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Pen Pen TriIcelon

, known simply as Pen Pen in Europe, is a video game created by one of the first Japanese companies to reveal Dreamcast development, General Entertainment, otherwise known as Team Land Ho! It was released in Japan as one of four launch titles.

Gameplay
A TriIcelon is similar to the real-world triathlon. TriIcelons consist of three separate sporting styles in one game: running, sliding, and swimming. These three things combine to make a race where everyone competes for first place. The TriIcelons take place in four courses: Sweets, Jungle, Toys, and Horror.

The player controls little penguin-like characters called Pen Pen, in a race consisting of the three separate sporting styles. Both the sliding and swimming parts are raced by tapping and holding the action button in a rhythmic motion to maintain a smooth flowing pace. The running section is controlled simply with the analogue stick, also with the ability to jump, and charge into other competitors. The playable characters include the Pen Pens Sparky and Tina, the Pen Hippo Ballery, the Pen Shark Jaw, the Pen Walrus Back, the Pen Octopus Sneak, the Pen Dog Mr. Bow, and the unknown-species Hanamizu.

Story
The Pen Pen are said to live on a small world called Iced Planet, and was here that the strange alien race were first discovered. Since the closest animal on Earth they resemble is the penguin, they were first given the name Pen Pen. The Pen Pen pretty much inhabit most of the planet's surface. It is believed they do, in fact, have their own language, but if so, it is totally incomprehensible to humans. 

It was later discovered that they come in a variety of different shapes and sizes. Other types came from other planets to visit the Iced Planet. Six types have been discovered so far.

In a world of snow, ice and water, the Pen Pen have mastered the arts of running, sliding and swimming, and always used to play about on an iced field.

These creatures saw the Pen Pen and came up with an idea, and thus, the TriIcelon was born.

This soon became the most popular sport on the Iced Planet. Pen Pens enjoy this sport everyday and never get bored of competing, but once a year, they hold a grand TriIcelon race to determine the number one TriIcelon player. The PenPen characters later made a cameo appearance on several posters in Blue Stinger'''s Christmas mall area.

Reception

The game received mixed reviews according to video game review aggregator GameRankings. Adam Pavlacka of NextGen said of the game, "If you regularly play games with a group, pick it up – otherwise make it a rental." In Japan, Famitsu'' gave it a score of 25 out of 40.

References

External links

1998 video games
Animal racing video games
Dreamcast games
Dreamcast-only games
Infogrames games
Video games developed in Japan
Multiplayer and single-player video games
General Entertainment games
Inside/Absent

inside/Absent is the third album by Broken Spindles, the solo project of Joel Petersen of The Faint and Beep Beep, which are all on Saddle Creek Records. It was released August 23, 2005.

Track listing
 "Inward" - 2:40
 "This Is an Introduction" - 3:20
 "Burn My Body" - 2:58
 "Please Don't Remember This" - 2:01
 "Desaturated" - 1:30
 "Birthday" - 2:53
 "Distance Is Nearsighted" - 2:40
 "Valentine" - 1:39
 "Anniversary" - 3:21
 "Painted Boy Face" - 3:07

External links
Saddle Creek Records

2005 albums
Broken Spindles albums
Saddle Creek Records albums
Catherine Gallagher

Catherine Gallagher (born 16 February 1945) is an American historicist, literary critic, and Victorianist, and is Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Gallagher is the author of Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (1994), which documented significant literary works that had previously been overlooked. Gallagher is also the author of The Body Economic : Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel (2005) and Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction (2018). She is married to Martin Jay, a faculty member of the History department at UC Berkeley. She gave the 1996 Master-Mind Lecture.
She is a recipient of the Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin (2011) and the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (2018). In 2020 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Selected works
Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
The Body Economic : Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 2008 pbk edition
Practicing New Historicism. With Stephen Greenblatt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Nobody's Story. The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction. Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-67. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985
Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn. Bedford Cultural Edition. Ed., intros, and headnotes. Bedford Books, 1999. With Simon Stern.
The Making of the Modern Body. Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. and intro. with Thomas Laqueur. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

See also
Stephen Greenblatt
Literary theory
New historicism

References

1945 births
Living people
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
American literary critics
American women literary critics
New Historicism
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
Members of the American Philosophical Society
Maine School Administrative District 52

Maine School Administrative District 52 (MSAD 52, SAD 52, or RSU 52) is a school district containing the towns of Turner, Greene, and Leeds, Maine.

The school district is composed of the following schools:
Greene Central School
Leeds Central School
Turner Primary School
Turner Elementary School
Tripp Middle School
Leavitt Area High School

References

External links 

52
Education in Androscoggin County, Maine
Savaiya

Sawaiya is a form of poetry which is written in praise of someone in which every verse is a quarter times the length of common verse. The plural of Savaiya is Savaiye (Punjabi: ਸ੍ਵਯੇ ). Famous among them are Tav-Prasad Savaiye, 33 Savaiye, Bhattan De Savaiye.

See also
 33 Savaiye

References

External links
Listen to the Sawaiya being sung

Sikh music
Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris

Rue Saint-Jacques is a street in the Latin Quarter of Paris which lies along the cardo of Roman Lutetia. Boulevard Saint-Michel, driven through this old quarter of Paris by Baron Haussmann, relegated the roughly parallel Rue Saint-Jacques to a backstreet, but it was a main axial road of medieval Paris, as the buildings that still front it attest. It was the starting point for pilgrims leaving Paris to make their way along the Chemin de Saint-Jacques that led eventually to Santiago de Compostela.

The Paris base of the Dominican Order was established in 1218 under the leadership of Pierre Seilhan (or Seila) in the Chapelle Saint-Jacques, close to the Porte Saint-Jacques, on this street; this is why the Dominicans were called Jacobins in Paris. Thus the street's name is indirectly responsible for the Jacobin Club in the French Revolution getting that name (being based in a former Jacobin monastery, itself located elsewhere). Johann Heynlin and Guillaume Fichet established the first printing press in France, briefly at the Sorbonne and then on this street, in the 1470s. The second printers in Paris were Peter Kayser and Johann Stohl at the sign of the Soleil d'Or in Rue Saint-Jacques, from 1473. The proximity of the Sorbonne led many later booksellers and printers to set up shop here also.

Notable sites 
 The Sorbonne
 The Lycée Louis-le-Grand
 The Institut de géographie of Panthéon-Sorbonne University at 191 Rue Saint-Jacques
 No 163 bis, Le Port du Salut, an inn of the 18th century, had a cabaret where many artistes made their debuts: Guy Béart, Barbara, Georges Moustaki, Pierre Perret, Jean Yanne, Coluche, Serge Gainsbourg, Boby Lapointe between 1955 and 1982.
 No 195, Institut océanographique
 No 252, the Église Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, in the Classical style, once a centre of Jansenism, burial place of the astronomer Cassini (built between 1670 and 1684 to the designs of Erard and of Daniel Gittard).
 No 244, associated with André Salmon and the revue Le Festin d'Esope, founded by him and his friends , Apollinaire and others.

See also
 2023 Paris explosion, which happened on the street

Notes

Saint
Wildside (album)

Wildside is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Loverboy, released in September 1987. It was the band's first to not turn platinum, signalling a decline in their popularity.

Cash Box cited the "driving rock melodies" of the single "Love Will Rise Again", which "continues in band's established tradition of melodic power-rock".

Of the album, Musician reviewer J. D. Considine wrote simply: "Talk a walk."

Track listing

Personnel
All information from the album booklet.

Loverboy
 Mike Reno – lead vocals
 Paul Dean – guitar, backing vocals
 Doug Johnson – keyboards
 Scott Smith – bass
 Matt Frenette – drums

Additional musicians
 Darrell Mansfield – harp
 Alison Glass – voice on "That's Where My Money Goes"
 Paul Hyde – voice on "That's Where My Money Goes"

Production
 Neil Shilkin – programming
 Bruce Fairbairn – producer, backing vocals
 Bob Rock – engineer, mixing
 Mike Fraser – engineer
 Ed Thacker – mastering
 George Marino – mastering
 Norman Moore – art direction
 Phillip Dixon – photography
 James O' Mara – photography
 Ryan Begley – photography

Charts

Certifications

References

External links
 Loverboy- Wildside @Discogs.com

1987 albums
Loverboy albums
Albums produced by Bruce Fairbairn
Columbia Records albums
Business Casual (Beep Beep album)

Business Casual is the debut studio album by American band Beep Beep. It was released August 24, 2004 on Saddle Creek Records.

This album is the 63rd release of Saddle Creek Records.

Critical reception
Business Casual  was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 53 based on 13 reviews.

In a review for Pitchfork, critic reviewer Brian Howe wrote: "One can't accuse Beep Beep of being lackluster or uninspired. Business Casual is fierce and competent, and evinces the rippling of powerful musical muscles. But its affectations are so grating that it's tough to make it through it all in a single listen."

Track listing

Musicians
Eric Bemberger
Chris Hughes
Katie Muth
Mike Sweeney
AJ Mogis - Hammond B-3, Mellowtron, Octave Cat, Engineering
Andy LeMaster - Mixing
Doug Van Sloun - Mastering
Joel Peterson - Nord Lead2

References

External links
I Love Beep Beep official website
Saddle Creek Records

2004 albums
Saddle Creek Records albums
Beep Beep (band) albums
Emergent gravity

Emergent gravity may refer to
 Induced gravity, a theory proposed by Andrei Sakharov in 1967,
 Entropic gravity, a theory proposed by Erik Verlinde in 2009.

Theories of gravity
Springfield, Birmingham

Springfield is a ward in south east Birmingham, England, created in 2004 from much of the old Sparkhill ward. It is a part of the formal district of Hall Green.

Places of interest
The area is served by the Sparkhill Library that has, with its distinctive clock tower, developed into a local landmark. It was built in 1900 as the council house for the Yardley District Council. The building was converted into a library and opened on 19 January 1923. It is one of the earliest examples of double glazing windows in a public building.

St John's Church, Sparkhill is the Anglican Parish church for the northern part of Springfield Ward. It is also home of the charity, Narthex Sparkhill. Also in the area is St Christopher's Church, Springfield.

Politics
It is represented on Birmingham City Council by three Labour councillors.

Transport
Spring Road railway station is located within the ward's boundaries and is located on the Birmingham Snow Hill-Stratford-upon-Avon line.
National Express West Midlands operates the numbers 2, 3, 5, 6, and 31 bus routes, to and from Birmingham city centre.

References

External links
Birmingham City Council: Springfield Ward

Areas of Birmingham, West Midlands
Former wards of Birmingham, West Midlands
Printer cable

Printer cable refers to the cable that carries data between a computer and a printer.

There are many different types of cables, for example:

Serial: RS-232, EIA-422
Parallel
FireWire
USB

Parallel port printers have been slowly phased out, and are now difficult to find for the most part, being considered as an obsolete legacy port on most new computers. Those who have printers and scanners with only parallel port may still be able to connect the devices via the use of USB adapters a.k.a. Parallel-to-USB cable, or use a PCI parallel printer port card.

References 

Computer printers
Signal cables
George Ross

George Ross may refer to:

Politics
 George Ross (American politician) (1730–1779), signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence
 George Ross (Pennsylvania candidate), candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in 1884 and 1888 and U.S. Senate in 1893
 George Ross (Pennsylvania statesman) (1746–1801), Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, 1788–1790
 George William Ross (1841–1914), Canadian educator and politician
 George A. Ross (1854–1888), lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada
 George Henry Ross (1878–1956), politician and barrister from Alberta, Canada
 George T. Ross (1949–2020), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
 George Ross (farmer) (1829–1876), New Zealand farmer and provincial politician

Sports
 George Ross (footballer, born 1869) (1869–1928), footballer who played for Bury in two FA Cup finals
 George Ross (gymnast) (1877–1945), British gymnast and Olympic medalist
 George Ross (baseball) (1892–1935), Major League Baseball pitcher
 George Ross (Australian footballer) (1901–1989), played with Richmond in the VFL
 George Ross (footballer, born 1943) (1943–2016), Scottish footballer, notably with Preston

Other
 George Ross, 11th Lord Ross (died 1682), Scottish nobleman and soldier
 George Ross, 13th Lord Ross (1681–1754), Scottish nobleman
 George Allen Ross (1879–1946), Canadian architect
 George Berkeley Ross (1918–2006), pioneer of information technology in the American petroleum industry
 George Campbell Ross (1900–1993), engineer and Royal Navy admiral
 George H. Ross (born 1928), American businessman, officer of the Trump Organization
 George Ronald Ross (1914–2008), British businessman in Hong Kong
 George Murray Ross (1852–1927), Irish engineer
Lauryn Mark

Lauryn Annyn Mark (née Ogilvie, born April 15, 1980, in Los Gatos, California, United States) is an American Australian Olympic Women's Skeet shooter.  She finished fourth in Women's Skeet in the 2004 Summer Olympics and won three gold medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games. 

In March 2022 she was appointed for one year by the Sports Authority of India to be the High Performance Manager for the National Rifle Association of India's Shotgun Team where she was publicly recognised and acclaimed for designing and implementing the selection policy that resurrected Indian Shotgun Shooting and qualified multiple athletes into the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. She resigned from this position on May 28th, 2023 and joined the Qatar Shooting and Archery Association in July 6th, 2023 as the High Performance Manager and also a dual role as the National Women's Skeet Coach for the remainder of the 2023 season.

Career 
Lauryn Annyn Ogilvie was born on April 15, 1980, in Los Gatos, California, to clay shooter Jon Ogilvie. She started shooting in 1991, and started formally competing in June 1997 at the World Championships in Peru. She became the youngest competitor ever to win Women's Skeet in the United States Open Skeet Championship in 1999. In 2003, she won the silver medal in the Women's Skeet event at the World Cup Final in Rome.

After moving to Australia, Lauryn Mark won eight Australian National Women's Skeet Championships to her name. In 2012 she competed in her second Summer Olympics. She retired from competitive competition in 2014 and is now considered one of the world's leading coaches in her chosen discipline of Skeet shooting.

In 2012, she controversially became a men's magazine cover girl when she posed for Zoo Weekly wearing a bikini in Australian Olympic Team's green-and-gold color whilst holding a Beretta double-barrel shotgun.  The remuneration she received from the magazine was donated to the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.

Lauryn Mark was a contestant on the inaugural series of the Australian television series of Australian Ninja Warrior in 2017.

Personal life 
In 1999, Ogilvie established a corporate entertainment business, "Go Shooting" Pty. Ltd., with Australian Olympic gold medallist Russell Mark. She established the hugely successful "Go Shooting YouTube Channel" in 2018. She married Russell Mark in a surprise wedding ceremony on March 17, 2004, at a Hamilton Island beach. The couple have two children, Sierra Evelyn Mark (b. 23 June 2005) and Indiana Todd Mark (b. 29 January 2007).

References

1980 births
Australian female sport shooters
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Living people
Olympic shooters for Australia
Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Skeet shooters
Shooters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
Shooters at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
Shooters at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in shooting
Sportspeople from Santa Clara County, California
American emigrants to Australia
Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
NEC SX-8

The SX-8 is a supercomputer built by NEC Corporation.  The SX-8 Series implements an eight-way SMP system in a compact node module and uses an enhanced version of the single chip vector processor that was introduced with the SX-6.  The NEC SX-8 processors run at 2 GHz for vectors and 1 GHz for scalar operations.  The SX-8 CPU operates at 16 GFLOPS and can address up to 128 GB of memory. Up to 8 CPUs may be used in a single node, and a complete system may have up to 512 nodes.  The SX-8 series ranges from the single-CPU SX-8b system to the SX-8/4096M512, with 512 nodes, 4,096 CPUs, and a peak performance of 65 TFLOPS.  There is up to 512 GB/s bandwidth per node (64 GB/s per processor).  The SX-8 runs SUPER-UX, a Unix-like operating system developed by NEC.

The first production SX-8 was installed at the UK Met Office in early 2005. In October 2006, an upgraded SX-8 was announced, the SX-8R. The NEC SX-8R processors run at 2.2 GHz for vectors and 1.1 GHz for scalar operations. The SX-8R can process double the number of vector operations per clock compared to the SX-8.  The SX-8R CPU has a peak vector performance 35.2 GFLOPS (10% frequency increase and double the number of vector operations) and can address up to 256 GB of memory in a single node (up from 128 GB).

The French national meteorological service, Météo-France, rents a SX-8R for 3.7 million euros a year.

NEC published product highlights
16 GFLOPS peak vector performance, with eight operations per clock running at 2 GHz or 0.5 ns (1 GHz for scalar)
88 million transistors per CPU, 1.0 V, 8,210 pins (1,923 signal pins)
Up to 8 CPUs per node, manufactured in 90 nm Cu technology, 9 copper layers, bare chip packaging
Up to 16 GB of memory per CPU, 128 GB in a single node
Up to 512 GB/s bandwidth per node, 64 GB/s per CPU
IXS Super-Switch between nodes, up to 512 nodes supported, 32 GB/s per node (16 GB/s for each direction)
Air cooled
Runs SUPER-UX, System V port, 4.3 BSD with enhancements for multinode systems; ease of use; support for new languages and standards; and operation improvements

See also
SX architecture

References

Sx-8
Vector supercomputers
Nights Like These

Nights Like These is an American metal band from Memphis, Tennessee, United States, heavily influenced by death metal and sludge metal.

Biography 
In 2006, Nights Like These released their debut, The Faithless, to overall positive reviews on Victory Records.  They released their most recent album Sunlight at Secondhand on October 16, 2007, again on Victory Records.
 
In 2008, the band went on hiatus for the first part of the year. It was later announced (via the band's Myspace) that drummer Patrick Leatherwood had left the band due to other commitments. The band announced that they were planning to scale back on touring and albums, as opposed to taking on a full-time touring schedule with yearly albums. The Victory Records website has taken off Nights Like These from their "Artist" page, this has since started a fire storm of rumors that the band and Victory have separated. On July 15, 2008, Nights Like These posted a Myspace blog confirming their split with Victory and their new drummer Todd Pasterniak. It was announced on October 5, 2009 on Myspace that members of Nights Like These were working on a new musical endeavor under the name Panther Piss. 
A release party for their 7" was held on March 6. As of 2013 the band is back together, playing a variety of shows in their hometown of Memphis.

Band members 
Billy Bottom - vocals (2003-2008, 2013–present)
Matt Qualls − guitar, vocals 
Derren Saucier − guitar
Sebastian Rios − bass, backing vocals (2003-2008, 2013–present) 
Patrick Leatherwood- drums, backing vocals (2003-2008, 2013–present)

Past members 
Anthoney Carter - guitar (2003-200?)
Buddy Forbess - guitar (200?-200?)
Todd Pasterniak - drums (2008)

Albums 
 The Only Clown I'm Down With Is Gacy (3-track EP, 2004) - Limited release
 God City Sessions - Unreleased (2005)
 The Faithless (2006, Victory)
 Sunlight at Secondhand (2007, Victory)
 Old Youth Culture (2015, Self Released)

References

External links 
 
MySpace page
Victory Records
Smith Seven Records

Heavy metal musical groups from Tennessee
American deathcore musical groups
Musical groups established in 2003
Victory Records artists
American sludge metal musical groups
American musical quintets
Musical groups from Memphis, Tennessee
SS Harriet Tubman

SS Harriet Tubman (MC contract 3032) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Harriet Tubman, an African-American abolitionist and spy during the American Civil War, and was the first Liberty ship to be named for an African-American woman.

The ship was laid down by the South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation, South Portland, Maine, on 19 April 1944, then launched on 3 June 1944. Twenty-two members of Tubman's extended family attended the launch. Eva Stuart Northrup, Tubman's great-niece, christened the ship. The ship survived the war only to suffer the same fate as nearly all other Liberty ships that survived did; she was scrapped in 1972.

References 

Liberty ships
Ships built in Portland, Maine
1944 ships
Memorials to Harriet Tubman
Andrea Syngrou Avenue

Andrea Syngrou Avenue () is a major road in Athens, linking the city centre with Poseidonos Avenue near the Bay of Faliro. It was planned and built by, and later named for, Andreas Syngros. It runs southwest to northeast.  The Syngrou–Fix station of the Athens Metro's Red Line is situated near the northeastern end of the avenue. The avenue passes through the municipalities of Palaio Faliro, Kallithea, and Nea Smyrni, as well as Municipality of Athens. The avenue is home to many hotels and functions as one of Athens' various central business districts, due to being home to many company headquarters.

External links
 

Streets in Athens
Nea Smyrni
Louis Fisher

Louis Fisher (March 20, 1913 – November 28, 2001) was the Socialist Labor Party of America candidate for United States President in the 1972 Presidential election and he was "the party's top vote-getting presidential candidate."  His vice presidential candidate was Genevieve Gunderson.

Fisher also ran for Governor of Illinois twice unsuccessfully; the party had run candidates for governor starting in 1896.  He also ran for Senator from Illinois four times: in 1956, 1960, 1968, 1970 and for Secretary of State of Illinois in 1944. He was also a political scholar and staunch opponent of the line-item veto.

References
 Ballot Access News Volume 17, Number 11 February 1, 2002

 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Fisher
 Social Security Death Index

1913 births
2001 deaths
Candidates in the 1972 United States presidential election
20th-century American politicians
Socialist Labor Party of America presidential nominees
Socialist Labor Party of America politicians from Illinois
Ringodom or Proctor

Ringodom or Proctor is the first release by Chicago's Head of Femur. It was released on August 19, 2003 on Greyday Productions.

Track listing
 "January on Strike" – 4:30
 "Curve that Byrd" – 3:21
 "Yeoman or Tinker" – 6:02
 "80 Steps to Jonah" – 3:10
 "Me, My Dad, My Cousin, and... Ronnie" – 3:09
 "Acme: The Summit of a Mountain" – 4:16
 "The True Wheel" – 3:57
 "Money is the Root..." – 3:35
 "Science Needed a Medical Man" – 3:28
 "Finally I've Made It Nowhere" – 4:25
 "The Car Wore a Halo Hat"

The CD includes an untitled hidden track in the pregap.

External links
Head of Femur official website
Ringodom or Proctor on Amazon.com

2003 debut albums
Head of Femur (band) albums
Kiss the Sky (film)

Kiss the Sky is a 1998 drama film directed by Roger Young. The plot follows two men in their forties and friends since college who take a business trip to the Philippines. There they examine their lives and consider trading their adult responsibilities for a return to the hedonism of their youth. The film was shot in the locations of Manila, Taal Lake, and Batangas.

Plot
Jeff and Marty are two friends and businessmen facing a midlife crisis. Jeff is married to Franny and has two daughters, while Marty is married to Beth. Both men feel something is missing in their marriages. The men decide to travel to the Philippines, where they embark on a drug and alcohol-fueled bender and meet a woman named Andy, with whom both men fall in love. They have a threesome and decide to leave their families to live together. Andy introduces them to Kozen, a Zen Buddhist monk, and they decide to build a refuge on an isolated beach. After a period together, Jeff misses his family and the relationship of the group deteriorates when Andy falls in love with Jeff.

Cast

Reception 
Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club called the film "Little more than The Beach for the mortgage-and-carpool crowd," and said it "starts strong only to become an escapist fantasy for overaged Maxim readers." Rabin noted the threesome scene between the three leads is "an excruciating [one] that suggests a Playboy video recast with veteran character actors. The movie never really recovers, as the quest for spiritual salvation mutates into an extremely ordinary battle of the sexes."

References

External links

Kiss the Sky at AllMovie

1999 films
Films directed by Roger Young
1999 romantic drama films
Films scored by Patrick Williams
Films set in the Philippines
American romantic drama films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Films shot in the Philippines
Midlife crisis films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
Films about threesomes
Films about vacationing
Kiss the Sky

Kiss the Sky may refer to:

 Kiss the Sky (film), a 1998 film directed by Roger Young
 Kiss the Sky, a music duo formed by Paul Hardcastle and Jaki Graham, or their 1991 album
 Kiss the Sky (Jimi Hendrix album), 1984
 Kiss the Sky (Tatyana Ali album) or the title song, 1998
 Kiss the Sky, an album by Claude Hay, 2007
 "Kiss the Sky" (song), by Jason Derulo, 2016
 "Kiss the Sky", a song by Cash Cash
 "Kiss the Sky", a song by Fitz and the Tantrums from All the Feels, 2019
 "Kiss the Sky", a song by the Knocks from 55, 2016
 "Kiss the Sky", a song by Machine Gun Kelly from Bloom, 2017
 "Kiss the Sky", a song by Shawn Lee
Greyday Productions

Greyday Productions, sometimes called simply Greyday Records, is an independent record label based in Portland, Oregon, United States.  Formed to release a new record from Still Life, Greyday is operated mainly by Todd Berry (who moved to Portland from Los Angeles in 2001). Greyday Records is distributed by Burnside Distribution Corporation.

Artists

Books on Tape
Bronwyn
Consafos
DeLorax
The Empty
Gone Done Wrong
Grey Anne
Head of Femur
The Heligoats
Sean Madigan Hoen
I Was Totally Destroying It
John Larsen
Leaving Rouge
LKN
Mayday
Minmae
The Old Ground
Piney Gir
Piney Gir Country Roadshow
Polly Panic
Patrick Porter
Sam Humans
Shipbuilding Co.
Southerly
Still Life
Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun
The Trophy Fire

Greydawn Records
Greydawn is operated by Greyday Records in Portland, Oregon. It is a collective of independent and self-releasing artists.

Bands:
Jon Crocker
Curious Hands
The Minor Thirds
The Mouse That Roared
The Vulturines

See also
 List of companies based in Oregon
List of record labels

References

External links
Greyday Records

Companies based in Portland, Oregon
American independent record labels
Oregon record labels
Privately held companies based in Oregon
Pishin Valley

The Pishin Valley () is located in Pishin District, Balochistan, Pakistan. It is located 50km away from the provincial capital - Quetta, and is filled with numerous orchards.

References

Populated places in Balochistan, Pakistan
Pishin District
Hot-wire barretter

The hot-wire barretter was a demodulating detector, invented in 1902 by Reginald Fessenden, that found limited use in early radio receivers. In effect, it was a highly sensitive thermoresistor, which could demodulate amplitude-modulated signals, something that the coherer (the standard detector of the time) could not do.

The first device used to demodulate amplitude modulated signals, it was later superseded by the electrolytic detector, also generally attributed to Fessenden. The barretter principle is still used as a detector for microwave radiation, similar to a bolometer.

Description and construction
Fessenden's 1902 patent describes the construction of the device. A fine platinum wire, about  in diameter, is embedded in the middle of a silver tube having a diameter of about . This compound wire is then drawn until the silver wire has a diameter of about ; as the platinum wire within it is reduced in the same ratio, it is drawn down to a final diameter of . The result is called Wollaston wire.

The silver cladding is etched off a short piece of the composite wire, leaving an extremely fine platinum wire;  this is supported, on two heavier silver wires, in a loop inside a glass bulb. The leads are taken out through the glass envelope, and the whole device is put under vacuum and then sealed.

Operation 
The hot-wire barretter depends upon the increase of a metal resistivity with increasing temperature.  The device is biased by a direct current adjusted to heat the wire to its most sensitive temperature.  When there is an oscillating current from the antenna through the extremely fine platinum wire loop, the wire is further heated as the current increases and cools as the current decreases again. As the wire heats and cools, it varies its resistance in response to the signals passing through it. Because of the low thermal mass of the wire, it is capable of responding quickly enough to vary its resistance in response to audio signals. However, it cannot vary its resistance fast enough to respond to the much higher radio frequencies. The signal is demodulated because the current supplied by the biasing source varies with the changing wire resistance. Headphones are connected in series with the DC circuit, and the variations in the current are rendered as sound.

See also

 Electrolytic detector a development of the  barretter detector.
 Iron-hydrogen resistor

References

External links

Patents
 , "Current Actuated Wave Responsive Device" – August, 1902 ("barretter" detector)
 , "Receiver for Electromagnetic Waves" – May, 1903 (improved "barretter")

Other
Detectors of electrical oscillations
Tech Definitions – Radio Concepts
United States Early Radio History 
Secor, H. Winfield (January, 1917). Radio Detector Development. The Electrical Experimenter, pages 652+, accessed 2007-12-20.

History of radio
Radio electronics
Detectors
Canadian inventions
1998–99 WHL season

The 1998–99 WHL season was the 33rd season for the Western Hockey League.  Eighteen teams completed a 72-game season.  The Calgary Hitmen won the President's Cup.

League notes
The Edmonton Ice relocated to Cranbrook, British Columbia to become the Kootenay Ice.

Regular season

Final standings

Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes

Goaltending leaders
Note: GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties ; GA = Goals against; SO = Total shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average

1999 WHL Playoffs
Top eight teams in the Eastern Conference (East and Central divisions) qualified for playoffs
Top six teams in the Western Conference (division) qualified for the playoffs

Conference quarterfinals

Eastern Conference

Western Conference

Conference semifinals

Conference finals

WHL Championship

All-Star game

On January 20, the Western Conference defeated the Eastern Conference 11–9 at Lethbridge, Alberta before a crowd of 5,071.

WHL awards

All-Star Teams

See also
1999 Memorial Cup
1999 NHL Entry Draft
1998 in sports
1999 in sports

References
whl.ca
 2005–06 WHL Guide

Western Hockey League seasons
WHL
WHL
Consafos

Consafos is a four-piece indie rock band from Los Angeles, California and Omaha, Nebraska. Made up of four veteran musicians from such bands as Topeka, Ritual of Defiance, Glasscraft, and current members of Bright Eyes and The Good Life as well as Crazy Horse's Billy Talbot's son Billy Talbot Jr.

The name of the band derives from "con safos," a Chicano term meaning "with safety," used to mark graffiti. If such a piece was marked with "con safos," it was off limits, a sort of trademark, and a way of indicating that a graffito was complete and unarguable.

Discography
Such is the Way of Things EP (2004 · Greyday Productions)
Tilting at Windmills (2005 · Greyday Productions)

See also
The Good Life

References

External links
Consafos official website

Indie rock musical groups from California
Indie rock musical groups from Nebraska
Musical groups from Los Angeles
Musical groups from Omaha, Nebraska
Honke

The  is the main household of Japanese family. It is part of the system of family branching that establishes a multiplied structure to create familial relationships.  

The head of a household and his successor reside in the honke, while collateral branches establish bunke. The genealogical relationship between honke and bunke is determined by the ie family system. The honke establishes the new branch family while bunke is linked to it since both are part of the ie. They can be described in terms of vertical relationships where the branch is subordinated to the main household. This system also determines how the access to resources is ordered. 

The honke-bunke relationship can be demonstrated in the case of the imperial household, which is said to have descended from its founder Amaterasu-omikami. Her grandson Ninigi-no-Mikoto is the honke while the other branches of the family or those distantly related members of the household are the bunke through the branching of the ie. 

The honke–bunke relationship is also reflected in the relationship between Japanese companies and their subsidiaries. In the 1700s, businesses ran by families followed rules that contained details on mutual relationships between the honke as the main line and the bunke or the branch lines. In this hierarchy, which also covered management practices, there are separate branches called bekke, which were set up for employees.

See also 
 Japanese family structure
 Koseki

Notes 

Japanese family structure
Norwegian-American Historical Association

Norwegian-American Historical Association is a non-profit, member-supported organization dedicated to locating, collecting, preserving and interpreting the Norwegian-American experience. It publishes scholarly books and maintains a historical archive, documenting research and interpretations of the American experience of immigrants from Norway.

History
On 4th day of February, 1926, the Norwegian-American Historical Association was incorporated by Knut Gjerset, Birger Osland, and O. E. Rolvaag.  The organization was founded at St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minnesota. Although the association is still located on the campus of St. Olaf, both institutions are independent entities.

Theodore C. Blegen served as managing editor for publications from 1925 until his retirement in 1960. His devotion to high standards of historical scholarship enabled the Norwegian-American Historical Association to achieve a reputation as a learned society. Later editors have included Kenneth O. Bjork from 1960 until 1980 and  Odd S. Lovoll from 1980 until 2001.

Ole E. Rolvaag, the author of Giants in the Earth, became the association's first secretary and archivist. Rolvaag initiated the collection of archives including letters, papers, books, periodicals, photographs, diaries and newspapers related to Norwegian-American life.

The association promotes Norwegian-American historical research and literary work; and helps maintain and develop archives of Norwegian-American historical material. Its Norwegian-American Studies (formerly Studies and Records) publications are available online. The current editor of NAHA's publications is Anna Peterson. The association has enjoyed success and gained the recognition and respect of an international scholarly community.

In fulfillment of its purpose, the association has published nearly one hundred books of scholarly merit; promoted Norwegian-American historical research and literary work and preserved of materials of historical significance.

References and notes

External links
 Norwegian-American Historic Association official website
"Norwegian-American Studies" journal via University of Minnesota Press
Sogn og Fjordane - Norwegian-American Historical Association
King Olav V Chair in Scandinavian-American Studies at St. Olaf’s College

Historical societies of the United States
1925 establishments in Minnesota
Norwegian migration to North America
Norwegian-American culture in Minnesota
Organizations established in 1925
Zardari (tribe)

Zardari is a Sindhi-Baloch tribe native to the Sindh and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan.

References

See also 
 Jats of Balochistan
 Jats of Sindh  
 List of Baloch Tribes
 List of Sindhi tribes
 Zardari family

Sindhi tribes
Jat tribes
Social groups of Sindh
Ethnic groups in Pakistan
Malaysian Highway Authority

The Malaysian Highway Authority (, LLM) is a statutory body under the Malaysian Ministry of Works (MOW). The agency was founded on 24 October 1980 by the Highway Authority of Malaysia (Incorporation) Act 1980 to monitor the works and administration of expressways. The establishment of the agency coincided with the construction of the North-South Expressway.

Offices
 Gelugor, Penang (Northern Region)
 Bangi, Selangor (HQ)
 Kuantan, Pahang and Ajil, Terengganu (East Coast)
 Senai, Johor (Southern Region)

External links
 Malaysian Highway Authority (MHA) website

Malaysian Public Works Department
Malaysian Expressway System
Federal ministries, departments and agencies of Malaysia
1980 establishments in Malaysia
Government agencies established in 1980
Ministry of Works (Malaysia)
Kazimierza Wielka

Kazimierza Wielka () is a town in Poland, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, about  northeast of Kraków. It is the administrative seat of Kazimierza County (powiat kazimierski). With a population of 5,848 (2005),  it is the smallest county seat in Poland. Kazimierza Wielka is located in Lesser Poland Upland and historically belongs to the province of Lesser Poland. For most of its history, it was a village, and did not receive its town charter until 1959.

The first mention of the village dates from 1320 during the reign of Wladyslaw Lokietek. At that time, its name was spelled Cazimiria and it belonged to the Kazimierski family. In the Kingdom of Poland, Kazimierza Wielka was located on the border of two Lesser Poland voivodeships - Sandomierz Voivodeship and Krakow Voivodeship. The village itself belonged to Proszowice County of Kraków Voivodeship, while neighboring Kazimierza Mala belonged to Wislica County of Sandomierz Voivodeship. In the 1560s, Kazimierza Wielka was one of centers of the Polish Brethren. At the end of the 18th century the estate was the property of the magnate Łubieński family. They established there one of the first sugar refineries in Poland in 1845.

After the Partitions of Poland the village belonged to Austria and in 1815 it became part of Russian-controlled Congress Poland. In 1919, Kazimierza Wielka returned to Poland, within Kielce Voivodeship. On September 5, 1939, a skirmish between the advancing Wehrmacht and Polish 55th Infantry Division took place in the village in which 60 Polish soldiers died. In 1956 Kazimierza Wielka County was created, and three years later, the village received its town rights. Its most important historic building is a local parish church (1633).

Education
 Public High School in Kazimierza Wielka
 Hugon Kollataj Primary School No. 1
 John Paul II Primary School No. 3

People associated with the town
 Henryk Łubieński, financier and industrialist
 Ludwik Maria Łubieński, diplomat and officer in WWII
 Andrew Peter Wypych, former Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago

International relations
 Buchach,

References

External links

 Official town website

Cities and towns in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
Kazimierza County
Kraków Voivodeship (14th century – 1795)
Kielce Governorate
Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Eppenhuizen

Eppenhuizen is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Groningen. It had a population of around 50 in January 2017.

References

External links 

Het Hogeland
Populated places in Groningen (province)
Thirunadhikkara Cave Temple

Thirunandikkara Cave Temple, also referred to as Thirunanthikarai rock-cut Shiva temple, is a 9th-century rock-cut Hindu cave temple in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is dedicated to Shiva, with murals and inscriptions. It is attributed to the Ay king Vikramaditya Varaguna by Archaeological Survey of India, but to Pandya rulers (Nedunjadaiyan) a few decades earlier by Ajit Kumar, an archaeologist. It is part of a larger active temple complex named the Thirunanthikarai Shri Nandeeswara temple, Thirunanthikarai and is carved out of the side of a rocky hillock to the north of the temple complex. According to Rao, one of the inscriptions suggests that this may be a late 8th-century cave temple or early 9th.

The square-plan temple consists of a mandapam and a small, slightly raised cell sanctum facing east. In the sanctum is a Shiva Linga. The mandapam has four Vatteluttu script inscriptions on the pillars and pilaster surface, as well as faded murals in the Kerala style. The inscriptions are in Tamil language and describe gifts made to the temple. The earliest inscription (c. 800 CE) mentions a donation to maintain the continuous lighting of a sacred lamp, pay for musicians (drummers) and offerings. The last inscription in this cave temple is from Chola era, and it too mentions a gift to maintain the perpetual lamp along with an autumn festival.

The most visible part of the mural is in the southwest corner showing Ganesha in red outline with a devotee making offerings and palace scenes. The more eroded frescoes show a Vaishnava theme of Narasimha (half lion, half man Vishnu avatar) with a female devotee. The ceiling has a faded painting of lotus and nature, somewhat reminiscent of the Sittannavasal cave. The frescoes or murals in this cave temple represent the early stages of Kerala style of murals in a Hindu temple. Thus, although this temple is now a part of Tamil Nadu, it incorporates the historic Kerala Tranvancore heritage of this region.

The Thirunadhikkara Cave Temple is a protected monument (N-TN-T5) and managed by ASI, Thrissur circle.

Gallery

References

External links
A Review of Thirunanthikarai Rock-cut Shiva Temple with Special Reference to its Paintings, Ajit Kumar (includes a temple plan and mural photographs)

Hindu temples in Kanyakumari district
Hindu cave temples in Tamil Nadu
Higan

is a Buddhist holiday exclusively celebrated by Japanese sects for seven days; three days before and after both the Spring equinox (shunbun) and Autumnal equinox (shūbun).  It is observed by nearly every Buddhist school in Japan.  The tradition extends from mild weather that occurs during the time of equinoxes, though the origin of the holiday dates from Emperor Shōmu in the 8th century.  People who normally worked in the fields had more leisure time to evaluate their own practices, and to make a renewed effort to follow Buddhism.  The seasons beginning to change is a symbol that Buddhists should change their lives in order to reach enlightenment.  Today, special services are usually observed in Japanese Buddhist temples, and Japanese temples abroad, based on the particular Buddhist tradition or sect.

Origin 
Higan is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese translation of the Sanskrit term for "the Other Shore". The cycle of death and rebirth (saṃsāra) is "this shore", and in Buddhism, crossing to the other shore is used to refer to the attainment of nirvana.

Ancestral veneration 
Similar to Obon, Japanese citizens will often return to their hometowns during the holiday season to pay respects to their ancestors. Ohigan is a public holiday, thus many businesses are closed.

See also
Lycoris radiata (Red spider lily) - In Japanese, higan-bana (higan-flower)

References

Buddhist festivals in Japan
Buddhist holidays
March observances
September observances
Stefanie Drootin

Stefanie Drootin is one half of the band Umm and one half of the band Big Harp (band) on Saddle Creek Records. She is also the bass guitarist for the band The Good Life on Saddle Creek Records. Stefanie  plays or has played in Bright Eyes, She and Him, M.Ward, McCarthy Trenching, Azure Ray, Orenda Fink  and Maria Taylor. She is the sister of Los Angeles-based, Books on Tape.

Album appearances
Bright Eyes - There Is No Beginning to the Story (2002, Saddle Creek)
Bright Eyes - Motion Sickness (2005 · Team Love)
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga (2007, Saddle Creek)
Bright Eyes - A Christmas AlbumGood Life - Album of The YearGood Life - Lovers Need Lawyers"
Good Life - Help Wanted NightsGood Life - "Everybody's Coming Down"
Big Harp - "White Hat"
Big Harp - "Chain Letters"
Big Harp - "Waveless"
Maria Taylor - Lynn Teeter FlowerBooks on Tape - Dinosaur Dinosaur''

References

External links
 
 Saddle Creek Records
 
 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American bass guitarists
Women bass guitarists