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Barro Alto, Goiás

Barro Alto is a municipality in northern Goiás state, Brazil, famous for its nickel mine and production of rubber.  The population was 6,446 in 2007 and the total area of the municipality was 1,231.8 km2.

Location
Barro Alto is in the Ceres Microregion and is in an underpopulated region south of the Serra de Mesa artificial lake.  It is 54 kilometers southeast of the important BR-153 highway, which links Anápolis to Belém.

The distance to Goiânia is 228 km.  Highway connections are made by GO-080 / Nerópolis / São Francisco de Goiás / BR-153 / Jaraguá / GO-080 / Goianésia and 41 km northeast. See Sepin for complete list.

Neighboring municipalities are:
north:  Niquelândia
south:  Goianésia
east:  Padre Bernardo
west:  Santa Rita do Novo Destino

History
The foundation of Barro Alto began in 1949 on the Fazenda Barro Alto owned by the Silva brothers, who had lived there since 1940.  In 1951 a highway connection with Goianésia was opened up, and in 1956 a chapel dedicated to Nossa Senora d'Abadia was built.  In 1958 it became a district of Pirenópolis, separating in the same year to become a municipality.

The economy
Barro Alto has an important open pit nickel mine operated by Anglo-American.  Other economic activities are cattle raising, agriculture, services, and small transformation industries.  Public administration is a big employer with 389 workers.  Barro Alto is the largest producer of rubber (coagulated latex) in the state of Goiás.  It produced 2,130 tons in 2006.  (Sepin There were 53,500 head of cattle (8,200 dairy cows) in 2006.  (Sepin)  Barro Alto has a large agricultural production.  In 2006 there were 296 farms with 1,247 hectares of permanent crops and 3,570 hectares of perennial crops.  Pasture land made up 39,000 hectares.   The main agricultural products in 2006 were rubber (710 hectares), rice (650 hectares), sugarcane (3,600 hectares), corn (2,300 hectares), and soybeans (1,500 hectares). (Sepin)

Health and education
The town was served by one hospital with 39 beds in 2007.  The infant mortality rate in 2000 was 25.06.  In the educational sector there were 11 schools with 2,264 students.   The literacy rate in 2000 was 79.2%.

The United Nations Human Development Index (2000) ranked Barro Alto  200 out of 242 municipalities in the state of Goiás with a combined life expectancy of 68.5 years, 0.76% adult literacy, and a per capita monthly income of 143.9 reais, which at March 2006 exchange rates was worth 55.2 euros.  The HDI for Barro Alto was 0.78.

See also
List of municipalities in Goiás

References

Frigoletto
Highway Distances

Municipalities in Goiás
Whatever Will Be (song)

"Whatever Will Be" is the second song released by Australian actress Tammin from her first album, Whatever Will Be (2005). Issued as a CD single on 28 March 2005, "Whatever Will Be" reached number 13 on the Australian Singles Chart.

Background
The song is about how you should not take life too seriously and just to take every day as it comes. It is about how you should not regret the past and look towards the future.

Chart performance
On 4 April 2005, "Whatever Will Be" made its official debut on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart at number 13. On 11 April, the song dropped 11 spots, to number 24. It spent a further eight weeks rising and falling within the top 30 until leaving the top 30 on 19 June and the top 50 on 17 July.

Track listing
Australian CD single
 "Whatever Will Be"
 "Whatever Will Be" (Metro mix)
 "Whatever Will Be" (Location mix)
 "Around the World"
 "Pointless Relationship" (video)

Credits and personnel
Credits are lifted from the Whatever Will Be liner notes.

Studios
 Recorded and mixed at The Location (Stockholm, Sweden)
 Mastered at Studio 301 (Sydney, Australia)

Personnel

 Jake Schulze – writing, all other instruments, programming, production, recording, mixing, arrangement
 Savan Kotecha – writing, Hyperboard extension engineering
 Carl Falk – writing, all other instruments, programming, production, recording, arrangement
 Anna Nordell – background vocals
 Jurl – background vocals
 Linnea – background vocals
 Sebastian Thott – acoustic guitars
 Karl Engström – electric guitars
 Tomas Lindberg – bass
 Kalle Engström – all other instruments, programming, production, recording, mixing, arrangement
 Ray Hedges – remixing
 Don Bartley – mastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

Tammin Sursok songs
2005 singles
2005 songs
Songs written by Carl Falk
Songs written by Jake Schulze
Songs written by Savan Kotecha
Sony BMG singles
Long-finned worm eel

The long-finned worm eel or short-headed worm eel, Scolecenchelys breviceps, is a snake eel of the genus Scolecenchelys, found in southern Australia between Rottnest Island and Tasmania, and around New Zealand, to depths of about 50 m, on sandy or muddy bottoms.  Its length is between 40 and 60 cm.

The Long-finned worm eel is a Maori Traditional delicacy, and is skinned and dried mainly outdoors for a period not exceeding longer than 3 months. The eel is not dangerous to humans, but can pack a fight in the sense of it feeling threatened, where it will nip the person or other mammal as a sense of protection. These eels are also very difficult to handle by hand and can be without water for up to 6 or more hours.

The Long-finned worm eel is nocturnal, venturing out at night to hunt for invertebrates.

References

External links
 
 
 Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand,  (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) 
 
 

Scolecenchelys
Fish described in 1876
Taxa named by Albert Günther
Havering and Redbridge (London Assembly constituency)

Havering and Redbridge is a territorial constituency represented on the London Assembly by one Assembly Member (AM). The constituency was created in 2000 at the same time as the London Assembly and has elections every four years. It consists of the combined area of the London Borough of Havering and the London Borough of Redbridge. The current assembly member is Keith Prince of the Conservative Party who was first elected in 2016.

Constituency profile
Created in 2000, Havering and Redbridge has elected only Conservative AMs to date. The current AM is Keith Prince, first elected in 2016.

The Conservative win upon its creation in 2000 was somewhat unexpected, as at that point, the vast majority of the area it covers (excluding two Redbridge wards that fall under the Chingford and Woodford Green parliamentary seat) was represented by Labour MPs. However, the Romford and Upminster constituencies were among the very small number of seats that the Conservatives gained from Labour at the subsequent general election of 2001.

In line with this, the Conservative majority increased here in 2004, while the trend towards the Conservatives in this area of London continued in the 2005 general election result, which saw the Conservatives winning increased majorities in the two seats they already held, whilst also gaining the constituencies of Hornchurch and Ilford North from Labour. Consequently, this London Assembly seat became very safe for the Conservatives in the 2008 election, where they got more than twice as many votes as Labour.

The seat has, however, become extremely marginal in recent years, following a swing of almost 12% to Labour in the 2012 election. This swing against the Conservatives preluded Labour gaining a majority on Redbridge Council in 2014 for the first time since its creation, the Conservatives losing overall control on Havering Council and Labour gaining the Ilford North seat back from the Conservatives at the 2015 general election. The seat became slightly more marginal in 2016, but it was not enough for Labour to gain it.

Assembly members

Mayoral election results 
Below are the results for the candidate which received the highest share of the popular vote in the constituency at each mayoral election.

Assembly election results

References

London Assembly constituencies
Politics of the London Borough of Havering
Politics of the London Borough of Redbridge
Constituencies established in 2000
Lambeth and Southwark (London Assembly constituency)

Lambeth and Southwark is a constituency represented in the London Assembly.

It consists of the London Borough of Lambeth and London Borough of Southwark.

Since the first assembly elections in 2000 it has been represented by the Labour Party, firstly by Val Shawcross, then by Florence Eshalomi (subsequently MP for Vauxhall, which falls under this constituency), and by Marina Ahmad since 2021.

Assembly members

Mayoral election results 
Below are the results for the candidate which received the highest share of the popular vote in the constituency at each mayoral election.

Assembly election results

References

London Assembly constituencies
Politics of the London Borough of Lambeth
Politics of the London Borough of Southwark
2000 establishments in England
Constituencies established in 2000
West Central (London Assembly constituency)

West Central is a constituency represented on the London Assembly. The seat is currently held by Tony Devenish, a Conservative.

It covers the combined area of the City of Westminster, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

History

Since the seat's creation in 2000, the elected Assembly Member (AM) has always been a Conservative candidate: three have represented the seat in succession. Its first AM was Angie Bray, who subsequently served as MP for Ealing Central and Acton. She was followed by Kit Malthouse in 2008, who was elected as MP for North West Hampshire in 2015, thus acting as an AM and MP for the remainder of his term on the London Assembly. He was succeeded in 2016 by Tony Devenish, who has been a councillor for Knightsbridge and Belgravia in Westminster (part of the GLA seat) since 2006.

At the time of the 2016 London Assembly elections, two of the MPs for the five parliamentary constituencies covered by this seat were members of the Labour Party, and the other three from the Conservatives; Labour have always been the main challenger in the corresponding GLA seat. It includes a number of affluent areas which have tended to vote for Conservative candidates in local and general elections, accounting for the results to date.

After the 2016 election, defeated candidate Mandy Richards lodged an election petition claiming that the results showed a discrepancy in turnout and that 15,000–20,000 postal votes were missing. The case was heard on 8 and 9 December 2016, with the result being all aspects of the petition were dismissed.

Assembly members

Mayoral election results 
Below are the results for the candidate which received the highest share of the popular vote in the constituency at each mayoral election.

Overlapping constituencies
The West Central Assembly constituency comprises all of the following UK Parliament constituencies:

Chelsea and Fulham (Conservative)
Hammersmith (Labour)
Kensington (Conservative)
Westminster North (Labour)

It also includes parts of the following constituencies:
Cities of London and Westminster (Conservative)

Assembly election results

2020s

2010s

References

London Assembly constituencies
Politics of the City of Westminster
Politics of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Politics of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
2000 establishments in England
Constituencies established in 2000
Merton and Wandsworth (London Assembly constituency)

Merton and Wandsworth is a constituency in the London Assembly. Since the 2016 election, it has been represented by Labour's Leonie Cooper.

As its name suggests, the constituency consists of the combined area of the London Borough of Merton and the London Borough of Wandsworth.

Constituency profile
Created in 2000, Merton and Wandsworth had elected only Conservative AMs until 2016. The current AM is Leonie Cooper of the Labour Party, first elected in 2016.

Assembly members

Mayoral election results 
Below are the results for the candidate which received the highest share of the popular vote in the constituency at each mayoral election.

Assembly election results

References

London Assembly constituencies
Politics of the London Borough of Merton
Politics of the London Borough of Wandsworth
2000 establishments in England
Constituencies established in 2000
Clara Louisa Wells

Clara Louisa Wells (29 October 1838 – 28 December 1925) was an American writer and inventor.

Biography
She was born in Maine, studied in Boston and took a degree in science. She had very good knowledge of Latin, Greek, Italian and French. 
She started work with her first publication, "Alban Hills - Vol. I - Frascati". Throughout her life she continued to write in Europe - (France) and America.

Near the end of her life she wrote a series of peace pamphlets on the League of Nations and European politic.

One copy of each of her French works is kept in the public library  "Médiathèque Publique et Universitaire" de Valence (Drome) - France.

Publications 
 
 
 
  
 1906 Arrondissement of Valence in the Department of the Drome - France - ed. L'imprimerie valentinoise - Valence - Drome - Pos. A 525 Archives départementales de Valence - France
 1915 A League between Nation - ed. L'imprimerie valentinoise - Valence (Drome) France - Series:Pamphlets on peace. No. 89 - LC Classification: JX1937.P3 n. 89.

Inventions

1897-05-29 Improvements in Aerial Routes, and connected with the Distillation, Storage, and Supply of Water.  List of UK Intellectual Property Office - Publication info:GB189613715 (1)
1897-10-16 Center providing Means for Controlling and Utilizing Volcanic, Aqueous, and Meteorological Forces.  List of UK Intellectual Property Office - Publication info:GB189712836 (1)
1899-05-13 Secure Modes of Exploring the Cold and Hot Regions of the Earth by Means of Centers of Elevation and Depression, with Reference to Volcanic, Aqueous, and Meteorological Forces, and of Routes Suspended with or without Ballons.  List of UK Intellectual Property Office - Publication info: GB189815679 (1)
1909-10-22 Improvements in, and relating to, the Propulsion, by Balloons, of Ships and other Vessels Navigable in Water.  List of UK Intellectual Property Office-  Publication info:GB190822417 (1)

External links
(1)  Inventions info from European Patent Office
Stefano Paolucci, Clara Wells, risolto lo storico mistero, in "Il Tuscolo", XXIII, n. 199, 28 ottobre 2016.

1838 births
1925 deaths
19th-century American writers
20th-century American writers
19th-century American women writers
20th-century American women writers
People from Hallowell, Maine
Writers from Maine
Old Town Bridge

Old Town Bridge (Norwegian: Gamle Bybro or Bybroa) is located in Trondheim, Trøndelag County, Norway.

History
Gamle Bybro crosses the  Nidelva River from the south end of the  main street Kjøpmannsgata connecting to the Trondheim neighborhood of Bakklandet. Gamle Bybro was constructed by Johan Caspar von Cicignon  in 1681 in conjunction with the reconstruction of Trondheim after the great fire of 1681. Johan Caspar von Cicignon laid out plans for the reconstruction of Trondheim as well as its fortification. Kristiansten Fortress was built at this time after his plans. The bridge location was of military-strategic significance.  King Christian V of Denmark assumed the cost of construction. It was completed in 1685. The bridge was built in the vicinity of the original Elgeseter Bridge. When it was opened the older bridge was allowed to decay and collapse. Since then  Gamle Bybro has undergone many changes.

Originally  Gamle Bybro  was constructed of wood, but the wood was supported on three stone piers. In the middle of the bridge, an iron  gate was placed. This remained a guarded city gate until 1816. At each end of the bridge there was a toll and guardhouse. The access house on the west end still stands, but that on the east side was taken down in 1824. Gamle Bybro was reconstructed in 1861 by the engineer Carl Adolf Dahl (1828-1907). Today Gamle Bybro is one of Trondheim's characteristic landmarks.

Gamle Bybro is also known as Lykkens portal (Gate of Happiness), after the lyrics of the popular waltz  Nidelven stille og vakker du er ( "Nidelven quiet and beautiful you are")  by Norwegian singer and composer  Kristian Oskar Hoddø (1916-1943).  According to tradition,  Hoddø wrote the waltz about  the Nidelva River one night in late April 1940 while he was  standing at Gamle Bybro. Oskar Hoddø was a member of the resistance movement against the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. He was executed in Trondheim on 17 November 1943 along with eight other Norwegian resistance fighters.

References

Other sources
 Øksendal, Asbjørn  (1969)  Lurøy-affæren - Operasjon Oleander : Gestapo i Trondheim og Leksvik-affæren 1942-44

External links
Nidelven stille og vakker du er by Oskar Hoddø

Buildings and structures in Trondheim
Bridges in Trøndelag
Bridges completed in 1685
Bridges completed in 1861
1685 establishments in Norway
Tourist attractions in Trondheim
Former toll bridges in Norway
Shamwari Game Reserve

Shamwari Game Reserve is located 75 km outside Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern Cape, South Africa. It has been voted the World's Leading Safari and Game Reserve and Conservation Company for several consecutive years.

An essential focus is the management, development and rehabilitation of an ecosystem that has been returned to a more natural condition after many years of agricultural farming.

It is part of the Indalo Protected Environment.

Wildlife
Animals that roam around this game reserve include the Big five game, hippopotamus, south African giraffe, Cape mountain zebra, southeast African cheetah, wildebeest and hyena.

Awards and honours 
In 2005 the reserve was awarded the Global Nature Fund Award for Best Conservation Practice.

In popular culture
It was the subject of the 2018 Netflix reality TV series Shamwari Untamed.

The British TV series of Safari School was filmed here. The Animal Planet series titled "Shamwari: A wild life" was also filmed at the game reserve. The show highlighted what goes on behind the scenes at the reserve.

Partner organisations
The Born Free Foundation jointly funds a sanctuary at Shamwari that gives lifetime care to several lions and leopards that have been discovered in poor conditions in circuses or zoos around the world. They have two centres on the reserve, one in the north and one in the south.

References

External links
 Shamwari's Website
 Born Free Foundation

Protected areas of the Eastern Cape
Nature reserves in South Africa
It's a Beautiful Thing (Tammin song)

"It's a Beautiful Thing" is the third and final single released by Australian actress Tammin from her first album, Whatever Will Be (2005). Andrew and Michael Tierney from Australian pop group Human Nature helped produce the song's vocals. Released on 25 July 2005, "It's a Beautiful Thing" entered the Australian ARIA Singles Chart at number 30 and spent 12 weeks in the top 100. The CD single contains three acoustic versions of album tracks plus the video clip for her second single, "Whatever Will Be".

Track listing
Australian CD single
 "It's a Beautiful Thing" (Fresh radio mix) – 3:17
 "Pointless Relationship" (acoustic) – 4:03
 "Tender" (acoustic) – 3:56
 "Whatever Will Be" (acoustic) – 3:33
 "Whatever Will Be" (video) – 3:50

Credits and personnel
Credits are lifted from the Whatever Will Be liner notes.

Studio
 Mastered at Studio 301 (Sydney, Australia)

Personnel

 Matthew Gerrard – writing, production, arrangement
 Bridget Benenate – writing
 Steve Booker – writing
 Andrew Tierney – additional vocal production
 Michael Tierney – additional vocal production
 Mark Endert – mixing
 Don Bartley – mastering

Charts

References

Tammin Sursok songs
2005 singles
2005 songs
Columbia Records singles
Songs written by Bridget Benenate
Songs written by Matthew Gerrard
Songs written by Steve Booker (producer)
Song recordings produced by Matthew Gerrard
Sony BMG singles
Merchandise Mart station

Merchandise Mart is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, located in the Near North Side neighborhood at 350 North Wells Street in Chicago, Illinois (directional coordinates 320 north, 200 west). The station is elevated above street level, on a steel structure. The turnstiles and customer assistant booth of the station are located on the second level of the Merchandise Mart itself. This is the main entrance to the station. 

There are two fare-card only, unattended entrances atop two long stairways accessed directly from Wells Street, just north of Kinzie Avenue. The station is constructed mostly of steel, with wooden platforms covered by a canopy most of their length. There are two side platforms both long enough to support eight-car trains, the longest possible on the CTA system. The southbound platform is just slightly below the level of the station entrance while an enclosed bridge over the tracks connects to the northbound platform on the opposite side. 

The station is fully accessible, resulting in a complicated elevator setup. The elevator on the southbound platform can lower from the entrance to the platform, as well as go up to the top of the bridge. Another elevator on the opposite side of the bridge lowers to the northbound platform.

History

Kinzie station
Kinzie was a station on the Northwestern Elevated Railroad's North Side Main Line, which is now part of the Chicago Transit Authority's Brown Line. The station was located at Kinzie Street and Wells Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago. Kinzie opened on May 31, 1900, and closed in 1921; it was replaced by the Grand station. Today, Kinzie Street is serviced by the Brown Line and Purple Line Express at the Merchandise Mart station.

Merchandise Mart station
The current station opened on December 5, 1930, and was rebuilt from 1987 to 1988. Until 1963 the station also served interurban trains of the North Shore Line. The primary purpose of the station is to serve the Merchandise Mart, one of the world's largest commercial buildings, although there are some galleries and restaurants nearby.

Service
Merchandise Mart serves the Brown Line, but Purple Line Express trains also stop at the station during weekday rush hours. Merchandise Mart was the only Brown Line station not scheduled to receive upgrades or renovation during the Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project. Because of its recent construction from 1987 to 1988, the station is accessible to passengers with disabilities and is already of sufficient length to accommodate eight-car trains, thus no major renovation was needed during the project.

Bus connections
CTA
  37 Sedgwick (Weekdays only)
  125 Water Tower Express (Weekday rush hours only)

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links 

 Merchandise Mart at Chicago-'L'.org
 Train schedule (PDF) at CTA official site
Kinzie Street exit-only stairs from Google Maps Street View

CTA Brown Line stations
CTA Purple Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1930
Former North Shore Line stations
Euganean Hills

The Euganean Hills ( ) are a group of hills of volcanic origin that rise to heights of 300 to 600 m from the Padovan-Venetian plain a few km south of Padua. The Colli Euganei form the first Regional park established in the Veneto (1989), enclosing fifteen towns and eighty one hills.

History
The name memorializes that of the Euganei, an ancient people who inhabited the region upon contact with the Romans.

The Euganean Hills were formed in a sub-marine outwelling of basaltic lava during the Eocene, which was followed in the Oligocene by an episode of activity characterized by viscous magma, which formed deposits of trachyte.

The Euganean Hills, just visible from Venice, have been celebrated for their picturesque beauty and their hot springs. In the Euganean Hills, at Arquà, Petrarch found peace and harmony towards the end of his life, and the town now bears his name attached to it. He discovered the village in 1369; there, he stated in his letter to posterity, "I have built me a house, small, but pleasant and decent, in the midst of slopes clothed with vines and olives,"—a house that may be seen there today. The Euganean hills, like an archipelago of steep-sided wooded islands rising from the perfectly flat agricultural plain, inspired the setting of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills. Shelley likens the hill he has found himself upon, at first to an island in "the deep wide sea of Misery", then he sees that:

Beneath is spread like a green sea	 
The waveless plain of Lombardy,	 
Bounded by the vaporous air,	 
Islanded by cities fair—
This brings his thoughts to Venice "thou hast been/Ocean's child, and then his queen;/Now is come a darker day," and finally to a wish for an idyllic retreat.

The Euganean Hills Regional Park

The Parco Regionale dei Colli Euganei  was established in 1989 by the Veneto Region. It covers an area of about 18,000 hectares. The park offers a wide choice of recreational, natural world, historical and tourist activities.

Mountains and Hills
Monte Venda - 
Monte Rua - 
Monte Rusta - 
Monte Cinto - 
Monte Ceva - 
Monte Cecilia -

Communes of the Euganean Hills
 Abano Terme
 Arquà Petrarca
 Baone
 Battaglia Terme
 Cervarese Santa Croce
 Cinto Euganeo
 Este
 Galzignano Terme
 Lozzo Atestino
 Monselice
 Montegrotto Terme
 Rovolon
 Teolo
 Torreglia
 Vò

Wines of the Colli Euganei
Thirteen wineries have grouped together under the recently established Colli Euganei denomination. Wines consist of the White, with its typical straw-yellow colour and jasmine scent, the Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon reds, the Chardonnay, the Fior d’Arancio, the very sweet yellow Moscato, the Merlot, the Novello, the dry , Pinot blanc, Red Wine, the sparkling  and the  ("Italic Tokay").

References

 Parco Regionale Colli Euganei, official site
Euganean Hills - Regional Park of Veneto
 Tourism and territory of the Euganean Hills
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Lines written among the Euganean hills, North italy" (e-text)
"Two poets and the Euganean Hills"

Hills of Italy
Volcanoes of Italy
Paleogene volcanism
Steve Duemig

Steve Duemig (November 26, 1954 – May 16, 2019) was an American sports media personality and had a daily local sports talk show on AM 620 WDAE in Tampa since 1996 which has been the #1 rated sports talk show in the area, and worked for AM 910 WFNS for 5 years prior to WDAE. The on-air name given to himself was "The Big Dog." Steve died on May 16, 2019, aged 64, from complications due to brain cancer.

Athletic career
Born in Pensacola, Florida, Duemig moved to Philadelphia where he became a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia 76ers, and Philadelphia Flyers, and in high school he lettered in soccer, baseball, basketball, and golf. He played soccer for the Lock Haven Bald Eagles but transferred to Bucks County Community College, where he played on the league champion basketball team and the state champion golf team.

After college he began his career in golf, working as a club pro, and qualified for the PGA Tour.  He returned to Florida to focus year-round on his golf career, and started a golf business with driving range and golf shop. It was through his golf business that he became connected to Tampa Bay sports radio, eventually discussing other sports on the air. He also played on the first The Big Break that aired on The Golf Channel, and co-hosted the Grey Goose 19th Hole for 5 years with Kelly Tilghman and Charles Davis, provided color commentary during Tampa Bay Lightning hockey games, and hosted College Football Pre-Game React, a weekly call-in sports show on Fox Sports Radio. Through his association with fellow WDAE host Chris Thomas, Duemig became knowledgeable in horse racing and became a part owner of a horse.

References 

1954 births
2019 deaths
Golfers from Florida
Sportspeople from Pensacola, Florida
Sportspeople from Philadelphia
Place of death missing
Deaths from brain cancer in the United States
Pachira quinata

Pachira quinata, commonly known as pochote, is a species of flowering tree in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It inhabits dry forests in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras Panama, Venezuela, and Colombia. Pochotes bear large, stubby thorns on their trunk and branches and are often planted as living fenceposts with barbed wire strung between them. These thorns are also often used to make small house-like sculptures that are believed to bring protection to someone's house since the pochote is believed to be sacred.

The tree is largely plantation grown in Costa Rica for its lumber, which is an ideal, remarkably stable hardwood similar in working properties to Cedrela odorata (Spanish cedar). It is one of the most affordable woods in Costa Rica, and is used in furniture, guitar marking, and other fine woodcrafts.

References

External links

Árboles de Centroamérica: Bombacopsis quinata (pdf Spanish)

Bombacoideae
Plants described in 1994
Trees of Costa Rica
Trees of Nicaragua
Trees of Panama
Trees of Venezuela
Trees of Colombia
Vulnerable plants
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
Dominia

Dominia may refer to:

 Dominia (band), a Russian melodic death metal band
 Dominia, one of the cable-laying ships that produced the All Red Line
 The original name for the Multiverse, the fictional universe of Magic: The Gathering

See also
 Domina (disambiguation)
 Dominica, an island country in the Caribbean
SCONUL

SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries) is the membership organisation for all academic and national libraries in the UK and Ireland.

History
SCONUL was founded in 1950 as the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries. In 1994 when British polytechnics became universities it merged with COPOL, the Council of Polytechnic Librarians, and in 2001 it extended its membership to libraries of Colleges of Higher Education and changed to its current name.

Aims
SCONUL states its aims as:

For the benefit of our libraries and their users we aim:
 to promote the sharing and development of good practice
 to influence policy makers and encourage debate
 to raise the profile of higher education and national libraries

Activities
SCONUL's activities include advocacy for the higher education library community, training and sharing best practice, making arrangements for reciprocal access to libraries, and the collection of statistics.

SCONUL groups are made up by representatives from the member institutions. Groups include the Content Strategy Group, Organisational Development Strategy Group, Technology and Markets Strategy Group, Trends and Futures Strategy Group and the Services Steering Group.

Structure

Its members include libraries in higher education institutions (not only universities but also higher education colleges and specialist schools and conservatoires); the British Library and the National Libraries of Ireland, Scotland and Wales; and libraries in national museums and other specialist institutions.

SCONUL is governed by its members whose Representatives meet twice a year, and between meetings by an elected Executive Board. SCONUL is a registered charity.

The SCONUL Executive Director, from 13 September 2010, is Ann Rossiter and the SCONUL office is based at 94 Euston Street, London, UK, NW1 2HA.

References

External links

Library associations in the United Kingdom
Suwwah

Suwwah (, plural of  = traveller, wanderer, itinerant) are Coptic Christian anchorites in Egypt.

In folklore the suwwah are considered to have attained the highest level of spirituality, feeling no bodily pain, hunger, thirst, or sexual desire. They are also capable of keeping themselves invisible except when they choose to reveal themselves. Some hold that there are only ever twelve of them; others believe there are four hundred, and others still hold them to be limitless in number. It is also said that when one of the suwwah dies, the others choose his successor and summon that person to join them.

In a variant form they are described as “Sowha”, monks who dwell in the desert living off the land with aid from no man.  They live neither in monasteries nor even caves. Sometimes at night, the singing of psalms by sowha can be heard in the mountain canyons around monasteries. The sowha are shrouded in myth.  Some believe if one sees or speaks to one, it means that God will soon call you home.

The sowha are believed to be closer to heaven than earth, making their transition after death to heaven a relatively short one.  It would seem they are granted a special grace by which God may be pleased to send them back to earth to complete a mission for the Lord or so that their praise may once more ascend from the deserts of Egypt to heaven to the glory of God.

Madame Blavatsky had an interest in the suwwah, and spent time with a Coptic magician, Paolos Metamon. She considered that the suwwah to be survivors of a mysterious brotherhood, transmitters of an ancient pre-Christian system of beliefs.

References

Coptic Orthodox Church
Oriental Orthodox monks
Early Days (journal)

Early Days is the annual academic journal of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society. The journal has been published regularly since 1927 and includes articles relating to the history of Western Australia written by society members or delivered at the monthly general meetings. Before 1938 it bore the title Journal and Proceedings.

Publication
 Journal and proceedings (Western Australian Historical Society)
 Early days / Western Australian Historical Society.
 From 1962 issued by the Royal Western Australian Historical Society.  Volume numbering erratic.
 Journal and proceedings (Western Australian Historical Society 1938–1949) Periodicals.
 New ser. v. 1 (Oct. 1938) – v. 10 (Dec. 1948)
 Early days: journal and proceedings of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society. Perth [W.A.]: The Society, 1978.
"For this re-printed edition, the name of the Journal appears in the standard form that was established in later years, and not precisely as it was at the time of original publication"  Reproduced in 1978 from the original printings for The Royal Western Australian Historical Society, by General Printing, a division of West Australian Newspapers.  Vol. 1, pt. 1 (1927) – v. 2, pt. 20 (1936)

References

External links
Article index
Journal via Informit

History of Western Australia
Books about Western Australia
Academic journals established in 1927
Mervyn Crossman

Mervyn Richard Crossman (7 April 1935 – 20 June 2017) was an Australian field hockey player, who won the bronze medal with the Men's National Team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Four years earlier, when Rome, Italy hosted the Games, he made his Olympic debut.

Crossman played 32 times for Australia at the senior level, scoring 8 goals and was a renowned penalty corner hitter. He died in Townsville, Queensland on 20 June 2017.

References

External links
 
 
 
 

1935 births
2017 deaths
Australian male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Australia
Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Field hockey players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Field hockey people from Queensland
Sportsmen from Queensland
Xenon trioxide

Xenon trioxide is an unstable compound of xenon in its +6 oxidation state. It is a very powerful oxidizing agent, and liberates oxygen from water slowly, accelerated by exposure to sunlight. It is dangerously explosive upon contact with organic materials. When it detonates, it releases xenon and oxygen gas.

Chemistry
Synthesis of xenon trioxide is by aqueous hydrolysis of :
 + 3  →  + 6 HF

The resulting xenon trioxide crystals are a strong oxidising agent and can oxidise most substances that are at all oxidisable. However, it is slow-acting and this reduces its usefulness.

Above 25 °C, xenon trioxide is very prone to violent explosion:

2 XeO3 → 2 Xe + 3 O2 (ΔHf = −403 kJ/mol)

When it dissolves in water, an acidic solution of xenic acid is formed:

XeO3(aq) + H2O → H2XeO4  H+ + 

This solution is stable at room temperature and lacks the explosive properties of xenon trioxide. It oxidises carboxylic acids quantitatively to carbon dioxide and water.

Alternatively, it dissolves in alkaline solutions to form xenates. The  anion is the predominant species in xenate solutions. These are not stable and begin to disproportionate into perxenates (+8 oxidation state) and xenon and oxygen gas. Solid perxenates containing  have been isolated by reacting  with an aqueous solution of hydroxides. Xenon trioxide reacts with inorganic fluorides such as KF, RbF, or CsF to form stable solids of the form .

Physical properties
Hydrolysis of xenon hexafluoride or xenon tetrafluoride yields a solution from which colorless XeO3 crystals can be obtained by evaporation. The crystals are stable for days in dry air, but readily absorb water from humid air to form a concentrated solution. The crystal structure is orthorhombic with a = 6.163 Å, b = 8.115 Å, c = 5.234 Å, and 4 molecules per unit cell. The density is 4.55 g/cm3.

Safety
XeO3 should be handled with great caution. Samples have detonated when undisturbed at room temperature. Dry crystals react explosively with cellulose.

References

External links
 Webelements periodic table: page on Xenon(VI) oxide

Oxides
Xenon(VI) compounds
Inorganic compounds
President of the Victorian Legislative Council

The President of the Victorian Legislative Council, also known as the presiding officer of the council, is the presiding officer of the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria and equivalent to the President of the Australian Senate.  When there is a vacancy in the office of president, a new president is elected by the members of the council from among its number. The president ceases to hold that office if they cease to be a member of the council, and can be removed at any time by a vote of the members. The current president is Shaun Leane.

The role of the president
The president is always a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, and is the ceremonial head of that council.  The president performs ceremonial duties, and represents the council to other organisations.  In conjunction with the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, the president is responsible for the administration of the Victorian Parliament.  When the council is sitting, the president enforces procedures and assists the smooth running of council meetings. The president is assisted in their duties by a deputy president.

Choosing the president
The president of the Legislative Council is an elected position.  When a new president is required, any member of the Legislative Council may propose, during a council sitting, any other present member for the position of president.  If more than one member is proposed and seconded, all members must agree to one particular candidate. After election, the president presents his or herself as the choice of the council to be their president.

List of presidents of the Legislative Council
Note: where no political party is listed, this means that either the party is unknown, or that the President in question was not affiliated with any particular party.  Multiple parties are listed in cases where the President represented more than one party over his career as a Member of the Legislative Council.

References

Victoria
Manuel Asur

Manuel Asur (Manuel Asur GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA) (Güeria Carrocera, San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Asturias, 1947) is a Spanish essayist and poet in Asturian. He's considered to be one of the first modern poets in this language. He has a PhD degree in Philosophy. His book, Cancios y poemes pa un riscar ('Songs and Poems to a Dawn') meant the beginning in 1977 of the rebirth (Asturian surdimientu) of asturian literature, because he contributed with a poetry more newfangled and risked than anything written before in this language. Most of their works talk about the socio-political facts of the moment. Some of their poems became very popular in Asturias in the 1970s since the group Nuberu used them as lyrics for their songs. He wrote also a narrative book in 1987, Hai una llinia trazada ('There's a Drawn Line'), with short stories that he say to consider "almost monologues". He's a current articulist of La Nueva España publications and works in the Consejería de Medio Rural y Pesca del Principado de Asturias.

Books published
Cancios y poemes pa un riscar (1977). Author's edition. 
Camín del cumal fonderu ('Going to the Deeper Peak') (1978). Author's edition. 
Vívese d'oyíes: Poemes bilingües ('Living by Hearsay: Bilingual Poems') (1979). Seminariu de Llingua Asturiana 
Congoxa que ye amor ('This Anguish is Love') (1982). Author's edition. 
Destruición del poeta ('Destruction of the Poet') (1984). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana 
Hai una llinia trazada (short stories) (1987). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana 
Poesía 1976-1996 ('Poetry 1976-1996', selected works) (1996). Trabe 
Orbayos ('Drizzles') (2002). Trabe 
El libro de las visitas ('The Visitor's Book', in Spanish language) (2003). Trabe 
Lo que dice la caracola ('What the conch says', in Spanish)(2007) Lulu.com 
El solitario de Avilés—Vida y obra del filósofo Estanislao Sánchez Calvo ('The Solitary from Aviles—The Life and Work of Philosopher Estanislao Sánchez Calvo', in spanish language)(2008). I.S.B.N: 978-1-4092-0593-7
Balada del balagar (2011) Lulu.com  (Astur language) Poemes.
Las arrogancias del barro (2015) in Spanish ,  lulu.com

External links
 El sombreru de Virxilio. Biography, bibliography and two poems of Manuel Asur (in Asturian language)

1947 births
Living people
People from San Martín del Rey Aurelio
20th-century Spanish writers
20th-century Spanish male writers
21st-century Spanish writers
Writers from Asturias
Asturian language
Kanal 1

Kanal 1 can refer to:
SVT1 or Kanal1, a Swedish television channel
Kanal 1 (Bosnia and Herzegovina) or K1 Sarajevo, a Bosnian-language cable music television channel
Kanal 1 (Turkey), a Turkish-language public television station and channel of an international version of Wheel of Fortune
BNT 1, a Bulgarian television channel from the Bulgarian National Television, formerly named Kanal 1 (channel 1)
Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Paralympics

At the 2006 Winter Paralympics, 20 cross-country skiing events were contested at Pragelato.

Medal table

Events

Men
 5 km
 Sitting
 Standing
 Visually impaired
 10 km
 Sitting
 Standing
 Visually impaired
 15 km
 Sitting
 20 km
 Standing
 Visually impaired
 1×3.75 km + 2×5 km relay
 open

Women
 2.5 km
 Sitting
 5 km
 Standing
 Visually impaired
 Sitting
 10 km
 Standing
 Visually impaired
 Sitting
 15 km
 Standing
 Visually impaired
 3×2.5 km relay
 open

Men's events

Men's short distance

Men's middle distance

Men's long distance

Men's relay 1x3.75 km + 2x5 km

Women's events

Women's short distance

Women's middle distance

Women's long distance

Women's relay 3x2.5 km

See also
Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics

References

 
 Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee
 Torino 2006, paraphoto.org, March 12, 2006
 Torino 2006, paraphoto.org, March 15, 2006
 Torino 2006, paraphoto.org, March 17, 2006
 Torino 2006, paraphoto.org, March 19, 2006

 
2006 Winter Paralympics events
2006
Paralympics
ISU Speed Skating World Cup

The ISU Speed Skating World Cup is a series of international speed skating competitions, organised annually by the International Skating Union since the winter of 1985–86. Every year during the winter season, a number of competitions on different distances and on different locations are held. Skaters can earn points at each competition, and the skater who has the most points on a given distance at the end of the series is the winner. Initially not very popular with skaters nor spectators, the World Cup has gradually become more and more popular, and this was due to the creation of the World Single Distance Championships. The results of the separate distances in the World Cup ranking are the main qualifying method for the World Single Distance Championships.

The number of races per season per distance varies, but it is usually between five and ten. Ten World Cup titles are awarded every season, five for men (the 500 m, the 1000 m, the 1500 m, the combined 5000 m / 10000 m, and the team pursuit), and five for women (the 500 m, the 1000 m, the 1500 m, the combined 3000 m / 5000 m, and the team pursuit).

The team pursuit was added to the World Cup in the 2005–06 season. Between the seasons 2003–04 and 2008–09, the 100 m was also contested for men and women, but this category is now defunct.

The mass start was re-introduced for both women and men in the World Cup in Astana in 2011.

Overall World Cup winners

Men

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

Medals:

Women

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com
Medals:

Most World Cup victories
The skaters with the highest number of individual World Cup victories as of 19 February 2023. Active skaters in bold.

Men

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

Women

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

All-time medal count

See also 
 ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating
Cup Ranking - Country Medal Table 
World Speed Skating Championships

References

 
International speed skating competitions
Recurring sporting events established in 1985
Speed skating
International Skating Union competitions
2006 London local elections

Local government elections took place in London, and some other parts of the United Kingdom on Thursday 4 May 2006. Polling stations were open between 7am and 10pm.

All London borough council seats were up for election.  Mayoral contests were held in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Lewisham, and Newham.

The London Conservatives slightly increased their vote share, made 131 council seat gains and won control of 6 new councils, while London Labour saw its vote share decline by 6% and lost 8 councils and 182 seats. The 2006 result was one of Labour's worst local election results in London, with its share of the vote (27.9%), its number of council seats (684) and number of councils (7) all at their lowest levels since 1968. Conversely, the Conservatives won the most seats, the most councils and the most votes in London for the first time since 1982.

The Labour decline was also accompanied by a rise in the number of minor party councillors, mostly concentrated in specific local authorities. Respect won 15 council seats, the British National Party won 14 and the London Green Party won 12. The Christian Peoples Alliance and the Socialist Party also won two seats each. In total, the election saw 76 minor party or independent councillors elected in London, a figure which remains the highest on record.

Altogether, minor parties and independents won 17% of the vote, the highest ever vote share for 'other' parties until the local elections of 2014.

Results summary

Turnout: 2,284,882 voters cast ballots, a turnout of 38.9% (+7.1%).

Council results

Overall councillor numbers
The largest party in terms of councils and councillors became the Conservative Party after this election, with losses by the Labour Party and a small increase in share of the vote to the Liberal Democrats.  Smaller national parties made significant gains, with the British National Party and Respect having the second-largest number of councillors in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and Tower Hamlets (respectively).  The Green Party also saw its gains concentrated on one area to achieve the third most councillors in the London Borough of Lewisham.  Scattered across boroughs, unaffiliated residents groups won 24 council seats.

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Mayoral results
In three London boroughs the executive function of the council is a directly elected mayor. The mayoral elections take place at the same time as councillor elections in those boroughs.

Ward result maps

London-wide 
The map below shows the results for each ward across the whole of Greater London.

By borough

References

 
May 2006 events in the United Kingdom
2006