alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
Vertex pipeline

The function of the vertex pipeline in any GPU is to take geometry data (usually supplied as vector points), work with it if needed with either fixed function processes (earlier DirectX), or a vertex shader program (later DirectX), and create all of the 3D data points in a scene to a 2D plane for display on a computer monitor. 

It is possible to eliminate unneeded data from going through the rendering pipeline to cut out extraneous work (called view volume clipping and backface culling). After the vertex engine is done working with the geometry, all the 2D calculated data is sent to the pixel engine for further processing such as texturing and fragment shading.

As of DirectX 9c, the vertex processor is able to do the following by programming the vertex processing under the Direct X API:

 Displacement mapping
 Geometry blending
 Higher-order primitives
 Point sprites
 Matrix stacks

External links
 Anandtech Article

3D computer graphics
Graphics standards
Misfit (Amy Studt song)

"Misfit" is a song by English singer Amy Studt, released as the second single from her debut album, False Smiles (2003), on 9 June 2003. The song reached number six on the UK Singles Chart and is Studt's most successful single to date. It was also her most successful single internationally, peaking within the top 50 in Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Sweden.

Chart performance
"Misfit" is Studt's most successful single in the UK and internationally, debuting at number six on the UK Singles Chart and staying in the top 75 for 10 weeks. Internationally, "Misfit" reached number 11 in the Netherlands, number 17 in Ireland, number 32 in Sweden, and number 48 in Australia.

Music video
The video was directed by Sophie Muller, who directed the video for her last single Just a Little Girl, and produced by Dawn Rose. The video was filmed at Eagle Rock High School in Los Angeles, California. American actress Danielle Panabaker appears in the video as a schoolgirl.

The video begins with Amy walking to school, before getting tripped up and pushed around when she gets in. She flees to the bathroom, and then imagines herself performing. Then she is shown in a dormitory with her in a nightdress. All the girls are crowding around her, and she doesn't seem to like it so she climbs on top of a cupboard. She is then shown dancing with some other girls imagining herself to be like everybody else, which clearly displeases her. Then she proceeds to dance by herself in her own unique way, until some people in suits drive up to the school, presumably talent scouts, see her and start shooting pictures with her, and the other girls are seen to be crying. At the end she is seen back on top of the cupboard smiling.

Track listings
UK and Australian CD single
 "Misfit" – 3:28
 "Queen A" – 3:40
 "Put Your Faith in Me" – 4:23
 "Misfit" (video) – 3:28

UK cassette single and European CD single
 "Misfit" – 3:28
 "Put Your Faith in Me" – 4:23

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

19 Recordings singles
2003 singles
2003 songs
Amy Studt songs
Music videos directed by Sophie Muller
Polydor Records singles
Songs written by Amy Studt
Songs written by David Eriksen
Songs written by Karen Poole
Heavy Cream

Heavy Cream is a compilation album of material recorded by the British rock band Cream from 1966 to 1969.

Although available in other territories as well, the album was largely released to address the North American market, in order for Polydor Records to leverage Cream's back catalogue; prior to 1972, Polydor had licensed Cream's recordings to Atco/Atlantic Records for North American distribution.  Now out of print, Heavy Cream was available as a double album during the years 1972–76, and was briefly reissued by Polydor's affiliated label RSO Records in 1983.

This double album was also issued simultaneously with 3 other double albums of solo material by Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker all titled: "... At His Best"

With 22 tracks, Heavy Cream is one of the more comprehensive collections of Cream's work, containing over two-thirds of the band's studio recordings.

Writing for Newsday in 1972, Robert Christgau regarded the album as the best of the Cream compilations up to that point.

The album reached  on the Billboard 200.

Track listing

Personnel

Cream
Jack Bruce – Bass guitar on all tracks except "What a Bringdown", keyboards, vocals; acoustic guitar on "As You Said"; harmonica on "Spoonful", "Rollin' & Tumblin, and "Take It Back"
Eric Clapton – Lead guitar, rhythm guitar on all tracks except "Badge", vocals
Ginger Baker – Drums, percussion, vocals

Additional personnel
Felix Pappalardi – Viola on "White Room" and "Deserted Cities of the Heart"; organ pedals on "Passing the Time"; keyboards on "Badge"; bass guitar on "What a Bringdown"
George Harrison – Rhythm guitar on "Badge"

Citation

1972 compilation albums
Cream (band) compilation albums
Polydor Records compilation albums
Ponceau

Ponceau (French for "poppy-colored") may refer to:
 Ponceau 2R (also called Xylidine ponceau or Ponceau G, among other synonyms), azo dye used in histology for staining
 Ponceau 3R, delisted food colorant
 Ponceau 4R (known by more than 100 synonyms), synthetic colourant used as a food colouring (E Number E124)
 Ponceau 6R (Ponceau 6R or Crystal ponceau 6R, among other synonyms), food dye (E number E126) and histology stain
 Ponceau S (also known as Acid Red 112 or C.I. 27195), histology stain
 Ponceau SX, another name for Scarlet GN, once used as a food dye (E number E125)
Tooth, Fang & Claw

Tooth, Fang & Claw is the sixth studio album by the Amboy Dukes, credited as "Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes". The band's second release on DiscReet Records, it was the final album released under the Amboy Dukes name before Ted Nugent launched his solo career the following year.

Composition

AllMusic said that Tooth, Fang & Claw demonstrates "Nugent's further emerging hard rock sound", as well as an intentional shifting away from the blues sound that the Amboy Dukes had displayed on their Polydor recordings and the psychedelia of the band's Mainstream albums; the band does not experiment with their sound on Tooth, Fang & Claw as they had on their previous albums.

Reception

Following this album's release, Ted Nugent moved forward to national and worldwide success. In a retrospective review, AllMusic said that the Amboy Dukes' releases on DiscReet Records "document the forging of a sound and identity", establishing Ted Nugent as "a true rock icon."

Track listing

Personnel
Ted Nugent – Guitar, vocals, percussion
Rob Grange – Bass, vocals, arrangements, composer
Vic Mastrianni – Drums, percussion
Andy Jezowski (and the Crusted Warblers) – Backing vocals

References 

The Amboy Dukes albums
1974 albums
Albums produced by Ted Nugent
DiscReet Records albums
Ted Nugent albums
Forest Hills Local School District

Forest Hills Local School District is a public school district serving the southeasternmost area of Hamilton County, Ohio outside the city of Cincinnati.  The district specifically serves approximately 7,600 students from Anderson Township and the village of Newtown. There are 1,008 staff members working for the district.

The district has been rated excellent or excellent with distinction for the 12 consecutive years based on the State Report Card. It consists of nine schools:

The student progression from elementary to middle to high school in Forest Hills is noteworthy. There are six neighborhood elementary schools, all of which feed Nagel Middle School. Nagel students are then again divided based on their home addresses between the two high schools.  Anderson High School gets all students from Ayer, Maddux and Summit Elementaries.  Turpin gets all students from Wilson and Mercer Elementaries.  Sherwood Elementary students are split between Anderson and Turpin, depending on street address; students on a few designated "swing" streets may choose either high school.

Forest Hills School District has also been the subject of public criticism following their decision to ban "anti-racism" teachings in schools.   Board member Sara Jonas was quoted as saying the measure was brought forward "just to make sure that both sides are always being taught to the students".

References

External links 
 https://web.archive.org/web/20121030164743/http://foresthills.edu/content_page2.aspx?cid=928

School districts in Ohio
Education in Hamilton County, Ohio
Grandadbob

Grandadbob are Vanessa Robinson and Dave Johnson, from Sheffield, UK. Their music consists of electronic house, pop and trip hop. The name Grandadbob comes from Vanessa's grandfather, Robert Porter, who pronounces himself at the end of the track "Monster" on Waltzes for Weirdoes as "The real Grandad Bob". They recorded a radio session for Sheffield's Radio2XS in 2004.

Discography
Waltzes for Weirdoes (2003)
Garden of Happiness (2006)

External links
 Grandadbob on Myspace

Electronic music duos
Ortho-Nitrophenyl-β-galactoside

ortho-Nitrophenyl-β-galactoside (ONPG) is a colorimetric and spectrophotometric substrate for detection of β-galactosidase activity. This compound is normally colorless. However, if β-galactosidase is present, it hydrolyzes the ONPG molecule into galactose and ortho-nitrophenol. The latter compound has a yellow color that can be used to check for enzyme activity by means of a colorimetric assay (at 420 nm wavelength).  β-Galactosidase is required for lactose utilization, so the intensity of the color produced can be used as a measure of the enzymatic rate.

Though ONPG mimics lactose and is hydrolyzed by β-galactosidase, it is unable to act as an inducer for the lac operon. Without another lactose analog that can act as an inducer, such as isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG), β-galactosidase will not be transcribed and ONPG will not be hydrolyzed.

References

Galactosides
Nitrobenzenes
Pervading imitation

Pervading imitation refers to a way of organizing a piece of music in which all voices sing the same melodic material in sequence.

Voices enter one by one at points of imitation and sing the same melodic material although they begin at different pitch levels.

Pervading imitation emerged in the early Renaissance and was widely used by composers like Josquin in Missa pange lingua, and Thomas Crecquillon.

See also

 Round (music)
 Voice crossing
 Voice exchange

Melody
Polyphonic form
Baralipton

In Aristotelian logic, Baralipton (also Bamalip or Bramantip) is a mnemonic word used to identify a form of syllogism. Specifically, the first two propositions are universal affirmative (A), and the third (conclusion) particular affirmative (I)-- hence BARALIPTON. The argument is also in the First Figure (the middle term is the subject of the first premise and the predicate of the second premise), and therefore would be found in the first portion of the full mnemonic poem as formulated by William of Sherwood; later this syllogism came to be considered one of the Fourth Figure.

Generally stated: 
All M is P
All S is M
Therefore some P is S. 

For example,

Every evil ought to be feared.
Every violent passion is an evil.
Therefore, some things that ought to be feared are violent passions.

In traditional Aristotelian logic, Baralipton is just a weakened form of Barbara (where the conclusion is also universal affirmative: All S are P).

According to modern logic, Baralipton commits the existential fallacy.

Term logic
Syllogism
Allen Sothoron

Allen Sutton Sothoron (April 27, 1893 – June 17, 1939) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager.  As a player, he was a spitball pitcher who spent 11 years in the major leagues playing for the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians and the St. Louis Cardinals.  Born in Bradford, Ohio, Sothoron threw and batted right-handed, stood  tall and weighed . He attended Albright College and Juniata College.

Sportswriters frequently misspelled Sothoron's given name (as "Allan") and family name (as "Southern", among other variations) and some sources continue to refer to him as "Allan," although his personal documents show his preference for Allen.

Career
Sothoron broke into the major leagues when the spitball was still legal. His best season came in 1919, when he posted a 20–13 record with a 2.20 earned run average for the Browns, finishing fifth in the American League in wins and ERA.  After the spitball was outlawed following the 1919 campaign, Sothoron at first was not permitted to throw it, then in mid-1920 he was added to a list of 17 spitballers in the majors who were allowed to continue using the banned pitch.  But he was never able to match his 1919 numbers. His pitching career ended in St. Louis with the National League Cardinals, where he played for his first MLB manager, Branch Rickey, and led the NL in shutouts with four in , despite a mediocre 10–16 (3.57) record. During his MLB career, he appeared in 264 games pitched, and allowed 1,583 hits and 596 bases on balls in  innings pitched. He struck out 576 and hurled 102 complete games.

In 1921, sportswriter Bugs Baer came up with this immortal quip: "Allen S. Sothoron pitched his initials off yesterday."

After his playing days, Sothoron managed in minor league baseball, coached for the Cardinals (1927), Boston Braves (1928), and Browns (1932–1933), and with the 1933 Browns he served a brief, eight-game managerial stint after the dismissal of Bill Killefer.  After compiling a win–loss record of 2–6 between July 19 and July 27, he was replaced with hometown favorite Rogers Hornsby.

Sothoron died in St. Louis at age 46 in the middle of the 1939 season after a series of illnesses. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City.

Managerial record

References

External links

1893 births
1939 deaths
Albright Lions baseball players
Baseball players from Ohio
Boston Braves coaches
Boston Red Sox players
Cleveland Indians players
Haverhill Hustlers players
Juniata Eagles baseball players
Louisville Colonels (minor league) managers
Louisville Colonels (minor league) players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) managers
People from Bradford, Ohio
Portland Beavers players
St. Louis Browns coaches
St. Louis Browns managers
St. Louis Browns players
St. Louis Cardinals coaches
St. Louis Cardinals players
Wichita Witches players
Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
Pease Park

Pease Park (officially Pease District Park) is an urban park in central Austin, Texas. Paralleling Shoal Creek west of downtown, the park is frequented by University of Texas at Austin and Long-View Micro School students and, formerly, by disc golf enthusiasts. Every spring it plays host to the annual Eeyore's Birthday Party celebration, a favorite event for Austin's hippie subculture dating back to the 1960s.

History
The parcel of land that is now Pease Park was named after and donated to the city of Austin by Texas Governor Elisha M. Pease and his wife in 1875. The land remained undeveloped until the city and civic organizations cooperated to beautify the park in 1926, building entrance gates, restrooms, and other amenities. Further improvements were made later, including the installation of a group of long concrete picnic tables by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and the construction of a hike-and-bike trail connecting the park to the city's larger trail network in the 1950s.

On October 16, 2019  ground broke on the US$15 million dollar 10 acres Kingsbury Commons, the most significant upgrade to Pease Park in a century, as part of a larger Master Plan. Construction concluded in June 2021.

Eeyore's Birthday Party

Since 1974 Pease Park has hosted Austin's annual Eeyore's Birthday Party event, with music, costumes, games and drum circles. The event is typically attended by thousands, filling the park with activities.

Disc golf course
Pease Park was the site of a popular disc golf course running along Shoal Creek. On January 1, 2011, the park's disc golf course was closed indefinitely due to environmental impact problems.

References

External links

Park Profile at Austin Parks Foundation
UrbanGrounds: Pease Park Disc Golf (with map of the course)
Pease Park on Centxdglove.com (with pictures of each hole)

Parks in Austin, Texas
Urban public parks
Live: In Paradise

Live: In Paradise is a live concert DVD by American dark cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls.

The Dresden Dolls hosted a free concert at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston on June 5, 2005. When a power outage unexpectedly delayed their performance, city streets became a temporary stage for some of the many performers (living statues, stilt-walkers, and fire-breathers) who had come from across the world to entertain audiences. The entire event—both concert and street performances—was filmed and the resulting DVD was released on November 22, 2005.

Track listing 

 "Good Day" – 5:35
 "Missed Me" – 4:49
 "War Pigs" – 11:24
 "Perfect Fit" – 5:40
 "Christopher Lydon" – 4:57
 "Bad Habit" – 3:29
 "Half Jack" – 10:23
 "Girl Anachronism" – 4:39
 "Pierre" – 6:21
 "Truce" – 8:21

 Bonus features

Live at Roskilde Festival, Denmark 2005

 "Coin-Operated Boy" – 5:34
 "Girl Anachronism" – 3:18

Bonus videos

 "Coin-Operated Boy" – 3:43
 "Girl Anachronism" – 3:01
 "A Life in the Day of The Dresden Dolls" (documentary) – 53:54
 Preshow Featurette – 19:37

Personnel 

 Amanda Palmer - vocals, piano
 Brian Viglione - drums, vocals, guitar, bass
 Michael Pope – director
 Zea Barker – production design
 Pierre Lamoureux – producer
 Michael Pope – editor
 Zea Barker - co-editor
 Christopher Lydon – Master of Ceremonies
 Noah Blumenson-Cook – Production Coordinator
 Lee Barron – concert camera operator
 Maria Gambale – concert camera operator
 Michael Hobbs – concert camera operator
 James Holland – concert camera operator
 Wayne Kimball – concert camera operator
 Jake Liman – concert camera operator
 Dave McGlocklin – concert camera operator
 Scott Patterson – concert camera operator
 Robert Beinhocker – assistant camera
 Tom Buehler – camera system assistant
 Ben Vaughn – senior video engineer
 Scott Morabito – film lighting

 Doug Martin – video engineer
 Christina Bryant - art department key
 Jake Flowers – art department crew
 Brian Metzendorf – art department crew
 Davina Yannetty – art department crew
 Stephen Martin – production assistant
 Becca Rosenthal - "Special Thanks"
 Francois Lamoureux – audio producer
 Lonnie Bedell – recording engineer
 Greg Hanawalt – recording assistant
 Joel Simches - live audio
 Dave MacNamara - monitor mix
 Ron Nordin - still photography
 Bona Weiss - still photography
 Sheri Hausey - still photography
 Jeff Wasilko - still photography
 Kyle Cassidy - still photography
 Barnaby Whitfield - cover artwork
 Ben Richter - additional music
 Brian Carpenter / The Beat Circus - additional music

External links 
 Director's official site

Live video albums
2005 live albums
2005 video albums
The Dresden Dolls albums
Roadrunner Records live albums
Roadrunner Records video albums
Huglecus

Huglecus is one of the legendary Danish kings in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. Like Hygelac, he fought against Swedes but he is only given a very short biography.

References

Mythological kings of Denmark
Echo Park (Colorado)

Echo Park is a remote river bottom surrounded by canyon walls on the Green River, just downstream from the confluence with the Yampa River and across the stream from the dramatic southern end of Steamboat Rock in Dinosaur National Monument.

Description
The valley was first mapped and given its name by the Powell Geographic Expedition in 1869. A proposed dam at Echo Park turned into a nationwide environmental controversy in the early 1950s. The Sierra Club and other conservationist groups helped forge a compromise in Congress that eliminated the Echo Park Dam from the Colorado River Storage Project Act of 1956.

See also

 Dinosaur National Monument

References

External references

 Echo Park at Dinosaur National Monument

Geography of Colorado
Geography of Moffat County, Colorado
Dinosaur National Monument
The Edinburgh School

The Edinburgh School refers to a group of 20th century artists connected with Edinburgh. They share a connection through Edinburgh College of Art, where most studied and worked together during or soon after the First World War. As friends and colleagues, they discussed painting and were influenced by one another's work. They were bound together as members of Edinburgh-based exhibition bodies: the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW). They predominantly painted still life and Scottish landscapes, and shared an interest in working both in oil and watercolour.

Art critic Giles Sutherland, writing in The Times, has suggested: "The work of the Edinburgh School is characterised by virtuoso displays in the use of paint, vivid and often non-naturalistic colour and themes such as still-life, seascape and landscape."

The following are generally thought of as Edinburgh School painters.

William Crozier   (1893–1930)
William Geissler (1894–1963)
Sir William Gillies (1898–1973)
Sir William MacTaggart (1903–1981)
John Maxwell (1905–1962)
Sir Robin Philipson (1916–1992)
Perpetua Pope (1916-2013)
Anne Redpath (1895–1965)
Adam Bruce Thomson (1885–1976)

Some other painters associated with Edinburgh may also be called Edinburgh School artists, or a 'new generation' of the Edinburgh School.

Notes

The 'Edinburgh School' refers to a group of artists whose work shares certain characteristics and is not the same as the 'Edinburgh School of Art'. This latter name is quite often used for the college even though it has been officially called Edinburgh College of Art since 1907.

See also
Macmillan, Duncan Scottish Art in the 20th Century 1890–2001 (2001)
Anne Redpath and the Edinburgh School 

20th-century Scottish painters
Edinburgh College of Art
Scottish artist groups and collectives
Artists from Edinburgh

20th century in Edinburgh
Software Star

Software Star is a 1985 game released by Kevin Toms for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.

Gameplay 
This is essentially a text-based management game. The player's task is to manage a software house, create new games, manage publicity and make a profit of £10000. Meanwhile, the player must achieve the status of "Software Star" for ten successive months.

Having a large portfolio of games has its advantages by increasing the player's monthly sales. However, money must be spent on promoting aging titles. Each game has its own quality rating, where the quality increases with the amount of time spent on development. Managing the productivity of the player's staff is also key to the game. The player can view a snapshot of productivity over the last six months and decide to discipline, offer incentives, or take no action. There are four sales regions where the player's products are sold. These regions are ordered from one to four, depending on how much importance they are given based on consulting the sales from the previous month. Public relations is adjusted by choosing Honesty or Hype.  Each decision has an effect on the company's image. Finally, the player will have to evaluate the potential market depending on the time of year and decide how many advertising pages to buy. Markets are larger around Christmas and New Year. It is then time to look at the sales figures as the player's game enters the Top 20.  The player is then given a sales break-even figure and each game climbs the chart if it sells well to the Number One spot.

At the end of the month, the player views a monthly statement showing progress and Stardom rating ranging from Nobody to Software Star. At the end of the year, the directors will check the player's progress. They will fire the player, raise the bar, or give the player another chance.

See also
Millionaire

Reception
Zzap!64 thought the game was a disappointing follow-up to Football Manager, with too little to do for the player and less feeling of control.  It received a rating of 43%.

References

External links

Software Star at GameFAQs

1985 video games
Addictive Games games
Amstrad CPC games
Business simulation games
Commodore 64 games
Europe-exclusive video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
'Aparima

The aparima or Kaparima (Rarotongan) is a dance from Tahiti and the Cook Islands where the mimicks (apa) with the hands (rima) are central, and as such it is close to the hula or Tongan tauolunga. It is usually a dance for groups.
There are two types of aparima: the aparima hīmene (sung handdance) and the aparima vāvā (silent handdance), the latter being performed with music only, and no singing. The music is often played on the guitar or the Tahitian ukulele.

The stories depicted by the dance are taken from daily traditional occupations or ancient myths.

Unlike the other Tahitian dances, this one is more often performed with the dancers dressed in pāreu and maro. It can also (especially the aparima vāvā) be performed seated, much like the Tongan māuluulu.

References
Patrick O'Reilly; La danse à Tahiti (unclear ref)

Dances of Tahiti
Zamaana Deewana

Zamaana Deewana is a 1995 Hindi-language masala flim, produced by G. P. Sippy under the Sippy Films banner and directed by Ramesh Sippy. It stars Shahrukh Khan, Raveena Tandon in pivotal roles, along with Jeetendra, Shatrughan Sinha playing their parents, respectively. The music was composed by Nadeem-Shravan. The film performed poorly at the box office.

Plot
Suraj (Shatrughan Sinha) and Lala (Jeetendra) were good friends before falling prey to the vicious tricks of Sundar (Tinnu Anand), so much so that Lala believes his wife is dead and Suraj is to blame for that. They become the greatest of enemies and create chaos in the city by way of gang wars. Asst. Commissioner of Police (Prem Chopra) has 2 criminal psychologists, KD (Anupam Kher) and Shalini (Kiran Juneja) weave a plot to bring Rahul (Shahrukh Khan), the lively and spirited son of Suraj, close to Priya (Raveena Tandon), the ever-so-graceful and elegant daughter of Lala, hoping to bring the two sides together.

Cast
Jeetendra as Madanlal Malhotra, Priya's father.
Shatrughan Sinha as Suraj Pratap Singh, Rahul's father.
Shahrukh Khan as Rahul Singh / Prem Pujari (dual role)
Raveena Tandon as Priya Malhotra 
Anupam Kher as Kamdev Singh alias K.D.(Criminal Psychologist)
Prem Chopra as Asst. Commissioner of Police.
Tinnu Anand as Sundar
Kiran Juneja as Shalini Srivastav
Neelima Azeem as Nisha
Beena Banerjee as Sarita Malhotra
Aashif Sheikh as Bobby
Sudhir as Gullu - Hitman
Ghanshyam Rohera as Sai-Landowner

Soundtrack
The music of the film was composed by Nadeem-Shravan, while lyrics were written by Sameer.

Track listing

References

External links

1990s Hindi-language films
1995 films
Films directed by Ramesh Sippy
Films scored by Nadeem–Shravan
Hindi films remade in other languages
Indian romantic drama films
Indian action films
Helgo

Helgo, Helgø or Helgö may refer to:

People
 Helgo Zettervall (1831–1907), Swedish architect and professor
 Christine Sagen Helgø (born 1968), Norwegian politician, mayor of Stavanger
 Malene Helgø (born 1999), Norwegian tennis player

Other uses
 Helgo, alternate spelling of Halga, a legendary Danish king
 Helgö, an island in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
 Helgø, full name Helgø Matsenter, a Norwegian supermarket chain

See also
 Helge (disambiguation)
Falco of Benevento

Falco of Benevento (; ) was an Italian-Lombard twelfth-century historian, notary and scribe in the papal palace in Benevento, his native city, where he was born to high-standing parents.  

He is an important chronicler for the years between 1102 and 1139 in the Mezzogiorno.  As an historian, he is not only reliable, as he was often an eyewitness to events he recounts, but also partisan, for he was a Lombard by birth and he fiercely opposed the Normans, whom he saw as barbarians.  He was an opponent of King Roger II of Sicily, and a supporter of Innocent II against Roger's friend Anacletus II.  He was, above all, a patriotic supporter of Benevento.  As a supporter of Innocent II, Falco was exiled from Benevento in 1134.   T.S. Brown writes that Falco demonstrated "a blazing pride in his city and a vitriolic hate of the Normans."  

Parts of his chronicle are now lost, but were apparently used for the year 1099–1103 and 1140–49 in the Chronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum ac de rebus in Apulia gestis.

Editions
Chronicon Beneventanum at The Latin Library. 
Chronicon Beneventanum  at the Centro Europea di Studi Normanni.

References

Sources

D'Angelo, Edoardo (1994). "Giuseppe del Re's 'Critical' Edition of Falco of Benevento's Chronicle," in: 

Norwich, John Julius. The Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194. Longman: London, 1970. 

People from Benevento
Italian chroniclers
12th-century Italian historians
Italian scribes
12th-century Lombard people
Italian notaries
12th-century writers in Latin
Erik Meijer (computer scientist)

Erik Meijer (born 18 April 1963, Curaçao) is a Dutch computer scientist, entrepreneur, and tie-dye enthusiast. From 2000 to early 2013 he was a software architect for Microsoft where he headed the Cloud Programmability Team. He then founded Applied Duality Inc. in 2013. Before that, he was an associate professor at Utrecht University. Since 2015 he has been a Director of Engineering at Facebook. He received his Ph.D. from Nijmegen University in 1992.

Meijer's research has included the areas of functional programming (particularly Haskell)
compiler implementation, parsing, programming language design, XML, and foreign function interfaces.

His work at Microsoft included C#, Visual Basic, LINQ, Volta, and the reactive programming framework (Reactive Extensions) for the .NET Framework.

In 2009, he was the recipient of the Microsoft Outstanding Technical Leadership Award and in 2007 the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award as a member of the C# team.

Meijer lived in the Netherlands Antilles until the age 14 when his father retired from his job and the family moved back to the Netherlands.

In 2011 Erik Meijer was appointed part-time professor of Cloud Programming within the Software Engineering Research Group at Delft University of Technology. He is also member of the ACM Queue Editorial Board. Since 2013 he is also Honorary Professor of Programming Language Design at the School of Computer Science of the University of Nottingham, associated with the Functional Programming Laboratory.

In early 2013 Erik Meijer left Microsoft and started Applied Duality Incorporated. During this period he worked on the Hack language with Facebook, RxJava library with Netflix and Dart language with Google.

On Christmas 2014 Erik Meijer was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia and suffered a close to death experience for which he was hospitalized.

He teaches a course on the MOOC provider Coursera, called "Principles of Reactive Programming", and a course on edX called "Introduction to Functional Programming".

References

External links

 List of Erik Meijer's publications available from DBLP.

1963 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Functional programming
Programming language researchers
Radboud University Nijmegen alumni
Utrecht University alumni
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
Microsoft employees
The Book of Invasions (album)

The Book of Invasions: A Celtic Symphony is the sixth album by the Irish Celtic rock band Horslips. It was a concept album based on an adaptation of Irish legends built into a complex story. It is named for the Lebor Gabála Érenn, a book of Irish mythology known as The Book of Invasions in English. Released in 1976, it is usually considered their best work. It was their only UK top-40 album, peaking at #39. "Trouble (With a Capital T)", "Warm Sweet Breath of Love" and "The Power and the Glory" were released as singles.

The 30th anniversary of this album was celebrated at a small gathering in Dublin organised by Horslips fans and was attended by some band members.

Track listing
The album is divided into three movements: "Geantraí" (tracks 1–8), "Goltraí" (tracks 9–11) and "Suantraí" (tracks 12–14).

Side one
 "Daybreak" (instrumental) – 2:30
 "March Into Trouble" (instrumental) – 0:51
 "Trouble (With a Capital T)" – 3:24
 "The Power and the Glory" – 3:56
 "The Rocks Remain" – 2:49
 "Dusk" (instrumental) – 0:37
 "Sword of Light" – 4:55
 "Dark" (instrumental) – 1:37
Side two
 "Warm Sweet Breath of Love" – 3:26
 "Fantasia (My Lagan Love)" (instrumental) – 2:55
 "King of Morning, Queen of Day" – 4:32
 "Sideways to the Sun" – 4:47
 "Drive the Cold Winter Away" (instrumental) – 0:35
 "Ride to Hell" – 4:07
Expanded CD with bonus tracks
"Daybreak/Drive the Cold Winter Away/Ride to Hell/Sideways to the Sun/Sword of Light" – 18:04
 "The Rights of Man" – 3:56
 "Trouble (With a Capital T)" – 3:20

Personnel

Musicians
Charles O'Connor - fiddle, mandolin, concertina, vocals, cover design
Jim Lockhart - keyboards, flute, whistles
John Fean - guitar, vocals
Barry Devlin - bass, vocals
Eamon Carr - drums, percussion

Technical
Alan O'Duffy - producer, engineer
Robbie McGrath - assistant engineer
Ian Finlay - photography
Eric G. Bannister - art direction
Evelyn Lunney - make-up

External links
http://www.horslips.ie/celtric.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20070929141843/http://www.tuatha.org/horslips/symphony.html

Horslips albums
1976 albums
DJM Records albums
Bright Castle

Bright Castle is a castle near Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland.  The tower house is a Scheduled Historic Monument sited in the townland of Bright, in Down District Council area, on Coniamstown Rd, at grid ref: J5066 3822.

References

See also 
Castles in Northern Ireland

Castles in County Down
Ruined castles in Northern Ireland
Scheduled monuments in Northern Ireland
List of dams of the LCRV

This is a List of dams of the Lower Colorado River Valley. There are many smaller dams, check dams, or diversion dams, that lace the length of the Colorado River.  The major Davis Dam directly downstream of Hoover Dam has the purpose of re-regulating Hoover Dam releases.

The purpose of this list is to accompany the List of lakes of the LCRV (birdwatching). The many lakes of the LCRV, the Lower Colorado River Valley, provide great opportunities for birdwatching, as well as a proximity to other riparian birdwatching habitats.

Major dams

Davis Dam
Parker Dam–The Colorado River Aqueduct exits W to Los Angeles.
Imperial Dam: the majority of the Colorado River exits as the All-American Canal, going to the Imperial Valley in the Calif. desert: Colorado Desert.
Laguna Diversion Dam
Morelos Dam

List of dams--North to South
Davis Dam
Parker Dam
Headgate Rock Dam//Headgate Dam (Moovalya Lake (Muuvaly in Mojave))- at Earp, Calif/Parker
Palo Verde Dam–(no lake)(Diversion Dam)- 4 mi N Ehrenberg/Blythe
Imperial Dam
Laguna Diversion Dam
Morelos Dam–(no lake)

References

External links
Davis Dam:https://web.archive.org/web/20090919010558/http://www.arizonaguide.com/whattodo/DisplayPark.aspx?id=AZDVSDM
Major Facilities on the Lower Colorado River:http://www.lcrmscp.gov/publications/Vol4/O.pdf
History of the Colorado River Indian Tribes:https://archive.today/20110513234423/http://www.postonalliance.org/generalHistory/crit.htm
History of the Colorado River:http://socoloriver.com/index.html

Dams of the Lower Colorado River Valley
lcrv
Alberta Highway 38

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 38, commonly referred to as Highway 38, is a  east–west highway in central Alberta, Canada. It extends from Highway 28 in Redwater to a 'T' junction with Highway 45 north of Bruderheim.

Major intersections 
From west to east:

References 

038
Postage stamps and postal history of Chad

This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Chad.

Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. Chad is divided into three major geographical regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanese savanna zone in the south.

First mails
Regular mail service in Chad began soon after the French occupation of the area, with a post office established at Fort-Lamy in 1905. Additional offices were opened at Abeche (1909), Amm et Timan (1910), Ati (1909), Bousso (1910), Fada (1920), Faya-Largeau (1920), Mandjafa (1910), and Tchekna (1910).

Mail used stamps of French Congo until 1915, then stamps of Ubangi Shari, whose overprints read "OUBANGUI-CHARI-TCHAD".

Overprints

Chad came under civil administration in 1920, and in 1922 received its own stamps, consisting of the issues of Middle Congo overprinted "TCHAD". The initial issue consisted of 18 values ranging from 1 centime to 5 francs. As with Oubangui-Chari, the administrative situation was clarified from 1924 on by the addition of an additional overprint "AFRIQUE EQUATORIALE FRANCAISE". 32 color and value combinations appeared between 1924 and 1933, along with another 9 surcharged with new values.

1930s
In 1930, a set of colorful postage due stamps were the first to be inscribed with the name of the colony, followed by the Colonial Exposition Issue in 1931.

Separate stamps issues came to an end in 1936, after which Chad used the stamps issued for all of French Equatorial Africa.

Independent Chad

In 1959, approaching independence, the country issued its first stamps omitting the letters RF (standing for "République française", French Republic). These included a 15-franc issue depicting a cotton flower, fishers on Lake Chad and the head of an antelope.

Independence in 1960 was not reflected in postage stamps until 1961, when three stamps were issued to celebrate admission to the UN.

See also
 Postage stamps and postal history of Ubangi-Shari
 Postage stamps of French Equatorial Africa

Sources
 Stanley Gibbons Ltd: various catalogues
 Encyclopaedia of Postal Authorities
Rossiter, Stuart & John Flower. The Stamp Atlas. London: Macdonald, 1986.

References

External links
 france-timbres.net

Communications in Chad
Chad
History of Chad by topic
International Meridian

May refer to
 any of the Prime Meridians that have been used, are used, or are proposed
 Greenwich Meridian established by the International Meridian Conference
 IERS Reference Meridian
Out on the Weekend

"Out on the Weekend" is a song written by Neil Young that was the opening song of his 1972 album Harvest.

Music and lyrics
"Out on the Weekend" is a country ballad. Music lecturer Ken Bielen describes it as an "easy-flowing pop song". The Stray Gators provide the backing music. Allmusic critic Matthew Greenwald describes Ben Keith's playing on pedal steel to be a highlight of the song. Young biographer David Downing describes his pedal steel playing as having a "blue-sky purity." According to Greenwald, the music has a "searching, yearning melody that has the element of infinity and journey" that perfectly reflects the theme of the lyrics. Sound on Sound editor Sam Inglis describes the mood of the song as being "one of resignation, perhaps even exhaustion."

The song starts by describing a man getting away from the big city. Although the singer is traveling, he is reflecting on his past with what Downing describes as being "full of joy he can't relate to, floating in a dreamy sort of sadness." The lyrics then take on the theme of lovers who are lonely because they can't connect. Music critic Nigel Williamson describes the lyrics as reflecting an "emotional ambivalence." There is a contrast between comforting images such as a woman who is "so fine she is on [the singer's] mind" and "her big brass bed" and a "brand new day" against images of "a lonely boy" who "can't relate to joy" and is "so down today."

Young recognized this contrast, stating "Even when I'm happy it sounds like I'm not and when I try to say I'm happy I try to disguise it." About the boy who can't relate to joy Young stated that it "just means I'm so happy that I can't get it all out. But it doesn't sound happy. The way I wrote it sounds sad, like I tried to hide it."

Young has stated that this song, as well as "Harvest" and "Heart of Gold" from the same album, were inspired by his then blossoming love for actress Carrie Snodgress.

Reception
Bielen claims "Out on the Weekend" has a "catchy hook" and could have been a hit if it was released as a single. According to music critic Johnny Rogan, the opening line of "Think I'll pack it in and buy a pickup" is one of Young's best expressions of "laid-back star-weariness." Inglis describes it as "a relatively slight song" but acknowledges that it "exemplifies the finesse at the heart of the Harvest sound. Inglis feels that combination of Young's "garage-band aesthetic" with "Nashville professionalism" "worked perfectly" on "Out on the Weekend." On the other hand, in his initial review of the Harvest album, Rolling Stone Magazine critic John Mendelsohn criticized the Stray Gators' playing as a "flaccid imitation" of Young's other backing band of the period, Crazy Horse.

Lady Gaga covered a verse from "Out on the Weekend" within her song "Fooled Me Again, Honest Eyes."

References

1972 songs
Songs written by Neil Young
Neil Young songs
Song recordings produced by Elliot Mazer
Song recordings produced by Neil Young
Tim Weston

Timothy Ian Weston (born 17 January 1982, in Stratford) is a cricket player from New Zealand who plays for Central Districts and Watsonians. He is a right-handed batsman (top score 152*), he also plays for Taranaki in the Hawke Cup. He is a teacher at Francis Douglas Memorial College in New Plymouth and plays for the school team in the Taranaki Premier Grade cricket competition along with Central Districts team-mate Peter Ingram who also teaches at the school.

Weston will be playing for Watsonian Cricket Club in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the 2010 season.

Notes

External links
 
 Watsonian Cricket Club

1982 births
Living people
New Zealand cricketers
Central Districts cricketers
Sportspeople from Stratford, New Zealand
Cricketers from Taranaki
Wicket-keepers
The Amboy Dukes (album)

The Amboy Dukes is the debut studio album by American rock band The Amboy Dukes.  It was released in November 1967 on Mainstream Records.

Composition

The album is noted for containing an energetic recording of Joe Williams' blues standard "Baby, Please Don't Go", as well as covers of Pete Townshend's composition "It's Not True", and Cream's "I Feel Free". AllMusic said that the album fused "the psychedelia of the early Blues Magoos with Hendrix riffs and British pop" and described the song "Colors" as psychedelic hard rock. The publication compared "Down on Philips Escalator" to Syd Barrett-period Pink Floyd, and said that "The Lovely Lady" "almost sounds like the Velvet Underground meets the Small Faces by way of Peanut Butter Conspiracy."

Reception

"Baby, Please Don't Go" was released as a single, with the song "Psalms of Aftermath" as the B-side. Ultimate Classic Rock said that the album received "little, if any, fanfare outside of [the band's] home base of Detroit". AllMusic wrote in a retrospective review that the album is "as essential to the Amboy Dukes' catalog as the non-hit material on Psychedelic Lollipop was to the Blues Magoos, the first album from the Amboy Dukes is a real find and fun listening experience. [...] This is a far cry from Cat Scratch Fever, and that's why fans of psychedelia and '60s music should cherish this early diamond."

Track listing

Personnel

The Amboy Dukes
John (J.B.) Drake – vocals
Ted Nugent – guitar
Steve Farmer – guitar
Rick Lober – piano, organ
Dave Palmer – drums
Bill White – bass

Technical
Bob Shad – producer
John Cue – engineer
Maxine Epstein – album coordinator
Jack Lonshein – cover design

References 

1967 debut albums
The Amboy Dukes albums
Mainstream Records albums
Albums produced by Bob Shad
Carrie Grant

Caroline Vanessa Grant  (née Gray, born 17 August 1965) is an English vocal coach, television presenter and session singer.

Career
Grant is known for her work on the television talent contests Fame Academy, Comic Relief Does Fame Academy, and Pop Idol, and the children's television series Carrie and David's Popshop, together with her husband and colleague David Grant. She first came to fame as a singer in her own right with the pop group Sweet Dreams in 1983, when they represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest that year with the song "I'm Never Giving Up". She was the spokesperson for the UK vote in the 2008 contest. They finished in the top six. In 2009, Grant was featured in the tenth episode of the second series of Total Wipeout.

Since 2010, she has been a regular reporter on BBC One's magazine programme The One Show. In 2012, she appeared on the ITV documentary, The Talent Show Story where she spoke about her time as a judge and coach. In May 2014, it was announced that Grant would be head of the United Kingdom national jury in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. In January 2018, Grant participated in And They're Off! in aid of Sport Relief. In 2020, she appeared in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as Zoe, alongside husband David and Tylan, who regularly portrays Brooke Hathaway in the soap.

In 2023 she was a guest on Channel 5's Eurovision: 30 Unforgettable Moments a chart countdown based on the song contest, with David, a regular music business talking head expert for Channel 5, joining her for the programme.

Personal life 
She and husband David have four children: Olive, Tylan, Arlo and Nathan. All of their children are neurodivergent. Grant and David are both Christian, and run a church plant in their home.

Grant has suffered from Crohn's disease since the age of 18 and has been praised by science education charity Sense about Science for her efforts in raising the profile of the disease without making any scientifically unsound claims about available therapies.
She is a supporter of the Labour Party and addressed its conference in 2012, about why she valued the National Health Service.

Grant is also Patient Lead at The College of Medicine and has spoken at their conferences on involving patients in treatment choices.

Grant was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to music, media and charity.

References

External links 
 
 
 Carrie and David Grant (BBC Radio London)

1965 births
British vocal coaches
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for the United Kingdom
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1983
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Enfield, London
English women singers
English television presenters
Labour Party (UK) people
People with Crohn's disease
Members of the Order of the British Empire
English Christians
Potty Pigeon

Percy The Potty Pigeon (also known simply as Potty Pigeon) is computer game written by Shaun Hollingworth for the ZX Spectrum and published by Gremlin Graphics in 1984. The Commodore 64 version was programmed by Antony Crowther. There are 2 versions of the game. In the C64 version the goal is to fly around and collect sticks to build a nest whereas the Spectrum version required worms collecting and feeding the chicks (although if the player tries to drop an egg on an enemy, they lose the worm). The player can defecate on cars and make them crash.

This game marks the beginning of Ben Daglish as a composer. Although all he did was write the notes for the death tune, this is still the game that got him into composing game music for the Commodore 64.

References

External links
 
 

Gremlin Interactive games
1984 video games
Commodore 64 games
ZX Spectrum games
Video games scored by Ben Daglish
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Cat grass

Cat grass is any grass that is grown specifically for cats, usually indoors. It may be grown in a dish from which the cat chews the grass directly, or just added to cat food. The most common stated benefit is to aid the passing of hairballs. Although cats may display exuberant behaviour when confronted with the grass it has no pharmaceutical influence.

The most common species sold for this purpose is oatgrass (Arrhenatherum elatius). Other suitable species often mentioned are barleygrass (Hordeum vulgare), wheatgrass (Triticum aestivum), intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium) and ryegrass (Lolium perenne), occasionally orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata).

References

Cat health
Grasses