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Minimum energy control

In control theory, the minimum energy control is the control  that will bring a linear time invariant system to a desired state with a minimum expenditure of energy.

Let the linear time invariant (LTI) system be
 
 
with initial state .  One seeks an input  so that the system will be in the state  at time , and for any other input , which also drives the system from  to  at time , the energy expenditure would be larger, i.e., 

To choose this input, first compute the controllability Gramian

Assuming   is nonsingular (if and only if the system is controllable), the minimum energy control is then

Substitution into the solution

verifies the achievement of state  at .

See also
 LTI system theory
 Control engineering
 State space (controls)
 Variational Calculus
Control theory
Bakersfield High School

Bakersfield High School (BHS) is a public four-year high school located in Bakersfield, California, United States. Opened in 1893, Bakersfield High School serves grades ninth through twelfth within the Kern High School District.

Notable alumni

 Larry Barnes – former MLB player (Anaheim Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers).
 Theo Bell – former NFL football player
 Jeff Buckey – former NFL football player
 Johnny Callison - former Major League Baseball outfielder
 Pete Cross – former NBA player.
 Marion Osborn Cunningham – artist. 
 Ric Drasin – actor, author, designer of the Gold's Gym and World Gym logos, and retired professional wrestler
 Robert Duncan – poet, was a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance
 Frank Gifford – Pro Football Hall of Fame and Monday Night Football commentator 
 Merle Haggard – singer-songwriter.
 Jerry Marion – former NFL player
 Kevin McCarthy – Congressman, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
 Matthew Todd Miller, American citizen held by North Korea
 Spain Musgrove – former NFL defensive lineman
 Doug Loman – former MLB player (Milwaukee Brewers)
 Ruth B. Love (Class of 1950) – Educator, former education administrator, school superintendent and author. Love is noted as the first African–American and woman to serve as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third largest school district.
 Steve Ontiveros – former MLB player (San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs)
 Dennis Ralston – Davis Cup winner
 Don Robesky – former Stanford football player
 Rick Sawyer – former MLB player (New York Yankees, San Diego Padres)
 Jeff Siemon – former NFL football player
 Jeremy Staat – former NFL player
 Michael Stewart – former NFL football player
 Robert Swift – former NBA player
 Jerry Tarr – former professional football player
 Phillip Thomas – former NFL football player
 Jake Varner – four time All-American and two time national champion wrestler at Iowa State University and winner of a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London at 26
 Tyrone Wallace (Class of 2012) – Paris basketball player, NBA player, former California Golden Bears basketball player
 Earl Warren  – California Attorney General, three-term Governor of California, Chief Justice of the United States, and chairman of the Warren Commission
 Larry Welz – noteworthy early contributor to underground comics movement

References

Further reading

External links
Wallace, J. S. Recollections of a high school district, 1893–1968 : an informal history of the Kern County Union High School and junior college district.  Published circa 1980. 
Bakersfield High School
Driller Marching Band
Bakersfield Haunted History

Educational institutions established in 1893
High schools in Bakersfield, California
Public high schools in California
1893 establishments in California
Yours, Mine and Ours

Yours, Mine and Ours may  refer to:

 Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film), a film starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda
 A 1992 episode of Full House from season five
 Yours, Mine & Ours (album), a 2003 album by the Pernice Brothers
 Yours, Mine & Ours (2005 film), a remake starring Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo
 A 2009 episode of Private Practice from season two
Imposex

Imposex is a disorder in sea snails caused by the toxic effects of certain marine pollutants. These pollutants cause female sea snails (marine gastropod molluscs) to develop male sex organs such as a penis and a vas deferens.

Imposex inducing substances

It was believed that the only inducer of imposex was tributyltin (TBT), which can be active in extremely low concentrations, but recent studies reported other substances as inducers, such as triphenyltin and ethanol. Tributyltin is used as an anti-fouling agent for boats which affects females of the species Nucella lapillus (dog whelk), Voluta ebraea (the Hebrew volute), Olivancillaria vesica, Stramonita haemastoma (red-mouthed rock shell) and more than 200 other marine gastropods.

Abnormalities
In the dog whelk, the growth of a penis in imposex females gradually blocks the oviduct, although ovule production continues. An imposex female dog whelk passes through several stages of penis growth before it becomes unable to maintain a constant production of ovules. Later stages of imposex lead to sterility and the premature death of the females of reproductive age, which can adversely affect the entire population.

In 1993, Scientists from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory found a thriving dog-whelk population in the
Dumpton Gap, near Ramsgate in the UK despite high levels of TBT in the water. In the Dumpton Gap population, only 25% of females showed any significant signs of imposex, while 10% of males were characterized by the absence of a penis or an undersized penis, with incomplete development of the vas deferens and prostate. After further experiments, scientists concluded that "Dumpton Syndrome" was a genetic selection caused by high TBT levels. TBT-resistance was improved at the cost of lower reproductive fitness.

Biomonitoring

The imposex stages of female dog whelks and other molluscs (including Nucella lima) are used in the United Kingdom and worldwide to monitor levels of tributyltin. The RPSI (Relative Penis Size Index) of females to males, and the VDSI (Vas Deferens Sequence Index) are used to monitor levels of tributyltin in marine environments.

A ban on tributyltin was implemented in Canada in 2003, however, in 2006, dog whelks with imposex could still be found on the shores of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia.

See also
 Environmental issues with paint

References

 Gibbs, P.E., Bryan, G.W. (1986). Reproductive failure in populations of the dog-whelk Nucella lapillus, caused by imposex induced by tributyltin from antifouling paints. J. Mar. Biol. Assoc. U. K. 66: 767–777.
 "Occurrence of Imposex." Natural Resource Management. 2006.
 Wirzinger, G., Vogt, C., Bachmann, J., Hasenbank, M., Liers, C., Stark, C., Ziebard, S. & Oehlmann, J. (2007). Imposex of the netted whelk Nassarius reticulatus (Prosobranchia) in Brittany along a transect from a point source. Cah. Biol. Mar. 48(1): 85–94.

External links 
 Tributyltin (TBT) antifoulants: a tale of ships, snails and imposex.

Gastropods
Animal diseases
Marine biology
Intersex and medicine
Chris Williams (journalist)

Chris Williams is a British journalist.

A former editor of the Daily Express, he is currently editor of the Scottish Daily Mail.

References

Living people
British male journalists
Place of birth missing (living people)
1950s births
Daily Express people
New Zealand Winegrowers

New Zealand Winegrowers is the national industry body that represents New Zealand's viticulture and winemaking sectors. It conducts research, promotion, marketing and advocacy in the interests of New Zealand grape growers and winemakers, both domestically and in international export markets. Winemakers and grape growers are automatically entitled to membership of New Zealand Winegrowers through payment of the levies on grape or wine sales required by law in the Commodity Levies Act 1991 and the Wine Act 2003. This combined with New Zealand's small size means that it is the only country in the world with a single national wine industry body.

History 
In the early 2000s significant overlaps in mandate and operations were identified in two former national organisations: the Wine Institute of New Zealand, established in 1975, and the New Zealand Grape Growers Council. These organisations were merged in 2002 to become a single organisation, New Zealand Winegrowers, which was finally incorporated in 2016. New Zealand Winegrowers in its 2017 annual report set a target of $2 billion NZD of export revenue by 2020. It believes this can be achieved due to New Zealand's reputation internationally for high quality wines with a higher per-unit price, and the continuing rapid growth of vineyard planting area in New Zealand, from  in 1997 to  in 2017.

See also 
New Zealand wine

External links 
New Zealand Winegrowers official website

References 

2002 establishments in New Zealand
1975 establishments in New Zealand
New Zealand wine
Wine industry organizations
Business organisations based in New Zealand
Alcohol industry trade associations
List of cities and towns in Russia by population

This is a list of cities and towns in Russia and parts of Russian-occupied Ukraine with a population of over 50,000 as of the 2021 census. The figures are for the population within the limits of the city/town proper, not the urban area or metropolitan area.

The list includes Sevastopol and settlements within the Republic of Crimea which are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine and were not subject to the 2010 census. The city of Zelenograd (a part of the federal city of Moscow) and the municipal cities/towns of the federal city of St. Petersburg are also excluded, as they are not enumerated in the 2021 census as stand-alone localities.  Note that the sixteen largest cities have a total population of 35,509,177, or roughly 24.1% of the country's total population.

Cities and towns
Cities in bold symbolize the capital city of its respective federal subject. Three capitals are too small to make the list: Naryan-Mar (pop. 25,795), Magas (pop. 15,279), and Anadyr (pop. 15,079). Pyatigorsk is the administrative centre of North Caucasian Federal District but not of any federal subject.

Cities in grey are in areas annexed by Russia that the international community considers illegally occupied by Russia. Only a few nations recognize Crimea as part of Russia.

Gallery

Location of most populous cities in Russia

See also
Demographics of Russia
List of cities and towns in Russia, a complete list of all cities and towns in Russia
List of federal subjects of Russia by population

Notes

References

External links
Russian Cities of over 100,000 population at Citypopulation.de
Cities of Russia as a subject of tourist interest https://tour-planet.com

Russia
Population
Demographics of Russia
Brad Bryant

Bradley Dub Bryant (born December 11, 1954) is an American professional golfer.

Bryant was born in Amarillo, Texas, the son of a Southern Baptist pastor. He moved with his family to Alamogordo, New Mexico during his youth. Bryant attended the University of New Mexico for three years, but turned professional and qualified for the PGA Tour in 1976, a year before his scheduled graduation.

Bryant's only win on the PGA Tour came at the age of forty at the 1995 Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic, which took 20 years and 475 starts to achieve, one of the longest waits for a PGA Tour win. After reaching the age of 50, Bryant began play on the Champions Tour, where he won for the first time at the 2006 Toshiba Classic and followed up later the same year by winning the Regions Charity Classic. He lost to Jay Haas in a playoff for the 2006 Senior PGA Championship. His best year in professional golf was 2007, when he finished third on the Champions Tour money list and fourth in the Charles Schwab Cup race; that year was highlighted by his victory at the U.S. Senior Open.

Bryant's younger brother Bart also won on the PGA Tour.

Professional wins (6)

PGA Tour wins (1)

*Note: The 1995 Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic was shortened to 54 holes due to rain.

PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

Other wins (1)

Other playoff record (1–0)

Champions Tour wins (4)

Champions Tour playoff record (1–3)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Senior major championships

Wins (1)

Results timeline
Results not in chronological order.

CUT = missed the halfway cut
WD = withdrew
"T" indicates a tie for a place
NT = No tournament due to COVID-19 pandemic

See also
Spring 1978 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
1987 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
1988 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates

References

External links

Brad Bryant's religious testimony from TheGoal

American male golfers
New Mexico Lobos men's golfers
PGA Tour golfers
PGA Tour Champions golfers
Winners of senior major golf championships
Golfers from Texas
Sportspeople from Amarillo, Texas
Sportspeople from Lakeland, Florida
1954 births
Living people
Chemin d'Aylmer

Chemin d'Aylmer is an east–west main arterial road in Gatineau, Quebec. It starts near les Galeries d'Aylmer shopping centre and ends at Boulevard Saint-Raymond where it becomes Boulevard Alexandre-Tache heading towards downtown Gatineau and Ottawa. West of the shopping centre, it becomes Rue Principale until the Aylmer Marina on the eastern shores of the Ottawa River.

Traffic
This is still considered Aylmer's main commuter routes, as it is only one of two (soon three) that heads towards bridges to Ottawa. Chemin d'Aylmer gives access to the Champlain Bridge towards Tunney's Pasture and Westboro. In the past, there were major lineups that slowed traffic on that route. The bridge added a reversible carpooling lane in 2004 which eased up the delays during the morning rush hour.

STO routes follows a designated bus lane between Vanier Road and continues east towards downtown. The Rivermead and Hippodrome park and rides are located near Rivermead route and represents the main transit hub of the sector, however most routes travels in both sides of it.

Facilities
This road may also be called Golf Road as there are 5 golf courses all along its route. There are many other features all along this route including the Sheraton Chateau Cartier, Aylmer's most important hotel, located in the middle of 3 golf courses.

Neighbourhoods
 Rivermead 
 Lakeview Terrace
 Glenwood/Vieux Moulin
 Deschènes
 Pilon-Seigneurie Lavigne

References

 List of Gatineau roads

Streets in Gatineau
Northwestern Miners

The Northwestern Miners was an Australian rules football club based in St Helens, Merseyside, England.

History
The St Helens Miners formed for the 2002 British Australian Rules Football League season.  They were the first aussie rules club to be based in the north of England for some time, the Liverpool Blues having been the most recent in the area around 10 years earlier.  The Miners struggled onfield against the strong London-based clubs initially, but their situation improved after joining the new BARFL Regional series in 2003.  In 2004, the club renamed itself the Northwestern Miners to better attract players from across the region, avoiding old rivalries between St Helens and other towns such as Wigan and Warrington.  They formed an alliance with the Southport Sharks, a powerful club playing in the AFL Queensland and began wearing the Sharks' jumper rather than the Footscray Bulldogs jumpers they had previously used.

The Miners folded mid-2004, although some ex-Miners went on the play for the Manchester Mosquitos when this club formed in 2006 and the Liverpool Eagles who formed in 2008.

See also

References

External links

Australian rules football clubs in England
2002 establishments in England
Australian rules football clubs established in 2002
2004 disestablishments in England
Australian rules football clubs disestablished in 2004
Southern Empire Records

Southern Empire Records is a Metalcore record label began in 2004 by David Anthem, the lead singer of NC hardcore band, Prayer For Cleansing and ex-Undying bassist and roadie, Jonathan Raine and Chris Gannon. The label released the re-recorded Prayer for Cleansing EP, "The Tragedy", in the summer of 2004 just in time for the band's finale show at Hellfest in Elizabeth, NJ.

See also
 List of record labels

American record labels
Record labels established in 2004
Josh Tenge

Josh Tenge (born December 1978) is a professional sandboarder who has won four world championships and five national titles.

Tenge is a sponsored ( Venomous Sandboards ) professional sandboarding competitor and has set three Guinness World Records, including one for the longest backflip by distance at 44 feet, 10 inches. The record was set on 20 May 2000 in Xwest Huck Fest, Nevada.

References

External links
 CNN article
 List of Sandboarding Events and Competitions

Living people
1978 births
Sandboarding
A Problem with Fear

A Problem with Fear, or Laurie's Anxiety Confronting the Escalator is a 2003 absurdist comedy film by Canadian film-maker Gary Burns.

Plot
Laurie Harding (Paulo Costanzo) is a small shop clerk in the local Calgary mall. His world is full of tragic accidents - crosswalks, elevators, escalators and virtually anything associated with commercialism or technology is parodied as objects of fear and tragedy.

An elevator plunges 30 stories. A woman's scarf is caught in an escalator, strangling her to death. A man is struck by a car, right before Laurie had the premonition to not cross.

His own world is full of fear of these very events, his predictions of them, and his dependence on his less-than-sympathetic sister, Michelle (Camille Sullivan).

Michelle heads product development at the company Global Safety Inc., whose mission is to provide products to combat the "Fear Storm" which assails the city. With their "Early Warning 2 Safe System tm", the PDA-like device warns you of danger ahead of time and the "Safe Bracelet tm" senses your fear and allows you to beep for help.

Along with Laurie's prophetic powers, and the endless onslaught of accidents, the movie is full of absurd events: a mall announcer who continually requests a speaker of x foreign language - without any apparent reason; the same mall's population which slowly dwindles, being virtually empty by the film's end; an entire classroom population which is accosted simultaneously by hiccups;

Some of these are more apparently satirical of pop culture: to comfort himself, Laurie repeats commercial refrains, such "Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat"; his girlfriend, Dot (Emily Hampshire), does a survey on "how the clothes you wear define you" - one she both detests and is obsessed by.

These events are framed by the pretextual plot of Laurie conquering his fears — and by extension, the fears of those around him. However, by the film's end, it is doubtful that anything has been changed or achieved.

Cast
 Paulo Costanzo as Laurie
 Emily Hampshire as Dot
 Willie Garson as Erin
 Keegan Connor Tracy as Vicky
 Camille Sullivan as Michelle
 Benjamin Ratner as Alan
 Jennifer Clement as Tina
 James McBurney as Bill
 Marnie Alton as Daphne
 Melba Montgomery as The Escalator Lady

External links
 

2003 films
Canadian comedy films
2003 comedy films
Canadian independent films
Films directed by Gary Burns
Canadian satirical films
English-language Canadian films
Films shot in Calgary
Films shot in Montreal
Films set in Calgary
2000s English-language films
2000s Canadian films
Los Herreras

Los Herreras is a municipality in the Mexican State of Nuevo León and also the name of its seat of government and main population center. Los Herreras is at 281 meters above sea level and is located in the east-central part of the state. Its coordinates are 25º53' N and 99º33' W.

History
The foundation of this village goes back to the middle of the 17th century and originally it was called 'Rancho de la Manteca'-Spanish for Lard Ranch. Don Juan de Zavala was given a land grant for its foundation by the governor, Don Martín de Zavala. Juan de Zavala and inhabitants from Cadereyta began the foundation
The haciendas of San Vicente, Guadalupe and San Agustín, which are all under the jurisdiction of the modern municipality of Los Herreras, were all older foundations with larger populations than Rancho de la Manteca. However, this last one was chosen as the head of the municipality for its closeness to the railroad line that went between Monterrey and Matamoros.

Rancho de la Manteca was elevated to the status of township ("Villa") by a state congressional decree on November 20, 1874 which was signed into law governor Don Ramón Treviño on December 9, 1874

At its elevation to township status, the name of the municipality was changed to Los Herreras. The most commonly accepted reason for the selection of this name is that it was to honor  the brothers Herrera  heroes of  the battle of San Bernabe during Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.

Geography
Los Herreras is at 281 meters above sea level and is located in the east-central part of the state.

Climate

The climate is an arid dry steppe, with very high temperatures in the summer and very little rainfall. The average annual temperature is 24°C and average annual precipitation is 500 mm. May and September are the rainiest months. Predominant winds are from the east.

Population

According to the 1990 federal census, the municipality had a population of 3,363 -a density of 7.68/km². 69.91% of the population lived in the municipal seat. The census total showed that 1,705 inhabitants were male and 1,658 female.

The 2000 federal census showed a population decline compared to the previous count, with a total of 2,795 inhabitants, of which 50.8% were male and 49.2% female.

The population, like most of the northern part of the state, is predominantly of European  or  "White" descent, most of which are concentrated in the  communities of San Agustin, San Vicente, La Laja and La Hacienda de Guadalupe.

Population Centers

The municipality has 21 population centers, among the principal ones are:

Los Herreras. Main population center and seat of government. 
San Vicente. Second largest population center.
San Agustin. Third largest population center.
San Jose de La Laja.  Fourth largest population center
Barretosa. Fifth Largest population Center
La Hacienda de Guadalupe. Sixth population center

External links
Los Herreras Website 
LHNL Los Herreras Website 
Los Herreras Encyclopedia https://web.archive.org/web/20070208214208/http://www.e-local.gob.mx/work/templates/enciclo/nuevoleon/municipios/19027a.htm

Municipalities of Nuevo León
Bud Sharpe

Bayard Heston "Bud" Sharpe (1881-1916) was a Major League Baseball first baseman/outfielder. He played Major League baseball in parts of two seasons – 1905 and 1910.

Sharpe was born on August 6, 1881, in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed, and his height and weight are unknown. Sharpe chose to attend Penn State University.

On April 14, 1905, at the age of 23, Sharpe made his big league debut with the Boston Beaneaters. In 46 games that year, he batted .182 in 170 at-bats.

The next chance Sharpe got to play in the big leagues was with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1910. He played only four games with them that year before being traded to the Boston Doves on April 28 with Sam Frock for Kirby White. With both teams in 1910, Sharpe hit a combined .237 in 119 games.

On the diamond, Sharpe committed 23 career errors for a .983 fielding percentage.

Sharpe played his final big league game on September 24, 1910. He died from a heart attack on May 31, 1916, in Haddock, Georgia, at the age of 34. His body was buried in Greenmount Cemetery in the place of his birth, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Sharpe was also a noted soccer player, spending time with a local team in West Chester during the baseball off-seasons.

Sources

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Boston Beaneaters players
Pittsburgh Pirates players
Boston Doves players
Major League Baseball first basemen
Baseball players from Pennsylvania
Sportspeople from West Chester, Pennsylvania
1881 births
1916 deaths
Pennsylvania State University alumni
Penn State Nittany Lions baseball players
Scranton Miners players
Newark Sailors players
Newark Indians players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Oakland Oaks (baseball) players
Oakland Oaks (baseball) managers
American men's soccer players
Men's association football players not categorized by position
Shamokin (minor league baseball) players
Petasis reagent

The Petasis reagent, named after Nicos A. Petasis, is an organotitanium compound with the formula Cp2Ti(CH3)2. It is an orange-colored solid.

Preparation and use
The Petasis reagent is prepared by the salt metathesis reaction of methylmagnesium chloride or methyllithium with titanocene dichloride:

 Cp2TiCl2  +  2 CH3MgCl   →  Cp2Ti(CH3)2  +  2 MgCl2

This compound is used for the transformation of carbonyl groups to terminal alkenes.  It exhibits similar reactivity to the Tebbe reagent and Wittig reaction. Unlike the Wittig reaction, the Petasis reagent can react with a wide range of aldehydes, ketones and esters. The Petasis reagent is also very air stable, and is commonly used in solution with toluene or THF.

The Tebbe reagent and the Petasis reagent share a similar reaction mechanism.  The active olefinating reagent, Cp2TiCH2, is generated in situ upon heating.  With the organic carbonyl, this titanium carbene forms a four membered oxatitanacyclobutane that releases the terminal alkene.

In contrast to the Tebbe reagent, homologs of the Petasis reagent are relatively easy to prepare by using the corresponding alkyllithium instead of methyllithium, allowing the conversion of carbonyl groups to alkylidenes.

See also
 Nysted reagent
Titanium–zinc methylenation

References

Organotitanium compounds
Coordination complexes
Reagents for organic chemistry
Titanocenes
Cyclopentadienyl complexes
Titanium(IV) compounds
USS Ahrens

USS Ahrens (DE-575), a  of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Private Edward H. Ahrens (1919–1942), who was killed during the Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo on 8 August 1942. He was posthumously awarded a Navy Cross.

Ahrens was laid down on 5 November 1943 at Hingham, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation; launched on 21 December 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Marie Ahrens, the mother of Private First Class Ahrens; and commissioned on 12 February 1944, Lieutenant Commander Morgan H. Hains in command.

Service history
Late in February 1944, Ahrens proceeded to Bermuda for shakedown training. In early April, she sailed to Casco Bay, Maine, for additional training. On 22 April at Norfolk, Virginia, the destroyer escort joined Task Group (TG) 21.11, a hunter/killer group – built around the escort carrier  – which was operating in the Atlantic and Caribbean. On 29 May, the  torpedoed and sank Block Island and . Ahrens rescued 673 survivors in a period of 40 minutes. While carrying out rescue operations, the ship assisted the destroyer escort  in locating the submarine. Eugene E. Elmore made two hedgehog attacks which sank the German submarine.

Following repairs at the New York Navy Yard, the destroyer escort carried out training exercises at Casco Bay and Norfolk, Virginia. On 23 July, Ahrens assumed duty as an escort for transatlantic convoys. The highlight of this period came on 13 October after a merchant ship collided with a gasoline tanker, starting large fires on both ships. Following her rescue of survivors, Ahrens and USS Holton (DE-703) succeeded in putting out the fires.

On 15 December, Ahrens sailed with TG 27.7 to join the 7th Fleet in the Pacific. She proceeded to Manus, Admiralty Islands, via the Panama Canal. On 23 January 1945, the destroyer escort touched at Manus. She continued on to Leyte, Philippines, arriving there on 9 February. The vessel was then attached to TG 75.2 to serve as an ocean escort for the Philippine Sea Frontier.

Ahrens escorted merchant and naval convoys until 25 August 1945, During this period, she operated between such points as Hollandia, New Guinea; Manila and Subic Bay, Philippines; Kossol Roads, Palau Islands; Ulithi; and Okinawa.

In late August 1945, Ahrens was detached from the Philippine Sea Frontier and began supporting occupation forces operating in China and Korea, visiting Jinsen, Korea; Chinwangtao, China; and Hong Kong.

The ship began her long voyage back to the United States on 5 November and stopped at Pearl Harbor; San Diego; and the Panama Canal Zone before finally reaching Boston, Massachusetts, on 15 December. She then commenced pre-inactivation overhaul and sailed to Green Cove Springs, Florida, in early 1946.  Ahrens was decommissioned there on 24 June 1946, and her name was struck from the Navy List on 1 April 1965.

Awards
Ahrens won two battle stars for her World War II service.

References

External links  
 

 

Buckley-class destroyer escorts
World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
Ships built in Hingham, Massachusetts
1943 ships
Allen Vizzutti

Allen Vizzutti (born September 13, 1952) is an American trumpeter, composer and music educator.

Biography
Born and raised in Missoula, Montana, Vizzutti learned the trumpet from his father, Lido Vizzutti. At age 16, Vizzutti won the concerto competition and was awarded first chair in the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at Interlochen, Michigan. He earned a B.M., M.M., a Performer's Certificate, and the Artist's Diploma from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

Vizzutti has performed with The Airmen of Note, The Army Blues, Chick Corea, Woody Herman, Chuck Mangione, Doc Severinsen, The Tonight Show Band, Bill Watrous, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra and Kosei Wind Orchestra of Japan. He has performed as a solo act at the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Newport Jazz Festival, Banff Center for the Performing Arts, Montreux Jazz Festival, the Charles Ives Center, and the Lincoln Center in New York.

He has performed on more than 150 motion picture soundtracks, such as: Back to the Future, Star Trek, The Black Stallion, Rocky II, Poltergeist II, Firefox, Sudden Impact, 10, Under the Cherry Moon, Broadcast News, The Electric Horseman and 1941.

Vizzutti composed orchestral works, which led to world premieres by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Phoenix Symphony, Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic and the Tonight Show Orchestra, Eastman School of Music Wind Ensemble, as well as recorded works by the Royal Philharmonic of London, the Woody Herman Band, the Summit Brass and the London Symphony Orchestra.

Vizzutti has taught at the Eastman School of Music, University of Washington, the Banff Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas State University, West Texas State University, the University of South Carolina, University of North Texas, Skidmore Jazz Institute, and the Trompeten Akademie of Bremen, Germany.

References

External links
 Official website
Instagram
New West Symphony 2006 program notes

1952 births
21st-century American composers
21st-century American male musicians
21st-century trumpeters
American male composers
American male trumpeters
American people of Italian descent
American trumpeters
Eastman School of Music alumni
Living people
The Tonight Show Band members
Seconda pratica

Seconda pratica, Italian for "second practice", is the counterpart to prima pratica and is sometimes referred to as Stile moderno. The term "Seconda pratica" first appeared in 1603 in Giovanni Artusi's book Seconda Parte dell'Artusi, overo Delle imperfettioni della moderna musica (The Second Part of The Artusi, or, Imperfections of Modern Music), where it is attributed to a certain L'Ottuso Accademico. In the first part of The Artusi (1600), Artusi had severely criticized several unpublished madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi. In the second part of this work, L'Ottuso Accademico, whose identity is unknown, defends Monteverdi and others "who have embraced this new second practice". Monteverdi adopted the term to distance some of his music from that of e.g. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Gioseffo Zarlino and to describe early music of the Baroque period which encouraged more freedom from the rigorous limitations of dissonances and counterpoint characteristic of the prima pratica.

Stile moderno was coined as an expression by Giulio Caccini in his 1602 work Le nuove musiche which contained numerous monodies. New for Caccini's songs were that the accompaniment was completely submissive in contrast to the lyric; hence, more precisely, Caccini's Stile moderno-monodies have ornamentations spelled out in the score, which earlier had been up to the performer to supply. Also this marks the starting point of basso continuo which also was a feature in Caccini's work.

In the preface of his 5th Book of Madrigals (1605) Monteverdi announced a book of his own: Seconda pratica, overo perfettione della moderna musica (Second Practice, or, Perfection of Modern Music). Such a book is not extant. But the preface of his 8th Book of Madrigals (1638) seems to be virtually a fragment of it. Therein Monteverdi claims to have invented a new “agitated” style (Genere concitato, later called Stile concitato) to make the music "complete/perfect" ("perfetto").

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Baroque music
Renaissance music
Bigtoe

Bigtoe is a motorcycle that once held the Guinness World Record in the category of Tallest Rideable Motorcycle, bearing a maximum height of 7.5 feet (2.3 metres) and a top speed of 62 mph. It weighs 3,600 pounds. Tom Wiberg, from Sweden, built it in 1998 with a Jaguar V12 engine.

The title has passed to Dream Big, a bike built by Greg Dunham in 2005. Wiberg also holds the record for the smallest rideable motorcycle, with Smalltoe.

See also
 List of motorcycles by type of engine

References

External links
 BigToe homepage
 Big Toe

Custom motorcycles
Individual motorcycles
Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates

The Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP) was a New York University research facility founded in 1965 by Edward Goldsmith and Jan Moor-Jankowski. The Tuxedo, New York-based outfit was a prominent vendor of primates and primate parts in the New York metropolitan area. These were used by area scientists for transplantation and virus research. The institute closed in 1998.

The facility was the subject of a documentary produced by National Geographic featuring Jane Goodall. The award-winning episode, Chimp Rescue, was broadcast in 1998, shortly after the closure of the facility. The documentary chronicled James Mahoney's efforts to save approximately one hundred primates prior to the closure of the facility.

One of the likely contributing factors to the demise of LEMSIP was the revision of the caging requirements prescribed by the USDA. The upgrades would have cost the university at least US$2 million. As a result, custody of several animals were passed on to the Coulston Foundation.

Moor-Jankowski, a member of the French Academy of Medicine, accused NYU in 1996 of his ousting as director of LEMSIP. He alleged that this act was retaliation for whistle-blowing on former NYU primate addiction researcher Ron Wood.

References
"Lethal Kinship", a report on the chimpanzees of The Coulston Foundation (in PDF format) (in DOC format)
Society and Animals Forum December 1996 issue reporting on Moor-Jankowski's suit against New York University

External links
Commensurating the closure of Coulston
Animal Advocates Protest Plans for a Primate Lab, New York Times excerpt
NYU / LEMSIP timeline by Satya magazine (archived link)

New York University research institutes
1965 establishments in New York (state)
1997 disestablishments in New York (state)
Animal testing in the United States
Animal testing on non-human primates
SS Timothy Pickering

SS Timothy Pickering (Hull Number 246) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Timothy Pickering, the third United States Secretary of State under George Washington and John Adams.

The ship was laid down on 8 October 1941, then launched on 28 March 1942.  She was lost after she was hit by an Italian Ju 87 Stuka off Augusta, Sicily on 13 July 1943. Timothy Pickering was operated by American President Lines under  charter with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration.

Awards
George W. Alther, Jr. was second mate on SS Timothy Pickering. He was given the Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal by The President of the United States. It was given for heroism above and beyond the call of duty. SS Timothy Pickering was hit with a 500 pound bomb in 1942 and sank. During the air attack on in the Sicilian port of Avola was loaded with ammunition, T.N.T., aviation gasoline, and British troops. The bomb broke the ship in two. Much of the ammunition exploded and burning gasoline floated around the ship. George W. Alther, Jr. saved the life of the wounded gunnery officer as he was on a flame-filled lower deck, with disregard for his own safety. For the President the award was given by Admiral Emory S. Land.

References

Liberty ships
World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea
Ships built in Richmond, California
Maritime incidents in July 1943
1942 ships
Rue Laurier

Rue Laurier (Laurier Street) is a main street located in the heart of the City of Gatineau, Quebec. It starts at Rue Eddy and ends at Rue Dussault.

The street's main feature includes the Canadian Museum of Civilization, one of Gatineau's main tourist attractions. It is also the location of Gatineau City Hall connected by an overpass to the Four Points Hotel as well as the Gatineau Court House, the Holiday Inn, Best Western hotels, the Saint-Joseph private college (although a secondary school) for girls, and many office buildings of Place du Portage. The Scott tissue paper mill located in front of City Hall is an historic landmark and the city has adopted plans which will create green spaces when the mill will shut down at an unknown date. It was also the site of the Domtar mill which ceased all Gatineau and Ottawa operations in 2006-07 as part of the restructuring of the wood pulp and forest industries.

One of the region's oldest restaurants, Café Henry Burger, which had been there since 1922, shut down in 2006. 

Right beside the museum, is Jacques Cartier Park which houses many important events such as Winterlude, the Canadian Tulip Festival and Canada Day festivities. The park also contains a marina and bike paths.

This street connects three of the five inter-provincial bridges heading to Ottawa: the Alexandra Bridge, the Chaudière Bridge and the Portage Bridge. It also crosses over the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge (Autoroute 5).

The street was part of Route 148 prior to the construction of the Aylmer by-pass Boulevard des Allumettières (formerly called Boulevard de l'Outaouais and Boulevard Saint-Laurent) that bypasses downtown Hull.

See also

 Laurier (disambiguation)
 List of Gatineau roads

Laurier
Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on Wednesday, 21 July.

Final

Heats

Heat 1

Heat 2

Heat 3

References

External links
Official Olympic Report

Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Men's events at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Anne-Gaëlle Sidot

Anne-Gaëlle Sidot (born 24 July 1979) is a former professional tennis player from France.

Career
Sidot turned professional in 1994. Her best Grand Slam singles performances were reaching the third round exactly once in each of the four Grand Slam tournaments. She won two WTA Tour doubles titles in Leipzig in 2000 and Nice in 2001, and was the runner-up in Los Angeles and Zürich in 2000. She also reached the quarterfinals of the 1999 Wimbledon women's doubles with Kristie Boogert of the Netherlands.

She represented her country in the Fed Cup in 1997, and retired from the tour in 2002.

WTA career finals

Doubles 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles (7–4)

Doubles (3–1)

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1979 births
Living people
People from Enghien-les-Bains
French female tennis players
Sportspeople from Val-d'Oise
Mr. Mixie Dough

Mr. Mixie Dough: The Baker Man is a children's book written and illustrated by Vernon Grant (1902–1990). It was first published in 1934 by Whitman Publishing of Racine, Wisconsin. The book is a hardcover, large format (12.5" x 9.5"), with 20 double-sided heavyweight paper pages and often bound with thread and tape. The story is of a "Goof" (looks like an 'elf', and drawn not unlike the Snap, Crackle and Pop characters Grant drew for Kellogg's). Mr. Mixie Dough "makes bread and cakes and rolls and big-round cookies. Sometime he makes birthday cakes too, the kind with candles and colored candies on."

Synopsis
The story is about Mr. Mixie Dough, who "lives away up in the sky in a place called "Behind-The-Clouds-Town". But unhappiness creeps over the town because the King Misty "cannot get a Happiness cake for his little boy's birthday."  Mr. Mixie Dough, along with all of the other bakers, compete in making a "Happiness birthday cake" for the King's son's birthday.  Many bakers offer their cakes to the King only to find that he is not happy with the result.  That is until Mr. Mixie Dough presents his cake.  The King smiled after the very first bite and announced "SIR Mixie Dough, the baker man... shall be made Royal Baker to the King and shall bake us a Happiness cake every day."

There are short sing-songs throughout the story and a recipe for the Happiness Cake.

Much of the book is made up of full-page drawings of colorful Goofs preparing and baking the Happiness cake for King Misty. Pictographs appear between words (such as a drawing of clouds after the word clouds; a silhouette of Mr. Mixie Dough).

External links 
Vernon Grant's History

1934 children's books
American picture books
American children's books
Children's books about kings
Kuwait International Fair

The Kuwait International Fair is a large fairground Founded in 1971 and located in Mishrif, Kuwait. The fairgrounds consists of six large air-conditioned exhibition halls, its largest spanning 7,000 square meters.  The fairgrounds is a popular site for several exhibitions that occur in Kuwait, with over 45 occurring annually.

External links
 

Entertainment venues in Kuwait
Fairgrounds
1971 establishments in Kuwait
Campbell Barracks (Western Australia)

Campbell Barracks is an Australian Army base located in Swanbourne, a coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It is named after Lieutenant Colonel  Campbell (1842–1924), former commandant of the Commonwealth Military Forces in Western Australia.

Campbell Barracks was originally "acquired" in 1935, to house coastal artillery, two six-inch guns. It was to host the northernmost part of Fremantle Fortress, the Freemantle coastal defences. Improvement work was carried out under the supervision of No. 6 Heavy Battery, Royal Australian Artillery. During the Second World War it host both artillery and garrison infantry.

The Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) has been based at Campbell Barracks since the regiment was first established as an independent company in 1957. Although Campbell Barracks is the home of the SASR, most of the training and selection for the regiment takes place in Bindoon, Western Australia.

The SASR is a special forces regiment of the Australian Army and is modelled on the original British SAS, while also drawing on the traditions of the Australian Z Special Force commando unit, and the Independent Companies which were active in the South Pacific during the Second World War.

The SASR's three 'sabre squadrons' rotate between the war/reconnaissance and counterterrorism/recovery roles. Two squadrons are maintained in the war/reconnaissance role with the remaining squadron filling the counterterrorism/recovery role. Rotations occur every 12 months, so each squadron fulfils the counterterrorism/recovery role and configuration every three years. Reports that the squadron filling the counterterrorism role is always designated 1 Squadron are incorrect as that practice ceased in the late 1980s.

All three sabre squadrons are garrisoned at Campbell Barracks save for certain units within each sabre squadron that can be rotated amongst bases within Australia. This usually only occurs with the current Counter Terrorist Squadron.

As stated in ex-SASR soldier Keith Fennell's book "Warrior Training", outside the headquarters for Campbell Barracks is a monument to every Australian SASR soldier who has died on active service with the regiment, be it during training or on deployment. The list currently stands at just over 40 soldiers, the majority having been killed in training accidents.

References

Barracks in Australia
Buildings and structures in Perth, Western Australia
Swanbourne, Western Australia
Military installations in Western Australia
Coastal artillery
Q45

Q45 may refer to:
 Q45 (host), host of the American television series Rap City
 Q45 (New York City bus)
 Al-Jathiya, the 45th surah of the Quran
 Infiniti Q45, an automobile
 Samsung Q45, a laptop
 Intel Q45, an Intel chipsets
WNYF-TV

WNYF-TV is the student-run TV station of the State University of New York at Fredonia. Sponsored by the Student Association, WNYF was founded in 1979 by two communications students, Robert Raff and Ken Kazubowski. At the time, the TV and Radio majors (BA) were classified under Special Studies, and students developed a custom degree program. Students were limited in hands-on time in the existing black and white studio, and the color studio controlled by the IRC was often booked for months at a time. WNYF immediately gave students enhanced opportunities to develop the necessary skills to excel in the TV industry.

The original student leaders, along with John Malcolm and engineer Bob Kovacs, were able to locate surplus video equipment scattered across the many departments of the college. Negotiations, trades and some "midnight raids" produced almost enough equipment to get the station running. The only piece missing was a small master control switcher, which was purchased with the very first funding from the Student Association.

WNYF's original local programming included a wide variety of student produced programs ranging from entertainment, music, educational and even a student-written soap opera. In the station's first few months of existence, it began televising the annual dance marathon known as Superdance. The event raised funds for Muscular Dystrophy. The around-the-clock coverage of the dance raised the awareness and prestige of this event and substantially increased participation over the next few years.

WNYF maintains an archive of every show produced by the students since then. Relocated several times, WNYF settled into its current location in [[State University of New York at Hendrix Hall in 1997. WNYF broadcasts to the campus on cable Channel 11, and to community on Channels 17 in Fredonia and 19 in Dunkirk. The station also uploads every episode to their YouTube channel.

References

External links
 Official Website
 YouTube Channel
 Facebook Page
 Twitter Page
 Instagram Profile

WNYF-TV
WNYF-TV