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Japanese destroyer Hanazuki

was an  destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name translates as "flower (sakura) moon", or an alternate name for "March".

Design and description
The Akizuki-class ships were originally designed as anti-aircraft escorts for carrier battle groups, but were modified with torpedo tubes and depth charges to meet the need for more general-purpose destroyer. Her crew numbered 300 officers and enlisted men. The ships measured  overall, with a beam of  and a draft of . They displaced  at standard load and  at deep load.

The ship had two Kampon geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of  for a designed speed of . The ship carried up to  of fuel oil which gave them a range of  at a speed of .

The main armament of the Akizuki class consisted of eight Type 98  dual purpose guns in four twin-gun turrets, two superfiring pairs fore and aft of the superstructure. They carried four Type 96  anti-aircraft guns in two twin-gun mounts. The ships were also armed with four  torpedo tubes in a single quadruple traversing mount; one reload was carried for each tube. Their anti-submarine weapons comprised six depth charge throwers for which 72 depth charges were carried.

Construction and career
In June 1947, Hanazuki was turned over to United States as "DD-934", and was later sunk as target off Gotō Islands, Japan on 3 February 1948.

Notes

References

External links
 CombinedFleet.com: Akizuki-class destroyers
 CombinedFleet.com: Hanazuki history

Akizuki-class destroyers (1942)
World War II destroyers of Japan
Shipwrecks in the Yellow Sea
1944 ships
Ships sunk as targets
Maritime incidents in 1948
Daniel Alfred Sanborn

Daniel Alfred Sanborn (April 5, 1827 in Somerville, MassachusettsApril 11, 1883 in Brooklyn, New York) was a surveyor who founded the Sanborn Map Company, a well-known provider of fire insurance maps. 

Before starting his company he produced insurance maps for Boston and several cities in Tennessee for the Aetna Insurance Company.  He was originally hired by Aetna because they were impressed by his work on a Boston Atlas.  In 1867 he formed the D.A. Sanborn National Insurance Diagram Bureau in New York City.

References

External links
Sanborn Map Company
 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps at University of Utah Digital Library, Marriott Library Special Collections

1827 births
1883 deaths
People from Somerville, Massachusetts
19th-century American businesspeople
American company founders
Nalakankar Himal

The Nalakankar Himal is a small subrange of the Himalayan range in southern Tibet and the northwest corner of Nepal. It lies south of Lake Manasarowar. Its southern boundary is the Humla Karnali, a tributary of the Karnali, one of the major rivers of western Nepal. This river separates the range from the Gurans Himal to the south and the eastern Kumaon to the southwest. On the east, the pass known as Lapche La marks the dividing point between the Nalakankar Himal and the Chandi Himal. To the north and northwest, the range fades into the northern foothills of the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau.

The range has only three named peaks, of which only one is over 7,000 m (22,966 ft), namely Gurla Mandhata, or Naimona'nyi. This is a particularly high peak at 7,694 m (25,242 ft), but due to its position on the dry side of the Himalayas, well onto the Tibetan Plateau, it is neither particularly steep nor high above local terrain. The entire range is little visited, partly due to its isolated location.

References
 H. Adams Carter, "Classification of the Himalaya", American Alpine Journal, 1985, pp. 132–134.

Mountain ranges of the Himalayas
Mountain ranges of Nepal
Mountain ranges of Tibet
Gurans Himal

The Gurans Himal is a small subrange of the Himalayas in far western Nepal. It is little-known, since it does not contain any 8000 metre peaks, or even any peaks above 7,200 metres. Its highest peak is Api,  , which, despite its relatively low height compared to the major Himalayan peaks, rises dramatically from a low base, as do the other significant peaks of the Gurans Himal.

Carter's classification of the Himalayas divides the Gurans Himal into two subsections. The Saipal Subsection lies east of the Seti River, and its highest peak is Api, . The Yoka Pahar Subsection lies west of the Seti, and contains Api, ; Jethi Bahurani, ; Bobaye, ; and Nampa, , among other peaks.

References

External links
 Gurans Himal region marked on OpenStreetMap

Mountain ranges of the Himalayas
Mountain ranges of Nepal
Mountains of the Sudurpashchim Province
Hemangioblastoma

Hemangioblastomas, or haemangioblastomas, are vascular tumors of the central nervous system that originate from the vascular system, usually during middle age. Sometimes, these tumors occur in other sites such as the spinal cord and retina. They may be associated with other diseases such as polycythemia (increased blood cell count), pancreatic cysts and Von Hippel–Lindau syndrome (VHL syndrome). Hemangioblastomas are most commonly composed of stromal cells in small blood vessels and usually occur in the cerebellum, brainstem or spinal cord. They are classed as grade I tumors under the World Health Organization's classification system.

Presentation

Complications
Hemangioblastomas can cause an abnormally high number of red blood cells in the bloodstream due to ectopic production of the hormone erythropoietin as a paraneoplastic syndrome.

Pathogenesis
Hemangioblastomas are composed of endothelial cells, pericytes and stromal cells. In VHL syndrome the von Hippel-Lindau protein (pVHL) is dysfunctional, usually due to mutation and/or gene silencing. In normal circumstances, pVHL is involved in the inhibition of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 α (HIF-1α) by ubiquitin mediated proteosomal degradation. In these dysfunctional cells pVHL cannot degrade HIF-1α, causing it to accumulate. HIF-1α causes the production of vascular endothelial growth factor, platelet derived growth factor B, erythropoietin and transforming growth factor alpha, which act to stimulate growth of cells within the tumor.

Diagnosis

The primary diagnosis is made with a computed tomography scan (CT scan). On a scan, hemangioblastoma shows as a well-defined, low attenuation region in the posterior fossa with an enhancing nodule on the wall. Sometimes multiple lesions are present.

Treatment
The treatment for hemangioblastoma is surgical excision of the tumor. Although usually straightforward to carry out, recurrence of the tumor or more tumors at a different site develop in approximately 20% of patients. Gamma Knife Radiosurgery as well as LINAC have also been employed to successfully treat recurrence and control tumor growth of cerebellar hemangioblastomas.

Prognosis
The outcome for hemangioblastoma is very good if surgical extraction of the tumor can be achieved; excision is possible in most cases and permanent neurologic deficit is uncommon and can be avoided altogether if the tumor is diagnosed and treated early. Persons with VHL syndrome have a bleaker prognosis than those who have sporadic tumors since those with VHL syndrome usually have more than one lesion.

Epidemiology
Hemangioblastoma are among the rarest central nervous system tumors, accounting for less than 2%. Hemangioblastomas usually occur in adults, yet tumors may appear in VHL syndrome at much younger ages. Men and women are approximately at the same risk. Although they can occur in any section of the central nervous system, they usually occur in either side of the cerebellum, the brain stem or the spinal cord.

Additional images

References

External links 
 Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Hemangioblastomas of the Brain

Vascular neoplasia
David Davidson

David Davidson may refer to:

Sports
 Dave Davidson (footballer) (1905–1969), Scottish footballer
 David Davidson (baseball) (born 1984), Canadian baseball player
 David Davidson (footballer, born 1934), Scottish footballer (Manchester City, Workington AFC)
 David Davidson (footballer, born 1986), Ghanaian footballer
 David Davidson (Queen's Park footballer) (fl. 1878–1881), footballer for Queen's Park and Scotland

Other
 David Davidson (economist) (1854–1942), Swedish economist
 David Davidson (engineer) (1884–1956), Scottish pyramidologist
 David Davidson (Scottish politician) (born 1943), Scottish politician
 David Davidson (Canadian politician) (1839–1909), lumberman and politician in Ontario, Canada
 David Davidson (film director) (born 1953), American film director
 David A. Davidson, Chief of Police of the Los Angeles Police Department
 David Bruce Davidson (born 1961), electrical engineer
 David L. Davidson, first Town Planning Commissioner of Western Australia
 Sir David Davidson (1811–1900), East India Company army officer and innovator of rifle bullets and telescopic sights

See also
 David David (disambiguation)
Jessen (Elster)

Jessen () is a municipality on the Black Elster river and lies in the eastern part of Saxony-Anhalt in the district of Wittenberg.

Geography
Jessen is an amalgamated municipality, and has the following 44 subdivisions (Ortsteile):

 Arnsdorf
 Battin
 Buschkuhnsdorf
 Dixförda
 Düßnitz
 Gentha
 Gerbisbach
 Glücksburg
 Gorsdorf
 Grabo
 Großkorga
 Hemsendorf
 Holzdorf
 Jessen (Elster)
 Kleindröben
 Kleinkorga
 Klöden
 Klossa
 Kremitz
 Leipa
 Linda
 Lindwerder
 Lüttchenseyda
 Mark Friedersdorf
 Mark Zwuschen
 Mauken
 Mellnitz
 Mönchenhöfe
 Morxdorf
 Mügeln
 Naundorf
 Neuerstadt
 Rade
 Rehain
 Reicho
 Rettig
 Ruhlsdorf
 Schadewalde
 Schöneicho
 Schützberg
 Schweinitz
 Seyda
 Steinsdorf
 Zwuschen

History
The first documentary evidence of Jessen's existence dates to 1217. On the night of 20 to 21 September 1729, much of the town was destroyed in a fire. After belonging to Saxony for centuries, Jessen became Prussian in 1815.

From 1815 to 1844, Jessen was part of the Prussian Province of Saxony and from 1944 to 1945 of the Province of Halle-Merseburg.

In 1945, it became part of the Province (since 1947, State) of Saxony-Anhalt. In 1952, owing to East German administrative reforms, Jessen became a district capital in Bezirk Cottbus. In 1990, Jessen once again became part of the newly-refounded state of Saxony-Anhalt. In 1992 came the amalgamation of the communities of Grabo, Gorsdorf-Hemsendorf, Lindwerder and Großkorga, and in 1993, Schweinitz, Gerbisbach, Klossa, Schöneicho, Steinsdorf and Dixförda. With the district reform in 1994, Jessen became part of Wittenberg district, as well as having a further three communities melded with it, namely Battin, Düßnitz and Kleindröben-Mauken. In 1999 came further amalgamations: Arnsdorf, Leipa and Ruhlsdorf mit Rehain. On 1 March 2004 came a further 12, among them Seyda, Holzdorf and Linda (Elster). Some of these formerly independent communities themselves each consisted of more than one centre, and so Jessen now has a total of 47 Stadtteile (constituent communities).

Economy and infrastructure
Established businesses are mostly small and mid-sized concerns in metalworking, building, dairy processing and drink production. There are also, however, bigger enterprises in agriculture.

Culture and Sightseeing

Historic marketplace in Jessen
Parish church of St. Nicolai in Jessen
Schloss Jessen (stately home), since 1999 town council seat
Parish church of St. Marien in Schweinitz
Amtshaus in Schweinitz
Gorsdorf village church
Kleindröben village church
Pretzsch-Mauken reaction ferry

Personalities
Karl Lamprecht (25 February 1856 –  10 May 1915 in Leipzig), was Professor of History at the University of Leipzig, who is known today mainly for his rôle in the Methodenstreit.
Herbert Kaiser (16 March 1916 – 5 December 2003) a pilot in the Luftwaffe during World War II

Sundry
The town is Germany's twelfth-largest municipality by land area, and is thereby about 3 km² bigger than Munich.

References

External links

 Jessen

 
Wittenberg (district)
Chrestien Le Clercq

Chrestien Le Clercq, O.M.R., (born 1641) was a Recollect Franciscan friar and missionary to the Mi'kmaq on the Gaspé peninsula of Canada in the mid-17th century. He was a chronicler of New France, who wrote two early histories, and translator of a Native American language of that region, adapting an apparently indigenous mnemonic glyph system into a writing system known as Míkmaq hieroglyphic writing.

Life
A Fleming by birth, Le Clercq joined the Recollect Province of St. Anthony, based in Artois. He was sent to the missions of the French colonial empire in Canada in 1673. On 11 October of that year, he was put in charge of the Micmac mission by Francois de Laval, the Bishop of Quebec. There he learned the language of that tribe and devoted himself to its evangelization. In 1676 he tried to persuade the Micmacs that it would be more advantageous to build houses in the French manner, which earned him a stunning rebuke from the Micmac Chief.

Father Le Clercq, said that he had seen some Mi'kmaq children using charcoal to write on birchbark with hieroglyphics. He was inspired by this to adapt these symbols to teach hymns and prayers. The Mi'kmaq sometimes used porcupine quills directly into the bark in the shape of symbols.

Le Clercq's superiors sent him back to France in 1680 on business connected with the Franciscan missions in Canada. He returned the following spring with letters authorizing the foundation of a friary in Montreal, where he went during the summer of 1681 to carry out this work. In November he returned to the Micmac mission, where he spent the next twelve years.

In autumn 1686 Le Clercq left Canada permanently and returned to France, where he filled various positions of authority in the Artois Province of his Order. The date of his death is unknown, but he was still living in 1698. After his return to France, he completed two works which he published at Paris in 1691. An English translation of one of these works, Nouvelle Relation de la Gaspesie, was provided by William F. Ganong in 1910 as part of the Champlain Society's General Series.

References

External links
 
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Establishment of the Faith by Le Clercq
New Relation of Gaspesia by Le Clercq, Part of the Champlain Society's General Series

1641 births
17th-century French Roman Catholic priests
18th-century deaths
Creators of writing systems
Franciscan missionaries
French Roman Catholic missionaries
Mi'kmaq in Canada
People from Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Clergy from Nord (French department)
Recollects
Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada
Roman Catholic missionaries in New France
Missionary linguists
Japanese destroyer Yoizuki

was an  destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Moon Visible as Day Joins Evening". She was commissioned too late to see action in World War II. Following the war, the ship was handed over to the Republic of China and renamed Fen Yang.

Design and description
The Akizuki-class ships were originally designed as anti-aircraft escorts for carrier battle groups, but were modified with torpedo tubes and depth charges to meet the need for more general-purpose destroyer. Her crew numbered 300 officers and enlisted men. The ships measured  overall, with a beam of  and a draft of . They displaced  at standard load and  at deep load.

The ship had two Kampon geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of  for a designed speed of . The ship carried up to  of fuel oil which gave them a range of  at a speed of .

The main armament of the Akizuki class consisted of eight Type 98  dual purpose guns in four twin-gun turrets, two superfiring pairs fore and aft of the superstructure. They carried four Type 96  anti-aircraft guns in two twin-gun mounts. The ships were also armed with four  torpedo tubes in a single quadruple traversing mount; one reload was carried for each tube. Their anti-submarine weapons comprised six depth charge throwers for which 72 depth charges were carried.

Construction and career
In March, 1946, Yoizuki was used to transport over 1,000 Formosans, Filipinos and Japanese prisoners of war from Sydney, Australia. The conditions aboard ship and the obvious distress of the repatriates prompted controversy in Australia. On 29 August 1947, Yoizuki was turned over to the Republic of China. Renamed CNS Fen Yang, she was scrapped in 1963.

Notes

References

External links
 CombinedFleet.com: Akizuki-class destroyers
 CombinedFleet.com: Yoizuki history

Akizuki-class destroyers (1942)
World War II destroyers of Japan
1944 ships
Destroyers of the Republic of China Navy
C.O.D. (musician)

C.O.D. was an American electro musician (real name was Raul A. Rodriguez), who had a hit with In the Bottle which was released on Emergency Records and written by Gil-Scot Heron in 1983. The track reached #54 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1983.

Rodriguez was a DJ, notable for a residency at the nightclub New York-New York, and a remixer in the New York disco scene. As well as working his own projects he produced the Man Parrish hit "Hip Hop, Be Bop (Don’t Stop)."

In 1985, his electro version of Frederick Knights's "Uphill (Peace of Mind)" was featured in the climactic dance-club scene in Michael Cimino's Year of the Dragon.

One of Raul's biggest remixes was of ABBA's "Lay All Your Love On Me" in 1980. Due to its popularity on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, ABBA decided to release their album version as a 12-inch single.
Raul died on 4 January 2012 as the result of a severe stroke.

Discography

Singles
 1983: "In the Bottle" (US Emergency Records EMDS 6535)
 1983: "In the Bottle" (UK Streetwave WAVE 2)
 1984: "Uphill (Piece of Mind)" (US Emergency Records EMDS 6545)
 1984: "Uphill (Piece of Mind)" (UK Streetwave MKHAN 22)

References

American electronic musicians
American dance musicians
Club DJs
Remixers
2012 deaths
American electro musicians
Year of birth missing
Vacuum fusion

Vacuum fusion is an analytical chemistry technique, used for determining the oxygen, hydrogen, and sometimes nitrogen content of metals. While ineffective when used on alkali or earth metals, vacuum fusion remains a viable means when applied to almost all other metals.

Analytical chemistry
Bernie Grundman

Bernie Grundman (born 16 December 1943, Minneapolis) is an American audio engineer.

He is most known for his mastering work and his studio, Bernie Grundman Mastering, which he opened in 1984 in Hollywood. The studio, which includes engineers Chris Bellman, Patricia Sullivan, and Mike Bozzi, mastered 37 projects which received Grammy Award nominations in 2005. In 1997 he opened a studio in Tokyo.

Grundman and his studio have both won numerous TEC Awards, including Best Mastering Facility and several production awards.

Previously, Grundman worked for Lester Koenig at Contemporary Records and then was head of the A&M Records mastering department in Los Angeles. Now his studio also has been established in Tokyo, Japan with engineer Yasuji Maeda.

Select works 

List is not complete.

See also
Airwolf Themes

References

External links
 Official site
 Mix magazine article on Grundman studio
 ProSoundNews article on 2005 Grammy nominations
 Palisadian-Post Interview 
Bernie Grundman Interview at NAMM Oral History Collection (2011)

American audio engineers
Grammy Award winners
Living people
Mastering engineers
1943 births
Japanese destroyer Harutsuki

was an  destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her name means "Spring Moon". She was different from her other sisters, as she was built as a flagship for the Escort Fleet.

Design and description
The Akizuki-class ships were originally designed as anti-aircraft escorts for carrier battle groups, but were modified with torpedo tubes and depth charges to meet the need for more general-purpose destroyer. Her crew numbered 300 officers and enlisted men. The ships measured  overall, with a beam of  and a draft of . They displaced  at standard load and  at deep load.

The ship had two Kampon geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of  for a designed speed of . The ship carried up to  of fuel oil which gave them a range of  at a speed of .

The main armament of the Akizuki class consisted of eight Type 98  dual purpose guns in four twin-gun turrets, two superfiring pairs fore and aft of the superstructure. They carried four Type 96  anti-aircraft guns in two twin-gun mounts. The ships were also armed with four  torpedo tubes in a single quadruple traversing mount; one reload was carried for each tube. Their anti-submarine weapons comprised six depth charge throwers for which 72 depth charges were carried.

Construction and career
On 5 October 1945, Harutsuki was removed from Navy List. On 28 August 1947, she was turned over to the Soviet Union, renamed Vnezapny (Внезапный) and rearmed with eight  guns, fifteen 25 mm guns and four  torpedo tubes. She became the training ship Oskol in 1949, target ship TsL-64 in 1955 and finally floating barracks PKZ-37, scrapped in 1969.

Notes

References

External links
 CombinedFleet.com: Akizuki-class destroyers
 CombinedFleet.com: Haruzuki history

Akizuki-class destroyers (1942)
World War II destroyers of Japan
1944 ships
San Diego California Temple



The San Diego California Temple is the 47th constructed and 45th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located near the La Jolla community of San Diego, it was built with two main spires, but unique to this temple are four smaller spires at the base of each main spire. The East spire is topped with the familiar Angel Moroni statue which adorns many Latter-day Saint temples.

History
The San Diego Temple was announced on April 7, 1984, and dedicated on April 25, 1993 by Gordon B. Hinckley. The temple was built on a  plot, has 4 ordinance rooms and 8 sealing rooms, and has a total floor area of .

Although there is no visitors' center, the church maintains the Mormon Battalion Historic Site in Old Town, San Diego.

In 2020, like all the church's other temples, the San Diego California Temple was temporarily closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Presidents
Notable temple presidents include J. Clifford Wallace (1998-1999); Joe J. Christensen (1999–2002); and David E. Sorensen (2005–08).

Gallery

See also

 Comparison of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by geographic region
 Temple architecture (Latter-day Saints)
 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in California

References

External links

San Diego California Temple Official site
San Diego California Temple at ChurchofJesusChristTemples.org
  A website with several photos of the interior of the temple.
 Website dedicated to the San Diego Temple

20th-century Latter Day Saint temples in the United States
Religious buildings and structures in San Diego
Temples (LDS Church) completed in 1993
Temples (LDS Church) in California
1993 establishments in California
Alfred L. Yarbus

Alfred Lukyanovich Yarbus (Альфред Лукьянович Ярбус; 3 April 1914 in Moscow – 1986) was a Soviet psychologist who studied eye movements in the 1950s and 1960s.

Yarbus pioneered the study of saccadic exploration of complex images, by recording the eye movements performed by observers while viewing natural objects and scenes. In his 1965 book ("Eye Movements and Vision"), Yarbus showed that the trajectories followed by the gaze depend on the task that the observer has to perform. The gaze tends to jump back and forth between the same parts of the scene, for example, the eyes and mouth in the picture of a face. If the observer was asked specific questions about the images, his/her eyes would concentrate on areas of the images of relevance to the questions. Yarbus also invented a suction cup, which can be attached by suction to the human eye to study visual perceptions in the absence of eye movements, a laboratory condition called retinal stabilization.

Books
A. L. Yarbus, Eye Movements and Vision. New York: Plenum Press, 1967. (Translated from Russian by Basil Haigh. Original Russian edition published in Moscow in 1965.)

See also
 Sequence learning
 Psychology
 Psychophysics
 Eye tracking
 Saccade

References

External links
 Strategic Networks (an application of Yarbus's scanpaths to improve learning in the classroom)
 Yarbus revisited: task-dependent oculomotor behavior (a replication study)
 Yarbus lives: a foveated exploration of how task influences saccadic eye movement (a replication study)

Soviet neuroscientists
1914 births
1986 deaths
Soviet psychologists
20th-century psychologists
Steffen Wesemann

Steffen Wesemann (born 11 March 1971) is a Swiss-German former professional road racing cyclist.

He competed in the individual road race at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Wesemann most recently rode for the professional continental team Cycle Collstrop after riding a year with the Team Wiesenhof–Felt squad. He had previously spent the other years of his career at Telekom who later became Team T-Mobile. He rode and completed the Vuelta a España on three occasions in 1995, 1996 and 2003 and finished the Tour de France twice in 1999 and 2002.

In September 2005, Wesemann and his family, longtime residents of Küttigen, Switzerland, obtained Swiss citizenship.  He was a specialist in the one-day Spring Classics—winner of the 2004 Tour of Flanders and 5-time champion of the Peace Race.

Major results 

1989
 3rd  Junior Road race, UCI Road World Championships
1990
 2nd Overall Paris–Bourges
1991
 1st  Overall Tour de Berlin
1992
 1st  Overall Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt
1st Prologue & Stage 9b
 1st  Overall Peace Race
1st Stages 1 & 4
 1st GP Buchholz
 3rd Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
1993
 1st Stage 5 Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
 1st Sprints classification, Vuelta a Andalucía
 1st Stage 11 Tour de l'Avenir
1994
 1st Stage  Coca-Cola-Trophy
1995
 2nd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
 3rd Grand Prix Gippingen
1996
 1st  Overall Peace Race
1st Sprints classification
1st Stages 1, 2, 4a (ITT), 5, 8, 9 & 10
 1st Stage 4 Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
 4th Veenendaal–Veenendaal
1997
 1st  Overall Peace Race
1st Prologue & Stages 2, 3 & 7
1998
 1st Rund um den Flughafen Köln-Bonn
 1st Stage 4a Vuelta a Castilla y León
 2nd Overall Peace Race
 2nd Overall Sachsen Tour
1st Prologue
1999
 1st  Overall Peace Race
1st Stages 2, 7 (ITT) & 10
 7th Tour de Berne
 9th Gent–Wevelgem
2000
 1st Rund um Köln
 1st Grand Prix Gippingen
 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de Suisse
 2nd Omloop Het Volk
 2nd Road race, German National Road Championships
 3rd Overall Tour Down Under
1st Stage 4
 3rd Overall Peace Race
1st Stages 1 & 4 (ITT)
 3rd GP Buchholz
 9th Paris–Roubaix
 9th Gent–Wevelgem
2001
 2nd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
 3rd Gent–Wevelgem
 7th Paris–Roubaix
2002
 2nd Paris–Roubaix
 8th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
 10th Overall Tour Down Under
2003
 1st  Overall Peace Race
1st Stage 3
 1st Rund um den Flughafen Koln/Bonn
 1st Stage 5 Sachsen Tour
 2nd Amstel Gold Race
 2nd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
 5th GP du canton d'Argovie
 9th Overall Tour Down Under
2004
 1st Tour of Flanders
2005
 6th Züri-Metzgete
 6th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
2006
 2nd Amstel Gold Race
 6th Paris–Roubaix
 10th Overall Eneco Tour
2007
 3rd Paris–Roubaix
 3rd GP Bucholtz
2008
 7th Rund um den Henninger-Turm

References

External links

1971 births
Living people
People from Wolmirstedt
Swiss male cyclists
German male cyclists
Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for Germany
Cyclists from Saxony-Anhalt
Naturalised citizens of Switzerland
East German male cyclists
People from Bezirk Magdeburg
Naturalised sports competitors
The Marklands

The Marklands is a sourcebook for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game that describes the realms of Furyondy, Highfolk, Nyrond in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting. The sourcebook bears the code WGR4 and was published by TSR in 1993 for the second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules.

Contents
The Marklands provides detailed information regarding Furyondy, Highfolk, and Nyrond in the aftermath of the Greyhawk Wars.

Publication history
The sourcebook was written by Carl Sargent with cover art by Jeff Easley and interior art by Eric Hotz.  It was designed to supplement Sargent's From the Ashes boxed set for Greyhawk.

Reception

References

External links
The Marklands at the TSR Archive

Greyhawk books
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1993
Mary Lee Chan

Mary Lee Chan (Lee Wo Soon) (1915–2002) was a civic activist in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, who is noted for leading the opposition to the bulldozing of the Strathcona neighbourhood in the late 1960s. With her husband, Walter, and her daughter, Shirley, she helped establish the Strathcona Property Owner and Tenants Association (SPOTA), going door to door to canvass opposition to the freeway plans. The Chan and Lee families were acknowledged as key SPOTA activists by the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC at the 2017 celebration dinner. All that was built was the Georgia Viaduct and the McLean Park housing project. She has been profiled at the Vancouver Museum and in the book, Celebration: Chinese Canadian Legacies in British Columbia (2017).

In part due to her activism, her home at 658 Keefer Street, has been recognized as a National Historic Place (1994). It is noted as an excellent example of Edwardian design, "typical of working-class housing constructed during the period." The Walter and Mary Lee Chan House is also listed in Places that Matter (Vancouver Heritage Foundation). As noted by Mary's son, Larry, "The Chan House became the focal point for many meetings amongst the community leaders. It was here that the planning for full community mobilization occurred, as strategies were made and for lobbying, door to door campaigning, newspaper articles written and information and ideas shared and discussed."

Family 
Her mother immigrated from China in 1879 to Vancouver, a town which was then very new and only 20 years occupied by non-natives.

Her daughter Shirley Chan participated in SPOTA organizing as a university student. She has since become an established figure in the Chinese-Canadian community. She ran as a Liberal Party of Canada candidate in the 2004 federal election against the incumbent Member of Parliament, New Democratic Party Libby Davies.

Her son, Larry, lives in the Chan family home with his partner, Suelina Quan, and two daughters.  The house is notable for its pink colour, "a similar colour that Mary and Walter had chosen years ago."

References

 Mary and Shirley Chan, in Daphne Marlatt and Carole Itter, eds. Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End. Sound Heritage series vol. VIII, Nos. 1 and 2. Victoria, BC: Aural History Program, 1979, 85–86. 
 Dogma Radio podcast discussion of Mary with Susan Poizner, creator of Mother Tongue, a 16 part series on Canadian woman of many ethnic backgrounds that first aired in January, 2006 on Vancouver's Channel M. 
 Mothertongue description

1915 births
2002 deaths
Canadian activists
Canadian people of Chinese descent
People from Vancouver
Bal Harbour Shops

Bal Harbour Shops is an open-air shopping mall in Bal Harbour, Florida, an affluent suburb of Miami Beach. With Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue as anchors, the mall had sales of $3,000 per square foot in 2015, ranked among the highest-grossing retail centers in the world.

History
From 1954 to 1962, Stanley Whitman travelled around the United States, studying shopping centers.

In 1957, Whitman acquired the site for $2 per square foot, then a record price for retail property. It was the site of a former United States Army barracks and World War II prisoner-of-war camp. He  built a non-traditional open-air shopping mall due to the tropical climate and seaside location across the street from the Atlantic Ocean. At first, Whitman hired architect Victor Gruen, but then fired him and hired Herb Johnson, based in Miami.

The shopping center opened in 1965, with the inaugural collection of stores including FAO Schwarz, Abercrombie & Fitch and Martha's, considered one of the most influential international women’s salons hosting fashion shows with designers Valentino and Oscar de la Renta (both of whom would later open boutiques at Bal Harbour Shops). Early European Designer store openings included Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci. A few years later Cartier, Versace and Chanel opened. 

In 1971, Neiman Marcus opened a department store at the center. In 1976, Saks Fifth Avenue opened a department store at the center. In 1977, Gucci opened a store at the center. By 1987, it realized sales of $1,000 per square foot.

In 1982, Bal Harbour Shops was the first shopping center planned for vertical expansion to add  of retail space on Level 2. In 1983, a second level was added.

Overall sales at the shopping center rose from $1,000 per square foot in 1997, five times the national average, to $1,350 per square foot in 2002, $2,000 per square foot in 2008, $2,730 per square foot in 2012, and $3,000 per square foot in 2015. In 2022, shopping mall had sales of $3,400 per square foot.

In 2012, the Whitman family struck a land swap deal with Church by the Sea. Bal Harbour Shops agreed to build a  church on a site on Kane Concourse in Bay Harbor Islands that had been a car dealership.

In January 2013, Bal Harbour Shops announced an equity partnership with Swire Properties to jointly develop the  retail component of Brickell CityCentre in downtown Miami.

In 2017, a $550 million enhancement plan was approved to add  of new retail space and restaurants to Bal Harbour Shops with a completion date of 2024.

References

Shopping malls in Miami-Dade County, Florida
Shopping malls established in 1965
Luxury
Thermal Monitor 2

Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2) is a throttling control method used on LGA 775 versions of the Core 2, Pentium Dual-Core, Pentium D, Pentium 4 and Celeron processors and also on the Pentium M series of processors. TM2 reduces processor temperature by lowering the CPU clock multiplier, and thereby the processor core speed. 

In contrast, Thermal Monitor 1 inserts an idle cycle into the CPU for thermal control without decreasing multipliers.

TM1 and TM2 are associated with DTS/PECI — Digital Temperature Sensor/Platform Environment Control Interface.

References

Intel microprocessors
Moapa

Moapa may mean:

People
 Moapa Band of Paiute Indians

Places
 Moapa River Indian Reservation, an Indian Reservation in Southern Nevada that is home to some members of the Southern Paiute
 Moapa Town, Nevada, a small unincorporated community in Southern Nevada
 Moapa Valley, Nevada, a valley in Southern Nevada in which the towns of Moapa, Logandale and Overton are located 
 Moapa Valley National Wildlife Refuge, a wildlife refuge at the headwaters of the Muddy River in Southern Nevada
 Muddy River (Nevada), previously called the Moapa River, a short river in Southern Nevada that flows from the Moapa Valley to Lake Mead

Other
 Moapa, the genus of the Moapa dace, a small, rare fish of Southern Nevada
Japanese destroyer Natsuzuki

Natsuzuki  was an  destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Design and description
The Akizuki-class ships were originally designed as anti-aircraft escorts for carrier battle groups, but were modified with torpedo tubes and depth charges to meet the need for a more general-purpose destroyer. Their crew numbered 300 officers and enlisted men. The ships measured  overall, with a beam of  and a draft of . They displaced  at standard load and  at deep load.

The ship had two Kampon geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of  for a designed speed of . The ship carried up to  of fuel oil which gave them a range of  at a speed of .

The main armament of the Akizuki class consisted of eight Type 98  dual purpose guns in four twin-gun turrets, two superfiring pairs fore and aft of the superstructure. They carried four Type 96  anti-aircraft guns in two twin-gun mounts. The ships were also armed with four  torpedo tubes in a single quadruple traversing mount; one reload was carried for each tube. Their anti-submarine weapons comprised six depth charge throwers for which 72 depth charges were carried.

Construction and career
On 5 October 1945, Natsuzuki was removed from the Navy List.  On 25 August 1947, she was turned over to Great Britain. She was scrapped at Uraga, Kanagawa in 1948.

Notes

References

External links
 CombinedFleet.com: Akizuki-class destroyers
 CombinedFleet.com: Natsuzuki history

 

Akizuki-class destroyers (1942)
World War II destroyers of Japan
1944 ships
Raid 2020

Raid 2020 is a 1989 cyberpunk action video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This game was released only in North America and Australia. The game's style was largely inspired by Blade Runner and the cyberpunk genre for its aesthetics, world and style.

Gameplay
The object is to defeat all the drug dealers, defeat the drug lord Pit Bull, and eradicate drugs from the streets of America. As agent Shadow, the player faces a dystopian future world where moral collapse is inevitable. He is described as representing the last uncorrupted vestiges of law enforcement.

See also
 NARC - a video game with the same premise

References

1989 video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Unauthorized video games
Cyberpunk video games
Dystopian video games
Video games about the illegal drug trade
Video games about police officers
Video games set in the United States
Video games set in 2020
Color Dreams games
Video games developed in the United States
Neo-noir video games

Single-player video games
Troia, Apulia

Troia (also formerly Troja; ; ; ) is a town and comune in the province of Foggia and region of Apulia in southern Italy.

History
According to the legend, Troia (Aecae) was founded by the Greek hero Diomedes, who had destroyed the ancient Troy. 

Aecae was mentioned both by Polybius and Livy, during the military operations of Hannibal and Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus in Apulia. In common with many other Apulian cities it had joined the Carthaginians after the battle of Cannae, but was recovered by Fabius Maximus in 214 BC, though not without a regular siege. Pliny also enumerates the Aecani among the inland towns of Apulia (iii. 11); but its position is more clearly determined by the Itineraries, which place it on the Appian Way between Aequum Tuticum and Herdonia, at a distance of  from the latter city. This interval exactly accords with the position of the modern city of Troia, and confirms the statements of several chroniclers of the Middle Ages, that the latter was founded about the beginning of the 11th century, on the ruins of the ancient Aecae. 

Cluverius erroneously identified Aecae with Accadia, a village in the Daunian Mountains south of Bovino; but his error was rectified by Holstenius. Troia is an episcopal see, and a place of some consideration; it stands on a hill of moderate elevation, rising above the fertile plain of Apulia, and is  south of Lucera, and  southwest of Foggia.

The current Troia was founded as a fortified town in Apulia in 1018 by Basil Boioannes. It defended the entrance into the Apulian plain from the Normans. Until overshadowed by Foggia, it was an important strategic town in southern Italy, and was several times besieged, notably, by the emperors Henry II and Frederick II. After the latter's fall, it sided for the Angevines, and later, against the former, for the Aragonese.

After the unification of Southern Italy (1861), Troia rebelled and the Savoy troops intervened with the use of cannons.

Main sights
Troia Cathedral, an example of Apulian Romanesque architecture
Basilica of St. Basil (11th century)
Baroque church of St. Francis
Church of San Vincenzo (10th century)
Palazzo Principi d'Avalos
Jesuits' Palace (16th century)
Municipal Museum, with archaeological findings from the area and an art gallery
Diocesan Museum, housed in the 18th century Benedictine Nunnery, and the New Museum of the Cathedral's Treasure. The latter is home to medieval rolls of the Exultet.

Transportation 

It is   the only municipality in Italy to provide free public transport.

See also
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lucera-Troia

Sources and references

References

External links

Adrian Fletcher’s Paradoxplace – Troia Photo Page

Fortifications in Italy
1018 establishments in Europe
11th-century establishments in Italy
Populated places established in the 11th century
Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space

Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space (Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin, eds., Wiley, 1996, ) is a book composed of a collection of factual articles on space colonization, several from recognized experts in the field.

The articles range from colloquial to fairly technical, occasionally deriving results after a series of calculus equations. Their subject matter ranges from colonization of the inner Solar System to the outer Solar System and interstellar colonization, and from novel application of well-understood engineering principles, to speculative physics theories. It includes five articles authored or co-authored by Zubrin; other notable authors include Robert L. Forward, Martyn J. Fogg, and Christopher McKay. The book is also notable for including a publication of Robert Zubrin's Mars Direct mission architecture (first formulated in 1990), which was soon expanded into a book of its own, The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, and which provided the impetus for the founding of the Mars Society.

Contents
Introduction, Stanley Schmidt
Part One: Breaking the Bonds of the Earth
"Comes the Revolution...", G. Harry Stine
"The Hypersonic Skyhook", Robert Zubrin 
Part Two: Stepping Into the Solar System
"Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet", Robert Zubrin and David A. Baker
"Inward Ho!", Stephen L. Gillett
"Colonizing the Outer Solar System", Robert Zubrin
"Islands in the Sky: Human Exploration and Settlement of the Oort Cloud", Richard P. Terra
"Alien Life Between Here and the Stars", Robert L. Forward
Part Three: Creating New Worlds
"Terraforming Mars", Robert Zubrin and Christopher P. McKay
"A Planet Dweller's Dreams", Martyn J. Fogg
"Astrophysical Engineering and the Fate of the Earth", Martyn J. Fogg
Part Four: Advanced Drives and Interstellar Travel
"To the Stars!", Gordon R. Woodcock
"The Magnetic Sail", Robert Zubrin
"The Tachyon Drive: Infinite Exhaust Velocity at Zero Energy Cost", John G. Cramer
"The Negative Matter Space Drive", Robert L. Forward
"The Economics of Interstellar Commerce", Warren Salomon

References

 

Islands in the Sky
Books by Robert Zubrin
Back in Business (EPMD album)

Back in Business is the fifth studio album by the hip-hop duo EPMD, released on September 16, 1997, through Def Jam Recordings. It was their first album since 1992, when the pair had broken up due to money issues.  The single "Da Joint" became their second Billboard Hot 100 appearance.

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on November 17, 1997.

Critical reception
Vibe wrote that "Sermon's sluggish production makes the duo's paper-thin and finance-driven subject matter that much more irritating." Rolling Stone declared: "Gone is the Wall of Sound funk that made EPMD famous." The Austin American-Statesman thought that "jams such as 'Richter Scale' and 'Get With This' show true EPMD style as Erick and Parish sound perfect together over guitar funk." The Guardian wrote that Back in Business "returns to the breaks and beats that made [EPMD] great: kooky 1970s funk samples mixed with guitar loops and cool-as-ice vocals."

Track listing

Samples
Richter Scale
"Person to Person" by Average White Band
"Jungle Boogie" by Kool & the Gang
"California Love" by 2Pac
Da Joint
"Help Me Make It Through the Night" by Gladys Knight & the Pips
"Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins
"The New Style" by Beastie Boys
Never Seen Before
"Just Kissed My Baby" by The Meters
"Public Enemy No. 1" by Public Enemy
"It's Funky Enough" by The D.O.C.
Intrigued
"Walk on By" by Gloria Gaynor
Last Man Standing
"Midnight Groove" by Love Unlimited Orchestra
"Hell on Earth (Front Lines)" by Mobb Deep
"Change the Beat (Female Version)" by Beside
Get Wit This
"We Don't Care" by Manfred Hübler
"The Big Beat" by Billy Squier
"I Know You Got Soul" by Eric B. & Rakim
Do It Again
"Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.)" by Tom Browne
You Gots 2 Chill '97
"Jungle Boogie" by Kool & the Gang
"More Bounce to the Ounce" by Zapp
K.I.M. (Keep It Movin')
"Symphony No. 40 (Third Movement)" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Girls" by Beastie Boys
"Da Mad Face Invasion" by Onyx
Jane 5
"Papa Was Too" by Joe Tex
"You Are What I'm All About" by The New Birth
"Mary Jane" by Rick James
Never Seen Before (Remix)
"Watching You" by Slave
"It's Funky Enough" by The D.O.C.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

References

1997 albums
EPMD albums
Def Jam Recordings albums
Albums produced by DJ Scratch
Albums produced by Rockwilder
Albums produced by Agallah
Albums produced by Erick Sermon
William of Loritello

William was an Italo-Norman nobleman, the son and successor of Count Robert II of Loritello in 1137. 

He reigned only briefly, because, immediately after his succession, the Emperor Lothair II descended the peninsula to fight the royal pretensions of Roger II of Sicily in the Mezzogiorno. On the river Tronto, William did homage to Lothair and opened the gates of Termoli to him. In this he joined Count Hugh II of Molise. 

William did not last long in this state. As the first to openly welcome the emperor to the south, the royal furor landed on him with especial swiftness. His county was seized by the crown. It was not regranted until Roger's death, when William I of Sicily granted it to Robert II, Count of Conversano.

Sources
Molise in the Norman period.

Italo-Normans
Norman warriors
Counts of Loritello
12th-century Italian nobility
Bill Schneider (journalist)

William Schneider (born October 8, 1944) is an American journalist. From 1990 to 2009, he served as CNN's senior political analyst. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow & Resident Scholar at Third Way, a Washington think tank. Schneider is also serving as the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor at George Mason University's School of Public Policy, and teaching at George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government. He has also been a contributing editor to the Opinion section of the Los Angeles Times.

Awards
In 2003, he was awarded the Centennial Medal for contributions to society by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. In 2001, he received the Julian P. Kanter Award for Excellence in Television from the American Association of Political Consultants. He is also the recipient of the Brandeis University Pride Award and the Alumni Achievement Award.

In 2009, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems presented Schneider with a special award "for his extensive coverage and keen insight of the 2008 United States presidential elections . . . showcasing democracy in action" to the world.

References

External links
 

1944 births
Living people
American television reporters and correspondents
American newspaper editors
American political journalists
Brandeis University alumni
Harvard University alumni
Harvard University faculty
Woodrow Wilson High School (Portsmouth, Virginia) alumni
CNN people
George Mason University faculty