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Eiji Wentz

is a Japanese singer, entertainer, actor, and a member of the singer-songwriter duo WaT.

Early career
Born in Mitaka, Tokyo to a Japanese mother and a German American father, Wentz became involved in the entertainment industry at a very young age. Wentz initially started as a model at the age of four and made his acting debut as the role of Chip in the Four Seasons Musical Troupe production of Beauty and the Beast. He became famous as a child actor as a regular on the NHK television show, , where he played bass guitar and piano at the age of ten. During live performances, he played the acoustic bass as well as the keyboard. He started learning the guitar from the age of 17. He is featured in the popular rock band Luna Sea's music video for their 1996 single "In Silence".

He originally wanted to be a fashion model, but he was too short to become one. When he terminated his contract with Tensai Terebi-kun, he decided to get away from show-business, but after the recommendation of Hiromi Go, he entered Burning Productions and became a tarento.

He began his acting career at the age of 18, when he played a minor role in the NHK television series Toshiie To Matsu.

In 2007, he started to appear in several of Cocorico's comedy shows as Shorty Tanaka (ちっこい田中, Little Tanaka) and since Tensai Terebi Kun, he is a deshi (student) of Yoshimoto comedian Hōsei Tsukitei.

Musical career 
After Tensai Terebi-kun ended, Wentz continued to play music and started the band WaT with Teppei Koike. They started in 2002 with street performances. In February 2004, they released an indie-label CD. In August 2005, they signed with Universal Music Group and had their major debut in November 2005.

Popularity 
His popularity may be derived from his self-mocking "comedian" character, as he often talks about his "foolishness", short height, and difficulty in speaking English.

Personal life
Wentz is a follower of the baseball team Saitama Seibu Lions. He was once invited to the Lions' victory ceremony in 2008, and has a large collection of baseball cards. He also has over 800 volumes of manga.

Filmography

Television

 Japan Sinks: People of Hope (2021) as Taira Ishizuka

Film

 Yudo: The Way of the Bath (2023)

Dubbing
 Arthur Christmas, Arthur Claus
 Jack the Giant Slayer, Jack
 Trolls World Tour, Branch

References

External links 
 Official site 
 WaT Official site 
 Universal Music site 

Japanese male actors
Japanese male pop singers
Japanese people of American descent
Japanese people of German descent
People from Musashino, Tokyo
1985 births
Living people
Musicians from Western Tokyo
21st-century Japanese singers
21st-century Japanese male singers
Dascyllus

Dascyllus is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae. They are usually commensals with corals.

Species
Currently, 11 recognized species are placed in this genus:
 Dascyllus abudafur (Forsskål, 1775) (Indian Ocean humbug) 
 Dascyllus albisella T. N. Gill, 1862 (Hawaiian dascyllus)
 Dascyllus aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758) (whitetail dascyllus)
 Dascyllus auripinnis J. E. Randall & H. A. Randall, 2001
 Dascyllus carneus J. G. Fischer, 1885 (cloudy dascyllus)
 Dascyllus flavicaudus H. A. Randall & G. R. Allen, 1977 (yellowtail dascyllus)
 Dascyllus marginatus (Rüppell, 1829) (marginate dascyllus)
 Dascyllus melanurus Bleeker, 1854 (blacktail humbug)
 Dascyllus reticulatus (J. Richardon, 1846) (reticulate dascyllus)
 Dascyllus strasburgi Klausewitz, 1960 (Strasburg's dascyllus)
 Dascyllus trimaculatus (Rüppell, 1829) (threespot dascyllus)

Trivia
Deb, a character in the animated film Finding Nemo, is a damselfish of genus Dascyllus.

References

 
Chrominae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Georges Cuvier
Height finder

A height finder is a ground-based aircraft altitude measuring device. Early height finders were optical range finder devices combined with simple mechanical computers, while later systems migrated to radar devices. The unique vertical oscillating motion of height finder radars led to them also being known as nodding radar. Devices combining both optics and radar were deployed by the U.S. Military.

Optical 
In World War II, a height finder was an optical rangefinder used to determine the altitude of an aircraft (actually the slant range from the emplacement which was combined with the angle of sight, in a mechanical computer, to produce altitude), used to direct anti-aircraft guns.  Examples of American and Japanese versions exist. In the Soviet Union it was usually combined with optical rangefinders.

Radar 
A height finder radar is a type of 2-dimensional radar that measures altitude of a target.

The operator slews the antenna toward a desired bearing, identifies a target echo at a desired range on the range height indicator display, then bisects the target with a cursor that is scaled to indicate the approximate altitude of the target.  Such systems often complement 2-dimensional radars which find distance and direction (search radar); thus using two 2-dimensional systems to obtain a 3-dimensional aerial picture.  Height finding radars of the 1960s and 70s were distinguished by their antenna being tall, but narrow. As beam shape is a function of antenna shape, the height finder beam was flat and wide horizontally (i.e., not very good at determining bearing to the target), but very thin vertically, allowing accurate measurement of elevation angle, thus altitude.

Modern 3D radar sets find both azimuth and elevation, making separate height finder radars largely obsolete.

See also 
 Radar
 Air Ministry Experimental Station

References

External links

A page about a type of height finders found in surface-to-air missile sites (German)

Radar
De Furtivis Literarum Notis

De Furtivis Literarum Notis (On the Secret Symbols of Letters) is a 1563 book on cryptography written by Giambattista della Porta.

The book includes three sets of cypher discs for coding and decoding messages and a substitution cipher improving on the work of Al-Qalqashandi.

References

1563 books
Cryptography books
Non-fiction books
Illinois Route 163

Illinois Route 163 (IL 163) is a  north–south highway in southwestern Illinois. It runs from IL 158 in Millstadt north to IL 15 in Alorton; the route is located entirely within St. Clair County. IL 163 is maintained by the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Route description 

Illinois 163 begins at a junction with Illinois 158 in downtown Millstadt. The highway leaves the village to the north, entering rural Millstadt Township. After passing St. James Catholic Cemetery, it crosses into Stookey Township. The route then curves north-northwest past Concordia Church and Cemetery. Upon crossing Prairie Dupont Creek, it turns north through the community of Westview. At Booker T. Washington Cemetery, the route heads northwest into Centreville Township, where it meets Illinois 157. The highways run northward concurrently and enter Centreville before intersecting Illinois 13. At this junction, Illinois 157 follows Illinois 13 eastward, while Illinois 163 continues northward through a primarily residential area. The highway turns northeast into Alorton and passes under an overpass carrying Interstate 255 and U.S. Route 50, which do not meet Illinois 163.  From here Illinois 163 runs parallel to the south of Illinois 15 before terminating at an intersection with this route. Illinois 163 is a two-lane road for its entire length.

History 
SBI Route 163 originally ran from Illinois Route 1 to Palestine. In 1937, this route became part of Illinois Route 33 (which turns south at Palestine). It was moved to its current alignment in 1954. From 1954-1957, it was also signed Bypass U.S. Route 50.

Major intersections

References

External links

163
Transportation in St. Clair County, Illinois
Kip Gross

Kip Lee Gross (born August 24, 1964) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers, Nippon-Ham Fighters, Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros in Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball between 1990 and 2000.

Biography
Gross was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and played college baseball both at Murray State JC (where he was drafted in the third round of the January draft) and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. In 1985, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Gross was drafted by the New York Mets in the fourth round of the 1986 Major League Baseball draft. He played his first MLB game on April 21, 1990, with the Cincinnati Reds.

Gross played for four different ball clubs during his career: the Cincinnati Reds from 1990 until 1991, the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1992 until 1993, the Boston Red Sox in 1999 and the Houston Astros in 2000. He played his final MLB game on May 29, 2000.

On May 10, 1994, Gross was purchased from the Los Angeles Dodgers by the Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japanese Pacific League.  This explains his absence from Major League Baseball from 1994 until 1998. He was highly successful in Japan, leading the league in wins from 1995 and 1996. Gross returned to the United States in 1998 to undergo surgery. He is remembered by baseball enthusiasts as one of the finest non-Japanese players to have played in the Japanese Leagues and for the Nippon Ham Fighters.

In 2010, Gross was the manager, pitching coach, hitting coach and GM for the Victoria Seals in the Golden Baseball League.

References

External links

 Baseball Almanac
 Baseball Historian
Retrosheet
The Baseball Gauge
Venezuela Winter League

1964 births
Living people
Albuquerque Dukes players
American expatriate baseball players in Japan
Baseball players from Nebraska
Boston Red Sox players
Cincinnati Reds players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Houston Astros players
Hyannis Harbor Hawks players
Jackson Mets players
Las Vegas 51s players
Leones del Caracas players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Lynchburg Mets players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Minor league baseball managers
Nashville Sounds players
Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball players
New Orleans Zephyrs players
Nippon Ham Fighters players
Pawtucket Red Sox players
People from Scottsbluff, Nebraska
St. Lucie Mets players
Tidewater Tides players
University of Nebraska alumni
Anchorage Glacier Pilots players
Oleg Saitov

Oleg Elekpayevich Saitov (; (born 26 May 1974 in Novokuybyshevsk, Russian SFSR to a Volga Tatar father and ethnic Russian mother) is a Russian former Olympic boxer.

He won the Olympic gold medal at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics in the welterweight division, and bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics. Saitov was the winner of the Val Barker Trophy for Outstanding Boxer at the 2000 Olympic Games. In 2004, he won the title at the 2004 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Pula, Croatia.

Olympic results 
1996 Olympic Results
Round of 32:Defeated Cahit Sume of Turkey - PTS (11-1)
Round of 16:Defeated Ho-Jo Bae of South Korea -PTS (9-5)
Quarterfinal:Defeated Kamel Chater of Tunisia - PTS (9-3)
Semifinal:Defeated Daniel Santos of Puerto Rico - PTS (13-11)
Final:Defeated Juan Hernandez Sierra of Cuba - PTS (14-9)

2000 Olympic Results
Round of 16:Defeated Francisco Calderon of Colombia - PTS (15-1)
Quarterfinal:Defeated Ruslan Khairov of Azerbaijan - PTS (10-10; 55-47)
Semifinal:Defeated Dorel Simion of Romania - PTS (19-10)
Final:Defeated Serhiy Dotsenko of Ukraine- PTS (24-16)

2004 Olympic Results
Round of 32:Defeated Ait Hammi Miloud of Morocco - PTS (30-15)
Round of 16:Defeated Mohamed Hikal of Egypt - PTS (18-17)
Quarterfinal:Defeated Sherzod Husanov of Uzbekistan - PTS (22-14)
Semifinal:Lost to Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan - PTS (18-20)

References

External links
 
 

1974 births
Living people
People from Novokuybyshevsk
Olympic boxers for Russia
Olympic gold medalists for Russia
Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in boxing
Russian male boxers
Tatar people of Russia
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Welterweight boxers
Sportspeople from Samara Oblast
Akram Khan Durrani

Akram Khan Durrani (, ; born 2 March 1960) is a Pakistani politician who was the Leader of the Opposition in the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in office from 2 October 2018 till 18 January 2023. He previously served as the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2002 to 2007. He served as Federal Minister for Housing and Works, in the Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018 and as the Federal Minister for Housing and Works in the third Sharif ministry from June 2013 to July 2017. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from June 2013 to May 2018 from NA-26 (Bannu).

Early life
Durrani was born on 2 March 1960.

Political career
Durrani was elected several times to the provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from his home constituency of Bannu.
In September 2002, he was elected by the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) as the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where he served until 2007. He survived an assassination attempt in 2007 when he was the chief minister.

In 2013 Pakistani general election he was elected as the member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. He also won provincial assembly seat which he relinquished in order to retain his national assembly seat.

Durrani was appointed as Minister for Housing & Works by the President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain on the advice of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 29 August 2013.
 
On 27 November 2015, Durrani survived an attempt on his life as his convoy came under a bomb attack in Narmikhail area of Bannu.

He had ceased to hold ministerial office in July 2017 when the federal cabinet was disbanded following the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after Panama Papers case decision. Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2017, he was inducted into the federal cabinet of Abbasi. He was appointed as the Minister for Housing and Works for the second time. Upon the dissolution of the National Assembly on the expiration of its term on 31 May 2018, Durrani ceased to hold the office as Federal Minister for Housing and Works.

On 13 July 2018, Durrani remained safe despite a blast near his convoy that killed four people and injured 32 others.

He was re-elected to Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a candidate of MMA from Constituency PK-90 (Bannu-IV) in 2018 Pakistani general election.

On 2 October 2018, he became leader of the opposition in the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Akram Khan Durrani remained Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2002 to 2007. One of his work was that he declared the 'Girl campus of Khyber Medical College' as an independent medical college by name Khyber Girls Medical College

References

Chief Ministers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Living people
Pashtun politicians
1960 births
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) politicians
People from Bannu District
Banuchi people
Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018
Government ministers of Pakistan
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal MPAs (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MPAs 2018–2023
Keaney Gymnasium

Keaney Gymnasium is a multi-purpose arena in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States on the campus of the University of Rhode Island. Built in 1953, it was the home of the university's men's and women's basketball teams until they moved to the adjacent Ryan Center in 2002. It is currently the home of the university's volleyball team.

History
The arena opened in 1953 and seats 3,385 (plus room for 500 standing-room only spectators). The arena was named in honor of Rhode Island football coach, chemistry professor, basketball coach and athletic director Frank Keaney. Seating is in a two-tiered arrangement, with the top tier being "U"-shaped. At the west end of the arena there are bleachers in the former stage area of the building. The arena hosted the NCAA basketball tournament first-round games for three years, from 1967 to 1969. Designed by Oresto DiSaia, it was built to replace Rodman Hall, a castle-like building built in 1928, located across the street from the present library. Rodman Hall currently houses the school's library sciences, landscape architecture, and journalism departments.

Concerts
In addition to its role as a basketball and volleyball arena, the gymnasium also once hosted concerts for the university's students. Past performers include The Band (1970), Santana (1970), Joe Cocker (1970), Chicago (1970), The Beach Boys (1971 and 1973), Fairport Convention and Traffic (1971), Cat Stevens and Mimi Fariña (1971), Blue Öyster Cult (1971), The Byrds (1971), New Riders of the Purple Sage (1972), Jim Croce (1973), Bruce Springsteen (1973), The Flying Burrito Brothers (1975), A Flock of Seagulls (1982), Squeeze (1982 and 1987), Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe (1989), Bob Dylan (1989 and 2002), Red Hot Chili Peppers (1990), The Alarm and The Fixx (1992), Violent Femmes (1992 and 1996), and Evanescence (2007).

References

External links
 Keaney Gym at GoRhody.com

College basketball venues in the United States
Sports venues in Rhode Island
Rhode Island Rams basketball venues
Defunct college basketball venues in the United States
Indoor arenas in Rhode Island
Sports venues in Washington County, Rhode Island
1953 establishments in Rhode Island
Sports venues completed in 1953
College volleyball venues in the United States
Organza

is a thin, plain weave, sheer fabric traditionally made from silk. Many modern organzas are woven with synthetic filament fibers such as polyester or nylon. Silk organza is woven by a number of mills along the Yangtze River and in the province of Zhejiang in China. A coarser silk organza is woven in the Bangalore area of India. Deluxe silk organzas are woven in France and Italy. Organza is distinguished by its crisp hand, stiffness relative to weight, and slippery surface texture. 

Organza is used for bridalwear and eveningwear. Sometimes, it is used as a hidden structural element. Beginning in the 1980's, trends shifted and organza began seeing more use in day to day clothing. In the interiors market, it is used for effects in bedrooms and between rooms. Double-width organzas in viscose and acetate are used as sheer curtains.

The term may derive from French organsin, ultimately from the Central Asian city of Urgench, the midpoint of the Northern Silk Road.

See also
 Organdy
 Tulle (netting), another sheer fabric
 Gauze

References

Net fabrics
Woven fabrics
Edwin Duhon

Edwin Duhon (11 June 1910 – 26 February 2006) was an American musician and co-founder of the Hackberry Ramblers, a band playing a combination of Cajun music, Western swing, and country music.

Duhon was born in Broussard, Louisiana. He formed the Hackberry Ramblers along with fiddler Luderin Darbone in 1933. He first played acoustic guitar and went on to play electric guitar, piano, double bass, harmonica, and accordion at various times. He focused solely on the accordion from the mid-1990s. Duhon's last performance was in November 2005.

In 2002, Duhon and Darbone received a National Heritage Fellowship from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, which is the country's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.

Duhon died at the age of 95 in Westlake, Louisiana.

See also
History of Cajun Music
List of Notable People Related to Cajun Music

References

External links

Hackberry Ramblers Official Website
Musician Edwin Duhon dead at 95 United Press International, Inc. Retrieved 20 Mar 2006.

1910 births
2006 deaths
People from Broussard, Louisiana
Cajun musicians
Musicians from Louisiana
National Heritage Fellowship winners
20th-century American musicians
Guido Beck

Guido Beck (29 August 1903 in Liberec – 21 October 1988 in Rio de Janeiro) was an Argentinian physicist of German Bohemian origin.

Biography
Beck studied physics in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1925, under Hans Thirring. He worked in Leipzig in 1928 as an assistant to Werner Heisenberg. A combination of the troubled political climate of Europe in the 1930s, his own restlessness, and the Nazi persecutions in Germany, made the Jewish-born Beck a traveler in those years. Until 1935 he worked in Cambridge with Ernest Rutherford, Copenhagen, Prague, United States and Japan.

In 1935, Beck was invited to work in the Soviet Union by Head of the Institute of Physics, Odessa University Yelpidifor Anempodistovich Kirillov. At the Odessa University Beck was head of the Department of Theoretical Physics and gave a course of theoretical physics in German; his lectures were simultaneously translated into Ukrainian by his assistant Yu.G. Vekshtein. In 1936–1937 Beck was head of the department of theoretical mechanics at the Institute of Water Transport Engineers in Odessa.  Four of his Odessa students – VV Malyarov, MM Alperin, GV Skrotskii and PE Nemirovsky – became professors in Odessa and Moscow.

In 1937, Guido Beck moved to France, where he was imprisoned when World War II broke out. In 1941, he fled to Portugal. From 1942 to 1943 he was a guest professor at the University of Coimbra and the University of Oporto. In 1943 he emigrated to Argentina.

In Argentina, he was instrumental in training several Argentinian physicists, including José Antonio Balseiro, and had a profound impact in developing physics in Argentina. He moved once more, this time to Brazil, in 1951, where his influence in developing physics was also great.

He was called back to Argentina in 1962, after the death of Balseiro, and continued his work at the Instituto Balseiro.

In 1975, he returned to Brazil, and worked in the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF).

Apart from his influence as a teacher in South America he contributed to a theory of beta-decay, which was later superseded by a more complete theory by Fermi. He was a friend of the famous writer Ernesto Sabato.

He died in a car accident in Rio de Janeiro in 1988.

Honours
In 1977, he was given the doctoral degree of honour by the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany for his exemplary activity as an academic teacher and his relentless efforts in establishing research institutions in physics.

References

External links

 Oral History interview transcript with Guido Beck on 22 April 1967, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives - interview by John L. Heilbron
 

1903 births
1988 deaths
20th-century German physicists
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Argentina
20th-century Argentine physicists
Scientists from Liberec
Austro-Hungarian Jews
20th-century Brazilian physicists
Jewish physicists
German Bohemian people
German people of Czech-Jewish descent
Road incident deaths in Brazil
Golden Pass (Disney)

The Golden Pass is a ticket which allows the holder lifetime access to all nine of the theme parks owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company. First awarded in 1955 to Dave MacPherson, the first member of the public to become a paying guest at Disneyland, the Pass is awarded to all Disney Legends and has been handed to dignitaries, the President of the United States and sitting heads of state, and all members of the board of directors.

Accepting locations
The Pass is valid at the following parks: Disneyland Resort (Disneyland, Disney California Adventure Park), Walt Disney World Resort (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom), Disneyland Paris (Disneyland Park, Walt Disney Studios Park), Hong Kong Disneyland Resort (Hong Kong Disneyland).

When Passes were renewed at the start of 2005, the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort was still under construction and it was noted on the Pass that it would not be valid for entry. This was changed in 2006. The two parks at the Tokyo Disney Resort - Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea - are not part of the allowance, as they are owned and operated by The Oriental Land Company under licenses from Disney.  On May 2, 2006, Disney honored the two billionth guest of a Disney park at Disneyland. The guest received a modified version of the Golden Pass entitling the holder to admission to the two theme parks at the Tokyo Disney Resort. The Oriental Land Company allowed this because the two billion count included guests at Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea.
On February 7, 2008, two final Golden Passes were given to the first two babies born in the Year of the Rat in Hong Kong. This was later discounted after 2008.

References 

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
Firstborn (disambiguation)

Firstborn may also refer to:
 Firstborn, eldest child born in a family
 Primogeniture, the firstborn child inherits parents' property
 Firstborn (Judaism), bechor in rabbinical Judaism

Books 
 First Born (comics), a supervillain in DC Comics
 Firstborn (Clarke and Baxter novel), 2007 novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
 Firstborn (Thompson and Carter novel), 1991 novel by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya C. Cook

Film and television 
 Firstborn (1984 film), starring Teri Garr and Peter Weller
 First Born (2007 film), starring Elisabeth Shur
 1st Born, a 2019 American-Iranian comedy film
 First Born (TV series), British TV show, 1988
 "Firstborn" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), TV episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
 The First Born (1921 film), starring Sessue Hayakawa
 The First Born (1928 film), starring Miles Mander

Music 
 First Born (Eyedea & Abilities album), 2001
 First Born (The Plot in You album), 2011
Santa Rita do Novo Destino

Santa Rita do Novo Destino is a municipality in northeastern Goiás state, Brazil.

Location

Santa Rita do Novo Destino is 82 km. east of Ceres and  15 km. north of Goianésia. Highway connections from Goiânia are made by taking  GO-080 / Nerópolis / São Francisco de Goiás / BR-153 / Jaraguá / GO-080 / Goianésia / GO-438.  Seplan

Neighboring municipalities:  Hidrolina, São Luíz do Norte, Barro Alto, and Santa Isabel

Demographics

Urban population: 1,156
Population density: 3.53 inhabitants/km2 (2007)
Population growth rate: 1.56% 2000/2007

The Economy

The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.  
In 2006 there were 476 farms with a total area of 70,126 hectares.  Of this pasture land made up 48,000 hectares.  There were 48,000 head of cattle.  The main crops were rice, sugarcane (2,450 hectares), manioc, corn (1,000 hectares), and soybeans (1,500 hectares).

Health and Education

The adult literacy rate was 78.8% (2000) (national average was 86.4%) and the infant mortality rate was 33.10 (2000) (national average was 33.0).  In 2007 there were no hospitals and there were 5 schools.

Human Development Index:   0.684
State ranking:  221 (out of 242 municipalities)
National ranking:  3,246 (out of 5,507 municipalities)

For the complete list see frigoletto.com.br

See also
List of municipalities in Goiás

References

Frigoletto
 Sepin

Municipalities in Goiás
Border Gezi

Border Gezi (December 17, 1964 – April 28, 2001) was a Zimbabwean politician. He was a close ally of Robert Mugabe within ZANU-PF and served as Minister for Gender, Youth and Employment from 2000 having previously been a provincial governor.

Gezi was brought up in Mvurwi and attended Holy Rosary Secondary School. He first worked as an accounts clerk for the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority before being elected to the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for Muzarabani in the 1990 elections. In 1993 he was elected as ZANU-PF chairman for Mashonaland Central, and the government appointed him Provincial Governor from 1996.

At the 2000 parliamentary election, Gezi was in charge of recruiting and organising groups of young ZANU-PF supporters into a militia. The militia groups he led were implicated in violent attacks on supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change, and in invasions of white-owned farms. At a special ZANU-PF congress later that year, Gezi was appointed Secretary for the Commissariat, with responsibility for organizing Robert Mugabe's re-election as President two years later.

Gezi won the Bindura seat at the 2000 election and was appointed as Minister for Gender, Youth and Employment. He was identified as a close ally of Robert Mugabe who had the potential to hold high office in the future. However, he was killed when his Mercedes-Benz E-Class W210 skidded off the Harare-Masvingo road  after bursting a tyre and crashed into numerous Eucalyptus trees on 28 April 2001.

References
 Minister Border Gezi dies (ZBC)

1964 births
2001 deaths
Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army personnel
ZANU–PF politicians
Members of the National Assembly of Zimbabwe
Government ministers of Zimbabwe
Provincial governors of Zimbabwe
Road incident deaths in Zimbabwe
People from Mashonaland Central Province
Hudson station (New York)

Hudson station is a train station in Hudson, New York.  Hudson serves a total of four different Amtrak trains, all of which have a southern terminus at Pennsylvania Station in New York City.  They consist of the Adirondack from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Empire Service from Niagara Falls, New York, the Ethan Allen Express from Burlington, VT, and the Maple Leaf from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Lake Shore Limited trains from Chicago served Hudson until April 4, 2009.

History 

Originally built in 1874 by the New York Central Railroad, it is the oldest continuously operated station in the state. Besides the Water Level Route, Hudson was also the terminus of the former Boston and Albany Railroad Hudson Branch, on which passenger service ran until 1932.

Passenger service at the station as well as across the nation was assumed by Amtrak in 1971. In the late 1980s, the parking lots on either side of the station were repaved. The next renovation took place between 1991 and 1992 with funds from New York State, after the renovations, the station had a grand re-opening. In the late 1990s, ridership at the Hudson station grew to the point that the city opened up an additional parking lot across the street. In 2009, the city created metered parking on Front Street due to the continuing demand. A task force recently studied the feasibility of raising the platform, a difficult task since north end of the platform is curved and an active freight siding lies near that side of the station.

The Berkshire Flyer began running on July 8, 2022, providing direct service to  on summer weekends.

Station layout

The station has two low-level paved island platforms. Northbound trains generally use Track 1 while southbound trains generally use Track 2. with both trains opening doors on the eastern side. The third track is a passing loop that merges into Track 1 on either side of the station. Passengers are required to wait east of the passing loop until the train arrives in the station. The station is wheelchair-accessible, with passengers reaching the train via a portable wheelchair lift.

References

External links

Amtrak stations in New York (state)
Former New York Central Railroad stations
Station
Railway stations in Columbia County, New York
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1874
S6 NBC Respirator

The Service Respirator No. 6 (S6), also known as Respirator NBC S6 No. 1 Mark 1 was a protective gas mask issued to the British Armed Forces. It was developed in the 1950s and issued for general service from 1966 to 1986, when it was replaced by the S10. Currently, the S6 is not used by the British military.

It's usually worn in conjunction with the NBC No. 1 Mk III CBRN protective suit.

History
The S6 was developed by the Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment (CDEE) from the 1950s and manufactured by Avon Rubber in Melksham, Wiltshire and the Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Company. Although made obsolete by the introduction of the S10, production of the S6 continued in Turkey after the adoption of the new mask by British forces. During the widely documented Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980, the S6 is the mask seen being worn by SAS troops.

The Turkish military adopted its own version of the S6 in 1990 with the name SR10 under license by MKEK. SR10 and its newer version the SR10-ST with a D12 drinking tube attached.

Design
The S6 respirator provided protection to the face, eyes, lung and throat of the wearer against all known chemical agents of that time. The S6 features an innovative air seal around the inside of the face piece to improve the fit and comfort of the mask; a tap inside the nose cup was to allow the equalisation of pressure inside the air seal, in different climatic conditions. 

A left-handed version put the filter canister on the right which allowed left-handed wearers to shoulder, aim and fire their rifle as usual.

Variants
S6
Original gas mask made in the 1960s.
SR6M
Modernised copy of S6 by MKEK MAKSAM.
SR10
Turkish-made version by  MKEK MAKSAM. The SR10-ST is a S6 with a drinking tube.

Users

 : Known to be used by the Turkish General Directorate of Security.
 : British military (Replaced by S10 NBC Respirator).

References

British Army equipment
Gas masks of the United Kingdom
T-vertices

T-vertices is a term used in computer graphics to describe a problem that can occur during mesh refinement or mesh simplification.  The most common case occurs in naive implementations of continuous level of detail, where a finer-level mesh is "sewn" together with a coarser-level mesh by simply aligning the finer vertices on the edges of the coarse polygons.  The result is a continuous mesh, however due to the nature of the z-buffer and certain lighting algorithms such as Gouraud shading, visual artifacts can often be detected.

Some modeling algorithms such as subdivision surfaces will fail when a model contains T-vertices.

References

External links

Computer graphics
Nevins

Nevins may refer to:

Places in the United States 
Nevins Township, Vigo County, Indiana
Nevins, Florida
Nevins, Illinois
Nevins, Wisconsin

People with the surname
Al Nevins (1915–1965), American musician and founder of [he Three Suns
Allan Nevins (1890–1971), American historian
Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, American writer
Arthur S. Nevins (1891–1979), American historian
Caitlyn Nevins (born 1987), Australian netball player
Claudette Nevins (1937–2020), American film actress
Daniel S. Nevins (born 1966), Rabbi; Dean of the Rabbinical School at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
David Nevins (disambiguation), several people
Gabe Nevins (born 1991), American actor
Georgia Nevins (1864–1957), American nurse
Harriet Nevins (1841–1929), American philanthropist
Henry Nevins (disambiguation), several people
Jasmine Nevins (born 2003), Australian cricketer
Jason Nevins (born 1972), American dance music producer
Jess Nevins (born 1966), American writer
John Joseph Nevins (1932–2014), American Roman Catholic bishop
Joseph Nevins, American author
Kristan King Nevins, American politician
Laurie Nevins (1920–1972), English footballer
Monica Nevins (born 1973), Canadian mathematician
Natalie Nevins (1925–2010), American singer
Ralph G. Nevins (1924–1974), American professor
Russell H. Nevins (1785–1854), American banker
Sheila Nevins (born 1939), American television producer
Sylvester Nevins (died 1901), Wisconsin State senator

See also
Nevin (disambiguation)
Nevinson
Central Saint Petersburg

Central Saint Petersburg is the central and the leading part of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It looks nothing like the downtown district of a typical major city, and has no skyscrapers. The Central Business District's main borders are Neva River to the north and west, and the Fontanka River to the south and east, but the downtown includes areas outside.

History
The Central Saint Petersburg is the oldest part of the city after the Peter and Paul Fortress. When people were starting to populate Saint Petersburg they built their houses around the almost only building outside the fortress; the Admiralty building. The largest industry was ship building. The first residence of Peter the Great was a little hut (the hut hasn't been destroyed and is a museum), but he soon started to build the Summer Palace, which was located just opposite the hut, on the other side of the Neva River, and later he built a Winter Palace for himself. The central part of the city was supposed to be between the Peter and Paul Fortress and his first house.

Overview
The CBS is an area with many old buildings and has beautiful parks like the Summer Garden, Field of Mars and Mikhailovsky Garden. It is also the wealthiest area in Saint Petersburg, home to luxury hotels like Hotel Astoria and Grand Hotel Europe. It has always been a wealthy district since the rich noble Russians built their mansions here.

Administratively, the Saint Petersburg central business district falls under the authority of Tsentralny and the Admiralteysky Districts.

The CBS is also a main traffic hub, with tramways, trolleybuses, buses, marshrutkas, and the Moscow Rail Terminal.

Streets and squares
Significant streets are Nevsky Prospekt, the heart of the city, and is one of the largest shopping streets in Europe, with department stores like Gostiny Dvor and The Passage. It's also home to the Kazan Cathedral and Anichkov Palace.

Sadovaya Street is a main street in downtown with high traffic, home to Yusupov Palace, Apraksin Dvor department store, and crossing the Sennaya Square; a main square, with entertainment, commercial and many shops.

St Isaac's Square is home to the St Isaac's Cathedral and Mariinsky Palace, and has a monument dedicated to tsar Nicholas I of Russia.
On the other side of the cathedral is the Decembrists Square, next to the Admiralty building, and the location of the Bronze Horseman.

Palace Square is home to the Winter Palace and the Hermitage.

Arts Square is home to the Russian Museum, the Mikhaylovsky Theatre, the Large Concert Hall (Bolshoi Zal) of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Pushkin monument and is not far from the Church of the Savior on Blood.

The Theatre Square is home to the world famous Mariinsky Theatre.

See also
 Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments

References

Geography of Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Financial districts in Russia
Economy of Saint Petersburg
Chaingang (band)

Chaingang (sometimes listed as CHAINGANG) are a female-fronted punk/rock band from Sydney, Australia.

Biography

Chaingang formed in 2007 following the dissolution of Hayley Foster and Mike Jeffery's former band Pinky Tuscadero on New Year's Eve 2006. Cultivating a rapt cult following across Sydney, the band first came to widespread attention when they were personally chosen by US band Panic! at the Disco to support them during their 2008 Australian tour.

A demo version of one of their first tracks, Get Off My Stage, attracted widespread attention via tastemaking music blogs across the UK, US and Australia, and saw the band selected by national youth broadcaster Triple J as an Unearthed Feature Artist in 2008.

Chaingang have since played with the likes of Cold War Kids, The Streets, Crystal Castles, Ladyhawke, The Grates, Bluejuice, Peaches' band Sweet Machine, Operator Please, and opened for George Michael at the official 2010 Sydney Mardi Gras party. The band were also finalists in MTV's Kickstart initiative.

Chaingang recently completed a national tour with Operator Please and Tim and Jean, and are set to play the Big Day Out festival in January 2011.

Debut release
Chaingang recorded an EP in Nashville with producer Sean Ray aka Snob Scrilla, but the project was scrapped. A new EP is scheduled for release in 2011.

Discography

Singles
 2010: Holiday
 2011: Crazy

Extended plays
 2011: Chaingang (TBA)

References

External links
Official Chaingang MySpace
Chaingang profile on Triple J Unearthed
YouTube link to official video clip for 'Holiday' single
YouTube link to 2009 footage of Chaingang performing their song 'Holiday'

New South Wales musical groups
Australian rock music groups
Musical groups established in 2007
Louie DeBrusk

Louis Dennis DeBrusk (born March 19, 1971) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He is currently a colour analyst for Edmonton Oilers broadcasts on Sportsnet and the late game of Hockey Night in Canada.

Playing career
DeBrusk was raised in Port Elgin, Ontario, and played junior hockey with the Port Elgin Bears and Stratford Cullitons before joining the London Knights.

Drafted by the New York Rangers in the third round of the 1989 NHL Entry Draft, DeBrusk never appeared in a game for the club as he was traded to the Edmonton Oilers on October 4, 1991, in a package with Bernie Nicholls, and Steven Rice for Mark Messier. Debrusk joined the Tampa Bay Lightning as a free agent on August 27, 1997, to replace 'tough' players Rudy Poeschek and Brantt Myhres when he signed a two-year, two-way deal worth about $750,000, with the second year at the Lightning's option, before being traded to the Phoenix Coyotes on June 11, 1998, along with a 5th round pick in the 1998 for Craig Janney. Debrusk, an impending restricted free agent, was resigned by the Coyotes on August 10, 1998. On August 30, 2002, by this time again an unrestricted free agent, Debrusk signed a contract with the Chicago Blackhawks. He last appeared in a professional hockey game during the 2003–04 AHL season. Altogether, Debrusk played 401 National Hockey League games.

DeBrusk was known for his fighting skills and racked up 1,161 penalty minutes over the course of his NHL career.

He was inducted to his hometown Cambridge's Sports Hall of Fame in 2018.

Broadcasting career
Debrusk is the main colour analyst on the late game of Hockey Night in Canada. He previously worked as the colour commentator for the Phoenix Coyotes radio broadcasts. On September 2, 2008, DeBrusk was announced as the new colour commentator for NHL on Sportsnet Edmonton Oilers television broadcasts, replacing former analyst Ray Ferraro. He was replaced by Drew Remenda in 2014 but continued as an analyst, before rejoining the Oilers broadcast team as a colour commentator for the 2020-21 season, alongside announcer Jack Michaels.

Personal life
DeBrusk's son Jake DeBrusk also plays in the NHL. He was ranked the 24th-best player available in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft by NHL Central Scouting, and subsequently selected 14th overall that year by the Boston Bruins.

Career statistics

References

External links
 Profile at the Coyotes' website
 

1971 births
Living people
Arizona Coyotes announcers
Binghamton Rangers players
Cape Breton Oilers players
Chicago Blackhawks players
Edmonton Oilers announcers
Edmonton Oilers players
Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL) players
Hartford Wolf Pack players
Las Vegas Thunder players
London Knights players
Long Beach Ice Dogs (IHL) players
National Hockey League broadcasters
New York Rangers draft picks
Norfolk Admirals players
Ice hockey people from Cambridge, Ontario
Phoenix Coyotes players
Quebec Citadelles players
San Antonio Dragons players
Springfield Falcons players
Tampa Bay Lightning players
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Brandermill, Virginia

Brandermill is a major suburban residential and commercial development in the Southside of Richmond, Virginia. It is located near Midlothian, Virginia at the southern terminus of the Powhite Parkway and is centered on the Swift Creek Reservoir. The Census Bureau defines it as a Census-designated place (CDP), with a population of 13,173 as of the most updated estimate done in 2010.

History
Chesterfield county approved the planned community of Brandermill in 1974 and construction began in 1975. 
In 1977, Brandermill developers East West Partners (then known as "The Brandermill group)  were recognized for their work when Brandermill was named "The Best Planned Community in America" by Better Homes and Gardens and the National Association of Home Builders.
It was the first planned community in Chesterfield County. It has a golf course, a church, and 3 public schools adjacent to it, Swift Creek Elementary School, Swift Creek Middle School, and Clover Hill High School.

Notorious murderer John List was arrested while living in Brandermill.

List of Neighborhoods 
There are several neighborhoods in the Brandermill development.

Parks and Recreation 
The Brandermill development has various parks and recreational features. Brandermill has 15 miles of paved walking and cycling trails around the community.  There are several parks and playgrounds located around Brandermill, such as those at Sunday Park, Nuttree Park, and Waterside Park. Brandermill's parks are not open to the public. Sunday Park has a private boat launch and marina for kayaking; a parking pass is required to access Sunday Park.  There is also a marina located in Harbour Pointe. In addition to parks and boating, the Brandermill Country Club maintains an 18 hole golf course.

References

Geography of Chesterfield County, Virginia
Greater Richmond Region
Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia
Census-designated places in Virginia
Billy Jones

Billy Jones may refer to:

Sports
Billy Jones (baseball), baseball coach at Appalachian State
Billy Jones (basketball), Maryland Terrapins basketball player
Billy Jones (footballer, born 1876), English footballer
Billy Jones (footballer, born 1881) (1881–1948), English footballer who played for Small Heath/Birmingham and Brighton & Hove Albion
Billy Jones (footballer, born 1983), English footballer defender
Billy Jones (footballer, born 1987), English footballer, currently playing for Rotherham United F.C.
Billy Lot Jones, Welsh footballer and Manchester City F.C. player

Music
Billy Jones (singer, born 1889) (1889–1940), 1920–1930s American tenor and half of The Happiness Boys with Ernie Hare
Billy Jones (Outlaws guitarist) (1949–1995), American guitarist with the rock band Outlaws
 Billy Jones, guitarist and vocalist with London-based music group Heatwave

Other
ABilly S. Jones-Hennin (born 1942), American LGBT rights activist
William "Billy" Jones (1884–1968), American railroad operator
Billy Jones (artist) (1935–2012), American-born artist and poet who immigrated to Australia
Billy Jones (New York politician), New York State Assemblyman

See also
Bill Jones (disambiguation)
William Jones (disambiguation)
Willie Jones (disambiguation)
Will Jones (disambiguation)
MFE

MFE may refer to:

Businesses and organizations
 McAllen Miller International Airport
 Ministry for the Environment (New Zealand)
 MFE - MediaForEurope

Education
 Master of Financial Economics
 Master of Financial Engineering

Other uses
 European Federalist Movement
 Mail for Exchange
 Magnetic fusion energy
 Mauritian Creole, by ISO language code
The Nicolaus Copernicus University Press

The Nicolaus Copernicus University Press (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK, Wydawnictwo UMK) is a book publisher founded in 1967. NCU Press is an official department of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland).

The Nicolaus Copernicus University Press was set up in 1967. It publishes scientific journals, monographs and textbooks and books written by the university scientists.

See also

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

External links
Official site of the publisher in English
Official site of the University

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
1967 establishments in Poland
Publishing companies established in 1967
University presses of Poland
Mass media in Toruń
Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, The
Press
Orange peel (effect)

Orange peel is a certain kind of finish that may develop on painted and cast surfaces. The texture resembles the surface of the skin of an orange, hence the name "orange peel".

Gloss paint sprayed on a smooth surface (such as the body of a car) should also dry into a smooth surface. However, various factors can cause it to dry into a bumpy surface. This is typically the result of improper painting technique, and is caused by the quick evaporation of thinner, incorrect spray gun setup (e.g., low air pressure or incorrect nozzle), spraying the paint at an angle other than perpendicular, or applying excessive paint. 

Such a texture can be smoothed out with ultra-fine sandpaper, but it can be prevented altogether by changing the painting technique or the materials used.

In some situations, such as interior house paint, the orange peel texture is desirable.  In this case, a texture paint is generally applied with a spray gun or an aerosol wall texture spray.  The texture is then painted over with the appropriate color.  When painting walls, orange peel can also develop by using a roller with too little paint or too thick a paint and the surface dries before the texture can level.

References

Metalworking terminology
Artistic techniques
Painting