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Hobbes (disambiguation)

Hobbes is primarily used to refer to:

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), English philosopher and creator of the social contract theory

Hobbes may also refer to:

People
 Fredric Hobbs (1931–2018), American experimental filmmaker
 Halliwell Hobbes (1877–1962), actor
 John Oliver Hobbes (1867–1906), pen-name of Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
 Roger Hobbes, English politician

Characters
 Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes), a tiger from the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes
 Hobbes, a character in the Fables comic book series
 Miranda Hobbes, a character on Sex and the City
 Ralgha nar Hhallas, known as "Hobbes", a character in the computer game series Wing Commander

See also 

 
 Hob (disambiguation)
 Hobb (disambiguation)
 Hobbe (disambiguation)
 Hobbs (disambiguation)
 Hobbie (disambiguation)
 Hobby (disambiguation)
 Hobbism
Malibu Lagoon State Beach

Malibu Lagoon State Beach in Malibu, California, United States, is also known as Surfrider Beach. It was dedicated as the first World Surfing Reserve on October 9, 2010.  The  site was established as a California state park in 1951. It lies within the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

Natural history
Malibu Lagoon is an estuary at the mouth of Malibu Creek at the Pacific Ocean in Malibu. It is being restored by a multiagency partnership. Migratory birds use the lagoon when on the Pacific Flyway. Snowy Plovers nest on the beach and are protected.

Surfing

Malibu Lagoon is a famous right-break that had a big impact on the surfing culture in Southern California in the 1960s. Located near the Malibu Pier, it is among the most popular surf spots in Los Angeles County. The shoreline is usually triple-cornered due to the buildup of silt, sand, and cobble at the mouth of the creek. The tapering, smooth-breaking waves are recognized among surfers worldwide as the gold standard for summertime "point" surf.

Malibu Lagoon has three primary surfing areas. First Point has waves popular with longboarders and shortboarders during bigger swells. Second Point is used for high performance surfing. It has a main takeoff that lines up and connects into the inside called the "kiddie bowl". Third Point has a left and right side. On the south swells most common in late August and September, surfers can ride all the way to the pier.

See also
Adamson House
List of beaches in California
List of California state parks
List of California State Beaches

References

External links
Malibu Lagoon State Beach

1951 establishments in California
Beaches of Southern California
California State Beaches
Malibu, California
Parks in Los Angeles County, California
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
Surfing locations in California
Beaches of Los Angeles County, California
Tourist attractions in Malibu, California
Congiopodidae

Congiopodidae, commonly known as pigfishes, horsefishes and racehorses, is a family of ray-finned fish classified with in the order Scorpaeniformes. These fishes are native to the Southern Hemisphere.

Taxonomy
Congiopodidae was first formally recognised as a family by the American biologist Theodore Gill in 1889. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family within the suborder Scorpaenoidei which in turn is classified within the order Scorpaeniformes. Other authorities place the Scorpaenoidei within the Perciformes. The monophyly of the Congiopodidae as set out in Fishes of the World is not universally agreed upon. Some authorities classify the genus Perryena in its own subfamily, Perryeninae, in the stonefish family Synanceiidae. The genera Alertichthys and Zanclorhynchus are classified within the family Zanclorhynchidae leaving Congiopodus as the only genus in the monotypic Congiopodidae. The name of the family is based on that of the genus Congiopodus, the derivation of which was not explained by its author, the English naturalist George Perry, but may be a combination of the Greek gongulos, meaning "round", and podus, which means "foot", maybe referring to the roundish pelvic fins of the type species C. percatus (now C. torvus).

Genera
Congiopodidae contains the following 4 genera:
 Alertichthys Moreland, 1960
 Congiopodus Perry, 1811
 Perryena Whitley, 1940
 Zanclorhynchus Günther, 1880

Characteristics
Congiopididae is characterised by having no scales on the body and head, although the skin may have a grainy texture. There is one nostril on each side of the relatively long snout  with a small mouth. The bill slit is rather small and is located above the base of the pectoral fin and the lateral line is typically well developed. The dorsal fin is continuous, except in Zanclorhynchus, and has between 8 and 21 spines and 8 and 14 soft rays. The anal fin contains between 0 and 3 spines and 5 to 10soft rays. The maximum length is .

Distribution and habitat
Congiopids are found in the Southern Hemisphere where they live on the bottom of shallow temperate and sub-Antarctic seas, at depths of up to .

Biology
One Congiopodid, Congiopodus peruvianus, is found in the shallow South American waters. In this species the adult's dorsal fin is relatively shorter than the juvenile's fin, but they all resemble yellow and orange dead tree leaves.

See also
 List of fish families

References

 
Ray-finned fish families
Scorpaenoidei
Taxa named by Theodore Gill
Jan Svatopluk Presl

Jan Svatopluk Presl (4 September 1791 – 6 April 1849) was a Czech natural scientist.

He was the brother of botanist Carl Borivoj Presl (1794–1852). The Czech Botanical Society commemorated the two brothers by naming its principal publication Preslia (founded in 1914). He is the author of Czech scientific terminology of various branches of science, including the Czech chemical nomenclature. He was the co-author of an important Czech taxonomic work, O Přirozenosti Rostlin.

Selected publications

See also
 Carl Borivoj Presl (C.Presl, 1794–1852) — Czech botanist, and younger brother of Jan Presl.
 :Category:Taxa named by Jan Svatopluk Presl

References

External links 
 —Quido.cz: "Biography of Jan Svatopluk Presl"

1791 births
1849 deaths
Scientists from Prague
Old Czech Party politicians
Members of the Imperial Diet (Austria)
Czech chemists
Czech botanists
Terminologists
19th-century Austrian botanists
19th-century Austrian chemists
Charles University alumni
19th-century Czech people
19th-century lexicographers
Burials at Vyšehrad Cemetery
Mako (dance)

The Mako is a fast-paced dance from Tonga which is performed by young men. Accompanied by an extremely fast rhythm on a drum or tin can, dancers perform wild gestures involving their entire bodies; they point in various directions, run, sit, roll, or lie down repeatedly and in quick succession. The dance originated in ʻUvea and is only rarely performed in Tonga.

Musical themes 
Songs used with the Mako feature lyrics in Tongan. Their themes are most often drawn from nature and daily life or occasionally from the Bible. Additionally, one of the best-known refrains, toli he siale, is a double entendre; it can mean "picking flowers".

References

I.F. Helu; Faikava

Dances of Tonga
Boksa

Boksa may mean

Bokša (), a village in Slovakia, now city part of Stropkov
Milan Bokša (born 1951), Czech football manager
Boksa people, an ethnic group of India
Boksa language, a language of India

See also 
 Buksa (disambiguation)
 Boxa
Adaptive k-d tree

An adaptive k-d tree is a tree for multidimensional points where successive levels may be split along different dimensions.

References 

 

Trees (data structures)
Geometric data structures
Olivia Rawlinson

Olivia Rawlinson (born 26 October 1992) is a swimmer from the Isle of Man. She competed mainly in the 200 m freestyle and medley events.

She represented the Isle of Man at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, becoming their youngest participant ever in the Commonwealth Games. Rawlinson made her international debut in the Shetland Island Games in 2005 where she competed in eight races, winning a medal in every race. Her main aim is to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London or the 2016 Summer Olympics. Rawlinson competed in the 2007 Natwest Island Games where she performed at an extremely high level, winning eight medals, three silver and five bronze. This was followed by four golds and three silver in the 2009 games in Aland. Although Rawlinson qualified for the 2010 Delhi Commonwealths, she has given up swimming to focus on other things.

She was nominated for the Isle of Man sports awards in February 2008.

References

1992 births
Living people
Manx swimmers
Female medley swimmers
Commonwealth Games competitors for the Isle of Man
Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
XHUAN-FM

XHUAN-FM (Fusión 102.5) is a public radio station licensed to Tijuana, Baja California, owned by IMER (Instituto Mexicano de la Radio), Mexico's public radio network. Like the Public Radio stations in the United States, IMER presents a variety of discussion and music programs.

XHUAN broadcasts three channels in HD.

History
XHUAN signed on in the summer of 1986, carrying matches from the 1986 FIFA World Cup and music programming. It formally launched on August 1, 1986, and it held an inauguration ceremony on January 27, 1987, attended by President Miguel de la Madrid. That same year, the station launched its own newscast, Enlace FM.

In 1990 the station flipped to a ranchera music format, maintaining some old programs and the newscast; this format was dropped two years later, with a return to the wide-ranging format as "Estéreo Frontera". In the mid-1990s, the local newscast was canceled and the format changed to grupera music; this lasted until 2002, when the station yet again returned to its public mixed format. The current Fusión format was introduced in 2006, focusing the station on jazz music, news and community programming.

References

Radio stations in Tijuana
AHEPA University Hospital

The AHEPA University General Hospital (), also known as AHEPA Hospital, is considered one of the biggest hospitals in Greece, based in Thessaloniki. Covers 680 beds and all the spectrum of medical and surgical specialities of medicine as well as the psychiatric sector. Is associated with the 4th Health District of Health Services of Macedonia and Thrace as an independent service, with administrative and economic autonomy. The central service of AHEPA hospital is located in the territory of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, within the administrative region of the municipality of Thessaloniki. It is a major teaching hospital and part of the ESY (), the National Healthcare System of Greece. The structured areas of the hospital cover 50,000 sqm, built in several time points, to cope with the emerging needs.

History
AHEPA University Hospital was founded in 1947 with the economic support of the AHEPA, which is a Greek organization in the United States of America. It opened for the public in 1951, during the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Practically though, the hospital started its normal operation in March 1953.

In 1955, the Swedish philanthropic organisation Rädda Barnen (Swedish chapter of Save the Children) made a new donation to the hospital. This donation was used in order to construct the Paediatric pavilion with a total of 100 beds. The university's paediatric clinic was settled in this new pavilion in 1958.

References

External links

http://www.ahepahosp.gr/en_index.asp

Hospital buildings completed in 1947
Hospitals in Greece
Medical education in Greece
Teaching hospitals
Hospitals established in 1947
1947 establishments in Greece
Hospitals in Thessaloniki
Jackline Maranga

Jackline Maranga (born 16 December 1977, in Nyanturago, Kisii) is a retired Kenyan middle-distance runner. She won a silver medal at the World Junior Championships at the age of 15, and also won silver medals in the two following Championships, being the only athlete to do so.

She is perhaps best known for winning the 1500 metres gold at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Together with 10000 metres winner Esther Wanjiru, she became the first Kenyan woman to win Commonwealth Games gold medal.

She is also a world champion in cross-country running as she won the women's short course at the 1999 IAAF World Cross Country Championships.

Maranga is married to Tom Nyariki.

Achievements

External links

Pace Sports Management (Internet Archive)

1977 births
Living people
Kenyan female long-distance runners
Kenyan female middle-distance runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
World Athletics Cross Country Championships winners
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Kenya
World Athletics Championships athletes for Kenya
African Games silver medalists for Kenya
African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Kenyan female cross country runners
African Games bronze medalists for Kenya
Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 All-Africa Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 All-Africa Games
Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
MAMP

MAMP is a solution stack composed of free and open-source and proprietary commercial software used together to develop and run dynamic websites on Apple Macintosh computers.

Specifications and uses 

The name MAMP is an acronym that stems from the names of the components of the system: macOS (the operating system); Apache (the web server); MySQL or MariaDB (the database management system); and PHP, Perl, or Python (programming languages used for web development). The name is derived from LAMP, a similar stack of all open-source software widely used for websites, but substituting the proprietary macOS for the open-source Linux OS. (Similar "AMP" stacks exist for other operating systems.) MAMP is not limited to these choices of components, however; Nginx can be used in place of Apache, for example, and the same goes for substituting MariaDB for MySQL.

Some of the software packages that comprise MAMP (particularly Apache and PHP) are pre-installed with macOS; compatible versions of the remainder are readily available for installation and use. MAMP is commonly used with and to develop for popular CMS programs such as WordPress and Drupal by setting up a local development environment on laptop or desktop computers, without the need for a standalone web server.

References

Web development software
Web server software
PHP
Andrew Mattison

Andrew Michael Mattison (August 5, 1948 – December 29, 2005) was a medical psychologist and researcher. He performed influential research in both clinical and social aspects of sexology, as well as drug use. He spent the majority of his career as a professor, practicing psychotherapist, and research scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

Early life 
Mattison was born in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated from Xaverian High School in 1966 and got his Bachelor's Degree in English Literature at Fairfield University. He graduated with a Master's in social work, from the Stony Brook University in New York. He received his Ph.D. from United States International University (now Alliant International University) in 1975, with the dissertation Onset of Erectile Dysfunction in Diabetic Males.  His best-known book was The Male Couple: How Relationships Develop, coauthored with his partner David McWhirter (March 29, 1932 - July 28, 2006).  The book argued that gay male relationships have particular tendencies distinct from other categories of sexual relationships, an innovative thesis that encouraged the growth of a new field, homosexuality studies.  However, the book was also used by anti-gay marriage activists in legal arguments, because it does not use heterosexuality as a model for understanding homosexuality.

Career 
Mattison later began studying the use of party drugs by gay men, a controversial subject, which eventually led to a more thorough investigation of drug use in general. In 2000 he cofounded the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, of which he was co-director until his death.

He died of stomach cancer at the age of 57.

References

External links
Obituary from the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research
https://books.google.com/books?id=0sHWnt9WmRsC&dq=mcwhirter+i+mattison+badania&pg=PA332

American psychiatrists
Cannabis researchers
University of California, San Diego faculty
American sexologists
1948 births
2005 deaths
Deaths from stomach cancer
Psychology writers on LGBT topics
United States International University alumni
American LGBT scientists
American gay writers
Gay scientists
20th-century American LGBT people
21st-century American LGBT people
LGBT psychologists
Extended Play (Pretenders EP)

Extended Play is a 1981 EP released by new wave band The Pretenders. "Message of Love" and "Talk of the Town" featured on this EP were also included on their second album Pretenders II released later the same year. "Porcelain" and "Cuban Slide", outtakes from their Pretenders debut album, were included on disc two of the 2006 and 2021 remastered editions of their debut album and on the Pirate Radio box set. The live version of "Precious" on this EP, recorded at their New York Central Park performance on 30 August 1980, was finally released on CD on November 5, 2021. The booklet for disc one of the Pretenders debut album from the 2015 UK Edsel/Rhino Records box set 1979–1999 incorrectly states "Precious" (track 17) is from that Central Park performance. Instead, the box set version is from their Boston performance of 23 March 1980; it is also included on disc two of the 2006 remastered edition of Pretenders.

This EP was released in the US, and also in Australia, but not in the UK. In the UK, the tracks were released as the singles "Message of Love" b/w "Porcelain" and "Talk of the Town" b/w "Cuban Slide". "Precious" is unique to this release.

"Message of Love" contains the line: "We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" from the Oscar Wilde play Lady Windermere's Fan.

Track listing
All songs written by Chrissie Hynde except where noted.

Side one
 "Message of Love" – 3:24
 "Talk of the Town" – 3:13
 "Porcelain" – 3:53

Side two
 "Cuban Slide" (Hynde, Honeyman-Scott) – 4:29
 "Precious" – 3:17 (Live in Central Park, 30 August 1980)

Personnel
The Pretenders
Chrissie Hynde – rhythm guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
Pete Farndon – bass guitar, backing vocals
Martin Chambers – drums, backing vocals
James Honeyman-Scott – lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

The Pretenders EPs
1981 debut EPs
Albums produced by Chris Thomas (record producer)
Sire Records EPs
Karel Petr

Karel Petr (;  14 June 1868, Zbyslav, Austria-Hungary – 14 February 1950, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech mathematician. He was one of the most renowned Czech mathematicians of the first half of the 20th century.

Biography
Petr is known for the Petr–Douglas–Neumann theorem in plane geometry, which he proved in 1908, and was independently rediscovered by Jesse Douglas in 1940 and Bernhard Neumann in 1941.

Eduard Čech was a doctoral student of Petr at Charles University in Prague. Petr's doctoral students also included Bohumil Bydžovský and Václav Hlavatý.

See also
Petr–Douglas–Neumann theorem

External links
MacTutor Entry (in Czech)

1868 births
1950 deaths
People from Kutná Hora District
People from the Kingdom of Bohemia
Czech mathematicians
Charles University alumni
Academic staff of Charles University
Mathematicians from Austria-Hungary
Yager

Yager is a combat flight simulation video game developed by Yager Development and published by THQ, Kemco, and DreamCatcher Interactive. It was first released as an Xbox exclusive before later being ported to Microsoft Windows, both in 2003. The Xbox version was released in North America in later 2004, while the PC version was released in North America as Aerial Strike: Low Altitude - High Stakes: The Yager Missions in February 2005. In this game, gamers take on the role of Magnus Tide, a freelance pilot adventurer. Yager and Aerial Strike is set over 20 levels in which the player takes possession of various weapons and ships in an effort to accomplish each mission. The game, while well-received critically, was not a commercial success, largely in part due to a delayed North American release amidst a lack of advertising.

Gameplay
Yager is set in a futuristic world where countries' borders no longer exist and the earth is controlled by a number of megacorporations, most notably DST, as well as Proteus and Lobos Robotics. Although the old countries officially do not exist there are tell tale signs identifying each environment.

The Proteus Islands are a tropical paradise and the headquarters of the Proteus Corporation. The Free Trade Zone, a landscape dotted with turbines and palm trees, is the only zone not controlled by any corporation. The DST zone and surrounding fjords are connected to the Free Trade Zone by a system of caves, rivers, and deltas that run deep into DST territory. Bitterfeld is a desolate area littered with disused industrial buildings, crashed ships, abandoned machinery and other debris left behind by the old Progress Company.

Reception

Yager and Aerial Strike received "mixed or average reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

References

External links
 

2003 video games
Combat flight simulators
DreamCatcher Interactive games
Kemco games
THQ games
Video games developed in Germany
Windows games
Xbox games
Yager Development games
Janousek Racing Boats

Janousek Racing Boats Ltd is a British-based manufacturer of rowing boats / racing shells established in 1981 by Bohumil Janoušek, a Czech rower and Olympic double bronze medallist. 

The boats are made of a honeycomb-sandwich laminate that is heat-cured at high temperatures, producing stronger shells than the more traditional cold-curing method of construction. Janousek was one of the first rowing boat makers in the world to offer this method of rowing boat construction.  Janousek manufacture singles, doubles, coxless pairs, coxless fours and quads (in one of three hull shapes), bow and stern-coxed fours and quads (in one of two hull shapes), and sectional eights. They offer a wide range of boats designed for different average crew weights.

Janousek boats are a very popular choice of club boat in Britain due to their relatively low price and the company's high production capacity, they are also more durable compared with other makes of racing shells.

The Janousek company also owns Stämpfli Racing Boats, another manufacturer of rowing boats which was acquired in 1991.

Janousek boats have been used at all levels of competition including World Rowing Championships with the British men's heavyweight coxed four using a Janousek in the 1983 World Rowing Championships and Italy using one for their lightweight coxless four Gold medal winning crew of 1982.

External links 

 Janousek website

Rowing equipment manufacturers
British companies established in 1981
CKLM

CKLM was a French-language Canadian radio station located in Laval, Quebec (near Montreal). It operated from 1962 to 1994.

The station broadcast on 1570 kHz with a power of 50,000 watts full-time as a class B station, using a directional antenna with different patterns day and night (the nighttime pattern being significantly tighter). While the station's signal was not particularly impressive from a strictly local point of view, the station was received by many DXers in Europe and was considered there as one of the "easy" targets for Transatlantic DX.

CKLM originally began with a variety format and identified itself as "the only unilingual French station in the world", referring to the fact that it only played French-language music (unlike most other French-language stations which played a significant amount of English-language music). It quickly became identified as a strongly nationalist station.

Late in 1967, the station feared that it would lose its licence, after it had broadcast special programming describing the July 1967 visit of French president Charles De Gaulle in Quebec, in which he made his extremely controversial "Vive le Québec libre!" statement. Because of these fears (radio broadcasting is a federal jurisdiction in Canada), the station changed its format to Top 40 (including English-language hits).

CKLM moved from Montreal to Laval in 1976 over the objections of CFGL-FM, which was already operating in that city. That station actually bought CKLM a few years later, but sold it in 1983 to new investors.  The station then suffered from heavy financial difficulties, as listeners deserted the station in droves.

In April 1994, the company which held CKLM's licence (CKLM Radio Laval-Montréal Inc., controlled by Gérard Brunet), went bankrupt and all assets were transferred to a guaranteed creditor (2754363 Canada Inc.).  That company rented the station to Réseau RadioCom Inc., a company operated by René Bourdelais which was already operating the station since January 1, 1994. All of this posed a problem as such changes legally have to be approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), and no approval was sought by any of these companies.

On July 15, 1994, the CRTC determined that there were too many irregularities going on, and it ordered CKLM to go off the air by July 17.  CKLM initially ignored that order, but early on July 20, 1994, the station's transmitter was apparently hit by lightning and CKLM went off the air.  The CRTC was willing to authorize CKLM to go back on the air if a proper application would have been made; there is however no record of any such application ever being made, and in any case the station never returned to the air.

Radio stations CJER, CJSA and CKSJ also left the air in 1994.

The 1570 kHz frequency was reactivated on March 9, 2004, when CFAV (now CJLV) went on the air.

References

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Klm
Laval, Quebec
Klm
Radio stations established in 1962
Radio stations disestablished in 1994
1962 establishments in Quebec
1994 disestablishments in Quebec
KLM
François Combefis

François Combefis (or Combefisius) (November 1605 – 23 March 1679) was a French Dominican patrologist. He published previously unedited works by Saint John Chrysostom.

Life
He was born at Marmande, made his preliminary studies in the Jesuit College at Bordeaux, and joined the Dominican Order in 1624. After finishing his theological course, he became professor of theology, and taught in several houses of his order.

In 1640 he was transferred to Paris where he undertook the publication of patristic texts. He remained there until his death.

Works

He published successively the works of Amphilochius of Iconium, of Methodius of Olympus, and of Andrew of Crete, together with some writings of John Chrysostom not yet in print. In 1648 appeared his Novum Auctarium Graeco-Latinae Bibliothecae Patrum in two parts, exegitical and historico-dogmatic.

The "Historia haeresis monothelitarum sanctaeque in eam sextae synodi actorum vindiciae", which formed part of the historical section of this work, met with much opposition in Rome, principally because it was at variance with the opinions of Bellarmine and Baronius. In an assembly of the French bishops held in Paris, 1655, an annual subsidy was voted to enable him to carry on his publications, the sum voted being subsequently doubled.

In 1656 he edited St. John Chrysostom's "De educandis Liberis", in 1660 a collection of Acts of the martyrs. In 1662 there appeared the "Bibliotheca Patrum Concionatoria", or "Preachers' Library of the Fathers", a rich and comprehensive work, prepared in a painstaking manner from all the available manuscripts, and containing a short historical account of all the authors whose names appeared in the work. Another important work, "Auctarium Novissimum Bibliothecae Patrum", appeared at Paris in 1672.

The three following years saw many publications from the pen of Combefis. In 1674 appeared "Ecclesiastes Graecus, i.e. illustrium Graecorum Patrum ac oratorum digesti sermones ac tractatus", etc. In 1675 appeared "Theodoti Ancyrani adv. Nestorium liber et S. Germani patriarchae Constantinop. in S. Mariae Dormitionem et Translationem oratio historica", and in the same year an edition of the works of Maximus Confessor in two volumes with a Latin translation. A third volume of the works of Maximus Confessor was ready when Combefis died.

Perhaps the most important of the works of Combefis is his edition of St. Basil in two volumes, "Basilius magnus ex integro recensitus, textus ex fide optimorum codicum ubique castigatus, auctus, illustratus, haud incerta quandoque coniectura emendatus. Versiones recognitae", etc. (Paris, 1679). This shows the critical skill of Combefis at its best, though it was later surpassed by the Maurist edition (Paris, 1721–30).

Besides these and several other critical editions of works of the Fathers, there were some polemical works of Combefis.

References

External links
 Partial list of works by François Combefis (Post-Reformation Digital Library)

Attribution

1605 births
1679 deaths
17th-century French historians
French Dominicans
Patristic scholars
People from Marmande
Emmanuel Tuffour

Emmanuel Tuffour (born December 2, 1966) is a retired Ghanaian sprinter. His best performance in a global event was a seventh place at the 1993 World Championships, but at the 1992 Olympics he failed to qualify for the final by 0.01 second. Tuffour is one of the current national record holders in 4 x 100 m relay with 38,12 seconds, achieved at the 1997 World Championships in Athens.As an experienced. retired athletic champion he plans to put up an athletic academy in his country, Ghana to help give the necessary development to the next generation in the year 2020.

International competitions

1Representing Africa
2Did not start in the final

External links

1966 births
Living people
Ghanaian male sprinters
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Ghana
African Games silver medalists for Ghana
African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
African Games bronze medalists for Ghana
Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 All-Africa Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1995 All-Africa Games
20th-century Ghanaian people
21st-century Ghanaian people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Front-mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout

In automotive design, a front-mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout (also called more simply "mid-engine, front-wheel-drive layout", and abbreviated MF or FMF) is one in which the front road wheels are driven by an internal-combustion engine placed just behind them, in front of the passenger compartment.     

In contrast to the front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout (FF), the center of mass of the engine is behind the front axle. This layout is typically chosen for its better weight distribution (the heaviest component is near the center of the car, lowering its moment of inertia). Many early successful (and mostly French) mass-produced front-wheel drive cars used the MF layout, until the 1959 BMC (Austin / Morris) Mini demonstrated the layout and passenger car packaging benefits of mounting the engine transversely in front of the front axle. At first – when well executed – the packaging, space utilization and user experience of MF layout, even in a subcompact or supermini, like the Renault 16 or Renault 5, made many people consider the differences between the FF and MF layouts to be minor.

 However, the mid-engined layout uses central space. The FF layout has since completely supplanted the MF layout, and almost all manufacturers currently fit transverse engines.

Examples of road cars using the MF layout include the Cord 810, BSA Scout, Citroën Traction Avant, Citroën DS, Renault 4 (and derivatives R5 and R6), Renault 16, Saab 900 Saab Sonett mk1, and the Citroën SM, also some commercial vehicles like the Tempo Matador. These vehicles have longitudinal mounted engines; transverse engined vehicles are possible in theory if the issue of passenger footwell location is addressed. The Toyota iQ comes close to this by having its front differential in front of the engine, however despite this, the iQ is still considered to have an FF layout.

Traditionally, the term mid-engine has been reserved for cars that place the engine and transaxle behind the driver and in front of the rear axles , as in the Lamborghini Countach or Ferrari Testarossa, but an engine placed in front of the driver's compartment but fully behind the front axle line also qualifies as mid-engine.

Gallery

References 

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Røldal

Røldal is a village in the municipality of Ullensvang in Vestland county, Norway.  The village lies in the Røldal valley along the Storelva river on the north end of the lake Røldalsvatnet.  Røldal is located about  southeast of the town of Odda.  Røldal was formerly part of the independent municipality of Røldal from 1838 until 1964 when it became a part of Odda municipality. Then in 2020, it became part of Ullensvang.  The 13th-century Røldal Stave Church is located here.

The village is located at the junction of the European route E134 highway and the Norwegian National Road 13.  The E134 highway follows a historic route that connects Eastern and Western Norway, passing right through Røldal.  It is located near the borders of three counties: Hordaland, Rogaland (to the south), and Telemark (to the east).

The  village has a population (2019) of 353 and a population density of .

People from this area use the demonym røldøl for themselves, others who live outside of Røldal generally use the term røldøling.

History
Due to its location near the border of three counties, the parish of Røldal has been part of three different dioceses over the centuries.  It originally belonged to the Diocese of Bjørgvin, but it was transferred to the (new) Diocese of Stavanger in 1125. In 1684, it became a part of the (new) Diocese of Kristiansand. Røldal was finally transferred back to the Diocese of Bjørgvin in 1864.

Historically, the Røldal area was part of the parish of Suldal (to the south), with Røldal being an annex to the main parish.  Suldal and Røldal each had their own churches, but they shared a priest since Røldal was a sparsely populated area and could not support their own priest.  Suldal was located in Stavanger county and Røldal was located in Søndre Bergenhus county.  In 1838, Røldal became a its own municipality which existed until 1964 when it was merged into Ullensvang.

Attractions
Tourists visit Røldal for a number of reasons.  The centuries-old Røldal Stave Church is a preserved museum, but it is also a regularly-used church for the village.  The Røldal skicenter in the Hordadal valley is famous for receiving the most snowfall of any populated area in Norway.  Røldal also is a point for access to the nearby Hardangervidda plateau.  Other places of interest include the Røldal Village Museum (showing a traditional local farm), some iron-age burial mounds, and the Kalvatræet Literature House.

Name
The village is named after the old Røldal farm where the local church (Røldal Stave Church) is located.  The farm was probably named after the valley in which it is located.  The Old Norse form of the name might have been Rœrgudalr.  The first element would then be the genitive case of the local rivername Røyrga (derived from røyrr which means 'rocky ground') and the last element is dalr which means 'dale' or 'valley'.

References

External links

 Røldal Ski center 
 Røldal Tourism
 Røldal - Visit Norway tourism site
 Røldal Stave Church 
 Photos from the national library, pictures taken by Axel Lindahl and Anders Beer Wilse.

Villages in Vestland
Ullensvang
2-choice hashing

2-choice hashing, also known as 2-choice chaining, is "a variant of a hash table in which keys are added by hashing with two hash functions. The key is put in the array position with the fewer (colliding) keys. Some collision resolution scheme is needed, unless keys are kept in buckets. The average-case cost of a successful search is , where  is the number of keys and  is the size of the array. The most collisions is  with high probability."

How it works

2-choice hashing utilizes two hash functions h1(x) and h2(x) which work as hash functions are expected to work (i.e. mapping integers from the universe into a specified range). The two hash functions should be independent and have no correlation to each other. Having two hash functions allows any key x to have up to two potential locations to be stored based on the values of the respective outputs, h1(x) and  h2(x). It is important to note that, although there are two hash functions, there is only one table; both hash functions map to locations on that table.

Implementation

The most important functions of the hashing implementation in this case are insertion and search.
 Insertion: When inserting the values of both hash functions are computed for the to-be-inserted object. The object is then placed in the bucket which contains fewer objects. If the buckets are equal in size, the default location is the h1(x) value.
 Search: Effective searches are done by looking in both buckets (the bucket locations to which h1(x) and h2(x) mapped) for the desired value.

Performance

As is true with all hash tables, the performance is based on the largest bucket. Although there are instances where bucket sizes happen to be large based on the values and the hash functions used, this is rare. Having two hash functions and, therefore, two possible locations for any one value, makes the possibility of large buckets even more unlikely to happen.

The expected bucket size while using 2-choice hashing is: . This improvement is due to the randomized concept known as The Power of Two Choices.

Using two hash functions offers substantial benefits over a single hash function. There is little improvement (and no change to the expected order statistics) if more than two hash functions are used: "Additional hash functions only decrease the maximum by a constant factor."

Some people recommend a type of 2-choice hashing called two-way skewed-associative cache in some CPU caches.

2-left hashing—using two hash tables of equal size n/2, and asymmetrically resolving ties by putting the key in the left hash table—has fewer collisions and therefore better performance than 2-choice hashing with one large hash table of size n.

References

Further reading

Hashing
Dangerous Curves (1961 film)

Dangerous Curves () is a 1962 Soviet film. It is a remake of the 1959 film Naughty Curves (also known as Mischievous Curves) (). The plot revolves around two rival motorcyclists' love for one of the two twin sisters.

The film was shot in Estonia in 1960–61, and released internationally in 1962. It was filmed in the Soviet-designed Kinopanorama format.

In 1999, Fifth Continent Australia Pty Ltd and Vision 146 SARL commissioned the restoration of two reels from the eleven-reel film. These have since been screened at the former New Neon Movies in Dayton, Ohio, the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, California, and most recently at the Bradford Widescreen Festival on 19 March 2008.

Although plans to restore the remaining reels were abandoned in 2001 due to the project's estimated high cost, the complete three-planel camera negatives and sound elements were restored by Nikolay Mayorov to digital 2K for the Russian State Film Archive Gosfilmofond in 2010. This restoration was screened in Tallinn on 14 November 2015 at the CC Plaza Scape screen and later on ETV, the Estonian national television channel, featuring interviews with the principal actors.

Cast
Terje Luik	as Marika / Ellen
Rein Aren as Raul
Peeter Kard as Peeter 
Eve Kivi as Evi
Harijs Liepiņš	as Ants
Rudolf Nuude as Trainer
Jaanus Orgulas as Peeter

References

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1962 films
1960s Russian-language films
1960s sports comedy films
Soviet sports comedy films
1962 comedy films
Estonian comedy films
Soviet-era Estonian films
Runar Søgaard

Runar Søgaard (born 27 June 1967 in Kongsvinger, Hedmark, Norway) is a Norwegian leadership trainer, life-coach, motivational speaker and former preacher. He was earlier married to singer Carola Häggkvist.

In 2012 his business Vinger Consulting AB was threatened with bankruptcy following a lawsuit by On Strategies LLC.

Activism
In April 2005 he created some reaction during a speech in Stockholm, by saying that the Islamic prophet Muhammad had been a pedophile. This led to some condemnation and protests. During the same sermon he also made disparaging remarks about Jesus and Siddharta. Søgaard received threats from radical Islamists. Author and columnist Jan Guillou at the Aftonbladet news paper called for calm and wrote "it would be of great harm for Sweden's Muslims if Søgaard was harmed".

Legal problems
In November 2014, Søgaard was convicted for a third time of violating accounting laws, and sentenced by Nacka district court to two months of prison. He served his two-month sentence, by wearing an ankle monitor.

In 2019 he was convicted for tax evasion. In 2021 he lost in appellate court and was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison. As of 11 June 2021, he is planning to appeal to the Supreme Court. according to Søgaard's lawyer.

Personal life
From 1990 to 2000 Søgaard was married to the successful Swedish singer Carola Häggkvist. Together they have a son, Amadeus, born in 1998. He married for a second time in 2008 and has two sons in that marriage.

References 

1967 births
Living people
People from Kongsvinger
Norwegian emigrants to Sweden
Norwegian critics of Islam
Norwegian prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees of Sweden
Life coaches
Habte Jifar

Habte Jifar (born January 29, 1976 in Ambo, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian middle distance runner. He has a total of three medals in the All-African Games. His best performance in a global event was a sixth place at the 1999 World Championships. He currently specializes in the marathon race.Now at this time he lives in America, and he has three daughters and a lovely wife. He also achieved so many medals.

Achievements

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1976 births
Living people
Ethiopian male long-distance runners
Ethiopian male middle-distance runners
African Games silver medalists for Ethiopia
African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
African Games bronze medalists for Ethiopia
Athletes (track and field) at the 1995 All-Africa Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 All-Africa Games
20th-century Ethiopian people
21st-century Ethiopian people
The Isle of View

The Isle of View is a live acoustic album by rock band The Pretenders, released in 1995. It was recorded in May during a live, televised performance at London's Jacob Street Studios. The Duke Quartet accompanied Chrissie Hynde for much of the performance. The title is a pun (same-sounding phrase or mondegreen) on the words I Love You.

Track listing
All songs written by Chrissie Hynde, except where noted.

"Sense of Purpose" – 3:50
"Chill Factor" – 4:01
"Private Life" – 4:42
"Back on the Chain Gang" – 4:17
"Kid" – 3:56
"I Hurt You" – 4:29
"Criminal" – 4:18
"Brass in Pocket" (James Honeyman-Scott, Hynde) – 3:23
"2000 Miles" – 3:40
"Hymn to Her" (Meg Keene) – 3:52
"Lovers of Today" – 5:19
"The Phone Call" – 2:55
"I Go to Sleep" (Ray Davies) – 2:57
"Revolution" – 6:28
"The Isle of View" – 0:42

Personnel

Pretenders
Chrissie Hynde – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Adam Seymour – lead guitar, harmonium, backing vocals
Andy Hobson – bass guitar
Martin Chambers – drums, backing vocals

Additional personnel
Damon Albarn – piano
The Duke Quartet, whose members at the time were:
John Metcalfe – viola
Louisa Fuller – violin
Richard Koster – violin
Ivan McCready – cello
Mark "Wiff" Smith – percussion

Charts

References

The Pretenders live albums
Albums produced by Stephen Street
1995 live albums
Warner Records live albums
Blonde Vinyl

Blonde Vinyl was an independent record label founded in 1990 by Michael Knott. The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music  describes the label as "one of Christian music's first true indie labels."

Background
Blonde Vinyl signed bands with styles that were viable in the underground of the general market but rarely found their way into the Christian market—old school punk, garage rock, grunge, gothic, EBM/industrial, synthpop/house, spoken word, acoustic pop.

Blonde Vinyl folded in 1993 when its distributor, Spectra, went bankrupt. After bankruptcy, Knott attempted to resurrect Blonde Vinyl under the name Siren Records. Siren managed two releases before going bankrupt: World Tour by LSU Cash in Chaos and Beautiful Dazzling Music No. 1 by Rainbow Rider (Dance House Children). After the failure of Siren, Knott started the band Aunt Bettys.

Sub-labels
Three sub-labels were created to further classify the diverse musical styles that were being released on Blonde Vinyl: Voice of the Youth, SLAVA Music, and Blonde Vinyl Inspirational.

Voice of the Youth was created for the edgier alternative releases on Blonde Vinyl. Six albums were released under this imprint: product # bvcd 3482 (love gift) by Breakfast with Amy, Go, Fluffy, Go! by Fluffy, Screaming Brittle Siren by Michael Knott, The Grape Prophet by L.S. Underground, Plague of Ethyls, and As Blue as the State Allows by Sass o' Frass Tunic.

SLAVA Music existed as an underground industrial music-focused label before joining with Blonde Vinyl for distribution. Three albums were released under this imprint: Digital Priests - the Remixes by Deitiphobia, Revelation 1921 by Wigtop, and the SLAVA compilation.

Blonde Vinyl Inspirational was created for praise and worship music. The only release on this imprint was Quiet Assurance by N Side Out.

Notable artists
Breakfast with Amy
Dance House Children
Dead Artist Syndrome
Deitiphobia
LSU
Lifesavers
Lust Control
Michael Knott
Scaterd Few
Sincerely Paul (2 of the Original Band members of S.P. are in the band SLIDE)
Steve Scott
Tribe of Dan

Compilations
Blonde Vinyl Teaser I (BVCD007 - 1991)
Blonde Vinyl Teaser II / Food for Thought (BVCD0072 - 1991)
SLAVA Compilation - Voice of the People (BVCD3442 - 1992)
Radioactive Hits: The Definitive Blonde Vinyl Collection (84418-885-1 - 1993)

See also
 List of record labels

References

Further reading

External links
Michael Knott's home page
Discogs: Blonde Vinyl
CMA: Blonde Vinyl

Record labels established in 1990
1990 establishments in the United States
Record labels disestablished in 1993
American independent record labels
Indie rock record labels
Alternative rock record labels
Christian record labels