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The Best of Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton

The Best of Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton is a compilation album by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton. It was released on July 19, 1971, by RCA Victor. The album contains tracks from each of their collaboration albums released up to that point, with the exception of 1969's Always, Always. The album included one previously unreleased track, the Grammy-nominated single, "Better Move It on Home".

Critical reception

The review in the July 31, 1971 issue of Billboard said, "This collection of the best performances by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton is sure to prove a blockbuster programming and sales item. Their top treatments of "Daddy Was an Old Time Preacher Man", "The Pain of Loving You", "The Last Thing on My Mind", and "Just Someone I Used to Know" are standouts."

Cashbox published a review in the July 24, 1971 issue which said, "One whole lot of sales power in this album from a duo that consistently hits the charts together and apart. The most recent hit here included is "Better Move It on Home" while other titles will be equally familiar to their large following: "Just Someone I Used to Know", "The Pain of Loving You", and "Holding on to Nothin'" just to mention a few. A musical marriage made in country heaven."

Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies, Robert Christgau wrote: "There are real pleasures here, but they're chiefly vocal. The surprises are few, the jokes weak and infrequent, the sentimentality overripe ("Jeanie's Afraid of the Dark", yeucch), and the best song's by Paxton, nor Parton. In short, a lousy ad for couple-bonding, though whether Porter is repressing Dolly or Dolly holding out on Porter I wouldn't know."

Commercial performance
The album peaked at No. 7 on the US Billboard Hot Country LP's chart.

The album's single, "Better Move It on Home", was released in January 1971 and peaked at No. 7 on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and No. 8 in Canada on the RPM Country Singles chart.

Accolades
The album's single, "Better Move It on Home", was nominated for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group at the 14th Annual Grammy Awards.

Track listing

Personnel
Adapted from the album liner notes.
Bob Ferguson – producer
Les Leverett – cover photo
Jim Malloy – recording engineer
Al Pachucki – recording engineer
Chuck Seitz – recording engineer
Roy Shockley – recording technician
Paul W. Soelberg – liner notes

Charts
Album

Singles

Release history

References

Porter Wagoner albums
Albums produced by Bob Ferguson (music)
Vocal duet albums
1971 greatest hits albums
Dolly Parton compilation albums
RCA Records compilation albums
Letters to Judy

Letters to Judy: What Your Kids Wish They Could Tell You is a book published by Judy Blume in 1986. The book is a collection of letters from readers of her children's books, primarily children and teenagers, who wrote to Blume about problems like rejection by peers, feelings of neglect at home, or confusion about puberty, as well as more serious issues like living with disabilities, having family members be incarcerated, or surviving sexual abuse. Also included in the book are autobiographical essays about Blume's own experiences.

Background
Blume, a popular author, received a great deal of mail from her young readers; in the 1980s, she said, she received about 2,000 letters per month. Some of these letters were standard fan mail, but many children wrote to her asking for advice about problems they were facing in their lives. Blume responded to many of these letters personally, offering her support; she would later write in the introduction to Letters to Judy: "Sometimes I become more emotionally involved in their lives than I should."

Ultimately, Blume decided to compile several of these letters into a book for parents to share with their children. Upon publishing the book, she pledged to donate all its royalties to the Kids Fund, a charitable foundation she founded in 1981, as she did not want to profit off her readers' confidences. Blume said the book was particularly hard for her to write. After finishing, she told the Los Angeles Times that she never wanted to write nonfiction again, and she would only publish one more work of nonfiction after it, 1988's The Judy Blume Memory Book.

For Letters to Judy, Blume changed the letter writers' names and some identifying details, and combined some letters into composites. The letters in the book are arranged loosely by subject, under subheadings such as "I Love My Parents, But...", "I Am Just Like Everyone Else, Except..." and "Boys and Girls Together." Blume had written about many of these topics in her children's fiction, with the exception of some of the more serious topics such as suicide.

Decades later, Blume said that publishing the book had inspired even more children to write to her about their lives.

Critical reception
The book received positive reviews from outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Kirkus Reviews, praising its generosity and value to parents.

References

1986 children's books
Children's non-fiction books
Books by Judy Blume
Collections of letters
American children's books
Footdee

Footdee (; Scots: Fittie) is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland known locally by its Scots language name of Fittie.  It is an old fishing village at the east end of Aberdeen Harbour. The name is actually folk etymology. Far from being "Foot of the Dee/Fit o the Dee", it is actually a corruption of a former dedication to a "St Fittick". It has also been referred to as Fort Dee.

The area has had a settlement as far back as the Medieval times and the first recorded reference to the area of Fittie was in the year 1398. This village was slightly further North than where Footdee is now located. It would have been near to where the St Clement's Church is located.

On an 1828 map, the new housing squares were specifically labelled 'Fish Town'. 'Footdee' referred to the larger area from St. Clement's Church to 'Fish Town'. Later, the name 'Footdee' was used to refer specifically to the housing squares, with 'Fish Town' becoming forgotten.

On Tuesday 25 September 2012, parts of Footdee became covered in foam from the sea after experiencing strong wind and rain conditions. The effect was like a blanket of snow and this made the UK national news.

Transportation 

Footdee was formerly served by the number 15 bus route. The route was withdrawn in July 2022.

Gallery

References

External links
 Historic Environment Scotland

Areas of Aberdeen
Door space

In mathematics, specifically in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be a door space if every subset is open or closed (or both).  The term comes from the introductory topology mnemonic that "a subset is not like a door: it can be open, closed, both, or neither".

Properties and examples

Every door space is T0 (because if  and  are two topologically indistinguishable points, the singleton  is neither open nor closed).

Every subspace of a door space is a door space.  So is every quotient of a door space.

Every topology finer than a door topology on a set  is also a door topology.

Every discrete space is a door space.  These are the spaces without accumulation point, that is, whose every point is an isolated point.

Every space  with exactly one accumulation point (and all the other point isolated) is a door space (since subsets consisting only of isolated points are open, and subsets containing the accumulation point are closed).  Some examples are: (1) the one-point compactification of a discrete space (also called Fort space), where the point at infinity is the accumulation point; (2) a space with the excluded point topology, where the "excluded point" is the accumulation point.

Every Hausdorff door space is either discrete or has exactly one accumulation point. (To see this, if  is a space with distinct accumulations points  and  having respective disjoint neighbourhoods  and  the set  is neither closed nor open in )

An example of door space with more than one accumulation point is given by the particular point topology on a set  with at least three points.  The open sets are the subsets containing a particular point  together with the empty set.  The point  is an isolated point and all the other points are accumulation points. (This is a door space since every set containing  is open and every set not containing  is closed.)  Another example would be the topological sum of a space with the particular point topology and a discrete space.

Door spaces  with no isolated point are exactly those with a topology of the form  for some free ultrafilter  on   Such spaces are necessarily infinite.

There are exactly three types of connected door spaces :
 a space with the excluded point topology;
 a space with the included point topology;
 a space with topology  such that  is a free ultrafilter on

See also

Notes

References

 

Properties of topological spaces
The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock

The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock is a compilation album from the American rock band Poison, released to celebrate the band's 20 year anniversary. It has sold more than 1 million copies to date in the U.S as of September 2009. The album was released on April 3, 2006, on EMI

Release and promotion
The album features many songs from the band's 20-year career. Most notable is the song "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", which was the band's biggest hit, a power ballad. A rare cover of the KISS classic "Rock and Roll All Nite" appears, previously only available on the soundtrack to the movie "Less Than Zero". The compilation also includes a new single, the Grand Funk Railroad roadie classic "We're an American Band", which also features a music video.

The cover art is taken from the book Pornography: Opposing Viewpoints.

The album was produced by Don Was and marked Poison's return to the Billboard 200 top 20 charts for the first time since 1993. The compilation debuted at No. 17, quite an impressive showing for a hair metal band in 2006, and perhaps showing the beneficial effect of many Behind the Music-type shows on VH1, where Poison's hair metal antics were relived. The album also charted at No. 5 on the Top Rock Albums, No. 4 on the Top Catalog Albums and No. 10 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart.

"The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock" was certified Gold in 2006 by the RIAA.

Track listing 
CD:

DVD
A special edition of The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock was released which included a bonus greatest hits DVD compilation. The DVD includes the new video "We're an American Band" plus some of the band's biggest hits.

 I Want Action
 Every Rose Has Its Thorn
 Your Mama Don't Dance
 Nothin' But a Good Time
 Something To Believe In
 Unskinny Bop
 Talk Dirty to Me - Live on MTV Unplugged
 We're an American Band

Personnel
 Bret Michaels - lead vocals; rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar (track 4,8,13,15), keyboards
 Bobby Dall - bass guitar, piano (track 13)
 Rikki Rockett - drums; percussion
 C.C. DeVille - lead guitar, keyboards (track 3,8,14)
 Richie Kotzen - lead guitar on track 15
 Evren Göknar - Mastering Engineer

Charts

Certifications

References 

2006 greatest hits albums
Albums produced by Don Was
2006 video albums
Music video compilation albums
Poison (American band) compilation albums
Poison (American band) video albums
Millbrook, Philadelphia

Millbrook, also known as Chalfont,  is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The neighborhood is adjacent to Franklin Mills. The neighborhood consists of row homes, twin and twin rancher homes and has subdivision names such as Robindale, Chalfont, and the DiMarco Homes. The neighborhoods were constructed between 1956 and 1962, with newer areas near the Poquessing Creek built after 1970-1975. There were several Polish family farmettes, including Stopyra, Bushel, Strezlecki, Wyszynski and Grabowski occupying much of this area prior to the subdivision's construction. The neighborhood parish and Roman Catholic School is Our Lady of Calvary, located at 11024 Knights Road and Aloysius Fitzpatrick Elementary Public School is on the northeast corner of Knights Road and Chalfont Drive. Millbrook is also home to a magnet school specializing in the performing arts, The Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush. 

Neighborhoods in Philadelphia
Northeast Philadelphia
Richard S. Kayne

Richard Stanley Kayne is Professor of Linguistics in the Linguistics Department at New York University.

Born in 1944, after receiving an A.B. in mathematics from Columbia College, New York City in 1964, he studied linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his Ph.D. in 1969. He then taught at the University of Paris VIII (1969–1986), MIT (1986–1988) and the City University of New York (1988–1997), becoming Professor at New York University in 1997.

He has made prominent contributions to the study of the syntax of English and the Romance languages   within the framework of transformational grammar. His theory of Antisymmetry has become part of the canon of the Minimalist syntax literature.

Publications
 Movement and Silence, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005
 (with Thomas Leu & Raffaella Zanuttini) Lasting Insights and Questions: An Annotated Syntax Reader, Wiley/Blackwell, Malde, Mass., 2014

References

External links
Homepage

Linguists from the United States
Generative linguistics
Syntacticians
Living people
Academic staff of Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis
New York University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America
Silver professors
Rosa Parks Act

On April 18, 2006, the Rosa Parks Act was approved in the Legislature of the U.S. state of Alabama to allow those, including Rosa Parks posthumously, considered law-breakers at the time of the Montgomery bus boycott to clear their arrest records of the charge of civil disobedience. The Alabama House of Representatives approved the Act unanimously, but three senators in the Alabama Senate opposed it. The Act was signed into law by Governor Bob Riley on April 28, 2006.

References

Alabama statutes
2006 in Alabama
2006 in American law
Postoperative fever

Postoperative fever refers to an elevated body temperature (≥ 38.5 °C) occurring after a recent surgical procedure. Diagnosing the cause of postoperative fever can sometimes be challenging; while fever in this context may be benign, self-limited, or unrelated to the surgical procedure, it can also be indicative of a surgical complication, such as infection.

Causes
The most common causes of postoperative fever are often summarized for medical students by a mnemonic beginning with the letter W. The classic list consists of five W's – Wind, Water, Wound, Walking, and Wonder Drugs, but two other causes should also be considered – Wing/Waterway and (W)abscess. There is a characteristic timeframe after surgery when many of these complications tend to develop (postoperative days or POD).

Other important causes of early post-operative fever that are omitted from this list include malignant hyperthermia, a potentially life-threatening but treatable response to inhalational anesthetic and paralytic agents.

Early postoperative fever (i.e., within the first 48 hours post-operatively) has often been ascribed to atelectasis, or splinting, but it is most likely part of a natural and non-infectious inflammatory response (with sympathetic nervous system involvement) to the tissue injury sustained during surgery; it generally requires no medical intervention except antipyretics and extra fluid intake.

Workup
The diagnostic workup of post-operative fever is guided by the potential etiologies on the differential diagnosis. The patient's surgical and post-operative course should be reviewed in detail, noting whether the patient has been regularly using an incentive spirometer or not, whether a Foley catheter was/is in place, what medications s/he has received, etc. The patient should be asked if s/he is having any pain (and where?) or other symptoms such as coughing or dysuria, which may help to localize the source of the fever. A thorough physical exam should be conducted, auscultating the lungs, noting erythema or drainage from the surgical incision(s), evaluating IV sites, noting lower extremity edema, etc.

Laboratory testing and imaging is generally deferred for evaluation of fever that occurs within the first 48 hours post-operatively, unless prompted by specific findings in the history and physical exam. Beyond 48 hours, testing routinely includes urine and blood cultures as well as a chest X-ray.

Popular culture
In the pilot episode of the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, Meredith Grey refers to this mnemonic: "Wind, water, wound, walking, wonder drugs. The 5 Ws. Most of the time it’s wind; splinting or pneumonia. Pneumonia is easy to assume. Especially if you're too busy to do the tests."

See also 
 Patient safety
 Perioperative mortality

References

Surgery
Fever
Medical mnemonics
Pseudocompact space

In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be pseudocompact if its image under any continuous function to R is bounded. Many authors include the requirement that the space be completely regular in the definition of pseudocompactness. Pseudocompact spaces were defined by Edwin Hewitt in 1948.

Properties related to pseudocompactness
 For a Tychonoff space X to be pseudocompact requires that every locally finite collection of non-empty open sets of X be finite. There are many equivalent conditions for pseudocompactness (sometimes some separation axiom should be assumed); a large number of them are quoted in Stephenson 2003. Some historical remarks about earlier results can be found in Engelking 1989, p. 211.  
Every countably compact space is pseudocompact. For normal Hausdorff spaces the converse is true.
As a consequence of the above result, every sequentially compact space is pseudocompact. The converse is true for metric spaces. As sequential compactness is an equivalent condition to compactness for metric spaces this implies that compactness is an equivalent condition to pseudocompactness for metric spaces also.
The weaker result that every compact space is pseudocompact is easily proved: the image of a compact space under any continuous function is compact, and every compact set in a metric space is bounded.
If Y is the continuous image of pseudocompact X, then Y is pseudocompact. Note that for continuous functions g : X → Y and h : Y → R, the composition of g and h, called f, is a continuous function from X to the real numbers. Therefore, f is bounded, and Y is pseudocompact.
Let X be an infinite set given the particular point topology. Then X is neither compact, sequentially compact, countably compact, paracompact nor metacompact (although it is orthocompact). However, since X is hyperconnected, it is pseudocompact. This shows that pseudocompactness doesn't imply any of these other forms of compactness.
 For a Hausdorff space X to be compact requires that X be pseudocompact and realcompact (see Engelking 1968, p. 153).
 For a Tychonoff space X to be compact requires that X be pseudocompact and metacompact (see Watson).

Pseudocompact topological groups

A relatively refined theory is available for pseudocompact topological groups. In particular, W. W. Comfort and Kenneth A. Ross proved that a product of pseudocompact topological groups is still pseudocompact (this might fail for arbitrary topological spaces).

Notes

See also
 Compact space
 Paracompact space
 Normal space
 Realcompact space
 Metacompact space
 Orthocompact space
 Tychonoff space

References
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Properties of topological spaces
Compactness (mathematics)
Boris Pašanski

Boris Pašanski (), often spelled Pashanski in English-language media, is a Serbian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ranking of world number 55 on 27 February 2006.

Betting controversy
On October 24, 2007, Pašanski was beaten by Dmitry Tursunov in the 2nd round of the St. Petersburg Open by the score 4–6, 6–3, 6–4. The match was associated with highly irregular betting patterns on the online betting exchange Betfair. Large bets were being made on Tursunov to win at odds 1.2 when Pašanski was leading by a set and a break, extremely low odds in such circumstances. There was suspicion among market observers that Pašanski threw the match, with or without the active collusion of Tursunov. However, Betfair decided not to void bets on the match.

Performance timeline

Singles

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals

Singles: 25 (12–13)

Doubles: 6 (3–3)

References

External links
 
 
 
 Pashanski world ranking history

1982 births
Living people
Serbia and Montenegro male tennis players
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Malta
Serbian male tennis players
Serbian tennis coaches
Tennis players from Belgrade
Yugoslav male tennis players
MSU Faculty of Psychology

MSU Faculty of Psychology () is a faculty of the Moscow State University, which was established in 1966 and headed by Aleksei Leontiev until his death in 1979. At various times, a number of researchers have worked at the Faculty, such as Sergei Rubinstein, Alexander Luria, Eugene Sokolov, Chingis Izmailov, Galperin, Bluma Zeigarnik, and Daniil Yelkonin.

External links 
  Official site of the Faculty

Psychology, Faculty of
Education in Moscow
Psychology education
Realcompact space

In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be realcompact if it is completely regular Hausdorff and it contains every point of its Stone–Čech compactification which is real (meaning that the quotient field at that point of the ring of real functions is the reals). Realcompact spaces have also been called Q-spaces, saturated spaces, functionally complete spaces, real-complete spaces, replete spaces and Hewitt–Nachbin spaces (named after Edwin Hewitt and Leopoldo Nachbin).  Realcompact spaces were introduced by .

Properties 

A space is realcompact if and only if  it can be embedded homeomorphically as a closed subset in some (not necessarily finite) Cartesian power of the reals, with the product topology. Moreover, a (Hausdorff) space is realcompact if and only if it has the uniform topology and is complete for the uniform structure generated by the continuous real-valued functions (Gillman, Jerison, p. 226).
For example Lindelöf spaces are realcompact; in particular all subsets of  are realcompact.
The (Hewitt) realcompactification υX of a topological space X consists of the real points of its Stone–Čech compactification βX. A topological space X is realcompact if and only if it coincides with its Hewitt realcompactification.
Write C(X) for the ring of continuous real-valued functions on a topological space X. If Y is a real compact space, then ring homomorphisms from C(Y) to C(X) correspond to continuous maps from X to Y. In particular the category of realcompact spaces is dual to the category of rings of the form C(X).
In order that a Hausdorff space X is compact it is necessary and sufficient that X is realcompact and pseudocompact (see Engelking, p. 153).

See also
 Compact space
 Paracompact space
 Normal space
 Pseudocompact space
 Tychonoff space

References
 Gillman, Leonard; Jerison, Meyer, "Rings of continuous functions". Reprint of the 1960 edition. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, No. 43. Springer-Verlag, New York-Heidelberg, 1976. xiii+300 pp.
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Compactness (mathematics)
Properties of topological spaces
CEWC-Cymru

CEWC-Cymru (Council for Education in World Citizenship-Wales) was an educational charity working with young people to promote global citizenship in Wales.

It was established in 1943 and was based at the Temple of Peace, Cardiff. It worked with schools, colleges and youth groups throughout Wales.

CEWC-Cymru merged with the Welsh Centre for International Affairs in 2014 and ceased to be a separate charity.

See also 
Foreign relations of Wales

References

External links
 CEWC-Cymru website (archived)

Education in Cardiff
Charities based in Wales
Children's charities based in the United Kingdom
Education in Wales
Locally Hausdorff space

In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be locally Hausdorff if every point has a neighbourhood that is a Hausdorff space under the subspace topology.

Examples and sufficient conditions

 Every Hausdorff space is locally Hausdorff.
 There are locally Hausdorff spaces where a sequence has more than one limit. This can never happen for a Hausdorff space.
 The line with two origins is locally Hausdorff (it is in fact locally metrizable) but not Hausdorff.
 The etale space for the sheaf of differentiable functions on a differential manifold is not Hausdorff, but it is locally Hausdorff.
 Let  be a set given the particular point topology with particular point   The space  is locally Hausdorff at  since  is an isolated point in  and the singleton  is a Hausdorff neighbourhood of   For any other point  any neighbourhood of it contains  and therefore the space is not locally Hausdorff at

Properties

A space is locally Hausdorff exactly if it can be written as a union of Hausdorff open subspaces.  And in a locally Hausdorff space each point belongs to some Hausdorff dense open subspace.

Every locally Hausdorff space is T1.  The converse is not true in general.  For example, an infinite set with the cofinite topology is a T1 space that is not locally Hausdorff.

Every locally Hausdorff space is sober.

If  is a topological group that is locally Hausdorff at some point  then  is Hausdorff. This follows from the fact that if  there exists a homeomorphism from  to itself carrying  to  so  is locally Hausdorff at every point, and is therefore T1 (and T1 topological groups are Hausdorff).

References

Separation axioms
Ricardo Álamo

Nelson Ricardo Álamo Flores (born December 10, 1970) better known as Ricardo Álamo is a Venezuelan actor, television director, television producer, and model.

Personal life 
He married Marjorie de Sousa in May 2004. The couple divorced in 2006.

Filmography

Films

Television

As producer  and director

References

External links

RCTV Biography

1970 births
Living people
RCTV personalities
Venezuelan male film actors
Venezuelan male telenovela actors
Male actors from Caracas
Procter

Procter is a surname, and may refer to

 Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), British poet, daughter of Bryan Procter
 Andrew Procter (cricketer) (born 1968), English cricketer
 Andrew Procter (born 1983), British association football player for Accrington Stanley F. C.
 Arthur Procter (disambiguation)
 Ben Procter (born 1990), British swimmer
 Ben H. Procter (1927–2012), American historian
 Bryan Procter (1787–1874), British poet
 Charles Procter (died 1773), Canadian ship owner and politician
 Chrystabel Procter (1894–1982), English gardener, educationalist and horticulturalist
 Cory Procter (born 1982), American football player
 Donna Procter (born 1969), Australian Olympic swimmer
 Emily Procter (born 1968), American actress
 Ernest Procter (1885–1935), English designer, illustrator and painter
 Evelyn Procter (1897–1980), British historian
 Henry Procter (disambiguation)
 Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897–1931), British herpetologist
 Joe Procter (1906–1989), New Zealand rugby union player
 John Procter (disambiguation)
 Leslie Procter (1884–1968), Australian politician
 Luke Procter (born 1988), English cricketer
 Maurice Procter (1906–1973), English novelist
 Mike Procter (born 1946), South African cricketer
 Norma Procter (1928–2017), English contralto
 Peter Procter (born 1930), British cycling champion, rally driver and racing driver
 Raymond Procter (born 1938), New Zealand cricketer
 Richard Wright Procter (1816–1881), English barber, poet and author
 Simon Procter (born 1968), British artist and photographer
 William Procter (disambiguation)
William Procter (candlemaker) (1801–1884), co-founder of Procter & Gamble
William Cooper Procter (1862–1934), grandson of William Procter, he headed Procter & Gamble from 1907 to 1930
William Procter Jr. (1817–1874), American pharmacist
William Procter (Canadian veteran) (1899–2005), one of the last Canadian veterans of World War I to die
Procter (film), a 2002 short film directed by Joachim Trier
 Procter, an unincorporated community in British Columbia, Canada

See also
Proctor (disambiguation)
Procter & Gamble, consumer products multinational
Goodwin Procter, American law firm

Occupational surnames
English-language occupational surnames
Media evaluation

Media evaluation is a discipline of the external and logical social sciences and centres on the analysis of media content, rating the exposure using a number of pre-designated criteria commonly including tonal value and presence of key messages. It is said to be one of the fastest-growing areas of mass communications research. 

The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC) is the industry-appointed trade body for companies and individuals involved in research, measurement, and evaluation in editorial media coverage and related communications issues. To be a full member of AMEC, companies must be able to: 

a) offer comprehensive media evaluation, research, and interpretation services, 

b) have been in business for at least two years, and 

c) have a media evaluation turnover of more than £150,000 when applying. 

In addition, all companies abide by a strict code of ethics and must implement tight quality control procedures. These requirements guarantee that all media evaluation services provided are of the highest caliber. The Commission on Public Relations Measurement & Evaluation is a different organization that was established in 1998 under the direction of the Institute for Public Relations. The Commission's main functions are to set standards and procedures for research and measurement in public relations and to publish authoritative white papers on best practices.

References

Media studies
Social information processing
Mass media monitoring
Social media
Mesocompact space

In mathematics, in the field of general topology, a topological space is said to be mesocompact if every open cover has a compact-finite open refinement. That is, given any open cover, we can find an open refinement with the property that every compact set meets only finitely many members of the refinement.

The following facts are true about mesocompactness:
 Every compact space, and more generally every paracompact space is mesocompact. This follows from the fact that any locally finite cover is automatically compact-finite.
 Every mesocompact space is metacompact, and hence also orthocompact. This follows from the fact that points are compact, and hence any compact-finite cover is automatically point finite.

Notes

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Compactness (mathematics)
Properties of topological spaces
Shimsk

Shimsk () is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Shimsky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Shimskoye Urban Settlement, the only urban settlement in the district. It is located on a highway connecting Veliky Novgorod and Pskov,  southwest of Veliky Novgorod. Shimsk lies on Shelon River, approximately  upstream from the point where it drains into Lake Ilmen. Population: 

A number of mineral water sources, notably the ones near the village of Uspolon, are located nearby.

History
In the Middle Ages the Shelon River played an important role as part of the trade route connecting Novgorod and Pskov and further with the Narva River. At the end of the 15th century, the area was transferred, together with Novgorod, to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, where it belonged to the Shelon pyatina of Novgorod. 

Shimsk was founded in 1878 as a station of the railway connecting Novgorod and Staraya Russa (the railway was destroyed during World War II). In the beginning of the 20th century, Shimsk, then a selo and known as Shimsky Perevoz, was the center of Shimskaya Volost of Novgorodsky Uyezd of Novgorod Governorate.

On February 15, 1935 Shimsky District, with the center in Shimsk, was established. Between 1941 and 1944 Shimsk was occupied by German troops. On July 5, 1944, Shimsky District was transferred to newly established Novgorod Oblast. On February 1, 1963 Shimsky District was abolished, and on February 1, 1973 it was re-established. On February 5, 1981 Shimsk was granted a status of urban-type settlement.

Economy

Industry
Industry in Shimsk is mainly food industry.

Transportation
Shimsk is located on the A116 highway which connects Veliky Novgorod and Porkhov (and continues to Pskov under a different code). It is also connected by roads with Luga, Staraya Russa, and Volot. There are local roads as well.

The Shelon is navigable in Shimsk, however, there is no passenger navigation.

References

Notes

Sources

Urban-type settlements in Novgorod Oblast
Shimsky District
Novgorodsky Uyezd
Rúaidhrí Conroy

Rúaidhrí Conroy (born 30 November 1979 in Dublin) is an Irish actor. He is the son of actor Brendan Conroy. One of his first castings was as Tito (and not Tayto as commonly misconceived) in the 1992 film  Into the West, for which he won a Young Artist Award in the Outstanding Youth Actors in a Family Foreign Film category.
In 1998, Conroy received the Theatre World Award for his performance in Martin McDonagh's play, The Cripple of Inishmaan.

Conroy also appeared in another McDonagh piece, Six Shooter, which won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in 2006. Although invited to the 78th Academy Awards, Conroy was unable to attend due to a "passport infringement" on arrival, resulting in his being returned home.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre credits
 1998 – Public Theater, New York production of The Cripple of Inishmaan – Billy (Lead)
 1997 – Royal National Theatre production of The Cripple of Inishmaan – Billy (Lead)
 1999 – Druid Theatre Company (Irish Tour) production of The Country Boy – Lead
 2000 – DRUID Theatre Company at Gaiety Theatre production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane – Ray
 2004 – ART NI production of Philadelphia, Here I Come! – "Public" Gar

Awards
 1993 – Young Artist Award: Outstanding Youth Actors in a Family Foreign Film
 1998 – Theatre World Award

References

External links
 Markham Froggatt Ltd. – Personal management company representing Ruaidhri Conroy.
 
 
 

1979 births
Irish male film actors
Irish male stage actors
Irish male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Dublin (city)
20th-century Irish male actors
21st-century Irish male actors
Theatre World Award winners
Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (1991)

The Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, Khalid ‘Abd al-Majid faction is a Palestinian political faction formed and led by Khalid ‘Abd al-Majid. The group emerged in 1991 as a split from the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, whose name it continued to use. ‘Abd al-Majid rejected the decision of the mainstream PPSF leader Samir Ghawshah to rejoin the PLO and to accept the Oslo Accords and the formation of the Palestinian National Authority.

The PPSF, ‘Abd al-Majid faction is based in Damascus, Syria, and plays a negligible role in mainstream Palestinian politics, and is often seen as controlled by the Syrian government. The group is outside the PLO, but participates in the Palestinian National and Islamic Forces and the Damascus-based Alliance of Palestinian Forces.

The group formed an armed wing, the Palestinian Popular Jihad Brigades, in the Gaza strip in July 2008. In October 2008, the group declared itself part of an alliance with the Nasser Brigades and the Palestinian Freedom Movement.

It has taken part in the Syrian Civil War on the side of the Syrian government, fighting against the Syrian opposition in the Siege of Eastern Ghouta, the Battle of Yarmouk Camp (2015), the Southern Damascus offensive (April–May 2018), and other battles.

References

External links
Website of PPSF (al-Majid faction)

1991 establishments in Syria
Former factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestinian militant groups
Palestinian nationalist parties
Palestinian political parties
Political parties established in 1991
Pro-government factions of the Syrian civil war
Socialist parties in the Palestinian territories
Shrinking space

In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be a shrinking space if every open cover admits a shrinking. A shrinking of an open cover is another open cover indexed by the same indexing set, with the property that the closure of each open set in the shrinking lies inside the corresponding original open set.

Properties 

The following facts are known about shrinking spaces:

 Every shrinking space is normal.
 Every shrinking space is countably paracompact.
 In a normal space, every locally finite, and in fact, every point-finite open cover admits a shrinking.
 Thus, every normal metacompact space is a shrinking space. In particular, every paracompact space is a shrinking space.

These facts are particularly important because shrinking of open covers is a common technique in the theory of differential manifolds and while constructing functions using a partition of unity.

See also

References 

 General topology, Stephen Willard, definition 15.9 p. 104

Topology
Properties of topological spaces
Topological spaces
Bigton

Bigton is a small settlement on South Mainland, Shetland, UK. Bigton is within the civil parish of Dunrossness.

Bigton lies on the Atlantic coast of the island overlooking St Ninian's Isle and within view is the island of Burra, further to the north. It is 18 miles by road from Lerwick, just off the B9122 and lies just north of the settlement of Scousburgh. The smaller settlement of Ireland adjoins Bigton.

Facilities include a post office/shop and a cafe. Bigton Kirk was sold by the Church of Scotland in 2021 to Bigton Collective who converted it into a community centre.  Farming in the area is a mixture of arable and mixed livestock.

The author, film-maker and painter Elizabeth Balneaves and her husband  Dr James McLauchlan Johnston lived in the old manse, Bigton for the last 20 years of Balneaves'  life.

References

External links

Its entry in Shetlopedia
Canmore - Bigton, Bigton House site record
Canmore - Bigton, St Ninian's Church and Gatepiers site record

Villages in Mainland, Shetland
Ocean 2: The Answer

Ocean 2: The Answer is the sixteenth studio album by German rock band Eloy, released in 1998. It was the conceptual and, some would say, musical follow-up to the band's 1977 album Ocean.

This album saw the addition to the band of drummer Bodo Schopf.

The keyboard outro to "Reflections from the Spheres Beyond" is very reminiscent of the main theme to the 1970s American sci-fi TV series, "Battlestar Galactica."

Track listing
Lyrics by Frank Bornemann. Music as indicated.
 "Between Future and Past" (Michael Gerlach)  – 2:43
 "Ro Setau" (Bornemann)  – 7:09
 "Paralysed Civilization" (Bornemann/Gerlach)  – 9:28
 "Serenity" (Bornemann/Gerlach/Klaus-Peter Matziol)  – 3:09
 "Awakening of Consciousness" (Bornemann/Gerlach)  – 6:03
 "Reflections from the Spheres Beyond" (Bornemann/Gerlach)  – 12:59
 "Waves of Intuition" (Bornemann/Matziol)  – 4:56
 "The Answer" (Bornemann)  – 11:19

Personnel
Frank Bornemann — vocals, guitar
Michael Gerlach — keyboards, backing vocals
Klaus-Peter Matziol — bass
Bodo Schopf — drums & percussion
Produced by Frank Bornemann

Guest musicians
Steve Mann — slide guitar on "The Answer"
Susanne Schätzle — backing vocals
Tina Lux — backing vocals
Hannes Folberth — MiniMoog on "Ro Setau"
Volker Kuinke — recorder (flute) on "Paralysed Civilization", "Waves of Intuition", and "The Answer"
Peter Beckett and Tom Jackson — choir on "The Answer"
Daniela Wöhler, Frederike Stübner and Susanne Moldenhauer — soprano voices on "The Answer"
Prague Philharmonic Choir on "The Answer"

1998 albums
Eloy (band) albums
GUN Records albums
Machinist calculator

A machinist calculator is a hand-held calculator programmed with built-in formulas making it easy and quick for machinists to establish speeds, feeds and time without guesswork or conversion charts. Formulas may include revolutions per minute (RPM), surface feet per minute (SFM), inches per minute (IPM), feed per tooth (FPT). A cut time (CT) function takes the user, step-by-step, through a calculation to determine cycle time (execution time) for a given tool motion. Other features may include a metric-English conversion function, a stop watch/timer function and a standard math calculator.

This type of calculator is useful for machinists, programmers, inspectors, estimators, supervisors, and students.

When Handheld Machinist calculators first came to market they were complicated to use due to their small liquid-crystal displays and were fairly expensive with a price of around $70-$80. These older units were missing many features and could not be upgraded. With the invention of the smartphone, Machinist Calculators now have many more features and are ever evolving with constant software upgrades. One popular example of a Machinist calculator is an application called "CNC Machinist Calculator Pro". This machinist calculator has 35 subsections of machining calculations which include turning, milling (machining), drilling, tapping, Grinding (abrasive cutting), gun drilling, GD&T, M-codes, G-codes, thread data, Threading (manufacturing), Position tolerance, bolt circle, surface finish, over wire thread pitch dimensions, center drill dimensions, triangle solver, machinability data with Surface feet per minute (SFM) and RPM conversions, List of materials properties, Brinell scale material hardenability, hardness conversions, scientific calculator functions, etc..

Modern Machinist Speed and Feed Calculators 
Because early Machinist Calculators were limited by the analog user interface and computing power, Speeds and Feeds were fairly rudimentary, most of the time providing speed and feed independently from each other.

Some of the modern Machinist Calculators have departed from the scattered approach to Speeds and Feeds and incorporated selectors for all supported tool types, materials, and tool data input fields on to a single screen, making Speeds and Feeds calculator a first-class citizen.
For example, FSWizard - the first app in its class, contains cutting data for hundreds of work-piece materials and dozens of tool types and allows to calculate Speeds and Feeds with high accuracy and reliability. As a bonus, it contains other useful references to Drill Charts, Geometry Calculators, and so on.

Steps required to accurately calculate Speeds and Feeds include:
 Selecting Work-Piece Material
 Selecting Tool Type, Tool Material and Coating
 Entering Tool Diameter, Tool Stick-out, and Flute Length
 Entering Engagement values, Depth and Width of Cut
With modern GUI these steps take only a few seconds and yield results far greater than having to go through typical trial and error cycle.

References

Calculators
Metalworking tools
James Dunnigan

James Dunnigan may refer to:

 Jim Dunnigan (James F. Dunnigan, born 1943), author and military-political analyst
 James Dunnigan (politician) (born 1953), American politician in the Utah House of Representatives
Hemicompact space

In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be hemicompact if it has a sequence of compact subsets such that every compact subset of the space lies inside some compact set in the sequence. Clearly, this forces the union of the sequence to be the whole space, because every point is compact and hence must lie in one of the compact sets.

Examples
 Every compact space is hemicompact.
 The real line is hemicompact.
 Every locally compact Lindelöf space is hemicompact.

Properties
Every hemicompact space is σ-compact and if in addition it is first countable then it is locally compact. If a hemicompact space is weakly locally compact, then it is exhaustible by compact sets.

Applications
If  is a hemicompact space, then the space  of all continuous functions  to a metric space  with the compact-open topology is metrizable. To see this, take a sequence  of compact subsets of  such that every compact subset of  lies inside some compact set in this sequence (the existence of such a sequence follows from the hemicompactness of ). Define pseudometrics

Then

defines a metric on  which induces the compact-open topology.

See also
 Compact space
 Exhaustible by compact sets
 Locally compact space
 Lindelöf space

Notes

References

Compactness (mathematics)
Properties of topological spaces
Lansdowne, Virginia

Lansdowne is a census-designated place and planned community located near Leesburg, Virginia in Loudoun County, Virginia. The population as of the 2010 United States Census was 11,253.
It is north of State Route 7 and south of the Potomac River. Before the Revolutionary War, the Lee family established Coton Manor here. A section of the Potomac Heritage Trail runs through Lansdowne. It is the home of Inova Loudoun Hospital, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Lansdowne Resort, Prison Fellowship, and Lansdowne Woods of Virginia, a gated, age-restricted community.

Lansdowne is part of the Washington metropolitan area.

Geography
Lansdowne is in eastern Loudoun County,  northwest of downtown Washington, D.C., and  southeast of Leesburg, the Loudoun county seat. It is bordered to the south, across Route 7, by Belmont and Ashburn, while to the northeast, across the Potomac River, it is bordered by Montgomery County, Maryland.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Lansdowne CDP has a total area of , of which , or 1.98%, are water. Goose Creek flows northward through the northwestern part of the CDP, entering the Potomac River at the northern edge of the community, between the River Creek golf course community to the north and Elizabeth Mills Riverfront Park to the south.

Homeowners' associations
There are three principal residential homeowners' associations in Lansdowne. The largest is the Lansdowne on the Potomac HOA, which represents over 2,200 homes in the Lansdowne area, adjoining the Potomac Station community to the west along Riverside Parkway. The second is Lansdowne Woods of Virginia, a HOA consisting of five condominium associations totaling 1,057 homes. The third is Lansdowne Village Greens (The Homes Lansdowne Town Center), which represents over 500 homes surrounding the Lansdowne Town Center area between Riverside Parkway on the north, Route 7 on the south, Belmont Ridge Road on the west and the Lansdowne Country Club Golf Course on the east.

Education
Students in Lansdowne are served by Loudoun County Public Schools. Children who live in the western area of Lansdowne attend elementary school at Seldens Landing Elementary School in Lansdowne. Children who live in the eastern area of Lansdowne attend elementary school at Steuart W. Weller Elementary School in Ashburn. Middle school students attend Belmont Ridge Middle School in Lansdowne. High school students attend Riverside High School, also located in Lansdowne. In the past, students have attended Tuscarora High School (2010-2015), Stone Bridge High School (2002-2010), Eagle Ridge Middle School (2002-2003), and Belmont Station Elementary School (2008-2013).

See also

The National Conference Center, located in Lansdowne

References

External links
Homeowners associations:
Lansdowne on the Potomac
Lansdowne Woods of Virginia
Lansdowne Village Greens

Census-designated places in Loudoun County, Virginia
Census-designated places in Virginia
Washington metropolitan area