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Checkerboarding (beekeeping)

Checkerboarding is a term used in beekeeping that describes a specific hive management technique to prevent swarming. The technique was developed by Walt Wright, a long time beekeeper from Tennessee.

Checkerboarding takes advantage of the bee colony's primary motivation, which is survival as survival of the existing colony takes priority over swarm preparation and swarming. Bees will not prepare for a reproductive swarm if they perceive the survival of the existing colony might be jeopardized. It is hypothesized that swarm preparation starts in the late winter. The over-wintering colony consumes honey and expands the brood volume. At this point, the bee colony apparently senses that it has enough remaining honey stores and a large enough brood nest to risk swarm preparation. The bee colony's first activity of swarm preparation is to reduce the brood volume by creating additional stores inside the brood area. As brood emerges, selected cells are back-filled with honey, nectar, or pollen. Later into the season, as space for egg laying decreases the queen will not be able to lay as many eggs. This forces the queen to diet and lose weight so she becomes fit for the swarm flight.

Apparently, at the first time this type of backfilling behavior starts is the best time to do the Checkerboarding intervention. It requires filling two hive boxes above the broodnest each alternately with capped honey-filled frames and empty drawn frames. Alternating empty drawn combs above the brood nest "fools" the bees into thinking they don't have enough stores yet for swarming and causes them to expand the brood nest, giving both a bigger field force and avoiding reproductive swarming.

Timing the checkerboarding intervention is very important (note that all these times are different reference points that refer to the same time in the United States). The best time for the intervention is:
 when the elm trees bloom
 four weeks before the maple trees bloom
 five weeks before redbud trees bloom
 eight weeks before the start of the apple tree blossom
 nine weeks before the peak of the apple tree blossom

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Beekeeping
Rodas

Rodas () is a municipality and town in the Cienfuegos Province of Cuba. It was founded in 1859 under the name of Lechuzo. In 1879 it was renamed Rodas in honour of capitán general Caballero de Rodas.

Geography
The municipality is divided into the barrios and villages of Cabecera (the town proper), Ariza, Cartagena, Congojas, Jabacoa, La Unión, Limones, Medidas, Santiago, Soledad and Turquino. Until the 1977 administrative reform, the village of Arriete-Ciego Montero, currently in the municipality of Palmira, was part of it.

It is bordered by the municipalities of Aguada de Pasajeros, Abreus, Cienfuegos, Palmira, Lajas, Santo Domingo (in Villa Clara Province) and Los Arabos (in Matanzas Province).

Demographics
In 2004, the municipality of Rodas had a population of 33,477. With a total area of , it has a population density of .

See also
Municipalities of Cuba
List of cities in Cuba

References

External links

Populated places in Cienfuegos Province
Gianna

Gianna is a female Italian given name, a diminutive form of Giovanna. In English, it is translated as Joann, Joanne or Joanna. These names mean "God is gracious".  See also "John" for the origin.

Variations
Feminine: Giana, Gia, Giovanna
Masculine: Gianni, Giovanni

People
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki (born 1955), Greek businesswoman
Gianna Maria Canale (1927–2009), Italian actress
Gianna D'Angelo (1929–2013), American soprano
Gianna Galli (1935–2010), Italian soprano
Gianna Hablützel-Bürki (born 1969), Swiss fencer
Gianna Jessen (born 1977), American singer and anti-abortion activist
Gianna Jun (Jun Ji-hyun, born 1981), South Korean actress and model
Gianna Manzini (1896–1974), Italian writer
Gianna Beretta Molla (1922–1962), Italian pediatrician and Roman Catholic saint
Gianna Nannini (born 1954), Italian singer-songwriter
Gianna Pederzini (1900–1988), Italian mezzo-soprano
Gianna Rolandi (1952–2021), American soprano
Gianna Talone (born 1957), Italian-American pharmacist and writer
Giuseppina "Gianna" Tuissi (1923–1945), Italian resistance member

See also

Italian feminine given names
Feminine given names
Vermont Route 100

Vermont Route 100 (VT 100) is a north–south state highway in Vermont in the United States. Running through the center of the state, it travels nearly the entire length of Vermont and is  long. VT 100 is the state's longest numbered highway of any type.

Route description
The southern terminus of the route is at the Massachusetts state line in Stamford, where it continues south as Route 8. Its northern terminus is at VT 105 in the town of Newport, which lies on the Canadian border. VT 100 passes along the eastern edge of the Green Mountain National Forest for much of its length and also passes through the Mad River Valley. It runs parallel to, and lies between, U.S. Route 7 (US 7) to the west and US 5 to the east.

The road is the main thoroughfare for some of Vermont's most well-known resort towns, including Wilmington, Ludlow, Killington, Warren, and Stowe. As such, many of Vermont's ski resorts are located either directly on, or in proximity to, VT 100; these include Okemo Mountain Resort, Mount Snow, Killington, Sugarbush, Mad River Glen, Stowe Mountain Resort and Jay Peak.

VT 100 is a popular tourist route during the fall (for foliage) and winter (for skiing), and can be heavily trafficked during those seasons. Despite this, the road retains a rural feel through most of the towns it traverses and is relatively free of development, except for some of the areas around the ski resorts. The most populous town through which VT 100 passes is Morristown, with a population of just over 5,400.

Several of the most heavily traveled sections of VT 100 (such as the section between Waterbury and Stowe and Warren to Waitsfield) were in very poor condition due to state and local road maintenance budget shortfalls, recent harsh winters and heavy damage by Tropical Storm Irene; since that storm, the state has undertaken the reconstruction of many segments of the road.

Major intersections

Suffixed routes

VT 100A

Vermont Route 100A (VT 100A) is a short auxiliary route of VT 100 in Bridgewater. It is about  long and it connects VT 100 to U.S. Route 4. The route generally runs in a northeast–southwest direction.

VT 100B

Vermont Route 100B (VT 100B) is a spur route that branches off of VT 100 in Moretown. The designation is about  long. The route, which runs in a northeast–southwest direction, connects VT 100 to U.S. Route 2 in Middlesex.

VT 100C

Vermont Route 100C (VT 100C) is a spur route of VT 100 that begins in Hyde Park and runs southwest to an intersection with VT 15 in Johnson. It is about  long.

References

External links

100
Transportation in Addison County, Vermont
Transportation in Bennington County, Vermont
Transportation in Lamoille County, Vermont
Transportation in Orleans County, Vermont
Transportation in Rutland County, Vermont
Transportation in Washington County, Vermont
Transportation in Windham County, Vermont
Transportation in Windsor County, Vermont
Dodge Sidewinder

The Dodge Sidewinder is a concept car unveiled by Dodge in 1997 at the SEMA convention  in Las Vegas. It was based on a design by Chrysler's Mark Allen, only two years after he graduated from design school. Officially called the Dodge Dakota Sidewinder, it uses the front-mounted, Viper GTS-R engine to power the rear wheels, sitting on a chassis built by Riley & Scott. It was envisioned as the futuristic version of a Dodge Dakota convertible. 

The Sidewinder's engine is rated at  and  of torque, which allows the car to hit  in just under 4 seconds. The top speed of the Sidewinder is , and the car has a 4-speed automatic transmission.

References

Sidewinder
Enzo Sellerio

Enzo Sellerio (1924 – February 22, 2012) was an Italian photographer, publisher, and collector.

Born in 1924 in Palermo to an Italian father and a Russian mother, Sellerio studied law and was for some time a lecturer in law at the University of Palermo. He became a full-time photographer in the early 1950s.

In 1962 ZDF invited Sellerio, Hiroshi Hamaya and Will McBride to make a film on the German people; Mit offenen Augen was the result.

After a short period in the mid-1960s freelancing in the United States for Vogue and Fortune magazines, Sellerio moved toward publishing, and in 1969 started Sellerio editore with his wife. Sellerio would take direct charge of the art division of the company, which, as Enzo Sellerio editore, became independent in 1983. Among his publications are books about traditional Sicilian artifacts, many of them from his own collection.

Sellerio's black-and-white photographs depict most fairly public aspects of Sicilian life.

He died in Palermo in 2012, on February 22, aged 88.

Books of Sellerio's photographs

Palermo: Porträt einer Stadt. Special issue of Du (Zurich), 1961.
Castelli e monasteri. Palermo, 1968.
Inventario siciliano. Palermo: Sellerio, 1977.
Enzo Sellerio ("I grandi fotografi"). Milan: Fabbri, 1983.
Persone. Florence: Passigli, 1990.
Enzo Sellerio fotografo ed editore, ed. Roberta Valtorta. Verona: WAP, 1991.
Fotografo in Sicilia. Arti Grafiche Friulane, 1996. 
A Photographer in Sicily, trans. Guido Waldman. London: Harvill, 1996. 
Fotografie 1950-1989. Milan: Motta, 2000. 
Milloss al Massimo. Milan: Motta, 2000.  The work of the choreographer Aurel M. Milloss at Teatro Massimo.
Per volontà o per caso. Florence: Edizioni della Meridiana, 2004.

Notes

External links
"DanKash" on Sellerio's work as a publisher and collector

1924 births
2012 deaths
Photographers from Palermo
Italian publishers (people)
Academic staff of the University of Palermo
Kizuna

is a Japanese word meaning "bond". It may also refer to:

Music
Kizuna (album), a 2022 album by JO1
"Kizuna" (Aya Matsuura song)
"Kizuna" (Aya Ueto song)
"Kizuna" (Orange Range song)
 "Kizuna", a song from the anime Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch
 "Kizuna", a song by Tiana Xiao
 "Kizuna", a song from Seishun Amigo by Kazuya Kamenashi
 "Kizuna", a song by  Ayane
 "Kizuna", a piece of music from the anime Fairy Tail
 "Kizuna", a song by the Japanese power metal group Galneryus.
"Kizuna", a song by Aimer
 Sakura Gakuin 2013 Nendo: Kizuna, a 2014 album by Sakura Gakuin
"Kizuna Music", a song from BanG Dream! Ss2 Opening

Film
Kizuna, an action RPG (role-playing game) for Wii developed by Jaleco
Kizuna, a 1998 Japanese film directed by Kichitaro Negishi
Gekijōban Naruto Shippūden: Kizuna, the fifth Naruto movie (second in the Shippūden series)
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna, 2020 film.

Other
Kizuna bridge, a bridge in Cambodia
Kizuna Encounter, a fighting game for the Neo Geo
Kizuna: Bonds of Love, a yaoi (women's male/male romance) manga
Kizuna, a Japanese political party formed by nine former Lower House members of the Democratic Party of Japan
An alternative name for the WINDS spacecraft
The word was chosen to be 2011's Kanji of the year
Kizuna (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
KIZUNA COIN, The Japan's cryptocurrency with Directed acyclic graph (DAG) technology since 2018.
Kizuna AI (Japanese: キズナアイ), The Japanese virtual YouTuber and self-proclaimed artificial intelligence.
Kizuna Rank, also known as Trust Rank, a mechanic in the game Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!
Antigonia (Syria)

Antigonia () also transliterated as Antigonea and Antigoneia was a Hellenistic city in Seleucid Empire, Syria (in modern Turkey), on the Orontes, founded by Antigonus I Monophthalmus in 307 BC, and intended to be the capital of his empire; the site is approximately 7 km northeast of Antakya, Hatay Province, Turkey. After the Battle of Ipsus, 301 BC, in which Antigonus perished, the inhabitants of Antigonia were removed by his successful rival Seleucus I Nicator to the city of Antioch, which Seleucus founded a little lower down the river. (Strabo xvi. p. 750; Diod. xx. 47; Liban. Antioch. p. 349; Malalas, p. 256.) Diodorus erroneously says that the inhabitants were removed to Seleucia Pieria. Antigonia continued, however, to exist, and is mentioned in the war with the Parthians after the defeat of Crassus. (Dion Cass. xl. 29.)

In the city there was a shrine with four pillars, a statue of Tyche was placed above it, and a tall altar in front of it.

References

External links
Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, "Antigoneia", London, (1854)
"Antiocheia" in the same source
Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer, "Antigonia"

307 BC
Populated places established in the 4th century BC
Archaeological sites in Hatay Province
Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey
Antigonid colonies
Seleucid Empire
Former populated places in Turkey
Geography of Hatay Province
300s BC establishments
Seleucus I Nicator
Natalie Saville

Natalie Saville (born 7 September 1978) is an Australian race walker.

She finished second in the 20 km race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games behind her sister, Jane, after finishing 4th at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 36th in the same event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. At a national level, she has won three junior championships at 5000m, one national 10 km championship and finished in the top three on eight occasions. Saville is coached by her brother-in-law, Matt White.

Both Jane and Natalie Saville live in the City of Randwick Local Government Area. Natalie Saville was presented with the Keys to the City of Randwick on 22 October 2002 by Mayor Dominic Sullivan in recognition of outstanding achievement in sport. Her sister Jane was also presented with the Key to the City of Randwick at the same time.

References

1978 births
Living people
Australian female racewalkers
Olympic athletes for Australia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
Sportswomen from New South Wales
Athletes from Sydney
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
20th-century Australian women
21st-century Australian women
Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Los Arabos

Los Arabos is a municipality and town in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. It is located in the eastern part of the province, bordering the province of Villa Clara.

Geography
The municipality is divided into the barrios of Cabecera, Macagua, Monte Alto and San Pedro de Mayabón.

Demographics
In 2004, the municipality of Los Arabos had a population of 25,702. With a total area of , it has a population density of .

See also
Municipalities of Cuba
List of cities in Cuba

References

External links

Populated places in Matanzas Province
Strong Island

Strong Island may refer to:
Long Island
Strong Island (film)
 Strong Island in Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
 Strong Island (Michigan), near Lake Erie
Cheryl Webb

Cheryl Webb (born 3 October 1976 in Penrith, New South Wales), is an Australian race walker. Webb won the bronze medal in the 20 km race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. She is self coached since 2004.

Webb made her international debut in 2004. She finished 38th in the 20 km race at the 2004 Summer Olympics and 21st in the same event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics.

Achievements

Statistics
2010: Commonwealth Games - Delhi, India (5th)
2010: World Walking Cup - Chihuahua, Mexico (disqualified)
2009: World Championships - Berlin, Germany (disqualified)
2009: National Champion - Melbourne, Australia (fastest Australian female on Australian soil of all time over 20 km, 1.29.44)
2006: Commonwealth Games - Melbourne, Australia (3rd, 1.36.03)
2006: World Walking Cup - La Coruna, Spain (37th, 1.36.33)
2005: World Championships - Helsinki, Finland (21st, 1.33.58)
2004: Olympic Games - Athens, Greece (38th, 1.37.40)
2004: World Walking Cup - Naumburg, Germany (26th, 1.31.42)

References

1976 births
Living people
Australian female racewalkers
Olympic athletes for Australia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Australian Institute of Sport track and field athletes
World Athletics Championships athletes for Australia
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
20th-century Australian women
21st-century Australian women
Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Athletes from Sydney
Cody Carlson

Matthew Cody Carlson (born November 5, 1963) is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Houston Oilers in the third round of the 1987 NFL Draft. A 6'3", 200-lb. quarterback from Baylor University, Carlson played in seven NFL seasons and his entire career with the Oilers from 1987 to 1994. His nickname while with the Oilers was Commander Cody.

NFL career
Carlson began his career with the Houston Oilers as a backup to Warren Moon, and his most productive season was during the 1992 season due to Moon getting injured. He passed for 1,710 yards in 11 games (6 starts). Overall, he posted a 10–4 record as a starter during his years as Moon's backup. Moon departed after the 1993 season with Carlson named as his starting replacement. However, he lasted only five games into the 1994 season, posting a 1–4 record and 44.7 completion percentage before he suffered an injury and missed the remainder of the year. The Oilers ended the season with a franchise-worst 2-14 record.  The coaching change in the middle of the 1994 season signaled a new direction for the Oilers, and, with Carlson coming off his injury, the team opted to let him go. He retired after the 1994 NFL season.

He now lives in Austin, Texas.

References

1963 births
Living people
Players of American football from Dallas
American football quarterbacks
Baylor Bears football players
Houston Oilers players
Half a Mill

Jasun Wardlaw (April 6, 1973 – October 22, 2003) better known by his stage name Half a Mill, was a Brooklyn-based American rapper.

Career
Half a Mill was considered an underground rapper in the early 1990s. His mainstream breakthrough came in 1997 when he scored a guest spot on supergroup the Firm's only release, The Album.

Personal life and death
Wardlaw would commit suicide by shooting himself in the head in Brooklyn's Albany Projects on October 22, 2003. His body was found by police inside his apartment. He left behind a son, Jasun Jabbar Wardlaw Jr., who is a rapper and actor.

Half a Mill was the subject of the 2010 full-length documentary Player Hating: A Love Story by filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West.

Discography

See also
List of murdered hip hop musicians

References

1973 births
African-American male rappers
American male rappers
Deaths by firearm in Brooklyn
Rappers from Brooklyn
Underground rappers
2003 deaths
Gangsta rappers
Murdered African-American people
East Coast hip hop musicians
American murder victims
20th-century American male musicians
2003 murders in the United States
20th-century African-American musicians
21st-century African-American people
Boy Hits Car

Boy Hits Car is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1993.

Biography 
The band was formed in 1993. After releasing their first album, My Animal, independently in 1998, they went on the Sno-Core Tour and recorded their next album, Boy Hits Car, on Wind-up Records. Their song "LoveFuryPassionEnergy" was used as a theme song for WWE Hall of Famer Lita and was distributed on the WWF Forceable Entry album in 2002. A third album was self released in 2005 called The Passage. In 2006 the band re-released the album in July after signing with Rock Ridge Music as their distributor. It was announced on their homepage that they will have a new album with a planned release on March 15, 2011. Boy Hits Car released their 5th studio album All That Led Us Here in May 2014 and are presently following it up with a European tour.

Peterson stated in a Reddit AMA conducted to mark the self-titled album's 20th anniversary that 12 to 13 tracks had been written for a pending sixth album, with a name for said album still being decided upon at that time. The lead single, Injustice Fatigue, was released in November 2022.

Musical style and influences 
Boy Hits Car was started in 1993 with a simple idea—to write and perform 'passionately heavy music' infused with a world beat/middle eastern flavor. The band cite their influences as Jane's Addiction, Primus, Bad Religion, Talking Heads, Quicksand, Led Zeppelin and Helmet, as well as eastern music such as Ali Akbar Khan.

Members

Current 
 Cregg Rondell – vocals, twelve string guitar (1993–present)
 Bill Gower – bass guitar (2006–present)
 Mike Bartak – guitar (2007–present)
 Erik Peterson – drums (2014–present)

Former 
 Louis Lenard – guitar – (1993–2006)
 Scott Menville – bass guitar (1993–2006)
 Michael Ferrari  – drums (1993–2003)
 Johnny Ransom – drums (2004–2012)
 Dusty Hunt – guitar (2005–2007)
 Will Jenkins – drums (2012–2013)

Discography

Studio albums 
 My Animal (1998) (NMG Records)
 Boy Hits Car (2001) (Wind-Up Records)
 The Passage (independently released in 2005, then re-released in 2006 through Rock Ridge Music)
 Stealing Fire (2011) (March 15, 2011)
 All That Led Us Here (2014)
 Waves of Sound Across Oceans of Time (2024; pending release)

Live albums 
 Worldwide Alive (2020)

References

External links 

 Official website

Musical groups from Los Angeles
Alternative rock groups from California
American alternative metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 1993
1993 establishments in California
Rock Ridge Music artists
Royal Dragon Restaurant

The Royal Dragon Restaurant () of Bangkok, Thailand was recorded in the Guinness World Records as the world's largest restaurant in 1992. The  restaurant had seating for 5,000 diners. It was exceeded in capacity by the current record holder, the Bawabet Dimashq (Damascus Gate) Restaurant, which opened in 2002 in Damascus, Syria, with just over 6,000 seats. The restaurant closed in ~2022 and is now a HomePro, however some buildings still stand, like the employee residence.

Menu
Although the Royal Dragon billed itself as a seafood restaurant, it served more than 1,000 Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Western-style dishes.

See also
 List of seafood restaurants
 List of Thai restaurants

References

External links
 Royal Dragon Restaurant

Restaurants in Thailand
Seafood restaurants
Thai restaurants
Lofty's Roach Souffle

Lofty's Roach Soufflé is  an instrumental album by American artist Harry Connick Jr., released in 1990.

Presented as the Harry Connick Jr. Trio: 

 Harry Connick Jr. (piano)
 Benjamin Jonah Wolfe (bass)
 Shannon Powell (drums)

The album was released simultaneously as his big band album We Are in Love, and his home video debut entitled "Singin' & Swingin'".

Track listing
"One Last Pitch" (Harry Connick Jr., Joe Livingston)  – 6:27
"Hudson Bommer" (Connick)  – 5:13
"Lonely Side" (Connick)  – 8:15
"Mr. Spill" (Connick)  – 5:00
"Lofty's Roach Soufflé" (Connick)  – 5:23
"Mary Ruth" (Connick)  – 5:54
"Harronymous" (Connick)  – 5:22
"One Last Pitch (Take Two)" (Connick, Livingston)  – 3:26
"Colomby Day" (Connick)  – 6:06
"Little Dancing Girl" (Connick)  – 7:33
"Bayou Maharajah" (Connick)  – 4:41

Story of the album
Lofty's Roach Souffle was inspired by Connick's experiences on the film Memphis Belle: "In case you're curious about the title 'Lofty's Roach Souffle', last summer I was in England filming Memphis Belle, which is a World War II movie about a B-17. The actors were sent to boot camp at an SAS training ground where we met Lofty. Lofty was introduced to us as the premier survivalist in the world and he showed us one survival tip after another. D. B. Sweeney, who played the navigator in the movie, and I became friends during the shoot. D.B. also happens to be a fine chef, and he quickly noticed that Lofty could make food out of almost anything. Lofty was the master of outdoor cuisine! D.B. figured that Lofty might even be able to make roach souffle. I wrote a song to remind me of this experience."

Charts
Top Jazz Albums: #4
The Billboard 200: #94

Awards and nominations
1990 Grammy nomination: Best Instrumental Composition, "One Last Pitch (Take 2)" – Harry Connick Jr. & Joe Livingston

External links

Music video
"One Last Pitch", music video at aol.com

1990 albums
Harry Connick Jr. albums
Instrumental albums
Columbia Records albums
ESPN NBA Friday

NBA Friday is a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on ESPN. Formerly known as NBA Friday Coast to Coast during doubleheader nights, the program starts the first Friday of the NBA season, and typically runs uninterrupted throughout the entire season. In 2006, NBA Friday was preempted from March 10 to March 31, due to ESPN deciding against counter programming the NCAA Tournament. Nearly all NBA Friday telecasts consist of a doubleheader, with one game typically from the east coast at 7:30 p.m and the west coast at 10:00 p.m.

The KIA NBA Shootaround Pregame Show, the Toyota Halftime Show, and the Target Postgame Show are the studio shows that occur before, during, and after the NBA Friday Games.

NBA Friday on ESPN is not exclusive; local sports networks may still air the game in their market. In that case, the ESPN broadcast on these markets is subject to blackout and SportsCenter is usually aired instead.

Announcers

Notable games
December 6, 2002 - The Los Angeles Lakers come back from a 30-point deficit (including a 28-point fourth quarter deficit) to defeat the then 17–1 Dallas Mavericks .
January 17, 2003 - The first meeting between then-Los Angeles Laker Shaquille O'Neal and then-Houston Rockets rookie Yao Ming. The game was the second highest rated NBA game on cable ever at the time.
January 31, 2003 - NBA legend Michael Jordan plays his final game in Chicago, Illinois as the Washington Wizards play the Chicago Bulls. The game airs on ESPN2, though ESPN pre-empted programming to air the starting lineups.
November 19, 2004 - Pacers–Pistons brawl.
February 10, 2012 - Jeremy Lin scored a career-high 38 points as the New York Knicks defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 92-85.

References
InsideHoops.com - ESPN NBA

ESPN original programming
2002 American television series debuts
2010s American television series
2020s American television series
Friday
J.P. Stevens

J.P. Stevens may refer to:

J.P. Stevens Textile Corporation, a constituent corporation of WestPoint Home
J.P. Stevens High School, named after the founder of the above
John Paul Stevens (1920-2019) American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
John Peters Stevens, American textile industrialist
St. Michael's Hospital

St. Michael's Hospital may refer to the following hospitals:

Canada
St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto)

Ireland
St. Michael's Hospital (Dún Laoghaire)

United Kingdom
St Michael's Hospital, Braintree
St Michael's Hospital, Bristol
St Michael's Hospital, Hayle
St Michael's Hospital, Linlithgow
St Michael's Hospital, Warwick

United States
Saint Michael's Medical Center, an historical hospital in Newark, New Jersey
Thomas Oboe Lee

Thomas Oboe Lee (born September 5, 1945) is a Chinese American composer.

Life 

Lee was born in Beijing, China. His family left Communist China in 1949 and lived in Hong Kong until 1959, when he moved to São Paulo, Brazil. He emigrated to the United States in the summer of 1966.

Lee's musical education began in Brazil during the Bossa Nova craze.  He performed as a jazz flutist with many illustrious Brazilian musicians, including the singer/songwriter Chico Buarque de Hollanda.  He continued his music education in the United States at the University of Pittsburgh, the New England Conservatory of Music and Harvard University. He taught at Berklee College of Music. He has been a professor of music at Boston College, since the fall of 1990.

In 1981, Lee and five other composers from the New England Conservatory formed a composers group called "Composers in Red Sneakers."  The group produced a number of successful concerts in the Boston-Cambridge area.  Lee left the group in 1986 to live in Italy for a year when he won the 1987 Rome Prize Fellowship.

Lee's music has won many other awards and Fellowships: two Guggenheim Fellowship awards, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowships, the 1985 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, First Prize at the 1983 Friedheim Kennedy Center Awards for his Third String Quartet ... child of Uranus, father of Zeus, and recording grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

Works 
Lee's work, "Morango ... Almost A Tango" was written for and recorded by the Kronos Quartet.

Recordings
Thomas Oboe Lee String Quartets –  performed by the Hawthorne String Quartet. Label: Koch International 3-7452-2-III
Thomas Oboe Lee The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards –  performed by the Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo. Label: Arsis Audio CD 148
Thomas Oboe Lee Six Concertos –  performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Label: BMOP/sound 1025

References

External links
Thomas Oboe Lee website

1945 births
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
American male classical composers
American classical composers
University of Pittsburgh alumni
New England Conservatory alumni
Harvard University alumni
Boston College faculty
Living people
Hong Kong emigrants to the United States
21st-century American composers
Hong Kong emigrants to Brazil
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
Pupils of Gunther Schuller
Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

The men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in the Canadian city of Montreal on 22 July. The United States used two different foursomes in the heats and final - each combination won the race and broke the world record.

Final

Heats

Heat 1

Heat 2

References

External links
Official Olympic Report

Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Men's events at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Kunming–Bangkok Expressway

Kunming–Bangkok Expressway is a proposed international expressway running from Kunming, Yunnan province, People's Republic of China, to Bangkok, Thailand via Laos The first expressway sections were opened in 2008.

The expressway will be approximately  in length when complete; about  was completed from Kunming via Xiaomenyang to Jinghong) and crossing the Lao border at Mohan, all in Yunnan, by 2017  and the next  of the Highway, south of China within Laos follows Route 13 then Route 3.

It was jointly funded by China, Laos, Thailand and the Asian Development Bank.

It traverses jungle and highlands in southern Yunnan and Northern Laos before entering Thailand at Chiang Khong. It then continues southward, largely following Thai Route 1, which becomes an Expressway standard road near Bangkok but which is largely an at grade dual carriageway along most of its length within Thailand

The entire road is a non Expressway standard undivided 2 lane highway within Laos as of May 2019.

1Some distances on existing roads if expressway distances unavailable

Expressways also planned or under construction: Kunming to Mandalay (Burma) and Kunming to Hanoi (Vietnam).
Expressway completed between Vang Vieng and Vientiane in 2020.

See also
 Asian Highway Network AH1, AH2, AH3
 China National Highways
 Thai highway network
 Phahonyothin Road

References

External links
 UNESCAP - About the Asian Highway 

Expressways in China
Roads in Laos
Highways in Thailand
Transport in Yunnan
Kunming
Asian Highway Network
Croatan High School

Croatan High School is  a public secondary school in Newport, North Carolina. The high school is part of the Carteret County Public Schools system. It serves the westernmost third of Carteret County, including the towns of Peletier, Cape Carteret, Cedar Point and western half of the island of Bogue Banks, which includes the town of Emerald Isle.

Awards and recognition
In 2009 and 2010, U.S. News & World Report ranked Croatan among the top high schools in the United States, awarding the school silver medals. Croatan High School's class of 2010 marked combined SAT scores (based on math and critical reading) of 1076, up from 1064 the previous year, this was 59 points higher than the national average.

Athletics
All athletic teams compete in the 3A division level. Croatan holds several state titles including men's soccer, wrestling, women's golf, and men's indoor track.
Football
Men's and Women's Soccer
Men's and Women's Golf 
Men's and Women's Basketball
Men's and Women's Swim 
Men's and Women's Lacrosse 
Wrestling 
Cheerleading 
Track and Field 
Cross Country

See also
List of high schools in North Carolina

References

External links
 

Educational institutions established in 1999
Public high schools in North Carolina
Schools in Carteret County, North Carolina
1999 establishments in North Carolina
Shwet Ashwas

Shwet Ashwas, a motorcycle exhibition team of the military police in India, holds the Guinness World Record for making a pyramid of 133 men on 11 motorcycles over a distance of 350 metres at Bangalore on 22 September 1995. 

The team continues to perform in various military events.

External links
 Article on Tribune India
 Article on Hindu.com

Military of India
Marana Unified School District

Marana Unified School District (MUSD) is an above average, public school district located in Marana, AZ, comprising 17 schools in Pima County, Arizona. It has its headquarters in Marana. It has 12,293 students in grades PK, K-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 19 to 1, about 650 teachers. According to state test scores, 42% of students are at least proficient in math and 42% in reading. Founded in the early 1920s, MUSD's boundaries include  of land.

Schools
The Marana Unified School District has a total of 17 schools:
 10 elementary schools
 2 K-8 schools
 2 middle schools
 3 high schools.

Elementary schools
In alphabetical order:
 Butterfield Elementary (Casas Adobes Community Advocate, Casas Adobes)
 Coyote Trail Elementary (Marana)
 DeGrazia Elementary (Cortaro)
 Estes Elementary (Marana)
 Gladden Farms Elementary (Marana) 
 Ironwood Elementary (Casas Adobes Community Advocate, Casas Adobes)
 Picture Rocks Elementary (Picture Rocks),
 Quail Run Elementary (Casas Adobes Community Advocate, Cortaro)
 Rattlesnake Ridge Elementary (Marana),
 Roadrunner Elementary (Avra Valley),

K-8 schools
In alphabetical order:
 Dove Mountain (CSTEM) 
 Twin Peaks Elementary (Marana)

Middle schools
In alphabetical order:
 Marana Middle (Marana) 
 Tortolita Middle (Cortaro)

High schools
In alphabetical order:
 Marana High School (Marana),
 MCAT High School (Marana)
 Mountain View High School (Cortaro)

References

External links

 

School districts in Pima County, Arizona
1920s establishments in Arizona
Patient Abuse

"Patient Abuse" is a sketch from the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "Party Political Broadcast". The sketch is among the few not entirely written by members of Monty Python, and is notable for its considerable amount of black humour. It was co-written by Python Graham Chapman and his friend Douglas Adams, later known for creating The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  Mind-boggling bureaucracy is a recurring comic theme of Adams' work.

Outline

The sketch is set in a doctor's office. A man (Terry Jones) rushes in, blood gushing from his stomach. The doctor (Graham Chapman), barely reacting to the blood, blandly asks what the problem is, to which the man responds that the nurse stabbed him. The doctor tells the man that he has to fill out paperwork before receiving any care. With his blood still spilling to the floor, the man attempts to fill out the paperwork, while the oblivious doctor complains about the difficulties of paperwork and bureaucracy. Straining to the floor, the man hands the doctor his blood-soaked paperwork, which the doctor proceeds to criticise ("Surely you know number four! It's from The Merchant of Venice, even I knew that!"). The sketch ends with the nurse (Carol Cleveland) coming in with a bloody sabre, implying that she has just stabbed the last waiting patient. The doctor and the nurse decide to "pop[…] out for a bit of lunch", leaving the dying patient with a second form and the promise of some morphine if he gets at least the questions about history right.

References

Monty Python sketches
Television episodes written by Douglas Adams
Black comedy
Bureaucracy in fiction
Claudia Florenti

Claudia Florenti was an Italian opera singer with the rank of "magnificent soprano." She, along with a few other Italians including Giovanni Bottesini, were in Mexico to take part in the first performance of the recently adopted Anthem of Mexico at the Santa Anna Theatre in 1854.
January

References

19th-century Italian women opera singers
Date of death unknown
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Luis José de Orbegoso

Luis José de Orbegoso y Moncada-Galindo, de Burutarán y Morales (August 25, 1795 – February 5, 1847), was an aristocratic Peruvian soldier and politician, who served as the 5th President of Peru as well as the first President of North Peru. This was a time of profound social instability and continuing civil war which led his government to coexist with that of Pedro Pablo Bermúdez, and later with Felipe Santiago Salaverry.

Orbegoso was born in Chuquizongo, Huamachuco, on August 25, 1795. His parents were Justo de Orbegoso y Burutarán and Francisca Moncada-Galindo y Morales, 4th countess of Olmos. Orbegoso was therefore the 5th count of Olmos. He participated with José de San Martín in the war for independence and in the war against Gran Colombia during the government of José de La Mar. After the collapse of Agustín Gamarra's first government, Orbegoso was elected president in 1833, winning over Pedro Pablo Bermúdez, whom Gamarra had preferred as his successor.

During his government, he suffered the enmity of Gamarra, who while in exile had supported Bermúdez in his eventual presidency. Orbegoso had also to deal with the young Felipe Santiago Salaverry, who overthrew him 1835. Orbegoso, however, did not lose the support of southern Peru and, with the support of then President of Bolivia, Andrés de Santa Cruz, he regained his leadership throughout the country and executed Salaverry. In retribution to the support he received from Santa Cruz, he acceded to form the new Peru-Bolivian Confederacy. Santa Cruz assumed the "Supreme Protectorship" of the confederation and Orbegoso maintained only the presidency of the Republic of North Peru.

After being defeated by Gamarra's efforts to regain power with the support of Chile, Orbegoso had to abandon the country, returning later and staying away from an active political life. He died in Trujillo in 1847.

Gallery

References

1795 births
1847 deaths
Peruvian people of Basque descent
Peruvian people of Spanish descent
Presidents of Peru
People of the War of the Confederation
Won sign

The won sign , is a currency symbol. It represents the South Korean won, the North Korean won and,  unofficially, the old Korean won.

Appearance 
Its appearance is "W" (the first letter of "Won") with a horizontal strike going through the center. Some fonts display the won sign with two horizontal lines, and others with only one horizontal line. Both forms are used when handwritten.

Encoding  
The Unicode code point is : this is valid for either appearance. Additionally, there is a full width character at .

Microsoft Windows
In Microsoft Windows code page 949, the position  (backslash) is also used for the won sign.

In Korean versions of Windows, many fonts (including system fonts) display the backslash character as the won sign. This also applies to the directory separator character (for example, ) and the escape character(₩n). Most Korean keyboards input  when the won sign key is pressed, so the Unicode letters are rarely used.

The same issue (of dual use of a code point) occurs with the yen sign in Japanese versions of Windows.

MacOS
In macOS, the won sign key inputs  only when in Hangul input mode.

Fictional use 
In fiction, it is used for the woolong, a fictional currency in anime by Shinichirō Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy and Carole & Tuesday), and for "Kinzcash", the currency of the online game Webkinz.

References

See also
 Pound sign#Double dash style

Currency symbols
Arcos de Canasí

Arcos de Canasí Bacunayagya is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Santa Cruz del Norte, in Mayabeque Province. Until 2011, it was part of the former La Habana Province.

History
The town was founded in 1738 at the mouths of the Rio Canasi. Due to frequent flooding, the town was moved to higher ground in 1808, on the actual location.

It was its own municipality (administering an area of ) of the Matanzas Province until 1976, when its territories were re-distributed to the Santa Cruz del Norte municipality of the La Habana Province. With the split of the La Habana Province in 2010, this municipality belongs currently to Mayabeque Province.

Economy
The town's economy is mainly agriculture. Farmers offering cheese and fruit on the side of the Via Blanca highway are an everyday sight.

Intense oil exploitation is active on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean just north of the town.

See also
Jibacoa
Bacunayagua
Boca de Jaruco
Camilo Cienfuegos (Hershey)

References

Populated places in Mayabeque Province
Croatan (disambiguation)

The Croatan were an Algonkian tribe living in what is now the Carolinas.

Croatan may also mean:
Croatan Beach, Virginia Beach, Virginia, neighborhood of Virginia Beach
Croatan Sound, an inlet on the North Carolina coast
Croatan National Forest, a national forest in North Carolina
Croatan High School, a public secondary school near Croatan National Forest
USS Croatan, two American aircraft carriers of that name
Croatan (World of Darkness), an extinct tribe of werewolves in the roleplaying game Werewolf: The Apocalypse
Croatan, a 2005 studio album by Philadelphia metal band Starkweather released by Candlelight Records in 2006

See also
Croatoan (disambiguation)
Croatian (disambiguation)
Old Trail School (Bath, Ohio)

Old Trail School is an independent coeducational day school, serving toddler though grade 8, founded in 1920. It is located in Bath, Ohio, in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. It is the only independent school in the United States that is located in a national park.

Facility 

The school is located on a  campus in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Alderfer and Sisler-McFawn Halls house the primary grades. Noble Hall and the Wilson Wing house third through eighth grades. Other buildings include the library, administration building, cafeteria, gymnasium, natatorium, swimming pool, and a performing arts center.

Primary school 

Old Trail School's Primary School includes toddler through second grade and is headed by Amanda Irwin.

Intermediate school 

Old Trail School's Intermediate School includes grades 3-5 and is headed by Jon Wanders.

Middle school

Old Trail School's Middle School includes grades 6-8 and is headed by Hallie Ritzman.

The Head of School at Old Trail School is Sarah Johnston.

Newspaper 

Old Trail School's online news-hub, Buffalo News Network, is run by students for students.

References

External links 
Old Trail School Homepage

Education in Summit County, Ohio
Private middle schools in Ohio
Private elementary schools in Ohio
Buildings and structures in Summit County, Ohio
Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The women's 100 metre freestyle event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal, with the final on 18 July 1976.

Results

Heats
Heat 1

Heat 2

Heat 3

Heat 4

Heat 5

Heat 6

Heat 7

Semifinals
Heat 1

Heat 2

Final

References

Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics
1976 in women's swimming
Women's events at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Rock Spring, Georgia

Rock Spring is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in northwest Georgia, United States, approximately  south of Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is in Walker County which resides in Georgia's 14th congressional district. Rock Spring is included in the Chattanooga, TN-GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 Census with a population of 891.

Highlights
The nearest major city is Chattanooga, and the nearest incorporated cities are Chickamauga and La Fayette. There is a Georgia Department of Driver Services branch in the community. Rock Spring Elementary School, Saddle Ridge Elementary, and Saddle Ridge Middle School serves the community as part of the Walker County School District. Walker County has relocated its tag and tax office to a former bank building at the intersection of US 27 and Hwy 95.

History
Northwest Georgia has a significant history tied to the Civil War. The Battle of Chickamauga was fought in the Chickamauga area, and was one of the major battles of the war. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park spans over 9000 acres and is located in nearby Chickamauga.

Demographics

2020 census

Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.

References

External links
 Walker County Government Website

Census-designated places in Walker County, Georgia
Unincorporated communities in Walker County, Georgia
FWM

FWM may refer to:
 Coventry Climax FWM, a British pump engine
 The Fabric Workshop and Museum, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
 Fairway Market, an American grocery chain
 Fast Web Media, a British digital marketing firm
 Four-wave mixing
 "FWM", a song by American rapper Lil Yachty from the 2018 album Lil Boat 2
 "FWM", a song by Usher from the 2016 album Hard II Love
 Several speaker systems featuring wOOx Technology
Ngā Toki Matawhaorua

Ngā Toki Matawhaorua of Pewhairangi, often simply known as Ngā Toki, is the name of a New Zealand waka taua (large, ornately carved Māori war canoe).

It is named after Matawhaorua, the canoe of Kupe, the Polynesian discoverer of the islands now known as New Zealand; Kupe's canoe was later re-adzed and renamed Ngātokimatawhaorua. It was built in 1940 at the instigation of Te Puea Herangi for the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. It was refurbished by master waka builder and navigator Hekenukumai Ngā Iwi (Hector) Busby in 1974 for relaunching during the Waitangi Day ceremonies at Waitangi, Northland and has been paddled periodically since that time.

Ngā Toki can carry 80 paddlers and 55 other passengers. It is the largest canoe in New Zealand, measuring 35.7 metres (123 ft) long and up to 2 metres (6.56 ft) wide. It held the Guinness World Record for the world's longest canoe until July 12, 2006, when it was supplanted by a canoe built in Newport, Maine.

See also
Polynesian navigation
Hokule'a, Hawaiian double-hulled ship and voyages.

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20051101174103/http://maoriart.org.nz/about/committees/nga_waka

Māori waka
Polynesian navigation
Hail to the Hills of Westwood

"Hail to the Hills of Westwood" is the school song or alma mater of the University of California, Los Angeles. It was written by Jeane Margaret Emerson 
a 1929 graduate of UCLA, and adopted by the school in 1960. The current arrangement performed by the UCLA Marching Band was written by band member Dwayne S. Milburn for the 1985 football season.

Until 1925, UCLA shared the University of California alma mater, "Hail to California!" "Hail Blue and Gold", written by a UCLA student in 1925, preceded "Hail to the Hills of Westwood", and was the school song until 1960.

Other UCLA school songs
"Mighty Bruins" - UCLA touchdown song written by Bill Conti in 1984
"Rover" - UCLA victory song
"Sons of Westwood" 
"Strike Up The Band (song)" - UCLA official song
"The Bruin Warriors" - a version of "Big C" created in 2014

References

External links
UCLA History Project - Hail to The Hills of Westwood (lyrics)

UCLA Bruins
Alma mater songs
American college songs
1929 songs