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Cosmopolis

Cosmopolis may refer to:

Arts

Film 
 Cosmopolis (film), a 2012 film by David Cronenberg based on the DeLillo novel
 Cosmopolis, a fictional city in the Speed Racer film adaptation

Literature 
 Cosmopolis (novel), a 2003 novel by Don DeLillo
 Cosmopolis, an 1892 novel by Paul Bourget
 Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, a book by Stephen Toulmin
 Cosmopolis, the journal of the Jack Vance Integral Edition project.

Music 
 Cosmopolis, a musical work by Elias Breeskin
 Cosmopolis, an album by Polish music band Brygada Kryzys

Television 
 Cosmopolis, the fictional city in which the TV series Mission Hill is set

Other 
 Cosmopolis, a fictional universe-wide magazine employed by novelist Jack Vance
 Cosmopolis lamps are a range of High-intensity discharge lamps produced by Signify N.V. (formerly, Philips Lighting).

Places 
 Cosmopolis, Washington, a city in the United States
 Cosmópolis, a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil

Publications 
 Cosmopolis: An International Monthly Review, a defunct multilingual literary magazine published from 1896 to 1898

Other 
 Cosmopolis XXI, a planned Russian vehicle that is billed as a space tourism vehicle

See also
 Ecumenopolis, a single continuous worldwide city
 Cosmopolitan (disambiguation)
South Point High School

South Point High School may refer to

 South Point High School (India) in Kolkata
 South Point High School (North Carolina) in Belmont, North Carolina
 South Point High School (Ohio) in South Point, Ohio

See also
South Pointe High School (disambiguation)
Free Ride (TV series)

Free Ride is an American partially improvised sitcom that aired on Fox starring Josh Dean as "Nate Stahlings", a recent college graduate re-adjusting to life at home with his parents in Johnson City, Missouri.  The pilot episode aired on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 9:30 pm and the rest of the series aired on Sunday, after which Fox canceled it.

Cast

Main cast
 Nate Stahlings — Josh Dean
 Mark Dove — Dave Sheridan
 Amber Danwood — Erin Cahill
 Bob Stahlings — Allan Havey
 Margo Stahlings — Loretta Fox

Recurring cast
 Steve Moss — Dan Wells
 Dylan Hudney — Kirby Heyborne

Episode guide

Season 1: 2006
This seasons viewer count was 7.1 million viewers.

Reception
Common Sense Media gave the show 1 out of 5 stars.

References

External links
 

Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
2000s American single-camera sitcoms
2006 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
Television shows set in Missouri
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
Improvisational television series
Ansonia High School (Connecticut)

Ansonia High School is a public four-year high school located in Ansonia, Connecticut. It has approximately 513 students in grades 9 through 12. About 31.6 percent of the student body is Caucasian; 68.4 percent is minority. The school is accredited by the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and the Connecticut State Department of Education.

Facilities
Ansonia High School was originally located on the east side of the Naugatuck River, at the foot of Prospect Street, near the intersection of North and South Cliff Street. Today, the lot serves as a small park and playground. The building burned in a massive fire on February 23, 1939. According to the Evening Sentinel, the building was being used for eighth and ninth grade at the time of the fire, and served 590 students.  The fire started in the basement and ten were injured while fighting it.

The original building was erected in 1880. A new high school was opened in 1937, located on Howard Avenue on the west side of the Naugatuck River. This was relocated to the east side, where a new building opened in 1999. The previous building became the new Ansonia Middle School.

The school has 79 employees and have an average of 13.9 years of experience. 80 percent have a master's degree and 42 percent trained for the Beginning Educator Support and Training (BEST) program as mentors, assessors, or cooperating teachers.  The school year contains two semesters and four marking periods. The minimum passing grade for the school is a 60.

Sports
In the mid-1970s, the high school adopted the "Chargers" as its mascot.

Ansonia is part of the Naugatuck Valley League

The football team has won the Walter Camp Football Foundation's Joseph W. Kelly Trophy - awarded to Connecticut's top football team - in '83, '89, '05, '06, '07, and '13.

It has placed boys in the all-star basketball team for the state.  The boys' football team has also produced players who have been recruited for colleges.

Notable alumni 

 Richard A. Brualdi
 John Cooke
 Priscilla Garita
 Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
 Samuel Jaskilka, Class of 1937
 Treat Baldwin Johnson
 Loosey LaDuca
 Sandy Osiecki
 Ramondo Stallings

See also 

 List of high school football rivalries more than 100 years old
 List of high schools in Connecticut

References

External links
 

High School
Public high schools in Connecticut
Schools in New Haven County, Connecticut
Ivan Kornilov

Ivan Alekseyevich Kornilov (1899–1953) was a Soviet general.

Kornilov rose through the ranks of the Red Army in the 1930s and was promoted to the rank of major-general in June 1940, commanding the 45th Rifle Division. He was in command of the 49th Rifle Corps during the early phases of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, but was badly wounded and had to give up his command. Shortly thereafter he was captured by the German Army and spent the rest of World War II as a prisoner of war.

He was detained by Soviet security services for the routine security checks as part of the filtration process administered to ensure that the newly liberated captured Soviet soldiers had not collaborated with their Nazi captors during captivity, but cleared and allowed to resume his military career in the same year. He served as head of the military departments at the Kuybyshev Planning Institute (1947–1950) and Rostov State University (1950–1953).

Notes
 See Kornilov's entry at Generals.dk

References
 Aleksander A. Maslov. Captured Soviet Generals: The Fate of Soviet Generals Captured by the Germans, 1941-45, London (UK) - Portland (Ore.), Frank Cass Publishers, Cass Series on Soviet (Russian) Military Institutions ISSN 1462-1835, No. 2, 2001, p. 310 

1899 births
1953 deaths
Soviet major generals
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Soviet prisoners of war
Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni
Government House, Basseterre

Government House, also known as Springfield House, is the official residence of the governor-general of Saint Kitts and Nevis, currently Dame Marcella Liburd.

History

In 1837, Sir Henry Blake sold the twenty-five acre lot to Thomas Harper who renamed it Springfield and built a house on it. Because Thomas Harper ran into debt, the property passed into the hands of Robert Sharry Harper, trustee under the marriage settlement of Mary Sharry Harper née Amory.  When the archdeaconry of St Kitts was created due to the establishment of the Diocese of Antigua in 1842, it was felt that the rector of St George should be accommodated in a style more suitable for his new position of archdeacon. In keeping with this ambition, Francis Robert Brathwaite, the first archdeacon, bought Springfield from the Harpers in September 1848. 

In 1855 Springfield house was conveyed in trust for public uses and purposes as determined by the governor, privy council, and Assembly. After repairs, it was appointed as the residence for then-rector the Venerable Archdeacon Jermyn in 1856. The property served as the residence of successive Rectors until disestablishment in 1874.

In 1946, after much repair, Sir Frederick Albert Phillip, the then-governor moved into the Springfield House.

Today, Springfield House, commonly known as the Government House of St. Kitts & Nevis, is the official residence of the governor-general of The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.

See also
Government Houses of the British Empire
Governors General of Saint Kitts and Nevis

References

Official residences
Buildings and structures in Basseterre
Government of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth
Saint Kitts and Nevis–United Kingdom relations
The Big Cat

The Big Cat may refer to:

People
Johnny Lee Bench (born 1941),Oklahoma, baseball player
Tom Erikson (born 1964), American amateur wrestler and mixed martial artist
Andrés Galarraga (born 1961), Venezuelan baseball player
Ernie Ladd (1938–2007), American wrestler and football player
Leon Lett (born 1968), American football player
Earl Lloyd (1928–2015), American basketball player
Jamaal Magloire (born 1978), Canadian basketball player
Miloslav Mečíř (born 1964), Slovak tennis player
Johnny Mize (1913–1993), American baseball player
Ronnie Robinson (basketball) (1951–2004), American basketball player
Brad Sweet (born 1985), American professional race car driver
James Williams (offensive lineman) (born 1968), American football player
Cleveland Williams (1933–1999), American professional boxer 
Rayfield Wright (1945–2022), American football player
Andrei Vasilevskiy (born 1994), Russian ice hockey player

Entertainment
The Big Cat (film), a 1949 film directed by Phil Karlson

See also
Big cat (disambiguation)
The Cat (disambiguation)
Big the Cat, a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games
Sunset Lake Floating Bridge

The Sunset Lake Floating Bridge is a floating bridge that carries Vermont Route 65 across Sunset Lake in Brookfield, Vermont, United States.

History
The first bridge on this site was erected in 1820.  It was built this way because the lake is too deep for traditional pilings.

The seventh bridge was closed to traffic and torn down in 2008 for replacement due to failure of its flotation system, which was based on foam-filled barrels.

The current bridge, the eighth at this location, is supported by fiber-reinforced polymer pontoons.

References

External links
 

Road bridges in Vermont
Buildings and structures in Brookfield, Vermont
Pontoon bridges in the United States
Bridges completed in 1820
Bridges completed in 1884
Bridges completed in 1936
Bridges completed in 1978
Bridges completed in 2015
Bridges in Orange County, Vermont
1820 establishments in Vermont
Baden thaler

The Thaler was a coin issued by Baden of varying equivalents to its currency, the South German gulden, each of 60 kreuzer.
 From 1690 the Reichsthaler specie coin of 25.984 g fine silver was issued for 2 gulden.
 From 1754 the Conventionsthaler of 23.3856 g fine silver was issued for 2.4 gulden (2 gulden, 24 kreuzer).
 From the 19th century the Kronenthaler of 25.71 g fine silver was issued for 2.7 gulden (2 gulden, 42 kreuzer).
 From the 19th century the French silver écu  was accepted for 2.8 gulden (2 gulden, 48 kreuzer).
 From 1837, the doppelthaler worth two Prussian thalers was issued for 3 gulden. 
 From 1857 to 1871 the Vereinsthaler was issued for 1 gulden.

Grand Duchy of Baden
Currencies of Germany
Modern obsolete currencies
Red River Zoo

The Red River Zoo is a zoo in Fargo, North Dakota. The zoo's first  opened in the spring of 1999. It gained accreditation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) in 2006.

History
The zoo currently sits on  that was once a farm owned by the George Anderson family, also known as Red River Ranch. Some of the farm buildings were renovated and are used today by the zoo, while others were removed because they were unsafe. Although the original property was flat and had only seven trees, hundreds of additional trees and shrubs were planted and a series of five ponds created to landscape the area.

Animals
The award-winning Red River Zoo is home to over 600 animals representing 89 species, including red pandas. It also includes a 1928 carousel that was fully restored in 1995 and donated to the zoo by the Diederich family. The zoo features a gray wolf exhibit featuring a family of six wolves. They can be viewed from outside or inside a "trapper's cabin" that has two large viewing windows to observe the wolf family.  In 2013, the North American River Otter exhibit opened, featuring an indoor and underwater viewing area.

The zoo specializes in breeding and exhibiting some of the world's rarest cold climate species, having successfully bred red pandas (11 births as of 2012, including two sets of triplets), Sichuan takin, Pallas's cats, and Russian Red Tree Squirrels.

The Red River Zoological Society
The Red River Zoo receives no public funds and depends on memberships, admissions, donations, and grants to the Red River Zoological Society and by its members. The Society was formed in 1993.

Notes

Zoos in North Dakota
Buildings and structures in Fargo, North Dakota
1999 establishments in North Dakota
Tourist attractions in Fargo, North Dakota
Zoos established in 1999
Starred transform

In applied mathematics, the starred transform, or star transform, is a discrete-time variation of the Laplace transform, so-named because of the asterisk or "star" in the customary notation of the sampled signals. 
The transform is an operator of a continuous-time function , which is transformed to a function  in the following manner:

where  is a Dirac comb function, with period of time T.

The starred transform is a convenient mathematical abstraction that represents the Laplace transform of an impulse sampled function , which is the output of an ideal sampler, whose input is a continuous function, .

The starred transform is similar to the Z transform, with a simple change of variables, where the starred transform is explicitly declared in terms of the sampling period (T), while the Z transform is performed on a discrete signal and is independent of the sampling period. This makes the starred transform a de-normalized version of the one-sided Z-transform, as it restores the dependence on sampling parameter T.

Relation to Laplace transform 

Since , where:

Then per the convolution theorem, the starred transform is equivalent to the complex convolution of  and , hence:

This line integration is equivalent to integration in the positive sense along a closed contour formed by such a line and an infinite semicircle that encloses the poles of X(s) in the left half-plane of p. The result of such an integration (per the residue theorem) would be:

Alternatively, the aforementioned line integration is equivalent to integration in the negative sense along a closed contour formed by such a line and an infinite semicircle that encloses the infinite poles of  in the right half-plane of p. The result of such an integration would be:

Relation to Z transform 

Given a Z-transform, X(z), the corresponding starred transform is a simple substitution:

  

This substitution restores the dependence on T.

It's interchangeable,

Properties of the starred transform 

Property 1:   is periodic in  with period 

Property 2:  If  has a pole at , then  must have poles at , where

Citations

References 

Phillips and Nagle, "Digital Control System Analysis and Design", 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1995. 

Transforms
Kathi Wilcox

Kathi Lynn Wilcox (born November 19, 1969) is an American musician. She is the bass player in the Julie Ruin and has been in bands such as Bikini Kill, the Casual Dots, and the Frumpies.

Music 
Wilcox attended The Evergreen State College where she studied film and worked with Tobi Vail at a sandwich shop. During this time she and friends Kathleen Hanna and Vail collaborated on a feminist zine titled Bikini Kill. The three women enlisted guitarist Billy Karren and began a feminist punk band also called Bikini Kill. Wilcox provided bass, guitar, drums, and vocals for the band, which lasted throughout the '90s and is considered one of the definitive bands of the riot grrrl movement. Wilcox's other musical projects include the Frumpies with Vail, Karren, Michelle Mae (The Make-Up), and Molly Neumann (Bratmobile);  The Casual Dots with Christina Billotte (Slant 6, Quixotic) and Steve Dore; and The Julie Ruin with Hanna, Kenny Mellman (Kiki & Herb), Carmine Covelli, and Sara Landeau.

Wilcox collaborated with Fugazi's Brendan Canty on the theme song to the punk rock-oriented children's show Pancake Mountain.

Personal life
Wilcox married musician Guy Picciotto from Fugazi, and in 2013 the two were reported living in Brooklyn with their seven-year-old daughter.

References 

1969 births
American women drummers
American women guitarists
American women singers
American feminists
American multi-instrumentalists
American punk rock bass guitarists
American punk rock singers
American rock drummers
Evergreen State College alumni
Women bass guitarists
Women punk rock singers
Feminist musicians
Living people
Riot grrrl musicians
Third-wave feminism
Bikini Kill members
The Julie Ruin members
The Frumpies members
20th-century American drummers
20th-century American bass guitarists
20th-century American women musicians
21st-century American women
Women in punk
Chris Jaksa

Chris Jaksa is an emergency physician and former professional baseball umpire. Along with fellow umpire instructor Rick Roder, Jaksa co-authored the only complete re-write of baseball's professional rules; this work is commonly known as the "Jaksa/Roder Manual."

Umpiring career
Jaksa put his studies on hold at the University of Michigan and attended the Joe Brinkman Umpire School in 1984. Upon graduation from the program, he entered professional baseball and umpired in the Appalachian League (1984), Midwest League (1985-1987), Carolina League (1988), and Southern League (1989). He was the head rules instructor at the Brinkman school from 1987 to 1989. In Jaksa's last season as an umpire, he appeared in an ESPN documentary on minor league umpires.

After baseball
After six seasons of umpiring minor league baseball, Jaksa went back to college at Michigan, earning a philosophy degree in 1993 and a medical degree in 1997. He completed an emergency medicine residency at SUNY Buffalo and practices in the emergency room at Modesto and Manteca Kaiser Permanente in California.

References

External links
rulesofbaseball.com

Living people
Minor league baseball umpires
American emergency physicians
University of Michigan Medical School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Raymond B. Huey

Raymond Brunson Huey (born 14 September 1944) is a biologist specializing in evolutionary physiology.  He has taught at the University of Washington (UW), and he earned his Ph.D. in biology at Harvard University under E. E. Williams.  He has recently been the chair of the UW Department of Biology, but a retirement celebration was held on 4 Oct. 2013 in Seattle.

Education
After attending Deep Springs College, Huey earned his A.B. with honors in Zoology in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley.  In 1966, he earned his M.A. in  Zoology from the University of Texas at Austin, working with Eric R. Pianka.  He then earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1975.

Awards
In 1991, he received the Distinguished Herpetologist Award from the Herpetologists League, and in 1998, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Organismic Biology & Ecology.

See also 
 Beneficial acclimation hypothesis
 Comparative physiology
 Ecophysiology
 Evolutionary physiology
 Experimental evolution
 Herpetology
 Phylogenetic comparative methods

References

External links 
  Huey web page
  Huey publications

Further reading 
 Feder, M. E., A. F. Bennett, W. W. Burggren, and R. B. Huey, eds. 1987. New directions in ecological physiology. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York. 364 pp.
 Feder, M. E., A. F. Bennett, and R. B. Huey. 2000. Evolutionary physiology. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 31:315-341. PDF
 Garland, T., Jr., and P. A. Carter. 1994. Evolutionary physiology. Annual Review of Physiology 56:579-621. PDF

1944 births
Living people
21st-century American biologists
American physiologists
Evolutionary biologists
Harvard University alumni
Deep Springs College alumni
Fellows of the Ecological Society of America
Tellurium tetrafluoride

Tellurium tetrafluoride, TeF4, is a stable, white, hygroscopic crystalline solid and is one of two fluorides of tellurium.  The other binary fluoride is tellurium hexafluoride. The widely reported Te2F10 has been shown to be F5TeOTeF5  There are other tellurium compounds that contain fluorine, but only the two mentioned contain solely tellurium and fluorine. Tellurium difluoride, TeF2, and ditellurium difluoride, Te2F2 are not known.

Preparation
Tellurium tetrafluoride can be prepared by the following reaction:

TeO2 + 2SF4 → TeF4 + 2SOF2

It is also prepared by reacting nitryl fluoride with tellurium or from the elements at 0 °C or by reacting selenium tetrafluoride with tellurium dioxide at 80 °C.
Fluorine in nitrogen can react with TeCl2 or TeBr2 to form TeF4.  PbF2 will also fluorinate tellurium to TeF4.

Reactivity
Tellurium tetrafluoride will react with water or silica and forms tellurium oxides.  Copper, silver, gold or nickel will react with tellurium tetrafluoride at 185 °C.  It does not react with platinum.  It is soluble in SbF5 and will precipitate out the complex TeF4SbF5.

Properties

Tellurium tetrafluoride melts at 130 °C and decomposes to tellurium hexafluoride at 194 °C.  In the solid phase, it consists of infinite chains of TeF3F2/2 in an octahedral geometry. A lone pair of electrons occupies the sixth position.

References
R.B. King; Inorganic Chemistry of Main Group Elements, VCH Publishers, New York, 1995.
W.C. Cooper; Tellurium, VanNostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1971.

Tellurium(IV) compounds
Fluorides
Tellurium halides
Chalcohalides
National Auto Sport Association

The National Auto Sport Association (NASA) is an American motorsports organization promoting road racing and high-performance driver education.

Founded in 1991, NASA hosts High Performance Driving Events (HPDE), automotive rallies, Time Trial, autocross and amateur, club-level automotive racing, divided amongst regionally based chapters within the United States.

In September 2006, NASA held its first-ever National Championships at Mid-Ohio.  The NASA National Championships are open to any driver who earns points in a minimum of five regional races (in any NASA region or combination of regions).

Since 2021, the NASA National Championships have been held at Daytona International Speedway.

Time trial
Racing in the time trial classes allows drivers to compete against each other for the fastest lap. It is currently NASA's mid-level offering, fitting between the HPDE and road racing series.

Competitive racing
NASA currently offers the following Road Racing series:
 944 Spec
 American Iron Racing
 American Iron Extreme
 Camaro Mustang Challenge
 Endurance Racing
 German Touring Series
 Honda Challenge
 NASA Prototype
 NASA Rally Sport
 Spec3
 Spec E30
 Spec E46
 Spec Iron
 Spec Miata
 Spec Z
 Super Touring/Super Unlimited
 Thunder Roadster
 Team Racing Endurance Challenge (TREC)

Other sanctioned competition series

 25 Hours of Thunderhill
 HyperFest: The Automotive Amusement Park
 One Lap of America
 NASA Rally Sport
 Teen Mazda Challenge
 United States Touring Car Championship

NASA regions

 Arizona
 NorCal
 SoCal
 MidAmerica
 Florida
 Great Lakes
 Hawaii
 Mid-Atlantic
 Mid South
 NOLA
 Northeast
 Rally Sport
 Rocky Mountain
 Southeast
 Texas Region
 Utah

References

External links
Official Website
National Championships Website
Official Discussion Forums
NASA Time-Trial
NASA Rally Sport
How to Build a Mustang Race Car for NASA American Iron

Auto racing organizations in the United States
Sports car racing
Auto racing series in the United States
Douglas Wilson

Douglas, Dougie or Doug Wilson may refer to:

Academics
 Douglas Wilson (theologian) (born 1953), Christian pastor and author
 Douglas L. Wilson (born 1935), professor and co-director of Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College

Television
 Douglas Wilson (interior designer), designer on the television program Trading Spaces
 Doug Wilson (Weeds character), fictional character in the television series Weeds, portrayed by actor Kevin Nealon

Other
 Douglas Wilson (RAAF officer) (1898–1950), Royal Australian Air Force officer
 Douglas Wilson (bishop) (1903–1980), Anglican bishop in the Caribbean
 Doug Wilson (athlete) (1920–2010), British athlete
 Doug Wilson (rugby union) (1931–2019), New Zealand rugby union player
 Douglas Wilson (activist) (1950–1992), gay activist from Canada
 Doug Wilson (ice hockey) (born 1957), retired professional hockey player, current GM of the San Jose Sharks
 Doug Wilson (racing driver), retired NASCAR Cup Series driver
 Dougie Wilson (born 1994), Northern Irish footballer
 Douglas Wilson (basketball) (born 1999), American college basketball player
Michael Keating (Irish politician)

Michael Keating (born 29 September 1946) is an Irish former politician.

Early life
Keating was born in Dublin in 1946. He was educated at the Christian Brothers O'Connell School, University College Dublin, and St. Patrick's College in Maynooth where he received a Bachelor of Arts. He worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming involved in politics.

Political activity
He unsuccessfully contested the 1973 general election for Fine Gael, in Dublin Central, but was elected to Dublin City Council in 1974. He became Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1983. He was successful in his second attempt at a seat in Dáil Éireann at the 1977 general election, being elected for Dublin North-Central. In 1981 he was elected in the re-created Dublin Central, and was successfully returned there at every election until retiring in 1989. He was later appointed Opposition spokesperson on urban affairs.

Minister of State
In 1981 Fine Gael came to power in a coalition government, and Keating was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Education with responsibility for youth and sport. He remained in that position until 1982. It was the only time that he held ministerial office.

Progressive Democrats
In 1986 Keating left Fine Gael to join the newly formed Progressive Democrats and became deputy leader of the party. He won one of their 14 seats in the 1987 general election. He retired from politics in 1989 to concentrate on his business interests.

Alleged fraud
Keating paid €250,000 to the Criminal Assets Bureau for unpaid tax. The Bureau had been investigating his affairs for more than three years. He was also named in a British court in 2000 as a partner in crime, in a £20m VAT fraud.

References

1946 births
Living people
Alumni of University College Dublin
Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth
People educated at O'Connell School
Fine Gael TDs
Lord Mayors of Dublin
Members of the 21st Dáil
Members of the 22nd Dáil
Members of the 23rd Dáil
Members of the 24th Dáil
Members of the 25th Dáil
Ministers of State of the 22nd Dáil
Politicians from County Dublin
Irish schoolteachers
Progressive Democrats TDs
Fine Gael local councillors
Alcibiades the Schoolboy

Alcibiades the Schoolboy (L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola), an Italian dialogue published anonymously in 1652, is a defense of homosexual sodomy (anal sex) loosely styled after Socratic dialogue. Set in ancient Athens, the teacher is modelled on Socrates, who so desperately wants to consummate the relationship he has with Alcibiades, one of his students, that he uses all tactics of rhetoric and sophistry at his disposal. He argues that Nature gave us sexual organs for our own pleasure, and that it would insult her to use them otherwise, citing examples from Greek mythology and culture, as well as refuting counterarguments based on the Sodom and Gomorrah story. It is "a tour de force of pederastic fantasy and one of the frankest and most explicit texts on the subject to have been written before the twentieth century." It has been called "the first homosexual novel".

For many years the identity of the author was a mystery. The work was first attributed to Pietro Aretino, but an article in 1888 by Achille Neri identified the author as Antonio Rocco, a libertine priest and philosopher and member of the Accademia degli Incogniti founded by Giovan Battista Loredan.

The text is unashamedly explicit, and it has been argued that "it must be understood in the context of similar texts of the trend of libertinism, using the term in its original sense of a sceptical philosophical tendency."


References

Sources

Text and translations

English
 Translation into English by Laura T. de Summa The Philosophical Forum, volume 42, issue 4, 2011, pp. 497–506.
 Translation into English by J. C. Rawnsley with an afterword by Don Mader, Amsterdam: Entimos Press, 2000.

French
 Gustave Brunet, Dissertation sur L'Alcibiade fanciullo a scola, including French translation by Giovanni Battista Baseggio. Facsimile reprint available as book-on-demand from Kessinger, 2010 .
 Unsigned "Preface to the 1891 French edition", http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/images/Alchibiades_Preface.pdf, retrieved 2014-09-01. The preface is signed "Brussels, 1891", so the "1891 French edition" is apparently that published with the imprint (very possibly false) of Brussels. Many notes prefixed "JCR" (J. C. Rawnsley), including n. 2, which says "at the time of writing (July, 2000)".

Secondary material
 
 Giovanni Dall'Orto, "Antonio Rocco and the Background of His 'L'Alcibiade fanciullo a Scola' (1652)," Among Men, Among Women, Amsterdam:  University, 1983, pp. 224–32.
 Diederik Janssen, "Alcibiades the Schoolboy Redux, or the Impossibility of Childhood Sexuality", International Journal of Sexual Health, 23, no. 3 2011, pp. 158–160.

1652 books
Dialogues
Gay fiction
Pederastic literature
Works published anonymously
17th century in LGBT history
LGBT erotica
Cultural depictions of Socrates
3C 449

3C 449 is a low-redshift (z = 0.017)  Fanaroff and Riley class I radio galaxy. It is thought to contain a highly warped circumnuclear disk surrounding the central active galactic nucleus (AGN). The name signifies that it was the 449th object (ordered by right ascension) of the Third Cambridge Catalog of Radio Sources (3C), published in 1959.

When observed by the Very Large Array, the galaxy features two symmetrical radio jets that end up in lobes and an unresolved core. The jets are relativistic near the core, but their speed is greatly reduced at about 10 arcseconds (which corresponds to about 5 kiloparsecs at the distance of the galaxy) from the core. The lobes appear complex, with plumes and wiggles. The north lobe is elongated while the end of the south lobe is round. The total apparent size of the radio features is about 30 arcminutes. Both lobes are leaning towards the west, indicating they are pushed that way by external gas which was formed during a galaxy merger the last 1.3 – 1.6 billion years.

3C 449 is the most prominent member of the Zwicky 2231.2+3732 galaxy cluster. The halo of 3C 449 is connected via a bridge with another galaxy located 37 arcseconds to the north.

Images

References

External links
 Radio images and data from the 3CRR Atlas
 Astrophysical Journal article about 3C 449 (Tremblay et al. 2006)
 Simbad 3C 449

Radio galaxies
Lenticular galaxies
12064
449
Lacerta
Gregory's Two Girls

Gregory's Two Girls is a 1999 Scottish film, set in Cumbernauld and also in various locations in Edinburgh. It is the sequel to Gregory's Girl (1981), which also starred John Gordon Sinclair and Kennie Pullen and was written and directed by Bill Forsyth. The film received mixed reviews.

Plot
Eighteen years after the events of Gregory's Girl, Gregory Underwood (Sinclair), now a 35-year-old English teacher in his former secondary school, has fantasies about 16-year-old student Frances (McKinnon). His politically motivated lessons inspire Frances and Douglas, another student, to plot to overthrow a businessman they suspect of trading in torture equipment.

Cast

Reception
Reviewing the film for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw said: "This quaint film is from the stable of Forsyth movies such as That Sinking Feeling and Local Hero, and disconcertingly out of its time... all Forsyth's films have charm, including this one. But, unfortunately, Gregory's Two Girls has the unhappy distinction of being an Accidental Period Piece."

However, Time Out London's reviewer said: "There's still comic mileage in Gordon-Sinclair's amiable fumbling Gregory... attention is directed towards wider, broadly political issues, but Forsyth's assured craftsmanship ensures that they are deftly woven into the storytelling. Gordon-Sinclair is a revelation, and although the film suffers from a lack of pace, its wealth of human insight and the premium it places on subtlety of expression make it a rare pleasure.

References

External links

Scotland: the Movie Location Guide

1990s British films
1990s English-language films
1990s high school films
1999 comedy films
1999 films
British high school films
British sequel films
Cumbernauld
English-language Scottish films
Fictional trios
Films about educators
Films directed by Bill Forsyth
Films set in schools
Films set in Scotland
Films shot in Edinburgh
Scottish comedy films
Asia Vieira

Asia Molly Vieira (born May 18, 1982) is a Canadian actress best known for her early role in the 1991 made-for-television Omen IV: The Awakening and playing as Christine Harrison in the Disney Channel original series, Flash Forward.

Early life and education 
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she began her career as a child model at the age of four, later gaining her first major role in 1988 alongside Diane Keaton and Liam Neeson in The Good Mother. She is an accomplished gymnast and graduated from the Etobicoke School of the Arts as a Music Theatre Major. She was also a student at the University of Toronto, studying both drama and history.

Career 
Vieira has starred in numerous made-for-TV movies and popular television shows, but she is probably best known for playing the roles of Jewel Staite's best friend Christine Harrison in the TV series Flash Forward, Sally in The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon and Delia York, daughter of Damien Thorn, in Omen IV: The Awakening. She has recently been recording for both radio and cartoons, along with appearing in a number of made-for-TV movies and short films including I Am an Apartment Building which won Best Canadian short at the Edmonton Short Film Festival.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1982 births
Canadian child actresses
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Actresses from Toronto
Living people
Etobicoke School of the Arts alumni
Württemberg gulden

Württemberg used the South German gulden as its currency until 1873. Until 1824, the Gulden was a unit of account and was used to denominate banknotes but was not issued as a coin. It was worth  of a Conventionsthaler and was subdivided into 50 Conventionskreuzer or 60 Kreuzer Landmünze.

The first Gulden coins were issued in 1824. The new Gulden was equal to the earlier Gulden and was subdivided into 60 Kreuzer. The rather unusual denominations of 12 and 24 Kreuzer were issued, replacing the 10 and 20 Conventionskreuzer coins.

In 1837, Baden joined the South German Monetary Union. This caused the Gulden to be reduced slightly in size, as it was now worth four sevenths of a Prussian Thaler.

The Gulden was replaced by the Mark in 1873, at a rate of 1 Mark = 35 Kreuzer.

References

Currencies of Germany
History of Württemberg
1873 disestablishments
Coins of the Holy Roman Empire
Vilis Krištopans

Vilis Krištopans (born 13 June 1954 in Omsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Latvian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Latvia from 26 November 1998 to 15 July 1999.

As a prime minister he was a member of the Latvian Way political party. He then left politics and, in 2002, returned as a member of parliament from the Union of Greens and Farmers.
Prior to being prime minister, he was the minister of transport.

See also
 Krištopans cabinet

References

1954 births
Living people
People from Omsk Oblast
Latvian Way politicians
Latvia First politicians
Prime Ministers of Latvia
Deputies of the 5th Saeima
Deputies of the 6th Saeima
Deputies of the 7th Saeima
Deputies of the 8th Saeima
Deputies of the 14th Saeima
Riga Technical University alumni
John Hubbell

John Hubbell may refer to:

Don Lorenzo Hubbell (1853–1930), born John Lorenzo Hubbell, trader, politician
John H. Hubbell (1925–2007), radiation physicist
John Raymond Hubbell (1879–1954), composer
John Hubbell (figure skater) (born 1948), Canadian pair skater
John W. Hubbell American bridge player

See also
John Hubble (disambiguation)
International Criminal Court Act 2001

The International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.  The Act incorporates into English law and Northern Ireland law the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

The principal aims of the Act are:
to incorporate into domestic law the offences contained in the Rome Statute (genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity);
to fulfill the United Kingdom's obligations under the Statute, particularly in relation to the arrest and surrender of persons wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the provision of assistance with respect to ICC investigations; and
to create a legal framework so that persons convicted by the ICC can serve prison sentences in the United Kingdom.

In 2006, three British military personnel were charged with inhumane treatment, a war crime, under the Act.  Two of the three soldiers were cleared but the third, Corporal Donald Payne, became the first British person to be convicted of a war crime under this act, when he admitted to inhumanly treating Baha Mousa.

The corresponding Act of the Scottish Parliament is the International Criminal Court (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 13).

Commencement Orders
The International Criminal Court Act 2001 (Commencement) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/2161) (C.69) HTML PDF
The International Criminal Court Act 2001 (Commencement) (Amendment) Order 2001] (S.I. 2001/2304) (C.77) HTML PDF

See also
Human rights in the United Kingdom
International criminal law
Völkerstrafgesetzbuch

References

External links
International Criminal Court Act 2001 — text of the Act at the Office of Public Sector Information

United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 2001
International Criminal Court
Human rights in the United Kingdom
Central Avenue

Central Avenue may refer to:

Roads
 Central Avenue (Albany, New York) in Albany, New York
 Central Avenue (Albuquerque, New Mexico) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, part of Historic Route 66
 Central Avenue (Augusta, Georgia), in Augusta, Georgia
 Central Avenue (Baltimore) in Baltimore, Maryland
 Central Avenue (Hudson Palisades), New Jersey
 Central Avenue (Los Angeles) in Los Angeles, California
 Central Avenue Historic District (Hot Springs, Arkansas)
 New York State Route 100 from southern tip of the route to White Plains, in Westchester County, New York
 Minnesota State Highway 65 is known as Central Avenue in Minneapolis and some northern suburbs
 Central Avenue Corridor in Phoenix, Arizona, United States
 Central Avenue, or Chittaranjan Avenue, in Kolkata, India

Other uses
"Central Avenue" (song), a 2012 song by Bobby Womack
Arnold Aletrino

Arnold Aletrino (1 April 1858 – 16 January 1916) was a Dutch physician, criminal anthropologist and writer, who published works on homosexuality in Dutch and French. He was a member of the Tachtigers, a group of young and revolutionary Dutch authors, who despised the pious poetry and prose of the mid-nineteenth century Dutch Victorian writers.

Biography
Arnold Aletrino was born 1 April 1858 in Amsterdam to Salomon Aletrino and Selima Pineda. As a medical student, he befriended Frederik van Eeden, who was to be a well-known psychiatrist and one of the most famous Tachtigers. In 1892, he married Rachel Mendes da Costa, who committed suicide five years later. Later, he married Jupie van Stockum. Aletrino never had children.

Aletrino published between 1889 and 1906 a few novels and collections of stories, all extremely bleak and cheerless in atmosphere. During this time, he worked as a medical doctor for the city of Amsterdam, especially for its firemen.

In his final years, an incurably ill man, he lived with his wife in Switzerland. Aletrino died 16 January 1916 in Chernex, Switzerland, near Geneva, aged 57.

Works

Aletrino had been schooled by Cesare Lombroso, who attempted to explain criminality in light of a degenerating central nervous system.  Aletrino broke with Lombroso over homosexuals in a Dutch article in 1897, in which he claimed that homosexuality could occur in otherwise perfectly normal and healthy individuals.  In later works he campaigned against the legal intolerance and prohibition of homosexuality in Europe.

In 1901 he defended homosexuals at the Fifth Congress of Criminal Anthropology in Amsterdam. He was accused of "defending immorality."  He continued to fight throughout his life to engender a more tolerant and understanding attitude of homosexuality.  In 1912 he participated in founding the Dutch branch of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, which was first founded in Germany in 1897 by gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld.

Sources
Hekma, Gert. "Aletrino, Arnold". Who's Who in Gay & Lesbian History. From Antiquity to World War II. Robert Aldrich & Garry Wotherspoon (ed.), Routledge, 2001, p. 15. 
Johansson, Warren. "Aletrino, Arnold".  Encyclopedia of Homosexuality.  Dynes, Wayne R. (ed.), Garland Publishing, 1990, p. 39.
Joosse, Kees. Arnold Aletrino: pessimist met perspectief. Thomas Rap, 1986. Biography. 612 p. 
Lieshout, Maurice van "Stiefkind der Natuur:  Het Homobeeld bij Aletrino en Von Römer", Homojaarboek. 1 (1981), p. 75-106.
Lieshout, Maurice van "Pendelen tussen wetenschap en moraal. Arnold Aletrino (1858-1916)", Pijlen van naamloze liefde. Pioniers van de homo-emancipatie. Maurice van Lieshout & Hans Hafkamp (ed.), SUA, 1988, p. 83-88.
Joods Historisch Museum, Arnold Aletrino (Dutch)

External links
 
 
 

Dutch anthropologists
Dutch Sephardi Jews
LGBT Jews
1858 births
1916 deaths
Medical writers on LGBT topics
Writers from Amsterdam
LGBT history in the Netherlands
Dutch LGBT rights activists
Dutch LGBT writers
Seventeen (Keisha White album)

Seventeen is the debut album by British R&B singer Keisha White. The album features three singles: "Don't Care Who Knows" featuring the rapper, Cassidy, "Don't Fool A Woman In Love", and her critically acclaimed cover of Joan Armatrading's "The Weakness In Me", which is Keisha's biggest hit single to date, peaking inside the UK top 20. Eight songs were produced and co-written by Lucas Secon including both singles. All the key tracks appeared on her 2nd album.

Track listing

References 

2005 debut albums
Keisha White albums
Warner Music Group albums
Bertrand, New Brunswick

Bertrand is a former village in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023 and is now part of the town of Rivière-du-Nord.

History

On 1 January 2023, Bertrand amalgamated with three villages and all or part of four local service districts to form the new town of Rivière-du-Nord. The community's name remains in official use.

Geography 
The community is located on the Acadian Peninsula at the mouth of the Caraquet River where it empties into Caraquet Bay, roughly 10 km west of Caraquet.  The community centres around the intersection of Route 11, Route 145 and Route 325.

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

Notable people

See also
List of communities in New Brunswick

References

Communities in Gloucester County, New Brunswick
Former villages in New Brunswick
Populated places disestablished in New Brunswick in 2023
Zvolen Castle

Zvolen Castle ( or incorrectly , ) is a medieval castle located on a hill near the center of Zvolen, in central Slovakia. It was a part of the Kingdom of Hungary from the 1370's until the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.

The original seat of the region was above the confluence of Slatina and Hron rivers on a steep cliff in a castle from the 12th century, known today as Pustý hrad (meaning "Deserted castle"). Its difficult access had consequence in relocation of the seat to the new-built Zvolen castle, which was ordered by Louis I the Great as a hunting residence of Hungarian kings. The future queen regnant Mary of Hungary and emperor Sigismund celebrated their wedding there in 1385.

Gothic architecture of the castle built between 1360 and 1382 was inspired by Italian castles of the fourteenth century. Italian masons also contributed to a Renaissance reconstruction in 1548. The last major reconstruction occurred in 1784, when the chapel was rebuilt into the Baroque style.

Zvolen Castle hosts a regional branch of the Slovak National Gallery with an exposition of old European masters, including works by P. P. Rubens, Paolo Veronese, and William Hogarth. There is also a popular tea room located in the castle.

History
Zvolen castle was built by Louis I of Hungary, who built it like a gothic hunting castle. It was finished in 1382, when it was witness to an engagement of his daughter Mary and Sigismund. John Jiskra of Brandýs, who became one of the most powerful commanders in Hungary and this castle was one of his manors from 1440 to 1462. The castle was also often visited by king Matthias Corvinus with his wife Beatrice, who used this castle as a manor from 1490.

About 1500 the external fortifications were built up with four round bastions and entrance gate. In the middle of the 16th century was built another floor with embrasures and corner oriel towers. About 1590 an artillery bastion was built also.

The castle was rebuilt many times, but it retains its Renaissance look. The castle was nominated as a National culture monument for its historic, art and architecture values and it was reconstructed in the 1960s. The Slovak National Gallery has a seat in this castle now, where it presents its expositions.

Present
Every year The Zvolen Castle Plays are introduced to huge numbers of visitors. Here you can see actors and theatres from Slovakia, but also from other countries.
The castle also offers a rental of its King hall, Column hall and Knightly hall, which is useful for organizing concerts, receptions, wedding ceremonies, etc. 
Now you can also see a computer model of this castle, which was made as an academic project.

External links
 Pustý hrad and the Zvolen castle on the municipal site

Castles in Slovakia
Buildings and structures in Zvolen
Tourist attractions in Banská Bystrica Region
Art museums and galleries in Slovakia
1,8-Diazafluoren-9-one

1,8-Diazafluoren-9-one (DFO) is an aromatic ketone first synthesized in 1950. It is used to find fingerprints on porous surfaces. It makes fingerprints glow when they are lit by blue-green light.

DFO reacts with amino acids present in the fingerprint to form highly fluorescent derivatives.  Excitation with light at ~470 nm results in emission at ~570 nm.

References

External links
 RCMP report on 1,8-diazafluoren-9-one

Ketones
Forensic chemicals
Nitrogen heterocycles
Heterocyclic compounds with 3 rings
Tom McGroarty

Thomas McGroarty  is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the mayor of the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania from 1996 to January 5, 2004.

Political career
In 1983, McGroarty was elected to Wilkes-Barre City Council and served for twelve years before his election as mayor.

Mayorship 
McGroarty served as the twenty-second mayor of the City of Wilkes-Barre. He took his mayoral oath of office just after midnight on January 2, 1996, surprising the outgoing mayor.

McGroarty was elected mayor in 1995 and re-elected in 1999. He was the only mayor to be elected both as a Democrat and Republican, having waged a successful write-in campaign as a Republican in 1995. By securing both nominations, McGroarty enjoyed relationships with both Democratic and Republicans officials.

Personal life
McGroarty was from Wilkes-Barre's East End and was born on December 22, 1962. McGroarty graduated from Coughlin High School, Luzerne County Community College, and Bloomsburg University. He was both an officer and enlisted member of the 109th Field Artillery, where he served as service battery commander.

Quotes
 "I don't know what to expect next, maybe a volcano eruption," quoted by The New York Times when major flooding hit parts of the Northeast which included Wilkes-Barre, about three weeks after the mayor took office.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Mayors of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Democrats