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Estádio Kléber Andrade

Estádio Estadual Kléber José de Andrade, also known as Estádio Kléber Andrade, is a football stadium located in Cariacica, Espírito Santo, Brazil. The stadium was built in 1983 and is able to hold 21,152 people.

Estádio Kléber Andrade is owned by the Espírito Santo State Government. The stadium is named after Kléber José de Andrade, who was the president of Rio Branco AC, almost 40 time state champions of Espírito Santo, during the stadium construction.

History
In the 1970s, Rio Branco closed down its stadium, Estádio Governador Bley, which had a maximum capacity of approximately 15,000 people. The new stadium construction started some time after that.

In 1983, the works on Estádio Kléber Andrade were completed. The inaugural match was played on September 7 of that year, when Rio Branco beat Guarapari EC 3-2. The first goal of the stadium was scored by Rio Branco's Arildo Ratão.

The stadium's attendance record currently stands at 32,328, set on September 21, 1986 when Rio Branco beat Vasco da Gama in a match for the Brazilian championship 1-0. Some people say, that actually about 50,000 were in the stadium.

It was sold to the Espírito Santo State Government in 2008.

2014 World Cup
The stadium was used by the Cameroon national team to train before and during the 2014 World Cup.

2019 U-17 World Cup
It is used as one of the four venues of the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

References

Enciclopédia do Futebol Brasileiro, Volume 2 - Lance, Rio de Janeiro: Aretê Editorial S/A, 2001.

External links
Templos do Futebol
Rio Branco's Official Website

Kleber Andrade
Rio Branco Atlético Clube
Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa

Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa (died 1461) was a 15th-century Sufi of the Naqshbandi order from the city of Balkh.

References

Sources 
 

Akbarian Sufis
People from Balkh
Naqshbandi order
1461 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Baba Hatim Ziyarat

BĀBĀ ḤĀTEM or locally known as the mausoleum of Baba Hatim was built in the 11th and 12th centuries. It lies outside Imam Sahib in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, a town bordering Tajikistan.

Restoration 
The mausoleum was restored between 1978 and 1979 by the Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan and l'Institut Afghan d'Archéologie. Prior to the restorations, the tomb was structurally unstable, with layers of bricks missing from the exterior's upper walls. Excavating the walls to reveal their original height, the restoration team replaced the missing bricks, restoring the exterior's original cubical shape and the four octagonal colonettes embedded at its corners. The dome was reassembled with new mortar, and refinished on the exterior with plaster and pairs of bricks protruding in four concentric rings. The dome's circular and octagonal drums were also reconstructed, and a metal finial placed atop it.

Other names 
The Baba Hatim Tomb is also known as Baba Hatem Ziyarat, Baba Hatom Ziarat, and Tomb of Salar Khalil (Salar Kalil, Salar Chalil Sayyid).

References

Bibliography
iranica.com 
Emam Sahib - Baba Hatim Tomb 

Ziyarat
Dargahs
Shrines in Afghanistan
Complement fixation test

The complement fixation test is an immunological medical test that can be used to detect the presence of either specific antibody or specific antigen in a patient's serum, based on whether complement fixation occurs. It was widely used to diagnose infections, particularly with microbes that are not easily detected by culture methods, and in rheumatic diseases. However, in clinical diagnostics labs it has been largely superseded by other serological methods such as ELISA and by DNA-based methods of pathogen detection, particularly PCR.

Process
The complement system is a system of serum proteins that react with antigen-antibody complexes. If this reaction occurs on a cell surface, it will result in the formation of trans-membrane pores and therefore destruction of the cell.  The basic steps of a complement fixation test are as follows:

 Serum is separated from the patient.
 Patients naturally have different levels of complement proteins in their serum.  To negate any effects this might have on the test, the complement proteins in the patient's serum must be destroyed and replaced by a known amount of standardized complement proteins.
 The serum is heated in such a way that all of the complement proteins—but none of the antibodies—within it are destroyed. (This is possible because complement proteins are much more susceptible to destruction by heat than antibodies.)
 A known amount of standard complement proteins are added to the serum.  (These proteins are frequently obtained from guinea pig serum.)
 The antigen of interest is added to the serum.
 Sheep red blood cells () which have been pre-bound to anti- antibodies are added to the serum.  The test is considered negative if the solution turns pink at this point and positive otherwise.

If the patient's serum contains antibodies against the antigen of interest, they will bind to the antigen in step 3 to form antigen-antibody complexes.  The complement proteins will react with these complexes and be depleted.  Thus when the -antibody complexes are added in step 4, there will be no complement left in the serum.  However, if no antibodies against the antigen of interest are present, the complement will not be depleted and it will react with the -antibody complexes added in step 4, lysing the  and spilling their contents into the solution, thereby turning the solution pink.

Testing for antigen
While detection of antibodies is the most common test format, it is equally possible to test for the presence of antigen. In this case, the patient's serum is supplemented with specific antibody to induce formation of complexes; addition of complement and indicator  is performed as before.

Semi-quantitative testing
The test can be made quantitative by setting up a series of dilutions of patient serum and determining the highest dilution factor that will still yield a positive CF test. This dilution factor corresponds to the titer.

References

External links
 

Blood tests
Immunologic tests
WEFM (FM)

WEFM (95.9 MHz) is an FM radio station in Michigan City, Indiana, east of the Chicago metropolitan area. It is a member of the Indianapolis Colts affiliates radio network, and the flagship station of the Gary SouthShore RailCats.

References

External links
Official Facebook page

EFM
Michigan City, Indiana
Mainstream adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Easy listening radio stations
Jazz radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1966
1966 establishments in Indiana
96WEFM

96WEFM is an FM radio station broadcasting on 96.1 MHz in the country of Trinidad and Tobago. The commercial radio station is privately owned by Trinidad and Tobago Radio Network Limited and began broadcasting on December 16, 1993.

The radio station's format is based on Urban Caribbean (soca, dancehall), R&B and hip-hop music, and seeks an audience bases of youth and teenagers.

DJ groups from WEFM have revolutionized the art of DJing in the country, with present and former DJs such as Rodney King, Ishmael, Dawg E. Slaughter & X-Caliber, Hoppy (Hypa-Hoppa) of RadioActive, Shal Marshall & Barry Perryman (Jugglers Sound), Akil and associate degree, Tweez, Arelon the ArtMan, Trevlyn and Umba D' Sheppard.

Additionally, morning show hosts Paul Richards and Nicky Crosby and Rachel Price and Tweez - The price is right are renowned for their quick wit, sense of humor and their level of fairness towards all issues. One of the nations highest-rated radio time slots belongs to Stephenson "Shal" Marshall.

News 
The radio station provides news, through Newsfeed bulletins throughout the weekday. Along with STAR 947 and 107.7 FM Music For Life, short news summaries are provided roughly hourly on the half-hour during the daytime hours.

See also
Radio in Trinidad and Tobago
Slam 100.5

External links
WEFM's Website

Radio stations in Trinidad and Tobago
Reggae, soca and calypso radio stations
Radio stations established in 1993
1993 establishments in Trinidad and Tobago
Music organisations based in Trinidad and Tobago
Araq Tomb

The Araq Tomb is a tomb located in al-Mayadani al-Wastani district of Damascus, Syria. It was built by governor Araq bin Abdullah al-Salahdar. It is dedicated to the holy man Suhayb ar-Rumi.

References 
Ziyarat
Mausoleums in Syria
Gawis cranium

The Gawis cranium is a portion of a fossil hominin skull discovered on February 16, 2006 near the drainage of Gawis, a tributary of the Awash River in the Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Despite the presence of volcanic ash layers that are key to dating, the cranium is only generally dated between 200,000 and 500,000 years ago due to taphonomic issues. 

The 2006 discovery was reported by Sileshi Semaw, director of the Gona Project, which is based at the Stone Age Institute and Indiana University Bloomington's CRAFT research center.

Discovery and significance

The hominin skull was discovered by Asahmed Humet, a member of the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project; he found the recently resurfaced fossil in a small erosion gully that empties into the Gawis river drainage basin in the Afar Region, some 300 miles northeast of Addis Ababa. The skull is a nearly complete cranium of what is believed to be a Middle Pleistocene human ancestor. While different from a modern human, the braincase, upper face and jaw of the cranium have unmistakable anatomical evidence that belong to human ancestry. The discovery was reported by Sileshi Semaw, director of the Gona Project at the Stone Age Institute. Semaw noted the skull fossil could be a transitional form that fills a gap in human evolutionary origins.  He described its appearance as intermediate between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens.

Significant archaeological collections of stone tools and numerous fossil animal specimens were also found at the site. 

Gawis is in the Gona Research Project study area situated in the Awash River Valley. Immediately to the east of Gona, also located along the Awash and one of its tributaries is the site of Hadar, where in 1974 U.S. scientist Donald Johanson found the 3.2-million-year-old remains of an Australopithecus afarensis, known as Lucy. The Middle Awash project, site of many other hominin discoveries, is to the south.

In addition to the Gawis cranium, the Gona project area has yielded some of the world's oldest stone tools (2.6 million years old), as well as fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus—hominid, and debated as whether or not hominin—dated to approximately 4.5 million years ago.

See also
 Human evolution
 List of fossil sites (with link directory)
 List of hominini (hominin) fossils (with images)

References

External links
 Stone Age Institute

 CNN article reporting the discovery
 Indiana University press release

Archaeological sites in Ethiopia
Homo fossils
Archaeology of Eastern Africa
Pro Golf Tour

The Pro Golf Tour, formerly the EPD Tour (European Professional Development Tour), is a developmental professional golf tour based in Germany. It is a third-level tour, the highest level of men's golf in Europe being the European Tour, and the second level being the Challenge Tour. The other third-level tours in Europe are the United Kingdom-based PGA EuroPro Tour, the Alps Tour, which is sanctioned by the national golf unions of several countries, including France and Italy, and the Nordic Golf League in the Nordic countries. Beginning in July 2015, the four third-level tours carry Official World Golf Ranking points.

The EPD Tour was established by Canadian golf professional Wayne Hachey in 1997 and has been recognised as an official third level tour by the PGA European Tour since 2001. In 2005 the PGA of Germany took over the EPD Tour.

The top ten players on the Order of Merit are awarded a bypass to the second stage of European Tour Qualifying School. The five leading players earn an additional perk with status on the second-tier Challenge Tour.

EPD Tour alumni include major winner Martin Kaymer, as well as Tobias Dier and Marcel Siem, who have both won on the European Tour.

Order of Merit winners

Notes

References

External links

Professional golf tours
Golf in Germany
Progress Publishers

Progress Publishers was a Moscow-based Soviet publisher founded in 1931.

Publishing program
Progress Publishers published books in a variety of languages: Russian, English, and many other European and Asian languages. They issued many scientific books, books on arts, political books (especially on Marxism–Leninism), classic books, children's literature, novels and short fiction, books in source languages for people studying foreign languages, guidebooks and photographic albums.

Progress Publishers joined with International Publishers in New York and the Communist Party of Great Britain's publishing house, Lawrence and Wishart, in London to publish the 50-volume Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, a project launched in 1975 and completed only in 2004.

Other books published in English by Progress included Marx and Engels on the United States (1979), a compilation drawn from letters, articles, and various other works, and A Short History of the USSR (1984).

One of the common features of all Progress books was their "request to reader" to send an opinion and suggestions on the book. It reads:

Book series
 ABC of Social and Political Knowledge
 Books About the USSR
 Classics of Russian Literature 
 Current International Problems
 Imperialism: Acts, Facts, and Records
 Impressions of the USSR 
 International Communist and Working-Class Movement
 V. I. Lenin: Collected Works 
 Library of Political Knowledge
 Library of Soviet Literature
 Man Through the Ages
 Modern Working-Class Novels Series
 On the Track of Discovery
 Progress Books about the USSR
 Progress Guides to the Social Sciences  
 Progress Marxist-Leninist Theory
 Progress Military Series
 Progress Problems of the Third World (also known as: Problems of the Third World)
 Progress Russian Classics Series (also known as: Russian Classics Series) 
 Progress Soviet Authors Library 
 Russian Readers for Beginners
 Scientific Socialism Series   
 Socialism Today
 Soviet Foreign Policy and International Relations
 Soviet Literature for Young People
 Soviet Military Thought Series
 Soviet Novels Series
 Soviet Short Stories Series
 Stormy Petrel Series
 Student's Library
 Theories and Critical Studies
 War Memoirs

See also

 International Publishers
 Lawrence and Wishart

References

Further reading
 Vijay Prashad, ed., When the East Was Read: Socialist Culture in the Third World, New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2019.

External links
 Progress Publishers, Moscow - official website
 Rossen Djagalov, Progress Publishers: A Short History, at leftword.org

Political book publishing companies
Publishing companies of the Soviet Union
Book publishing companies of Russia
Publishing companies established in 1931
1931 establishments in the Soviet Union
Defunct book publishing companies
Companies based in Moscow
English language in Russia
Bab al-Hadid

Bab al-Hadid () meaning the Iron Gate of Victory, is one of the nine historical gates of the Ancient City of Aleppo, Syria. It is one of the well-preserved gates of old Aleppo.

History
The gate was planned during the reign of Az-Zahir Ghazi and built by his son Mohammed as Bab al-Qanat (the Aqueduct Gate). It was rebuilt by the final Mamluk sultan Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri in 1509. 

The gate and surrounding quarters of the old city are some of the best preserved areas in the old city of Aleppo. It was historically known for its blacksmiths and to this day, there are some operating with the same traditional practices, most of whom have had the trade in their family for many generations.

Restoration of the damaged gate began in September 2020 and was completed in 2021.

References

External links
 Damage to Bab al-Hadid during the Syrian Civil War, documented on the Facebook page of Le patrimoine archéologique syrien en danger الآثار السورية في خطر

Hadid
PRO Group

PRO Group, Inc. was a retailers' cooperative and distributors' cooperative. It was based in Denver, Colorado, and was founded in 1953.

The company's retail formats included:
 PRO Hardware
 Farm Mart
 GardenMaster

It formerly had a division: National Paint Distributors, but that was disbanded.

On April 1, 2022, PRO Group merged with Distribution America to form Hardlines Distribution Alliance (HDA).

Competitors 
 Val-Test Distributors
 Reliable Distributors
 Associated Building Materials Distributors

References 

 Focus on independence turns to Pro Group: Brief Article Home Channel News, Feb 5, 2001 by Scott Larson

External links 
 Pro Hardware website

American companies established in 1953
Retail companies established in 1953
Hardware stores of the United States
Companies based in Denver
Retailers' cooperatives in the United States
String bog

A string bog or string mire is a bog consisting of slightly elevated ridges and islands, with woody plants, alternating with flat, wet sedge mat areas. String bogs occur on slightly sloping surfaces, with the ridges at right angles to the direction of water flow. They are an example of patterned vegetation.  

String bogs are also known as aapa moors or aapa mires (from Finnish aapasuo) or Strangmoor (from the German). 

A string bog has a pattern of narrow (2–3m wide), low (less than 1m high) ridges oriented at right angles to the direction of drainage with wet depressions or pools occurring between the ridges. The water and peat are very low in nutrients because the water has been derived from other ombrotrophic wetlands, which receive all of their water and nutrients from precipitation, rather than from streams or springs. The peat thickness is greater than 1m.

String bogs are features associated with periglacial climates, where the temperature results in long periods of subzero temperatures. The active layer exists as frozen ground for long periods and melts in the spring thaw. Slow melting results in characteristic mass movement processes and features  associated with specific periglacial environments.

See also

 Blanket bog
 Flark
 Marsh

References

 Canadian Soil Information Service - Local Surface Forms (checked 2014-10-18)
 
 

 String bog
Ecology

de:Regenmoor#Aapamoore
Robert Barney Dallenbach

Robert Barney Dallenbach (born August 6, 1927) is a bishop in the Pillar of Fire International.  He also was the church's fifth general superintendent until losing a vote of confidence at the 2008  Pillar of Fire annual camp meeting convention. He also served as a director for the North Metro Arts Alliance in Colorado. He was the author of seven books.

Biography
He was born on August 6, 1927, and is the brother of CART driver Wally Dallenbach Sr.

He pastored at the Alma Temple in Westminster, Colorado, and he served as president of Belleview College and was the general manager of Christian radio AM 910, KPOF.

He married Pauline White (1927-2019) in 1949. They have two children: Alma Beth Walker, and Joel. Pauline is the daughter of Arthur Kent White, and the granddaughter of Alma Bridwell White, the founder of the church.

Dallenbach succeeded Donald Justin Wolfram when he retired in the summer of 2000.

References

Pillar of Fire International
Living people
1927 births
Alma White College alumni
Junkers Come Here

is a series of novels about Junkers (pronounced Yoon-kers), a miniature schnauzer,  language-speaking dog, written by Japanese musician Naoto Kine as a member of TM Network since 1990.

Media

Anime
An anime movie about a girl, Hiromi Nozawa, directed by Junichi Sato of Sailor Moon fame and shown in small chunks on Japanese TV before being released theatrically. The original author, kine also performed the film's opening song and acted in the film as Shintaro, Hiromi's father.  The late Kazuo Komatsubara also worked on the film as a character designer and animation director. It won Best Animation Film at the 1995 Mainichi Film Awards.

Hiromi appears on the outside to be a mature, resilient girl, but on the inside she feels like she's falling apart.  She hardly sees her parents at all, as they are always busy with work.  Then she learns that her parents are considering a divorce and she may have to make the heartrending choice of deciding which parent to live with.  On top of that, Hiromi's tutor, Keisuke (on whom Hiromi has a crush), is getting married, and Hiromi fears that she soon will be completely alone.  She finds herself comforted by Junkers, an unusual dog with the ability to speak and grant her three wishes.

Cast 
Japanese voice actor
Mei Oshitani as Hiromi Nozawa
Shinnosuke Furumoto as Junkers
Daisuke Sugata as Atsushi
Hiroko Takahashi as School Crossing Warden
Kappei Yamaguchi as Passenger
Katsunari Mineno as Keisuke Kimura 
Keiko Nakajima as Fumie Morita 
Mayumi Iizuka as Kazuko
Misako Konno as Suzuko Nozawa 
Mitsuaki Madono as Waiter
Momoko Ishi as Chie Harada
Naoto Kine as Shintaro Nozawa 
Sakiko Tamagawa as Yoko Inoue 
Toshihiko Nakajima as Photographer
Yuki Sato as Baby
Yuta Yamazaki as Hiroshi
Yuya Tejima as Takashi
English dubbing actor
Brittney Wilson as Hiromi Nozawa
Sanders Whiting as Junkers
Brad Swaile as Keisuke Kimura
Chantal Strand as Kazuko
Danny McKinnon as Takashi
Ellen Kennedy as Fumie Morita
Farell Spence as School Crossing Warden
Jordan Kilik as Atsushi
Lisa Ann Beley as Suzuko Nozawa
Moneca Stori as Yoko Inoue
Reece Thompson as Hiroshi
Sean Campbell as Shintaro Nozawa
Sylvia Zaradic as Chie Hirada
Trevor Devall as Photographer

Music 
Opening ThemeReal You, Another You, by Naoto Kine
Ending ThemeWinter Comes Around, by Akiko Hioki

References

External links
 

1994 anime films
1994 films
Anime with original screenplays
Bandai Entertainment anime titles
Drama anime and manga
Fictional dogs
1990s Japanese-language films
Japanese animated films
Hiwou War Chronicles

is an anime series, and the first to be produced by Bones. The series was first aired on NHK BS-2 and ran for twenty six episodes, from October 24, 2000, till May 1, 2001. Created by Shō Aikawa and directed by Tetsurō Amino, the series' character designer and chief animation director was the late Hiroshi Ōsaka.

The series was subsequently aired by the anime television network Animax, who also aired it across its English language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Story
The series is set within the Meiji period of Japan, following a small boy named Hiwou. The townspeople have lived simply, making "Clockwork Dolls" or "karakuri" for festivals. Hiwou's father left the family on a long trip, and their mother has since died.  The children live with friends.

Their simple life vanishes when the "Wind Gang" appears, destroys the city with their own clockwork dolls, and captures its citizens. Hiwō and his siblings and friends, Shishi, Machi, Tetsu, Mayu, Sai, and baby Jyobu (who are exploring a cave at the time), escape unharmed and embark on a quest to save the town.  They take with them Homura, a huge clockwork doll that functions like a giant robot.

Along the way, they are forced to use their clockwork dolls as weapons - something they were never supposed to do, according to Hiwō's father. Early in the series, they meet Arashi, a member of the Wind Gang, and Hana and Yuki, two samurai daughters who ended up traveling with the group.

Hiwō and his friends encounter a number of historical figures, before these people entered the history books during the Meiji Restoration.

Production

Staff
Director: Tetsuro Amino
Music: Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Original creator: Shō Aikawa
Character Design: Hajime Jinguji, Hiroshi Osaka
Art director: Nobuto Sakamoto
Mecha design: Junya Ishigaki
Director of Photography: Youichi Ōgami
Color Coordination: Kenji Chiba
Historical Verification: Tetsunori Iwashita
Main Animation Director: Hiroshi Osaka
Sound director: Yasuo Uragami
Animation Production: BONES

Cast
Houko Kuwashima as Hiwō
Kaori Mizuhashi as Machi
Rikako Aikawa as Shishi
Akiko Yajima as Mayu
Haruna Ikezawa as Hana
Omi Minami as Yuki
Kazuhiko Inoue as Ryōma Sakamoto
Nobuo Tobita as Sai
Shinasichiro Miki as Arashi
Yoko Teppouzuka as Tetsu
Yuko Mizutani as Alexander
Yūji Takada as Aka
Masako Ebisu as Narrator
Chisato Nakajima as Child (ep 2)
Yukimasa Kishino as Gennosuke (ep 6)

Music

Opening theme
Hiwou no Theme by Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Ending theme
CROSSROAD by Kumiko Endō

References

External links
Official site
 

1999 manga
2000 anime television series debuts
Bandai Entertainment anime titles
Bones (studio)
Kodansha manga
NHK original programming
Films with screenplays by Shō Aikawa
Seinen manga
Manager (Mac OS)

A Manager was any of a set of specialized components of the classic Mac OS operating system, including those that comprised the Macintosh Toolbox. Each of these Managers was responsible for handling system calls from applications running on the Macintosh, and could be built into the ROM or be loaded into RAM by the system.

Many of these Managers and their functions have been ported to or re-implemented in the Carbon application frameworks. Some of the Managers included in various versions of the Mac OS include:

 Code Fragment Manager (CFM)
 Component Manager
 Data Access Manager
 Edition Manager; used by the ‘Publish and Subscribe’ feature
 File Manager
 Mixed-Mode Manager
 Resource Manager
 Scrap Manager
 Sound Manager
 Speech Manager
 Window Manager

References

Macintosh operating systems development
Wilderness State Park

Wilderness State Park is a public recreation area bordering Lake Michigan, five miles southwest of   Mackinaw City in Emmet County in Northern Michigan.  The state park's  include  of shoreline, diverse forested dune and swale complexes, wetlands, camping areas, and many miles of hiking trails. The state park is operated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, which has, as of 2006, approved a proposal that  be officially dedicated as a wilderness area. Wilderness State Park was designated a Michigan "dark sky preserve" in 2012.

Description

One of the most prominent physical features of the park is Waugoshance Point, which juts westward into northern Lake Michigan. Beyond the tip of the point, Temperance Island and Waugoshance Island are also parts of the state park. Four Lake Michigan lighthouses sit near the park's western boundary. Stations at Grays Reef, Skillagalee Island, Waugoshance, and White Shoal warn shipping away from the dangerous reefs and shoals of Waugoshance Point.

History
The state began acquiring the park's lands in 1896 through purchase and tax reversion proceedings. After the reversion of additional acreage for tax nonpayment in the early years of the twentieth century, the site became the Emmet State Game Refuge in 1922, with the land set aside for the breeding of game birds and other animals. When the game reserve was placed under the administration of the Parks Division in 1927, it officially became Wilderness State Park.

The Civilian Conservation Corps was active in the park for six years during the 1930s. The corps' workers built various structures, eight miles of trails, a public campground, and four-acre Goose Pond.

Wildlife
The park supports populations of many animals that are part of the traditional image of the northern Great Lakes ecosystem, including American black bear, snowshoe hare, beaver, porcupines, bobcats, mink, muskrats, and otter. The park's cobble beach areas provide an excellent habitat for the federally endangered piping plover. As of 2002, approximately one-third of Michigan's nesting pairs of piping plovers were found in Wilderness State Park. One of the first sightings of wolves in the Lower Peninsula was reported along the park's shoreline by a Coast Guard pilot in 1997. In 2015, MDNR officials confirmed the presence of wolves in the Lower Peninsula.

Activities and amenities

The state park offers swimming, picnicking, boat launch, fishing, a 250-site campground and cabins. The state park contains  of trails for hiking, mountain biking, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling, that include a  section of the North Country Trail.

References

External links

Wilderness State Park Map Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Wilderness State Park Michigan Department of Natural Resources

State parks of Michigan
Protected areas of Emmet County, Michigan
Protected areas established in 1922
1922 establishments in Michigan
Important Bird Areas of Michigan
Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan
Delores Wells

Delores Marie Wells (October 17, 1937 – February 9, 2016) was an American model and actress.  She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1960 issue and was one the cover models in January 1961.

Early life 
Wells was from Reading, Pennsylvania, and grew up with an interest in science fiction and becoming a movie star.

Career
According to The Playmate Book, Wells was paid $500 for her Playmate pictorial, along with $100 a month during her two-year exclusivity contract with Playboy. She was Playmate of the Month for June 1960. Wells was working as a dancer in the chorus of Chicago nightclub Chez Paree when she was scouted for Playboy.

Wells had a short acting career in the 1960s, episodically appearing in small parts in B-movies and television series. She preferred comedic roles and aspired to be like Lucille Ball, appearing in three of the 'beach party' movies. More steadily she was a Playboy Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club, where she made $1000 a week. After her career at Playboy she worked as a makeup artist for Alice Cooper and in the business office of the Oakland Raiders. She worked briefly as secretary to Linda Lovelace.

Wells died in Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 78.

Filmography
 87th Precinct - "My Friend, My Enemy" (1961) .... Clerk
 The Bob Cummings Show - "Roamin' Holiday" (1961)
 Thriller - "'Til Death Do Us Part" (1962) .... Flo
 Beach Party (1963) .... Sue
 Burke's Law - "Who Killed Alex Debbs?" (1963) .... Dream Girl
 The Time Travelers (1964) .... Reena (Danny's love interest)
 Bikini Beach (1964) .... Sniffles
 Muscle Beach Party (1964) .... Sniffles
 Banning (1967) .... Girl at Pool
 A Guide for the Married Man (1967) .... Very Attractive Woman

See also
 List of people in Playboy 1960–1969

References

External links
 
 

1937 births
2016 deaths
Actors from Reading, Pennsylvania
1960s Playboy Playmates
Manifesto Games

Manifesto Games was an ecommerce retailer of downloadable computer games, specializing in independently developed games aimed at hardcore gamers.
It was founded in October 2005 by Greg Costikyan and Johnny L. Wilson, former editor of Computer Gaming World, and is based in New York City.
The company was announced September 29, 2005.
Costikyan was the company's CEO while Wilson was executive vice president for community and content. On June 23, 2009, Costikyan announced that Manifesto was closing its doors, citing the 2008-2009 economic downturn, a lack of venture capital, and problems successfully marketing the company as a destination for independent games.

According to Manifesto Games' manifesto,
the company aims to avoid the narrowness of conventional retail channels by selling a large number of games (taking advantage of The Long Tail), and allow developers to experiment technically and artistically. An example of Manifesto Games' willingness to take risks is its support of Super Columbine Massacre RPG!.

The Manifesto Games website was originally designed in ironic imitation of the Soviet Union in its early years; some of its content still reflects this choice.

Play This Thing
Initially, Manifesto Games also provided reviews of indie games, including games it does not sell, and discussion forums. In September 2007, Manifesto Games created a new game review website, Play This Thing.
A team of reviewers including Greg Costikyan and Emily Short posted one review per day at the website, covering independent, alternative reality and 'big urban' games, interactive fiction, and mods. Most of the games reviewed had no relation to Manifesto Games. The site carried reviews of non-computer games on "Tabletop Tuesdays". The site was shut down in 2014.

References

External links
ManifestoGames.com

Video game companies of the United States
Online-only retailers of video games
Video game companies established in 2005
Companies based in New York City
Bassignana

Bassignana (in Piedmontese dialect Bassgnan-na) is a municipality in the Province of Alessandria, Piedmont, northern Italy. The village is situated near the confluence of the Po River and the Tanaro river.

Main sights include remains of the castle, dating to Lombard times, and a Romanesque pieve (10th century) with 12th century Byzantine frescoes.

History

The first inhabitants of whom there is written news belonged to the Ligurian tribe of the Marici: they had crossed the Pennine in the postglacial era and had settled south of the Po river, in the area between Stradella and Casale Monferrato. Such people were closely linked to that of the Levi, who had settled further north: the founding of Ticinum, the modern Pavia, is attributed to the Levi and to the Marici. Some toponomastic traces of that period exist in the area: Bosco Marengo stems from Lucus Maricum and Pietra Marazzi from Petra Maricorum or Mariciorum.

In the 6th century BC the Po valley was occupied by Celtic peoples coming from the north and realistically also Bassignana had contacts and compenetrations with these peoples. In 222 BC the Roman commanders Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Gneus Cornelius Scipio conquered the whole area, which conquest was strengthened by the defeat of the Ligures in 166 BC under the  consulate of Gaius Sulpicius Gallus. The toponym of the municipality dates back to that era, coming from the Roman family to whom ownership of the territory was attributed, the gens Bassinia.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the  barbaric incursions, Bassignana was first under the rule of the Lombards, then under that of the Franks. In the 10th century, the emperor Otto II attributed Bassignana to the jurisdiction of the bishop of Pavia, Pietro, a jurisdiction relating to the Pieve (plebs) and to the assets connected thereto.  At the beginning of the 13th century the area was placed - still following the Emperor's order - under the jurisdiction of the Margrave Pallavicino, already podestà of Alessandria.

In 1350 it became part of the Duchy of Milan. After the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), it was assigned to the House of Savoy-Piedmont.

Many of its inhabitants emigrated to Memphis, in the United States, at the start of the 20th century.

References

Cities and towns in Piedmont
Urban town

An urban town is a proposed classification for towns in the state of Wisconsin, similar to the urban townships of Minnesota and Ohio.  The concept, originally proposed in 2001, as AB501, limited the classification to towns with over 7,500 people.  The proposal has gained support from such organizations as the Wisconsin Towns Association. The impetus that originally spawned the concept of urban towns was an effort to stem annexation of urbanized areas in unincorporated area by cities and villages across county lines.  Obtaining "urban town" status effectively freezes the town's boundaries.  While urban towns would have substantially greater zoning and regulatory rights than "rural towns", the status would not confer "incorporated" status on the municipality, freeing them from several responsibilities incumbent upon incorporated municipal governments, thus distinguishing them from the incorporated towns of Illinois.

In the time since the idea was originally proposed, many of the towns that would have been affected have since incorporated, but 2004 population estimates indicate that a number of towns that would have been ineligible in 2001, now are.  As of March 2007, the eligible include:

Delafield (town), Wisconsin (Waukesha County)
Genesee, Wisconsin (Waukesha County)
Grand Chute, Wisconsin (Outagamie County)
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin (Wood County)
Greenville, Wisconsin (Outagamie County)
Harrison, Calumet County, Wisconsin
Lisbon, Waukesha County, Wisconsin
Menasha (town), Wisconsin (Winnebago County)
Merton (town), Wisconsin (Waukesha County)
Norway, Wisconsin (Racine County)
Oconomowoc (town), Wisconsin (Waukesha County)
Rib Mountain, Wisconsin (Marathon County)
Salem, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Somers, Wisconsin (Kenosha County)
Springfield, Dane County, Wisconsin
Waukesha (town), Wisconsin (Waukesha County)

If current trends continue, over a dozen other towns will fit the population requirements by the 2010 census.

Notes

 Urban
Types of administrative division
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (video game)

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (also known as Ice Age 2 in Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS versions) is a 2006 video game published by Vivendi Universal Games. It is based on the film of the same name. Unlike its Game Boy Advance-exclusive predecessor, Ice Age, Meltdown was a multiplatform release, available on Microsoft Windows, all major sixth-generation platforms and both seventh-generation Nintendo platforms, with the Wii port being a launch title in Europe.

Gameplay

In the console versions, the player takes control of Scrat throughout the game and help guide him through each level, the player must also collect acorns and nuts and get to the end of the levels. Several animals would also help Scrat throughout his adventure, he would occasionally ally himself with some of the main characters throughout the game, the player will also occasionally take control as either Manny, Sid, or Diego in several bonus stages.

In the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS versions, the player takes control of Sid, Manny and Diego as they help them try to escape the flood by guiding them through six puzzle levels. The player also has to help Scrat get loads of acorns in the special "Scrat Rush" levels.

Plot

Based on the film of the same name, the game generally follows the protagonist, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and his friends and family as they seek to survive the upcoming flood of the valley. The game also centers around Scrat, who undergoes a series of misadventures to retrieve his acorn.

Reception

The game received "mixed or average" reviews from critics. Metacritic gave the Wii version of the game a mixed or average score of 66 out of 100, based on nine reviews. The PlayStation 2 version received a score of 68 out of 100, based on nineteen reviews. The GameCube version received a score of 67 out of 100, based on nine reviews. The Xbox version received a score of 68 out of 100, based on sixteen reviews.

GameSpot gave the Wii version a 7 out of 10 saying that the game is a fun engaging platformer that ought to appeal to multiple audiences but criticizing it for its brevity saying that it takes no more than a few hours to complete, while the GameCube and Xbox versions received a 7.3 out of 10, writing, "A kid-friendly platformer with more heart than your average film-to-game marketing tie-in, Ice Age 2 can be quite fun—for as long as it lasts".

Notes

References

External links

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown at Eurocom

2006 video games
Sierra Entertainment games
Wii games
GameCube games
Windows games
Xbox games
PlayStation 2 games
Game Boy Advance games
Minigame compilations
Nintendo DS games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Ice Age (franchise) games
Blue Sky Studios video games
Eurocom games
Single-player video games
Platformers
Action-adventure games
Video games scored by Jim Croft
Video games developed in the United States
Amaze Entertainment games
3D platform games
Vivendi Games games
Olive Ann Burns

Olive Ann Burns (July 17, 1924 – July 4, 1990) was an American writer from Georgia best known for her single completed novel, Cold Sassy Tree, published in 1984.

Background
Olive Ann Burns was born in Banks County, Georgia.  Her father was a farmer but was forced to sell his farm in 1931 during the Great Depression.  The Burns family then moved to Commerce, Georgia. Burns attended Mercer University, where she wrote for the college magazine.  Her sophomore year she transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in journalism.

Career
Burns worked for the Atlanta Journal and wrote under the pseudonym "Amy Larkin".  She married Andy Sparks, a fellow journalist.  In 1971 Burns began writing down family stories as dictated by her parents.  In 1975 she was diagnosed with lymphoma and began to change the family stories into a novel that would later become Cold Sassy Tree.  The novel was finally published eight years after it was begun, in 1984.  Burns received so many letters pleading for a follow-up novel that she began writing Leaving Cold Sassy.  Burns died of heart failure in 1990, at age 65, in a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, before finishing the manuscript, and the uncompleted novel was published in 1992 along with her notes.

References

Works
Cold Sassy Tree, published in 1984

External links
Olive Ann Burns , in The New Georgia Encyclopedia
Olive Ann Burns Collection at Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state)
UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media alumni
1924 births
1990 deaths
People from Banks County, Georgia
American women journalists
American women novelists
People from Commerce, Georgia
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American women writers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution people
20th-century American non-fiction writers
Pseudonymous women writers
Mercer University alumni
20th-century pseudonymous writers
The Gop

The Gop (, also known as Gop Cairn or Gop-y-Goleuni) is a neolithic monument lying within the Clwydian Range,  northwest of  Trelawnyd, in Flintshire, Wales. There is evidence that there was a considerable amount of stone on the top of hill, which may indicate that it was used as a look-out or hill fort.

Description
Oval in form, it is the second-largest neolithic mound in Britain after Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire. Excavations have discovered prehistoric remains both in the caves below and in the mound itself.

Excavations have uncovered no burial chambers or other underground works, which may indicate that it was used as a look-out or hill fort; there is evidence that there was a considerable amount of stone on the top of hill. In the 17th century, its prominent position allowed a beacon to be placed there.

The mound lies on top of Gop Hill (823 feet), a natural limestone outcrop, in the side of which are the Gop Caves.

References

The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map
https://allowflowbe.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=389&action=edit

External links
Photograph of the mound with the entrance to Gop Cave in the foreground

Archaeological sites in Flintshire
Scheduled monuments in Flintshire
Mountains and hills of Flintshire
Prehistoric sites in Wales
Mounds
Joseph Fry

Joseph Fry(e) may refer to:

Joseph Storrs Fry (1769–1835), owner of a chocolate factory
Joseph Storrs Fry II (1826–1913), grandson of the first Joseph Storrs Fry
Joseph Fry (tea merchant) (1777–1861), tea dealer and banker, husband of Elizabeth Fry, the prison reformer, cousin of Joseph Storrs Fry
Joseph Fry (type-founder) (1728–1787), Bristol businessman, father of Joseph Storrs Fry
Joseph Fry Jr. (1781–1860), US Representative from Pennsylvania
Joe Fry (1915–1950), racing driver
Joseph Frye (1712–1794), American military leader during the Revolutionary War
 Joseph Frye, designer and proponent of Fort Frye in the Ohio Country during the Northwest Indian War
Yvette Wilson

Yvette Reneé Wilson (March 6, 1964 – June 14, 2012) was an American comedian and actress. She was known for her role as Andell Wilkerson, the shopkeeper of the local hangout on the UPN sitcoms Moesha (1996–2001); and restaurant owner and Nikki's (played by Mo'Nique) best friend on its spinoff The Parkers (1999–2004). She had appeared in many comedy films such as House Party 3, Friday, and on Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam. She was also known for her role as Rita in the 1995 F. Gary Gray film Friday. Wilson died from cervical cancer at the age of 48.

Early life
Before she started her career in the entertainment business, Wilson attended San Jose State University and majored in communications.  In 1991 she was a contestant on the game show Supermarket Sweep.

Wilson first entered comedy when she lost a bet and had to perform as a stand-up comedian at a friend's club. She decided to make a living off comedy and never turned back.

Career
Her big break came with Thea, a short-lived sitcom from 1993 to 1994. Thea was cancelled after 19 episodes but the show helped her get a role in House Party 3. In addition, Wilson also had a minor role in the 1995 comedy movie Friday as Smokey's blind date and appeared in films such as Poetic Justice, starring Janet Jackson, and the film parody Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood.

In 1995, she got the most important role of her career: Andell Wilkerson, a supporting character on the sitcom Moesha, which starred one of her castmates from Thea, R&B singer Brandy Norwood. Wilson's Andell character was the owner of The Den, a local teen hot spot on the show. In 2000, she left Moesha for its spin-off The Parkers, where she also played Andell Wilkerson,  who was the best friend of Mo'Nique's character Nikki Parker. After The Parkers ended, she went on to appear in shows like HBO's Def Comedy Jam and Fox Network shows. Wilson final acting role was in 2005's Ganked. She started her own company by the name Tigobitties Inc.

Personal life and death
Wilson was married to record producer Jerome Harry from 2001 until her death in 2012. Wilson suffered from kidney disease, having survived a kidney transplant and regular dialysis, but eventually lost a battle with cervical cancer, which metastasized throughout her entire body. A friend, Jeffrey Pittle, created a website for people to donate money to help with her medical bills and help with transportation costs.

Wilson died on June 14, 2012, aged 48.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links
 

1964 births
2012 deaths
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
African-American actresses
African-American female comedians
American film actresses
American television actresses
Deaths from cancer in California
Deaths from cervical cancer
San Jose State University alumni
American women comedians
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Comedians from California
20th-century American comedians
21st-century American comedians
20th-century African-American women
21st-century African-American women
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Echo Hill Outdoor School

The Echo Hill Outdoor School was founded in 1972 by Peter P. Rice Jr. and is located near Betterton in Kent County on Maryland's Eastern Shore.  The School provides 1 to 5 day programs for children and adults from public and private schools throughout the Mid-Atlantic in experiential education and the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay and its surrounding ecosystems.

The school owns the Chesapeake Bay skipjack Elsworth, the oyster buyboat Annie D. and two work boats, the Spirit and Twilight for use in marine education programs.

Registered in Maryland as Echo Hill Outdoor School, Inc. since October 18, 1972, the school is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. It operates on a 70-acre campus of open fields and forest, at the edge of a 172-acre freshwater marsh, which the school also owns. The school's teachers use the surrounding outdoor environment as a classroom and laboratory for educational programs emphasizing environmental studies.

References

External links
 Echo Hill Outdoor School

Schools in Kent County, Maryland
Herrgårdsost

Herrgårdsost (Manorhouse cheese) is a semi-hard Swedish cheese made from cow's milk.  The aged cheese has a mild,  nutty and creamy  taste. The cheese has  small round holes and a waxed surface. Herrgårdsost is usually manufactured in wheels about  in diameter and  wide, weighing around .

Herrgårdsost began to be manufactured at Swedish manor houses in the 19th century. Herrgårdsost usually  starts as pasteurized part-skim milk. Bacterial starters are introduced including lactic acid bacteria, which acidify the milk, and propionic bacteria, which are responsible for producing the carbon dioxide that creates the holes. The soured milk is curdled with rennet and heated to no higher than . The whey is drained and the curd is pressed, forming a wheel,  which is then salted in brine. The cheese wheels are later coated in wax. They are aged in this state usually for at least three or four months, but often up to one or two years.

See also

References

Other sources
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Swedish cheeses
Cow's-milk cheeses