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A Safe Place

A Safe Place is a 1971 American drama film written and directed by Henry Jaglom and starring Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, and Jack Nicholson.

Plot
A young woman, named Noah, lives alone in a small apartment in New York City.  She is a mentally disturbed flower child, who retreats into her past, yearning for lost innocence. She recalls her childhood, searching for a "safe place."  As a child (whose real name was Susan), she met a charismatic magician in Central Park who presented her with magical objects: a levitating silver ball, a star ring, and a Noah's ark.  

In the present day, Noah is romantically involved with two different men: Fred, who is practical but dull, and Mitch, who is more dynamic and closer to her ideal fantasy partner. Neither man is able to  fulfill her needs totally.

Cast
The cast includes:
 Tuesday Weld as Susan/Noah
 Orson Welles as The Magician
 Jack Nicholson as Mitch
 Philip Proctor as Fred
 Gwen Welles as Bari
 Roger Garrett as Noah's Friend
 Francesca Hilton as Noah's Friend
 Richard Finocchio as Noah's Friend

Production
The film was "culled from 50 hours of footage."
 
The work was a product of  BBS Productions, a company formed by Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, financed by their work on the TV pop group the Monkees. Other BBS films of the era include Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show, The King of Marvin Gardens, Head, and Drive, He Said. All seven of these films have been restored and released in DVD versions by The Criterion Collection in a set called America Lost and Found: The BBS Story.

Reception
Jaglom's directorial debut was a "critical and box-office disaster" Time magazine called the film "pretentious and confusing", a film that "suggests that the rumors of his expertise were greatly exaggerated, or at least that it does not extend to directing."  Vincent Canby described the film as a "superficial case history of a suicide" whose "narrative pretends to be a lot more complex"; Canby noted that the film "reveals the director's apparent adoration of his star [Weld], whom he studies in every possible light and color combination, and in every possible camera setup, often orchestrated with fine, corny songs out of the 1940s and 1950s on the order of Charles Trenet's 'La Mer' and 'Vous Qui Passez Sans Me Voir.'" Variety said the film's "deliberate experimentation puts a heavy burden upon the viewer." Its writer-director "has plunged in over his own depth."

See also
 List of American films of 1971

References

External links 
 

1971 drama films
Films directed by Henry Jaglom
American independent films
American drama films
Films about magic and magicians
1971 films
1971 directorial debut films
1971 independent films
1970s English-language films
1970s American films
Liverpool Blues (Australian rules football)

The Liverpool Blues was an Australian rules football team in Liverpool, England, which competed in the British Australian Rules Football League.

History
The Blues formed in 1993 to play in the British Australian Rules Football League. The club played only one full season, folding shortly after the 1994 home and away series began.  The Blues were associated with the local Sefton Rugby Club.

A new club was later formed in 2002 in the nearby town of St Helens, known as the St Helens Miners.  The club was renamed as the Northwestern Miners for the 2004 season, before they also folded.

The Liverpool Eagles were formed in late 2008, bringing the sport back to the city.

See also

References

External links

Australian rules football clubs in England
1993 establishments in England
Australian rules football clubs established in 1993
1994 disestablishments in England
Australian rules football clubs disestablished in 1994
Peter Nicholls (musician)

Peter Nicholls (born 13 February 1959) is the lead singer of the progressive rock band IQ. Nicholls left the band briefly in the late 1980s to form the alternative rock band Niadem's Ghost but returned in 1990. He is known for his entertaining if somewhat reticent and eccentric stage presence.

Another interest of Nicholls is painting; he painted the album covers for IQ's second, third and sixth albums, respectively Tales from the Lush Attic, The Wake and Ever, among others.

In the 1980s, Nicholls also worked as an editor and letterer for comics publishers London Editions Magazines.

References

Living people
English rock singers
1959 births
Musicians from Manchester
IQ (band) members
Liverpool Blues

Liverpool Blues may refer to:

 The Liverpool Blues (Regiment), volunteer infantry regiment 1745–46
 The 79th Regiment of Foot (Royal Liverpool Volunteers), nickname of infantry regiment of the British Army 1778–84
 The Liverpool Blues (Australian rules football), Australian rules football club
Hard Tack and Coffee

Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life (1887) is a memoir by John D. Billings. Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery in the American Civil War. Originally published in 1888, Hard Tack and Coffee quickly became a best seller, and is now considered one of the most important books written by a Civil War veteran.  The book is abundantly illustrated by the pen and ink drawings of Charles W. Reed, also a veteran, who served as bugler in the 9th Massachusetts Battery, later received the Medal of Honor for saving the life of his battery commander at Gettysburg. Hard Tack and Coffee is not about battles, but rather about how the common Union soldiers of the Civil War lived in camp and on the march.  What would otherwise be a mundane subject is enlivened by Billings' humorous prose and Reed's superb drawings which are based on the sketches he kept in his journal during the war.

The book is noteworthy as it covers the details of regular soldier life, and as such has become a valuable resource for Civil War reenactors.

The volume is divided into twenty-one chapters which treat the origins of the Civil War, enlisting, how soldiers were sheltered, life in tents, life in log huts, unlucky soldiers and shirkers ("Jonahs and Beats"), Army rations, offenses and punishments, a day in camp, raw recruits, special rations and boxes from home, foraging, corps and corps badges, some inventions and devices of the war, the army mule, hospitals and ambulances, clothing, breaking camp and marching, army wagon trains, road and bridge builders, and signal flags and torches.

Some of the information is specific to Billings' experiences as a Massachusetts volunteer artillery veteran.  However, much of it is very useful to anyone researching or simply reading about the ordinary soldier in the Union army.  Reed's drawings add a great deal to the text.

Billings has been described as a skilful writer, both humorous and informative. The historian Henry Steele Commager called the work "one of the most entertaining of all civil war books".

References

Billings, John D., Hard Tack and Coffee: Or the Unwritten Story of Army Life, George M. Smith & Co., 1887, digitized by Digital Scanning Institute, 2001, , 
Billings, John D., Hard Tack and Coffee: or The Unwritten Story of Army Life Free ebook at Archive.org
 

1887 non-fiction books
American Civil War memoirs
DSSP (imaging)

DSSP stands for digital shape sampling and processing. It is an alternative and often preferred way of describing "reverse engineering" software and hardware. The term originated in a 2005 Society of Manufacturing Engineers' "Blue Book" on the topic, which referenced numerous suppliers of both scanning hardware and processing software.

DSSP employs various 3D scanning methods, including laser scanners, to acquire thousands to millions of points on the surface of a form and then software from a variety of suppliers to convert the resulting "point cloud" into forms useful for inspection, computer-aided design, visualization and other applications. It may also employ volumetric methods of scanning, such as digital tomography.

Some common applications include CAI (computer-aided inspection), creation of 3D CAD models from scanned data, medical applications, 3D imaging for Web 2.0 applications, and the restoration of culturally significant artifacts; as well as conventional reverse engineering for creating replacement parts.

The term 'reverse engineering' itself has acquired some notoriety when the technology has been used to copy others' designs.

The term 'laser scanning' has also been used somewhat interchangeably for DSSP. However, there are two problems with the term as a broad description of the field. First, it is only one of many alternative scanning technologies. Second, it misses the essential role of processing software in converting point cloud data into useful forms.

In some ways, DSSP is a 3D analog to DSP (digital signal processing) in that the software attempts to extract a clear and accurate 3D image from point data that may include noise. The notion of 'shape sampling' embedded in the term also acknowledges that, as in many measurement processes, the accuracy of the 3D data will depend upon the number and accuracy of points sampled.

The speed and accuracy of both scanners to acquire data and software algorithms to extract useful data has dramatically increased in recent years. The amount of data capturing capability has also increased many fold, due to the advances in the camera technology and  faster , more powerful computers. As some the limitations of the technology are eliminated and costs reduced, more uses are appearing.

References 

Digital signal processing
90's Girl

"90's Girl" is a song by American vocal group BlackGirl, released on July 24, 1994 and the second single of the group's album Treat U Right. It reached #71 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #23 on the UK Singles Chart.

Music Video
The music video for "90's Girl" begins with children sitting on steps outside an apartment building. The little boy explains that when they grow up she will become his wife, she will be a housewife and have lots children. The little girl replies that when she grows up she will be a 90's girl just her mother.
The song starts and the group members are seen, smartly dressed, on their way to work. They arrive together at a boutique called "BG Couture". They perform the song in the boutique while serving customers. There are also shots of the group in matching silver outfits sitting on and dancing around a low rider car in an alley before performing a choreographed dance routine with back up dancers in the street. There are also scenes of the girls singing on top of a building.

Track listing

Maxi-Promo CD Single

90's Girl (Encore Alt. Remix) [Radio Edit]
90's Girl (Encore Extended Alt. Remix)
90's Girl (Encore Remix w/o Rap)
90's Girl (Video Edit)
90's Girl (Encore Instrumental)
90's Girl (Encore A Capella)
90's Girl (Original Album Version) [Radio Edit]

Chart information

References

BlackGirl songs
1994 songs
1994 singles
Songs written by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
Song recordings produced by Teddy Riley
RCA Records singles
Gudvanga Tunnel

The Gudvanga Tunnel ( or ) is located in the municipality of Aurland in Vestland county, Norway.  The tunnel connects the village of Gudvangen, at the head of the Nærøyfjord, with the Undredalen valley and is part of European Route E16.  At  in length, it is Norway's third longest road tunnel. It was opened on 17 December 1991.

Nearby tunnels
After passing through the Gudvanga Tunnel, drivers pass through a number of other tunnels.  About  east of the eastern exit from the Gudvanga Tunnel a new tunnel begins: the  long Flenja Tunnel which ends at Flåm. Approximately  after that tunnel is the  Fretheim Tunnel.  About  further to the east (near Aurlandsvangen) is the entrance to the  long Lærdal Tunnel, which is the world's longest road tunnel. This means that in a  section of the E16,  of that distance consists of tunnels.

Fires
In August 2013, a truck caught fire in the tunnel, resulting in 55 people being hospitalised.  In August 2015, a tourist bus caught fire  from the exit. In March 2019, a truck burned down about  from the tunnel entry.

References

External links
Photo with sign showing the length.
Road authority annual report. See page 25.

Aurland
Road tunnels in Vestland
1991 establishments in Norway
European route E16 in Norway
Tunnels completed in 1991
Love Jam

Love Jam is the second album by Ai Otsuka, released on 17 November 2004 under the Avex Trax record label. This album was available in CD and CD+DVD editions. The first-press of the CD Only edition came with an 80-page illustration book drawn by Ai Otsuka herself (limited to 200,000 copies).  The album hit #30 in 2005, selling 414,513 copies.  In total, the album has sold about 656,708 copies.

The CD+DVD edition (with a different cover) came with a DVD containing the animated version of Daisuki da yo's PV, which featured Otsuka's LOVE characters. The DVD also included a short film starring Otsuka involving the Kingyo Hanabi track.

Track listing

Charts and certifications

Charts

Certifications

 Total Sales: 656,708 (Japan)

References

External links
 

2004 albums
Ai Otsuka albums
Avex Group albums
Supreme Court of Belarus

The Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus is the highest-tier court inside of Belarus and acts as the final "court of review." Its general tasks include the oversight of lower-tier courts and can render justice in areas of general civil and criminal law. Unlike the United States Supreme Court, constitutional issues are not sent to the Belarusian Supreme Court, but are sent to a separate court called the Constitutional Court. The judges to the Supreme Court are appointed by the president.

History
On 1 January 2014 the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus merged with the Supreme Court.

References

External links
Court website

Government of Belarus
Law of Belarus
Belarus
Courts and tribunals established in 1991
1991 establishments in Belarus
Uładzimir Hančaryk

Uładzimir Ivanavič Hančaryk or Vladimir Ivanovich Goncharik (, ; born 29 April 1940 in Lahojsk, Soviet Union), is a Belarusian politician.

He was the candidate from united opposition forces that stood against Alexander Lukashenko in the 2001 elections for the office of President of Belarus. As he was the candidate from united opposition, he was supported by a fellow opposition candidate Siamion Domash, who withdrew his candidacy and urged his supporters to vote for Hančaryk. Hančaryk failed to become the president, when the electoral committee announced official results, according to which he lost the vote to Lukashenko by a 60 percent margin. The elections were considered fraudulent by independent observers.

Before the elections, he was a chairman of the official Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus.

References

Sources
2001 Belarusian election profile

1940 births
Living people
People from Lahoysk District
Belarusian politicians
Belarusian trade unionists
Candidates for President of Belarus
Apollo Theater Chicago

The Apollo Theater Chicago was built in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood in 1978, by theatre producers Jason Brett and Stuart Oken. Located at 2540 N. Lincoln Ave., the Apollo has 430 seats and a lobby featuring art exhibits and a full bar. The theatre is also the home of the Emerald City Theatre Company. The Apollo Theater Chicago has no relation to the Apollo Theater in New York City.

History

The Apollo Theater Chicago is not the first Chicago theater to bear the name Apollo. In 1921, theatrical producer A. H. Woods opened the Apollo Theatre in the Chicago Loop District, at the corner of Randolph and Dearborn Streets. Originally operated as a playhouse, the old Apollo Theatre was sold in 1927 to United Artists Corporation and was renamed the United Artists Theatre. It was demolished in 1989.

In 1991 Michael Leavitt and Fox Theatricals took ownership of the Lincoln Park venue, then in 1996 Rob Kolsen took over.

In 2005, a smaller 50 seat second stage was built, in what was formerly the Act One Bookstore. The smaller venue is popular for comedy, sketch shows, and improv theater.

Productions 
Notable productions at the new Apollo included David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago starring James Belushi, Balm in Gilead with John Malkovich and Gary Sinise, the long running play The Vagina Monologues, and A Nutcracker Christmas written by children's recording artist Ralph Covert and G. Riley Mills. From October 1 2008 to January 17 2016, the Musical Million Dollar Quartet played at the venue, making it the longest running Broadway musical in Chicago.

References

External links
 

Theatres in Chicago
Americana

Americana may refer to:

Americana (music), a genre or style of American music 
Americana (culture), artifacts of the culture of the United States

Film, radio and television
Americana (1981 film), an American drama film
Americana (2023 film), an American crime thriller film
Americana (radio series), a series on BBC Radio 4, reporting current affairs from the US
Americana (1992 TV series), a documentary series presented by Jonathan Ross
Americana, a 2012 American drama series written by Michael Seitzman
Americana (game show), a quiz show that aired on NBC from 1947 to 1949

Literature
Americana (Sides book), a 2004 non-fiction book by Hampton Sides
Americana (novel), a 1971 novel by Don DeLillo
Americanah, a 2013 novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Encyclopedia Americana

Music

Albums
Americana, a 1999 album by jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval
Americana (Diesel album), 2016
Americana (Michael Martin Murphey album)
Americana (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album), 2012
Americana (Roch Voisine album), a 2008 album by Canadian singer Roch Voisine
Americana (Starflyer 59 album), 1997
Americana (The Offspring album), 1998, and also a song from that album
Americana II a 2009 album by Roch Voisine
Americana III, a 2010 album by Roch Voisine
Americana (Ray Davies album), 2017
Americana (Leon Russell album), 1978

Other
"Americana" (song), 1988 single by Moe Bandy
Americana (revue), a 1926 Broadway revue written by J. P. McEvoy
Americana, a female professional wrestler from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
Americana (The Offspring video), a 1998 video album
"Americana", a 2023 song by the Jonas Brothers' from The Album

Places

Brazil
Americana, São Paulo, a city in Brazil

United States
Americana Amusement Park, a former name of the defunct LeSourdesville Lake Amusement Park in Monroe, Ohio
Americana at Brand, an outdoor mall in Glendale, California
Americana Hotel, a former name of the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in New York City, New York
Americana Manhasset, a shopping center in Manhasset, New York

Other
Americana de Aviacion, a former Peruvian airline
Americana Futebol, a football club based in Americana, São Paulo, Brazil
Americana series, a series of US definitive postage stamps issued between 1975 and 1981
, an armlock in grappling also known as "americana"
Americana Group, a multinational food company and franchise operator based in Kuwait
 Americana, a fictional TV network on which Daphne Blake's series Coast To Coast with Daphne Blake aired in the direct-to-video animated film Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

See also
Americain (disambiguation)
American (disambiguation)
Americano (disambiguation)
Americanum
Americanus (disambiguation)
Sergei Gaidukevich

Sergei Gaidukevich (, ; born 8 September 1954, Minsk, Belarus) is a Belarusian politician. He was the Liberal Democratic Party candidate in the 2001, 2006, and 2015 elections for the office of President of Belarus. He was defeated in all attempts, since incumbent Alexander Lukashenko received an overwhelming majority of votes each time. He served as chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, from 1995 until September 2019, when he was succeeded by his son, Oleg Gaidukevich. He was then granted the title of Honorary Chairman at the 20th Congress of the Liberal Democratic Party. Gaidukevich has higher military education and served as an officer in the armed forces. Later he was a government functionary associated with various military issues.

References

1954 births
Living people
Politicians from Minsk
Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus politicians
Candidates for President of Belarus
The Worst Jobs in History

The Worst Jobs in History is a British television series hosted by Tony Robinson on Channel 4. The second series was shown in March 2006 on History Television in Canada, then in April 2006 on Channel 4 in the UK. The first season is also shown with some regularity on History International.  Tony Robinson tries his hand at each of the jobs, ultimately nominating which one he thought was the worst in each programme.

First series
This was broadcast in 2004 and concentrated on a different historical period per programme: Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Tudor, Stuarts, Georgian, and Victorian.

Some of the more repulsive or dangerous jobs included fuller, executioner, leech collector, plague burier, rat-catcher, leather tanner, gong farmer, and sin-eater.

There was a one-off special called The Worst Christmas Jobs in History in December 2005.

Second series
Broadcast first in March 2006 on The History Channel in Canada, then in April 2006 on Channel 4 in the UK. This series concentrated on particular job settings: urban, royal, industrial, maritime and rural.

International broadcasters
Australia – The ABC screens this programme on Sunday nights. It generally rates very well, often with 1 million viewers.
Finland – The Yle screens the programme on Yle Teema.

Books

See also
Dirty Jobs – US television series about disagreeable jobs
Dirty, Dangerous and Demeaning – concept of a certain form of work

References

External links

2006 British television series debuts
2006 British television series endings
Channel 4 original programming
Historical television series
Máximo Gómez, Cuba

Máximo Gómez is a Cuban village and consejo popular belonging to the municipality of Perico, in Matanzas Province.

History
The town was founded in 1770 under the name Guanajayabo. The name was changed in honour of the independence war leader Máximo Gómez.

From 1902 until 1927 it was part of the municipality of Martí. From 1927 was the seat of its own municipality that included the communities of Rancho del Medio and Sabanilla de la Palma until 1976, when its territories were split in the municipalities of Martí and Perico.

References

Populated places in Matanzas Province
Newfield High School

Newfield High School is a public high school in Selden, New York, United States. It is located  north of Middle Country Road (Route 25) on Marshall Drive.

History and overview
As suburban growth spread into central Suffolk county in the 1950s, the new Middle Country Central School District was created in 1957 from the merger of the Selden and Centereach school districts.  Newfield opened in 1959 to serve the growing population, as neither district had ever had a high school.  Before its opening, upper-level students had been sent to Port Jefferson High School.

Newfield's name is derived from the former names of both Centereach (which adjoins Selden and is part of the same school district) and Selden; New Village and Westfield.

It has always served as secondary school, currently educating students from the 9th through 12th grade.  In the past, students from the 9th grade were educated at Selden Junior High School, and this changed when the Junior High formally became Selden Middle School and the 9th grade was passed on to Newfield.

Athletics
Newfield fields a number of varsity and junior varsity athletic teams, in Section 11, Division 1 of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, including baseball, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross country, fencing, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, swimming, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field, volleyball (girls), and wrestling.

Although team uniforms use the school's red and white colors, in the late 1990s, varsity teams began using black as a third color to distinguish from junior varsity.

On June 20, 2021, Newfield High Schools varsity baseball team, The Wolverines, won The Suffolk County Baseball championship for the first time.

Notable alumni
 Rob Burnett, former professional football player who played 14 seasons in the NFL; member of 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens
 Linda Cohn, sportscaster and anchor of SportsCenter on ESPN
 Edward Donofrio, fencer who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics
 Doug Drexler, visual effects artist, designer, sculptor, illustrator, and a makeup artist; Academy Award winner for Best Makeup for Dick Tracy
 Tom Leykis, talk radio personality best known for hosting The Tom Leykis Show from 1994 to 2009 
 Elijah Riley, professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
 Charish Reid, author published by Harlequin Enterprises

References

External links
 

Public high schools in New York (state)
Brookhaven, New York
Schools in Suffolk County, New York
Educational institutions established in 1959
1959 establishments in New York (state)
Quasi-solid

Quasi-solid, Falsely-solid, or semisolid is the physical term for something whose state lies between a solid and a liquid. While similar to solids in some respects, such as having the ability to support their own weight and hold their shapes, a quasi-solid also shares some properties of liquids, such as conforming in shape to something applying pressure to it and the ability to flow under pressure. The words quasi-solid, semisolid, and semiliquid may be used interchangeably.

Quasi-solids and semisolids are sometimes described as amorphous because at the microscopic scale they have a disordered structure unlike the more common crystalline solids. They should not be confused with amorphous solids as they are not solids and exhibit properties such as flow which bulk solids do not.

Examples

 Pharmaceutical and cosmetic creams, gels, and ointments, e.g. petroleum jelly, toothpaste, hand sanitizer
 Foods, e.g. pudding, guacamole, salsa, mayonnaise, whipping cream, peanut butter, jelly, jam

See also
 Plasticity (physics)
 Viscosity
 Premelting

References

Phases of matter
Constitutional Court of Belarus

The Constitutional Court of Belarus is one of the top-tier courts in the eastern European country. Created in 1994, the Court is run under guidelines that were issued in 1997. The purpose of the court is to render justice in areas where the constitution has come into question, such as a local law contradicting the constitution.  There are 12 judges that sit on the bench, with all having degrees in legal studies, as required by Belarusian law.  Six of the judges are appointed by the President while the other six are appointed by the Council of the Republic. Regardless of the manner of appointment, the judges sit on the bench for a term of 11 years.

Heads 
 Pyotr Miklashevich (since 2008)

See also
Constitution
Constitutionalism
Constitutional economics
Jurisprudence
Judiciary
Rule of law
Rule According to Higher Law

External links 

  
 Human Rights Committee views in case Pastukhov v. Belarus concerning dismissing one of the CC judges in 1997

Law of Belarus
Government of Belarus
Belarus
1994 establishments in Belarus
Courts and tribunals established in 1994
Karen Hitchcock (author)

Karen Hitchcock is an Australian author and medical doctor who published her first book of short stories in 2009. She has published in both medical and literary journals, including a publication in the "Best Australian Short Stories"  and "Best Australian Essays" anthologies.

Her first book Little White Slips (Picador, 2009) was well received in the Australian media and won the 2010 Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, was shortlisted in the 2010 NSW Premiers Literary Award and the Kibble/Dobie award for women writers.

Karen writes a regular column about medicine for The Monthly, and currently works as a physician in a large city hospital in Melbourne.

Bibliography

Nonfiction

Short fiction

Collections

Essays and reporting

References

External links 
 interview with Richard Fidler ABC Radio National from the Sydney Writer's Festival
 Karen Hitchcock: Little White Slips interview on Radio National's Life Matters

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian women short story writers
The Monthly people
Jim Payne (golfer)

James Robert Payne (born 17 April 1970) is an English professional golfer.

Payne was born in Louth, Lincolnshire. He had a promising career as a tournament golfer which petered out by his early thirties, partly due to injury problems which had required him to undergo a spinal fusion operation at the age of 24. As an amateur he won the 1991 European Amateur and the British Youths Open Amateur Championship. He played with Jack Nicklaus in the final round of the 1991 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale and finished as leading amateur. He turned professional after playing in the Walker Cup later that year.

In 1992 Payne was Rookie of the Year on the European Tour. He won two European Tour events, the 1993 Turespana Iberia Open de Baleares and the 1996 Italian Open. His last season on the European Tour was 2000. In 2003 he took a position as club professional at Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club, a two time venue of the Ryder Cup.

Amateur wins
1986 McGregor Trophy
1987 McGregor Trophy
1991 European Amateur, British Youths Open Amateur Championship

Professional wins (3)

European Tour wins (2)

European Tour playoff record (1–0)

Other wins (1)
2000 Northern Open

Results in major championships

Note: Payne only played in The Open Championship.

LA = Low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Team appearances
Amateur
Jacques Léglise Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1987 (winners)
St Andrews Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1990 (winners)
Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1991
European Amateur Team Championship (representing England): 1991 (winners), 1993

Professional
World Cup (representing England): 1996

References

External links

English male golfers
European Tour golfers
People from Louth, Lincolnshire
1970 births
Living people
Fresh Azimiz

"Fresh Azimiz" ("fresh as I'm is") is a single featured on rapper Bow Wow's 2005 album Wanted. It is the third song after his singles "Let Me Hold You" with singer Omarion and "Like You" with Ciara. It features J-Kwon & Jermaine Dupri. The song was produced by Jermaine Dupri. The song became his third Top 40 single from his 2005 album Wanted, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Although released through Columbia Records, the lyrics on the 2nd verse of the original song explains that Bow Wow still has close ties to So So Def Recordings ("Records say Columbia, but I'm So So man").

Rumored diss to Romeo
Rumors circulated that the song was meant to attack rapper Lil' Romeo, with the line, "18 nigga, making more than your Dad." The line in question is actually borrowed from LL Cool J's song, "The Do Wop" on the classic album Bigger and Deffer. Bow Wow later confirmed that the line was not aimed at Miller's father,  Master P or  Miller himself. Because of that, Romeo dedicated the song of God's Gift entitled "U Can't Shine Like Me" with the line "You a Mama's boy I'm a son of a hustler".

Live performance
On April 1, 2006, Bow Wow performed "Fresh Azimiz" at the 2006 Kids' Choice Awards as part of a musical duel with singer Chris Brown that was inspired by the 1986 Run-D.M.C. music video "Walk This Way".

Remix
A remix of this song features rapper Mike Jones, replacing Bow Wow's 2nd verse. There is a video for the remix, with additional scenes with Bow Wow & Jones throughout the video and Bow Wow's verse removed and Mike Jones' instead comes in and raps. Jones also makes an appearance on the original version's video.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links
 
 

2005 songs
2005 singles
2006 singles
Bow Wow (rapper) songs
Jermaine Dupri songs
J-Kwon songs
Mike Jones (rapper) songs
Song recordings produced by Jermaine Dupri
Songs written by Jermaine Dupri
TSRI

TSRI may refer to 
 Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute
 The Scripps Research Institute, former name for Scripps Research
Bree Turner

Bree Nicole Turner (born March 10, 1977) is an American actress and dancer; she is best known for her role as Rosalee Calvert on Grimm.

Early life
Turner was born March 10, 1977, in Palo Alto, California and grew up in Alamo, California. Her father is former NFL linebacker Kevin Turner. In 1995, she graduated from Monte Vista High School in Danville, California, where she was voted 1994 Homecoming Queen. She then attended King's College London and University of California, Los Angeles.

Career
Turner landed her first speaking role in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. That same year, she was cast on MTV's late night anthology series Undressed. She also did TV commercials for Gap "Khaki Country" and "Khaki-a-go-go," and for Dr. Pepper.

Turner was a background dancer in feature films as The Big Lebowski (1998), She's All That (1999) and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). She had roles in The Wedding Planner (2001), Joe Dirt (2001), American Pie 2 (2001), and the starring role of head cheerleader in Bring It On Again (2004).

Turner has also appeared in independent films, including the musical and romantic drama True Vinyl (2000) and the wrestling drama Backyard Dogs.

Turner has worked in television, with recurring roles on the UPN sitcom Moesha, the ABC sitcom Spin City, the CBS drama Cold Case, guest starred on the UPN drama Sex, Love & Secrets and starred in the pilot episode ("Incident On and Off a Mountain Road") of Showtime's horror/thriller series Masters of Horror.

Turner has also acted on stage, playing Ivy in The Pages of My Diary I'd Rather Not Read at Hudson Mainstage Theater in Los Angeles in January 2003.

As of 2017, Turner finished her sixth season on the NBC drama series Grimm, portraying the character Rosalee Calvert. The part was a recurring role in season 1, moving to the main cast from season 2 onwards.

Personal life
In 2008, Turner married orthopedic surgeon Justin Saliman at the Casa Del Mar hotel in Santa Monica, California. They have a daughter named Stella Jean (born June 29, 2010), and a son named Dean (born September 12, 2012). In March 2018, Turner filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1977 births
Living people
Alumni of King's College London
Actresses from California
American female dancers
Dancers from California
American film actresses
American television actresses
Actresses from Palo Alto, California
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
People from Alamo, California
Monte Vista High School (Danville, California) alumni
Chebyshev lambda linkage

In kinematics, the Chebyshev Lambda Linkage is a four-bar linkage that converts rotational motion to approximate straight-line motion with approximate constant velocity. It is so-named because it looks like a lowercase Greek letter lambda (λ). The precise design trades off straightness, lack of acceleration, and the proportion of the driving rotation that is spent in the linear portion of the full curve.

The example to the right spends over half of the cycle in the near straight portion. Coupler (link 3) point stays within 1% positional tolerance with intersecting the ideal straight line 6 times.

The linkage was first shown in Paris on the Exposition Universelle (1878) as "The Plantigrade Machine".
The Chebyshev Lambda Linkage is a cognate linkage of the Chebyshev linkage.

The Chebyshev Lambda Linkage is used in vehicle suspension mechanisms, walking robots and rover wheel mechanisms. In 2004, a study completed as a Master of Science Thesis at Izmir Institute of Technology introduced a new mechanism design by combining two symmetrical Lambda linkages to distribute the force evenly on to ground with providing the straight vertical wheel motion. It was then designed, manufactured and tested in the Earth Rover Project of Los Angeles City College Electronics Club.

See also 

Chebyshev linkage, the cognate of the Chebyshev lambda linkage.
Hoeckens linkage, a linkage that produces a very similar locus using one less link but an additional slider.
Leg mechanism
Straight line mechanism

References 
Design of Machinery – esp' p134

External links 

Hoeckens approximate straight-line mechanism (diagram and table of lengths)
Hoeckens straight line linkage  (Homemade example)
Video of computer simulation of Tchebychev walking machine (Стопоход Чебышева).
alexdenouden.nl – Rectilinear motion after "Tchebychev"
A simulation using the Molecular Workbench software
How does a Hoecken's Linkage Work? (Interactive Flash Animation)

Straight line mechanisms
Linkages (mechanical)
Fedor Hodža

Fedor Hodža (4 November 1912, in Budapest – 17 September 1968, in New York City) was a Slovak politician and lawyer, the son of Milan Hodža.

He was a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague. He worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague (1938 – 1939).

During the World War II (more precisely 1938 – 1945) he lived in France and the UK, where he was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Agriculture of the Czechoslovak government in exile from 1940 to 1945. He participated, along with his father, in the creation of the Slovak National Council in Paris, which was supposed to be an opposition body to the exile policy of Edvard Beneš. After his father had left for the U.S., Fedor established close relationships with Beneš and even became a member of the Czechoslovak pseudo-parliament in exile ("State Council") in London in 1944.

In 1945, he was a member of the Slovak National Council. After World War II, from 1945 to 1948, he was a member of the Constituent National Assembly of Czechoslovakia and Secretary General of the Democratic Party.

In 1948, when the communists took power in Czechoslovakia, he emigrated to the U.S. There, as a member of the Council for a Free Czecho-Slovakia and of the Permanent Council of Slovak Democratic Exiles, he tried to achieve a re-establishment of democracy in Czechoslovakia, ruled by communists at that time.

1912 births
1968 deaths
Politicians from Budapest
People from the Kingdom of Hungary
Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants politicians
Democratic Party (Slovakia, 1944) politicians
Government ministers of Czechoslovakia
Members of the Interim National Assembly of Czechoslovakia
Members of the Constituent National Assembly of Czechoslovakia
Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States
Charles University alumni
Folgefonna Tunnel

The Folgefonna Tunnel () is a  long road tunnel in Vestland county, Norway.  The tunnel connects the village of Eitrheim and the town of Odda at the head of Sørfjorden in Ullensvang Municipality to the village of Austrepollen at the head of Maurangsfjorden in Kvinnherad municipality. The tunnel runs under the large Folgefonna glacier and Folgefonna National Park. The tunnel opened in 2001 and is Norway's fourth longest road tunnel. It reduced travel time between these two places from four hours all the way down to ten minutes. It is part of County Road 49.

In year 2012, the  long Jondal Tunnel was built a short distance from this tunnel. Using these two tunnels and a ferry, the road distance between the E134 highway in the town of Odda and the city of Bergen is much shorter than before. Using this route to travel from Oslo to Bergen is shorter than taking the E16 highway, and this route is much less sensitive to snow storms in the winter (which is fairly long in the mountains) than by taking Norwegian National Road 7 (which is the shortest route between Oslo and Bergen).

References

Road tunnels in Vestland
Ullensvang
Kvinnherad
2001 establishments in Norway
Tunnels completed in 2001
Brian Hooks

Brian Hooks (born July 27, 1973) is an American actor, comedian, producer and director. He is best known for his roles as protagonist Rob Douglas in the screwball comedy 3 Strikes, and Nick Delaney on the UPN television sitcom Eve. He is also known for his role as DJ in the 2004 film Soul Plane.

Acting career
Brian’s first acting role occurred as the central character in the film Phat Beach (1996), which was written and directed by Doug Ellin (creator of HBO’s Entourage).  The success of Phat Beach led to roles in other films, including High School High (1996), Bulworth (1998), Beloved (1998) and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999).  At the same time, he had guest starring roles in many television series in the late 1990s, such as Cracker, NYPD Blue, Moesha, ER and The Parkers.

In 2000, Hooks appeared as the central character in the comedy film 3 Strikes After that, he continued to star in, as well as executive produce, many low-budget straight-to-DVD films, including Nothin’ 2 Lose (2000), The Luau (2001), The Chatroom (2002) and Malibooty (2003).

In the following years, he began to redirect some of his efforts to the off-camera aspects of production.  After developing and producing a low-budget film which produced a remarkable five-thousand percent return (5000%) on investment, Q: The Movie, Brian was first able to observe the distinct advantages, and lucrative nature, of successfully creating and developing motion pictures.  As a result, and backed by major film distributors such as MGM, Brian began to produce low-budget independent films in between his acting roles.

Brian’s procession of straight-to-DVD films led to him once being called “The King of DVD” by the urban media. In 2007, he produced, co-directed and co-wrote (with Deon Taylor) and starred in the horror film Dead Tone (originally titled 7eventy5ive). He produced the film I Do… I Did (2009). Hooks was the co-host of the relationship show According To Him & Her, which aired on Centric.

In 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Brian launched his own production company called Left of Bang Entertainment. Aside from producing in-house films, Left of Bang Entertainment will provide free educational programs and mentorship opportunities for inner-city kids.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1973 births
Living people
African-American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
Male actors from California
Male actors from Bakersfield, California
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
Gayle Harris

Gayle Elizabeth Harris (born February 12, 1951) was ordained as Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in 2003, succeeding Barbara Harris (no relation). This was the first time in the Episcopal Church in the United States that a woman was succeeded as bishop by another woman.

Early life and ministry
Harris was born on February 12, 1951, in Cleveland, Ohio. She studied at the Lewis & Clark College and then at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, from where she earned a Master of Divinity. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity by the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 2002, and an honorary Doctor of Humanity from the New England Law Boston.

Harris was ordained as a deacon in June 1981 and as a priest in February 1982. She served as assistant to Grace Church Van Vorst in Jersey City, New Jersey, and as diocesan Urban Resident at St. Philip's Church in Washington, D.C., from 1982 to 1984. In 1984, she became priest-in-charge of Holy Communion Church in Washington, D.C., and simultaneously as a member of the clergy at Washington National Cathedral. She left Washington for Rochester, New York, in 1992, to become the rector of St. Luke and St, Simon Cyrene's Church, where she remained until 2002.

She was elected Suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts on June 1, 2002, and was consecrated on January 18, 2003, at Trinity Church, Boston, by Bishop Arthur Benjamin Williams Jr. She chairs the House of Bishops Pastoral Development Committee and is the convenor of the Episcopal Bishops of African Descent.

In 2022, she retired as Bishop Suffragan of Massachusetts. In April of 2023, she became the Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia.

Accusations and apology
In 2018, Harris said that she personally saw Israeli security personnel arrest a 3-year-old on the Temple Mount for bouncing a ball that fell among worshipers at the Western Wall, and also saw Israeli soldiers respond to a comment by a 15-year-old boy by shooting him 10 times in the back. Harris was accused by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and other Jewish organizations of fabricating "defamatory and incendiary" stories of "Israeli heartlessness and criminality" in support of an Episcopal Church General Convention resolution condemning Israel. The Simon Wiesenthal Center said that her "anti-Israel rhetoric borders on a 'blood libel'" Several weeks later, Harris apologized, stating that "I now acknowledge that I reported stories which I had heard and unintentionally framed them as though I had personally witnessed the alleged events." She added, "I did not take the opportunity to verify these stories. ... I was ill-advised to repeat the stories without verification, and I apologize for doing so."

See also

 List of Episcopal bishops of the United States
 Historical list of the Episcopal bishops of the United States

References

1951 births
Living people
Women Anglican bishops
Episcopal bishops of Massachusetts
African-American Episcopalians
American Episcopal priests
Religious leaders from Cleveland
Lewis & Clark College alumni
Church Divinity School of the Pacific alumni
20th-century American Episcopalians
20th-century African-American people
Round tower (disambiguation)

Round tower may refer to:

Types of tower
 A type of fortified tower with a circular floor plan
 Irish round tower, a type of early mediaeval stone tower
 Broch, a type of Iron Age drystone structure found in Scotland
 Round-tower church, a type of church found mainly in England
 Nuraghe, a type of megalithic edifice found in Sardinia, Italy
 Punic-Roman round towers, Malta

Specific towers
 Nantyglo Round Towers, South Wales
 Newport Tower (Rhode Island), also known as Round Tower
 Rundetårn (meaning "Round Tower"), Copenhagen, Denmark
 Round Tower Lodge, Sandiway, Cheshire, England
 Round Tower (Portsmouth), a fortification built to guard the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour
 Round Tower (Vyborg), a fortification in Vyborg, Russia
 Monument tat-Tromba, a water tower in Ħamrun, Malta also known as the Round Tower

Other uses
Round Towers GAA Clondalkin, a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Dublin, Ireland
Round Towers GAA (Kildare), a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Kildare Town, Ireland