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Bull's eye level

A bull's eye level is a type of spirit level that allows for the leveling of planes in two dimensions — both the 'pitch' and 'roll' in nautical terms.  Standard tubular levels only consider one dimension. Bull's eye levels are used primarily by carpenters in construction, but can also be found as features of compasses or other devices that need to be kept from tipping in certain directions (whether it be for functionality or precision of measurements). Small bull's eye levels are also found incorporated into tripods.

Another name for a bull's eye level is a "circular bubble" which is the name used by surveyors in the United Kingdom. Surveying instruments such as theodolites (transits) and total stations often have a circular bubble as well as a tubular level or "plate level". The circular bubble is used to roughly level the instrument in two dimensions.  The plate level is then used, rotating it 90 degrees between readings to level the instrument more precisely.
  
The Fell All-Way precision level, one of the first successful American made bull's eye levels for machine tool use, was invented by William B. Fell, Rockford, Illinois prior to World War II in 1939. The device was unique in that it could be placed on a machine bed and show tilt on x and y axes simultaneously; eliminating the need to rotate the level 90 degrees. The device set a new standard of 0.0005 inches per foot resolution (five ten thousands per foot or five arc seconds tilt).  The level's production stopped around 1970. Production restarted in 1980s by Thomas Butler Technology, Rockford, Illinois, but finally ended in the mid 1990s.  However, there are still hundreds of the highly prized devices in existence.

References

Inclinometers
Woodworking measuring instruments

de:Libelle (Messtechnik)#Dosenlibelle
Kumano shrine

A  is a type of Shinto shrine which enshrines the three Kumano mountains: Hongū, Shingū, and Nachi []. There are more than 3,000 Kumano shrines in Japan, and each has received its kami from another Kumano shrine through a process of propagation called  or .

The point of origin of the Kumano cult is the Kumano Sanzan shrine complex in Wakayama Prefecture, which comprises  (Shingū, Wakayama), Kumano Hongū Taisha (Tanabe, Wakayama) and Kumano Nachi Taisha (Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture).

Kumano Sanzan 
The three Kumano Sanzan shrines are the Sōhonsha ("head shrines") of all Kumano shrines and lie between 20 and 40 km from each other. They are connected to each other by the pilgrimage route known as . The great Kumano Sanzan complex also includes two Buddhist temples, Seiganto-ji and Fudarakusan-ji.

The religious significance of the Kumano region goes back to prehistoric times and therefore predates all modern religions in Japan. The area is still considered a place of physical healing. Each shrine initially had its own separate form of nature worship. In the 10th century, under the influence of Buddhism, the three came to be worshiped together as the three deities of Kumano. Because at the time Japanese kami were believed to be emanations of buddhas (honji suijaku theory), the three came to be associated with Buddhas. Kuniyasutamahime became associated with Sahasrabhūja Avalokiteśvara (Senju Kannon, "Thousand-Armed Avalokiteśvara"), Bhaisajyaguru (Yakushi Nyōrai) and Amitābha (Amida Nyōrai). 

The site became a unique example of shinbutsu-shūgō, the fusion between Buddhism and Japanese indigenous religion. The Kumano Sanzan site attracted many worshipers and became a popular pilgrimage destination. In the 11th century, pilgrims were mostly members of the imperial family or aristocrats, but four centuries later they were mostly commoners. The visit was referred to as the , because they could be seen winding through the valleys like so many ants.

See also 
Kumano Shrine (Yamagata)
The Tale of the Heike
Acts of Worship

Notes

References 
 D. Max Moerman, Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan. Harvard University Press, 2004. 
  Moerman, David (1997). The ideology of landscape and the theater of state: Insei pilgrimage to Kumano (1090–1220), Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 24 (3-4), 347-374

External links

Japanese Wikipedia article ":ja:熊野神社" accessed on June 12, 2008
Tanabe City Kumano Tourism Bureau 

Shinto shrines in Japan
Kumano faith
 
Beppyo shrines
Shinto shrines in Akita Prefecture
Auerbachs Keller

Auerbachs Keller (, Auerbach's Cellar in English) is the second oldest restaurant in Leipzig, Germany. Already one of the city's most important wine bars by the 16th century, it owes its worldwide reputation to Goethe's play Faust as the first place Mephistopheles takes Faust on their travels.

History
A wine bar at the site was already mentioned in a historical record dated 1438. The present-day restaurant is located below the Mädlerpassage, a historic covered passage built from 1912 to 1914 at Grimmaische Straße 2 in Leipzig's historical district near the market. The restaurant has five historical dining rooms: the Fasskeller (Barrel Cellar), Lutherzimmer (Luther Room), Goethezimmer (Goethe Room), Alt-Leipzig (Old Leipzig), and, since 1913, the Großer Keller (Large Cellar). There is also the Mephisto Bar on the floor above available for drinks.

The Mädlerpassage replaced the former Auerbachs Hof, a trade fair building complex, erected about 1530 at the behest of Heinrich Stromer (1482–1542), city councillor, professor of medicine, and rector of Leipzig University. He was the personal physician of several princes, such as Duke George of Saxony or the Hohenzollern brothers Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg and Archbishop Albert of Mainz. Stromer was familiarly called Doctor Auerbach after his birthplace, the town of Auerbach in the Bavarian Upper Palatinate region. When he re-opened the already existing wine vault in the basement rooms, the bar quickly adopted his name.

Young Goethe often visited Auerbach's Cellar while studying at Leipzig University from 1765 to 1768 and called it his favorite wine bar. He saw there two paintings on wood dating from 1625, one depicting the legendary magician and astrologer Johann Georg Faust drinking with students and the other showing him riding out the door astride a wine barrel, something he could have accomplished only with the help of the Devil. Goethe was already familiar with the Faust legend from his youth, since a puppet show Dr. Faust, was frequently performed at local street fairs. The scene Auerbach’s Cellar in Leipzig in his drama Faust I is his literary memorial to his student tavern and to the city, albeit an ironic one. 

Between 1912 and 1913 much of Auerbach's Cellar was reconstructed and expanded as part of the demolition of the medieval construction above it and the erection of the Mädlerpassage. It was reopened on 22 February 1913, which is also the date when the two sculptures Mephisto and Faust and Bewitched Students were placed at the entrance. Since German reunification, the whole passage with numerous shops and office floors has been extensively renovated.

External links

Auerbachs Keller official site (German)
Faust the Rock Opera in Auerbachs Keller performing the flying wine barrel 
Auerbachs Keller in Faust I

This is a translation of the equivalent German site. The information is reliable.

Restaurants in Germany
Goethe's Faust
Buildings and structures in Leipzig
Radio Information Service

The Radio Information Service or RIS was a reading service for the blind in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that was carried via subcarrier on WDUQ in Pittsburgh.

Prior to closing in 2009, the RIS weekly audience was 1,200 listeners with two-thirds of the audience over 60 years of age. Most listeners lived in Allegheny, Washington and Westmoreland Counties but RIS also served nine other counties in the region, including Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence and Somerset. RIS also serves parts of Ohio and West Virginia.

Listeners accessed RIS through a special FM radio receiver, over the Internet, on Comcast Cable systems or through the RIS Telephone Dial-In Service.

Programming
RIS based its programming on its motto "Independence Through Information". Given that many visual impairments tend to be age-related, RIS's services were specially tailored to their needs. One of the most popular programs was the daily newspapers where a pair of narrators read local and regional newspapers, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.  Other programming included popular magazines, ads from grocery, drug and department stores, TV listings and other special interest publications. Additionally, RIS provided translations of printed material to Braille or audio recording.

History
At its founding in 1976 RIS was broadcast from the campus of Duquesne University to whom it paid rent for space and a small fee for transmitter use on WDUQ-FM. Around 1991, the University told the small non-profit that it no longer had room for them on its campus and gave it 30 days to vacate.  Protesting loudly, the service was able to convince the University that 30 days was not ample time to relocate. Following a year of emergency fund raising, design, and build-out, the station moved to the Birmingham Towers on the Southside neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

In 2004, facing a lack of funding and a possible shutdown, the board of RIS began exploring possibilities of partnering with another organization. On November 1, 2005, RIS entered into a Management Agreement with WDUQ. This agreement allowed the reading service to remain a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a governing board responsible for all fundraising and community outreach while WDUQ was responsible for the day-to-day RIS business operations, including programming, services, personnel and volunteer management.

However, by 2009, the service was no longer able to sustain operations, and the service went inactive on August 14, 2009.

Other Radio Information Service - for the blind 
 Radio Reading Services - American Foundation for the Blind
 Chicagoland Radio Information Service Live
 NPR Illinois Radio Information Service
 Detroit Radio Information Service
 Radio Information Service by Wabash Valley College Live
 Sun Sounds of Arizona - Listen Live

See also
 Radio reading service

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20120204153440/http://www.readingservice.org/

Radio reading services of the United States
Limingen

or  is a lake in the municipalities of Røyrvik and Lierne in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is the eighth-largest lake in the country.  The lake lies  above sea level; and has an area of about . At the deepest point, it is  deep and averages about  deep. The lake has a volume of about  and is located just north of the large lake Tunnsjøen.  The border with Sweden lies about  east of the lake.

The lake level is regulated by dams.  The Røyrvikelva river flows into the north end of Limingen from the lake Vektaren, through a dam. The water flows out through a tunnel to Røyrvikfoss Power Station, at the village of Røyrvik. At the south end, near the village of Limingen in Lierne, the water flows out of the tunnel to the Tunnsjøen via the Tunnsjø Power Station, as well as to Linvasselv Power Station on the Swedish side. The water level varies by up to about  in level.

References

Lakes of Trøndelag
Lierne
Røyrvik
Reservoirs in Norway
Fleming Road

Fleming Road () is a road in Wan Chai and Wan Chai North on the Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong. The road begins south with Johnston Road, runs across Hennessy Road, Lockhart Road and Jaffe Road, flies over Gloucester Road and runs across Harbour Road and ends at the junction with Convention Avenue and Expo Drive East.

History
The road was named after Francis Fleming, Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong between 1890 and 1892. The road was built on the 1921 reclamation. In the 1970s, another reclamation extended the road to Wan Chai North by the Victoria Harbour.

At the junction of Fleming Road and Lockhart Road, a 3-storey building housed comfort women for the Japanese Army during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong between 1940 and 1945.

On 17 December 2005, during the WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005, protestors from South Korea broke the police defense line on Lockhart Road and rushed along Fleming Road in an attempt to break into the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai North. A full scale clash with the Hong Kong Police Force took place at this road and Central Plaza.

See also
 List of streets and roads in Hong Kong

References

External links
 

Wan Chai
Wan Chai North
Roads on Hong Kong Island
Warwick Line

The Warwick Line (also known as the Warwick–Yorktown line) was a defensive works across the Virginia Peninsula maintained along the Warwick River by Confederate General John B. Magruder against much larger Union forces under General George B. McClellan during the American Civil War in 1861–62.

The main line extended 12 miles from Yorktown to the Warwick River and downstream to Lee's Mill, then westward to Skiffe's Creek, which flowed into the James River at Mulberry Island, where the line was anchored on the east by a four-gun battery at Mulberry Island Point. The south end of Mulberry Island (now part of Fort Eustis) is located at the confluence of the Warwick and James Rivers.

Notes

See also
Dam No. One Battlefield Site
Fort Crafford
Lee's Mill Earthworks
Queen Hith Plantation Complex Site
Southern Terminal Redoubt

Virginia in the American Civil War
History of Newport News, Virginia
Arnoglossum

Arnoglossum is a North American genus of plants in the family Asteraceae, described as a genus in 1817. They have the common name Indian plantain because they resemble the unrelated common plantain (Plantago spp.).

Arnoglossum is a member of the tribe Senecioneae which has been undergoing extensive revisions in recent years. Many of the species now in the genus were formerly classified in other genera such as Cacalia, Mesadenia, and Senecio. The remaining species are all native to North America (Ontario and eastern United States).

The name Arnoglossum is from the Greek word "arnos" meaning lamb, and "glossum" meaning tongue and is the  ancient name for some species of Plantago.

 Species
 Arnoglossum album L.C.Anderson  - Florida
 Arnoglossum atriplicifolium (L.)H.Rob. - pale Indian plantain - much of eastern + central USA
 Arnoglossum diversifolium (Torr. & A.Gray) H.Rob. - variable-leaved Indian plantain - Georgia, Florida, Alabama
 Arnoglossum floridanum (A.Gray) H.Rob. - Florida cacalia  - Florida
 Arnoglossum ovatum (Walter) H.Rob. - Ovateleaf cacalia - from eastern Texas to North Carolina
 Arnoglossum plantagineum Raf. - tuberous Indian-plantain or groovestem Indian plaintain - from Ontario south as far as Texas and Alabama
 Arnoglossum reniforme (Hook.) H.E. Robins. - eastern USA
 Arnoglossum sulcatum (Fernald) H.Rob - Georgia Indian plaintain - Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi

References

External links

Senecioneae
Asteraceae genera
Flora of Northern America
Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Boxing pound for pound rankings

The following tables show the professional boxers listed in the latest top-10 pound for pound world rankings published by each of:
 The Ring magazine
 Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA — men only)
 Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB — men only)
 ESPN
 BoxRec

Men's

Women's

See also

 List of current world boxing champions
 List of The Ring magazine world champions
 List of The Ring pound for pound rankings
 List of fights between two The Ring pound for pound boxers
 List of boxing weight classes

References

Boxing awards
Boxing-related lists
Pound for pound
Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left

The Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (, , PSE-EE) is a social-democratic political party in the Basque Country that acts as the regional affiliate of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

History
Although local Socialist groups had been active since 1886, and many affiliated with the PSOE (being Biscay one of the strongholds of Spanish social democracy, along with Madrid and Asturias), the PSE was actually established as a branch of the main party only in 1977, during the Spanish transition to democracy, initiated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

During the violent years of the 1980s in the Basque Country, mid- and high-ranking party officials held government positions in Spain and the region, as civil governors. The Basque nationalist left—Herri Batasuna and related groups—denounced during that period the collusion of the party with police abuses—especially pointing to the Guardia Civil—and in early 1984 blamed directly the Socialists for the state terrorism of the GAL death squads (1984-1987).

In early 1990s some of them were convicted for their participation in it. Ricardo Damborenea, head of the party in Biscay, even confessed in a press release to his involvement in the criminal pursuit in the early 1990s. All of them have been released from prison much earlier than their due term without apologising for their illegal actions; Damborenea currently gets a substantial monthly allowance from the Spanish state.

It has local associations in Gipuzkoa, Biscay, and Álava. Before June 1982, it also included a Navarre branch - which formed the Socialist Party of Navarre, PSN (PSOE).

Initially in a close alliance with the Basque Country Left (EE), a party connected with Basque nationalism, begun in 1991 with a move promoted by the respective secretaries - Ramón Jáuregui for the PSE and Mario Onaindia for the EE. It aimed to become the major Basque force in the 1993 election. The fusion of the two groups was made possible by the split of Basque Left from EE: prepared by the leadership of Nicolás Redondo Terreros (1998–2002), it was confirmed with the mandate of Patxi López in 2002.

During the 2012 elections to the parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community, the PSE-EE came up third in number of MPs (16), lagging behind the Basque Nationalist Party and EH Bildu. Throughout its recent history, it fluctuated between second and third, depending on the success of the People's Party or the Abertzale Left).

Electoral performance

Basque Parliament

Cortes Generales

European Parliament

Notes

References

External links
 

1977 establishments in Spain
Basque Country
Political parties established in 1977
Socialist parties in the Basque Country (autonomous community)
Organisations based in Bilbao
Camden Park, South Australia

Camden Park is a suburb of the city of Adelaide, South Australia.

Camden Park is in the City of West Torrens local government area. It is split between the South Australian House of Assembly electoral districts of Ashford and West Torrens. At the federal level, Camden Park is in the Division of Hindmarsh. 

Camden Park Post Office closed in 1990.

References

Suburbs of Adelaide
Little Italy, Winnipeg

Little Italy, also known as Corydon Village, is a neighbourhood in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is located on Corydon Avenue between Stafford Street on the west, and Pembina Highway on the east. The district has many boutiques and restaurants.

Background 
There are a variety of Italian businesses in the Little Italy/Corydon Village neighbourhood, including small cafes, Mediterranean restaurants, ice cream/gelato parlours, beauty salons, and offices. Also there are a variety of small and medium-sized apartments and condominium buildings both on Corydon Avenue and nearby streets.

During the summer months on weekend evenings some north-south streets are closed off to make way for live entertainment.

In the early 2010s, the representatives of the city met with residents and stakeholders to plan the neighbourhood's future development. The Corydon-Osborne Area Plan was released in 2014 with community consultation going on during the decade. It was adopted by Council in 2017.

The term "Little Italy" has become less common due to the closure of some Italian restaurants, and an influx of new non-Italian restaurants and shops. Today, many residents of Winnipeg mainly refer to the area as the "Corydon Village."

References

External links
Project for Public Spaces
Corydon BIZ

European-Canadian culture in Manitoba
Neighbourhoods in Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Little_Italy
Dexter Manley

Dexter Keith Manley (born February 2, 1959) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Washington Redskins. He also played for the Phoenix Cardinals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as well as in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Ottawa Rough Riders. Manley played college football for the Oklahoma State Cowboys and was selected by the Redskins in the fifth round of the 1981 NFL Draft.

Professional career

National Football League
Manley was drafted in the fifth round (119th overall) of the 1981 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins, where he played for nine seasons.  During his career with the Redskins, Manley won two Super Bowl titles and was a Pro Bowler in 1986 when he recorded a Redskins single-season record of 18.5 sacks.

In 1989, Manley failed his third drug test, with an opportunity to apply for reinstatement after one year. He then played for the Phoenix Cardinals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. However, after he failed his fourth drug test, he retired on December 12, 1991. He had a series of arrests related to his drug problem and was ultimately convicted and served 2 years in prison.

Officially, Manley had 97.5 quarterback sacks in his career.  His total rises to 103.5 when the six sacks he had his rookie year of 1981, when sacks were not yet an official statistic, are included. After his career in the United States ended, he revealed that he was functionally illiterate, despite having studied at Oklahoma State University for four years.

Canadian Football League
Manley also played two seasons in the CFL with the Ottawa Rough Riders (1992 and 1993).

Personal life
He was nicknamed the "Secretary of Defense" during his time with the Redskins. Manley lives in suburban Washington with his family.

Manley underwent brain surgery in June 2006 to treat a colloid cyst. He first learned about the cyst in 1986 after he collapsed in a Georgetown department store. His prognosis is for a relatively full recovery, although doctors have said that memory loss is a common side effect of the operation. In May 2020, it was announced that Manley had tested positive for COVID-19.

In an article by Taylor Branch entitled "The Shame of College Sports", prior to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities in 1989, Manley was famously quoted as saying that he had been functionally illiterate in college.

References

External links
 

1959 births
Living people
American football defensive ends
Canadian football defensive linemen
National Conference Pro Bowl players
Oklahoma State Cowboys football players
Ottawa Rough Riders players
Shreveport Pirates players
Phoenix Cardinals players
Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
Washington Redskins players
Players of American football from Houston
Players of Canadian football from Houston
African-American players of American football
African-American players of Canadian football
American sportspeople convicted of crimes
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople
Andrew J. Paterson

Andrew J. Paterson (born 1952 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian inter-disciplinary artist, working with video, live performance, original text, film, and music. Paterson is also a published author and editor, who sees his multidisciplinary activities as existing parallel to his media-art practice.

During the 1980s he was the singer, songwriter and guitarist for the Toronto punk band The Government, which released several records and appeared in video work by Paterson, as well as other video artists.

Paterson is also an actor who has appearing in numerous videos and films, such as Boy, Girl by Bruce LaBruce and Zero Patience by John Greyson.

Controlled Environments, from 1994 is one of his many works on video.

Paterson's MONO LOGICAL is a series of seven monologues, plus clips from his narrative and performance-based video works (from the  early eighties up until the early nineties). These clips are presented in tandem with his shorter digital new-media works and his more recent Super-8 tone poems. Paterson's media works, tapes, and films combine photographic tracking shots, montages of mediated found images, and voice-over discourses concerning urban space,  global economics, and sexual possibilities. MONO LOGICAL plays on the tensions between language intended to be communicative and language that isn't. An academic, student, poet, police officer, entrepreneur, musician, and cleric all either lecture or perform. Their theatrical trappings might beg their sincerity, but their orations are to be taken very seriously.  MONO LOGICAL throws curve balls and suggest parallel U-turns. 

Paterson is also the writer of numerous critical articles and co-editor of Money Value Art: State Funding, Free Markets, Big Pictures, with Sally McKay. The book addresses the traditionally polar relationships between state subsidization and private sector competition relation to the arts. Other Media Works by Paterson include: Cash and Carry [1999], Etiquette [from Controlled Environments] [1994], How Many Fingers? [1981], The Headmaster's Ritual [2002/03], Snowjob [2001], The Walking Philosopher [1999/2001], and Who Killed Professor Wordsworth? [1990].

Awards
Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2019)

References

External links
Andrew J. Paterson Internet project for Paul Petro
YYZ Books - Money Value Art
CCCA Artist Profile for Andrew Paterson
Pleasure Dome

1952 births
Living people
Artists from Toronto
Canadian experimental filmmakers
Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts winners
Doucette

Doucette is a French language surname and a variant of Doucet. Notable people with the name include:

 Allan Doucette (1872–1901), American footballer
 Bernard Doucette (died 1974), Franco-American meteorologist
 Chad Doucette (born 1988), Canadian singer
 Don Doucette (born 1952), American college basketball coach
 Eddie Doucette, American sportscaster
 Fred Doucette, American politician from New Hampshire
 Jeff Doucette (born 1947), American actor
 Jerry Doucette (1952–2022), Canadian guitarist, who released music as "Doucette"
 John Doucette (1921–1994), American actor
 John Doucett or Doucette (died 1726), Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
 John W. Doucette, officer in the United States Air Force
 Paul Doucette (born 1972), American drummer
 Ryan Doucette (born 1983), Canadian actor
 Sarah Doucette, Canadian politician

See also 
 Doucette, Texas
 Doucet, surname
 Doucett, surname

French-language surnames
Lepidozamia

Lepidozamia is a genus of two species of cycad, both endemic to Australia. They are native to rainforest climates in eastern Queensland and eastern New South Wales. They have a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 18.

Etymology
The name is derived from the Greek word lepis (λεπίς) meaning scale, which refers to the scale-like structure of the stem and leaf bases.

Species

A specimen of L. hopei is known as the tallest living cycad at 17.5 m tall. These cycads are generally unbranched, tall, and with persistent leaf bases. They are easily cultivated as ornamental plants and are relatively cold hardy; L. peroffskyana was first described by a specimen grown at St. Petersburg's botanical garden in 1857.

References

The Cycad Pages: Lepidozamia

 
Endemic flora of Australia
Cycadophyta of Australia
Hachiman shrine

A  is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the kami Hachiman. It is the second most numerous type of Shinto shrine after those dedicated to Inari Ōkami (see Inari shrine). There are about 44,000 Hachiman shrines.

Originally the name 八幡 was read Yawata or Yahata, a reading still used in some cases. Many towns and cities incorporating the names Hachiman, Yawata or Yahata grew around these shrines.

Famous Hachiman shrines
The following four shrines are often grouped into groups of three, either as Usa-Iwashimizu-Hakozaki or Usa-Iwashimizu-Tsurugaoka, and both of these groupings are known as the Three Major Hachiman Shrines of Japan ().

 Usa Jingū  (Usa, Ōita), the Sōhonsha (head shrine)
 Iwashimizu Hachimangū  (Yawata, Kyoto)
 Hakozaki Shrine  (Fukuoka)
 Tsurugaoka Hachimangū  (Kamakura)

Other notable Hachiman shrines
 Fukuyama Hachimangū 福山八幡宮 (Fukuyama, Hiroshima)
 Hakodate Hachiman Shrine 函館八幡宮 (Hakodate, Hokkaido)
 Hatogamine Hachiman Shrine 鳩峰八幡神社 (Tokorozawa, Saitama)
 Iino Hachimangū 飯野八幡宮 (Iwaki, Fukushima)
 Kameyama Hachimangū 亀山八幡宮 (Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi)
 Miyake Hachimangū 三宅八幡宮 (Sakyo-ku, Kyoto)
 Morioka Hachimangū 盛岡八幡宮 (Morioka, Iwate)
 Ōsaki Hachimangū 大崎八幡宮 (Sendai, Miyagi)
 Shiraoi Hachiman Shrine 白老八幡神社 (Shiraoi, Hokkaido)
 Shiroyama Hachimangū 城山八幡宮 (Nagoya)
 Tomioka Hachiman Shrine 富岡八幡宮 (Koto, Tokyo)
 Tamukeyama Hachiman Shrine 手向山八幡宮 (near the Tōdai-ji, Nara)
 Umi Hachiman-gū 宇美八幡宮 (Umi, Fukuoka)
 Ōmiya Hachiman Shrine (Tokyo) 大宮八幡宮 (Suginami, Tokyo)
 Ōmiya Hachiman Shrine (Hyōgo) 大宮八幡宮 (Miki, Hyōgo)
 Ōshio Hachiman Shrine 大塩八幡宮 (Echizen, Fukui)
 Sapporo Hachimangū 札幌八幡宮 Sapporo, Hokkaido
 Saipan Hachiman Shrine (Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands)

See also 
 Inari Shrine

References

External links
Oyama Shrine

Oyama Shrine may refer to:
Oyama Shrine (Ishikawa) (尾山神社), Kanazawa, Ishikawa
 (雄山神社), Tateyama, Toyama
Apple River (Illinois)

The Apple River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, about  long, in southwestern Wisconsin and northwestern Illinois in the United States.  It rises in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, and flows for most of its length in Illinois, through Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties.  Along its course it passes through Apple River Canyon State Park and the town of Hanover.  It flows into the Mississippi River about 7 mi (11 km) northwest of Savanna.

In Jo Daviess County, it collects two short tributaries known as the West Fork Apple River and South Fork Apple River.

Toponymy
Apple River was so named on account of the crabapple trees along its course. A folk etymology maintains the river derives its name from a German named Appel who fell near the river in the Black Hawk War.

Geology
The river is part of the Driftless Area of Illinois, a region that was bypassed by the last ice age; "the glacial sweep which ironed out hills and filled valleys in other parts of the state left this area unscratched. During the Ice Age, the Apple River had its original course reversed. It once flowed to the Pecatonica River. It now flows southwest to the Mississippi River. The result is a deep canyon, part of which is preserved in Apple River Canyon State Park.

See also
List of tributaries of the Mississippi River
List of Illinois rivers
List of Wisconsin rivers
Millville Town Site

Notes

References
Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
DeLorme (2003).  Illinois Atlas & Gazetteer.  Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme.  .
DeLorme (1992).  Wisconsin Atlas & Gazetteer.  Freeport, Maine: DeLorme.  .

Prairie Rivers Network

Rivers of Illinois
Rivers of Wisconsin
Tributaries of the Mississippi River
Rivers of Carroll County, Illinois
Rivers of Jo Daviess County, Illinois
Rivers of Lafayette County, Wisconsin
Driftless Area
Esplanade Riel

Esplanade Riel is a pedestrian bridge located in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was named in honour of Louis Riel.

It is a side-spar cable-stayed bridge which spans the Red River connecting downtown Winnipeg with St. Boniface; it is paired with a vehicular bridge, the Provencher Bridge. The bridge includes an architectural composite tower that is prestressed with a cantilevered and stayed semi-circular plaza area at the base of the tower. The plaza provides space for commercial activities and as well as a restaurant.

The Esplanade Riel is the only bridge with a restaurant in North America. Its first restaurant was a Salisbury House. Salisbury House is a chain restaurant local to Winnipeg. The next tenant was Chez Sophie sur le pont (on the bridge), which opened in the summer of 2013 and closed in February 2015. The Esplanade Riel has become a landmark and is used in many promotional materials.

Opened to foot traffic in 2003 and having a grand opening in the summer of 2004, the Esplanade Riel was co-designed by architects Guy Préfontaine and Étienne Gaboury of Gaboury Préfontaine Perry Architects Inc. The original drawing rests in the Engineering building of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.

The Esplanade Riel was built as part of the Provencher Twin Bridges project, a $72 million project which included a new four-lane divided vehicular bridge as well as new roadways and sidewalks linking the bridges to Downtown Winnipeg and Waterfront Drive.

In January 2013 the City of Winnipeg terminated the lease with Salisbury House and in March the city approved a five-year lease agreement with the French restaurant Chez Sophie sur le pont. The original Chez Sophie, founded in 2005, is located on Avenue de la Cathedrale. The restaurants are operated by Stephane and Sophie Wild, who are from the Alsace region of France. Chez Sophie closed on February 2, 2015.

Mon Ami Louis opened as the new tenant in July 2015, serving more "approachable" fare, as opposed to haute cuisine.  It closed in 2020.

References

External links 
 

Buildings and structures in downtown Winnipeg
Saint Boniface, Winnipeg
Pedestrian bridges in Manitoba
Bridges completed in 2003
Cable-stayed bridges in Canada
Louis Riel
Singular measure

In mathematics, two positive (or signed or complex) measures  and  defined on a measurable space  are called singular if there exist two disjoint measurable sets  whose union is  such that  is zero on all measurable subsets of  while  is zero on all measurable subsets of  This is denoted by 

A refined form of Lebesgue's decomposition theorem decomposes a singular measure into a singular continuous measure and a discrete measure. See below for examples.

Examples on Rn

As a particular case, a measure defined on the Euclidean space  is called singular, if it is singular with respect to the Lebesgue measure on this space. For example, the Dirac delta function is a singular measure.

Example. A discrete measure.

The Heaviside step function on the real line,

has the Dirac delta distribution  as its distributional derivative. This is a measure on the real line, a "point mass" at  However, the Dirac measure  is not absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure  nor is  absolutely continuous with respect to   but  if  is any open set not containing 0, then  but 

Example. A singular continuous measure.

The Cantor distribution has a cumulative distribution function that is continuous but not absolutely continuous, and indeed its absolutely continuous part is zero: it is singular continuous.

Example. A singular continuous measure on 

The upper and lower Fréchet–Hoeffding bounds are singular distributions in two dimensions.

See also

References

 Eric W Weisstein, CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, CRC Press, 2002. .
 J Taylor, An Introduction to Measure and Probability, Springer, 1996. .

Integral calculus
Measures (measure theory)
USS Nanticoke

USS Nanticoke may refer to the following ships operated by the United States Navy:

 , was a gasoline tanker launched in 1945 and eventually acquired by the Argentine Navy serving there until 1985
 , was a large harbor tug launched in 1969 and struck in 1999

United States Navy ship names
Priyadarśikā

Priyadarsika is a Sanskrit play attributed to king Harsha (606 - 648). It was first translated into English by G. K. Nariman, A. V. Williams Jackson, and Charles J. Ogden and published by the Columbia University Press in 1923 as the tenth volume of the 13 volume Columbia University Indo-Iranian Series (1901–32).

See also
 List of Sanskrit plays in English translation
 Ratnavali
 Nagananda

References

External links
Priyadarsika, translated by G. K. Nariman and A. V. Williams Jackson

Ancient Indian literature
Sanskrit texts
7th-century plays
7th-century Indian books
Sanskrit plays
Himalmedia

Himalmedia Private Limited () is a periodical publisher in Nepal. Himalmedia publishes three premium periodicals: Himal Khabarpatrika, a Nepali-language fortnightly newsmagazine, Nepali Times, an English-language weekly newspaper, and Wave, also an English-language magazine aimed at teenagers.

External links
 Himalmedia homepage

Publishing companies of Nepal
Azel

Azel, proper name, may refer to:

Azel: Panzer Dragoon RPG, a 1998 video game
A descendant of Saul (I Chronicles 8:37; I Chronicles 9:43-44) Books of Chronicles
A variant spelling of Azal, a place name referred to in Zechariah 14:5 Book of Zechariah
One of the Four Devas, the Primary Antagonists of God Hand
AzEl or Az-El may also refer to:

A type of Antenna Rotator mounting (diminutive for Azimuth/Elevation)
 Azel (album)
Himal Khabarpatrika

Himal Khabarpatrika () is a Nepali language monthly news magazine published by Himalmedia Private Limited. It has developed a choice following of both the rural and urban intelligentsia, maintaining credibility and an inclusive editorial voice. While its readership spans the country, Nepalis worldwide also read it, including the opinion-forming and decision-making classes and the vernacular-elite. Khabarpatrika’s share is a sizeable chunk of the vernacular reading population of Nepal, and the quality of that readership means that the message does get maximum dissemination.

Himal Khabarpatrika Team
Publisher: Kanak Mani Dixit Editor: Santa Gaha Magar

References

External links 
 HimalKhabar.com (Himal Khabarpatrika daily news site)
 Himal Khabarpatrika Homepage
 Himal Southasian Homepage
 Himalmedia Homepage

News magazines published in Asia
Weekly magazines
Magazines established in 1998
Magazines published in Nepal
1998 establishments in Nepal
Azubah

Azubah, עזובה, meaning "deserted", is the name of two women in the Bible: 

 Azubah (wife of Caleb), the wife of Caleb 
 Azubah (mother of Jehoshaphat), daughter of Shilhi, and mother of Jehoshaphat, King of Judah

See also
Azabache
Azubu
Azuben
Azzaba (disambiguation)
Nepali Times

Nepali Times (stylized as NEPALI Times) is an English weekly newspaper that provides reporting and commentary on Nepali politics, business, culture, travel and society in 16 pages. The weekly is aimed at the expatriate, diplomatic and business communities in Kathmandu, and through the internet for the Nepali diaspora. It is published by Himalmedia (pl), which also publishes Himal Khabarpatrika. Nepali Times appears every Friday morning in hardcopy with augmented multimedia content on its website.

Since its founding in 2000, the weekly has been edited and published by Kunda Dixit, who also wrote the long-running and popular Under My Hat satirical columns from 2000-2006.

See also
 Himal Khabarpatrika

References

External links
 Nepali Times homepage
 PDF archive on Digital Himalaya

Newspapers published in Nepal
English-language newspapers published in Asia
2000 establishments in Nepal
Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge

Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge is a  National Wildlife Refuge in Utah, established in 1928. The refuge is part of a national system of fee ownership lands purchased from willing sellers, mostly private property owners.

The refuge encompasses the Bear River and its delta where it flows into the northern part of the Great Salt Lake in eastern Box Elder County. It includes a variety of habitats, such as open water, mudflats, wetlands, and uplands. The refuge hosts millions of migratory birds each year including species such as bald eagle and tundra swan. There are more than  of freshwater wetlands. The Refuge is approx. 80,000 acres of Federal and State lands that are managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The surrounding lands are occupied by multiple hunting clubs along the bird migration route.

The James V. Hansen Wildlife Education Center features interactive exhibits about the birds and wetlands of the Refuge and a 1/2-mile accessible walking trail a wetland habitat outside. Environmental education programs, symposiums and public events are offered.

There is a one-way 12 mile auto route through the Refuge, with an audio tour and map available for download through the official website.

Starting in 1983, rising floodwaters from the Great Salt Lake severely impacted the refuge.  The flooding of the refuge is at the center of Terry Tempest Williams's noted nonfiction book, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. In 2006, a new wildlife education center off Interstate 15 opened to attract visitors once more.

See also
 National Wildlife Refuge
 List of National Wildlife Refuges

References

External links 

 Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
 Official Web site of the Blue Goose Alliance
 Christopher Chadbourne and Associates, Inc., Exhibit Design firm for the Education Center

National Wildlife Refuges in Utah
Protected areas of Box Elder County, Utah
Education in Box Elder County, Utah
Nature centers in Utah
1927 establishments in Utah
Wetlands of Utah
Landforms of Box Elder County, Utah
Bird migration
Benny Nemer

Benny Nemer (formerly Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay; born September 25, 1973) is a Montreal-born artist and diarist based in Paris, France.

Biography 
Since 2000 his work has mediated emotional encounters with musical, art historical, and queer cultural material, encouraging deep listening and empathic viewing. Early video work concentrated on critical mimicry of material from popular culture, with references to Madonna, American Idol, Tatu, Françoise Hardy and Kylie Minogue. Recent work focuses on re-examinations of seminal texts, films and video art from queer and art history, working with material by Hervé Guibert, Colin Campbell, Rosa von Praunheim, and Harry Hay.

His work has exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Tiroler Kunstpavillon (Innsbruck), Dazibao Centre de Photographies Actuelles (Montreal), and the Staatsbibliothek (Stuttgart); and numerous group exhibitions including the Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt), The Power Plant Gallery of Contemporary Art (Toronto), Kunsthallen Nikolaj (Copenhagen), the Schwules Museum (Berlin), and the Red Brick House (Yokohama), among others. Nemer's video work has screened in festivals and galleries across Canada, Europe and East Asia and has won prizes at the Hamburg Short Film Festival, the Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest and the Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (all in Germany), the Toronto Inside Out Film and Video Festival as well as first prize at the Globalica Media Arts Biennale in Wrocław, Poland. His work is part of numerous private collections as well as the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and Thiel Gallery, Stockholm.

His works include an unconventional audioguide for POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, which starts by telling visitors to leave the museum, and then spins a mix of folklore, truth, and lies about Warsaw.

Nemer completed a practice-led PhD at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2019, where he was part of Cruising the 70s: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures, a three-year research project led by art historians, cultural anthropologists, and artists in Germany, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. His doctoral research critically examined the museum audio guide as a media form, turning to queer theory and contemporary museum mediation practice to expand and critically reimagine its potential.

Nemer is a post-doctoral researcher at Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium.

In 2021, Benny Nemer changed his name from Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay.

References

External links
 Official Site
 Cruising the 70s: Unearthing Pre-HIV/AIDS Queer Sexual Cultures

1973 births
Artists from Montreal
Canadian contemporary artists
Canadian video artists
Canadian gay artists
Living people
21st-century Canadian LGBT people
Bushmaster III

The Bushmaster III is a 35 mm automatic/semi-automatic cannon designed and built by Alliant Techsystems, based on the 25 mm M242 Bushmaster. The weapon has been selected as primary armament for the CV9035 export versions of the CV90 infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) currently in service with the Danish, Dutch and Estonian armies. The Bushmaster III is a chain gun, like the other members of the Bushmaster family, which grants it great dependability and safety from ammunition cook-off even though it does result in lower rates of fire.

50 mm version 
The U.S. Army is testing the Bushmaster 50 mm cannon as a counter rocket, artillery, and mortar (C-RAM) and counter unmanned aerial vehicle (C-UAV) weapon. Initially developed under the Extended Area Protection and Survivability Integrated Demonstration (EAPS ID), it has been successfully tested in tracking distant moving targets using interferometric radar as a sensor, fire control computer, and radio frequency transmitter and receiver to launch a course-correcting projectile. The command guided interceptors have a thruster that receives commands for maneuvering and warhead detonation, with a tantalum-tungsten alloy liner to form forward propelled penetrators to defeat C-RAM targets, and steel body fragments to destroy UAVs. The systems can destroy UAVs at a range of  and at a height of .

The caliber is the NATO standard 35×228 introduced by the Oerlikon KD in the 1950s. Bushmaster III can be converted to a caliber of 50×228 mm, which involves changing the barrel and a few key parts, to use the SuperShot 50 cartridge.

Specifications 
Recoil: 14,000 lb/6300 kg
Weight:
Receiver: 150 lb/68 kg
Feeder: 80 lb/36 kg
Barrel: 250 lb/113 kg1
Total: 480 lb/218 kg
Rate of Fire: Semi-automatic or 200 rpm
Power Required:  at 24 volts
Clearing Method: Open Bolt, semi-closed bolt
Safety: Absolute hangfire protection
Case Ejection: Forward

1 Includes gun barrel, drive motor, recoil system and integral dual feeder.

See also
 M230 30 mm automatic cannon
 Bushmaster II 30 mm chain gun
 Bushmaster IV 40 mm chain gun
 Oerlikon GDF
 Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/70

References

External links
 Alliant Techsystems (ATK) Bushmaster III Automatic Cannon Fact Sheet
 http://www.deagel.com/pandora/m242-bushmaster-iii_de00142003.aspx

Autocannon
Vehicle weapons
Alliant Techsystems
35 mm artillery
Military equipment introduced in the 1990s
Couch Soup

Couch Soup was a mini-festival of one page plays which started in 1997 and ran annually in Hamilton, New Zealand, and in 2007 in Wellington as part of the New Zealand Fringe Festival.  Plays were selected via an open call for scripts, and performed with minimal props, costumes and set (the couch). The format followed in the festivals was around 30 one page plays, performed by four actors (two male, two female), with a run time of approximately an hour.

Though the plays are limited to one side of an A4 page, no restrictions are placed on the format used, and plays may vary from under thirty seconds to over two minutes in length, with the average being around a minute per play.  The festival is thus characterized by the demands it places on an actor as much as for its accessibility and vigor .

Because it is difficult to tackle a serious theme completely in the course of a page the plays are commonly absurd, satirical or (rarely) dramas of the kitchen sink variety.  Comedic and dramatic monologues as well as homages in the style of a particular writer are also common.

Playwrights
Over a hundred playwrights have participated since 1997, including:

Mark Prebble - Creator of makemarksmovie.com, through which he sold the Executive Producer credits on his feature debut Futile Attraction to successfully fund its post-production.
Albert Belz - Acclaimed writer of Awhi Tapu and Te Maunga
Sarah Peters - Former assistant producer of Auckland Theatre Company's 2nd Unit, now working in the UK.

References 

Annual events in New Zealand
Wellington City
Fringe festivals in New Zealand
Festivals in Wellington
Festivals in Hamilton, New Zealand