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Heinz Galinski

Heinz Galinski (28 November 1912 – 19 July 1992) was president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland) from 1954 to 1963 and 1988 until his death in 1992, and holocaust survivor.

Early life
Galinski was born in Marienburg (Malbork) in what was then West Prussia. His father was a businessman World War I veteran. After completing his Abitur, Galinski started an apprenticeship as a textile salesman, starting work in Rathenow in 1933. In 1938, he moved to Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, however, he was conscripted into forced labor in 1940. In 1943, he was deported to Auschwitz. After also spending time in the concentration camps Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen he was liberated by British troops on 20 April 1945. Unlike many other Holocaust survivors, Galinski remained in Germany after the end of World War II.

Career 
Immediately after the end of the war, Galinski took up prominent roles in several antifascist organizations, including the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime. From 1949 to 1992, he was chairman of the Jewish congregation of Berlin. In 1987, Galinski became an honorary citizen of the city. From 1954 to 1963, he was the first president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. In 1988, he then succeeded Werner Nachmann as the head of the Central Council of Jews, the most important Jewish organization in Germany; he kept this position until his death in 1992 in Berlin.

Awards
Beginning in 1989, the Heinz-Galinski-Preis was awarded in his name.  In 1995, the Heinz-Galinski Schule, a Jewish Elementary school in Berlin opened in his name.

In September and November 1998, Galinski's grave was the victim of two bombings, which both completely destroyed his grave stone. The motivation behind these attacks was probably anti-Semitism, but the crimes have not been solved.

Galinski's daughter Evelyn Hecht-Galinski is an outspoken critic of Israeli politics.

See also 
Galinski
Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime

Notes and references

Further reading

1912 births
1992 deaths
People from Malbork
People from West Prussia
20th-century German Jews
Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime members
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors
Auschwitz concentration camp survivors
Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Buchenwald concentration camp survivors
Wheat City Arena

The Wheat City Arena was an indoor arena located in Brandon, Manitoba at the corner of 10th Street and Victoria Avenue. It was built in 1913 and hosted the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair as well as numerous ice hockey teams, including the Brandon Wheat Kings of the MJHL, SJHL, and Western Hockey League. It was demolished in 1969 and replaced with a Safeway store that has since closed and been replaced by the new headquarters for the City of Brandon Police.

External links
 Article from Brandon Sun newspaper

PDF to the book The Wheat City: A Pictorial View of Brandon by Fred McGuinness 

Defunct indoor ice hockey venues in Canada
Sports venues in Brandon, Manitoba
Western Hockey League arenas
Indoor arenas in Manitoba
Sports venues demolished in 1969
Demolished buildings and structures in Canada
1913 establishments in Manitoba
1969 disestablishments in Manitoba
Sports venues completed in 1913
Ice hockey in Brandon, Manitoba
Tung Chung Road

Tung Chung Road () is a two disjointed-section road connecting the north and south coast of Lantau Island.

Description
The first section is a short road linking a former pier and Wong Nai Uk in Tung Chung. The second is a long and hilly section connecting Tung Chung in the island north to Cheung Sha in the island south. The two sections were previously connected until the completion of the replacement road, Chung Yan Road in Tung Chung New Town.

The short section is featured with historical Tung Chung Battery, a military coastal defence in Ming dynasty. It runs along the a river Ma Wan Chung and ends in Chung Yan Road.

The long section is a long, steep, narrow, and winding road. Due to physical constraints, it was open only to buses, taxis, and permit-bearing vehicles only and speed limit is set to 30 km/h. being too dangerous for double-decker buses to be trafficable and only "single-deckers" are used in the bus services. It starts near Ma Wan New Village and joins Chung Yan Road near a river before proceeding upwards to the valley between Sunset Peak and Lantau Peak. It reaches its highest point at a pass in Pak Kung Au (also known as Tung Chung Au) then follows a steep downhill route. The southern end joins South Lantau Road in Cheung Sha.

Because of its limited capacity, the Transport Department opened the road only to buses, taxis, and holders of a permit, issued to residents and business of South Lantau.

The nature of Tung Chung Road helped preserve the rural landscape in southern Lantau. There are bus routes from Tung Chung to various destinations like Cheung Sha, Mui Wo, Shek Pik and Tai O in the island's south. The road splits off the Lantau Trail on the southern slope of the island.

History

New section
Prior to completion of the new section in 2009, numerous parts consisted of a single lane only; when two oncoming vehicles approached, one had to find a passing place to stop and let the other pass.

On 6 February 2009, the improved Tung Chung Road section between Lung Tseng Tau and Cheung Sha near San Shek Wan on Lantau Island was fully opened from 10am. The new road is a dual carriageway wide enough for two vehicles to pass each other and has fewer sharp turns. 

Following the opening, the old road section between Pak Kung Au and Cheung Sha near Cheung Sha Bridge has been closed. Vehicles are diverted to the new road section between Pak Kung Au and San Shek Wan.

Intersections

See also
 List of streets and roads in Hong Kong

References

Tung Chung
Roads in the New Territories
Lantau Island
HMS Donovan

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Donovan:

 was a  sloop launched in 1918 and sold in 1922.
HMS Donovan was a Landing Ship, Infantry, built as Cape Berkeley, but renamed  before being launched in 1943.  She was renamed HMS Donovan in 1945, the name reverting to Empire Battleaxe in 1946, before she was returned to the US Navy in 1947.

See also
 HMS Donovan (album), the tenth album by singer-songwriter Donovan

Royal Navy ship names
Rainbow slender wrasse

The rainbow slender wrasse (Suezichthys arquatus), also known as the painted rainbow wrasse, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a wrasse from the family Labridae. It is native to the western Pacific Ocean where it is found from Japan to Australia and east to New Zealand.  It occurs on reefs at depths  from , usually over patches of sand.  This species can reach  in total length.

References

Rainbow slender wrasse
Fish described in 1985
SubArachnoid Space

SubArachnoid Space was a San Francisco, California-based psychedelic rock band founded in 1996 by Mason Jones, the owner of the independent music label Charnel Music. Initially the band was a trio (Mason Jones: guitar, Jason Stein: bass, Michelle Schreiber: drums) and the debut 7" single release was by the trio. Before the band's first live show, performed at KFJC radio, second guitarist Melynda Jackson joined. That quartet toured for a few years before Michelle moved to Texas and Jason left to pursue other interests. Chris Van Huffle joined as drummer and Andey Koa Stephens took over role on bass. The role of bassist shifted several times when Stephens left in 2002 to work with David Starfire, but the rest of the lineup remained consistent until 2003, when Mason left the group so they could tour more. Shortly thereafter the band's core of Melynda and Chris relocated to Portland Oregon, where they continued to perform, tour and release albums.  The band completed a fall tour of the US with the Italian group OVO in September/October 2009 before disbanding on August 13, 2010. This was accompanied by a farewell show at Mississippi studios. Melynda Jackson and Chris Van Huffle went on to form Eight Bells.

Selected discography

Studio Albums 
Delicate Membrane (1996), Charnel Music
Endless Renovation (1998), Release Records
A New and Exact Map (2000), September Gurls
Also Rising (2003), Strange Attractors
The Red Veil (2005), Strange Attractors
Eight Bells (2009), Crucial Blast

Singles 
"Char-Broiled Wonderland" 7-inch single (1996), Charnel Music

Split LPs 
Tigris / Euphrates split LP with Bardo Pond (2002), Camera Obscura

Collaborative Albums 
The Sleeping Sickness (1999), Elsie & Jack

Live Albums 
Ether Or (1997), Unit Circle Records
Almost Invisible (1997), Release Records
Endless Renovation (1998), Release Records
These Things Take Time (2000), Release Records

Former members
Melynda Jackson – guitar
Chris Van Huffel – drums
Daniel Barone – bass
Erik Moggridge – guitar
Mason Jones – guitar
Jason Stein - bass guitar
Andey Koa Stephens– bass guitar
Chris Cones – guitar
Diego Gonzalez – bass guitar
Stooert Odom – bass guitar
Michael Shiono - bass
Rus Archer - guitar
Daniel Osborne - guitar
Lauren K. Newman - drums
Bryan Sours - drums

References
 Oregonian Sound Check:

External links
 Band's biography / discography
 Official site
 Official MySpace
 Band's site on Epitonic

Musical groups from San Francisco
Psychedelic rock music groups from California
Braulio Castillo (baseball)

Braulio Robinson Medrano Castillo (born May 13, 1968) is a Dominican former professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Philadelphia Phillies. He batted and threw right-handed.

Baseball career
Signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1985, Castillo was traded to the Phillies, in exchange for relief pitcher Roger McDowell, on July 31, 1991. He made his big league debut with the Phillies, on August 18, 1991, and appeared in his final game on October 4, 1992.

External links

Braulio Castillo at Baseball Almanac

1968 births
Living people
Acereros de Monclova players
Bakersfield Dodgers players
Broncos de Reynosa players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in the United States
El Paso Diablos players
Gulf Coast Dodgers players

Major League Baseball center fielders
Major League Baseball outfielders
Major League Baseball players from the Dominican Republic
Olmecas de Tabasco players
Osceola Astros players
People from Elías Piña Province
Philadelphia Phillies players
Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings players
Salem Dodgers players
San Antonio Missions players
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons players
Tucson Toros players
Vero Beach Dodgers players
Ernst Meissel

Daniel Friedrich Ernst Meissel (31 July 1826, Eberswalde, Brandenburg Province – 11 March 1895, Kiel) was a German astronomer who contributed to various aspects of number theory.

See also
Meissel–Lehmer algorithm
Meissel–Mertens constant

External links
 

1826 births
1895 deaths
19th-century German astronomers
19th-century German mathematicians
Number theorists
Cranford station

Cranford is an active commuter railroad station in the township of Cranford, Union County, New Jersey. Trains operate between High Bridge and Newark Penn Station (with limited trains continuing to New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal) on New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line. The next station east is Roselle Park while west is Garwood. Cranford station contains two side platforms to service three tracks and is accessible for handicapped persons under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. 

Cranford station opened as French House with the opening of the Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad on January 1, 1839. The first station was built in 1844, replaced itself in 1869, when it attained its current name of Cranford. The 1869 depot came down in 1905, replaced with a new depot in 1906. The Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) replaced the station in 1929 and 1930 when they began a track elevation process in October 1928. In 1967, the construction and opening of the Aldene Plan, resulting in the line using the former Lehigh Valley Railroad alignment into Newark rather than continuing to Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City. This resulted in a shuttle service between East 33rd Street station in Bayonne and Cranford station. This service operated until August 6, 1978. 

NJ Transit considered Cranford station as a stop of the Union go bus expressway, a bus rapid transit service utilizing the former CNJ alignment between Cranford and Elizabeth.

Station layout
The station has two high-level side platforms serving two tracks. The inbound platform is  long while the outbound platform is  long; both can accommodate six cars.

Bibliography

References

External links

world.nycsubway.org - NJT Raritan Line
Photo and brief narrated history of earlier Cranford station by Cranford resident Bernie Wagenblast
 Union Avenue / Walnut Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
 Station from Google Maps Street View

NJ Transit Rail Operations stations
Railway stations in Union County, New Jersey
Former Central Railroad of New Jersey stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1839
Cranford, New Jersey
1839 establishments in New Jersey
Thorsberg chape

The Thorsberg chape (a bronze piece belonging to a scabbard) is an archeological find from the Thorsberg moor, Germany, that appears to have been deposited as a votive offering. It bears an Elder Futhark runic inscription, one of the earliest known, dating to roughly 200 CE. 

Archaeologists believe it was made in the region between the Rhine and the Elbe.

The first element owlþu, for wolþu-, means "glory," "glorious one," cf. Old Norse Ullr, Old English wuldor. The second element, -þewaz, means "slave, servant." The whole compound is a personal name or title, "servant of the glorious one" or "servant/priest of Ullr." On the reverse, ni- is the negative particle, waje- corresponds to "woe, ill" (Old Norse vei), and the final element is -mariz "famous" (Old English mǣre). (The "e" and "m" are written together, as a bind-rune, an unusual early example but probably not linguistically significant.) The second word thus translates to "not ill-famous," i.e., "famous, renowned" or "not of ill fame, not dishonored." Similar double negatives are found on other runic inscriptions. The translation of the inscription can thus be either "Wolthuthewaz is well-renowned," or "the servant of Ullr, the renowned." If the first part refers to the god Ullr, it is the only reference to that god from south of Denmark, and also, if a personal name, the only German example of a person named for a specific Germanic god.

Another reading, avoiding the emendation of the first element, reads the first letter ideographically, "Othala," resulting in o[þalan] w[u]lþuþewaz / niwajmariz "inherited property of Wulthuthewaz, the renowned." However, the owner's name is not in the possessive case as would be expected with such a usage; moreover, the rune Fehu, signifying simply "property," would be more apposite; "Othala" can specifically denote real estate.

It is possible that the inscription is poetic; it can be read as an alliterative long-line.

See also
Weapons sacrifice

Notes

Elder Futhark inscriptions
Votive offering
Medieval European metalwork objects
Regina Exhibition Stadium

Regina Exhibition Stadium, also known as Regina Stadium and Queen City Gardens, was an indoor arena at Evraz Place in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Constructed in 1919, the venue was home arena of the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League before the construction of the Agridome in 1977. The venue was notable for its use in agricultural exhibitions, sporting events, as well as concerts, having hosted acts such as The Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Chuck Barry's Biggest Show of Stars tour, and Johnny Cash among others.

Jack Hamilton served as president of the Regina Rink Company which raised funds to install an artificial ice maker in the Regina Stadium. He operated the rink for 11 years from 1938 to 1949, when it was known as the Queen City Gardens.

In 2015, the arena was used as a filming location for Chokeslam, a professional wrestling-themed romantic comedy film. By 2017, the arena had been described as "deteriorating", and contrasting to other new developments at the grounds such as Mosaic Stadium. In 2017, Regina Exhibition Stadium was demolished in order to construct the International Trade Centre, a new $37 million, 150,000 square-foot convention space that would link all of Evraz Place's indoor facilities.

References

Buildings and structures in Regina, Saskatchewan
Defunct indoor arenas in Canada
Indoor ice hockey venues in Canada
Regina Pats
Sports venues in Saskatchewan
Western Hockey League arenas
Demolished buildings and structures in Canada
Defunct indoor ice hockey venues in Canada
Boxing venues in Canada
Sports venues completed in 1919
Sports venues demolished in 2017
1919 establishments in Saskatchewan
2017 disestablishments in Saskatchewan
Demolished sports venues
Minmini

Minmini (born P. J. Rosily) is a South Indian film playback singer. She is best remembered for the song "Chinna Chinna Aasai" from Roja, the debut work of film composer A. R. Rahman, which was dubbed in Hindi as "Choti Si Asha". Most of her songs are in Tamil, most of them composed by Ilaiyaraaja and A. R. Rahman. Her Malayalam songs include "Souparnikamritha" from Kizhakkunarum Pakshi, "Oonjal Urangi", and "Neelaraavi" from Kudumbasametham. She has lent her voice to songs from films including Enga Thambi (1993), Karuththamma (1994), and Thevar Magan (1992). She made a comeback in 2015 with the song "Kanmaniye" from Mili.

Career 
Minmini had her film debut with Malayalam film Swagatham (1989), directed by Venu Nagavalli. She sang three songs in it, composed by Rajamani. She was introduced to Tamil film industry by Ilayaraja through Tamil film - Meera (1992). Ilayaraja christened her Minmini, making her name more appealing to the Tamilians. Minmini's first Telugu movie is "Aathmabandham" with music by Maragathamani.

Her big break came in 1992 when she sang "Chinna Chinna Aasai" for the film Roja.

Minmini has sung a few Kannada film  songs in 1995 for the movies Putnanja and Betegara. Rangero holi a duet song with Mano from the movie Putnanja for Hamsalekha. In the same film she rendered humming in the song Putamalli puttamalli with Mano and Shyamala G. Bhave. She went on to work with Sadhu Kokila for the movie Betegara where she sang the song Mididiralu saviganasugalu with Mano.

Gopi Sundar brought her  back to the industry with the song "Kanmaniye" for the film Mili in 2015.

Personal life 

Minmini married Joy Mathew in 1995. The couple have a son and daughter. Minmini lost her voice in 1993 on a stage show in London. She was unable to even speak for some years. She regained her voice through treatments. Later she made a comeback. She has also started a music school named Joy's Academy Of Performing Arts in Cochin.

References

External links

 

Living people
Indian women playback singers
Tamil playback singers
Tamil Nadu State Film Awards winners
Singers from Kochi
Malayalam playback singers
Singers from Kerala
Film musicians from Kerala
Women musicians from Kerala
20th-century Indian singers
21st-century Indian singers
21st-century Indian women singers
People from Aluva
20th-century Indian women singers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Garwood station

Garwood is a New Jersey Transit (NJT) railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Garwood, New Jersey.  There are two short, low platforms on each side, long enough for 2 cars only. Passengers using the inbound platform must cross over a siding track. Access to neighboring stations is available on the 59 or 113 bus to Newark and New York, traveling between Cranford and Westfield stations. Since June 2011, a ticket vending machine (TVM) has been available on the inbound platform. The former Jersey Central Railroad depot, built in 1892, burned in an early morning fire on June 30, 1976.

Garwood station has been identified as the western terminus of the Union go bus expressway, a proposed bus rapid transit line utilizing the a portion of the abandoned Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ) right-of-way between it and Midtown Station, a transit hub combining the NJT station and the former CNJ station in Elizabeth.

Station layout
The station has two low-level side platforms serving two tracks. The inbound platform is  long and can accommodate two cars, while the outbound platform is  long and accommodates one car.

References

External links

world.nycsubway.org - NJT Raritan Line
 Center Street entrance from Google Maps Street View

NJ Transit Rail Operations stations
Railway stations in Union County, New Jersey
Former Central Railroad of New Jersey stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1892
Paul Popowich

Paul Popowich is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Mr. Smith, an angel who helps people change their pasts, in season two of Twice in a Lifetime. Popowich has performed in many television series, including Beverly Hills, 90210, and features and theatre.

Career
Popowich made his film debut aged 15 when he received his first professional role as Cass in the movie Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller.

He also starred as drummer Jesse on the Canadian television show Catwalk, about a struggling band of musicians, and as Joe Hardy in the 1995 The Hardy Boys television series.

He appeared in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Valiant", as Tim Watters, a Starfleet cadet who received a field promotion to captain.

In 2012, he appeared in Season 12 of Degrassi: The Next Generation as Clare Edwards' boss, Asher Shostak. In addition, Popowich has worked on projects including Angela's Eyes (2006), I Me Wed (2007), The Bridge (2010), Cracked (2010), and Hemlock Grove (2013).

In December 2018, Popowich portrayed Canadian detective Tom Barrow in an episode of Investigation Discovery's The Case That Haunts Me titled "Devil's Triangle".

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1973 births
Canadian male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Hamilton, Ontario
Jiali Plaza

Jiali Plaza (), also known as Ping An Building, is a  tall skyscraper located in Wuhan, China. The 61 storey building was completed in 1997 under the design by WMKY Lim. The building has two underground floors which are used as a car park.

See also
 List of skyscrapers

External links
SkyscraperPage.com's entry
Emporis.com - Building ID 104194

Skyscraper office buildings in Wuhan
Buildings and structures completed in 1997
Westfield station (NJ Transit)

Westfield is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Westfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States.

Station layout
The station has two high-level side platforms serving two tracks. The inbound platform is  long while the outbound platform is  long; both can accommodate seven cars.

The station consists of two buildings: the main building on the north (westbound platform) side of the track houses a non-profit group, the south (eastbound platform) side of the tracks houses the ticket office and waiting area and the platform has two ticket vending machines. The present north building was built in 1892, while the present south building was built in 1912 by the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ). An access tunnel connects the two platforms and, like Cranford, there are historic photographs of Westfield displayed in the tunnel.

References

External links

world.nycsubway.org - NJT Raritan Line
 North Station House from Google Maps Street View

NJ Transit Rail Operations stations
Railway stations in Union County, New Jersey
Former Central Railroad of New Jersey stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1839
Westfield, New Jersey
1839 establishments in New Jersey
Moon Boot

Moon Boot is a snow boot brand first created as après-ski wear in the early 1970s by manufacturer Tecnica Group of Giavera del Montello in Italy.

History 
They became a popular fad in the years following the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and resurfaced as a retrofuturistic fashion trend in the early 2000s.  Starting in 2011 they have been produced in Ukraine, at the rate of some 700,000 per year.

The boot is constructed with a thin rubber outsole and cellular rubber midsole covered by nylon fabrics and using polyurethane foams. Company founder Giancarlo Zanatta, after watching the lunar landing and being inspired by the shape and technology of the astronauts' boots, drew sketches and then began to design and develop the original Moon Boot. Tecnica registered worldwide the trademark Moon Boot name in 1978.

In pop culture 

 In 2004, they received exposure through the nerdy protagonist of the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite.
 In 2022, Dua Lipa and Hailey Bieber posted pictures on social media wearing Moon Boots.
 In 2022, in the episode "Chapter Nine: The Piggyback" of the Netflix series Stranger Things, they appear as contraband smuggled to Russia

References

External links
Official website

Boots
Italian brands
Shoe brands
Shoe companies of Italy
Tecnica Group
1970s fashion
1980s fashion
183 (number)

183 (one hundred [and] eighty-three) is the natural number following 182 and preceding 184.

In mathematics
183 is a perfect totient number, a number that is equal to the sum of its iterated totients

Because , it is the number of points in a projective plane over the finite field . 183 is the fourth element of a divisibility sequence  in which the th number  can be computed as

for a transcendental number . This sequence counts the number of trees of height  in which each node can have at most two children.

There are 183 different semiorders on four labeled elements.

See also
 The year AD 183 or 183 BC
 List of highways numbered 183

References

Integers
183
Vas (band)

Vas was an alternative world musical group which consisted of Persian vocalist Azam Ali and American percussionist Greg Ellis. Vas is frequently compared to the Australian band Dead Can Dance. The band released four full-length albums, and both artists have released a few solo albums and participated in side projects. After the group's last album, Feast of Silence, Ali and Ellis went their own separate ways.

Azam Ali was born in Iran and moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1985, where she began studying the dulcimer-like santur under the guidance of Manoochehr Sadeghi. Greg Ellis was born and raised in Los Gatos, California, where he first learned to play the drums at age twelve. Ellis moved to Los Angeles in 1984 and started work as a percussionist. The two musicians met at UCLA in 1995 after hearing each other perform; they formed Vas shortly thereafter.

List of band members
 Azam Ali (1995–2004) -- vocals, hammered dulcimer, guitar, drums
 Greg Ellis (1995–2004) -- udu, tabla, dumbek, nagara, cymbals, bells, drums, keyboards
 Cameron Stone (2000) -- guitar on In the Garden of Souls

Discography

Albums
 Sunyata Narada World/MCA (1997)
 Offerings Narada World/Virgin/EMI (1998)
 In the Garden of Souls Narada World/Virgin/EMI (2000)
 Feast of Silence Narada World/Virgin/EMI (2004)

Compilation appearances
 Refuge on Earthdance 2CD (1998)
 The Reaper and the Flowers on Asleep By Dawn Issue Two (2004)
 The Next Generation - Narada Sampler
 Narada Film and Television Music Sampler

Side projects
 Niyaz (Azam Ali, Loga Torkian)
 Roseland (Azam Ali, Tyler Bates, Greg Ellis)

External links
 Vas discography on Discogs
 Vas on MySpace

Narada Productions artists
American world music groups
Musical groups established in 1996
American musical duos
Battle of Saint-Denis

Battle of Saint-Denis may refer to:
Battle of Saint-Denis (1567), France (French Wars of Religion)
Battle of Saint-Denis (1678), Belgium (Franco-Dutch War)
Battle of Saint-Denis (1815), fought in outskirts of Paris between the Prussians and French during the Waterloo Campaign 
Battle of Saint-Denis (1837), Canada (Lower Canada Rebellion)
Basin Groups

Basin Groups refers to 9 subdivisions of the lunar Pre-Nectarian geologic period. It is the second era of the Hadean.

Definition
The motivation for creating the Basin Groups subdivisions was to place 30 pre-Nectarian impact basins into 9 relative age groups. The relative age of the first basin in each group is based on crater densities and superposition relationships, whereas the other basins are included based on weaker grounds. Basin Group 1 has no official age for its base, and the boundary between Basin Group 9 and the Nectarian period is defined by the formation of the Nectaris impact basin.

The age of the Nectaris basin is somewhat contentious, with the most frequently cited numbers placing it at 3.92 Ga, or more infrequently at 3.85 Ga. Recently, however, it has been suggested that the Nectaris basin could be, in fact, much older and might have formed at ~4.1 Ga. Basin Groups are not used as a geologic period on any of the United States Geological Survey lunar geologic maps. Basin Groups 1-9 and the earlier (informal) Cryptic era together make up the totality of the Pre-Nectarian period.

Relationship to Earth's geologic time scale
Since little or no geological evidence on Earth exists from the time spanned by the Pre-Nectarian period of the Moon, the Pre-Nectarian has been used as a guide by at least one notable scientific work to subdivide the unofficial terrestrial Hadean eon. In particular, it is sometimes found that the Hadean eon is subdivided into the Cryptic era and Basin Groups 1-9 (which collectively make up the Pre-Nectarian), and the Nectarian and Lower Imbrian. The first lifeforms (self replicating RNA molecules, see RNA world hypothesis) may have evolved on earth around 4 bya during this era.

See also

 Cryptic era
 Geological time scale (Earth)

References

External links
 GeoWhen Database

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Lunar geologic periods
Netherwood station

Netherwood is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States. It is located along North Avenue at the intersection of Netherwood Avenue and along South Avenue at the intersection of Belvedere Avenue. The station has a ticket vending machine, and the station house itself is located off of South Avenue.

History
Netherwood station was originally built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1894. As with the rest of the CNJ, the station was subsidized by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1964 and absorbed into Conrail in 1976. The station is one of the two surviving CNJ stations in Plainfield (the other being Downtown Plainfield station), whereas the community previously had five; the other three being at Grant Avenue, Clinton Avenue (formerly known as Evona). The station building has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource, along with the other active station downtown.

Station layout
The station has two low-level side platforms serving two tracks. The inbound platform is  long while the outbound platform is  long; both can accommodate four cars.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, New Jersey
List of New Jersey Transit stations

References

External links

 Station House from Google Maps Street View
Raritan Valley Line (Unofficial NJTransit Homepage)

NJ Transit Rail Operations stations
Plainfield, New Jersey
Railway stations in Union County, New Jersey
Former Central Railroad of New Jersey stations
Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
Queen Anne architecture in New Jersey
Romanesque Revival architecture in New Jersey
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1894
National Register of Historic Places in Union County, New Jersey
Ali Akbar College of Music

The Ali Akbar College of Music (AACM) is the name of three schools founded by Indian musician Ali Akbar Khan to teach Indian classical music. The first was founded in 1956 in Calcutta, India. The second was founded in 1967 in Berkeley, California, but moved to its current location in San Rafael, California the next year. The third was founded in 1985 in Basel, Switzerland, and is run by Khan's disciple Ken Zuckerman.

In 2003, a collection from the AACM's sound archives formed one of the 50 "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" recorded works chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. Among these AACM recordings were live performances by Allauddin Khan, Kishan Maharaj, Nikhil Banerjee and Alla Rakha.

Notable students
Vic Briggs, British blues and rock musician
David R. Courtney, artist, writer, and Green Party politician
Marco Eneidi, free jazz saxophonist
Julian Lage, guitarist and composer
Arthur Russell, composer, producer, and vocalist
Derek Trucks, guitarist, bandleader, and songwriter

See also
 Delhi Music Academy
 Eastern fare music foundation
 Kinnara School of Music

References

External links
 San Rafael, CA, USA AACM
 Basel, Switzerland AACM
 Eastern Fare Music Foundation, Bangalore

Universities and colleges in Kolkata
Universities and colleges in Marin County, California
Music schools in Switzerland
Music schools in India
Educational institutions established in 1956
Educational institutions established in 1967
Educational institutions established in 1985
Education in San Rafael, California
Buildings and structures in San Rafael, California
1967 establishments in California
1956 establishments in West Bengal
1985 establishments in Switzerland
Private universities and colleges in California
Statistical field theory

In theoretical physics, statistical field theory (SFT) is a theoretical framework that describes phase transitions. It does not denote a single theory but encompasses many models, including for magnetism, superconductivity, superfluidity, topological phase transition, wetting as well as non-equilibrium phase transitions. A SFT is any model in statistical mechanics where the degrees of freedom comprise a field or fields. In other words, the microstates of the system are expressed through field configurations. It is closely related to quantum field theory, which describes the quantum mechanics of fields, and shares with it many techniques, such as the path integral formulation and renormalization.
If the system involves polymers, it is also known as polymer field theory.

In fact, by performing a Wick rotation from Minkowski space to Euclidean space, many results of statistical field theory can be applied directly to its quantum equivalent. The correlation functions of a statistical field theory are called Schwinger functions, and their properties are described by the Osterwalder–Schrader axioms.

Statistical field theories are widely used to describe systems in polymer physics or biophysics, such as polymer films, nanostructured block copolymers or polyelectrolytes.

Notes

References

External links
Problems in Statistical Field Theory
Particle and Polymer Field Theory Group

Applied mathematics
Mathematical physics
 
Quantum field theory
Rookwood Hospital

Rookwood Hospital () is a rehabilitation hospital situated in Llandaff, in the city of Cardiff in South Wales. It is managed by Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.

History
Rookwood was built for Colonel Sir Edward Hill in 1886; he, and subsequently Lady Hill, lived there until 1917. The name 'Rookwood' was given to the house during its course of construction by Lady Hill. Before her marriage she was brought to see the building operations and was asked to find a suitable name for it. When she came to the property a number of rooks were flying overhead and she immediately thought of 'Rookwood', and decided that should be the name.

In 1918 Rookwood was taken over for use as a convalescent home. At the end of the First World War it was purchased by Sir Lawrence Phillips and presented to the ministry as a home for Welsh paraplegic pensioner cases. After this it was used by the University Hospital of Wales. In 1932, after being extended, it became a general hospital. During the 1970s and 1980s Rookwood had eight wards caring for people with spinal injuries, brain injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson's disease.

The hospital gardens and grounds are Cadw/ICOMOS Register of  Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.

Services
Rookwood provides specialist neurological and spinal rehabilitation services.

Hospital radio
Rookwood Hospital is the home to Rookwood Sound Hospital Radio, which broadcasts at the site and to the University Hospital Llandough and is where radio presenter Huw Stephens began his career at 14.

References

External links
 Rookwood Hospital

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Houses completed in 1886
NHS hospitals in Wales
Hospitals in Cardiff
Hospitals established in 1918
Registered historic parks and gardens in Cardiff
List of ambassadors of the United States to Venezuela

The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to Venezuela.  The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The ambassadors are posted at the Embassy of the United States, Caracas.

Ambassadors

See also
 United States – Venezuela relations
 Foreign relations of Venezuela
 Ambassadors of the United States

References
Specific

General
 United States Department of State: Background notes on Venezuela

External links
 United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Venezuela
 United States Department of State: Venezuela
 United States Embassy in Caracas

Venezuela
Main
United States
Abu Zayd

Abu Zayd or , alternatively transliterated as Abizaid, is an Arabic name and could refer to:

Abu Zayd 
Abu Zayd could refer to:

People
Abū Zayd ‘Abdu r-Raḥman bin Muḥammad bin Khaldūn Al-Hadrami (1332–1406), Arab polymath
Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (b. 850), Persian Muslim polymath
 Abu Zayd Hassan, 9 c. merchant known for leaving an account on the Guangzhou massacre
Abu Zayd al-Hilali, 11th-century Arab leader
As "Abu Zayd", he is the black epic hero and trickster figure of the epic Taghribat Bani Hilal
’Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn ’Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī (809–873), Nestorian scholar, physician, and scientist
Abū Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd (fl. 1186 - 1219), Persian potter
Abuzed Omar Dorda (b. 1944), Libyan prime minister and permanent representative to the United Nations
Hikmat Abu Zayd (b. 1922), Egyptian Minister of Social Affairs and first female cabinet member
 Nasr Abu Zayd, (b. 1943, d. 2010), Egyptian Qur'anic scholar persecuted for his liberal interpretation of Islam
Abu Zaid Al-Kuwaiti (d. 2005), Kuwaiti Salafist Jihad fighter and suspected al-Qaeda agent

Other uses
Abu Zayd al-Hilali (film), 1947 Egyptian film about the 11th-century Arab leader

Abizaid

People 
Abizaid is a variant transliteration of Abu Zayd. Notable people with the include:

 Amanda Abizaid, Lebanese-American singer, model, and actress. 
 John Abizaid (born 1951), Lebanese-American retired US Army general, former U.S. ambassador, and former military commander of the United States Central Command.
 Christine Abizaid, is a Lebanese-American U.S. intelligence officer who is currently the director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center.
TIM-011

TIM 011 is an educational or personal computer for school  microcomputer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute of Serbia in 1987. There were about 1200 TIM-011 computers in Serbian schools in the starting from 1987 and in 1990s.

It were based on CP/M with Hitachi HD64180, Z80A enhanced CPU with MMU , 256KB RAM standard, 3.5" floppy drives and integrated 512 X 256 green-screen monitors with 4 levels of intensity.

Reference literature
 Dragoljub Milićević, Dušan Hristović (Ed): "Računari TIM" (TIM Computers), Naučna knjiga, Belgrade 1990.
 D.B.Vujaklija, N.Markovic (Ed): "50 Years of Computing in Serbia (50 godina računarstva u Srbiji- Hronika digitalnih decenija)", DIS, IMP and PC-Press, Belgrade 2011.

References

Z80-based home computers
Personal computers
Microcomputers
Mihajlo Pupin Institute
The Five Fists of Science

The Five Fists of Science is a steampunk graphic novel created by writer Matt Fraction and artist Steven Sanders. It was published in 2006 by Image Comics.

Plot
Nikola Tesla, Mark Twain and Bertha von Suttner combine forces to try to bring about world peace through superior firepower. The comic's introduction shows Twain explaining that the story does not concern itself very much with historical accuracy, and this assertion is borne out by the story: Twain and Tesla use scientific know-how, general trickery and media manipulation techniques to try to scare world leaders into following their noble path. In the company of several allies, the two are soon confronted by dark forces led by the dastardly Thomas Edison, John Pierpont Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Guglielmo Marconi. The inventors and financiers are collaborating on a bizarre new skyscraper, the Innsmouth Tower, on whose building site many construction workers have already died in mysterious accidents.

Awards
 2007: Nominated for "Favourite Original Graphic Novel" Eagle Award

See also
 War of the currents
 Providence Biltmore, a tower with similar urban legend claims
 List of steampunk works
 Mark Twain in popular culture
 Nikola Tesla in popular culture
 Thomas Edison in popular culture
 Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture
 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
 Necronauts
 Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained

External links
 Matt Fraction's home page
 Steven Sanders home page
 Genius Collision interview with Matt Fraction about the graphic novel.

2006 comics debuts
Cthulhu Mythos comics
Image Comics graphic novels
Steampunk comics
Cultural depictions of Mark Twain
Cultural depictions of Thomas Edison
Comics by Matt Fraction
Plainfield station

Plainfield is a NJ Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, United States.  One of two train stations in Plainfield, this station serves the central part of the city.  The ticket office and waiting area are in the south side station house (the eastbound platform).  It was the westernmost station on the line with ADA accessibility, until Somerville's new high-level platforms were opened on December 7, 2010.

History
Plainfield station was originally built by Bradford L. Gilbert and Joseph Osgood for the Central Railroad of New Jersey in 1902. As with the rest of the CNJ, the station was subsidized by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1964 and absorbed into Conrail in 1976. The station is one of the two surviving CNJ stations in Plainfield (the other being Netherwood station), whereas the community previously had five; the other three being at Grant Avenue, Clinton Avenue, and another station named Evona. It been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and along with Netherwood is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.  The station underwent a reconstruction project in 2010 and kept its listing.

Station layout
The station has two high-level side platforms serving two tracks. The inbound platform is  long while the outbound platform is  long; both can accommodate seven cars.

See also
List of New Jersey Transit stations
National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, New Jersey

References

External links

world.nycsubway.org - NJT Raritan Line including Plainfield Station
Raritan Valley Line (Unofficial NJTransit Homepage) 
 Watchung Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
 Station House from Google Maps Street View
 Park Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View

NJ Transit Rail Operations stations
NJT station
Railway stations in Union County, New Jersey
Former Central Railroad of New Jersey stations
Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stations
Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
Renaissance Revival architecture in New Jersey
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1839
National Register of Historic Places in Union County, New Jersey
1839 establishments in New Jersey
Charles S. Shapiro

Charles Samuel Shapiro (born May 30, 1949) is an American diplomat (serving since 1977 in a variety of capacities, primarily relating to Latin America) and a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela (2002 - 2004). He was President of the Institute of the Americas from October 2011 to July 2014, when Ambassador Shapiro was named the President of the World Affairs Council of Atlanta.

Education
Shapiro has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (1971) and Georgia State University (1977), and served in the United States Coast Guard Reserve (1971–1977).

Career
His career includes assignments abroad, including Deputy Chief of Mission in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (1991-1994) and in Santiago, Chile (1995–1998). From 1983 to 1988, Shapiro worked on El Salvador, first as Desk Officer in Washington (1983–1985) and then as Political Counselor in San Salvador (1985–1988).

In Washington, Shapiro has served in a number of capacities in the US State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (called the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs until 2000): Deputy Director in the Office of Andean Affairs (1988–1990); Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (1994–1995); Coordinator for Cuban Affairs (1999–2001); Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (2005–2007); head of the Western Hemisphere Trade Task Force (2007–2009); and Senior Coordinator for Economic Initiatives. Other assignments include "Division Chief for South America" in the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (then called the Bureau of International Narcotics Matters), 1990–1991.

Ambassador to Venezuela
Shapiro served as U.S. ambassador to Venezuela from 19 March 2002 to 21 August 2004. Weeks before the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt against Hugo Chávez and only days after assuming his position, Shapiro met with a Venezuelan trade union organization that openly pursued involvement in the coup, with the ambassador stating that the United States would not assist with the plot and only supported a change of government by democratic means. Shapiro was accused of participating in the coup, with some stating that a meeting with interim president Pedro Carmona Estanga one day after the coup. Shapiro and other U.S. sources have denied this and claim that he urged Carmona to reinstitute the dissolved National Assembly.

Awards and recognition

See also 
Shapiro (family name)
United States-Venezuela relations

Notes

External links
Remarks of Colin L. Powell at the Swearing-In of Shapiro as Ambassador to Venezuela

Living people
Ambassadors of the United States to Venezuela
1949 births
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Georgia State University alumni