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Omega meson

The omega meson () is a flavourless meson formed from a superposition of an up quark–antiquark and a down quark–antiquark pair. It is part of the vector meson nonet and mediates the nuclear force along with pions and rho mesons.

Properties 
The most common decay mode for the ω meson is  at 89.2±0.7%, followed by  at 8.34±0.26%.

The quark composition of the  meson can be thought of as a mix between ,  and  states, but it is very nearly a pure symmetric - state. This can be shown by deconstructing the wave function of the  into its component parts. We see that the  and  mesons are mixtures of the SU(3) wave functions as follows.
 ,
 ,

where
  is the nonet mixing angle,
  and
 .

The mixing angle at which the components decouple completely can be calculated to be , which almost corresponds to the actual value calculated from the masses of 35°. Therefore, the  meson is nearly a pure symmetric - state.

See also
 List of mesons
 Quark model
 Vector meson

References

Mesons
Onia
Subatomic particles with spin 1
Diminuendo (album)

Diminuendo is the second album by Lowlife, was released in 1987 in Scotland on the independent label Nightshift Records. The LP was recorded at Palladium Studios in Edinburgh, Scotland, and released in May.

In 2006, LTM Recordings reissued it as a CD with six bonus tracks:  two songs from the "Vain Delights" 12" single (1986) and three from the Swirl It Swings  EP (1986).  The sixth bonus track is "Ramified", which had been specially recorded by the band for Underground Magazine and provided on a free cassette that was included with the debut issue of that publication in 1987.

Track listing 
All tracks written by Will Heggie, Craig Lorentson, Stuart Everest and Grant McDowall
 "A Sullen Sky" – 4:11
 "Big Uncle Ugliness"  – 4:06
 "Ragged Rise To Tumbledown" – 3:49
 "From Side to Side" – 4:26
 "Off Pale Yellow" – 4:00
 "Tongue Tied and Twisted" – 3:56
 "Licking One's Wounds" – 4:34
 "Wonders Will Never Cease" – 3:20
 "Given To Dreaming" – 3:38

Bonus tracks on 2006 CD reissue 
 "Hollow Gut"  – 4:16
 "Permanent Sleep" (Steel Mix)  – 4:16
 "Eternity Road" (12" Mix)  – 3:57
 "Swing" – 3:44
 "Colours Blue" – 3:22
 "Ramified" – 4:13

Personnel 
Lowlife
 Craig Lorentson - vocals
 Stuart Everest - guitar
 Will Heggie - bass guitar
 Grant McDowall - drums

References

Lowlife (band) albums
1987 albums
Extra Ordinary

"Extra Ordinary" is a song by American alternative rock group Better Than Ezra. It was released in July 2001 as their first single from their album Closer. It was also featured in a McDonald's television commercial that aired during the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Content
Lead singer Kevin Griffin told the LAUNCHcast website that the song is about the simple things in life: "I wanted to write lyrics that kind of encapsulated a picture of the current events of my life or anybody's life and just use very common visual images like 'soap on a rope' and 'smart as Bobby Fischer.' You know, it's about just spending the day with somebody you love and hanging out with really no agenda at all. And just being happy."

In a 2002 article from the Baton Rouge Advocate, drummer Travis McNabb said of the band's decision to use the song in a commercial: "They called us and said they wanted to use it in an ad....We were like, 'Is it gonna be Ronald McDonald running around chasing the Hamburglar or something?' But when we found out the concept of the ad, it sounded like a good fit. Ultimately, it's just more exposure for the music and for the band. We've gotten a great response from it. It's funny, though, how in the past five to seven years everyone's view of that sort of thing has changed. It used to be that any kind of sponsorship would be harshly judged by music fans and critics."

The song reached #13 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart, #35 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and #11 on the Top 40 Adult Recurrents chart

Chart performance

References

2001 singles
Better Than Ezra songs
2001 songs
Songs written by Kevin Griffin
Beyond Records singles
Wenallt Hill

Wenallt Hill (often called simply The Wenallt) is located in Cardiff, Wales. The name is Welsh and translates to 'white wooded slope'.

Although Cardiff residents sometimes call it a mountain, it is too low to be classified as a mountain. It is owned by Cardiff County Council and operated as public land, and looks down onto the village of Rhiwbina in the northern suburbs of Cardiff.

A large telecommunications tower is located at the top of the hill, near to which is a heavily vandalised former military bunker.

Wenallt Camp is the remains of an Iron Age enclosure on the southern slopes of the hill.

Together with the Garth Mountain a mile or so to the west, Wenallt Hill can be seen from most of Cardiff city centre. On a clear day they can be seen from Weston-super-Mare in England,  away on the other side of over the Bristol Channel.

The south facing slope of the hill overlooking Cardiff is now covered in trees, whereas in the early-1970s it was covered in ferns and bracken with a network of paths crisscrossing the slope. Bluebells are abundant in May.

External links 
Photos of Wenallt Hill and surrounding area on geograph.org.uk

Mountains and hills of Cardiff
Prince County, Prince Edward Island

Prince County is located in western Prince Edward Island, Canada. The county's defining geographic feature is Malpeque Bay, a sub-basin of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which creates the narrowest portion of Prince Edward Island's landmass, an isthmus upon which the city of Summerside is located.

The geographic division created by Malpeque Bay is informally augmented by a socio-economic division between the more urban East Prince and rural West Prince, although the line of division generally varies.  Much of Prince Edward Island's industrial base is concentrated in the eastern part of the county, with three large frozen French fry manufacturing plants, a potato chip manufacturing plant, and an aerospace industry located at a former air force base.  Industrial farming for root crops such as potatoes accounts for the majority of rural economic activity, followed by fishing for shellfish such as lobster and crab.

The county was named by Capt. Samuel Holland in 1765 for George, Prince of Wales, who would later become King George IV (1762–1830). As such, Prince County's shire town was designated as Princetown, but the inferior harbour for Prince Royalty saw the settlement pattern change to give this honour to Summerside.

Demographics 

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Prince County had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

Transportation

Major highways

Places
Cities
Summerside
Towns
Alberton
Borden-Carleton
Kensington
O'Leary
Tignish
Municipalities
Abrams Village
Bedeque and Area
Central Prince
Elmsdale
Greenmount-Montrose
Kinkora
Linkletter
Lot 11 and Area
Malpeque Bay
Miminegash
Miscouche
Sherbrooke
St. Felix
St. Louis
Tignish Shore
Tyne Valley
Wellington
Unincorporated communities
Albany
Belmont
Port Hill
 Days Corner
Richmond
Union Corner
Indian reserves
Lennox Island 1

See also
 Lady Slipper Drive
 Royal eponyms in Canada

References

 Community Profile: Prince County, Prince Edward Island; Statistics Canada

 
Counties of Prince Edward Island
1765 establishments in the British Empire
Stop That Roach!

Stop That Roach!, known in Japan as , is a Game Boy puzzle strategy video game by Koei.

Gameplay

The video game revolves around an insect exterminator who must kill roaches by any means possible. It is a 1994 video game remake of Koei's 1983 personal computer game Hoi Hoi (ホイホイ) for the NEC PC-8801 and Fujitsu FM-7. The Game Boy version allows the player to choose between a male hero (Ken) or a female hero (Lilly).

Similar in style to later tower defense games, the ultimate goal for all 100 levels is to protect confectionaries from the invading cockroaches. Each level is played out in a turn-based strategy manner. Players have four options: they can either attempt to walk into the next square, attempt to scare a cockroach, attempt to kill the cockroach or skip their current turn. Allowing the insects to succeed means that the player loses the round and has the choice of either retrying it or accepting a "game over." The game starts out as relatively simple, until the seventh round, where the complexity of the level design becomes an issue.

Reception
GamePro gave the game a positive review, summarizing it as "a very funny offbeat game." Game Players gave the game a rating of 56%.

References

External links
 Stop that Roach! at GameFAQs
 Stop that Roach! at MobyGames
 Stop that Roach!  at GB no Game Seiha Shimasho

1994 video games
Game Boy-only games
Koei games
Puzzle video games
Single-player video games
Top-down video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Game Boy games
Video games about insects
Video games developed in Japan
Piledriver

Piledriver or pile driver may refer to:

Pile driver, a mechanical device used in construction
Piledriver (professional wrestling), a move used in professional wrestling

Entertainment
 Piledriver (album), a 1972 album by Status Quo
 Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II, a 1987 album produced by the World Wrestling Federation
 Piledriver (band), a Canadian thrash/heavy metal band
 Piledriver (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
 "Piledriver" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), a television episode
 The Piledriver, a drop tower ride at WWE Niagara Falls

Other uses
Pile Driver, a U.S. nuclear test
Piledriver (microarchitecture), a CPU microarchitecture by AMD
Piledriver (sex position), a sexual position

Piledriver is also a standard term in football (or soccer in the US) for a super hard shot caught sweetly with all the players force.
Nand Kishore Acharya

Nand Kishore Acharya (born 31 August 1945) is an Indian playwright, poet, and critic who was born in Bikaner, Rajasthan. He is a professor emeritus at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, where he taught Political Economy and Human Rights.

Awards

Sahitya Academy Award 2019.
Rajasthan Sahitya Akademi's highest honour Mira Award.

Bibliography

Poetry
 Jal Hai Jhan (1980)
 Wah Ek Samudra Tha (1982)
 Shabda Bhule Hue (1987)
 Aati Hai Jaise Mrityu (1990)
 Kavita Mein Nahin Hai Jo (1995)
 Anya Hote Hue (2008)

Plays
 Dehaantar (including Kimidam Yaksham 1987)
 Paagalghar (including Joote 1988)
 Gulam Badshah (including Hastinapur 1992)
 Kisi aur ka sapna

Criticisms
 Ajneya Ki Kaavya Titirsha (1970)
 Rachna Ka Sacch (1986)
 Sarjak Ka Man (1987)
 Anubhava Ka Bhaval (1994)
 Sahitya Ka Svabhava (2001)
 Sarjak Ka Man

Others
 Sanskriti Ka Vyakarana (1988)
 Aadhunik Vichar Aur Shiksha (1989)
 Parampara Aur Parivartan (1991)
 Sabhyata Ka Vikalpa
 The Cultural Polity of the Hindus
 Polity in Shukranitisaar

Translation
 Sunate Hue Baarish (1983) (Riokaan)
 Nav Manavaad (1998) (M.N. Roy)
 Vignana Aur Darshan (1999) (M.N. Roy)

References

Indian male poets
People from Bikaner
Rajasthani people
Living people
1945 births
Poets from Rajasthan
20th-century Indian poets
20th-century Indian male writers
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi
Yellin



People
Yellin is the surname of:

Aryeh Leib Yellin (1820–1886), Polish rabbi
Bob Yellin (born 1936), American bluegrass musician 
David Yellin (1864–1941), Jewish leader and educator in Palestine
Dustin Yellin (born 1975), American artist 
Jean Fagan Yellin, American historian
Jerry Yellin (1924–2017), United States Air Force officer
Jessica Yellin (born 1971), American TV journalist
Linda Yellin, American memoirist, novelist, and humorist
Nathan Yellin-Mor (1913–1980), Russian-born revisionist Zionist activist, Lehi leader and Israeli politician
Pete Yellin (1941–2016), American jazz musician
Robert Yellin, American Japanese ceramics specialist 
Roei Yellin (born 1981), Israeli sprint canoer
Samuel Yellin (1885–1940), American master blacksmith
Tamar Yellin, English teacher and author
Yitzhak Yaakov Yellin (1885–1964), Israeli Hebrew language and press pioneer

Fictional
Yellin, a character in William Goldman's The Princess Bride

See also
 Jelen
 Yellen

External links
Origin of the surname Yellin/Yellen, sometimes a Yiddish calque of Slavic Jelen; from the Dictionary of American Family Names (2022)

de:Yellin
Yellen

Yellen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
 Alexander Yellen  (born 1981), American cinematographer
 Jack Yellen (1892–1991), American lyricist
 Janet Yellen (born 1946), American economist, current U.S. Treasury Secretary and former Federal Reserve Chair
 Larry Yellen (born 1943), American baseball pitcher
 Linda Yellen (born 1949), American director, producer and writer of film and television
 Sherman Yellen (born 1932), American playwright

See also
 
 Jelen
 Yellin

External links
Origin of the surname Yellen/Yellin, sometimes a Yiddish calque of Slavic Jelen; from the Dictionary of American Family Names (2022)
Harper Prism

Harper Prism (1993–1999) was launched by John Silbersack, Publishing Director, in 1993 as the first science fiction and fantasy imprint of HarperCollins Publishers in the United States. Prism's early authors included Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, Isaac Asimov, and Clive Barker as well as many media and gaming tie-ins such as Magic: The Gathering and The X-Files.

When HarperCollins acquired Avon Books in 1999, the Harper Prism imprint was absorbed into the Avon Eos line.

American speculative fiction publishers
Science fiction publishers
ESPN Baseball Tonight

ESPN Baseball Tonight is a baseball video game for the MS-DOS, Sega CD, Sega Genesis, and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Summary
The game was licensed by MLB, but not by the Players Association, so while actual team names and logos are used, no player names are in the game.

The lead programmers for the project were Alexander Ehrath and Russel Shanks. The game's simulation engine was written from scratch by the two lead programmers. The game featured video clips of Chris Berman and play-by-play audio from Dan Patrick.

Little Caesars Enterprises, Inc. got involved with the development of the game, seeing marketing synergy between baseball fans and pizza eaters. A large promotion was rolled out by the pizza chain to coincide with the game's launch, including point-of-purchase material at 4,500 stores; a mail-in offer for an ESPN "Best of Sports" videotape; and print advertising. The director of marketing for Sony called what Little Caesars received "a new method to reach families and men, 18-34, in a nontraditional, nonintrusive way." The stadium walls in-game featured large Little Caesars advertising.

The PC version was one of the early games to be made available solely on CD-ROM. In addition to the single game, season and playoff modes, there is also a Home Run Derby mode that evaluates the player's final score from ballerina (with a 0% accuracy rate) to hall of famer (with an accuracy rate of 95%-100%) depending on the number of home runs successfully completed.

It was the first in a series of ESPN-themed sports games. The next to be released was ESPN Sunday Night NFL.

Critical reception
ESPN Baseball Tonight received mostly negative reviews. Reviewing the Genesis version, GamePro said it "offers great graphics and sound, but it falls way too short in fun. ... If you're a die-hard baseball fan or a beginner, steer clear of this cart. It'll only frustrate you."

In Entertainment Weekly magazine, columnist Bob Strauss said that the design of the PC version was "appealing enough", but that it plunked players down into "shoddiest baseball simulation" he'd seen, with "pixelated generic-looking players; awkward, superfluous voice commentary; digitalized computer-generated and chroma-keyed or CSO technology-wise videos and a static interface that makes live baseball seem like the invasion of Normandy." He strongly preferred HardBall! '95 instead. Other reviews complained of its size. It weighed in at 54 MB on the PC (a very large file for early 1995 – 23 MB of it comprised the video clips of Berman). The Library Journal review simply said, "We strongly recommend a new storage algorithm for this one!"

See also
MLB Pennant Race, Sony's successor for PlayStation

External links

References

1993 video games
DOS games
Baseball Tonight
Major League Baseball video games
Sega Genesis games
Sega CD games
Stormfront Studios games
Epic/Sony Records games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Park Place Productions games
Itakpe

Itakpe is a town in Kogi State, Nigeria.
The Itakpe Hills in and around the town of Itakpe contain very pure deposits of iron ore. The National Iron Ore Mining Company is located here. It supplies the steel works of Ajaokuta and Aladja, as well as producing ore for export.

School
Due to the growing staff strength and subsequent creation of workers settlements (CAMP I AND CAMP II), the need for standard schools arose. The women association of NIOMP staff established a day children's care. The pre-nursery school was established to help nursing mothers cater for their children while they were at work and to lay a solid educational foundation for them.

The management of the then National Iron Ore Mining Project (NIOMP) then established a primary school, NIOMP Staff Nursery and Primary School (NSNPS) to meet the growing educational demands of the young mining community.

Years later, the Management established a secondary school, initially called NIOMP Comprehensive High School. The name would later be changed to NIOMCO Staff Secondary School (NSSS) after the company was renamed National Iron Ore Mining Company.

Although the schools were intended for the children of company staff, children of non-staff from the neighboring community were later admitted after serious pressure from their parents was applied. The schools' academic prowess grew to legendary status, and children from towns dozens of kilometres away were admitted to became students.

Colonies
It is important to note that when the Iron Ore Project was inaugurated by Gen. Babangida, foreign expatriates were called in to manage the project and train the Nigerian staff.

The expatriates were naturally secluded and had their living quarters. The living quarters were further divided into colonies.

Altogether, there are six colonies, viz:
Koch
Clemency
Sofremines
Special Guest House
Camp I
Camp II

Koch, Clemency, and Sofremines were colonies for German, British, and French expatriates respectively. The colonies were designed to modern standards and feature sports clubs, a bakery, small parks, fruit orchids, spacious houses, and a few swimming pools.

The special guest house was a magnificent lodge for hosting VIPs like Heads of State or their representatives, Mynisters, and other VIPs.

The Nigerian staff were given living quarters in Camp I and Camp II. The houses are of different styles with modern flats the most common.

Lifestyle
Most of the Nigerians wear traditional dresses. Main food crops are Yam, Cassava and Corn. Traders bring most of the vegetables from the city of Jose. People mostly use cow milk for their dairy products. Traders from various cities sell precious stones, wooden handicraft, leather items etc. for reasonable prices.

Transport 
Itakpe is the inland terminus of the Itakpe–Warri Railway, a standard gauge railway that passes by the Ajaokuta Steel Mill on its way to the Atlantic Ocean port of Warri.  There are plans to extend the line from Itakpe to Abuja, where it will connect to the standard gauge network that is under connection.

See also 
 Railway stations in Nigeria
 Iron ore in Africa

References 

Populated places in Kogi State
Pennsylvania Route 973

Pennsylvania Route 973 (PA 973) is a highway which runs for , generally east–west in Lycoming County in north central Pennsylvania in the United States. Its western terminus is on the east bank of Pine Creek at PA 44 in the unincorporated village of Tomb (or Tombs Run) in Watson Township, and its eastern terminus is at the hamlet of Loyalsockville in Upper Fairfield Township at PA 87.

Route description

Starting at its western end at PA 44 in Tomb, PA 973 runs east along Tombs Run, then northeast along the North Fork of Tombs Run. It then heads east into Mifflin Township, following Mud Run and the First Fork of Larrys Creek before crossing Larrys Creek and PA 287, and turning north into the borough of Salladasburg. It follows Larrys Creek northeast into Anthony Township, where it leaves Larrys Creek and follows Stoney Gap Run into Lycoming Township.

There PA 973 follows Hoaglands Run east through the village of Quiggleville and hamlet of Perryville, passing a single offramp from southbound US 15 and overpasses carrying US 15 before crossing Lycoming Creek into Hepburn Township. Following Lycoming Creek southeast, PA 973 passes through the villages of Cogan Station and Hepburnville, then turns northeast to follow Mill Creek to the hamlet of Balls Mills, and on into Eldred Township. There it passes through the village of Warrensville, then the Loyalsock State Game Farm, and crosses Loyalsock Creek just before it meets PA 87 at Loyalsockville and its eastern end.

History

On September 8, 2011 the bridge at the eastern end of the highway over Loyalsock Creek (known as the Slabtown Bridge) was destroyed by flooding. Heavy rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee raised the creek "higher than anything we've seen in recorded history", according to a Lycoming County official. The western portion of the bridge collapsed. A replacement bridge was completed in November 2012 at a cost of $3 million.

Major intersections

See also

References

External links

Pennsylvania Highways: PA 973

973
Transportation in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
National Association for College Admission Counseling

The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), founded in 1937, is an organization of more than 25,000 professionals from around the world dedicated to serving students transitioning from secondary to postsecondary education. It includes professional school counselors at the secondary and postsecondary level, college access counselors, admission and financial aid officers, and others.

A member-directed organization, NACAC is governed by its voting members; an Assembly of delegates elected by voting members in NACAC's state and regional affiliates and by an elected Board of Directors.

NACAC holds several annual professional development events, including a national conference, and runs the National College Fairs program and Performing and Visual Arts College Fairs program which directly connect high school students with a wide variety of postsecondary institutions.

College fairs
NACAC's National College Fair program provides the opportunity for students to meet college and university admission representatives to discuss courses, admission requirements, financial aid, and student life. Each year, more than 675,000 high school students and parents attend National College Fairs and NACAC's Performing & Visual Arts College Fairs. The fairs are held throughout the country in both the spring and fall and are free and open to the public.

Regional affiliates
There are 23 regional affiliates of NACAC and they operate in a similar fashion and on a smaller scale.

See also
 College admissions in the United States
 Higher education in the United States
 Overseas Association of College Admissions Counselors
 Transfer admissions in the United States

References

External links 
 

University and college admissions
Educational organizations based in the United States
American education-related professional associations
1937 establishments in the United States
Organizations established in 1937
Good (Better Than Ezra song)

"Good" is a song by American alternative rock band Better Than Ezra. It was released in February 1995 as the first single from their major-label debut album, Deluxe. It reached  1 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, No. 3 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, and No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Composition
Kevin Griffin wrote the song in late 1990 or early 1991, just after he had graduated from LSU and had formed Better Than Ezra. It was a part of the band's set lists for several years before being released as a single in early 1995. His simple four-chord pattern and strong modulation were inspired by Bob Dylan's mastery of the three-chord structure, as well as alt-rock pioneers R.E.M. and the Pixies. "I wanted to talk about the positive things that come from the end of a relationship. There's always the hurt feelings and everyone's guarded and it can be traumatic, but when the dust settles, it was about looking at the good things - no pun intended - that you got from that relationship. How did you grow? What did you learn emotionally? And to experience some stuff. And in this case it was just kind of reflecting on how this person changed," said Griffin. He was in a happy relationship at the time, so the song wasn't personal experience, but he broke up shortly after.

Track listings and formats
US CD and cassette single
"Good"  – 3:05
"Circle of Friends" (Live Version) – 3:39

German maxi-CD single
"Good"  – 3:05
"Summerhouse" (Live Version) – 2:23
"Know You Better" (Live Version) – 4:32
"Circle of Friends" (Live Version) – 3:39

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

Better Than Ezra songs
1993 songs
1995 debut singles
Songs written by Kevin Griffin
Elektra Records singles
Lincoln Junior – Senior High School

Lincoln Junior and Senior High School or Lincoln Junior – Senior High School (LJSHS) can refer to:

Lincoln Junior - Senior High School (Indiana), Cambridge City, Indiana
 Lincoln Junior-Senior High School, Lincoln Unified School District 298, Lincoln, Kansas
 Lincoln Junior Senior High School, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, Ellwood City Area School District
 Abraham Lincoln Junior and Senior High School (now Gregory-Lincoln Education Center), Houston, Texas
 Lincoln Junior-Senior High School, Alma Center, Wisconsin, Alma Center-Humbird-Merrillan School District

See also
Lincoln Junior High School (disambiguation)
Potomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admissions Counseling

The Potomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admissions Counseling (PCACAC) is a professional organization that was founded in 1964 for those who work with students in the transition between high school and college.

Based in Columbia, Maryland, PCACAC is the regional affiliate of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) serving:
 Delaware,
 the District of Columbia,
 Maryland,
 Virginia and
 West Virginia.

PCACAC exists to maintain high professional standards at both the secondary and college levels and to connect college admissions officers, secondary school counselors, independent counselors and educational organizations to discuss common professional concerns and to explore ways to empower students.

See also
 College admissions in the United States
 Higher education in the United States
 Transfer admissions in the United States

External links 
 PCACAC website

University and college admissions in the United States
MLBPA Baseball

MLBPA Baseball, known in Japan as , is a baseball video game for the Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, and Game Gear.

Summary
The game included the 1993 season's major league players and stats thanks to its MLBPA license, but could not use team names for lack of an MLB license.  The game got around this by using the city names of each team with matching colors, and using terms "A League", "N League", and "The Series". Notably MLB teams representing a state are referred to by a city in that state instead, for instance, The Florida Marlins are referred to as Miami in the game. (Coincidentally, the team would later rename themselves the Miami Marlins in 2012.) Players are allowed to play a single game (with the default teams being Philadelphia at Toronto, the 1993 league champs), a full season based on the 1994 schedule (with wins and losses recorded by password in the SNES version, battery back-up for Genesis), playoffs, and a World Series.  Though the full season mode is based on the 1994 schedule, it does not include the new (and current) three divisions/wild card format introduced for the 1994 season; instead it uses the old two division (per league) format.

Couched in what the packaging billed as "huge arcade style graphics," games could be played on either natural or artificial grass (depending on the home team) during day or night. The game also featured scoreboard animations for double and triple plays, home runs, grand slams, pitching changes, pinch hitters, and sometimes strike outs.

The SNES version is the first ever baseball video game to include the Atlanta Braves' distinctive Tomahawk Chop theme song, which is advertised on the back of the game box.

The game's cover features Brent Gates of the Oakland Athletics and Billy Hatcher of the Boston Red Sox.

The Japanese version of Fighting Baseball did not have the MLBPA license and used modified player names and statistics.

Reception
On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the Super Famicom version of the game a 20 out of 40. GamePro praised the easy controls, digitized voices, and the ability to control the ball after it leaves the pitcher's hand, but criticized the lack of real teams and the so-so graphics. They summarized it as an enjoyable game that falls short of ranking among the best in the genre.

The Japanese version of Fighting Baseball, which did not have the MLBPA license, achieved fame on the Internet in 2017 when the programmer-created rosters went viral.  The game's players include examples of Engrish and included names such as 'Sleve McDichael' and 'Bobson Dugnutt'.

References

External links

1994 video games
Coconuts Japan games
Game Gear games
High Score Productions games
Major League Baseball video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Sega Genesis games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Brian L. Schmidt
Video games set in 1993
Visual Concepts games
NACAC

NACAC may refer to:

National Association for College Admission Counseling
 North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association
Ulupna Island

Ulupna Island, a river island, lies at the eastern end of Barmah National Park which is a part of the largest river red gum forest in Victoria, Australia.  The island is bounded by the Murray River and its anabranch, Ulupna Creek. Ulupna Island is part of the flood plain of the Murray River.

Location and features
Ulupna Island is located in Northern Victoria, with the nearest town being Strathmerton. The island is popular as a camping destination and is rich in wildlife, with many goannas, eastern grey kangaroos and koalas visible all year.

Ulupna Island Flora Reserve 
In 1991,  of the western part of the island was heritage listed as Ulupna Island Flora Reserve, a place of natural significance on the former Register of the National Estate. In 2010, the Ulupna Island Flora Reserve became part of Barmah National Park.

The vegetation of the reserve is mainly river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) open forest.

This area is very rich in plant species, including two rare or threatened species - the Mueller daisy (Brachyscome muelleroides)  and Reader's daisy (Brachyscome readeri). Ulupna is important for the Mueller daisy because of its restricted distribution in Victoria.

Ulupna also provides important habitat for two threatened woodland birds, the grey-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis) and the superb parrot (Polytelis swainsonii). The grey-crowned babblers are a species that was once common in the woodlands of south-eastern Australia, Ulupna also provides habitat for superb parrots at the southern end of their range.

Unlike most of the Barmah forest, Ulupna Reserve has not been extensively grazed or logged, and provides an important reference area for studies of the impacts of these activities on other red gum forests in the region. Ulupna also contains an excellent example of river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) open forest.

References

External links
 Ulupna Island, Tocumwal, Tourism New South Wales, the NSW government tourist agency.
 Australian Heritage Database: Ulupna Island Flora Reserve
 Parks Victoria: Barmah National Park

Islands of Victoria (state)
Islands of the Murray River
River islands of Australia
Leah Applebaum

Leah Applebaum is an American voice actress and Broadway actress. She is best known as the voice of Nanami Kiryu from Revolutionary Girl Utena and Erika, the Grass type Gym Leader from the internationally acclaimed Pokémon series.

Career 
Applebaum first got into voice acting while working for a Broadway sketch comedy called My Thoughts Here in New York when she got a call from a casting director who was casting for the Hugo Award winning Think Like a Dinosaur, a Sci-Fi Channel program. Applebaum got the lead role of Kamala Shastri, which led her to be cast as a reporter in The Signal Man, which was adapted from the original story by Charles Dickens. The attention Applebaum received from her work on the Sci-Fi Channel eventually got her the major role of Nanami Kiryu from Revolutionary Girl Utena and Erika from the highly popular Pokémon series. According to the Dogasu's Backpack interview, Applebaum revealed that her Nanami voice was inspired from Buffy, a main character from the Family Affair TV series.

Voice roles

Anime 

 Erika and Suzie in Pokémon
 Nanami Kiryu in Revolutionary Girl Utena
 Nanami the Cow in Utena: The Movie

Internet Radio 

 Sci Fi Channel's Seeing Ear Theatre
 Princess Loo-Koo and Prunn in The First (and Last) Musical on Mars
 Computoid, Female Slave, and Rex in The Moon Moth
 Net-Girl and Phone Voice in The Nostalgianauts
 The Reporter in The Signal-Man
 Matilda the Waitress in Tales from the Crypt Episode 6: "Fare Tonight, Followed by Increasing Clottiness"
 Jane and Mistress Thornton in Time's Arrow, Time's Spiral
Kamala Shastri in Think Like a Dinosaur

References

External links 

Leah Applebaum on the Crystals Acids Database
Leah Applebaum at VoiceChasers

American voice actresses
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
James S. Donnelly Jr.

James S. Donnelly Jr. (born 1943) is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he specialised in nineteenth-century Irish history. He is a leading figure in the field of Irish studies in North America. Donnelly is a former president of the American Conference for Irish Studies, and a current co-editor of the journal Éire-Ireland.  He earned degrees from Fordham University and Harvard University.

His research on An Gorta Mór (1845–51) made him a well-known historian in the debate on whether The Great Hunger was genocide or not.

He has cooperated with Dr. Andy Bielenberg of University College Cork in compiling a digital profile of casualties in Cork during the Irish War of Independence.

Publications
Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824. (2009).
Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture. (2004), editor.
The Great Irish Potato Famine. (2001).
Irish Popular Culture 1650-1850. (1999), co-edited with Kerby A. Miller.
Irish Peasants: Violence & Political Unrest, 1780-1914. (1983), co-edited with Samuel Clark.
The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork: The Rural Economy and Land Question. 1975 (which was awarded the  Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association)
Landlord and Tenant in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. (1973).

References

1943 births
Living people
Historians of Ireland
American historians
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Fordham University alumni
Harvard University alumni
Sadiq Ali

Sadiq Ali (2 May 1952 – 18 April 2011) was a senior politician of Kashmir, India, a noted poet and writer and an active environmentalist.  He was an elected legislator in the Kashmir State Assembly for three consecutive terms.  Mr Sadiq Ali was born in Srinagar into an influential business family.  His father, the late Mr. Jaffer Ali was a Paper mache artist and businessman.

Sadiq Ali graduated from Aligarh Muslim University and earned his MA in Political Science.  He has given some important recommendations about the solution of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan.  His self-rule report has been widely applauded in both India and Pakistan and his recommendations have been regarded as one of the most workable solutions of this issue.  He has also written a comprehensive paper on the deteriorating conditions of the forests of Jammu and Kashmir State; he has further submitted an indepth research paper outlining how the Dal Lake may be saved from further degradation.

Mr Sadiq Ali entered politics at a very young age, and was one of the closest associates of Sheikh Abdullah, the founder of National Conference.  He was nominated to the State Legislative Council numerous times.  He also held the position of treasurer of the JKNC for 23 years.

He quit National Conference stating personal reasons, although he never spoke against the NC party or its principles.  There was widespread speculation that the only reason Mr Sadiq Ali quit NC was because of the NC leadership's inadequate action against a rival from within NC, whom Mr Sadiq had accused of sabotaging his re-election bid from Zadibal.

On 9 March 2008, Farooq Abdullah, the patron of NC, announced to the media that Mr Sadiq Ali had rejoined the party and would be handling the state affairs of the party.

References

1952 births
2011 deaths
Members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference politicians
People from Srinagar district
Seodaemun Prison

Seodaemun Prison History Hall () is a museum and former prison in Seodaemun District, Seoul, South Korea. It was constructed beginning in 1907. The prison was opened on October 21, 1908, under the name Gyeongseong Gamok. During the early part of the Japanese colonial period it was known as Keijo Prison (, the Japanese pronunciation of Gyeongseong Gamok). Its name was changed to Seodaemun Prison in 1923, and it later had several other names.

History
The prison was used during the Japanese colonial period to imprison Korean liberation activists, and could originally hold around 500 inmates. It had a separate facility for women and young girls. In 1911, Kim Koo was imprisoned. He was one of the more important figures in the Korean liberation movement. In 1919, shortly after the March 1st Movement, the number of imprisoned increased drastically. About three thousand liberation activists were imprisoned, and shortly before the colonization ended in 1945, the number of prisoners was at 2980. Among imprisoned after the March 1 Movement was Ryu Gwansun, who died from the torture inflicted on her.

After the colonial era ended in 1945 as part of the surrender of Japan in World War II, the prison was used by the South Korean government, and was known by various official names, including Seoul Prison until 1961, Seoul Correctional Institute until 1967 and Seoul Detention Center until its closure in 1987. It was replaced by a facility in Uiwang City, Gyeonggi Province.

In 1992, the site was dedicated as the Seodaemun Prison History Hall, part of Seodaemun Independence Park. Seven of the prison complex's original fifteen buildings are preserved as historical monuments. The History Hall showcases all those imprisoned during the Japanese colonial period and continues to serve as a memorial hall.

During a visit to Seodaemun in August 2015, former Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama knelt in front of a memorial stone as an expression of apology for Japanese war crimes in World War II.

Location 
 
Seodaemun Independence Park, including Seodaemun Prison, is closely located to exits 4 or 5 of the Dongnimmun Station on Seoul Subway Line 3.

See also
Korea under Japanese rule
Gyeonggyojang
Museum of Japanese Colonial History in Korea
Independence Gate

References

External links

Seodaemun Prison History Hall
Lifeinkorea profile
Seoul City Parks profile

Seodaemun District
Prison museums in Asia
Prisons in South Korea
Museums in Seoul
Korea under Japanese rule
Historic Sites of South Korea
Government buildings completed in 1908
History museums in South Korea
1908 establishments in Korea

Japanese prisoner of war and internment camps
In the Beginning (Stevie Ray Vaughan album)

In the Beginning is the second live album by Stevie (Ray) Vaughan and Double Trouble (the stage name at that time did not include Vaughan's middle name). While the album was released about two years after Vaughan's death in 1990, the actual performance took place on April 1, 1980, at Steamboat 1874 in Austin, Texas, and was broadcast live on KLBJ-FM radio.  A 25-year-old Vaughan, still more than three years away from the release of his first studio album, performs with his "Double Trouble" bandmates: Chris Layton, drummer, and Jackie Newhouse, bassist. (Newhouse was replaced by bassist Tommy Shannon in January 1981, who would remain part of Double Trouble until Stevie's death.)

Critical reception 

Writing in 1993 for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau called Vaughan "unfledged" and the performance "blues as a barely controllable torrent of electric sound", while naming "Shake for Me" and "Tin Pan Alley" as highlights. He later assigned In the Beginning a three-star honorable mention grade, indicating "an enjoyable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well treasure". AllMusic's Cub Koda gave it two out of five stars and recommended the album to Vaughan fans. He said it showcased the guitarist's signature sound, "albeit still in need of some polishing", while highlighting the songs "In the Open" and "Tin Pan Alley".

Track listing
 "In the Open" (Sonny Thompson, Freddie King) – 5:57
 "Slide Thing" (Stevie Ray Vaughan) – 3:18
 "They Call Me Guitar Hurricane" (Eddie Jones (Guitar Slim)) – 3:06
 "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" (Otis Rush) – 6:23
 "Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place in Town)" (Robert Geddins) – 7:40
 "Love Struck Baby" (Stevie Ray Vaughan) – 2:56
 "Tell Me" (Chester Burnett (Howlin' Wolf)) – 2:48
 "Shake for Me" (Willie Dixon) – 4:04
 "Live Another Day" (Stevie Ray Vaughan) – 3:49

Charts

Certifications

References

External links 
 

Stevie Ray Vaughan live albums
1992 live albums
Epic Records live albums
Live blues albums
Modibo Keita International Airport

Modibo Keita International Airport  (formerly Bamako–Sénou International Airport) is Mali's main airport located approximately  south of downtown Bamako, the capital of Mali in West Africa. It is the country's only international airport. It is managed by Aéroports du Mali (ADM). Its operations are overseen by the Malian Ministry of Equipment and Transport.

History
Bamako-Sénou Airport was opened to traffic in 1974. The airport was upgraded between 2007 and 2012 in a US$181 million project funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a United States foreign aid agency.

Military base
Bamako–Sénou International Airport is adjacent to Air Base 101, which is used by the Mali Air Force.

Statistics
Passenger traffic steadily increased in the early 2000s.  Government figures show 403,380 passengers in 1999, 423,506 in 2003, 486,526 in 2004, and 516,000 in 2005.  In 2006 it was predicted to reach over 900,000 by 2015 under a low (4%) yearly growth rate scenario.

Total air traffic at BKO increased by 12.4% in 2007 and 14% in 2008.  Most of this increase came in passenger transport, with the number of passengers served increasing by 20% in 2007 and 17% in 2008. Twenty-seven airline carriers operated weekly or better at BKO in the 2007–2008 period. This continued growth was offset by cargo flights' decline of 16.75%  in 2007, and 3.93% in 2008.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Cargo

Accidents and incidents
On 24 July 1971, a Douglas C-47A (6V-AAP) of Air Ivoire crashed into a hill 67 seconds after take-off from runway 24 at night. The aircraft was operating a scheduled passenger flight. All six occupants were killed.
On 31 May 1981, a Dassault Falcon 20C (7T-VRE) of the Algerian government crashed 8 km (5 miles) from here on approach, killing 3 of the 6 occupants. The plane was on an official state flight, carrying foreign minister Mohamed Seddick Benyahia. Benyahia survived, but was killed the following year in a shootdown.
On 30 June 1996, a Boeing 707-369C (5X-JON) of Air Afrique leased from DAS Air Cargo became unstable shortly after landing due to a sudden burst of rain and veered off the runway, striking a bunker and detaching the right wing. All 4 occupants survived; the plane was written off.
In October 2007 (day unknown), an Ilyushin Il-76TD (5A-DNQ) of Jamahiriya Air Transport sustained serious damage on landing when the nose gear collapsed. The plane was later repaired.
On 14 June 2017, a Beechcraft 200 Super King Air (TZ-DDG) of Malian Aero Company suffered a landing accident after returning from a cloud-seeding operation over Mopti at 14:05. The plane came to rest on the right side of the runway with substantial propeller damage and was subsequently written off. The sole occupant survived.

References

External links

 
 A–Z World Airports: Bamako – Senou Int'l Airport (BKO/GABS)
 Aeronautical charts for BKO/GABS from ASECNA
 
 
 Avient Aviation Scheduled Flights

Airports established in 1974
Airports in Mali
Buildings and structures in Bamako
1974 establishments in Mali
Leader of the Opposition (Tasmania)

The Leader of the Opposition in Tasmania is the title of the leader of the largest minority party in the state lower house, the Tasmanian House of Assembly. They act as the public face of the opposition, leads the opposition on the floor of parliament. They thus act as a chief critic of the government and ultimately attempt to portray the opposition as a feasible alternate government. They are also given certain additional rights under parliamentary standing orders, such as extended time limits for speeches. Should the opposition win an election, the Leader of the Opposition will usually be nominated to become the Premier of Tasmania.

The position of Leader of the Opposition was essentially informal throughout the nineteenth century, with formal recognition only being granted in the early twentieth century. As there was no party system until 1909, the loose ideological blocs in parliament tended to change regularly, and few people lasted in the position for more than one or two years at a time. The development of a party system gave the role greater significance, and it was subsequently given greater formal recognition, with an additional salary payment being accommodated for in 1927 and formal recognition in the parliamentary standing orders in 1937.

The current Leader of the Opposition is Rebecca White of the Labor Party. She has been in the role since 7 July 2021, having been elected to the leadership after David O'Byrne stood down from his role as leader. White had previously served as leader from 2017 to 2021, but had stood down after two election losses and to take maternity leave.

List of leaders of the opposition in Tasmania

External links
Leaders of the Opposition (Parliament of Tasmania)

Tasmania
 
Opposition