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Intermission (Stratovarius album)

Intermission is a compilation album by power metal band Stratovarius, released on 26 June 2001 through Nuclear Blast. The album consists of covers, live and bonus tracks, as well as four new tracks. It charted in the top 100 in four countries.

Critical reception

Antti J. Ravelin at AllMusic gave Intermission three stars out of five, calling it "just an attempt to please fans and to postpone the making of their next studio album", but that "oddly enough, Intermission succeeds to offer a very album-like (a strong and steady whole) compilation."

Track listing

Personnel
Timo Kotipelto – lead vocals (except track 6)
Timo Tolkki – lead vocals (track 6), guitar, record producer
Jens Johansson – keyboards
Jörg Michael – drums
Jari Kainulainen – bass guitar
Kimmo – background vocals
Marko – background vocals
Pasi – background vocals
Anssi – background vocals
Mikko Karmila – engineering (except track 12), mixing
T. T. Oksala – engineering (track 12)
Mika Jussila – mastering

Chart performance

References

External links
Intermission at stratovarius.com

Stratovarius compilation albums
2001 compilation albums
Nuclear Blast compilation albums
Albums recorded at Finnvox Studios
Elements Pt. 1

Elements Pt. 1 is the ninth studio album by power metal band Stratovarius, released on 27 January 2003 through Nuclear Blast. The album reached No. 2 on the Finnish albums chart, as well as reaching the top 100 in four other countries. "Eagleheart" was released as a single, also reaching No. 2 on the Finnish singles chart.

Track listing

Personnel
Stratovarius
Timo Kotipelto – lead vocals
Timo Tolkki – guitar, engineering, record producer
Jens Johansson – keyboards
Jörg Michael – drums
Jari Kainulainen – bass guitar

Additional credits
Jonas Rannila – choir vocals (track 6)
Veijo Laine – accordion (track 4), arrangement (Joensuu City Orchestra), production (orchestra)
Juha Ikonen – orchestral leading
Mongo Aaltonen – orchestral percussion
Riku Niemi – orchestral percussion, conducting, production (orchestra)
Hilkka Kangasniemi – choirmaster
Mikko Karmila – engineering, mixing
Petri Pyykkönen – engineering (orchestra)
Juha Heininen – engineering (choir)
Mika Jussila – mastering

Chart performance

Album

Singles

References

External links
Elements Part1 at stratovarius.com

Stratovarius albums
2003 albums
Nuclear Blast albums
Albums recorded at Finnvox Studios
Elements Pt. 2

Elements Pt. 2 is the tenth studio album by power metal band Stratovarius, released on 4 November 2003 through Nuclear Blast. The album reached No. 4 on  the Finnish albums chart and its single, "I Walk to My Own Song", reached No. 9 on the Finnish singles chart.

"Know the Difference" track refers to Serenity Prayer in its refrain.

Critical reception

James Christopher Monger at AllMusic gave Elements Pt. 2 three stars out of five, describing it as "borrowing liberally" from Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys series, and praising the album's "inspired moments" which "succeed with bombast and Queensrÿche-like melodrama." He noted "Alpha & Omega", "Awaken the Giant", "Season's of Faith's Perfection" and "Liberty" as highlights, but remarked that the album "may disappoint some fans with its lack of epics and torch-heavy balladry".

Track listing

Vinyl edition

Personnel
 Stratovarius
Timo Kotipelto – lead vocals, arrangement
Timo Tolkki – guitar, arrangement, engineering, record producer
Jens Johansson – keyboards, arrangement
Jörg Michael – drums, arrangement
Jari Kainulainen – bass guitar, arrangement

 Additional credits
Veijo Laine – orchestral arrangement, choir arrangement, production (orchestra, choir)
Riku Niemi – orchestral arrangement, choir arrangement, conducting (Joensuu City Orchestra), production (orchestra, choir)
Mikko Karmila – engineering, mixing
Kuken Olsson – engineering (keyboard)
Pauli Saastamoinen – mastering

Chart performance

Album

Singles

References

External links
Elements Part2 at stratovarius.com

Stratovarius albums
Nuclear Blast albums
2003 albums
Concept albums
Sequel albums
Albums recorded at Finnvox Studios
Stratovarius (album)

Stratovarius is the eleventh studio album by power metal band Stratovarius, released on 5 September 2005 through Sanctuary Records. The album reached No. 4 on the Finnish albums chart as well as the top 100 in six other countries. "Maniac Dance" was released as a single, reaching No. 4 on the Finnish singles chart and the top 100 in three other countries.

It is the last album to feature the band's longest-standing line-up which had been consistent since Episode (1996), as bassist Jari Kainulainen would leave Stratovarius later in the year, followed by guitarist and bandleader Timo Tolkki in 2008.

Overview
The release of Stratovarius came after a highly troubled period for the band in 2004, during which they temporarily split up following a nervous breakdown suffered by Tolkki. After a year-long hiatus, they reunited in 2005 and toured worldwide in support of the album, playing for the first time in the United States and Canada.

Stylistically the album displays a dramatically noticeable shift from the symphonic power metal sound of previous albums: the songs are more hard-edged and slower, with Tolkki's signature neo-classical shred soloing almost completely absent. Keyboardist Jens Johansson's role is particularly restricted, as well as Jörg Michael's drumming, which features hardly any of his signature double bass playing. Singer Timo Kotipelto also attempts a different vocal approach, mostly avoiding his usual high vocal range. Tolkki has since stated in interviews that he was unsatisfied with the end result of the album due to it being too far removed from the band's true style.

Track listing

Personnel
Stratovarius
Timo Kotipelto – lead vocals
Timo Tolkki – guitar, engineering, mixing, producer
Jens Johansson – keyboard arrangement, orchestral arrangement (track 7)
Jörg Michael – drums
Jari Kainulainen – bass

Additional credits
Max Lilja – cello (track 4)
Petri Bäckström – tenor vocals (track 4)
Marko Vaara – backing vocals
Kimmo Blom – backing vocals
Pasi Rantanen – backing vocals
Anssi Stenberg – backing vocals
"Starbuck" – spoken vocals (track 4)
Mikko Oinonen – engineering (drums)
Svante Forsbäck – mastering

Chart performance

Album

Singles

References

External links
Stratovarius at stratovarius.com

Stratovarius albums
2005 albums
Sanctuary Records albums
Philippe Jouvion

Philippe Jouvion is a professional researcher, freelance reporter and film producer. He worked for several years with the Cité des Sciences de la Villette in Paris producing films, and a number of his documentaries have won awards. At present he is working as a freelance journalist and is completing a television documentary on the environment.

As a journalist, he has mainly treated scientific and medical subjects, as well as tourism. He has published with Editions du Rouergue, in collaboration with Colette Gouvion.

Works
Gouvion, Colette and Philippe Jouvion. The Gardeners of God: an encounter with five million Bahai’ís (Originally published in French as Jardiniers de Dieu Oxford : Oneworld, 1993,  
Une maison tout en récup' : Matériaux anciens, idées nouvelles, Philippe Jouvion, 2001,  
La vie en vert, Philippe Jouvion, 1999,  
Cadeaux gourmands, Philippe Jouvion, Dorian Shaw, Colette Gouvion, 1999, 
Le Béret, Philippe Jouvion, 1998, 
Ces petits riens qui changent tout, Philippe Jouvion
Les Petits Meubles de récupération, Philippe Jouvion
Tout pour l'enfant: vite et pas cher,

References

French journalists
Living people
French male non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Manzanita Speedway

The Manzanita Speedway was a dirt track racing facility located in the suburban southwestern part of Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The facility had a 1/3 mile and 1/2 mile tracks. The track held USAC events up through the 2009 Sprint Car season opener. The track was sold to a rigging company and the final race was held on April 11, 2009.

History 
Originally a dog-racing track known as Manzanita Park, it was converted into a 1/4 mile jalopy race track during the summer of 1951. The first race was held August 25, 1951 in front of 3,923 fans. In 1954, Manzanita added a 1/2 mile track and opened it with a 25-hour marathon race.

In 1965, Keith Hall purchased the facility and renamed it Manzanita Speedway. In 1968, he founded the Western States Championships (now the Western World Championships) at the track, offering an at-the-time generous $10,000 purse. This race became part of the triple crown of sprint car racing.

The track hosted 3 NASCAR Winston West Series races between 1974 and 1975.

Hall sold the track in 1984, but soon repossessed it when the new owners defaulted on the loan. In 2004, Joe and Millie Kimbro took over ownership of the facility.

In 2007, the Kimbros sold the track to the Martin family, well known in the sprint car ranks. The ownership change became effective August 15, 2007.

Closure

In 2009 the Martins sold the track to Southwest Rigging and the company is set to level the site and use it for parking and equipment storage after closing the doors on April 12, 2009. The final event was the Donnie Davis Memorial. Describing the reason for the sale, Bobby Martin said "I thought we'd get 10 years out of it before we'd have to sell it. But attendance is down 40 percent, and we lost ($468,465) last year ... the nail in the coffin was some environmental issues involving dust and also noise complaints from neighbors. We knew eventually we'd get closed down because of it."

The American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) Regional Tours had to rearrange their schedules for the 2009 season. The Discount Tire Company ASCS Canyon Region had to reschedule some of their 17 events at other speedways. Events were split between Hollywood Hills Speedway in San Felipe Pueblo, New Mexico and USA Raceway in Tucson. The series had competed at the track for over 50 years.

Races 
In the 1960's they had figure eight dirt races that were televised on the local TV channel, KPHO TV Channel 5.

The track hosted over 500 racers each year during 75 to 80 nights of racing. The track featured USAC/CRA sprint cars to bombers.

The track occasionally hosted World of Outlaws events.

Notable track alumni
 Billy Boat
 Lealand McSpadden
 Ron Shuman
 J. J. Yeley
 Butch Beard

References

External links 
 Official website
 Manzazita Speedway archive at Racing-Reference

Defunct motorsport venues in the United States
Sports venues in Phoenix, Arizona
Motorsport venues in Arizona
Defunct sports venues in Arizona
NASCAR tracks
Figure 8 Motorsport venues
Feel Me (album)

Feel Me is the sixth album by the funk band Cameo, released in 1980.

Track listing
All tracks composed by Anthony Lockett and Larry Blackmon; except where indicated
"Throw It Down" - 5:44
"Your Love Takes Me Out" - 6:39 	
"Keep It Hot" - 4:42  
"Feel Me" - 5:56  
"Is This the Way" - 5:58
"Roller Skates" - (Aaron Mills, Nathan Leftenant, Larry Blackmon) 4:40
"Better Days" - 4:12

Personnel
Larry Blackmon - lead vocals, drums, percussion
 Gregory Johnson - keyboards,  vocals
Aaron Mills - bass guitar, vocals
Thomas 'T.C.' Campbell - keyboards
Anthony Lockett - guitar, vocals
Eric Durham  - guitar
Arnett Leftenant - saxophone
Nathan Leftenant, Arthur Young - trumpet
Jeryl Bright - trombone, vocals
Randy Stern - keyboards
Jose Rossy - percussion
Randy Brecker, Lou Marini, Jon Faddis, Sefra Herman, Bob Mintzer, Dennis Morouse, Jim Pugh, David Taylor - horns
Tomi Jenkins, Steve Moore - vocals

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

References

External links
 Cameo-Feel Me at Discogs

Cameo (band) albums
1980 albums
Almost Killed Me

Almost Killed Me is the debut studio album by Brooklyn-based rock band the Hold Steady, released on March 16, 2004, on Frenchkiss Records. It is considered by many to be a concept album, with several recurring themes such as near-death experiences, parties and the fictional character Charlemagne. Its concept album roots are further explored with the recurring characters in Separation Sunday, the Hold Steady's second album, which uses the same characters introduced in Almost Killed Me. Almost Killed Me was ranked number 99 on Rolling Stones 100 Best Albums of the Decade.

While not a full-time member of the band at this time, future keyboard player Franz Nicolay makes a guest appearance on the album alongside the World/Inferno Friendship Society bandmate Peter Hess.

Track listing
"Positive Jam" (Craig Finn) – 3:19
"The Swish" (Finn, Tad Kubler) – 4:11
"Barfruit Blues" (Finn, Kubler) – 3:31
"Most People Are DJs" (Finn, Kubler) – 5:50
"Certain Songs" (Finn) – 3:54
"Knuckles" (Finn) – 3:46
"Hostile, Mass." (Finn, Kubler) – 3:42
"Sketchy Metal" (Finn, Kubler) – 4:17
"Sweet Payne" (Finn, Kubler) – 4:33
"Killer Parties" (Finn, Kubler) – 5:48

Australian edition bonus tracks
"Milkcrate Mosh" – 5:56 
"Hot Fries" – 3:37 
"Curves and Nerves" – 2:40 
"Modesto Is Not That Sweet" – 3:12 
"You Gotta Dance" – 2:00

Note
The 2016 deluxe edition of Almost Killed Me contains the same bonus tracks as the Australian edition.

Personnel
Adapted from the album liner notes.

The Hold Steady
Craig Finn
Tad Kubler
Galen Polivka
Judd Counsell

Additional musicians
Franz Nicolay – piano
Peter Hess – saxophone

Technical
Dean Baltulonis – recording 
Matt Henderson – recording
Seth Jabour – layout, design 
Tad Kubler – photography, layout, design 
Tim Harrington – layout, design
Dave Gardner – mastering

References

2004 debut albums
The Hold Steady albums
Frenchkiss Records albums
All I Can Be

All I Can Be is the debut studio album by American country music artist Collin Raye. It features the hit singles "All I Can Be (Is a Sweet Memory)" (originally recorded by Conway Twitty as "All I Can Be Is a Sweet Memory" on his 1985 album Chasin' Rainbows), "Love, Me" (Raye's first #1 on the Billboard country charts), and "Every Second". The final track, "If I Were You", is a different song than the song of the same name recorded on Raye's 1994 album Extremes. "Any Ole Stretch of Blacktop" was later recorded by Shenandoah as a new track for their 1992 
Greatest Hits album.

Track listing

Personnel
Adapted from liner notes.

Acoustic guitar: Steve Gibson, Dean Parks, Fred Tackett, Billy Joe Walker Jr.
Background vocals: Beth Anderson, Vince Gill (track 1), Jerry Fuller, Herb Pederson (tracks 5 & 10), Harry Stinson, Dennis Wilson, Bubba Wray
Bass guitar: Dennis Belfield, Joe Chemay
Drums: Ron Krasinski, Paul Leim
Electric guitar: Steve Gibson, Kraig Hutchens, Dean Parks, Billy Joe Walker Jr., Reggie Young
Fiddle: Rob Hajacos
Lead vocals: Collin Raye
Keyboards: John Hobbs
Steel guitar: Paul Franklin, Jay Dee Maness

Production
Jerry Fuller, John Hobbs: Producers
Annette Fuller: Production Assistant
Gene Eichelberger, Brian Friedman: Engineering
Wally Traugott: Mastering

Chart performance

References

1991 debut albums
Collin Raye albums
Epic Records albums
Kumho Cultural Foundation

Kumho Cultural Foundation, owned by the Kumho Asiana Group of South Korea is one of the major arts organizations in Korea.
It functions as a concert management company for world-renowned artists and groups, and a recording company and talent agency for young artists of extraordinary talents.

Affiliated artists
Yura Lee
Rachel Lee
Kyung Wha Chung
Hyuk Joo Kwun

Affiliated groups
Berlin Philharmonic
Philadelphia Orchestra
New York Philharmonic

Link
Kumho Cultural Foundation

Foundations based in South Korea
Urban Chipmunk

Urban Chipmunk was the first country album by Alvin and the Chipmunks, released on February 4, 1981. The title parodies the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy.

Track listing

Original 1981 release

Urban Chipmunk was released on CD in 1993. For this release, the songs "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" and "Made For Each Other" were deleted and replaced with new songs "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" and "Boot Scootin' Boogie". In addition, "I Love a Rainy Night" was retitled "I Love a Rainy Night (Saturday Morning Remix)" with new dialogue added. The cover art was also modified to feature the current character redesign.

1993 CD remaster

Charts and certifications 
Despite mixed reviews, the album ended up earning a Gold certification from the RIAA, the Chipmunks' second Gold album following 1980's Chipmunk Punk.

On the Billboard Top LPs chart, the record peaked at No. 56, while on the country chart, it reached No. 23.

Personnel
 Ross Bagdasarian Jr. — lead vocals (Alvin, Simon, David Seville)
 Janice Karman — lead vocals (Theodore)
 Buzz Cason — background vocals
 Bergen White — background vocals
 Dennis Wilson — background vocals
 Bob ”King” Moore — bass
 Jerry Carrigan — drums
 Hargus "Pig" Robbins — pedal steel guitars
 Rick Carlson – keyboards and piano
 Ray Edenton — rhythm guitars
 Billy Sanford — auxiliary percussion
 Jimmy Capps — rhythm guitars
 Leon Rhodes — lead guitar
 Buddy Spicher — fiddle

Production crew
 Ross Bagdasarian Jr — producer
 Janice Karman — producer
 Larry Butler — producer
 Billy Sherill — engineer
 Dain & DeJoy — album coordination
 Rick Detorie — art direction and illustrations
 David Foster — project consultant
 John Boylan — project consultant

References

Alvin and the Chipmunks albums
1981 albums
Albums produced by Larry Butler (producer)
José de Canterac

José de Canterac (July 29, 1786, Casteljaloux, Lot-et-Garone, France – January 18, 1835, Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish general of French origin who fought in the Spanish American wars of independence. In 1816 he joined the army of Pablo Morillo, fighting in the expedition against Isla Margarita. As Field Marshal, he took command of the Spanish Army in South America in 1822 and gained victories at the battles of Ica (1822) and Moquegua (1823). His defeats in 1824 at the Battle of Junín and the Battle of Ayacucho led to his capitulation to the Patriot forces. Upon his return to Spain, Canterac was made Captain General of Madrid. He was killed in 1835 in an insurrection at the Puerta del Sol.

References
Memoirs of general Miller, in the service of the republic of Peru,1828. Volumen 2

1779 births
1835 deaths
Spanish generals
Royalists in the Hispanic American Revolution
People of the Peruvian War of Independence
People of the Latin American wars of independence
Spanish people of French descent
Spanish military personnel killed in action
TriBeCa Productions

Tribeca Productions is an American film and television production company co-founded in 1989 by actor Robert De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal in the lower Manhattan neighborhood of Tribeca.

History 
The production company was founded in 1989 at the beginning of a revival of interest in the film production community in filming in New York City. Prior to the 1990s it made more economic sense for production companies to film urban scenes in cities such as Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver in Canada. Since the founding of Tribeca Productions other production facilities have moved into various neighborhoods in NYC and filming around the city and in the streets has again become commonplace.

In 2003, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff moved Tribeca Productions to become a part of Tribeca Enterprises, which organizes the Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival International, Tribeca Cinemas, and Tribeca Film.

Filmography

References 

Film production companies of the United States
Entertainment companies established in 1989
American film studios
Television production companies of the United States
Companies based in New York City
Tribeca
Robert De Niro
CBC Documentary Unit

The CBC Documentary Unit was a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 2000 until 2015. The unit focused on documentary production, and was headed by executive producer Mark Starowicz.

Notable productions by the unit include:

Canada: A People's History
The Canadian Experience
The Greatest Canadian
Hockey: A People's History
8th Fire

In June 2014, CBC announced it would close the in-house Documentary Unit, with the last production scheduled for broadcast in the spring of 2015. The decision sparked backlash from several prominent CBC journalists and other Canadian television and radio personalities. In July 2015, executive producer Mark Starowicz announced his departure after overseeing documentary production since 1992.

References

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Documentary film organizations
Documentary television
In This Life (Collin Raye album)

In This Life is the second studio album by American country music artist Collin Raye. Its title track was Raye's second song to reach Number One. "That Was a River", "Somebody Else's Moon" and "I Want You Bad (And That Ain't Good)" were also released as singles. "Big River" is a cover of a Johnny Cash song, while "Let It Be Me" is a cover of a pop standard originally recorded by Betty Everett and Jerry Butler.

Track listing

Personnel
 Sam Bush – mandolin
 Joe Chemay – background vocals
 Garth Fundis – background vocals
 Rob Hajacos – fiddle
 John Hobbs – piano
 Kraig Hutchens – electric guitar
 Gene LeSage – background vocals
 Brent Mason – electric guitar
 Weldon Myrick  – steel guitar
 Dave Pomeroy – bass guitar
 Collin Raye – lead vocals, background vocals
 Harry Stinson – background vocals
 Steve Turner – drums
 Billy Joe Walker Jr. – acoustic guitar
 Sammy Wray – background vocals

strings performed by the Nashville String Machine arranged by John Hobbs

Chart performance

References

1992 albums
Epic Records albums
Collin Raye albums
Albums produced by Garth Fundis
Transposition (chess)

In chess, a transposition is a sequence of moves that results in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence of moves.  Transpositions are particularly common in the opening, where a given position may be reached by different sequences of moves. Players sometimes use transpositions deliberately, to avoid variations they dislike, lure opponents into unfamiliar or uncomfortable territory or simply to worry opponents. To transpose means to play move(s) that result in a transposition.

Transposition tables are an essential part of a computer chess program.

Transpositions exist in other abstract strategy games such as shogi, Go, tic-tac-toe and Hex.

Examples

Positions reached by different routes

For instance, the first position can be obtained from the Queen's Gambit:

1. d4 d5
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 Nf6

But this position can also be reached from the English Opening:

1. c4 e6
2. Nc3 Nf6
3. d4 d5
so the English Opening has transposed into the Queen's Gambit.

The second position shows another example.  The position can arise from the French Defence:
1. e4 e6
2. d4 d5
3. exd5 exd5
4. Nf3 Nf6
The identical position can also be reached, with two extra moves played by each side, from the Petrov Defense:

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nf6
3. Nxe5 d6
4. Nf3 Nxe4
5. d3 Nf6
6. d4 d5

This third position shows another example. This position can be reached from the Exchange variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined:
1. d4 d5
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. cxd4 exd4
5. Bg5 Bb4
6. Qc2 h6

The identical position can also be reached from the Classical variation of the Nimzo-Indian Defence:
1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nc3 Bb4
4. Qc2 d5
5. cxd4 exd4
6. Bg5 h6

Transposition possibilities of some openings
Some openings are noted for their wide range of possible transpositions, for example the Catalan Opening and  Sicilian Defence.

For a simple example, the opening moves 1.d4 e6 (the Horwitz Defence) can transpose very quickly into a wide range of openings, including:

References

Chess terminology
Avalanche (Some Velvet Sidewalk album)

Avalanche is the third album by Some Velvet Sidewalk.

Track listing
"Avalanche"
"Loch Ness"
"Curiosity"
"Froggy"
"Peaches"
"Little Wishes"
"Deep Sea Green"
"No Real Home"
"Alien"
"Right/Wrong"
"Ice Cream Overdrive"

References

Some Velvet Sidewalk albums
Albums produced by Steve Fisk
K Records albums
1992 albums
Woman with a Water Jug

Woman with a Water Jug (Dutch: Vrouw met waterkan), also known as Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, is a painting finished between 1660–1662 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in the Baroque style. It is oil on canvas, 45.7cm × 40.6 cm, and is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Description
A young woman is found in the center of the picture. She is opening a window with her right hand, while she holds a water jug with her left hand. This jug rests on a larger platter. Both of these, among other objects, are upon on a table. This is decorated with a predominantly red rug of Asian origin. Behind the table stands a chair upon which lies a blue material. The woman gazes out the window. The clothing of the woman consists of a dark blue dress with a black and gold bodice. A white cloth serves as her headpiece. A map hangs in the background on the wall. 

This painting is one of a closely related group painted in the early to mid-1660s as the artist was not using linear perspective and geometric order, and the light was his only source of emphasis.
The work suggests that Vermeer was aware that light is composed of colours, and the effect of colours on one another. For instance, the blue drape is reflected as dark blue on the side of the metallic pitcher, and the red fabric modifies the gold hue of the basin's underside.

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher was purchased by Henry Gurdon Marquand in 1887 at a Paris gallery for $800. When Marquand brought it to the United States, it was the first Vermeer in America. Marquand donated the artwork along with other pieces in his collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

See also
 List of paintings by Johannes Vermeer

References

External links 
 Essential Vermeer: Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
 smARThistory: Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
 Young Woman with a Water Pitcher - Analysis and Critical Reception
 "Vermeer's Young Woman with a Water Jug and What Men and Women Are Hoping for in Marriage by Julie and Robert Jensen
Essay on this painting from the book Beauty and Terror by Brian A. Oard
The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Woman with a Water Jug (cat. no. 7)

Genre paintings by Johannes Vermeer
1660s paintings
Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Maps in art
Cartography in the Dutch Republic
Early modern Netherlandish cartography
Portraits of women
Charles Lester Marlatt

Charles Lester Marlatt (1863–1954) was an American entomologist.  Born in 1863 at Atchison, Kansas, he was educated at Kansas State Agricultural College (B.S., 1884; M.S., 1886), where he was assistant professor for two years.  He is the person who introduced the ladybug insect Chilocorus similis into the United States to control the San Jose scale insect, which was first discovered in San Jose, California in 1880 by John Henry Comstock and named by him.  Marlatt worked for the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture.  In 1912 he was appointed chairman of the Federal Horticultural Board.  He was president of the Entomological Society of Washington in 1897–98 and of the American Association of Economic Entomologists in 1899.

His 1907 description of periodic cicadas remains a classic in the field. In this article, Marlatt proposed a grouping of periodic cicadas into 30 different broods, each given a Roman numeral. Broods I–XVII assigned brood numbers for each of 17 sequential calendar years to 17-year cicadas. Broods XVIII–XXX assigned 13 sequential calendar years to 13-year cicadas. Subsequent research has established that, in fact, not every year produces a brood of periodical cicadas. There are only 15 distinct broods, not 30, but Marlatt's scheme continues to be used.

References

Bibliography 
 Marlatt, C. L. (1898). "A consideration of the validity of the old records bearing on the distribution of the broods of the periodical cicada, with particular reference to the occurrence of broods VI and XXIII in 1898." Bulletin of the U.S. Bureau of Entomology. 18: 59-78.
 
 Marlatt, C. L. (1898). "A new nomenclature for the broods of the periodical cicada. Miscellaneous results of work of the Division of Entomology." Bulletin of the USDA Division of Entomology. 18: 52-58.
 Marlatt, C. L. (1902). "A New Nomenclature for the Broods of the Periodical Cicada." USDA, Div. Of Entomology, Circ. No. 45. 8 pp.
 Marlatt, C. L. 1906. "The Periodical Cicada in 1906." USDA, Bureau Of Entomology, Circ. No. 14. 5 pp.
 
 Marlatt, C. L. (1907). "The periodical cicada." U.S.D.A. Bureau Entomology Bulletin. 71: 1-181.
 Marlatt, C. L. (1908). "A successful seventeen-year breeding record for the periodical cicada." Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 9: 16-18.
 Marlatt, C. L. (1919). "The '17-year locust' in 1919." U.S.D.A. Circular 127: 1-10.
 Marlatt, C. L. (1923). The periodical cicada. U.S.D.A. Bureau Entomology Bulletin 71: 1-183.
 More, Thomas, Singing Insects of North America, University of Florida map
 Post, Susan L. The Trill of a Life Time, photographs by Michael R. Jeffords, The Illinois Steward, Spring 2004. 
 Stannard, Jr., Lewis. The Distribution of Periodical Cicadas in Illinois, 1975.

External links
 

1863 births
1954 deaths
American entomologists
People from Atchison, Kansas
Kansas State University alumni
Yellowcraig

Yellowcraig, also known as Broad Sands Beach, is a coastal area of forest, beach and grassland in East Lothian, south-east Scotland. Yellowcraig is partly within the Firth of Forth Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). It is bordered to the north by the Firth of Forth, to the south by the village of Dirleton and Dirleton Castle, to the east by the North Berwick West Links golf course, and to the west by the Archerfield Estate and Links golf courses.

Access to Yellowcraig is by the A198 coastal route through Dirleton. A visitor car park lies  south of the beach. The area includes information displays, a barbecue area and a Treasure Island themed adventure play park. WCs and showers are located at the car park. There is also a wheelchair accessible path and ramp giving a view over the beach.

Yellowcraig is on the John Muir Way, a  long distance footpath between Fisherrow, Musselburgh and Dunglass, named in honour of the conservationist John Muir, who was born in Dunbar. Yellowcraig is featured in the leaflet Aberlady to North Berwick among a series of leaflets on the John Muir Way. The John Muir Way is part of the North Sea Trail, a network of paths in 7 countries and 26 areas around the North Sea.

The island of Fidra, reputedly the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, lies just to the north-west and is an RSPB nature reserve.

The East Lothian Countryside Ranger Service co-ordinates the day-to-day management of this site.

References

Protected areas of East Lothian
Beaches of Scotland
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Mid and East Lothian
Electrabel

Electrabel SA is a Belgian energy corporation. It is a subsidiary of French multinational utility company Engie S.A. (formerly GDF Suez).

History
Electrabel was established in 1905. Its actual name originates from 1990, after the regrouping of the companies Intercom, EBES and Unerg.

For a long time a majority stake in Electrabel was held by the French company Suez. In 2005, Suez increased its stake to 96.7% and a squeeze-out of the remaining shareholders was completed on 10 July 2007, when the company was delisted from the stock exchange. Following Suez's 2008 merger with Gaz de France, Electrabel became a subsidiary of GDF Suez, which changed its name into Engie in 2015.

Operations
Electrabel is active in the Benelux market. It generates electricity and heat, and supplies electricity and natural gas to six million customers. In 2008, Electrabel sold 97.4 TWh of electricity and 72 TWh of natural gas. It is the largest electricity producer in the Netherlands and Belgium, the largest electricity supplier in Belgium, and the second largest natural gas supplier in Belgium.

Power stations
Electrabel has diversified generating facilities of 16,000 MW in the Benelux, including renewable energy sources, natural gas and coal, pumped storage power stations and nuclear power stations. It owns the Doel and Tihange nuclear power plants with a capacity of 2,736.9 MW and 2,423.1 MW respectively. In addition, Electrabel owns combined cycle gas turbine plants in Amercoeur, Drogenbos, Herdersbrug, Saint-Ghislain, Esch-sur-Alzette and Eems, and combined heat and power in Solvay, Total and Almere. Conventional power stations are located in Awirs, Amercoeur, Kallo, Mol, Rodenhuize, Ruien, Gelderland, Bergum and Dunamenti (Hungary). Electrabel also owns the Coo-Trois-Ponts Hydroelectric Power Station with a total capacity of 1,164 MW and several hydroelectric, photovoltaic and biomass power plants and wind farms.

Synatom
A wholly owned subsidiary of Electrabel, the company is responsible for the fuel supply and spent fuel management of nuclear reactors in Belgium.

References

External links 

 Electrabel GDF Suez International  
 Electrabel GDF Suez Belgium 
 Electrabel GDF Suez Netherlands 
 GDF SUEZ 

 
Engie
Electric power companies of Belgium
Nuclear power companies of Belgium
Société Générale de Belgique
Intalliance

intalliance AG was a German corporation based in Hanover which operated the Hanover S-Bahn and Hanover Stadtbahn. It ceased to exist on January 1, 2007. After splitting up the Hanover S-Bahn is now operated again by DB Regio and the Hanover Stadtbahn by üstra Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe AG.

The corporation was owned by üstra Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe AG and DB Stadtverkehr with 40% each. The remaining 20% were held by NORD/LB. The üstra and DB Regio, who held the licences issued by the state of Lower Saxony to provide traffic services, had outsourced these services to intalliance. 1900 üstra employees and 285 DB Regio employees were transferred over to intalliance.

The intalliance AG owned 318 Stadtbahn vehicles, 138 buses and 46 S-Bahn trainsets.

See also 
Hanover Stadtbahn
Hanover S-Bahn

External links 
intalliance.de

Transport in Hanover
Transport operators of Germany
Companies based in Hanover
German companies disestablished in 2007
Tin Dog Creek

Tin Dog Creek () is a small watercourse in Dowerin, Western Australia.

The name is said to have come from gold miners travelling to the Yilgarn goldfields who called their tinned beef "tinned dog" and would discard tins at the creek.

References 

Watercourses of Western Australia
DeLauné Michel

DeLauné Michel is an American author and actress. She was raised in southern Louisiana in a literary family which includes her uncle, Andre Dubus; her mother, Elizabeth Nell Dubus; and her cousins, mystery writer James Lee Burke, Andre Dubus III (House of Sand and Fog), and Alafair Burke.

The Baton Rouge, Louisiana-born Michel was named for Helene DeLauné, according to family history the first woman over from France on her mother's side of the family. Helene DeLauné was in the court of Marie Antoinette and her husband, Jules André Dubus, fought in the French Revolution. Antoinette gave Helene jewels to help her and her husband escape to Louisiana. Michel's father's family was the eleventh family in New Orleans.

Upon leaving high school (St. Joseph's Academy in Baton Rouge), Michel moved to New York City. She did some modeling there and in Europe, then spent several years studying acting in NYC with teachers from the Neighborhood Playhouse, the Actors Studio, Juilliard, and the Yale Drama School.

After moving to Los Angeles, Michel had guest starring roles on TV shows such as NYPD Blue, The Gilmore Girls, and Judging Amy, among others. She did a number of independent films that never saw the light of day and Equity-waiver theatre, including her own one-woman show.

In 1996, Michel created "Spoken Interludes", a critically acclaimed reading series where award-winning, bestselling, and up-coming writers read their own work. This literary institution has been covered extensively by publications ranging from the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, GQ Magazine, LA Magazine, LA Weekly, and has been heard on NPR.

Works
The first two short stories that Michel wrote won recognition in the Thomas Wolfe Prize Short Fiction Competition sponsored by Duke University. Later work won the Pacificus Foundation Literary Award. One of her short stories caught the eye of an agent, who then sent it to Joyce Carol Oates, who referred to Michel's writing as "a wonderful, idiosyncratic voice and an extremely promising talent." But Ms. Oates felt that the story was actually a chapter of a novel. Michel agreed and her first novel, Aftermath of Dreaming, was born.

In Aftermath of Dreaming (William Morrow/HarperCollins, April 2006), Michel explores the universal themes of abandonment, forgiveness, and letting go. The novel is loosely based on an intimate six-year relationship she shared with Warren Beatty. Her second novel The Safety of Secrets was published by Avon A/HarperCollins in May 2008. She lives in Westchester County, New York with her husband and two sons.

References

External links
Spoken Interludes
DeLaune Michel

Actresses from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
American stage actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
American women short story writers
21st-century American novelists
American women novelists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American short story writers
Marguerite De La Motte

Marguerite De La Motte (June 22, 1902 – March 10, 1950) was an American film actress, most notably of the silent film era.

Early years

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, De La Motte was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph De La Motte. She was a 1917 graduate of the Egan School of drama, music, and dancing.

De La Motte began her entertainment career studying ballet under Anna Pavlova. In 1919, she became the dance star of Sid Grauman on the stage of his theater. In 1918, at the age of 16, she made her screen debut in the Douglas Fairbanks-directed romantic comedy film Arizona. In 1920, both of her parents died, her mother in January in an automobile accident and her father in August from heart disease. Film producer J.L. Frothingham assumed guardianship of her and her younger brother.

Career

De La Motte spent the 1920s appearing in numerous films, often cast by Douglas Fairbanks to play opposite him in swashbuckling adventure films such as 1920's The Mark of Zorro and The Three Musketeers. She developed a close friendship with Fairbanks and his wife, actress Mary Pickford.
Her career as an actress slowed dramatically at the end of the silent film era of the 1920s. She did continue acting in bit parts through the sound era and made her final appearance in the 1942 film Overland Mail opposite both Noah Beery Sr. and Noah Beery Jr., as well as Lon Chaney Jr.

Personal life
De La Motte was married twice. She first wed silent film actor John Bowers in 1924, who was then a matinee idol of the silver screen. That marriage ended with Bowers's suicide in 1936. De La Motte later married attorney Sidney H. Rivkin whom she divorced after four years of marriage. Her cousin, Clete Roberts, was an American war correspondent and journalist, who appeared in two episodes of the television series M*A*S*H* in the 1970s.

Later years
After her film career ended, De La Motte worked as an inspector in a southern California war plant during World War II. Later she came to San Francisco, California, where she worked in the Red Cross office.

Death
On March 10, 1950, De La Motte died of cerebral thrombosis in San Francisco at the age of 47.

Recognition 
On February 8, 1960, De La Motte was awarded a star in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6902 Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood, California.

Filmography

References
Notes

Bibliography

External links

1902 births
1950 deaths
Actresses from Duluth, Minnesota
American film actresses
American silent film actresses
Deaths from cerebral thrombosis
20th-century American actresses
I Scream (EP)

I Scream is an EP by Some Velvet Sidewalk, released in 1993.

Track listing
"Ice Cream Overdrive"
"Shame"
"I Blame You"
"Ice Cream Overdrive (Frozen Solid Mix)"
"Shame (Misty Lavender Mix)"

Credits
Some Velvet Sidewalk
Al Larsen - voice & guitar
Martin Bernier - bass
Don Blair - drums

Additional personnel
"Ice Cream Overdrive" supervised by Calvin Johnson
"I Blame You" engineered by Stuart Hallerman
Remixes courtesy of Steve Fisk
Vocal clip on "Shame (Misty Lavender Mix)" by Stephen Jesse Bernstein

References

Some Velvet Sidewalk albums
1993 EPs
K Records EPs
Knights of the Sound Table

Knights of the Sound Table is the seventh album by the funk band Cameo, released in 1981. It reached number 2 for 3 weeks on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, number 44 on the Billboard 200 chart), and was the band’s fourth consecutive album to be certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 copies. The album spawned two hit singles: "Freaky Dancin'" (which reached number 3 R&B) and "I Like It" (which reached number 25 R&B. The track “Don’t Be So Cool” featured a guest appearance by former Labelle member Nona Hendryx and also received airplay on R&B stations at the time. Hendryx joined Cameo for a performance of the song on Soul Train that first aired on June 20, 1981.

Critical reception

Amy Hanson of AllMusic called it "the sound of a band keeping their past alive while stretching their wings to the future."

Track listing

Personnel
Larry Blackmon - lead vocals, drums, percussion
Gregory Johnson - Moog synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, vocals
Aaron Mills - bass guitar, vocals
Thomas 'T.C.' Campbell - keyboards
Anthony Lockett - guitar, vocals
Arnett Leftenant - saxophone, vocals
Nathan Leftenant - trumpet, vocals
David Weber - trumpet
Jeryl Bright - trombone, vocals
Clifford Adams - trombone
Jose Rossy - percussion
Tomi Jenkins, Steve Moore, Charlie Singleton - vocals
Nona Hendryx - backing vocals

Charts

Singles

References

External links

1981 albums
Cameo (band) albums
1998 Women's Rugby World Cup

The 1998 Women's Rugby World Cup was the first world cup fully sanctioned by the International Rugby Board (IRB) and the third Women's Rugby World Cup in history. The tournament took place in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands and was the first women's world cup held outside of the United Kingdom.

The tournament saw a record 16 teams compete and heightened media attention. There was no qualification process, teams taking part by invitation from the IRB. New Zealand defeated the United States 44–12 in the final.

Several matches in the tournament were filmed for television and a one-hour TV highlights programme was produced by IMG. These recordings are held as part of the IRB's World Cup Archive.

Squads

Pool stages

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Bowl

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

11th/12th place

Final (9th place)

Shield

Semi-finals

15th/16th place

Final (13th place)

Cup

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

3rd/4th place

Final

Plate

Semi-finals

7th/8th place

Final (5th place)

1998 Top scorers

See also
Women's Rugby World Cup
Rugby World Cup Sevens
Rugby World Cup

References

External links
 IRB coverage (via WebArchive)
 WRWC 1998 in Amsterdam
 Previous World Cup rugby results

 
1998
1998 rugby union tournaments for national teams
Rug
International rugby union competitions hosted by the Netherlands
1998 in women's rugby union
May 1998 sports events in Europe
1990s in Amsterdam
Women's Rugby World Cup, 1998
Rug Rage

Rug Rage was the 1993 game of the FIRST Robotics Competition. In it, teams competed individually to score as many balls as possible in their goal.

Game overview

Field

Rug Rage was played on a , rectangular, carpeted field. The edge of the field was lined with PVC pipe. There were four scoring areas, two on each long side of the field set  from the ends. The four robots started in the corners of the field and scored in the goal in the same corner. The goals had horizontal cross bars at their entrances creating an  opening. This allowed the small balls to roll in easily but kept out the  balls.

Gameplay
Four robots played individually in each 2-minute match. In the center of the field were five, , red balls worth 5 points and twenty, , water-filled, blue balls worth 1 point. The goal was to ferry balls into a team's respective goal and earn the most points. As the large balls couldn't fit under the goals' cross bar, they had to be lifted over. In the event of a tie, the team with the most large balls scored in its goal won.

Robots
Robots had to fit within a  cube and weigh no more than . Unlike the previous year, robots were powered by an on-board battery and not an umbilical. Robots were controlled by an on-board Motorola micro controller. Commands were sent by the drivers through an 8 position joystick and a Termiflex keypad controller.

Awards
The following awards were presented at the competition:
Chairman's Award
Most Creative Design
Best Offensive Round
Outstanding Defense
Best Play of the Day
Best Team Spirit Display
Best Sportsmanship
Number One Seed

References

External links

1993 in robotics
FIRST Robotics Competition games
Ami Suzuki discography

The discography of Japanese singer Ami Suzuki from 1998 to present.

Albums

Studio albums

EPs

Compilation albums

Singles

Footnotes:
 ^ = Still active in charts
 ^^ = No Rank
 — = N/A

Promotional singles

Other appearances

Videography

Video albums

Music videos

Others
Bazooka 17 (Box Set released by Sony Music with all Ami's old releases), September 7, 2005
A-Nation '05 Best Hit Live (including "Delightful"), October 26, 2005
A-Nation '06 Best Hit Live (including "Alright!"), November 8, 2006
A-Nation '07 Best Hit Live (including "Delightful"), November 7, 2007
A-Nation '08 -Avex All Cast Special Live- (including "One"), November 26, 2008
A-Nation '09 Best Hit Live (including "Delightful"), November 18, 2009
A-Nation '10 Best Hit Live (including "Delightful"), November 24, 2010

References

Discographies of Japanese artists
Pop music discographies
Umbilic torus

The umbilic torus or umbilic bracelet is a single-edged 3-dimensional shape. The lone edge goes three times around the ring before returning to the starting point. The shape also has a single external face. A cross section of the surface forms a deltoid.

The umbilic torus occurs in the mathematical subject of singularity theory, in particular in the classification of umbilical points which are determined by real cubic forms . The equivalence classes of such cubics form a three-dimensional real projective space and the subset of parabolic forms define a surface – the umbilic torus. Christopher Zeeman named this set the umbilic bracelet in 1976.

The torus is defined by the following set of parametric equations.

In sculpture 
John Robinson created a sculpture Eternity based on the shape in 1989, this had a triangular cross-section rather than a deltoid of a true Umbilic bracelet. This appeared on the cover of Geometric Differentiation by Ian R. Porteous.

Helaman Ferguson has created a 27-inch (69 centimeters) bronze sculpture, Umbilic Torus, and it is his most widely known piece of art. In 2010, it was announced that Jim Simons had commissioned an Umbilic Torus sculpture to be constructed outside the Math and Physics buildings at Stony Brook University, in proximity to the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. The torus is made out of cast bronze, and is mounted on a stainless steel column. The total weight of the sculpture is 65 tonnes, and has a height of . The torus has a diameter of , the same diameter as the granite base. Various mathematical formulas defining the torus are inscribed on the base. Installation was completed in September, 2012.

In literature 

In the short story What Dead Men Tell by Theodore Sturgeon, the main action takes place in a seemingly endless corridor with the cross section of an equilateral triangle. At the end the protagonist speculates that the corridor is actually a triangular shape twisted back on itself like a Möbius strip but with the ends rotated 120 degrees before connecting them. This gave an endless corridor in which after three passes one came back to the point where one started.

See also 
Torus
Möbius strip
Mathematics and art

References

External links
 Umbilic Torus on Ferguson site
  Discussion of Robinson's Eternity
 
Mathematics and culture