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Student information system

A student information  system (SIS), student management system, school administration software or student administration system is a management information system for education sector establishments used to manage student data. It integrates students, parents, teachers and the administration. Student information systems provide capabilities for registering students in courses; documenting grading, transcripts of academic achievement and co-curricular activities, and the results of student assessment scores; forming student schedules; tracking student attendance; generating reports and managing other student-related data needs in an educational institution.

Information security is a concern, as universities house an array of sensitive personal information, making them potentially attractive targets for security breaches, such as those experienced by retail corporations or healthcare providers.

See also 
 Automate the Schools
Learning Management System
Sampoorna, school management system project implemented by the Education Department of the Government of Kerala, India
SchoolTool SMS, student management system designed for New York State K-12 Schools.

References 

School-administration software
Educational technology
Learning
Educational software
Information systems
Anthony Corrie

Anthony Corrie (born 22 June 1984 in Darwin,) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who had a 56-game Australian Football League (AFL) career.

Regarded as of the most talented under 18s in the country, he was named All-Australian and won the Harrison Medal at the Under 18 National Championships 2002, attracting the attention of AFL talent scouts. The Brisbane Lions recruited him in the 2002 AFL Draft from the Southern Districts Football Club. In 2004 he made his AFL debut with the Brisbane Lions against West Coast. Of indigenous heritage, he began playing junior football with the Nightcliff Football Club in the Northern Territory and represented the Northern Territory Thunder side.

Corrie suffered a setback when he broke his jaw in round 12 in a collision with Essendon Football Club's Dustin Fletcher. A finger injury once again proved to be a setback to his career. In 2006, after a couple of in-form games, Corrie ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament on a fall against Fremantle, ending his season.

He was delisted at the end of 2006, but was redrafted by the Lions with their first selection in the 2006 Rookie Draft.

At the end of the 2008 season, Corrie was traded to Collingwood in return for pick 93. He played 3 games for Collingwood in the next 2 seasons before being delisted at the end of the 2010 AFL season.

Since 2014 Corrie has been the playing coach of the Kenmore Australian Football Club in the QFA South league.

First cousin of Melbourne FC's Aaron Davey and Essendon FC's Alwyn Davey through their mothers who are sisters.

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Brisbane Lions players
Collingwood Football Club players
Sportspeople from Darwin, Northern Territory
Nightcliff Football Club players
Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football
Australian rules footballers from the Northern Territory
Southern Districts Football Club players
Western Magpies Australian Football Club players
Redland Football Club players
Australian rules football players from Darwin, Northern Territory
Rock Whore vs. Dance Floor

Rock Whore vs. Dance Floor is a remix album by Chemlab, released on March 14, 2006, by Invisible Records and Underground, Inc.

Track listing

Personnel
Adapted from the Rock Whore vs. Dance Floor liner notes.

Chemlab
 F.J. DeSanto – instruments
 Jamie Duffy – instruments
 Jared Louche – vocals, instruments
 Greg Lucas – instruments
 Jason Novak – instruments

Additional performers
 Duncan Wilkinson – additional programming (1)

Production and design
 Martin Atkins – mastering
 Michael Doyle – design
 Miguel Torres – mastering

Release history

References

External links 
 Rock Whore vs. Dance Floor at Discogs (list of releases)

Chemlab albums
2006 compilation albums
Invisible Records remix albums
Underground, Inc. remix albums
Joyce Frankland Academy

Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport, formerly Newport Free Grammar School, is a school in Newport, Essex, England. It was founded in 1588. The school is a mixed secondary school with a sixth form.  It previously existed in different forms including a boarding school and a grammar school. The headteacher is Duncan Roberts and the vice headteacher is Ian Stoneham. As of 2012, there were 987 students, including 160 in the sixth form.

It takes its current name after Dame Joyce Frankland (1531-1588), the only daughter of goldsmith Robert Trappes, who founded it as the "free Grammer Schole of Newport". Dame Frankland also made a number of educational bequests in her will to colleges at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Specialist and academy status
The school achieved Specialist Language College status in July 2003 from DfES and has been a Language College since September 2003. The school achieved a second specialism in Science, commencing 1 September 2008 but this was later lost.

The school converted to academy status on 1 September 2012.

Academic standards
In 2011, Newport Free Grammar School was ranked 405th out of the 429 institutions supplying A-Level results to the Daily Telegraph's annual league table based on the percentages of A*, A and B grades achieved.

Following an inspection on 15 March 2006, Ofsted rated the school as good, the second-best grade on its four-point scale. Inspectors said teaching was "sometimes outstanding, even inspirational" in languages and the humanities but needed improvement in mathematics and IT.

Notable former pupils

 Max Barrett, morbid anatomist and histologist
 Charles George Broyden, mathematician
 Martin Caton, MP for Gower
 Jimmy Doherty, BBC broadcaster and farmer
 Paul Epworth, music producer
 James Frain, film actor
 Matt Holland, Republic of Ireland footballer
 Kate Johnson, novelist
 Shakila Karim, singer-songwriter and musician
 Jamie Oliver, television chef and author
 J. W. Pritchard, civil servant of the Indian civil service
 Pip Pyle, drummer with Gong and Hatfield and the North
 Laura Sugar, Paralympic athlete
 David Sutton, archivist and local politician
 Peter Warren, journalist

References

External links
 

Secondary schools in Essex
Educational institutions established in the 1580s
1588 establishments in England
Academies in Essex
Newport, Essex
Specialist language colleges in England
The Wild Boys

The title The Wild Boys may refer to:

 The Wild Boys (novel), a 1971 novel by William S. Burroughs
 "The Wild Boys" (song), a 1984 single by Duran Duran, named after the novel
 The Wild Boys (film), a 2017 film by Bertrand Mandico
 Wild Boys, a 2011 Australian TV series from the Seven Network
 Wildboyz, a 2003 MTV reality TV series
 The Wild Boys (play) a 1970s British play by Peter Richardson, based on the William S. Burroughs novel

See also
Wild Boy (disambiguation)
Že

Že or Zhe () used to represent the phoneme , is a letter in the Persian alphabet, based on  () with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the four letters that the Persian alphabet adds to the original Arabic script, others being  , and .

It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts. It is used in Pashto, Kurdish, other Iranian languages, Uyghur, Ottoman Turkish (j in the modern Turkish alphabet), Azerbaijani and Urdu, but not in Arabic.

In Kashmiri , this letter is called "tse" and represents the phoneme [t͡s].

In most of the Levant and Northwestern Africa, the letter   is used for .

Character encodings

In other scripts

Devanagari
In Devanagari the letters झ़ and श़ (with a nuqta) are used to represent the sound of /ʒ/, e.g. टेलीविझ़न/टेलीविश़न ṭēlivižan "television". The letter corresponds to the Urdu Perso-Arabic .

Bengali
In Bengali the sound of /ʒ/ may be represented as জ়়, i.e. the letter Ja with two dots.

Cyrillic
The letter ж, common in some Slavic languages, has an equivalent sound to the "s" in "television" e.g. Zharkov (Russian Cyrillic: Жарков).

See also 
 پ - Pe (Persian)
 ﭺ - Che (Persian)
 ﭪ - Ve (Arabic)
 گ - Gaf (Arabic)

References

Persian letters
Cruciate anastomosis

The cruciate anastomosis is a circulatory anastomosis in the upper thigh formed by the inferior gluteal artery, the lateral and medial circumflex femoral arteries, the first perforating artery of the deep femoral artery, and the anastomotic branch of the posterior branch of the obturator artery.

The cruciate anastomosis is clinically relevant because if there is a blockage between the femoral artery and external iliac artery, blood can reach the popliteal artery by means of the anastomosis. The route of blood is through the internal iliac, to the inferior gluteal artery, to a perforating branch of the deep femoral artery, to the lateral circumflex femoral artery, then to its descending branch into the superior lateral genicular artery and thus into the popliteal artery.

Structure

The cruciate anastomosis is so-called because it resembles a cross. 

Its four components are:
 Inferior gluteal artery
 Transverse branches of the lateral circumflex femoral artery and the medial circumflex femoral artery
 Ascending branch of the first perforating artery from the deep femoral artery

See also
 Trochanteric anastomosis

References 

Arteries of the abdomen
Marvin Hinton

Marvin Hinton (born 2 February 1940) is an English former footballer who made nearly 400 appearances in the Football League playing as a defender for Charlton Athletic and Chelsea.

Early life
Hinton was born in Norwood, and brought up in South Norwood  London SE25 and attended nearby Ashburton School.

Career

Charlton
He began his football career with Charlton Athletic F.C. having overlooked his local club Crystal Palace, making his debut in the Second Division in the 1957–58 season. While a Charlton player he won three caps for the England under-23 team. 

Hinton made his League debut as a full back but he later made a number of appearances at wing-half and inside-forward before earning a regular first-team place at centre-half in 1961 following an injury to Gordon Jago.

Chelsea
After scoring twice from 131 appearances in the Football League, Hinton was signed for Chelsea by Tommy Docherty in August 1963 for £30,000. He made his Chelsea debut on 12 October 1963 in a 3–1 win at Ipswich Town.

When Hinton moved to Chelsea he reverted to full back.  Playing as part of a richly-talented team including the likes of Charlie Cooke, Alan Hudson, Bobby Tambling, John Hollins, Peter Bonetti and Peter Osgood he was part of the successful Chelsea side of the 60s and early 70s, earning his first winners' medal with the League Cup in 1965. After the departure of John Mortimore and Frank Upton, Hinton formed a long lasting partnership with Ron Harris in central defence. An appearance in the 1967 FA Cup Final defeat to Tottenham Hotspur earned him a runners-up medal and further success was to follow with victory in the 1970 FA Cup Final, where Chelsea defeated Leeds United, the reigning League Champions and one of the strongest teams of the era, in a replay at Old Trafford; Hinton came on as a substitute in both games. as the signing of John Dempsey and David Webb increased competition for first team places. Under coach (and later Manager) Dave Sexton, Hinton, Harris and Eddie McCreadie pioneered the zonal marking system of defense in the English First Division, consistently playing together throughout the Sixties.

Hinton continued to play for Chelsea until 1976, although further success eluded the club after their 1971 Cup Winner's Cup victory, culminating in relegation to the Second Division a year before Hinton left Stamford Bridge. After his League career he had a spell with Barnet before retirement.

In all, he made 344 appearances for Chelsea between 1963 and 1976, scoring 4 goals.

International football
Though a member of Alf Ramsey's provisional 40-man squad for the 1966 World Cup, he never won a full cap.

References

1940 births
Living people
Barnet F.C. players
Charlton Athletic F.C. players
Chelsea F.C. players
English men's footballers
England men's under-23 international footballers
Sportspeople from Crawley
English Football League players
Men's association football defenders
Matangi Tonga

Matangi Tonga is an online newspaper providing Tongan news in both English and Tongan. It is operated by Vava'u Press. The newspaper's Nukualofa office was destroyed in the fires and rioting in November 2006.

References

External links
Matangi Tonga Online

Newspapers published in Tonga
Lateral umbilical fold

The lateral umbilical fold is an elevation (on either side of the body) of the peritoneum lining the inner/posterior surface of the lower anterior abdominal wall formed by the underlying inferior epigastric artery and inferior epigastric vein which the peritoneum covers. Superiorly, the lateral umbilical fold ends where the vessels reach and enter the rectus sheath at the arcuate line of rectus sheath; in spite of the name, the lateral umbilical folds do not extend as far superiorly as the umbilicus. Inferiorly, it extends to just medial to the deep inguinal ring.

Each lateral umbilical fold is situated lateral to the ipsilateral medial umbilical fold. Unlike the median and medial umbilical folds, the contents of the lateral umbilical fold remain functional after birth.

Clinical significance

The lateral umbilical fold is an important reference site with regards to hernia classification.  A direct hernia occurs medial to the lateral umbilical fold, whereas an indirect hernia originates lateral to the fold.  This latter case is due to the placement of the opening of the deep inguinal ring in the space lateral to the lateral umbilical fold, which allows the passage of the ductus deferens, testicular artery, and other components of the spermatic cord in men, or the round ligament of the uterus in women.

Additional images

See also
 Median umbilical ligament 
 Medial umbilical ligament

References

External links
 Lateral umbilical fold
  - "Internal surface of the anterior abdominal wall."
 

Abdomen
Publius Cornelius Rufinus (dictator 334 BC)

Publius Cornelius Rufinus was a dictator during the Roman Republic.

Rufinus belonged to the famous patrician gens Cornelia, as well as being the earliest recorded member of the branch of the family, the gens Cornelii Rufinii et Sullae.

He was appointed dictator in 334 BC but renounced his position due to a defect in the religious procedures for his appointment. He is then mentioned again the following year in the Fasti Consulares as sole dictator, in the first Dictator Year (a year without consuls). However, the historicity of the Dictator Years is usually rejected by modern historians.

He was a distant patriarchal ancestor of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

References

Bibliography 

 Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome.
 Jörg Rüpke, Anne Glock, David Richardson (translator), Fasti Sacerdotum: A Prosopography of Pagan, Jewish, and Christian Religious Officials in the City of Rome, 300 BC to AD 499, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Rufinus, Publius
Ancient Roman dictators
4th-century BC Romans
Ancient Roman patricians
Dimitrovgrad Municipality

Dimitrovgrad Municipality may refer to:

 Dimitrovgrad Municipality, Bulgaria
 Dimitrovgrad, Serbia

Municipality name disambiguation pages
Strange Adventures (comics retailer)

Strange Adventures is a comic book retail chain with three stores, all located in Canada's Maritime Provinces (see Locations below). All three are owned by Calum Johnston and named after a comics series published by DC from 1950 through 1973.

Locations

Fredericton, New Brunswick 
Opened: 1992

Address: 68 York St, Fredericton, NB E3B 3N4

Halifax, Nova Scotia 
Opened: 1994

Address: 5110 Prince St, Halifax, NS B3J 1L3

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia 
Opened: 2010

Address: 101 Portland St, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 1H7

Awards and Mentions
2006: Strange Adventures was presented with the Harry Kremer Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Retailer, as part of the Joe Shuster Awards in Toronto.
2005: Strange Adventures employee Mike Drake was chosen as "Halifax's Best Salesperson" by local weekly paper The Coast.
2001: The store received a Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award as part of the Eisner Awards.
1996: Strange Adventures was named "The World's Greatest Comic Store," by Previews Magazine, and appeared in two Superman comics: Adventures of Superman #547 and Superman: The Man of Steel #74.
Strange Adventures (Halifax location), has been awarded "Best Comics Store" by The Coast for 12 years in a row, from 2006 to 2017. It also won the award an additional 7 years running from 1998 to 2004. The winner of the 2005 year is unknown, due to there being no entry for that year on The Coast's website.

See also
 Cape & Cowl

References

External links
 Strange Adventures on the web

Comics retailers in Canada
Harry Kremer Retailer Award winners
Companies based in Fredericton
Head of femur

Head of femur can refer to:

 Femoral head
 Head of Femur (band)
Bend and Break

"Bend and Break" is a song performed and composed by English rock band Keane, released as the fifth and final single from their debut album Hopes and Fears.

Track listing
"Bend and Break"
"On a Day Like Today"
"Allemande (Live)"
"Bend and Break" (live video)

Basto Re-mix (26 August 2013)
"Bend and Break" (Basto Re-Mix)

Chart performance

See also
List of songs by Keane

References

External links
Official website
Keaneshaped – Information about record

2005 singles
Keane (band) songs
Songs written by Tim Rice-Oxley
Songs written by Tom Chaplin
Songs written by Richard Hughes (musician)
Wilko de Vogt

Wilko de Vogt (born 17 September 1975 in Breda, North Brabant) is a former Dutch football goalkeeper.

De Vogt started his professional career in 1996 with NAC Breda after he had come through their youth system. In 2001, he was transferred to Sheffield United. However, after only six appearances for the club in two years, he returned to the Netherlands when he was sold to RBC Roosendaal. He has since played for RKC Waalwijk and over 200 matches for FC Oss. In 2010, he joined FC Twente as their third choice goalkeeper. He has played this role for VVV-Venlo and NAC Breda, before ending his career in July 2013.

References
 Profile

External links

1975 births
Living people
Dutch men's footballers
Dutch expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Sheffield United F.C. players
NAC Breda players
TOP Oss players
RBC Roosendaal players
RKC Waalwijk players
FC Twente players
VVV-Venlo players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Footballers from Breda
Synchronous learning

Synchronous learning refers to a learning event in which a group of students are engaging in learning at the same time. Before learning technology allowed for synchronous learning environments, most online education took place through asynchronous learning methods. Since synchronous tools that can be used for education have become available, many people are turning to them as a way to help decrease the challenges associated with transactional distance that occurs in online education. Several case studies
that found that students are able to develop a sense of community over online synchronous communication platforms.

While many online educational programs started out as and with the advent of web conferencing tools, people can learn at the same time in different places as well. For example, use of instant messaging or live chat, webinars and video conferencing allow for students and teachers to collaborate and learn in real time.

Practical applications
A lecture is an example of synchronous learning in a face-to-face environment, because learners and teachers are all in the same place at the same time. Another example of a synchronous learning event would involve students watching a live web stream of a class, while simultaneously taking part in a discussion. Synchronous learning can be facilitated by having students and instructors participate in a class via a web conferencing tool. These synchronous experiences can be designed to develop and strengthen instructor-student and student-student relationships, which can be a challenge in distance learning programs.

History
Synchronous communication in distance education began long before the advent of the use of computers in synchronous learning. After the very early days of distance education, when students and instructors communicated asynchronously via the post office, synchronous forms of communication in distance education emerged with broadcast radio and television. However, it was not until the 1980s, with video-conferencing and interactive television, that students could ask questions and discuss concepts while seeing participants in a synchronous setting. Manifestations of interactive multimedia, the Internet, access to Web-based resources, to synchronous and asynchronous forms of computer mediated communication followed in the 1990s (Bernard, et al., 2005; Simonson, et al., 2012, p. 37).

See also
Asynchronous learning
Blended learning
E-learning

References

Further reading
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Educational technology
Education theory
Pubofemoral ligament

The pubofemoral ligament (or pubocapsular ligament) is a ligament which reinforces the inferior and anterior portions of the joint capsule of the hip joint. The ligament attaches superiorly at the superior ramus of pubis, and the iliopubic eminence; it attaches inferiorly at the inferior portion of the intertrochanteric line (here blending with the inferior band of iliofemoral ligament). The psoas bursa intervenes between the ligament and joint capsule.

The ligament resists hyper-abduction of the hip joint.

References

External links
  ()
  hip/hip%20ligaments/ligaments5 at the Dartmouth Medical School's Department of Anatomy

Ligaments of the lower limb
Cherry Creek Shopping Center

Cherry Creek Shopping Center, also known as Cherry Creek Center, is a shopping mall about three and half miles southeast of downtown Denver, Colorado in the Cherry Creek Neighborhood. It is situated along East First Avenue on the banks of Cherry Creek. The mall features Macy's, Nordstrom, Restoration Hardware, and Neiman Marcus.

Cherry Creek Center was originally completed in 1953, and was renovated in 1990, currently anchored by three department stores; Neiman Marcus, Macy's, and Nordstrom. Lord & Taylor opened a location at the mall in 1990, a newer expanded store closed in 2004 after the chain repositioned. Other than the shops in Aspen, Cherry Creek  Center is the exclusive location of several luxury retailers in Colorado, such as Louis Vuitton, Burberry, and Brooks Brothers. Saks Fifth Avenue closed in March 2011 and became Restoration Hardware in 2015.  

It is also home to an eight screen movie theater operated by AMC. The mall is operated by the Taubman Centers company.

Before the shopping center 
The shopping center is a triumph of mined land reclamation. In the 1920's Temple Buell bought a large parcel of land at First Avenue and University Boulevard. It was nothing but a weed-filled area.  Before the shopping center, sand was mined from a large pit. After it was mined out, the city used the pit as a sanitary landfill in the 1940s. After the pit was filled with trash, the first Cherry Creek shopping center was built over the dump. It was designed in 1949 by Temple Hoyne Buell and is still in use, located immediately west of the larger mall facility extension renovated in 1990. The former location of Bed Bath & Beyond was originally the Cherry Creek location of The Denver Dry Goods Company/May-Daniels & Fisher until 1990.

Department stores and anchors
Nordstrom - (Opened 2007 in former Lord & Taylor location)
Macy's - (Originally to be new location for The Denver Dry Goods store, merged with and opened as May D&F merged with Foley's, became Macy's in 2006)
Restoration Hardware - (Opened 1990 as Saks Fifth Avenue, closed 2011, demolished, site became Restoration Hardware in 2015)
Neiman Marcus - (Opened 1991)

Former department stores and anchors
Lord & Taylor - (Opened in 1990, closed 2005, became Nordstrom in 2007)
Saks Fifth Avenue - (Opened in 1990, closed in 2011, demolished, site became Restoration Hardware  in 2015)

References

External links
Cherry Creek Shopping Center

Buildings and structures in Denver
Tourist attractions in Denver
Shopping malls established in 1990
1990 establishments in Colorado
Shopping malls in Colorado
Taubman Centers
John Mutton

John Roderick Mutton (20 September 1947 – 15 May 2022) was a British politician. He was the Labour group leader on Coventry City Council from May 2003 until May 2013, Leader of Coventry City Council from 2010 to 2013 and Lord Mayor of Coventry in 1997.

In 2010, John Mutton told The New York Times, regarding British government cuts in spending: "It feels like they’re just sticking a finger in the air and guessing."

Mutton lost his position as Labour group leader in May 2013 in a leadership election that was won by Ann Lucas, which had been predicted.  After losing the election, he became a member of a special committee appointed to oversee the Ricoh Arena.

In 2013, Mutton started an e-mail chain amongst Labour Party members making jokes about Margaret Thatcher's funeral. When the e-mail was made public he was forced by the national party leaders to make an apology.

John Mutton died Sunday 15 May 2022, having only been reelected as a councillor the same month.

References

External links
 Councillor John Mutton webpage

1947 births
2022 deaths
Coventry City Councillors
Labour Party (UK) councillors
Mayors of Coventry
Leaders of local authorities of England
20th-century English politicians
21st-century English politicians
Calyptomena

Calyptomena is a genus of birds in the family Calyptomenidae. The name is a combination of two Greek words: kaluptos meaning "covered", and mēnē, meaning "moon". Established by Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1822, the genus contains three species:

Species

All three species are primarily green, and all are found in Borneo. The larger two species, Hose's and Whitehead's, are endemic to the island, while the smaller green broadbill is also found in Sumatra and on the Malay peninsula.

References

 
Bird genera
Taxa named by Thomas Stamford Raffles
Thane Camus

Thane Alexander Camus (; born November 27, 1970) is an American TV personality and actor in Japan.

Biography
Camus was born in New York on November 27, 1970. Camus arrived in Japan in 1980 and graduated from a board school in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture. He is a native in English and Japanese and can speak some French as well. He was the first male graduate of Saint Maur International School (est.1872) once it became coeducational. He entered Hofstra University, Long Island, but dropped out before he graduated. 

His great-uncle was Albert Camus.

Career in Japan
Camus was a regular on the Sanma Akashiya show Sanma's Super Karakuri TV for many years, in which he quizzed Japanese passers-by in English and foreigners in Japanese on the streets of Tokyo, and has appeared as a special guest on multiple variety shows.

In 2005, Camus left his previous talent agency of 14 years, R&A Promotions. He has since co-founded his own talent agency, "Eclipse Production", for foreign professionals looking for work in the broadcasting business.

As of 2019, Camus is a co-host on J-Trip Plan, a travel show in English on the Japanese national broadcaster NHK.

Filmography

Commercials
 Street Fighter II' Plus (1993) (Vega, Balrog in Japan)

Theatrical animation
 Crayon Shin-chan: The Legend Called: Dance! Amigo! (2006)

Video games
 Valkyria Chronicles 4 (2018) (Xanthus)

Television
 Sakura (2002) (Robert Hoffman)
 Zero: Black Blood (2014) (Ring)
 Garo: Makai no Hana (2014) (Luke/Stellas)
 Kamen Rider Ghost (2016) (Steve Bills)
 Segodon (2018) (Harry Smith Parkes)

References

External links
 Media International website
 Official blog 
 

1970 births
Living people
Television personalities from New York City
Expatriate television personalities in Japan
American expatriates in Japan
American people of French descent
SW Radio Africa

SW Radio Africa was an independent Zimbabwe radio station that broadcast from London, England, from 19 December 2001 to 10 August 2014.

Approach

It was founded by Gerry Jackson. With the government of Robert Mugabe keeping a tight rein on the local airwaves, the station produced and presented news and current affairs programmes for broadcast in Zimbabwe on short wave and on the Internet. Programme content covered the decline of the agricultural sector due to government sponsored farm invasions, the ever-increasing currency hyper-inflation and the effect that HIV and AIDS was having on the population. Much of the content comprised pre-recorded but unedited, international telephone conversations between the presenter and people in Zimbabwe. These untrained members of the public gave their report of happenings, often as they were going down. The unedited form that gave the content legitimacy among the listeners. The news broadcasts were considered more factual than those of the state broadcaster. Staffed and run by black and white Zimbabweans in exile, it aimed to promote democracy and free speech, and to counter the mis-information and hate speech broadcast as propaganda, by the government-controlled Radio and TV stations. The station's website, www.swradioafrica.com, featured live online streaming, as well as archived broadcasts.

Broadcasts were typically for just 2 or 3 hours each evening.

Technical details
The two studios of the station were housed in an office building in Borehamwood, where the journalist staff compiled telephone recordings during the day. These recordings were then inserted into the live programmes broadcast each evening. The signal was sent from the studio via ISDN lines, then transmitted via satellite to a location in South Africa, and re-broadcast on Shortwave into Zimbabwe. During sensitive times of elections etc, the Zimbabwe government tried to block the signal by jamming with its own shortwave facilities. At such times SW Radio Africa would broadcast on two frequencies simultaneously as the Government could only jam one frequency at a time.

In popular culture
In The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe (Chapter 4), journalist Douglas Rogers says of two of his parents' employees: "It was only later that I learned the two Johns were fervent MDC supporters and had been for years. It was one of the reasons my father kept them both on. He enjoyed speaking to them about politics, and it was why he had given them his old shortwave radio: so that they could tune into SW Africa, the pro-democracy station that broadcast out of London."

References

External links
SW Radio Africa
Kenya Radio Stations online

Radio stations in Zimbabwe
2001 establishments in the United Kingdom
Radio stations established in 2001
2014 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Radio stations disestablished in 2014
Defunct mass media in Zimbabwe
Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom
Hercílio Luz International Airport

Florianópolis–Hercílio Luz International Airport , branded Floripa Airport, is the airport serving Florianópolis, Brazil. It is named after Hercílio Pedro da Luz (1860–1924), three times governor of the state of Santa Catarina and senator.

It is operated by Zurich Airport Brasil. 

Some of its facilities are shared with the Florianópolis Air Force Base of the Brazilian Air Force.

History
The airport was built on the site of an old Air Naval Base, which operated until 1941, when its jurisdiction changed to the Brazilian Air Force.

Between 1927 and 1932, the then known as Campeche Field was also used by the French aviators of the Compagnie Générale Aéropostale for its operations in Florianópolis. Among them were Jean Mermoz, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Henri Guillaumet.

Between 1942 and 1945, the runway 03/21, apron, control tower and passenger terminal were built. At the same time, some facilities of the Florianópolis Air Force Base were built and made operational.

In the period between 1952 and 1954, the passenger terminal was rebuilt and was operational until 1976 when a brand-new terminal building and apron were opened. The old facility is today the cargo terminal. The new terminal was further enlarged in 1988 and 2000, reaching the present 8,703 m2.

In 1978, the runway 14/32 was opened allowing a great increase in traffic. In 1995 the airport was upgraded to international category and started receiving particularly seasonal and charter flights from Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

On March 16, 2017, Flughafen Zürich AG was granted the concession to operate and expand the airport, owning 100% of it.

On January 15, 2018, the new concessionaire began construction of a new terminal with 14 new gates - 3 international and 11 domestic. The cost of the project was BRL 570 million. The new terminal, located on the opposite side of the main runway from the old one, was officially opened on September 28, 2019. The main runway was also extended by , to . Operations using the new terminal started on October 1, 2019.

Airlines and destinations

Cargo

Accidents and incidents
22 March 1951: a Cruzeiro do Sul Douglas C-53D-DO plane, registration PP-CCX while landing at Florianópolis crashed following an overshoot in bad weather and an engine failure. Of the 14 passengers and crew, 3 died.
12 April 1980: a Transbrasil Boeing 727-27C operating flight 303 registration PT-TYS flying from São Paulo-Congonhas to Florianópolis while on a night instrumental approach to Florianópolis under a severe thunderstorm went off course, struck a hill and exploded. Probable causes are misjudgment of speed and distance, inadequate flight supervision, failure to initiate a go-around and improper operation of the engines. Of the 58 passengers and crew aboard, 3 passengers survived.

Access
The airport is located  from downtown Florianópolis.

See also

List of airports in Brazil
Florianópolis Air Force Base

References

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Airports in Santa Catarina (state)
Airports established in 1927
Economy of Florianópolis
USS Scourge

Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Scourge:

 USS Scourge (1804), was a former French privateer which the British Royal Navy captured and took into service as HMS Transfer, and in 1802 sold to the consul of Ottoman Tripolitania. The U.S. Navy captured her in 1804 and renamed her Scourge; she was declared unfit for service in 1812 and sold.
 , was the Canadian schooner Lord Nelson, seized for the US Navy on Lake Ontario in 1812, and that sank in 1813
 , was a steamer, purchased in 1846 for service in the Mexican–American War and sold in 1848.

United States Navy ship names
Glencoe Lochan

Glencoe Lochan is a tract of forest located just north of Glencoe village in the Scottish Highlands. It was planted in the 1890s by Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, with trees transplanted from the Pacific Northwest of Canada.

After acquiring the Glencoe Estate in 1895, Smith and his wife, Isabella Sophia Hardisty, moved from Canada to Scotland. Soon after their arrival, Isabella became increasingly homesick for her ancestral lands in Canada. In an attempt to abate his wife's depression, Smith had this forest painstakingly planted, and granted it to her as a private refuge.

The lochan is currently under the care of the Forestry Commission.  There are trails around it and fishing for brown trout is possible with a permit purchased locally.

1890s establishments in Scotland
Forests and woodlands of Scotland
Lochaber
Glen Coe
Ischiofemoral ligament

The ischiofemoral ligament (ischiocapsular ligament, or ischiocapsular band) consists of a triangular band of strong fibers on the posterior side of the hip joint.  It is one of the four ligaments that reinforce the hip joint. It attaches to the posterior surface of the acetabular rim and acetabular labrum, and extends around the circumference of the joint to insert on the anterior aspect of the femur. The ischiofemoral ligament limits the internal rotation and adduction of the hip when it is in a flexed position.

Some deeper fibres of the ligament are continuous with the fibres of the zona orbicularis of the capsule.

This ligament is less well-defined than the other two capsular ligaments of the hip joint.

Function 
Studies of human cadavers found that this ligament limits internal rotation of the hip, regardless of whether the hip is flexed, extended, or in neutral position.

References

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Ligaments of the lower limb
Ligament of head of femur

The ligament of the head of the femur (round ligament of the femur, foveal ligament, or Fillmore’s ligament) is a weak ligament located in the hip joint. It is triangular in shape and somewhat flattened. The ligament is implanted by its apex into the anterosuperior part of the fovea capitis femoris and its base is attached by two bands, one into either side of the acetabular notch, and between these bony attachments it blends with the transverse ligament.

Anatomy

Development 
Initially, the ligament contains a small artery (the acetabular branch of the obturator artery) which becomes obliterated in late childhood.

Variation 
It is ensheathed by the synovial membrane, and varies greatly in strength in different subjects; occasionally only the synovial fold exists, and in rare cases even this is absent.

Function
The ligament becomes taught when the thigh is flexed and either adducted or laterally/externally rotated. The ligament is usually too weak to actually function as a ligament past childhood; excessive movement at the hip joint is instead primarily limited by the three capsular ligament of the hip joint. Nevertheless, more recent research suggests the ligament may have a number of functions, including a significant biomechanical role on the basis of cadaveric studies where increases of range of motion were seen after sectioning of the ligament.

Other animals
It has been suggested that some animals, such as the orangutan and Indian elephant, lack a ligamentum teres.  However, the presence of a ligamentum teres, albeit with a morphology different from the human version, has been found upon dissection in both these animals. In the orangutan, it is believed to play a significant role in preventing dislocation of the femoral head within extreme ranges of motion. In the Indian elephant, it is the primary support of the hip joint when the hind limbs are abducted.

References

Ligaments of the lower limb
From Where You Dream

From Where You Dream: The Process of writing fiction is a transcription and condensation of Robert Olen Butler's Masters class on writing. Put together and edited by Janet Burroway, it emphasizes dreamspace or unconscious writing as opposed to thinking or analytical writing in order to create a good or true work of art. It purports that yearning, or motivation, is the key point of craft missed by inexperienced writers.

It is cut up into three main sections, "The Lecture", "The Workshop", and "The Stories Analyzed", where he details why getting to the "white hot" unconscious is important and tactics on how to find it and write it well.

Paperback Grove Press 

Books about education
2005 non-fiction books
Books about writing
Bullis

Bullis may refer to:

Bullis (surname)
Bullis School, school in Potomac, Maryland, United States
Bullis (butterfly), butterfly genus
Camp Bullis, U.S. Army training camp in Bexar County, Texas

See also
Bulis, a genus of beetle
Bulli (disambiguation)
 Bullace
Funky Cold Medina

"Funky Cold Medina" is a hip hop song written by Young MC, Matt Dike and Michael Ross, and first performed by American rapper, actor and producer Tone Lōc. It was the second single from Lōc's debut album, Lōc-ed After Dark (1989). The single was released on March 18, 1989, and rose to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 the following month where it went platinum, selling over one million copies and becoming the second ever platinum-certified rap single (after "Wild Thing" from the same album being the first). It peaked on the UK Singles Chart at number 13 in May of that year.

According to Flavor Flav, who is heard using the phrase "cold medina" a year earlier on It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, "cold medina" was one of his assertive affirmations throughout the 1980s and was adopted by labelmates Beastie Boys as a nickname for the cocktail known as a "fuzzy navel"; Flav allegedly later advised Tone Loc to use the catchphrase in a song.

The song contains several samples. The drum break is from "Get Off Your Ass and Jam" by Funkadelic, and the main guitar riff is from "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner. Other samples are taken from "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones (when this song is mentioned in the lyrics), "Christine Sixteen" by Kiss, "All Right Now" by Free and "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" by Bachman–Turner Overdrive. The cowbell sample is from "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones.

After the song became popular, several different cocktails were introduced bearing the name "Funky Cold Medina".

Synopsis
The song tells of Tone Lōc's experiences with "Funky Cold Medina", an aphrodisiac beverage. Lōc asks a fellow bar customer how is having such success with women. The stranger says it is due to Funky Cold Medina, which makes anyone who drinks it irresistible.

Lōc tests the formula on his dog, who becomes uncharacteristically affectionate towards Lōc and attracts the neighborhood dogs to Lōc's house. Lōc then tries it on potential love interest Sheena, but upon returning to Lōc's home Sheena turns out to be a man, whom he throws out. Next he appears on Love Connection and meets a woman who immediately wants to marry him. Lōc concludes the formula just brings trouble and resolves not to use it.

Track listings
 US vinyl, 12", promo
A1. "Funky Cold Medina" [Vocal] – 4:11
A2. "Funky Cold Medina" [Funky Beats] – 2:46
B1. "Funky Cold Medina" [Instrumental] – 4:08
B2. "Funky Cold Medina" [Funky Acappella] – 1:18

 US promo
 "Funky Cold Medina" [7" version] – 4:11

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

See also
Love Potion No. 9, a 1959 song by The Clovers

References

1989 singles
1989 songs
Songs written by Young MC
Tone Lōc songs
Delicious Vinyl singles
Transgender-related songs
Taj al-Din Yildiz

Taj al-Din Yildiz (also spelled Yaldiz, Yildoz, and Yalduz, ) was a Turkic ghulam of the Ghurid dynasty, who, after the death of Sultan Muhammad of Ghor, became the de facto ruler of Ghazni, while, however, still recognizing Ghurid authority.

Biography 
After the death of Sultan Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad, two factions arose in the Ghurid Empire; a faction of Turkic ghulams, who supported Mu'izz's nephew Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud, while the other faction consisted of native Iranian soldiers, who supported the Ghurid ruler of Bamiyan, Baha al-Din Sam II. But Baha al-Din Sam II  died after a few days, which made the Iranian soldiers support his two sons Jalal al-Din Ali and Ala al-Din Muhammad. Ghiyath, however, managed to emerge victorious during the struggle, and became the ruler of Firuzkuh. Meanwhile, Yildiz seized Ghazni from the Ghurid rulers of Bamiyan, but shortly recognized the authority of Ghiyath.

Ghiyath, not glad about Tajuddin controlling Ghazni, and not daring to leave Ghur unprotected, requested help from the Khwarazmian Muhammad II. Muhammad, however, instead invaded the domains of Ghiyath, capturing Balkh and Termez. In 1208, the semi-independent Ghurid governor of India, Qutb-ud-din Aibak, attacked and occupied Ghazni, but was defeated by Yildiz forty days later.

In 1214, Yildiz killed Ala al-Din Atsiz, and put the latter's cousin Ala al-Din Ali on the Ghurid throne as his puppet. However, one year later, Muhammad II conquered Firuzkuh and captured Ala al-Din Ali; he shortly marched to Ghazni, where he decisively defeated Yildiz, who fled to Punjab and captured Lahore from Nasir ad-Din Qabacha. Yildiz later fought the Delhi Sultan Iltutmish, and laid claim to the throne of Delhi as the heir to Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad. Iltutmish refused, stating  The two armies met at Tarain in January 1216. Yildiz was defeated and taken prisoner by Iltutmish, and after being led through the streets of Delhi was sent to Budaun, where he was put to death in the same year. After the fall of Yildiz, Qabacha again occupied Lahore.

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Sources
 

Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown
Ghurid generals
12th-century Asian people
Belpberg

Belpberg is a former municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The municipality of Belpberg merged on 1 January 2012 into the municipality of Belp.

The villages historic dependency on agriculture, dairy farming and cattle breeding have continued to the present day. There is otherwise little employment within the commune, and most of the working inhabitants commute to nearby towns, particularly Bern.

History 
Roman and Celtic coinage points to an early settlement in the area. The first documented use of the name Belpberge is found in 1342, with the versions Belperg (1380) and Beltperg (1390) appearing later. The etymology of the word stem Belp is unclear.

Geography
Belpberg has an area, , of . Of this area,  or 65.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 28.2% is forested.  Of the rest of the land,  or 5.4% is settled (buildings or roads).

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.0%. 26.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 36.1% is used for growing crops and 27.9% is pastures, while 1.6% is used for orchards or vine crops.

It is located on a hill that shares the town's name, between the Aare river and the Gürbetal. It includes a number of hamlets (including Linden, Oberhäusern, Hofstetten, z.T. Heitern) and scattered farmhouses. It belongs to the parish of Belp.

Demographics
Belpberg had a population (as of ) of . , 2.1% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -2.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (99.5%), with Italian being second most common (0.3%) and Portuguese being third (0.3%).

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 59.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SPS (10.5%), the local small left-wing parties (7.7%) and the FDP (7%).

The age distribution of the population () is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 19.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 62.5% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 18.2%. The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Belpberg about 83.1% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule).

Belpberg has an unemployment rate of 1.21%. , there were 107 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 33 businesses involved in this sector. 6 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 3 businesses in this sector. 14 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 5 businesses in this sector.
The historical population is given in the following table:

References

Former municipalities of the canton of Bern
Snowed Under

Snowed Under is a 1936 American romantic comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring George Brent as a playwright who is working under a tight deadline. He becomes snowed-in in his remote cabin with two ex-wives and a girlfriend, played by Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell and Patricia Ellis.

Plot summary

Cast
 George Brent as Alan Tanner
 Genevieve Tobin as Alice Merritt ex-wife #1
 Glenda Farrell as Daisy Lowell ex-wife #2
 Patricia Ellis as Pat Quinn
 Frank McHugh as Orlando Rowe
 John Eldredge as McBride
 Porter Hall as Arthur Layton
 Helen Lowell as Mrs. Canterbury
 Mary Treen as Miss. Jones (uncredited)
 Shirley Lloyd as Blonde who answered telephone (uncredited)

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American romantic comedy films
American black-and-white films
Films about writers
Films directed by Ray Enright
Warner Bros. films
1936 romantic comedy films
1936 films
Films with screenplays by F. Hugh Herbert
1930s English-language films
1930s American films