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Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway

Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway is a Texas state park located along the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado in Briscoe County, Texas, United States, approximately  southeast of Amarillo. The state park opened in 1982 and is  in size, making it the third-largest state park in Texas.

Recreation
In 1993, a hiking, biking, and equestrian rail trail opened that stretches through the park through Floyd, Briscoe, and Hall counties. The trailway was created after the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department acquired  of right-of-way from the abandoned Fort Worth and Denver Railroad's lines between Estelline and South Plains. A unique feature is the  Clarity Railroad Tunnel.

Climate
The park is located in West Texas and has a semi-arid climate.  The average January minimum temperature is  and the average July maximum is .  The park receives  of precipitation annually.

Nature

Flora
The area contains badlands with mesquite, cacti and junipers with tall grasses, plums, hackberries and cottonwoods in the canyons.

Fauna
At the urging of his wife, Charles Goodnight preserved several plains bison from those that were being slaughtered. This herd became one of the genetic sources from which current bison herds descend. The herd was donated to the State of Texas in 1997. In 2011, bison were allowed to roam throughout the park, and the Texas Legislature designated the bison herd at Caprock Canyons State Park as the official State Bison Herd of Texas.  The herd has minimal cattle introgression.

African sheep (Barbary sheep), mule deer, white-tailed deer, coyote, opossum, raccoon, bobcat, fox, porcupine, white-throated woodrat, numerous species of snakes and lizards, and over 175 species of birds including golden eagle, red-tailed hawk and turkey vulture are found within the park.  Lake Theo contains bass, catfish, and rainbow trout. In the summer of 2012 black-tailed prairie dogs were reintroduced to a  area within the park.

See also

Conservation of American bison
Yellow House Canyon
Palo Duro Canyon
Blanco Canyon
Mount Blanco

Mushaway Peak
Quitaque Creek
Caprock Escarpment
Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River

Canyon Valley, Texas
Double Mountain Fork Brazos River
North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos River
Little Red River (Texas)

References

External links

Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway from Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD)
Caprock Canyons Facility Map (PDF) from TPWD
Caprock Canyons Trailway Map and Guide  (PDF) from TPWD

Video of the Texas State Bison Herd in Caprock Canyons State Park on the Texas Archive of the Moving Image

Protected areas of Briscoe County, Texas
State parks of Texas
Rail trails in Texas
Canyons and gorges of Texas
Protected areas established in 1982
1982 establishments in Texas
Bison herds
Grasslands of Texas
Opéra de Marseille

The Opéra de Marseille, known today as the Opéra Municipal, is an opera company located in Marseille, France. In 1685, the city was the second in France after Bordeaux to have an opera house which was erected on a tennis court.

However, the first real theatre, the Grand-Théâtre or Salle Bauveau was constructed in 1787. During its period of great opulence following the Revolution, it was the site of many major opera presentations, including Verdi’s Rigoletto and Il Trovatore in 1860 and performances in 1866 of Lucia di Lammermoor and Il Barbiere di Siviglia by the famous soprano, Adelina Patti. Also, French premieres of major operatic works were given in the theatre: these include Aida (1877), La Fanciulla del West (1912), and an historic performance by Dame Nellie Melba in Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet in 1890. Some years following the installation of electricity, in November 1919 a fire destroyed the 18th century theatre, leaving only its shell and an exterior stone colonnade.

The present day opera house, the Opéra Municipal de Marseille, dates from its opening on 4 December 1924. It seats 1,800. It features a classic urn-shaped auditorium, three rings of boxes, two balconies and a gallery. A large sculpted frieze by sculptor Antoine Bourdelle frames the stage.

Designed by the three architects Ebrard, Castel, and Raymond, the theatre preserved the stone colonnade and, located the surviving original box office in the centre of the entrance hall, up from which led two staircases to the elegant main foyer. Beauvert describes it as "an Art Deco temple", the "soul mate" of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris.

Many well-known contemporary singers made their French debuts in this opera house. Among them are Alfredo Kraus, Plácido Domingo, and Renata Scotto. The house has a reputation for its very critical audience, especially those members seated in the top gallery, "the gods". Past music directors of the company have included János Fürst.

After World War II the Marseille opera house staged Sigurd by Ernest Reyer in 1963 and 1995.

References
Notes

Sources
Beauvert, Thierry. Opera Houses of the World, New York: The Vendome Press, 1995.

External links

Opera company website

Buildings and structures in Marseille
Marseille
Neoclassical architecture in France
Theatres completed in 1924
Tourist attractions in Marseille
Music venues completed in 1924
20th-century architecture in France
Dominica Amalgamated Workers' Union

The Dominica Amalgamated Workers' Union is a trade union in Dominica. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.

References

Trade unions in Dominica
International Trade Union Confederation
Dawu

Dawu or DAWU may refer to:

Dominica
Dominica Amalgamated Workers' Union

Ghana
Dawu (Ghana), a town in the Eastern Region
Dawu Sports Stadium, located in Accra, Ghana

Mainland China
Dawu County, Hubei (大悟县), of Xiaogan, Hubei
Dawu County, Sichuan, or Daofu County (道孚县) from its pinyin name, of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan

Towns 
Dawu, Xuzhou (大吴镇), in Jiawang District, Xuzhou, Jiangsu
Dawu, Tengzhou (大坞镇), in Tengzhou City, Shandong

Written as "大武镇":
Dawu, Fangshan County, in Fangshan County, Shanxi
Dawu Town, Maqên County, in Maqên County, Qinghai

Townships 
Dawu Township, Zhecheng County (大仵乡), in Zhecheng County, Henan

Written as "大武乡":
Dawu Township, Shangshui County, in Shangshui County, Henan
Dawu Township, Maqên County, town in Maqên County, Qinghai

 Dawu, Dongkou (大屋瑶族乡), a Yao ethnic township of Dongkou County, Hunan

Taiwan
Dawu, Taitung (大武鄉), township in Taitung County
Unemployment Action Center

The Unemployment Action Center, sometimes abbreviated as UAC, is a non-profit organization run by students of nine law schools in the New York City area. The purpose of UAC is to provide free legal representation to people who were denied unemployment benefits by the New York State Department of Labor, or against appeals by employers from an initial determination granting unemployment insurance.

History
UAC was founded in 1981 as a clinical program at New York University School of Law and now adds over 100 participants each year. Law student volunteers have represented thousands of claimants, and contribute their efforts without compensation.

In 1985, The UAC was incorporated as a non-profit organization.

Participating law schools 
(in alphabetical order)
 Brooklyn Law School
 Cardozo School of Law, part of Yeshiva University
 Columbia Law School, part of Columbia University
 Fordham University School of Law, part of Fordham University
 Hofstra University School of Law, part of Hofstra University
 New York Law School
 New York University School of Law, part of New York University
 Pace University School of Law
 Touro Law School

Similar organizations 
The University of Connecticut School of Law has a center modeled on the New York example that was established in 2002.

References

External links 
Official site

Organizations established in 1981
Legal organizations based in the United States
Unemployment in the United States
Mayyit

al-Mayyit () is the term to refer to the deceased in Islam. There are prescribed burial rites to be given upon the death of a Muslim, including the salat al-mayyit, or "prayer of the dead".

The term is also used in the Arabic name of the Dead Sea, al-Bahr al-Mayyit.

Arabic words and phrases
Islamic culture
Islamic terminology
Ostional Mixed Wildlife Refuge

Ostional Mixed Wildlife Refuge (), is an  Wildlife refuge of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, was originally declared a protected area in 1982, and its status has been changed several times since then, including covering a larger area both on land and out to sea. It was created to protect important nesting beaches of the Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea).

According to the World Wildlife Fund, the Refuge is “one of the two most important areas in the world for nesting of the Olive Ridley turtle.”

References

External links
Ostional Wildlife Refuge via Costa Rica National Parks
Hundreds of Turtles Arrive in Ostional via The Costa Rica News
Playa Ostional – The Sustainable Community via That Journey Blog
Asociación de Desarollo Integral Ostional (ADIO), official page

Nature reserves in Costa Rica
Geography of Guanacaste Province
Simple rational approximation

Simple rational approximation (SRA) is a subset of interpolating methods using rational functions. Especially, SRA interpolates a given function with a specific rational function whose poles and zeros are simple, which means that there is no multiplicity in poles and zeros. Sometimes, it only implies simple poles.

The main application of SRA lies in finding the zeros of secular functions. A divide-and-conquer algorithm to find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors for various kinds of matrices is well known in numerical analysis. In a strict sense, SRA implies a specific interpolation using simple rational functions as a part of the divide-and-conquer algorithm. Since such secular functions consist of a series of rational functions with simple poles, SRA is the best candidate to interpolate the zeros of the secular function. Moreover, based on previous researches, a simple zero that lies between two adjacent poles can be considerably well interpolated by using a two-dominant-pole rational function as an approximating function.

One-point third-order iterative method: Halley's formula 
The origin of the interpolation with rational functions can be found in the previous work done by Edmond Halley. Halley's formula is known as one-point third-order iterative method to solve  by means of approximating a rational function defined by

We can determine a, b, and c so that 

Then solving  yields the iteration

This is referred to as Halley's formula.
This geometrical interpretation  was derived by Gander (1978), where the equivalent iteration also was derived by applying Newton's method to

We call this algebraic interpretation  of Halley's formula.

One-point second-order iterative method: Simple rational approximation
Similarly, we can derive a variation of Halley's formula based on a one-point second-order iterative method to solve  using simple rational approximation by

Then we need to evaluate

Thus we have

The algebraic interpretation of this iteration is obtained by solving 

This one-point second-order method is known to show a locally quadratic convergence if the root of the equation is simple.
SRA strictly implies this one-point second-order interpolation by a simple rational function.

We can notice that even third order method is a variation of Newton's method. We see the Newton's steps are multiplied by some factors. These factors are called the convergence factors of the variations, which are useful for analyzing the rate of convergence. See Gander (1978).

References 
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Interpolation
Talempong

Talempong is a traditional music of the Minangkabau people of Western Sumatra, Indonesia. The talempong produce a static texture consisting of interlocking rhythms.

A talempong a small kettle gong which gives its name to an ensemble of four or five talempong as well as other gongs and drums. The term can refer to the instrument, the ensemble, or the genre of music. Talempong is in the form of a circle with a diameter of 15 to 17.5 centimeters, with a hollow hole at the bottom while at the top there is a roundabout with a diameter of five centimeters as a place to be hit. Talempong has a different tone. The sound is produced from a pair of wood hammered on its surface.

In 2019 and 2021, The Talempong Unggan and The Talempong Pakcik were recognized as National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Indonesia by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture.

On December 15, 2021, UNESCO officially recognized Gamelan which includes a musical instrument of Talempong as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, and encouraged the Indonesian people and the Indonesian government to safeguard, transmit, promote performances and to encourage the craftsmanship of the instruments.

Cultural contexts
Talempong is usually used to accompany dance or welcoming performances, such as the typical Tari Piring, Tari Pasambahan, Tari Alang, Tari Suntiang Pangulu and Tari Gelombang. Talempong is usually performed with an accordion accompaniment, a type of organ supported and played with the right hand played by the player. In addition to the accordion, instruments such as saluang, gandang, serunai and other traditional Minangkabau instruments are also commonly played with talempong.

Talempong can be used to play a wide variety of music traditional and modern. Talempong have been used in some experimental gamelan pieces composed at Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia Surakarta, which has West Sumatran instructors and students.

Outside Indonesia
In Malaysia, the talempong was brought to  Negeri Sembilan, Peninsular Malaysia, in the 14th century by Minangkabau people from nearby West Sumatra. Here, talempong is also known as caklempong.

The caklempong is present in the different configurations of the Nobat, a ceremonial traditional orchestra that is among the Regalia of Malaysia. Performances by the Nobat are limited to royal occasions, the ensemble playing an important role in the Installation of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

Gallery

See also

 Gamelan - gong chime music of Java, Bali, southern Sumatra
 Kulintang - a single row kettle gong instrument of the southern Philippines, northern Borneo, Sulawesi.
 Bonang - kettle gong instrument of Java
History of Caklempong

Sources
Roth, A. R. New Compositions for Javanese Gamelan. University of Durham, Doctoral Thesis, 1986

Notes

Gong and chime music
Indonesian styles of music
Malaysian styles of music
Percussion ensembles
Gongs
Indonesian musical instruments
Malaysian musical instruments
Cassidy's Ltd.

Cassidy's Ltd. is a former Canadian company that specialized in restaurant equipment. Founded in 1801, it was Canada's third oldest company at the time of its closure in 2000. The older companies were Hudson's Bay Company and Molson. Founded in Montreal, Cassidy's began as an importer of fine china, later expanding into hotel and restaurant equipment as well as prison fittings. The business was headquartered in Toronto with warehouses in Toronto and Winnipeg.

References

Companies established in 1801
Defunct companies of Quebec
André Lacroix

André Lacroix is the name of:

André Lacroix (businessman) (born 1960), French businessman
André Lacroix (ice hockey) (born 1945), retired Canadian ice hockey player
André Lacroix (tennis) (died 1992), Belgian tennis player
André Lacroix (pentathlete) (born 1921), French pentathlete
André Lacroix (cyclist) (born 1997), Peruvian cyclist
Camaronal Wildlife Refuge

The Camaronal Wildlife Refuge is a Wildlife refuge of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, on the Pacific Coast of the Nicoya Peninsula.

The refuge was created for the protection of sea turtles nesting sites for leatherback, olive ridley and hawksbill turtles. The success of the program was evidenced by the November 2006 mass arrival of egg-laying turtles (the first registered in 15 years). Unfortunately, proposed massive and unregulated real-estate developments constitute a grave threat to the Camaronal Wildlife Refuge. Although there is a groundswell of activism opposing said development, the Camaronal Wildlife Refuge's future remains uncertain.

References

 Proposed development layout

External links
Camaronal Wildlife Refuge at Costa Rica National Parks

Nature reserves in Costa Rica
Geography of Guanacaste Province
Apidium

The genus Apidium (from Latin, a diminutive of the Egyptian bull god, Apis, as the first fossils were thought to be from a type of a cow) is that of at least three extinct primates living in the early Oligocene,  from 30 to 28 million years ago. Apidium fossils are common in the Fayoum deposits of Egypt. Fossils of the earlier species, Apidium moustafai, are rare; fossils of the later species Apidium phiomense are fairly common.

Apidium and its fellow members of the Parapithecidae family are stem anthropoids that possess  all the hallmarks of modern Anthropoidea. Their ancestry is closely tied to the Eocene Asian group Eosimiidae.

Age

Apidium fossils were originally thought to be between 35.4 and 33.3 million years old, based on initial analysis of the Jebel Qatrani Formation in which they were found. However, analysis by Erik Seiffert in 2006 concluded that the age of the Jebel Qatrani Formation should be revised. His assessment of more recent evidence indicates an age of between 30.2 and 29.5 million years ago, wholly within the Rupelian (early Oligocene) epoch.

Behaviour

The Apidium species were well adapted to life in what once were the tropical forests of North Africa. They lived in trees and apparently moved on top of tree limbs by a combination of quadrupedalism and leaping, much as do living squirrel monkeys of the genus Saimiri. These primates appear to have been frugivorous and diurnal, with keen eyesight.

Male Apidium were bigger than the females, which, by comparing them with living primates, suggests that they probably lived in groups, where a small number of males would have had control over several females. The males had large canine teeth.

References

External links
Mikko's Phylogeny archive
BBC's Nature Fact Files
Scientific classification of Apidium phiomense
Britannica Encyclopedia
Paleobiology Database 

Eocene primates
Oligocene primates
Priabonian genus first appearances
Rupelian genus extinctions
Eocene mammals of Africa
Oligocene mammals of Africa
Taxa named by Henry Fairfield Osborn
Fossil taxa described in 1908
Graeme Watson

Graeme or Graham Watson may refer to:

 Graham Watson (born 1956), British politician
 Graeme Watson (cricketer) (1945-2020), Australian professional cricketer and Australian footballer
 Graham Watson (footballer, born 1949), English footballer (Doncaster Rovers, Cambridge United)
 Graham Watson (footballer, born 1970), Scottish footballer (Aberdeen FC)
 Graeme Watson (footballer) (born 1986), Scottish footballer (Airdrie United)
 Graham Watson (motorsport), New Zealand-born Italian Formula One engineer
Cipancí Wildlife Refuge

The Cipancí Wildlife Refuge is a Wildlife refuge of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, and protects tropical forest and wetlands on the banks of the Tempisque River near Abangares in the Guanacaste Province.

External links
Cipancí Wildlife Refuge at Costa Rica National Parks

Nature reserves in Costa Rica
Geography of Guanacaste Province
Cedar Creek Canyon

Cedar Creek Canyon may refer to:

Cedar Creek Canyon (Arkansas), in the Petit Jean State Park
Cedar Creek Canyon (Indiana), a glacial tunnel valley near Fort Wayne, Indiana
Cueva Murciélago Wildlife Refuge

The Cueva Murciélago Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife refuge of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, and protects tropical forest in the coastal areas of the southern Nicoya Peninsula near Cabuya.

References

External links
Cueva Murcielago Wildlife Refuge at Costa Rica National Parks

Nature reserves in Costa Rica
Geography of Puntarenas Province
Dean Young

Dean Young may refer to:

Dean Young (poet) (1955 - 2022), American poet
Dean Young (rugby league) (born 1983), Australian professional rugby league footballer
Dean Young (cartoonist) (born 1938), scripter for the Blondie comic strip
Dean Young (snooker player) (born 2002), Scottish professional snooker player
Fu-Kuen Lin

Fu-Kuen Lin (; born 1941 in Keelung, Taiwan) is a mycological physiologist, nephrologist and hematologist.

Lin received his B.S. from National Taiwan University in 1964 and M.S. in plant pathology in 1967.  That year,  he moved to the United States to study fungi physiology under Professor David Gottlieb, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Lin was awarded a doctorate in plant pathology in 1971. He held postdoctoral and visiting scientist positions at several institutions between 1971 and 1981. He was an associate research fellow at the Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica in Taiwan from 1975 to 1977 and an adjunct associate professor at the National Taiwan University from 1976 to 1977.

Fu-Kuen Lin joined Amgen, a biotech company as a research scientist in August 1981.  He was involved with Amgen's recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO) project from the start, and was soon leading the team, which was developing EPO based on a small sample of the hormone that had been isolated by a team led by Eugene Goldwasser at the University of Chicago.  In 1983 his team successfully established the gene coding for it and recombinant human erythropoietin was approved by the US FDA in June 1989 with the generic name epoetin alpha, tradename Epogen.

Lin was also engaged in developing novel pharmaceutics and studying their molecular mechanisms. His primary research interests were in the fields of hematology, hypertension, immune regulation and fungi physiology. He retired from Amgen as the Director of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in 1998. Lin is the inventor of seven US patents covering “DNA Sequences Encoding Erythropoietin” and “Production of Erythropoietin”.  Among other honors, he is a recipient of the “1989 Technology Corridor 100” Award; the 1990 “Quality of Life” Award; the “1995 Discoverers Award” (by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America); and the Committee of 100, Pioneer Recognition Award in May 2002.

References

Selected works
 Lin F. (1984), DNA sequences encoding erythropoietin., US-Patent 4,703,008 (30 November 1984).
 Lin F. et al. (1985) "Cloning and expression of the human erythropoietin gene" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 82: 7580-7584.

References
 Fu-Kuen Lin’s Biography Monte Jade Science and Technology Association;
 Amgen 2004 Annual Report - Defining Moments - The Discovery of Epogen - The Story;
 Fritsch v. Lin Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, Patent and Trademark Office (P.T.O.) 3 December 1991;

1941 births
American microbiologists
Amgen
Living people
National Taiwan University alumni
Scientists from Keelung
Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
Chalone AVA

The Chalone AVA is an American Viticultural Area in the Monterey and San Benito counties of California, located in the Gabilan Mountains east of Soledad.  The  region is named for the nearby Chalone peaks.  The region has limestone and decomposed granite soil.

See also 
 California wine

References 

American Viticultural Areas of California
Gabilan Range
Geography of Monterey County, California
Geography of San Benito County, California
American Viticultural Areas
1982 establishments in California
James Mangles

James Mangles may refer to:
James Mangles (MP) (1762–1838), English merchant and politician
James Mangles (Royal Navy officer) (1786–1867), explorer and botanist
Joe Vosmik

Joseph Franklin Vosmik (April 4, 1910 – January 27, 1962) was an outfielder for the Cleveland Indians (1930–36), St. Louis Browns (1937), Boston Red Sox (1938–39), Brooklyn Dodgers (1940–41) and Washington Senators (1944). He helped the Dodgers win the 1941 National League Pennant.

He was voted in the 1935 American League All-Star Team as a right fielder. He finished 3rd in voting for the 1935 AL MVP Award for leading the league in hits (216), doubles (47) and triples (20). He also played in 152 games and had 620 at-bats, 93 runs, 10 home runs, 110 RBIs, 2 stolen bases, 59 walks, a .348 batting average, a .408 on-base percentage, a .537 slugging percentage, 333 total bases, and 5 sacrifice hits. He was traded from the Browns to the Red Sox for Bobo Newsom, Red Kress and Buster Mills on December 3, 1937. He finished 21st in voting for the 1938 AL MVP Award for leading the league in hits (201), playing in 146 games, and having 621 at-bats, 121 runs, 37 doubles, 6 triples, 9 home runs, 86 RBIs, 59 walks, a .324 batting average, a .384 on-base percentage, a .446 slugging percentage, 277 total bases, and 7 sacrifice hits.

In 13 seasons, he played in 1,414 games and had 5,472 at-bats, 818 runs, 1,682 hits, 335 doubles, 92 triples, 65 home runs, 874 RBIs, 23 stolen bases, 514 walks, a .307 batting average, a .369 on-base percentage, a .438 slugging percentage, 2,396 total bases, and 77 sacrifice hits. His career fielding percentage was .979.

From 1947 to 1951, he was a manager in the minor league system of the Indians.

He died in his hometown at the age of 51.

See also
 List of Major League Baseball annual doubles leaders
 List of Major League Baseball annual triples leaders

References

External links

 

1910 births
1962 deaths
American League All-Stars
Cleveland Indians players
St. Louis Browns players
Boston Red Sox players
Brooklyn Dodgers players
Washington Senators (1901–1960) players
Major League Baseball left fielders
Baseball players from Cleveland
Minor league baseball managers
Frederick Warriors players
Terre Haute Tots players
Louisville Colonels (minor league) players
Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players
Tucson Cowboys players
Oklahoma City Indians players
WNPA

WNPA may refer to:

 WNPA-LP, a low-power radio station (102.5 FM) licensed to serve Canton, Ohio, United States
 WPKD-TV, a television station (channel 11, virtual 19) licensed to serve Jeannette, Pennsylvania, United States, which held the call sign WNPA from 1997 to 2006
Nicoya Peninsula

The Nicoya Peninsula () is a peninsula on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. It is divided into two provinces: Guanacaste Province in the north, and the Puntarenas Province in the south. It is located at . It varies from 19 to  wide and is approximately  long, forming the largest peninsula in the country. It is known for its beaches and is a popular tourist destination.

The main transport and commercial centre in the region is Nicoya, one of the oldest settlements in Costa Rica. Ferries run between the town of Puntarenas on the mainland and the Nicoya Peninsula. There is an international airport in nearby Liberia and small domestic airstrips in Nosara, Carrillo, Tamarindo and Tambor. The region was also featured in the book Blue Zones, by Dan Buettner, which focused on the longevity found among Nicoya's residents.

Places of interest
Other notable settlements and places of interest in the area include (going roughly from north to south): Tamarindo, Santa Cruz, Nosara, Sámara, Naranjo, Paquera, Curu, Tambor, Montezuma, Santa Teresa, Mal Pais.

The Ostional Wildlife Refuge is the second largest beach where the turtles come to nest. One of their biggest nesting years had over 500,000 females come ashore to nest in one season. This refuge works in with the Nancite beach at Santa Rosa National Park. These two protected areas are two of the most important areas for the nesting of Olive Ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea). Two other common species of turtles that nest here are the leatherback turtles (Dermmochelys coriacea) and the Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas agassizii). The nesting generally occurs for three to five days.

Conservation
There are a number of nature reserves and wildlife refuges such as Cabo Blanco, Camaronal, Cueva Murciélago, Curú, La Ceiba, Romelia and the Diriá National Park, as well as the projects on the islands of the adjacent Gulf of Nicoya.

Notable features
The Nicoya Peninsula is considered by Quest Network one of the Blue Zones in the world, where people commonly live active lives past the age of 100 years.

See also
Tourism in Costa Rica

References

Peninsulas of Costa Rica
Geography of Guanacaste Province
Geography of Puntarenas Province
Blue zones
Caenogenesis

Caenogenesis (also variously spelled cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis) is the introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species, as opposed to palingenesis. Notable examples include the addition of the placenta in mammals.

Caenogenesis constitutes a violation to Ernst Haeckel's biogenetic law and was explained by Haeckel as adaptation to the peculiar conditions of the organism's individual development. Other authorities, such as Wilhelm His, Sr., on the contrary saw embryonic differences as precursors to adult differences.

See also
Ontogeny
Recapitulation theory

References

Bibliography 
Gould, S.J. 1977. Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Developmental biology
Revolution (Little Steven album)

Revolution is the fourth solo studio album by Little Steven, released in 1989 by RCA Records. His backing band, the Disciples of Soul, were gone in all but name (although former Disciple/Young Rascals drummer Dino Danelli did the album art), and the music was largely electronic with a rock-soul-funk sound.

In 2019, the album was remastered for release as part of Van Zandt's career-spanning box set Rock N Roll Rebel: The Early Work. The digital deluxe edition of the album was released on November 15, 2019, containing two bonus tracks.

Track listing
All songs written and arranged by Little Steven.

 "Where Do We Go From Here?" - 5:53
 "Revolution" - 5:25
 "Education" - 4:39
 "Balance" - 5:16
 "Love and Forgiveness" - 4:48
 "Newspeak" - 5:21
 "Sexy" - 4:03
 "Leonard Peltier" - 3:45
 "Liberation Theology" - 4:49
 "Discipline" - 6:16

2019 digital deluxe edition bonus tracks
 "Revolution (Naked City Mix)" (UK 12" single - 1989) - 9:46
 "Revolution (Naked City Mix Part 2 - Maceo's Thang)" (UK 12" single - 1989) - 5:44

Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album liner notes.

 Little Steven – vocals, guitar, drum programming
 Mark Alexander – MIDI programming, keyboards, background vocals 
 Leslie Ming – drums, percussion, background vocals
 Warren McRae – bass, background vocals 
 Craig Derry – background vocals
 Will Downing – background vocals
 Danny Madden – background vocals
 Mark Ladford – background vocals
 David Beal – percussion on "Where Do We Go From Here?"
Technical
 Little Steven – producer
 Mark Alexander – production assistance
 Warren McRae – production assistance
 David McNair – engineer, mixing
 Tom Lord-Alge – mixing on "Balance" and "Love and Forgiveness" 
 Joe Perrera – assistant mixing engineer
 Bob Ludwig – mastering
 Dino Danelli – art director, designer, artist
 Veronica Sim – photography

Charts

Album

Singles

"Love and Forgiveness" and "Leonard Peltier" were also released as singles, however, they did not chart.

References

1989 albums
Steven Van Zandt albums
Albums produced by Steven Van Zandt
Curú Wildlife Refuge

The Curú Wildlife Refuge is a Wildlife refuge of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area, tropical dry forests on the southern Nicoya Peninsula, near Tambor. Although it is a wildlife refuge, it is also private property, forming part of a ranch of 12.14 square kilometres. A small region of the property is used for cattle breeding and growing crops such as soursop, guava, banana, mango and African oil palm, while the remaining area retains its natural vegetation.

The refuge protects the habitat of many types of birds, as well as animals such as white-tailed deer, mantled howler monkeys, Panamanian white-faced capuchin monkeys, coyotes, armadillos and boa constrictors.

History 
In 1933, the land was settled by Federico Schutt de la Croix. Schutt's goal was to develop and manage the land in order for it to become a fully self-sustained farm. Schutt constructed an hacienda on the land and transformed the surrounding area into a sustainable development project, featuring selective timber harvest and cattle grazing. Schutt also focused his efforts on agriculture, growing rice, beans, corn, plantains, mangos, and teak plantations on his land. Schutt's original ideas for the land were gradually altered as efforts were made towards the conservation of wildlife and prioritization of ecotourism.

In 1974, a portion of the Schutt family's land was overrun with squatters, prompting the family to seek protection for the land from the Costa Rican government. In 1981, most of the family's land was given the status of "Protected Forest" by the government. In 1983, the Curú Wildlife Refuge was officially established, making it the first private national wildlife refuge in Costa Rica. Since its recognition as a wildlife refuge, the Schutt family has focused on converting the area into an eco-tourism location, as well as a research center for both students and scientists.

References

External links
Curú Wildlife Refuge at Costa Rica National Parks

Nature reserves in Costa Rica
Geography of Puntarenas Province
Jason Davis (American football)

Jason Sidney Arthur Davis (born November 2, 1983) is a former American football fullback. He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at Illinois.

Davis was a member of the Chicago Bears, Oakland Raiders, New York Jets, Hartford Colonials and Virginia Destroyers.

Early years
Davis attended Lindbergh High School in St. Louis, Missouri where he was a four-year starter. Davis played offense and defense in high school. He led Lingbergh to its first-ever district title and a berth in the state playoffs and tallied 54 tackles and three interceptions as a senior He was named second-team All-South by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as both a defensive back and wide receiver. He also played on the basketball team and was a member of the state champion 4 × 100 m relay team in 2000.

College career
Davis attended the University of Illinois and played fullback for the Illini. He became a starter as a junior in 2004 and caught 41 passes for 340 yards and two touchdowns while running for 230 yards and a touchdown.

Professional career
Davis was not selected in the 2006 NFL Draft but signed with the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent. He played in his first NFL game in 2008 with the Oakland Raiders. He also started in three games for the Chicago Bears in 2008.

The New York Jets claimed Davis off waivers on September 6, 2009.

Jason was featured on the reality sports documentary television series Hard Knocks produced by NFL Films and HBO.  The series followed the New York Jets through its 2010 training camp and the team's preparation for the upcoming season. The battle for the starting fullback position between Jason, veteran Tony Richardson, and rookie John Conner was heavily featured. On September 3, 2010, the Jets waived Davis as the team began to make roster cutdowns.

On October 18, 2010, Jason Davis joined the Hartford Colonials of the United Football League (UFL).

References

2.   http://www.ganggreennation.com/2010/9/9/1678359/jason-davis-sets-the-record

External links
Just Sports Stats
Illinois bio
ESPN bio

1983 births
Living people
Players of American football from St. Louis
African-American players of American football
American football fullbacks
Illinois Fighting Illini football players
Philadelphia Eagles players
Chicago Bears players
Oakland Raiders players
New York Jets players
Hartford Colonials players
Virginia Destroyers players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people
Frank Sontag

Frank M. Sontag is an American radio personality having hosted programs for over a couple decades. In 2009, he began hosting an internet talk radio show. Sontag was a regular cast member on the Mark & Brian radio program. He also has had small acting parts in a few motion pictures.

Radio Host

FM 95.5 KLOS, Impact 

Sontag hosted the Impact program on 95.5 KLOS-FM for more than twenty years, a talk radio show that discussed a wide variety of topics.

FM 99.5 KKLA, the Frank Sontag show 

KKLA is a Christian talk and teaching radio station based in Los Angeles, California, first aired in 1985.

In 2013, Sontag joined KKLA-FM 99.5 FM on the program The Frank Sontag show: Intersection of Faith and Reason, a Christian talk and discussion forum. He succeeded Frank Pastore of The Frank Pastore Show following Pastore's death in 2012.

Sontag announced his departure from KKLA with a final episode posted on July 28, 2021.

Personal

On March 7, 2010, a few months after leaving KLOS Radio, Sontag expressed a conversion to Christianity This affected his radio programming choices.

As of 2004, Sontag was married to Erin with one daughter and one son.

Book 

Sontag's book is autobiographical, Light the Way Home: My Incredible Ride from New Age to New Life.

References

External links

American talk radio hosts
Radio personalities from Cleveland
1955 births
Living people
Cerovlje

Cerovlje () is a village and a municipality in Istria, Croatia.

Description 
Many ancient towns and decayed castles (Belaj, Posert, Paz, Gologorica, Gradinje) can be found in its territory. Almost every town or castle in Cerovlje is on top of a hill, from where they could see enemies from a farther distance. During the Middle Ages (under the reign of the Holy Roman Empire), the people of Cerovlje also built many churches.

Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 1,453 with 197 living in the village proper.

The total population of Cerovlje was 1,667 in 2011.

The census of 2011 had recorded the following settlements:
 Belaj, population 16
 Borut, population 213
 Cerovlje, population 241
 Ćusi, population 58
 Draguć, population 68
 Gologorica, population 269
 Gologorički Dol, population 80
 Gradinje, population 43
 Grimalda, population 75
 Korelići, population 53
 Novaki Pazinski, population 200
 Oslići, population 79
 Pagubice, population 127
 Paz, population 72
 Previž, population 83

Municipal population 

Note: Emerged from old Pazin municipality. From 1857 until 1971 includes part of the data of Pazin.

References

External links 

 

Municipalities of Croatia
Populated places in Istria County
Dominica Public Service Union

The Dominica Public Service Union is a trade union in Dominica. It was founded in 1939 as the Dominica Civil Service Association, registering as a trade union in 1961.

References

Trade unions in Dominica
Public sector trade unions
Trade unions established in 1939
Markland Locks and Dam

The Markland Locks and Dam is a concrete dam bridge and locks that span the Ohio River.  It is 1395 feet (425.2 m) long, and connects Gallatin County, Kentucky, and Switzerland County, Indiana.

The locks and dam were reviewed by the Board of Engineers for River and Harbours to replace the Ohio River locks and dams Number 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39. Then the project was approved by the Secretary of the Army on March 11, 1953. Construction on the locks began in March 1956 and they were placed in operation in May 1959. The dam construction began in April 1959 and was finished in June 1964.

Federal Power Commission granted a license for Cinergy to operate a hydroelectric power plant at the dam. Cinergy was later bought by Duke Energy. The plant has a capacity of 81,000 kVA.

On September 27, 2009, the 1,200-foot lock failed and the gates "mismitered" due to a solenoid malfunction. The lock was repaired and reopened on March 1, 2010. The 1,200-foot lock chamber remained closed for 155 days, but the 600-foot lock continued to lock traffic albeit with delays.

See also

List of crossings of the Ohio River
List of locks and dams of the Ohio River

References

External links
A Variety of Markland Dam Pictures are at Northern Kentucky Views

Dams in Indiana
Dams in Kentucky
Hydroelectric power plants in Indiana
Hydroelectric power plants in Kentucky
Buildings and structures in Gallatin County, Kentucky
Dams on the Ohio River
Buildings and structures in Switzerland County, Indiana
Energy infrastructure completed in 1964
Bridges completed in 1964
Transportation buildings and structures in Switzerland County, Indiana
Road bridges in Indiana
Road bridges in Kentucky
Duke Energy dams
Locks of Indiana
Locks of Kentucky
1964 establishments in Indiana
1964 establishments in Kentucky
Rangahore

In Māori mythology, Rangahore is a wife of god Tāne. Tāne was looking for a wife, and asked his mother Papatūānuku to suggest suitable candidates. He took Rangahore to wife, but she gave birth to a stone, and Tane forsook her (Shortland 1882:20-21, Tregear 1891:391).

References

Legendary Māori people
Carson Boren

Carson Dobbins Boren (December 12, 1824 – August 19, 1912) was an early founder of Seattle, Washington (see Denny Party). His sister Mary Ann was married to Arthur Denny, and his sister Louisa to David Denny. Boren was the first King County Sheriff. Seattle's Boren Avenue is named in his honor.

Although he was an important figure in the early years of Seattle, historian Junius Rochester writes that "The pioneering contributions of Carson Dobbins Boren to the founding of Alki (in future West Seattle) and Seattle began and ended within a short period of six years."

Biography
Carson Boren was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He married Mary Ann Kays (November 6, 1830 – June 21, 1905) on February 18, 1849 at Abingdon, Knox County, Illinois. Their first daughter Sarah E. was born December 17, 1849 but died 17 days later and is buried in the Cherry Grove Cemetery in Knox County. A second daughter, Gertrude Livonia (December 12, 1850 – June 3, 1912), was carried as an infant on the cross-country trek in 1851 with the Denny Party.

In 1852, Boren gave Henry Yesler the southern portion of his claim so as to construct Yesler's mill.

After erecting the first home in what would become downtown Seattle (the previous structures had been at Alki), the couple participated in the early life of Seattle and had two more children, William Richard (October 4, 1854 – January 19, 1899) and Mary Louise (May 3, 1857 – January 1, 1926). In 1855 they sold this property, along with a  claim extending uphill from the waterfront between what are now James and Marion Streets, to Edward Lander and Charles Terry. The couple argued over Carson's constant hunting trips and giveaways, and by 1860 they separated. They were divorced by territorial legislative act December 17, 1861. Their children were raised by the Dennys. Mary Ann went south to The Dalles, Oregon, and established a dressmaking business. There she had another daughter, Lydia Dell Blakeney (January 18, 1869 – October 6, 1921) with John William Blakeney, a divorced man; they married in November 1872, but separated about 1880 and divorced in 1884. Mary Ann and Lydia moved back to Seattle.

Mary Ann Boren apparently kept in touch with her children by Carson Boren and lived with her youngest daughter and son-in-law in what is now the International District of Seattle. When she died in 1905, she was buried in an unmarked grave in Lake View Cemetery, down the hill from where Carson Boren and their unmarried daughter (called Livonia as an adult) are buried in style with the Denny Clan.

Notes

1824 births
1912 deaths
People from Seattle
Washington (state) sheriffs
People from Nashville, Tennessee
Washington (state) pioneers
Kanfanar

Kanfanar () is a municipality in Istria, Croatia.

Kanfanar lies at the interchange of the Istrian Y motorway A8 and A9, as well as on the Divača – Pula railway, and was formerly the junction of a branchline to Rovinj. In the 18th century, Kanfanar became a municipal center, and it is known for sacred monuments such as the church of St. Silvester from the 13th century, the church of St. Mary of Lakuć from the 14th century and the church of St. Agate from the 10th century.

Demographics
According to the Croatian 2021 census, the whole of Kanfanar Municipality has 1,498 inhabitants, while the settlement of Kanfanar proper has 485 inhabitants.

According to the 2011 census, the municipality had 1,543 inhabitants.

Settlements
The municipality consists 21 settlements: 

Barat
Brajkovići
Bubani
Burići
Červari
Dubravci
Jural
Kanfanar
Korenići
Kurili
Ladići
Marići
Maružini
Matohanci
Mrgani
Okreti
Pilkovići
Putini
Sošići
Šorići
Žuntići

References

External links 

Municipalities of Croatia
Populated places in Istria County
Diriá National Park

The Diriá National Park, until 2004 the Diriá National Forest Wildlife Refuge, is a National Park of Costa Rica south of Santa Cruz in the Guanacaste Province, and forms part of the Tempisque Conservation Area. It protects both dry and at higher elevations humid tropical forest in the central highlands of the Nicoya Peninsula, including the watersheds of the Diriá, Tigre, Verde and Enmedio rivers which have been created a terrain of deep valleys with steep slopes.

The  park has a ranger station which is open daily from 8am to 4pm for visitors and tourists, and contains species such as deer, howler monkeys, anteaters and peccary, besides 134 known species of birds. There are several rare tree species, as well as endemic plant species, including the Pitcairnia bromeliad and a type of Stenocereus cactus, which are only found on the Nicoya Peninsula. It was originally designated as a protected zone in 1991 and then two years later it became a National wildlife refuge.

The park has two trails that leave the ranger station, one of which leads to the Brasil Waterfall. There is a basic dormitory at the ranger station where travelers can stay overnight.

References

External links
Diria National Park at Costa Rica National Parks

National parks of Costa Rica
Protected areas established in 1991
Geography of Guanacaste Province
Tourist attractions in Guanacaste Province
1991 establishments in Costa Rica
Karojba

Karojba () is a village and municipality in Istria, Croatia located 18 km north-west of Pazin.

Demographics
According to the Croatian 2021 census, the whole of Karojba Municipality has 1,404 inhabitants, while the settlement of Karojba proper has 413 inhabitants. The population was 1,438 in 2011.

References

External links
Karojba official website
Karojba Tourist Board

Municipalities of Croatia
Populated places in Istria County
Kaštelir-Labinci

Kaštelir-Labinci ( ) is a municipality in Istria, Croatia. Kaštelir and Labinci have been gradually urbanized over the centuries, and have gradually merged into one place. According to historical data, Labinci used to be a bigger place than Kaštela, but today Kašteliri is a bigger place, which is also evident from the name of the place. Throughout history, these two places were under the jurisdiction of Motovun and later Vižinada.

Demographics
According to the 2021 census, its population was 1,493.

The population was 1,334 (census 2001).

List of villages in municipality:
 Babići - 73
 Brnobići - 123
 Cerjani - 15
 Deklići - 34
 Dvori - 37
 Kaštelir - 283
 Kovači - 55
 Krančići - 80
 Labinci - 269
 Mekiši kod Kaštelira - 20
 Rogovići - 90
 Rojci - 64
 Roškići - 53
 Tadini - 68
 Valentići - 70

References

External links
 Kaštelir-Labinci Official site

Municipalities of Croatia
Populated places in Istria County
Populated places in Croatia where Italian is an official language