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Washington State Senate

The Washington State Senate is the upper house of the Washington State Legislature. The body consists of 49 members, each representing a district with a population of nearly 160,000. The State Senate meets at the Legislative Building in Olympia.

As with the lower House of Representatives, state senators serve without term limits, though senators serve four-year terms. Senators are elected from the same legislative districts as House members, with each district electing one senator and two representatives. Terms are staggered so that half the Senate is up for reelection every two years.

Like other upper houses of state and territorial legislatures and the federal U.S. Senate, the state senate can confirm or reject gubernatorial appointments to the state cabinet, commissions and boards.

Leadership
The state constitution allows both houses to write their own rules of procedure (article II, section 9) and to elect their own officers (article II, section 10) with the proviso that the lieutenant governor may preside in each house and has a deciding vote in the senate, but that the senate may choose a "temporary president" in the absence of the lieutenant governor. The prevailing two-party system has produced current senate rules to the effect that the President Pro Tempore is nominated by the majority party caucus and elected by the entire Senate.

Lieutenant Governor Denny Heck is constitutionally the President of the Senate. The current President Pro Tempore is Karen Keiser. The Majority leader is Democrat Andy Billig. The Minority Leader is Republican John Braun.

Composition

Members (2023–2025, 68th Legislature)

 † Originally appointed
 ^ Originally elected in special election
 # Sworn in early to fill vacant seat

Past composition of the Senate

See also
Washington State Capitol
Washington State Legislature
Washington House of Representatives
 List of Washington state legislatures

References

External links
Washington State Senate
Map of Legislative Districts

Washington State Legislature
Government of Washington (state)
State upper houses in the United States
USS Union

USS Union has been the name of more than one ship in the United States Navy, and may refer to:

, an experimental steamer in commission from 1843 to 1847
, a schooner captured from Mexico in November 1846 and wrecked in December 1846
, an armed screw steamer in commission in 1861 and from 1863 to 1865
, an attack cargo ship in commission from 1945 to 1970

United States Navy ship names
Dennis Shedd

Dennis Wayne Shedd (born January 28, 1953) is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Background 
Shedd attended Orangeburg Preparatory Schools in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wofford College, his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law and a Master of Laws from the Georgetown University Law Center. He went on to become chief counsel and staff director for the Senate Committee on the Judiciary while in the employ of Senator Strom Thurmond.  He moved to South Carolina to practice law in 1988. During that time, he served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of South Carolina School of Law.

Federal judicial service

Service on district court
President George H. W. Bush nominated Shedd on October 17, 1990, to the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. Shedd was confirmed on October 27, 1990. He  received his commission on October 30, 1990. His service as a district court judge was terminated on December 10, 2002, when he was elevated to the court of appeals.

Service on court of appeals
Shedd was nominated by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2001, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 19, 2002, by a 55–44 vote. He received his judicial commission on November 26, 2002. Shedd assumed senior status on January 30, 2018. He retired from the court on May 2, 2022.

Notable decisions
In 2007, Judge Shedd wrote for a fractured panel which found that the procedural default doctrine prevented the court from hearing the constitutional claims of a death row inmate.  On May 25, 2017, Judge Shedd wrote a dissent when the en banc circuit upheld a lower court's injunction against the President's travel ban by a vote of 10–3 in Int'l Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump.

References

Sources 
 

1953 births
Living people
20th-century American judges
21st-century American judges
Georgetown University Law Center alumni
Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Judges of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
People from Orangeburg County, South Carolina
United States court of appeals judges appointed by George W. Bush
United States district court judges appointed by George H. W. Bush
University of South Carolina alumni
Wofford College alumni
University of South Carolina faculty
Live at Blue Cat Blues

Live At Blue Cat Blues is an album by Los Lonely Boys that was recorded in November 2000 at Blue Cat Blues in Dallas, Texas.  It was officially released in 2006.  There are several different versions, with a different track order, and in some cases, more or less tracks than listed below; the track list below is the most current and complete available.  The titles shown are on the album jacket; titles in parentheses are the common titles for the songs.  The song "I Don't Want To Lose Your Love" was selected to be on Santana's third shared album, All That I Am.

Track listing
 "Scuttlebuttin'"
 "Friday Night (early version)"
 "I Don't Want To Lose Your Love (early version)"
 "Heaven"
 "Friday Night"
 "Dime Mi Amor"
 "Baby You're Gonna See (Nobody's Fool)"
 "I Want You To Feel The Same Way That I Do (If)"
 "I Am The Man To Beat"
 "I Don't Want To Lose Your Love"
 "Cottonfields and Crossroads"
 "Señorita"
 "I'm Gone"
 "My Sweet Kiss"
 "Pride & Joy"
 "End Of A New Beginning"

Los Lonely Boys albums
2006 live albums
Jake Mathews

Jake Mathews (born Jacques Lagrandeur born March 14, 1971, in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian country music singer, songwriter and performer.

Career
Jake's self-titled debut CD (Jake Mathews) garnered six nationally charted hits: "I’ll Do You One Better," "Try Again Tomorrow," "That's How Long," "Rush," "I’m Gone" and "There Ain't No Such Thing."

His second CD, Time After Time, released in 2004, was voted Best Album by Country Music News. Singles released from the album include the title track, "Signs of You Everywhere," "Kings for a Day" and "Arizona on My Mind."

Although he is the younger brother of Gil Grand, he has established a music career in his own right. In 2006, Mathews and Grand joined forces for "Raise the Roof," a tour that took them across Canada, raising awareness of Ronald McDonald House Charities.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Music videos

Awards and achievements
Western Country Music Awards
2005 – Nominated – Outstanding Country Recording for Time After Time
2003 – Nominated – Outstanding Country Recording for Jake Mathews

Country Music News 2004
Time After Time voted Best Album

Canadian Country Music Awards
2005 – Nominated – Independent Male Artist of the Year
2004 – Nominated – Independent Male Artist of the Year
2003 – Nominated – Rising Star Award
2002 – Nominated – Rising Star Award

Notes

References

External links

Jake Mathews Official

1971 births
Canadian male singer-songwriters
Canadian country singer-songwriters
Open Road Recordings artists
Musicians from Greater Sudbury
Living people
Franco-Ontarian people
21st-century Canadian male singers
21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters
Fond du Sac

Fond du Sac is a village in Mauritius located in Pamplemousses District. The village is administered by the Fond du Sac Village Council under the aegis of the Pamplemousses District Council. According to a census taken by Statistics Mauritius in 2011, the population was at 5,186.

See also 
 Districts of Mauritius
 List of places in Mauritius

References 

Populated places in Mauritius
Pamplemousses District
The Lost & Found

The Lost & Found is an EP record by Rasputina, the first edition of which was self-released in 2001 and the second edition, featuring two more cover songs, was released in 2003 by Instinct Records. It consists of covers of songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Pink Floyd, Marilyn Manson, Pat Benatar, The Velvet Underground, and Led Zeppelin, as well as a rendition of Mother Goose's nursery rhyme "This Little Piggy." The cover art and packaging was designed by artist Ryan Obermeyer.

Critical reception
Jamie Kiffel, in a review for Lollipop Magazine, said of the album, "While most of these are little more than curious novelties, there are some corpsed and dressed covers here that stand quite stiffly on their own. Melora Creager’s version of “Wish You Were Here,” with its sighing vocals, sad strings, and fuzzed-out bass effect is stunning and could frankly break into the Top 40 if the right stations acknowledge it." Joy Hepp of Phoenix New Times remarked, "Perhaps more disturbingly amusing, while CCR's classic "Bad Moon Rising" is fodder for a country hoe-down, Rasputina's version sounds like it's being performed by the house band in a bomb shelter. Creager's haunting voice and an ominous cello put a new twist on old lyrics".

1st Edition Track listing

2nd Edition Track listing

References

2003 EPs
Rasputina (band) albums
Covers EPs
Jepsonia

Jepsonia is a small genus of flowering plants containing three species. The Jepsonia is a perennial with a cormlike caudex, toothed leaves, and a cyme inflorescence that blooms in the fall. Jepsonia plants are native to California and Baja California.

Species include:
Jepsonia heterandra - foothill jepsonia
Jepsonia malvifolia - island jepsonia
Jepsonia parryi - Parry's jepsonia

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment

Saxifragaceae
Saxifragaceae genera
Field galaxy

A field galaxy is a galaxy that does not belong to a larger galaxy group or cluster and hence is gravitationally alone.

Roughly 80% of all galaxies located within  of the Milky Way are in groups or clusters of galaxies. Most low-surface-brightness galaxies are field galaxies. The median Hubble-type of field galaxies is Sb, a type of spiral galaxy.

List of field galaxies
A list of nearby relatively bright field galaxies within the Local Volume, about

See also 

 Void galaxy

Further reading

References 

Large-scale structure of the cosmos
Wesley Chapel

Wesley Chapel may refer to:

United States 
 Wesley Chapel (Woodlawn, Arkansas), listed on the NRHP in Arkansas
 Wesley Chapel, Florida, cdp 20 miles north of Downtown Tampa
 Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church (Eldersburg, Maryland), listed on the NRHP in Maryland
 Wesley Chapel, North Carolina
 Wesley Chapel (Cincinnati), Ohio, a former church
 Wesley Chapel (Hilliard, Ohio), listed on the NRHP in Ohio
 Wesley Chapel (Hopetown, Ohio), listed on the NRHP in Ohio
 Wesley Chapel, Texas, Houston County, Texas
 Wesley Chapel A.M.E Church, Georgetown, Texas, listed on the NRHP

United Kingdom
 Wesley Chapel, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
 Wesley Chapel, Priory Street, in York, in England

See also
 Wesley's Chapel, London, England
 Wesley Methodist Church (disambiguation)
E0

E0 or E00 can refer to :
 ε0, in mathematics, the smallest member of the epsilon numbers, a type of ordinal number
 ε0, in physics, vacuum permittivity, the absolute dielectric permittivity of classical vacuum
 E0 (cipher), a cipher used in the Bluetooth protocol
 E0 (robot), a 1986 humanoid robot by Honda
 Eo, in electrochemistry, the standard electrode potential, measuring individual potential of a reversible electrode at standard state
 E0, the digital carrier for audio, specified in G.703
 E0, Eos Airlines IATA code
 E0, ethanol-free gasoline, see REC-90
 e0, in demographics, the life expectancy of an individual at birth (age zero)
 E00, Cretinism ICD-10 code
 E00, ECO code for certain variations of the Queen's Pawn Game chess opening
 Enemy Zero, a 1996 Japanese horror video game for the Sega Saturn
Westmont High School

Westmont High School may refer to several schools in the United States:

Westmont High School (California)
Westmont High School (Westmont, Illinois)
Westmont Hilltop High School, Pennsylvania

See also
Westmount High School, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
Herzliebster Jesu

"Herzliebster Jesu" (often translated into English as "Ah, Holy Jesus", sometimes as "O Dearest Jesus") is a Lutheran Passion hymn in German, written in 1630 by Johann Heermann, in 15 stanzas of 4 lines, first published in Devoti Musica Cordis in Breslau. As the original headline reveals, it is based on Augustine of Hippo; this means the seventh chapter of the so-called "Meditationes Divi Augustini", presently ascribed to John of Fécamp.

Melody and musical settings 
The tune, Zahn No. 983, was written ten years later by Johann Crüger and first appeared in Crüger's Neues vollkömmliches Gesangbuch Augsburgischer Confession.

The tune has been used many times, including settings by J.S. Bach: one of the Neumeister Chorales for organ, BWV 1093, two movements of the St John Passion, and three of the St Matthew Passion. Johannes Brahms used it for one of his Eleven Chorale Preludes for organ, Op. 122: No. 2.). Max Reger's Passion, No. 4 from his organ pieces Sieben Stücke, Op. 145 (1915–1916), uses this melody.  Mauricio Kagel quoted the hymn, paraphrased as "Herzliebster Johann, was hast du verbrochen", in his oratorio Sankt-Bach-Passion telling Bach's life, composed for the tricentenary of Bach's birth in 1985.

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert wrote his Passion hymn "" (Lord, strengthen me to reflect on your suffering) to the same melody, and first published in 1757.

Translations
The most common English translation of this hymn was written by Robert Bridges in 1897 and begins with the first line "Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended?" However, several Lutheran hymnals use a translation written in 1863 by Catherine Winkworth which begins "O dearest Jesus, what law hast thou broken?"  An alternative translation in modern English from the Choral Niagara website is also shown below for comparison.

References

17th-century hymns in German
Lutheran hymns
Hymn tunes
1630 works
Passion hymns
Saratov State University

Saratov Chernyshevsky State University (, СГУ, transcribed as SGU) is a higher education and research institution in Russia. In 2023 it was ranked #1,156 in the world by US News & World Report.

Named for Nikolay Chernyshevsky, the university was founded in 1909 under the name Imperial Saratov University by the Decree of Emperor Nicholas II. On June 10, 1909, the Emperor signed the "Decree on the foundation of the university in Saratov", which became the tenth University in Russia and consisted of the Medical Faculty only. Professor V.I. Razumovsky became the first university rector. He was a public figure, surgeon, and scientist. Construction of university buildings as well as the university clinic named after S.R. Mirotvortsev was carried out under the supervision of Russian architect Karl Hermann Ludwig Müffke. The Regional Institute for Microbiology and Epidemiology in South East Russia opened in the city in 1919. 

It is located in  Saratov, a city in the southeast of the European part of Russia, on the right bank of the Volga River. SGU has 28 departments, more than 90 programmes of study are offered and the enrollment is around 28,000 students. In April 2006 the programming team from Saratov State University won the world finals of the 2006 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest held in San Antonio, Texas.

Notable people

Semyon Belozyorov
Boris Gnedenko
Serafima Gromova
Isaac Mustafin
Artem Stolyarov

See also 
 List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)

References

External links

 Saratov State University's Official Site, English Version
 Saratov State University, brief historical information
 Saratov State University wins World Finals of 2006 ACM Programming Contest, Slashdot, 2006-04-12

 
Buildings and structures in Saratov
Universities in Volga Region
Buildings and structures in Saratov Oblast
National research universities in Russia
Nanochromis transvestitus

Nanochromis transvestitus is a  sexually dimorphic cichlid endemic to Lake Mai-Ndombe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where they live at a depth of around .  It feeds on small benthic invertebrates.  This species reaches a length of  SL.  Unusually for cichlids, it is the female, not the male, that is the most colourful. The female has a vertical black and white banding on her anal and caudual fins, with a bright red abdomen.  The male, by contrast, is grayish in colour. Like many cichlids, the male does, however, have longer anal and caudal fins.  The fish are egg layers and make a nest in the substrate in which to lay their eggs.  This species is particularly threatened by the practice of using mosquito netting to catch fish out of the lake as material with holes that small catches every species of fish in the lake regardless of size. The specific name is a derived from the Latin trans meaning "cross" or "over" and vestitus meaning "clothed", a reference to the reversal of the normal sexual dimorphism in that this species has drabber males and more colourful females.

References

Chromidotilapiini
Lake fish of Africa
Taxa named by Tyson R. Roberts
Fish described in 1984
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Āraiteuru

(also written ) was a canoe () of some of Ngāi Tahu's ancestors in Māori tradition.

The canoe was conveyed to New Zealand by the north-east wind, carrying the chiefs Kirikirikatata, Aroarokaehe, Mauka Atua, Aoraki, Kakeroa, Te Horokoatu, Ritua, Ngamautaurua, Pokohiwitahi, Puketapu, Te Maro-tiri-a-te-rehu, Hikuroroa, Pahatea, Te Waioteao, and Hapekituaraki.

The canoe's fishing net and the water gourd (calabash) were turned into stone at Moeraki in the South Island, where they can still be seen in the form of the Moeraki Boulders. The canoe itself remained at Shag Point.

Dunedin's pan- marae, located in the suburb of Wakari, is named  after the canoe.

See also 

 Arahura (canoe)
 Tākitimu
 Uruaokapuarangi

References

Notes

Sources 

Māori waka
Māori mythology
Duane Benton

William Duane Benton (born September 8, 1950), known professionally as Duane Benton, is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Education 
Benton graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972, and received a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1975, where he was Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal and graduated alongside Justice Samuel Alito. Benton also has a Master of Business Administration from Memphis State University and a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia School of Law. Subsequently, Benton was selected as a Danforth Fellow at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he completed the Senior Executive's Program.

Career 
Prior to joining the federal bench, Benton served on the Supreme Court of Missouri from 1991 to 2004, where he was Chief Justice from 1997 to 1999. Benton was director of the Missouri Department of Revenue in the administration of then-Governor John Ashcroft from 1989 to 1991, and served as an administrative aide to a United States Congressman Wendell Bailey from 1981 to 1982. From 1983 to 1989, Benton practiced law in Jefferson City, Missouri. Benton served as a captain in the U.S. Navy/Naval Reserve from 1972 to 2002, and as judge advocate in the U.S. Navy from 1975 to 1979. Benton has taught at the University of Missouri School of Law, and at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

Federal judicial service 
Benton was nominated by President George W. Bush on February 12, 2004, to a seat vacated by Theodore McMillian and confirmed just over four months later by the United States Senate by a voice vote on June 24, 2004. He received his commission on July 2, 2004. 

In 2018, Judge Benton found that Missouri's requirement of a state license to braid hair did not violate the Constitution.

Personal life
Benton currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife Sandra and has two children.

References

External links

1950 births
21st-century American judges
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Missouri
Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Living people
Northwestern University alumni
Politicians from Columbia, Missouri
State cabinet secretaries of Missouri
United States court of appeals judges appointed by George W. Bush
University of Missouri faculty
University of Virginia School of Law alumni
Westminster College (Missouri) faculty
Yale Law School alumni
Judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri
Arahura (canoe)

was a divine canoe () made of pounamu in Ngāi Tahu's Māori mythology.

The chiefs who travelled to New Zealand in her were Peki(te)tahua, Rongokahe, Rangitatau, Hineraho, Te Rangitamau, Taewhenua, Te Mikimiki (Te Mingimingi), Atua-whakanihoniho, Te Atua-whakataratara, and Whakarewa.  may have also been the name of the  that was brought along with the canoe.

References

See also 

 Āraiteuru
 Ngahue
 Tākitimu
 Uruaokapuarangi

Māori waka
Māori mythology
Zero-risk bias

Zero-risk bias is a tendency to prefer the complete elimination of risk in a sub-part over alternatives with greater overall risk reduction. It often manifests in cases where decision makers address problems concerning health, safety, and the environment. Its effect on decision making has been observed in surveys presenting hypothetical scenarios.

Explanation 
Zero-risk bias is based on the way people feel better if a risk is eliminated instead of being merely mitigated. Scientists identified a zero-risk bias in responses to a questionnaire about a hypothetical cleanup scenario involving two hazardous sites X and Y, with X causing 8 cases of cancer annually and Y causing 4 cases annually. The respondents ranked three cleanup approaches: two options each reduced the total number of cancer cases by 6, while the third reduced the number by 5 and eliminated the cases at site Y. While the latter option featured the worst reduction overall, 42% of the respondents ranked it better than at least one of the other options. This conclusion resembled one from an earlier economics study that found people were willing to pay high costs to eliminate a risk. It has a normative justification since once risk is eliminated, people would have less to worry about and such removal of worry also has utility. It is also driven by our preference for winning much more than losing as well as the old instead of the new way, all of which cloud the way the world is viewed.

Multiple real-world policies have been said to be affected by this bias. In American federal policy, the Delaney clause outlawing cancer-causing additives from foods (regardless of actual risk) and the desire for perfect cleanup of Superfund sites have been alleged to be overly focused on complete elimination. Furthermore, the effort needed to implement zero-risk laws grew as technological advances enabled the detection of smaller quantities of hazardous substances. Limited resources were increasingly being devoted to low-risk issues.

Critics of the zero-risk bias model cite that it has the tendency to neglect overall risk reduction. For instance, when eliminating two side effects, it holds that the complete eradication of just one side-effect is preferable to lowering the overall risk.

Causes 
Other biases might underlie the zero-risk bias. One is a tendency to think in terms of proportions rather than differences. A greater reduction in proportion of deaths is valued higher than a greater reduction in actual deaths. The zero-risk bias could then be seen as the extreme end of a broad bias about quantities as applied to risk. Framing effects can enhance the bias, for example, by emphasizing a large proportion in a small set or can attempt to mitigate the bias by emphasizing total quantities.

References

Cognitive biases
Risk management
Samantapasadika

Samantapāsādikā refers to a collection of Pali commentaries on the Theravada Tipitaka Vinaya. It was a translation of Sinhala commentaries into Pali by Buddhaghosa in the 5th century. Many of the verses used in Samantapāsādikā are from older the Dípavamsa (est. 3rd - 4th Century CE).
Samantapasadika is made of two words, samanta and pasadika. Here 'samanta' indicates 'all' or 'entire', and 'pāsādika' means 'lovely' or 'pleasing'.

References

5th-century books
Aṭṭhakathā
Upali Thera

Upali Thera (, ) was a Thai Theravada monk and founder of the Siam Nikaya order of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.  He visited Kandy in 1753 and there performed upasampada (higher ordination, as distinct from samanera or novice ordination) for a group of Sinhala monks. The upasampada was not observed in Sri Lanka for centuries until this time. Upali Thera believed the Buddhist Sangha in Kandy was suffering from a state of corruption, and his efforts were aimed at "purifying" the practices - which included astrology - of the monastic order there.  To this end he founded the new monastic order.

It was also through the efforts of Upali Thera that the Procession of the Sacred Tooth Relic was reorganized in its present form. Annually in Kandy there is a celebration which includes a parade in which the focus is a relic believed to be a tooth of the Buddha. This procession was originally focussed on honor to Hindu deities, particularly those incorporated into Sri Lankan Buddhism. Upali Thera believed this to be inappropriate in a Buddhist nation, and his influence led to the king declaring that "Henceforth Gods and men are to follow the Buddha".

See also
Siam Nikaya

Thai Theravada Buddhist monks
People from the Ayutthaya Kingdom
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Combat Logistics Regiment 1

Combat Logistics Regiment 1 (CLR 1) is a logistics regiment of the United States Marine Corps.  The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and falls under the command of the 1st Marine Logistics Group and the I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF).

Mission
To provide logistics support to the 1st Marine Division beyond its organic capabilities in any environment and throughout the spectrum of conflict in order to allow the division to continue operations independent of any logistically driven operational pauses.

Subordinate units
 Combat Logistics Battalion 1
 Combat Logistics Battalion 5
 Combat Logistics Battalion 7
 1st Transportation Battalion
 1st Landing Support Battalion

History

See also

 List of United States Marine Corps regiments
 Organization of the United States Marine Corps

References
Notes

Web

 CLR-1's official website

Combat logistics regiments of the United States Marine Corps
Mark Levine

Mark Levine (or variants) may refer to:

Entertainment
 Mark Levine (musician) (Mark J. Levine, born 1938), American jazz musician 
 Mark Levin (born 1957), American conservative radio host
 Mark Levine (poet) (born 1965), American poet
 Mark Levin (director) (born 1966), American director and screenwriter
 Marc Levin, American filmmaker

Politics
 Mark Levine (Virginia politician) (born 1966), delegate in the Virginia State House of Delegates
 Mark Levine (New York politician) (born 1969), Manhattan borough president 
 Marc Levine (born 1974), California legislator

Other
 Marc Levine (mathematician) (born 1952)
 Mark LeVine, Mark Andrew LeVine, pronounced Levin American history professor specializing in the Palestinian Israeli conflict, rock guitarist and musician
 Mark Levine, Oxford, British history professor, specializing in Jewish and Zionist history.
 Marc A. Levin, American attorney
Belwar

The Belwar are a Hindu sanadhya Brahmin caste found in North India, and mostly in Uttar Pradesh. Sanadhya Brahmins are called Belwars in mainly Sitapur, Lakhimpur, Hardoi, Barabanki, Gonda and Lucknow. The like to be called Bilwar or Bailwar as it is a matter of pride for them.

Origin 

The Belwar are a community of Sanadya Brahmin from Awadh, they originally belonged to the Sanadhya Brahmin caste. According to their origin myth, they descend five brothers, one of whom had a daughter. Because of his poverty, he was unable to marry her off. Finally, he accepted whatever proposal came, and married his daughter to a boy from the other Brahmin community . As a consequence of this action, the community were outcast from the Sanadhya Brahmin caste. For a long period, both communities was  distinct. Presently, the intermarriage between them are started.

Present circumstances 

The Belwar are strictly endogamous, and practice clan exogamy. They are Hindu, and Mahadev is their clan deity. Their customs are similar to other Awadh Brahmin communities. They are generally vegetarian.

The Belwar are mainly a landowning community, but are now being urbanised. Those in rural Awadh live in multi-caste villages, but occupy distinct quarters. Each of their settlements contains an informal caste council, known as a biradari panchayat. The panchayat acts as an instrument of social control, dealing with issues such as divorce and adultery.

References 

Brahmin communities of Uttar Pradesh
So Sedated, So Secure

So Sedated, So Secure is the second full-length album from Darkest Hour. The album gained the attention of independent record label Victory Records, who signed them following the success of their debut. The album has since been re-released by Victory (March 7, 2006), featuring re-mixed audio, re-recorded vocals, new tracks, and artwork.

Track listing

Bonus tracks
"Be Forewarned" - 3:26   (originally recorded by Pentagram)
"Go Back To The Gym" - 1:43   (originally recorded by Battery - former band of the album's producer, Brian McTernan)
"Bear Huntin' USA" - 3:57
"Polar Bear Huntin' USA" - 4:37
"Esteban" - 1:33

"Bear Huntin' USA" was originally to be on the album but was left off. It was then released as an internet only bonus track from Darkest Hour's website. It was included again with "Polar Bear Huntin' USA" and "Estabon" on the reissue.

Personnel
John Henry - vocals
Frederick Ziomek - lead guitar
Mike Schleibaum - rhythm guitar
Billups Allen - bass
Ryan Parrish - drums, piano

References

Darkest Hour (band) albums
2001 albums
Victory Records albums
Albums produced by Brian McTernan
1999 National Invitation Tournament

The 1999 National Invitation Tournament was the 1999 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.

Selected teams
Below is a list of the 32 teams selected for the tournament.

Bracket
Below are the four first round brackets, along with the four-team championship bracket.

Semifinals & finals

See also
 1999 Women's National Invitation Tournament
 1999 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
 1999 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament
 1999 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament
 1999 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
 1999 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament
 1999 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament
 1999 NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament
 1999 NAIA Division II men's basketball tournament
 1999 NAIA Division I women's basketball tournament
 1999 NAIA Division II women's basketball tournament

References

National Invitation
National Invitation Tournament
1990s in Manhattan
Basketball competitions in New York City
College sports in New York City
Madison Square Garden
National Invitation Tournament
National Invitation Tournament
Sports in Manhattan
Central High School (Phoenix, Arizona)

Central High School is a high school in the Phoenix Union High School District, Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The campus is located at 4525 North Central Avenue, just north of downtown. It was established in 1957.

History 

The school was built in 1957. It was designed by noted Phoenix architect John Sing Tang. The construction of the school was completed by Weeks Construction Co. and D. O. Norton & Son Construction Co. both of Phoenix.

Enrollment
, Central’s enrollment was 2,370 students. That year over 60 percent of the population was Hispanic. Central also has the highest percentage of Caucasian students in the district, as well as the highest percentage of Native Americans. Central also is noted for its substantial refugee population, one of the largest in the state.

The school predominantly serves students from partner elementary districts Alhambra, Creighton, Madison, Osborn, and Phoenix Elementary. However, students from across the district come to Central for its Phoenix Union Magnet Program in International Studies. Students zoned to Arthur M. Hamilton School of the Murphy School District, meaning those in the district east of Interstate 17 and north of the Maricopa Freeway, are zoned to Central.

The Arizona Department of Education has designated Central a "performing" school. Central has had 96 students recognized as National Merit Scholars in the past 15 years. The International Studies program includes foreign exchange programs.

Notable alumni

Sports
Trung Canidate – National Football League (NFL) running back
Bryan Colangelo – National Basketball Association executive
Lois Drinkwater – sprinter and the first Arizona female to run in the Olympics (1968 as a junior)
Azur Kamara – NFL defensive end
Damon Mays – NFL wide receiver
Darryl Morrison – NFL safety
Dave Rajsich – Major League Baseball (MLB) player
Jay Schlueter – MLB player

Entertainment and music
Mark Coggins – author
Samantha Ponder – ESPN personality
Richard Page (class of 1971) – lead singer and bassist of the pop rock band Mr. Mister

Politics
Phil Gordon – 58th mayor of Phoenix
Rosanna Gabaldón – member of the Arizona House of Representatives

Other
Ian Bruce (class of 1962) – professor and vice-president of the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
Cindy McCain – American businesswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, special educator, and author

Gallery

References

External links
 Central High School
 Arizona Department of Education School Report Card

Public high schools in Arizona
High schools in Phoenix, Arizona
1957 establishments in Arizona
Educational institutions established in 1957
Elios

Elios may refer to

Helios (can also be spelled Elios), a minor character in the Japanese Sailor Moon series.
, an Italian steamship seized by the United Kingdom during the Second World War
Xuan Bello

Xuan Bello Fernán (born 1965 in Tineo, Asturias, Spain) is a Spanish poet and one of the best-known contemporary Asturian writers.

Life and work

Poetry
In 1982, at barely 16 years old, he published his first book of poems in Asturian, Nel cuartu mariellu. His poetic works, apart from those published in university magazines and in Lletres asturianes, continued with El llibru de les cenices (1988), Los nomes de la tierra (1991), El llibru vieyu, with which he won the Teodoro Cuesta prize for poetry in 1993, and Los Caminos Secretos (1996). In 1999 he published a bilingual anthology (asturian-Spanish) of his poetry, with the title La Vida Perdida.

Newspapers and magazines
Bello has also done numerous translations, especially of Portuguese authors, and has collaborated on magazines such as Clarín, Adréi and Zimbru, having co-founded the last two with Berta Piñán and Esther Prieto, respectively. He also has been published in the newspapers La Nueva España and El Comercio and the weekly Les Noticies, of which he has been the director since 1997. In 2005 he founded Xunta d'Escritores Asturianos ("Congress of Asturian Writers").

Critical acclaim
His literary fame outside of the Asturian community came with his Spanish language translation of his own Hestoria Universal de Paniceiros, for which he received the Ramón Gómez de la Serna prize and which was one of the most critically acclaimed Spanish books of 2003.

List of published works

Poetry
Nel cuartu mariellu (1982)
Llibru de les cenices (1988)
El llibru vieyu (1994)
Los caminos secretos (1996)
La vida perdida (1999)

Essays
Como facer L'Habana ensin salir d'Asturies (1998)
Ríu arriba (1998)
La bola infinita (2000)

Narratives
Pantasmes mundos, laberintos (1996)
La memoria del mundu (1998)
Historia universal de Paniceiros (2002)
Paniceiros, Areté, 2004, 
Los cuarteles de la memoria (2003)
Meditaciones nel desiertu (2003)

Children's literature
El nuberu ye bona xente (2003)

Translations
José Luis Olaizola: Bibiana y el so mundu (1989)
Fernando Pessoa: Estancu y otros poemes (1989)
Robert Louis Stevenson: El casu raru del dr. Jeckyll y mr. Hyde (1995)
Arthur Conan Doyle: Tres aventures de Sherlock Holmes (1995)
Álvaro Cunqueiro: Escuela de melecineros y fábula de varia xente (1997)
Jaume Cela: Silenciu nel corazón.
Various authors: Sieglu XX cambalache
Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao: Coses (2000)
Jordi Sierra i Fabra: Nun llugar que llamen guerra (2002)

Others
Alfaya (dictated material from Berta Piñán (1989))
L'alborá de los malvises (Critical edition of the work of Constantino Cabal (1999))
El sentimientu de la tierra (Anthology of contemporary asturian literature (1999))

References

External links
"Archivos de la categoría ‘Xuan Bello’", Poesiaasturiana’s Weblog

1965 births
Living people
People from Tineo
Spanish male writers
Asturian language
Zem

Zem can refer to:

 Zem, a character from Crash Bandicoot
 Nkong-Zem, a town and commune in Cameroon
 Roschdy Zem (born 1965), a French actor and filmmaker of Moroccan descent
 ZEM, a Portuguese Pop-Rock band
 Zem (mattress), a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
 ZEM, the IATA code for Eastmain River Airport, Quebec, Canada
United Sports Equities

United Sports Equities, LLC is an investor group formed in 2005 which owned United League Baseball.  United Sports Equities owned all of the franchises of United League Baseball, which included the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings, Amarillo Dillas, San Angelo Colts, Alexandria Aces, Laredo Broncos, and Edinburg Coyotes.

References

Entertainment companies of the United States
Postcrania

Postcrania (postcranium, adjective: postcranial) in zoology and vertebrate paleontology is all or part of the skeleton apart from the skull.  Frequently, fossil remains, e.g. of dinosaurs or other extinct tetrapods, consist of partial or isolated skeletal elements; these are referred to as postcrania.

There is some disagreement over whether the skull and skeleton belong to the same or different animals. One example is the case of a Cretaceous sauropod skull of Nemegtosaurus found in association with the postcranial skeleton Opisthocoelicaudia. 

In paleoanthropological studies, reconstruction of relationship between various species/remains is considered to be better supported by cranial characters rather than postcranial characters. However, this assumption is largely untested.

Notes

Skeletal system
Combat Logistics Battalion 1

Combat Logistics Battalion 1 (CLB 1) is a logistics battalion of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 1 and the 1st Marine Logistics Group. The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.

Mission
To provide logistics support to Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT-1) beyond its organic capabilities in any environment and throughout the spectrum of conflict in order to allow RCT-1 to continue operations independent of any logistically driven operational pauses.

Subordinate units
 * Headquarters & Service Company
 Transportation Services Company

History

From October 2009 through May 2010, CLB-1 deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The battalion provided tactical logistics support to Regimental Combat Team 7 during Operation Moshtarak in February 2010, where Marines fought to secure the former Taliban stronghold of Marjah. During the deployment they were also responsible for transportation of supplies to ground units through combat logistics patrols, air delivery and helicopter support teams; improving roads and trafficability for units moving throughout Helmand Province; and maintaining vehicles and equipment that constantly took a beating in the dust-covered rocky Afghanistan terrain.

See also

 List of United States Marine Corps battalions
 Organization of the United States Marine Corps

References
Notes

Web

 CLB-1's official website
 Website for parents of CLB-1 Marines

CLB1
Te Wheke-a-Muturangi

In Māori mythology, Te Wheke-a-Muturangi is a monstrous octopus destroyed in Whekenui Bay, Tory Channel or at Patea by Kupe the navigator.

The octopus was a pet or familiar of Muturangi, a powerful tohunga of Hawaiki. The wheke was nonetheless a wild creature and a guardian.

When Kupe reached New Zealand, he encountered the beast off Castlepoint. The giant octopus then fled across Cook Strait, and was chased by Kupe through Tory Channel. Here a great battle took place, and when the octopus appeared to be about to flee, Kupe cut off its arms with his adze, killing it (Tregear 1891: 184, 620).

In the traditions of the Ngāti Ranginui people of Tauranga, Te Wheke-a-Muturangi was killed by their ancestor Tamatea, and is not associated with Kupe. New Zealand ethnologist David Simmons has suggested that this may be the more authentic tradition, and that the association with Kupe is found only in problematic sources (Simmons 1976).

Another theory for Te Wheke-a-Muturangi states that the name actually refers to the many navigation paths centered on Raiatea with tentacles reaching out across the Pacific at least as far as the edges of the Polynesian Triangle (Tetahiotupa 2009). In French Polynesian oral tradition this octopus is also known as "Taumata-Fee-Faatupu-Hau" (Great Kraken of Prosperity) and "Tumu-Rai-Fenua" (Beginning-of-Heaven-and-Earth).

See also
 In Hawaii, Kanaloa is symbolized by the squid or hee.
 Kupe
 Polynesian Leaders Group
 Polynesian Triangle

References

 D. R. Simmons, The Great New Zealand Myth: a study of the discovery and origin traditions of the Maori (Reed Publishing: Wellington) 1976.
 E. R. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891, 184, 620.

Māori legendary creatures
Mythological cephalopods
Fraser Highway

Fraser Highway is a  major arterial road in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Connecting the cities of Surrey and Abbotsford, the highway formerly constituted a major portion of British Columbia Highway 1A until the latter was decommissioned in 2006. The highway is named for the Fraser River and the Fraser Valley, which are in turn named for the explorer Simon Fraser.

The road was one of the first motor highways in British Columbia, being formed from portions of the Old Yale wagon road in the 1920s, and was known as the Inter-Provincial Highway but its importance as an east-west corridor was diminished with the construction of the Trans-Canada Highway in the 1960s. Nonetheless, it remains an important thoroughfare. Running roughly parallel to the Trans-Canada Highway, it is often used as an alternative or feeder route for it.

Route description
The Fraser Highway runs in a generally southeast-northwest direction, roughly paralleling the Trans Canada Highway to the north of it. It alternates back and forth between one lane each direction (total of 2 lanes) to two lanes each direction (total of 4 lanes) between rural and urban surroundings.

Its western terminus is at King George Boulevard and 98th Avenue in the Whalley Town Centre of Surrey, just south of the King George SkyTrain Station. From there, it passes through the mixed residential, commercial, and rural neighbourhoods of Green Timbers, Fleetwood, and Cloverdale.

Leaving Surrey, the route bisects the City of Langley, before entering the more rural neighbourhoods of Murrayville, and Aldergrove in Langley Township.

The eastern terminus is at the Trans-Canada Highway, just east of Mount Lehman Road, in the Clearbrook neighbourhood of Abbotsford.

Major intersections

References

Former British Columbia provincial highways
Former segments of the Trans-Canada Highway
Highways in Greater Vancouver
Transport in Abbotsford, British Columbia
Transport in Langley, British Columbia (city)
Transport in Langley, British Columbia (district municipality)
Transport in Surrey, British Columbia
Bol loop

In mathematics and abstract algebra, a Bol loop is an algebraic structure generalizing the notion of group.  Bol loops are named for the Dutch mathematician Gerrit Bol who introduced them in .

A loop, L, is said to be a  left Bol loop if it satisfies the identity

, for every a,b,c in L,

while L is said to be a right Bol loop if it satisfies

, for every a,b,c in L.

These identities can be seen as weakened forms of associativity, or a strengthened form of (left or right) alternativity.

A loop is both left Bol and right Bol if and only if it is a Moufang loop. Alternatively, a right or left Bol loop is Moufang if and only if it satisfies the flexible identity a(ba) = (ab)a . Different authors use the term "Bol loop" to refer to either a left Bol or a right Bol loop.

Properties
The left (right) Bol identity directly implies the left (right)  alternative property, as can be shown by setting b to the identity.

It also implies the  left (right) inverse property, as can be seen by setting b to the left (right) inverse of a, and using loop division to cancel the superfluous factor of a. As a result, Bol loops have two-sided inverses.

Bol loops are also power-associative.

Bruck loops
A Bol loop where the aforementioned two-sided inverse satisfies the automorphic inverse property, (ab)−1 = a−1 b−1 for all a,b in L, is known as a (left or right) Bruck loop or K-loop (named for the American mathematician Richard Bruck). The example in the following section is a Bruck loop.

Bruck loops have applications in special relativity; see Ungar (2002). Left Bruck loops are equivalent to Ungar's (2002) gyrocommutative gyrogroups, even though the two structures are defined differently.

Example
Let L denote the set of n x n positive definite, Hermitian matrices over the complex numbers. It is generally not true that the matrix product AB of matrices A, B in L is Hermitian, let alone positive definite. However, there exists a unique P in L and a unique unitary matrix U such that AB = PU; this is the polar decomposition of AB. Define a binary operation * on L by A * B = P. Then (L, *) is a left Bruck loop. An explicit formula for * is given by A * B = (A B2 A)1/2, where the superscript 1/2 indicates the unique positive definite Hermitian square root.

Bol algebra
A (left) Bol algebra is a vector space equipped with a binary operation  and a ternary operation  that satisfies the following identities: 

and

and

and
.
Note that {.,.,.} acts as a Lie triple system.
If  is a left or right alternative algebra then it has an associated Bol algebra , where  is the commutator and  is the Jordan associator.

References

 
   Chapter VI is about Bol loops.
 
 

Non-associative algebra
Group theory
W40 (nuclear warhead)

The W40 nuclear warhead was an American fusion-boosted fission nuclear warhead developed in the late 1950s and which saw service from 1959 to 1972.

The W40 design was reportedly the common Python primary or fission core used by the US B28 nuclear bomb, W28 nuclear warhead, and W49 nuclear warhead.

The W40 was  in diameter,  long, and weighed around .  It had a design yield of 10 kilotons.

The W40 was used in the MGM-18 Lacrosse surface to surface missile (SRBM) and CIM-10 Bomarc surface to air missile (SAM).

The Bomarc warhead was lethal to a medium bomber aircraft up to about one kilometer. The warheads were mounted to the missiles for 90 day intervals, after which they underwent periodic inspection and maintenance.

The first production device was made in January 1959, with production starting in June, withdrawal in August due to a significant safety issue, and re-release in September with a temporary fix. A one-point safety problem was discovered in 1960 and a W40 mod 2 with a fix was developed and sent out in December 1963.

See also
 List of nuclear weapons

External links
 Allbombs.html list of all US nuclear weapons at nuclearweaponarchive.org

Nuclear warheads of the United States
Military equipment introduced in the 1950s