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Nasreen Jalil

Nasreen Jalil () (born: 22 February 1944, Lahore) is a Pakistani politician and a senior leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. She served as a member of the Senate of Pakistan from Sindh from 2012 to 2018. Previously, she served as the Deputy Mayor of Karachi.

Early life

Jalil was born in Lahore on 22 February 1944, then part of India, her family were from the United Provinces but had settled in Karachi. Her father, Zafarul Ahsan was the deputy commissioner of Lahore at the time of the British Indian Empire in 1947, and later he worked as an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer. Her sister is the Pakistani architect, Yasmeen Lari.

Political career

Nasreen Jalil was elected to the senate of Pakistan in March 1994 for a six-year term. She was member of the Senate Standing Committees on commerce and on foreign affairs, Kashmir affairs and northern affairs and on health, social welfare and special education and also chairperson on Functional Committee on Human Rights.

In January 2006 she became Naib Nazim of Karachi, during the swearing in ceremony Jalil pledged that underdeveloped areas of the city would be developed and also that women's rights would be safeguarded.

In the Senate election held on 2 March 2012, Nasreen Jalil was elected as a senator from Sindh.

Nasreen Jalil is the deputy convener of Muttahida Qaumi Movement Khalid Maqbool Group's (MQM-P) Coordinate Committee.

She is the chairperson of Senate's Standing Committee on Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics, P&D and Privatization.

References

1944 births
Living people
Governors of Sindh
University of Karachi alumni
Muhajir people
Muttahida Qaumi Movement politicians
Mayors of places in Pakistan
Pakistani people of Iraqi descent
Mayors of Karachi
Politicians from Karachi
Politicians from Lahore
21st-century Pakistani women politicians
Pakistani senators (14th Parliament)
George King Chisholm

George King Chisholm (September 4, 1814 – April 14, 1874) was an Ontario farmer and political figure.

He was born in Nelson Township in Upper Canada in 1814, the son of William Chisholm. He studied at Upper Canada College and moved to Hamilton, later settling in Oakville. He served in the Gore militia during the Upper Canada Rebellion and the Fenian raids. Chisholm served as reeve of Trafalgar Township from 1830 to 1852. In 1841, he was appointed sergeant-at-arms for the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. In 1849, he was injured during riots when the Rebellion Losses Bill was passed. He resigned in 1854 and was elected to represent Halton in the legislative assembly. He was elected as the first mayor of Oakville in 1857, serving until 1862; he served another term in 1873.

He died in Oakville in 1874.

His brother Robert Kerr served as postmaster.

See also
List of mayors of Oakville, Ontario

External links
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

1814 births
1874 deaths
Mayors of Oakville, Ontario
Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada West
People of the Fenian raids
Top and tail

A top-and-tail railway train has locomotives at both ends, for ease of changing direction, especially where the terminal station has no run-round loop. This is a British term. It is normal for only the leading locomotive to power the train when in top-and-tail mode.

It is properly distinct from a push–pull train, which has a locomotive at one end and a control cab at the other end.

Trains going up zig zags of the Khyber Pass are top-and-tailed, although Pakistan Railways calls this by a different term.

In Japan, the term "push-pull" is confusingly used to describe trains top-and-tailed with a locomotive at either end. (True push-pull operation with a locomotive at one end is not seen on Japanese mainline railways.)

Australia 

In New South Wales the XPT is a train with a light weight locomotive at either end. It is based on the British HST.  The locomotive at the front operates at full traction power, while the locomotive at the rear operates at half power, the other half powering lighting and air conditioning, etc.  This power arrangement is needed to cater with steep 1 in 40 (2.5%, or 25‰) and 1 in 33 (3%, or 30‰) gradients.

Occasionally a short XPT train operates with only one engine and fewer carriages, in which case the whole train must be turned on a triangle such as at Dubbo.

Top and tail operation is also used for ballast trains which have to move up and down a line undergoing track maintenance. It is safer to drive these trains from the front when operating in "reverse".

References 

Rail transport operations
Corporation Lane

In the City of Melbourne, Australia, many minor laneways are given the default name Corporation Lane. Often these laneways do not appear in street directories. Some have been renamed to something novel or commemorative, including ACDC Lane, and Menzies Lane.  

Because of the number of thoroughfares named Corporation Lane they are identified by number.  For example, the lane that became Menzies Lane was previously listed as Corporation Lane (No. 1161).  A 2004 article in The Age reported that "of the 1556 laneways in the City of Port Phillip, for example, most are numbered but few are named."

References

See also

"What's in a Name? The Lanes of East Melbourne." East Melbourne Historical Society. 2008.

Streets in Melbourne
LogP

LogP may refer to:

 Partition coefficient, the name of a ratio in organic and medicinal chemistry.
 LogP machine, a model for parallel computation.
Greek Super Cup

The Greek Super Cup (), officially known as the Cup of Friendship and Solidarity () was a Greek association football one-match competition which was contested annually by the Super League champion club and the winners of the Greek Cup.

The first match took place in 1980 at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus. Then and until 1994, matches were played at Olympic Stadium, while in 1996 and 2007 they were played at Karaiskakis Stadium.

History

Edition by PSAT

The 1980 match was organized by the Union of Sport Press.

Editions by HFF

Performance by club
Note: winning years are marked with bold.

Matches

References

Sources
 Greece - List of Super Cup Finals, Spyros Karasoulos-Alexander Mastrogiannopoulos, Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation RSSSF (The first event took place in season's 1979-80  between Olympiacos-Kastoria, champions and cup winners respectively)

Bibliography
The book Legend: a course through time (Heliotropio Publications, 1997) mentions as the first Super Cup that of 1980: "In 1980 the first organization of the" Super Cup "took place, ..." (p. 245)

Super Cup
Greece
1980 establishments in Greece
Recurring sporting events established in 1980
Danny Kladis

Danny Kladis (February 10, 1917 – April 26, 2009) was an American racecar driver. He was born in Crystal City, Missouri and died at Joliet, Illinois. 92-year-old Kladis was the oldest living Indy 500 starter at the time of his death.

Racing career
Kladis started racing in midget cars in 1935. He stopped racing in the 1940s when all racing in the United States stopped for World War II. During the war, he was a pilot in the United States Army. After the war, he started in the 1946 Indianapolis 500 for Andy Granatelli and finished 21st. He drove 50 laps as a relief driver for Spider Webb in the 1954 Indianapolis 500. Kladis attempted to make the field until the 1957 Indianapolis 500 but was unsuccessful.

Career awards
Kladis was inducted in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2007.

World Championship career summary
The Indianapolis 500 was part of the FIA World Championship from 1950 through 1960. Drivers competing at Indy during those years were credited with World Championship points and participation. In the 1954 Indianapolis 500, Danny Kladis drove in relief of Spider Webb. As a result of this shared ride, Kladis participated in 1 World Championship race but scored no World Championship points.

Personal life 
Kladis was the father of seven children: George, Joanne, Carole, Ciciela, Christopher, Danny Jr, and Michael.

Racing record

Indy 500 results

* shared drive with Spider Webb

Complete Formula One World Championship results
(key)

References

1917 births
2009 deaths
Indianapolis 500 drivers
People from Crystal City, Missouri
Racing drivers from Missouri
United States Army Air Forces pilots of World War II
P with stroke

Ᵽ (minuscule: ᵽ) or "p with stroke" is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from P with the addition of a stroke, usually through the bowl but sometimes through the descender. It is used in some phonetic transcription systems, such as the Americanist phonetic notation, to represent a fricative .

In 1987 ᵽ was adopted for writing the Tanimuca-Retuarã language, where it represents either a fricative or a stop depending on the dialect.

PotCoin uses a design of the P with stroke as a symbol of its digital cryptocurrency.

There is also a P with stroke through descender Ꝑ (minuscule: ꝑ) used in the medieval period as a scribal abbreviation for per, par-, por-.

Encoding
The minuscule form,  was added to Unicode 4.1 in 2005, while the majuscule  was added to version 5.0 in 2006.

References

Phonetic transcription symbols
Latin letters with diacritics
Stylephorus

Stylephorus chordatus, the tube-eye or thread-tail, is a deep-sea fish, the only fish in the genus Stylephorus and family Stylephoridae.

It is found in deep subtropical and tropical oceans around the world, living at depths during the day and making nightly vertical migrations to feed on plankton. It is an extremely elongated fish; although its body grows only to  long, its pair of tail fin rays triple its length to about . Its eyes are tubular in shape, resembling a pair of binoculars.

It has a tubular mouth through which it sucks seawater by enlarging its oral cavity to about 40 times its original size. It then expels the water through the gills, leaving behind the copepods on which it feeds.

The phylogenetic position of the tube-eye has been controversial. It has been historically placed amongst Lampriformes, but a study involving mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences analysis suggested Stylephorus is instead a close parent of the Gadiformes order (cods and hakes).

References

Stylephoridae
Monotypic fish genera
Fish described in 1791
Minerals planning guidance notes

Minerals Planning Guidance Notes (MPGs) were statements of the British government’s policy on minerals and planning issues and provide advice and guidance to local authorities and the minerals industry on policies and the operation of the planning system with regard to minerals.

Under the provisions of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, they were gradually replaced by Mineral Policy Statements (MPSs).
Most MPS's and MPG's have now been superseded by the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) which replaced MPS1, MPS2, MPG2, MPG3, MPG5, MPG7, MPG10, MPG13, MPG15.

Mineral planning authorities must take their contents into account in preparing their development plans. The guidance may also be material to decisions on individual planning applications and appeals.

Minerals Planning Guidance 1: General considerations Published June 1996. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 2: Applications, permissions and conditions Published July 1998. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 3: Coal mining and colliery spoil disposal Published March 1999. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 4: Main document Revocation, modification, discontinuance, prohibition and suspension orders. Published August 1997. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 5: Stability in surface mineral workings and tips Published January 2000. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 6: Guidelines for aggregates provision in England Published April 1994. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 7: Reclamation of mineral workings Published November 1996. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 8: Main document Interim development order permissions (IDOS): statutory provisions and procedures. Published September 1991. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 9: Main document Planning and Compensation Act 1991: interim development order permissions (IDOS): conditions. Published March 1992. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 10: Provision of raw material for the cement industry Published 1991. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 11: Control of noise at surface mineral workings Published April 1993. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 13: Guidelines for peat provision in England Published July 1995. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 14: Environment Act 1995: review of mineral planning permissions Published September 1995. 
Minerals Planning Guidance 15: Provision of silica sand in England Published September 1996.

See also 
Town and country planning in the United Kingdom
Town and Country Planning Act 1990
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
National Planning Policy Framework

United Kingdom planning policy
Housing in the United Kingdom
Embasaurus

Embasaurus (meaning "Emba lizard") is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period. It is known from two vertebrae found in the Neocomian Sands of Kazakhstan. As it is known only from fragmentary remains, Embasaurus is considered by some to be a possible nomen dubium. It was named after the Emba River, and it is believed to have lived during the Berriasian stage, around 140 million years ago. According to the Theropod Database, a personal website designed by Mickey Mortimer, further research may suggest that Embasaurus may be a basal tyrannosauroid. George Olshevsky, however, considered Embasaurus to be a megalosaurid, closely related to Magnosaurus, Megalosaurus, and Torvosaurus.

The type species, Embasaurus minax, was described by the Soviet paleontologist Anatoly Riabinin in 1931.

References 

Prehistoric theropods
Berriasian life
Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia
Cretaceous Kazakhstan
Fossils of Kazakhstan
Fossil taxa described in 1931
Nomina dubia
Peckett and Sons

Peckett and Sons was a locomotive manufacturer at the Atlas Locomotive Works on Deep Pit Road between Fishponds and St. George, Bristol, England.

Fox, Walker and Company

The company began trading in 1864 at the Atlas Engine Works, St. George, Bristol, as Fox, Walker and Company, building four and six-coupled saddle tank engines for industrial use. They  also built stationary engines and pioneered steam tramcars, the first being tested in Bristol in 1877.

Much of their output was exported, mostly , with some ,  and . In 1878 they produced six  gauge  trench engines for the Royal Engineers at Chatham using Henry Handyside's steep gradient apparatus. They also produced nine s for the Somerset and Dorset Railway.

Peckett and Sons

They were taken over by Thomas Peckett in 1880, becoming Peckett and Sons, Atlas Engine Works, Bristol. The company acquired limited liability some years later. By 1900 the two companies had built over 400 locomotives.

The company continued producing a variety of small industrial and shunting engines at their factory located between Fishponds and Kingswood in Bristol. They became specialists in the field, with very precise specifications and standardisation of parts. The largest engine was an  built in 1931 for the Christmas Island Phosphate Company.  The works were served by a branch line starting just south west of Kingswood junction on the Midland line and ran for about  in a generally eastward direction. It also served some collieries in the Speedwell area. The only evidence remaining of this line is a bridge abutment on Whitefield Road.

During the two World Wars, the works were especially busy, but by 1950 trade had largely dried up. Although in 1956 an attempt had been made to enter the diesel-mechanical market, the last steam engine was produced in 1958 and the company was taken over by Reed Crane & Hoist Co Ltd on 23 October 1961, which itself later went into liquidation.

Production and preservation

Despite hard work and poor maintenance, the engines were long-lasting. Many Peckett locomotives survive working on today's heritage railways around the world.
 The last Peckett steam locomotive built, 2165 of 1958, is preserved at Sandstone Estates, South Africa
 The oldest surviving Fox Walker locomotive is "Karlskoga", an  of 1873 and the first locomotive of the Nora Bergslags Railway in Sweden. It was steamed at Nora, Sweden in 1982.

References

 Lowe, J.W., (1989) British Steam Locomotive Builders, Guild Publishing

External links

The industrial railway Record, A brief memoir of Peckett & Sons LTD
Peckett's in Retrospect
Gloucestershire LXXII.SW, Revised: 1938, Published: ca. 1945, OS 6-inch maps showing Atlas Locomotive Works
Peckett & Sons Archive, National Railway Museum

 
Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Companies established in 1864
Defunct companies based in Bristol
1864 establishments in England
Manufacturing companies of England
Waqt

Waqt may refer to:

 The time schedule for Muslim prayers, see Salat times
 Waqt (1965 film), a 1965 film directed by Yash Chopra
 Waqt: The Race Against Time, a 2005 film directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah and starring Amitabh Bachchan
 Waqt News, Pakistani news channel
 WAQT, former call letters of radio station WZBQ in Carrollton, Kentucky
Mineral Policy Statements

In the United Kingdom, Mineral Policy Statements (MPS) are statements of the English Government's national  policy on minerals and planning issues and provide advice and guidance to local authorities and the minerals industry on policies and the operation of the planning system with regard to minerals.

Mineral planning authorities must take their contents into account in preparing their Development plans. The guidance may also be material to decisions on individual planning applications and appeals.

Under the provisions of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, they are gradually replacing Minerals planning guidance notes, (MPGs).

MPS's Introduced so far:
Minerals Policy Statement 2: Controlling and mitigating the environmental effects of mineral extraction in England

See also 
Town and country planning in the United Kingdom
Town and Country Planning Act 1990
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004

United Kingdom planning policy
Housing in the United Kingdom
Alain Desrosières

Alain Desrosières (18 April 1940 – 15 February 2013) was a statistician, sociologist and historian of science in France, well known for his work in the history of statistics  He is the author of The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning, published in 1993, translated into several languages, including English in 1998, and subsequently reviewed in the LRB in 2000. This described the origins of statistics as technical machinery for administration in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the attempts to measure human and economic development. The text is an account of the statistics and their use in abstracting features of society to better measure and understand them, with particular aims.

His major technical work on the socio-professional categorisation scheme used in French official statistics was updated in five editions over more than fifteen years. Further collected papers were published in two volumes as The Statistical Argument in 2008, and a final collection published posthumously in 2014 as Prouver et Gouverner. His major contribution was to frame public statistics as constructed reality, with categories created to describe society, but tracked carefully using these definitions. Thus bridging the opposing views that they are either objective facts or political propaganda due to his unusual combination of sociological study and statistical training.

References

External links
 Obituary, Le Monde
 Obituary, Libération
 Special issue, Statistique et Société, 2018 (in memoriam)

French statisticians
Historians of science
Sociologists of science
French sociologists
2013 deaths
1940 births
French male non-fiction writers
Serum amyloid P component

The serum amyloid P component (SAP) is the identical serum form of the amyloid P component (AP), a 25 kDa pentameric protein first identified as the pentagonal constituent of in vivo pathological deposits called "amyloid".  APCS is its human gene.

In amyloidosis
SAP makes up 14% of the dry mass of amyloid deposits and is thought to be an important contributor to the pathogenesis of a related group of diseases called the Amyloidoses. These conditions are characterised by the ordered aggregation of normal globular proteins and peptides into insoluble fibres, which disrupt tissue architecture and are associated with cell death. SAP is thought to decorate and stabilise aggregates by preventing proteolytic cleavage and hence inhibiting fibril removal via the normal protein scavenging mechanisms. This association is utilised in the routine clinical diagnostic technique of SAP scintigraphy whereby radio-labelled protein is injected into patients to locate areas of amyloid deposition.  The SAP-amyloid association has also been identified as a possible drug target for anti-amyloid therapy, with the recent development and first stage clinical trials of a compound called CPHPC (R-1-[6-[R-2-carboxy-pyrrolidin-1-yl]-6-oxohexanoyl] pyrrolidine-2-carboxylic acid), a small molecule able to strip AP from deposits by reducing levels of circulating SAP.

Structure
SAP is a member of the pentraxins family, characterised by calcium-dependent ligand binding and a distinctive flattened β-jellyroll structure similar to that of the legume lectins.  The name "pentraxin" is derived from the Greek words for five (penta) and berries (ragos), relating to the radial symmetry of five monomers forming a ring approximately 95 across and 35 deep.  Human SAP has 51% sequence homology with C-reactive protein (CRP), a classical acute phase response plasma protein, and is a more distant relative to the "long" pentraxins such as PTX3 (a cytokine-modulated molecule) and several neuronal pentraxins. Both SAP and CRP are evolutionary conserved in all vertebrates and are also found in distant invertebrates such as the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus).

References 

 

Blood proteins
Acute-phase proteins
Redfield College

Redfield College may refer to:

 Redfield College (New South Wales), Australia
 Redfield College (South Dakota), United States; defunct
Stora Skedvi

Stora Skedvi is a part of Säter Municipality located by the Dal River in Sweden. About 2,300 people live here. Major companies are Vika Bröd, Stocksbroverken and MEAG. It is known for its 12th-century church with its beautiful ceiling paintings.

External links 
Stora Skedvi

Populated places in Dalarna County
Equijubus

Equijubus (; Mǎzōng meaning "horse mane" after the area Mǎzōng Mountain 马鬃山 in which it was found), is a genus of herbivorous hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Albian stage) of northwestern China.

Discovery and naming
 
The type (and only known) specimen was found in the summer of 2000 by a Chinese-American expedition in the Mazong (= "horse mane") Shan area of China's Gansu Province. In 2002 You Hialu in a dissertation named and described the species Equijubus normani. The generic name is derived from Latin equus, "horse", and juba, "mane". The specific epithet "normani" is in honour of British palaeontologist David B. Norman. However, such a nomen ex dissertatione does not constitute a valid name.

The type species Equijubus normani was formally named in an article by You, Luo Zhexi, Neil Shubin, Lawrence Witmer, Tang Zhilu and Tang Feng in 2003.

The type specimen or holotype, IVPP V12534, consists of a complete skull with articulated (attached) lower jaws, plus associated incomplete postcrania: nine cervical (neck), sixteen dorsal (back), and six sacral (pelvic) vertebrae. It was found in fluvio-lacustrine sediments of the Middle Grey Unit of the Xinminpu Group, Gonpoquan Basin, Mazong Shan, Gansu Province, China.

Wu, You & Li (2018) described grass microfossils extracted from a specimen of Equijubus normani, which at the time of their description were the oldest known grass fossils, and might be the oldest known evidence of a dinosaur feeding on grasses, implying that it was most likely a grazer.

Description
 
Equijubus is a relatively large euornithopod. Gregory S. Paul in 2010 estimated the length at seven metres, the weight at 2.5 tonnes. A palpebral bone seems to be absent, meaning the eyes were not overshadowed by an upper rim as with most related species.

Phylogeny
Equijubus was described as a basal hadrosauroid dinosaur, although it may turn out to be a non-hadrosauroid iguanodont. The discoverers considered it to be the basal-most of the hadrosauroids, and suggested that this group emerged in Asia.

See also

 Timeline of hadrosaur research

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20050305220103/http://www.sinofossa.org/sinosaur/equijubus.htm

Iguanodonts
Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia
Hadrosaurs
Fossil taxa described in 2003
Taxa named by Neil Shubin
Paleontology in Gansu
Ornithischian genera
Dorton Dons

Dorton Dons was a tug-of-war team in the 1960s and 1970s. Managed and coached by Don Claridge of Dorton in Buckinghamshire, they won regional and national championships. Whilst the team was based and trained in Dorton, it drew many of the team from local villages such as Brill, Ludgershall and Oakley. One training method utilised was looping the rope over a tree's branch and pulling a 45-gallon drum of concrete to the top. During the late 70's a revival of the Dorton Dons was attempted. John Faulkner and Raymond Pentony, Don Driver with Tony Bolton and Bill Tipping would often be seen pulling the 45 gallon drum high into the air. The drum itself still sits in the river below the tree branch.

Sport in Buckinghamshire
Sawagongo High School

Sawagongo High School is an extra county Christian boys secondary school located in Gem location, Siaya County, Kenya. The school is well known in Siaya county as a top academic performer. The school also excels in extra-curricular activities. Currently the  students population is about 1800 students.

Notable alumni
 Ambrose Adeya Adongo, former head of the Kenya National Union of Teachers
 Joe Ageyo, a television journalist at Kenya Television Network (KTN)
 Opiyo Wandayi, a member of parliament (MP)
 Edwin Abonyo, an engineer and husband of Joyce Laboso (the beloved late Bomet Governor)
 Patrick Lino Onyango, Certified Human Resources Management practitioner

References

External links 
 Sawagongo High School home page

High schools and secondary schools in Kenya
Education in Nyanza Province
Siaya County
Boys' schools in Kenya
Christian schools in Kenya
Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering

Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering (IIS&M) was established in 1969 at Gulmarg by the Department of Tourism and the Government of India. The institute is chartered to train skiers and mountaineers from all over the world.

History
Founded in 1969, initially IIS&M was started as a Project named Gulmarg Winter Sports Project (GWSP) in order to develop ski resorts of international standard in Gulmarg. Now it has grown into an institute which conducts various adventure courses and corporate activities.

Courses
The institute conducts courses on various fields such as skiing, water skiing, paragliding, paramotors, parasailing, hot air ballooning, canoeing, white water rafting, and mountaineering etc.

References

External links
 Official website

Education in Jammu and Kashmir
Mountaineering in India
Skiing in India
Mountaineering training institutes
Roadmaster

Roadmaster may refer to:

Roadmaster (loudspeaker) a brand of loudspeaker in Indonesia
Buick Roadmaster, an automobile produced by Buick 1936–1958 and 1991–1996
Roadmaster (bicycles) a brand of Pacific Cycle
Roadmaster (album), a 1973 album and title track by Gene Clark
Roadmaster (rail), a type of railroad maintenance official
Roadmaster (band), in which Toby Myers and Steve Riley played

See also 
 AEC Routemaster, a double decker bus
Amy Ruley

Amy Ruley (born October 24, 1955) is a former women's head basketball coach at North Dakota State University. Ruley has the greatest number of victories of any women's coach at NDSU, with over 600 wins, and led the Bison to 5 NCAA Division II championships. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004. She is a graduate of Purdue University, where she was a member of the first varsity Purdue Boilermakers team, scoring the program's first points.

On Monday, March 3, 2008, Ruley announced that she would step down as coach after the game that evening against Centenary College (La.) and remained at NDSU until August 2017.  She joined the Minnesota State University of Moorhead (MSUM) Foundation as Senior Director of Development for Athletics in 2017. She had since joined the Sanford Health Foundation in 2019, with plans to retire in February 2022.

Purdue statistics
Source

USA Basketball

In 1995, Ruley served as the assistant coach to the R. William Jones Cup Team. The competition was held in Taipei, Taiwan. The USA team won its first six games, but four of the six were won by single-digit margins. Their seventh game was against Russia, and they fell 100–84. The final game was against South Korea, and a victory would assure the gold medal, but the South Korean team won 80–76 to win the gold medal. The USA team won the bronze medal.

Awards
 1997 – Carol Eckman Award
 2000 – Inducted into North Dakota Sports Hall of Fame
 2001 – Coach Ruley received the United States Sports Academy's C. Vivian Stringer Coaching Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements as a coach.
 2004 – Inducted into Purdue Boilermakers Athletic Hall of Fame
 2004 – Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Head coaching record

See also
List of college women's basketball coaches with 600 wins

Notes

External links
Amy Ruley profile at gobison.com
Amy Ruley named to MSUM Foundation as Sr. Director of Development for Athletics

1955 births
Living people
American women's basketball coaches
American women's basketball players
North Dakota State Bison women's basketball coaches
Point guards
Purdue Boilermakers women's basketball players
Chris Lawrence (racing driver)

Christopher John Lawrence (27 July 1933 – 13 August 2011) was a British former racing driver from England. Born in Ealing, London, he participated regularly in the Le Mans 24 Hours race and in two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, driving a special Cooper-Ferrari, debuting on 16 July 1966. He scored no championship points.

Lawrence later founded the London-based company LawrenceTune,  constructors of the Morgan +4 Super Sports (racing version).

Lawrence was also responsible for designing the Deep Sanderson series of racing and sports cars.

In addition, Lawrence also helped design the 1972 Monica 560 luxury French saloon.

He died of cancer aged 78.

Racing record

Complete British Saloon Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Complete Formula One World Championship results
(key)

References

External links
Profile at www.grandprix.com

1933 births
2011 deaths
Sportspeople from Ealing
Deaths from cancer in England
British automobile designers
English racing drivers
English Formula One drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
World Sportscar Championship drivers
Unity (Swedish political party)

Unity () is a small political party in Sweden. The party was founded on 6 April 1990 on the initiative of Ulf Wåhlström. It started with some influences from New Age and spirituality, but is nowadays a political party mostly focused on the environment, an unconditional income floor with a basic income and alternative medicine. The party has taken part in every national election in Sweden since 1991, mostly with limited success. The election 2014 was the best so far, with 0.1 percent of the total votes. In the Swedish national election 2018 the party received 0.06 percent of the total votes.

History 
Starting as a smaller movement in April 1990, on the initiative of Ulf Wåhlström, Enhet then turned into a political party shortly after. In the 2006 parliamentary elections the party got 2,648 votes (0.05%), up from 603 votes (.01%) in the 2002 elections. However, in the 2010 Swedish general election the party only received 463 votes (.01%) this was down 2,616 votes or 0.04%. They bumped back in the 2014 parliamentary elections by getting a total of 6,277 votes or .10%.

Political ideas

The economy 
Enhet emphasizes the need for a sustainable economics with less consumption and pollution. They also believe in the need for structural changes to ascieve this. Two of their main proposals is basic income (of some sort) and a land value tax.

Defence and foreign policy 

Enhet's vision is a world without weapons. Hence they want global disarmament and that Sweden takes a leading role in this process. They also want Sweden out of the European Union and debt relief for poor countries.

Results (number of votes) in the general election of Sweden

References

External links
 enhet.se

1990 establishments in Sweden
Political parties supporting universal basic income
Minor political parties in Sweden
Political parties established in 1990
Pacifist parties
Western spiritually leaning parties
Enhet

Enhet  may refer to:

Unity (Sweden), a political party in Sweden
Enhet, Belgium, a place in Belgium
Jack the Rammer

Jack the Rammer, alias of William Roberts, was a bushranger in the Monaro District near Cooma in New South Wales during the mid-1830s.

Life
Born and raised in England, William Roberts was a cooper by trade, with a wife and three children, when he was sentenced seven years for stealing a bucket and transported to New South Wales. He arrived in Australia in September 1833, and escaped from his first convict assignment the following year. Placed in Goulburn Jail he met fellow convict Joseph Keys and the pair escaped together.

Roberts and Keys headed for the Monaro District, where they met up with Edward Boyd, and began bushranging. In December 1834, the three "stuck up" the station of Joseph Catterall, badly wounding the station overseer Charles Fisher Shepherd, who, in turn, shot and killed Roberts. In January 1835, troopers caught up with Boyd and Keys, and Boyd was killed. Keys was captured and pleaded guilty.

References

 Jack the Rammer
 Discovery of the Monaro 

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Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Alder station

Alder station (formerly known as I-880/Milpitas) is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA).  This station is served by the Orange Line of the VTA Light Rail system.

The station was opened on May 17, 2001, as part of VTA's Tasman East light rail extension.

The station has a 275 space park and ride lot situated diagonally opposite from the platform. The entrance to the parking lot has a large public art installation, a clocktower called "Gateway to the City of Milpitas."

History 

Alder originally served as the eastern terminus of the first phase of the Tasman East light rail extension on May 17, 2001, and so was originally served by trains operating directly from Mountain View.

When the station first opened, it served the southern terminus of AC Transit's 217 bus, the only such service that runs into Santa Clara County. Since then, the second phase of the Tasman East extension altered the station's service patterns, and the 217 bus now terminates at the Milpitas Transit Center.

Since 2017, VTA's plans for new routes in support of the Silicon Valley BART extension included renaming this station "Alder" after its cross-street Alder Drive. The name change was made on December 28, 2019.

Service

Location 
Alder station is located in the median of Tasman Drive just west of Alder Drive near Interstate 880 in Milpitas, California.

Station layout

References

External links 
Alder station – VTA

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail stations
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus stations
Buildings and structures in Milpitas, California
Railway stations in the United States opened in 2001
2001 establishments in California
Thomas Mitchell (football manager)

Thomas Brown Mitchell (c. 1843 in Dumfries – August 1921) was a two-time FA Cup winning Scottish football manager.

Early years
Thomas Mitchell was born in Dumfries but moved south of the border c.1867.

Blackburn Rovers
Mitchell became secretary-manager of Blackburn Rovers in 1887. The club then went on to win two FA Cups in 1890 and 1891. The final win in 1891 was against the Notts County side featuring David Calderhead.

Mitchell left Blackburn after 9 years as manager in 1896.

Arsenal
Mitchell joined Woolwich Arsenal, after the club decided to appoint a professional manager following their defeat at the hands of Millwall in the FA Cup. There is some doubt over whether he was Arsenal's first- or second-ever manager; Sam Hollis is credited on the club's official website as being the club's first manager, other historical sources claim Hollis was only the club's trainer and thus Mitchell was the club's first manager – a view reinforced by the club's own official history, amongst other sources.

Regardless of whether Hollis was properly in charge of the club during his time there, Mitchell is nevertheless credited as being Arsenal's first professional manager. However, he only lasted less than a season in the job, and although the club would reach fifth in the Second Division in 1897–98, neither he nor most of his signings stayed long with the club. Mitchell resigned as Arsenal manager on 10 March 1898.

Later years

Mitchell returned to Blackburn Rovers. He died in Blackburn in 1921, aged 78.

Honours
Blackburn Rovers
 FA Cup: 1889–90, 1890–91

See also 

 List of Arsenal F.C. managers
 List of Blackburn Rovers F.C. managers
 List of FA Cup winning managers

References

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1921 deaths
Scottish football managers
Blackburn Rovers F.C. managers
Arsenal F.C. managers
Sportspeople from Dumfries
Rope (disambiguation)

Rope is a length of fibers that are twisted or braided together

Rope may also refer to:

Wire rope, a length of metallic fibers twisted or braided together

Computing
 Core rope memory,  a ferrite read-only memory
 IpTables Rope, an open-source firewall programming language
 Rope (data structure), a data structure used in computer science

Film, television and theatre
 Rope (play), a 1929 play by Patrick Hamilton
 Rope (film), a 1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock based on the play
 Rope (1957 film), an Australian TV adaptation originally aired by ABC
 Rope (1959 television play), an Australian TV adaptation originally aired by GTV
 The Rope (miniseries), a 2021 French thriller miniseries
 Roped, a 1919 silent film directed by John Ford and starring Harry Carey
 Rudens (lit. The Rope), a 3rd-century BC play by Plautus

Music
 The Rope, a 1986 album by Black Tape for a Blue Girl
 "Rope" (song), by Foo Fighters, 2011

Persons with surname Rope
 Bryce Rope (1923–2013), New Zealand rugby union coach
 Donald Rope (1929–2009), Canadian ice-hockey player
 Ellen Mary Rope (1855–1934), English sculptor
 John Rope (1855 or 1863–1944), White Mountain Apache clan leader and Apache scout
 Margaret Agnes Rope (1882–1953), English stained glass artist (cousin of M E Aldrich Rope)
 M. E. Aldrich Rope (1891–1988), English stained glass artist (cousin of Margaret Agnes Rope)

Other uses
 Colloquial for execution by hanging
 Research Opportunity and Performance Evidence (ROPE), concept used by the Australian Research Council
 Rope, or Corde lisse, an aerial acrobatics attribute/discipline
 Rope (rhythmic gymnastics), a rhythmic gymnastics apparatus
 Rope (torture), an instrument of torture used by the Huguenots
 Rope (unit), any of several units of measurement
 Boundary rope in cricket
 Rope, Cheshire, a civil parish in Cheshire
 Rope climbing, a sport
 Fast-roping (or Fast Rope Insertion Extraction System), a military assault technique

See also 
 Ropes (disambiguation)
Chromyl chloride

Chromyl chloride is an inorganic compound with the formula CrO2Cl2. It is a reddish brown compound that is a volatile liquid at room temperature, which is unusual for transition metal compounds.

Preparation
Chromyl chloride can be prepared by the reaction of potassium chromate or potassium dichromate with hydrogen chloride in the presence of sulfuric acid, followed by distillation.

K2Cr2O7 + 6 HCl  → 2 CrO2Cl2 + 2 KCl + 3 H2O
The sulfuric acid serves as the dehydration agent. It can also be prepared directly by exposing chromium trioxide to anhydrous hydrogen chloride gas.

CrO3 + 2 HCl ⇌ CrO2Cl2 + H2O

The method used to prepare chromyl chloride is the basis for a qualitative test for chloride: a sample suspected of containing chloride is heated with a mixture of potassium dichromate and concentrated sulfuric acid. If chloride is present, chromyl chloride forms as evidenced by red fumes of CrO2Cl2. Analogous compounds are not formed with fluorides, bromides, iodides and cyanides.

Usage

Test for the presence of chlorides 

The chromyl chloride test involves heating a sample suspected to contain chlorides with potassium dichromate and concentrated sulfuric acid. If a chloride is present, chromyl chloride forms, its presence being indicated by the formation of red smoke. Otherwise, no red smoke will obviously appear. No similar compound is formed in the presence of fluoride, bromide, iodide, or cyanide, making this test specific to chlorides.

Reagent for oxidation of alkenes
Chromyl chloride oxidizes internal alkenes to alpha-chloroketones or related derivatives. It will also attack benzylic methyl groups to give aldehydes via the Étard reaction. Dichloromethane is a suitable solvent for these reactions.

Others 

CrO2Cl2 can also be used to test for the absence of nitrate ions.

Safety considerations

Chromyl chloride is severely corrosive and easily burns the skin and eyes.

References

External links
 CDC - NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards - Chromyl Chloride

Chromium(VI) compounds
Chromium–halogen compounds
Oxychlorides
Oxidizing agents
Carcinogens
Chromium–oxygen compounds
Cisco Way station

Cisco Way station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). This station is served by the Orange Line of the VTA Light Rail system.

The station was opened on May 17, 2001, as part of the first phase of VTA's Tasman East light rail extension.

Service

Station layout

Location 
Cisco Way station is located in the median of Tasman Drive just west of Cisco Way in northern San Jose, California.  It is located near the headquarters of Cisco Systems, which Cisco Way was named after.

References

External links 

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail stations
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus stations
Railway stations in San Jose, California
Railway stations in the United States opened in 2001
2001 establishments in California
Jasminum nudiflorum

Jasminum nudiflorum, the winter jasmine, is a slender, deciduous shrub native to China (Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang (Tibet), Yunnan). The flower's blossoming peaks right after winter, which is why it is also named Yingchun () in Chinese, which means "the flower that welcomes Spring".  It is widely cultivated as an ornamental and is reportedly naturalized in France and in scattered locations in the United States (Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Tennessee, Maryland and New Jersey).

Description

It grows to  tall and wide, with arching green shoots and opposite, pinnate, dark green leaves.  Each leaf is divided into three oval-oblong leaflets which are about 3 cm long. It is a trailing, vine-like shrub. 

As its name suggests, in the Northern Hemisphere winter jasmine flowers from November to March. The solitary flowers, often appearing on the bare stems (hence the Latin nudiflorum, literally "naked flower") have six petals and are bright yellow, or white, about 1 cm across, appearing in the leaf axils.

Taxonomy
It is known as rui guo yuan wei or yíng chūn huā (迎春花) in Mandarin Pinyin.

It is also known as 'jasmim-amarelo' in Portuguese (Brazil) and 'vinterjasmin' in Swedish.

It is called Gelsomino d'inverno or Gelsomino di San Giuseppe in Italiano.

It was collected in China by Robert Fortune.

It was first published and described by Lindl. in the Journal of the Horticultural Society of London Vol.1 on page 153 in 1846.

It was verified by United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service on 30 September 2011.

Distribution and range
It is native to China. It is found within many Provinces of China, (including  Guangxi (Gansu),  Shanxi, Sichuan, Xizang (also referred to as Tibet) and Yunnan.

Cultivation
Jasminum nudiflorum is valued by gardeners as one of the few plants that are in flower during the winter months. It is frequently trained against a wall to provide extra warmth and shelter, but also lends itself to groundcover. It tolerates hard pruning and should be pruned in spring immediately after flowering; regular pruning will help to prevent bare patches. It can also be grown as a bonsai and is very tolerant of the wiring methods. It likes full sun or partial shade and is hardy.

It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.  
It can be propagated using the layering technique.

References

External links
Jasminum nudiflorum Bonsai Creation

Missouri Botanical Garden, Plant Finder, Gardening Help, Jasminum nudiflorum
Plants for a Future, Jasminum nudiflorum
Royal Horticultural Society Plant Selector, Jasminum nudiflorum 
FloraData 657, Jasminum nudiflorum
Hauenstein-rafz, Winter-Jasmin, Jasminum nudiflorum 

nudiflorum
Flora of France
Flora of China
Flora of Gansu
Flora of Shaanxi
Flora of Sichuan
Flora of Tibet
Flora of Yunnan
Garden plants
Plants described in 1846
Sir Thomas Burke, 3rd Baronet

Sir Thomas John Burke, 3rd Baronet DL (7 June 1813 – 9 December 1875) was an Irish landowner and politician from County Galway who was an independent Liberal MP for Galway County (1847–65).

Career
Born at Marble Hill, he sat as an independent liberal Member of Parliament for the Galway County for eighteen years. His father, John Burke, was MP for the same constituency from 1830 to 1832.

Sport
Sometime a captain in the 1st Royals, he was best known for his love of sport, and his connection with horse racing is preserved through the Marble Hill Stakes annually run for at the Curragh. He has been described as "a genial, handsome man, exceedingly popular with the country people, but by no means as prudent and business like as his father". He married Lady Mary Nugent, daughter of Anthony Francis Nugent, 9th Earl of Westmeath.

Arms

References

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Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland
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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Galway constituencies (1801–1922)
Politicians from County Galway
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UK MPs 1847–1852
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