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Steve Cox (baseball)

Charles Steven Cox (born October 31, 1974) is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama BayStars.

Career
Cox attended Monache High School in Porterville, California, graduating in 1992. was chosen in the fifth round of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft by the Oakland Athletics. He played in their organization for six seasons without appearing in the major leagues. He was selected by the Devil Rays with the 46th pick in the 1997 MLB Expansion Draft.

Cox broke out in 1999, when he posted an impressive .341/.414/.588 batting line with 25 home runs and 107 runs scored for the Durham Bulls, earning International League MVP honors.

Cox was first called up to  MLB on September 17, , along with Jim Morris. He made his Major League debut on September 19, 1999 as a pinch hitter in the seventh inning against the Texas Rangers, in which he also earned his first major league hit, a double off of Jeff Fassero. For the 1999 season, Cox appeared in 6 games, batting .211 in 19 at-bats.

Cox began the 2000 season on the major league roster, and spent the entire season with the Rays. In 116 games, Cox hit .283/.379/.453 with 11 home runs and 35 RBIs. Cox received a single vote in AL Rookie of the Year voting, tying him for sixth place with Adam Kennedy, Mark Redman and Barry Zito.

Cox spent the next two years as an near everyday player for the Rays, playing in 256 out of a possible 324 games. In 2001, he hit .257/.323/.427 with 12 home runs and 51 RBIs in 108 games. In 2002, he was a regular starter at first base and as a designated hitter appearing in 148 games, hitting .254/.330/.396 with 30 doubles, 16 home runs and 72 RBIs.

During the 2002 offseason, Cox who was coming off a career-best season, surprisingly, decided to leave the Rays and the MLB behind to play for the Yokohama BayStars of the 
NPB. In his lone season in Japan, he only appeared in 15 games, batting .200/.298/.280 with 1 home run and 7 RBIs.

He returned briefly to the Devil Rays organization, playing 19 games for the Durham Bulls during the 2005 season, where he hit .210/.329/.436 with 3 home runs and 9 RBIs before retiring.

In 2007, Cox became the head coach for Porterville College, and coached the Pirates for two seasons.

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Tennessee Commissioner of Financial Institutions

The Tennessee Commissioner of Financial Institutions is the head of Tennessee's Department of Financial Institutions, which is responsible for regulating the bank system of that U.S. state. The Commissioner is appointed by the governor of Tennessee and is a member of the governor's Cabinet, which meets at least once per month, or more often to the governor's liking. Originally, a Banking Department had been created in 1913, led by a Superintendent of Banks, and then ten years later credit unions were added to the Department's responsibilities.

The first Commissioner of Banking, after the position was renamed in 1973, was Hugh F. Sinclair during the administration of Governor Winfield Dunn. The second Commissioner of Banking, under Ray Blanton, was Joe Hemphill. The last person to hold the title of Commissioner of Banking was Thomas C. Mottern, under Lamar Alexander. The first person to hold the title of Commissioner of Financial Institutions, also under Lamar Alexander, was W.C. Adams in 1983. 

The Commissioner during the Ned Ray McWherter administration was Jeff H. Dyer. Don Sundquist's Commissioners, respectively, were Talmadge B. Gilley, Bill Houston, and Fred Lawson. Kevin Lavender was the Commissioner under governor Phil Bredesen, until Lavender resigned to become a senior vice president of the Fifth Third Bank corporation. Phil Bredesen appointed Greg Gonzales to serve as Acting Commissioner of Banking in his place on December 5, 2005.

External links

The website of the Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions
The Tennessee Blue Book's section on the Department
The Tennessee State Library and Archive's list of governor papers. Some contain lists of the governor's Cabinet members.
A news article about the appointment of Fred Lawson
An article from Governor Phil Bredesen's website on the appointment of Greg Gonzales

 Financial Institutions
Aaron Ledesma

Aaron David Ledesma (born June 3, 1971) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an infielder.

Playing career
Ledesma was drafted in the second round of the 1990 Major League Baseball Draft by the New York Mets.  Prior to the 1996 season, he was traded by the Mets to the California Angels for Kevin Flora.  Ledesma spent the 1996 season in the minors, became a minor league free agent after the season, and signed with the Baltimore Orioles in 1997.  He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays from Orioles as the 62nd pick in the 1997 Major League Baseball expansion draft.  After the 1999 season, the Devil Rays traded Ledesma with Rolando Arrojo to the Colorado Rockies for Vinny Castilla.

Coaching career
Ledesma served as the hitting coach for the Class-A Advanced Tampa Yankees in 2008, and served as the hitting coach for the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees in 2009 and 2010.

Post-playing career
Ledesma opened a yoga studio with his wife Karen in Clearwater, Florida, where they are instructors.

References

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Norfolk Tides players
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Vancouver Canadians players
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Cellular architecture

Cellular architecture is a type of computer architecture prominent in parallel computing. Cellular architectures are relatively new, with IBM's Cell microprocessor being the first one to reach the market. Cellular architecture takes multi-core architecture design to its logical conclusion, by giving the programmer the ability to run large numbers of concurrent threads within a single processor. Each 'cell' is a compute node containing thread units, memory, and communication. Speed-up is achieved by exploiting thread-level parallelism inherent in many applications.

Cell, a cellular architecture containing 9 cores, is the processor used in the PlayStation 3. Another prominent cellular architecture is Cyclops64, a massively parallel architecture currently under development by IBM.

Cellular architectures follow the low-level programming paradigm, which exposes the programmer to much of the underlying hardware. This allows the programmer to greatly optimize their code for the platform, but at the same time makes it more difficult to develop software.

See also
Cellular automaton

External links
 Cellular architecture builds next generation supercomputers
 ORNL, IBM, and the Blue Gene Project
 Energy, IBM are partners in biological supercomputing project
 Cell-based Architecture

Parallel computing
Computer architecture
Classes of computers
Environmental issues in Bolivia

Major environmental issues in Bolivia include managing its forests, preserving the country's levels of biodiversity, maintaining ecologically important protected areas, coping with the effects of climate change, and dealing with the environmental consequences of agriculture, mining, oil and gas development, and transportation infrastructure. Bolivia’s history of slash-and-burn agriculture, overgrazing, and industrial pollution has caused significant concern among environmentalists. Soil erosion, made worse by seasonal flooding, and contaminated water supplies are Bolivia’s most pressing environmental problems. The National Service for Protected Areas, established in 1998, currently manages 21 protected areas.

Deforestation 
Bolivia holds an important share of global forest cover. , its primary forest cover was 36.2 million hectares, the 13th largest national area in the world and representing 2.8% of the worldwide total. It is the country with the seventh largest amount of tropical rainforest. Overall, forests made up 51.4 million hectares, 46.8% of the country's total area, in 2013. Both primary forest and overall forest cover have been declining in recent decades. 

Bolivia has 7.7 percent of the Amazon rainforest within its borders.  

Bolivia had a 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 8.47/10, ranking it 21st globally out of 172 countries.

Annual deforestation averaged 173,994 hectares in net forest lost per year between 1990 and 2000, and 243,120 hectares per year between 2000 and 2010. 

The final figure (2.8%) represents the percentage of worldwide total in 2015.

Source: MMAyA-OTCA, summarized by Andersen et al 2016:S1.

References 

Environment of Bolivia
Bega Canal

The Bega Canal or Begej Canal (; ) is a navigation canal of Romania and Serbia. It is the first navigation canal built on the present-day territory of Romania, and serves the city of Timișoara. Its name comes from the Bega river. It crosses the territory of Timiș County in western Romania and proceeds into the territory of Serbia, merging with Begej river near the village of Klek.

History
During the 18th-19th centuries it was the main means of transporting goods in the area as it connected the town to the country’s capitals: Budapest and Vienna. Nowadays it is used for amusement and sports.

Gallery

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Patrick Femerling

Patrick Oliver Femerling (born 4 March 1975) is a German former professional basketball player who played as a center.

Professional career
Femerling was born in Hamburg. He played for ALBA Berlin in Germany and with them he won three German League championships (1999, 2000, 2008). From 2000 to 2002, he played for Olympiacos and with them he won the Greek Cup (2002). In 2003, Femerling won the EuroLeague championship while playing for FC Barcelona. He also won two Spanish League championships (2003, 2004), one Spanish King's Cup (2003), and one Spanish Supercup with FC Barcelona. He also played for Panathinaikos and with them he won two Greek League championships and two Greek Cups (2005, 2006).

German national team
Femerling won the bronze medal at the 2002 FIBA World Championship and the silver medal at the 2005 FIBA European Championship while playing with the German national team.

References

External links
Euroleague.net Profile
Career Insports.gr

1975 births
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Rich Butler

Richard Dwight Butler (born May 1, 1973) is a Canadian former outfielder in Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He is the brother of another former Blue Jay, Rob Butler.

Career 
Butler was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Toronto Blue Jays on September 24, 1990. After seven years in Minor League Baseball, he was called up to play for the major league club on September 6, 1997. He played seven games that season with the Blue Jays.

In the Major League Baseball expansion draft of 1997, Butler was selected 10th overall by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. In Tampa Bay's inaugural season of 1998, Butler played in 72 games at the major league level and 38 games with the Triple-A Durham Bulls.

Butler remained at AAA Durham in 1999, where he played 90 games. He was called up to the Devil Rays again, but this time only for seven games.

On October 15, 1999, Butler was granted free agency. A month later, he was signed by the Seattle Mariners, although he never made it back to the big leagues.

After his MLB career Butler played for the minor league Toronto Maple Leafs from 2001 to 2002.

Highlights 
1992 - A Ball Myrtle Beach Hurricanes, South Atlantic League Champions

1993 - Florida State League All Star, voted most exciting player of the year by Baseball America

1996 - Australian League MVP, Sydney Blues

1997 - First MLB hit, September 9

1998 - First MLB home run, April 1

Statistics 
Batting

Fielding

 minor league fielding statistics not available

References

External links

Pelota Binaria (Venezuelan Winter League)

1973 births
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Baseball players from Toronto
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Knoxville Smokies players
Major League Baseball left fielders
Major League Baseball players from Canada
Myrtle Beach Hurricanes players
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Syracuse Chiefs players
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Tampa Bay Devil Rays players
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The Winnipeg Foundation

The Winnipeg Foundation is a registered charity and community foundation based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Established in 1921, it is the oldest community foundation in Canada.

The Foundation is dedicated primarily to the social improvement of Winnipeg. It pools and permanently invests gifts from donors to support the local charitable sector, through grants in a broad range of areas, including; community service, education and employment, health, environment, heritage, arts and culture, and recreation.

In 2021, the Winnipeg Foundation made $84.9 million in grants to charitable organizations in Winnipeg. In 2020, it received over $187 million in gifts and distributed $73 million to approximately 1,000 charitable organizations.

History

The Winnipeg Foundation was founded in 1921 with a gift of $100,000 from local businessman and banker, William Forbes Alloway. Founding board members included Justice Robert Maxwell Dennistoun, Chief Justice Thomas Graham Mathers, Archdeacon R.B. McElheran, and Hugh John MacDonald. In 2001, the Foundation experienced an unprecedented gift when it received a $100 million donation—at the time it was the largest gift ever made to a Canadian community foundation - from Randall Moffat and his family. Moffat is the former president of Moffat Communications.

In 2003, The Winnipeg Foundation made its largest grant to date ($6 million) to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. In 2012, the Foundation surpassed $300 million in total cumulative grants. In 2014, the Foundation made $22.9 million in grants to 860 charitable organizations. In 2020, it received over $187 million in gifts and distributed $73 million to approximately 1,000 charitable organizations.

References

External links
 The Winnipeg Foundation
 Canada Revenue Agency registered charity information database: The Winnipeg Foundation

1921 establishments in Manitoba
Charities based in Canada
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Organizations based in Winnipeg
Community foundations
Uptown Theater (Minneapolis)

The Uptown Theatre is one of the oldest surviving theaters in the Twin Cities area. It was in active use from 1916 to 2020.  The theater is planning to reopen on May 5, 2023, as a music and event venue.

History 
The theatre was originally opened as the Lagoon Theater on June 3, 1916. A name change to the Uptown on April 11, 1929, coincided with the installation of sound equipment and a screening of The Dummy. A fire broke out in the ventilation system during Trade Winds on April 25, 1939, but the cinema was rebuilt soon after by the firm of Liebenberg & Kaplan.

This new Uptown Theatre re-opened on November 16, 1939, with The Women. It was designed in streamline moderne, with two incised roundels on the exterior stone facade that portrayed themes of travel and adventure in cinema. Murals in the auditorium depict early explorers gazing at the future Minneapolis and the Father of the Waters presiding over water sprites that symbolize the lakes of the city.

The Uptown closed in 1975 but was purchased and re-opened by the Landmark Theatres chain in 1978. After years of classic double features, the theater began screening foreign and independent films starting with The Coca-Cola Kid in November 1985. The building was deemed a heritage site in 1990 and soon after remodeled their lobby to re-create art moderne and neo-baroque elements.

Landmark closed the theater on January 31, 2012, for renovation and upgrades. The theater re-opened September 14, 2012, showing Sleepwalk with Me. The new design added a full bar and replaced 35mm with digital projection.

The structure has a 60-foot tower that once featured a revolving beam of light marking the Uptown area of Minneapolis and could be seen for miles around. It was the first three-sided vertical tower sign in the country and had to be approved by civil aviation authorities.

The theater stands at one of the busiest intersections in the Uptown area (Hennepin-Lagoon) and has been a landmark in the area for decades. It is also one of the few cinemas in the midwest that offers balcony seating.

The Uptown screened mostly foreign and art films and ran cult films at midnight screenings. It ran The Rocky Horror Picture Show from May 19, 1978, through 1997. The film returned on a monthly basis in 2009.

The theater was known for its often clever and amusing marquees.

The theatre closed in March 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic; Landmark Theatres was evicted in June 2021 due to unpaid back rent.

The Uptown Theater was purchased by Swervo Development and it is planned to reopen as a music and event venue on May 5, 2023.

Footnotes

External links
 Cinema Treasures
 Twin Cities City Search

Buildings and structures in Minneapolis
Cinemas and movie theaters in Minnesota
Movie palaces
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Hoad Monument

Hoad Monument (officially called the Sir John Barrow Monument) is a  tower at the top of the  Hoad Hill, near Ulverston in Cumbria. England. It commemorates Sir John Barrow (1764-1848), who was born in Ulverston. It was built in 1850 at a cost of £1250, the cost being met mainly by public subscription.

Sir John Barrow was a founding member of the Royal Geographical Society. He travelled to China and South Africa as a diplomat and held the post of Second Secretary to the Admiralty from 1804 until 1845.

Description

The monument is not a lighthouse: it has never had a functional light.  However, it was designed to resemble one, and is similar to the Third Eddystone Lighthouse (Smeaton's Tower). It is a Grade II* listed building, meaning that it is of more than local interest, and the monument stands as one of the symbols of the northwest of England.

It is built of limestone quarried locally at Birkrigg Common. Due to its elevated and exposed position, it is one of the most prominent landmarks in Cumbria. The hollow tower can be ascended via a spiral stone staircase of 112 steps. At the top, eight apertures provide a 360-degree panorama of the Furness Peninsula, Morecambe Bay and the southern Lake District. In recent times the formerly open apertures have been glazed.

Sometimes simply known as "Hoad", the tower is also occasionally referred to as "the pepper pot". This epithet was famously used by Lord Haw-Haw in one of his propaganda broadcasts during World War II when he warned the residents of Ulverston that the German Air Force would bomb their pepper pot.

Hoad Monument is normally open on Sundays and Bank Holidays between April and October, when a flag is flying outside the monument. The monument itself is owned and maintained by Ulverston Town Council, while Hoad Hill is owned by Ulverston Towns Lands Trust.

Restoration
In 2009/2010 the monument underwent a £1.2 million restoration.  The majority of funding came in the form of a £891,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, with the Friends of the Sir John Barrow Monument collecting grants and donations for the rest.

The restoration included a series of structural improvements to make the monument watertight, the most noticeable of these being the addition of a copper roof covering the stone dome, which was itself removed and rebuilt.

The official reopening was on Sunday 22 August 2010 and was marked by a gala at Ford Park, barn dance and firework display.

See also

Grade II* listed buildings in South Lakeland
Listed buildings in Ulverston

References 

 A Story of the Growth of Ulverston, by Dorothy Ashburner. Published 1993 (No ISBN available).

External links 
Friends of the Sir John Barrow Monument

Ulverston
Grade II* listed buildings in Cumbria
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Jayski's Silly Season Site

Jayski's Silly Season Site is a web site focusing primarily on NASCAR news and rumors. The website was founded by Jay "Jayski" Adamczyk (who was fan of Mark Donohue) in 1996 after he had difficulty finding news regarding the Melling Racing team, and subsequently worked to get all NASCAR news grouped together on the site. The site was purchased from Adamczyk by ESPN in 2007; after ESPN shut the site down in January 2019, Adamczyk reacquired the rights to Jayski-related properties in April 2019 and rolled out a limited version of the new website with a full launch occurring on May 13, 2019.

Website
The name for Jayski's Silly Season Site is a reference to the midpoint of the NASCAR season when rumors within the sport most often circulate. The main feature of the site is a "News and Rumors" page for the major three NASCAR series. The sites also hosts pictures of the paint schemes used by teams throughout that year, television schedules and tributes to deceased drivers. The site also lists series statistics and external links to teams and drivers.

History 
Adamczyk created the site in 1996 and used his moniker from his time in the military, Jayski, to brand the site. On December 3, 1999, Adamczyk quit his job as a computer programmer for the Federal Aviation Administration to work on the site full-time. Two years later, Jayski's content began to be featured on Knight Ridder's racing website, That's Racin'. That freed Adamczyk from several business commitments (such as advertising), and enabled him to focus solely on creating content, and hosting external links to newspaper and magazine stories on the NASCAR world. In January 2004, sports network ESPN began to host Jayski.

In early April 2007, as part of its renewed interest in NASCAR following re-acquisition of broadcasting rights, ESPN purchased Jayski.com. Jayski underwent a stylistic overhaul in August 2009. The site was redesigned in early 2017, becoming part of ESPN.com, but Adamczyk continues to operate the site on a daily basis with a staff of two.

Jayski's Silly Season Site was featured in Time's The 50 Best Websites of 2011. Jayski ran a podcast until 2013. Adamzcyk had later expanded the Jayski staff to include two other employees to compile information about NASCAR.

On January 28, 2019, ESPN ceased operations of Jayski. The move was part of a wider exodus from NASCAR for ESPN, which also let go of reporters Ricky Craven and Bob Pockrass over the 2019 offseason. Many within the NASCAR community expressed gratitude for the two-plus decades that Jayski ran online.

The domain of jayski.com was acquired back from ESPN in April 2019, and a partial site was rolled out while the search for a new web host partner began. A full site, now hosted by NASCAR Digital Media, was revealed on May 12, 2019.

References

External links

NASCAR websites
Internet properties established in 1996
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Puebla de Guzmán

Puebla de Guzmán is a town and a municipality located in the province of Huelva, Spain. According to the 2005 census, it has a population of 3,109 inhabitants.

Notable people
Pablo Oliveira, footballer

References

External links
Puebla de Guzmán - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía

Municipalities in the Province of Huelva
Portable Standard Lisp

Portable Standard Lisp (PSL) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp. PSL was inspired by its predecessor, Standard Lisp and the Portable Lisp Compiler. It is tail-recursive, late binding (or dynamically bound), and was developed by researchers at the University of Utah in 1980, which released PSL 3.1; development was handed over to developers at Hewlett-Packard in 1982 who released PSL 3.3 and up. Portable Standard Lisp was available as a kit containing a screen editor, a compiler, and an interpreter for several hardware and operating system computing platforms, including Motorola 68000 series, DECSYSTEM-20s, Cray-1s, VAX, and many others. Today, PSL is mainly developed by and available from Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB). Its main modern use is as the underlying language for implementations of Reduce.

Like most older Lisps, in the first step, PSL compiles Lisp code to LAP code, which is another cross-platform language. However, where older lisps mostly compiled LAP directly to assembly language or some architecture dependent intermediate, PSL compiles the LAP to C code, which would run in a virtual machine language; so programs written in it are as portable as C in principle, which is very portable. The compiler was written in PSL or a more primitive dialect named System Lisp or SYSLISP as "... an experiment in writing a production-quality Lisp in Lisp itself as much as possible, with only minor amounts of code written by hand in assembly language or other systems languages." so the whole ensemble could bootstrap itself, and improvements to the compiler improved the compiler. Some later releases had a compatibility package for Common Lisp, but this is not sustained in the modern versions.

Criticism
Portable Standard Lisp has fewer features than other Lisps, such as Common Lisp, and some people found it unpleasant to use. Richard P. Gabriel wrote in his popular essay Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big, "the third most standard Lisp was Portable Standard Lisp, which ran on many machines, but very few people wanted to use it;".

Timeline

References

External links

 , Portable Utah Standard Lisp

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Bryan Rekar

Bryan Robert Rekar (born June 3, 1972) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played for the Colorado Rockies, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB) during an 8-year career.

Rekar attended Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox, Illinois and was All-State his Junior year with a 10-0 record and a 0.90 earned run average.

Playing career

Bradley University
Bryan received a scholarship to play baseball at Bradley University where he was a 1st Team All-Missouri Valley Conference his sophomore and junior years recording 16 wins to 6 loses and an earned run average of 2.39 those 2 years. Rekar was later voted to the All-Centennial Missouri Valley Conference for Baseball and was elected into the Bradley University Hall of Fame for his baseball career.

Colorado Rockies
Selected in the second round of the 1993 amateur draft by the Rockies, he would wind up called up to the majors by them in 1995, pitching in 15 games. He would spend the next two seasons with the club compiling a 7-10 record with a 6.54 ERA.

Tampa Bay Devil Rays
In 1998, he wound up being drafted by the expansion team Tampa Bay Devil Rays. In 2000, he set a career high in wins (7), ERA (4.41), innings pitched (173.1) and starts (27).

2001 would not be his best season. He went 13 straight starts without recording a win. He finished that season with a 3-13 record and a 5.89 ERA in 25 starts. After that he was released from the team.

Kansas City Royals
In 2002, he signed a deal with the Kansas City Royals. Rekar only made 2 starts with the Royals, allowing 12 runs in those starts. After that, he was traded his former club the Rockies, for which he pitched on for the rest of that 2002 season.

Independent league
Rekar pitched for the Long Island Ducks for 2 years, compiling an 11–8 record.

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Daybreaker (Beth Orton album)

Daybreaker is the third album by singer-songwriter Beth Orton released in 2002 on Heavenly Records and the Astralwerks Records label. The album reached #40 in US and #8 in UK. Mojo Magazine called the album "her best to date...". Q Magazine was not excited about the album: "Tortoise-pace strumming and a crippling shortage of choruses produce only torpor".  The album earned Orton a nomination at the BRIT Awards for Best British Female Singer as well as Best Album at the Q Awards.

In an interview to Insound.com on 28 July 2002 she said about making the record:

As of 2003 it has sold 169,000 copies in the United States.

Track listing
"Paris Train" (Ted Barnes, Orton)
"Concrete Sky" (Johnny Marr, Orton)
"Mount Washington" (Orton)
"Anywhere" (Orton)
"Daybreaker" (Orton)
"Carmella" (Orton)
"God Song" (Orton)
"This One's Gonna Bruise" (Ryan Adams, Orton)
"Ted's Waltz" (Barnes, Orton)
"Thinking About Tomorrow" (Ted Barnes, Orton, Sean Read, Sebastian Steinberg)

The Japanese version features two bonus tracks: "Ali's Waltz" and "Bobby Gentry", both also on the Concrete Sky EP.

Personnel
 Producer - Victor Van Vugt
 Additional production - Ben Watt
 Acoustic Guitar - Ted Barnes
 Drums - Will Blanchard
 Engineer - Richard "Dread" Mann
 Assistant Engineer - John McCormack
 Bass Guitar - Ali Friend
 Keyboards - Sean Read
 Mastered By - Miles Showell
 Mixer - Andy Bradfield, Ben Watt
 Ryan Adams - acoustic guitar on 'This One's Gonna Bruise', bass and slide guitar on 'God Song', piano, bass, guitars and backing vocals on 'Carmella' and 'Concrete Sky'

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References 

Beth Orton albums
2002 albums
Albums produced by Victor Van Vugt
Gullringen

Gullringen is a locality situated in Vimmerby Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 541 inhabitants in 2010.

Gullringen is best known for its football team, Gullringens GoIF, and the house maker, Gullringshus.

References

External links 

Populated places in Kalmar County
Populated places in Vimmerby Municipality
Karen Maruyama

Karen Maruyama (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress and comedian.

Career
Maruyama has appeared on television in supporting roles in a number of sitcoms, including recurring characters on The Jamie Foxx Show, Strip Mall, Suddenly Susan, and Arrested Development. Maruyama is well known as an improv performer and instructor, and was a featured guest on the American and British versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as well as being a member of The Groundlings. She also appeared as a parking lot attendant in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

She played a nurse in The Bucket List (2007) and a housekeeper in the 2012 film The Campaign. She is part of the cast of The Jim Henson Company's live stage show "Puppet Up! - Uncensored" which has toured to Aspen, Las Vegas, Edinburgh, Sydney and Melbourne and is currently appearing monthly at Avalon Hollywood.

Maruyama was also featured as a fashion victim in an episode of the makeover show How Do I Look?.  She also appeared as a non-celebrity contestant on the 1984 CBS game show, Body Language, under the name Karen Upshaw, saying she was from Perris, California. She was paired with celebrity players Ted Lange and Constance Towers. She was also on The New $25,000 Pyramid in 1983 with Audrey Landers and Michael McKean.

Filmography

References

External links

Karen Maruyama at the "Whose Line is it Anyway?" Encyclopedia

1958 births
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
American women comedians
American comedians of Asian descent
Place of birth missing (living people)
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20th-century American comedians
21st-century American comedians
Environmental issues in Eritrea

Eritrea faces a wide variety of issues. Environmental issues include continued deforestation, desertification, soil erosion, overgrazing, and significant land loss as a result of the presence of hundreds of thousands of land mines. Additionally, there is heavy mining within the country for gold, copper, and zinc. For years, mining was the only major source of revenue for the country and so this was encouraged by the national government.  

Significant strides towards sustainability and environmental recovery had originally been made by the Government of Eritrea. Although, the Eritrean Government had embarked on a program to reforest Eritrea (which in 1900 was 30% forested land, despite heavy logging) and prevent wood from being used as a fuel source, plans have been hampered in recent years because of a mass exodus of working Eritreans from the country.

The government of Eritrea, with the assistance of the UN Development Program had enacted a Coastal Marine and Island Biodiversity Conservation Project which was designed to protect the entire coastal zone of Eritrea. This is the first project of its kind in scope and magnitude in the world. This program is meant to create a sustainable environment for coming generations. In recent years, the project has been hampered by the Eritrean government's continual encouragement of mining within the country which has affected the environmental stability of both highland and coastal regions.

References

External links 
Initial National Communication under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Issues
Eritrea
Ksar Ouled Soltane

Ksar Ouled Soltane () is a fortified granary, or ksar, located in the Tataouine district in southern Tunisia. The ksar is spread out over two courtyards, each of which has a perimeter of multi-story vaulted granary cellars, or ghorfas. Like other ksour (plural of ksar) built by Berber communities Ksar Ouled Soltane, is located on a hilltop, to help protect it from raiding parties in previous centuries.

Ksar Ouled Soltane is now a tourist destination, with visitors coming to see its well-preserved granary vaults. It was also featured in the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace in some of the scenes used to represent the slave quarters of Mos Espa, where the character Anakin Skywalker lived as a boy.

References

Lonely Planet Tunisia, 3rd edition

See also
 List of ksour in Tunisia

Buildings and structures completed in the 15th century
Ouled Soltane
Environmental issues in Ethiopia

As in many neighboring countries, most environmental issues in Ethiopia relate to deforestation and endangered species.

Geological issues
The Main Ethiopian Rift is geologically active and susceptible to earthquakes. Hot springs and active volcanoes are found in its extreme east close to the Red Sea. Elsewhere, the land is subject to erosion, overgrazing, deforestation, and frequent droughts. Water shortages are common in some areas during the dry season. The causes of degradation are primarily the demand for more land for agriculture, fuel and construction as well as for grazing grounds.

Endangered animals

Ethiopian wolf
The Ethiopian wolf is one of the rarest and most endangered of all canid species. The numerous names given to this species reflect previous uncertainties about its taxonomic position. However, the Ethiopian wolf is  now thought to be related to the wolves of the genus Canis, rather that sold for about US$175 each to taxidermists who then retail the stuffed lions for US$400. "For the time being our immediate solution is to send them to the taxidermists, but the final and best solution is to extend the zoo into a wider area," Muhedin said.

The director of the wildlife division of Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture said he had no idea the lions were being culled.

Deforestation 

Ethiopia had a 2018 Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 7.16/10, ranking it 50th globally out of 172 countries.

References 

 Haileselassie, A. (2004) “Ethiopia’s struggle over land reform,” World Press Review 51.4, 32(2). Expanded Academic ASAP.
 Hillstrom, K. & Hillstrom, C. (2003). Africa and the Middle east; a continental Overview of Environmental Issues. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
 Maddox, G.H. (2006). Sub-Saharan Africa: An environmental history. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
 McCann.J.C.(1990). "A Great Agrarian cycle? Productivity in Highland Ethiopia, 1900–1987," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 20:3, pp. 389–416. (Retrieved November 18, 2006 from JSTOR database)
 McCann, J.C. (1999). Green land, Brown land, Black land: An environmental history of Africa 1800–1990. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
 Mongabay.com "Ethiopia statistics." (Retrieved November 18, 2006)
 Parry, J (2003). "Tree choppers become tree planters," Appropriate Technology, 30(4), 38–39. Retrieved November 22, 2006, from ABI/INFORM Global database. (Document ID: 538367341)
 Parry, K (2003) "Perceptions of forest cover and tree planting and ownership in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia” unasylva, vol 54 Iss: 213 (2003), pp. 18(2).
 Sucoff, E. (2003). "Deforestation", Environmental Encyclopedia, at pp. 358–359. Detroit: Gale.
 Williams, M. (2006). Deforesting the earth: From prehistory to global crisis: An Abridgment. Chicago: University Press.

External links
WildCRU – Conservation of Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis) University of Oxford Department of Zoology website
 Eco-Tourism and Wildlife in Oromo territory

Issues
Ethiopia
Kaseta

Kaseta is an album by the rock band Kult. It was originally released in 1989 on LP album through Arston and on music cassette through Bogdan Studio. It was rereleased in 1995 on compact disc and music cassette through S.P. Records.

Track listing
 all tracks by Kult (music) and Kazik Staszewski (lyrics).

 "Oni chcą ciebie" – 5:37 (They Want You)
 "Londyn" – 5:01 (London)
 "Kwaska" – 3:43 
 "Fali" – 7:39
 "Dzieci wiedzą lepiej" – 3:06 (Children Know Better)
 "Jaką cenę możesz zapłacić" – 3:29 (What Price Can You Pay)
 "Tut" – 3:17
 "Czekając na królestwo J.H.W.H." – 6:10 (Awaiting the Kingdom of Y.H.W.H.)
 "Po co wolność" – 3:30 (Why Would You Need Freedom)
Bonus Track
 "Lipcowy poranek" - 9:12 (July Morning)

Credits
 Kazik Staszewski – lead vocals
 Janusz Grudzinski – keyboard, lead guitar
 Ireneusz Werenski – bass guitar
 Rafal Kwasniewski – guitar
 Piotr Falkowski – percussion, guitar, vocals
 Krzysztof Banasik – horn
 Pawel Jordan – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
 Roman Kozak – trombone
 Robert Sadowski – guitar

References
 

1989 albums
Kult (band) albums
Ghorfa

A ghorfa ( room) is a vaulted room used by Berbers for storing grain. They are often stacked as multistory structures, sometimes reaching four stories high. Traditionally, the rooms were grouped together as a ksar, a fortification used by Berber villages in the Maghreb to store large amounts of grain. A ghorfa in Malta could also mean a lonely room in a field, a bedroom, any kind of storage room, an animal shelter or other functional traditional rooms.

In popular culture
Ghorfas were featured prominently in the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace as the slave quarters of Mos Espa, home to Anakin Skywalker. These scenes in the film show ghorfas from several locations in southern Tunisia, including Ksar Ouled Soltane and Ksar Hadada.

See also
 Gasr Al-Hajj
 Ksar Ouled Soltane
 Chenini
 Douiret
 Menzel (Djerba)

References

Sources 
 Lonely Planet Tunisia, 3rd edition

Rooms
Berber architecture
Granaries
The Amazing Maze Game

The Amazing Maze Game is an arcade video game developed by Midway and released in 1976. Consisting of a black and white CRT screen running on an Intel 8080 CPU, It is considered one of the earliest maze games produced, and also displays an early example of the phrase "game over."

Gameplay

The game is centered around a top-down maze, randomly generated each time the game is played. In the maze there are openings on both the left and righthand sides, where the second and first player will start from respectively. The goal of the game is for each player to find their way through the maze to reach the other player's starting position, before the other player makes it to theirs. The game can be played by two players, or can be played solo against a computer, where the player will always start on the righthand side.

Upon starting the game, a random maze is generated using Prim's Algorithm, and each player (or only player when against the computer) is given 5 seconds of time to look over the maze to find the fastest path through. After this delay, the players are allowed to move their respective players using the two joysticks on the arcade cabinet. Once a player has reached their goal position, the game will then display the fastest possible route from one side to the other, which is also the exact route that the computer would take when playing solo. A point is then added to the winning player's score.

Screen 
At the top of the screen, the text MAZES TO PLAY is displayed followed by the number of mazes left before a winner is determined. If the game is against a computer, this text will be replaced with KEEP PLAYING if the player ends up winning. On the bottom left of the screen is a timer showing the time spent in the current maze though while the 5 second delay is present, it will show the number of seconds left to study the maze. The bottom right shows either a counter with the number of mazes completed when playing solo, or a countdown timer from 6 minutes that persists between mazes when playing against another player. Additionally, when playing with two players, the left and right sides of the screen will show the current scores for the second and first player respectively.

See also
Maze Craze

Trivia 

 The game has some inconsistency in its name, since the screen names it as "The Amazing Maze Game," while the bezel names it as "Amazing Maze," while the rest of the cabinet just says "Maze."

References

External links
The Amazing Maze Game at Arcade History

1976 video games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Maze games
Midway video games
Video games developed in the United States
Minas de Ríotinto

Minas de Riotinto (written without any accent mark) is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, southern Spain.

Minas de Riotinto also comprises the neighborhoods known as El Alto de la Mesa and La Dehesa.

See also
 Rio Tinto Group
 Corta Atalaya
 Riotinto Railway

History

References

External links
Minas de Riotinto - Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía

Municipalities in the Province of Huelva
David R. Watson

David R. Watson (1948-) is a bowyer currently living in Austin, Texas.
He has composed music for the Ultima series, including "Stones". Watson is a fencing master, a composer, and musician; and has a varied career of video game support including level designer in X-COM: Apocalypse, lead mission analyst in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and music composer in Ultima.

Watson is also known by his Ultima alter ego, Iolo. His late wife,  Kathleen Jones, was also an Ultima character, Gwenno, Iolo's in-game wife.

Games credited
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (1988), Origin Systems (first appearance of his song "Stones")
Ultima VI: The False Prophet (1990), Origin Systems
Ultima VII: The Black Gate (1992), Origin Systems
Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle (1993), Origin Systems
Ultima VII: The Silver Seed (1993), Electronic Arts
Stonekeep (1995), Interplay Productions
You Don't Know Jack: Volume 3 (1997), Sierra On-Line
You Don't Know Jack: Television (1997), Berkeley Systems
X-COM: Apocalypse (1997), MicroProse
You Don't Know Jack: Volume 4 - The Ride (1998), Sierra On-Line

Books
Iolo's First Book of Crossbows
1920 Tunguska Terror: Aero Rangers vol. 1

References

External links
 New World Arbalest, David's Bows via Internet Archive
 David R. Watson at MobyGames
 David R. Watson at OverClocked ReMix

1948 births
American video game designers
Bowyers
Living people
Origin Systems people
Ultima (series)
Video game composers
Biloxi National Cemetery

Biloxi National Cemetery is a U.S. National Cemetery that is located in Biloxi, Mississippi on the grounds of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), near Keesler Air Force Base. It occupies approximately , and is site to over 27,000 interments as of 2021.

History 
Biloxi National Cemetery was established in 1934 and its first burial, of Edgar A. Ross of the Tennessee Infantry, was held on March 24, 1934.

From 1934 to 1973, the purpose of Biloxi National Cemetery was to provide a final resting place solely for veterans who died in the adjoining medical center. In 1973 with the passage of the National Cemetery Act, the burial ground was opened to all honorably discharged veterans, active duty personnel, and their dependents regardless of where they died. Since its establishment, the grounds have increased in size twice as the result of land transfers from the VAMC. Originally , in 1982,  were added and in 1996, 12 more were added for a total of .

Notable markers 
A granite marker located in front of the cemetery's administration building was donated by the National Association of Atomic Veterans on November 9, 1990, in memory of the veterans who participated in the U.S. nuclear weapons testing program.

Notable burials 
 Medal of Honor recipient
 Colonel Ira C. Welborn (1874–1956), for actions in the Spanish–American War
 Others
 Uncle Elmer (1937–1992), professional wrestler
 June Gardner (1930–2010), R&B drummer and bandleader
 Forest Sterling (1911–2002), author of Wake of the Wahoo, a book about the WWII submarine 
 Lamar Williams (1949–1983), popular music bassist

References

External links 
 National Cemetery Administration
 Biloxi National Cemetery
 
 

1934 establishments in Mississippi
Cemeteries in Mississippi
Buildings and structures in Biloxi, Mississippi
United States national cemeteries
Protected areas of Harrison County, Mississippi
Historic American Landscapes Survey in Mississippi
Cemeteries established in the 1930s