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International Open Data Day is an annual event that promotes awareness and use of open data.
The event takes place globally, usually in February or March. Typical activities include talks, seminars, demonstrations, hackathons, training or the announcement of open data releases or other milestones in open data. In some countries it occurs along with Code Across coding events.
History
International Open Data Day was first proposed by David Eaves in 2010. The idea followed discussions with Edward Ocampo-Gooding, Mary Beth Baker, Daniel Beauchamp, Pedro Markun, and Daniela Silva.
Today, the event coordination is done through its google mailing list. The date for the event is chosen by the group members taking into consideration different cultural events.
From 2015, Open Knowledge Foundation - in cooperation with other NGOs from the open data world - has offered mini-grants to support the facilitation of events around the globe.
Dates
December 4, 2010
December 3, 2011
February 23, 2013
February 22, 2014
February 21, 2015
March 5, 2016
March 4, 2017
March 3, 2018
March 2, 2019
March 7, 2020
March 6, 2021
March 5, 2022
March 4 - March 10, 2023
Notable Announcements
In 2016, Megan Smith, United States CTO, endorsed Open Data Day with a special video. " We need you the most. If it weren't for you, this whole thing wouldn't be happening. We need ideas, cheerleaders, and friends to spread the word."
"This day is a chance for people around the world to support and encourage the adoption of open data policies by local, regional and central governments," said New Zealand Land Information Minister Louise Upston in 2016.
See also
Open Access Week
References
External links
https://opendataday.org/ - a dedicated site for Open Data Day, supported by Open Knowledge Foundation
Twitter hashtag #opendataday
Open data
Recurring events established in 2010
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Palm oil production is important to the economy of Indonesia as the country is the world's biggest producer and consumer of the commodity, providing about half of the world's supply. In 2016, Indonesia produced over of palm oil, and exported of it. Oil palm plantations stretch across at least . There are several different types of plantations, including small, privately owned plantations, and larger, state-owned plantations. There are a variety of health, environmental, and societal impacts that result from the production of palm oil in Indonesia. A recent publication by the NGO Rainforest Action Network (RAN) indicates that the use of palm oil by some of the biggest chocolate and snacks' producers is increasing this problem.
In addition to servicing traditional markets, Indonesia is looking to put more effort into producing biodiesel. China and India are the major importers of palm oil, accounting for more than a third of global palm oil imports. Looking at Indonesia's GHG emissions breakdown, climate change mitigation will mainly come from controlling forest fires and peatland conservation. REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries) will be 'an important component of the NDC target from [the] land-use sector'. This implies that there will need to be large economic incentives and inputs from outside resources to ensure that land-use change is prevented.
Deforestation
As late as 1900, Indonesia was still a densely forested country: forests represented 84 percent of the total land area. Deforestation intensified in the 1970s and has accelerated further since then. The estimated forest cover of around 1900 decreased to less than by the end of the 20th century. Of the total logging in Indonesia, up to 80% is reported to be performed illegally.
Forests are often cleared for palm oil industries. Typically, the company that has usage rights for the land will contract individuals to burn the supposedly "degraded" f
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was previously one of the highest ranking shihan of Yoshinkan aikido, at 8th dan, and dojocho of its hombu dojo from 2002. He first became a part of Yoshinkan in 1969 but split from the organization in January 2008 following the resignation of kanchou Kyoichi Inoue. Chida was an uchideshi of Yoshinkan founder Gozo Shioda for 23 years—the longest term among Shioda's uchideshi-- and directed the senshusei course. He is "a living legend of Yoshinkan aikido" and current "highest shihan" (最高師範) of his Yoshinkan offshoot school, Aikido Renshinkai (合気道錬身会).
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Living people
Japanese aikidoka
Sportspeople from Tokyo
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Henry Eaton Moore was an American composer born in Andover, New Hampshire on July 21, 1803. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 23, 1841. Besides music he also was in the publishing business.
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1803 births
1841 deaths
American male composers
19th-century American composers
People from Andover, New Hampshire
19th-century American male musicians
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Alexandre Bourdeau (born March 15, 1978) Canadian politician and public administrator in Quebec. He served in the 37th National Assembly of Quebec.
Life and career
Bourdeau was born in Le Gardeur, Quebec. Bourdeau earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Montreal in 2003, after obtaining a diploma of collegial studies in the natural sciences at CEGEP of L'Assomption and Collège Montmorency. He later pursued a Master of Public Administration concentration in Public Management at ENAP.
In the 2003 Quebec general election, he was elected a Member of Parliament to the National Assembly of Quebec in Berthier under the banner of the Parti Québécois. His predecessor was Marie Grégoire. He was the third youngest elected member in the history of the National Assembly of Quebec. He served as spokesperson for the official opposition and as president of youth caucus of the Lanaudière region. Bourdeau lost to ADQ candidate François Benjamin in the 2007 Quebec general election.
From August 2007 to September 2009, he was Deputy Director at the regional CEGEP of Lanaudière in Joliette. In February 2010, he was appointed Director of the regional grouping of Montreal's Association of health facilities and social services.
He married Véronique Poulin, and they have one son.
References
External links
Alexandre Bourdeau biography via National Assembly of Quebec
1978 births
Living people
Parti Québécois MNAs
Université de Montréal alumni
21st-century Canadian politicians
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Halgerda willeyi is a species of sea slug. It is a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Discodorididae.
Distribution
This species was described from a single specimen collected at Lifou, Loyalty Islands, by Dr A. Willey. Halgerda willeyi has been reported throughout the western Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia and in the Red Sea.
Description
The body of the Halgerda willeyi is rigid, with a series of acute interconnecting ridges. The ridges are topped with a yellow or orange line. The grooves between the ridges have chocolate brown lines and these lines extend right to the edge of the mantle as numerous radiating lines. This species is a fairly large halgerdid, and can reach 50 mm.
References
Discodorididae
Gastropods described in 1904
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Kapurthala House is the former residence of the Maharaja of Kapurthala in Delhi. It is located close to Connaught Place.
It is used by the state government of Punjab and is the residence of the Chief Minister whenever he visits the national capital.
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Official residences in India
State governments' houses in Delhi
Royal residences in Delhi
Kapurthala
Government of Punjab, India
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Start Hill is a hamlet on the B1256 road, in the Great Hallingbury civil parish, Uttlesford District, in the English county of Essex. It is near the town of Bishop's Stortford.
Singer Charli XCX grew up in Start Hill.
Location
Start Hill is located on the B1256 road to the east of the town of Bishop's Stortford and junction 8 of the M11 motorway. The A120 road passes to the north of Start Hill. It is about 3 miles away from London Stansted Airport and is the location of one of the National Express coach depots.
References
Essex A-Z (page 22)
Hamlets in Essex
Uttlesford
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Mikhail Youdin (29 September 1893 St. Petersburg – 8 February 1948 Kazan) was a Russian composer. He studied at Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he began teaching in 1926, and is best remembered for his 1943 opera Farida.
Youdin earned the nickname "Russian Bach" because of his career spent composing large scale ensembles, oratorios and cantatas.
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1893 births
1948 deaths
20th-century classical composers
Russian male classical composers
Russian opera composers
Male opera composers
20th-century Russian male musicians
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RapidSOS is an intelligent safety platform that securely links data to 9-1-1 and first responders. It connects more than 500 million devices directly to 15,000+ first responder agencies.
Founded in 2012 by Michael Martin and Nicholas Horelik, RapidSOS pairs with IoT companies to improve caller data accuracy in 9-1-1 centers. RapidSOS' first product was the Haven mobile application. Since its foundation, the company has sent emergency data to 9-1-1 telecommunicators without users needing to use an app.
The company has introduced product offerings such as RapidSOS Connect, RapidSOS Portal, and RapidSOS Integrations. RapidSOS has working relations with companies like Apple, Axon, Uber, Google, Cove, Simplisafe, Sirius XM and MedicAlert to facilitate emergency response.
History
RapidSOS was founded in 2012 by Michael Martin and Nicholas Horelik to address the 911 data challenge. Martin had a personal experience with 9-1-1 connection difficulties when his father fell off of the roof of his home in Rockport, Indiana, breaking his wrist and shattering his hip. Martin's father could not reach 9-1-1 from his cellphone and was laying outside in freezing temperatures until his wife came home and called 9-1-1 from their landline. Also , Martin cites an experience he had after first moving to New York City, when he was followed closely by a man who had intentions to rob him. In wanting to call 9-1-1, he states that he "realized just how difficult it is in the middle of whatever your emergency is to get out your phone, dial a number, and have a coherent conversation about who you are, where you're located, and what's occurring."
RapidSOS' first product was the smartphone app Haven. The app gave users the ability to see family members' real-time locations, "check in" to send their location to their loved ones, and call 9-1-1 on behalf of someone else, sending that person's location and personal information to the dispatch center closest to them.
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Stolp radio transmitter was a broadcasting station close to Rathsdamnitz, Germany ( since 1945: Dębnica Kaszubska, Poland) southeast of Stolp, Germany (since 1945 Słupsk, Poland). The facility, which went in service on December 1, 1938, was designed to explore whether a reduction of fading effects could be achieved via an extended surface antenna, as well as an increase in directionality by changing the phase position of individual radiators. A group of 10 antennas arranged on a circle with 1 km diameter around a central antenna was planned. A model test consisting of a 50 m high, free-standing wooden tower supporting a vertical wire which worked as the antenna was completed.
Until July 1939 six further towers of the same type were built on a circle with 150 m diameter around the central antenna tower. All these towers were the tallest wooden lattice towers with a triangular cross-section ever built in Germany.
The antennas were fed through an underground cable, which runs from the transmitter building, 180 m away from the central tower to the central tower, where a distributor for the transmission power was installed. From this distributor, overhead single-wire lines mounted on 4 m high wooden poles run to the antenna towers on the circle for feeding their antennas with the transmission power.
In 1940 south of the transmission building a 50 m tall guyed mast radiator, which was manufactured by Jucho, was erected.
The facility survived World War II and was shortly after World War II used to broadcast the program of the Russian military broadcaster "Radio Volga". However, in 1955 the facility was completely demolished after the removal of all technical equipment.
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External links
Information on WWII German radio stations (in German)
Former radio masts and towers
Broadcast transmitters
Communications in Poland
1938 establishments in Germany
1955 disestablishments in Poland
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In folk music a tune-family is, "a seeming multiplicity of melodies," reducible, "to a small number of 'models' or sets." One can think of the models or sets as deep structures. Often, "different tunes are the same," and, "the same tune is different."
Idiolectical (individual) or dialectical (based on context or on locale) variations may exist. Different families may also arise from the use of stock structures or of formulae such as stock phrases and motifs.
See also
Modal frame
Matrix (music)
Tune (folk music)
References
Further reading
Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). Studying Popular Music. Philadelphia: Open University Press. .
Van der Merwe, P. (1989). Origins of Popular Style. Oxford.
Burke (1978).
Hatch and Millward (1987).
James R. Cowdery. A Fresh Look at the Concept of Tune Family. Ethnomusicology. Vol. 28, No. 3 (Sep., 1984) (pp. 495-504)
Folk music
Musicology
Melody
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Alice Edun, known professionally as Edun, is a Nigerian-Russian singer of dance and gospel music. She lives in Milan, Italy and is signed to eurodance label Off-Limits, and licensed to Robbins Entertainment in the United States.
Background
Edun was born in St. Petersburg to a Nigerian father and Russian mother She studied in Nigeria and graduated from high school in 1993. Edun started singing as a youngster in African gospel choirs. When she moved to Italy, she sang gospel from 1998 onwards and took part in the Milan Gospel Festival in 2003. While all this was happening, Edun was also experimenting with R&B, soul, funk and jazz styles and performed regularly inside and outside Italy.
In 2004, Edun was chosen by Grammy Award-winning, DJ/Producer Benny Benassi to perform as a vocalists for his "Benny Wants You" appeal program.
In 2005, Edun made her first recording debut as the featured vocalist on the track "Who's Knockin?" by FB (also known as Ferry Corsten and Benny Benassi), released by Dance Therapy, Holland. That same year she also made her solo debut with "Put 'Em Up", a track written by Sannie Carlson and produced by Igor Farvetto. "Put 'Em Up" ended up becoming a sleeper Dance anthem globally two years later, especially in the United States, as her biggest breakthrough hit, peaking at number 2 in the Hot Dance Airplay chart of Billboard′s August 25, 2007 issue. "Put 'Em Up" is a featured song on the PlayStation 2 and arcade music game Dance Dance Revolution X.
In August 2010, Edun released a follow-up called "My Love Is Here For You." According to Edun, "It's a dance-pop love song, the kind that relates to everyone who is in love with someone but the other is afraid to love you back." The single was released globably through iTunes. Edun also collaborated with new producers and songwriters. She recorded and released "Survive" with Oscar Salguero via Blanco y Negro in Spain and Andorfine Records in Germany. Alice also recently completed new songs with so
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The Philippine Senate Committee on Tourism is a standing committee of the Senate of the Philippines.
Jurisdiction
According to the Rules of the Senate, the committee handles all matters relating to Philippine tourism and the tourist industry.
Members, 18th Congress
Based on the Rules of the Senate, the Senate Committee on Tourism has 11 members.
The President Pro Tempore, the Majority Floor Leader, and the Minority Floor Leader are ex officio members.
Here are the members of the committee in the 18th Congress as of September 24, 2020:
Committee secretary: Maria Clarinda R. Mendoza
See also
List of Philippine Senate committees
References
Tourism
Tourism in the Philippines
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The 2008 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament was the 52nd annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States.
Officially culminating the 2007–08 NCAA Division II men's basketball season, the tournament featured sixty-four teams from around the country.
The Elite Eight, national semifinals, and championship were again played at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Making a third consecutive appearance in the tournament final, Winona State (38–1) defeated Augusta State in, 87–76, to win their second Division II national championship and second in three seasons.
The Warriors were coached by Mike Leaf. Winona State's Jonte Flowers was the Most Outstanding Player.
Regionals
Northeast - Waltham, Massachusetts
Location: Dana Center Host: Bentley College
South - Lakeland, Florida
Location: Jenkins Field House Host: Florida Southern College
Great Lakes - Allendale, Michigan
Location: Fieldhouse Arena Host: Grand Valley State University
North Central - Winona, Minnesota
Location: McCown Gymnasium Host: Winona State University
South Atlantic - Augusta, Georgia
Location: Christenberry Fieldhouse Host: Augusta State University
† South Carolina-Aiken, despite being the #1 seed, was barred from hosting the regional due to NCAA edicts disallowing the hosting of NCAA championships in the states of South Carolina and Mississippi as a result of controversies over continued usage of the Confederate flag.
South Central - Stephenville, Texas
Location: Wisdom Gymnasium Host: Tarleton State University
East - California, Pennsylvania
Location: Hamer Hall Host: California University of Pennsylvania
West - Anchorage, Alaska
Location: Wells Fargo Sports Complex Host: University of Alaska at Anchorage
Elite Eight–Springfield, Massachusetts
Location: MassMutual Center Hosts: American International College and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
All-tournam
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Amandinea myrticola is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Caliciaceae. Found in Portugal, it was formally described as a new species in 2011 by Mireia Giralt, Pieter van den Boom, and John Elix. The type specimen was collected by the second author from the south side of (Alentejo); the lichen has also been recorded from another locality in Alentejo. It grows on the smooth bark of Myrtus communis and Pinus twigs. The thallus of the lichen is a smooth to lightly wrinkled grey crust, lacking a prothallus. Amandinea myrticola produces ascospores of the Physconia-type, characterised by a thick septum and median wall thickenings. They are ellipsoid in shape, and typically measure 11–13.5 by 5–6 μm. The lichen does not make any secondary compounds that are detectable with standard chromatographic techniques, and all reactions to standard chemical spot tests are negative.
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myrticola
Lichen species
Lichens described in 2011
Lichens of Southwestern Europe
Taxa named by John Alan Elix
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Lake Shunet is a meromictic lake near the selo of Shira in the Republic of Khakassia, Russia. It belongs to the Shirin group of lakes. It is located 7 km south of the Lake Shira, in a deep basin, at around 390 m above sea level.
The mineralization of the lake is of about 15 grams. There is sulfate-chloride and sodium-magnesium in its composition, very similar to the Shirin moisture. The composition of both only differs in the percentage of anions and cations.
In the early stages of development, the lake was considered as a source of salt. There is mineral water and peloid present. The peloid was found at the end of the 19th century. In the 20th century, the peloid was largely expended by the visitors, what has caused that at present the thickness of the peloid layer is of about a meter.
On the shores of the lake are growing saltworts. In winter, the lake does not freeze.
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Meromictic lakes
Lakes of Khakassia
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Loddo or Løddo is a mountain in the municipality of Austevoll in Hordaland county, Norway. The tall mountain is located on the island of Huftarøy and it is the highest point in the municipality of Austevoll. The mountain is located near the southeast coast of the island, about northwest of the coastal village of Otterå.
See also
List of mountains of Norway
References
Austevoll
Mountains of Vestland
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Drymonia velitaris is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is found in central and southern Europe and Anatolia.
The length of the forewings is 12–15 mm for males and 15–18 mm for females. The imago can be identified by the yellow spot on the base of the forewing. The moth flies from May to August depending on the location.
The larvae feed on oak.
External links
Fauna Europaea
Lepidoptera of Belgium
Lepiforum e.V.
De Vlinderstichting
Notodontidae
Moths of Europe
Moths of Asia
Taxa named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
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In physics, angular frequency (symbol ω), also called angular speed and angular rate, is a scalar measure of the angle rate (the angle per unit time) or the temporal rate of change of the phase argument of a sinusoidal waveform or sine function (for example, in oscillations and waves).
Angular frequency (or angular speed) is the magnitude of the pseudovector quantity angular velocity.
Angular frequency can be obtained multiplying rotational frequency, ν (or ordinary frequency, f) by a full turn (2 radians): ω2radν.
It can also be formulated as ωdθ/dt, the instantaneous rate of change of the angular displacement, θ, with respect to time, t.
Units
In SI units, angular frequency is normally presented in radians per second, even when it does not express a rotational value. The unit hertz (Hz) is dimensionally equivalent, but by convention it is only used for frequency f, never for angular frequency ω. This convention is used to help avoid the confusion that arises when dealing with quantities such as frequency and angular quantities because the units of measure (such as cycle or radian) are considered to be one and hence may be omitted when expressing quantities in SI units.
In digital signal processing, the frequency may be normalized by the sampling rate, yielding the normalized frequency.
Examples
Circular motion
In a rotating or orbiting object, there is a relation between distance from the axis, , tangential speed, , and the angular frequency of the rotation. During one period, , a body in circular motion travels a distance . This distance is also equal to the circumference of the path traced out by the body, . Setting these two quantities equal, and recalling the link between period and angular frequency we obtain:
Oscillations of a spring
An object attached to a spring can oscillate. If the spring is assumed to be ideal and massless with no damping, then the motion is simple and harmonic with an angular frequency given by
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Charles Paul Jean Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Moligny, comte de Saint-Morys (11 July 1743, Paris - 15 August 1795, île de Houat) was a French art collector.
Life
He was the son of Charles Paul Jean Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Moligny (5 March 1713, Paris - June 1794, Paris), who was himself the son of Charles Antoine Jacques Bourgevin (1680-1764) and Catherine Thérèse Boucher. His mother was Charles Paul Jean Baptiste's wife, Marie Élisabeth Jean Baptiste Guyard de Saint-Clair (1721-1765), daughter of Jean Guyard de Saint-Clair and Marguerite Élisabeth Vialart. The Bourgevin family was linked to the Boucher, Grimaudet and Guiller families.
He was a member of the 1st (Grey) Company of the King's Musketeers from 1761 to 1769. He married Éléonore Élisabeth de Beauterne de Jauville on 29 July 1769, sole heiress to her uncle Étienne-Paul Boucher (1699-1778). Étienne-Paul was the son of the cloth merchant Louis-Paul Boucher and brother of Charles-Gabriel Boucher de l'Étang (commissioner for the 1st Company of the King's Musketeers) and Catherine Thérèse Boucher. His new wife's fortune allowed him to buy the office of counsellor in the Grand'chambre of the Parlement de Paris. He lived at 8 rue Vivienne in Paris an in 1780 bought an estate at Hondainville, where he began a manor house on the site of the old château to house his collection of drawings, paintings and natural history specimens. The building later became a prison before half the estate was bought by colonel Guillaume-Michel Barbier-Dufay (1769-1834), who demolished the house. The other half remained his wife's property.
He was an amateur draughtsman and engraver and in 1784 he also began potato farming in what is now the Canton of Mouy. He chose to leave France in 1790 at the start of the French Revolution and so his goods, lands and collections were seized, including all his drawings, which were integrated into the Louvre between 1796 and 1797. He and his wife divorced on 3 December 1794. He was
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Higher education in Poland started in the Middle Ages. In 1364 the first Polish university (later called Jagiellonian University) was created in Cracow. In 1826 the first technical university was established in Warsaw, leading eventually to the establishment of Warsaw University of Technology, the largest technical university in Poland.
From 1919-1939 universities were focused primarily on arts, science, and engineering. Education was based solely on Humboldt's model of university combining research and teaching. This model incorporates a strict hierarchy of authority and a considerable degree of autonomy for its governing bodies.
Post World War II
Many higher education institutions were established after World War II. At the end of communism (1989), there were 820 institutions in Poland, about 20 of them being engineering oriented. In the 1990s a two-tier system was reinstituted. The first tier was considered to be vocational rather than academic. The two-tier system was instituted in Poland well before it was suggested by the Bologna declaration.
After 1989 higher education in Poland changed dramatically. Borders were opened, leading to free mobility and autonomy of universities in curricula and management. New laws concerning higher education, convertible Polish currency, easy communication, (telephone and Internet), and access to European education and research programs made higher education more accessible.
Twenty-first century
In 2001 there were 1,224,600 students enrolled in the publicly funded universities and colleges. In the private universities and colleges there were 519,100 students. This number has quadrupled over previous enrollment figures. This rise in the rate of enrollment in higher education strongly influences the qualification level of the youngest age group making up the workforce.
Considering that an individual's active life lasts about forty years, more time is needed to raise the level of adult education. In a 1995 census, 6.8% of the
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Arthur Adolf, Count of Posadowsky-Wehner, Baron of Postelwitz (, 3 June 1845 – 23 October 1932) was a German conservative statesman. He served as the secretary for the Treasury (1893–1897), secretary of the Interior, vice-chancellor of the German Empire and Prussian minister of State (1897–1907).
Biography
Born to Silesian nobility, the son of a judge, Posadowsky-Wehner studied law in Berlin, Heidelberg and Breslau and earned a doctorate in law in 1867. He subsequently acquired an agricultural property, and entered politics in 1871, when he became a member of the province government in Posen. In 1882 he became a member of the Parliament of Prussia, and was appointed Landeshauptmann of Posen in 1885.
Posadowsky was a crucial figure for the election reform in 1903. He took care of a new voting technique to protect the secrecy of the ballot for the German parliament.
Posadowsky-Wehner was the candidate of the German National People's Party for the Presidency of Germany in 1919, but he lost to Friedrich Ebert.
Honours
He received the following orders and decorations:
Publications
Über die Altersversorgung der Arbeiter (1883)
Geschichte des schlesischen adligen Geschlechtes der Grafen Posadowsky-Wehner, Freiherren von Postelwitz (1891)
Luxus und Sparsamkeit (1909)
Die Wohnungsfrage als Kulturproblem (1910)
Volk und Regierung im neuen Reich (1932)
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1845 births
1932 deaths
People from Głogów
People from the Province of Silesia
Silesian nobility
German Protestants
German National People's Party politicians
Reich Party for Civil Rights and Deflation politicians
Vice-Chancellors of Germany
Finance ministers of Germany
Interior ministers of Germany
Members of the 13th Reichstag of the German Empire
Members of the Prussian House of Lords
Members of the Weimar National Assembly
Candidates for President of Germany
Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
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Several sculpted busts of Pope Urban VIII were created by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini, with varying amounts of assistance from other artists in his workshop:
Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1623–1624. Marble.
San Lorenzo in Fonte, 1626. Marble. Assistance by Giuliano Finelli.
Galleria Nazionale di Arte, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1637–1638. Marble.
Galleria Nazionale di Arte, Palazzo Barberini, Rome. Early 1640s. Marble. Largely the work of an assistant.
Louvre, Paris. 1640. Bronze.
Cathedral of Spoleto, 1642. Bronze.
Collection Principe Enrico Barberini. Early 1640s. Porphyry. Adapted from existing antique statue, largely by assistants.
Private Collection (Barberini Family). 1658. Bronze
In 2020, the Galleria Borghese began a fund raising campaign to purchase the last bust on this list from the Barberini family.
See also
List of works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Notes
References
External links
17th-century sculptures
Marble sculptures in Italy
Bronze sculptures in Paris
Bronze sculptures in Italy
Stone sculptures
Sculptures of popes
Busts in France
Busts in Italy
Pope Urban VIII
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The bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Kingdom of Thailand were established in 1989. Thailand is one of the only 54 nations with formal diplomatic relations with Bhutan.
History
Established in 1989, the diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Thailand have grown stronger over the years. Both nations have many features in common. Located in Southeast Asia, both nations have a monarchy system. Both Bhutan and Thailand have Buddhist-majority populations, with a strong Buddhist heritage and culture. Bhutan has an embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. On the other hand, Thailand does not have a diplomatic mission in Bhutan; it conducts its relations via its embassy Dhaka, Bangladesh, which is accredited to the Himalayan kingdom.
Cultural ties
In recent years, there has been a significant growth in tourism between the two nations. Bhutan and Thailand also promote cooperation in the field of education. Several Thai universities, including the Prince of Songkla University and the Rangsit University, have Bhutanese students. Thai universities provide scholarship programs to attract Bhutanese students.
Friendship park
In 2006, Bhutan's Prince Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck inaugurated Royal Flora Ratchaphruek 2006 exposition in northern Thailand to mark the 60th anniversary of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The Bhutanese government developed the garden at the cost of ฿ 10 million.
On November 10, 2009 the Embassy of Thailand in Dhaka launched the "Bhutan-Thailand Friendship Park" in collaboration with the city corporation of Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan. The park was aimed to celebrate both the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, and the anniversary of the coronation of the fifth King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. The park is to be administered by the Thimphu city corporation. The inauguration function also celebrated the 54th birth anniversary of Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the fourth King of Bhutan and the 82nd birth
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Illyus & Barrientos are an electronic music duo from Glasgow consisting of Illyus Brown & Ivan Hall Barrientos.
Biography
The duo met through the recommendation of Glasgow Underground Recordings owner, Kevin McKay (musician) - soon releasing their debut EP entitled 'Do Anything You Wanna' on the same record label. The lead track was instantly picked up by BBC Radio 1's Sarah-Jane Crawford and subsequently made as her 'record of the week'. After gathering support of major BBC Radio 1 DJs such as Annie Mac, Pete Tong and Skream, one half of the duo was featured on Tong's show as part of the 'Future Stars' segment. Shortly after their release on Love & Other entitled 'Ballin', they were heavily featured across various shows on BBC Radio 1, including mixes for Annie Mac, Pete Tong, Annie Nightingale, Skream, B.Traits and MistaJam. Since then, the pair have released music on Toolroom Records, Suara Music and Exploited Records.
Discography
Extended plays
Singles
Remixes
References
External links
Home page
Scottish DJs
Scottish house music groups
Scottish musical duos
Male musical duos
Electronic dance music duos
Musical groups from Glasgow
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Minas de Matahambre Municipal Museum is a museum located in Minas de Matahambre, Cuba. It was established as a museum on 30 July 1980.
The museum holds about 1,000 objects, mostly related to the economic and social development of the area. There is an important collection of old photographs about the first decades of the village.
See also
List of museums in Cuba
References
Museums in Cuba
Buildings and structures in Pinar del Río Province
Museums established in 1980
1980 establishments in Cuba
20th-century architecture in Cuba
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Cedric Bucknall (2 May 1849 in Bath – 12 December 1921), was an English organist and botanist.
Life
He was the son of John Bucknall and Elizabeth Bassett. He married Abbie Cecilia Frye on 27 April 1873 in West Hackney.
Children:
Janet Mary Bucknall b. 1874 in Southwell
Arthur Bucknall b. 1875
Basil Charles Bucknall b. 1877
Dorothea Cecilia Bucknall b. 1879
Constance Caroline Bucknall b. 1881
Harold Bucknall b. 1882
Cedric Gordon Bucknall b. 1885
He was buried in Cranford Cemetery, Westbury on Trym, Bristol.
Career
He held posts of:
Assistant organist at St Matthias' Church, Stoke Newington under William Henry Monk
Assistant Organist at King's College London
Organist of St. Thomas' Church, Clapton 1870 - 1872
Organist of Southwell Minster 1873 - 1876
Organist of All Saints' Church, Clifton, Bristol
Botany
He was a distinguished amateur botanist, using every opportunity to travel across Europe and collect plants, which he then catalogued at leisure once home. His obituarist James Walter White intimates that Bucknall's original enthusiasm for music waned with the monotony of his jobs, and his real passion was for science, particularly botany. He travelled to "Carinthia, the Apennines, Naples, Sicily, the Baleares, and Southern Spain", in a typical fortnight amassing four hundred species. Fungi of the Bristol District described 1431 species, many of which he illustrated himself, and "100 of these were new to Britain or to science".
References
Cathedral organists
1849 births
1921 deaths
People from Bath, Somerset
19th-century British botanists
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Mycena aurantiomarginata, commonly known as the golden-edge bonnet, is a species of agaric fungus in the family Mycenaceae. First formally described in 1803, it was given its current name in 1872. Widely distributed, it is common in Europe and North America, and has also been collected in North Africa, Central America, and Japan. The fungus is saprobic, and produces fruit bodies (mushrooms) that grow on the floor of coniferous forests. The mushrooms have a bell-shaped to conical cap up to in diameter, set atop a slender stipe up to long with yellow to orange hairs at the base. The fungus is named after its characteristic bright orange gill edges. A microscopic characteristic is the club-shaped cystidia that are covered with numerous spiky projections, resembling a mace. The edibility of the mushroom has not been determined. M. aurantiomarginata can be distinguished from similar Mycena species by differences in size, color, and substrate. A 2010 publication reported the discovery and characterization of a novel pigment named mycenaaurin A, isolated from the mushroom. The pigment is responsible for its color, and it has antibiotic activity that may function to prevent certain bacteria from growing on the mushroom.
Taxonomy
The species, originally named Agaricus marginatus by the Danish naturalist Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher in 1803, has several synonyms. Elias Magnus Fries renamed it Agaricus aurantio-marginatus in his 1821 Systema Mycologicum, while Christiaan Hendrik Persoon called it Agaricus schumacheri in 1828. Although Schumacher had the earliest publication date, Fries's name is sanctioned, and so the specific epithet he used is given nomenclatural precedence. French mycologist Lucien Quélet transferred the species to the genus Mycena in 1872. In 1930 Karel Cejp considered it to be a variety of Mycena elegans.
According to Alexander H. Smith's organization of the genus Mycena, M. aurantiomarginata is classified in section Calodontes, subsection
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The West County Energy Center is a natural gas power plant in Palm Beach County, Florida. The power plant features three 1,250MW multi-shaft combined cycle gas turbine generating units on a site. The facility has been online since 2009, with all three generators reaching completion in 2011. It is the largest natural gas power plant in the United States.
See also
List of largest power stations in the United States
References
2009 establishments in Florida
Energy infrastructure completed in 2009
Fossil fuel power stations in the United States
Power stations in Florida
Buildings and structures in Palm Beach County, Florida
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USCGC Point Dume (WPB-82325) was an Point class cutter constructed at the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Maryland in 1961 for use as a law enforcement and search and rescue patrol boat. Since the Coast Guard policy in 1961 was not to name cutters under in length, it was designated as WPB-82325 when commissioned and acquired the name Point Dume in January 1964 when the Coast Guard started naming all cutters longer than .
Construction and design details
Point Dume was built to accommodate an 8-man crew. She was powered by two VT600 Cummins diesel main drive engines and had two five-bladed propellers. The main drive engines were later replaced by VT800 Cummins engines. Water tank capacity was and fuel tank capacity was at 95% full. Engine exhaust was ported through the transom rather than through a conventional stack and this permitted a 360 degree view from the bridge; a feature that was very useful in search and rescue work as well as a combat environment.
The design specifications for Point Dume included a steel hull for durability and an aluminum superstructure and longitudinally framed construction was used to save weight. Ease of operation with a small crew size was possible because of the non-manned main drive engine spaces. Controls and alarms located on the bridge allowed one man operation of the cutter thus eliminating a live engineer watch in the engine room. Because of design, four men could operate the cutter; however, the need for resting watchstanders brought the crew size to eight men for normal domestic service. The screws were designed for ease of replacement and could be changed without removing the cutter from the water. A clutch-in idle speed of three knots helped to conserve fuel on lengthy patrols and an eighteen knot maximum speed could get the cutter on scene quickly. Air-conditioned interior spaces were a part of the original design for the Point class cutter. Interior access to the deckhouse was through a watertight door on the star
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Direct Hit Technologies, Inc. was a Boston-based search engine company that provided search engine services to major web portals and operated a public search engine at directhit.com. Founded in April 1998 by Gary Culliss and Mike Cassidy, the Direct Hit search engine utilized the anonymous searching activity of millions of web searchers to rank web sites based on a number of patented algorithms, such as how long searchers spent viewing each web page and where a site was ranked in the original search results list. The Direct Hit search engine technology was invented by Gary Culliss and is the subject of the following US Patents: US Pat. 6,006,222, US Pat. 6,078,916 and US Pat. 6,014,665 all entitled "Method for organizing information." Direct Hit filed to go public through Robertson Stephens in late 1999, and was acquired by Ask Jeeves in January 2002.
See also
List of search engines
Index (search engine)
Web indexing
Web search query
References
Online companies of the United States
Technology companies based in the Boston area
Defunct companies based in Massachusetts
Defunct internet search engines
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Eatoniella globosa is a species of marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eatoniellidae. It was first described by Winston F. Ponder in 1965. It is endemic to the waters of New Zealand.
Description
Eatoniella globosa has a thin, fragile pinkish shell. The holotype measured 1.15 mm by 0.8 mm, and has a similar appearance to Eatoniella notalabia.
Distribution
The species is endemic to New Zealand. The holotype was collected by K. Hipkins in 1949 from Piwhane / Spirits Bay, on the Aupouri Peninsula in Northland. Since 1965, the species has been known to appear to the north and north-east of the North Island. In 2005, a specimen of Eatoniella globosa was found off the coast of Raglan, extending its known range to the west coast of the North Island. Rare specimens have been found in the Tamaki River of Auckland.
Eatoniella globosa has been shown to live almost exclusively on a species of red Corallina seaweed.
References
Eatoniellidae
Gastropods described in 1965
Gastropods of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Endemic molluscs of New Zealand
Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean
Taxa named by Winston Ponder
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The Source is a public art work by artist Sorel Etrog located at the Lynden Sculpture Garden near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The sculpture's abstract form is horizontally oriented; it is installed on the lawn.
References
Outdoor sculptures in Milwaukee
1964 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Wisconsin
Abstract sculptures in Wisconsin
1960s establishments in Wisconsin
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The Sacred Heart School
is a catholic primary and secondary school located in Golaghat, Assam, India. It was established in 1959. The school consists of two separate entities, the Junior School and the High School, both with their own building but located at the same address, one next to the other. The secondary school is affiliated to the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA), and it also conducts the High School Leaving Certificate examinations every year.
The school serves approximately 1,500 students, and has a teaching staff of about 50 professors and docents. It has one assembly ground, one play ground and one football ground. The school also has a computer laboratory and a library. It also has the NCC (National Cadet Corps).
External links
Sacred heart school Wikimapia
Information on the school
Golaghat district
1886 establishments in India
Schools in Golaghat
1959 establishments in Assam
Catholic secondary schools in India
Educational institutions established in 1959
Christian schools in Assam
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Robust was built in France in 1779. The British captured her in 1781 and she was registered at Liverpool in 1783. She first entered Lloyd's Register in 1789 as whaler in the northern whale fishery (Greenland and Davis Strait). Then in December 1788 she left on the first of three voyages as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. On her third voyage as a slave ship Robust captured a French slave ship and recaptured two British slave ships that a French privateer had captured earlier. After her third voyage as a slaver owners shifted her registry to Bristol and she then made two voyages to the southern whale fishery. She returned from the second voyage in 1797 and is last listed in 1798.
Career
Robusts early history under British ownership is obscure. She did not appear in Lloyd's Register until 1789. At that time she appeared with L. Smith, master, J. Fisher, owner, and trade Liverpool–Davis Strait. That is, she apparently had been sailing in the northern whale fishery, possibly under another name.
1st slave trading voyage (1788–1790): Captain James Bowie sailed from Liverpool on 17 December 1788. She arrived at Dominica on 26 January 1790 and landed 304 slaves. At some point Captain Richard Kelly replaced Bowie. Robust returned to Liverpool on 25 April 1790. She had left with a crew of 35 and suffered 12 crew deaths on her voyage.
In 1791 Robust underwent a large repair.
2nd slave trading voyage (1791–1792): Captain James Bowie sailed from Liverpool on 29 May 1791, Robust arrived at Africa on 29 August and left on 14 March 1792. She arrived at Kingston 20 May and landed 324 slaves there. At some point Captain John Thornborrow replaced Bowie. Robust left Kingston on 1 July and arrived at Liverpool on 9 August. She had left 38 crew members and suffered 14 crew deaths on her voyage.
In 1792 Robust underwent repairs for damages.
3rd slave trading voyage (1793–1794): Captain Archibald Forrest acquired a letter of marque on 9 March 1793, immediately
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William Gainsborough was a medieval Bishop of Worcester. He was nominated on 22 October 1302 and consecrated on 28 October 1302. He died on 17 September 1307.
He was a Franciscan and had been Minister Provincial (head of the order) in England from 1285-1292
Citations
References
Bishops of Worcester
14th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
1307 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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Vieta is a lunar impact crater that lies due north of the walled plain Schickard, in the southwestern part of the Moon. About half a crater diameter to the southeast is the smaller Fourier, and to the north-northeast lies Cavendish.
The outer rim of this crater has undergone some impact erosion, and small craters lie along the northeast, south, and north-northwestern sides. The inner walls are irregular, with incised bases in some locations. A chain of small craters lies across the northern half of the interior floor, following a line towards the east-northeast. The floor is nearly level, but with some uneven areas in the south and by the crater chain.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Vieta.
References
Impact craters on the Moon
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Chakkarapalli is a village in the Papanasam taluk of Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located in between Thanjavur - Kumbakonam highway. A more than thousand years old village having proof of Chakkaravageswarar Temple.
Demographics
As per the 2001 census, Chakkarapalli had a total population of 6082 with 2856 males and 3226 females. The sex ratio was 1130. The literacy rate was 84.53.
Police Station
chakkarapalli is under the control of Ayyampettai police station located near pasupathikovil
Transport
Bus Stand
The nearest bus stand is ayyampettai Bus stand is located near by the Government Higher secondary school Ayyampettai. Ayyampettai is well connected with roads between the Highway of Thanjavur - Kumbakonam. All sorts of Buses provide service here.
Railway Station
The nearest railway station is Ayyampettai railway station is located towards Aharamangudi Road near from Anjuman mosque.
Education
Chakkarapalli Panchayat Government Secondary School, North Street.
Chakkarapalli Panchayat Government School, Big Street.
Association
Paasamalar Welfare Association (www.paasamalar.in) 88 708 808 28
Al Eeman Welfare Association
Ramalan Welfare Association
Ayyampet Chakkarapalli Blood Donate
References
https://temple.dinamalar.com/en/new_en.php?id=1028
Villages in Thanjavur district
Chakravageswarar Temple, Chakkarappalli
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Switzerland competed at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, China between July 16 and 31, 2011.
Medalists
Diving
Switzerland has qualified 1 athlete in diving.
Men
Open water swimming
Women
Swimming
Switzerland qualified 5 swimmers.
Men
Women
Synchronised swimming
Switzerland has qualified 9 athletes in synchronised swimming.
Women
Reserve
Matilda Wunderlin
References
Nations at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships
2011 in Swiss sport
2011
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Hilde Kaufmann (born 28 October 1920 in Werne; died 11 January 1981 in Cologne) was a German jurist and criminologist. From 1966 to 1970, she was a professor at the University of Kiel, then from 1970 until her death a professor and director of the Criminological Research Center at the University of Cologne. Her main scientific subject was the orientation of criminology to the needs of criminal science and criminal justice.
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German criminologists
1920 births
1981 deaths
German women lawyers
20th-century German lawyers
German women criminologists
20th-century women lawyers
20th-century German women
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USS U. S. Grant (AP-29) was a transport ship that saw service with the United States Navy in World War II. Originally a German ocean liner named König Wilhelm II, she was seized by the United States during the First World War and renamed USS Madawaska (ID-3011) in 1917 before being renamed USS U. S. Grant (AP-29) in 1922.
World War I
König Wilhelm II was a steel-hulled screw steamer launched on 20 July 1907 at Stettin, Germany, by Vulcan Aktiengesellschaft. Built for the transatlantic passenger trade, König Wilhelm II operated between Hamburg, Germany, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, under the house flag of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, until the outset of World War I in 1914. Voluntarily interned at Hoboken, New Jersey, to avoid being captured by the Royal Navy, the passenger liner was seized after the United States entered the war on 6 April 1917, as were all other German vessels in American ports.
Before agents of the U.S. federal government took possession of the ship, her German crew unsuccessfully attempted to render her unusable by cracking her main steam cylinders with hydraulic jacks. Following repairs to the damaged machinery, König Wilhelm II was assigned the identification number 3011 and commissioned on 27 August 1917, Lt. Charles McCauley in temporary command pending the arrival of Comdr. Edward H. Watson.
Renamed Madawaska on 1 September, the ship was assigned to the Cruiser and Transport Force of the Atlantic Fleet. During World War I, she conducted 10 transatlantic voyages in which she carried nearly 12,000 men to Europe. After the armistice of 11 November 1918, Madawaska made seven more voyages, bringing 17,000 men home from the European theater. She completed the last of these runs upon her arrival at New York on 23 August 1919. She was decommissioned by the Navy on 2 September and simultaneously transferred to the War Department.
Between the wars
Sailing for the Pacific soon thereafter, Madawaska embarked elements of the Czech Legion at Vladivostok
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Buddleja dysophylla is a species endemic to southern Africa, from Zaire and Tanzania south to Malawi, and from the Transvaal to Eastern Cape Province, where it grows along forest edges or in scrub at elevations of 0–2,600 m. The species was named and described in 1883 by Radlkofer.
Description
Buddleja dysophylla is a straggling or scandent shrub, only erect if isolated, 1–10 m in height, with divaricate branching. The densely tomentose branchlets are terete to quadrangular, bearing opposite, petiolate leaves, triangular to ovate, 1–10 cm long by 0.7–7.5 cm wide, acuminate to rounded at the apex, decurrent into the petiole; the margins irregularly serrate–dentate to crenate–dentate. The lax terminal inflorescences are paniculate, 4–20 cm long by 4–20 cm wide. The corollas 2.5–5 mm long, the colour white, cream, or mauve.
Cultivation
Buddleja dysophylla is only known to be in cultivation in Australia, at Longueville, and at the City Botanic Gardens, where it flowers in August. It has also naturalized in the states of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.
References
dysophylla
Flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Flora of Malawi
Flora of South Africa
Flora of Swaziland
Flora of Tanzania
Flora of Zambia
Garden plants of Africa
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The Lidlidda Protected Landscape, also known as the Lidlidda–Banayoyo Protected Landscape, is a protected area of natural springs and surrounding mountain forests in Ilocos Sur on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It is an important watershed providing the agricultural and household water requirements of the communities in the municipalities of Lidlidda and Banayoyo. It was established in 1936 as the Lidlidda Watershed Forest Reserve through Proclamation No. 79 signed by President Manuel Luis Quezon with an initial area of . In 2000, under the National Integrated Protected Areas System, it was redesignated as a protected landscape area covering its present size of .
Description
The Lidlidda protected landscape area includes parts of the upland municipalities of Lidlidda and Banayoyo, as well as a small portion of the municipality of San Emilio in Ilocos Sur. It contains several natural springs, waterfalls, rivers, creeks and streams including the Lidlidda and Candon rivers, as well as the Danglas, Cabunao and Laolaoed creeks. It has a mountainous topography of 30%-50% steep slopes with the highest elevation at above sea level. Its soil composition is classified as brown sandy loam. The park also includes the conservation area known as Paraesus Verde (Green Paradise) managed by the local government unit of Lidlidda in Poblacion Norte.
Among the tree species found in the area are teak, molave, raintree, tibig, akleng parang and narra.
The park is accessible via the Santiago–Banayoyo–Lidlidda–San Emilio–Quirino National Road from the main highway of the Manila North Road in Santiago just north of Candon. It can also be accessed from the city of Vigan in the north via the Santa Maria–Burgos Road.
See also
Libunao Protected Landscape
Bessang Pass Natural Monument
References
Protected landscapes of the Philippines
Springs of the Philippines
Geography of Ilocos Sur
Landforms of Ilocos Sur
Protected areas established in 1936
1936 establishments in the Philip
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CCGS Thunder Cape is one of the Canadian Coast Guard's 36 s. She was built in Kingston, Ontario, in 2000, by MetalCraft Marine and MIL Systems and was moved to Goderich, Ontario, in October 2005. Assigned to the Central and Arctic Region, the lifeboat serves the Lake Erie area. The boat is backed up by search and rescue operations from 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron (at CFB Trenton). The Thunder Cape was damaged in a collision with the breakwater at the outlet of the Mission River in Thunder Bay.
Design
Like all s, Thunder Cape has a displacement of and a total length of and a beam of . Constructed from marine-grade aluminium, it has a draught of . It contains two computer-operated Detroit DDEC-III 6V-92TA diesel engines providing a combined 870 shaft horsepower. It has two four-blade propellers, and its complement is four crew members and five passengers.
The lifeboat has a maximum speed of and a cruising speed of . Cape-class lifeboats have fuel capacities of and ranges of when cruising. Thunder Cape is capable of operating at wind speeds of and wave heights of . It can tow ships with displacements of up to and can withstand winds and -high breaking waves.
Communication options include Raytheon 152 HF-SSB and Motorola Spectra 9000 VHF50W radios, and a Raytheon RAY 430 loudhailer system. The boat also supports the Simrad TD-L1550 VHF-FM radio direction finder. Raytheon provides a number of other electronic systems for the lifeboat, including the RAYCHART 620, the ST 30 heading indicator and ST 50 depth indicator, the NAV 398 global positioning system, a RAYPILOT 650 autopilot system, and either the R41X AN or SPS-69 radar systems.
References
External links
Official site
Cape-class motor lifeboats
2000 ships
Ships built in Kingston, Ontario
Ships of the Canadian Coast Guard
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The 1998–99 season saw St Johnstone compete in the Scottish Premier League where they finished in 3rd position with 57 points, qualifying for the UEFA Cup. They also reached the 1998 Scottish League Cup Final, losing 2–1 to Rangers.
Results
St Johnstone's score comes first
Legend
Scottish Premier League
Scottish Cup
Scottish League Cup
Final league table
References
External links
St Johnstone 1998–99 at Soccerbase.com (select relevant season from dropdown list)
St Johnstone F.C. seasons
St Johnstone
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Helen Mandeville Martin (1889–1973) was an American geological researcher and educator for the Michigan Geological Survey. Martin was known for her work as a geological editor, lecturer and cartographer; her surface formation maps of glacial features in Michigan were used by Michigan industries in their mineral resource sector.
Martin encouraged women to pursue science careers and wrote articles on the emergence of female educators in the 1930s. She promoted conservation education and helped create a conservation school for teachers in Higgins Lake, Michigan.
Martin was a conservation chairperson of the National Council of State Garden Clubs for six years. For her efforts in conservation Martin received awards from U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, the Public Health Service, the U.S. Forestry Service, and the American Forestry Association. In 1988 Martin was inducted into Michigan's Women's Hall of Fame.
Personal life
Martin was born in North Dakota in 1889, the daughter of Lawrence Mathew and Mary (Mandeville) Martin. Initially, she attended the University of Michigan to become a writer, but graduated in 1908 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and geology. Martin then taught geology and physiography at a high school in Battle Creek, Michigan.
In 1916, Martin returned to the University of Michigan to attain her master's degree in geology. She would spend most of her life in Michigan.
After her retirement in 1958, Martin served as a chairperson in the national council of the State Garden clubs. She established a conservation school for teachers at Higgins Lake.
Martin died in 1973.
Years at the University of Michigan
During a survey conducted by the University of Michigan in 1924, Martin said her fondest memories were during: "the old Country Fairs; our Junior Girls Play… the suspense of the mid-year exams; my first 'Grainers"; the star riot, and how the upstate papers exaggerated it; the dedication of Memorial Hall; the senior law parties; Mi
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The Arrondissement Court (, , ) in Belgium is a court which deals with disputes of competence between the Court of First Instance, the Commercial Court and the Labour Court of a judicial arrondissement. It consists of the Presidents of the Court of First Instance, the Commercial Court and the Labour Court.
In principle, the decisions of the Arrondissement Court are not subject to appeal. Only the Prosecutor-General at the Court of Appeal can appeal against its decisions before the Court of Cassation.
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Judiciary of Belgium
Courts in Belgium
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Salmo is in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The village municipality is mostly on the north side of Erie Creek at the confluence with the Salmo River. The place lies largely east of the junction of BC Highway 3 (about southeast of Castlegar), and BC Highway 6 (about south of Nelson, and north of the US border).
Name origin
Originally, the name was either Laprairie or Salmon City, derived from the initial name of the river that dated from around 1860. Prior to the downstream damming of the Columbia River from the 1930s, salmon frequented this tributary. In 1893, the settlement name became Salmon or Salmon Siding. At that time, Erie Creek was called the North Fork of the river. In 1896, the community name changed to Salmo, and the river soon followed suit. It is unclear whether the town or postal authorities sought the less common name, which is Latin for salmon, and also the scientific name for the genus of fish to which Atlantic salmon and trout belong.
Early settlers
When the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway (N&FS) was opened in 1893, this was one of the original stations. During the railway construction, Foley, Welch and Stewart was a prime contractor, and Pete Larson was a subcontractor. The Larson headquarters likely became the foundation for the settlement. The construction camp was the scene of a cook's murder following a gambling dispute. During a sale of townsite lots in 1896, 130 sold in 10 days. By 1899, two general stores and four hotels existed. The Kootenay Shingle Mill operated 1901–1928.
Mining
Increased mining in the area triggered the initial growth of the community. Much of this activity was along the east-west Sheep Creek, which flows into the Salmo River about to the south. Gold ore from the Yellowstone mine was wagoned to Salmo for loading onto the N&FS 1900–1902. The mini galena boom of 1908 saw 200 properties staked or re-staked. Notable ones were the HB about southeast of Salmo, and the Emerald, a few miles
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Eutropis greeri is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Sri Lanka.
Etymology
The specific name, greeri, is in honor of Australian herpetologist Allen E. Greer.
Geographic range
E. greeri is found in Galle District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka.
Habitat
The preferred natural habitat of E. greeri is rainforest, at altitudes of .
Behavior
E. greeri is terrestrial, living in the leaf litter of the rainforest.
Reproduction
The mode of reproduction of E. greeri is unknown.
References
Further reading
Batuwita S (2016). "Description of Two New Species of Eutropis (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Sri Lanka with a Redescription of Eutropis madaraszi (Méhely)". Journal of Herpetology 50 (3): 486–496. (Eutropis greeri, new species).
Eutropis
Reptiles described in 2016
Reptiles of Sri Lanka
Endemic fauna of Sri Lanka
Taxa named by Sudesh Batuwita
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Inhassunge District is a district of the province of Zambezia Province in Mozambique, with its headquarters in the town of Mucupia. It has a borders, to the north with the municipality of Quelimane and with the district of Nicoadala, to the west with the district of Mopeia, to the south with the district of Chinde and to the east with the Indian Ocean.
Demographics
In 2007, the Mozambican Census indicated a population of 91,196 residents. The district is in total, 745 km2 and a population density of 122.41 inhabitants per km2.
According to the 1997 Census, the district had 87,396 inhabitants, resulting in a population density of 117.3 inhabitants per km2, making this district the smallest and most densely populated of Zambezia.
Administrative divisions
The district is divided in two administrative divisions (Gonhane and Mucupia), composed by the following localities:
Gonhane Administrative Division:
Gonhane
Mucupia Administrative Division:
Chirimane
Ilova
Mucupia
Further reading
District profile (PDF)
References
Districts in Zambezia Province
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Geoffrey Gilmore is the Director of the Tribeca Film Festival and a member of the UCLA Producers Program faculty.
Career
Creative Director of Tribeca Enterprises, a New York company that includes the Tribeca Film Festival, the Tribeca Cinemas and the Tribeca Film Festival Doha. He joins Tribeca after serving 19 years as the Director of the Sundance Film Festival, where he was responsible for film selection in all sections of the Festival, as well as managing the Festival and providing overall artistic direction.
Gilmore regularly presents and hosts a range of seminars and conferences about independent filmmaking and distribution in international venues including Mexico, Argentina, Japan, China, Israel, Brazil, Spain, Germany, Canada and France. Gilmore is a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where he teaches in the Producers Program. He also is a Distinguished Lecturer at The Film School at Florida State University, where he teaches business trends and practices of the motion picture industry. He annually teaches a special master class for the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and the La Fémis, France.
Gilmore has served on numerous international film juries, including those of the Sarajevo Film Festival, the Locarno Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, the Moscow Film Festival, the Shanghai Film Festival, the Jerusalem International Film Festival, and on committees ranging from the National Endowment for the Arts to the California Arts Council. For 15 years Gilmore served as head of the UCLA Film and Television Archive's Programming Department.
Gilmore holds a master's degree in Film Criticism and has written extensively on the American independent film scene. He has appeared on numerous cable and radio programs, and has served on the Board of the Independent Feature Project and on the Independent Spirit Awards Committee.
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HMS Hermes was launched as the mercantile Majestic at Whitby in 1801. The British Royal Navy purchased Majestic in 1803. She had an uneventful career and the Navy sold her in 1810.
Career
Absent original research, there are no records that provide any further details about Majestics origins or career prior to her sale to the Navy. She does not appear in the most complete list of vessels built at Whitby. She is not , which also was launched at Whitby in 1801.
After the Admiralty purchased Majestic in July 1803, she underwent fitting at Woolwich between July and October. Commander John Astley Bennett commissioned her in August for the North Sea.
In May 1804 Commander John Davie transferred from his position with the Sea Fencibles at Harwich to replace Bennett. He transferred to in December. In January 1805 Commander Joseph Westbeach took command. Hermes underwent fitting at Sheerness between September and November. Commander Peter Rye recommissioned her in October 1806. In November Commander Edward Reynolds Sibly (or Sibley) replaced Rye.
On 9 March 1807 Hermes sailed for the Cape of Good Hope. In 1808 she participated in the British operations in the River Plate.
Commander Silby transferred to in May 1809 while Hermes was at Deptford between April and June being fitted as a storeship. She was recommissioned in April.
Fate
The "Principal Officeres and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered Hermes, lying at Deptford, for sale on 24 March 1810. She sold there on that date.
Citations
References
1801 ships
Ships built in Whitby
Age of Sail merchant ships of England
Sloops of the Royal Navy
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Criticism of pandeism has been carried out in various ways by proponents of other theological models, particularly of atheism and theism. Proponents of Pandeism have themselves published collections containing criticism from various viewpoints, including those written from Christian, Jewish, Islamic, New Thought, and Atheist perspectives, as part of efforts to increase awareness and debate regarding Pandeism. At times, ideological foes have accused political and religious figures of secretly being Pandeists, as a means of casting aspersions on those accused.
Theology
Enlightenment Era opposition
In 1834, publisher Giovanni Silvestri posthumously published a volume of sermons of Italian Padre Filippo Nannetti di Bibulano (aka il Filippo Nani, Padre da Lojano; 1759–1829), who named pandeism as being among beliefs he condemned, railing against "Jews, Muslims, Gentiles, Schismatics, Heretics, Pandeists, Deists, and troubled, restless spirits." Nannetti further specifically criticized pandeism, declaring, "To you, fatal Pandeist! the laws that create nature are contingent and mutable, not another being in substance with forces driven by motions and developments." In 1838, another Italian, phrenologist Luigi Ferrarese in Memorie Riguardanti la Dottrina Frenologica ("Thoughts Regarding the Doctrine of Phrenology") critically described Victor Cousin's philosophy as a doctrine which "locates reason outside the human person, declaring man a fragment of God, introducing a sort of spiritual pandeism, absurd for us, and injurious to the Supreme Being."
In 1897 Reverend Henry Grattan Guinness wrote critically that in India, "God is everything, and everything is God, and, therefore, everything may be adored. ... Her pan-deism is a pandemonium."
Post-enlightenment opposition
Later opposition to Pandeism has come both from theistic and atheistic or nontheistic directions.
Theistic criticism
Judaism author Roger Price has faulted Pandeism's lack of community, claiming "Pandeism
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Halinard was the Archbishop of Lyon between 1046 and 1052; he also served as abbot of the monastery of Saint-Bénigne in Dijon between 1031 and 1052. He was a counselor of both the Emperor Henry III and Pope Victor II.
He was born in Burgundy of noble parents. His father, Warnerius, came from Langres and his mother, Istiburgis, from Autun. Halinard was raised by his godfather Walter, who was the Bishop of Autun. Bishop Bruno the Bishop of Langres enrolled him into the college of canons, to train for ordination. Against the wishes of his parents, Halinard indicated that he wished to become a monk. He fled, but was pursued by his parents and removed from his monastery, Saint-Bénigne de Dijon in the diocese of Langres, with the permission of the bishop of Langres. He escaped a second time, and was brought back by the bishop, who made vigorous attempts to dissuade Halinard from his intention. Finally he was allowed to join the monastery of Benedictines in Dijon, under the leadership of Abbot William (1012-1030)
Monk and abbot
He served in all the monastery jobs, rising to become the Provost of the entire monastery, a position he held for four years (c. 1026—1030). As abbot of the monastery of Saint-Bénigne in Dijon, he was compelled to write to Pope John XIX (1024—1032) to seek papal protection against the Canons of the cathedral of Dijon, who wished to bury their deceased members in the cemetery of the monks of Saint-Bénigne.
On 12 July 1046, Archbishop Odolric of Lyon died of poison. At the previous vacancy in 1041, Abbot Halinard was recommended to King Henry III as his successor, but Halinard refused, and suggested instead Odolric, the Archdeacon of Langres. In the summer of 1046, the name of Halinard was again brought to the king as a candidate to succeed Odolric as archbishop.
Archbishop of Lyon
After lengthy negotiations with King Henry III, in 1046 Halinard was consecrated bishop by Hugues, Archbishop of Besançon. The place of consecration is given by the "C
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Nicholas Faunt (fl. 1572–1608) was an English clerk of the signet, agent of the Crown, and politician.
Life
Faunt was a native of Norfolk. An earlier person of the same name, who was mayor of Canterbury and M.P. for the city in 1460, had played a prominent part in Warwick the Kingmaker's rebellion of 1471, actively supported Thomas Neville (the "Bastard of Fauconberg") in his raid on London, and was beheaded at Canterbury by Edward IV's orders in May 1471. The clerk to the signet matriculated as a pensioner at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in June 1572, and was admitted a scholar of Corpus Christi College in the same university in 1573. In the interval he visited Paris, witnessed the St. Bartholomew massacre, and was one of the first to bring the news to England. About 1580 he became secretary to Sir Francis Walsingham, and was engaged in carrying despatches to English agents abroad and sending home 'intelligence.' In August 1580, while in Paris, he met Anthony Bacon, who became a close friend.
Early in 1581 he spent three and a half months in Germany, and was at Pisa, Padua, and Geneva later in the same year. He came from Paris in March 1582 and returned in February 1587–8. On 23 November 1585 he became M.P. for Boroughbridge.
Faunt was very friendly with both Anthony and Francis Bacon, and, as an earnest puritan, was implicitly trusted by their mother, Lady Anne Bacon, who often wrote to her sons imploring them to benefit by Faunt's advice. He met Anthony on his return from the continent early in 1592, and conducted him to his brother Francis's lodgings in Gray's Inn.
In 1603 Faunt was clerk of the signet, an office which he was still holding on 20 September 1607. In March 1605–6 there was talk of his succeeding Ralph Winwood as ambassador at the Hague. In 1594 Faunt obtained a grant of crown lands in Yorkshire; in 1607 the reversion to Fulbrook Park, Warwickshire, and in the same year a promise from Sir Robert Cecil to obtain some land belonging to t
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The Asian American Literary Awards are a set of annual awards that have been presented by The Asian American Writers' Workshop since 1998. The awards include a set of honors for excellence in fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by a panel of literary and academic judges; a Members' Choice Award, voted on by the Workshop's members from the list of that year's entries; and a Lifetime Achievement Award. To be eligible, a book must be written by someone of Asian descent living in the United States and published first in English; entries are actively solicited by the Workshop.
List of winners
* = Member's Choice Award
1998
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge – Endocrinology
Lois-Ann Yamanaka – Blu's Hanging
1999
Susan Choi – The Foreign Student
Arthur Sze – The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970–98
2000
Eric Gamalinda – Zero Gravity
Chang-rae Lee – A Gesture Life
Bino Realuyo* – Umbrella Country
2001
Ha Jin – The Bridegroom and Other Stories
Eugene Gloria – Drivers at the Short Time Motel: Poems
Akhil Sharma – An Obedient Father
Nick Carbo* – Secret Asian Man
2002
Alexander Chee – Edinburgh
Luis H. Francia – Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago
Christina Chiu – Troublemaker and Other Saints
Don Lee* – Yellow
2003
Walter Lew – Treadwinds: Poems and Intermedia Texts
Meera Nair – Video: Stories
Julie Otsuka – When the Emperor was Divine
Ed Lin* – Waylaid
2004
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge – Nest
Monique Truong – The Book of Salt
Vijay Vaitheeswaran – Power to the People
Patrick Rosal* – Uprock, Headspin, Scramble and Dive
2005
Brian Leung World Famous Love Acts
Suketu Mehta – Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Srikanth Reddy – Facts for Visitors
Ishle Yi Park* – The Temperature of this Water
2006
Jeff Chang – Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation
Rattawut Lapcharoensap – Sightseeing
Shanxing Wang – Mad Science in Imperial City
Ed Bok Lee* – Real Karaoke People
2007
Linh Dinh – Borderless Bodies
Amitav Ghosh – Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil
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Job is a bronze sculpture, created by American artist Judith Shea. It is located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus in Indianapolis, Indiana. The piece was created in 2005 and placed on loan at Herron School of Art and Design for the school's first Public Sculpture Invitational, held between May 2005 and August 2006. In 2008, Herron acquired Job, with financial support from Jane Fortune, Dr. Robert Hesse, William Fortune Jr., and Joseph Blakley.
Description
Job is a single standing bronze figure placed at the Allen Whitehill Clowes Pavilion main entrance of Herron School of Art and Design, near New York Street. Job portrays a bald man looking upward while wearing a long open overcoat. The figure is shirtless with his palms facing outward. The figure likely represents the biblical character Job, the central character of the Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible, as well as a prophet in Islam. The sculpture measures 75" X 38" X 30".
Acquisition
In 2007 Job was removed from the grounds of Herron School of Art & Design, since it had only been on temporary loan. However, by 2008 sufficient financial donations had been obtained (from Jane Fortune, Dr. Robert Hesse, William Fortune Jr. and Joseph Blakley), to permanently obtain the piece, and it was re-installed at Herron.
Artist
Judith Shea was born in 1948. Her work has been displayed at the Whitney Biennial, and she has pieces at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and the National Gallery. She has received several awards, including the Rome Prize Fellowship, the Saint-Gaudens Fellowship, and two NEA fellowships for Sculpture.
References
External links
Public Art Indianapolis » Project Detail
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis Public Art Collection
Outdoor sculptures in Indianapolis
Culture of Indianapolis
Job (biblical figure)
2005 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in Indiana
Sculptures depicting Hebrew Bible people
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Ultrasound attenuation spectroscopy is a method for characterizing properties of fluids and dispersed particles. It is also known as acoustic spectroscopy.
There is an international standard for this method.
Measurement of attenuation coefficient versus ultrasound frequency yields raw data for further calculation of various system properties. Such raw data are often used in the calculation of the particle size distribution in heterogeneous systems such as emulsions and colloids. In the case of acoustic rheometers, the raw data are converted into extensional viscosity or volume viscosity.
Instruments that employ ultrasound attenuation spectroscopy are referred to as Acoustic spectrometers.
References
External links
Ultrasonic Spectrometer
Acoustics
Colloidal chemistry
Spectroscopy
Ultrasound
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Akil Mark Koci is a Kosovar Albanian composer and music writer.
Education
Koci was born in 1936 in Prizren, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (in today's Kosovo). There he graduated from the Josip Slavenski music school. He went on to study at the Sarajevo Music Academy, graduating in 1962 and specialising in music theory. He furthered his studies at one of the oldest conservatories in Germany, the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, specialising in composition under the noted professor and composer, Milko Kelemen.
Koci also studied under Toma Prošev at the Music Academy in Skopje and was awarded his master of arts by Zija Kučukalić in Sarajevo.
As a German government DAAD scholarship holder he continued his specialisation at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin in his main field of interest, instrumental music.
Just after his studies, Koci worked at an electronic studio running three programmes for Radio Belgrade, with composer Vladan Radovanović.
Career
Koci's musical idiom is markedly contemporary based on the achievement of European modern music. His works often are aleatoric, dodecaphonic and usually non-thematic. As one of the most distinguished representatives of Albanian contemporary music, his works have been performed in almost all European and many non-European countries as well as in music festivals at home and abroad.
Akil Mark Koci is one of the founders several festivals of contemporary instrumental music, such as Music Scene, Pristina; Days of Kosovar Music, Đakovica; and the Kosova Music Accords, Pristina. He is also a regular participant in numerous festivals of contemporary music, notably the Music Biennale Zagreb, UNESCO Festivals of Contemporary Music, Paris, and Tribunes of Music in Opatija, Dubrovnik, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Tirana, Warsaw and others.
Koci was a professor of musicology at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pristina. He is the recipient of several national and international awards.
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The 2016 United States presidential election in Missouri was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Missouri voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. Missouri has 10 electoral votes in the Electoral College.
Trump carried the state with 56.4% of the vote, while Clinton received 37.9%. Trump's 18.5-point margin of victory in the state was almost double that of Mitt Romney's from 2012. Clinton carried only four jurisdictions: Boone County, home to Columbia and the University of Missouri; Jackson County, which includes most of Kansas City; St. Louis County; and St. Louis City. Clinton's vote share percentage was the lowest a Democratic presidential nominee obtained in the state since George McGovern's 37.7% in 1972, further cementing the state's drift towards the Republican Party and away from its long-held status as a bellwether state. Missouri was also one of eleven states that voted for Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 but were lost by Hillary Clinton in 2016. Additionally, this was the first time since 1984 that Missouri voted by double digits for the Republican candidate, and the first time since 1992 that the state voted by double digits for either candidate. As of 2020, this is the largest loss by a Democrat since Democratic nominee Walter Mondale in 1984.
Primary elections
Democratic primary
Nine candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential primary ballot:
Hillary Clinton
Henry Hewes
Rocky De La Fuente
Bernie Sanders
Keith Judd
Willie L. Wilson
Martin O'Malley (withdrawn)
John Wolfe Jr.
Jon Adams
Republican primary
Twelve candidates appeared on the R
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The Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer was a Catholic school board located on the Island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. It oversaw French and English schools in the former independent municipalities of Anjou, Saint-Leonard, and Montreal-Est as well as the city of Montreal's borough of Pointe-aux-Trembles
It was abolished by the government of Quebec on July 1, 1998, as part of a general transition from school boards representing religious communities to those representing linguistic communities. The English schools were transferred to the English Montreal School Board, and the French schools were transferred to the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île.
Schools
Schools included:
Francophone secondary schools:
École secondaire Antoine-de-St-Exupéry
École secondaire d'Anjou
École secondaire Daniel-Johnson
École secondaire de la Lancée
École secondaire de la Pointe-aux-Trembles
École secondaire Le Tournesol
École secondaire Pie-XII
Anglophone secondary schools:
John-Paul I High School
Laurier-Macdonald High School
Francophone primary schools:
École primaire Albatros
École primaire Alphonse-Pesant
École primaire Ami Soleil
École primaire Cardinal-Léger
École primaire Chénier
École primaire Des Roseraies
École primaire Félix-Leclerc
École primaire François-La Bernade
École primaire Gabrielle-Roy
École primaire Jacques-Rousseau
École primaire La Dauversière
École primaire Lambert-Closse
École primaire Montmartre
École primaire Notre-Dame
École primaire René-Pelletier
École primaire Ste-Germaine-Cousin
École primaire St-Joseph
École primaire St-Marcel
École primaire Ste-Marguerite-Bourgeoys
École primaire Ste-Maria-Goretti
École primaire St-Octave
École primaire Victor-Lavigne
École primaire Wilfrid-Bastien
École primaire Wilfrid-Pelletier
Anglophone primary schools:
Dante Elementary School
Honoré Mercier Elementary School
McLearon Elementary School
Pierre de Coubertin Elementary School
Tara Hall Elementary School
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The Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction of the Soviet Union. It was awarded 12,775 times. Due to the large size of the list, it has been broken up into multiple pages.
Military Personnel
Partisans
Test pilots
Soviet Civilians
National Leaders
References
Lists of Heroes of the Soviet Union
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Ixhelt González (born June 1, 2004) an American wheelchair basketball player and a member of the United States women's national wheelchair basketball team. She represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Career
At the age of 13, González represented the United States at the 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship and finished in sixth place in the tournament. She was the youngest member on the team. González represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the wheelchair basketball women's tournament and won a bronze medal.
She again represented the United States at the 2022 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships and won a bronze medal.
Personal life
González attends St. Francis de Sales High School in Chicago, Illinois. She was diagnosed with femoral anteversion, which causes her hips and feet to twist inward but does not require her to use a wheelchair in her daily life. She started playing wheelchair basketball with the Chicago Park District's Skyhawks team.
References
2004 births
Living people
People from Oak Lawn, Illinois
Basketball players from Cook County, Illinois
American women's wheelchair basketball players
Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the United States
Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States
21st-century American women
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The Chumhill railway accident occurred 26 February 1913 in England, killing two. The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway maintained an exemplary safety record throughout its short existence, from 1898 to 1935, and no passengers or members of the public were ever killed or injured.
Overview
There were, however, two accidents resulting in fatalities to railway employees. The other was at Braunton Road.
On 26 February 1913, four men of the Chelfham Bratton track gang were travelling in wagon No. 10 - a 4-ton open. They were in possession of the token and the wagon contained leaves and debris collected from trackside cesses. Whilst running down the 1 in 50 gradient from Bratton Fleming to Chelfham, the speed increased and the vehicle's brakes were unable to control the descent. Upon reaching a sharp reverse curve by bridge 25, the wagon left the track, coming to rest at the foot of the bank.
George Barrow was killed outright and William Welch died a few days later on 2 March. They were both buried in Bratton Fleming churchyard. The two men who survived, Foreman Ganger George Dymond and F. Dinnicombe, attributed the accident to wet leaves on the line.
The wagon was recovered, repaired and returned to service, with the replacement planks left unpainted for some time after the accident.
References
(re-published by Atlantic in enlarged format, 1996. )
Accidents and incidents involving Lynton and Barnstaple Railway
Railway accidents and incidents in Devon
Railway accidents in 1913
History of Devon
1910s in Devon
1913 in England
Derailments in England
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Elisenda de Sant Climent (1220–1275), was a Catalan slave.
She was born to Guillem Ramon de Sant Climent and married a Catalan farmer on Mallorca; they belonged to the Catalan colonists on Mallorca after the island was conquered by Aragon in 1229. They had a daughter, Guillemona.
In 1238, during the conquest of Valencia, Elisenda and her family was captured by Islamic slave traders on a raid on Mallorca. She and her daughter were taken to a harem of the emir of the Hafsid dynasty in Tunis, Muhammad I al-Mustansir. Her daughter was made Muslim and took the name Rocaia, and became the influential favorite of the son of the emir, Miromomeli, which gave also her mother privileges.
Elisenda made contact with the Catalan merchant Arnau Solsona, to whom she delivered gifts from the palace of the emir, among them a relic: a piece of the cloth which she described as a bit of the bandage the Virgin Mary used when tending to the wounds of Jesus, which was placed in the Old Cathedral of Lleida, where it was long preserved, and the story of Elisenda told.
References
«Diccionari Biogràfic de Dones: Elisenda de Sant Climent»
Lladonosa, Josep (1967). Arnau Solsona, un mercader lleidatà a Tunis (1218-12979). Barcelona: Rafael Dalmau (Episodis de la Història, 97).
1220 births
1275 deaths
13th-century Catalan people
Arabian slaves and freedmen
Medieval slaves
Slavery in Tunisia
Hafsid dynasty
13th-century people from Ifriqiya
13th-century slaves
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Antonina Petrova (; 14 March 1915 – 4 November 1941) was a Soviet partisan and medic. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 8 April 1942 for killing herself to avoid being captured and interrogated by the Germans after running out of ammunition.
Early life
Petrova was born on 14 March 1915 in Streshevo, Petrograd to a Russian peasant family. After finishing trade school she worked as a seamstress and later at a hostel. Until German invasion of the Soviet Union in mid 1941, she worked at the Komsomol as an accountant. She was known to her colleagues as a serious person who recorded the minutes of the meetings and rarely said much.
World War II
Immediately after the German invasion she began a nursing course. After completion, she requested a nursing assignment in a battalion. Her battalion often carried out sabotage of roads and attacked Axis army formations from the rear, well within enemy controlled territory. On her first mission they were assigned to pinpoint the location of enemy forces approaching Luga and then attack. Since she was a nurse she had to beg her commander to let her participate in the ambush, during which they hid in roadside bushes, waiting for a German army vehicle to approach. As the vehicle drew near, several members of the regiment attacked while Petrova threw a grenade in front of the car so the riflemen could fire on the occupants. In August, after successful completion of the mission, she was reassigned to the 2nd Partisan Detachment under the command of brothers Ivan and Stanislav Poleyko. This unit consisted of just twenty-seven people. Together with seven other partisan detachments they planted landmines in a field and severed telephone and telegraph lines. From August to the beginning of October the detachment laid mines on the Tolmachevo - Osmino and Luga - Lyady roads, damaged the Tolmachevo-Mshinskaya railroad tracks, and shot down four aircraft. Later in October they destroyed six bridges, including
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The Jardin botanique Yves Rocher de La Gacilly, sometimes called simply the Jardin botanique de La Gacilly, is a botanical garden located at the Yves Rocher industrial site at La Croix des Archers, La Gacilly, Morbihan, Bretagne, France. It is open daily in the warm months; admission is free.
The garden was established in 1975 to collect useful and medicinal plants, particularly those with an application in cosmetics. It has since been recognized by the Conservatoire Français des Collections Végétales Spécialisées (CCVS) for its national artemisia collection.
Today the garden contains more than 1,000 plant taxa, including medicinal and aromatic plants (38 species), cosmetic/perfume plants (92 species), fruit plants (50 taxa), industrial plants (23 species), dye plants (19 species), useful plants of the tropics (150 species), and desert plants (250 species).
See also
List of botanical gardens in France
References
Jardin botanique Yves Rocher de La Gacilly
Jardin botanique Yves Rocher de La Gacilly
BGCI entry
Je Decouvre La France entry (French)
Gacilly, Jardin botanique Yves Rocher de La
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A Plexus is a network of nerves or blood vessels.
Plexus may also refer to:
Science and medicine
Nervous plexus, a branching network of intersecting nerves
Choroid plexus, a network of cells that produces the cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain
Venous plexus, a congregation of multiple veins
Cardiac plexus, a congregation of nerves situated at the base of the heart that innervates the heart
Celiac plexus, a complex network of nerves located in the abdomen
Plexus ricei, an extinct Ediacaran organism
Other uses
Plexus, a 1953 novel by Henry Miller, part of The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy
Plexus Consulting Group, a management consulting firm to non-profit and public service sectors
Plexus Publishing, an imprint of Information Today, Inc.
The Plexus Rangers, characters in the comic book series American Flagg!
"Plexus", a song by Joe Morris from Elsewhere, 1996
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Astragalus tyghensis is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name Tygh Valley milkvetch. It is endemic to Oregon in the United States, where it is known only from the Tygh Valley of Wasco County.
This species is a perennial herb growing from a stout taproot and a branching caudex. The plant forms mats or clumps, with stems growing prostrate or upright and up to 55 centimeters long. Most of the plant is covered in long, silky hairs. The leaves are divided into a number of leaflets each up to 1.7 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a raceme of up to 40 flowers. Each flower has a calyx of very hairy sepals and a pale yellow corolla up to 1.2 centimeters long. The fruit is a legume pod up to 0.7 centimeters long. The flowers are pollinated by insects, particularly bees, and the plant reproduces by seed.
This species grows in sagebrush, prairie, and grassland habitat, and may occur along roadsides.
This species was a candidate for federal protection by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. It is now considered a Species of Concern. The plant's habitat has been consumed for agricultural purposes. It also faces competition with noxious weeds, such as Centaurea diffusa.
References
External links
USDA Plants Profile
tyghensis
Flora of Oregon
Wasco County, Oregon
Endemic flora of Oregon
Endemic flora of the United States
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The following is a list of medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, from 10 to 24 October 1964.
Athletics
Men's events
Women's events
Basketball
Boxing
Canoeing
Men's events
Women's events
Cycling
Road cycling
Track cycling
Diving
Men
Women
Equestrian
Fencing
Men's events
Women's events
Field hockey
Football (Soccer)
Gymnastics
Men's events
Women's
Judo
Modern pentathlon
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Men's events
Women's events
Volleyball
Water polo
Weightlifting
Wrestling
Greco-Roman
Freestyle
See also
1964 Summer Olympics medal table
External links
Medalists
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Menashe Business Mercantile Ltd. & Anor v William Hill Organization Ltd. [2002] EWCA Civ 1702 was a patent case regarding Internet usage. The case addressed a European patent covering the United Kingdom for an invention referred to as "Interactive, computerized gaming system with remote control". Menashe sued William Hill, claiming that William Hill was infringing the patent by operating an online gaming system. William Hill's defence argued that it did not infringe the patent because the server on which it operated the system was located outside of the UK, in Antigua or Curaçao. Although accepting that their supply of software was in the UK and that this was an essential part of the invention, they further argued that the patent was for the parts of the system, and as one essential part of the system was not located in the UK, there could be no infringement.
This aspect of William Hill's case was tried at a preliminary issue before Mr. Justice Jacob in the High Court in 2002. Mr. Justice Jacob found against William Hill holding that the patent related to the entire system, being the sum of all its elements. Simply locating one part of the system abroad did not prevent infringement when the result was still providing UK punters with the system's benefits.
The Court's ruling took a broad interpretation, concentrating on the spirit and intention of patent protection and not confining itself to the linguistic construction of the law which developed before the advent of the Internet.
Lord Justice Aldous heard the appeal and while he maintained the result of the judgment of the Patents Court, the reasoning was very different and was based upon where the invention was being "used". The claimed invention required there to be a host or server computer. According to the judgment, it did not matter where the host computer was situated. It could be in the United Kingdom, on a satellite, or even on the border between two countries. Its location was not important to the user
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Luchs (German for Lynx) may refer to:
Military
Luchs (tank), a light reconnaissance model of the Panzer II World War II German tank
Spähpanzer Luchs, a German amphibious reconnaissance vehicle in service from 1975 to 2009
, an Imperial German gunboat commissioned in 1900
German torpedo boat Luchs, commissioned in 1929
Other uses
Ernst Luchs (1811–1886), German physician and naturalist
Jürg Luchs (born 1956), Swiss cyclist
Luchs, a character from Saber Marionette J
See also
Luch (disambiguation)
Lux (disambiguation)
Surnames from nicknames
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Saint Joseph's may refer to:
Places
St. Joseph's, Newfoundland and Labrador, a Canadian town
St. Joseph's, Saskatchewan, a Canadian hamlet
Saint Joseph's Oratory, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Hospitals
St. Joseph's Health Centre, a hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Education
Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Saint Joseph's Hawks, the athletic teams at Saint Joseph's University
St. Joseph's School (disambiguation)
Saint Joseph's College (disambiguation)
Saint Joseph Academy (disambiguation)
St. Joseph's Convent School, Sagar
Saint Joseph's Institution, a secondary school in Singapore
Former Saint Joseph's Institution, now a museum in Singapore
Collège Saint-Joseph de Hull, a private secondary school for girls in Gatineau, Quebec
St Joseph Higher Secondary School, Dhaka
Churches
List of churches named after Saint Joseph
St. Joseph's Cathedral (disambiguation)
See also
Saint Joseph (disambiguation)
Josephology
Joseph's Tomb, in the West Bank city of Nablus
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The 1924 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 4, 1924 as part of the 1924 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Montana voted for the Republican nominee, President Calvin Coolidge, over the liberal third-party candidate Robert La Follette who ran locally as a "La Follette-Wheeler Independent" and the Democratic nominee, former United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom John W. Davis. Coolidge won Montana by a margin of 4.59%.
Coolidge was credited for the booming economy while the Democratic electorate was divided between the conservative Davis and the liberal third-party candidate Robert La Follette who ran as a Progressive and chose Montana Senator Burton K. Wheeler as his running mate. , this is the last election in which Deer Lodge County voted for a Republican Presidential candidate.
With 37.91 percent of the popular vote, Montana would prove to be La Follette's fourth strongest state in the 1924 election in terms of popular vote percentage after Wisconsin, North Dakota and Minnesota. North Dakota and Montana were the only two states that La Follette lost by less than 5%, so that had he won the two states he was close to winning La Follette would have gained 22 electoral votes in total.
Results
Results by county
See also
United States presidential elections in Montana
Notes
References
Montana
1924
1924 Montana elections
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David Fulton Karsner (1889–1941) was an American journalist, writer, and socialist political activist. Karsner is best remembered as a key member of the editorial staff of the New York Call and as an early biographer of Socialist Party of America leader Eugene V. Debs.
Biography
Early years
David Karsner was born March 13, 1889, at Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Cecil J. and Anita Karsner. The elder Karsner worked as an official at the Port of Baltimore.
Both of Karsner's parents died when David was still young and he wound up in a Baltimore orphanage and school for underprivileged boys.
Career
Karsner's journalistic career began about 1907 when he went to work for a newspaper in the city of Chicago. While in Chicago Karsner made the acquaintance of a number of socialist intellectuals, including Upton Sinclair, Jack London, and Carl Sandburg. His discussions with these led Karsner himself to become an advocate of socialism and to join the Socialist Party of America.
Karsner's journalistic career took him to Philadelphia, where he joined the staff of the Philadelphia Ledger, and to New York City, where he worked for the New York Tribune and the New York Post.
In 1911 Karsner married the Romanian-born socialist Rose Greenberg (1889–1968). The pair had a daughter, Walta Karsner, named after radical poet Walt Whitman. Following the dissolution of their marriage, Rose Karsner married James P. Cannon, regarded as the founder of American Trotskyism, while David Karsner remarried to Esther Eberson.
Karsner joined the editorial board of the New York socialist daily, the New York Call, editing that publication's weekend magazine section before gaining position of managing editor of that publication.
One of the major stories covered by Karsner during his time at The Call was the 1918 mass trial of 166 members of the Industrial Workers of the World held in Chicago before Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
In April 1923 Karsner resigned from the financially struggling C
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Events in the year 1985 in Switzerland.
Incumbents
Federal Council:
Pierre Aubert (President)
Leon Schlumpf
Alphons Egli
Rudolf Friedrich
Otto Stich
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz (1983–1998)
Elisabeth Kopp (1984–1989)
Events
19-20 November - Geneva Summit
Births
2 February - Julian Bühler, Swiss football striker
References
Years of the 20th century in Switzerland
1980s in Switzerland
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The Campbell House is a historic house at 305 North Forrest Street in Forrest City, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, exhibiting classic Prairie School features including a low-pitch hip roof and wide eaves. It was built in 1917 by William Wilson Campbell, a leading banker and businessman in Forrest City, and remains in the hands of the Junior Auxiliary of St. Francis County. It was designed by Estes Mann.
It was severely damaged by fire in 1927, and had a large addition added in 1959. Campbell played host to a number of notable people, including Will Rogers and Governor Winthrop Rockefeller.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Francis County, Arkansas
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Prairie School architecture in Arkansas
Houses completed in 1917
Houses in St. Francis County, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in St. Francis County, Arkansas
Forrest City, Arkansas
1917 establishments in Arkansas
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Nichollssaura is an extinct genus of leptocleidid plesiosaur from the Early Cretaceous Boreal Sea of North America. The type species is N. borealis, found in the early Albian age Clearwater Formation near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
Nichollssaura was a small plesiosaur, reaching in length and in body mass. It fills an approximate 40-million-year gap in the fossil record of North American plesiosaurs.
The type specimen was discovered in one of Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s open-pit oilsand mines near Fort McMurray, Alberta, in 1994. The fossil is on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, missing only the left forelimb and scapula, lost when the specimen was discovered accidentally by 100-ton electric shovel operators Greg Fisher and Lorne Cundal.
Etymology
The fossil, named after paleontological curator Dr. Betsy Nicholls, originally was named Nichollsia borealis but Nichollsia was already in use (preoccupied) by a genus of isopods. Thus, the original authors proposed Nichollssaura as a replacement generic name in 2009.
See also
List of plesiosaur genera
Timeline of plesiosaur research
References
External links
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080326-ancient-reptile.html
http://palaeoblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/betsys-plesiosaur-nichollsia-borealis.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20080404012601/http://scienceblogs.com/laelaps/2008/03/details_on_nichollsia_borealis.php
Early Cretaceous plesiosaurs
Early Cretaceous reptiles of North America
Fossil taxa described in 2009
Sauropterygian genera
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The Tabor Correctional Institution, also known as Tabor City Prison, is a prison within the North Carolina Department of Public Safety located in Tabor City, North Carolina. It houses over 1700 mixed classification inmates. The prison opened in 2008. The prison is located at 4600 West Swamp Fox Highway.
Construction
Due to a backlog in counties jails and crowding in other North Carolina state prisons, the state of North Carolina began construction on Tabor Correctional Institution (TCI) in May 2006 and was completed in April 2008. Backlog refers to the housing of inmates in county jails as the prison system has insufficient space to house the inmates. The state must pay a fee to the counties to house these inmates. "After the decision was made to locate the prisons in Tabor City, the town had to fight the battle of paying for the land (and giving the land to the state) and we (Tabor City) had to fight the battle of raising the millions of dollars in grants that it took to service the prisons with water and sewer"
The design of Tabor Correctional is the same as six other North Carolina prisons. Sundland Fire also participated in the construction of the prison, as did Bergelectric
TCI is located two miles (3 km) northwest from the center of Tabor City, although it is considered a part of the city limits. A double fence surrounds the prison.
The prison is a mixed classification facility, resulting in inmates classified, originally, from medium to maximum control levels being housed within, with minimum custody inmates added in the 2014 addition.
The cost to build the prison was approximately $94 million, although the use of inmate labor greatly reduced what this amount would have been if private contractors had been used. .
Early in 2014, an addition housing 252 minimum inmates opened, rasing the maximum number of inmates housed at Tabor Prison to 1,752.
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Before its official opening, the prison was used in various training exercises. Drills includ
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Cadet leader is a rank held by senior cadets in the St. John Brigade Singapore, and is a position that National Police Cadet Corps cadets hold after becoming Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs).
Details
St. John Brigade Singapore
Cadets holding this rank are normally between their 15th and 18th birthdays. They rank above cadet NCOs but are subordinate to adult members and officers. In the St. John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland the rank of cadet leader belongs to an adult member who assists in the training of cadets and holds a rank higher than an adult NCO but lower than an officer.
The badge of rank for cadet leader varies from nation to nation, but in most countries it is two horizontal white stripes with a white wavy band in between, worn on both epaulette straps. In England this was changed to three horizontal stripes before the rank was abolished in 2005. It was replaced by the rank of leading cadet which is indicated by a solid bar embroidered in silver thread.
The rank of cadet leader in the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Singapore was abolished in 2010 and replaced by the rank of senior staff sergeant.
Source: St John Ambulance Brigade Regulations (Overseas Edition)
National Police Cadet Corps
In the National Police Cadet Corps, after a cadet has gone through the unit's Cadet Leader Camp, which involves lectures and practical sessions, he/she will be appointed as a Cadet Leader in his/her unit, which means that he/she would have become a NCO. Cadets take on appointments in their Unit (e.g.: Unit OIC, etc.) after being appointed as a CL.
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First aid organizations
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This is a complete list of Scottish Statutory Instruments in 2001.
1-100
Cattle (Identification of Older Animals) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/1)
Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/2)
Specified Risk Material Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/3)
Specified Risk Material Order Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/4)
National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/6)
Budget (Scotland) Act 2000 (Amendment) Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/7)
Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause Rules) Amendment (Commercial Actions) 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/8)
Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 6) (Scotland) Revocation Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/9)
Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 2) (Scotland) Partial Revocation Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/10)
Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (Scotland) Revocation Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/11)
A1 Trunk Road (Dolphingstone Southbound Off-Slip Road) (Temporary Prohibition of Traffic) Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/13)
A1 Trunk Road (Haddington West Interchange to Haddington East Interchange) (Temporary Prohibition of Traffic) Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/14)
A77 Trunk Road (Turnberry) (40 mph Speed Limit) Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/15)
Smoke Control Areas (Exempt Fireplaces) (Scotland) Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/16)
General Teaching Council (Scotland) Election Scheme 2001 Approval Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/18)
Local Government Pension Scheme (Pension Sharing on Divorce) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/23)
Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) (No. 2) (Scotland) Partial Revocation (No. 2) Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001/24)
Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Central Borders) Designation Amendment Order 2001 (S.S.I. 2001
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Urapidil is a sympatholytic antihypertensive drug. It acts as an α1-adrenoceptor antagonist and as an 5-HT1A receptor agonist. Although an initial report suggested that urapidil was also an α2-adrenoceptor agonist, this was not substantiated in later studies that demonstrated it was devoid of agonist actions in the dog saphenous vein and the guinea-pig ileum. Unlike some other α1-adrenoceptor antagonists, urapidil does not elicit reflex tachycardia, and this may be related to its weak β1-adrenoceptor antagonist activity, as well as its effect on cardiac vagal drive. Urapidil is currently not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but it is available in Europe.
See also
Naftopidil
References
5-HT1A agonists
Alpha-1 blockers
Beta blockers
Chemical substances for emergency medicine
N-(2-methoxyphenyl)piperazines
Lactams
Pyrimidines
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Friedrich Andreas Sigismund Leuckart (26 August 1794 – 25 August 1843) was a German doctor and naturalist.
He was born in Helmstedt in Lower Saxony and studied medicine at the University of Göttingen. From 1816 he made several voyages of exploration.
In 1823 he was appointed privatdozent at the University of Heidelberg and taught comparative anatomy, zoology, and veterinary science as an associate professor starting in 1829. In 1832 he moved to Freiburg as a full professor and continued teaching there.
He wrote notable works on marine invertebrates, in particular, Versuch einer naturgemaessen Eintheilung der Helminthen ("Towards a natural taxonomy of the helminths," 1827) and Einleitung in die Allgemeinen Naturgeschichte ("Introduction to general natural history," 1832).
He is commemorated by the parasitic worm species Calliobothrium leuckartii (Van Beneden, 1850).
He was the uncle of the zoologist Rudolf Leuckart (1822–1898).
Bibliography
Leuckart F .S. (1828). Breves animalium quorundam maxima ex parte marinorum descriptiones. Heidelberg, Oßwald, 24 pp., one unnumbered plate.
References and external links
1794 births
1843 deaths
People from Helmstedt
University of Göttingen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Freiburg
Academic staff of Heidelberg University
German naturalists
19th-century German zoologists
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Kalikadevi Temple (Location: Lat. 20° 20' 59" N., Long. 85° 49' 67" E., Elev. 95 ft) is located in the Kancha Sahi, Old Town, Bhubaneswar of Odisha, India. It is on the right side of the Temple road leading from Lingaraja Temple to Garej chowk. The enshrined deity is a four armed female divinity locally known as Kali.
Ownership
i) Single/ Multiple: Single.
ii) Public/ Private: Private.
iii) Any other (specify): The temple is situated in the private plot of Prakash Panda.
iv) Name: Prakash Panda
v) Address: Godipokhari Sahi, Gosagaresvara Chowk, Old Town, Bhubaneswar.
Age
i)Precise date: .....
ii) Approximate date: 10th / 11th Century A.D.
iii) Source of Information: Bada division and pabhaga mouldings.
Property Type
i) Precinct/ Building/ Structure/Landscape/Site/Tank: Building
ii) Subtype: Temple
iii) Typology: Pidha deul
Property use
i) Abandoned/ in use: In use
ii) Present use: Living temple
iii) Past use: Worshipped
Significance
i) Historic significance: As per the local tradition the temple was constructed during the time of Kesharis (Somavamsis), which is improbable taking into account the architectural features of the temple.
ii) Cultural significance: Kali puja, Chandipuja.
iii) Social significance: Annaprasana, Balabhoga.
Physical description
i) Surrounding: The temple is surrounded by residential buildings on all sides except the Temple road in the north.
ii) Orientation: The temple is facing towards north.
iii) Architectural features (Plan and Elevation): On plan, the temple has a square vimana measuring 2.75 square metres with a frontal porch of 0.52 metres. On elevation, the vimana is of pidha order having bada, gandi and mastaka measuring 5.50 metres in height. Bada is panchanga with fivefold division measuring 2.30 metres in height (pabhaga 0.58 metres, tala jangha 0.58 metres, bandhana 0.14 metres, upara jangha 0.58 metres, and baranda 0.42 metres). The gandi measures 2.00 metres and mastaka measure 1.20 metres.
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Psilostomatidae is a family of trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida. They parasitise aquatic vertebrates as definitive hosts.
The genera placed here are:
Astacatrematula Macy & Bell, 1968
Gyrosoma Bryd, Bogitsh, Maples, 1961
Mesaulus Braun, 1902
Pseudopsilostoma Yamaguti, 1958
Psilochasmus Luhe, 1909
Psilostomum Looss, 1899
Psilotornus Byrd & Prestwood, 1969
Ribeiroia Travassos, 1939
Sphaeridiotrema Odhner, 1913
Stephanoproraoides Price, 1934
References
Animal parasites of vertebrates
Trematode families
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A licked finish is a hallmark of French academic art. It refers to the process of smoothing the surface quality of a painting so that the presence of the artist's hand is no longer visible. It was codified by the French Academy in the eighteenth century in order to distinguish 'professional' art from that produced by amateurs.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres summed up the academic technique: "The brushstroke, as accomplished as it may be, should not be visible: otherwise, it prevents the illusion, immobilizes everything. Instead of the object represented, it calls attention to the process: instead of the thought, it betrays the hand."
The rejection of the licked finish in favour of visible brushstrokes is one of the hallmarks of Impressionism.
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Painting techniques
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Rodewald is an agricultural village in the district of Nienburg, Lower Saxony and is locally administrated by Steimbke. At in length, Rodewald is considered the second longest village in Lower Saxony, Germany and is split into three farming communities or peasantries, known simply as; Lower, Middle and Upper Farming Community (obere, mittlere and untere Bauerschaft).
It is situated approximately to the north of the federal state capital, Hanover, south of Germany's second largest city, Hamburg and belonged until the administrative and territorial reforms of 1974, to the district of Neustadt am Rübenberge.
History
Rodewald is first mentioned in historical records during the initial quarter of the 13th century, after which the Bishop of Minden requested that the Earl of Wölpe establish a settlement. Through a systematic clearing of forests in the northern area, which is identified today as Untere Bauernschaft, the village was created and is ultimately where the name stems from; the direct English translation clear + wood, i.e. from, Low German roode 'to root' and wald 'forest'. Each settler received an equal size of land in the Hagenhufendorf format, a typical form of High Middle Ages land ownership.
These pitches of land, no greater than the width of the farmstead, although several hundred metres deep, were between 60 and 70 Morgen in size (a Morgen being approximately the amount of land tillable by one man behind an ox in the morning hours of a day). This method of land ownership, typical of the High Middle Ages, can still be observed as one passes along the Landesstrasse 192 (Dorfstrasse in the north and Hauptstrasse in the south).
In the course of the centuries the village lengthened considerably with both sides of the L192 becoming populated by the typical Fachhallenhäuser or timber framed farmhouses, found throughout the North German Plain.
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Qal'at Bani Hammad (), also known as Qal'a Bani Hammad or Qal'at of the Beni Hammad (among other variants), is a fortified palatine city in Algeria. Now in ruins, in the 11th century, it served as the first capital of the Hammadid dynasty. It is in the Hodna Mountains northeast of M'Sila, at an elevation of , and receives abundant water from the surrounding mountains. The site is near the town of Maadid (aka Maadhid), about southeast of Algiers, in the Maghreb.
In 1980, it was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO under the name Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad, and described as "an authentic picture of a fortified Muslim city".
The town includes a long line of walls. Inside the walls are four residential complexes, and the largest mosque built in Algeria after that of Mansurah. It is similar in design to the Grand Mosque of Kairouan, with a tall minaret, .
Excavations have brought to light numerous terracotta, jewels, coins and ceramics testifying to the high level of civilization under the Hammadid dynasty. Also among the artifacts discovered are several decorative fountains using the lion as a motif. The remains of the emir's palace, known as Dal al-Bahr, include three separate residences separated by gardens and pavilions.
History
The fortress was built in 1007 by Hammad ibn Buluggin, the son of Buluggin ibn Ziri, and the founder of Algiers. The city became the capital of the Hammadid Berbers, and sustained a siege from the Zirid in 1017. In 1090 it was abandoned under the menace of the Banu Hilal, and was partly destroyed by the Almohads in 1152.
The Qalaa was described by Al-Bakri in the 11th century as a large and powerful military stronghold and a centre of commerce that attracted caravans from all over the Maghreb, Iraq, Syria, Egypt and the Hejaz. Ibn Khaldun also noted that the abundance of travellers was due to the wealth of resources offered to those interested in sciences, commerce and arts. The Qala attracted poets, sages and theologians. The a
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The list gives the composition of the governments of the Republic of Lithuania from 1990 to 15 December 2016. Government of the Republic of Lithuania is the cabinet of Lithuania, proposed by the President and confirmed by the Seimas (parliament).
In 1990 Lithuania declared independence from the Soviet Union. Since then Lithuania has been a democratic republic. All citizens elect the Seimas for a four-year term. The most recent elections took place in October 2016.
Governments
See also
List of governments of Lithuania (1918–1940)
Notes
References
Lithuania
Legal history of Lithuania
Governments
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Bovictus diacanthus, the Tristan klipfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a temperate icefish or thornfish, belonging to the family Bovichtidae. It is endemic to two isolated, small island groups in the South Atlantic.
Taxonomy
Bovichtus diacanthus was first formally described in 1819 as Callionymus diacanthusby the Scottish botanist and officer in the British Army Dugald Carmichael with the type locality given as Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, When Achille Valenciennes described the genus Bovichtus in 1832 the only species he classified within the new genus was Carmichael's C. diacanthus which is therefore the type species of Bovichtus. The specific name diacanthus means "two spines", a reference to the two robust, needle-shaped and sharp spines on the operculum which are erected when the gill membrane is expanded.
Description
Bovichtus diacanthus is species in the genus Bovichtus and these fishes are characterised by having a terminal, protractile mouth with teeth on the palatine. There are two robust backwards pointing spines on the operculum. They have a single lateral line and the anterior dorsal fin is spiny and starts above the operculum. The soft rays in the posterior dorsal fin and the anal fin are simple, the rear most anal fin rays are thickened and longer than the front rays. They are normally mottled in colour and their gill membranes direct the exiting water upwards, an adaptation for a sedentary benthic lifestyle. In the pectoral fins the lowest rays are unbranched with a thick cuticle, extend a little beyond the membrane and have upturned tips, the rearmost anal fin rays are also structured like this. This species attains a maximum total length of .
Distribution and habitat
Bovichtus diacanthus is restricted to the waters around Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is found in rockpools which vary in depth from and in coastal waters down to depths of .
Biology
Bovichtus diacanthus has a pelagic stag
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Panchagarh-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Nurul Islam Sujan of the Awami League.
Boundaries
The constituency encompasses Boda and Debiganj upazilas.
History
The constituency was created in 1984 from a Dinajpur constituency when the former Dinajpur District was split into three districts: Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, and Dinajpur.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 1990s
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Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh
Panchagarh District
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Westville is a village in Georgetown Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. It is part of the Danville, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,202 at the 2010 census, and 2,990 in 2018.
History
The town was laid out in May 1873 by William P. and Elizabeth A. West, although it started out as a station on the Danville and Southwestern Railroad, and there had been settlements in this area prior to the platting. The first known settler was Moses Scott, who purchased land and built a structure in 1827. The post office was established on January 12, 1874. Telephone lines were first installed in 1900, and electricity arrived in 1901.
During its early days, Westville had many immigrants who lived separately in their own neighborhoods that evoked the tastes, smells, and sounds of different cultures in each neighborhood; the town was known as a "Little Chicago" as it mirrored the different cultures there. Today, many people still carry on the Eastern European names of their ancestors, though it has become more integrated.
Westville played the first regular season night high school football game, that counted towards the season record, under permanent lights, in the United States in 1928. It has been much debated that it was in 1892 in Mansfield, Ohio, but that was not two high schools playing each other and the lights were not permanent. The first night game in Illinois was played in Elgin on October 28, 1898, but again, it was under temporary lighting. Friday Night High School Football, as we know it today, started in Westville, Illinois in 1928.
In 2007, "Remember Westville" was published by author James E. Bryant. The critically acclaimed book chronicled in detail the 1976 Westville Tigers basketball team and their season, as well as a brief history of the village of Westville. Westville finished the season 27-3, garnering a spot in the Illinois High School Association's Sweet Sixteen state tournament. The Tigers lost 67-65 in the
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Zahl or Sahl is a Nordland family belonging to and mainly living in the County of Nordland, Norway. The family arrived there in the 17th century. Traditionally, members of the family have been traders, shippers, and sheriffs.
History
The family immigrated from Denmark to Norway in the 17th century with Niels Jensen Zahl (Saell), District Stipendiary Magistrate in the 1620s and residing in Vadsø. The family's geographical origin is uncertain. Several villages named Sahl/Sall in Denmark are presented as likely possibilities.
Family members have been traders and shippers, and some have as sheriffs held local police authority. Among trade seats related to the family are Kjerringøy and Nordvika in Dønna.
Among prominent members of the family is Erasmus B.K. Zahl (1826–1900), a wealthy trader and an island owner in Kjerringøy. In the late 1800s, he gave financial support to Knut Hamsun, then a young and poor author. Later, Hamsun—a 1920 Nobel Literature Prize laureate—used Zahl as a model for the famous character Mack appearing in many of his novels, among others Pan (1894).
Anders Nicolai Zahl (1807–1857) of the Nordvika branch married Lorentze Sophie Lie, née Krogh (b. 1797), a daughter of Mathias Bonsach Krogh, bishop of Hålogaland.
Name
Whilst the name in the aspect of orthography is identical with the German word Zahl, which means digit or number, its etymological origin remains unknown or unconfirmed. Among other spellings are Sahl, Saell, and Zal. As the name has been inherited also from mothers through generations, the group of past and present name bearers belong to various patrilineally defined families. The two most important branches are that whose paternal line descends from shipper Tomas of Sund in Leirfjord and that whose paternal line descends from trader Hans Olsen Zahl of Nordvika in Dønna. Erasmus Zahl belonged to the latter.
See also
Erasmus Zahl
Nordland families
References
Literature
Meyer, Anton Zahl: Leines Landet i Leirfjord – Lande
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Benz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Diana Bendz, American polymer scientist and environmental and industrial engineer
Jacob Christian Bendz (1802–1858), Danish medical doctor, military surgeon, and titular professor
Sergei Bendz (born 1983), Russian footballer
Wilhelm Bendz (1804–1832), Danish painter
See also
Bentz, a surname
Benz (disambiguation)
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"Latch" is a song by English electronic music duo Disclosure, featuring vocals from English singer Sam Smith. It was released as a digital download on 8 October 2012, by PMR Records. The lead single from their debut studio album, Settle (2013), the song debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 26 and peaked at number 11. In the United States, "Latch" was a sleeper hit, peaking at number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 in August 2014.
In 2022, American magazine Rolling Stone ranked "Latch" number 10 in their list of 200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time.
Background and composition
Originally, Disclosure thought that "Latch" was "too weird for the radio and not clubby enough for the clubs" because of its time signature. The band stated: "It's in 6/8 time — not even 4/4, the more commonly used time signature for house music."
Howard has stated that Disclosure is "trying to bring some soul into the songwriting... using jazz chords and interesting melodies instead of boring, stabby EDM triads."
Guy Lawrence has declined to say definitively what the key of Latch is, but in a text message to Disclosure, Jacob Collier argued for the key being F minor, calling the tonality "a sick flavorsome F minor because all the bass notes are avoiding [the root note]." Latch has a tempo of 122 beats per minute.
Critical reception
Michael Cragg of The Guardian wrote of the song: "it's a slowly unravelling ode to the thrill of wanting to figuratively (and possibly literally) latch on to someone else." Jon Caramanica of The New York Times viewed the track as one of the duo's "least characteristic" songs, describing it as "less relaxed, more ambitious, more blatantly pop-oriented, with full-bodied vocals". Jamieson Cox lauded the song in The Verge: "Latch" is a "song that remains this decade's prototypical piece of dance-pop. There's no such thing as a perfect song, but 'Latch' comes close: it's economic, beguiling, and precise."
Commercial performance
On 10 October 2012, Greg James
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Ronald Charles David Breslow (March 14, 1931 – October 25, 2017) was an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey. He was University Professor at Columbia University, where he was based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology; he had also been on the faculty of its Department of Chemical Engineering. He had taught at Columbia since 1956 and was a former chair of the university's chemistry department.
Life and career
Breslow was born in Rahway, New Jersey, the son of Gladys (Fellows) and Alexander E. Breslow. He was interested in the design and synthesis of new molecules with interesting properties, and the study of these properties. Examples include the cyclopropenyl cation, the simplest aromatic system and the first aromatic compound prepared with other than six electrons in a ring. His seminal contributions include the correct site of reactivity of thiamin diphosphate in enzymes that promote the decarboxylation of pyruvate – based on his pioneering use of proton NMR with small molecule analogues – and the rate enhancement provided by binding to cyclodextrins produced major themes for study in modern organic and biological chemistry. He also co-discovered the histone deacetylase inhibitor SAHA (Vorinostat) which is FDA-approved for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Breslow earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where his doctoral advisor was R. B. Woodward. Among Breslow's former Ph.D. students is Robert Grubbs, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005, and Doug La Follette, Secretary of State of Wisconsin.
Breslow received many honors and awards, including the National Medal of Science in 1991, the Welch Award, the Arthur C. Cope Award (1987), the NAS Award in Chemical Sciences, the American Chemical Society's ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1966), the Othmer Gold Medal (2006), the Priestley Medal, and the 2014 American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Gold Medal. I
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Steffan Woischnik is a paralympic athlete from Germany competing mainly in category T54 sprint events.
Steffan has competed in 2 Paralympics, his first in 1996 he competed in the 100m, 200m and 400m and was part of the German 4 × 400 m relay team. In 2000 Summer Paralympics he added the 4 × 100 m to the events he did but it was as part of the German 4 × 400 m relay team that he won is only medal, a bronze.
References
Paralympic athletes for Germany
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic bronze medalists for Germany
Living people
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
German male wheelchair racers
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Elizabeth Harrison née Tatchell (1907-2001), was a British artist, educator and writer who spent a large part of her career in Canada.
Biography
Harrison was born in London and studied for seven years at the Brighton College of Art and later worked in the studios of Louis Ginnett, ROI in Sussex and George Alexander, RBS in Chelsea. She was also employed for four years in the London workshops of Clayton and Bell, a stained glass manufacturer. In 1933, Harrison came to Canada and settled in Kingston, Ontario where both she and her husband, Eric Harrison were employed at Queen's University. From 1939 to 1943, Elizabeth Harrison worked part-time assisting and teaching studio art courses with André Biéler at Queen's University. In June 1941, she undertook the pivotal role as secretary for the first Conference of Canadian Artists held by the Federation of Canadian Artists, which brought together artists from across the country in Kingston, Ontario. Harrison and Biéler subsequently co-edited the proceedings of the conference. Harrison was also an art consultant to the Kingston Board of Education.
Harrison's paintings were exhibited widely in both Canada and Britain and she gave many lectures and addresses across Canada on radio and television. She was also an author, she wrote of her life experiences in Ottawa during the war years and of her life and interests in Kingston. Her most popular book about arts education, Self-Expression Through Art, saw a second edition.
Harrison died in October 2001.
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1907 births
2001 deaths
20th-century English women artists
20th-century Canadian women artists
Alumni of the University of Brighton
Painters from London
British emigrants to Canada
Canadian women painters
English women painters
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Hilger is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fergus County, Montana, United States. The community is located along U.S. Highway 191 in central Fergus County. Hilger has a post office with the ZIP code 59451. It is 15 miles north of Lewistown.
Demographics
History
A post office has been in operation in Hilger since 1911. The community was named for settler and historian David J. Hilger.
In 1911 the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, known as the Milwaukee Road, was built in Hilger.
References
External links
Hilger – Russell Country Montana
Unincorporated communities in Fergus County, Montana
Unincorporated communities in Montana
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