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Roger Brown (basketball, born 1950)

Walter Roger Brown (February 23, 1950 – October 18, 2023) was an American National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA) basketball player.

Amateur career
A 6'11" center out of Englewood Technical Prep Academy in Chicago, he played collegiate basketball for the University of Kansas, averaging a double-double of 11.9 ppg and 11.3 rpg in his senior season, helping the Jayhawks to the Final Four in the 1971 NCAA University Division basketball tournament.

Professional career
Drafted in the 4th round by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1971 NBA draft, Brown played one game for LA before being released.  He quickly signed with the Carolina Cougars of the rival ABA, averaging 2.4 ppg in limited duty.  He spent 1973-74 with the San Antonio Spurs and the  Virginia Squires in the ABA, but would sit out the 1974-75 season.

Brown started the 1975-76 season with the Denver Nuggets in the ABA, but would return to the NBA, signing with the Detroit Pistons in January 1976, and would spend the remainder of that season and the following 1977-78 season with Detroit, backing up All-Star Bob Lanier,  and helping Detroit to two post-season playoff berths.  Brown followed former Pistons coach Herb Brown to the Western Basketball Association and the Tucson Gunners for 1978-79, winning a WBL championship with a third-team All-WBL season.  He would then return to the NBA in 1979 with his hometown Chicago Bulls for a 4-game stint to finish his professional career.

Roger Brown died in Chicago on October 18, 2023, at the age of 73.

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Italian Centre of Vexillological Studies

The Centro Italiano Studi Vessillologici (Italian Centre of Vexillological Studies), or CISV, is a free, non-profit association of vexillology and heraldry lovers. The centre aims principally at promoting vexillological studies and preserving related documents. It was founded in 1972 in Turin and is a FIAV member since 1973.

Starting from 1974, the centre has an official, six-monthly, journal called Vexilla Italica (Latin for "Italian Flags"), reserved to its members.

See also
 FIAV

External links
 Official site 

International Federation of Vexillological Associations
Michael Heller (law professor)

Michael A. Heller is a Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School. He concentrates on property law. Heller coined the term "tragedy of the anticommons" while working as a law professor at University of Michigan Law School in a 1998 Harvard Law Review article, "The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets."

Heller is a graduate of the Quaker Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, Harvard College, and Stanford Law School.  He worked as a summer associate at the Washington, DC white shoe law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP.

From 1994 to 2002, Heller taught at the University of Michigan Law School. He joined the Columbia Law School faculty in 2002.

Heller has focused on private property laws and international property dilemmas by publishing such articles as "The Liberal Commons" (with Hanoch Dagan) in the Yale Law Journal in 2001, and "A Property Theory Perspective on Russian Enterprise Reform," in Assessing The Rule of Law in Transition Economies, also in 2001. His "Tragedy of the Anticommons" has sparked a debate among intellectual property theorists that continues to be discussed today. In 2008, Heller's book, The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives, was published.

References

External links
 Michael Heller, AtGoogleTalks, August 19, 2008

Harvard College alumni
Stanford Law School alumni
Columbia University faculty
Living people
Columbia Law School faculty
University of Michigan Law School faculty
Sidwell Friends School alumni
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Vazhachal Falls

Vazhachal Falls is situated in Athirappilly Panchayath of Thrissur district in Kerala on the southwest coast of India. Located on the west-flowing Chalakudy River near the Vazhachal Forest Division and at the edge of the Sholayar ranges, it is just 5 km from entrance of Athirappilly Falls. It is located 36 km from Chalakudy.

See also
 Athirappilly Falls
 Charpa Falls
 Chalakudy
 List of waterfalls in India
 List of waterfalls in India by height
State Highway 21 (Kerala)

References

External links

 

Waterfalls of Thrissur district
KVSP

KVSP (103.5 FM) is a mainstream urban radio station serving Central Oklahoma, Licensed to Anadarko and owned by the locally based Perry Broadcasting.  Its studios are located at Perry Plaza II in the Eastside district of Oklahoma City and its transmitter is located in Alfalfa, Oklahoma. The tower the transmitter antenna is located on is the tallest structure in the state of Oklahoma, although Oklahoma City itself is in the "distant" area of the coverage area, according to Radio-Locator.com.. This is due to the 103.5 frequency being four spaces away from the 104.1 frequency in Oklahoma City, making it difficult to properly cover the market.

History
KRPT-FM went on the air as a Country station in 1981 serving the Anadarko area. The station later changed its calls to KRMP in March 2003 and became known as "Superstar Country 103.5." The station moved to southwest of Oklahoma City from Anadarko in July 2004 and became KVSP "Power 103.5" with a Mainstream Urban format making it Oklahoma City's first Urban station on the FM dial since KAEZ (Now Sports KRXO-FM) departed in 1985.

Meanwhile, KVSP was launched as an Urban Contemporary radio station in 1993 on 1140 AM and was called Power Jammin' 1140.  It was the first African American-owned and operated station under Perry Broadcasting's ownership as the Oklahoma radio market was not serving the Black community too well at the time based on Perry's perceptions; Perry would later acquire and launch sister station KJMM in Tulsa the year after as part of the "Power Jammin' Network". For years KVSP played Hip Hop, R&B, Old School/Classic Soul and Gospel for years, and was the home of the Tom Joyner Morning Show.

When KVSP relocated to the FM dial position in 2004, it was renamed Power 103.5. Upon the transition, KVSP modified its format to Mainstream Urban and began carrying the Doug Banks Morning Show.  As for the 1140 AM frequency, it is now an Urban adult contemporary formatted station as Heart & Soul, swapped call letters KVSP for KRMP (previously on 103.5), and aired The Tom Joyner Morning Show. After Doug Banks went off the air for good,KVSP replaced it with The Rickey Smiley Morning Show. In January 2020, when The Rickey Smiley Morning Show was sent to Sister Station KRMP when The Tom Joyner Morning Show went off the air for good, KVSP replaced the show with the new syndicated Urban Morning Show The Morning Hustle.

External links
KVSP station website
Perry Publishing and Broadcasting

VSP
Mainstream urban radio stations in the United States
Chris Langemeier

Chris Langemeier  was a member of the Nebraska Legislature in the United States.

Personal life
He was born in Schuyler, Nebraska and graduated from Schuyler Central High School and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  He held many positions in the Lower Platte North Natural Resources District.  He is a real estate broker.

State legislature
He was elected in 2004 to represent the 23rd Nebraska legislative district.  He served as the chairman of the Natural Resources committee and was a member of the Banking, Commerce and Insurance committee; the executive board of the Legislative Council; and the Intergovernmental Cooperation committee.

References
 

Living people
Republican Party Nebraska state senators
University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
People from Schuyler, Nebraska
Year of birth missing (living people)
Somerset Island

Somerset Island may refer to:

 Somerset Island, Bermuda
 Somerset Island (Nunavut), Canada
Burj Al Alam

The Burj Al Alam (English: "World Tower") was a proposed 108-story,  hyperboloid skyscraper in the Business Bay area of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, though the project's roots are in a 101-storey design called "Fortune 101" and slated for the Dubai Marina area. It was designed to resemble a crystal flower. If constructed, it would have become one of the world's tallest buildings. The tower was one of the projects of the Fortune Group, which has a number of other projects in Dubai such as the Fortune Bay and Fortune Tower.

The proposed building plan contained 74 floors of office space, a retail area at the base, and a hotel and serviced apartments in the top 27 floors. A 5-star hotel section would contain the highest hotel rooms in the world. The building would also feature a 6-storey crown that contained a Turkish bath, sky garden, and other club facilities.

Ground breaking occurred on 12 November 2006 with the tower slated for completion in 2009, but the project was dogged by delays in payments from investors due to the global financial crisis. Construction of the tower was put on hold just after piling work on the foundations was completed in 2009. The main contractor for construction had not yet been selected when a report stated the structure was expected to be completed in 2012. There was little sign of activity at the site after 2009, and no further statements regarding progress. The pit dug out for foundations was allowed to fill with water, and , satellite maps of the site revealed it had been filled in and levelled.

Sometime in 2012, the tower's official website expired and is now domain parked.  By the end of 2013, the project had been officially cancelled.  the Burj Al Alam was listed by the Dubai Real Estate Regulatory Agency's Cancelled Real Estate Projects Committee as among the list of cancelled projects awaiting liquidation hearings.

Construction gallery

See also
List of tallest buildings in Dubai
List of tallest buildings in Asia
List of buildings with 100 floors or more

References

External links 
Burj Al Alam on Emporis.com
Details of launch - AME Info
Another Article - Gulf News
Al Alam Burj Dubai - Al Alam Burj Dubai

Unbuilt buildings and structures in Dubai
Postmodern architecture
Expressionist architecture
High-tech architecture
Architecture in Dubai
Futurist architecture
Islamic architecture
Tamers of Nonhuman Threats

Tamers of Nonhuman Threats (TNT for short) is a continuing storyline in Walt Disney's Donald Duck comic books.

The storyline began when Fethry Duck was enlisted in the secret international organization, whose purpose it is to find and counter paranormal threats to humanity before the public finds out about them and panics. Because of Fethry's general eagerness to involve Donald in his every interest, Donald involuntarily learned of the organisation and was enlisted too.

Characters
 The Head: A large dark-skinned man who leads the organisation with an effective leadership style.
 Katrina Kolik: A rough and tough female agent who functions as Donald's and Fethry's frequent supervisor. She believes in serious-minded, traditional secret agent behavior, and Donald's and Fethry's unorthodox methods often get on her nerves.
 Snort: A small, blue space alien with a long snout. He is the organisation's alien expert and also participates in training new agents. He speaks only in a strange grunting language which some other characters understand, but Donald and Fethry do not.
 Jackson and Finch: Two moderately experienced agents who enlisted Donald and Fethry and later became somewhat jealous of them.
 Boysenberry: A female mechanic, at least once enlisted as a saboteur.

Enemies Donald and Fethry have faced on their TNT missions include a strange blue jelly-like organism that grew everywhere (Blue Rain), a shapeshifting alien pirate (Gilor Borax), a horde of ghost rats killed by the Pied Piper, and a kingdom of demon-like monsters, led by monster king Molok Mak, who were about to break loose from their underground habitat.

The TNT pays their agents well for each mission but demands that the organisation be kept in total secrecy.  When Donald groused that he was not paid by a German town for eliminating their ghosts, the Head reminds Donald that he was under cover and that any payment would have gone to TNT.  TNT also does nonconfrontational work, such as cleaning up a gigantic mess of skunk oil that Donald created in Duckburg, while he was on a mission.

Publication history
The TNT series was created by Lars Jensen (writer), Flemming Andersen (artist), and David Gerstein (editor/co-writer) for Egmont Creative A/S (Denmark), and Egmont's European affiliate publishers have generally published the full TNT series in local editions.  Non-Egmont European publishers have thus far generally published most, but not all, of the stories. North America's Gemstone Publishing published the first five, with IDW Publishing more recently publishing the second five.

In 2014, Lars Jensen ceased to be the series' main writer. The series was largely taken over by writers Byron Erickson (six TNT stories) and Maya Åstrup (three TNT stories), though Jensen would later return to write more chapters (2021 onward).

References

External links
 
 Tamers of Nonhuman Threats at David Gerstein's blog

Donald Duck comics
Disney comics stories
Cliff Young Australian 6-day race

The Cliff Young Australian 6 Day Race was an ultramarathon race that takes place in Colac, Victoria.  One of a small handful of Six Day races around the world, the Cliff Young has had many fine performances culminating in November 2005 with Yiannis Kouros, arguably the best multiday runner in the world, setting a new world 6 Day record.  It started in 1983 and was renamed in 2004 after Cliff Young, a Colac farmer and winner of the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne Westfield's Ultramarathon in May 1983.

History 
After Cliff Young (a potato farmer) won the ultramarathon in 1983, the City of Colac was inspired to stage a 1000-mile race in Cliff's honour - the 1983 Cliff Young Colac 1000 which started in Melbourne and ended in the Colac Memorial Square.

In the following year, the City of Colac announced its decision to stage a six-day race. A 400-meter track was created in the Memorial square and named in his honour. Initially named the 1984 Colac Ultra Marathon, it later became known as the Australian Six Day Race - Colac.  Fourteen runners entered the inaugural race including the great Yiannis Kouros and British multiday runner Eleanor Adams-Robinson.  Kouros easily won, covering over 1022 km, setting a new world record and Adams-Robinson also broke 11 world records.

The race was renamed in early 2004 in honour of Cliff Young, who died on the 2nd of November 2003.

In 2005, at the age of 49, Yiannis Kouros returned to the recently renamed race and again demonstrated his unparalleled capacity by setting a new Six Day World Record by covering just over 1036 km, breaking the course record and set new world record times for covering 500 km and 1000 km in his age group.

The event has not been held since 2005, despite an effort from Australian marathon runner Lee Troop to revive the race in 2008.

References 

 Coolrunning.com.au Yiannis Kouros - A legend in the making - by Andy Milroy
 Coolrunning.com.au 1983-1991 Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Experiences by Kevin Cassidy
 Ultrarunning.com - Ultrarunning magazine
 Multidayrunning.com - Multiday Running magazine

Other 6 Day races
 6jours-antibes.com - Antibes (FRA)
 cosibullig.de - Erkrath GER)
 SriChinmoyRaces.org - Self-Transcendence (USA)
 Ultradistance.za - Toyota (RSA)

Australian 6 Day Race - (Australia, South Australia)

Multiday races
Sports competitions in Victoria (state)
Colac, Victoria
1984 establishments in Australia
Recurring sporting events established in 1984
2005 disestablishments in Australia
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2005
Liza Wright

Liza Wright served George W. Bush  as Assistant to President for Presidential Personnel and Director of Presidential Personnel. She was responsible for leading the team that recruits thousands of candidates for all senior-level positions within the Bush Administration.

Liza Wright previously served in the Bush administration as a Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel.  Prior to joining the administration, Wright was a principal at Heidrick & Struggles, an executive search company.

She was previously an executive recruiter at Capital One Financial Corporation. Wright received her bachelor's degree from James Madison University.

References

DePauw University News: Presidential Aide Liza Wright Discusses White House Hiring and "Cronyism" at DePauw Discourse 2005. September 16, 2005, Greencastle, Indiana
Political Chicks: Liza Wright

James Madison University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
MyLifeBits

MyLifeBits is a life-logging experiment begun in 2001. It is a Microsoft Research project inspired by Vannevar Bush's hypothetical Memex computer system. The project includes full-text search, text and audio annotations, and hyperlinks.  The "experimental subject" of the project is computer scientist Gordon Bell, and the project will try to collect a lifetime of storage on and about Bell.  Jim Gemmell of Microsoft Research and Roger Lueder were the architects and creators of the system and its software.

MyLifeBits is an attempt to fulfill Vannevar Bush's vision of an automated store of the documents, pictures (including those taken automatically), and sounds an individual has experienced in his lifetime, to be accessed with speed and ease. For this, Bell has digitized all documents he has read or produced, CDs, emails, and so on. He continues to do so, gathering web pages browsed, phone and instant messaging conversations and the like more or less automatically. The book Total Recall describes the vision and implications for a personal, lifetime e-memory for recall, work, health, education, and immortality.
In 2010, Total Recall was published in paperback. , Bell was no longer using the wearable camera associated with the project. He described the rise of the smartphone as largely fulfilling Bush's vision of the Memex.

See also 
 Dymaxion Chronofile
 Lifelog
 Microsoft SenseCam

References

External links 
 MyLifeBits - Microsoft Research Archived version.
 Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell – A look into Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, Part I Channel9 video, including MyLifeBits material.
 Flogging Gordon Bell's Memory Thinking about how lifelogs, or flogs, would fundamentally change psychotherapy and psychiatry.
 "A Head For Detail" Clive Thompson, Fast Company

Microsoft Research
Lock and Dam No. 2

Lock and Dam No. 2 is located along the Upper Mississippi River near Hastings, Minnesota and construction commenced in 1927.  The eastern dam portion is  wide and has 19 tainter gates.  A hydroelectric station that produces about 4.4 megawatts is owned by the city of Hastings, while the  lock is operated by the St. Paul district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Mississippi Valley Division.  There's also a wide earthen dam on the western side of the facility.

Following construction, the original lock walls settled and began to lean out of alignment, so a replacement lock was built.  It was finished in 1948.  A rehabilitation phase ran from 1987 to 1995. In 2009, Lock and Dam No. 2 became home to the nation's first commercial, federally licensed hydrokinetic power facility, which is a partnership between the City of Hastings and Hydro Green Energy, LLC of Westmont, IL.

See also
Mississippi National River and Recreation Area

References

External links
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District: Lock and Dam No. 2
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District: Lock and Dam 2 brochure
Google Maps: Lock and Dam No. 2
USGS, Locks 1 through 13

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Mississippi Valley Division
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Trusted Network Connect

Trusted Network Connect (TNC) is an open architecture for Network Access Control, promulgated by the Trusted Network Connect Work Group (TNC-WG) of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG).

History
The TNC architecture was first introduced at the RSA Conference in 2005. TNC was originally a network access control standard with a goal of multi-vendor endpoint policy enforcement.

In 2009 TCG announced expanded specifications which extended the specifications to systems outside of the enterprise network. Additional uses for TNC which have been reported include Industrial Control System (ICS), SCADA security, and physical security.

Specifications
Specifications introduced by the TNC Work Group:
 TNC Architecture for Interoperability 
 IF-IMC - Integrity Measurement Collector Interface  
 IF-IMV - Integrity Measurement Verifier Interface
 IF-TNCCS - Trusted Network Connect Client-Server Interface
 IF-M - Vendor-Specific IMC/IMV Messages Interface 
 IF-T - Network Authorization Transport Interface
 IF-PEP - Policy Enforcement Point Interface
 IF-MAP - Metadata Access Point Interface 
 CESP - Clientless Endpoint Support Profile
 Federated TNC

TNC Vendor Adoption
A partial list of vendors who have adopted TNC Standards:

 ArcSight
 Aruba Networks
 Avenda Systems
 Enterasys
 Extreme Networks 
 Fujitsu
 IBM
 Pulse Secure

 Juniper Networks
 Lumeta
 McAfee
 Microsoft
 Nortel
 ProCurve
 strongSwan
 Wave Systems

Also, networking by 
 Cisco
 HP
 Symantec
 Trapeze Networks
 Tofino

TNC Customer Adoption
The U.S. Army has planned to use this technology to enhance the security of its computer networks.

The South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services has tested a TNC-SCAP integration combination in a pilot program.

See also
IF-MAP
Trusted Computing
Trusted Computing Group
Trusted Internet Connection

References

Sources
Dornan, Andy. “'Trusted Network Connect' Puts Hardware Security Agent In Every PC”, “Information Week Magazine”, UBM Techweb Publishing.
Vijayan, Jaikumar. “Vendor Group Adds Net Access Specs”,  “Computer World Magazine”, IDG Publishing.
Higgins, Kelly Jackson. “Trusted Computing Group Widens Security Specs Beyond Enterprise Networks”, “Dark Reading”, UBM Techweb Publishing.
Townsend, Mark. “Naked endpoints on your net, and what to do about them”, “SC Magazine”, Haymarket Media.
Fang, Juan and Zeng, Hongli. “The Model of Trusted Network Connect Based on Credibility of the Hierarchy”, nswctc, vol. 2, pp. 454–457, 2010 Second International Conference on Networks Security, Wireless Communications and Trusted Computing, 2010.
Howard, Scott (2010-06)(“Securing SCADA and Control Networks”,  “urunkoruma.com”.

External links
 Trusted Network Connect 
 Specifications
 TNC SDK

Computer network security
Trusted computing
Nudie Jeans

Nudie Jeans is a Swedish denim brand founded in 2001 by Maria Erixon and headquartered in Gothenburg. Its parent company is Svenska Jeans Holding.

Origin
Erixon has stated that she is drawn to designing jeans because "the more you wear and repair jeans, the more character they have. Denim is a living fabric that changes over time – and they are for everyone, of all ages and genders".

Business practices 

Nudie Jeans have prioritised sustainability and social responsibility in their business practices. The company switched to organic cotton in the 2010s and offer free repairs to customers. The company also recycles some old products. The company has a goal of being a fully transparent company.

The company's cotton is sourced from India, Turkey and Italy, and manufacturing primarily takes place in Italy. According to CEO Palle Stenberg, its garment workers are paid a living wage. It has stores in Sweden, the UK, Australia, Japan, Spain, Germany and Switzerland.

Finances
As of 2003, the company had 12 employees, revenue of 93 million Swedish kronor ($ million US dollars) and a net income of 13.6 million kronor ($ million US dollars). 70% of  revenue was generated outside of Sweden.  In 2004, Nudie's net income increased by 70%.

In 2019, Nudie Jeans increased its net revenue to 489.4 million SEK ($ million US dollars). As of 2021, the total number of global employees rose  to 199 people.

See also
2010s in fashion

References

External links
 

Clothing companies established in 2001
Clothing companies of Sweden
Clothing brands of Sweden
Companies based in Gothenburg
Jeans by brand
Swedish companies established in 2001
Manufacturing in Italy
Fair trade brands
Eddie M

Eddie Mininfield, known professionally as Eddie M, is a saxophonist who was born and raised in Berkeley, California. He began playing at seven years old.

He has recorded and performed with Prince & the Revolution, Sheila E., Jill Jones, Beyoncé, Paula Abdul and Stevie Nicks, among others. In addition to his studio work, Eddie M has toured with Yolanda Adams, Wayman Tisdale and Acoustic Alchemy. He was a member of the house band on The Magic Hour.

Eddie M's solo releases include  Hold Me (1997), Ward Street (1998), and Eddie M. (2001) which features Eric Benét and Karyn White.

Discography 
 Merry Arizona 97: Desert Stars Shine at Christmas (1997)
 Eddie M & Blueshound (2003)

External links

References 

American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
Acoustic Alchemy members
Musicians from Berkeley, California
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American saxophonists
Jazz musicians from California
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Kiliyur Falls

Kiliyur Falls is a waterfall on the Periyaaru river in the Shervaroyan hill range in the Eastern Ghats, Tamil nadu, India. The waters overflowing the Yercaud Lake fall  into the Kiliyur Valley.

See also
List of waterfalls in India
List of waterfalls in India by height

Notes

External links

Photos

Waterfalls of Tamil Nadu
Eastern Ghats
Tourist attractions in Salem district
Texas Genco

Texas Genco was  a  power generation company that came about as part of the  deregulated Texas electricity market and owned numerous power plants in the Houston area that serve area power needs.   The Company was created in 2001 as part of the Texas electricity market deregulation.  Incumbent utilities were required to separate their business functions into a retail electric provider (REP), a transmission and distribution service  provider (TDSP), and a wholesale generator.

In 2000, Reliant Energy announced that it was splitting its business into separate regulated and unregulated businesses.
This split formed Reliant Resources, an unregulated electricity and energy company, and Centerpoint Energy, the remaining mostly regulated energy delivery company. Reliant Energy's power plants became a wholly owned subsidiary of Centerpoint Energy. The new company was known as Texas Genco.

When the state of Texas deregulated the electricity market, the former Houston Lighting & Power (HL&P) was split into several companies. In 2003 HL&P was split into Reliant Energy, Texas Genco, and CenterPoint Energy.

Seeking opportunities arising out of the deregulation of the electricity industry in Texas, in late 2004 four private equity firms—the Texas Pacific Group, the Blackstone Group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and Hellman & Friedman of San Francisco—combined forces to purchase Texas Genco from the transmission & distribution provider utility Centerpoint Energy for Houston.

This coalition of firms acquired Texas Genco—which was the second largest operator of power generation facilities in the state—for a price of approximately $1.9 billion and using just $900 million in cash.

In late 2005, these private equity firms announced the sale of Texas Genco to NRG Energy of Princeton, N.J., for a price of roughly $5.9 billion. The investors achieved a gain of almost $5 billion over the space of an investment holding period of less than 18 months, a return that will mark one of the most lucrative private equity investments in recent years.

See also 

Genco

External links
Deregulation of the Texas electricity market
"The Deal That Even Awed Them in Houston," by Simon Romero, The New York Times

References

NRG Energy
Companies based in Houston
Companies established in 2001
Energy in Texas
Corporate subsidiaries
Macpherson Stadium

Macpherson Stadium may refer to one of the following:

Macpherson Stadium, Hong Kong
Macpherson Stadium (North Carolina)
Adyanpara Falls

Adyanpara Falls is a cascading waterfall in the Kurmbalangodu village of Nilambur taluk in Kerala, India. It is  from Nilambur town, and attracts tourists from various parts of Kerala. This is a seasonal waterfall. During Summer, water flow is low. This waterfall is of a natural cascading style as the waterfall descends over the rock. Adyanpara Weir is situated near to this falls.

Gallery

See also
List of waterfalls in India

References

Waterfalls of Kerala
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse is a book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1910. The book tells the story of a wood mouse named Mrs. Thomasina Tittlemouse and her efforts to keep her house in order, despite the appearance of uninvited visitors. A particularly annoying visitor for Mrs Tittlemouse is Mr. Jackson, a sloppy toad. 

Mrs. Tittlemouse first appeared in Potter's The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. An animated adaptation of the story was featured on the BBC television anthology series, The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends in 1992.

Plot

The story chronicles the hardships of the wood mouse Mrs. Tittlemouse, who tries to keep her home tidy. She turns away unwanted visitors: beetles, a ladybird, and a large spider seeking shelter from the rain. Along one of her passageways she runs into Babbitty Bumble, a bumblebee, and in a storeroom she comes across a nest of four more bees, whom she is unable to remove. 

Mrs. Tittlemouse sends the uninvited ladybird off with a variant of  the traditional nursery rhyme Ladybird Ladybird: "Your house is on fire, Mother Ladybird! Fly away home to your children!". She then runs into a spider who asks her: "Beg pardon, is this not Miss Muffet's?", a reference to the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet.

Upon returning to her parlour, she finds the neighbour from the drain below, Mr. Jackson the toad, sitting in her rocking chair, wet and dripping water onto the floor. He stays over dinner, but declines to eat any of the food Mrs. Tittlemouse offers him; she mops up his footprints as he rummages for honey. When Mr. Jackson finds the bees he pulls out their nest. 

After Mr. Jackson departs, Mrs. Tittlemouse spends a fortnight on cleaning all the mess in her home. She uses twigs to make her front door narrower. She then holds a party for five other little mice—Mr. Jackson, being no longer able to fit through the door, sits outside drinking honey.

Background
The character of Mrs Tittlemouse first appeared in Beatrix Potter's children's book The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, which was first published in July 1909.

The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse was originally produced by Potter in the form of a book with a leather cover. It was given to.Nellie Warne, the young daughter of Potter's Publisher, Harold Warne as a New Year's gift.

Adaptions
An animated adaptation of the story, shown interspersed with The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, was featured on The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends in 1992.

References

Sources

External links

 
 
 The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse at the Internet Archive
 Peter Rabbit official website

1910 children's books
 British children's books
Mrs. Tittlemouse, The Tale of Mrs.
Tittlemouse
Picture books by Beatrix Potter
Frederick Warne & Co books
Children's books about mice and rats
Poison Clan

Poison Clan was a Southern hip hop group signed to Luke Records from 1990 to 1995. The group had various lineups and members were JT Money, Debonaire, Drugz, Uzi, Madball and Big Ram.

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

Compilations 

American hip hop groups
Southern hip hop groups
Musical groups from Miami
Gangsta rap groups
Ribes alpinum

Ribes alpinum, known as mountain currant or alpine currant, is a small deciduous, dioecious shrub native to central and northern Europe from Finland and Norway south to the Alps and Pyrenees and Caucasus, Georgia; in the south of its range, it is confined to high altitudes. It is scarce in western Europe, in Britain being confined to a small number of sites in northern England and Wales.

R. alpinum grows to  tall and  broad, with an upright and dense shape. The bark is initially smooth and light grey, later it becomes brownish grey and eventually starts to flake off. The buds are scattered, compressed and light green to white. The leaves are palmate. The upper side of the leaves are dark green with scattered hair, while the bottom is light green. The male and female flowers are on distinct specimens. Both kinds of flowers are organized in clusters in the corners of the leaves, where the male's are the longest. The individual flowers are small and greenish-yellow. The fruit is red, clear and resembles a redcurrant, but has an insipid taste. The seeds germinate readily.

References

alpinum
Flora of Europe
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Dioecious plants
KGOU

KGOU is a National Public Radio member news/talk/jazz music/blues music radio station serving the Oklahoma City area, western and northwestern Oklahoma, and towns in Pontotoc, Seminole and Grady counties.  It is licensed to the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma.  It is operated by OU's College of Continuing Education (OU Outreach), with studios in Copeland Hall on the OU campus. The staff consists of ten full-time and four part-time employees.

The station operates four full-power satellites: KROU (105.7 FM) in Spencer, KWOU (88.1 FM) in Woodward, KOUA (91.9 FM) in Ada, Oklahoma, and KQOU (89.1 FM) in Clinton, Oklahoma.  It also operates translators K276ET (103.1 FM) in Seminole, K250AU (97.9 FM) in Ada, K295BL (106.9 FM) in Chickasha and K286BZ (105.1 FM) in Shawnee.

The Clinton facility was added in December 2017, when Cameron University transferred its license for KCCU transmitter KYCU to KGOU. The move expands KGOU's listener base to 32 counties, nearly all in central, western and east-central Oklahoma. The new call sign for the Clinton transmitter is KQOU.

History
KGOU was originally licensed as a commercial rock music station to the University of Oklahoma in 1970, broadcasting at 106.3 FM. OU applied for a non-commercial Class A license and switched the station's format to NPR news and talk on New Year's Day, 1983. The studios were originally located in Kaufman Hall on the OU campus.

The station's repeater network began more or less out of necessity. KGOU's main signal operates at 6,000 watts, which is fairly modest for a full NPR member on the FM band. This was necessary to protect what is now KTUZ-FM at nearby 106.7. As a result, KGOU's signal is spotty at best in most of Oklahoma City. To solve this problem, soon after joining NPR, OU sought a license for a repeater station that would better cover the northern suburbs.  This station, KROU, officially signed on June 28, 1993. It was the first in a network of repeater stations that cover much of central and western Oklahoma.

KGOU's format is primarily news/talk on weekdays, with jazz, blues, and world music programs on weekends, broadcasting programs from NPR, PRI and other public radio networks alongside locally produced news and music programming.

KGOU renovated space in Copeland Hall on the OU campus in 2006 and moved its broadcasting studios that fall.

Repeaters

Translators

References

External links
KGOU station website

GOU
NPR member stations
Jazz radio stations in the United States
GOU
Radio stations established in 1970
1970 establishments in Oklahoma
Ronning Gardens

Ronning Gardens, located in a remote location near the northwest tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada,  were established by Norwegian settler Bernt Ronning around 1910.  Over the years, Ronning planted nearly  with many species of trees, shrubs and flowers collected from all over the world.

After he died in 1963, Ronning's garden was reclaimed by the temperate rainforest of northern Vancouver Island. However, some years later the property was purchased and the new owners began restoring the gardens.

Nearby communities
 Holberg
 Winter Harbour

See also

 Cape Scott Provincial Park

References
 Vancouver Island Garden Trail
  Regional District of Mount Waddington
 Historical notes & photos

Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia
Quatsino Sound region
Populated places in the Regional District of Mount Waddington
Gardens in Canada
Norwegian Canadian settlements
Prosopium

Prosopium is a genus of freshwater whitefishes found in North America and parts of eastern Russia. It contains three fairly widespread species: the round whitefish, the pygmy whitefish, and the mountain whitefish. The remaining species, the Bonneville cisco, the Bonneville whitefish, and the Bear Lake whitefish are endemic to Bear Lake.

Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:

References

 
 Molly Hallock and Paul E. Mongillo, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife "Washington State Status Report" (1998).

 
Extant Miocene first appearances
Ray-finned fish genera
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
Meat Katie

Mark Pember, also known as Meat Katie, is an English electronic musician. He creates music making hybrid sounds by combining several genres of music; tech-funk, techno, tribal, hip hop, breakbeat and house music. Several of his releases appeared on Kingsize Records during the late nineties and early 2000s. He currently owns, manages and records for the label LOT49 along with Dylan Rhymes. The label's artists include Dopamine, Kid Blue, Vandal, Odissi, Elite Force, and Lee Coombs. Meat Katie was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Breakbeat award at the 2006 Breakspoll awards.

Discography 

Off the Bone (1998)
Long to Belong (2001)
Vibrator (2006)
Next Life (2016) - Lyrics & vocals by: Ithaka - Album: Back In The Day / Lowering The Tone Records [UK]

Compilations 

Destination Australia '02 (2003)
Bedrock Breaks (2004)
Beyond the Darkness (2002)
FabricLive.21 (2005)
Ministry Of Sound Presents Sessions: Vol. 8.1 (2008)

References

External links 
 Official Site

 Interview with Meat Katie

British DJs
British electronic musicians
Living people
Breakbeat musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Electronic dance music DJs
Truckee Meadows Community College

Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC) is a public community college and technical college in the Truckee Meadows of Reno, Nevada. The college is primarily a commuter campus  with 5 locations. TMCC offers students both certificate and associate degrees. In 2015, TMCC was approved to offer two Bachelor of Applied Science degrees, one in Logistics Operations Management and the other in Emergency Management and Homeland Security.

From 1971 to 1979, the college was a branch of Western Nevada Community College. Its current name is based on its primary service area, Truckee Meadows in Reno and Sparks. The college has more than 500 faculty members and is accredited by the Northwest Commission on College and Universities. The college serves more than 13,000 students each semester in state-supported classes. TMCC is regionally accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.

Academics
The college offers a university-transfer program and a wide variety of occupational and applied technical programs, including a large number of developmental courses, particularly in mathematics and English to prepare students to take university transfer courses. Starting in the 1980s, the student demand for courses and programs created a need for more facilities. In addition to expanding the Dandini Campus, the college established the William N. Pennington Applied Technology Center (March 1999), Meadowood Center (February 2003), the Nell J. Redfield Foundation Performing Arts Center (September 2003) and the William N. Pennington Health Science Center, located at the Redfield Campus (September 2005).

The college offers degrees and certificates in 50 programs of study. Popular programs include: Health Professions and Related Programs, Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities, and Science Technologies/Technicians. The college also offers a Bachelor's of Applied Science degree in Emergency Management and Homeland Security and Logistical Operations Management.

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1971 establishments in Nevada
Buildings and structures in Reno, Nevada
Education in Washoe County, Nevada
Universities and colleges established in 1971
Nevada System of Higher Education
Two-year colleges in the United States
Universities and colleges accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
Community colleges in Nevada
Macpherson Stadium, Hong Kong

MacPherson Stadium () was an indoor stadium that played an important role to the development of youth recreation in Hong Kong. Located at Yim Po Fong Street, on the edge of Mong Kok, a high population density area, it had a capacity of 1,850.

The stadium was within Queen Elizabeth II Youth Centre (). It was adjacent to the Macpherson Playground () which has a football pitch and acts as a gathering place for youth. The stadium was managed by the Hong Kong Playground Association.

It hosted the official 1983 Asian Basketball Championship.

Name
On 4May 1929, the Hong Kong Government founded the Playing Fields Committee to provide social welfare services to local children, J. L. McPherson being among the founding members. On 4 May 1933, when the Children's Playgrounds Association became a reality, McPherson was named Honorary Secretary. John Livingstone McPherson (1874-1947) had been a missionary assigned to Hong Kong from Canada, working for the YMCA of Hong Kong from 1905 to 1935. At his retirement, appreciation was shown for the work he had done in Hong Kong, among which was the founding of the Children's Playground. Macpherson left for Canada in 1935, but lived out the remainder of his life in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England and died there in 1947.

History

The stadium was opened by the Governor Sir Alexander Grantham on 7 September 1953, while the foundation stone was laid by the Duchess of Kent. It held its last basketball tournament in October 2008 and was demolished for a residential complex and a new indoor stadium.

Redevelopment

The site was redeveloped into MacPherson Place, a complex comprising the new MacPherson Stadium (), a youth centre, and two residential towers (1A and 1B), collectively named MacPherson Residence (). Developed by Kowloon Development and the Hong Kong Playground Association, it comprises 293 apartments. The address of MacPherson Place is 38 Nelson Street. The foundation stone of its predecessor, Queen Elizabeth II Youth Centre, has been preserved within.

References

External links

 Website of the new Macpherson Stadium
 Website of MacPherson Residence

Former buildings and structures in Hong Kong
Mong Kok
Sports venues in Hong Kong
Taekwondo venues
Music venues in Hong Kong
Klaus Biemann

Klaus Biemann (November 2, 1926 – June 2, 2016) was an Austrian-American professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work centered on structural analysis in organic and biochemistry. He has been called the "father of organic mass spectrometry" but was particularly noted for his role in advancing protein sequencing with tandem mass spectrometry following pioneering work conducted in this area by Michael Barber.

Career and research
Biemann was born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1926. Following in the footsteps of his father, he studied pharmacy at the University of Innsbruck where he graduated in 1948. He was drafted into the Wehrmacht during the final months of World War II and was sent to aid the divisions retreating before the Soviet Army on the Eastern Front. Fearing capture, he deserted with a friend to travel back to Innsbruck. He received his PhD at the University of Innsbruck supervised by Hermann Bretschneider in 1951. He started his work on his habilitation, but instead moved to the MIT in 1955 to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of George Büchi. Two years later with the assistance of Büchi, he was offered a faculty position at MIT in the analytical chemistry division where he turned his focus to peptide analysis and sequencing. Before embarking on his new research, however, Biemann decided to buy a mass spectrometer and use it to study peptides instead. He used his background in organic chemistry to modify peptides so that they become volatile and entered the gas phase, making them amenable to electron ionization, the only feasible ionization technique at the time. He partnered on the NASA Viking mission project to Mars which failed to detect organic matter on its the surface in 1976.

Awards and honors
 Stas Medal of the Belgian Chemical Society (1962)
 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1966)
 Fritz Pregl Medal of the Austrian Microchemical Society (1977)
 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1977)
 Guggenheim Fellow (1983)
 Field and Franklin Award in Applied Mass Spectrometry from the American Chemical Society (1986)
ACS Analytical Chemistry Award from the American Chemical Society (2001)
 Thomson Medal from the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation (1991)
Pehr Edman Award (1992)
 Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1993)
 Beckman-ABRF Award from the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (1995)
 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry from the Franklin Institute (2007)

References

1926 births
2016 deaths
American biochemists
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Mass spectrometrists
Thomson Medal recipients
Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureates
Aristodemo Costoli

Aristodemo Costoli (1803–1871) was an Italian sculptor who spent his entire career in the city of Florence.  He is also known for attempting in 1843 to clean and conserve the famed Renaissance-era sculpture David by Michelangelo; unfortunately his hydrochloric acid cleaning solution  removed the stone's waxy protective coating and left the surface pitted and porous. His students included Emilio Zocchi, Girolamo Masini, Augusto Rivalta and his son Leopoldo Costoli.

Partial anthology of works

Florence
 Galileo in Tribune of Galileo, at Museo della Specola (1832);
 Christophe Colomb, at musée du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle (France);
 Pegasus, in Giardino di Boboli;
 tondo dedicated to Arnolfo di Cambio in Duomo di Firenze;
 bust of Cosimo Buonarroti and Rosina Vendramin, in Casa Buonarroti;
 Monument to L. Matteucci (1845), in Badia Fiorentina;
 Discovery of America, in Hall 5 of Galleria d'arte moderna (Firenze) in Palazzo Pitti;
 Monument to Galileo, niche in the ground-floor courtyard of the Uffizi Gallery (1851);
 Jeremiah (Palazzo Pitti);
 Funeral Monument to Della Gherardesca (Santa Maria del Fiore a Lapo);
 Bas-relief of Villa Paolina (Sesto Fiorentino).

Other cities in Italy
 Genoa: Prudence and Columbus placing flag on Beach (1862), monument to Christopher Columbus.
 Ancona: Monument to Cavour (1868), with statue dedicated to Cavour and two bas-reliefs, at Cavour square.
 Pisa: Monument to Angelica Catalani (1859), at Camposanto.
 Lucca: Bust of Leopold II,  Museo nazionale di villa Guinigi.

Other countries:
 Santiago, Chile: Monument to Pedro de Valdivia Saint Petersburg: Memorial to Ekaterina Arkadievna Kotchoubey and her daughter Vera France, La Rochelle, Musée du Nouveau Monde, La découverte de l'Amérique, marbre blanc, 78x40x26 cm
 Private commissions, England.

References

Mackay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze'', Antique Collectors Club,  Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977

1803 births
1871 deaths
Sculptors from Florence
19th-century Italian sculptors
Italian male sculptors
19th-century Italian male artists