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J. F. White Contracting Co.

J. F. White Contracting Co. is a Massachusetts-based contracting company specializing in heavy civil construction, deep foundations, pile driving, and mechanical/electrical construction. The company has performed work primarily in the New England area of America.

History 
J.F. White Contracting Co. was formally founded in 1924 by Joseph F. White, Sr. who had started his business years prior to the company's formal organization. He bought his first truck in 1918 and steam shovel in 1922. From 1924 to 1930, the company excavated the foundations for the Statler Hotel & Office Building, the Aetna Headquarters, the Sears Building in Boston, the Harvard Business School, the Fogg Art Museum and Foxboro Stadium. 

In 1945, White's sons Thomas J. White, Joseph White Jr. and John White returned from World War II and took over the business. The sons focused the firm's work on pursuing public works contracts offered by the Metropolitan District Commission. The Charles River dam project was their first major heavy civil project. The successful completion of this contract in 1978 led to the establishment of J.F. White as a respected heavy civil contractor.

Major Projects
The company played a key role in the Boston Big Dig project. Notable contracts during the Big Dig included the Ted Williams Tunnel (Joint venture with Morrison-Knudsen and Interbeton), the North End section of the Central Artery tunnel (CA/T) (Joint Venture with the Slattery division of Skanska USA and Tutor Perini), and the Central Artery I-90/I-93 jacked tunnel which involved ground freezing.
The company's corporate headquarters are located in Framingham, Massachusetts.

J.F. White was part of a joint venture with Skanska Civil USA and Ecco III Enterprises on the $1.1 Billion contract to build the Catskill-Delaware Water Ultraviolet Disinfection Facility.

Ownership and Leadership 
In 2014, the firm was sold to ACS Group for an undisclosed amount after being operated by three generations of the White Family.

References

Voluntary Diesel Retrofit Program at EPA.gov
Big Dig SEPTEMBER 2003 CIVIL ENGINEERING MAGAZINE
http://www.jfwhite.com/about-us-history-first-generation.htm
http://www.jfwhite.com/about-us-history-second-generation.htm
https://www.reuters.com/article/acs-usa/spains-acs-buys-u-s-civil-works-business-j-f-white-idUSL6N0QH23S20140811
https://www.enr.com/articles/20824-cat-del-crews-carry-out-colossal-coordination

External links
J.F. White Contracting Co. 

Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States
Companies based in Framingham, Massachusetts
National Sports Council

The National Sports Council (NSC) is the national overseer of the control authorities of 41 different sports in Bangladesh. It is responsible to the Bangladesh Ministry of Youth and Sports and is based in Purana Paltan, Dhaka.

History 
After the Bangladesh Liberation War, the Bangladesh Sports Control Board was formed in 1972. In 1974 it became the National Sports Council.

See also
 Bangladesh Olympic Association

References

External links 
 Official website of NSC

Sport in Bangladesh
1972 establishments in Bangladesh
Bayalu Seeme

Bayaluseeme or Bayalu Seeme is the area lying to the east of Malenadu, a region of Karnataka state in India. The area is largely open plain, with few hillocks. It includes the districts of Bangalore, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Hassan, Haveri, Mandya, Mysore, and Tumkur.

Topography
Bayalu Seeme has a gently rolling surface, punctuated by several of the large rivers that rise in the Western Ghats and flow eastward to empty into the Bay of Bengal. It is often subdivided into the northern and southern Bayalu Seeme.

Northern Bayalu Seeme
Northern Bayalu Seeme is a dry, mostly treeless expanse of plateau, its elevation being between 300 and 700 meters. It covers Belgaum district, Ballari district, Bidar district, Bagalkot district, Bijapur district, Chitradurga district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi district and Raichur district. It is drained by the Krishna River and its tributaries the Bhima River, Ghataprabha River, Malaprabha River, and Tungabhadra River. It mostly lies within the Deccan thorn scrub forests' ecoregion, which extends north into eastern Maharashtra and east into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Southern Bayalu Seeme
Southern Bayalu Seeme, also known as the Southern Karnataka Plateau, is made up of the low rolling granite hills from 600 to 900 meters elevation. It is bounded on the west by the Western Ghats and on the south and east by ranges of hills, and on the north it drops to the lower-elevation northern Maidan. The plateau is drained by the Kaveri river along with its tributaries - Shimsha, Arkavati, Kabini, Lakshmana Tirtha and Hemavati. The Palar, Ponnaiyar and Uttara Pinakini rivers arise from the eastern region of this plateau at Nandi Hills. It includes Bangalore Urban district, Bangalore Rural district, Chamarajanagar district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Mandya district, Mysuru district, Tumkur district and parts of Chikkamagaluru district. Most of the southern Maidan is covered by the South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests ecoregion, which extends south into eastern Tamil Nadu.

Vegetation
Bayalu Seeme lies in the rain shadow of the Western Ghats, and is generally much drier than Coastal Karnataka (Karavali) and the Western Ghats. The region was originally covered by extensive, open-canopied Tropical dry deciduous forests, characterized by the trees Acacia, Albizia and Hardwickia. But much of the original forest has been cleared for agriculture, timber, grazing and firewood.

Overexploitation of the forests for fuelwood and fodder has resulted in much of the original forest being degraded into thickets and scrublands. Canthium parriflorum, Cassia auriculata, Dodonaea viscosa, Erythroxylum monogynum, Pterolobium hexapetalum and Euphorbia antiquorum are species typical of the thicket and scrubland vegetation.

See also
 Bangalore Division
 Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary
 Kaveri River

References

Regions of Karnataka
Punilla Department

The Punilla Department is an administrative division of the province of Córdoba, Argentina. It has over 155,000 inhabitants, with a population density of almost 60 inhabitants/km2.

Settlements
Bialet Massé
Cabalango
Capilla del Monte
Casa Grande
Charbonier
Cosquín
Cuesta Blanca
Estancia Vieja
Huerta Grande
La Cumbre
La Falda
Los Cocos
Mayu Sumaj
San Antonio de Arredondo
San Esteban
San Roque
Santa María
Tala Huasi
Tanti
Valle Hermoso
Villa Carlos Paz
Villa Flor Serrana
Villa Giardino
Villa Parque Siquiman
Villa Santa Cruz del Lago
Villa Icho Cruz

See also

 Punilla Valley
 Cerro Uritorco

External links
 This is Punilla website
 Punilla Valley website

References
 

Departments of Córdoba Province, Argentina
Micrographia (handwriting)

Micrographia, an acquired disorder, features abnormally small, cramped handwriting. It is commonly associated with neurodegenerative disorders of the basal ganglia, such as in Parkinson's disease, but it has also been ascribed to subcortical focal lesions. O'Sullivan and Schmitz describe it as an abnormally small handwriting that is difficult to read, as seen in the photo to the right. Micrographia is also seen in patients with Wilson's disease, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Metamorphopsia, or with isolated focal lesions of the midbrain or basal ganglia.

Parkinson's disease
A common feature of Parkinson's disease (PD) is difficulty in routine activities due to lack of motor control. Patients have trouble maintaining the scale of movements and have reduced amplitude of movement (hypokinesia). In PD, the trouble in scaling and controlling the amplitude of movement affects complex, sequential movements, so that micrographia is a common symptom. Another cause of micrographia is lack of physical dexterity.

James Parkinson may have been aware of micrographia in patients with shaking palsy (later renamed Parkinson's disease), when he described "the hand failing to answer with exactness to the dictates of the will".

Occurrence in Parkinson's 
Micrographia is often seen patients with Parkinson’s disease, although the precise prevalence is uncertain, with reported figures of between 9% and 75%. Often appearing before other symptoms, it can help in diagnosis.

Pharmacological management
Micrographia may worsen when a PD patient is under-medicated and when the medication is wearing off.

References

Bibliography
 

Penmanship
Parkinson's disease
Pierrepoint (film)

Pierrepoint is a 2005 British film directed by Adrian Shergold about the life of British executioner Albert Pierrepoint.

The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the UK on 7 April 2006. In the United States, it had a limited theatrical release at three screens on 7 June 2007, grossing $21,766. It was released on DVD on 30 October 2007.

Commissioned as a television film in 2004, Pierrepoint was broadcast on ITV on 25 August 2008, when it attracted an estimated audience of 3.6 million. The film was renamed Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman for its North American release, although Pierrepoint was not the last British hangman.

Premise
The film is loosely based on the life of Britain's most prolific hangman, Albert Pierrepoint (played by Timothy Spall), from the time he is trained for the job and accepted onto the list of the country's official hangmen in 1932 until his resignation in 1956.

The film is a highly fictionalised account of his life and has a strong anti-capital punishment theme. A number of executions occur out of sequence and there are a number of factual errors, such as female prison warders being present at female executions and two newly qualified executioners working together as “Number One” and “Assistant”.

Cast
Timothy Spall as Albert Pierrepoint
Juliet Stevenson as Annie Pierrepoint
Eddie Marsan as James "Tish" Corbitt
Ben McKay as Timothy Evans
Michael Norton as Josef Kramer
Lizzie Hopley as Dorothea Waddingham
Cavan Clerkin as George Cooper
Mary Jo Randle as Mrs Corbitt
Christopher Fulford as Charlie Sykes
Ian Shaw as Percy
Ann Bell as Violet Van der Elst
Robin Soans as Governor/Brigadier Paton-Walsh
Nicholas Blane as governor of Strangeways
Maggie Ollerenshaw as Mary Pierrepoint, Albert's mother
Bernard Kay as Uncle Tom
Claire Keelan as Jessie Kelly
Clive Francis as Monty
Sheyla Shehovich as Irma Grese
Keiran Flynn as Neville
Tobias Menzies as Lieutenant Llewellyn
Mary Stockley as Ruth Ellis
James Corden as Kirky

Production

The hanging scenes and the street protest scenes at the end of the film were at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham.

Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 77% based on 53 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Director Adrian Shergold doesn't shy away from the darker elements of the movie's subject, and Timothy Spall is mesmerizing as the title character." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews".

References

External links

Film Festival program note

2005 films
British biographical drama films
2005 biographical drama films
Films about capital punishment
Albert Pierrepoint
Cultural depictions of Ruth Ellis
Films directed by Adrian Shergold
2005 drama films
2000s English-language films
2000s British films
Michael von Grünigen

Michael von Grünigen (born 11 April 1969) is a Swiss former alpine skier. He is considered to be the most successful Giant slalom skier of his era: In 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2003, he won the World Cup in Giant slalom. In 1997 and 2001, he was World Champion in giant slalom. He took a total of 23 World Cup wins during his career. Having originally announced his retirement at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, after failing to medal at the Games he elected to delay his retirement for a year, ending his competitive career in 2003.

Biography
Von Grünigen is originally from the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland, and comes from a skiing family: his parents were both ski instructors, and one of his three sisters is fellow alpine skier Christine von Grünigen. He is married to Anna, and the couple have three children: Noel, Elio and Lian. Since retiring from competition, he has worked in a number of roles with his equipment sponsor, Fischer, and also works with young skiers for the Swiss Ski Federation.

World Cup victories

World Cups

Individual races

References

External links
 
 

1969 births
Living people
Swiss male alpine skiers
Olympic alpine skiers for Switzerland
Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
Alpine skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Skiers from the canton of Bern
Michael
Taihu (disambiguation)

Taihu may refer to the following in China:

Lake Tai (太湖), freshwater lake on the borders of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces

Named after the lake 
 Taihu Bridge, a bridge in Suzhou, Jiangsu
 Taihu pig, a domestic breed of pig
 Taihu rocks
 Taihu Square Station, a metro station of Line 1, Wuxi Metro
 Taihu Wu dialects

Administrative divisions
Taihu Subdistrict (太湖街道), Binhu District, Wuxi, Jiangsu
Taihu County (太湖县), Anqing, Anhui
Taihu, Beijing (台湖镇), a town in Tongzhou District, Beijing
Taihu, Zhuzhou, a rural township in Zhuzhou County, Hunan Province
Heath Lamberts

Heath Lamberts,  (December 15, 1941 – February 22, 2005) was a Canadian actor.

He was born James Lancaster in Toronto, Ontario, where, as a boy, he won singing contests at school, allowing him to perform with Toronto's Opera Festival Association. He pursued the arts as a career, changing his name to Heath Lamberts, and in 1963 graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. He worked extensively in theatres across Canada, especially at the Shaw Festival and the Stratford Festival. He also studied mime in Paris, France, at Le Coq d'Or. On Broadway his longest role was in the original cast of Beauty and the Beast as Cogsworth. He had roles in dozens of television movies and shows and played numerous roles in Pittsburgh theatre.

Although most prominently a stage actor, he also had some supporting film and television roles, including in the films A Great Big Thing and Sam & Me.

He was inducted as a Member of the Order of Canada in 1987.

Lamberts died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, on February 22, 2005, from cancer.

References

External links
 

1941 births
2005 deaths
Canadian male stage actors
Members of the Order of Canada
Male actors from Pittsburgh
Deaths from cancer in Pennsylvania
National Theatre School of Canada alumni
Dora Mavor Moore Award winners
Male actors from Toronto
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
20th-century Canadian male actors
21st-century Canadian male actors
Orange wrasse

The orange wrasse (Pseudolabrus luculentus) is a species of wrasse native to the Pacific Ocean from Australia to New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands. It is found in inshore waters at depths from . It can reach a length of  SL. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.

Morphology 
Female and juvenile orange wrasses are primarily orange with five vertical white bars on their bodies and yellow markings on their heads. Females also have yellow dorsal and anal fins, white spots or lines on the lower half of the body, and white horizontal stripes below the eyes. Male orange wrasses are red-brown and have black-and-white squares beneath the rays of their dorsal fin.

Distribution and habitat 
Orange wrasses are found in temperate marine habitats near New Zealand, around the Kermadec Islands, Norfolk Island, the Three Kings Islands, and North-East North Island. In Boat Cove, in the Kermadec Islands, orange wrasses are the most common fish across the reef, with densities of up to 37 per 500 m² in shallow water, and 30 per 500 m² in deep water. Distribution throughout the Kermadec Island has been recorded at various sites, including Lord Howe Island & New South Wales. 70% of the shallow water population (3-6 meters) and 85% of the deep water population (14-20 meters) in Boat Cove consisted of juvenile orange wrasses. Other labrids are abundant in Boat Cove as well.

Behavior

Diet 
Orange wrasses are carnivorous, eating benthic invertebrates such as small crustaceans. Females and juveniles are also facultative cleaners, although they rely less on cleaning for food, and more on benthic feeding.

Reproduction and life cycle 
These fishes form pairs during breeding and are oviparous, meaning that their eggs hatch after being laid. Females spawn eggs from March to October, and the surviving offspring will mature after a year. Orange wrasses are also protogynous hermaphrodites, so the females change sex into males.

Taxonomy

Etymology 
The name "luculentus", meaning splendid, was given due to the species's bright colors.

References

orange wrasse
Fish of the North Island
Marine fish of Eastern Australia
Fish of Lord Howe Island
Fish of the Kermadec Islands
orange wrasse
Optical path

Optical path (OP) is the trajectory that a light ray follows as it propagates through an optical medium.
The geometrical optical-path length or simply geometrical path length (GPD) is the length of a segment in a given OP, i.e., the Euclidean distance integrated along a ray between any two points.
The mechanical length of an optical device can be reduced to less than the GPD by using folded optics. 
The optical path length in a homogeneous medium is the GPD multiplied by the refractive index of the medium.

Factors affecting optical path
Path of light in medium, or between two media is affected by the following:
 Reflection
 Total internal reflection
 Refraction
 Dispersion of light
 Absorption

Simple materials used
 Lenses
 Prisms
 Mirrors
 Transparent materials (e.g. optical filters)
 Translucent materials (e.g. frosted glass)
 Opaque materials

References

Physical optics
Geometrical optics
Rashad Bauman

Leddure Rashad Bauman (born May 7, 1979) is a former American football player in the National Football League who played cornerback. He attended the University of Oregon and was a third-team All-American selection by the NFL Draft Report, as well as an All-Pac-10 second-team choice. He was selected in the third round in the 79th overall pick of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played two seasons with the Washington Redskins before being traded to Cincinnati in 2004.  He recorded 50 tackles and 2 interceptions in a 43-game career.

References

1979 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tempe, Arizona
Players of American football from Maricopa County, Arizona
American football cornerbacks
Oregon Ducks football players
Cincinnati Bengals players
Washington Redskins players
Ras Siyyan

Ras Siyyan or Ras Siyan () is a peninsula in the Obock Region of Djibouti, on the Bab-el-Mandeb strait (between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden), about 20 km southwest of Perim Island.

The peninsula consists of a reddish volcanic hill about 1.2 by 0.5 km and 138 m high, connected towards to the mainland by a low sandy strip that stretches south by about 5 km while widening from 500 to 800 m. The Ras Siyyan volcano is currently inactive but young, having erupted through a 21,000-year-old coral reef formation.

To the west of Ras Siyyan there is a shallow marshy bay or lagoon, about 2.5 km wide, protected on the north side by shallow coral banks.  The bay is fringed with patches of mangrove bushes (Avicennia marina), in spite of the little input of freshwater.  Abundant sea grasses (chiefly Halodule and Thalassia species) form large beds in the bay, and Sharks breed there in October.  An isolated white rock, Rocher Siyyan, lies in the bay about 800 m southwest of the volcanic hill.

The hill of Ras Siyyan is sometimes considered the seventh of the Seven Brothers (Sawabi) islands; the other six lie from about 4.5 km to 14.5 km to the east.

References 

Landforms of Djibouti
Peninsulas of Africa
Urs Räber

Urs Räber (born 28 November 1958) is a former Swiss alpine skier, who won the 1984 World Cup in Downhill skiing.

Raber also competed in two Olympic Downhill events.  Firstly at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, where he finished 18th in the Olympic downhill, and then in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo where he finished fifth in the Olympic downhill.

Raber now owns the Hotel Schönbuhl in Wilderswil near Interlaken in the Swiss canton of Berne.

World Cup Downhill victories

References

External links
 
 
 
 Urs Räber's Hotel
 Photo of Urs

1958 births
Living people
Swiss male alpine skiers
Olympic alpine skiers for Switzerland
Alpine skiers at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics
FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions
Cyril Raffaelli

Cyril Raffaelli (born 1 April 1974), sometimes credited as Cyril Xavier Cuenel Raffaelli and Cyril Quenel-Raffaelli, is a French traceur, martial artist and stuntman.

Biography
Utilizing shotokan karate and wushu, Raffaelli has been a regular in films with Luc Besson and David Belle, the latter being a friend of his.

Acting career
Raffaelli starred last in the war-horror film Djinns.

Championships and accomplishments
IKFF Combat Combiné World Cup (1997) - Winner
IKFF Combat Combiné bronze medalist (1999)
1998 France San da Champion

Filmography
Raffaelli is uncredited in some of his films - here is a partial list:

References

External links

1974 births
French stunt performers
Living people
French traceurs
French male karateka
Shotokan practitioners
French gymnasts
French wushu practitioners
French sanshou practitioners
French people of Italian descent
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century French people
Daniel Henriksson

Daniel Henriksson (born September 4, 1978) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender. During his career he played for Luleå HF, Färjestads BK, and Linköpings HC in Elitserien, for Sibir Novosibirsk in the Russian Super League and for EC Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Hockey League. He won the Swedish Championship with Färjestad in 2006.

He represented Sweden at three Ice Hockey World Championships, winning a gold medal in 2006 and a silver medal in 2004.

External links

1978 births
Living people
People from Övertorneå Municipality
Swedish ice hockey goaltenders
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Färjestad BK players
Linköping HC players
Luleå HF players
Ice hockey people from Norrbotten County
Hannibal Navies

Hannibal Navies (born July 19, 1977) is a former American football player in the NFL. Hannibal was a third-team All Big 12 selection at the University of Colorado and earned the team’s defensive player of the year award after starting every game at linebacker. He was drafted in the 1999 NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers, then played for the Green Bay Packers. In 2005, he signed with the Cincinnati Bengals where he started 15 games. Navies was cut in training camp a year later. He was signed by the San Francisco 49ers on November 22, 2006, but was cut to make room for Zak Keasey in 2007.

Hannibal is an alumnus of Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California, and runs a football camp called 360 Football Academy that prepares students to become collegiate scholar athletes.

References

External links
 360 Football Academy

1977 births
Living people
American football linebackers
Cincinnati Bengals players
Carolina Panthers players
Green Bay Packers players
San Francisco 49ers players
Colorado Buffaloes football players
Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) alumni
Bouxières-aux-Dames

Bouxières-aux-Dames () is  a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in northeastern France.

Geography
The village is located on the slope of a hill, directed south-north. It overlooks the confluent of Moselle and of Meurthe within its north-north-west. It is located at the north-north-east of Nancy, along the motorway A31. The village is divided into five parts:
 the top of the village around the remainders of the abbey and the lawn, on the summit part of the hill.
 the heart of the village around the church and the town hall,
 the recent district of Neveaux on the northern side of the hill,
 the district of the Noisetiers in the small valley of the brook of the Moret pond,
 the areas along Meurthe.

History

The name of Bouxières comes from the Latin word  buxus  which means boxwood.  The history of Bouxières-aux-Dames is closely related to  its abbey of chanoinesses or ladies ("dames" in French), founded by Saint Gauzelin. Issued from a noble Frankish family, he was a notary of the royal chancellery when King Charles the Simple made him bishop of Toul. Following a visit to Fleury Abbey near Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire he founded in Lorraine the male monastery of Saint-Epvre and the female monastery of Bouxières-aux-Dames.  He lived in poverty and died into 962. The legend says that a stag appeared to him indicating where to found the abbey. Later on, to be a chanoinesse, several districts of nobility will be required.

The treasure of the abbey is kept in  Nancy cathedral.  It comprises in particular five objects: a chalice , a patene , a gospel book  covered with a binding of goldsmithery, a ring of the prelate and a comb of ivory.  Some rare stone remainders are visible on the top of the hill in "rue des chanoinesses" (chanoinesses street).  The abbey persisted until 1787 when the chanoinesses who were bored with Bouxières-aux-Dames wanted to take advantage of the city life and settled in Nancy close to Bonsecours.  The abbey was used as a stone quarry and was destroyed after French Revolution.  Several houses re-used its stones.

Another significant event in the history of the village is battle of Nancy, 5 January 1477, where, with its mercenaries, condottiere Campobasso betrayed Charles I, Duke of Burgundy and massacred on the bridge of Bouxières the remainders of the flying army of the duke of Burgundy.  The chroniclers said that frozen Meurthe was red of blood.  Indeed, there were only three bridges on Meurthe at that time in Jarville, Nancy and Bouxières.  The troops of Charles I could not pass on western bank and thus had to remain on eastern bank, while trying to flee towards Metz, while troops of Rene II and their allies followed them.

In 1914, the Grand Couronné battle (September 4–13 1914) occurred on the bottom of the hill.

From 1943 to 1947, Marian apparition defrayed the chronicle and divided the parishioners of the village.

Population

Its inhabitants are called Bouxiérois.

See also
 Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department

References

Communes of Meurthe-et-Moselle
Highcliff

Highcliff is a luxury apartment on a south slope of Happy Valley on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. The 75-storey building's construction (70 floors of which are liveable space) began in 2000 and was completed in 2003 under a design by DLN Architects & Engineers. It was the Silver Winner of the 2003 Emporis Skyscraper Award, coming in second to 30 St Mary Axe in London. The tower is the tallest "all"-residential building in Hong Kong island.

Highcliff is thin for such a tall building; it has a slenderness ratio of 1:20 thus being one of the thinnest buildings in the world. Therefore, a passive wind damper was fitted to the top, the first of its kind for a residential building. This was installed because typhoons approach Hong Kong most late summers.

Because of the obvious similarity with a nearby similar building The Summit, the two have been informally called "The Chopsticks". These two buildings highlight the characters of pencil-thin towers that are highly concentrated in Hong Kong.

See also
 The Summit
 List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong

References

External links

Highcliff official homepage (Building elevation chart and layout plans for each floor are available as pdf.)
SkyscraperPage.com's entry
Emporis.com – Building ID 100639

Landmarks in Hong Kong
Happy Valley, Hong Kong
Private housing estates in Hong Kong
Residential buildings completed in 2003
Residential skyscrapers in Hong Kong
Pencil towers in Hong Kong
Punilla Valley

The Punilla Valley () is a broad fluvial valley in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. It is located in the center-northwest of the province, bordered by the Sierras Chicas in the east and the Sierras Grandes and the Pampa Achala in the west, oriented from north to south. In the southern part of the valley lies the San Roque Lake, fed mainly by the San Antonio River and the Cosquín River.

The most important tourist location in Córdoba, the city of Villa Carlos Paz, is located on the southern shore of San Roque lake, though the valley is known for a number of other scenic towns, including Cruz del Eje, Capilla del Monte, La Cumbre, La Falda, Valle Hermoso, and Cosquín.

The Cruz del Eje and La Falda Reservoirs were completed within the valley in 1943 and 1979, respectively, to address the area's water and flood control needs, and have since become important recreational areas in their own right.

See also 
 Punilla Department

References 
 Bienvenidos al Valle de Punilla - Valle de Punilla.
 Córdoba Global - Valle de Punilla.
 Punilla Online - Todo el Valle de Punilla en un solo Sitio.

Landforms of Córdoba Province, Argentina
Valleys of Argentina
North Carolina Highway 610

North Carolina Highway 610 (NC 610) is a  primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The highway connects Main Street in southern High Point with North Carolina Highway 62 east of Archdale.

Route description

NC 610 is a connector route that establishes a link between Main Street (formerly US 311) and NC 62 near the downtown area of Archdale. The highway begins along a commercial area of Main Street, approximately 1 mile north of the center of Archdale. The highway runs east along Fairfield Road, through a residential area of southern High Point. In addition to multiple houses, the highway passes by a Prep Academy, along with several small businesses and a Wesleyan Church. NC 610 ends at an intersection with NC 62 (Liberty Road) and Aldridge Road, near I-85.

The highway provides indirect access between High Point and Interstate 85/Interstate 74.

History
NC 610 was established in 1930 as a connector route running from US 311/NC 77 to its parent route NC 61, following its present-day routing. its routing has remained unchanged since. By 1940, NC 61 was replaced with NC 62 forming the current eastern terminus of the highway. On September 8, 2011, US 311 was deleted along Main Street and placed along a new freeway concurrency with I-74. This left the western terminus of NC 610 without an official highway designation.

Junction list

References

External links

 NC Roads Annex - NC 610

610
Transportation in Guilford County, North Carolina
Hiding Place (band)

Hiding Place were a rock band from East Kilbride, Scotland.

History
The band comprised singer Paul McCallion, guitarists JayJay and Del Robertson Somerville, and Doug Smith, with Pitchshifter drummer Jason Bowld joining in 2004.

The band's debut release was the At One Time or Another EP in 2004. They toured in support of InMe and released "(What if) the Truth Looks Clearer Empty" later that year. They toured with The Rasmus and opened for Metallica, and "Cruel Kindness" followed in November 2004.

McCallion and Bowles were also part of the 'supergroup' This Is Menace, along with members of Pitchshifter, Therapy?, Hundred Reasons, Funeral for a Friend and Carcass.

Singles/EPs/Albums

At One Time Or Another EP
 Release date: 2004-03-22
CD (82876607592):
 "No Cure"
 "Slave Trade"
 "Fear And Loathing"
 "At One Time Or Another"

(What If) The Truth Looks Clearer Empty
 Release date: 2004-06-28
CD (82876619682):
 "(What If) The Truth Looks Clearer Empty"
 "Unreal"
 "Dark Eyes And Red Tears"
 "(What If)..." (Video)

Cruel Kindness (#85 UK)
 Release date: 2004-11-08
7" (82876657807):
 "Cruel Kindness"
 "(What If) The Truth Looks Clearer Empty (Live XFM Session)"
CD (82876657802):
 "Cruel Kindness"
 "Broken Bridges"
 "Don't Fear The Reaper"
 "Cruel Kindness" (Video)

Secrets and Passers-by
 Release date:
 "Cruel Kindness"
 "The Ghost of You"
 "Reality"
 "Dark Eyes Red Tears"
 "Broken Bridges"
 "Dead Against You"
 "Illusion"
 "Unreal"
 "Revbrations (Acoustic)"
 "Don't Fear the Reaper"
 "(Hidden bonus track)"

References

External links
 The band's MySpace page

Scottish rock music groups
Goode

Goode may refer to:

Businesses 
 Goode Brothers (disambiguation)
 GOODE Ski Technologies
 H. A. and W. Goode, regional department store in Australia

Places in the United States 
 Goode, Kansas, a ghost town
 Goode, Virginia, an unincorporated community 
 Goode Glacier, a glacier in the North Cascades National Park, Washington

Other uses 
 Goode (name)
 Goode Solar Telescope, a scientific facility
 Buddy Goode, a fictional character
 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
 Thomas Goode Jones School of Law

See also 
 
 Good (disambiguation)
 Goodes (disambiguation)
 Goodness (disambiguation)
 Goods (disambiguation)
Sphere theorem

In Riemannian geometry, the sphere theorem, also known as the quarter-pinched sphere theorem, strongly restricts the topology of manifolds admitting metrics with a particular curvature bound.  The precise statement of the theorem is as follows.  If M is a complete, simply-connected, n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature taking values in the interval  then M is homeomorphic to the n-sphere.  (To be precise, we mean the sectional curvature of every tangent 2-plane at each point must lie in .)  Another way of stating the result is that if M is not homeomorphic to the sphere, then it is impossible to put a metric on M with quarter-pinched curvature.

Note that the conclusion is false if the sectional curvatures are allowed to take values in the closed interval .  The standard counterexample is complex projective space with the Fubini–Study metric; sectional curvatures of this metric take on values between 1 and 4, with endpoints included.  Other counterexamples may be found among the rank one symmetric spaces.

Differentiable sphere theorem
The original proof of the sphere theorem did not conclude that M was necessarily diffeomorphic to the n-sphere.  This complication is because spheres in higher dimensions admit smooth structures that are not diffeomorphic.  (For more information, see the article on exotic spheres.)  However, in 2007 Simon Brendle and Richard Schoen utilized Ricci flow to prove that with the above hypotheses, M is necessarily diffeomorphic to the n-sphere with its standard smooth structure. Moreover, the proof of Brendle and Schoen only uses the weaker assumption of pointwise rather than global pinching. This result is known as the differentiable sphere theorem.

History of the sphere theorem
Heinz Hopf conjectured that a simply connected manifold with pinched sectional curvature is a sphere. In 1951, Harry Rauch showed that a simply connected manifold with curvature in [3/4,1] is homeomorphic to a sphere. In 1960, Marcel Berger and Wilhelm Klingenberg proved the topological version of the sphere theorem with the optimal pinching constant.

References
 

Riemannian geometry
Theorems in topology
Theorems in Riemannian geometry
Troum

Troum is a German project of drone music, ambient music, noise music, and experimental music. It was founded in the late 1990s by Stefan Knappe ( Baraka[H]) and Martin Gitschel (a.k.a. Glit[S]ch). It is sometimes considered to be the follow-up project to Maeror Tri. Stefan Knappe is also the founder and owner of Drone Records.

History
TROUM is a duo located in Bremen, Germany, established in early 1997. The two members "Glit[S]ch" and "Baraka[H]" were active before in the influential ambient/industrial group MAËROR TRI (which existed from 1988 to 1996). TROUM is the old German word for "DREAM". The dream is seen as a central manifestation of the unconscious, and symbolizes the aim of TROUM to lead the listener into a hypnotizing dream-state of mind, a pre-verbal and primal consciousness sphere. TROUM uses music as the direct path to the Unconscious, pointing to the archaic "essence" of the humans inner psyche. TROUM tries to create music that works like a direct transformation of unconscious matter.

TROUM's creations are influenced by post-industrial, minimal and drone-music. Both members use guitar, bass, voice, accordion, balalaika, flute, mouth-organ, melodica, gong, field recordings, pre-recorded-tapes and a diversity of sound-objects to build a kind of multi-layered and highly atmospheric dreaming-muzak. Their sound could be described as “dark atmospheric ambient industrial”, "transcendental noise" or just “Tiefenmusik”. TROUM doesn't work with samplers or computer-soundsources, the sounds are created "by hand" to reach a broader sensibility. TROUM uses a spiral as their logo, expressing the trance-inducing potential of the music and the wish to reach inner, deeper spheres of the mind with it. Music as a door to unknown & alien dimensions. Music as an expression of the mystery of existence itself.

Discography

LPs, EPs, singles

Compilation appearances

External links
 Troum.com - official website
 [ Discography of Troum] at AMG

German electronic music groups
Musical groups established in 1997
German musical duos
Drone music groups
Doug Lea

Douglas S. Lea is a professor of computer science and current head of the computer science department at State University of New York at Oswego, where he specializes in concurrent programming and the design of concurrent data structures. He was on the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process and chaired JSR 166, which added concurrency utilities to the Java programming language (see Java concurrency).  On October 22, 2010, Doug Lea notified the Java Community Process Executive Committee he would not stand for reelection. Lea was re-elected as an at-large member for the 2012 OpenJDK governing board.

Publications
He wrote Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns, one of the first books about the subject. It is currently in its second edition. He is also the author of dlmalloc, a widely used public-domain implementation of malloc.

Awards
In 2010, he won the senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize.

In 2013, he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Bibliography
 Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns, first edition: 1997; second edition: , 1999
 Java Concurrency in Practice, , 2006 (co-authored with Joshua Bloch, Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joseph Bowbeer, and David Holmes)

References

External links
Doug Lea's home page
Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns
Java Community Process Executive Committee
JSR 166: Concurrency Utilities

American computer scientists
American computer programmers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
State University of New York at Oswego faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Dahl–Nygaard Prize
Girdled wrasse

The girdled wrasse, Notolabrus cinctus, is a species of wrasse native to the waters around the South Island and southeastern North Island of New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands and Snares Islands, where it can be found at depths from .  The males of this species can reach  in standard length, while the females only reach . There are two colour phases with older fish developing a large, dusky belt around the body. This is not associated with changing sex which happens about three years after the development of the belt. They feed on molluscs and small crustacea. They occur on rocky reefs, where they are common.

References

Notolabrus
Endemic marine fish of New Zealand
Taxa named by Frederick Hutton
Fish described in 1877
Ras Menheli

Ras Menheli is a point in Yemen on the coast of Bab-el-Mandeb close to the island of Perim.

References

Landforms of Yemen
Headlands of Asia
Charles Tryon, 2nd Baron Tryon



Brigadier Charles George Vivian Tryon, 2nd Baron Tryon,  (24 May 1906 – 9 November 1976) was a British peer, British Army officer, and a member of the Royal Household.

Early life and military career
Elder son of George, 1st Baron Tryon, on 3 August 1939, he married Etheldreda Josephine Burrell (1909–2002), known as Dreda; she was a daughter of Sir Merrik Burrell, Bt, CBE (1877–1957).

Tryon graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards in 1926.

Tryon succeeded to his father's title in 1940. The family seat was the Manor House at Great Durnford, Wiltshire; Dreda ran a boarding preparatory school there from 1942 until 1992.

Promoted to major in 1943, by the end of the Second World War he was a war substantive lieutenant colonel, with permanent promotion in 1948. He retired in 1949 and was granted the honorary rank of brigadier.

Career in the Royal Household
Lord Tryon began his career in the Royal Household as the Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse to King George VI in 1949. Still the Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse upon the ascension of Queen Elizabeth II, Lord Tryon was appointed Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the Queen on 16 October 1952. Lord Tryon served as Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the Queen until 1 November 1971, being appointed a Permanent Lord-in-Waiting upon his retirement.
In 1968, as the Queen’s chief financial manager, he sought to secure an exemption from proposed amendments to the Race Relations Act. He stated that it was policy to  allow people of colour only to work as domestic servants at the Palace.

Later life and death
In 1972, Lord Tryon was appointed a deputy lieutenant in the County of Wilts. Lord Tryon died in 1976, aged 70, and was succeeded by his only son, Anthony Tryon.

Honours
During his military career Lord Tryon was Mentioned in dispatches, later being awarded the Distinguished Service Order. Lord Tryon was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1953, and promoted to Knight Grand Cross in 1968. Appointed a Knight Commander in the Civil Division of the Order of the Bath in 1962, he was also an Officer of the Order of St John. He received the Queen Elizabeth II Version of the Royal Household Long and Faithful Service Medal in 1969 for 20 years service to the British Royal Family.

Arms

References

1906 births
1976 deaths
Grenadier Guards officers
British Army personnel of World War II
Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Officers of the Order of St John
Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Permanent Lords-in-Waiting
British Army brigadiers
Members of the British Royal Household
Charles
Chitchai Wannasathit

Police General Chitchai Wannasathit (, ; ; born 13 August 1946 in Ubon Ratchathani Province) was the caretaker prime minister of Thailand from April to May 2006, when Thaksin Shinawatra took a break from his duties as prime minister following a disappointing showing in elections. Thaksin returned to his duties after more than a month. Chitchai Wannasathit was simultaneously the first deputy prime minister and justice minister. On 19 September 2006, he was arrested by the Thai military during the 2006 coup d'état, but was soon released.

Education 
 Amnuay Silpa School
 Royal Thai Police Cadet Academy
 National Defence College of Thailand

Personal life
He was of Chinese descent.

References

1946 births
Chitchai Wannasathit
Living people
Chitchai Wannasathit
Chitchai Wannasathit
Chitchai Wannasathit
Chitchai Wannasathit
Chitchai Wannasathit
Chitchai Wannasathit
Harold Davis (American football)

Harold Davis (May 12, 1934 – December 9, 2007) was an American college football and basketball player at Westminster College, Pennsylvania. A quarterback who could run as well as throw, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2004.

Davis was one of four men from Westminster inducted the College Football Hall of Fame. He was a standout quarterback for the Titans from 1953 to 1956 and became the only three-time, first-team All-America football player in school history. Davis, who played quarterback under Hall of Fame head coach Harold Burry during a time when African-Americans rarely played the position, led Westminster to an overall record of 28–1–1 (.950), including the first undefeated seasons in school history in 1953 (8–0), 1955 (6–0–1) and 1956 (8–0). He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.

Davis was a native of Youngstown, Ohio and also lettered in basketball and track and field at Westminster.  He graduated in 1957 with a degree in economics, served in the United States Army, and worked for the Youngstown City School District and the Xerox Corporation.  He lived in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he died in December 2007 of cancer.

External links
From Westminster College Athletics Web Site: Harold Davis Passes Away at 73 
 Reprint of obituary from New Castle, PA News
News from College Football Hall of Fame

1934 births
2007 deaths
Basketball players from Youngstown, Ohio
Westminster College (Pennsylvania) alumni
American football quarterbacks
College Football Hall of Fame inductees
Deaths from cancer in Michigan
Players of American football from Youngstown, Ohio
Ambrosia dumosa

Ambrosia dumosa, the burro-weed or white bursage, a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is a common constituent of the creosote-bush scrub community throughout the Mojave desert of California, Nevada, and Utah and the Sonoran Desert of Arizona and northwestern Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Chihuahua).

Ambrosia dumosa has been studied to determine allelopathic interactions with creosote bush, Larrea tridentata, which produces a chemical that inhibits the growth of A. dumosa. Other studies have suggested that A. dumosa roots produce a chemical that causes them to grow away from conspecific roots, preventing competition for water resources. In addition to burro-weed, A. dumosa is also commonly called white bursage, and burrobush.

Description
Ambrosia dumosa, a form of ragweed, is a highly branched shrub 20 to 90 cm in height. The younger stems are covered with soft gray-white hairs. Approximately obovate leaves are 1 to 3 times pinnately compound or deeply lobed and generally clustered on short branches. The leaves are 0.5 to 4 cm long and also covered in soft gray-white hairs.

Its inflorescence is yellow with staminate and pistillate headson a single plant (monoecious). Staminate heads have many flowers and are 3 to 5 mm in diameter with a 5 to 8 lobed involucre. Pistillate heads are 2 flowered and lack corollas.

Ambrosia dumosa has spherical bur-like fruits ranging in color from golden to purple to brown. Along with microscopic hairs, the fruit has 12 to 35 flat and straight spines which are 5 to 9 mm in length and scattered over the surface.

Ambrosia dumosa becomes dormant during drought, losing all of its leaves to prevent water loss by transpiration; drought deciduous. During this time, it can still be recognized by the presence of longitudinal stripes on smaller stems.

Like other types of Ambrosia, this is a ragweed, wind-blown pollen from burro-weed can cause serious allergic reactions. Increasing cases in Mojave Desert as the population grows from Joshua Tree, CA to Las Vegas, NV.

References

Jepson Manual Treatment: Ambrosia dumosa
C.Michael Hogan, species editor. 2010. Ambrosia dumosa. Encyclopedia of Life

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment: Ambrosia dumosa
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN), University of Texas 
Ambrosia dumosa — Calphotos Photo gallery, University of California

dumosa
North American desert flora
Flora of the Southwestern United States
Flora of Northwestern Mexico
Flora of the California desert regions
Flora of the Great Basin
Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
Natural history of the Colorado Desert
Natural history of the Mojave Desert
Taxa named by Asa Gray
Flora without expected TNC conservation status