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Texas Senate, District 10

District 10 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves a portion of Tarrant county in the U.S. state of Texas. The current Senator from District 10 is Republican Phil King.

Election history
Election history of District 10 from 1992.

Most recent election

2018

2014

2012

2008

Previous elections

2004

2002

2000

1996

1994

1992

District officeholders

References

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Tarrant County, Texas
Judaberg

Judaberg is a village in Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located on the eastern shore of the island of Finnøy.  The island is located on the south side of the Boknafjorden, northeast of the large city of Stavanger.

The  village has a population (2019) of 850 and a population density of . Judaberg is the commercial centre of the municipality with several small industries as well as shopping.  The Rygjabø upper secondary school, the only high school in Finnøy is located here. The newspaper Øyposten has been published in Judaberg since 1999.

Judaberg is a transportation hub of the island municipality with several ferry routes connecting to all the surrounding islands such as Ombo, Sjernarøyane, Halsnøya, and Fogn as well as to the village of Nedstrand on the mainland.  There is also high speed ferry service to the city of Stavanger.  Judaberg is connected to the mainland by road by a series of bridges and undersea tunnels including the Finnøy Tunnel, Mastrafjord Tunnel, and Byfjord Tunnel.

Prior to 2020, the village was the administrative centre of the old Finnøy municipality.

References

Villages in Rogaland
Stavanger
Ydstebøhamn

Ydstebøhamn or Ystabøhamn is the administrative centre of Kvitsøy municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.  The village is located on the southern shore of the island of Kvitsøy.  The village has a ferry quay which receives regular ferries from the town of Skudeneshavn on the island of Karmøy across the Boknafjorden to the north, and to the village of Mekjarvik in Randaberg municipality across the Kvitsøyfjorden on the mainland to the south. The planned Rogfast undersea tunnel will connect Kvitsøy to the mainland to the north and south as part of the government's goal of providing a ferry-free European route E39 highway along the west coast of Norway.

The  village has a population (2019) of 374, giving the village a population density of .  This means that over 70% of the municipal population lives in the village.

The village is an important fishing port, especially focusing on shellfish.  The Kvitsøy Lighthouse lies atop a small hill on the northwestern edge of the village.

References

Villages in Rogaland
Kvitsøy
Cyprus at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Cyprus competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Results by event

Athletics
Men's 800 metres:
 Spyros Spyrou — Round 1: 3:34:32, Semifinals: 3:43.49

Men's 1500 metres:
 Spyros Spyrou — Round 1:  1:49.84

Men's triple jump:
 Marios Hadjiandreou — Preliminary: 15.95 metres (did not advance)

Women's long jump:
 Maria Lambrou Teloni — Preliminary: 6.29 metres (did not advance)

Women's 3 000 metres:
 Andri Avraam — Round 1: 9:02.18 (did not advance)

Women's 10 000 metres:
 Andri Avraam — Preliminary: 32:59.30 min (did not advance)

Women's Marathon 
 Katerina Pratsi — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Judo
Men's Competition:
 Michalis Skouroumounis
 Elias Ioannou

Sailing
Men's Double-Handed Dinghy (470)
 Christos Christoforou, Andreas Karapatakis - (27th place)

References

External links
Cyprus at the 1988 Summer Olympics by Cyprus Olympic Committee

Nations at the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988
Summer Olympics
Tananger

Tananger is a large village and urban area in Sola municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.  The urban area is located on the west side of the Stavanger Peninsula between the North Sea and the Hafrsfjorden.  It lies about  southwest of the city centre of Stavanger. Tananger Chapel (from 1879) and Tananger Church (from 2002) are both located here.

The  village has a population (2015) of 6,377 which gives the village a population density of . Tananger has grown significantly, more than doubling in size from 1980 until 2015. Since 1 January 2017, the urban area of Tananger has been included in the Stavanger/Sandnes urban area, so separate population statistics are no longer tracked.

History
Tananger (mentioned in sources dated to 1608), was used as a safe haven in times of bad weather. It was considered the best and deepest harbour north of Egersund. In 1650, the village was gradually settled, as the local lobster fishing was valued for its worth as an export article. Since then, trading with lobster, fish as well as exclusive articles such as tobacco, coffee, and tea, that came with the bigger ships that sought port in storms, led to the establishment of a customs station under the main customs office in Stavanger in 1777 and it lasted here until 1958. The dangerous rocks in the seas just outside Tananger made the waters so perilous that a Piloting service existed as early as 1679, but was organised in 1720 under national control. Tananger upholds its piloting service to this day, but the customers are mostly supertankers and merchant vessels.

During the Napoleonic wars, cannon-mounted rowing boats were stationed in Tananger. During World War I, Norwegian Navy vessels were stationed here for neutrality-watch.

In 1965, the oil adventure started with Aker-Norsco establishing in Tananger as one of the first supply bases to the offshore activities.

Economy
Several oil companies are located here including Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips. Apart from the oil companies, some of the major oil service companies Schlumberger, Halliburton, and Baker Hughes are located in the Risavika harbour area. Risavika harbour has been expanded using infill to enlarge its capacity. There are international ferries to Denmark that leave from Tananger. Also located in Risavika harbour is an NGL plant run by electricity company Lyse Energi.

References

Sola, Norway
Villages in Rogaland
Populated coastal places in Norway
Resurgence (novel)

Resurgence (2002) is a science fiction novel by American writer Charles Sheffield, the finale of the Heritage Universe and the last book  he published. Following the previous book in the series, Convergence, there are no more Builder artifacts left in the part of the galaxy explored by the four clades of the Orion Arm. However, an envoy from the neighboring Sagittarius Arm shows a short route to that arm and the ship's dead passengers carry an ominous message: a force even stronger than the Builders is consuming whole star systems in the neighboring arm.

The team gets together one last time in an attempt to find the envoy's home planet. They work to discover if the Builders touched the Sag arm in a way similar to the local arm. They attempt to see if the source of this mysterious enemy can be found so that future generations may study it and find a way to stop it before it reaches the local arm in the millennia ahead.

2002 American novels
Novels by Charles Sheffield
2002 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Baen Books books
Texas Senate, District 11

District 11 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves portions of Brazoria, Galveston and Harris counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

The current Senator from District 11 is Mayes Middleton.

Top 5 biggest cities in district
District 11 has a population of 791,770 with 582,677 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.

District officeholders

Election history
Election history of District 11 from 1992.

2020

2016

2012

2008

2004

2002

1998

1994

1992

Notes

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Brazoria County, Texas
Galveston County, Texas
Harris County, Texas
Aksdal

Aksdal is the administrative centre of Tysvær municipality, Norway. The village is located on the northern shore of the large lake Aksdalsvatnet, at the junction of the European route E134 and European route E39 highways.  The village of Førre lies about  to the west of Aksdal and the village of Grinde lies about  to the east.  Aksdal Church is located in Aksdal.

The  village has a population (2019) of 689 and a population density of .

References

Villages in Rogaland
Tysvær
Donald MacRae (astronomer)

Donald Alexander MacRae ( – ) was a Canadian astronomer.

Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia he was the Chair of the Department of Astronomy (now Astronomy and Astrophysics) at the University of Toronto and Director of the David Dunlap Observatory from 1965 to 1978.  He was one of a few Canadians who were early Ph.D. graduates in Astronomy from Harvard (1943), where he enrolled after graduating from the University of Toronto in 1937.  He appeared in the Academy Award-nominated NFB documentary Universe (1960) as the astronomer. He introduced radio astronomy to Toronto, constructing a radio telescope.  It was small and so worked at higher frequencies than previous radio telescopes.  He saw a strong signal, but failed to publish. He died December 6, 2006.

External links
 The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, December 1999 
 A Memorial Tribute in Cassiopeia, December 2006 in PDF or in HTML.
Guide to the Donald Alexander MacRae Papers 1943-1946 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center

1916 births
20th-century Canadian astronomers
Canadian people of Scottish descent
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
People from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
2006 deaths
Rasmus Tønder Nissen

Rasmus Tønder Nissen (14 January 1822 – 19 January 1882) was a Norwegian, educator, theologian and politician.

Biography
Nissen was born at Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag. He attended to Trondheim Cathedral School  graduating in 1839. He was Cand.theol. in  1843.
He taught history, Greek and religion at Hartvig Nissen School and from 1852 he was director of the school. 
In 1864, he became the professor of church history  at the University of Oslo. He was Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1874–1876, member of the Council of State Division in Stockholm 1875, 1876–1877 and 1880–1881, and Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1877–1880, 1880 and 1881–1882.
In 1874 he was knighted by Order of Saint Olav, and he received the Commander's Cross of 1st Class 1880; he was also commander of the Order of the Polar Star.

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1822 births
1882 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
People from Sør-Trøndelag
Norwegian Lutherans
Norwegian theologians
Norwegian educators
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Knights of the Order of the Polar Star
Order of Saint Olav
19th-century Lutherans
Ministers of Education of Norway
Sunnyside Unified School District

Sunnyside Unified School District is a school district in Pima County, Arizona, United States. The district extends from Tucson south to Sahuarita and from Interstate 19 to Wilmot Road. It has one early learning center, one 2-8 school, one intermediate school, 12 elementary schools, 4 middle schools and 3 high schools, with a certified teaching staff of 1,200 and a student body of 17,400.

History
Sunnyside School District was established in 1921. Around 1927, Sunny Side School (now Sunnyside), a two-story brick building was constructed on the southwest corner of Valencia Road and Nogales Highway. The school held first through eighth grades in it and consisted of four classrooms and an auditorium. The school served the children of neighboring areas such as Emery Park, which was a poultry colony, just to the north of the educational facility.

In 1951, the Sunnyside School District chose to desegregate its elementary schools to allow African American children to attend.

Schools

Early Childhood
Ocotillo Early Learning Center (Coyotes) (Tucson)

Elementary schools
Craycroft Elementary School (Hawks) (Littletown)
Drexel Elementary School (Panthers) (Tucson)
Elvira Elementary School (Eagles) (Elstone, Tucson)
Esperanza Elementary School (Eagles) (Desert Shadows, Tucson)
Gallego Primary Fine Arts Magnet School (Gatos) (Tucson International Gateway Center, Tucson)
Liberty Elementary School (Rams) (Sunnyside, Tucson)
Los Amigos Elementary School (Leopards) (Tucson)
Los Niños Elementary School (Roadrunners) (Drexel-Alvernon)
Mission Manor Elementary School (Mustangs) (Sunnyside, Tucson)
Rivera Elementary School (Raptors) (Cherry Avenue, Tucson)
Santa Clara Elementary School (Bulldogs) (Elvira, Tucson)
Summit View Elementary School (Mountain Lions) (Summit)

2-8 Schools
Sierra 2-8 School (Rams) (Tucson)

4-8 Fine Arts
Gallego Intermediate Fine Arts 4-8 (Wildcats) (Tucson)

Middle schools
Apollo Middle School (Eagles) (Valley View, Tucson)
Challenger Middle School (Chargers) (Barrio Nopal, Tucson)
Gallego Intermediate 4-8 Fine Arts Magnet School (Wildcats) (Los Ranchitos, Tucson) 
Billy Lane Lauffer Middle School (Rattlers) (Littletown)

High schools
S.T.A.R. Academic Center (Lions) (Arcadia, Tucson)
Desert View High School (Jaguars) (Tucson)
Sunnyside High School (Blue Devils) (Tucson)

References

External links

Education in Tucson, Arizona
School districts in Pima County, Arizona
School districts established in 1921
1921 establishments in Arizona
Aleksey Khludov

Aleksey Ivanovich Khludov (23 August 1818–22 March 1882) was a Russian Old Believer merchant who amassed the richest private collection of early medieval manuscripts in Imperial Russia.

The son of a peasant, Khludov rose to become a man of considerable fortune and chairman of the Moscow stock exchange committee from 1859 to 1865. He specialized in early Russian, South Slavic, and Greek religious manuscripts, most of which he acquired from other Old Believer collectors. Unsurprisingly, his collection boasted the richest assortment of documents concerning the early history of the Raskol. In 1866, he donated forty manuscripts to the Rumyantsev Museum. The rest passed upon his death to the Nikolsky Old Believer Monastery.

After the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks expropriated the Khludov collection, including its gem—the 9th-century illuminated Khludov Psalter—and transferred 524 mediaeval manuscripts and 717 incunabula to the State Historical Museum, in which they reside to this day.

Family
His daughter Varvara Alekseevna Morozova married Abram Abramovich Morozov, grandson of Savva Vasilyevich Morozov, also an Old Believer who overcame their peasant origins to become a major industrialist in the textile industry.

References

External links 
 Biography of Khludov

1818 births
1882 deaths
19th-century businesspeople from the Russian Empire
Old Believers
Russian book and manuscript collectors
Nedstrand

Nedstrand (locally, Stranda) is a village in Tysvær municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.  The village is on the Nedstrand peninsula's southeast coast, at the confluence of the Nedstrandsfjorden and Vindafjorden. The village of Hindaråvåg lies just west of Nedstrand, and Nedstrand Church is there. The  village has a population (2019) of 227 and a population density of .

The village is a regular ferry stop on routes to the Sjernarøyane islands (across the Nedstrandsfjorden) and to Hebnes (across the Vindafjorden). Both of those stops have other connections all over the region.

The area was historically part of the municipality of Nedstrand, and was a regional customs office for the huge timber industry in the Ryfylke district. Today, the area is home to agriculture, fish farming, fruit orchards, and stone quarries.

In 1983, the oil rig Alexander L. Kielland was scuttled in the Nedstrandsfjorden after it had capsized in the North Sea in 1980, killing 123 people.

Notable residents
 Anders Andersen Bjelland (1790–1850) farmer & politician
 Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) mathematician
 Osmund Osmundson (born 1826 – ??) the founder of Nerstrand, Minnesota
 Rudi "Njål" London (born 1949), Recording artist/Photo journalist/Author, born at Nedre Helle in Nedstrand, later lived in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.

References

Villages in Rogaland
Tysvær
Jon Ola Norbom

Jon Ola Hauger Norbom (15 December 1923 – 12 April 2020) was a Norwegian economist and Liberal Party politician.

During World War II, in 1942, Norbom was imprisoned for a brief time at Grini concentration camp. Then, in November 1943, he was among the students who were arrested by the German occupying forces in Norway as part of a general imprisonment of all male, non-NS students at the University of Oslo. He was imprisoned in the German concentration camp Buchenwald.

From 1950 to 1952 he was the leader of the Young Liberals of Norway, the youth wing of the Liberal Party. He was State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance from 1967 to 1969, during the cabinet Borten, and became Minister of the Finance in 1972–1973 during the cabinet Korvald. Norbom never held elected political office.

He graduated as cand.oecon. from the University of Oslo in 1949, and studied international economics and European integration at the College of Europe in Bruges 1952–1953. He subsequently worked as a researcher with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the United Nations and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) during the 1950s and 1960s. He was director in the International Trade Centre Unctad/Gatt 1973–1984, the Permanent Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Social Affairs 1984–1993, and member of the United Nations Social Policy Committee 1987–1990.

Norbom died in Suwanee, Georgia in April 2020 at the age of 96.

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1923 births
2020 deaths
Ministers of Finance of Norway
College of Europe alumni
Norwegian state secretaries
Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
Norwegian economists
Bærum politicians
Norwegian resistance members
Grini concentration camp survivors
Buchenwald concentration camp survivors
Lucky Diamond Rich



Gregory Paul McLaren (born 1971), who goes by the name of Lucky Diamond Rich, is a New Zealand-British performance artist, street performer and international performing arts festival performer, whose acts include sword swallowing and juggling on a unicycle.

He is best known, however, for holding the Guinness World Record as "the world's most tattooed person", a title formerly held by Englishman Tom Leppard. Rich has tattoos covering his entire body, including the insides of his eyelids, mouth, ears and foreskin. He has held the certified record since 2006, being 100 percent tattooed.

Inspiration and first tattoo
As a young boy, he read about and became interested in the most tattooed men and women. It did not go much further than just a thought until he got his first tattoo, which was of a small juggling club on his hip.

He went on to tattoo every part of his body including every crevice and genital area. He has tattooed some white over his black tattoos and added colour. His tattoos have collectively taken over a thousand hours to ink, and have been worked on by hundreds of tattoo artists.

See also
 Body suit (tattoo)
 Tattoo art style

References

External links

1971 births
Living people
People known for being heavily tattooed
Sword swallowers
Street theatre
New Zealand artists
Jugglers
Pelargonic acid

Pelargonic acid, also called nonanoic acid, is an organic compound with structural formula . It is a nine-carbon fatty acid.  Nonanoic acid is a colorless oily liquid with an unpleasant, rancid odor. It is nearly insoluble in water, but very soluble in organic solvents. The esters and salts of pelargonic acid are called pelargonates or nonanoates.

The acid is named after the pelargonium plant, since oil from its leaves contains esters of the acid.

Preparation
Together with azelaic acid, it is produced industrially by ozonolysis of oleic acid.

Alternatively, pelargonic acid can be produced in a two-step process beginning with coupled dimerization and hydroesterification of 1,3-butadiene. This step produces a doubly unsaturated C9-ester, which can be hydrogenated to give esters of pelargonic acid.

\overset{1,3-butadiene}{2CH2=CH-CH=CH2}{} + CO + CH3OH -> CH2=CH(CH2)3CH=CHCH2CO2CH3
CH2=CH(CH2)3CH=CHCH2CO2CH3{} + 2 H2 -> \underset{pelargonic\ acid\ ester}{CH3(CH2)7CO2CH3}

A laboratory preparation involves permanganate oxidation of 1-decene.

Occurrence and uses
Pelargonic acid occurs naturally as esters in the oil of pelargonium. 

Synthetic esters of pelargonic acid, such as methyl pelargonate, are used as flavorings. Pelargonic acid is also used in the preparation of plasticizers and lacquers. The derivative 4-nonanoylmorpholine is an ingredient in some pepper sprays. The ammonium salt of pelargonic acid, ammonium pelargonate, is a herbicide. It is commonly used in conjunction with glyphosate, a non-selective herbicide, for a quick burn-down effect in the control of weeds in turfgrass.

The methyl form and ethylene glycol pelargonate act as nematicides against Meloidogyne javanica on Solanum lycopersicum, and the methyl against Heterodera glycines and M. incognita on Glycine max.

Esters of pelargonic acid are precursors to lubricants.

Pharmacological effects
Pelargonic acid may be more potent than valproic acid in treating seizures. Moreover, in contrast to valproic acid, pelargonic acid exhibited no effect on HDAC inhibition, suggesting that it is unlikely to show HDAC inhibition-related teratogenicity.

See also
 List of saturated fatty acids
 List of carboxylic acids

References

External links
MSDS at affymetrix.com

Alkanoic acids
Herbicides
Nematicides
Eldrid Nordbø

Eldrid Nordbø (born 12 August 1942) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was personal secretary to the Minister of Social Affairs in 1971, state secretary to the prime minister (1986–89), and Minister of Trade and Shipping (1990–91). She is married to economist and politician Bjørn Skogstad Aamo.

References

1942 births
Living people
Ministers of Trade and Shipping of Norway
Labour Party (Norway) politicians
Vikeså

Vikeså or Vigjeså is the administrative centre of Bjerkreim municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.  The village is located along the European route E39 highway at a crossroads with the village of Ålgård about  to the northwest, the village of Dirdal (in Gjesdal) about  to the northeast, and the town of Egersund about  to the south.  The lake Svelavatnet lies along the south side of the village.

The  village has a population (2019) of 1,017 and a population density of . The village is the largest village in the municipality.  It is the seat of the municipal council and the main commercial area in the municipality including a Coop Extra store.

References

Villages in Rogaland
Bjerkreim
Hum, Croatia

Hum (; ) is a settlement, administratively located in the town of Buzet, in the central part of Istria, Croatia. The elevation is 349 m.

History
On its western side, the town is enclosed by walls and on the remaining sides houses are built into the defensive walls. It was first mentioned in documents dating from 1102, at which time it was called Cholm which is derived from the Italian name Colmo. A bell and watch tower was built in 1552 as part of the town's defenses beside the town loggia. 

The town's parish church of the Assumption of Mary, with its classical facade was built in 1802 on the site of an earlier church which was built by the local master Juraj Gržinić.

The "Hum Glagolitic wall writings" are preserved in the church, written in the formative period of Glagolitic (the second half of the 12th century) and they are one of the oldest examples of Croatian Glagolitic literary culture in the Middle Ages. The town's museum displays a few Glagolitic writings.

Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 52. It had a population of 30 people per the 2011 census.

References

Populated places in Istria County
Rasmus Nordbø

Rasmus Mathias Nordbø (5 February 1915  23 February 1983) was a Norwegian administrator and government minister. He served as state secretary to the Minister of Agriculture in the second cabinet of Einar Gerhardsen (1948-1951), and later himself as Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Oscar Torp (1951-1955).

Later Nordbø was County Minister of Agriculture for Sogn og Fjordane from 1955 to 1964, when he was given the same post for the county of Vestfold. He also served as a member of the municipal council of Førde.

References

1915 births
1983 deaths
Ministers of Agriculture and Food of Norway
Stenebyen

Stenebyen or Tjelta is a village in Sola municipality in Rogaland county, Norway.  The village is located in the south part of the municipality, about  southeast of the village of Hålandsmarka. The  village has a population (2019) of 1,004 and a population density of .

References

Villages in Rogaland
Sola, Norway
Texas Senate, District 12

District 12 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves portions of Denton and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

The current Senator from District 12 is Tan Parker.

Top 5 biggest cities in district
District 12 has a population of 818,893 with 588,816 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.

District officeholders

Election history

2022

2020

2016

2012

2010

2006

2002

2000

1996

1994

1992

Notes

References

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Denton County, Texas
Tarrant County, Texas
Tar Baby (novel)

Tar Baby is a 1981 novel by the American author Toni Morrison, her fourth to be published.

Plot introduction
This novel portrays a love affair between Jadine and Son, two Black Americans from very different worlds. Jadine is a beautiful Sorbonne graduate and fashion model who has been sponsored into wealth and privilege by the Streets, a wealthy white family who employ Jadine's aunt and uncle as domestic servants. Son is an impoverished, strong-minded man who washes up at the Streets' estate on a Caribbean island. As Jadine and Son come together, their affair ruptures the illusions and self-deceptions that held together the world and relationships at the estate. They travel back to the United States to search for somewhere they can both be at home, and find that their homes hold poison for each other. The struggle of Jadine and Son reveals the pain, struggle, and compromises confronting Black Americans seeking to live and love with integrity in the United States.

Title

Reception
Kirkus Reviews in March 1981 stated: "Morrison's fine-tuned, high-strung characters this time—black and white Americans caught up together in a "wide and breezy" house on a Caribbean island—may lack the psychic wingspread of Sula or Milkman of Song of Solomon. Yet within the swift of her dazzlingly mythic/animistic fancies, and dialogue sharp as drum raps, they carry her speculations—about black and white relationships and black female identity—as lightly as racing silks. ... Scouring contemporary insights—in prose as lithe and potent as vines in a rain forest."

In The New York Times, novelist John Irving wrote of Tar Baby: "...Toni Morrison's greatest accomplishment is that she has raised her novel above the social realism that too many black novels and women's novels are trapped in. She has succeeded in writing about race and women symbolically."

References

External links
 Plot summaries of Morrison's novels

1981 American novels
Novels by Toni Morrison
Alfred A. Knopf books
African-American novels
Andy Heck

Andrew Robert Heck (born January 1, 1967) is an American football coach and former player. He is the offensive line coach for the Kansas City Chiefs. He played tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for twelve seasons. He was drafted in the 1989 NFL Draft with the 15th overall selection in the first round by the Seattle Seahawks He played college football at the University of Notre Dame. He also played for the Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins.

Early life
Heck was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He attended W.T. Woodson High School in Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb southwest of Washington, D.C.

College career
He received a scholarship to play football at the University of Notre Dame, where, as a co-captain, he helped lead the Fighting Irish to a national championship in 1988 under head coach Lou Holtz.

NFL career

Seattle Seahawks
Heck was a first round selection of the Seattle Seahawks in the 1989 NFL Draft, the fifteenth overall pick. He signed a five-year contract exceeding $2.7 million following a one-week holdout.

Chicago Bears
Heck signed with the Chicago Bears on February 23, 1994 for $10 million over four years.  After five seasons, Heck was released in June 1999.

Washington Redskins
Heck signed with the Washington Redskins in 1999. He played two seasons with the Redskins.

Coaching career

Early Jobs
Heck moved into coaching and spent three years at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, starting with two years as a graduate assistant.

Jacksonville Jaguars
Heck was hired as the Jacksonville Jaguars assistant offensive line coach in 2004. In 2006, he was promoted to offensive line coach.

Kansas City Chiefs
Heck was hired by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2013 as their offensive line coach. In 2019, he won his first Super Bowl when the Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 in Super Bowl LIV. In 2022, Heck won his second Super Bowl when the Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in Super Bowl LVII.

Personal life
Heck's son Charlie Heck plays American football as an offensive tackle for the Houston Texans, after being drafted in the 2020 NFL Draft.

References

External links
 

1967 births
Living people
American football offensive guards
American football offensive tackles
Chicago Bears players
Jacksonville Jaguars coaches
Kansas City Chiefs coaches
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players
Players of American football from Fairfax County, Virginia
Sportspeople from Fargo, North Dakota
Seattle Seahawks players
Virginia Cavaliers football coaches
Washington Redskins players
Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School alumni
Texas Senate, District 13

District 13 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves portions of Fort Bend and Harris counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

The current Senator from District 13 is Borris Miles.

Top 5 biggest cities in district
District 13 has a population of 946,273 with 713,052 that is at voting age from the 2020 census.

District officeholders

Election history
Election history of District 21 from 1992.

Previous elections

2020

2016

2012

2010

2006

2002

1998

1994

1992

Notes

References

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Fort Bend County, Texas
Harris County, Texas
Nodeland

Nodeland is a village in Kristiansand municipality in Agder County, Norway. Nodeland was the administrative centre of former Songdalen municipality which was merged into Kristiansand in 2020. The village is located about  northwest of the city center of Kristiansand. The village is the main urban area of Songdalen area, surrounded by several smaller villages such as Nodelandsheia, Brennåsen, Volleberg, and Hortemo.

Nodeland Station is a railway station along the Sørlandet Line. All trains between Kristiansand and Stavanger (except overnight trains) stop in the village at this station. Greipstad Church is also located in Nodeland and it was the main church for the municipality.

The  village has a population (2015) of 2,208 which gives the village a population density of .

References

Villages in Agder
Geography of Kristiansand
Entre Douro e Vouga

Entre Douro e Vouga () was a former NUTS3 Portuguese subregion. It was abolished at the January 2015 NUTS 3 revision. It is now part of Metropolitan Area of Porto - NUTS3, integrated in the NUTS2 Norte Region. Its name stood for the fact that it covered an area between the Douro River and Vouga River. It was bordered in the north by Grande Porto Subregion and Tâmega Subregion and in the south by the Centro Region (Baixo Vouga and Dão-Lafões).

It had a total surface area of 858 km2 (the third smallest) and a population of 283,856 inhabitants for a density of 330 inhabitants/km2.

The main urban centres were the cities of Santa Maria da Feira, Oliveira de Azeméis and São João da Madeira, each of them counting approximately 20,000 inhabitants.
Other cities:Lourosa, Fiães and Vale de Cambra (all with less than 10,000).
Its main economic activity is centered in light industry, paper and agriculture transformation (mainly rice and cork) and shoe fabrication.

Municipalities
Its municipalities are:

Arouca
Oliveira de Azeméis
Santa Maria da Feira
São João da Madeira
Vale de Cambra
All of the above municipalities have city status, except Arouca.

References

Former NUTS 3 statistical regions of Portugal
Texas Senate, District 14

District 14 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves Bastrop County and a portion of Travis county in the U.S. state of Texas.

The current Senator from District 14 is Sarah Eckhardt.

Top 5 biggest cities in district
District 14 has a population of 834,750 with 640,349 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.

District officeholders

Election history
Election history of District 14 from 1992.

2020 
The seat for District 14 became vacant on April 30, 2020, after the resignation of Kirk Watson. A special election has been called for July 14, 2020. No candidate had received over 50 percent of the vote, therefore the race was to proceed to a runoff later in 2020 between the top two candidates in the first round, resulting in two Democrats advancing to the runoff. On July 27, 2020, Eddie Rodriguez, dropped out of the race for a runoff election, resulting in Sarah Eckhardt being declared winner.

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Bastrop County, Texas
Travis County, Texas
Tonstad

Tonstad is the administrative centre of the municipality of Sirdal in Agder county, Norway. The village is located at the northern end of the lake Sirdalsvatnet in the Sirdalen valley. The  village has a population (2015) of 874, giving the village a population density of .

Tonstad Hydroelectric Power Station and the Tonstad ski center are both located in and around this village. The Tonstad Church is also located in the village.

The village of Tonstad was the administrative center of the old municipality of Tonstad from 1905 until its dissolution in 1960. In 1960, it became the part of Sirdal, and it continued to be the administrative center of that new municipality.

Name
The municipality of Tonstad was named after the old Tonstad farm (Old Norse: Þornýjarstaðir ), since the Tonstad Church is located there. The first element of the name comes from the female name Tone (Old Norse: Þorný) and the last element is staðir which means "homestead" or "farm".

References

External links

Weather information for Tonstad 
Sirdolen.no 

Villages in Agder
Sirdal
Vanse

Vanse is a village in Farsund municipality in Agder county, Norway. The village is located about  west of the town of Farsund and about  east of the village of Vestbygd. The Farsund Airport, Lista is located just west of Vanse. The village was the administrative centre of the old municipality of Lista from 1838 until its dissolution in 1965. The old municipality was known as Vanse from 1838 until 1911.

The  village has a population (2015) of 2,016 which gives the village a population density of .

Vanse Church is a medieval stone church, built in 1037 in the village of Vanse. A stone monument stands near the church. it is a memorial of fatalities during the Gunboat War (1807–1814). It is surrounded by authentic small cannons and a circle of stones with chain. A speech is held by this stone each year on Constitution Day, May 17.

American connections

Kjell Elvis also has his own star in Selvaagpark modelled on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Media gallery

Notable residents
Kjell Elvis was raised in Vanse
Karl Sanne, politician

References

External links
 American Festival, website

Villages in Agder
Farsund
List of BTCC champions

The title of BTCC champion is awarded to the driver who scores the most points overall in a British Touring Car Championship season. From 1992 to present a separate championship was awarded to the winning 'independent' (not officially manufacturer backed) driver, and from 2000 to 2003 the Production class had its own championship for the best 'class B' driver.

Drivers' Championship winners

Independents' Championship winners

Notes

  - The Independent's championship was not officially awarded in 2001. Erdos was the leading non-works driver, although he did not receive a title or trophy.
  - Team changed name to Total Motor Sport Racing mid-season

Production class championship winners

Jack Sears Trophy winners

Manufacturers'/Constructors' Championship winners

Lombank Saloon Car Championship Entrants' Trophy winners

Teams' Championship winners

References

 Official BTCC Website

Auto racing lists
Constant altitude plan position indicator

The constant altitude plan position indicator, better known as CAPPI, is a radar display which gives a horizontal cross-section of data at constant altitude. It has been developed by McGill University in Montreal by the Stormy Weather Group to circumvent some problems with the PPI:

 Altitude changing with distance to the radar.
 Ground echoes problems near the radar.

Definition and history 

In 1954, McGill University obtained a new radar (CPS-9) which had a better resolution and used FASE (Fast Azimuth Slow Elevation) to program multi-angle soundings of the atmosphere.

In 1957, Langleben and Gaherty developed a scheme with FASE to keep only the data at a certain height at each angle and scan on 360 degrees. If we look at the diagram, each angle of elevation or PPI has data at height X at a certain distance from the radar. Using the data at the right distance, one forms an annular ring of data at height X. Assembling all the rings coming from the different angles gives you the CAPPI.

The CAPPI is composed of data from each angle that is at the height requested for the cross-section (bold lines in zig-zag on the left diagram). In the early days, the scan data collected where shown directly on the cathodic screen and a photo sensitive device captured each ring as it was completed. Then all those photographed rings were assembled. By 1958, East developed a real time assembly instead of a delayed one. By the mid-1970s, computer developments made it possible to gather data in electronic form and make CAPPIs more easily.

Today, weather radars collect in real-time data on a large number of angles. Many countries such as Canada, UK and Australia, scan a large enough number of angles with their radars to have an almost continuous vertical view (taking into account the radar beam width) and produce CAPPIs. Other countries, like France and United States, use fewer angles and prefer PPIs or composite of maximum reflectivities above a point.

Usage 
Above right is an example of a CAPPI at 1.5 km altitude. Looking at the diagram of angles, that depending on the height of the CAPPI, there comes a distance where no data is available. The portion beyond this distance on a CAPPI is then showing data from the lowest PPI. The higher is the CAPPI above ground, the smaller is that PPI zone.

References

Bibliography
 David Atlas, Radar in Meteorology: Battan Memorial and 40th Anniversary Radar Meteorology Conference, published by American Meteorological Society, Boston, 1990, 806 pages, , AMS Code RADMET.
 Yves Blanchard, Le radar, 1904–2004: histoire d'un siècle d'innovations techniques et opérationnelles , published by Ellipses, Paris, France, 2004 
 R. J. Doviak et D. S. Zrnic, Doppler Radar and Weather Observations, Academic Press. Second Edition, San Diego Cal., 1993 p. 562.
 Roger M. Wakimoto and Ramesh Srivastava, Radar and Atmospheric Science: A Collection of Essays in Honor of David Atlas, publié par l'American Meteorological Society, Boston, August 2003. Series: Meteorological Monograph, Volume 30, number 52, 270 pages, ; AMS Code MM52.

Meteorological instrumentation and equipment
Radar meteorology
Radar
Texas Senate, District 15

District 15 of the Texas Senate is a senatorial district that currently serves a portion of Harris county in the U.S. state of Texas.

The current Senator from District 15 is John Whitmire.

Top 4 biggest cities in district
District 15 has a population of 793,108 with 574,255 that is at voting age from the 2010 census.

Election history
Election history of District 27 from 1992.

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Harris County, Texas
2005–06 Copa del Rey

The 2005–06 Copa del Rey was the 104th staging of the Copa del Rey.

Preliminary round 

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Bye: Real Unión and Zamora.

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Second leg

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First leg

Second leg

Final 

 RCD Espanyol: 2005–06 Spanish Cup champion; qualified for 2006–07 UEFA Cup

Top goalscorers

References

External links 
  RSSSF
  Linguasport

Copa del Rey seasons
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Gaupne

Gaupne is the administrative center of the municipality of Luster in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located along the Gaupnefjorden, an arm of the Lustrafjorden, about  north of the village of Hafslo. The village of Veitastrond is located across the mountains  to the northwest. The Sognefjellsvegen road passes through here on its way to the village of Skjolden and beyond.

The  village has a population (2019) of 1,257 and a population density of .

Gaupne sits at the southern end of the Jostedalen valley, with the river Jostedøla's mouth located in Gaupne. It sits southwest of the Jostedalsbreen glacier, between Jostedalsbreen National Park and Breheimen National Park. The village is about  south of the famous Nigardsbreen glacier, and the Breheimsenteret museum is located about  to the north of Gaupne in the village of Jostedal.

There are two churches in Gaupne, the historic Old Gaupne Church and the newer Gaupne Church.

Economy
The village is home to several industries including tourism, printing, cement manufacturing, and apparel manufacturing. The nearby Leirdøla power plant is located just north of the village. Also, Statkraft's administration for Central Norway is based here. The village is known as "Etikettbygda"  (Label Village).

Notable residents
Kåre Øvregard, a former member of the Parliament of Norway (Storting)

References

Villages in Vestland
Luster, Norway
Albert Salvadó

Albert Salvadó i Miras (1 February 1951 – 3 December 2020) was an Andorran writer and industrial engineer. He wrote in both Catalan and Spanish.

Salvadó wrote children's stories, essays and novels, often focusing on historical fiction. He has been described as breathing new life into the historical novel in the Catalan language.

In the crime fiction genre, he has written El rapte, el mort i el Marsellès (Serie Negra Prize 2000), and Una vida en joc, dedicated to the former Casino de la Rabassada (1910).
In the suspense novel genre, he has written Un vot per l'esperança, a novel that won the title of "Selected Work" in the Plaza & Janés International Novel Prize in 1985 and L'informe Phaeton, which has received unanimous acclaim  from the public, who say this is his most impressive novel.
In historical fiction he has written books set in different eras: The Teacher of Cheops (Néstor Luján Prize Historical Novel 1998); L'anell d'Àtila (Fiter i Rossell Prize 1999); Els ulls d'Anníbal (Charlemagne Prize 2002); La Gran Concubina d'Egipte (Nestor Lujan Prize 2005); the trilogy dedicated to James I the Conqueror (2000s) comprising: El punyal del sarraí, La reina hongaresa and Parleu o mateu-me; the trilogy dedicated to Ali Bey comprising: Maleït català, Maleït musulmà and Maleït cristià; and  Obre els ulls i desperta, set in 17th-century Prague.

Selected works
L'enigma de Constantí el Gran
El mestre de Kheops
L'anell d'Àtila
El rapte, el mort i el Marsellès
Jaume I el Conqueridor (El punyal del sarraí, La reina hongaresa, Parleu o mateu-me)
L'ull del diable
El relat de Gunter Psarris
Un vot per l'esperança
Els ulls d'Anníbal
L’ombra d’Ali Bei (Maleït català!, Maleït musulmà!, Maleït cristià!)
La gran concubina d'Amon
L'informe Phaeton
Una vida en joc
 Obre els ulls i desperta (Meteora)
El ball de la vida co-author Anna Tohà
Vols viure?

Awards
1982 - Premi Xerric-Xerrac de contes infantils for La imaginació del nen
1985 - Obra seleccionada per al premi Plaza & Janés for Libertad para Satanás
1997 - Finalista del Premi Nèstor Luján de novel·la històrica for L'Enigma de Constantí el Gran
1998 - Premi Nèstor Luján de novel·la històrica for The teacher of Cheops
1999 - Premi Fiter i Rossell for L'anell d'Àtila
2000 - Premi Sèrie Negra de Planeta for El rapte, el mort i el marsellès
2002 - Premi Carlemany for Els Ulls d'Anníbal
2005 - Premi Nèstor Luján de novel·la històrica for La Gran concubina de Amon
2016 - Premi Internacional El Vi Fa Sang to their literary trajectory
2018 - Premi Àgora Cultural del Principat d'Andorra 2017 for his contribution to the enrichment of the literature from Andorra, particularly in the domain of the Historical Novel

References

External links
 Personal webpage of Albert Salvadó

Andorran writers
People from Andorra la Vella
Catalan-language writers
1951 births
2020 deaths
Deaths in Andorra
Hafslo

Hafslo is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.  The  municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1963. It is located in the present-day Luster Municipality (in Vestland county) in the traditional district of Sogn. The former municipality included the villages of Kinsedalen, Ornes, and Kroken on the east side of the Lustrafjorden.  It also included the villages of Solvorn, Hafslo, Joranger, and the whole Veitastrond valley on the west side of the Lustrafjorden.  The municipality surrounded the lakes Hafslovatnet and Veitastrondvatnet.  The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Hafslo, where Hafslo Church was located.

History
Hafslo was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1963, the municipality of Hafslo (population: 2,384) was merged with the neighboring municipalities of Luster (population: 2,674) and Jostedal (population: 796) to form the new, larger municipality of Luster.

Name
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Hafslo farm () since the first Hafslo Church was built there. The first element is the old male name , the name is identical with the word  which means "male goat". The last element is  which means "clearing" or "meadow", probably due to the excellent farming areas nearby.

Government
During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of directly elected representatives. The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

Mayors
The mayors of Hafslo:

1838-1839: Ola Trondsen Lid
1840-1859: Einar Joranger
1860-1860: Samuel M. Bugge
1861-1861: C. Aars
1862-1862: Ola I. Fet
1863-1877: Samuel M. Bugge
1878-1881: Einar Joranger
1882-1885: Samuel M. Bugge
1886-1895: Ola I. Hillestad
1896-1898: Anders J. Tørvi
1899-1904: Erik Nitter Walaker
1905-1907: Samuel O. Moe
1908-1910: Erik Nitter Walaker
1911-1919: Ola I. Joranger
1920-1922: Wilken Nitter Walaker
1923-1928: Ivar O. Hillestad
1929-1931: Torstein Molland
1932-1937: J.W. Fraas
1938-1942: Torstein Molland
1942-1944: Amund Bremer
1945-1945: Torstein Molland
1946-1947: Ola Sjøtun
1948-1961: Einar Kjos
1961-1963: Hans H. Sjøtun

Municipal council
The municipal council  of Hafslo was made up of 21 representatives that were elected to four year terms.  The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:

Media gallery

Notable people
 Sylfest Lomheim (born 1945), a Norwegian linguist
 Jens Sterri (born 1923), a civil servant
 Kjellfred Weum (born 1940), a hurdler

See also
List of former municipalities of Norway

References

External links

Luster, Norway
Former municipalities of Norway
1838 establishments in Norway
1963 disestablishments in Norway