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Arraya Tower

The Arraya Tower is a skyscraper completed in 2009 in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The tower serves as a grade-A office structure. With sixty storeys, and 300 metres high (with a 45-metre spire), the building was the tallest tower in Kuwait until the construction of Al Hamra Tower in 2011. On January 19, 2010, The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced that Arraya Tower was the 4th-tallest building completed in 2009.

Curtis W. Fentress, FAIA, RIBA, of Fentress Architects, was the principal architect of the building, and Ahmadiah Construction was the primary contractor. The tower complements the existing 130-metre-high Arraya Tower housing offices and the Courtyard by Marriott hotel, as well as the upscale Arraya Shopping Mall and the Arraya Ballroom.

Construction on the tower began in February 2005, with occupation scheduled for February 2009. As of August 22, 2008, the tower had been topped out and the superstructure was complete. Exterior cladding, consisting of white marble, green glass and steel rods, was mostly complete. Interior works were well underway and wrapped up in early 2009 in time for the tower's opening.

See also
 List of tallest buildings in Kuwait

References

External links
 Arraya Tower on CTBUH Skyscraper Center

Office buildings completed in 2009
Skyscrapers in Kuwait
Terry Savarise

Terry Savarise is the  senior vice president of stadium operations for the Chicago White Sox major league baseball team. He is the executive responsible for all aspects of the operation of Guaranteed Rate Field, including the over 2,000 employees who staff the ballpark on game days.

Savarise directed the planning and construction of the ballpark, which opened in 1991.  A phased, multi-year series of major renovations to the facility is currently underway.

Under Savarise’s leadership seating has been moved closer to the field of play, a popular "Fan Deck" was added in center field, and the entire color scheme of the ballpark was changed from whites and blues to dark greys and greens.

In a dramatic move that shocked and delighted fans, the team also removed the top eight rows of the ballpark’s upper deck and added a new roof over this portion of the stadium. Together, these changes had an enormous impact on fan perceptions of the facility; previously the ballpark was maligned for its perceived blandness, steep upper deck and lack of intimacy. Today, it is considered one of the finest sports facilities in North America.

Other Achievements
Savarise also serves as Executive Vice President of Operations for the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls and Chicago Blackhawks. Savarise was responsible for all design and construction aspects of this multipurpose arena. He also coordinated the installation and operation of the 1996 Democratic National Convention at the United Center.

Savarise spearheaded the design and construction of Tucson Electric Park, the White Sox spring training facility and stadium in Tucson, Arizona, which opened in the spring of 1998. He worked closely on the design and construction of Ed Smith Stadium  in Sarasota, Florida, which served as the club’s spring training and minor league headquarters from 1989-97. In addition, he assisted in the development of L.P. Frans Stadium, home of the White Sox former Class A affiliate in Hickory, North Carolina.

References 

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
TPS Foot

TPS Foot was a French sports channel that was dedicated to airing football matches and was owned by French satellite provider TPS.

The channel began its programs on 13 August 2005 via the TPS package and on certain cable networks. TPS Foot stopped its live broadcast on 31 December 2007.

Programming
TPS Foot featured football matches from all the top leagues and competitions including:

FA Premier League (0 live games)
Bundesliga (German 1st Division) along with TPS Star
Serie A (1 or 2 live games per week) along with TPS Star
La Liga (Spanish 1st Division) (1 live game per week)
Football League Championship (English 2nd Division)
UEFA Cup
UEFA Champions League
 International friendlies
Copa Libertadores

TPS Foot also aired programming from Barça TV, Chelsea TV, MUTV and Real Madrid TV.

Other than that, TPS Foot showed both the preview and review for the Bundesliga and the FA Premier League.

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Television channels and stations established in 2005
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Godere (woreda)

Godere is a woreda in Gambela Region, Ethiopia. Part of the Mezhenger Zone, Godere is bordered on the south and east by the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR), and on the west by Mengesh. The largest town in Godere is Meti.

Overview 
Godere encompasses the headwaters of the Gilo River, thus its terrain is predominantly hilly, unlike the rest of Gambela. According to the Atlas of the Ethiopian Rural Economy published by the Central Statistical Agency (CSA), this woreda has an average elevation of between 500 and 1000 meters with an average slope between 2 and 4%; over 40% of the area is covered with forest.

The economy of Godere is predominantly agricultural. There are no agricultural cooperatives, no documented roads, and little other infrastructure.

History 
At the start of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Godere was the only woreda of the Administrative Zone 4 and thus considered a Special woreda; however between 1994 and 2001 Godere was made part of the Administrative Zone 2. Subsequently, but before 2007, a number of kebeles were split off to create Mengesh; both woredas became the Mezhenger Zone.

A 2002 United Nations Emergency Unit for Ethiopia assessment report mentions increasing conflict between the Mezhenger and Sheko in the neighboring Yeki woreda of the SNNPR, which spilled over into Godere.

Demographics 
Based on the 2007 census conducted by the CSA, this woreda has a total population of 38,781, of whom 19,928 are men and 18,853 women; with an area of 592.75 square kilometers, Godere has a population density of 65.43, which is greater than the Zone average of 26.28 persons per square kilometer. Reportedly 7,140 or 18.41% are urban inhabitants. A total of 9,752 households were counted in this woreda, which results in an average of 4.0 persons to a household, and 9,494 housing units. The majority of the inhabitants said they practised Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 42.12% of the population reporting they observed this belief, while 34.98 were Protestant, and 20.83% were Muslim.

According to the 1994 national census, the woreda's population was reported to be 32,232 in 9,134 households, of whom 17,443 were men and 14,789 women; 3,173 or 9.84% of the population were urban inhabitants. The five largest ethnic groups of the region were the Amhara (24.48%), Mezhenger (23.63%), Kafficho (20.78%), Oromo (12.57%), the Mocha (9.57%), and Tigray (3.18%); all other ethnic groups made up 5.8% of the population. Amharic was spoken as a first language by 26.94%, 23.62% spoke Majang, 19.47% Kafa, 12.53% Oromiffa, and 9.16% Mocha; the remaining 8.28% spoke all other primary languages reported. The majority of the inhabitants said they professed Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 51.71% of the population reporting they embraced that belief, while 24.49% were Protestant, 15.71% were Muslim, 3.31% practiced traditional religions, and 3.13% were Catholic.

Notes 

Districts of Gambela Region
Phum Duang River

The Phum Duang River (, , ) (rarely also called the Khiri Rat River) is a river in Surat Thani Province, southern Thailand, the main tributary of the Tapi River.

The rivers drains an area of  west of the Tapi watershed, mainly the eastern slopes of the Phuket mountain range. It joins the estuary of the Tapi  west of Surat Thani in Phunphin District.

The river has a total length of 80 km.

Etymology 
The etymology of "Phum Duang" is unknown but the etymology for "Khiri Rat" originated from the rivers origination point being in the Khiri Rat Nikhom District at the confluence of the Phrasaeng and Sok rivers.

References

Rivers of Thailand
Geography of Surat Thani province
Kra Isthmus
Killer Bash

Killer Bash is a 2005 homoerotic television horror film directed by David DeCoteau.

External links

Interview with David Decoteau
Information about Killer Bash at Regent Entertainment

2005 horror films
2005 television films
Canadian LGBT-related television films
English-language Canadian films
Films directed by David DeCoteau
2005 LGBT-related films
LGBT-related horror films
2005 films
Canadian horror television films
2000s Canadian films
Trenidad Hubbard

Trenidad Aviel Hubbard (born Trent Hubbard, May 11, 1964) is a former Major League Baseball journeyman outfielder. He is an alumnus of Southern University and A&M College.

Drafted by the Houston Astros in the 12th round of the 1986 MLB amateur draft, Hubbard made his major league debut with the Colorado Rockies on July 7, 1994 at age 30. He had two plate appearances for the Rockies in the 1995 National League division playoffs.

After signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a free agent on Dec. 3, 1997, Hubbard had his best season in the majors. Appearing in 94 games, he hit .298 with nine stolen bases and seven home runs.

He finished his MLB career with 196 hits and a batting average of .257.

Spending parts of 19 seasons in the minor leagues, Hubbard put up some impressive numbers with 1,864 hits in the minors and a batting average of .302.

Hubbard last played professional baseball in 2005, when he split the season among three class AAA teams, the Durham Bulls, Round Rock Express, and Iowa Cubs. He is a graduate of South Shore High School in Chicago.

External links

Retrosheet
Mexican League statistics
Pura Pelota Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics

1966 births
Living people
African-American baseball players
Albuquerque Dukes players
American expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Asheville Tourists players
Atlanta Braves players
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Baseball players from Chicago
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Caribes de Oriente players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Chicago Cubs players
Cleveland Indians players
Colorado Rockies players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Columbus Mudcats players
Durham Bulls players
Guerreros de Oaxaca players
Iowa Cubs players
Jackson Generals (Texas League) players
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Major League Baseball left fielders
Major League Baseball center fielders
Mexican League baseball players
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Osceola Astros players
Baseball players from Atlanta
Baseball players from Houston
Portland Beavers players
Round Rock Express players
San Diego Padres players
San Francisco Giants players
Southern Jaguars baseball players
Tucson Toros players
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople
Pontus Gårdinger

Pontus Joakim Gårdinger (born 20 July 1964 in Enskede) is a Swedish television presenter show host, producer and actor who has, among other things, hosted Melodifestivalen 1996. He also hosted the short lived reality show Miljonärerna on Kanal 5. He has also produced the Swedish TV show Grattis världen and his comic speeches "Tal till nationen" is among many considered to be his most important works.

Gårdinger won the Poker Million competition 2007, where the first prize was SEK 1 million.

Since 2014, he has presented the Swedish version of Jeopardy!

Selected filmography
2002 – The Dog Trick
2001 – Pusselbitar (TV-series)
2000 – Naken
1995 – NileCity 105,6 (TV-series)

References

External links 

1964 births
Living people
Swedish television personalities
Entertainers from Stockholm
Swedish television producers
Swedish male television actors
Great Sleigh Drive

"The Great Sleigh Drive" () from December 1678 to February 1679 was a daring and bold maneuver using sleighs by Frederick William, the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia, to drive Swedish forces out of the Duchy of Prussia, a territory of his which had been invaded by the Swedes in November 1678.

Background 
Frederick William had previously defeated the Swedes and driven them from Brandenburg at the Battle of Fehrbellin and now faced another punitive Swedish incursion into his territories. The main body of his army was engaged at the siege of the Swedish-held port city of Stralsund on the coast of the Baltic Sea far to the west, so Frederick marched his army to the small town of Preußisch Holland and engaged a small Swedish force occupying the city. The Swedes, having been soundly defeated at the Battle of Fehrbellin, were hesitant to face Frederick William again and decided to retreat to the coast in order to return to Sweden, having already accomplished their goal of looting much of the province and avenging their earlier defeat.

The Sleigh Drive 
Most commanders would have simply allowed the Swedes to depart, but Frederick William was particularly aggressive and came across the ingenious idea of commandeering thousands of sleighs from local peasantry to transport his army across the snowy terrain of the Duchy of Prussia to cut off the Swedes' escape route: creating, in effect, a precursor to motorised infantry. Driving over the heavy snow and several frozen lakes, Frederick managed to drive deep into the flanks and rear of the escaping Swedish force, denying them access to the coast and their navy, which would have allowed them to resupply or escape.

Aftermath 
Frederick's forces managed to ride all the way to Memel, completely cutting off the Swedes from the coast. Although the Brandenburg forces never actually managed to force the Swedes to commit to the field in an open battle as Frederick had wanted, many Swedish troops perished in the harsh winter from hypothermia and starvation, and the Swedish army was effectively destroyed. This victory cemented Frederick William's reputation as a great military strategist.

Significance 
Maneuver warfare, or as the Germans call it, Bewegungskrieg, was eventually part of a long-standing tradition of the German military.  The Winter Campaign of 1678 and the subsequent Great Sleigh Drive appeared in the German military war journal Militär-Wochenblatt in 1929, in which a (then) relatively unknown Major by the name of Heinz Guderian wrote an article commenting about its use of operational mobility as a decisive factor in victory.

Order of Battle of the Prussian defense of East Prussia

October 1678 
 Groben Infantry Battalion
 Talan Infantry Battalion
 Samland Militia Cuirassier Regiment
 Nataginsk Militia Cuirassier Regiment
 Dragoons (4 companies)

References

Bibliography 
 
 

1678 in Europe
Battles involving Brandenburg-Prussia
Battles involving Sweden
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East Prussia
Conflicts in 1678
Conflicts in 1679
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1679 in Prussia
Scanian War
Sledding
Sin Sin Sin

"Sin Sin Sin" is a song by British singer Robbie Williams from his sixth studio album, Intensive Care (2005). It was released as the fourth and last single the album on 22 May 2006 by Chrysalis Records. The song was remixed for single release, being at a quicker tempo than the original. Additional hand claps were added throughout the song as well as some new instrumentation to the choruses. The song peaked at number 22 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Williams' first single to miss the top 20. Elsewhere, the single reached the top 20 in Australia and several European countries, peaking at number one in Hungary.

Music video
The video was filmed by Vaughan Arnell near Cape Town, South Africa.

Track listings
UK CD single
 "Sin Sin Sin"
 "Our Love"
 "Sin Sin Sin" (Chris Coco's on Tour mix)
 "Sin Sin Sin" (U-MYX software)

UK 7-inch single, European and Australian CD single
 "Sin Sin Sin"
 "Our Love"

UK DVD single
 "Sin Sin Sin" (video)
 "Our Love" (audio)
 "Sin Sin Sin" (Chris Coco's on Tour mix audio)
 Making of "Sin Sin Sin"
 Photo gallery

Credits and personnel
Credits are taken from the Intensive Care album booklet.

Studios
 Recorded between June 2003 and May 2005 at Air Studios, The Townhouse (London, England), Rockband East and West, and Henson Studios (Los Angeles)
 Mixed at Mix This! (Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles)
 Strings engineered at NRG (North Hollywood, California)
 Mastered at Metropolis Mastering (London, England)

Personnel

 Robbie Williams – writing, lead vocals, production
 Stephen Duffy – writing, Fender Stratocaster guitar, Martin acoustic guitar, electronic keyboards, production
 Chris Heath – writing
 Claire Worrall – backing vocals, Bösendorfer piano
 Greg Leisz – EBow guitar
 Davey Faragher – Fender Precision Bass guitar
 Jebin Bruni – Roland synthesiser
 Matt Chamberlain – drums
 David Campbell – string arrangement, conducting
 Allen Sides – string engineering
 Bob Clearmountain – mixing
 Tony Cousins – mastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

2005 songs
2006 singles
Chrysalis Records singles
Music videos directed by Vaughan Arnell
Number-one singles in Hungary
Robbie Williams songs
Songs written by Robbie Williams
Songs written by Stephen Duffy
The New-York Magazine

The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository was a monthly literary magazine published in New York City from 1790 to 1797, and claimed as one of the four most important magazines of its time. One of the longest-running magazines of that era (it published almost 100 issues), it focused on theater and travel writing and also essays, poems, and short stories.

The magazine was founded by Thomas and James Swords, who published, printed, and probably edited it. Some of the writers came from "The Friendly Club", a literary society, and included William Dunlap (author of the theater column) and Elihu Hubbard Smith, besides beginning and established authors such as Charles Brockden Brown and Joel Barlow, whose The Hasty-Pudding was published by the magazine in 1796.

Illustrated with costly copperplate engravings, its subscribers included George Washington, John Adams, John Jay, and Richard Varick.

References

External links
Archive (incomplete; duplicates are from different sources):
 Nov 1790, Jan 1791, Index 1793, Oct 1793, Dec 1793, Nov 1794
 1794
 1795
 1795
 1797
 1797

Monthly magazines published in the United States
Defunct literary magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1790
Magazines disestablished in 1797
Magazines published in New York City
Dar Al Awadi Tower

The Dar Al Awadi Tower is the ninth  tallest building in Kuwait. It has 35 floors and it is 171 metres high. Its construction was completed in 2005.

Dar Abdullah Al Awadi Complex Shopping Center and Offices Tower is one of the Real Estate Investment Company projects.

The tower is located in the center of the capital with high panoramic view of the Persian Gulf. Its external finishing is a combination of glazier, granite, marble and stainless steel ribs.

From a distance, the first part of the building that can be seen is the high rising tower with its stainless steel dome nested by a wide stainless steel circular saucer-shape roof canopy carried by a 34 story of Quintuple shape building. This is the share of commercial offices.

The center has four floors above ground level and one basement. A broad atrium stands in the center of the mall, covered by huge skylight dome. A fountain embraces the two panoramic elevators.

There is an adjacent car park with a capacity of more than 650 cars.

See also

 List of tallest buildings in Kuwait

References

2005 establishments in Kuwait
Skyscrapers in Kuwait

Buildings and structures completed in 2005
Metekel Zone

Metekel Zone is located in Benishangul-Gumuz  of Ethiopia. It is bordered on the south and southwest by Kamashi, on the west by Sudan, and on the north and east by the Amhara region. The Abay River defines the Zone's boundaries with Kamashi, while the Dinder River defines part of its boundary with the Amhara region.

The administrative center of Metekel Zone is Gilgil Beles; other towns include Manbuk. The highest point is Mount Belaya (3,131 meters), which is part of the Dangur range.

MIDROC Gold reported in 2009 that it was exploring the Zone for gold deposits.

Demographics
Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this Zone has a total population of 276,367, of whom 139,119 are men and 137,248 women. 37,615 or 13.61% of population are urban inhabitants. A total of 58,515 households were counted in this Zone, which results in an average of 4.72 persons to a household, and 56,734 housing units. The five largest ethnic groups reported in the Metekel Zone were the Gumuz (36.78%),  the Amhara (23.39%),the Shinasha (15.6%),the Awi (11.33%), a subgroup of the Agew, and the Oromo (11.09%); all other ethnic groups made up 1.81% of the population. Main languages are Gumuz (36.31%), Amharic (34.21%), Oromo(19.89%), Shinasha (12.81%) and Awngi (10.91%). Amharic is spoken as a first language by 24% of the population and as a second language by another 10%. The majority of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 54.49% of the population reporting that they held that belief, while 20.31% were Muslim, 17.65% observed traditional religions, and 6.36% were Protestant.

According to a May 24, 2004 World Bank memorandum, 8% of the inhabitants of Metekel have access to electricity, this zone has a road density of 28.4 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers, the average rural household has 1.4 hectare of land (compared to the national average of 1.01 hectare of land and an average of 2.25 for pastoral regions) and the equivalent of 0.6 heads of livestock. 10% of the population is in non-farm related jobs, compared to the national average of 25% and an average of 28% for pastoral regions. 93% of all eligible children are enrolled in primary school, and 25% in secondary schools. 68% of the zone is exposed to malaria, and 100% to Tsetse fly. The memorandum gave this zone a drought risk rating of 433.

The Metekel conflict began in 2019. A massacre occurred on 23 December 2020.

Notes

Benishangul-Gumuz Region
Zones of Ethiopia
Terminating Reliable Broadcast

Terminating Reliable Broadcast (TRB) is a problem in distributed computing that encapsulates the task of broadcasting a message to a set of receiving processes in the presence of faults. In particular, the sender and any other process might fail ("crash") at any time.

Problem description

A TRB protocol typically organizes the system into a sending process and a set of receiving processes, which may include the sender itself. A process is called "correct" if it does not fail at any point during its execution. The goal of the protocol is to transfer data (the "message") from the sender to the set of receiving processes. A process may perform many I/O operations during protocol execution, but eventually "delivers" a message by passing it to the application on that process that invoked the TRB protocol.

The protocol must provide important guarantees to the receiving processes. All correct receiving processes, for example, must deliver the sender's message if the sender is also correct. A receiving process may deliver a special message,  ("sender faulty"), if the sender failed, but either all correct processes will deliver  or none will. A correct process is therefore guaranteed that data delivered to it was also delivered to all other correct processes.

More precisely, a TRB protocol must satisfy the four formal properties below.

 Termination: every correct process delivers some value.
 Validity: if the sender is correct and broadcasts a message , then every correct process delivers .
 Integrity: a process delivers a message at most once, and if it delivers some message , then  was broadcast by the sender.
 Agreement: if a correct process delivers a message , then all correct processes deliver .

The presence of faults in the system makes these properties more difficult to satisfy. A simple but invalid TRB protocol might have the sender broadcast the message to all processes, and have receiving processes deliver the message as soon as it is received. This protocol, however, does not satisfy agreement if faults can occur: if the sender crashes after sending the message to some processes, but before sending it to others, then the first set of processes may deliver the message while the second set delivers .

TRB is closely related, but not identical, to the fundamental distributed computing problem of consensus.

References

Distributed computing problems
West African campaign

West African campaign may refer to:

West Africa campaign (World War I)
West Africa campaign (World War II)
Tom Villa

Thomas Albert Villa (March 16, 1945 – January 20, 2023) was an American Democratic politician from Missouri. He was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives and later represented Ward 11, the Carondelet neighborhood and surrounding areas, on the Board of Aldermen of the City of St. Louis.

Villa was born and raised in St. Louis and is the son of the late Albert "Red" Villa.  The elder Villa was the longest-serving member of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen. He was educated at St. Mary's High School and Saint Louis University and received a master's degree in education from the University of Missouri–St. Louis in 1971.  Before starting his political career, Villa worked as a teacher and guidance counselor.

Villa was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1974.  He was re-elected four times and held leadership positions as Majority Whip from 1978 to 1980 and Majority Floor Leader from 1980 to 1984.  In 1984 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Missouri State Treasurer.

In 1987, Villa was elected to citywide office as President of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen.  He was reelected to that position in 1991.  In 1993 he was a candidate for Mayor of St. Louis but finished second in the Democratic primary behind Freeman Bosley Jr.  His term as President of the Board expired in 1995, and Villa did not seek re-election.  Villa remained out of public office for several years.  In 2000 he was again elected to the Missouri House and was re-elected in 2002, 2004 and 2006. He retired from the House in 2008.

Villa died on January 20, 2023, at the age of 77.

References

External links
Villa's biography from the Missouri House of Representatives

1945 births
2023 deaths
Politicians from St. Louis
Democratic Party members of the Missouri House of Representatives
Members of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen
University of Missouri–St. Louis alumni
Saint Louis University alumni
School counselors
Camera interface

The Camera Interface block or CAMIF is the hardware block that interfaces with different image sensor interfaces and provides a standard output that can be used for subsequent image processing.

A typical Camera Interface would support at least a parallel interface although these days many camera interfaces are beginning to support the Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Camera Serial Interface (CSI) interface.

Electrical connections
The camera interface's parallel interface consists of the following lines:

8 to 12 bits parallel data line
These are parallel data lines that carry pixel data. The data transmitted on these lines change with every Pixel Clock (PCLK).

Horizontal Sync (HSYNC)
This is a special signal that goes from the camera sensor or ISP to the camera interface. An HSYNC indicates that one line of the frame is transmitted.

Vertical Sync (VSYNC)
This signal is transmitted after the entire frame is transferred. This signal is often a way to indicate that one entire frame is transmitted.

Pixel Clock (PCLK)
This is the pixel clock and it would change on every pixel.

NOTE: The above lines are all treated as input lines to the Camera Interface hardware.

See also
 Digital camera
 Digital photography
 Demosaicing
 Digital image processing
 Camera Serial Interface (CSI)

References

Image processing
MIPI Alliance standards
YES College Prep Southeast

YES Prep Southeast is a school in Houston, Texas. The mascot is Wizards.  In 2007, it ranked #40 on Newsweek Magazine's Top 100 High Schools list and it was also ranked #38 by U.S News.

The YES Prep College Preparatory School System which stands for Youth Engaged in Service, was founded in 1998 when Christopher Barbic, now the head of the Achievement School District in Memphis, Texas, grew frustrated as he watched his sixth grade students move on to low-performing intermediate schools. Barbic decided to recruit some of the best teachers he could find and start his own 6-12th grade school. Year after year, student performance on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills or TAAS test was significantly superior than that of other students in school districts across Texas.

Eventually Barbic obtained a state charter which allowed him to expand the campus into a 6-12th grade school. Eventually the YES Prep School grew into 18 campuses(Southeast, Southwest, North Central, East End, Gulfton, Fifth Ward, North Forest, Brays Oaks,  Northside, Southside, Northbrook Middle, Northbrook High, Hoffman, Eisenhower, North Forest, West, and Northline, and Northwest.) in the Greater Houston Area. All of the schools colors unite with the color Navy. The school colors are yellow, kelly green, orange, blue, silver, maroon, purple, red and dark blue (in order)  The newer schools start off with just one grade level and work off from there gaining more and more students and teachers. It is an academically challenging school which tries to prepare its students for college. Every Spring students go on a trip in the United States for a week where they learn many things and go to visit historic sites or visit colleges and universities.   It has high school and middle school in the same building.  The school director was Keith Derosiers. Now, the school has two new co-directors. Every year the school takes kids that have good grades to other states and sometimes other countries depending on their grade level. It is a very good school for low income families and for kids who really want to go to college.

References

External links
YES College Prep Official Website
YES College Prep in U.S News

Schools in Houston
Public high schools in Texas
Public middle schools in Texas
Charter schools in Texas
Kim Schmahmann

Kim Schmahmann (born 1955 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is an artist who currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His studio is located in the Brickbottom Artists Building in Somerville, Massachusetts. His art combines conceptual art with fine art, utilizing the tension that exists between the idea and the craft to express the tension that arises between individuals and society. Many of his pieces comment on the institutionalized control and discrimination that he witnessed growing up in South Africa, a country dominated by systems of oppression from its colonial past through the apartheid regime.

His iconic piece, the "Bureau of Bureaucracy," is permanently on display at the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC.  This piece took six years (from 1993 to 1999) to create at the MIT Hobby Shop in Cambridge. In October 2019, the Bureau of Bureaucracy was named one of the "Five Pieces at Smithsonian Museums and Galleries You Shouldn't Miss" by the Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists (ARCS).

His piece entitled "Apart-Hate: A People Divider," was acquired by the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City. The piece has appeared in MAD's Re: Collection exhibition curated by David Revere McFadden, as well as the Global Africa Project exhibition curated by Lowery Stokes Sims and Leslie King-Hammond. The Apart-Hate piece reflects on how societies create systems that divide people with hate. Judith Dobrzynski, writing for The New York Times, described the work as a "meditation on discrimination."

A recent piece, entitled "Belabeled" and acquired by the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem MA, is about the power of labels to shape identity. These labels—those that people put on themselves and those others give them—frame expectations and limit possibilities. In exploring how labels matter, this piece invites viewers to challenge and reflect on their preconceived judgments.

References

External links
 Official Site
 Brickbottom Artists Building 
  Bureau of Bureaucracy at the Renwick Gallery
 Five Pieces at Smithsonian Museums and Galleries You Shouldn't Miss
 MAD Global Africa Project
 Video from MAD Global Africa Project
 New York Times Feature Article
 Article about Re: Collection Exhibition

South African artists
1955 births
Living people
Brno-Bystrc

Bystrc (Hantec: Bástr) is a municipal district of the city of Brno in the Czech Republic. It was formerly a village on the banks of the Svratka river, but was incorporated into the city in 1960. The Brno Zoo, Brno Reservoir, Deer Glen Nature Reserve, Krnovec Nature Reserve, Veveří Castle, Monk's Hill and Kopeček Hill (The highest peak in Brno) are located there.

Demographics

References

External links
 District guide: Bystrc | Brno Now

Brno
9tail Fox

9tail Fox is a 2005 novel by Jon Courtenay Grimwood.

Plot summary

The plot centres on Bobby Zha, a Sergeant at the fictional SFPD Chinatown station in San Francisco.  The claimed shooting of a burglar by eleven-year-old Natalie Persikov conflicts with Zha's intuition on the matter, but before he has a real chance to investigate he is shot himself.

After meeting the Jinwei hu (the nine-tailed fox of the title) while dead, Bobby wakes up in a hospital. However, there are a few surprises for him on waking; not least that apparently he isn't Bobby Zha anymore.  The doctors tell him he's in New York, not San Francisco; he was never shot; and that he's Robert Van Berg, sole survivor of a car crash that killed both his parents and put him into a coma since he was seven.  Now adult and sole inheritor of his family's considerable fortune, Bobby wastes no time in getting back to the West Coast to investigate.

In between looking into the case of his own murder, finding out what really happened at the Persikov's house and following up the leads from his contacts among the homeless of San Francisco, Bobby becomes increasingly concerned over his own identity.  Changing identities at a whim — an FBI agent, a CIA investigator, a special forces agent direct from the White House — he questions his old acquaintances about Sergeant Zha, finding out more about himself than he ever knew.

The novel is set "a few years in the future", and frequently references Soviet author Mikhail Bulgakov.  Grimwood notes in the Acknowledgments that "the choice of Persikov for Dr Misha's surname is entirely intentional."

Literary significance and reception
Booklist described the story in 9tail Fox as a "typical revenge story transformed into a story of personal redemption—and a darn good one at that." Publishers Weekly said that "Grimwood does sustain interest with a premise that could have fallen flat in lesser hands."

Footnotes

2005 British novels
2005 speculative fiction novels
Novels set in San Francisco
Fictional portrayals of the San Francisco Police Department
Victor Gollancz Ltd books
Richard A. Baker (historian)

Richard Allan Baker (born March 18, 1940) was the first Historian of the United States Senate, serving through August 2009. He directed the United States Senate Historical Office from the time of its creation in 1975.

He wrote a weekly column on Senate history for a Washington newspaper (The Hill) and is the co-author (with Neil MacNeil) of the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning The American Senate: An Insider's History, published in 2013, a history of Senate rules and customs.

Education 
Baker graduated in 1962 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and received master's degrees from Columbia University in 1968 and Michigan State University in 1965.  He also obtained a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1982.

Historian of the Senate 
Following the Watergate scandal, the US Congress established the office of Senate historian to encourage and formalize record-keeping. Baker assumed the new post in 1975, and would continue in this role for the next 34 years. 

Beginning in 1997, at the request of Senate Democratic Leader Thomas Daschle, Baker routinely opened the weekly luncheon meetings of the Democratic Caucus of the United States Senate with a brief historical anecdote or minute. These short essays were wide-ranging in topic and highlight recurring themes in the Senate's institutional development. Shortly before Baker's retirement, the Senate passed a unanimous resolution naming him the "historian emeritus of the United States Senate."

In 2009, at the time of Baker's retirement, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell initiated a similar program for his party's members.  Both Democratic and Republican programs are currently active, relying on presentations by the Senate's Historian and Associate Historian.

Authorship
 "Conservation Politics: The Senate Career of Clinton P. Anderson" (University of New Mexico Press, 1985)
 "The Senate of the United States: A Bicentennial History" (Krieger, 1988)
 "First Among Equals: Outstanding Senate Leaders of the Twentieth Century" (Congressional Quarterly, 1991) (coeditor)
 "200 Notable Days: Senate Stories 1787 to 2002" (Government Printing Office, 2006) 
 "The American Senate: An Insider's History" co-authored with Neil MacNeil (Oxford University Press, 2013)

References

External links

C-SPAN Q&A interview with Baker, June 12, 2005
C-SPAN Q&A interview with Baker, September 27, 2009
C-SPAN  "Q&A"  interview with Baker, July 7, 2013
 Senate Historical Office oral history interviews 
 Senate briefs

1940 births
Living people
Employees of the United States Senate
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Columbia University alumni
Michigan State University alumni
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Historians of the United States Senate
American male non-fiction writers
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer

Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer is an aircraft simulation computer game published by Electronic Arts in 1987. It was originally released as Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Simulator. Due to a legal dispute with Microsoft over the term "Flight Simulator", the game was pulled from shelves and renamed. Many copies of the original version were sold prior to this. Chuck Yeager served as technical consultant for the game, where his likeness and voice were prominently used.

The game allows a player to "test pilot" 14 different airplanes, including the Bell X-1, which Yeager had piloted to become the first man to exceed Mach 1.

The game is embellished by Yeager's laconic commentary: When the user crashes one plane, Yeager remarks "You sure bought the farm on that one", or other asides.

Aircraft
Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer includes 11 real aircraft and three experimental aircraft designed by the developers. The fictional experimental aircraft were named after people who worked on the game.
Real aircraft
Bell X-1
Cessna 172
Douglas X-3 Stiletto
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
North American P-51 Mustang
Piper PA-28 Cherokee
Sopwith Camel
SPAD S.XIII
Supermarine Spitfire
Experimental aircraft
Grace Industries XPG-12 Samurai
Hilleman Ltd. XRH4 MadDog
Lerner Aeronautics XNL-16 Instigator

Reception
The game was a big hit for EA, selling 100,000 copies by December 1987. In May 1988, it was awarded a "Platinum" certification from the Software Publishers Association for sales above 250,000 units. Game reviewers Hartley and Patricia Lesser complimented the game in their "The Role of Computers" column in Dragon #126 (1987), giving PC/MS-DOS version of the game 4 out of 5 stars. The Lessers reviewed the Macintosh version of the game in 1988 in Dragon #140 in "The Role of Computers" column, giving that version 4 stars as well. Compute! criticized the blocky graphics and sound, but noted that the simple graphics resulted in a high frame rate. It concluded that Chuck Yeager differed from other games in simulating flying high-performance experimental aircraft. Computer Gaming World reviewed the game and stated that Yeager has been a top gun performer for the San Mateobased software company, also noting that the game went SPA "Gold" quickest of any Electronic Arts title (in a little over three months of sales).

In a 1994 survey of wargames Computer Gaming World gave the title one-plus stars out of five.

Legacy
This game was followed in 1989 by Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer 2.0 and in 1991 by Chuck Yeager's Air Combat.

References

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1987 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Apple II games
Advanced Flight Trainer
Classic Mac OS games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Flight simulation video games
MSX games
Single-player video games
Tandy 1000 games
Video games developed in the United States
ZX Spectrum games
South Texas High School for Health Professions

South Texas ISD Health Professions (Health Professions) is one of four STISD magnet high schools in the Rio Grande Valley and is located in Mercedes, Texas. Students at Health Professions develop clinical skills in area hospitals, nursing homes and pharmacies, as well as doctor, dentist and veterinary offices. Many students earn certifications as certified nursing assistants, dental assistants, emergency medical technicians, personal trainers and veterinary assistants.

Awards and recognition
In 2006, it was placed 91st on Newsweek's Top 100 High Schools list. In 2007, it rose in the standings to 21st school in Newsweek's Top 100 High Schools list.

In its November 30, 2007 issue, U.S. News & World Report ranked Med High at number 64 on its list of America's Best High Schools. Med High's sister schools Science Academy of South Texas (SciTech) came in at 23rd place, and South Texas Business Education & Technology Academy (BETA) was ranked 54th.

In the 2012 issue of the U.S. News & World Report, Med High ranked at number 104. Its sister schools BETA and Sci Tech ranked 245th and 48th, respectively.

South Texas High School for Health Professions was given the prestigious Blue Ribbon Award in 2010. In the 2013 edition of "America's Best High Schools" by Newsweek, Med High ranked at 257. Its sister schools were also ranked in the list: Science Academy of South Texas (94th), BETA (592nd), and Med Tech (1080th).

See also
 Magnet school

References

External links
 

South Texas Independent School District high schools
High schools in Hidalgo County, Texas
Educational institutions established in 1984
Public high schools in Texas
Magnet schools in Texas
1984 establishments in Texas
West Africa Campaign

West Africa Campaign may refer to:

West Africa Campaign (World War I)
West Africa Campaign (World War II)
C&T

C&T may refer to:
 Catskill and Tannersville Railway, a former railway in New York state
 Chips and Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company
 Common-Civil-Calendar-and-Time, a proposal for calendar reform
 C&T Publishing
Brighton High School (Cottonwood Heights, Utah)

Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights, Utah is located about  south of Salt Lake City. It serves students in grades 9-12 for the Canyons School District.

Notable alumni
Jackson Barton - NFL offensive tackle
Cody Barton - NFL linebacker
Dani Drews - professional volleyball player and member of U.S. national team.
Simi Fehoko - NFL wide receiver
Bryan Kehl - former NFL linebacker
Reno Mahe - former NFL running back
Sean Overholt - former Chicago Cubs pitcher

References

External links

Canyons School District

Public high schools in Utah
Educational institutions established in 1969
Schools in Salt Lake County, Utah
1969 establishments in Utah
McMaster & James

McMaster & James was a Canadian soul/pop "boy band" music duo from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

History
Luke McMaster (born 22 March 1976) and Rob James (born 30 October 1977) met in 1997 through Winnipeg-based producer Chris Burke-Gaffney and began collaborating as Two Face, later performing and recording under their combined names. Their gold, self-titled debut CD, released in February 2000 on ViK. Recordings, a domestic label formed by BMG Music Canada, a subsidiary of BMG, yielded the hits 
"Love Wins Everytime", "Thank You",  "I Understand" and "Sweet Sensation" which were well received by Canadian radio.

McMaster & James toured nationally, securing the opening spots for NSYNC Canadian dates and on Christina Aguilera's Canadian tour that year, including a 13 July 2000 date for Aguilera at the Winnipeg Arena. In the fall of 2000 and nominated in four categories, McMaster & James won Entertainers of the Year at the Prairie Music Awards via fan vote.

In 2001, their song "Thank You" was named by SOCAN as one of the most performed Canadian pop songs on Canadian radio, while "I Understand" won the Prairie Music Award (PMA) award for Best Song. The duo parted amicably in 2002.

In 2003, Luke McMaster decided to focus on his songwriting and production, signing with Universal Music Publishing Group Canada in 2004 for an association that lasted through 2012, placing songs with Rihanna, Nick Carter, Nick Lachey, Kalan Porter, Marc Jordan (he co-wrote Jordan's 2010 Top 40 hit, "Falling Man") and others.

In 2006, Rob James was a contestant on the fourth season of Canadian Idol, finishing seventh.

As a self-published (through his own Ekul Music) solo recording artist, Luke McMaster teamed up with Grammy-nominated American pianist Jim Brickman in 2013 for "Good Morning, Beautiful" - a co-written Top 3 Billboard (magazine) AC hit.

McMaster released his solo album, Icons of Soul, which includes collaborations with Felix Cavaliere and Lamont Dozier.

See also
 Luke McMaster

References

External links
 North Shore News: "Pop soul duo catch fire" (21 February 2000)

Musical groups established in 1999
Musical groups from Winnipeg
Canadian pop music groups
1999 establishments in Manitoba
Literary editor

A literary editor is an editor in a newspaper, magazine or similar publication who deals with aspects concerning literature and books, especially reviews. A literary editor may also help with editing books themselves, by providing services such as proof reading, copy-editing, and literary criticism.

Consulting editor
A consulting editor is a non-staff, independent literary editor. A consulting editor may be an independent, freelance editor, or a scholar providing expertise via consulting.

See also
 Developmental editor
 Book editor

References 

Writing occupations
Types of editors