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2HB

"2HB" is a song written by Bryan Ferry and first recorded by Roxy Music for their 1972 debut album, Roxy Music. Ferry also recorded a version for his 1976 solo album, Let's Stick Together.

The title is a dedication to the film star Humphrey Bogart ("2HB" = "To Humphrey Bogart"). In particular, the song references the Bogart classic Casablanca.

The instrumentation on the Roxy Music recording is dominated by Ferry's Hohner Pianet N electric piano and features an Andy Mackay sax solo—based on the melody of "As Time Goes By", a song featured prominently in Casablanca—that is treated with tape echo effects by Brian Eno.

Covers and references
This song was covered for the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine by the supergroup The Venus in Furs, made up of Bernard Butler, Clune, Jonny Greenwood, Paul Kimble, Andy Mackay, and Thom Yorke. Ferry covered his own song on his 1976 solo album Let's Stick Together.

The English band Madness recorded a tribute song, "4BF" ("for Bryan Ferry"), on their 1988 album The Madness. The early Human League song "4JG" ("for J. G. Ballard") was also inspired by "2HB".

Julia Holter a Los Angeles-based composer/multi-instrumentalist released a stripped-down version of "2HB" on her album "Maria" released in 2014.

Personnel
 Andy MacKay — tenor saxophone
 Bryan Ferry — vocals, Hohner Pianet N
 Brian Eno — tape echo effects
 Phil Manzanera — guitar
 Graham Simpson — bass guitar
 Paul Thompson — Drums

References

Roxy Music songs
1972 songs
Songs written by Bryan Ferry
Cultural depictions of Humphrey Bogart
The Bob (Medley)

"The Bob (Medley)" is a song written by Bryan Ferry and recorded by Roxy Music, appearing on the eponymous debut album. The song's title is an acronym for Battle of Britain. The sound of gunfire and explosions from the battlefields can be heard throughout the instrumental refrain. "The Bob (Medley)" was featured in Andrew Reynolds' part of Baker 3.

Song Musicians
 Andy MacKay - Oboe & Saxophone.
 Bryan Ferry - Voice & Piano.
 Brian Eno - Synthesiser & Tapes.
 Graham Simpson - Bass guitar.
 Paul Thompson - Drums.
 Phil Manzanera - Guitar.

1972 songs
Roxy Music songs
Songs written by Bryan Ferry
Chance Meeting (album)

Chance Meeting is an album by jazz guitarists Tal Farlow and Lenny Breau that was released in 1997.

History
While being profiled in a PBS documentary, it was suggested to Farlow that he be paired with a younger jazz guitarist. He suggested Breau and the two guitarists performed this set at a small nightclub in Rumson, New Jersey. It was their first and only performance together.

Reception

In his review for Allmusic, music critic Ken Dryden wrote the musicians "complement one another's playing as if they had worked as a regular duo. Breau, on his seven-string guitar, is a bundle of energy most of the time, with flurries of notes accompanied by his flawless rhythm. Of course, the senior player is no slouch as a soloist on any of the eight standards heard on this CD... It's too bad that this enjoyable session was only a one-time affair." In reviewing the release for JazzTimes, critic Jim Ferguson wrote "The mutual admiration between the players is obvious throughout the nine impromptu performances,... More than sophisticated chordal structures and harmonics, the thing that these two geniuses-a generation apart-really have in common is the music, which eloquently speaks for itself."

Track listing
"I Love You" (Cole Porter) – 5:24
"Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington) – 7:03
"My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 8:40
"All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 11:33
"Conversation" (Farlow, Breau) – 2:34
"Cherokee" (Ray Noble, Peter Maurice) – 4:30
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Porter) – 6:56
"Broadway" (Wilbur Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode) – 6:03
"My Foolish Heart" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 7:00

Personnel
Tal Farlow – guitar
Lenny Breau – guitar
Lyn Christie – bass on "All the Things You Are" and "Cherokee"
Nat Garratano – drums on "All the Things You Are" and "Cherokee"

Production notes:
Randy Bachman – executive producer
John Dildine – engineer

References

External links
Guitarchives web site 

Lenny Breau albums
Tal Farlow albums
1997 live albums
1997 collaborative albums
Bitters End

"Bitters End" is the final song on Roxy Music's self-titled  debut album, released in 1972.
The song is based on a group vocal arrangement done in a satirical 1950s doo wop style. "Bitters End" was not performed live often, however Roxy Music did perform it on 23 June 1972 for John Peel on the BBC sessions.

A cover version of this song is on the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack, performed by Andy Mackay and Paul Kimble.

Song Musicians
 Bryan Ferry – lead vocals, piano
 Andy MacKay – backing vocals, saxophone
 Brian Eno – backing vocals
 Graham Simpson – bass guitar
 Paul Thompson – percussion

Roxy Music songs
1972 songs
Songs written by Bryan Ferry
Canyon Blaster (Adventuredome)

Canyon Blaster is an indoor roller coaster at the Adventuredome theme park in Winchester, Nevada. It features back-to-back vertical loops and corkscrews, and ends with a helix inside the mountain that takes up a large portion of the park. It is proclaimed as the world's largest indoor double-loop, double-corkscrew coaster. It's a copy of the original Python roller coaster in Dutch theme park the Efteling.

Canyon Blaster features two six-car trains that seat four passengers in two rows per car. When it originally opened it operated with seven-car trains. In 2001, the trains were re-painted in a dark blue and deep purple heliochrome paint but changed to white and green livery somewhere between 2010 and 2011.

It is the second Arrow coaster to be built for an indoor amusement park. The first was Chicago Loop at Old Chicago in Bolingbrook, Illinois, later relocated to Canobie Lake Park as an outdoor coaster named Canobie Corkscrew.

Ride experience
The train departs from the loading zone and get pulled up the lift. After that, the train drops a bit and curves and makes the 66 ft. drop, entering the double loops. Afterward, the train turns right into the double corkscrews. Then the train goes into the double helix and pulls back into the station.

Typically a single train is used while the other comes out during busier times.

In media
Baby Geniuses - part of fictional "Joyworld" theme park, Sly starts the ride with two scientists on board and restraints still open. Both fall from the ride.
Criss Angel Mindfreak (Season 3 Episode "Rollercoaster") - a train "goes through" Criss' body while he stands on the track after the corkscrews and Criss ends up in the front seat.

References

Roller coasters in the Las Vegas Valley
Roller coasters introduced in 1993
1993 establishments in Nevada
Taj Mahal (board game)

Taj Mahal is a German-style board game for 3–5 players designed by Reiner Knizia and first published in 2000 by Alea in German.

Rules

Basics 

During 12 rounds, players bid with cards on up to six different prizes each turn. Those prizes earn points in themselves, but players can also get points for connecting provinces on the map. After the twelfth round, the player with the highest point total wins the game.

Auctions 

During the auction phase of the game, players take turns playing cards from their hands to increase the amount of their bid. A player may choose to withdraw instead of increasing their bid, in which case they immediately collect any awards they have earned for that round, and are removed from the auction. The round ends after all players have withdrawn from the auction.

References

External links
 

Deutscher Spiele Preis winners
Auction board games
Reiner Knizia games
Alea games
Rio Grande Games games
Board games introduced in 2000
Argiope aetherea

Argiope aetherea is a common, large orb-web spider (family Araneidae). Like other species of Argiope, it is commonly known as the St Andrew's Cross spider, due to the characteristic cross-shaped web decorations female spiders often include in their webs. A. aetherea is similar in appearance to A. keyserlingi, however female A. aetherea are generally larger than A. keyserlingi. Like most orb-web spiders, A. aetherea shows considerable sexual size dimorphism, with females being many times larger than males.

Distribution
Argiope aetherea is found from China to Australia.

Subspecies
There exists a subspecies from New Guinea:
 Argiope aetherea annulipes Thorell, 1881

Gallery

References

aetherea
Spiders of Australia
Spiders of Asia
Spiders described in 1841
Chandrima Uddan

Chandrima Uddan or Chandrima Udyan (; Chandrimā "moon" Udyān "park") is a park situated across the road of the national parliament house, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The park is notable for being the place where the former Bangladeshi President, Ziaur Rahman was buried. It is connected to the road with a bridge which runs over the Crescent Lake (from which the park derives its original name). "

Gallery

References

Parks in Dhaka
Tombs in Bangladesh
3/10

3/10 may refer to:
March 10 (month-day date notation)
October 3 (day-month date notation)
3rd Battalion, 10th Marines, an artillery battalion of the United States Marine Corps
Bani

Bani may refer to:

Places

Africa
Bani Department, a department in the Séno Province of Burkina Faso
Bani, Bani, Séno, Burkina Faso 
Bani, Bourzanga, Bam, Burkina Faso
Bani, Central African Republic, village in Haute-Kotto, Central African Republic
Bani, Gnagna, Burkina Faso
Bani, Gambia
Bani River, a tributary of the Niger River in Mali

Asia
Bani, Chhatoh, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
Bani, India, an assembly constituency under Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Bani, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Bani, Mirpur, a town in Pakistan
Bani, Pangasinan, a municipality of the Philippines
Bani, Rahi, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
Bani, South Khorasan or Boniabad, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran

Elsewhere
Baní, a city in the Dominican Republic

People
Bani Lozano, Honduran soccer player

Other uses
Banu (Arabic), Beni, Bene or Banī, Arabic for "the sons of" or "children of" which appears before the name of a tribal progenitor
 Bani Isra'il (disambiguation)
 Bani (letter), a letter of the Georgian alphabet
 Bani, a subdivision of the Romanian leu
 Bani, a subdivision of the Moldovan leu
 Bani the Gadite, one of David's Mighty Warriors
 Bani, stylistic school of the Indian classical music genre dhrupad
 Bani Chams, a group of the Cham people who practice Islam

See also
Bani Bid, a village in Kermanshah Province, Iran
 Bene (disambiguation)
 Beni (disambiguation)
Gurbani, a section of Sikh religious texts
Banny (disambiguation)
Verb of fearing

In Latin grammar, a verb of fearing is one that pertains to fear or concern (often timeo, terreor, metuo, and vereor). This set of verbs is grammatically notable because it inverts the sense of a following purposive clause, at least relative to the intuition of speakers of many non-Latin languages.

Verbs of fearing can be used three different ways: fear of a person or thing, fear of performing an action and fear of an event occurring.
 Fear of a person or thing is expressed using a verb of fearing (e.g. timeo) and a noun, either in the dative or the accusative. Mountford notes that there is no general rule on which case should be used, although different meanings can be conveyed depending on use.
 hostes timet – 'he fears the enemy'.
 filio timet pater – 'the father fears for his son'.
 furem pomis timet agricola – 'the farmer fears the thief for his apples'.
 Fear of performing an action is expressed using an infinitive, much like in English.
 timeo hoc facere – 'I am afraid to do this'.
 Fear of an event occurring is expressed using the conjunctions 'ne', conveying that, with regard to the event occurring, the negative is wished and the positive feared, and 'ut', conveying that the positive is wished and the negative feared. These conjunctions are then followed by the subjunctive, according to the sequence of tenses, with primary sequence tenses generally being followed by the present or perfect subjunctives and historic (or secondary) sequence tenses being followed by the imperfect or pluperfect subjunctives.
 vereor ne hostis veniat – 'I fear lest the enemy come', 'I fear that the enemy is coming'.
 vereor ne dum minuere velim laborem augeam, Cicero De Legibus I.4.12 – 'I fear that, while I wish to lessen the toil, I am increasing it'.
 timeo ne tibi nihil praeter lacrimas queam reddere, Cicero Pro Plancio 42.101 – 'I am afraid that I can give nothing in return save tears'.

Further reading

References 

Latin grammar
Verb types
Fear
TER Haute-Normandie

TER Haute Normandie was the regional rail network serving the former region of Upper Normandy in France. In 2016 it was merged into the new TER Normandie.

Trains are operated by the SNCF, services are subject to regulation by the Conseil Régional de Haute Normandie as all TER services are and are promoted using the TER branding. The Conseil Régional has since 2001 received several new multiple units diesel-electric, including single coach, double coach and refurbishment of three car DMUs.

TER Network

Rail

Road 
Rouen – Louviers – Évreux
Évreux – Verneuil-sur-Avre
Yvetot – Saint-Valery-en-Caux
Dieppe – Serqueux – Gisors
Rouen – Pont-Audemer

See also 
SNCF
Transport express régional
Réseau Ferré de France
List of SNCF stations in Haute-Normandie
Haute-Normandie

References

External links 
 Official site

 
Transport in Normandy
Upper Normandy
Dooley's

Dooley's is a German cream liqueur combining toffee and vodka, made by BEHN in Eckernförde. It is marketed in a red and blue opaque bottle. The liqueur itself is a creamy colour.

Ingredients 
 Vodka
 Cream
 Sugar
 Milk
 Flavoring

Alcohol content is 17 percent ABV.

Drinks 
One of the best-known cocktails made with Dooley's is the 101 milkshake (also known as The Reykjavík Milkshake):
 2 Scoops Vanilla Ice Cream
 6cl Dooley's
Stirred into a milkshake.

External links 
 Official site

Cream liqueurs
German liqueurs
German brands
Andreas Gjersøe

Andreas Georg Gjersøe (sometimes shown as Andreas Gjersø, born 6 August 1976 in Bærum) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. He finished fifth in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and won a bronze medal in the K-4 200 m event at the 1998 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged.

He is 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) tall and weighs 80 kg (176 lb).

References
Official website
Photo
Sports-Reference.com profile

1976 births
Living people
Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Norwegian male canoeists
Olympic canoeists for Norway
Sportspeople from Bærum
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
Constantine Akropolites

Constantine Akropolites or Acropolites (, Konstantinos Akropolitês), son of the scholar and statesman George Akropolites, was a minister of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, until the Emperor dismissed him for his opposition to the union of churches created by the Second Council of Lyon (1272). Under the new emperor Andronikos II, however, Akropolites returned to favor; perhaps as early as 1282 he was appointed Logothete, and on the death of Theodore Mouzalon in 1294, Akropolites was raised to the title of megas logothetes, which he held perhaps as late as 1321. He died sometime before August 1324, for a document dated May–August 1324, concerning the Monastery of the Anastasis, states he is dead.

Like his father, Akropolites wrote much on theology, especially on the more recondite doctrines, such as the procession of the Holy Ghost. In compiling lives of saints he was more usefully employed—that of St. John of Damascus is in the huge collection of Jean Bolland. According to Donald Nicol, his numerous versions of saints' lives earned him the name of Neos Metaphrastes.

Constantine married Maria Komnene Tornikina, and they had two daughters. Their daughter Theodora married the general Alexios Philanthropenos. Their daughter Akropolitissa married Emperor Michael of Trebizond.

References

Further reading
 

Byzantine theologians
Byzantine officials
13th-century Byzantine writers
1320s deaths
13th-century Eastern Orthodox theologians
TRL Australia

Total Request Live (known commonly as TRL) is an Australian television program based on the American program of the same name broadcast on MTV that features popular music. It premiered in early April 2004 as a weekend show produced on a large cruising vessel known as The Pontoon, dubbed the "MTV Cruiser" which floated around Sydney Harbour containing the audience, performing bands and VJs. Australian band Killing Heidi were the first to perform on the show. After the summer months TRL Australia was broadcast from various venues around Sydney (including Home Nightclub and Coogee Beach Palace) before moving into a studio with a live audience. The show is now live on Tuesday to Thursday and then TRL Weekend on Friday, each day from 5pm to 6pm EST. The show was originally hosted by Kyle Sandilands, Maz Compton and Jason Dundas and simulcast on 2Day FM. Kyle withdrew from hosting duties during 2005, leaving the hosting of TRL Australia to  Maz Compton, Lyndsey Rodrigues, Nathan Sapsford and Jason Robert Dundas.

The show was largely Directed by Craig Tinetti in 2004 then Jakub Jacko in 2005, 2006 & 2019.
Production of TRL Australia ceased during 2006 without any announcement. Other locally produced shows such as Full Tank and The Lair replaced TRL.

On 27 August 2018, MTV Australia announced that TRL would be making a return in 2019. Radio hosts Ash London and Angus O'Loughlin, along with DJ Flex Mami and MTV editor Lisa Hamilton were announced as the revival's presenters on 4 February 2019. The first episode was broadcast on 8 March 2019.

See also

 List of Australian music television shows
MTV Australia
MTV Australia Video Music Awards
MuchMusic
Total Request Live
TRL Italy
TRL Poland

References

External links
Official MTV Australia Site
TRL Australia Site

Australian music television series
MTV original programming
Z-spread

The Z-spread, ZSPRD, zero-volatility spread, or yield curve spread of a bond is the parallel shift or spread over the zero-coupon Treasury yield curve required for discounting a pre-determined cash flow schedule to arrive at its present market price. The Z-spread is also widely used in the credit default swap (CDS) market as a measure of credit spread that is relatively insensitive to the particulars of specific corporate or government bonds.

Since the Z-spread uses the entire yield curve to value the individual cash flows of a bond, it provides a more realistic valuation than an interpolated yield spread based on a single point of the curve, such as the bond's final maturity date or weighted-average life. However, the Z-spread does not incorporate variability in cash flows, so a fuller valuation of an interest-rate-dependent security often requires the more realistic (and more complicated) option-adjusted spread (OAS).

Definition
The Z-spread of a bond is the number of basis points (bp, or 0.01%) that one needs to add to the Treasury yield curve (or technically to Treasury forward rates) so that the Net present value of the bond cash flows (using the adjusted yield curve) equals the market price of the bond (including accrued interest). The spread is calculated iteratively.

For a mortgage-backed security, a projected prepayment rate tends to be stated; for example, the PSA assumption for a particular MBS might equate a particular group of mortgages to an 8-year amortizing bond with 6% mortality per annum. This gives a single series of nominal cash flows as if the MBS were a riskless bond. If these payments are discounted to net present value (NPV) with a riskless zero-coupon Treasury yield curve, the sum of their values will tend to overestimate the market price of the MBS. This difference arises because the MBS market price incorporates additional factors such as liquidity and credit risk and embedded option cost.

Benchmark for CDS basis
The Z-spread is widely used as the "cash" benchmark for calculating the CDS basis. The CDS basis is commonly the CDS fee minus the Z-spread for a fixed-rate cash bond of the same issuer and maturity. For instance, if a corporation's 10-year CDS is trading at 200 bp and the Z-spread for the corporation's 10-year cash bond is 287 bp, then its 10-year CDS basis is –87 bp.

Example
Assume that on 7/1/2008:
 A bond has three future cash flows: $5 on 7/1/2009; $5 on 7/1/2010; $105 on 7/1/2011.
 The corresponding zero-coupon Treasury rates (compounded semi-annually) are: 4.5% for 7/1/2009; 4.7% for 7/1/2010; 5.0% for 7/1/2011.
 The bond's accrued interest is 0.
 The Z-spread is 50 bp.
Then the price P of this bond on 7/1/2008 is given by:

where (for simplicity) the calculation has ignored the slight difference between parallel shifts of spot rates and forward rates.

See also
 Asset swap spread
 I-spread
 Option-adjusted spread
 Yield to maturity

References
 Frank J. Fabozzi, The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities, 7th edition. McGraw-Hill, 2005.

Bond valuation
Fixed income analysis
Credit risk
Embedded options
Hiroyuki Yoshino

is a Japanese voice actor and singer. On leading roles, he played Yoshimori Sumimura in Kekkaishi, Hibiki Tokai in Vandread, Yuji Kagura in Tona-Gura!, Takumi Nishijō in Chaos;Head, Yusuke "Bossun" Fujisaki in Sket Dance, Meow in Space Dandy, Favaro in Rage of Bahamut: Genesis and Galina in Yatterman Night. On supporting roles, he played Bernard Firestar in Divergence Eve, Chrome in Cluster Edge, Debito in La storia della Arcana Famiglia, Natsuki Minami in Minami-ke, Allelujah Haptism in Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Yuto Kido in Inazuma Eleven, Rin Hirakoba in The Prince of Tennis, Kenichi Saruyama in To Love Ru, Hajime Iwaizumi in Haikyuu!!, Houka Inumuta in Kill la Kill, Hizashi Yamada in My Hero Academia and Yasutumo Arakita in Yowamushi Pedal.

On August 3, 2021, it was announced that Yoshino had tested positive for COVID-19.

Filmography

Animation

Film

Live action

Video games

Drama recordings

Dubbing roles

Live action

Animation

Other dubbing
"Miracle Train ~Chūō-sen e Yōkoso~" – Zero Tokyo – Train station promotional character

Discography

Singles

Mini-albums

References

External links
Kiramune profile 

 

1974 births
Living people
Male voice actors from Chiba Prefecture
Japanese male pop singers
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
Lantis (company) artists
Singers from Chiba Prefecture
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese singers
Sigma Seven voice actors
21st-century Japanese male singers
Lenore Smith

Lenore Smith (born 25 October 1958) is an Australian actress best known for her work in television. Internationally, she is best known for her role as Kate Wellings in the drama series The Flying Doctors.

Career 
Smith studied economics as a teenager, but after being dissuaded by a teacher, she decided to take a course at Ensemble Studios in Sydney and become an actress. After being there for just over two years, Smith landed her first role in The Restless Years as Diane Archer. Smith left Australia after The Restless Years to work in London, but received a telegram asking her to return to play a role in The Flying Doctors. Smith accepted and came back to Australia to begin work on the TV series.

Lenore embarked on higher education later in life after a long and successful career as an actor in television, stage and screen. 
Lenore graduated with a Bachelor of Podiatry degree, 1st Class Honours, at Central Queensland University. Lenore is a member of the Australian Podiatry Association.

Personal life 
Lenore dated actor Patrick Ward before marrying actor Gary Sweet in 1981.

She then married actor and writer Matt Kay in 1985 and they divorced in 1992. They met while a bomb alarm was going off during the stage musical Cats.

Smith married former E Street actor Warren Jones on 19 October 1997.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

References

External links 

1958 births
Living people
Australian television actresses
Elbrick

Elbrick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Charles Burke Elbrick (1908–1983), American diplomat
Xanthe Elbrick (born 1978), English actress

See also
Elrick (name)
Octy

Octy  may refer to:

 "Octy" Graham (c. 1885–1927), American football player
 Octy, a character in the arcade game Baraduke
Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard

Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoi Boulevard, or Nikulin's Circus, is located on Tsvetnoi Boulevard in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow. It was the only circus in the city between 1926 and 1971.

History

Salamonsky Circus 
The circus was established by  descended from a family of Jewish circus riders. He constructed the circus building in Moscow on a place where usually travelling shows and vagarious artists performed at fairs. The very first performance was on October 12, 1880. Salamonsky was an innovative entrepreneur — he included non-circus artists like singers, choruses, folk ensembles, he staged shows with 35 riders in the ring and organized first Christmas shows for kids. Salamonsky also strived to make circus art be more accessible; he introduced cheaper rows and standees.

Upon his death in 1913, the popularity of the circus decreased.

Soviet Circus 

After the Russian revolution, in 1919 the circus was nationalized by the Soviet Government. The Bolsheviks saw the circus art as a very important tool of mass propaganda and tried to ‘revolutionize’ the repertoire. Only in the 1930s did the artists manage to separate the shows from propaganda. In 1945 Nikolay Baikalov was assigned to the director's post; his epoch in the Tsvetnoy became one of the most important parts of the circus's history.

The troupe was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1939.

Since the middle of the 20th century, the Soviet circus was well known around the world for its professionalism. In the USSR all circuses were subordinate to the SoyuzGosTsirk (Soviet State Circus) Department, and all the artists were officially hired as its employees.

Among the famous performers who worked there were clowns Karandash, Oleg Popov, Leonid Yengibarov and Yuri Nikulin, illusionist Emil Kio, performer Margarita Nazarova, the Durovs, Yuri Kuklachyov, etc.

Nikulin's Circus 

Yuri Nikulin, one of the most popular clowns in Russia and successful cinema actor, worked for the Tsvetnoy circus for 33 years. In 1981 he retired from performing and was assigned to the director's post. Nikulin managed the circus for fifteen years. During his office the company managed to survive through the crisis in the 1990s, when the country faced a political and economical collapse. He 'cleaned' the repertoire from Soviet propaganda heritage and welcomed the spirit of new age into the shows.

See also 

Bolshoi Circus on Vernadsky Prospekt
Ciniselli Circus in Saint Petersburg

References

Literature

External links
 The official site of the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard.

Circuses
Theatres in Moscow
Tverskoy District
Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, Moscow
Soviet culture
1880 establishments in the Russian Empire
Tourist attractions in Moscow
TER Bretagne

TER Bretagne (stylized as TER BreizhGo since 2018) is the TER regional rail network serving the administrative region of Brittany, in north-west France.

Network
The rail and bus network as of April 2022:

Rail

Road

The bus network BreizhGo consists of 115 routes as of 2022.

Rolling stock

Multiple units 

 9 SNCF Class B 82500
 5 SNCF Class Z 9600
 19 SNCF Class Z 21500
 14 SNCF Class Z 27500
 19 SNCF Class X 2100
 15 SNCF Class X 73500
 8 SNCF Class Z 55500

Locomotives

 9 SNCF Class BB 25500

Ordered
 13 SNCF Class Z 55500

References

External links
Official site

 
Rail transport in Brittany
CCC Heep Woh College

The Church of Christ in China Heep Woh College () is a Christian secondary school in Tsz Wan Shan, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The college is a standard grammar school founded by The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China. The school hosts a student body of approximately 1200, aged 11 to 20, with 57 teachers. Most courses are taught in English.

History 
In 1911,  Mrs. Lear Bigelow, from the United States, founded the Heep Woh Kindergarten in Xiguan, Guangzhou, dedicating to early childhood education. In 1947 and 1970 respectively, the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China established  CCC Heep Woh Primary School and CCC Heep Woh College.

In 1998, a management committee was created to supervise school operation and set targets and priorities of school development. This committee is composed of School Supervisor, Principal, Vice-Principals, representatives of teachers, parents, alumni and the C.C.C.

School badge
The school badge consists of two main parts - the shield and the ribbon. The former comprises the open bible with the Greek words "Jesus is the Christ", the "Nestorian Cross", the seal with the school name written in Chinese clerical script and the interconnected three "Cs". The latter incorporates the name of the school in English.

External links
 
 Book of school

Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China
Tsz Wan Shan
Protestant secondary schools in Hong Kong
European Data Format

European Data Format (EDF)  is a standard file format designed for exchange and storage of medical time series. Being an open and non-proprietary format, EDF(+) is commonly used to archive, exchange and analyse data from commercial devices in a format that is independent of the acquisition system. In this way, the data can be retrieved and analyzed by independent software. EDF(+) software (browsers, checkers, ...) and example files are freely available.

EDF was published in 1992 and stores multichannel data, allowing different sample rates for each signal. Internally it includes a header and one or more data records. The header contains some general information (patient identification, start time...) and technical specs of each signal (calibration, sampling rate, filtering, ...), coded as ASCII characters. The data records contain samples as little-endian 16-bit integers. EDF is a popular format for polysomnography (PSG) recordings.

EDF+ was published in 2003 and is largely compatible to EDF: all existing EDF viewers also show EDF+ signals. But EDF+ files also allow coding discontinuous recordings as well as annotations, stimuli and events in UTF-8 format. EDF+ has applications in PSG, electroencephalography (EEG), electrocardiography (ECG), electromyography (EMG), and Sleep scoring. EDF+ can also be used for nerve conduction studies, evoked potentials and other data acquisition studies.

Other "EDF" formats 

The file extension "edf" may also stand for the ESRF data format, defined by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and frequently used for small-angle scattering data.

References 

 — EDF reference.

External links 
The EDF website
The EDFgroup
A sample of normal sleep recordings in EDF format

Electrophysiology
Neurophysiology
Neurotechnology
Bioinformatics
Computer file formats
Standards for electronic health records
Biggs (surname)

Biggs is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Mr. Biggs, stage name of Ronald Isley

A 
Asa Biggs (1811–1878), American politician
Andy Biggs (b. 1958), American politician from Arizona

B 
Barton Biggs (1932–2012), money manager
Basil Biggs (1819–1906), American laborer and veterinarian
Benjamin T. Biggs (1821–1893), American politician

C 
Casey Biggs (b. 1955), American actor
Cecil Biggs (1881–1944), British rugby player and cricketer
Christopher Ewart-Biggs (1921–1976), British diplomat assassinated by the PIRA

D 
D. E. Biggs (1860–1924), American politician

E 
E. Power Biggs (1906–1977), British-American organist
Electra Waggoner Biggs (1912–2001), American sculptor

G 
Gregory Biggs (1964–2001), American car accident victim

H 
Hermann Biggs (1859–1923), American physician and public health pioneer

J 
J. Biggs (b. 1965), wrestling manager Clarence Mason
Janet Biggs (b. 1959), American artist
James Crawford Biggs (1872–1960), American lawyer and politician
Jason Biggs (b. 1978), American actor
John Biggs (London politician) (b. 1957), British politician
John Biggs Jr. (1895–1979), American Chief Justice
John B. Biggs (b. 1934), educational psychologist and novelist
John H. Biggs (b. 1936), Boeing director
John Biggs-Davison (1918–1988), British politician

M 
Margaret Biggs (b. 1929), British children's writer
Max Biggs (1923–1990), American professional basketball player

N 
Norman L. Biggs (b. 1941), British mathematician
Norman Biggs (1870–1908), Wales international rugby player

R 
Rachel Charlotte Biggs (1763-1827), was an English author, letter writer and spy
Ralph Biggs (b. 1976), American basketball player
Richard Biggs (1960–2004), American actor
Riley Biggs (1900–1971), American football player
Ronnie Biggs (1929–2013), British criminal
Rosemary Biggs (1912–2001), British haematologist
Roxann Biggs, American actress Roxann Dawson

S 
Selwyn Biggs (1872–1943), Wales international rugby player

T 
Tony Biggs, Australian radio personality
Tyrell Biggs (b.1960), American boxer

V 
Verlon Biggs (1943–1994), American football player

See also 
 Place names: Biggs (disambiguation)
 Bigg (disambiguation)
 Briggs (disambiguation)

English-language surnames
Tadaaki Miyake

is a Japanese folklorist born in 1939 at Okayama Prefecture.

Writings
Folktales of Okayama, in English translation (英訳・岡山の民話 Eiyaku - Okayama no Minwa)
A Collection of Grimm Old Tales (グリム昔話集 Gurimu Mukashibanashi-shuu)
Scottish Folktales (スコットランドの民話 Sukottorando no Minwa)
Irish Folktales and Legends (アイルランドの民話と伝説 Airurando no Miwa to Densetsu)
Tristram and Iseult (トリスタンとイズート Torisutan to Izuuto)

References

Living people
1939 births
Japanese writers
TER Centre-Val de Loire

TER Centre-Val de Loire (operated under the brand Rémi since 2019 and TER Centre prior to 2015) is the regional rail network serving Centre-Val de Loire région of France.

Network
The rail and bus network as of April 2022:

Rail

Bus

Rolling stock

Multiple units
 SNCF Class Z 5300
 SNCF Class Z 7300
 SNCF Class Z 9600
 SNCF Class Z 21500
 SNCF Class Z 26500 (ZGC Z 26500)
 SNCF Class X 4300
 SNCF Class X 72500
 SNCF Class X 73500
 SNCF Class B 81500 (BGC B 81500)

Locomotives
 SNCF Class BB 9200
 SNCF Class BB 22200
 SNCF Class BB 26000
 SNCF Class BB 67300
 SNCF Class BB 67400
 SNCF Class BB 8500
 SNCF Class BB 25500 (Transilien trains, but serving the TER Centre)

See also
SNCF
Transport express régional
Réseau Ferré de France
List of SNCF stations in Centre-Val de Loire
Centre-Val de Loire

References

External links
 Official TER Centre-Val de Loire site

 
Rail transport in Centre-Val de Loire
Matt Focht

Matt Focht is an American musician originally from Omaha, Nebraska. He is best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the Chicago-based band Head of Femur. Matt is currently working on a record with his wife, Crystal Hartford, for the band, Hartford/Focht. Also playing drums in Omaha band, High Up.

Previously, he played with Bright Eyes, Pablo's Triangle, and Opium Taylor.

Album Appearances
Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness (1998 · Saddle Creek)
Bright Eyes - There Is No Beginning to the Story (2002, Saddle Creek)
Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002 · Saddle Creek)
Head of Femur - Ringodom or Proctor (2003 · Greyday Productions)
Head of Femur - Hysterical Stars (2005 · spinART)
Head of Femur - Great Plains (2008 · Greyday Productions)

External links
Head of Femur official website

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male singers
American rock singers
American indie rock musicians
Musicians from Omaha, Nebraska
One Breath Away

"One Breath Away" is a pop ballad song by Australian singer Sophie Monk, released as the third single from her debut album, Calendar Girl (2003), on 21 July 2003. The song was re-recorded and mixed for single release. The album version was produced by Garry Miller and Brian Rawling while the single version was produced by the Rockmelons. The single peaked at number 23 on the Australian Singles Chart in August 2003.

Track listing
 "One Breath Away" (radio edit) — 3:41
 "One Breath Away" (Juicy mix) — 7:33
 "Come My Way" (club mix) — 8:09
 "One Breath Away" (Reactor Trance mix) — 3:31
 "One Breath Away" (Hard House mix) — 7:55
 "One Breath Away" (Tracelands remix) — 3:59

Charts

References

External links
 One Breath Away

2003 singles
Song recordings produced by Brian Rawling
Songs written by Mark Taylor (record producer)
Songs written by Paul Barry (songwriter)
Songs written by Steve Torch
Warner Music Group singles
Super World Court

is a tennis arcade game which was released by Namco in 1992 worldwide; it runs on Namco NA-1 hardware, and as the name suggests, it is the sequel to Pro Tennis: World Court which was released four years earlier. At the start of the game, players must select either "singles" (1P vs CPU/2P) or "doubles" (1P & CPU/2P vs 3P/CPU & 4P/CPU) - they will then have to select one of sixteen new players and select one of the four new courts (USA hard, France clay, GB grass, and Namco funny). The players must then decide whether they want their match to be one or three sets long; the company's signature character, Pac-Man, also makes a cameo appearance upon the Namco court. A timer counts down from a maximum of 360 seconds (depending on how the cabinet has been set) in the top-right corner of the screen; if it has run out by the time a set has been won, the players will have to insert another coin within ten seconds if they wish to continue playing, because if they do not, the losing player (or team, if three or four players) shall immediately forfeit the game.

Reception 
In Japan, Game Machine listed Super World Court on their May 1, 1993 issue as being the eighteenth most-successful table arcade game of the month.

References

External links

Super World Court at the Arcade History database

1992 video games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Namco arcade games
Tennis video games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Japan
IFK Lidingö

IFK Lidingö is a Swedish sports club, part of the IFK system, based on the island of Lidingö outside Stockholm. Although the club takes part in numerous sports, it is most famous for its football, athletics and orienteering sections. The football team are called IFK Lidingö FK.

The club was founded in 1932 and in 1985 it became an alliance club with independent sections. It currently has 400 members, most of them under around 15 years of age. The club arranges Lidingöloppet, which attracts nationwide attention.

Athletics 
Most notable among former athletes at the club is Ludmila Engquist and Mattias Sunneborn.

Football 
Famous former football players include Mikael Dorsin and Magnus Pehrsson.

Orienteering 
The club won the 10-mila relay in 1951, the women's relay in 10-mila in 2010 and 25-manna in 1999. The runners became world champions: Lucie Böhm (1997) and Graham Gristwood (2008). Other runners are: Marthe Andersson, Annika Billstam, Mårten Boström, Holger Hott, Fredrik Bakkman, Signe Søes and Chris Terkelsen.

References

External links
Football Section
Athletics Section
Orienteering Section

Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna
1932 establishments in Sweden
Sports clubs and teams established in 1932
Orienteering clubs in Sweden
Multi-sport clubs in Sweden
Mayday (American band)

Mayday is a band from Omaha, Nebraska, on the Saddle Creek Records label, led by Ted Stevens, also of Cursive and Lullaby for the Working Class.

Band members
Ted Stevens
Tiffany Kowalski
Daniel J. McCarthy
Pat Oakes

Discography

Albums
Old Blood (2002 · Saddle Creek Records)
I Know Your Troubles Been Long (2003 · Bar/None Records [cd], Greyday Records [lp])
Bushido Karaoke (2005 · Saddle Creek Records)

Compilations
Various Artists - Saddle Creek 50 (2002 · Saddle Creek Records)
Various Artists - Lagniappe (2005 · Saddle Creek Records)
Various Artists - 20 Nights of Wine and Song (2005 · Greyday Productions)

External links
Saddle Creek Records

BarNone Records
Greyday Records

Indie rock musical groups from Nebraska
Musical groups from Omaha, Nebraska
Saddle Creek Records artists
Peter Baker

Peter Baker may refer to:

Sports
 Peter Baker (footballer, born 1931) (1931–2016), English footballer who played for Tottenham Hotspur in the 1950s and 1960s
 Peter Baker (footballer, born 1934), English footballer who played for Sheffield Wednesday in the 1950s and Queens Park Rangers in the 1960s
 Peter Baker (Australian footballer) (born 1940), Australian rules footballer
 Peter Baker (cricketer) (1945–2000), English cricketer
 Peter Baker (golfer) (born 1967), British golfer

Others
 Peter Baker (slave trader) (1731–1796), English slave trader
 Peter Baker (Canadian politician) (1887–1973), Lebanese-born Canadian trader, politician, and author
 Peter Baker (British politician) (1921–1966), British Conservative MP 
 Peter E. Baker (geologist) (1937–2008), British geologist
 Ginger Baker (Peter Edward Baker, 1939–2019), English drummer
 Peter Baker (journalist) (born 1967), American political journalist and author
 Peter S. Baker, designer of the typeface Junicode
 Peter Baker, a character from Australian soap opera Home and Away
 Peter Baker, a character from Australian soap opera Neighbours
Pentacerotidae

Pentacerotidae or armourheads are a small family of fishes in the order Perciformes. They are native to the Indian Ocean, western and central Pacific, and southwestern Atlantic. They are generally found at rocky reefs below normal scuba diving depths, although several species occur in low densities at shallower depths.

Their name, from Greek pente meaning "five" and keras meaning "horn", refers to the prominent, sharp spines in their dorsal fins (though these do not number five in all species). The largest species in the family (Paristiopterus) may reach a length of . Many species have distinct dark-and-light-striped bodies, while others are overall dusky-silvery.

Timeline

Genera
The following genera are classified within the family into two subfamilies:

 Subfamily Histiopterinae Bleeker, 1876
 Evistias Jordan, 1907
 Histiopterus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844
 Parazanclistius Hardy, 1983
 Paristiopterus Bleeker, 1876 
 Pentaceropsis Steindachner, 1883
 Zanclistius Jordan, 1907
 Subfamily Pentacerotinae Bleeker, 1859
 Pentaceros Cuvier, 1829

References

External links 
 Smith, J.L.B. 1964. Fishes of the family Pentacerotidae. Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 29. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

 
Perciformes families
Unchalli Falls

Unchalli Falls, also known as Lushington Falls, is a waterfall created by a  drop in the River Aghanashini. The falls are located  from Sirsi . The falls are named for J. D. Lushington, a District Collector for the British Government, who discovered the falls in 1845.

The falls are sometimes called Keppa Joga because of the deafening sound they make.

Location 

Siddapur is approximately  from the falls.

Heggarne is approximately  away, but visitors need to trek through a dense forest.

See also
List of waterfalls in India

References

Waterfalls of Karnataka
Tourist attractions in Uttara Kannada district
Geography of Uttara Kannada district
Louis Hubert Farabeuf

Louis Hubert Farabeuf (1841 – 1910), French surgeon who is said to have introduced hygiene in French medical schools. His statue dominates the central court of the National School of Medicine in Paris whose main amphitheater is also named after him. Farabeuf wrote some short surgical booklets (précis)<ref>L.H. Farabeuf, Precis de manuel operatoire in Google books]</ref> and designed several medical instruments (such as the Farabeuf elevator) that are still in use today. 

His name is associated with Farabeuf's triangle of the neck, a triangle formed by the internal jugular vein, common facial vein and the hypoglossal nerve, as well as Farabeuf retractors and Farabeuf forceps.
 
Farabeuf as a Fictional Character
His passionate writings and descriptions of amputation surgery attracted the attention of writers and scholars.

 Mexican writer, Salvador Elizondo, wrote a cryptic book:  Farabeuf o la Crónica de un instante. It is not a biography.

References

Notes
Farabeuf, Louis Hubert, Precis de manuel operatoire, Masson, Paris (1889)
José, Alán, Farabeuf y la estética del mal'', ESN (2003)[http://www.edicionessinnombre.com/blog/colecciones_libro.php?id=192_0_6_0_C

 Retractor (medical)
https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Farabeuf+forceps

External links
 

1841 births
1910 deaths
French surgeons
Hysterical Stars

Hysterical Stars is the second album by Chicago-based band Head of Femur. It was released on May 25, 2005, on Spin Art Records.

Track listing
 "Elliott Gould Is in California Split"
 "Ringodom or Proctor"
 "Manhattan"
 "Percy"
 "Skirts are Takin' Over"
 "The Sausage Canoe"
 "Oh You're Blue"
 "Song for Richard Manuel"
 "Born in the Seventies"
 "Easy Street"
 "Sometimes Friends"
 "Jack and the Water Buffalo"

References

External links
Head of Femur official website
spinART records

Head of Femur (band) albums
2005 albums
William H. T. Bush

William Henry Trotter Bush, CStJ (July 14, 1938 – February 27, 2018) was an American banker and businessman. A scion of the Bush family, he was the youngest son of US Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush, the youngest brother of former President George H. W. Bush, and an uncle of former President George W. Bush and former Florida governor Jeb Bush.

Biography
Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, he graduated from the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut in 1956, and earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1960, where he became a brother of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. In 2009, he was appointed a Commander Brother of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem by Queen Elizabeth II.

Bush lived in St. Louis, Missouri, also the home of his late grandfather George Herbert Walker. He was married in 1959 to Patricia Redfearn, who died November 10, 2015. They had two children: William Prescott "Scott" Bush and Louisa Bush McCall. Bush died on February 27, 2018, in West Palm Beach, Florida, survived by three of his older siblings.

Business
Bush worked in banking and venture capital, and sat on a number of corporate boards. He founded Bush O'Donnell & Co. in 1986 and remained CEO of that firm until his death. He worked on the election campaigns of George H. W., George W., and Jeb Bush, primarily as a fundraiser.

A former president of and director of the St. Louis-based Boatmen's Bancshares from 1978 to 1986, Bush was active in various St. Louis civic functions: he was chairman of the Board of Trustees of Saint Louis University from 1985 to 1992, chairman of the Missouri Botanical Garden from 1991 to 1993 and president of the Municipal Opera Association from 2005 to 2006. He was also a director of Maritz, Inc, and served on the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri board of directors from 1989 to 1994.

On May 18, 2010, Bush was taken to Methodist Hospital of Indianapolis after collapsing during a WellPoint shareholder's meeting in Indianapolis. Bush was on the company's board of directors. One of the doctors at the hospital said that Bush was alert and talking and he "felt like he was going to be OK".

References

1938 births
2018 deaths
American bankers
American political fundraisers
Bush family
Businesspeople from Greenwich, Connecticut
Businesspeople from St. Louis
Private equity and venture capital investors
Hotchkiss School alumni
Yale University alumni
Missouri Botanical Garden people
People from Missouri
People from St. Louis
Missouri Republicans
Psi Upsilon