of the County Borough, previously part of South Bedfordshire.  Remaining wards were previously part of the abolished constituency of Luton.

Abolished for the 1983 general election when it was largely absorbed into the new constituency of North Luton, with the exception of southernmost-parts, including Dallow ward, which were included in Luton South.

Members of Parliament

Elections

See also
List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies

References

Parliamentary constituencies in Bedfordshire (historic)
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1974
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1983
Politics of Luton
Holman

Holman may refer to:

People
 Holman (surname), including people with the name
 Holman (given name), a list of people with the name

Places

United States
 Holman, Missouri, a former town
 Holman, Texas, a settlement
 Holman, Washington, a stop on the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company's narrow gauge line
 Holman, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
 Holman Correctional Facility, a state prison near the city of Atmore, Alabama
 Holman Stadium (Nashua), New Hampshire
 Holman Stadium (Vero Beach), Florida
 St. Paul Downtown Airport, also known as "Holman Field", Minnesota

Elsewhere
The former name for Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada
 Ulukhaktok/Holman Airport, Northwest Territories
 Holman's Bridge, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK
 Holman Dome, a nunatak on David Island, Antarctica
 3666 Holman, a main-belt asteroid

Other uses
 Holman Brothers, a former mining equipment manufacture founded in 1801 based in Camborne, Cornwall, UK
 Holman Bible Publishers, publishers of the Holman Christian Standard Bible
 Holman Christian Standard Bible
 Holman Projector, an anti-aircraft weapon used by the Royal Navy during the Second World War
 Holman Preamplifier, produced by the Apt Corporation and named for Tomlinson Holman
 Holman's Regiment of Militia, reinforcements for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
 Holman Rule, a legislative rule U.S. Congress allowing the pay of a federal government employee to be reduced; named for William S. Holman

See also
 Hollman, a surname
 Justice Holman (disambiguation)
Girls & Sports

Girls & Sports was an American comic strip written and illustrated by Justin Borus and Andrew Feinstein. It was created in 1997 and published in various college newspapers until 2004 when Borus and Feinstein began self-syndicating the strip. It was picked up for distributed by Creators Syndicate at the beginning of 2006, and was discontinued in 2011.

History
Borus and Feinstein created Girls & Sports in 1997 while studying abroad in Denmark. The strips were based on their own dating experiences. When they returned to the United States, they began publishing their comic in their college newspapers. After college, Borus and Feinstein began marketing the comic to mainstream newspapers, which became the most widely syndicated independent comic strip in the country. From January 2010 to March 2011 the strip appeared on ESPN's Page 2. In May 2011, the strip was discontinued with brief mention by one of websites that featured the comic. The last daily strip appeared April 30, 2011 and the last Sunday strip appeared May 8.

In the summer of 2008, Girls & Sports appeared as a series of animated short cartoons on Fox Sports Net's late night talk show The Best Damn Sports Show Period.

Characters
Girls & Sports deals with the dating lives of two men, Bradley and Marshall. Bradley is dating Joann but is not against going to the bar and hitting on other women, though he remains loyal to Joann (as far as she knows). Marshall is the perpetual single guy who listens to Bradley's advice even when it's against his better judgment. Joann thinks Marshall is a bad influence on Bradley.

Book
Opening Lines, Pinky Probes and L-Bombs: The Girls & Sports Dating and Relationship Playbook, ,  published October 28, 2006, is a comic anthology on the events and circumstances that confront singles in their everyday lives, including dating, the bar scene, sports, working out, parties, and vacations in the style of the Girls & Sports strips. It offers advice via charts, graphs, and text boxes.

References

External links
 Girls & Sports at Creators Syndicate
 
 G4 Attack of the Show Feature on YouTube
 National Cartoonists Society: Justin Borus
 National Cartoonists Society: Andrew Feinstein
 https://archive.today/20060814030955/http://www.athensnews.com/girlsandsports.php
 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001701211
 https://web.archive.org/web/20070216021930/http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/living/11884495.htm
 http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2007/01/11/features/features001.txt

Sports comics
Romance comics
1997 comics debuts
2011 comics endings
Comics adapted into animated series
Comics adapted into television series