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Dermatan sulfate

Dermatan sulfate is a glycosaminoglycan (formerly called a mucopolysaccharide) found mostly in skin, but also in blood vessels, heart valves, tendons, and lungs.

It is also referred to as chondroitin sulfate B, although it is no longer classified as a form of chondroitin sulfate by most sources. The formula is C14H21NO15S. This carbohydrate is composed of linear polymers of disaccharide units that contain, N-acetyl galactosamine (GalNAc) and iduronic acid (IdoA). These repeating units are sulfated at a variety of positions. Dermatan sulfate is a component of the compound sulodexide.

Function 
Dermatan sulfate may have roles in coagulation, cardiovascular disease, carcinogenesis, infection, wound repair, maintaining the shape of galactosamine 4-sulfate, skin, and fibrosis.

Pathology
Dermatan sulfate accumulates abnormally in several of the mucopolysaccharidosis disorders.

An excess of dermatan sulfate in the mitral valve is characteristic of myxomatous degeneration of the leaflets leading to redundancy of valve tissue and ultimately, mitral valve prolapse (into the left atrium) and insufficiency.  This chronic prolapse occurs mainly in women over the age of 60, and can predispose the patient to mitral annular calcification.  Mitral valve insufficiency can lead to eccentric (volume dependent or dilated) hypertrophy and eventually left heart failure if untreated.

See also 
 Iduronic acid

References

External links 
 

Glycosaminoglycans
Sulfate esters
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) is an agency of the U.S. state of Texas's government that oversees all public post-secondary education in the state. It is headquartered at 1801 North Congress Avenue in Austin.

THECB determines which Texas public four-year universities are permitted to start or continue degree programs. THECB also evaluates degrees from other states and other nations for use in Texas. However, operations of the various universities or systems are the responsibility of each university or system board of regents.

From 1998 to 2003, it developed a higher-education plan for the state, called "Closing the Gaps by 2015". The plan's primary purpose was closing education gaps within Texas, as well as between Texas and other U.S. states. The four main goals of the plan were closing gaps in student participation, student success, excellence and research. In June 2016, the THECB released its final progress report on the state's success in meeting most of the targeted goals. The goal for enrollment of 630,000 students from fall 2000 to 2015, fell short by 25,000.

In 2015, the THECB officially adopted a new 15-year strategic plan called "60x30TX" and then implemented statewide. With the 60x30TX plan, Texas aims to award a total of 6.4 million certificates or degrees by 2030. The plan also sets targets for Hispanic, African American, male, and economically disadvantaged completers.

The board consists of nine members and one non-voting student representative, all of whom are appointed by the Governor of Texas on a staggered basis. The terms for the voting members are for six years, ending on August 31 of odd-numbered years while the student representative serves a one-year term. The board appoints the Commissioner of Higher Education who serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the THECB. The current commissioner is Harrison Keller, who assumed the post on October 1, 2019. He succeeded Raymund Paredes, who had been the commissioner since 2004.

List of commissioners 
 Jack Williams (19661968)
 Bevington Reed (19681976)
 Kenneth H. Ashworth (19761997)
 Don W. Brown (19972004)
 Raymund A. Paredes (20042019)
 Harrison Keller (2019present)

See also 

 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
 Center for Measuring University Performance
 List of research universities in the United States
 Research I university
 Education in Texas
 List of colleges and universities in Texas
 List of public universities in Texas by enrollment

References

External links
 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board website

Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas
Public education in Texas
Cesbronite

Cesbronite is a copper-tellurium oxysalt mineral with the chemical formula Cu3Te6+O4(OH)4 (IMA 17-C). It is colored green and its crystals are orthorhombic dipyramidal. Cesbronite is rated 3 on the Mohs Scale. It is named after Fabien Cesbron (born 1938), a French mineralogist.

Occurrence 
It was first found in the Bambollita ("La Oriental") mine in the Mexican state of Sonora. It also occurs in the Tombstone District of Cochise County, Arizona and the Tintic District of the East Tintic Mountains, Juab County, Utah. It is often associated with argentian gold, teineite, carlfriesite, xocomecatlite, utahite, leisingite, jensenite and hematite.

See also

List of minerals named after people
List of minerals

References

Copper(II) minerals
Orthorhombic minerals
Minerals in space group 60
Nann Nigga

"Nann Nigga", ("Nann" in the clean version), is the first single from Trick Daddy's second album, www.thug.com, released in 1998. It features Trina as the song's guest rapper. She is also the love (or lust) interest in the song.

Background and composition
The song is about Trick Daddy boasting that no one can do anything like him, especially when it comes to loving (or providing carnal pleasure to) Trina.  The word "Nann" could be said to mean "no",  "none" or "not one"; the resultant statement a double negative typical of southern vernacular:  "You don't know "no" nigga like me..."  Other possible interpretations could be that "nann" is a disambiguation of the colloquial "nary", meaning "not a" or "not one," "any other," or "never a".  "You don't know any other ho..."  Trick Daddy's boasting is reciprocated by Trina, with her singing "You don't know nann ho..." towards the middle of the song. It is also possible that "nann" is a contraction of "no damn."

However, AAVE scholars agree that "nann," or more properly, "'n'an'," is properly a contraction of "any other," the phonetic path being 'n'an' < 'ny ath' < any other. This is typical of Southern AAVE rap, which deploys aggressive vowel merging and final dropping to ease rhyming.

Chart performance
The song reached number 62 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single was also successful on Hot Rap Tracks (peaking at number 3; Trick Daddy's best performance on this chart) and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks (peaking at number 20).

Music video
The music video for "Nann Nigga" directed by Zodiac Fishgrease features Chico Debarge, J.T. Money and then Indianapolis Colts running back Edgerrin James, who, like Trick Daddy, resides in Miami, Florida.

Charts

1998 debut singles
Trick Daddy songs
Songs written by Trick Daddy
Songs written by Trina
Warlock Records singles
Dirty rap songs
1998 songs
Burning Oil

Burning Oil is the first studio album by Skeletal Family, released in 1984. The band had been together less than two years when this album was released by the independent label Red Rhino Records. Tracks 11-13 are bonus tracks.

Track listing
All lyrics written by Anne-Marie Hurst except "Ritual" (Karlheinz) and "Black Ju Ju" (Dunaway)
"So Sure" – 
"Ritual" – 2:57
"Burning Oil" – 2:41 
"The Wind Blows" – 4:13 
"And I" – 3:37
"11:15" – 2:30
"Waiting Here" – 3:47
"Someone New" – 4:21
"Black Ju Ju" – 5:10 
"Woman and Child" – 4:24 
"Trees"
"Just a Friend"
"The Night"

References

1984 debut albums
Red Rhino Records albums
Gothic rock albums by English artists
Jayson Stark

Jayson Stark (born July 19, 1951) is an American sportswriter and author who covers baseball for The Athletic. He is most known for his time with The Philadelphia Inquirer and ESPN.

Biography
Stark grew up in Northeast Philadelphia and graduated from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a degree in journalism in 1973. In 1979 he joined The Philadelphia Inquirer as a beat writer for the Philadelphia Phillies, and eventually became a national baseball writer and columnist for that paper. From 1983 to 1999 he produced a nationally syndicated Baseball Week in Review column "known for unearthing obscure, historic and humorous aspects of baseball". He was twice named Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. His observations and analysis of the 1993 Phillies team is quoted in several books.

Stark joined ESPN in 2000. He was a senior writer for ESPN.com. He also contributed to SportsCenter, ESPNews, Baseball Tonight, and a weekly segment during baseball season with WHB 810 in Kansas City. He appeared weekly on Mike & Mike. Beginning in 2014, Stark began co-hosting a weekly radio show during baseball season on ESPN Radio's affiliate in Philadelphia. Stark was inducted into the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2017. Stark was laid off from ESPN on April 26, 2017, along with several other on-air personalities.  On April 1, 2018, he started writing for The Athletic.

Stark is the 2019 recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award given by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, for "meritorious contributions to baseball writing".

Personal
Stark's wife Lisa is an assistant coach for the Council Rock North volleyball team. They have three children.

Bibliography

Books

Selected articles

"Schmidt Just Made It Look Easy", in The Phillies Reader, Richard Orodenker, ed. 2005: Temple University Press, page 220. .

References

External links
ESPN Jayson Stark Blog

 
Jayson Stark Live CBS Local
Stark on 'Cuse Conversations Podcast in 2020

Living people
1951 births
Writers from Philadelphia
Sportswriters from Pennsylvania
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumni
American television reporters and correspondents
Jewish American writers
ESPN people
The Philadelphia Inquirer people
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
21st-century American journalists
20th-century American writers
21st-century American writers
BBWAA Career Excellence Award recipients
21st-century American Jews
Trust Me to Open My Mouth

"Trust Me to Open My Mouth" was the second single released in the UK from Squeeze's seventh album, Babylon and On. It reached number 72 in the UK Singles Chart.

In North America, this song was not released as a single. Instead, "853-5937" was the second single from Babylon and On in Canada and the US.

Track listing
7"
 "Trust Me to Open My Mouth" (3:13)
 "Take Me I'm Yours" (live) (4:01)

12"
 "Trust Me to Open My Mouth" (remix) (4:30)
 "Take Me I'm Yours" (live) (4:01)
 "Trust Me to Open My Mouth" (3:13)
 "Black Coffee in Bed" (live) (6:31)

References

External links
Squeeze discography at Squeezenet

Squeeze (band) songs
1987 singles
Songs written by Glenn Tilbrook
Songs written by Chris Difford
1987 songs
A&M Records singles
Metanoia (rhetoric)

Metanoia (from the Greek , metanoia, changing one's mind) in the context of rhetoric is a device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way. As such, metanoia is similar to correction. Metanoia is used in recalling a statement in two ways, either to weaken the prior declaration or to strengthen it.

Metanoia is later personified as a figure accompanying kairos, sometimes as a hag and sometimes as a young lady. Ausonius' epigrams describe her thus: "I am a goddess to whom even Cicero himself did not give a name. I am the goddess who exacts punishment for what has and has not been done, so that people regret it. Hence, my name is Metanoea."

Weakening

The use of metanoia to weaken a statement is effective because the original statement still stands, along with the qualifying statement. For instance, when one says, "I will murder you. You shall be punished." the force of the original statement ("I will murder you") remains, while a more realistic alternative has been put forward ("you shall be punished").

Strengthening

When it is used to strengthen a statement, metanoia works to ease the reader from a moderate statement to a more radical one, as in this quote from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations

I still fall short of it through my own fault, and through not observing the admonitions of the gods, and, I may almost say, their direct instructions (Book One);

Here Aurelius utilizes metanoia to move from a mild idea ("not observing the admonitions of the gods") to a more intense one ("not observing... their direct instructions"); the clause "I may almost say" introduces the metanoia.

References

Cuddon, J.A., ed. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, 3rd ed. Penguin Books: New York, 1991.
 

Narratology
Rhetoric
Coma Divine – Recorded Live in Rome

Coma Divine – Recorded Live in Rome or just Coma Divine, is a live album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in October 1997. It was expanded to a double album in 2003, adding the three tracks from the promotional single Coma Divine II (1999), and one more previously unreleased outtake. The expanded edition was also released on vinyl containing 3 LPs, plus a bonus 7 inch single with two demo versions of the song "Disappear" (later included on the compilation album The Sound of No One Listening in 2020; a newer version was included on the "Four Chords That Made a Million" single in 2000 and the compilation Recordings in 2001).
The album was finally revamped in digipack through Snapper label in 2004.

Recording
The band recorded three shows at the Frontiera in Rome (on 25, 26 and 27 March 1997) for the purpose of this release; however, only recordings from the 2nd and 3rd night were used, as the recordings from the first concert were flawed with technical problems. A vast amount of material had been performed during the shows, but the band eventually decided to release only the best performances on a single CD. While later the album was reissued as a double CD featuring an extra 25 minutes of music, there are still other unreleased performances from the show, featuring both original phases of "Voyage 34," "Dark Matter," "Burning Sky," "Stars Die," "Idiot Prayer," "The Nostalgia Factory," "Nine Cats," the first performances of "Every Home is Wired," and an instrumental called "Cryogenics" written especially to feature on the album; it was ultimately dropped as the band felt it wasn't good enough. Several of these recordings were later released on the 2020 EP Coma: Coda (Rome 1997), made available through the official Porcupine Tree Bandcamp page.

Although essentially a live record, Coma Divine features studio overdubs of the vocals, as the original takes were too poor both in terms of performance and the quality of recording.

Track listing

Original release 
All songs written by Steven Wilson unless otherwise noted.

There were various technical problems with the original CD edition due to its extreme length, and later pressings had about two minutes of audience noise removed between tracks to try to solve the problem.

Expanded edition 
All songs written by Steven Wilson unless otherwise noted.

(*) N.B. Originally released on the Coma Divine II EP in 1999.

Musicians 
 Steven Wilson – guitars, vocals
 Richard Barbieri – synthesizers
 Colin Edwin – bass guitar
 Chris Maitland – drums, percussion, harmony vocals

Reviews 

Professional reviews:
 Metal Hammer – Captured live in Rome, they reinforce both their ability and their charm through the likes of 'Moonloop' and 'The Sky Moves Sideways', lengthy but not overdone pieces, led as ever by Steve Wilson's intriguing vision. Admittedly, it'll make them few friends (live albums never do), but it's essential listening for the faithful.

References

External links 
 Porcupine Tree Official Website
 Coma Divine – Recorded Live in Rome at Snapper Music

Porcupine Tree live albums
1997 live albums
Gauss (ship)

Gauss was a ship built in Germany specially for polar exploration, named after the mathematician and physical scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Purchased by Canada in 1904, the vessel was renamed CGS Arctic. As Arctic, the vessel made annual trips to the Canadian Arctic until 1925. The ship's fate is disputed among the sources, but all claim that by the mid-1920s, the vessel was out of service.

Ship construction

The ship was built by the Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft shipyard at Kiel at a cost of 500,000 marks.  Launched on 2 April 1901 she was modelled on Fridtjof Nansen's ship Fram, and rigged as a barquentine. Displacing , Gauss had a tonnage of .  The ship was  long,  in the beam, with a draught of . With a  triple expansion steam engine driving one screw to augment the sails, she was capable of .

Classed "A1" by Germanischer Lloyds, she was designed to carry 700 tons of stores, enough to make her self-sufficient for up to three years with a crew of 30 aboard. The hull was exceptionally strong, and the rudder and propeller were designed to be hoisted aboard for inspection or repairs.

Ship history

Between 1901 and 1903 Gauss explored the Antarctic in the Gauss expedition under the leadership of Erich von Drygalski.

In early 1904 the ship was purchased by the Canadian government under the advice of Joseph-Elzéar Bernier, who had surveyed the ship before the acquisition. The ship was renamed Arctic and under the command of Bernier she explored the Arctic Archipelago. Bernier and Arctic made annual expeditions to Canada's north. On 1 July 1909, Bernier, without government approval, claimed the entire area between Canada's eastern and western borders all the way to the North Pole. Bernier only left the ship during the First World War, returning to command Arctic again from 1922 to 1925. The vessel's end is not agreed upon. According to schiffe-und-mehr.com, Arctic was abandoned in 1925 and left to rot at her moorings. Maginley and Collin claim the vessel was broken up in 1926 while the Miramar Ship Index say the ship was abandoned in 1927.

See also
 List of Antarctic exploration ships from the Heroic Age, 1897–1922

Notes

References

Further reading

External links

 
 W.B. Wiegand Diary of a Voyage on the Arctic in 1912 at Dartmouth College Library

1901 ships
Exploration ships
Canadian Government Ship
The Man Who Skied Down Everest

The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a Canadian documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mount Everest in 1970. The film was produced by Crawley Films' "Budge" Crawley and directed by Crawley and Bruce Nyznik. 

Miura skied 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in two minutes and 20 seconds and fell 400 m (1,320 ft) down the steep Lhotse face from the Yellow Band just below the South Col. He used a large parachute to slow his descent. He came to a full stop just 76 m (250 ft) from the edge of a bergschrund, a large, deep crevasse where the ice shears away from the stagnant ice on the rock face and begins to move downwards as a glacier.

The ski descent was the objective of The Japanese Everest Skiing Expedition 1970. Six Sherpa members were killed during the expedition, as well as a Japanese member who died of a heart attack.

Crawley Films won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for this picture. The Academy Film Archive preserved The Man Who Skied Down Everest in 2010.

See also
1970 Mount Everest disaster

References

External links

1975 films
English-language Canadian films
Mountaineering films
Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
Films directed by Lawrence Schiller
Canadian sports documentary films
1975 documentary films
Films about Mount Everest
1970s English-language films
1970s Canadian films
It's a Love Cult

It's a Love Cult is the tenth full-length studio album by the Norwegian band Motorpsycho. The album was preceded by the EP release of "Serpentine", for which also a video was made.

The sleeve was designed by Kim Hiorthøy.

Track listing
Überwagner or a Billion Bubbles in My Mind  – 5:36
Circles  – 3:59
Neverland  – 4:01
This Otherness  – 6:30
Carousel  – 7:16
What if...  – 4:15
The Mirror and the Lie  – 6:43
Serpentine  – 5:15
Custer's Last Stand (One More Daemon)  – 4:06
Composite Head  – 2:25

 #1, #2, #4, #7, #9 by Sæther.
 #3, #5, #10 by Ryan/Sæther.
 #8 by Ryan.
 #6 by Gebhardt.
Orchestral arrangements on #5, #7 by B. Slagsvold.
Horn/reed arrangement on #6 by L. Horntveth, H. Gebhardt.

Personnel
Bent Sæther: bass guitar, vocals, guitars, piano, harmonium, mellotron, percussion, viscount organ
Hans Magnus Ryan: guitars, vocals, rhodes piano, ARP, sidstation, electric harmonium, viscount organ, percussion, lap-steel
Håkon Gebhardt: drums, vocals, banjo, percussion, zither, guitars, glockenspiel, lap-steel

with:

Helge Sten (Deathprod): Audio virus, echoplex, filters, theremin, percussion
Baard Slagsvold: Piano, vocals, mellotron, clavinette, hammond organ

and:

Strings played by: Øyvind Fossheim, Vegard Johnsen, André Orvik, Hans Morten Stensland, Jon W. Sønstebø & Anne Britt Søvig Årdal
Horns and reeds played by: Ketil Vestrum Einarsen, Lars Horntveth, Anne-Grethe Orvik, Øyvind Brække, Mathias Eick.

References

2002 albums
Motorpsycho albums
Dinosaur (Dinosaur Jr. album)

Dinosaur is the debut studio album by the alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. It was released in 1985 on Homestead Records. The album exhibits a folkier side of the band than on future releases, but some of the tracks on the album showed off a much heavier, more hardcore punk-based side to the band in songs such as "Does it Float", "Mountain Man" and "Bulbs of Passion."

The album was originally released when the band was still known simply as Dinosaur, before a lawsuit forced the name change to Dinosaur Jr. Therefore, it was originally a self-titled album, but subsequent issues kept the Dinosaur title.

Reception
Critical reception of the album was mixed to positive. In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the albums 3 stars out of a possible 5, describing Dinosaur as having a few standout songs but overall as "impressive, but uneven" due to the band's struggling to integrate hardcore punk, hard rock with touches of experimental music. Pitchfork Media ranked the album at 6.2 out of 10, describing it as "a fucking mess" with overlong songs drawing on too many styles to be consistent.

Track listing

All songs written by J Mascis.

"Bulbs of Passion" was not featured on the original vinyl LP; it was a b-side to the "Repulsion" single.  Subsequent reissues on cassette and compact disc featured it as the last song.  The 2005 reissue on Merge Records placed "Bulbs of Passion" as the first track at J Mascis' request.  "Yeah, I asked for that," J recalls, "because [that song] gave our new direction - it felt like we were our own sound."  Also featured was a 1987 live performance of "Does It Float" as a bonus track to close out the album.

Personnel
Dinosaur Jr.
 J Mascis - vocals, guitar, tom tom, cymbal, big muff
 Lou Barlow - bass, vocals, synthesizer (credited as casio)
 Murph - drums, vocals, synthesizer (credited as casio)

Additional Personnel
 Chris Dixon and Glen - engineering
 Jason Talerman - photography
 Maura Jasper - cover art
 Lou Barlow - back cover art

References

Dinosaur Jr. albums
1985 debut albums
Homestead Records albums
Traditional handheld refractometer

A traditional handheld refractometer is an analog instrument for measuring a liquid's refractive index.  It works on the critical angle principle by which lenses and prisms project a shadow line onto a small glass reticle inside the instrument, which is then viewed by the user through a magnifying eyepiece. 

In use, a sample is placed between a measuring prism and a small cover plate. Light traveling through the sample is either passed through to the reticle or totally internally reflected. The net effect is that a shadow line forms between the illuminated area and the dark area. It is where this shadow line crosses the scale that a reading is taken. Because refractive index is very temperature dependent, it is important to use a refractometer with automatic temperature compensation. Compensation is accomplished through the use of a small bi-metallic strip that moves a lens or prism in response to temperature changes. This design was invented by Emanuel Goldberg. There are many types of refractometers and the most common types are Abbe's refractometer, Pulfrich refractometer, Immersion refractometer.

Refractometers
Black Hole/Blank Canvas

Black Hole/Blank Canvas is the eleventh full-length studio album by the Norwegian band Motorpsycho. It is the first after long-time drummer Håkon Gebhardt left the band in spring 2005. The other two members, Hans Magnus Ryan and Bent Sæther decided to carry on as a duo. They recorded their new album in The Void studio in Eindhoven together with producer/engineer and long-time live sound technician Pieter Kloos and produced their third double album. It was released on March 17, 2006, (March 20 in Norway) and was followed by a European tour in spring. The band was joined by drummer Jacco van Rooij and vibraphonist Øyvind Brandtsegg, who also played on the 1994 album Timothy's Monster.

The second song from the album, "In our Tree", was premiered as a short clip on Norwegian TV station NRK during the program Lydverket, and later in full on the radio station P3.

Track listing
CD1
No Evil – 6:06
In Our Tree – 3:39
Coalmine Pony – 3:17
Kill Devil Hills – 7:18
Critical Mass – 5:21
The 29th Bulletin – 5:48
Devil Dog – 4:24
Triggerman – 6:14

CD2
Hyena – 4:01
Sancho Says – 3:33
Sail On – 4:17
The Ace – 3:46
L.T.E.C. (Déjà-Vulture Blues) – 6:19
You Lose – 5:32
Before The Flood – 8:58
Fury On Earth – 2:49
With Trixeene Through The Mirror, I Dream With Open Eyes – 3:31

All tracks written by Ryan/Sæther
There also exists a special edition available via Amazon.com and the Stickman Records mail order with an additional disc containing a single edit of "Hyena" and the non-album track "Bonny Lee" (Sæther).

Personnel
Bent Sæther: vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards, drums etc.
Hans Magnus Ryan: guitars, vocals, keyboards etc.
with:
Jacco van Rooij (former 35007, 7 Zuma 7 and currently Suimasen): drums on "You Lose"
Kim Hiorthøy: cover artwork

Editions
The vinyl edition omits coloring and comes completely in black and white.
The album was also released as a special edition (book-like packaging) and an extra special edition containing a bonus disc, which was only available via Amazon.com and the Stickman Records mailorder.

References

2006 albums
Motorpsycho albums
Huluhu

The huluhu (traditional: 葫蘆胡; simplified: 葫芦胡; pinyin: húlúhú) is a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family of instruments.  It has two strings, and its sound box is made from a gourd, with a face made of thin wood.  It is used primarily by the Zhuang people of the southern Chinese province of Guangxi.

The instrument's name is derived from the Chinese words húlú ("gourd") and hú (short for huqin).

See also
 Chinese music
 List of Chinese musical instruments
 Huqin

External links
Huluhu photo
Huluhu page (Chinese)
Huluhu page  (Chinese)
Huluhu page (Chinese)

Chinese musical instruments
Huqin family instruments
Necked bowl lutes
Bill Schroeder (wide receiver)

William Fredrich Schroeder (born January 9, 1971) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He attended Sheboygan South High School and then went on to the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, where he starred in track and field. Schroeder joined the UW-La Crosse football team in only his fifth year of college after exhausting his eligibility to compete in track. Despite playing only one year, Schroeder's athleticism (4.26 second 40 yard dash and 44 inch vertical leap) drew the attention of NFL scouts.

Schroeder was drafted in the sixth round (181st overall) of the 1994 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers. He would wear jersey number 84. Schroeder spent the 1994 season on the practice squad, but was activated in the playoffs, though he did not have any receptions.  The following year, he was traded to the New England Patriots, but suffered a broken foot before he was able to play a single down and was released.  Then he went back to Green Bay, and after making the practice squad, he spent some time playing for NFL Europe before he finally made the active roster in the 1997 season.  That year, he was the team's leading punt and kick returner as they advanced to Super Bowl XXXII.  He went on to play until 2004. His best statistical season was 1999, when he caught 74 passes for 1,051 yards and 5 touchdowns. He last played with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2004, wearing number 11 with the team as Joey Galloway had worn his traditional number of 84. On May 22, 2008 Schroeder informed Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson that he would like to retire as a Packer. He signed with the Packers on May 21, 2008 and retired the next day. Schroeder was affectionately known as "The Sheboygan Flash", La Crosse Lightning, "Pro Bowl Bill" to many Packer fans.

NFL career statistics

Regular season

References

1971 births
Living people
American football wide receivers
Detroit Lions players
Green Bay Packers players
New England Patriots players
Rhein Fire players
Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
Wisconsin–La Crosse Eagles football players
Sportspeople from Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Players of American football from Wisconsin
Shao Prefecture

Shaozhou or Shao Prefecture (邵州) was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Shaoyang, Hunan, China. It existed (intermittently) from 636 to 1225.

Geography
The administrative region of Shaozhou in the Tang dynasty falls within modern Shaoyang in southern Hunan on the northern border with Guangxi. It probably includes modern:
Shaoyang
Shaoyang County
Wugang
Xinning County
Longhui County
Xinshao County

References
 

Prefectures of the Tang dynasty
Jinghu South Circuit
Prefectures of Ma Chu
Former prefectures in Hunan
Plain Township, Ohio

Plain Township, Ohio may refer to:
Plain Township, Franklin County, Ohio
Plain Township, Stark County, Ohio
Plain Township, Wayne County, Ohio
Plain Township, Wood County, Ohio

See also
Plain Township (disambiguation)

Ohio township disambiguation pages
Rainie

Rainie may refer to:

 Rainie Yang (Chinese: 楊丞琳; born 1984), a Taiwanese singer, actress and television host
 Robert Rainie (1860–1945), a Scottish rugby union player
 Lorraine "Rainie" Highway, a fictional character from the BBC One soap opera EastEnders
 Lorraine (given name)
 Loraine (name)

See also 
 Raini (disambiguation)
Wunjunga, Queensland

Wunjunga is a coastal locality in the Shire of Burdekin in Queensland, Australia. In the , Wunjunga had a population of 9 people.

Geography 
It is located south of Home Hill in North Queensland. The waters of the Coral Sea form the eastern boundary.

Road infrastructure
The Bruce Highway runs along the western boundary.

References 

Shire of Burdekin
Localities in Queensland
Dennis Bock

Dennis Bock (born August 28, 1964) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, lecturer at the University of Toronto, travel writer and book reviewer. His novel Going Home Again was published in Canada by HarperCollins and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf in August 2013. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Going Home Again earned a review in Kirkus Review.

The Communist's Daughter, published by HarperCollins in Canada and Knopf in the US in 2006, and later in France, the Netherlands, Greece and Poland, is a retelling of the final years in the life of the Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune. 

His first novel, The Ash Garden, about various kinds of fallout from the Hiroshima bomb, was published in 2001, and was shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Regional Best Book). It won the 2002 Canada-Japan Literary Award and has been published in translation in Spain, Argentina, Japan, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, France and Greece. Bock was reviewed in The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times (by Michiko Kakutani). His editor at Knopf, starting with The Ash Garden, is Gary Fisketjon.

After serving as fiction editor at the literary journal Blood & Aphorisms and holding writing residences at Yaddo, the Banff Centre, and Fundacion Valparaiso, in Spain, Bock published his first book, a short story collection Olympia, in 1998, for which he won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best debut short story collection in Canada, the Canadian Authors' Association Jubilee Award, and the Betty Trask Award in the UK.

His short stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, The Journey Prize Anthology, and Coming Attractions. His travel writing and book reviews appear in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Washington Post, and Outpost Magazine.

Personal life
Dennis Bock was born August 28, 1964, in Belleville, Ontario. He studied English literature and philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, and took one year off during that time to live in Spain. After completing his degree he returned to Madrid, Spain, where he lived for 4 years. It was there he finished writing Olympia. Bock lives in Toronto and has two sons. He teaches at the University of Toronto and is on faculty at Humber College's School for Writers.

Prizes and honours

Bibliography

Novels
 The Ash Garden (2001)
 The Communist's Daughter (2006)
 Going Home Again (2013)

Short stories
 Olympia (1998)

References

External links
 Official site
 Interview with Dennis Bock, Quill & Quire, August 2001
 New York Times review of The Communist's Daughter, March 4, 2007
 New York Times review of Going Home Again, August 30, 2013

Canadian male novelists
Canadian male short story writers
Living people
1964 births
University of Western Ontario alumni
20th-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian novelists
20th-century Canadian short story writers
21st-century Canadian short story writers
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian male writers
Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak

Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak (born 7 February 1940 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Slovenian pianist and music teacher.

Early life
Tomsic received private lessons at a very young age and continued with education at the Music High School in Ljubljana and later at the Slovene Academy of Music under professor Zora Zarnik. Following the advice of concert pianist Claudio Arrau, she went to the United States at age 12 and in 1957 graduated from Juilliard School of Music in New York. Her teachers were Katherine Bacon and Alexander Uninsky.  Arthur Rubinstein heard her New York Town Hall recital and invited her to study with him privately in the late 1950s. Tomšič became one of Rubinstein's protégées.

Career
Tomsic has been teaching piano at the Slovene Academy of music in Ljubljana since 1967. She has had a wide ranging concert career and is often invited to judge piano competitions including Van Cliburn, Leeds, L. v. Beethoven, Clara Haskil, and others. Dubravka Tomšič is very much sought after as a performer, making recital and concerto appearances all over Europe, Asia, North America, Mexico, Australia and Africa. She is credited with more than 3,500 performances and more than 20 records and 70 CD releases. For her artistic and pedagogic endeavours she has received numerous awards: 3rd prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition (Bolzano, 1961), Prešeren Fund Award (1962), 1. award at Mozart's festival recital (Brussels, 1967), Župančič Award (1970), gold lyre SUMUJ Award (1974), Prešeren Award (1975), AVNOJ Award (1976), Golden Award of the University in Ljubljana for her pedagogic and artistic achievements (1989), etc. She is an honorary member of the Slovene Philharmonics since 1995.

Her students include: Majda Martinc, Sonja Pahor, Hinko Haas, Lidija Stanković, Tatjana Ognjanović, Tomaž Petrač, Anja German, Miha Haas, Slaven Kulenovic, Natalija Šaver, Tadej Horvat, Sara Rustja Turniški, Stanislav Krutilov and Fada Azzeh.

Personal life
She was married to the late Slovenian composer Alojz Srebotnjak and has a son Martin Srebotnjak, who is a Slovenian film director.

References

External links
 
 Biography on the Bach Cantatas Website

1940 births
Living people
People from Dubrovnik
Prize-winners of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition
Prešeren Award laureates
Slovenian classical pianists
Slovenian people of Croatian descent
Digital handheld refractometer

A digital handheld refractometer is an instrument for measuring the refractive index of materials.

Principle of operation
Most operate on the same general critical angle principle as a traditional handheld refractometer. The difference is that light from an LED light source is focused on the underside or a prism element. When a liquid sample is applied to the measuring surface of the prism, some of the light is transmitted through the solution and lost, while the remaining light is reflected onto a linear array of photodiodes creating a shadow line. The refractive index is directly related to the position of the shadow line on the photodiodes. Once the position of the shadow line has been automatically determined by the instrument, the internal software will correlate the position to refractive index, or to another unit of measure related to refractive index, and display a digital readout on an LCD or LED scale.

The more elements there are in the photodiode array, the more precise the readings will be, and the easier it will be to obtain readings for emulsions and other difficult-to-read fluids that form fuzzy shadow lines. 

Digital handheld refractometers are generally more precise than traditional handheld refractometers, but less precise than most benchtop refractometers. They also may require a slightly larger amount of sample to read from since the sample is not spread thinly against the prism.

The result may be displayed in one of various units of measuremeant: Brix, freezing point, boiling point, concentration, etc. Nearly all digital refractometers feature Automatic Temperature Compensation (for Brix at least)

Most have a metal sample well around the prism, which makes it easier to clean sticky samples, and some instruments offer software to prevent extreme ambient light from interfering with readings (you can also shade the prism area to prevent this as well). Some instruments are available with multiple scales, or the ability to input a special scale using known conversion information. 
There are some digital handheld refractometers  that are IP65 (IP Code) water-resistant, and thus washable under a running faucet.

See also
Refractometer Types
Traditional handheld refractometer
Abbe refractometer
Inline process refractometer

Refractometers
Alienator

Alienator is a 1990 science fiction film directed by Fred Olen Ray, produced by Jeffrey C. Hogue, and starring Jan-Michael Vincent.

The film was described by Leonard Maltin and confirmed by Fred Olen Ray to be a "semi-remake" of the 1957 film The Astounding She-Monster. Robert Clarke, who starred in that film, also appears in Alienator.

Plot
Kol, an alien criminal, escapes from a spaceship into the woods of an American suburb. The commander of the spaceship dispatches "the Alienator"—a deadly gynoid, to capture Kol. She relentlessly pursues Kol and a group of teenagers who find him without knowing his past.

Cast
 Jan-Michael Vincent as Commander  
 John Phillip Law as Ward Armstrong  
 Ross Hagen as Kol  
 Teagan Clive as Alienator
 Dyana Ortelli as Orrie  
 Jesse Dabson as Benny  
 Dawn Wildsmith as Caroline  
 P. J. Soles as Tara  
 Robert Clarke as Lund  
 Richard Wiley as Rick  
 Leo Gordon as Col. Coburn  
 Robert Quarry as Doc Burnside  
 Fox Harris as Burt  
 Hoke Howell as Harley  
 Jay Richardson as Prison sergeant major  
 Dan Golden as Electrocuted prisoner
 Joseph Pilato as Tech #2

Release
Alienator was originally set for release between May and August in 1989. Prism Entertainment announced in November 1989 to release the film along with Time Troopers in late December. Prism later released the film on February 8, 1990.

On March 19, 2013, the film was released on DVD by Shout! Factory as part of a two-disc "Action-Packed Movie Marathon" set, which contains a total of four films. On June 13, 2017, the film was released on Blu-ray by Scream Factory, featuring a commentary track by director Fred Olen Ray.

Reception
From contemporary reviews, "Lor." of Variety reviewed the AIP video cassette on November 18, 1989. "Lor." declared the film to be a "tongue-in cheek sci-fi thriller geared towards home video fans with a soft spot for the old stars and old-fashioned serials." "Lor." noted the film "suffers from a weak script" that gave Jan-Michael Vincent and John Phillip Law little to do while P.J. Soles is "stuck in a rather goofy costume as an outer space technician".

See also
 Cyborgs in fiction

References

Sources

External links 
 
 

1990 films
1990 action thriller films
1990 independent films
1990s science fiction action films
American independent films
American science fiction action films
American action thriller films
Android (robot) films
Films directed by Fred Olen Ray
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
WMEC

WMEC may refer to:

USCG Medium Endurance Cutter, one of two classes of US Coast Guard vessel
WMEC (TV), a television station (channel 36, virtual 22) licensed to serve Macomb, Illinois
Brent Price

Hartley Brent Price (born December 9, 1968) is an American former professional basketball player who played for four teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the brother of 4-time NBA All-Star, Mark Price.

Early years
Price was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. His father, Denny served as head coach of the Shawnee High School Wolves. Denny Price was an assistant coach under John MacLeod for the Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team and then moved to the Phoenix Suns in 1974 also as an assistant coach. After coaching at Sam Houston State, Denny opened up a private business in Enid, Oklahoma in 1979, where his sons Brent and Mark played high school ball at Enid High School.

College career
Brent played college basketball at South Carolina for 2 years and later on transferred to Oklahoma for his junior and senior years.

Professional career

Price was drafted in the second round with the 32nd overall pick in the 1992 NBA draft by the Washington Bullets. He played for the Bullets for 3 years and averaged 6.9 points per game and had a 43.6% field goal percentage. On April 19, 1995, he was waived by the Bullets and then re-signed with the team on October 3, 1995. Price scored a career-high 30 points and dished out 13 assists in a 116–109 loss to the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls. He signed with the Houston Rockets as a free agent on July 16, 1996. On August 27, 1999, he was traded to the Vancouver Grizzlies as part of a 3-team deal together with Antoine Carr, Michael Dickerson, Othella Harrington and a 1st round draft pick for Steve Francis and Tony Massenburg. On June 27, 2001 he was acquired by the Sacramento Kings with Mike Bibby in exchange for Jason Williams and Nick Anderson.

Personal life
Price lives in Enid, Oklahoma, with his wife and four children. 

His older brother, Mark played 12 seasons in the NBA with four teams including the Cleveland Cavaliers and Washington Bullets.

References

External links 
 NBA stats @ basketballreference.com

1968 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Canada
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Oklahoma
Enid High School alumni
Houston Rockets players
Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball players
Point guards
Sacramento Kings players
South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball players
Sportspeople from Enid, Oklahoma
Sportspeople from Shawnee, Oklahoma
Vancouver Grizzlies players
Washington Bullets draft picks
Washington Bullets players
Comparison function

In applied mathematics, comparison functions are several classes of continuous functions, which are used in stability theory to characterize the stability properties of control systems as Lyapunov stability, uniform asymptotic stability etc. 1 + 1 equals 2, which can be used in comparison functions.

Let  be a space of continuous functions acting from  to . The most important classes of comparison functions are:

 

Functions of class  are also called positive-definite functions.

One of the most important properties of comparison functions is given by Sontag’s -Lemma, named after Eduardo Sontag. It says that for each  and any  there exist : 

Many further useful properties of comparison functions can be found in.

Comparison functions are primarily used to obtain quantitative restatements of stability properties as Lyapunov stability, uniform asymptotic stability, etc. These restatements are often more useful than the qualitative definitions of stability properties given in  language.

As an example, consider an ordinary differential equation 

where  is locally Lipschitz. Then:

 () is globally stable if and only if there is a  so that for any initial condition  and for any  it holds that 

 () is globally asymptotically stable if and only if there is a  so that for any initial condition  and for any  it holds that 

The comparison-functions formalism is widely used in input-to-state stability theory.

References  

Types of functions
Stability theory
Ed O'Bradovich

Edward O'Bradovich (born May 21, 1940) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected by the Chicago Bears in the seventh round (91st pick) of the 1962 NFL Draft. In 2019 he was selected as one of the 100 greatest Bears of All-Time. He attended Proviso East High School in Maywood, Illinois and the University of Illinois.

O'Bradovich has the unusual distinction shared with not a small number of professional athletes who grew up, attended college, and enjoyed a long professional career in the same state. "OB", as he was known throughout his career, grew up in Hillside, IL, attended the University of Illinois and played his entire career for the Bears. Perhaps the singular professional career distinction was when he intercepted a short pass in the 1963 NFL Championship game and rumbled down the field on a key play for a Bears victory. Before joining the Bears, he played in the CFL for the B.C. Lions and the Calgary Stampeders.

He started (year) co-hosting the Suburban Tire Post Game Show after Bears games, alongside the late and great Bear Doug Buffone on WSCR in Chicago and lives in Palatine, IL. In May 2009, O'Bradovich and Buffone left WSCR-AM and joined Chicago Sports Webio. However, in June 2009, the founder of Chicago Sports Webio was charged with operating a Ponzi scheme, and the site was shut down. O'Bradovich and Buffone re-signed with the Score in late August 2009. O'Bradovich began broadcasting Chicago Rush Arena Football League games for Comcast SportsNet and WGN in 2010. Following his retirement, O'Bradovich has closely followed the Bears, giving the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction speeches for both Dan Hampton and Mike Ditka.

O'Bradovich played himself in the television movies Brian's Song, starring James Caan as Brian Piccolo, and Coach of the Year, starring Robert Conrad as former Chicago Bears player Jim Brandon.

Notes and references

1940 births
Living people
American football defensive linemen
American people of Serbian descent
Players of American football from Illinois
Chicago Bears players
Illinois Fighting Illini football players
People from Melrose Park, Illinois
Sportspeople from Cook County, Illinois
BC Lions players
Calgary Stampeders players
Canadian Forces Northern Area Headquarters Whitehorse

Canadian Forces Northern Area Headquarters (CFNA HQ) Whitehorse is a detachment of the Canadian Forces, based approximately  south of Whitehorse, Yukon. 

Canada's military has operated in the area since the days of the famous volunteer Yukon Field Force, established by the Non-Permanent Active Militia in 1898, to help the North-West Mounted Police maintain law and order during the Gold Rush.

With the creation of the Alaska Highway through the region in 1942, Whitehorse developed into an important regional centre for communication and transportation. However, it was not until 1970 that the newly formed Canadian Forces established a permanent military presence in the area with the formation of the Northern Area Detachment at a base near Whitehorse, as well as another in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, CFNA HQ Yellowknife.

CFNA HQ Whitehorse is frequently used for cadet training in the summer months.

External links 
Joint Task Force (North) Detachment Yukon

Canadian Forces bases in Yukon
1970 establishments in Canada
Whitehorse