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Thomas Hill Williams

Thomas Hill Williams (January 14, 1773 – December 7, 1850) was a United States Senator from Mississippi, one of the first two senators from that state. He served two terms of office, from 1817 to 1829, retiring to Tennessee after his retirement from politics.

Biography

Thomas Hill Williams was born in North Carolina, growing up just east of the Pee Dee River in rural Anson County. He appears to have inherited some wealth at an early age, appearing on county tax rolls in 1795 as the owner of 681 acres of land. It is believed that he entered politics at an early age and was elected clerk of the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1796 and 1797.

Williams completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and became a lawyer. In 1803 he made his way to the Territory of Mississippi, soon becoming the private secretary to Territorial Governor William C. C. Claiborne.

Williams was appointed register of the land office for the Territory of Mississippi in 1805 by Secretary of State James Madison. He was recognized as a popular and qualified appointee and named Acting Governor of the Mississippi Territory on July 1, 1805 in a recess appointment by President Thomas Jefferson.

Williams was reappointed secretary in 1807, and was again Acting Governor in 1809. In 1810 he was collector of customs at New Orleans, and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention.

Upon the admission of Mississippi as a state into the Union in 1817, Williams was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. Senate, one of the first two senators from Mississippi. He was reelected as a Jackson Republican (later Jacksonian) in 1823, leaving the body with the expiration of his second term on March 3, 1829.

While a member the Senate Williams was a member of the Naval Affairs committee in five of his six Congresses and of the Public Lands committee in three of them. He was chairman of the Committee on Public Lands (Sixteenth Congress). He was a supporter of the Missouri Compromise during the session of 1820-21.

Williams moved to Tennessee after he left the Senate, declining a chance at reelection or any form of public office. He died of dropsy in Robertson County on December 7, 1850.

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Alex Arcadia

Alex Arcadia (born January 5, 1976) is an American painter, sculptor and conceptual artist.

His self-titled cosmology "Arcadia" provides the framework for his large scale paintings, sculptures and installations, which engage audiences as both post-Warholian pop, and deviant in the readymade tradition of Marcel Duchamp.

Arcadia is best known for his "SuperGymnast" image, an erotically charged goddess and recurring central figure of power in his work.  In the mid-1990s the SuperGymnast was planted by the tens of thousands throughout the streets of New York City as a tag, quickly making the symbol synonymous with the identity of the artist.

Arcadia debuted the SuperGymnast as sculpture atop his "Temple of Fame" (1999–2000).   Artifacts from "Temple of Fame" were featured in his first New York City solo exhibition at Stefan Stux Gallery in 2001 entitled "SuperGymnast", reviewed in the New York Times.

Arcadia appears in filmmaker Ondi Timoner's 2007 documentary We Live In Public, a film centered on the millennial art and performance event called Quiet, which was produced by Arcadia's friend, collector, and internet figure Josh Harris, and took place in downtown Manhattan (1999–2000) during the last days of the dot-com boom.

Alex Arcadia continues to define a new mythology he calls Bright Shiny Future (BSF).

He lives and works in New York City.

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Blandfordia

Blandfordia, commonly known as Christmas bells, is a genus of four species of flowering plants native to eastern Australia. Christmas bells are tufted, perennial herbs with narrow, linear leaves and up to twenty large, drooping, cylindrical or bell-shaped flowers.

Description
Plants in the genus Blandfordia are tufted, perennial herbaceous monocots with fleshy, fibrous or tuber-like roots from a corm. The leaves are narrow linear, usually crowded in two ranks from the base of the flowering stem. Up to twenty flowers are arranged near the top of the flowering stem that has small, leaf-like bracts. The flowers are usually red with yellow lobes. The sepals and petals are fused to form a tube-shaped, cylindrical or bell-shaped flower with six lobes about one-fifth the length of the tube. There are six stamens fused to the inside wall of the flower tube and the style is linear. Flowering occurs in spring or summer and is followed by the fruit which is a capsule, tapered at both ends and containing a large number of hairy brown seeds.

Taxonomy and naming
The genus Blandfordia was first formally described in 1804 by James Edward Smith from dried specimens sent from Sydney by the colonial surgeon, John White. Smith published the description in Exotic Botany. The name Blandfordia honours George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough, the Marquis of Blandford. The type species is Blandfordia nobilis as it was the first described by Smith.

Blandfordia placed in the family Blandfordiaceae of the order Asparagales of the monocots. It is the sole genus in the family Blandfordiaceae. Such a family has only recently been recognized by taxonomists. The APG IV system of 2016 (unchanged from the 1998, 2003 and 2009 versions) recognizes this family. Previously various families were suggested.

Four species of are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
 Blandfordia cunninghamii Lindl. (New South Wales)
 Blandfordia grandiflora R.Br. (Queensland, New South Wales)
 Blandfordia nobilis Sm. (New South Wales)
 Blandfordia punicea (Labill.) Sweet (Tasmania)

Distribution and habitat
Two of the four species of Blandfordia are restricted to New South Wales, a third also occurs in Queensland, and the fourth only occurs in Tasmania. Christmas bells usually grow in heathlands, especially waterlogged sites and mostly in coastal or near-coastal areas although some populations occur on the tablelands.

Use in horticulture
The large, distinctive flowers and long vase life of Blandfordia suggest good commercial potential for the cut flower trade and a small group of producers cater to the domestic and export markets. It is a protected species and in the past over-collecting has caused localised extinction and damage to the habitat of the species.

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Asparagales genera
Endemic flora of Australia
Taxa named by James Edward Smith
Stephen Adams (politician)

Stephen Adams (October 17, 1807May 11, 1857) was a United States Representative (1845 to 1847) and Senator (1852 to 1857) from Mississippi.

Early years
Adams was born to David Adams, a Baptist clergyman, in Pendleton, South Carolina, he moved with his parents to Franklin County, Tennessee in 1812. He attended the public schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1829, practiced in Franklin County. He was a slave owner.

Career
He was a member of the Tennessee Senate, from 1833 to 1834, when he removed to Aberdeen, Mississippi and commenced the practice of law. He was circuit court judge from 1837 to 1846, and was elected as a Democratic representative to the Twenty-ninth Congress, serving from March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1847. He again became a judge of the circuit court in 1848, was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1850 and was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1851.

Adams was elected to the U.S. Senate on February 19, 1852, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jefferson Davis and served from March 17, 1852 to March 3, 1857; while in the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Retrenchment (Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses).

Last years
At the close of his term he removed to Memphis, Tennessee and resumed the practice of law until he died there of smallpox on May 11, 1857 and was interred in Elmwood Cemetery.

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Democratic Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives
People from Aberdeen, Mississippi
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People from Pendleton, South Carolina
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19th-century American judges
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi
The Necropolis

The Necropolis can refer to:
Glasgow Necropolis, Scotland
Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow, Russia
Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, Australia
Toronto Necropolis cemetery, Toronto, Canada
Episode 1, map 3 (E1M3) of the computer game Quake

See also
Necropolis
Matadi Bridge

The Matadi Bridge, also known as the OEBK Bridge for Organisation pour l’équipement de Banana-Kinshasa, and formerly known as Pont Maréchal in French, is a suspension bridge across the Congo River at Matadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was completed in 1983 by a consortium of Japanese companies. With a main span of , it was the longest suspension bridge in Africa from its inauguration until the 2018 opening of the Maputo–Katembe bridge. The bridge crosses the Congo River at its narrowest point, just downstream from the port of Matadi. It is in fact the only bridge across the Congo River proper, the only other existing bridge being the Kongolo Bridge in Katanga which spans the Lualaba River, a tributary of the Congo.

Construction
Matadi Bridge was completed in 1983 by a consortium of Japanese companies, led by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries. It has a main span of  and crosses the Congo River. 
Matadi Bridge was built with 14,000 tons of steel. The bridge is designed in a way to emphasize that the towers are made up of bar members, with each tower being a single rigid frame. 25 million of the bridge was paid for by the Japanese government at the request of President Mobutu at a cost of 34.5 billion Japanese yen. During war time the bridge was guarded and still remains as of 2016.

Railway 
A railway line across the bridge was intended to be part of a line to Boma and Muanda. However, it has never been in operation.

See also 
 List of road-rail bridges

References

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Suspension bridges in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Matadi
Bridges completed in 1983
Bridges in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bridges over the Congo River
Democratic Republic of the Congo–Japan relations
Anibare Bay

Anibare Bay is a large bay located in the Anibare District of eastern Nauru island.

Physical features

It is bordered by capes to the north and south, in Ijuw and Meneng districts respectively.

Its Anibare Beach is in excess of two kilometers long.  
Anibare Bay was formed by the underwater collapse of the east side of the volcano that underlies Nauru. A large arc shaped block slid away from the side of Nauru and rotated out.  This block extends to about 1100 m below sea level, with rough bulging landslide deposits down to 2000 m below sea level.

Natural ripcurrent hazards
While Anibare Bay is popular with tourists and naturalists, it can be at times dangerous owing to frequent heavy surf and the presence of rip currents.

Anibare Bay Escarpment Important Bird Area
The Anibare Bay escarpment is a line of wooded cliffs overlooking the bay. It ranges in gradient from vertical cliffs to gradually sloping areas, and contains the richest remaining native vegetation on the island. It forms a 35 ha site which has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it is reported to hold the highest density of endemic Nauru reed warblers on the island, as well as supporting tree-nesting seabirds such as black noddies. Ity is likely to be a nesting site for Micronesian imperial pigeons, if any still remain.

Noted industries
Noted industries include the government-owned Menen Hotel, and Anibare Harbour, an artificial commercial fishing area which was created in 2000.
Anibare Beach resort tourism Development was proposed and approved on 24 Aug 2021.The project is meant to boost hospitality and tourism and income growth for Nauru.The planning is managed and supervised by GIP and led by CEO Troy Spenser.

See also
 Anibare District#Tourism

References

Bays of Nauru
Important Bird Areas of Nauru
Lysefjord Bridge

Lysefjord Bridge  is a suspension bridge over the Lysefjorden in Rogaland county, Norway. The bridge connects the municipalities of Strand (on the north end of the bridge) and Sandnes (on the south end of the bridge). Construction on the  bridge began in 1995 and was finished in 1997 at a cost of .
  

The bridge carries Norwegian county road 13, connecting to Norwegian National Road 13 on the north end. Its main span is , the depth of the deck is , and the width of the bridge is . The supporting towers are  tall, and are made of reinforced concrete. The bridge sits about  above sea level, leaving enough room for the regular ferry service that runs under the bridge to the village of Lysebotn, located at the other end of the long, narrow fjord.

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Bridges in Rogaland
Bridges completed in 1997
Suspension bridges in Norway
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Sandnes
Republican Party (France)

The Republican Party (, PR) was a liberal conservative political party in France founded in 1977. It replaced the National Federation of the Independent Republicans that was founded in 1966.  It was created by the then-President of France, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. It was known to be conservative in domestic, social and economic policies, pro-NATO, and pro-European.

In 1978, the Republican Party allied with centrist groups to form the Union for French Democracy (UDF), a confederation created in order to support President Giscard d'Estaing and counterbalance the influence of the Gaullist Rally for the Republic (RPR) over the French centre-right.  However, after Giscard d'Estaing's defeat at the 1981 presidential election, the PR gravitated away from its founder and a new generation of politicians, led by François Léotard, took the lead.

This group called la bande à Léo ("Léo(tard)'s band"), advocated an alliance with the RPR and covertly supported RPR leader Jacques Chirac's candidacy in the 1988 presidential election, against the official UDF candidate Raymond Barre.

During the 1995 presidential campaign, the PR divided again between the two main centre-right candidates: François Léotard and Gérard Longuet supported Edouard Balladur while Alain Madelin and Jean-Pierre Raffarin supported Jacques Chirac, who won.

Until the split of the UDF confederation in 1998, the Republican Party was its liberal component, advocating economic liberalism. In 1997, it was replaced by Liberal Democracy (DL) led by Alain Madelin.

Presidents

Independent Republicans
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1966–74)
Michel Poniatowski (1975–77)

Republican Party
Jean-Pierre Soisson (1977–88)
François Léotard (1988–90)
Gérard Longuet (1990–95)
François Léotard (1995–97)
Alain Madelin (1997)

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Defunct political parties in France
Political parties of the French Fifth Republic
Defunct conservative parties
Liberal conservative parties
Right-wing parties in France
Political parties established in 1977
Political parties disestablished in 1997
1977 establishments in France
1997 disestablishments in France
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Riegels

Riegels is a German surname.  Notable people with the surname include:

Elna Riegels, birth name of the Danish painter Elna Fonnesbech-Sandberg (1892–1994)
Michael Riegels (b. 1938), inaugural chairman of the Financial Services Commission of the British Virgin Islands
Niels Ditlev Riegels (1755 - 1802), a Danish historian, journalist and author of critical pamphlets
Roy Riegels (1908–1993), American football player

See also
Riegel (surname)
Melissa Witek

Melissa Ann Witek (born April 9, 1981) is an American actress, model, television personality, and beauty queen who competed in the Miss USA pageant and appeared on the reality television show Treasure Hunters.

Biography
Witek was born in Rockledge, Florida. She later moved to Cocoa Beach, Florida, which presented her with the key to the city in August 2004.  A sister of Delta Delta Delta sorority, she graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Public Relations in 2003, the third consecutive University of Florida alumna to win the Miss Florida USA crown. From 2003 to 2005, Witek was CEO and President of her own builders' supply company, Ampex Granite, which she discussed during her live interview for the Miss USA 2005 pageant.

Pageantry
Witek's first pageant title was Miss Florida Gator which she won in February 2002.  With this title, she competed at Miss Florida 2002 (in the Miss America system), but did not place.  Her first Miss USA system title was Miss Florida Panhandle USA, which she won in March 2004.  In May of that year, she competed against forty-seven other contestants in the Miss Florida USA pageant held in Hollywood, Florida and broadcast live throughout the state.  Witek won the crown and numerous other prizes, including cash, a wardrobe and use of an apartment in Hollywood during her reign.

On April 11, 2005, Witek represented Florida in the Miss USA 2005 pageant broadcast live from Baltimore, Maryland on NBC.  She placed fourth runner-up to Chelsea Cooley of North Carolina, her state's highest placement since 1987.

Reality television
Months before her state pageant win, Witek had made the semi-finals of reality television show The Bachelor but was cut because of the possibility of her knowing the Bachelor, former University of Florida football star Jesse Palmer. In April 2006 it was announced that Witek was among the cast of the new NBC reality television series Treasure Hunters that aired June 18, 2006.  She teamed up with fellow Miss USA 2005 delegates Kristen Johnson of Kentucky and Kaitlyn Christopher of Indiana for the competition, which was taped during September and October 2005.  Their group, Team Miss USA, came in as fourth runner-up on the show.

Personal life
As of 2020 She lives in Orlando, FL. She is a Registered Republican.

Notes

References
Granite's Glamour Girl, Pageantry magazine (accessed 3 May 2006)
City of Hollywood Staff Summary Request: Presentation of Melissa Witek, Miss Florida USA 2005 (accessed 3 May 2006)
Miss Florida balances crown with business, Florida Today, 29 August 2004 (accessed 3 May 2006)
Tale of Two Miss Floridas, Pageantry magazine

External links
MelissaWitek.com
USA Today
 

University of Florida alumni
Living people
1981 births
Miss USA 2005 delegates
People from Cocoa Beach, Florida
People from Rockledge, Florida
Florida Republicans
Participants in American reality television series
Thuận Phước Bridge

The Thuận Phước Bridge () is a suspension bridge that crosses the lower Han River at Da Nang, Vietnam.

The four-lane, three-span, bridge is 1,850 meters long and 18 meters wide, and has a main span of 405 meters. Its two major pillars are 80m in height. It is the longest suspension bridge in Vietnam, with total investment of nearly 1 trillion dong. The bridge was built with an estimated cost of VND 650 billion (about 42 million US dollars). Consulting firms from China, Cuba and Canada provided assistance.

The construction of the bridge, which began in 2003, was completed on 19 July 2009 when the Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Tan Dung and many high-ranking government officials attended the inauguration ceremony.

See also
 Han River Bridge
 Dragon River Bridge

References

External links
The Thuan Phuoc Bridge at Bridgemeister.com

Road bridges in Vietnam
Bridges completed in 2009
Bridges in Da Nang
Suspension bridges in Vietnam
Defense pact

A defense pact (or defence pact Commonwealth spelling) is a type of treaty or military alliance which the signatories promise to support each other militarily and to defend each other. Generally, the signatories point out the threats and concretely prepare to respond to it together.

Current treaties

Historical treaties

See also 
 List of military alliances

References

Defense
Military alliances
Treaties by type
Adlam (name)

Adlam is an English patronymic surname derived from the Old German given name Adalhelm, meaning "noble protector" or "noble helmet".  It appears not to be derived from the Anglo-Saxon cognate, Æðelhelm, which took different forms in later years, but instead to have come from continental Europe with Norman French.  As a given name, "Adelelmus" appears in the 1086 Domesday Book for Kent, and patronymic forms occur in 12th century England, such as Walterus filius Adelam and Robertus Adelelmus. Variants of the surname include Adlem, Odlam and Adlum.

In England, the name Adlam is most common in Wiltshire.  An Adlam family were significant landowners in Somerset and Wiltshire, particularly in Chew Magna and Meare, and as owners of the manor of Chew Magna and Manor Farmhouse, Meare.

The name may refer to:

 Adrian Adlam (born 1963), British musician
 Alanzo Adlam (born 1989), Jamaican football player
 Leslie Adlam (1897–1975), British football player
 Samuel Adlam Bayntun (1804–1833), British soldier and member of House of Commons 1830–1833
 Tom Adlam (1893–1975), British soldier
 Warwick Adlam (b. 1971), Australian cricketer

See also 
 Adlam alphabet
 George Adlam & Sons, British engineering company

References 

English-language surnames
Wild in the Streets (Circle Jerks album)

Wild in the Streets is the second studio album by American hardcore punk band Circle Jerks. It was released on March 4, 1982, by Faulty Products, a sub-label of I.R.S. Records.

Background
The album featured three cover songs, including the title track, originally by Garland Jeffreys; "Just Like Me", originally performed by Paul Revere & the Raiders; and "Put a Little Love in Your Heart", originally performed by Jackie DeShannon.

The album cover, a photo by punk photographer Ed Colver, featured an image of the band members and others (including Mike Ness of Social Distortion) running in the streets at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, California.

Reception

Wild in the Streets received a mixed review from Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic, who gave the album 3 out of 5 stars, claiming that it does not have "the wild, appealingly offensive mixture of crude lyrics and frenetic riffs that made the Circle Jerks' debut, Group Sex". However, Erlewine added that "there are enough tracks that nearly make the mark -- including a tongue-in-cheek cover of 'Put a Little Love in Your Heart' and the title track, which is a version of the theme song to the '60s teen exploitation flick of the same name -- to make it worthwhile for Orange County punk fanatics".

Reissues
In 1988, the album was remixed and reissued on Frontier Records, both on its own in cassette and vinyl formats, and paired with the band's debut as Group Sex/Wild in the Streets on CD.

A 40th anniversary edition came out in 2022, with a 20-page booklet featuring an album history by L.A. music writer Chris Morris.

Track listing

Personnel
 Keith Morris – lead vocals
 Greg Hetson – guitar, backing vocals
 Roger Rogerson – bass
 Lucky Lehrer – drums

Production
 David Anderle; Gary Hirstius – production
 Steve Katz – engineering
 Paul McKenna – assistant engineer
 Frank Deluna – mixing
 John Golden – mastering
 Ed Colver – front cover photo
 Glen E. Friedman – back cover photos
 Carl Grasso; Shawn Kerri – artwork

References

1982 albums
Circle Jerks albums
Albums produced by David Anderle
Frontier Records albums
Faulty Products albums
Emmerich Rhine Bridge

The Emmerich Rhine Bridge () is a suspension bridge located in Emmerich am Rhein, Germany. Completed in 1965, it has a main span of , crossing the Rhine, carrying the Bundesstraße B 220, the federal highway between Emmerich am Rhein and Kleve. It is the longest suspension bridge in Germany.

Planning and construction 
It was built from 1962 to 1965, after the design of Heinrich Bartmann and the planning of German civil engineer . The bridge was opened for traffic in 1965. Pedestrian walkways and cycle paths run along both sides of the bridge, separated from the vehicular lanes. The two pylons are  high.

Gallery

References 
 Klingenberg, Wilhelm (1962). Neubau einer Hängebrücke über den Rhein. Der Bauingenieur 37
 Beyer, Erwin; Thul, Heribert (1967). Hochstraßen. Beton-Verlag, (2nd ed.)

Further reading 
 Renault, Philippe; Butenweg, Christoph; Meskouris, Konstantin (2005). Beurteilung der Erdbebensicherheit von bestehenden Brückenbauwerken am Beispiel der Rheinbrücke Emmerich. In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau. Vol. 100, No. 7, July 2005, , p. 574–581

See also 
 List of bridges in Germany

External links 

 

Suspension bridges in Germany
Bridges over the Rhine
Bridges completed in 1965
Buildings and structures in Kleve (district)
Bridges in North Rhine-Westphalia
Jan Hendrik van den Berg

Jan Hendrik van den Berg (11 June 1914 – 22 September 2012) was a Dutch psychiatrist notable for his work in phenomenological psychotherapy (cf. phenomenology) and metabletics, or "psychology of historical change." He is the author of numerous articles and books, including A different existence and The changing nature of man.

Biography
Jan Hendrik (J.H.) van den Berg was born on 11 June 1914 in Deventer, the Netherlands. Between 1933 and 1936, he earned diplomas in primary school and high school education, the latter with a focus on mathematics. He also published papers on entomology. He then entered medical school at Utrecht University specializing in psychiatry and neurology. He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1946. One year later, after studying in both France and Switzerland, Dr. Van den Berg was appointed to Head of Department at the psychiatry clinic at Utrecht. At Utrecht, he lectured in psychopathology in the medical school and was also appointed to Professor of Pastoral Psychology in the theology department. In 1954, Dr. van den Berg took a position of Professor of Psychology at Leiden University. Since 1967, he has been a visiting professor at many universities and conducted lecture tours internationally.

Having lived most of his later life in a monumental house at the market in the historical center of Woudrichem, he died in nearby Gorinchem.

Select bibliography
 A phenomenological approach to psychiatry: An introduction to recent phenomenological psychopathology (w/ M. Farber) (1955)
The changing nature of man: Introduction to an historical psychology (1956)
Things: Four metabletic reflections (1970)
A different existence: Principles of phenomenological psychopathology (1972)()
The psychology of the sickbed (1972)
Divided existence and complex society: An historical approach (1974)
The two principle laws of thermodynamics: A cultural and historical exploration (2004)

Works Influenced by van den Berg
Kruger, D. (Ed.). (1985). The changing reality of modern man: Essays in honour of J.H. van den Berg. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press.
Romanyshyn, R. (1989). Technology as symptom and dream. New York: Routledge.
Romanyshyn, R. (2001). Mirror and Metaphor. Pittsburgh, PA: Trivium.
 Simms, E.M. (2008). The Child in the World: Embodiment, Time, and Language in Early Childhood. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Stivers, R. (2004). Shades of loneliness: Pathologies of a technological society. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

See also
Ludwig Binswanger
Edmund Husserl
Existential Psychology
Karl Jaspers

References

External links
 Brent Dean Robbins' J.H. van den Berg page
 Dutch page on Metabletics

1914 births
2012 deaths
Dutch psychiatrists
Dutch psychologists
Phenomenologists
People from Deventer
People from Woudrichem
Utrecht University alumni
Academic staff of Utrecht University
Academic staff of Leiden University
Dampskibsselskabet Torm

TORM based in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a shipping company that owns and operates product tankers.  The company's product tankers carry refined oil products such as gasoline, jet fuel, naphtha and diesel oil.

History 
Torm was founded by Ditlev Torm and Christian Schmiegelow in 1889. The company was listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange in 1905. Today, TORM is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen and NASDAQ in New York.

Operations 
The company was formerly composed of tanker and bulk carrier divisions with product tanker activity accounting for the majority of the business.  The last two bulk carriers were divested in 2015.

TORM is one of the leading tanker carriers of clean oil products such as gasoline, jet fuel, naphtha and diesel oil and other clean products.

The company operates approximately 80 vessels.

On 8 June 2007, A/S Dampskibsselskabet TORM (TORM) announced that TORM and TeekayCorporation (TEEKAY) had completed the acquisition of OMI Corporation (OMI), whereby OMI became a jointly owned subsidiary of TORM and TEEKAY.  TORM will consequently with effect from 1 August 2007 take over 24 product tankers from OMI, leaving TORM's fleet at 85 vessels excluding new builds. TORM will also take over OMI's technical operations in India and a part of OMI's organisation in the US.

References

Further reading
 Johannesen, Ole Stig: Tormbådene, Skibene gennem 120 år fra rederikoncernen Torm

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Shipping companies of Denmark
Shipping companies based in Copenhagen
Danish companies established in 1889
Companies based in Gentofte Municipality
Noise-equivalent temperature

Noise-equivalent temperature (NET) is a measure of the sensitivity of a detector of thermal radiation in the infrared, terahertz or microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.   It is the amount of incident signal temperature that would be needed to match the internal noise of the detector such that the signal-to-noise ratio is equal to one.  Often the spectrum of the NET is reported as a temperature per root bandwidth.  A detector that measures power is often interested in the analogous noise-equivalent power (NEP).  If a relation between intensity and temperature is well defined over the passband, as in the case of a blackbody, then the NET simply scales with the NEP.

If a detector is limited by either shot noise or Johnson noise then the NET can be decreased by using an increased integration time. The NET of flicker noise limited detectors can not be reduced by increased integration time. 

Typically uncooled bolometric detectors have NET figures of 30-200 mK. Cooled photon detecting infrared detectors using materials such as HgCdTe (LWIR or MWIR) or InSb (MWIR) can approach a NET figure of 10 mK. In the microwave radiation region NET values are typically several hundred millikelvins to several kelvins.

For a particular mean signal temperature there is a fundamental limit to NET given by the natural thermodynamic fluctuations of the photon flux from the source under investigation.

See also
 Noise-equivalent power
 Specific detectivity
 Minimum resolvable temperature difference

External links
 Expanding the Vision of Sensor Materials (1995) National Materials Advisory Board (NMAB) 

Infrared imaging
Equivalent units
Polyglutamic acid

Polyglutamic acid (PGA) is a polymer of the amino acid glutamic acid (GA). Depending on where the individual monomers connect, PGA can be gamma PGA (poly-γ-glutamic acid, γ-PGA), the form where the peptide bonds are between the amino group of GA and the carboxyl group at the end of the GA side chain, or alpha PGA, the form where the alpha-carboxyl is used to form the peptide bond.

Gamma PGA is formed by bacterial fermentation. It is a major constituent of the Japanese food nattō and has a wide range of uses.

Alpha PGA has been investigated as a drug delivery system.

Structure 
Both form of PGA are linked together by peptide bonds. Because the glutamic acid has a chiral center, both forms of PGA can be made from L-glutamic acid, D-glutamic acid, or a mixture of both. In practical use, alpha PGA is almost universally purely contain the L form, while gamma PGA tends to have a mixture of both.

Properties 
Gamma PGA is non-immunogenic and biodegradable. It hydrolyzes in hot water.

Both forms are amphiphilic, water-soluble, and have a negative charge.

Synthesis 
Gamma PGA is industrially made by fermentation. The biosynthetic process starts with racemerization by RacE, which converts L-glutamate to D-glutamate. A set of genes on an operon then proceed to assemble the molecule and move it out of the bacterial cell.

Alpha PGA is industrially made by chemical synthesis, using a ring-opening polymerization reaction.

Occurrence 
Gamma PGA is made by a number of Bacillus species. The best-known source is natto, where it is produced by Bacillus subtilis. It is also an important component of the Bacillus anthracis capsule, hiding the bacterium from the immune system and allowing it to grow unchecked.

Uses 
Gamma PGA has been used for food, medicine, cosmeceuticals and water treatment.

Alpha PGA is used as a delivery aid for paclitaxel, an anticancer drug, under the generic name of paclitaxel poliglumex. Research is underway for its application in a treatment of type I diabetes and its potential use in the production of an AIDS vaccine.

Water treatment 
The "PolyGlu PGα21Ca" water flocculant, based on a mixture of gamma PGA, calcium sulfate, and calcium carbonate, is used by the International Organization for Migration to treat water for refugees.

G-PGA covalently incorporated into microfiltration membranes via attachment to their membrane pore surfaces exhibited super-high heavy metal sorption ability.
G-PGA was found to bind and efficiently remove 99.8% of lead ions from water via a suitable low-pressure ultrafiltration technique.

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TRMD

TRMD may refer to:
 Dampskibsselskabet Torm, a shipping company
 TRNA (guanine37-N1)-methyltransferase, an enzyme
Ariyon Bakare

Ariyon Bakare () is an English actor. He has appeared in the BBC One soap opera Doctors as Ben Kwarme, the Amazon Prime television series Good Omens and Carnival Row, and the BBC One and HBO series His Dark Materials. Prior to this, Bakare made appearances on British dramas such as The Bill, Casualty, and Holby City.

Early life

Due to conflict with his father, Bakare left his family home at the age of 15, and completed his education while homeless. Years later, he returned home and "made peace" with his father. Then at the age of 17, Bakare moved from London to New York to pursue dance as a career, and trained as dancer  at  various conservatories  including  Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Two years into his training, he was informed that dancers often retire at a young age. The next day, he gave dance up, and began focusing on acting. He moved back to London at the age of 20, and began studying acting at Drama Centre London.  His first professional job  was  with  the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). He stated that while performing with the RSC, he also worked on jobs in Scotland, as well as learning scriptwriting and singing soul and opera music.

Career
From 2001 to 2005, Bakare portrayed the role of Ben Kwarme in the BBC soap opera Doctors. For his portrayal of the role, he was nominated for Best Actor at the 2004 British Soap Awards. After leaving Doctors, Bakare returned to direct and write several episodes. He then co-wrote and starred in the Channel drama Stealing Lives. In November 2008, he appeared as a villain in the BBC drama Spooks, and in October 2009, he made an appearance in Casualty. In 2011, Bakare played a mini-cab driver, Carl Lucas, in the last episode of the sixth series of Law & Order UK, first broadcast in 2012. He appeared in Dancing on the Edge, first broadcast in 2013, as Wesley Holt, a band manager. Bakare later appeared in Doctor Who, in the 2015 episode, "The Woman Who Lived", alongside Maisie Williams. He played the antagonist of the episode, a lion-like creature called Leandro. He had a cameo as a Rebel pilot in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. In 2019, he began appearing in the BBC TV series His Dark Materials, in the role of Lord Boreal.

Bakare's theatre credits include productions at the RSC and the Lyric Hammersmith. He was nominated for an Ian Charleson Award for the role of Florindo in Tim Supple's staging of A Servant to Two Masters at the Young Vic theatre. He starred opposite Janet Suzman in the British premiere of Dream of the Dog, where he played a South African nattily clad architect, "Look Smart".

Filmography

Stage

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NETD

NETD, NetD or netd can refer to:

 Negative electron-transfer dissociation
 Noise equivalent temperature difference
 NetDetector from Niksun
 Network device (NetD)
 netd.com a VOD service in Turkey by Doğan Media Group
Namhae Bridge

The Namhae Bridge is a suspension bridge that connects Hadong Noryang and Namhae Noryang, South Korea.  The bridge, completed in 1973 has a total length of 660 meters. The bridge has a real-time monitoring system installed to monitor its performance.

See also
Busan
Transportation in South Korea
 List of bridges in South Korea

References

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Raffi (disambiguation)

Raffi, full name Raffi Cavoukian (born 1948), is a Canadian singer-songwriter best known for his children's music.

Raffi may also refer to:

Raffi (novelist), pen name of Hakob Melik-Hakobian (1835–1888), Armenian author and poet
Raffi Boghosyan, or Raffi, (born 1993), Bulgarian singer
Rafi (name), or Raffi, a name of Arabic origin

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Mariko Takamura

was widely described as a cultural icon for the deaf and hard of hearing in Japan.  She overcame many barriers to deafness in her home country to the benefit of thousands of deaf people in Japan.  It is in large part due to her efforts that the Japanese people are more appreciative of deaf culture.

A talented performer, with a love for song, Mariko is a friend to many deaf people internationally, including the Wild Zappers, among others.  She introduced many deaf artists to Japan as the promoter.

Originally trained as a nutritionist, she entered the California State University at Northridge at the age of 25.  After graduation, she returned to Japan to work at an English-language newspaper.

Her publications in Japanese included American Sign Language Broadened My World and Learning Sign Language in America.  She provided Japanese translations of Heather Whitestone's biography Yes You Can, Heather! and Ben Bahan's book Signs for Me.

She died of cancer in 2006.

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Hagnon, son of Nikias

Hagnon, son of Nikias () was an Athenian general and statesman.  In 437/6 BC, he led the settlers who founded the city of Amphipolis in Thrace; in the Peloponnesian War, he served as an Athenian general on several occasions, and was one of the signers of the Peace of Nicias and the alliance between Athens and Sparta.  In 411 BC, during the oligarchic coup, he supported the oligarchy and was one of the ten commissioners (probouloi) appointed to draw up a new constitution.

Hagnon's first appearance in the historical records is in 440 BC, when he is mentioned as one of the generals bringing 40 triremes from Athens to reinforce Pericles at the Siege of Samos. In 437/6 BC, he led a group of Greek colonists to found a city at the mouth of the river Strymon.  Two previous attempts to found an Athenian colony on this valuable location (the site was desirable both because of its strategic position on the trade routes between the Hellespont and mainland Greece and because it was the primary outlet for trade from the wealthy Strymon valley) had been defeated by hostile native populations, but Hagnon, leading a multinational force of settlers, defeated the Edonians who held the location and founded the city of Amphipolis on an island in the river. For a number of years, Hagnon was honored as the founder of Amphipolis, but in 422 BC, with Amphipolis allied to Sparta and at war with Athens, the Amphipolitans transferred that honor to the Spartan general Brasidas, who died fighting outside that city while preventing an Athenian attempt to recapture it.

Hagnon held military command for Athens on several occasions, sharing in the command of the force that sailed against Samos in the Samian War of 440 BC and commanding a force that attempted to capture Potidaea in 430 BC. In 421 BC, he was one of the Athenian signers of the Peace of Nicias, the treaty, negotiated by an Athenian general with the same name as his father (no relation), that brought an end to the so-called Archidamian War, the first stage of the Peloponnesian War; he also signed the alliance between Athens and Sparta that was concluded in that same year.

In 411 BC, when revolutionary forces at Athens took advantage of the disorder in the wake of the Sicilian Expedition to overthrow the Athenian democracy and replace it with an oligarchy, Hagnon was a member of the government of 400 oligarchs that was established, and served as one of the ten commissioners charged with drafting a new constitution. His son Theramenes, meanwhile, played a central role in both the establishment and the overthrow of that government.

Notes

References
Hornblower, Simon, and Anthony Spawforth ed., The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2003)

External links 
 Livius.org: Hagnon

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Darren Scott

Darren Scott may refer to:

Darren Scott (cricketer) (born 1972), English cricketer
Darren Scott (Family Affairs), fictional character in the former British soap opera Family Affairs
Darren Scott, known as DRS, part of the Scottish rapper and songwriter duo SHY & DRS
Josip Marohnić

Josip Marohnić (November 12, 1866 – January 23, 1921) remains up to this day the most influential Croatian emigrant in the Americas.

Marohnić was born in Hreljin, Croatia (then in the Austrian Empire) and lived in the United States for 28 years, where he emigrated alone in 1893 and was later joined by his wife Andrijana and daughter Josipa. He started working at a Chicago's local printing house before attending Wheaton College (Illinois). He later founded his own print house and bookstore, and became publisher, writer and editor of his newspaper "Hrvatski glasnik".

In 1897, Marohnić moved to Pittsburgh where he founded the Croatian Eastern Rite Catholic St. Nicholas Parish, the first Croatian Byzantine Rite parish in America, and invited a Croatian pastor to spiritually lead Croatian-Americans. He acted as the main accountant of the National Croatian Community (preceding the Croatian Fraternal Union founded on 11th convention) between 1897 and 1909. He was also the founding father and lifetime President of the Croatian Fraternal Union from 1912 until his death. Marohnić devoted his life to Croatians in the US and they honored him with a magnificent funeral.

Marohnić founded the "First Croatian Bookstore" in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. As an editor, he published books, manuals, grammars, dictionaries, calendars, novels, anthologies, short stories, theatrical works, humorous books, collections of poetry, various books of Croatian folklore, maps, albums, breviaries and books of religious nature. 

He was the first poet among the Croatian diaspora, having published his collections "Jesenke" in 1897 and "Amerikanke" in 1900 and his "Census of Croats in America". In 1911, he was the first Croat officially invited by an American president. 

He died on January 23, 1921, leaving behind his wife and four children.

Legacy
A street in Trnje, Zagreb, the Croatian capital, was named after him; the street is now the site of SRCE ("Sveučilišni računski centar" - "University Computing Centre").

See also 
 Croatian Fraternal Union

References

External links 
 St. Nicholas Parish, Pittsburgh Today; alternative page
 Croatian Fraternal Union

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Shawn Pen

Tyrone Shawn Wilkins, (born December 21, 1969) better known as Little Shawn and Shawn Pen, is an American hip hop artist, rapper, songwriter and producer from East Flatbush, Brooklyn.

He released a single in 1986 My girl Mother (Select Records) and an album called The Voice in the Mirror (Capitol Records) in 1992.

Career

Little Shawn released the single "Dom Perignon" (Uptown Records) featuring fellow Brooklyn rapper The Notorious B.I.G. on 20 July 1995. The music video also featured Busta Rhymes, another rapper from Brooklyn. It peaked at #5 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 as well as #87 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and #23 on the Hot Rap Tracks charts. The song was featured on the soundtrack to the Fox TV crime drama New York Undercover.

Tupac Shakur was on his way to record a verse for Little Shawn when he was robbed and shot 5 times in 1994.

Legal issues
From 1998 to 2003, Wilkins served time in federal prison for drug trafficking. Wilkins changed his stage name to Shawn Pen after leaving prison.

Discography

Albums

Singles

A.  Charted only on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales chart.
B.  Charted only on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.

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Muddy Waters (album)

Muddy Waters is the third studio album from American rapper Redman, released December 10, 1996, on Def Jam Recordings.

The album debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200. The album was also certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for exceeding shipments of 500,000 copies.

Critical reception

Steve Huey of AllMusic, though critical of the album's numerous interludes, stated that "lyrically, Redman is as strong as ever," and of the overall work, remarked that "Muddy Waters solidifies Redman's growing reputation as one of the most consistent rappers of the '90s."

Redman has stated that he had planned on releasing a sequel to the album entitled Muddy Waters 2, considering it is his most classic work.

Commercial performance
Muddy Waters debuted at number 12 on the US Billboard 200 and number one on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, becoming his second number one on the chart. On February 12, 1997, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 500,000 copies. As of October 2009, the album has 767,000 copies in the United States.

Track listing

Personnel
Adapted from AllMusic.
 Erick Sermon – executive producer – vocals
 Dave Greenberg – mixing
 Troy Hightower – mixing
 Method Man – performer
 Redman – producer
 Rockwilder - producer
 Redman – vocals
 Method Man – vocals
 Napalm – vocals
 Rockwilder – vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

See also
 List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1996

References

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Mana mana

Mana mana may refer to:

Mana Mana, a Finnish rock group
Mah Nà Mah Nà (sometimes "Mana Mana" or "Mahna Mahna"), a popular song written by Piero Umiliani