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Mutiny Up My Sleeve

Mutiny Up My Sleeve was the third album by Canadian rock band Max Webster. The record was released in 1978 in Canada by Anthem Records and in the United States and Europe by Capitol Records. The album was certified gold by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. 

Recording sessions began in late 1977 at Sounds Interchange with Terry Brown as co-producer, and resumed at Phase One Studios in early 1978 with bassist, Mike Tilka stepping in after Brown quit. The intro of "The Party" was recorded live at the Seneca College Field House in Toronto, Ontario on December 31, 1977, which was also Tilka's last gig with the band before being replaced by Dave Myles.

In 1988 when the band's back catalog was re-released on CD, the original album cover was amended to include the phrase "Featuring Kim Mitchell" to capitalize on the success of Mitchell's post-Max Webster solo career.

Track listing
All songs written by Kim Mitchell and Pye Dubois, except where indicated
Side one
 "Lip Service" – 4:02
 "Astonish Me" (Terry Watkinson) – 4:49
 "Let Your Man Fly" (Watkinson) – 2:46
 "Water Me Down" – 3:13
 "Distressed" – 4:12

Side two
 "The Party" – 4:46
 "Waterline" – 4:08
 "Hawaii" – 3:03
 "Beyond the Moon" – 6:17

Personnel
Max Webster
Kim Mitchell – guitars and vocals
Terry Watkinson – keyboards and vocals
Dave Myles – bass guitar
Gary McCracken – drums and percussion
Pye Dubois – lyrics

Additional musicians
Carla Jensen, Judy Donnelly – additional vocals on "Distressed" and "Hawaii"

Production
Mike Tilka – producer, mixing
Terry Brown – producer
Mark Wright – engineer, mixing
Mike Jones – engineer 
Hugh Syme – album design

References

1978 albums
Max Webster albums
Anthem Records albums
Capitol Records albums
Stavanger Idrettshall

Stavanger Idrettshall is an indoor arena in Stavanger, Norway. It hosts the home games of the Stavanger handball team, and then has a capacity 4100 people. This arena hosted the main stage of the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship.
 It will host the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship with the country, Croatia and Denmark.

References

External links
 

Sports venues in Stavanger
Handball venues in Norway
Indoor arenas in Norway
Leangen Ishall

Leangen Ishall is an indoor ice hockey arena located in Leangen, Trondheim, Norway. The capacity of the arena is 3,000 and it was opened in 1977. It is the home arena of the Nidaros ice hockey team. The arena also hosted the home games of the Trondheim Black Panthers and Rosenborg ice hockey team.

Located next to the arena is Leangen Kunstisbane an outdoor long track artificial speed skating oval constructed in 1979.

References

External links

Indoor arenas in Norway
Indoor ice hockey venues in Norway
Sports venues in Trondheim
Speed skating venues in Norway
Rosenborg IHK
Trondheim Black Panthers
Sports venues completed in 1977
1977 establishments in Norway
Figure skating venues in Norway
Pololū Valley

Pololū (Hawaiian spelling: Pololū, stressed on the final 'ū') is the northernmost of a series of erosional valleys forming the east coast of Kohala Mountain on the Island of Hawaii.  The word pololū means "long spear" in the Hawaiian language.

Features 
The valley forms a deep cut in the side of Kohala Mountain, and is traversed in its entirety by Pololū stream. The upper (southern) end of the valley is located at coordinates . Hiking trails criss-cross the valley, and lead in and out.  The valley is fronted on the ocean side by a beautiful black sand beach. A yellow sand dune protects verdant areas inland from the occasional fury of the ocean.

History 

Prior to European colonization, Pololū Valley was renowned for its kalo (taro) farming. A particular variety of kalo (kalo Pololū) was grown here, notable for its crimson stems.  Kalo farming was complemented by rice in the 1800s. In the 20th century, though, the valley fell into disuse.  A section of the Kohala ditch, which diverts water from Honokane Valley to the sugarcane fields of the North Kohala district, run along the sides of Pololū Valley. Hikes to and in the ditch are offered by a tour company.

Transportation 

Pololū Valley is accessed from the North, from a lookout  at mile 28 at the end of highway 270 (forming the terminus of Akoni Pule Highway) at coordinates . A relatively short hike on a graded trail leads to the bottom of the valley. The trail continues beyond the valley, climbing over a ridge to neighboring Honokane Nui Valley.

References

External links

Valleys of Hawaii
Landforms of Hawaii (island)
Beaches of Hawaii (island)
Opsimath

An opsimath is a person who begins, or continues, to study or learn late in life. The word is derived from the Greek ὀψέ (), meaning 'late', and μανθάνω (), meaning 'learn'.

Opsimathy was once frowned upon, used as a put-down with implications of laziness, and considered less effective by educators than early learning. The emergence of "opsimath clubs" has demonstrated that opsimathy has shed much of this negative connotation.

Notable opsimaths include 19th-century army officer and orientalist Sir Henry Rawlinson, Vivian Stanshall's fictitious character Sir Henry Rawlinson, Grandma Moses, Rabbi Akiva (according to the Talmud he began studying at age 40), and Cato the Elder, who learned Greek only at the age of 80.

References

alternative education
Vivarium Inc.

Vivarium Inc. is a Japanese video game developer founded in 1996 by company president Yoot Saito. It is famous for designing innovative video games which use voice recognition technology. Seaman for the Dreamcast is their most famous game to date. Odama, for the GameCube, was also developed by Vivarium.

In 2012 the company released Aero Porter, a simulation game which is a part of the video game compilation Guild01 for the Nintendo 3DS handheld. In the Americas and Europe, the game was released as a standalone title on the Nintendo's eShop.

History
 1993 - Yoot Saito founded OPeNBooK Co., Ltd.
 1996-04-04 - Yoot Saito founded VIVARIUM.
 1996-10 - OPeNBooK merged with 9003, inc and became OPeNBooK9003 inc. (オープンブック9003株式会社). Later, Yoot Saito retired from OPeNBooK9003.
 2000 - The original staff of OPeNBooK within OPeNBooK9003 left company and founded OPeNBooK (オープンブック). The new company held copyright for The Tower, but OPeNBooK9003 held copyrights for Aquazone: Desktop Life and Pina: Desktop Life. As a result, in 2003-3-21, OPeNBooK9003 inc. announced ending the production of The Tower II on 2003-3-31, followed by ending the sale of the game at AZ-SHOP and AZ-SHOP ONLINE on 2000-4-3. Support of the games continued until 2001-3-31.
 2000-7-1 - OPeNBooK9003 inc. was renamed to Cinomix, inc.
 2004-10 - VIVARIUM merged with OPeNBook, and renamed to VIVARIUM Inc.

Games developed as OPeNBooK
 SimTower: The Vertical Empire (1994) (Microsoft Windows)

Games developed as OPeNBooK9003
 Yoot Tower (1998) (Microsoft Windows)

Games developed as VIVARIUM
 Seaman (1999) (Dreamcast and PlayStation 2)
 The Tower SP (2006) (Game Boy Advance)
 Odama (2006) (GameCube)
 Seaman 2 (2007) (PlayStation 2)
 The Tower DS (2008) (Nintendo DS)
 Guild01 / Aero Porter (2012) (Nintendo 3DS)

References

External links
 VIVARIUM's official web site

Software companies based in Tokyo
Video game companies established in 1996
Video game companies of Japan
Video game development companies
Pierce College station

Pierce College station, signed as Pierce College/Winnetka, is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system.  It is named after the adjacent  community college of the same name, which is located on Winnetka Avenue, immediately across Victory Boulevard from the station. The station is located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Winnetka.

Service

Station Layout

Hours and frequency

Connections 
, the following connections are available:
 Los Angeles Metro Bus: ,

Nearby destinations 
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:
 Canoga Bowl
 G Line Bikeway
 Los Angeles Pierce College
 West Valley Occupational Center

References

External links 

Los Angeles Metro Busway stations
G Line (Los Angeles Metro)
Los Angeles Pierce College
Winnetka, Los Angeles
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
Public transportation in the San Fernando Valley
Public transportation in Los Angeles
Bus stations in Los Angeles
2005 establishments in California
Rutland Trail

The Rutland Trail is a multi-use rail trail extending for  from Norwood to Moira, New York. It consists of portions of the Rutland Railway in St. Lawrence and Franklin counties.

The trail starts from Railroad Avenue in Norwood (proceed eastward along the south side of the CSX tracks), and is continuous to Winthrop, where the bridge was removed. In Winthrop one must cross the St. Regis River on a highway bridge and skirt one half mile of railbed made inaccessible by the missing bridge. The trail is ridable from there into the village of North Lawrence, where the bridge was removed. Beyond that is a one-mile (1.6 km) section which is posted by Healthy Foods, Inc; beyond that section the trail is ridable to Moira.

External links 
 

Rutland Railroad
Protected areas of St. Lawrence County, New York
Protected areas of Franklin County, New York
MR-C

The Modular Rifle - Caseless (MR-C), is a mock-up of an assault rifle that was intended to be manufactured and sold to the United States military as a next-generation infantry weapon firing next-generation ammunition. It has not been developed—even in prototype form—and the weapon was never lined-up for the OICW competition or in follow-up rifle competitions held by the US military.  On the Crye Associates website, the product is specifically labeled as a "modular caseless carbine mock-up".  Most information circulating on the rifle is derived from the video game Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, and should not be taken as fact.

Designed by Crye Associates, the concept is shown to utilize a bullpup design with an all-sides rail interface system. It is also shown to have a special 40 mm grenade launcher attachment known as the AGL. The AGL in the game, however, is a modified version of the real world Enhanced Grenade Launcher Module designed for the FN SCAR rifles.  In most of the pictures, the gun is seen painted in Crye Precision's Multicam pattern.

See also 
 Future Force Warrior
 Heckler & Koch G11

References

External links 
 Crye Associates

Assault rifles of the United States
Caseless firearms
Bullpup rifles
Proposed weapons of the United States
Molybdenum(V) chloride

Molybdenum(V) chloride is the inorganic compound with the empirical formula . This dark volatile solid is used in research to prepare other molybdenum compounds. It is moisture-sensitive and soluble in chlorinated solvents.

Structure
Usually called molybdenum pentachloride, it is in fact partly a dimer with the molecular formula . In the dimer, each molybdenum has local octahedral symmetry and two chlorides bridge between the molybdenum centers. A similar structure is also found for the pentachlorides of W, Nb and Ta. In the gas phase and partly in solution, the dimers partially dissociate to give a monomeric . The monomer is paramagnetic, with one unpaired electron per Mo center, reflecting the fact that the formal oxidation state is +5, leaving one valence electron on the metal center.

Preparation and properties
 is prepared by chlorination of Mo metal but also chlorination of . The unstable hexachloride  is not produced in this way.

 is reduced by acetonitrile to afford an orange acetonitrile complex, . This complex in turn reacts with THF to give , a precursor to other molybdenum-containing complexes.

Molybdenum(IV) bromide is prepared by treatment of  with hydrogen bromide:

The reaction proceeds via the unstable molybdenum(V) bromide, which releases bromine at room temperature.

 is a good Lewis acid toward non-oxidizable ligands. It forms an adduct with chloride to form . In organic synthesis, the compound finds occasional use in chlorinations, deoxygenation, and oxidative coupling reactions.

Reactions
 is reduced by acetonitrile:

Although it polymerizes tetrahydrofuran,  is stable in diethyl ether. Reduction of such solutions with tin gives  and , depending on conditions.

Safety considerations
 is an aggressive oxidant and readily hydrolyzes to release HCl.

See also
 Molybdenum(IV) chloride
 Molybdenum(VI) chloride
 Molybdenum(V) fluoride
 Tungsten(V) chloride

References

Chlorides
Molybdenum halides
Inorganic compounds
Oxidizing agents
Cajun (disambiguation)

Cajun or Cajan refers to a people and culture of French descent in Southern Louisiana:
Cajuns, an ethnic group of French descent in Southern Louisiana
Cajun Country
Cajun cuisine
Cajun English
Cajun French
Cajun Jig
Cajun Jitterbug
Cajun music
Cajans, an ethnic group of French descent in Southern Alabama
Ragin' Cajuns, nickname of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette athletic teams (1960s–)
Cajundome
Cajun Field
see also Ragin' Cajun (disambiguation) for other uses

Other names:
Cajun (horse)
Cajun (rocket), Cajun Dart and Nike-Cajun, American sounding rockets (1950s–1970s)
Cajun Cliffhanger, amusement ride at Six Flags Great America (1976–2000)
Cajun Navy
Louisiana Cajun Pelicans, American Basketball Association team based in Baton Rouge (2005–)
Redeemer Presbyterian Church (Manhattan)

Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA), is a church located in New York City, founded in 1989 by Timothy J. Keller, who retired as pastor in July 2017. The family of Redeemer churches includes Redeemer Downtown (Sr. Pastor Pete Nicholas), Redeemer West Side (Sr. Pastor David Bisgrove), Redeemer East Side (currently searching for a senior pastor), Redeemer Lincoln Square (Pastor Michael Keller), and Redeemer East Harlem (Pastor Justin Adour). Christianity Today called Redeemer "one of Manhattan's most vital congregations."

History

Redeemer draws around 5,000 people to its services each Sunday at venues on the Upper West Side, Upper East Side and Downtown. According to the church's 2014 annual report, the current total membership is 1,760. In a 2006 survey of 2,000 American Protestant church leaders, Redeemer was named the #16 most influential church in America. Redeemer has attracted members of the public such as young professionals, doctors, bankers, lawyers, artists, actors, musicians, and designers, many of whom are in their 20s and 30s.

In January 1998, a New York Times article about the church discussed its conservative stance, in that it condemned homosexuality and did not allow women to be ministers. In the article, current and former members of the congregation described the Redeemer church as intolerant, and "being full of fundamentalists and zealous, newly converted Christians pushing hard-line views". In response to the article, Tim and Kathy Keller wrote to The New York Times and claimed that the church was neither "hardline" nor "fundamentalist."

Through its church planting center, Redeemer has helped start over 100 smaller churches in the New York metropolitan area. With respect to planting and starting new churches in urban areas, The New York Times reported that "pastors from around the world are beginning to come in a steady stream to New York City to glean what they can from Dr. Keller and Redeemer." In 2012, the church bought a parking garage at 150 West 83rd Street on the Upper West Side for conversion to a church building of its own. The church has an office at 1166 Avenue of the Americas.

References

External links
 Redeemer Presbyterian Church
 Redeemer City to City
 Center for Faith and Work
 Gospel in Life - Sermons & Resources
 150w83 - Event Venue/Rental Space
 e-newsletter

Churches in Manhattan
Presbyterian churches in New York City
Presbyterian Church in America churches in New York (state)
Christian organizations established in 1989
Tampa station

Tampa station is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system.  It is named after adjacent Tampa Avenue, which travels north–south and crosses the east–west busway route. The artwork at this station is by Sandow Birk. The station is in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles

Service

Station Layout

Hours and frequency

Connections 
, the following connections are available:
 Los Angeles Metro Bus:

References

External links

G Line (Los Angeles Metro)
Los Angeles Metro Busway stations
Reseda, Los Angeles
Tarzana, Los Angeles
Public transportation in the San Fernando Valley
Public transportation in Los Angeles
Bus stations in Los Angeles
Snuff spoon

A snuff spoon is a tiny spoon used for nasal insufflation of powdered substances. In the ancient time the spoons were used to ingest psychotropic substances, in the 18th century − tobacco, in the 20th century − cocaine (the spoon is thus also known as a cocaine spoon or coke spoon). Some local statutes in the US treat this spoon as drug paraphernalia, defining it as a spoon that is too small and thus "unsuited for the typical, lawful uses of a spoon".

These spoons are so small that they are frequently mistaken for the toy ones. The designs of the snuff spoons closely followed that of the larger ones, and thus can be used to date the étuis containing them.

History 

Snuff spoons have a very long history. Archeologists found them, for example, at Chavín de Huántar site in Peru (presumably used for consumption of psychoactive preparations of Anadenanthera colubrina more than 2000 years ago), as well as in South Africa, where a combination of a tiny comb and a little spoon had made some researchers to assume that the spoon was used as an earpick or head-scratcher.   

In England, powdered snuff appeared at the end of the 17th century, and quickly became popular along with the devices for its consumption. The user extracted the snuff with the spoon in the right hand, placed the substance onto the back side of the left hand, and sniffed from there. The combination of a little vial and a snuff spoon that acted like a stopper was a precursor of the snuff-box. By the end of the 19th century the snuff spoons went completely out of use.

In the US, McDonald's provides straight swizzle sticks to stir the coffee, while in the rest of the world a small plastic stirring spoon is used. According to Graybosch, this is due to the 1960s rumor that the spoons can be used to snort cocaine.

References

Sources
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cocaine
Drug paraphernalia
Tobacco accessories
Spoons
Reseda station

Reseda station is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system.  It is named after adjacent Reseda Boulevard, which travels north–south and crosses the east–west busway route. The station is in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Tarzana.

Service

Station Layout

Hours and frequency

Connections 
, the following connections are available:
 Los Angeles Metro Bus:

References

External links 

G Line (Los Angeles Metro)
Los Angeles Metro Busway stations
Reseda, Los Angeles
Tarzana, Los Angeles
Public transportation in the San Fernando Valley
Public transportation in Los Angeles
Bus stations in Los Angeles
2005 establishments in California
Christian Upliftment School

The Christian Upliftment School, which is located in Kampala, Uganda, mainly serves orphans who have been displaced by Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in the north. These students have been brought to Kampala where it is much safer. The school was founded in 2005.

External links
 Christian Upliftment Nursery & Primary School
 The Christian Upliftment School

Nondenominational Christian schools
Lord's Resistance Army
Schools in Uganda 
Christian schools in Uganda
Educational institutions established in 2005
Schools in Kampala
Organizations for children affected by war
Organizations for orphaned and abandoned children
2005 establishments in Uganda
Agrarian reform

Agrarian reform can refer either, narrowly, to government-initiated or government-backed redistribution of agricultural land (see land reform) or, broadly, to an overall redirection of the agrarian system of the country, which often includes land reform measures. Agrarian reform can include credit measures, training, extension, land consolidations, etc. The World Bank evaluates agrarian reform using five dimensions: (1) stocks and market liberalization, (2) land reform (including the development of land markets), (3) agro-processing and input supply channels, (4) urban finance, (5) market institutions.

The United Nations thesaurus sees agrarian reform as a component of agricultural economics and policy, with a specific impact on rural sociology, and broader than land reform, describing agrarian reform as:Reforms covering all aspects of agrarian institutions, including land reform, production and supporting services structure, public administration in rural areas, rural social welfare and educational institutions, etc.Cousins defines the difference between agrarian reform and land reform as follows:
Land reform… is concerned with rights in land, and their character, strength and distribution, while… [agrarian reform] focuses not only on these but also a broader set of issues: the class character of the relations of production and distribution in farming and related enterprises, and how these connect to the wider class structure. It is thus concerned economic and political power and the relations between them…Along similar lines, a 2003 World Bank report states,…A key precondition for land reform to be feasible and effective in improving beneficiaries' livelihoods is that such programs fit into a broader policy aimed at reducing poverty and establishing a favourable environment for the development of productive smallholder agriculture by beneficiaries.

Examples of other issues include "tenure security" for "farm workers, labour tenants, … farm dwellers… [and] tenant peasants", which makes these workers and tenants better prospects for receiving private-sector loans;
"infrastructure and support services";
government support of "forms of rural enterprise" that are "complementary" to agriculture;
and increased community participation of government decisions in rural areas.

See also
Agrarian law
Agribusiness
Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA)
Food security
Food sovereignty
Land reform
Land reforms by country
Tiberius Gracchus

References

External links
Global Food Security Threatened by Corporate Land Grabs in Poor Countries - video report by Democracy Now!
Springer, S. 2012.  "Illegal evictions? Overwriting possession and orality with law’s violence in Cambodia."] Journal of Agrarian Change, vol, 13, no. 4, pp. 520–546, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0366.2012.00368.x

Agrarian politics
Land reform

pt:Reforma agrária
Bruce Weber (administrator)

Bruce Weber (1951 – 13 April 2006) was an Australian rules football administrator with the Port Adelaide Football Club.

Born in Port Adelaide, South Australia, Weber played junior football with South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Port Adelaide before becoming president of Port Adelaide Football Club from 1986 to 1992.

In this role, Weber led a charge for the  club to receive a licence in the Australian Football League (AFL). In 1990 this move almost came to fruition but for the formation of a new South Australian club, the Adelaide Football Club, to receive the licence and enter the AFL in 1991.

Weber was succeeded by Greg Boulton as president/chairman in 1993, with the Port Adelaide Football Club eventually entering the AFL in 1997. It is considered that Weber's initial vision during his time as president led to this outcome.

Weber died in Jakarta, Indonesia on 13 April 2006, survived by his wife Keke, daughters Jodie, Rachel and Stacy and stepson Juahir.

References

1951 births
2006 deaths
Port Adelaide Football Club administrators
Sportspeople from Adelaide
Belstaff

Belstaff is a clothing brand owned by British chemicals company Ineos. The company was founded in 1924 by Eli Belovitch and his son-in-law Harry Grosberg in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The name Belstaff is a combination of Eli's surname and his Staffordshire home. Belstaff was the first company to use wax cotton in the manufacturing of waterproof apparel for motorcycling.

History

Belstaff was founded in 1924 by Eli Belovitch and his son-in-law Harry Grosberg in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. In 1948, Belstaff became a subsidiary of James Halstead. The company was affected by the textile crisis of the 1990s, precipitating the closure of the Longton factory after previously closing its Silverdale site. James Halstead continued to own the brand selling the Belstaff motorcycle range and helmet brands until 2004. Alongside this, they promoted the fashion side across Europe, Australia, and the US. The brand was sold in 2004 to Franco Malenotti of Sponsor SA Italy. Kate Moss was paid £1,000,000 to appear in Belstaff ads.

In June 2011, Harry Slatkin and The Labelux Group bought Belstaff. Slatkin assumed the CEO role and appointed Martin Cooper as Chief Creative Officer, and together, they planned to reposition Belstaff as an English heritage brand centered on luxury sportswear. Tommy Hilfiger was brought in as a business consultant.

In 2012, the company opened stores in Via Della Spiga Milan, New Bond Street, London and, Madison Avenue, New York City. Bill Sofield designed the interiors.

In July 2014, along with Jimmy Choo and Bally, Belstaff was acquired by the parent group JAB Luxury. In 2015, Belstaff and Legs Media made a 17-minute commercial, Outlaws, with David Beckham, Harvey Keitel, Katherine Waterston, and Cathy Moriarty. In early 2016, Belstaff made a 3-minute commercial, Falling Up, in which Liv Tyler retraces the footsteps of 1920s aviator Amelia Earhart. 
Delphine Ninous became men's and women's Creative Director in July 2016.

In 2017, Belstaff opened a store in Ginza Six, Tokyo and was bought by UK company Ineos in late 2017. Helen Wright was appointed CEO in 2018. Sean Lehnhardt-Moore became the new creative director in 2018. Fran Millar was appointed CEO in 2020, leaving her position at the UCI World Tour cycling team, the Ineos Grenadiers (formerly Team INEOS and Team Sky).

In 2019, Belstaff exited its Madison Avenue, NYC store, and in 2020, Belstaff opened its eleventh store globally, a store in the Meatpacking District.

References

Notes

External links

Textile manufacturers of England
Motorcycle safety gear manufacturers
Motorcycling retailers
British companies established in 1924
Manufacturing companies established in 1924
GFCF

GFCF  may refer to:
 Gross fixed capital formation, a macroeconomic concept used in official national accounts
 Gluten-free, casein-free diet, a diet that eliminates intake of gluten and casein
Balboa station

Balboa station is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system.  It is named after adjacent Balboa Boulevard, which travels north–south and crosses the east–west transitway route. The station is in the Lake Balboa district of Los Angeles, in the central San Fernando Valley.

Service

Station Layout

Hours and frequency

Connections 
, the following connections are available:
 LADOT Commuter Express: , 
 Los Angeles Metro Bus: , ,

Nearby destinations
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places: 
 Birmingham High School
 Daniel Pearl Magnet High School
 Lake Balboa Park
 Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area
 G Line, Los Angeles River and Victory Boulevard bicycle paths

References

External links

G Line (Los Angeles Metro)
Los Angeles Metro Busway stations
Lake Balboa, Los Angeles
Van Nuys
Public transportation in the San Fernando Valley
Public transportation in Los Angeles
Bus stations in Los Angeles
2005 establishments in California
Tungsten hexachloride

Tungsten hexachloride is an inorganic chemical compound of tungsten and chlorine with the chemical formula . This dark violet blue compound exists as volatile crystals under standard conditions. It is an important starting reagent in the preparation of tungsten compounds. Other examples of charge-neutral hexachlorides are rhenium(VI) chloride and molybdenum(VI) chloride. The highly volatile tungsten hexafluoride is also known.

As a d0 atom, tungsten hexachloride is diamagnetic.

Preparation and structure
Tungsten hexachloride can be prepared by chlorinating tungsten metal in a sealed tube at 600 °C:

Tungsten hexachloride exists in both blue and red polymorphs, referred to respectively as α and β. The wine-red β can be obtained by rapid cooling whereas the blue α form is more stable at room temperature. Although these polymorphs are distinctly colored, their molecular structures are very similar. Both polymorphs feature  molecules that have octahedral, in which all six W–Cl bonds are equivalent, and their length is equal to 224–226 pm. The densities are very similar: 3.68 g/cm3 for α and 3.62 g/cm3 for β. The low temperature form is slightly more dense, as expected.

Reactions
Tungsten hexachloride is readily hydrolyzed, even by moist air, giving the orange oxychlorides  and , and subsequently, tungsten trioxide.  is soluble in carbon disulfide, carbon tetrachloride, and phosphorus oxychloride.

Methylation with trimethylaluminium affords hexamethyl tungsten:

Treatment with butyl lithium affords a reagent that is useful for deoxygenation of epoxides.

The chloride ligands in  can be replaced by many anionic ligands including: bromide, thiocyanate, alkoxide, alkyl and aryl).

Reduction of  can be effected with a mixture of tetrachloroethylene and tetraphenylarsonium chloride:

The W(V) hexachloride is a derivative of tungsten(V) chloride.

It reacts with arsenic or hydrogen arsenide to form tungsten arsenide.

Safety considerations
 is an aggressively corrosive oxidant, and hydrolyzes to release hydrogen chloride.

References

Tungsten halides
Chlorides
Octahedral compounds
Getting to Know You (short story)

"Getting to Know You" is a science fiction short story by American writer David Marusek,  published in the March 1998 issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, after appearing in a privately circulated anthology prepared by Nokia in 1997. This story is also included in Marusek's 2007 short story collection Getting To Know You.

Plot summary
Set the same future (the "Boutique Economy") as Marusek's We Were Out of Our Minds with Joy, the story is about Zoranna – an affluent, attractive journalist who visits her elderly sister Nancy, who is the only other surviving member of her family. Unlicensed procreation has been outlawed to prevent overpopulation; biotechnology has advanced to the point where immortality is possible, but only granted to people who have the means and are considered useful to society.  Nancy is one of the people who are considered obsolete, as she was forced out of her teaching career after the Procreation Ban; she now works as a hospice caretaker from her apartment, where she tends to holographic projections of dying patients.

A subplot of the story involves Zoranna's "belt valet", an artificially intelligent accessory that can mentally communicate with its wearer and perform a wide variety of tasks.  A representative of the company that gave her the belt valet (which she names "Bug") to field test urges that she return it, due to an unspecified defect; she refuses in spite of her annoyance with it, as she needs it for progressively more tasks.

When she finally visits Nancy, Zoranna finds out that she is living with a man who is using her as a fall guy for a fraud.  She forces the man to leave under threat of turning him in, a loss which causes Nancy's condition to deteriorate.  Zoranna's attempts to get Nancy to go to a rejuvenation clinic on her dime are rebuffed, until Bug – having unexpectedly changed into a suave, powerful entity named Nicholas that knows every aspect of her life and personality – tricks Nancy into taking Zoranna to the clinic by making it appear as if she were gravely ill.  Angered at first, Zoranna at last comes to terms with the machine.

Zoranna and Nicholas are also minor characters in Marusek's first novel, Counting Heads, while Zoranna herself is mentioned in obliquely in "We Were Out of Our Minds With Joy".

References

Sources
Dozois, Gardner, and Sheila Williams.  Isaac Asimov's Utopias.  (New York:  Ace Books, 2000), pp. 62–96.

External links 
 

1998 short stories
Science fiction short stories
Works originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction
Trafton


Trafton may refer to the following:

People 
 Mark Trafton (1801–1901), American minister and U.S. Congressman
 Adeline Trafton (1842–1920), American author
 George Trafton (1896–1971), American football player
 Stephanie Brown Trafton (born 1979), American track and field athlete

Places 
 Trafton, Washington
 Trafton School, on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Other uses 
 Trafton script, designed by Howard Allen Trafton for Bauer Type Foundry
Woodley station (Los Angeles Metro)

Woodley station is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system.  It is named after adjacent Woodley Avenue, which travels north–south and crosses the east–west busway route. The station is in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley.

Service

Station Layout

Hours and frequency

Connections 
, the following connections are available:
 Los Angeles Metro Bus: ,

Notable places nearby 
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places: 
Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area
The Japanese Garden
Woodley Park

References

External links

G Line (Los Angeles Metro)
Van Nuys
Los Angeles Metro Busway stations
Public transportation in the San Fernando Valley
Public transportation in Los Angeles
Bus stations in Los Angeles
2005 establishments in California
Abandoned footwear

Abandoned footwear, such as a lone boot or shoe, has often been noted in out-of-the-way places like ponds or by the side of roads.  Sometimes the shoes may even be new and fashionable.

There are many hypotheses about why this phenomenon seems to more often involve footwear than other types of clothing.  Shoes, being more sturdily constructed than most other types of clothing, will last longer after being abandoned outdoors. Leather shoes, for instance, are estimated to last for 25–40 years outside. Some shoe abandonment is intentional, as in shoe tossing, in which shoes are tied together by their laces and thrown in great numbers into trees, over power lines, or over fences.

Artistic use

Abandoned footwear is a feature in a number of artistic works, including: 

Some artists derive insight and inspiration from abandoned footwear - a form of art known as objet trouvé. 

The lost slipper in the Cinderella folktale is a classic example of the literary device of the "lost object".  

A fisherman hauling up an old boot, rather than a fish, is a comic-strip cliché.  

The theme of abandoned footwear and their untold story is explored in detail in Julie Ann Shapiro's novel, Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries. The titular character describes the phenomenon, “The forgotten shoes are everywhere: littering the side of the highway, floating in the tide, going upstream with the salmon, or occupying a field like a dead body, discarded and left to rot.”

In sport
Leaving behind shoes can be a symbol of retirement in sport. For example, as ESPN's Sherry Skalko describes about Rulon Gardner's last wrestling bout in Athens, Greece: 
An emotional Rulon Gardner prepares to leave his shoes on the mat -- a symbol of retirement.

After the referee raised Gardner's hand in victory -- first to one side of the arena, then to the other -- Gardner grabbed an American flag, wiped away tears and parked himself in the middle of Mat B like "a 33-year-old kid" and took off his size 13 shoes. First the right one, the one that contains the constant reminder of the snowmobiling accident that almost took his life two years ago, then the left.

Then the super heavyweight bronze medalist stood up, bowed his head at each side of the mat and walked off, leaving his shoes behind, a wrestler's signal that he had fought his final bout.

Incidents
An unusual abundance of abandoned shoes was found on Miami's Palmetto Expressway on Friday, 2 January 2009.  Thousands of assorted shoes of all kinds and conditions were scattered across the highway, disrupting traffic for many hours.  The shoes were collected for the charity Soles4Souls which redistributes shoes to needy people.  This unusually large batch of shoes was expected to go to Haiti.

See also
 Shoe tossing, shoes tied by their laces hanging from overhead wires
Ghost shoes (traffic fatality memorial)
Salish Sea human foot discoveries

References

External links
  The Secret Language of Sneakers, Snopes.com

Footwear
Waste
Rate integrating gyroscope

A Rate integrating gyroscope is a rate gyro with a built in integrator. It is usually a component of an Inertial Measurement Unit or a stabilization system.

Principle of operation
In a rate integrating  gyroscope, the gyroscope is turned at a steady rate about its input axis and a torque is applied to the spin axis. This causes the gyroscope to precess about the output axis.
The rate indicating gyroscope consists of a damping fluid between the float assembly can and the outer casing. This viscous fluid resists the motion of the gimbal precession. This causes the gimbal to accelerate initially in the fluid, until the damping effect is equal to the precessing force.
The rate of precession, will hence be directly proportional to the rate of turn of the gyroscope about its input axis and the total angle of movement about the output axis will be proportional to the speed and length of time the input axis is turning.

In a typical application (e.g. an aircraft), the output axis could have revolved 180 degrees clockwise in 20 seconds, then 80° anti-clockwise (say if the aircraft was changing direction again).
This output would then be fed to a computer to calculate the total distance traveled (Inertial Navigation Platform).

 US Dynamics Rate Integrating Gyroscope Technical Brief

Key
 Spin Axis: Spin Axis is the axis of rotation of the rotor (rotating mass).
 Input Axis: Input Axis is the Axis about which the torque is applied.
 Output Axis: Output axis is the Axis perpendicular to the input axis and the spin axis.

Gimbal gain

Gimbal gain is the amount of precession that can be varied by varying the viscosity of the damping fluid. For (for example) increased sensitivity of a gyroscopic instrument.

External links
 Rate Gyros
Spinning Mass Gyroscopes

Gyroscopes
Navigational equipment
Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll

Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll is the seventh studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in 1976.

The lead track, "Telegram", describes the band's experience while touring of hangovers, travel by aeroplane and limousine, customs, FM radio, girls, breakfast, press reception, soundcheck and finally the show over a guitar riff that bursts into a short version of the Byrds hit before returning to the riff and the story.  It includes the album title in the lyrics. This references a saying among guitar players: "It doesn't matter if your guitar isn't fully in tune, as long as it's 'close enough for rock 'n' roll.'"  "Telegram" (parts 1–3 only) was Nazareth's concert opener for many years, including the 1981 shows recorded for the Snaz album.

Track listing

Credits

Band members 
 Dan McCafferty – lead vocals
 Manny Charlton – guitar, producer
 Pete Agnew – bass, backing vocals, guitar, piano
 Darrell Sweet – drums, percussion

Other credits 
 Nick Blagona – engineer
 John Punter – engineer
 Hipgnosis – sleeve design and photos

Charts

Certifications

References 

Nazareth (band) albums
1976 albums
Albums with cover art by Hipgnosis
A&M Records albums
Vertigo Records albums
Sepulveda station

Sepulveda station is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. It is named after nearby Sepulveda Boulevard, which travels north-south and crosses the east-west busway route. Unique among G Line stations, Sepulveda's platforms are not located at the cross street, but rather about a block west of it. The station is in the Van Nuys neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles, in the central San Fernando Valley.

Property development
Various development proposals have been considered for the excess station parking and adjacent commercial parcels between Sepulveda Boulevard on the east, the transit station on the south, Interstate 405 on the west, and the Victory Park neighborhood to the north. A comprehensive study, including conceptual land usage strategies, was prepared for LA Metro by students of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning in mid-2010. Subsequently, conceptual development guidelines for the site were prepared by Metro.

Thus far, a development project including an LA Fitness is built on land formerly housing a Wickes Furniture building. Between December 2011 and February 2012, the former Wickes Furniture building was demolished for this project. By October 2012, the LADWP has put up new wooden and metal power poles along Sepulveda Blvd next to the project. The LA Fitness building was built and opened to the public in March 2013.

By 2014 and 2015, most of the Sepulveda Station parking lot is now leased to the Keyes car dealerships that are on Van Nuys Blvd for inventory stock.

By fall 2019, and spring 2020, Metro will begin construction on a bridge over Sepulveda Boulevard as part of the improvements of the Metro G Line busway to reduce travel times. What started so far on the construction of the elevated bridge is that LADWP has put up new power poles at Sepulveda and G Line for undergrounding the existing power lines at the intersection before the construction of the bridge's framework. When the new bridge is constructed, the existing Sepulveda station will be relocated on top of the bridge as an elevated station.

During the 2028 Summer Olympics, the station will serve spectators traveling to and from events at the Sepulveda Dam. A new transfer to the Sepulveda Transit Corridor is expectected to be constructed here as part of that project.

Service

Station Layout

Hours and frequency

Connections 
, the following connections are available:
 Los Angeles Metro Bus:

Station artwork 

The platform features a painting that shows a pre-Columbian glyph and a map of the monarch butterfly's migratory path.

References

External links

G Line (Los Angeles Metro)
Van Nuys
Los Angeles Metro Busway stations
Public transportation in the San Fernando Valley
Public transportation in Los Angeles
Bus stations in Los Angeles
2005 establishments in California
Masquerades (novel)

Masquerades is a novel written by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb that takes place in the Forgotten Realms setting. It is based on the campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

Plot summary
The novel features the continued adventure of the heroine Alias and her companion Dragonbait from the novel Azure Bonds and takes place after the events in the Finder's Stone trilogy. The novel takes place in the city of Westgate and follows the struggle against the Night Masks and their mysterious leader known only as The Faceless.

The story of the newly ascended god Finder continues in Finder's Bane and Tymora's Luck.

Reviews
Review by John C. Bunnell (1995) in Dragon Magazine, November 1995
Kliatt

References

External links
 Forgotten Realms novels at Candlekeep.com
 Masquerades at Candlekeep.com

1995 American novels
American fantasy novels
Forgotten Realms novels
Walk-in agent

A walk-in agent is an individual who voluntarily offers to conduct espionage. Specifically, a "walk-in" is an agent or a mole of a government who literally walks into an embassy or intelligence agency without prior contact or recruitment.

References

Spies by role
All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce

The All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC; ), also called the All-China Chamber of Industry and Commerce (ACCIC; ) is a people's organization and chamber of commerce, established in 1953 as a successor to the chambers of commerce that were first founded during the Qing dynasty.

Today, it consists of Chinese industrialists and business people under the leadership of the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as well as being a constituent organization of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the holder of a number of seats in the National People's Congress. The organization assists the government in managing China's private sector economy and acts as a bridge between the private sector entities and the government.

History 

From November 2002 to 2012, the ACFIC had been led by Chairman Huang Mengfu (), who, like his predecessors, was also a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, ranking as a national leader of China. His predecessor was Jing Shuping, founder of the first private bank in modern China and the son of a well-known entrepreneur of the late Qing Dynasty.

The first vice-chairman of the ACFIC is Quan Zhezhu (), a deputy minister of the United Front Department originally from Jilin. The ACFIC has another 23 vice-chairpersons, most of them private entrepreneurs.

Organization
The ACFIC is led by a ministerial-level CCP secretary and chairman. The chairman has usually been a member of the China National Democratic Construction Association, also serving as a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The ACFIC is a constituent of the CPPCC and is allocated seats to the NPC.

More than 3,000 regional federations of industry and commerce (FIC) have been established in all provinces and prefectures and most counties of China. The relationship between ACFIC and the regional FIC is described as a role of guidance, but the statute of ACFIC is also valid for the regional federations.

In September 2020, the CCP announced that it would establish more party committees in regional FICs, and would arrange a special liaison between them and the CCP.

See also 

 Technological and industrial history of China

References

External links 

  

Organizations associated with the Chinese Communist Party
Trade in China
Chambers of commerce
Industry in China
Politics of China
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One institution with multiple names
Hot Tracks (album)

Hot Tracks is a compilation album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in 1976.  The album covers from 1973's Razamanaz album to 1976's Play 'n' the Game. The album also features a slightly longer version of "This Flight Tonight" and the single version of "I Want to Do Everything for You". An EP featuring tracks from the album reached Number 15 in the UK singles chart in the following year.

Track listing

Personnel
Dan McCafferty - vocals
Darrell Sweet - drums
Manny Charlton - guitar, producer
Pete Agnew - bass guitar, guitar

Chart performance

References

External links
Lyrics to songs from Hot Tracks

Nazareth (band) albums
1976 compilation albums
A&M Records compilation albums
La Liberté (Canada)

La Liberté is a Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada based newspaper founded on May 20, 1913 by Archbishop Adélard Langevin of Saint-Boniface.

La Liberté is currently the only French-speaking provincial weekly newspaper in Manitoba.

History 
In 1970, the publication was taken over by Presse-Ouest Limitée which is owned by the francophone cultural organization la Société Franco-Manitobaine (SFM). Its headquarters are at 123 Marion Street in St. Boniface.

The newspaper celebrated its 85th anniversary in 1998. It has a staff of ten people. In 2013, La Liberté celebrated a hundred years of news in Manitoba, en français.

See also
List of newspapers in Canada

References

External links
  

Weekly newspapers published in Manitoba
French-language newspapers published in Canada
Newspapers established in 1913
1913 establishments in Manitoba
Franco-Manitoban culture
Newspapers published in Winnipeg