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Pačir

Pačir (: , ) is a village located in the municipality of Bačka Topola, Serbia. As of 2011 census, the village has 2,580 inhabitants, with Hungarians having the ethnic majority.

Demographics

As of 2011 census, the village of Pačir has 2,580 inhabitants.

Ethnic groups
The ethnic composition of the village (as of 2002 census):

See also 
 List of places in Serbia
 List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References 

 Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links 

 
 History of Pačir 

Places in Bačka
Populated places in North Bačka District
Hungarian communities in Serbia
Roland Sound Canvas

Roland/Edirol Sound Canvas lineup is a series of General MIDI (GM) based pulse-code modulation (PCM) sound modules and sound cards, primarily intended for computer music usage, created by Japanese manufacturer Roland Corporation. Some models include a serial or USB connection, to a personal computer. The Sound Canvas can be played by the Sound Brush.

Products

Sound Canvas

The first Sound Canvas units (SC-55 and SB-55) were sold in the winter of 1991, in some cases also sold as "Edirol" rather than "Roland" as the brand name, mainly with the SC-88VL.

Sound Canvas Personal Computer Products

Computer Music Products

Sound Canvas and Keyboard

The following combine a sound canvas module with a built in MIDI keyboard

Edirol

Roland sold GM/GS products under its Edirol brand. The samples contained in the ROMs of these units do not in all cases mirror the original SC-7 / SC-55 GM/GS samples. GM2 is downward compatible with GM. The SD line was also sold under the "Roland" brand.

Virtual Sound Canvas

There is also the VSC, Virtual Sound Canvas, range of PC software which provide GM and GS
synthesis on Windows PCs. Many versions of Cakewalk's Sonar software came bundled with a copy of VSC, though from Sonar 4 onwards they ship with the improved TTS-1 softsynth, which Roland has sold previously through its Edirol subsidiary as the HyperCanvas.

Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth
Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, included in instances of DirectX as an integral part of DirectMusic, and on every Windows computer since 1998, incorporates sounds from the Sound Canvas series licensed by Microsoft from Roland in 1996. A four-megabyte file, titled "GM.DLS", contains the sample set in DLS format.

Apple QuickTime Software Wavetable Synthesizer
In 1997, Apple licensed the complete Roland Sound Canvas instrument set and GS Format extensions for improved playback of MIDI music files in QuickTime 3.0. This replaced the limited set of instrument sounds licensed from Roland in QuickTime 2.x.

Distribution

North America 
Roland Systems Group U.S.

Europe 
EDIROL Europe Ltd., London, UK

References

External links

 Another Roland timeline
 Private Owner On Line Roland Museum
 VSC-55 details
 Roland GS history page

Sound cards
Sound modules
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Drue Kataoka

Drue Kataoka (born ) is a Japanese American visual artist and political commentator. She is known for her Sumi-e art and interest in technology. In 2012, Kataoka was chosen as the Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum summit at Davos. She is based in Silicon Valley, California.

Early life and education 
Kataoka was born  in Tokyo, Japan and lived there until age 5. Her family moved to Washington D.C., then onto Seattle, and later to Menlo Park, California. Her father Tetsuya Kataoka is a political scientist, and research fellow at Hoover Institution, and her mother Barbara Kataoka (née Slavin) worked in the communications department at Stanford University. She attended high school at Sacred Heart Preparatory a private school in Atherton, California, and graduated high school in 1996.

Kataoka attended college at Stanford University, where she majored in Art History and graduated in 2000. She participated in Stanford Jazz Band, where she played the flute. She began her art education in Sumi-e early in Japan and later in the US, earning her han (signature stamp) from sensei, M. Iseke. By age 19, she was considered a master of Sumi-e.

Art career
Kataoka's art work spans various materials and practices including brainwave installations, sculptural works such as her "magic boxes" and "membranes," sumi-e brush work art, and paintings.

Early work
Kataoka's early works were in the canon of Sumi-e. However, early on she started experimenting with depicting modern subject matter such as sports, dance, jazz, public figures. Wynton Marsalis commissioned her to create a suite of album art for his Sony Columbia record, A Fiddler’s Tale. While at Stanford University, she completed 27 commemorative prints including the official print for the 100th anniversary of the Stanford University-California Big Game, the print for President Gerhard Casper's retirement gift, and the millennial portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.

Her commemorative prints are archived in the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. Her painting of the Hoover carillon, I Ring for Peace is permanently installed at the Hoover Institution.

Current work
In January 2013, Kataoka unveiled a brainwave-smart glass installation in Davos. She also created a conceptual piece Up (2008) which incorporated Special Relativistic effects. Up was sent into space for the first Zero Gravity Art Exhibit at the International Space Station. She has developed techniques such as Magic Boxes and Shattered Mirrors to merge the art, its surroundings and the viewer in an artistic continuum.

Kataoka has written political commentary for CNBC in 2016.

References

External links
 Official site
 Kataoka's exhibit at The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, 2012

1970s births
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
American women artists
American artists of Japanese descent
Artists from California
Artists from Tokyo
Japanese emigrants to the United States
Stanford University alumni
Fraser Valley Distance Education School

Fraser Valley Distance Education School (FVDES) is one of the largest distance education schools in British Columbia, Canada. It offers both online and paper-based distance learning from kindergarten to grade 12. FVDES's students include both school age and adult learners. Most live in the Lower Mainland of B.C., but a growing number live in other areas of the province or overseas. FVDES is a publicly funded school that follows the British Columbia school curriculum and offers full "Dogwood" certification upon graduation.

Founded in 1990, Fraser Valley Distance Education School is part of a provincial group of nine distance education schools located throughout British Columbia. These schools have their roots in traditional correspondence distance education but are rapidly undergoing change to provide online (or internet) course delivery.

FVDES currently has over 500 full-time online learners. The school also has around 3000 correspondence students who use predominantly paper-based correspondence materials, although many are starting to enroll in the new online course offerings. In addition, there are approximately 300 part-time online students. Two new areas of growth are adult learners and students who continue to attend regular "brick and mortar" schools.

FVDES's online and paper-based programs offer different features and different ways of learning. Online courses are more structured, and feature full-time teacher support and online instruction. They also have email access, virtual classrooms and discussion groups. Correspondence booklets (though not textbooks) have largely been phased out of the online courses. On the other hand, correspondence (paper-based) courses offer greater flexibility and a wide range of course options. Students may take some courses online and others by paper; students make their choice based on their personal needs. At the elementary level, optional portfolio-based assessment is a popular option.

To address the needs of online learners, the school has moved rapidly to incorporate online course offerings and is currently undergoing unprecedented growth. FVDES now offers a complete selection of the core academic courses, including Planning 10 and provincial exam courses like Math 12, History 12, and Biology 12. More elective courses are under development. FVDES is dedicated to offering individual teachers for each course, rather than providing non-specialist tutors. Over the past three years, the on-site staff has grown to twenty-five elementary, middle school and senior secondary teacher, plus five special needs teachers and four teaching assistants. Technical help has also grown from a single part-time technician to two full-time technicians. Other developments at FVDES include an expanded number of field trips (for example, swimming, skiing, geocaching, skating) and regularly scheduled art-based activities.

External links 
Official FVDES Site

Elementary schools in British Columbia
High schools in British Columbia
Educational institutions established in 1990
Online schools in Canada
Education in Chilliwack
1990 establishments in British Columbia
Online K–12 schools
Stara Moravica

Stara Moravica (;  or ; ) is a village located in the Bačka Topola municipality, in the North Bačka District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority and its population numbering 5,699 people (2002 census).

Etymology 

Its name has changed many times throughout history: or 20 versions can be listed. The story begins with the settlements of the Avar period: Okor, Omar, then Omarica, Omaricsa, Omorovics, Omarocsa. The name Omorovica appeared in Turkish times. Similar versions were included until the turn of the century: Omorovicza, Bács-Omorovicza, Ómorovicza. From 1907 Kossuthfalva and from 1912 Bácskossuthfalva was the official name of the village.

History 
Between 1782 and 1786, Hungarians settled in Stara Moravica.

Geography 

It is situated halfway between Belgrade and Budapest in a geographical region of Bačka.

Map coordinates: .

Climate

Demographics 

Stara Moravica had a population of 5,699 in 2002. The village has been declining in population since the 1960s. In 1991, there were 6,266 people, 5,576 Hungarians, 278 Serbs, and 412 persons of other ethnicities. However, by 2002, the population had decreased to 5,699, with 4,975 Hungarians, 505 Serbs, and 219 persons of other ethnicities.

Religion 

Stara Moravica has two churches: one Catholic and one Calvinist Protestant.

Culture 
The village celebrates several festivals throughout the year: the annual Village Fair in May, the Beer Festival in August, the Grape Picking Festival in September, the Fall Harvest Festival in October, the Honey Festival in November, and the Village Celebration in December.

There is an artist colony in Stara Moravica that attracts artists from all over the world for a few weeks. In addition, the village has one of the largest art collections in the Vojvodina province and has a Cultural House.

In popular culture 
Stara Moravica was featured on the HGTV series House Hunters International Renovation.

See also 
 List of places in Serbia
 List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References 

 Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links 

 History of Stara Moravica 

Places in Bačka
Populated places in North Bačka District
Hungarian communities in Serbia
John Litz

John Litz (born July 24, 1961) is a United States Democratic Party politician, formerly serving as a State Representative in Tennessee.   He represented District 10, Hamblen County.

Biography
John Litz hold a B.S. degree in Agriculture from the University of Tennessee and makes his living as a farmer, operating Litz Farms in Hamblen County. He was first elected to the General Assembly in 2002 defeating Republican incumbent Stancil Ford. He  served as a House member of the 103rd, 104th and 105th General Assemblies serving on the following committees:
 Secretary, House Calendar and Rules Committee
 Member, House Agriculture Committee
 Member, House State and Local Committee
 Vice Chair, House Elections Subcommittee

In November 2006, Litz was re-elected without opposition to a 3rd term.  In December 2006, he was selected by the Democratic Caucus to serve as Assistant Majority Leader. In September 2007, Litz announced his intention to retire from the legislature after his current term expired.

References

1961 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians
People from Morristown, Tennessee
University of Tennessee alumni
Democratic Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives
1st Soviet Antarctic Expedition

The First Soviet Antarctic Expedition was led by Mikhail Somov; his scientific deputy was . The expedition lasted from 30 November 1955 to 1957 and involved 127 expedition members and 75 crew members.

Three diesel-electric ships were used to transport the expedition. They were RV Ob (flagship; captain ), RV Lena (captain A. I. Vetrov) and the refrigerator ship No. 7 (captain M. A. Tsygankov). The final ship was used only for transporting perishables. Ob and Lena were icebreakers 130m long and displacing 12,600 tons.

On 30 November 1955 Ob left port at Kaliningrad.

The principal task of the expedition was to organise the main base, Mirny, and perform limited scientific observations. Other tasks were reconnaissance of sites for the inland bases Vostok and Sovetskaya; and oceanography of the Indian ocean.

References 
 A V Nudel Man Soviet Antarctic Expeditions 1955-1959, Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskva, 1959 (translated from the Russian; Israel program for scientific translations, Jerusalem, 1966).

Further reading 
 Gan, I. (2009) "The reluctant hosts: Soviet Antarctic expedition ships visit Australia and New Zealand in 1956", Polar Record, 45, (232) pp. 37–50. ISSN 0032-2474 
Gan, I. (2009) "The Soviet Preparation for the IGY Antarctic Program and the Australian Response: Politics and Science, Bolet%#237;n Antártico Chileno 2nd SCAR Workshop on the History of Antarctic Research, 22-22 September 2006, Santiago, Chile, pp. 60-70. [Non Refereed Conference Paper]

External links 
 History of organization of the first Soviet/Russian Antarctic expedition 1955–57 and its international importance in the Antarctic studies by N. Kornilov (ZAO «INTAARI», St. Petersburg, Russia)]

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Ikon

Ikon is an alternate spelling of icon, and the normal spelling in German and many other languages.

Ikon or iKON may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

 iKON, a South Korean hip hop group under 143 Entertainment
 Ikon (Australian band), an Australian dark wave group
 Ikon (record label), a Russian record label
 Ikon Asean, a singing competition between Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines
 Ikons, a box set featuring material recorded by the American hard rock band Kiss
 The Ikons, an early name of the Canadian band 13 Engines
 "The Ikon", instrumental suite in Todd Rundgren's Utopia
 Ikon the Verbal Hologram, former stage name of rapper Vinnie Paz

Other media
 Ikon, a 1982 novel by Graham Masterton
 Ikon FCL, the video sublabel of Factory Records
 Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland, abbreviated as IKON, a Dutch public broadcaster

Brands and enterprises
 Ford Ikon, a sedan version of the Ford Fiesta automobile
 Ikon Gallery, or "The Ikon", a modern art gallery in Birmingham, England
 IKON Office Solutions, a document management company
 IKON Pass, a multi ski resort season pass sold by Alterra Mountain Company
 Zeiss Ikon, a German optics company

See also
Icon (disambiguation)
You're the Best

"You're the Best" is a song performed by Joe Esposito and written by Bill Conti (music) and Allee Willis (lyrics), which came to prominence as the music to the All-Valley Karate Championships montage in the 1984 movie The Karate Kid in which the protagonist, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), proves a surprisingly formidable contender.

Criticism
Responding to years of criticism of "You're the Best" on the radio, singer Joe Esposito called into The Adam Carolla Show on April 9, 2008. The criticism was that the lyric "History repeats itself" was inappropriate because it was played during Daniel LaRusso's (Ralph Macchio) first All-Valley Tournament in The Karate Kid. Esposito revealed that the power ballad was originally intended for the Rocky III soundtrack, but was replaced by "Eye of the Tiger". It was subsequently also turned down for the Flashdance soundtrack in favor of "Maniac" by Michael Sembello. The Karate Kid's director, John G. Avildsen, liked the song so much that he used it in the movie.

References

1984 songs
The Karate Kid (franchise)
Songs written by Allee Willis
Songs written by Bill Conti
American synth-pop songs
Hard rock ballads
Joe Esposito (singer) songs
Songs written for films
Ransbach-Baumbach

Ransbach-Baumbach is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Ransbach-Baumbach is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Ransbach-Baumbach, a kind of collective municipality.

Geography

The community lies in the Westerwald about 10 km northwest of Montabaur, and 15 km northeast of Koblenz.

History
In 1330, the parish of Ransbach had its first documentary mention. Already in 959, however, the Montabaurer Zehntbeschreibung (a “description of tithes”), speaks of the vanished community of Desper (Dedinsburg) near Ransbach. In 1373, the name Babenbach for Baumbach crops up. In 1969, Ransbach and Baumbach were merged into one community. In 1971, in the course of municipal restructuring, the Verbandsgemeinde of Ransbach-Baumbach was founded. In 1975, Ransbach-Baumbach was granted town rights.

Partnerships
 Pleurtuit, Brittany, France since 1985
 Parish of Rukoma in Mirenge, Rwanda since April 2005

Schools and kindergartens
 Astrid Lindgren-Schule (primary school/whole-day school)
 Erich Kästner-Schule (Regionalschule)
 St. Markus Catholic Kindergarten
 St. Antonius Catholic Kindergarten
 St. Martin Town Kindergarten

Sightseeing
Ransbach-Baumbach lies in the heart of the Kannenbäckerland, a small region known for its ceramics industry.
Many pottery works in and around Ransbach-Baumbach
40-m-high lookout tower on the Köppel
Yearly pottery market on the first weekend in October
Erlenhofsee (lake)

Other
Since 1676 the Fohr Brewery has been in Ransbach-Baumbach.

References

Towns in Rhineland-Palatinate
Westerwaldkreis
Viasat Cup

The Viasat Cup was a 2006 Danish football tournament, starting at the end of the Danish Superliga 2005–06. The tournament was held due to Denmark's failure to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, a tournament which had caused FIFA to demand that the Superliga ended on 14 May. Viasat, holding the broadcast rights to the Superliga, and "Divisionsforeningen" contrived the tournament, and the most matches were broadcast on Danish TV3+.

FC Nordsjælland won the final against Aalborg BK 3–1 on Aalborg Stadion, with AaB's Poul Hübertz scoring after just 40 seconds, but 25 minutes later Anders Due equalized. In second half were Due again in focus; after 54 minutes he had a shot on the bar, and 20 minutes he assisted Jukka Santala's goal to 1–2. In the 82nd Jonathan Richter made the result definitive.

The favorites to the title, F.C. Copenhagen and Brøndby IF, were beat in the quarter finals, by respectively the winners FC Nordsjælland and Esbjerg fB.

Seedings

Groups 
The draw was held on 12 March.

Tiebreakers, if necessary, are applied in the following order:
Cumulative goal difference in all group matches.
Total goals scored in all group matches.
Draw.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Quarterfinals 
The quarterfinals will be played on 25/26 May and 28/29 May.

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* The match ended 2–2 but the result was changed to 0–3 in favour of Esbjerg fB because Brøndby IF was using an illegal player.

Semifinals 
The semifinals will be played on 1 and 4 June.

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Final 
The final was played on 7 June.

Top goalscorers

External links 
Official website at onside.dk

Defunct football cup competitions in Denmark
2005–06 in Danish football
Perlez

Perlez (; ) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (87.29%) and its population numbering 3,818 people (2002 census).

History

Baden culture graves and ceramics (bowls, anthropomorphic urns) were found in the village.

The town originally consisted of a hamlet named Siga, next to which a fort called Šanac was built in the early-18th Century.  (At the time this was part of the Austrian frontier with the Ottoman Empire.)  In 1752, Count Perlas, president the administration of the Banat and treasurer for the province of Timisoara, founded a new village just outside the fort, which he named after himself.  Early settlers were Serbs from elsewhere in the region, Germans, Croats, Slovaks and Hungarians, many of whom were employed as border guards.

Following the Treaty of Trianon the region shifted from Hungarian to Yugoslav administration and the town's name was changed to Perlez, accordingly.

Population
This village had a small community of Croats, that lived in compact part of the village; they have been slowly but evidently in large amounts assimilated. Still, this assimilation has never drawn the attention of Croat parties in Serbia.

1961: 4,881
1971: 4,458
1981: 4,283
1991: 3,880

Economy
The "Matić farm", located near the confluence of the Bega into the Tisza, preserves the old and autochthonous breeds of cattle. It has a small herd of the Podolian cattle and since the mid 2000s, the herd of domesticated water buffalo was formed. Buffalos, descendants of the river buffalo, arrived in the modern Vojvodina region in the 5th century with the Huns. Historical records show that they were still being kept in the 15th century, but died out from the region later.

See also
List of places in Serbia
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

References
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links 

Perlez
Internet Prezentacija Perleza
Храм Успеније Пресвете Богородице - Перлез
Current Weather in Perlez
 Perlez map and more
Perlez infos
  Храм Успеније Пресвете Богородице - Перлез

Zrenjanin
Populated places in Serbian Banat
Bruce Guthro

Bruce Guthro (August 31, 1961 – September 5, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Guthro recorded as a solo artist, and was lead vocalist for the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig from 1998, until the group retired in 2018. Guthro received several ECMAs (East Coast Music Awards), and hosted and conceptualized the Canadian TV show Songwriters Circle, on which guests included Jim Cuddy, Colin James, and Alan Doyle (of the Canadian band Great Big Sea).

Guthro was also the father of musicians Dylan Guthro and Jodi Guthro. He co-produced Dylan's award-winning 2012 debut album All That's True with Dave Gunning and co-wrote five of the album's songs.

Guthro died from cancer on September 5, 2023, five days after his 62nd birthday.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Music videos

Samplers

Guest appearances

Awards

References

External links
 Bruce Guthro 
 
 

1961 births
2023 deaths
Canadian Country Music Association Rising Star Award winners
Canadian male singer-songwriters
Canadian folk singer-songwriters
Canadian pop singers
Canadian country singer-songwriters
Deaths from cancer in Nova Scotia
Musicians from Nova Scotia
Runrig members
Blood on the Moon (novel)

Blood on the Moon (1984) is a crime novel by James Ellroy. It is the first installment of the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy. It was followed by Because the Night (1984) and Suicide Hill (1985). Although the novels are written in multiple perspectives and narrated omnisciently, the main character in all three is Lloyd Hopkins.

Plot summary
The story begins in 1965 during the Watts Riots in Los Angeles, California.  23-year-old Lloyd Hopkins is still with the National Guard and is deployed to help handle the situation.  It is during this riot that Hopkins kills his first man, a deranged armory sergeant who was hunting down and killing African Americans.

Eighteen years later Hopkins is now a sergeant with the LAPD and has the highest number of arrests of any officer in the department's history.  He is considered a genius by many of his associates for his uncanny ability to make intuitive leaps of logic when tracking down criminals.  Soon his abilities are put to the test when he investigates the brutal murder of a woman who was disemboweled in her apartment.  Hopkins quickly deduces that the person responsible for this murder has in fact been killing women since the late 1960s, but has never been caught because he always changes his modus operandi.

A subplot of the novel involves Hopkins' relationship with his family.  He adores his three daughters and deeply loves his wife, though he is chronically unfaithful to her.  His wife loves Lloyd, but begins to realize that his habits are not healthy for their children, particularly his propensity for telling them about the cases that he has worked on.

Film adaptation 
Blood on the Moon, the first Ellroy novel to be adapted to film, is the basis for the 1988 movie Cop, starring James Woods.
 Actor Tom Hanks, in an October 13, 2017 interview in The New York Times stated that he would be interested in playing the part of Lloyd Hopkins on the stage or screen.

References

1983 American novels
Novels by James Ellroy
American crime novels
Novels set in Los Angeles
American novels adapted into films
Kedgwick, New Brunswick

Kedgwick is a Canadian incorporated rural community in northern New Brunswick, Canada. On 1 January 2023, Kedgwick annexed a large area including the local service districts of St. Jean Baptiste – Menneval and White's Brook, with parts of two others; revised census figures have not been released.

A variation of the original Micmac Madawamkedjwik, the name was "shortened by the river men to Tom Kedgwick or Kedgwick" (Ganong). Of uncertain meaning.  Appears as Grande Fourche, " Big Fork", on some maps; however, the older variant prevailed.

Forestry is the major industry in the area.

History
Originally a local improvement district, then an incorporated village, Kedgwick became a rural community in 2012 when it amalgamated with the surrounding local service district of the parish of Grimmer.

Geography
Located in the Appalachian Mountains in the western part of the county, Kedgwick is approximately 75 kilometres southwest of Campbellton and 15 kilometres east of the Restigouche River along Route 17.

Being surrounded by woods, Kedgwick is spectacular during the Fall season. Every autumn the population celebrates it with the "Festival d'Automne" (Fall fest).

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kedgwick  had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

Population trend

Language
Mother tongue (2016)

Climate 
Kedgwick has a humid continental climate (Dfb) and once had a subarctic climate (Dfc). Summer consists of warm days and cool nights with about half of all days experiencing rain. Winter consists of cold days and frigid nights below zero with extremely heavy annual snowfall averaging 103 inches (261 cm). Kedgwick is one of the coldest and snowiest inhabited places in New Brunswick.

Notable people

See also
List of communities in New Brunswick

References

External links
Kedgwick.ca

Communities in Restigouche County, New Brunswick
Designated places in New Brunswick
Rural communities in New Brunswick
Taraš

Taraš (; ) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority (96.49%) and its population numbering 1,140 people (2002 census).

Names
Names in other languages: , .

Historical population

1821: 1,040
1825: 1,047
1863: 1,092
1868: 1,424
1880: 1,356
1910: 1,887
1921: 2,091
1931: 2,148
1939: 2,363
1948: 1,956
1953: 1,956
1961: 1,779
1971: 1,612
1981: 1,330
1991: 1,107
2002: 1,167

References
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.
Miodrag Dostanić, Mile Markov, To je Taraš: hronika dugovečnog sela, Zrenjanin, 2002.

See also
List of places in Serbia
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina

Zrenjanin
Populated places in Serbian Banat
Francisco de Távora, 1st Count of Alvor

D. Francisco de Távora, 1st Count of Alvor (1646 – 31 May 1710) was a Portuguese noble of the second half of the 17th century and early 18th century. He was a military official, diplomat, and colonial governor, serving the Kingdom of Portugal during the reign of Afonso VI of Portugal, Pedro II of Portugal, and João V of Portugal. He was the third son of the 2nd Count of São João da Pesqueira, António Luís de Távora and his wife Arcângela Maria de Portugal, daughter of the 4th Count of Linhares.

Family

Born to António Luis de Távora, second count of São João da Pesqueira and D. Arcângela Maria de Portugal, he married Inês Catarina de Távora and had three children :
Maria Inácia de Távora (1678)
Bernardo António Filipe Neri de Távora, second count of Alvor (1681)
António Luis de Távora (1689).

His second marriage was with D. Isabel da Silva.

Governor of Portuguese Angola (1669–1676)
Governor of Portuguese India (56th) (1681–1686)
Vice-Roy of India (33rd) (1681–1686)
Another Francisco de Távora commanded the Great King during the naval battle of Diu (1509).

Sources 
http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20070929110951/http://genealogia.netopia.pt/pessoas/pes_show.php?id=4180

Governors of Portuguese Angola
Viceroys of Portuguese India
1646 births
1710 deaths
Nobility from Lisbon
17th century in Angola
17th century in Portuguese India
17th-century Portuguese people
18th-century Portuguese people

Portuguese nobility
Taras

Taras may refer to:

Geography
 Taras (ancient city) of Magna Graecia, modern-day Taranto
 Taras, Iran, a village in Tehran province
 Taras, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
 Taraš, a village in Vojvodina, Serbia
 Taras, Kazakhstan, a village in Almaty Region

People
 Taras (name), a Ukrainian male given name
 Taras (surname)

Other uses
 Taras (mythology), in Greek mythology the son of Poseidon and the nymph Satyrion

See also 
 Taraz, a city in Jambyl Region, Kazakhstan
Robert Gentry

Robert Gentry may refer to:

Robert Gentry (actor) (1940–2022), American actor known for roles on several soap operas
Robert Mark Gentry (1885–1951), British politician and trade unionist
Robert V. Gentry (1930–2020), American nuclear physicist, creationist
National Fire Information Council

The National Fire Information Council (NFIC) is a United States agency that encourages and perpetuates the use of a standardized national incident reporting system (the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS)) as a means of addressing the nation's fire problem and related emergency services issues.  The NFIRS is operated by the United States Fire Administration under the Department of Homeland Security.

The NFIRS information modules describe the kind of incident responded to, where it occurred, the resources and methods used to mitigate it, losses, and other information designed specifically to understand the nature and causes of fire, hazardous material (HazMat), and emergency medical service (EMS) incidents. Information is also collected on the number of civilian or firefighter casualties and an estimate of property loss.  The NFIRS is used to develop national public education campaigns, make recommendations for national codes and standards, guide the allocation of federal funds, determine consumer product failures, identify the focus for research efforts, and support federal legislation.  The information collection format guides for the NFRIS are available on the site.

References
NFIC home page

Government agencies of the United States
Firefighting in the United States
11th Soviet Antarctic Expedition

The Eleventh Soviet Antarctic Expedition was an expedition by the Soviet Union to Antarctica, based at Mirny Station.

The expedition did research into the climate, the state of the ionosphere, the northern lights, cosmic rays, the geomagnetic field, and the source of radio waves.

One major task of the expedition was to relay meteorological information to Soviet whaling ships in the southern latitudes.

This expedition was the first Soviet expedition to use aqua-lungs in biological exploration. Explorations using this technology were made from December to March in the Antarctic summer of 1966–1967. The three months of work resulted in a large collection of animals which were presented to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad.

References
 Gruzov, E. (March 1968) "Soviet biological exploration in Antarctic seas" in Arctic, 21(1):39–40

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Selters (disambiguation)

Selters is a mineral water brand.

Selters may also refer to:

Selters, Rhineland-Palatinate, a town in the Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Selters (Verbandsgemeinde), a collective municipality in Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Selters (Taunus), a municipality near Limburg in the Limburg-Weilburg district, Hesse, Germany
Selters (Lahn), a village near Weilburg in the Limburg-Weilburg district, Hesse, Germany
Selters Spa, a local community and a spa in Mladenovac, a suburb of Belgrade, Serbia

See also
Selter (disambiguation)
Time in Thailand

Thailand follows UTC+07:00, which is 7 hours ahead of UTC. The local mean time in Bangkok was originally UTC+06:42:04. Thailand used this local mean time until 1920, when it changed to Indochina Time, UTC+07:00; ICT is used all year round as Thailand never observe daylight saving time. Thailand shares the same time zone with Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Christmas Island, and Western Indonesia.

History 
 Prior to 1 January 1901, locations in Siam with an astronomical observatory would adopt local mean time based on the observatory's geographic position. Chiang Mai Province and two other provinces each had an observatory, hence, each province had its own distinct local mean time, with minutes of difference between the three locations.
 On 1 April 1920, the mean time of the 105th meridian east (passing through Ubon Ratchathani Province) was adopted by Siam as the new standard time. The mean time of the 105th meridian is 7 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (i.e., local mean time at the Greenwich Royal Observatory).
 In July 2001, Thailand announced its intention of moving its time forward one hour, to align with both Malaysia and Singapore and more importantly with Western Australia, Philippines, Central Indonesia, and Taiwan, i.e., UTC+08:00. This was met with much criticism and resistance and the plan was withdrawn.

Standardisation of time in Thailand 
Thailand declared on 16 March 1920 that people would move their clocks ahead by 17 minutes, 56 seconds on 31 March 1920 to match the time in use in Southeast Asia. The time was switched on 1 April 1920 at 00:00 (old time) to 00:17:56 (new time).

Timekeeper 
On 1 January 1990, the Cabinet of Thailand appointed the Royal Thai Navy as the official timekeeper for Thailand. Thai Standard Time is derived from five atomic clocks maintained by the Royal Thai Navy.

See also 
 Six-hour clock used in Thailand
 Thai lunar calendar
 Thai solar calendar

References

External links 

 
Thailand
Time in Southeast Asia
Michelle Behennah

Michelle Behennah (born 7 January 1977, Singapore) is a British model.

Modelling career 

Behennah has modeled swimsuits for [[Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue|Sports Illustrated'''s Swimsuit Issue]], in 1999, 2000 and 2001. In addition to her Sports Illustrated shoots, she was the object/subject of Joanne Gair's inaugural body painting works as part of the Sports Illustrated'' Swimsuit Issue.

Notes

External links 

Sports Illustrated's Michelle Behennah Gallery

1977 births
Living people
English female models
People from Hathersage
12th Soviet Antarctic Expedition

The Twelfth Soviet Antarctic Expedition was an expedition by the Soviet Union to Antarctica.

During this expedition, a new method was used for measuring the thickness of the ice cap of Antarctica using radar. Glaciologists on the team surveyed the area around Mirny Station and measured the thickness of the glacier.

The investigations discovered that the central part of the glacial cap in Eastern Antarctica is the largest and most ideal elevated plain in the world. Soviet geologists also did surveys of Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land where they found deposits of coal and iron ore.

References
 Nepomnyashchi, A. (September 1968) "Russians in the Antarctic" in Arctic. 21(3):204–05

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Because the Night (novel)

Because the Night is a crime fiction novel written by James Ellroy.

Released in 1984, it is the second installment of a trilogy that is either titled "Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy" after its main character, or "L.A Noir", after the hardcover omnibus that was released in 2006 containing all three books in the trilogy. 
Like Blood on the Moon (first book) and Suicide Hill (third and final book), it follows Lloyd Hopkins an LAPD robbery-homicide detective in the 1980s.

Plot summary
Because the Night features Hopkins investigating a triple murder at a liquor store. Nothing was stolen, leading Hopkins to suspect that the crime was a thrill killing. His investigation crosses paths with psychiatrist John Havilland, who uses drugs and professional expertise to manipulate a small group of followers into crime and debauchery.

References

1984 American novels
Novels by James Ellroy
Mysterious Press books
Pro-jekt

Pro-jekt are an English rock band who have sometimes described themselves as gothic metal, although it has been noted that they have a darkwave sound. They formed in January 2000, in Derbyshire, England. They engineered and financed their own demo album, and, in August 2001, signed to Nightbreed Recordings Ltd. Pro-jekt released their debut album on Nightbreed Recordings in April 2002. On the live circuit, the band played over 90 performances, including touring with Mortiis and Carl McCoy's side project, The Last Rites. In 2003, Pro-jekt completed a full UK tour and held live dates in Italy, Belgium and France.

After completing the 20 date "Evilution Tour" at Fibbers in York at the end of 2003, the band regrouped back in Derbyshire to start recording their next studio album. However, Shaun Travis was taken ill, and, in February 2004, it was mutually decided that Travis should leave the band.

In July of that year, Pro-jekt signed a new singer, Mick Witham, to lead the band. He quickly got involved in rehearsals and Pro-jekt then featured in the UK Grudge tour, supporting Mortiis. They have toured as part of 'The Unholy Trinity', appeared at the Carnival of Souls, along with an appearance in front of a sell-out crowd at the Lumous Festival in Finland. A song by Pro-jekt also featured on Project Gotham Racing 3.

The band was originally going to be called 'Projekt', but were threatened with legal action from Projekt Records, and so, instead, placed the dash in their name.

Members

Current members
Mick Witham - Vocals
Phil May - Guitars
Alistair Middleton - Synths, Programming

Ex-members
Shaun Travis - Vocals
Kevin Rice - Bass

Discography

Albums
Suicide Disco (2001)
Encryption (2002)
Defiance (2006) 
Reign Of Scars (2009)
Detonation EP (2010) (three tracks)

Other releases
Pro-jekt have also released a DVD called Evilution. It features two music videos and a recorded live show. Also, they have released an EP called Mean Times and appeared on five compilation albums, being Sick Twisted Individual Volume 1, The Gothic Sounds of Nightbreed 4, Kill Your Management Volume 5, Dark Salvation Volume 1 and Sick Twisted Individual Volume 2.

References

English rock music groups
Bjørg Eva Jensen

Bjørg Eva Jensen (born 15 February 1960) is a speed skater from Norway. She had her best year in 1980, when she became junior world allround champion, finished third at the senior allround world championships, and won the 3,000 m event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.

After that she had very few international successes, but she won 15 Norwegian titles, including 8 allround, 4 sprint, and 3 single distance titles. In 2002, aged 42, she won silver on the 5,000 m at the Norwegian Single Distance Championships. She later participated in the 2006 Norwegian Single Distance Championships, aged 45, finishing 12th on the 1,500 m and 7th on the 3,000 m.

Jensen is also a successful bicycle racer and won the Norwegian Championships in both time trial and individual pursuit in 1979. She was awarded the 1980 Egebergs Ærespris for her achievements in speed skating and cycling and was elected Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year that same year.

National titles

Personal records
To put these personal records in perspective, the last column (WR) lists the official world records on the dates that Jensen skated her personal records.

Jensen has an Adelskalender score of 177.190 points. Her highest ranking on the Adelskalender was a 3rd place.

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Eng, Trond. All Time International Championships, Complete Results: 1889 – 2002. Askim, Norway: WSSSA-Skøytenytt, 2002.
 Eng, Trond; Gjerde, Arild and Teigen, Magne. Norsk Skøytestatistikk Gjennom Tidene, Menn/Kvinner, 1999 (6. utgave). Askim/Skedsmokorset/Veggli, Norway: WSSSA-Skøytenytt, 1999.
 Eng, Trond; Gjerde, Arild; Teigen, Magne and Teigen, Thorleiv. Norsk Skøytestatistikk Gjennom Tidene, Menn/Kvinner, 2004 (7. utgave). Askim/Skedsmokorset/Veggli/Hokksund, Norway: WSSSA-Skøytenytt, 2004.
 Eng, Trond and Teigen, Magne. Komplette Resultater fra offisielle Norske Mesterskap på skøyter, 1894 – 2005. Askim/Veggli, Norway: WSSSA-Skøytenytt, 2005.
 Teigen, Magne. Komplette Resultater Norske Mesterskap På Skøyter, 1887 – 1989: Menn/Kvinner, Senior/Junior. Veggli, Norway: WSSSA-Skøytenytt, 1989.
 Teigen, Magne. Komplette Resultater Internasjonale Mesterskap 1889 – 1989: Menn/Kvinner, Senior/Junior, allround/sprint. Veggli, Norway: WSSSA-Skøytenytt, 1989.

External links 
 
 
 Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database
 

1960 births
Living people
Norwegian female speed skaters
Olympic speed skaters for Norway
Olympic gold medalists for Norway
Speed skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Norwegian female cyclists
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Sportspeople from Larvik
Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics
World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists
Pittsburg, Arkansas

Pittsburg is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas, United States. It is located at a latitude of 35.4375 and a longitude of -93.36944 and was named after the industrial heritage of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

External links
Pittsburg, Arkansas description at PlaceNames.com

Unincorporated communities in Johnson County, Arkansas
Thrifty

Thrifty may refer to:

 Thrifty Foods, a Canadian supermarket chain
 Thrifty Drug Stores and Thrifty PayLess, now Rite Aid
 Thrifty phenotype
 Thrifty Rent A Car, part of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group

See also
Affluenza
Anti-consumerism
Conspicuous consumption
Downshifting (lifestyle)
Frugality
Mottainai
Over-consumption
Simple living
Thrift (disambiguation)
Thrift shop
Pittsburg, DeKalb County, Georgia

Pittsburg is an unincorporated place in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States.  It was named after Newton J. Pitts, the original owner of a small, concrete block country store at the intersection of Tucker-Norcross Road and Chamblee-Tucker Road, now known as the community of Pittsburg. It has a latitude of 33.88056 and a longitude of -84.21944, with an elevation of . It also is on the Eastern Continental Divide, between the Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf Of Mexico. The Divide takes a turn north here, towards Norcross GA.

References

External links
Civil War Marker at Pittsburgh

Unincorporated communities in the Atlanta metropolitan area
Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)
Unincorporated communities in DeKalb County, Georgia
Lac Baker (New Brunswick)

Lac Baker (meaning "Lake Baker") is a Canadian lake with an area of 6 km2 located in northwestern New Brunswick on the border with Quebec.

The lake drains to the south through Baker Brook into the Saint John River at the community of Baker Brook.

The northern part of the lake stretches  to the northwest, in the municipality of Saint-Jean-de-Lande in Quebec province. This lake has a central island with a length of  and a maximum width of , counting about fifty chalets.

This lake is supplied in term of water from Kitchen Creek (from the West, i.e. from the Quebec). The mouth of the lake is located on the provincial border in the northwest part of the lake.

The lake is surrounded by a road for cottages arranged around it.

Toponymy

The lake derives its name from John Baker, who founded Baker Brook and subsequently discovered the lake.

See also
List of lakes of New Brunswick

References

External links
Norma Kennedy Plourde - Lac Baker 

Baker
Baker
Landforms of Madawaska County, New Brunswick
Borders of New Brunswick
Borders of Quebec
Red Hot + Bothered

Red Hot + Bothered (also known as  Red Hot + Bothered: The Indie Rock Guide Book to Dating) is an anthology of the indie rock scene from the 1990s produced by Paul Heck. It was released as part of the Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series.

The recording initially appeared as a pair of 10" EP recordings bundled with limited edition fanzines, and spoofing dating guides. Also included was advice from well-known artists and freelancing writers aimed at reaching the jaded youth in the audience on a variety of issues; these include relationships, love, sex and the impact of AIDS on such matters.

The EP recordings were eventually followed-up by a full–length CD which included several tracks absent on the vinyl EP's.

Track listing
"Sensational Gravity Boy" performed by Freedom Cruise
"Still Flat" performed by Built to Spill + Caustic Resin
"The Mirror Is Gone" performed by Lisa Germano
"Mouthwash" performed by Noise Addict
"Indierockinstrumental" performed by Folk Implosion
"Some Fantasy" performed by The Verlaines
"Little League" performed by Liquorice
"Hazmats" performed by Babe The Blue Ox *
"Mainland China" performed by Juicy *
"The Fontana" performed by The Sea and Cake *
"Sotto Voce" performed by Cradle Robbers
"Rex's Blues" performed by Jay Farrar + Kelly Willis
"Empty Yard" performed by Grifters
"Miracleland" performed by East River Pipe
"Snail Trail" performed by Heavenly *
"Hopeless" performed by Future Bible Heroes *
"Servicing Man" performed by Flying Nuns *
"Quietly Approaching" performed by Gastr Del Sol *

* Tracks only available on CD release.

See also
Red Hot Organization

Red Hot Organization albums
1995 compilation albums
Indie rock compilation albums