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A. J. Bakunas

Albert John Bakunas, Jr, a.k.a. A.J. Bakunas (October 23, 1950 – September 22, 1978) was a stunt performer who died doubling for George Kennedy in a fall from the Kincaid Towers in Lexington, Kentucky, for the film Steel (1979).

Born in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Bakunas quit his job as a gym teacher at Tenafly (N.J.) High School in 1974 and set out to break into the film industry.  He did his first stuntwork for the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.  Bakunas became known for expertly performing falls from great heights.

In 1978, Bakunas set a world record with a  fall from a helicopter for the film Hooper, which was broken that same year by Dar Robinson's  fall for a non-movie-related publicity stunt.

Bakunas, determined to retake the record, returned to Lexington to perform a  jump from the 22nd floor of a construction site, where he had previously successfully fallen nine stories. On September 21, 1978, as his father and a crowd of about 1,000 watched, Bakunas performed the fall, reaching an estimated speed of .  However, the airbag split on impact, and Bakunas died of his injuries the next day.

Filmography

References

Lexington Leader, September 21, 1978

External links

American stunt performers
1950 births
1978 deaths
Male actors from New Jersey
Accidental deaths from falls
Accidental deaths in Kentucky
Filmed deaths from falls
Filmed deaths in the United States
20th-century American male actors
Wykey

Wykey is a hamlet in Shropshire, England.

It is approximately 2 miles north of the larger village of Ruyton-XI-Towns, and is recognised as one of the eleven ("XI") towns.

In the centre of the village one can find the rare sight of a 19th-century, Victorian red postbox and red telephone box, which amount to its only facilities.

See also
Listed buildings in Ruyton-XI-Towns

External links

Villages in Shropshire
Big Ron

Big Ron may refer to:

 Big Ron Studd, American professional wrestler
 Big Ron Harris, American professional wrestler
 Big Ron (EastEnders), soap opera character
 A nickname for former football player and manager Ron Atkinson
Laird Hayes

Dr. Laird Hayes (born October 3, 1949) is a former American football official in the National Football League (NFL). He was in the NFL for 23 years between 1995 and 2017. He wore uniform number 125. For the 2017 NFL season, Hayes was the side judge on the officiating crew headed by referee Walt Anderson. Hayes retired following the 2017 season.

Hayes graduated from San Marcos High School in Santa Barbara, California. Hayes earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in New Jersey in 1971. He was awarded a Master's and Doctorate in Higher Education from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976.

He played on football, basketball and baseball teams in high school, which prepared him for an athletic performance at Princeton. He played on the freshman football team and four years as a catcher for the Princeton Tigers baseball team.

Hayes' officiating career started with basketball, baseball, and football games in high school and community colleges. In 1983, he was elevated to the Pac-10 as a football official. This was followed with a 1995 appointment to the National Football League roster of officials and his designation as a side judge. During his career in the NFL, he has officiated in three Super Bowls: XXXVI in 2002, XXXVIII in 2004, and XLVI in 2012 (where he made a call which might be consider one of the greatest calls in Super Bowl history). He also officiated at the 2006 Pro Bowl.

Hayes has held the post of Men's Soccer Coach and Professor of Education and Athletics at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, since 1976 and retired in November 2010. He also taught First Aid/CPR, surfing, bowling, soccer, and weight training.

Hayes is President of the Quarterback and Receiver Camp (QBR) in its 50th year of non-contact, football fundamentals training for youth players, grades 6 through 12. QBR schedules six summer camps held in California, New Jersey, Arkansas, Ohio and Georgia.

References

Living people
1949 births
College football officials
National Football League officials
Princeton Tigers baseball players
UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies alumni
Sportspeople from Santa Barbara, California
SVG Working Group

The SVG Working Group is a working group created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to address the need for an alternative to the PostScript document format. The PostScript format was unable to create scalable fonts and objects without creating files which were inordinately larger than a file which used unscalable fonts and objects.

In April 1998, the W3C received a note from representatives of four corporate entities  – Adobe Systems, IBM, Netscape and Sun Microsystems  –  with regard to the Precision Graphics Markup Language (PGML), an XML-based markup language.

A second note was submitted came a month later from a team which included representatives of Hewlett-Packard, Macromedia, Microsoft, and Visio; the note contained a draft specification for the Vector Markup Language (VML), another XML-based markup language.

As a result of both missives, the W3C convened a working group, and within six months, the group published a working draft of requirements for the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. This format, unlike Postscript, is optimized for the Web. It is able to describe two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications via XML.

Initial versions of the SVG specification have now been natively implemented by most modern browsers. The SVG Working Group continues to work on enhancements, which will be published as a comprehensive SVG 2.0 specification. As of September 2014, the various modules of this new specification were expected to reach Candidate Recommendation status in 2015 or early 2016.

Members
Members of the SVG Working Group include representatives from the following organizations:

 Adobe Systems Inc.
 Apple
 AutoCAD
 BitFlash
 Open Text (BitFlash Division)
 Canon, Inc.
 ERCIM
 Ericsson
 Expway
 France Telecom
 Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications
 Ikivo AB
 ILOG
 Inkscape
 ITEDO Software GmbH
 KDDI Corporation
 Keio University
 Kodak
 Microsoft
 Mozilla
 Opera Software
 Research In Motion, Ltd. (RIM)
 Sharp Corporation
 Sun Microsystems Inc.

W3C has also invited several experts to collaborate with the working group.

Notes

External links
Official site
SVG Charter
SVG Roadmap
SVG Brings Fast Vector Graphics to Web

Working Group

Working groups
World Wide Web Consortium
Delmarva Christian High School

Delmarva Christian High School is a private Christian high school located in Georgetown, Delaware, the geographic center, and county seat of Sussex County.

Background
In April 1999 a group of Sussex County educators, businesspeople, pastors, and parents came together to form Delmarva Christian Schools, Inc., to address the issue of high school education for Christian high school students. Delmarva is not a charter school, but privately funded.

Christian schools in Delaware
High schools in Sussex County, Delaware
Private high schools in Delaware
Vieux Carré Riverfront Expressway

The Vieux Carré Riverfront Expressway was a controversial, mostly-elevated, never-built freeway that would have cut through the French Quarter (Vieux Carré) of New Orleans, Louisiana. From 1964 to 1969, it was also designated Interstate 310 (I-310).

Route description

The freeway would have split from I-10 at exit 237 (Elysian Fields Avenue—Louisiana Highway 3021) and run south along Elysian Fields Avenue to the Mississippi River. There, it would turn southwest and run to a point near Lafayette Street, where ramps would connect to the Greater New Orleans Bridge (U.S. Route 90 Business). An extension, never part of the Interstate Highway System, was to continue west to meet the Earhart Expressway (Louisiana Highway 3139).

A small piece of the freeway was built as a six-lane,  tunnel, under the Rivergate Convention Center, now Harrah's New Orleans Casino. It is now used for valet parking.

History
The Louisiana Highway Department (predecessor to the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development) hired Robert Moses as a consultant in 1946 to examine New Orleans' traffic and propose solutions. His proposals included a  freeway running  from I-10 near Elysian Fields Ave, following Elysian Fields at ground level to the riverfront, and continuing south, elevated to the US 90 Bus. bridge approach. It was not added to the Interstate Highway System as an urban route in the 1950s due to a lack of funding, but, by 1961, it was being considered for addition. One proposal to gain the mileage was to shift I-10 to the Riverfront route, but eventually, in 1964, the I-420 bypass of Monroe was removed from the Interstate System and the mileage transferred to the Riverfront Expressway project. It was officially added to the Interstate Highway System on October 13, 1964, as I-310.

After wide local opposition, the freeway was removed from the Interstate System on August 22, 1969. Its mileage was used in part for a new southern bypass of New Orleans—I-410—which was itself never completed.

See also
Earhart Expressway
Freeway and expressway revolts

References

Further reading

External links

Cancelled highway projects in the United States
Transportation in New Orleans
French Quarter
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Slovak Cup

The Slovak Cup (), currently named Slovnaft Cup due to sponsorship agreement with Slovnaft, is the only nationwide knockout competition in Slovak football. The winner qualifies for the UEFA Europa Conference League qualification rounds.

History

The competition was first contested in 1969. Until 1993, the winner of the Slovak Cup would face the winner of the Czech Cup in the Czechoslovak Cup final, the winner of which would be Czechoslovakia's representative in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (Slovan Bratislava won the tournament in 1968/1969).

Sponsorship

Qualification

Format

Cup winners (Czechoslovak era 1969-1993)

Cup Winners (Slovak era 1993-present)

Key

Performance by club

Titles by city

Venues of final matches 
(Does not include matches when the home-away system was played)

Notes

References

External links
 Slovnaft Cup 2023/24 at Futbalnet 
 Slovak Cup at int.soccerway.com

 
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Slovakia
Arbeláez

Arbeláez () is a town and municipality in the Cundinamarca Department, Colombia. It borders Fusagasugá, Pasca and other municipalities of the Sumapaz Province.
Arbeláez is recognized as a quiet and friendly city of Colombia. It is known for its touristic interest due to mountain landscape, recreation centers, walking trails, ecotourism and sites presenting multiple opportunities for visitors.

External links 

  
 :es:Arbeláez

Municipalities of Cundinamarca Department
Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs

Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs is a municipality in the  regional county municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut in Quebec, Canada, located in the administrative region of Laurentides. The municipality was founded in 1946 and was assigned the municipal number 77035 by the Quebec government. The Roman Catholic parish of Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs was founded in 1940.

Demographics 
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

Public services

The postal code for Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs is J0R 1B0. The municipality is served by a post office located inside a building supplies store and two rural routes.

Telephone service is provided through a Bell Canada telephone exchange at Prévost.

Police services are provided by the Sûreté du Québec, Quebec's provincial police force, and were formerly provided by the Régie intermunicipale de police de la Rivière-du-Nord, which also served Piedmont, Prévost  and some other communities in the Laurentians.

The Municipality has its own fire department. A new fire station building near the town hall was expected to be open in July 2015.

Politics
 Mayor:  Catherine Hamé
 Secretary-Treasurer: Christiane Côté.
 Member of Parliament:
Marc-André Morin (NDP).
 Member of the National Assembly of Quebec: Claude Cousineau (Parti Québécois).

Lac Marois Country Club

The Lac Marois Country Club, located on the shores of Lac Marois, is a members only club open from late June to the end of August.

It was founded in 1903 for outdoor church services. Land was donated in 1910 and the Lac Marois Union Church was built. The Lac Marois Country Club came into being in 1929, as a means to fulfill more than spiritual needs, and requested the church grant them the right to build a clubhouse on church property.

The Union Church owns the property and leases the land to the Interlake Youth Club, the parent company of the Lac Marois Country Club.

At L.M.C.C. (Lac Marois Country Club), children can take lessons. Lessons include swimming (lessons and swimteam), tennis, sailing, canoeing, and junior club.

Education

Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates Anglophone public schools:
 Morin Heights Elementary School in Morin-Heights serves a portion of the town
 Laurentian Regional High School in Lachute

See also
Lake Guindon
List of parish municipalities in Quebec

References

 Commission de la toponymie du Québec. Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs (Municipalité de paroisse) Retrieved May 22, 2006.
 
 Statistics Canada
 The Atlas of Canada
 House of Commons, Canada

External links 
Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs
Bibliothèque de Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs - Réseau BIBLIO des Laurentides 
Tourisme Pays-d'en-Haut  
Centre local de développement des Pays-d'en-Haut
Centre local de développement des Pays-d'en-Haut. List of communities 
 Statistics Canada. 2002. 2001 Community profiles. Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs
Comité des Citoyens de Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs

Parish municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Laurentides
Williamson Art Gallery and Museum

The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum is an art gallery and museum situated in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England and houses Wirral's art collection.

History
The art gallery and museum opened on 1 December 1928, the single-storey building is Neo-Georgian in style, and was deliberately designed to blend in with the local surroundings. Financial support for its establishment was primarily provided by John Williamson, a Director of the Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd. and his son Patrick Williamson. Local support for the establishment of the museum also came from members and families of the nearby Birkenhead Art Club (founded 1908) who helped contributed artworks and funding to the building.

Collections and events
Its collection includes Victorian oil paintings,  English watercolours, Liverpool porcelain, and the UK's largest public collection of Della Robbia pottery.  It also has a large collection of ship models, focusing on Cammell Laird shipbuilders, the Mersey Ferries, and the vessels that used the River Mersey. This includes items from ships such as the bell of the RMS Mauretania.

The gallery also hosts regular exhibitions that can include work by nationally and internationally renowned artists. There are regular musical concerts and the gallery is also a venue for art and crafts workshops.

Paintings in the gallery include:
 The muslin dress by Philip Wilson Steer.
 Seagulls by Albert Joseph Moore.

See also
Listed buildings in Claughton, Merseyside
Birkenhead Priory

References

External links
Williamson Art Gallery and Museum - official site

Art museums established in 1928
Buildings and structures in Birkenhead
Culture in Merseyside
Art museums and galleries in Merseyside
Museums in Merseyside
1928 establishments in England
Art galleries established in 1928
Laurel High School

Laurel High School may refer to:

Laurel High School, in Los Alamitos, California
Laurel High School (Delaware)
Laurel High School (Maryland)
Laurel High School (Mississippi)
Laurel High School (Montana)
Laurel High School (Wisconsin)
Laurel High School (Knoxville, Tennessee), a high school in Knox County, Tennessee

See also
North Laurel High School and South Laurel High School, Laurel County Public Schools, Kentucky
Kickapoo High School

Kickapoo High School may refer to:

Kickapoo High School (Springfield, Missouri)
Kickapoo High School (Viola, Wisconsin)
Sticker album

A sticker album is a book in which collectable stickers are stuck into designated sections. Sticker album themes can be sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup, English Premier League or TV shows, Movies, Animals or Music. Panini were the first company to release a collectable football sticker doing so in 1961, but coming more prominent with their release of the 1970 World Cup album. Merlin Publishing and Topps also notably mass produced sticker albums of a variety of different subjects.

History
Panini first produced a World Cup sticker album for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. Initiating a craze for collecting and trading stickers, UK newspaper The Guardian states, "the tradition of swapping duplicate [World Cup] stickers was a playground fixture during the 1970s and 1980s." A complete 1970 World Cup sticker album signed by Pelé sold for a record £10,450.

The stickers are usually sold in blind packs, so the purchaser does not know which stickers they are buying. Collectors then swap or sell their spares with other collectors. When perusing a fellow collector's stickers in order to determine which stickers are of interest, it is usual practice for the prospective recipient to sort through the stack of stickers quickly in their hands, and place them into 2 piles (those of interest, and those which they already possess). Protocol dictates that the sorter must state out loud either "got it" or "need it" as they assess each sticker in turn.

Layout

Sports

A sports-related sticker album, such as Panini's FIFA World Cup edition, have designated sections for each team along with numbered rectangles for each sticker. Each sticker will have the player's picture and below it there is usually their name, birth date, position and birthplace. In addition to the players, there are stickers which bear the team's crest and a team photo. Under its Merlin brand, since 1994 Topps has held the licence to produce a sticker album for the Premier League, which is the best selling annual collectable for boys in the UK. According to the Panini Group, the 2010 FIFA World Cup album sold 10 million packs in the U.S. alone.

Digital sticker album
In May 2006, Panini partnered with The Coca-Cola Company and Tokenzone to produce the first virtual sticker album for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. For the 2014 FIFA World Cup, three million FIFA.com users took part in the Panini Digital Sticker Album contest. Panini developed an app for the 2018 FIFA World Cup where fans could collect and swap virtual stickers. Five million people gathered digital stickers for the 2018 World Cup.

See also
Association football trading card
Coupon collector's problem
Panini Group
Merlin Publishing

References

Association football culture
Books by type
Memorabilia
Album
Association football fandom
Brookwood High School

Brookwood High School may refer to:

Brookwood High School (Alabama)
Brookwood High School (Georgia)
Brookwood High School (Ontario, Wisconsin)
Brookwood School
Brook (surname)

Brook is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Abraham Brook (flourished 1789), English physicist and bookseller
Andrew Brook (born 1943), Canadian philosopher
Basil Brook (1576 – c. 1646), English ironmaster, see Basil Brooke (metallurgist)
Benjamin Brook (1776–1848), English nonconformist minister and religious historian
Charles Brook (philanthropist) (1814–1872), English philanthropist
Claudio Brook (1927–1995), Mexican actor
Clive Brook (1887–1974), English actor
David Brook (disambiguation)
Eric Brook (1907–1965), English footballer
Faith Brook (1922–2012), English actress
George Brook (cricketer) (1888–1966), English cricketer
, British zoologist
Gina Knee Brook (1898–1982), American painter 
 Harry Brook (born 1999). English cricketer
Helen Brook (1907–1997), British family planning adviser 
Holly Brook (born 1986), AKA Skylar Grey, American singer and songwriter 
Jayne Brook (born 1962), American actress
Kelly Brook (born 1979), English model
Michael Brook (born 1951), Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer
Norman Brook, 1st Baron Normanbrook (1902–1967), British civil servant.
Peter Brook (1925–2022), English theatre and film director and innovator
Rhidian Brook (born 1964), British novelist, screenwriter and broadcaster
Richard Brook (chief executive), English executive
Timothy Brook (born 1951), Canadian historian
Tom Brook (born 1953), BBC World presenter
William Broke or Brook, English 16th-century college and university head
Yaron Brook (born 1961), Israeli-American entrepreneur and writer

See also
Brooks (surname)

English-language surnames
Oleksandr Beresch

Oleksandr Beresch (; 12 October 1977, Pervomaisk – 29 February 2004, Kyiv) was a gymnast from Ukraine and Olympic medallist at the 2000 Sydney Games.

Coached by former Soviet World Champion Igor Korobchinsky, Beresch began competing internationally for Ukraine in 1997, winning a bronze medal on the high bar at his first World Championships.  Over the next several years he became the preeminent male gymnast on the Ukrainian team, medalling at the World Cup several times.

Beresch's breakout year was 2000; in this year he was the European all-around and high bar champion, as well as the bronze all-around medalist at the 2000 Olympics.  His contributions to the Ukrainian team helped them win their first team medal, a silver, in Sydney.  He continued to turn in strong performances after the Olympics, winning three medals at the 2001 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and winning the high bar gold at the 2000 World finals in Paris.

Accident

In February 2004, when Beresch was driving through Kyiv, his Peugeot was struck by a speeding car travelling at over 150 kilometres per hour.  He was killed; his passenger, teammate Sergei Vyaltsev, survived with critical injuries.

Beresch's death was met with shock and sorrow by the international gymnastics community.  Former Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation president Ludmilla Tourischeva issued a public statement, saying "there are no words to express our grief."  Several memorials to Beresch were held, including an emotional video tribute at the 2004 European Championships.

References

Sources
 
 Profile at International Gymnast
 
 "Romanian men Europe's best" Inside Gymnastics magazine, 16 April 2004
 "Beresch loses life" Inside Gymnastics magazine, 1 March 2004

External links
 

1977 births
2004 deaths
Ukrainian male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Road incident deaths in Ukraine
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Olympic silver medalists for Ukraine
Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
European champions in gymnastics
Sportspeople from Luhansk Oblast
20th-century Ukrainian people
Federico Fabregat

Federico Fabregat (1975—9 March 2021) was a Mexican visual artist, musician (dJ), filmmaker, and writer. He was born in 1975 in Guadalajara, Jalisco.

Overview

Fabregat was the co-author of the book of poems  entitled "SEIS", published by Editorial Agata (2001), which he wrote with five other poets, among them Asdrúbal Eriko Sainz and Daniel Gómez Moreno. He was also a reporter in two of the most important newspapers in the city of Guadalajara (El Informador and Ocho Columnas), working on the art and performances sections and co-publishing the social section. In addition, he was the creative director of the communication enterprise Agencia M along with Insight Marketing. As of May 2006, he was the creative director of Brandcorp, often wrote for media organizations such as Blink, and worked regularly on the Tedium Vitae magazine editorial council.

In addition, he had various artistic musical projects of vanguard, where he had shared the scene with figures such as The Orb and System 7, Nopal Beat Collective among others.

Fabregat maintained other conceptual art projects of the hand of other artists, among them Tomás López Rocha (a plastic artist also living in Guadalajara, Jalisco).

Fabregat also collaborated in the second most important music & art festival in Mexico: Festival Cultural de Mayo (in Guadalajara, Jalisco). In this event, he worked in two projects for the 2007 edition: 1) an alternative festival of electronic and indie music inside Festival Cultural de Mayo, and 2) in the integral programme of innovative strategies to promote this festival. Besides, in this festival edition, he offered a conversation around the contemporary electronic music movement in Guadalajara, in the MAZ (Museo de Arte de Zapopan).

Fabregat was also the author of the book called Oda al Simulacro (Ediciones Arlequin 2008) and Filosofía de Clase Media (also form Ediciones Arlequín 2014).

Fabregat was also a movie director and wrote scripts. His first short film is called "El Torturador" .

Notes

External links
Festival Cultural de Mayo
Revista Replicante 

1975 births
2021 deaths
Writers from Guadalajara, Jalisco
Mexican people of Catalan descent
Place of death missing

Mexican artists
Harry Carpenter (bishop)

Harry James Carpenter (b. Liss 20 October 1901 – d. Oxford 24 May 1993) was an English bishop and theologian. He was warden of Keble College, Oxford (1939–1956) and then 37th Bishop of Oxford (1955–1970).

Carpenter was educated at Churcher's College and Queens' College, Cambridge; and ordained after  studying at Cuddesdon College in 1928. His first post was a curacy in Leatherhead.

Carpenter married Urith Monica Trevelyan, a teacher. Their son was the biographer, writer and radio broadcaster, Humphrey Carpenter.

From 1962 to 1970, Carpenter he lived in the village of Cuddesdon, where there had historically been a bishop's palace, but his successors found this impractical and in 1978 the bishops reverted to living within the city. He initiated the ecumenical discussions which eventually resulted in the building of the Church of Christ the Cornerstone in Milton Keynes.

There is a parish school named after Carpenter in the Oxfordshire village of North Newington.

References

External links
Carpenter's appeal for new churches, March 1958
Carpenter pictured in 1969

1901 births
1993 deaths
People from Liss
People educated at Churcher's College
Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
Alumni of Ripon College Cuddesdon
Fellows of Keble College, Oxford
Wardens of Keble College, Oxford
Bishops of Oxford
20th-century Church of England bishops
Khvoynaya, Khvoyninsky District, Novgorod Oblast

Khvoynaya () is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Khvoyninsky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Pes and Talka Rivers. Municipally, it is incorporated as Khvoyninskoye Urban Settlement, the only urban settlement in the district. Population:

History
The settlement of Khvoynaya was founded in 1927 to serve the station on the railroad connecting Sonkovo and Mga. The name in Russian means "in the needle-trees" and was given because the station was located in the pine forest. After August 1, 1927 it was part of Minetsky District of Borovichi Okrug of Leningrad Oblast. On July 23, 1930 the okrugs were abolished, and the districts became directly subordinate to the oblast. On June 8, 1931 the district center was transferred to Khvoynaya, and the district was renamed into Khvoyninsky District. On August 20, 1935 Khvoynaya was granted the status of an urban-type settlement. On July 5, 1944, Khvoyninsky District was transferred to newly established Novgorod Oblast and remained there ever since, with a brief interruption between 1963 and 1965, when the district was abolished as a part of aborted Khrushchyov administrative reform.

Economy

Industry
There are enterprises of timber industry and food industry in Khvoynaya.

Transportation
Khvoynaya was founded as a railway station on the railroad connecting Sonkovo and Mga. Later, the motive power depot was transferred to Khvoynaya.

Roads connect Khvoynaya to Borovichi and Lyubytino. There are also local roads.

Culture and recreation
Khvoynaya hosts the Khvoyninsky District Museum, the only museum in the district.

References

Notes

Sources

Urban-type settlements in Novgorod Oblast
Borovichsky Uyezd
Arcadia High School

Arcadia High School may refer to:
Arcadia High School (Arizona)
Arcadia High School (California)
Arcadia High School (Louisiana)
Arcadia Charter School, a school in Northfield, Minnesota
Arcadia High School (Nebraska), in Arcadia, Nebraska
Arcadia High School (New York)
Arcadia High School (Ohio)
Arcadia High School (Virginia)
Arcadia High School (Wisconsin), in Arcadia, Wisconsin
Titan Empire

Titan Empire is a strategy video game for the Apple II published by Muse Software in 1983

Gameplay
The player controls a ship resembling the Starship Enterprise. A militant government originating from a settlement on Saturn's moon Titan have started attacking neighboring moons and planets and taking over their government. It is the player's objective to stop the spread of the faction and free planets conquered by them. The player does this by bombing enemy planets and attacking enemy ships.

Reception
Computer Gaming World described Titan Empire as an "overall playable, but sometimes frustrating game".

References

External links

1983 video games
Apple II games
Apple II-only games
Muse Software games
Single-player video games
Strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set on Titan (moon)
Advanced transportation controller

The advanced transportation controller (ATC) is a standardization effort being undertaken by the United States Department of Transportation as part of their Intelligent transportation system (ITS) efforts.  The ATC is being developed to provide an open platform for hardware and software for a wide variety of ITS applications.  ATC has been identified as the highest priority standardization effort within the ITS community.  It is being developed by the Institute of Transportation Engineers. 

The ATC standard specifies a wide variety of hardware, the Linux operating system, and a defined API layer.  ATC applications will use the API layer.

External links
 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) ATC web site.

Intelligent transportation systems
Free software projects
Alexius Sylvius Polonus

Alexius Sylvius Polonus (1593 - c. 1653) was a Polish Jesuit astronomer and maker of astronomical instruments. He adopted the added name of Polonus, meaning "Pole" in Latin.

Sylvius studied at the Jesuit College in Kalisz. The Belgian Jesuit Charles Malapert organized there the observations of sunspots, in which Sylvius took part. They used early telescopes obtained from Christoph Scheiner in Ingolstadt.

In 1617 Sylvius accompanied Malapert on his return to the Southern Netherlands, where they both spent twelve years at the University of Douai. They performed observations of sunspots with better astronomical instruments. These Sylvius invented and constructed himself.

In 1630, Malapert was called to Spain to occupy a newly created chair in the Jesuit Colegio Imperial de Madrid. However, he fell ill during the journey and died shortly after entering Spain. Sylvius continued on, and subsequently taught at the Colegio Imperial, building the university a planetarium in 1634.

Sylvius left Spain for the Southern Netherlands in 1638, where he stayed in the Benedictine monastery at Anchin, for which he may have constructed its planetarium.

Sylvius was in Poland by 1649. In 1651, he published a work on calendariography.

External links
 Alexander Birkenmajer, Alexius Sylvius Polonus (1593 ca. 1653), a little-known maker of astronomical instruments

See also
List of Jesuit scientists
List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics

17th-century Polish astronomers
17th-century Polish Jesuits
1593 births
1650s deaths
Jesuit scientists
River Valley High School

River Valley High School may refer to the following schools:

Singapore 
 River Valley High School, Singapore

United States 
River Valley High School (Arizona), Mohave Valley, Arizona
River Valley High School (California), Yuba City, California
River Valley High School (Iowa), River Valley Community School District, Correctionville, Iowa
River Valley High School (Michigan), Three Oaks, Michigan
River Valley High School (Caledonia, Ohio), Caledonia, Ohio
River Valley High School (Cheshire, Ohio), Cheshire, Ohio
River Valley High School (Spring Green, Wisconsin), a high school in Wisconsin
River Valley Charter School, Lakeside, California
Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 300 metre free rifle, team

The men's team free rifle at 300 metres was one of 15 events on the shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on Thursday, 9 July 1908 and was extended after sunset to Friday, 10 July 1908 — it was the first shooting event of the Games. Fifty-four sport shooters from nine nations competed. The event was won by the team from Norway, improving on their second-place finish in 1900. Sweden made its debut in the event, taking silver. France repeated as bronze medalists. 

Ole Sæther was the first man to earn multiple medals in the event, having been on the 1900 Norwegian team as well as this year's squad.

Background

This was the second appearance of the men's 300 metre team rifle event, which was held 4 times between 1900 and 1920. 

The teams used different rifles. France shot with a Swiss Martini; Denmark used a Crag-Jørgensen; Greece and the Netherlands shot with a Mannlicher; Sweden used a government-issue Mauser; and Finland shot with a Mofferd. Norway used private match rifles. Due to winds blowing against the players, teams with light rifles faced more difficulty.

Reigning Olympic champions Switzerland did not return. Finland, Great Britain, Greece, and Sweden each made their debut in the event. Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and Norway each made their second appearance.

Competition format

The competition had each shooter fire 120 shots, 40 shots in each of three positions: prone, kneeling, and standing. The target was 1 metre in diameter, with 10 scoring rings; targets were set at a distance of 300 metres. The six team members' scores were then summed. Thus, the maximum score possible was 7200 points. The scores for the team event were separate from the individual event this time.

Schedule

Results

Teams consisted of six shooters, with each shooter firing 120 shots at the target 300 metres distant. 40 shots were fired from each of three positions—standing, kneeling, and prone. A bulls-eye counted for 10 points, and thus the highest possible score for each shooter was 1200 points, with the team maximum being 7200.

References

External links
 
 

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Men's 300m team
Free-Stater (Kansas)

Free-Staters was the name given to settlers in Kansas Territory during the "Bleeding Kansas" period in the 1850s who opposed the expansion of slavery. The name derives from the term "free state", that is, a U.S. state without slavery. Many of the "free-staters" joined the Jayhawkers in their fight against slavery and to make Kansas a free state.

Overview
Many Free-Staters were abolitionists from New England, in part because there was an organized emigration of settlers to Kansas Territory arranged by the New England Emigrant Aid Company beginning in 1854.  Other Free-Staters were abolitionists who came to Kansas Territory from Ohio, Iowa, and other midwestern states.  Holton, Kansas was named for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin free-stater Edward Dwight Holton.
What united the Free-Staters was a desire to defeat the southern, pro-slavery settlers in Kansas Territory on the question of whether Kansas would be admitted to the Union as a slave state. (The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 had left the question open to the settlers in the territory.) Bastions for the free-state movement in Kansas included major towns and cities like Lawrence, Eudora, Baldwin City, Osawatomie, Ozawkie, Burlingame, Mound City and Topeka, among others.

As time passed and the violence in Bleeding Kansas escalated, the Free-State movement became more popular. In 1858, the Free-Staters proposed a second constitution, the Leavenworth Constitution, which banned slavery and also would have given the right to vote to black men, though this constitution also failed because the US Senate did not ratify it. Kansas became a state January 29, 1861 after a free state constitution (from a conference in Wyandotte in 1859) was adopted. The Confederate States of America seceded in the next month and Jefferson Davis was sworn in as their president February 18, 1861.

During this campaign both for and against the 2022 Kansas abortion referendum, a failed ballot initiative which would have removed abortion rights from the Kansas Constitution, Kansas's history as a "free state", or a "beacon of liberty within the region," was brought up by various commentators.

See also
 Santa Fe Trail (film)

References

Further reading
 
 
 

Bleeding Kansas
Abolitionism in the United States
Politically motivated migrations
Somerset High School

Somerset High School may refer to:

Somerset Berkley Regional High School in Somerset, Massachusetts
Somerset High School (Bellflower, California) in Bellflower, California
Somerset High School (Kentucky) in Somerset, Kentucky
Somerset High School (Texas) in Somerset, Texas
Somerset High School (Wisconsin) in Somerset, Wisconsin
Satires of Circumstance

Satires of Circumstance is a collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1914.  It includes the 18 poem sequence Poems 1912-13 on the death of Hardy's wife Emma - extended to the now-classic 21 poems in Collected Poems of 1919 - widely regarded to comprise the best work of his poetic career.

Title and structure
The collection's title was picked by the publisher, and disapproved of by Hardy, emphasising as it did the 15 light-hearted satires and sketches of 1910, at the expense of the Poems of 1912-13 themselves, as well as of the 39 Miscellaneous Lyrics and the 34 Lyrics and Reveries, all with their more serious side. These latter include such fine examples of philosophical meditation and contemporary observation as 'Wessex Heights' and 'Channel Firing'.

Reception and influence
The collection's initial reception was very muted, only Lytton Strachey pointing out how the writing had “the subtle disturbing force of poetry...the secret of touching our marrow-bones”.
The subgroup 'Satires of Circumstance' have been singled out as a significant influence on and template for Siegfried Sassoon,. and may also have influenced the early D. H. Lawrence.

See also
Edmund Blunden
Georgian Poetry

References

External links
 The complete Satires of Circumstance
 
 

British satirical poems
1914 poems
English poetry collections
Poetry by Thomas Hardy
Chip PC Technologies

Chip PC Technologies is a developer and manufacturer of thin client solutions and management software for server-based computing; where in a network architecture applications are deployed, managed and can be fully executed on the server.

History
Chip PC was founded in 2000 by Aviv Soffer and Ora Meir Soffer and raised its first round of financing from R.H. Technologies Ltd. (), an electronics contract manufacturing group.

In 2005 Elbit Systems acquired 20% of the company.

Later, the company established partnerships with Dell, which distributes its products, and Microsoft. In June 2007, it raised NIS 26 million in stocks, bonds, and warrants in an IPO on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

In November 2007, the company won Europe's largest Thin client tender thus far, to supply 20,000 Thin client PC's and management software to RZF, the tax authority of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.

Overview
Chip PC supplies thin clients to Multinational & Public sector organizations, recently winning 1st place in an independent Thin-Clients Evaluation among 26 thin clients from 9 vendors worldwide. Among Chip PC customers are top organizations from various verticals, such as Healthcare, Finance, Defense (Israeli Navy), Government (US Police), and Education.

Although the company's main target markets are enterprises and large organizations, it modifies and customizes models to fit other markets; such as the Networked home, SOHO (Small-Office-Home-Office), Point of sale and others.

See also
 Thin client 
 Mini PC 
 Jack PC

References

External links
 

Computer hardware companies
Electronics companies of Israel
Computer terminals
Thin clients
Rehovot
Uzan

Uzan may refer to:

traveling musicians in Western Asia, see Ashik
Uzan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a village in France
Uzan (river), in France
Uzan, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Uzan-e Olya, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Uzan-e Sofla, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
The Dutch abbreviation of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR)
Cem Uzan, a Turkish businessman and politician
A Tunisian Jewish surname:
Aharon Uzan, an Israeli politician
Ori Uzan, an Israeli footballer
Yaakov Uzan, an Israeli musician better known as Kobi Oz
Wessex Poems and Other Verses

Wessex Poems and Other Verses (often referred to simply as Wessex Poems) is a collection of fifty-one poems set against the bleak and forbidding Dorset landscape by English writer Thomas Hardy.  It was first published in London and New York in 1898 by Harper Brothers, and contained a number of illustrations by the author himself.

Reception
The collection met a broadly hostile reception, critics being accustomed to Hardy as a (controversial) writer of prose alone. Hardy himself was taken aback by the failure to recognise his dry humour, as in the (slightly bawdy) 'Bride-Night Fire'.

On a more personal note, his wife Emma disliked the section consisting of love lyrics to various recipients; and especially 'The Ivy Wife', which she felt aimed at her.

Notable poems
Two notable early poems from the collection (1860s) were "Hap" and 'Amabel' - the latter exploring the theme of sexual attraction impacted by age taken up by The Well-Beloved. 'She at His Funeral' was a tribute to Hardy's friend Horace Moule; while the bitter "Neutral Tones" and the cheerful 'Sergeant's Song' show further aspects of Hardy's range of poetic subjects.

See also
 1898 in poetry
 Thomas Hardy's Wessex

References

External links

 The complete Wessex Poems and Other Verses
 

1898 poetry books
English poetry collections
Poetry by Thomas Hardy
Victorian poetry
Wessex
Danish National Library Authority

The Danish National Library Authority () is an inter-disciplinary public and research library institution and an independent agency under the Danish Ministry of Culture. It is the Danish government's central administrative and advisory body to the public libraries and the research libraries as well as the administrative authority for the Danish law no. 340, Act on library activities (Lov om Biblioteksvirksomhed) of 17 May 2000, and the amendment, law no. 30 of 10 January 2005.

The ideal aim of the institution is at any time to ensure the optimal exploitation of resources and the development of the cooperative Danish library service across municipal and governmental sectors.

The institution’s primary administrative task is to administrate a number of grants and pools to authors, via the Public Lending Right scheme, special libraries or projects, to be responsible for standards, including cataloguing and classification, and to develop national services like bibliotek.dk, the national webbased search-, request- and ordering facility.

Apart from the administration of Act on library activities, the institution has no formal executive power in relation to the libraries, but runs for the most part its development tasks on the basis of grants given to projects which pursue the development of new services or as temporary strategic grants.

History
Statens Bibliotekstilsyn (State Inspectorate of Public Libraries) was created on 5 March 1920, following the first Danish library act, law no. 160 of the same date. The object of the inspectorate was to implement the law. In practice this meant administrating annual government grants to the public libraries and to advise on collections, premises and staff and to keep a watch on whether the local authorities complied with the regulations in the library act. In 1964, it changed name to Bibliotekstilsynet.

In 1986, the Rigsbibliotekarembedet (Office of the National Librarian), which had been created in 1943 under the Danish Royal Library, became an independent institution. It was merged with Bibliotekstilsynet in 1990 to form Statens Bibliotekstjeneste (State Library Service), when the public libraries changed status as purely municipal institutions and state inspection of the public libraries ceased. It in turn changed name in 1997 to the current Biblioteksstyrelse (Danish National Library Authority).

From 1920 - 1961, the agency was under the Ministry of Education.

1920 establishments in Denmark
National Library Authority
National Library Authority
National Library Authority
Organizations established in 1920
Sachiko Murata

Sachiko Murata (村田幸子, born 1943) is Japanese scholar of comparative philosophy and mysticism and a professor of religion and Asian studies at Stony Brook University.

Life
Born in Asahikawa, Hokkaidu, Japan in 1943, Murata received her B.A. in family law from Chiba University in Japan. She worked at a law firm in Tokyo for a year, and later attended Iran's University of Tehran, where she was the first woman and first non-Muslim to study fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence).  She received her PhD in Persian literature in 1971, and then moved to the faculty of theology. She received her MA in Islamic jurisprudence in 1975, but shortly before completing her PhD in fiqh, the Iranian Revolution caused her and her husband William Chittick to leave the country. Murata resettled at SUNY Stony Brook in Stony Brook, New York, in 1983 where she teaches Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. 

Throughout her career, Murata has received various academic distinctions, which include being named the Kenan Rifai Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University, and an Honorary Professor at the School of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Minzu University. She has also been granted fellowships by esteemed organizations such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Harvard Centre for the Study of World Religions, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).

Works

Translated

References

External links
 "The Tao of Islam", sufi.ru, Sachiko Murata]
 "The Unity of Being in Liu Chih's "Islamic Neoconfucianism"", Sachiko Murata

Humanities academics
1943 births
Living people
Chiba University alumni
University of Tehran alumni
Stony Brook University faculty
Japanese women academics
Women scholars of Islam