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Boulders Beach

Boulders Beach is a sheltered beach made up of inlets between granite boulders, from which the name originated. It is located on the Cape Peninsula, in Simon's Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is also commonly known as Boulders Bay. It is a popular tourist spot because of a colony of African penguins which settled there in 1982. Boulders Beach forms part of the Table Mountain National Park.

These African penguins are only found on the coastlines of Southern Africa (South Africa and Namibia). These penguins are currently endangered. As a result, the penguins are under the protection of the Cape Nature Conservation.

Although set in a residential area, it is one of the few sites where this vulnerable bird (Spheniscus demersus) can be observed at close range, wandering freely in a protected natural environment. From just two breeding pairs in 1982, the penguin colony has grown to about 3000 birds in recent years. This is partly due to the prohibition of commercial pelagic trawling in False Bay, which has increased the supply of sardines and anchovies, which form part of the penguins' diet. as well as the help from former SANDF naval officer, Van the Penguin Man 

Bordered mainly by indigenous bush above the high-water mark on the one side, and the clear water of False Bay on the other, the area comprises several small sheltered bays, partially enclosed by granite boulders that are 540 million years old.

The most popular recreational spot is Boulders Beach, but the penguins are best viewed from Foxy Beach, where newly constructed boardwalks take visitors to within a few metres of the birds. It is also a famous swimming beach, although people are restricted to beaches adjacent to the penguin colony.

Gallery

References

External links

Get to know the African Penguins at Boulders Beach  from 

Beaches of South Africa
Geography of Cape Town
Tourist attractions in Cape Town
Table Mountain National Park
Henry Thomas (American football)

Henry Lee Thomas Jr. (born January 12, 1965) is an American former professional football player. He played as a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). His nickname was "Hardware Hank."

Early life, family and education
Thomas was born in Houston, Texas. He was a star athlete at Eisenhower High School there.

He attended Louisiana State University, where he played college football for its football team.

Professional football career
Thomas was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the third round of the 1987 NFL Draft. He played for the Minnesota Vikings for the first eight seasons of his career. Thomas twice was selected to the Pro Bowl. He joined the Detroit Lions in 1995, where he played two seasons. He subsequently played four seasons with the New England Patriots and retired from the game.

During his entire NFL career, he was responsible for 93.5 sacks and over 800 tackles.

He has been an intern coach for the Indianapolis Colts and Minnesota Vikings.

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1965 births
Living people
Players of American football from Houston
American football defensive tackles
LSU Tigers football players
Minnesota Vikings players
Detroit Lions players
New England Patriots players
National Conference Pro Bowl players
Yancey Thigpen

Yancey Dirk Thigpen (born August 15, 1969) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Diego Chargers (1991), the Pittsburgh Steelers (1992–1997), and the Tennessee Oilers/Titans (1998–2000).  Before his NFL career, he played for Winston-Salem State University, where he also played collegiate basketball.

National Football League years
Thigpen was drafted in the fourth round of the 1991 NFL Draft by the San Diego Chargers. Thigpen played infrequently in his first three seasons, but had a breakout year in 1994, catching 36 passes for 546 yards. Then in 1995, he made the Pro Bowl, catching 85 passes for 1,307 yards and five touchdowns, and assisting his team to Super Bowl XXX, where he recorded three catches for 19 yards and a touchdown in the Steelers 27–17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. His tough style of play earned him the nickname "Meatball," which was later changed to "Phil" when he joined the Oilers in 1998.

Thigpen played only six games in the following season due to injuries, but made a full recovery in the 1997 season, catching 79 passes for 1,398 yards and 7 touchdowns and making his second Pro Bowl selection.

In 1998, he signed a five-year, $21 million contract with the Oilers, which at the time was the highest known contract ever signed among wide receivers. He went on to play with them for the final three seasons of his career, assisting the team (now known as the Titans) to Super Bowl XXXIV in the 1999 season. Such a large contract for a wide receiver was a signal of the role which wide receivers would begin to play in the NFL. Thigpen retired after the 2000 season with 313 career receptions for 5,081 yards and 30 touchdowns.  He also rushed for four yards, returned two punts for 30 yards, and gained 188 yards on eight kickoff returns.

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1969 births
Living people
People from Tarboro, North Carolina
American football wide receivers
Winston-Salem State Rams football players
San Diego Chargers players
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Tennessee Oilers players
Tennessee Titans players
American Conference Pro Bowl players
Players of American football from North Carolina
Cardiovascular physiology

Cardiovascular physiology is the study of the cardiovascular system, specifically addressing the physiology of the heart ("cardio") and blood vessels ("vascular").

These subjects are sometimes addressed separately, under the names cardiac physiology and circulatory physiology.

Although the different aspects of cardiovascular physiology are closely interrelated, the subject is still usually divided into several subtopics.

Heart

 Cardiac output (= heart rate * stroke volume. Can also be calculated with Fick principle, palpating method.)
 Stroke volume (= end-diastolic volume − end-systolic volume)
 Ejection fraction (= stroke volume / end-diastolic volume)
 Cardiac output is mathematically ` to systole
 Inotropic, chronotropic, and dromotropic states
 Cardiac input (= heart rate * suction volume Can be calculated by inverting terms in Fick principle)
 Suction volume (= end-systolic volume + end-diastolic volume)
 Injection fraction (=suction volume / end-systolic volume)
 Cardiac input is mathematically ` to diastole
 Electrical conduction system of the heart
 Electrocardiogram
 Cardiac marker
 Cardiac action potential
 Frank–Starling law of the heart
 Wiggers diagram
 Pressure volume diagram

Regulation of blood pressure
 Baroreceptor
 Baroreflex
 Renin–angiotensin system
 Renin
 Angiotensin
 Juxtaglomerular apparatus
 Aortic body and carotid body
 Autoregulation
 Cerebral Autoregulation

Hemodynamics

Under most circumstances, the body attempts to maintain a steady mean arterial pressure.

When there is a major and immediate decrease (such as that due to hemorrhage or standing up), the body can increase the following:
 Heart rate
 Total peripheral resistance (primarily due to vasoconstriction of arteries)
 Inotropic state

In turn, this can have a significant impact upon several other variables:
 Stroke volume
 Cardiac output
 Pressure
 Pulse pressure (systolic pressure - diastolic pressure)
 Mean arterial pressure (usually approximated with diastolic pressure + 1/3 pulse pressure)
 Central venous pressure

Regional circulation

See also
 Cardiovascular System Dynamics Society

References

External links
 
 Cardiovascular Physiology Concepts - Comprehensive explanation of basic cardiovascular concepts, based on a textbook of the same name.
 The Gross Physiology of the Cardiovascular System - Mechanical overview of cardiovascular function. Free eBook and video resources.
 Clinical Sciences - Cardiovascular An iPhone app covering detailed cardiovascular physiology and anatomy
  Quantitative Cardiovascular Physiology and Clinical Applications for Engineers

 
Cardiology
Circulatory system
Heart
Cardiac anatomy
Shriek: An Afterword

Shriek: An Afterword is a fantasy novel by American writer Jeff VanderMeer. Published in 2006, Shriek is set in the fictional city of Ambergris, a recurring setting in VanderMeer's work. The novel was written over a period of eight years, owing in part to what the author said, "[some scenes that are] very personal."

Plot introduction 
Ambergris, named for "the most secret and valued part of the whale", is a fantastical urban milieu, explicitly modern and apparently pre-industrial (despite the presence of guns, bombs, and motor vehicles). Ambergris is characterized by grocery stores, post offices, cafés, and vendors (The "Borges Bookstore" bears note). The city was built over the land (and quiet protests) of the fungally-adept "graycaps", humanoids of uncertain disposition. The inhabitants of Ambergris enjoy a fascination with squid, and celebrate an anarchic annual Festival of the Freshwater Squid.

Characters 
Shriek: An Afterword deals principally with two eponymous siblings, Janice and Duncan Shriek. Janice, an ex-society figure and art critic, narrates with great and sometimes dark flamboyance. Duncan, a historian of note, entertains twin obsessions: rival historian Mary Sabon and the mysterious graycaps. The Shrieks figure rather prominently in VanderMeer's collection of Ambergris novellas and short stories City of Saints and Madmen: Duncan narrates the novella "The Early History of Ambergris", while Janice's art criticism figures into the World Fantasy Award-winning novella "The Transformation of Martin Lake".

Critical notes
Reviewer of The Believer noted "It's not clear what obsesses Jeff VanderMeer more, mushrooms or books. Both appear on almost every page of his new novel Shriek: An Afterword, in which disgraced historian Duncan Shriek seeks to uncover the mystery of a race of mushroom people with mysterious fungal plans, who lurk below the surface of the moss-covered city of Ambergris. VanderMeer's previous novels are part of a fantasy subgenre, often categorized as the New Weird. While Shriek certainly contains fantasy elements, it doesn’t fit into any strictly delineated genre. There are more ideas here than flights of fancy; VanderMeer owes more to Borges than Tolkien."

References

External links 
Commentary from VanderMeer on "Forbidden Planet"
Excerpt on "SF Site Fiction"
VanderWorld: VanderMeer's personal blog

2006 American novels
American fantasy novels
English-language novels
Fictional fungi
Drugs I Need

The Drugs I Need is a satirical animated short made by The Animation Farm and the Austin Lounge Lizards and produced by the Consumers Union.

Plot
The animation parodies a regular pharmaceutical television commercial, detailing the benefits the fictional drug Progenitorivox manufactured by fictional company SquabbMerlCo whose use is not described in detail. Instead, a large number of side effects are sung to an upbeat musical jingle, which emphasizes that the consumer should buy Progenitorivox— even if the generic drug is half the cost— if only to be like a family on TV. The animation ends with a seemingly random disclaimer, also a parody of pharmaceutical or "drug" advertisements.

Reception
The video won the Public Affairs Council's Grassroots Innovation Award in 2006.

References

External links
 Video on YouTube

American animated short films
Consumer Reports
Flash animated films
Parody films
Sideritis syriaca

Sideritis syriaca, commonly known as ironwort, is a plant similar to chamomile, used in the Balkans (where it is known as "mountain tea") to make a tisane. It grows on a high altitude in the mountains. It is commonly found on wet grounds, on the high pastures, above .

References
 

syriaca
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Mountain tea

Mountain tea may refer to:

 Sideritis, also known as mountain tea or Greek mountain tea, a genus of flowering plants
 Gaultheria procumbens, a plant species also known as American mountain tea
 Mountain Tea State Forest - see List of Indiana state forests
 Mountain Tea, and other poems, a 1984 collection of poetry by Peter van Toorn

See also
 Leptospermum grandifolium, commonly known as the mountain tea-tree, a species of shrub or small tree
 High-mountain tea, several varieties of Oolong tea grown in Taiwan
Cubohemioctahedron

In geometry, the cubohemioctahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U15. It has 10 faces (6 squares and 4 regular hexagons), 24 edges and 12 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.

It is given Wythoff symbol  4 | 3, although that is a double-covering of this figure.

A nonconvex polyhedron has intersecting faces which do not represent new edges or faces. In the picture vertices are marked by golden spheres, and edges by silver cylinders.

It is a hemipolyhedron with 4 hexagonal faces passing through the model center. The hexagons intersect each other and so only triangular portions of each are visible.

Related polyhedra 
It shares the vertex arrangement and edge arrangement with the cuboctahedron (having the square faces in common), and with the octahemioctahedron (having the hexagonal faces in common).

Tetrahexagonal tiling 
The cubohemioctahedron can be seen as a net on the hyperbolic tetrahexagonal tiling with vertex figure 4.6.4.6.

Hexahemioctacron

The hexahemioctacron is the dual of the cubohemioctahedron, and is one of nine dual hemipolyhedra. It appears visually indistinct from the octahemioctacron.

Since the cubohemioctahedron has four hexagonal faces passing through the model center, thus it is degenerate, and can be seen as having four vertices at infinity.

In Magnus Wenninger's Dual Models, they are represented with intersecting infinite prisms passing through the model center, cut off at a certain point that is convenient for the maker.

See also 
 Hemi-cube - The four vertices at infinity correspond directionally to the four vertices of this abstract polyhedron.

References

 (Page 101, Duals of the (nine) hemipolyhedra)

External links 
 
 
 Uniform polyhedra and duals

Uniform polyhedra
Bertha of Putelendorf

Bertha von Putelendorf (died after 1182) may have been the daughter of Count Palatine Friedrich IV von Putelendorf in Saxony and his wife Agnes of Limburg, daughter of Henry, Duke of Lower Lorraine. According to a secondary source, she was the daughter of the Count Palatine of Saxony. If this were true, from a chronological standpoint, her father would most likely be Friedrich IV von Putelendorf in Saxony. A woman named Bertha, possibly Bertha von Putelendorf, is recorded as the mother of Poppo VI, Count of Henneberg, as well as Irmgard and Liutgarde.

She married Berthold I, Count of Henneberg (died 1159?), and had three surviving children:
Poppo VI, Count of Henneberg (a son, died 14 June 1190)
Irmgard of Henneberg (a daughter, died 15 July 1197)
Liutgarde of Henneberg (a daughter, died 22 November 1220), married Adalbert von Sommerschenberg
Bertha was also the grandmother of Agnes of Hohenstaufen through her daughter Irmgard von Henneberg.

References

Countesses in Germany
12th-century German women

1190 deaths

Year of birth unknown
Darbandokeh

Darbandokeh (, ) is a village in Erbil Governorate in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located in the Shaqlawa District.

In the village, there was a church of Mar Quryaqos.

Etymology
The name of the village is derived from "enclosed place" in Kurdish.

History
Darbandokeh was founded in 1928 by Assyrians from the refugee camp at Baqubah in the aftermath of the Assyrian genocide in the First World War, most of whom belonged to the Nochiya clan from Shemsdin in the Hakkari mountains in Turkey. By 1938, the village was inhabited by 108 Assyrians in 15 families.

In 1963, amidst the First Iraqi–Kurdish War, Darbandokeh was attacked and its Assyrian population was either killed or expelled by pro-government Kurds, who subsequently resettled the village; the church of Mar Quryaqos was also destroyed.

Notable people
Dinkha IV (1935–2015), Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East
Emanuel Kamber (b. 1949), Assyrian-American physicist

References
Notes

Citations

Bibliography

Populated places in Erbil Governorate
Historic Assyrian communities in Iraq
Kurdish settlements in Erbil Governorate
Vinbarbital

Vinbarbital is a hypnotic drug which is a barbiturate derivative. It was developed by Sharp and Dohme in 1939.

References 

Barbiturates
Sedatives
GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulators
Alkene derivatives
George Baerveldt

George Baerveldt, M.B.Ch.B., was a Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California, Irvine.

Baerveldt developed and held four patents related to the Baerveldt Glaucoma Implant, a device for the drainage of excess fluid from the eye in complex cases of glaucoma.

Professor Baerveldt was also one of the inventors of the Trabectome, a device for minimally-invasive glaucoma surgery.

Dr. Baerveldt died on April 13, 2021, while recuperating from vascular surgery.

References

External links
 "George Baerveldt, M.D.". UC Irvine Department of Ophthalmology.
 "Trabectome". Manufacturer's Website.
 "Baerveldt Glaucoma Implant". Manufacturer's Website.

Living people
American ophthalmologists
University of California, Irvine faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Palaú

Palaú is a town in the Mexican state of Coahuila. It is located on the eastern boundary of the Chihuahuan Desert, in the municipality of Múzquiz.  Temperatures in the summertime can easily reach 45 degrees Celsius and the winters are mild but wet.  The main industry is coal mining.

When an Austrian engineer discovered these energy riches in the late 19th century, the northern portion of Coahuila quickly transformed from a sparsely populated region of cattle ranchers to an industrial powerhouse. Thousands of Japanese immigrants came seeking work; some of their descendants, with Japanese surnames, are still here. Simabuco is one of several Japanese Surnames and is traced back to Anastacio Simabuco one of the earliest settlers of Palau he is believed to have migrated from Okinawa, Japan at the turn of the 20th century.

Coahuila coal feeds steel mills in Monclova and Monterrey, the country's third-largest city. Two coal-fired electric plants near the U.S. border supply as much as 8 percent of Mexico's electricity.

Population (INEGI 2005): 16,133 (men 8,063; women 8,070)

References
Info

Populated places in Coahuila
Great ditrigonal icosidodecahedron

In geometry, the great ditrigonal icosidodecahedron (or great ditrigonary icosidodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U47. It has 32 faces (20 triangles and 12 pentagons), 60 edges, and 20 vertices. It has 4 Schwarz triangle equivalent constructions, for example Wythoff symbol 3 | 3  gives Coxeter diagram  = . It has extended Schläfli symbol a{,3} or c{3,}, as an altered great stellated dodecahedron or converted great icosahedron.

Its circumradius is  times the length of its edge, a value it shares with the cube.

Related polyhedra 

Its convex hull is a regular dodecahedron. It additionally shares its edge arrangement with the small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron (having the triangular faces in common), the ditrigonal dodecadodecahedron (having the pentagonal faces in common), and the regular compound of five cubes.

References

External links 
 VRML model: 
 MathWorld

Uniform polyhedra
Dan E. Fesman

Dan E. Fesman (sometimes credited as Dan Fesman) is a television producer and writer. Fesman graduated from Teaneck High School in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Fesman has also been producer and writer on several recent series, including Grimm, LAX, Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me. He has written for Special Unit 2, Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family, Now and Again, The King of Queens, Zero Stress and NCIS.

References

External links

American television producers
American television writers
American male television writers
Living people
Screenwriters from New Jersey
Teaneck High School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
KLSE

KLSE may refer to:

 Bursa Malaysia, formerly known as the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange
 The ICAO airport code of La Crosse Regional Airport in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States
 KLSE (FM), a radio station (90.7 FM) licensed to Rochester, Minnesota, United States
 KZSE, a radio station (91.7 FM) licensed to Rochester, Minnesota, which held the call sign KLSE-FM until 2011
 KLSE (TV), a defunct educational television station (channel 13) in Monroe, Louisiana, United States
Shane Acton

Shane John Acton (17 September 1946 – 25 February 2002) was an English sailor, known for circumnavigating the globe in an  boat, the smallest ever, at that time, to survive the voyage. He first set sail from Britain in 1972 at the age of 25.

Acton was born and raised in Coleridge, Cambridge, England. Without any sailing experience, he departed in a used 18' 4" bilge-keel sailing boat for which he paid the modest sum of £400. The boat was a Caprice, a Robert Tucker design originally named Super Shrimp but referred to by Shane simply as Shrimpy.  Later Shane was accompanied for much of the voyage by his girlfriend, Iris Derungs, a photographer from Switzerland. He sailed westabout through the Panama Canal, circling the globe and returning to England as a local celebrity eight years later.  The voyage is chronicled in his book Shrimpy: A Record Round-the-World Voyage in an Eighteen Foot Yacht.

In 1984, he set off on a second voyage from England to Central America via the French canals, the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands and wrote a book of this voyage Shrimpy sails again.

He lived his later years near Golfito, Costa Rica, and died of lung cancer on February 25, 2002 in Cambridge, aged 55.

References

Sources 
A Speck on the Sea, William H. Longyard.  McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Cambridge News, "World Trip Record Sailor Dies." Feb 27, 2002.
Shrimpy:  A Record Round-the-World Voyage in an Eighteen Foot Yacht, Shane Acton.  Motorbooks International, 1993.

External links 
Google Map of Shane Acton's circumnavigation

1946 births
2002 deaths
People from Cambridge
English sailors
Deaths from lung cancer in England
Manek

Manek is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

People
Manek Bedi, Bollywood actor
Manek Mathur (born 1988), Indian squash player
Manek Premchand, Indian writer and historian of film music

Fictional characters
Manek Tigelaar, character from Wicked novel series

Surname
Brady Manek (born 1998), American basketball player
Chronox Manek (died 2012), Chief Ombudsman of Papua New Guinea
Gabriel Manek (1913–1989), Indonesian Archbishop of The Roman Catholic Church
Gia Manek (born 1986), Indian television actress
Jayesh Manek (born 1956), Indian fund manager
Pabubha Manek, Indian politician
Roma Manek, Indian actress from Gujarati

See also
Small rhombihexahedron

In geometry, the small rhombihexahedron (or small rhombicube) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U18. It has 18 faces (12 squares and 6 octagons), 48 edges, and 24 vertices. Its vertex figure is an antiparallelogram.

Related polyhedra
This polyhedron shares the vertex arrangement with the stellated truncated hexahedron. It additionally shares its edge arrangement with the convex rhombicuboctahedron (having 12 square faces in common) and with the small cubicuboctahedron (having the octagonal faces in common).

It may be constructed as the exclusive or (blend) of three octagonal prisms.

External links
 
Polyhedra
Hardy Rawls

Hardy Rawls is a character actor.  In 2003, Adweek and Ad Age, described Rawls' best-known role as that of the father on Nickelodeon's The Adventures of Pete & Pete.  For Maytag's 2004 marketing campaign, Rawls became the third actor to portray Ol' Lonely, replacing the retiring Gordon Jump; Rawls was, in turn, replaced by Richmond, Virginia real estate broker Clay Jackson on April 2, 2007.  Rawls also performed in NBC's 1987 television film Bates Motel.

References

External links
 

20th-century male actors
21st-century male actors
living people
male television actors
place of birth missing (living people)
year of birth missing (living people)
Boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Lightweight

The lightweight class in the boxing at the 1964 Summer Olympics competition was the fourth-lightest class.  Lightweights were limited to those boxers weighing less than 60 kilograms. 34 boxers from 34 nations competed.

Medallists

Results

References

Sources

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Nine Reasons to Say Goodbye

Nine Reasons to Say Goodbye is an album by the rock band A Day in the Life. It was released in 2001 and is the only album by the band under the A Day in the Life name before their name change to Hawthorne Heights. It features their entire original lineup.

It was re-released in 2005 by Carbon Copy Media with a second disc that contains songs by 4 other bands who were signed to Carbon Copy Media, plus two other songs by A Day in the Life.

The album cover is lead vocalist JT Woodruff taking a selfie in a bathroom mirror.

Track listing
 "The Death of a Dream" - 0:48
 "Control Alt Delete" - 2:15
 "Do You Have a Map, Because I'm Lost in Your Eyes" - 3:08
 "The Girl That Destroyed Me" - 2:34
 "Candycanes and Cola" - 3:06
 "Audrey in Sacramento" - 2:41
 "Photograph" - 2:27
 "Until Her Heart Stops" - 2:56
 "I'm Not Crying, My Eyeballs Are Sweating" - 2:35

Re-release track listing

Disc 1
 "The Death of a Dream" - 0:48
 "Control Alt Delete" - 2:15
 "Do You Have a Map, Because I'm Lost in Your Eyes" - 3:08
 "The Girl That Destroyed Me" - 2:34
 "Candycanes and Cola" - 3:06
 "Audrey in Sacramento" - 2:39
 "Photograph" - 2:27
 "Until Her Heart Stops" - 2:56
 "I'm Not Crying, My Eyeballs Are Sweating" - 2:35

Disc 2
 Brighten: "Ready When You Are" - 3:19
 Brighten: "The Better Way" - 3:46
 Ivory: "Don't Go" - 3:19
 Ivory: "Coast of Maine" - 4:03
 Ellison: "Your Goodbyes" - 3:40
 Ellison: "Following You" - 3:36
 Asteria: "Drink Life to the Lees" - 3:09
 Asteria: "A Lesson in Charades" - 3:42
 A Day in the Life: "The Girl That Destroyed Me" - 2:32
 A Day in the Life: "Control Alt Delete" - 2:13

References

A Day in the Life (band) albums
2001 debut albums
Buckhorn, California

Buckhorn is the name of two unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of California:

Buckhorn, Amador County, California 
Buckhorn, Ventura County, California
James Cotton (basketball)

James Wesley Cotton (born December 14, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Seattle SuperSonics in the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the Long Beach State 49ers. He was selected by Seattle in the second round of the 1997 NBA draft.

Cotton was born in Los Angeles, California, and played basketball at Artesia High School in Lakewood before transferring to St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower. He played college basketball at Long Beach State. Cotton requested he be redshirted at the university.

Cotton, a 6' 5" (1.96 m) shooting guard, left Long Beach State early and was selected with the fourth pick of the second round (32nd pick overall) in the 1997 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets. His rights were then traded to the Seattle SuperSonics in a swap for the draft rights to Bobby Jackson.

He was used sparingly by the Sonics over two seasons until he and Hersey Hawkins were involved in a player trade to the Chicago Bulls in exchange for Brent Barry on August 12, 1999. Cotton was waived by the Bulls prior to the commencement of the 1999–2000 NBA season. He also played with the West Sydney Razorbacks in the Australian National Basketball League.

Cotton's younger brother, Schea, also became a pro basketball player.

References

External links

Early article about James Cotton by Rick Alonzo

1975 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Australia
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Los Angeles
Denver Nuggets draft picks
Long Beach State Beach men's basketball players
Seattle SuperSonics players
Shooting guards
West Sydney Razorbacks players
Mi goreng

Mi goreng may refer to:
 Mie goreng, Indonesian fried noodle
 Mee goreng, Bruneian, Malaysian, or Singaporean fried noodle
Nonconvex great rhombicuboctahedron

In geometry, the nonconvex great rhombicuboctahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U17. It has 26 faces (8 triangles and 18 squares), 48 edges, and 24 vertices. It is represented by the Schläfli symbol rr{4,}  and Coxeter-Dynkin diagram of . Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.

This model shares the name with the convex great rhombicuboctahedron, also called the truncated cuboctahedron.

An alternative name for this figure is quasirhombicuboctahedron. From that derives its Bowers acronym: querco.

Orthographic projections

Cartesian coordinates 
Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a nonconvex great rhombicuboctahedron centered at the origin with edge length 1 are all the permutations of

 (±ξ, ±1, ±1),

where ξ =  − 1.

Related polyhedra 

It shares the vertex arrangement with the convex truncated cube. It additionally shares its edge arrangement with the great cubicuboctahedron (having the triangular faces and 6 square faces in common), and with the great rhombihexahedron (having 12 square faces in common). It has the same vertex figure as the pseudo great rhombicuboctahedron, which is not a uniform polyhedron.

Great deltoidal icositetrahedron

The great deltoidal icositetrahedron is the dual of the nonconvex great rhombicuboctahedron.

References

External links 

 
 Great Rhombicuboctahedron Paper model

Uniform polyhedra
Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 m speed skating competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy.

Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.

Results

References

External links
 

Men's speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Small dodecahemidodecahedron

In geometry, the small dodecahemidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as . It has 18 faces (12 pentagons and 6 decagons), 60 edges, and 30 vertices. Its vertex figure alternates two regular pentagons and decagons as a crossed quadrilateral.

It is a hemipolyhedron with six decagonal faces passing through the model center.

Related polyhedra 

It shares its edge arrangement with the icosidodecahedron (its convex hull, having the pentagonal faces in common), and with the small icosihemidodecahedron (having the decagonal faces in common).

References

External links 
 
 Uniform polyhedra and duals

Uniform polyhedra
Smila

Smila ( ) is a city located on Dnieper Upland near the Tyasmyn River, in Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast of Ukraine. The Tyasmyn River, a tributary of the Dnieper River, flows through the city. In January 2022, the estimated population was 65 675, a 1.2% decrease from 2021.

Geography

Climate 

The climate in Smila is moderately continental. Winters are cold with frequent snow. Summers are warm and can be hot in July, with little rain. Periods of temperatures higher than +10 last up to 170 days. The average annual precipitation is 450–520 mm.

History

Smila arose from an early Cossack settlement founded in the late 16th century. It later came under Polish rule.

The construction of the Fastiv-Znamianka railway line spurred industrial growth in Smila- in 1910, the town had 23 factories and a population of 29 000.

During the Second World War, the Wehrmacht deployed Stalag 345 near Smila to hold Soviet prisoners of war. The camp was kept near Smila from early 1941 until December 1943, when the camp was moved to Zagreb.

In 1957, a machine repairs factory established in 1930 was repurposed to produce new machinery. The plant produced machines for food and transportation industries, and in 1972 it employed over a thousand workers.

In 1989 the population of Smila was 77,500.

Until 18 July 2020, Smila was designated as a city of oblast significance and served as the administrative center of Smila Raion though it did not belong to the raion. The settlements of Ploske and Irdynivka were subordinated to Smila city council. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast to four, the city was merged into Cherkasy Raion.

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian air strikes started a large fire within the city in October, 2022. Air raid sirens sounded in the city as early as March, 2022. A nearby Ukrainian fuel depot containing 100,000 tonnes of fuel was blown up the next day.

Economy
The economic emphasis is on mechanical engineering, and the food industry is also important. However, the town's population has generally declined since the 1980s.

Smila is the transport hub for the surrounding region.  Smila is where the Kyiv–Dnipro and Odesa–Russia rail routes cross, making Smila one of the most important railway junctions in Ukraine. The large station at the junction is named after Ukraine's national poet and artist, Taras Shevchenko.

Population

Notable people 
 Samuel (Shmuel) Malavsky – сantor.
 Oleksandr Kovpak – football player.
 Genia Averbuch – architect.

International relations
Sister cities:
  Newton, Iowa, United states
  Vatutine, Ukraine
  Irpin, Ukraine
 Rzhev, Russia

Gallery

References

  (1972) Історія міст і сіл Української CCP - Черкаська область (History of Towns and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR - Cherkasy Oblast), Kyiv.

External links
  Official city website
  Unofficial city website

Cities in Cherkasy Oblast
Cherkassky Uyezd
Historic Jewish communities in Ukraine
Cities of regional significance in Ukraine
Mysterious Traveller

Mysterious Traveller is the fourth studio album by the jazz and jazz fusion ensemble Weather Report and was released in 1974. This was their final recording with founding bassist Miroslav Vitouš, who left due to creative differences. Vitouš was replaced by Alphonso Johnson. Another addition to the line-up is drummer Ishmael Wilburn. Greg Errico was the drummer for the tour between the previously released Sweetnighter and this album, but declined an invitation to be a permanent member of the band.

The record is the band's first that predominantly uses electric bass and incorporates liberal uses of funk, R&B grooves, and rock that would later be hallmarked as the band's "signature" sound. Also, the more restricted compositional format became evident on this album, replacing the more "open improvisation" formats used on the first three albums. It was voted as the album of the year by the readers of DownBeat for 1974, garnering Weather Report's second overall win in that category, also garnering a five-star review from that publication along the way. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings included the album in its suggested “core collection” of essential recordings.

The album peaked at number 2 in the Billboard Jazz Albums chart, number 31 in the R&B album chart, and number 46 in the Billboard 200.

Track listing

Personnel

Weather Report
Josef Zawinul - electric and acoustic piano, synthesizer, guitar, kalimba, organ, tamboura, clay drum, tack piano, melodica
Wayne Shorter - soprano & tenor saxophone, tack piano
Miroslav Vitouš - acoustic bass (tracks 2 and 8)
Alphonso Johnson - bass guitar
Ishmael Wilburn - drums
Skip Hadden - drums (tracks 1 and 4 only)
Dom Um Romão - percussions, drums
Guest musicians
Ray Barretto - percussion (track 3 only)
Muruga Booker - percussion (track 1 only)
Steve Little - timpani (track 6 only)
Don Ashworth - ocarinas & woodwinds (track 7 only)
Isacoff - tabla, finger cymbals (track 7 only)
Edna Wright - vocals (track 1 only)
Marti McCall - vocals (track 1 only)
Jessica Smith - vocals (track 1 only)
James Gilstrap - vocals (track 1 only)
Billie Barnum - vocals (track 1 only)
Technical
Ron Malo - sound engineer
Teresa Alfieri - cover design
Helmut K. Wimmer - cover artwork

Chart performance

References

External links
Weather Report Annotated Discography: Mysterious Traveller

1974 albums
Columbia Records albums
Weather Report albums
Small icosihemidodecahedron

In geometry, the small icosihemidodecahedron (or small icosahemidodecahedron) is a uniform star polyhedron, indexed as . It has 26 faces (20 triangles and 6 decagons), 60 edges, and 30 vertices. Its vertex figure alternates two regular triangles and decagons as a crossed quadrilateral. It is a hemipolyhedron with its six decagonal faces passing through the model center.

It is given a Wythoff symbol,  but that construction represents a double covering of this model.

Related polyhedra 

It shares its edge arrangement with the icosidodecahedron (its convex hull, having the triangular faces in common), and with the small dodecahemidodecahedron (having the decagonal faces in common).

See also 
 Pentakis icosidodecahedron
 List of uniform polyhedra

References

External links 
 
 Uniform polyhedra and duals

Polyhedra
Small dodecicosahedron

In geometry, the small dodecicosahedron (or small dodekicosahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U50. It has 32 faces (20 hexagons and 12 decagons), 120 edges, and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.

Related polyhedra
It shares its vertex arrangement with the great stellated truncated dodecahedron. It additionally shares its edges with the small icosicosidodecahedron (having the hexagonal faces in common) and the small ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron (having the decagonal faces in common).

References

External links
 

Uniform polyhedra
Octahemioctahedron

In geometry, the octahemioctahedron or allelotetratetrahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as . It has 12 faces (8 triangles and 4 hexagons), 24 edges and 12 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.

It is one of nine hemipolyhedra, with 4 hexagonal faces passing through the model center.

Orientability 

It is the only hemipolyhedron that is orientable, and the only uniform polyhedron with an Euler characteristic of zero (a topological torus).

Related polyhedra 

It shares the vertex arrangement and edge arrangement with the cuboctahedron (having the triangular faces in common), and with the cubohemioctahedron (having the hexagonal faces in common).

By Wythoff construction it has tetrahedral symmetry (Td), like the rhombitetratetrahedron construction for the cuboctahedron, with alternate triangles with inverted orientations. Without alternating triangles, it has octahedral symmetry (Oh). In this respect it is akin to the Morin surface, which has fourfold symmetry if orientation is ignored and twofold symmetry otherwise. However the octahemioctahedron has a higher degree of symmetry and is genus 1 rather than 0.

Octahemioctacron

The octahemioctacron is the dual of the octahemioctahedron, and is one of nine dual hemipolyhedra. It appears visually indistinct from the hexahemioctacron.

Since the hemipolyhedra have faces passing through the center, the dual figures have corresponding vertices at infinity; properly, on the real projective plane at infinity. In Magnus Wenninger's Dual Models, they are represented with intersecting prisms, each extending in both directions to the same vertex at infinity, in order to maintain symmetry. In practice the model prisms are cut off at a certain point that is convenient for the maker. Wenninger suggested these figures are members of a new class of stellation figures, called stellation to infinity. However, he also suggested that strictly speaking they are not polyhedra because their construction does not conform to the usual definitions.

The octahemioctacron has four vertices at infinity.

See also 
Compound of five octahemioctahedra
 Hemi-cube - The four vertices at infinity correspond directionally to the four vertices of this abstract polyhedron.

References

 (Page 101, Duals of the (nine) hemipolyhedra)

External links 
 
 
 Uniform polyhedra and duals

Toroidal polyhedra
Small dodecicosidodecahedron

In geometry, the small dodecicosidodecahedron (or small dodekicosidodecahedron) is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U33. It has 44 faces (20 triangles, 12 pentagons, and 12 decagons), 120 edges, and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.

Related polyhedra
It shares its vertex arrangement with the small stellated truncated dodecahedron and the uniform compounds of 6 or 12 pentagrammic prisms. It additionally shares its edge arrangement with the rhombicosidodecahedron (having the triangular and pentagonal faces in common), and with the small rhombidodecahedron (having the decagonal faces in common).

Dual

The dual polyhedron to the small dodecicosidodecahedron is the small dodecacronic hexecontahedron (or small sagittal ditriacontahedron). It is visually identical to the small rhombidodecacron. Its faces are darts. A part of each dart lies inside the solid, hence is invisible in solid models.

Proportions 
Faces have two angles of , one of  and one of . Its dihedral angles equal . The ratio between the lengths of the long and short edges is .

References

External links
 
 
 

Uniform polyhedra
Carl Pontus Gahn

Carl Pontus Gahn (1 March 1759 – 9 May 1825) was a Swedish military officer who participated in the Russo-Swedish War in Finland in 1788–1789, the Finnish War campaign in Norway in 1808 and the unsuccessful invasion of Norway at Eidskog in 1814. He was ennobled in 1809, taking the title Gahn af Colquhoun in acknowledgement of his Scottish ancestry (Gahn was itself a contraction via Cahun of the family name of Colquhoun). He was promoted to the rank of Major General in 1814 and became president of the Martial Court of Appeals (Krigshovrätten) in 1824.

References

1759 births
1825 deaths
People from Falun
Swedish Army major generals
Napoleonic Wars prisoners of war held by Norway
Swedish military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
Rhombicosahedron

In geometry, the rhombicosahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U56. It has 50 faces (30 squares and 20 hexagons), 120 edges and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is an antiparallelogram.

Related polyhedra 

A rhombicosahedron shares its vertex arrangement with the uniform compounds of 10 or 20 triangular prisms. It additionally shares its edges with the rhombidodecadodecahedron (having the square faces in common) and the icosidodecadodecahedron (having the hexagonal faces in common).

Rhombicosacron

The rhombicosacron is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the uniform rhombicosahedron, U56. It has 50 vertices, 120 edges, and 60 crossed-quadrilateral faces.

References

External links 
 
 
 Uniform polyhedra and duals

Uniform polyhedra
Great icosicosidodecahedron

In geometry, the great icosicosidodecahedron (or great icosified icosidodecahedron)  is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U48. It has 52 faces (20 triangles, 12 pentagrams, and 20 hexagons), 120 edges, and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.

Related polyhedra 

It shares its vertex arrangement with the truncated dodecahedron. It additionally shares its edge arrangement with the great ditrigonal dodecicosidodecahedron (having the triangular and pentagonal faces in common) and the great dodecicosahedron (having the hexagonal faces in common).

References

External links 
 

Uniform polyhedra
Harry Swayne

Harry Vonray Swayne (born February 2, 1965) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football with the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Swayne was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the seventh round of the 1987 NFL Draft. He is one of the few players to have started a Super Bowl with three teams: Super Bowl XXIX with the San Diego Chargers, Super Bowl XXXIII with the Denver Broncos and Super Bowl XXXV with the Ravens.

He was the chaplain for the Chicago Bears before becoming the assistant player development director for the Baltimore Ravens. Harry and his wife Dawn have five children.

References

External links
Baltimore Ravens bio

Rutgers Scarlet Knights football players
Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
San Diego Chargers players
Denver Broncos players
Baltimore Ravens players
Miami Dolphins players
American football offensive linemen
Living people
1965 births
Small rhombidodecahedron

In geometry, the small rhombidodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U39. It has 42 faces (30 squares and 12 decagons), 120 edges, and 60 vertices. Its vertex figure is a crossed quadrilateral.

Related polyhedra 

It shares its vertex arrangement with the small stellated truncated dodecahedron and the uniform compounds of 6 or 12 pentagrammic prisms. It additionally shares its edge arrangement with the rhombicosidodecahedron (having the square faces in common), and with the small dodecicosidodecahedron (having the decagonal faces in common).

Small rhombidodecacron

The small rhombidodecacron (or small dipteral ditriacontahedron) is a nonconvex isohedral polyhedron. It is the dual of the small rhombidodecahedron. It is visually identical to the Small dodecacronic hexecontahedron. It has 60 intersecting antiparallelogram faces.

References

External links 
 
 
 Uniform polyhedra and duals

Uniform polyhedra
Delta (American TV series)

Delta is an American sitcom television series starring Delta Burke that aired on ABC from September 15, 1992, to August 25, 1993. It was a new starring vehicle for Burke, as her return to television following her dismissal from the CBS sitcom Designing Women  in the spring of 1991.

Synopsis
Burke portrays Delta Bishop, a young woman with dreams of writing and singing country music. She became a hairstylist at Mona's House of Hair, married Charlie Bishop and thought she had found happiness. After eight years of marriage, she became restless: she was eager to follow in the footsteps of her childhood idol, Patsy Cline, and become a country music star. She quits her job, leaves her husband and friends behind, and travels to Nashville, Tennessee. There, she finds an apartment over the garage of a home owned by her cousin, Lavonne Overton (Gigi Rice), and her husband, Buck (Bill Engvall). She also finds a job waiting tables at The Green Lantern, a local bar that hosts an amateur night which she believes that if she could sing her songs there, it could jumpstart her career.

Burke, most popular for her role as Suzanne Sugarbaker on Designing Women, reportedly utilized her own singing talents for the role of Bishop, and dyed her familiar brunette hair blonde to play the role. The theme song was "Climb That Mountain High" by Reba McEntire which was not a charted single; the tune was featured on Reba's 1990 MCA album Rumor Has It.

Cast
 Delta Burke as Delta Bishop
 Earl Holliman as Darden Towe
 Gigi Rice as Lavonne Overton
 Bill Engvall as Buck Overton
 Beth Grant as Thelma Wainwright
 Nancy Giles as Connie Morris
 Joe Urla as Sandy Scott

Episodes

Broadcast history 
The sitcom premiered September 15, 1992, to healthy ratings following Roseanne. It then moved to Thursday nights opposite FOX's The Simpsons, and ratings began to sink. It was pulled from the schedule in December 1992 and returned to ABC the following spring 1993 for six episodes before finally being canceled. In an attempt to infuse ratings, the show was moved back to Tuesdays after Roseanne, and Burke brought her brunette hair back that spring (even refilming the opening credits to correspond with the change in hair color), in the sake of familiarity, but these changes proved to be too little, too late. It would rank 72nd for the season with an average 9.6 rating.

Award nominations
Earl Holliman was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film at the 50th Golden Globe Awards in 1992.

References

External links 
 
 Delta at epguides.com

1992 American television series debuts
1993 American television series endings
1990s American musical comedy television series
1990s American sitcoms
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Television shows set in Tennessee
Television series by Universal Television