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Ormosil

Ormosil is a shorthand phrase for organically modified silica or organically modified silicate.  In general, ormosils are produced by adding silane to silica-derived gel during the sol-gel process. They are engineered materials that show great promise in a wide range of applications such as:
 alternative to viral vectors for gene delivery, with higher transient transfection efficiencies
 suspension media and substrates for next generation solar cells (quantum dots)and photocatalytic oxidation of water 
 matrix material for UV-protection coating
 matrix material for laser dye-doped organic-inorganic solid state dye lasers

This technology has been demonstrated as a nonviral vector to successfully deliver DNA loads to specifically targeted cells in living animals. Confirmation of results demonstrated that new DNA was working and expressed genes in the animal.

Sono-Ormosil
Sono-Ormosils are organically modified silicates, which were prepared by using high-performance ultrasound during the sol-gel process. When high intense ultrasound is introduced in liquid, cavitation is produced. Due to the cavitational shear forces, molecular weight is lowered by particle size reduction and polydispersity is achieved. Multiphase systems are dispersed and emulsified very efficiently, so that very fine mixtures are prepared. This means that ultrasound accelerates the polymerization significantly over conventional stirring. The resulting polymer shows a higher molecular weight with a lower polydispersity. The product is a molecular-scaled composite material with improved mechanical properties. Sono-Ormosils are distinguished in comparison with conventional gels by a higher density as well as improved thermal stability. This may be a result from the higher degree of polymerization.

See also

 Organic laser
 Organic photonics

References

Nanomaterials
Organosilicon compounds
Shrike-like tanager

The shrike-like tanager (Neothraupis fasciata), also known as the white-banded tanager, is a South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Neothraupis.

Taxonomy
The shrike-like tanager was formally described in 1823 by the German naturalist Hinrich Lichtenstein under the binomial name Tanagra fasciata. The species is now the only member of the genus Neothraupis that was introduced in 1936 by the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek neos meaning "new" and thraupis, the word for an unknown small bird, perhaps some form of finch. The specific epithet is from the Late Latin fasciatus  meaning "banded". The shrike-like tanager is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.

Description
The plumage of the shrike-like tanager is remarkably similar to that of several species of shrikes in the genus Lanius, but these Corvoidea are quite distantly related songbirds. Males and females of this species look alike. It has a total length of about  and weighs 29–32 g.

Distribution and habitat
It is a bird native to the interior of south-central South America at elevations of . It is restricted to Cerrado, woodland and shrub of central-eastern Brazil, north-eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Bolivia. It is frequently seen in Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Behaviour
Typically seen in pairs or small groups of up to 12 individuals, with 7 being average. Eats insects. Breeds in October and November. The deep, cup-shaped nest, typically placed in a small tree or bush, is lined with grasses. Clutch size 2–3 eggs. The pair are often helped by birds from earlier broods, which have the grey parts of the plumage partially or entirely replaced by brown (this brownish plumage sometimes mistakenly referred to as the adult female plumage).

References

External links
 Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the shrike-like tanager
 

shrike-like tanager
Birds of Bolivia
Birds of the Cerrado
Birds of Paraguay
shrike-like tanager
Tanagers
Isabelle Poulenard

Isabelle Poulenard (born 5 July 1961) is  French contemporary soprano.

Poulenard was born in Paris.  Her work has generally been focused on music of the French Baroque, however, she has performed and recorded George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann. Her voice has been compared to that of Emma Kirkby.

External links

official website

1961 births
Living people
Singers from Paris
French operatic sopranos
20th-century French women opera singers
Dream Boy

Dream Boy is a 1995 novel by Jim Grimsley.

Plot summary
Nathan is an intelligent but shy teenage boy who wants to escape from his abusive and violent father, and fantasizes about a relationship with Roy, the boy who lives next door. Roy is a senior at the same high school as Nathan, and he drives the school bus.  Gradually their relationship deepens and becomes sexual.

Drunk one evening, Nathan's father tries to molest him. This is clearly not the first time it has happened and helps explain Nathan's desire to escape from his family. His mother avoids the issue, although she knows what is going on.

Nathan is accepted into Roy's social circle and is invited to go on a camping trip with Roy and his friends Randy and Burke.  During the trip, they discover an abandoned and possibly haunted plantation house and Nathan and Roy are discovered in a compromising situation. Burke later on rapes and hits Nathan with a chair handle. The blow is clearly fatal and Nathan "dies" yet is still inside his body and aware of his surroundings. The book ends with Nathan leaving the abandoned house and finding Roy.

Film adaptation

Dream Boy has been adapted for a film, written and directed by James Bolton. It stars Stephan Bender as Nathan and Maximillian Roeg as Roy, and features musician Rickie Lee Jones as Roy's mother. The film was first screened on February 12, 2008 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Richard Buckner recorded the film's soundtrack.

See also

 Gay male teen fiction

References

External links
 Chicago Review January 1996

1995 American novels
Novels with gay themes
Algonquin Books books
1990s LGBT novels
Stonewall Book Award-winning works
Pomfret (disambiguation)

Pomfret is a group of perciform fishes which includes about 20 species and belongs to the family Bramidae.

Pomfret may also refer to:

People
 Pomfret (surname), a surname
 Earl of Pomfret, formerly a title in the Peerage of Great Britain

Places
 Pontefract, West Yorkshire, still known locally as Pomfret, a name going back to Norman times
 Pomfret Castle or Pontefract Castle, prison of Richard II, now a ruin
 Pomfret Stakes, a horse race run at Pontefract
 Pontefract cake or Pomfret cakes, a small, roughly circular black sweet, made of liquorice

United States
 Pomfret, Connecticut
 Pomfret School, Connecticut
 Pomfret Street Historic District
 Pomfret Town House, an historic meetinghouse
 Pomfret, Maryland
 Pomfret, New York
 Pomfret, Vermont
 North Pomfret, Vermont

Elsewhere
 Pomfret, North West, South Africa
 Pomfret, a fictional county town in the Inspector Wexford series of books

Other uses
 Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Sunbury, Pennsylvania
 Pomfret Plantation, Marion, Maryland
 USS Pomfret (SS-391), a World War II submarine

See also
 Pumphrey (disambiguation)
 Pommes frites (British English: chips; American English: French fries), potatoes cut into strips and deep fried
Kopp, Virginia

Kopp is an extinct unincorporated community located in Prince William County, Virginia.  The town began in 1885 and consisted, at one time, of a country store, school, post office, and Bellehaven Baptist Church, and was the home to about 100 local farming families. The town ceased to exist in 1942 when the federal government added about  to Marine Corps Base Quantico. The land upon which the residents of Kopp lived was purchased in what came to be known locally as "The Taking". It was located near the current town of Independent Hill on the western portion of the Marine Corps Base. No town buildings remain standing, and the church was demolished in about 1945, but the Marine Corps Base has been required to maintain the cemetery on the church grounds.

According to the Belle Haven church records, a concrete sidewalk was added in 1912.  It is all that remains of the church today. The foundation and a part of the chimney from the Belle Haven School can also be found across MCB-1 from that sidewalk, east of a training shelter.

The town of Kopp can, as of 2016, still be located on Microsoft Terraserver, Mapquest, and Google Maps. The town lies on road MCB-1 near the "Combat Village", an artificial town constructed for urban warfare training.

See also
Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia

References

Unincorporated communities in Prince William County, Virginia
Washington metropolitan area
Unincorporated communities in Virginia
Ghost towns in Virginia
Populated places established in 1885
Populated places disestablished in 1942
1885 establishments in Virginia
1942 disestablishments in Virginia
StegFS

StegFS is a free steganographic file system for Linux based on the ext2 filesystem. It is licensed under the GPL. It was principally developed by Andrew D. McDonald and Markus G. Kuhn.

The last version of StegFS is 1.1.4, released February 14, 2001. This is a development release, with known bugs, such as a file corruption bug. There is no stable release. The last website activity was in 2004. In 2003, Andreas C. Petter and Sebastian Urbach intended to continue development of StegFS, and created a site for it on SourceForge.net. The development has further moved to using FUSE library, and working releases are available from the development homepage.

See also

 Filesystem-level encryption
 List of cryptographic file systems

Further reading

External links
StegFS original home page
StegFS development home page
StegFS research paper -(PDF file)
StegFS SourceForge project page

Disk file systems
Free special-purpose file systems
File systems supported by the Linux kernel
Steganography
Opeongo River Provincial Park

Opeongo River Provincial Park is a waterway park in Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. It incorporates those portions of the Opeongo River from its exit from Algonquin Provincial Park to the river's mouth at the Madawaska River, except for a small portion around Victoria Lake. The park has two access points: from Ontario Highway 60 west of the community of Madawaska; and the Shall Lake access point, north of Victoria Lake, in Algonquin Provincial Park.

As a non-operating park, there are no facilities or services. The park can be used for recreational activities such as canoeing, hiking, swimming, and hunting.

References

Sources

External links

Provincial parks of Ontario
Parks in Nipissing District
Protected areas established in 1985
1985 establishments in Ontario
White-rumped tanager

The white-rumped tanager (Cypsnagra hirundinacea) is a South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Cypsnagra.

The length is 16 cm with a weight of 25-34 g. They occur mostly in Brazil, also in Paraguay, Bolivia and Suriname at an elevation of 700–1000 m. They inhabit grasslands with few trees. In Brazil they are found in territorial groups of three to six individuals. They eat insects on the ground in the grass or catch them in flight (sallying). Their diet mostly consists of beetles, crickets and grasshoppers but they occasionally eat fruit. The cup shaped nests are placed only 1–2 metres off the ground and are made of woven grasses. The clutch is 3-4 blue eggs which are speckled around the large end with brown or black spots. Helpers born the previous season help mating pair tend the nest and nestlings.

Taxonomy
The taxonomy is a little complicated. The white-rumped tanager was formally described in 1823 by German naturalist Hinrich Lichtenstein under the binomial name Tanagra ruficollis. Unfortunately, this combination had been used in 1789 by German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin for what is now a subspecies of the Greater Antillean bullfinch with the trinomial Melopyrrha violacea ruficollis. In 1831 the French naturalist René Lesson described the white-rumped tanager and introduced the name Cypsnagra (as a subgenus) and the binomial name Tanagra hirundinacea. The type location is Franca in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The genus name Cypsnagra is a mixture of the Ancient Greek kupselos meaning "swallow" and the genus name Tanagra. The specific epithet is from Modern Latin hirundinaceus  meaning "swallow-like".

Two subspecies are recognised:
 C. h. pallidigula Hellmayr, 1907 – Suriname, French Guiana, northeast Bolivia to east central Brazil
 C. h. hirundinacea (Lesson, R, 1831) – east Bolivia, Paraguay and south Brazil

References

External links
 Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the white-rumped tanager

white-rumped tanager
Birds of Bolivia
Birds of the Cerrado
white-rumped tanager
Taxa named by René Lesson
Gaëlle Méchaly

Gaëlle Méchaly (born 15 June 1970 in Marseille, France) is a soprano. She is a frequent member of Les Arts Florissants and has appeared in a number of operatic productions of Baroque works directed by its founder, William Christie.

External links 
 
 2001 Cardiff Competition profile on Gaëlle Méchaly
 

1970 births
Living people
French operatic sopranos
21st-century French singers
21st-century French women singers
Cheetah Marketing

Cheetah Marketing was a United Kingdom-based company that produced electronic music-related hardware products and software for home computer systems during the 1980s. They later changed their name to Cheetah International Ltd.

Based in Cardiff, Cheetah was run by two brothers, Howard and Michael Jacobson, but owned by Cannon Street Investments. The company was closed in 1993 when the UK recession badly hit the share price of its owners. After this Chris Wright and Nick Owen bought the music products division and formed Soundscape Digital Technology Ltd. The joysticks and other computer peripheral products division went to another company in the Cannon Street group.

Products

The company originally produced joysticks like the infrared R.A.T. for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers and later branched out into music peripherals and stand-alone musical equipment for price conscious home users.

Among their offerings were the SpecDrum (a sample-based drum machine), a Cheetah Sound Sampler, a Cheetah Midi Interface, and in the later, 8-bit/16-bit drum machines, music sequencer, and a range of music keyboards (including polyphonic analog / digital synthesizers and rack mount modules).

Joysticks and peripherals included the Cheetah 125, Cheetah 125 Plus, Mach 1, and an infrared joypad.

Cheetah's range of music products expanded quickly during the 1980s when they began to work with external designers. Among these were Chris Wright, who later founded Soundscape Digital Technology, Ian Jannaway, who later founded Novation Digital Music Systems and Mike Lynch, who later founded Autonomy Corporation.

Cheetah also distributed the Gamate handheld console in the UK.

Music products
Cheetah SpecDrum - drum machine add-on for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Cheetah MQ8	- performance sequencer.
Cheetah MD8 - 8 bit MIDI drum machine.
Cheetah MD16	- 16 bit MIDI drum machine (also with the rack mount variants MD16R, MD16RP) - designed by Chris Wright and Nick Robbins.
Cheetah MK5/7VA	- 5 or 7 octave MIDI keyboard controllers - designed by Speedwell Software
Cheetah Master Series 5/7/7P	- MIDI keyboard controller, 5 or 7 octaves with piano weighted keyboard action - designed by Chris Wright and Nick Robbins.
Cheetah Master Series 7000/8000	- MIDI keyboard controllers with advanced features, 5 or 7 octaves and piano weighted keyboard action (shown at the NAMM show in 1993 but never manufactured due to demise of Cheetah - 6 prototypes are known to exist) - designed by Chris Wright and Nick Robbins.
Cheetah MS800	- Digital wave synthesizer  - designed by Lynett Systems (Mike Lynch).
Cheetah SX16	- 16 bit sampler - designed by Lynett Systems (Mike Lynch).
Cheetah MS6	- 6 voice polyphonic analogue synthesizer - designed by Ian Jannaway

References

Further reading

Audio equipment manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Synthesizer manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Musical instrument manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Cardiff
Electronics companies disestablished in 1993
Defunct companies of the United Kingdom
1934 Southern Rhodesian sweepstakes referendum

The Southern Rhodesia sweepstakes referendum of February 1934 saw the voters of Southern Rhodesia vote to permit the running of sweepstakes gambling "under strict legislative control", managed by the government of the colony.

Background
The Lotteries Prohibition Act 1891 made lotteries illegal in Southern Rhodesia, but it became increasingly common for Rhodesians to participate in sweepstakes conducted outside the colony and it was felt among the political class that a measure of reform on the issue was overdue. The case for legalising sweepstakes had been raised in the Southern Rhodesia Assembly from 1928, and in the general election of 1933 the Reform Party stated in its manifesto that it would submit the issue to a referendum should it be elected.

Arrangements
No specific act was passed to authorise the referendum; instead the Government Statistician was instructed to conduct the ballot, which was conducted entirely through postal voting with no polling stations being open. All those registered to vote were sent a ballot paper at the beginning of February, with a calendar month to respond (the ballot closed on 28 February). There were two separate issues on the ballot paper, which read:

1. Are you in favour of sweepstakes under strict legislative control being permitted to operate in Southern Rhodesia?

2. If sweepstakes be legalised, are you in favour of –

(a) Management by the Government direct?

or

(b) Management by a special authority under Government licence?

Results
There were 28,216 ballot papers dispatched, of which 20,550 were returned, making a turnout of 72.8%. The majority in favour of legalising sweepstakes was an overwhelming one of more than four to one. The voters then approved management by the Government direct, by a slightly more than two-thirds majority, although the Statistician discounted some 1,036 votes on the second question who had given contradictory answers "which made it impossible to determine what their views on management were". 203 ballot papers were blank on the second question.

Following the result of the referendum, the House of Assembly passed the State Lotteries Act on 14 May 1935 which legalised sweepstakes under Government control.

Question 1

Question 2

References
 Source Book of Parliamentary Elections and Referenda in Southern Rhodesia 1898–1962 ed. by F.M.G. Willson (Department of Government, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Salisbury 1963)

Southern Rhodesia
Sweepstakes
Referendums in Zimbabwe
Black-and-white tanager

The black-and-white tanager (Conothraupis speculigera) is a tanager found in the Tumbes region of southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru; it migrates eastwards as far as Acre. The only other member of its genus is the recently rediscovered cone-billed tanager.

It has a total length of 16 cm. (6½ in) and weighs . The male is black with a grey rump, white underparts and a white wing-speculum. It is longer-billed than the superficially similar black-and-white seedeater and lacks the black flanks and chalk-white bill of the related cone-billed tanager. The female is olive with faintly mottled, yellow-tinged underparts. Both sexes have a reddish iris and a greyish bill.

The males' song is distinctive, blackbird-like, loud and ringing.

This bird is found in scrub, woodland and forest borders at elevation of . It is generally uncommon to rare and usually seen singly or in pairs, but may be found in flocks of up to 50 individuals. It eats insects and seeds. In the northern part of its range it breeds during the rainy season (around March), after which it disperses.

The nest was only described in 2006. It is open and rather untidy and loosely woven, some 6–7 cm high and 10–11 cm wide outside, with a nest cup some 6 cm wide and 4 cm deep. It is placed at medium height (about 50–150 cm above ground) in small shrubs. It is built from sticks and leaf petioles, and lined with black rhizomorphs of fungi.

The clutch presumably consists of 2-3 eggs. These are pale blue with heavy, quite evenly distributed brown blotching and measure  21 by 15.6 mm.

Footnotes

References
 Clements, James F.; Shany, Noam; Gardner, Dana & Barnes, Eustace (2001): A Field Guide to the Birds of Peru. Ibis, Temecula, CA. 
 Greeney, Harold F.; Juiña, Mery & Fernando Sornoza, A. (2006): Nest descriptions for Conothraupis speculigera and Thlypopsis ornata in Ecuador. Boletín de la Sociedad Antioqueña de Ornitología 16(1): 24–29. [English with Spanish abstract] PDF fulltext
 Ridgely, Robert S & Greenfield, Paul J. (2001): The Birds of Ecuador. Comstock, Ithaca, NY. 
 Ridgely, Robert S.; Tudor, Guy & Brown, William L. (1989): The Birds of South America Volume 1: The oscine passerines. University of Texas Press, Austin. 

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Birds of the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
Birds of Ecuador
Birds of Peru
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Arcadia Brewing Company

The Arcadia Brewing Company (also known as Arcadia Ales) was a brewery with facilities in Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, in operation from 1996 to 2019. At the time it ceased operations due to financing problems, it was one of Michigan's 25 largest craft breweries and distributed to eight states.

History
The business first opened in 1996 as a pub in Battle Creek, owned by Tim Suprise (founder and president) along with several other shareholders. The restaurant TC's Wood-Fired Fare was founded alongside the microbrewery. The brewery's products were distributed in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania; and in craft beer clubs in Washington and Canada.

All beers were produced in the brewery's 25 bbl Peter Austin brewhouse, and open-fermented in the brewery's cellar, using a traditional English ale yeast. In the spring of 2014, Arcadia completed a new building in Kalamazoo, a 30,000 square foot building, capable of producing 21,000 barrels annually. The Battle Creek facility closed in 2016.

Arcadia's year-round brews included Arcadia IPA (an India pale ale), Cheap Date (a session ale), Loch Down (a Scotch ale), Mango Suprise [sic] (an American IPA made with mango), Hopmouth (double IPA), Rapunzel (a wheat beer), and Sky High Rye (a pale ale). Its seasonal beers included Porter Rico (a porter with coconut), Shipwreck Porter (bourbon-barrel-aged, 12 percent ABV), and Whitsun Ale (a wheat ale).

The company ceased operations in September 2019, following a default on its mortgage.

In June 2020, the Superfluid Supply Co. division of Elk Rapids-based Short's Brewing announced its purchase of Arcadia's beer brands and intellectual property. "Arcadia was influential to the development of the Michigan Craft beer scene and was doing well until a few specific errors caused its failure," said Short's CEO Scott Newman-Bale. Superfluid relaunched Whitsun Ale under the Arcadia brand in July 2020, with plans to release other Arcadia brands in the future.

Awards
2009 Great American Beer Festival
 Bourbon barrel-aged Cereal Killer Barleywine - Gold Medal

See also
 Barrel-aged beer
 Beer in the United States
 List of defunct breweries in the United States
 Michigan Brewing Company

References 

Beer brewing companies based in Michigan
Companies based in Battle Creek, Michigan
Companies based in Kalamazoo, Michigan
Food and drink companies established in 1996
American companies established in 1996
1996 establishments in Michigan
Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian

Prince Manucher Mirza (1917–2003) was born in Tehran in 1917. He was the sixth son of Prince Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma and of Batoul Khanoum.

He studied petroleum engineering at Birmingham University in England before returning to Iran. On his return he joined the military rising to the rank of second lieutenant and left in the weeks surrounding January 1943.

He went on to work in the Ministry of Finance until he was appointed to become the director general of Petroleum, Concessions, and Mines in April 1949.

In 1958, he became the director of sales for the National Iranian Oil Company. A key signatory in the 1959 Cairo Agreement that resulted in OPEC, he was Iran's first ambassador to Venezuela. In 1979, during the Iranian Revolution, Manucher escaped across the Iran-Turkey border with the help of Kurdish smugglers. After fleeing from Ayatollah Khomeini's regime in the 1979, revolution, Manucher Mirza permanently relocated to Venezuela, establishing a new life and a new business (potato crisp manufacturer) for himself. In his later life he co-authored Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince with his daughter Roxane Farman Farmaian, which was published in 1997.

In 2003, Manucher died in Caracas and was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor, New York next to his brother Abol-Bashar Mirza Farman Farmaian.

Publications
Travels to Persia 
Considerations of the Problems of Oil
Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince, Random House, New York, 1997.

Government positions held
Director of Sales for the National Iranian Oil Company
Ambassador to Venezuela

See also
Persia (Iran)
 History of Iran (Persia)
Qajar dynasty of Iran (Persia)
Iran-Venezuela relations

Sources
Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince; Manucher Mirza Farman Farmaian. Random House, New York, 1997.

Notes

External links
The Qajar (Kadjar) Pages

1917 births
2003 deaths
Qajar princes
20th-century Iranian engineers
20th-century Iranian businesspeople
Businesspeople from Tehran
Ambassadors of Iran to Venezuela
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Iranian emigrants to Venezuela
Farmanfarmaian family
Iranian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Caesium acetate

Caesium acetate or cesium acetate is an ionic caesium compound with the molecular formula CH3COOCs. It is a white solid that may be formed by the reaction of caesium hydroxide or caesium carbonate with acetic acid.

Uses 
It is used in organic synthesis. One example is in the Perkin synthesis: the formation of unsaturated cinnamic-type acids by the condensation of aromatic aldehydes with fatty acids. Replacement of the commonly used sodium acetate with caesium acetate has been shown to improve yields by up to 10 times.

It is often used to invert secondary alcohols, first by direct SN2 substitution of the hydroxyl group with acetate, which is then converted back to a hydroxyl group.

Caesium acetate is occasionally used instead of caesium formate in petroleum drilling fluids.

References

Further reading
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External links
Caesium acetate factsheet from Chemetall GmbH

Caesium compounds
Acetates
Reagents for organic chemistry
Jim Hill

Jim Hill may refer to:

 Jim Hill (racing driver) (1890–?), American racecar driver
 Jim Hill (broadcaster) (born 1946), American sportscaster and former NFL player
 Jim Hill (Oregon politician) (born 1947), attorney, financial consultant, and politician from the U.S. state of Oregon
 Jim Hill (Alabama politician) (born 1950), member of the Alabama House of Representatives
 Jim Hill (Hillsboro politician), member of the Oregon House of Representatives from Hillsboro
 Jim Hill (athlete), American cross-country runner, competed in 1979 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
 Jim Hill (writer) (active 1986), British television writer for The Bill
 Homeland Security Agent Jim Hill, fictional character in the television series 24, portrayed by Carl Edwards

See also 
 James Hill (disambiguation)
 Jim Hill High School, public high school located in Jackson, Mississippi
 Jim Hill Mountain, a peak in Chiwaukum Mountains, Washington
 Jim Hilles (born 1936), American football player and coach
 Jimmy Hill (disambiguation)
 Hill (surname)
Sebastian Stock

Sebastian Stock (born 15 November 1977 in Immenstadt, Bavaria) is a German curler living in Bönigen, Switzerland. He is currently the national coach of the Swiss Curling Association.

Stock's junior career included a silver medal at the 1995 World Junior Curling Championships and a bronze medal the following year. In 1995 he played third for Daniel Herberg and they lost to Tom Brewster, Jr.'s Scotland team in the final. Stock skipped the 1996 team.

In 2002 Stock and his German team captured their first European Curling Championships after three previous tries. They defeated Peja Lindholm of Sweden in the final. Earlier that year Stock skipped Germany to a sixth-place finish at the 2002 Winter Olympics. In 2004, Stock lost to Lindholm in the finals of the 2004 Ford World Curling Championships.  Later that year Stock captured his second European Championship once again defeating Lindholm.

Personal life
Stock is married and has two children.

References

External links
 

1977 births
Living people
People from Immenstadt
Sportspeople from Swabia (Bavaria)
German male curlers
German expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Curlers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Continental Cup of Curling participants
European curling champions
German curling champions
Swiss curling coaches
People from Interlaken-Oberhasli District
A Scow

The A Scow is an American scow-hulled sailing dinghy that was designed by John O. Johnson as a racer and first built in 1901.

The A Scow design was developed into the V38, by Victory by Design, LLC in 2005.

Production
The design was initially built by Johnson Boat Works in White Bear Lake, Minnesota United States, but that company closed in 1998 and production passed to Melges Performance Sailboats, who continue to build it.

Design
The A Scow traces its origins back to a Johnson-designed prototype in 1896. Over time the class has changed and evolved into essentially a one design class today. At  length overall, the design is the largest scow raced today and is one of the largest dinghies produced.

The A Scow is a racing sailboat, with the early versions built from wood and the more recent ones built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop with a masthead spinnaker. The hull is a scow design with a raised counter, vertical transom; dual spade-type rudders controlled by dual tillers and dual retractable centerboards. It displaces  and carries no ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with a centerboard extended and  with both retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.

For sailing the design is equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker of , flown from a retractable bowsprit.

The design is raced with a crew of at least five sailors and normally has a total of six or seven crew members to help balance the boat.

Operational history
The boat is supported by a national class club, the National Class A Scow Association, which regulates the class and organizes races. The A Scow is mostly raced on lakes in the midwestern United States.

A film was made about racing A Scows, The Ultimate Ride, by racer Peter Crawford.

A review in Sailing World in 2006 by Gary Jobson, wrote, "these boats sail best when heeled more than 20 degrees, and in a breeze, it takes a lot of courage to do this. The boat rocks up and you feel as if you're about to be catapulted out of the cockpit. But a subtle tug on the tiller, a slight ease of the main and spinnaker sheets, and zingo, you're sailing at 25 knots. There's no crew weight limit, so depending on the wind strength, 5 to 7 crew can be piled on the rail with sailors rotating on or off in between races."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Dinghies
Scows
1900s sailboat type designs
Sailboat type designs by John O. Johnson
Sailboat types built by Johnson Boat Works
Sailboat types built by Melges Performance Sailboats
Guillemette Laurens

Guillemette Laurens (born 6 November 1957 in Fontainebleau, France) is a French operatic mezzo-soprano.

Guillemette trained at the Academy of Toulouse and debuted as Baba in The Rake's Progress at Salle Favart. She took part in the premiere recording of Lully's Atys conducted by William Christie. She is a highly respected singer of Baroque music, both as a soprano and a mezzo-soprano. She has made notable recordings of Monteverdi operas.

Biography 
Guillemette Laurens was born in Fontainebleau in 1957. She studied music theory, piano and chamber music at the Toulouse Conservatory.

In 1979, she participated in the founding of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants, the spearhead of the Baroque revival movement with which she worked intensively throughout the 1980s under the direction of William Christie.

Recordings

 Jean-Féry Rebel: Ulysse. Les Solistes du Marais: Guillemette Laurens, Stéphanie Révidat, Bertrand Chuberre, Bernard Deletré, Céline Ricci, Eugénie Warnier, Vincent Lièvre-Picard, Thomas van Essen, Le Chœur du Marais, La Simphonie du Marais, conducted by Hugo Reyne. Recorded 9–10 July 2007. [Saint-Sulpice-le-Verdon, Vendée]: Conseil Général de la Vendée, Ⓟ 2007. Musiques à la Chabotterie 605003
 Saint-Saëns, Oratorio de Noël, Marie Paule Dotti, soprano, Guillemette Laurens, mezzo-soprano, Luca Lombardo, ténor, Nicolas Testé, basse, Francesco Cera, orgue, Coro della Radio Swizzera, Lugano, Orchestra della Swizzera Italiana, dir. Diego Fasolis. CD Chandos 2004

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People from Fontainebleau
1957 births
Living people
French operatic mezzo-sopranos
French women singers
Magpie tanager

The magpie tanager (Cissopis leverianus) is a South American species of tanager. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Cissopis. As suggested by its common name, this blue-black and white species is superficially reminiscent of a European magpie. With a total length of , a large percentage of which is tail, it is the longest species of tanager. It weighs .

It is widespread in humid tropical and subtropical woodland, plantations, second growth, and parks in South America east of the Andes. It is absent from drier regions (such as the Caatinga) and most of north-eastern Brazil. In densely forested regions, it mainly occurs in relatively open sections (such as near major rivers). In such regions it is spreading with deforestation, which opens up the habitat. It is largely restricted to lowlands, but occurs up to an altitude of  on the east Andean slopes. It is common throughout most of its range, but rarer in the Guianas.

Typically occurs in conspicuous, noisy pairs or groups of up to 10 individuals. Commonly takes part in mixed-species flocks. Often moves long tail up and down. Eats seed, fruits and insects. The cup-shaped nest is lined with grass, leaves or other plant materials and is located low in trees near the ground or in shrubs in dense vegetation. The 2 eggs are reddish-brown with brown spots. The incubation time is 12–13 days in captivity.

Taxonomy
The magpie tanager was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin under the binomial name Lanius leverianus. Gmelin's account was based on the "magpie shrike" that had been described in 1781 by the English ornithologist John Latham in his A General Synopsis of Birds. The type locality is Cayenne. The magpie tanager is now the only species placed in the genus Cissopis that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot. The genus name Cissopis combines the Ancient Greek kissa meaning "magpie" with -ōpis meaning "-faced". The specific epithet leverianus was chosen to honour the English collector Ashton Lever.

Two subspecies are recognised:
 C. l. leverianus (Gmelin, JF, 1788) – east Colombia and south Venezuela through the Guianas and Amazonian Brazil to central Bolivia
 C. l. major Cabanis, 1851 – Paraguay, southeast Brazil and northeast Argentina

References

 Restall, R., Rodner, C., & Lentino, M. (2006). Birds of Northern South America. Vol. 1 & 2. Helm, London.  (vol. 1);  (vol. 2).
 Ridgely, R., & Greenfield, P. (2001). The Birds of Ecuador - Field Guide. Cornell University Press.

External links
 Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the magpie tanager
 Magpie Tanager videos on the Internet Bird Collection

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magpie tanager
Birds of the Guianas
Birds of Colombia
Birds of Venezuela
Birds of the Amazon rainforest
Birds of Brazil
Birds of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Birds of the Peruvian Amazon
Birds of the Bolivian Amazon
Birds of Paraguay
magpie tanager
magpie tanager
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
Firuz Mirza

Firuz Mirza Nosrat ad-Dowleh Farmanfarma (; 1817 – 4 April 1886) was a Qajar prince, military commander and administrator in 19th-century Iran. He was the sixteenth son of Abbas Mirza.

During the rule of his brother Mohammad Shah Qajar (), Firuz Mirza had a prosperous political and military career. This continued under his nephew Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (), who appointed him to multiple governorships and other leading positions. Firuz Mirza was survived by his son Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma.

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Qajar princes
1817 births
1886 deaths
19th-century Iranian politicians
Ring of Honor (disambiguation)

Ring of Honor (ROH) is an American professional wrestling promotion. 

In professional wrestling, Ring of Honor may also refer to:

Ring of Honor Wrestling, ROH's primary television show.

Ring of Honor may also refers to an honor given by several North American sports teams to notable members of the organization. Typically, the person's name would be permanently displayed on the facade of a stadium balcony. Individual teams with this honor include:
Arizona Cardinals Ring of Honor
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Denver Broncos Ring of Fame
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Washington Commanders Ring of Fame
Macromiidae

The insect family Macromiidae contains the dragonfly species known as cruisers or skimmers. They tend to fly over bodies of water (and roads) straight down the middle. They are similar to Aeshnidae in size, but the eyes are green and just barely meet at the top of the head.

Macromiidae, or Macromiinae, has been traditionally considered as a subfamily of Corduliidae (). It contains four genera and 125 species worldwide.

Females of this family lack an ovipositor at the end of the abdomen and lay their eggs by dipping the abdomen in the water as they fly over. Ovipositing is usually done without a male.

Early stages 
The naiads hatch after two weeks and are born with three gills for respiration (Lung 2001). 

Naiads are found in rivers, streams, and lakes where there is water movement. They crawl in debris at the water's bottom and wait for prey. They mostly eat mosquito larvae, freshwater shrimp, fish and tadpoles (Young 1955).

References
2. Young, Frank N.; Westfall, Minter J. (1955). "Review of A Manual of the Dragonflies of North America (Anisoptera). (Including the Greater Antilles and the Provinces of the Mexican Border.), Minter J. Westfall, Jr". Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 18 (2): 125–127. ISSN 0015-3850.

External links

Images of Macromiidae

 
Libelluloidea
Odonata of Australia
Odonata families
Taxa named by James George Needham
Los Flamers

Los Flamers are a Mexican Cumbia band, formed in the mid-1960s by Roberto Eugenio Bueno Campos. They are known for their hits such as "El Chicle", "El Tizón","Juana La Cubana", "Atol de Elote", "Juana La Bailadora", "Viva El Amor", "Mira Mira Mira" and "Camarón Pelao". Members of the group include Roberto Bueno, Armando Vazquez, Paco Valerio, Fernando Lopez, Manny Dominguez, Salvador Iglesias, Jose Pacheco, Yoc Pacheco, Sammy Sánchez and David Roman.

Between 1978 and 1995 they released a string of albums on RCA Records/Sony BMG. They began their career doing cover versions of songs by US and British bands, and became one of the most popular cumbia groups in Mexico.

Discography
 Los Flamers (1978), Sony BMG/RCA
 Los Flamers 2, RCA
 Los Flamers 3, RCA
 Los Flamers 4, RCA
 Bailemos Cumbiarengue (1985), RCA
 Te Amo Chunchaca (1990), RCA
 Gran Reventon, RCA
 Gran Reventon vol. 2 (1990), Sony BMG/RCA
 Flamazo Navideño (1990), Sony BMG/RCA
 Atol De Elote (1990), BMG
 Los Reyes del Baile (1991), RCA
 Dime Si Te Gusto (1992), RCA
 Gran Reventon Gran, Vol. 7 (1992), Sony BMG/RCA
 O Que O Que O Que (1993), RCA
 Agua (1995), Musart
 Amor a Primera Vista (1995), Musart
 Gran Reventon '95 (1996), Musart
 Flamazo '96 (1996), Musart
 Flamazo '97 (1997)		
 Flamazo '98 (1998), Musart		
 Gran Reventon '98 (1999), Musart		
 Flamazo '99 (1999), Musart	
 Gran Reventon '99 (1999), Musart
 Gran Reventon Navideno (2001), Universal Music Latino
 A Puro Flamazo (2002), I.M.
 Y Siguen los Flamazos (2002), I.M.
 20 Super Flamazos (2003), I.M.
 Flamozos (2003), RCA
 Flamazo Colombiano (2003), Sony BMG/RCA
 Flamazo Dinamita (2003), I.M.
 Reventón Navideño (2004), I.M.
 Pendiente (2004), I.M.
 Flamazo Reggaeton (2007), International Latin America
 Gran Baile Navideño (2008)
 Serie 20 Exitos
 De Puro Reventon, Vol. 1
 De Puro Reventon, Vol. 2
 Flamazo Tmbiriche
 La más grande colección navideña

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Mexican musical groups
Noémi Rime

Noémi Rime is a French soprano. She regularly appears in opera productions by William Christie's Les Arts Florissants ensemble. Her roles have included Cleone in Médée, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, and Fatime in Les Indes galantes. She currently teaches on the faculty of the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Poitiers.

Biography

First prize in song and early music at the Conservatoire national supérieure de musique et de danse de Paris, she worked with Les Arts florissants by William Christie, which led her, in France and abroad (United States, Brazil , Argentina, Japan, Canada, Italy, Poland, etc.), to perform cantatas (Clérambault, Monteclair ...), court arias, religious music (François Couperin, Sébastien de Brossard, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Philippe Rameau , Jean-Joseph Cassanéa by Mondonville, etc.) and operas (the role of Dido in Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell1, Orfeo by Luigi Rossi, etc.). She has performed La Création et Les Saisons by Haydn under the direction of François Xavier Bilger with the lyric orchestra of Avignon, as well as contemporary works by Gualterio Dazzi with Le Parlement de Musique under the direction of Martin Gester. With the Baroque Ensemble of Limoges under the direction of Christophe Coin, she sang at the "Festival du Vieux Lyon".

She has participated in numerous stage productions: Atys, Le Malade imaginaire, Les Indes galantes2, The Fairy Queen, Médée3, Armide, working with Jean-Marie Villégier, Alfredo Arias, Adrian Noble, Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser, Gabriele Doehring, under the musical direction of William Christie, Philippe Herreweghe and Michel Schneider for the stages of Paris (Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra-Comique), Montpellier, Caen, Aix, La Chaise-Dieu, Madrid, Lisbon, New York .

Noémi Rime teaches at the CNR in Tours (since 1996) in the early music department, where she leads the vocal music interpretation class and at the Poitiers conservatory (since 2010), singing class (vocal technique and interpretation) [ ref. necessary].

She is the wife of bass-baritone François Bazola [ref. required], choir director in the vocal and instrumental ensemble Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie. It is part of the Consonances ensemble founded by François Bazola [ref. necessary].

Selective discography

His discography is varied; she records for the Erato, Harmonia Mundi, Opus 111, Vérany, Sirius, Ligia Digital and Accord labels.

References

External links

Biography on the website of the Académie de Musique Ancienne du Pays d' Arles 

French operatic sopranos
Living people
Academic staff of the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Poitiers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ashley, Missouri

Ashley is a census-designated place in Pike County, Missouri, United States.  It is located on Route 161, approximately six miles south of Bowling Green.

Ashley was platted in 1836. The community was named for William Henry Ashley, who served as lieutenant governor in the 1820s. A post office called Ashley was established in 1835, and remained in operation until 1965.

Demographics

Transportation
While there is no fixed-route transit service in Ashley, intercity bus service is provided by Burlington Trailways in nearby Bowling Green.

References

Census-designated places in Pike County, Missouri
Eukrohniidae

Eukrohniidae is a family of sagittoideans in the order Phragmophora. It consists of a single genus, Eukrohnia von Ritter-Záhony, 1909.

History
The first species of Eukrohniidae, Eukrohnia hamata, was identified by Karl Möbius in 1875. The genus was named Eukrohnia by R. von Ritter-Záhony in 1909 after August David Krohn. The family was named Eukrohniidae by Takasi Tokioka in 1965. One of the species, Eukrohnia fowleri, is bioluminescent.

Species
Eukrohnia bathyantarctica David, 1958
Eukrohnia bathypelagica Alvariño, 1962
Eukrohnia calliops McLelland, 1989
Eukrohnia flaccicoeca Casanova, 1986
Eukrohnia fowleri von Ritter-Záhony, 1909
Eukrohnia hamata (Möbius, 1875)
Eukrohnia kitoui Kuroda, 1981
Eukrohnia macroneura Casanova, 1986
Eukrohnia minuta Silas & Srinivasan, 1969
Eukrohnia proboscidea Furnestin & Ducret, 1965
Eukrohnia sinica Zhang & Chen, 1983

References

Chaetognatha
Monogeneric protostome families
Bjørnar Håkensmoen

Bjørnar Håkensmoen (or Bjoernar Haakensmoen, born July 18, 1969)  was the head coach of the Norwegian cross-country skiing team at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He rose to fame after offering Canadian skier Sara Renner his ski pole after hers broke during the women's team sprint event.  This act of sportsmanship allowed Renner to go on to claim the silver medal with teammate Beckie Scott, edging the Norwegian entry of Ella Gjømle Berg and Marit Bjørgen into fourth place.

Canada responded to this act of kindness with many gifts and gestures, including:

 Over 600 letters, telephone calls and e-mails of thanks were received by the Norwegian Embassy in Canada.
 Canadian businessman Michael Page donated 7400 cans of maple syrup to the Norwegian Olympic Committee.
 Renner herself sent Håkensmoen a bottle of wine as a token of her appreciation.

References

1969 births
Living people
Norwegian male cross-country skiers
Norwegian cross-country skiing coaches