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Sokol, Vologda Oblast

Sokol () is a town in the center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Sukhona River. Population: ; 36,000 (1970).

History
The village of Sokolovo () existed on this location since at least 1615. Since 1796, the village was part of Kadnikovsky Uyezd of Vologda Governorate. In 1897, a paper mill was built near the village and Sokolovo became the primary place of residence of the employees of the mill.

In November 1923, the Vologda Executive Committee decreed to create Sverdlovsko-Sukhonsky District with the administrative center in the settlement of Sokol; however, the decision was not approved by the central authorities, and the district was never created.

On July 15, 1929, the uyezds were abolished, the governorates merged into Northern Krai, and Sverdlovsky District with the administrative center in the work settlement of Sokol was established among others. It became a part of Vologda Okrug of Northern Krai. In 1932, Sokol was granted town status, and the district was renamed Sokolsky.

Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Sokol serves as the administrative center of Sokolsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the town of oblast significance of Sokol (one of the four in the oblast)—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Sokol is incorporated within Sokolsky Municipal District as Sokol Urban Settlement.

Economy

Industry
The town is home to two large paper mills (Sukhonsky Tsellyulozno-Bumazhny Kombinat and Sokolsky Tsellyulozno-Bumazhny Kombinat).

Transportation

Sukhona railway station on the railway connecting Vologda and Arkhangelsk is located in Sokol.

One of the principal highways in Russia, M8, which connects Moscow and Arkhangelsk, crosses Sokolsky District passing Sokol. Other roads connect Sokol with Kharovsk and Ustye. There are also local roads, with the bus traffic originating from Sokol.

Sukhona is navigable in Sokol; however, there is no passenger navigation.

Culture and recreation
Sokol hosts the Sokol District Museum, one of the two museums in Sokolsky District.

International relations

Twin towns and sister cities
Sokol is twinned with:
 Tutayev, Russia
 Valkeakoski, Finland

References

Notes

Sources

Cities and towns in Vologda Oblast
Kadnikovsky Uyezd
Populated places in Sokolsky District, Vologda Oblast
Former urban-type settlements of Vologda Oblast
MEF

MEF may stand for:

Military

 Malaita Eagle Force, a militant organization originating in the island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands
 Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), one of the major deployable subdivisions of the United States Marine Corps; see 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, 3rd Marine Expeditionary Force
 Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
 Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force during the First World War

Organizations
 Mahratta Education Fund, Indian non-profit organisation
 Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change
 Media Education Foundation
 MEF International School Istanbul
 Middle East Forum, an American conservative think tank
 Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas, the Uruguayan ministry of economics and finance
 Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze, the Italian ministry of economics and finance
 Ministry of Environment and Forests, India

Science/technology
 Managed Extensibility Framework, a software plugin framework, written by Microsoft
 Maximum Elevation Figure (flying)
 Maximal expiratory flow, another name for peak expiratory flow in spirometry
 Medial eye fields
 Metro Ethernet Forum
 Modernized e-File (MeF), an electronic system for filing U.S. income taxes
 Modified Energy Factor (Energy Star Rating Value, US Department of Energy (DOE))
 Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast
 Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio collection code
 Myocyte Enhancer Factor (2)
 Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast (MEF) Isolation Enzyme 1
 Multiscale Electrophysiology Format, a data format used in electrophysiology

Transport
 Mei Foo station, Hong Kong, MTR station code
Medial eye fields

Medial eye fields are areas in the frontal lobe of the primate brain that play a role in visually guided eye movement. Most neuroscientists refer to this area as the supplementary eye fields. Eye fields are divided into two hemispheres regulated by sonic hedgehog (Shh) and Six3.

See also
Saccade
Smooth pursuit
Supplementary eye fields

Notes 

Visual system
1792 half disme

The 1792 half disme (pronounced "deem") is an American silver coin with a face value of five cents which was minted in 1792. Although it is subject to debate as to whether this was intended to be circulating coinage or instead an experimental issue, President George Washington referred to it as "a small beginning" and many of the coins eventually were released into circulation. It is widely (although not universally) considered the first United States coinage struck under authority of the Coinage Act of 1792.

Origins
When speaking to the House of Representatives in November 1792, President Washington mentioned the "want of small coins in circulation" and stated that he had begun work on establishing a U.S. Mint and that some half dismes had been produced already. At this point, most of the personnel had been hired, but the Mint's buildings and machinery were not yet ready. As a result, the half dismes, which had been struck in or around July 1792, were produced using the private facilities of local craftsman John Harper, although under the auspices of official Mint personnel. In his personal log book, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson recorded the receipt of 1,500 specimens on July 13.

Because of President Washington's connection with these early coins, numismatic folklore holds that the portrait on the obverse is that of First Lady Martha Washington and that some of the coins were struck using melted-down silverware from the Washington household. However, there is no solid evidence for either of these assertions. To the contrary, evidence uncovered from Thomas Jefferson's memorandum book shows that he provided "75 (Mexican) Silver Dollars" and received the first 1,500 half dismes. He then spent those coins on his trip home to Monticello.

Production, rarity, and value
Although the exact number is not known, it is believed that between 2,000 and 3,500 specimens were produced. Approximately 10% of these survive today; one expert estimated between 250 and 400 half dismes exist, and most appear to have been used in circulation for some time. An about uncirculated (AU55 on the Sheldon coin grading scale) 1792 half disme was auctioned for $138,000 on July 24, 2004.  A 1792 half disme graded MS65 was valued in 2018 on the American reality television series Pawn Stars at $500,000-600,000. A specimen strike from the Starr collection, graded MS67 by PCGS, sold for $1,322,500 on April 26, 2006. The highest numerically graded piece, an NGC MS68, sold for $1,500,000 by private treaty transaction in 2007.

Although nearly all 1792 half dismes were produced in a silver alloy, a unique pattern piece in copper is also known.

See also

Half dime
Nickel (United States coin)
Dime (United States coin)

References

External links
1792 Half Disme Complete History
CoinResource.com - Birch Half Disme 1792

Five-cent coins of the United States
Barry Blanchard

Barry Blanchard (born March 29, 1959) is one of North America's top alpine climbers, noted for pushing the standards of highly technical, high-risk alpine climbing in the Canadian Rockies and the Himalayas.

Climbing accomplishments 
Blanchard was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He first came to note in 1983 with the first ascent of Andromeda Strain on Mount Andromeda in Alberta, Canada with David Cheesmond and Tim Friesen. In 1984, he climbed the North Spur of Rakaposhi, Pakistan with Dave Cheesmond and Kevin Doyle. With David Cheesmond, he climbed the North Pillar of North Twin, Alberta in 1985. Rather than resting on his laurels, he has continued to push the limits of alpinism since, including eight trips to Asia to climb in the Himalayas and Karakoram.

Guiding career 
Blanchard has been involved with Yamnuska Mountain Adventures since its inception in the late 1970s. Blanchard is an internationally certified UIAGM mountain guide.

He helped in the making of Hollywood climbing movies including K2, Cliffhanger and Vertical Limit.

He lives in Canmore, Alberta, with his wife Catherine Mulvihill whom he met on a Mount Everest expedition in 1994, and their family.

Notable ascents
 1983 The Andromeda Strain, Mt. Andromeda, Canada - first ascent with David Cheesmond and Tim Friesen.
 1984 North Ridge of Rakaposhi, Pakistan - first alpine ascent with David Cheesmond and Kevin Doyle.
 1984 East Face (V/VI 5.8 WI5) of Mount Fay, Canadian Rockies, FA with David Cheesmond and Carl Tobin.
 1985 North Pillar of North Twin, Canada - first ascent with David Cheesmond
 1991 North Face of Kusum Kanguru, Nepal - first ascent of route.
 1991 Blanchard-Twight on Les Droites, Mont Blanc Massif, French Alps - hard new route with Mark Twight.
 1999 M-16, East Face of Howse Peak, Canada - first ascent (in winter) with Steve House and Scott Backes.
1999 Pugilist at Rest, (VI 5.10 A3 M5, 1000m), Mount Alverstone, Saint Elias Mountains, Canada. FA with Mark Wilford.
 2000 Infinite Spur on Mount Foraker, Alaska - third ascent with Carl Tobin.
 2002 Infinite Patience on the Emperor Face of Mount Robson - first ascent.

Works
The Calling - A life Rocked by Mountains, for which he was awarded the 2015 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.

See also
The Alpinist, a 2021 documentary in which Blanchard makes an appearance

References

External links 
 Yamnuska Mountain Adventures
 Ambassador of Patagonia

1959 births
Living people
Canadian mountain climbers
Sportspeople from Calgary
People from Banff, Alberta
Ice climbers
Public holidays in Myanmar

16 distinct public holidays are observed in Myanmar.

Public holidays

References

External links
 2016 Public Holidays in Myanmar

Myanmar
Burmese culture
Observances set by the Burmese calendar
Holidays
Public holidays in Myanmar
The Panama Deception

The Panama Deception is a 1992 American documentary film, critical of the 1989 United States invasion of Panama.

The film was directed by Barbara Trent, written and edited by David Kasper, and narrated by actress Elizabeth Montgomery. It was a production of the Empowerment Project, and won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Summary 
The film recounts the events which led to the invasion, the death and destruction caused by the invasion, and the aftermath. The film is critical of the actions of the United States Armed Forces. It also highlights the media bias within the United States, showing events that were unreported or systematically misreported, including downplaying of the number of civilian casualties. The film also argued that the true purpose of the invasion was to prevent the then-scheduled retrocession of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama as agreed in the Torrijos–Carter Treaties, rather than the stated justification of removing Manuel Noriega from power due to his indictment in U.S. courts on racketeering and drugs trafficking charges. Panama ultimately gained full control over the Canal Zone on December 31, 1999, fulfilling the terms of the Torrijos-Carter agreements.

The film states that the U.S. government invaded Panama in order to destroy the PDF, the Panama Defense Forces, which were perceived as a threat to U.S. control over Panama, and install a government which would be friendly to U.S. interests. The film includes footage of what are claimed to be mass graves uncovered after the American troops had withdrawn and footage of burned-down neighborhoods, refers to the alleged use of experimental weapons including supposed secret laser weapons, and presents depictions of some of the 20,000 refugees who fled the fighting.

Production 
The documentary was completed on a $300,000 budget provided by funding from Channel 4, Rhino Entertainment, J. Roderick MacArthur Foundation, the Rex Foundation, the Peace Development Fund, the National Council of Churches, the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, the Vanguard Public Foundation, Michael Moore, and other donors.

The film was banned in Panama, and in the United States the Public Broadcasting Service banned it from being broadcast. Several individual PBS member stations such as WNYC-TV, WGBH-TV, and KQED-TV defied the ban to broadcast it anyway.

See also 
 Politico-media complex

References

External links 
The Panama Deception at the Empowerment Project 
Watch The Panama Deception at the C-SPAN Video Library

 
 

1992 films
American independent films
Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
Documentary films about American politics
Documentary films about journalism
Documentary films about war
American documentary films
George H. W. Bush administration controversies
Films about the United States Marine Corps
Panama–United States relations
United States invasion of Panama
Films shot in Panama
Documentary films about Latin America
Documentary films about war crimes
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
Thomas Maria Renz

Thomas Maria Renz (born December 9, 1957 in München) is a German theologian and, since April 29, 1997, an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and the Titular Bishop of Rucuma.

Renz was ordained for the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart in Rome in 1984.  Then, he worked as a Reverent in Bad Saulgau. At 39, he was the youngest participant of the German Bishops Conference.  On account of his uncomplicated manner, he is called the "Bishop of Youth."

References

1957 births
Living people
German Roman Catholic titular bishops
Auxiliary bishops
In-vessel composting

In-vessel composting generally describes a group of methods that confine the composting materials within a building, container, or vessel.  In-vessel composting systems can consist of metal or plastic tanks or concrete bunkers in which air flow and temperature can be controlled, using the principles of a "bioreactor". Generally the air circulation is metered in via buried tubes that allow fresh air to be injected under pressure, with the exhaust being extracted through a biofilter, with temperature and moisture conditions monitored using probes in the mass to allow maintenance of optimum aerobic decomposition conditions.

This technique is generally used for municipal scale organic waste processing, including final treatment of sewage biosolids, to a stable state with safe pathogen levels, for reclamation as a soil amendment. In-vessel composting can also refer to aerated static pile composting with the addition of removable covers that enclose the piles, as with the system in extensive use by farmer groups in Thailand, supported by the National Science and Technology Development Agency there. In recent years, smaller scale in-vessel composting has been advanced.  These can even use common roll-off waste dumpsters as the vessel.  The advantage of using roll-off waste dumpsters is their relatively low cost, wide availability, they are highly mobile, often do not need building permits and can be obtained by renting or buying.

Evaluation is ongoing with regard to the health risks associated with compost derived from sewage biosolids—including identifying safe levels of contaminates such as PFASs ("forever chemicals").
 
Offensive odors are caused by putrefaction (anaerobic decomposition) of nitrogenous animal and vegetable matter gassing off as ammonia. This is controlled with a higher carbon to nitrogen ratio, or increased aeration by ventilation, and use of a coarser grade of carbon material to allow better air circulation. Prevention and capture of any gases naturally occurring (volatile organic compounds) during the hot aerobic composting involved is the objective of the biofilter, and as the filtering material saturates over time, it can be used in the composting process and replaced with fresh material.

A more advanced systems design is able to limit the odor issues considerably, and it is also able to raise the total energy and resource output by integrating in-vessel composting with anaerobic digestion. Through anaerobic decomposition it is also possible to reduce pathogen levels similarly to that of traditional aerated composting when the anaerobic bioreactors operate at thermophilic temperatures, between 41 and 122 °C (106 and 252 °F).§

Gallery

See also 
Aerated static pile composting
Anaerobic digestion
Compost
List of solid waste treatment technologies
Mechanical biological treatment
Waste management
Windrow composting

References

Industrial composting
Waste treatment technology
Natalie Price

Natalie Price may refer to:

 Natalie Evans, a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
 Natalie Price (politician), a member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Andrzej Trzebicki

Andrzej Trzebicki (23 November 1607 – 28 December 1679) was a nobleman and priest in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.  Vice-chancellor of the Crown from 1652, bishop of Przemyśl since 1655, bishop of Kraków since 1658.

Loyal to king Jan Kazimierz Vasa, accompanied him during his exile and eventual return in The Deluge. Enemy of Protestants, his influence contributed to the exile of Polish brethren in 1658.

Ecclesiastical senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1607 births
1679 deaths
Bishops of Przemyśl
Bishops of Kraków
Canons of Gniezno
17th-century Polish nobility
17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Crown Vice-Chancellors
Toula

Toula may refer to:
 Toula, Batroun a village in the district (Qada') of Batroun in Lebanon
 Toula, Burkina Faso
 Toula, Zgharta, a village in the district (Qada') of Zgharta in Lebanon
 Toula (Vava'u), a village on the main island of Vavau in the kingdom of Tonga
 Tula, Russia, an industrial city in Russia
 Toula Grivas (born 1943)
 Toula Portokalos, a character in the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding
 Toula, a character from the Australian TV series Pizza
Norton Zinder

Norton David Zinder (November 7, 1928 – February 3, 2012) was an American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction.  Zinder was born in New York City, received his A.B. from Columbia University in 1947, Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1952, and became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969. He led a lab at Rockefeller University until shortly before his death.

In 1966 he was awarded the NAS Award in Molecular Biology from the National Academy of Sciences.

Genetic transduction and RNA bacteriophage

Working as a graduate student with Joshua Lederberg, Zinder discovered that a bacteriophage can carry genes from one bacterium to another.  Initial experiments were carried out using Salmonella.  Zinder and Lederberg named this process of genetic exchange transduction.

Later, Zinder discovered the first bacteriophage that contained RNA as its genetic material. At that time, Harvey Lodish (now of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research) worked in his lab.

Norton Zinder died in 2012 of pneumonia after a long illness.

References

Further reading
Papers authored by Norton Zinder
Laboratory of Genetics at Rockefeller University
Historical plaque at UW–Madison noting Zinder's contribution to molecular genetics
Biography of Norton Zinder

1928 births
2012 deaths
American microbiologists
Rockefeller University faculty
The Bronx High School of Science alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Phage workers
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Human Genome Project scientists
Scientists from New York City
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Softball at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Women's softball made its first appearance as an official medal sport at the 1996 Summer Olympics.  The competition was held at historic Golden Park in Columbus, Georgia, United States.  Final results for the Softball competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics:

Medalists

Participants

Competition format
Eight teams competed in the Olympic softball tournament, and the competition consisted of two rounds. The preliminary round followed a round robin format, where each of the teams played all the other teams once. Following this, the top four teams advanced to a Page playoff system round consisting of two semifinal games, and finally the bronze and gold medal games.

Group stage

The top four teams advanced to the semifinal round.

July 21

July 22

July 23

July 24

July 25

July 26

July 27

Medal round
The loser of 1&2 seed game played the winner of the 3&4 seed game in the bronze medal match. The loser of the bronze medal match won the bronze medal while the winner went on to play the winner of the 1&2 seed game for the gold medal in the gold medal match.

Semi finals

Bronze medal match
Winner advanced to gold medal match. Loser won bronze medal.

Gold medal match

Final team standings

References
 Official Olympic Report

1996 Summer Olympics events
1996
Olympics
1996 in softball
Softball competitions in the United States
Women's events at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Ed Buckham

Edwin A. Buckham is Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. He is a longtime congressional staffer and former lobbyist.

He served as chief of staff to then Majority Whip Tom DeLay from approximately 1995 to 1998. Buckham had run the House Republican Study Committee in the early 1990s, while Tom DeLay was the Committee's Chairman, where Buckham hired Jim Backlin, also of Maranatha Campus Ministries, now Vice President for Legislative Affairs for the Christian Coalition previously run by Ralph Reed. He was a lobbyist for the American Traffic Safety Services Association from 2004-2005. 	

Buckham is a lay (non-ordained) evangelical minister, who served as an elder of the Washington D.C. chapter of the controversial and politically active church Maranatha Campus Ministries, and later later as a deacon of a small church in Frederick, Maryland.

Abramoff scandal 	 
Most of the $3.02 million in revenues of the U.S. Family Network came from clients of Jack Abramoff. $1,022,729 of that money was then paid by USFN to Buckham and his wife, Wendy, during a five-year period ending in 2001, via their lobbying firm, the Alexander Strategy Group. 	 

In January 2006 Buckham closed Alexander Strategy Group, and left the lobbying business. Buckham said that the company was fatally damaged by publicity from the federal investigation into the affairs of Abramoff.

References

External links
 George Loper, "Elections 2000: National Republican Congressional Committee Funds National Right to Life Committee and U.S. Family Network," Loper.org, December 1999.
"GOP group pays $280,000 campaign fine," Associated Press (MSNBC), April 9, 2004.
"NRCC busted for illegal 'soft money' donations," The Carpetbagger Report, April 9, 2004.
"Political Contributions by DeLay Alumni During the 2003-2004 Election Cycle," Tech Politics (CQ Weekly, Federal Election Commission downloaded March 2005.)

American lobbyists
American evangelicals
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Political chiefs of staff
United States congressional aides
Maryland Republicans
Georg Moser

Georg Moser (10 June 1923 – 9 May 1988) was a German Catholic Bishop. He was the Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

Moser was born in Leutkirch in the Allgäu. After studying theology at the University of Tübingen from 1942 to 1947, he entered the priesthood in 1948. Moser earned his doctorate at the same university in 1962.  On 14 November 1970 he was consecrated bishop in Stuttgart, and on 25 February 1975 he became Bishop of Rottenburg (in 1978 the diocese was renamed Rottenburg-Stuttgart). Moser died in Stuttgart at the age of 65 after a long, difficult illness.

1923 births
1988 deaths
Roman Catholic bishops of Rottenburg
20th-century German Roman Catholic bishops
People from Leutkirch im Allgäu
University of Tübingen alumni
20th-century German Roman Catholic priests
Woodville, Ontario

Woodville is a community in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.  It is located west of Lindsay. The population is 718 (2021).

History
Known in the late 19th century as Irish Corners, the name of the town was changed to Woodville after the completion of the post office under postmaster John Morrison. In 1871 the Toronto and Nipissing Railway was built through the flourishing settlement and in 1878 Woodville became a police village, and incorporated in 1884.

Woodville had a town hall, lock-up, grist-mill, two foundries, a cheese factory, planing mill and sash and door factory, a number of dry goods stores, mechanics' shops, and three hotels. It also had its own brick school house, with two teachers, and two churches – one Presbyterian, the other Methodist. Today, the cheese factory, rail station, gristmill, mechanics shops, and hotels have all been shut down.

Woodville now is home to two restaurants, one variety store, a post office, a curling rink and arena, two baseball diamonds and a newer school, first built in 1923.

Geography
A two and one-half kilometres (one and a half miles) to the east of Woodville is an auction barn which was opened in 1961 by Norman MacIntyre and his family.

The local post office on King St. serves locals with lock boxes.

Demographics 
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Woodville had a population of 718 living in 275 of its 295 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of 826. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

Notable people
 Malcolm Bruce Jackson, politician
 Billy McGimsie, hockey hall of famer who played for the Stanley Cup-winning Kenora Thistles
 Adam Rogers, CFL player
 Tom Thornbury, NHL player
 James Barker, country musician

See also

 List of unincorporated communities in Ontario

References

Former villages in Ontario
Designated places in Ontario
Communities in Kawartha Lakes
Flat rated

When an engine is flat rated it means that an engine of high horsepower rating is constrained to a lower horsepower rating. The engine output in this case will always remain the same, but when atmospheric conditions such as high temperatures and high altitude ("hot and high") reduce the power output of the engine it has more headroom before it falls below the limited maximum output. In some cases the total power output of an engine needs to be constrained because the airframe can only handle a certain force. This is the case with gas turbine engines. Flat rating allows airplanes to operate under more demanding conditions, without the need for extra structural strengthening due to higher peak power output of the engine.

For example, the Garrett AiResearch TPE-331-5 engine originally fitted on the Dornier 228 produces . If the outside air temperature is above 20°C, the airplane's maximum speed is reduced by approximately 10 knots (19 km/h), because hotter air is less dense and thus produces less pressure inside the turbine. The Dornier 228 can also be fitted with the Garrett AiResearch TPE-331-10 conversion of the -5 engine which produces  but is limited (flat rated) to only 715. In this case the airplane will be able to maintain its top speed at temperatures above 30°C without the risk of exceeding the airplane's structural limits.

External links
Honeywell Aerospace
TPE 331 Engine Conversions
Dornier 228 Information Center

Aircraft engines
Special Engineer Detachment

The Special Engineer Detachment (SED) was a US Army program that identified enlisted personnel with technical skills, such as machining, or who had some science education beyond high school. Those identified were organized into the Special Engineer Detachment, or SED. SED personnel began arriving at Los Alamos in October 1943. By August 1945, 1800 SED personnel worked at Los Alamos. These troops worked in all areas and activities of the Laboratory, including the Trinity Test, and were involved in overseas operations on Tinian.

References

Sources

Further reading

External links
Special Engineer Detachment - "Scientists in Uniform" at childrenofthemanhattanproject.org

Manhattan Project
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative

The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) is a digital humanities initiative involving numerous academic professors and institutions around the world with the stated goal of creating a networked digital atlas by creating tools and setting standards for dynamic, digital maps.

ECAI was established in 1997 by Emeritus Prof. Lewis Lancaster of the University of California, Berkeley, and has held two meetings per year most years from 1998 - 2009 (ongoing), one of which is often in conjunction with the Pacific Neighbourhood Consortium. The initiative is based at UC Berkeley.

The ECAI 'clearinghouse' of distributed digital datasets was developed from 1998 by the Archaeological Computing Laboratory at the University of Sydney, and uses the ACL's TimeMap software.

See also
GIS
Wikimaps

External links
http://www.ecai.org/
 Historical Geographic Information Systems Online Forum on Google

Cartography organizations
Geographic information systems organizations
Digital humanities
Historical geographic information systems
University of California, Berkeley
Research institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area
Digital humanities projects
1997 establishments in California
Ashley Ambrose

Ashley Avery Ambrose (born September 17, 1970) is a former professional American football cornerback for several National Football League (NFL) teams during the 1990s and early 2000s who most recently served as the cornerbacks coach at the University of Colorado. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the second round of the 1992 NFL Draft.

Ambrose was hired as a defensive technical intern for the Colorado football team's 2008 season. In May 2009, head coach Dan Hawkins announced that Ambrose would take over as the wide receivers coach in 2010, but after the departure of Greg Brown, Ambrose took over the defensive backs. From 2011 to 2012, he was the secondary coach at University of California, Berkeley.  In 2013, he spent the season with the New Orleans Saints in the NFL as a minority intern.  In 2014, he coached cornerbacks at the University of Idaho and moved on to Texas State University in 2015 before being hired by Boise State University in January 2016.

References

1970 births
Alcee Fortier High School alumni
American Conference Pro Bowl players
American football cornerbacks
Atlanta Falcons players
Boise State Broncos football coaches
California Golden Bears football coaches
Cincinnati Bengals players
coaches of American football from Louisiana
Colorado Buffaloes football coaches
Idaho Vandals football coaches
Indianapolis Colts players
Living people
Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football players
New Orleans Saints players
Players of American football from New Orleans
Texas State Bobcats football coaches
Joanna Going

Joanna Catherine Going (born July 22, 1963) is an American actress known for the television series Kingdom, House of Cards, Mad Men and the movie Wyatt Earp.

Early life 
Going's father was of Irish descent, and her mother of Italian and French-Canadian.

Career 
Going appeared in soap operas in the late 1980s, most notably as Lisa Grady on Another World from 1987 to 1989. She portrayed lead character Victoria Winters in the 1991 primetime series Dark Shadows. She later starred in short-lived television series Going to Extremes and guest-starred on Columbo, Spin City, The Outer Limits and Law & Order.

She starred in a number of feature films. She made her film debut in Wyatt Earp (1994) as Josephine Marcus, and later had major roles in Eden, Keys to Tulsa, Inventing the Abbotts, and Still Breathing. Her biggest role may be in the 1998 film version of Phantoms. In the 2000s, she starred in several television films and guest-starred on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Minds, and Mad Men. She also appeared opposite Sean Penn in the 2011 film The Tree of Life, her first role in a major motion picture since 2003's Runaway Jury. In 2014, she starred as First Lady Tricia Walker in the second season of Netflix political series House of Cards. She was later cast in the DirecTV series Kingdom.

Going was a guest on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor podcast on March 25, 2016.

Personal life 
Going married actor Dylan Walsh on October 10, 2004. They have a daughter, Stella Haven. On December 15, 2010, Walsh announced he had filed for divorce; the divorce was finalized in December 2012.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links 

 

1963 births
Living people
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Rhode Island
Actresses from Washington, D.C.
American Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
American film actresses
American people of French-Canadian descent
American people of Irish descent
American people of Italian descent
American television actresses
Emerson College alumni
People from Newport, Rhode Island
Dougie Thomson

Douglas 'Dougie' Campbell Thomson (born 24 March 1951) is a Scottish musician, born in Glasgow and raised in the Rutherglen area of the city. He was the bass guitarist of progressive rock band Supertramp during much of the Seventies and Eighties.

Career
Thomson's musical career began in August 1969, when he joined a local Glaswegian band "The Beings". 
In September 1971 he joined The Alan Bown Set where he briefly worked with future Supertramp colleague, John Helliwell. In February 1972, Thomson auditioned for Supertramp, and ended up playing several gigs as a temporary stand-in.

In 1973, Thomson permanently joined Supertramp and helped in the business management with Dave Margereson; he also persuaded John Helliwell to join the band.

Thomson played with Supertramp on all of their most famous albums: Crime of the Century, Crisis? What Crisis?, Even in the Quietest Moments..., Breakfast in America, Paris, ...Famous Last Words..., Brother Where You Bound and Free as a Bird.

On the back cover of Breakfast in America was a photograph showing Thomson reading the Glasgow Herald.

Thomson was a member of Supertramp until the band went on hiatus in 1988; He didn’t return to the band once the hiatus ended. Dougie Thomson played a Music Man StingRay, a Rickenbacker 4001 and a Fender Jazz Bass during his time with Supertramp.

He has since become a publisher in the music business, creating Trinity Publishing, and worked with a Chicago, Illinois management company.

Thomson has four children, Laura, James, Kyle and Emma. Kyle Thomson played one game of football for Scottish football club Greenock Morton in 2018.

Thomson is the older brother of Ali Thomson.

References

External Links
 
 

1951 births
Living people
Scottish bass guitarists
Supertramp members
Musicians from Glasgow
People from Rutherglen
Scottish expatriates in the United States
People from Park Ridge, Illinois
The Alan Bown Set members
National Mobile Television

National Mobile Television (NMT) was a Los Angeles-based television broadcasting industry corporation that operated a fleet of mobile television units.

Then known as Northwest Mobile Television, NMT was founded by Stan Carlson and Stimson Bullitt in 1968 and operated as a division of the King Broadcasting Company in Seattle, Washington.  In 1992 when King was sold to the Providence Journal, NMT was spun off as an independent entity. It was acquired by Oaktree Capital Management in 1997.

On March 23, 2009 NMT went into receivership and closed its doors.

See also
 Outside broadcasting

References

External links
Official website—

Television companies of the United States
Entertainment companies based in California
Companies based in Los Angeles
Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Mass media companies established in 1968
Companies disestablished in 2009
Oaktree Capital Management media holdings
Kanakagiri

Kanakagiri (also known as Suvarnagiri) is a town in Karnataka state of India. It was a provincial capital of the Mauryan Empire and later became the capital of the Nayaka dynasty who were the Palegars (feudatory) of the Vijayanagara Empire.
 It is also the site of the historical site Kanakachalapathi Temple (Kanakachalapathi Mandir) which was built by the Nayakas.

Geography 
Kanakagiri is situated in Koppal district, 20 km northwest of the town of Gangavati in the Indian state of Karnataka.

Temple

Kanakachalapathi temple was built by the Nayakas of Kanakgiri. Its halls and pillars are a unique example of south Indian architecture from the Vijayanagara period. The gopuras and walls are adorned with sculptures, including statues of Rajas and Ranis in black polished stone, plaster models, and wooden statues of mythological figures.

Kanakagiri Jain tirth is a complex of Jain temple built by Western Ganga Dynasty in the 5th or 6th century.

A royal bath constructed by Raja Venkatappa Nayaka in 1586 sits on the outskirts of Kanakgiri.

Fort
Hemagudda Fort, about 20 km from Kanakagiri is next to the Kammatadurga Fort of Gandugali Kumara Rama. The fort was constructed in the 14th century. The fort has a temple of Durga Devi celebrating Dasara.

Utsav
Kanakagiri Utsav is an annual fair associated with the Kanakachalapathi temple during Phalguna.

Gallery

See also
 Kanakagiri Jain Shri kshetra
 Temples of North Karnataka
 Vijayanagara Empire
 List of Vijayanagara era temples in Karnataka
 Vijayanagara architecture
 Mauryan Empire
Hampi
Anegondi
Karatagi
Gangavathi
Koppal
Karnataka

References 

Cities and towns in Koppal district
Tourism in Karnataka
Hindu temples in Koppal district
Vijayanagara Empire
Christine Becker

Christine Becker was a member of the first United States women's sabre team to ever win the World Championship title (2000).

Becker is a member of the U.S. National women's sabre team, and president of the Oregon Fencing Alliance. She is coached by U.S. National coach Ed Korfanty.

References 

American female sabre fencers
Sportspeople from Oregon
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
Acidophobe

An acidophobe is an organism that is intolerant of acidic environments. The terms acidophobia, acidophoby and acidophobic are also used. The term acidophobe is variously applied to plants, bacteria, protozoa, animals, chemical compounds, etc. The antonymous term is acidophile. 

Plants are known to be well-defined with respect to their pH tolerance, and only a small number of species thrive well under a broad range of acidity. Therefore the categorization acidophile/acidophobe is well-defined. Sometimes a complementary classification is used (calcicole/calcifuge, with calcicoles being "lime-loving" plants). In gardening, soil pH is a measure of acidity or alkalinity of soil, with pH = 7 indicating the neutral soil. Therefore acydophobes would prefer pH above 7. Acid intolerance of plants may be mitigated by lime addition and by calcium and nitrogen fertilizers.

Acidophobic species are used as a natural instrument of monitoring the degree of acidifying contamination of soil and watercourses. For example, when monitoring vegetation, a decrease of acidophobic species would be indicative of acid rain increase in the area. A similar approach is used with aquatic species.

Acidophobes
Whiteworms (Enchytraeus albidus), a popular live food for aquarists, are acidophobes.
Acidophobic compounds are the ones which are unstable in acidic media.
Acidophobic crops: alfalfa, clover

References

Physiology
Blanca Soto

Blanca Delfina Soto Benavides  is a Mexican actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Nuestra Belleza Mundo México 1997.

Career
Soto competed in the national beauty pageant Nuestra Belleza México in 1997, representing her home state of Nuevo León. That same year, Soto became Miss Mexico World and represented her country in the international beauty contest Vina Del Mar in Chile.

Soto's first role as an actress was in the short film La Vida Blanca, which she co-produced with then-husband Jack Hartnett, who wrote and directed as well. For the role, she received her first award for Best Actress. Soto then had supporting roles in films such as: "Divina Confusion", Deep in the Valley and Dinner for Schmucks. She starred in Venevisión's telenovelas in collaboration with Univision; Eva Luna (2010–2011) as Eva Gonzalez and El Talismán (2012) as Camila Nájera. Soto starred with Fernando Colunga in Juan Osorio's telenovela; Porque el amor manda which was broadcast in Mexico from 2012 to 2013.

She appeared in Billy Currington's music video "Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right" (winner of sexiest video of the year at the CMA). As a model, Soto has been featured in advertisements for GAP, LensCrafters, Venus Swimwear, Avon, Andrea, Charriol, Foley's, Yellowbook, Zara, Garnier and Budweiser.

Personal life
Soto married American actor Jack Hartnett in 2006. She announced their separation on 17 November 2011 on her Twitter account.

Filmography

As producer

Films

Television

Theater

Credits as a dubbing actress

Appearances in music videos

Awards and nominations

Other awards and recognitions

References

External links
 Official Twitter page of Blanca Soto
 

1979 births
Living people
Mexican telenovela actresses
Mexican film actresses
Mexican stage actresses
Mexican voice actresses
Mexican female models
Actresses from Monterrey
20th-century Mexican actresses
21st-century Mexican actresses
Miss World 1997 delegates
Nuestra Belleza México winners
Beauty pageant contestants from Monterrey
Charlotte Green (fencer)

Charlotte "Sherry" Green (born July 1938 in Tampa, Florida, United States) is an American fencer.

Green learned to fence at the Oregon Fencing Alliance in Portland, Oregon. Her teachers there included Adam Skarbonkovic, Charles Randall, and Ed Korfanty. She was a member of the 2005 US National Veterans fencing team and came in fifth at the 2005 World Championships. In 2006, she was the top-ranked female sabre fencer in the Veterans 60+ category.

References

External links
 
 USA Veterans Fencing

1938 births
American female sabre fencers
Living people
Fencers from Portland, Oregon
21st-century American women
SEF

SEF may refer to:

 Sankara Eye Foundation, a non-profit that works for eradicating curable blindness in India
 Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras, Portuguese Border and Alien Service
 Sinfonia Educational Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity
 Small Enterprise Foundation, a microfinance institution operating primarily in the Limpopo province of South Africa
 South Eastern Freeway, a Freeway in Australia
 Special Emergency Force, A Saudi Arabian riot control and counter-terrorism force
 Spectral edge frequency, a measure used in signal processing
 Stadio Erinis & Filias, the Greek name for Peace and Friendship Stadium, an indoor sports arena in Athens
 Straits Exchange Foundation, a semi-official organization of Taiwan that deals with the business matters with China
 Supplementary eye fields, areas in the primate brain that are involved in planning and control of saccadic eye movements
 Swap Execution Facility, a platform for regulated trading and clearing of swaps to be required in the United States by the Dodd-Frank bill
 Swedish Elite Football
 Swedish Electricians' Union, a trade union in Sweden
 Seaford railway station (England), a railway station in Sussex, England

See also:

 Sef, Iran (disambiguation)
 Sef Gonzales, Asian-Australian murderer
Hramada

Hramada (, , sometimes also wrongly spelled as gramada or confused for the Ukrainian word hromada or Polish word gromada) is a Belarusian word that means "gathering of people", i.e., "assembly". Historically a hramada was meant as a peasant commune, which gathered meetings for discussing and resolving current issues.

Historically the word was often used in names of Belarusian leftist political parties.

Historical political parties:

 Belarusian Socialist Assembly
 Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Union

Modern political parties:

 Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Assembly)
 Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly
 Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly)

See also
 Hromada
 Gromada

Politics of Belarus
Belarusian words and phrases
Mälarhöjden/Bredäng Hockey

Mälarhöjden/Bredäng Hockey (often referred to as MB Hockey or MB) is an ice hockey club based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Founded: 1988
Arena: SDC-hallen (capacity 850)
Uniform colours: Red, white
Logo design: "MB" in red with white and blue trim in a stylized white maple leaf with red and blue trim
Swedish women's championships won: 7 (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006) 


History
Named after the districts where it is located, the club was founded in 1988 through a merger between Mälarhöjden/Västertorp and Bredäng/Östberga hockey clubs.

Until the 2006-07 season MB Hockey had sections for both men's and women's ice hockey, and while the men's team has never reached higher than the 3rd tier league, the women's team playing in the top level league established itself as one of the most successful in the nation, winning seven Swedish championships in eight years.

Before the start of the 2006-07 season the club decided to cancel their programme for women's hockey and a majority of the players went on to play for neighbouring Segeltorps IF.

Notable players
The most notable players on MB Hockey's women's team included six on the Swedish national women's ice hockey team that participated in the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games:
 Erika Holst - C
 Maria Rooth - A
 Gunilla Andersson - A
 Ann-Louise Edstrand
 Ylva Lindberg
 Jenny Lindqvist

References

External links
 Mälarhöjden/Bredäng Hockey's official website (in Swedish)

Ice hockey teams in Stockholm County
Sports clubs and teams in Stockholm
Deborah Van Valkenburgh

Deborah Van Valkenburgh (born August 29, 1952) is an American actress best known for her screen debut as Mercy in the 1979 cult film The Warriors, and her role as Jackie Rush for five seasons (1980–1985) on the television situation comedy Too Close for Comfort. In 2012, she won the Best Supporting Actress in a Fantasy Film award at the PollyGrind Underground Film Festival for the film Road to Hell.

Early life
Van Valkenburgh graduated from Shaker High School in Latham, New York in June 1970. She graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, with a BFA in Painting & Drawing. She started her acting career on Broadway performing in "Hair". Van Valkenburgh also appeared in Off-Broadway plays, including Honeybee, The Tempest, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Hay Fever, When Did You last See Your Mother?, Iolanthe, It Ain't Aardvark, and Minutemen.
Besides acting in many New York plays, she has acted in regional and touring company productions of Mooney's Kid Don't Cry, The Children's Hour, and A View From the Bridge. Van Valkenburgh has studied acting with William Esper and John Shea, ballet with Ballet Arts Carnegie Hall and modern dance with James Cunningham. She also studied puppet production with Jim Henson, voice with Kirk Nurock and Richard Green, and improvisation with Dan Richter.

Filmography

Film

Television

Broadway
 1977 Broadway revival of Hair, original cast

Video games

Awards and nominations

References

External links
 
 
 
 

1952 births
Actresses from New York (state)
American film actresses
American people of Dutch descent
American stage actresses
American television actresses
Living people
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
List of Olympic medalists in fencing (women)

This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in fencing.

Current Program

Foil, Individual

Foil, Team

Épée, Individual

Épée, Team

Sabre, Individual

Sabre, Team

All-time medal table - Women's - 1924–2016

References
International Olympic Committee results database

Fencing (women)
medalists
Olympic, women
Fencing