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Block matrix pseudoinverse

In mathematics, a block matrix pseudoinverse is a formula for the pseudoinverse of a partitioned matrix. This is useful for decomposing or approximating many algorithms updating parameters in signal processing, which are based on the least squares method.

Derivation 
Consider a column-wise partitioned matrix:

If the above matrix is full column rank, the Moore–Penrose inverse matrices of it and its transpose are

This computation of the pseudoinverse requires (n + p)-square matrix inversion and does not take advantage of the block form.

To reduce computational costs to n- and p-square matrix inversions and to introduce parallelism, treating the blocks separately, one derives 

where orthogonal projection matrices are defined by

The above formulas are not necessarily valid if  does not have full rank – for example, if , then

Application to least squares problems 

Given the same matrices as above, we consider the following least squares problems, which
appear as multiple objective optimizations or constrained problems in signal processing.
Eventually, we can implement a parallel algorithm for least squares based on the following results.

Column-wise partitioning in over-determined least squares 

Suppose a solution  solves an over-determined system:

Using the block matrix pseudoinverse, we have

Therefore, we have a decomposed solution:

Row-wise partitioning in under-determined least squares 

Suppose a solution  solves an under-determined system:

The minimum-norm solution is given by

Using the block matrix pseudoinverse, we have

Comments on matrix inversion 

Instead of , we need to calculate directly or indirectly

In a dense and small system, we can use singular value decomposition, QR decomposition, or Cholesky decomposition to replace the matrix inversions with numerical routines. In a large system, we may employ iterative methods such as Krylov subspace methods.

Considering parallel algorithms, we can compute  and  in parallel. Then, we finish to compute  and  also in parallel.

See also

References

External links 
 The Matrix Reference Manual by Mike Brookes
 Linear Algebra Glossary by John Burkardt
 The Matrix Cookbook by Kaare Brandt Petersen
 Lecture 8: Least-norm solutions of undetermined equations by Stephen P. Boyd

Numerical linear algebra
Matrix theory
AOV

AOV could refer to:

Technology, science, and medicine
 aortic velocity (AoV), the speed of blood flow in the aorta of the heart
 aortic valve (AoV)
 Air operated valve
 Analysis of variance, also known as ANOVA
 Angle of view (AOV, AoV), a concept in photography and optics
 Automatic opening vent, a window or roof light that will open mechanically to allow smoke to be evacuated out of a building
 Arbitrary Output Variable, a feature of RenderMan
 Average Order Value, a term from advertising and marketing; see Post-click marketing

Arts and entertainment
 Akademische Orchestervereinigung, an orchestra in Göttingen, Germany
 "AOV" (song), a song by Slipknot
 AOV Adult Movie Channel, a nationwide Canadian cable channel
 Arena of Valor, a multiplayer online battle arena developed and published by Tencent Games

Other
 Algemeen Ouderen Verbond, the General Elderly Alliance, a Dutch political party
 "Any other variety", a classification at cat shows for cats that do not qualify as something more specific under particular breed standards; see Oriental Shorthair

See also
United States Open (crosswords)

The United States Open was a crossword puzzle-solving tournament that lasted from  to . Sponsored by Games Magazine and directed by Will Shortz, it attracted thousands of potential competitors and was, along with the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, one of the two largest crossword tournaments in recent decades.

A qualifying puzzle ran in Games Magazine.  Solvers of the puzzle could decide whether they wanted to be Nonparticipants or Participants.  Nonparticipants with correct solutions were eligible for a random drawing, the winner of which would receive a cash prize.  Participants with correct solutions were mailed four very difficult tiebreaker crosswords, many of which had deliberately tricky crossings and unannounced gimmicks (for example, the long entries in a puzzle might reveal that all of the across clues were in reverse order).  The 250 solvers with the best scores on the tiebreak puzzles were invited to New York City to participate in the tournament.

First prize at the tournament was $1500 and a six-foot-tall pencil.

Winners of the U.S. Open
 1982: Stanley Newman
 1983: John McNeill
 1984: Rebecca Kornbluh
 1985: Rebecca Kornbluh
 1986: Rebecca Kornbluh

Crossword competitions
Bragg–Gray cavity theory

Bragg-Gray cavity theory relates the radiation dose in a cavity volume of material  to the dose that would exist in a surrounding medium  in the absence of the cavity volume.  It was developed in 1936 by British scientists Louis Harold Gray, William Henry Bragg, and William Lawrence Bragg.

Most often, material  is assumed to be a gas, however Bragg-Gray cavity theory applies to any cavity volume (gas, liquid, or solid) that meets the following Bragg-Gray conditions.

 The dimensions of the cavity containing  is small with respect to the range of charged particles striking the cavity so that the cavity does not perturb the charged particle field.  That is, the cavity does not change the number, energy, or direction of the charged particles that would exist in  in the absence of the cavity.
 The absorbed dose in the cavity containing  is deposited entirely by charged particles crossing it.

When the Bragg-Gray conditions are met,  then
,
where
 is the dose to material  (SI unit Gray)
 is the dose to the cavity material   (SI unit Gray)
 is the ratio of the mass-electronic stopping powers (also known as mass-collision stopping powers) of  and  averaged over the charged particle fluence crossing the cavity. 

In an ionization chamber, the dose to material  (typically a gas) is

where
 is the ionization per unit volume produced in the  (SI unit Coulomb)
is the mass of the gas (SI unit kg)
 is the mean energy required to produce an ion pair in  divided by the charge of an electron (SI units Joules/Coulomb)

See also
 Ionizing radiation
 Ionization chamber

Sources
 Khan, F. M. (2003). The physics of radiation therapy (3rd ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: Philadelphia. .

 Attix, F.H. (1986). Introduction to Radiological Physics and Radiation Dosimetry, Wiley-Interscience: New York. .

Physics theorems
Jean-Claude Parrot

Jean-Claude Parrot (born 24 July 1937) was National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers between 1977 and 1992, and its chief negotiator for eighteen years. Parrot led the union through several national postal strikes and was responsible for cultivating the union's reputation as a militant organization that made pathbreaking gains in collective bargaining that would later be adopted by other unions.

Early life 
Parrot became a postal clerk in Montreal in 1954.

Union Activism 
Parrot became CUPW's national negotiator in 1975. The 1975 negotiations led to a 43-day national strike.

During the 1978 negotiations, the Canadian federal government imposed back-to-work legislation. In defiance, postal workers remained on strike for seven days after the legislation took effect. Parrot was eventually jailed for two months in 1979 for refusing to tell postal workers to return to work.

He led postal workers to many victories such as the conversion of Canada Post into a Crown Corporation, breakthroughs in collective bargaining such as paid maternity leave, and CUPW's 1989 victory in a winner-take-all certification vote that doubled the size of the union.

Canadian Labour Congress 
Jean-Claude Parrot was elected Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress at its 19th Convention in Vancouver in 1992. He was subsequently re-elected to this position in 1994, 1996 and 1999.

Writings 
On the fortieth anniversary of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Jean-Claude Parrot published his memoirs in a book entitled My Union, My Life: Jean-Claude Parrot and the Canadian Union Of Postal Workers.

References

Further reading 
 Parrot, Jean-Claude (2005). My Union, My Life: Jean-Claude Parrot and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing. .

External links
Jean-Claude Parrot, The Canadian Encyclopedia.

Trade unionists from Quebec
1930s births
Living people
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Activists from Montreal
Canadian trade union leaders
Star FM (Australia)

Star FM was an Australian radio network, consisting of Top 40/CHR formatted stations in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The brand was created by DMG Regional Radio in 1999, with the network being sold to Southern Cross Austereo.

Programming
The network's stations are aimed at the under-35 section of the market, playing Top 40 and popular music. For most stations, the only local program heard on these stations is the breakfast programme, with Alo Baker's Workday networked from the Gold Coast Media Centre, and drive/nights programming coming from Southern Cross Austereo's metropolitan stations Fox FM in Melbourne and 2Day FM in Sydney.

In 2007, Star FM changed its major positioning statement from "Todays Best Music" to "Your HIT Music Station". The positioning statement was changed again in June 2011 to "Your #1 HIT Music Station" and following the Southern Cross Media/Austereo merger and became "Fresh & First" in 2013 until recently it was changed again to "Hits & Old Skool"

On 15 December 2016, all stations that are a part of the Hit Network were rebranded as Hit, meaning that the Star FM and Hot FM brandings ceased to exist.

Stations

New South Wales
2AAY 104.9 MHz Albury
2CSF 105.5 MHz Coffs Harbour
2DBO 93.5 MHz Dubbo
2GZF 105.9 MHz Orange
2RGF 99.7 MHz Griffith
2ROX 105.1 MHz Kempsey/102.3 MHz Port Macquarie
2WZD 93.1 MHz Wagga Wagga

Victoria
3BDG 91.9 MHz Bendigo
3MDA 99.5 MHz Mildura
3SEA 94.3 MHz and 97.9 MHz Gippsland (formerly Sea FM)
3SUN 96.9 MHz Shepparton (formerly Sun FM)

South Australia
5SEF 96.1 MHz Mount Gambier

References

External links
Star FM
Wild Revolution

Contemporary hit radio stations in Australia
Defunct Australian radio networks
Southern Cross Media Group
1999 establishments in Australia
Doug Sulliman

Simon Douglas Sulliman (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League from 1979–80 until 1989–90.

Playing career
Sulliman was drafted 13th overall by the New York Rangers in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft, after a standout junior career with the Kitchener Rangers. He played 631 career NHL games, scoring 160 goals and 168 assists for 328 points.

In 1981–82, Sulliman enjoyed a career year for the Hartford Whalers, establishing career highs in goals (29), assists (40), points (69), PIM (39) and games played (77). Following the 1986–87 season, he received several team awards from the New Jersey Devils, including the Players’ MVP, Fan Club MVP, Good Guy Award, and was the team's Masterton Trophy nominee, awarded to the player who best exemplifies "perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication" to hockey. He also won the team's Three Star award in 1984–85.

Coaching career
Upon retirement, Sulliman served as an assistant coach with the Devils from 1990–1993, including one season as an assistant under Herb Brooks during the 1992–93 season. During Sulliman's tenure as a coach with the Devils, the team posted a regular season record of 110-101-33 and qualified for the playoffs each year.

After coaching for the Devils, Sulliman spent the next decade and a half working on Wall Street and in the insurance industry. He also worked with Mike Emrick from 1995 to 1996 as a broadcast analyst with the New Jersey Devils.  On July 10, 2008, Phoenix Coyotes announced that Sulliman had been hired by the Coyotes as an assistant coach for Head Coach Wayne Gretzky's staff.

Career statistics

References

External links
 

1959 births
Arizona Coyotes coaches
Canadian ice hockey forwards
Hartford Whalers players
Ice hockey people from Nova Scotia
Kitchener Rangers players
Living people
National Hockey League assistant coaches
National Hockey League first-round draft picks
New Jersey Devils coaches
New Jersey Devils players
New York Rangers draft picks
New York Rangers players
People from Glace Bay
Philadelphia Flyers players
Sportspeople from the Cape Breton Regional Municipality
Canadian ice hockey coaches
San Lorenzo Island

San Lorenzo Island may refer to:

 San Lorenzo Island, Peru, the largest island of the country.
 San Lorenzo Island, Mexico, an island in the Gulf of California.
The Book of Squares

The Book of Squares, (Liber Quadratorum in the original Latin) is a book on algebra by Leonardo Fibonacci, published in 1225. It was dedicated to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.

The Liber quadratorum has been passed down by a single 15th-century manuscript, the so-called ms. E 75 Sup. of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan, Italy), ff. 19r-39v. During the 19th century, the work has been published for the first time in a printed edition by Baldassarre Boncompagni Ludovisi, prince of Piombino.

Appearing in the book is Fibonacci's identity, establishing that the set of all sums of two squares is closed under multiplication. The book anticipated the works of later mathematicians such as Fermat and Euler. The book examines several topics in number theory, among them an inductive method for finding Pythagorean triples based on the sequence of odd integers, the fact that the sum of the first  odd integers is , and the solution to the congruum problem.

Notes

Further reading
 B. Boncompagni Ludovisi, Opuscoli di Leonardo Pisano secondo un codice della Biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano contrassegnato E.75. Parte Superiore, in Id., Scritti di Leonardo Pisano matematico del secolo decimoterzo, vol. II, Roma 1862, pp. 253–283
 P. Ver Eecke, Léonard de Pise. Le livre des nombres carrés. Traduit pour la première fois du Latin Médiéval en Français, Paris, Blanchard-Desclée - Bruges 1952.
 G. Arrighi, La fortuna di Leonardo Pisano alla corte di Federico II, in Dante e la cultura sveva. Atti del Convegno di Studi, Melfi, 2-5 novembre 1969, Firenze 1970, pp. 17–31.
 E. Picutti, Il Libro dei quadrati di Leonardo Pisano e i problemi di analisi indeterminata nel Codice Palatino 557 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, in «Physis. Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza» XXI, 1979, pp. 195–339.
 L.E. Sigler, Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci, the book of squares. An annotated translation into modern English, Boston 1987.
 M. Moyon, Algèbre & Practica geometriæ en Occident médiéval latin: Abū Bakr, Fibonacci et Jean de Murs, in Pluralité de l’algèbre à la Renaissance, a cura di S. Rommevaux, M. Spiesser, M.R. Massa Esteve, Paris 2012, pp. 33–65.

External links
Fibonacci and Square Numbers at 

1225 books
13th-century Latin books
Mathematics books
Squares in number theory
Musical Shapes

Musical Shapes is the third album by American singer Carlene Carter.

The only song to make the Billboard country singles chart was "Baby Ride Easy," (written by Richard Dobson) a duet with Dave Edmunds of the British rock band Rockpile. At the time of the album's release, Carter was married to Nick Lowe, Edmunds's bandmate in Rockpile; Lowe was the producer of the album. It peaked at number 88 in Australia.

Track listing

Personnel
Carlene Carter - guitar, piano, vocals
Dave Edmunds - guitar, vocals
Billy Bremner - guitar
John Ciambotti - bass
Sean Hopper - organs
Nick Lowe - bass
John McFee - guitar
Roger Rettick - steel guitar
Bob Andrews - Hammond organ
Kevin Wells - drums
Terry Williams - drums
Cover design by Barney Bubbles

References

1980 albums
Carlene Carter albums
Albums produced by Nick Lowe
F-Beat Records albums
Warner Records albums
5/8

5/8 may refer to:

 the calendar date August 5 of the Gregorian calendar
 the calendar date May 8 (USA)
 The Fraction five eighths or 0.625 in decimal
 A time signature of quintuple meter in music
 Five-eighth, a position in rugby league football
Miklós Schweitzer Competition

The Miklós Schweitzer Competition (Schweitzer Miklós Matematikai Emlékverseny in Hungarian) is an annual Hungarian mathematics competition for university undergraduates, established in 1949. 

It is named after Miklós Schweitzer (1 February 1923 – 28 January 1945), a young Hungarian mathematician who died under the Siege of Budapest in the Second World War.

The Schweitzer contest is uniquely high-level among mathematics competitions. The problems, written by prominent Hungarian mathematicians, are challenging and require in-depth knowledge of the fields represented. The competition is open-book and competitors are allowed ten days to come up with solutions.

The problems on the competition can be classified roughly in the following categories: 
1. Algebra 
2. Combinatorics 
3. Theory of Functions
4. Geometry
5. Measure Theory
6. Number Theory
7. Operators
8. Probability Theory
9. Sequences and Series
10. Topology 
11. Set Theory

Recently a similar competition has been started in France.

References

 Contests in higher mathematics (Hungary, 1949–1961). In memoriam, Miklós Schweitzer. (G. Szasz, L. Geher, I. Kovacs, L. Pinter, eds), Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1968 260 pp.
 Miklós Schweitzer Competition Problems in recent years
 Problems of the Miklós Schweitzer Memorial Competition at http://artofproblemsolving.com/

Mathematics competitions
Recurring events established in 1949
Student events
Senyavin Islands

The Senyavin Islands belong to the Federated States of Micronesia. They consist of a larger volcanic Pohnpei Island (about 334 km2) and two small atolls Ant and Pakin.

History

On Pohnpei, pre-colonial history is divided into three eras: Mwehin Kawa or Mwehin Aramas (Period of Building, or Period of Peopling, before ca. 1100); Mwehin Sau Deleur (Period of the Lord of Deleur, ca. 1100 to ca. 1628); and Mwehin Nahnmwarki (Period of the Nahnmwarki, ca. 1628 to ca. 1885). Pohnpeian legend recounts that the Saudeleur rulers, the first to bring government to Pohnpei, were of foreign origin. The Saudeleur centralized form of absolute rule is characterized in Pohnpeian legend as becoming increasingly oppressive over several generations. Arbitrary and onerous demands, as well as a reputation for offending Pohnpeian deities, sowed resentment among Pohnpeians. The Saudeleur Dynasty ended with the invasion of Isokelekel, another semi-mythical foreigner, who replaced the Saudeleur rule with the more decentralized nahnmwarki system in existence today.

For the Europeans these islands were discovered first by Pedro Fernández de Quirós On 10 September 1825 Captain Row, in the brig  passed within 40 miles from some islands at  as he was sailing from New South Wales to Canton. He did not approach more closely as he sighted five boats that gave chase. John Bull was lightly armed and so Row was unwilling to interact with them, choosing instead to sail on. He believed the islands were unknown and so named them "John Bull's Islands". In 1828 Russian navigator Fyodor Litke named the group after Russian admiral Dmitry Senyavin.

Notes

References

Islands of Pohnpei
Blue Nun (album)

Blue Nun is an album by the American musician Carlene Carter, released in 1981. It features two duets with British rocker Paul Carrack: "Oh How Happy" and "Do Me Lover".

Track listing

Track information and credits verified from the album's liner notes.

Personnel 

 Martin Belmont – guitar
 Billy Bremner – guitar, backing vocals
 Bette Bright – backing vocals
 Paul Carrack - Hammond organ, piano, backing vocals
 Carlene Carter – guitar, piano, vocals
 Ginny Clee – backing vocals
 Big Al Downing – backing vocals
 James Eller – bass, backing vocals
 Huw Gower – guitar, backing vocals
 Bobby Irwin – drums, backing vocals
 Nick Lowe – bass, backing vocals
 Glenn Tilbrook – backing vocals
Technical
Paul Bass, Aldo Bocca, Rob Keyloch, Neill King - engineer

References

1981 albums
Carlene Carter albums
F-Beat Records albums
Warner Records albums
Albums produced by Roger Bechirian
Albums produced by Nick Lowe
Lavenski Smith

Lavenski R. Smith (born October 31, 1958) is an American lawyer who has served as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2017. He was appointed to the court in 2002 by President George W. Bush. He previously served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1999 to 2000.

Education
Smith is a native of Hope, Arkansas, and graduated from Hope High School. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Arkansas in 1981, and a Juris Doctor degree at the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1987.

Career
Before joining the federal bench, Smith worked in both private practice and public service. He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Arkansas Court of Appeals in 1998. Notably,  Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee had appointed Smith as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1999 as well as a Commissioner on the Arkansas Public Service Commission in 2001. Smith had also been an assistant professor at John Brown University and an executive director of the Rutherford Institute.

Federal judicial service
He was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2001 and was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 15, 2002 by voice vote. He has been Chief Judge since March 11, 2017. In October 2022, Smith was appointed by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to serve as the newest chair of the Judicial Conference's executive committee. His appointment took effect on October 1, 2022.

See also 
 List of African-American federal judges
 List of African-American jurists

References

External links

1958 births
21st-century American judges
African-American judges
Justices of the Arkansas Supreme Court
Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Living people
People from Hope, Arkansas
United States court of appeals judges appointed by George W. Bush
University of Arkansas alumni
Ron Sedlbauer

Ronald Andrew Sedlbauer (born October 22, 1954) is a former professional ice hockey left winger who played seven seasons in the National Hockey League.

Hockey career
Sedlbauer was drafted 23rd overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 1974 NHL amateur draft. He played 430 career NHL games, scoring 143 goals and 86 assists for 229 points. He also shares the modern-day record, along with Rick Nash, for fewest assists in a 40+ goal season. Sedlbauer scored 40 goals in the 1978–79 season, but only registered 16 assists. He held the record for 26 seasons until Nash tied it in the 2003–04 NHL season by scoring 41 goals and only 16 assists. After appearing in 32 games with ten goals and four assists to start the 1979–80 campaign, he was dealt from the Canucks to the Chicago Black Hawks for Dave Logan and Harold Phillipoff on December 21. His contract was purchased from the Black Hawks by the Toronto Maple Leafs on February 18, 1981. The transaction was the Maple Leafs' attempt to bolster its winger positions after injuries to Dan Maloney and René Robert.

Life
Ron attended Burlington Central High School from 1968 to 1972. He was a member of the Halton junior football championship team in 1971. Ron also qualified for the O.F.S.A.A. track and field championships in the shot put event. Ron was thrilled to receive an honorary athletic letter from the school the year he graduated.

Ron spent most of his youth playing hockey for the City of Burlington. He was drafted by the Hamilton Red Wings Jr. A hockey club while a member of the Burlington midget city rep team. After two and a half years with Hamilton, Ron was traded to the Kitchener Rangers, where he scored his only Jr. A hat trick; during his last game in junior; on his last ever shift.

Ron now lives in Burlington with his wife Sue, and his son, Brendon. He is currently the vice-president of Cougar Shoes Inc., and president of the Burlington Cougars Jr. A hockey club.

Career statistics

Highlights
1971 Drafted by Hamilton Red Wings Jr. A Hockey Club
1974 OHA (Jr. A) Regular Season Champions – Kitchener Rangers
1974 Drafted by Vancouver Canucks as their 1st pick, and 23rd overall in the NHL
1975 Scored 1st NHL goal versus Toronto Maple Leafs.
1974-75 Smythe Division Champions with Vancouver Canucks
1979 Set a new Vancouver Canuck single season goal scoring record of 40 goals.
1979 Won the Cyrus McLean Trophy as Vancouver Canucks leading scorer
1979 Scored 100th N.H.L. goal versus Toronto Maple Leafs
1979-80 Smythe Division Champions with Chicago Blackhawks
2004 Honoured as one of Hamilton's Hometown hockey heroes
2005 Selected to the Burlington Central High School Athletic Hall of Fame

References

External links

1954 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Chicago Blackhawks players
Cincinnati Tigers players
Hamilton Red Wings (OHA) players
Kitchener Rangers players
Seattle Totems (CHL) players
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Toronto Toros draft picks
Tulsa Oilers (1964–1984) players
Vancouver Canucks draft picks
Vancouver Canucks players
Ice hockey people from Burlington, Ontario
Senyavin

Senyavin () (also commonly spelled as Sinyavin) is a Russian noble family (dvoryans), famous for its Imperial Russian Navy officers.

People
Aleksey Senyavin (1716–1797), Russian admiral
Dmitry Senyavin, Russian admiral who ranks among the greatest seamen of the Napoleonic Wars
Ivan Akimovich Senyavin (died 1726), Russian rear admiral, head of the port of Astrakhan
Ivan Grigoryevich Senyavin (1801–1851), Russian statesman and senator
Lev Senyavin (1805–1861), Russian statesman and senator 
Naum Senyavin, Russian vice admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy
Nikolai Senyavin, Russian vice admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy

Other uses
Russian battleship Admiral Senyavin
Admiral Senyavin class of battleships
Senyavin Islands, a group of islands which belong to the Federated States of Micronesia
Senyavin Strait, a strait in the Bering Sea

Senyavin
Soleado

"Soleado" (Spanish: "Sunny") is a mainly instrumental piece of music composed by Ciro Dammicco under the alias "Zacar", based on his earlier composition "Le rose blu" (1972). The song was recorded in 1974 by Dammico's band, the Daniel Sentacruz Ensemble, and presented at that year's edition of Festivalbar. It became an instant hit, selling over five million copies in Europe.

Cover versions
Following the success of Soleado, many artists went on to cover the song adding lyrics.

In 1974 Spanish actor and singer Manolo Otero recited a poem, Todo el tiempo del mundo (All the Time in the World), with the tune in the background.
 

The first version with proper lyrics was Tränen lügen nicht (Tears don't lie) by Michael Holm in 1974, which topped the charts in Germany and became a Top 10 hit in Austria and Switzerland. Holm also recorded an English version of the song When a child is born which was number 53 on the Billboard chart.

In 1975, Neşe Karaböcek included a cover in Turkish named Gözyaşları Yalan Söylemez (Tears Don't Lie) on her album  Deli Gibi Sevdim. Mireille Mathieu recorded a version in French, On ne vit pas sans se dire adieu (We do not live without saying goodbye). The second English lyric version There comes the day was recorded and released on single by Vera Lynn. The Czech singer Karel Gott released a version called Měl jsem rád a mám (I loved and I still do).

Michael Holm's version with English lyrics When a Child Is Born, was also recorded by Johnny Mathis, and was the Christmas number one hit in the UK in 1976. Also in Britain that same year St Andrew's Chorale released a non-lyriced version under the title Cloud 99 on Decca Records, which reached number 31 in the UK charts.  In addition that year, the Slovak singer Karol Konárik recorded a version called Rozchod (Farewell) with lyrics by Ľuboš Zeman. In Hungary Cserháti Zsuzsa did a cover of the song in 1978 entitled "Édes kisfiam" (My sweet little son).
Mari Trini recorded a Spanish version, Te amaré, te amo y te querré (I will love you, I love you and I will) in 1981.
The Polish pop band Bayer Full recorded the song as Blondyneczka (Little Blonde One) in 1992. In 2008 the Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese performed a version of the song with the lyrics "Buon anno nuovo" (Happy New Year) during a New Year's Eve concert.

In 1994, German disc jockey Mark 'Oh scored a hit in the German charts with a dance rendition of Holm's version. Percy Faith, Santo & Johnny, Paul Mauriat and other artists recorded instrumental versions.

References

Santo & Johnny songs
1974 songs
1974 debut singles
Number-one singles in Italy
Rock instrumentals
Easy listening songs
Nimrod Lake

Nimrod Lake is a reservoir in western Arkansas, created by the construction of the Nimrod Dam. It is the oldest Corps of Engineers project in Arkansas, and was completed in 1942 on the Fourche LaFave River.

Overview
The lake is popular for sportsmen, mainly fishermen and hunters. The most common fish caught are crappie, largemouth bass, bream, white bass, and catfish.  Recreation is also popular, especially water skiing, swimming, and boating.  The Fourche LaFave River has its headwaters near Y City, Arkansas, and Boles. Fourche means fork in the French language, and LaFave is supposed to have been a French family that lived in the area.  Nimrod Lake was named after Nimrod, the great grandson of Noah. Nimrod was a mighty hunter, and the lake was named after him because of the wildlife that surrounds the lake.  Nimrod Lake is adjacent to the Scenic Byway 7 and is located between the Ouachita National Forest and the Ozark National Forest.

Project history

Nimrod Dam was constructed during the end of the Great Depression, and the beginning of World War II.  Nimrod Lake was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1938. Engineers started preparing for a dam site in late 1939, preparing for the construction of the dam began in early 1940, and the actual construction started in mid-1940. Construction continued after the start of World War 2, and ended in March 1942. Nimrod Lake was the first lake made by the Little Rock District of the Corps of Engineers, and the first Corp lake in Arkansas. The total cost of the project was $3,773,000 ($ in current value). Once the lake was completed, recreational opportunities became possible.  Although recreation was not part of the project, it later became a significant part of Nimrod Lake. Camping, swimming, boating, and hunting are now popular activities on the lake. Nimrod Lake celebrated its golden anniversary in June 1992, the celebration honored the former construction workers, engineers, and contractors who helped make the lake possible.

See also
List of Arkansas dams and reservoirs

References

External links

Dams in Arkansas
United States Army Corps of Engineers dams
Protected areas of Perry County, Arkansas
Reservoirs in Arkansas
Protected areas of Yell County, Arkansas
Buildings and structures in Perry County, Arkansas
Buildings and structures in Yell County, Arkansas
Bodies of water of Perry County, Arkansas
Bodies of water of Yell County, Arkansas
Fourche La Fave River
Gary Sabourin

Gary Bruce Sabourin (born December 4, 1943) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League from 1967–68 until 1976–77.

Career
Sabourin played in the NHL All-Star Game in 1970 and 1971. He played 627 career NHL games, the first 7 seasons with the St. Louis Blues, scoring 169 goals and 188 assists for 357 points. Sabourin also played 62 playoff games, scoring 19 goals and 11 assists for 30 points. 
He owned Buns Master Bakery in Chatham, Ontario until it was lost to a fire that engulfed the entire block on March 10, 2011.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

External links

1943 births
Living people
California Golden Seals players
Canadian ice hockey forwards
Cleveland Barons (NHL) players
Franco-Ontarian people
Guelph Royals players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Kitchener Rangers players
Minnesota Rangers players
Sportspeople from Parry Sound, Ontario
St. Paul Rangers players
St. Louis Blues players
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Taktin Oey

Taktin Oey (born 1986) is an American composer from the Princeton Junction section of West Windsor, New Jersey, United States.

He graduated from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North in 2004. He graduated from Harvard University in 2008. He has received a range of awards including the 1999 and 1996 ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) and First Prize for his Piano Quartet in the European Region's Young Composers’ Competition in 2000.

Oey's Symphony #1 was given its world premiere in 1997 by the Princeton Chamber Symphony when he was 10 years old and was performed in 1998 by the Orchestra London in Ontario.

References

Living people
1986 births
Musicians from New Jersey
People from West Windsor, New Jersey
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North alumni
Harvard University alumni
21st-century American composers
Steven Popkes

Steven Earl Popkes (born October 9, 1952) is an American science fiction writer, known primarily for his short fiction. He was nominated for the Nebula and Sturgeon Awards for the short story "The Color Winter" (1988).

Career

Steven Popkes was born in Santa Monica, California. He attended the Clarion Writers Workshop in 1978, and his first story, "A Capella Blues", was published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in May 1982. 

Popkes has published more than 45 short works of fiction.  He was a Nebula and Sturgeon Award finalist for the story "The Color Winter" (1988). In the late 1980s, he was involved in the Future Boston collaboration, a project where a number of Boston area science fiction writers contributed stories set in a common future, where the city of Boston is slowly sinking underwater. One of his more acclaimed stories, "The Egg" (Asimov's, January 1989) is set in the future Boston history, and was later incorporated into his short novel Slow Lightning (1991). His other novels include Caliban Landing (1987), Welcome to Witchlandia (2016), God's Country (2020), Jackie's Boy (2020), Danse Mécanique (2021) and House of Birds (2021). Steven has published a collection of short fiction as well, Simple Things: Collected Stories (2019). 

Popkes was part of the Readercon panels "Global Warming and Science Fiction" (2010) and "Have We Lost the Future?" (2012). He lives in the Boston area.

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

References

External links
Official site
 

Living people
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American short story writers
American male novelists
American male short story writers
American science fiction writers
Asimov's Science Fiction people
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people
1952 births
Tonga people (Malawi)

The Tonga (also called Atonga,  Lake Shore Tonga or Nyasa Tonga) are an  ethnic group living in northern Malawi on the shores of Lake Malawi in Nkhata Bay and northern part of Nkhotakota. Their language and Tonga people of Zambia and Zimbabwe belong to different branches of the Bantu family.

History
Tradition says the Tonga came from the north, perhaps from the Maravi people or the Tumbuka. Until the coming of the Ngoni in 1855, they had been a matrilineal people and possessed a decentralized government.

The Tonga were constantly raided by the Ngoni, mostly for food, women and young men. The young were incorporated into the Ngoni fighting regiments. The population of high ranking Atonga warriors among the Angoni impis grew and this terrified the Angoni who saw this as a threat. A plot was hatched to exterminate the Atonga older folk. The Atonga,led by Chenyentha, had uncovered the plot and revolted, before the operation was executed. The Angoni sent impis to pursue the fleeing parties but the impis were crushed by Mankhambira at Chintheche. This was some time in 1875. 

As of 2023, about a million Malawians were Tongas.

Lifestyle

The Tonga were primarily a fishing people with cassava as their staple food. Through mission education, they were able to earn higher wages during colonial times and worked primarily as porters, skilled or semi-skilled workers, and armed auxiliaries.

The Tonga people pay lobola (bride price) in the form of money, with kin liable for further payments if a child or wife falls ill. Males could not divorce their wives without a hearing of public repudiation, while she and her family could dismiss him without formality, unless he had a wealthy or otherwise powerful family. The kin of a woman dying away from home could also demand burial permission and heavy payment from the husband.

The Tonga in Chintheche are known by the surname Chirwa; some other names in Tonga are Kaunda, Ngema, Longwe, Ng'oma, Manda,  and Mhone.

Religion

The Tonga believed in a supreme God who remained vague and almost forgotten, for the Bantu had primarily a religion of the dead. They worshipped ancestral spirits, believed in consulting diviners, spirit-possession, and sought out those who predicted the future and were supposed to receive messages from ancestors. Spirits of the dead were recognized, honored, and propitiated. The Batonga of Lake Nyasa say certain medicines can help a person ensure his or her changing after death into any chosen animal.

Language 
There are more than 170,000 speakers of the Malawi Tonga language.

(Note that the Tonga language in Zambia is also classified as of the Bantu language family, but belongs to a completely different type.)

The language is called chiTonga. The 'chi' means 'the language of the', like 'ki' in kiSwahili or 'se' in seTswana.

References
Bauer, Andreus. "Raising the Flag of War".
Davidson, Basil. "African Kingdoms".
Tew, Mary. "People of the Lake Nyasa Region".

Ethnic groups in Malawi
New York State Route 437

New York State Route 437 (NY 437) is a state highway located south of Auburn in Cayuga County, New York, in the United States. At  in length, it is the shortest signed state route in New York. It is a brief connector route between NY 38 and NY 38A known locally as White Bridge Road. The highway allows motorists, especially those wanting quick access to the opposite side of nearby Owasco Lake, to avoid having to cross the Owasco Outlet further downstream, in the city. NY 437 was assigned in 1970; however, the designation had appeared on maps of the area as early as two decades before.

Route description

NY 437 begins adjacent to St. Joseph Cemetery at a traffic circle with NY 38 in the town of Fleming, located south of the city of Auburn. It heads east as White Bridge Road, running along the north end of Owasco Lake. Roughly midway along its routing, NY 437 crosses the Owasco Outlet and passes into both Owasco and Emerson Park, a public park owned and maintained by Cayuga County. The route ends  later at a T-intersection with NY 38A in an area of Owasco known as Melrose Park. NY 437 serves an undeveloped, forested area west of the outlet and a mostly residential area east of the waterway. The highway is just  from end to end, making it the shortest signed state highway in New York.

History
What is now NY 437 was originally improved to state highway standards in stages during the early 20th century. The portion from the modern traffic circle with NY 38 to the Owasco Lake outlet was rebuilt in 1908 as part of State Highway 384 (SH 384), while the section between the outlet and current NY 38A was reconstructed from 1912 to 1913 as part of SH 752. Both numbers are internal, legislative designations and are thus unsigned. NY 437 was marked on contemporary maps of the area as a designation for the short east–west state highway as early as 1947; however, the designation was not officially assigned by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) until January 1, 1970.

Major intersections

See also

References

External links

437
Transportation in Cayuga County, New York
Oryol (disambiguation)

Oryol is a city in Russia.

Oryol may also refer to:


Places
 Oryol Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, of which Oryol is the capital
 Oryol Governorate, an administrative unit of the Russian Empire from 1796 to 1928
 Oryol electoral district (Russian Constituent Assembly election, 1917), covering the governorate
 Oryol, Vologda Oblast, Russia, a village

Technology
 Oryol, a military radar set featured on Sukhoi Su-11 and Sukhoi Su-15 airplanes, among others
 Oryol or Orel (spacecraft), a project to develop a partially reusable crewed spacecraft
 Oryol, code name for a release of Astra Linux, a Russian Linux-based computer operating system

Other uses
 Oryol State University, in the city of Oryol
 FC Oryol, a football club based in the city of Oryol
 Russian ship Oryol, various Imperial Russian Navy ships

See also
 Orel (disambiguation), an alternate spelling
Battle of Mackinac

Battle of Mackinac may refer to:
 Siege of Fort Mackinac, a battle in 1812 during the War of 1812
 Battle of Mackinac Island, a battle in 1814 during the War of 1812
Pleasant Hill High School (Oregon)

Pleasant Hill High School is a public school in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, United States, serving grades six through twelve. The school served grades nine through twelve until 2009, when the Pleasant Hill School District closed the district's elementary school because of declining enrollment and funding issues.  The students were redistributed, K-5 going to the middle school buildings and 6-12 going to the high school buildings. The current high school building was constructed in 1961, and rebuilt in 2016.

Academics
In 1984, Pleasant Hill High School was honored in the Blue Ribbon Schools Program, the highest honor a school can receive in the United States.

In 2008, 86% of the school's seniors received a high school diploma. Of 96 students, 83 graduated, nine dropped out, three received a modified diploma, and one was still in high school the following year.

Athletics
The school's mascot is the billy goat and its athletic teams' nickname is the "Billies". Formerly the teams were known as the Hillbillies, but only for three years in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" movie era.  An early publication of the school in the 1920s was The Goat's Gazette, showing that the original team name did refer to the goat, not "hillbillies."

In 1910, the basketball team went undefeated, beating the University of Oregon's second team as well as Springfield and Eugene high schools.

Notable alumni
 Russ Francis, NFL player; Super Bowl Champion with San Francisco 49ers; member of Oregon State Sports Hall of Fame; national and world record holder for javelin, 1971
 Joe Freuen, trombone player in the Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Everett W. Holstrom, United States Air Force brigadier general and participant in the Doolittle Raid during World War II.

References

High schools in Lane County, Oregon
Public high schools in Oregon
Public middle schools in Oregon
Fourche River

The Fourche River is a tributary of the Black River in Northeast Arkansas and ending in Randolph County, Arkansas near Pocahontas at its confluence with the Black River. The source is the confluence of Fourche Creek and the west Fork of the Fourche Creek in Ripley County, Missouri. The Fourche River flows for  in Missouri and Arkansas.

Other streams in Arkansas with similar names include the Fourche La Fave River that joins the Arkansas River near Bigelow, Arkansas and the Fourche Creek south of Little Rock, Arkansas.

References

External links
 http://watersheds.cast.uark.edu/reports/pdf/1101000901soils_sub.pdf

Rivers of Arkansas
Tributaries of the Black River (Arkansas–Missouri)
Rivers of Randolph County, Arkansas
Rivers of Ripley County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
Sky Princess

Sky Princess may refer to:

Kingdom Coaster, a wooden roller coaster in Dutch Wonderland near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, opened in 1992 and called the Sky Princess before 2007
Atlantic Star (cruise ship), an Australian cruise ship formerly known as Sky Princess, built in 1984, laid up in 2010, sold to shipbreaker in Aliağa, Turkey, and renamed Antic
 Sky Princess (2019), a Royal-class cruise ship operating for Princess Cruises since October 2019
Leroy Ioas

Leroy C Ioas (15 February 1896, Wilmington, Illinois - 22 July 1965, Haifa, Israel) was a Hand of the Cause of the Baháʼí Faith. His parents declared themselves Baháʼís in 1898 and took Ioas to meet ʻAbdu'l-Bahá during the latter's travels in the United States in 1912. Ioas moved to San Francisco after marrying Sylvia Kuhlman and soon became active in the local Baháʼí community.

Service at the Baháʼí World Centre 

The head of the Baháʼí Faith in the first half of the 20th century, Shoghi Effendi, appointed Ioas to the International Baháʼí Council, precursor to the Universal House of Justice, in December 1951, where he served until 1961 as secretary-general. In order to fulfill his duties, he quit his job in the railway industry, where he had worked for nearly forty years, and moved to Haifa, where he would reside until the end of his life.

He closely supervised the construction and completion of the Shrine of the Báb, for which Shoghi Effendi named the door on the octagon after him.

After the death of Shoghi Effendi, Ioas was among nine Hands of the Cause elected as a Custodian of the Baháʼí Faith on 25 November 1957. He travelled far and frequently to promote and expand the faith, even as his health weakened after heart problems began in 1953. His last trip, to eight areas in the United States during 1964, weakened him so much that he could not return to Haifa for six months and died less than a year later. He is buried in the Mount Carmel Baháʼí cemetery in Haifa.

Works 
Ioas, Leroy C, Julia Lynch Chanler, and Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. Three Letters. New York: Caravan of East and West, 1954.

References

Bibliography 
 Adamson, Hugh C. "Ioas, Leroy C." Historical dictionary of the Baháʼí faith. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2007.

American Bahá'ís
Hands of the Cause
1896 births
1965 deaths
20th-century Bahá'ís