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Brett Skinner (born June 28, 1983 in Brandon, Manitoba) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing in the Russian Kontinental Hockey League with Amur Khabarovsk.

Playing career
Skinner was drafted by the Vancouver Canucks 68th overall in the 3rd round of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. Brett was a member of the Trail Smoke Eaters in the BCHL in 2000–01, the Des Moines Buccaneers in the USHL in 2001–02, and then the University of Denver from 2002–2005.  As a Denver Pioneer, he was a member of two NCAA national championship winning teams, was named an All-American in 2004–05. He was named team captain for what would have been his senior year at Denver (2005–06) but  signed his first professional contract with the Canucks on August 30, 2005, and made his pro debut with affiliate, the Manitoba Moose of the AHL, in the 2005–06 season. At the trade deadline, Skinner was traded by the Canucks, along with a 2nd round pick to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim for Keith Carney and Juha Alen on March 9, 2006. Despite being dealt, Skinner remained on loan with the Moose until the end of the season.

Brett spent the 2006–07 season, playing with the Augusta Lynx, Portland Pirates and the Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights. He was traded by the Ducks, along with Nathan Saunders, to the Boston Bruins for Mark Mowers just prior to the 2007–08 season on September 24, 2007. Skinner enjoyed a break out year with the Providence Bruins recording 47 points in 68 games and playing in the AHL All-Star game.

On July 3, 2008, Skinner was signed to a one-year contract by the New York Islanders. Brett was assigned to affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the AHL, to start the 2008–09 season. When a rash of injuries hit the Islanders, Skinner was recalled and made his NHL debut in a 4-2 defeat against the New York Rangers on October 27, 2008. Skinner played 11 games with the Isles before he was returned to the Sound Tigers. On January 13, 2009, Brett was traded by the Islanders to the Atlanta Thrashers for Junior Lessard. He was then assigned to affiliate, the Chicago Wolves, where he remained for the rest of the season.

On July 8, 2009, Skinner signed a one-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche. He was assigned to the Avalanche's AHL affiliate, the Lake Erie Monsters, for 2009–10. Skinner scored 28 points in 73 games for the Monsters. During the season on January 22, 2010, Skinner was re-called but did not debut with the Avalanche.

Skinner left North America as a free agent and signed a one-year contract with Russian team, Amur Khabarovsk, of the KHL on August 12, 2010.

Awards and achievements
2004–05 - WCHA  First All-Star Team
2004–05 - NCAA  Frozen Four All-American Team
2004–05 - NCAA  West Second All-American Team

Career statistics

References

Other websites 
 

1983 births
American Hockey League players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
ECHL players
Ice hockey people from Manitoba
Living people
New York Islanders players
Swedish Hockey League players
United States Hockey League players
Alexander Smart (May 29, 1918 – April 18, 2005) was a Canadian ice hockey forward.  He played one season for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League and spent the majority of his career in the Quebec Senior Hockey League.

Playing career
Born in Brandon, Manitoba, Smart played junior hockey in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League with the Portage Terriers for two seasons.  In 1937–38, joined the senior ranks with the Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario Hockey Association and scored 23 points in 12 games at a goal-per-game pace.  The following season, he began a three-year stint in the Montreal City Hockey League (MCHL) with the Verdun Maple Leafs and Montreal Sr. Canadiens.

In 1941–42, Smart moved with the Sr. Canadiens to the Quebec Senior Hockey League (QSHL).  Affiliated with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League, Smart was called up to the NHL in 1943 and, on January 14, became the first player in league history to score a hat trick in his NHL debut (this feat was later matched by Réal Cloutier of the Quebec Nordiques in 1979, Fabian Brunnström of the Dallas Stars in 2008, and Derek Stepan of the New York Rangers in 2010).  He completed the season with 5 goals and 2 assists in 8 games – the lone NHL stint of his career.  

Smart spent the remainder of his career in the QSHL with the Montreal Royals and Ottawa Senators with the exception of one more season in the MCHL with the Montreal Vickers and the final season of his career in the OVHL with Eastview St. Charles.  He recorded a career-high 66 points in 47 games with the Senators in 1947–48, then helped the club to an Allan Cup in 1949 as Canada's senior amateur champions. Smart retired after the 1950–51 season spent with Eastview.

Post-playing career
After retiring from the QSHL, Smart became a scout for the Los Angeles Kings and worked with Goodyear Tire for forty years.

References

Other websites

http://ourhistory.canadiens.com/player/Alex-Smart

1918 births
2005 deaths
Ice hockey people from Manitoba
Montreal Canadiens players
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Brock Trotter (born January 16, 1987) is a Canadian professional ice hockey Centre who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He played two games in the NHL with the Montreal Canadiens during the 2009-10 NHL season.

Playing career
On April 15, 2008, he was recalled from the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League. He was expected to play his first NHL game on April 19, 2008, against the Boston Bruins but was a late scratch. In the 2009–10 season on February 5, 2010 Brock was again recalled from Hamilton Bulldogs to Montreal. He finally made his NHL debut on February 6, 2010 against the Pittsbugh Penguins in a 5-3 victory. Playing with familiar Bulldogs teammates with Ryan White and David Desharnais, Trotter went scoreless in two games before returning to the Bulldogs to lead the team with 36 goals and place second to Desharnais with 77 points.

On July 28, 2010, Trotter left the Canadiens organization and North America to sign a two-year contract as a free agent with Latvian team Dinamo Riga of the KHL.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

References

Other websites

1987 births
American Hockey League players
Canadian ice hockey centres
Ice hockey people from Manitoba
Living people
Montreal Canadiens players
Swedish Hockey League players
United States Hockey League players
The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland's River Forth. It flows into the North Sea, between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh and East Lothian to the south. 

Geologically, the Firth of Forth is a fjord, formed by the Forth Glacier in the last glacial period. The river is tidal as far inland as Stirling. 

Traffic is carried across the Firth on the Kincardine Bridge, the Forth Road Bridge and the Forth Rail Bridge. In the 21st century, the Clackmannanshire Bridge has been built close to the Kincardine Bridge and the Queensferry Crossing has been built close to the Forth Road Bridge to handle increased road traffic.

In July 2007, a hovercraft passenger service completed a two week trial between Portobello, Edinburgh and Kirkcaldy, Fife. The trial of the service (marketed as "Forthfast") was hailed as a major operational success, with an average passenger load of 85%. It was predicted to cut congestion for commuters on the Forth road and rail bridges by carrying about 870,000 passengers a year. The service was canceled in 2011.

References 

Geography of Scotland
"White & Nerdy" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "Ridin' Dirty'" by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone. It is about him who is a nerd who wants to join a gang, but cannot because he is too "white and nerdy".

"Weird Al" Yankovic songs
Parodies
2006 songs
Michele Marie (née Amble) Bachmann (born April 6, 1956) is a Republican politician and activist. Since 2007 she has been a United States Congresswoman from Minnesota.

Early life and career 
She was born in Waterloo, Iowa but grew up in Anoka, Minnesota.  At age 16 she became a born again Christian. In 1974 she spent a summer on a Kibbutz near Beer Sheva, Israel. She went to college at Winona State University. In the 1980s and 90s, she was a tax attorney. She was also a pro-life advocate.  She served in the Minnesota State Senate from 2001 to 2007.  Since 2007, she has been a U.S. Congresswoman from Minnesota's 6th district.  Bachmann is one of the leaders of the Tea Party movement in Congress.  She started the Congressional Tea Party Caucus.  She has often been critical of President Obama, who she considers anti-American.  Bachmann has been critical of the American education system, in part because it teaches evolution.  Bachmann also does not believe in global warming.  In June 2012, she said that she was running for President of the United States.

Personal information 
She is married to Marcus Bachmann. They live in Stillwater, Minnesota where they run a mental health care practice with 42 employees. They have five children and 23 foster children.

References

Other websites 
 Michele Bachmann on Families & Children
 Did Michele Bachmann "raise" 23 foster kids? CBS News

1956 births
Living people
American Evangelicals
Politicians from Iowa
2012 United States presidential candidates
United States representatives from Minnesota
People from Waterloo, Iowa
For Your Entertainment is the debut studio album by American singer and American Idol season 8 runner-up Adam Lambert. The album was recorded during the summer and fall of 2009 and was released on November 23, 2010 in the United States. The album was released under RCA Records. The album was produced by Dr Luke, Max Martin, Linda Perry, and Ryan Tedder. It his #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and #29 on the 2010 Year-End U.S. Billboard 200 chart.

Release
The album was first released in the United Kingdom, on November 20, 2009, to generally positive reception. The album was released internationally with "Time for Miracles", "Master Plan", "No Boundaries", "Down the Rabbit Hole" and "Voodoo" as bonus tracks. The CD was also released in a Tour Edition, featuring the bonus tracks, live performances, music videos, and the making of "If I Had You"'s music video.

The album was released with a different cover, the same image of the title track artwork. The only difference it's that "Adam Lambert" and "For Your Entertainment" are above, instead of being down.

Track listing
 Music Again (Justin Hawkins) - 3:16
 For Your Entertainment (Lukasz Gottwald, Claude Kelly) - 3:35
 Whataya Want from Me (P!nk, Max Martin) - 3:47
 Strut (Kara DioGuardi, Greg Wells, Adam Lambert) - 3:30
 Soaked (Matt Bellamy) - 4:33
 Sure Fire Winners (David Gamson) - 3:33
 A Loaded Smile (Linda Perry, A. Lambert) - 4:04
 If I Had U (Max Martin) - 3:48
 Pick U Up (Rivers Cuomo, Max Martin, Wells, A. Lambert) - 4:00
 Fever (Lady GaGa) - 3:26
 Sleepwalker (Ryan Tedder) - 4:25
 Aftermath (Lambert, Alisan Porter, Ferras, Ely Rise Howard Benson) - 4:26
 Broken Open (Wells, A. Lambert) - 5:11

2010 albums
Debut albums
Dance-pop albums
Adam Lambert
A chainsaw (or chain saw) is a portable mechanical saw, typically powered by a two-stroke engine. It is used for cutting trees, to fell snags, to cut firebreaks in wild land fires, and to harvest firewood. Special chainsaws are used for cutting concrete.

Parts
A chainsaw has several parts, including:

Engine — usually a two-stroke gasoline (petrol) internal combustion engine, usually with a cylinder volume of  or electric motor. 
Drive mechanism — typically a clutch and sprocket. 
Guide bar — a long bar with a round end of wear-resistant alloy steel usually  in length. An edge slot guides the cutting chain. 
Cutting chain — Usually each segment in this chain (which is constructed from riveted metal sections similar to a bicycle chain, but without rollers) features small sharp blades called teeth. The bottom of each link features a small metal finger called a "drive link" which locates the chain on the bar, helps to carry lubrication oil around the bar, and engages with the engine's drive sprocket inside the body of the saw. 

As chainsaw carving has become more popular, the makers of chainsaws are making special short, narrow-tipped bars for carving. These are called "quarter tipped," "nickel tipped" or "dime tipped" bars, based on the size of the round tip. After sometime the chainsaw chain gets dull.

References

Gardening tools
Orion is a spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin for NASA. Each Orion spacecraft will be able to carry up to six astronauts. The Orion vehicle will be launched on the Space Launch System. The first launch (Exploration Flight Test-1) was on the Delta IV Heavy.

Orion will launch from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, the same launch site used by the Space Shuttle and the Saturn V. Orion is meant to take humans to the Moon and Mars.

History

Orion was first made for the Constellation program in 2004, as the Orion CEV (Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle). It was meant to be launched on the Ares I rocket. Then it would be able to go to the International Space Station. It was also planned to go to a spacecraft launched in pieces on different Ares V rockets, and the spacecraft with the Orion would go to the Moon, Mars, or another place.

On October 11, 2010, Constellation was cancelled. They created a new program and a new rocket called the Space Launch System, and changed the name of Orion to the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. This rocket will launch Orion for going to the Moon in 2022 and Mars in 2033.

Related pages
 NASA
 Space Launch System

References

Other websites 
Orion NASA webpage

NASA spacecraft
Orion program
Brackets are tall punctuation marks used in matched pairs within text. They are used in mathematics and in literature (written language). They are sometimes used to set apart or interject other parts of the text. They are noted as left/right: the left bracket is "[" and the right bracket is "]".

In the American English, "bracket" usually refers specifically to the "square" or "box" type. In British English, "bracket" normally refers to the "round" type, which is called a "parenthesis" mark in American usage.

Parentheses are the curved brackets "(  )". They are also called round brackets, curved brackets, oval brackets, or, colloquially, parens.

Parentheses have several different meanings, such as:
 noting optional text:  "(this is optional)";
 showing other word endings:  "vote(s)" or "quick(ly)"
 adjusting the meaning:  "There are some (many) pages".
 adding humor:  "They sell pre-owned (read: "used") cars".
 indicating a negative number:  $90 - $100 = ($10)
 grouping terms in a calculation:  6 x (2 + 3) = 30.
 showing emphasis for attention:  "(((wow)))".
There are also other uses for parentheses.

Parentheses enclose text which could be left out, without destroying or altering the meaning of a sentence. In most writing, overuse of parentheses is usually a sign of a badly structured text. A milder effect may be obtained by using a pair of commas around the text, although if the sentence contains commas for other uses, then visual confusion may result.

Parentheses may be used in formal writing to add more information, such as in:
 "Sen. John McCain (R., Arizona) spoke at length"
They can also note "either singular or plural" for nouns, such as in the word "claim(s)".

In mathematics, various brackets are used for various purposes. These include, in particular:

 The use of parenthesis in ordered pairs and tuples (as in )
 The use of square brackets in intervals (as in )
 The use of braces in set-builder notation (as in )
 The use of angle brackets in inner products (as in )

Related pages
 Emoticon
 Order of operations

References

Bibliography

 
  States that what are depicted as brackets above are called braces and braces are called brackets. This was the terminology in US printing prior to computers.

Punctuation
Mathematical notation
Typography
The Theogony (, Theogonía, the birth of the gods) is a poem by Hesiod. It was written in the 8th or 7th century BC, and uses the same dialect of Ancient Greek as Homer. This dialect is known as Epic dialect today. With the exception of the Illiad and the Odyssey, the Theogony is the oldest known source of Greek mythology.

The poem is a synthesis of different Greek stories and traditions. It is a story that tells how the gods came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos. It is the first Greek mythical cosmogony. In the beginning, the state of the universe is chaos - a dark indefinite void. Everything else appeared from divine chaos.

References

Selected translations 

 Athanassakis, Apostolos N., Theogony ; Works and days ; Shield / Hesiod ; introduction, translation, and notes, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. 
 Frazer, R.M. (Richard McIlwaine), The Poems of Hesiod, Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1983. 
 Most, Glenn, translator, Hesiod, 2 vols., Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006-07.
 Schlegel, Catherine M., and Henry Weinfield, translators, Theogony and Works and Days, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2006

Other websites
Hesiod, Theogony e-text (in English)
Hesiod, Theogony e-text in Ancient Greek (from Perseus)
Hesiod, Theogony e-text in English (from Perseus)

Ancient Greece
Epic poems
The Musaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Zingiberales. The family is native to the tropics of the Old World. The plants are large herbs with very big leaves; the lower parts of the leaves form a false stem so they look as trees.

The species of this family are native to the tropics of Africa, East Asia, Australia and South Pacific; some of them, like bananas and plantains, are grown in all tropical countries for their fruits.

Description
These are perennial herbaceous plants; they are not very tall. The lower parts of the big leaves are closely packed making a false stem (pseudostem) that is not made of wood. The true stems grow underground; it is called a rhizome or a corm. The false stems die after flowering and producing fruits and are replaced by new false stems rising from the underground corm.

The flowers have bracts and grow in groups (inflorescences) and are pollinated by insects, birds, bats and treeshrews.

Fruits are berries with many hard seeds but the fruits of commercial bananas and plantains do not have seeds because they are steriles.

Genera
The French botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu created this family in 1789.

There are three genera in this family:
 Ensete 
 Musa
 Musella

Acceptance of Musella has varied; , the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families considers it a synonym of Ensete.

Uses
In addition to banana and plantain fruits and their products (including alcohol, meal), Musa species and varieties are important sources of fibre (abacá, Manila hemp).

References

Other websites

 F.A. Lohmueller. 2005. The Botanical System of the Plants
 Monocot families (USDA)
 NCBI Taxonomy Browser
 Preliminary analysis of the literature on the distribution of wild Musa species
 The Musaceae - an annotated list of the species

Musaceae
Zingiberales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised by the taxonomists, at least for the past few decades. This order includes many familiar plants like ginger, cardamom, turmeric, galangal and myoga of the Zingiberaceae or ginger family, and bananas and plantains of the Musaceae or banana family, along with arrowroot of the Marantaceae or arrowroot family.

Zingiberales
Zingiberaceae, or the Ginger family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes, comprising ca. 52 genera and more than 1300 species, distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Zingiberales
Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam of Pakistan led a group of scientists in starting TWAS in 1983. This group of important and respected scientists knew that scientific research in developing countries was not good enough and wanted to improve it. TWAS meant Third World Academy of Sciences. The name was changed to TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world in 2004. TWAS is a science academy uniting 1,000 scientists in some 70 countries. Its main goals are promoting the ability to do science and excellence for sustainable development in the South (see North-South divide). Its headquarters are at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy.

 Developing countries have 80% of the world’s population, but only 28% of the world's scientists come from these countries. This is a problem for solving real-life problems affecting poor nations.

 There is never enough money to support research in developing countries. Scientists in developing countries become isolated. This causes problems for scientists' careers, their institutions and, their nations. 

 Scientists in developing countries often earn poor salaries. They may get little respect for their work because others do not understand how important it can be. This causes brain drain from developing countries to the North. Then the South becomes even poorer.

 Research institutions and universities in the South are under-funded, forcing scientists to work in difficult conditions and often with outdated equipment.

The founding members of TWAS therefore decided to set up an organization that would help to: 
 Recognize, support and promote excellence in scientific research in the South;
 Provide promising scientists in the South with research facilities necessary for the advancement of their work;
 Facilitate contacts between individual scientists and institutions in the South;
 Encourage South-North cooperation between individuals and centres of scholarship;
 Promote scientific research on major developing countries problems.

The Italian government has supported TWAS financially since it began. The director general of UNESCO  and the president of TWAS signed an agreement. UNESCO has managed TWAS finance and staff since 1991.

Original members
These are some of the original fellows. They started TWAS in 1983.
 Hua Luogeng (1910–1985), China 
 Nil Ratan Dhar (1892–1987), India 
 Luis F. Leloir (1906–1987), Argentina 
 Benjamin Peary Pal (1906–1989), India 
 Ignacio Bernal (1910–1992), Mexico
 Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (1912–1994), Colombia
 Emilio Rosenblueth (1926–1994), Mexico
 Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (1897–1994), Pakistan
 Abdus Salam (1926–1996), Pakistan
 Carlos Chagas Filho (1910–2000), Brazil
 Johanna Döbereiner (1924–2000), Brazil
 Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran (1922–2001), India
 Thomas Risley Odhiambo (1931–2003), Kenya
 Marcel Roche (1920–2003), Venezuela
 Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1930–2004), India
 Thomas Adeoye Lambo (1923–2004), Nigeria
 Autar Singh Paintal (1925–2004), India

Other websites

Scientific organizations

Italy
1983 establishments in Europe
For Your Entertainment is the debut mainstream single by pop singer/songwriter and runner up of American Idol's 8th season Adam Lambert. It is the lead single for the album For Your Entertainment. The song was released commercially on November 3, 2009. The single was written by Claude Kelly and Dr. Luke. It's set to be his first U.K single and his third Australian single.

Background
On October 28, 2009, Lambert announced via Twitter that his lead single from his debut album would be "For Your Entertainment", a song that was produced by Dr. Luke. The following day, Lambert announced that the single would debut on Ryan Seacrest's radio show on October 30, 2009.

The song became available as a legal download in the United States on November 3, 2009 and on November 15, 2009 in the United Kingdom.

Remixes
On November 24th, 2009 UK dance music group comprising producers Lee Dagger and Marc JB and vocalist Katherine Ellis called Bimbo Jones remixed "For You Entertainment" and released it on iTunes Store. It also has a short edit for radio mainstream.

On December 1st, 2009 RCA/Jive released American producer Brad Walsh's remix of the song "For Your Entertainment" on iTunes on Adam Lambert's "Remixes" EP. The remix also opened Adam's Glam Nation tour and was on an E! commercial.

Music Video
The music video premiered on Lambert's official website on November 24, 2009. It was directed by Ray Kay. The video was filmed in a one-day shoot, on November 15 at The Alexandria, an old hotel which is now an apartment building in downtown Los Angeles.

Concept
The video opens with a nighttime street level shot in a city. As the camera pans down below the ground, Lambert is shown walking into an underground club, filled with scantily clad men and women. As he begins singing, he walks through the crowd and interacts and dances with others. Mixed with dancing are close up shots of Lambert and various dancers. Towards the end of the song, Lambert begins to play with his band and the video shows everyone in the club dancing. As the song ends, the camera pans back up to the street level where life is continuing on, completely oblivious of what is going on below the streets.

Adam Lambert songs
2009 songs
Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University System. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university, accepted a donation of land and money from Lafayette businessman John Purdue to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture in his name. The first classes were held on September 16, 1874, with three buildings, six instructors, and 39 students. Today, Purdue enrolls the second largest student body of any university in Indiana as well as the second largest international student population of any public university in the United States. 

Purdue offers both undergraduate and graduate programs in over 210 major areas of study. Purdue has produced multiple Nobel Prize winners, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and NFL Super Bowl MVPs.  The university has been highly influential in America's history of aviation, and Purdue's aviation technology and aeronautical engineering programs remain among the highest rated and most competitive in the world. In the mid-20th century, Purdue's aviation program expanded to encompass advanced spaceflight technology giving rise to Purdue's nickname, Cradle of Astronauts. 

Purdue's tenured faculty comprises sixty Academic Deans, Associate Deans, and Assistant Deans; 63 Academic Department Heads; 753 Professors; 547 Associate Professors and 447 Assistant Professors. Purdue employs 892 non-tenure-track faculty, Lecturers, and Postdoctorals at its West Lafayette campus. Purdue employs another 691 tenured and 1,021 Non-Tenure Track Faculty, Lecturers, and Postdoctorals at its Regional Campuses and Statewide Technology.

Purdue University generated a record $333.4 million in sponsored research funding during the 2007–08 fiscal year with participation from National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the U.S. departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, and Health and Human Services.

Other websites
 
 Official athletics website

References

Association of American Universities
If I Had You (styled as If I Had U) is Adam Lambert's 3rd official mainstream single released of his debut album, For Your Entertaintment. The song was written by Max Martin, Shellback, and Savan Kotecha for Lambert's debut album, For Your Entertainment. It was released as the third single on May 5, 2010.

Music video
James Montgomery from MTV describes the video as having "a clearing in the forest, one packed with party people — of all races, colors, creeds and proclivities, naturally — who are all in the midst of a totally excellent celebration. (Most of said party people are actually Lambert's friends, from his days performing with L.A.'s "Zodiac Show.")" Montgomery states the message of the video is "Humanity can, in fact, put their differences aside and just dance."

Premier
The video premiered June 14, 2010 on VH1 and "takes the late-night wilderness party motif of Jennifer Lopez's classic "Waiting for Tonight" clip and adds more lasers, guyliner, thrashy dance moves, silver top hats and outrageously spiky shoulder pads." Bryan Barber directed the video, which was inspired by Lambert's self-proclaimed "psychedelic" experience at Burning Man.

Remixes
Remixes of the song include an instrumental remix and a radio edit. As well DJ's and producer's like Jason Nevins, Dangerous Muse, and Morgan Page.

Adam Lambert songs
2010 songs
Time for Miracles is a song written and composed by Alain Johannes and Natasha Schneider and produced by Rob Cavallo. Adam Lambert is the singer for the song and was released as a single off the album For Your Entertainment. It was also released as a promotional single for the 2009 action-thriller movie 2012. The single was released on October 18th, 2009 for promotional release and on November 3rd, 2009 for radio mainstream. 

Before "Time for Miracles" was released to the public, it had already garnered positive reviews.
Brian May of Queen was able to listen to the full track and praised the song as "truly sensational" and complimented Lambert's vocals, stating, "Adam's voice reaches out with sensitivity, depth, maturity, and awesome range and power that will make jaws drop all around the world."

Chart performance
On the chart week ending November 7, 2009, "Time for Miracles" debuted at #50 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the United States, the song has sold 124,000 legal digital downloads.

Adam Lambert songs
2009 songs
Ryan White (born March 17, 1988) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey center who previously played for the Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, Arizona Coyotes and  Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Playing career 
White spent four seasons, from 2004–05 to 2007–08, in the Western Hockey League with the Calgary Hitmen.  He was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in the third round, 66th overall, in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. Following his WHL career, White was assigned to the Canadiens' minor league affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League (AHL), where he recorded 29 points in 80 games as a rookie in 2008–09.

White made his NHL debut in a call-up with the Montreal Canadiens on November 5, 2009 against the Boston Bruins, recording an assist. He was called up once again for a game against the Ottawa Senators the following month on December 8.  White played the entirety of the first period before being pulled from the game after the NHL noticed he was playing, despite the Canadiens not having properly reported his call-up to the league before the 5 p.m. deadline.

Career statistics

References

Other websites

1988 births
Arizona Coyotes
Calgary Hitmen players
Canadian ice hockey centres
Ice hockey people from Manitoba
Living people
Montreal Canadiens players
Minnesota Wild players
Philadelphia Flyers players
American Hockey League players
Kenneth Wregget (born March 25, 1964) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey goaltender.  He won the Stanley Cup in 1992 with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Playing career
He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Calgary Flames, and Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League from 1983 through 2000. He played one season for the Manitoba Moose of the International Hockey League in 2000–2001 before retiring at the age of 37.

Wregget played for three seasons with the Lethbridge Broncos of the Western Hockey League and won the Del Wilson Trophy as the WHL's top goaltender in 1984. In 1983, he joined the St. Catharines Saints, the Toronto AHL affiliate, after being drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the third round of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft, 45th overall. He split time for two seasons between St. Catharines and the Maple Leafs. The 1986–87 season was his first full year in the NHL.

In 1992, he was traded from the Philadelphia Flyers to the reigning champion Pittsburgh Penguins along with Kjell Samuelsson and Rick Tocchet in exchange for Mark Recchi.  Wregget was generally backup to Penguins goaltender Tom Barrasso, although Wregget was regarded as a solid goaltender in his own right.  There was frequent speculation that Wregget would take over as the starting goaltender.

Wregget's best season came in 1994–95 when he played in 38 games and compiled a 25–9-2 record with a 3.21 goals against average and a .903 save percentage while also leading the NHL in wins.  He was also the goaltender who faced the first penalty shot ever awarded during an overtime period in NHL playoff history (1996). He stopped Washington Capitals star Joé Juneau, extending what was the third-longest game in NHL history, the longest game since 1936. The Penguins finally won 3–2 in the fourth overtime period.

In 2009, he was inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame.

Career statistics

Regular season

Post season

References

Other websites

1964 births
American Hockey League players
Calgary Flames players
Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
Detroit Red Wings players
Ice hockey people from Manitoba
Lethbridge Broncos players
Living people
Philadelphia Flyers players
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Stanley Cup champions
Toronto Maple Leafs players
International Hockey League (1945–2001) players
The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain.

The islands have had a unitary authority council since 1890, and are separate from the Cornwall unitary authority. Some services are combined with Cornwall and the islands are still part of the ceremonial county of Cornwall.

The islands are designated an 'Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty'. They have been dangerous for ships, and there are 530 known shipwrecks around the archipelago.

Ancient history 
Scilly has been inhabited since the Neolithic. Its history has been one of subsistence living until the early 20th century (people lived from what they could get from the land or the sea). Farming and fishing continue today, but the main industry now is tourism.

It is likely that until relatively recent times the Isles were much larger with many of them joined into one island, named Ennor. Rising sea levels flooded the central plain around 400–500 AD, forming the current islands.

Evidence for the older large island includes:
A description in Roman times describes Scilly as "Scillonia insula" in the singular, as if there were a single island or an island much bigger than any of the others.
Remains of a prehistoric farm have been found on Nornour, which is now a small rocky skerry far too small for farming.
At certain low tides the sea becomes shallow enough for people to walk between some of the islands. This is possibly one of the sources for stories of drowned lands, e.g. Lyonesse.
Ancient field walls are visible below the high tide line off some of the islands (e.g. Samson).
Some of the Cornish language place names also appear to reflect past shorelines, and former land areas.
The whole of southern England has been steadily sinking in opposition to post-glacial rebound in Scotland.

Offshore, midway between Land's End and the Isles of Scilly, is the supposed location of the mythical lost land of Lyonesse, referred to in Arthurian literature.

Scilly has been identified as the place of exile of two heretical 4th century bishops, Instantius and Tiberianus, who were followers of Priscillian.

Geography 

The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago of five populated islands and many other small rocky islets (around 140 in total) lying 45 km (28 mi) off Land's End. They are all composed of granite of early Permian age.

The position of the islands causes great contrasts.  The warming effect of the sea means they rarely have frost or snow. This allows local farmers to grow flowers earlier than would grow on mainland Britain. The chief agricultural product is cut flowers, mostly daffodils.

Exposure to Atlantic winds means that spectacular winter gales lash the islands from time to time. This is reflected in the landscape. On Tresco, the lush sub-tropical Tresco Abbey Gardens shelter on the southern end of the island, but the low heather and bare rock get the wind on the exposed northern end.

References 

Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Calluna vulgaris (heather) is the sole species in the genus Calluna in the family Ericaceae.

It is a low-growing perennial shrub growing to  tall, or rarely to . It is found widely in Europe and Asia Minor on acidic soils in open sunny situations and in moderate shade.

Heather is the dominant plant on most heaths  and moorland in Europe, and in some bog vegetation and acidic pine and oak woodland. It is tolerant of grazing and regenerates following occasional burning. It is often managed in nature reserves and grouse moors by sheep or cattle grazing, and also by light burning.

The flowers emerge in late summer; in wild plants these are normally mauve, but white-flowered plants also occur occasionally.

Uses 
Heather is an important food source for various sheep and deer which can graze the tips of the plants when snow covers low growing vegetation. Willow Grouse and Red Grouse feed on the young shoots and seeds of this plant. Both adults and larvae of the Heather Beetle Lochmaea suturalis feed on it, and can cause damage. The larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species also feed on the plant.

Heather honey is a highly valued product in moorland and heathland areas, with many beehives being moved there in late summer.  It has a strong taste, and an unusual texture. It is thixotropic, being a jelly until stirred, when it becomes a syrup (like other honey), but then sets again to a jelly.  This makes the extraction of the honey from the comb difficult, and it is therefore often sold as comb honey.

Cultural references 
Heather is seen as iconic of Scotland, where the plant grows widely. When poems like Bonnie Auld Scotland speak of "fragrant hills of purple heather', when the hero of Kidnapped flees through the heather, when heather and Scotland are linked in the same sentence, the heather talked about is Calluna vulgaris.

References 

Ericaceae
Piperales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. It necessarily includes the family Piperaceae but otherwise has been treated variously over time. Well-known plants which may be included in this order include black pepper, kava, lizard's tail, birthwort, and wild ginger.

Piperales
The Piperaceae, also known as the pepper family, is a large family of flowering plants. The group contains roughly 3,610 currently accepted species in five genera. The vast majority of peppers can be found within the two main genera: Piper (2000 species) and Peperomia (1600 species).

Piperales
Carson Cistulli is a poet and a journalist.  He was born on December 23, 1979 in New Hampshire.  He writes about himself and life.  One important part of his life is baseball.  Another important part of his life are books.  He really likes the French poet Arthur Rimbaud and the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.  He is also a radio host.

Life

Carson started writing when he was a child.  He read a lot of poetry when he was away from home at a boarding school called Milton Academy.  One of his favorite poets was Kenneth Koch.  When he grew up he went to school at Columbia University in New York City, the school where Kenneth was a teacher.  When talking to a newspaper Carson said that he was "delighted" to study with Kenneth.  Carson said, "if you’re a musician and your favorite musician is Bob Dylan you can’t just show up at Bob Dylan’s house.  You can’t just [meet and talk to] Bob Dylan.  The poetry world is like that.  [Sometimes you can meet and talk to famous poets.]"

Other websites 

 Carson Interviewed - Carson talks on the Radio
 Journalism - "Gift: World Series Encyclopedia, 1903-1960"
 Journalism - "Everything’s Amazing, At Least One of Us Is Happy"
 Radio - Carson interviews his friend Dave

Related pages
 Poetry
 Baseball
 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Notes 

1979 births
American poets
American journalists
Columbia University alumni
Writers from New Hampshire
Living people
In mathematics, a linear equation is a type of equation. In a linear equation, both terms have to be constant. A linear equation is the equation of a straight line. This type of equation is written in the form:

y = mx + b 

or  (y - y1) = m(x - x1)

where : m = the rate of change, or slope. 

The slope is how fast the line moves up or down. Larger numbers will make the slope steeper. 

If m is a negative number, then the line will appear to fall or go down the page when read from left to right. 

If m is a positive number, then the line will appear to climb the page when read from left to right. 

While b = the y-intercept of the function. 

This is where the function crosses the y - axis of the coordinate plane.The first equation is called slope-intercept form, because in it, the slope (m) and y-intercept (b) are easily found.The second equation is called point-slope form, because in it, a point on the graph (x1, y1) and the slope (m) are easily found.

Also, an easier way to know if a graph is positive or negative is to imagine the Y axis as the 12 o clock point in a clock so if the line is before 12 it is negative and if it is after 12 it is positive

Equations
2081 is a science fiction short film set in 2081. It was shown for the first time at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 29, 2009. Chandler Tuttle wrote and directed the film. It is based on the short story "Harrison Bergeron" by author Kurt Vonnegut. There are few actors in the film. The Kronos Quartet and Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra performed thesoundtrack written by Lee Brooks.

IMDb ranks the movie in the top 10 Most Popular Short movies.

Story
2081 shows a dystopian future in America. Amendments to the Constitution give great power to a member of government called the United States Handicapper General (HG). The HG's job is to make sure everyone is equal in every way. In this satire that means putting weights on strong people and making beautiful people look ugly.

Cast
Tammy Bruce as the United States Handicapper General
Patricia Clarkson as the narrator
James Cosmo as George Bergeron, Harrison's father. George's intelligence is far above normal, so he is forced to wear a handicap radio in his ear. This radio sends out a sharp noise every twenty seconds or so, to stop George from using his intelligence.
Julie Hagerty as Hazel Bergeron, Harrison's mother. Hazel's intelligence is perfectly average without handicaps; she cannot think of anything except in short bursts.
Armie Hammer as Harrison Bergeron. Harrison is a genius and a great athlete. He received both the heaviest physical handicaps and the most powerful mental handicaps of any citizen.

Production
2081 was produced for $100,000. It was produced in 2009.

Release
2081 was first shown at the Seattle International Film Festival in May 2009. The film was released on DVD on January 25, 2010.

Reviews

As of January 2011, RottenTomatoes.com lists no professional reviews of 2081 and a 65% user rating. The IMDB user community gave the movie  a weighted average rating of 6.9 / 10.

Reviewer Robert Ring described the film as "An amazing twenty-six minutes..." and that each scene adds to the one before. He said that some people would call the film an Orwellian warning. But he thinks it is better to call it a story about how important it is to be an independent person, even if that means life is terrible. He wrote, "This is a great film." 

Revolution Science Fiction magazine called the movie "stirring and dramatic". They added that the short movie  moves quickly to the main point of the story and is a good version of the story.

The movie blog Filmonic compares the film to Children of Men.

References

Other websites
 Official website
 

2009 movies
2009 science fiction movies
American science fiction movies
Movies set in the future
Short movies
Dystopian movies
Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb, January 9, 1951 in Paintsville, Kentucky) is an American country singer. She had twenty one country hits in the 1970s and 1980s. She is the younger sister of singer Loretta Lynn. Crystal Gayle has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, near Loretta Lynn's star. She is well known for her hair, which is floor length.

References

Other websites
Official website

Country musicians
1951 births
Living people
Singers from Indiana
Singers from Kentucky
Duval County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. It was formed on August 12, 1822. As of 2008, 850,962 people lived there. Duval County's seat is Jacksonville.

References

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Florida counties
1822 establishments in the United States
1820s establishments in Florida Territory
Brevard County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. It was formed on March 14, 1844. In 2000, 476,230 people lived there. Brevard County's seat is Titusville.

Other websites
Official county website

Florida counties
1844 establishments in Florida Territory
Collier County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. It was formed on May 8, 1923. As of 2007, 315,839 people lived there. Collier County's seat is Naples.

Other websites
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Florida counties
1923 establishments in the United States
1920s establishments in Florida
The Highland Boundary Fault is a geological fault that crosses Scotland diagonally from Arran and Helensburgh on the west coast to Stonehaven in the east. It separates two distinctly different regions: the Highlands from the Lowlands.

The geological history of Scotland can be understood as the result of two great tectonic events. The first was the formation of the global super-continent Pangaea, the second was the break-up of Pangaea to form the continents we know today.

The fault is the middle of three great faults which run south-east to north-west across Scotland. In the north there is the Great Glen Fault, and in the south the Southern Uplands Fault. Further south, just over the border with England, is the Iapetus Suture, where the palaeo-Iapetus Ocean closed. These four major geological signs mark the ancient history of Scotland.

The Highland Boundary Fault was active during the Caledonian orogeny. This was a plate tectonic collision which took place from Mid Ordovician to Mid Devonian periods (520 to 400 million years ago), during the closure of the Iapetus Ocean.

The fault allowed the Midland Valley to descend as a major rift by up to 4000 metres and there was subsequently vertical movement. This movement was later replaced by a horizontal shear. A complementary fault, the Southern Uplands Fault, forms the southern boundary for the Central Lowlands.

References 

Faults
Geography of Scotland
Columbia County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. It was formed on February 4, 1832. As of 2000, 56,513 people lived there. Columbia County's seat is Lake City.

Other websites
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Florida counties
1832 establishments in Florida Territory
Glades County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida, and was formed on February 4, 1832. As of 2000, 10,576 people lived there. Glades County's seat is Moore Haven.

Other websites
Official county website

Florida counties
1925 establishments in Florida
Hendry County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida, and was formed on February 4, 1832. As of 2000, 36,210 people lived there. Hendry County's seat is La Belle.

Other websites
Official county website

Florida counties
1923 establishments in the United States
1920s establishments in Florida
Lake County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida, and was formed on May 27, 1887. As of 2000, 210,528 people lived there. Lake County's seat is Tavares.

Other websites
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Florida counties
1887 establishments in Florida
San Fernando (in ) is the capital of the province of Colchagua, in the central zone (central part) of Chile. San Fernando is the second most populated urban center of the Region of O'Higgins.  It is located near to the Tinguiririca River, in the valley of Colchagua, San Fernando is 1,112 feet (339 m) above the level of the se. San Fernando was founded in 1742, and became the provincial capital in 1840.

Demography
According to the census of 2002, by the National Statistics Institute, San Fernando covers an area of 2,441.3 square kilometers, and has 63,732 inhabitants (31,157 men and 32,575 women).

Sister cities
 San Pedro de Atacama
 Rio de Janeiro

References

Other websites

 Municipality of San Fernando 

Cities in Chile
Settlements in the Region of O'Higgins