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Dalwhinnie

Dalwhinnie ( ; Scottish Gaelic: Dail Chuinnidh "meeting place") is a small village in the Scottish Highlands. Dalwhinnie is located at the head of Glen Truim and the north-east end of Loch Ericht, on the western edge of the Cairngorms National Park.

Location
Dalwhinnie sits at an altitude of . It is one of the coldest villages in the UK, having an average annual temperature of , making it suitable for winter walking and mountaineering.

It is north of Drumochter, just off the A9 road from Perth to Inverness and has been bypassed since 1975. It is about  from both Edinburgh and Glasgow,  from Aviemore,  from Newtonmore and  from Kingussie. Dalwhinnie railway station lies on the Highland Main Line from Perth to Inverness.

Tourism
The area is walking destination along the River Truim and in Cairngorm and Monadhliath Mountains in the Cairngorm National Park.

Dalwhinnie is on the Sustrans National Cycle Route 7, Glasgow to Inverness. There are several cycle routes in the area including one alongside Loch Ericht.

Loch Ericht Hotel stands on the banks of the River Truim.

Distillery
Diageo owns the local distillery, the highest-elevation working distillery in Scotland.  Dalwhinnie Single Malt is a light, heathery whisky.

Climate
Dalwhinnie experiences a subpolar oceanic climate (Cfc) that very closely borders a humid continental climate (Dfb) with strong influences of an oceanic climate (Cfb), a climate very rare for a UK town.

Skies are frequently overcast with cool temperatures and rainfall throughout the year. Sunshine here averages only 1,032 hours, which is one of the lowest in the United Kingdom.

Dalwhinnie holds the UK low temperature records for the months of June, September and October. In addition, it also holds Scotland's record for the lowest April daytime maximum temperature of  in 1975, and the record lowest October temperature for the United Kingdom of .

For the 1951–1980 observation period, it averaged a temperature of  compared to Braemar's , making Dalwhinnie one of the coldest inhabited places in the British Isles.

According to the 1981–2010 observation period, Dalwhinnie is the coldest place in the UK below 500 metres above sea level, with a mean temperature of , lower than Leadhills and Braemar which both have mean temperatures of  for this period.

The lowest temperatures in recent years have been  in January 2010 and  during December 2010. Winter snowfall can be heavy, with accumulations often exceeding .

See also
 Centre points of the United Kingdom
 Battle of Invernahavon - the remnants of a party of Clan Cameron raiders escaped via Dalwhinnie after their defeat by the Chattan Confederation south west of Newtonmore in this 14th century battle.

References

External links
Newtonmore Riding Centre Website
Forestry Commission Scotland. Wolftrax Mountain Biking Centre Link
Dalwhinnie Voices

Populated places in Badenoch and Strathspey
Beyond

Beyond may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films
Beyond (1921 film), an American silent film
Beyond (2000 film), a Danish film directed by Åke Sandgren, OT: Dykkerne
Beyond (2010 film), a Swedish film directed by Pernilla August, OT: Svinalängorna
Beyond (2012 film), an American thriller directed by Josef Rusnak
Beyond (2014 film), a British science fiction film
"Beyond" (The Animatrix), a segment of the short-film collection The Animatrix
Star Trek Beyond, a 2016 American science fiction film in the Star Trek film franchise

Games 
Beyond Games, a U.S. video game developer founded in 1992
Beyond Software, a 1980s UK video game developer
Beyond: Two Souls, a video game for the PlayStation 3
Stormfront Studios, a U.S. video game developer originally named Beyond Software (1988–1991)

Music

Groups
Beyond (band), a Hong Kong rock band formed in 1983
Beyond (Swiss band), a spiritual musical group founded in 2007 by Swiss singer Regula Curti, along with Tina Turner and Dechen Shak-Dagsay

Albums 
 Beyond..., a 1986 album by VAP
Beyond (Dinosaur Jr. album), 2007
Beyond (Freedom Call album), 2014
Beyond (William Joseph album), 2008
Beyond (Omnium Gatherum album), 2013
Beyond (Joshua Redman album), 2000
Beyond, an album by Hiromitsu Agatsuma
Beyond, a 1980 album by Herb Alpert

Songs 
"Beyond" (song), a 1969 song from the album To Our Children's Children's Children by The Moody Blues
"Beyond", a 2001 song by Nebula from the album Charged
"Beyond", a song from the album Trouser Jazz by Mr. Scruff, 2002
"Beyond", first track from the album Buddhist and Christian Prayers by Beyond, 2010
"Beyond", a ninth track from the album Random Access Memories by Daft Punk, 2013

In print 
Beyond (book), a 2015 non-fiction book by Chris Impey 
Beyond (Virgin Comics), a 2008 series from Virgin Comics
Beyond!, a 2006 limited series from Marvel Comics
 Beyond Corporation, a fictional Marvel Comics organisation
"Beyond", a short story by William Faulkner
 Beyond: Peter Diamandis and the Adventure of Space, former title of Julian Guthrie's book How to Make a Spaceship (2016)
Beyond Fantasy Fiction, a US fantasy fiction magazine

Television
Beyond (2005 TV series), a Canadian paranormal documentary TV series
Beyond (2012 TV series), a Singaporean supernatural TV series
Beyond (2017 TV series), an American supernatural drama TV series
Beyond, a 2006 American TV pilot show directed by Breck Eisner
"Beyond", an Avengers Assemble season 4 episode
Beyond International, an Australian television production and distribution company

Other uses
Beyond Meat, a meat substitute manufacturer
Beyond Junior Y Chair, a high chair
Lashauwn Beyond, American drag queen

See also

The Beyond (disambiguation)
Ivett

Ivett is a given name of Hungarian origin that is the equivalent of the French Yvette.

People 
 Ivett Gonda (born 1986), Canadian taekwondoer

Hungarian feminine given names
Feminine given names
Enhancement

Enhancement may refer to:

Human body enhancement
 Breast enhancement, breast enlargement or contouring
 Cleavage enhancement, an increase in the definition of breast cleavage
 Contrast enhancement, enhancement of the contrast of structures or fluids within the body in medical imaging after administration of a contrast medium.
 Genetic enhancement, the use of genetic engineering to modify a person's nonpathological human traits
 Human enhancement, augmentation of the human body to increase capability
 Male enhancement, a euphemism for penis enlargement

Image enhancement
 Edge enhancement, an image-processing filter that increases the contrast of shape borders to improve its acutance (apparent sharpness)
 Image enhancement, improvement to perceived image quality
 Shadow and highlight enhancement, an image processing technique to correct exposure

Acoustical signal enhancement
 Acoustic enhancement, the augmentation of direct, reflected, or reverberant sound waves without resorting to electronic sound reinforcement
 Blip enhancement, an electronic warfare technique used to fool radar
 Forensic audio enhancement, the scientific analysis and improvement of audio clarity, especially to improve intelligibility
 Orchestral enhancement, using orchestration techniques, architecture, or electronic sound reinforcement to modify the sound of a live musical performance
 Speech enhancement, the improvement of speech quality via audio signal processing

Software enhancement
 Progressive enhancement, a web application design that provides a usable experience to users of a broad spectrum of web browsers, but gives additional features to users of more sophisticated web browsers
 Software enhancement, a proposed or newly added software feature
 Web enhancement, official downloadable content published via the World Wide Web for a video game

Other uses
 Antibody-dependent enhancement, an increase in viral infection facilitated by the host's own antibodies
 Diamond enhancement, a treatment that improves the gemological characteristics of a natural diamond
 Hydrogen fuel enhancement, adding hydrogen to conventional hydrocarbon fuel in an attempt to improve the fuel economy and/or power output of an internal combustion engine
 Input enhancement, a technique for teaching a language to non-native speakers
 Seed enhancement, pre-sowing treatment to improve seed performance
 Self-enhancement, an overly positive self-assessment
 Sexual enhancement, sex toy

See also
 Enhance (disambiguation)
Watson Systems

Watson Systems AG, established in Switzerland, founded by media developer and investor Norbert Schulz, Hamburg, produces "talking" shopping carts. The company developed and produced a worldwide database- and Internet-based audio advertising system for supermarkets and shopping centres.

External links
Watson Systems AG

Manufacturing companies of Switzerland
6 Canum Venaticorum

6 Canum Venaticorum is a single star in the northern constellation Canes Venatici, located 246 light years from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.01. The star is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −4.2 km/s.

This is an evolved G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G9 III, which means it has exhausted the hydrogen supply at its core and expanded. It is a red clump giant, indicating that it is on the horizontal branch and is generating energy through the helium fusion at its core. Data from the Hipparcos mission provided evidence of microvariability with an amplitude of 0.0056 in magnitude and a frequency of 0.00636 per day, or one cycle every 157 days.

6 Canum Venaticorum is about two billion years old with double the mass of the Sun. It has expanded to 9 times the Sun's radius and is radiating 68 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,938 K.

References

G-type giants
Horizontal-branch stars
Canes Venatici
BD+39 2521
Canum Venaticorum, 06
108225
060646
4728
Arline Hunter

Arline Hunter (born Arlene J. Hunter; December 16, 1931 – September 11, 2018) was an American actress and model. She was perhaps best known as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for August 1954. Her centerfold was the first not to be purchased from the John Baumgarth Co. by Hugh Hefner, and was instead photographed by Ed DeLong, who went on to become one of the more prolific Playboy photographers in the 1960s.

Career
Much of Hunter's fame was built upon her resemblance to Marilyn Monroe; indeed, her Playboy pose was obviously inspired by Monroe's notorious 1949 nude photo session with Tom Kelley from which her own Playboy photo came. The similarity in look between Hunter and Monroe also came into play when a nude Hunter starred in a stag film called, The Apple-Knockers and the Coke. For many years there have been those who have seen the film and have mistaken Hunter for Monroe.

Hunter went on to have a film career that consisted mostly of sexy parts in B-movies such as White Lightnin' Road and The Art of Burlesque. She also appeared alongside the Three Stooges in 1957's Outer Space Jitters. She appeared as a dancer in Sex Kittens Go to College, which starred fellow bombshell Mamie Van Doren. She also had guest roles in prominent television series such as Perry Mason and My Three Sons, and appeared in a 1962 episode of Straightaway.

Hunter was married to Prussian-born Wolfgang Wergin until his death in February 2006. Hunter died in San Pedro, California on 11 September 2018, at the age of 86.

Filmography

Films
 The Apple-Knockers and the Coke (1948)
 The Art of Burlesque (1950) as Betty
 Baghdad After Midnight (1954) (credited as Arlene Hunter)
 Casanova's Big Night (1954) (uncredited) as Girl in window
 Son of Sinbad (1955) (as Arlene Hunter) as Tartar Girl
 Outer Space Jitters (1957) (uncredited) as Sunev Girl
 Revolt in the Big House (1958) as Girl
 The Angry Red Planet (1960) as Joan
 Sex Kittens Go to College (1960) as Nurse
 The Ruined Bruin (1961)
 White Lightnin' Road (1965) as Ruby
 Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966) as Girl Student
 Big Daddy (1969)

Television
 Perry Mason - "The Case of the Fraudulent Photo" (1959) as Receptionist
 Tales of Wells Fargo - "The Jackass" (1959) as Saloon Girl
 Johnny Staccato - "Swinging Long Hair" (1960) as Photographer
 The Jim Backus Show - "Floundered in Florida" (1961) (credited as Arlene Hunter) as Angela
 My Three Sons - "Robbie and the Chorus Girl" (1965) as Beauty

See also
 List of people in Playboy 1953–59

References

External links

1931 births
2018 deaths
1950s Playboy Playmates
People from Caldwell, Idaho
Alstom Ferroviaria

Alstom Ferroviaria S.p.A., formerly known as Fiat Ferroviaria S.p.A., is the Italian division of Alstom. Fiat Ferroviaria S.p.A. was the rail division of automobile manufacturer Fiat. It was founded in 1880 as Società Nazionale Officine di Savigliano. Fiat Ferroviaria began building locomotives in the 1930s. It became part of Fiat in 1970. Fiat Ferroviaria acquired the rail business of SIG of Switzerland in 1995, forming the subsidiary Fiat-Sig.

The company had previously owned Argentine company Materfer until 1998, which now operates as an independent company. In June 2000, Alstom purchased a 51% shareholding.

Overview 

During the 1960s and 1970s, Fiat Ferroviaria developed a tilting technology for trains and was the first (and the only one for several decades) to produce active tilting trains with the trademark of Pendolino. In Italy, several classes of Pendolinos were adopted starting from 1976 (ETR 401, ETR 450, ETR 460-65, ETR 480-85 and the Alstom made ETR600.

Following the success of the ETR 450 series introduced in Italy in 1988 (the 401 series introduced in 1976 consisted of only 2 trainsets and never operated regular commercial service, working more like an "on-wheel laboratory"), tilting systems including bogies, traction, electric and electronic equipment were ordered by several countries:

 Germany (ICE T)
 Finland (VR Class Sm3 and VR Class Sm6)
 Switzerland (Cisalpino)
 Spain (Alaris)
 Portugal (Alfa Pendular)
 Slovenia (SŽ series 310)
 Czech Republic (ČD Class 680)

In February 1999, Virgin Trains West Coast ordered a fleet of Class 390s from Alstom that incorporated Fiat Ferroviaria tilting technology.

Directly or indirectly, 18 countries throughout the world applied the Italian Fiat Ferroviaria tilting technology to their trains, including the United States and China.

See also
 Pendolino family of tilting trains, built by Fiat Ferroviaria
 Materfer, Argentine factory of licensed Fiat rolling stock
 Fiat Materfer 7131, railcars built by the company for Argentine urban services

References

External links

 
Alstom
Fiat
Italian brands
Locomotive manufacturers of Italy
Rolling stock manufacturers of Italy
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1917
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 2000
1917 establishments in Italy
2000 disestablishments in Italy
21 Canum Venaticorum

21 Canum Venaticorum is a single variable star in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici, located 277 light years away from the Sun. This object has the variable star designation BK Canum Venaticorum; 21 Canum Venaticorum is the Flamsteed designation. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint white-hued star with a baseline apparent visual magnitude of +5.14.

According to Garrison et al. (1994) this is a B-type subgiant star with a stellar classification of , where the suffix notation indicates this is a Silicon star. Cowley et al. (1969) listed it with a class of , which would match an A-type main-sequence star with the ':' indicating some uncertainty in the classification. It is a marginally chemically-peculiar star with weaker than normal helium absorption lines and displaying helium line variability. The widths of the lines of ionized silicon vary with a period of .

21 Canum Venaticorum is classified as an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum type variable star and its brightness varies by 0.04 magnitudes over a period of . It is around 201 million years old and is spinning with a relatively high projected rotational velocity of 96 km/s. The star has 2.73 times the mass of the Sun and 2.8 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 72 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 11,036 K.

References

B-type subgiants
A-type main-sequence stars
Ap stars
Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum variables
Canes Venatici
Canum Venaticorum, 21
Durchmusterung objects
115735
064906
5023
Canum Venaticorum, BK
1962 New Orleans mayoral election

The New Orleans mayoral election of 1962 resulted in the election of interim mayor Victor Schiro to his first full term as mayor of New Orleans.

Results 
First Democratic Party Primary, January 27, 1962

Second Democratic Party Primary, March 3, 1962

Sources 
 Orleans Parish Democratic Executive Committee. Mayoralty: First and Second Democratic Primary Elections, 1962.

Mayoral elections in New Orleans
New Orleans
1962 Louisiana elections
Intelligent Creatures

Intelligent Creatures (IC) is a motion picture visual effects company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

History
IC was founded on March 30, 2001 by current CEO Lon Molnar, a graduate of the Vancouver Film School, Michael Hatton, Raymond Gieringer, and Wendy Lanning, and commenced production in 2002. The company was created in response to the demands of the visual effects industry, at a time when there was a shortage of visual effects vendors in Toronto.

Location
IC's studio is located in the east end of Toronto, in close proximity to Pinewood Toronto Studios and Cinespace Film Studios. A satellite office is located in North Bay, Ontario.

Projects
IC has worked with film studios such as Warner Bros., Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia Pictures, New Line Cinema, Paramount, and 20th Century Studios.

The company has worked on films such as Zack Snyder's Watchmen (for which it designed Dave Gibbon's character Rorschach), Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, Stranger than Fiction, Battle: Los Angeles, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Titles currently in production include Omega, Orphan Black, Transporter: The Series and The Last Druid: Garm Wars.

IC has received a nomination for Best Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program from the Visual Effects Society for its work on Secret Universe: Journey Inside the Cell / Battlefield Cell (one part of the Discovery Channel's Curiosity).

IC Filmography

References

VES Awards 2013 nominees

External links
 IMDB
 Official Website

Entertainment companies established in 2001
Film production companies of Canada
Visual effects companies
Companies based in Toronto
Trochanteric fossa

In mammals including humans, the medial surface of the greater trochanter has at its base a deep depression bounded posteriorly by the intertrochanteric crest, called the trochanteric fossa. This fossa is the point of insertion of four muscles. Moving from the inferior-most to the superior-most, they are: the tendon of the obturator externus muscle, the obturator internus, the superior gemellus and inferior gemellus. The width and depth of the trochanteric fossa varies taxonomically.

In reptiliomorphs such as Seymouria or Diadectes and basal reptiles such as Pareiasaurus, the trochanteric fossa (also known as the intertrochanteric fossa) is a very large depression on the ventral/posterior side of the femur. It is bounded medially by the internal trochanter (also known as the lesser trochanter), laterally by the posterior branch of the ventral ridge, and inferiorly by the convergence of the anterior and posterior branches of the ventral ridge and the adductor ridge. In these taxa, the trochanteric fossa is the insertion point for the puboischiofemoralis externus muscle.

In turtles, the intertrochanteric fossa is bounded anteriorly by the trochanter minor (sometimes called the lesser trochanter) and posteriorly by the trochanter major (sometimes called the greater trochanter; neither of these structures is likely homologous to the greater or lesser trochanter in mammals). Often, the intertrochanteric fossa is small and shallow due to the expansion of the two trochanters.

In lepidosaurs, the intertrochanteric fossa is shallow but broad. It is bounded medially by the internal/lesser trochanter and anterior branch of the ventral femoral ridge, and often less distinctly bounded laterally as the greater trochanter and posterior branch of the ventral ridge are highly reduced or absent.

In archosaurs and especially in dinosaurs, the intertrochanteric fossa is highly developed as both the internal/lesser trochanter and the greater trochanter are better developed. In dinosaurs, this area serves as the insertion point of the iliofemoralis muscles (analogous to the gluteus muscles in mammals).

Notes

References 
 
 

Bones of the lower limb
Femur
Torsten Schack Pedersen

Torsten Schack Pedersen (born 26 June 1976 in Farsø) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He was elected into parliament at the 2005 Danish general election.

Political career
Pedersen served as Chairman of Venstres Ungdom 2001–2003. He was elected into parliament at the 2005 election, and was reelected in 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019.

References

External links 
 Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)

1976 births
Living people
People from Vesthimmerland Municipality
Venstre (Denmark) politicians
Members of the Folketing 2005–2007
Members of the Folketing 2007–2011
Members of the Folketing 2011–2015
Members of the Folketing 2015–2019
Members of the Folketing 2019–2022
Members of the Folketing 2022–2026
Cowasjee family

The Cowasjee family is one of the oldest  families settled in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. They owned the East & West Steamship Company, the oldest shipping company in Pakistan, established in 1883.

Background
The Cowasjees are a Parsi Zoroastrian family.
Till his death on 24 November 2012, Veteran newspaper columnist Ardeshir Cowasjee was the chairman of the group and patriarch of the family. Ardeshir Cowasjee was also known as a philanthropist, social activist and a businessman. Some charities Ardeshir donated to are The Citizens Foundation affiliated TCF school in Lyari, Lady Dufferin Hospital, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) and National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICD)  all in greater Karachi area.

See also
 Cowasjee Foundation
 Cowasjee Group

References

Pakistani families
Pakistani business families
Parsi people
19 Canum Venaticorum

19 Canum Venaticorum is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici, located approximately 238 light years from Sun based on its parallax. It is dimly visible to the naked eye as a white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.77. The pair orbit each other with a period of 219.2 years and an eccentricity of 0.686. The system is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −21 km/s.

The magnitude +5.87 primary, component A, is an A-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of A7 V. It is 366 million years old with twice the mass of the Sun and 2.5 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 25.5 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 8,048 K. It has a high rate of spin, showing a projected rotational velocity of 110 km/s. As of 2012, its companion, designated component B, is a magnitude 9.48 star located  from the primary along a position angle of 58°.

References

A-type main-sequence stars
Binary stars
Canes Venatici
Durchmusterung objects
Canum Venaticorum, 19
115271
064692
5004
Acetabular notch

The acetabular notch is a deep notch in the inferior portion of the rim of the acetabulum. It is bridged by the transverse acetabular ligament, converting it into a foramen (through which nerves and vessels (including the acetabular notch of obturator artery) pass into the hip joint cavity). It is continuous with space of the acetabular fossa. The lunate surface of acetabulum is discontinued opposite the notch.

The ligament of the head of the femur attaches at the margins of the notch. The anterior margin of the acetabular notch presents a posterior obturator tubercle onto which the obturator membrane attaches.

References

Bones of the pelvis
Texas Mini GP Series

The Texas Mini GP Series is an American organization that promotes and hosts small motorcycle road races in Texas.
Most races are held at local kart tracks, but others are organized in conjunction with the Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association at larger tracks like Oak Hill Raceway and Texas World Speedway.

Many well known riders have raced with the TMGPS, including Nicky Hayden, Ben Spies, Logan Young, Will Gruy, Joe Prussiano and Phillip Fisher.

In the beginning, the ride of choice was the Yamaha YSR50; but today the pits are littered with everything from YSR's and NSR's to XR100's, TTR125's, and Groms.

Popular bikes are KX65's and KLX110's fitted with 12” tires on custom rims. Mitas and PMT and two most popular tire makers, although Bridgestone, Dunlop, and Pirelli now offer tires in this size as well. Newer bikes by OVHALE are bringing back GP style frames which run 10” tires.

Classes are run in Endurance and Sprint races.  4-6 Hr Endurance races typically held at each event with 6-8 lap Sprint races on Sunday.

The various classes run in 2020 were as follows:

Endurance classes:

 GROM
 Formula 7 – Novice
 Formula 7 – Expert
 Formula 6
 Formula 5

Sprint Classes:

 Supersport
 Superbike
 Scooter
 Formula 7 - Novice
 Formula 7 - Expert
 Formula 7 - Lightweight
 Formula 7 - Heavyweight
 Formula 6 - Novice
 Formula 6 - Expert
 Formula 6 - Lightweight
 Formula 6 - Heavyweight
 Formula 5 - Novice
 Formula 5 - Expert
 Formula 5 - Lightweight ***New
 Formula 5 - Heavyweight ***New
 Dinosaurs
 Double D
 Ladies
 GROM
 GP F6 ***New Name
 GP F7 ***New Name
 12 & Under
 Unlimited
 Backwards - Novice
 Backwards - Expert
 Jr. Motard
 Motard - Novice
 Motard - Expert
 Pit Bike 50

 webpage

Motorcycle road racing series
Guadalquivir Marshes

The Guadalquivir Marshes (in  or simply Las Marismas) are a natural region of marshy lowlands on the lower Guadalquivir River. 

The Las Marismas zone forms a large part of the province of Huelva, province of Seville and province of Cádiz in Andalucia, Spain. The area includes parts of the municipalities of Isla Mayor, Los Palacios y Villafranca, La Puebla del Río, Utrera, Las Cabezas de San Juan  and Lebrija.

Rice farming in this area produces 40% of Spain's national crop. Some areas are protected for wildlife and habitat, including dunes.

History
Approximately two millennia ago the wetlands comprised a large lagoon and estuary, known as Lacus Ligustinus in Latin, leading to the Guadalquivir River mouth with some sand bars to the South. Over time the lake silted up, gradually transforming into marshland. This silt has formed into a barrier of dunes extending approximately  along the coast, known as Arenas Gordas (English: "the fat sands").

The marquessate de las Marismas del Guadalquivir is a Spanish noble title named after the area; this noble title was created by Royal Decree of King Ferdinand VII in 1829 for Alejandro María Aguado y Ramírez de Estenoz. 

In the early 21st century, the Guadalquivir wetland region's main economic activity is agriculture, specialising in the cultivation of rice. An area of about 400 km² is devoted to rice farming. It has an annual output of about 310,000 metric tonnes, equating to approximately 40% of Spain's rice production.

Protected area

The wetland zone acts as a buffer zone between the human settlements of the Guadalquivir region and Doñana National Park, a protected area of marshland, streams, and sand dunes. The National Park was established in 1969 as a nature reserve when the World Wildlife Fund joined forces with the Spanish Government to purchase a substantial part of the local wetlands in order to preserve them.

Fauna 
The Las Marismas area is home to a large number of wildlife species. Commonly seen terrestrial animals include deer, lynx, and wild boars. Notable avian species include vultures, flamingos, herons, spoonbills, and ducks. The rare Spanish imperial eagle lives here, whose population is considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

See also
Gulf of Cádiz
Sanlúcar de Barrameda

References

External links
 Coto de Doñana
 Sanlúcar Central Bureau for Tourism

Former bays
Marshes
Landforms of Andalusia
Natural regions of Spain
Wetlands of Spain
Dino Land

is a pinball video game developed by Wolf Team for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It was released in 1991 in North America and Japan.

Summary
This game had a quest mode that spanned three pinball areas: Rescue the kidnapped girlfriend from Dino-Mike by completing boards based on the themes of Land, Water and Air. It also featured hitting dinosaurs with a pinball, and three bosses. The North American release was published by Renovation Products in 1991.

External links
Dino Land at GameFAQs

1991 video games
Pinball video games
Sega Genesis games
X68000 games
Telenet Japan games
Video games developed in Japan
Wolf Team games
Video games about dinosaurs
Single-player video games
4 Canum Venaticorum

4 Canum Venaticorum is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici, located around 425 light years away. It has the variable star designation AI Canum Venaticorum; 4 Canum Venaticorum is its Flamsteed designation. Its brightness varies from magnitude +5.89 to +6.15 with a period of 2.8 hours, which places it around the lower limit of visibility to the naked eye. This was found to be a binary by Schmid et al. in 2014, based on periodic, non-sinusoidal changes in its radial velocity. It is a single-lined spectroscopic binary with an orbital period of 124.4 days and an eccentricity of 0.31.

The primary component is an evolved F-type star with a stellar classification of F3 IV or F0 III, matching a subgiant or giant star, respectively. It is a variable of the Delta Scuti class, displaying both radial and non-radial pulsations. The variable nature of this star was discovered by D. H. P. Jones and C. Margaret Haslam in 1966 at the suggestion of Olin J. Eggen, and it has become one of the best studied stars in its class. The radial pulsations have shown little if any variations between 1974 and 2012. However, the non-radial pulsations vary continuously in frequency over periods spanning decades. It is spinning rapidly with a rotation of at least one third of its critical velocity.

References

F-type subgiants
F-type giants
Delta Scuti variables
Spectroscopic binaries
Canes Venatici
BD+43 2218
Canum Venaticorum, 04
107904
060467
4715
Canum Venaticorum, AI
Fragment (computer graphics)

In computer graphics, a fragment is the data necessary to generate a single pixel's worth of a drawing primitive in the frame buffer.  

This data may include, but is not limited to:
 raster position
 depth
 interpolated attributes (color, texture coordinates, etc.)
 stencil
 alpha
 window ID

As a scene is drawn, drawing primitives (the basic elements of graphics output, such as points, lines, circles, text etc.) are rasterized into fragments which are textured and combined with the existing frame buffer. How a fragment is combined with the data already in the frame buffer depends on various settings. In a typical case, a fragment may be discarded if it is farther away than the pixel that is already at that location (according to the depth buffer). If it is nearer than the existing pixel, it may replace what is already there, or, if alpha blending is in use, the pixel's color may be replaced with a mixture of the fragment's color and the pixel's existing color, as in the case of drawing a translucent object.

In general, a fragment can be thought of as the data needed to shade the pixel, plus the data needed to test whether the fragment survives to become a pixel (depth, alpha, stencil, scissor, window ID, etc.).

In computer graphics, a fragment is not necessarily opaque, and could contain an alpha value specifying its degree of transparency. The alpha is typically normalized to the range of [0, 1], with 0 denotes totally transparent and 1 denotes totally opaque. If the fragment is not totally opaque, then part of its background object could show through, which is known as alpha blending.

See also
 Graphics pipeline
 Vertex

References

Computer graphics
Ichijō Tadamasa

lived during the Sengoku Period of the 16th century in Japan. Ichijō was the son of Ichijo Kanesada. Following the destruction of the Ichijo clan, he then went on to marry the daughter of the famous leader of the Chōsokabe clan, Chōsokabe Motochika. However, after defying the will of his father-in-law, he was killed.

1560 births
1580 deaths
Round ligament of liver

The round ligament of the liver (or ligamentum teres, or ligamentum teres hepatis) is a ligament that forms part of the free edge of the falciform ligament of the liver. It connects the liver to the umbilicus. It is the remnant of the left umbilical vein. The round ligament divides the left part of the liver into medial and lateral sections.

Structure 
The round ligament connects the liver to the umbilicus. It divides the left part of the liver into medial and lateral sections.

Development 
The round ligament of the liver is the remnant of the umbilical vein during embryonic development. It only exists in placental mammals. After the child is born, the umbilical vein degenerates to fibrous tissue.

The left portal vein (which gives branches to paraumbilical veins) is connected to the round ligament (ligamentum teres) and ligamentum venosum.

Clinical significance

Portal hypertension 
In adulthood, small paraumbilical veins remain in the substance of the ligament. These act as an important portacaval anastomosis in severe portal hypertension, resulting in a caput medusae.

Abscess 
Very rarely, the round ligament of the liver may develop an abscess. This usually requires liver surgery to treat.

Landmark 
The umbilical vein/round ligament inserts around the umbilicus, and is an important landmark of the inner surface of the anterior abdominal wall.

Additional images

See also 

 Ligamentum venosum
 Ligamentum arteriosum

References

External links
  - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: The Visceral Surface of the Liver"
 
 Overview at ucc.edu
 Illustration of Liver Anatomy including ligaments and structures

Ligaments of the torso
Hepatology
1958 New Orleans mayoral election

The New Orleans mayoral election of 1958, held in February, resulted in the re-election of deLesseps Morrison to his fourth consecutive term as mayor of New Orleans.    Morrison was able to defeat the Regular Democratic Organization candidate - former State Representative Claude W. Duke - soundly, winning 90,802 of the 157,320 votes cast in the election compared to Duke's 43,231 votes.  State Representative Fred C. Donaldson ran a distant third with 18,999 votes; no runoff was required.   Morrison had proven able to consistently defeat the once powerful RDO machine, but since mayors were only allowed two consecutive terms under the new city charter of 1954, this would be Morrison's last term in office.

Sources 
 Haas, Edward F.  DeLesseps S. Morrison and the Image of Reform: New Orleans Politics, 1946-1961.  LSU Press, 1974.
 Parker, Joseph B.  The Morrison Era:  Reform Politics in New Orleans.  Pelican, 1974.

Mayoral elections in New Orleans
New Orleans
1958 Louisiana elections
Befriended

Befriended is the sixth full-length studio album by American alternative rock band the Innocence Mission. The album was released on 25 August 2003 in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Agenda and on 2 September 2003 in the United States and Canada by Badman Recording Co.

The lyrics of the song "No Storms Come" are adapted from the poem "Heaven-Haven: A Nun Takes the Veil" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Track listing

Bonus Tracks

References 

Befriended
The Innocence Mission albums
Badman Recording Co. albums
Fragment

Fragment(s) may refer to:

Computing
 Fragment (computer graphics), all the data necessary to generate a pixel in the frame buffer
 Fragment (logic), a syntactically restricted subset of a logical language
 URI fragment, the component of a URL following the "#" that identifies a portion of a larger document

Film and television
 Fragments (film), or Winged Creatures, a 2008 American film
 Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing, a 1991 Croatian film
 "The Fragment" (Dynasty), a 1982 TV episode
 "Fragments" (Sanctuary), a 2009 TV episode
 "Fragments" (Steven Universe Future), a 2020 TV episode
 "Fragments" (Torchwood), a 2008 TV episode

Literature and writing
 Literary fragment, a brief or unfinished work of prose
 Manuscript fragment, a remnant of a handwritten book
 Sentence fragment, a sentence not containing a subject or a predicate
 Fragment (novel), a 2009 novel by Warren Fahy
 Fragments (novel), a 2013 novel by Dan Wells
 Fragments (magazine), an 1881–1916 Russian humor, literature, and art magazine
 Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, a 1995 fictional memoir of Holocaust survival by Binjamin Wilkomirski
 Fragments, a 1993 play by Edward Albee

Music

Albums
 Fragments (Bonobo album), 2022
 Fragments (Paul Bley album), 1987
 The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997), by Bob Dylan, 2023
 Fragments, by Jakob Sveistrup, 2006
 Fragments (EP), by Rapids!, 2011
 Fragments, an EP by Chipzel, 2012
 Fragments, an EP by Clara Benin, 2020

Songs
 "Fragments" (song), by Jack Johnson, 2017
 "Fragment", by haloblack from Funkyhell, 1996
 "Fragments", by Blondie from Pollinator, 2017
 "Fragments", by the Who from Endless Wire, 2006
 "Fragments", by Yeule from Glitch Princess, 2022

Other uses
 .hack//frägment, an online and offline RPG from the .hack video game series
 Fragments Collection, a 2005–2012 sculpture series by Blake Ward

See also
 Fragmentation (disambiguation)
 Part (disambiguation)
 Splinter (disambiguation)
Ng (Arabic letter)

Ng or Naf ( or ) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, derived from kāf () with the addition of three dots above the letter. The letter was used in Ottoman Turkish to represent a velar  and is still used for  when writing Turkic languages.

Usage 
In Ottoman Turkish, it represented the velar . An example is the word  (, 'sea'). The letter is used or has been used to write  in:
Chagatai
Kazakh
Kyrgyz
Azerbaijani
Uyghur

It is also used in Moroccan Arabic for .

The Xiao'erjing script variant  is used to spell  in Sinitic languages such as Mandarin (especially the Lanyin, Zhongyuan and Northeastern dialects) and the Dungan language.

Other characters used to represent

Southeast Asian nga 

This letter, derived from  (), is used to represent  in:
 the Jawi script, for
Acehnese
Banjarese
Kerinci
Maguindanaon
Malay
Minangkabau
Tausūg
Ternate
 the Pegon script, for
Javanese
Sundanese
 Arabic Afrikaans, for Afrikaans historically, called ngīn ()

Wolof ŋoon 

This letter is also derived from . Called , it is used in the Wolofal alphabet to represent  in the Wolof language. Two variants of kāf were also used:  as in Turkic, and  below.

Tamil ṅa 

This letter is also derived from , with three dots inside the descender, to represent  in the Arwi script used for Tamil.

See also
 Kāf
 Ghayn
 Gaf
 Gueh, used in Sindhi and Saraiki

References

Arabic script
Northland College, Kaikohe

Northland College is a small co-educational secondary school in Kaikohe.

History 
Utilising buildings built for a military hospital during the Second World War, the school was opened in 1947. Originally called the Northland Agricultural and Technical College, the school was established with a farm and forestry block to provide financial support into the future.

Over its first twenty years new buildings were gradually added, and by 1968 the school had moved out of the original hospital buildings which remained a hostel.

Houses 
Like many New Zealand schools, Northland College groups students into Houses for pastoral support and internal competitions. The names of the Houses have changed over the years.

First names: Clendon, Hobson, Maning, Marsden, Pompallier, Williams.

Second names: Pouerua, Putahi, Ramaroa, Whakatere

Third names: Rata, Tawa, Rimu, Kowhai

Current names: Kauri, Matai, Totara.

New school buildings 
In August 2015 the Ministry of Education approved a $14 million rebuild as the original school buildings had  deteriorated to a considerably dilapidated state. This followed considerable reporting in NZ print and television media. The newly constructed buildings were opened in July 2017.

Principals 
 Duane Allen

Notable alumni

 Suzy Cato – TV host and children's entertainer
 Sid Going – rugby union player
 Fiona Kidman (born 1940), novelist, poet, scriptwriter and short story author
 Jim Peters – school principal and politician
 Joe Williams – Cook Islands politician, doctor
 Kawhena Woodman – rugby union player
 Fred Woodman – rugby union player

References

External links 
School website

Educational institutions established in 1947
Far North District
Secondary schools in the Northland Region
1947 establishments in New Zealand
Kaikohe
Seattle Vocational Institute

The Seattle Vocational Institute is a constituent institution of Seattle Central College, a public community college in Seattle, Washington. It was founded as the Washington Institute of Applied Technology in 1987 and took its present name in 1991. It is located in the Central District.

Academics
Seattle Vocational Institute’s instructional programs are structured into five major divisions, each with its own recognized certifications: Basic and Transitional Studies, Allied Health, Business Computers, Cosmetology, and Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Training.

Basic and Transitional Studies 
SVI also offers Adult Basic Education, GED preparation, English for non-native speakers, Adult Basic Education courses to improve reading, writing, grammar and math skills, and programs geared for high school students, including Bright Future which is the running start program at SVI.

Allied Health 
SVI's Allied Health programs include Dental Assistant, Medical Assistant, Medical Administrative Assistant and Phlebotomy

Business Computers 
SVI's Business Computer program currently offers a certificate in Computer Support Technician, and has offered certificated programs in Administrative Office Professional and Foundation: Office Clerk.

Student demographics
As an open-access institution, SVI admits all persons, provided they are 18 years of age or older. If under 18, prospective students must have graduated from high school, or submit proof of GED completion if they are 16 or 17 years old. High school students without a diploma can take classes at SVI in the Bright Future program.

Accreditation
The Seattle Colleges District comprises public state-supported institutions, individually accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.  This is an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the United States Department of Education. Seattle Vocational Institute is accredited jointly with Seattle Central College.

Additionally, the following programs are accredited individually (year denotes first accreditation):
 Dental Assistant (2002) – Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association 
 Medical Assistant – Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs

References

External links
Official website

Universities and colleges in Seattle
Educational institutions established in 1987
Vocational education in the United States
1987 establishments in Washington (state)
Ken Monkou

Kenneth John Monkou (born 29 November 1964) is a Dutch former professional footballer and pundit.

As a player, he was as a centre-back who notably played in the Premier League for both Chelsea and Southampton, where he played just under 300 league appearances for both. He had previously played in the Eredivise for Feyenoord and wound up his career in the Football League with Huddersfield Town.

Monkou is an ambassador for the Professional Footballers' Association and Show Racism the Red Card. He has also appeared as a pundit for Chelsea TV.

Early life
Monkou was born in Nickerie in Suriname and was raised in the Netherlands. He became passionate about football as a child in The Hague, where he played at RK-VVP.

Football career
Monkou's first major side was Feyenoord Rotterdam. He played in a reserve match against a side featuring Chelsea manager Bobby Campbell's son and moved to England in May 1989 to play for newly promoted Chelsea for £100,000. He was their first player from outside the Commonwealth of Nations since Petar Borota in 1982. He was voted club player of the year in his first season – the first black player to do so for Chelsea – as the team finished fifth in the First Division and won the Full Members Cup. He remained with Chelsea until 1992, when he was transferred to Southampton for £750,000 three months after signing a new five-year contract with Chelsea.

Southampton faced regular battles for Premier League survival, though the club was never relegated during Monkou's time there. In the 1993–94 season he scored a last minute winner in a 5–4 defeat of Norwich City from a Matt Le Tissier corner that helped the club stay in the Premier League.

He stayed on the South Coast until 1999, when he joined Huddersfield Town on a free transfer, scoring once against Yorkshire rivals Barnsley. However, disagreements with Huddersfield manager Steve Bruce ensured his time with the club was short-lived. Monkou made a return to Chelsea in 2003, playing for the reserve team, before finally retiring from the game.

Personal life
Monkou's cousin Arsenio Halfhuid is also a footballer.

He ran a Dutch pancake house in the Dutch city of Delft and is actively involved in Dutch media and on Chelsea TV.

Monkou has also worked as a corporate hospitality host at Stamford Bridge, and is an ambassador for the Professional Footballers' Association and Show Racism the Red Card.

References

External links
 
 Photo of Ken Monkou in action for Southampton

1964 births
Living people
People from Nickerie District
Men's association football central defenders
Dutch men's footballers
Surinamese emigrants to the Netherlands
Feyenoord players
Chelsea F.C. players
Southampton F.C. players
Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players
Eredivisie players
Premier League players
English Football League players
Dutch expatriate men's footballers
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Patricia Rashbrook

Dr Patricia Rashbrook (born 1943), also known as Patti Farrant, is the oldest woman to give birth in the United Kingdom. It was announced she was pregnant, following IVF treatment, on 4 May 2006, and then gave birth to a son on 5 July at the age of 62 by caesarean section at Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. The baby was healthy and weighed 6 lb 10½oz; he was named Jude. The child was her first with husband John, though she already had three children from a previous marriage.  Dr Rashbrook is a child psychiatrist and some criticism has been levelled at her for choosing to become pregnant at such an old age. She claims she will always act in the best interests of her son. She received an IVF treatment from controversial Italian fertility expert Severino Antinori.

References

British woman gives birth at 62 in CNN online. Retrieved July 8, 2006.

Living people
1943 births
Maternity in the United Kingdom
British psychiatrists
British women psychiatrists