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David M. Brienza

David M. Brienza is a professor of rehabilitation science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. He holds additional professorial appointments in bioengineering and electrical engineering.

Biography
Brienza earned a B.S. from the University of Notre Dame in Electrical Engineering (1986) and a M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia. From 1987 to 1991, he worked as a research assistant at the Rehabilitation Engineering Center at the University of Virginia, and in 1991 he joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh. 

Currently, he is the director of the Seating and Soft Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory, and continues to actively pursue research and development in the areas of wheelchair cushions, pressure sore and ulcer prevention, soft tissue biomechanics, telerehabilitation technology and wheelchair technology.

Selected publications 
Kim, JB and Brienza, DM; Development of a remote accessibility assessment system through three-dimensional reconstruction technology. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development 2006; 43(2): 257–272.
Jan, YK and Brienza DM. Technology for Pressure Ulcer Prevention. Topics in Spinal Cord Injury. Spring 2006; 11(4): 30–41.
Jan YK, Brienza DM, and Geyer MJ. Analysis of week-to-week variability in skin blood flow measurements using wavelet transforms. Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging 2005; 25(5): 253–262.
Brienza DM, Geyer MJ, and Jan YK. A comparison of changes in rhythms of sacral skin blood flow in response to heating and indentation. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2005 June; (86)6: 1245–1251.
Brienza, David M. PhD; Geyer, Mary Jo PhD, PT, CWS, CLT-LANA. Using Support Surfaces to Manage Tissue Integrity. Advances in Skin & Wound Care. 18(3):151-157, April 2005
Geyer MJ, Jan YK, Brienza DM, and Boninger ML. Using wavelet analysis to characterize the thermoregulatory mechanisms of sacral skin blood flow. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development 2004; 41(6):797-806.

References

External links

 Webpage at UPSHRS
 Bio at UPMC

American scientists
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Notre Dame College of Engineering alumni
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Living people
1964 births
Toward the Sea

is a work by Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu, commissioned by Greenpeace for the Save the Whales campaign.

Form

Towards the Sea exists in three separate versions:

 The first (Towards the Sea I), was composed in 1981 for alto flute and guitar. This was later rearranged for alto flute and marimba.
 The second (Towards the Sea II), also composed in 1981, is for alto flute, harp and string orchestra.
 The third (Towards the Sea III), written in 1989, is for alto flute and harp, without orchestra.

Each version lasts around 11 minutes.

The work is divided into three sections – The Night, Moby-Dick, and Cape Cod. These titles are in reference to Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick, or The Whale. Takemitsu wished to emphasize the spiritual dimension of the book, quoting the passage, "meditation and water are wedded together".  He also said that, "The music is a homage to the sea which creates all things and a sketch for the sea of tonality"; Toward the Sea was written at a time when Takemitsu was increasingly returning to tonality after a period of experimental composition.

Most of the work is written in free time, with no bar lines (except in the second version, to facilitate conducting).  In each version, the flute has the primary melodic line, based in part on a motif spelling "sea" in German musical notation: E–E–A.  This motif reappeared in several of Takemitsu's later works.

References
Burton, Anthony (2000). Notes to I Hear the Water Dreaming Deutsche Grammophon 453 459–2.
Leathwood, Jonathan. Notes to Mountains toward the Sea Beep BP 34.

Compositions by Tōru Takemitsu
1981 compositions
1989 compositions
Rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's eight

The men's eight was one of four rowing events on the Rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Nations could enter up to two boats (total of 16 rowers and 2 coxswains). Six boats from five nations competed. The event was won by Leander Club, one of the two British boats. The silver medal went to the Belgian team from Royal Club Nautique de Gand. Bronze medals were awarded to the two semifinal losers; Argonaut Rowing Club of Canada had been defeated by Leander while Britain's second boat, from Cambridge University Boat Club, lost to the Belgians.

Background

This was the third appearance of the event. Rowing had been on the programme in 1896 but was cancelled due to bad weather. The men's eight has been held every time that rowing has been contested, beginning in 1900.

The top eight team in the world at the time was Belgium's Royal Club Nautique de Gand, winners of the European championship in 1906, 1907, and 1908 as well as the Henley Grand Challenge Cup in 1906 and 1907. Their primary challenger in London was the host nation's Leander Club, winners of the Grand Challenge Cup in 1903, 1904, and 1905. Significant absences were the American Vesper Boat Club, the two-time reigning Olympic champions, and Great Britain's Christ Church College Boat Club, the 1908 Grand Challenge Cup victors.

Great Britain, Hungary, and Norway each made their debut in the event. Belgium and Canada each made their second appearance, matching the absent United States for most among nations.

Starting list

The following boats and/or rowing clubs participated:

 Royal Club Nautique de Gand (colours: red, yellow and black; red and white oars)
 Argonaut Rowing Club (colours: light and dark blue)
 Cambridge University Boat Club (colours: light blue)
 Leander Club (colours: cerise)
 Pannónia Evezős Egylet/Magyar Evezős Szövetség (colours: red, white and green)
 Norges Roforbund (colours: red, white and blue)

Competition format

The "eight" event featured nine-person boats, with eight rowers and a coxswain. It was a sweep rowing event, with the rowers each having one oar (and thus each rowing on one side). The course was 1.5 miles in length, with two slight bends near the start and about halfway.

The 1908 tournament featured three rounds of one-on-one races; with 6 boats in the competition, 2 boats received byes into the semifinals and there were two races in the quarterfinal round. Semifinal losers each received bronze medals.

Schedule

Results

Quarterfinals

All heats were held on Wednesday, 29 July.

Quarterfinal 1

Quarterfinal 2

Semifinals

Both semifinals were held on Thursday, 30 July.

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

This race was the only rowing heat in which a British boat was defeated by a visiting nation. In each of the other three events, the two British boats won both semifinals.

Final

The final was held on Friday, 31 July.

Leander pulled away again, eventually winning by two lengths in a time of 7 min. 52 sec.

References

Sources
 
 

Men's coxed 8
Rhomboid fossa

The rhomboid fossa is a rhombus-shaped depression that is the anterior part of the fourth ventricle.  Its anterior wall, formed by the back of the pons and the medulla oblongata, constitutes the floor of the fourth ventricle.

It is covered by a thin layer of grey matter continuous with that of the spinal cord; superficial to this is a thin lamina of neuroglia which constitutes the ependyma of the ventricle and supports a layer of ciliated epithelium.

Parts
The fossa consists of three parts, superior, intermediate, and inferior:
The superior part
The superior part is triangular in shape and limited laterally by the superior cerebellar peduncle; its apex, directed upward, is continuous with the cerebral aqueduct; its base is represented by an imaginary line at the level of the upper ends of the superior foveae.
The intermediate part 
The intermediate part extends from this level to that of the horizontal portions of the taeniae of the ventricle; it is narrow above where it is limited laterally by the middle peduncle, but widens below and is prolonged into the lateral recesses of the ventricle.
 The inferior part
The inferior part is triangular, and its downwardly directed apex, named the calamus scriptorius (as is shaped like a writing quill-nib) is continuous with the central canal of the closed part of the medulla oblongata.

The sulcus limitans forms the lateral boundary of the medial eminence.

Features
In the superior part of the rhomboid fossa it corresponds with the lateral limit of the fossa and presents a bluish-gray area, the locus coeruleus, which owes its color to an underlying patch of deeply pigmented nerve cells, termed the substantia ferruginea.

At the level of the facial colliculus the sulcus limitans widens into a flattened depression, the superior fovea, and in the inferior part of the fossa appears as a distinct dimple, the inferior fovea.

Lateral to the foveæ is a rounded elevation named the area acustica, which extends into the lateral recess and there forms a feebly marked swelling, the tuberculum acusticum.

Winding around the inferior peduncle and crossing the area acustica and the medial eminence are a number of white strands, the striæ medullares, which form a portion of the cochlear division of the acoustic nerve and disappear into the median sulcus.

Below the inferior fovea, and between the hypoglossal trigone and the lower part of the area acustica is a triangular dark field, the vagal trigone, which corresponds to the sensory nucleus of the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves.

The lower end of the vagal trigone is crossed by a narrow translucent ridge, the funiculus separans, and between this funiculus and the gracile nucleus, is a small tongue-shaped area, the area postrema.

On section it is seen that the funiculus separans is formed by a strip of thickened ependyma, and the area postrema by loose, highly vascular, neuroglial tissue containing nerve cells of moderate size.

Additional images

References 

Ventricular system
Tony Dixon

Tony Dixon may refer to:
 Tony Dixon (Brookside)
 Tony Dixon (DJ) (1958–2010), Irish disc jockey
 Tony Dixon (American football) (born 1979), American football player

See also
 Antonie Dixon (1968–2009), New Zealand murderer
 Anthony Dixon (born 1987), American football player
 Boogie (rapper), real name Anthony Dixson (born 1989), American rapper
Il Piccolo

is the main daily newspaper of Trieste, Italy. Its name derives from the paper's original small format.

History and profile
 was founded by Teodoro Mayer in 1881. He was also the owner and editor-in-chief of the paper. Mayer and other people who were instrumental in the establishment of the paper were right-wing pro-Italians. Mayer supported the idea that Trieste was part of Italy. One of its contributors was Carolina Luzzatto who was a supporter of this view.

 ceased publication at the beginning of World War I and was relaunched in 1919. Following the beginning of the Fascist rule in Italy the paper declared its adherence to the Fascist ideology in 1923. Until the end of World War II the paper was edited by those with fascist political leaning.

 is based in Trieste and it is published by Finegil Editoriale SPA which has been a subsidiary of Gruppo Espresso since 1998. Local editions for the towns of Monfalcone and Gorizia and for the region of Istria (Croatia) are also printed. It has a progressive political stance.

Circulation
The circulation of  was 40,231 copies in 2008. The paper had a circulation of 31,302 copies in 2013. The Espresso Group reported that the circulation of the paper was 28,800 copies in 2014.

Notes

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Newspapers established in 1881
Daily newspapers published in Italy
Italian-language newspapers
Mass media in Trieste
GEDI Gruppo Editoriale
Fascist newspapers and magazines
St Katherine's School

St Katherine's School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in the English county of Somerset. Commonly known to be located in Pill, the school is actually located in the neighbouring civil parish of Abbots Leigh.

History
Previously a community school administered by North Somerset Council, in June 2016 St Katherine's School converted to academy status and is now sponsored by the Cathedral Schools Trust.

Curriculum
St Katherine's School offers GCSEs, Cambridge Nationals and Level 2 BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels, Cambridge Technicals and Level 3 BTECs.

Notable former pupils
 Beth Gibbons, lead singer of Portishead (band)

Former teachers
Paul Kent, played rugby for Somerset, brother of Charles Kent (rugby union)

References

External links
St Katherine's School official website

Secondary schools in North Somerset
Academies in North Somerset
Office (disambiguation)

An office is a room or other area in which people work, or a position within an organization with specific duties and rights attached.

Office or The Office may also refer to:

Computer software
Office suite, Bundled business productivity software  
Ability Office
Collabora Online
ConceptDraw Office
Corel WordPerfect Office
Feng Office
LibreOffice
Microsoft Office
Mini Office II
Polaris Office
Siag Office
SoftMaker Office
Wang OFFICE
WPS Office
Zoho Office
 The Office (video game), a 2007 game based on the 2005 U.S. television series

Film
Office (2015 Hong Kong film), a musical comedy-drama film
Office (2015 South Korean film), a thriller horror film
The Office (film), a 1966 Polish short film

Politics
Political office, the authority to govern served by an elected official
Public office, the authority to execute government policy

Music
Office (band), a Chicago-based rock band

Religion
Daily Office, also called Canonical hours, the recitation of such prayers in Christianity more generally
Holy Office, also called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Roman Catholicism
Liturgy of the Hours, the recitation of certain Christian prayers at fixed hours according to the discipline of the Roman Catholic Church
 Private offices, such as prayers in the morning and evening, as described in Luther's Small Catechism
Other offices in Christian Liturgy, such as Matins and Vespers

Television 
Office (TV series), a 2013 Indian Tamil-language comedy series
The Office (1995 TV series), an American comedy series starring Valerie Harper
The Office, an international television franchise
The Office (British TV series), 2001–2003
The Office (American TV series), 2005–2013
Le Bureau, a French TV series, 2006
HaMisrad, an Israeli TV series, 2010–2013
La Job, a French Canadian TV series, 2006–2007

Other uses
Office, Kendrick, American football player
Office Holdings, which operates the "Office" chain of shoe shops in the UK and Ireland
La Oficina (lit. The Office), a Chilean intelligence agency that existed in the 1990s

See also

Officer (disambiguation)
Official (disambiguation)
Minister (Christianity), ordained offices in Christianity

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Richard Simpson

Richard Simpson may refer to:

 Richard Simpson (martyr) (c. 1553–1588), English Catholic priest, martyred during the reign of Elizabeth I
 Richard Simpson (writer) (1820–1876), Catholic writer and literary scholar
 Richard F. Simpson (1798–1882), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
 Richard M. Simpson (1900–1960), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
 Richard Simpson (Scottish politician) (born 1942), Scottish politician
 Dick Simpson (born 1943), American baseball outfielder
 Dick Simpson (politician) (born 1940), former Chicago alderman
 Chubb Rock (Richard Simpson, born 1968), New York-based rapper
 Richard Simpson (rugby union), rugby union player who represented Australia
 Richard J. Simpson, professor of biochemistry
 Richard James Simpson (born 1967), American singer and guitarist
 Rick Simpson, American set director
 Rik Simpson, British record producer, musician and songwriter
Martin Hyde

Martin Hyde may refer to:
 Martin Hyde, candidate in the 2007 Ontario provincial election
 Martin Hyde, a character in an episode of Highlander: The Series
 Martin Hyde: The Duke's Messenger, a 1910 historical novel by John Masefield

See also
 Martin Hyder (born 1961), English actor and writer
O'Sullivan Dam

O'Sullivan Dam (National ID # WA00268), one of the largest earthfill dams in the United States (200 ft/61 m high; 19,000 ft/5,791 m long; completed 1949), is on Crab Creek in the U.S. state of Washington, about 45 km south of Ephrata and 25 km south of Moses Lake.

The  Potholes Reservoir formed by this dam collects return flows from all irrigation in the upper portion of the project for reuse in the southern portion. A system of wasteways has been built on both the West and East Low Canals to provide operational safety for the canals and a means of delivering water into Potholes Reservoir to supplement the natural and return flows.

The dam was built as part of the Columbia Basin Project.

Statistics 
Active storage capacity: 
Structural height of dam: 200.0 ft (60 m)
Construction date: 1947-1949
Normal water surface elevation: 1052.0 ft (320.6 m)
Drainage area: 3,920.0 sq mi (10,153 km²)
Storm duration: 72 hr

See also
Columbia Basin Project

External links
 O'Sullivan Dam

Dams in Washington (state)
Buildings and structures in Grant County, Washington
Dams completed in 1949
United States Bureau of Reclamation dams
Linkwitz–Riley filter

A Linkwitz–Riley (L-R) filter is an infinite impulse response filter used in Linkwitz–Riley audio crossovers, named after its inventors Siegfried Linkwitz and Russ Riley. This filter type was originally described in Active Crossover Networks for Noncoincident Drivers in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. It is also known as a Butterworth squared filter. A Linkwitz–Riley "L-R" crossover consists of a parallel combination of a low-pass and a high-pass L-R filter. The filters are usually designed by cascading two Butterworth filters, each of which has −3 dB gain at the cut-off frequency. The resulting Linkwitz–Riley filter has −6 dB gain at the cut-off frequency. This means that, upon summing the low-pass and high-pass outputs, the gain at the crossover frequency will be 0 dB, so the crossover behaves like an all-pass filter, having a flat amplitude response with a smoothly changing phase response. This is the biggest advantage of L-R crossovers compared to even-order Butterworth crossovers, whose summed output has a +3 dB peak around the crossover frequency. Since cascading two nth-order Butterworth filters will give a (2n)th-order Linkwitz–Riley filter, theoretically any (2n)th-order Linkwitz–Riley crossover can be designed. However, crossovers of order higher than 4 may have less usability due to their complexity and the increasing size of the peak in group delay around the crossover frequency.

Common types

Second-order Linkwitz–Riley crossover (LR2, LR-2)

Second-order Linkwitz–Riley crossovers (LR2) have a 12 dB/octave (40 dB/decade) slope. They can be realized by cascading two one-pole filters, or using a Sallen Key filter topology with a Q0 value of 0.5. There is a 180° phase difference between the low-pass and high-pass output of the filter, which can be corrected by inverting one signal. In loudspeakers this is usually done by reversing the polarity of one driver if the crossover is passive. For active crossovers inversion is usually done using a unity gain inverting op-amp.

Fourth-order Linkwitz–Riley crossover (LR4, LR-4)

Fourth-order Linkwitz–Riley crossovers (LR4) are probably today's most commonly used type of audio crossover. They are constructed by cascading two 2nd-order Butterworth filters. Their slope is 24 dB/octave (80 dB/decade).  The phase difference amounts to 360°, i.e. the two drives appear in phase, albeit with a full period time delay for the low-pass section.

Eighth-order Linkwitz–Riley crossover (LR8, LR-8)

Eighth-order Linkwitz–Riley crossovers (LR8) have a very steep, 48 dB/octave (160 dB/decade) slope. They can be constructed by cascading two 4th-order Butterworth filters.

See also

Audio crossover
Butterworth filter
Partition of unity
Siegfried Linkwitz

References

Linkwitz Lab: Crossovers
Linkwitz Lab: Active Filters
Linkwitz–Riley Crossovers: A Primer
Glossary: Linkwitz–Riley

Linear filters
Network synthesis filters
Audio engineering
Filter theory
S14

S14 may refer to:

Aircraft 
 Fokker S.14 Machtrainer, a Dutch jet trainer
 Letov Š-14, a Czechoslovakian fighter
 Rans S-14 Airaile, an American civil utility aircraft
 Short S.14 Sarafrand, a British biplane flying boat
 Sikorsky S-14, a Russian aircraft design proposal

Automobiles 
 BMW S14, an automobile engine
 Nissan Silvia (S14), a Japanese sports car
 Nissan 240SX (S14), a sports car sold in North America

Rail and transit

Lines 
 S14 (St. Gallen S-Bahn), in Thurgau, Switzerland
 S14 (ZVV), in Zürich and Zug, Switzerland
 Line S14 (Milan suburban railway service)

Locomotives 
 LSWR S14 class, a steam locomotive

Stations 
 Aratama-bashi Station, in Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
 Gakuen-Toshi Station, in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
 Iyo-Shirataki Station, in Ōzu, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
 Minami-Otaru Station, in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
 Nishi-Nagahori Station, in Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan
 Nishi-ojima Station, in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan

Roads 
 Expressway S14 (Poland)
 County Route S14 (California), United States

Science 
 40S ribosomal protein S14
 British NVC community S14, a swamps and tall-herb fens community in the British National Vegetation Classification system
 S14: Keep away from ... (incompatible materials to be indicated by the manufacturer), a safety phrase
 S14, a star orbiting Sagittarius A*

Vessels 
 
 , an armed yacht of the Royal Canadian Navy
 , a submarine of the Royal Navy
 , a torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy
 , a submarine of the United States Navy

Other uses 
 S14 (classification), a Paralympic swimming disability classification for intellectually disabled athletes
 S14 (Ukrainian group), a radical nationalist group in Ukraine
 S14, a postcode district in Sheffield, England
Substantia innominata

The substantia innominata also innominate substance, or substantia innominata of Meynert (Latin for unnamed substance) is a series of layers in the human brain consisting partly of gray and partly of white matter, which lies below the anterior part of the thalamus and lentiform nucleus. It is included as part of the anterior perforated substance (as it appears to be perforated by many holes which are actually blood vessels). It is part of the basal forebrain structures and includes the nucleus basalis. A portion of the substantia innominata, below the globus pallidus is considered as part of the extended amygdala.

Layers

It consists of three layers, superior, middle, and inferior.
 The superior layer is named the ansa lenticularis, and its fibers, derived from the medullary lamina of the lentiform nucleus, pass medially to end in the thalamus and subthalamic region, while others are said to end in the tegmentum and red nucleus.
 The middle layer consists of nerve cells and nerve fibers; fibers enter it from the parietal lobe through the external capsule, while others are said to connect it with the medial longitudinal fasciculus.
 The inferior layer forms the main part of the inferior stalk of the thalamus, and connects this body with the temporal lobe and the insula.

Striatopallidal system
In the late 20th century following improved imaging by staining it was reclassified as part of the striatopallidal system, which is made up of the dorsal striatum and dorsal pallidum, and the ventral striatum and ventral pallidum.

References

External links
 Diagram at biocfarm.unibo.it

Rostral basal ganglia and associated structures
Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal

is a Nintendo DS video game developed by Konami.

Story
The game revolves around a boy named Tao from the island of Bente, who must travel to Mondominio to get a rare monster egg from the monster tower. The seal from the tower has been broken, and monsters have turned all the people of his village into stone. Tao meets a creature named Petcho, who calls himself an "Elite Monster" and follows the main character throughout the game.

The game is a sequel to  Azure Dreams, which was released 8 years earlier.

Gameplay
Tao's Adventure follows a very straightforward dungeon-combat system. The majority of the game is spent in the Monster Tower, which consists of 40 floors. Tao ventures through these floors, finding monster eggs and monsters as he goes. While Tao can move free range normally, once an enemy is in sight the game changes its movement system. From here, every action uses 1 turn. For every step that Tao takes or spell that he casts, the enemy is allowed one move also. Players are able to cast spells using the DS touch screen, by drawing runes. This concept was put to similar use in a later DS game titled LostMagic. As Tao progresses through the tower he is able to find Monster Eggs. He must then return to the town to hatch the eggs and the monster inside will join his party. Partner monsters are not directly controlled by the player but are instead controlled by the artificial intelligence. Up to two monsters can be in Tao's party at any time. There is also a Coliseum mode, accessed through the game's main town in which the player uses any of Tao's hatched monsters to fight other monsters. This mode can be used over the DS's wireless multiplayer option. Tao and all creatures obtained in the tower can reach a max level of 50, but their stats can only reach 99. The exception is Straitser, the Bird Demon.

Reception

The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight and three sevens for a total of 29 out of 40.

The majority of critical comments lie in the poorly designed mechanics and hackneyed ideas, as well as its failure to produce creative, original use of the Nintendo DS touch screen.

References

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2005 video games
Fantasy video games
Konami games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Nintendo DS games
Nintendo DS-only games
Role-playing video games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in China
Diana Merry

Diana Merry-Shapiro is a computer programmer who had worked for the Learning Research Group of Xerox PARC in the 1970s and 1980s, after having been hired originally as a secretary. As one of the original developers of the Smalltalk programming language, she helped to write the first system for overlapping display windows. Merry was also one of the co-inventors of the bit block transfer (BitBLT) routines for Smalltalk, subroutines for performing computer graphics operations quickly which were pivotal in the evolution of user interfaces from text-based user interfaces to graphical user interfaces.

As of 2003, Merry-Shapiro was still using Smalltalk as an employee of Suite LLC, a financial consulting firm.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer programmers
Scientists at PARC (company)
Cono Norte

The Cono Norte (recently being called Lima Norte) is one of the five areas that make up the Lima Metropolitan Area. It is located in the northern part of the metropolis, hence its name. The socioeconomic levels of its residents are varied. The districts of Ancón and Santa Rosa (both in the far north of the province) are the popular beach resorts (but not residential areas) for wealthier residents of Lima. The rest of the population comprises middle class and lower class residents. It is one of the most populated areas of Peru.

Districts 

The following districts are part of Lima Norte:

Ancón
Carabayllo
Comas
Independencia
Los Olivos 
Puente Piedra
Rímac (currently part of the downtown)
San Martín de Porres
Santa Rosa

References

External links

Geography of Lima
Counterfeit Son

Counterfeit Son  is a 2000 novel by Elaine Marie Alphin and was written for young adults.  It received a 2001 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Young Adult Mystery. It is a psychological thriller.

Plot
Cameron Miller is 14.  He has been physically and sexually abused by his father all his life.  His "Pop", Hank, is a serial killer who preys on young boys, murdering more than 20 over the years.  Hank kept newspaper cuttings of each of the boys in a filing cabinet in the cellar where he locked Cameron while he tortured and killed the boys. Cameron studied the cuttings and dreams of being one particular boy whose parents have sailboats on a lake. When "Pop" dies in a gunfight with police, Cameron takes on the identity of this boy, Neil Lacey, a victim who was abducted and murdered six years earlier.

The Lacey parents accept "Neil" into their home with few questions, but he lives in fear that he will make a serious mistake through not knowing Neil's likes and dislikes and that dental records and suspicious Detective Simmons will expose him. His eight-year-old brother Stevie is put out by his return and his younger sister Diana is convinced he's not Neil, but much prefers him to her memories of her real brother. Alphin describes the years of sexual and physical abuse that Cameron endured at the hands of his father, but never in graphic detail. Cameron is always expecting punishment from his new "parents", yet finds kindness and love instead.

When Cougar, "Pop's" former accomplice newly freed from prison, finds Cameron and threatens him with exposure, Cameron tries to tell his "father" the truth. In the novel's climax, Stevie is kidnapped and Cameron risks everything to save him.

2000 American novels
Edgar Award-winning works
American young adult novels
Kyoko Iwasaki

is a Japanese swimming coach and retired Olympic swimmer from Numazu, Shizuoka. She won the gold medal in the 200 metres breaststroke at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She was at the age of 14 years and 6 days when she got the medal.

External links 
 Kyoko Iwasaki's Official Blog "Kotoba no Shizuku" 

1978 births
Living people
Japanese female breaststroke swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Japan
Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Japan
People from Numazu, Shizuoka
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists in swimming
Universiade medalists in swimming
Universiade bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade
Odo of Canterbury

Odo of Canterbury (died 1200), also known as Odo Cantianus or Odo of Kent, was a theologian and abbot of Battle.

Odo was a monk of Christ Church, who later became a subprior. He was sent by his friend Thomas Becket in 1163 to attend an appeal with Pope Alexander III against the Archbishop of York, stemming from the tensions between Becket and King Henry II.

In 1173 a great fire broke out at Christ Church. After the church burned down, Odo went to the Council of Woodstock on 1 July 1175, to renew the charters of the church. Instead, he was elected abbot of Battle on 19 July 1175.

Odo was known as an ardent lover of books, and a great theologian who preached in French, English, and Latin. There is some uncertainty as to his writings, owing to confusion with Odo of Cheriton and Odo of Murimund, but a list of thirteen works, chiefly writings on the Old Testament and sermons, can be ascribed to him.

The origin of the expression "To Jesus through Mary" is generally attributed to Louis Grignion de Montfort.  However, the idea of going through Mary to Jesus is much older, and was promoted by such authors as Ildephonse of Toledo (+667), Germanus of Constantinople (+773), John of Damascus (+750), et al. In Odo of Canterbury (+1200) is found a passage which is even closer to the expression attributed to Montfort.  Odo says: "... one goes to Christ through Mary, one goes to the Son through the Mother.  By means of the Mother of Mercy one reaches mercy itself." (Testi Mariani, ed. L. Gambero, vol. 3, 490)

Odo died on 20 January 1200 and was buried in the lower part of the church at Battle. He was venerated at Battle as a saint. The relic list at Canterbury Cathedral mentions "a tooth of the Ven. Odo Abb. Of Battle".

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12th-century births
1200 deaths
12th-century Christian saints
Medieval English saints
The Smashing Pumpkins discography

The discography of the Smashing Pumpkins, an American alternative rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois, consists of twelve studio albums, four live albums, one digital live album series, seven compilation albums (including box sets and promotional releases), five extended plays (including promotional releases), 55 singles (including promotional releases), four video albums, 37 music videos, and contributions to five soundtrack albums. This list does not include material recorded by the Smashing Pumpkins members with other side projects.

As of 2012, the Smashing Pumpkins have sold 16.7 million albums according to Nielsen Soundscan.

Albums

Studio albums 

 II Machina II had a free internet release and thus did not chart and was not eligible for certification.

Live albums

Compilation albums

EPs 
For the live extended plays Live in Chicago October 23, 1995 and Bonus EP, see the live albums section of this article.

 I The song "Rhinoceros" charted from this release.
 II The song "Zero" charted from this release.
 III Promotional bonus disc issued with limited-edition printings of Machina/The Machines of God.
 IV Songs from Songs for a Sailor were sporadically released one at a time to be downloaded starting from December 8, 2009.

Box sets

Singles

Promotional singles 

 V  "Daughter" was released as a 7-inch one-sided flexi disc in subscriber copies of the April 4, 1992 issue of Reflex magazine.
 VII  "Daphne Descends" was released as a promotional CD single exclusively in France.
 VIII  B-side of "Perfect" written by James Iha, released as a promotional cassette single.
 X  "Heavy Metal Machine" was issued as a promotional cassette single prior to the release of Machina.

Other charted songs

Demo albums

Video albums 

 I This video was a limited edition release packaged with Siamese Dream that contains the videos for "Siva", "Rhinoceros", "Cherub Rock", "Today", and "Disarm".

Music videos 

 
This music video was unreleased prior to its inclusion on 2001's Greatest Hits DVD.
IIThis music video contains footage from Batman & Robin directed by Joel Schumacher.

An internet-only "interactive music video" was released for "The Crying Tree of Mercury" by MTV in March 2000, directed by Billy Corgan. It is no longer available through MTV's website.

Other appearances 

 I Ozark Mountain Daredevils cover

 II Johnny Marks cover

 III Vic Chestnutt cover

 IV Depeche Mode cover

See also 
 List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. alternative rock chart

Notes

References 

 The Aeroplane Flies High [box set liner notes]. Beverly Hills: Virgin Records America. 1996
 Strong, Martin C.: The Great Rock Discography, 6th edn., 2002, Canongate,

References

External links 
 
 
 

Discography
Alternative rock discographies
Discographies of American artists
Kensington, Prince Edward Island

Kensington is a Canadian town located in Prince County, Prince Edward Island.  It is  northeast of the city of Summerside.  In 2021, its population was 1,812 and is seeing rapid growth thanks in part to a recently opened business park.

History 
The area was first known as Five Lanes End, as roads from five different communities converged at the point. It was renamed Barrett's Cross in 1824 after an early settler who established an inn in the area. In 1862, the town was renamed after Kensington Palace in London and it became a town after the Prince Edward Island Railway's mainline from Charlottetown to Summerside curved through the community.  The town's former railyards are now rehabilitated as a tourist venue, with the former Kensington Railway Station designed by architect Charles Benjamin Chappell designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1976.

Demographics 

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kensington had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

Events 
Aside from being a service centre for the surrounding farming,fishing and tourism areas, Kensington hosts many notable events throughout the year. These include the Kensington Harvest Festival, Community Gardens Ambassador Program, and many more.

Education 
Kensington has schools from Preschool to Secondary. It is part of the English Language School Board (formerly part of the Western School Board) District of schools. At the Preschool level there are numerous organizations such as Fun Times Kindergarten, Play School, Happy Days Playschool, and Kiddietown Day Care.

Kensington has one elementary school, Queen Elizabeth Elementary. Opened on December 3, 1976, Queen Elizabeth teaches kindergarten through grade 6. The school has two playgrounds, the front playground being used for the primary grades and the back playground for grades 4 through 6. The school contains a music room, gymnasium, French room, and library. Many extracurricular activities are offered to students, such as intramurals, choir, chess club, photography club and more.

It is also home to Kensington Intermediate Senior High School which teaches grades seven to twelve. KISH (as it is often abbreviated) offers many extracurricular programs and organizations such as the Gender Sexuality Alliance, the student council, sports teams (e.g. rugby, soccer, basketball and more), Travel and Tourism, Agriculture (known commonly as Aggies), concert and jazz band and much more.

References

External links

Communities in Prince County, Prince Edward Island
Towns in Prince Edward Island
Populated places established in 1824
Tobias Delius

Tobias Delius (born 15 July 1964) is a tenor saxophonist and clarinettist.

Early life
Delius was born in Oxford, England, on 15 July 1964. His mother was German and his father was Argentine. Delius was brought up largely in England and Germany. He switched from clarinet to tenor saxophone at the age of sixteen, and played with local bands.

Later life and career
Delius played in Mexico for eight months before joining the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam  in 1984. He did not complete his studies there, which included lessons with Misha Mengelberg and Paul Stocker, but developed his reputation with improvisers in the area. He joined Available Jelly in 1989, Trio San Francisco and other bands that included Daniele D'Agaro and Sean Bergin in 1992, and toured with Louis Moholo in 1992–93. He also co-founded a quartet with Han Bennink, Larry Fishkind and Tristan Honsinger in 1990. Fishkind was later replaced by Joe Williamson in this band, which employs a "method of improvising suites utilizing written themes introduced democratically by any member".

Delius was awarded the 2003 VPRO/Boy Edgar Award.

Playing style
Grove wrote: "Delius produces a sumptuous timbre reminiscent of Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, which he combines with a decidedly modern and slippery harmonic and rhythmic conception. He phrases over bar-lines as his harmonic extensions blur the edges of chord changes, and he uses varied dynamics to dramatic effect. He is a consistently deft improviser in both traditional and free settings."

References

External links
 CD reviews - Tobias Delius
 ICP Orchestra Homepage

1964 births
Living people
English jazz saxophonists
British male saxophonists
English jazz clarinetists
21st-century saxophonists
21st-century clarinetists
21st-century British male musicians
21st-century English musicians
20th-century saxophonists
20th-century British male musicians
20th-century English musicians
British male jazz musicians
ICP Orchestra members
Spiral ganglion

The spiral (cochlear) ganglion is a group of neuron cell bodies in the modiolus, the conical central axis of the cochlea. These bipolar neurons innervate the hair cells of the organ of Corti. They project their axons to the ventral and dorsal cochlear nuclei as the cochlear nerve, a branch of the vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII).

Structure
Neurons whose cell bodies lie in the spiral ganglion are strung along the bony core of the cochlea, and send fibers (axons) into the central nervous system (CNS). These bipolar neurons are the first neurons in the auditory system to fire an action potential, and supply all of the brain's auditory input. Their dendrites make synaptic contact with the base of hair cells, and their axons are bundled together to form the auditory portion of eighth cranial nerve.  The number of neurons in the spiral ganglion is estimated to be about 35,000–50,000.

Two apparent subtypes of spiral ganglion cells exist.  Type I spiral ganglion cells comprise the vast majority of spiral ganglion cells (90-95% in cats and 88% in humans), and exclusively innervate the inner hair cells.  They are myelinated, bipolar neurons.  Type II spiral ganglion cells make up the remainder.  In contrast to Type I cells, they are unipolar and unmyelinated in most mammals.  They innervate the outer hair cells, with each Type II neuron sampling many (15-20) outer hair cells.  In addition, outer hair cells form reciprocal synapses onto Type II spiral ganglion cells, suggesting that the Type II cells have both afferent and efferent roles.

Development
The rudiment of the cochlear nerve appears about the end of the third week as a group of ganglion cells closely applied to the cephalic edge of the auditory vesicle. The ganglion gradually splits into two parts, the vestibular ganglion and the spiral ganglion. The axons of neurons in the spiral ganglion travel to the brainstem, forming the cochlear nerve.

Gallery

References

External links
 Slide and overview at anatomy.dal.ca
 Slide at cytochemistry.net
 Image at University of New England, Maine

Auditory system
Sensory ganglia
Vestibulocochlear nerve
Otology
Audiology
Blatnica, Slovakia

Blatnica (1927–1946 Turčianska Blatnica) is a village and municipality in the Turiec region of Slovakia. Administratively it is a part of the Martin District in the Žilina Region. The village is situated under the Greater Fatra Range, at the opening of the spectacular karst Gader and Blatnica valleys. The ruins of the Blatnica Castle lie on a low ridge over the village.

Etymology
The name means "a muddy place" ( - mud).

History
Blatnica is an important archaeological site, where Slavic tumuli with many precious artifacts (such as the famous Blatnica Sword) from the 8th and 9th centuries have been found. The site gave name to the so-called "Blatnica-Mikulčice" archaeological horizon. The first written mention stems from 1230, however, the castle was built at the end of the 13th century.

Culture
The first Slovak female botanist Izabela Textorisová lived in Blatnica and her rich herbarium contains plants of the nearby Tlstá mountain. Both Textorisová's house and a museum dedicated to the ethnographer, filmmaker, and photographer Karol Plicka are open to the public. Other places of interest include two manor houses from the 18th century, a classicist Lutheran church and many well-preserved rural houses.

Demographics
Blatnica has a population of 881 (as of December 31, 2005). According to the 2001 census, 99% of inhabitants were Slovaks. Blatnica is one of few villages with a Lutheran absolute majority (58.6%) in the predominantly Roman Catholic Slovakia.

See also
 List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia

References

Genealogical resources

The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive "Statny Archiv in Bytca, Slovakia"

 Roman Catholic church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1777-1949 (parish B)
 Lutheran church records (births/marriages/deaths): 1785-1929 (parish A)

External links
Municipal website 
Basic information about Blatnica and its history
Surnames of living people in Blatnica

Villages and municipalities in Martin District
Archaeological sites in Slovakia
The Future and Its Enemies

The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress is a 1998 book by Virginia Postrel where she describes the growing conflict in post-Cold War society between "dynamism" – marked by constant change, creativity and exploration in the pursuit of progress – and "stasism", where progress is controlled by careful and cautious planning. Postrel endorses the former, illustrates the differences between the two, and argues that dynamism should be embraced rather than feared.

Reviews
Richard Ebeling wrote a positive review for the Future of Freedom Foundation in May 1999. He remarked,

Dr. Edward Younkins, a professor at Wheeling Jesuit University, wrote for the journal Free Life praising the book as a "brilliant, bold, and compelling new work". He also referred to it as "a must-read for anyone interested in commerce, technology, public policy, and the search for truth in a dynamic world."

See also
 An Army of Davids
 The Global Trap

References
Citations

Other sources
 The Future and Its Enemies at Virginia Postrel's website, Dynamist.com
 PBS Newshour story
Debate on The Future and Its Enemies between Postrel and David Frum, November 16, 1998, C-SPAN
Booknotes interview with Postrel on The Future and Its Enemies, February 14, 1999, C-SPAN

1998 non-fiction books
Libertarian books
World Freedom Day (United States)

World Freedom Day is a United States federal observance declared by then-President George W. Bush to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe. It started in 2001 and is celebrated on November 9.

History
For this occasion, conservative youth groups such as Young America's Foundation and the College Republicans urge students to commemorate this day (which they mark as the start of "Freedom Week," thus including Veterans Day) by "celebrating victory over communism" through provocative flyer campaigns and activism projects. Many conservative political commentators and activists use World Freedom Day as an occasion in which to acclaim President Ronald Reagan, whom they regard as being responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

Observances
On November 9, 2005, President Bush proclaimed November 9 as World Freedom Day. On November 8, 2016, President Barack Obama proclaimed World Freedom Day as November 9, 2016. On November 8, 2017, President Donald Trump proclaimed November 9, 2017, as World Freedom Day.

See also
 European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism
 Freedom Day
 International observance

References

External links
First Proclamation
Hoover Institution Description
America's Future Endorsement

Public holidays in the United States
November observances