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Michele Merkin

Michele Merkin (born June 25, 1975) is an American former model and television host.

Early life and beginnings
Merkin was born in Santa Clara County, California, of Swedish and Russian Jewish descent as the youngest child of four children. She attended boarding school in England. Her mother was from Sweden and had been a model for twenty years, including an appearance in the debut Victoria's Secret catalog in 1977. Merkin was a tall child, reaching  by the age of 14. This helped her play basketball, but gathered her some abuse in school, where she was called nicknames such as "Giraffa" and "Manute Bol".

Merkin began modeling part-time from the age of 15, while she was in high school.

Career

Modeling
Merkin modeled for 15 years, living in Paris, Milan, New York and Los Angeles, appearing in such magazines as ELLE, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, and in more than 60 commercials, most notably campaigns for Clairol and the Nintendo video game Perfect Dark.

For Perfect Dark, Merkin appeared as the lead video game character Joanna Dark in commercials and in-store promotions for the N64 cartridge; Merkin's hair was cut short and dyed black for the appearances.

Merkin was selected for Maxim magazine’s "Hot 100" list of attractive women in 2006 (at #74) and 2007 (at #56).

Television
Beginning in June 2005, Merkin co-hosted the cable television program Foody Call with Rossi Morreale, a reality television show which combined cooking and romance by teaching men to seduce women with food. It was the second highest rated show on the Style Network. After the program was canceled the following year, she admitted that the premise was faulty, saying, "... most girls I know don’t really eat. The way to a woman’s heart is definitely not through her stomach."

Concurrently, Merkin was a sideline reporter on the third season of Extreme Dodgeball which aired starting July 2005 on the Game Show Network.

In May 2007, she hosted the  television series The Next Best Thing, which aired on American Broadcasting Company.

In March 2008, she hosted Sand Blasters III: The Extreme Sand Sculpting Championship on the Travel Channel.

From 2008 to 2009 she co-hosted Party Monsters Cabo on E!, a reality television show in which participants compete to determine who is the best party event planner.

Merkin has also hosted individual episodes of E! News Daily, NBC's For Love or Money, VH1's Red Eye, The Movie Fan Show, The Love Report for Studios USA, Close-up Hollywood, Buy TV, Movie Watch and Attack of the Show!.

Personal life
Merkin is married to Ted Waitt, co-founder of Gateway, Inc. They married in 2011.

References

External links

Living people
Glamour models
American women television personalities
Television personalities from California
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
American people of Swedish descent
American people of Jewish descent
People from Santa Clara County, California
1975 births
European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation

The European Gay and Lesbian Sport Federation (EGLSF) is a sporting body in Europe. It was founded by West German and Dutch LGBT sport clubs in 1989 after being inspired by the first Gay Games in San Francisco, and has since expanded in scope to cover the broader LGBTQ+ athletic community. Its headquarters are in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Today, EGLSF has more than a hundred LGBT sport clubs from all over Europe as members, representing more than 20.000 European athletes.

Since 1992, the EGLSF celebrates a European gay sport event once a year: the EuroGames, the European Gay & Lesbian Championships. There are two levels of EuroGames: large-scale EuroGames which are held every 4 years and small-scale EuroGames which are held annually.

See also

 World Outgames / Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association
 Gay Games / Federation of Gay Games
 Principle 6 campaign

References

External links

International LGBT sports organizations
1989 establishments in Europe
Sports organizations established in 1989
Online Film Critics Society Awards 1997

1st Online Film Critics Society Awards
January 11, 1998

Best Picture:
L.A. Confidential
The 1st Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 1997, were given on 11 January 1998.

Winners and nominees

References 

1997
1997 film awards
Loretta Tofani

Loretta Tofani (February 5, 1953, New York City) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist.

Life
Tofani earned a bachelor's degree from Fordham University in 1975 and a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She had a Fulbright fellowship to Japan in 1983.

In 1982, while a staff writer at The Washington Post, she wrote a series of articles about a pattern of widespread gang rape inside a Prince George's County Maryland jail for which she won a 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. The series was notable for its documentation: Tofani obtained the victims' medical records and interviewed the victims as well as the rapists. The victims were innocent, charged with drunk driving and shop lifting, in jail because they did not have enough money for bond. The jail placed them in the same cellblocks with convicted murderers and armed robbers, who raped them. The jail changed its policies as a result of her story.

After nine years at The Washington Post, Tofani in 1987 became a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, serving as the paper's Beijing Bureau Chief from 1992 through 1996. She wrote for the Inquirer for 14 years. She won other national awards at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and was a finalist for another Pulitzer Prize. She and her family moved to Utah in 2001. She currently lives in Boise, Idaho.

As a free-lancer in 2007, Tofani reported and wrote the newspaper series, "American Imports, Chinese Deaths." The six stories showed that millions of  Chinese factory workers  were getting fatal diseases and limb amputations while making thousands of products for the U.S. Chinese workers have been paying the real price of America's cheap goods.

The series was published in The Salt Lake Tribune (http://extras.sltrib.com/china/).  Tofani reported the series by making five trips to China with small travel grants provided by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Center for Investigative Reporting's Dick Goldensohn Fund.

Awards 
 Pulitzer Prize, 1983, local investigative reporting.
 Investigative Reporters and Editors award, 1983 and 2008.
 Society of Professional Journalists' award for investigative reporting, 1983 and 2008.
 Michael Kelly Award from the Atlantic Media Company, 2008.
 Special citation from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, 2008.
 Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting, 2008.

References

External links 
Loretta Tofani's blog
 Winner Pulitzer report: "American imports, Chinese deaths: The human cost of doing business" Oct. 2007

20th-century American women journalists
Fordham University alumni
Living people
The Philadelphia Inquirer people
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners
1953 births
20th-century American journalists
21st-century American women
Tucker County Schools

Tucker County Schools is the operating school district within Tucker County, West Virginia. It is governed by the Tucker County Board of Education.

County Administrative Staff 
 Superintendent Dr Lambert
 Director of Support Services Jonathan Hicks
 Director of Finance David Lambert
 Director of Technology Todd Romero

Schools

High schools
Tucker County High School

Elementary middle schools
Davis-Thomas Elementary Middle School
Tucker Valley Elementary Middle School

Schools no longer in operation
Davis High School
Hamrick Elementary School
Mountaineer High School 
Parsons Elementary Middle School
Parsons High School
St. George Elementary School
Thomas High School

External links
Tucker County Schools

School districts in West Virginia
Education in Tucker County, West Virginia
John Crossan

John Crossan may refer to:

 Johnny Crossan (born 1938), Northern Irish footballer
 John Dominic Crossan (born 1934), Irish-American religious scholar
Gary Kinsman

Gary William Kinsman (born 1955) is a Canadian sociologist. Born in Toronto, he is one of Canada's leading academics on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues. In 1987, he wrote one of the key Canadian texts on LGBT social history, Regulation of Desire, reprinted in 1995. In 2000, he edited and co-authored a second work, on Canadian federal government surveillance of marginal and dissident political and social groups, Whose National Security? In 2010, Kinsman's newest book, The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, co-written with Patrizia Gentile, was published by University of British Columbia Press and released on 1 March.

Gary Kinsman was involved in the Young Socialists during high school in the late 70s, where he first came in contact with the Gay Liberation Movement. Kinsman later joined the Revolutionary Marxist Group which eventually fused with the League for Socialist Action, creating the Revolutionary Workers League. Before the onset of Kinsman’s AIDS related activism, he was involved in the Gay Liberation Union, Gay Liberation Against the Right Everywhere, the Right to Privacy Committee, and later the Canadian Committee Against Customs Censorship. 

A retired professor of sociology, formerly at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Kinsman's research and publication focuses primarily on the sociological perspectives of LGBT issues. Kinsman is also a social activist on feminist, trade union, social justice, and anti-poverty issues. 	

Kinsman was a writer for The Body Politic and a central figure in the publication of the successor magazine Rites. He helped found Gays and Lesbians Against the Right Everywhere and the Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee of Toronto.

In Sudbury, he was one of the organizers of the city's first-ever Sudbury Pride event in 1997.

In 2015, Kinsman was active in a campaign lobbying for a formal apology from the Government of Canada for the purges of LGBT people from the federal civil service in the 1950s and 1960s.

Works

 The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities : Montreal, New York: Black Rose: (1987, 1995): , 
 Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies Toronto: Between the Lines (2000): 
 The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation Vancouver: UBC Press:(2010):

References

External links
 Gary Kinsman's website 'Radical Noise'

1955 births
Canadian anti-poverty activists
Canadian sociologists
Canadian socialists
Canadian gay writers
Journalists from Toronto
Academic staff of Laurentian University
Canadian LGBT journalists
Canadian LGBT rights activists
Living people
Scientists from Toronto
Writers from Greater Sudbury
Writers from Toronto
WJCL-FM

WJCL-FM (96.5 MHz), known as "Kix 96", is a radio station in Savannah, Georgia, featuring country music. WJCL-FM is a 100,000 watt FM station which serves as the secondary Emergency Alert System radio station for the region.  Its studios are located on Television Circle in Savannah and utilizes a transmitter located west of the city in unincorporated Chatham County.

History
The station was founded by J. Curtis Lewis, Jr., who operated the radio station in conjunction with WJCL-TV on the south side of Savannah, adjacent to his car dealership. The call letters are the founder's initials. Lewis, a former mayor of Savannah, sold the TV station in 1999 to Grapevine Communications. The current owner of the radio station is Cumulus Broadcasting.

For most of its history, WJCL-FM featured easy listening music and was managed by Savannah broadcasting pioneer Al Jennings. Jennings not only managed the station, he was a frequent on-air presence, voicing numerous commercials, sports reports, and programs featuring big band music and nostalgia. A personal friend of Savannah native son Johnny Mercer, Jennings often paid tribute to the legendary songwriter with radio shows featuring unique insights and trivia.

WJCL-FM was one of the first radio stations in the area to use an automation system to play music and commercials, following WEAS-FM's earlier attempts in the late 1960s, which were a failure. During morning and afternoon drive times, live announcers were used, and the easy listening format was expanded to include adult contemporary and light rock music.

Other notable personalities on the station in its early years included Ben Mayo, host of an afternoon program called "Music with Mayo," Joe Cox, famous to a generation of Savannahians as weatherman "Cap'n Sandy," Charlie Solomons, who played drums in a local big band and featured big band music on his morning show, and Pete Preston, who was also a weathercaster on WJCL-TV. Morning and afternoon news updates were read by veteran local newscaster Richard Lantz.

The station turned to country music in the early 1990s as KIX 96, later to be shortened to KIX 96. Notable DJs included Big Mac, Bill West, Tyler Morgan, Jay Scott, Boomer Lee, Mike Miller and Laura Anderson. The station was a powerhouse taking the country lead in the market as the other country station in Savannah, WCHY, (now known as WQBT) went into decline. The station was live assist for the majority of its existence. It became "Nash FM" in 2013. On December 4, 2015, WJCL-FM dropped the "Nash FM" branding and reverted to its former "Kix 96" branding.

References

External links
WJCL official website

Country radio stations in the United States
JCL-FM
Radio stations established in 1972
1972 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Cumulus Media radio stations
Ruri

Ruri is a Japanese feminine given name.

Possible writings
Ruri can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
 truly
genuine 
瑠璃, "lapis lazuli"
琉璃, "lapis lazuli"
as a given name
瑠璃, "lapis lazuli"
流理, "current/flow, logic"
留莉, "detain, jasmine"
瑠里, "lapis lazuli, home

People
Ruri Mizutani (光里), a member of the Japanese music group Bon-Bon Blanco

Fictional characters
Ruri (Dr. Stone), a character in the manga series Dr. Stone
Hojo no Ruri (ルリ), a character in the manga series Onmyō Taisenki
Ruri, a character in the PS2 video game Eureka Seven vol. 2: New Vision
Ruri (瑠璃), the main character in the Japanese PS2 video game Ururun Quest: Koiyuuki
Ruri Gokō (瑠璃), a character in the manga and anime series Oreimo
Ruri Himeyuri (瑠璃), a character in the anime series To Heart 2
Ruri Hoshino (ルリ), a character in the anime series Martian Successor Nadesico
Ruri Mihashi (瑠里), a character in the baseball manga series Big Windup!
Ruri Saiki (翠雀), a character in the manga and anime series Angel Sanctuary
Ruri Saionji (瑠璃), a character in the manga series Hot Gimmick
Ruri Sarasa (ルリ), the main protagonist of the manga series Tokyo Underground
Ruri Kurosaki/Lulu Obsidian (瑠璃), a character in the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V
Ruri Hibirgaoka (雲雀丘 瑠璃), a main character in the anime series Anne Happy
Ruri Miyamoto (宮本 るり, Miyamoto Ruri), a character in the manga and anime series Nisekoi
Ruri (琉璃), a movie-only character exclusive to Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time

See also
Ruri no Ame, a song by Alice Nine
Ruri no Shima, a Japanese TV drama also known as Ruri's Island
Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na, a Japanese adult visual novel video game

Japanese feminine given names
Feminine given names
L98

L98 may refer to:

 L98 Cadet Rifles
 Luna (Orca), an animal whose official name is L98
 A variant of the GM small-block engine used in Holden cars
Hölder's theorem

In mathematics, Hölder's theorem states that the gamma function does not satisfy any algebraic differential equation whose coefficients are rational functions. This result was first proved by Otto Hölder in 1887; several alternative proofs have subsequently been found.

The theorem also generalizes to the -gamma function.

Statement of the theorem

For every  there is no non-zero polynomial  such that

where  is the gamma function. 

For example, define  by 

Then the equation

is called an algebraic differential equation, which, in this case, has the solutions  and  — the Bessel functions of the first and second kind respectively. Hence, we say that  and  are differentially algebraic (also algebraically transcendental). Most of the familiar special functions of mathematical physics are differentially algebraic. All algebraic combinations of differentially algebraic functions are differentially algebraic. Furthermore, all compositions of differentially algebraic functions are differentially algebraic. Hölder’s Theorem simply states that the gamma function, , is not differentially algebraic and is therefore transcendentally transcendental.

Proof

Let  and assume that a non-zero polynomial  exists such that

As a non-zero polynomial in  can never give rise to the zero function on any non-empty open domain of  (by the fundamental theorem of algebra), we may suppose, without loss of generality, that  contains a monomial term having a non-zero power of one of the indeterminates .

Assume also that  has the lowest possible overall degree with respect to the lexicographic ordering  For example,

because the highest power of  in any monomial term of the first polynomial is smaller than that of the second polynomial.

Next, observe that for all  we have:

If we define a second polynomial  by the transformation

then we obtain the following algebraic differential equation for :

Furthermore, if  is the highest-degree monomial term in , then the highest-degree monomial term in  is 

 

Consequently, the polynomial

has a smaller overall degree than , and as it clearly gives rise to an algebraic differential equation for , it must be the zero polynomial by the minimality assumption on . Hence, defining  by 

 

we get

Now, let  in  to obtain

A change of variables then yields 

 

and an application of mathematical induction (along with a change of variables at each induction step) to the earlier expression

reveals that

This is possible only if  is divisible by , which contradicts the minimality assumption on . Therefore, no such  exists, and so  is not differentially algebraic. Q.E.D.

References

Gamma and related functions
Theorems in analysis
Boris Gerasimovich

Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich (;  –  June 1937) was a  Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist.

Biography
Gerasimovich was born in Kremenchuk (now in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine).  He graduated from Kharkiv University in 1914 having studied under Aristarkh Belopolsky.   From 1917 until 1933 he worked at the Kharkiv University observatory. He became the director of the Pulkovo Observatory in 1933, but was arrested and executed during the Great Purge. He had a daughter, Tatiana Borisovna Gerasimovich.

The crater Gerasimovich on the Moon is named in his honor. A minor planet 2126 Gerasimovich discovered in 1970 by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova is also named after him.

References

External links
 Letter from Military Prosecutor to T. B. Gerasimovich

1889 births
1937 deaths
People from Kremenchuk
Ukrainian astronomers
Soviet astronomers
Great Purge victims from Russia
Russian people executed by the Soviet Union
National University of Kharkiv alumni
Academic staff of Kharkiv Observatory
Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen

Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen () (1521  – 25 March 1597), also known as MaHaShiks, was an Italian Rabbi, the son of Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen.

Biography
He was distinguished even in his youth for his scholarship and his oratorical gifts. He was associated, both as rabbi and as writer, with his father, after whose death, in 1565, he was elected rabbi at Venice. He had many pupils, one of whom had a bust made of his beloved teacher, who was of imposing appearance, and set it up in the schoolhouse so as to have it constantly before his eyes (Eisenstadt-Wiener, Da'at Kedoshim, p. 82, St. Petersburg, 1897–98). Chaim Yosef David Azulai ("Shem ha-Gedolim," s.v.) speaks of this fact in connection with Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen's great-grandfather, Judah Minz.

Katzenellenbogen was highly respected by his coreligionists throughout Italy, and, because of his wide scholarship, was honored by Joseph Karo, Solomon Luria, and Moses Isserles. Non-Jews also esteemed him highly: Paul Weidner, a converted Jew, dedicated his works to him. He is said to have accorded a hospitable reception to the Polish prince Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł when the latter visited Padua. When the prince found himself in need of money he appealed to Katzenellenbogen, who lent him the necessary funds for continuing his journey, requesting in return that he deal leniently with the Jews in his country, and protect them against the accusation of ritual murder.

On Katzenellenbogen's death Leo Modena delivered the funeral oration, which has been printed in the Mivchar Yehudah (p. 63b). Samuel left one son, who is known under the name of Saul Wahl. Katzenellenbogen is the author of several responsa, which are included in the responsa collection of Moses Isserles (Nos. 23, 126, 127, 129) and in that of Samuel Kala'i; and of twelve derashot, published by his pupil (Venice, 1594; reprinted Lemberg, 1811, where the author's name is erroneously given as J. Minz). Katzenellenbogen also contributed some of the notes to the annotated edition of Maimonides' Yad ha-HazaKah (Venice, 1550), which notes Azulai (Shem ha-Gedolim, s.v.) ascribes to Meir of Padua.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
Kerem Hemed, iii. 94 et seq.;
Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. No. 7047;
Edelmann, Gedullat Sha'ul, pp. xiii. (where Katzenellenbogen's epitaph is quoted), 2b, 29 et seq., London, 1854;
Julius Fürst, Bibl. Jud. ii. 179;
Zunz, Monatstage des Kalenderjahres, p. 15;
S. Kahan, 'Anaf 'Eẓ Abot, p. 31, Cracow, 1903;
Eisenstadt-Wiener, Da'at Ḳedoshim, pp. 82 et seq.D. M. K.

References

16th-century Italian rabbis
Jewish Italian writers
1521 births
1597 deaths
Rabbis from Padua
Venetian Jews
16th-century Venetian people
16th-century Italian writers
16th-century male writers
Barelaked Nadies

Barelaked Nadies is the second DVD release from Canadian band Barenaked Ladies, though it is the first full-length release. It is a compilation of their music videos from 1991–2002, with one exclusion: the video for the Rock Spectacle version of "Brian Wilson" is missing, and the Gordon version is chronologically in its place. The title of the video is a mashup of the name "Barenaked Ladies". The DVD includes video commentary on each video from the band, recorded at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as well as live concert footage taken from the 2001 Great Guinness Toast pay-per-view. The DVD-ROM also includes a karaoke feature for the song "One Week".

Video listing

Live performance:
 One Week
 Lovers in a Dangerous Time
 What a Good Boy
 Pinch Me
 Too Little Too Late
 Falling for the First Time
 Brian Wilson

Canadian musical films
Barenaked Ladies video albums
2002 video albums
Music video compilation albums
2002 compilation albums
English-language Canadian films
2000s English-language films
2000s Canadian films
Malo

Mal, which in Spanish means bad or evil, may also refer to:

Places
Malo, Italy, a town
Malo Island, formerly known as St. Bartholomew, Vanuatu
Malo (Solomon Islands), an island
Malo, Washington, Ferry County, Washington, United States
Malo-les-Bains, now part of Dunkirk, France
Saint-Malo, commune and port in Brittany, France

People
Malo (given name)
Malo (surname)
Malo (saint) (born c. 520), 6th century saint, founder and namesake of the Breton city
Malo, hero-god of Torres Strait Islander people
Malo', a French singer
Malo-Renault (1870–1938), French pastelist, color engraver and illustrator

Other
Malo (band), American Latin-tinged rock and roll group
 Malo (album), a 1972 album by the band
 Malo (song), a song by Anuel AA, Zion and Randy 
"Malo", a song by Bebe, from the album Pafuera Telarañas
Malo (jellyfish), a genus of box jellyfish
Malo, a loincloth 
Malo language (disambiguation)
Malo (character), fictional character in game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Malo de Vigny, a fictional character in the game Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Malo (company), an Italian brand of cashmere
Government of Samoa

See also
 Saint Malo (disambiguation)
 O le Ao o le Malo is the official title of Samoa's head of state
 Los Hombres Malo is an album by the band Outlaws
Tax Law Rewrite Project

The Tax Law Rewrite Project of HM Revenue and Customs was a major effort to re-write the entire tax legislation of the United Kingdom in a format which is both more consistent and more understandable. It aimed to remove archaic language and impenetrable terminology from tax law and to replace it with modern language and terminology.

History 
The project was set up in 1996 and produced five pieces of primary legislation and one piece of secondary legislation. A sixth and seventh bill went before Parliament. The project focussed purely on primary legislation but special dispensation was given to the re-writing of the regulations governing PAYE by the project.

The project began its work with the legislation covering capital allowances and the first legislation passed thanks to the project was the Capital Allowances Act 2001. The project then moved on to consider income tax. Three pieces of primary legislation relating to income tax—the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003, the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 and the Income Tax Act 2007—have been passed by Parliament. Their main change is to remove the concept of schedules from British income tax law. Previously income was assessed in one of six schedules (labelled from A through to F) depending on its source. The schedules have been replaced with everyday terminology. For example, Schedule A income is now referred to as property income and Schedule E income is now referred to as employment income.

It was felt that in addition to the primary legislation necessary for the project that one piece of secondary legislation would need to be rewritten. The PAYE system is intimately linked with income tax in British law and consequently the legislation governing it was dealt with by the project. The result was the Income Tax (PAYE) Regulations 2003.

Following the passage of the Income Tax Act 2007 attention was turned to corporation tax. The Corporation Tax Act 2009 applies to accounting periods ending on or after 1 April 2009. Two further bills were enacted in 2010 – the Corporation Tax Act 2010 and the Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010. Once these bills were enacted the Tax Law Rewrite Project was disbanded in April 2010 – see ICAEW report.

The legislation was scrutinized by the Joint Committee on Tax Law Rewrite Bills.

References

External links 
Tax Law Rewrite Project: HM Revenue and Customs

Taxation in the United Kingdom
Law of the United Kingdom
1997 establishments in the United Kingdom
Tax law
Law reform in the United Kingdom
Rowley Hill

Rowley Hill may refer to:

People
 Rowley Hill (bishop) (1836–1887), Anglican Bishop of Sodor and Man.

Places
 Rowley Hills, group of hills located in the West Midlands, England. 
 Rowley's Hill, located near the villages of Harston and Newton in Cambridgeshire, England.
Oded Aharonson

Oded Aharonson is Israeli planetary scientist, professor at Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute. Aharonson was a professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, until he moved in 2012 to the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel.  He has participated in many NASA flight missions, including Mars Global Surveyor, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, the Mars Exploration Rovers, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Aharonson's research focuses on the geology of planetary surfaces, especially the role of water.  He was deputy PI on the science team for Chronos, one of the proposals for the 2011 Mars Scout mission.

Education
B.S. 1994, Cornell University
M.Eng. 1995, Cornell University
Ph.D. 2002, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

References

External links
 Oded Aharonson, sites.google
Official website

Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
Planetary scientists
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alan Gerson

Alan Jay Gerson (born November 1, 1957) is a former Democratic Party member of the New York City Council, first elected in 2001, and reelected in 2005, to represent the 1st district in Manhattan. Prior to that Gerson served as Chair of Manhattan Community Board 2 from 1998 to 1999, serving on its board from 1990 to 2001. Gerson lost the Democratic Primary to Margaret Chin on September 15, 2009, following previous challenges by her in the 2001 and 2004 primaries. The district is located in Lower Manhattan and includes Tribeca, portions of the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Little Italy, Greenwich Village, and the Financial District.

Gerson is a lifelong New York City resident and graduate of P.S. 41, I.S. 70, and Stuyvesant High School (1975). He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Columbia College of Columbia University (1979), and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar from Columbia Law School. He was an aide to New York State Assembly Member William Passannante. Gerson practiced law with Kelley Drye & Warren for 18 years.

References

External links
 Official Campaign Site for Alan J. Gerson

New York City Council members
New York (state) Democrats
Stuyvesant High School alumni
1957 births
Living people
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Lawyers from Manhattan
St. Augustine National Cemetery

St. Augustine National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of St. Augustine in St. Johns County, Florida. Located on the grounds of the active military installation known as St. Francis Barracks, the state headquarters of the Florida National Guard, it encompasses , and as of the end of 2005 had 2,788 interments. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it is currently closed to new interments.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

History 
The first interment took place in the area of the cemetery in 1828 it was then used as the post cemetery for the St. Francis Barracks. The first burials were soldiers stationed at St. Francis Barracks and veterans of the Indian Wars, including many that were transferred from burial grounds in what was then Seminole controlled territory.

During the American Civil War, St. Augustine was initially claimed by the Confederacy, but was quickly occupied by Union forces and remained in Union hands for the remainder of the war. After the war, the cemetery was expanded and improved, and in 1881 it became a National Cemetery.

The cemetery also contains the graves of five British Commonwealth servicemen of World War II, a soldier of the Royal Corps of Signals and four aviation officers of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

St. Augustine National Cemetery was included in a National Historic Landmark historic district that encompasses the oldest part of the city in 1970.

Notable monuments 

 The Dade Monument, three coquina pyramids erected in 1842 to mark the end of the second of the Seminole Wars. Beneath them are the remains of 1,468 soldiers who died during the wars.

Notable interments 
 Major Francis L. Dade (1792–1835), namesake of Dade County, Missouri, Miami-Dade County, Florida, and Dade County, Georgia, veteran of the Indian Wars.
 Brigadier General Martin Davis Hardin (1837–1923), Civil War Union general

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Johns County, Florida

References

External links
 National Cemetery Administration
 St. Augustine National Cemetery
 
 
 

Cemeteries in Florida
National Cemetery
United States national cemeteries
Buildings and structures in St. Johns County, Florida
National Cemetery
Historic American Landscapes Survey in Florida
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
National Register of Historic Places in St. Johns County, Florida
1828 establishments in Florida Territory
Monuments and memorials in Florida
Cemeteries established in the 1820s
Bosnian root music

Bosnian root music (izvorna bosanska muzika/изворна босанска музика) is polyphonic type of singing. It is the most popular form of rural music in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The singers are usually followed by violin, dvojnice and šargija.  It is connected to ganga and ravne pjesme, which are also characteristic for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The origin of the music is unknown, but some characteristics, like different temperament from the standard music, suggest it is an old type of music.

Songs
The songs are about all kinds of things from being a "lola" and "baraba", about love of a woman, having a good life, but also about sad things like mostly the war in Bosnia, or the nostalgia that expatriates experience about their home country. More recently Bosnian root music has - in a humorous way - concentrated on some facets of the modern way of life, like the widespread use of Facebook and smartphones.

Bosnian Root Music groups and singers
Some well-known Bosnian root groups currently would be Sateliti, Raspjevani Meraklije, Marko and Ilija Begić, DiciMai and CrissMate, and many others. The music has proven to be a way for former enemies to become friends again. Root music is popular among Serbs from the areas in and surrounding Ozren, Croats from Usora, Žepče and Posavina and even Bosniaks from Podrinje.

Style
Bosnian root music is a polyphonic, or more commonly heterophonic music, which is usually sung by two singers. The first singer starts the song, and after some number of syllables the other joins in. Intervals used in this type of singing are minor and major second, which is characteristic for most of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian music, and some parts of Croatia. Range of the songs is usually very narrow, consisting of only few tones. The two singers differ in the use of ornaments, so usually the first one who started the song uses vibrato and trill while he is singing alone, and when the other joins in he uses no ornaments, while the other uses a lot of trill, which are produced from throat giving the overall performance its characteristic detuned nature.

Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina music
Jack Curry

Jack F. Curry is an American sports commentator. He has worked in television for the YES Network since 2010, providing analysis of New York Yankees baseball games during pregame and postgame shows. He was part of YES's Emmy Award-winning Yankee coverage in 2011. He is also a columnist for Yesnetwork.com.

Until 2009, he was a journalist, most recently as national baseball correspondent for The New York Times. Before taking over that position, he was the newspaper's beat writer covering the Yankees. He worked at The New York Times for 22 years.

Author
In 2000, Curry co-wrote a book with Derek Jeter titled The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams. The book was a N.Y. Times best-seller and sold more than 150,000 copies.

In 2019, Curry co-wrote a book with David Cone titled “Full Count: The Education of a Pitcher”.

Television and radio
Before joining YES, Curry was guest on local New York sports programs such as WFAN's "Mike and the Mad Dog" radio program.  He has been seen nationally on networks such as ESPN and MSNBC.

Curry currently works for the YES Network.

Personal
Curry graduated in 1982 from Hudson Catholic Regional High School in Jersey City. Curry was invited to a Hudson Catholic event on May 12 as a guest speaker. On April 23, Curry was inducted into the school's hall of fame.

Curry earned a bachelor's degree in Communications from Fordham University in 1986. Curry and his wife Pamela reside in River Vale, New Jersey.

As discussed on radio interviews and his news blog, he has competed in the New York City marathon.

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Major League Baseball broadcasters
Fordham University alumni
The New York Times sportswriters
YES Network
Living people
1964 births
People from River Vale, New Jersey
Writers from Jersey City, New Jersey
American male journalists
WFUV people
Colt 1908

Colt 1908 may refer to:
 Colt Model 1908 Pocket Hammerless, a variant of the Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless
 Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket
Lord Dudley Stuart

Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart (11 January 1803, London – 17 November 1854, Stockholm) was a British politician. He was the youngest son of John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, and his second wife, Frances Coutts, daughter of the banker Thomas Coutts.

In 1820, he was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford.

On 20 July 1824, he married Princess Christine Bonaparte (1798–1847), daughter of Lucien Bonaparte by his first wife, Christine Boyer, and sister of the Princess Gabrielli. They had one son, Paul Amadeus Francis Coutts Stuart, who died unmarried in 1889.

He was a member of the Whittington Club and the vice-president (and later the president) of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland.

A Whig and subsequently Liberal, he was a passionate advocate of Polish independence, and sympathetic in general to the cause of the Eastern European peoples against Russia. He received Lajos Kossuth in England after his exile from Hungary. In the election of 1857, Richard Cobden told an anecdote referring to this event:

I will tell you what happened with my knowledge -- it is no breach of confidence to say it. When that illustrious Hungarian was expected in England, after his imprisonment in Turkey, my lamented friend Lord Dudley Stuart -- whose devotion to the cause of these foreign refugees was as unbounded as it was sincere – went down to Southampton to meet Kossuth, and receive him on his arrival. Having to wait a day or two there, and being in the neighbourhood of Broadlands, where Lord Palmerston lives, he went there and saw the noble lord, and received from him a request to bring Kossuth over to Broadlands, to see him. I remember  a letter from Lord Dudley Stuart, announcing to me this piece of intelligence with the greatest glee. He was delighted at the opportunity of taking Kossuth over to the Lord Palmerston; and as soon as he arrived he announced to him the pleasing information. To his astonishment he found Kossuth would not accept it. He would not go near Lord Palmerston -- (cheers); and I have got a letter from Lord Dudley Stuart, asking me to use all my influence with Kossuth to induce him to go and call upon Lord Palmerston. He would not do it; and my answer was this, "You may depend upon it, Kossuth knows a great deal more about Lord Palmerston than you do." (Laughter).

A critic of the Metropolitan Police, he suggested a reduction of the strength of the force in 1853.

References

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 1848 print of Dudley Stuart by Sabina Karnicka, at the Museum of Warsaw

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1854 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Younger sons of marquesses
UK MPs 1830–1831
UK MPs 1831–1832
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Impact of a Legend

Impact of a Legend is the third and final extended play by American rapper Eazy-E. It was released posthumously on March 26, 2002, the seventh anniversary of his death. The EP was promoted by former groupmate  Ice Cube, whom Eazy had made peace with shortly before his death in 1995. It also contains a bonus DVD with a short documentary, biography, and music Videos

Track listing

Personnel
Sean Williams - A&R administrator
Madeleine Smith - A&R administrator
Dave Lopez - mixing
David Weldon - producer
Tomica Wright - executive producer
Eric Wright - main artist

Samples
Eazy 1, 2, 3
"G'd Up" by Tha Eastsidaz

Switchez
"More Bounce to the Ounce" by Zapp & Roger
"Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega
"Make the Music With Your Mouth Biz" by Biz Markie

Ruthless Life
"Jamaica Funk" by Tom Browne 
" Nut'z On Ya Chin" by Eazy-E

No More Tears
" Shed No Tears” by G.B.M

References 

2002 EPs
G-funk EPs
Eazy-E albums
Gangsta rap EPs
Ruthless Records EPs
EPs published posthumously
Albums produced by Rhythum D
Metlox Pottery

Metlox Pottery, strictly speaking Metlox Manufacturing Company, was a manufacturer of ceramic housewares, located at 1200 Morningside Drive, Manhattan Beach, California, US. The pottery factory closed in 1989.

History 

Metlox Pottery was founded in 1927 by Theodor C. Prouty and his son Willis Prouty, originally as a producer of outdoor ceramic signs.  After the death of T.C. in 1931, Willis renamed the company Metlox Pottery ("Metlox" is a combination of "metal" and "oxide," a reference to the glaze pigments), and began producing dinnerware.  The Metlox Manufacturing Company was incorporated 5 October 1933. Evan K. Shaw, of American Pottery in Los Angeles, purchased Metlox from Willis Prouty in 1946. After Shaw's death in 1980, Kenneth Avery became the president of Metlox.
The first line of pottery produced, "Poppytrail," became well known for its brightly colored glazes derived from locally mined metallic oxides.  Subsequent lines included "Nostalgia," "Red Rooster," "California Provincial," "Colonial Homestead," "Homestead Provincial," and "Colorstax."

In the 1950s Metlox introduced a line of modernist dinnerware featuring free form designs and squared plates using "blanks" that were then decorated with designs and colors.  These were then marketed under the pattern names of "California Contempra", "California Modern" and "California Freeform" names.

Besides kitchenware, Metlox also produced a very popular line of large ceramic horses and carriages in the 1950s. Carl Romanelli designed vases, figurines and miniatures for Metlox.  A line of collectible ceramic people planters called "Poppets," designed by studio potter Helen Slater, were produced starting in 1970. 

In March 1971, the FDA announced a recall of 400,000 pieces of Metlox pottery due to high lead content in the pottery glaze. One individual was suspected to have been poisoned. The company voluntarily recalled their California Poppytrail Tempo and Mission Verde Series; with a portion of their Petalburst Metlox Vernonware Series. The remainder of Metlox's pottery did not present lead leaching. 

Metlox's incorporation was terminated on 4 January 1988. 
The pottery factory closed in 1989 after 62 years of operation. Metlox's  former site is now occupied by Shade Hotel and other businesses.

After the pottery closed, lead and other byproducts of the pottery-making process remained on the plant property at Manhattan Beach Boulevard and Valley Drive. The city estimated remediation would take about 2 years with the cost to be collected from the property owners or having the site put on a State or Federal cleanup list.

See also 

 California pottery

References

Further reading 

Gibbs, Carl. Collector's Encyclopedia of Metlox Potteries: Identification and Values, Second Edition. Collector Books (2001)  
Chipman, Jack. Collectors Encyclopedia of California Pottery, Second Edition.  Collector Books (1998)

External links
Metlox-Poppytrail-Vernonware History

Kitchenware brands
Companies based in California
Ceramics manufacturers of the United States
Manhattan Beach, California
Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Alice's Adventures Under Ground

Alice's Adventures Under Ground may refer to:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, an 1865 book by Lewis Carroll, titled in manuscript Alice's Adventures Under Ground
Alice's Adventures Under Ground (opera), a 2016 opera by Gerald Barry
Phaeodactylum tricornutum

Phaeodactylum tricornutum is a diatom. It is the only species in the genus Phaeodactylum. Unlike other diatoms, P. tricornutum can exist in different morphotypes (fusiform, triradiate, and oval) and changes in cell shape can be stimulated by environmental conditions. This feature can be used to explore the molecular basis of cell shape control and morphogenesis. Unlike most diatoms, P. tricornutum can grow in the absence of silicon and can survive without making silicified frustules. This provides opportunities for experimental exploration of silicon-based nanofabrication in diatoms.

Another peculiarity is that during asexual reproduction the frustules do not appear to become smaller. This allows continuous culture without need for sexual reproduction. It is not known if P. tricornutum can reproduce sexually. To date no substantial evidence has been found to support sexual reproduction in a laboratory or other setting. Although P. tricornutum can be considered to be an atypical pennate diatom, it is one of the main diatom model species. A transformation protocol has been established and RNAi vectors are available. This makes molecular genetic studies much easier.

History

Phaeodactylum tricornutum was first described in the triradiate morphotype by Bohlin in 1897. Recordings of the first cultures of P. tricornutum were published by Allen and Nelson in 1910, although it was misidentified as Nitzschia colsterium,W. Sm., forma miuntissima. The isolate was later correctly revised as P. tricorntum by J.C. Lewin in 1958. This strain among other later isolates are still maintained in culture collections around the world.

Genome sequencing
Phaeodactylum tricornutum is one of a handful of diatoms whose genome has been sequenced. As of 2023, P. tricornutum is the only diatom for which a telomere-to-telomere genome assembly exists. P. tricornutum is a diploid with 25 pairs of nuclear chromosomes.

P. tricornutum has emerged as a potential microalgal energy source. It grows rapidly and storage lipids constitute about 20-30% of its dry cell weight under standard culture conditions. Nitrogen limitation can induce neutral lipid accumulation in P. tricornutum, indicating possible strategies for improving microalgal biodiesel production.

See also 
Algaculture
 Genomics

References

External links 
 
 journals.tubitak.gov.tr The Growth of Continuous Cultures of the Phytoplankton Phaeodactylum Tricornutum (pdf)
  picture of phaeodactylum tricornutum

High lipid content microalgae
Naviculales
WILN

WILN (105.9 FM, "Island 106") is a US commercial radio station located in Panama City, Florida.  WILN airs a Top 40 (CHR) music format.

History

WILN signed-on on April 21, 1985, at 9:20 AM with a small 6 kW signal on 106.3 MHz as WLVV "Love-FM", a Soft AC station geared toward women between 25 and 54. Due to a lack of listeners, the station was determined to be unsuccessful, and because of such, it ceased broadcast in the afternoon of October 31, 1987.

In the name of "bringing the fun back to radio", owners Jim and Bertie Broaddus decided to completely revamp the station, and "Island 106" (with a new callsign, WILN), came into being on November 2, 1987. To begin with, WILN played a Classic rock format, and went head to head with WFSY. In 1989, WILN upgraded to 50 kW and moved to the current 105.9 frequency. Over the next year, the format evolved from Classic Rock to a Rock-leaning Top 40 format, eventually shifting completely to the Mainstream Top 40/CHR format that has continued since 1990, competing against WPFM.

Since the sale of competitor WPFM to Educational Media Foundation in 2018, WILN is the Panama City area's only Top 40 radio station.

External links
Island 106 WILN official website

ILN
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States
1985 establishments in Florida
Radio stations established in 1985
Florida (Diplo album)

Florida is the debut studio album by American DJ Diplo. It was released on Big Dada in 2004. In 2014, it was re-released as F10rida, with 10 extra tracks added, plus bonus commentary.

Critical reception
Florida was described by Ian Roullier of MusicOMH as "an excellent, diverse collection of instrumental hip hop excursions, laid back grooves and whacked out rap tracks." Tim O'Neil of PopMatters said, "Diplo has crafted one of the year's best debut albums, an ambitious ode to the art and craft of sampling."

Track listing

References

External links
 

2004 debut albums
Diplo albums
Albums produced by Diplo
Big Dada albums
Trip hop albums by American artists