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Scythian Suite

The Scythian Suite, Op. 20 is an orchestral suite by Sergei Prokofiev written in 1915.

Background
Prokofiev originally wrote the music for the ballet Ala i Lolli, the story of which takes place among the Scythians. Commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev, the ballet was written to a scenario by Russian poet Sergey Gorodetsky. But when Diaghilev rejected the score even before its completion, the composer reworked the music into a suite for concert performance.

The suite was premiered on 16/29 January 1916 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, conducted by the composer.

A scheduled Moscow performance of the suite that December was cancelled at the last minute due to the difficulty of finding musicians to play the piece; it called for an enlarged orchestra and, as many performers had been mobilized due to World War I, enough players could not be found. Nevertheless, the Moscow music critic Leonid Sabaneyev gave the music a scathing review. Prokofiev responded that the supposed performance must have been a product of Sabaneyev's imagination, as the only copy of the score was in the composer's hands and thus he had not even been able to see it.

Movements
The suite is in four movements and lasts around 20 minutes.

Instrumentation
The music is scored for a large orchestra:

Woodwinds
Piccolo
3 Flutes (3rd doubling Alto flute)
3 Oboes
Cor anglais
3 Clarinets (3rd doubling E clarinet)
Bass clarinet
3 Bassoons
Contrabassoon

Brass
8 Horns
4 (optionally 5) Trumpets (3rd doubling E trumpet)
4 Trombones
Tuba

Percussion
Timpani

Glockenspiel
Xylophone
2 Cymbals
Tamtam
Triangle
Bass drum
Snare drum
Tambourine

Keyboards
Celesta
Piano

Strings
2 Harps
Violins I, II
Violas
Cellos
Double basses

Adaptations 
The Bermuda Triangle (1978) is an electronic adaptation by Isao Tomita that includes the first movement (The Adoration of Veles and Ala) of the Scythian Suite.

The track "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" on Works Volume 1 by progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer is an arrangement of the second movement.

The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, performed the piece during Metallica's S&M2 concerts at Chase Center, San Francisco on September 6 and 8, 2019.

Notes

References
David Ewen. Encyclopedia of Concert Music.  New York: Hill and Wang, 1959.
Nicolas Slonimsky. Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotes.  New York: Schirmer Books, 1998.
Sergei Prokofiev. Soviet Diary 1927 and Other Writings. London: Faber, 1991.
Sergei Prokofiev. Diaries 1915-1923: Behind the Mask, trans. Anthony Phillips. London: Faber, 2008.

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1915 compositions
Duncan Hodge

Duncan Hodge (born 18 August 1974) is a Scottish former internationalist rugby union player. He gained 26 full caps for Scotland.

Playing career

Hodge was born in Dumfries, Scotland and educated at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh. He went on to represent Durham as a student, competing in the same team as Will Greenwood and Tim Stimpson.

As a 19-year-old he was given the choice of touring Zimbabwe and South Africa with Scotland's National Cricket team, or playing under-21 national rugby and completing his university exams.. The latter was the only realistic choice for somebody who has already decided that he wanted to focus on a full-time career in sport.

He played for Watsonians until the creation of the Scottish Pro sides when he was contracted to play for Edinburgh Rugby.

He played for Edinburgh Gunners twice sandwiched around a two-year spell with Leeds Tykes. His second season in Leeds was ruined by injury. where he only managed one league appearance that year.

International honours
Hodge won his first full cap as a replacement for Craig Chalmers against France in Paris in 1997, having already booked a place in Scottish rugby lore when his drop goal in the dying seconds secured Scotland A's victory over the 1994 Springboks. He has made 13 appearances for Scotland A, captaining them to their 40–35 win over Argentina in November 2001.

Hodge in total won 26 caps playing at fly-half for the Scottish rugby union side between 1997 and 2002. As well as his games in Europe he played for Scotland in tours in Australia (1998), New Zealand (2000), and North America (2002). It was on the North American tour when he played in his last full internationals against Canada in Vancouver and USA in San Francisco. He also made two appearances in the 1999 World Cup. He scored 123 points for the national side from six tries, 15 conversions, 20 penalties and one drop goal.

His finest moment was when he converted his own try and kicked four penalties to score all the points for Scotland in the 2000 Calcutta Cup 19–13 win against England. This was in the inaugural season of the Six Nations at Murrayfield, and the first victory for Scotland against England since 1990 prevented England from completing a 6 Nations Championship Grand Slam and Scotland from finishing bottom of the table.

Coaching

Duncan Hodge travelled to the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand as Scotland's kicking coach, and during the 2015 Rugby World Cup he acted as attack coach. After the World Cup, he joined Edinburgh Rugby.

References

External links 
 
 Duncan Hodge on Sporting Heroes
 Back to Cricket

1974 births
Living people
Durham University RFC players
Edinburgh Rugby players
Leeds Tykes players
People educated at Merchiston Castle School
Rugby union fly-halves
Rugby union players from Dumfries
Scotland international rugby union players
Scottish rugby union coaches
Scottish rugby union players
Watsonians RFC players
1999 Rugby World Cup players
Split capital investment trust

A split capital investment trust (split) is a type of investment trust which issues different classes of share to give the investor a choice of shares to match their needs.  Most splits have a limited life determined at launch known as the wind-up date.  Typically the life of a split capital trust is five to ten years.

Structure 

Every split capital trust will have at least two classes of share: 

In order of (typical) priority and increasing risk
Zero Dividend Preference shares - no dividends, only capital growth at a pre-established redemption price (assuming sufficient assets)
Income shares - entitled to most (or all) of the income generated from the assets of a trust until the wind-up date, with some capital protection
Annuity Income shares - very high and rising yield, but virtually no capital protection
Ordinary Income shares (aka Income & Residual Capital shares) - a high income and a share of the remaining assets of the trust after prior ranking shares
Capital shares - entitled most (or all) of the remaining assets after prior ranking share classes have been paid; very high risk

The type of share invested in is ranked in a predetermined order of priority, which becomes important when the trust reaches its wind-up date.  If the split has acquired any debt, debentures or loan stock, then this is paid out first, before any shareholders.  Next in line to be repaid are Zero Dividend Preference shares, followed by any Income shares and then Capital.  Although this order of priority is the most common way shares are paid out at the wind-up date, it may alter slightly from trust to trust.

Splits may also issue Packaged Units combining certain classes of share, usually reflecting the share classes in the trust usually in the same ratio.  This makes them essentially the same investment as an ordinary share in a conventional Investment Trust.

See also
Closed-end fund
Income trust
Real estate investment trust
Venture Capital Trust
Investment company

References

External links

Investment
 

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Ruinenberg

The Ruinenberg is a hill in the Bornstedt borough of Potsdam, located north of Sanssouci Park. In 1748, the Prussian king Frederick the Great had a water tank with a capacity of around  built on top to supply the Sanssouci water features, and had it decorated with artificial ruins. From 1841 a surrounding landscape garden was laid out at the behest of King Frederick William IV of Prussia, according to plans designed by Peter Joseph Lenné.

History
The lands around the former Hünenberg hill had been part of the partridge and pheasant hunting grounds of Frederick's father King Frederick William I of Prussia. His son Frederick the Great began the erection of Sanssouci Palace in 1745.

Frederick wanted a lot of water for his then planned projects:  a fountain complex, the Neptune Grotto, and a marble colonnade in Sanssouci Park, which is no longer standing. The plans intended to draw water from the Havel with windmills into the high basin on the mountain. It then flowed under the park through a tubular system of hollowed tree trunks, which was to bring the water up into the fountains.

Though the king poured a great deal of money into the project, it yielded no success because of the technical ignorance of his men. After many years of effort, Frederick's dream of fountains was finally given up in 1780.
In a letter to Voltaire, he wrote in 1778:
I wanted to have a water jet in my garden: Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water to a reservoir, from where it should fall back through channels, finally spurting out in Sans Souci. My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a mouthful of water closer than fifty paces to the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

Master Builder Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff and Theater Painter Innocente Bellavite designed blinds of imitation antique ruins. A Monopteros (round temple), three high ionic columns, a small pyramid, and a ruined wall, designed as if from a Roman theatre, were grouped around the pool. 

Around a century after the construction of Sanssouci, Friedrich Wilhelm IV realized Frederick's dream. Through new technical possibilities of the steam engine and a modern piping system, the fountains were put into place. A building was erected especially for the steam engine (August Borsig) and its pump machine from 1841 to 1843 on the shore of the Havel.  Disguised as a mosque, it was designed by Ludwig Persius.

Persius also had plans to extend the theater wall on the Ruinenberg with a  high look-out tower, in imitation of a medieval watchtower. After his early death, the so-called Norman Tower was built by Ferdinand von Arnim in 1846.

References

The information in this article is based on a translation of its German equivalent.

External links
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The Steam Engine Building
 The Norman Tower
Potsdam from Above – Ruinenberg

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American Institute of Instruction

The American Institute of Instruction was formed in 1830.  The original purpose was to secure a Massachusetts Superintendent of Common Schools. Due to the work of Samuel Read Hall, George B. Emerson and E. A. Andrews, legislation was passed leading to both the appointment of Horace Mann as Secretary of the State Board of Education, and the Acts of 1837, providing for a Superintendent of Public Education.

References

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1830 establishments in Massachusetts
Wheel of life (disambiguation)

Wheel of life generally refers to the Bhavacakra, an instructional figure in Buddhism.

It might also mean:

Saṃsāra understood as a cycle of life and death (as understood through various religions)
Wheel of Life, a 2003 album by progressive rock group Karmakanic
A sculpture with the name The Wheel of Life (Livshjulet) in Vigeland Sculpture Park (Vigelandsparken), Oslo, Norway
The Wheel of Life, a boulder problem in Hollow Mountain Cave in the Grampians of Australia
Zoetrope, device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures
Wheel of Life, a coaching tool used in life coaching and management coaching to assess coaching priorities
The Wheel of Life (1929 film), an American film by Paramount
The Wheel of Life (1942 film), a Spanish film

See also
 Samsara (disambiguation)
2005 UNCAF Interclub Cup

The 2005 UNCAF Interclub Cup was the 23rd edition of the international club football competition held in the UNCAF region representing the seven nations of Central America. This was the seventh year of the current format using the name UNCAF Interclub Cup.  The tournament was also a qualifying event for the 2006 CONCACAF Champions' Cup.  Sixteen teams representing seven football associations took part, starting with the first qualifying games on July 26, 2005. The tournament ended with a two-legged final between Olimpia of Honduras and Alajuelense of Costa Rica. The first leg was played in  Tegucigalpa, Honduras on November 23, 2005 and ended with Alajuelense earning a 1-0 victory. The second leg was played in  Alajuela, Costa Rica on November 30, 2005 with Olimpia winning 1-0. Alajuelense then won the UNCAF Interclub Cup in a penalty shootout by the score of 4-2.  The top three finishers in the tournament, Alajuelense, Olimpia, and Saprissa, qualified for the 2006 CONCACAF Champions' Cup.

Bracket

Round of 16

 Parmalat were dissolved prior the start of the tournament and Marathón advanced automatically.

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Third place

Final

Alajuelense 2005 UNCAF champions

Alajuelense, Olimpia, Deportivo Saprissa advance to 2006 CONCACAF Champions' Cup quarterfinals.

References

UNCAF Interclub Cup
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2005–06 in Honduran football
2005–06 in Guatemalan football
2005–06 in Costa Rican football
2005–06 in Salvadoran football
2005–06 in Nicaraguan football
2005–06 in Belizean football
2005–06 in Panamanian football
2004 UNCAF Interclub Cup

The 2004 UNCAF Interclub Cup was the 22nd edition of the Central American Club Championship and the 6th edition under its current name, UNCAF Interclub Cup.  C.S.D. Municipal from Guatemala, lifted its 4th title.

Qualified teams

First round

 Cobán Imperial 4–4 Plaza Amador on aggregate; Plaza Amador advanced on away goals.

 Olimpia won 6–0 on aggregate.

 Herediano won 6–0 on aggregate.

 Real España 4–4 Real Estelí on aggregate; Real Estelí advanced on away goals.

 Alianza won 5–2 on aggregate.

 FAS won 9–0 on aggregate.

Quarterfinals

 FAS won 6–2 on aggregate.

 Municipal won 4–1 on aggregate.

 Olimpia 3–3 Herediano on aggregate; Olimpia advanced on away goals.

 Saprissa won 5–0 on aggregate.

Final round

Standings

Municipal 2004 UNCAF champions

Municipal, Deportivo Saprissa, Olimpia advance to  2005 CONCACAF Champions' Cup quarterfinals.

References

UNCAF Interclub Cup
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2004–05 in Honduran football
2004–05 in Guatemalan football
2004–05 in Costa Rican football
2004–05 in Salvadoran football
2004–05 in Nicaraguan football
2004–05 in Belizean football
2004–05 in Panamanian football
Gangsta Girls

Gangsta Girls (Vietnamese: Nữ tướng cướp) is a 2004 Vietnamese film. Directed by young director Le Hoang, it was the most financially successful film in Vietnam during 2005. It stars Lam Truong, Bằng Lăng and My Duyen. The film is distributed by Thien Ngan Galaxy

Plot
Two poor sisters (played by top list models My Duyen and Bang Lang), living in a slum area in Ho Chi Minh City have found a malicious way to get money, usually by acting disabled. After they trick a man and put him to sleep they steal all his belongings and money. The sisters decide to go out to a fancy restaurant, and soon, meet the young owner. The younger sister eventually falls in love with him, even though the two sisters decided to kidnap him for ransom. In the end karma finds the sisters.

2004 films
2004 in Vietnam
2004 crime drama films
Vietnamese crime films
Vietnamese drama films
Esplanade (Algonquin)

The Esplanade is a mixed-use development under construction on Randall Road next to the lifestyle center Algonquin Commons in Algonquin, Illinois. It is part of the Algonquin Corporate Campus. It is being built by commercial developers Centerville Properties. Currently, plans are for several restaurants located in the center and peripheral edges of the property, primarily along Randall Road and Corporate Parkway. Currently, 220 apartment units and 40,000 square feet of commercial space is being constructed.  Focal features include an arch over the main entrance, a namesake Esplanade was to  connect the apartments and offices to the shops and restaurants in the front of the property, outdoor terraces in the office buildings, a community center near the apartments, and outdoor patio seating at the anchor restaurants, flanked by graceful ponds, fountains, and landscaping.{
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Stores
Sylvan Learning Center
Fit RX
Inner Peace Pilates
Advanced Skin Concepts
Hobby Lobby

Offices
Centerville Properties
Realty Executives Cornerstone
TechnicalPeople.com
Windy City Strategy

External links
 The Esplanade of Algonquin

References

Algonquin, Illinois
Buildings and structures under construction in the United States
Johnny Brewer

Johnny Lee Brewer (March 8, 1937 – May 27, 2011) was an American football tight end and linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Cleveland Browns and New Orleans Saints.  He played college football at the University of Mississippi.

Brewer was a fourth round selection by the Cleveland Browns in the 1960 NFL Draft, and was also selected by the Minneapolis AFL team of the newly-formed American Football League. The Browns also selected Ole Miss teammates Bobby Franklin in the eleventh round and Robert Khayat in the sixth round.

He was a member of the Browns teams that won the NFL championship in 1964 over the heavily favored Baltimore Colts and the 1965 Eastern Conference championship team that lost the title game to the Green Bay Packers.

Brewer played slot end/tight end for the Browns until 1966 when he was converted to linebacker with the impending retirement of linebacker Galen Fiss and the presence of first round draft pick Milt Morin.

Brewer announced his retirement from professional football in January 1968 to go into the insurance business.
 Later in the year, Brewer decided he would play football again if the Browns would trade him to a team closer to his home and insurance business. The Browns traded him the New Orleans Saints in mid-August. The Browns acquired a 1970 second round draft pick in exchange for Brewer; they used that pick to draft defensive end Joe “Turkey” Jones. Brewer announced his retirement from the Saints in November 1970.

He was married to Anita Wood for 46 years from 1965 until his death in 2011.

References

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Players of American football from Vicksburg, Mississippi
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1996 Torneo Grandes de Centroamérica

The 1996 Torneo Grandes de Centroamérica was the 15th UNCAF Club Tournament and the first one since 1984; the tournament was renamed Torneo Grandes de Centroamérica.  Costa Rican side Liga Deportiva Alajuelense were crowned champions.

Teams

Original format
Originally 2 groups of 4 teams were organized, however, Hondurans Motagua and Olimpia withdrew and they were scrapped from the groups. The day before the start, Atlético Marte also withdrew leaving the groups uneven; the draw was revised and all teams played each other in a home and away format.

Standings

Results

References

1996
1
1995–96 in Honduran football
1995–96 in Salvadoran football
1995–96 in Guatemalan football
1995–96 in Costa Rican football
Pete Brewster

Darrel Burton Brewster (September 1, 1930 – January 3, 2020), known as Pete Brewster, was an American football end, coach, and collegiate football and basketball player.

College career
Brewster played football and basketball at Portland High School, located in Portland, Indiana. After high school, he went to Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, on a basketball scholarship, playing for Ray Eddy. He also played varsity football as a Boilermaker for head coach Stuart Holcomb.
.

Professional career
Brewster was selected in the 2nd round (21st overall) in the 1952 NFL Draft. In his first season with the Cleveland Browns, he filled in on both defense and offense. He became the team's first-string offensive left end during his second season and was the team's second-ranking pass receiver during the 1953 season.  He was selected for Pro Bowl honors in 1955 and 1956 at the tight end position. After seven seasons with the Browns, he played for the Pittsburgh Steelers for two seasons.

Coaching career
Following the completion of his playing career, Brewster was a receivers coach with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Minnesota Vikings, earning a Super Bowl ring with the Chiefs in Super Bowl IV.

After football
Brewster retired from football and lived in Peculiar, Missouri on the outskirts of Kansas City. He is enshrined in the Indiana Football Hall of Fame. He died in Belton, Missouri on January 3, 2020, at the age of 89.

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American football tight ends
Purdue Boilermakers football players
Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball players
Milwaukee Hawks draft picks
Cleveland Browns players
Pittsburgh Steelers players
Eastern Conference Pro Bowl players
Kansas City Chiefs coaches
Minnesota Vikings coaches
People from Peculiar, Missouri
American men's basketball players
Samuel Ross Hay

Samuel Ross Hay (1865 – 1944) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1922.

Born 15 October 1865 in Decaturville, Decatur County, Tennessee, he was the son of the Rev. William and Martha (England) Hay.  His grandfather was an influential local preacher.

The Hays moved to Texas about 1881. Samuel attended Centenary College, Southwestern University, and Southern College, Lakeland, Florida.  He was licensed to preach in 1886, joining the North Texas Annual Conference of the M.E. Church, South in 1887.  Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, Hay was a pastor and a presiding elder.

He was elected Bishop 16 May 1922 and placed in charge of all American Southern Methodist Episcopal Mission work in China. Returning to the United States in 1924, he resided in several episcopal areas in the south and west of the country and assisted in the development of the Methodist Church in Mexico.

On June 26, 1928, he offered the opening invocation at the 1928 Democratic National Convention in Houston.

Hay died on 4 February 1944 in Houston, Texas.

Selected writings
Address at funeral of Bishop McMurry.  A brochure, 1934.

See also
 List of bishops of the United Methodist Church

References
Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops.  Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.

External links
 

1865 births
1944 deaths
American Methodist missionaries
American Methodist Episcopal, South bishops
Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
People from Decatur County, Tennessee
Methodist missionaries in China
Centenary College of Louisiana alumni
20th-century Methodist bishops
American expatriates in China
Norman Wood Bridge

The Norman Wood Bridge carries Pennsylvania Route 372 across the Susquehanna River between York County, Pennsylvania and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

History and architectural features
Construction of this bridge took two years. It opened for use on August 21, 1968. Its namesake served more than 40 years in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

On September 28, 2015, the bridge was closed abruptly because an inspector found a crack in one of the steel girders; it reopened with one lane of traffic on October 16, 2015, and all restrictions were removed on November 2, 2015. 

Engineers from Lehigh University were asked to determine the cause of crack, which was repaired by bolting two steel plates over the fourteen-foot-long vertical girder.

Gallery

References

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Greg Brezina

Gregory Brezina (born January 7, 1946) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for twelve seasons with the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He made 12 interceptions and 14 fumble recoveries.

Brezina was raised in Louise, Texas and played college football for the Houston Cougars. He and his five brothers all played football at the University of Houston, an NCAA Division I Record. His brother Bobby Brezina played for the Houston Oilers of the American Football League.

References

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American football linebackers
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Atlanta Falcons players
Western Conference Pro Bowl players
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Between Heaven and Hell

Between Heaven and Hell may refer to:

 Between Heaven and Hell (film), a 1956 film directed by Richard Fleischer
 Between Heaven and Hell (novel), a 1982 novel by Peter Kreeft
 "Between Heaven and Hell" (song), a 1996 song by Zakk Wylde
 Between Heaven and Hell (album), an album by Firewind
 Between Heaven 'n Hell, a 1985 album by Resurrection Band
 Between Heaven and Hell, an album by Black Sabbath
 Between Heaven and Hell, the original title of the soap opera, One Life to Live
 Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of a Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia, a book by W. Bruce Lincoln
 "Between Heaven and Hell", theme song written by Rob Saffi, for the television show Paranormal Lockdown
Larry Brink

Lawrence Raymond Brink (September 12, 1923 – August 7, 2016) was an American football defensive end who played seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL).

Early life and education
Brink was born in Milaca, Minnesota on September 12, 1923, to Garrett and Anna (Ruis) Brink.  He attended Foley High School in Foley, Minnesota.  After military service in World War II, Brink went to Northern Illinois University, where he played college football for the Huskies from 1945 to 1947.  He played with three other future NFL players on the 1946 team that won the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship with an 8–2 record.  The team went on to the Turkey Bowl, losing to Evanston in the Huskies' first post-season game.  He graduated in 1948 with a B.S. in education.  In 1978, he was one of the charter inductees of the NIU Athletics Hall of Fame. He died on August 7, 2016, in Redding, California.

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Kanis

Kanis is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden, and lies about 4 km north of Woerden.

The hamlet was first mentioned between 1839 and 1859 as "de Verkeerde Kanis herbg", and was the name of an inn. Kanis means basket with fish. There is still a restaurant called De Kanis in the village, but it is not clear whether it is related to the original inn. In 1855, a Roman Catholic church was built in the village.

Gallery

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Woerden
Wiggle matching

Wiggle matching, also known as carbon–14 wiggle-match dating (WMD) is a dating method that uses the non-linear relationship between 14C age and calendar age to match the shape of a series of closely sequentially spaced 14C dates with the 14C calibration curve. A numerical approach to WMD allows one to assess the precision of WMD chronologies. The method has both advantages and limitations vis-a-vis the calibration of individual dates. High-precision chronologies are needed for studies of rapid climate changes.  
Andrew Millard refers to wiggle matching as a way of dealing with the flat portion of the carbon 14 calibration graph that is known as the Hallstatt plateau, named after the Hallstatt culture period in central Europe with which it coincides.

References

Dating methodologies in archaeology
The Black Fleet Crisis

The Black Fleet Crisis is a trilogy set in the Star Wars expanded universe. The books take place 16 years after Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. All three novels were authored by Michael P. Kube-McDowell and published by Bantam Books under the imprint Bantam Spectra between March 1996 and November 1998.

Books
 Before the Storm, published March 1, 1996
 Shield of Lies, published August 1, 1996
 Tyrant's Test, published December 1, 1996

Plot
The Black Fleet Crisis begins in a time of peace for the New Republic, and the first time a chance occurs for the Rebel Alliance to turn their attention to more personal concerns.

The outbreak of the Black Fleet Crisis ends a period of relative peace in the galaxy. Yevethan forces (former Imperial slaves who overthrew their masters) using captured Imperial ships begin a genocidal campaign to conquer the Koornacht Cluster by killing all non-Yevethans. The New Republic is forced to fight in its own defense, as well as to rescue hostages held by the Yevethans (including Han Solo). After obtaining an image of Han as a battered hostage, Chewbacca goes on a desperate rescue mission.

Luke Skywalker travels with Akanah Norand Goss Pell to seek out what he's told are mother's people, the Fallanassi, to learn about them. Luke finds that the Fallanassi are a mysterious and secretive sect of Force users who are total pacifists. Luke learns new Force techniques and philosophies from them, and gains their help to aid the New Republic in one battle.

Leia is the only person who doesn't have a chance to rest, who because of her fame,  what others expect of her, and her sense of duty and obligation, she has become a prisoner of the Presidency. But she is far too tired, stressed beyond her limits, and emotionally fragile, and she is only two steps away from a serious personal crisis of her confidence. Nil Spaar, the Machiavellian Viceroy of the Yevethan Protectorate, sees that as an opportunity he can exploit and an opportunity to destroy the New Republic from within.

See also
 List of Star Wars Books

References

External links
 The Black Fleet Crisis FAQ

Book series introduced in 1996
Star Wars Legends novels
 
Bantam Spectra books
Trouble Sleeping (song)

"Trouble Sleeping" is a song by English singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae from her self-titled debut album (2006). It was written by Rae, John Beck and Steve Chrisanthou, and was released as the album's third single on 29 May 2006. Rae performed this song and "Like a Star" on the 27 November 2006 episode of the NBC comedy-drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. "Trouble Sleeping" was also featured on the NBC medical drama ER and on the CBS police procedural drama NCIS.

Track listings
UK CD 1 and 7-inch single / German CD single
"Trouble Sleeping" – 3:27
"Munich" (Radio 1 Live Lounge version) – 4:01

UK CD 2 and German CD maxi single
"Trouble Sleeping" – 3:27
"Till It Happens to You" (live at Shepherd's Bush Empire) – 4:49
"Breathless" (live at Leeds Met) – 5:09
"Trouble Sleeping" (video)

Digital download
"Trouble Sleeping" – 3:26
"Till It Happens to You" (live at Shepherd's Bush Empire) – 4:46
"Breathless" (live at Leeds Met) – 5:08

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Corinne Bailey Rae.

 Corinne Bailey Rae – vocals, backing vocals, percussion
 John Beck – keyboards
 Steve Chrisanthou – electric guitar, organ, production, programming, recording
 Jim Corry – tenor saxophone
 Kenny Higgins – bass guitar
 Jason Rae – alto saxophone
 Malcolm Strachan – trumpet
 Jeremy Wheatley – mixing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Radio and release history

References

2000s ballads
2006 singles
2006 songs
Corinne Bailey Rae songs
EMI Records singles
Songs written by Corinne Bailey Rae
Songs written by John Beck (songwriter)
Soul ballads
Songs written by Steve Chrisanthou
Smooth jazz songs
Geestdorp

Geestdorp is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden, and lies about 2 km northeast of the city centre.

The hamlet was first mentioned in 1272 as Ghersdorp, and means "settlement near grassland". It does not have place name signs. In the mid-19th century, Geestdorp was home to 140 people.

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References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Woerden
List of Ruby-Spears productions

This is a list of Ruby-Spears productions, including television series in animation and live-action.

The pre-1991 library of Ruby-Spears is currently owned by Warner Bros. Television Studios through Warner Bros. Animation.

Main list

Television series

Television specials

The Puppy series

Miss Switch series

Rose Petal Place series

Alvin and the Chipmunks series

Other standalone specials

Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection 
The Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection (once called the Hanna-Barbera Golden Collection, later called the Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection) is a series of two-to-four-disc DVD box sets from Warner Home Video and later by Warner Archive, usually containing complete seasons and complete series of various classic Hanna-Barbera (with MGM Cartoons and Ruby-Spears) cartoons (along with the television movies and specials). The line began in March 2004.

Warner Archive releases

2010 
Thundarr the Barbarian: The Complete Series (December 17, 2010) (Ruby-Spears)

2011 
 Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos: The Complete Series (April 1, 2011) (Ruby-Spears)
 Mister T: The Complete First Season (May 10, 2011) (Ruby-Spears)
 Dragon's Lair (September 20, 2011) (Ruby-Spears)

2015 
 Centurions: Part 1 (July 21, 2015) (Ruby-Spears)

2016 
 Centurions: Part 2 (March 15, 2016) (Ruby-Spears)

2017 
 Dink, the Little Dinosaur: The Complete Series (October 10, 2017) (Ruby-Spears)

Lists of animation
productions
Breeveld

Breeveld is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden, and lies about 4 km northeast of the city centre.

The hamlet was first mentioned in 1217 as Bretevelt, and means "wide field". Breeveld has no place name signs.

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References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Woerden
Penamacor

Penamacor ( or ) is a municipality in the district of Castelo Branco in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,682, in an area of . 

The mayor is António Luís Beites Soares. The municipal holiday is Easter Monday.

Parishes 
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 9 civil parishes (freguesias):
 Aldeia do Bispo, Águas e Aldeia de João Pires
 Aranhas
 Benquerença
 Meimão
 Meimoa
 Pedrógão de São Pedro e Bemposta
 Penamacor
 Salvador
 Vale da Senhora da Póvoa

Notable people 
 António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches (1699 in Penamacor – 1783 in Paris) a physician, philosopher and encyclopédiste.
 Francisco Cunha Leal (1888 in Pedrógão – 1970) politician during the Portuguese First Republic; 84th Prime Minister of Portugal, 1921/1922.
 Joaquim Furtado (born 1948 in Penamacor) a journalist, reporter, TV anchor and documentary film director.
 António José Seguro (born 1962 in Penamacor) a Portuguese politician

References

External links
Town Hall official website

Populated places in Castelo Branco District
Municipalities of Castelo Branco District
People from Penamacor
Kamerik-Mijzijde

Kamerik-Mijzijde, also just called Mijzijde, is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden, and lies about 4 km north of the city of Woerden.
It consists of a number of farms some distance west from the villages of Kamerik and Kanis.

Between 1818 and 1857, Kamerik-Mijzijde was the name of a separate municipality, covering the western half of the later municipality of Kamerik.

It was first mentioned in 1427 as Camerick mitter nyezyde, and means "side of the Meye (river)".. Mijzijde is not a statistical entity, and the postal authorities have placed it under Kamerik. Mijzijde has no place name signs and contains about 60 houses.

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References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Former municipalities of Utrecht (province)
Woerden
1818 establishments in the Netherlands
Richard Fairbrass

Richard Peter John Fairbrass (born 22 September 1953) is an English singer, bassist, and television presenter, best known as lead singer of the pop group Right Said Fred, who achieved hits in the early 1990s including the singles "I'm Too Sexy" and "Deeply Dippy". He and his band have won two Ivor Novello Awards.Sold over 50 million dollars in record sales.

Career
Before forming his own band, Fairbass was a bassist who had played with several prominent artists, including Boy George. In 1984, he appeared in Jazzin' for Blue Jean, a video by David Bowie, as the bass player. Towards the end of the 1980s, Fairbass joined with his brother Fred to form Right Said Fred. The Fairbrass brothers performed as a duo for a brief period, touring in New York City. Guitarist Rob Manzoli joined them in 1990. In 1994, he was joint winner of Rear of the Year with Mandy Smith. Following this, Fairbrass co hosted on BBC Two, (with Rhona Cameron), a television series called Gaytime TV (1995–1999) which was aimed at an LGBT audience.

In December 1998, Fairbrass presented BBC One's Naked Eurovision, a behind the scenes documentary about the Eurovision Song Contest 1998 in Birmingham. From June to August 2001, he co presented with Gabrielle Richens a game show, The Desert Forges, on Channel 5.

In April 2007, Fairbrass was reported to be planning to run for Mayor of London in the 2008 Election. Shortly after, during a gay rights rally in Red Square, Moscow, on 27 May 2007, commemorating the 14th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Russia, Richard and Fred Fairbrass were assaulted by members of a counter demonstration staged by ultra-nationalists.

Personal life
Fairbrass was born on 22 September 1953 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, and was brought up in East Grinstead, West Sussex. He has a younger brother, "Fred" (born Christopher Abbott Bernard Fairbrass on 2 November 1956).

Richard came out as bisexual in 1991 to The Sun. Richard's long-term partner, from 1982 until 2010, was Stuart Pantry, a BBC make up artist, who died in September 2010 of cancer. Fairbrass has also said he appreciates "pretty guys who look like girls and girls who look like pretty guys."

Views on COVID 
Fairbrass was hospitalised with COVID-19 in 2021, but has spoken out against COVID-19 measures and has been skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Views on Russian invasion of Ukraine 
Fairbrass has routinely commented on the 2022 war in Ukraine, often speaking in support of Russia's invasion and Vladimir Putin's justifications for the conflict. In December 2022, he published a tweet on his personal Twitter profile, calling on Putin to resist "western domination". He has also described Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian government as a despotic regime.

References

External links
Official website of Right Said Fred
Right Said Fred at MySpace

1953 births
Living people
English male singers
English television presenters
English LGBT singers
Bisexual male musicians
Bisexual singers
Musicians from Kingston upon Thames
People from East Grinstead
Oud-Kamerik

Oud-Kamerik is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden, and lies about 6 km northwest of the city of Woerden.

It consists of a number of farms in the Polder Kamerik-Teylingens, east of the villages of Kamerik and Kanis. The hamlet was first mentioned in 1296 as Oldecamerike. It uses oud (old) to distinguish from Kamerik which has been named after Cambrai in France. It is not a statistical entity, and the postal authorities have placed it under Kamerik. Oud-Kamerik has no place name signs. In 1840, it was home to 206 people. Nowadays, it consists of about 60 houses.

References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Woerden
Frank Buncom

Frank James Buncom Jr. (November 2, 1939 – September 15, 1969) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker in the American Football League (AFL). He played most of his career with the San Diego Chargers and is member of the Chargers Hall of Fame.

College career
After graduating from Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, Buncom attended junior college at East Los Angeles College. He then played college football at the University of Southern California, where he lettered in the 1960 and 1961 seasons.

Professional career
Buncom played for seven seasons in the AFL with the San Diego Chargers (1962-1967) and the Cincinnati Bengals (1968).

He was a three-time AFL All-Star, in 1964, 1965, and 1967.

He was chosen by the Bengals in the 1968 AFL allocation draft for the expansion Bengals. He was a starting outside linebacker for the Bengals during their first-ever season.

Buncom was slated to be a starter for the 1969 Bengals. On the morning of the Bengals' opening game of the 1969 regular season, on September 14, his roommate, Ernie Wright, was awakened to the sound of Buncom calling for him and gasping for breath. Neither Wright nor paramedics could save him. He was 29. The cause of death was determined to be a pulmonary embolism.

He was survived by his wife Sarah, later a principal in the San Diego Unified School District, and seven-week-old son, Frank James Buncom III. His former team, the Chargers, as well as the Bengals, established trust funds for Buncom's son.

When the San Diego Chargers announced their inaugural hall of fame class in 1976, Buncom was one of the four inductees.

Ron Mix, a San Diego attorney and former teammate of Buncom's, said, "I remember Frank as being the best of us, and I'm talking about as a person with high character."

His grandson, Frank Buncom IV, attended St. Augustine High School, where he was an outstanding defensive back as of 2014 being recruited by many Division I programs. On January 28, 2015, he signed to play at Stanford University.

See also
List of American Football League players

References

 

1939 births
1969 deaths
Players of American football from Shreveport, Louisiana
American football linebackers
USC Trojans football players
San Diego Chargers players
Cincinnati Bengals players
American Football League All-Star players
Deaths from pulmonary embolism
American Football League players
Susan Miller Dorsey High School alumni
Teckop

Teckop is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden, and lies about 6 km northeast of Woerden.

Teckop was a separate municipality from 1817 to 1857, when it was merged with Kamerik.

Teckop is not a statistical entity, and the postal authorities have placed it under Kamerik.

The hamlet was first mentioned between 1280 and 1287 as teykincoep, and means "concession of Teyke (person)". Teckop used to have place name sign, however they have been removed. In 1840, it was home to 161 people. Nowadays, it consists of about 40 houses.

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References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Former municipalities of Utrecht (province)
Woerden
Round function

In topology and in calculus,  a round function is a scalar function ,  
over a manifold , whose critical points form one or several connected components, each homeomorphic to the circle 
, also called critical loops. They are special cases of Morse-Bott functions.

For instance
For example, let  be the torus. Let

Then we know that a map

given by

is a parametrization for almost all of . Now, via the projection 
we get the restriction

 is a function whose critical sets are determined by 

this is if and only if .

These two values for  give the critical sets

which represent two extremal circles over the torus .

Observe that the Hessian for this function  is

which clearly it reveals itself as rank of  equal to one 
at the tagged circles, making the critical point degenerate, that is, showing that the critical points are not isolated.

Round complexity
Mimicking the L–S category theory one can define the round complexity asking for whether or not exist round functions on manifolds and/or  for the minimum number of critical loops.

References
 Siersma and Khimshiasvili, On minimal round functions, Preprint 1118, Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University, 1999, pp. 18.. An update at 

Differential geometry
Geometric topology
Types of functions
Scott Leius

Scott Thomas Leius (born September 24, 1965) is a former American League baseball player who played during the 1990s.

Leius was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 13th round of the 1986 Major League Baseball Draft out of Concordia College in New York. He then played in the minor leagues for the next four seasons. He was a late season call up by the Minnesota Twins and debuted with the parent club on September 3, 1990. Leius would remain with the Minnesota Twins through the 1995 season when he left for the Minnesota Twins' American League rival, the Cleveland Indians where he spent just one season, 1996. Leius was out of Major League Baseball for the 1997 season. Leius played for the Kansas City Royals during the 1998 and 1999 seasons, ending his career on July 3, 1999.

It was with Minnesota that Leius was part of their 1991 World Series season, during that series Leius is best known for hitting a game-winning home run off Tom Glavine breaking up a 2-2 tie in the 8th inning of Game 2. A steady defender at third base, he finished second to Wade Boggs in Gold Glove balloting in 1994. His highest yearly salary was paid out in 1995 while Leius was with the Minnesota Twins and amounted to $760,000 USD. This payout for Leius was a result his 1994 season in which he posted career highs in runs (57), home runs (14), RBIs (49) and tied his career high in slugging percentage (.417).

References

External links

Scott Leius at Baseball Almanac

1965 births
Living people
Kansas City Royals players
Minnesota Twins players
Cleveland Indians players
Major League Baseball third basemen
Baseball players from Westchester County, New York
People from Mamaroneck, New York
Sportspeople from Yonkers, New York
Nashville Sounds players
Elizabethton Twins players
Orlando Twins players
Portland Beavers players
Omaha Royals players
Visalia Oaks players
Kenosha Twins players
Concordia Clippers baseball players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Mamaroneck High School alumni
Harmelerwaard

Harmelerwaard is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden, and lies about 9 km west of Utrecht.

The hamlet was first mentioned between 1280 and 1287 as Hermaelrewart, and means "land near water belonging to Harmelen". It is not a statistical entity, and the postal authorities have placed it under Harmelen. It has no place name signs. In 1840, Harmelerwaard was home to 40 people. Nowadays, it consists of about 80 houses.

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References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Woerden
Breudijk

Breudijk is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Woerden, and lies about 5 km northeast of Woerden.

The statistical district "Breudijk", which covers the hamlet and the surrounding countryside, has a population of around 190.

References

Populated places in Utrecht (province)
Woerden