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Ben Sliney

Benedict L. Sliney (born 1945) is an American retired lawyer, air traffic controller, and former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Operations Manager. His first day in this position was on September 11, 2001, and he was responsible for ordering a National Ground Stop across United States airspace in response to the September 11 attacks.

Actions on September 11, 2001 
After American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and American Airlines into the Pentagon, Sliney gave the order to land every plane in the air over the US at the time (implementing the SCATANA plan), effectively shutting down US airspace. There were roughly 4,200 aircraft in flight. This was an unprecedented act, which the 9/11 Commission later denoted as an important and decisive moment in that morning's chaos. While Sliney made the decision on his own initiative, he had the advice of an experienced staff of air traffic controllers and traffic managers.

Although it was his first day in charge, Sliney had an over-25-year background in air traffic and management in the FAA. He had held various positions as an air traffic controller, first-line supervisor at several major facilities, and Operations Manager and Traffic Management Officer at New York TRACON. He also held positions as Traffic Management Specialist, National Operations Manager, and Tactical Operations Manager at the Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC) and had regional office experience as Manager, Airspace and Procedures Branch, Eastern Region.

Sliney later left the FAA to practice law.

Personal life 
Sliney is married to Irene Lynch Ahern. , he is retired and lives in Sandwich, Massachusetts.

Portrayals in films and television 
Sliney was initially involved in the 2006 film United 93 in an advisory role. He was then cast in a small role as an air traffic controller. Later, the film's writer and director, Paul Greengrass, offered him the opportunity to play himself, which he accepted. Sliney also had a small role in Greengrass's 2010 film Green Zone. He also took part in the documentary Seconds from Disaster.

References

External links

1940s births
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American lawyers
21st-century American male actors
Air traffic control in the United States
Air traffic controllers
American lawyers
American male film actors
Dowling College alumni
Federal Aviation Administration personnel
Living people
People associated with the September 11 attacks
People from Sandwich, Massachusetts
St. John's University School of Law alumni
Visualizer

Visualizer or visualiser may refer to:

 Visualizer (advertising), or storyboard artist
 Visualizer (education), an image capture devices for displaying an object to a large audience
 Music visualizer, generating animated imagery based on a piece of music

See also

 Visualization (disambiguation)
Architectural illustrator
Scientific visualization
Software visualization
List of Acts of the Parliament of India

This is a chronological, but incomplete list of Acts passed by the Imperial Legislative Council between 1861 and 1947, the Constituent Assembly of India between 1947 and 1949, the Provisional Parliament between 1949 and 1952, and the Parliament of India since 1952.

1836–1850

1851–1875

1876–1900

1901–1925

1926–1950

1951–1975

1976–2000

2001 – 2010

2011 – 2020

See also
 List of amendments of the Constitution of India
 Lawmaking procedure in India

References

External links
 Government of India's Chronological List of Acts (As of 7 June 2021)
List of Central Acts
 Law Ministry - Text of Central Acts (1851-2011)
 India Code Information System

Indian Federal Legislation

Federal Legislation
Peter C. Perdue

Peter C. Perdue (born 1949) is an American author, professor, and historian. He is a professor of Chinese history at Yale University. Perdue has a Ph.D. degree (1981) from Harvard University in the field of History and East Asian Languages. His research interests lie in modern Chinese and Japanese social and economic history, history of frontiers, and world history. He has also written on grain markets in China, agricultural development, and environmental history.

He is the author of two widely acclaimed books: Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 A.D. (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1987) and China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005), which won the 2006 Joseph Levenson Book Prize. In giving the award, the Levenson committee said the work 
fundamentally alters how we understand the relationship between Qing China and the people of Central Eurasia. His book concentrates on the period of time from the rise of the Manchus in the first decades of the seventeenth century to the return of the Torghuts in the last half of the eighteenth century, an event with which, he says, “the steppe ended, and a great chapter in world history closed.” This comment points to a highly commendable feature of this sweeping and meticulous study: Perdue places the Qing march into central Asia squarely in the contexts both of Chinese and of world history. He shows, for example, how the Qing response to trade with Britain on China’s south coast was shaped by the earlier but quite different Qing experience on the Eurasian frontier. On a larger world stage, Perdue compares state building in Qing China, France, and the Ottoman Empire, pointing to both similarities and dissimilarities in these efforts.

The committee went on to commend Perdue for drawing on sources and scholarship from Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, German, French, and Russian, "to say nothing of English, the latter a language he also writes with clarity and grace." The book established Perdue as a major figure in the New Qing History intellectual movement.

He is a recipient of the 1988 Edgerton Award, the James A. Levitan Prize, and a past holder of the Ford International Career Development Chair. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

Publications
 Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 A.D. (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1987)
 China Marches West. The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia  (Harvard University Press, 2005)
 Winner of the 2007 Joseph Levenson Book Prize: Pre-1900 Category 
 Imperial Formations (Co-editor with Ann Laura Stoler and Carole McGranahan, 2007)
 Shared Histories of Modernity: China, India and the Ottoman Empire (Co-editor with Huricihan Islamoglu, 2009).

Notes

External links
 Official page at Yale

1949 births
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American sinologists
Harvard University alumni
Living people
Yale University faculty
American male non-fiction writers
No Confidence Man

"No Confidence Man" is a song by American singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. It was originally released in 1994 by record label Slo-Mo as the B-side to a split 7-inch vinyl single with Pete Krebs, with Krebs' track "Shytown" making the A-side, making it his first solo single.

Recording 

"No Confidence Man" was recorded in one day, on August 14, 1994. Engineering was handled by Smith.

Content 

The lyrics refer to a character named "Charlie", who has been referenced in at least one other of Smith's songs, and is a possible reference to Smith's stepfather Charlie Welch.

Release 

The single was originally released in 1994 by record label Slo-Mo.

It was re-issued in digital format in 2014 by UseMusic.org, with proceeds going to Outside/In, a not-for-profit Portland, Oregon organisation that works with homeless youth. The tracks were remixed by producer and Elliott Smith archivist Larry Crane: "I remixed these recently from excellent transfers of the original 1/4-inch, 8-track master tapes, so the audio is quite a bit better than old transfers pulled off vinyl".

Track listing 

 Side A

 Pete Krebs – "Shytown"

 Side B

 Elliott Smith – "No Confidence Man"

References

External links 

 
 UseMusic page where the song can be purchased

Elliott Smith songs
1994 songs
Songs written by Elliott Smith
Step in the Arena

Step in the Arena is the second studio album by hip hop duo Gang Starr, printed as a 1990 release, and commercially released on January 15, 1991. In 2007, it was named the greatest hip hop album of all time by IGN. HipHopDX called it "the album that cemented Gang Starr as a timeless tag team."

Background
Filmmaker Spike Lee was a fan of Gang Starr's debut No More Mr. Nice Guy, particularly the song "Jazz Music". As Lee was filming Mo' Better Blues at the time of the album's release, he felt the duo needed to expand on the song's theme - which became the single "Jazz Thing". Lee introduced them to a poem written by Lolis Eric Elie, which group member Guru converted to a rap, as the poem didn't rhyme. The song caught the attention of Chrysalis Records, who offered them a deal based on "Jazz Thing". However, DJ Premier said the label had gotten the wrong idea of the group, stating: "When they signed us, they thought we were going to do records like "Jazz Thing" all the time. When we were just doing that for Mo' Better Blues".

Critical reception

In his review for The Source, Reef wrote: "Step in the Arena stands alone on a musical level, yet it also remains true to hip-hop's underground heritage."

Legacy

In addition to IGN.com and HipHopDX's accolades, the album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.  In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source'''s 100 Best Hip Hop Albums.

In popular culture

The song "Who's Gonna Take the Weight" was remixed by DJ Premier for use in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV.  "Step In the Arena" was on the video games Skate It and Skate 2, and "Just to Get a Rep" was on Thrasher: Skate and Destroy''.

Track listing

Personnel
 Guru – rapping, production, mixing
 DJ Premier – beats, scratching, production, mixing
 Lisle Leete – piano, engineering
 Shlomo Sonnenfeld – engineering
 Yoram Vazam – engineering
 Howie Weinberg – mastering
 Marc Cozza – art direction, design
 Rick Patrick – logo

Charts

Album

Singles

References

1991 albums
Gang Starr albums
Albums produced by DJ Premier
Albums produced by Guru
Chrysalis Records albums
Edgar Burcksen

Edgar Burcksen (born 13 May 1947, Apeldoorn), is a Dutch film editor, who moved to the United States in 1985 after editing over 15 films in the Netherlands. He is a member of the American Cinema Editors and is fluent in English, German, French and Dutch.

History 
After  a successful career as a film editor in The Netherlands, he settled in California, where he became the supervising editor for 52 episodes of "Seabert", a French cartoon that later became televised by HBO. Afterwards, Burcksen was hired by Colossal Pictures where he collaborated editorially on many commercials, including those for Disney, Budweiser, and Levi's. 

Burcksen was hired by ILM in 1989 to become the visual effects editor on The Hunt for Red October. Based on his success, he was later assigned to post production on Die Hard 2. Afterwards, Burcksen oversaw editing on "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles". His work with George Lucas on the series earned him an Emmy for best editing in 1992.

After the series, he became editor and post production supervisor on "500 Nations" and Star Command. In 1996 he was signed up to edit Colors Straight Up, which was later nominated for best feature-length documentary at the Oscars the following year. His collaboration with director Jeroen Krabbé on the feature "Left Luggage" was received with 4 prestigious awards at the Berlin Film Festival in 1998. 

Burcksen has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors, and is currently a member of its board of directors. From 2001 to 2010, Edgar Burcksen was editor-in-chief of CINEMAEDITOR—the official magazine of the ACE. 

In February 2011, the American Cinema Editors honored Burcksen with the Robert Wise Award for his tireless efforts to highlight the post-production process of film and television projects in his role as editor-in-chief of CINEMAEDITOR.

References

External links 

Coal Queens Bio

1947 births
Living people
Dutch film editors
American Cinema Editors
People from Apeldoorn
American film editors
/b/ (disambiguation)

/b/ is an online forum on 4chan.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, /b/ (and variation) refers to these consonantal stop phonemes:
 , the voiced bilabial plosive, a widespread sound
 , the voiced linguolabial plosive, a rare sound
 , the voiced labiodental plosive, in the Austronesian and Germanic languages
 , the voiced bilabial implosive, a widespread sound
 , the voiceless bilabial implosive, an unstable sound in languages of Africa
Deborah Freund

Deborah Anne Freund is an American university administrator and academic specializing in health economics. She was the president of Claremont Graduate University from 2010 to 2015.

Education
Freund received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Classics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1973, a Master of Public Health (MPH) in medical care administration in 1975, a Master of Arts (MA) in Applied Economics in 1975, and a PhD in Economics in 1980, the latter three degrees all from the University of Michigan.

Academic career
Freund began her career at UNC Chapel Hill in 1985 and later took administrative positions at Indiana University Bloomington, Syracuse University, and Claremont Graduate University.

UNC Chapel Hill 
From 1985-1988, Freund was the director of the Program on Health Economics and Finance at the Health Services Research Center, director of the PhD Program in Health Policy and Administration, and director of the Clinical Economics Training Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Indiana Bloomington 
Freund was vice chancellor for academic affairs and  dean of the faculties, and vice president of the IU System on Academic Affairs. She also served as associate dean of Indiana University's O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and was director of its Bowen Research Center.

Syracuse University 
Freund started her appointments as Vice-Chancellor and Provost for Academic Affairs at Syracuse University in 1999 and also served as the distinguished professor of public administration and economics at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

At Syracuse, she was instrumental in developing a new reimbursement database and website with health care pricing information which reduced conflict of interest in reimbursement and led to an almost $100 million in settlements.

Claremont Graduate University 
Freund was the first female president of Claremont Graduate University from 2010 to 2015. Prior to taking the post at Claremont, she was considered for Chancellor of UCLA. She was the sole candidate left in the search, but pulled out of final negotiations, mainly because her husband was not offered a faculty position at UCLA. She was also considered for President of University of Iowa.

In 2015, Freund joined RAND Corporation and was appointed to the Paul O'Neill Alcoa Professorship in Policy Analysis.

Personal life
Freund is married to economist Thomas J. Kniesner and the couple has one son, William Freund Kniesner.

Notes

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
University of Michigan School of Public Health alumni
Stanford University staff
Harvard University staff
Syracuse University faculty
Claremont Graduate University
American academic administrators
Women academic administrators
E. Riley Anderson

E. Riley Anderson (August 10, 1932 – July 4, 2018) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1990 to 2006.

Early life and education 
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Anderson a Bachelor of Laws and Juris Doctor from the University of Tennessee. He graduated from the Appellate Judges Program in 1988 and from the Advanced Appellate Judges Program in 1999 at New York University.

Career 
He practiced private law in Oak Ridge, Tennessee from 1958 to 1987. He was elected the charter commissioner of the city of Oak Ridge and served from 1962 to 1964. He was appointed to the Court of Appeals on March 2, 1987 and elected in August 1988.

In August 1990, Anderson became one of the last Tennessee Supreme Court members to enter office through an election, rather than being appointed by the governor and subject to a subsequent vote on retention. He was re-elected to the Supreme Court in August 1998. He served as chief justice of the Supreme Court from October 1994 to May 1996, from July 1997 to August 1998, and from September 1998 to August 2001.

During Anderson's time as Chief Justice, the Supreme Court passed a rule allowing the media to bring cameras into courtrooms. He worked on and wrote more than 3,000 appellate court decisions during his judicial career. On January 25, 2006, E. Riley Anderson announced that he would retire from the Supreme Court on August 31 of that year.  However, when it became apparent that Governor of Tennessee Phil Bredesen and the judicial selection commission created under the Tennessee Plan were not going to be able to agree upon two nominees to replace Anderson and fellow retiring justice A. A. Birch Jr., Anderson agreed to continue his service on an interim basis until a successor could be named and qualified.

Anderson was also president of the Anderson County Bar Association, of the Tennessee Defense Lawyers Association, of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and of the Hamilton Burnett American Inn of Court. He was also a member of the Board of Delegates of the Tennessee Bar Association. Between 1990 and 1995, he served as the chair of the Tennessee Judicial Council.

Anderson served as chair of the Select Senate/House Committee on Court Automation between 1990 and 1994. In 1998 and 1999 he was vice-chair of the Courts, Children and the Family Committee of the Conference of Chief Justices, an organization whose membership is composed of the highest judicial officers of U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and certain territories. In 1999 and 2000, he was on the Board of Directors of the Conference of Chief Justices.

References

¹The Tennessean, August 27, 2006
Tennessee Blue Book, 2005–2006 edition, p. 285

External links

E. Riley Anderson retires from the Tennessee Supreme Court
An article from the Tennessee Bar Association

1932 births
2018 deaths
Lawyers from Chattanooga, Tennessee
Chief Justices of the Tennessee Supreme Court
University of Tennessee alumni
People from Oak Ridge, Tennessee
20th-century American judges
20th-century American lawyers
Maysoon al-Hashemi

Maysoon al-Hashemi (;  – 27 April 2006) was the head of the Iraqi Islamic Party's women's department until she was shot dead, along with her driver, at the age of 60. This occurred shortly after she met with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

She was the sister of former Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi.

References

1940s births
2006 deaths
2006 murders in Iraq
Assassinated Iraqi politicians
Deaths by firearm in Iraq
People murdered in Iraq
21st-century Iraqi women politicians
21st-century Iraqi politicians
Iraqi Islamic Party politicians
Assassinations in Iraq
2000s assassinated politicians in Asia
City Crisis

is a helicopter simulation developed by Syscom Entertainment, and published by Take-Two Interactive for the PlayStation 2. The players role in the game is a rescue helicopter pilot. The object of the game is to save civilians from fires that spring up around the city. The player must also put out the fires using water that is dumped from the helicopter. Each mission has a time limit, but the faster the player saves people and puts out fires, the more time they receive to complete the next part of the mission. The game also features missions where a criminal is driving around the city, and the player must use their searchlight to help the police locate and stop them.

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Scott Steinberg of NextGen called it "A flight sim for gamers possessed of big hearts and razor-sharp hand-eye coordination." In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 30 out of 40.

References

External links

2001 video games
Flight simulation video games
Helicopter video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
RenderWare games
Single-player video games
Syscom Entertainment games
Take-Two Interactive games
Video games about firefighting
Video games developed in Japan
Michel Ciment

Michel Ciment (; born 26 May 1938 in Paris) is a French film critic and the editor of the cinema magazine Positif.

Ciment is a Chevalier of the Order of Merit,  Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, and the former president of FIPRESCI.

Favorite films 

Ciment participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, where he listed his ten favorite films as follows: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Earrings of Madame de..., Fellini's Casanova, Persona, Providence, The Rules of the Game, Salvatore Giuliano, Sansho the Bailiff, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, and Trouble in Paradise.

Publications 

 Kazan par Kazan (1973) 
 Le Dossier Rosi (1976) 
 Le Livre de Losey (1979) 
 Stanley Kubrick (1980)  
 Boorman : un visionnaire en son temps (1985) 
 Theo Angelopoulos (1989) 
 Le crime à l'écran : Une histoire de l'Amérique, coll. "Découvertes Gallimard" (n° 139), Paris: Gallimard (1992) 
 Passeport pour Hollywood : entretiens avec Wilder, Huston, Mankiewicz, Polanski, Forman & Wenders, (1992) 
 Fritz Lang : le meurtre et la loi, coll. "Découvertes Gallimard" (n° 442), Paris: Gallimard (2003) 
 Petite planète cinématographique (2003)

Film festival juror 
 26th Berlin International Film Festival, 1976
 1978 Cannes Film Festival
 1990 Locarno International Film Festival

Honours and distinctions 
 Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
 Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite
 Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
 Président de la FIPRESCI

References

External links 

 
 Interviews with Stanley Kubrick
 Interview (in French) about his function as Jury at the Cannes festival 1978
 Interview: Michel Ciment on "Mavericks and Outsiders: 'Positif' Celebrates American Cinema", Glenn Kenny, Notebook
 News brief: "The Michel Ciment Incident," Ali Naderzad, Screen Comment, 2017 Cannes Festival

1938 births
Living people
French film critics
French journalists
20th-century French writers
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Writers from Paris
Radio France people
20th-century French male writers
French male non-fiction writers
Component (group theory)

In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a component of a finite group is a quasisimple subnormal subgroup.  Any two distinct components commute.  The product of all the components is the layer of the group.

For finite abelian (or nilpotent) groups, p-component is used in a different sense to mean the Sylow p-subgroup, so the abelian group is the product of its p-components for primes p.  These are not components in the sense above, as abelian groups are not quasisimple.

A quasisimple subgroup of a finite group is called a standard component if its centralizer has even order, it is normal in the centralizer of every involution centralizing it, and it commutes with none of its conjugates.  This concept is used in the classification of finite simple groups, for instance, by showing that under mild restrictions on the standard component one of the following always holds: 
 a standard component is normal (so a component as above), 
 the whole group has a nontrivial solvable normal subgroup, 
 the subgroup generated by the conjugates of the standard component is on a short list,
 or the standard component is a previously unknown quasisimple group .

References

Group theory
Subgroup properties
Hard to Earn

Hard to Earn is the fourth studio album by American hip hop duo Gang Starr. It was released on March 8, 1994, by Chrysalis and EMI Records in North America. The album featured the singles "Mass Appeal", (their first charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart), "DWYCK" (featuring Nice & Smooth), and "Code of the Streets". Guest appearances on the album include Group Home, Jeru the Damaja, and Big Shug. At the time, all were part of the Gang Starr Foundation, which made the album a stepping-stone for future DJ Premier-helmed projects by Group Home and Jeru. Hard to Earn received acclaim and commercial success upon release.

The single "DWYCK" recorded in 1992 also featured hip hop duo Nice & Smooth. The track "Now You're Mine" originally appeared on the 1992 soundtrack White Men Can't Jump.

Hard to Earn is also the duo's first album to carry the "Parental Advisory" label.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles chart positions

References

1994 albums
Gang Starr albums
Albums produced by DJ Premier
Albums produced by Guru
Chrysalis Records albums
Perfect core

In mathematics, in the field of group theory, the perfect core (or perfect radical) of a group is its largest perfect subgroup. Its existence is guaranteed by the fact that the subgroup generated by a family of perfect subgroups is again a perfect subgroup. The perfect core is also the point where the transfinite derived series stabilizes for any group.

A group whose perfect core is trivial is termed a hypoabelian group. Every solvable group is hypoabelian, and so is every free group. More generally, every residually solvable group is hypoabelian.

The quotient of a group G by its perfect core is hypoabelian, and is called the hypoabelianization of G.

References

Functional subgroups
Group theory
Solvable groups
Pinara (disambiguation)

Pinara is the name of:

 Pinara, a large city of Lycia
 Pinara (Pieria), a city of Pieria (Syria), between Cilicia and ancient Syria

Pinara may also refer to:
 Pinara (moth), genus of the family Lasiocampidae
Langley Rivermen

The Langley Rivermen are a junior "A" ice hockey team based in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Mainland Division of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL).

History
The BCHL franchise was founded as the Richmond Sockeyes in 1972 in the Pacific Junior A Hockey League. In 1990, Sockeyes dropped to the junior B level and sold the junior A franchise to become the Chilliwack Chiefs. In 2006, the Chilliwack Bruins of the Western Hockey League were founded and the Chiefs moved to become the Langley Chiefs.

In 2011, the Chiefs changed ownership and became the Langley Rivermen, allowing for the return of the Chiefs to Chilliwack.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes

Notable Langley Chiefs/Rivermen alumni

See also
 List of ice hockey teams in British Columbia

References

External links
 Langley Rivermen website

British Columbia Hockey League teams
Langley, British Columbia (district municipality)
Ice hockey teams in Vancouver
Ice hockey teams in British Columbia
2011 establishments in British Columbia
Ice hockey clubs established in 2011
Imperfect group

In mathematics, in the area of algebra known as group theory, an imperfect group is a group with no nontrivial perfect quotients.  Some of their basic properties were established in .  The study of imperfect groups apparently began in .

The class of imperfect groups is closed under extension and quotient groups, but not under subgroups.  If G is a group, N, M are normal subgroups with G/N and G/M imperfect, then G/(N∩M) is imperfect, showing that the class of imperfect groups is a formation.  The (restricted or unrestricted) direct product of imperfect groups is imperfect.

Every solvable group is imperfect.  Finite symmetric groups are also imperfect.  The general linear groups PGL(2,q) are imperfect for q an odd prime power.  For any group H, the wreath product H wr Sym2 of H with the symmetric group on two points is imperfect.  In particular, every group can be embedded as a two-step subnormal subgroup of an imperfect group of roughly the same cardinality (2|H|2).

References

 

Properties of groups
Pete Penseyres

Pete Penseyres was the winner of the bicycle Race Across America, or RAAM, in 1984 and 1986, setting a world record of 3107 miles (5000 km) in 8 days, 9 hours, and 47 minutes. His average speed of 15.40 miles per hour (24.8 km/h) was the record for 27 years, finally being broken by Christoph Strasser in 2013, who averaged 15.58 miles per hour. Penseyres trained for years by cycling 65 miles to work each day.

Penseyres's performance  is particularly remarkable for several reasons. The RAAM is continuous from start to finish with no breaks; Penseyres was notable for his ability to forgo sleep to improve his time. Equipment at the time was primitive by today's standards: Penseyres introduced the use of aerobars to mimic a downhill skier's wind resistance advantage. Nutrition during the race was also not nearly as advanced as it is today.

References

American male cyclists
Living people
Ultra-distance cyclists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop)

Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop) is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Phillips. The album's subtitle is a quote from the film The Producers.

Reception 
Omnipop was a critical and commercial flop, selling only about a quarter as many copies as its predecessor, Martinis & Bikinis, and receiving several negative reviews from music critics. In one such review, the Chicago Tribunes Mark Caro wrote that the album's "lyrics are more pronouncements than personal revelations, and [Phillips'] observations are less insightful than broad and ornery."

Track listing

Personnel 
source:
 Sam Phillips – vocals, guitar, Chamberlin
 Darrell Leonard – trumpet
 Les Lovitt – flugelhorn, trumpet
 Kenneth Kugler – trombone
 Ira Nepus – trombone
 Steve Williams – trombone
 Suzette Moriarty – French horn
 Patrick Warren – Chamberlin
 Matt Betton – marimba
 Smokey Hormel – guitar
 Greg Leisz – guitar
 Marc Ribot – guitar
 Todd Vincent – guitar
 Jon Brion – Chamberlin, piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums
 Armando Compean – bass guitar
 Brad Hauser – bass guitar
 Jerry Scheff – bass guitar
 Matt Chamberlain – drums, percussion
 Don Heffington – drums, maracas
 Jim Keltner – drums, percussion
 Josh LaBelle – drums, dumbek
 Paulinho da Costa – bongos

References 

1996 albums
Sam Phillips (musician) albums
Albums produced by T Bone Burnett
Virgin Records albums
Pinara (Pieria)

Pinara (Greek: ; Eth.: ) was an ancient city in Pieria in ancient Syria, mentioned by Pliny the Elder (H.N., v. 19 and v. 22) and Ptolemy (Geography, v. 15. § 12). Its present location has not been precisely determined, but it is known to be north-east of İskenderun in the southern Nur Mountains (then known as the Amanus mountains) in the modern-day Hatay Province of Turkey. The Nur / Amanus mountains separated ancient Cilicia from Coele-Syria. It may have been near Belen, Hatay, near the Belen Pass.

References

Hatay Province
Pieria (Syria)
Former populated places in Turkey
Roman towns and cities in Turkey
Lost ancient cities and towns
Populated places in ancient Cilicia
Skedaddle

Skedaddle ( ) is a children's game show that aired in late 1988 for six weeks as a part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera block of shows. It was hosted by guest star Ron Pearson, and created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The show was executive produced by Hanna and Barbera, along with Jay Wolpert for the autumn season being aired for eight months.

Premise
Six groups of two teams of four children (always the "Sludge Puppies" in red and the "Drainiacs" in yellow) each competed in a game similar to "Hot Potato" to answer questions and win prizes.  The studio was set up to resemble a cartoonish sewer.

Gameplay
One team selected one of three costumed dinosaur characters (named Slam, Dunk, and Seymour, AKA: "The Down and Dirty Dinosaurs", who were the block's hosts that autumn), who would come out from his lair with a small object, such as a top hat.  The object corresponded with a question which had a numerical answer.  To answer the question, the team had to toss the object back and forth from player to player within 15 seconds.  As soon as the number of passes equalled the team's guess, the player with the object ran to the middle of the studio and honked a bicycle horn.

If the team's guess was correct, they received points equal to the correct answer.  If they were wrong, ran out of time, or threw the object out of bounds during play, they received nothing; in addition, the chosen dinosaur spun a "wheel of torture", which caused that team to get slimed with some by-product poured into the sewer (for example, the "ice cream parlor" would cover the contestants in melted ice cream).

After four rounds, the team with the most points won the game and went to a bonus round.

Bonus round
Three stools were set up in a row, and one of the dinosaurs stood above each with a bucket.  Each player on the team was asked a question and given three answers to choose from.  The player sat on the stool that corresponded with his or her guess, and the dinosaur turned the bucket over above the player's head.  If the contestant was right, the bucket would be empty and the player would score; however, if the player was wrong, the bucket would be filled with green slime, which would end up all over the contestant.  Getting four correct answers before all four team members getting slimed won the grand prize.

The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
1980s American children's game shows
1988 American television series debuts
1988 American television series endings
American television shows featuring puppetry
Television series about children
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
English-language television shows
National Labor Federation in Eretz-Israel

National Labor Federation in Eretz-Israel (NLF) () is a national trade union center in Israel.

History
The National Labor Federation was founded in 1934 by the Revisionist movement as an alternative to the Histadrut labour federation. The NLF believes in the separation of employers and trade unions. While not politically affiliated, it is seen as sympathetic to Likud.

References

Further reading

Trade unions in Israel
Revisionist Zionism
Trade unions established in 1934
1934 establishments in Mandatory Palestine
Organizations based in Tel Aviv
Mark McNee

Mark McNee (born 9 July 1981 in Adelaide) is an Australian short track speed skater. He lives in Brisbane where he works as an engineer for Energy Developments Limited.

He has competed at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics.

Results

2002 Winter Olympics 

 1000 m: 15th/29
 1500 m: 28th/29

2006 Winter Olympics 

 1000 m: 20th/20
 1500 m: 20th/24
 5000 m: 6th/8

References 
 
 Men's 1000 m - Short Track Torino 2006 Winter Olympics – Olympian Database
 Australian Olympic Committee: Mark McNee

1981 births
Living people
Australian male speed skaters
Australian male short track speed skaters
Olympic short track speed skaters for Australia
Short track speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Brisbane
Glen Ashman

Glen Edward Ashman (February 7, 1956 - August 17, 2018) in New York City, New York) was a lawyer who served as a judge in the Municipal Court of East Point, Georgia beginning in 1988.  He was last reappointed on July 2, 2007.  The East Point City Court is one of the state's busier municipal courts, handling traffic, housing code, East Point City ordinance and other criminal cases.

Education 

Ashman received his B.A. from Emory University and his Juris doctor cum laude from Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University, where he was on the Mercer Law Review .  He was admitted to practice law in Georgia in 1980.

Law Practice 

Ashman had a general civil practice in the Atlanta area, including divorce, adoption, bankruptcy, wills, and personal injury.

Books and articles 

Ashman was the author of the Georgia Municipal Judges Benchbook. The benchbook is published by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia (ICJE) and the Georgia Council of Municipal Court Judges].

Ashman also authored Random Searches at Public Concert Held Fourth Amendment Violation in the Mercer Law Review , Volume 30, Page 1093 (1979).

Online Forums and Blogs 

Ashman was a long-time participant in the online world, hosting forums on Delphi Forums. His personal law forum was started in the mid-1990s. In 2002, he served as a member of the Executive Council for Delphi Forums.

The Kudzu Case 

One of Judge Ashman's more notable dealt with how appellate courts handle appeals of Constitutional issues from local courts.  Russell v. City of East Point, 261 Ga. 213, 403 SE2d 50 (1991), Locally, it is more commonly known as the kudzu case, and dealt with an attorney's home being overgrown with the weed. The constitutional issue was whether a right to a jury trial applies in a local ordinance case in which the court has held that there is no possibility of incarceration.

References

1956 births
2018 deaths
Georgia (U.S. state) state court judges
Mercer University alumni
Metanilpotent group

In mathematics, in the field of group theory, a metanilpotent group is a group that is nilpotent by nilpotent. In other words, it has a normal nilpotent subgroup such that the quotient group is also nilpotent.

In symbols,  is metanilpotent if there is a normal subgroup  such that both  and  are nilpotent.

The following are clear:

 Every metanilpotent group is a solvable group.
 Every subgroup and every quotient of a metanilpotent group is metanilpotent.

References
 J.C. Lennox, D.J.S. Robinson, The Theory of Infinite Soluble Groups, Oxford University Press, 2004, . P.27.
 D.J.S. Robinson, A Course in the Theory of Groups, GTM 80, Springer Verlag, 1996, . P.150.

Solvable groups
Properties of groups
David Berenstein

David Berenstein is a Colombian theoretical physicist and professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He received his Ph.D. from University of Texas, Austin, in 1998 under the supervision of Willy Fischler, coauthor of matrix theory. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2001-04 and again in the fall of 2010.

Berenstein's research mainly concerns string theory. He has made notable contributions to the theory of AdS/CFT conjecture—for example, in 2002 regarding the duality between strings on pp-wave spacetime and Berenstein–Maldacena–Nastase operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, together with Juan Maldacena and Horațiu Năstase, and more recently (since 2004) on the matrix model of BPS (Bogomol'nyi–Prasad–Sommerfield bound) states in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.

Publications

References

External links 
 Strings in flat space and pp waves from N=4 superYang-Mills,  .
 David Berenstein's Webpage at UCSB.

21st-century American physicists
University of Texas at Austin alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
American string theorists
Colombian emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Anarthriaceae

The Anarthriaceae was a family of three genera, Anarthria, Hopkinsia and Lyginia of flowering plants, now included in Restionaceae following APG IV (2016). The family is accepted in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group's classification system, APG III system, but is not considered a separate family in many other taxonomic systems. The three genera are herbaceous but differ greatly in characteristics.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), did recognize this family, and assigned it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots.  The family contains three genera and 10 species, and is found in Southwest Australia.

References

External links
 Links at CSDL 

Poales of Australia
Angiosperms of Western Australia
Plant families endemic to Australia
Poales families
Historically recognized angiosperm families
Poales
XX Years Live

XX Years Live is the 14th release, and second live album, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band (known at this time as "REZ"), released in 1992.

Recording history
A double-CD set, XX Years Live was recorded in March of that same year at the Copernicus Center Theatre in Chicago, to celebrate 20 years of music ministry.  The concert features at least one song from every REZ release, and in addition, Glenn Kaiser and his wife and co-lead singer, Wendi Kaiser, take a few minutes each to speak to the audience.

Track listing
Track listing adapted from AllMusic

Disc one
  "Introduction/Waves" – 2:49
  "Military Man" – 3:29
  "Afrikaans" – 3:02
  "Attention" – 3:47
  "Colours" – 3:36
  "Players" – 3:25
  "The Struggle" – 3:50
  "Fiend or Foul" – 5:00
  "Alienated" – 2:00
  "Paint a Picture" – 4:26
  "Wendi's Rap" – 4:43
  "Right on Time" – 5:10
  "Love Comes Down" – 3:25
  "White Noise" – 5:09

Disc two
  "My Jesus Is All" – 4:42
  "Lovespeak" – 3:25
  "In Your Arms" – 3:36
  "Bargain" – 4:50
  "Shadows" – 4:47
  "Somebody to Love" – 2:50
  "Every Time It Rains" – 4:29
  "Where Roses Grow" – 9:12
  "Light/Light" – 4:00
  "Glenn's Rap" – 5:56
  "I Will Do My Last Singing in this Land, Somewhere" – 4:27

Personnel
 Glenn Kaiser - vocals, guitar
 Wendi Kaiser - vocals
 Stu Heiss - guitar, keyboards
 Roy Montroy - bass guitar, keyboards
 John Herrin - drums
 Hilde Bialach - keyboards
 Willie Kemp - keyboards
 Steve Eisen - saxophone

Production
 REZ – producers
 Tom Cameron – producer
 Ed Bialach – engineer
 Roy Montroy – engineer
 Roger Heiss – engineer
 Steve Hall – mastering

References

Resurrection Band albums
1992 live albums
PFB

PFB or pfb may refer to:

 Perfluorobutane, a fluorocarbon gas
 Printer Font Binary, a binary PostScript font file
 Pseudofolliculitis barbae, a medical term for persistent inflammation caused by shaving
 Lauro Kurtz Airport (IATA code), near Passo Fundo, Brazil
Sector 3 (Bucharest)

Sector 3 () is an administrative unit of Bucharest. It is the most populous, most densely populated and also the third-largest division of the city. With a total population of over 460 thousand, it is actually the second-most populated administrative area of Romania, only after the capital city. It is also the most important of all six sectors of Bucharest, as it includes the Downtown Bucharest, the Kilometre Zero and other significant landmarks. It is bordered by Sector 2 to the North, Ilfov County to the East, Sector 4 to the South, Sector 5 to the Southwest, and Sector 1 to the Northwest.

The largest and most populous district of Sector 3 is Titan. Lipscani, colloquially known as oldtown is the center of the nightlife in Bucharest, and also the biggest attraction for foreign tourists. Also notable, the Bucharest Mall is located inside the Vitan district of Sector 3. Two of the sector's districts have been described as the most pleasant by Bucharest citizens.

Districts 
 Downtown
 Old City
 Dristor
 Dudești
 Văcărești
 Titan
 Vitan

Transportation
Sector 3, being the largest division of Bucharest is served by the largest part of its public transport company. The sector is served by over 50 bus lines and 18 trolleybus lines. The sector is also served by a wide light rail system.

Trolleybus routes 70 and 92 as well as tram routes 40 and 56 are the only routes operating exclusively inside the sector.

The sector is also served by the Bucharest Metro. A total of 13 stations are placed within its districts. The oldest and busiest station of the system is Union Square, while the newest one is Policolor. Other major underground hubs located in Sector 3 include Dristor, Titan and University.

The Sun Motorway which links the city to Constanța also starts from this sector. There is also a CFR train station located in the sector, the commuter station Titan Sud.

Education
The sector is home to more than fifty kindergartens, school and public high schools as well as the Hyperion Private University. The most prestigious high schools in the sector are the Matei Basarab National College, situated in Downtown Bucharest and the Alexandru Ioan Cuza Theoretical High School, situated in Titan.

Politics 

Robert Negoiță, a former member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) until 2020 has been the sector's mayor since 2012. He is currently serving his third term, having been re-elected in 2016 and 2020. The Local Council of Sector 3 has 31 seats, with the following party composition (as of 2020):

Demographics 

With a population of 393,226 people based on a July 2005 estimate, Sector 3 is the most populous sector in Bucharest. According to the 2002 census, 97.29% of the sector's population is Romanian, while 1.31% are Romani, 0.29% are Hungarian, and 0.15% are Turkish. In terms of gender, 53.6% of the population is female, while 46.4% is male.

See also
 Apartment Building 63

References

External links

 List of local councillors for Sector 3 (Microsoft Word document)

Sectors of Bucharest
Centrolepidaceae

Centrolepidaceae are a family of flowering plants now included in Restionaceae following APG IV (2016). The botanical name has been recognized by most taxonomists.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), also recognised such a family, and assigned it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids in the monocots.

The family was regarded as containing three genera, Aphelia, Centrolepis, and Gaimardia, with about 35 species total, found in Australia, New Zealand, southern South America and Southeast Asia.

References

External links
Centrolepidaceae in western Australia
Aphelia in western Australia
Centrolepis in western Australia
links at CSDL, Texas
 Centrolepidaceae  in Flora of New Zealand.

 
Poales families
Historically recognized angiosperm families
Kote, Karnataka

Kote or Kota is a town on NH 66 in Brahmavar taluk. On the way from Brahmavar to Kundapura.

References

Villages in Udupi district