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Jonathan Page (cyclist)

Jonathan Page (born September 16, 1976, in Tilton, New Hampshire, USA) is an American bicycle racer specializing in cyclo-cross and road racing. He was the USA Cycling National Cyclo-cross Champion in 2002 (primary sponsor Richard Sachs), 2003 (primary sponsor Selle Italia-Guerciotti) and 2004 (primary sponsor Cervélo). Page won his fourth national championship in 2013. He lives in Underhill, Vermont, when not based in Oudenaarde, Belgium during the cyclocross season.

Career achievements 

2002–2003
1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships
2003–2004
1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships
2004–2005
14th, UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships
1st, USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships
2005–2006
10th, World Cyclo-cross Championships, Zeddam, The Netherlands
1st, Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
3rd, USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships, Providence, RI
2006–2007
 2nd, UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships, Hooglede-Gits, Belgium
 2nd, USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships, Providence, RI
 3rd, Cyclo-cross Gazet van Antwerpen (Oostmalle), Belgium
2007–2008
2nd, USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships, Kansas City, Kansas
2011–2012
3rd, USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships, Madison, Wisconsin
2013
1st,  USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships, Verona, Wisconsin

References

External links
Jonathan Page (official site)

1976 births
Living people
American male cyclists
Cyclo-cross cyclists
People from Tilton, New Hampshire
American cyclo-cross champions
People from Summit County, Utah
Sportspeople from the Salt Lake City metropolitan area
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc (MUSI) was a global investment bank headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International was the investment arm of one of the largest financial institutions in the world, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG). The investment bank was part of an international network with offices in London, New York City, Hong Kong and Singapore. MUSI was active throughout the global capital markets, focusing on investment banking, debt, equity, commodities, derivatives and structured products. MUSI had a staff of approximately 600 people globally.

Executive
In January 2013, Paul Hartwell was appointed as the CEO of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International. The company's CFO was David King and its Head of International Business Clifford De Souza.

History and Ownership
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International was wholly owned by Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co., Ltd. (MUSHD), which is itself wholly owned by MUFG. MUSHD's other subsidiaries include Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities and Mitsubishi UFJ Merrill Lynch PB.
MUSI was established on 1 October 2005, when Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, was formed by the merger of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (MTFG) and UFJ Holdings. On the same day, the respective investment banking subsidiaries of MTFG and UFJ, Mitsubishi Securities International plc (established in England and Wales on February 11, 1983) and UFJ International plc (with the merger of Sanwa International plc and Tokai Bank Europe plc in April 2002), were merged to form Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc.

On 1 July 2016, the name was changed to MUFG Securities EMEA plc.

Credit Rating
As of October 2012, MUSI held a long-term credit rating of A1 and a short-term credit rating of Prime-1 from Moody's Investors Service.

References

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc
Investment banks
Mitsubishi companies
Financial services companies established in 2005
Banks established in 2005
Preformation theory

Preformation theory is a theistic epistemological theory that states that knowledge is possible only because God has endowed humans with certain innate ideas along with dispositions or aptitudes in certain ways. This was recognized by Immanuel Kant as an alternative to his theory regarding the categories of understanding and their source.

Overview
According to Kant's view the aptitudes are both innate and a priori not given by a creator. Contrary to Kant's position, the preformation theory avoids skepticism about the nature of the noumenal world (Kant believed that the real world is unknowable).  It does so by claiming that the rational structures of the human mind are similar to the rational order of the real world because both are created by God to work together, and this similarity makes the attaining of accurate knowledge about the real world possible.

Also, see Preformationism.

References

 Nash, R.H. (1999). Life's Ultimate Questions. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. .

Kantianism
Epistemological theories
Theism
Halton Healthcare

Halton Healthcare (Halton Healthcare Services Corporation) is a regional healthcare organization located in the Greater Toronto Area. It is composed of three community hospitals in Ontario, Canada. It serves the communities of Milton, Oakville, and Halton Hills. The three hospitals serves a community of over 350,000 people. As at 2017/18, Halton Healthcare has 4,022 staff, 1,750 volunteers and 350 physicians. It falls within the boundaries of the Mississauga-Halton Local Health Integration Network.

Member Hospitals
The three community hospitals are:

 Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital - Originally opened in 1950. Relocated in 2015
 Milton District Hospital - Opened in 1959, expanded in the 1980s and significantly expanded in 2017
 Georgetown Hospital - Opened in 1961

References

External links
 http://www.haltonhealthcare.com
 https://www.haltonhealthcare.on.ca/site_Files/Content/pdfs/01_About/02_Reports-Publications/2017-18_annual_report.pdf

Hospital networks in Canada
1975–76 WCHL season

The 1975–76 WCHL season was the tenth season for the Western Canada Hockey League. Twelve teams completed a 72-game season.  The New Westminster Bruins won their second consecutive President's Cup.

League notes
The WCHL season expanded to 72 games from 70.

Regular season

Final standings

Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes

1976 WCHL Playoffs

Preliminary round
Medicine Hat defeated Edmonton 4 games to 1
Victoria defeated Regina 4 games to 1 with 1 tied

League quarter-finals
New Westminster defeated Brandon 5 games to 0
Saskatoon defeated Lethbridge 3 games to 1 with 2 tied
Kamloops defeated Winnipeg 3 games to 1 with 2 tied
Victoria defeated Medicine Hat 3 games to 1 with 1 tied

League semi-finals
Saskatoon defeated Kamloops 4 games to 2
New Westminster defeated Victoria 4 games to 0 with 1 tied

WHL Championship
New Westminster defeated Saskatoon 4 games to 2 with 1 tied

All-Star game

On January 15, the West All-Stars defeated the East All-Stars 8–7 at Lethbridge, Alberta with a crowd of 2,413.

WHL awards

All-Star Teams

See also
1976 Memorial Cup
1976 NHL Entry Draft
1975 in sports
1976 in sports

References
whl.ca
 2005–06 WHL Guide

Western Hockey League seasons
WHL
Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital

The Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital is a full-service acute care community hospital located at 3001 Hospital Gate in Oakville, Ontario. It offers a comprehensive range of primary and secondary care services in addition to some tertiary services. It is operated by Halton Healthcare, an organization which also operates Georgetown Hospital and Milton District Hospital. The hospital is supported by the Oakville Hospital Foundation and the Oakville Hospital Volunteer Association which raises funds to purchase equipment for the hospital. The new hospital was opened in 2015 and the hospital is affiliated with the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University.

History
The hospital was designed by Parkin Architects and Adamson Associates and built by a joint venture of EllisDon and Carillion. On December 13, 2015 the hospital moved from 327 Reynolds Street (now Oakville Trafalgar Community Centre) to 3001 Hospital Gate near Dundas Street and Third Line.

Patient statistics
OTMH has more than 15,000 inpatients each year, while over 240,000 patients visit its outpatient areas. There are 2,300 births a year. The hospital's busy 24-hour emergency department experiences more than 70,000 visits annually.

References

External links

Hospital buildings completed in 1937
Hospital buildings completed in 1950
Hospitals in Ontario
Buildings and structures in Oakville, Ontario
Hospitals established in 1937
Heliports in Ontario
Certified airports in Ontario
1937 establishments in Ontario
Minoru Shiraishi

is a Japanese actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter, and radio personality who was formerly affiliated with I'm Enterprise and Pro-Fit. He is the only "live-action" character (as he played "himself" in Lucky☆Star) in the Newtype Anime magazine to be featured in the Monthly Top-10 Most-Popular Male Character charts. He played himself in Episode 6 of Kiddy Girl-and as a voice actor in a voice actor cafe. Other roles include Taniguchi in the Haruhi Suzumiya series, and Itsuki Takeuchi in the Initial D reboot feature films in 2014.

Minoru married on August 9, 2011, but has chosen to keep his wife's identity anonymous.

On December 29, 2015, Minoru revealed that he has facial paralysis, making him unable to move the right side of his face. He is currently taking medication and undergoing treatment.

Filmography

Anime

D.N.Angel (2003), Takeshi Saehara
Fafner of the Azure (2004), Kenji Kondou
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (2005), Super Rabbit, Chikuwan
Mahou Sensei Negima (2005), Seruhiko-sensei
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006), Taniguchi
The Skull Man (2007), Police Officer
Lucky ☆ Star (2007), Himself
Ga-rei -Zero- (2008), Kazuki Sakuraba, Kensuke Nimura
The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya/Nyorōn Churuya-san (2009), (Taniguchi/Kimidori-san)
Kiddy Girl-and (2009), Minu-san, cafeteria owner
Saki (2009), Ichita Uchiki
Seitokai Yakuindomo (2010), Kenji
Steins;Gate (2011), 4°C (Shid)
Nichijou (2011), Sakamoto
Maken-ki! (2011), Tanaka
Future Diary (2011), Ōji Kōsaka
Photo Kano (2013), Itta Nakagawa
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (2013), Ōoka
My Neighbor Seki (2014), Akiyoshi Uzawa
Buddy Complex (2014), Saburota Ogisaka
New Initial D: Legend 1 - Awakening (2014), Itsuki Takeuchi
Doraemon (2015), Sugoroko Dice (Ep.436)
My First Girlfriend Is a Gal (2017), Minoru Kobayakawa
Cutie Honey Universe (2018), Alphonne
The Price of Smiles (2019), Blake Boyer
Ultraman (2019), Shiraishi
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (2019), Daisuke Hiyama
Magatsu Wahrheit -Zuerst- (2020), Jade
Skeleton Knight in Another World (2022), Cetrion
The Fruit of Evolution 2 (2023), Agnos Passion

Video games
 (2005), Male characters
Super Robot Wars UX (2013), Kenji Kondou
Granblue Fantasy (2015), Lowain
MeiQ: Labyrinth of Death (2015), Ganz
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (2019), Pinstripe Potoroo

References

Maeda, Hisashi. "The Official Art of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya". (November 2007) Newtype USA. pp. 133–139.

External links
Official blog 
Official agency profile 
Minoru Shiraishi at Ryu's Seiyuu Infos

1978 births
Living people
Anime singers
I'm Enterprise voice actors
Japanese male stage actors
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
Japanese radio personalities
Japanese male singer-songwriters
Japanese singer-songwriters
Japanese television presenters
Lantis (company) artists
Male voice actors from Ehime Prefecture
Pleuger rudder

The Pleuger rudder (also known as a Dutch rudder) is a power assisted ship's rudder.  It creates a flow of water in the direction the rudder points powered by an auxiliary electric motor. This aids maneuverability at low speeds greatly, since it operates on a similar principle to a thruster.

A ducted propeller is mounted as an integral part of the rudder and is fixed to it. The duct is a Kort nozzle and enables the propeller to develop more thrust than an unducted propeller.

The Pleuger rudder is necessarily mounted in the flow from the main engine's propeller in a ship with an odd number of propellers. If the Pleuger and the main engine are run at the same time, the Pleuger can often be torn away. The thrust produced by the Pleuger rudder is sufficient to power the ship in slow speed maneuvers when the force required to move the vessel is relatively small.
The Pleuger rudder is meant to be assisting in the fast maneuverability of ships, in tight harbor operations. Thus, it is only an improvement of rudder by controlling the water flow pattern passing a rudder and thus giving it an artificial flow and thus an extra power to steer even in slow engine r.p.m. It is absolutely not a substitute for a propeller, without which the mammoth energy required to propel a ship through the water is hard to generate.

See also

References

External links
 m.s Elizabeth Bowater which is fitted with a Pleuger rudder
Pleuger today
Marine engineering -- Steering Gear -- Rudder types

Propellers
Marine propulsion
Fluid dynamics
Seonjong of Goryeo

Seonjong of Goryeo (9 October 1049 – 17 June 1094) (r. 1083–1094) was the 13th king of Goryeo. He was the second son of Empress Inye and born in September, 1049. He was sealed as marquis of Gukwon (國原侯) in March, 1056. Harmony of Confucism and Buddhism made his political statue very stable. Also he propelled broad-range trade among Song, Jurchens, Liao dynasty of Khitans, and Japan.

During his period, Buddhism in Korea grew a lot. His brother Uicheon brought 1,000 scriptures from Song and bought 4,000 scriptures from Liao, Song, and Japan. Furthermore, Seonjong founded many pagodas for Buddhist temples and presented clothing for soldiers guarding the borders. Even when bedridden due to an illness in 1092, he calmly accepted his nearing death on lieu of Buddhist virtues.

Family
Father: Munjong of Goryeo (고려 문종)
Grandfather: Hyeonjong of Goryeo (고려 현종)
Grandmother: Queen Wonhye (원혜왕후)
Mother: Queen Inye (인예왕후)
Grandfather: Yi Ja-yeon (이자연)
Grandmother: Lady, of the Gyeongju Gim clan (부인 경주 김씨)
Consorts and their Respective issue(s):
Worthy Consort Jeongsin of the Incheon Yi clan (정신현비 이씨); maternal second cousin.
Princess Yeonhwa (연화공주)
Queen Sasuk of the Incheon Yi clan (사숙왕후 이씨; d. 1107); maternal first cousin.
Crown Prince Wang Uk (태자 왕욱)
Princess Suan (수안택주; 1088–1128)
Princess Wang (공주 왕씨)
Princess Wonsin of the Incheon Yi clan (원신궁주 이씨); maternal first cousin.
Wang Yun, Marquess Hansan (왕윤 한산후)
Unknown
Prince Wang (왕자 왕씨)
Prince Wang (왕자 왕씨)

See also
List of Korean monarchs
List of Goryeo people
Goryeo

References

1049 births
1094 deaths
11th-century Korean monarchs
Korean Buddhist monarchs
11th-century Korean poets
People from Kaesong
Kossovo

Kossovo may refer to:

Kosovo
Kosava, Belarus
Georgetown Hospital

The Georgetown Hospital is a community hospital located in the Georgetown area of Halton Hills, Ontario. It is part of the Halton Healthcare Services group of hospitals.

Built on  of land, it opened in 1961 to serve the Halton Region, but today it also serves the communities of Peel Region .

Services
The hospital provides the following services and procedures:
Medical and Surgical Services
procedures involving general surgery, gynaecology, orthopaedics, ENT and urology
long-term patient care
Supportive Housing
nurses and workers provide support to seniors living in designated apartments

The emergency department is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and provides service to more than 35,000 patients annually.

This hospital should not be confused with Georgetown Hospital in Georgetown, Ascension Island.

References

External links
Halton Health Care Services

Hospital buildings completed in 1961
Hospitals in Ontario
Buildings and structures in the Regional Municipality of Halton
Hospitals established in 1961
Heliports in Ontario
Halton Hills
Certified airports in Ontario
Calcio, Lombardy

Calcio (Bergamasque: ) is a town and comune in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy.

Among the churches in the town is the parish church of San Vittore.

Sport 
 U.S.O. Calcio

Transport
 Cividate al Piano-Calcio railway station

References
John W. Niddrie

John W. Niddrie (September 24, 1863 – May 4, 1940) was a Canadian pioneer and missionary during the early years of the European colonization of Canada. He moved to Canada from Scotland. His memoirs were collected in a book titled Niddrie of the North-West. University of Alberta Press published the book.

External links
John Niddrie
Niddrie of the North-West : memoirs of a pioneer Canadian missionary on the Internet Archive

1863 births
1940 deaths
Canadian Methodist missionaries
Scottish Methodist missionaries
Scottish emigrants to Canada
Methodist missionaries in Canada
Sunjong of Goryeo

Sunjong of Goryeo (28 December 1047 – 5 December 1083) (r. 1083) was briefly the 12th ruler of Goryeo.  He was the eldest son of Munjong and the older brother of Seonjong.  He had been confirmed as heir to the throne in 1054.  However, he died within a year of his ascension in 1083.

Family 

 Father: Munjong of Goryeo (고려 문종)
 Grandfather: Hyeonjong of Goryeo (고려 현종)
 Grandmother: Queen Wonhye  (원혜왕후)
 Mother: Queen Inye (인예왕후)
 Grandfather: Yi Ja-yeon
 Grandmother: Lady, of the Gyeongju Gim clan
 Consorts and their Respective issue(s):

 Queen Jeongui of the Gaeseong Wang clan (정의왕후 왕씨), his first cousin - No issue
 Queen Seonhui of the Gyeongju Gim clan (선희왕후 김씨) - No issue
 Princess Janggyeong of the Incheon Yi clan (장경궁주 이씨) - No issue

See also 
List of Korean monarchs
List of Goryeo people
Goryeo

References

 

1047 births
1083 deaths
11th-century Korean monarchs
People from Kaesong
Fleming Stadium

Fleming Stadium is a sports stadium in Wilson, North Carolina. It is primarily used for baseball and is the home of the Wilson Tobs of the Coastal Plain League. It opened in 1939 and has a capacity of 3,000 people.

The grounds are also home to the North Carolina Baseball Museum. It also has bricks with names of the donors right in front of the museum.

The stadium has been used by teams in several different minor leagues over the decades, including the Class D Coastal Plain League, the Bi-State League, and the Carolina League. The Carolina Mudcats used the ballpark as their temporary home in 1991, before opening Five County Stadium at Zebulon in mid-season.

North Carolina Baseball Museum
The North Carolina Baseball Museum is a museum located in Wilson, North Carolina that honors those past and present Major League Baseball players and Negro league players from the state of North Carolina. The museum contains vintage baseball cards, memorabilia, books, and other baseball memorabilia.

The museum has a main focus on 7 National Baseball Hall of Famers that were born in North Carolina. These players include Luke Appling, Rick Ferrell, Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Gaylord Perry, Buck Leonard, Enos Slaughter, and Hoyt Wilheim. A separate room contains baseball memorabilia of the state's colleges and local high schools. The museum also provides focus on Negro league players such as Buck Leonard and women in baseball. Other signed memorabilia can also been seen throughout the museum.

The museum hosts an annual Hot Stove Dinner as a fundraiser. The first speaker of the annual dinner was Stan Musial. The museum is located at Fleming Stadium which is the home of Wilson Tobs, a collegiate summer league team in the Coastal Plain League.

References

External links
Info about the ballpark
North Carolina Baseball Museum
2014 TV story about the ballpark's 75th anniversary

Minor league baseball venues
Wilson, North Carolina
Baseball venues in North Carolina
Buildings and structures in Wilson County, North Carolina
1939 establishments in North Carolina
Sports venues completed in 1939
North Carolina Baseball Museum
North Carolina Baseball Museum
William Osler Health System

William Osler Health System, formerly William Osler Health Centre, is a hospital network in Ontario, Canada that serves the city of Brampton and the northern portion of the western Toronto district of Etobicoke. The network is named for Canadian physician William Osler, one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital and developer of the concept of medical residency.

It has an annual operating budget of nearly $500 million CAD.

Hospitals and centres
The network consists of two hospitals and one ambulatory care centre:
Brampton Civic Hospital (established 2007) – a 608-bed hospital in northeast Brampton.
Etobicoke General Hospital (established 1972) – a 262-bed hospital located in Etobicoke, Toronto
Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness (established 2017) - an ambulatory and urgent care centre in central Brampton

Former hospitals
Georgetown Hospital was previously part of the William Osler Health Centre, but in 2005 it was transferred to Halton Healthcare. Peel Memorial Hospital ceased operation in 2007 and was later superseded by the Peel Memorial Centre.

Executives
Ken White, former Trillium CEO, was appointed "Supervisor", which encompasses the role of both president and CEO as well as chairman of the board, by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in 2007 "…to restore public confidence in the health centre". His term ended in April 2010 when Matthew Anderson became CEO.

Foundation 
The William Osler Health System raises funds through the William Osler Health System Foundation. Donors to the foundation include AbbVie, Algoma University, Bell, CIBC, Mercedes-Benz, Omni Television, Pfizer, Prime Asia Television, and Toronto Metropolitan University.

In April 2022, the foundation received a $128,000 donation from Amazon to assist with recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

External links
 Official website

Medical and health organizations based in Ontario
Hospital networks in Canada
William Osler
Bilko

Bilko may refer to:

 Ernest G. Bilko, main protagonist of The Phil Silvers Show
 Sgt. Bilko, a 1996 film adaptation of The Phil Silvers Show, starring Steve Martin
 Steve Bilko, a baseball player
 Blake Williams, an Australian professional freestyle motocross rider
Concept virus

Concept virus refers to two different pieces of computer malware, each of which has acted as a proof of concept for a new method of propagation:

WM.Concept (1995), the first widely known macro virus to spread through Microsoft Word (though not the first macro virus per se) 
Nimda (2001), named Concept Virus by its author, one of the first multi-vector Windows viruses.
American Cheese (album)

American Cheese is the third album by Nerf Herder, released in 2002.

Track listing
All songs written by Parry Gripp, except where indicated.

A track that didn't make it on to the album called "Bark for the bone" was released via Parry Gripp's website as an MP3. In the file info under album it states - "Completely Unauthorized American Cheese Left Over".

Personnel
Parry Gripp – vocals, guitar 
Justin Fisher – bass, vocals
Steve Sherlock – drums, vocals 
Dave Ehrlich – guitar

References

2002 albums
Nerf Herder albums
Honest Don's Records albums
Mary O'Grady

Mary Anastasia O'Grady, also published as Mary O'Grady, is an editor of The Wall Street Journal and member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board since 2005. She writes predominantly on Latin America and is a co-editor of the Index of Economic Freedom. She is a recipient of the Bastiat Prize.

Biography

Education
A 1975 graduate of Guilford (CT) Senior High School, O'Grady earned a bachelor's degree in English from Assumption College and later received an MBA from Pace University in financial management.

Career
Before her work for The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), she was an options strategist for Advest, Thomson McKinnon Securities then Merrill Lynch, where she worked for 10 years.

In August 1995, O'Grady joined WSJ and later became a senior editorial page writer for the journal in December 1999. In November 2005, she was appointed as a member of WSJ's editorial board.

She is also editor of "The Americas," a weekly column that appears every Monday and deals with politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada while also serving as a member of the board of directors at Liberty Fund.

She is well known for her positions regarding classical liberalism, her frontal rejection of leftist governments in the Americas and for being in favor of the legalization of drug trafficking

She has been characterized by her strong position against progressive governments, which has elicited responses from people such as former US President Jimmy Carter, who wrote an article in response to O'Grady. She has been criticized for her support, through her columns, of the controversial privatization process in El Salvador.

In an article published on The Wall Street Journal, she linked Iran with the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador citing "secret intelligence sources." The Mexican president publicly denied the contents of the article in a press conference, characterizing the article as false information.

Honors and awards

Awards
 Inter American Press Association's David Gleaner Award (1997)
 International Policy Network's Bastiat Prize (2005)
 Association of Private Enterprise Education's Thomas Jefferson Award (2009)
 The Fund for American Studies' Walter Judd Freedom Award (2012)

Honorary degrees
O'Grady was awarded the following honorary degrees:
 Francisco Marroquin University, honorary doctorate (2015)

References

External links
 WSJ Biography

The Wall Street Journal people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women journalists
Bastiat Prize winners
Assumption University (Worcester) alumni
Pace University alumni
People from Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania
Writers from Pennsylvania
Cotswold Outdoor

Cotswold Outdoor is a trading brand of Outdoor and Cycle Concepts Limited, who also own the Snow and Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need chains of shops. An outdoor recreation retailer in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

History 
Founded in 1974, the company originated in the Cotswolds, and was based in a garage next to the Cotswold Water Park from which the founders sold basic camping accessories. Cotswold Outdoor is the recommended retailer for the National Trust and the Ramblers. Cotswold Outdoor has 79 shops across the United Kingdom, an e-commerce website and a mail order service selling outdoor clothing, camping & climbing equipment, travel clothing and hiking boots.

On 26 April 2019, Outdoor and Cycle Concepts Limited applied for a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) following increased pre-tax losses in a struggling UK retail environment.

Outdoor & Cycle Concepts chief executive Greg Nieuwenhuys resigned in March 2019. Jose Ramon Finch Castro joined the board on 1 April 2019 as managing director."

Subsidiaries

 Snow and Rock is a chain of skiing and mountaineering shops. It was founded in the early 1980s by Mike Browne, who borrowed £60,000 from the bank using his house as collateral. Browne opened its first shop on Kensington High Street in London. By 2001, there were eight Snow and Rock shops that collectively had net sales of £22million per year. In 2004, Andrew Brownsword acquired the firm, which then had 11 UK shops, and Browne left the company.

In 2010, Brownsword sold the firm to LGV Capital, Legal & General's private equity subsidiary. At the time of the acquisition Snowit had 35 shops, employed 450, had £65million in revenue the previous year, and owned Cycle Surgery and Runners Need. In 2015, the PAI Partners-owned AS Adventure Group, which owns Cotswold Outdoor, acquired Snow and Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need, which at the time had 46 shops  In November 2015, Cotswold Outdoor, Snow and Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need became "one single legal entity called Outdoor and Cycle Concepts".

References

External links 
 

Retail companies of the United Kingdom
Retail companies established in 1974
Pulse-per-second signal

A pulse per second (PPS or 1PPS) is an electrical signal that has a width of less than one second and a sharply rising or abruptly falling edge that accurately repeats once per second. PPS signals are output by radio beacons, frequency standards, other types of precision oscillators and some GPS receivers. Precision clocks are sometimes manufactured by interfacing a PPS signal generator to processing equipment that aligns the PPS signal to the UTC second and converts it to a useful display. Atomic clocks usually have an external PPS output, although internally they may operate at 9,192,631,770 Hz. PPS signals have an accuracy ranging from a 12 picoseconds to a few microseconds per second, or 2.0 nanoseconds to a few milliseconds per day based on the resolution and accuracy of the device generating the signal.

Physical representation 
PPS signals are usually generated as a TTL signal capable of driving a 1 kilohm load. Some sources use line drivers in order to be capable of driving 50-ohm transmission lines. Because of the broad frequency contents, along the transmission line can have a significant impact on the shape of the PPS signal due to dispersion and after delivery effects of the dielectric of the transmission line. It is common to set t0 at the voltage level of the steepest slope of a PPS signal. PPS signals are therefore notoriously unreliable when time transfer accuracies better than a nanosecond are needed, although the stability of a PPS signal can reach into the picosecond regime depending on the generating device.

Uses 
PPS signals are used for precise timekeeping and time measurement.  One increasingly common use is in computer timekeeping, including NTP.  Because GPS is considered a stratum-0 source, a common use for the PPS signal is to connect it to a PC using a low-latency, low-jitter wire connection and allow a program to synchronize to it. This makes the PC a stratum-1 time source.  Note that because the PPS signal does not specify the time, but merely the start of a second, one must combine the PPS functionality with another time source that provides the full date and time in order to ascertain the time both accurately and precisely.

See also
 Clock signal
 Inter-Range Instrumentation Group (IRIG) time codes
 Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI)
 Square wave
 Timecode

References

External links
Sites that describe how to use the PPS signal to set precise time on a PC:
 In OpenBSD 4.1 the nmea(4) line discipline can attach to a GPS timer and optionally use the PPS signal for low jitter and high accuracy in system time and NTP time
 gpsd — a GPS service daemon, required to activate PPS signal on some devices (works in conjunction with OpenBSD's nmea line discipline if installed via ports tree and a stand-alone service daemon for other operating systems)
 RFC 2783 Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating Systems, Version 1.0
 PPS pulse and PPS pulse distribution

Measurement
Time
The Rainmaker (play)

The Rainmaker is a play written by N. Richard Nash in the early 1950s.  The play opened on October 28, 1954, at the Cort Theatre in New York City, and ran for 125 performances.  It was directed by Joseph Anthony and produced by Ethel Linder Reiner.

The play was translated into more than 40 languages and made into the 1956 film The Rainmaker, starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn. The story was also made into a Broadway musical, 110 in the Shade. The play was revived on Broadway in 1999–2000 starring Woody Harrelson and Jayne Atkinson, who was nominated for the 2000 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.

Plot summary
Set in a drought-ridden rural town in the West in Depression-era America, the play tells the story of a pivotal hot summer day in the life of spinsterish Lizzie Curry. Lizzie keeps house for her father and two brothers on the family cattle ranch. She has just returned from a trip to visit pseudo-cousins (all male), which was undertaken with the failed expectation that she would find a husband. As their farm languishes under the devastating drought, Lizzie's family worries about her marriage prospects more than about their dying cattle. A charming confidence trickster named Starbuck arrives and promises to bring rain in exchange for $100.  His arrival sets off a series of events that enable Lizzie to see herself in a new light.

Critical reception
The reviews called the play "Stirring" (Newsday), "captivating" (The New York Times), "wonderfully funny" (New York Daily News), and a "classic" (Chicago Sun-Times).

Original cast list
Lizzie Curry – Geraldine Page
File – Richard Coogan
Bill Starbuck – Darren McGavin
H.C. Curry – Cameron Prud'Homme
Sheriff Thomas – Tom Flatley Reynolds
Jim Curry – Albert Salmi
Noah Curry – Joseph Sullivan

In Popular Culture
In "Fonzie is a Thespian," episode 7 of the seventh season of Happy Days, The Rainmaker is presented by an unspecified community theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with Marion Cunningham as Lizzie and Fonzie as Bill Starbuck.

References

External links
 

Footlights Discussion group: Information about the play
Review of the 1954 production
Review of the 1999 revival
Another review of the 1999 revival
Review of another revival
The Rainmaker at ThatTheatreSite Provides character info, updated audition listings, and additional resources.

1954 plays
Broadway plays
Comedy plays
Great Depression plays
American plays adapted into films
Plays by N. Richard Nash
Plays set in the United States
Western United States in fiction
Capitán FAP Víctor Montes Arias International Airport

Cap. FAP Víctor Montes Arias International Airport (, ) is an airport serving Talara, Peru. It is run by AdP S.A. (Aeropuertos del Perú S.A.). It is an important airport in the Piura Region. It is used both as a relief airport for Cap. FAP Guillermo Concha Iberico International Airport and for faster access to the famous Los Órganos, Máncora and Punta Sal beaches.

History
During World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Forces Sixth Air Force defending the South American coastline against Axis powers submarines.  The first American forces arrived on March 8, 1942 and construction of barracks and other facilities began during August.  The station complement was the 336th Service Group which provided the necessary support resources for the personnel assigned.

American flying units assigned to the airport were:
 397th Bombardment Squadron (6th Bombardment Group) August 18, 1942 – May 4, 1943 (LB-30 (B-24A) Liberator) (Northrup A-17A Nomad)
 51st Fighter Squadron (32d Fighter Group) Dec, 1942-March 9, 1943 (P-40 Warhawk)
 3d Bombardment Squadron (6th Bombardment Group) Apr, 1-May 23, 1943 (LB-30 (B-24A) Liberator)
 91st Reconnaissance Squadron (1st Photographic Group) 1943-1944 (B-25/F-10 Mitchell)

In July 1944, the last aircraft departed from the airport, and most Americans departed. A few remained manning a communications station operated by the Army Communications Service 153d Communications Squadron. The communications facility remained open until January 31, 1947, largely training Peruvian military personnel in communications.

El Pato Air Base
El Pato Air Base of the Peruvian Air Force, is a Peruvian Air Force base  North-West of FAP Captain Víctor Montes Arias International Airport.

Airlines and destinations

See also
Transport in Peru
List of airports in Peru

References

External links

Airports in Peru
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces
Buildings and structures in Piura Region
Aminoaciduria

Aminoaciduria occurs when the urine contains abnormally high amounts of amino acids. In the healthy kidney, the glomeruli filter all amino acids out of the blood, and the renal tubules then reabsorb over 95% of the filtered amino acids back into the blood.

In overflow aminoaciduria, abnormally high concentrations of amino acids in the blood plasma overwhelm the resorptive capacity of the renal tubules, resulting in high concentrations of amino acids in the urine. This may be caused by congenital disorders of amino acid metabolism, for example, phenylketonuria, or may be secondary to liver disease.

In renal aminoaciduria, the renal tubules are unable to reabsorb the filtered amino acids back into the blood, causing high concentrations of amino acids in the urine. This may be caused by a defect in the transport proteins in the renal tubule, for example, as occurs in Hartnup disease, or may be due to damage to the kidney tubule, for example, as occurs in Fanconi syndrome.

References

External links 

Abnormal clinical and laboratory findings for urine
Next to You (The Police song)

"Next to You" is a song written by Sting and recorded by The Police as the opening track on their debut album Outlandos d'Amour in 1978.

The song was performed regularly on the early Police tours, and Sting later included it during his 'Broken Music' tour in 2005–2006. It was the song performed for the second encore during The Police's 2007 Reunion tour. In the Paris show (on 29 September), former band member Henry Padovani joined the band on stage to play this song. "Next to You" is the last song The Police played live together.

When Sting originally presented the song to his bandmates, they felt it was neither aggressive nor political enough for the early punk sensibility of The Police. Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland suggested replacing the lyrics, with Summers offering "I'm going to take a gun to you". Sting vetoed this and kept his original love song lyrics instead. The song also includes a slide guitar solo which Copeland dismissed as "old wave," yet Summers shared that as of 2000, he was still getting letters "about that brilliant slide guitar solo".

References

1978 songs
The Police songs
Songs written by Sting (musician)
Arabika Massif

Arabika Massif (Arabika) is a glacially eroded karst outcropping of the Gagra Range, Abkhazia in the West Caucasus, by the city of Gagra. The highest elevation - mountain Arabika  is .

Geology 
The 13-km-long massif is composed of Lower Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic limestones that dip continuously southwest to the Black Sea and plunge below the modern sea level. The area is densely wooded, with large areas of both coniferous forest and mixed woodland.

The Arabika contains a number of remarkable caves, gorges, wells, and precipices, including the Veryovkina Cave and Voronya Cave, the world's deepest caves. Alexander Kruber was the first to explore some of these features in 1909.

According to Rebecca Felix, the Arabica's "towering heights of limestone suggest the possibility of amazingly deep caves, boring the length of the massif and into the earth below its base".

Notes

References 

Mountain ranges of the Caucasus
Mountain ranges of Abkhazia
Rainmaker (Iron Maiden song)

"Rainmaker" is the 37th single by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It was released on 24 November 2003  as the second and final single from their 13th studio album, Dance of Death (2003). It was written by Dave Murray, Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson, and produced by Harris and  Kevin Shirley.

Synopsis
The song was largely written by long-time guitarist Dave Murray. The lyrics were inspired by vocalist Bruce Dickinson's comment that the intro riff made him think of raindrops. The song has no connection with the 1995 novel written by John Grisham of the same name.

The guitar solo in "Rainmaker" is played by Dave Murray.

The cover is a still taken from the music video directed by Howard Greenhalgh. This single also contains a double-sided poster.

"More Tea Vicar" is a recording of a jam session (similar to "Pass the Jam") with Bruce Dickinson trying his hand at rapping.

Track listing

CD single
 "Rainmaker" (Dave Murray, Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson) – 3:48
 "Dance of Death (orchestral version)" (Janick Gers, Harris) – 8:37
 "More Tea Vicar" (Dickinson, Gers, Harris, Nicko McBrain, Murray, Adrian Smith) – 4:37

Japanese CD
 "Rainmaker" (Murray, Harris, Dickinson) – 3:48
 "Dance of Death (orchestral version)" (Gers, Harris) – 8:37
 "More Tea Vicar" (Dickinson, Gers, Harris, McBrain, Murray, Smith) – 4:37
 "The Wicker Man (Live at Brixton Academy, London - 19–21 March 2002)" - 4:38
 "Children of the Damned (Live at Brixton Academy, London - 19–21 March 2002)" - 5:02
Japanese CD Extras:
 "Rainmaker" (Video) - 3:50
 "Wildest Dreams" (Video) - 3:39

Pock iT! Mini CD
 "Rainmaker" (Murray, Harris, Dickinson) – 3:48
 "Dance of Death (orchestral version)" (Gers, Harris) – 8:37

7" Vinyl
 "Rainmaker" (Murray, Harris, Dickinson) – 3:48
 "Dance of Death (orchestral version)" (Gers, Harris) – 8:37

DVD
 "Rainmaker" (video) (Murray, Harris, Dickinson) – 3:48
 "The Wicker Man (Live at Brixton Academy, London - 19–21 March 2002)" (Smith, Harris, Dickinson) - 4:35
 "Children of the Damned (Live at Brixton Academy, London - 19–21 March 2002)" (Harris) - 5:03
 "Rainmaker Video – The Making Of"

Personnel
Production credits are adapted from the CD, DVD, and picture disc covers.
Iron Maiden
Bruce Dickinson – lead vocals
Dave Murray – lead guitar
Janick Gers – rhythm guitar
Adrian Smith – rhythm guitar
Steve Harris – bass guitar, co-producer
Nicko McBrain – drums
Production
Kevin Shirley – producer, engineer, mixing (except "The Wicker Man")
Doug Hall – producer, mixing ("The Wicker Man")
Howard Greenhalgh – music video director
Lawrence Watson – photography

Chart performance

References

2003 singles
Iron Maiden songs
Music videos directed by Howard Greenhalgh
Song recordings produced by Kevin Shirley
Songs written by Bruce Dickinson
Songs written by Steve Harris (musician)
Marcelino Elena

Marcelino Elena Sierra (born 26 September 1971), known simply as Marcelino, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central defender.

Club career

Sporting and Mallorca
Marcelino was born in Gijón, Asturias, and began his career at local club Sporting de Gijón, where he appeared sporadically with the first team over three seasons before earning a move to RCD Mallorca in January 1996. There, he was instrumental in a promotion to La Liga, forming a formidable partnership with Iván Campo in 1997–98 as they finished fifth.

In the following season the Balearic Islands side finished third in the league and lost the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final to S.S. Lazio, with Marcelino featuring the full 90 minutes in the 2–1 defeat.

Newcastle United
In 1999, Marcelino transferred to Newcastle United for £5.8 million after impressing with Mallorca in Spain and Europe. A lot was expected of him at his new team, but he appeared only 20 times (all competitions) for the club in the first year and a half, being placed with the reserve team for the rest of his spell and finally reaching an agreement to leave in January 2003, having not featured for the main squad since 11 February 2001, against Charlton Athletic.

Marcelino also suffered several different injuries during his time with the Magpies, which stuttered his career there. Scans on the affected areas were occasionally declared to be inconclusive, the most serious of his injuries being a snapped finger tendon which prevented him from playing for two months.

Later years
After one and a half seasons in Segunda División with Polideportivo Ejido, Marcelino retired. He subsequently spent two years as Everton's Spanish scout, and also worked as a football commentator for RTVE's Premier League matches.

Marcelino later worked as a football agent.

International career
Marcelino earned five caps for Spain over a seven-month period, the first coming against Italy in Salerno on 18 November 1998. He would play his last international in an UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier rout of San Marino (9–0 home win, 90 minutes played).

Honours
Mallorca
Supercopa de España: 1998
Copa del Rey runner-up: 1997–98
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup runner-up: 1998–99

References

External links

1971 births
Living people
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from Gijón
Men's association football defenders
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Sporting de Gijón B players
Sporting de Gijón players
RCD Mallorca players
Polideportivo Ejido footballers
Premier League players
Newcastle United F.C. players
Spain men's international footballers
Spanish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in England
Mamers Valles

The Mamers Valles are a set of channels in a long, winding canyon in the north of Mars. They cover 1000 km, cutting through the cratered uplands of the Arabia Terra, from the Cerulli crater to the Deuteronilus Mensae near the edge of Mars' vast northern lowlands. Through their midsection, they average a width of 25 km and a depth of 1200 meters.

Theories of canyon formation include that Mamers Valles were formed by either water or lava, with the flow from south to north and additional material flowing from the slope toward the valley floor. According to the most popular theory, linear features on the valley bottom indicate possible ice flows and that ice may currently be plentiful. The Mamers Valles are dated to the early Hesperian period, about 3.8 billion years ago.

An infeeder canyon at the northwestern edge of the Mamers Valles, near their mouth (seen at the bottom of the photo at lower right), is a box canyon.  Such canyons (with rounded headwalls and no obvious overland infeeders) have been widely presumed to have formed by a process of seepage erosion.  However, it has been suggested that this side canyon was formed by a catastrophic flood event (Lamb, 2008).  The case is supported by comparison with Box Canyon, Idaho, USA, which shows a similar morphology, but also exhibits features such as plunge pools, rock scours on the headwall rim, and a notch on the headwall rim, suggestive of large-volume flow.

The Mamers Valles were named in 1976, after the Oscan word for Mars.

Gallery

References

 Google Mars linked to Mamers Valles
 THEMIS
 THEMIS
 Lamb, Michael P. et al. (2008) "Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood: Implications for Seepage Erosion on Earth and Mars", Science 320, 1067

Valleys and canyons on Mars
Ismenius Lacus quadrangle
Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Female

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Female. The award was given out every year since the first annual Soul Train Music Awards in 1987. From 1989-1992 the award was known as R&B/Urban Contemporary Single – Female. When the Soul Train Music Awards returned in 2009 the categories of Best R&B/Soul Single – Female and Best R&B/Soul Album – Female were consolidated into the Best R&B/Soul Female Artist category. Anita Baker has won the most awards in this category, with a total of three wins.

Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

1980s

1990s

2000s

See also

 List of music awards honoring women

References

Soul Train Music Awards
Music awards honoring women
Soth

Soth is a surname in various cultures, as well as a given name in Southeast Asia.

Origins
As a Khmer name (,  ), Soth originates from a word meaning "clean", "pure", or "white". That word originated from Sanskrit . The English surname Soth comes from Middle English  meaning "truth" or "justice", and can be found in records in England dating back to the 13th century.

Statistics
The 2010 United States Census found 662 people with the surname Soth, making it the 34,272nd-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 621 (34,503rd-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In the 2010 census, slightly more than three-fifths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and one-third as White.

Surname
Lauren K. Soth (1910–1998), American journalist
Bob Soth (born 1933), American long-distance runner
Soth Polin (born 1943), Cambodian writer
Soth Sun (born 1946), Cambodian boxer
Alec Soth (born 1969), American photographer

Fictional characters:
Lord Soth, in Dragonlance and Ravenloft
Norman Soth, in the video game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Given name
Soth Phetrasy (1915–2004), Lao Pathet official
Chea Soth (1928–2012), Cambodian politician, MP for Prey Veng Province
Mom Soth, Cambodian actor

See also
Wilhelm Söth (1903–1978), German general of World War II

References

Khmer-language names