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Land and Overland

The Land and Overland trilogy is a group of three science fantasy novels by Northern Irish writer Bob Shaw.

The trilogy consists of the books The Ragged Astronauts (published in  1986), The Wooden Spaceships (1988) and The Fugitive Worlds (1989).  In the United Kingdom, all three novels were originally published by Victor Gollancz.  The Ragged Astronauts won the BSFA Award for best Novel in 1987.

The setting for the trilogy is a pair of planets, Land and Overland, which orbit about a common centre of gravity, close enough to each other that they share a common atmosphere.

Plot

The Ragged Astronauts

Land is a strictly feudal society that undergoes a peak energy crisis (the trees that provide energy and hard materials are scarce), and is undergoing a process of cultural decay. Much of the human population of Land travels to Overland via hot-air balloon to escape airborne creatures called the Ptertha.

Translations 
 Russian:  ("Astonauts in Rags"), 2003
 German: , 1991 ()
 Czech: , 1993
 Polish:  ("Space removal"), 1994 ()
 Italian:  ("The Ptertha invasion, or Challenge to the sky"), 1999 ()
 Romanian:

The Wooden Spaceships

Conflict breaks out between the new inhabitants of Overland and those who stayed behind on Land and, having developed an immunity to the Ptertha, intend to invade Overland. The inhabitants of Overland manage to defeat them by erecting a network of fortresses between the two planets. The spaceships of the title are made of a super-hard wood, brakka.

Translations 
 Russian:  ("The Wooden Spaceships"), 2003
 German: , 1991 ()
 Czech: , 1996
 Italian:  ("The attack to the world"), 2000 ()
 Romanian: N/A

The Fugitive Worlds

A strange object begins to approach the planets from outer space.

Translations 
 Russian:  ("The Fugitive Planets"), 2003
 German: , 1991 ()
 Italian:  ("Towards the Unknown"), 2000 ()

Reception
Orson Scott Card reviewed the first volume favourably, saying "The Ragged Astronauts is what an 18th-century hard-sf novel might have been, if Swift or Defoe had paid more attention to Newton. There are marvels enough to make you feel like you're discovering science fiction for the first time. . . . Shaw writes with an extraordinary combination of intelligence, clarity, and compassion."

References

Science fiction book series
Novels by Bob Shaw
Ali Shariatmadari

Ali Shariatmadari (6 January 1924 – 9 January 2017) was an Iranian academic and educationist who was minister of culture in the interim government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. He was president of the Iranian Academy of Sciences from 1990 until 1998. He was also a professor of education at the Teacher Training University in Tehran and a member of High Council of the Cultural Revolution from 1982 until his death.

He graduated with a BA in law from the University of Tehran in 1951 and went on to complete his higher education in the United States, receiving an MA in Secondary School Education from the University of Michigan in 1957.

While an academic at Shiraz University, Shariatmadari spent four months in solitary confinement as a result of supporting a student demonstration against French actions in Algeria during a visit by the Shah to the city.

With the advent of the Islamic revolution in 1979, he was made minister of culture in Mehdi Bazargan's interim government. Bazargan and his entire cabinet resigned in November 1979 after the Ayatollah Khomeini's advisers supported the student occupation of the US embassy in Tehran. The government had made assurances that it would end the hostage crisis.

Subsequently, he was tasked, together with Mostafa Moein, Ahmad Ahmadi and Abdolkarim Soroush, with training and vetting professors, selecting students, and Islamizing universities and their curricula.

Shariatmadari died on 9 January 2017, aged 93.

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Iranian educational theorists
Government ministers of Iran
20th-century Iranian writers
University of Michigan alumni
University of Tehran alumni
University of Tennessee alumni
Academic staff of Shiraz University
Academic staff of the Islamic Azad University
JAMA (political party) politicians
Party of the Iranian People politicians
Recipients of the Order of Knowledge
Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame recipients in Humanities
Faculty of Letters and Humanities of the University of Tehran alumni
20th-century Iranian politicians
People from Shiraz
Pulsatilla vernalis

Pulsatilla vernalis (spring pasqueflower, arctic violet, lady of the snows) is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to mountainous habitats in Europe. Growing to  high and wide, it is a semi-evergreen perennial with hairy, divided leaves. In early spring it bears anemone-like flowers which are up to  in diameter, white flushed with violet on the outer surface of the petals, and prominent yellow stamens.

The specific epithet vernalis means "of spring".

In cultivation it is suitable for an alpine garden or alpine house, with sharply drained soil in full sun. Though very hardy it dislikes winter wetness. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

It was the county flower of the former county Oppland, Norway and was depicted in the county coat of arms. It is also the county flower of Härjedalen, Sweden and South Karelia, Finland.

References

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vernalis
Flora of Europe
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Taxa named by Philip Miller
Moliterno

Moliterno (Lucano: Mulitiernu) is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. It is bounded by the comuni of Castelsaraceno, Grumento Nova, Lagonegro, Lauria, Montesano sulla Marcellana, Sarconi, Tramutola.

History
Tradition states that Moliterno was built after the destruction of Grumentum by the Saracens, which occurred between 872 and 975. Several Grumentini, who had  escaped the massacre,  settled around a tower built by the  Lombards. Moliterno was later a possession of  the Normans.

Main sights

Churches 
 Chiesa Madre, inside it houses the painting of The Deposition, attributed to the 17th-century painter Pietrafesa.
 Chiesa del Rosario
 Chiesa della Trinità
 Chiesa Santa Croce

Chapels
 Madonna del Carmine
 Chiesa Santa Barbara
 Cappella di San Pietro
 Chiesa di San Rocco
 Cappella dell' Angelo

See also
 Moliterno (cheese)

References

External links
Moliterno Genealogy(Marriages index 1866–1910, Selected Deaths 1866–1880)(Archived)

Cities and towns in Basilicata
Kate Radley

Kate Radley (born 19 February 1967) is an English keyboard player, best known for her work with the British rock band Spiritualized. She was a member during the time period which saw the release of the Lazer Guided Melodies, Pure Phase and Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space albums, before leaving the band in 1997.

She has been married to musician Richard Ashcroft  since 1995. She also made a cameo appearance in the music video for Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve. The couple's first son, Sonny, was born on 23 March 2000. In 2004, their second son, Cassius, was born. Since her marriage, Radley has largely left the music industry, but still provides keyboard session work for several of Ashcroft's solo albums.

References

1967 births
Living people
English rock keyboardists
People educated at Rugby High School for Girls
People from Rugby, Warwickshire
Spiritualized members
List of flags of Kenya

This is a list of flags used in Kenya.

National Flag

Military

Historical

Portuguese Rule

Omani Rule

German Wituland

British East Africa Company

British East Africa Protectorate

British Protectorate of Kenya

Italian Occupation

Cities 

Nairobi

Kenya
Flags
Flags
RAB27

Rab27 is a member of the Rab subfamily of GTPases. Rab27 is post translationally modified by the addition of two geranylgeranyl groups on the two C-terminal cysteines.

Pathology
Mutations that prevent the expression of Rab27 ('knock out' mutations) cause the hypopigmentation and immunodeficiency disorder known as type II Griscelli syndrome, while a decrease in Rab27 prenylation is thought to be involved in choroideremia.

The symptoms of type II Griscelli syndrome have shown that Rab27 is involved in melanosome transport in melanocytes and in cytotoxic killing activity in cytotoxic T lymphoblasts. In melanocytes Rab27 binds the melanosome. The melanosome is transported along the microtubule. Rab27 then recruits Slac2A and myosin Va, these enzymes are essential for the transfer of the melanosomes from the microtubules to actin filaments. The melanosomes can now continue on their path towards the cell periphery. If either Rab27, Slac2A or myosin Va are absent then the melanosomes remain in the perinuclear region of the cell. This disruption in pigmentation results in the hypopigmentation seen in the silvery hair colour of patients with Griscelli syndrome.

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Signal transduction
EC 3.6.5
Andrew Sherborne

Andrew Sherborne (born 11 March 1961) is an English professional golfer.

Sherborne was born in Bristol. He was the leading amateur at The Open Championship in 1984 and turned professional later that year. He played on the European Tour for nearly twenty years, winning the 1991 Madrid Open and the 1992 Peugeot Spanish Open. Towards the end of his tournament career he struggled to hold his place on the main tour, and during this period he picked up his third professional win at the Challenge Tour's 2001 Open Golf Montecchia - PGA Triveneta. His highest placing on the European Tour's Order of Merit was 30th in 1992.

Professional wins (4)

European Tour wins (2)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Challenge Tour playoff record (0–1)

Other wins (1)
2011 Farmfoods British Par 3 Championship

Results in major championships

Note: Sherborne only played in The Open Championship.

CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1984 Open Championship)
"T" = tied

Team appearances
Amateur
European Youths' Team Championship (representing England): 1982
St Andrews Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1984 (winners)

References

External links

English male golfers
European Tour golfers
1961 births
Living people
Longfin

The longfins, also known as roundheads or spiny basslets, are a family, Plesiopidae, which were formerly placed in the order Perciformes but are now regarded as being incertae sedis in the subseries Ovalentaria in the clade Percomorpha. They are elongated fishes, found in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.

Classification
 

In some classifications, the genus Notograptus is split in its own family, Notograptidae, but FishBase is followed here. There are two subfamilies within the Plesiopidae and the genera are as follows:

Subfamily Acanthoclininae Günther, 1861
 Genus Acanthoclinus Jenyns, 1841    
 Genus Acanthoplesiops Regan, 1912    
 Genus Beliops Hardy, 1985    
 Genus Belonepterygion McCulloch, 1915  
 Genus Notograptus Günther, 1867  
 Subfamily Plesiopinae Günther, 1861
 Genus Assessor Whitley, 1935    
 Genus Calloplesiops Fowler and Bean, 1930    
 Genus Fraudella Whitley, 1935    
 Genus Paraplesiops Bleeker, 1875    
 Genus Plesiops Oken, 1817    
 Genus Steeneichthys Gerald R. Allen and Randall, 1985    
 Genus Trachinops Günther, 1861

References

 
 

 
Ovalentaria
Taxa named by Albert Günther
TER Alsace

TER Alsace was the regional rail network serving the région of Alsace, eastern France. In 2016 it was merged into the new TER Grand Est.

Network

Rail

Road

 Cernay – Sewen
 Colmar – Turckheim – Munster – Metzeral
 Colmar – Volgelsheim
 Haguenau – Niederbronn – Bitche
 Haguenau – Obermodern-Zutzendorf – Saverne
 Ingwiller – Wimmenau – Lichtenberg
 Mommenheim – Obermodern-Zutzendorf
 Sarrebourg – Réding
 Sarre-Union – Sarrebourg
 Frohmuhl – Obermodern-Zutzendorf – Saverne
 Sélestat – Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines – Saint-Dié
 Obermodern-Zutzendorf – Bouxwiller

Rolling stock

Multiple units
 SNCF Class Z 11500
 SNCF Class Z 27500
 SNCF Class X 73500
 SNCF Class X 73900 (generally used on lines to Germany)
 SNCF Class X 76500
 SNCF Class B 82500

Locomotives
 SNCF Class BB 25500
 SNCF Class BB 26000
 SNCF Class BB 67400

Future

The TER Alsace continues its development. Some old lines will be opened again, and new trains have been ordered (Alstom Régiolis) and will be delivered in 2013–2014.

At the same time, the region is currently putting in place Alséo, a magnetic card allowing access not only to the urban transport networks of Strasbourg, Colmar and Mulhouse, but also the TER network.

Tram-train
The Thur valley tram-train, between Mulhouse and Thann, began operation in December 2010 with Siemens Avanto rolling stock.

A tram-train between Strasbourg, Molsheim and Barr has also been proposed but won't be realized before 2018

See also

SNCF
Transport express régional
Réseau Ferré de France
List of SNCF stations in Alsace
Alsace

References

External links
 Official Site (SNCF)
 Official Site (Région)

 
TER
Aloomba, Queensland

Aloomba is a town and a locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Aloomba had a population of 529 people.

Geography

Aloomba is a long thin locality hemmed in east and west by mountain ranges. It is bounded to the north by the Mulgrave River which then passes through the west of the locality. The Bruce Highway passes through the west of the locality but not through the town which is about  east of the highway but about  away by road. The North Coast railway line enters the locality from the south immediately to the west of the highway but then veers to the east in order to pass through the town, after which the railway veers back towards the highway but does not rejoin it within the locality.

The mountainous western part of the locality is within the Malbon Thompson Forest Reserve. The remainder is relatively flat freehold land used predominantly for farming, particularly growing sugarcane. There is a network of cane tramways to deliver the harvested sugarcane to the Mulgrave Sugar Mill in Gordonvale.

History

The town name is a corruption of the Yidinji word "Ngalumba", indicating hard milkwood tree (Alstonia muelleriana).

Aloomba Provisional School opened on 15 May 1899, becoming Aloomba State School on 1 January 1909.

On 20 April 1916, the Cane Beetles March commenced at Mooliba (now Mirriwinni). It was a snowball march to recruit men into the Australian Imperial Force during World War I at a time when enthusiasm to enlist had waned after the loss of life in the Gallipoli campaign. The march began at Mooliba with 4 men, passing through Babinda, Aloomba, Gordonvale, and Edmonton, and ending in Cairns 60 kilometers later with 29 recruits.

In the , Aloomba had a population of 529 people.

Education 

Aloomba State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at Nielsen Street (). In 2016, the school had an enrolment of 88 students with 7 teachers (6 full-time equivalent) and 8 non-teaching staff (3 full-time equivalent).  In 2018, the school had an enrolment of 91 students with 7 teachers (6 full-time equivalent) and 9 non-teaching staff (3 full-time equivalent).

Notable people 
 Bunny Adair, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cook attended Aloomba State School

References

External links 

 

Populated places in Far North Queensland
Suburbs of Cairns
Localities in Queensland
Ford Country Sedan

The Ford Country Sedan is a full-size station wagon that was built by Ford in the United States from 1952 until 1974. It was part of the U.S. Ford full-size car line available in each year.

The Country Sedan was the mid-trim station wagon in the U.S. Ford range. Unlike the Country Squire, the Country Sedan featured plain body sides. As a full-size wagon, it could carry up to 9 passengers, if so equipped. For every year it was sold, regardless of the model line it was aligned with, the Country Sedan outsold the more exclusive Country Squire due to the more modest standard and optional equipment included while using the same powertrain of the more expensive version.

The Country Sedan was based on the Customline from 1952 to 1954. Beginning in 1955, Ford moved their station wagons into their own series and the Country Sedan continued to represent the mid-trim level station wagon. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Country Sedan was approximate to the Galaxie and later the Galaxie 500 in trim elements. For 1972, 1973 and 1974 the model was marketed as the Galaxie 500 Country Sedan and from 1975 it was rebranded LTD wagon. By this time the trim level was identical to the Country Squire apart from the absence of simulated wood exterior paneling.

Sales

Rear gate advances

(Originally from Ford Country Squire)

Prior to 1961, all Ford wagons utilized a two-piece tailgate assembly that required the operator to lift the rear window and lock it into place via a mechanical support, and then drop the tail gate down to fully access the rear compartment.

For the 1961 model year, Ford incorporated a tailgate assembly that featured a self-storing window that could either be rolled down into the gate via crank on the outside of the gate, or by an electrical motor actuated by the key or an interior switch.  A safety lockout measure required that the rear window had to be fully retracted into the gate before it could be lowered.

With the introduction of the 1966 models, all Ford wagons introduced the Magic Door Gate which allowed the tailgate on the vehicle to function as a traditional tailgate that could be lowered, or a door that swung outward for easier access to the seating area. The Magic Door Gate was made possible through a use of a traditional stationary hinge on the right, and a combination of hinges along the doors left side, which carried the weight of the gate as it swung outward when used as a door.

General Motors, Chrysler, AMC, and Toyota would adopt a similar configuration by the end of the 1960s.

References

Country Sedan
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Ford Country Sedan
1940s cars
1950s cars
1960s cars
1970s cars
Motor vehicles manufactured in the United States
Ángel Tulio Zof

Ángel Tulio Zof (July 8, 1928 – November 26, 2014) was an Argentine footballer and coach.

Career
He played for Rosario Central, Huracán, Atlanta and Quilmes as a left winger. Internationally, he played for, among other teams, Toronto F.C. (Canada) and Hakoah (New York). Later, he became the coach of Ledesma de Jujuy, Club Atlético Platense, Atlanta, San Martín (T), Newell's Old Boys, Rosario Central, Los Andes. 

As manager of Rosario Central he came second in the Argentine championship in 1970, won the "Nacional" championship in 1980, the  1986/87 championship, and the Copa Conmebol in 1995. He only won the championship in his hometown team of Rosario Central where he managed 525 matches, won 200, drew 186 and lost 137. In December 2006 he logged his 900th game as manager.

Death
Zof died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aged 86.

References

External links
 Once-once.narod.ru

1928 births
2014 deaths
Footballers from Rosario, Santa Fe
Argentine men's footballers
Rosario Central footballers
Club Atlético Huracán footballers
Club Atlético Atlanta footballers
Quilmes Atlético Club footballers
Atlético Morelia players
Men's association football midfielders
Argentine football managers
Club Atlético Platense managers
Rosario Central managers
Newell's Old Boys managers
San Martín de Tucumán managers
Cynthia Maddox

Cynthia Maddox (born 1940) is an American model who is best known for appearing on the cover of Playboy magazine five times in the early to mid-1960s, though she was never a playmate.

Initially working as a receptionist and secretary at Playboy's headquarters in Chicago, Maddox rose to the position of assistant cartoon editor at the magazine.  She dated Hugh Hefner in the early 1960s but chose to leave him when he decided that he did not want to marry her.

Maddox attended Wright Junior College, in Chicago, Illinois, at least for the semester January 1959 - June 1959.she went on to attend University of Chicago.

References

1941 births
Living people
American female models
Playboy people
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
Pascal Edmond

Pascal Edmond (born 19 November 1971) is a French professional golfer.

Edmond was born in Paris, and turned professional in 1991. His brother Olivier is also a professional golfer.

Despite many trips to qualifying school, Edmond never managed to gain full playing status on the European Tour. However, he did play many seasons on the second tier Challenge Tour, and in 2000 won the Aa St Omer Open, finishing with a tournament record lowest final round by a winner, 64, and biggest final round comeback by a winner, 5 shots. That victory accounts for more than half of his career earnings on the two tours combined.

Edmond later moved to Canada where he is the director of the golf academy at Les Quatre Domaines in Mirabel, Quebec.

Professional wins (2)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Other wins (1)
1997 Grand Prix PGA France

References

External links

French male golfers
European Tour golfers
Golfers from Paris
People from Mirabel, Quebec
Sportspeople from Laurentides
French emigrants to Quebec
1971 births
Living people
Ellis Beach, Queensland

Ellis Beach is a coastal locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Ellis Beach had a population of 5 people.

Geography

The five-kilometre strip of Ellis Beach is located along the Coral Sea  north of Cairns on the Captain Cook Highway between Cairns and Port Douglas, within the Cairns Region local government area. The Ellis Beach locality extends into the Coral Sea and includes the off-shore islands:

 Double Island ()
 Haycock Island ()

History 
Ellis Beach is situated in the Djabugay (Tjapukai) traditional Aboriginal country. 

Double Island was developed as a luxury resort but has fallen into disrepair. As the island is leased by the Queensland Government to the resort operator, in 2023 there have been calls to the government to revoke the lease.

Demographics
In the , Ellis Beach had a population of 30 people.

In the , Ellis Beach had a population of 24 people.

In the , Ellis Beach had a population of 5 people.

Education 
There are no schools in Ellis Beach. The nearest government primary school is Trinity Beach State School in Trinity Beach to the south. The nearest government secondary school is Smithfield State High School in Smithfield to the south.

Amenities

Ellis Beach is also home to the Ellis Beach Surf Lifesaving Club which regularly hosts competitions and events. From November to May, a stinger net patrolled by the club helps protect swimmers from marine "stingers" (jellyfish species of Chironex and Irukandji) which inhabit the waters during those months. Ellis Beach features pumice stones along its shores.

There is a camping ground and a bar and grill restaurant.

Facilities 
Buchan Point SES Facility is on the western side of the Captain Cook Highway ().

In popular culture
Ellis Beach was featured in the fourth season of The Amazing Race.

References

External links 

Populated places in Far North Queensland
Beaches of Queensland
Suburbs of Cairns
Localities in Queensland
Mälarhöjden

Mälarhöjden is a suburb in south-west Stockholm, Sweden. It is a part of Hägersten borough. The area is dominated by single-family houses. It borders Hägersten, Västertorp, Fruängen and Bredäng. As of 2004, the area had 4022 inhabitants.

Sources
 Bo G. Hall: Mälarhöjden med omnejd - Från Örnsberg till Vårberg, Monographies published by City of Stockholm, No 72, 1986, 

Districts of Stockholm
Odacidae

The Odacidae are a small family of ray-finned fishes commonly known as cales and weed whitings, formerly classified within the order Perciformes. They are related to the much larger families of the wrasses and parrotfish. More recent workers have classified this family within the order Labriformes, alongside the wrasses and parrotfishes, within the clade Percomorpha.

Odacids are found in coastal waters off Southern Australia and New Zealand. They include species that feed on small invertebrates, as well as herbivorous grazers, some of which are able to feed on chemically unpleasant varieties of kelp otherwise unpalatable to fish.

Genera
The following genera are classified in the family Odacidae:

Haletta Whitley, 1947
Heteroscarus Castelnau, 1872
Neoodax Castelnau, 1875
Odax Valenciennes, 1840
Parodax Scott, 1976 (synonymous with Siphonognathus according to Fishbase
Olisthops Richardson, 1850
Sheardichthys Whitley, 1947 (synonymous with Siphonognathus according to Fishbase
Siphonognathus Richardson, 1858

Fishbase places six species in the genus Siphonognathus. Catalog of Fishes, in contrast, places four of the six species in the separate genus Sheardichthys and places S. caninis in the monospecific genus Parodax, leaving Siphonognathus as a monospecific genus containing only S. argyrophanes.

References

 

 
Labriformes
Ray-finned fish families
Taxa named by Albert Günther
Hyperbass flute

The hyperbass flute is conceptually the largest and lowest-pitched instrument in the flute family, although it is extremely rare. It first appeared at the turn of the 21st century, and only two are known to exist. With tubing reaching over  in length, it is pitched in C, four octaves below the concert flute (three octaves below the bass, two below the contrabass, and one octave below the double contrabass). Its lowest note is C0, one octave below the lowest C on a standard piano, which at 16 hertz is considered at or below the threshold of human hearing.

The first playable example was built by Florentine craftsman Francesco Romei for Italian flautist Roberto Fabbriciani, inventor and first performer of the instrument. He called it the hyperbass flute ().
This first instrument was made from PVC and wood, with wide tone holes made from standard tee fittings, but without keys; these are covered with the palms of the hands.
Low flute specialist Peter Sheridan commissioned the first fully chromatic hyperbass flute, from the Dutch maker Jelle Hogenhuis in August 2010.

Repertoire

The first composition for the hyperbass flute with live electronics and magnetic tape is Persistenza della memoria by Alessandro Grego, published in 2001 by the ARTS label on the CD Flute XX vol.2. In 2002, the Italian composer Nicola Sani composed Con Fuoco (for hyperbass flute and 8-track magnetic tape), which Fabbriciani recorded at the electronic studio of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne, Germany. The track was released on a CD called Elements on the Stradivarius label.

In March 2005 Fabbriciani released an entire CD of music for hyperbass flute and tape, Glaciers in Extinction, on the Col Legno label.

In 2010, Fabbriciani released another hyperbass flute CD entitled Winds of the Heart, this time with tárogató player Esther Lamneck, on the Innova label. In 2013, Fabbriciani released another hyperbass flute CD entitled Alchemies, on the Brilliant label.

Peter Sheridan recorded Groaning Oceans for hyperbass flute and electronics by Dominy Clements in 2014, and played the hyperbass in Decodificando El Universo by Chilean composer Andrián Pertout in its première 2021 recording. He also performs and records on low flutes, including the hyperbass, in the Monash University Flute Ensemble.

References

External links
 Contrabass Compendium: Big Flutes (archived)
 Roberto Fabriciani on YouTube, featuring works for the flauto iperbasso

Side-blown flutes
Contrabass instruments
ESDL

ESDL may stand for:

 EPOC SDL, a port of the programming library SDL to Symbian OS.
 Erlang SDL, a port of SDL to the Erlang programming language.
John Kruesi

John Kruesi (May 15, 1843 – February 22, 1899) was a Swiss-born machinist, and close associate of Thomas Edison.

Career
John Kruesi had been apprenticed as a locksmith in Switzerland, and migrated to the United States where he settled in Newark, New Jersey. There, he met Thomas Edison. Edison employed him for his workshop in 1872.

Kruesi became Edison's head machinist through his Newark and Menlo Park periods, responsible for translating Edison's numerous rough sketches into working devices. Since constructing and testing models was central to Edison's method of inventing, Kruesi's skill in doing this was critical to Edison's success as an inventor. Historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel summed up Kruesi's remarkable ability of this:

If the devices that emerged [from Kruesi's workshop] didn't work, it was because they were bad ideas, not because they were badly made. And when the ideas were good, as in the case of the phonograph, the product of Kruesi's shop would prove it. (Friedel and Israel 1987, 35)

Kruesi was also involved in many of Edison's key inventions. Including the quadruplex telegraph, the carbon microphone, phonograph, incandescent light bulb and system of electric lighting.

With the development of Edison's system of electric lighting, Kruesi moved to more management positions. In 1881, Edison put Kruesi in charge of the Edison Electric Tube Company, making him responsible for the installation of underground power distribution cables from the central generating station. Kruesi was also an inventor, while at the Electric Tube Company, he devised a two wire conduit in which two semicircular conductors were separated by an insulator and covered in insulating material. Kruesi became assistant general manager of the lower Manhattan Edison Machine Works in 1894. The Edison Machine Works moved to Schenectady, NY in 1886 and was merged into Edison General Electric in 1889. When that company merged with several others to form General Electric Company in 1892, Kruesi was promoted to General Manager, and then to Chief Mechanical Engineer  at the Schenectady site in 1896.

Notes

References
 IEEE Global History Network, John Kruesi
 Hammond, John Winthrop. Men and Volts, the Story of General Electric, published 1934 by J.B.Lippincott Company. Citations: Assistant General Manager Edison Machine Works – 149; came to Schenectady – 149; Consulting engineer – 245, 276; Edison's machine-shop expert – 22; Manager Schenectady Works – 197, 242.
 Friedel, Robert, and Paul Israel. 1987. Edison's electric light: biography of an invention. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

External links

1843 births
1899 deaths
American engineers
Machinists
People from Newark, New Jersey
Swiss engineers
Engineers from New Jersey
Swiss emigrants to the United States
TER Lorraine

TER Lorraine was the regional rail network serving Lorraine region, France. In 2016 it was merged into the new TER Grand Est.

Network

Rail

Road

 Thionville – Bouzonville – Creutzwald
 Remiremont – Bussang
 Remiremont – La Bresse – Gérardmer
 Épinal – Mirecourt – Vittel – Neufchâteau
 Lunéville – Rambervillers – Bruyères
 Béning – Sarreguemines – Bitche
 Sarre-Union – Sarrebourg
 Bitche – Haguenau

Rolling stock

Multiple units

 SNCF Class Z 6300
 SNCF Class Z 11500
 SNCF Class Z 24500
 SNCF Class X 4300
 SNCF Class X 4750
 SNCF Class X 4790
 SNCF Class X 73900
 SNCF Class X 76500

Locomotives

 SNCF Class BB 15000
 SNCF Class BB 16500
 SNCF Class BB 66400
 SNCF Class Z 27500 on order

See also

SNCF
Transport express régional
Réseau Ferré de France
List of SNCF stations in Lorraine
Lorraine

External links
 Official Site
Lovin' Every Minute of It (song)

"Lovin' Every Minute of It" is a song released in 1985 on the Canadian rock band Loverboy's album of the same title. The song reached #9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 becoming their first US Top 10 hit, when released as a single later that year. It was written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange.  In Canada, the song peaked at #11.

Background

Loverboy were almost done writing songs for their upcoming album, but they felt they needed one more song — preferably a big hit — to round out the record. However, everyone in the band was out of ideas. They begged their manager, Mike Shipley, to find someone who could write one more song. Shipley called legendary producer Mutt Lange, who agreed and wrote "Lovin' Every Minute of It" in two or three days. However, Lange was in England while Loverboy were in Canada, and the band needed to know how the song sounded. Singer Mike Reno said,

Charts

References

External links
 

1985 singles
1985 songs
Columbia Records singles
Loverboy songs
Song recordings produced by Bruce Fairbairn
Songs written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Evarts Boutell Greene

Evarts Boutell Greene (1870–1947) was an American historian, born in Kobe, Japan, where his parents were missionaries. He graduated Harvard University (B.A., 1890; Ph.D., 1893), and began teaching American history (1894) at the University of Illinois, where he was also (1906–1913) dean of the college of arts and literature. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1918.

Called to Columbia University in 1923, Greene was appointed (1926) the first De Witt Clinton professor of history and held that chair until his retirement in 1939. He also served (1936–1939) as chairman of Columbia's Institute of Japanese Studies. Greene was a noted authority on the colonial and Revolutionary periods of American history. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1931.

His principal works were The Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America (1898); Provincial America, 1690–1740 ( "American Nation" series, 1905, repr. 1964); The Foundations of American Nationality (1922; rev. ed. 1935, repr. 1968); A Guide to the Principal Sources for Early American History (1600–1800) in the City of New York (with Richard B. Morris, 1929); American Population before the Federal Census of 1790 (with Virginia D. Harrington, 1932, repr. 1953); and The Revolutionary Generation, 1763–1790 ( "History of American Life" series, Vol. IV, 1943, repr. 1971).

He was the grandson of the Rev. Daniel Greene and Mary Evarts (sister of William Maxwell Evarts), and the great-great-grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman.

Among his students at Illinois was the historian Allan Nevins, who would succeed him as Clinton Professor at Columbia in 1939.

References

External links

Evarts Boutell Greene Papers: 1893–1947
American Historical Association
American Antiquarian Society
A Revolution Reaches the Boiling Point

1870 births
1947 deaths
Harvard University alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Columbia University faculty
American historians
Presidents of the American Historical Association
People from Kobe
American expatriates in Japan

Members of the American Philosophical Society
Precious Little

Precious Little is an album by British blues musician Jeremy Spencer, who was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 1967 to 1971. Released on 18 July 2006, this is his fourth official solo album (his first since 1979) and was released on the Bluestown Records label in Norway, though Bluestown Records later licensed it to Blind Pig Records. The album was recorded over five days in 2005 in a Norwegian studio during the Notodden Blues Festival.

Local musicians were used to back Spencer on all tracks, because he believed that "they have retained the 'purity' of the old blues in their playing". Most of the tracks were self-penned, with the addition of covers of songs by Elmore James and Slim Rhodes.

The album was produced by Kjetil Draugedalen and Gaute Fredriksen, and the executive producer was Jostein Forsberg. It was mixed at the Supermono Studio, Oslo, and was mastered by Audun Strype at Strype Audio, Oslo.

Track listing
 "Bitter Lemon" (Jeremy Spencer) – 4:03
 "Psychic Waste" (Spencer, J. Phoenix) – 4:19
 "It Hurts Me Too" (Elmore James) – 4:49
 "Please Don't Stop" (Gordon Galbraith) – 2:47
 "Serene Serena" (Trad. arr. Spencer) – 4:43
 "Dr. J" (Spencer) – 3:55
 "Bleeding Heart" (James) – 4:47
 "Many Sparrows" (Spencer) – 2:21
 "Trouble and Woe" (Spencer) – 4:18
 "Maria de Santiago" (Spencer) – 3:55
 "Take and Give" (Ronnie Hesselbein, Slim Rhodes) – 2:21
 "Precious Little" (Spencer) – 4:29

Personnel
 Jeremy Spencer – vocals, harmony vocals, slide guitar, resonator
 Trond Ytterbø – harmonica, mandolin, harmony vocals
 Rune Endal – bass guitar, double bass
 Runar Boyesen – keyboards
 Anders Viken – drums, percussion
 Espen Liland – guitar, graphic design
 Svenn Åge Frydenberg – trumpet
 Leif Winther – saxophone
 Marianne Tovsrud Knutsen – harmony vocals
 Margit Bakken – harmony vocals
 Roger Arntzen – additional bass guitar on "Many Sparrows"
 Kjetil Draugedalen – producer, engineer, mixing
 Jostein Forsberg – executive producer
 Gaute Fredriksen – producer, engineer, mixing
 Morten Gjerde – photography
 Audun Strype – mastering
Recorded at Juke Joint Studio, Notodden, Norway

Release information
Bluestown Records (Norway) – BTR 1017 (CD)

References

 Sleeve notes for "Precious Little" by Jeremy Spencer and Jostein Forsberg

External links
 Bluestown Records
 Blues Matters! catalogue review

Jeremy Spencer albums
2006 albums
CFO (magazine)

CFO (now CFO.com) is an online publication owned by Industry Dive. It was launched in 1985 for chief financial officers (CFOs) and other financial executives in companies in the U.S. The Economist Group acquired the magazine in 1988 and sold it in 2010 to the private equity firm Seguin Partners. In 2016, CFO was bought from Sequin Partners by Argyle Executive Forum. And finally in 2020 the magazine was acquired by Industry Dive, a business-to-business publisher that provides news to industry executives.
 
CFO.com produces a mixture of regional and global content aimed at CFOs and other decision makers in their respective industries. CFO reaches 440,000 individually qualified readers. The Balance, a trice-weekly email newsletter, is the main component of CFO's content outside of CFO.com. 

CFO.com's staff includes managing director Andy Burt, senior editor at-large Vince Ryan, managing editor Lauren Muskett, senior content strategist Carolina Starin, and reporter Adam Zaki.

References

External links
Official website

1985 establishments in New York (state)
Business magazines published in the United States
Economist Group
Magazines established in 1985
Magazines published in New York City
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Professional and trade magazines
Thomas Heath

Thomas Heath may refer to:
Thomas Heath (classicist) (1861–1940), British civil servant, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics
Thomas Heath (cricketer) (1806–1872), cricketer 
Thomas Kurton Heath (1853–1938), vaudeville actor
Tommy Heath (born 1947), musician
Tommy Heath (baseball) (1913–1967), American catcher, scout and baseball manager
Thomas Heath Haviland Sr. (1795-1867), Canadian land owner and banker
Thomas Heath Haviland (1822–1895), Canadian lawyer and politician
Thomas Heath Robinson (1869–1954), English illustrator
Thomas Heth (or Heath) (fl. 1583), English mathematician
Eastern Rift mountains

The East African mountains are a mountain region in the African Great Lakes, within Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.

Location and description
The mountains are related to the East African Rift, and are in two chains, the Western Rift includes the Virunga Mountains, Mitumba Mountains, and the Rwenzori Range, while the mountains to the east include the largest peaks in Africa: the snow-covered Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895m, 19,340 ft), and Mount Kenya (5,199m, 17,058 ft). Other mountains in the Eastern Rift area include Mount Elgon in Kenya and Uganda.  All but the Ruwenzori are of volcanic origin.

The weather at the highest elevations is often cold and wet.

Fauna
The mountains are rich in wildlife, including animals who migrate to higher altitudes during the hot season in the surrounding savanna. The mountains are home to a number of endemic bird species such as Hinde's babbler which lives only on Mount Kenya.

Threats and preservation
The lower elevations of the mountains have been extensively used for forestry and for growing tea and coffee and much of the original forest has been lost, including the cloud forest that once covered much of Kilimanjaro. Climbing these mountains is a major attraction and Kilimanjaro National Park attracts hundreds of visitors each year, many of whom access the mountain from the coffee-growing town of Moshi.

Exploration
The mountains were discovered by Europeans in order of distance from the coast, which also happens to be in decreasing order of height.  They were also explored and climbed in this order.

References

Afromontane
Montane grasslands and shrublands
Ecoregions of Africa
Great Rift Valley
Mountain ranges of Kenya
Mountain ranges of Uganda
Mountain ranges of Tanzania
Mountain ranges of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mountain ranges of Rwanda
Mountain ranges of Burundi

sv:Eastern Highlands (berg)
Pedal pushers

Pedal pushers are calf-length trousers that were popular during the 1950s and the early 1960s. Often cuffed and worn tight to the skin, they are related in style to capri pants, and are sometimes referred to as "clam diggers".  The name "pedal pushers" originated from the style originally worn by cyclists, because long pants can catch in bicycle chains, but the style quickly became identified with teenage girls.

In popular culture
They are the subject of "Pink Pedal Pushers", a 1958 song by Carl Perkins.
A novelty song from the 1950s on MGM records was called "Skin Tight, Pin Striped, Purple Pedal Pushers" by Sheb Wooley, who had his biggest hit with "Purple People Eater". Tom Waits uses a reference to pedal pushers to emphasize the youth of a "little Jersey girl" in the song Heartattack and Vine.

Gallery

See also
Skater clothing
Demi-denims
Plus fours

References

External links

1950s fashion
Trousers and shorts
Inchconnachan

Inchconnachan (Innis Chonachain in Gaelic, meaning 'The Colquhoun's Island') is an island in Loch Lomond in Scotland, in the Trossachs National Park. It is accessible by boat from the village of Luss on the south side of the Loch.

The island is uninhabited and is an Area of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation.

Wallabies 

Wallabies, of the species Macropus rufogriseus (Red-necked Wallaby), were introduced by Fiona Gore, Countess of Arran in the 1940s, and still roam wild. It is one of the very few places outside Australia which has a viable population of wallabies.

Sale
On 9 July 2020, Inchconnachan was put up for sale by the Colquhoun family, at a price of over £500,000. It was sold to Soho House founder, Nick Jones and his wife, Kirsty Young.

The sale included a derelict colonial-style timber bungalow dating from the 1920s, built for the tea merchant Admiral Sullivan, which was later the holiday home of the family of Fiona Gore, Countess of Arran. Planning consent and detailed architectural drawings are in place to replace the bungalow with a new four-bedroom lodge and one-bedroom warden's house, along with a boat house and pier.

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20090710015304/http://lochlomond-islands.com/
article which mentions it
Inchconnachan 2009

Connachan
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Scotland
Uninhabited islands of Argyll and Bute
Sabula Rail Bridge

The Sabula Rail Bridge is a swing bridge that carries a single rail line across the Mississippi River between the island town of Sabula, Iowa and Savanna, Illinois. Originally built for the Milwaukee Road, and subsequently owned by the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad, the bridge is operational and is currently owned by Canadian Pacific Railway.

2014 Barge Accident
On April 8, 2014, the Sabula Railway bridge was struck by the Marquette Transportation Barge Wisconsin. No one was injured. The Sabula Fire Department was called alongside the Sabula ambulance crew to search for a missing bargeman, but he was later found on the barge unharmed. The protective wooden barrier was almost completely destroyed by the barge. The incident as of the day of the accident was investigated by the U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian Pacific Railway Police, with the assistance of the Sabula Fire Department, who provided their rescue boat as transportation until additional boats arrived. As of 2015, the bridge has been completely repaired.

See also
List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River

References

Railroad bridges in Iowa
Railroad bridges in Illinois
Bridges over the Mississippi River
Swing bridges in the United States
Canadian Pacific Railway bridges in the United States
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Steel bridges in the United States
Transportation buildings and structures in Jackson County, Iowa
Transportation buildings and structures in Carroll County, Illinois
Interstate railroad bridges in the United States
Kathy Ahern

Kathy Ahern (May 7, 1949 – July 6, 1996) was an American professional golfer on the LPGA Tour.

Career
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ahern was raised in Dallas, Texas, and won the Texas women's public links title at age 15  She joined the LPGA Tour direct from high school in 1967 and won three events, including one major title, the LPGA Championship 

Ahern's first win came at the Southgate Ladies Open in August  and the last at George Washington Classic in  She was also a runner-up at the U.S. Women's Open in 1972, the week before her final win. Ahern played little in the 1980s, but remained a presence around the tour and sometimes caddied for Sherri Turner.

Death
After a five-year battle against breast cancer, Ahern died at age 47 at her mother's home in Fountain Hills, Arizona, northeast of Phoenix. At the time of her death, she was a resident of Greenville, South Carolina.

Professional wins

LPGA Tour wins (3)

Major championships

Wins (1)

References

External links

Texas Golf Association – Kathy Ahern

American female golfers
LPGA Tour golfers
Winners of LPGA major golf championships
Golfers from Pittsburgh
Golfers from Phoenix, Arizona
Deaths from cancer in Arizona
Deaths from breast cancer
1949 births
1996 deaths
20th-century American women
20th-century American people
Gary Klein

Gary Klein may refer to:

Gary A. Klein (born 1944), American researcher of decision making
Gary Klein (producer) (born 1942), songwriter and record producer & co-writer of "(I Wanna Be) Bobby's Girl"
Gary Klein (inventor), bicycle designer and inventor
The New Quiz Kids

The New Quiz Kids was a short-lived television series, based on the 1950s game show Quiz Kids. Two separate seasons were produced in Canada in 1978-1979 by the Global Television Network in association with RKO Television and Columbia Pictures.

Episodes were rebroadcast several times in the following seasons. The host was a young Terry David Mulligan. Five high school students competed in each episode, with the top three earning the right to continue. Michael Mullerbeck of University of Toronto Schools earned the most appearances (33), followed by Bettina Weber (22) of Silverthorn CI, and John Chew (11), also of UTS.

External links
Line producer's credit
Canadian government production record

1970s Canadian game shows
Global Television Network original programming
Student quiz television series
1978 Canadian television series debuts
1979 Canadian television series endings
Canadian high school television series
Television series about teenagers
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Brazos Valley

Brazos Valley ( ) is a region of the U.S. state of Texas comprising the following 7 counties in Central Texas: Brazos, Burleson, and Robertson (which collectively comprise the Bryan–College Station metropolitan area), and the neighboring counties of Grimes, Leon, Madison, and Washington.

The area is centered on Brazos County, the cities of College Station and Bryan, and Texas A&M University. The Brazos River lies at the center of the region; however, not all areas of the region are a part of the Brazos drainage basin.

The Brazos Valley Council of Governments represents the collective interests of the local governments in the region.

The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History maintains collections in the fields of archaeology, botany, conchology, cultural history, geology, mammalogy, ornithology, and paleontology in the region.

References

Regions of Texas
Brazos River
Geography of Brazos County, Texas
Geography of Robertson County, Texas
Geography of Grimes County, Texas
Geography of Washington County, Texas
Geography of Burleson County, Texas
Geography of Madison County, Texas
Geography of Leon County, Texas