alibayram/wikipedia-40-langs huggingface dataset:
MidSTAR

MidSTAR, a project of the United States Naval Academy (USNA) Small Satellite Program (SSP), is a general-purpose satellite bus capable of supporting a variety of space missions by easily accommodating a wide range of space experiments and instruments.

Mission architecture
The baseline MidSTAR mission includes a single spacecraft under the command and control of a single satellite ground (SGS) station located at USNA, Annapolis MD. (Lat. 38.98 N, 76.49 W). The ground station forwards downlinked data files to the Principal Investigators via the Internet. Secondary ground control will be available on an as-needed/space-available basis through Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey CA (36.6 N, 121.89 W). Launch segment for MidSTAR is either the Delta IV or Atlas V EELV. The orbit is tailored to payload requirements; where no requirements exist, the orbit of the primary payload or one of the other secondary payloads is accepted. In order for the spacecraft to be seen from USNA SGS at an elevation greater than 30 degrees and range simultaneously less than 900 km, the must be 500 ± 200 km with inclination greater than 35 degrees.

Satellites 
 MidSTAR I
 MidSTAR II, canceled

See also
 United States Naval Academy

References

Satellite Internet access
United States Naval Academy
Bad Schandau Elevator

The Bad Schandau Elevator is a passenger truss-tower elevator built in 1904 at Bad Schandau, a spa town in Saxony, Germany. The height of the elevator is , in an art nouveau-style steel framework tower, which has a diameter of  at the ground and at the door such of . On the way upward it overcomes a difference in height of . It functions as an observation tower.

Overview
The elevator is driven by an electric motor, with the electricity generated by the Lichtenhain Waterfall. During the winter and emergencies, electricity was originally provided by a battery.

In 1921 the drive of the Bad Schandau Elevator were changed to three-phase alternating current, a crank handle was left for the emergency operation. During World War I, the facility was shut down. In 1950 a driving disk hoisting engine was introduced. In 1961 two additional anchoring wires were attached and in 1978 a new control. In the years 1989-1990 the plant, which was put under monument protection in 1954, was reconditioned.

The elevator is visible in some scenes of Wes Anderson's 2013 film The Grand Budapest Hotel.

External links

 Information and photographs (in German).
 
 Drawings of Bad Schandau Elevator

Individual elevators
Elbe Sandstone Mountains
Transport in Saxon Switzerland
elevator
Art Nouveau architecture in Germany
Buildings and structures completed in 1904
Observation towers in Saxony
Ammonium metavanadate

Ammonium metavanadate is the inorganic compound with the formula NH4VO3.  It is a white salt, although samples are often yellow owing to impurities of V2O5.  It is an important intermediate in the purification of vanadium.

Synthesis and structure
The compound is prepared by the addition of ammonium salts to solutions of vanadate ions, generated by dissolution of V2O5 in basic aqueous solutions, such as hot sodium carbonate.  The compound precipitates as a colourless solid. This precipitation step can be slow.

The compound adopts a polymeric structure consisting of chains of [VO3]−, formed as corner-sharing VO4 tetrahedra.  These chains are  interconnected via hydrogen bonds with ammonium ions.

Uses
Vanadium is often purified from aqueous extracts of slags and ore by selective precipitation of ammonium metavanadate.  The material is then roasted to give vanadium pentoxide:
2 NH4VO3   →   V2O5  +  2 NH3  +  H2O

Other
Vanadates can behave as structural mimics of phosphates, and in this way they exhibit biological activity.

Ammonium metavanadate is used to prepare Mandelin reagent, a qualitative test for alkaloids.

References

Vanadates
Ammonium compounds
Inorganic compounds
Ammonium vanadate

Ammonium vanadate may refer to:

 Ammonium metavanadate (ammonium trioxovanadate(V)), NH4VO3
 Ammonium orthovanadate (ammonium tetraoxovanadate(V)), (NH4)3VO4, a compound related to Ammonium metavanadate
 Ammonium hexavanadate, (NH4)2V6O16, a compound related to Ammonium metavanadate
Clandown

Clandown is a village lying north of Radstock in Somerset, England, just off the Fosseway.  It is  north of Radstock. The nearby Bowlditch Quarry is a 0.25 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.

History
Clandown was formerly a mining village, on the Somerset Coalfield, but the last pits in the area closed in the late 1960s. The colliery at Clandown opened in 1811 and closed in 1929 and had a maximum shaft depth of . In 1896 it was owned by the trustees of the late C. Hollewy and by 1908 by the Clandown Colliery Co.

 Artefacts from a Roman site have been found close to the village. Clandown Farmhouse on Pow's Hill was built in the 1720s. As well as a church, there were two chapels and three public houses. One of the chapels has been demolished and the other has been converted to apartments. Two pubs have been demolished. A school was opened in 1861 (there having been a dame school before this) and closed in 2006.

Governance
Clandown forms part of the North East Somerset constituency, which elects a Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament prior to Britain leaving the European Union in January 2020.

Almost all significant local government functions are carried out by Bath and North East Somerset, a unitary authority.

Religious sites

The Church of the Holy Trinity was built in the 1840s in a perpendicular style, designed by George Phillips Manners. It was built for the Rev. Charles Otway Mayne of Midsomer Norton. It has  a small three-stage tower, a two bay nave and two bay chancel. It is a Grade II listed building. The building is now used as apartments.

References

Villages in Bath and North East Somerset
Somerset coalfield
Central California Valley Hydra

Central California Valley Hydra was an American soccer team that played in Stockton, California. The team joined the USISL in 1994 and moved to the USISL Pro League in 1995. They folded after the 1996 season.

Year-by-year

Coaches
 Greg Petersen: 1994

References

External links
 USISL Standings (1994-1996)

Defunct soccer clubs in California
USISL teams
Soccer clubs in California
1996 disestablishments in California
1994 establishments in California
Association football clubs established in 1994
Association football clubs disestablished in 1996
Collegium Regium

Collegium Regium is the Latin for King's College or Royal College. It is or has been the Latin name, occasionally used also in the vernacular, for a number of institutions, such as:

Collegium Regium Stockholmense, a short-lived Jesuit-influenced college in late 16th century Stockholm.
Collegium Regium, better known as Regensen, a residential college at the University of Copenhagen, inaugurated in 1623.
Isaac Dodds and Son

Isaac Dodds and Son was a locomotive manufacturer based in the Holmes district of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Isaac Dodds took over part of the works of  Samuel Walker and Company in Rotherham sometime while he was Superintendent of the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway. It is likely, therefore, that he used it to maintain the company's locomotives, or even build new ones. There, however, seems to be no record.

History
Isaac Dodds was born on 9 July 1801 at Felling Hall, County Durham. His father Thomas was manager of the Felling Colliery and died when Isaac was four at the Hebburn Colliery.  The local parish clerk, Willie Woolhave, contributed greatly to his schooling with Isaac showing aptitude for mathematics and drawing.  About 1813 aged 12 Isaac was apprenticed as a mining engineer by his uncle Ralph Dodds and Killingworth Colliery.  When George Stephenson joined Killingworth around 1815 and joint patented a Steam engine with Ralph it appears young Isaac built a model of said engine and his use of coupling rods rather than gears was adopted by Ralph and George for their engine.

In 1832 Isaac Dodds started duties with the Horsley Iron Company, with his winning design resulting in the 1833 locomotive Star. He retired from the Ironworks in 1836 when an accident there caused him to lose his right eye.

Isaac Dodds set up the Holmes Engine and Railway Works by buying the candle and soap factory of Messrs. Dodd and Layton.

Locomotives
The first locomotive known about is an 0-4-2 named Fitzwilliam in 1849 for the South Yorkshire Railway. The firm produced around seventy locomotives in all. One, a 2-4-0 named Ysabel was tried out on the Lickey Incline in 1853, with some success, though none appear to have been ordered.

The largest order would seem to be twelve 2-4-0 locomotives for the Isabel II Railway, Spain, in 1856. For whatever reason, these were not paid for, which could hardly have been good for the company's finances.

Liquidation
In 1866, the company quoted for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and received an order for two. The required delivery time of three months could not be met and by 1867 the firm was in liquidation. Though the order had been cancelled, work had already started and the two engines were completed for the LB&SCR by the official receiver, and they finally ran in 1871.

Innovations
Dodds was known for his patented wedge valve gear. In 1839 Isaac Dodds was the first to fix the boiler at the smokebox end only which allowed for boiler expansion.

Notes

References

 Franks, D.L., The South Yorkshire Railway (Photograph and details of "Fitzwilliam")

 
 

Dodds
Companies based in Rotherham
Defunct companies based in Yorkshire
ITV News Channel TV

ITV News Channel TV (referred to as ITV News on Channel on air) is a television news service for the Channel Islands broadcast and produced by ITV Channel Television.

Overview
ITV News has its main Channel Islands newsroom in Jersey as well as a smaller bureau in Guernsey, both with reporters and camera crews working seven days a week. The station also has freelance video journalists based on the smaller islands of Alderney and Sark.

There are currently six ITV Channel TV news bulletins produced on weekdays: three during Good Morning Britain (branded as Good Morning Channel on air), an update after the ITV Lunchtime News, the main 6pm programme which precedes the ITV Evening News, and a late news bulletin after ITV News at Ten.

There are also two weekend news updates, broadcast early evening on Saturdays and Sundays.

Production

Studios
Channel's news programmes are presented from the ITV Channel TV studios at Castle Quay in St Helier, Jersey. There is also a smaller Guernsey studio in St Sampson which is used for live interviews or pre-recorded segments.

The main Channel Report studio was previously based at La Pouquelaye in the north of St. Helier.

Identity
Although Channel Television remained independently owned until 2011, during the 2000s, Channel Report adopted a localised version of the titles, graphics and music used by ITV plc-produced regional news programmes.

When the Channel Report name was dropped in January 2013 to bring it in line with the other ITV regional programmes, the historical "Channel TV" name was retained in order to distinguish between the Channel Islands' news service and the 24-hour ITV News Channel that was previously run by ITN between 2000 and 2005.

Since the rebrand, presenters refer to the programme on air as "ITV News on Channel" or "ITV News in the Channel Islands".

Transmission

ITV News Channel TV, and all of ITV Channel TV's other local programmes, have been produced in 1080i HD since production moved to Castle Quay in 2015. However, as of 2023 viewers in the region can still only watch in 576i standard definition over Freeview & Sky.

Channel publishes the HD version of its nightly news programme on itv.com shortly after broadcast, making it available to watch for 24 hours.

It also occasionally simulcasts the programme online using Facebook Live, as it does with other special regional programmes to avoid disrupting the network ITV schedule.

Notable presenters and reporters

Current
Jess Dunsdon
Jonathan Wills
Katie Chiang (Good Morning Britain bulletins)

Former
Emma Baker (ITV Anglia)
Paul Brown
Gary Burgess
Murray Dron
Kristina Moore

References

External links

1976 British television series debuts
1970s British television series
1980s British television series
1990s British television series
2000s British television series
2010s British television series
2020s British television series
Channel Islands
English-language television shows
ITV regional news shows
Mass media in Jersey
Television news in Jersey
Television shows produced by Channel Television
Clashindarroch Forest

Clashindarroch Forest is possibly the largest forest in Aberdeenshire, situated to the south-west of the market town of Huntly. Managed by Forest Enterprise. It is the location of a series of Nordic Skiing trails managed by the Nordic Ski Centre.

The forest is home to a small Scottish wildcat population, a species considered to be at the verge of extinction.

In 2006, a proposal was made to construct a 47 turbine windfarm in the forest which was the subject of a public inquiry in May 2006. Construction of the 18 Senvion MM82 turbine 36.9MW Clashindarroch Wind Farm phase 1 project was completed in 2015. In 2020 Vattenfall sought planning permission for a 77MW phase 2 development of 14 turbines.

References

External links 

Forests and woodlands of Scotland
Ski areas and resorts in Scotland
Tonale Pass

Tonale Pass () (el. 1883 m./6178 ft.) is a high mountain pass in northern Italy across the Rhaetian Alps, between Lombardy and Trentino.

It connects Valcamonica and Val di Sole. It is delimited by the Ortler Alps to the north and the  Adamello range to the south.

The pass has hotels and shops for tourists in winter, as the land around the pass is used for winter sports – mainly skiing (see Adamello Ski Raid) and snowboarding.

During World War I the place was heavily fought for between Italians holding Western side (Lombardy) and the troops of Habsburg Empire holding the Eastern side (Trentino). A memorial for the fallen Italian soldiers was erected during the fascist period.

See also
 List of highest paved roads in Europe
 List of mountain passes
 Tonalite

External links
 
 Profile on climbbybike.com

Mountain passes of the Alps
Mountain passes of Italy
Province of Brescia
Gail S. Shaffer

Gail S. Shaffer (born August 1, 1948) is an American politician and activist who served as the 59th Secretary of State of New York under Mario Cuomo.

Shaffer grew up on a family farm in Blenheim, New York. She graduated from Gilboa-Conesville Central School in 1966 as valedictorian. Awarded a full scholarship to Elmira College, she graduated as class valedictorian in 1970, and a Phi Beta Kappa member, with a B.A. summa cum laude in Political Science. She studied abroad for her junior year at Sciences Po. She also spent a semester of her senior year on a kibbutz in Israel.

Career 
Shaffer began her career in publishing before entering politics in the 1970s. She served as a town supervisor for two years and then became special assistant to Peter A. A. Berle. She later served as the Executive Director of the Rural Affairs Council, which was chaired by then-Lieutenant Governor, Mario Cuomo.

Shaffer was elected in 1980, as a Democrat representing a five-county, predominantly Republican district to the New York State Assembly serving in 1981 and 1982, In November 1982, she was re-elected with 68% of the vote, but did not take her seat in the 185th New York State Legislature. She was instead appointed by Governor Mario Cuomo as Secretary of State of New York, and took office on January 1, 1983.

The longest-tenured Secretary of State in New York history, she served twelve years during Cuomo's three terms as governor January 1, 1983 – January 4, 1995, when she was replaced by Republican Alexander Treadwell. She was a delegate to the 1988, 1992 and 2004 Democratic National Conventions.

She went into the private sector, serving as national President and CEO of the Business and Professional Women's Foundation from 1997 to 2001, focused on economic equity for women, including workplace issues such as pay equity, family leave, fair minimum wage, Social Security, and pension reform. Returning to New York, she served as President and CEO of the Brooklyn Historical Society from 2001 to 2003. She returned to her family farm where she still resides, and became a freelance writer on public policy issues.

In September 2015, Shaffer ran for town supervisor of the Blenheim, New York. Shaffer was defeated by incumbent attorney Shawn J. Smith in the Democratic Caucus held on September 10, 2015. Although Shaffer remains a Democrat, she was endorsed by the town's Republican party for Supervisor. She was narrowly defeated by Smith (by 10 votes) in the general election.

Shaffer remains an active Democrat, as a member of the Schoharie County Democratic Committee, and continues as an activist on issues including government reform, environmental quality, women's rights, civil rights, consumer rights and economic equity.

References

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1948 births
Living people
Town supervisors in New York (state)
Members of the New York State Assembly
Secretaries of State of New York (state)
Women state legislators in New York (state)
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American women politicians
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
New York (state) Democrats
New York (state) Republicans
Sodium metavanadate

Sodium metavanadate is the inorganic compound with the formula NaVO3. It is a yellow, water-soluble salt.

Sodium metavanadate is a common precursor to other vanadates. At low pH it converts to sodium decavanadate.  It is also precursor to exotic metalates such as [γ-PV2W10O40]5-, [α-PVW11O40]4-, and [β-PV2W10O40]5-.

Minerals
Sodium metavanadate occurs as two minor minerals, metamunirite (anhydrous) and a dihydrate, munirite. Both are very rare, metamunirite is now known only from vanadium- and uranium-bearing sandstone formations of central-western USA and munirite from Pakistan and South Africa.

References 

Vanadates
Sodium compounds
Central Jersey Riptide

Central Jersey Riptide were an American soccer team that played in Clark, New Jersey.

They joined the USISL Pro League in 1996, but were relegated to the USL PDL in 1999. They became a provisional team the next season and then folded after the end of the season.

Year-by-year

Coaches
 Malcolm Murphy: 1996
 Mike Casper: 2000

Soccer clubs in New Jersey
Defunct Premier Development League teams
USL Second Division teams
Association football clubs established in 1996
Association football clubs disestablished in 2000
1996 establishments in New Jersey
2000 disestablishments in New Jersey
Galle (Martian crater)

Galle is a crater on Mars. It is located on the eastern rim of the huge impact basin Argyre Planitia in Argyre quadrangle. It is named after the German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. Galle is often known as the "happy face crater" because pareidolia causes a curved mountain range in the southern part of the crater and two smaller mountain clusters further north to appear to be a smiley face. The formation was first photographed by Viking Orbiter 1.

A second "happy face crater", smaller than Galle and located at 45.1°S, 55.0°W in Nereidum Montes, was discovered by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on January 28, 2008.

Appearance in Watchmen

As the smiley is a key motif in the comic book Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, the crater was used as a story location after the coincidence was noted by Gibbons. According to Gibbons, the similarity "was almost too good to be true. I worried that if we put it in, people would never believe it." The crater also appears in the same scene during the film adaptation.

Gallery

See also 
 "The Face on Mars"
 Galle (lunar crater)
 List of craters on Mars

References

External links 

 The Galle Crater on NASA.gov

Impact craters on Mars
Argyre quadrangle
Watchmen
Milad

Milad may refer to:

 Milad (given name)
 Milad Dezful F.C., Iranian football club based in Dezful, Iran
 Milad Hospital, hospital in Iran
 Milad Rizk (fl. 2010–2015), a Lebanese actor
 Milad Tower, tallest tower in Iran
 Mawlid, the observance of the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

See also
Mawlid (disambiguation)
Cyril Wells

Cyril Mowbray Wells (21 March 1871 – 22 August 1963) was an English cricketer, rugby footballer and schoolmaster.

Educated at Dulwich College and Trinity College, Cambridge, Wells played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Surrey and  Middlesex and was a top class rugby player. He was also a housemaster and cricket coach at Eton College, becoming the first Honorary Member of the Eton Ramblers Cricket Club.

Wells was a notable rugby player. He played for Cambridge University R.U.F.C. in the Varsity match in 1891 and 1892, and in six matches for the England national rugby union team from 1893 to 1897. His also played at club level for Harlequins and county level for Middlesex.

References

External links

 

1871 births
1963 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge University cricketers
Cambridge University R.U.F.C. players
England international rugby union players
English cricketers
English rugby union players
Gentlemen cricketers
Harlequin F.C. players
Middlesex County RFU players
Middlesex cricketers
North v South cricketers
Sportspeople from St Pancras, London
Rugby union players from the London Borough of Camden
Surrey cricketers
905 (disambiguation)

905 may refer to:
905, the year
Area codes 905, 289, and 365, a telephone dialing area in southern Ontario, Canada
The 905, a nickname for the region served by the above area codes
"905" (song), a song by The Who, written by John Entwistle, from the 1978 album Who Are You
The Peugeot 905, a sports-prototype racing car
California State Route 905, a highway in San Diego, California, United States
Eric Haze

Eric Haze (born in 1961) is an American artist, graphic designer and art director.

Career
Eric Haze was born in 1961 in New York City to progressive parents of the Upper West Side. Haze was drawn to art through his father's friend's pop art collection and meeting Elaine de Kooning who gave Haze oil paints while she painted a portrait of Haze and his sister in 1971.

In 1972, Haze began writing graffiti throughout New York City. In 1974, he started showing his art publicly, later exhibiting paintings and drawings alongside friends Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s.  As part of the seminal New York City collective “The Soul Artists”, Haze was one of the original pioneers to bring graffiti above ground into the mainstream and the first graffiti artist to brand his tag as a logo, creating one of the first street wear clothing companies to rise out of the hip hop era. Haze also appeared in the seminal 1983 documentary Style Wars.

In 1985, Haze graduated with honors from School of Visual Arts in NYC with a degree in graphic design. In 1986, he set up a design studio and due to his unique positioning of coming out of the hip-hop era, began establishing clientele and relationships within that market and community. He has created logos, album covers and identity design for clients including the Beastie Boys, Tommy Boy Records, LL Cool J and EPMD.

In 1991, Haze relocated his design studio to Los Angeles, where he also founded his eponymous clothing and accessory brand, HAZE. By 2005, the brand had three stores in Tokyo.

In 2000, Haze contributed to the creation of the video game Jet Set Radio, published by SEGA, providing some graffiti of his own to be used in the game

In 2005, Haze returned to New York City, setting up a new studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Haze has since presented solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Paris and Tokyo. Haze was also featured in the 2011 landmark exhibition “Art in the Streets” at Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.

Personal life
Haze runs his studio out of Brooklyn, New York, where he lives with his wife, actress Rosie Perez.

References

External links
 
 Archive Website at interhaze.com
 Eric Haze at @149st
 

American graffiti artists
American art directors
Living people
1961 births
American graphic designers
Sodium vanadate

Sodium vanadate can refer to:

 Sodium metavanadate (sodium trioxovanadate(V)), NaVO3
 Sodium orthovanadate (sodium tetraoxovanadate(V)), Na3VO4
 Sodium decavanadate, Na6V10O28
Kamal Patel (politician)

Kamal Patel (born 6 October 1961) is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He has served as a Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly five times in 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, and 2018 representing the Harda Constituency. On 21 April 2020, he was appointed as the Cabinet Minister and currently serves as the Minister of Agriculture in the Government of Madhya Pradesh.

Political career
Patel has been associated with Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad, a student union affiliated with the BJP since his days as a student. He was president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Hoshangabad. Later, he was made state general secretary of BJP Yuva Morcha then also became state president of BJP Yuva morcha.

He has been elected on five occasions as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Madhya Pradesh from Harda constituency. Those successes came in the consecutive elections of 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2018.

1989 – member of Madhya Pradesh BJP state executive committee.
1993 – elected MLA from Harda constituency.
1998 – elected MLA from Harda constituency.
2003 – elected MLA from Harda constituency.
2005 – state minister (independent charge) of Medical Education, Technical Education and Training with effect from 1 June 2005
2008 –  elected MLA from Harda constituency.
2009 –  Cabinet Minister and given the charge of Revenue, Religious Trust and Endowment, and Rehabilitation Departments
2013 - Lost VidhanSabha Election
2018 – elected MLA from Harda constituency.

Minister Of Madhya Pradesh
Patel was made state minister (independent charge) of Medical Education, Technical Education and Training with effect from 1 June 2005 in the Babulal Gaur-led government. Later he was promoted to rank of cabinet minister and given the charge of revenue, religious trust and endowment, and rehabilitation departments in the government of Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

On 21 April 2020 he again became a cabinet minister.

References

Further reading

1961 births
Living people
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Madhya Pradesh
People from Harda
Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1993–1998
Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1998–2003
Madhya Pradesh MLAs 2003–2008
Madhya Pradesh MLAs 2008–2013
Madhya Pradesh MLAs 2018–2023
EPCOR Utilities

EPCOR Utilities Inc., formerly known as Edmonton Power Corporation, is a utility company based in Edmonton, Alberta. EPCOR manages water, wastewater, natural gas, and electricity distribution systems in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario, and the American states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. In addition, the company maintains and provides engineering support for traffic signals and street lights within the City of Edmonton, as well as other cities in Alberta. EPCOR is a municipally owned corporation with the City of Edmonton as sole shareholder.

History 
Created in 1996 as the Edmonton Power Corporation, the company history dates back to the Edmonton Electric Lighting and Power Company formed in 1891. The name EPCOR was introduced in 2001. EPCOR's name is derived from Edmonton Power Corporation as authorized under City of Edmonton Bylaw 11071.

EPCOR previously owned five power generating facilities within the province of Alberta.  The decision was made on April 17, 2009 to divest of power producing assets through the creation of a publicly traded company; Capital Power Corporation. EPCOR Power LP, a limited partnership with EPCOR Utilities Inc., was transferred to Capital Power Corporation and renamed Capital Power Income L.P.

In October 2008, EPCOR was named one of "Canada's Top 100 Employers" by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine. Later that month, EPCOR was named one of Alberta's Top Employers, which was announced by the Calgary Herald and the Edmonton Journal. EPCOR was also named one of Canada's Top 10 Earth Friendly Employers in 2008.

In 2011, EPCOR acquired Chaparral City Water Company from American States Water and the Arizona and New Mexico operations of American Water.

See also

 EPCOR Tower
 Capital Power Corporation
 Capital Power Income L.P.

References

External links
 

Electric power companies of Canada
Energy companies established in 1996
Companies based in Edmonton
Companies owned by municipalities of Canada
Water companies of Canada
Water companies of the United States
1996 establishments in Alberta
Sanitation companies
Natural gas companies of Canada
Natural gas companies of the United States
Electric power companies of the United States
Chattanooga Express

Chattanooga Express were a soccer club that competed in the USISL
from 1992 to 1997. The club originally started in 1992 as the Chattanooga Railroaders in the USISL. They became the Chattanooga Express in 1993. The club played in both the indoor and outdoor USISL leagues through 1996. They moved to the USISL Pro League in 1995 and were later relegated to the USISL PDSL in 1997.

Year-by-year

References

USISL teams
Sports in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Defunct soccer clubs in Tennessee
Defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States
Soccer clubs in Tennessee
Association football clubs established in 1992
Association football clubs disestablished in 1997
1992 establishments in Tennessee
1997 disestablishments in Tennessee
Arroyo chub

The arroyo chub (Gila orcuttii) is a species of cyprinid fish found only in the coastal streams of southern California, United States.

The shape of the arroyo chub is somewhat chunky, with a deep body and thick, caudal peduncle. The eyes are larger than average for cyprinids. Coloration ranges from silver to gray to olive green above, shading to white below, usually with a dull gray band along each side. The dorsal fin has eight rays, while the rounded anal fin has seven. Males have larger fins than females, and, during the breeding season, patches of breeding tubercles on the upper surfaces of the pectoral fins. This is a small fish, with most adults in the 7–10 cm length range, and a maximum of 12 cm. 

Omnivorous, their diet includes algae, insects, and crustaceans. Studies of fish from warmwater streams shows a preponderance of algae in the stomach (60–80%), and they are also known to feed on the roots of Azolla (floating water ferns). In cooler streams, molluscs and caddisfly larvae predominate in the diet.

Arroyo chub habitat is primarily the warm streams of the Los Angeles Plain, which are typically muddy torrents during the winter, and clear quiet brooks in the summer, possibly drying up in places. They are found both in slow-moving and fast-moving sections, but generally deeper than 40 cm.

They are native to Los Angeles, Santa Margarita, San Gabriel, San Luis Rey, and Santa Ana Rivers, as well as to Rainbow, Temecula, Malibu and San Juan Creeks. Many of the original populations have been extirpated, but it has recently been reestablished in the Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County), a tributary of the Los Angeles River.  It has been found in the Los Angeles River (Sepulveda Dam Basin) as recently as 1978. The species also has been successfully introduced in a number of other rivers in the area, and can be found as far north as Chorro Creek in San Luis Obispo County, and as far east as the Mojave River. The Mojave and Cuyama River populations extend into the ranges of related fishes, and hybridize with Mojave chub and California roach, respectively.

The species epithet was chosen in honor of Charles Russell Orcutt, who made the first collection of this fish in 1889, improvising by using a blanket as a seine. It is often misspelled as orcutti, although this is still considered a valid synonym, and is for instance used by Moyle in his book.

References

 
 Peter B. Moyle, Inland Fishes of California (University of California Press, 2002), pp. 130–131

 Central Arroyo Stream Restoration Program cf: Chub in the Arroyo Seco

Chubs (fish)
Gila (fish)
Endemic fauna of California
Endemic fish of the United States
Arroyo chub
Fish of the Western United States
Freshwater fish of the United States
Arroyo chub
Arroyo chub
Arroyo chub
Fish described in 1890
Total Devastation: The Best of Busta Rhymes

Total Devastation: The Best of Busta Rhymes is a greatest hits album by American hip-hop artist Busta Rhymes. It received a score of five out of five from Allmusic. It includes songs from his four platinum albums, "Turn It Up (Remix)/Fire It Up" and two songs from the 1991 LP A Future Without a Past recorded with his hip-hop group Leaders of the New School. The compilation in this form is a US exclusive; in the rest of the world (namely Europe, Germany and Australia), it was released in altered form by Warner Music Group and re-titled Turn It Up! The Very Best of Busta Rhymes.

Track listings

Total Devastation

Turn It Up!

References

2001 greatest hits albums
Busta Rhymes albums
Albums produced by Swizz Beatz
Albums produced by DJ Scratch
Albums produced by Nottz
Albums produced by Rashad Smith
Albums produced by Easy Mo Bee
Elektra Records compilation albums
Conglomerate (record label) compilation albums
Warner Music Group compilation albums
The Rejection Show

The Rejection Show is a comedic based variety show that features the rejected and turned down material of professional and amateur writers, comedians, cartoonists, artists, and human beings who display their creative "failures" live on stage.

The Rejection Show was created by comedian and writer Jon Friedman (producer, host) in the summer of 2003 after a string of his own personal and creative rejections left him wanting to create a forum for such works that other people deemed "not good enough." The show features material that is both good and bad and maintains its strength in the deep variety nature of the show, from stories of personal heartbreak to rejected sketches from Saturday Night Live to rejected cartoons from The New Yorker.

The Rejection Show is set to be a major book release published by Villard, titled Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped and Cancelled.

The Rejection Show has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The New York Times, The Daily News, the New York Post, The New Yorker, The Onion, ABC News, CBS News Sunday Morning, NPR, XM Satellite Radio, and in international papers around the globe.

External links
 http://www.rejectionshow.com/
 http://www.tremendousrabbit.com/
 Interview with Jon Friedman at WickedInfo.com

American comedy television series
Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing in 2007.

Wiley-Blackwell is now an imprint that publishes a diverse range of academic and professional fields, including biology, medicine, physical sciences, technology, social science, and the humanities.

Blackwell Publishing history
Blackwell Publishing was formed by the 2001 merger of two Oxford-based academic publishing companies, Blackwell Science, founded 1939 as Blackwell Scientific Publishing, and Blackwell Publishers, founded 1922 as Basil Blackwell & Mott. Blackwell Publishers, founded in 1926, had its origins in the 19th century Blackwell's family bookshop and publishing business. 

The merger between the two publishing companies created the world's leading learned society publisher. The group then acquired BMJ Books from the BMJ Publishing Group, publisher of The BMJ, a British medical journal, in 2004. Blackwell published over 805 journals and 650 text and reference books in 2006, across a wide range of academic, medical, and professional subjects.

On November 17, 2006, John Wiley & Sons announced it had "entered into a definitive agreement to acquire" Blackwell Publishing. The acquisition was completed in February 2007, at a purchase price of £572 million. Blackwell Publishing was merged into Wiley's Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to create Wiley-Blackwell. From June 30, 2008, the journals previously on Blackwell Synergy were delivered through Wiley InterScience.

Controversy
In April, 2022, the journal Science reported that a Ukrainian company, International Publisher Ltd., run by Ksenia Badziun, operates a Russian website where academics can purchase authorships in soon to be published academic papers. During the 2 year period analyzed by researchers, they found that at least 419 articles "appeared to match manuscripts that later appeared in dozens of different journals" and that "More than 100 of these identified papers were published in 68 journals run by established publishers, including Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wolters Kluwer, and Wiley-Blackwell." Wiley-Blackwell claimed that they were examining the specific papers that were identified and brought to their attention.

See also 
 List of journals published by Wiley-Blackwell

References

External links
 

Academic publishing companies
Publishing companies established in 1922
Companies based in Oxford
Commercial digital libraries
Publishing companies of the United Kingdom
American companies established in 1922
American digital libraries
Wiley (publisher)
1932 establishments in the United States
Paak

Paak may refer to:

 Anderson .Paak, American singer and rapper
 Atka Airport (ICAO: PAAK)

See also
 Pak (disambiguation)
Eigenmann

Eigenmann () is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:

 Andi Eigenmann (born 1990), Filipino actress
 Carl H. Eigenmann (1863–1927), German–American ichthyologist, husband of Rosa Eigenmann
 Eduardo de Mesa Eigenmann, birth name of Eddie Mesa (born 1940), Filipino actor and singer, father of Michael de Mesa, Mark Gil and Cherie Gil
 Evangeline Rose Gil Eigenmann, birth name of Cherie Gil (1963–2022), Filipino actress, sister of Michael de Mesa and Mark Gil
 Gabby Eigenmann (born 1978), Filipino actor, son of Mark Gil 
 Geoff Eigenmann (born 1985), Filipino actor, son of Michael de Mesa and Gina Alajar, brother of Ryan Eigenmann
 Max Eigenmann (born 1987), Filipino actress
 Michael Edward Gil Eigenmann, birth name of Michael de Mesa (born 1960), Filipino actor, brother of Mark Gil and Cherie Gil
 Raphael John Gil Eigenmann, birth name of Mark Gil (1961–2014), Filipino actor, brother of Michael de Mesa and Cherie Gil
 Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1848–1947), American ichthyologist, wife of Carl Eigenmann
 Ma. Rosa Francisca Catalina Castellvi Gil-Eigenmann, marital name of Rosemarie Gil (born 1942), Filipino actress, wife of Eddie Mesa, and mother of Michael de Mesa, Mark Gil, and Cherie Gil
 Ryan Eigenmann (born 1978), Filipino actor, son of Michael de Mesa and Gina Alajar, brother of Geoff Eigenmann
 Timothy Mark Eigenmann, birth name of Sid Lucero (born 1981), Filipino actor, son of Mark Gil
Teddy Jusuf

Teddy Jusuf (Deyi Xiong) (born Him Tek Jie, ) is a retired brigadier general of the Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI), Indonesia's armed forces.  He is the first Chinese Indonesian to attain this rank in the TNI.

Currently, Jusuf is chairman of the Chinese Indonesian Social Association (Paguyuban Sosial Marga Tionghoa Indonesia).

Early life
Jusuf was born Him Tek Ji in  Bogor, Indonesia to a migrant-born father and an Indonesian-born mother, both of Chinese descent.

He was ten years old when he saw the soldiers at an Indonesian military camp stationed near his school in North Jakarta where he grew up. When he saw them training, he decided he want to become an Indonesian soldier.

Tek Ji attended both national and Chinese language schools as a boy and speaks Mandarin besides his native language Indonesian.

Military career
Him Tek Ji enrolled in the Indonesian Military Academy when he finished secondary school. He graduated in 1965 as Lt. Teddy Jusuf.

Despite enduring a lot of discrimination in his early days in the army, Jusuf rose through the ranks, becoming a brigadier general in 1983 and even serving as a senior staff member in army intelligence. Jusuf attributes his success to hard work, discipline, and patience, qualities which would serve him well later in establishing the Chinese Indonesian Social Association.

External links
 Teddy, a voice for ethnic Chinese

1944 births
Hakka generals
Indonesian generals
Indonesian people of Chinese descent
Indonesian National Military Academy alumni
Living people
People from Bogor
Langdon Park

Langdon Park may refer to:
Langdon, Washington, D.C., an area of Washington, D.C. in the United States
Langdon Park DLR station, a Docklands Light Railway station in Poplar, London, United Kingdom 
Langdon Park School, Poplar, London, or the name of the adjacent local park
Frank Milano

Frank P. Milano is an American attorney and jurist serving as a Judge of the New York Court of Claims. He previously served as acting Secretary of State of New York.

Education 
Milano earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctor from Albany Law School.

Career 
Milano served for several years in the administration of Governor George Pataki as the First Deputy Secretary of State, and became acting Secretary of State of New York upon the resignation of Randy Daniels on September 23, 2005. He held this post until the appointment of Chris Jacobs in April 2006.

Milano served for over four years as the part-time town judge in Bethlehem, New York, a suburb of Albany. He was nominated by Pataki to the Court of Claims in June 2006, and was confirmed by the State Senate to a nine-year term.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Politicians from Albany, New York
Secretaries of State of New York (state)
New York (state) state court judges
List of video game publishers

This is a list of video game publisher companies. A video game publisher may specialize in only publishing games for developers, or may either have in-house development studios or own subsidiary development companies. Some developers may publish their games themselves.

This list includes both active and inactive companies. Active publishers are either run independently or as a subsidiary of another company. Inactive publishers may either be defunct outright or still exist but no longer involved in video game publishing.

See also 
 List of video game developers
 List of indie game developers
 Video game developer
 Video game publisher
 Game development
 Video game industry
 History of video games

References

Publishers

Video Game
Brandon Parva

Brandon Parva is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brandon Parva, Coston, Runhall and Welborne, in the South Norfolk district, in the county of Norfolk, England. It is near East Dereham and Norwich.

History
Brandon Parva's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for a small settlement with a thorny bush on top of a hill.

In the Domesday Book, Brandon Parva is recorded as consisting of 5 households and belonging to Count Alan of Brittany.

On 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Runhall.

Geography
In March 2011, the population consisted of approximately 30 people. In 1931 the parish had a population of 111.

Places of Interest
L.F. & H.F. Harrison, Agricultural Engineers and Contractors are based in Brandon Parva.

Brandon Parva Treehouse
In 2005, four students from the University of East Anglia began erecting a carbon-neutral treehouse in the woods outside of the village. After two years of building, the structure was finally demolished by South Norfolk Council in 2009.

War Memorial
 Lance-Corporal Cecil H. Norton (1882-1915), 14th Battalion, Royal Montreal Regiment, Canadian Army
 Private Harry Purling (1890-1918), 1/4th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment
 Private George R. Allen (1888-1916), 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
 Private George Dixon-Sutton (d.1918), 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
 Private Russel R. Pitchers (d.1916), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
 Private William Dixon-Sutton (d.1918), 7th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
 Private William Pitchers (d.1915), 9th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment

And, the following for the Second World War:
 Leading-Aircraftman Sidney D. Thurston (1920-1942), Royal Air Force

References 

Villages in Norfolk
Former civil parishes in Norfolk
South Norfolk
List of hill stations in Pakistan

There are many hill stations in Pakistan, where there is snow in the winter. In the summer, the temperatures are much cooler than the hot areas of Punjab and Sindh. People from all over the country flock to these hill stations to enjoy the snow in winters, and to enjoy the cool summers away from the hot plains. The following is a list of hill stations:

List

See also
 Tourism in Pakistan
 Geography of Pakistan

References

External links
 Hill station in Pakistan at 

Hill Stations

Hill stations
Bleskensgraaf

Bleskensgraaf is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Molenlanden, and lies about 10 km northeast of Dordrecht. It has an area of 1272 hectares. On 1 January 2009 Bleskensgraaf and Hofwegen had 2797 inhabitants in 936 residences.

Until 1855, Bleskensgraaf was a separate municipality. In 1855 the heerlijkheid or seigniory Bleskensgraaf and the heerlijkheid or seigniory 'Hofwegen' merged into one municipality named 'Bleskensgraaf and Hofwegen'. In 1986 it became the new municipality Graafstroom together with 6 adjacent towns. The town hall of Graafstroom was located in Bleskensgraaf. From 2013 Graafstroom was part of Molenwaard, till 2019 when it merged into Molenlanden.

The town got its name because of the landlord (count) "Willem van Blassekijn". Over the years the name Blassekijnsgraeve changed into Bleskensgraaf.

On letters it often says "Bleskensgraaf CA". CA stands for the Latin phrase 'cum annexis' which means 'with surroundings'.

The centre of Bleskensgraaf is made up out of new buildings. The old centre was bombarded during the Second World War at 06:25 on 12 May 1940. Seven people died and forty houses were destroyed. The town hall was leveled and the church sustained irreparable damage. The reconstruction was fast and took a couple of years. In September 1948 the new church officially opened and the new town hall opened on 12 May 1955.

Old buildings that remain are a couple of windmills: the flour mill 'Molen de Vriendschap' (Friendship Mill) built in 1890 and two Hollow post mills, named the 'Hofwegense Molen' and the 'Wingerdse Molen' built in 1513, and many old farmhouses.

External links
 Map of the municipality in 1868

Former municipalities of South Holland
Populated places in South Holland
Molenlanden