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Skardu International Airport

Skardu International Airport  is an international airport in Skardu, in the Pakistani territory of Gilgit-Baltistan. It also serves as a forward operating base of the Pakistan Air Force.

On 2 December 2021, Skardu Airport was designated and re-inaugurated as an international airport after providing upgrades to the airport to become a tourism hub for Gilgit-Baltistan.

Runways

Skardu Airport has two asphalt runways, both 11,944 ft (3,641 m) long, while a third 8,740 ft (2,664 m) long asphalt runway, Runway 15/33, was de-commissioned in December 2021.

Airlines and destinations
Skardu Airport is connected to Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, through regular Pakistan International Airlines flights, as well as frequent flights to Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Sialkot and Karachi.

Flydubai has submitted a request to start international operations to and from Skardu Airport, which would potentially become the first foreign airline to start international routes from Skardu.

On 14 August 2023, the first international flight operated by Pakistan International Airlines from Dubai landed at the airport, marking a major step towards promoting tourism in the region.

See also
 List of airports in Pakistan
 Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority
 Gilgit Airport
 Airlines of Pakistan
 Chilas Airfield

References

External links

Airports in Gilgit-Baltistan
International airports in Pakistan
Nagase

Nagase is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Anna Nagase (born 2005), Japanese voice actress
Jinen Nagase (born 1943), Japanese politician
Masatoshi Nagase (born 1966), Japanese actor
Miyu Nagase (born 1988), Japanese pop musician
Ren Nagase (born 1999), Japanese singer and member of King & Prince
Takanori Nagase (born 1993), Japanese judoka
Takuya Nagase (born 1992), Japanese shogi player
Tasuku Nagase (born 1993), Japanese actor
Tomoya Nagase (born 1978), Japanese actor and pop musician

Fictional characters
Nagase, character in The King of Fighters series universe.
Reiko Nagase, character in the Ridge Racer series
Kaede Nagase, character in the Negima! Magister Negi Magi series
Kei Nagase, character in the Ace Combat series
Yusuki Nagase, character in the To Heart series
Daisuke Nagase, character in the Persona 4 and Persona 4 Golden video games
Nagisa Nagase, character in Shonan Junai Gumi and Great Teacher Onizuka

See also
Nagase Station, a railway station in Higashiosaka
JR Nagase Station, a railway station in Higashiosaka
Bushū-Nagase Station (武州長瀬駅, Bushū-nagase-eki), is a railway station operated by Tōbu Railway located in Moroyama, Saitama
Kita-Nagase Station (北長瀬駅, Kitanagase-eki), a train station in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture

Japanese-language surnames
Jay Kinney

Jay Kinney (born 1950) is an American author, editor, and former underground cartoonist. Kinney has been noted for "adding new dimensions to the political comic" in the underground comix press of the 1970s and '80s. 

Kinney was a member, along with Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch and R. Crumb, of the original Bijou Funnies crew. Bijou Funnies was heavily influenced by Mad magazine, and, along with Zap Comix, is considered one of the titles to launch the underground comix movement. Kinney contributed to the first four issues (1968–1970), as well as the eighth and final issue (1973).

Next, Kinney and Bill Griffith co-edited Young Lust, an underground comix anthology published sporadically from 1970 to 1993. The title, which parodied 1950s romance comics such as Young Love, was noted for its explicit depictions of sex. Unlike many other sex-fueled underground comix, Young Lust was generally not perceived as misogynistic. Griffith and Kinney gradually morphed the title into a satire of societal mores. According to Kinney, Young Lust "became one of the top three best-selling underground comix, along with Zap Comix and Gilbert Shelton's The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers". Kinney contributed comics stories to all eight issues of Young Lust.

In the mid-1970s, Kinney began working with fellow comics artist Paul Mavrides on "Cover-Up Lowdown", originally a weekly panel cartoon that was collected and published by Rip Off Press in November 1977. "Cover-Up Lowdown" satirized political cover-ups of the day, as well as those of recent history, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Kinney and Mavrides then collaborated on the political anthology Anarchy Comics, which was published sporadically by Last Gasp between 1978 and 1987. Kinney founded, edited, and contributed to all four issues of Anarchy Comics.

Though a member of the first wave of the American underground comix movement, Kinney largely moved away from cartooning after the 1980s, first as editor of CoEvolution Quarterly from 1983 to 1984, and then as publisher and editor in chief of the magazine Gnosis from 1985 to 1999. Since the end of Gnosis, Kinney has written two books and edited an anthology, all focusing on aspects of Western esoteric traditions.

Books 
The Best of Bijou Funnies (Quick Fox, 1975)
Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions, with Richard Smoley (Quest Books, 2006)
The Inner West: An Introduction to the Hidden Wisdom of the West (Tarcher/Penguin, 2004)
The Masonic Myth: Unlocking the Truth about the Symbols, Secret Rites, and History of Freemasonry (HarperOne, 2009)
Anarchy Comics: The Complete Collection (PM Press, 2013)

References

External links

Lambiek Comiclopedia
Gnosis Magazines web site
Kinney answers the question, "Is the Internet Good for Writers?"

1950 births
Living people
Underground cartoonists
Philippine Internet Commerce Society

The Philippine Internet Commerce Society (PICS) is an advocacy group which promotes electronic commerce in the Philippines. It was founded in September 1997 by Janette Toral.

It successfully lobbied for the passage of the Y2K Law, which made industries prepare for the year 2000 and guard themselves from "Y2K Bug" which was expected to compromise computer databases. It also advocated for the Electronic Commerce Law or Republic Act 8792 which promoted the universal use of electronic transactions in the government and by the general public.

References

Business organizations based in the Philippines
Organizations established in 1997
Tracheal collapse

Tracheal collapse in dogs is a condition characterized by incomplete formation or weakening of the cartilaginous rings of the trachea resulting in flattening of the trachea.  It can be congenital or acquired, and extrathoracic or intrathoracic (inside or outside the thoracic cavity).  Tracheal collapse is a dynamic condition.  Collapse of the cervical trachea or extrathoracic (in the neck) occurs during inspiration; collapse of the thoracic trachea or intrathoracic (in the chest) occurs during expiration.  Tracheal collapse is most commonly found in small dog breeds, including the Chihuahua, Pomeranian, Toy Poodle, Shih Tzu, Lhasa Apso, Maltese, Pug, and Yorkshire Terrier.

Congenital tracheal collapse appears to be caused by a deficiency of normal components of tracheal ring cartilage like glycosaminoglycans, glycoproteins, calcium, and chondroitin.  Acquired tracheal collapse can be caused by Cushing's syndrome, heart disease, and chronic respiratory disease and infection.

Symptoms include a cough (often called a "goose honk cough" due to its sound), especially when the dog is excited.  This cough is usually paroxysmal in nature.  Other symptoms include exercise intolerance, respiratory distress, and gagging while eating or drinking.  Tracheal collapse is easily seen on a radiograph as a narrowing of the tracheal lumen.  Treatment for mild to moderate cases include corticosteroids, bronchodilators, and antitussives.  Medical treatment is successful in about 70 percent of tracheal collapse cases.  Severe cases can be treated with surgical implantation of a tracheal stent (inside or outside of the trachea) or prosthetic rings. Extraluminal (outside the trachea) stenting is generally used only for tracheal collapse in the neck region. Intraluminal stenting has shown more promise for success with intrathoracic cases, especially using nitinol, a type of shape memory alloy composed of nickel and titanium.  Potential problems include stent migration and fracture.

Tracheal collapse has also been described in horses, both as a congenital condition and as a result of trauma. It is most commonly seen in the cervical trachea.

See also
Laryngeal saccules

References

Dog diseases
Swinton railway station

Swinton railway station may refer to:

Swinton railway station (Greater Manchester), in the Metropolitan Borough of Salford
Swinton railway station (South Yorkshire), which opened in 1991 in Swinton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham
Swinton Town railway station, an earlier station north of the present station in Swinton, South Yorkshire, closed in 1968
Purim spiel

A Purim spiel (also spelled Purimshpil, , , see also spiel) or Purim play is an ensemble of festive practices for Purim.  It is usually a comic dramatization of the Book of Esther, the central text and narrative that describes what transpired on Purim and why it is celebrated as an important Jewish holiday.

History 
The Purim spiel is considered the "only genuine folk theater that has survived a thousand years in European culture." Integrating texts, theater, music, dance, songs, mimes, and costumes, the Purim spiel is considered to be the origin of Yiddish theatre. The descriptive term "Purim spiel" became widely used among Ashkenazi Jews as early as the mid-1500s.

By the 18th century in eastern Romania and some other parts of Eastern Europe, Purim spiels had evolved into broad-ranging satires with music and dance, for which the story of Esther was little more than a pretext. Since satire was deemed inappropriate for a synagogue, these events were usually performed outdoors in the synagogue courtyard.

By the mid-19th century, some routines were based on other stories, such as Joseph sold by his brothers, Daniel, or the Binding of Isaac. Other traditional forms of Purim spiel have included puppet shows for children, reenacting the Purim story with the Purim characters performing comic antics.

In 2015, the French Ministry of Culture added the Purim spiel to its Inventory of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of France.

Modern practice 
Purim spiels are performed annually in many American synagogues, and in Jewish communities in much of Europe. In France, for example, Purim plays continue to be widely performed in active Ashkenazi communities.

In many modern-day synagogues, a Purim spiel is an informal theatrical production with costumed participants, often including children. Typically, each congregation writes its own new Purim spiel every year, or acquires a new script from elsewhere. Purim spiels often include parodies of popular songs or well-known musicals. Purim spiels are often used to satirically address modern social and political issues through the biblical narrative, "using the ancient story to poke fun at current reality."

See also
 , a 1965 Israeli musical in Yiddish based on the 1936 book Songs of the Megillah by Itzik Manger
 Purim humor

References

Further reading
 

Jewish comedy and humor
Purim
Folk plays
Yiddish words and phrases
Dorothy Percy

Dorothy Percy may refer to: 

Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland (née Dorothy Devereux)
Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Leicester, née Dorothy Percy, her daughter
Akkawi

Akkawi cheese (, also Akawi, Akawieh and Ackawi) is a white brine cheese named after the city of Akka (Acre, present-day Israel).

Etymology
Akkawi cheese is named after the port city of Akka (). Akkawi in Arabic means "from Akka".

Production and storage
Akkawi is commonly made with pasteurized cow's milk, but can also be made with goat or sheepmilk. This cheese is largely produced in the Middle East, notably in Israel,  Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Cyprus. In these regions, people usually eat it with a soft flatbread during lunch and dinner. Akkawi is hand-packed into square draining hoops and then cured in a salted whey brine for two days.

Texture and taste
The color is white and it has a smooth texture and a mild salty taste. It is commonly used as a table cheese eaten by itself or paired with fruit.

The texture can be compared to mozzarella, feta or a mizithra, since it does not melt easily. Akkawi can be stored up to a year. The texture and flavor is a result of its specific culturing from its curds that are kept together for a prolonged period longer than simpler tasting curd cheese such as Syrian cheese when akkai is transformed into cheese.

Supply chain problems
The supply of akkawi has often been a problem in the Middle East. During the Lebanese Civil War, dairy animals were slaughtered and the country had to import akkawi from Eastern Europe. In Los Angeles, people used to make a substitute for akkawi by soaking feta cheese in several changes of water to desalinate it.

See also

References

Brined white cheeses
Cow's-milk cheeses
Stretched-curd cheeses
Arab cuisine
Middle Eastern cheeses
Jordanian cuisine
Lebanese cuisine
Palestinian cuisine
Syrian cuisine
Mary Hearne

Mary Hearne (? fl. 1718) is the name of a novelist whose works were published by Edmund Curll.

Biography
It is possible, even likely, that the name does not accurately represent the author, as Curll frequently acquired hack writers to submit works and gave them assumed names. Therefore, it is possible that the novels written by Mary Hearne were not written by a woman or at least not by a woman named Mary Hearne. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography treats "Mary Hearne" as a proper biographical subject, but with no documentary evidence of birth, death, or marriage records.

Two novels appeared under the name of Mary Hearne. The first, The Lover's Week, appeared in 1718, dedicated to Delariviere Manley; the second, The Female Deserters, appeared in 1719. Edmund Curll published the two together as Honour, the Victory; and Love, the Prize in 1720, but they were the same novels under new titles and format. He had them serialised in Heathcote's Original London Post in 1724, but, again, without any change. The first novel features a middle-class woman seeking pleasure and wealth, and in seven days she courts and obtains a sexual and romantic liaison and source of money without marriage. The second novel has two women in degradation. One is drugged and raped (in a precursor to the scene in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa), and the other has her suitor drugged and raped and is forced to work as servant to the first. The novels are highly sensational and competently written, but neither was a significant advance in the development of the English novel.

External links
 Joan Cucinotta Reteshka, "Hearne, Mary (fl. 1718–1720)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 Nov 2006

1710s
18th-century British writers
18th-century British women writers
18th-century British novelists
British women novelists
Zoran Vuković

Zoran Vuković (born 6 September 1955 in Brusna, Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian Serb who was charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his actions in the city of Foča during the Bosnian War. During the course of the war he was in the same unit as convicted indictee Radomir Kovač.

He was arrested by SFOR on 23 December 1999 and charged with several counts of rape and torture, of which he was ultimately found guilty of two counts of each as war crimes and acquitted of the remainder and the crimes against humanity charges. He was sentenced to twelve years in prison on 22 February 2001. At his own request, he was tried along with Dragoljub Kunarac and Radomir Kovač. He served his sentence in Bodø, Norway and was released on 11 March 2008, after serving about two thirds of the sentence.

References

Links
 ICTY Redacted Indictment
 ICTY Judgement

1955 births
Living people
People from Foča
People convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina convicted of war crimes
Bosnia and Herzegovina people imprisoned abroad
Prisoners and detainees of Norway
New Milford School District

The New Milford School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from New Milford, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising four schools, had an enrollment of 2,026 students and 157.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.9:1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.

Schools
Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
Elementary schools
Berkley Street School with 436 students in grades K-5
Timothy Coughlin, principal
Bertram F. Gibbs Elementary School with 484 students in grades K-5
Jessica Torre, principal
Middle school
David E. Owens Middle School with 510 students in grades 6-8
James DeLalla, principal
High school
New Milford High School with 601 students in grades 9-12
Lou Manuppelli, principal

In the news
Two students were removed from school after a March 2007 incident in which a sixth-grade student brought a BB gun to Owens Middle School, showed it to other students and hid the gun in another student's locker.

Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
Danielle Shanley, superintendent
Stephanie Kuchar, business administrator and board secretary

Board of education
The district's board of education, with nine members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the day-to-day operation of the district.

References

External links
New Milford School District

School Data for the New Milford School District, National Center for Education Statistics

New Jersey District Factor Group FG
New Milford, New Jersey
School districts in Bergen County, New Jersey
Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Leicester

Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Leicester (née Lady Dorothy Percy; ca. 1598 – 20 August 1659), was the eldest daughter of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, and his wife, Lady Dorothy Devereux. Her sister was the alleged intrigant Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, and their eldest surviving brother was Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland.

Lady Dorothy Percy married Robert Sidney, later Earl of Leicester, in 1615. The couple had twelve children, including:

Dorothy (1617–1683), married Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland.
Philip (1619–1697), the 3rd Earl, married Lady Catherine Cecil.
Henry, created Earl of Romney, died unmarried and without issue.
Algernon, died unmarried and without issue.
Robert, died young.
Lucy (died 1685), married Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet.

References

External links
Entry at thePeerage.com

1590s births
1659 deaths
17th-century English nobility
17th-century English women
Daughters of British earls
English countesses
Dorothy
Dorothy
Jibneh Arabieh

Jibneh Arabieh () (also jibni) is a soft white cheese found all over the Middle East. It is particularly popular in the Persian Gulf region. The cheese has a mild taste similar to feta but less salty. The heritage of the product started with Bedouins using goat or sheep milk; however, current practice is to use cow's milk to make the cheese. Jibneh Arabieh is used for cooking, or simply as a table cheese. 

Jibni is an ingredient in cheese-filled pastries such as knafeh.

See also
 Akkawi cheese
 Nabulsi cheese
 List of cheeses

References

External links
 Cheese.com

Middle Eastern cheeses
Israeli cuisine
Mediterranean cuisine
Levantine cuisine
Israeli cheeses
Arab cuisine
Cow's-milk cheeses
Goat's-milk cheeses
Sheep's-milk cheeses
Brined white cheeses
Electric Vehicle Association

The Electric Vehicle Association (EVA) is a non-profit educational organization that promotes the advancement and widespread adoption of battery electric vehicles. It was formed in 1967 in San Jose, California.

Members
The Electric Vehicle Association (EVA) has over one thousand members internationally, with most in the United States. Members of the EVA receive the monthly "Current EVents" magazine. Many members also belong to one of more than fifty chapters, which serve a local area and meet periodically to exchange information pertinent to electric transportation. Some have their own newsletters as well.

Other EVA chapters have developed into substantial 501c3's on their own, such as Plug In America, which began as a chapter of the EVA. Still, others sprang up to promote special interests, such as plug-in hybrid vehicles by CalCars.org. Starting with a commercially available product such as the Toyota Prius, an external power source was added to recharge the on-board battery, instead of burning hydrocarbons to accomplish that task.  It's cleaner and more efficient to do so. Now plug-in hybrids abound in the marketplace, owing largely to this concerted push.

In recent years, various Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) began producing fully electric vehicles for sale, necessitating less ″backyard craftsmanship″ efforts by our members. Then automakers took notice and the product has become a serious market segment contender. Now anyone can go out and buy a battery-powered car, bring it home and enjoy the benefits, which are substantial.

But experiments with the many trade-offs in automotive design continue. Exploration of alternative approaches develops into products that become commercially viable. The loose-knit nature of the organization promotes such interaction.

The past two decades have shown the technological advances which allow for the products seen on the streets worldwide today.  EAA members have experimented with and demonstrated EV feasibility since the earliest days.  Automakers are now progressively being required to reduce the emission footprint per distance traveled and will continue to need to meet both EU and EPA limits.

EVA Chapters
Full Current Chapter List

Selected Chapters:

 Denver Electric Vehicle Council (Colorado)
 Seattle Electric Vehicle Association (Washington)
 Central Coast Chapter Electric Auto Association (California)
 Sacramento Electric Vehicle Association (California)
 Electric Vehicle Association of San Diego (California)
 Silicon Valley Chapter Electric Auto Association (California)
 Electric Vehicle Association of Greater Washington, DC (Washington DC, Maryland & Northern Virginia)

See also
 CalCars
 Green vehicle
 Plug In America
 Plug-in electric vehicle 
 RechargeIT 
 Tour de Sol

References
Electric Vehicle Association
Windshield Repair & Replacement
21st Century Automotive Challenge (PDF)
Electric Auto Association Europe

Battery electric vehicle organizations
Non-profit organizations based in California
1967 establishments in California
Automobile associations in the United States
Organizations established in 1967
Great Culverden Park

Great Culverden Park is a small, 4.2ha, woodland, about half a mile from the centre of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England, west of Mount Ephraim and bounded entirely by houses along Royal Chase, Connaught Way, Knightsbridge Close, Culverden Park and Royal Wells Park.  It is not accessible, or visible, from a public place.

The Park is the remnant grounds of the former Culverden House,  designed by Decimus Burton for Jacob Jeddere Fisher in 1830 and built on the highest point in the wood and  the first big house to be built there. When Jacob Jeddere Fisher pulled down the old house and built himself another, in 1830, he named it Great Culverden.  Great Culverden House was once the residence of Rear Admiral Charles Davis Lucas, VC, who died there in 1914.

The house was demolished to make way for the Kent & Sussex Hospital, which itself was demolished in 2014 to make way for the Royal Wells Park housing development which was completed in 2018.

The Park forms a 'green link' under the Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Green Infrastructure Plan, 2011 that provides a wildlife corridor linking the park, Rusthall Common and other local wildlife sites. The housing development along Mt. Ephraim is required to provide a contiguous Protected Ecology Zone through the development to support this.

Except for an ice house, a hydraulic ram connected to a spring and some other hydraulic works, nothing remains of the house that gave the park its name. The Park is owned by Great Culverden Park Ltd., which may issue shares to properties adjacent the Park.

References

Royal Tunbridge Wells
Forests and woodlands of Kent
1830 establishments in England
Fernando Margáin

Fernando Margáin Berlanga (born 1952) is a Mexican politician from the State of Nuevo León affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN) who has served in the upper house of the Mexican Congress.

Margáin served as municipal president (mayor) of San Pedro  from 1994 to 1997. Later, from 1997 to 1999, he served in the cabinet of Governor Fernando Canales.

In 2000 he was elected to serve in the Senate of Mexico.

He was municipal president (mayor) of San Pedro Garza García again from 2006 to 2009.

Son of Ricardo Margain Zozaya who was one of the main politicians in Nuevo León State in the 1960s and 1970s. Fernando Margáin is married to Alejandra Sada de Margáin.

In March 2015, he announced his intention of running for municipal president (mayor) of San Pedro Garza García again, this time as a candidate for the Humanist Party.

See also 
 1994 Nuevo León state election
 2006 Nuevo León state election

References

Living people
1952 births
Politicians from Monterrey
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
Municipal presidents in Nuevo León
Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
21st-century Mexican politicians
University of Monterrey alumni
20th-century Mexican politicians
Slieve Binnian

Slieve Binnian () is one of the Mourne Mountains in County Down, Northern Ireland, 9 km north of Kilkeel. It is the third-highest mountain in Northern Ireland at . The summit is broad and flat with rocky tors at the north and south ends, with the Back Castles, impressive towers of granite, in between. To the south-west is Wee Binnian () (460m). It lies east of Silent Valley Reservoir and west of the Annalong Valley. The Mourne Wall also crosses over Slieve Binnian.

The mountain is in the townland of Brackenagh East Upper (379 acres), the civil parish of Kilkeel and the historic barony of Mourne.

Places of interest
Overlooking Annalong Wood on the eastern slopes of Slieve Binnian is the disused quarry of Douglas Crag.
What appears to be the remains of an abandoned quarrying village lies on the south eastern slopes of Slieve Binnan. Ruins of rock huts are spread across a landscape littered with part quarried rock.

Binnian Tunnel
The Binnian Tunnel (2.5 miles long) was built between 1947 and 1950/51 underneath Slieve Binnian, to transport water from the Annalong Valley to the Silent Valley. A workforce of 150 was involved in two tunnelling teams which started from opposite ends and met in the middle nearly 800m under the roof of the mountain. Having been carefully measuring their positions the whole time, they found they were only two inches off course when the two tunnels met.

References

External links
 Photos of Slieve Binnian
 Walking Ireland’s Iconic Mountains – Number 3: Slieve Binnian from Walking & Hiking in Ireland

Mountains and hills of County Down
Marilyns of Northern Ireland
Hewitts of Northern Ireland
Mountains under 1000 metres
Dorothy Sidney

Dorothy Sidney may refer to:

Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Leicester (née Dorothy Percy) (ca. 1598 – 1659)
Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (1617 – 1684), daughter of the above
Brussels cheese

Brussels cheese ( ) is made from cow's milk and is considered a table cheese that is used for spreading and snacks.  In texture it is smooth, with its taste being sharp and citrusy, with strong and salty bite. The cheese is regularly washed and dried over a period of at least three months, and is shaped into rounds or tubs.

See also
 List of cheeses

External links
 Cookipedia

Belgian cheeses
Cow's-milk cheeses
Waerloga Records

Waerloga Records is a small Swedish record label focused on dark ritualistic fantasy music. Records are available through mailorder and several stores worldwide. The label also have a Mailorder Store selling related releases, rare soundtracks etc.

Bands on the label
 Za Frûmi
 Encryption
 Abnocto
 Daniel & Mikael Tjernberg
 Lost Kingdom
 Anabasis
 Gargrim the Liar
 Aardia
 Simon Kölle

Other releases sold by Waerloga are in alphabetic order: Alvskugga, Atrium Carceri, Autumn Tears, Balahgan, , Dimitrij Volstoj, Erdenstern, Gargrim the Liar, Helen Trevillion, Lost Kingdom, Markus Holler, Morgan the bard, Musterion, Overcoat, Patrice Deceuninck, Project Morfeo, Rising Shadows, Sagor och Swing, Sean Beeson, Sibelian, The Soil Bleeds Black, Tincolindo, Tom W Hall, Unto Ashes, Vagrants steps, Volstoj, Vox Vulgaris, Vurpa and Wilbert Roget, II

Waerloga Records has recently collaborated on a series of compilation CDs with fantasy-based Swedish internet radio station, Radio Rivendell, including A Tribute to Uglakh (2005), Radio Rivendell Compilation (2007), and Radio Rivendell Compilation, vol. 2: The Book of War (2008). Artists contributing to these CDs include many of those listed in the paragraph above, as well as others.

See also
 List of record labels

External links
 Waerloga Records
 

Swedish record labels
Ravendale, California

Ravendale is an unincorporated community in Lassen County, California. It is located  southeast of Termo, at an elevation of 5,305 feet (1,617 m). The town was a station on the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway line, but unlike many such towns, survived past the abandonment of the line in the late 1990s.

The Ravendale US post office opened in 1910, closed in 1920, and re-opened in 1921. The ZIP Code is 96123.

The county maintains an unattended airstrip at the town with the FAA identifier O39.

Susanville District, Ravendale Resource Area, Bureau of Land Management operates a fire station here. The fire station transmitter call sign is KMC407. There is also a Ravendale Volunteer Fire Department.

In 1939, Ravendale Elementary School's attendance dropped to zero students. The trustees questioned whether they were obligated to pay a teacher's salary and this matter was referred to California Attorney General, Earl Warren, who ruled in favor of the teacher.

References

Unincorporated communities in California
Unincorporated communities in Lassen County, California
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene

1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene, also known as pseudocumene, is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH(CH). Classified as an aromatic hydrocarbon, it is a flammable colorless liquid with a strong odor. It is nearly insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents. It occurs naturally in coal tar and petroleum (about 3%). It is one of the three isomers of trimethylbenzene.

Production
Industrially, it is isolated from the C aromatic hydrocarbon fraction during petroleum distillation. Approximately 40% of this fraction is 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene. It is also generated by methylation of toluene and xylenes and the disproportionation of xylene over aluminosilicate catalysts.

Uses
Pseudocumene is a precursor to mellitic anhydride, from which high performance polymers are made. It is also used as a sterilizing agent and in the making of dyes, perfumes and resins. Another use is as a gasoline additive.

Scintillator
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene dissolved in mineral oil is used as a liquid scintillator in particle physics experiments such as NOνA and Borexino.

See also
 Cumene

References

External links
 EPA Chemical Fact Sheet
 CDC – NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards

Alkylbenzenes
C3-Benzenes
Tour Défense 2000

The Tour Défense 2000 is one of the tallest residential buildings in France. The tower is situated in the La Défense section of Puteaux, a suburb of Paris.

The tower was constructed between April 1971 and November 1974. Its success as a residence was not immediate: two years into its opening only a quarter of its apartments had been sold. In comparison to the other buildings of La Défense, Tour Défense 2000 is relatively isolated, and thus benefits from a beautiful panoramic view.

In total, there are 370 apartments occupying 47 floors, and the building is capable of housing about 700 people. Apartments range in size from 19m² to 140m².

See also 
 Skyscraper
 List of tallest structures in Paris

References

External links 
  Official site

Skyscraper office buildings in La Défense
Buildings and structures completed in 1974
Apartment buildings in France
Glyptotek

Glyptotek or Glyptothek may refer to:

 Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark
 Glyptothek, an art museum in Munich, Germany
 Glyptothek (album), an album by Scottish musician Momus
Let U Go (Ashley Parker Angel song)

"Let U Go" is a song by American musician Ashley Parker Angel from his debut studio album Soundtrack to Your Life (2006). It was released to radio as the lead single from the album on February 14, 2006, by Blackground Records and Universal Records. The song was written by Parker, Max Martin, and Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, whilst production was helmed by Martin and Dr. Luke. The song peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, in addition to peaking at number 10 on the Pop 100 chart.

Critical reception
Chuck Taylor of Billboard referred to the song as a "wheely-squealing pop/rock headbanger" that "fits well within the 'TRL' template for uptempo pubescent pop."

Music video
This music video takes place in two places. In the beginning it seems Ashley and his band are in a basement. He begins to play the song and the walls begin to shake. After that the walls fall and the band ends up in a club with screaming fans all around. He moves to a secluded area and the music stops. It begins again as a strobe light begins to flash. The song starts to end and the club changes to the front of a theater which says "Ashley Parker Angel, One Night Only". The song ends and Ashley throws his guitar over his shoulder and walks away. It premiered on TRL on March 14, 2006 and went to number one soon after.

Credits and personnel
Credits and personnel are adapted from the Soundtrack to Your Life album liner notes.
 Ashley Parker Angel – writer, vocals
 Max Martin – writer, producer, all instruments except drums
 Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald – writer, producer, all instruments except drums
 Seth Waldmann – recording
 Ross Hogarth – recording, engineering
 Rob Kinelski – recording, engineering
 Randy Staub – mixing
 Dorian Crozier – drums
 Mike Fasano – drum tech
 Bob Ludwig – mastering

Charts

Release history

References

External links
Top 40.about.com Review.
Chart history on Top40-charts.com.
[ Chart history on AMG.]

2006 debut singles
Ashley Parker Angel songs
Music videos directed by Marc Klasfeld
Song recordings produced by Max Martin
Songs written by Dr. Luke
Songs written by Max Martin
Song recordings produced by Dr. Luke
Kongens Nytorv station

Kongens Nytorv station (, lit. King's New Square) is a Copenhagen Metro station located at Kongens Nytorv in downtown Copenhagen, Denmark. The station is located at the intersection of the M1/M2 and M3/M4 lines and is in fare zone 1. The station affords direct access to the Magasin du Nord department store.

History
Kongens Nytorv station opened as part of the initial segment of the Copenhagen Metro, with trains running west to Nørreport and east to either Vestamager or Lergravsparken. Construction for the City Circle Line, which is carry the M3 and M4 Lines and for which Kongens Nytorv acts as an interchange, began on 4 October 2009 with wire work and archaeological sites. The excavation began in mid-2011 and the M3 and M4 station was opened on 29 September 2019.

Design

Kongens Nytorv is built and designed in the same style as other underground stations on the Copenhagen Metro. There are two main levels below ground level; the first is a few steps down from the street. At this level, passengers take an escalator down to a mezzanine switchback that makes them turn around and go down another escalator to reach platform level. There is also a lift that transports passengers to the platform. There are two entrances to the station as well: the southwestern corner of the intersection of Kongens Nytorv, Lille Kongensgade, Holmens Kanal, and Store Kongensgade and the other inside the Magasin du Nord department store.

Service

Both original Copenhagen Metro lines, the M1 and the M2, serve Kongens Nytorv. Both operate westbound towards Vanløse and eastbound towards Vestamager on the M1 and Lufthavnen on the M2. Since the City Circle Line and M4 were completed on 29 September 2019 and 28 March 2020, Kongens Nytorv has acted as a connection between the older metro lines and the M3 and M4 lines.

See also
 Kongens Nytorv

External links

Kongens Nytorv station on www.m.dk 
Kongens Nytorv station on www.m.dk 

City Circle Line (Copenhagen Metro) stations
M1 (Copenhagen Metro) stations
M2 (Copenhagen Metro) stations
M4 (Copenhagen Metro) stations
Railway stations opened in 2002
2002 establishments in Denmark
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 2000s
Farewell Summer

Farewell Summer is a novel by American writer Ray Bradbury, published on October 17, 2006. It was his last novel released in his lifetime. It is a sequel to his 1957 novel Dandelion Wine, and is set during an Indian summer in October 1929. The story concerns a mock war between the young and the old in Green Town, Illinois, and the sexual awakening of Doug Spaulding as he turns 14. With Something Wicked This Way Comes, they form a trilogy of novels inspired by Bradbury's childhood in Waukegan, Illinois.

The first chapter, also titled Farewell Summer, appeared in The Stories of Ray Bradbury in 1980. Jonathan R. Eller and William F. Touponce discuss a draft of the unpublished novel in some detail in their book, Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (2004).

Publishers Weekly called the novel a "poignant, wise but slight 'extension' of the indefatigable Bradbury's semiautobiographical Dandelion Wine" and concluded, "Bradbury's mature but fresh return to his beloved early writing conveys a depth of feeling." Kirkus Reviews found it "a thin work, heavily reliant on dialogue, but one that serves as an intriguing coda to one of Bradbury's classics." Booklist said, "A touching meditation on memories, aging, and the endless cycle of birth and death, and a fitting capstone, perhaps, to a brilliant career."

History 
In the afterword to Farewell Summer, Bradbury ... contends that the novel was actually intended to follow what became the Dandelion Wine story arc as a complete book tentatively titled Summer Morning, Summer Night. "When I delivered it to my publishers they said, 'My God, this is much too long. Why don't we publish the first 90,000 words as a novel and keep the second part for some future year when it is ready to be published'" (pp. 207–208).

References

External links
 
 Dust jacket of Farewell Summer

Novels by Ray Bradbury
2006 American novels
American autobiographical novels
Sequel novels
Novels set in Illinois
Fiction set in 1929
Waukegan, Illinois
2001 Beninese presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Benin on 4 March 2001, with a second round run-off on 18 March. They controversially resulted in the re-election of Mathieu Kérékou for a second term. Kérékou's rival Nicéphore Soglo, who had been president from 1991 to 1996, failed in his bid to reclaim the presidency; although he qualified to participate in the second round of the election against Kérékou, he refused to do so, alleging electoral fraud. Adrien Houngbédji, the parliament speaker and third-placed candidate, also refused to participate in a second round. As a result, Kérékou faced fourth-place candidate Bruno Amoussou, who was planning minister and had already given his support to Kérékou, in the second round; Kérékou won an easy victory with 84% of the vote.

After the election, it was revealed that the Titan Corporation, a defense contractor based in the United States, had illegally provided $2 million to Kérékou's re-election campaign. The company pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $28.5 million in fines and civil penalties, the largest penalty under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act up to that point, for bribery and filing false tax returns.

Results

References

Presidential elections in Benin
Benin
Presidential
Benin
Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland

Dorothy Spencer (née Sidney; later Smythe), Countess of Sunderland (5 October 1617 (baptised) – 5 February 1684), was the wife of Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, and the daughter of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, and Lady Dorothy Percy.

Lady Dorothy Sidney (or Sydney) was celebrated not only for her beauty but for wit, charm and intelligence. In about 1635, she rejected a marriage proposal from the poet Edmund Waller, who addressed verses to her under the nickname "Sacharissa" (which he based on the Latin word sacharum, meaning "sugar").

On 20 July 1639 at Penhurst, she married Henry Spencer. It seems to have been a love marriage and had her family's wholehearted approval: her father after her husband's death wrote that he thanked God for the part he had played in her happiness.Kenyon  p.1 In 1643, Spencer was created 1st Earl of Sunderland in recognition of his service to King Charles I in the English Civil War. Spencer was killed at the First Battle of Newbury, leaving Dorothy with two children, and pregnant with a third, who died young. Their children were:

 Lady Dorothy Spencer
 Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland
 Lady Penelope Spencer (c. 1642–1667), died unmarried.

The widowed countess lived at Brington, Northamptonshire, but eventually returned to Penshurst Place in Kent to live with her parents. In 1652 she remarried to Sir Robert Smythe of Bidborough, Kent, and had a second son, also named Robert.

Her letters show both her intelligence and her clear-sightedness, even about those closest to her. While her son and daughter-in-law could see no fault in their eldest son, Robert, Lord Spencer, Dorothy wrote dryly of her grandson: "He has no good nature or humour, is scornful and pretending… comes to me seldom, seems weary in a minute, talks of my company [guests] as though I picked them up in the streets…".

Her death has been attributed to the grief caused by her brother Algernon's trial and execution for treason in December 1683. Her grave is in Everdon, Northamptonshire.

Bibliography
Sacharissa; some account of Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland, her family and friends, 1617-1684 by Julia Mary Cartwright Ady (1926)
Kenyon, J.P. Robert Spencer Earl of Sunderland 1741-1702 Longman Green and Co. 1958 Reprinted by Gregg Revivals 1992

References 

1617 births
1684 deaths
English countesses
Daughters of British earls
Dorothy
Dorothy
17th-century English women
17th-century English people
Microstomatidae

The Microstomatidae (pencil smelts) are a family of marine smelts native to the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.

References
 
 

 
Deep sea fish
Marine fish families
Ray-finned fish families
Newton's Wake: A Space Opera

Newton's Wake: A Space Opera  is a science fiction novel by British writer Ken MacLeod, published in 2004.  Set in the 24th century, it follows human life after a partially cataclysmic Singularity, and in particular a conflict on a far-flung planet that upsets the prevailing order. It has elements of both transhumanism and satire and is written using the printed versions of common translation stereotypes (e.g. Scottish people say "tae").  The novel was nominated for the British Science Fiction Award in 2004, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2005.

Plot
In the late 20th century, at the start of a war between the European nations and the United States, a US Army AI directing weapons overcame its programming to become self-aware. Then followed the "Hard Rapture", an explosive expansion and evolution of computer systems that left most of humanity dead or devoured while the AIs and assimilated persons progressed into posthumanity beyond human comprehension and departed for parts unknown, leaving behind artifacts on a number of worlds.

With the Earth now populated by varyingly dormant, partially sentient war machines, humanity lives offworld. The three main sects are America Offline (AO), the Knights of Enlightenment (KE) and Demokratische Kommunistbund (Democratic Communist Union) (DK). Examination of the posthuman relics has resulted in deep but sporadic knowledge of such things as FTL travel.

The main character is Lucinda Carlyle, a member of a Scottish family of entrepreneurs/thugs that controls a system of traversable wormholes known as the Skein. Lucinda is a "combat archeologist", leading a team to the unexplored world of Eurydice to salvage posthuman technology and deal with whatever it tries in response. Not only does she find a motherlode of an artifact, but a lost colony of humans that escaped Earth in the Hard Rapture and are living in a post scarcity society (with cosmic string weapons far beyond those of other groups). Each side is as surprised as the other, having thought themselves the only survivors. Then the Knights of Enlightenment discover that the artifact, originally the crashed colony ship of the Eurydiceans, is the focal point of the Skein.

References

External links
 Newton's Wake at Worlds Without End

Novels by Ken MacLeod
2004 science fiction novels
British science fiction novels
English-language novels
2004 British novels
Orbit Books books
Animazement

Animazement is an annual three-day anime convention held during May at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is traditionally held over Memorial Day weekend. The convention is designed to be family-friendly. Animazement is run by unpaid staff and volunteers.

Programming
The convention typically offers an artist alley, classes, concerts, cosplay chess, cosplay contests, dealers room, gaming tournaments, manga library, masquerade ball, musicians, panel discussions, raves, various gaming rooms (arcade, console, retro), video screenings, and voice actors.

Animazement raised over $12,000 for several charities in 2015.

History
The convention originates from a 1997 36-hour anime marathon, organized by the Triangle Area Anime Society (TAAS) at North Carolina State University. It was first held in Raleigh, North Carolina at the North Raleigh Hilton in 1998, moved to the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center in Durham, North Carolina for 2001, and to the month of May in 2002. In 2009, four Japanese guests canceled appearances due to quarantine concerns over the Swine flu. In 2009, Animazement moved to the Raleigh Convention Center. Noboru Ishiguro was scheduled to attend the 2012 event, but died prior to the event. The convention celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2017.

Animazement was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Event history

References

External links
 
 Animazement Website

Anime conventions in the United States
Recurring events established in 1998
1998 establishments in North Carolina
Annual events in North Carolina
Festivals in North Carolina
Culture of Raleigh, North Carolina
Tourist attractions in Raleigh, North Carolina
Culture of Durham, North Carolina
Tourist attractions in Durham, North Carolina
Conventions in North Carolina