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Phil Hester (comics)

Phil Hester (born 1966) is an American comic book artist, penciller and writer.

Early life
Phil Hester is an alumnus of the University of Iowa. He is originally from North English, Iowa.

Career
Hester's pencilling credits include Swamp Thing, Brave New World, Flinch, Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Clerks: The Lost Scene, The Crow: Waking Nightmares, The Wretch (nominated for the 1997 Eisner Award for Best New Series), Aliens: Purge, and Green Arrow.

During his run on Green Arrow, he created the characters Mia Dearden and Onomatopoeia with writer Kevin Smith as well as Constantine Drakon with writer Judd Winick.

Hester co-created Uncle Slam and Firedog with his Green Arrow collaborator, artist Ande Parks. He also created El Diablo, a new character (with a common name in DC Comics) who debuted in an eponymous limited series. His last comic 13 Steps will adapted in a Comedy Horror film.

Hester is currently writing the new adventures of Golden Age hero The Black Terror for Dynamite Entertainment, based on plot ideas by Alex Ross, as part of the Project Superpowers Universe.

He also wrote DC's Wonder Woman, based on the notes and outline by J. Michael Straczynski, after Straczynski left the title.

In December 2020 he was announced as the new artist on Superman, alongside writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson.

Known for his extensive collection of original comic art, he is the originator of the Hester Paradox. Wherein the a collection is so large that it is prohibitively expensive to insure and yet is too valuable not to insure.

Bibliography
 Ant-Man
 Clerks: The Lost Scene
 Deep Sleeper
 Nightwing
 El Diablo (pencils, with writer Jai Nitz and inks by Ande Parks, 6-issue limited series, September 2008)
 Four Letter Worlds
 Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters #1–4 
 Green Arrow
 Firebreather
 Mythic
 Nails
 Namor
 Oversight (anthology of many previously published short pieces)
 Rust vol.3
 S.T.A.T" (Security Through Acquired Talents)
 Stronghold Swamp Thing Teddy and the yeti The Anchor Issues 1–8
 The Atheist The Coffin The Creeper The Darkness: Accursed The Holy Terror The Wretch Timecop (comics) Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #2–3
 Uncle Slam and Firedog Wonder Woman'' #605–614

Notes

References
Phil Hester at Marvel.com

External links

 
 
 Creator page at Action Planet

Interviews
 Phil Hester: Straight Shooter – interview at Silver Bullet Comic Books
 Interview with Futureal Studio
 Interview with The Outhouse
 Interview at Comicbloc.com
 Interview: Phil Hester On His Unorthodox Journey Into Comics

American comics artists
American comics writers
People from Iowa
Marvel Comics writers
DC Comics people
1966 births
Living people
University of Iowa alumni
Molamenqing

Molamenqing (Chinese: Phola Gangchen) is an eastern outlier of Shishapangma, the 14th-highest peak in the world. Both are in the Jugal Himal, a subrange of the Himalaya in Tibet. (This range is contiguous with, and often considered a part of, the Langtang Himal.) Its elevation is also given as 7,661 m (25,134 ft); the elevation given here is from a Chinese survey. Molamenqing is little-known, partly since it does not have much independent stature. Its topographic prominence, i.e. its rise above the saddle connecting it with Shishapangma, is only 430 metres, which is relatively small for a Himalayan peak, although large enough for it to qualify in some reckonings as an independent peak.

Molamenqing did enjoy a temporary fame in the early 1980s. At the time it was one of the highest unclimbed peaks in the world (using a prominence cutoff low enough to qualify it as a separate summit). A team from New Zealand applied to the Chinese authorities to climb the peak, and became one of the first Western teams to be allowed to climb in Tibet since before World War II. The team succeeded in making the first, and so far the only, ascent of the mountain. They started from the east side of the peak, but their long route went via the north side of Shishapangma and approached the summit from the west.

The Himalayan Index lists no other attempts on this peak.

References

Further reading
 Warwick Anderson, To the Untouched Mountain: the New Zealand Conquest of Molamenqing, Reed, 1983.

Mountains of Tibet
Seven-thousanders of the Himalayas
WFRZ-LD

WFRZ-LD, virtual and UHF digital channel 33, is a low-power religious television station licensed to Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by the Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church.

History

The station was founded by Jerry Kemp, a Frazer Memorial member, who started the Frazer TV Ministry in 1983. The television station began operations in early 1993. In addition to network programming, the station airs Frazer's worship services, other church activities, and other local programming. WFRZ flash-cut from analog to digital in February, 2009. The station manager is Will Adams. Effective June 1, 2014, WFRZ is now a part of the Media Department of Frazer.  The Media Director for Frazer is Ken Roach.

Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Programming

Programs produced by WFRZ
Frazer Family Hour (traditional services from Frazer UMC)
Frazer Contemporary Hour (contemporary services from Frazer UMC)

Other WFRZ programming
Crossroads - First Baptist Montgomery
Ridgecrest Baptist Hour - Montgomery
First UMC - Montgomery
The Methodist Hour - Hattiesburg, Mississippi
First Baptist - Greenville, Mississippi
Huntingdon Athletics
Venture Outdoors
Harbor Light with Dr. Andy Harris
Reality and Truth with Ladonna Brendle
The Source with Elvyn and Bessie Hamilton

References

External links
Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church

Religious television stations in the United States
FRZ-LD
Low-power television stations in Alabama
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Pi Centauri

Pi Centauri, Latinized from π Centauri, is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It has a blue-white hue and is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of +3.90. The system is located at a distance of approximately 360 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of around +9 km/s. It is a member of the Lower Centaurus–Crux subgroup of the Scorpius–Centaurus association.

The magnitude +4.08 primary, designated component A, is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B5Vn, where the 'n' suffix indicates broad, diffuse (nebulous) lines due to rapid rotation. This star is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 340 km/s, giving it an equatorial bulge that is 22% larger than the polar radius. It has 6.4 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 783 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 16,760 K.

The secondary companion, component B, is magnitude +5.65 with a class of B6V and 3.7 times the Sun's mass. The pair orbit around their common barycentre once every 39 years with an eccentricity of 0.8530. The semi-major axis of the companion is 0.23 arcseconds at an inclination of 19.4°.

References 

B-type main-sequence stars
Binary stars

Centaurus
Centauri, Pi
Durchmusterung objects
055425
098718
4390
Lower Centaurus Crux
Carl Braun (bass)

Carl Braun (2 June 1886, Meisenheim, Hesse-Nassau – 24 April 1960, Hamburg) was a German bass opera singer.

Biography
He was born on 2 June 1886 in Meisenheim, Hesse-Nassau in Germany.

A pupil of the Berlin Imperial Opera, he sang with the Wiesbaden Royal Opera, Vienna Imperial Opera, Berlin City Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and the Berlin State Opera. He was actor Hermann Braun's father, Carl Braun, was an early sympathizer with the Nazis and a member of the anti-semitic Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur,

In 1932, he joined the Nazi Party. He died on 24 April 1960 in Hamburg, Germany.

References 

1886 births
1960 deaths
People from Bad Kreuznach (district)
Musicians from Hesse-Nassau
German operatic basses
Militant League for German Culture members
20th-century German male opera singers
Minneapolis BNSF Rail Bridge

Minneapolis BNSF Rail Bridge is a combination plate girder bridge and truss bridge that spans the main channel of the Mississippi River between downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota and Nicollet Island in Minneapolis. It is located adjacent to the current Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

History
It was built in 1893 by the Great Northern Railway and remodeled in 1926. It replaced a bridge built at the same location in 1867 for the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. This was the first Mississippi river railroad crossing in Minneapolis.

Current construction
In 1963, two of the girder spans and a pier were removed, and a Petit truss span was added in its place.  This was done to allow upstream navigation past St. Anthony Falls for barges.  The Petit truss design is unusual for the Mississippi River and is one of three on the island (Boom Island and Nicollet Island Inn bridges are Petit truss spans, too).

The south side of the bridge has an unusual protrusion coming out of it.  There was once a curved bridge coming off the end going to the Minneapolis Union Depot (later the Minneapolis Great Northern Depot).  When passenger service was discontinued from downtown Minneapolis and West River Parkway was built, the curve and the trackage going to the depot was removed.

Usage
The St. Paul and Pacific Railroad eventually became the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway, then Great Northern Railway, Burlington Northern and eventually the BNSF Railway. It currently serves the branches to Willmar and Monticello, as well as providing access to interchange for the Twin Cities and Western Railway.

With the opening of Northstar Commuter Rail from its terminus at Target Field, the bridge once again carries passenger traffic.

References

External links 

Bridges in Minneapolis
Bridges over the Mississippi River
Railroad bridges in Minnesota
Bridges completed in 1893
BNSF Railway bridges
Great Northern Railway (U.S.) bridges
Concrete bridges in the United States
Plate girder bridges in the United States
Girder bridges in the United States
Pratt truss bridges in the United States
HD 117440

HD 117440, also known by its Bayer designation d Centauri, is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 3.90. The distance to this system is approximately 900 light years based on parallax measurements. It is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −2 km/s.

A companion star was first reported by T. J. J. See in 1897 at an angular separation of  from the primary. Orbital elements for the pair were published by W. S. Finsen in 1962 then updated in 1964, yielding an orbital period of 83.1 years with a semimajor axis of  and an eccentricity of 0.52. Both components are evolved G-type giant stars with a yellow, Sun-like hue. The primary, component A, has an apparent magnitude of +4.64, while the secondary, component B, has an apparent magnitude of +5.03.

References

G-type giants
Binary stars

Centaurus
Centauri, d
Durchmusterung objects
117440
065936
5089
Civic Hall Performing Arts Center

Civic Hall Performing Arts Center is a performance venue in Richmond, Indiana, US, owned and operated by Richmond Community Schools. The building is the former high school gymnasium, Civic Hall, on the campus of Richmond High School. In the late 1980s, work began to transform Civic Hall into a performing arts center. The Civic Hall Performing Arts Center opened to students and the public in the fall of 1993. It seats a total of 924, with room for 616 on the floor and 308 in the balcony. The renovation was funded with money from the Richmond Community Schools, the Lucille Gamp Trust and individual and corporate contributions.

External links
Official website

Theatres in Indiana
Theatre companies in Indiana
Buildings and structures in Richmond, Indiana
Performing arts centers in Indiana
Tourist attractions in Wayne County, Indiana
Event venues established in 1993
1993 establishments in Indiana
Red Oak Creek (Trinity River tributary)

Red Oak Creek or Bullock Creek is a   stream and tributary of the Trinity River in North Texas.

Navigable Waterway
Red Oak Creek is a Navigable Waterway according to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. The Creek is owned by the State of Texas. By Texas State Law, the public is allowed access to the Creek bed along the entire creek despite the water level.

Course
The source of Red Oak Creek is at  in southwestern Dallas County near U.S. Route 67 and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in Cedar Hill, then flowing through the communities of Cedar Hill, Ovilla, Oak Leaf, and Red Oak.

It enters the Trinity River east of Bristol, Texas in northeast Ellis County at .

References

 

Rivers of Dallas County, Texas
Rivers of Ellis County, Texas
Rivers of Texas
Trinity River (Texas)
Down Three Dark Streets

Down Three Dark Streets is a 1954 American film noir crime film directed by Arnold Laven and starring Broderick Crawford and Ruth Roman. The screenplay was written by Gordon Gordon and Mildred Gordon, based on their novel Case File FBI.

Plot
FBI agent John Ripley investigates the three cases his murdered partner Zack Stewart was working on, thinking that one of them may reveal the identity of Stewart's murderer.

One involves wanted fugitive Joe Walpo, who has killed a gas-station attendant. Another concerns a department store fashion buyer, Kate Martell, who is being extorted by a man threatening to kill her daughter. A third has to do with a gang of thugs who hijack cars.

Ripley and his new partner trail Connie Anderson, a girlfriend of Walpo's, to his hideout, where Ripley shoots him. They tie up the car-jacking case and are then able to narrow down who the killer of the FBI agent must be.

They follow Kate to the "Hollywood" sign in the hills above Los Angeles, where she has been told to bring the money. There the extortionist is revealed to be a man named Milson who had shown a romantic interest in Kate, leading to a confrontation with Ripley.

Cast
 Broderick Crawford as FBI Agent John Ripley
 Ruth Roman as Kate Martell
 Martha Hyer as Connie Anderson
 Marisa Pavan as Julie Angelino
 Max Showalter as Dave Milson (as Casey Adams)
 Kenneth Tobey as Zack Stewart
 Gene Reynolds as Vince Angelino
 William Johnstone as Frank Pace
 Harlan Warde as Greg Barker
 Jay Adler as Uncle Max
 Claude Akins as Matty Pavelich
 Suzanne Alexander as Brenda Ralles
 Myra Marsh as Mrs. Domes
 Joe Basselt as Joe Walpo
 William Schallert as murdered gas-station attendant (uncredited)

Production

Writing
J. Edgar Hoover objected to early drafts of the script.

References

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1954 films
Films based on American novels
Film noir
American crime films
1954 crime films
Films directed by Arnold Laven
Films produced by Edward Small
Films with screenplays by the Gordons
Films about the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Films scored by Paul Sawtell
1950s English-language films
American black-and-white films
1950s American films
Weather Systems (Andrew Bird album)

Weather Systems, released in 2003, is Andrew Bird's second solo album and his first after disbanding Bowl of Fire. Bird has said that the album was simply a side project during his four or five year recording of Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs. At least two of the songs on the album suggest this fact: "I" is a slower, more dreary version of Armchair Apocrypha "Imitosis," and "Skin" is a similarly slow, instrumental version of The Mysterious Production of Eggs "Skin is, My."

The disk features an eight-minute film by Bob Trondson about Bird and the recording of the album. The cover art was done by Jay Ryan.

The first track, "First Song," borrows its title and most of its lyrics from a poem in Galway Kinnell's book, What a Kingdom It Was, published in 1960. The penultimate song, "Don't Be Scared," is Bird's version of a song written and performed originally by The Handsome Family.

Track listing

Other appearances

 The track "I" is an early version of "Imitosis", which appears on Armchair Apocrypha.
 "Skin" appears on the album The Mysterious Production of Eggs as "Skin is, My".
 "Don't Be Scared" is originally performed by The Handsome Family on the album Down in the Valley. A newer version by Bird appears on the cover album, Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of….

Andrew Bird albums
2003 albums
Righteous Babe Records albums
D Centauri

D Centauri is a double star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. The system is faintly visible to the naked eye as a point of light with a combined apparent magnitude of +5.31; the two components are of magnitude 5.78 and 6.98, respectively. It is located at a distance of approximately 610 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of ~10 km/s.

The dual nature of this star was announced by C. Rumker in 1837. As of 2015, the pair had an angular separation of  along a position angle of 242°. This orange-hued double has a combined stellar classification of K3III, matching an aging giant star that has exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core. In 1984, C. J. Corbally found a class of K4IIIab for the primary and K2IIIb for the fainter secondary.

References 

K-type giants
Double stars
Centauri, D
Centaurus
Durchmusterung objects
106321
059654
4652
Cholly

Cholly is a given name or nickname that may refer to:

 Cholly Atkins (1913–2003), American dancer and choreographer
 Cholly Knickerbocker, pseudonym
 Cholly Naranjo (1934–2022), Cuban baseball pitcher
 Cholly, a Chalicotherium in Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Sigma Centauri

Sigma Centauri, Latinized from σ Centauri, is the Bayer designation for a solitary star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 3.91. A visual companion at an angular separation of  along a position angle of  was detected in 2010 using interferometry, but its association with Sigma Centauri remains undetermined as of 2013. The distance to Sigma Centauri, based upon an annual parallax shift of 7.92 mas, is around 412 light years.

This is a B-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of B3 V. It is a helium-rich star, the most massive type of chemically peculiar star. Sigma Centauri has around 6.8 times the mass of the Sun and 4.5 times the Sun's radius. It has a relatively high rate of spin with a projected rotational velocity of 169 km/s, and is around 25 million years old. The star radiates 1,101 times the solar luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 15,744 K. It is a member of the Lower Centaurus Crux component of the Scorpius–Centaurus association.

References

B-type main-sequence stars
Lower Centaurus Crux
Centaurus
Centauri, Sigma
Durchmusterung objects
108483
060823
4743
Rho Centauri

Rho Centauri, Latinized from ρ Centauri, is a binary star system in the southern constellation of  Centaurus. It is visible to the naked eye as a blue-white hued point of light with a combined apparent visual magnitude of +3.97. The system is located approximately 276 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of around +15 km/s. It is a proper motion member of the Lower Centaurus–Crux sub-group in the Scorpius–Centaurus OB association, the nearest such association of co-moving massive stars to the Sun.

The primary component of this system is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B3 V. It is about 24 million years old with a high rate of spin, showing a projected rotational velocity of 147 km/s. It has 6.6 times the mass of the Sun and 3.8 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 810 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 19,500 K.

The secondary companion is 1.1 magnitudes fainter than the primary, with a projected separation of  along a position angle of 19.72°, as of 2013.

References

B-type main-sequence stars
Spectroscopic binaries
Lower Centaurus Crux

Centaurus
Centauri, Rho
Durchmusterung objects
105937
059449
4638
Plymouth Avenue Bridge

The Plymouth Avenue Bridge is a segmental bridge that spans the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. It was built in 1983 and was designed by Van Doren-Hazard-Stallings. The construction of this bridge was unique, for it was the first segmental concrete girder bridge built in Minnesota. This method of design uses a "form traveler" that shapes the concrete as it is built out from the piers. This avoided the use of falsework and avoided impeding river traffic. The concrete is also engineered to be salt-resistant by the use of post-tensioning. Tubes run through the concrete structure carrying strands of cable. With tension on the cables, the structure is designed to be under compression. This prevents cracks and hinders the intrusion of salt water. Since then, other bridges in Minnesota have used this construction method, including the I-35W Saint Anthony Falls Bridge in Minneapolis, the Wabasha Street Bridge in downtown St. Paul, and the Wakota Bridge in South St. Paul.

The original bridge at this location was a wooden Howe truss design, built in 1873. It was built when Minneapolis, then only on the west side of the river, consolidated with the city of St. Anthony, on the east side of the river. As part of the merger, Minneapolis agreed to build two bridges, one upstream of the Hennepin Avenue Bridge and one downstream. That bridge was replaced in 1886 with an iron truss bridge. It was remodeled in 1913 and then raised in 1953 for more clearance. The bridge was closed in 1981 because the floor beams were deteriorated by corrosion over the years. The current bridge was constructed two years later.

On Friday, October 22, 2010, the Plymouth Avenue Bridge was closed indefinitely "as a precaution, pending further investigation after a routine inspection discovered corrosion on cables that run through the bridge." The bridge was reopened to foot traffic on Thursday, January 6, 2011, after engineers determined that the bridge was safe for pedestrian and bicycle use. Use by vehicular traffic was not allowed until corroded cables could be replaced, a project that, following several delays, was completed as of August 9, 2013.

References

Bridges in Minneapolis
Bridges over the Mississippi River
Bridges completed in 1983
Concrete bridges in the United States
Girder bridges in the United States
Road bridges in Minnesota
Shared-use paths in Minneapolis
HD 102964

HD 102964, also known as B Centauri, is a single star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It has the identifier HD 102964 in the Henry Draper catalogue; B Centauri is the star's Bayer designation. This object has an orange hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.47. The star is located at a distance of approximately 440 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and has an absolute magnitude of −1.14.

This object is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K3III, indicating the star has exhausted the supply of hydrogen at its core then cooled and expanded off the main sequence. At present it has 39 times the girth of the Sun. It is radiating 480 times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,325 K.

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K-type giants
Centaurus
Centauri, B
BD-44 7614
102964
057803
4546
Psi Centauri

Psi Centauri, which is Latinized from ψ Centauri, is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is visible to the naked eye with a baseline apparent visual magnitude of +4.05. The distance to this system is approximately 259 light years based on parallax. The radial velocity is poorly constrained, but it appears to be slowly drifting away from the Sun at the rate of +2 km/s.

This is a detached eclipsing binary system with the secondary eclipse being total. The pair are orbiting each other with a period of 38.81 days and an eccentricity of 0.55. The brightness of the system dips by 0.28 and 0.16 magnitude during the two eclipses per orbit. The system displays an infrared excess at a wavelength of 60 μm, indicating the presence of a circumstellar debris disk with a temperature of 120 K, orbiting at a distance of 64 AU.

The pair have a combined stellar classification of A0 IV, matching a white-hued A-type subgiant. The two components appear to be at different evolutionary stages. Both have high rotation rates, with projected rotational velocities over 120 km/s. The primary has 3.6 times the Sun's radius while the secondary is 1.8 times. The primary showed evidence of pulsational behavior with 1.996 and 5.127 cycles per day, which suggests it is a slowly pulsating B star. But this remains unconfirmed as of 2017, and the finding may instead be the result of instrumental error.

References

A-type subgiants
Eclipsing binaries

Centaurus
Centauri, Psi
Durchmusterung objects
070090
125473
5367
Belmont College

Belmont College is a public community college in St. Clairsville, Ohio. The college's main campus is in St. Clairsville, Ohio with other locations including the Monroe County Center in Woodsfield, Ohio and the North Center in Cadiz, Ohio. Belmont College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC).

Student life 
Organizations include Student Government Association (SGA), Phi Theta Kappa (PTK), Flag Football Team, Children's Holiday Party Committee, Belmont College Alumni Association, and Civil War Discussion. In addition to these organizations there are specific organizations for programs. These include Licensed Practical Nurse Association of Ohio (LPNAO), Building Preservation (BPR) Student Association, Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), and the Association of Student Medical Assistants (ASMA).

References

External links 
Official Website

Universities and colleges established in 1971
Education in Belmont County, Ohio
Buildings and structures in Belmont County, Ohio
Community colleges in Ohio
1971 establishments in Ohio
Virginia State Route 420

State Route 420 (SR 420) is an unsigned primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway is known as Seminary Road and Janneys Lane on its  course from Interstate 395 (I-395) east to SR 7 within the independent city of Alexandria.

Route description

SR 420 begins at a three-level diamond interchange with I-395 (Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway). The roadway continues west as an unnumbered segment of Seminary Road that passes by the Mark Center Building, a massive office building for the United States Department of Defense, on its way to Bailey's Crossroads. SR 420, which begins as a four-lane divided highway, crosses over the northern terminus of SR 401 (Van Dorn Street) immediately to the east of the I-395 interchange. Access to SR 401 is provided via a pair of right-in/right-out intersections with Kenmore Avenue. SR 420 reduces to a four-lane undivided street that passes by Inova Alexandria Hospital, after which it again narrows to a two-lane road with a center left-turn lane. The state highway passes its namesake, the Virginia Theological Seminary, just west of its intersection with Quaker Lane, which heads north as SR 402. SR 420 continues east as Janneys Lane, a two-lane undivided street that passes to the north of the Gerald R. Ford Jr. House on its way to its eastern terminus at SR 7 (King Street).

History
SR 420 was assigned to its present location, previously unnumbered, in the mid-1980s. However, as it was once part of Fairfax County, the Seminary Road portion of SR 420 was numbered SR 716 until it was annexed by Alexandria in the 1950s.

Major intersections

References

External links

Virginia Highways Project: VA 420

420
State Route 420
Blaberus discoidalis

Blaberus discoidalis, commonly known as the discoid cockroach, tropical cockroach, West Indian leaf cockroach, false death's head cockroach, Haitian cockroach, and drummer, is a cockroach native to Central America of the “giant cockroach” family, Blaberidae.

The adult is around  in length, and is tan with a dark brown to black patch on its pronotum. The juvenile is brown with tan speckles, and matures to adulthood in 4–5 months. Adults have wings but are not active fliers, and they can not climb smooth vertical surfaces, simplifying their care in captivity.

Blaberus discoidalis is called the false death's head cockroach because of its superficial resemblance to the death's head cockroach, Blaberus craniifer.

Distribution

Blaberus discoidalis is found in Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico (Vieques Island), Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, and Florida.

Locomotion 
The movement of B. discoidalis runs relatively inefficiently - wasting movement as it runs. It can move about 25 of its body lengths per second, around half the speed of common cockroach Periplaneta americana. In laboratory tests, B. discoidalis cockroaches were adept at obstacle climbing, and maintaining stability with miniature “cannons” strapped to their bodies designed to knock them off balance mid-run. The species served as the basis for the kinematics design of several cockroach-inspired robots.

Uses

Pet food 
They are very easy to raise in captivity, so make good feed for insectivorous pets such as tarantulas, bearded dragons, and other lizards.

These animals breed readily in captivity. They reach breeding age in about 6 months if kept warm, with 85–90 °F recommended for more productive breeding. Females carry their eggs inside a brooding pouch having genital chamber and vestibulum until they are fertilised by male spermatophore.

Insect eating competitions 
Discoid cockroaches are also used in insect eating competitions since they are often raised in captivity and are easier to gather in large numbers during a contest. In 2012, Edward Archibold died as a result of 'asphyxia due to choking and aspiration of gastric contents,' according to his autopsy report, in a cockroach eating contest in south Florida.

Fuel cell 
Blaberus discoidalis was used in an experiment to create a miniature fuel cell, producing electricity from naturally occurring sugar in the insect and oxygen in the air. The power density of the species is considered a good design target for small robots.

Image gallery

References 

Cockroaches
Insects described in 1839
Insects of Haiti
Insects of the Dominican Republic
Franklin Van Antwerpen

Franklin Stuart Van Antwerpen (October 23, 1941 – July 25, 2016) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He assumed senior status on October 23, 2006, on his 65th birthday, serving in that status until his death.

Early life and education 

Born in Passaic, New Jersey, he attended Newark Academy, graduating in 1960. Van Antwerpen studied at the University of Maine, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree. He earned a Juris Doctor at the Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Professional career 

Van Antwerpen was contracts counsel for the Hazeltine Corporation in New York City from 1967 to 1970. He was chief counsel for the Northampton County Legal Aid Society in Easton, Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1971. He was in private practice of law in Easton from 1971 to 1979. He was a judge of the Northampton County Court of Common Pleas in Easton from 1979 to 1987.

Federal judicial service

Van Antwerpen was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on September 11, 1987, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania vacated by Judge Alfred Leopold Luongo. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 8, 1987, and received his commission on December 9, 1987. His service was terminated on June 1, 2004, due to elevation to the court of appeals.

On September 11, 1991, President George H. W. Bush nominated Van Antwerpen to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. However, Van Antwerpen's nomination languished in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and it expired with the end of Bush's presidency. President Bill Clinton chose not to renominate Van Antwerpen to the Third Circuit.

Van Antwerpen was nominated by President George W. Bush on November 21, 2003, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated by Judge Edward R. Becker. He was confirmed by the Senate on May 20, 2004 by a 96–0 vote. He received his commission on May 24, 2004. "It's happened. We did it. And wow!" Van Antwerpen told a local newspaper after his confirmation vote. He assumed senior status on October 23, 2006, serving in that status until his death on July 25, 2016, in Palmer Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

See also

George H.W. Bush judicial appointment controversies

References

External links

U.S. Justice Department Profile

1941 births
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Penang ferry service

The Penang Ferry Service is the oldest ferry service within the State of Penang, Malaysia, connecting the city of George Town on Penang Island and Butterworth on the mainland. This cross-strait transit has been operational since 1894, making it the oldest ferry service in Malaysia. Its fleet of six ferries carries both passengers and automobiles across the Penang Strait daily; each roll-on/roll-off ferry could accommodate cars either on its lower deck or on both decks.

The first cross-strait ferry service between Penang Island and the mainland began in 1894. This regular service was initiated by Quah Beng Kee, an entrepreneur from Penang Island together with his 4 brothers forming a company named Beng Brothers.  Originally a passenger-only service, the ferries were later refitted to carry automobiles in 1925. From 1924, the ferries were operated by the Penang Port Commission (formerly Penang Harbour Board), through its subsidiary, Penang Port Sdn Bhd.

In 2017, the Malaysian federal government began transferring the ferry service from Penang Port Sdn Bhd to Prasarana Malaysia, a government-owned entity which manages urban public transportation across Malaysia. Following the handover, the ferry service has been rebranded as Rapid Ferry. On 31 December 2020, Rapid Ferry ended its service after 3 years.

In 2021, Penang Port Sdn Bhd, which took over the ferry service from Prasarana Malaysia Bhd, began operating fast passenger boats between the mainland and the island, while one of the iconic ferries, Pulau Angsa, was used to transport only motorcycles and bicycles.

Ferry fleet 

The seven ferries in the current fleet and ten retired ferries are named after islands in Malaysia.

Terminals 
At present, the two ferry terminals - one each in George Town and Butterworth - are also run by Penang Port Commission.

Major events 

31 July 1988 – The collapse of the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridge caused 32 fatalities, while 1,674 others were wounded.
1 January 2021 – The Penang ferry service is terminated after 126 years and replaced with new fast boats.
7 August 2023 – New Penang ferry was launched with replaces speedboats.

Ferry schedule

Pangkalan Sultan Abdul Halim (Mainland Side)
Weekdays:
First ferry departure : 0630 hours
Last ferry departure : 2030 hours
Duration : 8-10mins
Weekends:
First ferry departure : 0700 hours
Last ferry departure : 2030 hours
Duration : 8-10mins

Pangkalan Raja Tun Uda (Island side)
First ferry departure : 0540 hours
Last ferry departure : 0040 hours
Duration : 15-20mins

Arrival Interval
5.20 am to 10.00p.m. : 20 – 30 minutes with 4 ferries operational
10.00 pm to 1.00a.m : 40 minutes with 1 ferry operational

Ferry rates

Pedestrian

Season ticket (pedestrians) – valid for two months from date of issue

Special passengers

Vehicles

References

External links
Photos of the Penang-Butterworth Ferries, by Peter Loud
Photos of Penang Ferry
Penang Port Sdn. Bhd.
Feri Penang
Ferry companies of Malaysia
Transport in Penang
Northern Corridor Economic Region
1894 establishments in Asia
Broadway Avenue Bridge

Broadway Avenue Bridge is a girder bridge that spans the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Designed by Norman C. Davis and Shawn Pierson Bruns of Van Doren-Hazard-Stallings, it was built in 1987.  The bridge has a rather streamlined shape, but its piers are more ornate. The piers have two flat columns that taper together, with a base that extends out to the full width of the bridge.

This bridge is the third bridge to cross the river at this location. The first bridge was a wooden structure completed in 1857, but washed away in a flood in 1859. The second bridge was a four-span Pratt truss bridge built in 1887. It spanned the northern industrial district that was developing on both sides of the river. The 1887 bridge was very ornate, featuring finials on each top corner and a band of scrolls, crosses, and lines between them. The horizontal struts and guard railings used X-shapes as a pattern. In 1950, the bridge was raised  to allow barges and larger boats to pass underneath. The old bridge was removed in 1985, but a single span of the bridge lives on as the Merriam Street Bridge that connects Nicollet Island to the St. Anthony section of Minneapolis.

See also
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Minnesota
List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River

References

External links
 of previous bridge

Bridges in Minneapolis
Bridges over the Mississippi River
Bridges completed in 1987
Road bridges in Minnesota
1987 establishments in Minnesota
Great River Road
Girder bridges in the United States
Historic American Engineering Record in Minnesota
Henry Bernstein

Henry Bernstein may refer to:

 Henri Bernstein (1876–1953), French playwright
 Henry Bernstein (sociologist), British sociologist
 Sir Henry Bernstein (died 1857), theologian, orientalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

See also
Harry Bernstein (1910–2011), British-born American writer
Dave Irwin

Dave Irwin (born July 12, 1954) is a former alpine ski racer who represented Canada at two Winter Olympic Games and won a World Cup downhill. He was one of the "Crazy Canucks", a group of Canadian downhill racers who rose to prominence on the World Cup circuit in the late 1970s. He lives in Canmore, Alberta, near the Rocky Mountains.

Biography
Dave Irwin was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada where he learned to ski at the age of three at his father's ski resort. By the age of 17, Irwin had been selected to be a member of the Canadian National Ski Team. Originally picked for his ability as a slalom skier, he successfully switched to downhill when national team coach Scotty Henderson reoriented the squad and the team's resources towards the speed event.

Irwin's first World Cup race was the downhill at Schladming, Austria on December 22, 1973 where he placed 14th.  Two years later at Schladming, he won the downhill event in a time of 2:00.84 beating the second-place finisher, Klaus Eberhard by almost two seconds.  Irwin reached the podium again in 1982 with a third-place finish at the World Cup downhill in Whistler, B.C. behind winner Peter Müller, and team mate Steve Podborski.

Irwin represented Canada at two Winter Olympic Games. At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, Irwin finished eighth.  At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, USA, he placed eleventh.

Traumatic brain injury 
Iriwn sustained two severe concussions during his racing career, once before the 1976, Olympics, and a second concussion before the 1980 Olympics.  The first concussion was sustained on January 10, 1976 at the downhill race in Wengen, Switzerland - two weeks after his sole World Cup win at Schladming - and resulted in five days in hospital. Less than two weeks later, Irwin was back training with the ski team. Canadian Corner a Section of the Lauberhorn near Wengen in Switzerland. The heavily twisting curve at the left-hand transition to the Alpweg is named after the Crazy Canucks, Ken Read and Dave Irwin who both fell there in 1976.

Irwin suffered a traumatic brain injury on a training run for an Export A Skier-Cross event on March 23, 2001 which put him in a coma for three days.  He recovered slowly from the injury with severe memory loss. He and his fiancée Lynne Harrison later created the Dave Irwin Foundation for Brain Injury.  The foundation was dissolved in 2016.

See also
 Crazy Canucks

References

External links
 

Canadian male alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers for Canada
Sportspeople from Thunder Bay
1954 births
Living people
HD 129456

HD 129456, also known by its Bayer designation c1 Centauri (c1 Cen), is a star in the constellation Centaurus.  c¹ Centauri is an orange K-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +4.06.  It is approximately 209 light years from Earth.

References

Centauri, c1
Centaurus
129456
K-type giants
5485
072010
Durchmusterung objects
Cadmium iodide

Cadmium iodide is the inorganic compound with the formula CdI2.  It is a white hygroscopic solid.  It also can be obtained as a mono- and tetrahydrate. It has few applications. It is notable for its crystal structure, which is typical for compounds of the form MX2 with strong polarization effects.

Preparation
Cadmium iodide is prepared by the addition of cadmium metal, or its oxide, hydroxide or carbonate to hydroiodic acid. Also, the compound can be made by heating cadmium with iodine.

Crystal structure

In cadmium iodide the iodide anions form a hexagonal close packed arrangement while the cadmium cations fill all of the octahedral sites in alternate layers. The resultant structure consists of a layered lattice. This same basic structure is found in many other salts and minerals. Cadmium iodide is mostly ionically bonded but with partial covalent character.

Cadmium iodide's crystal structure is the prototype on which the crystal structures many other compounds can be considered to be based. Compounds with any of the following characteristics tend to adopt the CdI2 structure:

 Iodides of moderately polarising cations; bromides and chlorides of strongly polarising cations
 Hydroxides of dications, i.e. compounds with the general formula M(OH)2
 Sulfides, selenides and tellurides (chalcogenides) of tetracations, i.e. compounds with the general formula MX2, where X = S, Se, Te

References

Cadmium compounds
Iodides
Metal halides
Photographic chemicals
Crystal structure types
HD 129685

HD 129685 is a single star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is also known by its Bayer designation c2 Centauri, while HD 129685 is the star's identifier in the Henry Draper catalogue. This object has a white hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.92. It is located at a distance of approximately 231 light years from the Sun based on parallax, and it has an absolute magnitude of 0.83. The star is drifting closer with a radial velocity of around −5 km/s.

Two different stellar classifications have been reported for this star. A class of A0Vn assigned by Abt and Morrell (1995) indicates it is a rapidly-rotating A-type main-sequence star, while a type of A0IVnn, according to Gray and Garrison (1987), suggests it is a somewhat more evolved subgiant star. It is around 239 million years old with 2.1 times the mass of the Sun, and is reported to be rotating close to its break-up velocity. The star is radiating 45 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 9,323 K.

References

A-type main-sequence stars
Centaurus
Centauri, c2
Durchmusterung objects
129685
072104
5489
A-type subgiants
Another Mind

Another Mind is the debut release from Hiromi Uehara, a jazz and jazz fusion pianist. It was released in 2003 and received the award for foreign jazz album of the year in the 2004 Japan Annual Gold Disc Awards.

Reception
Peter Marsh of BBC stated "Surrounding herself with a cast of young, gifted musicians (and a slightly older one in the shape of the great bassist Anthony Jackson), 24 year old Hiromi Uehara's music is audacious, hyperactive stuff. Sticking mainly to acoustic piano, her approach is reminiscent of Oscar Peterson on steroids. Few of the instrument's 88 keys remain untouched for long." Robert L. Calder of PopMatters stated "he name that comes to mind is tsunami, or some other earthquake and volcano jargon term. Quite simply, I've heard no more powerful jazz pianist than Hiromi Uehara. Current competition includes the Russian Simon Nabatov (the Slavonic Jaki Byard) as well as Brad Mehldau (I've not heard of Bobby Enriquez in some time, but her fingers punch as hard as his fists and elbows)." Phil Dipietro of All About Jazz wrote "Yes, Hiromi's music is full of emotion, drawing freely and effortlessly from the panorama of influences, most of them adventurous in aspect and application. But please, let's not downplay Ms. Uehara's abilities as a pure technician!"

Track listing
All songs composed by Hiromi

 XYZ (5:37)      
 Double Personality (11:57)
 Summer Rain (6:07)       
 Joy (8:29)     
 010101 (Binary System) - (8:23)     
 Truth and Lies (7:20)  
 Dançando no Paraiso (7:39)     
 Another Mind (8:44) 
 The Tom and Jerry Show (6:05)

Personnel 
 Hiromi Uehara - Piano
 Mitch Cohn - Bass (1-3, 6, 8)
 Dave DiCenso - Drums

with guests:
 Anthony Jackson - Bass (4, 5, 7)
 Jim Odgren - Alto saxophone (2, 3)
 David Fiuczynski - Guitar (2)

Production 
 Producer - Richard Evans, Ahmad Jamal
 Executive Producer - Robert Woods
 Production Supervisor - Erica Brenner
 Editing - Michael Bishop, Todd Brown
 Engineer - Michael Bishop, Ahmad Jamal
 Assistant Engineer - Peter Doris, Aya Takemura
 Art Direction - Anilda Carrasquillo
 Design - Anilda Carrasquillo
 Photography - Mark L. Baer
 Make-Up - Maria Ponsiano
 Liner Notes - Hiromi Uehara

References

External links
Official website

2003 debut albums
Post-bop albums
Hiromi Uehara albums