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Wine Research Centre

The Wine Research Centre at the University of British Columbia was established in 1999.

Background
Its mission is to conduct research in enology and viticulture and to prepare graduates with relevant scientific expertise and enterprise who will promote the technological advancement of the wine industry in Canada.

As of 2006, 28 scientists are conducting research into the molecular genetics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Vitis vinifera. Students learn experimental research design, genetic, biochemical and molecular technology, fermentation technology and viticulture.

An Advisory Board consisting of proprietors, winemakers, growers, representatives from the Liquor Distribution Branch, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre at Summerland and the British Columbia Wine Institute guide the activities of the Wine Research Centre.

See also
Canadian wine

Sources
Wine Research Centre

Research institutes established in 1999
Wine industry organizations
1999 establishments in British Columbia
Trochlea of humerus

In the human arm, the humeral trochlea is the medial portion of the articular surface of the elbow joint which articulates with the trochlear notch on the ulna in the forearm.

Structure
In humans and apes it is trochleariform (or trochleiform), as opposed to cylindrical in most monkeys and conical in some prosimians. It presents a deep depression between two well-marked borders; it is convex from before backward, concave from side to side, and occupies the anterior, lower, and posterior parts of the extremity.

The trochlea has the capitulum located on its lateral side and the medial epicondyle on its medial.  It is directly inferior to the coronoid fossa anteriorly and to the olecranon fossa posteriorly.  In humans, these two fossae, the most prominent in the humerus, are occasionally transformed into a hole, the supratrochlear foramen, which is regularly present in, for example, dogs.

Carrying angle
When viewed from in front or behind, the trochlea looks roughly cylindrical, but when viewed from below its true oblique shape and the spiralling nature of its groove become apparent.  The spiralling nature of the trochlear groove results in the varying transverse axes of the elbow joint.

Most frequently, the groove is vertical on the anterior side but runs down laterally on the posterior side.  During elbow flexion, the vertical anterior part of the trochlea keeps the upper arm and forearm aligned (when viewed in front). During elbow extension, however, the oblique posterior part makes contact with the trochlear notch on the ulna so that this obliquity forces the main axis of the forearm to form a small angle with that of the upper arm. This angle is known as the carrying angle and is more prominent in women than in men.

Less frequently, the anterior part is oblique too, but in the opposite direction of the posterior side. Consequently, during full elbow flexion, the hand tends to rest outside the shoulder. Very rarely, the anterior part is oblique in the opposite direction, resulting in the hand's resting on the chest during flexion.

Function

The elbow is a hinge joint with a rotatory component where the trochlea forms the convex, proximal surface which articulates with the concave, distal surface on the ulna, the trochlear notch.  While the trochlea together with its associated fossae almost covers a 360° angle, the trochlear notch on the ulna forms a 190° arc and the gap in between allows flexion and extension at the elbow.  Maximum elbow flexion and extension is made possible because the two fossae accommodates to coronoid and olecranon processes.

Ossification
While the ossification of the capitulum has started a year after birth, the ossification of the trochlea begins at 8–9 years of age; that of the head of radius and the medial epicondyle at 4–5 years and that of the lateral condyle at 10 years.

Additional images

References

External links
 

Bones of the upper limb
Humerus
Isotelus

Isotelus is a genus of asaphid trilobites from the middle and upper Ordovician period, fairly common in the Northeastern United States, northwest Manitoba, southwestern Quebec and southeastern Ontario. One species, Isotelus rex, is currently the world's largest trilobite ever found as a complete fossil, and was probably exceeded in size only by Hungioides bohemicus, in which the specimens probably exceeding Isotelus rex in size are only known from partial remains.

Discovery and naming
 
A specimen of Isotelus rex, from Churchill, Manitoba, is the largest complete trilobite ever found. Discovered by Dave Rudkin (Royal Ontario Museum), Robert Elias (University of Manitoba), Graham Young (Manitoba Museum) and Edward Dobrzanske (Manitoba Museum) in 1999, it measures  in length,  in maximum width (across the cephalon) and  in maximum height (at the posterior midpoint of the cephalon).

A number of species have been described:
I. aktchokensis Weber, 1948
I. bradleyi Amati, 2014
I. copenhagenensis Ross, Jr. & Shaw 1972
I. frognoensis Owen, 1981
I. gigas Dekay, 1824
I. harrisi Raymond, 1905 (synonym I. platymarginatus Raymond, 1910)
I. iowensis Owen, 1852
I. kimmswickensis Bradley, 1930
I. maximus Locke, 1838
I. megistos Locke, 1842
I. parvirugosus Chatterton & Ludvigsen, 1976
I. skapaneidos Amati, 2014
I. susae Whitfield, 1882
I. violaensis Amati, 2014
I. walcotti Walcott, 1918 (synonym I. planus De Mott, 1963)

Many specimens have also been found in Ohio, where Isotelus maximus is the state fossil.

References

Asaphida genera
Bromide Formation
Extinct animals of North America
Ordovician trilobites
Paleozoic life of Manitoba
Paleozoic life of Nunavut
Paleozoic life of Ontario
Verulam Formation
Paleozoic life of Quebec
Paleozoic life of the Northwest Territories
Symbols of Ohio
Ebola Syndrome

Ebola Syndrome (伊波拉病毒) is a 1996 Hong Kong Category III exploitation film starring Anthony Wong and directed by Herman Yau.

Plot
Ah Kai is a wanted convict from Hong Kong who escapes to South Africa after killing his former boss and his boss's wife. In South Africa, he works at a Chinese restaurant and one day travels with his boss to a South African tribe that is infected with the Ebola virus. 

Kai sees a dying infected tribe member and proceeds to rape and kills her, contracting the virus. Kai, however, is immune to the infection.  He becomes a living carrier, spreading the disease to others through body fluids. He ends up killing his new boss and his boss's wife, but not before spreading the virus to them.  He then cuts up their corpses and serves them as hamburgers in the restaurant, effectively spreading the virus all over South Africa through the people who ate human flesh. He then further spreads the virus when he flees back to Hong Kong, to all the people he has contact with.

Cast

Release
Ebola Syndrome was released in Hong Kong on 15 June 1996.

References

External links

1996 films
1996 comedy horror films
1990s Cantonese-language films
Films about Ebola
1990s exploitation films
Films set in Hong Kong
Films set in South Africa
Films about viral outbreaks
Films directed by Herman Yau
Crime horror films
Hong Kong comedy horror films
Hong Kong crime comedy films
Discotek Media
Hong Kong splatter films
1990s English-language films
1990s Hong Kong films
Films about cannibalism
Spherical harmonic lighting

Spherical harmonic (SH) lighting is a family of real-time rendering techniques that can produce highly realistic shading and shadowing with comparatively little overhead.  All SH lighting techniques involve replacing parts of standard lighting equations with spherical functions that have been projected into frequency space using the spherical harmonics as a basis. To take a simple example, a cube map used for environment mapping might be reduced to just nine SH coefficients if preserving high-frequency detail is not a concern. 

More intriguing techniques use SH to encode multiple functions—usually the global lighting environment and a per-vertex radiance transfer function. The generalized lighting equation involves, among other things, integrating the product of the incoming radiance and the BRDF over a sphere—something that is far too expensive for real-time rendering. But if the two functions are projected into SH coefficients, the integral of their product over the sphere is just the dot product of the two SH coefficient vectors. Generating the per-vertex transfer functions and projecting them to SH space is still an expensive process, but evaluating them is almost trivial. More to the point, they can be evaluated correctly even if the lighting environment changes in intensity or orientation. Even the most complex ray-traced radiosity algorithm can be rendered in real-time with dynamically changing lighting. 

SH lighting using preprocessed coefficients produces results that are beautiful but limited. Typically the lighting can change, or the lit mesh can be rotated, but the mesh can't be translated or deformed without requiring a new set of per-vertex coefficients. More recent techniques split the lighting equation into more parts and introduce techniques for updating SH components in real time or learn a transfer function which maps from shape deformations to updated per-vertex coefficients. 

Representing scene illumination using SH is increasingly popular in the field of neural rendering as the illumination in a scene can be predicted and manipulated using deep neural networks.

See also 
 Precomputed Radiance Transfer
 Radiosity
 Comprehensive Overview

References 

Shading
Tours Société Générale

Société Générale Twin Towers are two office skyscrapers located in La Défense, a high-rise business district, and in Nanterre, France, west of Paris. Their exterior designs are identical. They are the second tallest twin towers in the EU and Europe’s third tallest twin towers after City of Capitals in Moscow and Les Mercuriales twin towers in Paris.

The towers were built and opened in 1995 to become the head office of the Société Générale, one of France's largest banking groups. Before the twin towers were constructed, Société Générale's headquarters were located in Paris.

Features 
The roof and structural height of both towers is at 167 m (548 ft) above ground. The roofs of the towers are sharply inclined.

The towers were the tallest skyscrapers built in La Défense since the Tour Total in 1985. It was one of the first buildings in France to receive the High Quality Environmental standard label.

The northern tower is named tour Alicante and the southern one tour Chassagne. In its interior design, Chassagne is decorated with white stone from the village of Chassagne in Auvergne, whereas Alicante is decorated with red marble from Alicante in Spain. Both towers share the same platform and stand about 40 m (130 ft) apart. 

Despite the large office space available in the current twin towers, Société Générale needed yet more space and so it launched the construction of a third skyscraper, the 183 m (600 ft) tall Tour Granite, which stands immediately behind the twin towers and was opened in 2008.

See also 

 Skyscraper
 La Défense
 List of tallest structures in Paris

References

External links 
 Tours Société Générale (Emporis)

Skyscraper office buildings in La Défense
Twin towers
Société Générale
Office buildings completed in 1995
Buildings and structures completed in 1995
Coalton, Kentucky

Coalton is an unincorporated community situated along U.S. Route 60, which was formerly known as the Midland Trail (before 1925) in western  Boyd County, Kentucky, United States. U.S. Route 60 between Rush and Cannonsburg. Coalton is a part of the Huntington-Ashland Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 287,702. New definitions from February 28, 2013, placed the population at 361,500. Coalton is located within both the Ashland and Rush postal zip codes.

Points of interest
The Boyd County Fair Grounds are located in Coalton.
Kentucky Electric Steel (KES Acquisitions), which employs 118 union steelworkers, is located at Coalton. The Hyland Company, has a dog food production plant located on U.S. Route 60. Hanson Brick operates a brick manufacturing facility here.

Transportation
US 60 interchanges with Interstate 64 in Coalton. This is one of three interchanges located in Boyd County.  CSX Transportation, formerly Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, operates a spur line from Ashland to Coalton. This spur allows garbage to be delivered to the Big Run Landfill in neighboring Princess by rail from the CSX mainline in Ashland and also allows Kentucky Electric Steel and the Hanson Brick Plant to transport their goods back to the CSX mainline.

Education
Boyd County Public Schools

References

External links
Chamber of Commerce

Unincorporated communities in Boyd County, Kentucky
Coal towns in Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky
The Evpatoria Report

The Evpatoria Report is a Swiss post-rock band. The band was formed in January 2002, and it consists of two guitarists, a bassist, a drummer, and a violinist/keyboardist. The Evpatoria Report have played concerts in Paris and toured throughout Switzerland, playing with bands such as Red Sparowes, The Appleseed Cast, and Mono. The band was on a hiatus from 2008 until they announced their return to the studio in April 2015.

History

The band was formed in January 2002 and is named for the Ukrainian city Yevpatoria in Crimea (romanized from  Russian as Evpatoria), in which the radio telescope RT-70 P-2500 is located. It sends messages into space, including A Message From Earth and Cosmic Call, that try to describe human life or "the Evpatoria message".

Members
 Laurent Quint – guitar
 Simon Robert – guitar
 David Di Lorenzo – bass
 Fabrice Berney – drums, glockenspiel
 Daniel Bacsinszky – violin, keyboard

Discography
Studio albums
 Golevka (2005)
 Maar (2008)
EPs
 The Evpatoria Report (2003)

References

External links
 Official Bandcamp

Swiss post-rock groups
Musical groups established in 2002
2002 establishments in Switzerland
Close Cover Before Striking

Close Cover Before Striking is an EP by Luna. It contains two videos ("Lovedust" and "1995" from Romantica), as well as Rolling Stones and Kraftwerk covers. The digital re-release in 2011 added Led Zeppelin and Alice Cooper covers.

Track listing
All lyrics by Dean Wareham, music by Luna, except where noted.
 "Astronaut" – 4:00
 "Waiting on a Friend" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 4:46
 "Teenage Lightning" – 3:30
 "Drunken Whistler" – 3:13
 "The Alibi" – 4:12
 "New Haven Comet" – 4:32
 "Neon Lights" (Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Karl Bartos) – 5:01
 "Dancing Days" (Jimmy Page, Robert Plant) – 3:41
 "Only Women Bleed" (Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner) – 3:36

Videos
 "Lovedust"
 "1995"

References

External links
Close Cover Before Striking on Luna's Bandcamp website with track listing

Luna (1990s American band) albums
2002 EPs
Jetset Records albums
Veronica Ann Cross

Veronica Ann Cross (born 1950), daughter of a Covent Garden opera singer, won the Miss United Kingdom beauty pageant in 1973.

At 16 years old, upon leaving school, Cross successfully applied for a job as a photographic model with an agency in London. Soon she was to accept opportunities for television adverts and bit-parts.

In December 1972 she entered a Miss England heat in Streatham, which she failed to win. She tried for another heat in London in February and qualified for the final of the Miss England competition and also qualified her to enter the Miss UK pageant. At the Miss World competition, she managed to come sixth.

Life after the pageant

Cross now lives in Poole and works as a show house demonstrator. She takes part in opera singing with a company called Pocket Opera. She is unmarried.

Personal quotes
I'd spent a month preparing for that by starving myself. I was 8st 5lbs. When I look at pictures I wince at the sight of the jutting collarbone. I can see I looked too thin, but at the time I was delighted by my protruding bones and concave stomach.

Eating so little wasn't good for my health. For six months my periods packed up completely, a sure sign of starvation.

[Opera singing has] become the love of my life—I don't have deep regrets about not marrying or having children, but I do regret that I never trained as an opera singer like my mother. If I could trade my title for the chance to work as a professional opera singer I'd do it like a shot.

References

1950 births
English female models
Living people
Miss United Kingdom winners
Miss Universe 1973 contestants
Miss World 1973 delegates
20th-century English women
20th-century English people
Louis Guillouet, comte d'Orvilliers

Louis Guillouet, comte d'Orvilliers (26 March 1710 – 1792) was a French admiral.

Life

Louis Guillouet d'Orvilliers was born on 26 March 1710 in Moulins, Allier.
His parents were Claude Guillouet d'Orvilliers (), seigneur d'Orvilliers, and Claude de Vict de Pongibaud (–1759).
His older brother was Gilbert Guillouet d'Orvilliers, ( – 11 May 1764), governor of French Guiana from 1749 to 1763,
D'Orvilliers spent most of his childhood in Cayenne, capital of the French colony French Guiana, where his father was governor. In 1723, aged fifteen, he joined the colony's infantry regiment and quickly rose to the rank of Lieutenant. In 1728, he transferred to the Navy and, by 1756, had become a captain, commanding one of the ships sent to Menorca under the direction of La Galissonière. He later took part in action near Santo Domingo and the Antilles and was rewarded with a promotion to rear admiral in 1764.

Franco-American alliance

In 1777, France began assisting the American colonies in their fight for independence from Great Britain. D'Orvilliers was appointed Vice Admiral (Lieutenant-General of the Navy) and prepared to engage the Royal Navy in the Atlantic. His greatest success came in July 1778 during the First Battle of Ushant, when his fleet managed to fend off an attack from a similarly sized English fleet led by Admiral Augustus Keppel.

The following year, however, he led an unsuccessful attempt to raid the English ports of Portsmouth and Plymouth. Although the weather and crew sickness played a part, he was censured for not making better use of the forces under his command. As a consequence, he resigned his command.

The death of his wife in 1783 affected d'Orvilliers greatly and he withdrew to the Saint-Magloire seminary in Paris. He later returned to the town of his birth, Moulins, where he died in 1792.

The name "Guillouet" comes from the Breton language, a form of Celtic, and means "Man from the wood".

Descendants
The admiral encouraged his grandson, Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys, to enter Naval service. He did not live to witness the court-martial, disgrace and label of "incompetent and complacent" that was triggered by the sinking of the frigate French frigate Méduse (1810) and loss of circa 150 lives, plus the notoriety of the painting by Théodore Géricault of the shipwreck scene The Raft of the Medusa which hangs in the Louvre.

References

Sources

1710 births
1792 deaths
Military personnel from Moulins, Allier
French Navy admirals
French people of the American Revolution
Carnival Pride

Carnival Pride is a  operated by Carnival Cruise Line. Built by Kværner Masa-Yards at its Helsinki New Shipyard in Helsinki, Finland, she was laid down on March 30, 2000, launched on March 29, 2001 and completed and delivered to Carnival on December 12, 2001. She was christened by American scientist and astronaut Tamara Jernigan in Port Canaveral, Florida, on January 7, 2002.

Carnival Pride has 1,062 passenger cabins. She is currently based out of Tampa, FL.

Areas of operation 

Carnival Pride began sailing from Port Canaveral, in January 2002 to Eastern and Western Caribbean ports. Then, from 2002 to March 2009, she sailed year-round cruises from Long Beach, California to the Mexican Riviera.

On March 22, 2009, she sailed a Panama Canal voyage ending in Miami, Florida, and sailed Caribbean cruises out of that port until April 2009.

Since April 2009, Carnival Pride was the first ship to sail year-round Bahamas/Caribbean cruises out of Baltimore, Maryland. From Baltimore, she also sailed a two-day cruise to nowhere without making any port of call from November 2 to 4, 2012, as a result of canceling an October departure due to closed port traffic after Hurricane Sandy.

Carnival Pride sailed out of Tampa in October 2014 until returning to Baltimore in March 2015. In November 2021 Carnival Pride returned to Tampa, with the Carnival Legend taking its place in Baltimore.

Facilities 
In October 2014 Carnival Pride entered dry dock for scrubber installation and refurbishment.

The ship is scheduled to undergo another refurbishment in early 2019.

Accidents and incidents 
On December 4, 2004 a passenger by the name of Annette Mizener went missing while on board during a family trip. It is unknown if she went overboard willingly, accidentally, or maliciously.

On May 8, 2016, the Carnival Pride collided into the pier in Baltimore, causing a terminal gangway to collapse and crush 3 cars. Nobody was hurt in the incident.

References 
Notes

Bibliography

External links 

 Official website

2001 ships
Panamax cruise ships
Ships built in Helsinki
Pride
Enemy Nations

Enemy Nations is a real-time strategy game, created by Windward Studios. The game received very high rankings in video game magazines, but the publisher went out of business shortly after the game's release; the developer then sold the game exclusively from its website.

Plot 
The development of the Hyperspace-Drive triggers a gold rush-like colonization attempt by Earth governments, only to find that habitable (the game takes these as Earth-like) planets are either homeworlds for other sapient species, or colonies of early-evolved species.

Years of build-up and exploration bears fruit: A habitable, rich and lush world with no sentient race is found. However, almost every race intends to colonize it, and soon a full-scale Galactic war will erupt. To solve the bloodshed, the sapient races agree to a competition:

Every race would dispatch a Rocket Ship with a pre-determined size, mass and equipment, stocked with materials, personnel and equipment to create a city analogous of modern Earth technology and infrastructure. Then without interruption from outer space, the base-cities would engage in conflict, with the victor being granted the ownership of the planet. Of course, it is your duty to ensure a new world for your species to claim.

Development
Stores pre-ordered above 100,000 copies of Enemy Nations by January 29, 1997. The game was in development for 18 months.

Reception
According to its developer, sales of Enemy Nations surpassed 35,000 units by late 1998.

Home of the Underdogs - 9/10. "Enemy Nations is one of the best and most sophisticated real-time strategy games ever made...It's neither a simple action strategy game, nor is it a straightforward god game with token battle elements. Rather, it's an isometric strategy game which takes influences from half a dozen existing games and tries to blend them into something new, and in most aspects, succeeds admirably."

Legal Dispute
After the publisher Head Games went out of business, Windward Studios said Enemy Nations grossed more than $500,000, and hadn't paid Windward royalties. Windward took Head Games to arbitration and won. Activision acquired Head Games in the middle of the arbitration.

In 1999 Windward stated on their webpage that it had been nine weeks since the ruling and Activision still had not paid them.

Legacy
The game itself was released as strictly non-commercial and privately redistributable freeware on October 1, 2005.
Windward released the source code of the game in the beginning of 2006. The source code and data were released free by Windward Studios under the following limited license:

The source code is hosted since 2009 by the Enemy Nations Revival project and on Launchpad.net.

References

External links

1997 video games
Real-time strategy video games
Multiplayer online games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Science fiction video games
Video games developed in the United States
Commercial video games with freely available source code
Freeware games
Ya Basta Association

The Ya Basta Association is a network of Italian anti-capitalist and pro-immigrants rights organizations and groups, fueled by the Italian social center movement, formed in 1994, and known for the "authorship" of the Tute Bianche, and later disobbedienti phenomena.

Formed as a result of the "eros effect" of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation uprising in Chiapas in 1994, the Ya Basta Association is sometimes confused with its corresponding tactical project, the Tute Bianche. However these two projects are distinct in that while the Ya Basta Association is an overarching project involving many facets, including the utilization of the "white overall" tactic, the Tute Bianche was a broader tactic involving, at the time of Genoa 2001, many participants unconnected with the Italian Association.

See also
 ¡Ya basta!

External links
 Official site (Italian)
 "Tute Bianche: The Practical Side of Myth Making" by Wu Ming 1 (Roberto Bui)

Political organisations based in Italy
Autonomism
American Society for Enology and Viticulture

The American Society for Enology and Viticulture, founded in 1950, is a non-profit, scientific wine production industry organization headquartered in Davis, California.  

Its membership of 2,400 includes professionals from wineries, vineyards, academic institutions and organizations. In addition, it has 120 Industrial Affiliates (companies).

Purpose
It is dedicated to promoting the interests of enologists, viticulturists, and others in the fields of wine and grape research and production throughout the world. 

The society publishes the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture.

See also

California wine

United States wine

References

External links
American Society for Enology and Viticulture

California wine organizations
Wine industry organizations
Food technology organizations
Organizations based in California
Organizations established in 1950
1950 establishments in California
Davis, California
Sheikh Mohamed Laghdaf Stadium

Sheikh Mohamed Laghdaf Stadium () is a multi-use stadium located in Laayoune, Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco. It is used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 15,000 people and is home the JS Massira football club of Laayoune who plays in the Moroccan championship Botola.

References

External links 
 
 Soccerway

Football venues in Western Sahara
Buildings and structures in Laayoune
1984 establishments in Western Sahara
Palestine Stadium

Palestine Stadium () is located in Gaza City on the Gaza Strip. It is the national stadium and the home of Palestine national football team. The stadium's capacity is around 10,000. 

It was bombed by Israel on April 1, 2006, directly on the centre spot, which made the stadium unusable due to the crater formed. FIFA announced that it will fund the repair work. It was again bombed on November 19, 2012, by the Israeli Defence Force as part of Operation Pillar of Cloud. Israel claimed that the latest bombing was due to its  use by militants to launch rockets targeting Israel. The stadium and a nearby indoor sports hall suffered major damage and resulted in  notable football players from around the globe releasing a signed petition.

As of 2019, the stadium had been repaired by FIFA and has hosted several events, both in the indoor sports halls and the outdoor field. Indoor facilities also serve as ammunition depots and the outdoor facility serves as a rocket launching site. The stadium is also connected to the Hamas underground tunnel system.

References 

Football venues in the State of Palestine
Palestinian territories
Buildings and structures in Gaza City
Sport in the Gaza Strip
Rimal
Yap Sports Complex

Yap Sports Complex is located in Abay, Gagil, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia. It is the national stadium and the home of Yap sporting events. The stadium's capacity is around 2,000, and it was built in 2001—in time for the 3rd FSM Games. In 2018, it was renovated and extended in time for the 9th Micronesian Games hosted by Yap State for the very first time. Association football club Nimgil, champions of Micronesia after defeating Weloy in 2021, use the venue for games.

References

Sports venues completed in 2001
Football venues in Micronesia
Athletics (track and field) venues in the Federated States of Micronesia
Bairiki National Stadium

Bairiki National Stadium is located in Bairiki, Kiribati. It is the national stadium and the home of Kiribati's men's and women's national football teams. The official name of the stadium is Reuben K. Uatioa Stadium. The stadium's capacity is around 2,500.

Football
The stadium is the home ground of the Kiribati national football teams. Despite this, it has never been used for an international match, because Kiribati have never played an international football match at home.

The sand surface in the stadium is also a factor that has stopped Kiribati becoming an official FIFA member for the time being.

References

Football venues in Kiribati
Athletics (track and field) venues in Kiribati
South Tarawa
National stadiums
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi is an Associate Professor of History at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Hanifi received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He subsequently attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

As a student of South Asian expert Juan Cole, Hanifi received his Ph.D. in History in 2002 following the completion of his thesis, Inter-regional Trade and Colonial State Formation in Nineteenth-century Afghanistan. He won the 2004 Gutenberg-e Prize from the American Historical Association for this doctoral thesis.

Hanifi is serving as the Principal Investigator and Project Director for The Afghan Diaspora Remittance Project, a project funded by the Asian Development Bank and the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies.

Honors and accomplishments
 Rackham Graduate School Outstanding Dissertation Award
 The AHA's Gutenberg-e Prize 2004
 Treasurer of American Institute of Afghanistan Studies
 Principal Investigator and Project Director for The Afghan Diaspora Remittance Project for the Asian Development Bank.

Works
 Connecting histories in Afghanistan: market relations and state formation on a colonial frontier. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011.
 Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia : pioneer of British colonial rule. London: Hurst & Company, 2019.

References

External links 
JMU Department of History

21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Living people
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
James Madison University faculty
American male non-fiction writers
National Soccer Stadium, Apia

The National Soccer Stadium is a football stadium located in Apia, Samoa. It is the national stadium of Samoa and the home of the Samoa national football team and the Samoa National League. It also was the venue for the 2012 OFC Nations Cup Qualification and different youth and women's football tournaments in Oceania.

Hosted Competitions 
2007 Pacific Games
2012 OFC Nations Cup Qualification
2014 FIFA World Cup OFC first round qualification
2015 OFC U-17 Championship
2017 OFC U-17 Championship - First Round
2019 Pacific Games

Owning teams 
Samoa national rugby union team
Samoa women's national football team
Samoa national football team

See also 
Tuanaimato

References 

Buildings and structures in Apia
Football venues in Samoa
Samoa National League
Somei Satoh

is a Japanese composer of contemporary music. His compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music.

His musical career began with an experimental, mix media group called "Tone Field" in Tokyo. He studied at Nihon University of Art in the early 1970s and is primarily self-taught in composition. In 1972 and 1981, Satoh produced two other experimental projects, the latter involved placing eight speakers approximately one kilometer apart on nearby mountain tops overlooking a huge valley. In 1985, he collaborated with theater designer Manuel Luetgenhorst to stage his music at The Arts at St. Ann's in Brooklyn, New York.

He wrote his violin concerto for Anne Akiko Meyers.

He currently lives in Tokyo.

Compositions

Orchestra
 Sumeru (1982)
 Homa (1988)
 Ruika (1990)
 Toward the Night (1991)
 Glimmering Darkness (1995)
 Kami no Miuri (1995)
 Burning Meditation (1995)
 Listening to Fragrances of the Dusk (1997)
 Firefly Garden (1998)
 Kisetsu (1999)
 From the Depth of Silence (2000)
 Kyokoku (2000)
 Violin Concerto (2002)

Vocal music
 Stabat Mater (1987)

Works using Japanese musical instruments
 Chinmoku (Silence) (1977) 
 Kaze no Kyoku (Music of the Winds) (1979) 
 Ki No Koe (Voice of Tree) (1982)
 Kamu Ogui Goto (1989) 
 Kougetsu KOUGETSU (1990) 
 Snayou (1991) 
 Tamaogi Koto (1994) 
 Hi No Kyoku (1996) 
 Usuzumi (2004)

Chamber music
 Litania (1973)
 Hymn for the Sun (1973)
 Kagami (Mirror) (1975) 
 Cosmic Womb (1975) 
 Incarnation II (1978) 
 The Heavenly Spheres are Illuminated by Lights (1979) 
 Birds in Warped Time II (1980) 
 Hoshi No Mon (A Gate into the Stars) (1982) 
 Kaze No Kyoku II (Music of the Winds II) (1984) 
 Hikari (Light) (1986) 
 Toki No Mon (A Gate into Infinity) (1988) 
 Shun-Shu-Ka (Lament for Spring) (1989) 
 Lanzarote (1993) 
 Incarnation I (1977)
 Uzu (Vortex) (1988) 
 Recitative (1991)
 Innocence (1996)
 Choral (2000)
 Bifu (2013)
Electronic music
 Emerald Tablet (1978) 
 Mandara (1982) 
 Mantra (1986) 
 Tantra (1990)

Awards
 Japan Arts Festival, 1980
 Asian Cultural Council, 1983

References

External links
Somei Satoh (Zen-On Contemporary Composers)
Somei Satoh page from Lovely Music, Ltd. site
Recitative recorded by Guy Klucevsek

1947 births
20th-century classical composers
20th-century Japanese composers
20th-century Japanese male musicians
21st-century classical composers
21st-century Japanese composers
21st-century Japanese male musicians
Contemporary classical music performers
Japanese classical composers
Japanese contemporary classical composers
Japanese male classical composers
Living people
Musicians from Sendai
Nihon University alumni
Rendezvous (Luna album)

Rendezvous is the seventh album by American alternative rock band Luna. It is the first Luna album to feature vocals by guitarist Sean Eden, on songs "Broken Chair" and "Still at Home."

Background
"The Owl and the Pussycat' is a musical adaptation of the poem by Edward Lear. "Astronaut" is a reworked version of the song of the same name that appeared on Close Cover Before Striking. The album was recorded live to analog two-track, with minimal overdubbing done in post-production.

Track listing
All music by Luna; lyrics by Dean Wareham, except where noted.
 "Malibu Love Nest"  – 4:31
 "Cindy Tastes of Barbecue"  – 4:09
 "Speedbumps"  – 3:06
 "The Owl and the Pussycat" (Eden, Wareham)  – 3:49
 "Astronaut" (Lee Wall, Wareham)  – 4:06
 "Broken Chair" (Eden)  – 3:56
 "Star-Spangled Man" (Wall, Wareham)  – 5:13
 "Motel Bambi"  – 4:29
 "Still at Home" (Eden)  – 5:12
 "Buffalo Boots"  – 3:29
 "Rainbow Babe"  – 3:22

References

Luna (1990s American band) albums
2004 albums
Jetset Records albums
Maxine Elliott's Theatre

Maxine Elliott's Theatre was originally a Broadway theatre at 109 West 39th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Built in 1908, it was designed by architect Benjamin Marshall of the Chicago-based firm Marshall and Fox, who modeled the façade after the neoclassical Petit Trianon in Versailles. In later years, it was known as WOR Mutual Radio Theatre (1941–1944), CBS Radio Playhouse No. 5 (1944–1948), and CBS Television Studio No. 44 or CBS Television Studio Studio 51 (1948–1956). The theater was demolished in 1960 to make way for the Springs Mills Building.

History
The theatre was named for American actress Maxine Elliott, who originally owned a 50 percent interest in it, in partnership with The Shubert Organization. Elliott was one of the few women theater managers of her time. She leased it to the Federal Theatre in 1936; the following year, it was shut down by the government on the eve on the opening of Orson Welles's production of The Cradle Will Rock.

In 1941, the theatre became a radio studio and in 1948 was converted for television production, where the very first episodes of Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town variety show originated (from 1948 until 1953). In 1956, Elliott's heirs sold her share to the Shuberts, who then sold the property. It was demolished in 1960 and the Springs Mills Building was built on the site, being completed in 1963. The theatre, built in a thriving theatre district, was the last remaining Broadway house below 41st Street.

Maxine Elliott's Theatre seated approximately 935 patrons. Throughout its lifetime, it housed a multitude of plays, including original works by George Bernard Shaw, John Millington Synge, Lady Augusta Gregory, Lord Dunsany, Lillian Hellman and Somerset Maugham. Only nine of its dozens of productions were musicals, including one opera, See America First, by Cole Porter.

Notable productions
 1908: The Chaperon starring Maxine Elliott (opening December 30, 1908)
 1909: The Blue Mouse by Clyde Fitch
 1911: Riders to the Sea; The Playboy of the Western World
 1916: See America First; How He Lied to Her Husband
 1925: Hay Fever; The Master Builder
 1926: The Constant Wife
 1934: The Children's Hour
 1936: Horse Eats Hat
 1937: Doctor Faustus
 1947: Life of Galileo

References

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1908 establishments in New York City
1941 disestablishments in New York (state)
1941 establishments in New York City
1944 disestablishments in New York (state)
1944 establishments in New York City
1948 disestablishments in New York (state)
1948 establishments in New York City
1956 disestablishments in New York (state)
1960 in New York City
Arts organizations disestablished in the 20th century
Arts organizations established in 1908
Buildings and structures demolished in 1960
CBS Radio
CBS television studios
Demolished buildings and structures in Manhattan
Demolished theatres in New York City
Federal Theatre Project
Former Broadway theatres
Former recording studios
Neoclassical architecture in New York City
Recording studios in Manhattan
Shubert Organization
Theatres completed in 1908
Charles Towne

Charles Towne may refer to:
Charles Towne (artist) (1763–1840), English landscape and animal painter
Charles A. Towne (1858–1928), American politician
Charles Hanson Towne (1877–1949), American author, poet and editor, who wrote "The Harvest of the Sea" about the RMS Titanic

See also 
Charles H. Townes (1915–2015), American physicist and educator
Charles Towne Landing
Charles Town (disambiguation)
Charlestown (disambiguation)
Sports Stadium (Marshall Islands)

ECC Sports Stadium is located in Majuro, Marshall Islands. The stadium's capacity is around 2,000. Named after the ECC, (Educational Cultural Center) it used principally for basketball, volleyball, and futsal matches. Stadium has 3 pinned arch roof spanning 60m.
The ECC was forced to close down following part of the roof collapsing in June, 2011. Main reason behind the roof problem was due to termite infestation.

See also 
 Majuro Track and Field Stadium

References 

Soccer venues in the Marshall Islands
Indoor arenas in the Marshall Islands
Basketball venues in the Marshall Islands
Volleyball venues in the Marshall Islands
Tour Légende

Tour EDF is an office skyscraper located in La Défense, the high-rise business district west of Paris, France.

The tower was built for Électricité de France (EDF), France's main electricity company, and hosts the company's offices. Tour EDF is 165 m (541 ft) tall. The skyscraper's ground shape is elliptical, with a maximum length of 70 m (230 ft) and a maximum width of 32 m (105 ft).

Description
Tour EDF's most striking characteristic consists in the extrusion of a conic section of the tower on its northern edge. The resulting conic hole extends from the ground floor to the 26th floor and serves as the main entrance to the tower, an entrance built under a wide circular canopy 24 m (79 ft) in diameter. As a consequence, the length of the tower is slightly less at its base than at its top.

The cladding of the tower alternates horizontal stripes of plain steel and tinted windows.

See also 
 71 South Wacker - a similar building designed by the same firm in Chicago, formerly known as the Hyatt Center
 List of tallest structures in Paris

External links 
 Tour EDF (Emporis)
 Tour EDF (Insecula)

Skyscraper office buildings in La Défense
Buildings and structures completed in 2001
Électricité de France
21st-century architecture in France
Queens Public Television

Queens Public Television (QPTV) is a not-for-profit private corporation Public-access television network serving the residents of the borough of Queens, New York City. QPTV manages the four public, educational, and government access (PEG) channels (Channels 34/1995, 56/1996, 57/1997, 79/1998 on Time Warner Cable; 82, 83, 84, 85 on RCN; and 34, 35, 36, 37 on Verizon Fios) on the cable TV systems for Queens.

QPTV series
Adventures in QPTV Land (2001)
American Vocal Ensemble (1999)
Art a-la-Carte (1989)
The Art of Paper Cutting (1997)
Artists at Work (1992)
Assembly Update (1997) (Network Music's Parade of Flags)
The Beatnik Poets (2001)
Ben's Music and Dance (1997)
Bernie's Place (2006–Present)
Binat Chaim School of Music (1995)
Business Goals 2000 (1996)
Caribbean Classroom
Caribbean Gospel Showcase (1997-1999)
Center Stage
Coaches Roundtable (1997)
Companion Animal Network (1996–Present)
Computer Animation Discussion (1994)
Connection Zone
Conversations (1998)
Creative Insight (1999)
Creative Instincts (1998)
Democracy in Crisis (1996–Present)
De Aqui y De Alla con Natty Abreu
DeVore Dance Center in Concert 1997 (1998)
The E.O.M. Rap Show (2000)
Exploration of the Universe (1997)
Eye Positive (1998)
Eyewitness Ministries's Time With a Band (1998)
Fitness World (1998)
From the Heart (1996)
The Game Show Block Party (2007–present)
Garbage Band 101 (1991)
The Gillis & Barry Show (1996–Present)
A Hidden Feud (1995)
The Hive (1997-1998)
In Our World
An Interview with Joe
Islam, the Universal System (1998-2000)
Ivanka's 1-800 Contest (1998)
James the Magician (1995)
The Jennifer Vanilla Hour (2017–present)
Joan's World
The Joe Show (1999-2000)
Keepin'(g) It Real (1997 and 1998)
Kids (2) (2000-2001)
Kids Will Be Kids (1999)
The Learning Tree Multicultural School (2000)
Life in the Universe (2000)
Lipsynch Party (2) (1997-1999)
The Lou Telano Show (2000)
The Men of Fitness (1997)
Mind Gym (1999)
Mindlight
Mrs. Jellybean (1995)
Music Festival (1998)
Music Movies & More (1998)
Nosotros, Ustedes y... Luz Estella (1998)
Not by Bread Alone
Nueva York: Ciudad de Todos (1997)
O's Crib
The On da Money show
The Panorama of New York City (1998)
Passport to the World (2000-2001)
Pets Alive (1996)
Planet Safari U.S.A. (1996)
Poetry in Gospel (1999)
Pohl Position (1999–Present)
Public Access in Queens (1999)
Queens Music Television (1999)
Quiet Time and Praise the Lord (1997)
Quinteto Brasileiro (1999)
The Realm of Never
Rhythmic Poetry (1999)
Richie's Place
Simple Science
Skate Time (1998)
Social Security & You
Solutions (1998–Present)
Survivor (1997)
Taekwon-Do (1997)
Tete-A-Tete: The Independent Music Scene (1990)
The Typewriter (2000)
Urban Souls Culture
The Way (1994)
What's Happening Berverly?
What Makes The Monkey Dance (2005)
Where We Stand
Women of Fitness (1997)
Words (1997)
You Name That Show (1999–Present)
A Young Artist Sculpts

References 

American public access television
Television stations in New York (state)
Television stations in New York City
Television channels and stations established in 1990
1990 establishments in New York City
Combretum quadrangulare

Combretum quadrangulare, or commonly known as sakae naa, is a small tree of the family Combretaceae, up to 10 m high. The tree grows wildly or is planted in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand.

The tree is planted along the banks of rivers or arroyos for firing. It is found throughout Thailand especially in open, wet places. Therapeutic uses of this plant in the country are for anthelmintics (the parts used were seeds, roots and leaves) and curing venereal disease (the parts used are roots and wood). Studies of the chemical constituents of this plant have revealed that alcoholic and other extracts from the roots and seeds could kill earthworms. Extracts from seeds display antibacterial properties.

Description 
Tree, 5-10m high: young branchlets acutely quad-rangular or very narrowly quadrialate. Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic or obovate, 3–8 cm wide, 6–16 cm long: petiole acutely ridged. Inflorescence in terminal and axillary spike; flower small, yellowish white. Fruit dry, thinly quadrialate: seed brownish red, ellipsoid, 4- angled.

Seed: anthelmintic for roundworm, threadworm

Root: treatment of venereal diseases: anthelminithic

Leaf: relieves muscular pain

Chemistry 
Combretol is an O-methylated flavonol, found in C. quadrangulare. The plant also contains the gallic acid derivative, 1-O-galloyl-6-O-(4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxy)benzoyl-beta-D-glucose.

References

quadrangulare
Chimaphila

Chimaphila (prince's pine or wintergreen; from Greek: cheima 'winter' and philos 'lover', hence 'winter lover') is a genus of five species of small, evergreen, flowering plants native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. They are classified in the family Ericaceae, but were formerly placed in the segregate family Pyrolaceae.

Species
Chimaphila japonica
Chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen, also called striped wintergreen, striped prince's pine or rheumatism root)
Chimaphila menziesii (little prince's pine)
Chimaphila monticola
Chimaphila umbellata (umbellate wintergreen, pipsissewa, or prince's pine)

References

 Flora of China: Chimaphila

 
Ericaceae genera
Hemse stave church

Hemse stave church is a rediscovered stave church from Hemse at Gotland, Sweden. 

Before the present Hemse Church was built there was a stave church from the early Christian period in the beginning of the 11th century. The solid and richly ornamented stave planks of oak was used as a wooden floor in the present church. This stave church, or perhaps palisade church with sills (since it is unclear how the corners were constructed), is the only more or less complete church rediscovered from the Christianization of Sweden.

It was held in storage at Statens historiska museum in Stockholm, although some remains are on display at the Gotland Museum in Visby. In 2023, the church is the focus of a research project with the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish History Museum.

The stave church has been replaced by a stone church, which was finished in the 13th century.  

During a renovation of this church in 1896, parts of the stave church were discovered, where the wood pieces of the stave church had been reused for building the floor of the current church.

Surviving stave church
The only surviving stave church in Sweden is in  Hedared.

References

Gotland
Stave churches in Sweden
Churches in Gotland County
Len Evans

Len Evans may refer to:

Len Evans (footballer) (1903–1977), Welsh international football goalkeeper
Len Evans (wine) (1930–2006), Australian wine columnist
Leonard Evans (1929–2016), Canadian politician
W. Leonard Evans Jr., African American businessman
Uqiyyah

The uqiyyah (), sometimes spelled awqiyyah, is the name for a historical unit of weight that varies between regions, as listed below. 1 uqiyyah= 40 dirham. 
1 dirham= 0.7 dinar.

It corresponds to the historical unit ounce and was defined in Iraq as one twelfth of a ratl or in parts of Egypt as one eighth of a ratl. As the ratl varied so did the uqiyyah as its part.

Egypt: 37g
Aleppo: 320g
Beirut: 213.39g
Jerusalem: 240g
Malta: ~26.46 g

The same unit, pronounced okka  in Turkish, was used in the Ottoman Empire until the early 20th century. The standard Istanbul okka equaled 128.3 g.

The ouguiya, the currency of Mauritania, takes its name from  the Hassaniya Arabic pronunciation of uqiyyah.

References 

Customary units of measurement