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Blumlein pair

Blumlein pair is a stereo recording technique invented by Alan Blumlein for the creation of recordings that, upon replaying through headphones or loudspeakers, recreate the spatial characteristics of the recorded signal.

The pair consists of an array of two matched microphones that have a bi-directional ("figure-eight") polar pattern, positioned 90° from each other. Ideally, the transducers should occupy the same physical space; since this cannot be achieved, the microphone capsules are placed as close to each other as physically possible, generally with one centered directly above the other. The array is oriented so that the line bisecting the angle between the two microphones points towards the sound source to be recorded (see diagram). The pickup patterns of the pair, combined with their positioning, delivers a high degree of stereo separation in the source signal, as well as the room ambiance.

The Blumlein pair produces an exceptionally realistic stereo image, but the quality of recordings is highly dependent on the acoustics of the room and the size of the sound source.

Both ribbon and condenser microphones can be used for Blumlein-pair recording. A few types of stereo ribbon microphones (B & O, Royer , AEA) have even been purpose-built for just this type of recording. Several types of stereo condenser microphone (Neumann, AKG, Schoeps, Nevaton BPT) have also offered a Blumlein arrangement as one of their possible configurations. Individual microphones with variable patterns (such as those from Pearl/Milab) can be used. The Soundfield microphone used to make Ambisonic recordings can be adjusted to mimic two microphones of any pattern at any angle to each other, including a Blumlein pair.

In his early experiments at EMI with what he called "binaural" sound, Blumlein did not use this actual technique because he did not have access to figure-eight microphones. This meant that he had to develop ways of using omnidirectional microphones to record what we now know as stereo sound. In the claims he made in his U.K. patent application in 1931, as well as details of these techniques, he included the theoretical possibility of using directional microphones in what later became known as a Blumlein pair. During the period when Blumlein's patent (British Patent 394325) was being written, Harry F. Olson published a patent for the first practical ribbon microphone, and much of the later experimental work was carried out with this type of microphone

It is unclear when this approach became known as the Blumlein pair, although it does not appear to have been known by that name during his lifetime.

References

External links

 Visualization XY Stereo System – Blumlein Pair Eight/Eight 90° – Intensity Stereo

Microphone practices
Stereophonic techniques
Peloponnesians

Peloponnesians may refer to:

The inhabitants of the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece
The Peloponnesian League, an alliance of Peloponnesian city-states led by Sparta (from the middle of the 6th century BC to the 360s BC)
Information Systems Professional

The Information Systems Professional (I.S.P), or Informaticien professionnel agréé (I.P.A. in French), is a professional designation issued by the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS).  Introduced in 1989, the professional designation is recognised by legislation in most provinces of Canada.  Before meeting the entry requirements for professional status an applicant may use the "Candidate Member I.S.P" designation.

CIPS has developed the Computer Science Accreditation Council (CSAC), and the Information Systems and Technology Accreditation Council (ISTAC) to accredit baccalaureate programs in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, Computer Systems Technology, Applied Information Technology, and post-diploma type programs in Canada.  These accredited programs combined with several years of experience lead to the I.S.P. designation.

See also
 Fédération de l'informatique du Québec

External links
 CIPS

Legislation
 Alberta:  Professional and Occupational Associations Registration Act, R.S.A. 2000, c. P-26, Information Systems Professional Regulation, Alta. Reg. 39/1997
 British Columbia: Society Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, s.s. 86-93 (Occupational Titles Protection)
 New Brunswick: Canadian Information Processing Society of New Brunswick Act, 2001, c. 49
 Nova Scotia: Canadian Information Processing Society of Nova Scotia Act, S.N.S. 2002, c. 3
 Ontario: An Act respecting Canadian Information Processing Society of Ontario, 1998, c. Pr5
 Saskatchewan: Canadian Information Processing Society of Saskatchewan Act, S.S. 2005, c. C-0.2

Computer science education
Information technology qualifications
Nova Scotia Federation of Labour

The Nova Scotia Federation of Labour (NSFL) is the Nova Scotia provincial trade union federation of the Canadian Labour Congress.

It was founded in 1956, and has a membership of 70,000 members up to May 2017 when that grew to 80,000 members when the Nova Scotia teachers union joined.  Its conventions are held every two years, normally in October.  There is also an off year conference between conventions.

The majority of the labour unions in the province are affiliated to the NSFL with some notable exceptions such as the Nova Scotia Union of Public and Private Employees.  Also, several building trade unions are not affiliated to the NSFL, instead they are affiliated to the Mainland Building Trades Council.

The NSFL campaigns on a variety of issues most recently including the Right-to-Strike, free and fair collective bargaining, defending and expanding Medicare, the manufacturing crises, creating quality, public early childhood education, supporting Buy Local campaigns and working with other social partners like the Canadian Federation of Students to reduce tuition fees and the Canadian Center Of Policy Alternatives on economic concerns.

The NSFL also supports the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party and many affiliates are nonpartisan.

Its current President is Danny Cavanagh and the Vice President is Jason McLean.

In May 2017 for the first time in the history and under the leadership of President Cavanagh the 11,000 members of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union passed a motion with a 77% majority to join the Federation. In April 2017, the 600 members of CUPE local 3890 also affiliated.

See also

 History of Nova Scotia

Further reading
 David Frank, J. B. McLachlan: A Biography: The Story of a Legendary Labour Leader and the Cape Breton Coal Miners (1999)
 Ian McKay, "'By Wisdom, Wile or War:' The Provincial Workmen's Association and the Struggle for Working-Class Independence in Nova Scotia, 1879-97," Labour/Le Travail, (Fall 1986), 18:13-62  online
^ Paul MacEwan, Miners and Steelworkers: Labour in Cape Breton (1976

Canadian Labour Congress
Provincial federations of labour (Canada)
Trade unions established in 1956
1956 establishments in Nova Scotia
I-spread

The Interpolated Spread, I-spread or ISPRD of a bond is the difference between its yield to maturity and the linearly interpolated yield for the same maturity on an appropriate reference yield curve. The reference curve may refer to government debt securities or interest rate swaps or other benchmark instruments, and should always be explicitly specified. If the bond is expected to repay some principal before its final maturity, then the interpolation may be based on the weighted-average life, rather than the maturity.

See also
 Asset swap spread
 Option-adjusted spread
 Z-spread

References

Bond valuation
Fixed income analysis
One Must Fall: Battlegrounds

One Must Fall: Battlegrounds is a fighting game for Microsoft Windows. Developed by American studio Diversions Entertainment and co-published in December 2003 by Diversions Publishing and Trisynergy Inc. following nearly 7 years of development, One Must Fall: Battlegrounds brought the One Must Fall series into a second installment released in an age where the gaming world expected graphics and gameplay in three dimensions with internet gameplay an integral portion of the offering.

Background
Battlegrounds started development as a sequel to the popular shareware title One Must Fall: 2097, playing in a side-scrolling manner with two opponents facing each other. At the time, Rob Elam saw the opportunity in the Unreal Engine then in development by 2097 publisher Epic MegaGames. At the time, Epic was not yet at a point where they were willing to examine licensing the engine or developing the Unreal Engine for third-party use and so a joint decision was reached whereby Rob Elam left to develop a new game engine. Kenny Chou (composer of 2097) didn't return in this installment because at this point Diversions Entertainment had Saul Bottcher as their own in-house composer.

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.

Jeff Gerstmann of GameSpot noted that the game lacked polish from start to finish, and had much higher system requirements than advertised to achieve a decent frame rate, and even then slow down is noticeable when increasing the resolution. Audio effects were labelled generic and the music was said to sound like it was taken from the Amiga demo scene.

References

External links
 

2003 video games
Fighting games
GMX Media games
Tri Synergy games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows-only games
Windows games
Science fiction video games
Video game sequels
Video games about robots
Flyak

The Flyak is a hydrofoil adaptation to the conventional kayak. It uses twin hydrofoils designed to raise the hull out of the water to increase the speed. Speeds of up to 27.2 km/h (7.6 m·s−1, 16.9 mph) can be achieved on calm water.

Design
The Flyak has two hydrofoil fins below the surface of the water to create lift. At high speeds the entire hull is lifted 15 cm (5.9 in) from the water, reducing the drag and allows greater speeds – reportedly more than twice the speed of a conventional kayak.

History
The Flyak was designed by Einar Rasmussen and Peter Ribe in Norway and released in 2005. The hydrofoil lift method is well established for motor- and man-powered water craft, but the Flyak is the first to incorporate the design into a commercially marketed kayak. Initial price estimate is US$2500.

Comparisons and records 
A 200 m sprint was performed pitting Olympic athlete Andreas Gjersøe in a Flyak against the four-man Norwegian National Team in a K4 kayak November 13, 2005. This race was featured on "Beyond Tomorrow" broadcast on February 8, 2006. It was reported that the Flyak won by a boat length and a half. A K1 sprint specialist in a conventional kayak would expect to be some five seconds slower than a four-man boat over 200 m.

See also
Kayak
Human-powered hydrofoil
Human-powered watercraft
Hydrofoil

References

External links
 YouTube video of Flyak in motion
 Human-Powered-Hydrofoils.com
 The International Hydrofoil Society 

Kayaks
Hydrofoils
WVIK

WVIK (90.3 FM) is the flagship National Public Radio station for the Quad Cities region of eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois. It is based in Rock Island, Illinois, and licensed to and owned by Augustana College. The studios are located on Augustana's campus in Rock Island. The station also operates two low-powered translators – K240DZ at 95.9 FM in Dubuque, Iowa and the HD2 subchannel airs on W252EM at 98.3 in Davenport, Iowa.

The station signed on for the first time on August 25, 1980, on 90.1 FM. The Quad Cities had been one of the last areas of Iowa and Illinois without a city-grade signal from an NPR station. Prior to 1980, the only source of NPR programming in the area had been a low-powered translator of Cedar Falls' KUNI, though much of the area got grade B coverage from Iowa City's WSUI. In 1991, it moved to its current frequency, and activated its Dubuque translator in 1996.

In March 2022, WVIK announced plans to realign its programming streams. The full-power 90.3 FM signal will air NPR news and talk programming full time, while the 105.7 FM translator in Davenport will carry classical programming 24/7. As part of the realignment, the 105.7 FM frequency will be upgraded to cover more of the Quad Cities.

On May 1, 2023 the programming realignment on WVIK took place with WVIK's main signal airing NPR news and talk and the translator and HD2 subchannel airing classical music.

References

External links
WVIK, Quad Cities NPR website

Augustana College (Illinois)
VIK
WVIK
Radio stations established in 1980
Radio stations in the Quad Cities
Prince Edward Island Federation of Labour

The Prince Edward Island Federation of Labour (PEIFL) is the Prince Edward Island provincial trade union federation of the Canadian Labour Congress.

External links
Official website

Canadian Labour Congress
Provincial federations of labour (Canada)
Andrea Matteo Acquaviva

Andrea Matteo Acquaviva, 8th Duke of Atri (1458–1529) was an Italian nobleman and condottiero from the Kingdom of Naples. Born in Conversano, Puglia, he was the second son of Duke Giulio Antonio Acquaviva and his wife Caterina Orsini del Balzo. She was a first cousin of Queen Isabella, the wife of King Ferrante of Naples. 

He and his brothers were educated in Naples by the humanist scholar Giovanni Pontano. In 1464 he became Marquis of Bitonto. In September 1477, Andrea Matteo married Isabella Piccolomini of Aragon, the daughter of King Ferrante's natural daughter, Maria of Aragon. Maria's husband, Antonio Todeschini Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, was a nephew of Pope Pius II and brother of Pope Pius III. In 1478, he purchased from the royal state property the fief of Sternatia in Terra di Otranto. 

He was prepared by his father for the life of arms, fighting with him in Tuscany (1478) and then in Otranto against the Turks in 1481. His elder brother Giovanni Antonio died in Pisa in 1479. Upon the death of his father in Otranto, Andrea Matteo, as the elder surviving son, inherited the title of Duke of Atri and Count of S. Flaviano, which made him feudal lord of much of Abruzzo. He also received the maternal fiefdoms with the title of Count of Conversano. In 1482, during the War of Ferrara, he fought for Ferdinand I of Naples on behalf of the king's son-in-law, Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara against Pope Sixtus IV and his Venetian allies.

In 1485, he joined the Conspiracy of the Barons, perhaps because the Aragonese did not want to return Teramo to Acquaviva. Eventually defeated, he was one of the few barons spared, due to the intervention of his father-in-law, Antonio Piccolomini, who happened to be the King's son-in-law.

Andrea Matteo distinguished himself as a partisan of the French. He was made prisoner by Consalvo of Cordova and carried into Spain; but his confinement was not long; and on his return to Naples he became a patron of letters. He was kept away from political life, due to suspicious of his past as an advocate of the French cause. In 1510, Andrea Matteo and other barons assemble in Naples Cathedral to protest the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition into the territory. The following year, he returns the collar of the French Order of Saint Michael. He died in Puglia in 1529.

To literary men he was indeed a benefactor—hence the encomia which have been lavished upon him, and which, more than any merit of his own, obtained him distinction. Yet he wrote one book at least, a commentary on the Latin translation of Plutarch's Moralia. A member of the Accademia Pontaniana, he was one of the most important humanist princes in southern Italy.

References

1456 births
1528 deaths
15th-century Neapolitan people
Italian male writers
15th-century condottieri
16th-century condottieri
16th-century Italian writers
16th-century male writers
Andrea Matteo Acquaviva
16th-century Neapolitan people
Marika Matsumoto

is a Japanese actress. From 2001 and 2003, she was known as "Mini Stop-chan", acting as the mascot for the Ministop convenience store chain commercials in Japan. She is the owner of a unique voice and has held a recital with upcoming star Satoshi Tsumabuki. Since November 2005, she has been on the A&G Radio Show: Anisupa! segment Anisupa Kōnin Akujo Queen. Her major roles in anime include Maya Tōmi in Fafner in the Azure, Chocolat Meilleure in Sugar Sugar Rune, Miwako Sakurada in Paradise Kiss, Kazamori Sasa in Un-Go and Diancie in Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction. In video games, she provides the voice of Rikku in Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, and Kingdom Hearts II. In live-action films, she portrayed herself in the Kōji Shiraishi-directed horror film The Curse, and Yuka Morita in the Takashi Shimizu film Reincarnation.

Filmography

Live-action film

Live-action television

TV anime

Animated films

Video games

Other work

References

External links
 
Official agency profile 
タレントデータバンク 松本まりかインタビュー 

1984 births
Living people
Japanese film actresses
Japanese television actresses
Japanese video game actresses
Japanese voice actresses
Voice actresses from Tokyo
21st-century Japanese actresses
Muria Christian Church in Indonesia

Muria Christian Church in Indonesia (also known as the Muria Mennonite Christian Church in Indonesia or GKMI which stands for Gereja Kristen Muria Indonesia in Indonesian ) is one of three Indonesian church synods which are members of Mennonite World Conference (MWC). The church reports more than 16,000 members living in Java, Bali, Sumatra and Kalimantan.  

GKMI started as an indigenous Christian movement begun by a Chinese Indonesian couple by the name Tee Siem Tat and Sie Djoen Nio in the city of Kudus in north Central Java before 1920. The group  identified with the Mennonite family of churches when the first believers sought baptism from Russian Mennonite missionaries working under the Dutch Mennonite Mission (Doopsgezinde Zendingsvereeniging) in the Muria area in December 1920. This group organized itself in 1925 using the Dutch language name Chineesche Doopsgezinde Christengemeente (Chinese Mennonite Congregation) and was recognized by the government of the Dutch East Indies in 1927. By the 1940s a half dozen congregations had been formed incorporating also groups of Chinese Indonesian believers who had come to faith through the ministries of the Mennonite missionaries working mostly among the Javanese population in the area. They sometimes also used the Chinese name Tiong Hwa Kie Tok Kau Hwe (Chinese Christian Church). They organized themselves into a synod called Khu Hwee Muria in 1948. By 1958 they changed the name of the synod to Persatuan Gereja-Gereja Kristen Muria Indonesia (Union of Muria Christian Churches of Indonesia). The  GKMI sprang up in Chinese Indonesian communities in the towns surrounding Mount Muria, an ancient volcano along the north coast of in Central Java. Since 1960 it has spread beyond the Muria area and into other ethnic groups on the four main islands of western Indonesia.

See also
 Javanese Mennonite Church

References 
 THE MURIA STORY, A HISTORY OF THE CHINESE MENNONITE CHURCHES OF INDONESIA, by Lawrence M. Yoder (Kitchener, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2006). 
 "Union of Muria Christian Churches of Indonesia" in MENNONITE ENCYCLOPEDIA, vol. V., pp. 692-695). 
 TUNAS YANG TUMBUH, SEJARAH GEREJA KRISTEN MURIA INDONESIA, by Yudha Lelana alias Lawrence M. Yoder (Semarang, Indonesia: Muria Church Publishers, 2000 and 2002, in two volumes.

1925 establishments in the Dutch East Indies
Mennonite denominations
Mennonite World Conference
Mennonitism in Indonesia
Christian organizations established in 1925
Religious organizations based in the United States
OLN (disambiguation)

OLN (Outdoor Life Network) is a Canadian cable television channel.

OLN may also refer to:
 NBCSN, an American television channel known as OLN from 1995 to 2006
 Lago Musters Airport (IATA airport code), serving Sarmiento, Chubut Province, Argentina
 Olin Corporation (New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol), a manufacturing conglomerate
Psychorama

Psychorama, also called the precon process, is the act of communicating subliminal information through film by flashing images on the screen so quickly that they cannot be perceived by the conscious mind. It is a subset of subliminal messaging that is applied only through non-verbal messages in film.  The name most commonly refers to a "gimmick" in commercial movie production (sometimes using the marketing phrase "filmed in psychorama" as a play on the more common "filmed in Technicolor").

History
In 1958, a film called My World Dies Screaming (later retitled Terror in the Haunted House) marked Hollywood's first attempt to make use of this technique. At different points in this film, a skull is flashed to inspire terror, a snake to inspire hate, two hearts to inspire love, and large letters spelling out "blood" to create fear. It was produced by William Edwards, written by Robert C. Dennis, and directed by Harold Daniels. It starred Gerald Mohr and Cathy O'Donnell. Makeup was handled by Harry Thomas, who worked on a number of Ed Wood movies in the 50s. The plot concerned a woman who is brought by her husband to live in an old house that she saw many times before in her nightmares, and she desperately tries to get him to leave the house before something terrible happens. This technique was called an example of the "pure hype and hucksterism" surrounding subliminal messaging in the 1950s.

The following year, 1959, saw another film produced using this same format, titled A Date with Death. This film also starred Gerald Mohr, coincidentally.

The technique of psychorama has also been featured in more recent films, including The Exorcist and Fight Club. In the latter film, Tyler Durden splices images of pornography into family movies that play at the movie theater he works at as a part-time projectionist.

The band Evanescence used this technique in their Sweet Sacrifice music video. In it, images of bones, skulls, houses, fires, and videos of the band performing are flashed at various intervals. Evanescence also utilized samples from "My World Dies Screaming" in some versions of their song "Understanding", the demo of "Whisper" and the introduction to the album Origin.

The TV show Babylon 5 featured an in-universe reference to supposed psychorama (the words "Trust the Corps" and "The Corps is Your Friend" appear on screen for four frames), although it is debatable whether intentional in-universe references are true psychorama.

The name "psychorama" has also been used as the title of a film festival for the psycho film genre.

References

External links

Communication
Yukon Federation of Labour

The Yukon Federation of Labour (YFL) is the Yukon trade union federation of labour chartered by the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). Although the Yukon is not, strictly speaking, a province, the CLC has recognized the YFL as a provincial federation of labour with the same standing as those of the ten Canadian provinces.

The YFL was founded in 1980 and has a membership of over 5000.

External links
 www.yukonfed.com

Canadian Labour Congress affiliates
Provincial federations of labour (Canada)
Trade unions established in 1980
Louis Beam

Louis Ray Beam, Jr. (born 1946) is an American white supremacist and neo-fascist.

After high school, he joined the United States Army and served as a helicopter door-gunner in Vietnam. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Once he returned to the United States, he became a Klansman, leading a maritime Louisiana KKK element and Klan rally in Texas against government help to Vietnamese immigrant fishermen. He was also the leader of the Texas Emergency Reserve, a militia that was disbanded by the courts in 1982 as a result of a lawsuit filed under Texas anti-militia law by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The lawsuit was brought by SPLC after the militia harassed Vietnamese fishermen during the 1981 fishing season.

Beam was using Camp Puller near Houston in 1980 to train militia, including children as young as eight years old, in armed guerrilla tactics; the camp was shut down after publicity led to protests, and parents complaining that they were not aware of the children's activities at the camp. The Boy Scouts Council of Houston rejected a charter request from the troop at Camp Puller. Videotape shown during the shrimper hearing had Beam saying, "We're going to assume authority in this country."  He moved to Idaho afterwards and became active with Aryan Nations in the early 1980s.

In 1988, he was later acquitted in a separate case of conspiring to overthrow the government. He is considered to be the first important proponent of the strategy of leaderless resistance within the white supremacist movement.

See also
Vietnamese Fisherman's Association v. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

References

External links
 Louisbeam.com - Essays by Louis Beam
 Entry with the ADL/LEARN
 Essays by a klansman : being a compendium of Ku Klux Klan ideology, organizational methods, history, tactics, and opinions, with interpolations by the author

1946 births
Living people
People from Lufkin, Texas
American neo-fascists
Accelerationism
United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War
Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)
American Protestants
American conspiracy theorists
Aryan Nations
Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragons
Patriot movement
People extradited from Mexico to the United States
United States Army soldiers
Sovereign citizen movement individuals

People acquitted of crimes
Statenville, Georgia

Statenville is an unincorporated community and the county seat of Echols County, Georgia, United States. It is a census-designated place (CDP), with a population of 1,040 at the 2010 census. The ZIP code is 31648, and the area code 229.

History
The town of Statenville was originally called Troublesome. It grew up at a ford on the Alapaha River in the 1850s. Troublesome was renamed Statenville when the latter was designated county seat in 1858 of the newly-formed Echols County. It is named for James Watson Staten, but was erroneously incorporated as "Statesville" in 1859. In 1965, the state officially amended the city's charter to read "Statenville". In 1995, a new state law revoked the city charter, along with dozens of others in Georgia which had inactive governments. This left Echols and Webster as the only counties in Georgia with no incorporated communities whatsoever.

Columbia County has the unincorporated county seat of Appling, though most court functions take place in Evans.

Knoxville is the unincorporated county seat of Crawford County, with the city of Roberta just to its west that grew with the railroad.

Geography
Statenville is located in western Echols County, just east of the Alapaha River. U.S. Route 129 passes through the community, leading north  to Lakeland, south  to the Florida border, and south  to Jasper, Florida. Georgia State Route 94 crosses US 129 in the center of Statenville, leading east  to Fargo and northwest  to Valdosta.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Statenville CDP has a total area of , all land.

Education 
The Echols County School District consists of two schools. The district has 40 full-time teachers and over 700 students.

The South Georgia Regional Library operates the Hansford Allen Echols County Library. Named after timber and turpentine farmer Handsford Allen, who contributed money towards the establishment of the library, it is the smallest library in the system. It opened on July 19, 1992, with its construction funded by State of Georgia money. The community previously had its library in other locations: first in a Methodist church and later in the school district superintendent's courthouse office.

References

External links 

 Echols County, Georgia, including the communities of Statenville, Howell, Mayday, Fruitland, Needmore, Potter, Tarver, and Haylow

Unincorporated communities in Georgia (U.S. state)
Unincorporated communities in Echols County, Georgia
County seats in Georgia (U.S. state)
Census-designated places in the Valdosta metropolitan area
Babine Lake

Babine Lake ( ) or Na-taw-bun-kut ("Long Lake") is the longest natural lake in British Columbia, Canada.

Babine Lake is located northeast of the town of Burns Lake in central British Columbia, some  west northwest of the city of Prince George.  It is  long,  wide, and has a net area of  and a total area of , including islands on the lake which cover . It lies at an elevation of .

It drains northwest into the Babine River, an important tributary of the Skeena.

There are several provincial parks on Babine Lake:
 Babine Lake Marine Provincial Park
 Pendleton Bay site
 Smithers Landing site
 Topley Landing Provincial Park
 Red Bluff Provincial Park

Babine Portage

Babine Portage is a campsite located about 12 km north of the Portage Yekooche Reserve along a gravel road, on the west end of Babine Lake. The name originates from the 19th century, when the site was used as an entry point for canoes portaging to the Hudson's Bay Company post.

In the past, there were five cabins on the east side of the creek and seven on the west side, but in 2003, all but three were ignited by grass fires and burned down.

Although people from Tache, Fort St. James, and Prince George visit the area, it is mostly used by members of Yekooche First Nation, who spend most of the summer there before returning to Portage Reserve in the fall. The lake provides them with salmon and kokanee, while moose, deer and bear hunting can be done nearby around Salt Lake, Frank's Meadow, and a lagoon west of the camp. People also fish at 4 Mile and 6 Mile Creek, east of the camp near Quarter Island. People from Yekooche rely on their catch from Babine Portage for winter food.

An important local tradition at Babine Portage involves t'es-ing up first-time visitors, which means to rub coal on their cheeks to ward off bad weather at the camp. (t'es means charcoal in the Babine language.)

Climate

References

Lakes of British Columbia
Skeena Country
Bulkley Valley
Omineca Country
Babine
Range 5 Coast Land District
Peter Hutton (filmmaker)

Peter Barrington Hutton (August 24, 1944 – June 25, 2016) was an American experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world.  He also worked as a professional cinematographer, most notably for his former student Ken Burns, as well as cinematography for Lizzie Borden's "Born in Flames," Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman's "Committed," assorted films by artist Red Grooms and Albert Maysles' The Gates.

Early life and education
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Hutton studied painting, sculpture, and film at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Career
In 1987, Hutton was awarded Best Cinematography for his work on Phil Hartman's feature film "No Picnic" at the Sundance Film Festival.

In 2011, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress selected "Study of a River" as one of 25 films annually chosen. He  taught filmmaking at CalArts, Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase, and Bard College, where he served as the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program since 1989.

Much of Hutton's career was influenced by his time in the merchant marines.

Hutton's films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco and Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst in Berlin. In May 2008 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a full retrospective of Hutton's films. His most recent work, Three Landscapes, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2013.

Hutton died of cancer at the age of 71 on June 25, 2016.

Selected filmography
In Marin County (1970)
July '71 in San Francisco, Living at Beach Street, Working at Canyon Cinema, Swimming in the Valley of the Moon (1971)
New York Near Sleep for Saskia (1972)
Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-1974) (1973-1974)
Florence (1975)
Boston Fire (1979)
New York Portrait: Chapter One (1978-1979)
New York Portrait: Chapter Two (1980-1981)
Budapest Portrait (Memories of a City) (1984-1986)
Landscape for Manon (1986)
New York Portrait: Chapter Three (1990)
In Titan's Goblet (1991)
Lodz Symphony (1991-1993)
Study of a River (1996-1997)
Time and Tide (2000)
Looking at the Sea (2001)
Two Rivers (2001-2002)
Skagafjordur (2002-2004)
At Sea (2007)
Three Landscapes (2013)

Exhibitions
 2010: Les Rencontres d'Arles, France.

References

External links
Peter Hutton at Canyon Cinema Cooperative
Peter Hutton at Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst
Interview with Peter Hutton

1944 births
2016 deaths
American experimental filmmakers
Hampshire College faculty
Harvard University faculty
Bard College faculty
Artists from Detroit
Patrick Ellis (educator)

Br. Patrick Ellis  (Baltimore, November 17, 1928 – Lincroft, February 21, 2013) was an American member of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the De La Salle Christian Brothers. He was the 13th president of The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C., from 1992 to 1998 and President of La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1977 to 1992.

Early life
He was born Harry James Ellis Jr. in Baltimore, Maryland, and entered the novitiate of the brothers in 1945, being given the religious name of Felician Patrick. He graduated in 1946 from Calvert Hall College High School and joined the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He then attended the Catholic University of America, where he was granted a bachelor's degree in literature in 1951. Following his graduation, he was sent on his first teaching assignment at West Philadelphia Catholic High School for nine years.

Educational career
In 1960, Ellis joined the faculty at La Salle College in Philadelphia as a member of the English Department. He was sent to serve as the principal of La Salle-Immaculata High School in Miami, which focused on educating the children of refugees from post-revolutionary Cuba until 1964, when he returned to La Salle, where he was named president in 1977.

During his tenure as La Salle president, Ellis doubled the size of the campus and oversaw the building of new residence halls and a new modernized library. While president he continued to teach English literature courses as he had during his 30 years as a professor at La Salle.

In 1992 he was offered the position of President of The Catholic University of America. He served in this office until 1998. The Catholic University of America has named the Brother Patrick Ellis Chair in Education in his honor.

Last years
Following his departure from the presidency, Ellis spent five years working in fundraising for his Province. He then retired to their nursing home in Lincroft, New Jersey, from acute leukemia. He was buried at the Brothers' cemetery near Baltimore, Maryland.

References

External links 
Biography at cua.edu

1928 births
2013 deaths
Educators from Baltimore
De La Salle Brothers
Roman Catholic religious brothers
Catholic University of America alumni
Presidents of La Salle University
Presidents of the Catholic University of America
Deaths from acute leukemia
Burials in Maryland
Reproductive value (population genetics)

Reproductive value is a concept in demography and population genetics that represents the discounted number of future female children that will be born to a female of a specific age. Ronald Fisher first defined reproductive value in his 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection where he proposed that future offspring be discounted at the rate of growth of the population; this implies that sexually reproductive value measures the contribution of an individual of a given age to the future growth of the population.

Definition
Consider a species with a life history table with survival and reproductive parameters given by  and , where
  = probability of surviving from age 0 to age 
and
  = average number of offspring produced by an individual of age 

In a population with a discrete set of age classes, Fisher's reproductive value is calculated as
 
where  is the long-term population growth rate given by the dominant eigenvalue of the Leslie matrix. When age classes are continuous,
 
where  is the intrinsic rate of increase or Malthusian growth rate.

See also
 Population dynamics
 Euler–Lotka equation
 Leslie matrix
 Senescence

Notes
 Fisher, R. A. 1930. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection.  Oxford University Press, Oxford.
 Keyfitz, N. and Caswell, H. 2005. Applied Mathematical Demography. Springer, New York. 3rd edition. doi:10.1007/b139042

References

Population genetics
Senescence
KALA (FM)

KALA (88.5 MHz) is a non-commercial public FM radio station in Davenport, Iowa, serving the Quad Cities radio market.  It is owned by St. Ambrose University with studios on West Locust Street.  It airs a mix of news and specialty music shows.  Most of the news programs come from National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Radio Exchange (PRX).   The station's musical lineup includes mainstream and fusion jazz, blues, Americana music, Southern gospel, urban gospel, Latin contemporary, classic rock, oldies, urban contemporary, world music, classic R&B, indie rock and alternative rock.  KALA carries the syndicated weekly Pink Floyd program "Floydian Slip."

KALA has an effective radiated power of 10,000 watts, using a directional antenna.  Its transmitter is on West 76th Street and West Kimberly Road, near Interstate 280 in Davenport.  KALA broadcasts using HD Radio technology.  Its HD2 digital subchannel feeds 250-watt FM translator K29BP at 106.1 MHz in Bettendorf.

During the week, KALA features public service programming (both syndicated and locally produced).  There are local, state, and national newscasts.  The station also features live radio programs, St. Ambrose University campus news, a local calendar of events, daily weather updates, and student-run music shows. A mainstay of the station's commitment to the university community is its live coverage of St. Ambrose University sports events. This includes SAU's Fighting Bees/Queen Bees basketball, football, and baseball.

KALA also features an online station by students for students. "The Stinger" plays Top 40 hits, country, alternative, and rock music, along with music and talk shows hosted by student DJs.

History
The station signed on the air on .Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-76.  Retrieved Aug. 5, 2023  It was originally powered at 10 watts, only heard on campus.  But it later got a boost to its current power.

References

External links
KALA official website

Radio stations in the Quad Cities
Radio stations established in 1967
St. Ambrose University
ALA
1967 establishments in Iowa
Belisario Acquaviva

Belisario Acquaviva, Duca di Nardò (c. 1464 – 24 July 1528) was an Italian nobleman and writer from the Kingdom of Naples.

Life
A younger son of Giulio Antonio Acquaviva and the younger brother of the literary figure Andrea Matteo Acquaviva, Belisario followed the military profession. Unlike his brother Andrea Matteo, 8th Duke of Atri, who supported the French,  Belisario fought against Charles VIII of France, and was rewarded by King Ferdinand II of Naples with the fief of Nardò and the title Count. He was later made Duke of Nardò by Charles V. Belisario was hence enabled not only to preserve his own patrimony, but to procure the restitution of his brother's.

Like that brother, he applied himself to letters, and left several dissertations, collected since into one volume. He was a friend of Giovanni della Casa, and like his older brother, was a member of the Accademia Pontaniana.

Of this illustrious name were several other members attached to literature. Two dukes of Atri were poets. Both his sons, Giacomo Antonio Acquaviva and Giovanni Battista Acquaviva, served as Bishop of Nardò.

References

1460s births
1528 deaths
15th-century Neapolitan people
Italian male writers
Belisario Acquaviva
16th-century Neapolitan people
Ever Carradine

Ever Dawn Carradine (born August 6, 1974) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Tiffany Porter and Kelly Ludlow on the ABC television series Once and Again and Commander in Chief, and as Naomi Putnam and Janet Stein on the Hulu original series The Handmaid's Tale and Runaways, respectively.

Early life and education
 
Carradine was born in Los Angeles the daughter of Susan Snyder, a horse trainer's assistant, and actor Robert Carradine. She has two half-siblings, Marika Reed Carradine and Ian Alexander Carradine. A number of other members of the Carradine family are also actors, including her grandfather John Carradine, and uncles Keith Carradine and David Carradine. She is also a cousin of Martha Plimpton.

Career
After graduating from Lewis & Clark College in 1996, she returned to Los Angeles and appeared in several television shows including Diagnosis: Murder, Tracey Takes On..., and The Sentinel. In 1998, she received her first recurring guest role as Rosalie, a love interest on Party of Five. She appeared as Pepper, a ditzy assistant on Veronica's Closet. In 2003, she got her first regular series role on Lucky, an FX drama about a professional poker player living in Las Vegas.

She starred in the film Dead & Breakfast and has appeared in films including Bubble Boy, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Lucky 13. She appeared on the show Once and Again from 2001 to 2002, and on Commander in Chief from 2005 to 2006. She has had recurring guest roles on the shows Major Crimes (as Rusty's biological mother), Veronica's Closet, Party of Five, and Women's Murder Club. She has also appeared in television shows such as House, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, CSI, Will & Grace, Just Shoot Me!, and 24.

She had recurring roles on the TV series Eureka, and on Showtime's Shameless. Carradine also guested on an episode of Rizzoli & Isles.  She appeared in the first season of the Amazon series Goliath, portrayed Linda on the television show Code Black, and since 2017 has played Naomi Putnam on the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale. Since 2017, she has also been a series regular on Runaways playing the role of Janet Stein.

Personal life 
Carradine and her husband Coby Brown have a daughter, Chaplin Haddow Brown.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links
 
 

1974 births
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
American film actresses
Carradine family
American television actresses
Lewis & Clark College alumni
Living people
Waldorf school alumni
Whitmore Lake Secondary School

Whitmore Lake Secondary School is a public secondary school in Whitmore Lake, Michigan. It serves grades 7-12 and is part of Whitmore Lake Public Schools.

History
Whitmore Lake Secondary School moved to a new building for the commencement of classes in fall of 2006.

Athletics
The Whitmore Lake Trojans compete in the Tri-County Conference. The school colors are red and white. The following MHSAA sanctioned sports are offered:

Baseball (boys)
Basketball (boys & girls)
Bowling (boys & girls)
Competitive cheer (girls)
Cross country (boys & girls)
Girls state champion - 1993, 1995, 1996
Football (boys)
Golf (boys)
Lacrosse (boys)
Softball (girls)
Swim and dive (boys)
Track and field (boys and girls)
Volleyball (girls)

References

External links

Whitmore Lake Public School District

Public high schools in Michigan
School buildings completed in 2006
Schools in Washtenaw County, Michigan
Schools in Livingston County, Michigan
2006 establishments in Michigan
LEARN

LEARN may refer to:

 Law Enforcement Agency Resource Network, a website run by the Anti-Defamation League
 Lanka Education and Research Network

See also
 Learn (disambiguation)
Uzere

Uzere formerly known as "Uzei" is located in the Isoko South Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta State of Nigeria.  It has become one of the largest petroleum oil producing communities in Nigeria. Oil exploration started in Uzere in 1957. Uzere has two oil fields(Uzere West and Uzere East) with a total of 43 oil wells producing about . Uzere has nine communities: Uhei, Ezede, Uweye, Afikioko (London Base), Uhroko (Paris), Ekregbesi, Abale, Iwre-Ezede, and Iboro.

Government
Monarchy: Ovie (king) who doubles as the chief priest of the Eni deity.

Climate
Uzere lies within the tropical rainforest belt with luxuriant vegetation. It experiences tropical wet and dry climate, with relatively constant temperatures throughout the course of the years.

Natural resources
Uzere is one of the largest oil producing communities in Nigeria. The Kingdom is also known for the production of groundnut, cassava and fish. There is a saying in Isoko that, "if you love fish, then marry an Uzere man."

Industries
Though, Uzere is known for oil exploration, it has recently developed into an industrial town with a cassava processing factory in Uwhroko community by the Local Government Authority.

Education
There are numerous public and private schools in Uzere. They include: Uzere Grammar School, St. Paul's Schools, Elite Academy, Uzere Primary School, Ogrih Primary School, and Eni Primary School.

Tourism
Uzere was a known tourist destination in Isoko, until December 4, 1903, when the Eni Lake "Court" was abolished by Colonial District officer Copland Crawford, calling it "trial by ordeal". The famous Eni Lake was a court for the trial of people accused of witchcraft.

Festivals
Eni festival is the most celebrated festival in the history of Uzere Kingdom. According to Utohware Udumubrai in his book, Uzere People and Culture in the Niger Delta, Eni festival "attracts people from all walks of life especially places where the people usually flock to Uzere to detect witchcraft...It is accompanied with much fanfare, music, cooking and eating of delicious native food. It also includes exchange of gifts". Other festivals are the annual Uzere Students' Reunion and Pageant, and the New Year's Eve Party usually hosted by Arube Dance Band of Uzere at the old market square in Uheri community.

Health
Uzere has a cottage hospital built and equipped by the Shell Petroleum Development Company and health centers.

References

Populated places in Isoko South