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Suzuki Ami Around the World: Live House Tour 2005

Suzuki Ami Around the World: Live House Tour 2005 was the live house tour held by Japanese pop singer Ami Suzuki that supported her debut studio album in Avex, Around The World.

Background
It was Ami's first tour after joining the Avex trax label at the beginning of 2005. The term Live house of the tour eslogan is comparable to the English concept of music venue, in the sense of minor-scale concert tour, contrasting the ones held in big arenas. It was first announced in the period of release of Suzuki's third single in Avex "Negaigoto", with only three locations. At first, when the first album under her new label it was going to be Hopeful, the tour  was meant to be called Suzuki Ami Hopeful 2005 Tour: Live House de Body Shake It, but after the album title was changed, so it was the name of the tour. Despite of being a low-scale concert tour, Suzuki Ami Around the World: Live House Tour 2005 featured an interlude video shown in the beginning of the concert, and various changes of clothing. It even included virtual wings that appeared from Suzuki's back with feathers falling from all around the stage, while singing "Negaigoto", her song chosen to formally close the concert.

The concert main target was to promote her Avex material, and all the songs from the album were included in the set list, including also the b-sides that were not included in the album. However, Suzuki also performed some of her previous Avex songs, such as her 2004 indie single "Tsuyoi Kizuna", and two of her biggest hits from her Sony era in the encore.

Set list

Tour dates

DVD release

Information
The DVD version of the concert was released on February 8, 2006, the same day as Suzuki's sixth single in Avex, "Fantastic". It included mainly footage from Zepp Nagoya. Only the Avex-licensed songs were included, with the exception of Suzuki's indie song "Tsuyoi Kizuna". There were also added some behind the scenes footage from the three locations as bonus material, including some live excerpts from the "Tsuyoi Kizuna" performance in Zepp Tokyo, where Ami couldn't sing some of the parts because she started crying on stage.

On its first day in the Oricon DVD charts, the tour peaked at 1st place, and at the end of the week it was placed at 7th.

Track listing
Around the World
Beautiful
For Yourself
I'm Alone
Risk
Sweet Voice
About You...

Eventful
With You

Times
Hopeful
Delightful

Fantastic
Bonus Material
Off-Shot
2005.10.21 at Zepp Tokyo
2005.10.23 at Nanba Hatch
2005.11.06 at Zepp Nagoya

Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

References

Ami Suzuki live albums
Ami Suzuki video albums
2006 live albums
2006 video albums
Live video albums
Vision 2010

Vision 2010 is a projected economic plan for Nigeria to improve economically. Nigeria is a lesser developed country, whose politics have been shaped by chronic military dictatorships, dependence on oil, ethnic and social cleavages, and a population too large to feed.  In the creation of Vision 2010, 248 members developed plans that would hopefully guide the country out of poverty and other of these national crisises. Sub-committees worked on solving key issues needed to be resolved.

Areas of Concern
Some areas that were of concern included:

Politics - Stable democracy with a federal system, rule of law, political accountability.
Economy - Decrease on oil dependence (now over 90% of country's export earnings) and increase in GDP.
Education - Better educated population (now, only 50% of children between 5 and 24 enrolled in primary, secondary, and higher education).
Urbanization - Nigeria has a high urban increase rate (5-7%) and growth needs to be managed. Rural development should be stressed.
Unemployment - very high in Nigeria; recently bankers and doctors have become unemployed.
Infrastructure (internal framework) - poor electricity, telecommunications, fresh water supply.
Corruption - a history of military leaders have resulted in corruption for personal gain at the expense of the people. Prebendalism is common for head-of-state military rulers.
Women inferiority - women generally have greater health problems and less education facilities than men. The literacy rate of adult women is significantly low.

Solutions
Institute and maintain democratic elections in the Fourth Republic. Nigeria has a history of military dictatorships and coup d'états ending the short-lived republics.
Increase in private sector to enhance competition.
Money created should allow for infrastructure to be rebuilt.
Increased female access to education and job opportunity should raise literacy and equal gender rights.
Devote over one-quarter of the government's budget to education.
If better education is promoted, work force can provide for more labor. Criminal activity and violence have resulted from a lack of youth education. New scientific and medicinal advancements can be made with better education systems.

The Vision in Effect
After the blueprints were drawn, implementing these strategies can be difficult. Following Abacha's death in 1998, Abdusalami Abubakar took control as Head of State. General Abubakar endorsed Vision 2010, as he had worked in the formation of the plan.
Since 1946, economic plans were introduced but not very successful. There was a lack of discipline in Nigeria to carry out the needs of these plans, so they did poorly. If Vision 2010 hopes to be successful, it will require the nation as a whole to cooperate and take the initiative to look past each other's ethnic differences. To achieve Vision 2010's goals, the government must offer jobs to the people, and the people must take them. Either the entire country unifies, or it will remain poor.

See also
 Nigeria Vision 2020
 National Planning Commission

External links
Official Website

Economy of Nigeria
2010 in Nigeria
Nigeria
Jamaluddin Ahmed

Jamaluddin Ahmed (born 5 January 1977) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who played in one One Day International in 2003.

A middle-order batsman and off-spin bowler, he played first-class cricket for Khulna Division from 2001 to 2008. When Khulna won the final of the National Cricket League in 2002–03, he scored his first century, 121, and won the man of the match award. He took his best innings and match bowling figures against Barisal Division in 2005-06: 8 for 67 and 3 for 45.

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
Bangladesh One Day International cricketers
Bangladeshi cricketers
Khulna Division cricketers
People from Jessore District
Cricketers from Khulna Division
Kristi Richards

Kristi Richards (born October 27, 1981, in Penticton, British Columbia) is a Canadian freestyle skier from Summerland, British Columbia. She participates in moguls.

In 2003, Richards won the Canadian championships and in the same year she won the Apex Mountain BC Nor-Am Cup. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Richards finished in 7th place in the ladies' moguls.

Richards is a two-time recipient of the B.C. Premier's Awards.

At the 2007 Freestyle Skiing world championships in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, Richards won the gold medal in the mogul competition, beating fellow Canadian and Olympic champion Jennifer Heil.

Richards was a member of the Canadian freestyle team that went to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Kristi Richards competed in the final of the moguls after finishing the qualifying run in 4th place. Richards landed her first jump and on her way to the second jump she lost control, lost a ski, and fell. Richards stood for a while and collected her thoughts, and to the cheers of the Canadians waiting at the bottom once again sped on her way to the second jump. There she landed a back full and completed her run to a screaming throng of Canadian fans at the bottom. However, due to her fall she finished in 20th place and last in the final. Richards recovered from her disappointing Olympics by winning a bronze at the 2011 World Championships in the moguls event.

References

External links
CTV Olympic Profile
Kristi Richards on Real Champions

1981 births
Living people
Canadian female freestyle skiers
Freestyle skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic freestyle skiers for Canada
Sportspeople from Penticton
People from Summerland, British Columbia
Moniruzzaman (cricketer)

Al Mohammad Moniruzzaman (born 25 October 1976) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who has played in two One Day Internationals in 2003. He is now an umpire and stood in matches in the 2016–17 National Cricket League in Bangladesh. He also standing as an on-field umpire in BPL matches since 2015 Bangladesh Premier League.

He was included in Bangladesh's ICC Emerging Panel and was considered to be on his way to making the elite programme. But, he left the profession of umpiring due to the concern of senior national players like Shakib Al Hasan and Mahmudullah showing dissent aggressively to umpire's decisions during 2021 Dhaka Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket League. He had officiated 13 matches in the tournament. While expressing his concern, he said, "I am concerned about the behaviour of the senior cricketers in this 2021 DPL. I think other players could also be influenced by seeing their behaviour. This situation could turn worse in future."
"Enough is enough for me and I don't want to do umpiring anymore,....I have some self-respect and want to live with it.", he told to Cricbuzz.

References

1976 births
Living people
Bangladesh One Day International cricketers
Bangladeshi cricketers
Bangladeshi One Day International cricket umpires
Bangladeshi Twenty20 International cricket umpires
Barisal Division cricketers
Dhaka Division cricketers
People from Mymensingh
Sportspeople from Mymensingh Division
Atwal

Atwal () is a Jat clan and a family name of Sikhs.

Notable people
Notable people with the surname, who may or may not be affiliated with the clan, include:
Arjun Atwal, Indian golfer
A. S. Atwal, Indian police officer
Charanjit Singh Atwal, Indian politician 
Harjeet Atwal, British Punjabi writer
Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal, Indian politician
Jaspal Atwal, Canadian businessman

References

Surnames
Sikh names
Punjabi-language surnames
Advanced Digital Information Corporation

Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC) was an American manufacturer of tape libraries and storage management software which is now part of Quantum Corp.  Their product line included both hardware, such as the Scalar line of robotic tape libraries, and software, such as the StorNext File System and the StorNext Storage Manager, a Hierarchical Storage Management system.  Partners and resellers included Apple, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM and Sun.

ADIC was acquired by Quantum in August 2006.

References

 

1983 establishments in Washington (state)
2006 disestablishments in Washington (state)
2006 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1983
American companies disestablished in 2006
Computer companies established in 1983
Computer companies disestablished in 2006
Defunct companies based in Redmond, Washington
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct technology companies of the United States
Circle of Death

Circle of Death may refer to:

Arts and entertainment
Circle of Death (album), by Dance Club Massacre, 2008
The Circle of Death, a 1922 German silent film directed by William Karfiol
The Circle of Death, a 1935 American film directed by Yakima Canutt

Sports and recreation
Circle of death (boating), a hazardous phenomenon experienced by motorboats
Circle of Death (cycling), the hardest Tour de France stage in the Pyrenees
Circle of Death (drinking game) or Kings, a drinking game using playing cards
Circle of Death (sports), a type of tie in sporting events

See also
Red Ring of Death, an indicator of some types of Xbox 360 technical problems
John Kinsella (swimmer)

John Pitann Kinsella (born August 26, 1952) is an American former competition swimmer, an Olympic champion, and a former world record-holder in multiple events.

Kinsella was a standout at Illinois swimming powerhouse Hinsdale Central High School in the late 1960s. As a 16-year-old, he was the silver medalist in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, finishing second to U.S. teammate Mike Burton.

In 1970, while still a high school senior swimming for the Hinsdale McDonald's Swim Club under coach Don Watson, he was awarded the Amateur Athletic Union's James E. Sullivan Award in recognition of the outstanding American amateur athlete of the year. In 1970 he also became the first person to swim 1,500 meters under 16 minutes. After graduating from high school, Kinsella, together with Mark Spitz, Gary Hall Sr., and other notable swimmers, were part of Doc Counsilman's legendary Indiana Hoosiers swimming and diving team at Indiana University, which dominated men's college swimming in the early 1970s. Kinsella won NCAA national championships in the 500-yard and 1,650-yard freestyle events in 1971, 1972, and 1973.

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Kinsella won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the men's 4×200-meter freestyle relay. The first-place team of Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter, and Mark Spitz set a new world-record time of 7:35.78 in the event final.

After graduating from Indiana University, Kinsella went on to swim professionally, setting a time record for swimming the English Channel. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in recognition for his Olympic performances and later professional swimming career where he achieved the title of "World's Professional Champion."

After the end of his competition swimming career, Kinsella attended Harvard Business School. He joined RBC Dain Rauscher as an investment officer, but is no longer with the firm. He currently resides in Illinois. He has a daughter and three sons.

See also

 List of Indiana University (Bloomington) people
 List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
 World record progression 400 metres freestyle
 World record progression 1500 metres freestyle
 World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay

References

External links

 
 

1952 births
Living people
American male freestyle swimmers
World record setters in swimming
Harvard Business School alumni
Indiana Hoosiers men's swimmers
James E. Sullivan Award recipients
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming
Sportspeople from Hinsdale, Illinois
Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park

St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park is a Florida State Park east of Port Salerno on the northern end of Jupiter Island  and is accessible only by boat. Activities include snorkeling and scuba diving, swimming, sunbathing, fishing, and picnicking and wildlife viewing.

Among the wildlife of the park are migratory birds such as the Peregrine falcon, Broad-winged hawk and the American kestrel, as well as bobcats, otters, raccoons. Amenities include more than  of sandy beach, a  boardwalk, and 8 picnic tables.

Hours
Florida state parks are open between 8 a.m. and sundown every day of the year (including holidays).

External links
 St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park at Florida State Parks
 St. Lucie Inlet State Preserve at Wildernet

Parks in Martin County, Florida
State parks of Florida
Beaches of Martin County, Florida
Beaches of Florida
The Absence (band)

The Absence is an American melodic death metal band from Tampa, Florida. Their style has been described as aggressive thrash metal with Scandinavian metal influences. They were previously signed to Metal Blade Records and are now signed to M-Theory Audio.

History 
The band released a self-titled EP in 2004 and followed up with their debut album, From Your Grave, in 2005. The band's second album, Riders of the Plague, was released in 2007. The album was praised in a review for finding an "interesting balance" between the genres death metal and thrash metal. In 2007, bassist Michael Leon joined the band. Drummer Jeramie Kling left the band that same year and was temporarily replaced by Chris Pistillo from the Tampa death metal scene. The band recruited Justin Reynolds as their new drummer in early 2008.

The Absence stated in late 2008 that they would be entering the studio to record a new album in March 2009. Due to time constraints and touring duties, the band said they would enter the studio on September 10 since the original date "wasn't the right time." The band delayed the recording of the album again and later entered Mana Recording Studios on November 2, 2009, to record Enemy Unbound. Their third studio album, Enemy Unbound was released on September 14, 2010, and reached No. 55 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. Jeramie Kling rejoined the band during summer 2010. On September 27, 2010, The Absence released their music video of "Enemy Unbound" from their eponymous album Enemy Unbound. As of January 1, 2013, guitarist Peter Joseph parted ways with The Absence. On January 22, 2013, it was announced that Per Nilsson of Scar Symmetry had joined the band.

On July 25, 2015, guitarist Patrick Scott Pintavalle announced on Facebook that he had left the band.

On March 30, 2021, the band announced their fifth full-length album, would be titled Coffinized. It was released June 25, 2021.

Band line-up

Current members 
 Jamie Stewart – vocals 
 Jeramie Kling – drums 
 Taylor Nordberg – guitars

Former members 
 Patrick Pintavalle – guitars 
 Nicholas Calaci – bass 
 Christopher Tolan – guitars 
 Justin Grant – drums 
 Peter Joseph – guitars 
 Mike Leon – bass 
 Justin Reynolds – drums 
 Per Nilsson – guitars 
 Joey Concepcion – guitars

Discography

Studio albums 
 From Your Grave (2005)
 Riders of the Plague (2007)
 Enemy Unbound (2010)
 A Gift for the Obsessed (2018)
 Coffinized (2021)

EPs 
 The Absence (2004)

Singles and music videos 
 "From Your Grave" (2005)
 "Dead and Gone" (2008)
 "Enemy Unbound" (2010)
 "Oceans" (2013)
 "Septic Testament" (2016)

References

External links 
 The Absence at Bandcamp
 The Absence at MySpace
 The Absence at Encyclopaedia Metallum

Metal Blade Records artists
Musical groups from Tampa, Florida
Death metal musical groups from Florida
American melodic death metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 2002
American musical quintets
2002 establishments in Florida
Fena

Fena may refer to:

 FENA, the Federal News Agency of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Fractional sodium excretion (FENa), a medical parameter representing the fraction of sodium in urine relative to the fraction of sodium in circulation
 Fena Lake, the largest lake on the island of Guam
 Jack Fena (1923-2010), American politician and judge
 Lori Fena (born 1961), American internet activist, entrepreneur, and author
 Fena: Pirate Princess, a TV series
Free entropy

A thermodynamic free entropy is an entropic thermodynamic potential analogous to the free energy. Also known as a Massieu, Planck, or Massieu–Planck potentials (or functions), or (rarely) free information. In statistical mechanics, free entropies frequently appear as the logarithm of a partition function. The Onsager reciprocal relations in particular, are developed in terms of entropic potentials. In mathematics, free entropy means something quite different: it is a generalization of entropy defined in the subject of free probability.

A free entropy is generated by a Legendre transformation of the entropy. The different potentials correspond to different constraints to which the system may be subjected.

Examples

The most common examples are:

where

 is entropy
 is the Massieu potential
 is the Planck potential
 is internal energy

 is temperature
 is pressure
 is volume
 is Helmholtz free energy

 is Gibbs free energy
 is number of particles (or number of moles) composing the i-th chemical component
 is the chemical potential of the i-th chemical component
 is the total number of components
 is the th components.

Note that the use of the terms "Massieu" and "Planck" for explicit Massieu-Planck potentials are somewhat obscure and ambiguous. In particular "Planck potential" has alternative meanings. The most standard notation for an entropic potential is , used by both Planck and Schrödinger. (Note that Gibbs used  to denote the free energy.) Free entropies where invented by French engineer François Massieu in 1869, and actually predate Gibbs's free energy (1875).

Dependence of the potentials on the natural variables

Entropy

By the definition of a total differential,

From the equations of state,

The differentials in the above equation are all of extensive variables, so they may be integrated to yield

Massieu potential / Helmholtz free entropy

Starting over at the definition of  and taking the total differential, we have via a Legendre transform (and the chain rule)

The above differentials are not all of extensive variables, so the equation may not be directly integrated. From  we see that

If reciprocal variables are not desired,

Planck potential / Gibbs free entropy

Starting over at the definition of  and taking the total differential, we have via a Legendre transform (and the chain rule)

The above differentials are not all of extensive variables, so the equation may not be directly integrated. From  we see that

If reciprocal variables are not desired,

References

Bibliography

Thermodynamic entropy
The Eye in the Door

The Eye in the Door is a novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1993, and forming the second part of the Regeneration trilogy.

The Eye in the Door is set in London, beginning in mid-April 1918, and continues the interwoven stories of Dr William Rivers, Billy Prior, and Siegfried Sassoon begun in Regeneration. It ends some time before the conclusion of the First World War later the same year. The third part of the trilogy, The Ghost Road, continues the story.

Whereas Regeneration is an anomalous, but not unique, mixture of fact and fiction, The Eye in the Door acknowledges real events, including the campaign against homosexuals being waged that year by right-wing MP Noel Pemberton Billing, and the conviction of activist Alice Wheeldon for attempted assassination of Prime Minister  David Lloyd George, here subsumed with the character named Beatrice Roper, but the whole remains consistently within the realm of fiction. This grants Barker more freedom to explore her characters and their actions, the descriptions of which might be considered libellous if attributed to real people. A major theme of the book, Prior's intense and indiscriminate bisexuality, is effectively contrasted with Rivers's tepid asexuality and Sassoon's pure homosexuality. Greater fictional scope also permits a deeper treatment of the psychological, political and professional life of the central character, Billy Prior.

Real people who appear in the Regeneration trilogy
Winston Churchill
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Robert Graves
Henry Head
Edward Marsh
Wilfred Owen
William Rivers
Robert Baldwin Ross
Bertrand Russell
Siegfried Sassoon
Harold Sherwood Spencer
Lewis Yealland
Alice Wheeldon (Beatrice Roper) 
Hettie Wheeldon (Roper)

1993 British novels
Novels by Pat Barker
Novels set during World War I
Novels set in London
Fiction set in 1918
Viking Press books
Mark Norman (marine biologist)

Mark Douglas Norman (1960s to present) is a scientist living in southern Australia. He works as a Chief Conservation Scientist with Parks Victoria. 

Prior to 2016 he worked as a curator and marine biologist through the University of Melbourne and Museum Victoria.  For over a decade in this role, Norman worked exclusively with cephalopods and was a leading scientists in the field, having discovered over 150 new species of octopuses. The best known of these is probably the mimic octopus.

Notable publications 

 Norman M., Reid A. (2000) A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopuses of Australasia (The Gould League of Australia and CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne).
 Norman M. (2000) Cephalopods: A World Guide (ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany). This book contains over 800 color photographs of cephalopods in their natural habitat.

Species described by Mark Norman 
The following species have been described by M. Norman either individually or with co-authors.

 Ameloctopus litoralis Norman, 1992
 Cistopus platinoidus Sreeja, Norman & Biju Kumar, 2015
 Microeledone mangoldi Norman, Hochberg & Boucher-Rodoni, 2004
 Octopus (Abdopus) capricornicus Norman & Finn, 2001
 Octopus abaculus Norman & Sweeney, 1997
 Octopus aspilosomatis Norman, 1993
 Octopus berrima Stranks & Norman, 1992
 Octopus exannulatus Norman, 1993
 Octopus mototi Norman, 1993
 Octopus neglectus Nateewathana & Norman, 1999
 Octopus nocturnus Norman & Sweeney, 1997
 Octopus rex Nateewathana & Norman, 1999
 Octopus siamensis Nateewathana & Norman, 1999
 Scaeurgus nesisi Norman, Hochberg & Boucher-Rodoni, 2005
 Thaumoctopus mimicus Norman & Hochberg, 2005

References

Australian marine biologists
Teuthologists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Sandy carpet

Perizoma flavofasciata, the sandy carpet or sandy rivulet, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1792. It is found in most of Europe and northern Africa and east across the Palearctic to the Urals and the Altai Mountains. The species prefers meadow valleys, floodplains, waterside areas, bushy meadows and gardens. In the Alps it rises to 1500 metres.

Description
Its wingspan is 26–32 mm. The forewing is brownish-yellow or sandy with three toothed white transverse bands. The innermost is close to the base and rather narrow, the two outermost are wider and double (with a yellow-brown stripe in the middle). the outer white band is interrupted in the middle. Otherwise, the wings have several thin white transverse stripes, more or less complete, but the brownish-yellow ground colour predominates. The hind wing is white. The larva is pale pink with dark pink longitudinal stripes on either side of the dorsum. The area between the two longitudinal stripes is white. See also Prout.

Biology
The larvae of sandy carpet moths live in flowers and capsules of carnations (family Caryophyllaceae); in particular they feed on the seed pods of various campions (Silene species).
 
The flight period is from late May to early August. It is scarce and overwinters as a pupa.

References

External links

Fauna Europaea
Butterflies and Moths of Northern Ireland

Perizoma
Moths described in 1792
Moths of Africa
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
Taxa named by Carl Peter Thunberg
Lüliang

Lüliang (), also spelled as Lvliang or Lyuliang, is a prefecture-level city in the western Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. It borders Shaanxi province across the Yellow River to the west, Jinzhong and the provincial capital of Taiyuan to the east, Linfen to the south, and Xinzhou to the north. It has a total area of  and a total population of 3,398,431 inhabitants according to the 2020 Chinese census, of whom 456,355 lived in the Lishi District metropolitan area.

History

Originally organized by the People's Republic of China as the Jinsui Border Region, the region was sparsely populated in the early 20th century. However, the discovery of coal, iron, and aluminum deposits incentivized economic investment and population growth in the region. In May 1971, Lüliang was established as a Prefecture-level area, and in July 2004 the area Lüliang was reformed into a Prefecture-level city. 

In 2010, the city had a GDP growth rate of 21%; at the time, prices for coal were high and the city had an active coal industry. There were plans to build a new business district in Lüliang, strongly supported by then-mayor Zhang Zhongsheng. However, in 2014, the GDP declined by 2%, and by 2015, due to a slowing economy, plans in Lüliang stalled and many apartment blocks were left unoccupied. Zhongsheng lost his job due to corruption in 2015, and was sentenced to death in 2021 on bribery charges, with a 2-year reprieve.

In July 2021, following a Chinese government crackdown on Abrahamic religions in China, Christian church minister Zhao Weikai was arrested and charged with "illegal holding of materials promoting terrorism and extremism" by the municipal police and was forbidden from meeting with his legal council. This incident was used by various human rights groups as an example of religious persecution by the Chinese Communist Party.

The Chinese-American reproductive biologist Min Chueh Chang was born in Lüliang in 1908.

Administration
Lüliang has direct jurisdiction over 1 district, 2 county-level cities, and 10 counties:

Climate 
Lüliang has a monsoon-influenced continental climate, that, under the Köppen climate classification, falls on the borderline between the semi-arid (Köppen BSk) and humid continental (Dwa) regimes, and features large diurnal temperature variation. Winters are cold and very dry, while summers are hot and slightly humid. The monthly daily average temperature ranges from  in January to  in July, while the annual mean is . Close to three-fourths of the annual precipitation occurs from June to September.

Transportation 
China National Highway 209
Lvliang Dawu Airport
Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway

References

External links
Official website of Lüliang government

 
Cities in Shanxi
Prefecture-level divisions of Shanxi
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School

Acton-Boxborough Regional High School (ABRHS) is an open-enrollment high school in Acton, Massachusetts, United States. A part of the Acton-Boxborough Regional School District, it serves the Massachusetts towns of Acton and Boxborough and has students in grades 9 through 12. It is situated downhill from the Raymond J. Grey Junior High School, at 36 Charter Road in Acton. Raymond J. Grey Junior High School occupies the facility that, until 1973, was the high school

In 1999 multiple fires were set at ABRHS. The first fire began near the gymnasium but was quickly extinguished. The second fire, a five-alarm blaze in the school auditorium, seriously damaged the auditorium and forced the evacuation of all 1,300 students and canceled school the following day. No students or staff were injured, but one firefighters was hospitalized after suffering from smoke inhalation. ABRHS underwent a $40 million renovation and expansion in 2005.

Notable alumni

Seth Abramson, poet
Tom Barrasso, Hall of Fame NHL goalie, 2x Stanley Cup Champion, 2002 Winter Olympics Silver medalist
Bob Brooke, NHL player
Jamie Eldridge, MA Senator
Steve Hathaway, MLB pitcher
Drew Houston, founder of Dropbox
Maria Konnikova, writer, professional poker player, and journalist
Shin Lim, magician, America's Got Talent Season 13 and America's Got Talent: The Champions winner
Bill Morrissey, Grammy-nominated American folk singer-songwriter
Jeff Norton, NHL hockey player
Caroll Spinney, Sesame Street puppeteer who performed Big Bird
Evelyn Stevens, cyclist
Bob Sweeney, Retired NHL player, President of Boston Bruins Foundation
Jessamyn West, librarian

References

External links

ABRHS Homepage

Public high schools in Massachusetts
High schools in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Acton, Massachusetts
School buildings completed in 1973
1973 establishments in Massachusetts
Zhai Wei

Wei (), known in historiography as Zhai Wei (), was a dynastic state of China ruled by the Dingling people that existed from 388 to 392, during the Sixteen Kingdoms period of Chinese history. Its founder Zhai Liao had previously been vacillating between being a vassal of the Later Yan, Western Yan, and Eastern Jin dynasties, and in 388, after his last overture to reconcile with Later Yan's emperor Murong Chui was rejected, he founded his own dynasty, over the territory of modern central and eastern Henan. In 392, Zhai Wei, then under Zhai Liao's son Zhai Zhao, was destroyed by Later Yan forces. Because of its relatively small size and short lifespan, Zhai Wei is not included by historians among the Sixteen Kingdoms.

The rulers of Zhai Wei used the title "Heavenly King" (Tian Wang).

Rulers of Wei

Family tree

See also 
 Ethnic groups in Chinese history

References 
 
 

 
388 establishments
392 disestablishments
4th-century establishments in China
4th-century disestablishments in China
Former countries in Chinese history
Dynasties of China
Winter Equinox

Winter Equinox were a post-rock/experimental band hailing from Dundas & Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, formed in May 2004.

The band was a mainly instrumental quartet that created music with elements of post-rock, electronic, glitch, and experimental sounds. The band placed an emphasis on heavily layered arrangements to create intense soundscapes, combined with occasional lyrical melodies and catchy bass grooves. Members of the band were classically trained and influenced by jazz and rock music.

Winter Equinox utilized a wide variety of instruments such as keyboards, bass, guitar, drums, percussion, flute, clarinet, melodica, and programmed rhythms to define their sound. The band took influences from artists such as Tortoise, Do Make Say Think, Mogwai, Caribou, Sigur Rós, Explosions in the Sky, The Notwist, M83, and Boards of Canada.

The band played many shows around the southern Ontario area. While playing live, they often employed a backdrop with self-produced videos playing behind them that synced up to the music.  Notably, the band was invited to perform at Wavelength Magazine's Music Series while being featured within their monthly issue. They have also played alongside such acts as Caribou, The Organ, Matt Pond PA, and Holy Fuck.  In the summer of 2005, Winter Equinox self-recorded and produced their debut album, Safe and Sound, released on Crony Records in August 2005. It was described Stylus Magazine's Theon Weber as " one of the great unnoticed albums of 2005." Following the release of their CD, the band toured out to Quebec and Eastern Canada as well as around Ontario.

Winter Equinox broke up in March 2006.  The band's last show was on December 11, 2005 at The Casbah in Hamilton, Ontario, performing with Caribou and Holy Fuck.  Weber currently creates solo music under the name Solitary Extraction.  Lauren Yakiwchuk is currently in the duo Knife-Like Objects.

Winter Equinox had their song "Two Eyes" featured in the Canadian drama series, Whistler, in the fall of 2007.  It was episode 4 of season 2 of the show.

Discography 
 Safe and Sound - August 2005
 Demo 02 EP - January 2005
 Demo 01 EP - August 2004

References

External links 
Winter Equinox on Myspace
Crony Records

Canadian post-rock groups
Canadian experimental musical groups
Musical groups from the Regional Municipality of Waterloo
Musical groups established in 2004
Musical groups disestablished in 2006
2004 establishments in Ontario
2006 disestablishments in Ontario
Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park

Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park is a Florida State Park located in White Springs off U.S. 41, along the Suwannee River in north Florida.

Stephen Foster is famous for having written the song "Old Folks At Home," also known as "Way Down Upon the Suwannee River." The song, referring  nostalgically to "home far, far away," is Florida's state song.

Stephen Foster Museum
The Stephen Foster Museum honors the accomplishments of American composer Stephen Foster and features dioramas and exhibits about his famous songs, including Old Folks at Home, more commonly known by the words of its first line as "(Way Down Upon the) Swanee River."

Honoring Foster, who never visited Florida, was the idea of Josiah K. Lilly Sr., the son of Eli Lilly. He proposed the memorial in 1931.

Carillon
The carillon was originally constructed by J. C. Deagan, Inc. for the spire of the Florida exhibit building at the 1939 World's Fair. It had 75 bells, weighed 25 tons, and was the largest carillon in the world (by number of bells). It was a gift of Florida's Stephen Foster Memorial Association, who intended to place it at a new Foster memorial building in White Springs after the fair.

The installation in at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park didn't occur until the summer of 1958; by which the bell count had increased to 97. More than a year was required by Deagan craftsmen to build the huge set of bells, perhaps the greatest single manufacturing project in the firm’s 78-year history.

The carillon plays Foster's songs throughout the day. A second museum area inside the tower also features exhibits about Stephen Foster and the carillon. The carillon was damaged by an electrical storm in 2017, repairs have begun to restore the bells.

Gallery

See also
 List of music museums

References

External links

 Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park at Florida State Parks
 Photos of Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park at Florida Parks
 Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center at Absolutely Florida
 Stephen Foster State Folk Culture Center at Wildernet
Explore Southern History - Information on Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park

Parks in Hamilton County, Florida
State parks of Florida
Museums in Hamilton County, Florida
Foster, Stephen
Music museums in Florida
Protected areas established in 1950
1950 establishments in Florida
Folk museums in the United States
Stephen Foster
Bell towers in the United States
Towers completed in 1957
Suwannee River
Birthright citizenship

Birthright citizenship may refer to:

 Jus soli (the right of the soil or the land), a Latin term meaning that one's nationality is determined by the place of one's birth
 Jus sanguinis (the right of blood), a Latin term meaning that one may acquire nationality of a state at birth if either or both of their parents have citizenship of that state
 Birthright citizenship in the United States
National Tequila Fair

The Mexican National Tequila Fair is held every year in Tequila, Jalisco from November 30 to December 12. It includes parades, charreadas (Mexican rodeos), cock fights, serenades with mariachis, and firework displays.

See also
The Cabo Corrientes Regional Tequila Fair is held on the last Saturday of November at the Vallarta Botanical Gardens near Puerto Vallarta in the state of Jalisco. While it may be a smaller, more scaled down version of the National Tequila Fair, it is more accessible to residents and visitors of the Bahía de Banderas Area and showcases the local distiliadores of the Cabo Corrientes Region.
American Whiskey Trail

Sources
Jalisco: Home & Heart of Tequila

Annual fairs
Sowerby, West Yorkshire

Sowerby ( ) is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Pennines, contiguous with Sowerby Bridge,  west-southwest of Halifax.

History
Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Sowerby appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, and was an important settlement long before Halifax began to dominate. The ancient district of Sowerbyshire, a stretch of forest centred on the town leading down the Ryburn and Calder valleys and almost up to Halifax, was a Royal chase.

The name Sowerby, is made up from the Norse Sor for sour and suffixed with by representing a parished area. The local pronunciation follows the original Norse. (saw+bi).

A local legend described a castle in Sowerby and its presence was confirmed by excavations on 'Castle Hill' at the high end of the old town. Archaeologists uncovered the foundations of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle.

Governance
Sowerby was the centre of the Sowerby parliamentary constituency until the 1983 general election, when the constituency was expanded and renamed Calder Valley. Sowerby now falls within the Calderdale Ward of Ryburn.

Landmarks
Once home to many chapels and churches of several Christian denominations,  the Anglican St Peter's Church is of architectural interest and the main focus of religious worship in the town.

Notable people

John Tillotson, 'The people's priest', Archbishop of Canterbury between 1691 and 1693, was a native of Sowerby. A statue of Tillotson exists in St Peter's Church and an avenue is named after him in the lower end of the town.

The summer home of the former MP for Great Grimsby, Austin Mitchell, was situated in the town. The nearby mansion of Field House was the seat of the Stansfeld family, who contributed much to the local community, including building St Peter's Church. Sowerby Hall, close to the church, was built by Josiah Horton in 1650 and the Rawson family, who owned the Brockwell estate at the lower end of St Peter's Avenue, contributed to the construction of several notable buildings in the town during the 18th century.

See also
Listed buildings in Ryburn
Sowerby, North Yorkshire

References

External links

Sowerby Website
Sowerby Bridge Chronicle newspaper website

Villages in West Yorkshire
Geography of Calderdale
Giant Viper

The Giant Viper was a trailer-mounted, vehicle-pulled, mine clearance system, designed to be deployed in areas containing land mines. It was developed for the British Army in the 1950s. It was designed to be towed behind a Centurion gun tank, FV4003, AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers); and also the FV432 Armoured personnel carrier.

The Giant Viper used rockets to launch a 250-metre-long hose, packed with plastic explosive, across a minefield. In the 1970s, the Giant Viper hoses were filled at ROF Chorley. Once it lands the charge is detonated, clearing a six-metre-wide path of anti-personnel and anti-tank mines by sympathetic detonation. This cleared path has a length of around 200 metres. For safety, a vehicle fitted with a mine plough is driven through the cleared path before any other personnel, in order to push any undetonated mines safely out of the way.

This system has been superseded by the Python Minefield Breaching System, employing the same methodology, but using more modern components. It improves accuracy of delivery, deployment speed, and the size of the cleared path, which is now 230 metres long and 7 meters wide. Python was designed to be towed behind an AVRE.

The Hellenic Army's Engineer Corps still utilize the system.

See also
 Mine-clearing line charge

Notes

References
 
 

Military engineering vehicles of the United Kingdom
Mine warfare countermeasures
Military equipment introduced in the 1950s
Jack D. Dale

Jack D. Dale was the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, the public school system for Fairfax County, Virginia and the twelfth largest school system in the United States from 2004 to 2013.

Dale had previously served as the Superintendent of Frederick County, Maryland Public Schools from 1996 to 2004, and was named Maryland's Superintendent of the Year in 2000. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and education; a Master's in educational administration; and a Doctorate in education from the University of Washington.

Dale is co-editor and author of the book: Creating Successful School Systems and has conducted workshops on teacher compensation systems for No Child Left Behind initiatives. He has also published papers in The Executive Educator; International Journal of Education Reform; American Association of School Personnel Administrators (AASPA) Research Brief; and SIRS Management Information.

During his time as Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, Dale was criticized by some parents and students for his handling of various issues brought to the attention of the school system, including criticism by the child advocacy groups FAIRGRADE and SLEEP for refusing to change, respectively, the county's grading scale and school start-time policies (especially the 7:20 a.m. high school start time).

Despite some opposition, the Fairfax County Board of Education renewed his contract until June 2013 in September 2009. In September 2011 he announced that he would retire on June 30, 2013, when his contract ended.

Controversy over disciplinary policies
Dale was also criticized for the Fairfax County school disciplinary system, which was blamed for the suicides of two students: Josh Anderson, of South Lakes High School, took his life in March 2009; and Nick Stuban, a student at W.T. Woodson High School, committed suicide on January 20, 2011.  On February 11, 2011, Dale defended himself in a letter to the Fairfax County School Board and the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. In that letter, Dale refused to admit that the disciplinary system needed to be reformed, and blamed Supervisor Catherine M. Hudgins for "unconscionable" actions and "furthering a falsehood" by associating the student's suicide with the disciplinary process that had "crushed" his spirit.

References

People from Fairfax County, Virginia
Living people
Educators from Seattle
University of Washington College of Education alumni
School superintendents in Virginia
School superintendents in Maryland
People from Frederick County, Maryland
Year of birth missing (living people)
Trammell Bridge

The Trammell Bridge is  long and carries State Road 20 over the Apalachicola River in the Florida Panhandle between Blountstown and Bristol. It is named for three members of the Trammell family: (1) U.S. Senator from Florida and former governor Park M. Trammell, who died in office in 1936; (2) his brother, John D. Trammell, member of the Florida legislature representing Calhoun County (Blountstown) who introduced the bill to construct the original bridge; and (3) Robert D. Trammell, John Trammell's grandson who represented the area in the Florida legislature and secured funding for the new bridge.

The westbound and eastbound lanes of SR 20 are on separate spans. The westbound span is the original, older bridge (opened in 1938) and the eastbound span is a modern, concrete high-rise bridge (opened in 1998).

The original bridge (westbound) was built of steel and concrete piers by the Wisconsin Iron and Bridge Company. In 1989, the original span was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press.

The Eastern end of the bridge is in the Eastern Time zone, while the Western end is in the Central Time zone.

See also
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Florida

References

External links

Blountstown Bridge

Historic American Engineering Record in Florida
Transportation buildings and structures in Calhoun County, Florida
Road bridges in Florida
Bridges over the Apalachicola River
1938 establishments in Florida
Steel bridges in the United States
Concrete bridges in the United States
Transportation buildings and structures in Liberty County, Florida
Bridges completed in 1938
Bridges completed in 1998