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Bayside station (LIRR)

Bayside (formerly Bay Side) is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in the Bayside neighborhood of Queens, New York City. The station is located at 213th Street and 41st Avenue, off Bell Boulevard and just north of Northern Boulevard, and is 12.6 miles (20.3 km) from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan. The station is part of CityTicket.

History
Bayside station was originally built on October 27, 1866, by the North Shore Railroad of Long Island, a subsidiary of the New York and Flushing Railroad. The station, along with the rest of the line was acquired by the Flushing and North Side Rail Road in 1869. The F&NS was consolidated into the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad in 1874 through a merger with the Central Railroad of Long Island, only to be leased in 1876 by the LIRR. The current station building dates to October 11, 1923. The tracks were depressed beneath Bell Boulevard from 1928 through 1930. A railway express elevator building was then opened on the eastbound side until the Port Washington Branch stopped carrying freight. The 1928 express/baggage station remains today, being converted into a local community center. The wooden pedestrian bridge that carried commuters across the tracks to both platforms was replaced in 1998 by a decorative steel bridge.

The station, along with the Port Washington Branch in general, is heavily used. During the 2005 New York City transit strike, Bayside was one of the few stations that Port Washington trains stopped at, and lesser stations such as Auburndale and Murray Hill were bypassed.

Station layout
The station has two slightly offset side platforms, each 10 cars long.

Gallery

References

External links

Platforms from Google Maps Street View
Forgotten NY.com
Pedestrian Bridge (Replacement for wooden bridge)
Views of Bayside Freight Elevator and Bell Boulevard overpass
BAY Interlocking (The LIRR Today)
Bayside Station (Arrt's Arrchives)
 Bell Boulevard entrance from Google Maps Street View

Long Island Rail Road stations in New York City
Railway stations in Queens, New York
Bayside, Queens
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1866
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1923
1866 establishments in New York (state)
Nordkalottruta

Nordkalottruta or Arctic Trail (Finnish: Kalottireitti, Swedish: Nordkalottleden) is a marked hiking trail in the Arctic region of the Nordic countries. It has a total length of  and lies along the border of Norway, Sweden and Finland. It begins at Kautokeino (located in Finnmark, Northern Norway) and  of the trail lies in Norway,  in Sweden and  in Finland. The trail crosses international borders 15 times and ends in the south in Sulitjelma (Norway) or alternately Kvikkjokk (Sweden).

The trail was originally planned in 1977.  It passes through Øvre Dividal National Park, Reisa National Park, Abisko National Park and Padjelanta National Park as well as the Sulitjelmafjellet and Narvikfjell regions. It has more recently become a section of the E1 Path.

Points along the trail 
Huts have been constructed along the trail. Almost all of the huts in Norway are operated by the DNT. Many in Sweden are operated by the STF and those in Finland by Finnish Forest Administration. For a small fee (in some huts for free), it is possible to stay in the hut and use the facilities. Some huts are fully staffed and serve food, while most are self-service (some of these require getting the DNT key). A few may require reservations in advance. Supplies can be bought in some of them. Because Norway, Sweden and Finland all have laws establishing freedom to roam, it is also possible to camp elsewhere along the trail, legally and for free. Some emergency shelters can also be found on the route.

The huts along the Nordkalottruta, between Kautokeino and Sulitjelma, include:

 Čunovuohppi (Norway)
 Reisavannhytta (NO) 
 Nedrefosshytta (NO)
 Saraelv (NO) 
 Somashytta (NO)
 Kopmajoki (Finland)
 Pitsusjärvi (FI)
 Meekonjärvi (FI)  

 Kuonjarjoki (FI)
 Saarijärvi (FI)
 Kilpisjärven Retkeilykeskus (FI)
 Goldahytta (NO)
 Gappohytta (NO)
 Rostahytta (NO)
 Dærtahytta (NO)
 Dividalshytta (NO)

 Vuomahytta (NO)
 Gaskashytta (NO)
 Altevasshytta (NO)
 Lappjordhytta (NO)
 Pålnostugan (Sweden)
 Abisko Turiststation (SE)
 Abiskojaurestugan (SE)
 Unna Allakas (SE)

 Čunojávrihytta (NO)
 Cáihnavággihytta (NO)
 Gautelishytta (NO)
 Skoaddejavrehytta (NO)
 Sitashytta (NO)
 Paurohytta (NO)
 Røysvatn (NO)
 Vaisaluokta (SE)

 Kutjaurestugan (SE)
 Låddejåkkåstugan (SE)
 Arasluoktastugorna (SE)
 Staloluokta (SE)
 Staddajåhkå (SE)
 Sårjåsjaurestugan (SE)
 Sorjushytta (NO)

The huts along the alternate segment to Kvikkjokk are:

 Staddajåhkå (SE)
 Pieskehaure Fjällstuga (SE)

 Vaimok Fjällstuga (SE)
 Tarrekaise Fjällstuga (SE)

 Njunjes Fjällstuga (SE)
 Kvikkjokk Fjällstation (SE)

Other points along the trail, such as towns and landmarks, include:

 Kautokeino (NO)
 Pitsusköngäs (FI) - a waterfall
 Kilpisjärvi (FI) - a village

 Malla Strict Nature Reserve (FI)
 Innset (NO)
 Abisko (SE)

 Skjomdalen (NO)
 Nikkaluokta (SE)
 Ritsem (SE)

 Sulitjelma (NO)
 Kvikkjokk (SE)
 Treriksröset (corner of NO, SE, and FI)

Gallery

References

External links 

 Description of the trail (Swedish)
 Nordkalottleden Trail in Finland (English) 
 Map, GPX and details for planning 

Hiking trails in Norway
Hiking trails in Sweden
Hiking trails in Finland
Write buffer

A write buffer is a type of data buffer that can be used to hold data being written from the cache to main memory or to the next cache in the memory hierarchy to improve performance and reduce latency. It is used in certain CPU cache architectures like Intel's x86 and AMD64. In multi-core systems, write buffers destroy sequential consistency. Some software disciplines, like C11's data-race-freedom, are sufficient to regain a sequentially consistent view of memory.

A variation of write-through caching is called buffered write-through.

Use of a write buffer in this manner frees the cache to service read requests while the write is taking place. It is especially useful for very slow main memory in that subsequent reads are able to proceed without waiting for long main memory latency.  When the write buffer is full (i.e. all buffer entries are occupied), subsequent writes still have to wait until slots are freed.  Subsequent reads could be served from the write buffer. To further mitigate this stall, one optimization called write buffer merge may be implemented.  Write buffer merge combines writes that have consecutive destination addresses into one buffer entry.  Otherwise, they would occupy separate entries which increases the chance of pipeline stall.

A victim buffer is a type of write buffer that stores dirty evicted lines in write-back caches so that they get written back to main memory.  Besides reducing pipeline stall by not waiting for dirty lines to write back as a simple write buffer does, a victim buffer may also serve as a temporary backup storage when subsequent cache accesses exhibit locality, requesting those recently evicted lines, which are still in the victim buffer.

The store buffer was invented by IBM during Project ACS between 1964 and 1968, but it was first implemented in commercial products in the 1990s.

Notes

References

Computer memory
Ron Oester

Ronald John Oester (born May 5, 1956) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman.  He played his entire MLB career with the Cincinnati Reds from 1978 to 1990. He is a native of Cincinnati.

Baseball career

Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 9th round of the  MLB amateur draft, Oester made his debut with the Reds on September 10, 1978, and appeared in his final game on October 3, 1990.  He finished fourth in the Rookie of the Year voting in 1980.

Oester was one of the few major leaguers who did not wear batting gloves. He perpetually developed blisters on his hands, and according to teammates, they would develop into deep wounds on his palms.

In 1984 Oester had a career best 21 game hitting streak.  In 1985 he had a .295 batting average, a career high.

On July 5, 1987, during a Mets-Reds game at Riverfront Stadium, the New York Mets' Mookie Wilson slid hard into second base during a double-play attempt. During the slide, Oester, who was playing second, collided with Wilson. His cleats got caught in the turf, and he tore his left ACL. Oester did not return to action until July 16, 1988. For his comeback from this injury, Oester earned the Hutch Award.

Oester was a member of the Cincinnati Reds team that defeated the Oakland Athletics in the 1990 World Series. Although he lost the starting second baseman job to Mariano Duncan that season, Oester was one of the team's top pinch hitters, hitting .299 that season and going 2-for-4 (.500) in the postseason. His final major league plate appearance was a hit that drove in Joe Oliver in Game 2 of the 1990 World Series, keeping the Reds in the game, a game they would go on to win in 10 innings, 5-4.

Bill James described him as "a quiet, efficient player who was always overlooked". Oester ended his career with a WAR of 10.9 and a batting average of .265.

Post career

In 2001, while serving as the Reds third base coach, Oester was offered the job of manager of the club. As the offer was below the market average, Oester turned it down.

Withrow High School, which Oester attended, renovated and renamed its field in honor of him.

Oester was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 2014

See also
List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise

References

External links

Ron Oester at Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Professional Baseball League)

1956 births
Living people
Baseball players from Cincinnati
Billings Mustangs players
Chattanooga Lookouts managers
Chattanooga Lookouts players
Cincinnati Reds coaches
Cincinnati Reds players
Indianapolis Indians players
Major League Baseball second basemen
Major League Baseball third base coaches
Nashville Sounds players
Tampa Tarpons (1957–1987) players
Tigres de Aragua players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Trois-Rivières Aigles players
Tantite

Tantite is a rare tantalum oxide mineral with formula: Ta2O5. Tantite forms transparent microscopic colorless triclinic - pedial crystals with an adamantine luster. It has a Mohs hardness of 7 and a high specific gravity of 8.45. Chemical analyses show minor inclusion (1.3%) of niobium oxide.

It was first described in 1983 for an occurrence in a pegmatite in the Kola peninsula, Russia. It has also been reported from a pegmatite complex in Florence County, Wisconsin. Associated mineral species include elbaite, lepidolite, spodumene, columbite-tantalite, wodginite, and microlite.

References

Wisconsin minerals Accessed March 31, 2006. 
American Mineralogist data sheet PDF  Accessed March 31, 2006.

Tantalum minerals
Oxide minerals
Triclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 1
Minerals described in 1983
R v Mills

See R v Mills (disambiguation) for other cases by same name
R v Mills, [1999] 3 S.C.R. 668 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision where the Court upheld the newly enacted rape shield law when challenged as a violation to section 7 and 11(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The rape shield law was the second of its type, the first having been struck down in R. v. Seaboyer. Accordingly, this case is often cited as an example of judicial dialogue.

Background
Mills was an accused charged with sexual assault and unlawful sexual touching. Counsel for Mills obtained medical records from a counselling organization, and further sought records from a psychiatrist and the child and adolescent services association. However, during the trial in 1997 the parliament of Canada passed Bill C-46 which introduced sections 278.1 to 278.91 into the Criminal Code which concerned the production of records for sexual offences. 

Mills challenged the constitutionality of these provisions under section 7 and 11(d) of the Charter. The trial judge found that the provisions did violate the Charter and were not saved under section 1.

In a seven to one decision, the Court held that the provisions were constitutional, overturning the trial judge.

Reasons of the court
Justices McLachlin and Iacobucci, writing for the majority, found that the new provisions provided the judge with enough discretion to preserve the complainant's right to privacy and equality while still allowing for the accused to provide a full answer and defence.

See also
 List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Lamer Court)
 R v Seaboyer

References

External links
 
 canlii.org

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms case law
Supreme Court of Canada cases
1992 in Canadian case law
Rape in Canada
Canadian criminal case law
Canadian evidence case law
Publication bans in Canadian case law
Scott Scudder

William Scott Scudder (born February 14, 1968) is a former Major League Baseball  right-handed pitcher. 

Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the first round of the 1986 MLB amateur draft, Scudder made his Major League Baseball debut with the Cincinnati Reds on June 6, 1989, and appeared in his final game on May 22, 1993.

On May 20, 1988, Scudder pitched a no-hitter for the Cedar Rapids Reds against the Wausau Timbers.

Scudder was a member of the Cincinnati Reds team that defeated the Oakland Athletics in the 1990 World Series. He pitched scoreless innings in both the NLCS against the Pittsburgh Pirates and in the World Series against Oakland.

Though mainly a starter during his career, Scudder did pick up one save; on April 17, 1991, Scudder pitched three shutout innings to close out a 5-1 victory over the Padres.

On February 1, 2010, Scudder was announced as a new coach at Team Sweden, along with Dennis Cook.

References

External links
, or Retrosheet
Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Winter League)

1968 births
Living people
Baseball players from Texas
Billings Mustangs players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Cedar Rapids Reds players
Charlotte Knights players
Chattanooga Lookouts players
Cincinnati Reds players
Cleveland Indians players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Indianapolis Indians players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Nashville Sounds players
People from Paris, Texas
Tigres de Aragua players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
R v Mills (disambiguation)

There are a number of Court cases by the name R. v. Mills:
 R v Mills (1838), a decision of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
 Mills v R, [1986] 1 S.C.R. 863, a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada relating to the right to a trial within a reasonable time
 R v Mills, [1999] 3 S.C.R. 668, a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, upholding the Rape Shield law
Abduction!

Abduction! by Peg Kehret, is a novel about a 13-year-old girl named Bonnie who searches for her brother Matt and their dog Pookie who were both abducted. Her abductor, a mystery at first, ends up being someone much close to home.

Plot summary
Matt, a six-year old boy, is kidnapped by his father, Denny, whom he had never met. Though he has always dreamed of meeting him, nothing is the way he thought it would be, given his father is only using Matt to impress his sister who often brags about her two well-raised sons.  Denny has also taken Matt's dog, Pookie, and then dropped him off in a park. With few clues to follow, Matt's mother, sister, and the police, are doing everything they can to find him. Some old folks found Pookie and later gave him back to Matt's mom and sister. Matt's sister, Bonnie, sees Matt at a Mariner's baseball game, but is caught by Denny. Now both captive, the siblings attempt to escape. On the ferry, Bonnie signals to Matt to throw his hardest pitch. The baseball hits Denny, which allows the two to escape. Denny is arrested, and the children return home safely.

Awards
In 2007, Abduction! was awarded the Mark Twain Award by the Missouri Association of School Librarians.

References

2004 children's books
2004 American novels
American children's novels
Dutton Children's Books books
Novels about child abduction
Mark Twain Awards
Nan Orrock

Nan Grogan Orrock (born November 8, 1943) is an American politician serving as the Democratic State Senator in the Georgia State Senate, representing Senate District 36 in eastern Atlanta. Following the 2006 retirement of State Senator Sam Zamarripa, Orrock was a candidate for his district; in the Democratic primary held on July 18, 2006 Orrock defeated Grace Davis to win a seat in the State Senate since she has no Republican opponent for the general election. She was sworn into office in 2007. She was previously a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1987, representing the 58th district. She was the Vice-Chair of the House Democratic Caucus and the former Majority Whip, the first woman to ever hold this role. Orrock was once a member of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), but has since been critical of their influence.

Orrock founded both the Georgia Legislative Women's Caucus and the Working Families Agenda caucus. Her legislative successes include passage of the Georgia Family Medical Leave Act, the Prescriptive Equity for Contraceptives Act, the Chlamydia Screening Act, Georgia Hate Crimes Act, and the Omnibus AIDS statute. She continually advocates for environmentally sound policies, and worked on passing monumental legislation surrounding regulation of landfills.

Her activism began back in 1963 when she participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Following this, she proceeded to work with SNCC in Georgia and Mississippi and lead civil rights projects in the Black Belt counties of her home state of Virginia.

Orrock is the President of the Women Legislators’ Lobby, a national network of women state legislators launched by Women’s Action for New Directions WAND in 1991, and has been on staff with this organization since 1997.

References

External links
 Profile at the Georgia State Senate
 Nan Orrock's senate campaign website

Democratic Party members of the Georgia House of Representatives
Democratic Party Georgia (U.S. state) state senators
Living people
Politicians from Fredericksburg, Virginia
Politicians from Atlanta
University of Mary Washington alumni
Women state legislators in Georgia (U.S. state)
1943 births
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Liu Cong

Liu Cong may refer to:

Liu Cong (Han dynasty) (fl. 207–208), younger son of the late Han dynasty warlord Liu Biao
Liu Cong (Han-Zhao) (died 318), emperor of Han Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms
Workers' Trade Union Association of Croatia

The Workers' Trade Union Association of Croatia is a trade union centre in Croatia. It was founded in 1994 under the name Trade Union Association of Public Sector Employees ().

It is affiliated with the European Federation of Public Service Employees.

External links
 www.ursh.hr

References

Trade unions in Croatia
Trade unions established in 1994
Angelika Kirchschlager

Angelika Kirchschlager (born 24 November 1965, Salzburg) is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer.

Career
Kirchschlager began her musical training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where she studied percussion and piano. In 1984, she went to the Vienna Music Academy, where she studied with Gerhard Kahry and Walter Berry. Her first engagements were at the Wiener Kammeroper and the Graz Opera. Kirchschlager won 1st Prize together with Morenike Fadayomi in Wien's international Operncafé HArtauer-COmpetition and third prize in the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition both in 1991.  Her stage debut was in Graz in 1993 as Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier).  In 1993, she became a member of the Vienna State Opera, and made her debut there as Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro). Also in 1993, she was awarded the Mozartinterpretationspreis of the Mozart Society of Vienna.

In 2002, Kirchschlager sang the role of Sophie in the world première of Nicholas Maw's opera Sophie's Choice at the Royal Opera House in London, the American premiere of the revised version of the opera at the Washington Opera, and the Austrian premiere at Volksoper Wien.  She is a regular guest of the annual Lieder festival Schubertiade Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg, Austria.  Her regular collaborators include Helmut Deutsch and Simon Keenlyside.

Kirchschlager resides in Vienna.  She has a son, the actor Felix Kammerer, from her marriage to the baritone Hans Peter Kammerer.  Kirchschlager and Kammerer are currently separated.

Roles

Annio (La clemenza di Tito)
Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro)
The Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos)
Dorabella (Così fan tutte)
Idamante (Idomeneo)
Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi)
Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande)
Niklausse/Muse (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier)
Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus)
Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Sesto (Giulio Cesare)
Silla (Palestrina)
Sophie (Sophie's Choice by Nicholas Maw)
Valencienne (Die lustige Witwe)
Zerlina (Don Giovanni)
Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel)
Carmen (Carmen)
Ariodante (Ariodante)
Clairon (Capriccio)
Jenny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny)

References

Further reading

External links

Angelika Kirchschlager (Mezzo-soprano) on Bach Cantatas Website

1966 births
Living people
Musicians from Salzburg
Austrian operatic mezzo-sopranos
Mozarteum University Salzburg alumni
Grammy Award winners
20th-century Austrian women opera singers
21st-century Austrian women opera singers
Academic staff of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni
Grono.net

Grono.net was a social networking service based in Poland. It was referred to as "the Polish equivalent of Facebook" and had over 2 million members.

It featured Internet forums, photo sharing, links to cultural events, an employment website, and an online marketplace for the sale of property.

The site included a freemium model; features for paying subscribers included the ability to moderate forums, take part in competitions, upload more photos and hide advertisements.

It required an invitation from an existing member to register.

History
The website was founded by Wojciech Sobczuk and launched on February 11, 2004.

In July 2009, Aleksander Kierski, one of grono.net's creditors, filed a bankruptcy petition against the service for unpaid debts, but on September 7, 2009, the Warsaw District Court dismissed the above petition on the grounds that all creditors had been paid.

On 1 July 2012, the service was shut down without warning; it faced financial difficulties due to competition from Facebook.

References

Defunct companies of Poland
Defunct social networking services
Internet properties established in 2004
Internet properties disestablished in 2012
Upton, Missouri

Upton is an unincorporated community in western Texas County, Missouri, United States. The community is located on a ridge top (elevation 1430 ft.) approximately one mile east of the West Fork Roubidoux Creek.  It is located about ten miles west of Houston on Missouri Route FF.

A post office called Upton was established in 1907, and remained in operation until 1975. The community has the name of Osias Upton, a pioneer citizen.

References

Unincorporated communities in Texas County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
R v Smith

There are a number of court cases by the name of R. v. Smith:

United Kingdom
 R v Smith (George Joseph) (1915) 11 Cr App R 229, (1915) 25 Cox 271, (1915) 31 TLR 617, CCA (the "brides in the bath" case)
 R v Smith (Thomas Joseph), [1959] 2 QB 35, 43 Cr App R 121, [1959] 2 WLR 623, [1959] 2 All ER 193, CCA: chain of causation, homicide
 R v Smith (1988) 10 Cr App R (S) 434

Canada 
 R v Smith (1987), 1 S.C.R. 1045: cruel and unusual punishment
 R v Smith (1992), [1992] 2 S.C.R. 915: hearsay

South Africa 
 R v Smith (1900): 17 SC 561 obedience to orders

See also
Lists of case law
Brauer's theorem on forms

There also is Brauer's theorem on induced characters.

In mathematics, Brauer's theorem, named for Richard Brauer, is a result on the representability of 0 by forms over certain fields in sufficiently many variables.

Statement of Brauer's theorem
Let K be a field such that for every integer r > 0 there exists an integer ψ(r) such that for n ≥ ψ(r) every equation

has a non-trivial (i.e. not all xi are equal to 0) solution in K.
Then, given homogeneous polynomials f1,...,fk of degrees r1,...,rk respectively with coefficients in K, for every set of positive integers r1,...,rk and every non-negative integer l, there exists a number ω(r1,...,rk,l) such that for n ≥ ω(r1,...,rk,l) there exists an l-dimensional affine subspace M of Kn (regarded as a vector space over K) satisfying

An application to the field of p-adic numbers
Letting K be the field of p-adic numbers in the theorem, the equation (*) is satisfied, since , b a natural number, is finite. Choosing k = 1, one obtains the following corollary:

A homogeneous equation f(x1,...,xn) = 0 of degree r in the field of p-adic numbers has a non-trivial solution if n is sufficiently large.

One can show that if n is sufficiently large according to the above corollary, then n is greater than r2. Indeed, Emil Artin conjectured that every homogeneous polynomial of degree r over Qp in more than r2 variables represents 0. This is obviously true for r = 1, and it is well known that the conjecture is true for r = 2 (see, for example, J.-P. Serre, A Course in Arithmetic, Chapter IV, Theorem 6). See quasi-algebraic closure for further context.

In 1950 Demyanov verified the conjecture for r = 3 and p ≠ 3, and in 1952 D. J. Lewis independently proved the case r = 3 for all primes p. But in 1966 Guy Terjanian constructed a homogeneous polynomial of degree 4 over Q2 in 18 variables that has no non-trivial zero. On the other hand, the Ax–Kochen theorem shows that for any fixed degree Artin's conjecture is true for all but finitely many Qp.

Notes

References 

Diophantine equations
Theorems in number theory
P-adic numbers
National Association of Basketball Coaches

The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, is an American organization of men's college basketball coaches. It was founded in 1927 by Phog Allen, head men's basketball coach at the University of Kansas.

Formation of the NABC began when Joint Basketball Rules Committee, then the central governing authority of the game, announced without notice that it had adopted a change in the rules which virtually eliminated dribbling. Allen, a student of basketball founder James Naismith, organized a nationwide protest which ultimately resulted in the dribble remaining part of the game.

In 1939, the NABC held the first national basketball tournament in Evanston, Illinois at the Northwestern Fieldhouse.  Oregon defeated Ohio State for the first tournament championship. The next year, the NABC asked the NCAA to take over the administration of the tournament. In exchange, the NCAA provided complimentary tickets for NABC members to the Finals and placed an NABC member on its Tournament Committee.

NABC initiatives include establishing the original Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, the format of today's NCAA basketball tournament, and the College Basketball Experience and National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame at the Sprint Center arena in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.  This facility was completed on October 10, 2007.

Awards
 NABC Player of the Year
 NABC Defensive Player of the Year
 NABC Freshman of the Year
 Pete Newell Big Man Award
 NABC Coach of the Year

All-District
NABC annually names its All-District Teams, which honors the top Division I players in each district.  Regions are divided by college athletic conferences.

Presidents

See also
Women's Basketball Coaches Association

References

External links
 

 
Basketball organizations
Coaching associations based in the United States
Sports in the Kansas City metropolitan area
Sports organizations established in 1927
Clara, Missouri

Clara is an unincorporated community in central Texas County, Missouri, United States. The community is located on a hilltop, approximately one-half mile northwest of the Big Piney River. It is about three miles southwest of Houston on Missouri Route Z.

A post office called Clara was established in 1901, and remained in operation until 1975. An early postmaster gave the community the name of his wife, Clara Lynch.

References

Unincorporated communities in Texas County, Missouri
Populated places established in 1902
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Kimble, Missouri

Kimble is an unincorporated community in northeastern Texas County, Missouri, United States. It is located just east of U.S. Route 63, approximately six miles north of Licking.

A post office called Kimble was established in 1897, and remained in operation until 1967. The community has the name of C. H. Kimble, a local merchant.

References

Unincorporated communities in Texas County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Pandorea jasminoides

Pandorea jasminoides, also known by the common names bower of beauty and bower vine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Bignoniaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a woody climber with pinnate leaves that have three to nine egg-shaped leaflets, and white or pink trumpet-shaped flowers that are red and hairy inside. It is also grown as an ornamental.

Description
Pandorea jasminoides is a woody climber with dark brown bark and glabrous stems. The leaves are mainly arranged in opposite pairs along the stems or sometimes in whorls of three, and are  long and pinnate with three to nine leaflets. The leaflets are egg-shaped to more or less lance-shaped,  long and  wide. The leaves are on a petiole  long, the lateral leaflets on petiolules  long and the end leaflet on a petiolule  long.

The flowers are borne on the ends of stems or in upper leaf axils in groups  long. The five sepals are fused at the base forming a cup-shaped tube  long with lobes  long. The five petals are fused at the base forming a trumpet shape that is white or pink on the outside and pink to red and hairy inside, the tube  long with lobes  long. The four stamens are enclosed in the petal tube. Flowering occurs from September to March and the fruit is an oblong or oval capsule  long and  wide containing winged seeds.

Taxonomy
Bower of beauty was first formally described in 1837 by George Don, who gave it the name Tecoma jasminoides in his book, A General History of Dichlamydeous Plants. In 1894, Karl Moritz Schumann changed the name to Pandorea jasminoides in Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien.

Distribution and habitat
Pandorea jasminoides grows in rainforest from central eastern Queensland to the  Hastings River in New South Wales with isolated occurrences further south in Kangaroo Valley and as far north as Mount Lewis National Park in far northern Queensland.

Use in horticulture
This climber can be propagated from seed, stem cuttings or by layering. Its vigorous growth makes it suitable for screening or climbing on pergolas and trellises, however it should not be planted near sewer pipes. The species has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Pandorea 'Lady Di', a cultivar with snow white, trumpet flowers is also a vigorous climber.

References

External links

jasminoides
Vines
Flora of Queensland
Lamiales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Garden plants of Australia
Taxa named by George Don
Plants described in 1837
Junkerdal National Park

Junkerdal National Park () is a national park in the municipalities of Saltdal and Fauske in Nordland county, Norway, along its border with Sweden. The  park opened in 2004. It borders the Junkerdalsura nature reserve.

Nature
The park is known for a varied flora. Some mountains and highlands have a large number of arctic-alpine species of plants. The lower altitudes in the park are forested. Several of the plant species are generally rare, such as the white Arctic mountain heather (Cassiope tetragona). The white mountain saxifrage (Saxifraga paniculata) is found in only three places in Norway, and it is most widely distributed in Junkerdal National Park.  Many of the plants in this park are normally only found further north, or on other continents entirely. Some of the specialized plants are bullrush sedge (Carex scirpoidea), snow fleabane (Erigeron humilis) and alpine arnica (Arnica angustifolia), all of which are at their southernmost limit here. Other rare plants found in the national park are Arctic bellflower (Campanula uniflora), upright lousewort (Pedicularis flammea) and hairy lousewort (Pedicularis hirsuta).

There are wolverines, lynx, and brown bears that live in the park.  Moose and reindeer are both common in the area.  A wide variety of rare and threatened wetland birds also nest inside the national park, among them include the gerfalcon, golden eagle, red-throated loon, Arctic loon, and long-tailed duck.

Name
The first element is junker means "nobleman".  The valley is allegedly named after Preben von Ahlen (1606-1675), called "the junker", who went through the valley in 1658 to raid and destroy the Swedish Nasa silver mine. The last element is dal which means "valley" or "dale".

Media gallery

References

External links 
 Map over Junkerdal National Park

National parks of Norway
Protected areas of the Arctic
Protected areas established in 2004
Protected areas of Nordland
Tourist attractions in Nordland
2004 establishments in Norway
Fauske
Kids Can Rock and Roll

Kids Can Rock and Roll is a children's television program that aired from 1993-1996 in Canada.  It was produced by Children's Hour Productions.  
The series ran another two years on the YTV children's cable channel.

The show featured the rock band Kideo, which consisted of Buddy Goodfellow on bass, Ace Manners on guitar, and P.J. Styles on drums, with all three members contributing vocals.  Each band member had a signature color - Goodfellow was green, Manners was blue, and Styles was red. These colors were reflected in their clothing, hair, masks, and face make-up.

Each episode featured four original rock songs for kids, including a live concert video. The band members also performed various activities with the intent of teaching the young viewers certain moral lessons.  Additional segments in the show included "Air-Robic Rock", Kideo Eye-View Movies, and Fan Mail.

They released three albums entitled Kids Can Rock and Roll (1986), In a World of Black and White (1989), and The Name of the Game (1993). They also released two videos - KIDEO in Concert and a KIDEO puppet video entitled The Puppetual World of Rock and Roll. Both videos featured songs and scenes from the TV series.

The show was broadcast in 23 different foreign territories.

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Buddy Goodfellow 

1990s Canadian children's television series
1993 Canadian television series debuts
1990s Canadian music television series
Canadian children's musical television series
YTV (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Canadian television shows featuring puppetry
Bixby, Missouri

Bixby is an unincorporated community in western Iron County, Missouri, United States.  It is located at the western intersection of Routes 32 and 49, approximately 22 miles east of Salem.

A post office called Bixby was established in 1906, and remained in operation until 1952. The community has the name of William K. Bixby, a railroad car manufacturer.

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Unincorporated communities in Iron County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Rotating line camera

A rotating line camera is a digital camera that uses a linear CCD array to assemble a digital image as the camera rotates. The CCD array may consist of three sensor lines, one for each RGB color channel. Advanced rotating line cameras may have multiple linear CCD arrays on the focal plate and may capture multiple panoramic images during their rotation.

Line-scan technology is capable of capturing data extremely fast, and at very high image resolutions. Usually under these conditions, resulting collected image data can quickly exceed 100 MB in a fraction of a second. Line-scan-camera–based integrated systems, therefore are usually designed to streamline the camera's output in order to meet the system's objective, using computer technology which is also affordable.

Line-scan cameras intended for the parcel handling industry can integrate adaptive focusing mechanisms to scan six sides of any rectangular parcel in focus, regardless of angle, and size. The resulting 2-D captured images could contain, but are not limited to 1D and 2D barcodes, address information, and any pattern that can be processed via image processing methods. Since the images are 2-D, they are also human-readable and can be viewable on a computer screen. Advanced integrated systems include video coding, optical character recognition (OCR) and finish-line cameras for high speed sports.

Panoscan

The Panoscan is a high resolution digital panoramic rotating line camera, manufactured by Panoscan Inc. The first Panoscan camera, called MK-1, was manufactured in 1999. The MK-2 and MK-3 models, with higher resolution and speed, followed. Panoscan uses a tri-linear CCD array and assembles an image by capturing a single line of pixels while rotating through a 400 degree arc. A full resolution, spherical image can be produced in under a minute. The camera produces digital images of 9,000 by 65,000 pixels that can be printed at 30 feet (10 metres) in length. The camera incorporates a pan mechanism and does not require an external unit.

References

General
 Rotating Line Cameras: Model and Calibration (8.3M PDF), Fay Huang, Shou Kang Wei, and Reinhard Klette; Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota; March 2006
 Eric Reinhard, Grag Ward, Sumanta Pattanaik, Paul Debevec. (2006). High Dynamic Range Imaging Acquisition, Display and Image-Based Lighting. Morgan Kaufmann.  p. 390-391. . 
 Vernon J. Geberth. (2006) Practical Homicide Investigation Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques 4th Edition. p. 149-152. 
 Patrick Jones (2011) "Practical Forensic Digital Imaging Applications and Techniques" p. 147-157.

External links
Panoscan 

Digital cameras
State Domestic Product

State Domestic Product, or SDP, is the total value of goods and services produced during any financial year within the geographical boundaries of a state. Also called the state income, SDP is always calculated or estimated in monetary terms, and is instrumental in the evaluation of per capita income. State here refers to a country subdivision, as in the states of the United States and the states of India. While GDP gives a good estimate of the entire nation's output, SDP provides more detailed economic details about subnational territories.

See also
Gross State Product

Gross state product
State government finances in India
Mingxing

Mingxing Film Company (), also known as the Star Motion Picture Company, was one of the largest production companies during the 1920s, and 1930s in the Republican era. Founded in Shanghai, the company lasted from 1922 until 1937 when it was closed permanently by the Second Sino-Japanese War.

History
Founded in 1922 by Zhang Shichuan, Zheng Zhengqiu, and Zhou Jianyun, Mingxing emerged along with Dazhonghua Baihe Film Company, and Tianyi Film Company as one of the three dominant film studios of the 1920s. During this period, all three studios were known for producing "light" entertainment though even at this early time there was a sign of social criticism, inherited from the May 4th Movement.

The film company struggled in its first few years with comic shorts like 1922's Laborer's Love. In 1923, the company produced Orphan Rescues Grandfather which became a commercial success and with it Mingxing's fortunes were assured.
By the early 1930s, Mingxing had become the leading film studio in China, and dominated the market with its upstart rival, the Lianhua Film Company (which had co-opted Dazhonghua Baihe) as a close second. In 1931, the first Chinese sound film Sing-Song Girl Red Peony was made, the product of a cooperation between the Mingxing Film Company's image production and Pathé's sound technology. However, the sound was disc-recorded, and the first sound-on-film talkie made in China was by Tianyi Film Company.  Tianyi also continued to produce films throughout the 1930s, though its output did not match the two leaders. By the mid-1930s, both Mingxing and Lianhua became major production houses for films in Shanghai. With the death of co-founder Zheng Zhengqiu in 1934, and the advent of full-scale war in 1937, Mingxing was forced to close its doors permanently.

Elements of the Mingxing operation would be resurrected by Zhang Shichuan in 1938 as the Guohao Film Company.

Notable films
Laborer's Love (1922) (Dir. Zhang Shichuan)
The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (1928) (Dir Zhang Shichuan)
Spring Silkworms (1933) (Dir. Cheng Bugao)
Wild Torrents (1933) (Dir. Cheng Bugao)
The Boatman's Daughter (1935) (Dir. Shen Xiling)
Crossroads (1937) (Dir. Shen Xiling)
Street Angel (1937) (Dir. Yuan Muzhi)

See also
Cinema of China
List of Chinese production companies (pre-PRC)

Notes

References 
 Fu, Poshek. Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas. Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 2003.
 Zhang, Yingjin. "A Centennial Review of Chinese Cinema" available at https://web.archive.org/web/20080907160026/http://chinesecinema.ucsd.edu/essay_ccwlc.html.

External links
An Incomplete List of Films Produced by Mingxing

Chinese film studios
Film production companies of China
Defunct film and television production companies of China
Mass media companies established in 1922
Mass media in Shanghai
Mass media companies disestablished in 1937
Companies based in Shanghai
Chinese companies established in 1922
1937 disestablishments in China
National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame

The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a hall of fame and museum dedicated to men's college basketball.   The museum is an integral portion of the College Basketball Experience created by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), located at the T-Mobile Center. The hall is meant as a complement to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, with a focus strictly on those who have contributed greatly to college basketball.

On November 17, 2006, the NABC honored around 180 players, coaches and other notable contributors to college basketball by inducting them into the founding class of the Hall of Fame.  Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Dean Smith, John Wooden, and the family of James Naismith, were selected to represent the inaugural class.

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts has indicated it will help with the exhibits.  The other interactive portions of the College Basketball Experience are called 'The Entry Experience,' 'The Fan Experience,' and 'The Game.' The NABC recently renamed the Guardians Classic college tournament the CBE Classic to help promote it.

Inductees

Each year several founding class members are honored at the induction ceremony:
 2007: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
 2008: Charles Barkley
 2009: Larry Bird, Magic Johnson
 2010: Jerry West, David Thompson
 2011: Bob Knight, James Worthy
 2012: Clyde Lovellette, Willis Reed, Earl Monroe
 2013: Elvin Hayes

See also
USBWA Hall of Fame
National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC)
Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Hall of Honor
Carolina Basketball Museum (University of North Carolina)

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Basketball museums and halls of fame
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Sports museums in Missouri
College basketball trophies and awards in the United States
National Association of Basketball Coaches
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Awards established in 2006
2006 establishments in Missouri
Museums in Kansas City, Missouri

Downtown Kansas City
Jerome, Missouri

Jerome is an unincorporated community in western Phelps County, Missouri, United States. It is located on the Gasconade River near Interstate 44, and is approximately ten miles west of Rolla, near the edge of the Mark Twain National Forest.

Jerome was originally called "Fremont Town", and under the latter name was platted in 1867 when the railroad was extended through the neighborhood.

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Unincorporated communities in Phelps County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
The Paris Sisters

The Paris Sisters were a 1960s American girl group from San Francisco, best known for their work with record producer Phil Spector.

Career
The group consisted of lead singer Priscilla Paris (January 4, 1945 – March 5, 2004), her older sister Albeth Carole Paris, and their middle sister Sherrell Paris. They reached the peak of their success in October 1961 with the hit single "I Love How You Love Me", which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, and sold over one million copies. Some of the group's other hit songs include the US Top 40 single "He Knows I Love Him Too Much" (March 1962, No. 34), "All Through The Night" (1961), "Be My Boy" (No. 56), "Let Me Be The One" (No. 87), and "Dream Lover" (No. 91).

The Paris Sisters appeared in the 1962 British rock film It's Trad, Dad! (released in the U.S. as Ring-a-Ding Rhythm) directed by Richard Lester. In the film, they performed the Spector-produced song "What Am I to Do?" Also early in the 1960s, the Paris Sisters sang the jingle for Diet Rite soda.

Sherrell Paris later served as a production assistant on The Price Is Right and as host Bob Barker's personal assistant until she was released in 2000.
 
Priscilla Paris died on March 5, 2004, from injuries suffered in a fall at her home in Pays de la Loire, France. She was 59.

Albeth Paris died in Palm Springs, California, on December 5, 2014. She was 79.

Discography

Albums
Sing From the Glass House, Unifilms Records (1966)
Golden Hits of The Paris Sisters, Sidewalk Records (1967)
Sing Everything Under The Sun, Reprise Records (1967)
The Best of The Paris Sisters, Curb Records (2004)
The Complete Phil Spector Sessions, Varèse Sarabande (2006)
Always Heavenly, Ace Records (2016)

Singles

References

External links
Paris Sisters biography I
Paris Sisters biography II
Fanpage Tribute to Priscilla, Sherell & Albeth
Complete Paris Sisters discography and interview

American girl groups
American vocal groups
American pop music groups
Family musical groups
1954 establishments in California
Musical groups disestablished in 1968
Musical groups from San Francisco
Imperial Records artists
Mercury Records artists
Capitol Records artists
MGM Records artists
Teresita, Missouri

Teresita is an unincorporated community in western Shannon County, Missouri, United States. It is located just off U.S. Route 60, approximately six miles east of Mountain View.

A post office called Teresita was established in 1903, and remained in operation until 1990. It is unknown why the Spanish name "Teresita" was applied to this community.

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Unincorporated communities in Shannon County, Missouri
Populated places established in 1904
Unincorporated communities in Missouri